Good evening. Welcome to the February 3rd, 2025 Sacramento Youth Commission Business Meeting.

The meeting is now called to order. Will the clerk please call roll to establish a quorum.

Thank you chair. Members, if you could please unmute your microphones.

Commissioner Sista.

President.

Commissioner Bellassa.

President.

Commissioner Bernardo.

President.

Commissioner Lynn.

President.

Commissioner Liu.

President.

Commissioner Chan.

President.

Commissioner De Leon.

President.

Commissioner Turk.

President.

Commissioner Young.

President.

Commissioner Longmeyer.

President.

And Chair Rios.

President.

I would like to remind, oh, do you have a say?

Yeah, thank you. We do have quorum.

I would like to remind members of the public in public chambers that if you'd like to speak on an agenda item,

please turn in to speaker slip when the item begins.

You will have two minutes to speak once you are called on.

After the first speaker, we will no longer accept speaker slips.

We will now proceed with today's agenda.

Please rise for the opening acknowledgments in honor of Sacramento's

Indigenous people in tribal lands.

To the original people of this land, the Nissanon, the southern Maidu, valley and plains,

Miwak, put win-win-two peoples in the people of the Wilton Rancheria.

Sacramento's only federalized, 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 today in active practice of acknowledgement

and appreciation for Sacramento's Indigenous people's history, contributions and lives.

Thank you.

Please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it

stands one nation under God, indivisible, and religiously injustice for all.

Thank you, Chair.

Our first item, business item here is to welcome our new commissioners, Ivana Bernardo,

Melody Chan, and Alex Liu.

So if each of you would like to introduce yourselves and tell the commission a little bit about

yourselves, if you wish, should be much appreciated.

Hi, everyone. I'm Ivana Bernardo.

I'm representing district three.

I'm a sophomore at Laguna Academy, and I'm just got to be here.

Hello, everyone. My name is Alex Liu.

I'm a senior at Christian Bervers High School in Oak Park.

I'm representing district five, and I'm really passionate about youth development,

looking forward to working with everyone.

Hi, my name is Melody, and I represent district five.

I'm really excited and grateful to be here, and I'm excited to work with everybody.

Great. I just want to say thank you to all the new commissioners. We are all excited to have

you here. Being a part of, taking an active part in community is important, and important for

future, and just progressing as society. So just thank you so much, and we're all excited to have

you here. Moving on, our first business today is the approval of the consent calendar that includes

last month's meeting minutes, as well as the follow-up blog. Clerk, are there any members of the

public who wish to speak on this consent item? Click consent calendar. Thank you, Chair. I have no

speaker slips on the sign. Thank you. Are there any commissioners who wish to speak on this item?

Is there a motion in a second for the consent calendar?

I motion. Okay, we have a motion by Commissioner Longlar.

Assembly, I'd like to second. I second. Okay, second by Commissioner Dalyan.

Will the clerk please call roll for the vote.

Thank you, Chair. Commissioner Sista.

I.

Commissioner Bellossa. I.

Commissioner Bernardo. I.

Commissioner Lynn. I.

Commissioner Liu. I.

Commissioner Chan. I.

Mr. Dalyan. I.

Mr. Turk. I.

Commissioner Young. I.

Commissioner Longmeyer. I.

And Chair Rios. I.

Thank you, the motion passes.

We will now proceed to the discussion calendar.

So item three is the voluntary local review on the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Is there a staff presentation for this?

Yes. Okay.

We're ready to go. Thank you very much.

It's a pleasure to be here and to see all of you today.

My name is Jill Lynn Shoemaker. I am Director of Global Engagements in the Global Affairs Unit

at UC Davis. And I'm joined by two of the SDG interns in Global Affairs at UC Davis who will

introduce themselves.

Hello, everyone. I'm not sure if you can hear me properly, but my name is Rashida. I'm currently

senior at UC Davis. I'm majoring in science and technology studies. And I just love the SDGs.

And hopefully we all can learn something from each other today.

Hello, commission. My name is Meg. I am a junior at UC Davis. I study international

relations and economics. And I also minor and human rights. Very privileged to be here with you all.

Should I just go ahead and advance the slides from here?

Oh, here. Here it is. Okay. Perfect.

So today we have the pleasure of presenting the voluntary local review on the UN Sustainable

Development Goals for Sacramento. This was a joint project that was done by the City of Sacramento

and UC Davis. It was released in December. And we're very happy to give you a little bit of an

overview of this report and potentially how it could be used and lead to other collaboration

areas for this commission and the city. So first, I believe all of you here may already be aware

and even using the UN Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs in your work. But we thought we would

offer a very brief overview. You may recognize the 17 boxes at the top of this slide,

which represent the 17 goals within this agenda. This agenda is really important globally because

it was adopted by every UN member state around the world in 2015. It applies to all context,

all countries. The 17 goals are also meant to be intersectional and indivisible, meaning that

we cannot achieve one without achieving the others. It covers three dimensions of development,

the social, the environmental, and the economic. And this agenda importantly recognizes that

poverty, which you will see as SDG1, the red box that starts the listing above,

poverty is recognized by all countries in the world as the number one challenge to achieving

sustainable development. The agenda also rests on several other very important principles.

The principle of leave no one behind, meaning that we cannot possibly achieve sustainable development

while communities and people are left behind or marginalized. Human rights and gender equality

also provide two very important principles that underline all of these goals.

This is just a visual to show you how some of these goals can be grouped together.

Sometimes it is referred to as the five P's of the 2030 agenda and the SDGs. So you'll see

their group together in terms of helping people, prosperity, peace, partnership, and planet.

It is a holistic agenda that covers all of these issue sets.

So how do we define what is sustainable development? Sustainable development is defined internationally

as development that meets the needs of the current generation without compromising the ability

of future generations to meet their own needs. So this is very important. Youth has a central

place in achieving this agenda. In September of 2024, the countries around the world also met

to look at the agenda where we had progress, where we're falling behind and to look for the future.

Out of that international meeting came something called the PACT for the future.

The PACT for the future also included a deliberate attempt to look at youth and future

generations as a major priority. It includes actions to invest in social and economic development

of children and young people, human rights, social inclusion and integration and meaningful

participation of youths. And there were also a number of principles, commitments, and actions

that came out of that international agreement. So how do we track progress on this global agenda?

There are a couple of ways that have been developed. The agenda itself when it was

agreed by all the countries in 2015 envisioned that there would be voluntary national reviews,

that countries would voluntarily submit to the UN to share their experiences, their progress,

their challenges on meeting the goals of this agenda. But it also envisioned that the sub-national

levels, the local levels would be incredibly important to achieve this agenda.

And as a result, we started to see the formation of voluntary local reviews.

And these were as a result of cities, municipalities, communities seeing that this agenda resonated

with the problems that they were facing at the local level and the approaches, the needs of their

community, the priorities, and the innovative creative solutions as well.

We know that the global goals depend completely on local action. So local solutions coming together

with regional collaboration, coming together with national commitment helps achieve the SDGs.

This is a growing movement around the world. There are now more than 200 voluntary

local reviews worldwide representing every single region of the world. You can find them on the

UN site. And Sacramento's new voluntary local review is also on this UN website.

In the United States, you can see from this slide, we have had a handful of cities that have produced

local reviews on the SDGs led by New York City and Los Angeles, but also Pittsburgh and Orlando.

And the first state in the United States, the state of Hawaii, has already produced multiple VLRs.

My colleague for the City of Sacramento, Vic Randall was unable to be here today to join us

and some of these slides are slides that he was planning to present. So I will just stay at a

very general level about these. And perhaps the commission would like to invite him at a later

date to come in and talk in more detail. But our process with the City of Sacramento and UC Davis

was started at the time that Sacramento was also working in the midst of working on the 2040 general plan

and climate action and adaptation plan. We saw an opportunity to build upon UC Davis's work

on the SDGs. At UC Davis, we had completed a voluntary university review looking at the campus

and how different activities were contributing to all of the SDGs. And out of that process,

we wanted to really connect with our local communities and our cities surrounding Davis and see if

there was interest in collaborating on looking locally at the SDGs. The City of Sacramento community

development was very interested in this possible joint project. So we started aligning the SDGs to

these processes that were already in process for the City of Sacramento and then the outcome

documents as well. The guiding principles for the general plan and climate action and adaptation

plan formed the core of what we were aligning to the SDGs. So we looked very carefully at these six

guiding principle topic areas that came from the community.

Vic would talk a little bit more about the elements of general plans and what's included in the

2040 plan, but you can see here the key elements of the general plan. What we found at UC Davis,

when we started looking at the general planning process in general for California, we started looking

more closely at the Sacramento process that these elements aligned very, very closely with the global

goals of the SDGs. This is a little bit more about the planning process and tools which I'll leave

to Vic when he hopefully can update this commission at a later time.

And here's a little bit about some of the reduction targets for the City of Sacramento

from the Climate Action and Adaptation Plan. He has some more details here on the climate change

aspects. I'm moving through quickly because these are his slides and I don't want to speak for him,

but he has also pulled out the adaptation goals here relating to climate risks,

damage, flooding, urban heat, air pollution, community resilience, and water supply resilience.

So the VLR, what's in it? What was our approach?

Our approach, as I said, was really to align the general plan and the cap to the SDGs.

We saw this as a huge opportunity to bridge California and the local context and the global

context as well. We also connected those general plan elements that you saw before to the SDGs

and the targets that the UN had set for each of the SDGs as well.

We share City and Community Initiatives. This was really important to be able to look at all 17 SDGs

in the VLR, but also to really highlight community initiatives that were reacting and seeking to

solve some of the challenges in the community. We focused a lot in the VLR on community engagement

and equity because of those key principles in the SDGs of leave no one behind human rights and

gender equality. It was an excellent opportunity to really spotlight the extensive work that's

going on at the City of Sacramento level on community engagement and diversity and equity.

We also wanted to use the opportunity to highlight the arts and highlight youth engagement as

key aspects to achieving the SDGs in the Sacramento context. The final report looks at each of the

17 SDGs, but the front section of the report pulls out some examples from youth engagement,

arts, culture, and creative economy, and community engagement and equity to showcase.

This is just a visual of how we aligned the guiding principles from the general plan to the SDGs

and which SDGs applied to which guiding principles.

We also received information from this youth commission to look at what SDGs that the commission

has identified as being particularly important to your planned work, your current and planned

work, and so we pulled those out here as well.

Now, Megan and Rashida wanted to offer a couple of insights just to give you a little bit of a

sense of some of the things that are covered in four of the chapters in the VLR looking at SDG2,

Zero Hunger, SDG3, Good Health and Wellbeing, SDG7, Affordable and Clean Energy, and SDG13 Climate Action,

and we chose these because we understood that these were also SDGs that were of very high

interest for this commission, so I'm going to pass it over to them for a brief snapshot.

Okay, so the information I will be sharing with you is found also in the voluntary local review

as referenced by Jolin and I highly recommend checking it out for further information.

The first SDG I will be highlighting is number two, which are first two zero hunger.

So, simply, this goal establishes goals to end hunger, achieve food security, and improve nutrition,

and promote sustainable agriculture. So, we see this kind of tri-fold goal tied into one,

and we see this problem in Sacramento with abnormally high food prices,

issues with malnutrition, and other health concerns sprouting for malnutrition. At least 10

percent of households in Sacramento, county, face food insecurity, and this falls especially on

low-income households. Some initiatives that the voluntary local review finds to be helpful

towards this SDG are the local foods, local places, federal initiative. In this initiative,

the city of Sacramento partnered with the United States Environmental Protection Agency

and the United States Department of Agriculture, the International Garden of Many Colors,

and Alchemist Kitchen Incubator Hub. Each project within this initiative provides food that

is locally sourced to residents, and it also coalesces with teaching sustainability and opening up

employment opportunities, which goes in hand in hand with other SDGs like SDG 1, 11, and 8,

and then another initiative for SDG 2 is City of Sacramento's Food Justice Task Force,

and this initiative provides community members with a space to give their insight on food system

policies and funding investments. And the mission of this task force provides a space for the most

vulnerable to bring forth their concerns and also make them stakeholders in this project.

For the next SDG, SDG number three refers to good health and well-being, and this goal is pretty

straightforward. It hopes to achieve to ensure healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at

all ages. In Sacramento County, there are higher rates of heart disease, diabetes, and obesity relative

to other California cities, so it is very pressing. Also, air pollution and inaccessible health care

are pressing concerns for the Sacramento region. The Climate Action and Adaption Plan, as referenced

by the VLR, provides that the City of Sacramento is currently investing in public transportation.

This includes more infrastructure for cycling and pedestrian-friendly infrastructure,

and they hope to reduce vehicle emissions this way. Also, SNAC, which stands for Sacramento

Neighborhoods Activating on Air Quality, is currently keeping up-state monitoring air quality

and correlating it to health impacts in order to actively craft plans to reduce air pollution and

exposure.

All right. We can hear me good. So, for the next two SDGs, I'm going to be addressing SDG 7, as well

as SDG 13. SDG 7 is something that Sacramento has actually actively worked towards in little

and big steps. However, specifically, SDG 7, as a whole, ensures access to affordable,

reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all. Sacramento has had its issues shifting towards a

cleaner energy grid, investing in more renewable energy, and is maintaining the barriers of adopting

these energy efficient upgrades. Now, all of these are clean energy, but they're not necessarily

the cleanest, but based on the technological advancements that we have, they are the best

environmentally friendly option that we have as of yet. Sacramento and the Sacramento Municipal

Utility District, or SMUD, have begun working together to tackle all of these issues,

and one way is through their 2030 Zero Carbon Plan, which outlines how the company will help

the region achieve carbon-free electric supply. In order to do so, SMUD will retire natural gas power

plants and invest in clean technology such as thermal, wind, and solar while continuing to

research for newer methods of clean energy generation. And this is ongoing, and likely we'll keep

going until we have a more solid plan in place. SMUD is also encouraging its customers to adopt

cleaner energy through programs such as Charge at Home that you probably heard about that provides

customers with rebates to support EV charging equipment and electric circuit installation costs.

Overall, the City of Sacramento has seen significant progress towards SDG 7 and SMUD's cooperation

combined with the city's clean energy initiatives already in place. There has been acceleration

in beating this goal by hopefully 2030. Now, SDG 13, or climate action, calls us to take action

urgently to combat climate change and also its resulting effects. As we all know, notice

Sacramento has been facing severe climate-related crises over the last few years, including

extreme heat, poor air quality, changing precipitation in severe storms such as atmospheric rivers,

which has in turn increased flood risks significantly. And these are just a few of the extreme

weather events that have occurred. These drastic weather events threaten Sacramento's water resources,

food security, infrastructure, air quality, and the most vulnerable members of our community,

including marginalized communities and people of color. Sacramento is combating this issue by

implementing several climate change-related initiatives such as creating the Office of Climate

Action Necessity Sanability back in 2021 and through the development of the Climate Action and

Adaption Plan or CAAP. This plan outlines City Strategy to reduce greenhouse gases by 2045,

and again reducing greenhouse gases doesn't give you a 100% clean carbon footprint, but it is a

step forward. Now, Sacramento has also identified key components to achieve relatively carbon neutrality

by the timeline of 2045. And one of this includes increasing building electrification and residential

and commercial sectors and by reducing overall greenhouse gas emissions. And the surprising fact

could be that 57% of the city's greenhouse gas emissions currently stem from gas cars.

Because of this, Sacramento is working to be a more bikeable and walkable city and to improve

safety and enhance quality of life, strap toward equity, and address climate change.

Efforts for more electric vehicles or EVs have also increased with projects including

creating zero emission vehicle fleet for vital city services. They've also had over 800 public

and workplace EV chargers available across the city. And if you check every year, the amount of

chargers increases and used to be 600 just a few months ago. In conclusion, Sacramento has shown

its commitment to creating a more sustainable and climate resilient future for its residents.

Through the efforts highlighted in the VLR, there's an obvious push for climate change prevention

as the effects of climate related disasters have begun harming those inner communities

and not just marginalized communities. We hope Sacramento continues implementing new initiatives

to help mitigate the effects of climate change as well as continue research in the field of climate

change in the future. Thank you so much, Megan and Rashida. I hope that that gives you just a

little bit of a taste of some of the information that is collected in the VLR report. And you can

look at any of the SDGs and see the global context, the local context, described a bit, and some of these

programs and initiatives that are seeking to address the challenges.

So I just wanted to conclude with another piece of information that we thought would be

quite interesting to the commission here. So UC Davis has recently been designated by the United

Nations Academic Impact as an international hub for SDG2 Zero Hunger with a partner university

in Costa Rica, Earth University. This is a photo from the UN website. This is very new. We just

received this designation several weeks ago. But we are working alongside our collaborators from

the VLR at the city to think about ways that we can partner on SDG2 Zero Hunger and ways that we can

use this international designation with the UN to really start to connect some of the local efforts

here in Sacramento to address hunger issues with the global dialogues and conversations and

model practices at the international level that can inform many other places as well. So I wanted

to share that to inform the commission and it's just one area where we could be partnering. Vic,

of course, is not here, but we did want to highlight the SDG2 Zero Hunger opportunities that we

have, but we're looking at many other opportunities and we would welcome any opportunities to collaborate

with this commission or to support your work as it engages and supports the SDGs in Sacramento.

Thank you very much for your time. Thank you for your informative presentation.

Are there clerk, are there any members of the public who wish to speak on this item?

Thank you chair. I have one speaker slip on this item. Be Shelby. Or just Shelby. I'd like to remind

members of the public speaking that comments need to pertain to the item at hand and the purview

of the Sacramento Youth Commission. There was a lot of items at hand. How many minutes to have?

Being a part of working at the city, I have never heard of these programs and I've been

involved with the United Nations at the YMCA. I know this is a new program or maybe pilot or something,

but they definitely need to work on, because there are people who are part of these organizations

or programs and they are homeless. So outreach wouldn't be enough. So if there are a part of that,

are part of, like, let's say they create a stipend program, you know, at places like

community collaborative charter school that is on McCollough Air Force Base that would help reduce

suicide. Also giving them vouchers like hotel vouchers, youth hotel vouchers would help.

As well as involving health professions because they have, it's not just a school, but you know,

they are nurses who work with UC Davis that would love to be a part of the United Nations,

or maybe should have been invited here today. But, you know, that's something that I would like

to see more of coming from you guys since you guys are representing Sacramento and UC Davis.

One person isn't enough and I know when I was working with the state capital,

like they would help with the rides and jobs and stuff and interview clothes and stuff,

but also giving allowing you guys to bring in like a stipend program to involve UC Davis.

And so if they volunteer like in the emergency room, pay them for their time. You know,

we have grants.gov that has many different grants, federal grants, and allow teachers.

Your comments, your time is complete. I understand.

Thank you for your comments this evening. Chair, I have no more speaker slips on this item.

Thank you. Okay, so are there any commissioners who wish to speak on this item?

If you are a new commissioner, this is a time for you to have questions. If you want to ask

the presenters questions, or just give your ideas on the topic and everything. And so we'd love

to hear your input and anything that you have to say to empower the community of Sacramento youth.

Then if you'd like to speak, there's the request to speak button, so just click it and then you'll pop up.

Okay, so I would just like to say thank you for your presentation once again.

Just to start off by saying that all of us just being here is aligning with the UN goals because

we're here getting active in our community, trying to make a difference every single day that we're

here, even outside of the commission during our capacity building trainings and everything,

we are making progress as far as implementing plans and getting out in our community and doing

things. And so second, the whole UN goals reminds me of what we've done with the Sacramento

Children's Fund because just like the goals and the Chakramino Children's Fund, one can't be

completed without the other. And so they are all supplementary to one another and making sustainable

decisions like we have to at Aggie Square, implementing changes that will be great for the environment,

great for people to bike and walk and get in affordable education and have affordable education

opportunities to that as well. And then I would just like to say is that what's great about being

a youth in Sacramento that is involved is that we see these deadlines that say Sacramento will be

carbon neutral by 2045, but those are deadlines and those will get met, but we have the ability,

we have free will too. So we can always implement plans or get together as a group and try to make a

change and do things that will maybe help us get to that goals sooner. And so just making a

collective change. So I see we have Commissioner Ballasso that would speak.

I wanted to thank you guys for coming here to present. I really feel like I learned a lot

with about the SDGs that you guys did present on and I think I want to look into that more.

I am part of I am vice president of my schools chapter of UNICEF and we do by weekly meetings where

we present on current events happening around the world and how UNICEF is getting involved with them.

And obviously there's so many different aspects that there are to focus on. There's so many

different problems throughout different countries, different places in the world that take

many different forms and seeing them broken down into these SDGs where these like goals that are

very specific and hearing more about how those are specifically being trying, being attained is

very, makes me very optimistic. I was especially interested in the way that for SDG2 hunger,

you were saying that you also allow the stakeholders themselves or you bring in information from

the stakeholders themselves and listen to them bring up their own personal concerns with hunger

and all of the things involved with that. And I think that's very, that's something to keep in

mind that is a very good strategy to implement when it comes to solving problems. So thank you so

much for this presentation and I appreciate everything you guys shared with us today. Commissioner Young.

Thank you, thank you to both of you guys for speaking. I learned a lot. That presentation was super

informative and I hadn't heard of the SDGs beforehand. One of the SDGs that definitely spoke to me was

the SDG number 2 zero hunger which is definitely prevalent in my community. For example, there is

the gift of groceries which is a food bank right down the street from my house and I've helped them and

we've served 1100 families. They serve 1100 families weekly. So I look forward to seeing

everything that you guys will do to benefit our Sacramento community. And then as for our speaker,

I think you brought up a lot of great ideas and I really hope that they can be implemented in

the future. Homelessness is a really big issue in Sacramento and I hope we can do more. So yeah, thank you.

Commissioner Lin. Thank you so much for your presentation. It was really interesting because I'm

currently taking AP environment science at my school right now and it's very informative to know

like what the UN goals are and like how we're attaining them in Sacramento and it really

spoke to me how you came to our meeting today because you guys are really demonstrating how much

you care about youth and you mentioned that in your presentation but you guys coming here really

showed it and I was just learning about the smud like the smud power programs today and I feel like

that's really important Sacramento because like getting a EV is really expensive and so like making

more affordable is better for all of us and I was wondering like if you guys were doing any outreach

for like spreading the word about the UN sustainable goals.

Thank you very much for all the positive comments and we hope that we really do hope that this

VLR opens up a lot of other opportunities for partnership between UC Davis and many parts of

UC Davis and the city of Sacramento and the communities around us. So yes, we are doing a lot

of outreach and we think of our outreach on the SDGs in terms of three different layers or levels.

So we do face some of these same challenges on our own campus in our community, our campus community

for instance on food insecurity and other issues. So we're looking within the UC Davis at

the SDGs and how we can promote them then obviously our engagement here with Sacramento,

our engagement with Davis, our engagement at the county levels with the SDGs we're working on

that now and then the international level for sure where we are the example of the UN academic

impact where we're very very very active but we've joined a lot of other international networks

since we started really focusing on seeing how we can support our region, our community,

our university and engaging with these global goals. So we've been doing quite a bit on the international

level not only with individual partners and different institutions that also care about the SDGs

really completely around the world and in really every region. When we did our

when our did we did our voluntary university review on the SDGs we found that UC Davis was engaged

in work on every single SDG in every single region with partners in every single region of the

world. So it's very very important but we're really just very excited about the opportunity to

bridge the international efforts, the international affairs, the international engagement with the

local creative solutions that are happening right here and using some of that as a model and really

connecting those of you working on the local level with the global level it opens up some really

exciting possibilities for achieving these goals at every at every level really. So yes we're

continuing the work but we are and we're very very happy to have ideas too and suggestions so thank you.

Linda, do you have more comments? Yeah so an idea I have is maybe like an educational program like

research program for youth for UC Davis because I participated in this program where I research

like leukemia for UC Davis and it was really interesting so maybe like with the grant you guys can

offer a program for you that can like research you in sustainable goals.

I'd like to speak to Shelby specifically like thank you so much for the words that you gave.

You brought up homelessness especially in Sacramento we have a substantial amount of homeless people

really and the last thing we want is for there to be a growing number of youth homelessness.

And so most of my students were homeless from Joyce Elementary Village Elementary or

twin rivers you know Del Paso Heights I mean a lot of them were drug infested as well so it's like

you know you come from that you need a lot of pure support mentorship and that's why I came

today because I have children and my son he's wrote a book with Crocker Art Museum and Inc. Mac or Inc.

It's an Inc. 916 Inc. They do free publishing but sometimes that those aren't enough you know.

Thank you so much and your son's doing a great job I would love to read the book and I just

wanted to go back to the Sacramento Children's Fund and saying as we address homelessness we are

addressing youth homelessness at the root and a lot of that comes from children aging out of the foster

system and so many of us peers here whether we know it or not go to school with peers who are homeless

or who are going to age out of the foster system one day and maybe we don't know it directly

oftentimes they're not vocal about it it's not really something that you're vocal about but it's

something that is present and so Sacramento the Sacramento Children's Fund is putting over 20%

of the 50 million dollars that has been approved towards giving youth who are aging out of the

foster system stipends and so that is great as far as addressing homelessness and I'll go back

to your comments about UC Davis I believe so far coming from a personal stance as we've worked with

UC Davis UC Davis has done a great job as far as promoting U.N. sustainability goals the work

that we've done with Aggie Square exponentially aligns with U.N. sustainable goals creating spaces

that are promoting education and promoting bright futures for futures for youth and my sister

herself is actually a nurse doing clinicals at UC Davis and UC Davis has a lot of opportunities

for nurses that are coming in and being an equitable diverse and including space

for youth and for upcoming nurses and so UC Davis especially along with the youth commission

is going to be doing great things in Sacramento we'd love to have your contact information if you

love to join us at any part of our outreach or being an outreach yourself so thank you so much

for being here today. How do I share the information? Phone numbers on the paper. Okay yeah we'll get

okay sounds great thank you. Our next agenda item or do we have to

okay yeah so our item number four is the developing of a racial equity toolkit is there a

South presentation for this? Oh I'm sorry speaker. No we did public speakers on

for item number the commissioner speaker. Oh I think please. Oh just really quickly I just

wanted to thank you for your time Shelby to make those comments you had some really great ideas

and I hope we can implement them. Thank you this is commissioner discussion time. We can take

your next public speaking period for item number four. Okay so item number four like I said yes.

Okay. Hello my name is Larisa Wall my pronouns are she her and I am the strategic workforce

equity analyst with the Office of Diversity and Equity which is housed in human resources and I'm

here with thank you Larisa. Hello everyone good to see you all again. Happy new year to you all

it's going to be a wonderful 2025 which is going to affirm that together. My name is Amize

Zalai Barnes pronouns are she and they and I serve as the diversity and equity manager for

the Office of Diversity and Equity. We are here to continue our conversation that we started last fall

and so wanted to just kind of give you a sense of the reference point there was some pre-reading I

think for today if you have that or if you can access that document it was the racial equity toolkit

an opportunity to operationalize racial equity if you don't have it that's fine but just know that

centers our conversation today and we'll be kind of following along the steps one through six.

All right and so a little bit about our time together is we started last fall with building the

bigger we and wanted to share what our time is here and this is going to be a little bit more

interactive we want to engage with you all a little bit in each of the steps for your thoughts

so the three big aspects of this is the leadership for belonging you all as leaders we

introduced why it's important to welcome diverse voices and perspective because that strengthens

equity efforts the elements of belonging promotes inclusion shared ownership and of course mutual

respect and that's inspired by the South African concept of Ubuntu which is interconnectedness

and compassion and that is the bigger we so our time together here is to further equip participants

to recognize the bridging and belonging concepts that we talked about but we also want to introduce

a racial equity toolkit steps so that we can help you all develop your own for the commission

as decision makers this will help you make those connections and what I appreciate it about

what the chair commented on it will help you get to root causes of inequities points of oppression

separation disenfranchisement marginalization and the list goes on and on so this tool we hope

will help you and so we're beginning that kind of the second part of this conversation

so just to kind of remind not going to go too deep but wanted to remind you all

at our last session we did talk a lot about eddering and belonging and so we talked about

eddering is fostering fractures deep sense of separation and polarization but really wanting

us to move towards belonging as a way to interrupt those to foster empathy and acceptance foster

a sense of belonging with all people helps navigate societal challenges collectively to increase

our pace of change but the impact of our change together so to bridge involves two or more groups

coming together across acknowledging lines of difference see the thing about what I want to

remind us about the the bridging and the belonging it's not not having the presence of difference

it's actually celebrating and leveraging our differences so that both are affirmed

identities kept intact and we create new and more expansive solutions together is that make sense

yeah excellent and that was really what our session was and so we explored the different types

of bridging and mostly the bridging as being weak or sturdy transactional or transformative

we want to have transformational bridging we do not want fragile or just transactional things like

you do for me and I do for you and then that's it we want deep relationships that are authentic

that are last longing and that really embrace healing and mutuality and self and self-affirmation

but at the same time mutual affirmation so that we can move forward with our goals and so we talked

about breaking there's such things as soft breaking and hard breaking soft breaking being those

that kind of reinforces hierarchies and roles and power differences so no matter what your role is

in an organization no matter what your role is here on the commission every voice is important

everybody has something to contribute everybody has a perspective and lived experiences that adds

to the discussion and then the hard breaking is usually where it's the more extreme where you're

either causing psychological or physical harm and so we also don't want hard breaking but oftentimes

in our spaces it's the soft breaking that happens so it's important to recognize when that happens

and then the other concept that we talked about last time is the difference between equality

and equity and equality means treating everyone the same regardless of need while equity provides

resources and strategies based on everyone's needs aiming for outcomes that benefit all so those

just a recap of what we did last time and then to kind of ground us for our conversation today

in developing a racial equity toolkit it's important for us to define what racial equity means

and what we mean for here in the city of Sacramento and it means to close the gaps so that race does

not predict one success while improving outcomes for all and this is really trying to acknowledge

the historical and the current impact of racism and white supremacy and I really say that to say

we're not talking about white people we're talking about the legacy of white supremacy and racism

and how it continues to have an impact on all communities and so to do that we want to target

strategies to close gaps those gaps could mean home ownership income level it could mean school

graduation rates it could mean all kinds of things and we want everybody we don't want race to be

a predictor of one group is graduating at a higher rate than the other if we see that gap we want

to explore it we want to understand why a racial equity toolkit could help you answer questions

to help you understand why that may be happening so everybody is graduating and then it also is to

inspire us to move beyond services and talk we all know that we could talk about equity but it's

another thing to do an operationalize equity so this means looking at our policies looking at our

practices this means looking at the culture that we're in this means looking at procedures that

we have in place making sure that people are trained making sure that people have opportunity

and that they understand how policies practices and procedures help and benefit everyone and so if

again if we see a policy or practice limiting or presenting a barrier to one group of people or to

anybody we want to explore why is that happening so it moves also beyond individual actions that may be

prejudice or may be bigoted we want to address those two but we also want to look at our systems

because we want to have greater collective impact so it's about systems change the last thing

I'll say about racial equity too and I really want you to keep this in mind and I think it's often

we always have to remind everyone is that it is an intersectional lens while we center race we

center race because race and racism is usually what we're not very good about talking about we're

usually very not equipped to have healthy healing conversations around racism and the impact of

racism so by centering race we are saying we are willing to lean in and have those conversations

we're willing to ask the tough questions we're willing to come around from our differences and lift

up so that racism is no longer a factor for anybody in the city and so by doing that it's a both

end it's race and gender and disability and sexual orientation so I really want you to cold that

in mind that intersectionality aspect that it's race because we need to address the historical

aspects of racism and the harm that it has caused but we also need to look at other areas of

marginalization as well so I'm going to pause right there is a lot of talking any questions or

anything or because this could be one of those types of presentations where you could comment I

think if that's all right you know so because we want to make sure if you have any questions or

need any points of clarity we're good okay cool all right and then I think I will be handing it over

to Larisa so we just wanted to talk a little bit about one of our foundational

and organization or network of jurisdictions across the country that we're part of that really

provide one of the main foundations for the work that we do and is the resource that you read is

pre-reading the operationalizing racial equity through the racial equity tool was developed by

the government alliance on race and equity and as it says here and I think we shared in our the

first workshop this is a national network of cities counties states there are also more recently

federal employees but really these are jurisdictions over 400 I believe 420

jurisdictions across the country that are coming together to try to figure out how to operationalize

us how to do all of the things that we were just talking about which is often very difficult

and is often sometimes isolating especially in areas where somebody might be the only person

in their city doing this work or the only person in their department so this is an effort that

really brings people together to be able to have conversations learn from one another remember

that we are not alone collectively and then to benefit from that shared learning and resources

to really go back to their own homes their own localities to be implementing this so garris

commitment and again this is just as we're moving into thinking about with all of you what a racial

equity tool and toolkit could look like just letting you know where a lot of this is coming from

and thinking about this context that garris commitment is achieving racial equity through focused

action as on me said right we can talk about this as much as we want but if we're not thinking about

real life impacts and how we integrate this into our decision making the way that we view

the discussions that we're having then we're going to stay where we are leveraging the power of

governmental institutions this is I think a great example of where you all come in as the youth

commission and building partnerships to drive change which we'll be talking about a little bit

more throughout the steps of the racial equity tool and some of these key areas of focus are in

commitment to racial equity institutional power and influence which we talked a little bit about

and then again partnerships for change so collaborating with various care holders for collective

impact which we'll talk a little bit about when we get to the community engagement piece and

then looking at this as again a multi-layered approach for for that maximum impact

gare really provides support in leading jurisdictions through those best practices again

oftentimes when they're just individual folks or people who are doing really good work to make

sure that they can share that out so that everybody can learn and providing a pathway for new

jurisdictions to come on they're always looking for bringing new folks in to the learning cohorts

and to the online community and then building local and regional collaborations and we actually

have a local Sacramento area practitioners network that I and some other local colleagues in the

city have created as a way to bring together city county and state folks since we all are in

Sacramento there are many of us here so that's an example of something that gare supports and

just wanted to share a little bit about that I think we had talked about potentially getting

access to the online resources and we can at least for anybody who's an employee of the city of

Sacramento gets access to the online portal and we can talk about how to make sure that you all can

get some of that access to because there's really wonderful resource library and discussion boards

that you can all access to ask questions and get information any questions before we move on to

the next piece great I am all right so we're going to talk a little bit about what a racial equity

tool and toolkit are and again hopefully most of you did some of the pre reading which gives you

some of this foundation so a racial equity tool and this is really important is both a product

and a process it's the outcome but it's also how you get to that place and it really helps to

integrate those these equity considerations as on me said into the policies practices procedures

programs budget it's everything that it takes to make our city operate and to have the best

outcomes for all of our residents what I wanted to highlight is it really also starts with the

end in mind so at the beginning you'll see the questions are what are the outcomes what are we

hoping to achieve and by starting with the end in mind we can ask open-ended questions that's

another thing I wanted to highlight is the tool is just a series of questions and the questions are

not yes or no they're not check box questions the idea is that they're open-ended questions that

will allow all of you to talk amongst yourselves but also search out information think about how things

are being done think about the data that's being presented and what it says think about how

community is engaged if community is engaged and maybe who's left out of the conversation so as we

go through it I really want you to keep in mind that the questions that we're going to be presenting

are very open-ended you're more than welcome to add your own questions and clarifications if you'd like

but they do require a description they're not just a yes or no answer because we really want to

understand the full context of what's being accessed whether it's a program a policy a decision

and if you don't know the answer that's actually a piece of information right throughout this process

another thing that we we actually have talked about recently and is something that's been

a part of our conversations is that everything is data so when we think about data you might think

about hard data and statistical analysis and thinking about the number of people and percentages

of populations but data also doesn't have to be linear linear can be qualitative it can be

based on conversations it can be based on all of your experiences and if you're asking yourself

the question and you don't have information and you don't have data that's actually information

and data right that is a data point we don't have this information why not where can we get it from

who could we partner with so it's really about exploring and being curious throughout this process

and valuing multiple ways of knowing things I'm sure there are some of you who probably like numbers

and graphs and statistical analysis and some people like storytelling and some people like visual

representations right all of those are very valid ways of getting data and thinking about whatever

it is we're going to be assessing so we wanted to really be upfront with that and again as

on me said all of the voices and diversity of voices and opinions are really important to be

especially pointing out blind spots we all have blind spots we all have things we know

we all have things we might not know but in collaboration together we can be creating

the best possible solutions and then really again looking to uncover what you might not

already be aware of and then each question it builds on one another and you'll see that throughout

the steps so thinking about how the tool can be used for you so who should use a racial equity

tool yet in the in the pre-reading they talk about government staff elected officials community-based

organizations but we wanted to highlight some of the ways and I think some of them already came up

some of the things that you are tasked with as the Sacramento Youth Commission and things that are

important to you around I think you mentioned before the focus areas work around Aggie Square

Youth Mental Health, Sac Youth Voice, right those are all areas that potentially this tool

and this toolkit could be useful it's also projects that are brought to you for recommendations we

know that is something that might happen over the course of the year so that can be something

that you look at this tool to help you think about what's brought to you use them to ask questions

and evaluate and then building out what you want to do it can also guide your own conversations

amongst yourselves as you're thinking about what your priorities are and the impacts of those

priorities so I wanted to just bring it down a little bit more local all of these are very important

to be happening at multiple levels but I wanted to talk a little bit about how this could

particular pertain to you on the Youth Commission and then when should you use a racial equity tool

so ideally using it as early in the process as possible is an added benefit the earlier use

at the better when racial equity in these considerations are left off of the table then we

start to implement things one it's hard to backtrack and if they're not addressed into the last

minute the approaches might be less fruitful right decisions might be made money allocated those

things are all very difficult to undo so the early in the process that we use these tools the more

likely that we can change the outcome shift culture and have conversations about change that we

might actually be able to implement we also wanted to highlight that a racial equity tool can

be used more than once throughout the process right again it's a series of questions it's not a

we've gone through it we've checked it off we put it to the side it's a document that you continue

to come back to you can do it at the beginning middle end of a project you can again just use it as

guiding questions as you move through whatever decision making process that you're doing so it's

really iterative and when we talk about racial equity work and diversity equity inclusion

belonging work we often talk about it as iterative and building on each other it doesn't just happen

and it's over it's something that continues on so we see this tool in this toolkit as really

complementing that process I know I just shared a lot I'm going to pause here before I turn it over

to me to start going through the steps are there any comments questions clarifications

great all right thank you all right so step one and before we begin with step one I should say

to that I'm going to pause after each step to see if there's a question that you want to add

we're going to be taking notes of comments will probably rewatch this as well because we really

do want to help you develop what your toolkit is and what you need it for so as you think about

these base questions through each step think about like what else would you want to know any comments

or ideas so we would love to capture it in as we go through each step too all right um let's see

want to make sure I think we covered that and we covered that so let's go to step one all right so

developing step one as the recess said this is starting with the end in mind so step one is

understanding the purpose and desired outcome when you begin something what kind of impact do you

want it to have would you want to what do you want to do what's the change that you want to see

what are the desired results and outcomes and so the key points here are about getting that clarity

and focus to not have desired results or outcomes or why you're starting a particular program it could

really end up causing problems along the way as you move through any program right so how do I equate

this so school the desired outcome and results is to get all A's in all of your classes correct

yeah okay um maybe B's but all A's right that's the desired result and so all through the semester

or all through your classwork you're getting feedback you're doing assignment you're reading

you're doing presentations you're doing all kinds of things to make sure that you get to that A

right so having that clarity and focus is what you want to have here at the beginning of any

proposal you want to have like so if somebody came and presented something to you all you're like okay

what is the purpose of this program what is the intended change that we want to have so that you

can then apply the tool but you have clarity and focus as decision makers as to the direction

recommendations and what might be needed so it's really really important and that's one of the

reasons why I actually love a racial equity tool is because it makes you think about that end

what is the vision what is the what is the type of Sacramento the city that you want to see what

do you want youth to have in this proposal so and that could also be a way of helping you have

conversations with community to help offer that clarity as well so clearly defining the proposal

and specifying the outcomes I think I will leave it there but I do want to add in having that

clarity of focus also helps you bridge also help to identify and understand what other projects

you can align with what other opportunities you could align with because you understand and have

that outcome in mind and so there may be other partners other careholders maybe you want to

collaborate and work with another commission that's working on the same thing maybe you want to

work with the council office maybe you want to work with an additional city department

besides Yipsey right so that there's that collaboration so when you're like oh you're doing that work

we're doing that work too we should be doing it together right so it could help you bridge even though

there may be a quite a difference in mission and purpose of your particular organization or role

but that can bring bring a bridge of shared outcomes and shared collaboration

so anything oh before I go there

okay there's only two buttons on this thing and you think I can can master it okay so any thoughts

on or anything else you would want to know besides desired results or outcomes at this step

anything come to mind and it's okay if not but please

Commissioner Melissa

I would say one other thing you might want to add to this step would be including what resources are

available for the project you're working on and that also ties in with what you were saying about

collab or about collaborating with others with the same goals that allows you to put together

what you have to make the best use of what you're working on so that's the one thing that can't

find when it came to step one for me excellent thank you including what resources would be available

to do further collaboration and bridging thank you that's great any other thoughts or ideas

and again this tool is going to be reflective of you all so while Gare has one it's reflective

it's to be reflective of the Sacramento Youth Commission so if there are also questions just to kind of

help plant seas of there's questions you think that should be pertinent in each of these steps

around youth let's add it in let's let's consider that okay all right thank you for step two this

is about the role of data what is the data telling you as Aretha described earlier everything is a

data point we really are understanding that and I think one of the powerful ways the racial equity

approach brings to us is really honoring lived experiences of people different types of experiences

really does help us have an understanding of how we can strategically develop programs and

services that meet the needs of all people so that's why data is important and it can be qualitative

it can be quantitative as well and it can be nuanced some things that we could do better is we tend

to count a lot of data like participation rates and that and the other but it's like well but how

do people feel about go into the program so wow you had a lot of people go to that event or a lot

of youth went to that event but how do they feel about it that's a little bit harder to get that's

a little bit harder to understand but think about if you knew at least half of the participants

in what they felt about attending the program you would be better informed as commissioners and also

staff would benefit from those experiences in tweaking or leveraging or adjusting the programs as

well and then that could also help you as you make recommendations to the council because you've

heard how youth feel about a why and z but that's a little bit more nuanced than just counting

somebody who's coming in through a door does that make sense so the tool can help you kind of

unearth that kind of explore that the tool may help you also come up with more questions too that's

why we're saying the questions are good so that nuance piece is what I really want to highlight the

other thing is is that maybe you don't have any data that's a data point and guess what that's

where you start to go we need to start we need to start collecting data if we don't have what we

need how do we work with partners how do we work with city staff how do we work with the office

of diversity and equity how do we work with community careholders to another youth organizations to

get that data if we don't have it so that is also this point here is about you want to have some

type of data that informs how you're moving forward and how you're knowing your meeting your desired

outcomes and the success you want to have so I will leave it there any other questions or thoughts

or ideas that have come up for you in this step you want to ask commission commission or daily

first of all I really like to talk about the nuanced data and I thought that was really interesting

because I think it's not really considered enough in many studies but also I just wanted to ask if

you had any like good ideas on how to get that nuanced data or just quantitative qualitative data

from like larger groups where you can't really go up and talk to everyone at one time

yeah um not one that I've put into practice here at the city I'll to be honest with you but the

idea is and I've always I've had this for at least a couple of years and I've actually talked

about it with city staff and we've talked about it a little bit too there's this great methodology

called photo voice and photo voice is a strategy of collecting data where you have participants

use their cell phone and they take picture they take a picture of their experience or what's

going on for them and then they write a brief description of what they were feeling what why

did they come what did they benefit from it and it's directly from that person's voice I would love

to do something like that around our projects um you think about it everybody has a cell phone or

most people have a cell phone I should say um and how we can create a repository of all of those

voices from an event or an experience I think would be really we would still get the

quantitative but we would get that qualitative but I we but I want to be very transparent I have

not executed that here or implemented that here I do think the surveys that we do collect within

the city around like employment um experiences I think try to get to some of those nuances about how

staff feel about this how do they feel about um the feedback they receive how do they feel about

working here at the city so some of those surveys get to those kind of nuances but you have to

be intentional about it too so I think it can happen did you have any thoughts too yeah sure um and

the next piece is around community and careholder engagement so I think it also overlaps and I have

another thought I went to add but um it also I think depends on when you say like a large group what

type of setting you're in are they your peers or is this like community organizations another

example just off the top of my head um is dot voting um where you have things that are up on the wall

and you're asking people's either priorities I mean you can get really specific right with um how

people are feeling about things um so you could give them a certain number of votes and they

physically go up there and that's like a large crowd kind of just goes through and again that's

one one sort of set of data but if you're looking for experiences you could have people write things

out and then read them so I think it um sort of to answer your question with some more questions

that you could ask is what is the type of event or environment that we're in what do we have access

to and at the end of the day what what information are we trying to get like what do we want to walk

out of from these interactions and I would say all of the interactions that you're having with

the individuals that you're talking to are part of that story so you can also even if you had a

side conversation with someone you come back to your group and you say hey I had this conversation

this made me think about something else even though this didn't come from like an official survey

or an official engagement opportunity so and we can also think about um as we put together resources

some strategies that you all can um can do to think about how to collect nuanced data but it's a

it's a great question and there's a lot of different strategies. Yeah do you

Commissioner Lu? Yeah I just wanted to touch on kind of that nuanced data and also on the

needed data key point because I think those are pretty crucial areas that um are needed to just

many forms of equity if not most and like I would propose a question on the flip side of the

questions that we already have there which is like what data is missing and what might that data tell

us because I I know we've already sort of began addressing that by discussing those key points but

having those explicitly there in the framework um it gets that thought process going. Thank you.

Yeah that's a great um a great suggestion and again what we love about this tool is

that might be implied in some of it but you can actually put that in the tool and have it be a

question that you can ask you can remind yourselves every time what data is missing so that you're

really prompted to do that um any other comments before we move on to step three. Commissioner Bullessou.

I would I was saying thinking about step two that specifically when looking at what kind of data

in our uh toolkit that we would like to make sure we have it's remembering to look at data from

um different like marginalized groups and that can be part of what data is missing and I think

looking at what data is available to us and what data we have the ability to collect which ties in

with what resources we have and then looking at when do we have enough to make like an educated

you know move into the next step of the project and when is it not enough to go ahead with something

because you wouldn't want to choose to do something without the full picture in mind and at the same

time you do want to make sure you're getting things done so that's something you want to explore with

step two. Yeah we can talk about um and that also might be a follow-up conversation for all of you

as sort of those thresholds and thinking about and it might change depending on what's being brought to

you or the conversation you're having having it might not be a this is across the board but it might

be for this type of project or for this type we want this baseline before we feel comfortable moving

forward so it's great um we've added that to our notes. Commissioner Chisto. I really liked about how

you brought up the point about what to do when there is no data and how that could be a starting point

for groups and officials to start collecting data right and looking into that and I know the

question of looking into what data is missing was brought up and as I was doing the pre-reading for

um this part of the for this presentation I don't think I saw any information regarding about

what to do when there is no data so my recommendation is that you know whatever you just told us here

is about you know how to you know about the guidance for collecting you for collecting new data when

there is no data um you know maybe including some information or just a bullet point for some guidance

surrounding that. Thank you yeah that is very important. Anything else before we move on?

Cool um so moving on to step three so this is considering community engagement approaches

and something that I was just I made a note of that really I think lives in between step two and

three and can apply to both um is this idea that community and careholders have ownership over

their data so this is actually I would say like a community engagement approach to your data is

you can also present data demographic data or other data that you may have to to your peers to

community to careholders and say how do you do you feel like this represents you do you feel like

this actually applies to your experience living wherever you live in the city going to school whatever

that might be um so I've made a note to add that because I think that would be a really great um

thing for you all to think about is also asking as you think about community engagement you do this

also asking folks once you've collected some of the data how do you feel about this data do you

feel like this actually aligns with how you walk through the world and how you experience things

um so moving on to the community engagement section um so we were uh wanted to make sure that we

wrote down this idea that no decision is uh um is for us without us so this idea that and this

goes for all of you as well in addition to thinking about broader and community engagement

approaches and these questions of how have community has been engaged and are there

opportunities to expand engagement um so as you've seen in the pre uh pre reading it's not enough

just to consult the data and literature and to make assumptions about how a proposal might impact

folks it's really important to involve communities careholders whatever at whatever level it is um

who are impacted by the topic by the issue and again I think this is thinking about these questions

who who might be impacted but you didn't already assume is impacted and you can get some of that

information through conversations talking to folks who you might not think may have been impacted

but actually are in some way so again this iterative process of as you're going through these steps

you might learn things about previous steps that help inform steps that come after um are we

talking about small group meetings public opportunities again ways to get feedback from peers in your

districts tapping into existing outreach efforts right these are all ways to think about um that

process of how have community has been engaged how have they not and can you make recommendations for

maybe how to add those things to the process depending on what you're talking about um and when

we're talking about developing a racial equity tool focusing on community's color in particular

certain neighborhoods in the city of Sacramento and thinking about what inclusive communication looks like

so thinking about evaluating the approach whatever that might be to community engagement and how

to include everyone's voices does the process need to change and what might barriers be to engaging

in including folks who may not have participated before so I think this goes back a little bit to your

point um commissioner about you might be in a big space how do you get everybody a sort of opinion

or how do you engage with folks um and thinking about those barriers leading into those situations might

help you think of creative solutions for um how to really um involved um and as many voices as possible um

and the other thing I just wanted to reiterate is that you all bring an immense amount of

skill and wisdom and that you're again your ideas of how to do that and those approaches

in partnership with each other will give you really wonderful strategies um and you try something

and it doesn't quite work you get to come back and say hey we learned that this approach worked well

in this way for these group of folks but it didn't work particularly well and the next time we do

it we need to take these kinks into consideration so also really encouraging you all as you go through

sort of this toolness process as you're looking through these questions is also to take notes for

yourself and you can implement change for the next time you try to do something um so really thinking

about being able to answer the following questions in this step um who are the most affected community

members have you involved them what's your engagement engagement process told you about burdens or

benefits to different groups um and then thinking about factors that uh producer perpetuate racial

inequity related to this proposal so um I'm going to pause there are there any other questions or

comments that you have specifically for this community engagement step which I think is a very

it's a very big step um but anything specific particular to youth in the city or approaches that

you would like to call out okay great so this leads into step four um so we have moved on from

community engagement and we are now building off of our data and careholder input and community

engagement and the next step is to think about complementary strategies that advanced racial equity

so this is really about understanding the impacts so we started with the outcomes and what we're

trying to do and now we've gotten to the step where now we're trying to we have a lot a lot of data

in front of us understanding the impacts um and then thinking about strategies to get us to where

we want to go so who benefits from or will you burden by your proposal what are your strategies um

advancing or mitigating unintended consequences um so this piece really wanted to highlight that

the decisions we make often and always have both intended and unintended consequences um and this

part of this tool and this process is really to try to uncover a head of time that's what we

talked about doing this as early as possible some of the unintended consequences so that we

can mitigate so that we can try to avoid them or provide solutions um to um to moving through

them and trying to address them before they happen so we often tend to see policies or programs

and isolation um as uh something happens over here doesn't necessarily impact what's happening

over here but because racial inequities as um he was stressing before is really about systems

um and structures it's important also to think about the complementary approaches and strategies

that will provide additional ways to maximize the impact on racial inequity in the community

so expanding your proposal or whatever you're looking at to integrate policy and program strategies

broader partnerships uh who is already doing this work in the community again what departments might be

you could consult or doing this work and might have suggestions for it so really thinking

from the micro to the macro level of um additional strategies and support that you can bring in when

you want to better understand the impact um again a singular program is probably not going to

address all of the root causes right going back to the um the sustainability goals the SDGs it's all

of those things intersectionally that will help us uh move any one of those forward so it's the same

kind of concept here that um when we're looking at a singular program or policy we can also think

about all of the other things are that are going to impact that that you can still bring into the

conversation on that one topic which shows that you understand that all of these things are connected

and maybe there are things that you can recommend or that you can do that you're putting together a

comprehensive assessment policy whatever it might be that will help um to move all of those things

what would a holistic view look like the question can consider and what other recommendations can

be included as part of your overall strategy um again focusing on what are potential asking yourself

what are potential unintended consequences um so that we can build strategies that really maximize

impact rather than just continuing to address like one thing at a time that might actually

um um address those root causes so that you're just going to have things perpetuated it's more like

putting a bandaid rather than going to the um root of whatever is causing the issue

take a pause there for any reflections or questions anything you would want to see in this step

in particular is it relates to you in your work commissioner system um so I have a

suggestion for adding a new question so this kind of um it's based off of the second question

but maybe looking into which strategies have not been so effective with uh trying to incorporate

increase in spread racial equity so maybe working um another question like which strategies in the

past seem to have had the least effectiveness um when in when trying to increase racial equity

or another question along those same words yeah and maybe what can we learn from that

right yeah yeah that's great thank you commissioner bill also

I agree with commissioner sista I would say that step four really ties in with step three and step

to and it's kind of a iterative like process like you were saying earlier where you can keep

going back and improving upon the project that way so I think it uh ties in well with those

other steps and uh her question really brings it back to step two about the data and

the data also ties in very much with the idea of engaging communities and receiving a lot of

input from them because that allows you to know where to look for data what the ideas are so

I think uh it's a very robust design process to be able to use definitely I appreciate

you making those connections back to it because right in step two that allows you to then

right identify some some things you might want to implement in the community engagement piece to

maybe get data that you don't already have that then it helps you think about what other strategies

might come up so thank you for your comments appreciate it

commissioner long wire

first strategies like what came to mind was um like how you could possibly present your

information or your data so it could like be more relatable to youth for example because um

like for example when my district was um holding like listening sessions for our 102 acres um

like the ideas for that we were like we thought of a lot of ways that could relate to the youth

like how it would like interest them like pull them in and we got like a lot of good outcomes for

that so I saw yeah that'll be a good way to think about how you present your information

yeah we can definitely add that I think maybe to the data section and maybe some other places

a question or a reminder for all of you how do we talk about this so that we that we get our peers

and that we that this is relatable to different audiences and we can expand it I think specifically

the youth but then also um helpful to think about how can we get this across to different audiences

that's a really great point and we will make sure to include that thank you

all right all right two more steps y'all two more steps so step five is uh assessing for

realistic implementation um this is the step where you consider um how realistic is the plan

a bit of what resources are available um is there sufficient funding is there sufficient personnel

is there sufficient time for community engagement and then it goes back to some of the other

is there a sufficient time if we don't have data would we be able to go back and get data

so these are some things that you would consider um uh in this particular step which is about your

plan and really understanding the plans parameters or the programs parameters or the initiatives

parameters so that you have thoughtful implementation and I really want to say here nothing is perfect

but you have to move forward you have to make decisions there are timelines that the council

is under we do have a budget cycle there is you know RFP processes and there's all kinds of things

that are part of our systems of the city which I know um you all know and have been exposed to

and so understanding how your plan fits in with all of those things is uh a consideration

and this is where the step kind of helps you understand how that program or plan would be realistic

in its success or do we tweak it or do we look at postponing it because additional staff will

come online later or do we tweak it so where we have more data in order to move forward so sometimes

you have to do the stop and go you have to understand what it could take it but it's understanding that

and so this step is really that deep dive into understanding the program plan or initiative and how

it would be implemented and what could it need such as effective strategies um maybe so you know

in one of the aspects of this too is understanding maybe you have to do some research

I know that doesn't tend to be a step that is identified usually in a lot of system structures

but research is very very important and we all do it to certain degrees so having that as a step

maybe there needs to be an initial pre-research before the plan is engaged or maybe we need to do

um I'm going back to your question to uh the question about you know finding those nuanced

understandings of how community and careholders are feeling maybe we need to do a community

listening session in order to understand how this plan and what the goals of the plan should happen

so these are things that you and your role could help guide as you move things from this particular

decision body to um the council or to community and applying the tool want to stop there and see if

there's any other additional thoughts or questions you want to add commission or daily on for you

um yeah I um wanted to think about like in addition to like the resources and the research you can do

also like maybe looking back on um researching people you can connect with to get this message out

and implement it more like either people you um garden to know through this process of research

or new people who you found who would be also helpful to get the word out to more people in these

communities because I often found that uh what community leaders can be more helpful

than you trying to go directly to all these communities that have been marginalized before

yes so I want to make sure that I'm capturing it so it's it's ensuring that um or at least

reaching out to community care holders who are already in the community or have the relationships

and understanding and reaching out to them so that you don't have to duplicate or do something

that maybe you don't have the relationships to do and then building off your network

yeah that capture it okay wonderful commissioner lid thank you I definitely agree with my fellow

commissioner and I feel like a easier way to remember this step is through smart goals because I

feel like they're really aligned and um yeah like it's specific measurable um achievable relevant and

timely mm-hmm yeah we do like smart goals we like smart T goals smart T goals are that same formula

with i and e for inclusion and then equity on the end so it creates the acronym I love me some

acronyms um so thank you for that I appreciate that and that's maybe something that we could bring

in to the tool as well as the smart and then the the suggestion around network and relationships what

is already present in consultation with those networks commissioner system so you touched on

creating the plan according to whatever budget is available right so my so I just had a question

about what happens when the budget is really tight and limited so how would this look for you know

those officials those groups that that still want to you know bring that racial equity change how

does that look for them and is there any way we could possibly provide maybe a small framework

for guidance kind of around that issue um excellent question and yes that is something that's in

our environment right now right as the city so I really appreciate that and what I would offer there

is in understanding this step and then probably the previous step with networks and community

um and think about the project there's aspects of it that may not require a budget

there may be in-house resources or there may be partnerships that can be forged that could help

bring those resources to the table so I think that's where this could come in and so I think you're

I really appreciate your suggestion of like the framework on okay what if the resources are limited

here's some things to consider and here's a framework you can apply appreciate that

all right thank you so much this is great all right last step is developing um toolkit uh six

bringing it all together the bridge and building so in this particular step the considerations

um as previously mentioned actually may not be in your control there's going to be a lot of

things that are not going to be within your control so it's important to ask yourself the questions

to consider are you covering all the areas when you're making your recommendations to like for

example city council so the data collection for impact the levels of accountability and the

communicating for success some of you have already kind of touched on that and that here is what

are the levels of accountability how will you know if um there will be that report back how do you

know that that the infrastructure for the program will continue on um what are some of the pillars

in the program or initiative that will make it sustained so that it just doesn't happen and then

six months later it's gone so that's where these levels of accountability but also it's for

you who are applying the tool what are your levels of accountability what is the accountability

structure within this commission um is it to revisit this we're going to revisit this in six

months we're going to revisit this in eight months we're going to follow up with careholders

in our networks within three months at this event you know like things like that so it's

accountability is two way so you want to build it not only for the programs that you are recommending

or policies or initiatives you're recommending for but you also want accountability

within yourselves as well so this is an important and important step and then the communicating for

success is really important um it was uh actually mentioned earlier in our meeting today about

communicating the success also you're going to communicate the failure and we could do a lot better

for that because we only tend to want to say when we did something right or when something happened

but sometimes understanding and communicating with our careholders and honest and authentic ways

about we did this this is what was attempted or this is tried we understand that we did not meet

that here is what we're doing next that is also not only having authentic communication for success

but you could actually bring more careholders in the work with you instead of saying that it

doesn't have to be just for success i hope that that makes sense because we tend to only want to

say the one thing but this is a reiterative it's not going to be perfect but there is always a

learning moment that can happen and moving forward i think people tend to appreciate that more

because the work is happening and there's an honest commitment to try to make sure that change is

reached so you think about your messaging how you message how often was the quality of message

is it around an event is it around a kind of feedback loop and maybe those are some of the things

that maybe we can we can uh spell out in this particular step as well so i'll leave it there

any thoughts or additions commissioner loop uh yeah just a couple of things i'll start with step six

so that extend not accidentally by unfortunately like posed uh request to speak a little bit too late

and then we move on to the next step um but starting with step six first of all i love the whole

toolkit in this framework it's very helpful especially for you know organizations that might

not exactly have that established yet and that's kind of what i wanted to touch on with my first

question proposal which is um not only just present accountability but future accountability having

like run uh like student organizations and as well as work with like the boys and girls clubs to

create uh access equity programs especially for like music education um it's important to just

have that knowledge that your program will last beyond your physical presence and physical

influence there so adding something where it's um basically just asking how will you ensure future

accountability and that the program will be lasting um so that that's like uh proposal for step six

and then for step four slash five it might be for one of those two um something to do with contingency

planning like like those worst case scenarios because obviously we don't want that to happen that's

not what people want to think about but it's important to consider what parts of the plan could go

wrong and if those do go wrong what's the next step to make sure that we get those programs back on track

all right i did a comment bar are we going to be allowed comments you guys are we'll get to we'll

get to public speakers you're doing it you're

commissioner blasso um i wanted to say that i think um going back to how the steps kind of

involve like being iterative and kind of a process i think step six incorporates um some of

like its own loop or its own um it's own uh feedback loop about

about um team management how you're managing your personal resources who's like communicating

who's running the project so you're also going to be looking at like what's working what's not

with how the team is running this um analyzing that making a plan just like steps two three four

and five so that's kind of incorporated with steps step six in implementation and then

yeah i agree with um the questions already involved in step six and i think that looking at the

toolkit as kind of like uh all the ways that it flows back into itself um allows you to keep

making sure that you are effectively making progress and changing your plans instead of

running the same thing over and over again and not making much progress because you aren't

adjusting for efficiency so um yeah that's what i wanted to add on to step six thank you

you all right let me start to close things uh let me pull this off um what if you don't have enough time

i feel like we talked a little bit about that but um even with limited time there's a few critical

questions that uh you all can be asking yourselves that can make a difference and i was writing in

notes based on some of our conversations that we can include sort of the like if you're running

short on time here are the things that we can just this checklist we can go through um and that's really

thinking about impacts what are the racial equity impacts of the decision just broadly

beneficiaries and burdens who benefits or is burdened and mitigation are their strategies to reduce

unintended consequences so you can ask yourself sort of those three things if you don't have time

to go through a full process but again you can also think about um and we can work with you if

there is a slightly different framework that you might want to think about um if you are running

short on time what are the things that are really important for you all to be talking about with

limited time and resources uh where are bridges who do we have relationships with that can provide

insights or practices if we can't um generate them ourselves really quickly and we'll include

this in the toolkit as well that kind of like frequently asked question what if you don't have time

so it's a it's a way to um operate this um addressing barriers to implementation understanding the

types of barriers to implementation and we've touched on it a little bit um sometimes there's lack of

leadership support um the use the tool only in certain situations and i really want to highlight

this one is the perfectionism that we think that we have to get it right the first time uh you do

not get it right the first time you apply you rinse and repeat and you learn on every cycle and every

time you apply or look at a question more deeply so practice practice um and training but i would

just say practice and being reflective and really trying to answer the questions to the best of

your ability emphasize and agree on accountability as a commission that will be really important is

what us the accountability piece that you want to have and then you systemize it as a routine so

that leads to the um last uh integrating the racial equity tool with broader strategies you're going

to be engaging in a practice or a theory of change is called normalize operationalize organize

and also visualize and so this piece will be how you apply it in your decision making and that

will be leading us to really kind of the next conversation that we have after we have a draft of

the tool for you all to give input on based on the feedback we heard here really appreciate all of

your thoughts and insights and then anything else you want to add and then uh i could see us

probably doing like a practice session at some point um in the near future as well so you can kind

of get a feel for it or before you have to make any formal recommendations because it's all about

practice all right thank you and any other questions or comments we're here but thank you for your

time and attention we really appreciate it uh before you move forward uh council rules procedure

uh requires us to take a or the sorry the commission rather to take a vote to extend the meeting past

two hours is there a motion i motion and a second i second that motion

i have a motion by commissioner longmire and a second by commissioner young i'll now do the

roll call vote members if you could please unmute your microphones commissioner sista

uh uh nate

commissioner ballasa i commissioner Bernardo i

commissioner Lynn i

commissioner lu i

hi

mr. Chan

i

mr. daily on i

mr. Turk

i

commissioner young i

mr. longmire i

and chair rios i thank you the motion passes and the meeting will be extended another hour

okay so thank you uh clerk are there any members of the public who wish to speak on

this item thank you chair i do have one speaker slip on this item uh shall be

all right

so i have idea because i used to work for the school district and so we use a lot of different

apps and even some um places that are um

uh that clean houses through care.com there's some employers that use something called koala

but like i think it would be kind of cool um with the racial

quetti uh toolkit to create a certain kind of app that just involves anyone if they're here

or they're a member and then just someone to also allow it to be on youtube because that's

something we have live here which is there will be a war being watched but most uh i think

is it could train a telemantez device mayor and the new mayor they watch us but like

involving like zoom and you know how zoom allows a phone call for conference access that would be

nice they have questions um maybe after or during your business hours um so allow live chat

which like youtube has like a chat or a blog would be awesome um and like also the sheriff program

would be something cool to kind of get incorporated because they do hiring with youth and stuff

and they work with a school district they work with judges that work with people who are like

work with that uh it's like the program that like if you don't have money you can like um

you know uh damn it's that volunteer program i forgot what it's called it's so late

on my bed times early um but allow volunteers um to help with the app and gain maybe vocational

um certificates and experience and maybe try to hire some more people um for your department and um

thank you for your comments and allow less like low thank you for your comments your time is complete

uh chair i have no more speaker slips on this item thank you are there any commissioners who

wish to speak on this item

commissioner blouseau um i want to thank you guys for coming here to present and talk about

the steps involved in creating a racial equity toolkit i really enjoyed discussing and learning

about that i'm very interested in the engineering design process it's a huge like documentation like

documenting um the process is a huge part of this uh after or this extracurricular i'm in uh a

robotics high school robotics uh competition thing and um i would say another part of like to add

overall to this um process would be documenting all the steps involved because while you're making

that progress other people seeing how you went about making your own toolkit your own steps um

like how you went about refining um your project whatever it is that you're working on allows them to

look back at your work and use that to guide them and also allows them to make the process faster because

they will see what kind of hurdles have already been overcome so thank you again for sharing all of

this i was uh very happy to hear you talk about um your idea for um how people can share their

like lived experience through photos and things like that um i would like to hear more about that i

think that's very interesting thank you for your presentation

thank you for your presentation it was super informative very in depth um i appreciate your work

because i feel like racial equity is very prevalent in today's society now like more than ever um

yeah i'm excited to have it implemented thank you

yeah i would just like to say again thank you for your presentation very detail very thorough um i

appreciate how you emphasize belonging in school we just recently learned about the differences which

is between being included and even our capacity building trainings being included and belonging and

belonging to a community and it's it's an important aspect of building a community that will fight

for the future and bringing up visions and creating sustainable visions every the future is only

possible with visions and so it's collectively here and collectively with this racial equity tool

i'm really excited to use it to create new visions for the future so thank you yeah this item is

received and filed so no vote was required we will move on to the next item item number five is

the selection of chair and vice chair for calendar 2020 calendar year 2025 is there a step presentation

thank you chair this is Jacob Redberg from the office of the city clerk there's no staff

presentation on this item all information is detailed in your staff report however i will

remind members of a few things members may nominate another member or themselves for the chair

vice chair position typically nominations will be heard for the chair first and then vice chair

a member may serve as chairperson or vice chairperson for no more than two calendar years

so of the current roster everyone on the dies here tonight is eligible to serve as chair or vice chair

and then the newly elected chairperson and vice chairperson will start their terms at the next

regular meeting okay so i would actually like to go ahead and nominate commission or long

wire um to serve as vice chair i have seen her commitment to the s by c especially with her

council member creating events that group students students at schools and youth all together

to create community hubs and that's what we're the youth commission has tried to do for a while is

create spaces where all youth will include in so i'd like to nominate her for vice chair

and then i was going to nominate myself for chair again i've only served uh let's see i think

three or four months not not very long and so yeah yeah two meetings are maybe three so i'll see

a vision for the features uh Sacramento youth commission and i'd like to do a lot more and so

so i hear a motion from chair reos nominating

himself as the chair and commissioner long wire as the vice chair

and then we have commissioner young commissioner reos you kind of read my mind i'd like to second both

motions um felt like today you did a very good job showing maturity um and leading the youth

commission today um you also have very great ideas so i'm excited to see what you do for the future

on the youth commission and i also what would like to second that motion nominating my fellow

commissioner great commissioner long wire um she's a pleasure to work with and she's very dedicated

to her community and i think she'd be a great person for the vice chair of the youth commission

and commissioner long wire um i like that they're the motion um sorry i'm always but i agree with

chair continuing his um sorry i just want to play but yeah i third the motion

okay hearing a motion from chair reos nominating himself as the chair and commissioner long wire

as vice chair second and the the um the vice chair nomination was accepted by commissioner long

wire and we have a second by commissioner young i will now do the roll call vote

commissioner's if you could please unmute your microphones uh commissioner sista

i commissioner balasa i commissioner Bernardo i

commissioner Lynn i commissioner lu i commissioner Chan i commissioner daily young i

commissioner turk i commissioner young i commissioner long wire i and chair reos i thank you the motion

passes yes i heard you make a motion for again nominating yourself as chair and uh commissioner

long wire as vice chair and one so we took the motion okay that's great oh let's see

okay so yeah so the next item is member comments ideas questions uh meeting conference report

are there any commissioners who wish to speak for our newest commissioners this is a time uh to share

some ideas if you'd like to see on our agenda the next time or just updating us about your

community engagement um stuff that's been happening in your life uh we care about you we want to know

about um how's everything been going well the clerk please call the roll for vote oh so

nom vote you'd like me to start from the beginning of the ideas you go on uh commissioner sista

um um i actually don't know what to talk about nothing's like like nothing's really been going on

in my life apart from like school senior year just finished college apps i'm like still waiting on

except and says rejections um yeah there's not how much do you

commissioner balasa um recently i've also been just working on school um some of my extracurriculars

i recently in um my school's unicef club we've started we have an opportunity for seniors to

receive a cord by presenting about a current event so we've started inviting seniors to present

to it's around like 80 90 kids per meeting in um our school's library and that's been really

interesting to hear other people present and people have also been tying in their senior projects

with that um so it's been definitely like inspiring and um yeah so i've been hearing a little bit

about stuff around well more unlike a global scale and then also some senior projects i've heard of

recently um there's this art like my personal like my home room or advisory at my school is

supporting this girl who is painting nails at um and elderly care facility or like a i'm not

sure what they're called but um we've been donating new nail polish and things for that so yeah um

things have been going well for me and yeah commissioner brinardo um yeah so at school my fellow

SB members and i we've just been working on planning this um dance that we have coming up for

our school um we've also we've also been preparing for an upcoming senior night um for our seniors

who are also um into sports so yeah just a few events to celebrate um my fellow peers and um

yeah just those those events commissioner Lynn currently i'm finishing up my senior year

and we just finished finals with our school and taking five AP classes was really really hard like

my finals are so hard but it's okay like i've powered through it it's senior years i can just kind

of give up i guess um it's it was um lunar new years the other day so i just spent time with my

family and we celebrated the new year and i've been working on my senior project which is building

your little free libraries and marginalized and underrepresented areas in Sacramento so what our

project is aimed to do is to offer um little kids and other um members of the community little

books that are walkable distances and we are looking for findings so if you are interested in

helping our senior projects please let me know um and i just finished with college apps i did get

deferred from USC early action but i hope i get in regular decision um but recently i've been

hoping my fellow council member um pluck a bomb um with hope hopefully to help them do like

social media help and uh make graphic design flyers commissioner Lou yeah i'm also a senior so

it's second semester senior year that's the time where people tend to you know kick back a little

bit and just kind of appreciate everything that we've done but there are a couple of things that

like to celebrate in my community right now one of them being um because of the lunar new year

we have um an Asian cultural alliance at our school that holds an annual lunar new year celebration

and that happened just last week it went uh by fantastically and we got a lot of just resources

financial resources and money out of that sort of the club to continue their work and continue

their outreach um and also on that note also celebrating a school initiative that our school

has established as of this year not something that i was aware of as a club leader but something that

i was just made aware of um where they've combined kind of community service with providing financial

aid to the clubs so having the actual clubs do actual partnerships for example with the

Sacramento Food Bank and engaging in real community service or engaging in direct service in the

school like holding school wide events or representing um the actual student voice in school boards

and stuff like that um in kind of a relationship for more funds because money can get tight sometimes

and that helps ensure that the clubs are actually engaging in meaningful ways with the communities

Commissioner Chan um i just want to talk about from what i've already experienced with this commission

like the capacity training meetings which i had a lot of fun getting to know everyone and how

this meeting showed how open-minded intelligent and uh well spoken everybody is

and it makes me very excited to work with everybody else in the future and see what's in store for all of us

Commissioner De Leon um last weekend i went to a winner new year festival um there was held in

not sure this my district but there was a lot of city council members there um there was the mayors

and i got to meet a lot of interesting people and i also got to meet someone working for the

AP APA um it's another youth commission that is also focused on civic engagement and um she asked

me to pass out a flyer so um do you know what i can do to get that on some on our um agenda for next meeting

what is what is the request can you repeat that um it's a fire that and google form that she sent out

and she's trying to get um more youth involved in some civic engagement and she'd like to um get it

on our agenda slides and so if it's a flyer that you want to share with your fellow commissioners what

you can do is you can share that with uh city staff and we can bcc everyone and send that flyer

out on your behalf if you want to bring the flyer here and show it to public because that

you do okay and who was the requester was that your council member um no it's from a leader of a

different commission for youth i see um

can you share the flyer with us we'll take a look at it does that work and then

um we can look at potentially putting it on the log if it's appropriate to do so

yeah is that work is that work for clerk too yeah great

missionary trick um i've been recovering from being sick and just trying to get by um on my grades

for school um so i haven't really done that much and i've been uh going to conditioning for

softball which trials are happening so it's pretty exciting commissioner young

i finished college apps actually i think i did i might fly to san juga states honor college

we don't know yet but um got a few early acceptances which is exciting um salt i just finished my

musical into the woods that was super fun and now i'm going into softball with commissioner

jerk um upcoming with district eight we have our 102 acre youth led advocacy workshop next

Wednesday from February on from six to seven p.m. at the panel community center so if any of you

commissioners would like to participate that would be amazing um we're mostly just collecting ideas

on youth input and ideas on what we would like to see on the 102 acre vacant city parcel um in

district eight to bring to city council later in February thank you commissioner long mar

um for me to spend the usual like ASB and like sports like cheering out that um not too much going on

i am starting i want to start um i'm looking to starting a program on my campus because a lot of

my peers they've been like seeing what i'm doing and they've been like inspired inspired but they're

like a little intimidated to go on the city level so i'm trying to like give them like a way to

like start off that's more like friendlier because i'm like you the so like you do and it's called

less flourished so i'll probably like talk more about that when i actually get it going and um an

event that's coming up also from my district is the district eight community conversations i'm also

actually um asking if any of you guys are interested in volunteering for that it's basically um you'll

get paired up with one of the city staff they're going to be there and they're going to be talking to

the community and you're going to take notes it's a great way to um like improve your civic like

engagement and all that like your experiences um if you're interested in that just let me know

giving my information about that that's pretty much it thank you and chair rios i just wanted to say

congratulations to everybody especially commissioner sista and commissioner young for completing

your applications of getting some early decisions in um and ziki for taking all those AP classes

you know becoming an academic weapon um but just everyone's accomplishments everything that we do

here it's so great and yeah i also wanted to give a shout out to commissioner

laine uh for really showing out this meaning it was your first meeting you did a great job your

words were extremely well crafted and so we were super excited to have you here along with our

other commissioners of course just for me um i've just been up to a lot of ASB work especially with

ivaana or in the state of a sv at our school have a lot of work put on us so we're just getting

through that getting through classes uh hopefully i'll be eligible for early release as a junior

next year i'll be the first one in my school to do that uh because i have the classes and everything

so that's in the processes um but yeah wednesday and thursday van and i will be attending the

civil engagement summit i don't know if any of you guys are going to that um so yeah just doing

that i would like to make a motion to put something on the agenda with recent events

ice is now able to raid schools and other public places and so as youth this will cause traumatic

events for youth living in sacrament over regardless of your background uh but that isn't

important to us we're not judging you off of any outside factor but that this will be traumatic

events uh for many youth and so we're making an emotion on that to either sublude at that as a

supplementary thing to youth voice or youth mental health um i don't know if a whole focus group

necessary for this but getting resources out there for youth who will have to face um

conflict the consequences at these rates so would i make a motion to do that um because this is

four matters not on the agenda uh we couldn't do a motion to um amend a document that you previously

approved um however you can add this to the youth commission follow-up log and staff will

review and possibly bring it to a future meeting okay sounds great can you repeat exactly what it is

that you're looking for please so that we're clear on what to add to the follow-up log to the follow-up

log i'm not exactly how it would be crafted in this situation but a opportunity for the

sacrament of youth commission to gather resources similar like we did with um mental health resources

for children whose parents um or themselves are going to be targeted in these rates

almost a resource guide i gotcha do you think maybe it's something that we would want one of our

ad hawks or focus areas to take under is that what you're asking um okay i can craft something put

it on the follow-up log and we'll follow up or if it sounds great also this has been a long

meeting so um thank you for all your patience and everything but this concludes today's agenda

not oh why not quite i just need to announce that we have no speaker slips for uh public comment

that's all in this agenda okay sounds great this concludes today's agenda thank you everyone

for participation this meeting is adjourned

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