Okay. Good morning, everyone. I like to call our

racial equity committee to order at 11.05 a.m. Madame Clerk would you call roll to establish

Cora? Yes. Councilmember Kaplan. Councilmember Jennings. Councilmember Vane. Here. Mayor Steinberg will

be joined in shortly. We have a Cora. Thank you so much. Councilmember Kaplan, would you help lead us in

the land acknowledgement and the pledge of allegiance?

Absolutely. We've been advised to acknowledge and honor of Sacramento's indigenous people in

federal lands to the original people of this land. The Nisanan people, the southern might do,

the Valley implains me walk, the Putwin-Wintoon peoples and the people of Wilton Rancharia. 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 act of

practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous peoples history,

contributions and lives. Please stay standing and joining me in the pledge.

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

under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you everyone. Happy Tuesday. We have two items on consent. Madam Clerk, do we have any

comments on items on consent? No, I have no speakers. Okay, is- Okay. We do. Okay. I'm sorry, we do.

Okay, thank you so much. We have two speakers.

Can I have Mac please come?

Yes, good morning. Morning, Mr. Worthy. Yes, we're still going along with this

consent. Now, then you've got the race equity committee minutes. Why then we get some public

people when you was doing the study of what you put on a consent. Now, we know

facts. You have discussed that in the back room. Why bring it out here and all of you go the same

way on it. Did nobody oppose it back there? Think about it. You were dealing with some of the worst

garbage that I've seen over the 75 years I've been here and most of those years is right here in

Sacramento. Wake up people. Deal with the public. Quit the line to the public. Open up. We don't

we wouldn't have a media here in Sacramento. We don't even have a newspaper that can really print

to what's going on. So setting up meetings like this at 11 o'clock, what is your intent?

To freeze the real public out, that's what your consent is. How many people are not at work today?

That will show up here. You got to quit flaying this game because in the next 90 days, you're going

on your own coming back. Thank you, Mr. Worthy. Thank you for your comments. That's the only speaker we have.

Thank you so much. All right, colleagues, there are two items on consent. Do I have a motion on the floor?

Okay, moved by Council Member Jennings, second by Councilwoman Kaplan. Madam Clerk, can you call the role on that item?

Yes. Council Member Kaplan. Hi. Council Member Jennings. Council Member Vane? Yes.

Yes, thank you. Thank you so much. Next item is our discussion items. Oh, public comments.

Just go to item three. Okay, we'll go to the discussion calendar. Item three is report on

completed mandatory diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. DEIB, racial equity training for

elected officials, council staff, and appointed officers, and next steps. And on me, we'll be kicking this off.

Thank you, and good morning. Community care holders online. The racial equity committee members is

good to be with you here this morning, and with our community care holders that are in the

dius as well, in the chambers. Really happy to provide an update and the great progression in this

training initiative that you know began in May of 2023. My name is Amize Nsile Barnes, pronouns

are she and they and I serve as the diversity and equity manager. And I'm here with my colleague,

the Reese Wall, who serves as the strategic workforce equity analyst and who I really want to say,

played a very pivotal role in making sure of the scheduling and the background to make sure that

we were here thus far, so I really appreciate that. So let's jump right in to our objectives today.

We really want to give you a sense of the participation rates. We are really, it's really great to

have Dr. Angela Love, who conducted our sessions from CPS HR consulting to offer some of her thoughts.

And then we really want to get some next steps and some direction from you all as to how do we

sustain and keep this effort going. So we're going to talk a little bit about the New Mayor Council,

Council staff members, that transition we talked about earlier this year at the racial equity committee.

We want to briefly go over funding and scheduling and really contract. These are the infrastructure

pieces that need to be in place to note or sustain this effort. And then of course the racial equity

training component that we want to have for 2025.

All right, so I'll hand it over to Louisa.

Hi, good morning. So I wanted to talk a little bit about the completed training

by CPS HR consulting. The trainers, there were two trainers at each of the trainings. They

facilitated 14 sessions from July through October. The mayor council was separated into triads.

This was done to be in line with the Brown Act until I offer more meaningful conversations

and in our consultation with them. That was what we landed on as the best way to move forward

with the mayor council. So as you can see, council triads A, B and C all completed four and a half

hours of training over the course of three sessions. Some of them were condensed due to scheduling.

Our council staff was divided into two cohorts, supervisors or those who have supervisory roles,

whether in turns or other responsibilities and a staff cohort of non-supervisors, which was

the slightly larger group. And again, in consultation with CPS HR consulting and due to challenges with

scheduling for council staff and that large of a group, our team and consulting team decided

that a one day training would be the most effective. And we believe that it was. So both of those

groups had a one day training for the total of six hours because they were a slightly larger group.

So the content took a little bit longer. And then for our pointed officers group,

there were three sessions for a total of four and a half hours, which is similar to the council

triads. I wanted to share some some challenges and then I'll share a little bit about the

participation rates. Overall, scheduling was very difficult and required navigating many

schedules with more limited flexibility. So the administrative burden of scheduling that took

many, many, many hours. Council staff has more flexibility but is a larger group to align.

And the mayor council required rescheduling sessions multiple times. So there had to be a lot of

flexibility both on the facilitators and on the administrative and logistic sides and on those

offices. But I do want to say we really appreciate and I appreciate the council staff and the

schedules for working with us to get the two dates on the calendar for the cohorts and for the

schedules for supporting us and me in navigating the council members schedules for the triads.

So really want to give them a shout out for being able to be nimble and hop on teams calls and

make that happen. In terms of the participation rates, the mayor council had 100% participation.

There was one makeup session for one of the triads but that was completed. Appointed officers

all but one person completed all three sessions and for the council staff, the supervisors of staff

who will be here next year was 100%, which is great. And a few of the non-supervisors were unable

to attend and will need to attend a one-day session sometime next year to make up for that.

So I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Angeloula with CBSHR Consulting to share more about the content

of the training and how they went. Thank you. Good morning everyone. I appreciate the

opportunity to be here and to just share a little bit of my amazing experience working with all of

the different groups that went through the cultural intelligence series. So I had an opportunity

to facilitate each session with my colleague Annette Smith who was also a consultant with CPSHR.

You just heard all of the different sessions that we went through with the RISA, a total of 14

sessions for all of the groups. And our goals were really to enhance cultural awareness and

intelligence with the city employees, build a foundation for allyship and create an opportunity

for open dialogue and foster kidnectiveness and intersectional understanding. So those were

the intentions that we set forth as we started these sessions. Just wanted to share a few of our

highlights and outcomes from the 14 sessions. We were able to experience a true transformation

within the groups. We were able to witness a shift in perspectives. We saw greater empathy

and understanding of cultural dynamics. So we were able to experience a live transformation

within these groups. We also experienced engaged in meaningful dialogue and discussions about

identity bias and privilege within the groups. We accomplished a greater understanding of the concepts

and terms and how they apply to us as individuals and in the workplace. And we got great examples

of allyship in action. So we got to witness some of your colleagues and peers actually stepping

into that allyship role and advocating for underrepresented groups. Their peers, members of their

own triads and diets. And so that was a great opportunity and experience to witness. We saw

increased kidnectiveness, especially within the council staff groups, great opportunity for

connection within those groups for dialogue, for shared meaning and understanding. We saw

strength in relationships and teamwork. We saw opportunities to collaborate in the future.

Greater intersectionality awareness, understanding how race, gender, socio-economic status,

and other diversity dimensions. Shape our experiences personally and in the workplace. And then

of course we saw participants report higher confidence and ability to articulate these conversations

and have dialogue around these concepts. Some recommendations that we have. We would like to

increase the time together as much as possible. We understand that each group had limited

availability, but if we could increase the time of each session or the total sessions would be

great and allow for additional dialogue. When we completed the surveys, that's some of the feedback

that we got. We want more opportunity for dialogue into discuss some of the terms and concepts

that we went over in the groups. And we would also recommend one final session to gel all of the

sessions together. Maybe immediately after or within a couple of weeks or months, an opportunity

to provide some final feedback and overview of the learning. So we think that that would be a

nice ribbon on the bow of the package of the learning. So overall it was a very great experience

for the consulting team. We were received very well and we think that the learning went forward

in a very meaningful way. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Love. So we wanted to talk a little bit about

some of those next steps also about the contract, talking about the new council members and council

staff and some of those makeup sessions. So as you can see the city was able to leverage an

existing contract with human resources organizational development which is great to provide the one

time training for current council staff. And we wanted to make that clear. But there is no contract

planning or funding to provide ongoing training to ensure makeup sessions or sessions for future

mayor council members and other staff. So that's definitely something that's going to be needed to

take into consideration as we move forward. So given this information, our recommendation is that

the mayor council fiscal staff work with the office of diversity and equity to create a contract.

And I would say very soon given where we are in the year and when we know the transitions will be

happening for additional and ongoing training needs. Both for the council staff, there will be need

to be their one six hour session or as you heard from Dr. Love maybe a longer session and a new council

triad for the incoming mayor and the incoming council members, three sessions for a total of potentially

four and a half hours. But again, in consultation with CPSHR consulting that may be amended.

The sessions can be scheduled with support from the clerk's office as part of the onboarding process

beginning in January, which would alleviate some of the administrative burden to get it just added

into the process and the clerk's office is poised to get these dates onto that schedule. So we hope that

we can come to some decisions today about those next steps. And now I'm going to turn it over to

me to talk about current and ongoing funding. All right. The current and ongoing funding

want to be accountable and I know several of you mentioned about public accountability. So we wanted

to put this here that here is what we anticipate. Currently there was a fiscal year 22 mid-year

allocation for racial equity work of $50,000. The current cost of training completed thus far

is approximately 28,630. 21,370 is available to complete the cultural intelligence series training

for the mayor council and their staff and those who need to make up the session at the beginning

of the year of the council and mayor transition as well as to put forward future training. Again,

needing to have an eye as to how do we how do we sustain this initiative and this mandate of

mandatory training and where will the additional funding of course come from.

And then really wanted to talk about the cultural intelligence training was really grounded in

the DEI concepts and you've heard mentioned already in the presentation that we wanted to do. It was

recommended to have a DEI grounding and concept shared understanding learning but we also want to

make sure that there's foundational racial equity training for the same for the same group as well

for the mayor council and elected. So as we look at the racial equity component for 2025,

we did have some beginning discussions with race forward around their foundational training,

advancing racial equity and building racial equity in government. And at that time they're very

open to creating what our needs are for elected and understanding the Brown Act and how we schedule

and all of that but we want to do that ahead of time. Again here on the slide it's really to

deepen the learning around how government has contributed current system and equities and apply

racial equity in the various areas of racial equity analysis data analytic assessment leadership

embedding racial equities and community engagement and of course for systems change. And this is

greatly aligned with the other item which is item four which is our resolution right that we'll

be discussing together that is great alignment and that it would be very much aligned with that work

as well. And then giving the timing of the trainings again this is what we loosely talked about at

the beginning of this year but again with love any feedback we would love any feedback or direction

around this. Wanted to just kind of highlight what we did at the beginning of the year is kind of

highlight where we are with the score initiative and the work with the racial equity alliance and

the racial equity council this could be a great opportunity for training and greater collaboration

and connection given the timing and how our conversations you know happen today and in the next

month. So just wanted to really kind of plant that seed here that there may be a great opportunity

to work together as we advance the score initiative and the components of the resolution.

And then really next steps so here's really the question I know that we have a lot of energy

around item four but these are things that we definitely want to put out is you know what are the

next steps around the CPSHR consulting. I really do want to thank human resources particularly

Jennifer, Ambrose, Ebony and David and Kyra who helped us navigate the administrative aspects of

that and and that's something that we really do need direction on there and again our intent there

is how do we build how you all build the infrastructure in order to sustain this training initiative

ongoing not only where we are at with the transition. Where are the next steps for scheduling those

participants as mentioned an enormous amount of work and energy and organization that the

Risa committed to this year I think there could be definitely efficiencies and improvements there.

I do not want to assign work to people because that's not my role but at the same time we do need to

think about how that would happen given the ebb and flow of the council the work the deadlines the

recesses there staff that would know the ebb and flow and to schedule those a year in advance

highly recommend that and then of course the funding right the ongoing knowing that we have a

commitment we might have to be creative knowing that there are some financial challenges and

constrictions that might be happening we should still see how we can be innovative and collaborative

in order to continue to move this effort forward capacity building around racial equity and DI

is fundamental absolutely needed it always must must be in tandem with other work that is happening

and then of course any guidance or questions around the race forward training because that's

where we're setting our eyes is the part two which is the racial equity foundational training

as you all went through the foundational DI and cultural intelligence training so I will leave it

there for questions thank you appreciate your your listening and your attention

so much on me really appreciate that presentation Larissa and Dr. Love thank you so much I have

some comments and questions but I want to see my colleagues have any just comments and questions

first oh yeah let's do public comment first and then we'll come back and have the conversation

okay thank you I have two speakers on this item can Lambert please come up

oh no that doesn't work I'm sorry I thought you were talking about the speaker know that

doesn't work all right I'm Mr. Davis hello city councilwoman my vang in the rest of the

rostrum I wanted to show something on this but since it's not working you know this has been

out of order for a long time I probably can fix that somebody really needs to get on the ball

because what I wanted to show is this is about equity let me get there first I was here a year ago

it was October 24th and it talked about Mandantory and I came up to this and I said Mandantory says

Mandantory but what about the ones that are not elected and I was reassured that everybody had to

take the test October 15th I was at the city council meeting and I learned by a very heroic person

which is city councilwoman balance waila I learned that there are people that refuse to take that

test and as I heard these wonderful people over here describing it it's always a scheduling conflict

or an excuse and I was the one who said if someone refuses to take the test they should be

terminated because this test is defined out about what's going on inside city hall with regards to

race and harassment and toxic environments for specifically black workers there's a group inside

here called the A A EL C they're called the African-American employee leadership council I found out

about them studying what's going on and this the whoever refused to take this test should be

identified to the public there's money being spent for that thank you for your comments last speaker

is going to be Mac worthy Royce equity is nothing no way people I grew up in most valuable thing

of segregation Mexican Hispanics don't lump yourself into this because this is a clicks

you refuse to have denarcation to vote and when you're coming here you got to show what

national you are that's how they give your jobs put them in the same sack and shake it to

person fall out get the job you don't want that damn shit you want to qualify you want to go

economics spending this money on race equity is a loss economic home is economic that we equity

here because then your investment real estate has to be right here just show you go with your equity

in your real estate of all people in this city owns a house to potlay for your hello income house

you refuse to you brought the developers in what are they doing you don't get none now you say we

going to electrical and it gonna cost you more how can you pay you're not working for the people

you're working for a whole house government that's what you work for that's what racism by I never

feel an application now now contract with the government I couldn't track the NBA's more to prove

so security I don't know nationality you see what you get it's what you qualify but you're going

through this and it gonna be another bag of shit down the line and I'm gonna be here

and the next 90 days we're gonna see what I've been telling you all time gonna have

in your sanctuary of the states black folks ain't making nothing of this where's the contract

how many black folks are training anybody here to get a job I did over the kind of the high where are the others

thank you for your comments that's all chair speakers thank you mr. Davis thank you mr.

worthy for for being here today I do have a few folks up in the queue so I have city attorney

Susan Ackalo Susan Susanna yeah sorry city attorney fine I don't normally queue up to speak but

I remember when Ami and Larissa and her team were trying to figure out how on the heck do they do

this because they were tasked with coming up with a session for all this it's not like there was

any kind of a model so I just want to thank you for the work you guys put in it and I know you

put in a lot and you're a little bit scared and rightfully so you know to bring it to council members

elected officials but as somebody who just participated thank you doctor love for really some

phenomenal work that you did with us I'm so appreciative of my peers who were there with us

doing the hard work and we had some really difficult conversations some really great conversations

and not knowing what to expect it certainly brought us much closer together and I think that's

where some of the ally ship happened as well in our session so I just wanted to give you that feedback

because we were really and I'm not going to speak for all of them but I know first our

city auditors out in the audience but I think that thank you again for the work you guys did and so

I am not voting obviously but I would support continuing these efforts because this is truly

putting money where your mouth is about how important this is to the city. Thank you city attorney

you really appreciate your your feedback and just your insight in your experience this is the

first time first go around and so really appreciate hearing from our charter officers. Council

on the Kaplan. Thank you chair Venge. I again also want to thank our diversity equity inclusion

team and doctor love and a net Smith from CPS HR. Been no secret I said that I had done a year

long training with the California School Board Association you know that is one thing as you look

we look to grow this in the next steps. I don't know have you've reached out to CSBA to talk about

what they've learned from their DEI and equity cohorts. I know there have been a couple but

that might be how do you take it after the first one what are the next steps and inclusions on that

you know I know from talking to my staff they really appreciated coming together and I think

there was greater cohesion and kind of shared understanding so I'm really supportive of this isn't a

one off this isn't a one time and that's generally what happens so I am supportive of CPS HR and kind

of that side of the training that we're doing I think they've got colleagues and former colleagues

that have the initial cohort as well as the next steps to dig deeper where I think our staff can

really benefit from you know it's a bit of a dichotomy because I will say I know what to expect

because I'm actually in another cohort doing this training in another facet of my life

it takes participation and buy-in from all electeds I'm not sure there was buy-in

from all the electeds or we assume we know and there wasn't the openness to be vulnerable because

to do this right you have to be open and you have to be vulnerable and you have to be on time

and timeliness and being there and present the entire time was not I would say in all the

elected cohorts trying to jam in two sessions and an hour and a half that doesn't work that's

skimming it that's not doing the work that's not putting in the time because if we say here on

council we're going to buy-in then we should take the time to do it I don't care how difficult

our schedules are I don't care how busy we are this was kind of placating I know what we should

do and I know how deep we can go and I know the benefit and I will say I got a smidgen of the

benefit that I knew where we could go if we as colleagues bought in to understand we are different

but we need to be vulnerable with each other and understand each other on a human basis

and what makes us tick and where we come from because then we know when we know that

then our differences really aren't that different and it comes from a place of humanity instead of

disagreeing you know and keeping it at that that disagreement level you know I I know we have

potential like budget issues whatnot I think there's with the commitment we can find some more

but I would like to see at least a once a year refresher with staff because I think it's really good

when our staff create that environment and can talk to each other sometimes it can cut through

elected having elected issues but our staff working together I think is is an absolute priority

I agree that training should be two hours I am very supportive and would like to push the mayor D2 and

D4 individuals take the training in January and February will know they're mid-November they're

going to get sworn in December you can put it on their calendars right away even if they're so

committed they want to do something in December like we've got a little money I think it will

benefit them coming in and all of us if it doesn't get spread out of like they're doing it in March

and April when I think if they do it we start looking to part two and we switch up our triads and

we get new people that include in one's new council members in them so that we can build the

relationships believe me I get it with consistency you want to dig deep but we're elected we chose this

we are adults we can dig deep and if we are buying in this shouldn't be an issue to switch up

and get to know different colleagues from from different perspectives because I get you know it

really breaks down of you know if we get it I understand how different my district is and

where each community requires something different where one part taxes itself more and gets more

invested and another one is part of came into the city later and has been historically disinvested

and so that benefits us as elected to be better leaders but I want to see more cohesion on this

council and I think it requires being honest and vulnerable and I did not see that in some of the

trainings that that occurred and so for me to be brutally honest you guys did great we as

elected I think can do better and I want to call on us to do better than that so good job thank

you I hope I I answered your questions of what you were looking for but I really appreciate

you guys moving forward but again do reach out to CSBA California School Board Association I

mean I took these trainings my last one 2019 to 2020 and it was a full year that we met four or five

times so I think we can get bigger stuff from that thank you thank you councilwoman Kaplan I took

down some of your notes because I will be providing direction I'll try to tighten it up so that yeah

great I'm gonna get you okay I'll go next that was oh does that I'm in your seat oh you're in my

seat oh okay go ahead coach no clue I really want to give great regard to

cps HR consultant and the instructors Dr. Love and and a net Smith which were the ones that I was

involved with I just want to give great acknowledgement for the work that they did in our cohort

in the group that we were in they were powerful they were well informed they were well trained

they did just an incredible job and I just I enjoyed the cohort and how it was set up

in the way we did it in order to make sure that we didn't break the brown act you don't want to

do something as powerful as this and then be criticized for doing something wrong by breaking

the rules and so we did not do that and I thought it really worked well so I just want to first

honor them for the work that they put in to preparing the sessions and then actually doing the work

and the what we got out of it those of us who attended I must have heard you wrong because I

thought when I first heard the presentation that there was a higher amount of participation

among the elected officials I thought it was pretty good but maybe I heard that wrong or

or misread that no that's correct them the mayor council have a hundred percent participation

there was a makeup session due to an illness so that's what I heard and if that's the case I mean

that lets you know the electats really enjoyed the session they were there and they participated

to the degree that it was a hundred percent that was that's what you want I think so my advice on

increasing the time or by adding another session or increasing the time within each session if

I just put my vote in I would say increase the time of the sessions that you have as opposed to

adding more because we all know the schedules of the elected are very busy and so if you try to

get another session that might be harder than increasing the time where you can then do more work

within the time that you have them so 14 sessions from July to December I thought it was an

excellent time just spread it out over that period of time so that people could calendarize it

and make sure it happened in a good in a good fashion I do agree that we should do one year in

advance and I also was just thinking if you haven't done it already and maybe I missed it some kind

of a post survey to those who went through it to kind of get some feedback from them as to what

they felt could be better could could could change or or what could change behavior so if I missed

that I apologize but I just think if I didn't it's something that we should absolutely do okay

well yeah as long as I filled it out so quick session question on the survey I forgot to mention

when you send us a survey can it have pre all the details in because you were asking the session

and the time and the and the title and I made stuff up so I could get to the survey because I didn't

have all this yeah we worked with the CPH CPS HR administrative staff to fix that sort of in real

time and note that for the future we want to make it more streamlined so that folks can just get

to the feedback section so yeah and and also I think the recommendation that Dr. Love

mentioned that that actually be part of the session that you fill out like that last five

minutes you're filling out something and giving feedback in real time right away yeah because I

think it's really hard to get people to give feedback after the session is over yeah so definitely

a learning moment for us with that so on that with the with the feedback does the feedback that we

gave does that allow us to build on the success that we had the first year does it give us the

information that we need to know what are the next steps I think we need to look at we were really

trying to get people to fill it out the survey participation was pretty low we only had about 10

people fill it out so we need to look at that that's really kind of the next step but what we can

gleam already is that there's a greater level and I again I think Dr. Love alluded to it in

her presentation and the slides is that you all are feeling a greater level of confidence in having

dialogue also difficult dialogues and also having those dialogues was shared understanding with

each other and that was part of the learning baseline assessment that we did where some of that

those feelings and the level of confidence was actually very there were some that cited not

true and not true at all so what we want to do with looking at the survey also improving it for

next time is we want to also continue to do that assessment of you all and how is the confidence

changing and how is the confidence growing both in the DI realm and also in the racial equity realm

so we'll be doing that in tandem to the results which we hope both will inform what the training

content should be giving specific direction to whatever consulting firm we're working with

and also shaping what that what those learning objectives of those sessions are and the activities

that would be entailed so it is a yes short but wanted to kind of bring in those pieces because

we we don't want just 100 percent participation we want you to get something out of it we want you

to be able to take what you got from that from from the learning and literally five o'clock in

the council chambers closed session use it use those schools we want you all to have tools and

and and and speaking language that is personal to you to where you can increase your efficacy not

only as decision makers but also with each other as one large council and with your council staff so

those two pieces we want to make sure are happening with the survey and the assessment

great thanks on me the mayor is here I'm here sorry I'm late but I just want to add a little bit of

feedback I think anytime we organize ourselves to get together to discuss in depth these vials

subjects is really good so I thought it was a very positive experience my one suggestion for

the future really relates to sort of the best facilitated training that I've participated in in

my eight years here and that is through the Bloomberg foundation where they use actual real life

scenarios to frame the discussion I sometimes find and their facilities are great here so it's not

a criticism or an observation but it tends to be a little bit wrote I mean it's a little bit

you know you're you are reminded of some of the key elements of active listening and of

and of racial equity and the importance of all of it it's an outline that you go through I would

prefer and of course I'm not going to be here but for the future that these trainings be framed

around something real that has happened at city hall or in city government over the past X number

of years that created tension or controversy that then we look back on and dissect it as a way to

to really learn because if we don't do that we're we're at not 30,000 feet but 5,000 feet and I think we

want to get low and I think that's it's even harder work to do that and it can be anything pick

community controversy pick city council controversy but make it the subject of this discussion I

think that would be even more rich thanks mayor really good and cypher because I think for you it's

about the tangible piece in those conversations related to the big picture right not just not not to

just say well we would have put a dollar here instead of a dollar there it's not that it's using that

that to talk about the feelings that were generated you know as well and how we might work

together differently going forward thanks mayor I also know the curriculum and the training is

reiterative right so we're always constantly building so I think that's a great suggestion and I

will add that to my direction when I get to the end of it so it's 1148 I have some comments some

questions for clarity with some direction and then we'll go to item four but wanted to first

just say thank you to Larissa for holding this work and working with council and staff to figure out

the calendar piece I absolutely echo councilman Kaplan that this is of most importance and as council

member what what we should have done was director our staff that hey I know there's a lot of

stuff in our calendar but make sure this is a priority because staff does what we tell them to do

right and so if it doesn't get on calendars because you know we haven't told staff to make sure that

make we make this a priority so if my colleagues are watching this meeting you know everyone says

of most importance so let's make sure we provide that to our scheduler and then really just want

to think on me for just your leadership supporting Larissa in this work as well and Dr. Love and

Annette Smith I think a big part of it is you know as as our as part of our continued efforts

around race and gender equity especially with the score initiative it's so important that our

elected body lead by example right and I know this is something that we just that we that we voted

on among ourselves like a year ago and it's so great to see the progress that we've made and where

we're at definitely really enjoyed the conversation in my triad the tough conversations that we had

and also various components of the cultural intelligence training and I'll give a shout out to

the seven steps of crucial conversations as I'm looking at Dr. Love that was really helpful for me

but really enjoyed the training also want to give a shout out I think it's great that we had 100%

for mayor and council but I also want to acknowledge Ami's point that it's not about just checking

off the box at 100% but our elected officials fully present right and I heard that from

a council member Kaplan as well obviously we can't force our colleague to fully participate right it

is up to the individual but I think the fact that we're creating that space we're holding that

space to allow those type of conversations to have is something we should still celebrate so just

wanted to name that I did from the PowerPoint presentation Larissa you did mention that we had one

appointed officer that did not attend the the training and I just you know and this goes for all

a point officer I appreciate those that did attend I thank you to our city attorney for

sharing her experience but I do think it's absolutely of importance that it is it's it's mandatory

right so I don't know if that's a conversation that we just have to have as a council to include

that in their contracts because that's how we make it mandatory right and so I just want to name

that that right because we can say it's mandatory and take it but it's really mandatory when it's

part of your contract so I just want to name that that if we need to do that then I'm happy to

add that to the direction as we renew contracts for for appointed officers in that process I just

wanted to name that because I do think it's really important that everyone takes it the other

piece I have is I know Larissa you did the bulk of those of tracking like who did did they complete

it or not I know our system we also have acumen which is our current system that we use for mandatory

trainings that constantly sends email reminders to our staff is this is it possible I mean I don't

know how acumen works but is it possible to even like just add a reminder and acumen I mean I don't

I don't know the platform but I'm wondering like is there a way to streamline while you're doing

this you can upload an acumen and then it sends a message out to city staff maybe it's something we

need to figure out city clerk just so that like because we get emails we don't complete something

the email comes through and we just like okay I got to go do that right and so so you're not

having to like hey did you complete it hey did you complete it so a direction I would have is to

talk to city clerk to figure out our current mandatory trainings to see how we can incorporate

that notification and so that's that piece and then one clarification on this because I've heard

from multiple my colleagues that I heard from council and Kaplan this should be an annual ongoing

training my understanding was that the training that we did was just part one there's still part two

right and so just wanted to think through this piece of mandatory training for like what is the

mandatory training is it part one part two and then you're done for our two years and then we do

it again could you like walk me through that I just want to I want to be able to understand that

timeline so yeah the vision at this point unless we want to change it is 2024 was to get everybody

through the DI focus control intelligence training got it 2025 is to get everybody through

in the same manner but different content focus on racial equity got it with the learning objectives

and the that was in the PowerPoint okay and then 2026 rinse and repeat right and it just keeps going

now if we can do both in the same year that would be amazing yeah but given our recent experience

probably not okay just given the amount of scheduling the amount of people yeah the

consideration of the brown act and of course makeup sessions and that was something that was a

learning moment for us too as well so that's kind of how it's staggered and again really how do we

create that infrastructure on the mayor council side to keep that going yeah okay all right so part

a is done part b is next once that's completed then update to the curriculum based on freeback

and whatnot okay so that sounds good it sounds like we're going to need on your annual ongoing

basis to maintain this so that's good for me to know because it has helped me with my direction so

a few directions so one the first piece is I like to provide direction to city staff

to create well I think to continue a contract with cps because we have mayor and two new

electives coming in I think I heard that from council and the council and so we're in agreement on

that I do think that creating that contract so that we are ready to go when the new mayor and two

council members are sworn in and get that on their schedule in January so that's direction one

direction two is I also would like and I'm going to look at Laney because you know she oversees

our budget I like to provide direction to city staff to actually draft a budget proposal for 2025

in 2026 and I'll go over the numbers a little bit because I realize we set aside 50,000 we spent

28,000 we have 21 left for mayor d2d4 but I still think it's really important because we still have

part b that so the first direction is create a contract with cps second direction is for city staff

to work with Laney to draft a proposal budget for 25 and 26 to be for consideration that's going to

be I would like that to be in the budget for consideration when we vote next budget so that's

oh I can go through budget audit I'm on yeah I can go through budget audit too but they have to

present it to the racial equity committee anyway so so yeah so for the next meeting our next

racial equity meeting I would like to see a draft budget proposal to go to full council or to

forward to go when it's time for budget conversation and then the other update is the feedback that we

got from coach from council member Jennings and Kaplan in terms of like the time maybe it's not

longer it's not more session but it's longer sessions and I think you had another there was

another feedback they had on the curriculum yeah oh you go on disagreement or you're in agreement

yes it no okay and it should be to fully get it I'm I'm going to grim if we're going to do two

sessions and one we should have a lot more time or if we're going to do each session in timeline

then maybe we should have more sessions so whatever is best but at least definitely longer okay

okay I'm looking at city staff I'm gonna trust that y'all gonna listen to the survey and you're

gonna like adjust the curriculum accordingly because y'all are the expert okay great so those are

those are my direction is that is that good so there was like the the concrete the contract city

stopped to create a draft a proposal for and mayor d2 and d4 trainings yes

number jenny refebrary possible yeah and making sure that there's no two trainings in one so

eliminate that from the process don't forget there was not two new ones but as we do you want to

incorporate my real life scenario yeah incorporate the real life scenario okay all right

on me do you want me to repeat that I can read that yeah but I think we need to clarify I

our recommendation is that somebody on the mayor council side yes get engaged in that contract

okay from the mayor council side yes okay I will put on me then to work with the city clerk

okay I like I see you so take notes on that okay so I'll work with the city clerk too

okay we're here to support you cool that sounds good okay so is that good for direction contract

yes a draft budget proposal and include those items okay cool I think that is it and mayor's real

life experience uh won't clue that in the curriculum if you think it's a good idea I think it's a

great idea mayor yeah I definitely and just for time because I know we need to move on to the other

item though one thing we would love that we will need some guidance because we tried to do that

and we were advised that for some of those items there might have been some outstanding

conversations this still needed to happen yeah there could have been legal issues um so we

understood that I would love to get into some meat there's I think a lot to choose from

that happens here at the council but we really do need some guidance to give to CPS HR so what

that could be and how you can dive into it that sounds great and then how does that work with

the council staff as well as the appointed officers right because we did try to do that but there

was a lot of implications that needed to be considered before we can do that so I just wanted to put

that out there we will always try I think it's always makes it much more relevant when you can speak

to write the decisions that are right at hand but some of them do have implications given the role

of the council and we discussed issues that have already been discussed publicly could we get

guidance from legal on that so I think that's the other direction let's get like a fact sheet of

like it yeah from legal Susanna is that possible to have a guidance as we're um you know updating

the curriculum I think that's important so okay great thank you so much thank you I got you mayor

I know you gotta go okay next okay next item I'm gonna go down to the dios too yep item number four

we're finally here consideration of the racial equity resolution developed by the score initiative

here we are and and co-chair I'd like to call out in the audience is Kelly Fong Revis who has spent years on

this all right so here we go um I believe Allison is gonna kick us off before we do that I really

just want to thank all the care holders from our alliance to our council to raise forward to my

colleague the city staff to all the residents community members who participate in the listening

session for being patient we are finally here we have a draft in front of us it's still gonna be

you know ongoing process but we are here and really just want to give kudos and say congratulations

to everyone with that I'll hand it over to our incredible city staff Allison and Ami thank you chair

co-chair appreciate that intro because then I actually don't have a whole lot more to say other

than thank you and we really are appreciative of the committee for hearing us today this is part of a

long road and we're only in the beginning of this this journey so we want to make sure that we

remind those of us who have been on this road how far we've come and where we have to go this

is really one of the focal points of a contract and an initiative that this committee and council

approved and launched the Sacramento Center on racial equity or the score initiative

we had at the racial equity committee had some goals and we are in process so this is also just

the reminder of where we are and where we've been a lot of the early work was around rapid response

tools and and actually getting our bearings figuring out our our rhythm and our flow and how we

were doing this work together right now we are looking at we've actually done a number of

updates around the score initiative so I don't want to go too deeply into that and Ami will also

kind of detail a lot of the steps and highlight some of the really important ones that that got us

here but this is again not just an update this is actually a a deliverable point so we're excited

about that. So I'm going to hand it off to Ami. Don't worry we won't read the whole thing. Yes,

that we will not. All right thank you all. I wanted to acknowledge city staff and city manager

leadership who were on the gear learning cohort. Several of us here are still present at this meeting

Shelley Banks-Rompson, Laney, Allison and myself. All city staff who served and currently served on

the department equity teams currently the support the lead that is supported by our lead strategic

workforce equity analyst Larissa the internal team that met during all of 2020 2021 that offered

expertise and a vision to co-create and see an idea and give it shape as what we were calling it

then a racial equity initiative that is now the score initiative. Allison Kelly, myself, Laney,

Lynette, Koi and Jocelyn, former council members and current council members,

Shanier Harris, Jennings, Gera, Bang, Maple and all of you who are on the racial equity committee meeting.

The reason why I did that is not out about shout outs but it's important to acknowledge the names

which is always a beautiful thing and it's important but it's also important to understand that

we need everyone throughout city government across teams across terms across career tenures

and across silos to do this work. We need everyone and so part of the reason why we wanted to highlight

the timeline not is to just list it in its chronology and what we did but just to see how the

complexities of the work, the nuances of the work, what is needed, some take one week to do,

some take six years to do and it's varied and it's also the beginning of our journey around normalizing

and organizing ourselves to do this work and it continues to 2021. Then we have what was happening

inside the city, we have the beautiful work of the racial equity alliance and the council that

started in the summer of 19 and this is from the supplemental documents that you can read about

even further but this is just to give the nuances and the scaling and the work so while we were doing

our work starting in 16 with council and budget you know budget requisition and organizing

and hiring this position that I'm currently serving to creating policy and going to law and

ledge and then creating a racial equity committee, this committee didn't exist three years ago

or four years ago. So all of these things and looking at the complexities of building deeper racial

equity leadership within the community that is cross sector that is inclusive and that is

committed to bringing around a vision, all of these steps were needed and they happened simultaneously

and that's something I really wanted you all to think about as you look at this resolution

and think about all of where we are now at this choice point and now what is going to be happening

over the next five, ten years. It's not about the next one to two years, it's about legacy and generation.

So as we think about the score initiative, think about how all those steps that it took to get

there but also how many more folks are not around the table for us to do this work and how we still

need to do the work and this is such a historic moment and I'm very grateful to the members of the

racial equity alliance and the committee for their work in building that all the way from

2019 and prior and their commitment to uplifting marginalized communities, communities of color

and lifting up a width race forward why this deepened web and this network of folks is so

needed and how we can't do it alone. And so I'll think I'll pass it to Allison to look a little

bit over this. Fairly straightforward in terms of where we are with the score initiative, we're

right in the middle and this is the work that's happened over the last few years and particularly

ramping up this last year with community. We will let our community partners come and describe

more of the process of how we got to this resolution but this is really where we are in basically

the second of four deliverables. We are looking to the future also when this resolution gets adopted

we look for what the implementation looks like and commitments ongoing and and and and certain

commitments that are foundational to the work that we've done and between the city and the community.

I will do the last slide. The citywide racial equity resolution to operationalize it builds upon

and amplifies current city work internally and externally. So we and that was part of showing

the timeline is we're not just beginning here it's the continuation of the work but it will build

upon and it will amplify in so many ways internally externally. It will also provide accountability

framework right accountability framework that will give and drive us to have clear metrics and

mechanisms to track our progress. It is also future and vision forward. It is about generational

change. What we do now will have an impact on communities 510 15 20 years from now. Also the

commitment to action is extremely important to be explicit around our commitment and our intention

to work. It doesn't mean that we're going to do it perfectly but there is an intention to drive

this work forward in a way that is unifying in a way that is comprehensive and in a way that builds

lasting change. And so really wanted to just put that out there from a city perspective of what

this resolution means we're so proud that we are here at this moment and very grateful and I look

forward to the conversation and hand it over to now the community care holders and race forward.

Good morning council members co chair bang and mr. Steinberg city staff and leaders just really

appreciative of the opportunity to come before you today to introduce some of our members of the

racial equity alliance and racial equity council to speak on some of the pieces related to this

really historical moment today as we are at the process where we've been able to deliver joint

draft resolution for racial equity that really systematizes as a me has pointed out but really is the

the opportunity to begin to build a vision that is citywide not just to improve conditions for

communities of color but to actually transform this this very city and I would argue that

as we experience threats to the values and the practices of democracy and we have a really

critical couple weeks ahead of us we are related to that question remind us that those who are

most vulnerable oftentimes are communities of color and so in the next couple of weeks we need to

really be care holders to know that many of us will be targeted because of what has diminished in

terms of our values and practices around democracy so I would say this is not just an opportunity

today but this is actually an imperative a little bit about race forward I am the senior director for

place-based strategies that race forward and we're a national racial justice organization our

mission is to support communities and public institutions to achieve a just multiracial democratic

society through governance and advances racial justice so this is what we're about a little bit

about how we got here before I pass it on to folks I'm not going to get into the timeline because

I really feel like a me and her office did a great job weaving so much of this into the presentation

so I won't take more time with this but just to say that specific to this resolution you know we're

talking about months of work from the leaders of the racial equity alliance and the racial equity

council months of learning months of reflection and really rigorous review and various iterations of

this document that you have before you today a little bit to emphasize some of the important

components of each piece of this work related to the score in 2023 summer 2023 some of you

participated in the truth telling and trust building circles which were conversation circles

designed to build a new culture of racial equity and develop new practices and new ways of

communicating new ways to hold conflict new ways to repair trust and that's really core the

relational work to regain and build trust from communities of color after folks of experience

generations upon generations of policies created in this very chamber that have reinforced

and reproduced racial inequities the community partnership and accountability piece

our colleagues will speak to that today was was critical in terms of listening sessions that

were held this summer and again I want to just hold up and I've said this more than once but it

was it was true collaboration between the ODE office the community engagement office district eight

what support for many of you so just want to highlight that that is really what this looks like in

practice it's the doing of it together and then finally with the resolution it's the

opportunity to really embed racial equity within the city structure so council member bang I've

heard you say many times we need to bake this into the city we need to institutionalize this work

it can't be an initiative it has to be enduring right and so this resolution is

inclusive of some critical community narratives unfortunately aren't often part of policy

when it comes to local government and so the vision you will see of of communities united

around a vision for racial justice and Sacramento the history and the accounts of history

and the current racial inequities are all voiced in this in this document and it specifies

priorities for the city to address I'd like to pass it now to one of the racial equity council

members Robin Rosamer thank you Jesse thank you very much for this opportunity to talk about

this very important milestone in our work the most committed wins so our collective desire for

outcomes for everyone must be enjoined people who care for and trust systems can thrive

thriving translates to safer neighborhoods and increased tax revenues things that benefit us all

to achieve this utopian future we are forced to confront our past this resolution is the hope

communities of color are hanging on to as they continue to provide their thought leadership

about solutions despite their historic disenfranchisement investments in place are not always

investments in the future do I just hit this arrow okay so this is just a quick reminder

that equality and equity are not the same thing and everyone needs the same thing or equality approach

excuse me yes equality approach has proven to create further dissonance and inequities in Sacramento

by passing this resolution out of committee you partner with this countless people who contributed

to its contents they told us what they need and by passing this resolution out of committee

you show your understanding that continuing towards equity is what Sacramento needs to thrive

providing supports levers controls and opportunity where needed instead of doing the same thing

for all people makes this resolution effective in transforming Sacramento we can turn it into a place

where race does not predetermine outcomes by passing the resolution out of committee you prove your

commitment to creating a Sacramento where all people can thrive and as a reminder equality is

giving everyone exactly the same thing whereas equity is giving people what they've asked for

and what they need I'll turn it over to Jasmine thank you good morning and thanks for having us

here to talk a little bit about what we've done to get to this point where we are today um center

and community is something that we have been looking at in a different way not in the sense of

community engagement which is the traditional extractive way of thinking about working with community

but in true partnership um we came together to come up with what we thought this looked like and

how we got to the space that we wanted to be within this resolution and one of the pieces of that

was talking about whereas in this in institutionalized institutionalizing sorry guys racial equity

into the city's practices making it rooted in what we are doing not just in the idea but in true

partnership with community overall in an inclusive process in community voice and solutions

in actually having people participate in budget planning the idea here is that we are creating a

co-governance with our community to be able to move things forward and we want to be able to see that

happen through this resolution this work is not rooted in the moment but it is rooted in the future

and what we hope to see continue we want community to be purposefully included in the conversations

and the work that we do centering community and partnership means all of these things shifting

from engagement to partnership um and in that being truly inclusive of community participating in

that process if you think about this oftentimes what we say is we want to engage community we engage

on social media in one way but we want to actually get people participating in the decisions that we

make and at the table to foster inclusion and involvement an inclusive process is something that we

did in the process to build this resolution we conducted listening sessions and we also went the

other way and provided transparent follow-ups on what we wrote in that resolution what that looked

like what we were asking of the city to be able to move this forward what were those next steps how

did we take the information from community and make sure that their voices were centered what we

heard was it the same thing that is what we wrote in the resolution we took the time to do that and

we hope that that continues past this resolution and past this moment I think the other piece of

this is community voice and solutions uh the resolution includes direct community input but the

thing is we have to continue that vision past the moment of just reading that resolution it's a

piece of paper if it's not put into practice this isn't going to mean anything for anyone I mean

the truth of the matter is I'm not doing this and none of the people that I'm here with are doing

this for ourselves we hope that this will make a difference for the next generation and the next

generation and for those who don't even know about all the challenges to come and there's a

vision for growth that we're really hoping to see from this resolution it's one of the reasons why

I started this process to begin with I I saw all the challenges in my community and I'm sure all

of you see the same challenges and at the end of the day I wanted to make sure that those challenges

that I saw were put forth in something that the city was going to do to move forward so we're hoping

that in this resolution everyone can kind of see themselves within it and hopefully see that process

move forward our commitment and my commitment personally is that we are going to build towards a

place where it really does feel like a racially equitable Sacramento driven by community driven by

conversations driven by participation and not driven by individual decisions but actually

involving community and centering them in the partnership of working towards an equitable

Sacramento so with that I'm going to move it on to my next team member thank you

thank you we got a resolution in front of you to look at a long time coming I know but

you know nothing nothing good happens overnight and it takes time as using a council member

things whereas we had to bake and cook and sometimes start over a little bit and try to get it

there but I think the most important thing for us is you know Jasmine alluded to this if you know

this resolution is as beautiful as it might be on a piece of paper it becomes just a piece of

paper if we don't put action behind it and the accountability that we've tried to drive into

this resolution is extremely important because if we're not accountable to our communities about

with this work then we're never going to see the change that we want to see and we were very

specific in a lot of the kind of abilities that we talk about which is wanting to

want wanting to make sure

there we go okay make wanting to make sure that we were looking at making keeping making sure

our communities voices are still involved in the process the racial equity tools that need to

be developed and I know there's some tools that have already been developed but really you need to

go much much deeper because we've got to look at what is actually impacting those communities and

those communities of color our communities that have been long long long ignored how are we actually

going to move the needle there so really looking at tools that are going to dig a lot deeper we know

when we talk about racial equity and we talk about anything that has to do with racism and prejudice

those types of things are hard conversations to have they are hard they're difficult for people

sometimes to understand but if we don't get to the point where we make this a part of our culture

and we we write the harms that we put in place then we're going to continue to see this cycle

and we're never going to get to where we want to get to as a city so ensuring that our racial equity

tools are part of this work making sure that we have resources that we have clear timelines

what does that look like as far as making sure that what are the benefits of the policies and

the budgets that are being put forth what are the unintended consequences like having those

conversations it may sound good but if we don't think further past that something that might be

good for one maybe devastating for another and so how do we balance that out and make sure that

we're we're we're putting those things in place wanting to make sure that the accountability and

creating systems that allow us to establish the process that check our work against each other

building the trust I mean we it took us a long time to even build the trust with this committee

and so how long do you think it's going to take for the council to build the city to build the

trust with the people right that's going to take a long time and until people actually see action

until they see something changing they're not they're not you're not going to be able to get

that trust and so how do we create that and build that into this so those are the thoughts that

we we talked about as we put words on on this paper and came up with the themes and the ideas

into this resolution is starting that process of rebuilding that trust setting goals that are

public and transparent that people can see and that are data driven making sure that there's a

tracking progress so people can see where we're moving how that needle is moving if this is going

to be successful and I believe it can be in my heart of hearts I believe this can be successful

but I also know it's going to take a long time I'm not going to stand here and pretend my by next

year we're going to be all singing kumbaya together and everybody's going to be happy no matter

fact it's probably going to be some more pissed off people I tell we were going to shake kumbaya

today we're not there yet but I think it's important for us to to to understand that this is this

this is a marathon we didn't get here in a few years and it's going to take a long time for us to

get there but if it worked determined and we work together with community with each other then we

can take positive steps every step of the way if we're moving forward as long as we're not taking

steps backwards we have to be taking steps forward in order for us to do that it's prioritizing

racial equity as the city is seeking to change the culture of how decisions around budgets and

policies have been made for years how do we change that so that all the people's needs are being met

in all of our communities especially the ones that have been ignored for so long so that they

can benefit and prosper too and I think the last thing I will just leave with it is until all of our

communities and all other people who live here are valued and respected Sacramento will never

become the city that I believe it can be and that for all of us that will work for all of us so

if we have to keep that a part of everything that we're doing and I think we can get there

I'm turning it back over to nobody nobody all right and then did Jesse or Ellison want to do okay so

what we'll do we have several public comments but I wanted to make sure that the mayor gets

gets a moment to just you know share his thoughts his insight because he do he does have to leave

in a little bit so I want to make sure I give him the floor yeah go ahead mayor

yeah well yeah I'm sure I'm going to be a little bit back and forth and I apologize because this

is really important I hope you know that I hope I've demonstrated through all my imperfections as

your mayor that my heart is into this has been into this is proud to appoint the first racial

equity advisor for the city in Kelly Fungrivus who's back here today did an outstanding job

as well as all of the city team on this on me everybody really and the community thank you

this document has your heart in it and I think it is outstanding it is outstanding

and maybe as yes and maybe and and and maybe maybe as important as the resolution itself or the

findings that states the history and the imperative for why this work is so important so my heart is

full of gratitude to all of you for getting this to at least the committee and we got six weeks

left here to the full city council for a vote before I turn the gavel over my words of advice going

forward because I was going to have a little advice here is that and you recognize this I think

all of you said this that this is a foundational document and only the beginning of the work

not nearly the end both in terms of culture change but also around how the city actually

implements this resolution because the one thing that it does not include and that's okay because

I think we're still grappling with this I know in the consent item we we talked about

the budget tool around racial equity but it doesn't really describe the tools themselves

so it begs the question how are we together with the community and the lead building that

trust mutually with the city it's elected and appointed officials going to operationalize this

vital resolution and so there isn't one answer to this but I want to suggest one thing

and it may seem rather mundane but it's actually something that I wish I had done more of as mayor

as I look back on my eight years I think for every major decision that the city council is called

upon to make starting with the city budget just as we set aside a day for departmental reports on

on the various department budgets there needs to be a multi-hour workshop on the racial impact

of the city budget. In and of itself will allow for the asking and answering and analyzing of

all the key questions with the staff presenting the members inputting the community inputting

because you will see things in that budget that nobody else may see you know I always harkened

back to that one very it was benign it really was it was benign but it was so impactful how when the

city was putting forward a great program for summer science came for teenagers and they and I

may have this a little bit wrong but it was a few years ago but they were geographically in four

parts of the city all of them in hiring come areas of the city and it was benign it was not intended

but when we pointed it out the organization rightfully looked at this and said oh okay let's change

that and let's add and diversify the number of sites so that teenagers from south Sacramento and

north Sacramento would have full access geographically obviously it was open to everybody but it was

geographically in terms of where they were located so that everybody had easy geographical access

to that kind of city investment so those are the kinds of things big and small and in between

that making sure that you set aside time for every major policy decision and workshop form

90 minutes to 120 minutes to three hours more for the budget maybe lesser for big policy you do

that and you discipline yourself to do that that will be every bit as important as whatever

racial equity tool comes out of this Laney Dyscrease I think oh I'm sorry I'm sorry

that every bit is important as whatever specific tool because the tool is just a means to the end

right the tool is a prompt for the community the council to ask the right questions and the answers

may not always be what you or we or what I ever what I want may or may not be we're going to

deficit right so the question is how do we add resources to the following areas may not be realistic

but as we are discussing cuts you better believe the impact of cuts ought to be measured by that

workshop we're asking and answering the question who's going to be hit hardest geographically

racially by what demographic so that's my not parting advice it is at least advice to you that

don't you know think about the racial equity tool if I may is I think it's easy to over complicate

it this is not an algorithm it is not food in the date of date is important by the way that whole

idea of the using GIS to show where resources are going and where the NRAC is really really

important but in terms of how you make the decisions that's one tool it's not an algorithm it is

a it is exactly what you all have been doing is a community it's that culture change it's making

sure that it is becomes second nature when it comes to budget and major decisions that every policy

maker is saying oh my god how is this particular decision impacting south and north Sacramento

in every part of the city so great work I'm we'll take this to the city council I hope we will pass

this but then let's operationalize this without making it too complicated but by making sure that

the policy body here sets aside consistent dedicated time to asking and answering the questions thank

you thank you so much mayor we'll do public comments and then we'll come back I believe the mayor

and myself also have some edits that we wanted to make or just some suggestions to strengthen

in the language but we'll open it to public comments first the mayor's out here he'll be here for

a little bit but then he may have to leave so we'll open it public comments thank you chair I have six

speakers will Lambert Davis please come to the podium

yes first of all I wanted to say that mayor Steinberg did come up with a great statement because

it's true it is going to take controversy even someone controversy or like me somebody has to

put the light on this because as long as you say mandatory and I've been following this for a year

when you say mandatory and people I I believe these people back here that are doing these studies

I believe they're sincere I really do but when you have institutionalized and systemic racist

practices that are still going on such as my parents moved here in 1946 and I'm a baby woman so

I remember that and I remember them telling me about restrictive covenants and I wanted to know

what is that and when I found out what a cruel practice that is they had the money they had everything

they couldn't buy into wood lake that's what a restrictive covenant was in district two other

places two in district two but district two has over 20 communities in one district no other

district in this city has more than 10 when you put money into a district is divided that way

I think that is a very cruel practice too also stone walling when you submit paperwork to a system

I mean these people behind here you have a tremendous task ahead of you because there's resistance

to diversity inclusion and equity and it's been discovered that some members did not take this

test and it was the instructor I would like to know who was the instructor and who didn't take the test

thank you for your comments I have Mac worthy next so then after Mac I have Mia

I

Hey, I guess I'm the oldest one around I've heard this live before and that was the NWCP

now I made it three years old as an high school and they said we're going to have integration

who can stand up here and share me they've done better and integrated than segregation no

well the NWCP

well the black people that experienced a bitness when they hire somebody on these films

man you can make it here I came here with 34 dollars in my pocket december 13 1960

when I time 21 years old I had my business going how many of these people on these towns had a

business none of them you can't show me one metal payroll you show me one when I talk to people

while getting the contract I did I come out of the cell how did I do it by respecting those that

will hide me and I'm no man ought to I'm an American Negro and I will do your work and I'll be

and I want to be paid how many folks in here have challenged the government I arrest love them they

my friends Jimmy Carter for Federal Reserve I lost $50,000 in the teacher per cut of union I

did file tax for 10 years am I in jail understand how to deal with this system this stuff here is

garbage it gonna be worse it gonna be worse people you will not gain nothing on no racial equity how many

it races in this city how many of those people come to the table if it's five how many are five

races still because hell no you put these people in here and say they are college I got a degree

damn it degrees I have five I lost one that's my hero coming since go back people and don't

accept this shit we know it gonna come through Emma's up thank you for your comments

mea hi good morning Sacramento Racial Equity Committee my name is Neymar Weathers and I'm here

happily representing the Sacramento Racial Equity Alliance and also my organization youth Ford

as a citizen of Sacramento living in district four I cannot begin to explain the value and

worth that the racial equity resolution brings not only to me but my family friends and greater

community our city needs this resolution for the simple fact that it intentionally acknowledges our

past and how it influences our present Sacramento like many cities across the greater Sacramento

Valley has a history of oppressing communities of color and erasing the histories and voices of

others this resolution is a step towards balancing our cities narrative with truth reverence to

sacrifice and remorse for injustices shoulder by native black Hispanic southeast Asian and many

other people's living here in our city secondly as a youth advocate and an active member of the

Sacramento kids first coalition in this city I also see this resolution as another tool to support

the Sacramento Children's Fund and the effort to ensure that our cities funding is spent equitably

on our most marginalized and systems impacted youth lastly as this resolution is a living document

as we have all been talking about it allows us to look towards the future of our city makes space

for us to evolve and honors the ever changing nature of the diverse capable and committed individuals

living here in Sacramento when this resolution makes it to council I urge you all to support this

resolution and commit to working with race forward on the racial equity alliance and the greater

Sacramento community and shaping future iterations of this document as it is and most likely will be

required so thank you very much thank you very comments I have Lee and then after Lee I have Malika

good afternoon racial equity council committee my name is Lee low and I'm the executive director of

the Asian American liberation network I'm also a resident of district two and honored to also be a

part of the racial equity alliance and council as well I first want to start off by thinking you

all for the investments that you all have already been making in advancing racial equity in Sacramento

through establishing this committee and through the investments in the racial equity

council and also with the gear trainings as well and as you all know racism did not begin in 2020 in

any way as well but in 2020 at the height of COVID pandemic we witnessed the unjust murder of

George Floyd the unprecedented rates of anti-Asian hate and violence as our communities were

were scapegoated for causing COVID as well as by-pop communities experiencing disproportionate

rates of infections and deaths due to COVID and I think it's important to name that the lives

and well-being of our communities of the communities of Sacramento residents depends on racial equity

and we are not here by any means to convince you that racism or institutional racism is real

we are here to present a pathway forward a pathway that our communities have long deserved and

needed and a chance to really be long here in Sacramento as well too and so I urge you all to really

support to continue supporting and investing in racial equity and investing and supporting this

racial equity resolution and passing it out of committee and hopefully passing it out with the

full council as well thank you thank you for your comments next speaker is it malachi I'm sorry

yes malachi I apologize I pronounced around the first time

thank you brother thank you brother greetings madam chair mr. Mayor and members of the committee

I'm Malachi amen a member of the racial equity alliance and executive director of the urban

partnership over the last 14 years the urban partnership has advanced the mission of building

economic security and by-pop communities through policy research and community organizing as we

communicate support for this resolution I'd like to first thank this committee for your leadership

and coming to this monument monumental point of moving this item forward to full council for those of

us who work in the business economic development and racial justice arena it is important to state

how a racial equity policy is critical to addressing under capitalization and under representation

of black entrepreneurs and city economic development public works and cannabis initiatives I deeply

appreciate the mayor's remarks about the city budget and his support long time ago for our proposal

about having dashboards included in this according to the us bureaus us senses bureaus survey of

business owners as well as city economic development reports black people make up 13% of the city

of Sacramento population but only 3.2% of the businesses less than 5% of city contract public

contract awardees with the smallest dollar amounts and although black people were historically

comprised of 32% of marijuana related arrests they make up less than 5% of operating cannabis

enterprises while less than 1% of city cannabis tax revenue is allocated to entrepreneurs

disproportionately harmed by marijuana criminalization thank you for moving this report and we

look forward to lasting change thank you thank you for your comment we have one more speaker Ryan

I don't support him Ryan you can come up first since we called your name and it will look

for Deandalos good morning our afternoon committee appreciate that we are finally having this

discussion on this resolution shout out to the racial equity alliance and committee council

as well as all of our community stakeholders who took part in this process we've had a lot of

hard discussions about the realities of racism in our city a lot of tragic experiences that have

happened to our residents that unfortunately systemic racism played a role in that and the lack of

how we navigate that with our governance played a big role in that this is our opportunity to be

this to really lean into that course correction not just with the foundational piece of it but what

ordinances we move forward with collaboration from community right we're modeling how to do this

in a co-governance way with our community stakeholders I think we have a lot of council members

who are coming on to the board that also believe that represent that I think our policies have

reflected so it lives beyond any life cycle of any elected official that's what this resolution

sets the foundation for but again it means nothing if we don't put the ordinances behind it

in relative order right I think the data that we constantly look at right there's two

hard stats from Alicai there as we go through this process we're going to see more and more data

of disparities that are impacted by the lack of having these racial equity structures in place

and I think that we have to prioritize that so thank you Mayor Sambar for listening up that this

is something that we lean into our budgeting process I think it's across the board for any

agreement in ordinance that we have what's the racial impact what's what what's the racial impact

on our communities that are most marginalized right we see that we have our refugee populations

that continue to increase across different ethnic backgrounds right that's been the entirety

of my lifetime here in Sacramento so I hope that we keep this at the forefront of how we practice

these things and that we continue to again prioritize what ordinances working with communities to make

sure that we're hitting something that doesn't get pushed off to a department that doesn't have any

any level of accountability to our community and our partners in this city of ours thank you.

Thank you and DeAngela we we found yours if you want to come up thank you.

Thank you yeah that's okay I'm I'm going to be pretty brief hopefully I just wanted to get up

and make sure my voice was heard in record and and thank you all for the work you've done and

how we've worked together to do that work I wanted to of course thank our racial equity alliance

and council and all the work that we've put in and I also want to say that this is a small victory

right we have to applaud those small things but it's not the end I just want to say

the depth of equity for me is the ultimate mutual admiration respect and care for the next

person regardless of race sex origin etc understanding the tremendous imbalance of resources we

continue to wake up to and so thank you for deciding to start with racial equity because this

country as we heard from brother Mack I challenge you right I challenge you my grandma always said to

eat the meat and spit out the bones and what brother worthy is saying is he's seen it all

he's tired of it all this has all happened before get past the bullshit this ain't going to work

I say prove them wrong I say prove them wrong thank you d'Angelo that was yeah really just really

yeah really really powerful I'm gonna hand it over to the mayor really quick I think we just have

some amendments to yeah I'm just wondering and I really really apologize I got you want the

vote on this so he was like a man I'm on a deadline on another important city priority this is

not more important than this but I'm wondering if it might be possible to read the amendments to take

a motion do a motion allow me to call my name for the role I can leave and then leave the role open for

yes okay okay okay I'll tell you what instead of that why don't you do that I will come back to

cast my vote why don't you leave when you're ready to call the vote come get me I'll run back down

and I will cast my vote I think that's easier rather than rushing

they're they're your second yeah we'll go through those two so why don't you go through your

amendments really quick what you like to propose let me know okay well take the mayor to come down

okay thank you thank you thank you thank you I do want to thank it needs to be said specifically

Kelly Fong Rivas for all of her work over the years while she is no longer with the city it

does need to be called out that she has sat here and listened and this is so important that she

is sitting here watching it her baby come to fruition since you were the one do really create

this office and implement a vision that our mayor had thank you Allison for stepping in

and I really want to thank our racial equity alliance and racial equity council for your work on

this as we know this resolution or words it's part one it's putting the work behind the words

that really matters council one of the things you know that's important to me as as we look at moving

forward and what that may be that from that relates this we need to have an organization that

understands Sacramento from Sacramento here in Sacramento and if it means we go through staff

and we have the racial equity alliance and racial equity council lead that that's where I think

we need to look at moving forward instead of having organizations lead us that really don't

fully know our city and I say that because there there is a glaring for me and I need you to

understand my perspective I spent 20 years as an Atoma school board member it is the number one

most diverse district in California number two in the United States north of the river 40 over 40

percent of our school children are in our schools north of the river I say that we need somebody

leading from Sacramento because the air that this is realized this is 20 years of anger building up

here the city of Sacramento has ignored the children north of the river because they concentrate on

Sac City United or unified and the resolution only calls out Sac City unified what about my kids

in in Natomas unified what about my kids in Robla what about my kids in twin rivers we talk about

the most marginalized what about the kids north of the river that are experiencing this that is an

air that is not acceptable that is continuing disenfranchise and the separation of us and them we

only talk about we're only going to help our Sac City unified children so that's an anger I

have held on to and I have not been silent about that and seeing such an important resolution come

forward to the city council that has that glaring air in it I don't care who missed it somebody missed

it nobody called it out and you had meetings north of the river most of the youth violence is in

Del Paso we need to get to our kids we talk about historic disinvestment that is in Del Paso

so I support this resolution and what we're doing but the implicit bias just was a red blinker

coming out at me and that's not okay we left 40% of our kids off 40%

we are better than that Sacramento we can do better than that so I am supportive of the

structure and the resolution and what we are trying to do but as this moves forward to the city

council my request and amendment which I've already talked to Allison about is when we talk about

school districts it has to be we're talking about historic disson historic discrimination not

just calling out Sac City because each one of our school districts has suspended brown and

black kids disproportionately some may have a year that they do good but historically that has been

an issue that each of our school districts need to address so I am more mindful of getting

rid of statistics and data because that can be manipulated every which way but we talk about the

disproportionate level and we call out all of our school districts that are within the city

to do better because that for me is absolutely essential when it comes forward to city council

you know and by the way up on the fifth floor right now we're having our Halloween party so

welcome to me up my staff being Star Wars and I'm Darth Vader just if you needed a bit of a

context in that but but that's really and and I trust Allison to work with the racial equity alliance

to figure out the right language but I think just calling out statistics doesn't get at what

we need to do yeah thanks councilmember Kaplan thank you so much for your insight and your feedback

and we'll make sure to incorporate that Allison's going to go through the amendment I do want to

respond and I'm holding space for your anger because I appreciate how hard you're fighting for

North Sacramento students because I know for example Dale Paso Robla definitely we have so many

of our babies there that are underserved and we we got to make sure that they're included in

this rezo and I just want to share with you that in the meetings with the racial equity alliance

and the council that when they cited the statistic for Sac City Unified School District it wasn't

that we wanted to center Sac City Unified School District it was just an example of one district

because we know there's multiple districts so I just wanted to say that there was no intent there

was no intent absolutely there was no intent to exclude our babies in North Sacramento but you read it

that way and we have to acknowledge that because that's how you saw it so I want to hold space for

that too and just want to acknowledge that so we'll make sure Allison we're going to read the

amendments but we will make sure to include that that is an example and that this means all of our

babies all of our district within the city of Sacramento and then I also just wanted to just

respond to your comment as well that as we're moving forward that we have to make sure we're working

with an organization that is from this community I just also want to say that the alliance and the

council are members in our community and they are in informal they're not like a formal like

they don't have a five one three but they are in informal recognize organization made of residents

in North Sacramento in Central in a South Sacramento and so just wanted to just want it to name that as well

and that this resolution in particular is like I will share with you like the fact that we got to

what it was six six seven pages now at them it was a lot more when I first saw the draft I just

want to share with you like my heart was like oh I don't think my my colleagues are going to pass

this it was like and Lenny's looking at me I'm like what's the standard like this is this is a lot

but I'm so I'm so proud of the back and forth and the work of the Alliance and the council and

race forward and Lenny and Ami and Allison and us just trying to find a compromise of like are we

okay are we thumbs up you know and the Alliance and the council had to go back to the community that

attended the listening session to be like are y'all okay with this I think that is like a lot of

like heart work to get to this moment and so I just wanted to to name that but also one

acknowledge that's the reason why I love that you're on this committee because you'll see

things that we may not see because if you if you see it that way then there are residents in

North Sacramento that's going to see it that way and I don't want that I want them to see them

self reflected in this resolution so just wanted to say appreciate your your feedback on that

and so we do have some few amendments I want to walk through and then we're going to text the

mayor because I know he really wants to vote on this item Allison and I from the mayor's office

did have a few amendments that we wanted to add to strengthen the resolution so Allison did you

want to go through those really quickly oh yeah thank you okay okay so I don't have control over

the scrolling but and this doesn't look like the red line so we'll switch it really quickly

I'm going to unmute so this is in response to some early comments that we had had

from from council members she alerted us to this the oversight and actually the it's not really

it's not an oversimplification it's really just a detail that should be more

clear and intentional as we think about school discipline rates yeah so this is the initial

red line I think the conversation and that we have just had and things that we'll look at

which would include roblat elementary unified school district and most likely and this is the

conversation with the racial equity alliance because it's their language we want to make sure

you're comfort with it before moving forward is probably taking out the data references to

sacksity unified and probably deleting that entire sentence yeah or I'm and this is how okay I'm

from the diet I'm okay with just this because we name all district and I think it's important to

name like one stat I mean unless I'd love to hear from councilman Kaplan if you want to remove

that stat we can because it just says for it's it says for example so it's an example of the mini

school districts I because I think it's just good to call out some of the the stat but we do name

that this is this is an example so want to see where your comfort level is with this yeah and

and I and I hear you if we're going to do stats then we should be calling out historically and look

at over five years each district okay because then again and and I really appreciate your comments

but I will tell you I'm not the only one north of the river that it just feels like it's always

sacksity yeah centric and when you just have those specific data then it still is lending instead

of we as the city of Sacramento for all our children okay Laney you have a comment yeah you have

an idea was your idea that we take for this to put in a chart that has some historical for

each to that sounds great okay amen sorry okay Jesse yeah that's good because we're working

together so let's go yeah we just noticed that the quit Lee and you know noticed in the first stat

15.3 that's actually specific to black students so we need to make sure that we attribute

your correct okay thank you yeah this is an insert so we'll we'll we'll come up with something so

the amendment for this is that we will delete for example all the way down to 2003 23 23 we're

going to delete that and we'll just we'll take that but we'll put it in an appendix chart connected

to the resolution that is staff report and it'll be in the staff report it can be an appendix

and appendix yeah let's do an appendix the resolution because it's staff report it's yeah let's

do an appendix the resolution okay I'm looking at the alliance council you're all killed that

is everyone good okay no comments okay good next item okay so we're gonna scroll down we're actually

not we the where as is our lovely thanks to everyone okay here we go here we go this is section 4

so this I'm sorry just really quickly I want to acknowledge that yes we think an appendix is a

good idea but there's also value in naming these stats directly in the document point being

and again I'm just thinking about everybody in our city commitment public individuals who might

want to take a peek at this document going back to appendix is again shoving the information and

putting it aside with the resolution like this we're trying to acknowledge it I understand wanting

to address a twin river school district if it's necessary and I promise and roguel yes ma'am all

of those districts if those are the districts that you were trying to address we can

gather all of that information as well the specific suspension rates and put it into the document

again I would rather the information be there versus being an appendix that's just a personal opinion

no I know I did I mean I get it if it makes it longer but I don't want to look at one year data

it's got it's over five years what she wanted five years of data in order for it to be there I don't

know how you want to put five years in there no that means but if you can do it and it makes sense

and it doesn't allow you to have add additional sheets we can figure let's see how what you come up with

I mean because we can do that for homeownership that means we can do that for homelessness rate

I'm sure you know share let's let's take let's take a look at this school so discipline numbers

so what we'll do I want to make sure because there's going to be a motion on the table

because the thing is we can here's the thing we still have to finally vote it has to move to the

full council for consideration because so there could be more debate there could be so why don't we

if so I feel like there's two part there's one the first amendment which is to remove that

and put in appendix we can do that allow that as an option the other one is to include all of the

school districts within sacks within the city of Sacramento and we can get those suspension rate

we'll have that version too I'm okay with us debating it when it goes to the full council for

consideration is that okay yeah is that good so that that that we'll debate it I would um sorry

this I would I would say let's look at what data we can pull for given the five year trends

oh yeah that's true I district and see what late what that language could look like so that we

can call out the disparities that we are seeing across the city yeah and also provide the data points

that are going to be relevant to the to the conversation yeah I think we'll be okay but we just don't

I don't want to negotiate something without having the data does that sound good because we want to

make sure we look for that data too yeah okay quality you guys are good yeah we'll have a more

robust comfort we're gonna have it's gonna come to council where we land so what where we landed

was will still as a right now we will so it sounds like we're gonna we're gonna eliminate not

eliminate we're gonna remove the that that that section and according to Laney and councilman

Kaplan put it in the appendix of resolution at the same time in the staff report I also want to

make sure because I heard from Nia and the Alliance and the council that we need to if we're gonna

that those numbers are really important in the resolution I want to make sure that by time it comes

to the council for full consideration we have because we have to look to see if that data is

available to have that readily available so that we can debate it at the full council to whether

do include it or not in the result or in the appendix and an appendix to a resolution is part of

the resolution it is it's just where you can't make it yeah that sounds great we will debate that

we're not coach this yes okay next item and this is the this is the section on the resolution which

I feel like has teeth because it directs the city manager so I really want to just call that

piece out but there are a few amendments that we made Allison do you want to go through them real quick

yeah so what this these the four section four does is it lays things out in

clear sub points so sub point a looks at continuing the development of racial equity impact

assessment tools and refining or creating additional tools is needed in consultation with community

that's about the tools the second one sub sub section b looks at the application of those

assessments and tools to examine how groups will be affected by a proposed action kind of a little

bit of what mayor referenced and there are some word changes so this is something that also can be

fully vetted where you're not looking at a screen and saying this word doesn't look right this

word doesn't look right we can we can look at that but this is the broader recommendation to break

it down to look at it by first development of tools we're we're going to do that sub section b

we're going to apply the assessments to do the analysis and do the work and then keep scrolling down

to the next section if you could for us yeah so I see Laney because I want to make sure so I think

Laney I love for your thoughts on the dius about this because I just think I heard you saying that

this may not work but I would love to hear your thoughts so what we add in here because it was

really important for like request for proposal and contracts to have a racial equity lens we

included that want to hear your thoughts on that because the second sentence does not make sense to

me and so these racial equity tools and other equity considerations should inform all these things

so it's and should should also inform internal systems and processes okay it's a long sentence

yeah I yes I mean but I think and then the critical point that I think is a little bit different than

the version that was brought forward was related to RFPs and grant and contracting processes being

included yeah in those in what we analyze and use these tools for yeah I think the Laney the big

change for this was including the request for proposal and contracts which wasn't in the

original resolution um I believe from the community members that was really important from the

community and my office as well to make sure we call out the contracts and RFPs so just want to

just hear that piece that's the amendment we're making it's just it's just going in deeper that's all

okay yeah okay so that I think is broader suggested language and we can word Smith from

not the dius yeah okay it sounds good okay and then the last one I'm going to figure out how to do

I'm moving the course really slow okay look you want to go oh can we get someone how do we go

down more like someone to scroll up to the next page and that's the last page so we've got that

okay okay okay second so other language here in the sub points are really incorporating community

partnerships and strategies and accountability around reporting um both in the sub sections i and i

i um a couple of words there to make sure that we acknowledge care holders and then finally in

subsection e more of a certainty around reporting annually um we do this as part of the racial equity

committee but we want to make sure that in the resolution that there's regular updates to the

racial equity committee and council on the activities of the rezo as well as um what's mentioned in

that yeah and on the last piece I just want to name um that um one of the on an annual basis

recommendation is to actually assess the office of diversity and equity in terms of uh its structure

and its capacity and i say that because um as we continue this work it's so important to make sure

that we have the internal infrastructure to implement this work and so we're trying the city manager

to also um you know report back to this committee um in terms of the office of diversity and equity

to ensure that you know do we have the capacity the resources and does it make sense um as we are

expanding this work that's really important because i want us to think long term about um the work

that we're doing so that's the addition that we added okay all right and with that i think um

mayor i'll make the motion mayor is making the motion okay councilman kaplan's going to second

madam clerk can you please call the vote council member kaplan i council member Jenny all right

yes yes all right that will go to the full council i know it's way past lunch time but uh well

we do have public comments yeah okay she said no we have one public comment we have a handful we

have a handful of public comments um and then after public comments we will turn go ahead okay

can i please have Zion and then after Zion is Felicia

Felicia um apologize Felicia

uh hi yeah my name is Zion Tedesan the owner of quinshiba restaurant um so the you know this

is an amazing uh you know work you guys are doing and but the only problem i have is the systemic

racism because we did do fight for carnivorous equity a few years ago now it's changed the system

changing to the community that have been affected and instead of the community that have been

affected by war and drug now it was changed to the individuals that have been affected so all

this we fight every time black people will come and then fight we create the policy and everything

but eventually it changed to to to help everybody else so i just want to make sure that you know

this initiative should be focused into the black community the black kids especially creating

uh an audit because nobody is auditing they auditing yes the system and the city and the state

is auditing small businesses small families and all that but they not the system is not being

audited so we need to have a separate initiative to audit the schools the system everything needs to

be audited especially when it comes to black community because just like civil right movement it

was passed but it in at the end of the day it only helped the community then our black community

so we fight we fight we fight every year but nothing is coming to our community to really help

our community from from the child all the way to middle school you know college and business

and and other opportunity especially when america offers that where our people paid for for 400

years everybody benefits but not our community so it's okay to pass it but you have to enforce it

not change it later so everybody benefits so that's all i can say thank you for your comments

Felicia as how do you say one more time please Felicia okay please come up thank you Felicia would

be spelled F.A.L.I.S.H.A Felicia Felicia's F.A.L.I.C.I.A. so i want to speak about the equity

or the the racial stuff so basically cps needs to be audited if we look at the um places of where

black and brown children are being snatched from versus where white children are being snatched from

you'll see us in the urban developments now when you take a kid from a parent and i'm speaking

from personal experience i have all my kids back i was featured on the cover of the Sacramento

B.News paper for a Sunday edition took up seven pages in that paper so they were willing to put up

the hundreds and thousands of dollars to fact check what i was saying i'm quoted over 20 times in

that paper the next day i was on the Monday edition i went over the death of my daughter in the

death of a girl named Kendra out of the childrens or steving home cps never gets audited they get

federal title five funding but they're not federally audited they're not audited by nobody they answer

to nobody they're a government entity with no government oversight cps can take a kid from a parent

and go into court and and the cps will give the kid back to the parent the judge will sit there and

say this child is on a quote unquote extended visit this is coded language because child support

will then build a parent who has their kid full time like in one year a hundred and sixty six

thousand dollars went out to a foster care parent who didn't have my kids i have my kids but yet

i'm feeding hundreds of dollars into child support machine while i have my kids not entitled to

food stamps none of that because my kids were quote unquote with me on an extended visit even

though i had them full time when i called the california auditors office i was told that the only

person who can audit cps is a california state senator or assemblyman i reached out to over 50

members of congress nobody wants to look into this why you guys are sitting here looking for funding

for your program and there's hundreds and thousands of dollars if this can happen to me and i

can point it out to everybody and show receipts show proof why won't you guys audit cps why won't

you see once and for all where the man is going thank you for your comments thank you for your

comments i appreciate i just wanted to let you know that cps i know we're not supposed to do back

and forth but it's under the county jurisdiction currently cps in the county and so that's the

county board a supervisor so i'm looking at lex which is my staff and maybe we can connect you to

depending on where you live to the county your county supervisor to follow up with them because

cps is under their jurisdiction but who is child support under city right it's under the

sacrament of the county it's under the county yeah so you guys don't have no oversight on it we don't

but we can make sure we connect you to the right oversight though for sure and i appreciate

you human as they're ignoring it so how how much can the county ignore it before the city does

something okay thank you next speaker may i have mac worthy and then after mac is lambart

first of all when you talk about burgey a friend of mine had a car burning up on first

having a truck and two other cars he was charged a hundred and five dollars for towing

they told it that night now i know the police department gets a cut in those toes but it

would never brought up in the burgey how much of the toes that the police department get some

bad a racketeer in the city and why it's rico it used to be up on sixteen four companies

who are taught towards used to be out across a poppin and but now used to be when you talk

to a car told you go back you got no jack you got no spare time so now whoever moved that truck

he asked for a report they said they'd have time to give it when you move anything that's being

investigated you attempt with evidence now the city the fire department should have said

we got to have it investigated or who set those three pieces three two cars in his truck on fire

and what did they use but they didn't okay what we got to got to do is to look at when i speak

or doing something for yourself people whether you black negro like i am Hispanic or whatever you got

to go in the business we said i got a granddaughter right here Hispanic is her daddy she's at harbor

medical college she do small operation she came out of shelter shelter number five you can do

it but you can't depend on a grant you got to go and business for yourself it has to be economics

and that goes for whoever here you got to go economic there's some things that you ain't

say government doing back if you got money you out there look at the rich man for it less the cars

here on the state because you got money you got to understand the dollar control the economy

thank you for your comments thank you mr. worthy lambard davis

last speaker yes oh we have three more speakers yes three more three more yes

yes my name is lambard davis and i'm here it's it's sad that we don't have an overhead projector

because that to me is like a freedom of speech thing we shouldn't have to point and show you things

like this but as i look across the roster i'm studying who's paying attention and who's not

in the audience should be paying attention to who's paying attention or not because some of the

people that are not paying attention did not take that test the di test and i've caught them with

their hands on my family's paperwork this sign right here is something i'm very proud of

this is to the bay and back cheesecakes you can look us up on instagram we've gone viral

in another city that shows you how institutionalized and systemic racist it is here because we blew up

in southern california in the bear and we've had tremendous problems here when we submit paperwork

you do not become accredited by the better business bureau october 17 unless you meet the criteria

they will not accredited h you unless you do and i'm very proud of that i think you should end

in the name of a guy named bill camp he he was a wonderful person this was a person that

was an example of how to work with different nationalities as a matter of fact on this picture is my

vein some other people this was a wonderful man he was a tremendous supporter of the cheesecakes

he helped us get some city state contracts wonderful person his name was bill camp looking

up wonderful person and to the people who will look us up on line we played our granddaughter

song here it went viral in southern california and we get ready to flood everywhere but sacramental

and i'm a native thank you for your comments i have three more speakers will and droni

please come and then after that i have swammy j

it's yeah it's the same topic yeah good afternoon respected council members we have received a

notice on six four two zero south elder court sacrameno 95823 the temple address is right adjacent

seven seven seven eight lemacaway district eight to remove our mother cows in seven days i would

like to bring to your attention the state of the property before the temple association decided

to fix the creek side fence and secure the property and bring the mother cows to the property

it is also time that we bring south asians into the racial visibility conversations

considering their growing global presence before this project development at the property

homelessness vandalism public intoxication buyer bio hazardous materials like syringes

and human fecal matter and other substances littered private property trust passing and threats

to members on private property happen daily knives rocks sticks buyer hazardous material and guns

were pointed at and was thrown at members for being on their own botland the city did not do anything

we were told to secure our own property which we did with our own funds there was multiple acts

of religious targeting at the temple even a robbery at both the temple and the neighboring

apartments where the creek provided access to these hate-filled individuals to enter our land

i personally was told multiple times that hindus are ruining our country and should go back

hindu phobia has been rising in our state with attacks on our temple as well as other bay area

temples and universities like columbia and my own experience at uc davis and this year alone which

i did independent studies on at my uc davis campus the temple cows have brought families out of

their homes and built a community once more on that court what the city failed to do in bringing

community safety the temple has done double with their own money for the fence project and the

mother cows that have brought smiles on family faces who passed there now to appreciate their great

city again another point is that these cows are sacred mothers representing mother earth our

spiritual background excuse me your time is up do you want to just continue and do the other two

months answer together and then i have one more speaker that's with you as well okay uh

revere them as one who contain the entire pantheon of our gods within them as per our spiritual

background we must pray to these mother cows this sentiment is shared amongst our south asian

community and buddhist seek and hindu faiths because of our mother cow we have seen much peace amongst

the community which you threaten to whip away from us from our own sacramental city members

cow worshipper is used as an insult to my community i would like to make it our pride thank you

for your time and please remember my words include the hindu and south asians into community and

racial equity and visibility conversations thank you so much for being here today i will be here

after and i can speak with you it is in district five vice mayor cady maples district my district

board of that but happy to meet with you after this okay your informed that was your district

a call oh yeah that's okay i'll you know yeah i just switched to five but it's okay we know no

boundary so i'll talk to you all after this thank you for coming today so much uh yes i'm

mother jannon the western community and um gourmand the Indian community i moved here in sacramental

about a decade ago just to serve the temple in the community here in sacramental and ever since we've

moved here we've had a lot of hardship though sister rani has already mentioned and uh

personally you know people breaking into the temple breaking the cars uh people literally

even getting beaten up threatened uh i was trying to clean the property outside where the city

manages because we never gotten response from the city for the freeway side um so we tried to

clean it we had people driving by and cursing and cussing at us and uh making threats um but

she mentioned most of it these are just some of my personal experiences and i'll let father j take over

from here thank you so much i had a wonderful time today and um good luck to the election time i

know it's only two minutes but my name takes two minutes to tell you who i am and i lead about

350 million saints and sages around the world's hammer guru of the world or they only guru outside of

india so uh thank you so much all of you times not there uh but respected my vang and my in hinder

religion my mother so uh we are here only for three cows where there are homeless people shooting

killing kicking people threatening us every day police won't do anything we covered it up we put

some kind of board in this temporary i want the city people to know it's only temporary because

we're building about uh close to about a hundred rooms there for homelessness whether the city helps

or not but we're going to build it ourselves some will do it so we want uh the city council

or city attorney or i miss my vang we were told that it was your district we even called your

office so many times sorry um uh but um i'd like to say that today's a day that Hindus have on our

times up but it's a festival of light may light come and shed upon everybody it goes to five days

and we hope that we're not attacked while doing this uh you know prayer meetings out there we love

everybody and i'm also a dainty your time and self thank you for your comments i love you and i

need somebody to contact us okay i think that is the end of our meeting uh meetings adjourned at

one twenty five thank you so much everyone i'll follow up with them