Okay. We can get started. I'd like to call us to order and do roll call. Everyone has their camera on. Good. Okay. Roll call. Member Chaparro with absent this evening. Member Cruz? Present. Member Devine. Member Devine. I don't see her. Okay. Member Foster? Okay. I see you there. Member Harper? Thank you. Member Ocanya? Here. All right. Member Karabin? Hello. Member Roberts? Hello. All right. And then Co-Vice Chair Graves? Present. Co-Vice Chair Moore? There you are. And Chair Barnett? All right. With that, we can go to item number two, which is public comment. Hands raised for public comment. Thank you. At this point, I'd like to go to item number three, which is the approval of minutes from our October 28th meeting. And can I get a motion? Motion to approve. Seconded. All right. And all those, well, we'll do roll call. Let's make it easy. All right. Let's see. Member Cruz? Yes, approve. Member Devine. Member Foster? I wasn't at the meeting, so I don't know if it's proper for me to approve or not. Yeah, that's correct. So you will be an extension. Member Harper? Okay. Member Ocanya? Okay. Yes. Member Karabin? Approve. Member Roberts? I feel I'm staying. Okay. Co-Vice Chair Graves? Approve. Co-Vice Chair Moore? Okay. And Chair Barnett? Approve. Can I forget anybody? I don't think I did. All right. Motion passes. Thank you. All right. And any public comment to the minutes? No hands raised for public comment. Thank you. At this time, I'd like to hand the agenda over to my Co-Vice Chair, Leslie Graves. Thank you. And good evening. We're moving on to item number four with CAB announcements. This is a time when any of our CAB members can share announcements. And I don't see a hand raised. Maybe I'll just go around to everyone. Member Karabin? Would you have anything? Member Cruz? No. Co-Vice Chair Moore? No. I'm getting waved off of everybody. Member Harper? I just want to share that I had a great time at the South Park neighborhood cleanup this past Saturday. They also had a listening session with the mayor, police chief, Danielle was there and Magali. And so it was an excellent opportunity for the neighborhood to get together and do the listening session and also get some good work done in the neighborhood. Great. Thank you, Member Harper. And I believe I saw member O'Connor say no on passing Chair Burnett. Just real quickly, today we, because it overlapped, we had the Board Commission chairs luncheon with the mayor. And I just want to give you a quick overview that some of the council highlights from last night as discussion about the PG&E settlement, over 3,000 surveys. There are obviously some projects that are kind of going to the top. A lot of it has to do with repairs from the fire. One little note here that I did not know is that it's going to cost $14.5 million to rebuild the Fountain Grove fire station. And I wanted to give you guys an update that council is going to be hearing this going forward. There's still opportunity on the city website if you want to submit your input on the survey. And after this meeting, I will also pull up that link and send it to Danielle to get out to everybody because they're still taking comment and input from the city on that. Upcoming meetings on this issue will be on November 23rd, December 8th and December 15th, there's going to be a presentation to council about fire preparedness. And then all of the boards and commissions reported in, I wanted to let this group know in particular, design review board is going to be looking at the water agency and the housing plan that's coming forward from that. And a particular interest as well. The planning commission, there is going to be the journeys and project is scheduled, I believe, for December 8th. And of interest for us is that of the 532 units, 162 will be senior. And the former members of journeys and we'll have first priority at those 162 units, which they're going to get constructed first and they're going to have the first opportunity to consider moving back there. So that's significant for us. And last but not least in Danielle, you might update folks on this. Apparently the mayor and some of the council members are going to be meeting with Dr. Mace to talk about hundreds of people upwards are doing pickup games and soccer games in Northwest and Southwest Park. There's a PSA campaign going on right now, both in English and in Spanish. And I wanted to let you guys be aware of it. It's on the City of Santa Rosa Community Engagement. Please share this. It's very crucial as we're heading into the holiday season and our weather is picking up for the weekend that we are letting residents know that we don't want to have our parks closed. And so the PSA kind of goes over all of it and the city has a whole link of what's allowed and what's not allowed in our parks. But this is a big one because we don't want them closed, but we want people utilizing the parks safely and responsibly and not getting into large groups and doing contact sports with one another. So that's the latest that came in just letting you guys know from the luncheon that we are at the Zoom call that we had this afternoon. I will add to that that Magali went out a couple of weeks ago with a group of residents from the Rosen CBI and also some youth volunteers from Latino service providers to hand out masks at two parts as well as to provide information to those folks that were out at the parks about the health order, how these soccer and basketball games and tournaments because there are actual tournaments happening at the parks are not prohibited under the health order and particularly of concern is the spectators there. A lot of people not wearing masks so this is a selfless community partner about 200 people there the day she went out they ran out of masks and they ran out of flyers they then headed to place to play when they got there she said there were easily over 400 people at a place to play congregating and at that point she told her volunteers to turn around and leave that she didn't want to put them at risk so they weren't able to to do any of that work there at that park then the following weekend officers went out with code enforcement again to do more education to disperse the crowds and I have to say that the mayors talked about this the chief police talked about this they do not want to issue citations they would rather close the parks down than issue citations at this point I think it rained over the weekend so hopefully that was a little bit I haven't heard how this past weekend went so hopefully the information is getting out I know that I have seen a campaign on social media I know that there has been conversations with getting the information out to our Spanish language radio station so that will be happening and also some of those community groups that are already active in the community just making sure to remind their friends, family and neighbors to hunker down right now so try to get through this about congregating at the park I know it's hard but we want to get out of that purple tier so lots of work happening behind the scenes to make sure people have that information and thank you for that was that a question that you had or a follow up? I just had a quick question is there a flyer that could be emailed to us that we could start sharing? Yeah, I will send that out to you guys along with the link to the PGNU survey that we will send Great, thank you, thanks for that question too I'll just have that flyer Member Foster, did you have a I can tell that you said no but just so our audience knows Thank you went along with the COVID theme I just wanted to say that the county is pushing testing really hard even for people who are asymptomatic for people who test negative it helps our numbers to go to the next tier and people who are asymptomatic but have COVID it's good that they find out so that they can do the quarantine so anyone's encouraged to go test even if you're not having any symptoms at all it's on the SoCoEmergency.org Yeah, thank you for that and there's quite a few pop up testing sites available and that's also on that site that you just mentioned the SoCoEmergency.org and I just found out yesterday or saw somewhere that we're closing for those pop up testing will be on Thursday Thanksgiving which is November 26th correct me if I'm wrong so I will round out our announcements I definitely want to acknowledge that this Saturday from 11 to 2 at the Finley Park the Rec and Parks Department is doing a food donation and gratitude event if you haven't heard of that it's called thank a hero, be a hero and it is being promoted on their Facebook page and on the city website it's a drive through food donation and gratitude event in which our emergency services personnel, fire department EMTs, some nurses doctors I believe will be there and it is a good opportunity to hand not only over food which there are some specific items that they are requesting but also items of gratitude like cards that maybe children make pictures and things like that so it's a although it doesn't say family event I think that would be probably suitable for families to go and do a drive through and get in that spirit of gratitude it sounds like a really great way to thank folks that are really doing the hard work right now especially with COVID on the rise and then also wanted to make mention of this and later on there might be some questions about different neighborhoods that are meeting I know that we touched upon that earlier maybe a month or two ago and tomorrow just to bring up that the West End neighborhood is meeting on Zoom tomorrow at 7 o'clock and so I have that link if anybody wants it or if it is at the point where some of us are expected to attend some of those neighborhood meetings I'm happy to attend that one for the West End neighborhood tomorrow just putting it out there and I think that wraps it up for Co-Vice Chair Moore I can't hear you and it doesn't look like you're a mute but it might be my phone right can you when is Dr. May's meeting with the city about the soccer game I think that was shared yeah I believe the meeting is scheduled tomorrow with the mayor and a couple of key city staff and I think it's going to be a great opportunity to talk to the mayor and kind of next steps on what they need to do and then I'm sure there will probably be some updates that get sent out that would be great because I know that the Latinx population is being disproportionately affected by covid but to hear about these large gatherings is a little disturbing I don't know if it's just proportionately in a way I just would be very interested to hear what Dr. May's has to say and hopefully what interventions she might be able to implement to help support a more safe practicing environment yeah and with that too just it reminds me to follow up and make mention of this it is confusing out there to the public that like a city just south of us run a park just opened up a new park and it was publicized and promoted and pictures were going out with folks going and being there and you know it's confusing enough to know what you can you can't do and how many people can be at a certain place but you know this this pandemic and the virus doesn't necessarily have a border and so when there's mixed messages from different cities within Sonoma County that makes it really challenging for folks I would think as well so for whoever needs to know that so with item number four are there any public comments at this time thank you moving on to item number five is staff updates so Danielle take it away with that okay I just have a few for you this evening starting with the community empowerment plan update I am currently working on drafting the report for the community empowerment plan particularly regarding the listening sessions I don't know I was supposed to have draft by the end of the month to send out to the community for review however we have just received a public records request that has taken over my life so I don't know what that's going to do to my schedule however we are hoping to get the final draft of not final draft the final report to City Council by the first meeting in February so that is coming it sounds like a long way away but I can guarantee you that it's not so it is coming as Member Harper mentioned we did have a listening session with the South Park Community Building Initiative on Saturday it was a great session and a lot of great feedback we will be scheduling a follow up with that group both with our staff but also so one specific session to talk about specific police or law enforcement issues and then another one for city related issues we are having some some pretty significant challenges schedule and listening sessions with community groups from our Indigenous and our Asian Pacific Islander communities we do have contacts for both of those groups however we've gone from having that initial dialogue to zero response so we are still sticking with it though we are trying our very best to get those scheduled and completed so we can include that in the final report updates on the some of the projects that have come out of these listening sessions include the lowrider patrol car the Sonoma County Lowrider Council should have the car by early next year hopefully January to begin the work on that on that project and in addition to that we are hoping to be able to bring a videographer on board to document that project through the different phases of building the car as well as interviews with the Lowrider Council members that are involved and city staff that's involved with that project ethnic studies with a cop our last session takes place with the youth on December 1st with a celebration with the same youth on December 8th after that is wrapped up we will evaluate the program and are hoping to have evaluation results to bring to the cab next month at the December meeting some other information that I think is useful which we learned at the Saturday listening session the chief announced that officers are now required to receive implicit bias training on resiliency training and I think the piece about the resiliency training that I found was interesting is that training actually really targets their stress and stress level that they have on the job and how to better manage their stress on the job so that they can not take it out on anybody that they shouldn't be taking out on basically for lack of a better way of saying that additional trainings are being proposed and considered so we have heard in the listening sessions that racial equity and social justice actually more focused on the racial equity piece a bit systemic racism and white supremacy culture are all things that community members think would be very valuable not just for our police department and our officers but for our staff and council and another group actually mentioned our boards and commissions as well so we are in initial conversations around how that would look not only for the police department but for all the other groups that I just mentioned quick update on the open government ordinance the ordinance will be introduced to council on December 1st that will be presented by the city attorney and we are really excited it's been six years coming so we are really happy to get that ordinance to council for discussion and hopefully adoption on the first moving on to neighbor fest so I know that the cab was asking for some information about what San Francisco was doing in lieu of holding neighbor fest this year and before I get into that I just want to be realistic about what next year is going to look like and set the expectation for the fact that it might neighbor fest might not happen next year so I kind of have a conversation around that at the empowerment subcommittee I think in the next couple months or so to see how we want to move forward but from San Francisco I did get a chance to speak to Daniel Homesy which was really exciting because I haven't spoken to him in a while they too have suspended their neighbor fest program they are working on their block champion program and their neighborhood hubs so neighborhood hubs include those kind of anchor institutions in the community and building relationships with various community organizations businesses faith based churches and organization health clinics things like that to kind of build up those neighborhood hubs however they've kind of transitioned their focus from more of that disaster preparedness to really looking at COVID and how they're addressing the pandemic and how neighborhoods and neighbors can help each other out during this time they do have community hubs specific to the pandemic and at these different community hubs they're able to hold testing sites food distribution and other services that are really essential for their residents in San Francisco and so he is going to be putting me in contact with the person in charge of overseeing that but there are for those particular community sites that have block champions that are involved and so I need to circle back with him to get that person's contact so that I can get more information from her as to how they are running those and how their block champions are involved in that and finally my last update our community engagement staff a workshop by Dr. Robin D'Angelo the workshop was called seeing the racial water we did this a couple of weekends ago and really the workshop focused on racism white supremacy and white fragility our community engagement team has also read the book white fragility it's just really quick I have my notes here from that workshop and it was fascinating it was only three hours so I'm sure we could have gone much longer but a couple of the kind of broader things that we took out of it are that and again this is just touching the surface is that she mentioned when we talk about racism not the race or the others but not the dominant culture and that's basically she really developed not just her book but her entire work and this workshop around white culture and how basically how our country is really entrenched in that white culture and then she moved through different terms and then got to the concept of white fragility which really isn't the defensiveness that comes or those initial reactions that come from being involved in a workshop like this or just talking to someone about racism it's going deeper in that and it's going to move past the initial reaction again it went by really quick but our team did have an opportunity to debrief afterwards and think of ways that community engagement taking what we took out of the workshop what we could do in our work and how the information that we learned could really help influence our work and we had a couple of different ideas that came up one just naming those definitions on our website really pushing for organization-wide training around race racism and that white supremacy culture and talking to our communications team about how we share some of the data that we have around the makeup of our staff the racial makeup of our staff the racial makeup of our boards and commissions we also talked and member Harper brought this to my attention he shared the video that was recently done with the Petaluma Police Department with a series a YouTube series called Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man and so now we are actually planning for a session like that with our officers from the police department but also can we start to have those conversations organization-wide with our staff the work that we're doing in the community is very important around this issue but we also have to be able to address it internally as well so please note that that work is happening internally we've heard it in the listening sessions we've heard it in public comment and also through public comment we've requested that it would be a great idea if our boards and commissions could receive this type of training as well so what an information but those are my updates for this month it looks like we're going to jump right into our member of questions around your update so member Cruz I have a very important question about the make-and-model of the lowrider police car I've been using a retired patrol car 90 I don't know the year I can't remember but it's a Crown Victoria what was that? surprise, correct well so it's being modeled after Stockton Oakland has one San Diego has one that was the other city that has one and so they're all retired patrol cars that have been donated to these community groups, those community groups build the lowrider in lowrider style and then they give it back to the police department and so it's a collaborative effort so the police department will work with the group on the group really wants to stay as close to the design of the police car so using the decal but they'll probably add things like the engraving on the accessories doing a little pinstriping here and there there will be hydraulics they'll keep the sirens I think they'll be redoing some of the interior and the sirens the one thing we did talk about I can't remember which I think at San Diego actually dedicated their vehicle to one of their fallen officers and so there was some conversation around the officer that we lost this year to COVID possibly dedicating the car to her so we're talking about that too the members of the council would do artwork on the car and like a mural for that part of it who is the group that's working with the police? it's called the Sonoma County Lowrider Council that group is yeah that group is made up of there's representatives from all lowrider car clubs in Sonoma County I could go on full transparency, my husband is a member and has a lowrider in the club we're really, as a family we're really excited about it because the lowrider community tends to get a pretty bad rap and they actually mention this to the chief, they want to be able to meet in the middle with the police department and build that relationship but show the community that they aren't just a group of bad guys or gang members as a lot of community members tend to label them as and so I think this is going to be a really great opportunity for both the police department and this particular group with this project it'll be very interesting to see this car, this car is not going to be an actual on the ground patrol car out every day it's a show car is the car going to be named? is there a name for the car? we talked about that too, throughout a couple of names I don't want to spoil it so we will probably reveal that once the car is done who makes that decision what it's called it might be something you could engage the community and kind of like clothe the cow all their advertising for 20 years people mailing in their ideas and saying it will be a decision made the lowrider council and the police department will come up with a good name for it any other questions or comments? co-vice chair more? that was a big lengthy staff report, thank you Danielle kind of going back to neighbor fest can you refresh me if oakmont has a neighborhood group that has neighbor fest? they do not have neighbor fest however they are a cope neighborhood they have been involved with cope since the beginning of time basically since cope was here in santa rosa they are extremely well organized around preparedness they have their own cope team they are so much further ahead than any other neighborhood in santa rosa one of their residents used to be the volunteer coordinator for our cope program before it went away it went away basically I have someone reach out to me asking about that I will get with you offline about some contact information on that what is cope stand for? citizens organizing preparing for emergencies I have a couple other questions on a couple of your other updates is the city working with the county's new office of equity at all? not yet is that a plan to do so? that is a question for magali I can get back to you I would appreciate that with all the different trainings it sounds like you had a lot of great, rich, educational and thought provoking trainings in the last month how are those pieces working into what? it sounds like some of the people that have attended those trainings would be really cool if the cap could be privy to those I don't know if there is a cost but at least offer I might be willing to pay the cost to participate when people say boards and commissions should get this training and that training of course training and being lifelong learners especially individually and as a group it is important to continuing our work together as a community it would also be nice to be aware of that decision so I'm just wondering where all this feedback is going and how it is being synthesized and decided on how those recommendations will move forward the recommendations for I missed the doctor's name I think it was called white fragility just as that is an example I think you cited a couple of different trainings not the cap but the boards and commissions should get this training and that training all good but who is making that decision and where is that info going our own team Magali made the decision for our team to get this training the boards and commissions I think at this point it is up to each individual board and commission to decide whether or not they want to receive that training right now it could be that when we do our community empowerment plan final report we report out what we have heard at our listening sessions to council then the council might direct various staff members to move that training forward to make it a requirement so like city clerk's office would most likely make that a requirement for all the boards and commissions and the city council it would be a decision that they would have to make is this something that we want to put money into because there is a cost to those trainings and we wouldn't expect our board and commission members or even our city council members to put the bill for that individually the city would pay for that so it would have to be a decision coming from city council to whether or not they want to put the money behind that and then require everyone to take it but right now in this particular time it is up to you guys well it's up to us but what venue is how will that be presented prior to a council like will that information come to us formally to take a vote as a recommendation to the council or how was the process so like if the cab decided they wanted to participate in the equity training staff would do the research to find out what's available who the trainers are, what the cost is and we would see if we could afford that cost within the budget and then bring it to the cab either during one of the regular meetings or during the special meeting of the cab so I know that member Harper had his hand or I saw maybe flooding his fly in regards to what was just being talked about I had that feeling about the overall report I just remembered something when you were talking about the loan lowrider and Alma from South Park was sharing a story on facebook about how her son they went to a well-challenged visit when he grew up and he said he wanted to be a policeman and so she was shocked because he's always wanted to be a sucker player and then she said they asked him why he wanted to be a policeman she said because she came to my neighborhood and talked to us it was such a cool story I'll share it with you but it was really unique and it really speaks to what you were talking about the relationship that could happen yeah thank you for bringing that up it was fun so I wanted to thank Co-Vice-Tirmor for kind of digging into the midi gritty of this idea of the participation in the racial sensitivity training and I'm wondering if what the end game is something similar to the required training for sexual harassment seminars is that something that the city has considered or are we really at the very beginning stages of that we're at the very beginning stages of this you know this I can definitely almost positively say that this will be one of our recommendations coming forward out of the report just because of how many times it has come up in the listening sessions and public comment but there's like the what next and so it's up to the council to decide okay here's the recommendations what do we want to prioritize and then once we get that those priorities then we can start to really go deep into what that looks like and any other questions or comments trying to catch everybody member carabin I mean I just add to what member Okanya and member more I have to read because I can't even remember the whole title but I do want to add my encouragement for the boards commissions and also some community partners to share in that kind of training and maybe there's there's funding outside of the city that will help community partners but the whole getting us used to talking to each other about sticky situations like that is just a skill that everybody should learn to do I would love to learn to do that better so I'm all for that too yes that's just that's it I don't see member foster or member Roberts did you have anything you wanted to I don't mean to put you on the spot I'm just making sure that I catch people because I can't see everybody on the screen all at once sometimes if you make a motion and chair Burnett did you okay I just would quickly say that in agreeance but I do understand the order of things and that how taking this to the full council and having a decision around the empowerment plan will be beneficial to have then all of the commissions and boards be involved if that decision comes through so I'm looking forward to it and I also really want to appreciate you Danielle not only for a really thorough update but also you did send out on the email a opportunity for us as individuals to attend a training along these lines of racial bias that I signed up for and I encourage others too but I'm not quite sure how that works if we're more than a quorum of us attend so I understand that might be some challenges with that but just to let you know I will be going to that I think it was on December 1 and I look forward to it so with that we have no other questions or comments from the members can we go to public comment there are no hands raised for public comment great thank you so much and at this time we will move on to item number 6 and hand it over to co-vice chair more great thank you Leslie agenda item 6.1 multicultural roots project for the December 2020 stories it's kind of more just a reiteration of the agenda item in December we will highlight six stories three historical places of people and three black indigenous communities of color the BIPOC community leaders we will be reading these stories prior to the meeting and come with any feedback or questions the cab will also be asked to share these stories as they come out with their community as they come out with their community and neighborhood contact sorry so just kind of more of an announcement agenda item of what's coming I actually have a presentation to walk you guys through I have a little bit more together this time so if you could keep up the presentation please before we get into discussion alright multicultural roots project next slide please so just as a quick reminder the goals of the project are to create visibility for BIPOC in Sonoma County with a particular focus on Santa Rosa and to recognize historical stories from BIPOC contributions and impacts that have shaped Santa Rosa in Sonoma County next slide please so I know I said that the agenda says December stories but I didn't want to include just December when I wasn't able to put the slides together for November so I included the November slides too and hopefully you have seen some of the stories so far in our city connections newsletter and on the website so next slide please so for November we highlighted Gilbert Gray in our first story Mr. Gray co-founded the NAACP with Platt Williams in 1953 he was the only Santa Rosa resident to attend and participate in the march on Washington in 1963 he along with several other community members participated in his sit-in at the Silver Dollar Saloon on 4th Street in Mendocino Apu and then they also participated in local demonstrations to protest Jim Crow laws and racial segregation both nationally and locally he along with his wife Alice established the Curly Gray Foundation at Montgomery High School in addition to the Gray Family Foundation and with help from the community donated $25,000 to the NAACP National Scholarship Program he also happens to be my step-grandfather so I knew him before he passed away he was a fantastic man next slide please Platt Williams who we will be highlighting this week was also the co-founder of the NAACP along with Mr. Gray and served as the very first chapter president he also participated in that sit-in at the Silver Dollar Saloon and the protest and demonstrations locally and nationally he also served as campus supervisor at Annalee High School in his retirement years mentoring youth mentoring youth he attended football games he attended dances he wasn't when he retired he wasn't quite ready to retire and so he decided to volunteer his time with youth next slide please John Richards is another person we highlighted this month John Richards born a slave in 1824 he came free as an adult after he paid a fee to earn his freedom to gain his freedom he moved to Santa Rosa and opened up a Barber Street next to the Santa Rosa house which was a hotel on second in Main Street he went on to two additional Barber shops I think it was Petaluma and the other one was in Ukaia during this time in his time in Santa Rosa he owned 130 acres of land which would eventually become the South Park neighborhood and he and his wife took in freed slaves who did not have a place to live when they came to Santa Rosa he also adopted two children along with his wife next slide please our multi-cultural roots project is also highlighting our current community leaders and these are leaders that are doing great work currently in the community and our first two that we will be highlighting first one is Rafael Vasquez Rafael is a community advocate and EOPS outreach specialist at the Santa Rosa Junior College he hosts a radio show called Lideres del Futuro or Leaders of the Future he created a book for immigrant parents called I apologize my Spanish is terrible Logrando tus sueños or achieving your dreams he also contributed to the development of SRJC's dream center which helps youth immigrants who receive DACA and created a journal called fulfilling the dream a daily journal towards success and he will also be highlighted this week in the City Connections newsletter next slide please our other community leader highlighted this month is Joy Iodelli Joy began her work as a community organizer actually this past summer she had never organized a protest before to address racial inequity and injustice she created an organization called what we are fighting for which provides resources for local youth on community issues racial inequity, ballot measures and more and she is also involved with the effort to integrate ethnic studies in Santa Rosa schools next slide please now on to our December 2020 stories and again a reminder of advisory group that decides on which stories to highlight each month so our AmeriCorps VISTAs conduct research on various historical stories as well as the current they conduct interviews with our current community leaders and also help us brainstorm additional stories and additional community members to focus on so next slide please so for this month we will be highlighting Jesse Love Mr. Love was a World War II veteran he fought at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and in other battles in the South Pacific during World War II in 1951 he joined Reverend Washington E. Voice and Reverend Dotson to organize the Community Baptist Church which is now located on Sonoma Avenue in 1952 he became the second deacon, a black deacon in Santa Rosa to be ordained in Santa Rosa excuse me he was a charter member of the Santa Rosa base chapter 23 of Pearl Harbor Survivors Association he was also a chaplain for the Theodore Roosevelt post number 21 of the American Legion and a member of the free and accepted basins this is just a really brief overview of his story his story is filled with a lot of information so again all of these stories are filled with a lot of information so please make sure you check them out they will be posted to our website and in City Connections newsletter as well as we're working on getting them on our social media platforms as well next slide please so we took a different approach this month and in addition to highlighting community leaders we're also highlighting certain places and events that happened in Santa Rosa the first of the two places we'll highlight this month are the Dole and I totally apologize if I mess this up but the Dole Kaorobang Statues which are actually right across the street from City Hall at the entrance to Ray Park they were given to the City of Santa Rosa in 2003 by Santa Rosa's sister city Jeju in South Korea the statue names translate to grandfather made of stone the sister cities so we've been sister cities with Jeju since 1996 and have engaged in international dialogue enhanced co-productive knowledge promoting or promote benevolence and contribute to a better world to thrive in our relationship with them in addition to that we had a cultural youth exchange program where youth have participated in various projects including arts, sports, educational economical and professional opportunities next slide please so the next story that will be highlighted in December is Santa Rosa's Chinatown a lot of people do not know including myself that we had in Chinatown here in Santa Rosa this was a neighborhood that existed in the early 1900s until about 1930s-1940s it was located on 2nd Street between Santa Rosa Avenue and D Street approximately 200 people lived in this neighborhood and it was a center for Chinese heritage and traditions including business gambling and OBM dens playing lottery tickets, celebrations and connectedness within the neighborhood property and buildings were owned by the Haman family and the Bessori brothers and around the time that around the 1930s-1940s these two groups actually started to sell the property and unfortunately it's a place all of the residents that lived in Chinatown and and also just placed their businesses as well and they were replaced with modern buildings and businesses so what you see today is part of that although not all of it obviously because building and such happened since then but this picture right here is one of the restaurants and actually this particular restaurant stuck around sorry I can't remember when it finally closed but it did actually survive that sale of the property and the addition of the modern buildings and businesses believe it closed in the 1980s I think you can say 1988 1988? Okay thank you I don't have them up but thank you on the Chinese in California I think in the books it prevented them from owning property that's correct that's kind of the point that I've seen yeah and again lots of information in the stories I'm really I'm trying to give you some of the information I don't want to spoil all of it so please read the stories if you haven't next slide please alright so December I can see December current community leaders will be first one is Arthur B. Cheney who is the president of 100 Black Men of Sonoma County prior to retirement so he worked as a child support officer in San Francisco and then afterwards became a peace officer with the Santa Rosa Police Department he attended Santa Rosa Junior College where he received his Associates of Arts in Administration of Justice and then went to Sonoma State where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice he as I mentioned he is now the president of the 100 Black Men of Sonoma County and just a little bit of information about them they're a national organization that started in New York City that has over 100 chapters globally and each chapter was founded in 1990 their focus is really around mentoring of our youth so mentoring and education, economic empowerment, leadership development and health and wellness they have a scholarship program where they offer between $503,000 per student to help with college expenses and recently they've gotten involved here in Sonoma County particularly in Santa Rosa around the Black Lives Matter movement having meaningful conversations with community members around racism and social justice and so back to Mr. Cheney here he has a team player philosophy he says the success of 100 Black Men has been accomplished as a team and in addition to his community where he was awarded police for the year for both the Optimist International and Exchange Club he received three gold meritorious awards from the California Legislation Assembly State Senate and the City of Santa Rosa next slide please and our other I think I mentioned that we would be doing three historical stories and three current leader stories and the agenda and actually the project advisor group on Monday decided to only highlight two current leaders and so the next one that we will be highlighting in December is Rose Hammett so in her interview she said walking life with an open mind is easy but walking life with an open heart is the hard part so Rose is Pomo, Wailaki and she says I think she has a good sense and identifies as indigenous because of incumbences and honors where she is from and her ancestors she teaches her students about traditional plants languages, ceremony, art and other cultural traditions she says she strives to create spaces where people can share and that's been more authentic and heartfelt connections as a leader in the community she has something to uphold and knowledge to provide she encourages non-natives to do their research connect with people from the culture and ask appropriate questions learn who's land you're on and find the best way to honor them the native community deserves to be uplifted, supported engaged in important dialogue about the change in the community next slide please and those are the stories we'll be highlighting in December thank you for listening to me as I go through also the November ones I think it's important even though we talked a little bit about it last time that we get to see the faces that go with the names the project advisory group also spent time on Monday brainstorming additional ideas for future stories including one of the things that we realizes a lot of the publications that and articles that we continue to find on on these individuals and events are very male dominated and so the group spent a lot of time on Monday brainstorming female community members who were very actively involved in things like the civil rights movement and in other community work both historically and current so we'll be adding that to the list that we came up with last month here at the CAT meeting so please know that we still have that list we're still making our way through I'm working with our VISTAs on utilizing names from that list moving forward and I will stop now and turn it back over to you guys Thank you so much, Danielle this is so awesome to get all these stories out in the open get us thinking about our past Do any of the CAB members have any comments or questions? Member Cruz I just want to add another name to your list, Danielle Thank you Carol Ellis Yes, she's a long time Black leader here, not just in education women the whole nine yards Another question I have is who is proofing these bios? I mean like have the luxury and the opportunity to know Jesse Love and also Arthur which Arthur is still here but Jesse passed away but where's I did read everything and I just wondering like how old is the oldest member of their advisory committee because there's some things in there I just kind of feel could be double checked I mean I don't want to out anybody for their age but I'm old I hit close to 60 but it's like I've been around here for quite a while and so you just kind of end up knowing a lot of people I can tell you that the information about Jesse Love came from the book Lenses which was written by the Anne Greybird but also filled in by some additional research that was done by our VISTA so that information came directly from her from her book at least and then you know the project advisory group is a pretty I feel a pretty well rounded group I think there might be like one or two younger members but most of them are middle aged on up is my guess including the names are on the website so I can say Alicia Sanchez is on this group and a couple members of the NAACP who have not typically had a role in projects like this so we wanted to give them an opportunity for that I will just email you or call you thank you member harper how did panda I just had a you might have said this before but what where does it stand is it is there a certain number that you're trying to get to in terms of stories or is it just ongoing as well yeah it's an ongoing so we don't have a goal or a number we will evaluate the project after six months and see where we stand see if it's resonating in the community one community member the other day or one project advisory group member the other day actually suggested creating a book with all of the stories even the ones that we don't use every month so we provide them with ten every month and then they get to select which ones to highlight we do keep the ones that they haven't selected for possible future use but they all of these stories are so great that they don't want to lose sight of the ones that we haven't used and so they suggested putting a book together of these stories which I think is a fantastic idea so we'll look into that nice and then I had another thought about having thought of recording these so having once they're typed out out of there we recorded somewhere and then people could so you have the information so they can read it or they can go to the website click on the link and text me for that story maybe a picture so not to give you more work but yeah thanks Vince that's a great idea I hadn't thought about that but we will add it to our list I know my vistas are actually listening in right now so maybe they can do it member Okana thank you very much for reading all those I think they're fascinating and I think a book is a fantastic idea and I'm wondering if the city wouldn't consider partnering with one of the news agencies like I would say Sonoma Media has more money to collaborate on this project but I also think the Bohemian would be an invaluable news source and I say this because I comment off of member Cruz that I think it's really important that the partnership groups that we're working with have the oversight of professional journalists that might assist them in the actual research project so if this went to book form I don't know how necessary that is to do it right now but if it did go into book form sponsored by the city of Santa Rosa I think it would be invaluable to have some kind of local news agency working in that collaboration to make sure that we're providing correct information and that we've got all of the people that we need to include in there and I think it would be great for the kids as well. I believe member Kirbin had her hand up earlier do you have any comments? Thank you. Yeah so I like the comments so far about this and I also think of maybe highlighting these people the ones who are living and even the ones who aren't like honoring them throughout the city and I would like almost to have one come to a cab meeting and maybe spend five minutes like so I'm very drawn to Rose Hammack for instance and I'm sure that she probably has a lot of stories from her culture to tell so to have and I think it goes along with the reading of the and not just the narration of what's being written but do something live and then think of people who maybe do kind of visual arts and honoring them to culturally how they shift and change us. I'm mute. I'm mute. Chair Graves did you have a comment question? Yeah again thank you so much for all the work that everybody's putting into this and it's pretty remarkable and I have a little bit of experience working in a group that wanted to put out a book and we ran into a number of challenges printing is always a little bit more expensive than most people think and there's lots of challenges to get things printed so I would just bring up the fun and sometimes more accessible alternative to that is a calendar because folks love calendars they're very useful and functional and not only can you highlight stories but you can highlight birthdays or special events during a calendar that those people that are being recognized were involved with or let's say the founding of the NAACP or different organizations so they tend to work really well for this type of a project so I just want to bring that up as an alternative although I don't want to dismiss the book idea because I know when folks get a hold of a book idea and they want to see it all the way through I just want to bring up a couple other names which I'm sure that you already have one at least is Nancy Rogers completely phenomenal in our community and I look forward to seeing as you mentioned women that was one of the things that struck me as I was looking at all the stories it's just the need for more women to be visible within them and so another female that I would bring forward would be Jaden Lim she's a member of our indigenous community and also one of the youth ambassadors at the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center of which her mother is actually the executive director and her aunt is one of the California Native American lawyers for a number of very important issues here in California so I do have contact information if you need and I think that the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center often gets overlooked as a resource in our community so I would definitely want to bring that organization forward so you said that you had some difficulty contacting different indigenous groups and I know that they don't live in a silo a number of indigenous tribes to this area and there's also a number of indigenous tribes that are coming into the area in the more recent years that would benefit from being highlighted as well because of different language issues that are going on accessibility issues so I do have some contacts with that as well and love the idea of the audio by the way when I was watching your slides it reminded me that you had mentioned that these stories would be potentially part of the City Council meeting breaks and so I had assumed in my head in my vision of it was that the slides like that would be presented and there would be an audio with them so that was just something that clicked for me and to let everybody know now that I am one of the writers for the Sonoma County Gazette I had checked in with Danielle last month and for the Santa Rosa snippets column that I'm writing there is a mention and some information about the multicultural roots project and the first two stories that that were brought forward so that was Gilbert Gray and John Richards so I'm trying to just amplify that a bit out in the community that the multicultural roots project is happening and driving people to the website and further to the social media pages and whatnot. Thank you Co-Vice Chair Grays for all that information Do any other CAB member comments or questions on this item? I'm not seeing any Danielle any final closing remarks? No these are really great suggestions and I'm going to take these back to Magali and let her know that these are additional suggestions I will add the suggestions also for additional people to highlight so thank you for mentioning those and yeah you know I love the audio idea in addition to the book idea it's a matter of who will do it and when so thank you Thanks Danielle Okay moving on to agenda item 6.2 the CAB orientation document and mentor program description presented by the CAB expertise subcommittee I happen to be a member of that but I believe that member crew might be presenting that information Danielle Hold on I'm really sorry but I forgot we need to ask if there was public comment for item 6 Oh of course thank you very much going back to 6.1 on the multicultural roots project are there any public comments on this item? There are currently no hands raised for public comments Okay thank you for that procedural redirection moving back to 6.2 um and I I don't know if Danielle will be reporting on her member crew I missed the expertise meeting so I can't do that um I can't do the overview of the meeting if you want to go over the orientation packet? Sure go ahead okay so we met on November 4th our subcommittee expertise and we talked about finalizing the cap orientation packet and we made very few changes so Danielle go over that with you we also talked about um potentially starting up a mentorship program getting something lined up for the new cap members that are going to be coming on board at the beginning of the year due to the elections and we wanted to we felt like there was a need to keep it light and not so formal and rigid but more flexible taking season cap members and pairing them with the new cap members to be a resource to them to show them the ropes ask their questions, build their questions and just be there to support them and getting them oriented to the cap organization and what our goals are and our strategic plan and all the things that we have been working on so with that and we also had an additional question at our meeting from a community member about banners for neighborhoods but after discussing it for a moment we felt like it was better that Danielle would contact a more appropriate department to handle that as a particular request and that is our small report and I'm handing it over to Danielle thank you does everybody have the orientation packet document in front of them alright so just to run through this I'm not going to read it verbatim we have an introduction here in the packet who to contact obviously if I were to run away and never come back that would change introduction and mission so outlining the mission of the cab as well as the city charter requirements for the cab and then the duties and responsibilities that are under the city charter so when you read through all of those those actually do come from the city charter language so those are outlined on page 2 moving on to page 3 it's an overview of the strategic plan so it just takes that strategic plan document and condenses it down into smaller pieces here and what we're currently focusing on we do mention we didn't want to get into the operation strategy or the operation strategy because that work had been completed and then that group was merged into the expertise group but we do make a quick comment about that in here so again the empowerment strategy and expertise strategy as they stand currently and what these groups are working on and then moving into page 4 it goes over just the requirements so requirements like training through the city clerk's office I also added the city clerk has the last board's commissions and committees orientation training on their website and so I included the link to that in this packet they do this training I believe every other year so they do it and so once they do the new one and post that new video then I will go ahead and change the link but for now it's the one they did in 2019 and then responsibilities or requirements as they pertain to city staff on their oath of office and then going through the orientation several spots open now and some positions that are up for either reappointment and new council members coming in so it's up to those council members that they want to decide to keep those appointments or make new appointments so that could potentially happen so if your appointment is coming up here at the end of December we know right away via email if you plan to stay with the cab and like to be reappointed probably around February I will do at our February meeting do a full cap orientation with the entire board so that we can capture those new members and all of you seasoned members can have a recap of that orientation and then finally your responsibilities as a cab member are listed here so that is what we included in this orientation packet or document the subcommittee did have a chance to go through it made one change I think or just very small changes to it and wanted to bring it to the board for approval so I think approval and just feedback so if you have any we'll take care of that now and then hopefully approve this so we can start using it with our new cab members coming on okay do we have any questions or comments on the document from the cab members hey co-chair great thank you this looked great and I might be just completely missing it I tried to look over it earlier today right before we got on does it have to mention anything about districts is that it doesn't because we don't have any information yet about districts okay that's all okay Member Kirven did you have a question thank you thank you I was hoping you didn't see my hand but I will just say that what struck me is the inclusion and I would imagine this is you know this is kind of not really well it didn't sound like it was a living document that things would come in and out of it is that true and then secondly if not if it's sort of this orientation standard then it's interesting that the strategic plan sort of let me just see what they are the two committees strategic plans really that we're working on they have shifted a bit since we had the strategic plan and I think that's good because I think we new things come up and it's good to have it but there's work goes very slowly so to keep that momentum as well maybe identifying the overarching things that are always going on and then kind of new projects and I'm just I can speak for empowerment strategy only but it just it was a little confusing to see that as part of the expertise although I think the strategic plan in our outcomes it makes sense that they were in there how we're interpreting them is what I'm speaking to right now and as long as it's a living document I think it's fine that we can change but I'm not sure a standard is meant to do that no it's a living document for sure because things are going to change Co-Vice Chair Graves brought up districts I'm sure that information will be included you know as you move through these strategies and the work changes I'm sure that will the only thing that will stay the same is that charter language that will definitely unless the city council decides to remove the cab from the charter but keep the cab and the focus is just on that strategic plan then we'll remove all the charter language and just focus on that strategic plan that makes sense that makes total sense I'm embarrassed to say this but I haven't looked at the mission statement that we came up with and it seems like it's trumpeted here is this the full mission statement? the vision is that really long so I didn't include that because that's actually like three or four paragraphs long that makes sense that makes sense thank you more comments or questions about this document I don't see any and I myself have a comment on it I believe that the charter will be up for review in 2022 I think yeah Chair Barnett mentioned to me and I'm wondering if in thinking about this document and what it summarizes and thinking proactively to the future that the council will be probably considering whether the cab will be charter or maybe defined outside the charter that maybe during 2021 we make an agenda item definitely within the expertise subcommittee but maybe at the level of the cab as well how we as a board ourselves in the next reiteration of the cab I think that we get a lot of input from the community, from staff and the city council but sometimes I think it's important to get some input from us how we see ourselves where we'd like to go in the future so perhaps that I might be sort of preempting the future agenda item suggestion but as it relates to this document and thinking of the context of where it sits and its intention and like you said it's very as a fluid living document I'd like to propose this idea and I'm not sure how to categorize where that would sit Danielle in terms of sort of a I guess an agenda item okay so for the document as it sits now the the expertise committee is asking us to approve this orientation packet with the caveat that it is a living document and subject to updates so may I get public comment on the document member Foster so I'm curious and maybe I missed something but as far as the discussion on the mentorship program is that going to be included in the final version or is that something that's been discussed and decided no that's actually going to be something separate from this so this is just informational for new members coming on and then the mentorship piece will I think Veronica or member Fritz correct me if I'm wrong the membership is or the mentorship is that piece of it will be kind of what the mentors responsibilities will be and then like how many mentors will have how many mentors yes I think that we were while we were discussing it at the subcommittee level we were feeling that we need to take this to the full cab board to see if there was interest to have a mentorship program because that's right we thought maybe people's place were full and they couldn't maybe we couldn't maybe take it on but and maybe we didn't have enough seasoned people who felt confident to be a mentor for the new mentees and I think there's going to be a total of I don't remember exactly the exact count for new people and then when we were looking at people that have been on the on cab for over a year but then we felt like well there's very confident people who haven't been on for a year but we wanted the cab to decide do we want to move forward with a light mentorship light program where it wasn't so very structured and requiring making any additional requirements on the cab member but just be a resource to that new cab person so that's the second part of this conversation this is just to prove this document and then the question will be on the table do we want to have a membership program that anyone's thinking I just brought it up it's on the agenda and I just don't know if we kind of brush past it obviously I think it's important for new members to be able I spoke with Danielle earlier today and just to have somebody to answer questions maybe a go-to person not necessarily take them how difficult it is I'm training a new agent right now it's very time-consuming and really eats into my productivity so I was just curious where that was I also wanted to mention that we can also alleviate if we have time and like you said a go-to person kind of help show the ropes to help alleviate some of the stuff that Danielle gets bombarded with so it kind of has two purposes hopefully that would be good for Danielle I get that I mean I feel guilty even getting her on the phone and having a few minute conversation I know how busy she is got a lot on her plate we have a motion on the floor right now to approve or not approve is that where we are so let's deal with the orientation packet first and then we can discuss the mentorship piece of it after the packet is done okay so to piggyback off of what member Cruz was saying do we have a motion to approve the cab orientation packet for new members yes public opportunity for public input thank you thank you I'm getting off shoot man I did I asked for that but then we have another comment are there any comments from the public on this item there are no hands raised for public comments thank you for monitoring that okay so no further comments again requesting the motion to approve this I know member Foster said that he would make the motion is there a second okay member Harper all in favor are we should I do a roll call or can we do hand just hands is fine okay all right looks like majority of pass thank you and did we want to go ahead and visit the mentor mentorship program right now or table that for another conversation I'm personally satisfied that you know this can be taken up later on I don't need any further information personally I love Danielle sorry I think goodbye to member O'Connor sorry member Cruz we discuss this quite a bit at our subcommittee meeting so I really would be curious to know what other CAB members are thinking about having a semi-formal semi-formal CAB mentorship program is it something that people have the bandwidth for knowing that we have new CAB members coming on member co-vice chair grave yeah I think it's a wonderful idea and with that if I say an idea is really good I will make time to be a part of that and as much as to answer questions but also just to make someone feel really welcome I know I was able to walk into the room this time last year knowing people in the room but that isn't always the case to know other board members and with a number of new members coming on board if we can make people feel more welcome and feel like they are connected in some way it's really we can't move through everybody's stories fast enough for people to share a little bit about themselves it seems like we're always pressed for time just having that connection to a member I think would be invaluable to have someone then feel like they're invested so I would definitely put energy behind it myself thank you are there common member Robert my initial thought was that it's not really necessary since I mean there's just not it's just not that complicated to serve on a board but then I was thinking I feel like there could be better connections with cab members I'm on some other boards and there's a lot more socializing and other events where we can get together and bond more so I think this could be a good opportunity for that and I would also separate from membership I would also hope on the line that there's other stuff we can do probably has to wait until in person to connect to the board members more further comment on this member of here Ben I just want to echo his comments we are a community board and I like the idea of building community among us and it can just be socializing to sort of get to know each other and I found out last cab meeting that you're all pretty much connected I don't know you like you all know each other so I thought that was a beautiful thing and I felt a little sad myself but I think it's easily remedy by just sort of getting to know each other individually or in three or something I like that idea I also feel like we've gotten a lot more formal and I'm trying but it's hard for me because I think because it's a community based group that I think the informality is kind of nice but I'm happy to go with that darn brown act just kidding I have a comment to contribute to this and that is I've had some opportunity to get some questions that I've had about the cab from chair Barnett and one of the things that has been hugely impactful to me in my conversations with her is learning about the history of where the cabs come for the past five to eight years because some of my questions pertain to why do we do this why do we do that why is it this way and she's able to provide that context kind of where we why we've arrived to where we are and I feel like that kind of information is really useful because one question answered by her can kind of answer twenty that then come up intermittently in the future and so in addition to the social connection and the welcoming aspect that I know that we want to do through the mentor program I would also appreciate and this isn't to be back into that formal zone but maybe just sort of a summary of the history of why do we have a strategic plan that's actually a new thing or you know like what was it before that like to feel and sharey experience but I don't share that experience I only know what I know now but I think context of history of the cab as we've evolved and grown is really important and so it would be great to have that summary even though I didn't live it to then be able to introduce it to a new member so you know it could be something of a five minute you know type up a summary you know no big deal but I'd like to kind of have that history written down okay member crew I really would like to show that and build relationships within the cab membership we changed members so frequently it seems like we don't get to know them and it's kind of a way to make the group smaller by pairing people up and you kind of get connected right away and feel included that I first came I was really sure I came at a time where right before the strategic planning and I didn't really know what anything meant and it was hard to get the lingo and so this one document is going to be very very helpful to those new cab members and I just feel like if we are about connections that the easiest first connection we can make is just between ourselves and it would just maybe make this group even more tight and cohesive when we finally do get to do community events there will be more likelihood to oh yeah so and so is going to go maybe I want to help that person out there's more of a connection so relationships are important and I hope that we all want to do this to help the new cab members and it might help us keep cab members because I don't know why people leave they just all of a sudden they're not there anymore and you don't really know the reason why so I hope so and I I guess after we discuss this I really like to know who would be willing to be a mentor Danielle did you want to comment on that on any of the questions okay so right now per our agenda we're to see if we approve this cab orientation packet member foster comment on the question sorry everybody's comments and essentially I came into this board right in the middle of COVID and you know I'm sure that in the past at least you met in person so there's a big big difference I'm a people person and you know I get to know people by discussing things in person this whole zoom thing is very new to me and it's different so I mean we're at a disadvantage to start with coming in and if you've got four or five new members coming in unless you know them you know socially or otherwise you know you're at a real tough starting point so I don't know how you can make that better but it's something that should be considered by this group how to bring somebody in and whether it's one person meeting with them prior to the first board meeting and kind of giving them a little heads up on you know procedurally how this all works and you know who the players and what the overall game plan is because it's taking me three meetings just to feel a little bit comfortable and getting to know all of you visually and you know it's a big difference than meeting in person and having that initial contact that's all I was thinking as you were discussing kind of going forward with the mentor program because you know before meeting with a mentor or somebody I think you know just getting to know each other is important great and I'm sorry my screen was too small I didn't see you wanting to comment okay I know now I've got the full scope any other concluding remarks before I ask for a motion to approve the document we already did that oh we did so we're done we're good we're good thank you Danielle it's been a long day okay so moving on to agenda item 6.3 the empowerment subcommittee update are you not sure who will be presenting that I might be able to help out a little bit so we have on our subcommittee member Kerouben and was present at the meeting but had to leave a little bit early so I'm not quite sure if you would be comfortable presenting because we did a lot of the organizing after you left but if you and then also leave it open for member Harper and member Roberts we're also at the meeting so just for the three of them to potentially give a little report or one of the three so I don't mind sharing you know sort of what happened at that meeting and then you can share the result of the work that was done at the meeting and that you're bringing forth today I just wanted to say that it was our second meeting since the pandemic hit and the first meeting was I forget some time in I think October I wasn't present at that one but this one was November 12th and we had on the agenda really the big thing was to create topics for to that the cap is going to be involved into for primers of well I'm going to let Leslie talk about that because I am really the whole that was all new to me that part of the our what the empowerment committee was doing and what I want to say though is we blended in those topics like we attached them to the work that the committee the subcommittee had done around the Civic Engagement Academy which I was very glad that we were able to do that because we had worked a lot on that and and we have some we have a question to ask as well on these topics and I wouldn't mind hearing you know what the ask is of the group but we also and I do want to clarify that our meeting actually was not I didn't leave early I actually we actually went way over than the time we were meant to go and I just want to call that out because it did feel I felt bad for leaving but you know it's I think we were going on to a half hour extra so and we hadn't planned it so that's all thank you I apologize I used the wrong the wrong word in the wrong place right there you you left on on late we were already going late so I appreciate that and I do want to leave it open actually because member Harper and member Roberts were on this subcommittee well before myself and so if either one of you want to present the information I think it might be more valuable because you have more context with this list how many do it Robert before then okay so we had originally as we discussed a little earlier we looked at a number of topics for an academy sort of a civic engagement academy that we would do for the community for the pandemic and as we were fleshing out what we wanted to do in terms of the academy the pandemic and it seemed like it was a lot of there was too much to do in terms of an academy and so some had the idea of this short video Civic 101 topics that we would shoot these I'm hoping for 30 30 minutes videos covering important topics that we felt or not just we felt the committee and the community felt would be the topics that people need to know related to just civil engagement and to get these videos and produce them ourselves and to I think we're writing scripts and maybe acting or getting other people to act still thinking that one through right but so long story so what you see oh sorry does everybody see this the Civic 101 video topic list okay so as you can see we had quite a bit topics that we had mass in our work and so as we were rounding out the meeting on the 12th we were we're just about ending but then we said okay we need to flesh this out just a little bit more and get the topics and to more to more more things that we felt that we could we could manage and it was really important to people and one of the priors was what we wanted to share with the community and we ended up with the list that you have before you and we had them in tier one which is the buckets of free buckets we wanted to look at in terms of these videos and so the first one the city and Santa Rosa local government organization and basically dealing with everything from city manager city council city charter just basic differences between city and the county government and etc so how policy that kind of thing was kind of the first bucket that we came up with so we lumped everything together to kind of fit into that bucket and then the next area that we looked at was city council and boards and so what exactly does the city council do what's mayor do how do people run for council you know how do I engage maybe everybody has a district representative but how do we engage our district representative as well as the whole council because we need to be able to function as a whole city council and to name a few what does the board of commission do and then the third element was just community engagement and advocacy and so how do we influence change in our community how do we get involved how do we get involved with everything from how to make our city healthier and safer to understand what's the equity in this in our city how do we get engaged and so those are the three big buckets that we put together and then we had our tier two so information for inclusion in the civic engagement pattern so these are more complicated and other topics that we felt that were important however maybe they needed another department to really do the work on it and so those included everything from finance to budget so that's how we broke those out public safety, economic development planning, housing community services, city infrastructure and then we had other suggestions of what might be interesting so most of this came out of our subcommittee there was cherry cherry cherry street association has submitted some ideas or topics for conversation so so what we wanted to do is to be able to break these down so we just didn't give you a mass of topics that you would have to go through we really wanted to break it down and figure out what we wanted to do in terms of our priority for the videos that we wanted to produce for the community did I get that right? thoroughly right, that was awesome that was a lot of information and I would add to that being that member caravan talked about our ask our ask is correct me if I'm wrong any of the members from the subcommittee is to get your input on these if we have left anything out for our videos so just thinking about those first three buckets I like the term bucket that member harper gave to them the city of san aroza local government organization the city councils and boards and the community engagement advocacy obviously it would be a lot to include all of that information for three minutes but if there is something that's just glaring that's missing when you look at that under those areas I think it's a good idea to know or just if it looks like we're just completely headed in a wrong direction but I think member harper did a wonderful job explaining that we're speaking to the community and engaging them in these really small informational videos about what the city is I will also add to this by the subcommittee and the initial conversations around the civic engagement academy but it's also supporting what we're hearing in the listening sessions as well information that residents want to learn about things like how do I make a public comment or how do I participate in city council meeting and why should I we also have a public comment during public comment over the summer in some of our council meetings and other boards and commission meetings that there was confusion around why isn't the council responding to me I'm making this comment you are just not are you not hearing me so really spelling that out why that dialogue might not happen at a city council meeting or why it can't happen in commission meeting so it's really supporting what the community is asking for as far as education around these different topics I will also say that I'm looking at the list here that each individual bullet point is not going to be its own video hopefully we'll be able to put certain things together into a video I'm looking at how do I make public records request obviously that will probably be its own video but other things involving city history and basic information etc how to contact staff that probably will fit into one video great is that kind of concludes the presentation of this summary where we can invite some comments and questions okay do any of the CAB members member crew one thing that I would be wanting to know in this first section if you can why doesn't the public why don't the citizens why aren't the citizens able to vote for the mayor why do we not vote for him that's a good one I think we brought that up in the subcommittee and we forgot to put it down because I remember mentioning it because people are confused about that especially because Windsor does vote for a mayor yeah it's confusing and then go in the first part the first topic yeah it looks like in the first section how would you change it if the public wanted to change that I think it well did you want an answer no not now other member comments or questions reflection member Robert yeah I wanted to give the members not on the committee chance to speak first but so I like the direction we went I originally was thinking when we were first focused on the academy we could pick that up into departments and have department reps help them present the content for the academy and then when we switched to videos I was still in that mindset but I like the direction that we moved to I just want to throw out this idea I'm not sure if it would have any support but with the tier 2 all the tier 2 stuff I know there's a lot of information but I was wondering if it would be worth having a video of just an overview of these services not going into specifics but I feel like there's a lot of people in the city that don't even know a lot of the services that the city provides so I thought instead of leaving all this out we could just give it a very brief summary and then a separate video yeah just throw that out okay member Cruz I like the direction guys went as well because if these are on video or links that you could just get little snippets of you could self-pace your own little tour of city government and hit the topics that really interest you or self-guided tour basically but it's I like it and you're covering a lot of ground here things that I never even thought of one thing on the city boards and commissions isn't there a law in California or that says that there has to be a certain amount of women on boards and commissions and how does that affect us and do we take that into account I thought there was a law out there I'll have to look into that that's new to me it is a new law but I think that those are boards, corporate boards so it's not government boards and commissions I think it was instituted two years ago if I'm correct so in 2018 and although it does bring up a great point especially since we were talking about equity and social justice earlier and the equity office at the county of Sonoma or the new equity office and the new equity office director is that that may be in the future and that we also maybe have a discussion at some point in time talking about when the charter is up to be changed influencing or commenting on how the city let me say this correctly how the city does business with outside agencies and contracts and what their equity lens is because like the city and county of San Francisco has different criteria based on equity issues around women, LGBTQ other marginalized classes and thank you for that but we actually I see you so we if that would ever be something that our city would then write into our charter about how we deal with and if it does do that then that would probably affect boards and chairs or boards and commissions as well. There's a lot in there a lot of legal issues but yeah so I'm not gonna say a whole lot about this just because I don't have a lot of information but I will bring it to Magali so that she can bring it back next month but the city is in the process of contracting and I don't know like where in the process but looking at contracting with an organization to start the initial planning and groundwork for either an equity officer for the city an equity office or other right like we don't know what it's going to look like yet although it was mentioned as a priority in the budget sessions for when the council was talking about this over the summer and it's also one of the tier one priorities for the council so I will make sure that Magali brings some information back next month to the cab or I can send out an email as well if I get information before that but I want to make sure that anyone any member of the public that is participating in the meeting also gets that information so it'll come to you guys in both ways I guess is what I'm saying I just don't have the information on it to be able to answer questions and really give you the full picture of what that looks like um thank you Danielle member Kieran has to leave us soon so I'd like to move this along and as possible um the agenda is asking for action um you do need to hear a public comment if there is any on this item no public comment at this time okay thank you for that monitoring it's not clear to me what action we are asking um I don't think there's an action I think it was just to give feedback on the list that we're missing I I would like to provide input on a bit of a molar is it possible to continue this on to the next agenda so that between now and our next meeting we can contribute okay yeah okay so great so there are no action items on this so if member Kieran needs to excuse herself that I think would be okay um we will lose one yeah go ahead member Kieran can I just propose that people can send us comments like edit that you know add comments to the document and send it to us in between as well um that would be useful we're going to move on to agenda item agenda item number seven which co-vice chair Graves will facilitate okay thank you so item number seven moving a little quickly here future agenda items we're looking ahead to the Sonoma county commission on human rights report and potentially in 2021 January the community empowerment plan goal what you know you shook me off community empowerment plan goal one report including listening session data and that's in February 2021 these are all just written on paper and they are not written on stone yeah does a little into stone so I just want to say that so that Danielle feels very comfortable um the third item would be the south park neighborhood community building group um so that one has kind of been held over for a while now getting to that hopefully in the future community engagement division strategic plan um and lastly the racial equity training uh so is there any other comments by members member Cruz I do we need to put on the agenda uh in December if we're having a meeting about the mentorship program or are we going to say yay we're going to yay or nay on that and give up bullets of just things that uh mentor should be doing responsibilities we it was on it's hanging out there I just want to know what are we doing with it uh maybe the expertise at the next meeting we can throw a list together just propose responsibilities bring it back in December and finalize that item okay yeah um I have a quick update and I'm just the messenger so please can we see um we learned today that the human rights report is being moved along with the protest use of force report to March 23rd and that's why I initially when I stated the date in December I initially said it's tentative the city attorney's office is still working on that use of force in the protest report um so they need additional time however the after action report which I'm not one is very specific to use of force and then the after action report kind of looks at all of it um that is coming in December and that original date I think was the 15th of December that's still happening the other two items they want to present together um and I we're guessing they're also waiting for our recommendations for the community empowerment plan as well so that is coming in March and so that will move the cab's date when you'll be able to since the council wants to hear it first it will move the the date uh back for you guys understood so the council is March 23rd and it would move it farther into the future um member Roberts and I did see you Mr. More how dare you Danielle I'm just kidding um so I'm I'm wondering if there is more reason given about um why we need to wait for council to review it but I feel like I feel like one of reasons this board exists is to provide input to council and yeah I feel like that should take place before they are make policy or officially respond to the report um do you think it would do any good to for us to request to be able to work on it now my suggestion to you would be to reach out to your appointing council members and really um have that conversation with them about this um the only response that are the only answer I can give you is from the the city attorney's office in that um well city attorney and the mayor both agree that they want the full picture so because human rights commission report has allegations of use of force um in that report so they want the use of force investigation report to be presented alongside of it so they have all of the information before they make those uh before they make any decisions or have any discussion um and without that report they don't want any other board and commission receiving receiving the report that's all the information I've been given and the justification for that um so it's a legal legal issue um so I would recommend talking to your council members about it if you want it to come to the cab beforehand so I did see co-vice chair more and then a member Cruz and just a quick note so we are uh going past our time and we have a member that needs to be leaving so keep that in mind uh thank you uh I thank you Danielle for explaining a little bit further with the information you have um because my first inclination is this is ridiculous that we are instructed to wait to hear this especially when this was brought to our attention several months ago um unfortunately I feel like it lends itself to a lack of transparency a lack of willingness um it has very bad optics to be constrained um by the legal recommendation and I I don't understand that so I will look into that more um so I wanted to go on record saying that because I think it's important um we heard what four hours of public comment on this with the community pleading um directing us to look into this and we have not and yet we have devoted hours of staff time for community listening sessions on health racial social justice issues but not we're not hearing this so um I acknowledge that there must be legal issues to it but I still think it's um I would like to um request uh that perhaps we get uh a more formal statements from the council on the delay and why is it being delayed but we're not getting an answer on that so okay so that's enough of that um a future agenda item that I would like to see is a more robust report from our chair from the monthly um what used to be a luncheon I'm sure it's now just a dry zoom meeting at this point since we are definitely in COVID um and I say that not to um you know kind of criticize the information we are getting I'm just thirsty for more I think that staying connected to the council um and kind of getting some broader context of what some of the other boards and commissions and what the mayor thinking is I would love to hear more so I'm just thirsty for that so if we could make that a monthly agenda item and give it some time rather than it just being a member update I would be very appreciative of that I do want to give you guys a quick thing that Mayor Schwalhelm was really the vigilant about these monthly get-togethers uh it's conditional upon the mayor so I want to let you know that whoever is elected selected as the new mayor in December may or may not do the monthly update in which case it then becomes incumbent upon us to go on the city's website and look at other board and commissions this is just an opportunity that was created with Mayor Corsi but even then it wasn't always monthly there were times where it was it wasn't calendar for you know there were gaps but Tom was really determined about it when he went through the goals session and wanting everybody to be on the same page with a tier one tier two goals and that's why he wanted these monthly meetings because he wanted to make sure all of the board looking at the tier one goals and what their boards and commissions were working on in relationship like in other words he wanted to see measurements and metrics that align with the tier one goals right so that is one of the things that we would be reporting back to him of what we were doing so each time we met it was you know in relationship to tier one tier two goals what is the cab doing and those are very specific questions that we get asked so absolutely if uh the new mayor tries to keep me on his chair or whoever he may or whoever she or he has his chair if these go forward I think it's a great way to add it to the agenda um but of equal you know this could change you know we might have a different uh set up next year but if it does go forward and they continue with those meetings absolutely I'm I'm totally cool with giving you guys a little more in depth on what they're working on and um member Cruz sorry I got disconnected I just want to comment on the human rights commission report and and um how the council wants us to wait for their response to the use of force our discussion might be more fruitful or more um impactful after we hear the response to the use of force how is this how is this responding to those allegations and that will spur another round of probably disagreement from the public about about how they responded I think that it is appropriate for us to wait there is hierarchy and I don't want to wait either but I think we have to let them do their thing before we jump into something and it might just might be better for us to hear both sides of that before we have this discussion with the public I just feel like it might be um it might roll out better I don't think that's what I would urge to use here but it might um be a better sequence of events that's all I have to say and my question would be for who but that's okay we're gonna wait for the public they're gonna have both sides and and member Harper did you have a you're unmuted so I'm not quite sure I have them alright I don't see any other questions or comments but I do want to thank everybody for all of those comments because that was very fruitful I thought it was provoking and member Cruz I believe that you make a really good point as much as I want to see that report and discuss it there needs to be an end to our means and I think our end might be better well served to the community by waiting a bit as well it's just unfortunate of the optics and I completely agree with chair moore on that or co-vice chair moore that this has been a frustrating process for those that have been watching um so with that is there any public comment on those future agenda items for public comment uh thank you for that and let it be shown I just saw Magali we see you we see your name you are here and we want to acknowledge you um and we are at the end and uh that calls for adjournment thank you so much everybody thank you for your patience and waiting motion to adjourn uh motion to adjourn sorry I'm calling I was just going to call it cheers I think I saw a second in there yeah and keep and Vince is that that's all thank you so much everybody thank you


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