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MEASURE X COMMUNITY
ADVISORY BOARD

August 18, 2021
9:00 A.M.
1025 Escobar St., Martinez

Mariana Moore, Chair

BK Williams, Vice Chair

Agenda Items:

Items may be taken out of order based on the business of the day and preference of the Committee

Present:	Mariana Moore, Chair; BK Williams, Vice Chair; Edith Pastrano; Kathryn Chiverton; Jim Cervantes; Odessa LeFrancois; David Cruise; Sharon Quezada Jenkins; Michelle Stewart; Ali Saidi; Jerry Short; Kimberly Aceves-Iniquez; Ruth Fernandez; Debbie Toth; Sandra Wall; Cathy Hanville; Pello Walker; Gigi Crowder; Geneveva Calloway; Diana Honig; Lindy Lavender; Peter Benson; Steven Bliss
Absent:	Dr. Michelle Hernandez; Susun Kim; Sandro Trujillo; Melissa Stafford Jones
Staff Present:	Lisa Driscoll, County Finance Director; Enid Mendoza, Senior Deputy County Administrator


1.				Roll Call
				Staff provided instruction for access to English live transcription (automated closed captioning), and live simultaneous Spanish and ASL interpretation and then conducted roll call. There were approximately 81 participants.

2.				Accept attached written public comments.
				Public comments were received from 35 participants in two languages. All comments were advocating service priorities. As a correction to the video record, please note that during the interpretation for "Clara" 'East County' was mistakenly interpreted as 'East Coast'.
				Attachments:
				Public Comment - West CC Public Education Fund


3.				Staff recommends MXCAB receive the Record of Action for the August 13, 2021 meeting.
				The record of action was accepted as presented. Following this item, at approximately 6:31 PM, the MXCAB took at 7 minute break.
				Attachments:
				Record of Action MXCAB 8-13-21
				Public Comment - Police Liaison Committee
				Public Comment - Sheriff Request 1
				Public Comment - Sheriff Request 2
				Public Comment - Sheriff Request 3


4.				Accept attached updated tracking spreadsheets and list of potential funding buckets.
				Chair Moore introduced the topic and explained that a google form had been produced with three questions to help the MXCAB to begin to reach consensus on priorities. The questions were: 1) Please rate each issue area from 1-5, with 5 being strongest, in the context of the importance and appropriateness of investing Measure X funds; 2) Please rate each issue area from 1-5, with 5 being strongest, in the context of the importance and appropriateness of investing Measure X funds to meet the needs of these residents; and 3) Please rate on scale of 1-5 (5 = strongly agree), the following broad strategy focuses for investing Measure X dollars this year. Prior to the instrument being deployed, several MXCAB members expressed their concern regarding breadth of the identified buckets. After discussion the consensus was to move forward with the ratings and provide further break-out at the next meeting. The results of this initial ranking is shown below: Following the ranking a discussion took place regarding improvement to the process, plans for the next two meetings, and the proposed timeline for presentation to the Board of Supervisors. Note that the MXCAB viewed this ranking as a first step in beginning to set priorities and not as an elimination round. Public comments were asked for and received from two individuals. Chair Moore asked the MXCAB to review the ranking and compare to their own evaluation of priority issue areas and be ready to participate in a more detailed ranking at the next MXCAB meeting. A new polling document will be developed for use at the next MXCAB meeting with more break-down of the individual buckets (using the MXCAB tracking spreadsheet categories developed in early meetings).
				Attachments:
				Measure X Evaluation Worksheet - updated 8-13-2021


5.				The next meetings are currently scheduled for August 20th at noon and August 25th at 5:00 PM
				There were no changes to the current meeting schedule.

6.				Adjourn
				The meeting adjourned at approximately 8:16 PM.

The Measure X Community Advisory Board will provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities planning to attend Measure X meetings. Contact the staff person listed below at least 72 hours before the meeting.

Any disclosable public records related to an open session item on a regular meeting agenda and distributed by the County to a majority of members of the Measure X Community Advisory Board less than 96 hours prior to that meeting are available for public inspection at 1025 Escobar St., 4th Floor, Martinez, during normal business hours.

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Live Transcription (Automated Closed Captioning) is available in English via Zoom - Click the "Live Transcript" button from the in-meeting Zoom toolbar and select one of the options from the pop-up menu.

Live simultaneous Spanish interpretation is available for Measure X Community Advisory Board meetings by joining the meeting via the Zoom application. Click on the “Interpretation Globe” at the bottom of the screen and choose the language channel Spanish. You may wish to “Mute Original Audio” so that you only hear the utterances on the channel that you select.

Measure X Community Advisory Board meeting agendas and videos are available in Spanish at: http://64.166.146.245/agenda_publish.cfm?id=&mt=ALL

For Additional Information Contact:

Lisa Driscoll, Committee Staff
Phone (925) 655-2047
lisa.driscoll@cao.cccounty.us