Good morning, everyone.

I like to call our racial equity committee meeting to order at 1101.

Madam Clerk, would you call role to establish quorum?

Yes, thank you, Chair.

Councilmember Talamantes.

Councilmember Garrett.

Running late.

Councilmember Jennings.

And Chair Vane.

Here.

Vice Mayor Talamantes, would you help us lead the land acknowledgement and the Pledge of Allegiance?

Please rise for the opening acknowledgments on our Sacramento's Indigenous People and Tribal Lands.

To the original people of this land, the Nissanan people, the Southern Maidu, Valley and Plains Mewak, Patland Winto peoples, and the people of the Wilton Manteria, 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 together today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's indigenous people, history, contributions, and lives.

Thank you.

So you pledge.

In the United States of America and do the republic for resistance.

Thank you, Vice Mayor, for leading that.

We have one items, uh one item on consent.

Uh Madam City Clerk, do we have any comments on consent?

Thank you, Chair.

No, we do not.

Okay.

Is there a motion on the floor?

There is.

So moved by coach.

Councilmember Jennings.

Second by the Chair, Mai Vang.

Um would you call the vote?

Councilmember Telemantes.

Councilmember Garrett.

Councilmember Jennings.

Chair Vane.

Yes.

Thank you.

The motion passes.

Thank you so much.

Next item is on the discussion calendar.

Um, just do we're gonna move some items around to um ensure that we have some of our members here to present on item two.

So with that, we'll actually take up item three first.

Um, update on application on budget equity tool on Sacramento Police Department.

Good morning, members of the Racial Equity Committee.

Um, and uh those of you who are online and those of you who are in the chambers.

My name is Ami Zenzelay Barnes, pronouns are she and they.

I serve as the diversity and equity manager of the Office of Diversity and Equity, which is located in the Human Resources Department.

Uh this presentation is a continuing update and conversation and feedback on the efforts of uh city departments and applying the budget equity tool uh that was created in 2023.

The first half of this presentation is just to be a reminder and grounding overview of the budget equity uh tool is development and its purpose and its components.

So that will be a very quick overview.

Uh the second half of the presentation is where the content and the update of the SAC police department and their experience in applying and using the budget equity tool for the fiscal year 2526 on their budget reductions.

And I do wish to extend gratitude to Chief Lester and Lieutenant Sabrina Briggs, who leading the consultation and the work efforts, and also the different personnel of PD who worked on the budget equity tool to inform that work and the presentation that you will see today.

So a brief uh background.

Uh, the budget equity tool was to be a tool to apply and embed equity in our systems of decision-making policies and procedures and practices around decisions around budget reductions.

Um, it is a tool to proactively seek to eliminate inequities and advance equity in budget reductions, help to identify and clarify measurable outcomes for those items that were identified or proposed as budget reductions, and to engage staff and staff teams and decision making uh and decision makers in the decision making process and to understand that process, to inform those decision making processes to maximize benefit and to minimize the burden on vulnerable and historically impacted communities.

Also, the budget equity tool, the goal was to develop mechanisms for successful implementation and evaluation and accountability, not only for current budget reductions, but also for future.

The budget equity tool, just as a reminder, is an equity lens, so it's a series of questions.

It is and was created out of the initiation and thought of this committee for the Racial Equity Committee to start to apply an equity lens to our budget.

And so this phased in approach is where the budget equity tool was created.

It is to affirm and align with the city manager's office budget instructions and strategy around reductions and understanding those the impact and the analysis around the impact.

Was also to affirm and align around council priorities.

There were a couple of years ago, nine priorities that were identified by the council, and so this tool was informed by that.