Okay, I'd like to call to order this meeting of the first five Sacramento Commission for Monday, October 6, 2025.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll and establish a quorum?

Yes, sir.

Chair Cerna.

Here.

Commissioner Wesley.

Not here yet.

Commissioner Fernandez Garcia.

Here.

Commissioner Gordon.

Here.

Commissioner Casir.

Not here yet.

Okay.

Commissioner Gatari.

Here.

Commissioner Moak.

Here.

Commissioner Kennedy, not here.

Commissioner Hassett?

Here.

Commissioner Williams.

Here.

Commissioner Evans.

Not here yet.

Okay.

Commissioner Guerra is going to be late today.

Commissioner Boston.

Here.

And Commissioner Kraviswartz.

Here.

Thank you.

We have quorum.

Very good.

Thank you.

If you could please read our statement.

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Very good.

Thank you very much.

If you'd please rise and join me in the pledge.

And to the Republic for which one nations individual with liberty justice for all.

All right, again, I'd like to welcome everyone to uh this afternoon's uh first five Sacramento Commission uh meeting for October as a friendly reminder.

You're certainly welcome to address the commission on any item that's on our published agenda or any off agenda item as well.

Uh we ask that you please keep your comments to three minutes that way everyone has an opportunity to speak if they so choose and we uh welcome your testimony.

So with that, uh first item, madam clerk.

Item number one, approval of August 4th, 2025, draft action summary.

Okay, does any member of the commission have any questions or wish to pull up for a separate vote?

Or uh I'm sorry, um any changes.

Seeing none, madam clerk, do we have anyone sign up to speak on this matter?

No, sir.

Okay, then I entertain a motion.

Chair will move.

Is there a second?

Second.

Okay, it's been moved moved and seconded.

Roll call vote, please.

Chair Cerna.

Aye.

Commissioner Wesley.

Uh Commissioner Fernandez I Garcia.

Aye.

Commissioner Gordon.

Aye.

Commissioner Cassier.

Oh.

Commissioner Katari.

Aye.

I guess.

And Commissioner Moak.

Aye.

Thank you.

Motion passes.

Uh Madam Clerk, do we um I want to make clear.

Do we have substitutes or I'm saying alternates voting today for uh principal members?

We do.

So we would uh have instead of Commissioner Wesley, we would ask Commissioner Hassett to vote to weigh in on that.

And uh Dr.

Cassirer isn't here, and Eric hasn't arrived yet.

So we will wait for Commissioner Guerra to arrive.

Madam Clerk, did you call uh Ms.

Hassett's name for the vote?

No, sir.

Sorry, my apologies.

Okay, Commissioner Hassett.

Now I'm just gonna abstain.

Okay, very good.

Thank you.

All right.

Thank you.

Okay, next item, please.

Item number two, appoint Eric Guerra to system optimization and sustainability committee.

Okay, so we had a um I'll just jump in real quick.

Yeah, we had an opening on this uh committee when um Commissioner Lloyd uh moved off of the off of the commission and she was a member of SOS committee.

And uh Commissioner Garrick has graciously uh agreed to backfill and join that committee.

So we are asking for your appointment today.

Very good, thank you.

Uh any questions from members of the commission?

Seeing none.

Madam Clerk, do we have anyone summoned to speak on this matter?

No, sir.

Okay, at this point, entertaining a motion.

I'll make a motion to appoint.

Second.

Okay, it's been moved and seconded.

Roll call vote, please.

Chair Cerna.

Aye.

Commissioner Wesley.

Aye.

Thank you.

Commissioner Fernandez I Garcia?

Aye.

Commissioner Gordon.

Aye.

And Commissioner Casir.

Commissioner Katari.

Hi.

Commissioner Moak.

Aye.

Thank you.

Motion passes.

Very good.

Thank you.

Next item, please.

Item number three, probably comments and off agenda items.

Okay.

Do we have anyone that has submitted speaker slips?

No, sir.

All right, very good.

Then we will then move to the next item.

Item number four, executive director's report.

Good afternoon.

Lovely to see you all today.

A couple highlights from the report.

I'll start with our racial equity update.

I won't say too much because we do have a guest from our equity in action committee who's going to be giving you a presentation today.

But just a couple highlights.

As you might remember, this is a 15-member committee made up of residents who live in the 14 communities that were identified for our racial equity funding.

They have been meeting uh mostly on Saturdays for the last three months.

It has been an amazing time.

Never thought that I would say it like I'm excited to work on Saturdays, but we are actually really excited to get this work done.

You probably all saw the announcement for funding go out in your email.

We have done extensive uh announcement promotion of it.

Uh this committee wanted to have a two uh have a two-step process with letter of interest first.

Um so right now we are accepting letters of interest through October 9th, though just this week.

Um, lest you think that we didn't have enough interest.

I think Lindsay gave me the latest count was uh 170 plus letters of interest already, I think totaling more than 21 million dollars for our four million 4.2 million that we have available.

So we absolutely are seeing the demand out there, and just as a reminder, these are agencies who have not had first five funding in the last 15 years and are working only in those 15, 14 neighborhoods.

So we can't uh wait to dive in and give you a full update on that.

Um that update today will be provided by Yasmin Herrera Vilchas, and she is one of the members of the committee representing Rancho Cordova area.

Um a quick update on the philanthropy summit that was um hosted by Sacramento Regional Community Foundation.

First five was asked to present on our equity in action um initiative.

It was an amazing day.

Um and I think our our workshop had at least 150 people in there really interested in our topic, which was trust-based philanthropy and how to work with community in bringing in their voice and and um sharing power with community, everything from releasing money to evaluating programs and sharing out findings back again to community.

So it was a great presentation and a great day, and my goal was to try to find some agencies, some foundations who wanted to partner with us, and I might have one on the hooks, but I'll tell you about it later.

Um so anyway, that was really fabulous day.

Um a couple of you were there, and thank you for those who could make it to our Potter the Otter Museum exhibit.

It was a fantastic morning.

Thank you, Chair Cerna, cut the ribbon and brought his special magic to that event.

Uh, you know, um interacting with all the kids.

And this is a reminder, we will be at the museum through January.

We have a six-month stint there basically, and um we have several free days for kids uh zero to five and their families.

Everybody gets to come in for free.

And we have our partner agencies help me grow.

Um SAC Family Connect is is there and present, and um our partners from in Rancho Cordova in that area.

Um Folsom Community Partnership.

So uh families getting great services and really having a lot of fun.

We are recruiting for uh parent leadership training institute, thanks to our public health friends.

We have uh money for an additional uh Spanish language cohort, which you'll hear about later on in the agenda.

Um so we'll be running an English and a Spanish cohort.

Um and we are recruiting right now for those cohorts will start in January.

So and uh it's all over our website and everywhere else, but do send parents our way.

Um I feel like uh our DEI chief at the county would want me to let you know about the Thrive Summit.

So I have to say a few words.

Uh that's coming up October 15th.

Um we've been part of the First Five has been a part of the planning committee on this, but especially the uh CBO mixer that is going to end our day at the Thrive Summit.

Um we have um Chair Wesley is giving the final motivational uh speech on the way out.

Uh we're building bridges and breaking barriers, and I hope if you aren't registered, I think there's still time, so please do.

It would be a great day at SAC State to talk about all things racial equity and what the county's doing and how we're building partnerships and community.

I first five received an oral health heroes award from the Center for Oral Health last month.

Um Chris Clinton and Deborah Payne and I accepted that on behalf of the commission.

Uh they really highlighted the partnerships that um the Center for Oral Health has had over the years with First Five and the dental plans in running a program called Early Smiles that goes out to school districts and screens thousands of kids each year.

I think last year uh 1,500, maybe 2,000 preschoolers were um seen and screened and referred on for services.

We used to fund that program entirely, and now the dental plans fund it 100%.

So it's one of those really successful sustainability programs where we launched and seeded it and handed it over, and um we still get the data from it, and we still have that partnership, so it's a really lovely story.

Um I'll end with a quick staffing update.

We are doing final interviews coming up for the health service health.

I'll say that again, human services program specialist position.

Um, and uh that we are backfilling after Latina uh Latina Price's departure.

And um we are also promoting internally Elena Enriquez from a senior office assistant into an ASO1 position after we had a vacancy there.

So we'll be hiring a senior office assistant later this year or early next year.

Happy to answer any questions.

Great, thanks, Julie.

Any questions for our executive director?

None great, thank you.

Madam Clerk, do we have anyone to address the executive director's report?

All right, next item, please.

Item number five, advisory committee update, August 22nd, 2025.

Great.

We have uh Junior Goras already there.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, Chair Serner and Commissioners.

My name is Junior Goris, and I'm the chair of the first five advisory committee.

Let's get you on mic first.

Test test.

Oh, here we go.

Uh good afternoon, Chair Senator and Commissioners.

My name is Junior Goris.

I'm the chair of the first five advisory committee.

The advisory committee met on August 22nd, and along with the standing agenda items.

The focus of this meeting was the presentation of a black child legacy campaign.

Members learned about the program highlights and the evaluation results from last year.

The strategic planning ad hoc committee met on September 12th to discuss phase two on community feedback.

This included the parent caregiver survey and follow-up focused groups.

Our next meeting is scheduled for October 10th, and that concludes my advisory committee report.

And I'll take any questions.

Very good, short and sweet.

Uh any questions from commissioners.

Don't see any.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Anyone decided to speak on this matter?

No, sir.

Thank you.

Next item, please.

Item number six, evaluation committee update.

We didn't meet last month.

All right.

Next item, please.

Item number eight, systems optimization and sustainability committee update, August 20, 2025.

I'll be giving that update.

So we met the SOAS committee met on August 20th.

We received updates and discussed uh policy and advocacy, including updates from First Five Association and First Five California.

Uh we discussed the Equity and Action Committee meetings, which we'll be hearing about later today.

And the Parent Partnership Initiative.

Our next meeting is on October 22nd, and that concludes my report.

Very good.

Thank you.

Uh any questions?

Don't see any.

Madam Clerk, do we have anyone to speak on this matter?

No, sir.

Very good.

Thank you.

Next item, please.

Item number nine, 2027-2030 implementation plan update, review of community input and community trend report.

Approval of the 2027-2030 spending plan.

Great.

I just wanted to say for the record, we did skip item number seven, the Financial Planning Committee update.

However, we didn't have we did not meet, so we don't have an update on that.

And then we'll jump to item number nine.

Um we have Lindsay Dunkel who's been leading our strategic planning work.

We'll give that update.

I'm a part of it.

Where did my mic go?

Um I'm gonna hand it over to Kristen to start us off.

Good afternoon.

Um as you know, we're gearing up for our next three-year implementation plan, which will kick off in 2027.

And the proposed spend plan comes in at 11.9 million dollars per year or 35.7 million dollars over the three years.

That's about a 20 percent reduction from our current plan, mainly um because Prop 10 revenues continue to decline, right?

Fewer people are using tobacco products, and the county's birth rate is also declining.

So, even with those challenges, the commission has made it a top priority to bring in new funding so we can keep our early childhood programs going strong.

By leveraging outside dollars, we've been able to keep key programs and staff in place.

In fact, um five FTE are currently funded through those leverage funds.

Um, and we'll keep pushing to find more opportunities like those to offset costs and protect the work we do for children and families.

Today we're asking for approval of just the high level 2027 spending plan.

The detailed allocations, so how much will go to each priority area will be developed later through a collaborative process with the community and with all of you on the commission.

So let's take a look, um, a brief look at the plan itself.

Umrigin we're expecting a pretty steep drop, about 37%, but thanks to unspent funds from prior years and success in bringing in outside funding, we've been able to reduce that reduction to 20 percent.

Um the spending plan is built only on our core revenues, so Prop 10, our Medi-Cal administrative activities, so MA dollars, um, interest earnings, and other stable funding.

Um it doesn't include any pass-through dollars we receive from specific programs such as CalWorks Home Visiting.

So within the plan, you'll see allocations for administration evaluation and program.

Um, despite um the overall reduction, we've kept the vast majority of funding 84 percent, directed to programs and services for children and families.

Administration represents 11 percent and the valuation 5 percent, which shows that we strongly prioritize putting the dollars where they make the most impact.

Um let's talk briefly about administrative costs.

So, as I mentioned, 11 percent is allocated to administration.

Um, in 2016, the commission set a 10 percent cap on administrative costs based on the most recent yearly budget approved by the commission.

So, yes, the proposal is just a bit over.

Um, it doesn't include any leverage funding.

So, if we factor in leverage funding like CalWorks Home Visiting, we actually are sitting about 8% well within that limit.

But as Prop 10 revenues continue to decline, administrative costs are naturally going to go up.

Um at some point, the Commission may want to revisit the 10% cap to make sure we're maintaining both fiscal responsibility and operational capacity.

On the program side, that includes both internal and external costs.

So internal program costs cover our staff, supplies, media, and our policy systems and sustainability work.

Um when the commission updated the strategic plan in 2021, um we anticipated this shift, um, moving some focus from direct services towards system level work that helps sustain those services long term, um, and that's a trend that we're seeing um across FIRS five statewide.

So while it costs money to support the internal work, we're seeing strong returns.

It's helping us bring in outside dollars to replace or supplement what the commission once funded alone.

So of that 29.9 million in total program funding, 17 percent goes towards internal costs, um, so staff salaries, benefits, colas, and the remaining 82.5 percent will go directly to contracts with community partners.

Um the plan also supports 13 full-time positions dedicated to the strategic plan, plus one position supplemented by external funding for a total of 14 FTEs.

And this structure gives us the capacity to manage contracts efficiently, process claims, and um continue to pursue finding um new funding.

And just as importantly, it keeps us in a leadership role, helping to drive policy and systems change that improve outcomes for Sacramento's youngest children and their families.

That wraps up my presentation.

I'll pause here.

Are there any questions or comments?

Thank you.

Any questions for staff?

Don't see any.

Thank you.

Okay.

Just to uh remind you, we're on track to have uh funding decisions in place so that staff can launch the funding process by early fall of 26.

Um so that everything will be queued up for contracts to start on July 1 of 27.

So the next piece we're gonna talk about is community input.

Um and we held six community conversations among a number of groups around the county.

We had one for Afghan parents, one for fathers, one for women experiencing homelessness, one uh in Spanish, and two groups in English.

Three of the groups were in person and three were virtual.

Uh and I just pulled a couple of demographics here.

So here's age range, not surprising among parents of young children.

The vast majority of them were in the 30 to 39 bracket.

But we did have some grandparents in there too.

Um and then this was uh the the ethnicity of the people who attended.

So a broad swath of the of the Sacramento community.

And of these 22 were born outside the U.S., 23 speak a language other than English at home.

18 were caring for a child with special needs, and they represented 20 different zip codes around the county.

So they had uh they each had a wide-ranging conversation where they um spent time talking about their hopes and dreams for children and young families in the county.

Um and these were the themes uh that emerged from the discussion.

So family stability and access to supports, things like they talked about financial challenges, about wait lists for services, about lack of transportation and impossible eligibility requirements, about figuring out where the right services were, so navigating and getting connected to the right supports, about access to quality child care and early education, um, and the need for more and better language supports and culturally affirming respectful quality care.

Can I interrupt when you say uh impossible eligibility requirements, what does that mean?

I think uh it means frustration at things like I know one thing that came up was um people who uh make too much money for subsidized child care and have to be really careful about not bumping their income above the level for a subsidy because they can't afford to pay for it without that.

Um the feeling that um the cutoff for income is below what makes a family whole.

Okay.

All right, that's helpful.

Thank you.

Uh healthy lifestyle, that was one um that hadn't come up for us before, but uh a desire um not just for medical care and mental health care, um, but for developmental screenings and supports, not surprising with 18 parents of children with special needs in those groups.

Um but emphasizing wanting a healthy lifestyle for their children, so outdoor recreation, um nutrition, um uh sports and activities and enrichment, those kinds of things.

Before before you move on, can I just can I um are all these themes created equal?

Are they all like uh I guess do you is there a prioritized list of those themes or is that coming?

Thank you so much.

Anticipating next step.

Um what we're doing is we're we're coming the sta now that these themes have been established, um, staff are coming up with uh a list of possible um strategies that fit within the first five umbrella, and we're taking those back to community to see.

No, I get I I think I understand that.

But like if healthy lifestyle came up 71 percent of the time versus quality providers, still a theme, but only 26 percent.

Yep.

Like we want to know what Yeah, so we're gonna ask community to rank them and say what's most important.

Another step.

Yeah, when we take the strategies back to them to see if we got it right.

But Commissioner Mook from a qualitative research standpoint, you avoid ranking themes.

If it's a theme, it's a theme.

Right?

Sure.

Yeah, but that that's why these still can't do everything.

I just was curious how to that I think this second step is the way to get at that.

But when you're just reporting out themes, you kind of don't do that.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

Um uh next one was community gathering and being together.

This is one we've heard a lot since pandemic, um, people feeling isolated and wanting to be able to uh be in connection.

Um checkups and check-ins.

Uh is families wanting regular support with their physical and emotional well-being, especially around that perenatal time period.

Um they talked about um getting being able to get information, advice, and again the help navigating resources and coaching that might come from one idea was a follow-up phone call to to new parents.

Uh parent learning.

Um they talked about wanting to learn about um child development, about childbirth, about healthy development.

Um, and um about how to advocate also.

Um they didn't necessarily use they they used words like classes and workshop, but there was acknowledgement that they don't that that isn't they just don't have language for how else it might look, um, but they really want the format to be interactive and the agenda to be parent-driven.

Um and they also talked about the importance of having incentives for parents to participate because it just helps give that extra nudge for them to be there.

Things like diapers is a big giveaway that's helpful.

Uh developmental supports.

Um attention and care for families and with children with developmental challenges.

So uh identifying them, um getting them connected to more timely screening and supports, um and gatherings with other parents who who are parenting similar children.

Um those kinds of things.

And one thing that we also didn't do that you'll hear throughout this is we didn't say, oh, we we do that.

Right.

Uh we did follow up with a lot of these groups with resources so that they got connected, but we didn't interrupt the conversation to tell them those things.

Because I you can hear um uh help me grow all through that one, right?

Communications.

So uh families didn't feel like they know what services and supports are out there.

I I talked with uh one mother who had no idea that there was free preschool in the county of Sacramento.

Um so yeah, well, I just once again a reminder not to to uh to check my assumptions, right?

Um providers and agencies like First Five have info for families, but they don't always reach them.

Um so they talked about ways to bridge that gap, um, including better use of libraries.

Um then quality providers.

This was kind of an overarching thing that that links back to that idea of um cultural responsivity.

Um but um many of the groups talked about the importance of those quality caring providers, um, both in the early education and the medical field, sort of across um and social services.

Um and they talked about supporting those providers so that they um have access not only to training but to healing and supports for themselves so that they have a fuller cup when they're supporting families.

Um and then job and career training.

So um uh they talked about wanting um access to ladders that would help them earn more money.

So that is what we heard um from the um from the focus groups or community conversations as we're calling them.

Um and then we also have community trend data, um which you often review.

Get back to my page with these notes.

Um it's prepared for us by our partners at applied survey research.

Um and it's reflective of First Five Sacramento's priorities.

Um and it's updated regularly.

It lives on our website.

So the current version has been realigned for the new strategic plan.

And it will go live on our website tomorrow after you all have have seen it.

And now the question is.

Yeah.

Maria, can you click on the it should link us to the terrific.

So this is a tool that staff will use, but I I wanted you to know that it was there.

And many of our grantees use it as well.

That's why we have it live on our on our website.

And you can see that we have a number of priorities there across the top.

Maria, if you'll scroll down a little bit.

And I think for our purposes here, the the most lean on the most is the county trend, because you're not resetting your priorities.

So what's changing in the county is probably most of interest for us here.

This is going to be a fun two-handed operation.

So you'll see that there's yellow, red, and green indicators.

Yeah.

And then you can also click through and get some you can get uh the specifics about about what's happening.

I think if you just click on it.

Yeah.

Okay.

There you go.

It's not.

Sorry.

That's all I get.

Ah, okay.

What if you click on the um the name of the is there anything clickable over there?

Yeah.

There we go.

Maybe not.

No.

Okay.

If you go back up to the top and you click next to highlights.

I I swear that you could click through, yeah.

How about that one?

Here's where the detail lives.

Um and then within these also you can get additional detail by by clicking on the that information.

Um you have uh data sources.

I gave you in your handout all of the highlights, um, and I included the data sources on there because I know that's always of interest.

It's been um it's been a bit of a journey trying to figure out which publicly available data um best support our priorities.

Um we we uh had a uh a lot of discussion around um parent partnership and what was there.

You want to click on parent partnership, Maria?

Well while she's doing that, can I ask?

Um is this was the structure of this tool or this utility uh was it developed by SR?

Yes.

So I understand the interest in having a state comparison um element to it.

But um what would it take?

Or maybe they have it off the shelf to compare Sacramento County to other similarities.

Similar-sized counties.

Yeah.

Yeah, and regional.

There's so many other uh metrics in uh the land of county governance and service delivery where we don't simply you know put ourselves up against the other 57 counties.

We intentionally look at Contra Costa County or Alameda County, counties of a similar size, counties that have a larger unincorporated area.

So I would be much more I I think the state comparison is fine.

It gives us a benchmark to compare, but I would want to see how we are relative to some of those more similar surrogates.

Yeah.

Thank you.

And we we had had a discussion about that as well.

I I do think it's it tells us a lot more than just a comparison to the state.

Commissioner Wesley?

Yeah, it's checks.

Would that include Chair Cerna?

Would that include like you say comparable?

Is it the size of the county?

Is it demographics?

Is it areas that they're also tracking?

There is a collection of counties that are that exist.

It's how I want to say it's seven to ten counties in the state that we use for everything from comparing salaries for different positions to budgets to, you know, uh number of people on general assistance.

I mean, there's a whole spectrum of of data that uh help help us understand where we are, where the county is relative to those counties.

So it's it's uh all the above.

So Mr.

Mook.

And I get I know I think you're continuing.

I I would just also just remind all of us remind ourselves that this is 2022 data.

Uh the world has changed a lot in the last three years, let alone nine months.

So I think just you know, basing some of those anything.

I would say too, that it was still very anomalous because of the tail end of the pandemic.

Sure.

So just a you know I just always get nervous when things are based on a time when it that isn't now.

Wholeheartedly agree.

And that's where the the real-time conversations with the parents really can make up some of that difference.

They're not going to give us data, but they'll give us their perspectives.

No, I think uh Commissioner Moch brings up a great point, but uh again, uh this is one year after we were um lost inside.

Yeah.

So uh I don't put a whole lot of um I don't invest a lot of uh faith that this is uh very representative based on those important footnotes.

So it would be, I think if we can start seeing more current data um and um data that is collected or assessed um when we're not um just ending the throes of you know a once-in-a-century pandemic that uh would be I think much more informative.

Yeah, wherever they could, ASR tried to get data that was um uh newer than 2022.

And each one has its own timeline, but when you when you click through the details, you can you can see what those are.

So not all of it is from 2022, um, but where wherever it's possible where it's it's more updated than that.

Commissioner Wesley?

Yeah, I thought what that said, because you s talked about the paracontext and that, yeah, this is from 2022, but it's the parent story that will really give us where we should be situated now.

Is that am I hearing that?

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And uh these are both things that staff will be using in in bringing you those recommendations about which strategies um are the prior uh are the priorities.

So just wanted to update you along the way.

And that is all I have for you on that today.

Commissioner Fernandez Garcia.

Did the commun the community conversations, did they see this data or did they?

They did not see the status.

There are just other methods to get them talking about different things.

Okay, great things.

Thanks.

Commissioner Wesley.

I have a lot on this one.

Um what struck me and just thinking about the providers and the providers' well-being as the ones who are touching and impacting families, how important that is and how we're I know we only have so much money, but even you know, how do we help connect the caregivers for the caregivers to supportive services or navigate them elsewhere for those resources?

Just being a preschool teacher myself, um, and just hearing a lot of stories around vicarious trauma and what that means.

Because you're public facing, you're serving a large constituent of our SAC County families.

And so you're here bearing witness to stories, you're you're seeing it up close.

You're you're hearing about I I'm going home to maybe no food.

Sometime you're the ones the caregivers are creating their all like mini food banks.

And so you're seeing it like concrete needs of support.

And I'm just thinking about who's caring for the caregivers.

We know first and foremost are the families, period, hands down, but these are the folks who are doing, I always say God's work.

So like who's taking care of them so that those mirror neurons, sorry, getting technical can exude in a positive way to support those families.

Yeah.

And I'm participating in a project through the city of Sacramento, um, the child care manager there is leading a project where creating a website for providers to connect providers to all kinds of services, being aware that those child care providers are are often using public services themselves, but also we're very conscious about what we can do around the mental health needs, and that's being driven by the providers who are in that work group.

Yeah, and there's research that just showed that 25 percent of our child care community relies on Medi-Cal and other public subsidies, um, 50 percent on like housing support.

So you have like I don't like to put deficit terms, but that's the only way I could do it, is like the vulnerable is caring for the vulnerable.

Yep.

And so we have to really think about the fragility.

Absolutely.

And I I just think uh looking back at this last year, we were able to, with First Five California funding, do a lot around home visitor um wellness and uh you know the the main reason that home visitors stop working in the field is mental health, secondary trauma, um, and going back into crisis every day over and over and over again.

And um so we just focus the entire day on bringing supports and looking at what can we do long term for those providers?

And we still think about it all the time.

Our group still kind of meets to discuss it, but that I think is a theme that we're seeing about the vulnerable providing services to the vulnerable across the board for what we do.

So we often come at it from the top down of like, well, let's make sure our our providers are culturally resonant and have training and all of that stuff, but really it is also it's a it's a it's a and they need that and they need um that support to to stay in the field.

Yeah, and that came across from parents.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay, does that conclude your report?

It does.

All right, very good.

Uh we've already had a few uh questions and some back and forth from commissioners.

But uh, Madam Clerk, do we have anyone sign up to address this matter?

No, sir.

All right, very good.

And we do need to take a vote.

Uh correct?

Yes.

Yes.

All right.

So um entertain a motion at this point.

Chair will move.

Is there a second?

A second.

All right.

Don't everyone jump up.

All right.

Uh roll call vote, please.

Chair Serna.

All right.

Commissioner Wesley.

Aye.

Commissioner Fernandez I Garcia.

Aye.

Commissioner Gordon.

Aye.

Commissioner Cassier.

Hi.

Commissioner Katari.

Aye.

And Commissioner Moek.

Aye.

Thank you.

Motion passes.

Very good.

Thank you.

Thanks again for the uh the report and all the work that went into it.

Next item, please.

Item number 10, approval of a revenue agreement with the Sacramento County Department of the Airports in the amount of 55,000 for research and development consultation and building a child care center at Sacramento Metropolitan Field and expenditure agreement with child action incorporated and the amount of 25,000 for child care expertise.

We'll have Lindsay will take the lead on this, and you don't even need to do anything more, Lindsay.

I think that summarized the entire item.

It just is a title.

Very long title.

I will I will tell you that's the first time uh in my tenure here and on the board of supervisors that I've seen uh our airports uh designation, three-letter designation actually spelled out in any kind of uh agenda or staff report.

For those who wondered what SMF stood for, now it has become clear to all of us.

Um this is uh very exciting item.

Um at the first Thrive conference at SAC State, um one of my colleagues brought Cindy Nickel over to me and said, Lindsay, this is Cindy Nickel, the director of airports, and she wants to talk to you.

And I thought, what on earth does the director of airports want to talk to me about?

Well, it turns out child care.

Um so uh we have been exploring with with staff, and we have Stephen Clark here today who's been helping us Stephen Clark.

The Stephen.

Deputy director of operations at the airport.

Indeed.

Um over the last several months.

Um we've been sort of doing a little exploratory research and um having conversations.

Julie and I got to go tour uh an uh space at the airport.

Um and think about the feasibility of doing um child care for people who work at the airport.

So that is not just county staff, but that is um all of the vendors um who work out there, so um a huge variety of people.

Um we are really excited about the idea of of helping Shepherd the possibility of some more employer-based child care in Sacramento County, which there's not a lot of.

Um so uh we drafted a proposed scope of work to coordinate a study um, including convening experts and stakeholders um to explore the feasibility.

Is would this work?

Is this is this something that the that the airport can take on?

Um part of the study will consider the use of some existing space in Terminal B as an interim facility.

The airport is planning a new administrative building long term that a child care center could potentially be a part of.

Uh so this scope of work is just through uh June 30th of 2026 to do some research and convene some experts.

Um as part of that, we would be subcontracting uh with uh Child Action Inc.

for their expertise around child care.

And the other super exciting piece of this is that Senator Ashby was interested in funding this and was able to um identify 1.5 million dollars uh that will be allocated to the Department of Airports.

So that is my report.

Great, very good.

Uh are we gonna hear from Mr.

Clark?

Yes.

Stephen.

That's your cue.

Thank you.

Chair Cerner, Commissioners, I I didn't sign up to speak, but uh more than happy just to say a few words uh of appreciation.

Uh uh just uh very quickly, it's it's been a pleasure uh to work with the group uh in coming in here today and and actually really looking forward to the next couple of steps.

Um on a personal note, uh you know, for the folks at a Department of Airports, uh airports run uh like a county and like many cities.

There are 4,000 of us who carry uh this badge out there and serve our community.

Uh there are now 14 million uh folks that now come through the doors that we serve there.

Uh and so uh we're open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Uh and for many of us uh out there, we have little ones.

Uh and uh just a very quick personal story for me.

Uh when I started my career almost 20 years ago uh in aviation as a baggage handler, uh I actually had a son.

My son was born back then, he's now 15 and about 6'3.

180 pounds.

Uh Chair Cerna knows him, he's met him a couple times.

And um I uh made 12.50 cents an hour uh as that baggage handler, and I couldn't afford child care uh for my son.

And I was on food stamps.

Uh and I was on food stamps until about eight years ago, actually, uh in the in aviation.

And so to be able to uh to work with a group here and uh be in front of you today uh actually means uh more than you'll ever know.

And so uh for us to be able to take these steps is a big deal, and I'm really looking forward to uh uh not only delivering this project for uh uh for our community but for uh those 4,000 individuals who who uh live and work through life uh out there at uh SMF.

So looking forward to bringing some more updates, but thank you uh for everything you're doing for our community and uh look forward to working with you all.

Thank you.

Thank you, Steven.

Appreciate you being here.

Uh Commissioner Gera.

Thank you very much, Mr.

Chair.

First, uh, you know, that that story just exemplifies the uh question I was going to ask, or maybe direction here.

Uh uh if the study could also include uh if there's a possibility to uh have a head start component to it.

Because a lot of the uh workers that are in the airport, particularly service workers and whatnot, um, may not be able to uh afford what current employer-based uh child care costs are.

Uh most recently, I think when we had both Javier and Mathe SN, it was $3200 a month, you know.

And that's because we got a discount.

So it really I I think if there is a way and if in the and we uh have the opportunity to do a study here, uh, can we do that through SETA, head start and uh have a component uh uh for that that split.

Absolutely.

Great suggestion.

We're super interested in exploring uh uh a mixed delivery system for uh the finances of it for the paying of the child care.

Commissioner Moak.

And just on that, just because we're first five, we're not of the assumption that it's only a zero to five facility.

We would be able to go outside.

We would just perhaps be funding our portion for zero to five families.

Uh the the model as it looks right now is not to have first five funding go into the project.

Sure, right, yeah.

Okay.

Um but the airports already did uh sort of a quick and dirty initial survey of their um workers, including vendors and county, I think including vendors and county staff.

And it was all ages, although I think it was two to three years old was the highest need area.

Gosh, I wish I had looked at it.

He's jumping.

He's ready to come.

He then he has the info.

Yeah, he's got it right there.

But if we're already kind of look at some of those things just to see what was the same thing.

But to be clear, if we have no fiscal interest.

No fiscal interest.

Just as uh it's sort of part of our new role, Commissioner Moak, is as our funding decreases, we stay relevant by getting by setting tables for others to make things happen for kids and to change the systems for kids.

I love it.

Yeah, the the model that we're looking at is more the management side.

So because the need at the airport is actually going to be larger than any facility we could ever build, the the focus for us is really going to be based on uh focusing really more on the tenants, right?

So those folks that you know uh are are going to be the food vendors, the airlines uh really not necessarily counting employees on day one.

Now there may be a portion of those users that we dedicate to that, but that that's actually going to be part of kind of the initial work is what is that, what is the right mix there?

And so um to the question that was asked, you know, the actual um the amount of age group, it is very diverse, it is very diverse.

Um but actually uh I'm just pulling this up right in front of you here, so I apologize for just a moment here.

Um yeah, it was um our highest need was one to four.

Um but there was about 20 percent that were actually above the age of 10, which is quite unique.

And a lot of that speaks to after after a school care, you know, because of where SMF is at uh in the county as well.

So that'll be something uh actually one of the things that we've talked about is do we want to do a little bit of a deeper study?

Um because our survey work was done by uh Department of Airport staff.

Uh so there's an opportunity for us to do a little bit more academic research there.

While you're at the podium, uh and I I think I asked you or we had a conversation recently uh Stephen about this, but uh the the 1.5 state the state contribution specifically will be used for what capital improvement plus operations for a certain amount of time or just just the capital improvement?

Yeah, just capital improvement is the idea there.

So we have an existing shelf space that was built uh with Terminal B, the project that was completed uh many, many years ago.

And so that space has currently been sitting vacant.

It provides us an opportunity to build the interim facility that we've talked about.

And so it's really an ideal space for for us.

And then as we look long term for a more dedicated facility, we'll look for the size and scope there.

So the question that I asked you uh earlier uh a few weeks ago one-on-one, I'm just gonna ask it again so that the rest of the commission can understand it.

What is then the expectation for uh who and how uh will that ongoing uh uh M and O cost um be taken care of?

Is it gonna be airport enterprise fund?

Is what will what can we expect in terms of making sure that it this just doesn't present itself?

We all think it's great and it it serves uh a very um uh useful purpose at the airport.

But uh I think all of us are interested in understanding sustainability.

So yeah, I think all all the final model is ultimately going to be determined by the all the the final mix.

But one of the things that I've been learning in conversation, especially with our tenants and our business partners, is there's a need for them to offer this as a benefit to the and bringing though the you know the quality of employees that we have in our region.

This is an opportunity for them to come to the table.

At the end of the day, this will be an airport enterprise project.

So this is not going to go and hit the general fund in any way.

And so, you know, all ultimately is these funds come into uh the department airports, you know, as Senator Ashby's uh dollars come in, those are coming into the department airports.

Any additional funds for facility improvement, so is the department of airport funds.

You know, and then those users of those facilities are going to be paid for by the employers or those employees themselves.

Okay.

Understood.

Um Commissioner Guerra.

Yeah, I I'm glad you bring that point up, Chair, um, because uh this is why I think the unique uh split model could work with Head Start because they do Head Start does cover um even uh landscaping maintenance and uh uh facility maintenance and administrative costs.

So if there's a way to, you know, obviously a accounting uh appropriately for space and time, but if there's a way for some of that overhead that could be managed in that way, that might actually make it easier for those who do not qualify for Head Start.

But head start does not absolutely cover a capital period.

And that's I think been the disconnect.

Yeah, and just to make a comment very quickly, I think one of the things that I found in research from other airports, there's very few airports that actually have successful child care facilities because they've actually dedicated uh they've really hinged their success on public dollars.

And so one of the things that we really want to build is a sustainable model that focuses on a facility that isn't just dependent on public dollars, right?

So if something, you know, I'm thinking of a facility at a major hub airport that used ARPA dollars, and we all know what happened to ARPA dollars, right?

So as soon as those dollars are gone, that facility closes, right?

So how can we build a model that is more sustainable?

Very good.

Um, I was actually gonna ask, would there be an opportunity to maybe do a split where like there's an employer contribution, there is a if it's a emplo uh employer benefit, then there's a maybe there's incentive.

That'd be negotiated, wouldn't it?

Yeah.

Yeah.

The other piece around the head start, even though they don't have capital, you know, dollars, um, they do tend to have money for like startup for like materials.

So there's other ways to contribute to once like you're setting up those um those program environments for infant toddlers for preschool.

And then I was just thinking about the after school, because that's huge as a mama five and having mixed age groups.

Um it was difficult to have kids in all age groups, and then you have your your school-age children.

So I wonder if there's an opportunity to work with um some school age partners around this if you you know if they if we decide to go in the direction to serve older children.

Yeah.

Yeah, sorry.

Great.

Any other questions, comments?

All right.

Thanks again, Susan.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

And certainly one of the things I'm gonna look at that I uncovered is that there are, as Stephen was alluding to, there are child care facilities at airports that have closed.

And so those will be as important to look at as the ones that have ones that are open and functioning.

Very good.

And just for those that may not uh understand, when we say enterprise fund, that is a distinction.

It's not just reserved for airports.

We have several different enterprise funds for the county, but these are uh services or facilities or both that are uh self-funding.

So it's funded by uh fuel flowage fees and landing fees and all kinds of revenue that is uh unique and distinct to uh that particular operation.

So it's not a general fund funded operation.

So uh all right, very good.

Uh Madam Clerk, do we have anyone's time to speak?

No, sir.

Okay.

Uh we do need to consider adopting the revenue agreement.

So this is an actual actionable item.

Is there a motion?

I'll move the item.

It's been moved.

Chair will second.

Roll call vote, please.

Chair Serena.

Aye.

Commissioner Wesley.

Aye.

Commissioner Fernandez I Garcia.

Aye.

Commissioner Gordon.

Aye.

Commissioner Gaser.

Aye.

Commissioner Boston.

Aye.

And Commissioner Moak.

Aye.

Thank you.

Motion passes.

Very good.

Thank you.

Thanks again, Stephen.

All right.

Next item, please.

Item number 11, approval of revenue agreement with the Sacramento County Department of Health Services.

Public Health Division in the amount of 48,000 and amendment to Sacramento Children's Home Contract in the amount of 48,000 to implement a Spanish language BLTI cohort.

Great.

Dr.

Kaye.

I need to recuse myself because this is from public health.

Feel free to go sequester yourself back there.

Okay.

We will let her get settled back there.

All right, great.

So I alluded to this earlier in my executive director's report.

Um, but we do have enough funding that we've allocated as a commission in our current three-year spending plan to host one cohort per year for parent leadership training institute.

And um over the last few years, we've had funding from DC FAS, um, funding from our health plans and others, so that we could have an additional PLTI cohort.

Um we're getting better and better with less and less training involved, and so the cost for the additional cohorts has been decreasing with each one, and we're now down to uh we can we can do this one for 48,000.

We can bring in an additional full 25 member cohort.

So um that is what is before you today.

This is uh public health CDC dollars that need to spin be spent out by May 30th, I think.

Yes, by May 30th.

Um both of these will be um both cohorts will be uh implemented through our contract with Sacramento Children's Home.

So this would be uh passed through of funding directly to SAC Children's Home to add that additional cohort.

Great.

Thank you.

Does that conclude the staff report?

That concludes.

All right, very good.

Any questions for our executive director?

Seeing none, Madam Clerk, do we have anyone sign up to speak?

No, sir.

All right.

Uh with that uh entertain a motion.

I'll move.

Okay, it's been moved.

Is there a second?

I'll second.

Okay, it's been moved and seconded.

Well-called vote, please.

Chair Cerna.

Aye.

Commissioner Wesley.

Aye.

Commissioner Fernandez I Garcia.

Aye.

Commissioner Gordon.

Aye.

Commissioner Gera.

Aye.

Commissioner Boston.

Aye.

And Commissioner Moak.

Aye.

Thank you.

Motion passes.

Very good.

Next item, please.

Item number 12, approval of contract amendments for birth and beyond partners to reallocate funding after the loss of Americorps revenue.

Great, thank you.

Chris Clinton, who oversees our birth and beyond programs will take this one.

Oh, here it is.

Oh, it's fine.

Good afternoon, Commissioners.

My name is Chris Clinton, and I am the program planner for the Birth and Beyond Contracts.

On April 28th, 2025, CAPSE received official notice from the Department of Government Efficiency that three of its programs were terminated, including the Birth and Beyond Home Visiting AmeriCorps contract.

The loss of the home visiting American contract has created significant challenges to the staffing infrastructure across all nine family resource centers.

To ensure continuity of services and to strengthen staffing capacity for all nine family resource centers, staff is requesting approval to terminate the AmeriCorps expenditure agreement with CAPSE and reallocate those funds, and to amend the CAPC Birth and Beyond Fiscal Agent Contract to increase it by 192,472 for program oversight and contract monitoring for the term July 1, 2025 through June 30th, 2027, and to amend the expenditure agreements with all nine birth and beyond family resource centers to increase the empowered families expenditure agreements.

Each FRC would receive an additional 43,000 per year, totaling 774,000 in reallocations for the term July 1, 2025 through June 30th, 2027.

Thank you for your consideration.

Great, thank you, Chris.

Any questions?

Okay.

Madam Clerk, do we have anyone sign up to address the commission?

No, sir.

All right, very good.

In that case, bring it back for a motion.

Chair will move.

Is there a second?

I'll second.

It's been moved and seconded.

Roll call vote, please.

Chair Cerna.

Aye.

Commissioner Wesley.

Aye.

Commissioner Fernandez I Garcia.

Aye.

Commissioner Gordon.

Aye.

Commissioner Cassier?

Aye.

Commissioner Boston.

Aye.

And Commissioner Moak.

Aye.

Thank you.

Motion passes.

We're good.

Thank you.

Next item, please.

Item number 13, approval of 2026 meeting calendar.

Great.

The calendar is in your packet.

We would be meeting for a total of seven meetings in 2026.

And I have one caveat to this is that our equity in action work is progressing, but we are going it at the speed of trust in the community and getting work done with a 15-member committee.

Our goal is to bring you those recommendations for approved funding at the January 12th meeting.

If we get hung up at all along the way, because the committee is learning this work as they do it, we may need to bring it to February meeting.

So we may be asking for a flip-flop.

So when we send out the calendar invites, once you approve this, we're gonna we're gonna add a February meeting into your onto your calendar, and we will cancel one or the other, depending on so thank you for your flexibility on that.

And just do notice that it's January 12, which is not the first January or first Monday in January because of holidays and the availability of this room.

So it's the second Monday.

And then as an attachment to the calendar, uh it's very skeleton, but you can see the long-range calendar of the things we know about right now that we would be approving at each of those meetings.

And happy to answer any questions.

Very good.

Thank you, Julie.

Any questions for our executive director?

All right, don't see any.

No, sir.

Okay, we do need to approve the calendar.

Is there a motion?

I'll move to approve.

Okay.

Is there a second?

Second.

Moved and seconded.

Roll call vote, please.

Chair Cerna.

Aye.

Commissioner Wesley.

Aye.

Commissioner Fernandez de Garcia.

Aye.

Commissioner Gordon.

Aye.

Commissioner Casiria.

Aye.

Commissioner Boston.

Aye.

And Commissioner Moak.

Aye.

Thank you.

Motion passes.

Very good.

Thank you.

Next item, please.

Item number 14, presentation.

Equity and action committee.

Fabulous.

I'm super excited to ask Yasmin Herrera Velchas to come and join us at the podium.

Yasmin is a community member from Rancho Cordova.

He's been with the group since day one here, and is going to give you a brief PowerPoint presentation to talk about the work of the committee.

Very good.

Welcome, Yasmin.

Good afternoon, Chair Cerna and Commissioners.

My name is Yasmin Herrera Vilches.

And I am a member of the Equity in Action Committee.

Let's see here.

Here's a picture of our group.

There are 15 members in this picture.

Our second meeting was hosted at Fruit Rich Community Collaborative.

So our strategic this is this is the guide.

This is what guides the work our committee is doing right now.

Okay.

Should I read this?

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

Facilitator Melanie Richardson discussed the stages of team building, forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning.

The group has come together in performing in the performing stage right now.

Members of the group took ownership and were working on a glossary of terms and a yearbook.

We got to know a bit about each other, set a group agreements, got background information on the first five and priority committees.

The committee members are now ambassadors in the commit in their communities for first five and equity action initiative.

The committee designed a process that fit everyone's needs, received information, and asked questions as a whole group.

We broke into small groups for discussions, uh, come back as a whole and we come back as a whole group and lift the key points.

Each small group brings up.

Uh uh we make a decision as a whole group using the first five methods to come to a consensus.

Um RFP language and process lacked inclusivity and equity.

Outreach efforts targeted mainstream and non-traditional outlets that did not reach diverse audiences and relationships, selection process favored encumbrance and did not result in new contracts.

Structural barriers kept new partners out, like audit and insurance requirements or policies on advances and small CBO might uh need to scale up.

So basically, this is what shifted, right?

Programs that serve families is what we decided to fund.

Um serve families uh uh as far as immediate individual needs.

Um that provide services or supplies directly to families, such as diapers, housing help, mental health services, et cetera.

We decided to fund programs that serve families' intermediate individual needs to provide or supply.

Okay.

So we decided to program to fund as well programs that support changing systems, to work in improving how a whole system works, changing rules, policies, and practices to make the system work better for everyone.

Programs that support parent leadership and organizing, help communities speak up and advocate and lead solutions.

And um, we decided to fund one-time funds up to $9,999 for purchase of materials, supplies, technology, training or similar okay.

So we are we are uh I am one of our community members, and we are uh equity in action.

Uh this slide is an example of a social media outreach.

Uh the messages ran twice on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn with a small ad by to reach new audiences.

Uh media advisory uh with social media contact and graphics was sent to local media.

We have an outreach contract with uh the Sacramento Observer for Digital and Print Ads and are running on Metro Cable.

Direct emails have gone out far wide to approximately 1,500 organizations, community members, and parent advocates, including first five contractors and contacts, meaning people who apply for PLTI programs, participants in the in community assemblies, that brainstorm the equity and action committee recruitment process and participants in the last two rounds of focus groups, county leaders, CBO lists from community elected officials and chambers of commerce for inclusion in their outreach.

Thank you very much for the opportunity to share um our update today.

Very good.

Good job, Yasmin.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Any questions?

Very good.

Thank you.

All right.

Uh that is just a I don't want to say just.

That was a terrific presentation.

But we're we're not voting on anything.

This is not a voting item.

We did have another member here, Maria Lopez is also uh community uh she's on our advisory committee and the uh equity and action committee, so I just wanted to recognize Did you want to address the commission?

Yeah.

Oh, totally.

That looked like more than just changing seats.

Thank you.

Um, I was part of the first um parent leadership training.

Um, after that, it was like snowballing into how else can I learn, how else can I show up for the community?

Um I'm also part of the advisory committee.

What's your name for the record?

Maria Lopez.

Thank you.

Um, sorry, yes.

Uh I'm also um excited about the new equity and action project.

Uming not much of the grant process, we're questioning things, and I mean asking questions and questioning answers, and that's getting us to know where the lack of where the gaps are to better the process to make funding more accessible and also more equitable for everybody who doesn't have that overhead or the knowledge.

So we're definitely like reaching out to everybody as we can to make sure that they're included in the process.

So just wanted to say that.

Question questioning the answers.

I'm gonna so steal that.

Commissioner Gordon.

Yeah, I just had a question.

The uh the next to last slide spoke to uh grants of 5,000 to 9,999, and then the media piece seems to suggest up to $500,000.

What is the uh reconciliation of that?

I could I can speak to that.

Okay.

So there's actually three different tiers of funding.

Um the $5,000 to $9,999 is for one time one thing.

So uh an agency or a parent group or um a nonprofit, they have a need that's just a one-time capacity building need, they can apply for those dollars.

Then we take a jump.

The next tier is funding that is 125,000 up to 300,000.

So those would be for um smaller projects at 50,000 a year for two and a half years.

Um and we uh when we crunch the math on those, I think we were looking at we have the the capacity to fund somewhere between 11 and 15 of those.

And then um when we get to the third and highest tier, that's 301,000 dollars up to 500,000.

So those would be larger grants.

We can fund fewer of them.

Um, but the the committee thought it was good to put some parameters around that and say some of it would just be one time and some of it would be for all two and a half years.

Did I do that justice for you?

Yes.

I also, before I step away, I wanted to make sure that um I was part of the training for black ECE.

I am an early childhood educator.

I participate with the uh racing quality together.

So with that, I'm constantly getting trainings on how to make sure I I don't only have eyes for my culture or what I'm being taught, but culturally diversity.

So I think Lindsay had asked me to write something, and it was one of those things like I I never did, but I just wanted to say that that black ECE definitely makes an impact on asking questions and questioning the answers to make sure that we're all being viewed and valued.

Very good.

Thank you.

Commissioner Wesley.

Uh thank you because I'm a part of Blocky C.

Um, I I had probably for the uh for you, Julian team.

Uh my question was if I understood it, we have 20 there were 21 million dollars that came in for requests so far, and it's not closed yet.

I am so curious.

So I'm curious, I don't know if the rest of the chairs are about like you know, knowing that and we know we can't fulfill them all, but are is there a trend?

Is there something that we're seeing?

Yes.

And then because of that, is that a way for us to look at like systems level work and leveraging dollars and part, you know, all those things that you're already doing, like strategic partnerships and you know, so forth.

Fabulous question.

Just the thing that I think the first one we received, and and many thereafter have been around child care, as you can imagine.

Um started off with a question about can we pay for child care slots?

And this was something that we didn't not think to inform the committee that we that this commission does not actually pay for child care slots.

So something to circle back to them and say uh what else can we do around systems change or capacity building or quality improvement around child care?

So um we have been getting the word out that it it's not for child care slots, and then a big chunk of the one time one thing money is uh re have been requests from family child care homes uh or child care centers for equipment or training um or um field trips, literally building tiny toilets and and things like that so that they could have a longer term effect with the money and and that they could continue to serve families again and and uh much as what uh Department of Child Family and Adult Services did by targeting their dollars in and and understanding child care was such a need and their zip codes.

We're not at all surprised that so much of it has been child care related and is in those same zip codes and a couple more.

So again, um I think there will be quite a few at least of the one-time dollars that are gonna be going toward child care.

Very good.

Yes.

Can I say one last thing is um it's in the commission letter, but I just kind of wanted to draw attention to it.

Um there likely will be some agenda items related to changing the commission's policies or clarifying our policies and practices in order to fund these smaller grassroots agencies, understanding that we're still a county department.

So some things the commissioners have control over, and some things are like countywide universal things that if you are purchasing things, you must you must use this process to do it.

Um but it's things around our advanced policy.

Um and some of these agencies will need more than a 20% advance to do the work.

I know the city of Sacramento is grappling with this as part of their uh children's trust fund dollars.

So looking at what is a reasonable, it's it of course things will come back as risk, cost risk benefit ratio stuff, but um we will do some work around some of those, but but I could see our advanced policy might need to be updated.

Um insurance requirements, again, this the two million dollar insurance requirement can be a lot for some small agencies.

Um and uh some looking at some of our just internal contracting, monitoring, reporting, evaluation requirements to make this as least burdensome as possible for those agencies that do get awarded, while still allowing us to be able to tell the story and and show the achievements of the agencies.

So uh so it's not just a one-and-done thing.

We'll be coming back and forth with you and telling you as as we learn what's needed, we'll be bringing it to you for policy decisions.

Very good.

Thank you, Julie.

Yes, you're welcome.

All right, and again, thank you to our two speakers.

Appreciate you.

All right, our last item for the afternoon is the commission's um opportunity, individual commissioners' opportunity to address anything that's on your mind.

Seeing none.

All right.

I want to thank everyone who joined us here this afternoon.

Thanks staff for their uh work as usual, very detailed, thorough work.

And if there's no further business in front of this commission, we stand adjourned.