Good afternoon everyone. The Sacramento City Council will please come to order. Would

the clerk please call the roll to establish a quorum. Thank you councilmember Tao. Mayor

Pro Tem Telemontes. Councilmember Valenzuela. Here. Vice Mayor Maple. Councilmember Garro

will be absent. Councilmember Jennings. Councilmember Vang. I expect Councilmember

Kaplan momentarily and Mayor Steinberg. I am here at Mayor Pro Tem Telemontes. Would

you please lead us in the landing knowledge and the pledge allegiance. Thank you. Please

rise for the opening acknowledgments and honor of Sacramento's indigenous people and tribal

lands. To the regional people of this land, the Nisanan people, the southern Maidu,

Valley and Plains we walk, Patwain, Win-Toon peoples, and the people of the Wultur, Ranturia,

Sacramento is only federally recognized tribe. May we acknowledge and honor the Native people

who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing

to gather together today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's

indigenous peoples history, contributions and lives. Thank you. Now, salute. I pledge allegiance

to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation

under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice are all. Well, a very good afternoon to

you. First let me begin by apologizing to the young people especially. Time is valuable

and we're a little bit late. That's because we had a number of important items in our executive

close session and it took a little longer than maybe we expected. So thank you for your patience.

But we are really excited tonight because this is one of the special meetings of the entire year

where we get to hear from not just the future of the city but the present of the city, young people

who commit themselves, you, to a summer of study, of getting to know one another and of learning

how to solve or make better complicated public policy challenges that we all face.

And I will tell you now this is my eighth summer at City Hall presentation and I know there have

been ideas that have come out of your inspiration, your predecessor's inspiration, and work together

that we have taken up as serious policy matters here at the city. Our fervent hope is that this

experience leads you to a lifetime commitment to public service of some kind where you commit

yourselves to hopefully the Sacramento community but your community and to stand within four people

who need your help on any cause that resonates from your heart and that is part of who you are.

So we can't wait to get started and we're going to listen to the presentations and then there

may be questions and comments after each of the presentations. After all eight presentations

we'll take public comment but we want to hear the public presentation and we want to hear the

presentations from you first and so welcome to your house, Sacramento City Hall.

Who's going first? Do we have an introduction here for yes all of this okay I'm sorry I didn't

sorry I was waiting for consent. Not a consent calendar no. Good evening Mayor, council members,

Mr. City Manager, Madam City Attorney and Madam Clerk. My name is Sarah Muster and I oversee

the civic engagement unit lying within the youth parks and community enrichment department.

I'm delighted to be here this evening to open for the summer at City Hall presentations and introduce

you to the amazing group of high school students which two groups are sitting behind me and the

remaining groups are in room 1119 listening to your comments and your warm welcome Mr. Mayor.

These students attend school at Sac City Unified School Districts, Natomas Unified School District

and Twin Rivers Unified School District. We have 72 participants and 15 peer mentors.

Peer mentors are students returning from last year to help guide this year's participants.

They're in central and mentoring and providing daily encouragement to participants.

Of the 72 participants 14 reside within D1, 16 reside within district two or six excuse me six

reside within district two 10 within district three four within district four seven within

district five six within district six seven within district seven and six within district eight

and finally we have 12 out of class students meeting they reside outside of the city limits and

intend one of the schools that we partner with or they live within the city limits and attend

the school outside of the partnering districts. These students have been with us at City Hall since

June 27th they've run into a few of you and have enjoyed every minute that you've been able to

spend with them and those short five weeks they have spent countless hours learning about local

government civic engagement the city of Sacramento and much more. One of their major program

requirements is to create and present to you a project projects are centered around local

issues that that you feel need more attention. I'll wrap it up in just a minute as I know you're

not here to listen to me but I did want to mention that in addition to the daily classroom

instruction project planning the students were also placed in internships this is the first time

since post pandemic they were placed within community-based organizations throughout the city that

the city grants so our grantees that the office of the youth development administration office

formally OID their grantees as well as various city departments. This program is almost completely

run by youth however the support staff is critical and helping to enrich and experience and

deliver curriculum daily. Our city staff include Rhonda Patterson, Maria Videsma Dahl and Dominique

Kernden as well as our awesome summer or excuse me Sacramento City Unified School District

teachers Nicole Quinn, Nicole Castles and Christopher Manning so without further ado I'd like to

welcome our first link crew the mindful mouse. Nice the mindful mice I'm so sorry.

Good evening City Council my name is Jordan Liu I am one of the I am the mentor for my team the

mindful mice I am a rising senior at West Campus High School and now introduce my team.

Good evening City Council my name is David Excel O'Neil and I'm a rising junior and I'm a student

at the Thomas High School. Good evening Council my name is Daniel Spann I'm a rising junior at

John F Kennedy. Good evening City Council my name is Mike Rodriguez I am a rising junior at the

School of Engineering and Sciences. Good evening City Council my name is Coral Wad and I'm a rising

junior at Rosemont High School. Good evening City Council my name is Sarah Sayter I'm a

upcoming senior at John F Kennedy. Good evening City Council my name is Kinyl Dixon I'm a rising

sophomore at Cobbistutter High School. Good evening City Council my name is Kiyun Brutumah and I'm a

rising senior at the Thomas Pacific Pathless Prep High. Good evening City Council my name is

Grace Gow and I am a rising sophomore at John F Kennedy High School.

Firstly we'd like to thank you all for allowing us address the issue of mental health.

As a group we have research and collected data from various sources and as well as

made resources let's get further in depth in this presentation. Mental health is a profoundly

personal journey there's about embracing the light and the dark to find harmony. Recognizing

the importance of this journey were prior were committed to prioritizing mental health by providing

deeper insights valuable resources and spread awareness. Together we can foster a community

where mental well-being is understood supported and celebrated.

How did we ensure success within our project? The main goals that we aim to accomplish through

our project include informing educating and influencing those who are struggling with similar

mental health issues. We will fulfill these goals by providing more awareness about the many obstacles

of mental health as well as providing possible solutions.

Common mental health issues and teenagers include depression and anxiety,

attention to physical disorders or eating disorders which include general symptoms

but not limited to prolonged sadness, hopelessness and fatigue. For our society may notice like

brass changes in diet personality and neglecting the responsibilities. Some teenagers may not show any

signs at all and wish chase it is best to communicate with them if you are concerned anyway.

Mental health symptoms could be continued due to substance abuse. The two major personality

disorders that are highly correlated in regards to substance abuse are borderline PD and anti-social

PD. A finding shows that in Sacramento one in five years have been diagnosed with emotional

behavioral or mental health disorder. Additionally 50,000 students are diagnosed with mental health

disorders in only 40,000 of those get the immediate treatment.

We sent out a survey to local youth across all districts. In total we received 101 responses

from answers from individuals aged 13 to 39. In total 24.8% of our responses came from

individuals aged 15 and 17. In our survey we asked the question, have you ever experienced

problems with mental health? A total of 72.3% of our survey takers responded with yes.

Then we asked if they have ever reached out for help and 67.3% said no.

This shows how we are failing as a community to provide our youth with resources as well as

the support needed in order for an individual to feel comfortable receiving help.

Then we also asked, do you still feel the effect of what you have been through in terms of mental

health? 47.5% responded with sometimes while 23.8% responded with yes. If our community does not

actively address mental health issues or mental health overall, the lack of awareness can lead to

delayed diagnosis or treatments in youth. The youth are our future and we must give a lending hand

in order for them to reach their potential. Furthermore we asked youth to state their experience

with mental health if they like. One survey taker said, I have abandoned my issues, molding

anxiety, depression and extreme suicidal thoughts. I feel like it is a burden to carry these mental

issues and if I did not have them, then I would be a normal person and everyone enjoys being around.

It is essential for our community to provide resources to everyone such as family and friends.

Otherwise this leads to discouragement in speaking up and asking for help.

As a group, we came together and created a video.

Did you hear it sounds good?

You guys do the math homework? It was so hard.

No, I only tried that one I knew about there while the math homework was at least one of our

families who were with us.

Dude, that was it in this part?

Whatever, no, it was mine.

I see you guys. I want to raise my good group. Thank you for asking.

Oh wait, he's my math class and he wasn't really paying attention how much

stimulus was for me. I know that too and he usually happens to be getting better,

but he's been paying all the budget for the entire week.

Yeah, but sometimes I'm a tall guy.

Are you okay?

Yeah, I've always treated you well for my third.

Oh, I am okay.

I guess I can't put my friends on him to say because I know that she was struggling

also.

Check out the campaign as all of these were sweet.

This is our pathway to wellness pamphlet.

It is one of our key components to our mental health outreach efforts.

It is designed to reach audiences without easy access to online media or resources.

It includes general information and essential points about mental health.

Additionally, it features a QR code providing a gateway for the already available online resources.

We plan to ensure the pamphlet's distribution in spaces to ensure broad access to our

already available resources.

While the pamphlet is extremely beneficial to local members within the community,

we have formulated a social media post that is able to reach a larger group of individuals.

This post includes our statement as well as a QR code which further leads you to our website

which contains more information on mental health and its science.

Mental health, then, teens, is not only a large issue within our community but everywhere around us.

Having a resource that can reach individuals anywhere they go is extremely important

if we want to see any change in today's teenager's mental health.

This is our prototype website pathway to wellness.

Our model is in power of mind and illuminate lives together supporting

team mental health every step of the way.

The website is another way to seek or find help.

We have four other pages besides the homepage.

For example, there is a what we have done to help the research page, our survey was survey

response and for the last page, those resources and services page.

Some resources that are suggested are a subscribe medication from your doctor.

You can also go to counseling or talk to therapists.

We have provided links of mental health services.

As a group, we have discovered and listed ways to implement helpful solutions that cater

to mental health issues in our community.

These solutions entail the following.

Distributing pamphlets to libraries, schools, coffee shops, bathrooms, and local community events.

Many are silent about their issues and disguise their troubles as happiness.

Our focus is to shine light on these issues.

All in all, we look forward to encouraging a positive change in the mental health aspect

of the Sacramento area.

Thank you, City Council, for your time and attention.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask any of us.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Do we have any questions or comments from my colleagues, Mayor Perter and Telemontis?

I always ask this question to the group.

So how did you get your team name?

Say it again.

How did you decide on your team name?

We decided on our team name because we wanted our name to be related to mental health.

So we felt like using the word mindful would connect the most.

And we also wanted both of the words in our team names to begin with the same letter.

So that's why we chose mindful mice.

I just want to thank you for choosing such an important topic.

I think at the beginning of summer, City Hall, no one picked mental health,

and now I know the last several years, more groups choose it.

And what I especially appreciated was the video and how you illustrated something that

I've often thought that, you know, in many cases, who the best therapist is,

it's a friend, right?

It's peer to peer.

And that's what you really demonstrate caring for your fellow student and being aware when

they might be acting different or being sad.

And then reaching out to help them.

It's really powerful.

Thank you.

We've got Councillor Oberkapplund, Wang, and Jennings.

Go ahead.

Thank you, Mayor.

So quick question.

How do I get digital access to that pamphlet?

So the pamphlet includes a QR code.

So on the pamphlet itself, there's already resources that are immediate or just overall general.

But the QR code links to our website, and there's a lot more in-depth information there that you

can find. And there's more resources, phone numbers, and just people you can see.

So what I find wanted to make a good quality print of that pamphlet?

Where would I find that?

So the pamphlet right now is just a prototype or just an idea.

So we would have the basically file for it.

So you can send it or-

If you send that to my office because I've already asked my staff to print them out so that I can

have them at my booth. I have a weekly farmers market and have them at my events.

Because here's the thing you made an ask.

One of those asks was not for council members to put it out.

So I'm adding that to your list that we as council members are out in the community.

And people always come to our tables.

That could be a pamphlet that we have at our tables.

And I'd like to have it at mine.

So good job.

Of course.

Number Venge?

Thanks, Mayor.

I just wanted to first just take this time to say congratulations and great job on your presentation.

I know it takes a lot to be up here to share the work that you all have done.

And I'm just really proud of each and every one of you.

Mental health is such a huge issue.

I think we have champions of the diaspora, especially our mayor who's been really

bringing awareness to this issue for a very, very long time.

And it's so great to see our young people also centering this issue that impacts our youth.

Something that I just want to point out, your survey, I thought was so awesome,

that you had 100 respondents.

I'll just be honest with you.

Sometimes we don't even get that many folks responding to surveys.

So I think it's really great and you should be proud of yourself.

That you got a lot of respondents.

And what stood out to me is that, you know, you share the data of one out of five youth.

But when you ask the question for the 100 respondents on the survey,

have they experienced problems in mental health in over 73 percent,

you know, assured that they did.

It's staggering data, even the data that you collected, right?

And it just speaks to the need of services and support systems that we need in our city.

And so I just want to say, great job.

Really proud of you, similar to Councilwoman Kaplan.

I think it's great that you have this mockup brochure, but this website would love to also

share it at our farmers market.

We all have community centers and libraries in our district as well.

And so really happy to share that information and just great job.

And I'm really proud of you, Jennifer, one of you.

Any, we got Councilmember Jennings, of course.

Yes. Thank you very much, Mayor.

I just want to share my pride with each one of you as well.

And how successful you have been in your topic.

And you set a goal as to putting this together at the beginning, how long ago?

And you should all be smiling from here to here because I think you accomplished an incredible

goal of letting us know what is mental health, what are the signs, and how do we take action?

And you did a great job.

And so everybody up here wants to understand how to get the digital print of this so that they can

then take it to all of their venues and pass it out for you.

So for all of us Council members, make sure you send it to every single one of us.

So we can then be your feet on the ground, taking it out to everybody that you

to continue your work.

So I'm just very proud of each one of you.

You worked incredibly well together.

Each one had their role.

They stood up.

They punched up.

They talked out loud.

They made it clear what we were saying and what you said.

You just did a great job all the way around.

So I'm really proud of you.

I just want to start the applause for the group.

All right.

The other seven groups have a high bar here.

It's all good.

All great.

Good job, you guys.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Let's hear from group two.

This is the domestic violence awareness.

The Red Ravens.

Good evening.

Good evening.

Good evening, city council.

My name is Mason Takimoto.

I'm a junior at Ntoma-specific pathways prep high school.

And I'm one of the link crew leaders or peer mentors for this group, the Red Ravens.

Hello, city council.

My name is Bianca Coshcar.

I am a junior at Ponderosa High School.

And I'm also a peer mentor slash link group for the Red Ravens.

Good evening, city council.

My name is Joseph Williams.

I'm a rising senior attending new technology high school.

Good evening, city council.

My name is Julia Dordy.

And I'm a rising senior at McClaродey High School.

Good evening, city council.

My name is Mulea Kennen.

And I'm a sophomore at McClaродey High School.

Good evening, city council.

My name is Janna Finitis.

And I'm a rising junior attending Grant Ngan Wear High School.

Good evening, city council.

My name is Daysey Leon Saye.

And I am a sophomore at John F. Kennedy.

Good evening, City Council. My name is Leah Castell and I go to George Washington,

cover as a raising sophomore.

Good evening, City Council. My name is Aisveg. I'm a rising senior for real in the high school.

Good evening, City Council. My name is Maryacobrown. And I am a rising senior at an Atomas Pacific Pathways High School.

Good evening, City Council. My name is Kela Janta and I'm a rising junior at Intercom High School.

The definition of domestic violence is a pattern of a visa behavior.

Just move the mics a little bit so we can hear you. There we go.

Domestic violence is the definition of domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship that is used by one partner to gain or maintain control over another intimate partner.

The main problem about domestic violence is how unaware people are about this topic.

We had sent out an anonymous poll to students in Twin Rivers, Natomas, and Sacramento City districts asking them various questions about domestic violence.

80% of students who took this poll are female.

67% said they knew what domestic violence meant and 82% then said they have not been in a platonic or romantic relationship where they experienced domestic violence.

Unfortunately, 17% had. 63% of students then said they knew someone who experienced domestic violence.

Lastly, only 20% said they knew all the resources to use in this situation.

We as a group understand that domestic violence is a extremely serious topic that unfortunately many people have to deal with in this day.

Which is why one of our main objectives is to spread awareness about this topic and help identify signs that domestic violence has taken place.

Victims of domestic violence often end up with lasting effects from their traumatic experience such as PTSD, depression, anxiety, and over our lack of trust and those of this team.

So the truth is even if the abuse ends, they will still have lasting scars.

This is why there needs to be more awareness upon domestic violence so the victims can receive the help they need.

These statistics show the amount of cases rising over the past three years.

To get our message out and spread awareness for domestic violence, our team create a flyer and collection of stickers that can be put up around our community.

The flyer gives extended details about the signs of abuse and where you can get help, including a hotline and physical shelters located in Sacramento.

The sticker also contains a hotline and step-by-step instructions for a silent hand signal victims can use to communicate that they need help.

Our plan for these advertisements would be to put them in bathrooms, schools, doctors offices, and other public places and we need your help to make them a reality.

Assemblies are one of the many ways to get a message out to high school students and is also the most crucial part of our plan to achieve our goal of making domestic violence more aware to the youth.

Each member on our team has attended a suicide prevention or fentanyl awareness assembly at their school but has yet to attend one addressing domestic violence.

This is very important considering how many people don't even know what domestic violence is.

If passed, the presentations could be held numerous times in October, which is domestic violence awareness month.

These assemblies would cover the signs and resources to go to if you are a victim or no one who needs it.

The stickers previously stated would be passed out to everyone attending as well as flyers and purple ribbons to wear.

Our video was created in order to show the two types of domestic violence and what you could do to seek help from others.

The video starts off with a normal happy couple which soon shows a girlfriend trying to degrade her boyfriend.

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addressing the right signs for it.

Now the purple paint represents the lasting effects

of domestic abuse in a victim's life.

Here's the video.

The issue of our youth have witnessed or known someone

who has experienced domestic abuse.

27% of those youth don't know where to get the resources

if they're in danger.

Assess the citizens of SAG need to address the issue

and importance of domestic violence.

If you are someone you know need support,

you can go to the National Domestic Violence Hall.

Some key takeaways we can take from this

is domestic violence needs more recognition

as awareness is important to help prevent domestic violence

from continuing on a victim.

Another takeaway is identifying domestic abuse

early to prevent long lasting effects

from happening to the victims.

Citizens of Sacramento, please remember.

Don't be silent and domestic violence.

Thanks for listening.

Feel free to ask any questions.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Again, bringing to the forefront an issue

that doesn't get talked about enough

and you really brought awareness to this

and the video again was powerful.

Councilmember Jennings?

Yeah, that's your object.

So I was really impressed with everything that I saw.

Again, how you work together, how you put together

all the different definitions, the signs,

and then what to do.

You always had a solution at the end

so that those who may be going through it silently

now know what to do publicly

in order to get the kind of help that they need.

So I really love the way you put it together

and then the theme of all of this is

don't be silent in domestic violence.

So can you do that one more time for me together?

One, two, three, go.

Don't be silent and domestic violence.

Oh, I love that.

I love that.

That is great.

Next, Councilmember Kaplan, please.

I again want to commemorate you on addressing

a difficult issue.

I've not been quiet of having been a domestic violence survivor

and having gone to weave to get a restraining order.

And here's the thing, I was an attorney at that time

and I didn't know who to turn to except one

of my fellow law students worked at weave.

And so I think it's had I had a class

or understood more of what that was in high school.

I think that would have saved me

as I became a young adult.

So I think you guys brought up great things that you can do.

I see each of your high schools, which is at all

of our districts.

My charge to you is now maybe when school starts

to go talk to your VP or your principal

and how can one of these, your video be presented at a rally?

And where can you put up that information?

And I don't want to speak for all my colleagues,

but I know that each district you are in,

they will happily help you, our MP3 in Indercom.

I gotcha.

But I know the rest of you will have the same support

from your council members because I really think

this is something that you can start

and ask at our schools to do that'll make a difference

so that you educate younger so many people

won't experience domestic violence.

So thank you.

Thank you, council member Wang.

Thanks, Mayor.

Thank you, councilman Kaplan for sharing your story.

Just with our young people and with us.

And to all the young folks,

thank you so much for your presentation.

Topic like domestic violence is very heavy.

Gender-based violence, domestic violence.

But I really appreciate y'all centering this topic

in particular because when we think about

addressing domestic violence,

it starts with awareness around teen dating violence, right?

And the video, you being the voice to talk about signs,

recognizing signs early is so important.

I know research have shared with us that for young people

who have experienced trauma, poverty,

a range of adverse childhood experiences,

they're more likely to become victims

of gender-based violence and domestic violence

and households that they grew up in,

generational trauma, right?

And so just really appreciate y'all centering

this very heavy topic.

And as we talk about domestic violence, right?

Like it's not like a foreign thing.

It's not like it happens to adults,

but it really starts with young people

and learning what healthy behaviors are.

And that's really addressing teen dating violence,

which we don't address that at least to domestic violence.

So just wanted to say a great job,

really proud of all of you.

And please, yes, I'm going to be asking my staff

to reach out to Sarah to get the information

from all of the groups.

You all should be very, very proud of yourself.

So great job.

Thank you.

Mayor Pro Tem.

Thanks, Mayor.

So I played a lot of competitive sports growing up

and picking up, picking your team name was always so important

because it defines you and your group

and your interactions.

So, Red Ravens, we decided that.

We came up with our name as a group

because we were assigned a color day one.

So we wanted to incorporate red into our name.

And we thought about Ravens

because they're super smart, intelligent birds

that problems all very well.

And we felt that that reflected our team

and the values that we were going to apply to this project.

Love it.

Thank you.

All right.

Any other messages you want to leave us with?

Do it one more time.

Please.

One, two, three.

Don't be silent in domestic violence.

Thank you so much.

Let's get group three student mental health related

to academic stress.

This is the blue jays.

Good evening, city council.

My name is Waelen Zhu.

I'm a rising senior at Natomas Pasoic Pathways

Prep High School.

And I'm one of the peer mentors

of my lane crew, the blue jays.

Good evening, city council.

My name is Hunter Nusain.

I'm a rising senior at Sacramento

and New Technology High School.

And I am also a peer mentor slash wing crew leader

for the blue jays.

Good evening, city council.

My name is Tnuzha Balasa.

I am a rising sophomore at Natomas Pasoic Pathways Prep.

Good evening, city council.

My name is Kai Selee.

And I'm a rising sophomore at John F. Kennedy High School.

Good evening, city council.

My name is CityLotuban.

I am a rising junior at intercom high school.

Good evening, city council.

My name is New Art James and I'm a rising sophomore

at Grant Union High School.

Good evening, city council.

My name is Alex Phounia and I'm a raising sophomore

at West Campus High School.

Good evening, city council.

My name is Annika cincoan.

And I am a rising sophomore at intercom high school.

Good evening council.

My name is Naomi Asparta.

And I am a raising.

I've seen junior at Rosemont High School.

Good evening, seated council.

My name is Lagi La, and I race in sophomore

at John the Kere High School.

Good evening, council.

My name is Rose Lemus, and I am a rising sophomore

at CK McClatchy High School.

To introduce you to our topic,

I wanna take you back to five weeks ago

when we singled out this issue to focus our campaign on.

We wanted to choose something that we could speak to as teens

that would represent the struggles of our peers.

And that issue was academic stress.

At the time, we didn't know that 83% of teens

identify school as a major stressor,

or that since the pandemic generalized anxiety disorder

and major depressive disorder have increased in prevalence.

We just knew that our group of a dozen students

from all over Sacramento could identify this

as a major problem in their own high schools.

We interviewed and surveyed over 100 students

all over Sacramento.

We surveyed students on a five point scale,

five being the most one being the least.

The first question was how much school related to their stress?

85.5% of students put a three or more.

We asked students how often their students

address this issue.

76.4% of students said three or less.

76.1, 41, cited that the intense workload

was the cause of their stress.

66.4% said that their uncertainty of the future

was the cause of their stress.

And 52.7% said that college admissions

were the cause of their stress.

I also interviewed high schoolers in person

and asked them how they felt about the support offered at school.

Students say that allowing them extra time after school

to would help them complete more assignments

and fill less stress.

Students also say talking to teachers and staff

help reduce stress and providing support

can help them feel more comfortable

coming to them about their academic struggles and stress.

I studied by from Public Health

phone that you know,

relies on cited story and major depression

disorder have been more prevalent in students since the pandemic.

The transition period for high school to college

is additionally associated with a slight deprivation

eating disorders and academic burnout.

On top of that,

college tuition Californians hire the ever,

which means increased pressure for students

to qualify for goalers is scholarships.

We've made a PSA to illustrate our solution to these problems.

Hey, Zola, you look stressed, are you okay?

I don't know, I just can't ignore you.

I haven't even been able to be able to be a patient.

I'm so ready to not.

It's okay, everyone feels stressed sometimes

and I understand I try and feel a lot of pressure.

But I'm always here for you to want to talk to.

I can't just do it.

I have been bracing my words and been good grade.

I went to, I get you wanted to go for your parents,

but you can always talk to teachers and staff

right to help so you don't feel so stressed out.

I feel like it can help them lose anymore if they don't tire.

Hi there, I'm her representative of the stress program.

I'm not sure you guys are working very hard,

but very stressed and tired.

My program might give you the space

and support you guys just find me.

Our program has tutoring, study, help,

and people who might be able to assist you.

Our program also holds a wellness fair

that you guys might be able to attend

that provides even more benefits.

Our at the school program helps provide youth

with various benefits.

We want this program to help provide an awareness

of mental health issues with the youth.

We hope that this program can evolve

into something bigger for even more people, stress.

Supporting teams with resources

for educational stress together.

To elaborate more on our PSA,

our organization's stressed

or supporting teams with resources

for educational stress together,

would help students hope with their academic stress

and help them feel supported together.

Our program would offer an after school,

our organization would offer an after school program

where students would have access to peer groups,

mental health support, college prep,

school management guidance, tutoring, study hall,

and a place to build relationships and de-stress.

Additionally, stress would work with school representatives

to help host wellness fairs

every quarter of Sash semester.

Leigh, in addition, these wellness fairs

would host representatives from local

mental health organizations

so students can hear from them in person.

In the course of this program success,

we would like to look into incorporating our organization

into the school day as well.

I know you are probably wondering

why our organization's stress would be a good solution.

Some factors that people don't realize

when creating resources for teams

are that not all students have access

to a safe and understanding space

to talk about their feelings.

Additionally, they may not have access

to the internet to find online resources to help them.

As my group chose the location for our services,

we took these factors into account

and decided we should hold our after school program

and buy semester wellness fairs at schools.

This would be the most accessible location

as going to school is already implemented

into teams everyday schedules.

Stress would provide all students

with access to the resources they need

to get as much help as possible.

To advertise stress, we have made a social media blast

that provides an overview and description of our program.

We will also create bookmarks and pamphlets

both in English and Spanish

so it's more accessible to the public.

I've replaced in libraries around Sacramento

and libraries, classrooms, and offices in schools

that talk about the services we provide the students

along with our missions and goals,

along with coping mechanisms for mental health

and practicing mindfulness.

We'll also have a banner that could be hung at schools

that talks about what students have access to

through our program because this program is 14 by teens.

We are requesting City Council to use measure

out to a fund art organization.

Organization stress composed with seven sections

and 20 subsections.

The funding and resources will be used towards bringing it

to schools, awareness, partnerships, professionals,

and college guidance.

You can help provide connections

which will help reach out to more people.

Thank you, City Council, for your attention

and for free to ask us any questions.

Thank you so much.

Let me say great things to you.

Thank you.

There were advice from Mayor Maple.

All right, thank you, Mayor.

I just want to congratulate you on a job well done.

This sounds like an excellent program

that will show a lot of success.

I think one of the things that I really appreciate

is about how accessible you made this too, right?

So making sure that you have it in multiple languages

so that people can access the information.

And really, I think focusing on stress

is a huge thing.

They don't think about that enough,

but it really has an impact on our data day lives

and on our physical health or mental health

and our well-being.

So I'm just really, really impressed

and wanted to share my thanks and congratulations to you.

Thank you, Vice Mayor, Council Member Vang.

Thanks, Mayor.

I, too, also want to just echo Vice Mayor Maple

and just want to say a great job,

really proud of all of you.

I'm 39 years old and I still have dreams

of being late to my high school and college classes.

And so that stress is real, right?

And I just want to acknowledge,

I think it's such an important topic

because especially after the pandemic,

I'm not a young person anymore,

I like to believe I'm still young,

but I have 15 younger siblings, right?

And so I talk to them a lot.

And what I can share is that,

as I talk to with my siblings and young people,

is that they're just facing a whole level

of social conditions that we didn't face growing up.

And I know for so many of the young people,

it's not just school,

but it's increased in responsibilities, right?

So it's school and is so much more.

And so having a pair system, support system,

having safe spaces is so important.

I also just want to say kudos

for calling out the Sacramento Children's Fund as well,

saying, hey, there's some funding set aside.

This is also where possibly this program can be funded.

So I just wanted to say, good job,

y'all did your research as well.

And then the other piece,

because I really do like the program is,

and a few of you mentioned doing it on-site

is also reaching out to nonprofits

that are already working with the school district

that have after school programs on site.

I think that starting off with them,

and saying, hey, you should incorporate our model, right?

I think they would be more than happy to do that.

And so I just wanted to provide that advice,

but really proud, congratulations,

and very, very important topic.

And I believe all of us, even right now,

we're not immune to stress, right?

Especially us up here doing work in the community,

all of us, it's about learning how to find

the right coping mechanism,

but that also means making sure we have the right resource

to know what we can do to deal with stress.

So great job, and really proud of each and every one of you.

Thank you, Councilmember Valenzuela.

Thank you.

I also still have those dreams sometimes,

Councilmember Vang, so you're not alone.

That's how I know I'm stressed,

but I just want to commend you on this topic, you know,

when I was in high school,

remember I got these really bad stomach aches,

and they took me to all these doctors,

and they could never figure out anything wrong.

And then my mom was the one who realized, like,

a year into this, that I didn't get them in the summer,

and she was like, aha, like I think I know why your stomach hurts.

But back then, we didn't have any tools, you know,

it wasn't until I became an adult

that I really understood how to recognize

when I was getting stressed and the tools that I needed.

So for you to be starting this at the high school level,

it's just really exciting.

I hope that our EFC team will pass this along

to the Measure L commission,

who I know is looking at funding priorities right now

because how cool would it be to have the tools

when you're in high school?

Could any of us imagine what that would have been like

to have those tools in high school,

and how that would make you just so much

more successful, young person and adults?

So I just want to, I mean, we have personal connections

to all these topics, but I just,

this is the first year I've heard this topic come up,

and so I just want to commend you on on that.

Thank you.

Council Member Ta.

Yeah, just to echo my members, you know,

great job on the presentation and stress with something

that, you know, everyone goes through,

but you say something tonight that it was very important.

You say a program for teens by teens, you know,

and that is something that, as you,

if you not only talk about the issue,

but you end out and design the program,

that you feel that would fit your needs

and would fit your peers and solve the,

help solve issues in the community in regards to stresses.

So I wanted to commend you on a well thought out presentation

and yeah, definitely reach out to our offices,

CBOs who work through teens and, you know,

let's work to get some of your ideas to practice.

So congratulations and great job.

Very good.

Mayor Pro Tem.

How'd you guys decide on Blue Jays as a team name?

So at the beginning of the week of this program,

we were assigned the Blue Team, and as a good starting part,

and that was our starting ground, we were the Blue Team,

and so following our naming on the progress of naming,

we decided to go with the Blue J,

as it was easy to all of the tongue, easy to say,

and it was a nice animal that we put name after,

along with the Blue Team that was already established for us.

I want to ask, the recommendations are really sound,

because all of us, and I hope you benefit

from our experience, have had this dream.

It really is, it related to academic stress

about missing the final about forgetting things.

It's, it's, but I want to ask you a different

philosophical question.

Do you, do you believe that schools should go

to more of a pass fail system of grading as opposed to,

as opposed to A's, B's, C's, D's, and F's?

In other words, is there any way around, really around,

the intense competition that young people feel

when it comes to admission to college and,

and that sort of thing?

I believe that if we were to adjust that,

it would have to rearrange the system as a whole,

and would have to go deep far back

into the roots of the school system itself.

However, it is the beginning step,

it's take the first step to at least,

at the very bare minimum, allow for new generations

to at least have a sort of change that allows them

to come into the school system much better.

So although we could say change the letter grade

from ABC all the way down to Z,

it wouldn't really effect it that much

as it would just apply more numbers, more statistics

to an already complicated system,

to a new generation who barely understands it.

So at the very least, it would require every,

at least a lot of people from the new generation

to help guide the older generation,

to help a system where both of them can collaborate

together and make the system just a slightly bit easier

for everyone working within it.

Good answer, good answer.

Thank you, thank you all.

Great job, you're welcome.

Great job.

Great job, Blue Jays.

Take our fourth group here, the Jade Dragons,

prepared to talk about homelessness.

Good evening, Council.

My name is Massal Mojideedi.

I'm a rising junior at Nautoma-specific pathways

prep high school.

I'm one of the peer mentors for the group, Jade Dragons.

Good evening, City Council.

My name is Elaine Yang.

I'm a rising senior at John F. Kennedy High School

and a peer mentor for the Jade Dragons.

Hello, my name is Antonio Martinez,

and I'm a rising junior at Nautoma-specific pathways prep.

Good evening, City Council.

My name is Shri Omkharthi.

I'm a rising junior at West Lake Charter High School.

Hello, my name is Christine Shann,

and I'm a rising junior at Indochamp High School.

Hello, I'm Alexis Borrera, and I'm a rising senior

at McClatchy High School.

Hello, my name is Harsir Kindola,

and I'm a rising senior at Nautoma-specific pathways prep.

Hello, my name is Sarah Roth,

and I'm a rising sophomore at John F. Kennedy High School.

Hello, my name is Chloe Tao,

and I'm a rising junior at Grant U and High School.

Hi, my name is Sophia,

and I'm a rising junior at Indochamp High School.

Hello, my name is Talamazar,

and I'm a rising sophomore at Nautoma-specific pathways prep.

Okay, so my team is here to discuss about homelessness,

which has been prevalent in Sacramento since the 1980s.

For some background information,

there about 5,500 people in Sacramento living without homes,

and about 1,400 of them are chronically unhoused.

So, the causes that lead to homelessness

is that there's a lack of affordable housing for the unhoused.

There's a lot of domestic violence, substance abuse,

and poverty for the unhoused,

as well as a lack of stability to maintain their lives,

and a lack of education for the unhoused.

So, for research, we sign on a survey

that would help us gauge people's knowledge on homelessness,

and the following slides that you can see have our collected data.

And for the first question that we asked respondents was,

what is your age range?

And with 88.1%,

this shows us that a lot of teenagers are familiar

with the idea of homelessness as a whole,

with those same teens being the future of our city.

And a second question we had them respond to was,

what amount of knowledge do you have regarding homelessness?

And with 57.1%,

this tells us that a large amount of people's understanding

regarding homelessness comes from things like social media

and the news showing us that homelessness as a whole

is a very well documented issue.

And a third question we had them respond to,

was, do you think there are enough educational resources

for the homeless?

And with 88.1%,

this tells us that people do not believe that the homeless

have access to enough educational resources,

being under the assumption that there's just nobody out there

to provide it for them.

So, what's already been done is that there are programs

that provide supply bags to unhoused people,

along with food, clothing, and shelter programs.

There are also one-on-one meetings that are available

with resource coaches to help provide and support plans

and goals, and their next step in life.

Also, families are offered financial support and education.

Our proposal focuses on this crucial aspect

by requesting the city to offer more educational programs,

which could take place at libraries, community centers,

or even facilities.

Firstly, we are requesting access to a diverse array

of educational resources that can be taught

by volunteers or city workers.

This includes books, online courses,

and various learning tools that will enable our unhoused community

to engage in ongoing learning and independent skill development.

By providing these resources, we hope you guys can bridge the gap

and ensure that they have the tools necessary

to access more opportunities.

Additionally, practical schools are essential

for employability in daily living.

Therefore, the program could include classes and workshops

on basic literacy, numeracy, and financing.

These skills are foundational and empower individuals

to navigate their lives with greater confidence and capability.

Beyond academic and practical schools,

we wish to recognize the importance of mental health as well.

We propose guided sessions on stress management,

life skills, and personal empowerment to promote strength

and wellness among unhoused individuals.

This is a flyer for the program.

And to the top, you can see the logo,

which is a heart and two hands holding each other.

And to the left of this, you can see the name of the program,

which is a helping hand.

And the logo is also a prototype,

but it's also related to the name of the program.

And to the bottom of this, you can see our contact,

the contact information for the program,

which includes the website link, the email account,

and the Instagram account.

Our video encapsulates the idea that if we provide education

to the unhoused, they can use that education and resources

to find opportunities that can lead them to a stable lifestyle.

Here's our video.

So, I'm product is program that is helping our homeless people

and educating them to get them back into the workforce.

And I was asked, how I think we want to be in our program?

Welcome to the program.

Welcome to the program.

Welcome to the program.

Are you all right?

Yeah.

It's good to see you.

Good morning, everyone.

Our goal is to provide an educational life skills

needed to maintain stable lifestyle.

Please sign here.

Congratulations, guys.

You have made the lesson program.

How you doing?

Yeah!

Hey, maybe you guys can come back and work like me.

We'll see.

Hello.

Good morning.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Welcome to the program.

Thank you very much, Anthony.

What's up, sister?

Thank you.

Oh my God, from life and soul.

It's all right.

Oh my God.

Oh my God.

Oh my God.

Oh my God.

It's YouTube.

You know, I changed my life from life only to people.

You guys should be that too.

I think it's just YouTube.

Come on.

As you can see, our video shows this by depicting

an unhoused person joining our program and using the education

and resources that we provide to lead a lifestyle that they want.

Our hope is that every single person who joins our program

will be able to get a job in the future.

So, this is our billboard and on the top, you can see our slogan,

which is so seed, so all can succeed.

And that basically means that we're planning a base

so that an unhoused can bloom.

And underneath that is the website link, as well as the email address.

Moving on.

So, this is the prototype of our website,

which will give information about the website.

This is the prototype of our website, which will give information

about hosted events, educational links and resources,

as well as a contact page for anyone to give feedback to the city council.

And this will be monitored by hard workers of the city council.

Thank you.

Is there any questions?

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Can I go first?

I thought this was a great and aspirational project to see everybody

as a human being and to be willing to approach people and to try to help them.

But here's what suggestion that I might have for you.

And that is one of the things that we always try to do up here

and anybody engaged in making or implementing public policy

is to also recommend where the right connections are to make sure

that we get the problem solved or make it better.

So, in this instance, for example, I would suggest as a next step,

we've got some of our expert city personnel, our housing director,

our incident command structure director, Mr. Pedro,

we've got the assistant city manager, Mario Lara,

who are working every day with a large team to try to actually help people find housing

with the county to help find services.

And so, I think it is really important that you reach out to them,

ask for a meeting, and see how we can link your effort to some of the things

that are actually happening now on the ground.

But here's the power of you.

I don't know of another youth advocacy organization

that is actually sort of on the ground doing what you're doing.

It's mostly adults, and you know, doing the very best we can,

how much more effective and powerful would the moral case

to help people find a way off the streets?

And then the housing and the services would it be with your voice

and your organization helping to navigate people to get to help that they need.

So, I think you really have a great foundation here,

and it's really aspirational, but I always have to take constructive feedback as well.

I want you to take it the next level, if you can,

and at least meet with some of the people who are in charge here

and figure out how your organization and advocacy unique coming from young people

can actually further your cause and our common cause.

Fair?

Okay.

Councilmember Kaplan?

Thank you, Mayor.

I agree with our Mayor.

Also, something to think about because you guys have tackled,

I think, a topic that we don't go on meeting without discussing probably daily

in our council offices, we'd discuss all the time.

And it's probably what I find interesting in your write-up is you guys decided to tackle this

because it's pervasive.

I'm curious.

Are you guys talking about this at school?

Does this subject you talk about at school?

Yeah, especially in MV3, they do mention it in some stories.

In the textbook sometimes, is very talked about.

I'd like to add on to her.

It really depends on the school.

You go around.

Some schools they might talk about it, some might not.

We also want to raise awareness about it because it's not a small thing.

It's a pretty big issue in our community, and I feel like we should look at it like it is a big issue.

So my request for you is look at this.

We have a Sacramento Youth Commission.

Consider, you know, broaching our Sacramento Youth Commission and asking if this is a subject

that they would like to take on as something they want to have an impact on.

Because I know one of their goals is trying to address mental health safety as well.

But I think it all folds in because you're probably surprised that there are unhoused students you go to school with.

And how can you guys help even at that level?

But thank you for taking on such a heavy topic that, you know, maybe you guys get involved.

Do you give us some better answers?

Because as adults, where I know all of us up here are willing to listen.

You have a voice.

You see it.

You talk about it.

What is it that we can do differently?

So, but thank you for addressing this.

This is heavy.

Council member van.

Thank you, Council member.

Thank you mayor.

Council member, Council member, it's absolutely right.

Homelessness of housing is probably the number one issue in our city right now in this moment.

I think we get calls all the time in our office regarding family that need housing and campments,

what's happening on the street.

And so, really appreciate you all taking on this heavy topic.

In addition to the feedback that the mayor and councilwoman Kaplan provided,

I just want to highlight a few things.

I really appreciate that when you start your presentation, you list it.

Here are some things that are already happening.

I really appreciate that because that also mean that, you know, you, you delve in and you kind of wanted to kind of understand,

like, what are some of the programs that are already out there?

And so, really appreciate you all just saying, hey, here's a, here's a problem.

Here's our solution by kind of looking at what's already been done, what's, you know, what needs to be improved.

And so, I just want to say a great job for that.

I think when I think about our unhaused neighborhood, it's just so hard to,

our system right now is not set up in a way to really navigate it easily, right?

And I think just listening to your presentation, really reaffirm what we also knew already too.

And I also want to just appreciate the thought of really focusing on, like, basic necessity of, like, workforce training

and getting folks to our unhaused to be in program and then having them, you know, seeing their success

and having them come back to share their stories, right?

Making sure that it's really community based up.

And so, all really great models and just really just want to say a great job.

This is a heavy topic, but y'all did really, really great and shoot proud of yourselves.

Thank you. Councillor Meurera Valenzuela.

Yes, very hard topic. So, thank you for taking it on.

You know, I will amend the mayor's statement that there is actually a lot of youth that are working on this issue

through the traditionally youth collaborative locally.

Something that we're seeing arise in our county and many counties are young people

becoming homeless themselves. And actually, I think the statistic was that, like, two-thirds of chronicly-unhoused adults

first lost their housing as a young person.

So, when you think about what to do with this work moving forward, I mean, these are folks who go to your schools.

These are people that you probably know, that you've seen that you might not know that they've lost their housing,

but you probably would recognize them from your school and think about, you know, what would it look like for you

to take what you've learned now and to really help provide those resources and advocate for your fellow students?

You know, if you ask your district, every single one of them has the numbers of how many kids you go to school with

that are experiencing homelessness. And so, it's a real opportunity, I think, with this knowledge and these ideas that you have

to advocate also within your schools and within your districts to say, hey, can we do this for the students who are here now?

Who probably we want to interrupt as we were talking about, like, moving upstream.

We want to interrupt this as early as possible. And a lot of times that means starting when someone's under 18

and starting to struggle, because are their family starting to struggle and they're starting to get on this path that gets harder and harder

for them to get off of the older that they get. So, I'm just more food for thought, but definitely want to appreciate you for taking on a pretty heavy,

pretty heavy topic and I hope you stay engaged on this work because it will continue through college.

We know there's a lot of college kids who struggle with homelessness. You see articles every day about, you know,

we're setting up safe camping, like car parking areas for kids who are sleeping in their cars on college campuses and how crazy is that?

And so, I think there's a lot of opportunities we have to maybe use this experience and think about, like the Mayor said,

what does this mean now? And how can we plug in now to try to help, you know, the young people like you who are starting on that path?

Really important cause, please stay with it. We need you. We really need you.

Rick Jennings comes with me.

There's just a final comment to add on to what my colleagues have already said.

You know, in this presentation, I definitely felt your heart.

I mean, in everything that you did and everything that you said from the sewing seats so that all can succeed to the helping hands logo,

which invites people in and doesn't reject them and send them away. The logo itself is just so inviting to being a helping hand to others,

to make sure that it's our obligation to help others. So I felt your heart.

I just want to let you know that because that means a lot to me.

Not only you're trying to address the issue of homelessness, right? But your heart is in it, not just the work.

So now with the heart and the work together, you can make a change. You can be the change that you want to see.

You have total control. So whether it's in your schools or in the communities or the areas that you live, you know, keep doing what you're doing.

Let's see if you can take this to another level. And I just really encourage you here to help you in any way we can.

We want to be a part of your team. Good job.

Any last comments?

Great job. Congratulations, you guys.

Five, the pink panthers back to mental health, mental health resources, affordability and accessibility.

The pink panthers.

Good afternoon, council. My name is Jamie Vierseman. I'm a junior and a telemetry specific pathways prep and I am one of the linker leaders for our team.

Good evening, city council. My name is Lilliana Delorosa. I'm a rising senior at OS Campus High School. And I'm also a peer mentor for our linker.

Good evening, city council. My name is Isaiah Nathaniel and I'm a rising junior rose my high school.

Good evening, city council. My name is Alan Cruz-Murales and I am a rising sophomore at West Campus High School.

Good evening, council. My name is Sammy Wing and I'm an upcoming sophomore for West Campus High School.

Good evening, city council. My name is Amanda Kwong and I'm a sophomore at Christian Brothers High School.

Good evening, city council. I'm Billy Negrette and I'm an upcoming sophomore at Rosemont High School.

Good evening, city council. My name is Heather Franklin and I'm an upcoming junior at Rosemont High School.

I'm a rising sophomore at Thomas Pacific Pathways Prep High School.

Good evening, council. My name is Tonya Gidea and I'm a rising sophomore at Thomas Pacific Pathways Prep High School.

Today we will address the important issue of mental health and the solutions that are crucial for the well-being and future of our youth.

Without further ado, let's dive deeper into our presentation.

A big issue in Sacramento is the lack of mental health issues, especially for youth.

Mental health issues have been increasing over the years in Sacramento, making it the fourth-high city with mental health issues in California.

Here's our PSA. Now we'd like to present to you our PSA which shows the struggle of getting help from mental health.

Hey, dude. How did you see your close friends before? What's up?

It's fine, it's nothing. You don't, it's nothing. I'm worried about it.

Yeah, I did feel like a little resource thing with both stuff like that, right?

Nobody even listened to those.

Well, yeah, but have you tried singing counselor?

Well, they're gonna do some of my parents.

Well, it's at least where the shot tried it.

As you can see here, you're building some classes.

I've just seen a little bit.

Hey, they're talking as one, maybe you or whatever it is.

It's back to the way you're running.

Hey, I'm a pair. I'm a pair. I'm a pair. I'm a couple of hundred degrees.

Are you going to go to the counselor?

No, all they do is lecture me about my grades.

Well, you can always try those websites and online stuff.

All they do is just reply to you.

And you can at least try it when you eat it.

Well, I guess it works, but it's not going to be permanent.

Well, it's just something in the meantime.

Well, we try and find you lots of girls.

The Shuggling Student depicted in this video represents the many students that struggle with mental health issues that often get overlooked.

This character illustrates the silent battles many youth face daily.

The Interfective Counselor shows us who can frequently feel unheard by their support systems.

The scene underscores the need for more empathetic and effective mental health support in schools.

The suicide attempt energizes the severity of mental health crisis.

This dramatic moment serves to raise awareness about real and urgent dangers of untreated mental health issues.

The supporter friend highlights the importance of talking to peers and having relatable support.

It demonstrates how peer support can be a crucial lifeline showing the power of friendship and understanding in crisis situations.

Mental health care in the U.S. is often prohibitively expensive leading to many individuals not receiving the necessary treatment.

These key statistics highlight the financial and access barriers.

To start in 2021, only 47.2% of U.S. adults with any mental illness received treatment.

Also among them, U.S. youth aged 6-17 with a mental health disorder, only 50.6% received treatment.

Nearly half of those with serious mental illness stated that the cost of treatment was a major reason for not receiving the care that they need.

The survey data reveals that while many youth in Sacramento rate their mental health is good or average, they are still notable concerns.

Many find it hard to discuss feelings and perceive school counselors as the only somewhat helpful.

Significant barriers like cost and transportation prevent many from seeking professional help.

Most survey respondents believe that there is a mental health crisis in Sacramento highlighting the need for expanded access, increased awareness, improved support, and reduced barriers.

Whenever solutions is a mental health community club that will be held in community centers around Sacramento.

We would like to organize workshops that focus on stress management, mindfulness, and coping strategies.

These workshops can be conducted by school counselors or previously trained students.

Plumars of peer support program.

We would like the City Council to collaborate with local health departments to provide these workshops to the broader community.

We also plan to offer peer support programs and schools where trained students can offer support to their peers.

We can partner with local mental health professionals to train peer supporters.

Having this opportunity open for students who struggle with their mental health can help reduce the judgment associated with seeking help.

And provide initial support for those in need.

For implementation, we plan to start by fundraising in order to raise the necessary money to get our community's club on its feet.

Similarly, we would like to use Measure L funding to our advantage and take the funds that we would receive from it to maintain and support our community club.

Using Measure L funding, we plan to achieve this goal.

Funding will go to training peers to be able to help and support their youth peer to peer.

Furthermore, we believe advocacy is most important to raise public awareness.

To do this, we plan to distribute and produce flyers that can be displayed at local bus stop shops and stalls.

Libraries and community centers can be used as youth workshops to help advocate for all goal.

Our billboard captures the essence of our initiative with a bold and clear message, Mental Health Matters.

The design features an illustration of a brain with flowers growing from it.

This represents the growth and positivity that we gain through mental health support.

The eye catching pink text emphasizes the importance of mental health and the culture action invites viewers to visit our free community club where we offer peer support programs and mental health workshops.

This visual representation aims to raise awareness and encourage the community to join our efforts in providing better mental health support for our youth.

In conclusion, youth mental health is important because it affects relationships, daily life, and your future.

Poor mental health results in negative outcomes and such as academic struggles, social isolation, and increased risk of substance abuse or self harm.

This is why we need your help to turn the negatives into positives with better mental health for youth in our community.

Our call to actions for all you to help us enforce these mental health workshops in our community.

Thank you for listening.

Thank you.

How's mental balance, Rayla?

Yeah, go on.

Yeah, thank you.

Did I?

Okay.

Thank you so much for the presentation and the video.

I really want to commend you on the recommendation for peer counseling.

That's a pretty progressive thing to be doing.

I think to have students trained on how to recognize and assist other peers.

My dad was a veteran and he was a big believer in veteran talking to veterans.

They understand the experience.

They should be talking to them and you.

I mean, I was in high school during COVID.

I wasn't even really in high school during social media.

To have somebody who's actually experiencing what your experience being able to talk to you is a really cool strategy that you've identified.

So again, really hope that our FCTM passes this along to our Measure L commission.

Is there making their strategic plan?

Because that would be a really great pilot project to train some young people to do that counseling themselves and to refer.

And also if a counselor ever treats you like they did in that video, I really hope that you report them to somebody because that is not okay.

And I hope that's not based on real experiences with adults at your school.

But I definitely just hope that you pursue that idea with the Measure L commission.

And we have resources and like talk about a really cool upstream intervention we could be doing to make sure people are on campus who can talk to students.

So thank you.

Great. Thank you.

Councilmember Van.

Thanks, Mayor.

I just wanted to echo Councilman Valenzuela and just say great job, great presentation.

I'm similar to her comments.

I was also going to say really love the program.

Very similar to what Councilman Tau shared about how this program is really for youth by youth.

And I think that's really really awesome.

I too would make the recommendation to share your information with our commissioners on the Measure L oversight committee.

But one thing I want to talk about is your billboard.

I just love it.

If you can go back and pull it, I see a coach nodding his head too.

So he might have some comments.

But I just love it because it's like, it's just really really beautiful.

I love it because it's like mental health.

You're thinking about physical health, but it's also outside of that.

You know, when you have conversation about health, it's also about like, like things that can bloom from your stress, right?

And so I just, I love it.

It's beautiful.

It's simple.

It's not chaotic.

Really love the artwork and the branding.

So a great job.

Another mental health group as well.

But really, I'm really excited to actually see more youth group talking about this because this is my fourth year.

I'm listening to a presentation and similar to what the mayor mentioned earlier.

I haven't really seen this been the focus, but it's really great to see that.

There's two groups focusing on this.

So great job and really proud of y'all.

Thank you.

I just, so there's a law that was passed and I believe 2020.

I do in 2021 that allows counties to certify peers as mental health counselors and to pay them.

And so one suggestion is that you should talk to your county representatives, your supervisors and the staff, about starting a pilot program in Sacramento County that would certify high school students as peers.

I don't think it exists.

I don't think it might.

And if I'm wrong, I hope I'm wrong.

And then I'm corrected.

But to certify high school students in Sacramento County as peers, they would draw down a lot of federal money.

And by putting up some money themselves, our county could lead in the state and in the country in making, giving teenagers jobs, training you and your peers in a career pathway that where there is tremendous need.

And obviously serve your fellow students who need that outreach.

This is really powerful.

And again, just like with the other group, I just want to suggest that you take it to the next level because there's a real opportunity here.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Any last words?

Not last words, but you.

You guys are great.

Thank you. Great job.

Everybody's done a great job, by the way.

Everybody.

Now move to our sixth group.

And this is cultural awareness in Sacramento.

The group's name is Club Include.

Love it.

Good evening, City Council.

My name is Nathalie Carthlin.

And I'm a senior at Nathomis High School.

I'm also one of our peer mentors for our group Club Include.

My name is Meredith Gore.

I'm a rising senior at Highlands High School.

I'm also a club.

Oh, sorry.

I'm also a peer mentor for Club Include.

My name is Hussain Al-Mosemawi.

And I'm a rising sophomore at Valley High.

Hello. My name is Aleksander Kiel.

I'm a high school at the center of Calais.

I attend Intercom High School, my rising junior.

My name is Tommy White.

I'm a rising junior.

And I'll tell him his high school.

Good evening, Council.

My name is Aron Han Sharma.

And I am a rising senior in new technology high school.

Hello, City Council.

My name is Aleks Sharma.

And I'm a rising sophomore at MP3 High School.

Hello, City Council.

My name is Shaya DiJunet.

And I'm an upcoming junior at Rosemont High School.

Hello, City Council.

My name is Tiana Washington.

I go to Rosemont High School.

And I'm an upcoming junior.

Hello, my name is Kaley Kerns.

I'm an upcoming sophomore.

And I go to Nama Thomas High School.

Hello, my name is Sipir Cohen.

And I'm a rising junior at Rosemont High School.

Throughout history, there have been months and holidays to recognize and honor different cultures.

Choose and post our Black History Month in February and Hanukkah, as you as festival in December.

Even though there are months and holidays, there are still people today who aren't aware of cultural festivals.

Sacramento has celebrated Mexican Independence Day and had an upward movement to promote Asian culture, as well as many parks and atomans.

The issue we will be touching down on is how in Sacramento, many residents living here experience a lack of recognition for their cultural identities, misidentification and racism.

Many residents experience frustration with their cultures being misunderstood, misrepresented, ignored and overlooked.

While many endure it, it leads to resentment, isolation, and modernization.

Not only that, but the lack of cultural awareness leads to harmful stereotypes.

Systemic bias and social divides.

This makes it hard for minorities to thrive.

When people's cultural identity is not recognized or put down, they may feel disconnected, which leads them from decision themselves from their community.

Sacramento is one of the most diverse cities in the United States, with a population of 528,000 people.

Over 70% of the residents are people of color.

That's the act that breaks down on the slides.

Recently, there's been an upward movement to get rid of the issue of misidentification in Sacramento, but still not enough as people are still facing problems.

The opposite of diversity and equity has a really low workforce, even though the city is a, there's a lot of people of color in Sacramento, and that's a huge issue.

The schools also only talk about cultures that impacted the country in the past, not the ones that impacted the country today as well.

We also put out a survey which received 110 responses.

Of those 65.5% of people said that they feel like their race has been misidentified.

At 77.3% have felt like they've experienced racism as well.

People lacking cultural awareness can bring negative emotions to the community, and this is a huge issue.

Our solution is establishing a club.

We dedicated to celebrating all cultures and of Sacramento.

We plan to setting up booths around downtown, dedicated to various cultures where the residents of Sacramento can experience and learn about traditions of their various cultures.

And also can listen to guest speakers from various culture backgrounds that would bring their personal stories about lack of awareness of cultures.

This is our billboard. We plan to show our billboard which we have titled embracing culture, building and unity.

All the people show represent unity among all people of all cultures.

We plan to show our billboard to send a message of unawareness to cultures to everyone in Sacramento.

We are sharing with you our flyer for culture awareness.

As you can see, we have diversity on our flyer.

And the message we are sending out is we trying to...

We want every race to be accepted to attend this event so they can learn about each other, cultures and discuss challenges and the daily issues that they experience.

The first time I saw this, I was surprised.

I was surprised.

I was surprised.

I was surprised.

I was surprised.

I was surprised.

I was surprised.

What did you like?

Recently a friend of mine made a racist comment to me and I thought my culture was understood.

I saw a flyer of this meaning.

I saw a flyer of this meaning.

I saw a flyer of this meaning.

I saw a flyer of this meaning.

I saw a flyer of this meaning.

I saw a flyer of this meaning.

I saw a flyer of this meaning.

I saw a flyer of this meaning.

I saw a flyer of this meaning.

I saw a flyer of this meaning.

I saw a flyer of this meaning.

I saw a flyer of this meaning.

I saw a flyer of this meaning.

I saw a flyer of this meaning.

It's going to be on your menu now that you talk about science in this country.

It's going to be on your menu now that you talk about science in this country.

science in this country.

There's going to be a difference between science in this country.

There's going to be a difference between science in this country.

There's going to be a difference between science in this country.

So, our PSA shows that some people are really ignorant, and we can sometimes becomeEs in other countries, as well.

Today, I get the opportunity to share my personal story with you, which I'm so grateful for

and very passionate about because it's why I chose the topic of cultural awareness for

my group.

I'm a first-generation American with my father being from Israel, and it is no secret that

Jews are often stereotyped with misconceptions here in America.

Once my father warned me telling me that no one in America likes Jews, but no one would

tell me this because I'm a socially acceptable Jew.

I thought he was crazy until I realized I don't walk around with his accent and not

the one being asked, so where are you from?

He always answers this question with that he's from the earth.

When I was little, I thought that response was him being his silly hippie self until I

got older and realized how many bad reactions it must have took to no longer show the

real answer.

I know this because I received the same bad reactions after I'm asked what my ethnicity

is.

Not what I stand for or what I believe in, but simply I met with the sour face only because

where I'm from.

Things like this made me feel extremely segregated and like I damped along.

That's why I proposed culture awareness to my group and ever since then I felt heard

and accepted from the wonderful people standing behind me.

So city council, if you have any doubt in our culture awareness therapy groups working,

know that I improved that they do work and it's made me brave enough to come up here

and share my story with you.

So in conclusion, our presentation demonstrates how basic socializing and gathering of people

at cultural school clubs and special events could be crucial for the youth to be educated

on accepting other various cultures.

Thank you.

Any questions?

Go ahead.

Oh, you're over.

Questions?

I'm sorry.

Let me, I'm sorry.

I thought you had to.

I'm sorry.

I thought you had more to say, but let me turn it over to my colleagues here.

Councilmember Valenzuela.

Awesome.

Well, excellent presentation and thank you for sharing your story.

I know it's scary that can be in even a small setting and this is not a small setting.

So good for you for doing that.

I really want to thank you for this.

And I wanted to make sure you were aware there's this really cool event that happens in

my district in October called the Golden Harvest Festival.

And part of the goal is to bring all different cultural communities across Sacramento together

for a parade.

There's dancing.

There's booths.

There's information tables.

And so it might be a near term opportunity for you if you're interested in taking that

tabling on the road and making it real.

Happy, our office would be happy to connect you with them.

It's in October on the 26th and to Saturday for school.

But it's a really cool, I mean, honestly, that parade, like I lost count of how many different

cultural groups were in that parade dancing or singing or performing.

And so that could be a good opportunity near term to be included and to try out your

curriculum on some real life people.

Councilmember Vang.

Thanks, Mayor.

I just wanted to say congratulations.

Great presentation and thank you so much for sharing your story with us.

This is such an important topic.

I'm just for young people, but for all residents in Sacramento, right?

We are an incredibly diverse community, but we can also be very kind of siloed in our

own spaces and not open to learning about other people's cultures and histories.

And I share this because the city of Sacramento right now, as Mayor and I are a co-chair of

the Racial Equity Committee, we're embarking on this journey to develop a racial equity

resolution so that it can help guide the city in terms of how we govern.

And a big part of that is acknowledging the harm that has been done in the city to minorities

and folks of color and women.

And so I would love to add to your presentation and would encourage you all because your voice

is so important.

There are going to be three listening sessions actually in August to hear the residents

about where, you know, issues in the community, cultural awareness, everything that raises

them, everything that's happening in the city.

It's going to be so important to make sure that young people, all of y'all, are there

to like really share your experiences.

And so just wanted to put a plug for that because what you're advocating for is what I believe

the city, what we're trying to also do, city wide.

And so I just wanted to put a plug in for that.

We'll make sure that information gets to you, but I would love for all of y'all to be there

because usually when there's town halls that happen, it's just like adults in the space,

right?

And really it's so important to make sure that all of you are there to share about what

is it like to be a young woman living in the city, right?

Your own ethnicity.

I think that's really important for other folks to understand that.

And so I would really encourage y'all to go to that and I'll make sure that we send

that over to Sarah to send it to all of you.

But great job and really proud of you taking on this topic.

So great job.

Thank you, Council Member Kaplan.

Job well done.

That's a brave topic to conquer.

Not many people want to talk about it, even though you probably experienced almost in

your daily lives.

And you really just want to be seen as you as a human, not what your culture and your background

may identify you of or what people perceive.

One of the things that I have done because having been a school board member for 20 years

in Natomas, Unified, it was, it's the most diverse district in the state of California,

second in the United States.

And it is so important that when we understand our differences, we realize our differences

were actually more alike.

And they tend to fade when we see each other as human beings.

So as a Council Member, I've created like a Celebrate Natomas series where we celebrate

our different ethnicities and cultures.

My last one is on August 2nd.

So not only you, but I invite everybody.

I will send this information to Sarah.

But if you guys would like a free booth to bring your idea, you are more than welcome.

It is August is AAPI month, but it is welcome for everybody because I want to invite the

community so that when we understand and see and know different cultures, we start seeing

ourselves as human beings.

And we're all better when we work together.

So job well done on addressing a difficult issue that I know each one of you have experienced.

But again, I'll send that your way, Sarah.

If you want to, Sarah, share it on.

But thank you.

Thank you.

I'm curious whether or not the existing clubs at your schools are what your experience

have been with them and whether or not, for example, when there's a terrible incident

like what we read about or heard about at Luther Burbank high school a couple of weeks ago,

whether or not students from different racial or ethnic backgrounds rally around each

other, whether there is the kind of support that your project calls for.

What's the current state of the way it is when something bad happens to one of our diversity

elements?

Do they get support from others?

Well, it depends what school you're going to, but I know that my school does not offer

support for things like this.

And I don't see it in my community and that's why I brought it up here today.

Yeah, my school either, I don't see it either.

And there.

Okay.

What's that?

We have to do better.

Well, that's why your call to action is so important here because we have to do better.

I mean, this is always the question in our community during painful times among the adults, right?

When something bad happens to one of us, do we support each other?

And I'd say that in this city, I think we have mostly a very good history of standing

with and for each other.

I think in these modern times, the stresses have become really pronounced and significant.

But it just means we need to try even harder.

And so when something like that happens at Luther Burbank High School, I would hope that

we work to get to a place where non-African American students are the first ones who are

speaking out.

And standing up, right?

Because it's standing up for each other, not just for ourselves, whatever our particular

diversity element is.

So what do we do?

Well, you put forward a very good proposal.

Well, we can talk about this one for a long time.

And maybe we need to continue it.

That's how important this is.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

OK.

We now have another mental health topic.

But this time, it's extracurricular effect on student mental health.

Positive or negative.

Good evening, City.

Good evening, City Council.

My name is Ralewa Ayawate.

I'm a rising senior at Sutter Peak, and I'm the peer mentor for the Golden Leaves.

Hello, my name is Mike Islander, and I'm a rising senior at New Technology High School.

Hello, my name is Kabir Barg say, and I'm an upcoming junior at John F. Kennedy High School.

Good evening, Council.

I am Mollik Shim, and I'm also a rising junior at John F. Kennedy High School.

Good evening, Council members.

My name is J.J. Miles.

I am an incoming sophomore at Oak Ridge High School.

Hello, Council.

My name is Morgan Flornoy, and I'm a rising sophomore at Nathoma-specific Pathways

High School.

Good evening, City Council.

My name is Sophie Liu, and I'm a rising sophomore at West Campus High School.

Hello, City Council.

My name is Mary Ann Papal, and I'm a rising junior at Fort Hill High School.

Hello, City Council.

My name is Tony Alias, and I'm a rising sophomore at Andrew Cym High School.

Good evening, City Council.

Today, we stand before you to bring forward a very important topic to your attention.

The positive impacts of extra curriculars on youth mental health.

Over the past few weeks, we have conducted research, collected survey data, as well as

brainstormed ideas on how the youth can become more involved in creating programs, and

buy themselves for themselves, as well as how they can become more involved in programs

already facilitated by the city, such as Start or Asus.

We aim to raise awareness among students in Sacramento about the importance of participating

in extra curricular activities outside of school.

We also encourage the council to create more after-school programs for youth that cater

to youth interests.

Engaging in these activities at a young age, geared towards elementary and middle school

students, supports their mental well-being, bosters community interaction, and enhances

their problem solving skills.

It's crucial for youth to interact with others, because we often overlook the importance

of face-to-face interactions with others, as they often either go straight home after

school or spend excessive time online.

Our recommendation to the City Council is to designate more measure of funding to youth

after-school programs, because when the city invests more in these programs, there will

see a mentally well-used who can contribute more to their communities in the future.

Our team would like the City to shift more focus through producing more after-school programs

for the youth.

These can include our program, where students can showcase their art, possibly keep them

hanging out at community centers.

Also a Humber Club with volunteer tutors, such as high schoolers, helping children learn

more.

The youth would also appreciate a coding club by using computers that community centers

are being provided for computers, or even a game club where you can play video games,

card games, and board games with their friends together.

The youth of Sacramento want and need more places for the youth to build more opportunities

safely and happily in their community.

We'd like the Council members to advocate for the programs being put in place by sending

out monthly EMS to their districts, mentioning youth after-school opportunities in the area,

so the youth of Sacramento can see what they can attend.

And additionally, districts can also host an opportunity fair, where different youth after-school

activities and programs are showcased and shared so kids can see what interests them

and what they want to do.

When the youth of Sacramento participates in after-school program, they will have improved

development of emotional and social skills, as well as having something productive to

do after-school that can positively impact their future.

Most importantly, being an after-school program will vastly improve their mental state

and prevent them from experiencing depression and anxiety.

We surveyed 103 students total on the effects of positive impact on their mental health,

of people that participate in these extracurriculars.

78.6% said they did have a positive impact on their mental health, and 19.4% said they

don't participate in after-school programs whatsoever, and only 1.9% think they didn't

have a positive impact on their mental health, bless you.

This shows how important extracurriculars are, because in the majority of them saying

they have a positive impact on their mental health, I believe that this could benefit students

greatly, because when we have these programs, it gives these kids somewhere to be at, it

gives them social skills, it gets them to be out there.

It will be spent if it's students had, we plan to expand this greatly.

Based on the data from our survey, about 50.5% of our survey participants engage in some

form of after-school activity, while about 49.5% do not.

Those who are not involved in any after-school activities are missing out on the benefits

and opportunities those programs can provide, such as getting to learn new things, getting

to be around people and kids their age, and also of course just getting them to have fun.

The upcoming video shows one of our main topics, awareness.

It's so depressing.

The video soon went viral, getting thousands of views and allowing many more people to see

the club.

The program is a place where you can see extra-curricular activities are extra-for-reason.

They provide a space for community of students, keep students from being lonely at home and

give them a supportive space.

Start a club to run the only after-school programs that exist, programs such as Start, Aces,

Chance for Life are extremely helpful and beneficial for our youth, and we believe

the need to provide more funding and awareness on after-school programs that will keep our students

engaged in the community.

So as you can see in the video, it shows on how importance is awareness to us because

awareness is crucial because what is the point of having dozens of amazing after-school

programs but if no one knows about it.

So that's why her mirror is crucial for us as students can find the right clubs for

them.

Our brobler ad aims to highlight the significance of extra-curricular activities on mental

health.

As our slogan states, extra-curriculars are extra-for-reason.

These activities offer more than just fun.

They provide essential opportunities for personal growth, stress relief, and social connection,

all of which contribute positively to mental well-being.

This is our fire.

It demonstrates exactly why you should develop your own clubs or programs and how they would

benefit from doing so.

The fire also has a short description of what measure is, how clubs or programs would

benefit from it and how could it possibly access this resource.

On the bottom right is your QR code that anyone can scan for more information on Measure

L and on the bottom left located is our Instagram page that anyone needs to contact us.

With that, thank you for your time and attention this evening council.

Please feel free to ask any questions.

Thank you so much.

Vice mayor.

All right.

Thank you, mayor.

Excellent job.

A really important topic.

I just had one suggestion as well.

What a lot of folks don't know is there's actually our governor, Gavin Newsom.

One of his top priorities is including what he calls expanded learning opportunity funds

in the state budget.

I keep it, there's $4 billion in the state budget every single year that goes specifically

to what they call expanded learning opportunities and that's things like after school, summer

school, anything outside of the classroom essentially and so that concludes sports.

A lot of the programs that you mentioned and the thing that we've noticed in recent years

is that the school districts actually are sometimes unaware that those funds are available

and so there's still a lot of money sitting in the budget to fund programs.

And so one thing that I can think of that be a really cool addition to this would be

to educate your school board members and your school districts about that funding and

make sure that they know that it's there so that these programs can be funded through

that as well.

So just wanted to throw that out as a suggestion and say wonderful job.

I love the flyer, I love the billboard and I think this is really important.

So thank you.

Thank you council member, Vang.

Thank you mayor.

I too also just want to take this moment to say great job, great presentation and as our

young folks are going through this presentation I'm like hey we're doing something similar

in the study of Sacramento.

So I want to put a quick plug in because I think I've heard three groups talk about measure

L, the Sacramento Children's Fund and just want to let you know that tomorrow at Colinel

Heights Library is going to be a measure L town hall, children's fund meeting and so

just really want to encourage our young people because every time I go to town hall I will

see adults right and it's just so important to have our youth there because this funding

particular is for our young people and so you all have really good ideas.

I think these ideas come from our youth but your voice is so important and so just wanted

to put a plug in for that because absolutely 100% behind y'all that we need to really support

our after school programs they're extra for a reason because we know it's needed but

it's so important to make sure that young people are at the forefront saying that so they

can hear directly from you so just wanted to put that plug in and great job on your presentation.

Great job, council member Town.

Yeah, just to piggyback off council member Vang.

This Saturday there's also a measure L meeting in my district at the Hagoid Library at 4pm

so definitely show up to learn about the Children's Fund and how we can advocate to get that

to impact our communities and so I think that's something that's really important that

tonight we're discussing youth programings and youth presentations but also the measure

L commission is also hosting a lot of community meetings this week as well too.

Council member Kaplan?

I just want to piggyback on that because my commissioner on the measure L commission is

joining his commissioner for that community meeting so when you think oh gosh I don't

live in that area it's actually important for you guys to show up with your staff

or student voice.

I think there is not anybody on this council that doesn't wish we heard more of your voices.

I can tell you this is my favorite night because I get so much information and ideas from

each group that comes up and presents to us so know that your voice is extremely powerful

and that you know you should go advocate each one of you find out which school district

you're in even if you are belong to a charter.

Players have boards but go to your district and advocate for what you want and show up

at measure L if you can because what you're doing is very important in your voice matters.

Thank you.

So here's a philosophical and practical question for you to think about measure L which

has come up a number of times generates between eight and 12 million dollars a year depending

upon the year and one of the things I know councilor van and I and others have talked

about is and your voice is really important.

Should the money be spread out among a variety of really important and worthy programs and

maybe even categories and causes or should we first the Youth Advisory Commission and ultimately

the City Council choose one or two things that we could put more money into those one

or two things and it's something we confront all the time when it comes to budgets and

public financing and there's not a right or wrong answer by the way but we could use your

guidance on that question because maybe there are certain types of extracurricular activities

that aren't getting nearly enough funding and attention where you would say it's measure

L you should put 50% of that categorized money into a particular kind of program.

I'm not saying you have to but it's something to be thinking about right because the tendency

is to yeah try to spread it wide well that may help a lot of programs a little but will

it really have a major impact not right or wrong something to think about.

Thank you.

Class dismissed.

Last but not least the connection of drug abuse and teenage mental health by the flight crew.

Good evening City Council my name is Hania Fireli I'm a rising junior at Natoma Pacific Pathways

Prep High and I'm one of the link who leaders slash peer mentors for my group flight crew.

Good evening Council my name is Gregory Walls I'm a rising junior at Natoma Pacific Pathways

Prep and I'm another one of the peer mentors for my group the flight crew.

Hello my name is Kumo Weeks and I'm a rising sophomore at the Met High School.

My name is Michael Astorga and I am a rising junior at Natoma High.

Hello Council my name is Teddy Bogden I'm a rising sophomore at CK McClatchy.

Hello Council my name is Dylan Yee and I'm a rising junior at Jesuit High School.

Hello Council my name is Neatly Sista and I am a rising senior at Undercome High School.

Hello my name is Emily Lue I'm a rising junior at CK McClatchy.

Hello my name is Haley Fowler and I'm a rising senior at Yamagura International Academy.

Hello my name is Chan Singh and I'm a rising junior at John F Kennedy High School.

Hello City Council my name is Sartak Sharma and I'm a rising sophomore at Natoma Pacific Pathways Prep.

Good evening Council today our team has decided to focus on one of Sacramento's most major issues

the team mental health and drug crisis.

I and the rest of my team have seen a lot of you a lot of high school and middle school students

at our schools vaping and doing drugs simply informing a school staff member isn't making any

real change or improvements the youth's mental health crisis directly increases the usage of drugs

and vapes amongst Sacramento teens.

For our statistics we created a survey to collect data from teens in our community.

Our data shows 64.1% of our users reported using drugs that is more than half of those 34.2%

do not have resources to help themselves. 87% said they know someone who has used drugs before

or currently 84.8% said they are aware of some of the impact of drugs on human body.

Our focus is to bring full awareness and education about the impact of drugs on teens mental health.

As you all know about measure L which has recently been passed it includes a variety of youth

services including mental health wellness and counseling services as well as substance abuse

prevention as well as treatment which are all funded and below on the screen are three examples

of the 35 plus organizations and other programs available in Sacramento that are all dedicated

to these youth services. So based on this information clearly the number of resources available

in Sacramento for our youth isn't the issue here. So why is the teen mental health and drug crisis

still so prevalent? A student from Intercome High School pretty much sums up the reason for

this prevalence. Sacramento has a lot of resources for the youth drug abuse and mental health

crisis but no awareness or education about them. Our billboard shows the different choices

people have when dealing with drugs. The good way on the right shows how life without drugs can

lead to a happy and healthy future. The bad way shows how drugs causes many health problems.

We want to present our PSA.

Mom, my mom argues me for every little thing.

All my friends will need me for other people,

and I don't know why.

Well, how can you discuss your issues with your mom

like asking her what she wants in time for,

or how you can become closer?

She says it's because I don't talk to other people.

I don't spend time with my friends and peers.

But how else was it new that I can deal with my own problems?

I think maybe you can tell your mom

about how many of your own homes come on,

and maybe in ask her her for help.

I guess that'd be best thing to you.

We're always talking about your family's here to help you.

I only want this best for you.

Is that her?

Yeah, it's me.

Yeah, mine?

Yeah.

Is it safe?

Why is it better if it's safe?

I came all the way out here,

but I'm alive, something.

I don't know, I have a bad feeling about this.

His friends and people are getting better.

Do you want to get better, don't you?

Yes.

And take it.

Whoa, what are you doing?

Oh, wow.

Get out.

What did you find this stuff?

Why are you doing this?

What did your business get out?

Whoa, you start calling.

I just want to help you find that helping you meet.

Wait, this thing goes to you, wait.

All right, he's helping me.

Okay, what do you need?

I really don't want to go down this path.

Helping and supporting kind of stuff really nice.

All right, well, I'll try to make you more easier on you.

We can get you more equipment if you're there.

Is that something?

Sounds good.

All right.

It's been a while since I've seen a lot of things been going.

Your mother tells her maybe you've found a camera in the drugs.

I don't know what else to turn to.

One of my friends called an introex Michael.

They helped them, but surely helped me.

That's good.

You didn't realize the drugs were on the outside.

No, I'm sick and tired of you nagging me so much.

Start talking.

Is it okay?

I've seen how this ends, and it's not worth it.

Just please let me help you.

I said no.

You try to manipulate me.

You can't.

You cannot control the wire.

You cannot change the wire.

We're here.

Where are we?

My friends.

Our flyer shows the effective drugs on our physical and mental health.

We also help people's problems relating to drugs and mental health, including the national

crisis hotline and our own mock phone number.

We made a prototype of our products, honey, nice and to provide teams with resources to not only prevent drug abuse, but to stop doing drugs or not to relapse.

We could use the Instagram account we made to promote our cause.

Here are some examples of our prototype.

It has a contact page for any teams that have any questions on controlling the website or getting resources.

It has an about us page for so teams can know how our website came to be.

It would have a staff page that would give a brief description about the staff and how they have experience with drug abuse.

We could use the web page to make sure that the teams would not feel more on age about using the website and feel like the people they worked with have more experience in what they're dealing with.

Abusing drugs can have many detrimental health effects.

The user will develop cardiovascular problems such as high blood pressure and possibly even heart attacks.

The user will experience strokes, seizures and impaired cognitive function.

Aside from the physical impacts of drug abuse, there's also the social and mental impacts.

The user will experience psychosis, anxiety and become dependent.

Which means the only thing they can think about is how to secure their next dose of their poison of choice.

This in turn will lead to them having strained relationships with their friends and family.

Our solution is to create a campaign called Shining Next Gen that is run by teenagers and young adults that focuses on their issues about drug abuse and mental health.

We want to conduct assemblies and events for teenagers to speak up and interact with each other.

We also want to spread awareness about the cycle of how drug abuse can affect teenagers' mental health and how mental health can lead to drug abuse.

Something that would help our campaign is funds for materials to host these events and assemblies.

Thank you for your time.

We would now like to open the floor to any questions you may have.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Another really impressive presentation and dealing with an issue that is so important and so deep and affects so many young people and adults and families.

Do any of my colleagues have any thoughts or questions?

Councilmember Kaplan?

Oh, sorry.

You.

That's okay.

I have to tell you, you guys have brought up heavy topics, mental health, drug abuse, homelessness.

It's a lot to think about.

I think one of the things, like in going through this, have you found that your friends would be more likely listen to you versus their parents?

Like what, in going through of how do we have these difficult discussions?

Did you find something that might seem like it would be more responsive?

Both of you can come up and respond.

Okay.

So I've seen people in my school actually take, like not to be like really heavy or anything, but I've seen people I know take acid before.

And I've seen them talk to their counselors and I've seen them talk to their parents and it never gets better, it gets worse.

I've had friends tell me, oh, will this person start it off with hard drugs before even getting to any of the other stuff and it's terrifying?

But when there's people like, I've had a friend, like a close friend, have really bad issues with drugs.

And once I spoke to her and I said, hey, you are going down the wrong path.

And she listened to me. She didn't listen to her parents or parents.

They don't understand because it's not like they don't try to understand, they definitely do.

But because of how the world is shaping, kids and teenagers don't, they're going through different things and adults went through when they were teenagers.

With use of social media, with how everyone grows up, it's a different generation already.

Even though it was maybe 10, 20 years ago, it's still a different generation.

And I feel like teenagers need to help each other and act more as a community than act against each other.

And even if you don't like the person, you can still help them because drugs isn't the answer ever.

Just to echo off, most of my friends have condoned using drugs or things like weed or nicotine.

And for the parents, it's not like they don't want to help, but they've grew in a different age where things are different to them in the new age.

So they can't fully connect to how teens feel in certain aspects.

But teens will listen more if they can, if someone that they can relate is talking to them about the same topic.

Thank you. I mean, as a mom, that hits hard, like listening to you too.

And again, I would truly suggest, go talk to your local school boards, talk to your principal, see what kind of clubs that you can do that can be student led.

Knowing that having this peer resource may be some of the answers that adults can't find.

But thank you for digging into this and sharing your stories. It really is totally relevant and a little bit of a gut punch as a parent.

How do we relate to our kids and help them?

And sometimes it may be the friends that they have and the peers around them. So thank you.

So one of the constant themes throughout most of these presentations is the power of peers.

That's really, and it's, I mean, it's so obvious, but it isn't obvious.

Right? How much power you all have? How much power you have to not only influence public bodies like this, but how much power you have to affect the lives of the people who are living in this world.

The people you know and go to school with, both young people, but also adults in terms of the way you model your own behavior, your own leadership.

It's really, really powerful. All of you. This panel's up here now is wonderful, but all of you, you have power inside of you.

I hope that you feel that and see it.

You save one life, right? That's the old faith saying goes is if you save the entire world, well, you can save and help many lives.

That's what your ideas are helping to further. So thank you.

Okay, do you have a, sorry, I can see you.

Thank you all. Thank you all so much. That concludes the, no, so here's what we're going to do. Can we do this logistically?

If all eight of the panels were to come on.

It's 72 people. There must be a fire code here somewhere that.

I would think it have nice would be to get a picture with everybody. What do you, what do you suggest?

Mayor, can I do a closing comment? Is that okay?

Yes, of course, and we also, we do have public testimony, but I just don't know whether to take that.

What's that? Okay, here's what we're going to do.

We're going to have councilman Vanneck a closing comment. We're going to take the public testimony.

And then we're going to take a recess and we're going to go on out and take a big picture here. Is that okay?

Are police officers? You guys are good with that. Is that all right?

Okay.

Figure you might want to close. I didn't know.

I don't need to. I want to need to.

So I, first I just want to say congratulations to this year's cohort to all our amazing youth.

And for putting your heart, right? Having the courage to come up here and present on some really heavy topics.

But I also want to take this opportunity to invite Sarah to come up because I think it's really important to recognize yes you Sarah.

And Ronda Maria and all our certified educators as well.

To the front.

I know I see your big boss Jackie. I saw her earlier too, but I really just want to take this moment to say thank you to our city staff and our certified teachers and our peer educators are youth are cohort that actually are peer educators that came back to actually work with the new cohort.

And I just want to thank you so much for your heart and hustle.

And you know for the past three years, I've been incredibly impressed by all our young people, but not surprise, right?

By their intelligence. And really this program cannot happen without our staff and really Sarah.

I want to say thank you to you, the team, everyone at Yipsey, all our youth folks, all our youth staff.

I see you on the back. Just thank you so much. So around applause to all of you for your hard work.

And I can't wait to be there for graduation.

I think that's coming up pretty soon too, but congratulations to this year's cohort and I'm surely proud of everything you all have a completion with that. I'll hand it over back to the mayor.

Thank you. I think that was a great conclusion. Thank you. And great close. Okay.

So you guys, if you don't mind sitting down, we're going to we're going to hear from the public. And then I'm just revising on the fly here.

We do that. And then council ideas and questions. And then we have four people who want to speak on items not on the agenda.

So maybe we ought to do all that. And then what's that we're going to do council come on first.

Okay. I got it. Yeah. So let's so by the time we take the picture, the meeting will be over. Right. And that'll be the last thing that we will do so that we don't have to come back.

Now, I know you're absolutely going to take council comments before public item public testimony and I'm sorry the agenda. But do have two people want to testify on this item.

So they have that right. And we will hear from them.

I have three speakers to speak on this agenda item. Ryan Masano, Mac Worthy, then Stephen Barrossa.

It's sad we have to deal with the city council which hasn't learned the first amendment themselves.

And so they can't train students on considering different views. One attribute I hope that every child learns is to not imitate the mayor and city council and to be offended by everything and ashamed of nothing.

My website is missano news.com every child should read this so you can learn about the lies you are told by politicians, television radio, celebrities, social media and schools every single day.

I was a child. I had a wonderful teacher in the sixth grade who was passionate and intense about teaching critical thinking to students.

Miss Lonnie taught us to prove what we believed in and relentlessly question our beliefs and not to just accept what the media television, politicians, social media newspapers and radio told us.

One thing I will always admire about her and that will live on long after her death is she refused to tell us children what her political beliefs are because she firmly believed that was for us to do on our own with our parents.

So I am appalled that this Sacramento City Council which routinely violates the free speech rights of speakers invites young impressionable speakers up to city hall.

The schools don't teach the students history other than the white man is bad. They don't teach them the history of Greece, Rome or America.

But somehow the students are brought up here to discuss topics that parents and adults in the community should be guiding them on.

I see Mindy Cuppie tell the students she's excited to see them yet when me and other men come up to tell the truth after thousands of hours of study and suffering, you not only aren't excited to see us, you are positively afraid of hearing the truth.

To the children, I hope you learn what this Sacramento City Council has never learned and shows no sign of learning anytime soon. And that is it's better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie.

Thank you for your comments Macworthy.

I'm back here on critical issue what I speak here is on the freedom of speech and I can back it up on us.

People at once born a time there was one language on earth and it tried to send us a bit of wild language. It would be a couple of what you're trying to do.

Now I came to California at 19 years old at their place of high preferred old out of my pocket.

I tried 21 years old. I had my business going. I'll be 83 years old, September 2. Right here. Most of the time here. Now what you all talking about.

It's not working.

The same thing you talked to here. I raised it 47 years ago when I wanted you to.

When I wanted you to go on for a certain years ago. I raised that. That is right there. That's an argumentation.

How did I know? Because I cherish growing up in surrogation. I'm not a black man. I'm an American Negro.

South Carolina Red Dead, Hunts, Sick. Group on a farm. Plenty of Mew picking cotton. I'm here. How did I get here?

No government brought me here on my own because I opposed the sick movements. The most disgrace thing ever happened to black people.

It's post integration. When the husband was put out of the house and his wife would get a check. That's where your house was.

Tell it to you. You will never. This thing here is about finding another program that leading you in a direction that you will never accomplish independence inequality.

Thank you for your comments. Our final speaker is Steven Barrassa. I'm Miss agenda item.

I'm really impressed that we got to see the presentations today. I'm really glad I got to see all of those presentations.

It made my mind just stirred thinking about all these issues that were brought forth this evening and all the hard work that these students did.

They came up to this dio and spoke very clearly and didn't seem nervous at all. That was really great.

Some thoughts came to mind. I'm disappointed with the push for multiculturalism trying to divide everybody into different groups.

My brother is half black. He went to Africa on a trip. He told me, my African American. Well the African said, no you're not. You don't know anything about Africa. This is your first time being here. You're not African, buddy. You're American.

When we look at this room of beautiful faces, all colors, all family backgrounds, we all come from one culture. We're all part of one culture and that's the American culture.

We should be proud of that and proud of the American experiment and the American experience and get back to the idea of a melting pot where many different backgrounds but we're all one people here tonight.

Thank you.

Let's now move and again ask just if you could all be patient because we really want to take that picture. I think it'll be about 10 more minutes or so.

Council ideas and questions. Councilmember Valenzuela.

Thank you, Mayor. I'm happy to announce that the Sacramento Powell is back for the 29th year. If you haven't stopped by, you should.

And a few years ago we achieved zero youth homicides in the city of Sacramento for two years. And we did that through a suite of programs and interventions that were designed by research and informed by folks who are impacted by gun violence. And I just really think it's important that we hold ourselves to that standard.

I've been really heartbroken by some of the incidents in my district in the last couple of weeks. So we'd really appreciate a report back as soon as feasible on what's going on in the city. Thank you.

Councilmember Wang.

Thank you mayor. I would love to echo Councilman Valenzuela on that report back as well. And so just wanted to on record give her my support. And hopefully we can get that report back to the council as soon as possible.

I have a few announcement, community announcements and then also an AB 1234 report. I just want to let you all know that this Saturday, July 27th led by actually the mayor's office.

Mayor's office of community engagement. There will be a town hall in district eight in South Sacramento. And it's actually happening at Luther Burbank. And so really encouraging folks to come out for our mayor led town hall. I will be there as well.

And then just wanted to remind folks every Sunday we now have our Med of you certified farmer's market. As many of you know, Med of you is a neighborhood that's food insecure and really happy that we have the farmer's market and really encouraging folks to come out to that.

And then also just another event this Sunday. There's an event at Med of you park called the unity in the community summer party. This is actually a grantee from our city of festival.

Grant funding. It's going to be a family fun event with bounce houses, gang trucks, sports, DJ live music vendors, food trucks and so much more so really encouraging folks to come to that. And then for my AB 1234 report.

As someone along with coach councilmember Jennings Servon say cog I have the opportunity to go with my colleagues on the say cog board for the peer region tour in Denver, Colorado.

We took this trip right after actually our last meeting before council recess and I had an opportunity to go to Denver for two days to actually meet members of Drake cog, which is the say cog version in Denver.

And there we had an opportunity to really learn more about their transportation system and their regional housing strategy.

I've a lot to share of what I've learned. I think there's a lot of things we can learn from Denver, but I think there's a lot of great things we're currently doing now. So just want to give kudos to Sacramento as well. But there was definitely a lot of lessons learned from that trip.

Very similar history on redlining and government policy that really shaped their poor outcomes in Denver, but what the regional leaders there are doing to fix that.

And Denver in particular their region is also very similar to our population in terms of diversity and age as well. And so there was a lot that I learned with my colleagues.

I'm a lot to report back, but just wanted to make sure that I share that and again, I'm currently on the board with say cog councilor Jennings and it was great to attend that. I'm taking all that learning and going to apply it to our board meetings and here at the city.

So that's my update. Thank you so much.

Thank you so much. Council member Kaplan.

Thank you mayor. For all of our youth that live, go to school in district one or live in North Natomas.

I want to introduce you to my district director Mateo. So Mateo raise your hand. I have a one youth program for all of our high school students that you are welcome to sign up for.

We do treat plantings community cleanups you help with my events. We also do fun events at my resource center if you belong and the top volunteers I got to take to the Kings game last year.

So if you want to get involved in the community, please come say hi and give your information to my district director. But this Friday, we're also having a free movie at the North Natomas regional park.

We are playing in Conto movie begins at dusk, but we'll have free popcorn and water beginning at seven p.m. And then on Saturday, we have our North Natomas farmers market eight 30 to 12 30.

And if you all want to participate in yoga, it's free from nine to 10 at the North Natomas regional park. And again Friday, August 2nd beginning at six p.m. Music probably starts about six 30 on August 2nd.

It's going to be our AAPI celebration. We're going to have vendors and food trucks and bounce houses and a bunch more. So everybody is welcome to come on out.

That was great council member.

Thank you, Mayor. First off, I just commend my community folks who hosted our event this Saturday, Unity in the community festival mutual assistance network and rebranding you.

It was a, it was a event focused on bringing the community together, celebrating diversity and registering the community vote.

We were able to get a lot of folks registered to vote and just learn about the importance of voting.

And just wanted to share some events with the community upcoming this week. First off is a cultural exhibit hosted by Meng Yuf and parents united on Friday, the 26th.

And this is the 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. This showcase will be a 631 Eleanor Avenue. The exhibit will showcase works by help try fusion sisters, Shang and Meng highlighting Meng American pioneers.

And then on Saturday, we will be hosting along with the the measure commission, the Sacramento Children's Fund, this strategic investment info session is hosted by the city's Sacramento Children's Planning and Oversight Committee.

We will be hosting the community members of the public to come learn about measure L and how it can impact our community.

The committee will take place at Haguad Community Center on July 27th at 4 p.m. And then on Monday, July 29th, I encourage the public to also participate and update with our public works department in our office along with the Sacramento Library on an update on the North Sacramento Haguad Library.

We will be hosting an info session from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. We hope to gather feedback from the public and have comments on design elements of that project. It will be at the Oud SNR Building or the new site for the library 1124 Dupasal Boulevard. That is all.

Thank you.

Councilmember Jennings.

Thank you, Mayor. I've got two musical concerts that are taking place in District 7.

I want to join us on Friday, this Friday, July 26th from 6 p.m. at the Bill Coolidge Park in the Southland Park neighborhood.

We're going to have the wonderful sounds of Virginia, Ares, Dawson, and Airplay. So we encourage you to bring your chairs, blankets, family and friends and join us for a wonderful evening of jazz.

And then secondly, Music in the Park at Curtis Park. That will take place Sunday, July 28th from 6 p.m.

A free concert featuring one air, which plays classic rock favorites. There will be a variety of food trucks. They will be there.

And we hope that the temperature will be much cooler than it's been throughout the months of July so far. Also, I'll be sponsoring free space painting for all the kids who come to the concert.

So those are my two announcements. January, July 26th and July 28th.

I just want to say so many great events that I have the privilege to go to. But I want to especially just call out Councilmember Tao and the reopening of SAMHIs.

The passable of our this week, this past week, was just really incredible about community fighting for what it wants and deserves.

And open in 1944 when some hard times. The owners, great people stuck with it, really great leadership.

And it's just a very special event. That kind of stuff goes on all the time. Sacramento got to continue it. Thanks.

All right. We're going to end with a couple of members of the public. Some of whom we heard from already. But they're right to come on up and provide more testimony.

Thank you, Mayor. Four speakers. Ryan Masano, Julius, Mac Worthy and Richard Hillard.

Excuse me. You have to students want to start maybe one second, Mr. Masano will let you speak. But maybe the students want to start going outside. We can start gathering for the picture. Right.

I'm trying to seem to not being offended at everything.

I'm sorry.

That's a great idea. Okay. Okay.

Mr. Masano, I think you can start.

The camera is out of order. It's out of order. He's proceed.

I'm not in order for children to speak, but out of order for adults to speak. Just love how that works.

It's a terrible example. You're setting for these young children because what this is is what happened in China and Russia before 100 million were murdered. This is indoctrination.

So I don't know when we're going to ween all of you off the teats, but you all need to be weened because you're not doing anything for the city.

220,000. The rest of you council members, the reason why you interrupt me so much and try to shut me down is because you're all puppets.

And you're making 140,000 with benefits. And that is what you're taking like Pontius, Pilate, and Judas to sell us out as citizens.

And then what you're trained to do is to indoctrinate these children into these malevolent agendas, which ought to be ashamed of yourself.

Now, the men are the real targets. The women, most of them are young, they don't know what's going on. I kind of overlook them. Some of them second generation here in America.

So you don't even understand American history. You certainly don't understand Western civilization, which is what this nation is based upon.

And it's time you should learn that because how are you going to rule this nation if you don't know what's history accurately.

So yeah, this is its corruption. And hopefully you guys repent because you will reap what you sell.

Thank you for your comments, Julius.

Julius, Ben McWorthy, and Richard Hillard.

Good evening, City Council members. I hope you're all doing well.

Let me start by saying that I love all people, but that doesn't mean that all people are absolved from criticism, including me.

Where First Race Me is when the City Council members preach free speech until it's speech they disagree with.

If I said white people are threat to America, or that the system is full of white supremacists, no one will bat an eye, because it's all part of the plan to divide the races.

But if I talk about who controls the government, the media, education, entertainment, etc. I will be labeled an anti-Semi and possibly have my speech shut down.

We have a right to speak on matters not in the agenda, but our toll that we are told to keep it within the city ordinances.

If we cannot speak on concerns to the point where our speech is shut down, doesn't affect everyone, especially the city of Sacramento.

Is that not within city ordinances for if our free speech is under attack?

The reason why you should not take these people seriously when they claim to be for racial inclusivity, but will shut down America and who happens to be black because he said the word Jews.

To learn who rules over you, find out who you're not allowed to criticize. There's a laundry list of corruption, but we'll start with the attack on free speech.

Because if we don't have free speech, that laundry list of corruption would disappear.

The reason the young people are messed up is that we keep indoctrinated in the mintellin' that because of their skin color, they are oppressed by those who are not just skin color, aka the white man.

The media and institutions are pushing the ideology that gender is a spectrum and that you can identify as anything.

The government would rather mentally kidnap your children than stand for the rights of parents. This stops the moment we start speaking up.

Thank you for your comments, Matt Worthy.

I'm the free speech again.

What we want to tell young Negro babies, look at the parents that were born four or seven years ago on their birth certificate in drives license.

It was not said, African Americans said Negro.

People, you see, we're misleading. Black hits the socials and that, that's garbage. Don't go to school for that.

Was any black parents in these meetings that these people had? No. You're brainwashing the babies. Brainwashing, think as you think, what can they do with their hand?

Go to America River or city at night and you can use anything on the agenda instead.

But if you go in the daytime, they're going hand you their total rickum.

So get started with something on your own. No government never built a city in America.

Free enterprise. Free enterprise is a key component to economics.

We're getting ready to go into a time of choosing the president. We could fall into a civil war.

Let the people know a Harris to become president. You're going to falsify it by Afton T. Ballots.

It was happening. It had include NAACP churches, non-profit organizations.

Which have the files. I had over 3,000 names in the NAACP. My house and I ran president in NAACP. 90% of them are dead.

So what was the NAACP? When drugs came to the Black neighborhood, how did they come through entertainment? Who controlled entertainment?

I had an issue with the code enforcement people and they're kind of out of control. I felt like I was being targeted and gone after.

After this happened, I shared it with all these council members on the panel. I did have one council office call me back.

I had a district head, ward, or a marano from council three. I did have a nice call with me and I appreciated that.

My council member is district two. I notified them of the problem right away and they were very helpful to me and have spoken to me many times.

Like I said, it was, see something, say something. It all revolved around the fact that as a hobby, I kind of bite story units.

I'd bring them to my house and my little trailer and I sort everything out throughout the trash.

And a lot of the stuff I give to one of the groups that was mentioned by Ms. Kaplan.

I donate a lot of stuff to the Weave ladies. So they can sell it, make money, support the women.

I also donate to the homeless people. And it seemed like the code enforcement people were doing.

Everything they could to make sure that they stopped me from doing what I was doing.

So I did call the council, the mayor's office right away after I had a appeal hearing where I got halfway through the appeal and hearing.

And the code enforcement people basically just wanted to shut me down. They said we've heard enough and let's move on.

Thank you for your comments. Your time is complete.

Thank you.

I've heard council ideas and questions and public testimony and rives around the agenda. If there's nothing else to come before the city council, we are adjourned. Thank you.