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ALRIGHT, UM, WELCOME EVERYONE.
UM, I, IT IS SIX OH SEVEN AND I'M GONNA CALL OUR MEETING TO START.
UM, AS WE ARE GOING TO START TODAY'S AGENDA.
UM, I JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE, UH, THE MANY LOSSES AND THE STRUGGLE AND CHALLENGES THAT OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS ARE FACING.
UH, MANY FOLKS HAVE LOST EVERY QUOTE, UH, AND THE INSURANCE COMPANIES BEFORE THE FIRE CUT THE INSURANCE OFF TO THEIR HOMES.
SO SOME FOLKS, EVEN WITHOUT INSURANCE, HAVE LOST, LITERALLY HAVE
UM, AND SO, UH, THE CITY DOES HAVE AN INITIATIVE, UM, TO BE ABLE TO, IF YOU POLICY, UH, PLEASE DO, DO SO, OR, UM, YOU ABLE TO MAKE, THERE ARE SEVERAL
UM, I KNOW SEVERAL COMMISSIONERS HERE HAVE INFORMATION GOING DOWN THERE.
UH, SO I JUST WANT THANK EVERYBODY FOR YOUR SUPPORT, FOR OUR, UM, AND I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ONE OF OUR STAFF MEMBERS IS NOT HERE TODAY.
UM, AND THEY HAD A LOSS IN THEIR FAMILY.
UM, I DO HAVE A LETTER FOR FOLKS TO SIGN, UM, AFTER, UM, SO A LOT.
UM, CITY CLERK, MAY I HAVE A ROLL CALL? YES.
AND, UM, FOR OUR EQUITY STAFF, WE MAY I HAVE THE EXCUSED ABSENCES? UH, YES.
UH, COMMISSIONER NUVIA FLORES IS EXCUSED, ABSENT.
AND COMMISSIONER LI FLORES IS EXCUSED.
UH, AND SO IN OUR TRADITION, UH, AND LET ME ASK YOU, COMMISSIONER TOLD TO DO TODAY'S KNOWLEDGE THERE.
TONIGHT, I ACKNOWLEDGE I'M SPEAKING TO YOU TODAY, TRADITIONAL T TERRITORY OF THE GATHERING OF
SO I JUST WANNA INVITE FOLKS IN, PAUSE AND HONOR THEIR CULTURE, HISTORY, IDENTITY, AND ANCESTORS, AS WELL AS THE LIVING ELDERS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
AND WHEREVER YOU ARE TODAY, I INVITE YOU TO PAUSE AND ACKNOWLEDGE THE PEOPLE WHOSE LANDS ARE ON AND LET THEIR ENDURANCE AND STRENGTH INSPIRE YOU.
WE ALSO PAUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT OUR COUNTRY WAS BUILT ON THE FREE LABOR OF ENSLAVED AFRICANS AND CONTINUE TO FUNCTION FROM THE LABOR OF OUR DIVERSE COMMUNITIES OF COLOR EVERY DAY.
LET'S TAKE A FEW MOMENTS TO PAUSE AND ACKNOWLEDGE OUR PAST AND GIVE HONOR TO THOSE WHOSE LANDS AND SHOULDERS WE STATE WITH HONOR TODAY.
UM, ONE, UH, NOW IN TERMS OF OUR PRACTICE, UM, IS AS WE DO, UH, WE DON'T HAVE TO SIGN UP TO SPEAK, SO, UM, PLEASE DO RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU'RE GOING TO SPEAK TODAY, AND THEN I'LL CALL ON, UM, THE STAFF, UH, FOLKS WHO RAISE THEIR HAND.
UH, IN ADDITION, AS A REMINDER FROM OUR LAST MEETING, AND I KNOW WE HAD SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF, UH, GAP IS, UH, WHEN YOU DO SPEAK, UH, PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSELF AND YOUR PRONOUNS, UM, SO THAT WE CAN TRUCTURE PRONOUNS AND GET TO KNOW THEM.
UM, SO WE DON'T HAVE ANY MISTAKES HAPPENING.
UH, SO WITH THAT, UH, WE'RE GOING, UM, MADAM CLERK, HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE IN THE ZOOM FOR TODAY? RIGHT NOW WE DON'T HAVE ANY PARTICIPATION.
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UM, DAVE, AND THIS IS LIKE KIND OF OUT OF ORDER, BUT I KNOW YOU'RE HERE TO SPEAK ON PUBLIC COMMENT.WOULD, WOULD YOU WANT TO DO PUBLIC COMMENT SO YOU CAN HEAD OUT OR YOU WOULD COOL TO WAIT FOR THE ENTIRE MEETING FOR PUBLIC COMMENT? UH, I APPRECIATE THE CONSIDERATION CHAIR.
IT'S, UH, WHATEVER WORKS FOR, FOR YOUR GROUP BY I SPEAK NOW, I SUPPOSE, OR
UM, BECAUSE I WANNA RESPECT YOUR TIME AS WELL.
I KNOW IT'S, UM, SIX O'CLOCK ON WEDNESDAY EVENING, SO, UM, I'M GONNA MOVE PUBLIC COMMENT UP, UM, AND THEN, UH, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED.
UM, SO WITH THAT, CAN WE, THE ORDER, UM, AMANDA HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT, UH, INTRODUCED? YES.
IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE NON AGENDA, PUBLIC COMMENT AT THIS TIME IN PERSON, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND OR, UH, STAND UP IF YOU CAN.
AND THEN, UM, IF THERE ANY ZOOM, PLEASE USE THE RAISE HAND FEATURE NOW.
WE HAVE ONE PERSON AND ANOTHER ZOOM.
UM, MAY I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR PUBLIC COPY? WE, WE DON'T NEED A, A MOTION.
WE CAN JUST GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED WITH THE SPEAKER.
UM, AND IF YOU ARE, YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
UH, I, UH, AMM FROM THE THIRD DISTRICT.
UH, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T KNOW ME, I, LONG TIME ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE JUSTICE ACTORS IN THIS TOWN, INCLUDING HELPING TO, UH, DEVELOP PATHS.
THIS IS A CLIMATE ACTION PLAN, AND OVER THE PAST YEAR I WORKED FOR THE CITY OF OAKLAND, HELPING THEM IMPLEMENT THEIR CLIMATE ACTION.
UM, I'M HERE TODAY TO SPEAK SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE WILDFIRES, UH, WHICH WE'VE ALL SEEN OVER THE PAST WEEKEND, WHICH ARE STILL ONGOING.
UM, THANK YOU BY THE WAY, UH, CHAIR COVINGTON FOR YOUR REMARKS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETING, UH, IT'S, UH, IMPORTANT TO TO RECOGNIZE THAT, UH, THESE DISASTERS DO AFFECT ALL OF US AND STUFF, UH, NOT JUST, UH, INSURANCE RATES, BUT, UH, NOT JUST AIR QUALITY, BUT, UH, FUNDAMENTALLY THEY KIND OF SAFETY AND STABILITY AND THE REASONS WHY WE, WE ARE ALL HERE.
YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, HERE IN CALIFORNIA, UM, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MAY HAVE HEARD OF THE, THE TERM CLIMATE WHIPLASH, WE'RE KIND OF IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
UM, HUGE SWINGS BETWEEN EXCESSIVE DROUGHT AND THEN EXCESSIVE RAINFALL THAT, UH, WILL TURN A LOT OF THESE CHARRED AREAS INTO MUDSLIDES.
UM, THESE FIRES WOULDN'T BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELS, UH, OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME.
UH, AND SPECIFICALLY, UH, PAST THE POINT WHERE WE KNEW WE SHOULDN'T BE ANYMORE.
BUT OUR ECONOMIES ARE DEPENDENT ON, UH, SPECIFICALLY IN THIS CITY.
UH, WE SELL, UH, A LOT OF OIL THAT WE DRILL FOR IN OUR CARS AND, UH, UH, UNDER THE GROUND IN THE CITY'S LAND TERRITORY.
UM, THE THIRD DISTRICT'S NEW POLITICAL BOUNDARIES AFTER REDISTRICTING ALMOST EXACTLY MATCHED THAT OF THE LONG BEACH UNIT.
AND THE CITY HAS A VERY, VERY LONG HISTORY OF UNEVEN, UH, DISTRIBUTION OF THOSE OIL FUNDS.
UM, CERTAIN GROUPS IN THE CITY BENEFITS MORE THAN OTHERS.
WITH THIS, WITH THE DISTRIBUTION OF THOSE MONEY, AND PARTICULARLY OUR MUNICIPAL BUDGET, UH, FOR RED AND BLUE, FOR FIREFIGHTERS AND FOR POLICE, UH, IS UNFORTUNATELY LARGELY STILL DEPENDENT ON ALL OF THOSE MONTHS.
I THINK THIS COMMISSION HAS A VERY BIG ROLE, UM, IN BEING ABLE TO ASK WHY THERE ARE INEQUITABLE DISTRIBUTIONS, NOT ONLY OF CITY RESOURCES, BUT ALSO OUTCOMES.
UM, AS YOU MAY REMEMBER, 10 YEARS AGO, THE IMPETUS FOR CREATING THIS COMMISSION AND FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF THE OFFICE OF EQUITY, THERE ARE DEMONSTRABLE DIFFERENCES IN HEALTH OUTCOMES DEPEND ON WHERE YOU LIVE IN THE CITY.
AND THAT'S BECAUSE OF REDLINING, THAT'S BECAUSE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, THAT'S BECAUSE OF, UH, PATTERNS OF POLICING.
IT'S BECAUSE OF A LOT OF THINGS.
UM, IN THIS MOMENT, UM, I THINK THE CITY AND THE STATE LAND COMMISSION NEED BE IN THE BUSINESS OF PRODUCING THE PRODUCT THAT HARMS THE RESIDENTS IN THE SHORT AND LONG TERM.
I ALSO THINK THAT THE CITY STAFF WITH THE OIL AND GAS, SORRY, UH, L ENERGY, UH, RESOURCES, THEY FORMER OIL AND GAS DEPART, UM, SHOULDN'T BE IN THE BUSINESS OF TRYING.
KA C 1 37 STATE LAW WAS CHAMPIONED BY HARVEY GONZALEZ,
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THE COUNCIL PERSON IN THE FIRST DISTRICT AND WHOSE RESIDENCE FIRSTHAND, UM, HAVE TO BARELY THE, THE BRU OF LIVING NEXT TO OIL PRODUCTION AND REFINERIES AND OTHER, YOU KNOW, UM, HAZARDOUS POLLUTING, UM, OR OVER.FINALLY, UH, AS SOMEONE WHO'S CREATED A NONPROFIT ABOUT CLEAN ENERGY HERE IN LONG BEACH, UM, YOUR TIME IS UP.
I THINK WE SHOULD DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO SUPPORT THE STATE'S EFFORTS, UH, TO IMPLEMENT SB 100, THE 100% CLEAN ENERGY LAW, STATE OF CALIFORNIA TARGETS IN 2035 AND 2045, IF NOT SOONER.
THAT, THAT WAS ALL I HAVE TO SAY.
THAT CONCLUDES NON AGENDA, PUBLIC COMMENT.
UH, AND THEN
SO AT THE BEGINNING OF PUBLIC COMMENT YOU COULD HAVE SAID, YOU KNOW, I CAN GIVE FIVE MINUTES FOR EACH PERSON, OR, OR IF YOU WANT TO, IF THERE'S TOO MANY, THEN YOU CAN LESSEN IT 90 SECONDS.
SO YOU CAN DO THAT AT ANY POINT IT AT THE DISCUSSION OF THE CHAIR.
EVEN IF LIKE, IN THE, EVEN IF PUBLIC COMMENT IS HAPPENING AND LIKE, LET'S SAY LIKE ONE PERSON GOT THREE MINUTES AND THEN THE NEXT PERSON I WANTED TO EXTEND THEIR COMMENT.
YEAH, YOU WOULD HAVE TO GIVE LIKE TWO MINUTES TO THE PERSON.
AT THAT POINT IT SHOULD BE FOR EVERYONE.
UM, AND JUST AS A PROCESS, LIKE WE'RE NOT ABLE TO SPEAK TO SPEAK TO WHAT IS SHARED WITH PUBLIC COMMENT, SO WE'RE GONNA MOVE TO THE REGULAR AGENDA, WHICH IS ITEM ONE.
ITEM NUMBER ONE IS A RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FOR THE EQUITY AND HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION MEETING OF WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH, 2024.
YOU HAD YOUR HAND TO MOTION? I DID.
I'M GONNA TAKE YOURS AS TO MOTION.
SHE HONOR HAND, I'LL MAKE PUT NO, WE SAID, WELL THAT IS THE SPEAKER.
LET'S DO THE HEAD IF YOU WANT A MOTION, THIRD AHEAD TWO, BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S LIKE MOTION A SECOND.
SO IF YOU WANT A MOTION TO START AHEAD UP AND THEN WE'LL GET TO THIRD AS WELL.
I THINK THAT'S THE MOST EQUITABLE.
UM, ALRIGHT, SO WE HAVE A MOTION, A SECOND, UM, UH, OPENING UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON MINUTES.
IF THERE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ITEM ONE.
UM, IF IN PERSON PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND OR STAND UP.
AND THEN IF ANY IN THE ZOOM, PLEASE RAISE HAND TO YOUR DOWN.
SEEING THEM BOTH IN PERSON AND IN ZOOM.
THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ITEM NUMBER ONE.
ALRIGHT, AND SO WE'RE GONNA GO TO, UH, COMMISSION DISCUSSION.
ANY DISCUSSION ON MINUTES OF LAST MONTH? SAME.
LET'S MOVE TO, UH, ITEM NUMBER THREE, PLEASE.
ITEM NUMBER TWO IS A RECOMMENDATION TO DISCUSS STRATEGIES TO ENHANCE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WITH THE CITY OF LONG BEACH, INCLUDING HOSTING, LISTENING SESSIONS TO GATHER INPUT AND IDENTIFY COMMUNITY NEEDS.
UM, SO MAY I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND PLEASE? OUR MOTION AND OUR SECOND,
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UH, SO MOTION IS DR. LARA, AND THEN OUR SECOND IS DIRECT MOTION.ALRIGHT, SO NOW WE'LL GO TO, UM, PRESENTATION.
UM, AND IT'S ACTUALLY GONNA BE FOR ME, UM, SO I APOLOGIZE.
I DON'T HAVE A POWERPOINT, UM, FOR FOLKS, UM, IT WAS, I WILL OWN THAT I WAS AS PREPARED TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE A POWERPOINT, SO I'M GONNA OWN THAT.
UM, BUT MY HOPE IS THAT THROUGH TAKING NOTES, UH, AND JUST, UH, COMMUNICATING THE VISION AND THE PLAN THAT, UM, WE CAN BE ABLE TO WALK AWAY WITH A, UH, AN APPROVAL OF, UH, THE SUGGESTED FILE.
SO, UM, IN MY REASONING FOR RUNNING FOR CHAIR, UM, AND DR.
BAT'S REASONING FOR RUNNING FOR VICE CHAIR, UM, ONE OF THE KEY PROJECTS THAT WE WANTED TO LAUNCH WAS LISTENING SESSIONS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
AND SO, UM, OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF MONTHS, WE'VE BEEN STRATEGIZING ON HOW TO IMPLEMENT A PLAN FOR HAVING LISTENING SESSIONS.
AND THERE WERE MANY DIFFERENT OPTIONS.
UH, THERE WERE OPTIONS OF HAVING SPECIAL MEETINGS.
UH, THERE WAS OPTIONS FOR HAVING, UM, AD HOCS ADDRESS, UH, LISTENING SESSIONS.
THERE WAS OPTIONS FOR PARTNERING WITH COMMUNITY, UH, AGENCIES AND ORGANIZATIONS.
UH, AND WHAT WE HAD LANDED ON, UH, WAS TO UTILIZE OUR COMMISSION MEETINGS TO ACTUALLY HOLD LISTENING SESSION FOR THE NEXT FOUR MONTHS.
UM, SO WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, PRIORITIZING FOUR IDENTITY GROUPS AND, UM, WE WOULD LIKE TO OPEN THE DISCUSSION AFTER, UH, THE COMMENT AND SO ON, UM, TO GET YOUR INSIGHT AND APPROVAL ON WHETHER WE SHOULD STICK WITH THE FOUR OR MAYBE POTENTIALLY COMBINE A COUPLE OR, UM, SO THAT IS AN ASK THAT WE'RE GONNA BE MAKING DURING SESSION TODAY.
UH, THE FOUR I GROUPS THAT WE'RE HOPING TO FOCUS ON AND WOULD LIKE TO START AS SOON AS NEXT MONTH AT OUR NEXT, UH, MEETING.
THE FIRST ONE WILL BE THE AFRICAN AMERICAN AND BLACK COMMUNITY.
UH, THE SECOND ONE IS GOING TO BE THE LATINA LATINX LATINO COMMUNITY.
UH, THE THIRD ONE IS GOING TO BE THE ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER, UH, SOUTHEAST EAST, SOUTHEAST ASIAN, UH, COMMUNITY.
AND THEN THE LAST ONE IS GOING TO BE THE LGBT LGBTQ COMMUNITY.
UM, AND SO THAT IS OUR, UM, PROPOSAL FOR THE LISTENING SESSIONS.
UH, THE LISTENING SESSIONS WILL TAKE APPROXIMATELY 45 MINUTES TO AN HOUR, UH, AT THE BEGINNING OF OUR, UM, COMMISSION MEETING.
AND WE'LL BE CONTACTING COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS TO COME AND HER, UM, PROVIDING PRESENTATIONS TO COMPLIMENT, UH, THE NEED FOR THE LISTENING SESSIONS.
UM, AND OUR OBJECTIVE IS TO UTILIZE THE NEW SESSIONS TO DEVELOP A SET OF RECOMMENDATIONS, UH, THAT WE CAN PASS OFF TO CITY COUNCIL ON WHAT ARE THE TOP ISSUES THAT OUR COMMUNITIES ARE FACING AND IF THEY NEED ADDRESS, UH, AND IT WILL INFORM OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING, UH, RETREAT, UH, WHICH WHICH WE ARE SCHEDULING IN THE MONTH OF MAY.
UM, SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE A COMMISSION MEETING IN THE MONTH OF MAY, AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO HAVE, UM, A RETREAT WHERE WE'RE GONNA PLAN OUT WHAT THE NEXT TWO YEARS IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE.
SO AS YOU SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW, WE HAVE BEEN OPERATING FOR A TWO YEAR PLAN, UH, AND THE TWO YEAR PLAN IS COMING TO AN END AS THIS YEAR.
SO OUR GOAL IS TO HAVE A RETREAT TO DEVELOP OUT WHAT OUR PRIORITIES ARE GOING TO BE AS COMMISSION FOR THE FOLLOWING FEW YEARS.
AND THEN WE'LL BE READY TO ROCK AND ROLL, UM, INTO MANY NEW CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES, UM, FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, SO THAT CONCLUDES MY END OF THE PRESENTATION.
MAX, IF YOU WANTED TO ADD ON OR MAYBE, UM, UH, BRING ATTENTION THAT WE HAVE THIS.
UM, SO THAT CONCLUDES PRESENTATION.
UH, I'M GONNA NOW CALL FOR PUBLIC COMMENT IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC RIGHT PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ITEM NUMBER TWO.
PLEASE, UH, USE THE RACE TEMPERATURE IN ZOOM, OR IF ANY IN PERSON, PLEASE REACH YOUR HAND SEEING THEM BOTH IN PERSON AND IN ZOOM.
THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ITEM NUMBER TWO.
UH, WE'RE NOW GONNA MOVE TO, UH, COMMISSIONER DISCUSSIONS.
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HAVE QUESTIONS OR GETTING TO YES.LAURA CHAIR, I'M SORRY, COMMISSIONER LAURA.
UM, SO CHAIR, I'M GONNA APPLAUD YOU AND VICE CHAIR FOR, UM, PUTTING NOT ONLY THIS SPECIFIC AGENDA ITEM, BUT PROPOSING THIS, UH, PARTICULAR IDEA, UM, ESPECIALLY IN THE CONTEXT THAT OUR COUNTRY IS UNFORTUNATELY BEING SWEPT WITH ANTI DI RHETORIC.
AND I AM VERY PROUD OF THE CITY AND OUR BROADER COMMUNITY THAT IN THIS CLIMATE WE ARE DOUBLING DOWN LINEATION, UM, ON ENSURING THAT EQUITY PERMEATES THROUGHOUT, UH, VARIOUS COMMUNITIES.
SO THAT'S JUST IMPORTANT CONTEXT THAT I WANNA SHARE.
UM, IN TERMS OF RECOMMENDATIONS, AND THIS MAY ALREADY EMBED IT, SO I, I WANNA ADD THAT DISCUSSION.
SO ALL I KNOW THIS IS ALREADY EMBEDDED, BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE, UH, IN OUR APPROACH TO THESE PRESENTATIONS, AND I'M NOT TRYING TO, THIS, THIS CONCEPT OF OPPRESSION, I'M NOT TRYING TO GO DOWN THE ROUTE, BUT, UH, FOR THOSE THAT ARE THERE, I AM, UH, A RACE EXPERT, UH, PARTICULARLY WITH, UH, UM, AREA OF EXPERTISE AND CRITICAL RACE THEORY, WHICH HAS ALSO BEEN
BUT UNDER THIS CLIMATE, THE IRONY IS THAT WE NEED CRITICAL RACE THEORY NOW MORE THAN EVER, UM, UNDER CRITICAL RACE THEORY IS VERY IMPORTANT TO NOTE HOW ANTI-BLACK RACISM IN PARTICULAR PERMEATES AND TRANSCENDS UNFORTUNATELY THROUGHOUT, UH, UM, THESE DIFFERENT, UM, UH, UH, UM, YOU KNOW, UM, EVEN GROUPS TWO, THREE, AND FOUR.
SO AS YOU MOVE FORWARD WITH SCHEDULING THESE EXPERTS THAT COME TO PRESENT TO US, UH, IT CAN BE THE EXPERTS IS, UM, WHEN APPROPRIATE IS UP LIFT.
YOU KNOW, SO FOR EXAMPLE, IF ONCE WE HAVE A PRESENTATION ON, UH, THE LATINX COMMUNITY THAT SPEAKER SPEAKERS REALLY SPEAK TO HOW BLACK RACISM, RIGHT? UNFORTUNATELY, ALSO WITHIN THE CONTEXT AND HISTORY, HOW THAT HAS IMPACTED THE LATINX COMMUNITY SIMULTANEOUSLY.
I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THESE GROUPS ARE NOT COMPLETELY SEPARATE.
SO WITHIN THE LATINX COMMUNITY, YOU HAVE BLACK LATINX MEMBERS WITHIN THAT COMMUNITY.
AND SO TO OFTEN THIS COURSE SEPARATES THOSE COMMUNITIES OF BEING DISTINCT WHEN IN FACT THAT MAY NOT NECESSARILY BE THE CASE.
RIGHT? AND ALSO IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT WHERE WE LIVE, RIGHT, WE'RE SOCIALIZING IN A PARTICULAR WAY, LIKE THE CITY OF LONG BEACH, I THINK IS NO SURPRISE TO, BUT HERE THAT ROUGHLY RIGHT EAST OF REDONDO, UH, I'M NOT SAYING IT'S NOT AS, IT'S NOT DIVERSE, BUT RELATIVELY SPEAKING, IT'S NOT AS DIVERSE AS OTHER SEXUAL CITY.
UM, AND SO WHERE WE LIVE AS, FOR EXAMPLE, LET'S SAY BLACK AND, UH, LATINX COMMUNITIES, WE LIVE AS NEIGHBORS OFTEN TIMES.
AND SO THE WAY WE ARE RAISED AND THE WAY IN WHICH WE'RE SOCIALIZED WITH THOSE IDENTITIES, THERE'S ALSO SOLIDARITY THAT OCCURS WITHOUT IGNORING THE DISSONANCE THAT ALSO OCCURS.
BUT I'M UPLIFTING THAT BECAUSE TOO OFTEN THE DISSONANCE IS THE DOMINANT DISCOURSE WITHOUT TAKING CONSIDERATION, UM, NARRATIVES IN WHICH SOLIDARITY ACTUALLY DOES OCCUR.
RIGHT? AND THAT'S IMPORTANT WHAT MATTERS.
SO THESE THEMES THAT I SPEAK ABOUT, I HOPE, RESONATE WITHIN, UM, OUR BODY HERE AS COMMISSIONERS AND ALSO HELP INFORM WHO IS INVITED TO SPEAK AND WHAT WE HAVE LIFT AND HOW WE GO ABOUT NAVIGATING THESE DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS.
UM, UH, BEYOND THIS COMMISSIONER ALSO BEING COGNIZANT, OF COURSE, THAT THE PUBLIC IS ALWAYS INVITED TO CHIME IN AND WE CAN NEVER PREDICT WHAT COMES OUT IN PUBLIC COMMENT, RIGHT? BUT, BUT I THINK THESE SPEAKERS FRAME OR HELP FRAME DISCOURSE, WHICH BY DEFAULT ALSO INFORM PUBLIC, RIGHT? UM, SO THAT IS MY 2 CENTS FROM, UM, AND, UH, I MAY COME BACK AND MORE BASED ON WHAT I HEAR FROM, FROM THE COMMISSIONERS AND, UH, BE MORE PROUD THAN MOVING FORWARD WITH, UH, THANK YOU CHAIR
UH, WE'RE GONNA MOVE OVER TO KO.
UM, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR THAT.
UM, THAT, THAT'S REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT TO KEEP IN MIND.
AS YOU WERE TALKING, I WAS THINKING ABOUT THOSE PEOPLE WHO IDENTIFY, FOR EXAMPLE, AS AFRO CUBAN.
SO THEY FOLLOWED INTO MULTIPLE CATEGORIES.
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WE HAVE TO REALLY, REALLY THINK ABOUT HOW WE ARE GOING TO APPROACH THE INVITATION LIST TO THESE LISTENING SECTIONS SESSIONS.AND THEN ANOTHER THING THAT COMES MY MIND, MAYBE I, MAYBE I MISSED IT.
SIT, UM, THE NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY.
WHAT, WHERE, WHERE ARE WE GROUPING THEM? BECAUSE I MEAN, WE PAY HO TO THE ANCESTORS BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF EVERYTHING, AND SO THEIR VOICES JUST AS IMPORTANT TO BE HEARD.
BUT WHERE ARE WE GROUPING THEM? HOW GROUPING THEM? I, I, I'M JUST REALLY, REALLY CURIOUS AS TO THE APPROACH THAT WE'RE GOING TO TAKE BECAUSE WE KNOW IT'S NOT AS SIMPLE AS BLACK AND WHITE ANYMORE IN THIS WORLD.
AND THE GRAY AREAS ARE SO BLURRED.
I DO, UH, STATISTICAL SURVEYS ALL THE TIME FOR EVERYTHING THAT I DO WITH THE GROUPS THAT I SERVICE.
AND THE QUESTION IS ALWAYS THERE, WHICH GROUP DO YOU FALL INTO? AND I CAN HODGEPODGE ALL THE TIME.
I, I SIT ON COMMUNITY, UH, COMMITTEES, FOR EXAMPLE, WITH BLUE SHIELD AND, AND THEIR STATISTICS ARE SHOWING X NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO AREN'T OTHER OR MIXED.
WHAT ARE YOU TELLING ME? IT'S LIKE, HOW DO WE DRILL DOWN TO REALLY DETERMINE WHO WE'RE TALKING TO AND HOW WE ARE GOING TO APPROACH THEM.
SO I, I APPLAUD AND TOLD WE CHAMPION WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO.
I, I JUST THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO BE REALLY, REALLY DILIGENT AND CAREFUL IN OUR APPROACH BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO OMI ANYBODY, YOU KNOW, ON PURPOSE OR BY ACCIDENT.
EVERYBODY HAS TO HAVE LITTLE WAYS.
AND SO WE AS A WHOLE HAVE GOTTA WORK THAT FOR US, BUT WE HAVE TO DO THE WORK BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE ARE HERE FOR.
SO THAT'S MY 2 CENTS FOR BAIL ALSO.
AND THEN I SEE THAT ANYONE ELSE WANNA GET ON THAT? THAT'S FINE.
WELL, I HAVE, UH, 2 CENTS TO ANSWER YOUR 2 CENTS
IT'S A LOT TO DO, BUT JUST TO CLEARLY SAY NO ONE IS EXCLUDED.
UM, BUT, BUT I WAS GOING TO ASK, AND I KNOW AGAIN, WE CAN'T TALK TO EVERY GROUP, BUT THERE HAVE BEEN PUBLIC COMMENTS A FEW TIMES FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE SPOKEN ON BEHALF OF THE SENIOR CITIZENS COMMITTEE IN LONG BEACH.
AND I KNOW THERE'S AN ADVISORY COMMISSION, I DUNNO IF THAT'S THE SAME AS OUR COMMISSION.
UM, AND THEY WORK WITH DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS.
SO WOULD IT BE OKAY, WE ADD SOMETHING IN A YEAR, DEPENDING ON OUR SCHEDULING, HAVE THEM COME IN TO TAKE A PRESENTATION? SO I'M GONNA ADD 1 CENT
UM, WE OF COURSE ARE NEVER, WE'RE ALWAYS AN INCLUSIVE GROUP, NOT TRYING TO EXCLUDE ANYONE.
UM, BUT WE DID HAVE TO START SOMEWHERE.
AND, UM, LOOKING AT, OF COURSE, FEBRUARY'S AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH AND, AND THEN CAMBODIA.
SO IDENTIFYING SOME OF THE LARGER GROUPS, BUT I 100% AGREE WITH YOU, AND I BELIEVE OUR MULTICULTURE, UM, GROUP THAT'S IN LONG BEACH EXPERIENCE, THINGS THAT ARE DIFFERENT THAN PEOPLE WHO JUST SAY, I'M AFRICAN AMERICAN, OR I'M LATINO OR CAMBODIAN.
AND SO, UM, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE COULD ADDRESS AT THE RETREAT.
WHAT OTHER GROUPS AND UPCOMING MONTHS, BECAUSE I STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT THIS GROUP IS STRONG WHEN WE HEAR FROM THE COMMUNITY.
SO IF THAT IS, YOU KNOW, IN FUTURE MONTHS SAYING ANYBODY WHO IDENTIFIES AS A MIXED RACE, THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO, YOU KNOW, MY FAMILY IS LIKE THAT.
AND SO IF YOU IDENTIFY AS THAT, THEN, YOU KNOW, MAYBE YOUR MONTH IS AUGUST.
WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES THAT YOU'RE EXPERIENCING, THE DISCRIMINATION, THE RACISM, THE, YOU KNOW, KNOW, WHATEVER THAT IS AND WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE AND HOW CAN WE BE OF ASSISTANCE SIMILAR TO SENIOR CITIZEN COMMUNITY? BUT THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE CAN THROW ALL THE SPAGHETTI ON THE WALLS WHEN WE GO TO THIS RETREAT TO DEVELOP OUR NEXT, YOU KNOW, ONE TO TWO YEAR SHORT TERM, MID LONG TERM GOALS.
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I'M, SINCE YOU WERE LOOKING DIRECTLY AT ME, I'M GONNA RESPOND, CALL AND RESPOND KIND OF THING.PERHAPS BEFORE WE EVEN START, WE MIGHT DO A CALL TO THE COMMUNITY, LET THEM KNOW OF OUR INTENTION.
I JUST ASK THEM AS IF, AS IT, AS IT AS A WHOLE.
HOW DO YOU IDENTIFY, BECAUSE WE WANT TO INVITE YOU TO THESE PARTICULAR LISTENING SESSIONS BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT PEOPLE LIKE SHARON SENEGAL, THEY, UH, IS IT PALESTINIAN OR, AND I DON'T WANNA, I KNOW, I KNOW THEY'RE RIGHT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD PROBABLY MESSING IT UP.
YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT A PLETHORA OF CULTURAL IDENTITIES HERE IN THIS CITY AND, AND IT IS SOMETHING THAT MANY, MANY PEOPLE ARE EXTREMELY SENSITIVE ABOUT AND RIGHT, RIGHT.
SO I, I THINK WE MIGHT REALLY WANT TO CONSIDER DOING NETS, JUST THROWING THE NET OUT ACROSS THE CITY AND ASKING, UH, OUR CITIZENS, OUR RESIDENTS AS A WHOLE, LETTING THEM KNOW WHAT WE'RE PLANNING TO DO.
AND WE WANT TO KNOW HOW DO YOU CULTURALLY IDENTIFY YOURSELF? HOW DO YOU CULTURALLY IDENTIFY SO THAT WE DO NOT OMIT YOU WHEN WE, YOU KNOW, HAVE THIS, WHEN WE IN, WE CAN WORK THIS GET.
I, I DON'T HAVE PASS IT OVER TO, UH, COMMISSIONER, ACTUALLY VICE CHAIR ONCE SENT ADDRESS MY COMMENTS, SO THANK YOU
UH, ANY OTHER, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS, UH, FOR CONSIDERATION? UM, THIS IS IN RESPONSE TO, UH, COMMISSIONER BUTLER'S, UH, RECOMMENDATION ABOUT, UH, NATIVE AMERICAN, RIGHT? I UNDERSTAND THE RATIONALE FOR RATIONAL SCIENCE, BUT ALSO GIVEN THE HISTORY OF THIS COMMISSION AND HAVE HAD NATIVE AMERICAN TOPIC ISSUES, CHALLENGES, ET CETERA, BEING ADDRESS THIS BODY, PERHAPS, I'M NOT SAYING THIS HAS TO BE A PROPOSAL, COULD BE WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF NEXT PRESENTATION.
UM, THERE'S A LOT OF INDIGENEITY WITHIN THE LATIN NEXT COMMUNITY.
I AM NOT SUGGESTING THAT EVERY SINGLE LATINO MEMBER OF LATINO, LATINX COMMUNITY IS INDIGENOUS BECAUSE WE HAVE WHITE, LATINO, LATINO WE HAVE, BUT WE OFTEN DO NOT SAY ENOUGH ABOUT THAT CONNECTION TO INDIGENEITY, RIGHT? AND HOW WE CONCEIVE OF AMERICAN, HOW DO WE RUN THAT, RIGHT? AND WHO GETS TO DEPART AND WHERE ARE THOSE QUOTE UNQUOTE WORDS.
SO I THINK IF WE'RE GONNA PUSH AS WE SHOULD AND ION OF THE BOUNDARIES OF THIS POOR AND HOW WE CONCEPTUALIZE, UM, CULTURAL IDENTITIES THAT COULD BE A GOOD FIT ON THAT DAY.
UM, AND IN THE HISTORY OF COUPLE, ALSO, WE'RE GONNA STICK TO HOW WE CONCEIVE NATIVE AMERICAN AS AN IDENTITY IN THE UNITED STATES.
ALSO, WE NEED BETTER AGENDA ITEM THAT SAME DAY.
SO IT CAN BE, UH, I ADVOCATE CRITICAL AND CREATIVE WAYS OF LOOKING AT THESE THINGS, TRYING TO, UH, FIT, UH, AS MANY AS AS POSSIBLE.
AND WHEN I SAY THAT REASON, I'M ALSO TALKING ABOUT TALKING.
I KNOW THAT
I AM GONNA SYNTHESIZE, UM, WHAT I'VE HEARD AND, UM, WHAT I FEEL WOULD BE BACK, UH, TO THE BOARD INTO, UH, MOTION FOR APPROVAL FOR US TO LIKE MOVE FORWARD WITH THESE IDEAS.
UM, SO, OH, UM, ONE THING I FORGOT TO MENTION IS A POTENTIAL LOCATION.
UM, I THINK THE EASIEST THING TO DO IS TO HAVE A YEAR COUNCIL.
UM, AND THE COUNCIL, UH, CHAMBERS ARE AVAILABLE TO US, UH, FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR, TO MY KNOWLEDGE.
UM, BUT WE'VE ALSO BEEN TALKING ABOUT TAKING, UH, THE SHOW ON THE ROAD.
UM, AND SO WE WERE TALKING ABOUT LIKE MAYBE HAVING, UM, UH, CHOOSE THE NEIGHBORHOOD, SO LIKE MAYBE NORTH LONG BEACH, UH, DOWNTOWN OR CENTRAL LONG BEACH, UM, AS POTENTIAL
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LOCATIONS FOR THESE, THE CITY SECTIONS.SO, UM, I WANTED TO INCLUDE THAT AS WELL.
UM, JUST THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE ACCESSIBLE TO FOLKS.
UM, BUT THERE COMES CHALLENGES WITH DOING THAT.
SO IF WE HAVE IT AT THE, THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS, PEOPLE CAN ZOOM IN, RIGHT? AND WE CAN GET LARGER PARTICIPATION.
SO IT'S EASIER FOR FOLKS TO JOIN FROM HOME, EVEN THOUGH THERE'S LIKE A DIGITAL DIVIDE AND STUFF BACK.
AND IF WE GO TO THE COMMUNITY, UH, WE HAVE TO LIKE ADVERTISE AGGRESSIVELY THAT WE'RE THERE, UM, AND WORK WITH OUR PARTNERS, UM, SO THAT FOLKS DO SHOW UP FOR THEM, UM, AND WE LOSE THE ONLINE, UH, OPTION.
UM, SO, UM, DO FOLKS HAVE FEELINGS AROUND THAT OR RECOMMENDATIONS AROUND LOCATION BEFORE I
SO
UH, SO THE FORMAT, UM, BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO BE IDENTITY BASED THAT WE WOULD INVITE, UH, NEW ORGANIZATION TO PRESENT AS PART OF THE PRESENTATION.
UH, THEN WE WILL THEN MOVE INTO, UM, THE LINE OF QUESTIONS THAT WE'RE HOPING TO ADD, HAVE THE COMMUNITY ANSWER, UM, AND THEN WE'LL GO INTO PUBLIC COMMENT, UH, WHERE WHATEVER FOLKS WANNA SHARE THEIR ISSUES, THEIR NEEDS, THEIR VISIONS FOR THE, THEIR COMMUNITY IN REGARDS TO THE CITY AND WITH, WE'LL GO IN THAT DIRECTION.
UM, AND THEN WE'LL BE TAKING THOSE ALONG THE WAY, UH, WELL THE COMMUNITY FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS.
AND THEN, UM, ON THE BACK END, WORKING WITH CITY STAFF, WE'LL BE SYNTHESIZING ALL OF ALL OF THE NOTES TO A MINI REPORT FOR US WHEN WE NEED TO, UM, COME TOGETHER AT THE RETREAT.
SO THERE'S A QUICK RESPONSE THAT THEN HEARING THAT I WOULD SUPPORT
UM, SO THEN WE HAVE DR. LARA
UM, I'M, I'M GONNA SHARE, UH, I THINK I, I'M GONNA DRAW FROM MY KIND SHARE AS BEST AS I CAN FROM WHAT HAPPENED.
SOME, SOME FOLKS ARE NEW COMMISSIONERS, SO I THINK IMPORTANT INFORMATION.
UM, SO WE HAVE BEEN MEETING IN DIFFERENT PLACES OF THE CITY OF LONG BEACH FOR THE REASONS THAT COMMISSIONER, UH, CHAIR COVINGTON SHARED.
BUT WHEN WE FINALLY MADE IT BACK TO, UH, UH, CHAMBERS, UM, THERE WAS YET ANOTHER DISCUSSION, MAYBE MORE THAN ONE ON DO WE TRAVEL BACK AGAIN WITH THE SAME RATIONALE THAT WE HAVE.
ACCESSIBILITY, UM, ISN'T AN IMPORTANT THING TO CONSIDER, NO DOUBT, BUT ACCESSIBILITY ALSO MANIFESTS ITSELF IN SO MANY DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS AND WHEN IT COMES TO ACCESSING VIA ZOOM, RIGHT? THAT'S SIGNIFICANT.
UM, AND I ALSO RECALL, UH, THERE BEING, UM, UH, DISCUSS TRANSPORTATION, MEANING THAT THIS AREA IS POSITION IN, WE HAVE A LOT OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION THAT IS ACTUALLY NEED HERE.
UM, AND I'M SURE OTHER COMMISSIONERS WHO AT TIME WE HAD, AGAIN,
UM, SO I JUST WANNA GO BACK TO THAT POINT FOR NEW FOLKS AND ALSO MY FOLKS THAT WERE THERE.
UM, AS WE ONCE AGAIN AT THIS PARTICULAR, UH, ESPECIALLY, AND THEN GOING BACK TO COMMISSIONER DE LEON, UM, I REALLY APPRECIATE THE QUESTION REGARDING, UH, I THINK IT WAS CENTERED AROUND THE APPROACH TOWARDS THE PRESENTATION, RIGHT? MY INTERPRETATION OF YOUR QUESTION, SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT.
SO I'M GONNA LOOK AT MY INTERPRETATION IS HOW ARE THE PRESENTERS GOING TO ENGAGE US IN OF THE PUBLIC AND INTERPRETATION AND, UM, FOR BETTER AND FOR WORD, I DON'T KNOW,
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YOU KNOW, IT COULD BE MISINTERPRETED, BUT I'LL SAY, OR COURSE, RIGHT? UM, WE HAVE TO FOLLOW, UH, BY LAWS AND POLICIES, THE STRUCTURES OF THAT, UH, WE HAVE CONTROL OF, OF HOW WE CONDUCT THESE MEETINGS.AND SO WHY DO I SAY FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE? WELL, I KNOW AS A 25 YEAR EDUCATOR, RIGHT, THAT LEARNING, ACTUAL QUALITY LEARNING IS CONSTRUCTED AS SORT, MEANING THAT WE COULD CO-CONSTRUCT KNOWLEDGE.
UM, AND IT WOULD BE GREAT IF WE CAN TO HAVE PRESENTERS ENGAGE US IN THOSE MODELS WHERE WE, YOU KNOW, HEAR, HEAR THEM OUT AND HAVE CONVERSATIONS ON THE SIDE, AND THEN GO BACK WHERE THAT'S CLOSER.
BUT WE CAN'T DO THAT, UNFORTUNATELY.
WE HAVE TO FOLLOW THE STRUCTURES THAT ARE THERE, AND THAT'S EXCESSIVE.
THAT'S THE HOW I WAS INTERPRETING THAT.
SO I'D IMAGINE AS MUCH AS WE REALLY WANNA HAVE THESE UNIQUE WAYS OF, OF LEARNING, UM, AND POST-ITS, AND THIS ONE, THE REALLY ENGAGING TYPE OF LEARNING TO REALLY RETAIN, REINFORCING CANNOT.
AND SO, SO GIVEN THAT MODEL THAT WE HAVE TO FOLLOW, UM, AND I UNDERSTAND, I UNDERSTAND FOLLOW MODEL, BUT IT'S IN SHARP CONTRAST TO BEST PRACTICES IN LEARNING.
UM, WE, WE, UH, HAVE USE THAT LOT OF THE BEST SPACE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT PARTICULAR STRUCTURE FROM MY EXPERIENCE AS CHAIR AND ALSO THE COMMISSIONER, OR FROM THE CHAIR I SHOULD SAY IS, IS CHAMBERS.
SO I THINK MY GOAL WOULD BE TO USE THE CHAMBERS BECAUSE OF ACCESSIBILITY.
UH, THERE'S A PARKING STRUCTURE ACROSS THE STREET THAT WE CAN USE THE PARKING CARS.
THERE'S DOING A SEATING IN THE CHAMBER BUILDING.
WE HAVE THE AV, UH, EQUIPMENT AT OUR DISPOSAL THERE.
WE CAN PROJECT INFORMATION ON THE SCREEN, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
WE'VE GOT THE MICROPHONES, EVERYTHING SET UP HERE.
THE PODIUM IS, IT'S JUST EASY, SIMPLE.
KEEP THE SIMPLE, STRAIGHTFORWARD AND WE GET EVERYTHING RIGHT THERE IN IN CHAMBERS.
THAT, THAT WOULD BE MY THANK YOU COMMISSIONER BUTTON.
SO, UM, LAST YEAR, YES, LAST YEAR WE DID A PANEL ON THE FILM TRANSLATORS TO REACH OUT TO THE COMMUNITY, PARTICULARLY WEST LONG BEACH BECAUSE, UM, FILIPINOS HAVE A TENDENCY TO, AND OTHER, OTHER, UM, OTHERS AS WELL HAVE A TENDENCY TO USE CHILDREN AS TRANSLATORS FOR THE ALTERNATES.
AND SO WE WERE EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF THAT ON THE CHILDREN.
AND AS PART OF THE PANEL, I WALKED INTO THIS ROOM AT THAT RED HEART LIBRARY TO SEE A ROOM FULL OF FILIPINOS THAT WOULD NOT OTHERWISE ATTEND A CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
UM, SO I HAD NO IDEA WE HAD INTERPRETERS THERE AND IT WAS QUITE AN ENGAGING, UM, DISCUSSION AND PRESENTATION.
MY THOUGHT TO KIND OF, UM, KIND OF FIND AN EVEN GROUND IS STILL HAVING CHAMBERS FOR THE REASONS EVERYONE ELSE HAS EXPRESSED.
BUT WHEN WE'RE REACHING OUT TO COMMUNITY PARTNERS, LET'S SEE IF THEY COULD OFFER UP THEIR SPACE TO GATHER THOSE PARTICULAR RESIDENTS WHO WOULDN'T OTHERWISE TRAVEL TO DOWNTOWN.
SO FOR INSTANCE, FOR THE FILIPINO COMMUNITY, THE FILIPINO MIGRANT CENTER OR RED HEART LIBRARY, THEY COULD ASK THEM TO PARTICIPATE THAT WAY.
SO THEY'RE STILL WITHIN, IN THEIR SAFE ZONE, UM, OR KUBE LONG BEACH IN NORTH LONG BEACH.
UH, OTHERS COULD ATTEND THERE.
SO LET'S ASK THAT OF ALL PARTICIPANTS TO OUR LISTENING SESSIONS.
SO IF THERE'S, IT'S KIND OF LIKE SATELLITE, UH, AREAS WHERE THEY CAN PARTICIPATE AT THE GROUP WHILE WE'RE HAVING THE MEETING.
AND THEN WE HAVE MCNEIL, DR. MCNEIL, AND THEN DR. MAY, I THINK EVERYBODY EXPRESSED EXACTLY WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY ABOUT HAVING IT IN CHAMBERS BECAUSE THEM, YOU COULD REACH OUT TO GROUPS IN THE COMMUNITY CENTER, THEY COULD JOIN VIA ZOOM.
UM, IF THEY COULD COME IN PERSON, THAT'S GREAT.
BUT ACCESSIBILITY ALL THE WAY AROUND MULTIMEDIA.
I THINK I, AGAIN, JUST PIGGYBACKING ON THAT, UH, WE SHOULD HAVE IN THIS, UH, CHAMBERS.
ALRIGHT, I LIKE THE IDEA OF HAVING SATELLITE SPACES AND PEOPLE IN SPACES WHERE THEY FEEL MOST COMFORTABLE AND WHERE THEY HAVE ALREADY EXPRESSED
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THINGS THAT WE MIGHT WANT TO CAPTURE.I DO AGREE WITH THE INTIMIDATION FACTOR BEING IN THE CHAMBER.
SO HAVING BOTH OF THOSE APPROACHES BE HYBRID AND CONNECTED WOULD BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO REALLY HEAR.
AND I ALSO WANTED TO BRING IN THAT THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT IS DOING A VERY SIMILAR SERIES OF LISTENING SESSIONS AS FAR AS PEOPLE'S EQUITY NEEDS ACROSS OUR HEALTH SERVICES.
AND REALLY FUN THING ABOUT BEING A COMMUNITY SCIENTIST IS THAT I LIKE TO PARTICIPATE TOO.
SO I'VE BEEN ABLE TO GO TO THE KAMAI AFRICAN AMERICAN LATINO BECAUSE I'M MIXED.
I GOT TO GO TO ALL OF THE DIFFERENT LISTENING SESSIONS.
EACH ONE OF 'EM WAS IN A COMMUNITY PARTNER SPACE FOR THAT PARTICULAR GROUP, AND THEY ALL FELT COMFORTABLE.
AND I THINK THE REASON WHY THEY WEREN'T IS BECAUSE THEY ALL HAD FOOD.
SO JUST BRINGING UP A CULTURAL THING FOR ALL OF THE CULTURES THAT I REPRESENTED, IF I CAN, UH, IF WE DO HAVE BREAD TO BREAK, IT'S, IT'S EASIER TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THESE REALLY SENSITIVE TOPICS AND, UM, YEAH, REALLY JUST CONNECT WITH EACH OTHER THROUGH THAT.
SO I'M GONNA THROW OUT A CURVE BALL AND I'M SAY, UM, GET ADVICE COUNSEL FROM TONY DOWN THERE, UM, BECAUSE I AGREED, YOU KNOW, CITY HALL HAS ALL THE BELLS AND WHISTLES THAT WE NEED.
BUT I ALSO KNOW AND AGREE FROM PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE WHEN WE HAD COMMUNITY MEETINGS, THAT WE HAD PEOPLE IN ATTENDANCE.
AND AS SOON AS WE CAME BACK TO CITY COUNCIL, UNLESS IT WAS A GLARING ISSUE GOING ON IN THE COMMUNITY, OUR MEETINGS ARE JUST THE COMMISSIONERS.
AND, UM, WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO PROPOSE IS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE WOULD HAVE THESE LISTENING SESSIONS IN CITY, IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS, AND WHEN WE'RE DONE WITH OUR SERIES, WE THEN TAKE THE TOP ISSUES OR THE TOP THINGS THAT WERE MENTIONED, AND WE DO LIKE A SMALLER VERSION IN JUST THE COMMUNITY, RIGHT? AND WE GO TO THE COMMUNITY PARTNER SPACES AND HAVE SOME FOOD AND SAY, HEY, AT THIS MEETING WHEN WE HAVE THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY, THESE ARE ALL THE ITEMS THAT WERE ADDRESSED.
IS THIS WHAT YOU'RE ALIGNED WITH? DO YOU GUYS HAVE ANYTHING MORE? AND I KNOW WE CAN'T TAKE THE COMMISSIONER MEETING ON THE ROAD, BUT COULD WE NOT POSSIBLY HAVE AN AD HOC GROUP OR NOT, OR ONE OR TWO COMMISSIONERS THAT COULD PROVIDE AND DO THAT RECAP AND PARTNER WITH THE COMMUNITY PEOPLE IN THAT SPACE TO ALLOW MORE PEOPLE TO FEEL COMFORTABLE AND EITHER CONFIRM THE LIST OR ADD TO THE LIST.
SO, UM, MY, FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, BASED ON, UM, CONVERSATIONS WITH CITY ATTORNEY, UH, AND AD HOC COULD MEET IN COMMUNITY, UM, YOU WOULD JUST HAVE TO DISCUSS IT AS A WHOLE COMMISSION AND HAVE THE WHOLE COMMISSION VOTE AND APPROVE ON THAT SPECIFIC AD HOC, HAVING A VERY SPECIFIC MEETING AND THE VERY SPECIFIC PLACE.
BUT AS LONG AS THE WHOLE COMMISSION IS BUILDING AND APPROVING A, THAT CAN HAPPEN.
UM, ANOTHER THING YOU CAN DO IS WE CAN, YOU CAN GENERALIZE A SPECIAL MEETING AND A SPECIFIC LOCATION AND COMMUNITY WHERE YOU CAN ALL ATTEND.
BECAUSE REMEMBER, IF YOU ARE THERE AS AN AD HOC COMMITTEE, THEN YOU CANNOT HAVE QUORUM.
AND IF A LOT OF YOU AS A HEARING ARE VERY INTERESTED IN HEARING FROM COMMUNITY, UM, YOU MIGHT ALL WANT TO BE THERE IN ATTENDANCE.
SO, UM, AGAIN, WE COULD ALSO AGENDA, IT'S A SPECIAL MEETING WHERE IT'S A COMMUNITY AND A SPECIAL MEETING CAN ONLY HAVE ONE OR TWO AGENDA ITEMS. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A FULL AGENDA.
UM, AND WE CAN MOVE ON WITH THAT AS WELL, YOU KNOW, UM,
SO, UM, WORKING IN NON-PROFIT SPACE, I FIND THAT IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO PARTNER WITH OUR CEOS.
UM, I REALLY LIKE THE IDEA OF BEING OUT IN THE COMMUNITY.
IT'S JUST INGRAINED IN MY, IN MY SCHOOL, UM, AND THE WORK THAT I DO.
UM, SO WHEN I LOOK AT THESE DIFFERENT POPULATIONS, I'M LIKE, WOW, THERE'S SO MANY CBOS THAT REALLY HONE IN AND FOCUS ON THE SPECIFIC POPULATIONS AND PROVIDE MULTITUDES OF DIFFERENT SERVICES FOR THEM AND PARTNERING WITH THOSE CBOS, UM, TO HOLD THESE SPACES.
AND I THINK IT'S JUST, IT'S BEAUTIFUL AND THE COMMUNITY.
UM, I ALSO THINK IT'S A MEANS OF US, UM, UH, FREE ADVERTISING IF WE WANT PEOPLE THERE.
HISTORICALLY, I THINK I HEARD YOU SAID LIKE PEOPLE ACTUALLY SHOWED UP.
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UM, BUT I ALSO DO THINK THAT IF WE, THEUM, I'M ALSO THINKING ABOUT LIKE THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE SITTING IN THE, IN THE, UM, YOU KNOW, IN THE AUDIENCE, YOU KNOW, WHO MAY BE TOO AFRAID TO RAISE THEIR HAND OR MAYBE, YOU KNOW, HAVE LANGUAGE BARRIERS.
SO MAYBE WE CAN ALSO ADD A SURVEY OF SOME SORT THAT THEY COULD FILL OUT ON, YOU KNOW, EITHER AFTER A POST EVENT SURVEY WITH THE SAME QUESTIONS THAT WE, WE, UM, PROVIDE DURING THE DISCUSSION AND LET THEM, UM, ALLOW THEM TO EITHER IDENTIFY WHO THEY ARE, WHAT, WHAT ETHNICITIES THEY IDENTIFY AS, AND THE FEEDBACK THEY MAY HAVE THAT THEY COULDN'T SPEAK UP DURING THE LISTENING SESSION AND PROVIDE TO THE PROFESSIONALS.
THANK YOU SO MUCH AND THANK YOU ALL, UM, FOR YOUR OFFERING.
UH, UH, MANY OF THE IDEAS, I WILL SAY IS NOT FEASIBLE BY NEXT, UH, JUST BECAUSE, UH, COORDINATION AND WITH ONE STAFF, THAT'S TONY, OUR, WITH OUR SUPPORT AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT AS WELL.
UM, HOWEVER, UH, I DO THINK THAT WE'RE GONNA KEEP THE LIST OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS AND THEN, UM, AS CHAIR, VICE CHAIR WILL WORK CLOSELY WITH, UM, OUR STAFF TEAM SURE.
SEE IF WE CAN INCORPORATE SOME OF THESE IDEAS.
UM, AND I DO, IN TERMS OF MOVING FORWARD FOR, UM, NEXT MONTH OR NEXT FOUR MONTHS, UM, SOME OF THESE IDEAS ARE REALLY GREAT.
THE SATELLITE TEAM PARTNERS, SOMETHING'S VERY DOABLE.
UH, WE'LL SEE IF WE CAN DO THE FOOD
UM, AND IT'S FOR THE COMMUNITY, SO IT'S, WHEN IT'S FOR US, IT THAT, BUT WHEN IT'S FOR COMMUNITY, WE CAN, WE CAN MAKE THAT ARGUMENT.
UM, AND THEN TALKING ABOUT A SURVEY TO CATCH, UM, MANY IDENTITIES, BUT ALSO LIKE ON THOSE WHO ARE ATTENDING AND, UH, THE EVENTS THEMSELVES, I THINK, UM, THAT IS SUPER IMPORTANT.
SO, UM, WITH THAT I WILL MAKE A MOTION.
UM, UH, SO THIS ITEM IS ACTUALLY, UH, JUST A DISCUSSION.
SO, UM, FOR CLARIFICATION PURPOSES, NOT CLERK, UM, IF I MAKE A MOTION, THAT MEANS THAT WE'LL TURN A DISCUSSION INTO AN ACTION ITEM, CORRECT? UM, YES.
YOU WOULD HAVE TO POSE IT AS A SUBSTITUTE MOTION.
UM, SO I WILL, UH, LIKE TO MAKE A SUBSTITUTE MOTION TO SEE ITEM, UM, FOR, UH, FOR OUR COMMISSION TO WORK WITH THE OFFICE OF EQUITY, UH, TO DEVELOP HOW, UH, FOR, UM, UH, TO DEVELOP, UH, LISTENING SESSIONS, UH, THROUGH THE COMMISSION MEETINGS, UH, ON FOUR IDENTITY GROUPS.
UH, THE IDENTITY GROUPS ARE TO INCLUDE, UH, BLACK AND AFRICAN AMERICAN.
UH, FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY, WE ARE GONNA DO LATINX, LATINX, LET KNOW, AND NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITIES IN THE MONTH OF MARCH IN THE SAME MEETING, UM, ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER, SOUTHEAST ASIAN COMMUNITIES IN THE MONTH OF APRIL AND L-G-B-T-Q COMMUNITIES IN THE MONTH OF MAY, UH, TO BE HELD IN THE CITY CHAMBERS OR OTHER LOCATIONS IF AVAILABLE.
UM, AND WE WILL, UH, THE, THE OFFICE OF EQUITY STAFF AND THE CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR WILL, UM, WORK ON THE FLOW OF THE LISTEN SESSION COMPONENT.
DO YOU HAVE A SECOND I DISCUSSION FIRST? WE NEED A SECOND WE NEED, AND THEN WE CAN HAVE DISCUSSION ON THE SUBSTITUTE MOTION.
SO NOW THE DISCUSSION SHOULD ONLY BE REVOLVED THROUGHOUT THE SUBSTITUTE MOTION.
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OKAY, COOL.SO THE SECOND WAS FROM VICE CHAIR BACK? YES.
UM, SO NOW WE'LL OPEN UP DISCUSSION ON THE SUBSTITUTE MOTION.
UH, SO SCHULTZ BUTLER,
UH, THOUGHT REALLY HARD TO GET BACK TO SEE.
HALL WE DOING THERE? MY QUESTION ON THE, SO ON THE MOTION
DO WE HAVE, UM, A SET OF QUESTIONS OR WHATEVER ALREADY BUILT FOR THE, THIS SESSION? HOW, HOW IS THAT? I, I, I, I, I'M, I ASKED THAT BECAUSE TODAY IS JANUARY THE 15TH AND WHICH GIVES US TWO WEEKS BEFORE, TWO, MAYBE THREE WEEKS BEFORE OUR NEXT MEETING, THE SEPARATE MEETING MM-HMM
SO WILL WE BE PREPARED, IS MY QUESTION, DO WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING, HOW WE'RE DOING IT? DO WE ACTUALLY KNOW THAT? DO WE HAVE THE FORMAT? HOW WOULD WE DO THE AGENDA IS PRETTY EASY.
UM, WE JUST HAVE TO ADD THE QUESTIONS.
UM, AND IF FOLKS WOULD LIKE TO OFFER QUESTIONS TO, FOR WE CAN, UM, BUT ESSENTIALLY WE'RE ASSESSING, UH, WHAT ISSUES THE COMMUNITIES ARE FACING.
UM, WHAT SOLUTIONS DO THEY WANT TO SEE FOR THOSE ISSUES? AND THEN ANY OTHER COMMENTS THAT THE COMMUNITY HAS TO
SO THE FIRST GROUP THEN WOULD HAVE ROUGHLY TWO, TWO AND A HALF WEEKS TO PREPARE TO, TO ATTEND THE MEETING WITH CLEAR INTEREST.
UH, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT LIKE A
AND SO A GROUP THAT'S GONNA PRESENT IN MAY, APRIL, OR MARCH, THEY HAVE A LOT MORE LEAD TIME TO PREPARE THEIR PRESENTATION THAN SOMEBODY THAT'S GONNA DO A PRESENTATION IN TWO, TWO AND A HALF WEEKS.
UM, AND, AND FEBRUARY IS HACKED WITH A LOT OF ACTIVITY.
IT'S THE SHORTEST MONTH OF THE YEAR AND IT'S JAM PACKED WITH ACTIVITY ALL OVER THE PLACE.
SO JUST KEEPING EVERYTHING IN LINE IN THE INTEREST OF EQUITY TO THE GROUPS THAT ARE GONNA BE PRESENTING TO US.
I JUST WANT TO ENSURE THAT THEY HAVE ADEQUATE TIME TO DO A, THE WORD I WANT TO.
I JUST WANT EVERYBODY TO HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO PUT TOGETHER THEIR BEST PRESENTATION WHEN THEY COME BEFORE US.
SO WE, BECAUSE WE MEET THE FIRST WEEK OF THE MONTH, NOT THE LAST WEEK OF THE MONTH, IT MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE WHETHER I'M PRESENTING ON THE FIRST WEDNESDAY OR THE LAST WEDNESDAY.
I CANNOT GUARANTEE THAT EVERY PRESENTER WILL BE READY AND PREPARED AND BE ABLE TO GIVE US ALL THE THINGS WE WANT TO SEE OUT OF OUR PRESENTATION.
UM, BUT THE, THE CONCRETE INFORMATION THAT WE WANT TO GATHER IS REALLY WHAT COMMUNITY HAS TO SHARE.
UM, SO WE WILL WORK WITH OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS, UM, SO THAT THEY'RE AWARE OF, AWARE OF WHAT OUR NEEDS ARE IN TERMS OF
UH, WE ALSO DO HAVE SOME STAFF, UH, WHO WILL BE ABLE TO COMMUNICATION WITH, WHO DIRECTLY WORKS WITH SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT ARE TIED TO THESE, UH, FOR COMMUNITY GROUPS.
AND WE'LL BE MAKING THOSE TASKS IMMEDIATELY AFTER TODAY'S MEETING.
UM, PROCESS WISE, WE WANTED TO BRING THE IDEA TO YOU ALL, UM, AND GIVE YOUR APPROVAL AND SUPPORT, UM, SO THAT IT, IT HAS THE FULL SUPPORT OF THE COMMISSION.
HOW WILL WE MAKE THE ASK HR ADMINISTRATOR? UM, I'M GONNA GO WITH THE LIST.
UH, SO IT'S GONNA BE CALL AND ONE TO YOU.
AND THEN DO YOU ALSO HAVE, SO, UH, COMMISSIONER
I'M WONDERING IF THERE MAY BE, UM, IF THAT COULD BE, IF THERE'S FLEXIBILITY TO THAT IN THAT AA AND HPI MONTH
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IS MAY AND FIVE IS IN JUNE.THIS IS, WOULD IT BE, YOU KNOW, UH, BETTER TO HOLD THOSE SOLICITING SESSIONS ON THE MONTH THAT WE'RE CELEBRATING THOSE PARTICULAR GROUPS? YES.
UM, SO WE CHOSE APRIL FOR CAMBODIA NEW YEAR, UH, AS ONE OF THE SPECIFIC, UH, MONTH.
UH, THAT, UM, GENERALLY THE CITY IS ACTIVATED IN, UM, AND WE CHOSE MAYBE SPECIFICALLY PRIDE HAPPENS IN WAS AS WELL.
BUT THE OTHER CHALLENGE THAT WE WANT TO HAVE IS THE SAME SESSION BEFORE OUR RETREAT AND OUR RETREAT IS GONNA BE MID MAY.
SO MAYBE HAVING HEARD THAT, MAYBE WE COULD DO IT AS LIKE PRE CELEBRATION, KIND OF CAPTURE THAT IN THE ANTICIPATION OF HI YES.
RESIDENT SESSION IN MARCH BEFORE.
SO NOT CHANGING IT, BUT WE'LL AVERAGE THAT.
UH, COMMISSIONER COLE, UM, I WAS JUST WONDERING HOW GONNA EVEN REACH OUT TO, TO COME
UH, IN TERMS OF HOW WE'RE GONNA GET PEOPLE THERE, WE'RE GONNA RELY ON OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS, UM, TO REALLY BRING FOLKS OUT.
UM, WE'RE GONNA CREATE A FLYER, UH, WE'RE GONNA ADD IT TO THE NEWSLETTER WE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT.
UM, ALSO PARTNERING WITH THE CITY'S COMMUNICATIONS TEAM TO MAKE SURE THAT IT GOES OUT, UM, BOTH ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND OTHER, UM, PUBLICATIONS.
AND THEN, UM, WE ARE A WORKING LORD.
SO ONCE THE, THE FLYER AND EVERYTHING GETS READY, WE'RE GONNA CALL AND EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU TO SHARE ON YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA THROUGH EMAILS AS WELL.
UM, SO IT WILL BE A ALL HANDS ON DECK.
UH, AND UM, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, I AGREE WITH, UH, ISHA BUTLER.
LIKE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE GIVE EVERYBODY ENOUGH TIME TO BE ABLE TO DO SO.
UM, AND WITH THE, THE SCHEDULING AND OUR TIMING, LIKE WE'RE GONNA PUT OUR BEST FOOT FORWARD, UH, AND UM, WITH OUR CONNECTED COMMUNITY, UM, WE'RE HOPING THAT IT'S A GOOD TURNOUT AND IF NOT, YOU KNOW, WE'LL JUST SAY WE'LL DO ANOTHER ONE AFTERWARDS.
UH, THERE'S NOTHING STOPPING US TO HAVE MORE LISTENING SESSIONS AFTER THE FACT, BUT, UM, WE WANTED TO, TO TRY IT ON AND GET SOME, UM, TO HAVE INPUT, UM, FROM THE COMMUNITY SO IT CAN INFORM OUR ROADMAP IS GONNA LOOK LIKE FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
UH, ALRIGHT, SO I HAVE SHALUM AND THEN DR.
UM, I, I KNOW I MOVED TO THE COMMISSION.
I GOING TO ASK, UM, WHICH COMMUNITY GROUPS WOULD BE TARGETED AND HOW DO WE GET THE WORD OUT TO THE COMMUNITY? 'CAUSE I KNOW A LOT OF TIMES, YOU KNOW, WE MAY DEAL WITH THE SAME COMMUNITY GROUPS, BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WITHIN THE ACTUAL COMMUNITY THAT ARE NOT AWARE AND NOT COGNIZANT OF THE MEETING THAT'S TAKING PLACE.
YOU KNOW, THE JOE LOW CITIZEN DOESN'T BELONG TO A GROUP PARTICULARLY.
UM, HOW ARE WE GONNA WORK ON GETTING THE WORD OUT TO EVERYONE, YOU KNOW? AND I, I DON'T KNOW, I'M LISTENING AND I'M THINKING, WELL I KNOW THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE'RE DOING IT, BUT I DON'T WANT IT TO SEEM LIKE IT'S JUST A HODGEPODGE.
YOU KNOW, LET'S KEY IN ON SPECIFIC THINGS THAT WE WANT TO ACCOMPLISH IN DOING THE LISTENING SESSIONS.
AND AGAIN, NOT JUST THE COMMUNITY GROUPS THAT WE'RE USED TO REACHING OUT TO.
BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE, EVEN THOUGH THEY MAY BE THE SAME, UM, THEY DON'T LIVE WITHIN THAT COMMUNITY PER SE, BUT THEY MAY BE THE SAME, UH, RACE OR CULTURE, YOU KNOW, BUT THEY AREN'T EVEN AWARE OF THE GROUP THAT WE'RE REACHING OUT TO.
SO HOW DO WE BECOME INCLUSIVE IF WE REALLY WANT TO LISTEN TO THE COMMUNITY? HOW DO WE BECOME INCLUSIVE AND GET THE WORD OUT? TALKING ABOUT GRASSROOTS.
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AS AN INSTITUTION THERE ARE THINGS THAT THIS, THE CITY CAN DO SUPPORT WITH THAT IN TERMS OF WHAT'S AVAILABLE TO THEM.UM, AS STAFF, TONY KAMAN, ALANA, A LOT OF THEM NEED HELP FOR THIS MONTH.
BUT, UH, TONY HAS RELATIONSHIP TO A LOT OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS WITH THE OFFICE OF EQUITY, UM, WHEN TONY CALLS, THEY PICK UP.
UM, AND THEN WE HAVE ALL OF US.
UM, AND SO I KNOW THAT MANY OF US ARE CONNECTED AND WE CAN CALL THE RIGHT PEOPLE, WE CALL THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS.
WE CAN CALL OUR FRIENDS AND WE CAN BRING ABOUT FIVE TO 10 PEOPLE OUT TO A MEETING.
UM, I WOULD ENCOURAGE IF LIKE THERE ARE OTHER STRATEGIC OUTREACH OPPORTUNITIES, LIKE ONCE WE GET THE FLYERS, WE'LL PRINT THEM OUT.
UM, AND IF FOLKS WANT TO FIRE YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD OR FLYER SPECIFIC COMMUNITY GROUPS OR WITH THE SPECIFIC CHURCHES AND INVITE NEW CHURCHES TO ATTEND, THAT WOULD BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT.
BUT IF, UM, AS FAR AS WHAT THE CITY CAN DO, WE'RE KIND OF LIMITED IN TERMS OF LIKE EMAIL, SOCIAL MEDIA, UM, AND THEN IT'S ON TO DO THE PHONE CALLS, THE TEXT MESSAGES, UM, AND THEN LIKE THE, WILL YOU SHOW UP KIND OF VERSION OF IT TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION.
LOCK, UM, REALLY GOOD RECOMMENDATIONS MADE.
UM, I APPRECIATE YOUR SUBSTITUTE MOTION IS BOTH YOU AND VICE CHAIR.
WILL I WILL ALSO, IN THAT PROCESS IS I SEE BOTH OF THE LEADERSHIP.
SO THAT WHOLE TRUST IN THE INCLUSION, THE THEMES THAT ARE COMING, THOSE ARE ALL IMPORTANT TRAITS, RIGHT? AND SO I KNOW YOU'RE DEALING WITH A LOT.
SO YOU WILL DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE IN SELECTING PRESENT REPRESE PRESENTERS GROUPS OR ACADEMICS PROFESSORS.
SO I WANTED TO SAY THAT REGARDLESS OF WHO COMES TO OUR MEETINGS TO SPEAK, IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT NO ONE PERSON, NO ONE PERSON IN THE WORLD GROUP CAN REALLY MUCH OF AN EXPERT THAT THEY MAY BE, CAN REALLY SPEAK TO THE TOTALITY OF THESE LARGE, UM, AND VERY DIVERSE WITHIN THOSE GROUPS.
UM, AND I GO BACK TO MY PRODUCT POINT OF DISCOURSES.
SO THAT'S IMPORTANT WHAT WILL EVENTUALLY BE SET, HOW IT'S SET, HOW IT'S PRESENTED, HOW EXPLAIN HAS INFORMED, UM, IT'S NOT COMING FROM A CRITICAL STANDPOINT, RIGHT? WE MAY DO AN INTENTIONAL SERVICE TO WHAT WE'RE INTENDING TO DO.
SO THE MORE CRITICAL STANDPOINT IS, UH, GOES BETTER OR WE ONLY TAKE AWAY FROM INTEREST.
WHILE KNOWING THAT THESE GROUPS ARE NOT MONOLITHIC AND WE ARE ONLY GONNA PROBABLY HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SKIN THE SURFACE OF ANYTHING TO THE EARLIER POINT OF QUESTIONS THAT YOU SHARED WITH US.
I WOULD ALSO RECOMMEND, UM, THAT YOU GO BACK TO THE MAP AND USE A ROADMAP TO PICK QUESTIONS.
FOR EXAMPLE,
UM, AND AS WE KNOW COME MONDAY, RIGHT, WITH THE CHANGE IN ADMINISTRATION, IT'S ALREADY HAPPENING.
UM, UNFORTUNATELY, UH, YOU KNOW, ICE RACE AND WHAT HAVE YOU.
SO I THINK IF THESE, UH, PRESENTERS CAN ANSWER A QUESTION RELATED TO IMMIGRATION WITHIN THESE PARTICULAR GROUPS.
AND THEN WE HEARD EARLIER ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE AND MICRO VOTES, I THINK THAT COULD BE HELPFUL WHILE ALSO BEING SENSITIVE THAT, YOU KNOW, ONE PERSON CAN ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS.
ARE THE EXPERTS IN THAT? SO IF THEY DON'T HAVE EXPERTISE ON THAT, YOU MAY NOT NECESSARILY HAVE THAT PERSON ANSWER QUESTION.
BUT IF YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT THAT ROADMAP AGAIN AND FRAME A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS FOR THESE FOLKS AROUND THAT ROADMAP, AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE A BEAUTIFUL WAY TO END THIS ROADMAP, KNOWING THAT ELEMENTS OF THE ROADMAP WILL PROBABLY INFORM THAT.
THIS IS A CONDITIONAL QUESTION AND I'M WONDERING WHAT AGE GROUP WHERE YOU WANT BE FOCUSED ON WHAT GENERATIONS WE'RE CALLING IN.
AND I SAY THAT 'CAUSE OFFICE OF YOUTH DEVELOPMENT HAS DONE A LOT OF WORK DOING LISTENING SESSIONS AND PULLING TOGETHER THEIR NEW STRATEGIC PLAN THAT IS STILL IN EFFECT.
UH, THAT WAS A FIVE YEAR PERIOD, I BELIEVE IT WAS A YEAR AND A HALF TO GET THOSE THINGS DONE.
UM, SO AS NOT TO OVERSHADOW THEM, KNOWING THAT A LOT OF THE ITEMS IN THAT SOMEWHAT 70 PAGE DOCUMENT, UH, IS ABOUT EQUITY AND WHAT IS GONNA HAPPEN WITH DIFFERENT RESOURCES, INCLUDING ATION, MENTAL HEALTH, PHYSICAL HEALTH,
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EACH 26, IF WE DO DO THAT, WE MIGHT CAPTURE A DIFFERENT AMOUNT OF NEEDS OR THINGS.BUT IF WE DO DO ALL OF THE GENERATIONS AND ALSO INCLUDE YOU, HOW DO WE MAKE SURE WE'RE NOT DUPLICATING THINGS THAT ARE ALREADY ING IN THE EXISTING STRATEGIC PLAN THAT'S BEING, UH, FUNDED, CARRIED OUT? SO THAT'S A QUESTION.
UM, WITHOUT LUNCH STOCKS,
THAT WAY IT ENCOMPASSES BOTH THE, THE DATA BUT ALSO WHAT THE CITY HAS, UM, COMMITTED TO IMPLEMENTING.
UM, AND THEN THAT BEING AN AGENDA, UM, ON OUR RETREAT.
SO THEN WHAT WE CAN DO IS WE CAN TAKE WHAT WE'RE HEARING FROM THE COMMUNITY AND THEN WHAT THE CITY HAS ALREADY COMMITTED TO, AND THEN WE CAN THEN SAY LIKE, ALRIGHT, WHAT, HOW DO WE, IN OUR ROLE OF BEING A BRIDGE BETWEEN THE CITY AND WE COMMUNITY, HOW DO WE WANT TO UTILIZE THE, OUR PLATFORM TO UPLIFT RECOMMENDATIONS TO CITY COUNCIL AND UM, BE EITHER A WAYS OF ACCOUNTABILITY, LIKE THE CITY SAID THEY'RE GONNA DO THIS, I DIDN'T DO IT YET.
WHAT'S UP WITH THIS? OR THE, UM, WE AS A BODY, WE ACTUALLY HAVE OVERSIGHT OF THE RACIAL RECONCILIATION, UM, PLAN.
UM, WHICH ALSO INCLUDES THE STRONGER LONG BEACH PLAN, UM, AND OTHER PLANS.
'CAUSE ACTUALLY THE
UM, AND THEN WE CAN ASK FOR UPDATES FROM DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS AS WELL.
UH, SO THAT WOULD BE MY ANSWER TO THAT.
UM, BECAUSE IF WE, IF WE, UM, CAP AN AGE GROUP OR ASK AN AGE GROUP HAVE TO ATTEND, UM, IT JUST GOES WRONG TO DO SO IN, IN A LISTENING SESSION.
BUT I, I DO HEAR THAT THERE WERE ALREADY PLANS PUT IN PLACE AND ACTUALLY THESE LISTENING SESSIONS TO ACTUALLY INFORM LIKE WE'RE HEARING THE SAME ISSUES, RIGHT? UM, WHAT, WHY HAVEN'T WE MADE AN IMPACT ON THESE ISSUES? SO, UM, YEAH.
HOW DOES THAT HAVE FOR YOU? YEAH, I THINK THERE ALREADY AN EFFORT HAPPENING TO SEE HOW FAR ALONG THE STRATEGIC PLAN IS.
LIKE HOW MUCH OF IT HAS BEEN IMPLEMENTED.
THE LAST TIME I CHECKED IT WAS ABOUT 14%, UM, WHICH WOULD HAVE BEEN TWO YEARS AGO.
SO THERE ARE SOME EFFORTS ON WHAT DEPARTMENTS ARE DOING TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
I CREATED THE SURVEY FOR A VERY LONG TIME.
UM, BUT I HOPE THAT WE CAN CAPTURE, YEAH, CAPTURE THINGS THAT HAVE NOT YET BEEN CAPTURED BY NOT, THIS IS NOW A OBJECTION BY NOT CLOSING THE, UH, AGE GROUP FROM WHAT YOU'VE SHARED.
SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE IDEAL, UH, TO HAVE MULTI-GENERATIONAL LISTING SESSIONS.
SO, SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS A PART OF THE MARKETING.
UM, ALSO THINKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT CHILDREN ARE COMING AND TRANSLATING ALL THESE THINGS, LIKE WE COULD HAVE MORE OF A FAMILY FOCUS.
I WONDER IF THAT WOULD SHIFT WHO COMES AND WHO DOESN'T.
UM, I WAS THINKING THE EXACT SAME THING TOO, IS THE WHOLE POINT OF LISTENING SESSION IS LET'S DETERMINE ARE THEY DOING ANYTHING WITH THESE PLANS THAT THEY HAVE, RIGHT? SO LET'S HEAR FROM THE COMMUNITY.
ONCE WE HEAR FROM 'EM, GATHER OUR DATA SO WE AND HIS TEAM CAN PULL ALL THESE PLANS.
'CAUSE THERE'S MORE THAN JUST THAT ONE, RIGHT, THAT THE CITY HAS.
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AND THEN WE START UTILIZING ONE OF OUR AGENDA ITEMS TO LOOK, THIS IS WHAT THE COMMUNITY IS SAYING, THIS IS WHAT THEY SAID.HAVE THEY IMPLEMENTED THIS STUFF? 'CAUSE THAT CAN BE PART OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE'RE AMPLIFYING.
YOU GUYS ALREADY HAVE THIS WRITTEN DOWN AND YOU NEED TO REPRIORITIZE THIS BECAUSE THIS IS A DIRE CONCERN IN THE COMMUNITY RIGHT NOW WITH THIS SPECIFIC GROUP.
YOU KNOW, THAT'S STILL TAKING PLACE.
UM, LIKE WHAT, UM, COMMISSIONER DR.
LAURA WAS SAYING WITH, UM, AT THE BEGINNING OF ALL OF THESE SESSIONS, MAKING IT VERY CLEAR THAT WHATEVER GROUP OR INDIVIDUAL IS PRESENTING THAT, THAT'S NOT THE ONE ALL BE ALL.
THAT JUST SO HAPPENS TO BE THE GROUP THAT'S PRESENTING TODAY.
THEY DON'T SPEAK FOR ANY ONE ENTIRE GROUP, IT'S JUST TO KIND OF GET THE JUICES FLOW SO THE CONVERSATIONS CAN START AND PEOPLE FEEL COMFORTABLE OR UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THE INFORMATION THAT THEY'RE SEEING AND WANT TO SPEAK UP.
UM, AND THE SUGGESTION OF FOOD, I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE FOOD AND IT NEEDS TO BE ON THE FLYER THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE FOOD
BECAUSE ONE THING THAT I HAVE FOUND IS THAT PEOPLE COME WHEN THERE IS FOOD, THEY WILL COME JUST FOR THE, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THIS IS A SIX O'CLOCK HOUR AND IT'S DINNER TIME.
SO IF THEY KNOW THAT THERE IS FOOD THERE, YOU KNOW, THEN I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL GET MORE PEOPLE TO COME.
AND I THINK WE AS COMMISSIONERS, UM, WHEN YOU WERE ASKING HOW ARE WE GETTING THE MESSAGE OUT, THERE'S 14 OF US.
IF WE ALL COMMITTED TO FIVE PEOPLE, IF IT'S AFRICAN AMERICAN, WHAT COMMUNITY MONTH IN FEBRUARY COMMIT TO BRINGING FIVE AFRICAN AMERICANS THAT YOU KNOW, TO THE MEETING.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE ABOUT 70 PEOPLE FROM THE COMMUNITY, A DIVERSE GROUP, BECAUSE I MAY NOT KNOW THE SAME FIVE PEOPLE THAT YOU KNOW, OR THAT YOU KNOW, OR THAT YOU KNOW.
AND IF YOU DO, ONLY ONE OF US GET CREDIT FOR THAT FIVE.
BUT WE AS COMMISSIONERS NEED TO COMMIT TO BRINGING PEOPLE TO THESE LISTENING SESSIONS.
YOU CAN DO IT FROM YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA, BUT YOU SHOULD COME WITH YOU MY FIVE NAMES.
YEAH, THERE GO THREE OF 'EM YOU TEXTED.
HOW COME YOU'RE NOT HERE YET? BECAUSE WE WANT, YOU KNOW, AT LEAST 50 PEOPLE FROM THE COMMUNITY AND A DIVERSE 50 PEOPLE FROM THE COMMUNITY, NOT THE SAME PEOPLE WHO, YOU KNOW, ALWAYS SHOW UP TO EVERYTHING.
TELL YOUR GIRLFRIEND, GIRL, WE DON'T HAVE FOOD.
COME ON UP BECAUSE WE WANNA HEAR YOUR VOICE.
YOU ALWAYS COMPLAIN IN THE TALKING ON MY PHONE.
COME AND COMPLAIN AT THE MEETING SO WE CAN HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY.
YOU KNOW? AND, AND BY THE WAY, WE'RE GONNA HAVE SOME FOOD FOR YOU.
I THINK THAT WILL GET US SOME OF THE DATA THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR AND THE REPRESENTATION FROM AN ECLECTIC GROUP OF WITHIN THIS GROUP THAT WILL HELP US WITH OUR RETREAT.
SO IS OKAY TO HAVE FOOD IN CHAMBER? IS THAT WHAT I'M HEARING? I NEVER, I'VE NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE.
UH, WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE FOOD IN THE CHAMBER.
UH, SO WE'LL HAVE THE FOOD OUTSIDE BEFORE THE MEETING.
AND WE'RE GONNA HOLD THE PAST SO THEY CAN'T JUST EAT.
I, I'M WITH, I WAS JUST NOT SURE HOW, WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE, BECAUSE I'VE NEVER SEEN FOOD IN CHAMBERS AND, AND I TALKING FOOD AND I
I WANT, UM, I DON'T WANT TO GIVE FOLKS' HOPES UP ABOUT THE FOOD.
'CAUSE THIS IS AN ASK THAT WE HAVE TO MAKE TO THE OFFICE OF EQUITY AND THE CITY MANAGER.
UM, AND, UM, WE ALSO HAVE TO FIGURE OUT IF THERE ARE FUNDS AVAILABLE, UM, TO DO SO.
AND THEN ONCE THAT DONE, I MAKE SURE
YES, THE CITY OFFER AND RIGHT DOWN HERE IN THE LOBBY HERE.
I IT IS, IT HAS BEEN DONE, HAS JUST HAVE NOT DONE IT.
UH, SO WE'LL HAVE TO AT AS SAFELY POSSIBLE.
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OF FOOD, I DO HAVE A SUGGESTION, UM, RELATING TO OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS, MANY OF THEM.UM, LIKE FOR INSTANCE, I'M GONNA SHARE AN
SO IF WE COULD REACH OUT TO OUR PARTNERS IN SEE TO ATTRACT, UM, THE POPULATION THAT THEY SERVE, IF THEY COULD ALSO PROVIDE FOOD, SAY AT THE, IF WE DECIDE TO GO TO SATELLITE OPTION OR TO CITY HALL.
UM, SO THAT'S ANOTHER WAY TO COMPENSATE FOR WHAT WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO PROVIDE IS AS PARTNERS.
VICE CHAIR, UH, MENTIONED THAT.
BUT IKEA, I WANT TO PUSH THROUGH.
I, I KNOW IF THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY ASK THE QUESTION, BUT YOU CAN NAVIGATE IT.
UM, SOCIAL MEDIA, RIGHT? THE OPPOSITE ACTUALLY.
I MEAN, IT'S ALWAYS FASCINATING HOW SOCIAL MEDIA ACTUALLY DOES AN IMPACT AND LISTEN PEOPLE.
SO, SO, SO I THINK IF THE GROUND UP ALLOWS US TO DO THAT, UM, IT IS NOT A, FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, IT'S NOT AROUND THAT, UH, ISSUE.
IT'S A, UM, REPRESENTING THE CITY ISSUE.
UM, SO WE ARE ASKED, UM, THROUGH OUR CODE OF CONDUCT, UM, AND I HOPE YOU ALL DID YOUR TRAINING, UM, BECAUSE TWO OF THEM ARE REQUIRED TO HARASS CONDUCT
WE'LL BE TEXTING YOU IF YOU HAVEN.
UM, WE ARE ASKED NOT TO USE OUR PERSONAL SOCIAL MEDIA STA UM, AND REPRESENT THE CITY.
UM, IF YOU WANT TO REPRESENT THE CITY AS A COMMISSIONER, YOU HAVE TO CREATE A COMMISSIONER, SOCIAL MEDIA, UM, ACCOUNT TO
BUT THAT'S THE ONLY THING, BECAUSE THE THING ABOUT BOTH PERSONAL SOCIAL MEDIA, IF SOMEONE WERE TO MESSAGE YOU AND THEN YOU DON'T LIKE THAT COMMENT AND YOU BLOCK THEM OR YOU HIDE THE MESSAGE, THEN UM, THEN YOU'RE VIOLATING, UH, UH, WHAT IS IT CALLED? IT'S NOT GROUND ACT, BUT YOU'RE, YOU'RE VIOLATING, UM, UH, PUBLIC SPEECH OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
PUBLIC ENGAGE, UH, BEING ABLE TO ENGAGE WITH A PUBLIC SERVANT.
UM, I THINK IT'S PART OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT, RIGHT? UM, AND THEN THE CITY CAN BE SUED FOR IT.
UM, SO YEAH, YOU CAN POST IT AND SAY, HEY, THIS THING IS GOING ON.
UH, BUT THEN YOU SAY, I'M A COMMISSIONER AND I WANT YOU TO COME SEE ME AT THIS MEETING, THEN THAT'S, THAT'S THE GREAT AREA.
UM, AND SO IF YOU DO HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA, PLEASE DIRECT THEM TO TELL ME
UM, SO WHEN IN ENGAGING IN THE CONVERSATION RIGHT NOW, BUT, UH, WE, WE CAN'T, SO WE WOULD'VE TO PUBLISH THE AGENDA FIRST, UM, RIGHT.
LIKE, SO THE AGENDA WOULD HAVE TO BE PUBLISHED, UM, BEFORE WE CAN THEN LIKE LITTLE 10, UM, THE SESSION.
THE TODAY IS SAYING THAT THESE LESSON SESSIONS ARE HAPPENING IN OUR MEETINGS ON THESE SPECIFIC DATES AND THAT WE'RE CREATING A FLYER.
KNOW THAT THESE DATES ARE GOING TO INCLUDE AS SESSION, AND THEN WE CAN ATE, UH, SHARE THAT FLYER OUT MY DATE BEFORE FORTH THE MEETING.
I WILL ASK THIS TO BE ATTORNEY AND GET CLARITY AND GET ACTION ALL BECAUSE TO BE OUR ATTORNEY SCHEDULE, IT'S JUST SAYING, HEY, WE'RE INCLUDING THESE THINGS, SO COME TO THE MEETING.
SO I THINK BECAUSE WE'RE STILL HAVING THE DISCUSSION ON, ON THE, THE, UM, SUBSTITUTE MOTION.
SO ONCE, ONCE A MOTION IS VOTED ON AND PASSED, I WOULD DEFINITELY ASK THE CITY ATTORNEY HOW WE CAN MOVE, UM, THE EXPECTATIONS OF THAT MOTION FORWARD.
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THAT WAS IT IN TERMS OF ALL THE DISCUSSION, WHICH WAS VERYIT WAS A REALLY GREAT THING FOR US TO RECORD.
UM, WE'RE WAITING, UH, BEFORE OUR CALL FOR A VOTE.
UM, I THINK WE'LL WAIT FOR OUR COMMISSIONER SHAW TO JOIN IN.
UM, THERE'S 10 VERY POWERFUL MAIL LIST IN THE CITY.
THE, THE, THE COUNCIL DISTRICT, EACH YOUR COUNCIL PEOPLE AND THE MAYOR HAS THEIR OWN EMAIL LIST.
AND, UH, IF THEY DO IT RIGHT, IT PASSES ON FROM COUNCIL PERSON TO COUNCIL PERSON WHEN A NEW PERSON TAKES OVER.
SO THE EAT DOESN'T HAVE TO START ALL OVER AGAIN.
AND, UM, PEOPLE LIKE FOOD AND THEY LIKE FISH.
AND, UH, IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN TO A FREE AQUARIUM NIGHT, YOU KNOW THAT THESE MAILING LISTS ARE VERY, IF WE DID OUR MEETING AT THE, UH, AQUARIUM, WE'D GET 5,000 PEOPLE THERE, UH, EACH MONTH.
BUT, UM, PRO TIP, UH, UH, IF YOU HAVE AN EVENT, I UTILIZE THE CD FIVE TO MONITOR FOR
BUT I WOULD IMAGINE TONY COULD GET THOSE, UH, GRAPHICS, UH, FOR UPCOMING MEETINGS TO THE COUNCIL MEMBERS.
UH, AS LONG AS THE CITY ATTORNEY APPROVE, SEE, YOU NEED, I KNOW YOU NEED TO POST THE AGENDA WITHIN 24 HOURS OF, OR THREE DAYS THAT SOMEBODY TWO HOURS, SEVEN, TWO HOURS OF A MEETING MEETING 24 HOURS FOR A SPECIAL MEETING.
BUT CAN YOU, CAN YOU TALK ABOUT BEFORE THAT IS POSTED, THAT NOTICE IS POSTED, THAT AGENDA IS POSTED, WHAT THE AGENDA WOULD BE? I GUESS WE HAVE TO FIND OUT DR, BECAUSE THERE'S OTHER ITEMS WE MAY NOT INCLUDE, BUT THESE I THINK IT'S GONNA BE FINE.
I'M HOPING IT'S GONNA BE FINE BECAUSE K COD HAS EVENTS AND THEY HAVE FLYERS AND THEY GET SENT OUT WAIT IN ADVANCE.
SO I'M HOPING THAT WE GET THE SAME TREATMENT.
UM, AND IF THERE'S SOME LIKE, OH, WELL THEY'RE DOING IT AND THEY WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO BE DOING IT, AND THEN WE'LL FIGURE THAT OUT.
I'LL BE UPSET, BUT WE'LL JUST GO WHAT WE DONE.
UM, SO YEAH, WE'LL FIGURE IT OUT.
YOU DON'T GET THE MAILING LIST OFF THE MOTOR ROLLS OR FROM THE UTILITY DEPARTMENT.
YOU GET IT BECAUSE THAT PERSON IS BID TO A CIVIC EVENT.
YEAH, THEY CAME TO A PARTY OF THE PARK.
THEY CAME TO A, A, A, A COMMUNITY MEETING.
UM, BUT THEY WERE, THOSE LIST ARE GATHERED PART, EVERYBODY ON THAT LIST IS, HAS INTERFACED WITH SOME TYPE OF CIVIC OR CITY EVENT.
I'M GONNA ADD THAT TO THE LIST.
I JUST WANTED TO GET THAT, JUST WANT TO BRING A QUICK COPY.
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HAVING AFRICAN AMERICANS IN FEBRUARY AND SO, SO FORTH AND SO ON.
AND THEN SOMEBODY, SOME PEOPLE MENTIONED COMMUNITY ROOMS OR WHATEVER.
NOT EVERYBODY LIVES IN THE SAME NEIGHBORHOOD.
YOU KNOW, YOU GOT TO CONSIDER THAT AS WELL.
YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE, UH, PEOPLE THAT HAVE FALL INNOCENT.
UM, BEFORE WE GO TO A VOTE, CAN YOU READ BACK WHAT THE MOTION IS? I WANT KNOW IF I, I
ALRIGHT, SO THE MOTION, THE MOTION THAT YOU BROUGHT TO THE FLOOR IS ABOUT THE COMMISSION.
WE'LL WORK WITH THE OFFICE OF EQUITY TO DEVELOP LISTENING SESSIONS THAT WILL BE THROUGH THE COMMISSION, UM, ON FOUR IDENTITY GROUPS, WHICH ARE TO INCLUDE BLACK AND AFRICAN AMERICAN IN THE FEBRUARY LATIN MEN, LATINX, AND NATIVE AMERICAN POPULATIONS IN THE MONTH OF MARCH, ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER, SOUTHEAST ASIAN IN THE APRIL AND LGBTQ PLUS IN THE MONTH OF MAY TO BE HELD INTO THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS AND OR OTHER LOCATIONS IF AVAILABLE AND OFFICE OF EQUITY STAFF AND THE CHAIR WILL WORK ON THE FLOW OF THE POSITIONS.
UM, I THINK THAT THE, THE FLOW IS ENCOMPASSING.
SO LIKE IF WE WANT TO CREATE A SURVEY FOR THE BROADER COMMUNITY, UM, IN CASE FOLKS AREN'T ABLE TO SHOW UP, THAT COULD BE INCLUDED IN A FLOW, RIGHT? OR SHOULD I ADD THE SURVEY TO THE
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SO, UM, I JUST WANT THROW THAT OUT.I, I PROMOTION SUPER CONVOLUTED.
BUT IT, IT, IT HAS THE, IT HAS THE, THE POSSIBILITY LIKE, SO IF WE WORK ON A SURVEY AND THEN WE INCLUDE IT AS PROPER PACKING AND GET IT OUT TIME, WE'LL SAY FLOW.
EXCUSE ME, WHAT YOU SAID METHODOLOGY INSTEAD OF FLOW WAS MORE.
I MEAN, BUT THE METHODOLOGY IS LIKE THE, THE WHY I'M GONNA SAY ELEGANT.
UM, SO, UM, WE'LL WORK WITH THE CHAIR ON THE LISTING SESSION ELEMENTS.
UM, SO THAT'S A BUNCH OF QUOTES.
UM, MAYBE HAVE, UH, MADAM CLERK MAYBE HAVE
COMMISSIONER MCNEIL? NO, I ALSO HAVE CONSENT.
UM, SO WE, I'M SORRY, WE ALREADY TOOK A VOTE ON THE ITEMS, SO THE ITEM HAVE ALREADY CONCLUDED.
IT'S JUST, I, AND I'M NOT SURE THE CORRECT WAY TO DO THIS AND MAYBE I SHOULD TALK TO YOU LATER ABOUT IT.
IT'S JUST THE MONTH, THE, THE ASSIGNMENT OF THE MONTH.
YEAH, WE CAN DEFINITELY TALK ABOUT IT AFTER THE SESSION.
YEAH, THAT, THAT, THAT'S MY ONLY CONCERN.
EVERYTHING ELSE, I'M GOOD THEN.
UM, YEAH, SO IF THERE ARE CONCERNS THAT YOU WANNA SHARE WITH ME, UH, LET'S CONNECT AFTERWARDS AND THEN I'LL GIVE YOU MY CELL PHONE TOO.
UM, I REALLY NEED TO STAY BEHIND AS WELL, UNLESS ANY CONCERNS, I JUST HAVE TO REMIND YOU ALL THAT FOR PRODUCT YOU CAN BE ENGAGING IN CONVERSATIONS ARE NOT IZED OR IZED, UM, OUTSIDE OF A PUBLIC CALL.
SO ESPECIALLY TO TO AVOID, TO AVOID THE TELEPHONE PROBLEM OR, OR, OR TO AVOID MORE THAN, UM, MORE THAN QUORUM HAVING THE SAME CONVERSATION.
UM, I BELIEVE BROWN ACT MAY ALLOW, BUT TONY AND CORRECT FOR THOSE CONCERNS TO BE ADDRESSED DIRECTLY TO TONY VIA EMAIL.
AND THEN TONY CAN SYNTHESIZE OR DO WHAT HE DOES BEST.
AND SINCE HE KNOWS AROUND THAT AND THEN COMMUNICATE THAT, I THINK THAT'S, YEAH, DEFINITELY SOME CONCERNS ME.
I MEAN, THERE'S ONLY FOUR CONCERNS.
I DON'T WANT ANY OF YOU TO GET IN TROUBLE.
THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT AT, SO NO ONE HOW TO DO IT.
ONE CAN TALK TO ME ABOUT THIS.
UH, AND IT'S ALSO, UH, WE'RE THAN HOUR TO GO OVER TO, SO LET'S MOVE ON.
AND ALSO, I JUST WANNA GIVE APPRECIATION.
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT WE'VE EVER HAD NOVO.
EVERYTHING HAS ALWAYS BEEN, UH, UNANIMOUS.
THAT'S OUR, THAT'S THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMISSION'S D BRING DIFFERENT POINTS.
ITEM NUMBER THREE IS A RECOMMENDATION TO RECEIVE AND FILE A REPORT FROM CURRENT ALCOHOL COMMITTEES, DISCUSS ANTICIPATED ADHA COMMITTEES FOR UPCOMING PROJECTS, AND IF APPROPRIATE, TAKE ACTION TO DISSOLVE OR CREATE ADHA COMMITTEES.
UM, SO WE HAVE, UH, FIVE AD HOC PERIOD.
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UM, I'LL START WITH OUR, UM, EQUITY.MAY I GET A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR THIS? A PLEASE.
UH, DR. LARA AND THEN COMMISSIONER BUTLER.
UH, DR. LARA OUR SECOND, I MEAN OUR FIRST, OUR MOTION
OUR MOTION IS DR. LARA AND OUR SECOND IS COMMISSIONER.
THEN SECOND WE'LL GOING THROUGH, UH, THE PRESENTATION SLASH DISCUSSION.
UM, SO I'LL START WITH OUR, UH, EQUITY ASSESSMENT, UH, TOOL.
UM, SO, UH, WE HAVE, UM, A DRAFT, UH, OF THE FRAMEWORK.
AND SO, UH, WE ARE, UH, WAITING, UH, TO WORK WITH, UH, THE CITY STAFF ON THE, UH, ACTUAL TOOL ITSELF.
UM, SO THAT IS GOING TO BE DELAYED, UM, UNTIL, UH, THE MARCH MONTH OF MARCH.
UM, SO WE'LL HAVE AN UPDATE FOR YOU AT THAT TIME.
UM, BUT WE'RE READY TO ROCK THE ROLL.
UH, AND THEN, UH, NEXT, UH, WE HAVE OUR BIPOC, UH, AD HOC, SO I'LL PASS IT OVER TO
SO THE BIPOC, UH, COMMITTEE THAT WOULD BE OUR COUNCIL AND THEY HAD A GREAT PRESENTATION, UM, GAVE US LOTS OF INFORMATION ON HOW THE CITY WORKS WITH THE ARTS VERSUS NON-PROFITS IN THE COMMUNITY.
WE LEARNED A LOT ON THE ACTUAL CALL.
AND, UM, SOME OF THE TAKEAWAYS FROM THERE.
UM, IS THAT IT DOESN'T MATTER.
UM, THE CITY USES A CERTAIN KIND OF PROTECTIVE CODING UTILIZED ON ALL OF THE ART THAT'S, UM, PLACED THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
HOWEVER, IF A NON-PROFIT GROUP IS CONTRACTED TO A MURAL OR TO FEED SOMETHING, THEY DON'T HAVE THE SAME REQUIREMENT TO HAVE THIS PROTECTIVE CODING.
SO WHEN GRAFFITI IS PLACED ALL OVER THE ART, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO REMOVE A FEE BECAUSE THERE'S NO PROTECTIVE CODE ON THIS PART.
SO ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS WOULD BE, REGARDLESS IF IT'S A NON-PROFIT OR THE CITY, IT SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO HAVE THIS PROTECTIVE CODING UTILIZED ON ALL WORKS OF ART THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
AND, UM, ANOTHER ITEM THAT THEY DISCUSSED WAS THAT THERE ARE LOTS OF STATUES AND WORKS OF ART, UM, THAT DO NOT HAVE REALLY GOOD LIGHTING, WHICH PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE TO COME IN AND GRAFFITI UP THE DIFFERENT PIECES OF ART.
SO, UM, RECOMMENDING BETTER LIGHTING AND REFRESHING THE WALL CONDITIONS WOULD BE ANOTHER RECOMMENDATION, UM, THAT WE COULD SEND.
AND SOMETHING THAT WAS MENTIONED BY ONE OF THE MORE SEASONED PEOPLE ON THE CALL WAS IN PREVIOUS CITY COUNCIL POLITICAL ERA, THERE USED TO BE A LOCATION IN THE CITY WHERE PEOPLE WHO LIKE TO DO GRAFFITI WOULD GO AND IT WAS A CENTRALIZED LOCATION WHERE THEY COULD GRAFFITI UP THE WALLS, YOU KNOW, THEY COULD GO IN AND PAINT WHATEVER THEY WANT, AND THEY SAW A SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION AND THE AMOUNT OF GRAFFITI THAT WAS BEING PLACED THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND, AND VANDALIZING, YOU KNOW, ART THAT'S THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
AND SO RECOMMENDING THAT A CENTRALIZED LOCATION FOR ARTISTS TO PRACTICE THEIR ART, THEIR GRAFFITI, UM, WOULD BE A GREAT RECOMMENDATION AS WELL.
UM, 'CAUSE GIVING THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO HAVE A SPOT THAT THEY CAN HIGHLIGHT THEIR WORK, UM, WOULD BE BENEFICIAL.
AND THEN, UM, RECOMMENDING JUST FUNDING SUPPORT.
SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE WERE ABLE TO HEAR FROM THE ACTUAL ARTS COUNCIL SPEAK ABOUT IS SOME OF THEIR CHALLENGES.
UM, AND THEY EXPLAINED HOW, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY ARE CALLED, THEY GO OUT AS SOON AS THEY CAN TO REMOVE THE GR HOWEVER THEY RUN INTO THESE CHALLENGES, RIGHT? THE WALLS NOT, YOU KNOW, UM, NOT IN GOOD SHAPE OR THEY DON'T, THE PAINT DOESN'T HAVE THIS PROTECTIVE COATING.
AND SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE CHALLENGES.
SO I, I THINK THAT THIS GROUP, WE HAVE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO, UM, CREATE THESE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT COULD BE SENT
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OVER TO CITY COUNCIL, UM, ON THEIR BEHALF.'CAUSE WE ASK THEM, HOW CAN WE HELP YOU GUYS? WHAT CAN WE DO, UM, TO HELP THIS GROUP? DID I MISS ANYTHING? I THINK YOU GOT THE GIST OF IT.
AND I REALLY LIKE THE IDEA OF THE CENTRAL LOCATION FOR THIS
WE COULD EVEN TURN INTO A COMPETITION.
YOU KNOW, FROM THE COMPETITION SO THAT THEY CAN JUST EXERT THEIR ENERGY THERE IN THEIR CENTRAL LOCATION AND HAVE THEIR ART PERSPECTIVE.
YOU KNOW, INSTEAD OF TAGGING AND DEFACING SOMETHING ELSE, CREATE YOUR OWN IN THIS SPACE AND TURN IT INTO A POSITIVE EXPERIENCE VERSUS, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE MESSING UP MY STUFF OVER HERE.
THEY GET TO CREATE THEIR OWN AND, AND SIGN AWAY OR WHAT HEATHER, YOU KNOW? MM-HMM.
WE JUST FLIP THAT SCRIPT, TURN THAT NEGATIVE INTO A POLICY, HOPEFULLY.
WELL, IT SOUNDS LIKE Y'ALL HAVE RECOMMENDATIONS TO BRING.
SO HOPEFULLY, UH, WE'LL BE ABLE TO AGENDA A FORMAL, UM, ACCEPTANCE OF Y'ALL'S RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE
UM, SO IF YOU'RE READY TO DO THAT FOR FEBRUARY, COGNIZE THAT OKAY.
I'LL WORK WITH YOU, TONY, ON CREATING SOMETHING.
THAT'S THE OBJECTIVE OF OUR COMMISSION, NOT OUR APP.
UH, THE NEXT, UH, COMMISSION, UH, A HOC IS THE INSTITUTIONAL BARRIERS TO EQUITY AND EDUCATION.
UM, SO PASS FORWARD TO COMMISSIONER.
UH, WE DID NOT HAVE AN UPDATE OF THIS TIME.
UH, AND THEN OUR LAST, UM, UH, AD HOC IS OUR, UH, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE AD HOC, SO I'LL PASS IT OVER TO JOSH.
SO COMMISSIONER JOSH
BUT I'M REALLY CURIOUS TO HEAR LIKE YOUR SPOKES FOR, FOR THE VEN ON WALLS, HOW I WAS LIKE INSTITUTING THAT REALLY LONG TIME.
A GOOD MODEL FOR AN EFFECTIVE STANDING UP SUCH A, SUCH IN THE CITY.
UM, THEY'VE BEEN GOING FOR DECADES.
UM, SO WE HAD A GOOD CONVERSATION, UH, BY
UM, WE ALSO ATTEND, WE GOT A MEET, UM, UH, GOT MEETING.
SO WE, UM, REALLY TRIED TO DIG IN TO, I THINK FIRST JUST KIND OF ALIGNING ON BOTH WHAT WAS IN THE ROOM WITH OUR GROUP AND ALSO WHAT WAS IN THE ROOM.
RIGHT? UM, WE HAVE DIFFERENT ENTRY POINTS IN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE PROFESSIONALLY, UH, PERSONALLY AND, AND, UH, WE KNOW IN THE CITY OF LONG BEACH, ESPECIALLY DURING THIS CRISIS, HOW, UH, LIKE EJ IS SO OFTEN THE SECOND CHOICE UNTIL IT BECOMES THE UNAVOIDABLE FIRST CHOICE THAT WE THINK ABOUT.
AND SO WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME KIND OF GRAPPLING WITH, WITH THE CRISIS THAT RELEVANT TO US NOW.
UM, IN TERMS OF SORT OF WHERE WE MOVED IN THE CONVERSATION, I THINK, UH, ONE THING THAT WAS REALLY HELPFUL WAS, UM, UH, FIRST, UH, FACT THAT A LOT OF US HAVE STARTED TO MAKE CONNECTIONS PRIOR TO THAT MEETING WITH DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDERS IN THE COMMUNITY.
UM, I KNOW THAT, UH, UH, MR.
UM, AND, AND I THINK, UH, UM, ON, ON OUR END, WE CAN HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY AMPLIFY LIKE THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ASPECTS OF PARK EQUITY, WHICH INTERSECT WITH RACIAL JUSTICE, UH, WITH PUBLIC SAFETY, WITH CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND ALL OF THAT, RIGHT? SO I THINK THAT'S A PLACE WHERE WE MAY BE ABLE TO, UM, EITHER KIND OF LIKE A HOUSE FOR RECOMMENDATION, UM, COMING OUT RESERVATION NEXT WEEK OR NEXT MONTH OR IN THE FUTURE WHENEVER IT'S HAPPENING.
UM, THE OTHER TOPIC THAT CAME UP IN OUR CONVERSATION WAS, UM, LOOKING AT, IN LIGHT OF THE DISASTERS HAPPENING ACROSS LOS ANGELES, UM, DO WE HAVE A GOOD SENSE OF THE HEAT MAP OR WHERE DISASTER CAN HAPPEN? LONG BEACH, RIGHT? THERE'S FLOODING IN SOME AREAS, UM, FIRES IN OTHERS, WORSE AIR QUALITY IN OTHERS, UH, YOU KNOW, LIKE, UH, OIL EXTRACTION BLOOMS, UM, IN OTHER PARTS OF THE AREA, RIGHT? AND SO, UM, DO WE HAVE A GOOD SENSE OF HOW READY IS THE CITY OF LONG BEACH BASED ON THE
UM, THE NEXT THING, ANOTHER THING WE TALKED ABOUT QUITE A BIT, UM, REALLY IS ABOUT WHAT ARE THE DOWNSTREAM
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IMPACTS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE FACING FOR THE LONG BEACH AS A RESULT OF THE IMPORTANT BUYERS ACROSS, UH, ACROSS LA.UM, I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF HOME CAREGIVERS HERE IN LONG BEACH WHO, UH, WILL WORK, UH, LIVE IN AS HATE FOR FOLKS LIVE IN THE PAL STATES, RIGHT? JUST ONE EXAMPLE.
UH, THE KINDS OF IMPACTS WE MIGHT SEE BEYOND JUST THE AIR QUALITY BUT ALSO GOT LOST, RIGHT? WHEREAS I THINK THE CITY.
SO A LOT OF ROBUST CONVERSATION THERE.
UM, IN TERMS OF NEXT STEPS, UM, WE ARE GOING TO BE HAVING ANOTHER AD HOC MEETING BETWEEN TODAY AND THE NEXT, GOT ABOUT TWO WEEKS.
SO THE SAME FOR SETTING THIS UP.
WE'RE REACHING OUT A COUPLE DIFFERENT COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS, INCLUDING THE CLIMATE RESILIENT, UH, SUSTAINABLE CITY COMMISSION.
WE'RE GONNA TRY TO PROVIDE MEETING WITH 'EM TO GET A SENSE OF WHAT THEIR CURRENT PRIORITIES ARE AND WHERE WE CAN ALIGN, UM, WORKING WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION BECAUSE THEY HAVE AN ENVIRONMENTAL ANGLE AS WELL, SO WE CAN KIND OF SEE WHAT WORK IS BEING DONE THERE.
UM, AND THEN THERE'S ALREADY A BLACK COMMUNITY HEALTH FORUM THAT HAS A LISTENING SESSIONS TO TOUCH ON ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY.
AND SO WE'RE INVITING, UM, UH, ONE OF THE LEADERS IN THAT ORGANIZATION TO COME SHARE WITH US.
AND SO WE'RE TRYING TO NOT BE DUPLICATIVE IN LIKE THE EJ LESSONS THAT WE'RE GETTING, UM, THROUGH THESE KINDS OF LIKE BILATERAL MEETINGS THIS TIME.
UM, OUR HOPE IS THAT WE KIND OF ALIGN WITH SOME GOALS AND WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT AS A, AS AN AD HOC, WE'RE GONNA BE MOVING TOWARDS MULTIPLE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE'RE GONNA PUT IN THE SPACE AREAS TO LOOK AT TO BE ACTIVE, UH, IN THE COMING MONTHS.
AND WE WILL HAVE A PRESENTATION ON OUR RESULTS FOR YOU ALL, UH, LATER AS WELL.
THE LAST PIECE I WANTED FOR HERE WAS REALLY ASK QUESTIONS FOR YOU ALL.
WE JUST HAD SOMEONE WHO WAS IN HERE WHO SEEMS TO BE EXPERT IN THIS SPACE.
UM, AND SO WE'D LOVE YOUR SUGGESTIONS AS WELL FOR FOLKS IN YOUR NETWORK.
UM, BUT YOU THINK WE SHOULD MEET AS PART OF THE SPOT FINDING, RIGHT? THE MANY OF THIS AD HOC RIGHT NOW IS REALLY JUST HAVING INFORMATION AND THEN THEY INTENDS TO DISSOLVE IT AND REPLACE IT WITH ANOTHER ONE MORE ACTION.
SO OPEN SPACE NOW, ANY RECOMMENDATIONS, INDIVIDUALS, UM, THAT YOU THINK WE'RE MISSING FROM THAT LIST WE CAN TALK TO AS WELL? I HAVE A CLARITY, I QUESTION YOU PASS, ADD ON.
WELL, I HAVE A SUGGESTION, BUT IF YOU WANT YES.
UM, SO I BELIEVE THE MOTION BEFORE WE MOVE TO DISCUSSION, CAN WE DO A PUBLIC COMMENT FORMALLY, I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S HERE, BUT CALL FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
CAN WE CALL FOR A PUBLIC COMMENT? UM, IF THERE'S ANY PUBLIC COMMENT, COMMENT IN PERSON OR IN THE ZOOM, PLEASE USE THE RAISE HAND FEATURE.
OR IF IN PERSON RAISE YOUR HAND, DO NOT.
THAT INCLUDES THE PUBLIC COMMENT, RIGHT? I NUMBER THREE.
ALRIGHT, UH, WE'LL MOVE TO DISCUSSION.
ALRIGHT, RYAN, MY RECOMMENDATION DR. MICHAEL MENDEZ FROM UCI, WHO'S ALSO A
I FORGET HOW HE FRAMES IT, BUT IT'S CLIMATE CHANGE.
HE ALSO HAS EXPERTISE ON, UM, L-G-B-T-Q COMMUNITIES AND HOW IT INTERSECTS WITH CLIMATE CHANGE CONNECTING YOU.
UM, I BRING UP ON CALL, BUT THERE'S UH, ER, UM, THERE'S WHERE THEY, UM, PROVIDE INFORMATION PUBLIC SO WE COULD ASK THEM TO MAKE SURE ALL THE AREAS OF RIDGE ARE COVERED.
BUT QUITE FRANKLY, THE FIRES, I WAS JUST SUPPOSED TO STATEMENT TO THEM.
THEY COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT AS A GROUP.
UH, CHAIR COVINGTON, UH, PRONOUNS ARE THEY, YOU? UM, IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THE, THE SPECIFIC AD HOC MOTION WAS TO DO FACT FINDING TO THEN FOCUS ON ONE ISSUE.
UM, AND IT SOUNDS LIKE FROM WHAT YOU'RE REPORTING BACK ON IS NOW YOU'RE NOT ONLY DOING FACT FINDING, BUT YOU'RE ALSO GOING TO BE DEVELOPING RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THESE CONVERSATIONS.
SO IT, IT FEELS LIKE YOU'RE WIDENING THE SCOPE OF THE INTENDED PURPOSE OF THE A.
UM, I HAVE A QUESTION TO STAFF.
IF, IF THE AD HOC NEEDS TO CHOOSE AN ISSUE BEFORE PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS OR IN THE, AND WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND BRINGING BACK FACT FINDING AND RECOMMENDATION IS GONNA BE
I CLARIFICATION FOR THE, SO I THINK I MIGHT HAVE MISSPOKEN.
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MY INTENT IS THAT WE HAVE MULTIPLE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE RECOMMENDATIONS AS A COMMISSIONER, SPEAKING AS COMMISSIONER, HOWEVER, THE AD HOC WOULD BE DISSOLVED ONCE YOU IDENTIFY.ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON ANY OF THE OTHER A HOS QUESTIONS? ALRIGHT.
UM, WELL, GREAT WORK, UH, A BOX AND EVERYONE ON A BOX.
UH, I DO WANNA JUST MAKE SURE THAT OUR ROADMAP DOES END IN, UM, SO IF YOU'RE ARE ABLE TO WORK WITH YOUR, UM, STAKEHOLDERS TO GET THE INFORMATION THAT YOU, THAT YOU NEED, UM, IT IS MY GOAL GOAL AND HOPE FOR US TO DISSOLVE, UM, ALL OF THE AD HOCS THAT WE ESTABLISHED IN THE FIRST ROADMAP.
UM, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE NEW ONE, THE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ONE.
UM, SO THAT WE CAN START FRESH IN HERE, UH, IN THE NEW SCHEDULE OF THE COMMISSION.
WE DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO, BUT I THINK THAT IT MAKES THE MOST SENSE NOT TO LINGER ON A SPECIFIC ISSUE MORE THAN THE TWO YEARS THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THESE ISSUES.
UH, SO THAT WOULD BE MY ONLY ACT.
UM, WITH THAT, UM, MAYBE I HAVE A ROLL CALL ON ITEM FOUR THREE.
CARRIE, MAY WE HAVE, UM, ITEM FOUR? UH, THE LAST ITEM FOR YES.
ITEM NUMBER FOUR IS A RECOMMENDATION TO RECEIVE AND FILE A MONTHLY UPDATE FROM THE OFFICE OF EQUITY.
UH, I SAW SCHULTZ AS THE MOTION.
I DON'T KNOW WHO BETWEEN YOU TWO.
AND WE'LL MOVE, JUST QUICK UPDATE FIRST OF HAPPENED, WE ALL COMMISS.
WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS 2025 WORKING WITH ALL OF YOU AND SUPPORTING ALL OF YOUR EFFORTS.
UM, QUICK REMINDER, WE HAVE THE MLA PARADE THIS STANDARD DAY.
SO FOR THOSE OF YOU SIGNED UP TO WALK WITH THE OFFICE OF EQUITY AND THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
UM, BUT RIGHT, WE'LL BEGIN AT 10:00 AM AND WE'LL END AT 12 STARTING AT THE INTERSECTION OF MLK AVENUE AND HEIM STREET.
UM, FOLLOWING THE PARADE WAS A CELEBRATION FROM 12 TO 5:00 PM UH, OUR LINE NUMBER IS NUMBER 19, SO I'LL SEND AN EMAIL WITH THOSE DETAILS.
BUT I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING ALL OF YOU WHO, WHO ARE BE MARCHING WITH US IS SET IN THERE.
UM, GET THERE EARLY ON
UH, THEN COMMENT IF THERE'S ANY PUBLIC COMMENT FOR I REPORT IN THE ZOOM RAISE PEN FEATURE OR RAISE YOUR HAND.
UH, COMMISSIONER, DISCUSS FOUR 19.
ANY QUESTIONS FOR OUR OFFICE OF THAT MEETING? BETTER THAN THE LAST ONE.
UM, MAY WE GET A ROLL VOTE PLEASE.
UM, SO NEXT WE'LL MOVE TO COMMISSIONER ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Y'ALL LET US KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND OPPORTUNITIES.
SINCE WE SPENT MOST OF OUR MEETING ON LISTENING SESSIONS, I DO HAVE ONE THAT IS HOSTED BY
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ORGANIZING PROJECT AS WELL AS THE LONG BEACH DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES.IT'S, UM, PHILIPPINE, X LGBTQ I A PLUS MARINDA, WHICH IS MIKE NEIL
UM, IT'S FOR LONG BEACH RESIDENTS THAT IS 18 YEARS OLD AND IDENTIFY AS PHILIPPINE EX AND LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER QUEER QUESTIONING INTERSEX ASEXUAL.
BUT, OR, UM, THERE ARE 15, UH, SLOTS AVAILABLE.
THEY ARE OFFERING, UM, $40 GIFT CARD TO PARTICIPANTS.
AND IT IS AT COOPER LONG BEACH ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1ST, 1130 AM TO 1:30 PM I HAVE A FLYER HERE IF ANYONE'S INTERESTED.
ALSO WITH THE, UM, LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY AND PACIFICATION COUNSELING AND STOP TO HATE.
UH, THERE IS A STOP TO HATE WORKSHOP BY, UH, AT B HEART LIBRARY ON SEVERAL DATES.
MARCH 1ST, MARCH 15TH, 22ND, 29TH.
AND APRIL 4TH, ONE TO 3:00 PM IT'S A FREE WORKSHOP, UM, AT JET PARK LIBRARY.
IT'S INVITING FILIPINO SENIORS AND ADULTS TO LEARN ABOUT HATE CRIMES AND INCIDENTS AND HOW TO USE A SMARTPHONE TO REPORT.
UH, WE COMMISSIONER FIRST I JUST WANTED TO MENTION, UM, AS YOU DID IN THE BEGINNING, IF AT ALL POSSIBLE, UH, TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WILDLIFE FUNDS.
I DON'T, I DON'T THINK, UNLESS YOU HAVE A FAMILY THAT'S DIRECTLY AFFECTED LIKE I DO, I LOST MY COUSIN IN THE FIRE.
A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE LIVED IN, PARTICULARLY IN ALDE.
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE EVERYONE AWARE THAT DECADES OF HOMES, UM, JACKIE ROBINSON ONCE LIVED UP THERE AND A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE ELDERLY.
EIGHT, THREE YEARS OLD, THEY'VE LOST A HOME THAT THEY'VE BEEN IN FOR DECADES.
I KNOW WE LOST ALL OF OUR, UH, PICTURES AND MEMORABILIA, EVERYTHING.
UM, SO IT LOOKS LIKE AN, UH, A WAR ZONE.
I MEAN, THAT'S THE BEST WAY TO DESCRIBE IT.
I KNOW EVERYBODY IN THE NEWS ALWAYS TALKS ABOUT PACIFIC PALISADES, BUT I JUST WANTED TO CALL THE ATTENTION THAT THERE WAS SO MUCH MORE THAT COULD BE DONE.
UM, MY COUSIN SHARED WITH THE POLICE OFFICER TO PLEASE GO BACK AND LOOK FOR HER.
HER, UH, BROTHER THAT'S DISABLED WAS STILL IN THE HOUSE AND HE TOLD HER TO GO DOWN THE HILL.
THERE WERE NO FIRE ENGINES OUT.
AND THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE, THERE'S PEOPLE THAT CALLED FOR THE PARAMEDICS THAT NEVER CAME, NEVER CALLED BACK.
SO I JUST WANT, UH, PEOPLE TO BE AWARE THAT THE EATON CANYON FIRE OF THE INEQUITIES, YOU KNOW, AND IT'S NO OFFENSE TO LIKE PARIS HILTON.
THEY SAID, OH, ONE OF HER HOMES WAS GONE.
THESE PEOPLE, LIKE I SAID, THEY'VE LIVED HERE FOR DECADES AND IT'S JUST GONE.
AND THERE ARE PEOPLE WALKING AROUND LIKE, GO LIKE, WHAT DO I DO NOW? I'M 83 YEARS OLD, I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO DO, WHERE TO GO.
SO MAKE SURE YOU'RE CONTRIBUTING TO A FUND THAT IS GOING DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE, BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF SCAMMERS OUT THERE.
AND I, I JUST WANTED PEOPLE TO BE AWARE OF, OF THAT.
UM, I'VE NEVER LIVED THROUGH, I, I'M SUFFERING KIND OF LIKE FROM PTSD 'CAUSE I'VE JUST NEVER LIVED THROUGH ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE.
UH, IT'S AL TO DENA IS IS GONE.
TO ADD TO THAT, ALTADENA WAS TRADITIONALLY ABOUT 60% BLACK.
IT'S WHERE A LOT OF, UH, BLACK FAMILIES MOVE WHEN THEY COULDN'T BUY PROPERTIES IN HOLLYWOOD, BEVERLY HILLS, PLACES LIKE THAT.
SO YOU HAVE A LOT OF OLD HERITAGE THERE WHERE YOU HAD IT THERE.
AND THEY'RE SWOOPING IN NOW TRYING TO BUY THEIR PROPERTIES FOR PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR FOR PRAYING THAT THEY DON'T SELL.
ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS, LOST HER HOME, LIVED THERE FOR 48 YEARS.
UM, I'VE BEEN HELPING HER AS MUCH AS I CAN.
BUT THERE'S SO MANY STORIES LIKE THAT.
AND SO TO WHOM MUCH IS GIVEN, MUCH IS REQUIRED.
WE MAY NOT HAVE EVERYTHING, BUT WE HAVE A HECK OF A LOT MORE THAN MANY OF THE FOLKS OUT THERE HAVE RIGHT NOW.
AND LIKE SHE SAID, YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF SENIOR CITIZENS WHO HAVE NO CLUE.
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OF THEM ARE COMPUTER SAVVY, NOT, NOT ALL OF THEM EVEN KNOW HOW TO TURN A COMPUTER OFF MEANS STOP AND THINK ABOUT IT.SO I ASK FOR COMPASSION, UNDERSTANDING.
WHAT WOULD I WANT SOMEBODY TO DO FOR ME IF IT WERE ME? I'M JUST SO GLAD THAT IT'S NOT, BUT THAT'S THE APPROACH THAT I TAKE.
YOU KNOW, SO WITHOUT HESITATION, IIII JUST WENT IN MY POCKET LIFT AND SEE WHAT I HAD IN MY BANK ACCOUNT.
AND SALES MY FRIEND, BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO LEAVE WITH ANYTHING.
NOT EVEN A CHANGE OF UNDERWEAR, IF YOU COULD IMAGINE.
NOT EVEN A PAIR OF SOCKS, THE JAM OF THE ROAD, NOTHING LIKE THAT.
SO ALL OF US JUST EMBRACE EACH OTHER WITH A LOT MORE COMPASSION, A LOT MORE UNDERSTANDING, AND A LOT MORE LOVE.
YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T AFFORD TO BE HIGH AND MIGHTY LOFTY LOOKING G UPON ANYBODY BECAUSE, BUT UNDER THE GRACE OF GOD, THERE TOO GO ME AND THE REST OF US.
AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE STUDY THAT YOU'RE DOING BECAUSE WHAT WOULD WE DO IF IT WERE LONG BEACH? WE HAVE NO WAY OF PREDICTING THESE THINGS.
BUT THE NATURE OF ALL THE TIME ARE NOT NICE.
THEY ARE NOT ALWAYS NOT FRANK.
AND SO WE KIND OF WANNA KEEP THOSE THINGS IN MIND.
AND THEN REAL BRIEFLY, AT THE END OF JANUARY, WE'RE GOING TO OPEN REGISTRATION FOR OUR NINTH AND HOUR TO SPEAK UP EMPOWERMENT FOUNDATION.
THE, UH, NONPROFIT THAT I RUN.
WE WILL BE HOSTING OUR NINTH ANNUAL MISS SINGLE MOM EMPOWERMENT FORUM ON APRIL 19TH OVER AT THE MARRIOTT, UH, HOTEL, THE, THE LONG BEACH AIRPORT MARRIOTT IN THE GRAND BALLROOM.
THE BEST THING ABOUT THIS EVENT IS THAT WE DO NOT CHARGE THE MOTHERS.
SO BY 5 CENTS THAT I GET, I USE IT TO PAY FOR THAT EVENT.
WE'RE A HUNDRED PERCENT SPONSOR DRIVEN.
SO ANYBODY THAT'S NOT USING YOUR MONEY, THEY HELP THE FIRE VICTIM.
YOU CAN HELP US TO HOST THIS EVENT.
UM, SINGLE MOTHERS WEAR TWO HATS OFTEN.
MOST PEOPLE LOOK DOWN FROM THEM.
THEY THINK, OH, SHE'S JUST AN INNER CITY GIRL HAVING A BABY OUTTA WELOCK.
YEAH, WELL, SHE'S HER, BUT SHE'S SO MUCH MORE.
SHE'S YOUR WIDOW, SHE'S YOUR DIVORCE SEAT.
THOSE SINGLE WOMEN WHO STAND IN THE GAP FOR A MOTHER THAT'S MISSING.
AND ALL WE WANT TO DO IS HELP THEM FIGURE OUT WHERE DO, WHAT DO WE DO NOW? WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? I DON'T CARE.
ALL I WANT TO KNOW IS HELP THEM FIGURE OUT WHAT IS WE GOING TO DO NOW.
AND EVERY YEAR IT'S A ASTOUNDING SUCCESS BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU ALL WHO FEED INTO OUR SUCCESS.
THE REGISTRATION WILL OPEN AT THE END OF THE MONTH THROUGH NEXT MONTH.
I WILL HAVE ALL THAT INFORMATION TO SHARE WITH EVERYBODY.
COMMISSIONER SCHULTZ BEEN SOME FIRES.
IT'S BEEN, UH, I THINK CRAWL SHOCK NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE, BUT IT'S JUST, IT'S JUST, IT JUST GETS WORSE AND FURTHER THAT WAY.
YOU LIVE, UM, UH, LOCALLY, UH, OVER FIXING HOLES.
WE START COLLECTING, UM, RAW FROM ALLEY CAT AND THE COMB FROM THE
AND THEY OPENED UP THE EXPO ART CENTER, UH, WHICH IS OWNED BY THE CITY.
UH, AND PEOPLE JUST FLOODED IN.
YOU KNOW, I, I GOT THERE AN HOUR INTO IT AND IT NEEDED TO BE ORGANIZED.
WE GOT ORGANIZED AND I GET ROPE INTO DELIVERIES 'CAUSE I GOT A BIG TRUCK.
SO THEY SENT ME WITH LITERALLY A TON, 2000 POUNDS OF NEW CLOTHING.
DON'T, DON'T PUT ANY ANYMORE USED CLOTHING.
IT'S, IT'S GONNA BE BULLDOZED OUTTA SANTA ANITA.
IT'S, IT'S JUST, IT'S CRAZY NEW CLOTHING I TOOK TO THE EVACUATION AREA UP IN
UH, AND THEN I, I ALSO, UH, HAVE SOME CUSTOMERS AT THE FIRE STATION THERE, COUNTY FIRE.
IT'S THE ONLY BUILDING STANDING THEY HAD TO STAY AT, PROTECT THEIR BUILDING.
SO THEY CONTINUE TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY.
I HAVE A FRIEND WHO'S A DE AGENT AND THEY'VE BEEN DEPLOYED TO ALTADENA.
THEY'VE GOT 16 DE AGENTS FROM SIX A 6:00 PM TO 6:00 AM EVERY NIGHT LOOKING FOR LOOTERS AND PATROLLING, KEEPING THE, THE PLACE SAFE.
SO, UM, THERE IS, THERE IS A RESPONSE, BUT YOU JUST, IT'S JUST, IT'S JUST, IT'S TERRIBLE TO HAPPEN.
IF YOU WANT TO CONTRIBUTE, CONTACT BLAIR BIXBY KNOWLES, UH, UH, BUSINESS ASSOCIATION, THEY'RE STILL DOING THINGS AT THE EXPO.
UH, UH, AND IT'S GETTING TO THE END USER THE WAY THAT IT'S,
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IT'S IT'S SUPPOSED TO.UM, AND THEY NEED VOLUNTEERS ONLINE.
AND YEAH, I WANTED TO SAY IT'S NICE THAT PEOPLE ARE DONATING CLOTHES AND EVERYTHING, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE, THESE HOTELS, UH, RAISE THEIR PRICES.
THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT DON'T KNOW WHERE TO GO.
JUST SO HAPPENS, MY, MY COUSIN HAS A FRIEND THAT LIVES IN PASADENA, OR SHE COULD STAY WITH US.
HOWEVER, THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT BEYOND CLOTHES, THEY DON'T KNOW WHERE TO GO, WHAT TO DO, HOW TO FIGURE OUT THE PAPERWORK.
THEY ALL OF A SUDDEN HEAR THAT THERE'S A MEETING OVER HERE AND THERE'S A MEETING OVER THERE.
AND A LOT OF OLDER PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHICH, OKAY, WHERE AM I GOING? WHICH MEETING? HOW DO I, IT'S BEEN SAID, IF YOU GET GOFUNDME THAT THEN YOU CAN'T GET FEMA.
AND IT IS JUST, YOU KNOW, ALREADY THEY'VE LOST EVERYTHING.
MY COUSIN DOESN'T KNOW WHICH WAY TO GO.
THERE'S SO MANY PEOPLE THAT ARE JUST WONDERING AIMLESSLY ABOUT, BECAUSE THEY, THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.
THE CLOTHES THAT, THAT'S FINE, BUT THEY NEED TO KNOW HOW CAN THEY BEGIN TO REBUILD? WHAT CAN THEY DO? THEY NEED MONEY.
SO I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU.
I JUST WANTED TO COMMENT THEN AND TALK ABOUT IT THEN.
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, ALL THESE HIGH FIRE ENGINES YOU'RE HEARING RIGHT NOW WAS A THREE ALARM FIRE CALL OUT FOR AN OIL ISLAND AT SEVEN 50.
IT MUST HAVE BEEN A FALSE ALARM, BUT THEY WERE READY TO SEND COUNTY, YOU SAW OUT THERE TO
SO IT COULD, IT COULD HAPPEN ANYWHERE.
UM, ON A, A LIGHTER NOTE, UH, UPCOMING EVENTS, UM, A FOLLOW UP LAST MONTH, YOU KNOW, WE DID OUR, OUR HOLIDAY AUTISM NIGHT OUT AT THE HOUSE IN THE BAY.
WE HAD, UH, UH, VERY HAITIAN SANTA
IT IS BECAUSE THESE, IT WAS LOUD AND ROWDY AND, AND YOU KNOW, GET SOME SCREAMERS AND, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, AND THEN YOU GET THE, I LOVE TO HEAR THE KIDS YELLING AND BEING, YOU KNOW, BEING THEMSELVES.
THEN I HAVE TO RUN OVER TO MOM.
'CAUSE MOM STARTS APOLOGIZING.
YOU DON'T GET ALONG WHEN YOU'RE A KID.
UM, MY PARENTS SAID THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THEY EVER HAD A PICTURE OF SANTA, OR FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 10 YEARS, A DOZEN YEARS.
AND, AND YOU KNOW, MY, MY MY MY GOAL WAS TO GET AS MANY KIDS OVER BECAUSE SANTA'S A REALLY SCARY THING.
DOESN'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON, UH, UH, OR HAS VARYING DEGREES OF UNDERSTANDING.
AND, UH, I TELL A LOT OF STORIES, BUT, UM, WE JUST, WE REALLY TURNED THE CORNER AND, AND TURNS INTO A GREAT EVENT.
JOHN MORRIS, THE BOATHOUSE IN THE BAY.
AND IT'S BEEN A VERY SUPPORTIVE, THE PORT OF LONG BEACH IS SPONSORING THE NEXT ONE.
OR, UH, UH, SORRY, YOU HAVE TO SAY IT A CERTAIN WAY.
UH, UM, THEY, THEY DON'T, THEY THEY SPONSOR, THEY DON'T QUOTE DON.
UH, UM, AND THEY'RE SPONSORING IT SO WE CAN KEEP THE PRICES DOWN TO 15, $30 FOR ADULTS AND 15 FOR KIDS.
UH, IT'S COMING UP IN 10, 11 DAYS, 12 DAYS.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S TODAY, BUT JANUARY 27TH, 15TH TUESDAY, TODAY'S 15.
UH, NO PRESSURE, BUT, UH, YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE AUTISM TO COME.
WE DON'T, WE DON'T CHECK YOUR, YOUR ID AT THE DOOR.
UH, IF YOU WANNA HAVE A REALLY NICE DINNER AT, FOR THE NICEST FRONT RESTAURANTS, LONG BEACH BUFFET, UH, UH, REGISTER ONLINE AT LBAL, LONG BEACH OFFICE OF NIGHT EL.COM.
COME HAVE DINNER WITH US AND, UM, JANUARY 27TH, SEVENTH, UH, UH, YOU HAVE TO, YOU REALLY ASK TO BE, REGISTER TO WORK AHEAD OF TIME.
YOU PICK A TIME, BUT IT'S JUST, JUST REAL GRACE PERIOD.
AND IT'S OPEN TO, UH, EVERYBODY, ALL ABILITIES AND, UH, UH, COME OUT A NICE DINNER.
THANKS FOR WHAT? ALRIGHT, SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS.
UH, WE HAVE COMMISSIONER GILLETTE AND MR. COLE.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER FOLKS? ALRIGHT, UM, IN TIME CHECK.
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TO FOLLOW UP ON YOUR COMMENT REGARDING, UH, THOSE IMPACTEDSO, UM, AS AN ATTORNEY, THIS IS NOT LEGAL ADVICE, BUT UM, WITH RESPECT TO FEMA AND GOFUNDME, IT DOES NOT DISQUALIFY THEM FROM UM, GETTING FEMA EIGHT.
IT IS JUST THAT THEY DID NOT CLAIM DUPLICATIVE.
UM, I, SO FOR INSTANCE, IF IT'S A HOTEL ROOM, THEY CANNOT CLAIM TEMPORARY HOTELS UNDER, UH, TEMPORARY HOUSING.
AND, BUT IN ANY CASE, AGAIN, I'M NOT A REAL ESTATE.
I'M NOT A A, A CONSTRUCTION ATTORNEY, BUT OUR BAR ASSOCIATIONS HAVE PUT ON SEVERAL FREE WEBINARS, UH, FOR THOSE I THINK THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE LAWYERS, THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE IMPACTED BY THE FIRES WHO REALLY WANNA KNOW WHAT YOUR RIGHTS ARE WITH RESPECT TO, UM, CLAIMING PROPERTY DAMAGE AS WELL AS RESOURCES FOR GETTING AIDS SUCH AS FEMA, HOW TO FILL OUT FORMS. WE HAVE PRO BONO CLINICS THAT WILL PROVIDE THAT SERVICE.
AND MANY OF US ARE IN TRAINING RIGHT NOW TO DO THAT BECAUSE THERE IS A, UM, AS YOU SAID, THERE'S A LOT OF DONATIONS FOR CLOSED RIGHT NOW.
THERE'S SOME FORMS ARE STATING THAT WE'RE CLOSED.
UH, SO IT'S REALLY VOLUNTEER WORK AND UH, FUNDING THAT'S NEEDED AT THE MOMENT IF YOU'D LIKE.
IF IT'S ALL RIGHT, I'M HAPPY TO SHARE THOSE LINKS OR THE RECORDINGS FOR WEBINARS.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S PROPER FORM FOR THAT.
ANYTHING YOU WANNA SHARE THE FOLKS COMMISSION.
OH, SO YOU CAN SEND THOSE TO ME AND THEN I CAN SHARE THOSE WITH THANK YOU.
WANT CALL? WELL, IT'S A SMALL THING BUT JUST SHOWS YOU CAN THING OUT OF THE BOX TO HELP PEOPLE.
IT WAS NOT MY IDEA BUT, UM, A FRIEND OF MINE THAT, A COUSIN THAT WE KNOW LIVES IN ADE, HE WAS ABLE TO SAVE HIS HOUSE FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS, UM, BECAUSE HE'S HAD ALL THESE TOOLS.
UM, BUT HE WAS EXPLAINING THAT ALL THESE HOUSES, AMGEN ARE DESTROYED AND PEOPLE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO GO.
AND HIS THOUGHT WAS, LET'S, PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED BACK IN, THEY'RE GONNA WANNA THROUGH TO SEE WHAT THEY CAN BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS IF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN IN CARS BEFORE.
SO WE HAVE GATHERED UP WITH TOOLS AND SHOVELS AND ARE, I'M NOT SURE IF I'M GOING UP THERE ON SUNDAY 'CAUSE I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT IF WE CAN DELIVER THEM YET.
AND I DON'T PERSONALLY HAVE A LOT OF TOOLS.
SO WE'RE JUST TRACKING THAT TO SEE.
BUT I SAID MAYBE WE CAN DELIVER THEM TO THE RENEWAL INSTEAD OF GOING ALL THE WAY UP THERE.
OR IF YOU KNOW ANYONE JUST, YOU KNOW, IT'S HARD TO THINK ABOUT IT.
IT'S JUST SO HARD TO THINK ABOUT LIKE, WHAT IF THAT WERE ME? BUT I WOULDN'T HAVE OCCURRED TO ME WITH, I HAVE ONE MY BACK.
SO JUST THINKING ABOUT GETTING, I JUST WANTED TO ADD, UM, THE NACP NATIONAL PUT ON A WEBINAR WITH AN ATTORNEY AND FOR THE
SO THAT'S ANOTHER WAY THAT THEY'RE SEND.
ALRIGHT, COMMISSIONER, AND BEFORE WE LEAVE, YOU JUST TRIGGERED MY MEMORY.
I WANT TO CONGRATULATE DR FOR BEING APPOINTED AS THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE NO CHAPTER OF THE NAAC.
REMEMBER? ALRIGHT Y'ALL, I HAVE ONE LAST ANNOUNCEMENT.
UM, PLEASE SIGN OUR SYMPATHY NOTE FOR ALANA.
UM, UM, AND, UH, AND UM, AS I ADJOURN THE MEETING, UH, I ADJOURN THE MEETING IN THE HONOR.
UM, UM, ALL OF THOSE FIRES LOCALLY AND UM, ALSO TO OUR FIRST, FIRST, UH, FIRST RESPONDERS AND OUR, UM, ACTUAL PRISON POPULATION WHO IS FIGHTING THESE FIRES ALONGSIDE OUR FIRST RESPONDERS.
UM, AND SO, UM, YEAH, THINKING ABOUT ALL OF 'EM, UH, AND HOW.