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TO CALL MEMBERS, WHOEVER'S PRESENT.
UM, PLEASE INDICATE YOUR PRESENCE BY SAYING HERE.
BOARD MEMBER BIAS BOARD MEMBER VAN MEEN HERE.
UM, WE'RE GONNA REVIEW AND APPROVE THE MINUTES.
CAN I GET OUR FIRST MOTION TO APPROVE THE MEETING? MINUTES MOVE.
ANY CHANGES TO THE MINUTES? DO WE HAVE ANY, UM, COMMUNITY MEMBERS OR ANY PUBLIC, UM, COMMENTS? UM, I DO WANNA SHARE THAT, UM, I RECEIVED A CALL FROM, UH, THE SEARCH COMMITTEE THAT IS DOING THE SEARCH FOR THE DIRECTOR OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AND INVITING ME TO PARTICIPATE ON THE DIRECTOR OF SERVICES INTERVIEW, UM, COMMITTEE.
SO THEY HAVE A MEETING AT THE END OF THIS MONTH TO KIND OF REVIEW THE QUESTIONS, DISCUSS WHAT THAT'S GONNA LOOK LIKE, AND THEN, UH, FEBRUARY 15TH IS, I GUESS, UM, LOOK FORWARD TO THAT AND WE'LL KEEP THIS COMMITTEE ABREAST.
UM, AND IF THERE'S ANY OPEN CONVERSATION THAT'S PART OF THAT, I'LL SHARE WHAT'S HAPPENING.
UM, OR ANYTHING THAT COMES UP FROM THIS MEETING, UM, REGARDING, UH, THE DIRECTOR'S SEARCH.
SO THAT HEAD THAT, UM, NEXT, I'D LIKE TO INVITE OUR ACTING DIRECTOR, HEALTH HUMAN SERVICES.
WELL, THAT WAS GONNA BE MY REPORT.
UM, SO THANK YOU FOR HANDLING THAT.
UM, I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE ARE ENTERING INTO THE BUDGET PERIOD FOR, UH, FISCAL SCHOOL YEAR 25.
WE'RE ALREADY TALKING ABOUT THAT.
WE HAVE ALMOST FINALIZED THE SCOPE OF WORK FOR THE CONSULTANT TO REVIEW, AND WE'LL GO TO
UM, I HAVE BEEN MEETING WITH ALL OF OUR, UM, BUREAU MANAGERS, BUT IN ADDITION TO THAT, ALL OF OUR DIVISION, UH, MANAGERS AS WELL.
UM, WE ARE JUST LOOKING ORGANIZATIONALLY AT WHERE WE CAN BE MORE EFFICIENT.
RECOGNIZING THE GOVERNOR'S BUDGET IS GONNA $68 BILLION DEFICIT OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
UM, SINA HAD TO TAKE A CALL, SO YOU GOT ME.
JUST A, A, A SLIGHT CHANGING PROCEDURES HERE BASED ON THE NEW SYSTEM THAT THE CITY IS IMPLEMENTING, AT THE END OF EVERY AGENDA ITEM A VOTE IS REQUIRED.
A, A MOVER, A, A, YOU KNOW, AND IT'S REALLY JUST I MOVE TO APPROVE THE RECOMMENDATION.
I, IT'S JUST A FORMAL I HAVE TO GO THROUGH NOW WITH THIS NEW SYSTEM.
SO, SO DO WE HAVE A MOTION TO RECEIVE, UM, FOR OUR REPORT FROM THE ACTIVE DIRECTOR OF HEALTH SERVICES? DO WE HAVE SOMEBODY TO MAKE A MOTION? SO, OKAY.
ANY OBJECTIONS? ANY? NO, THE MOTION PASSES.
WE HAVE, NOW THAT WE WERE GOING TO GO OVER TO, UH, THE ANNUAL, UM, NOMINATION AND ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
I DON'T REMEMBER HOW THAT PROCESS, HOW THAT PROCEDURE WORKS.
SO DENNIS, CAN YOU HELP HELP HERE? UH, WELL IN THIS CASE, UM, WE WOULD JUST TAKE 'EM ONE AT A TIME, YOU KNOW, START WITH THE CHAIR POSITION OR OPEN THE FLOOR NOMINATIONS.
UM, GATHER THOSE UP IF YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT HOW MANY WE RECEIVED.
SO DO WE HAVE ANY NOMINATIONS? TAKE OVER ANY NOMINATIONS FOR THE CHAIR OF THIS DR. SANDERS FOR A SECOND.
UNLESS, DOESN'T WANT I SECOND.
BUT YEAH, THERE'S ANYBODY ELSE I DON'T WANNA NOMINATE.
I THINK IT'D GREAT MOVE LEADERSHIP.
I, I APPRECIATE THE CONTINUITY.
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OH, HOW'S THAT FOR YOU? ALRIGHT.
ANYBODY ELSE? ALRIGHT, WELL THANK YOU VERY MUCH,
UM, DO WE NEED TO DO ANYTHING ELSE? UH, I COULD JUST PROBABLY SUMMARILY DO IT AT THE END, UH, AS OPPOSED TO, 'CAUSE IT IS A, IT IS A GROUP ITEM.
I DIDN'T SEPARATE THEM OUT AS ELECTION OF, OF CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR.
SO WE'LL JUST, WE'LL IF YOU WANNA TAKE A VOTE AND JUST SAY I, YOU KNOW, THAT'S AWESOME.
AND THEN AT THE END, SUMMARILY, CLOSE IT OUT.
YEAH, NO, WE NEED NOMINATION FOR THE VICE CHAIR.
ALRIGHT, SO WE NEED FOR VICE CHAIR SELF NOMINATE WHAT YOU CAN SELF NOMINATE IF YOU'RE INTERESTED.
VICE CHAIR, I NOMINATE, UH, VICE CHAIR SHERMAN THAT SHE ARE ANYTHING ELSE? THAT NEXT TIME.
SO I JUST MOVER A SECONDER AND A CALL ON THAT CLOSES OUT.
SO WE ARE ON OUR BOARD GOALS AND INFRASTRUCTURE AND WE ARE CONTINUING OUR CONVERSATION WITH STRATEGIC PLANNING AND, AND, UM, HAVING A DISCUSSION ABOUT WHERE WE'RE HEADED.
SO I'M GONNA PASS IT ON TO THE SUBCOMMITTEE, UH, TO LEAVE THIS PORTION OF THE CONVERSATION.
SO ANYONE FROM THE SUBCOMMITTEE LIKE TO, SO YOU WANNA TAKE THAT? SURE, SIR.
UM, UM, BASED ON OUR LAST CONVERSATION, WE ALL AGREED THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE, UM, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR GOING FORWARD, JAMES SUSO, UM, TO FACILITATE OUR CONVERSATIONS.
WE HAD ONE PLANNING MEETING TO BE ABLE TO MOVE US ALONG SO THAT JAMES COULD, UH, GET HIM TO, UH, BE ON THE SAME PAGE WITH THE REST OF US.
AND JAMES IS ACTUALLY IS HERE THERE.
SO, UH, WHERE WE HAD LEFT IT OFF WAS, UH, WE HAD ALL AGREED ON ADMISSION AND WE IDENTIFIED VALUES AND, UH, GOALS, PRIORITIES, PRIORITIES FOR, UM, FOR THE BOARD.
AND UNFORTUNATELY, I DON'T HAVE MY NOTES, BUT I RECALL THAT THE PRIORITIES INCLUDED, UM, OUR EXPERTISE OF THE COMMUNITY.
AND THIRD, A COUPLE OF GOALS, TWO GOALS THAT WE WOULD DETERMINE, TWO GOALS FOR EACH.
AND, UM, WE DID ALSO, JUST FOR FULL TRANSPARENCY, WE ALSO HAD A CONVERSATION ABOUT COMPENSATION.
AND THEN I HAVE, UH, COMMUNICATION WITH ALLISON, UM, BEYOND THAT.
AND WE'RE, UH, WE WERE ABLE TO CONFIRM OF A CERTAIN AMOUNT AND ARE STILL IN CONVERSATION.
UM, WE, I THOUGHT WE CONFIRMED, BUT UM, IF WE MOVE TO HAVE FURTHER CONVERSATION.
UM, WE RECOGNIZE A LOT OF FACES AND REALLY GREAT TO SEE FOLKS.
AGAIN, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T KNOW ME, UM, MY NAME IS JAMES AND SYLVIA MENTIONED, UH, MY PRONOUNS ARE AND HIM, UH, MY, MY DAY JOB IS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AT LONG BEACH FORWARD.
AND THEN MY FOREVER JOB IS JUST LONG BEACH RESIDENT, A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER.
UM, AND JUST PASSIONATE ABOUT HELPING IMPROVE OUR COMMUNITIES IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE.
WHETHER AT EVERY KIND OF LEVEL, WHETHER IT'S ON THE GROUND, WHETHER IT'S WITHIN ALL OF OUR PUBLIC SPACES, UM, OUT IN THE COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO WITHIN ALL OF THE DIFFERENT PLACES WHERE WE CAN MAKE DECISIONS TOGETHER.
UM, PART OF LONG BEACH FORWARD'S WORK, IF YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR, OUR WORK IS ABOUT CREATING A HEALTHY LONG BEACH WITH LOW INCOME COMMUNITIES OF COLOR BY BUILDING COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE, LEADERSHIP, AND POWER.
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INHERENT TO THAT IS COLLABORATION.IT'S ONE OF OUR CORE VALUES, ONE OF OUR BELIEFS THAT ACROSS ALL OF OUR DIFFERENT DIFFERENCES AND CELEBRATING THOSE DIFFERENCES, WE CAN COME TOGETHER AND ACTUALLY MAKE POSITIVE CHANGE HAPPEN.
THAT'S NOT JUST FOR THE SHORT TERM, BUT LONG TERM AND SUSTAINABLE.
RIGHT? UM, I SAY ALL OF THAT BECAUSE THIS IS ALWAYS REALLY EXCITING, UM, TO DO A LOT OF OUR COMMISSIONS WORK BECAUSE PART OF OUR, UM, UH, WORK AS AN ORGANIZATION IS TO ENSURE THAT FOLKS WHO TYPICALLY AREN'T AT THE TABLE, ARE I BEING ABLE TO AT THE TABLE? I'M JUST REALIZING WE HAVE THE SAME EXACT MUG.
UM, SO PART OF THAT IS ENSURING THAT FOLKS WHO TYPICALLY AREN'T MAKING PART OF DECISION MAKING ARE AT THE TABLE, RIGHT? AND THAT WE FULLY BELIEVE THAT THE BEST KIND OF DECISION MAKING IS WHEN WE'RE ALL INFORMED AND WE ALL CAN ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE.
AND SO IN THAT SAME VEIN, A BIG PART OF OUR WORK AT LONG BEACH FORWARD IS AROUND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT.
UM, NOT JUST IN THE TYPICAL ELECTORAL SENSE, BUT THINKING ABOUT HOW DO WE ENSURE THAT PEOPLE WHO TYPICALLY AREN'T PART OF THESE PROCESSES ARE INCLUDED.
AND SO A BIG PART OF THAT IS OUR BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS WORK.
SO WE ACTUALLY RUN PROGRAMMING, UM, MAKE A YEAR ROUND TO ACTUALLY SUPPORT COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO LIVE IN LONG BEACH, HAVE A PASSION ABOUT LONG BEACH, UM, TO ACTUALLY LEARN ABOUT ALL OF THE OVER 30 CITYWIDE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, UM, AND SUPPORT FOLKS AND WORK WITH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE TO ACTUALLY GET FOLKS SEATED.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE EVER HEARD THIS, BUT I HEAR THIS PRETTY OFTEN.
PEOPLE EITHER SAYING, I'M REALLY PASSIONATE, I WANT TO GET INVOLVED, BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW, HELP ME FIGURE OUT WHERE TO START.
OR, OH MY GOSH, I JUST GOT APPOINTED TO THIS COMMISSION.
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON.
CAN YOU HELP ME?
SO THAT'S REALLY WHAT OUR ORGANIZATION SUPPORTS IS HOW DO WE ENSURE THAT FOLKS CAN BE THE BEST LEADERS THAT WE CAN BE? 'CAUSE WE ALL SHARE THE SAME PASSION FOR LONG BEACH.
UM, SO THAT'S JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME.
UM, I KNOW YOU'VE HAD SOME, UH, PREVIOUS CONVERSATIONS WITH THE STRATEGIC PLANNING SUBCOMMITTEE.
WE HAD A LOVELY MEETING, UM, EARLY, WAS THAT EARLIER THIS WEEK? MM-HMM,
OR LAST WEEK? THAT WAS LAST WEEK.
LAST WEEK TIME, RECENTLY TIME.
THE OTHER, THE OTHER CORE VALUE OF MINE IS THAT TIME IS A CONSTRUCT IS FAKE.
SO HERE WE ARE, SPEAKING OF TIME BEING FAKE, I KNOW WE DO HAVE A HARD STOP BY NINE.
THAT'S MY, MY ONE CLARIFYING NOTE THERE.
UM, SO I'M VERY CONSCIENTIOUS OF THAT.
SO, UM, BUT MY ROLE OF WORKING WITH YOU ALL OVER THIS MEETING, OUR, OUR FEBRUARY MEETING AND THEN IF NEED BE IN OUR MARCH MEETING, UM, IS TO REALLY HELP YOU ALL GET A REALLY STRONG FOUNDATION IN TERMS OF SOME GOAL SETTING, SOME OF THAT PLANNING.
THAT WAY YOU ALL CAN BE THE BEST ADVOCATES THAT YOU NEED TO BE FOR NOT ONLY, UH, THE LONG BEACH COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO IN SERVICE OF YOUR ROLE HERE AS THE ADVISORY BOARD FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, WHICH DON'T TELL ANY OF THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
THIS IS MY FAVORITE DEPARTMENT IN THE CITY.
SO, UM,
YEAH, LONG BEACH FORD HAS WORKED A LOT WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT SINCE, I MEAN, BUT WHEN WE WERE CREATED IN 2010, UM, IF YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR, LONG BEACH FORD ALSO WAS PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES, LONG BEACH.
UM, WE REBRANDED A COUPLE YEARS AGO, SO WE'VE BEEN A REALLY CLOSE PARTNER WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
SO, UM, I THINK THE LAST TIME I WAS HERE WAS PRE PANDEMIC, SO IT'S BEEN A MINUTE.
UM, SO, UM, BEFORE WE DIVE IN, UM, SO WE HAD, LIKE I SAID, UM, AT SOME POINT IN THE PAST WEEK,
AND SO I WANT TO RECAP A LITTLE BIT, JUST AS SYLVIA KIND OF MENTIONED AS WELL, UM, THAT, YOU KNOW, IN, IN THE PAST, UM, YOU ALL AS A BOARD, UH, CAME UP WITH A MISSION, RIGHT? AND JUST TO READ THAT INTO THE ETHER AND BRING THAT INTO THE UNIVERSE, THE MISSION THAT YOU ALL CO-CREATED WAS TO USE OUR BROAD BASED MULTI-SPECIALTY EXPERTISE AND RESOURCES TO CHAMPION HEALTH AND WELLNESS SO THE LONG BEACH COMMUNITY CAN THRIVE.
UM, YOU ALSO CAME UP WITH SOME PRIORITIES AND VOTED ON SOME OF THOSE.
SO JUST TO RECAP, I KNOW WE WERE SOURCING THEM.
THE FIRST ONE IS TO DEFINE ONE TO TWO GOALS PER YEAR.
THE SECOND IS TO ADVOCATE FOR THE COMMUNITY, AND THE THIRD IS TO USE OUR SKILLS AND EXPERTISE.
SO BASED ON THE CONVERSATIONS AND WHAT WE THINK IS MOST EFFICIENT IN TERMS OF TIME AND, AND MY ROLE IN HELPING FACILITATE AND REALLY YOU ALL ARE GONNA HAVE THESE ANSWERS.
MY, MY ROLE HERE IS TO REALLY HELP DRAW THAT OUT AND, AND HELP ORGANIZE IT TOGETHER.
UM, IS TO SPEND TODAY WORKING ON A DRAFT VISION STATEMENT THAT'LL GET US INTO A REAL, AND WE'LL DO AN EXERCISE THAT'LL TAKE A MOST OF TODAY.
AND THEN, UM, DEPENDING ON WHERE WE ARE WITH TIME, 'CAUSE I'M, I'M REALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT NOT WANTING TO, UM, CURTAIL DISCUSSION TOO MUCH.
ESPECIALLY ONCE WE'RE GOING, DEPENDING, WE'LL SET UP FOR OUR NEXT BOARD MEETING WHERE WE'LL ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT GOAL PLANNING AND USING, DO ANOTHER ACTIVITY OR WORK ON SETTING SOME OF THOSE REALISTIC ONE TO TWO KIND OF, UH, TWO GOALS FOR THE YEAR AND THINK ABOUT WHAT MAKES SENSE PROCESS-WISE AND WHERE THE VISION AND ENERGY IS IN THIS GROUP.
UM, WE'LL ALSO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME COMMISSIONER ACTION PLANNING AT THE NEXT MEETING.
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DO A LOT WITH THE FOLK, THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND COMMISSIONERS WE WORK WITH TO ALSO THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT YOU ALL NEED TO DO BOTH WITHIN MEETINGS AND THEN IN BETWEEN MEETINGS TO ACTUALLY ENSURE THAT YOU'RE BEING ABLE TO MEET YOUR PROGRESS IN THE GOALS.DOES THAT SOUND GOOD? I'M GONNA PAUSE THERE AND SEE IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS OR ANYTHING ELSE.
OH, I DO HAVE, ACTUALLY, BEFORE I LIKE ONE, I'M GONNA PULL BACK ONE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CAME UP IN OUR CONVERSATION THAT, UM, WITH THE STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE THAT I WANNA ALSO LIKE, BRING OUT AND PUT ON THE TABLE AS WE'RE, I LIKE TO THINK OF THIS AS PUTTING ALL THE LEGOS ON THE TABLE AND SEE WHAT WE'RE GONNA BUILD TOGETHER IS THINKING ABOUT, UM, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE GET, AND WE'LL DIVE INTO THIS MORE AT THE NEXT MEETING, THINKING ABOUT DIFFERENT TYPES OF GOALS, RIGHT? AND THINKING ABOUT THINGS IN TERMS OF, UM, POLICIES OR PROGRAMS THAT YOU ALL ADVISE ON, WHERE WE'RE THINKING ABOUT THE EXPERTISE THAT WE'RE ALL BRINGING INTO THE ROOM, BUT ALSO THINKING ABOUT PROCESS.
UM, IN OUR COMMITTEE, UM, PREP MEETING, WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT LIKE THINKING ABOUT HOW DO WE ENSURE CONTINUITY, ACKNOWLEDGING OUR TERMS, YOU KNOW, ARE STAGGERED.
WE'RE GONNA BE BRINGING NEW PEOPLE IN AND WE DON'T WANT TO JUST START, YOU KNOW, BACK AT SQUARE ONE EVERY TIME, RIGHT? SO I REALLY WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT, EVEN AS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT VISION, AND THEN IN THE NEXT MEETING WE TALK ABOUT GOALS, TO THINK ABOUT THE DIFFERENCES IN TERMS OF SOME POLICY ANGLES, BUT ALSO THINK ABOUT PROCESS AND THAT CULTURE OF THIS BOARD AND HOW THE PLANNING THAT WE'RE DOING CAN BRING SOME STABILITY AND FOUNDATION TO THAT AS WELL, RIGHT? SO WE'RE NOT GONNA JUST LIKE DO, UM, WE'RE GONNA DO KIND OF BOTH OF THEM TOGETHER AND THINK ABOUT, AND I DON'T WANT YOU TO KIND OF BE IN THAT AREA THINKING ABOUT HOW YOU'RE APPROACHING THIS CONVERSATION.
QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS FOR YOURS? HOPES AND DREAMS. GREAT.
UM, I GOT REALLY GOOD WITH ZOOM SILENCE, SO NOW IN PERSON I'M LIKE, OKAY, GREAT.
OKAY, SO WHAT I'M GONNA DO IS, HAS ANYONE EVER DONE, UM, A DISTILLATION ACTIVITY BEFORE WE DID THIS, UH, RECENTLY WHEN WE WERE ACTUALLY WORKING ON OUR VISION STATEMENT AT LONG BEACH FORWARD? AND IT WAS SO FUN.
UM, SO I HOPE THIS IS AS FUN FOR YOU.
SO I'M GONNA ASK EVERYONE TO TAKE, UH, UH, ONE PIECE OF PAPER AND BASICALLY WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO IS WE'RE GONNA START DRAFTING SOME VISION STATEMENTS TOGETHER.
SO I BELIEVE AT THE OCTOBER MEETING WE HAD SOME EXAMPLES, FOLKS WERE ASKED TO START BRAINSTORMING AND THINKING ABOUT SOME.
SO IF YOU DID SOME OF THAT BRAINSTORMING, DIG INTO YOUR ARCHIVES AND START THINKING ABOUT SOME OF THAT.
UM, IF NOT, DO YOU HAVE A DRAFT STATEMENT ALREADY? YEAH, I THINK LAST, UH, OCTOBER MEETING WE HAD STARTED DRAFTING UP THE VISION STATEMENT.
DO WE WANT TO, UM, MAYBE A CONTINUED CONVERSATION? SURE.
LET ME,
THAT'S WHY SHE, SHE JUST MADE HER CHAIR FOR ANOTHER YEAR.
WELL, IN THE MOMENT IF FOLKS ARE AUDITORY LEARNERS AND CAN RETAIN THAT INFORMATION, I'M HAPPY TO READ THIS OUT AND ASK FOLKS TO THINK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW THIS SITS WITH YOU IN RELATION TO THE MISSION.
UM, AND A LITTLE BIT, UM, YOU MAY HAVE GONE OVER THIS IN OCTOBER, BUT JUST TO, TO KIND OF SET SOME CONTEXT TOO, FOR US IN DEFINING A VISION STATEMENT, WE'RE THINKING ABOUT SOMETHING ABOUT THE IDEAL VISION OF HOW THE COMMUNITY WILL BE IN THE LONG TERM, RIGHT? THINKING ABOUT THE WORK THAT YOU ALL AS A BOARD WILL ACHIEVE TOGETHER AND THINKING ABOUT HOW THIS COULD GUIDE SOME OF THOSE BROAD DECISION MAKING PRINCIPLES.
ALRIGHT, SO WHILE WE'RE GETTING THAT SET UP, OUR DRAFT VISION IS THAT THE COMMISSION IS A HIGHLY ENGAGED GROUP OF PROFESSIONALS WHO CHAMPION PUBLIC HEALTH WITH CITY LEADERSHIP AND IN THE LONG BEACH COMMUNITY, WHILE ALSO WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO CONSISTENTLY IDENTIFY GAPS IN POLICY AND SERVICES AND TO PROMOTE A CULTURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY.
I'M GONNA READ THAT ONE MORE TIME BEFORE I WRITE IT UP.
THE COMMISSION IS A HIGHLY ENGAGED GROUP OF PROFESSIONALS WHO CHAMPION PUBLIC HEALTH WITH CITY LEADERSHIP AND IN THE LONG BEACH COMMUNITY, WHILE ALSO WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO CONSISTENTLY IDENTIFY GAPS IN POLICY AND SERVICES AND TO PROMOTE A CULTURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY.
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SO LET'S DO THIS.SO WHILE I WRITE THAT UP, I'M GONNA WRITE IT UP FOR EVERYONE TO VI I'M A VISUAL PERSON, SO IT HELPS ME A LOT TO SEE IT.
RIGHT? SO I'M GONNA WRITE THIS UP, I'M GONNA READ IT ONE MORE TIME.
WHAT I'M GONNA ASK FOLKS TO DO IS TO TURN, ARE WE ENOUGH PAIRS? I THINK YEAH, WE DO.
IF WE CAN, FOLKS, WE CAN PAIR UP.
I WANT YOU TO TURN TO YOUR PARTNER, TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU LIKE ABOUT IT, ANYTHING THAT MIGHT BE MISSING, HOW YOU SEE IT RELATING TO THE VISION, THE MISSION, AND THE VISION.
AND PRIMARILY WHEN WE'RE DIFFERENTIATING, RIGHT? WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE MISSION BEING SOMETHING, THIS IS OUR PURPOSE OF WHAT WE'RE DOING IN THE NOW AND THE VISION IS TALKING LONG TERM, HOW THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT RIGHT.
SO I WANT YOU TO TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU LIKE.
YOU CAN WRITE ANY NOTES, ANYTHING THAT YOU WANT, WHAT MIGHT BE MISSING, HOW YOU SEE THEM COMPARE.
SO WE COULD HAVE, UH, SABRINA AND ROSE, BARBARA AND LAUREN, PAUL AND SYLVIA, RINA AND ALEXANDER, CELINE AND BETH.
AND THEN WHY DON'T YOU COME ON.
OH, YOU KNOW, I WAS COMING DOWN.
BUT
SO WHAT WE LIKE, WHAT MIGHT BE MISSING, HOW IT RELATES TO OUR MISSION.
THE ONE THING THAT EVERYONE, BECAUSE OF BOARD IS MADE UP OF, I DO THINK THAT THAT IS VISIONARY FOR JUST A QUICK INTERRUPTION.
I'M WONDERING IF YOU WANT ME TO READ OUR MISSION STATEMENT AT ALL.
AGAIN, AND WHAT I'VE GOT FROM OUR OFFERING, WE HERE FROM RETRIEVAL, OUR MISSION IS TO USE OUR BROAD BASE MULTI-SPECIALTY EXPERTISE AND RESOURCES TO CHAMPION HEALTH AND WELLNESS.
SO THE LONG BEACH COMMUNITY CAN THRIVE.
YEAH, I DON'T THINK SO, BUT I I DON'T THINK THAT, YEAH, THAT'S, YEAH, IF IT'S JUST LETTERS.
SO MISSION STATEMENT, THERE'S GAPS IN, FROM A FUNDING STANDPOINT, CERTAIN THAT JUST TO BE CAUTIOUS ON THERE'S NO MISSION.
I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT SHOULDN'T BE.
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SOMETHING CITY.BUT YEAH, I DON'T THINK ANYBODY SO INTERESTING.
I DON'T THINK NECESSARILY THAT THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT ACTUALLY DELIVERS SERVICES.
AND IF WE'RE THE, SO MAYBE, MAYBE THAT'S THE QUESTION.
IF OUR MISSION IS TO ADVOCATE PATIENT, WE ARE DIRECTLY, DOES EVERYTHING DO HAVE TO BE, IS THAT THE I DON'T THINK SO.
I, THERE'S CERTAINLY, ARE THEY ALL TIED TO A DEPARTMENT? SO I THINK IT'S OKAY.
I MEAN THE WAY THIS LOOKS LIKE THROUGH CHAMPION PUBLIC HEALTHGROUP, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE OUR SPECIFIC VISION IS TO IDENTIFY GAPS, ACCOUNTABILITY GAPS.
SO, WELL THE FIRST HALF IS ABOUT, SO IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT CONSISTENTLY IDENTIFYING GAPS, BUT ALSO CHAMPION, I KIND OF PREFER THE GAPS OR THAT'S A GOOD IDEA.
LIKE ARE WE OKAY WITH THE WHILE ALSO I LIKE THE WHILE ALSO KIND OF GET THAT WE'RE DOING THAT THEY'RE SUPER RIGHT FOR MULTIPLE THINGS.
BUT WE COULD SAY WITH THE, WITH CITY LEADERSHIP, THE LONGER WE CAN GIVE RID THE HAND IN WITH CITY LEADERSHIP, THE COMMUNITY, WE HAVE TO RESTATE THAT.
WELL, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS LEADERSHIP, COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I ACTUALLY, I'M NOT SURE THAT WORKS.
LIKE DOES THE ENGLISH WORK OR NO? NO.
SO I THINK WHAT THE, I THINK WHAT THE STATEMENT IS SAYING, LIKE, WE CHAMPION WITH THOSE GROUPS.
WE DON'T HAVE TO CHAMPION WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT BECAUSE THEY'RE ALREADY OH, I DEPARTMENT, RIGHT.
SO WE WOULD, WE WOULD JUST DROP CHAMPION, GET RID OF LONG RIGHT.
IDENTIFY NEEDS AND POLICY AND SERVICES.
THE CULTURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY.
TALK TO ME ABOUT HOW WE, IS THAT, I, I FEEL LIKE THE CULTURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY, DISCOMFORT WITH IT, BUT I ALSO THINK IT'S ALSO REALLY IMPORTANT.
SPEAKING OF WHAT'S THE, YOU KNOW, LIKE THE CONCERN AROUND NEW PEOPLE THAT COME IN? YES.
AND THERE'S JUST LIKE THIS ROLE CLARITY ISSUE THAT'S ALWAYS LIKE WHATEVER WE SUPPORT THE DEPARTMENT, KIND LIKE, YOU KNOW, TURN THEM ON OR WE ACTUALLY KIND OF MAKE SURE THAT,
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YOU KNOW, YEAH, THERE'S KIND OF LIKE SOME KIND OF, SO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT.AND WE, WE HAVE A DEPARTMENT NOW THAT ACCOUNTABLE, IT'S LIKE THE IMPLICATION IS NOT, THAT'S WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE, RIGHT? YEAH.
WITHOUT US WHO HAS OUR ORGANIZATION, BUT AT THE SAME TIME THERE'S VERY, I'M NOT SURE, MAYBE I'M WRONG, BUT WE'LL DO IT.
I'M NOT SURE THAT WE'RE ABLE TO HOLD ANYBODY ACCOUNTABLE.
IS ACCOUNTABILITY OR IS THERE ANOTHER? WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO, LIKE IS THAT WE'RE THINKING ABOUT GOALS.
WE'RE THINKING ABOUT MOVING TO THE NEXT STEP OF THIS.
WE'RE GONNA COME UP WITH A GOALS.
I MEAN WE, I'M JUST COMING UP WITH, I THINK WE DO, UM, PROMOTE, REPORT OUT AND JUST BY ACCOUNTABILITY.
RIGHT? AND SO I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING.
SO JUST WRAP UP YOUR LAST THOUGHTS ONE MORE MINUTE AND THEN WE'RE GONNA REPORT BACK.
IT'S NOT FORCEFUL ACCOUNTABILITY, BUT WE'RE JUST HERE TO LIKE OTHER BOARDS THEY, OR, BUT THIS BOARD.
AND I THINK IF WE SAID TO PROMOTE A CULTURAL TRANSPARENCY, I DON'T LIKE WHERE'S THE CATEGORY? OH, RIGHT.
LET'S GO AHEAD AND BRING OUR CONVERSATION BACK AND SHARE.
UM, WOULD LOVE TO HEAR SOME OF THE CONVER UH, SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS FROM YOUR CONVERSATIONS.
UH, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT WHAT WE REALLY, WHAT WE'RE TAKING AWAY THAT WE, WHAT WE LIKE, UM, WHAT MIGHT BE MISSING.
AND THEN THINKING ABOUT THE RELATION BETWEEN OUR MISSION AND OUR VISION.
ANYONE WANNA START? I CAN START.
UM, WE TALKED ABOUT MAYBE, MAYBE SWAPPING OUT THE WORD GAPS AND PUTTING IN NEEDS INSTEAD IDENTIFY NEEDS.
UM, BECAUSE THAT WOULD INCLUDE GAPS IN POLICY, BUT ALSO RESOURCES AND OTHER THINGS.
SO IDENTIFYING NEEDS IS A LITTLE BIT MORE GENERAL AND GIVES US A LITTLE MORE LATITUDE.
UM, WE TALKED ABOUT STREAMLINING THE WAR, THE WORDING, AND TAKING A FEW WORDS OUT.
LIKE, UM, MAYBE NOT NEEDING TO SAY IN THE LONG BEACH COMMUNITY, MAYBE WE COULD JUST SAY IN THE COMMUNITY.
UM, SO MAYBE JUST STREAM STREAMLINING THE WORDING A LITTLE BIT SO IT'S A LITTLE SHORTER.
UM, AND WE TALKED ABOUT MAYBE INSTEAD OF A CULTURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY, WE WOULD TALK ABOUT TRANSPARENCY BECAUSE WE'RE NOT REALLY, LIKE THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS ACCOUNTABLE TO THE CITY GOVERNMENT.
IT'S NOT REALLY, WE'RE NOT, WE DON'T REALLY PLAY AN ACCOUNTABILITY ROLE AS MUCH.
SO THOSE, DID I MISS ANYTHING? THOSE WERE THE BIG ONES.
AND WE HAVE SOMETHING THAT KIND OF, YOU WERE RIGHT
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IN THE SAME, YEAH.SO WE HAD PUT DOWN, I THINK THIS WAS FOR IN GAP, WELL, WE TALKED ABOUT THE CORE VALUES ARE SHARED VALUES, WHICH HAD COME UP WITH THAT CHAMPIONING, ADVANCING, ELEVATING PARTNERSHIP.
WE LOOKING AT IDENTIFIED SHARE, SHARED VALUES AND ADVANCE POLICIES AND SERVICES.
AND THEN, UM, TO PROMOTE A HEALTHY CULTURE FOR ALL COMMUNITIES IN LONG BEACH.
WHAT OTHER FEEDBACK? OH YEAH, YEAH.
UM, WE DIDN'T REALLY TALK ABOUT THE WORDING OF THIS.
WE MOSTLY TALKED ABOUT LIKE, WHO DO WE WANNA BE ACCOUNTABLE TO? LIKE, ARE WE ACCOUNTABLE TO COMMUNITY DEPARTMENT, THE CITY, WE WANT THE CITY TO BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR THINGS THAT LIKE THE POLICIES THEY IMPLEMENT.
AND WE ALSO TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT WE EXPECTED WHEN WE JOINED THE BOARD.
I GUESS I'M TURNING DOWN THIS YEAR, I WAS LOOKING AT THIS LIKE, WHEN I STARTED THE BOARD, I HOPED WE, IT WOULD BE MORE OF LIKE, WHERE CAN PEOPLE GET RESOURCES? LIKE WHERE, WHAT ARE THE SERVICES PROVIDE IN THE CITY AND HOW DO WE PROVIDE MORE COHESIVE LIKE, TRANSITION PROCESS BETWEEN DIFFERENT STAGES OF A HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, SOCIAL SYSTEM.
LIKE YOU DON'T, YOU DON'T HAVE HOUSING.
LIKE IF YOU'RE IN THE HOSPITAL, YOU DON'T HAVE HOUSING.
WHAT ARE THE RESOURCES IN, IN THE COMMUNITY THAT WE COULD REACH OUT TO? LIKE HOW DO WE INTEGRATE EVERYTHING A LITTLE MORE, A LITTLE MORE? AND I HOPE GOING FORWARD MAYBE THIS CONVERSATIONS THAT CAN HAPPEN.
AND, UM, YEAH, FOR MYSELF, THAT'S WHAT I WAS DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES BECAUSE SHE'S BEEN ON BOARD OTHER LONG TIME AND I'M A NEWBIE, SO I'VE ONLY BEEN COUPLE MEETINGS AND EXPECT BEING ON A CONDITION.
UH, SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK FOR ME, LIKE I DO THESE THINGS A LOT.
LIKE, SO I HAVE TO DO THIS, UH, YOU KNOW, NEXT TUESDAY, LIKE HOSPITAL.
SO LIKE, WHAT IS THE VISION? SO IF A NEW LEAD READS THAT VISION, LIKE WHAT DO, WHAT ARE WE GONNA SAY THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY LIKE, THAT WE'RE DOING AS A GROUP? LIKE WHAT DO WE ACTUALLY DO? WHO ARE WE ACCOUNTABLE TO? BECAUSE THAT WHAT WE CARE ABOUT.
LIKE ULTIMATELY, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE IN THIS GROUP? LIKE, IS THIS A GROUP THAT WANTS TO LIKE, UH, BRING ITEMS FROM OUR CONSTITUENCY, UH, AND, AND MAKE AND PRESENT TO THE BOARD OF HEALTH AND THEN BRING UP IDEAS THAT WE WANT TO CHAMPION? OR DO WE WANT BE A PARTNER WITH THE BOARD OF HEALTH AND UH, BE THEIR ADVOCATE FOR LIKE, YOU KNOW, FINANCE OR WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE? OR DO WE TAKE ON SPECIAL PROJECTS? TO ME IS NOT SURE.
IT KIND OF SEEMS LIKE IN, DOESN'T HAVE TO BE IN A NEGATIVE WAY, BUT I THINK THIS IS PART OF WHAT YOU DO IN A, LIKE WHEN YOU'RE LIKE VISION PLANNING, IT'S LIKE WHAT'S THE CURRENT STATE OF WHERE WE'RE AT IN THE CURRENT STATE? UH, SEEMS LIKE WE, OR AT LEAST I COME TO MEETINGS AND I RECEIVE INFORMATION FROM THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, BUT I DON'T NECESSARILY NECESSARILY GIVE THAT TO ANYBODY ELSE.
I DON'T DO ANYTHING WITH THAT INFORMATION.
YOU KNOW, WE ASK A COUPLE QUESTIONS, BUT THEN I'M A LITTLE LOST WITH WHAT'S MY PERSONAL VISION OF BEING ON THIS, ON THIS BOARD.
AM I SUPPOSED TO COMMENT ON, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE BOARD IS SAYING? YOU KNOW, ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE INVOLVED IN THE, IT'S VERY UNCLEAR TO LIKE A NEW PERSON THE TO BE DOING, TO BE HONEST.
AND I DON'T MEAN THAT IN A NEGATIVE WAY, BUT I'M JUST TRYING TO SAY LIKE, YOU KNOW, I THINK OUR VISION STATEMENT IS, IS GREAT.
IT'S A LITTLE LONG AND IT IS, IF A NEW PERSON CAME ON AND READ IT, IT WOULD BE HARD TO TELL.
BUT WE ACTUALLY WANT TO ACCOMPLISH, YOU KNOW, MICROSOFT VISION STATEMENT WHEN THEY STARTED WAS A COMPUTER IN EVERY HOME, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
AND TO ME, I'M NOT SURE, LIKE IF WE ACCOMPLISHED THE DECISION, WHAT WOULD WE BE DOING? SO THIS WOULD SEEM MORE LIKE NON MISSION STATEMENT VERSUS SUFFICIENT STATEMENT.
I THAT, UNLESS I'M MISSING IT.
I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE WERE, THAT'S WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO DO WITH OUR FOUR HOUR MEETING.
COME UP WITH WHAT ARE WE DOING, UM, WORKING GOALS.
AND TO INITIALLY, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY COME UP WITH OUR MISSION STATEMENT AND VISION SO THAT WE CAN DO EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO, YOU KNOW, BE MORE TANGIBLE AND GET INTO THE COMMUNITY, FIGURING OUT WHAT OUR GOALS ARE AND THEN GOING FROM THERE.
AM I SAME THING THAT IT GOES INTO WHAT THE GOALS WOULD BE AND HOW WOULD WE IMPLEMENT THEM? YEAH.
IS THIS TOO BROAD? I MEAN, MAYBE THAT'S THE THING.
THIS WE'RE TRYING TO INCLUDE EVERYBODY IN EVERYTHING, WHICH PROBABLY IS WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DO.
CAN WE BE ON THINGS, TALK PEOPLE OR DO MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT MORE, IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL FOR ME AS A NEW PERSON IF
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I'M DONING THE CONVERSATION, JUST TELL ME TO BE QUIET.BUT LIKE FROM A PERSON A SENIOR PERSON'S BEEN IN, LIKE, WHAT WOULD YOU WANT TO SEE AS A POSITION? LIKE ULTIMATE LIKE BEING, YOU KNOW, AS A CHAIR, LIKE WHAT WOULD YOU ULTIMATELY WANNA SEE LIKE THE WHOLE GROUP DOING? YOU KNOW, TO ME IT'S LIKE, AS A NEWBIE, I DON'T REALLY KNOW, LIKE OTHER CONDITIONS DO A LOT MORE, IT SEEMS LIKE, AND I'M NOT CLEAR LIKE WHAT WE SHOULDN'T DO.
AND I THINK YOUR GOALS WILL, WILL ARISE FROM YOUR VISION STATEMENT, RIGHT? SO IF YOUR VISION STATEMENT IS TO, UH, IS TO, UH, CHAMPION SPECIAL INTEREST PROJECTS THAT COME FROM THE COMMUNITY ALONG WITH THE CITY OF HEALTH DEPARTMENT, THEN YOUR GOALS SHOULD ALIGN WITH YOUR VISION.
AND SO YOU'LL DESIGN STRATEGIC GOALS BASED ON THAT.
AND SO OUR GOALS WOULD BE TO IDENTIFY TWO AREAS THAT WE WANTED WORK ON AND, AND WORK ON THAT WITH DEPARTMENT.
SO, SO WE ACTUALLY CAN TAKE WHAT YOU'RE, SO THE, THE WHOLE FIRST SENTENCE HERE IS ACTUALLY ALREADY THE MISSION STATEMENT.
SO WE DON'T NEED IN THE VISION TO SAY WE CORRECT.
THAT'S WHAT WE, SO OF THE COMMISSIONS PATRIOT PROFESSIONALS TEACHING, WE CAN STOP AT THE PROFESSION.
SO WE COULD JUST SAY CHAMPION PUBLIC HEALTH.
WE STILL PROBABLY NEED, I WE STILL NEED TO LEAVE CUBE IN THERE.
I WANNA, I WANNA PAUSE THE CONVERSATION REALLY QUICK AND, AND I THINK THIS IS REALLY HELPFUL TO FIGURE OUT WHERE WE'RE ALL KIND OF COMING FROM AND LOOKING AT IT.
SO I WANT TO CHALLENGE US TO, LET'S LEAVE THE WORDSMITHING BEHIND AND THINK, AND I'M CURIOUS WHAT THE CONVERSATION THAT WE STARTED THINKING MORE BROADLY, RIGHT? WHEN WE THINK ABOUT HOW THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT, UM, AND THINKING ABOUT HOW WE CAN USE THE VISION IF OUR MISSION IS VERY CLEAR ABOUT WHO WE ARE HERE AND THINKING ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING OR, YOU KNOW, MAYBE NOT VERY CLEAR, BUT GIVING MORE DIRECTION THERE.
OUR VISION IS THE BIGGER, UH, BIGGER BLUE SKY STATEMENT.
THINKING ABOUT HOW, WHAT IS, HOW IS IT GONNA GUIDE WHATEVER OUR GOALS AND OUR WORK IS FROM YEAR TO YEAR, RIGHT? SO I WANNA STAY AT THIS REALLY BIG SPACE.
'CAUSE I THINK WE'RE NOW STARTING TO TALK ABOUT THINGS ABOUT WHO WE'RE, WHO ARE WE ACCOUNTABLE TO AND WHAT ARE WE ALL COMING TO IN THIS BOARD ONCE A MONTH TO THINK ABOUT THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE WANT TO HAVE AND THE ACTIONS THAT WE WANT TO TAKE.
SO I WANT TO SAY THERE, 'CAUSE I THINK WE'RE, THERE'S SOME REALLY CONVERSATION HERE AND IT IS, OKAY, NO ONE'S DOMINATING THE CONVERSATION.
I THINK THIS IS ALL REALLY HELPFUL TO GIVE OUT.
SO I SAW A HAND WITH SABRINA, I KNOW SYLVIA AS WELL.
YEAH, I THINK, AND, AND I THINK IT'S VERY, YOUR COMMENTS ARE REALLY VALID BECAUSE I THINK OF ALL THE COMMISSIONS I'VE BEEN ON, IT'S VERY CLEAR WHAT ROLE I'M, I'M PLAYING ON THAT BASED UPON, UH, A REPRESENTING DISTRICT NINE OR DISTRICT, WHATEVER.
IN THIS ONE WE HAVE LIKE THIS INTERSECTION OF IDENTITIES WHERE I'M REPRESENTING VETERANS HOSPITAL AND REPRESENTING THE MD ROLE.
I'M REPRESENTING THE COMMUNITY YOU LIVE IN.
AND SO, BUT WHAT AM I REPRESENTING? RIGHT? UM, AND EACH, MANY OF US ARE, UM, FROM A VERY IDENTIFIED, UH, PHYSICIAN, NURSE, VETERINARIAN.
UM, AND THEN WE'RE ALSO REPRESENTING THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT WE MAY BE WITH.
'CAUSE IT HAPPEN TO BE, UM, LARGE ORGANIZATIONS THAT REALLY ARE A STRONG VOICE FOR THE COMMUNITY.
THEN I THINK THERE IS, THAT WE'RE REPRESENTING OUR NEIGHBORHOOD OR WHATEVER ASPECT BECAUSE THE DIVERSITY OF WHAT THEY WERE, UH, THE MAYOR'S OFFICE, I GUESS WAS VERY INTENTIONAL TRYING TO BREATHE.
SO I THINK THAT THROWS CONFUSION ON FROM THE, FROM THE GET GO OF WHAT VOICE I'M BRINGING.
I KNOW THAT I'M ALWAYS VERY CLEAR AND WHY I'M STEPPING ON THESE, ON THESE THINGS FROM, 'CAUSE IT'S STUFF THAT I'M PASSIONATE ABOUT.
EQUITY, EDUCATION, YOU KNOW, THAT'S JUST MY BIAS OF WHAT, WHAT, UM, WHAT NEIGHBORHOOD I'M, I'M PART OF.
UM, AND SO I CAN SEE THAT THAT'S A CONFUSION FOR, FOR MANY OF US.
'CAUSE WE HAVE OUR OWN THINGS THAT WE'RE BRINGING TO THE TABLE.
AND BEFORE, YOU KNOW, I WAS REPRESENTING THE HIGHER EDUCATION, SO AT DIFFERENT INSTITUTIONS IN THE, IN THE CITY.
AND SO WE HAVE OUR BIAS OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO GET FROM THIS TO TAKE BACK TO OUR COMMUNITY, OUR, OUR ORGANIZATION.
AND THEN WHAT I'M BRINGING TO THE TABLE IS MY EXPERTISE AS A COMMUNITY ADVOCATE OR AN EDUCATOR OR AN MD OR VETERINARIAN, WHATEVER.
UM, SO I, I THINK THAT FROM THE GET GO IS WHAT OFTENTIMES CAN THROW EACH OF US OFF FROM OTHER COMMISSIONS AND BOARDS THAT ARE SERVED ON WITH PUBLIC THE CITY.
UM, 'CAUSE WE'RE TRYING TO GET SO MANY ASPECTS OF IT.
UM, THE OTHER IS THE MEETING STRUCTURE.
AND, UM, I'VE BEEN ON THIS COMMITTEE PROBABLY NOT MUCH LONGER THAN YOU.
UH, SO I THINK WE'RE ALL KIND OF GOING, TOO MANY OF US BEING NEW.
UM, AND THEN WE'RE IN THIS FLEX RIGHT NOW OF TRANSITIONAL LEADERSHIP.
UM, NOT ONLY FROM A CITYWIDE, UM, AND IN PO I, I DON'T WANNA SAY POST COVID, BUT MM-HMM.
AND SO TRYING TO STAY, I'M ALWAYS OPEN TO TRY TO STAY OPEN AND FLEXIBLE AND, UM, NOT MARRIED TO ANYTHING BECAUSE WE'RE SO COMPLEX AND WE'RE TRANSITIONING AND, AND WHAT'S THE NEW FLAVOR? WHAT'S THE NEW PRIORITY OF THE
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CITY? THE LEADERSHIP DEPARTMENT AND THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY.AND SO OFTEN TIMES JUST KIND OF LIKE RIGHT NOW, JUST STAYING OPEN TO WHERE WE MAY, WE MAY BE HEADED IN WHOLE DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.
SO WHILE WE INHERITED KIND OF PRESCRIBED THING, WELL THIS CONVERSATION, WHO, THIS PROCESS THAT WE'RE AT, THIS IS OPENING UP THE OPPORTUNITY TO CHANGE AND MOVE AWAY FROM A PRESCRIPTION.
BUT ALSO BEING A LITTLE OPEN TO SOME LEADER LEADERSHIP MIGHT BE COMING IN IN THE NEXT YEAR OR SO.
IT'S A TIME OF FLEX AND THERE'S A CONFUSION BECAUSE IT'S UN UNLIKE ALL OTHER COMMISSIONS.
AND THEN WE HAD THIS OPPORTUNITY, THESE CONVERSATIONS AND OPEN.
I WANT TO GO TO SYLVIA, I KNOW YOU HAD YOUR HAND, BUT MAY I SHARE SOME INSIGHT AND PERSPECTIVE WITH YOU ALL AND CHALLENGE A LITTLE BIT AS AN OUTSIDER ISH, I LIVE IN THE CITY, RIGHT? AND WORK HERE IN THE CITY.
YOU'VE BEEN HERE FOR A WHILE, BUT TO THIS COMMISSION, YOU ALL HAVE SUCH AN AMAZING OPPORTUNITY IN FRONT OF YOU.
YOU HAVE A BOARD, AND WE ACTUALLY TALKED ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT IN OUR, OUR PLANNING MEETING.
YOU HAVE A BOARD THAT IS COMPRISED BY, BY, UM, ORDINANCE WITH VERY SPECIFIC POSITIONS AND EXPERTISE.
AND I, I'M, I, UM, I, I'VE APPLAUD YOU ALL FOR CALLING THAT OUT IN LIKE THE MISSION AND THIS VISION, RIGHT? TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT BECAUSE NOT EVERY COMMISSION BY FAR MAJORITY, THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE COMMISSIONS IN THE CITY ARE JUST PURELY BY RESIDENCY OF COUNCIL DISTRICT.
RIGHT? WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING WE CELEBRATE.
BUT THINKING ABOUT THAT DIVERSITY RIGHT OF PERSPECTIVE, IT IS REALLY DIFFICULT.
AND I EXPERIENCED THIS MY OWN SELF AS A, UM, AS AN INDIGENOUS PERSON, AS A LATINO, AS A QUEER PERSON, AS SOMEBODY WORKING IN THE COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO WITHIN NONPROFIT SPACES.
ALSO WORKING, YOU KNOW, WITHIN OUR PUBLIC SYSTEMS, WE'RE GONNA WEAR MULTIPLE HATS ALL THE TIME.
AND IT'S GONNA BE REALLY DIFFICULT SOMETIMES TO DIFFERENTIATE, YOU KNOW, WHICH, HOW DO IW WHICH PERSPECTIVE I'M SPEAKING TO.
BUT I THINK IT IS SO IMPORTANT FOR US AND THEN ALSO AS RESIDENTS, RIGHT? FOR US TO LIVE IN SOME OF THOSE, UM, INTERSECTIONS AND BRING THOSE PERSPECTIVES.
'CAUSE THAT'S WHAT'S SO VALUABLE.
'CAUSE THE OTHER SECOND ASSET OF THIS OPPORTUNITY THAT I THINK IS SO UNIQUE, AND LITERALLY ONLY FOUR OTHER CITIES IN THE, OR SORRY, THREE OTHER CITIES IN THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COULD SAY THIS, THAT WE HAVE OUR OWN CITY RUN HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
I MEAN, THAT IS SUCH A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO ACTUALLY, AND THAT'S WHAT I TELL PEOPLE ALL THE TIME ABOUT WHY I LOVE LONG BEACH, IS THAT WE ARE, WE'RE A BIG CITY.
WE'RE A SECOND LARGEST CITY IN LA COUNTY.
WE GOT BIG CITY CHALLENGES AND BIG CITY OPPORTUNITIES.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I CAN GO TO THE GROCERY STORE DOWN THE STREET AND RUN INTO MY COUNCIL MEMBER, RIGHT? LIKE WE CAN WRAP YOUR HANDS AROUND IT AND REALLY ACTUALLY MAKE TANGIBLE GOOD AND CHANGE IN THIS COMMUNITY.
SO I, I SAY THAT TO OFFER AS SOME LIKE AFFIRMATION AND ALSO JUST LIKE, THIS IS THE, THE MOMENT.
THESE ARE GREAT CONVERSATIONS TO START REALLY THINKING THROUGH WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY IN FRONT OF US BECAUSE YOU HAVE GREAT ASSETS.
AND I THINK BRINGING, THINKING ABOUT AS YOU'RE HEARING UPDATES, NOT ONLY FROM THE DEPARTMENT, UH, HEAD, BUT ALSO THINKING FROM THE VARIOUS PROGRAMS OR THINKING ABOUT WHAT THESE GOALS MAY BE, REALLY WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO LIVE WITHIN THOSE INTERSECTIONS.
AND MAYBE EVEN SOME OF THOSE CONTRADICTIONS, RIGHT? 'CAUSE THERE WILL BE TIMES WHEN IT'S LIKE, HEY, WE HAVE TO MAKE REALLY DIFFICULT PERSPECTIVES AND DECISIONS, RIGHT? AND THAT'S OKAY.
LIKE, THAT'S SOMETHING WE'RE REALLY WORTH CELEBRATING.
SO I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU LIFTING THAT UP.
SO, SOPHIA, DO YOU WANT, SO MANY THINGS HAVE BEEN SAID AT THIS POINT THAT LIKE MY, THERE'S BEEN CHANGE AND WHAT I WANNA GREAT
UM, BUT I WHAT REALLY WANNA START WITH WHAT THIS VISION STATEMENT IS, RIGHT? IT IT, IT WAS TRYING TO CAPTURE EVERYTHING THAT WE HAD BEEN DISCUSSING IN THOSE LAST TWO MEETINGS THAT WE ALL WERE MEETING.
AND THOSE TWO MEETINGS, IT WAS REALLY BRINGING ALL OF THAT TOGETHER.
I THINK IT'S A REFLECTION OF THAT MAYBE LONG FINE.
BUT I, I THINK IT DOES BRING TOGETHER WHERE WE WERE, WHAT WE WERE THINKING ABOUT, WHAT WE VALUE.
I THINK TINA'S POINT ABOUT ROLE ROLES, UM, FOR MYSELF AS WELL, I THINK THAT IS CRITICAL.
UM, IN TERMS OF PROCESS AND, AND, AND ONBOARDING PEOPLE.
YES, YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT YOUR ROLE IS GONNA BE AND HOW DO YOU REPRESENT, AM I REPRESENTING THE BOARD, THE, THE, THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, OR AM I REPRESENTING A BOARD OR MYSELF AS A COMMUNITY MEMBER? AND WHO AM I REPRESENTING THAT TO? THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT I WRESTLED WITH.
AND I THINK THAT IT HAS COME UP A BIT IN OUR CONVERSATIONS WHERE, AND, AND I THINK IT HAPPENED WHEN WE WERE WORDSMITHING THIS PARTICULAR VISION ABOUT PARTNERSHIP, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
SO I, AND I, MY UNDERSTANDING WAS IT APPEARED THAT PEOPLE HAD A DIFFERENT UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE WE ARE AS A BOARD.
ARE WE IN PARTNERSHIP? DO WE REPRESENT THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT? OR ARE WE SEPARATE FROM THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT? AND I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE TOPICS THAT, UM, WOULD BE VERY, UM, HELPFUL FOR US TO COVER.
UM, THAT MAY HAVE ALREADY BEEN SAID
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IN DIFFERENT WORDS, BUT, UM, I, UM, THINKING ABOUT IT FOR MYSELF, I REALLY FELT LIKE, I THINK THIS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR US TO, TO BE CLEAR ABOUT HOW WE MOVE FORWARD.UM, 'CAUSE AT TIMES THERE WERE COMMENTS ABOUT, NOT FROM THIS, NOT FROM THIS BOARD, BUT I, UM, RECEIVED COMMENTS FROM PEOPLE ABOUT PUSHING HEALTH DEPARTMENTS TO DO MORE.
AND THEN I HEAR OTHER COMMENTS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, SUPPORTING THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND ADVOCATING FOR THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT WITH OUR COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES, FOR EXAMPLE.
SO THOSE TO ME SOUND LIKE TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF GOALS.
UM, PERSONALLY, I, I, YOU KNOW, I HAVE A PERSONAL OPINION ABOUT WHERE OUR ROLE IS.
OUR ROLE IS IN, AS YOU'VE DESCRIBED, AGAIN, THIS, MY MESSAGE NOW IS A LITTLE BIT MUDDLED BECAUSE IT'S A LITTLE TAKING FROM WHAT SAID IS, I FEEL LIKE WHAT I HAD TO SAY EARLIER WAS KIND OF IN THAT CONTEXT.
UM, BEST IS THIS IDEA OF, UM, DARN, I JUST LOST MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT AFTER MAKING THAT
SO I THINK GETTING AT, SO REALLY WHERE I'M AT IS ABOUT OUR ROLE AND WHO ARE WE, WHO ARE WE REPRESENTING? BECAUSE IF I'M GOING TO REPRESENT ANYONE, WHETHER THAT BE WORKPLACE OR COMMUNITY OR HEALTH DEPARTMENT, I WANNA DO IT WELL, RIGHT? I WANT TO SPEAK, UM, CONFIDENTLY AND CONFIDENTLY, LIKE HAVE THOSE TALKING POINTS ABOUT WHAT OUR PRIORITIES ARE.
AND SO, UM, AH, MY POINT CAME BACK, WHICH WAS WE ARE ONE OF THREE, RIGHT? UM, OF OUR OWN, OUR OWN HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
THE, THE IMPACT THAT WE CAN HAVE, NOT ONLY IN OUR CITY, BUT ACROSS LIKE TO OTHER CITIES.
I REALLY FEEL LIKE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE, THAT'S A, A PLACE WHERE WE CAN BE.
AND SO, UM, I'LL STOP THERE, BUT, UM, HAPPY, HAPPY TO BE HERE AND BE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION.
'CAUSE I FEEL LIKE IT IS A REAL TURNING POINT FOR ALL OF US.
UM, HAVING BEEN ON THIS BOARD FOR A FEW YEARS AND STILL KIND OF WONDERING WHAT'S MY ROLE? WHERE AM I GOING? WHAT AM I DOING? I FEEL LIKE MY TIME IS NOT, OR YOU KNOW, MY PERSON WAS NOT BEST USED BECAUSE I THINK THAT THIS IS, I WANT YEAH.
SO I THINK THAT, I MEAN, JUST IN, IN A NUTSHELL, THE CHALLENGE WE'RE ALL HAVING, AND I'VE HAD TOO, EVEN THOUGH I'M AT THE END OF MY TERMS HERE, IS I'M USED TO, IF I'M ON A BOARD OR IN I'M NONPROFIT OR WHATEVER, WE USED TO HAVING AN ACTIVE ROLE NON, THIS BOARD HAS JUST TRADITIONALLY IN A VERY PASSIVE ROLE.
LIKE YOU SAID, WE RECEIVED NO ACT.
WE'RE ALL IN THE SAME PLACE TRYING TO MAKE, THAT HAS TO BE STATED UP SOMEHOW.
WE ARE HIGHLY ENGAGED, BUT WE'RE NOT ACTIVE.
WE CAN STILL BE ENGAGED IN PASSIVE.
SO THAT I THINK IS WHAT WE CONTINUE CHANGE IN OUR VISION.
HOW WE DEFINE THAT, WHAT THAT, WHAT THE RIGHT WORDS ARE.
I, WE WANT TO BE A BOARD THAT ACTIVELY ENGAGES IN SOMETHING
UM, BUT THEN WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING, WE HAVE, WE HAVE MORE COMMITTEES, WE HAVE MORE, YOU KNOW, AWESOME, UH, SEPARATE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING.
WE, WE ARE ACTIVELY BRINGING STUFF BACK TO THE BOARD TO DISCUSS.
AND IT'S NOT JUST OTHER PEOPLE BRINGING STUFF TO US AND THEN IT'S IT, AND THEN YOU DON'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
THAT, THAT'S THE PIECE THAT SEEMS, I THINK TO ALL OF US THAT SEEMS WRONG.
I LEARNED A LOT ON THIS, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT WAS GOAL
SO I WANT TO THROW OUT A QUESTION.
'CAUSE I, I STARTED HEARING AND LISTENING TO THE DISCUSSION.
I THANK YOU ALL FOR THAT 'CAUSE IT WAS A REALLY RICH, UM, I HEARD RENA YOU MENTIONED A LITTLE BIT AROUND THINKING ABOUT YOUR COMING IN AND THINKING ABOUT THE IDEA OF LIKE WHERE PEOPLE CAN GET RESOURCES OR THINKING ABOUT THE, THE, THE TRANSITION FROM, YOU KNOW, POINT A TO POINT B.
AND SO I, I, I WANNA DIG INTO THAT A LITTLE BIT AND I'M CURIOUS TO REALLY HEAR FROM FOLKS.
UM, AND I WANT TO ENCOURAGE FOLKS WHO HAVEN'T SHARED ANYTHING YET.
UM, HOW, HOW DO YOU SEE LONG BEACH BEING DIFFERENT BECAUSE OF THIS BOARD? AND THAT DOESN'T NEED TO ME THAT, THAT DOESN'T MEAN TO ME, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING THAT'S CURRENTLY HAPPENING OR WHAT THE, THE LANDSCAPE OF EVERYTHING IS.
ALTHOUGH I THINK WE ALL HAVE A GOOD IDEA OF WHAT THAT MIGHT BE, BUT HOW IS LONG BEACH DIFFERENT BECAUSE OF THIS BOARD? THAT'S REALLY HARD QUESTION.
THERE ARE TIMES WHERE WE ENGAGE WITH LIKE BLACK OFFICIALS
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ON LIKE, YOU CAN'T CUT FUNDING FOR THIS BECAUSE THIS X, Y, AND Z WILL HAPPEN.SO IN THOSE TERMS, LIKE THERE'S KIND OF LIKE ANOTHER VOICE KIND OF GETTING AN OFFICIALS HEAD.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, LIKE ELECTED OFFICIALS SAY I'VE HAD TROUBLE ENGAGING THEM TO BE INVOLVED IN THE COMMUNITY.
SO IT'S LIKE, IN ONE WAY WE KIND OF ARE LIKE THE SECOND LIKE LITTLE VOICE IN THE EAR SOMETIMES, LIKE JUST EMAILING OR MEETING.
BUT OTHER THAN THAT, I THINK WE JUST LISTEN AND IT'S REALLY HARD FOR MYSELF.
LIKE I ALSO FEEL LIKE MY SKILLS ARE, HAVEN'T BEEN UTILIZED AS MUCH AS I COULD.
I WANT TO REFRAME IT THEN A LITTLE BIT AND, AND I WANT TO, UH, YOU TO THINK ABOUT NOT WITHSTANDING ALL OF THOSE REALITIES, RIGHT? HOW COULD LONG BEACH BE DIFFERENT? HOW COULD LONG BEACH BE DIFFERENT BECAUSE OF THE WORK OF THIS BOARD, WHATEVER THAT WORK MIGHT BE.
WHAT IS THE, AND LET'S SAY 10 YEARS FROM NOW, IT'S WILD, I THINK 10 YEARS FROM NOW, RIGHT? BUT HOW IS LONG BEACH DIFFERENT? IS IT THAT INDIVIDUALS KNOW WHAT RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE AND THEY'RE ACTUALLY USING THEM? IS IT THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE SOME OF THE, UM, SOME OF THE, THE HEALTH DISPARITIES OR EVEN INEQUITIES THAT WE'RE SEEING ARE NON-EXISTENT? YEAH.
UM, SO WHEN I THINK ABOUT WHAT LONG BEACH WOULD LOOK LIKE, I THINK THAT IT WOULD BE, SO THIS IS MY PIE.
PIE IN THE SKY IS THAT HEALTH WOULD BE A PRIORITY AND WOULD DRIVE, UH, DECISION MAKING.
UM, SO THAT YOU, WHEN I WAS IN, I'M LOOKING AT THE CITY AND YOU SEE WHAT'S RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU.
OFTENTIMES IT'S LIKE YOU NEED TO ADDRESS WHAT YOU SEE, WHAT IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU, WHICH IS UNHOUSED PEOPLE, MENTAL HEALTH AND, AND, UM, OUR AIR QUALITY.
AND WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT OUR, UM, OUR HEALTH OR OUR, ACTUALLY OUR COMMUNITY'S THRIVING.
WE ARE NOT THRIVING UNLESS OUR, UNLESS WE HAVE OUR HEALTH.
BECAUSE ONCE YOU DON'T, THAT REALLY SETS YOU BACK, RIGHT? AS AN INDIVIDUAL.
UM, AND THEN AS A COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE.
UM, SO I THINK JUST TO SUM IT UP, I WOULD SAY THAT HEALTH WOULD BE, WOULD DRIVE DECISION MAKING SO THAT WE ADDRESSING THOSE THINGS.
AND THEN, YEAH, THIS MAY BE A LITTLE OFF TOPIC MAYBE, BUT I JUST KNOW WHEN I WAS ASKED TO SERVE ON THIS BOARD, I WENT ON THE WEBSITE TO LOOK AT THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPLICATED SERVICES AND I WAS ABSOLUTELY FLOOR BY HOW MANY PROGRAMS, HOW MANY THINGS DID THEY, THAT THEY WERE DOING.
AND IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, EDUCATING THE PUBLIC IN SOME WAYS ABOUT WHAT'S, WHAT'S THERE, WHAT RESOURCES ARE THERE, HOW THEY CAN ACCESS THEM, HOW THEY CAN MAKE IT REALLY AVAILABLE TO THEM.
AND I ALSO REMEMBER, UM, I WENT TO A MEETING, UM, A COMMUNITY IN, UM, KELLY DID I THINK DOWN SHORE AND TALKING ABOUT THE DISPARITY IN AID, IT, UH, THE MORTALITY RATE BETWEEN EAST AND REST.
I MEAN IT WAS JUST, I WAS JUST FLOORED BY IT AND ALL TRYING TO MAYBE GET SOME OF THIS INFORMATION OF WHAT RESOURCES ARE THERE.
I MEAN, IT WAS AMAZED FROM HOW MUCH THEY DID WITH SO LITTLE FUNDING FROM THE CITY AT THAT POINT.
UM, IT WAS LIKE $135,000 OR SOMETHING AND ALL THE REST WAS THROUGH GRANTS AND EVERYTHING ELSE.
UM, SO I JUST, I DON'T KNOW, TRY TO MAYBE MAKE SURE THE FUNDING, BUT ALSO, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE LET THE COMMUNITY KNOW WHAT'S, WHAT'S AVAILABLE.
IF, IF I MAY INTERJECT, UM, I AM VERY GRATEFUL TO HEAR THE CONVERSATION.
UM, BECAUSE EVEN AS A CITY, THE DEPARTMENT IS KIND OF TRYING TO DETERMINE WHERE REGION WILL BE.
AS YOU MENTIONED, WE ARE ONLY ONE OF THREE IN THE ENTIRE STATE IN TERMS OF THE LOCAL HEALTH, HEALTH JURISDICTION.
AND THE REALITY IS, IS THAT THOSE DON'T LOOK LIKE WE DO BECAUSE WE'RE A BIG CITY, AS YOU SAID, WITH BIG CITY CHALLENGES AND BIG CITY OPPORTUNITIES.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE THING IS, IS THAT I, I'VE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE SCOPE OF THE CONSULTING THAT WE ARE TRYING TO GET TO INFORM HOW WE MOVE FORWARD WITH HOW MUCH MONEY WE CAN EXPECT FROM THE CITY.
OUR HEALTH FUND IS DIMINISHING.
WE HAVE SOME OPPORTUNITIES, BUT THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT WE HAVE NOT INVESTED IN THAT DON'T NECESSARILY POSITION US FOR A LOT OF REVENUE.
FOR INSTANCE, MANAGED CARE CONVERSATION.
THAT'S GOING TO BE A VERY BIG CONVERSATION.
AND WHERE WE FIT INTO THAT, 'CAUSE
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WE ARE NOT NECESSARILY A PRIMARY CARE PROVIDER, BUT YET THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN PREVENTATIVE HEALTH WITH IMMUNIZATIONS, NOT JUST FOR CHILDREN, YOU KNOW, BUT FOR ADULTS WE LED THE WAY, UH, IN HAVING A HEALTH DEPARTMENT DURING THE PANDEMIC.WE WERE ABLE TO PUSH VACCINE OUT TO OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY.
AND HAD WE NOT EXISTED AND THAT HAD TO COME FROM THE COUNTY, WE MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE EVEN HAD A SITE HERE IN LONG BEACH.
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
RIGHT NOW WE'RE SEEING HIV, I'M SORRY, HIV NUMBERS ARE COMING DOWN SOME, BUT OUR STIS ARE UP AND IT IS DRIVING SOME OF THE FUNDING THAT THE COUNTY GETS AND YET WE DON'T GET THE FUNDING FROM THE COUNTY.
RIGHT? SO THERE ARE INDEED SOME AREAS IN WHICH WE TOO ARE TRYING TO NAVIGATE, UM, TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE GETTING WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE FROM THE COUNTY.
JUST YESTERDAY I GOT A CALL FROM THE COUNTY ABOUT A BUILDING RIGHT IN COMPTON THAT THEY'RE NOT USING.
THEY RELEASED TWO FOR UNSHELTERED FOLKS IN ENCAMPMENTS ON THE RIVERBED.
AND THEY OFFERED US ONE BECAUSE IT'S BASICALLY ENCAMPMENT RESOLUTION ONLY.
AND THEY'RE GOING TO ALLOW US TO PUT LONG BEACH FOLKS IN THERE.
IT'S RIGHT ON THE EDGE OF COMPTON.
SO OCCASIONALLY, AND PARTICULARLY IN THE AREA OF UH, HOMELESSNESS, WE ARE GETTING MORE MONEY.
BUT THAT IS LARGELY DUE TO MEASURE H WHICH IS SCHEDULED A SUNSET VERY SOON.
BUT IN OTHER AREAS WE ARE NOT PARTICULARLY ON THE, YOU KNOW, ACTUAL CORE PUBLIC HEALTH AREAS.
AND THE CITY IS STRUGGLING WITH JUST HOW MUCH OF THEIR RESOURCES THEY NEED TO COMMIT TO WHAT WE DO BECAUSE THERE'S ALSO MANY OF THE PRIORITIES THAT WE SEE IN THE CITY THAT ARE UNFUNDED.
I WANNA TELL YOU THAT HEALTH WAS ALL OVER THE STATE OF THE CITY.
I SAW YOU PUT THIS UH, ON TUESDAY.
I WAS SO PROUD OF WHAT WE DID.
THAT LADY TODAY, THE STATE OF, UM, THE YOUTH THAT CAME OUT OF OUR DEPARTMENT, IT WAS NOT MENTIONED, BUT THAT YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, UH, PROGRAM IS IN HEALTH.
THAT IS OUR COLLECTIVE IMPACT BUREAU.
THEY WORKED WITH THAT YOUNG LADY TO HELP HER DELIVER THAT SPEECH AND SHE WAS SIMPLY FLAWLESS AND WE WERE SO VERY PROUD OF THAT.
BUT THE GRANT FUNDS THAT WE GET DON'T COVER EVERYTHING.
AND EVEN IF THEY COVER ALL OF OUR SALARIES, WE HAVE THINGS LIKE THE EQUITY SALARIES THAT THIS CITY JUST GOT.
MY STAFF GOT THE HIGHEST EQUITY INCREASE OF 23% AND WE'RE REALLY HAPPY ABOUT THAT.
BUT IT TELLS YOU HOW UNDERCOMPENSATED THEY WERE UP TO THAT POINT.
SO WHILE IT'S A WIN, THEY'LL NEVER GET BACK WHAT THEY LOST.
BUT THERE'S NOT A PERSON I'VE TALKED TO IN THIS DEPARTMENT WHO IS NOT MOVED BY THEIR PASSION TO DO AND DELIVER THE SERVICES THAT WE DO.
'CAUSE THEY'RE MISSION DRIVEN PEOPLE.
SO WE'RE STRUGGLING WITH SOME OF THE SAME THINGS.
AND I DON'T WANT YOU TO FEEL DISCOURAGED.
I WANT TO BE ABLE TO SEE THIS DEPARTMENT, USE THIS BOARD IN MANY WAYS.
BUT I HAVE TO SAY THAT WHILE I WANTED TO INJECT MYSELF, I DON'T HAVE ANSWERS FOR IT.
'CAUSE WE'RE LOOKING FOR THEM TO, BUT WHAT WE ARE GOING TO GIVE IS A COMMITMENT FROM OUR CITY THAT, YOU KNOW, THE GENERAL FUND CANNOT JUST BE SEEN AS SOMETHING THEY HAVE GIVE TO US.
YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE.
IT NEEDS TO BE BECAUSE THEY VALUE WHAT WE DO, NOT JUST FROM A QUANTITATIVE STANDPOINT OF VIEW, BUT FROM A VALUE STATEMENT.
THAT WE ARE COMMITTED TO THE WELLNESS OF THIS COMMUNITY IN THE SOCIAL DRIVERS OF HEALTH AND IN THE PRIMARY AND CORE VALUES OF HEALTH.
I WANTED TO MAKE SURE IF THIS ENDS AT NINE OR NINE 30.
SO YOU WANT TO YEAH, AND I, I THINK, UM, I WANNA, UH, ACKNOWLEDGE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SAYING THAT, BUT YOUR, YOUR COMMENT, I DON'T WANT TO INTERJECT.
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE WANT TO KNOW, RIGHT? RIGHT.
WE WANT TO GET THAT INSIGHT AND THEN FOR THAT TO ENGAGE IN THE CONVERSATION WITH THE GROUP OF HOW WE CAN THEN COME TOGETHER AS A GROUP TO ADDRESS THOSE CHALLENGES.
SO THE GOALS OF THIS GROUP COME FROM THE NEEDS, UM, THE CHALLENGES, THE PROBLEMS, THE IDEAS FROM THE LEADERSHIP OF THE WHOLE CENTER.
AND I THINK THAT'S WHERE TOGETHER, YOU KNOW, EACH YEAR OR EACH SEASON, THAT'S WHERE WE WOULD STEP BACK, REEVALUATE IT, LAY OUT OUR GOALS FOR THE YEAR, MOVE THROUGH THOSE GOALS AND ANALYZE THEM, CHANGE.
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THE SAME I DO TOO.AND I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE WE WANT TO PLAN TO AS WE'RE LISTENING TO EVERYBODY.
WELL, WHERE, WHERE DOES THAT, WHERE DOES THE, WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? AND THEN US AS A GROUP COMING TO A DISCUSSION ABOUT WHAT DO WE HAVE TO OFFER, WHAT CAN WE COLLECTIVELY COME TOGETHER TO ADDRESS EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT? BECAUSE YOU'RE SHARING SOME THINGS THAT ARE, THAT'S HAPPENING NOW AND IT'S GONNA GET WORSE BEFORE IT GETS BETTER.
SO COLLECTIVELY, HOW DO WE START WITH TODAY? YEAH.
BECAUSE THE NEEDS WILL SHIFT, RIGHT? SO WE MAY BE IN A SEASON WHERE, UH, WHAT YOU NEED MOST, WHAT WHAT THE DEPARTMENT NEEDS MOST IS ADVOCACY WITH CITY GOVERNMENT OR COUNTY GOVERNMENT.
AND THEN WE MAY SHIFT F IN A COUPLE OF YEARS AND YOU MAY FIND YOURSELF WITH, WITH SOME RESOURCES AND LAUNCHING A PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN.
AND WHAT YOU NEED THE MOST HELP WITH IS PUSHING THE WORD OUT TO COMMUNITY.
SO, YEAH, SO I THINK I'M, I'M DOUBLING DOWN ON WHAT SABRINA SAID.
WE WANNA BE USEFUL IN THE WAYS THAT WILL BE THE MOST POWERFUL.
AND SOME OF THAT COMES FROM WHAT WE MAY KNOW FROM OUR VARIOUS AFFILIATIONS.
BUT A LOT OF THAT WILL COME FROM WHAT YOU TELL US.
WHAT, WHAT YOU LET US KNOW ABOUT WHAT YOU NEED.
WELL, I'M REALLY HOPING, AND I'LL BE QUIET.
I'M REALLY HOPING THAT AS WE MOVE FORWARD IN THIS SCOPE OF WORK FOR THIS CONSULTING, UM, OPPORTUNITY THAT WE ARE GOING TO TAKE, BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT.
WHAT I WAS TASKED WITH DOING IN THIS INTERIM PERIOD WAS TO GET THAT OUT THE DOOR SO THAT IT COULD INFORM OUR BUDGET DECISIONS.
THIS YEAR IT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN BECAUSE THE, THE, THE COMPLEXITY OF WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS NOT SOMETHING THAT'S GONNA BE TURNED AROUND QUICKLY ENOUGH TO INFORM THAT FOR THIS YEAR.
BUT IT DOES NEED TO INFORM IT GOING FORWARD AND WHAT COMES OUT OF THAT, IT'S LIKE, IN SOME WAYS I FEEL LIKE THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, YOU DON'T ASK QUESTIONS THAT YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW.
WHAT WE NEED IS, YOU KNOW, THIS TO COME BACK AND INFORM, YOU KNOW, OUR LEADERSHIP THAT MAKES THE FINANCIAL DECISIONS ABOUT WHO GETS THE LIMITED POT OF THE GENERAL RESOURCES TO SUPPORT AND HEALTH HAS BEEN OF VALUE FOR THE CITY, BUT SOMETHING THAT THEY DON'T NECESSARILY ALWAYS SEE, LIKE TRASH PICKUP AND POTHOLE REPAIR.
RIGHT? AND SO THE QUESTION HAS BECOME HOW MUCH OF THAT LIMITED POT SHOULD WE GET? AND THAT'S WHERE THE CONVERSATION, I THINK, IS GOING TO BE NECESSARY FROM THIS GROUP TO HELP GUIDE THAT PROCESS IN SAYING THAT WE SEE THIS AS ESSENTIAL AS A TRASH FIGURE.
ONE LAST COMMENT AND THEN I WANT TO WRAP UP WITH THE NEXT STEP.
SO SINCE I'VE BEEN ON THE BOARD, ONE OF THE THINGS WE'VE TRIED TO DO CONSISTENTLY, UM, WHERE THIS HAS BEEN PART OF OUR THOUGHT PROCESS AS A GROUP IS THAT WE SHOULD BE REACHING OUT TO OUR ADVOCATE, BEING AN EXPERT FOR THEM.
WE HAVE NOT HAD LIMITED TO NO SUCCESS DOING THAT.
UM, BASED ON THIS CONVERSATION, IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE THAT SPECIFIC ADVOCACY TO PROVIDE, YOU KNOW, IF, IF OUR COUNCIL FOLKS HAD BIGGER STAFFS, THEY, IN THEORY, THEY SHOULD HAVE SOMEBODY FROM A PUBLIC HEALTH BACKGROUND INFORMING EM ON PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES RATHER THAN SOME OF THEM MAY HAVE, DO, HAVE.
PREVENTION IS NOT SOMETHING YOU SEE.
AND SO IT'S ALWAYS VERY DIFFICULT TO FUND.
COVID WAS DIFFERENT 'CAUSE NOW WE'RE ACTING ON THE OTHER SIDE.
IT'S LIKE ALL THE OTHER THINGS WE TALK ABOUT PREVENTING MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, HOMEWORK, WHATEVER.
TRYING TO ACT ON THE FRONT END TO PREVENT IS MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE USE OF YOUR PHONES, WHICH YOU CAN'T SEE VERY WELL.
SO HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE, TO ME OUR ROLE IS HOW DO WE BECOME MORE ACTIVE WITHIN OUR CITY COUNCIL MEMBER TEAMS SO THAT THEY UNDERSTAND THE VALUE, THEY UNDERSTAND THE NEED, AND THEY UNDERSTAND THE POTENTIAL GOOD AND BAD OUTCOMES IF THEY PROPERLY COME TO PUBLIC HEALTH, WHICH IS NOT JUST HOMELESSNESS OR, OR UNHOUSED, IT'S NOT JUST MENTAL HEALTH, IT'S FOOD SAFETY AND SECURITY, WHICH ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS, RIGHT? IT'S INFECTIOUS DISEASE MANAGEMENT, IT'S VACCINATIONS, PREVENTING DISEASE, HEALTHY, IT'S DRUGS, IT'S ALL THE OTHER STUFF THIS DETECTIVE DOES.
IT'S LOTS OF THINGS THAT, THAT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT.
AND THAT I THINK IS EASY FOR THEM TO SAY, NOT IMPORTANT, BUT THE IMPACT
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OF NOT MASSIVE.SO HOW WE, ANYWAY, THAT'S KIND OF MY THING.
HOW DO WE BECOME A REQUIRED, A REQUIRED PART OF OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS TEAMS AS OPPOSED TO A, I DUNNO SO AND SO PEOPLE, I'M TOO BUSY TO TALK TO THEM BECAUSE THAT, AND I KNOW WHEN I CAME ON THIS BOARD, I SEEM TO REMEMBER THAT THEY WOULD SEND, THAT THEY WOULD BE STAFF PEOPLE FROM THE DIFFERENT COUNCIL OFFICES CAME TO OUR MEETINGS PRETTY REGULARLY, WAY BACK.
THERE WERE ONE OR TWO COUNCIL DISTRICTS THAT SHOWED AN INTEREST IN THE BEGINNING AND WOULD SEND THE REPRESENTATIVE, BUT NOT, AND THEN WHEN THE ELECTIONS CAME AND MAYBE THOSE COUNCIL MEMBERS MOVED ON, THE, THE PRACTICE STOPPED.
I, I WOULD LIKE TO ENCOURAGE THAT WE GET TO THIS COMMISSION, THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PUBLIC, UH, SAFETY AND HEALTH COMMITTEE MEETING THAT IS GOING TO TAKE PLACE BECAUSE THAT'S A PUBLIC FORUM WHERE WE WILL BE ADDRESSING SOME OF THE THINGS THEY'VE ASKED US TO REPORT ON.
BUT THERE'S ALSO, UH, IT HELD IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS AND IT IS A PLACE WHERE YOU ARE GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY, UH, TO.