Good afternoon and welcome to the Life Enrichment Committee meeting of Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026.

The time is now four or four 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 fill one out and turn one into myself or a clerk representative no later than ten minutes after the start of this meeting or before the items read into record, whichever occurs first.

Registering came to order at 4.04 p.m.

and speak via Zoom is now due twenty-four hours prior to the start of this meeting that time 414 p.m.

We'll now proceed with taking roll.

Council members Guile.

Present.

Houston.

Excuse or absent.

Excuse.

Councilmember Wong?

Present.

And Chair Five.

Present.

Thank you.

We have three members present, one excused Houston.

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 June 9th, 2026.

We have no speakers.

We just need a motion.

Thank you.

We have a motion made by Councilmember Guyle, seconded by Councilmember Wong to accept the draft minutes from the committee meeting of June 9, 2026.

On roll, Council members.

Guile.

Thank you.

Houston excused Wong.

Aye.

And Chair.

Chair by Thank you.

Motion passes with three ayes, one excused Houston to accept the draft minutes.

Oh, sorry, we do have a public speaker.

We have Blair Beekman.

Okay.

Mr.

Beekman, you can unmute yourself and begin your comments.

Uh thank you.

Um I'll just wait till the rest of the agenda.

Sorry about that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Moving on to item two.

Determination of schedule about standing committee items.

We have two speakers that signed up to speak on this item.

Let's hear from the speakers first.

Missada Olavala and Blair Beekman.

Never heard this before.

But all over the country, communities are organizing to stop data centers from coming into their communities.

And the legitimacy of this was I look at it, has some points that we need to see if we created we need to create an ordinance that stops data centers from being in the city of Oakland.

We currently have 300 data centers in the state of California.

The one I know that's nearest to Oakland is in Hayward.

The bigger issues with these data centers has to do with the the quality of water that's needed, the electricity that's needed, the noise issue, and their other issues.

And I was just taken back.

With the phenomenal number of communities who have decided that this is a crucial issue for which they want to stand up.

The senior centers, we just had a housing issue for seniors, and that particular issue once you identify a housing uh community for seniors.

There was something in that uh agreement that they can change it.

And now they are dealing with people who are not seniors who are not uh people that are respectful to the seniors that live there.

So that's and the last thing is we'll bring up y'all sanctuary city thing, quality of life for African Americans are in being impacted because of your sanctuary city ordinance.

That means housing, that means jobs is also impacting.

Thank you for your comments.

Noting the presence of Council Member Houston via Zoom.

Uh Councilmember Houston, can you unmute yourself and do the city attorney?

Okay, uh good afternoon.

Could you please state the reason for your remote appearance today?

Because I had a flat tire.

Um my understanding is that the clerk has received a form um allowing you to work remotely for the just cause provision of the um of the Brown Act.

Okay.

Yes, is there anyone in the room with you over 18?

No, by myself.

Okay, proceed.

Okay, thank you.

Uh again, noting the presence of Councilmember Houston at 407 p.m.

Blair Beekman, you can unmute yourself and begin your comments on item two.

Hi, thank you, Blair Beekman.

A flat tire in the middle of in the middle of the afternoon can really hurt.

Sorry about that.

Um I wanted to comment that uh yeah uh for these for the uh coming up items uh to be working on for like OFCY strategies, park and recreation advisory commission, uh, the cultural commission library uh commission.

Um overall uh commission on aging and overall issues of uh life enrichment um and neighborhood enrichment.

Uh very much of a thank you to Councilperson Fife, who I'm she's been really interested in uh the digital billboard program.

And there was a uh a small digital billboard uh item that came to council or committee last week.

Came to some meeting, and she decided to not go forward in in thinking with that item.

I don't know how it relates to her major project of digital billboard issues, but um she took a break on that one and it was nice to see.

And it sounds like she's willing to listen and not go all out on the uh Costco item at the uh the old Oakland Army facility.

Uh thank you for that.

Thank you for that patience and reserve in how to address our issues, and uh I hope uh it's a good learning process for all of us.

How do you uh we want to do things and want to accomplish things and sometimes we just have to wait and things may need to adjustments and not acceptable the land issues that the Costco uh Oakland Army base may be a real question for food items and storage and product items.

Uh so good luck how we can be addressing things and uh working together uh as long as it is a conversation that's open and continuing.

Uh good luck to that kind of effort.

Uh thank you.

Thank you for your comments, Chair.

That concludes all speakers on this item.

Thank you.

Does the administration have any proposed changes to the agenda?

No.

I will entertain a motion.

Second.

Thank you.

We have a motion made by Councilmember Guyo, seconded by Chair Fife to accept the determination of schedule standing committee items as is on roll council members guile.

Hi.

Houston.

Aye.

Wong.

Aye.

And Chair Five.

Aye.

Thank you.

Motion passes with four eyes to accept the determination of schedule by standing committee items as is reading in item number three.

Adopt a resolution accepting the planning and oversight committee recommendation to award Oakland fund for children and youth grants to nonprofits and public agencies to operate distinct year-round programs in an annual amount not to exceed 20 million six hundred and seventy-seven thousand three hundred fifty-six dollars for two fiscal years from July 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2027, and from July 1st, 2027 through June 30th, 2028, contingent upon funding available and program perform performance.

And there are 10 speakers that signed up to speak on this item.

Uh Madam City Clerk, are the 10 speakers online?

Okay, we will put 10 minutes on the clock for Ms.

Robin Love, and uh we'll hear your presentation.

Great.

Good afternoon, Chair Fife and fellow council members.

My name is Robin Love, and I'm the Children and Youth Services Manager within the Human Services Department.

Within my portfolio is the Oakland Fund for Children and Youth and the Oakland Youth Commission.

I am here today to seek your review and adoption, if possible, of your round of words for the Oakland Fund for Children and Youth.

I'd like to introduce our children and youth services planner who will walk you through our slide deck today.

We'll close out with a few uh more comments and then uh allow for question and answers.

Good afternoon.

My name is Robin Levinson, and I'm the program planner with the children and youth Services Division.

Once we get the slides up, I'll begin our presentation.

Thank you, Tar team.

So I want to start with general overview of the RFP and then go into the proposals we received, as well as a brief description on how we did our scoring and evaluation methodology to finalize the proposal you see before you.

The RFP covered eight funding strategies that were approved by the council through the OFCY Strategic Investment Plan in fall 2024.

The RFP timeline launched, or the launch of the RFP was on Friday, October 24th, and closed on December 12th, 2024.

That says 25.

One note is we really wanted to make sure that the RFP did not coincide with the holidays, as we heard that from a lot of community agencies.

Outreach and engagement was a key part of our launch, and we sent weekly updates to the OFCY mailing list.

That's about 2,000 subscribers.

We also, within that time, received 150 new subscribers.

We posted all materials on the Human Service Department website, in addition to OFCY.org.

We published the launch of the RFP in the Oakland side.

That was a running ad weekly, in addition to the East Bay Times, the Oakland Post, and El Reportero.

And we used the ICA kiosks across the city to publish the launch in English, Spanish, and Chinese through the period of October 24th to the December 12th.

Through our social media posts, we had over 19,000 impressions.

And with the Ike kiosks, we had over 1.6 million impressions and 183,000 plays, which is my understanding is when people touch and tap and pursue more information.

So we know that coupled with this intentional engagement and also recognizing the intense landscape that our grant our funding landscape, we received a significant amount of proposals.

And this was different than in the last RFP, in that we received 333, which was a 45% increase from 2022, when there was 229 proposals.

Cumulatively, the ask was for 62 million, which was a 65% increase from 2022, when 37.8 million was requested.

Looking at the different strategies, the largest uh or the largest number of proposals was received in the youth development strategy, with almost one-third of all proposals, 96.

That was followed by the elementary school strategy with 74 proposals.

And when you looked, you all and this body and the council have already approved our summer service term.

That was 33 of the 333 proposals.

So when we're looking at year-round today, we're looking at the other 300 proposals submitted for the year-round service term.

On this table, you'll see a breakdown again of the total number of proposals received, but also you'll see here the amount of money asked across each of the funding strategies.

And one thing I want to call attention to is just with youth development and leadership alone.

We were at 19.8 million dollars in ask, recognizing the amount of money and amazing uh amount of programming happening across the city.

Um, this was the largest ask by funding strategy in the youth development, followed by career access and employment at 11.7 million.

189 agencies submitted a proposal.

And of these 189 agencies, eight agencies submitted more than five proposals.

You'll see those listed here on this screen, in addition to the number of proposals, and also if they're a current OFCY grantee during this fiscal year.

So shifting now to uh this is kind of covering that launch and the number of proposals received.

I want to shed light a little bit on the evaluation and reader and scoring process.

OFCY was really intentional with partnering with local education institutions, including UC Berkeley, Cal State East Bay, Laney College, and Merritt College to ensure that we had a lot of representation from students studying public policy, politics, criminal justice, education.

We also partnered with other city departments, particularly the definitely within-house at the human services department, but also community economic development department and also the Department of Violence Prevention to get more readers.

We had council members share out the announcement for readers in newsletters and in social media posts, our own planning and oversight committee recruited readers, and we also were able to do it through our own network of community-based agencies.

In total, 253 individuals signed up to be readers, 175 completed the training and actually scored proposals.

Before accessing any proposals, we needed a significant training.

We held three trainings live for individuals the week after the RFP closed.

We also recorded that training for those who could not attend in person or live.

We also built out our confidentiality and impartiality statement with recommendations and improvements provided by the public ethics commission.

In addition to confidentiality and impartiality, we also ensured that they didn't have a conflict of interest as described in these bullets below.

No participation on the board, no previous employment, and also no experience within the programming of those agencies.

Now of the 175 readers, we needed that many because each proposal needs three readers as defined by the requirements of the contract administration unit.

To ensure that no one reader read too many proposals, we made sure each reader had a minimum of three, but a maximum of 10.

Six proposed readers were removed due to a potential conflict of interest, and readers read between December 19th and March 13th.

One of the reasons this was so long of a period was because we also wanted to account for variance.

We defined variance as any time a proposal had a minimum score and a maximum score that was more than 20 points of difference.

So let's say somebody got a 55 and a 95.

We wanted to make sure we had an additional score review so that no average score was really impacted by one outlier.

We had a optional reader survey, which just gives a little bit of light here on who made up that population of readers, including individuals who identified as neurodivergent or having a disability.

We had youth representation, including four Oakland Youth Commissioners, City of Oakland staff, as mentioned before, and also subject matter expertise, including those who had lived experience in OFCY programming in the past, in addition to after school programming, program evaluation, please refer to attachment C for more information on the depth.

We also had council representation across all districts within readers.

So shifting to the scoring, this was an extremely competitive RFP in that over half received a score of 85 out of 100 or above.

Just looking at those who received a 90 out of above, that was one third of all proposals.

Recognizing the funding available.7 million, that means our overall ask amount was 23.6 million.

So recognizing this, we leaned on language that was provided in the RFP, which is that OFCY reserved the right to consider additional factors, including the number of applications as part of the final award determination, and also how well a program addressed systemic gaps and served those farthest removed from access to power and resources.

Again, these factors that we included and helped us determine our final recommendations brought to our planning and oversight committee included geographic population served, number of proposals submitted by the agency, the total funding requested by strategy and overall, the history of the agency in Oakland, their applied expertise, and also the funding climate.

And that is why you get to what you see here today and in the report and resolution, what was passed by our planning and oversight committee.

You'll see that the youth development, which is the last row, has uh the largest number of recommended awards and the largest allocation at 7.5 million, followed by the career access and employment allocation of 4 million.

This aligns with the strategic investment plan.

We also went beyond the initial allocation amount, again, recognizing the five the financial landscape and what our city is dealing with with federal and state and county cuts.

So looking at uh what we have in the Oakland Children's First Carry Forward, we are going to have to make up about a 3 million, 3.5 million dollar difference.

And you can see the math detailed here.

So in this, right here, what we are requesting today is the 20.67 million to cover year-round, coupled with what was already approved in the summer programming through resolution 91138.

We have that difference of about 3.5 to make up.

3.5 million, excuse me.

Lastly, I just want to shed light on program impacts and the reality of how important this funding is, particularly recognising the ask of $62 million and how we know we are in some ways a drop in the bucket of uh the total funding needed to recognize the important impact these programs have.

So here you'll see the number of youth served, which is roughly 22,000 to 23,000 youth providing uh that are getting served through programs funded through OFCY.

And you'll see that based on the program count and the strategy listed here in this table.

Additionally, when you look at the number of youth served by ethnicity, about 41% identify as Hispanic or Latinx, about 31% identify as black or African American, and 10% identify as Asian, Asian American, and Filipino.

When you look also at the geographic regions represented, we were really intentional in the RFP to ensure that we used the guidance from the Department of Transportation Geographic Equity Toolbox to have our proposers demonstrate how their program directly supports the highest and high priority listed neighborhoods.

And you'll see here just listed kind of estimated number of youth served by that map in kind of general zip code.

Lastly, these are all estimates, but here you'll also see the number of youth served by council district.

And here you'll see that about the primary districts served through the estimated uh number of youth through the programs would be district three, district two, and district seven.

We recently came to this body to govern the fiscal year 2032 evaluation of the OFCY programs, and we talked about our intention to build out and become more robust in our results-based accountability.

You'll see that was reflected in the RFP, and you'll see the outcome measurement categories listed here below.

All of our programs will be reporting out on how well their program meets their identified measures that fit into these buckets.

And with that, we are welcoming uh any kind of questions or comments.

Thank you.

Thank you for that presentation.

We will hear from our public speakers.

Calling in the names that signed up to speak on item number three.

In no particular order, you can come up to the podium, state your name for the record, then make your comments as standard practice.

We will take in-person speakers first.

If you are participating via Zoom and you hear your name, please raise your hand to be easily identified.

Katia Cabrera, Candy Lozano, Yasmin Villalobo, Christopher Martinez, Blair Beekman, Jordan Hernandez, Alexander Gutierrez, David Gallegos, Walter Maldonado, and Missisado Olivala.

Las actividades de baby learning nos permite pasar más tiempo de calidad, apprend cosas nuevas anders de una manera divertida y educativa.

And then I'll be saying it in English.

I want to say that as a parent, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to OFCY for the support and funding provided to the baby learning program.

Thanks to this assistance, my family and many others had access to activities and resources that support our children's learning and development.

The baby learning activities have allowed us to spend more quality time together.

I learned new things and support our children's growth in fun and educational educational ways.

We deeply appreciate the OFCY for investing in our families and in the future of our children.

Their support has had a positive impact in our communities, and we are very grateful for the opportunity.

Thank you.

Their curiosity and confidence.

He has also been valuable for us as a parent and gives us ADS intels to better support their daily development.

From the bottom of my heart, I thank you all FCY.

From thinking about families like ours, their support not only funds a program, but also strength the future of our children's and giving hopes as a community.

Thank you.

Great job.

The report on the Center for Independent Living uses the term BIPOP system.

What in the hell is a BIPOP system?

Take BIPOT out.

We are not the same.

We try to group people together, and we are not the same.

Central de la Rasta, Youth Law Academy.

They work mostly with Latino kids.

Civil Corps.

Look at what it says.

81% men, 16% women.

We need to work on them being more balanced with more women included in their programs.

The Lau family, $200,000 for careers.

Their scope of work happens to deal with a lot of African Americans.

They are not culturally competent.

Just because they hire African Americans doesn't mean that they have the capacity.

No other group will allow another race of people to tell them how to do business.

Don't do it with us.

That's Pacific to help Spanish people.

Spanish speaking Unity Council, $312,000.

For beloved village, Spanish speaking unity council, $250,000.

For career exploration exploration.

Asian Health Services, $200,000.

Now you ain't heard nothing black yet.

$400,000.

BIPOT.

Uh language in that one too.

East Bay Asian.

Local development Asians, $101,000.

Spanish speaking unity council.

Rooted youth development.

That's fine.

They know that they have to train their own children.

Same thing with black people.

We have to train our own.

Thank you for your comments.

Well the money for that.

Thank you for your comments.

Switching to Zoom user Blair Beekman.

You can unmute yourself and begin your comments.

Blair, you can unmute yourself and begin your comment.

Okay, we will try again after Christopher Martinez.

You can unmute yourself and begin your comment.

Good afternoon, members of the Life Enrichment Committee.

My name is Christopher Martinez, and I serve as the executive director of the Spanish Speaking Citizens Foundation.

I want to begin by acknowledging this committee and OFCY for this recommendation.

We really appreciate this investment in our immigrant and newcomer youth.

Spanish Speaking Citizens Foundation has been rooted in Oakland's immigrant community for over six decades.

We did not come to this work recently.

And we did not come to it from the outside.

We are of this community.

For many of us, this is a singular focus and our deepest commitment.

The Libra Independent Living Project is a direct response to a gap that we see every day.

Young adult newcomers who are capable, resilient, and determined, but who lack access to the systems, supports and connections that make independent adulthood possible.

They are not failing because they lack drive.

They are navigating extraordinary complexity, a new country, a new language, economic pressure on their from their families, and now a political climate that has made simply existing as an immigrant young person feel dangerous.

They need more than a workshop.

They need an ecosystem of support, and that is precisely what this program delivers.

And what distinguishes Libra is not just our model, it's our people.

Our staff are not outsiders looking in.

Many of them are alumni of this very program.

They have walked this road.

They have opened their first bank account with one of our counselors by their side.

They have stayed in school when it would have been easier to stop.

They have supported their families while building their own futures.

This is really important funding for us.

So this committee's recommendation really does send a message that Oakland stands with this immigrant youth at a moment when that message is desperately needed.

We will honor it.

We will deliver results, report transparently, and demonstrate the full return on this investment, not just in outcomes, but in young people who are stable, connected, and ready to contribute to the city for decades to come.

Thank you so much.

Thank you for your comments.

If your name was called and you're on Zoom, please raise your hand to be easily identified.

Alex Gutierrez, you can unmute yourself and begin your comments.

Alex, I see that you're on muted, but we do not hear you.

Alex Good.

Alex Gutierrez last call.

Well, it's very faint.

We can barely hear you.

How now?

Can you hear me?

Yes, we can hear you.

Go ahead and begin.

Hello, everyone.

My name is Alexander.

Uh I'm part of this part of my speech information.

I would like to express my sincere gratitude for this grant and the opportunity to continue in support of community.

Today I have the privilege of being part of the organization and helping junk people who are facing challenges, especially in our in our community.

This ground we have an info impact in our independent learning program.

Many of the students we are preparing to transition to adulthood and face a challenge related to education, employment, financial stability, and self-sufficiency.

Through this funding, we will be able to provide um mentorships and also guide students and help the students to build a skill necessary to live independent and confidently.

The program will support students in development financial liberty skills such as budgeting, savings, and understanding credit.

It will also help them explore uh college and career opportunities, prepare resumes, practice interview skills, and I begin important life decisions.

In addition, students will learn about housing resource, time management, self-advocating, and assistant community service, technical support or long-term success.

As someone who benefit from this this support and disorganization, I understand how life-changing these opportunities can be.

This ground will help ensures that more young people have access to the resource guidance and encouragement they need to achieve their goals and build a successful future, mostly because most of our students are Latinos and we can for different backgrounds.

And most of the time we they don't teach us how to do this, but like by like teaching these people how to manage their money and how to help them, we can help them to uh have um uh a good future and good success in their in the college.

And also I just want to say thank you so much for for considering us and for other opportunity and we would like to try helping the community and mostly or or l or listening to students.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments again.

If your name was called and you were on Zoom, please raise your hand.

Otherwise, at this time, all names have been called.

Thank you, Madam City Clerk.

No, Jordan.

Oh.

Lord to him.

Are there questions or comments from the committee?

Councilmember Guy.

Yes, uh, thank you for the information.

Just for clarity's sake, and to the public, you know, there's there are a number of reports um uh that are given to us uh from attachment A to attachment E.

Can you kind of then I'm kind of trying to follow the number of organizations that have been recommended, right?

And the scoring, you provided the scoring, the average scores, the funding strategy, the program name, the agency's name.

Can you um just kind of highlight or go over like attachment A, a year-round service term programs recommended for awards?

So that means whatever's on this list is getting those award amounts, right?

Attachment A.

Okay, and but there's some organizations that besides attachment A, they're in attachment B and attachment E.

So those are organizations that are be they're funded but for different activities or services.

Through the chair.

Attachment B is year-round and subver summer service term programs not recommended.

So in the spirit of full transparency to share all of the information, we included A, which is what we're proposing to fund for the uh 20 million, B, who we didn't fund with their scores, but just so you could see who didn't get funded.

Okay, and then C is our outreach and recruitment uh getting the word out for the RFP, so you have that, and then D is summer service which you already approve resolution 9113A when we came to you, I believe in May.

Okay, so attachment E, the average scores for year-round services term programs recommended for awards.

So that means all the the listing on here that they didn't all get the thank you for the question uh through the chair.

Attachment E.

The primary difference between that one and attachment A is just the funding scores included.

Um we wanted to give the program description, and in order to give enough uh information on attachment A with the program description uh and the funding amount, we did an additional attachment to give you the score so you could see it.

Yeah, because I was trying to follow uh safe passages.

They've been around for many, many years throughout the city of Oakland, different type of services year-round and so forth, and uh and kind of recognize the scoring and so forth.

Um so if you're included in all these attachments, you'll be in fund.

Other than attachment B.

So attachment, if you count up attachment A plus attachment B, you'll get the total 300 year-round proposals.

Yeah, so attachment A has those that were recommending for funding.

Attachment A and B?

Uh A and attachment E.

Oh, have the same information, and that will be those that are recommended for funding.

Okay, attachment A and E.

That's correct.

Okay.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

Council Member Wong.

Uh, thank you.

And uh you all always provide the most thorough reports, so thank you for doing that.

Um I think I just have a couple of questions.

One is just what what was the evaluation criteria for these?

The evaluation.

Sorry if I missed it in the many documents that were provided.

Or can you just share some of the evaluation criteria that were?

Yeah, through the chair.

Um we had a rubric that was given and provided through the training.

We don't have that rubric attached here, but it is in the RFP, um, detailing the different what the proposal uh proposers will be scored on.

It included things uh there was a budget section, there was a program information section, um, they had to show that uh their program, how it aligned with the uh department of transportation geographic equity toolbox in their population and geography.

So it had those different sections that uh were within the RFP detailed there, and then that's what we trained our readers on to then align it.

Um and uh that was what was used in addition to then the final uh once we got that average score.

Our own determination with those other criteria that we listed in the PowerPoint.

Okay.

Um I also noticed just uh in reading this.

I don't know if this was because of my comments or or not, uh, but I did appreciate that in the report that uh you all included a specific data point around uh serving homeless and transitioning youth, and um I was wondering just do we know how many homeless youth like uh in our school system just generally through you know the kind of evento and how many are we serving a hundred percent of them or like what percent of those homeless youth are we reaching through these programs?

Through the chair we are serving homeless youth within the Oakland Unified School District.

We don't have that specific data but we can circle back and get that for you and bring it back.

Okay.

And then the other thing I just want to thank you for doing is to include funding for um commercially sexually exploited youth so thank thank you for doing that I saw that.

Through the chair uh we did uh hear some of the issues that were brought up when we came uh for summer and mayor summer youth employment program Ms.ada also asked about specific uh focused populations including the CSAC population homeless youth and foster youth so we went back and compiled the data that we had within the proposals to provide that to you so thank you for uh bringing that to our attention and we do try to be responsive to those specific questions that you have as council.

Well thank you for doing that um I with that I'll move the item thank you for that motion uh I'll second I do have a couple questions because there were some things that came up in the presentation that I just want a little bit of clarity on so Miss Levinson if you could expound on the the comment of um there were a number of applications that were considered as a part of the award I there were more at there are lots of applications and and I wanted to know by the sheer volume of applications that came through what does that communicate and and how um would that impact impact the way that the applications were scored if at all I think what it communicated is the great need in Oakland particularly around uh youth support but also for zero to five for other uh wraparound services violence prevention the sheer number of proposals and given the economic climate um we did expect to have that large number of proposals and as funding streams become more competitive um and this is a front extreme that uh unlike many other funding streams is less categorical we say that the funding needs to go to direct services and we want to see uh many populations benefit from this and we track that so I think that was the first thing that um we took away from this that I wish I could raise enough money to fund fully all of the proposals uh especially the ones that are scored 85 and higher so we're mindful of that and then your second question can you repeat that for me please the the comment that was made that stood out and I I don't even have all the words verbatim but it was something that um sounded like the the number of applications that were considered it had an impact on the awards that were made so I I again I don't know um verbatim what was stated but I I was just wondering what impact that that had.

Thank you.

Yeah through the chair um we saw both an increase in the number of agencies that applied and in addition to that a number of proposals so to that point um I can try to go back am I allowed to reshow the slide okay thank you um because I think maybe where this may have been sparked uh Chair Fife is around that um looking at the number of agencies that submitted multiple proposals right and um one thing this was our first RFP process and we had no maximum number that you could submit so you know you saw where we had um Bay Area Community Resources submitted 22 proposals right a majority of those were in the elementary school and middle school after school program strategies but in addition they also had them in youth development and uh career access so um you are correct that we did um also consider the number of agencies or excuse me the number of proposals that an agency did uh submit in considering the um the final determination on how much money we would allocate by agency um and also uh we had guidance from our planning and oversight committee that really wanted us to try to access and identify.

Thank you um uh how do we support newer agencies, smaller agencies?

And what through this uh recommendation, about one-third are new agencies that were not funded in this last fiscal cycle so um that is a one-third of both summer and year-round together.

Will be about one-third of new agencies, including small and emerging.

Thank you.

That clarified that for me.

Thank you so much.

Will there be a proposal limit in the future?

I think what we're doing is looking at the impact of this, the decisions we made, and how services will be delivered, and we'll be taking under consideration as lessons learned.

I think one of the options we are exploring is the number of proposals that can be submitted within a strategy, among other uh criteria, including uh possibly past program performance.

So uh stay tuned.

And any recommendations that you all may have, we certainly will take them under advisement and consideration.

Okay, and I'm I'm also pleased to see that there are new newer agencies that are being funded.

I know um one of the comments we hear frequently from the public is that we keep funding the same organizations over and over again and don't give other um orgs an opportunity to compete, and that's what an RFP is.

But if you don't get the experience of getting the funding to do the work, that is your mission.

It's difficult to become one of those larger, more highly performing agencies.

So I was happy to see that.

Um, and just always just the hard work and the information that goes into the these reports is impressive.

Thank you very much.

Um I think we had a motion.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Councilmember Houston.

You have the floor.

Thank you.

Through the chair, um Robin Love, thank you so much.

I couldn't see the the slide that had um district seven and our black youth.

So if you can just um express our our our share with us a little bit about that, because I'm just gonna repeat what I heard um uh someone online say, and then Miss O Babala said is that uh we need an ecosystem of support too.

When I say we, I'm talking about black youth, and I I heard someone say no other race will let anyone tell them what they need.

Um, and I'm um I'm on a mission.

Um, I hope you guys pay attention to public safety today because uh I'm tired of people telling um black youth or black people that don't have the experience what we need and what we we need, right?

So um can you just share me what in D7 the black youth um and D7 what who's being serviced, please, Mrs.

Love.

Through the chair, sure, council member Houston.

I have data aggregate aggregated in different ways, and so to get into the weeds of specifically how many black youth per district, I would have to double check, but I don't know if we have that right now.

But what I can tell you is 8,678 African American and black youth will be served.

This is proposed.

We have a number of organizations that are by foreign with African American uh and that serve that population.

We also know that uh for some of the small and emergency, particularly for fathers and for males, that we have a few new new organizations that also provide services to them uh in terms of district numbers of youth to be served.

So uh D3 was 7,642 again proposed.

What actually occurs is what we track quarterly, and we can bring that back to you in six month increments.

Oftentimes what is proposed is lower than the number of uh African American or Latino uh participants that are served.

We know that demographics in Oakland is changing, so we particularly made a point to using the geographic toolbox to make sure we serve African Americans.

That is a priority for me, as well as all uh OFCY serves all young people, but we recognize that some of the disparate outcomes really are with African American and Latino children, youth, and their families.

Uh for D7, uh, that's about 15% of youth served.

That is 3,336.

For D6 is 2,820, about 13%.

And that was the slide deck that uh you heard, Councilmember Houston that was presented to you.

D5 is about 16% of the total you've served at 3,563.

We know that D3, D uh 5, D6, D7, some of D2, also have populations and participants that have a lot of needs and stressors that we want to make sure they serve.

And believe it or not, even in D4, when we did disaster uh service work and we had the fires maybe a year and a half ago, I was actually surprised at the number of African Americans predominantly that showed up at the center because they lived in D4 in various community pockets.

Thank you.

And through the chair, um you say proposed.

So what was um done the last time around, or is this the first time?

Because I couldn't hear that part.

How many in D7 was was served last time?

So I would have to circle back on our website, OFCY.org.

We do have the 2425 evaluation report that was finalized.

We are working on our 2526 annual independent evaluation report.

It usually comes out after year-end closing reports are turned in.

So I can get that for you, Councilmember Houston.

And we also in City Span have the ability to generate demographics in real time.

So uh we can come back with an informational report if you like in early let's say fall after school school starts in September with specific demographics that were served in 25-26 prior to submitting uh for your review and approval of the independent annual evaluation report because that to compile all that data takes a little time.

Okay, and through the chair, last question, thank you, Ms.

Love, and ages too, because at risk, my youngsters is at risk.

Um so that would be appreciated.

Thank you.

You're very welcome.

Thank you to all of the uh my colleagues for your questions.

I believe there's a motion and a second on the floor.

Yes, thank you.

We have a motion made by council member Wong, seconded by Chair Pipe to approve the recommendations of staff and to forward this item to the July 7, 2026 City Council agenda.

On roll council members Guyo, Houston.

I won.

Aye, and Chair Five.

Aye.

Thank you.

Motion passes with four eyes to forward this item to the July 7, 2026 city council agenda and to the chair.

Is this on consent?

Yes.

Thank you.

Um, on consent.

Moving on to open forum.

Calling in the names that signed up to speak per open forum, Mrs.

Olabala and Blair Beekman.

So the next meeting, you two gonna bring up Sanctuary City ordinance, and you want to uh reaffirm refugee.

You saw all of the items that were just on the agenda that deal with immigrants and refugees.

What is the issue you have now?

Forty to six percent of the people who come here and then become illegal is because they have visas, travel visas, work visas, school visas, and they exceed their time.

That's the largest percentage of people that are here illegally, and you're gonna be saying in your next meeting that you support that they do this.

Have you ever considered the people who go through the process that follow the rules to become citizens of this country?

And you saying you saying the people that don't follow the rules, that's the ones that you support.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

It looks like Mr.

Beekman is not on Zoom.

Chair, that concludes all speakers for open forum.

Thank you to everyone.

This meeting is adjourned.