Recommendation to Provide Advice and Consent on the Social Service Human Relations Board (SSHRB) Work Plan for the 2020 Calendar Year. (Community Development 267)
Recommendation to provide advice and consent on the Social Service Human Relations Board workPlan for the 2020 calendar year. Um, Mr. Vice Mayor, you pulled this. Did you want to hear from Stafford? Did you want. To? I'm happy to. Just make a couple of quick comments. Go right. Ahead. First first off, I just I really appreciate that this comes forward. Actually, I think this is a practice. I would love to see some of our other boards and commissions do. The mayor and I had a referral halfway through last year about the Commission on Disability Issues that I think would benefit from, you know, just making sure we're all on the same page as to what our advisory bodies are working on. Mr. Vice Mayor, for the benefit of someone who might not be following along with, what, five years, do you want to just explain? Sure. So this is a work plan for the social survey, the draft 2020 work plan for the Social Service Human Relations Board for Alameda. And it identifies that our municipal code identifies six key goals that the Shrub is supposed to work on in this proposes the actions that they are going to the actions and next steps that they are looking to tackle in pursuit of those. Specifically, the reason beyond just wanting to say, I think it's a great work plan and I appreciate the clear thought and effort that has gone into this. One issue that has come up over and over and over again, not just in the last year, but in the last few years, that I think connects to some of this. But I didn't see reflected that. I just was going to ask if it could be considered maybe at the next meeting is we continue to have issues, especially in our schools, around hate, hate crimes, hate language, hate incidents as well. And there is some confusion, at least among community members as to how that is addressed. Our school district and our city staff do connect at times. It's usually driven by the school district and whatnot, but I think that there's a way for us to formalize and strengthen some of those those processes and whatever else. And the trust seems to be a great place to do that, to look at how we can kind of bring those conversations more to the fourth community. It's great that our police department works very closely with the school district. I'm not trying to say that anybody is not doing their jobs, but having we have heard from a number of parents over the last few months, especially about incidents that have come to their attention, and curious how the city is addressing this. And I think it's a place that the Shrub who took a lead in 2016, 2017 on how to how the city should start looking at these issues, how maybe they can look at the next step of how they can maybe convene some conversations with the district and and others in the city. So that was it. Thank you. Can you remind me who who on the council is on the liaison committee with the school districts. It's Tony and I. Okay. To you. So perhaps you also raise that. You should have already asked for it to be agendas at our next meeting. Great. Madam Kirk, did you. Once you're done, move on from this item. We just have to make an announcement as part of the consent calendar. So circle back to me once you're done with that item. Okay? Fabulous. Good enough. Okay. So any other comments on this social this closed session item or shall we vote to approve it to her motion to approve item five? Okay. It's been moved and seconded all in favor. This is recommendation to provide advice and consent on the Social Service Human Relations Board workPlan for the 2020 calendar year. All in favor. Okay, that's unanimous. Back to you, Madam Clerk. Pardon me. Thank you so much. As part of the consent count, you approved an amendment to the employment agreement with the city manager. And that was item five I. And basically to highlight what those changes were, they were approved at the close session last time. And you did a 6000 annual transportation allowance, increase the base pay by 3%, the first full pay period of January, and then tied future increases to the executive management group, which will be effective on his anniversary date. So we just needed to publicly announce what those changes were. The transportation allowance. Yes, we we we we actually, I think, folded it into the city manager's. Base salary in the announcement from last time. Okay. The report. I just wanted to make sure that the report is correct. Okay, great. All right. Thank you. Um, okay. Well, and we approve them when we approve the consent calendar. Okay. Um, so then we move on to item six eight. Six eight is public hearing to consider approving the Housing and Community Development Needs statement and priority needs and objectives for the Community Development BLOCK Grant, annual and five year plans. And there's a PowerPoint. It's a. Good evening. Good evening, Madam Mayor. City council member, staff members of the public. I'm Lisa Fitz. I'm a management analyst with the Housing Authority of the city of Alameda. And I manage the Community Development BLOCK Program for the city of Alameda. Tonight, I will briefly review the CDBG program and the needs hearing process for the five year strategic plan and the annual action plan, collectively known as the Consolidated Plan. So what is CDBG? So maybe I was thinking, okay, now we know the answer. What is CDBG? It is federal funds provided by the Department of Housing and Urban Development for the explicit purpose of assisting low and moderate income persons by developing viable urban communities which provide decent housing, a suitable living environment or economic opportunity. In the past five years, the CDBG funded programs have served approximately 6000 individuals each year. As part of the process, the city is required to prepare a five year strategic plan, which outlines the housing and community development priority needs that will inform the CDBG funding decisions.