Good afternoon and welcome to the Life Enrichment Committee meeting of Tuesday, June 9th, 2026.

The time is now four or three PM, and this meeting may come to submit a speaker card, please fill 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 twenty-four hours prior to the start of this meeting time.

This meeting came to order at 43 p.m.

And speaker cards will no longer be accepted ten minutes after, making that time for 13 p.m.

We'll now proceed with taking roll.

Council members guy.

Thank you.

Houston.

Here.

Wang is excused and chair by present.

Thank you.

We have three members present, one excused uh wang.

And chair, before we begin, do you have any announcements at this time?

No announcements, thank you.

Okay.

Starting off with item one, approval of the draft minutes from the committee meeting of May 26, 2026.

We have no speakers.

We just need a motion.

Thank you.

That's a motion made by Council Member Guile.

Second by Council Member Houston to accept the draft minutes from the committee meeting of May 26, 2026.

On roll council members Guile.

Aye.

Houston.

Aye.

Wang is excused and chair five.

Aye.

Thank you.

Motion passes with three ayes, one excused Wong to accept the draft minutes from May 26, 2026.

Reading in item two, determination of schedule about standing committee items, also known as your pending list.

And we have one speaker that signed up to speak.

Let's hear the public speaker.

Mr.

Sada Olabala, would you like to speak on item two?

I continue to believe the importance of putting all out 100% effort into head start.

Head start is the beginning of the opportunity to give children.

People think right now they're concentrating on reading literacy skills, but that social emotional development that can be given in early head start and head start.

And when we're looking at some of the needs of our young people today, that intervention, but it is contingent on working with parents as well.

Now there's a part of head start that I don't know if it exists, but when I was teaching in New Orleans, we concentrated on gifted children.

We're always talking about marginalized, underserved children.

Uh we have quite a few young people who are gifted and talented, and the OUSD offers them no services.

We have to begin the process of identifying children who are exceptional and uplifting them.

I don't know how we do it.

I'm still trying to get OUSD to find the funding to do it.

The last group is the seniors.

But uh I need to have the opportunity, just like a lot of seniors to be invested in the city, to have that opportunity to participate to even work.

Uh, our senior centers, I think Mr.

Houston addressed the senior centers.

We just those hours are not appropriate.

We need more hours.

Uh Monday through Friday, even on Saturday.

Give seniors their due respect.

The ancestral uh requirement as we as a people, uh seniors.

Thank you for your comments, Mr.

Olabala.

Chair that concludes all speakers on this item, also noting the presence of Councilmember Wong at 4.07 p.m.

Thank you.

I completely agree, concur.

Seniors, children, they need our our support and our attention.

Councilmember Houston, do you have a comment?

Yeah, through the chair, I just want to say that the seniors are the most important to me, the children.

And before I was even elected, uh, all I did was for the children, the children back to basics, back to basic.

Just like I just brought like 300 and something kids down here.

They pretended to be you, Councilmember Fife.

They pretended to be Noel.

They sat here, so giving them an encouragement, and my seniors are the most important.

My mom is 89 years old.

She's here with me today, and I'm happy.

You know, she's going back and we said, but yeah, the seniors are the most important.

Do you want to give a uh provider motion on this item?

A motion.

Second from Council Member Guy.

Thank you.

We have a motion made by Councilmember Houston, seconded by Council Member Guile, to accept the determination of scheduled outstanding committee items as is.

On roll council members Guile.

Aye.

Houston.

Aye.

Wang.

Aye.

And Chair Fai.

Aye.

Thank you.

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

Reading in item number three.

Adopt a resolution authorizing the city administrator to negotiate and execute a rental agreement with Campson Common Inc., a nonprofit in an amount not to exceed 197,432 for Art Meets Nature and OPRYD Town Experiences Summer Session for 300 youth and 88 adults from July 29th to August 7th, 2026.

And we have two speakers that signed up to speak.

Thank you, Madam City Clerk.

Do we have Parks and Rec staff available for the presentation?

Hello.

Hello.

We'll put five minutes on the clock.

Thank you.

Good afternoon.

My name's Alethea Walker.

Um I'm the recreation supervisor for the Cultural Arts Nature and Science Division for the City of Oakland.

Today we would like for the staff to for the council to approve Camps and Commons rental agreement.

Oakland Feather River Camp was founded by the City of Oakland in 1924 and is Oakland's longest running recreation program and has provided recreation generations of youth and families with outdoor educational and recreational experiences in Plumis National Forest, operating under a special use permit with the US Forest Service through December 31st of 2043.

Oakland Feather River Camp continues to offer youth camp, family camp outreach, and group rental opportunities that promote recreation connection and personal growth.

The City of Oakland leases Oakland Feather River Camp from the U.S.

Forest Service and maintains an agreement with Campson Commons Incorporated to operate the facility and administer camp programming under the agreement with Campson Commons Incorporated.

Designated camp spaces are reserved annually for Oakland Parks Recreation and Youth Development.

Participants and staff to attend overnight camp sessions.

For many years, OPRYD has utilized these spaces in additional camps capacity to provide overnight camp opportunities for Oakland youth through programs such as Art Meets Nature and OPRYD town experiences, formally town camp.

These programs expand expanded equitable access to outdoor recreation for youth development, creative exploration, and environmental education, and nature-based learning experiences for youth across Oakland.

The proposal rental agreement with Campson Commons Incorporated is an amount not to exceed 197,423 and will support overnight camp programming from July 29th through August 7th, 2026.

Serving approximately 300 youth and 88 OPRYD staff.

The agreement includes lodging, food, services, transportation, the camp nurse services, lifeguard coverages, janitorial services, and specialized programming such as horsebacking, horseback riding and archery.

Pursuant to Oakland Municipal Code Section 2.41.050.

The city is authorized to lease real property from another entity.

All leases of real property by the city must be authorized by a resolution enacted by the city council, except for the city administrator by the delegation, the complete authority to lease any real property.

If the rent lease payment, license fees, or other consideration for the lease does not exceed $100,000 over the term of the lease, including the extension periods authorized under these lease.

Over the years, both participation levels and associated program costs have increased due to the total anticipation cost for 2026 overnight camp programming exceeding 100,000.

OPRYD request the city council authorized to negotiate and execute an agreement and associate payment with Camps and Commons Incorporated for the 2026 summer camp season.

Thank you.

Thank you for your presentation.

Do we have initial questions or comments from the committee?

Councilmember Houston.

Through the chair, thank you, Ms.

Walker.

I'd just like to move it.

Um I'm going to feather um what you call it?

Feather Rhythm Camp?

Yeah, I'm going with Supervisor Nate Miley.

We're going to go out there and check it out.

Yay.

Um, he he called me today and said we'll set a date, so because we okay, we can go because I want to see it.

Cause I was one of the ones that was like, No, I never went.

Uh I missed it when I was a kid, so I can get to see it now, right?

So I want to move this.

Thank you for that.

Councilmember Wong.

Thanks.

Uh through the chair.

Um, thank you first of all for your work on this.

Um, I'm I'm just wondering, I totally agree with this.

I'm just wondering if there were funds other than the general fund that were explored for this.

Um, I think what comes to my mind is maybe Measure Q would be an eligible funding resource for this that says it funds libraries, parks, and recreational preservation, and just, you know, we're we our general fund dollars are the most precious ones, and so I just asked this, yeah.

Measure queues underneath Oakland, uh under public works and not under parks and recreations, so we don't necessarily the public works department more uses that budget than us.

We don't have access to the funds, yeah.

Interesting.

Um, but I guess in general, were there was there an exploration of different funds that could fulfill this need, or it was it's only centered.

Okay, yeah, that would be great.

Good afternoon.

I'm Director Michael Hammock.

So when it comes to the funds, extra funding for this program itself, we would have to look outside to get more funding and more grants out there to ensure that it can cover all 300 kids and some if we had the ability to do so.

Um when we look for grants, we got to make sure that it's in it's aligned with what our mission statement is about.

Cause a lot of times we get grants for different programs and it don't succeed with what we have going on at this time.

So hopefully next year we won't have these issues, but you know, we've been going to this place for over 75 years, and the difference now is that we have a different generation of children, and what they receive now is not what they we used to receive 75 years ago.

Okay, thanks.

Thank you both.

Director Hammett, could you expand on that?

What are what what was different?

Well, a lot was different 75 years ago.

But in terms of the services uh that are different, what's so now you know the kids are getting more um activities um brought to them, you know.

So times have changed.

So, like I'm gonna just put like this.

When I used to go to Feather River, we didn't get the opportunity to have like the horseback riding like they have today.

So the children are doing more like arts and craft, they're learning more about the nature, the environment of Quincy, California at Feather River Camp.

Um, so when we do things, we try to look at something different, and they bring that to the children when they come up there.

That's beautiful.

And it does spark a question for me because it is more costly now.

Everything is more costly now, but is it a way for us to potentially in the future work internally with services that are offered in Oakland to provide uh these types of camp programs?

Like there are it's we ride to in East Oakland is a stable where kids could get a horseback riding.

There are other places, only because just to um piggyback on what council member Wong said the cost, especially with the uh the lesser allocation for the number of youth served.

Is it possible to get that outdoor experience in Oakland?

It is.

So right now we have our our RFP out for our city stables here in East Oakland.

So hopefully, once we get once we get the RFP uh complete, we will be able to get uh somebody in there to run the city stables, and we'll be able to bring our children throughout City of Oakland up to the hills to participate.

Because I think with the pressures on the general purpose fund and the pressures on our budget, I would like to see some possibilities of alternatives, not right now, about how we could how we could save revenue save funds, but also still offer that outdoor experience.

And I think it would still be impactful for youth because I know families have who haven't been outside of their neighborhood, and Oakland has so many creeks and trails, and you know, the ba just the Bay Area in general, where it might not necessarily cost as much as going to Quincy, and it's not ideal, but while we're in this budget deficit I think we should consider entertaining what it would look like to create a program where people are taking advantage of the immediate vicinity but still you know doing some of the activities that are featured and so important to just really just being outside kids getting in the in nature putting your feet with no socks no shoes right in the grass is so important so if there's an opportunity for us to explore what that would look like I think it would be really beneficial for our budget and for young people.

I agree with you like I say I'm an Oaklander I'm a I am a wreck baby so I was born and raised in Parks and Reg.

So I know what I used to do back then I want to bring it back to the children today because I didn't always have to go to Quincy, California.

I did it because my father at the time was a center director and he would say hey you're in this program this is where you're going for the summer and if I didn't go there we will go to the Oakland PAL camp and we would go right up there off of Walking Miller to that camp as well that's here in Oakland but it's only able to serve up to about 12 to 15 youth at the Oakland Powell camp.

So whatever we can bring here in Oakland I am open to it because I want our kids to have that and have that experience a lot of kids don't get it.

A lot of kids haven't even left East Oakland to come to the lake so the experience that you're talking about I'm with you on it.

So whatever I can do as a director let me know my door's always open so we know that's true.

I know that it's absolutely true I just want to see kids from East Oakland and West Oakland being able to take advantage because I know with this particular program from what it looks like from the data it's kids in in district four that are really taking advantage of these services and sometimes you know not all the times but those are the families who have access to resources and go into Yosemite for the summer or other places I want my babies in West Oakland to be able to go horseback riding I want investments in our local pools at the firmary to actually be have all the amenities that they deserve so they can learn how to swim and so we can have more conversation I'm I'm over talking on this on this item but we will have more conversation and I appreciate you all for the work that you do for Oakland youth.

So would did we have a second madam clerk on this if not I will provide a second do we have public comments?

Let's hear from the public.

So this is a wonderful opportunity for youth but you know what would be a better opportunity because this can exist at Fever River camp family camping.

Because something's going on in the family structure that we need to work on so I would like to see that and what's wrong with seniors going sometime I like to camp.

Y'all not gonna leave us out you heard what I said now I like to ride a horse still but I'm concerned uh with the distribution by district of who I don't know where this number came from where district two had a hundred and fifty and district uh four only had 12 and I'm not gonna go through all the numbers but clearly this is not equity and so how are people or young people chosen to participate and how the adults chosen to be chaperones what are some of the issues that can be dealt with I know when you got young people out there there's gonna be some discipline issues come up what are the discipline procedures uh when things come up how does that work that's the camp or that's the adults who's girl your hairs go ahead queen anyway let me get back uh I'm concerned about that.

In health issues uh food uh allergies.

You know, you got a whole bunch of stuff.

So the parents sign a permission slip.

Have y'all seen the permission slip what's in it?

What are they agreeing to?

What responsibilities do they have that Featherwith River Camp is not taking responsibilities for?

You know what that looks like.

Uh these chaperones.

Have they had a background check?

Is that required?

Okay, okay.

I gotta see that.

Thank you for your comments.

Chair, that concludes all speakers for this item.

Seniors, we've been talking about the seniors, so we've I've been looking into it, so trust me.

I will make a way for seniors to go to Feather River Camp.

Get the opportunity.

Okay.

Thank you, Director Hammond.

Thank you both.

Thank you.

And we have a motion made by Council Member Houston, seconded by Chair Fife to approve the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the June 16th City Council agenda.

On roll council members guy.

Aye.

Houston.

Aye.

Wong.

Aye.

And Chair Fife.

All right.

Thank you.

Item four passes with sorry, item three passes with four eyes to forward this item to the June 16th City Council agenda on consent.

Reading in item number four, or sorry, S4.

This item does require an urgent, um, sorry, a vote as this was added at the three-day.

Do you have staff to state the urgency finding on the record?

Good afternoon.

Um to the chair and also good afternoon to the rest of the uh committee.

My name is Anna Bangtus.

Um, I'm with the human services department overseeing aging and adult services.

And this item does have an urgency because we have several service providers that um cannot go without from um providing services for our seniors who are considered um nursing home eligible, meaning that their medical as well as functional needs uh need a lot of support from our program called MSSB, which is stands for multi-purpose senior services program.

Um these services are lifeline because these folks don't have anybody sometimes that are living with them, so they're living alone, and if they fall, they need to be able to press a button so that emergency response can come in right away, as well as all kinds of goods and services that we need to provide.

And there was an error when we went to council in July of 2024 to get a resolution to be able to contract with these service providers typically and historically each year when we go to council to get the resolution approved, all the services uh that are listed on the resolution.

We also ask for a waiver to procure, and we also ask for a waiver for the local and small business enterprise um uh requirement because these uh services are necessary and cannot have any interruption in service, so that's the emergency, and we are seeking to be able to correct this resolution 90362 uh through another resolution to to waive the procurement requirements so that we can continue paying these service providers.

If you could just state clearly, because I think was that your entire presentation?

No, it's not, it's just the um it's the urgency finding that uh was asked earlier, uh Chair Fife.

And why is there an urgency finding in like just a few sentences?

Um, to be able to continue the service providers that are providing services currently.

I will entertain a motion on the urgency finding.

I'll second.

Thank you.

On the urgency motion made by Councilmember Guillo, seconded by Chair Fife to accept the urgency finding.

Um, sorry.

On roll council members Gayo.

Aye.

Oh, sorry, Miss Olavala, this is just for the urgency finding before we can hear the item.

Uh so that was Councilmember Gaio.

Councilmember Houston?

Aye.

Councilmember Wong, aye.

I and Chair Five.

Hi.

Thank you.

Uh motion passes with four eyes to accept the urgency finding.

Now reading in item number S4.

Adopt a resolution amending resolution number 90362 CMS for the fiscal years 2024 to 2025 through 2028 to 2029 to add multi-purpose senior services program, vendors Shield California Health Care Center and Transdev Services, and two waiving the competitive process and local small local business enterprise program requirements for MSP, vendors Bay Area Vital Link, Lifeline Systems, Community Service, Community Care Services, San Oaks Care Enhance 2, Shield California Health Care Center, and Transdev Services.

And we have two speakers on this item.

Thank you, Madam City Clerk.

Anna, you have the floor.

Thank you.

Good afternoon again.

Um Chair Fife and the members of the Life Enrichment Committee.

So today staff is requesting approval of a resolution amending resolution number 90362 pertaining to the multipurpose senior services program or MSSP approved by council on July 16, 2024.

We'd like to make two corrective actions with this resolution.

One is to waive the competitive procurement and local small business enterprise requirements for the MSSP vendors identified in resolution 90362, so that contracts can be fully executed and services can continue without interruption.

Second, is to add two additional MSSP vendors that were inadvertently omitted from the original resolution, Shield California Health Care Center and Transdev Services.

The resolution presented to you today is an administrative correction to resolution 90362.

During the contract development process for the vendors of goods and services named in this resolution, staff discovered that the waiver language included in prior MSSB approvals was inadvertently omitted, preventing contract processing from moving forward and paying the vendors.

In addition, two long-standing MSSB service providers were unintentionally left off the vendor list.

There is an urgency to this request because these vendors provide critical services that support approximately 369 frail, low-income older adults and adults with disabilities who are at risk of institutionalization.

They're considered nursing home eligible because of their health status and care needs.

Through MSSB case management and goods and services provided by the these vendors, our clients can live independently and remain at home for as long as possible.

Services include emergency response monitoring, caregiver respite, preventive skin care supplies, and East Bay Pair Transit Transportation.

Any interruption could jeopardize participant safety, health, and independence.

Staff is recommending the waiver because these are highly specialized services and limited qualified providers, and in many cases, the vendors are already integrated into the participants' care plan.

Reprocuring these services would be impractical, could delay service delivery and would not be in the best interest of the city or program participants.

Goods and services purchased through these vendors are considered waived services that are already approved in the MSSP's budget with the state.

The MSSB program is a cost-effective alternative to nursing home placement.

These services provide service providers are critical to MSSB's ability to help Oakland seniors age safely and in their communities and in their homes.

For these reasons, staff respectfully requests that the life enrichment committee recommend advancing this item to city council approval on consent as soon as possible.

Thank you for your consideration.

Thank you.

Questions or comments from the committee?

We'll hear from the oh, I'm sorry.

Councilmember Houston.

Councilmember Wong.

Hi, um, thank you for your work on this.

Just to convert so this is in-home care, essentially for elders.

Um, I'm just uh wondering because the in-home care industry can be rife with both with both wage um like unregulated wage abuse as well as um low wages for the workers as well as um elder abuse.

Do we assess our vendors for that just to to make sure that the quality that we're getting is at the highest degree of care, both for the seniors as well as the workers?

To the chair, um yes, um, these vendors are fully vetted by our staff, um, and a lot of them are long-standing vendors through the program.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

Public speakers, please.

Calling the names that signed up to speak on item number S4, Mrs.

Sada Olabala and Blair Beekman.

I just wanted to add to that last item, Miss Fife, uh, three hours and fifty-five minutes to to ride up to the feather river clan.

I don't know how many young people can stay on a bus for three hours and 55 minutes without some issue coming up.

Um, related to this issue, I think it's very important that we are not doing anything that has to do with the services that are going to be provided or any issue with the vendors.

The issue is we didn't file a proper procedure and the resolution that was created.

Uh, we had two vendors that were left out, and we omitted uh necessary required language having to do with waiver procedures and local small business, local business enterprise certification requirements for vendors.

So this is a corrective action related to staff not doing properly what was supposed to be done.

So don't make it seem like this is an urgency because we're not providing the services or the services are not appropriate.

We didn't do what we were supposed to do.

And uh I keep hearing a lot of corrective action on the part of staff.

And you guys, I'm so glad I'm not sitting up there because somebody would help be held accountable.

Okay, we can't continue to have these kind of things to happen.

I don't know if there's a fiscal component related to this, but we gotta do better.

And the reason why measure E failed is people are saying we're not doing the work the way it needs to be done, and people are saying that about you not taking responsibility for holding people accountable is a part of this.

So I hope everybody is clear.

Staff didn't properly bring forth the resolution, omitted some things, even omitted to vendors in the resolution.

Thank you for your comments.

Switching to Zoom user Blair Beakman, you can unmute yourself and begin your comments.

Hi, Blair Beekman.

I'm attending our uh San Diego uh budget sessions right now, uh, community process, uh, the intent.

Um thanks for your meeting today.

Um I'm gonna try to do my best to talk about uh the mayor issues uh and how she's developing umorely is developing um uh upcoming um uh uh ballot measures.

Um uh like what I've been trying to say um I I I had a good session from when it was brought to committee or to council uh a week or so ago.

It was a good learning process for myself.

Um Councilperson Wang, I thought uh she cleared up for me what she thinks it will be accomplishing in that there'll be another set of eyes that uh with the IBA process that can help the process uh in understanding and organize the process.

I mean, being from San Diego, we already have an IBA or an IPA, I can't remember its title, and that's what we're having questions about, and it's not working for us in San Diego.

We need additional organization for good governance.

So that's what I've been trying to suggest to Oakland at this time.

Yet Oakland, with the IBA process, that may be all that you need.

And so I'm trying to decipher that, figure that out.

Um, but it should be a question.

I hope it can be a regular question for yourself to consider.

And do we need that extra step besides an IBA?

And that's when we start talking about, you know, the city council manager process more and not just a strong mayor.

We need some sort of organizational system possibly that will provide a better governance that we need to more consider, and that we don't be afraid of that, and that it can be still practicing the strong mayor while practicing some aspects of a city council manager, and that hyper system can be okay.

I don't think we have to fear that, and that's my hope.

And that doesn't have to be Republican.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Chair, that concludes all speakers on this item, and we have a motion made by Councilmember Gaio, seconded by Chair Fife.

Oh, I do have a hand raised by Councilmember Houston.

Yes, through the chair, wanted to bring up um what Mrs.

Sada said, um, you know, I wouldn't normally have something to say, but it's this about our seniors, and we can't have a mistake that was made, affect our seniors, but we do have to hold staff accountable and you know, come back to to the workplace a hundred percent.

Um, not saying that the people that were in charge of this was working from home, but we do have to hold um staff accountable for um certain things because I don't like the waiving of the contracts, I don't like these emergencies as coming up, but if it's gonna affect our seniors, because I had mentioned that before, um, that's why I didn't say anything.

Um, because we can't let let a mistake, everybody makes mistakes, but nano back to back-to-back mistakes.

But yeah, that's what I wanted to share.

Thank you, Councilmember Houston.

And and to the to the public speakers' point, I do want to ask some background questions.

They're tangentially related to the errors that were um that were seen here in this in this particular piece of legislation that had to be corrected.

Do you know, Ms.

Bectus, whether the staff department that worked on this is fully staffed?

Yes, uh, thank you for that question, Chair Fife.

Um, so they're not fully staffed.

Um, and I think the challenge as well is uh we need more training.

That's what I heard from staff when this came up.

Um there are some changes that come along the way around the purchasing and contracting process, and sometimes staff don't really understand or are not informed of the whole process, and so there's some processes that get missed in this particular situation.

When I spoke with staff about it, um she said she was very sick when she was preparing the agenda report, and there's no one else who would do it.

So um typically it's a cut and pace from previous um resolutions, and somehow she omitted lifting the language around the waivers into this new resolution.

Do you have numbers on the staffing for for that particular division?

Um in the MSSP program right now we have about nine case managers, um, and we have one um assistant, uh sta administrative assistant, and then the director of the program.

The director of the program uh works with the assistant to produce these agenda reports, and do where would the training come from that the staff person was requesting?

Uh it would have to come from, you know, purchasing as well as internally as well because these items move internally that we have a process within our department, and then it goes out for approvals um along the chain, you know, from um city administration, uh, I'm sorry, the the city attorney's office, uh the finance office, and all of that.

So I think um the there's also very strict timelines that need that we need to follow, and I think sometimes along the way it gets missed with the you know the urgency of trying to get it out the the door um can can also cause some of these mistakes to happen.

Okay.

DC and of our um I'd like to just quickly mention so um HSD as as we all know has gone through a lot of transition with directors or or lack thereof.

Um and I will say that city administration has been really closely working with HSD to ensure that proper protocols and procedures are followed, and so myself, including currently um HSD is under city Administrator Lake's purview.

Um I's consistency on how you know the steps are being taken.

So that is happening currently, and so we are making sure that we're tightening up with really across the board all of our policies and procedures procedures for human services department.

So there will likely be fully transparent corrections that are coming up for this next few months while we get um uh HSD where it needs to be.

And I will also say having interim director Elliott uh added to the team and put having his support with his background in risk um will be super helpful in ensuring that HSD is moving in the the right direction, which it it's currently in that process.

So I just want to acknowledge that.

I appreciate that explanation and and I want to just address some of the concerns that I know residents of Oakland have that the issues coming out of City Hall are concerning, and I would suggest or request that the shifts that are being made in addition to the transition that HSD has experienced be explained in a transparent process through a memo from the city administrator's office so that people can see that we are making these um changes internally because I wouldn't know the council wouldn't know that this was even an issue just by reading the information reports that come to committee.

We have to get the information correct from the source so that we can deliberate appropriately and make the best decisions on um what's coming before us, and I also want to understand or well I want to I want to offer some grace because I know there are a lot of city workers that are doing five jobs under as one individual, and people are stretched thin, people are working out of class, people are doing the you know again the work of multiple individuals.

So these are the errors that happen when our staffing is not done correctly, and so we want to get past that, and we want to make sure that the resources are made available to our workers so that they don't make as many mistakes because that is how we rebuild trust for our constituents.

So I want to say thank you.

I see our director here, so thank you for being here.

And um DC Navarro, if we could when these uh processes and protocols get laid out to let this body know um when the memo would come from the city administrator's office.

I think that's important.

Yes, absolutely, we will do that.

And we can call the vote.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We have a motion made by council member guy, seconded by chair or sorry, council member Houston to approve the recommendations of staff and support this item to the June 16th City Council agenda, honorable council members guile, Houston, I won't I, and Chair Pai.

Aye.

Thank you.

Item number S4 passes with four eyes to forward this item to the June 16th City Council agenda on consent.

Moving on to open forum, calling in the names that sign up to speak, Ms.

Sada Olabala and Blair Beekman.

So across the country, a number of African Americans have taken the position that they're going to participate in uh boycott, and in some cases, they're calling it uh divesting away from uh Asian owned businesses.

This started with the uh killing of a 14-year-old in Columbia, South Carolina uh by an Asian uh store owner.

But in that process of discussing it, it's been said that African Americans uh not capable and we are dependent on other groups of people uh and in order to deal with some of our economic issues.

And this is a book about the two hundred over 200 black towns that we were forced to uh develop economically and other ways, and very successful, and y'all decided to tear them down.

Thank you for your comments, Ms.

Olivala.

Chair, that concludes all speakers on open forum.

Thank you.

It is four forty-five, and this meeting is adjourned.