Measure U Community Advisory Committee Meeting: Community Grant Recipients Showcase Impact
Measure U Community Advisory Committee Meeting
Meeting Overview
The October 21, 2024 meeting focused on highlighting the community impact of recent Measure U grant recipients, featuring presentations from nonprofits serving Sacramento's youth and community development initiatives.
Opening and Introductions
- Meeting called to order at 5:30 PM
- Land acknowledgement and Pledge of Allegiance performed
- Consent calendar approved unanimously
Participatory Budgeting Grant Recipients Presentations
Key Presenters and Programs:
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Crossover Basketball
- Serves over 400 underserved youth annually
- Provides basketball leagues, mentorship, and life skills training
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Hope Neighborhood Learning Center
- Developed literacy support and transportation program
- Provides one-on-one tutoring for elementary students
- Created innovative reading mobile application
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Teaching Tech (Sacramento Developer Collective)
- 20-hour game development educational program
- Served 56 students aged 12-18
- Teaches STEM skills through video game design
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Common Good Collective (Black Water Accelerator)
- Conducted entrepreneurship pitch competitions
- Distributed $20,000 to early-stage nonprofits
- Developed business accelerator program
Key Outcomes
- Demonstrated effective use of limited Measure U funding
- Highlighted innovative approaches to youth engagement
- Emphasized importance of continued community investment
Next Steps
- Potential presentation to City Council
- Continued advocacy for participatory budgeting
Meeting Transcript
Good evening. Welcome to the Monday, October 21, 2024 530 PM meeting of the MeasureU Community Advisory Committee. The committee is now called to order. Will the clerk please call the roll to establish a quorum? Thank you chair. Members, if you could please unmute your microphones. members, members, members, members, members, members, members, members, members, members, members, members, members, members, members, members, members, members, members, members, members, members, members, members, members, members are members, members, members, members, members members are members, members, members are members, members, members are members, members of members, members, members, members members are members, members members of members members members, members, members, members members, members, members, members of members would like to speak on an agenda item. I would like to remind members of a member of members of members of the public and chambers if you would like to speak on an agenda item except for those of you who were invite here to speak, would like to urge ferne to speak first and then in a speaker slip when the item begins you will have two minutes to speak. Once you are on stage, after the first speaker, we will no longer acknowledgments in honor of Sacramento's Indigenous Peoples and Tribal Lands. To the original people of this land, the Nissanon people, the southern Maidu Valley, and Plains Maywalk, the Patwyn-Winton peoples, and the people of Wilton Rancheria, Sacramento's 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. And please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indisisable, with liberty and justice for all. Our first business today is approval of the consent calendar. Clerk, are there any members of the public who wish to speak on the consent calendar? Thank you, Chair. I have no speaker slips on the consent calendar. Thank you. Are there any members, commissioners, who want to speak on this item? If not, is there a motion in a second for the consent calendar? I'll move. I'll move. I'll move. I'll move. I'll move. I'll move. I have a motion by Member George Ruff and a second by Member Goris. Will the clerk please call the roll for the vote? Thank you, Chair. Members, if you please unmute. Member McGee? Yes. Vice Chair Sala? Yes. Member Maasius? Yes. Member Wolfe? Yes. Member Johnston? Is absent. Member Resoles? Is absent. Member Goris? Yes. Member George Ruff? Yes. Member Hojege? It's absent.
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