On Tuesday, June 9, 2026, the Oakland City Council Life Enrichment Committee convened at 4:03 PM and adjourned at 4:45 PM. Members present: Councilmembers Gallo, Houston, Wang (arrived at 4:07 PM), and Chair Fife. The committee approved routine items, debated a $197,432 rental agreement for summer youth camp, and addressed an urgent corrective resolution for senior services vendors. All items were forwarded to the June 16, 2026 City Council consent agenda.
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.