The Recording in progress. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to the Tuesday, May 13th, regularly scheduled meeting of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors. We're going to start with our roll call, please. Supervisor Marquez. Present. Supervisor Tam. Present. Supervisor Miley excused. Supervisor Fornata Bass. Present. Present Halberd. Present. We have a quorum. Thank you. Would you all please rise if you can and join me in the pledge of allegiance Thank you Thank you, thank you, thank you. The Board of Supervisors welcomes the public to its meetings. Thank you all for being here. We also appreciate your public input and comments. Be reminded that disruption and disruptive behavior will not be tolerated. And we welcome both in person and online participation. So the clerk will now read guidelines for participating remotely. If you are in the room and would like to speak, please fill out a speaker slip and give it to the clerk in the front here. 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Public comment will generally alternate between in person and online speakers as determined by the President of the Board and subject to overall time limits. Thank you. Thank you very much. Now is the part of our meeting where we offer a board of supervisor remarks. Any member of the board can make personal remarks. I recognize supervisor Fort Sonato Bass. Thank you President Halbert and good morning everyone. I wanted to share two things. One is that last week our Alameda County together for all committee met and we continue to talk about education including early childhood education and care as well as higher education. The information is available on our website where you can find a video of the meeting and hopefully the presentations are up. And I wanted to just briefly share that we have been working with a number of our colleagues in higher education and specifically to support the young people, the foreign students who had their immigration status revoked by the president. There was a development in terms of the immigration status being given back to the students. However, a lot of the students are living with a lot of uncertainty and I wanted to express my gratitude to all of the organizations who have been supporting them as they continue to figure out how to continue their educations. It's still an issue to watch and again we're really grateful for the legal support and other support that has come around those students. We also heard a great presentation from the first five commission in terms of early childhood education and some of the potential threats to things like Head Start. Some of those may be at bay for the moment, but again, it's also another issue that we have to be very vigilant to watch. So please feel free to find that information, which is linked on my website. And again, that's the committee that I chair and supervisor Mark Hezco chairs, and I'm sure you can talk with either of us or our staff. And then secondly, I wanted to share that my office is now fully staffed. We are welcoming three new team members to our staff and that includes Agnes Cho, who is not here today. Agnes is going to be our lead on health, homelessness and housing. We do have with us today Eliza Cosmi, and she will be leading out in the field, doing community engagement and partnerships and a number of our cities. And then we also have with us returning to the county, Rihanna Brown, and Rihanna's in the back there. Some of you might remember her from her time with Supervisor Carson. We got to work together at the City of Oakland when she worked with the District 3 team in West Oakland and we're happy to have her back in on the team. So we are much more fully staffed to be out in the community engaging and collaborating with all of you. Thank you. Very good, thank you. With that said, our next item is public comment on closed session items. We talked about public comment. There are three times that you can provide public comment. The first is on closed session items. That's what we have right now. Later, when we take up the full agenda, there will be another opportunity for items that are on today's agenda. And then at the very end, we have the opportunity to provide public input on items that are are not on today's agenda. Maybe then at the very end we have the opportunity to provide public input on items that are not on today's agenda. Maybe you want to bring something up for future discussion. So for now we're talking about items that are only on closed session. If you would like to speak on an item that is on closed session, please state which item it is. And the clerk will start with in person and will announce the first three speakers and then we'll go online. If you would like to speak on items that are on closed session, wait for your name to be called and then let us know which item in closed session you're here to talk about. Thank you very much. The clerk will now call the speakers. Kevin Q. Hannah Cav Pilo. Mika Calderon. Good morning to all the meeting. I'm going to start the meeting. I'm going to start the meeting. I'm going to start the meeting. I'm going to start the meeting. I'm going to start the meeting. I'm going to start the meeting. I'm going to start the meeting. I'm going to start the meeting. I'm going to start the meeting. I'm going to start the meeting. I'm going to start the meeting. Alameda County. I love Almeida. I thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak. As an IHSS provider, I love my work, even though it is physically demanding, and can be difficult. I understand that no one has a easy. As human beings, everyone has the rights to live with dignity, even if they have lost the ability to take care of themselves for all different reasons. Sooner or later, everyone will need some from the care, including myself. I have parents to take care of children to look after and family to support. I also need to feed myself. Unfortunately, and SNIHSS provider, the current hourly wage makes it very difficult to make ends meet, especially with the rising cost of basic living. Right? rent is going up and utility bills are going up. Transportation costs are going up and everything is become more expensive in the whole San Francisco Bay area. For example, a bag of rice noodles are used to buy for the 99 cents. Now costs $1.50. A egg used to be around $1.5. Now they are at least dollar each. Compared to the hourly wage and the housing insurance program of IHS provider in other big area counties, and considering the hardship we face, I respectfully asking you to approve our request for a wage increase and the new housing insurance policy like the other countries in the Bay Area. Thank you. Thank you. What I would like to say. Thank you. Thank you so much. Appreciate you. Okay. Thank you. Please. Good morning. Board of supervisors. My name is Hannah Carpolo. I've been an IHS worker since 1981 here in Alameda County. I absolutely love my work and I love my clients. I love my community. I love my fellow workers who are providing these services to our community members who rely on them in order to maintain an independent life. So for each of us, purple-shirted union members that you see here today, there's at least one person at home who is trying to maintain a positive independent life in the community. In addition to being a union member and an IHSS worker, I am also chair the advisory committee on IHSS and I look forward to meeting with each of you in the near future regarding the in-home support service program in general. But today I'm here to talk about our wages, our contract. So it gets increasingly harder to find a provider. I help manage a few people and I know from doing a search and trying to recruit workers. Our workers live in Concord. they live in Vallejo, they live in Hercules, they live in San Leandro, and they're working in Berkeley. So this is hard, hard, hard, hard for people to stay in Alameda County and to live on these wages. The current wages actually, it's, we're less than very low income. I did a little research yesterday to see what the median income is and our wages at full time come to 25% of median income. Thank you for your time this morning and look forward to meeting with you all again soon. Applause. Good morning. Thank you for your time and for listening to what we have to say. My name is Mika Calderon and I am an IHS as provider. I have been a healthcare worker for a number of years. I cared for my father in my home for 18 years. And I did not get paid for IHSS for that. This was, unfortunately, he was not qualified for a medical. And I did it out of my heart. I became an IHSS worker because I had a friend that needed help and I would help her with her, her daily things, grocery, etc. And she unfortunately became ill, had a stroke, down she had cancer, and I was able to help her to get IHSS. I did it for my heart, but the way that we get paid through IHSS is unacceptable. The amounts, the wage that we receive. My brother here mentioned how noodles and eggs and everything is not just noodles and eggs. It's everything and especially in California. Everything is doubled. I go to the supermarket. Everything is doubled. Anything that I need, gasoline, everything is doubled. We need better wages. We need money that will help us survive. I go to Contra Costa County just like she said. And I live in Alameda County. It's crazy because I spend more gas and going there and coming back with my little $19 that I receive. Is that acceptable? Would you accept $19 to go change someone's dirty sheets and take care of them? I do it for my heart, but we need better wages as the bottom line. That's why I'm here. Please accept my apologies if I get it a little emotional, but please help us. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. That's right. I think I speak for the entire board. We see you, we hear you, we have seen and heard you the last few weeks that you come. Thank you for being here. And we want you to know that we do take this up in closed session discussions when it's appropriate. We have had these discussions. It's very complex. We have 30,000 IHSS qualified folks in Alameda County. Every county is working through this. I want you to know we hear you. And thank you for being here. With that said, we'll move to online speakers and then back to the next three in person. Next in person. Yanya Zhu, Hiyat Abdo, Sarah Rahimi. I'm not here to talk about my own I am I'm here to speak for all of us who are caring for others. While finally struggling ourselves, we show up every day to take care of the seniors, people with disabled, and those who need help with the living. We do this work with heart. We pay, we pay attention and we dip respect. But the tool is we are hurting. The cars living keep raising. When guests go through car repair in repair insoons is all growing up. But our wish is not keeping up. We are working hard by falling behind. People say they are programmed out there to help, but most of us don't qualify. They say we aren't too much, but they don't see how much we spend just to get to work. They don't see the test taken from Erichel. They don't come on guess the car maintains the new type. They don't see those are paying off the childcare of our school on top of everything else. We are paying for everything by ourselves and it's not fair. We work too hard to have to choose between paying rent or putting food on the table and making it to work. We are not asking for our hand out. We are asking for a better pay. We want to keep doing the work we love, caring for others, but we also need to take care of ourselves and our family. So we are asking, please raise our wage, see our work, respect our work. We are a vital part of the care system and we deserve to live it. Not just so wide. Thank you for your time and thank you for listening to our voice. Thank you for your time and thank you for listening to our voice. Thank you. Good morning and member of the board, trustees and respected guests. In a just society health is not a privilege, it is human rights. With that being said, I want to emphasize how important those contracting negotiations are for all of us, IHSS providers. We do essential work, work that supports sustained and improved lives yet many of us still struggle to receive the fair wages, benefit and protection we deserve. We do those decisions directly impact not just our leave food but also the quality of care we are able to provide. that's why I am here today to kindly ask for a wage increase. The current wage makes it difficult to attract and retain qualifying care provider. A wage increase would lead to a better quality care and empower individual with disability to leave fuller leave and reach their full potential. I understand that you may not feel the urgency I feel today, but when you or someone you love need support, you will understand exactly what I mean. At this moment, I hope the decision made today will resonate deeply. Let's hold our institution accountable. Let's rise our voice for those with disability who cannot fully express what they want and needs. Together, let's build a system where compassion, fairness and equity are at the center of health care. Thank you for your time, your attention and for considering the request. I remain hopeful that together we can build a better system for those who need help the most. Thank you. Sarah Rahimi. Hello everyone, my name is Sarah and this is my first time to speak in app like this. I'm part of IHIS provider and CEIU. Remember, for the essential work, we do everything. This is going up, rain gas grocery, and we need to wish that reflect the value of our care I'm here to stand with you all and support this. Thank you. Lisa Lee, Anna Bonifacio, Xiao Yang Wang. Okay. Okay. My name is Lisa, I am a member of SIIIU 2015. I'm also a HHS provider. I have been living in the area for many years, and I have been living in the air for a long time. is just provider. I have been taking care of elderly patients that has, it's not only the physical impact, but also a mental impact, and every day working in a close environment has a big impact for us. For us, I just just provide, historically, we have been one of the lowest paid group of people. We have provided many help to many elderly and disabled people that rely on the provider's help, but yet, who is going to help us? So what we are getting paid right now, it has been impacting our daily life as well. And some have helped on time. Oh. And some have helped on time. We have had several bargaining sessions with the public authority. But unfortunately, we have not reached the common ground. So we are so glad. So you don't, don't go to that's why we are here in a voicing out making the plea, please increase our already wage. And please do not cut the Medicare. And as we provide high quality care, we also deserve a little high pay, higher wages. I'm sorry. We also need better benefits, so we can also provide higher quality care for the people that we care about. Thank you. Thank you very much. Morning. My name is Anna Bonifacio and this is my first time standing like this. I don't have any speech writing. I speak from my heart. I had been a provider for more than 30 years, first in New York, and then when I moved to California a light 10 years ago, I started my job, like on a care provider. I work because because I love my job and it's a very difficult job because you have to go to people's houses and people have to adjust to different conditions and it's a difficult job. You do it with your heart and being home care provider for years, I have to work two or three jobs. One job is not enough to send my daughter to school, give her a good education and have a place to live because it's difficult. Home care provider needs right now a retire. I'm only part of member of the HSE for retire. But I have to be here and speak for all those years that I work. I think that we need better pay, not only for the, because everything is more expensive now. I don't think it's just the point. Always since, cause of living is getting up all the time. And now we have a difficult time. But we need to have a safety place to live, educate our children, our children and the future, and we need to secure that. That's it. Thank you so much. Listen. Yeah, one one. I am a registered IHS care provider. I am also a father of three minor children. So give me a second. The one holding in my hand is Nutella, but it is going to make children's favorite snack. You know, it was $11 for two bottles of these. But this week, it's $14 for two bottles of these, at Costco. And all of a sudden, it's $14 for two bottles of these, at Costco. And also please notice the design of the bottom of this bottle. Before it was flat. And now you look at it, it's caved in. This is a clever disguise. But you know, you only took a few months to do this price hike. But for our request to have our wage increase, it hasn't been answered for months. I'm really hoping that my kids will still have the opportunity to enjoy their favorite food. to have our wage increase, it hasn't been answered for months. I'm really hoping that my kids will still have the opportunity to enjoy their favorite snack. The people that I care for, their average age is 84 years old. And throughout my work, we have established a deep relationship. Oh, this is more than a relationship. It's like a friendship. I really don't want an interruption to their care because we're getting such low pay. and you. And I really hope the government really takes take our request seriously. Thank you. Thank you. Masoud Varidi Amida Avarado Morning, the President Board of the Corps Worker Good morning, President Bolk. My name is Masoud Javidi and I have, sure, thank you. My name is Masoud Javidi and I have become a provider for our HSS over the last year or a little bit more. And today I was going to talk a little bit about some other points, especially with respect to the one of the core agendas of the SCIU 2015, which is the social justice and social and economic justice, which is what had made me to join the union and to participate in their activities. And today, after listening to my colleagues and my coworkers, I am beginning to see there is some fundamental differences of what I was thinking. And I have come to this understanding at this moment. I might refine it tomorrow and later, but at this moment, I think, we have some fundamental difficulties in order to increase these law wages, which really is almost nothing if it is your only income. But at the same time, if it is not your only income, then it's okay. It's just an extra pocket money, extra money for taking care of your loved ones or taking care of the other people, which is not going to impact your living conditions and living standards. So I believe that we need to have some different pay rates for different type of providers. If a provider is a full-time provider, I think maybe $50 per hour, $100 per hour, maybe sufficient. But if a provider has another job and they have a good income, then it's not really that big of issue. So I think the main point is for all those providers that have no other income to be considered more immediately and more seriously in order to increase it to a $50 or $100 per hour, depending on the case-by-case situation. Thank you. Thank you. . . Good morning, everyone. Good morning. My name is a mental vibrato. I am a I work for department of social services, the SSIHSS,abone of the Oltrum. Good, good, good. And I'm here with my team of the SCIU that are well respected worldwide and internationally. There's a legislative law in 2019, 2020 for our care accounts, AB 283. We are here striving for a better contract, better wages. We do take care of individuals at home that are desperately in need and care and some has it critical and some do not. So hopefully we can implement, they can implement these laws that was implemented back in 2019, 2020, the legislative law for our care counts, AB 283 and it's year 225. I have military insignia since 2020 and I am chief officer in significant number 13 is 2019 And I'm here with a we're half a million strong and thank you for always receiving us here in the Board of Supervisor reading. So I hope we can get this contract. This I hope you can get this contract for better pain wages for us, Union SCIU 2015. Thank you. President Halbert, there are no more speakers. Very good. I'd like to thank everyone for being with us this morning in your comments. They are taken to heart. We will now adjourn a rather recess to our closed session, and we will resume for our set matter at one o'clock and our regular calendar between now and then. With that said, we will recess in the closed session. Thank you all. Recording in progress Welcome back everyone. We're going to resume our meeting today. And I'll ask the clerk to please call the roll to establish our quorum. Supervisor Marquez. Present. Supervisor Tan. Present. Supervisor Meierli. Supervisor Fortnata Bass. Present. Present Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.cv045750 at a closed session on February 25th, 2025, the board authorized settlement in that case. Today's report is that that case is now settled in the amount of $175,000 paid to plaintiff. The vote on that matter was supervisors, Halbert, Tam, Marquez, and Fortinato Bass voted, yes, supervisor Miley was excused. Thank you very much. With that, we'll proceed to our one o'clock set matters. These set matters are a series of proclamations and commendations. It's item 118A, B and C will proceed with 118A, supervisor for to not abass proclaiming May 25th as Black Mental Health Matters Month. Supervisor for to not abass comments. Thank you, President Halbert. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us today at the Board of Supervisors. I have the honor at the request of the community of introducing our Black Mental Health Matters Month. I believe we have Carol Burton and a number of other guests with us. And before I share the proclamation, I wanted to just lift up that my predecessor, Supervisor Carson, was a huge champion of health equity. And our health department as well is also on the cutting edge of looking at health disparities and really lifting up how we as a county can work together to address health disparities in a number of our communities and most particularly in the black community. So the Black Mental Health Matters Month is a proclamation that my office is really honored to present and I will actually read the proclamation because I think it's very well done by Carol and the community. So this says, whereas everyone has mental health needs, just as everyone has physical health needs, and it is important to support mental health in our community as a critical part of overall wellness. And whereas prevention and early intervention can reduce risk and build protective factors by increasing resiliency, strengthening interpersonal connections, and raising the general level of health and well-being to minimize long-term suffering. And whereas, one in four Black Californians reports having a mental health condition and more than half of Black adults in Alameda County report needing but not obtaining care for mental health or substance abuse issues. And whereas we acknowledge that access to mental health diagnostics, treatment and recovery care is influenced by social determinants including education, access and quality, economic stability, healthcare access and quality, social and community context, and neighborhood and built environment. And whereas historical and modern day policies rooted in structural racism have shaped inequities and social determinants for Alameda County's black residents, resulting in lower educational attainment and wages alongside disproportionately high rates of incarceration and homelessness. and whereas the health, social, and economic disparities by black, alamita county residents, including the criminalization of black health problems can trigger and exacerbate negative mental health outcomes. And where as improving mental health access across the lifespan for the county's black population requires multi sector, multi disciplinary upstream approaches that prioritize access to adequate community resources, across the lifespan for the county's black population requires multi-sector, multidisciplinary upstream approaches that prioritize access to adequate community resources and power of, empowerment of people with lived experience and education of caregivers and social support networks. And whereas, empowering Alameda County's Black community with information, programs and resources for mental health care will increase awareness about prevention and treatment pathways, reduce stigma, and promote belonging, inclusion, and participation in community life. Therefore, this Board of Supervisors of Alameda County in the state of California does hereby proclaim the month of May 2025 as Black Mental Health Matters Month throughout Alameda County and urges all county residents, agencies, faith groups, health and social services facilities, education institutions, and businesses to promote the outside feelings campaign. Remember that mental health thrives in community and connect neighbors struggling with mental health challenges to care. So without further ado, I would like to invite Carol Burton and her colleagues to join for some brief remarks. Let's welcome Carol Burton. Thank you, supervisor, and all of the supervisors for this opportunity. For acknowledging the importance of Black Mental Health Matters, I am Carol Burton, I am the CEO of Julep Consulting, and we are the conveners of the African American Mental Health and Wellness Coalition, and also the authors of the outside feelings campaign. We're grateful for this proclamation and the opportunity to uplift needs and strengths and healing traditions of the black community across Alameda County. Outside feelings was created for and by the black community in Alameda County. It's more than a campaign. It's a call to connect our people, the care that it's culturally affirming, racially concurrent, concord, and rooted in collective healing. The campaign is designed to reduce stigma, to normalize conversations about mental health, to promote prevention and and healing and to connect people to care that reflect their lived experiences. As the proclamation states more than half of black Americans in elementary county who need mental health or substance abuse care do not receive it. To address that we we need more services, but the right services, services that are designed with, by and for us. We are calling for greater investment in community mental health supports that are culturally grounded and accessible. We ask the Board of Supervisors and our county departments to continue supporting initiatives that expand racial and concord and care, expand people, empower people with lived experience, and invest upstream in Black mental wellness, particularly for youth caregivers and families. It is our hope that May is not just a month of awareness, but a catalyst for lasting change. Black mental health matters every day and with the continued support of this board, our community partners who are all here and campaigns like outside fillings, we can create a system of care where everyone feels seen, supported and whole. I do do have cards that also have a QR code that I'll leave for you. And with me, I'd like to introduce Dr. Adner Boz, who's the co-implementer of the African American Hub Complex. He's also the president of the leadership council for brotherhood of the elders and He will be followed by Miss Willemina Wilson who is the CEO of healthy black met a healthy black families Green supervisors It's an honor to be before you. I congratulate you on this proclamation. It's good to be here in this space. I have not been here for some years. Having done lots of work in the county. Currently, also the director of the Angangan Nata-Buti program, which is a training program designed to help restore and promote African American and Black focus services providers. It's one strand of the African American hub. I applaud you in this proclamation for recognizing and acknowledging the need for integrated services for collaborative efforts and to encourage all providers of services to African-Americans and the Black population to work together to do services that help enhance the mind, the body, the spirit, and the social relations of African Americans. That will help us move towards health and wellness. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is Willemina Wilson and I'm the Executive Director at Healthy Black Families. Healthy Black Families is a community-based public health organization that works to advance social equity and justice with a focus on Black individuals and families. We do this work with people through programs and with a focus on involving policy. HBF has our roots in advocating for support of Black mothers, children, and families. We do this through the lens of the social determinants of health, advocating for cultural, competent healthcare, equitable housing, and multicultural education. This positions healthy black families on a dynamic landscape advocating for black families who often live at the corner of extractive policies that create oppression, poverty in a host of other traumas and harms. advocate advocate to inform policymakers of how their policy decisions adversely impact black people. In schools, in housing as it's developed, in climate equity and in transportation projects. We seek to share with policymakers how their priorities may negatively impact the quality of neighborhoods, the built environment, the fabric of community relationships, and support systems. We work to normalize strength-based approaches to wellness, to mitigate illness, including mental illness. HBF is intentional in our efforts to engage, educate, and advocate for community around issues that are most impactful for survival and security as we journey towards the equity that human dignity demands. As Black people we suffer from multi-generational trauma, harm, and disenfranchisement for which we have received no real meaningful acknowledgement, opportunity to heal or systematic repair of harm. As community servants, we are all accountable for how we use public resources. We are called to provide a safety net for the most vulnerable among us. Realizing that much of the vulnerability that exists for Black people is not self-inflicted, but has been created by systemic racism, sometimes vicious attacks on black communities, intentional exclusion of black people from resources that create wealth building opportunities, strategies to have drugs channeled into, saturate our neighborhoods, and policies that have allowed food deserts to persist. For all of these reasons, we give thanks to you today for the resolution you've put forward. acknowledging the importance of mental health services in this county for Black citizens. Thank you very much. Applause. And I'd like to introduce Al Gilbert, who's the CEO of Felton Institute. Thank you supervisors for this proclamation and for the work that you've been doing in support of the Black community, and people of color here in Alameda County. It is a real pleasure to be in Alameda County, because Feltin Institute now is in 10 counties in Northern California. We serve about 50,000 people a year. We have many of those innovative programs here in Alameda County as well, working with people coming out of the Jail's, working with early on, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, all those things. What's really important for me is that we recognize that the behavioral support that the community needs is not episodic, meaning that it's not enough that we just show up at times of challenge is that instead that we have a continuation of care. So one of the things that Felton has is we have an organization called Cersei Software. We were the first company to build an electronic health record on the Salesforce.com platform 20 years ago, first company to do that. And still what it allows us to do is attract outcomes and to demonstrate the improvement. So that's the exciting part about what we have with our collaboration partners, is I think that Alameda County should leave the country and demonstrating improved outcomes. And then that tells a story about what happens to these lives and happens how we support healing within the community. And that's an important component that we will be adding to the work that we're doing so that you have the evidence that your investments are creating a return that actually changes the conditions. And that's an important part about what's important to happen in our communities. Thank you for your work. Go ahead. Any other comments? to happen in our communities. Thank you for your work. Go ahead. Any other comments from colleagues before we would love to come down and give you a gold-framed proclamation that you can find a place to hang on the wall. We'll take a little photo with you and everybody, but I'm going to first ask if any other comments from my colleagues. Otherwise, a lot said, thank you all for coming. Let's come down and take a photo. you you you you you you you you Our next item is item 18B and this is supervisor Miley proclaiming May 25th as affordable housing month. I will note that we'll take public comment on items 18 A, B and C at the end so that we don't have to do them all individually. So supervisor, Miley. Thank you, President Albert. Fortable housing month, you know, is in the month of May. And we have a proclamation signed by all five supervisors acknowledging affordable housing month. You know, just, um, yesterday we had a joint health and social services committee meeting, went for four hours talking about housing and homelessness. So it's quite appropriate that we have this population today and aware safe and stable and affordable housing is the foundation of healthy, inclusive, and racially equitable communities. Whereas East Bay Housing Organization is championed, afforded by housing in the East Bay for over four decades, advancing a vision of housing justice for all, and whereas the rising cost of housing has displaced long-term residents increased, overcrow and contributed to growing homeless crisis, threatening the region's diversity and economic stability. Affordable housing is essential for supporting seniors, families, youth, veterans, people with disabilities and the broader community. Federal funding for housing programs is under serious threats, and we all know that it's under serious threats, unfortunately, I threw in the unfortunately. Including significant cuts for fair housing and section four initiatives that support housing access nationwide. Proposed reductions to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, its budget, jeopardize critical programs like housing vouchers and homeless assistance. Local and regional leadership is more important than ever in preserving and expanding affordable housing opportunities. So May is recognized as affordable housing month across the Bay Area. There's a commitment to addressing of the housing crisis. Epo East Bay Housing Organization has led the Affordable Housing Week for 29 years. It's elevated the importance of accessible housing for all. So the Board of Supervisors resolves and proclaims affordable housing month in the month of May and it's signed by once again all five supervisors and you know we do recognize that we have housing crisis, we have homeless crisis and we're going to continue to be committed to doing everything we can do to resolve that. We do have representatives that are going to be getting the proclamation from us today. Would you like for them to speak first or? Let's do speakers first, then a photo, and then we'll go to the next one. Who can we welcome to the podium? Welcome. I'm going to put it on. I'm going to put it on. I'm going to put it on. I'm going to put it on. I'm going to put it on. I'm going to put it on. I'm going to put it on. I'm going to put it on. I'm going to put it on. I'm going to put it on. I'm going to put it on. I'm going to to bend down. My name is Tesla McCarley, executive director of Supportive Housing Community Land Alliance. I'm also a board member of Epo. I know a supervisor Marquez was honored at our last EPO event at affordable housing month kickoff earlier this month. But EPO is an advocacy organization that's been around for over 40 years. We have over 400 members who advocate on behalf of families and individuals to increase the production and preservation of affordable housing within the county. And we'd like to thank you for supporting affordable housing month in Epo. Just to give a little bit of context about the affordable housing crisis and some of the work. What brings me to this work? I am a child of Oakland. I grew up in the Diamond District in Oakland, neighborhood that provided lots of benefits to me. Our work at SACLA, Supportive Housing Community Land Alliance really takes this idea of democratizing beauty and opportunity and tries to give that to residents that we serve live with serious mental illness across the county. as far as EPO, in affordable housing month, our programming this year includes a diverse lineup of events, including community celebrations, days of action, panel discussions, and housing workshops. A full list of events can be found at epo.org slash events. And with that, I'd just like to thank you on behalf of epo and supportive housing community land alliance. And hope to see you at one of our affordable housing month events this month. We're going to come check a photo. Let's go check a photo. Will you join us? Comments from Supervisor Marquez. I'll make a brief comment. Thank you so much and congratulations on this recognition. It's impressive that Ebo has been in our community for 40 years. Looking at your website last week, I just want to flag for the public. Your website is ebo.org, but you have a lot of factual information with respect to looking for housing. So just want to encourage everyone to take a look at that. It's an extremely helpful tool to let our community know the options available throughout the county. So thank you so much for making this easy and accessible for people to advocate and apply for housing opportunities. Congratulations. And Chris, now again, I just want to say to that just last Friday, I believe we had a big event over the housing, we had a ribbon cutting, to open up the housing over there. A big turnout. Once again, it was an EPO event. I'm very pleased to be, I've been a part of that, the county through HED, I'll provide a significant money for that facility. And we just definitely value the work of the Epo. Hopefully your services won't be needed at some point, but until that point arrives, thank you. you you you you Okay, our next item is item 18c. This really is going to come from all of us, but it says Supervisor Marquez, Miley and Tam, proclaiming May 25th as Asian, American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. I'll turn it over to Supervisor Tam. Thank you, President Halbert. Wanted to start off, Supervisor Fortune Auto Bass and I will be recognizing and honoring the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants as the Board of Supervisors proclaim May as Asian Pacific Heritage Month, AAPI Heritage Month. And this year's theme is a legacy of leadership and resilience. We're proud to honor the hard work of the AAPI and HPI leaders and build a foundation for future generations to thrive and adapt to changes in adversity. The month of May was chosen because it commemorates the immigration of the first Japanese residents to the United States in 1843 and the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869 with the labor of 20,000 Chinese immigrants. From the 1870s to the end of the century, Chinese immigrants built the country's early infrastructure from railroad tracks to dams and waterways, grew much of the produce and provided labor for canning, manufacturing, and other industries. In Alameda County, 71% of Asian adults were born in another country, and over 27,000 county residents are of Pacific Islander heritage, with 70% living in Hayward, Oakland, and the unincorporated areas, including Native Hawaiians, Samoans, Figians, Chamorro, and Tongan. In addition, over 13,000 Afghan immigrants live in the Bay Area, mainly in Hayward, Union City, and Fremont. We are exceptionally honored that in Alameda County's leadership, we have Asian-American representation, including our County Administrator, our Assessor, two members of the Board of Supervisors, and the mayors of Berkeley, Dublin, Union City, and Fremont. At this time, let me turn it over to Supervisor Fortune out of BAS to talk more about Siri, the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants. Thank you, Supervisor Tam. Today, A supervisor, supervisor Tam and I would like to honor the Center for Empowering Emergrance, I'm sorry, the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants or Siri, founded by Dr. Mona Afari, who is committed to support refugees and immigrants impacted by the effects of war, torture, genocide, and other life-alterative traumas. Over the years, Syri's mission grew embracing intergenerational, mental health care, advocacy and social services alongside training, education, and cultural enrichment. Thank you to Syri for your dedication to serving our community, and I see that Dr. Mona Afari is here to accept this commendation along with her staff team. So please feel free to join us and make some brief remarks. I want to cry from Joy. Thank you so, so much for recognizing us. I want to introduce our team. This is Kate Wadsworth, my partner for the past 12, 13 years. This is Subtalean. She's a survivor of the Cameroon genocide. And she facilitates our women's groups. And when she's not there, it's as if the mother is no longer there. You know? This is Danny and Laura. They are our development team trying to bring us funding doing their very best. And this is Roxanne, our executive assistant, who is helping me and also helping bringing peace and calm to the office. Most thankful to Kate. I thought I only have two minutes, but then Mina told me I have a little more time. And so I want to first say that I'm really, really grateful to all of you and to those who recognize us, I think what I know is supervisor Lina and also supervisor Nikki for turn out of us. and if I'm missing anybody's name, my apologies. I want to thank you for your leadership and longstanding commitment to the refugee and immigrant communities across Alameda County. Your advocacy ensures that voices too often left out of public conversations are brought to the center where they belong. We are deeply honored by this recognition of the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants during AAPI Heritage Month. On behalf of an entire team, I want to express our heartfelt gratitude. This recognition reflects your values rooted in equity, inclusion, and justice. Your ongoing support for culturally grounded mental health and trauma informed care creates the conditions for communities not just to survive, but to heal and thrive. We are deeply honored by this recognition of the Center for Empowering Refugees and Inequence during the AAPI Heritage Months. We are proud to be part of this legacy and to carry it forward in service to those still seeking safety, voice and belonging. Thank you for standing with us and thank you for seeing us. Let me say just one more thing, and maybe you can say something to. When Siri was founded, it was founded with 100 refugees, survivors of the Kimmer Rouge genocide, who were stranded in their impoverished neighborhoods of Oakland. And I remember trying to get funding and calling different foundations. And one of them said, you know, this is such a lost cause. You are never able to really keep this going. And if it wasn't for the Alameda County Behavior Health Department and the different grants that we got contracts, especially the MHSA funding, we would have never survived. We would really go down then. So, really thankful for Dr. Treble as well and her team to be here. But these survivors made a home away from home, and they built a community for themselves. They didn't have a community. And they taught me so much that I as an Iranian immigrant who felt so marginalized until then felt like I had a purpose to live for. And they were like their children were killed, their parents were killed, their loved ones were killed, they suffered in refugee camps, and they've been through so much, but they had so much forgiveness, such generosity of soul. And I don't know, I mean, you know, when we were helping them with the rent during COVID, I sent to, we sent 1,200 to someone and she called me and said, can you please give me only 600 and let another family have 600? So that the kind of generosity that they taught me really helped me, and helped me actually use it as a foundation for the ethos of the agency. And one thing that I'm very, very sorry about is that I promise them, we promise them that they will be safe in this country, that they will never be separated from their children, and now they're being separated. The 1.5 generation is at risk of being deported and they're really in pain, not only themselves and their families, but the parents, the elders who are their survivors. So we're doing our very best. We can't call ourselves a legal agency and we're not, but we'll do all kinds of advocacy that we can to prevent the deportation of these 1.5 generation, as well as our Afghan clients who are also, as to risk of being deported and I want to thank Alameda Khamchi for being very supportive of us during this process. The only thing I'd like to add is just that under Mona's leadership, this is all happened. And we started as Mona said and working with Cambodia and genocide survivors. And now we serve to over 10 different refugee and immigrant populations with 17 languages, languages that aren't threst-rolled languages. So languages that really wouldn't get served. And we have an incredible staff of 40. And we have lots of different programs. And it's some of them are clinical and we provide clinical therapy and EMDR and kind of evidence-based trauma, but the heart of our work is in our lay counselor and our trusted messenger, which are the folks that have been through the same experiences that are providing the services. So we're very lucky to have an incredible staff and we really thank you all from the bottom of our heart to acknowledging us and our Anita County for their partnership and it's really an honor. So thank you. Okay. Can but before you go. Can we offer a plug? You want to give the viewers your website or how they can get in touch with you? They want to help. What's your website? Into the mic. WWWW.serryespay.org. Okay, very good. Thank you so much. We'll come down and take a photo or do we want to do them all at once? Have a seat for now. We have one other recommendation, recognition and then we'll take a group photo. To revise the Marquez. Thank you, Chair Halbert. It's my honor and recognition of Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander month that district two recognizes the honorable Harris Mojadeedi. He's the proud son of Afghan refugees who came to United States and search of a better life. Harris was born in Fremont and raised in Union City, a proud product of New Haven Unified School District. Harris is deeply rooted in the community that shaped him. He currently serves as the Assistant Dean of Strategic Initiatives at the University of California Berkeley, where he leads collaboration efforts to support first-generation students, analyze student fee policies, and address campus climate challenges. A dedicated public servant and community leader, Harris has spent over a decade engaged in advocacy and leadership across Elimita County. He serves on the Shabot Lasbacitas Community College to stick board of trustees representing Area III, which includes Union City and South Hayward. He is a past chair of both the Union City Planning Commission and the Elimita County Human Relations Commission. Harris is committed to AAN, HPI, organizing. He has also served as an education and advocacy co-chair for UC Berkeley's Asian Pacific American Statewide Alliance. And as the treasurer for the California Community College, leagues, Asian American and Pacific Islander Trustee and Administrator Caucus. U.S., which are all from Afghanistan, Harris has been a lead organizer and efforts to support the resettlement of Afghan refugees. His unwavering dedication to education and community empowerment continues to guide his work every day. So I just want to acknowledge our honorable Harris Lojadee for his commitment to our community. He's someone with great integrity, work ethic, and I'm just really proud to call him a friend and a colleague, and thank you for consistently advocating on so many marginalized communities here within the county. So I want to acknowledge you this month and thank you for your service. Let's give Harris a huge round of applause. And I welcome you to come up and say some words. And you don't have a three minute time limit, so take your time. Thank you. President Halber, Vice President Tam, members of the board, County Administrator Mournishi and Sheriff Sheriff Sanchez, happy AANHPI Heritage Month. Thank you so much for this incredible honor. I really want to just start saying that I'm the proud son of refugees, and that refugees and immigrant communities make this country great every day. I'm deeply proud to be from Alameda County, the birthplace of the Asian American identity. When my family was resettled to the United States along with count, what thousands of countless Afghan refugees, it was Alameda County that welcomed us. It was this county that gave us a home and allowed for us to pursue our American dream. And this was possible because of the infrastructure and support services built by generations of AANHPI activists, including student leaders from the University of California, Berkeley, who fought hard to uplift refugee and immigrant communities, and that would go on to work as social workers, policy advocates, and clinicians in this county. And I have so much honor, I have so much to be thankful for for these advocates. And I really wanna thank supervisor Alisa Marquez for being a true champion for our A and HPI communities. You have elevated and uplifted our voices and I'm so grateful to call you a colleague and a friend and most importantly my Supervisor on the board. Thank you so much. Let's take a big group photo everyone. Come on back up and bring your proclamations with you or we'll give them to you and we'll take a big group photo Oh, we have one more do we well Is this we have one more item 18c Miley Well, let's's see. We can at least recognize the population. So from District 4 for Asian Pacific Islanders Heritage Month, we want to recognize Yee Yee. She's the owner of Beards, pop us in Castro Valley, as a shining example of leadership and resilience within the AA PII community. She blends academic excellence in entrepreneurial vision, holding a PhD in science and competing professional training at the San Francisco Baking Institute. Before channeling her expertise into the culinary arts as a beloved baker and small business owner. Through her leadership, she has helped foster connections and trust in the community. And I know the Sheriff's Department knows a well because she holds an event called Cream Puff with a Cop. Cream Puff with a Cop. Where neighbors come together to build relationships over her delicious cream puffs. As an immigrant and a woman entrepreneur in a community builder, he embodies the enduring legacy of AAPI, a leadership balancing tradition and innovation in making space for joy, healing, and unity in Castro Valley and beyond. So once again, the board recognizes her on here on May 2025, ReAsian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month. So once again, I wish you good luck. We have somebody to receive. Yes. Welcome. Hi supervisors. Thank you so much. My name is Ye Ye. I'm from Casual Valley. I own a small business called Beer Puppas. We specialize in Asian cream puff pastries. So why I'm so passionate about baking. I'm also so passionate about growing with the community together. We are a very young business. When we're growing, we receive a lot of support from the community. But meanwhile, we are really enjoying giving back to the community. So thank you so much for Supervisor Miley and the whole board to recognize me. I'm truly honored to represent my API community in from District 4 and this is really a reflection of a collective teamwork. We grow together to make our communities stronger. So I'm really grateful and looking forward to continuing to serve. Thank you so much. Okay, now we can take a group photo. Everybody come on back up, get your proclamations. Smile for the camera. you you you you you you We're going to take public comment on this item and then take a five minute break. If there are any speakers in the room or online, let us know. Yes, we have online speakers. Pardon? We have online speakers. Okay, let's hear the online speakers. Item 118. Kathy, you have two minutes. Go ahead, please. Is this on item 118? Kathy, please unmute your phone. Kathy, please unmute your phone. You have two minutes to speak on item 118. It may not be on this item. I don't know. There, no more speakers. Very good. With that, we're going to recess for five minutes. Please, everyone. We'll come back at 12 minutes after two. We're recording in progress. Welcome back, everyone. We're going to resume our meeting. I'll start by asking the clerk to please call the roll to establish our quorum. Supervisor Marquez Supervisor Tam present Supervisor Meyerleys here. Supervisor Fortnale Vass present present however Present we have a quorum. Thank you very much our next item is the approval of minutes from January 14th, March 25th and April 22nd. Is there a motion to approve? I will move the minutes. I'll ask is there any public comment on the minutes? Seeing none, I'll ask for roll call vote. Supervisor Marquez. Aye. I'm gonna use my eyes or tan I'm gonna use my eyes or tan I'm gonna use my eyes or tan I'm gonna use my eyes or tan I'm gonna use my eyes or tan I'm gonna use my eyes or tan I'm gonna use my eyes or tan I'm gonna use my eyes or tan I'm gonna use my eyes or tan I'm gonna use my eyes or tan I'm gonna use my eyes or tan I'm gonna use ask for a vote. I'm going to ask for a vote. I'm going to ask for a vote. I'm going to ask for a vote. I'm going to ask for a vote. I'm going to ask for a vote. I'm going to ask for a vote. I'm going to ask for a vote. I'm going to ask for a vote. I'm going to ask for a vote. I'm going to ask for a vote. calendar, this is items one. We'll do consent. Okay. Public. are on our regular calendar. This is items one. We'll do consent, okay. Public comment on the consent calendar and the regular calendar. If there are any public comments on any of those items before we take up the mass motion, we'll ask for public comments on those items. In person, speakers first followed by online. If you're in person, please fill out a speaker slip. If you're online, please note the clerks comments from earlier today. Do we have speakers in the room? Yes, we have in person in online. Wonderful. Let's have the first three speakers in the room. First. Melanie Davis speaking on items 2, 9, 28. Simul Raimi speaking on items 2 9 28. Simul Raimi speaking on items 13 14 15 and 28. Buffalo, Sejern speaking on items 13 14 15 and 28. Thank you. Miss Davis first I think. If she's here still. Lorraine me. Simul Rayme. Yeah. I'm going to do it. You know, I've been doing my name is Samuel Raimi. The mental health thing was real good. It should have stayed because I think it's paying something to them. It's dimmed from slavery. This has to be addressed. We've gotten you remember we run from this issue for the last 20 years. It has to be addressed. It's not going to go. It's going to be worse than worse. Why? Every time we had 250 cities. They burned them all down. So I see why we can. We have a rise, though. We burn all neighborhood down I know why we'll mentally start from To see Say we don't burn down for them. That's what you we burn down for our own neighborhood You tell me where they say they say that's mental disabled It's car for life. Don't tell you how you do the news come out of it We have to start somewhere so we gotta start with the children and get them out of this. We are stopping now and start with the children. They don't try to do what we're just destroy this. Because it's out of all slavery. Destroy and rebuild the society for a right. Everybody feels better. Not just why you're black. Everybody on this planet. We all got you. And the main thing is we can start putting seeds in the ground. How about helping society? They man! Everybody on this plan we all got you and the main thing and we got stopped when seeds in the ground How about the society they man All I need some land so we can start Chinese country world around We're in a food show reading garbage. Yeah, we can start a Chinese country and we're all around. We're in a food shortage, we need to go out with y'all. We can tell you that we need to go out with y'all. You're going to be sick all your time until we get some food around. And I'm ready for some season. I belong to USDA. Y'all have seen it, Dr. Meera seen it, y'all say what? That's how serious this is. So they might need to cheer on me. I, hey, so I start putting these around feet out people. I ain't talking, man. They do it three. How many of those gets around food? So cheer on them. They already know where food come from. If they come from McDonald's. I'll prefer for one more. Thank you, thank you very much. Our next speaker. Hello, sit during. the . . . . . . . . . . . . see According to current protocol, my time has shrunk down to two minutes to speak on everything. I was a little startled because after the recess one, we began talking about appreciation and photo ops. So, heading of item 13, I have to speak for the record as a belligerent claimant. When first a Purin before you, I mentioned the fact that some of your predecessors had done wrong and you had no business continuing the wrong that they were doing. In context of this affordable housing month, we made a statement about decent housing. The federal government's response was low income housing and to a great extent with the president of Lyndon Baines Johnson it was in advance. However, around here at that time the money was banked the only thing that the regional government spent was the interest on the money until they figured out how to step aside, drill a slant well and cap into the low income housing money under the name of affordable housing. Part of the problem the reason Joe Biden couldn't run again was he was saying, you can't have no more money for your housing projects until you have serious attention to low income personnel. That's part of the reason Trump won. In this area more dirty Democrats than dirty Republicans did us. Oh put it this way. 20 years ago there was more single family housing units than there were homeless in this city. Ten years ago, 80% of the homeless were from here. Now, those who are housed, half of them are speed freaks, half of them are not from here. And neither the city nor the county can engage in conversation about methamphetamine or fentanyl crisis emergency. Yes. Thank you very much for your comments. Kathy you have two minutes please state the item that you're speaking on. Kathy please unmute your phone. This is the last opportunity, Kathy. Please unmute your phone. You have two minutes to speak. Cindy, you have two minutes to speak. Please state the item that you're speaking on. I'm speaking on item 119, the contract to the Immigration Institute of the Bay Area to provide support services for immigrant, I guess domestic violence victims. We've heard a lot today about the vulnerable and disenfranchised in the black community for one, but even more vulnerable is the over 300,000 unaccompanied miners who crossed the border as migrants from 2021 through 24 who are now completely unaccounted for. They are lost. Back in 2014 when President Obama was dealing with crossings at the border, he knew we needed to separate vulnerable minors from the adults so as to figure out who they belong to if they belong to anyone. Separate facilities were constructed for these minors. President Obama also instituted a program of collecting the DNA of each of these minors so as to be able to keep track of them. The Trump administration continued this program only the facilities built by his predecessor were renamed as kids in cages. And the public was given to understand the false narrative that Trump started this kids in cages program. He did not. That was Obama at any rate. Trump continued the DNA collection program then came Biden and his so called borders are Kamala. They terminated everything Obama had set up instead allowing unaccompanied miners to be handed over to strangers, often multiple miners handed over to one guy or one woman who only had to sign something that stated they so-called new the miners. Also terminated was a DNA collection program. So now over 300,000 minor children are out there in our nation, mostly in blue states like California and in so-called sanctuary cities. These minors may never be located. Who knows what conditions they're having to endure? Do supervisors talk a big game about stopping sex trafficking? But you think it's only Asian women working on in massage parlors? That's not the case. There are children out there and they are locked. Jackie, you have two minutes to speak. Please state the item that you're speaking on. Thank you. I'm speaking on agenda item 119. I'm deeply concerned about the immigration institute of Bay Area's lack of transparency and reporting violence against women at case outcomes for Alameda County. Despite the $900,000 County contract, the IIA provides no public data on how many domestic violence survivors were assisted, the nature of that aid or measurable success metrics. This raises serious accountability questions. In 2021, the Executive Director Ellen Duce Menel earned $202,771 plus 27,240 benefits. The IIA's Oakland and Fremont chapters reported 1,122,634 dollars in personnel costs, yet fundraising in 2024 was only 390,000, suggesting reliance on public funds to sustain high salaries. IIABAs focus on legal services, not comprehensive domestic violence support like crisis intervention, may leave survivors underservederved forcing them to navigate multiple agencies. Without clear evidence of the effective VAWA delivery, this contract appears to prioritize organizational overhead over community needs. I urge the county to halt the IIA's funding until detailed verifiable data proves taxpayer dollars are not misused and services aligned with stated goals. In looking at the stated services, this organization provides, it seems the taxpayers are paying to fund for legal services for illegal aliens in direct conflict with federal law. We deserve transparency and results, not ambiguity. Please vote against increasing their funding. President Halbert, there are no more speakers. Okay, with that said, thank you and all the speakers. I'll see if there is somebody willing to make the mass motion. President Hal Howard, can I announce if you continue to pull items? Yes, please. Item 36 is being pulled and we'll be brought back at a future date as well items 86 and 102. They're being pulled off today's agendausal on item 51. We'll take the mass motion and the maker will exclude item 51. Do you want to move the consent first? Okay. I will move the consent and then items. Two, three, four. Five is an ordinance six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20th 21th 22nd 23th 24th 25th 26th 26th 26th 26th 3435 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the number of the 16 66162 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 75 77 78 8.9, 8.1, 8.2, 8.2.1, 8.3, 8.4, 85, 87, 88. Questions on 87? 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, and 117. I'll second it, President Howard, and I have questions and comments on seven items. Seven different items. Yes. I do have a list. There are other board members had questions. So there's quite a few that have questions on them. Do you want me to read out the numbers first or do you want to? I believe the administrator has my list of items where I have questions and comments. So the first comment was on item two. Yes, on item two. You know, this item is to provide funding for the fifth year commemoration of the Social Services Agency. And I just had to comment on this item, seeing as I proudly served on the Social Services Committee for 24 years, before President Halver became President of the Board. I'm just so very proud of this agency. We know, we have the President Agency Director, Andrea Ford, but I happen to feel that former agency directors and I haven't known them all. I was told there'd been eight, but I knew Chad Huwitt and Alanda Bonavina said, Lori Cox, and now we have Andrea Ford, and they've all done remarkable jobs to lead this agency. And you know they haven't led this agency without the benefit of quality staff, you know the rank and file who provide the services are just really important. This agency, you know, does a lot of heavy lifting social services agency along with the healthcare services agency, bulk of the counties funding,, bulk of the county's employees, they really serve marginally in 80 populations. So 50 years of being an agency is just remarkable. And I wanted to acknowledge them on this. And I'm not sure what kind of commemorative event is going to take place. So I was hoping the H.C. Director could tell us a little bit about that. But once again, they've done so many things over the years since I've been here. Even before I got here, they did some significant things. And the one thing, too, I just want to say about this agency, because I mentioned this in some remarks, some of the staff that are in this agency really identify with the people they serve. You know, they come, you know, sort of like they've had that lived experience as well, and they provide that level of empathy. So I just can't say enough about the Social Services Agency. So thank you. And if you could just talk about this commemorative event after 50 years. Okay. Thank you, supervisor, Maria, for all those wonderful comments and for acknowledging all the work we've done in the Social Services Agency over the last 50 years. Andrea Ford, current agency director for social services and that makes me the eighth director in 50 years. Since she mentioned some names, I'll give you a breakdown of the years they served. Chet Hewitt was the agency director from December 2001 to September 2007. You'll learn the ball of enos from November 2008 to January 2011. and then we had that unique and dubious honor of having co-directors for about six months. And that was Dan Kaplan and Lori Cox. And Lori Cox was appointed the permanent agency director from July 2011 to April 2022. And I was appointed the current director on October of 2022. So thank you for that. And I have invited Pamela Powell, who has been organizing our events for this big celebration of Pamela. Thank you so much for the opportunity just to celebrate the agency in the 50 years of service that we've done as an agency. On June 3rd, we would like a proclamation to be read with our agency executive team accepting on behalf of all of the staff in Alameda County Social Services. And on June 5th, we will be having a 30 minute all staff town hall in which we'll be celebrating one of our employees who has dedicated 58 years of service, 58 years, yes, 58. So even before it was an agency, she was, her name is Toma Green. She's at Eastmont and she's a supervisor and she comes to work every day. She does. And so she will be addressing the staff and then we will also be showing our legacy video, which mean if you had the opportunity to participate in it. And so thank you very, very much for that. And we'll just be honoring the staff and just the legacy of the agency and everything that we've been doing. Well, thank you Supervisor Miley. And but before you leave, how does it feel that Supervisor Miley traded you in for the health committee after 24 years? He has long made up for that. Since he made that announcement that they were his favorite, he forgot that we were really his favorite, so he came back and said we're the favorite. So they have to catch up. They have about 49 years to catch up to us. Any other questions or comments? Supervisor Wiley. So for June 5th, so I see it will be hybrid, so people can participate throughout the agency from wherever they are. So can you make sure we have the times? So if we want to tune in, we can do that as well. Thank you, Dr. And we'll make sure you all get a copy of the video as well. And for those of you who participated, thank you so much for taking that time out to say a few words. I'll apologize in advance. I'll be in DC for the Alameda County Transportation Commission Media. vote on June 3rd, but I won't be in person. And I'll be on a plane on June 5th. And as much as possible, everything will be archived. So whenever you- meeting. We will be remote on June 3rd, but I won't be in person and I'll be on a plane on June 5th. And as much as possible, everything will be archived, so whenever you have extra time. You'll be able to see it. Very good. Thank you so much. President Howard, just a brief comment as the current chair of the Alameda County Social Services Committee. I do have to to point out that Supervisor Miley has been having trouble letting go. And so he's actually tried to have a number of joint meetings with all the other committees that he's currently on. So that's the reason we have a lot of joint meetings later, right? But I do want to congratulate you in 50 years. And I look forward to working very closely with your agency because you basically are the front lines of all of us. And you do your best work when you work in collaboration with all of us. Thank you. Thank you. Next item. The next question is item five. And I think there were several supervisors that had comments. We'll take that. So outside of the motion bits and ordinance. I don't know if you want to take it up now or you'll have. So you have a motion on the floor. You have a motion on the floor. So we'll hold on that. There's a question on item six. Supervisor Miley. Yes, item six. Let's see here. Oh, I just wanted to thank the agency for entering to this agreement with these other universities because, you know, we've, we've had a staffing shortage really since the pandemic. And I just very pleased that the agencies entering into these practicals with these universities. And hopefully this will produce a pipeline of possible talent that can be a part of the agency. And as far as I know, is this the first time you've done this? If it is great, but if it isn't, I'm not aware of it, but I do think this is really good. It's the first time for this version of a partnership, yes. And it should back. I'm sure to pull off the agenda. I'm coming on. So let's see this one. I pulled this because. I just couldn't understand. I'm going to go on vacation. I'm going to go on vacation. I'm going to go on vacation. I'm going to go on vacation. I'm going to go on vacation. I'm going to go on vacation. I'm going to. So let's see this one. I pulled this because I just couldn't understand. This is a contract for, is it $44 million, right? And we only got one. I mean, one. We have, uh, no, good afternoon, supervisor, Zeneke Chaudry with Alameda County Health. Um. It's on. I'm just far. This is better. Okay. So in my way. So, Supervisor, the Behavioral Health Department has a number of services as needed contracts. And so they, your board approves a certain amount of money in there. So that is what you approved and I believe there's already 45 vendors in there. So we're just adding one more without adding to the cost of the services it's needed pool. But basically what it does is that it allows for behavioral health to be able to provide services for people who are in crisis without having to You know for this one for example is for eating disorders They also have other ones for foster youth who might need to be placed in other counties or for Specific behavioral health services. So this this contract isn't 44 million just for this one provider It's not for this one provider. It's for a whole pool of providers, but we're adding this provider to that pool. Gotcha. Okay. Thank you. Do you know how much is for this particular provider for this particular service? Because it's in the services as needed, that provider would then build the department, and it would be taken out of that full 44 million. So we don't have a budget of the amount of this particular service at this particular vendor. It's just all managed within the same pool. Right. Okay. So it would be that, you know, if we needed to refer someone for those services, they would be built for the service. Okay. Thank you. So you know the questions move to the next item with questions. Item 25. Thank you. So this is the recipe for health item. It is also with our health department. So I realize that the contract for health coaching, I realize this is a contract for health coaching and nutrition education services, but I want to address in general recipes for health and AC health's food is medicine program. So my understanding is that the alliance has made cuts in the Cal AIM community supports program by restricting eligibility to those with the highest security. And I understand that this is related to available funds at the alliance, but I don't want that to set us back in terms of the commitment that we have already made to healthy, organic produce and health coaching for those with diet related chronic diseases. is I know many of us already know how important this program is and that an ounce of prevention early and intervention can be a pound of cure. So my question is what is AC Health doing to bolster this vital program? That's supervisor Chan had championed and then secondly I would like and I know it may not be possible today but a cost breakdown to serve one patient during the duration of their food prescription. Sure, we can follow up with the cost breakdown information. So recipe for health, as you know, moved over to the Alameda County Health a few years ago. And since then, we've been integrated and get more and more into our agency apparatus. So the next move that we're looking to move to make is to fully integrate the program within public health department which would allow them to leverage some more of the infrastructural supports that that program has. With regard to CalAIM, The Alliance has about a $12 to $14 million short fall in their community supports programs, and they offer, I believe, 11 community supports. And so our agency provides services and recipe for health as well as a number of housing navigation services. And just this last week, the Alliance reversed their decision in terms of reducing based on eligibility because some new state guidance came out. And so we're hopeful that that will limit the negative impact on the program. And so going forward, recipe for health, you know, for example, we thought that their referrals were going to get reduced by like 70 percent, but that may not be the case moving forward. So that would be something that's helpful, but that's kind of a moving target because the alliance is figuring this out as we go. The other thing I can share is that in terms of stabilizing the program itself. there is funding in the MOE budget that we put forward to be able to ensure that there's a base for the program. And then as they get more revenue, that would allow them to expand and add others, you know, other providers. Thank you. That's helpful. Any other questions if not not, we'll move to the next item. Questions? I think it's 26. Supervisor Marquez. You had comments, I think, on 26. Yes. Thank you so much. I just wanted to point out that May is older Americans month. So just wanted to highlight this support from District 2 to provide meals to seniors with District 2 and I know Spectrum is a well respected agency that provides services I think in every every part of our county so just wanted to acknowledge their work and uplift the legacy of elders in our community and their contributions. That's all. Thank you. Very good. Next item is $39. $39. Questions, comments. That is me. Let me pull up those. Okay. so this is a covenant house and the Youth Advisory Board. So given what I know of the Youth Advisory Board, and this was something that all in and Supervisor Chan created several years ago to ensure youth voice for those experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness, I've been hearing, as we've been considering spending on measure, delby, I've been hearing from the community and especially from those who are unhoused and who advocate with the unhoused that one of the principles they would like to see is centering people with lived experience of homelessness. And so I am curious in hearing whether there might be some lessons from this structure for a potential structure for Measure W and are worked with homelessness and incorporating the voices of people who are in the house. Thank you for that question, Supervisor. The Youth Advisory Board, we all really love it. They're an amazing group of young people. In terms of, you know, the COC also has about a third of its, it has a requirement that a third of its committees should be members with people with lift experience. And so for people who are interested in sort of weighing in on any measure W or other planning from that perspective, they can go to the COC website and see how to join there. In the home together, 2030 plan refresh, we also have a work group that includes people with lived experience. And the Housing and Homelessness Services division within our agency has a group that they, like a Fellows program, where they provide training and opportunities for people with lived experience to participate in different decision-making spaces. But noted on the measure W specific piece and I'll talk with the team about that. Thank you. Next item's item 41. Yes, I think I had some questions on that. First of all, I would just want to note that the element of, the health, the Alameda health, they had about 40 some items in the board agenda today. So I don't know what Nick is trying to be an overachiever, but. There's only one board meeting. That's okay. Okay. All right. Okay. Okay. So I don't, Nick, I don't know if you want to answer this or if Jonathan's on, but with the homeless housing assistance and prevention program. This is around four or around five of grant. This is accepting four around four, the second allocation of round four. So as we've received all of the allocations, they sometimes split them up. Okay, so and over the course since 2020 have we received about 76 million? I think it might be more than that. So just this year, well for Alameda County, yes, probably about that much, but this year countywide it's expected to be about 50 billion for the recent round. Okay, and then I just think it was good that in the staff report, you pointed out that HHAP, it's funded projects have served over 6,100 individuals. And also the program has provided 50% of those individuals 50% of those individuals have exited to positive housing destinations, 61% veterans, and 53% youth. So I just think all that's been really remarkable good work in terms of the resources we've received through this funding source. So I just wanted to point that out at all. Thank you. Item 51. Item 51 I don't think is in the mass motion because it's a recused item so the next item. My apologies we pulled that out. 65. That was me. I just a quick comment. I just wanted to appreciate the fact that we have an item on our agenda that is on our consent. I'm sorry part of our consent motion To honor pride month next month and put up pride flags in our county own buildings I think that's significant and wanted to share that I plan to bring forward a pride proclamation At our June 3rd meeting I helped to establish in Oakland the LGBTQ cultural district and want to to invite my colleagues to participate in that on June 3rd. Thank you. Item 72. Yeah, I pulled item 72 so the director could at least explain the fact that we had an initial allocation of about a quarter of a million dollars. And now we're gonna approve, I think about 147 million, or 127 million, but go ahead, explain it. Good afternoon, Kimberly Gasway, Director General Services Agency. So these are, this is an energy services performance contract and the way the government code works without competitive bid. We pre-qualified several firms to look at certain of our facilities. So your board initially approved $250,000 for phase one where they do an investment grade audit on the facilities mostly up on the fairment campus, which include healthcare and HS buildings and probation buildings. They look at all the existing energy systems and make recommendations on a construction project in the cost that would provide a return on investment for those projects to reduce our energy consumption. And so the phase one was the 250,000 for them to to perform the audit and produce that audit here for you to approve. And then the second phase, the increase to the contract is for them to move forward with the construction of those projects. And this construction is going to cost $128 million. That's correct. So they also, I wanted to point point out a couple things. They also, the previous contract for the solar projects that you had approved, that contractor did not move forward for certain reasons. They weren't able to, I believe it was mostly get their bonding. So we canceled that contract. This contractor is assuming that those projects as well. So that's 50 million of that. So they are doing and installing those five solar projects as well as additional projects at several of the sites. They're replacing HVAC systems at many of the sites and system controls. So there's about 18 buildings overall across that whole campus. They're working on as well as solar projects at other sites and upgraded energy storage systems and generators at other sites. It's a pretty significant bodywork. Other questions? There is one other thing also to point out. So atmont Hospital buildings be in age there are some requirements for 24 seven skilled nursing sites that have to be upgraded in cordons with state law. And so that will also that work is also being done. You know all these projects will be subject to our project labor agreement as well as our slab. They are subject to the PSCBA, the design portion is slab compliant. Okay. Are we comfortable that we have enough responsive bids and that this is the... So we put out request for qualifications. There are three sections of our overall portfolio. So this is the first, you approved two of the audits. One was with JCI, the second is with Will Dan in the Hayward area and Vets buildings. We're still in discussions on the government center. So this is one set of our portfolio. And so those three qualified firms were then each given a piece of the portfolio to perform the audits. That's for the audits. This is now for construction. So it all had to be one the way this procurement works. It all had to be one package. Any other questions? Next item. I am 87. Thank you. I.E.I.L.S. Long date. Item 87 is with respect to drones. This is an item from the Sheriff's Department. My office did meet with the Sheriff yesterday. We had a couple questions. So just wanted to ask them publicly. The first question is since the board approved the UAS use policy back in December of last year, can you share more about the current need and usage of the drones in the field? Hi, good afternoon, Rob Evans, Captain over the UAS team. Could you maybe drill down be a little more specific what you're looking for? Yes, so we approved the policy, the use policy, and we discussed retention policy as well back in December. Since that's been adopted, I just want to have a better understanding. This is a request for additional equipment. So just want to have a better understanding of the reason for the need. I know we had conversation back and forth so maybe you could just start with just a general overview as to why this request is coming forward at this time. Okay, yeah. We were here last year approximately about this time with a similar board letter looking for additional equipment. Due to the new law that's in effect, we can no longer purchase equipment without your approval. Several one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight of the current models that we have are no longer supported by the vendor. So the models that we have currently in our stock work and upon approval, my intention is not to leave here and then go purchase those items but I do need the ability to purchase them as these items that we currently have are no longer serviceable. So some of them that do remain in our service are starting to near the end of their service life. So I don't know exactly when I would need to purchase those items but because I need your permission to do, I need to have the ability to do that when these items are no longer serviceable. So essentially what this is is just an update, if you will, of last year's request with the new models that they've introduced. I don't have any intention of increasing our amount by the number that's quoted here. Last year we did the same thing, and I did not fulfill that entire request either. If I didn't need it, I didn't purchase it. So that's the intention now, but just the way that the programs design, if I do need to purchase them, I need to have the ability to do so. Thank you, just a couple more questions. Can you provide additional clarity as it relates to the usage of the drone footage and data privacy policies? For example, is the footage shared with other jurisdiction, including federal officials? So our data is stored on our secure server. Any data that we have that is used for a criminal case is uploaded to evidence.com, which is where our body horror camera video was stored. But absentee that it's kept on our server for a maximum of 60 days. That's the maximum that we could keep it, but we do purge them earlier than that. If it's not necessary, we don't provide or allow access to that data for anyone. With that being said, we will share that data with allied agencies in the event that they have an investigation or a need that somehow intersects with ours but we would do that with that standard for any of our other body-worn camera or criminal reports of things of that nature but absent that it's not accessible to anyone else. Okay thank you those are all my questions I don't know if others had questions. Thank you. Supervisor Fortinata bass. Yes, I just wanted to make sure that I heard properly. I am curious about how many of the new purchases would replace older models. Did you say the answer was eight? Yes. Okay, and just stepping back, you know, I come from the Oakland City Council where we did a lot of work around technology. And so I had an understanding of how we used our helicopter and our drones and we had approved a fixed swing aircraft, for example. And so I am curious if there's a broader aerial strategy for the department and whether that's answered now or at a later date just to understand sort of how the drones fit into the broader strategy. So are you, could you be more specific? Like, so we use them in our standard patrol response. Are you asking about any future plans? So that's helpful. So patrols, I don't know if they're used in pursuits. So they're used in sort of emergencies, perhaps fires. Got you. Yeah, so the significant difference between road of craft or fixed wing aircraft that we do currently have, and I know Oakland has road of craft, those, the maneuverability allows those to, for example, follow pursuits. The UAS doesn't provide us that. They're more of a location-based, right? So we do use them in conjunction with our aircraft because they provide us a vantage point that the aircraft may not necessarily be able to see under canopies, trees, buildings. So we will respond to the location of that incident where that concluded we could deploy them in that capacity, but they are used for typically kind of a singular location event like for example, if we're doing a warrant service, if we have missing people, if you had an explosive ordinance incident, a fire, it's used for like overwatch or interior searches on those types of details. We do keep them as part of our patrol response and one of the changes that we made in the last, I don't know, probably two years now since the due administration, as we integrate them more with our patrol officers so that we have them available when these incidents occur, right? So, which really is critical and why we need to have these devices on location as early and quickly as possible. If it takes us 20 minutes to drive from Dublin to, they say, San Leandro in the middle of the night. That doesn't sound like a long time, but a lot can happen in 20 minutes when you have an active event. So we haven't deployed with our patrol personnel. We do have them in other capacities, like Office of Emergency Services, where we use them for search and rescue, Explosive Ordinance Disposal, but the primary focus is as a patrol oriented focus. answer your question? That's helpful. And then secondly, there's 25 operators, I believe I read in the report. Can you share about the training and staff costs associated with the drones and how many team members are deployed with each? So we have one member who's assigned to the team, a sworn member that's assigned full time, and then one professional staff member. That is their full time function, obviously due to the equipment that we have, and the tracking of it, and the recording of missions, and reports that we author and the maintenance that occurs, that's their primary focus. That's a lot of coordinating that needs to happen. The rest of those members, this is an ancillary duty. So they're assigned to generally patrol, but they're assigned to other duty stations, including Sanery to jail. This is not something that they do full time. It's a part time situation. So only two members are assigned to the unit full time. So we do do training once a month and the members attend an eight hour training day. That depends if they are available to be taken away from their current assignment to attend their training. Then that would just be incorporated into their standard salary and employee benefits cost. However, some of them have to attend that training on overtime just due to staffing issues. We can't, as you're aware, really deplete the jail. We have to serve the citizens in our jurisdiction. Right, we need to have those resources there. So it really depends in that regard. But nothing that really, aside from us, to individuals is a fixed employee cost. The overtime does fluctuate depending on how we manage it. Does that answer your question? Thank you, that's helpful. I guess I would just like to know are we using the best available technology and the most practical policies and procedures to implement the use of technology? In particular for this, I do believe we are. Yeah, we've started this program in 2015 and we have maintained a robust, you know, allowance of the devices from DJI, which is our vendor. Having these new ones approved is the newest and latest technology that they allow. So that is significant. And I would say in relationship to our other peers in the area, we do exceed them in that area. But with that being said, we are, you know, regarded as a pioneer in this area. And as the region region two coordinator, I think it's significant that we have a significant amount of resources to not only manage our own events and our own citizens, but also to assist others in the area. So yeah, I am satisfied with the technology. It's my understanding that the use of this technology is also helpful in reducing, say, on the ground pursuits or other things that would maybe put people in harm's way. Have we ever seen safety increases? Could not agree more. Certainly I think the trend is to have time and distance and create the ability to deconflict. And if we can use this device to search a building instead of sending a human being in there, that's safe for both us and for both the individuals that we're looking for. Time and distance in many cases is our friend, and that's what this technology really I think helps us achieve. Very good, thank you. So can I add, just to give everybody some peace of mind as far as the talent that we actually have with our UAS team. We were just recently audited by Kalea, and they did a review and an on-site assessment of our UAV, not only our policies, but the practice and the training that's involved. And they, in their words, said that the Sheriff's Office of UIST is a model for the nation and that is going to be depicted in their report. So. But it's really, you know, a testament to the people that are involved in this unit and Captain Evans has done a great job in making sure we used to have a pretty large overtime fun that was basically depleted at each and every time because we were sending people out on overtime only we've restructured it so that we can have people trained that are available during their regular work hours and so we've reduced overtime costs behind that significantly. But also in developing and bringing forth to our Public Protection Committee, we've worked with the privacy advocates to make sure that we have a policy that is covering all bases and making sure that our constituents are aware number one of how we use our data, how we capture it, how long we save it. And it's really, I think, been a partnership with those advocacy groups to make sure that we are doing the best by them as well as by our folks to make sure that they can do the job. Great. Thank you. Any other questions on this item? Next item? Last item is 110. Yes, I pull item 110 because I'm very, very delighted that finally our Public Works Agency Working with the Alamedaa County Transportation Commission is at a point where we can begin to look at the East Bay Greenway in Ashland, Juryland. You know, the Greenway goes from Oakland all the way down to Hayward and actually Fremont, yes. And it's in phases and phases and you know I've been waiting about eight years for to get to the unincorporated area at least I think at least eight years so I'm really pleased that we're finally at this point and I don't know if the agency directors on board I mean if he, okay, because I'd like to give a sense, we have a sense of the time frame associated with when we can anticipate of this agreement being consummated and the greenway being actualized in Ashland and and Jerry Lamb? Sure. This, we have been working with the ACTC and they've done extensive community outreach. And... living in Sri Lanka? Sure. This we have been working with the ACTC and they've done extensive community outreach and this is and developed a conceptual framework for this portion. As you know, we did is 14 phase one through phase three phase one was way back before we even have the concept of some of the bike lanes and all those things. And this portion is actually connecting to our phase two and three portion that was done recently. So this will be renovating the previously done undergrounding project from San Leandro, all over the Ashland, chairland area. This money allows us to go ahead and do actual design work so that we can have a final design. Currently conceptual design was presented to the community through ACTC and approved by the community. So hopefully we will be designing this in the next year or two design should be completed. And hopefully by that time ACTC will give us additional funds in order to be able to construct this and implement them. So this one here is for the actual final design element of the project. OK, so we've got to design. And then in another few years, maybe the construction. So we could be talking another four, five years before the greenway portion is operational in the corporate area. This portion of the link, I think the greenway, as you know, the greenway goes all the way up to Berkeley and all along the bar, the bar lines. And this is a small piece that will be connecting basically getting offline from the rest of the system and getting onto East 14 portion. And we should be able to, I mean, I think this is a very simple portion of the project and I think we should be able to design and have it somewhat under construction within, at least under construction within a couple of years. All right, sooner the better,, because it just takes off so long to get these projects underway. So thank you. Very good, any other questions? With that, we'll take up this mass motion before we get back to item 51. I've had a motion made and seconded. Questions asked and answered. May I please have a roll call vote? Supervisor Marquez. Hi. Supervisor Tan. Hi. Supervisor Miley. Hi. Supervisor Ford not a best. Hi. President Halber. Hi. With that, we will all entertain a motion on item 51, noting that supervisor Miley would recuse himself in the room. Is that 51? Yes, it's 51, particularly 51A2. Being the president of the United Seniors, I always like to recuse myself on items dealing with the United Seniors, even though I don't receive any compensation for being the President of the organization. It's just out of an abundance of not just caution but perception that I always like to recuse myself, so I'll be leaving the room for the item 51. With that, I'll entertain a motion from supervisor Mark As. I'll move it, but I like to make a few comments, but let me see if there's a second before I speak. To President Tam will second. I'll second it. Okay, thank you. So just wanted to flag, I'm really proud this is funding from District 2 for our community grants that we help promote. And one of them in particular wanted to highlight, which is 7,500 to California We The People. And this is in support of Tennyson High School. There's students competed and we're actually actually invited to Washington DC to compete in a competition where they learned about the Constitution and just really proud of these students. This is the first time as a school outside of the Tri-Valley was invited, the little competition with the Tri-Valley, but just really proud of these seniors. I had a chance to speak and meet with most of them. And for many of them, it was the first time they've actually been on a plane, first time visiting DC. So just really proud of investing in young people and exposing them to opportunities. So just wanted to congratulate them for their hard work. And then also just wanted to flag, as we mentioned earlier, today is Affordable Housing Month, the month of May. So just wanted again to acknowledge the tremendous work of EPUL and to encourage the public to look at their website. They have a lot of resources and information to encourage people to apply affordable, for affordable housing. We know it's one of the biggest issues here in our county and just want to commend them for their work with respect to racial justice, educating communities and promoting the benefits of affordable housing. So happy to vote on this item. Very good. I've mostly been made and seconded. Roll call vote please. Supervisor Marquez. I.. Supervisor Tan. I. Supervisor Miley has recuse himself from discussing and voting on the item and left the room. Supervisor Fortnott Abbas. I. President Halbert. I. Very good. With that said, we're welcome back. Supervisor Miley. we'll take up our Ordinance you have two ordinances item five is a recommendation from the social services agency director that you're boarded up an ordinance to implement the principles of the United Nations Convention of the elimination of all forms of discrimination Against women referred to a C. in Alameda County is the first reading In ordinance adding chapter 9.50 to the Alameda County ordinance code regarding the implementation of the principles of the United Nations Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women. I will move to wave the full-fresh reading and introduce the ordinance entitled implementation of the principles of the United Nations convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, and I also have comments. I'll second it, and I'll say comments. Thank you. The motion is made in seconded comments. I do. Actually, this ordinance came about through the Social Service Committee when Supervisor Miley was still on it. And he had chaired it. And the Commission on Status of Women had encouraged the County Board of Supervisors to consider this ordinance. It has been 15 years since the District 3 Supervisor, Ellis Leibhicker, presented the resolution in support of United States ratifying the United Nations, what we call the CEDA ordinance. And in 1965, the United States took a giant step forward with the passage of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act and the Immigration and Nationality Act. Since then, it's been like two steps forward and one step back, but we've always been trying to move forward. It's feeling a little different now. The 2022 Supreme Court DOBS decision found that a woman's right to body autonomy is not protected under the Constitution. So we are going to be joining the counties of San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, and Santa Clara County in adopting this affirmation of the rights of women to be treated with equity. So here in Alameda County, we can argue that women hold up more than half the sky with our County Administrator, many Department heads, County Council, district attorney, our sheriff, and 60% of our board are women. and just somehow may... And apparently, except for Chief McDonald, who just walked in. Chief McDonald, we are just commenting about the gender balance in the room. Yeah, I'm getting back to you. So this equality may somehow mass some policies and procedures and cultural norms that could continue to hold us back, whether it's opportunities for our employees and the constituents we serve. So this ordinance is meant to help us identify how we can improve and move two steps forward again. Yes, thank you. Yeah, I just wanna thank Supervisor Lena Taminer, staff, along with Erin Armstrong, for my office, for working on this for quite a while. And Nina, last name, Saiba, said, yeah, Nina, when she chaired the status of women, she was really instrumental in trying to move this along. It's taken years to get it to this point and we're pleased that the ordinance is here. So I just think people are deserving of some acknowledgement and the the one question I had is it states that there'll be a Gender equity work group. Do we know how that group will be? Developed and come and appointed or comprised or. And will that be a group too that will be assigned to the Social Services Agency? So the last conversation, again, Andrea Ford, Agency Director for Social Services, we were considering making this a project of the Goldman School Public Policy Consultant to do the work, and they'll work and consult with social services and the Commission on Status of Women. And your two offices if you so desire. What about the gender equity work group? That will be determined. Okay, right. So once again, thanks. Okay, that ordinance motion made and seconded see no other comments all oh comments from Vice-Marcus first then we're having fun today. It's almost like summer recess here So thank you for the work. I know it's taken some time to get here and appreciate the responses some of the Questions I had have already been made. But with respect to allocating resources to the implementation of the ordinance, what are the thoughts? I know we have budgetary issues, but just how is that managed? That's getting an acquisition level. Yes, so all of that is to be determined. First, we want to get the ordinance on the board and get it approved and then we'll work through the mechanics of how to operationalize it. And I know we have a lot of needs right now that this is definitely a priority. So just encourage my colleagues. No, we're going to be looking at retreat in the summer. So maybe this is something in terms of kind of priority, something that we can consider. Just want to emphasize the month of May, mental health, older Americans month, AAPI recognition, I know in November we're going to be recognizing caregivers, we heard from our IHSS caregivers, but just want to flag that. We know that it's often girls and women that have to manage many, many responsibilities. We all share that lived experience. I think it's important to be very public. I've had to leave meetings. I'm not going to call out other colleagues, but other colleagues have had to step away due to balancing work in family. I'll just say publicly for myself, I have two elderly people that I provide care for. One is now in hospice. And so this is really important to me that we look at how the demands of being a woman, how much harder it is to manage responsibilities being policy workers, being effective employees here at the county. So I really hope that we can figure out how to implement this ordinance with the resources. Okay. And since you mentioned those upcoming initiatives and celebrations, we want to acknowledge women's history, Martin March, that just passed. The intent was to have this agenda eyes in March, but due to some other priorities, we're a couple of months late. So thank you. Thank you for doing it. Thank you. Supervisor Fortinotapas. I wanted to appreciate all the work that has gone into this and thank you Supervisor Tam for reminding us how long it's been. I certainly have past and present members of the women's commission who've talked with me about this including one of my staff members formally served on the women's commission. So it's good to hit the smile stone and know that we've got, through adopting this ordinance, we are now sort of setting a clear path towards gender responsive policy and services. And, you know, sort of within the larger national context that we are operating in, I think this is very important because CIDA can really help us develop a much more robust gender equity framework. And that could include comprehensive disaggregated data, you know, just really making sure that we're looking at the issues facing women, girls, and gender non-binary individuals. also including evaluations so that we're looking at how existing measures that aim to address gender inequity and discrimination are really meeting that goal and, of course, oversight to ensure that gender and equity and discrimination are addressed. So there's a lot more work to do and I think this is really an important step so that we are joining other cities and counties in adopting this so thank you so much to everyone who has gotten us to hitting this milestone. Now a motion has been made and seconded all comments and questions asked and answered. May I have a roll call vote please. Supervisor Marquez. Aye. Supervisor Tam. Aye. Supervisor Miley. Aye. Supervisor Fordon at the best. Aye. President Halgurt. Aye. Next ordinance please. Next ordinance item 76 from the Human Resource Services Department. First reading of salary ordinance amendments. Title of the first ordinance, an ordinance amending the June 25, 2023 through July 3, 2027, memorandum of understanding between the Alameda County Management Employees Association, General Government Unit and the County of Alameda. Title of the second ordinance and ordinance amending certain provisions of the 2024-2025 County of Alameda Salary Ordinance. I will move the way to full first reading and introduce the ordinance amending the MOU between the County and Acmeas as described also moved away to full first reading and introduced the salary ordinance amendment. I'll second. Any questions or comments? Motion's made and seconded. Roll call vote please. Supervisor McKinns. I. Supervisor Tam. I. Supervisor Miley. I. Supervisor Fortnothebaz. I. for a question. I'm going to ask for a question. I'm going to ask for a question. I'm going to ask for a question. I'm going to ask for a question. I'm going to ask for a question. I'm going to ask for a question. I'm going to ask for a question. I'm going to ask for a question. I'm going to ask for a question. I'm going to ask for a question. Council, do we anticipate having to come back with reach portable action out of flow session? No. Okay. I mean, we, because we adjourned into closed session, we will need to come back out and announce that we have no announcement. Okay. Very good. public comment on comment on items not on today's agenda in person speaker Jane Kramer Hathy Rodriguez I'm going to be back with you in the next week. I'm going to be back with you in the summer. Happy Rodriguez. Hi, I come here today because I just came back from a mother's that my three cars on my private property were towed by Alameda County Sheriff's Because James lie who works for public works had them towed I'm very appalled by the abuse of authority by the Alameda County Public Works Department and the Alameda County Sheriff's. There was no notification, no call, no nothing. And my neighbor, Bo Yen, was also threatened with an arrest if she doesn't move her car. One of the cars was mine and two of them belonged to my son who I'm not able to get a hold of so that means he's going to be losing his vehicles to the tow company. I went down and got my car today and it's kind of like a shame that you cannot park on your own private property without a getting towed. I do have pictures of where these cars were located. This is my son's car right here. And it's not within a tow area where they can come and tow your vehicle. And the code that they gave me does not match. It talks about cars that are on the roadway. These are the other two cars, the great cars mine, the white cars my sons. So those two cars my sons probably going to lose because I cannot get a hold of them. And I wouldn't have known that these cars got towed, but I have neighbors who got a hold of me. This is a violation of the fourth and the fifth amendment. The government taking away your personal property. I just wanted to let you know and I wanted to put it on the record because I am going to sue Alameda County for this because you know people are not following policy and procedures. Instead they're using and abusing their power and authority over residents. And my suggestion is that public works needs to have meetings with residents when they're going to do work on the roadways. Jane Kramer. This is Commissioner Manitom on 429-25 agenda. It's item 73-74 and 75. Sheriff's travel. Concerning professionalizing law enforcement community engagement training conference in Chicago. It's a good thing. I would like to try and persuade you to confer with the sheriff and come up with some kind of community presentation or workshop that demonstrates what they learned at this conference. And if I had you might I might start with what's the process and how is community defined and how is it involved in that process and how does that lead to community trust? See what you can do. Jackie, you have two minutes. This is for non-agentized items. Go ahead, please. Thank you. I appreciate it. I'll let me the county board of supervisors. I need to vehemently condemn supervisor Nikki Fortinato-Bass for suggesting her reckless plan to push identity politics at the June 3rd meeting by proposing to codify her divisive agenda through flag displays on government buildings. Suggesting anything other than the American and California state flags, our enduring symbols of unity codified by law and tradition is an unacceptable overreach. These flags represent all residents, not selected by ideologies. Fortunato Bass's attempt to impose her political indoctrination through her suggested agenda item threatens to fracture our community and misuse of public spaces as platforms for her own personal beliefs. Government buildings must remain neutral, serving every citizen without bias. I urge the board to reject this proposal outright and uphold the exclusive display of the American and state flags as tradition and law demand. Alameda County deserves a leadership that unites us, not divisive identity politics, as we see it worked so well for her in Oakland. Thank you. Thank you. Mindy, you have two minutes. This is for none of the... I'm going to ask the board to reject the motion pushing niggies political ideology and agenda on the citizens of this county who prefer their representation stay neutral and focused on county priorities and not controversial political agendas that do not represent all citizens. And I would say, ex-Jackie said, the flags of the United States of America and the state of California represent all citizens. And that's where it must stand. If you go back to our Declaration of Independence, you go back to the U.S. Constitution. All men are created equal in the image of God, the Creator, to pursue the right of happiness. That means to use the creative process of the mind that God gave us to make new scientific and technological breakthroughs. The idea that this kind of ideology, divisive ideology, and what I've heard from Nikki on previous things concerning immigration, do not represent the majority of people in this county and do not represent the majority of people in Oakland. This is being imposed on us. And this is not about what party you're in. This is about what does America really represent in its fundamental principles, as it was established by Benjamin Franklin and George Washington and others based on the principles of the Golden Renaissance, based on the principles of Plato, based on the principles of Leibniz and the music of Bach. That's where the sacredness of human life and that is the sacredness of our community. And that is why I'm calling on you to reject this and this is why I'm proud to announce I just filed my committee to run for mayor of Oakland in November, 2026, because I am not going to let our city, community, and county and country down. Thank you. Harsh, you have two minutes. This is non-agentized items. Go ahead, please. Well, thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Harsh Patel, and I'm a proud resident of Alameda County. I'm a tech professional and have been living in the Bay Area with my family since 2015. I'm here today for two reasons. First, to sincerely thank all the Alameda County Board of Supervisors and staff for the incredible work you do for our community. It really means a lot to all of us. Second, as a volunteer with BAPS charities, I'm honored to share a meaningful initiative, the annual BAPS Charities walk-a-thon, and extend a warm invitation to all of you to join us for this event. BAPS charities is a global nonprofit active in nine countries committed to community service, education, health and wellness, environmental initiatives and humanitarian relief. Personally I personally had the privilege of supporting several BAPS Charities efforts from Wacatons, Health Fairs, Blood Drives, Tree Planting Drives, 4 Drives to Vaccine Drives, and each has been a rewarding way to give back to the community. For over 25 years, BAPS Charities Wacatons has been a national event held in more than 76 cities, engaging over 23,000 participants annually. It brings families and communities together to promote wellness and support local schools, hospitals, civic services and national health organizations. This year we are proud to host two Wacatons, right here in the Alamana County, supporting several local school districts. This events are open to everyone and on behalf of BAPS charities, we formally invite all the Alamari County Board of Supervisors to walk with us. An email in might has been sent to you and you can find more details at bapstherities.org. Thank you again to the County Office for this opportunity and special thanks to Supervisor David Howard and Supervisor Alisa Marquis for their continued support by walking alongside our community. We hope to see all of you there. Thank you. Very good. Thank you. And on the last caller's comments, I will say I have enjoyed participating with BAPS, they're a wonderful organization, and I would recommend that we all do if we can. With that next speaker, please. John, you have two minutes. This is non-agent eyes items. Go ahead, please. Yeah, I'd like to comment on the fact that we, you know, celebrate a lot of things today and also in the past, you know, black mental health matters and, you know, doing affordable housing And also, you know, AAMPI, which I'm a Pacific Islander. They named tomorrow in there, which, you know, I would actually identify as Guamanian. But I would not like you to raise a AAPI flag up anywhere on county property. I would like you to keep it all inclusive, focusing on the state, maybe the county, certainly in the United States. You want to keep everything above board. And also, you know, I'd love the AFGF community here in pre-month, the model citizens. And after what the past administration did by ushering in, the Taliban into the Afghan Afghanistan, I would not support raising the Afghan flag for the coming. So I would like to just keep, you know, it all inclusive, keep it just with the state and the United States. Thank you. Cindy, you have two minutes. This is non-agentized items. Go ahead, please. Yes, thank you. Seriously, Nikki, you want to Oakland dies, all along the Alameda County. That's really interesting. Bring those great ideas from Oakland and bring them into our county. You talk about equity. Let's do equity. Let's do equity really in a big way. Let's have a proclamation or a flag that celebrates all of the religious representation in the county. Why don't we do that? So we can have Christians and Muslims, we can have atheists, we can have Nostics, let's put that flag up on our do you really want to do that? Let's have a month of religious representation and celebration. So let's do equity in a big way. Let's stand behind the county's equity statement. That's what we really want to do, right? No, we really don't want to do that, Nikki. Please leave your Oakland mentality in Oakland. We don't need this in our county. We are all Americans. We have an American flag. We have a state flag. We don't need a bunch of flags up there representing a bunch of ideology. Don't inject ideology into our governance. That's poor governance. That's not what our counties are about. That's not what we are about as Americans. We don't lead with our sexual preference. We lead with our patriotism and our civic mindedness raising our families and doing it in a responsible way that calls attention not to who we want to go to bed with or not go to bed with, but who we are as Americans and we are all Americans. We don't need to further divide us and put a bunch of different flags up there. Thanks. We're glad. President Howard, there are no more colors. Very good. With that, we're going to recess in the closed session. Thank you. Recording in progress. I'd like to read a journey from our re-reconvene from our prolific flow session discussion and I'll ask you to please publicise the forum. Supervisor Marquez, excuse, supervisor Tan, president, supervisor Marley, to revise it for another verse. the supervisor excuse supervisor mayor president president president we have a quorum county council anything to report off from closed session no additional report other than this morning's report with that we are adjourned thank you you