good evening I'm the chair for today because Marge Dickinson is has

COVID and she's out but she'll be here next month good evening and welcome to

measure you meeting today Monday August 19th and the meeting is now called to

order will clerk will you please take the role thank you chair members if you

please unmute your microphones remember McGee

sorry I'm muted you there present thank you remember Maseus present

remember wolf present chair Dickinson is absence remember chorus here

remember Johnston here remember Hogege here over George off here remember

Pascal and vice chair seller here thank you we have quorum okay so please

rise for the opening acknowledgement in honor of Sacramento's and to the

original people of this land the nice and in people the southern my do Valley

planes me walk Pat when when to and people's of the Wilton

Francia Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe may we acknowledge and

honor the native people who came before us and still walked 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

people's history contribution and lives thank you please remain standing for

the pledge of allegiance I thank you I also want to just we have a new member to

measure you and I want to welcome him he's representing district three six and

that's Connor Johnston speech I'm very honored to be here and excited to work

along all you in working in this important business thank you welcome and and he

loves budgets so it's gonna be a great asset to our committee please don't say

that in public hey so our first business today is approval of the consent

calendar clerk are there any members of the plebbit who want to speak on the

consent calendar thank you vice chair I have no speaker slips okay so with that

do I have a motion I need a second second good okay clerk can you call the roll

thank you vice chair members if you could please unmute your microphones

member McGee I remember Maseus I your wolf I chair Dickinson is absence

member Gores I and her Johnston stain

member Hogeyge I remember George off yes I remember Pascal I and vice chair

solid yes thank you the motion passes thank you we're gonna proceed to the

discussion calendar and that will be overview of the equity explored design

tool known as seed and we're very fortunate to have Amy Barnes from from the

office of diversity equity and inclusion for the city of Sacramento is there any

members of the public who want to speak on this item

no presentation first what oh is there off why I think I just said there were staff

so is there a staff presentation would you like to come up or present oh

hello excuse me hello and good evening members of the measure you community

advisory committee my name is Robert Bell my pronouns are he him his I'm the

equity analyst with the office of diversity and equity today my colleagues and I

will provide a demonstration of the Sacramento equity explored design C GIS

tool together with my manager on me Barnes we collaborated with the exceptional GIS

team comprise to my right of Lauren Dreffis and Michael Dobbins from the IT

department to overhaul the tool that will be presenting to y'all today I'll

provide more details on that shortly but for now I'd like to hand it over to

me to provide us with some background and context how we arrived at this point

thank you Robert good evening measure you committee members my name is Amize

and so they Barnes pronouns are she and they and I serve as the diversity and

equity manager and so wanted to ground our conversation we hope this is a

generative one some thinking some strategizing we're also open to feedback

around the C tool but we're really excited to be here and share this GIS tool

with you but first we want to ground and have some and ground our conversation

by establishing some key terms and concepts that we're working with so that we

have some shared understanding so first let's get into a little bit about why

we lead with race in terms of racial equity racial equities are deep and

pervasive we know that racial anxiety is still often the elephant in the

room and some conversations were at least equipped equipped to speak on or talk

about or have constructive conversations around learning institutional and

structural approach can be used with other areas of marginalization and being

specific matters being explicit about outcomes that bring about racial and