Good morning everyone, happy New Year. I will now call the personnel and public employee

committee to order at 1102. Jacob, can you call? Thank you chair. Member Telemontes.

Here. Member Maple. Here. And Chair Kaplan. Here. We have a quorum. I just want to take chair

privilege to thank my colleagues because as of tonight you guys are moving on to other priorities.

And so I want to thank you for your service on P P and E and have fun and all the new adventures

you are taking on. I know we've accomplished a lot this year and moving forward. So with that,

I will now move on to and of course those who wish to speak on items not on the agenda.

There's a public comment card up there but if your item is on the agenda we will call you up

as we move forward. I'd now like to vice chair Maple. Can you do the pledge and the land

acknowledgement? Please stand.

Thank you.

All people of this land, the Nisanan people, the southern my deum,

Gallyan claims Miwa, Puchman win two peoples and the people of the Wilson Ranch area,

Sacramento is only federally recognized right. Maybe acknowledge and honor the native people

who came before us and still walk the status today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather

today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's Indigenous

people's history, contributions and lives. Thank you for being standing.

So Luke and Puch, 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, liberty and justice for all.

All right now moving on to our agenda. We have the consent. Any questions, concerns,

public comments? Jacob, any public comments? By chance. Thank you chair. I have no public

comments on the consent calendar. Move by Maple, second by Talamonte's,

All in favor. All right now we're going to move on to the all important fun

discussion of hearing about the 2024 annual work plans and all the hard work our committees

have done and what they're going to do for 2024. So it's my pleasure to call up the Youth

Commission for their 24 annual report and 2025 work plan. Sarah Muster, pleasure.

Hi, good morning. Sarah Muster, Recreation General Supervisor with the Youth Parks and

Community Enrichment Division. Good afternoon chair, committee members, clerk's office and

city attorney's office. Happy new year. We're very excited to be here with you to kick off your

long list of annual reports and 2025 work plans. I'll be briefing the Sacramento Youth

Commission's annual report in 2025 work plan with the chair of the Sacramento Youth Commission,

chair, Reyes Rios. I want to first thank the commissioners for their commitment to the youth

and the city of Sacramento. I'd also like to thank the city team that works with the commissioners,

our adult allies, Rhonda Patterson, who couldn't be here with us today, and Dominique Kernden,

who is here with us today. Lastly, the IFC leadership team, the clerk's office,

city attorney's office, and council offices for their support and guidance throughout the year.

The Youth Commission has been around in some capacity since 1993. It became codified in 2019 as

the official voice of youth in Sacramento. There was quite a bit of work done on youth voice

this past year, so I just want to highlight the fact that there was a lot of support for the

Youth Commission this year from the City Council and the Mayor's office, so thank you for all of

that. The Youth Commission provides recommendations and advice to City Council, the Youth Development

Administration, and Yipsey on policies, projects, programs, and other matters pertaining to youth.

I realize that you've used the acronym Yipsey, and I want to clarify Yipsey is the Youth Parks

and Community and Richment Division here at the City of Sacramento. So when I say Yipsey,

that is who I'm referring to. So they provide recommendation advice on policies, projects,

programs, and other matters pertaining to youth. Many City departments present to SIC, which is

the Sacramento Youth Commission, to gain feedback on projects, programs, and outreach efforts.

Now that I've gone through that portion, I'm going to hand it off to our, well, that's the wrong way,

to our chair, Reyes Reyes.

Good morning, my name is Reyes Reyes. I'm the chair of the Sacramento Youth Commission.

I've been with the Sacramento Youth Commission for almost two years now. I started in July of 2023,

and now I'll read a letter written by both me and Vice Chair Stombe Bergen.

Dear Sacramento Youth Commission constituents, our names are Reyes Reyes and Stombe Bergen,

and we proudly serve as Chair and Vice Chair of the Sacramento Youth Commission.

From our humble founding in 1993 to our current state, the Sacramento Youth Commission has

completed an immense amount of work regarding the well-being of youth within the City of Sacramento.

Since its beginnings, the main priority of the commission has been to uplift the voices of

youth in Sacramento, and we have continued to do so. This past year, through our three focus areas,

the Aggie Square Project, Youth Mental Health, and the Sacramento Youth Voice, we have made an

extensive amount of progress. In the Aggie Square Project, the Sacramento Youth Commission has