Good morning, everyone.

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

Would the clerk call the roll please to establish a quorum?

Thank you, Mayor.

Councilmember Kaplan is absent.

Member Jennings?

Here.

Member Vang?

Here.

My apologies, co-chair Vang.

Chair Steinberg.

Co-chair Steinberg.

Co-chair, okay.

Teasing you.

It's all good.

We are here and we do have a quorum.

Members, why don't we get, well, we should do the Land Acknowledgement and the Pledge of

Allegiance?

Of course we should.

Councilmember Vang, if you would do the Land Acknowledgement, I'd be happy to have the

Councilmember Jennings to the Pledge of Allegiance.

Appreciate it.

Please rise for the opening acknowledgement and honor of Sacramento's indigenous people and

travel lands if you can.

To the original people of this land, the Nissanon people, the southern Maidu, Valley and Plains

Mewok, put win and win to peoples, and the people of Walton, 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 peoples, history, contributions and lives.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Congratulations to the United States of America and to the Republic which stands One Nation

under God, Indivisible, Liberty and Justice Law.

Justice, the word that cries out to me this morning, and that's why we are here.

And we have a good agenda.

Let us begin with the consent calendar.

The meeting minutes of last time, are there any corrections for the meeting minutes members?

All of the item on consent.

Okay.

I'll second the item.

Soon we don't have any public testimony on the consent calendar.

Correct.

Okay then let's say all in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Opposed abstain.

The consent calendar is passed.

We now go to the main part of our meeting here which is the discussion calendar and very

excited to hear an update on the score initiative and where we're at as various clocks are ticking,

including the remainder of my term.

Good morning Mayor.

Good morning, Coach Irvang, Council members, staff.

I'm Jesse Villalobos from Race Forward.

Joining you this morning, I am the senior director of Place Based Initiatives, Strategies

at Race Forward and the lead in our Sacramento work here over the past five years.

And I wanted to provide you just an overview and a framing of where we are, where we're

going, where we've been.

And then I would invite some of the racial equity council and racial equity alliance members

here this morning to provide a bit more detail in particular on the upcoming listening sessions

where we really want your participation and support.

So just want to think about taking us back to our March meeting and how far we've come

in the past few months and that's really due to the diligence and commitments from our

racial equity council and racial equity alliance members who have been meeting, coordinating,

strategizing on a weekly and sometimes more often basis to drive toward these deliverables

and to really create the structure and support with the city to have true community partnership

and true community leadership for this racial equity work that will be sustainable for

generations to come.

So really the structure is being created.

This is really innovative in terms of looking at the national scale of racial equity efforts,

particularly those include community and government.

And the depth of this initiative is something that we have not seen, even looking at our

government alliance for racial equity and some of the projects that are happening across

the country in that framework.

There are a lot of eyes, a lot of interest on Sacramento and a lot of hope that we can succeed

in this work.

The June updates of the activities since we had a bit of a gap between meetings were provided

to you, you'll remember in mid-June and that gave detailed specifics of where each of

the work groups were situated in terms of their goals and their timelines and progress toward

those.

Those three work groups again to remind you of the policy work group which is really focused

on the work around the resolution and framing that up, right?

Getting that to you this fall.

The second group is the community partnership and accountability work team.

And they're focused on building community power in short, but hyper-focused now on the

community listening sessions that are taking place throughout this month and there was one

last end of last month also.

The third group is the narrative group which is really focused on communication and messaging,

messaging of the narrative for racial justice and racial equity in Sacramento that's really

focused on this opportunity for partnership between government and community.

The August updates that were just provided to you last week, you'll remember, focused

on the resident stories of the community listening sessions which will inform and shape the

racial equity resolution.

Please help us spread the word to invested community groups and residents whose voices aren't

often enough heard in these conversations for racial equity.

And please see the flyer which is part of your attachment materials that were provided

which has all the details, QR code, etc. for sign up.

Also the racial equity and racial equity alliance and council have gone public.

So the website launched in June and there's been a lot of activity.

There were also some pieces from the website that were included in your attachment.

I'll talk through some of those in a moment.

And finally the community leadership from the racial equity alliance and council and these

new partnerships that have been established between the city was featured last month

on Capradio and a story there.

And that was a joint interview that we did with council member Vang with Amibarans and

with leadership from the community.

So it was a really great experience.

Again the attachments that were included in your report today include the racial equity

and alliance website pages.

So just snapshots of those, the homepage, the about page, the members page and contact

us page as a phone number.

There's an email.

The second piece that was included was a print of the Capradio story.

So the title of that story is Sacramento Community Advocates prepared listening sessions on

racial equity resolution by Kristen Lamb.

The third content in the attachments is the Community Listening Sessions invitation

flyer and registration QR code.

And so again we're driving toward the first in person session which is to take place tomorrow.

I believe at Haginwood Community Center.

We have a good amount of RSVPs but we are pushing for more.

And so we ask for your support to get some of your constituents, some of your voices on

racial equity from your districts to the session tomorrow.

There will be a $25 resident gift card that will be included for participation in the

sessions which may help incentivize folks to make it a priority to come.

And those will be distributed after the sessions.

A couple more notes.

I would like to just recognize and thank city staff on behalf of the racial equity

alliance and the racial equity council who have been providing incredible thought partnership,

support, staffing around tech, facilitation, note taking.

So commitments to support the listening sessions and have really been an incredible asset

to this work in the past few weeks.

The listening session in planning, the call to action for committee members to spread

the word of constituents in the next three sessions.

The first session is tomorrow night Wednesday the 14th.

The following will be August 21st, so a week from Wednesday.

And then one more virtual session which takes place on August 28th, the following Wednesday,

which there are hundreds of RSVPs for.

We're not sure if they're actual people but very excited about the interest on that.

So if you could please let the leaders from the alliance and the council know if you can

support the sessions, I mean if you can attend and if some of you are planning to by completing

the volunteer sign up form which is also linked to your report.

This is how we know who's coming and so we can make sure to count for that and allows

members to follow up to offer direction and support as folks kind of enter the space and

participate.

So where we're going is my final piece.

We're really driving toward the fall as the mayor said.

The clock is ticking and we understand that and we know there's an opportunity so folks

are seizing it.

What this means for the future in terms of the convergence of government and community

power for racial equity and Sacramento.

It's developing new government community partnership.

It's developing a new culture rooted in shared power.

We've been shared values and shared vision for a multiracial and just democracy which

has been the struggle in this country right.

We're building toward that.

The community driven structures and governance that can inform future government structure

with racial equity policies and practices that will produce racial equity and outcomes.

And finally thinking about the promise of democracy and the multiracial, racially just

democratic society.

Efforts such as these as I mentioned before are too uncommon but they really hold the promise

for us to realize a true and just democracy.

So again, thank you for your commitments to this racial equity work.

Thank you for your partnership with the community leadership and with that I would like to

turn it over to the racial equity alliance and racial equity council leaders to provide

brief overviews of their work groups and also respond to questions.

And I'll take questions now if you have any regarding what I just presented.

Thank you, Jesse.

Why don't we hear from the community and then maybe we'll open it up for all of you.

That would be great.

Who's speaking?

Well I think I was going to just give you a rundown of the two other groups and then

really hyper focusing on this community partnership group because of the listening

sessions.

And I think that's where most of the energy is now.

It's been all hands on deck in terms of all of the groups really focused in on supporting

these listening sessions.

And the way that the policy group is doing that is that there's a methodology that's been

created for listening sessions where residents will weigh in on particular priorities around

racial equity, be able through their stories but also through their prioritizing.

There will be a process in the listening sessions.

And that really informs kind of the reshaping of the resolution draft which is already

in draft form has been through several reviews and revisions.

We'll continue to be moving toward the next step after the analysis of that data from

the listening sessions to be able to then workshop the draft of the resolution in the

trio space.

So with staffers from the city who are part of that and council member Vane.

So that's kind of the next step.

And then from there comes to you all.

So we're really we're on target in terms of the timeline.

Still looking at fall, late October or late November to get that to you all.

So we're on target.

The second group I wanted to speak to just provide the overview again.

You receive the details and the news letter update I sent on Thursday last week.

That is the narrative group.

And so I did talk about the launch of the website, the cap radio story, the messaging that's

been created that will help drive the narrative around racial equity.

It really informs how this work is communicated to residents in listening sessions.

And so it's a key piece of the strategy and will continue to be as we learn from residents

and hear their stories.

The narrative group will reshape narrative and turn that back out to residents so they

hear their voices in the work.

The community engagement and partnership group is focused on the logistics of planning

the strategy for the resident listening sessions.

As I said, the first in person session will take place tomorrow night, Haginwood.

The first session took place July 24th.

That was consisted of participation from area organizations and groups who are also

also invested in racial equity.

Partner and sister groups.

There were over 60 registrants groups for that, around 40 participants in that session.

And a lot of good data to be able to reshape kind of the method and the way that we run

the sessions in the upcoming weeks.

So with that, let's open it up.

That's okay.

Good morning, everyone.

Happy Tuesday.

Jesse, thank you so much just for the overview and highlight of what's been happening since

our last racial equity committee meeting.

So I really appreciate all the hard work with the Alliance and Council, the narrative team,

the policy team and the community partnership and accountability team.

Really looking forward to the community meeting that's happening next week at the Penel

Community Center and really great to see that we officially also from the Alliance and

Council side have a webpage that's up as well that lists the members, that shares a

little bit about the Alliance and the Council and the work.

One thing I like just to add in terms of direction is if possible, we can have that webpage

also up on our score initiative page.

Through the Office of Diversity and Equity, I believe we have a page on the City website

that kind of lays out the score initiative, but if staff could also add that webpage

on our city page, that would be great so we could direct traffic to that page.

Really looking forward to the work and glad to see that we're on the timeline to get a

draft resolution this fall to this committee and then hopefully we can move that item

forward to the full mayor and Council for a vote.

And so just really want to say thank you for your hard work.

And I'm looking forward to the community meeting next week.

Thank you so much.

Councillor Jennings?

I would say did all to everything Councilmember Van has said, great update.

It really looks like a lot of things are going on and going well.

And according to the timeline that you have in place, it seems like we're right on target.

So we've got some great events that are coming up real soon with the community group meeting

that's coming up real soon and the fall is going to be here before we know it.

And so the draft narrative will be in front of us as well.

So I mean it seems like everything is on target.

And I guess my question to anybody is what do you think are the biggest hurdles that we

have over the next six months?

And I won't even say six months.

I'll say over the next three months.

I'm going to take it one less than the four.

I want to speak to that.

Y'all are on the front lines.

I'm going to ask the question of what is the biggest hurdle but also what support do

you need from us as you continue to do this important work?

Yeah.

And I'll say just from my perspective as someone who's observing and helping support

and organize a strategy, this capacity is always the issue.

I mean folks are working full time.

It's summer.

It's August.

You know, a lot of folks are traveling, getting kids ready for school to come back.

And it's just a lot of, presents a lot of constraints for folks time and availability.

So, and you know, people have things happen in their lives, right?

So I think that's continually the issue.

We're not, you know, folks aren't restores, it's like an organization in this case.

Folks aren't on a payroll to be able to do this work.

And so that creates just trade-offs in terms of time and how we spend it.

But I would like the members to speak to that.

My name is Robin Rose-Hamer and I'm on the Racial Equity Council.

And to your question, Council Member Jennings, I'll say constraints are, yes, 100% what

Jesse has mentioned.

But I will also say that anyone who's been involved in a data collection project understands

that there is a pretty vast amount of information that gets collected.

And so sorting and to be able to code that data is going to be, I think, one of our largest

challenges in order to be able to use it, to turn it around to be able to inform the

work that we're doing particularly with, with the resolution.

So if you have any ideas besides coding software that we could utilize to be able to process

that data, I think would be helpful.

That'd be great.

I'll go.

No, please.

Please.

Hi, good morning, Brianna Osborne, member of the Racial Equity Council.

I would think in addition to everything that we have stated, in echoing that sentiment

about capacity, especially as it pertains to our community listening sessions with the

fall kicking in and, you know, COVID on the rise amongst other things, really just ensuring

that we have hands on deck to help us.

We really appreciate Kelly and all the staff who have been able to support us, but ensuring

especially for these next three listening sessions in which we will be engaging community

members.

We want to ensure that we have enough folks to cover all of the support roles that are

needed.

It's one of the areas in addition to continuing on that ask for outreach, especially

to our hardest-to-reach community members.

We want to ensure that all voices that are able to be in the room can be in the spaces

for these listening sessions.

So any support that you walk in, Linda, is giving us your support in getting outreach

there and really just helping to join us in ensuring that we are fully staffed for

these sessions would be super helpful as it pertains to the community listening sessions.

Thank you.

Kelly Reves?

Thanks.

I just had a question how you're doing on staffing and support.

So we have a sense of what we may need to help with.

Absolutely.

I guess I'm back again.

So for the session that we have this Wednesday at Hagenwood, we do have about 10 volunteers

available.

And for our Metabew session, unfortunately, we only have six.

And we know that that's an area that, also, we, again, we really want to hear from the

community members.

And then for our virtual session, we have more than enough.

So specifically for our Metabew session, I think, we're going to have a lot of work

that would be one that we could use some additional assistance.

And then as Robin alluded to, when it comes to really processing all the data, we could

also probably use some support as far as that is concerned as well.

Okay.

Are you aiming for 10 for Metabew or?

We are aiming for as many hands that can make the work light.

Because as we said, as was mentioned, capacity is really starched from a lot of our members.

Unfortunately, we've had folks, things happen in all of our lives.

You know, we're a lot of us, again, full-time jobs.

I myself will be going back to school full-time in two weeks.

So we just really could use some additional support.

Thank you.

I just want to add my thanks for the momentum here and the hard work that has gone into

creating it.

And grateful for the cognizance of the timeline.

And it's not just about me because the next council would vote for this.

I have no doubt about it.

But it is, I think, important to actually allow the next mayor and council to have a real

strong launching point for how it is they begin with the city team and the community utilizing

the tool.

And to that end, I just want to say this would be my hope that the city faces another challenging

budget in which the issues of equity are going to be paramount.

And when I'm in 2025, when I'm in front of my screen or TV watching channel 14, is the

budget hearings are progressing, I hope that the people participating in the community

meetings are actually in the chambers here participating in the give and take around

the city's budget and budget challenges.

In other words, I hope that that's being emphasized in the listening sessions about now

how the next step is to apply what we're talking about and learning to some very important

practical applications, the budget being something that is of obvious paramount importance

because it is the value statement for the city in terms of how it spends its resources.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor.

On that note, I wanted to just connect a couple of dots.

So the listening sessions, the hope is that there'll be upwards of over 100 residents

that will participate.

We're on target for that, likely more than that.

And part of the strategy behind this is not just inform the resolution, but to get community

buy-in for this work, to be able to connect with residents, to be able to stay connected

with residents so that when the time comes to push for those priorities that they are

at the table and their voices are actually in the space.

So that's part of the strategy.

I wanted to note one thing that I forgot earlier.

I think I mentioned it, but I wanted to go into a little more detail.

I wanted to offer a really deep appreciation to particularly the Office of Community Engagement

for their role in supporting the listening sessions.

They've been incredible.

Also the Office of Equity, Me and her team have been also incredible in the work, also

just great partners in the work.

And finally, the Mayor's Office, and especially just want to thank Kelly for over four years

of partnership and commitment in this work.

And this is Kelly's last.

Second or last?

Second or last, Rachel Equity meeting.

So, okay, so I'll say that.

There'll be more flowers in September.

Yes.

Okay.

Very good.

Absolutely.

Thank you.

All right.

Are we ready to move to the next item?

Do we have public testimony?

Or do we?

No, Mayor.

Okay.

Great update.

Let's move to the next item, which is may seem unrelated, but it's absolutely relevant to

this whole conversation.

As we talk about Sacramento's Urban Forestry Plan and how we might want to apply a racial

equity focus to.

He's changed.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

Ain't that the truth.

Right.

Sacramento is hot.

I don't know if you know that.

Yeah.

Okay.

Go, go.

Well, good morning, everyone.

It's really great to speak with you.

Thank you, Mayor Cochare-Vang, Member Jennings, staff.

My name is Rachel Patton.

I'm a program specialist with the city's Office of Climate Action and Sustainability, and

I'm the project lead for the Sacramento Urban Forestry Plan.

I'm incredibly excited to get to speak with you all about trees and racial equity.

Trees are a really critical component of our city's infrastructure and their dynamic,

and they add a lot to our community health and well-being.

And there's a really strong correlation between race and income and public health and where

our trees are located.

So I'm glad we get to have this conversation today.

Let's see if I can make this work.

There we go.

So I'm just going to overview the plan a little bit, speak about existing conditions within

our urban forest as it is today, and then how that relates to the key recommendations

that we're proposing in this plan, the equity strategy, specific policy recommendations.

Thank you so much.

Related to equity.

We did just complete our public review and comment period, so I want to speak about

that process and some of the public comment we received and the next steps with the

plan.

So to dive in, this has been a multi-year phase planning effort that started in 2017,

2018, and that initial phase was mostly listening and learning and conducting some initial

research.

So we were able to speak with thousands of residents through a community survey.

We engaged a partner advisory committee of over 30 community leaders who were deeply

engaged in urban forestry efforts throughout the city.

They were a part of this process from 2018, all the way through now, they've continued

to be engaged with us and we're really grateful for their support and guidance in the development

of this plan process.

We also looked at data about the high level of trees, where canopy is, and then did some

specific analysis about the health of trees that the city specifically manages.

This process has taken a long time, partially because around 2020, we realized that we needed

to be aligned more directly with the general plan update and the cap development.

And so we kind of put a pause in early 2020, took all that research that we had been

conducting, provided it, and coordinated really closely with the community development

staff that were working on those projects, and really made sure that the plan that they

were putting forward the recommendations for trees within those plans were informed

by the research that we would done.

And now we're picking this plan back up with pace this year to now that that plan has

been adopted.

This kind of just shows the hierarchy of the general plan providing that high level

guidance.

It does have goals for trees, but that our urban forest plan is going to really get into

the specific policies, implementation actions, and helping guide staff work planning over

the time for incorporation of trees.

So the Sacramento Urban Forest Plan is the city's primary planning tool for trees looking

at, expansion of our canopy, maintenance of existing trees, sustainability of our tree

resource.

And in particular, this is a long-range plan, so it's going to provide goals for the

next 20 years to 2045.

And I think importantly, it's looking at both city-managed trees and private trees.

And so when we look at the city, we really are the city of trees.

We have about a million trees in Sacramento.

And those trees are all, each individual tree makes up our urban forest, so no matter

where an individual tree is growing, whether it's in your front yard or at an apartment complex

at a school that your kid goes to here at City Hall, each one of those individual trees

makes up our urban forest.

And because of those unique locations, some of them, the city's directly responsible

for and some other partners and the public are responsible for.

So about 10% or about 100,000 of those trees are city-managed trees.

So they're growing in our public right-of-way along streets, at our parks, and at city facilities

where the city's directly managing, pruning, maintaining, and replanting those trees.

The other 90% or about 900,000 trees in the city are on private property.

So they're the direct management responsibility of individual residents or of other agency

partners like school districts, the county, the state, things like that.

And so it is a little tricky for us to manage that.

It leads to a lot of differences in resources and access and education and all of those different things.

When we look at those million trees and where they're located, first off, they shade about

19% of the surface area of the city.

And so that's what we call canopy cover.

So 19% of the city of Sacramento is shaded by trees.

But we know that if you look at this map, the darker areas have more trees, so they have

more than 19%.

Some of those neighborhoods have as much as 40% shading.

And then the lighter areas have less.

So some of the light green, some of those areas have less than 10% canopy.

So the average is 19, but you can see it really varies widely depending on what neighborhood

you're in.

And there are a lot of factors for that.

The high level goal that was established in the 2040 general plan and the cap and is the

foundational recommendation of this plan is that we have a goal of achieving 35% canopy

cover by 2045.

So to do that, we would essentially need to double the number of tree citywides.

We go from a million trees to two million trees, which would require us to maintain all

of our existing tree canopy level and plant about an additional 25,000 trees annually.

That's not just the city's responsibility, even if we planted every single square foot

of space that the city has land ownership over.

There wouldn't be enough space to plant that many trees.

So this is something that we're going to need to work really closely with our private

partners, with the public to identify those locations.

And then the other thing I just want to kind of highlight is that to achieve this goal

is going to require additional funding and fiscal resources.

100% of our urban forestry section funding comes out of the lighting and landscaping fund,

which hasn't quite kept up with the pace of inflation.

So we're utilizing those dollars and operating that program, but to double the number of city

managed trees will need to identify new funding sources, which staff have not yet identified.

So it's going to be a key implementation thing that we're going to need to get into right

in the beginning.

So I'm throwing around a lot of percentages, but really just to visualize what does that

actually mean when we talk about 19% canopy versus 35% canopy?

The picture on the right is less than 19%.

So that's actually probably about 10 to 15% tree canopy.

That's a level that you'll see really standard in a lot of our newer developed communities

and neighborhoods around the city.

And then 35%, which we've said is our goal and what we want for every neighborhood throughout

the city of Sacramento is that picture on the left.

And that location is a street section in New Ara Park here in the central city.

And you can see that that level of tree canopy is providing a ton of shading.

It's really comfortable even when it's over 100 degrees.

It's easy to walk in bike.

It's comfortable inside our homes.

So that's what we want every neighborhood to look like.

So all of that kind of boils down to the four key recommendations that we have within

the plan that provide the basis for that our policy recommendation section are really

these four things.

And the first one being trees and which we're going to rename because that's what we've

gotten a lot of feedback that that's a little confusing.

But essentially what that means is just planning for our trees as a part of critical infrastructure

acknowledging that they are an integral part of our community that contributes to public

health and so that we need to be planning for them.

The second recommendation is city of trees for all.

And this gets to the heart of our equity strategy.

So we're going to talk a lot more about that.

But making sure that as we grow our tree canopy that we're addressing that distribution of

trees to make sure that we're not taking one neighborhood from 40 to 60 percent but

we're taking all neighborhoods up to that 35 percent.

We want to protect our existing trees because we can't plant ourselves to 35 percent canopy.

We have to keep the trees we have and invest in canopy because that's going to take some

money to get us here.

So let's talk a little bit about our equity strategy.

So the first part, you know, these I have three maps up on the screen.

And really when we talk about our equity strategy for this plan, we're looking at the correlation

between canopy levels, recent income and socioeconomic factors in neighborhoods and then the correlation

that that has with heat because we know looking at all of the data and research that's been

conducted in Sacramento that there is a negative correlation between trees and those other

two factors, meaning that in neighborhoods with more trees, residents are typically

richer and the neighborhoods are cooler and the opposite is true.

When there's less trees in a neighborhood, typically have more diverse lower income

residents with more heat vulnerability.

So we really want to get to the heart of that.

The map on the left is again that can't be mapped.

The dark green being the highest and the gray being the lowest canopy levels.

And you see really this kind of like X shape that's where there's high levels of canopy

across the east, west corridor and there's less trees north, south.

And then you see the exact opposite, the middle map being the disadvantaged state designation

as disadvantaged community status in the purple.

So that north area and the south area have more disadvantaged community members, you know,

facing more socioeconomic income inequality, those types of things.

And then the same thing, the north, south, the dark red being really hot in those neighborhoods

and cooler along the east, west corridor.

So what we did is we overlaid all of those maps and identified priority intervention

areas for urban forestry.

The red areas represent need in all three of those categories.

So their neighborhoods that have low tree canopy, residents that are in disadvantaged community

census tracks and have high ground level surface heat exposure.

Orange meets need in two of those categories.

Yellow meets needed one and the green meets need in none of those areas.

So you can see there's areas of the city that need a lot of support in growing our urban

tree canopy as a way to help protect our residents and increase public health and improve

quality of life in those neighborhoods.

And what we're recommending, you know, there's a lot of policies in this document and some

of them are going to be around land use planning or implementation of city services.

And those are things that will be implemented equally across the city, no matter what

the neighborhood is.

But when we talk about strategies to actually grow our urban forest, increase equity and

access to nature and address these things.

So any of our canopy expansion efforts, where we planting new trees, things like that.

We really want to focus in these priority intervention areas.

As we were developing this plan, equity was a guiding principle.

It was something that was highlighted both by staff and the community as a central need

for the plan.

So we did try and bake equity into the plan and not just have it be a couple recommendations.

The guiding principle and kind of how we've defined equity in this case is that all communities

are entitled to the same access to tree canopy and its benefits and that inequity in tree

canopy and that distribution has to be addressed by this plan.

The core policy recommendations around equity are specifically that we want to seek to address

historic inequities and remove barriers to tree adoption and ensure that urban forest

is shared equitably across all communities.

So the two kind of policy recommendations that we have are to prioritize city planting

efforts in those priority communities that we just looked at.

And then to support and facilitate canopy expansion efforts on private property as well

in those priority communities.

So addressing both the public need and the private need in those priority communities.

In addition to that, there are a number of other policy recommendations that focus on equity

specifically conducting our public outreach and education, making sure that we're targeting

that in disadvantaged, high heat and low canopy neighborhoods of those priority communities.

Encouraging active participation by residents because we know as people get more information

about trees and access to resources for how to care for them.

It makes it easier to care for their own trees on private property, targeting volunteer

opportunities.

So opportunities for building, getting engaged with city efforts in their own neighborhood

in those priority communities.

Thinking out partnerships with other agencies and on profits, community groups in those

priority communities.

Working on any building workforce pipeline, so any workforce development programs that

come through this targeting those in historically under employed and low income neighborhoods.

Because urban forestry is a really good paying green job and not just at the city but throughout

the industry.

There's a lot of opportunity there and we want to target resources through this plan for

those residents.

And then the last two are around exploring financial resources and incentive programs for

people in disadvantaged communities to plan and care for both new trees and mature trees

on their private property.

Because we know that the financial cost of caring for a tree long term is a barrier for

people to play trees in their neighborhoods when money is an issue.

So that's the high level about our plan on our equity strategy.

We are currently just finished.

So I guess we developed and released the draft plan earlier this year.

We conducted a two month, a 60 day public review period from April to June where we were

sharing this widely with the public getting paid back from them.

We received over 600 comments through that process.

So we had a lot of engagement.

The primary methods that we used were an online workshop that we gave over 20, I think 26

presentations at different community meetings throughout the city.

Really focusing on neighborhoods that were in those priority zones.

We went to a number of commission meetings.

We had a big media push, social media campaign and we had signs and billboards across the city

just trying to direct people to that website.

We did all of that.

We also did a little bit of an effort to have some of these materials available in multilingual.

So there was English and Spanish versions of all of our flyers and the yard signs and

things like that.

The website was not translated so I think that may have been an access issue there.

But our efforts were to try and reach as many people in those priorities as possible.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Can we dialogue a little bit?

Yeah, absolutely.

I think it's a really good start.

But I want to be constructively critical here in terms of our engagement together.

What I read here is a lot of sheds as opposed to shouts when it comes to equity.

I'm thinking about the work that I've been involved in over the years around mental

health and proposition one.

So we wrote the Mental Health Act back in 2004 and a lot of $31 billion, a lot of good

work, a lot of people got helped.

A lot of trees planted, so to speak.

And yet the criticism was that there was very little outcome-based reporting or real

drive towards achieving the outcomes that everybody believes are necessary.

So the question here, I guess the next level here, is what is it going to take to create

some outcome-based accountability around our tree canopy and equity?

Because I mean the map is distressing.

And this happened for a reason, by the way, it all happened for a reason.

So where is the, this is an aspirational document and it says all the right things.

But where is the intentionality?

Where is the incentive?

Where is the requirement?

Where is the insistence on outcome-based reporting so that if we're not shrinking

these disparities over the course of time that there is some consequence.

This is always the challenge with government, but this is the essence of what we were

talking about earlier with Jesse in the community, the application of a racial equity tool.

And in some ways, it's the policy makers that will sit up here.

By the way, I'm really, really glad you agendas this.

And I'm just thinking like maybe the way this committee should work in the future, since

I know that it's tough for the council, for example, to apply these tools to every aspect

of the budget.

But maybe there should be regularized hearings before the racial equity committee on different

subjects like this so that you can really get into some depth and provide guidance to both

the staff and to the full city councils.

I think this is really, really valuable.

But that's my big picture question is how are we actually going to make systemic change

around our urban canopy by through requirements, incentives, the strategic expenditure of dollars,

both public and private, because, well, for all the obvious reasons.

I mean, I think that's, you hit on the main thing, right?

We can have these aspirational, large planning documents, but where the rubber meets the road,

that's, you know, are we actually able to achieve this by 2045?

I think how we've kind of tackled that in this plan and listened if there's anything to

add, please jump in.

But we recognize that we need to be doing more regular analysis of what the canopy is.

This is really the first time we've looked at canopy.

We don't have a lot of historical data to compare this to.

You have enough.

Yeah, absolutely.

But in terms of tracking progress long-term, so I think what we're recommending is that

every five years we do a high-level data analysis again to understand.

We also want to be doing a better job of tracking our efforts annually, knowing what is the

city done?

Are we making progress?

Have we planted trees?

What partnerships do we have?

All of that different stuff, because that accountability metric and the reporting on it

requires us to be accountable to our progress.

So I think we need to build in some of those accountability metrics into this process.

The other thing that I will say is that we recognize the urgency of this, and so we haven't

just been spending the last years, eight years planning.

We're both looking at our goals for the future, but we've been taking action now on addressing

some of these things.

So it's not going to get us all the way to 35%.

But we do have been working on, I'm just trying to move forward, because I do have a slide

that has some of the, well, it's not working.

But we've recently, last year, sought out grant funding and received funding for $2 million,

about $1 million each for two different grants that are going to allow us to start focusing

on canopy expansion efforts, because all of our city programming right now goes towards

maintaining the trees that the city has.

But we clearly need to be doing more to rapidly expand our planting efforts.

So we have $1 million that's going to help us plant trees in disadvantaged communities

in Sacramento.

Specifically in our parks that we're going to need to be able to do increasing our planting

efforts in parks through that funding.

And then the second one is through the EPI, and it's allowing us to partner with

Sac City Unified to green two of their campuses.

So we're taking some of those actions.

Now we need to accelerate that rapidly, but it's a start.

The only other thing I would suggest is as the conversation continues over the months

and years about how the city and the county gain more funding, local funding for climate

related infrastructure, that the tree canopy is part of any formula that is put forward

even potentially to the voters.

Absolutely.

That's going to be the critical thing, I think, is the funding for it.

All right.

Councilman Jennings.

Thank you.

Thank you for the presentation.

This was extremely enlightening.

And at the same time, when you take a look at some of the communities that for years have

been underrepresented, it's very concerning at the same time.

I have a philosophy that I took from somebody that he or she who is behind in the great

race of life must run faster or forever remain behind.

And so when you take a look at the communities that are already behind, if we're not intentional

about making sure that we're in those communities and trying to get the tree canopy to where

we all know it should be and we want it to be, then they're going to forever be behind

because they're already behind and it's going to take so much more to catch them up.

So I applaud you on the work that you've done and the grants that you've gotten and

all the things that you're doing.

I guess my question is because I don't know the answer.

So I'm just asking the question.

This is on all hands on deck, kind of strategy.

And you have to be very intentional about how fast you want to move in order to get the

results that you need.

Has this presentation been made to the Parks Commission?

We have given this presentation to the Parks Commission.

The our commissioners, our park commissioners are aware of this presentation.

Correct, yeah.

Has this been given to all the City Council members?

No, we have not yet come to City Council.

I think our plan is to respond to the public comment, do a red line version and bring

that to Council for a workshop before we do an adoption hearing.

And the reason I say that is because my Parks Commissioner, I'm just going to speak for

mine, we have a meeting set to have these kind of conversations about where we're going

to be planning trees in District 7 and the priority, we're having that conversation

on an ongoing basis.

I think with this information, all of our council members need to be having that conversation.

So that means with their council representatives and with their park representatives.

So in order to be able to have that conversation and be able to do some work, we now have to

do some outreach to our community to help us get this done.

Because a park commissioner and a City Council member can only plant so many trees.

But when we go out into the public and start asking for help, then that's when we can start

really getting to the results.

So I heard you say the Sac City Unified School District are all four school districts in

the Sacramento region.

Have they been talked to about, have we made this like a priority for our schools to know

about what's happening and how they can get involved in?

Yeah, it's a priority for us to reach out to all of them.

So that hasn't happened yet.

It hasn't happened yet.

Sac City Unified is the one that we have the most support and ongoing relationship with.

And how do you anticipate that community-based organizations can play a role in all of this

as well?

And how do we reach out to them?

And I'm not asking you to answer that question right now.

I'm just going to say, you know, when I say the City Council first, community-based

organizations, schools and school districts, neighborhood organizations and the Sacramento

Tree Foundation and every other Tree Foundation that's out there, you know, this has to be a

comprehensive strategy for everybody to be working together.

So it is all hands on deck.

And I just, you know, I want to make sure that I help you in that regard because when

we had the storm and we lost so many trees, there was a sense of urgency to replace them.

And that's what we did.

I feel the same sense of urgency now that I've seen this report.

So I want to compliment you on the excellent work that you've done.

But we've got a lot more work in front of us.

And I'm raising my hands and say, I want to be on deck.

I'm ready to work to help make it happen.

Yeah, I appreciate that.

And I mean, you've had on a key thing.

We need to be doing a better job to facilitate those relationships, build them, and then identify

ways that we can work together.

And certainly for us, we've been doing that through being engagement for this plan, working

as closely as we can with bringing in different groups from different neighborhoods and nonprofit

community organizations, neighborhood groups.

And that work doesn't stop when this plan is adopted.

We need to keep finding those opportunities and collaborating together.

So I appreciate that.

And I don't have a magic bullet right now for you.

But yeah, it's that ongoing relationship building is going to be key.

Coach, Chair.

Thanks, Mayor.

Rachel, I just want to say thank you for all your hard work and to staff for developing

this plan.

The chart is not surprising because I live in Med of you and I feel the difference of just

the heat when I'm walking in East Sack or downtown compared to a Med of you.

And so it's not like something that's like shocking for me.

But I think seeing it visually for the public is really important.

One thing I just want to mention, I really love the idea of a campaign.

I get the point around resources and that's another question I have later.

But I think the city of trees for all, right, and galvanizing really around a public campaign

to talk about the importance of this needs to be ongoing, right?

And I think I know council member Jennings, he's a big tree person.

If you haven't seen him plant a tree, he can do it by himself.

He's big on trees.

But I think the educational component is still so important because I know our heart and

hustle fellow, Sada, did our own research around tree canopy in South Sacramento.

And while we can focus on the public right away or the public spaces, a lot of the trees

can be in the residential and private areas, right?

And there hasn't been conversations really around that, right?

So there needs to be in addition to this plan, kind of like a full,

fledged campaign and strategy on just figuring out how we can get more trees out there.

One thing I do want to ask in the report, did we break down how much we are currently

spending at the city level on tree canopy?

And I asked that question because you mentioned most of the funding comes from our landscape and

lighting because that's really important, right?

I think one thing is I know we don't have enough resource at the city.

But the resources that we have, we should be intentional about how we spend those dollars

from an equity lens, right?

I think it's going to be really important for us to leverage relationships and partnership

like the SAC tree foundation.

I know Congresswoman Matt Soe worked really hard to draw down some federal grant dollars

to work with our community neighborhood schools to plant more trees.

And obviously I want to echo the mayor on, we got to figure out like any measure that's

going to happen in the region around infrastructure should include a tree canopy as part of the

measure.

But with the dollars that we have that we spend at the city level, I love to see a breakdown

of how we spend those dollars right now in supporting the trees that we do have.

Because I think it speaks to how we're currently operating as a city.

So I would love to see those numbers.

I don't know if it's in the report.

But I think that's really important for us to see because even with the dollars that

we do have, we should be operating from an equity lens on how we use those current dollars.

Yeah, I think that's a great point.

So there's a high level summary in the plan.

I think it's about $8 million of lighting and landscaping funding is going to our urban

forestry efforts in parks and on streets.

The one kind of challenge I think that we face with using those dollars is that there

are restrictions around it being used for education, some of these outreach components, and then

anything on private property.

Because that funding really needs, it has restrictions around how it can be used and

it's specifically for planting and maintaining trees on city property.

And so, you know, our different sections are using that.

We could get back to you about any of the distribution or how it's funded.

I don't have any specific details about how that $8 million is utilized.

I'm happy to look into that.

I don't know, Lucinda, if you have more color to add there.

Yeah, yeah.

Lucinda Wilcox, I'm the Assistant Public Works Director.

In terms of what we currently do, the majority of our funding is going for the maintenance

of our existing trees and replacing trees that are lost.

So what I would say is because of our existing tree canopy, we have to maintain the trees

we have since most of the, since, as you can see from the map, the majority, we have

more trees in certain neighborhoods than other neighborhoods.

So funding we have goes to maintain the trees we have.

So there's probably more funding going to maintain those areas that have all the tree canopy

because we have, because those are the trees we have, we have to maintain those trees,

we have to keep them safe.

So I think that the maintenance dollars will follow if we were able to achieve more equity,

our maintenance dollars would also achieve more equity.

But because we have an inequitable situation, our maintenance situation is similarly inequitable.

And so that's just kind of an ongoing challenge that we face.

We can look at prioritizing planting and then that in those other, in neighborhoods that

don't have it.

And then that leads, and when that's on city property, that leads to the dollars then shifting

to maintaining those trees.

Thanks, Lucinda.

I think just naming that is really important, right?

Because it says a lot like how we spend those dollars because the system in itself is

already racist.

Like I'm just going to name it because if the maintenance of those dollars is to, like,

if those dollars are required to be spent on trees that, you know, that we have to maintain

and the majority of those are in wealthier neighborhoods, then our systems are already

set up to just do what we're trying to fight against, right?

And so we are the policymakers though.

And I'm wondering, and we, you know, this is maybe a further conversation is I'm also

wondering like are those real restrictions like are there things that we can do with those

funding being innovative around it?

I don't know the answer to that, but I'm just like, do we always have to operate in this

way?

Like are there other ways that where we can change, I mean, I don't know what it will take,

the lighting landscape, but I think for us to research and look into that, right?

Just because it's one way doesn't mean we have to do that way.

Is there a way to undo that, through policy, through amendments?

I think these are just conversations that we should have as well.

And so I just, I just wanted to fly that because this policymakers, if we know that that's

the way the outcomes are, then we should be the ones trying to figure out how to change

that.

And so I just wanted to name that, something that I'm looking at my staff right now for

us to look into that, right?

I think that's really important.

And so I just wanted to name that.

I also recognize that even those dollars are not enough to get to where we want to go.

So I just want to hold space for both of that, right?

So as a city, you know, we are limited with funds as I look at Laney because she's always

telling us we don't have the resources for that, right?

I think it's based on priorities.

And I also think it's partnerships and leveraging, right, our resources.

That's going to be really key.

Just wanted to name all of that.

I think we have a lot of work ahead.

Rachel, you've done an incredible work with this plan.

I think it's a good starting point for us to be ambitious to see where we want to go,

but it's going to be up to the policymakers, right, on the funding piece.

And also our community is going to be all hands on deck, right?

Because we just can't do it alone as a city.

We need private public partnerships.

We need foundations.

We need philanthropy.

We need everyone in the region to make this possible.

So thank you so much, Rachel.

I want to follow up on what the co-chair said, because I think it really strikes at the

heart of this and thank you for bringing it up.

So how much money does the city spend on tree maintenance out of the LNL fund every year?

I believe it's about $8 million.

$8 million.

So some mayor, city council member, could propose that $X million of that be shifted to

add to your million dollars that you'd got through the grant to actually more aggressively

plant trees in neighborhoods that have the lowest percentage tree canopy.

And that would be a heck of a discussion and a debate here among the public and at the

city council.

And Ms. Milstein might disagree with it, but it's the exact conversation.

See, if you do not have the conversation that council member van just raised, then this

is all, it's not performative, but it could be performative.

And so, Laney, get on in there.

Come on, what do you say?

I don't disagree, but here's what I want to say.

The LNL is extraordinarily prescriptive.

And changing it because of Prop 26 since the LNL was established will be a challenge for

sure.

However, the one thing I want to point out around reallocating of resources of the LNL dollars

is that we have a maintenance obligation for safety.

And I sadly wear another hat where I know what we pay out because we have had trees that

have failed.

And so, maintenance of that canopy and the public safety for the trees that we own are extraordinarily

is a priority for us.

And I know I can see the public works folks on that.

But I'm going to remind us of a couple things because we're seeing in this conversation

where we've come from since 2018.

We have recognized and acknowledged what government has done in certain communities over time

to create disadvantaged communities.

And now we are talking about how do we remedy?

And I think you're seeing that in the priorities that Rachel has brought us in Rachel.

I want to say thank you.

I want to tell you how proud I am of your efforts to do this.

It is the second priority of trees for all.

Above that maintenance of, I mean, recognizing that both are important.

So that is extraordinary in what they've done and how they're presenting this to us all

because we, as a city, have said that equity and addressing disadvantaged communities is

a priority.

And I'll just, you know, remind because we see it in different ways and different places

and these meetings are spaced out.

But we've heard about our economic development efforts and focusing on equity.

We've heard about it from the arts.

We've heard about what the city is doing around employment to reduce barriers to employment

in the city.

We've heard about it in our general plan and our transportation programming guide in our

parks plan and now trees.

And I am so very, talk about capacity building and what capacity has been built within the city

to identify ways that the city can make equity a priority in all of the planning that we're

doing.

Planning is budgeting.

If you don't have the plans, you can't create the budgets that then follow that.

And I do believe that we are getting better at and building capacity around circling back

and talking about accountability.

But as you heard from our equity committee members, our council members, synthesizing that

data and bringing it back in a meaningful way is a really hard challenge in so many facets,

right?

We heard from our CBOs that some of the reporting we're requiring for them is a really

hard challenge.

And we can't give that up.

But what we can do is help them build capacity in order to be responsive to our needs when

we spend city money.

So there are things like that.

This is always happening.

And I just want to tell the city staff at large, thank you for their efforts in trying

to bring capacity or equity to the forefront as a priority in what we're doing.

We're changing culture and I agree with everything that you said.

But it is in this business for all of us, no matter what role we play.

We have to be hungry for more and better and we have to push each other because the

equities, the inequities persist and that map is galling.

It just is.

And we can't make up for it all in one fell swoop.

And just to use your example, because I think this is important and this is sort of what

happens, especially in this form of government, when the elected officials and the

lead staff, we parry back and forth on this.

And so the question always is, is it, do we proceed from a frame of trying to figure

out if there is some way to amend the LNL fund for example, or can we have the conversation?

And the way I took your answer is we can have the conversation.

In other words, you pointed out appropriately that there are safety issues and maintenance

obligations and there may be some legal issues as well with the LNL fund.

And so what that means to me is that it would be, for example, irresponsible to suggest

that $4 million be shifted to new planting.

However, we don't know what we don't know.

We don't know what we don't know.

Maybe it's half a million, maybe it's a million, maybe it's a million.

But this is the exact thing we want to grapple with on both sides open-minded here and trying

to figure out, because these are the moves, if done right, that will then reinforce all

the great internal work that you have done here.

And we have done here together to try to change culture.

And you know, and I've been consistent from the beginning, and I've accepted, because

I get it, maybe I didn't at first, that it's important to change the culture inside

out, right?

Okay, you got me.

But I'm still going to focus on the outcomes, because nobody really cares how city government

functions as long as it's functioning in a way that serves the people.

And so this discussion, I have this discussion about the $4 million tree canopy.

I don't know where it ends up, where it goes, what the exact limitations are.

The eight million.

The conversation.

Yeah, Mayor.

And I actually want to provide a direction, because I do think that a plan like this, coming

to the Racial Equity Committee, like is seeking urgency, right, from policymakers.

And I do want to know, I think it's going to be important for report back on, I want

to say the breakdown of $8 million.

I want to have a legal understanding as I'm looking at Susanna, our city attorney, of

what we can and can't do.

I think that's really important, because the policy maker needs to know that, and then

have an option, and options and alternatives that we might want to consider from equity

lens, and then have the policy makers debated.

I think that's really important, and to have the Racial Equity Court, the recommendation

for the poll mayor and council is debated.

So that would be my direction.

I think that's really important, and we can use this one plan.

I wish you do this for all our plans.

But I think starting with the tree can, because we're doing a tree canopy for all for the

entire city.

I think that's really important.

We haven't taken a vote yet, but it's providing information back to the Racial Equity Committee

to make a recommendation to the full mayor and council if amendments are possible with

L&L.

If it's possible.

Let's, okay.

Once an Racial Equity Committee meeting.

It's September.

September 10th.

So, is it, is it, let's, how about we bring this subject back?

Because it's such an important subject back with a little bit more on the possibilities and

limitations of the L&L, of the L&L fund and the, in the formula and bucks, do it.

Let's work on it.

Sounds great, Rachel.

Hey, that'll be part of the agenda.

So it's good.

Absolutely.

Action.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Looking forward to the work.

Okay.

Conversation.

Good.

We do have staff update, I think, right?

Before we adjourn the meeting.

Pardon me, Mayor.

Just for the record.

Just for the record, we had no speakers lips on that item.

Thank you.

Thank you for.

Good morning.

Thank you for that discussion.

There's a couple of points I just want to make before our staff give a couple of really

brief updates, staff updates.

But I really appreciate the acknowledgement that the strategy of having the agenda feature

equity work that is happening across the city.

It's extremely important that we document that, that we have generative conversations

around that.

And this conversation is exactly what I would love to see on all of our boards and commissions

and all throughout the city council.

So I really appreciate that.

The other aspect is just want to be mindful where I really want to thank Rachel and Lucinda

for coming and presenting.

And our office is here to support you in that work too in the report back.

Do know that I think I want to be mindful of September is going to have some really powerful

agenda items.

So just got added on a little bit.

But we'll work it out.

But I wanted to really thank them for doing that.

And all the staff that come and present to the racial equity committee, it's, this

is a place that I really, we really, when we work with the staff and the departments to

come, we want this to be a generative space where we're learning.

We're understanding the dynamics.

We're acknowledging what has happened in very real, intangible ways so that we can direct

future action and policy and shift culture.

So I really appreciate that.

And I'll hand it over to Robert and then the Lisa who will have updates.

Hello, everyone.

Good morning.

My name is Robert Bill.

My pronouns are he, him.

I'm the equity analyst with the office of diversity and equity.

And I would just like to take a brief moment to update on the citywide racial equity study.

Over the past year we have developed a comprehensive RFP incorporating valuable input from all

city departments and offices.

And recently we completed a cycle meeting meetings with the chief, chief, chief, Leicester

of the Sacramento Police Department and chief, custom, custom, mianna of, Manya, thank

you, of the Sacramento Fire Department and their perspectives have enriched our RFP and

provided another critical equity lands that we didn't see before.

So that was very helpful.

With these consultations now complete, our next step is to engage the city's attorney's

office.

Following that we'll collaborate with our procurement administrator to finalize and submit our RFP.

And our goal is to select the consultant by the end this year to begin conducting the

citywide racial equity study, which we're really excited about.

And my last real quick real brief is the Sacramento Equity Explore Design City Tool.

We recently demonstrated the C-Tool to the Measure L Sacramento Children's Front Strategic

Investment Plan team.

And in collaboration with Yip C, their consultant third plateau and the Measure L Commission.

It was agreed upon by the Commission that the C-Tool would be one of the equity tools

that they're going to use to guide their recommendations in the sit.

So that's good news, the CNC move in that direction.

And also next Monday will also be holding another demonstration for C during the same thing

for the Measure U Committee as well.

So more to come on that next time.

Thank you all for your time and attention.

Thank you so much.

Good work.

All right.

Okay.

I promise you not on.

Nope.

I'm hooked.

Okay.

Okay.

Hi everybody.

I'm Larisa Wall.

I'm the strategic workforce equity analyst with the Office of Diversity Equity.

I just want to provide a brief update on the mandatory DEIB training and as well as

our RGAP, our race and gender equity action plan.

So the mandatory DEIB training sessions with CPSHR consultant for council and appointed

officers begin in July.

All council triads of which there are three and the appointed officers cohort have completed

at least one session.

And as a reminder, each group will participate in three sessions to complete the training sessions

for council member triads are 90 minutes and two hours for the appointed officers cohort

due to the size of the groups.

And sessions are currently scheduled to conclude by the end of September.

CPSHR consulting has been sending out surveys at the end of every session to participants

to collect feedback and will put together a report for us upon the completion of all sessions.

This feedback will be important in our evaluation of this foundational cultural competency and

DEIB training as we plan to implement training on a regular basis.

We are also in the process of scheduling sessions for the council staff who will be completing

the series of three sessions or maybe two.

We're currently working on that in two cohorts.

One for supervisors or those who have similar responsibilities and one for non-supervisors.

We hope these sessions will begin sometime in September.

However, given everyone's availability, it has been difficult to find sessions that work for all offices.

We are continuing to follow up with council staff and our CPSHR consulting training partners

to accommodate as many participants as we can.

In addition, we will be working with the clerk's office to identify training dates for 2025

for the new council members and their staffs as well as the racial equity portion of the training.

We look forward to sharing more with you at the September racial equity committee meeting.

We also wanted to provide a very brief update on the race and gender equity action plan

and our work with the city's department equity teams.

The office of diversity and equity team led our second annual equity teams convening in May

at the Natomas Aquatic Center, which was very successful.

The convening theme was narrative building and communication.

Teams spent time identifying team and department values, hearing from other departments,

learning about abundance and growth mindsets and starting to develop racial equity statements

to guide their work.

Teams are now working on their annual progress report updates, which will be shared publicly

on the Office of Diversity and Equity web pages for the first time this fall.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Well, did I?

Is there anything else to come before the committee?

Very good meeting, everyone.

And thank you so much for all of your good work.

Appreciate it.

We are adjourned.

I love you.