Good morning, everyone.

Uh the Sacramento City Council's Racial Equity Committee will please come to order.

Would the clerk call the role to establish a quorum?

Thank you, Councilmember Jennings.

Here.

Councilmember Maple.

Here.

Co-Chair Vang.

Here.

And Co-Chair Steinberg.

I am here.

Good morning.

If everyone would please rise, I'd be honored to lead us in the land acknowledgement and the Pledge of Allegiance.

To the original people of this land, the Nissanon people, the Southern Maidu Valley, and Plains Mewak, Patron Winton Peoples, and the people of the Wilton Rancheria, Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe.

May we acknowledge and honor the Native people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous people's history, contributions, and lives.

Thank you.

Pledge of allegiance.

And people were targeted in large part because of who they are and going about joyous activities.

And we are also sickened by it.

And as importantly, we embrace literally and figuratively the members of our community who are suffering in solidarity.

And I know there's a lot of fear out there.

And understood the number of mass shootings now in this month of January is beyond anything that one could imagine.

And yet there's such strength among us and between us.

And let's grab on to each other, right?

And embrace each other.

Especially the AAPI community and let them know that nobody stands alone here.

Thank you.

Especially as we launched the first meeting of the Racial Equity Committee for 2023.

Our first live one.

That's right.

We've only had these committees on Zoom, so welcome again to everybody.

Let's let us begin with the consent calendar.

The meeting minutes.

She is a passage, but you are allowed to vote in you choose.

Okay, good.

Mayor, I'll uh move the item and also welcome Councilwoman Maple to the racial equity.

Yeah, really super great to have you.

Welcome to this world.

Okay.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Post upstain.

Very good.

Um now let us move to the discussion calendar.

Um start with uh Kelly Fang Rivas, who is um the racial equity, senior racial equity advisor uh out of the mayor's office, taking a very uh prime leadership role on all these issues.

Former chief of staff.

Um welcome to you and please give us an overview of our our history, especially for councilmember maple and any members of the public who might be tuning in for the first time.

Absolutely, good morning, thank you, mayor.

Good morning, members of the racial equity committee.

It's great to have you on, Councilmember Maple.

Um, I do have an oral presentation that you should be able to see both online and in front of you on your screens and in the projector behind us.

So I will go ahead and begin to advance those slides.

This is a very brief overview of our racial equity committee.

Um the staff report contains more information on some of the timeline and background.

Um, so you can refer to that using the agenda online.

This will just briefly go over our stated purpose that is also available online via the council rules and procedures as well as the staff report.

Um, when this committee first formed, the stated purpose of the racial equity committee was to really number one help the council align its advancement of racial equity in city decision making with the impacts resulting from city policy, budget, and service delivery decisions, two to provide space to help coordinate the various city racial equity initiatives, efforts, metrics, and best practices into a holistic citywide informed approach rather than a case-by-case approach.

And finally, number three, to really increase our community engagement, transparency, and accountability for the city's ongoing racial equity work.

The stated committee goals when we first formed at the very end of 2021 were short term really provide direction for the development and use of an interim rapid response tool that we refer to as the IRRT for our ARPA expenditures in the city.

Midterm was to coordinate racial equity workshops or series of workshops for the full city council to go through trainings, and long term is to serve as the public reporting body for our multi-year-long Sacramento centered on racial equity or SCORE initiative and work plan as facilitated by the national organization race forward in partnership with our community groups.