 nice outdoor patio right there. I like it my wild backyard right now there's green so it's good yeah no my house was built uh probably sometime around 1940 doesn't have ec so i'm like no not spending the evening in a stuffy house we have another cab member in the attendee waiting room member square can we go ahead and test your audio and video please mic check one two mic check one two wonderful thank you you're welcome Danielle are we close to our magic number i believe we are let me just double check you know we have eight we can go oh great we do request that you have your cameras on um but actually you are you haven't even gotten sworn in yet if you're member Richardson or member square so do they need their cameras on yet oh yes they do okay little technicality there you wouldn't know that because you haven't been here yet so thanks for joining us good evening everybody and thanks for attending this evening our community advisory board meeting is now called to order and Danielle will do roll call right member Barnett present member Baldenegro present you member Harper don't see him uh member Innocencio member Moore is not here member Richardson here that member Roberts here thank you member tornado is not here uh member square here member Steffi here and chair graves present by all members present except for member Harper Moore and tornado great thank you for that now we will do our new member Oaths of Office welcome aboard to member square and member Richardson and Danielle will have you do your oath of office all right so the how this is going to work um is I'll do uh one oath at a time so I'll start with member Richardson um I will uh ask you to state your name at the beginning and then I'll read the paragraph and after I read the paragraph I'll ask if you agree to the oath I'll set I'll set okay let's see so I state your name I Candice Rabon Richardson you solemnly swear that I will support and defend the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of California against all enemies foreign and domestic that I will bear to faith and allegiance to the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of California but I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation reservation or purpose of evasion and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter do you agree I do agree thank you and welcome to the cab thank you all right member square to return so same deal I'll ask you to state your name and then I will read the paragraph and then ask if you agree are you all set yeah all right here we go I state your name Jamie and square do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of California against all enemies foreign and domestic that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of California but I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and I will well and faithfully discharge the duties upon which I am about to enter do you agree I do great thank you and welcome to the cab and so to follow up I will be emailing each of you a copy of your oath I will need you to print it out sign it and then mail back the the signature or the signed copy directly to me and I'll give you the address and everything so that you can do that thank you thank you once again welcome aboard it is great to have new members and you are in good company because I think that we just have a couple veterans at this point on on the cab so we are all just a little new together so I love having you here we're going to move on to item number three which is our public comments our host do we have any public comments at this time we have no hands raised for public comments great thanks for that and then item number four is our approval of minute our minutes from March 24th and our regular minutes that were kind of embedded in our agenda does everybody get a chance to take a look at those how many questions or comments I don't see anybody flagging me down for questions or comments I have a few so I think that there's just a few little maybe maybe they're typos I'm not really quite sure I don't think that we had a vice chair at the last meeting um vice chair more stepped away at the meeting before that so there's a few places where it designates that um she was president's vice chair that she made a motion as vice chair um okay that is a simple fix that's just on our end so I'll have that fix there's also um under item number one the roll call uh that it's board member tornado it says uh SEM and that's uh duplicated in two places under present for roll call as well as approval of minutes okay something happened on the back end so I will have the city clerk fix that thank you yeah no problem sorry um yet another they were short minutes so you know it was easy to catch them it wasn't it wasn't you um um on item number four absent uh says board member square board member square was not a board member yet so um he wasn't really officially absent his official date actually was the the date of the meeting and so it's just that's just how the system works so it doesn't count against him okay all right I just want to make note of that if we can because um I don't know about you member square but I would not want that right I'll make a note in the the the notes underneath thank you yeah that is all for me so I will have to revise the minutes then and bring them back next month thank you for that thanks for bearing with me and moving on from the approval of minutes is item number five which is our cab announcements so this is a time that we give all of our cab members an opportunity to share any community news that's of interest to the cab as a whole that remember that you may be also sharing it with the public um because the public may be in attendance and we welcome them to be in attendance here after these announcements are made I'll ask for public comment if there's any does anybody have any announcements any cab member we need to approve the minutes all right no with all of those changes I have to bring a revised version of the the minutes back so that we can have a vote so I see any hands up for cab announcements it doesn't look like I do I have one announcement um I'm going to include you member Richardson because I appreciate that you were there at our workplace harassment training that was earlier was that this week already yes oh my goodness that was it was really good training it was really appreciative of the instructor to make it through some of the challenges that he had with sound and I want to use that as a reminder to all of our cab members to look at your required trainings and make sure that you get those in we have a number of them as appointed members of the community advisory board that we need to do and I almost missed that one because I thought I had done it last year and in fact I had not so always check with I believe it's Dina with the city and you can find out which trainings that you've done and which ones you still need to do make sure to sign up for them and get those completed with no other announcements I'll move on to the public comment there are no hands raised for public comment all right thank you for that uh item number six is our staff updates and this is where Danielle's going to take it away with her updates all righty let's see here okay for the community empowerment plan super excited to let everyone know that the final report is complete which I sent out today and I just found out that the city council special meeting for the study sessions on May 4th and 5th with all copies of all of the reports that will be presented have now been posted to the legislative calendar if you don't want to go searching for that I have made a note to send that agenda out to the cab so I will do that after today's meeting so that everyone can read what's on it those study sessions will cover the listening session report which I will provide a brief presentation on later as well as the after action to the protest last summer report the independent investigation to police use of force from those protests last summer that report the human rights commission report and then after our listening session report out on the 5th the police department will come do an update on the reforms that they have made thus far so that will be happening the first day we'll cover those first three reports that I mentioned um starts at one o'clock in the afternoon second day the 5th starts at 10 a.m. start starting with the listening session report so please once I send that email out later share it with as many people as you can encourage people who are interested to attend because the public will have an opportunity to provide public comment on all of the reports during the study session um another update for the community empowerment plan moving on to something different is our online engagement platform called let's connect sr we've been working on that for quite a while now and I'm really happy to let everyone know that our site is almost completed we will be doing the soft launch starting in about two weeks which all of you will be able to participate in as soon as the site goes live the few projects that we'll be starting with our multicultural roots project the Mary Lou lowrider project our social justice mapping project a couple of planning projects from our planning and economic department and economic development department and then the police department has a an engagement project centered around updates to their officer training curriculum which they want to get input from the community on uh what the updated curriculum looks like so there will be a site a project site on the overall engagement platform for the community to participate in um engagement around that um so again soft launch happens in two weeks and then the big launch with a very specific project we're thinking of photo voice type of project will happen in June we want to get past all of the um listening session and other reports to city council as well as um a special meeting that we plan on having next month for the cab um so switching over to that um we do have to change the meeting date um of our May cab meeting from the 26th to the 19th um and Magali will talk about this later but there will be the last week in May a series of um fire prevention events that will be happening in the evening afternoons and evenings on most days of that week which will actually interfere with the cab meeting so we moved it to the week before what we plan to do at that particular meeting um is have Dr. Daniela Dominguez um who uh presented at the Latino Family Summit last week on um how systemic racism um impacts communities of color um and how that trauma affects their their health and well-being um she's actually going to be coming back um to make a presentation to the cab on how to care for yourself when you are um working in a community that's dealing with multiple crises happening at the same time so more information to come on her presentation but she's phenomenal I learned a lot from her presentation and we look forward to having her come next month uh switching gears to open government task force uh subcommittee the next meeting is scheduled for through Thursday June 3rd at 6pm um and there is a new schedule available for those subcommittee meetings uh those will be happening the first Thursday of every other month um so the next meeting after the June 3rd meeting will happen August 5th um so again agenda and more information to come on that and then switching gears to the community improvement grant program which is a program for our new members is a program that the cab runs so community improvement grants are now available for residents to apply for uh the first application deadline is June 30th um and absolutely no worries if community members cannot make that particular deadline there are two additional deadlines September 30th and December 31st that are also available so there will be different different times to apply and the cab will be um making selections at various times this year for um projects we did conduct informational grant meetings last week grant program meetings last week uh where we reviewed the application with community members and took community member questions we have the english version um of uh the meeting posted online right now we're still working on getting the spanish uh meeting posted online as well both will go on the youtube channel and then um i will be working on posting them to the grant website um please again uh share that grant application with your community context i will post the grant website link in the chat in just a few moments um and if you have no idea what i'm talking about because you are new and need more information i'm more than happy to meet with you and um chat with you more about the grant program it's a really fantastic program that the cab has been running for i want to say about 15 years now so with that i'm going to actually turn it over to migali who is going to give an update about the upcoming fire prevention series that we have today thank you danielle uh hello and good afternoon everybody my name is migali dayus and i'm the director of community engagement uh welcome member richerson and welcome member square so lovely to meet you in a virtual way um so i i just have two really quick things i want to let community know uh sort of another program that's happening as a city merit awards i just wanted to remind everybody about that so if you know a fantastic person that's been doing incredible work for the community or a nonprofit organization that you'd love you'd like to nominate um you can find that information um on our website and also i think oh awesome thank you danielle um oh i thought we were posting the uh the merit so we'll post the city merit awards information i think it's a great way to recognize our incredible community members and the due date is july 10th um and the other thing i wanted to talk to you all about is our program called united by fire which is sort of a new program that we're piloting this year as danielle was mentioning you know our community has been hit with a lot of different crises we have we're experiencing compounded traumas as a community one of the traumas that unites us all unfortunately is fire um there's nothing political about it it's just what it is you know um and so we are looking to start a series starting may 24th um our first kickoff event we're going to have um someone come and talk to us our indigenous person in the community about um control burns that's an ancestral practice and also you know um a form of renewal and of the biodiversity in our area um and then second day we would have um some folks from the mental health professional world you know talk us talk to us about different methods that we can imply i know a lot of community members get really triggered when they hear sirens or different weather events are happening so what are some different tips and tricks that we could try um you know not just for ourselves but maybe for our children um to kind of get us through those those difficult um moments uh another day the third day we're going to be talking about um home hardening what can we do with you know within our homes to um house indefensible space or just sort of different materials that we could work with and then the last day um we're going to have um some more information about evacuation zones in the city of Santa Rosa you know high low sirens uh just kind of emergency alerts and notifications uh for some of these programs we are going to have a program completely in Spanish and then secondly in English um or vice versa depending on the day so we'll make sure as soon as we get um sort of the uh the graphics around that to send that over to you uh so that you can help us hopefully get the word out to community about this program and that is all i have great thank you for all of that information i knew that some things were in the works and it's so it's really fun to hear all the details around that with that do we have any questions from our cab members on these staff reports member Barnett i can see you starting to go for a keyboard no questions okay um i'm just gonna keep on a roll here i'll keep it going um as i do this if any other questions come up please let me know um i wanted to ask uh Magali if you have the indigenous speaker secured for your events on the 24th um we we are in the process of asking um our local tribe permission first right um because we want to be as respectful as possible with this process so we're we're acquiring permission and then um we do have someone uh we'd love to work with and if if um if the tribe feels comfortable then we'll we'll move forward um with them so we're just kind of awaiting um to hear back from them yeah great great i have another resource if you need and within the um the pomo tribe so um and and just saw him speak on a similar topic so oh wonderful i'll email you just to get um the information thank you yeah yeah um and then i also wanted to ask um just to clarify that open government task force the next meeting is on june 3rd and then it's every other month correct so there isn't one coming up in may that's correct great and that big launch that you talked about for the i realize there's a soft launch that's coming up in a couple weeks so maybe by mid-may for the online community engagement platform let's connect santa rosa um and then you talked about a big launch or maybe the official launch um in june uh is there is that a place that we're going to have our civics 101 videos or is that something in the law you know farther reaching maybe in the future oh yes so it'll definitely be a place where we can put the civic 101 videos as well as as we're building out the citizen engagement academy so i imagine that that would those videos would go on that particular project site as we gather community engagement around the civic engagement academy great and for those new members that are here this evening um our civic 101 videos is something we may mention a little bit um when we get to our uh subcommittee reports even though we'll just kind of go backwards a little bit there so um but we'll keep it moving forwards now and i think that's it is there any questions that have come up from our members about the staff reports if not at this time can i open it up to public comment there are no hands raised for public comment great thank you um moving on then from item number six we'll go into item number seven scheduled items um 7.1 is meet our cab members i'm so excited for this uh thanks danielle for including this in the agenda um this is where we're going to open it up to each cab member um so that we have an opportunity to introduce ourselves to each other and to the public as well if we have the public in attendance and share up to three items that we're hoping to address as members and just a little context for this is that we haven't um done one of these in quite some time i think that the last time that we maybe have introduced ourselves uh a tad bit was back in november of 2019 so um we have been delayed by the by covid in 2020 we had months and months that we weren't meeting um we have had a couple of our members go a little bit more in depth and do introductions of just one of our camp members but we haven't done this kind of a round robin um type of an introduction so uh you haven't you haven't missed anything this is something for all of us right now really excited to get to know each of you a little bit more um and would love to start with a veteran here to to cab so member barnett if you you may be able to start for us kind of set the stage to introduce yourself and uh share up to three items that you're interested in uh addressing danielle start the timer well good evening everyone my name is sherry barnett and i was appointed the community advisory board january of 2013 from former council member erin carlstrom i was subsequently reappointed by now mayor uh christ rogers i'm the former chair of the community advisory board and i apologize that there is a a hedger going on in the back of my microphone that i just realized i'm like well that's gonna be fun so i'm gonna be real quick um so i've started on a cab now for uh a minute and um i've seen a lot happen with the community improvement grants so cig is very close to my heart it's um it's one of those really unique opportunities when we can put our values into action and i have um i have fought for the community improvement grants to expand the program um i got in the mix a couple of times to expand the program and make it more inclusive um i have seen it flourish into what was our neighbor fest program and i'm extremely excited to see it in some ways getting back to its roots as a community improvement program but i look forward also to us getting back to that day with in-person events so if i had three goals it would be a resurgence of neighbor fest um and in you know i.e. in-person events be a resurgence of community events where we can actually do um work around direct promotion cig um and then i think if i have one more goal i would say um this is big but i would love to see a return to a neighbor summit that the cab had a direct um involvement with when i first got involved with um community engagement and the city of santa rosa was in 2011 at the neighbor summit which was organized by a totally different group and we have santa rosa together and we have a lot of organizations but i would love for cab um to take the lead on something like that when we are at a place where we can safely all meet together and have it be big and bold and far reaching and have it be about neighborhood engagement um interconnectedness in neighborhoods social cohesion possibly bringing someone like um daniel allridge to talk about social cohesion and the critical role it plays um and also um maybe having it to be connected with cig grants and any presentation so i think that's that's my my my pipe dream in addition to having copious amounts of neighbor fest throughout the city great thank you um it's good to hear from you too i i feel like we haven't been able to to hear from each other a little bit in these meetings lately so i appreciate that you stepped forward right there started us off i'm gonna go back and forth um from veterans to to newer members uh we're kind of head toward the middle right now so member in osensio if uh would you be willing to come up and share oh yeah um can you hear me i'm sure all right great uh well my name is porta in osensio i'm born and raised here in santa rosa born in 1993 here in rosalind grew up here in rosalind and i actually ran for city council in 2020 i got in second place so then i got on cab and the reason for running the same reason i'm on cab growing up in rosalind i wanted to see improvements in our infrastructure improvements just in general and i'm committed to that goal and i'm doing it here through cab uh and i can think of three goals i guess one would be to build out the infrastructure here two would be more more parks here in in rosalind and south park and three just more i would say community cohesion and just more community in general here in these parts and then finally uh more organization here in rosalind and south park so that's why i'm on cab that's what i hope to pursue and thank you very much thank you it's great to hear those goals especially for our rosalind and south park area thanks for thanks for bringing those to cab um member richardson i'm gonna ask if you it's all friendly here okay so my name is kandace richardson and i am a licensed marriage and family therapist here in santa rosa i grew up in santa rosa over over in southwest santa rosa so rosalind is very fond of my heart first graduating class from lc alan um so i guess some goals that i have is community cohesion i now live on the northeast side of santa rosa on rink and valley so it is good i i can see there's some disparity just in community based upon socioeconomic um i have a a little one so like access to education and healthcare is always really important to me as well as access to mental health services as a therapist those things are important to me so um those are things that i'm passionate about and hope that i can you know we can talk about it and and and encourage the community to be involved and promote those things thank you um i appreciate you coming forward and uh sharing and and being part of the cab uh it's it's great to have you here so i'm gonna pass it over now to member roberts hi everyone i'm i'm keith roberts i work for the county of sonoma and i previously worked for the city for like 11 years um so i'm in addition to that i try to be involved in the most possible outside of work um i've been on cab for two years um was appointed by don solier and um i i joined cab because i uh wanted to be involved in something that has a diverse range of um of uh projects and um just touches everything you don't want to focus on one thing but um i the three things that came to my mind um that they were already mentioned one would be to uh to help with help the city with um improving infrastructure like tangible stuff um like that's a good way to make a difference is uh physical improvements um and then also um the neighborhood aspect um bringing people together and the name of a lot of people have them at their neighbor before and you can help them do that that'd be great um and then the third thing would be um if we can help with equity or um uh promoting diversity inclusion um supporting the by-product community fighting discrimination me um that would be another great um thing for captain that we're on thank you thank you member roberts good to see you here and uh thanks for sharing all of that um moving right along uh member square um bring this open to you if you would if you would like to share sure why not my name is square um student at san francisco state university double major in african studies and media my goal is to be a a lawyer with the emphasis on the entertainment field as an artist myself um i went to senator was a junior college graduated from there and transferred to um san francisco state university really involved with student politics student activism established a black student union and will revitalize the black student union at senator's junior college who had which i've been doing for 10 years um did some major things there that i won't get into um went to san francisco state became the board member of the black of the black student union there as well so i've been involved with the community organizing student activism for a long time um i'm a co-founder and the co-chair of the sonoma county black coalition which is a coalition of black activists and community organizers that are here in sonoma county to fight particularly for the black community which a lot of times gets underserved um my goals are centered around black economic empowerment in sonoma county specifically for the black community um one of the things that i would like to really focus on is the establishment or the funding for a black resource center there's already a young woman by the name of dale ashay who is um heading a movement or initiative to establish a black resource center she already has acquired a building so if the building is already acquired and the momentum is already rolling then i would like to see some consistent funding that would be directed towards that also in the black community and also in the brown community we have a really large problem a big problem with with health disparities um and those were really magnified with the covid 19 pandemic and how we've been locked down for a year people can't go to the gym people are sitting down watching tv eating snacks and you don't have access to a gym even when we did have access to a gym a lot of us don't have the disposable income to be able to consistently go to the gym so i think the establishment of like a calisthenic park in a lot of these marginalized communities throughout sonoma county senorosa starting in senorosa would be really nice calisthenics parks or just open parks that have you know bars and things like that so you can do basic exercise basic push and pull exercises using your own body weight there's a lot of different things that you can do with calisthenics parks a lot of different models that we can look at they're really popular in new york and on the east coast but it's a way for people who don't have the economic ability to pay for a gym membership to go right to a place in their community to work out and get exercise and using their own body weight with equipment that is will be there 24 7365 and then lastly cannabis equity grant in sonoma county the cannabis industry is you know billion dollar hundred million hundreds hundreds of million dollar possibly billion dollar industry and a lot of these well there's not one black owned cannabis dispensary in sonoma county when you look at the historical mark the historical discrimination of marijuana towards the black community and how the war on drugs was particularly directed towards black and brown men i think it's imperative that as this new era of cannabis becoming this cash crop it's important that the black community is involved in that and it is economically benefited from that since we were um historically targeted for it for so long so cannabis equity grant establishment of a calisthenics park in black and brown marginalized communities and the establishment slash funding for a black resource center great thank you um i so want to fill you in on some things that i that i know from reverend lee turner i'm sure that you've already spoken to him and his center that he wants to do in mlk so i'm hoping that you definitely stay connected to him i know it's further down the line project because they don't have a building yet but um we want more than just one right we want more than one center so um you know keep that in mind uh so thank you thank you for sharing all of that i'm going to open it up right now to members steffi hi everyone nice to meet you all um i've only been a member for two months so i'm almost as new as the two that just joined tonight um and welcome welcome to you um i've been living in center halls at just over three years i retired just a couple years ago after 28 years as a marketing manager with hb agilent um but my early years were troubled and i was on my own at a really early age and i went to night school for literally 20 years to get my degree so when i graduated i found out about social advocates for youth and i became a mentor at lc allen maybe when you were younger and member richerson was in school who knows um so that started me volunteering in all sorts of different ways um i was on the board for syy for several years the last five years i've been focusing on senior advocacy issues mainly with seniors and residential care facilities that are often overlooked especially during the fire and left abandoned and then during covid so i do a lot of advocacy around that i am recently a cancer survivor so i do a lot of work trying to help local cancer patients get to treatment and get the support they need um and i've also been working on a lot of political campaigns local state and national so when i look at being on the cab one thing that i really feel is important and maybe considering all the amazing items you guys just mentioned i hate the fact that i'm afraid to go downtown and i really feel like a vital downtown area for all of us is an important way to bring the whole community together so i'd love to be a part of helping downtown be a place that's vibrant again and then also just housing for everyone it's that's something i've been thinking about i've done nothing on it but i know being part of cab the people that i can that i can maybe partner with to help with that and the other is criminal justice reform i know i was i volunteered a lot for and i forget the acronym i let the independent office yeah that one the county group that worked for the campaign um last year and what the city's doing around that right that's at a county level and i think what we're going to hear later from danielle is going to be somewhat related to that so those are the areas i hope to help with it it's great to say hi to everyone and thanks so much thank you it's good to hear from you um you know that you've you come on board not had that chance to to do an introduction so thanks thanks uh you know for sharing all of that information and also um member balden agro you also haven't had much of a chance to introduce yourself so uh i'd love to pass it on to you at this point sure it's great to hear um all of you share you know what your goals are it has me thinking you know i'm changing my mind of what my goals are as well but i grew up here in san aroza my family moved here in 1974 so rick and dolly has kind of been my home i was in los angeles for 30 years went away to college stayed down there and just moved back about five years ago right before the fires hit i moved back from the eldest to four my parents are getting older so it's time for me to come back home um as as i am digging into cab work you know all of what you've shared are definitely on on my goal list community the importance of community neighborhoods how do we revitalize neighborhoods and associations and how can we play a role in that and then um you know this is the first time that i've heard that there's there's a merit award and there's a grant process so i'm thinking you know what are some ideas on grants that have been done in the past but what could i potentially do and and when i look around to people they're doing great work with nonprofits who you know who could could we recognize for a merit so these are all things that are kind of percolated in my noggin and uh i appreciate all of your feedback and i look forward to hopefully soon we can have these discussions face to face so thank you all wow you touched upon it and when will we be face to face we won't ask that question directly just yet because we know we probably have to get past june 15th at least when the when the state opens up officially um so uh my name is leslie graves i'm your chair and uh i joined cab in november of 2019 um so it seems like a long time but like i said we had a break for covid a little bit about myself is i uh i work at national women's history alliance uh so that sounds pretty lofty uh it's non it's it's kind of a job where i work in in a garage and i get product out all over the country that celebrates women's history and celebrates the diversity of women's history uh with an organization that started women's history month here in santa rosa so that's one of the historical things that i do um i have a background in marketing and in production of events um i most recently probably known for putting on the wednesday night market being the manager of that event as well as uh organizing the women's march so being politically active being community organizer and and sometimes folks when they hear my voice they all they know is that they've heard me at events as an mc because i'm a professional mc as well for big like marathons and traflons and things like that so um so and that's just because it's fun and and not necessarily that was my lifelong goal it was just something to do and so i kept going and i kept doing it um i also do a little bit of writing with the sonoma county gazette so sometimes i take information from this and i get it out there to the public and that was one of my goals when i came onto the cab uh was communication so i came onto the cab obviously after a time where the the fires had happened we'd had multiple events that were emergencies here in santa rosa and i kept hearing things like i don't know something just like a member of balda negro said right now i never knew about the merit awards or i never knew about a grant or i didn't even know just recently two weeks ago i heard from someone that said i didn't even know that there was a community advisory board these things motivate me they make me a little upset and then they motivate me i came onto the cab to increase our communication out to the public in order to let the public know some of the systems that are already there because how can we improve systems if we don't even know the systems that are already in place um so we've got a lot of improving to do but we also need to let folks know what we have as a base so that they can give us feedback and they can help us to improve it uh on top of that i would love a neighborhood summit that's something that i'm very interested in i would love for more people to be able to organize neighborhood associations and i realize the only way to do that is to allow people to know how rich we are in neighborhood associations already uh there's a list on our city website but that is far from letting folks know that these are regular everyday people that are making this happen um and that it is it is extremely diverse it is extremely deep it has a lot of roots here in Sonoma County and i want to make sure that folks know about it and i also want to make sure that we kind of bridge the gap between the people like myself was not born here in Sonoma County was from southern San Diego from a border town called Chulvista and came up to Santa Rosa after going to college at UC Santa Cruz fell in love with the area fell in love with the people but then how do you make a difference how do you give back when you realize that you love something so much that it's had such a positive effect on you and you can give back we need to make those systems so that people know that there's grants out there that there's merit awards out there that they can get in touch with their council members and i think that we're doing all of those things so i'm really excited to do to do those things like the Civic 101 videos to have this new website that's opening up and and then see where we can take it so and all of these ideas here are amazing i think that we have some really far-reaching goals that we can implement i'm i'm i'm more motivated hearing all of you than i have been in a long time so thank you for sharing and with that let's open it up to public well does anybody have questions for anybody else so is there any cab members who have a question for another cab member they'd like to know some details something else about what they have said doesn't look like it so public comment comment there are no hands raised for public comment all right thank you for that well thank you uh well chug race yeah um i don't know i think member square did you have your hand raised or no okay i just wanted to double check um thank you thanks for catching me on that if i'm looking down during during the meeting it's usually because i'm writing notes um so and if i look down otherwise it's just so that i can read here um so without any other questions no public comment we'll be moving right ahead so strategically placed was getting to know each other just a tad bit before we go on to item number 7.2 where we're we are going to select um our cab vice chair so as you heard earlier we do not have a vice chair this is a rule that's very important um i served as the co-vice chair prior to becoming the chair of the cab and um how co-vice chair happened is when we had uh i think in february of 2020 when we had a vote uh two of us tied and i believe it was even member roberts i can't remember uh that said well why don't you just both serve and uh have it be equitable just a bit of context with that we had just come off of a city council meeting where two top candidates two women had tied for an appointment on the city council they were then passed over so they were taken out of the running and a gentleman who had been already eliminated in a previous round had been granted the position uh as serving on the council for 10 months yes i do see you squinting at that and almost rolling your eyes almost each and every one of you so just giving you a little context as to how a co-vice chair two people serving in the vice chair position happened in february of 2020 it was an equitable decision after coming off of something like that with the city council um so no more needs to be said about that so we're going to go on to our cab uh vice chair selection so this is where if you would like to nominate yourself or you would like to nominate someone else for the role of a vice chair that you can bring that forward yeah member baldenegro i would like to nominate for inocencio for vice chair thank you for that nomination i'll second member roberts is a second and we can have multiple nominations and then go to a vote is there any other nominations from the cab and i do want to do want to make notes that you can nominate yourself and you can be brand new and be vice chair so um let me actually i'm going to back up member inocencio this is not to bring your nomination into any other light i just want to give everybody full information that the vice chair role some requirements of the vice chair role so i'm going to hand it over to danielle to give that information i'm sorry i didn't do that already thank you um so the vice chair serves as backup um so the chair obviously there's most of you know facilitates the meeting um the vice chair serves as the chair's backup so in case the chair has to miss the meeting the uh vice chair will facilitate the meeting um as well as the vice chair also attends uh agenda setting meetings with the chair and city staff so myself and macaulay as needed we don't meet um we don't meet too often only when we really need to check in on things because you guys are really great about setting your own agendas um and also uh the vice chair um can uh again serve as a backup if in case the chair isn't available for things like um if the cab has a presentation to do to the city council like a report out on the cab grant program uh the recruitment workshop or um any type of public facing event where we need uh cab representation um that person will serve as a backup member square did you have your hand up no okay do i see any other nominations if i don't see any other nominations it looks like i did at this time can we go with danielle would you like to handle a roll call vote for cab vice chair sorry yes i see a member of the public has their hand raised but um it's my mom and i was just wondering if it had to do with this but i think it was the last item so i will answer the question um so um i will have her press her hand down um so yes i will go ahead and do that sorry let me pull up this really quick so i can do that does he get the opportunity to accept oh thank you thank you member and since you do you accept the nomination uh yes i do and thank you so much mani for for nominating yeah absolutely thank you thank you robert member robert all right so we'll do the vote now um and just for new members um for your awareness uh normally when we're in person we don't have to do this we usually just do the good old fashioned hand raised but because we're virtual i have to do roll call vote so please bear with me member barnett member balden agro yes for innocence yeah you can vote for yourself can i abstain that's weird you can abstain but all right i'll abstain that's weird member richerson yes remember robert hi member square i'll abstain as well i'm new i don't know okay sure and member steppy yes okay and char graves yes okay and so the motion passes with the majority of the board voting yes with two abstentions congratulations thank you thank you and i really look forward to you know serving as vice chair and learning as much as i can because uh you know i think have super important i'm excited to see what opportunities there are in working all of us together as a board so thank you so much thank you and thanks for stepping up even a little acceptance speech right there i loved it this is great coming off of the oscars uh i won't make you walk off stage or anything see right there um so we're going to be moving on and and we can talk definitely for the next meeting uh if we want to uh share on the agenda as well and get you involved in the agenda and and and sharing that so our next item is 7.3 our community empowerment plan listening session report so this is where danielle will be going over the presentation the community empowerment plan listening sessions reports and i have the yeah can i have the host uh put my presentation up please absolutely i'm getting it to full screen right now thank you thank you and migalia is there anything you want to say before i start i just want to say danielle's done an outstanding job of of you know it's from the very beginning of this back you know late summer um you know i came on a little bit after this um this was established and um she's just been an incredible uh team member and in making sure to to get this out to community so all right thank you very much and now i see this is up so we will go ahead and jump into it next slide please so i just first of all i want to let everyone know that this is a brief overview of what will be presented at next week's study session on may 5th uh the study session item itself will go into much more detail um than what i have here this evening part of the reason why um is because we don't have any representative from the police department here this evening due to a scheduling conflict um and so um we don't have as much detail on their part which is why they're also going to be presenting separately on their reform updates however the report when you have a chance to review review it you will notice that there is quite a bit of information in the report itself about the police reform updates as well so to start off a little bit of background on the community empowerment plan and how we got here so as everyone knows by now may 26 2020 george floyd was killed by an on-duty police officer which sparked protests across the nation and as well as here in san aroza those protests called for an overhaul the use of force policies as well as increased law enforcement oversight and accountability the city responded by developing the community empowerment plan and as part of the community empowerment plan we held a series of listening sessions with santa rosa's communities at power next slide please so before i get into the listening sessions the community empowerment plan vision and goals uh the vision actually let me take a step back to um some of you who are not here for this but for those of you who were you may remember that in july 2020 i actually did another presentation regarding the community empowerment plan overall to the cab you can view that presentation the recording of the meeting is available in the legislative calendar as well as the city's youtube account and that provides just the overall information about the the plan and at that particular time what we had helped to accomplish in setting setting off on this journey so the vision of the plan was to build a trusting and open relationship of respect between srpd and san aroza police department and the community and a space for ongoing inclusive and constructive dialogue is available there were uh three main goals with um sub goals uh associated with this so the first one was to increase constructive and inclusive dialogue between leaders from uh our people of color communities in santa rosa and sonoma county and the city of santa rosa the second one was really specific to the police department and uh they're updating their use of force policies and other reform issues so the community is provided with opportunities to review and provide input on srpd's use of force and community policing policies and the third one is more of the evaluation mechanism and which is establish a feedback loop to engage effectiveness of efforts with and in the community and among city staff and that really relates to not only the community community empowerment plan itself but also how the city does community engagement and how effective we are in doing it with all community members next slide please so for the listening session report that is only specific to goal one of the community empowerment plan again the city center as a police department uh chief navarro will be providing an update on the um on the police reform updates uh work that they have done so far based on the information we collected at the listening sessions um on may 5th so uh outcomes from um goal one we engaged uh roughly 280 people uh of which 265 identified as people of color but people of color groups or community groups um 18 listening sessions were held with 13 community groups um five of those listening sessions were follow-up sessions uh with the groups that we'd already uh engaged with we had 18 one-on-one conversations and 15 informal group conversations next slide please so the listening session outcomes we had 215 participants oh and i should you should mention these were held between um june and december of 2020 if you look at the original plan we had hoped to get the listening sessions done by september and have a report out to the council however due to multiple uh challenges and barriers including two wildfires that impacted our city uh the pandemic and our ability to meet with community members and overall staffing uh it was the golly and myself um we had some challenges so um it we actually held them between june and december of last year so we had 200 215 participants again 13 community groups five of which identified as latinx community groups four black community groups one indigenous community group and three mixed race community groups um and from those listening sessions uh sessions five themes occurred next slide please so those themes were build relationships between santa rosa police department and the community including youth investing community programming and services particularly for our people of color communities create police accountability and oversight mechanisms address institutional racism systemic racism and cultural white supremacy in santa rosa and uplift and celebrate santa rosa's uh people of color communities and uh five was addressed homelessness in our neighborhoods um and based on these recommendations or i'm sorry on these themes uh seven community recommendations rose to the top of the list so next slide please and these community recommendations so the first one engaged through an anti-racist lens create an organizational culture that values public engagement with all community members and increasing access to public engagement opportunities so the development of our community empowerment plan was really the first step in this direction we will continue as a city to make purposeful efforts to involve our communities of color and engage with them as well as other community members who have been historically left out of the conversation our office of community engagement is working on tools and resources for our own city staff to utilize when engaging with all community members around really what are since there's be best practices around community engagements um and we're also working with you guys to um to educate the public on why it's important to participate in their local government how to participate in their local government and develop the tools needed so people can do that so for example the civic 101 videos that was mentioned earlier it's not going to be one of those tools through our open government ordinance we are developing a citizen guidebook to participation that will be available in English and Spanish as well as if there are other languages out there that we need to provide this information in we need to know that right so we do know that Spanish is the second most popular language spoken here but are there other languages that we might be missing we know from one of the listening sessions that we had with one of our black community groups that there is a language that that is very important particularly when we're we're having an emergency and those alerts those soco alerts are going out and we need to quickly alert our community there was a request for a third language to be used in addition to that so again I mentioned ensuring that our non-English speaking community members have access to what's going on here in our local government so now we're translating all of our city council agendas into Spanish and other languages are available upon request and in addition to that Spanish translator interpretation services are also available for city council meetings and as well as other city hosted meetings which for those it's available upon request I mentioned let's connect SR earlier so our digital engagement platform will allow people who aren't able to come to meetings but might you know might be able to engage digitally that will be available I mentioned the open government or I'm sorry the citizen guidebook participation project advisory boards is another one so when we have something like the general plan update or other significant planning projects where a major plan or or other resource for the city is developed we will have a project advisory board for that again available in languages other than English for people to participate I know that we have I believe at least one person maybe more on our general plan update advisory group that is monolingual in Spanish and I believe there was talk also for our general plan update advisory group to have a smaller set of of of those group members to review once the draft plan has been created review that from a diversity inclusion and equity lens to make sure that that it's a plan that's inclusive of all of our community members so number two commitment to inclusion diversity equity transparency and access so the community recommends that the city of Santa Rosa make a public statement on the importance of diversity inclusion and racial equity and in addition to that taking it a step further include diversity inclusion and racial equity and transparency as part of their mission statement the city has taken some initial steps in this direction including last summer the mayor and city council and city manager put out actions for change letter to the community regarding how they will do better for our communities of color in particular our our black community members earlier this year actually just a couple weeks ago the city council also put out a statement standing in solidarity with our asian-american pacific islander communities and um denouncing the violence that has occurred uh to that those particular community members both locally and statewide and nationally um also along the lines of diversity inclusion and equity um the city has been working with the city collaborative which is an organization that is helping the city develop plans for hiring staff retention staff trainings and community engagement with our with all community members but really specifically focused on increasing the hiring of people of color in our organization and also retaining those those staff um let's see we also hired an equity sorry this is a really long name a diversity inclusion equity and equal employment opportunity officer recently also known as the equity officer um who started uh in march of this year and the city hired a an equity and public health planner to make sure that um all of our planning documents um have both a public health perspective uh perspective as well as or health and all policies policies perspective as well as um looking at and making sure that those plans are equitable for all community members and finally we've developed the multicultural roots project uh stories of santa rosa's black indigenous and people of color communities the goal of this project as i have um presented to the cab um is to create visibility um of santa rosa's of people of color communities by highlighting the contributions of past and current community leaders um and what they have done to make santa rosa what it is today um let's see and then uh the third one here on the slide is declare racism as a public health crisis in santa rosa this has been happening across the country um so uh with santa rosa doing this uh they will um have joined hundreds of other cities as well as multiple statewide health organizations throughout california and most recently um county of sinoma has declared racism as a public health crisis for the county um in addition to that the state of california is working on a bill called sb 17 which is um a bill that would create the office of equity from the state of california uh to ensure that uh the equity is uh part of the work that the state does across their their agencies and organizations um and more um about sb 17 is included in the um in the report so next slide please the fourth community recommendation is mandatory trainings and educational sessions for all city staff appointed and elected officials and members of city boards and commissions this includes um uh not only uh srpd officers and staff from their organizations or from their agency but all staff across the city it also includes a public acknowledgement of how institutional racism impacts communities of color including those here in santa rosa um some of the trainings that community members have requested are things like um development of self self training where staff members examine their own humanity and the humanity of those that serve and their roles as public servants in the community uh ethnic study sessions with an emphasis on history of policing in the united states so staff receives uh educational sessions from a qualified ethnic studies facilitator integrate this education on um the history of policing in the united states and the impact that this system has had on communities of color um in these sessions um in addition community members have also asked that uh officers receive required trainings that include cultural competency awareness and sensitivity trainings power dynamics such as power and privilege trainings systemic racism and my supremacy cultural culture awareness trainings and emotional resilience trainings and mental health uh resources um in addition some community members have also requested mental health screenings for officers um next uh actually next one hello okay sorry i thought i heard something okay number five civilian oversight of santa rosa police department um so this one includes um not just having the model of um the independent law enforcement auditor uh which are our police department has or will have assumed they did have one in the past um but um having uh having an additional mechanism for oversight such as a citizen's oversight committee um so an update on that is that police department has recently issued a request for a proposal for the independent police auditor um but they are also continuing to explore some additional components for oversight including um an high allero model so the independent office of law enforcement review and outreach created by the county of sonoma um in addition to that the police or the chief actually has established his own chief's community ambassador team or ccat which has not officially met yet i believe they have finished selecting all of their um their members and uh they are getting ready to have their members go through the community policing experience and then they will um begin meeting i believe sometime in may or june so i will provide more information on sex bailout so next one is restorative justice circles with the community we heard a lot of feedback from the community that well they do want uh more relationships and engagement opportunities with the police department the first step would be having restorative justice circles uh and healing opportunities with the community and you know the acknowledgement of uh of this need that the community has and uh again more information to come in the study session but we are looking at the possibility of having um our violence prevention partnership um they have a lot of connections with restorative justice organizations here in the community that can help us with this goal um in addition to that not just with the police department but with staff from various parts of our agency as well as city council members participating in these restorative justice circles with the community um next slide please okay and the final recommendation is to continue to explore the best practices around responses to protests and demonstration and so there was a really great webinar that our staff attended in the leak of california cities on trauma informed responses to protests um and really it's getting to know the community in which you are serving and what issues are important to them so why we're having these listening sessions and continuing engagement with the community also the city recognizing the humanity of why these protests happen what is the history and um why do people continually come out again and again uh and also along with that recognizing that there is generational trauma and that our communities are impacted by that trauma because of the history of these of these protests uh refrain from labeling protesters um or demonstrators as dangerous individuals and this is something that the community both expressed for not just city employees but other community members as well um you know there there was a lot of talk last summer and when when protests and demonstrations come up about protesters not being good people and and that's not the case that's not true they're out there for a reason and um it doesn't doesn't do anyone good to uh put a label on protesters or demonstrators and they're exercising their first amendment right um engaging with the community and finding out what they need to feel safe and so we did ask a safety question in the listening sessions and we are going to be continuing and expanding our listening sessions with the community um over the next couple of months next slide please so other steps taken by city staff um particularly both our our police department and uh office of community engagement um there was the creation of the city council's public safety subcommittee um which has met um several times uh since last summer the model of response to mental illness and homelessness which is modeled after the cahoots program in Eugene Orkin that is um that is in the process of being planned and built out um and we had Captain Cregan come to the cab a few months ago I believe is in January um to talk about what that looks like and what the plans are for the future um the chief's community ambassador team which I mentioned previously uh the Mary Lou Lowrider I've talked about that a few times the Sonoma County Lowrider Council was one of the groups that came to a listening session and they asked both the mayor and the chief if they could partner with them on building um a Lowrider patrol car would not be an active patrol car it would be an engagement tool used in community events and also as a recruitment tool to get people interested in the profession of um uh being a police officer um and then the multicultural roots project which I mentioned as well so next slide please so next steps I again I mentioned the study sessions on May 4th and 5th that agenda is up and available and all of the reports are there um day one starts at 1 p.m uh there will be the human rights commission report item which will be presented by members from the human rights commission the after action review of response to peaceful protests and civil unrest in May and June of 2020 which will be presented by the city the independent review of the police department's internal affairs investigation of specific incidents of use of force by officers that occurred during the community protests in May and June of 2020 which will be presented by that independent auditor and day two this listening session report which will be um in much more detail the police reform update as well next slide please and with that that was my brief presentation I really encourage you to go through that report read through it you'll get much more information so I was able to provide you today as well as attend um both of the days next week and I will leave it there for now and turn it over for questions for Magali and me so this is where we open it up to CAD members if you have any questions about the presentation and I did see earlier in the chat area uh member square you had some information to share I believe I see that and actually that is the language and I'm sorry I'm going to completely butcher it Tigrina Tigrina is that how you pronounce it um that is I'm sorry okay that is the the language that was requested from one of our community groups to be added to our um emergency alerts that go out during um emergency situations any other like questions or comments members Steffi yes thank you thanks so much for doing that Danielle that was I'm glad so glad to hear that our city's been working on this and as a new new CAD member I really wasn't aware of all that was going on just a quick question you might have covered this early on but in each listening session what percent of the people on the city side were from the police department that was a great question that would be our chief of police and that was it and then we had our mayor at the time Tom Schwedhelm we also had myself Magali sometimes we would have if he was available our community outreach specialist Gustavo Mendoza he would attend with us and then there were a couple of times that our economic development director Raisa De La Rosa she attended as well those were the main staff involved there were a couple times that we had some council members show up as well but that was very specific to to their district okay thank you other questions from members I guess I could also just to provide a little bit more information our hope for the expanded listening sessions um not only getting out to different community groups but um also having different uh members of the police department participate as well so police department did last year establish a community engagement team that includes both the sworn officers and civilian staff who are interested in community engagement um and uh kind of leading and running those community engagement efforts that they have with the police department like coffee with a cop and some of the other things that they do um so more of those officers and civilian staff will most likely be part of those expanded listening sessions um so that they have an opportunity to listen in and hear feedback from the community and it's not just the chief that's listening in right that would seem to be really important in fact I would think it would be the ones who weren't interested in doing the you know all those outreach the ones that should be actually attending just two cents worth so I'm going to jump in and uh if I don't see any other hands up and while I am bringing forth some questions and comments maybe we'll have other oh no uh member Enosincio yeah I'm just maybe just a clarifying question so this is what's going to be part of what's going to be presented to the city council on Tuesday this particular report won't be it going until Wednesday oh okay we'll go after all of the much bigger reports okay yeah understood yeah and again that was just like super brief I went through that pretty quickly we're gonna go way more into depth um in that presentation next week okay um so I would love um a quick question first before I head into my larger ones uh you mentioned really briefly that there was a police reforms report so report on what reforms may have already been instituted at this point and others that are on the list that haven't been instituted yet I went through that report that you said to us today I didn't see not there is it there or is it in another spot so that would include the cahoots model the mental health uh the response to mental health um I'm forgetting that long name but that model so it'll include that um it will include uh secat it will and I'm sure that the police that the chief will have other things that they'll talk about I'm sure he'll go extensively into the training the trainings that they will be providing because they have required trainings that happen every year but they are adding additional required trainings that police to police officers will have to now take in addition to the ones that have already been required so those things are um I believe they're partnering with community matters on those trainings so cultural competency trainings improved implicit bias trainings and Magali I don't know if you have anything else to add on that either if you know any more specific details yes and I want to apologize for some reason the power of my office went out and just turned everything off um but yeah there I know there's there will be more details like there will be some details in our report um as well as the the other the report that's going to be following hours um that may fit um where they will include more information where the chief of police will be including more information as to sort of what has what they've done since last summer programs that have been added programs that are coming that will be coming up so that will definitely be addressed as well right after ours did I not hear that right yeah also I'm looking right now at their presentation on police reform and it looks like in addition to those things that I mentioned already like engagement and empowerment etc updates to their policies updates to programs that they have um and also what they are going to be doing in response to both the after action report and the investigation on the supports report um so that presentation has been uploaded with the agenda so I am going to I'm going to send that out right after this meeting is over so that everyone has it and has access to read all of those documents if you like that's great thank you that um just want to make sure that that's available that folks can look at that and I guess I get a little bit reforms versus restrictions so I'm really looking for those restrictions I'm not looking I love the fact that we're gonna have you know anti-bias training that we're gonna have more trainings uh in that are addressing some of these these needs that we have but we also need the restrictions um so that's what I want to see in there um and I'm hoping to see it I'm hoping that those things get addressed when it comes to use of force um so jumping right to that uh is that oversight piece of it and when we talk about civilian oversight um I just want to I want to kind of frame this with a little bit of context that I think that we've been talking for over two years now for civilian oversight of the police of the Santa Rosa police department if I'm correct that we haven't had an independent oversight agent or person for at least two years yeah okay so it isn't just from the summer from protests it is actually well before that that we haven't had oversight and it um occurred just about the same time that our new police chief which isn't so new anymore came on to be the police chief we didn't we got rid of our past oversight and then we got a new police chief and we haven't had oversight the whole time that we've had our police chief now so the only thing I can add to that is I know um that that was uh the conversation of one of our I think it was our council meeting or public safety subcommittee meeting uh but the police auditor position has been approved and it's coming so um and I just wanted to also add to the prior question in addition to these reports happening on May 4th and May 5th uh with the work of C collaborative C collaborative is going to be developing a plan that is specific for our police department around issues of equity as well so just kind of wanted to to add that as well um yeah I'm just trying to I'm trying to frame some of this information because it's a lot of information it's a lot of kind of um you know listening session information and program information that has occurred and it almost like you can get a little bit lost in the abundance of the information and not feel grounded in what is um and what you know what is occurring and what has occurred so um that's kind of where I'm headed right now just so you so you know um so getting back to the civilian oversight or an auditor slash civilian oversight which I realize are two different things so we're talking about the oversight of the police um and the auditor if we bring it on an auditor which is a paid position that is different than a civilian oversight committee correct yes however there are models um I went to a training on or a webinar on um different models of civilian oversight and one of the models included both the independent auditor and the civilian oversight group body together yeah that's one model so they function together and they have to work together um there is another model where it's just the independent investigator and just the civilian oversight um and the recommendation from uh the the national organization that was doing this was that they be together yeah yeah and I think the county is going through a little bit of a transition with that right now um so so coming to my point in this is that uh we talk a lot about equity we talk a lot about diversity we talk a lot about inclusion but how to actually make that happen and when we get to the civilian oversight committee um much like I would have loved to have had uh this take place for our general plan advisory committee community advisory committee uh to propose paying people I think that we need a stipend that we need to get paid um I realize I'm not talking about our board right now but I just think when people sign up for a two-year community advisory committee and uh the general plan committee or it was the downtown station area specific plan committee um or in the report that we just looked at um oh goodness there was another committee that was highlighted in here that like Karen Weeks was on and whatnot the the open government open government committee I think that these these committees just um in order to increase the diversity in order have inclusion in order to have people of different voices of different backgrounds of different interests uh to feel like they're they're a part of it and that it is uh a necessary part for them to be involved that that we need to come up with that similar model that we heard about in in Eugene Oregon where people are getting it's not a huge stipend but you know it's 17 bucks an hour um and when you when you have a you know a meeting every month and it's a couple hours long it helps to pay for childcare so it helps to you know take the sting out of it so I'm putting that forward right now I really want that you know to to hopefully make an impact and if I could just add that there are a lot of community engagement models um that to your point are paying their participants if they want to get a more diverse and more equitable group of folks um participating in this information and I would highly encourage you all to make public comment on May 4th and 5th because I think that that like you said there are a lot of folks who don't have the funding to get a babysitter um their transportation issues a number they'd have to take you know they'd have to not get paid that day in order to attend certain things um so I would agree with you and um I think public comment is going to be a great way to have to make sure the council understands like the community um is requesting these things and also the council is starting to have that conversation at the council level right now right because it's really difficult for people to run for a council seat because that it's not a paid position and people have to work people have children and families to take care of right and to have to take off time to spend at a five to seven eight hour council meeting is not realistic for most people and so they are starting that conversation at the council level and when they continue to have those conversations that's another great area to bring up this well pay you know stipends for our board commission members and for community engagement opportunities or advisory boards etc um gotta keep hammering away at you know at that issue and as many different places as you can make public comment uh and even not making public writing your council members and you know making sure hey look this is really important to me and just repeating that message to them over and over again so they get get it loud and clear and so I realize it's too late to try to do something like this now at this meeting where we you know drafted something and it was from the cab itself um but just to clarify because I want to clarify if we are to make public comment on May 4th and May 5th and as I understand it just to um also bring this information up so that everybody here knows that there is public comment at the end of the meeting on the 4th so after the reports and then um on so the meeting starts at one o'clock there will be two very heavy and detailed reports that happen and then public comment will happen at the end of that day or evening at that point and then and then next day on May 5th that the meeting will start at 10 a.m. and then this will be more of that community outreach type of reports and whatnot from the community listening sessions and then the community and then public input public comments won't be until the end of that day I understand if I understand correctly right I think that that's my understanding so um May 4th will be three presentations and then public comment and then the May 5th will be two presentations and then public comment but council members will be able to ask clarifying questions after each presentation okay and so if we my so my clarification here is that if we do make a comment on the 4th or the 5th um do we state that we are from the cab or we're just community members we're not representing the cab yeah and you can't represent the cab in your comments you could say that you are a member of cab however your comment is as a citizen of Santa Rosa okay or resident of Santa Rosa yeah great okay um so so with that I um yeah really I tried to dive into this report as much as possible in that short time that we had and I really appreciate the the listening session report was a little a little easier to digest than the longer one that you sent us today but um you know I I want to I do have to transparently make a statement that I have been the organizer of protests in Santa Rosa many of them over mid over now four to five years I've always gotten I've not always gotten a permit but a majority of the time I have gotten a permit with the city of Santa Rosa to hold the events and the rallies the protests uh that I've held I don't believe that buying a permit or purchasing a permit with the city of Santa Rosa is the vehicle to guarantee safety of the participants of the event that is being held so conversely the free speech events that were held over the summer were non-permitted events they happened spontaneously they were reactionary they were um you know very much emotional uh most of us were uh or some of us probably were at them I know out myself I was I had family members at them as well the difference there I think that that is a stark reality of the institutional racism that we're presented with is that I purchased a permit I had a sit-down conversation with a police officer I had four or five thousand people at a rally in downtown Santa Rosa we closed off streets we marched around we had police officers available to us they protected us that shouldn't be why we were safe it should be we're citizens each and every citizen that holds a protest a rally a gathering should be safe to do so it shouldn't have to we shouldn't have to buy a permit okay can I make a clarifying point though you don't have to have a permit here in Santa Rosa to hold a protest it's not required correct but it will feel but it does feel like you have to have a permit in order to be safe as a protester am I understanding you have to have a permit if you if you plan on using the street no actually so if you if it's a a demonstration or protest type gathering and you end up shutting down the street you don't have to have a permit there is no requirement whatsoever to have a permit the city doesn't have like protest or demonstration permits if you want to hold a special event and it's going to shut down the street or a block party and you want to shut yes there are you definitely have to have a permit for those but exercising your first amendment right by having a protest or demonstration you do not the city doesn't have any type of permit that deals with protests or demonstrations right it's only special events right and I I realize I've kind of you know talking around this free speech versus special events but there have been free speech events that have been special events I know because I've organized them and I know that I've spent the money on having a permit and getting a permit has allowed me to sit down and have pre-event discussions with police officers um and what I am saying is that if I go out tonight and I have a free speech gathering of a hundred people or a thousand people and it's spur of the moment and you know whatever it's for political non-political whatever every protestor should feel safe that we're part of the community right so um so I just that's a frame of reference that I I just have to say out loud um here in this space and I hope that this is a safe enough space to say that and that it's it's taken well but I I I feel like we've we've had a conversation with the our police chief and I talked a little bit about the permitting and I don't think that it made a connection and it still stays with me it it resonates with me that I can buy safety and I think that that's an institutional systemic form of racism uh inequality and inequity so I would like I would like to see that changed probably enough about that uh so with May 4th and May 5th my last question is what should we expect from it's it it didn't of itself on May 4th and May 5th is a study session so what's gonna what should we expect to come out of that what should we expect to be able to communicate with the community um that asks like what happens after that is there going to be um action items that then go to the city council and then that they vote on those like I don't understand what happens that is a really really good question uh with study sessions council cannot take any action on any item however they can make recommendations to staff for next steps um so they can they recommend recommendations to our office on things that they want us to do they can make recommendations to the chief on things that they want him to do um so on and so forth uh the one thing that they cannot do with a study session is take any type of action with a vote um that's that was our understanding of it but I think what's what's really important to note is that um they they won't be really having conversations until they hear from the public first right so I think that they're gathering all of the information around all of these things and then trying to make an informed opinion based on that the reports and what the public will be stating that day I think that's that's going to be probably the most important because I don't think you know in my understanding of the time I've watched the city of Santa Rosa that anything like this has ever happened um so in and of itself this is uh sort of new territory and I I appreciate um that thoughtfulness of of wanting to get all the information first and this and coupled with public community opinion and then moving forward with something okay yeah I I appreciate that the explanation of that because you know um I think that that's that's probably going to be our a little bit of a stumbling block uh with the community is that you see two days of of this and it has been nearly a year and we still you know where's the action we're still looking for action right um or there's going to be a good number of people looking for action so um just to even be armed with that information that this isn't necessarily where action is going to happen right so I appreciate appreciate uh hearing that and being able to share it with the other members of the board so while I have been talking a lot thank you for letting me do that uh has there been any other questions or comments that anybody has um so just in looking at the listening session report um the second key finding right was investing in community programming and services and I think that's great that there are specific examples that would be presented to the council but um for the recommendations based on community feedback I don't I don't see any specific um item regarding that investing in uh in these maybe I'm misreading it but I just wanted to ask about that a little bit can you restate that question I just want to make sure I stay correct so the key finding number two right uh from the community for most of the sessions is investing community programming and services particularly for POC communities um but then in the second section outcomes recommendation based on community feedback um I don't quite see that called out um I just I don't see that called out meaning that it's recommended that we you know the city engage in programming for POC communities specifically that's a great um question and I think that you know some of that is is answered in some of the programs that we're doing that are for example the multicultural roots project and also in asking for support from council for us to be able to continue to do that work and some of the upcoming community we want to also create a loop a feedback loop for having these community listening sessions so you know once we take this information what what would make sense for community and council to what process would make sense right um and then just kind of some other examples that um Danielle kind of talked about was you know the low-rider patrol car it seems like yeah you know they're pretty good but in addition what we want to do is take that low-rider patrol car and take it into community and have programs around you know low-rider culture and healing and as as a practice in art and healing for community members have a speaker series going towards that continue to bring speakers like dr um sharing washington who talk about explicitly you know racism and institutional racism and how it impacts um our lives today so um i i totally hear you on maybe those things are not like clearly defined um maybe but you know i'm happy to you happy to share some of our future um programs that they pertain to that you know once we get our budget approved yeah no i would just bring it up because i mean it it's a key finding number two right and i just want to make sure that the council understands that as well and it's emphasized but i certainly see all the programs and yeah thank you but no thank you for asking that question because now we know that we want to make that super clear when we do our presentation on on the fit thank you and really hope the council reads the full report because there are very specific examples that community gave us on what programming they want to see right and it's not just like the community engagement programming it's economic programming there were comments made from community members around a black community center around library in rosalind around you know so many different things and so uh you know awesome if they read the full report which i'm sure they will do so the good news and what i just heard is that we you know we are getting the rosalind library so that is good but we got to keep it going once we get it too um um any other questions or comments with member i don't know i just lost it too i was trying to write notes as we were going and i just lost one of them um oh so there was right under that was number two police accountability and oversight mechanisms um that are the listening session outcome themes that was number three um i just put a little note on that around interagency oversight because during the protests of last summer there were multiple agencies that were here and involved in and had use of force i believe um or potentially from other things that i've read and so if if we have um accountability and oversight but other agencies from other cities and county or other places come and we don't have that that's out the window now as i understand it so i don't know how that can come about but um i think that that's an important little sub note in that because then where are we so okay i've made more comments than questions sorry about that but there's a lot there's a lot of information there uh thank you so much for doing all of the work for doing all of the listening for taking all of the notes because one thing that you didn't mention when you answered the question from member stuffy as to uh what staff what city staff were at the listening sessions daniel was at every single one of them so um when you see all of those numbers and you see uh all of that report daniel made that happen and uh i really appreciate all of your hard work and uh i don't know how you get it all done so many many many appreciations with that do we have any uh public comments we do have one hand raised for public comment all right sharyl i've allowed you to speak can you unmute your mic can you hear me yes i can hear you sharyl can you see the screen um i can thank you very much very very one wonderful presentation all right well your three minutes starts now thank you so much um the question i had i had a couple um the question was basically how does um cab interface with law enforcement and then how um will cab have input on what police oversight looks like would you like to yield the rest of your time um yeah um so i'm basically i'm doing my um uh doctorate on um um um policing and protesting and i'm very interested in what is and i'm a member of a citizen of santa rosa and i'm very interested in what is going on in our community so um very interested in doing a study actually on what is going on in our community so that is uh that is the extent of my question thank you very much so uh chair graves um is up to you if you would like to respond to uh the resident's comment i will let uh sharyl know that um that because of uh the brown act and laws around open public meetings um we are not allowed to technically have dialogue back and forth between board members and members of the public however if the chair so chooses to answer the question or staff chooses to answer the question i think that's okay so i'd like to um thank the public for that uh public comment it's it's becoming more rare in in our meetings that we have the public here to make a comment and i do appreciate your time so what i would choose to do at this time is to ask the question um so what is the relationship between cab and law enforcement as staff sees that um yep so under city charter requirements for cab one of the requirements the cab has is to um address issues of concern or take in feedback from the community on issues of concerns san rosa residents um including public safety issues the public safety is specifically called out in the charter for the cab requirements so if the cab so chooses to focus on public safety whether it be uh police oversight and reform or you know the cab also does stuff around neighbor fest and uh fire prevention and disaster preparedness so anything having to do with public safety great and um and our input on on oversight uh and what that looks like um i will just add that uh we do have reports that are provided to the cab by the chief police i think i mentioned in 2020 that we had uh a report by our chief and we were able to provide some input at that time um as we have the new ambassador team that will be meeting i believe it was mentioned in may or june for the first time that uh i would hope that sometime after that once they get them a little bit of ground underneath them that we may have an interaction between the cab and that ambassador team and if we are able to form a civilian oversight committee that after that that we may have some interaction and some input as well um with various reports going back and forth so just a brief overview right there and uh good luck with that phd program that's a big one to take on so no other comments from the public there are no no sorry there are no other hands raised all right thank you so with that we'll move on to 7.5 and the cab subcommittee updates but i before doing that i want to recognize that it is 803 um and just what time it is uh if there needs to be a break at this time or we are just going to push through because we have this and then future agenda items crazy hands who wants a five-minute break let's keep going all right keep going okay let's push through cheer graves i also want to state that we um i believe we still need to address item 7.4 before moving on to 7.5 oh sorry thank you appreciate that skip right over there uh 7.4 issues of concerns to city residents uh this is a standing agenda item where cab members can report on issues of concern to community members within their cab areas and um and the city as a whole so if anybody at this time has any issues of concern that they'd like to bring forward do i see any hands so i'll just keep it brief but um there's a community group here in southwest san rosa uh right around right around the unmetals and they are in the early stages of organizing to ask for better infrastructure and to oppose some of the housing developments and so they uh that's a big concern of them meaning that the housing developments are coming in without the necessary infrastructure like parks wider roads etc and i've attended a few of their one other meetings and so that's an issue of concern for them and i'm just reporting that out to the to the rest of cab so thank you great are there any other issues of concern i see none um so are there public comments there are no hands raised for public comment great thank you now moving on to seven point five and cab subcommittee updates uh we have two subcommittees we have the expertise subcommittee and the empowerment is there any updates from the expertise committee they did not meet this month and will not be meeting next month either due to the study sessions that are happening this week thank you and the subcommit the empowerment subcommittee is the committee i mentioned earlier in the meeting that is putting together the civic 101 videos so member i think it's just member roberts and i are that are on that committee that since the last meeting so we haven't had a meeting in a couple months but member roberts do you have a a quick explanation of what civic 101 videos are would you like to say that um so yeah we initially we're planning on a civic academy and i think partially because of covid and zoom times and also i think we think the city wanted to go towards video anyway we shifted our efforts to videos and we started to gather information that could be used and it sounds like we're not going to be doing the vocal at work it's not going to be contracted out which is a good thing because we're not experts and yeah it just covers all the topics that the better committee came up with and probably more all the critical services of san rosa some history about san rosa and sunam county that kind of stuff and yeah i think the contracts well i think i can talk about the status of the company yeah awesome news they have started working and so for the arts productions our fda productions has started working on putting the videos together so the content is has been provided to them they're stretching out the storyboards and the scripts right now um and they will be to us for review uh probably by next week um so i'm super excited about that uh anyone's interested in doing some voiceover work let me know um other than that uh we also oh actually we do need uh we will be uh having the script translated so there will be one video english one is spanish um so we actually do need voiceover done in spanish so if anyone who speaks spanish on the board is interested in doing voiceover work that can speak spanish please let me know we do have staff that can do it but it would be awesome if you guys want to participate to give you that opportunity so oh and that content too by the way um was used for the draft of the citizen's guidebook which is now in draft form and being reviewed by migali and once that is complete it'll be off to the graphic designer so we almost had that done as well i'm super excited to report on all that so that is really great news and i'd love to maybe you know i i hate to put more on your plate Danielle but if there is there a possibility if i laugh it'll make it better um is there a possibility that you could in one of those i think you were going to send an email with something um some of these links and reports if if you could make just a reminder in that email about that opportunity for cab members to um be involved in these videos and and be a voiceover because i would hate anybody to miss that opportunity uh you guys it would be so great if each person on the cab was involved in some way and and had their voice on this um i think that it would really go a long ways to representation so yes that is very doable no problem thank you uh so with that um any questions for us for those cab subcommittee updates doesn't look like it so public comment no hands raised for public comment great now moving on to number eight future agenda items this is where i kind of go over what may occur and if you have any other input for future agenda items uh we'll be looking for that as well um so on your agenda you can see that we have the Sonoma county commission on human rights report that report is still set to be highlighted in the may fourth and fifth meeting i believe so the it's it's kind of been the plan that the city council will get to uh look over that report first this is the first time that they officially are going to be looking over the report on may fourth and fifth and then um and then it might come to cab i need to uh ask a clarifying question if the council is going to hear that report at a study session which is going to be not only live streamed but recorded and available for the cab to view or anybody to view does the cab still want that presentation to come to to them so what you're um suggesting is that you could just put a link like with our next agenda and we could um watch it on our own or you could have them come into a presentation it's completely up to the board how they want to do this my understanding was the chair of the symphony human rights commission wanted to come to town we could ask definitely i think since that time uh since the time of the report being issued in july of 2020 that the chair had had changed as well yeah it might i don't know where that status is right now um i do know who the chair is uh which is jerry threet and he will actually be leaving the area in a few in a month or two as well so there's going to be another uh change so if i could just clarify the um report um the commission on human rights report will be presented by jerry three who is the current chair and demetra smith who is the former chair so just wanted to put that out there and you mean in presenting on may four yeah they're gonna co-present on may four okay my input would be that we definitely get um the link sent with the agenda for june and that um potentially have a discussion around it in the june agenda and that way we can make a more informed decision so anybody oppose that is everybody okay all right um and then the next one is uh the next potential future agenda item is caring for yourself while working during times of crisis uh um it says may 19th but i think when you talked about it you said that she would come back and do that after may no that it it is scheduled for may 19th okay uh so that's in may and community improvement grant program the project selection so the deadline to get in the community improvement grant applications is june 30th so in our july meeting and during the summer we will be looking over uh the applications and making selections yeah and then the last one is a recreation and parks department presentation and that time is to be determined and that is part of our charter right to have that presentation so we'll need to know that is it okay um then it's the city of santa rosa equity officer so after after a few months of onboarding and whatnot and uh getting your feet underneath her then she'll be coming and doing a presentation to us at some point then the community engagement division strategic plan will be coming up at some point the general plan update uh will come and the sonoma county homeless count i think that was supposed to be also could be a presentation in the future are there any other future presentation items and yeah um quick cip uh since it falls under us at the charter level um we we don't have community outreach plan plans right because we can't do them right now in person but i don't think that prevent i don't think we'd get out of having to do cip community outreach and i know you guys are working on the um the tool the you know the so i would suggest that once we do the presentation on this new community engagement tool that probably one of the early um cap discussions as a future agenda item would be tying in with cip as a starting point so i would say you know if it's not already on your future agenda items list as a you know first things first let's get the online tool and then we can talk about it but i just i know that it's part of the charter so bring it up that project is on my list of one to add to that site once we've done the live launch and can we get a clarification of cip capital improvement program so the infrastructure budget for the city um the one of the cab requirements is to collect community feedback on infrastructure priorities um every single year before the budget study sessions and so usually we do that summer and fall and then we provide that information to um to jason nut and his team so that they can then present the information to council just for our new members we did have a presentation by jason nut of the community improvement projects capital improvement improvement projects huh i know just a month or two two months ago i believe um so those are in uh our agenda archives as well online which is also a great link to include for new members um because it the website can be confusing to try to look up agendas and and and stuff so um so thank you for that that was noted and i don't see any any others are there any public comment on future agenda items there are no public comments all right that brings us to the end of our meeting i want to remind everybody that our next meeting is now on may 19th uh that is the third wednesday of may which is a change um from our usual schedule of it being on the fourth wednesday of may so may 19th um put that in your calendar i know we'll be getting agendas and a reminder from danielle but um before we adjourn this one i wanted to make that mention of that and at this time we have a motion to adjourn move to adjourn a second from member roberts and we are adjourned thank you everybody for sticking in there for that extra time really appreciate it uh and welcome to our new members uh it's great to see you here look forward to hearing more from you as we go on with meetings thank you everybody bye bye