Planning Committee

Hismen Hinnu
Meeting Notes
April 3, 2003

Survey

• Opportunity to hire surveyors –meeting on April 10 at 10 a.m.
• Content—issues to cover in survey
  • Local hiring
  • Outreach/publicity
  • Content

Announcements

• SACDC $25K grant for Green City Groceries—open a produce market
• SA merchants financial resources workshop, Wednesday, April 23, 9.15 – 11.30 at Hismen Hinnu
• Elise Brown from People’s Credit Union--want to expand to LSA. Would like to have a meeting with LSA groups
• EBALDC Planning received grant for employer-based IDA program—would like to pilot in LSA
• SACDC got Delbert a $1.5 million loan. Try to finish within next six months, maybe earlier
• Phase II Celebration
• Wednesday, June 4, late afternoon/evening
• Saturday, Stop the War rally
• April 19, Powwow at Mills College
• RWJ proposal
• Haas, Jr., focusing on FES issues. Closely related to AECF framework. Geographic focus on LSA. Not launching an initiative. Anticipate working closely with collaborative

Updates

• Jennie:
  • Housing—working hard with IURD to develop plan to identify affordable housing sites
• Elena:
  • Arts & Culture—getting ready for Jazz Festival May 17
  • Elena handed out proposal
• Don:
  • 23rd Avenue —Successful merchants’ cleanup. Will now be ongoing. Working with new walking officer on East 15th—followup to October action
• David:
  • Beat Health money restored—did not have a productive meeting with Beat Health officer. Larger meeting with Danny [?] and Ignacio and LT to get them to be more responsive. Treat PACs as NCPCs. Focus on one area
  • EBAYC partnership with Public Health Department, April 22, will hold study session on juvenile justice as a health issue. Best practices for criminal and juvenile justice reform. 94606 has fourth highest concentration of youth on probation and fifth highest concentration of adults. Neighborhood-based approach to delinquency prevention. Study session will push public health to play more of an advocacy role
  • *JP get redevelopment priorities to PAC
• Page:
  • Health—UC Berkeley student collecting health data on LSA. Update for Fred on proposal for health promotion program. Received $60K in funding
• Don:
  • Newspaper—Next issue coming out on Friday. Don has outcomes from retreat with Omo[wale?]. Fred would like newspaper to share retreat results with collaborative
• Karen:
  • MCMOI—Legacy event on March 22. Forty people attended. Went well; a family from 23rd Avenue attended and spoke about need for people in the neighborhood to come together

Survey

• Keith:
  • Overview of additional questions for survey
• Jennie:
  • Can we influence content? Don’t break down Asian category
• Don:
  • Concern about people’s willingness to take the time to complete survey
• Fred:
  • We will discuss incentives. We will explore subcontracting with CBOs to do outreach and be interviewers. Reviewed schedule. We need to rethink
  • Thursday, 8 – 10 a.m. at EBAYC—breakfast
• Elena:
  • Want to make sure 18 – 20 year olds get surveyed

FES Updates

• Fred:
  • Randy, Dave, and [Fred] met to talk about strategy for launching cluster. Developing leadership team:
    • Parents – EBAYC Predevelopment provides work
    • Policy—Brendan Leung
    • Funders—Haas, Jr.
  • Get everyone on same page
  • Mapping activities and strategies
  • What data we have and what we need
  • Hope to meet by end of April
• Don:
  • Hoping cluster will represent the diversity of community. Concern about Latino and Asian participation. Lack of African American participants. Need to develop strategies

Theory of Change

• Wednesday, May 7 th
• The clearer we are, the more we can push back with foundations when they ask for products
• Fred:
  • Spinning our wheels in discussion around structure. Best way to proceed is to acknowledge what is happening
  • Think of clusters as exploratory committees. Let that process run its course before we think about restructuring. Results of that process may lead us to restructure
  • There is AECF Theory of Change document. Fred will get it to us
  • Who’s going to come:
    • May want to be more intentional about who comes
    • Retreat is smaller group of core people, then share with others for feedback
• Health Group
• MCMOI
• Libby
• ToC is about accountability among ourselves. Challenge is for all of us to come to agreement