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.

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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

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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?

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I have no speaker slips on the consent calendar.

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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?

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I have a motion by Member George Ruff and a second by Member Goris.

Will the clerk please call the roll for the vote?

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Members, if you please unmute.

Member McGee?

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Vice Chair Sala?

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Member Maasius?

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Member Wolfe?

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Member Johnston?

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Member Goris?

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Member George Ruff?

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Member Hojege?

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Member Paschal?

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And Chair Dickinson?

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I will go ahead and handle tonight's conversation, but here you have Coach Omar Turner.

Coach Turner founded Crossover Basketball in 1998 and has over 25 years of experience working

with thousands of underserved and at-risk youth in the Sacramento area. We are thrilled to have

the funding of Measure U to be able to do what we do best and to do more of it for more kids

in the Sacramento area. Since 1998, Crossover Basketball has provided winter and spring

everybody plays basketball leagues that range from eight to 12 weeks long in Sacramento

drawing hundreds of youth each year and utilizing the commitment of volunteer coaches and staff,

many of whom are previous Crossover Basketball participants themselves. A lot of the coaches

tend to really understand the neighborhoods and backgrounds from where the kids come from that we

work with. Over 400 underserved youth are served through our programs around the calendar.

And the coaches are great mentors for them, understanding some of the things and challenges that they've

faced. We partner with local schools, local gyms that we use to do our basketball programs,

and we work with partners of all kinds, churches, businesses, anyone who will come alongside and help

us do what we do. Crossover Basketball is a safe, drug and tobacco-free environment that impacts,

as I said, over 400 at-risk students each year in the greater Sacramento region and on down

into Elk Grove as well. We have traveling AAU teams, a Crossover after school program,

we teach life skills to students, and with caring, consistent, healthy adult role models,

wow, who doesn't know that kids need caring adults in their lives. In fact, some statistics show

that every kid needs seven positive adult mentors in their lives, and we know that many kids today

are starting with a deficit. So if we can put, imagine you've got four or five coaches and a

mentor and a tutor just in this program. Wow, what a great thing for these kids. We'll provide

opportunities for young kids to become active and engaged community members. The majority of the

Crossover Basketball coaches, again, spend time in the neighborhoods with the kids, and they can

help them make positive choices and great decisions in their lives. So these are just some of the

Crossover Basketball activities we've had. Coach Omar and his team will get them great uniforms.

He's always asking me where we can buy more medals and trophies, and that's a great thing for

the kids as well. I wish you could be there with us in the room just knowing some of these great

volunteers and coaches as well. Wonderful people that are helping these kids play basketball and

get out there. There's also day camps, activities where kids can get involved in the summer.

There was a picture earlier of summer camp. Imagine kids coming from Sacramento maybe seeing the

ocean for the very first time in their lives and actually getting to swim in the ocean. And most

of them we get back out of the ocean. It's really a great, great situation. We have a great time in

camp in Santa Cruz and we also of course play basketball at camp that do all the fun things you

can do at camp. And kids are scholarship because of a lot of these funds. Kids are scholarship to

have these great life-changing trips. And they've also gone to amusement parks. Lots of fun activities

for the kids, things that they don't often get to try. And of course maybe they're not having as

much fun here in this picture, but they do get tutoring. We have laptops that we've either

purchased or had donated and we'll have tutors work with the kids on their homework.

Again, we very much appreciate the opportunity to be funded to get kids out in their community.

Here's a group serving. We love to teach them to give back to their community. And that's one

maybe one of the greatest lessons that kids learn through these opportunities. So we want to thank

you. Coach Almer, do you want to say anything at this point? Thank you. Thank you so much. We really

appreciate it. Again, just to reset what has said is these kids a lot of times these are life

changing experiences. And I've been doing it 25 years. So I've seen the other side of kids when

they grow up and then they come back and they help us in our program. And a lot of them are saying,

Coach, this is the first time I ever did, you know, where they went to the theme park. That was the

first time I ever went, like he said, to the ocean. That was the first time we ever went to the

mountains or anything like that. And even had one kid said it was a teacher that told him

that he never is going to be anything. And then when he came back after going to college and

telling that teacher, look, look what I've become is because of things like this that we're able to

provide. So again, I just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart. We really appreciate

everything that you guys do for us. Thank you. Next time we'll just have Coach Almer speak.

Well, thank you for the work you do with our kids in our community. We really appreciate it.

Thank you.

Next we have Brittany and Josh Howard just talked to us about both the additional literacy support

for elementary students, and the transportation ban for underserved and unhoused youth program.

Thank you. First off, pardon? Welcome. Thank you. Yeah. Thanks for having us.

So my name is Josh Howard. I'm the founder of Hope Neighborhood Learning Center.

And I'm Brittany Howard. I'm the director of operations for Hope Neighborhood Learning Center.

And we're also super thankful for your support and the measure you dollars that were awarded to us.

We actually received two grants. So double thank you. And thank you to the community really for

voting for us. I mean, it's just such an honor that so many people are believing in the work that

we've been doing over the last seven, eight years here in Oak Park neighborhood. Our nonprofit is

focused on building a community of lifelong learners. And we do that through two main programs,

our literacy program and our tech program. Our literacy program is focused on

one-on-one tutoring and literacy intervention. Our tech program is focused on

game app development and really introducing students to 21st century skills through that program.

And that program also includes various graphic design activities and steam challenges as well.

So the first grant that we received is the Van Grant. And it took about a year to finalize the

terms, but we were so excited to be able to purchase it this summer. And so with that, we're starting

to do our family visits this year. We work in partnership with another nonprofit called Growing

Past Today. And a lot of the students that we work with in tutoring are now being housed. They were

unhoused and now they're housed. So we go out, visit them, just make those relational connections.

And then we're planning some special events, some outings, and then some summer camps over the next

summer. The second grant that we received is the literacy grant. And what that allowed us to do is

hire three part-time literacy directors. And really bolster our one-on-one tutoring.

And then the thought we had when we, you know, we've seen how effective our tutoring has become.

And so we thought, you know, we really want to download this tutoring so it's more accessible,

to more teachers and more people. And we also want to upload this tutoring so that it's accessible

to anybody who wants access to it. And so we started working on two new elements.

There. And I'll talk about that more in a moment. But overall, since we received the grant funding,

we've served 63 students through one-on-one tutoring. And the students that finish the tutoring

program go to what we call read-alouds, where they become the narrators of the story. And so

they practice in a group together. And then they go into the kindergarten classes and actually

read the story aloud. And so it's a really kind of, I feel like it's inspiring for the students.

It's really amazing just to see them grow in their literacy skills and capabilities and

confidence that they begin to actually practice that in front of other students. And so the result

of that, we've seen amazing enhancements and reading proficiency. We've seen students just

have a love for learning, which is like part of our main mission is just really building that

community of lifelong learners. And then we've seen an increase in school attendance. So people

are constantly, you know, the kids, I say people, the kids are constantly, you know, begging to be a

part of our programs. And they can't wait to come back for more. So I feel like that's a good

indicator that what we're doing is working. And so that's why we're like, okay, we got to make

this accessible to more people because we're a small-known profit. Yeah, go for it. So typically the

students we work with with one-on-one tutoring are at least two grades behind in their reading level.

And we can get them like caught up pretty well to the program. So yeah. Great point. Yeah,

in our target age group is usually four through six graders. So that's kind of in our minds kind

of like the left behind group because if they haven't achieved that appropriate reading level by

third grade, they're kind of starting to run into trouble when it comes to their own education. And so

that's where our heart lies. We just really want to make things that are relevant to that age group.

So with that, we developed this reading intervention guide where we started downloading what we do

in these one-on-one tutoring sessions. And the goal here is to make this accessible to parents,

to teachers, whoever wants to use it. And with it, we have a student record which helps the

instructor, whoever it is, to monitor and track what the student's doing. And so these are things

that we do naturally, just in our practice. But now we're kind of, I don't know, solidifying it,

so to speak, so that way other people can use what we've been doing. And then these are the ABCs

and bringing you on. Yeah. So there's three steps we use in one-on-one tutoring and we call them

the ABC steps in our guide. So each student gets an assessment. So everything's customized for each

student for their program, basically, for one-on-one tutoring. And the assessment will kind of tell us where

we should start with their reading and where the gaps are. And so we also have these charts to just

work on skills and reinforce skills and keep working on things. And then there's a tracking sheet.

Our literacy director that does this is a former teacher. So she tracks everything like a teacher.

So teachers can use this and it'll work well with how they have to track things with their students.

Yeah. And so tracking is just kind of, we have these reader books that they use, just what page

they left off on. There's like a chart they need to go through again next time and just like kind of

assessing kind of where they're at and how they're progressing in their skills.

And really what we're trying to do is create an objective record, right, of where the students are.

So then we can go back and work with that specific student on that specific skill. And so we wanted to

kind of show people, hey, this is how we do this. So you can do it too. And then the reading app. So

if you scan that QR code, you can actually play the app today. It's in a test beta phase right now.

We're hoping for full launch by the end of the year. It functions as what's called a progressive

web app. And that was done intentionally. So it's highly accessible. You can access it through your

typical web browser or you can access through your phone. And there's a way to simulate downloading.

So it actually function as a native app on your phone. But this is the idea here is uploading

what we're doing onto the web. So that way anybody has access to it. This is focused on the same

thing. It's based on the science of reading, really focusing on a phenomenal awareness here.

And reinforcing those skills that they've been learning through school and giving them a way to

continually do this, whether they're at home or on the go or even in school. And like I mentioned

earlier, our target age group is 4 through 6 grade. And so what we found is most of the students

that they don't really like the reading materials that are available for these sorts of lessons.

They typically are like these cute little bears or unicorns and things like that. And 4 through

6 graders to not be that interested in it. So what we did here is we actually gamified the entire

learning process. And this is the typical workflow that you'll see here. So it starts with the word

game where you're looking at blends, letter sounds, phrases, matching images to sentences. And then once

you've built on all of that, a student moves into these games where like in this example here,

it's a maze game where the owl speaks the word, they have to click on that word until they get

the ninja out of the maze. And then once they've gone through all those lessons, they unlock a reader.

And so this reader is built on all the things that they've learned and processed through up to that

point. And then there's highlights and underlines so they can access things that they've

previously learned if they forgot how to say that word or how it sounds.

Yeah, one of the literacy directors that we were able to hire with the funds is she is a teacher,

she's an educator and also has a computer science degree. So she's been the one that's been like

really managing a lot of building this out. She's been amazing.

Yeah, and we've already been able to use this in the classroom today and pilot it with our

students. We've actually piloted at neighborhood events as well. I've just brought computers out and

had students come and play it. So that's really been what has driven the design of the application

to is direct user feedback, so to speak, directly working with the students, asking them what they

think about it and seeing how they actually cheat through the game too without learning. So that's

helped us a lot too. It's been really fun. So thank you. We appreciate you all. Thank you for the

work that you all do as well. And we're we're thankful for this partnership that we had with you all.

One thing to just to be aware of just as in the future with grants and potentially other

things that you all do like this, there is an increasing demand on insurance policies that

nonprofits hold as we work with students. And that's starting to become a hindrance. And so

maybe in the future some of the funds could be allocated towards paying part of those policies

because even the school that we're working with right now is starting to ask for 5 million

per occurrence on our SAM policy. And that's a $17,800 policy. So for not small nonprofits,

it starts to be a little bit prohibitive in our service. So something to consider and just to

be aware of just as you support folks like us. So thank you. Thank you so much. And we'll have

time for questions afterwards if you all can stay. Thanks. Thank you very much. That's really great.

Our next and our final presenter tonight is Nathan Alshaus from Teaching Tech, the Sacramento

Developer Collective. Hello, good afternoon. Welcome. I'm Nathan Alshaus and I'm the President

of Sacramento Developer Collective. We are a nonprofit working with the local community,

a video game developers, to support them and create, you know, support them and train them and educate

them. And it's essentially a workforce development mission. You know, we've seen some very talented

people in Sacramento and we, you know, don't have a whole lot of jobs around here. So entrepreneurship

is kind of one way of going that route. And we also work with a lot of the game development

companies like electronic arts that we have in town. What we did with this program is we have

been wanting to get into education for the next generation for quite a while for a few years.

We were already in development of a pilot program that we were working with one of our educational

partners, Squarrute Academy. And that came about at the same time that the grand option came about.

And so we developed that course into what we call progressive game gem educational addition.

Progressive game gem is a long form game gem that we've run for about 10 years that takes people

from ideation to publication through the whole video game development life cycle and they actually

create games. And they learn how to create games and learn how to work on teams. We wanted to take

the fundamentals that we actually learned from that program and really applied it in educational

setting with the next generation. Because we see video games as a great educational tool

because kids love video games. But when you can form curriculum around it and educational goals,

it's easy to get them to actually engage with that curriculum. And we actually developed a curriculum.

And this is actually our curriculum that we curated with the program. And it's an 84 page

full curriculum that teaches the kids from game ideation concept design all the way through to

what you can do with it after you've completed it. Self publication or whatever. And video games

is kind of a nexus of steam. And I know there's been a big focus on steam. And so we really wanted to

utilize that nexus because of the fact that everything that you do in steam, you can find a part

of it in video game development. There's mathematics, there's advanced technology and engineering,

all that's in there. And we actually incorporate a lot of that into our teaching. So how did it work out?

Well, we've actually had 56 kids so far registered and most of them have completed the course.

It's a 20 hour course. So for every student, it's 10 weeks, meaning two hours a week to actually

go through this course. And it's very dense. It's one of the things that we've actually gotten

from our feedback. But the kids actually love it. And they've done a really good job with it. And

we actually have taught over 500 hours so far with the students. And the one thing that I was really

impressed with was really the creativity that came out of these kids. Because when you build a

curriculum like this, we're trying to teach something like video game development through an entire

course that has to be somewhat rigid. You have to basically have it so that the teacher can teach

in a way that is predictable. But we wanted the kids to actually have some creative influence

and create the kind of games they wanted. So there is a little bit of room to play. But these kids

really impressed me with the level of creativity, whether they come out with a game. Some of these

I had no idea was even possible. And that was fantastic to see. And just their engagement

was incredible. And they're excited with it. And so that's what we've done so far.

Great. Thank you so much. Do any committee members have questions for any of our presenters?

Oh, I'm sorry. We have one public comment. Yes, thank you chair. I do have one member of the public

who signed up to speak on this item. Mr. Lambert Davis.

I haven't been here for about three months because what I experienced during this time,

we had to take it to another level. During this participatory budgeting process in District 2,

which I'm a native, my family has been here since 1946, probably before some of you were born on

that roster, including myself. And I had been hearing a lot of complaints. And so I decided to go to

several District 2 meetings. Why? Because I went to meetings with Mayor Steinberg. And I was

impressed with what measure you were saying. And I kept asking, can it help our to the band-back

cheesecake business? He said, yes. So I decided I'm going to go to as many meetings as I can.

For two reasons. One, I want to see what really goes on in different parts of District 2.

District 2 has over 22 communities. It's considered one of the most gerrymandered

districts in California. And I knew that growing up. And so as I went around, I noticed that the

same people were asking me for my paperwork. And then when it was time, they could not find my

paperwork. I applied to be an ambassador. I applied to be a delegate. I was denied. And I was

never told why. The lesson I learned is if you get active like me, you're going to see some

patterns. And when you're careless and arrogant. And I remember Ash Raghani saying last year,

we apologize for what happened. So we'll do better next time. And these next two numbers are

going to tell me what I need to know. Thank you for your comments. Chair, I have no other speakers

on the side. Thank you. And I see that we do have committee members who have questions or comments.

So I will start with the first one in line. Member Goris. Thank you, Chair. I just

equate comments for coach Turner and campus life connection. Thank you. Great program. I hope

we get to see a grow in the future and more partnerships. So thank you for that. Also for hope

neighborhood learning center, Josh and Brittany. Thank you for your work. Very important.

I have a specific question, but I'm going to wait because I think I want to just kind of let my

committee members kind of question, ask their questions. So mine's a little more complicated.

So I'll wait for a little bit and also last four of them. Nathan, thank you for your work as well.

Thank you, member Goris. Member Wolfe. Yeah, I just want to say thanks to again to everybody for

coming out here. Like all of the work you guys are engaged in is really important. It's funny

because all three of your projects are very personally close to me. Like from being about

used to play basketball, AAU. I rolled in here on a scooter today toward my Achilles playing basketball

two weeks ago. So maybe it's time for it to slow down a little bit and not play as much.

But yeah, and then just like closing the literacy gap, I work briefly at the department

education, so much of the work they do there focuses on that. And yeah, I'm an avid gamer sometimes too.

So I appreciate the work getting the next generation of creatives into that space. So

yeah, on some level, I mean, I don't know if it's possible for like if committee members at some

point could come and visit and just kind of oversee look at the programs. I think all the truly

interesting works. So I'd kind of be interested if that was an available possibility. But yeah,

I'd like to say thank you very much for being here today and doing this work.

Thank you, member Wolfe. Vice Chair Sama.

Well, I just have to tell you that I am so impressed with all of the work that you're all doing.

And not only the work you're doing, but the creativity and how you're doing it with limited

resources. And that's what's most impressive and most exciting. So I so with the basketball,

how I know it's an ongoing program, but how many students were part of this basketball

program with the money that we provided you? How did you? Yes, that's a question for you.

Do you need to come up? Yes. Yes. I think our grant called for 50 students. So what the funding

in our paradigm, I think it was 25,000 for us, it allows us to increase by more than 10%

and number of kids that participate. Okay. Thank you. I was interested in that. Okay. And then, so

when we were looking at the proposal, this is for you, hope, literacy question. We were looking

at the proposal. And you were asking to your proposal was monies to buy a new van.

So what happened prior to getting the new van? And this was mainly for transporting

unhoused youth to school in different programs. And so before the van, how did you manage that?

Yeah. So we actually ended up canceling our summer camps because we didn't have the transportation.

Oh, so you offered no? We didn't have anything. We also have a learning center where we were bringing

students after school and we had to cancel that too. So we're now just in schools because we

didn't have transportation because you have the van. Yeah, it's nice. Now we have the van. So.

So and again, just a little bit, it's not a lot of money, but that you're able to buy a new van,

made a big difference. So I'm really pleased that that's what we were able to do with that money.

So the six treat, you said you served six three students and they were all unhoused.

And how many are we work with a number of kids? We work at Oak Ridge Elementary School

over in the park and a number of those kids just start end up being on house. A lot of them

have been living in motels for many, many years. Yeah. It's been neat to see over the years. I think

our legacy director just told us four more families are housed now just since the end of last

school year. So those are the families she's going to visit. And then we also have long-term

relationships with some of the families that have a lot of kids. Some of the kids we've had that

are in high school. We're still tutoring their little brothers and sisters. So just long-term

relationships there. So that's why we have such a strong partnership with growing past today

because they offer a lot of like hygiene kits, clothing, things like that, food, resources.

What was the element of the school that you work with? Oak Ridge Elementary. Oh great.

It's on Martin Luther King Jr. Yeah. That's great. And then the reading app, that's great way to

teach and engage kids and reading. Was that developed by your program? No. So not by the students in

our program. Is that the question? Sorry. No, yeah. Who developed that? So I developed the initial

code base on the site. Oh, I did. Wow. And then I have a friend that works for Intel, who's also

a board member. And he helped kind of smooth out a lot of the initial groundwork I laid. And then

Karen, who Brittany mentioned earlier, used to work for HP, but has since now, I think I forget

what program she's part of, but she's an educator. She I think works in classical conversations if

I remember right. And so she's done a lot of work around literacy, a phenomenal awareness,

and things like that. And so she's kind of our unicorn. So she's bringing it all together.

So are you going to try to share that eventually? It's free right now. So anyone can use it today.

There will be a free version that launches hopefully at the end of this year. And then the plan is to

also have a paid version where that kind of houses people sort of profiles and progress and things

like that. The paid for the non-paid version, you can still do some of that, but it won't be as robust

as the paid version. But we really want to make it free for everyone. It's just there's limitations

to that. Just what we can do because the services we use behind the scenes cost money. And so we have

we had to figure out how can we offer it for free. And so some of it isn't as nice like you might

hear some robotic voices in the app, but I think for the most part it gets the point across.

Yeah, our other letters, our third literacy director is like the voice of our app,

their voices, all the voices. So we've been doing a lot of manual recording.

So it might be if we get if the city council not this year, but maybe next year, we can do

participatory budgeting. That might be another way because you can have a profound effect

throughout Sacramento being able to offer that program for free. So that's exciting. I'm going to

hopefully I don't know if I'll still be on measure you as a commissioner, but I'm definitely

going to still be involved and I'll keep that in mind and push for something like that because I

think it should be disseminated and it should be made available for free because it's exciting.

And you're right. Kids because we need to we need to meet them where they're at and and technology

and games and everything is where they're at and if that can be used to help them read that that's

amazing. So the other words another question I was going to ask about that, but oh I really

appreciate your comment and that's something maybe as measure L is developing, they already

developed and maybe it's too late. I don't know, but that's a very valid point about insurance.

Very valid and we and we as a city need to be flexible and realize that nonprofits

this everyone's asking for insurance and you're right and now it's no longer a million dollars.

Now it's two five million and that is a hindrance to nonprofits wanting to do good work or

get wanting to do grants get grants because the city now requires everyone's requiring proof

of insurance. So I think that's a very valid and we need to keep that in mind as as we look at

how we fund nonprofits. Teaching tech. So that question, I just wanted to question I have for you.

And that that was one of the proposals I think interest me the most because I agree with you that

so many of our young people spend and even have even adults spend a lot of hours playing games

and there's and you're right I think the games playing games is something that our youth like to do

but being able to teach them you like games you have an idea. I do I'm a game developer myself yeah.

Let's help you create your own game and then you're right it links very nicely with STEM

and it teaches them all of that so I was happy to hear you present and the success of your program.

I'm just curious of the 56 students how many completed the 10-week course?

Most of them actually completed I think our graduation rate is something like 70% or something.

I don't have the numbers here in front of me but and do they have to present what program they came up with?

They do and actually that's kind of part of what the progressive game gem was is making the game as one thing

but being able to talk about your game, present it, promote it is actually kind of a big part of

if you're going to become an entrepreneur or if you're going to try to sell it or whatever

but we also learn that the adults when we were doing this with the progressive game gem

there's a lot of social skills that they learned. Some of these are people that have some anxieties

and stuff like that and being able to get out there and talk about something they love

was really good for them and we wanted to have that experience for the students too.

So we actually we have an annual showcase where it's specifically the video game developers

in Sacramento show off their works and I think about three years ago we started working with the

local schools, the area schools to invite their students at that showcase to show and we had

the progressive game gem ed students, the PGA ed students show it that and Michael is actually

one of them he actually got to play the games and we invited actually the City Council and I don't

know how many of you actually were able to come but the kids were excited the parents were excited

and just being able to see them light up when they actually kind of like we're talking to people

who are interested in the game was just was worth it. Well I didn't even know about it so maybe

our council member I represent district three hopefully she attended but when you have

is there a way that when you do this again the annual event that you send you send the announcement

to to Ash and we can know about it I would love to go and attend that. Absolutely in fact actually

I didn't actually send it to Ash I sent it through Michael and the council members that we're

working with but I will make sure this and to Ash and make sure it gets distributed. Okay and

then my last point to all of you all of this thank you very much all of this um

it's pilot it's a pilot projects you you have now shown that with not a lot of money

you can serve at risk youth and at risk communities that make a difference so measure L

monies it's not a lot but that is going to hopefully the what is RFA RFP the request for proposals will

will be hopefully coming out in January and I really encourage all of you to apply and use

the data and the results of your programs to show effectiveness so I wish we were there was a

way that measure you could could continue to support you in this but but part of the thinking was

this participatory was to show effectiveness and pilot it and now you've shown it and now this

is now your opportunity to take it to the next level and you can do that through measure L so thank you

thank you vice-chair Sala member Maasius

hi well thank you everyone for all the work you do for young people in the city and thanks for

being here today I said a couple questions um first with the for the Hope um learning center I

was curious about the van you mentioned it sounded like it took a while to get the contract I was

and um from the presentations we've had so far from from other grant recipients um I mean your

stands out is like getting a piece of I don't know infrastructure that I'll live just one gran

cycle or anything I was curious just what was it more challenging to kind of go through that and

get the van and what what yeah so yeah what was the main challenges we we didn't have the the cash

in order to do the initial purchase of the van and then submit a reimbursement and so

excuse me so we were going back and forth on the terms in order to get that initial cash so we

could make the purchase of the van um so it just took a while it's worked through the details of that

with folks and if I remember right there you know uh people changed roles so it kind of shifted

who was responsible so just I think between that and just finalizing those terms it just

took some time to get there how long did I wind up taking a year a year yeah wow okay well thanks

for sticking with it and I'm glad it can be used oh we're we're thankful

so but yeah appreciate it thank you and then um I just was curious right for for teaching tech

can you kind of write just was the was the grant um did it lead to the actual curriculum

development or did you already have the curriculum and it was the grant was for a class of students

so we were we already had a pilot program at the time and so we actually had the the 10 weeks and we

had a lot of the curriculum um but we were able to use some of the money to really kind of you know

beef that out and and and develop it further when we did it we had I think a pilot course of maybe

you want to say like 10 students and we called it like level up and that was actually done at

square root academies of building and um we were just able to do so much more with it with the

grant money and so like you know this this whole thing right here uh looks nothing like the initial

curriculum that we had I think the initial curriculum is something like a 10 page you know almost like a

you know bullet point kind of curriculum so that's great that it'll be able to live on past the

grant too yes and then the the games that we're developed are there uh is there somewhere we can

we can see them or experience them I knew you were gonna ask that so we we do have them still

obviously and what we're trying to do is actually do uh publish them for the web so that we can create

kind of a web site for all the students projects that anyone can play it you know so they can

show it off to their teachers and their parents and community members and stuff and everyone here

can actually you know check them out as well um how old were the people that they were in the class

uh we targeted uh this believe those 13 to 18 oh my gosh it's amazing okay and some of the students

are actually I think I'm sorry I think it was 12 to 18 and we did actually have some of the younger

students I'm still very impressed I mean like age really didn't make any difference you know

when it when it came to actually then learning how to you know work in games just with if they were

motivated they really uh they they kind of dug into the curriculum and did some wonderful things

it's amazing well thank you again for being here thank you um member George off

yeah um first off thank you for everything you guys do thanks for coming out and spending

some of your time to like present us because this is obviously very useful information for how we

can like improve the cycle as we do this again um we actually had some uh grantees come last

meeting as well and give their presentations which is also super useful I'm gonna kind of repeat

what I one of the things I said last time which is you know we fought for getting more uh

prehistory budgeting funding but we weren't able to get it because we're in sort of a pretty

intense structural deficit um that will continue to probably be the case unless we are very strong

advocating together to sort of say hey look you know this is such a high impact high ROI thing where

we spend very little money we get very high return um and there's people out there who are

willing to put in the time put in the effort put in their volunteer work really um to make these

things happen and so surely this is worth it right um and so what I ask you is basically like

continue to advocate if you can when when there's when it comes to the city council like and

prehistory budgeting is on the agenda like you guys if you guys can spend two minutes to like

present your case and be like this is the impact we made it'll help us a lot in trying to like

help you help city right um and so yeah first off again just thank you and uh you know

sorry to ask for another favor because you're already doing so much but you know we really appreciate

it and uh we want to see more of it um also I just want to quickly like when I tried to scan for

the app I couldn't because of the timer over the QR code I don't know if staff could quickly like

pull up that slide again or something or if you have uh if you go to read dot hope man let's just

there it is perfect

thank you okay it's all right thank you um remember gorse I know you have some questions

comments but we have one presenter who had to come in a little late so I'm wondering whether we

should go ahead with that and okay then I'd like to invite uh Nicholas Hastings from common good

collective to talk about the black water accelerator thanks for being here

I remember Jack so I'm just talking all the way

so bash all right so questions black water accelerator so for one I want to thank you all for

the funding and allowing us this opportunity honestly the whole project with black water has been

something that's been ideated upon for some years with really the idea of really bringing

together the community through financial upward trajectory uh other kind of community building

activities and things like that and I would say that for the most part mission accomplished so I

think we had about three parts to this project one would be the accelerator that we've now named

homegrown um the educational courses at lab seven co-working um which are now the paper talks panel

discussions and then we have the pitch black pitch competitions so let's talk about it because I'm

actually kind of excited about these so pitch black we've done two of them so far so pitch black

really is a two-minute pitch competition giving ten early stage entrepreneurs the the opportunity

to pitch their ideas um receive feedback and then receive funding since doing that like I said we've

done two of these and we've been able to distribute twenty thousand dollars to uh early stage nonprofits

within the Sacramento region specifically from South Sacramento which is my old stomping grounds as

well so super proud about that um came to a conclusion with that project but we were lucky enough to

get funding so we can actually continue that project through twenty-six um that's in part with the

city of Sacramento uh additionally that would also be with funding from golden one Bosch semiconductors

and another funder that's named is escaping me right now but we can just not talk about that um

right now we're in the thick of the homegrown accelerator it's it was supposed to originally be I

want to say about twenty entrepreneurs um just due to attrition in the name of the game and how

this nonprofit thing works we ended up having sixteen we are in our sixth week of that this Friday um

it's not really an open to the public kind of thing but we do put the youtube videos out there so you

can see what they learned whether it's about branding um strategic planning uh law the legal documents

in order to kind of like actually legitimize your business um we're in the thick of that and we're

almost coming to the near nearing the completion of this contract um while we're near the completion

of this contract we're not near the completion of common good and all the work that we're doing for

the community once again we've relocated from our south sack location which was uh we can't really

call it south sack it was twenty twenty first and Broadway so south south sack esque you know on the

um we relocated recently to del Paso Heights um there's a lot of movement and a lot of activity

on the boulevard um we felt that it would be a great place for us to kind of like be if we are to

serve community we need to make sure that our space and our facilities are among the community

and accessible so we've been running program there for the past couple of months um and look

forward to doing more of this and thank you all for the opportunity to serve appreciate you

great thank you so much and as a close resident to the del Paso Heights i appreciate that you

landed there and are going to be part of the the future of of our district thank you thanks so much

for the work you're doing and our year is your are you focused on uh what age group young adults

any entrepreneur any entrepreneur we're not really so we're not really as youth focused with

common good collective it's not that youth wouldn't be permitted to our community conversations

and discussions through paper talks which you can check out on our youtube page or as well as our

website at commongoodco.org um but we mostly serve kind of like adults um but even within our

our accelerator that we have now i think the youngest might be in their early twenties and the

oldest might be in kind of like their late fifties so we span a wide range of folks that we serve

within the community here just within emphasis on people of color great thank you thank you so much

i feel stick around and we may have some questions for you from the members of the committee thanks so

much remember Boris are you you're good yeah good okay okay well i um and less to members of the

committee have any questions any further questions or anything in particular for um the black water

accelerator if not i want to join the members of the committee in thanking you all for your

investment in in our communities your inspiring work um if you're leveraging of funds it sounds

like this might have been might have been a grant that helped you do some additional things

without which you might not have been able to move forward um uh the variety of things that you're

all doing uh create a seem to me to create a a picture of what helps what helps our community and

what where where we need investments to raise up a lot of the kids and and entrepreneurs in our

community so thanks for the inspiration thanks for the the work you're doing i hope you can

continue to do it and i would like to echo um member george afs words that as as we move forward um with

our advocacy for um participatory budgeting you are really the best voices i mean you and the

people you serve are absolutely the best voices and so we would definitely want to work with you

as opportunities to go before the the council emerged to really put a put a face and life to

the investment that the city made in this program so thank you so much and i hope we have

opportunities to connect again and advocating for this program oh and i see that vice chair

solid has a word to say um so i just i think part of where hopefully um our council members will tune in

and and listen to your presentations because i think it's important that they see how effective

um what you return for your investment is the investment we've made and the return is greater

than the investment so i still want part of us having you present here with was for us the measure

you committee to kind of hear from all of you and i know we have another group for next month

here from all of you and then and then figure out a way that we could have a workshop with city

council where um we could have you present but we it would have to be a little more

structured to the city council because there is nothing they they know intellectually

what these programs are doing but hearing from all of you and being able to have

um some testimonies from some of the students is going to be the impact will be great

and that will be an important piece of our advocacy in the next level so that's kind of our goal

so stay tuned for that thank you great great great words to conclude with um

if no less there's anything else on this item um we'll excuse our guests and once they want to

stick around and watch our next item um and move on to i discussion item four which is

an update on measure you focus groups implementation plan

yes it good so it looks like we're moving forward with having um stamp for settlement

oh wait uh remember gory's oh oh we lost i should have said something at the beginning

if you don't have a quorum

uh so so stamp for settlement we're going to proceed with stamp for settlement

doing the focus groups for us and i i invited um it's sure solace can i interrupt just so

everyone fully understands oh we have only eight members here tonight that is a quorum so if we

meet if anyone needs to leave the dias for any purposes we have to take a break yes okay that

that's okay i should i was so i was remiss in not mentioning that at the beginning of the meeting

okay thank you and we are well if you if you need a break that's that's fine sorry to interrupt

no it's okay um so i invited july ron who's the director of stamp for settlement to come up and

maybe she may may want to say a few words about the organization but basically what

stamp for settlement is going to do for fourteen thousand dollars is they will um

excuse me they're going to as we discuss in in conjunction and and it would be good if if

if i had a few additional commissioners want to be part of this as we're working through

the planning and coordination so we need to have this we all know that we need to have the

focus groups completed and the information completed to inform the 2526 budget so it's a it's a

tight timeline that we're working with and and then the commission what i envision it's not just me

but i'd like to that's why if i could have a few members that could work with stamp for settlement

july in in getting the questions and the main important thing is the questions that that um

she will or that she will be asking and um and then the facilitation will be of course

she has skills and has done that for many and i'll let her talk a little bit about that

about doing open ended and guiding for groups of um facilitations and trying to get

the answers that are documenting the responses from the community and the welcoming and

inclusive environment and what what what's good about doing it originally we said we're

going to have focus groups and we need money for this and money for that well stamp for settlement

will be able to coordinate all of the logistics and plan for the food the gift cards

the um if they need childcare because they they have expertise and staff that can do that

because they provide after school programs for young people and and um children so they they

will be able to do that the one thing that they will not

do is if there needs interpreter services so so from the 14 from the money that will be

allocated for all of this stamp for settlement to do we would have to if we needed interpreter

services that would be a separate and i think there's still some resources available that we would

have to contract um for that service for an interpreter during or an interpreter or interpreters

for those um the two sessions um the in-person sessions that will have like 10 to 12 people at

and then the virtual session will have more and that will be a little more challenging to figure

out how we will provide interpreter services for that um but that's the focus of what

stamp for settlement will be doing and at the completion of all of this they will um of course

take notes and document what's being said but then they'll report provide a report that will come

back to us as their findings as a result of the focus groups so Julie do you want to come up and

talk a little bit about your your experience or expertise and what you see the how you feel about

interaction with with this group and the community sure um good evening i'm Julie wrote and

i'm the executive director at Stanford settlement neighborhood center um i've been there since 1989

first as a social worker and the last five years i've been playing the role of executive director

which has been a roller coaster if you remember the last five years um uh we are a neighborhood

center we were founded at the Stanford mansion right down the street here at 8th and in

currently we're located in the gardenland northgate area physically but we serve residents of

districts one two and three um north of the river we have programs for children for teens for seniors

um we do a giant Christmas basket program at the holidays and most of our staff are social workers

who specialize in group work um i want to thank marbaya as well as ash and your commission in general

for um inviting us to pursue this opportunity um as a social worker who specializes in group work

one of the things i learned early on is that um social workers do not give advice we do not give

advice people think social workers give advice and take away kids but what what we're really

supposed to be doing is meeting people where they're at especially in a group setting and asking

questions for people to come to their own best answers to discover their own insights on a certain

topic um i'm very excited to have that opportunity to do this with a couple of new groups three groups

of new people that we haven't done that with before um most of my practice life is with children and

teens and i say if you've worked with teens in a group you can work with any groups so um

um i i welcome this opportunity um ash sent over some paperwork i was swamped last week with a

giant fundraiser so i promise to respond tomorrow to your email and um if you have any questions for

me i'd happy to answer them um i see member goris uh yes my question was more for um vice chair

so vice chair um when do you so as far as we are um ask for commissioners to join you i will

happily love to join you um i just don't want to violate any ad hoc kind of thing is would

this be considered ad hoc or how how would that how would that work it is

there what is the purpose of is it just to watch or i would think it was to be helping the

development of the questions that will be posed to the focus group members i think as long as it's

less than the quorum yes and so as we can't really well we can start thinking about questions

but the contract needs to be finalized before we engage right with uh stamp for settlement

there is a certain component to um finalizing the contract that does involve fleshing out the

details so um you know contract should be as specific as possible because really the

purpose is to ensure that the expectations from the city as well as the the contractor are understood

evenly and in this case we're really deferring to you and the measure you committee so um you know

uh so we could so as as you're fleshing out the contract whoever wants to help me we could start

having discussions or working on this simultaneous i believe as long as it's less than

six members who are joining you so a total of seven up to seven yeah

so yes beginning this Thursday uh when the ordinance takes effect it takes effect 30 days after

passage or adoption okay so if i if you can just tell so you want to be involved

email me Monday okay so just just you so far and oh great oh yeah i put our request to speak but yes

i will gladly join you oh perfect that that that would be perfect um i see okay awesome and we are

we are under seven i see member i thought i saw member mausius but

okay i i didn't want i just want to make a comment i would when um my stress solos suggested

stand for settlement i was just so excited to realize that that was a a service that

um that the group can provide it's been a really important and meaningful contributor to to the

districts that you serve and as as represented for district two and as a as a contributor to your work

i'm really excited to to see this development in your in your mission and thank thank you so much for

for for for for being there and being open to it is a great great idea never chorus so my quick

question is for stand for settlement neighborhood um do you folks get like an administration fee for

helping with the project like how does that how does that work i think we're contracting with the

city to provide three focus groups the preparation the planning the implementation and the evaluation

and bring it back to you okay thank you oh and we have one uh public speaker on this item thank

you chair yes thank you Julie thank yes i have one public speaker for this item mr. leberd davis

that's that's impressive because stand for settlement uh some of my elders love that place

when i was coming of age it's just it's a wonderful outfit um and when you listen to what she said

she said she doesn't just cover district three cover district two and one that's what makes them

special um as you saw she recognized me when i walked in because over the years they've bought

cheesecakes from my family it's a serious out here there's no this is not ego or vanity we have

an enterprise that has gone viral in southern california and i'm going to play you something later

on public comments that will touch most of your hearts because that's inspirational to see

uh this group back here a lot of people in del passel heights know about this group i don't

i've never heard anything negative about them they've been called in no scandals that i know of

and i endorsed that one hundred percent now on this focus group it's peculiar to me because

i went in front of city hall and said look i have an idea of how you can fund a participatory

budgeting don't give people working remotely a raise a million dollars can be saved to go to the

participatory budgeting people working from home they don't lose money if they don't get a raise

and then you can take the rest of that and put it towards transit for free transit for young people

thank you thank you for your comments chair i have no more speakers we have any more commission

committee comments on this item or remember sol you have enough to keep moving

perfect thank you and that case we will move to discussion item five which is approval of the

measure you community advisory committee 2324 annual report and 25 work plan which is included

in your agenda packet and um number ho judge who did the lead on that to believe on this is not

here tonight um in my reading of it i'm looked good to go to me but i really need to make sure

that we have the opportunity for one final discussion we need to get this submitted

the net so and this is the staff recommendation in your agenda is different than what i'm about to

recommend um setting aside the fact that member ho judge actually couldn't make it here tonight but

i would actually support uh bringing this report for final approval to your November meeting and

the main reason for that is all of the changes that are happening effective Thursday renaming the

committee to a commission um some of the the citations of the actual ordinances that establish the

commission that's changing um and then even tomorrow um there's a presentation around the

performance measures to budget audit that's something that could be included in in the reports

along story short it it seems like there's a lot of fine tuning that would benefit the report simply

by bringing it back to the committee next month um the only concern about that is if we don't

have a quorum um if we don't have a quorum that would really delay um approval of the report until

January which would miss the date when we want to bring it to the public the council's personnel

and public employees committee to actually receive the report so does anybody plan uh to not

attend the November 18 meeting um that would be good to know now because we might be able to modify

the the motion in such a way that maybe you delegate authority to member ho judge to just finalize

it and submit it on the committee's behalf so is anyone not planning not to attend it's possible

I'll be post operation and bed ridden okay good question I have an idea that might um

split the baby in in a positive way one if we if we're comfortable approving what is in front

of us now with the understanding that the technical changes committee to commission references

appropriate um citations and and less technical but uh any any report out from budget audit

the um that staff and chair and um member ho judge who work through and submit without having

to bring it back in November and that's not risking not risking missing that meeting is that

workable that seems reasonable yeah so if you want to make that motion you just need a second

okay so moved well we we can move in second and then discuss oh what I would do what I

would suggest is that if if you're comfortable with what is before us the only things that would

change would be um technical things that change the reference uh to our name from committee to

commission and change the citations presumably from the 2018 resolution to the um 2024

ordinance um and get those citations correct and then though I sort of don't anticipate it because

the stuff on performance measures is pretty good I mean it's very good in here and we're um

member George up and I are presenting to budget audit tomorrow on those I'm not even sure

or short of short of them um adopting the recommendations it says we don't care um I'm not sure

having read that section of this that this would necessarily need to be modified not that section

just literally the I think highlights and accomplishments uh huh so because I think right now it's

missing just because the presentation hasn't taken place yet so I thought it had a reference to

that presentation oh so uh back to the future but um but if it's just a reference to the

presentation then that's that's really technical too so if people are comfortable just making

technical and improving the the content with the technical additions and delegating authority to

a member hojedge to finalize and submit the report to P&P on the committee's behalf yes

so moved seconded by the chair seconded by um member George off

I'll call the roll thank you chair unless we have public comment on this uh we do actually have

public comment before I take the roll on that um one member uh signed up for public comment mr

Lambert Davis yes sir yes this is number five mr. Davis

yes

I'm sure I did study the the report and um I think that they should have done that

not give people who are working remotely uh arrays think about that all of the things you have

to do to come to work park eat some people work and remotely might have forgotten what it takes

to do that so I feel like if you um don't do that you don't have to leave your home unless you go

somewhere but you don't have to come to work so I believe that was a missed opportunity

while they're talking about structural deficits you should think outside the box

I came up with that the city should send me a check I came up with that idea don't give people

working remotely arrays it doesn't hurt their income they're saving money when I leave to go to work

and I work for to the bay and back cheesecakes when I leave to go to work I mean I get back to

night but I've hit smart and final different places and I don't have that option I mean this family

members that I know for a factor working remotely and when you go to visit them they look just like

the ones that work remotely here they're in their house coats and they're slippers and they may even go

take their children to school like that I think people are taking advantage of COVID by doing that

just do the right thing cut some of these salaries that are being funded and give the money

to people like the free transit that's a great program and your participatory budgeting

would be funded and you don't have to go to city council to get the money thank you for your

comments chair I have no other speakers okay that means that we have a motion and a second on

the approval of the measure you community advisory committee 2324 and it'll report and 2025 work plan

with delegating to member ho judge and presumably staff to make the technical amendments with respect

to references citations and the name of our committee soon to be commissioned because the

reference to performance measure presentation on 20 seconds already in here so the clerk

can call the roll all right thank you chair members if you could please unmute your microphones

member McGee yes vice chair Salah yes member Maasius yes member Wolfe yes

yes member Johnston is absent member Rosales is absent member Goris yes member Hojedge is absent

member Georgoff yes member Paschal yes and chair Dickinson yes thank you the motion passes thank you

that means that we can move to measure your community advisory committee members report on

investment committee as the investment committee still exist oh I didn't see your

but we have this we have a standing item we have a standing item on the report on the investment

committee but I haven't seen an announcement or invitations to meetings of the investment

committee and sometimes so maybe an update yes absolutely so Denise Malvelli I'm the deputy

director of the Office of Innovation and Economic Development and the City Manager's office and as

it relates to the investment committee we have been on a hiatus for some time the group was very

instrumental in helping staff being a sounding board as we crafted cares and arc-ofunded programs

and we have been in the thick of implementing those programs and so it is our goal since this

year is winding down the first part of next year to get the group back together obviously need

to check in and make sure members are still interested in participating with us but to give you an

update on what we've done with all those great programs we received feedback on and kind of where

we're planning to go in the next year so you are correct we have not met in quite some time but

do plan to reconvene the the group of first part next year thank you thank you appreciate that

update City Manager's Office report to the Measure You Community Advisory Committee we do not have

any updates for you at this time okay committee member comments ideas and questions oh I've got

all right member George off so since I've joined I have not heard of what program you were

just speaking of can we get like a quick background on like what that even is is that okay

can can we ask Denise to come back up I can or ash I can just send a link to the webpage with

that be appropriate it's sure but if she's here I could I could like a minute or two it's fine she's

willing sure sure yeah yeah we Denise we do have a number of members who

are new since the investment committee was really active so a little bit of background on it and

then cares and just absolutely so the trying to think of the full name it's a long one the

inclusive economic and community development investment committee was formed I believe in late

2019 we had a few in-person meetings probably for about six months before the pandemic hit this

group was formed to advise city staff primarily the City Manager's Office on Economic Development

and Community Development projects and programs you'll probably recall from the early days there

was a portal to accept applications from the community for projects and we had started vetting

with the committee I believe we even met the first week of March of 2020 and then the world changed

but we continue to use this group remotely during the coming months to provide feedback on the

cares and our befunded programs and so those are the two federal programs that the City received

funding for and our council made the decision to allocate a significant portion of that funding for

economic development in particular small business programs and so it was wonderful that we had

this group in place to act as a sounding board but it went far beyond that there's I know recently

you had a presentation from Lynette Hall the community engagement manager and she shared

part of their work is affiliated with the end at the neighborhood development action team which is

community engagement economic development and community development and we were able to

present some of the work and get feedback from the investment committee on that program

as well as our convention and cultural services group related to creative economy so again it's

a group of about 20 to 25 people representing different sectors that just provided feedback to

staff to really enhance our projects and programs and it was it's always great to get perspectives from

you know from the community so again we do plan on re-engaging the group and we always had

I believe it's two members of the measure you committee just so that there is that crossover and

that's why you see that item on the agenda. So most of this committee is made up of not staff

particularly it's just people from the city. Yes correct. And the proposals that go to them

are like of what you said you mentioned like economics sort of opportunity economic development small

business programs like could you give us some examples of like what are the things that this committee

is discussing or like what they're talking about or just a quick example or to you.

Yes so like as we were crafting some small business programs that were funded by CARES we brought

that to this committee to get feedback. The neighborhood development action team as I just mentioned they

they're doing work in North Sacramento I believe we brought a early version of a plan that they

were working on out there just to get some feedback early on we did work with this group we have a

set of guidelines kind of guide the development of some of our programs the inclusive economic

development and investment guidelines I believe and we work closely with this group to vet those

before bringing them to council. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thanks for letting us put you on the spot. Oh thank you. Thank you.

So we're on committee member comments ideas and questions. Member Macias.

Thanks. Ash I was wondering had you been doing doing more additions or

updates to the measure you page? Not that I'm not to see it or don't want.

Right. I guess. Was there a risk? Did you see something? I'm just the reason why because I work on

a quite a few different city web pages so much. No it was I didn't maybe I just hadn't noticed

before that there it was nice that there's more updates on some of the spending on on measure you

and there's a link to like a nice line chart or a bar chart of spending but I was wondering

just for future updates I wonder like once the like manual report is published if things

like that can be linked to I know on the web page it says now like go to the clerks office but

in the clerks page it only has the 21-22 annual it doesn't have like more recent annual reports

whenever we get to do things like that there or the letters we've sent if there's just plus

weight is it still shows some of the things we're doing. 21-22 annual report is your most recent annual

report and so that that is why we have done this shift to calendar year instead of fiscal year

so definitely once the report that was just discussed goes to PNPE in January we will get that

updated and so that that will be the most recent annual report. What's happening on the measure

you spending data is there is a little bit of a lag where there we get quarterly updates however

we only get them for the first three quarters and so there isn't a queue for update because that

ends up in a future audit that didn't sound right but it's just what's happening at that time in

queue for is all the focuses on the following year's budget and so we are now we have just closed

the first quarter of this year and so the queue one data the first quarter data for the current

fiscal year will become available in December so around that time December January we'll be able

to update all of this this data. I mean you have the 2425 on there now it's just nice.

Yeah oh I'm sorry and so what I'm specifically referring to is the dashboard that we had

presented previously so the goal is to update that as a tool for more interactive exploration

of measure you spending. Would you are trying to get that that went up? Yes. Yep. Cool.

When I say your story, I think you. Thanks. Vice-Chorsella. I have two items. The first one is going to be

I really encourage all of you if you have not taken or took a look at it is the survey that's out

to the community on the budget and I tried it and it's not intuitive. It's not intuitive.

And some of the questions are but they should have and I think I made comments on that that it

would have been great if before they rolled it out they gave an opportunity for us to weigh in

and give comments on the questions that we're asking because it is pertinent to to the kind of

work that we do. So if you haven't if you haven't taken the survey please take it and if you have

comments please forward those comments because they're welcome to receiving feedback.

The second comment I want to make is so visit Sacramento a couple years ago our community north

gate Garnaland went after shock and what's it? Colton's guy. Is that it? Yeah. Golden's guy I think.

Came and we we got a hold of what each visitor receives when coming to these events none of our

restaurants were listed and we're right there like walking distance from Discovery Park.

So we made a comment and Hispanic Chamber quickly responded and came up with a quick little

version of these are restaurants on Northgate that you can come and visit and it got kind of circulated

and posted. So it's been out there that we need to have something more effective to market when

visitors come to Sacramento on the diverse and great businesses we have on Northgate. So visit

Sacramento much to their credit came and said well we're going to create a little video they created

one for Stockton Boulevard and actually that should be also viewed but they create they came

and they created a great video a professional video of our small some of our unique and great

restaurants that we have on Northgate and there's another business that's been around for 20

years it's Western where on Northgate and and it's beautifully done and professionally done

and our small businesses never in their wildest dream would ever be able to because they don't have

that they're kind of money to spend on something like that would even do it and they are so grateful

and so appreciative it's so it's just great and and now it's gonna they're gonna use that and the

city is gonna use it for visitors coming you want to go to experience great food and something

different here's a place to come and so we're very grateful to visit Sacramento for creating that

and I've asked Ash if if it's possible to send the link both the Stockton because Stockton is

really good I think Northgate is better but it's well done as well and that and so you can all

view a creative way and technology that can promote these small hardworking businesses that probably

would they're not you know the midtown and downtown gets a lot of play but our our communities

that are not part of that don't get to play and they often get so this is this is innovative and

and inclusive and I think I'm really grateful to visit Sacramento for doing this for our community

really really timely comments because those those weekends of concerts just ended this weekend and

and actually the city and this Sacramento did an amazing job of keeping those of us who

frequent that area able to do our business as usual while still hosting these 10s of

thousands of visitors so it's yeah really timely and great to hear about the video but they did

a good job just broadly I think not impacting businesses and residents negatively.

Member George Off. Yeah I just want to I spent brought up a little bit earlier but again we are

going to be presenting tomorrow at 11 a.m. to the budget and audit about metrics. I'd love to have

fellow members you know be present if they can support. Yeah that's it. Oh actually another thing is

I'm not sure what the final wording was in the like the thing that's getting passed on the 24th

so I guess the question for council is like is it also that the

quorum is fixed at 8 as well so that means ad hocs eventually can be 7 or less.

You see the same language that's in the rest which is majority of the committee which is 14

as we just did the math earlier so still 8. Okay so it hasn't changed like that fixed number yet

okay got it yeah. No it hasn't though we might want to take another run at it given you know

given our experience tonight where we still have a number of vacant seats and so three absences which

might not be a you know would be totally manageable if I we had full fully filled seats becomes a real

problem when we don't but they they they they heard it I mean we didn't let go where I didn't let go

if it went to the council on the quorum issue and they they've agreed to stick with what they've got

so

and I have a question oh never McGee

thank you

for them and kind of looking at those numbers I just want to kind of reiterate as I was looking

at the measure you website and keeping abreast that we do have some vacancies that are going to be

coming up for a measure you beginning at the beginning of the year some term you got at the end

of the year so I don't know if that's an appropriate discussion but just you know everyone being

mindful of that and and really for me holding our city council staff to their elected seats in

their districts and making sure that they are also mindful because we already have vacancies and

then there's a potential for more vacancies so I think I encourage everyone to get with their

city staff and you know and have those conversations like how do you plan on filling

either your upcoming vacancy or your current vacancy and just really yeah I my term expires

at the end of the year and I got a correspondence from the clerk's office reminding me of that

and what I've told them because my term is expiring and because we also have we will have a new council

member come December I've told them that I would be willing to serve through March so that would

give them a new council member an opportunity to sort of recruit and review and that that part

yes before they make their own appointment so that the district to seat doesn't go

unfilled while that process unfolds so and for others of you who might have the same being the

same position that might be something you want to suggest to your appointing authority

because I can't believe I'm the only one with an expiring appointment

but yeah good good point because we did we did a two or three years ago have a

a time when we had didn't have enough members for a quorum and weren't there wasn't clear

communication on who and how many were willing to continue to serve so we had to cancel at least one

meeting as I follow up statement now that my brain is turning I'm directing this to ash you know

what is the worst case scenario as we do have some vacancies currently and then we have some that

will be coming up to term what could that look like is there anything that we can do to support

the continuance of measure you having you know enough sitting acting commissioners to continue

to be effective on behalf of our communities I think you kind of nailed it earlier when you

emphasized lifting this issue up for the incoming council members or and actually all the council

members who have open vacancies those are the vacancies that are the fastest to fill because they

don't have to go through the PNPE interview process and even before that you have to review for

eligibility and all this sort of stuff that all the other boards and commissions were sort of

competing with them as well so I think we that this committee should be able to have a quorum as

long as the incoming council members either a indicate who they want to fill the vacancy or be that

they're willing to have the previous or the current committee member holdover so I beyond that

I don't have much other advice but for those of you who are in even number districts

well I don't know if I don't know if it was even number but you should look at when your term

ends and if it's if it ends at the end of this year you should communicate with either if you've

got an ongoing council member who's commute with communicate with them what you want to do and if

you have a new council member communicate with them what you are willing to do if you want to

continue until they have a chance to reappoint you or appoint someone else just you know figure out

what you want to tell them council so least I believe the four council member appointed seats

and mayor appointed seat the term has also changed now and it expires when the member of the council

member expires under the new 2.40 chapter yes it does it does state that which is typically how

the council member appointed seats are there was just a few outliers so we wanted to I don't

think any in this okay in this commission specifically but just to have it in the code so it's

clear for all boards and commissions so our commit our our terms and on December 31st

council members terms and on whatever it is so that's what has been changed now council

the commissioner's or committee member and the member so if the mayor is say the mayor's

December 10th whoever was appointed by the mayor's your term has now ended as well

right on the same day as the mayor so the next mayor would need to reappoint that seat

having said you can continue to use like fill that seat until it's replaced or something along those

lines is that correct at the discretion of the appointing authority which in this case would be the

mayor yeah yeah and it's like default is yes there like no top what is that the default is you no

longer our member unless and until the appointing authority indicates that they have a desire to

have you hold over or reappoint you got it they could do either one you have to seek approval

of holdover you can't just it's not the default got it

so I have a I have a question then members all yeah I have a question um so

so then the person that is terming out because their elected official is terming out or it's yeah

not terming out but they're they've been replaced should they then advocate with the new

elected official and say now you know in the meantime or should that come from the chair

saying asking for them to consider continuance until there's one appointed otherwise that's

going to hinder our work we won't I would be happy to do a sort of generic letter or good

generic generic statement that that if if this is the sense of the full full committee that that

when committee members are facing a expired term in the absence of somebody of a or somebody

appointed to immediately fill that term that the person whose term has expired be allowed to

continue until replaced but I think that it's I think that I mean I think that should be like the

sense of the committee if that is the sense of the committee and then each member who is faced

with like I am would do their own advocacy if that makes sense to people

because I do you know I do I do it's not just to keep the work of the committee going but also to

keep each community of interest represented on the committee because it takes three months to

appoint someone then you've got a community that doesn't isn't represented and that's that I mean

that that's almost in my mind yeah so I I agree I think that's so important and now we're getting

ready for this January we have a lot of important work right right without being able to

meet because we don't have forum so but does this this decision or we need to put it on

November's agenda because it's not an agenda or how does that because I would like to be able to

well the advocating part is it doesn't need to be on the agenda you guys could just advocate that

to the council member or income and council member but if we want that the the advocate you know

the the if we want a person who's in an expiring term yet that advocacy clearly can be done on

their own but if we want to give them some some backup which is that our our view is especially

especially given the the workload our workload is front loaded into the first half of the year

our budget workload anyways front loaded that we can't as a committee we really need to have our

our expiring term members able to continue on until they're replaced in order to do the work

um which which is that's bigger that's a different that's a statement of the whole committee um

it does affect the committees how the committee does business so I think that could be part of an

agenda item if if that's acceptable with staff too or it doesn't have to be because it's also

treads into political well of the committee so the committee could I think do that too

without it being an agenda item I think it could go either way my intake on it is it sounds like

you already have consensus though so um if you need to if you want to formally give this authority

to the chair to convey this on behalf of the committee maybe we should just do it as an agenda item

but otherwise it and what I'm happy to do that maybe we should just do that is that what you all

want it because otherwise it it sounds like the chair could at the same time just

convey this on behalf of the committee without there being an official vote on it

I mean I guess does it does it sound like there's consensus on this though I know

like there's consensus unless there's somebody who's finally opposed to the idea

so

so then it will not be an agenda item because there's consensus

just don't hang me out to dry if I'm mistaking consensus okay um that's as clear as it's going to get

tonight I think any other committee comments ideas and questions

okay um are there any public comments on matters not on the agenda thank you chair I have one

members of the public signed up to speak mr. Lambert Davis

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and it took off and here it is I hope that I got it right

thanks

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and some of her friends and they said,

hey, we got an idea.

And I said, well, what is it?

They know I'm not really good with social media

and all that, but they are.

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it's gone viral.

I understand viral now because I had to plan a lot of seeds

behind them this summer.

And I want this to go to the chair

and you can make copies of this.

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and this lady over here.

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So this is, I guess I give it to you.

And give it to the chair and they can all.

Thank you for your comments.

Chair, I have no other speakers.

Thank you.

And I, oh, I thought I had a speaker and a speaker too,

but I don't.

So with that, I believe we are adjourned for the evening

before our 730 deadline and without having to expand

to 830.

So thanks everyone for their concise comments.