Planning Committee

Hismen Hinnu
Meeting Notes
June 5, 2003

Announcements

• Alameda County cutting bus lines and youth passes. Meeting planned on June 11. No details

Updates

• Housing—Doing mapping with IURD. Talking to local housing developers. Opportunity to do marketing of Lower San Antonio. They’re interested in learning about collaborative
• Arts & Culture—relocating to Hismen Hinnu. Conceiving of plan for monthly community gatherings and events. Mostly targeted at Hismen Hinnu residents first. Moving forward on building purchase. Kathleen Diop talking to Northern California Land Trust. Want to purchase Delbert building. He’s not open to a lease, but may be willing to sell.
• 23rd Avenue—Moving ahead on UE plan. At July PAC meeting will form committees around different areas—including one on developing RFP criteria. Others: streetscape improvement, different categories of spending
• Health—Moving ahead with health promotion project. At July 2 meeting we will invite potential partners in LSA to learn about proposal
• MCMOI—Preliminary discussion around re-entry at end of the month. PBS has three documentaries that we can see. Matters of Race—EBAYC, Black Dot/ESAA, Native American Health Center are producing thirty-second spots to run with documentary. Premier screening at Parkway Theater in fall
• On July 13 will have screening of clips from different KQED documentaries at Parkway. Opportunity for residents to weigh in on MCMOI agenda for the coming year
  

Retreat Review

• Follow-up on Health & Safety outcome
  • EBAYC linking work to school sites
  • Also doing juvenile justice initiative
• Sounds like different groups are addressing health and safety in different ways. May be won’t come together as health and safety
• EBAYC
• Health work group

Mini-Grant Program

• OCFY is model program. Mini-grants for grassroots projects accessible to small-scale efforts. Creative way to engage people who are already doing things
• Public health model. Residents serve on review committee, make decisions, do evaluation
• Invite someone from Community Health Academy
• San Francisco Foundation—youth-to-youth grant
• Mini-grant meeting Tuesday, July 1, at 3 p.m.
• Health & Safety—July 8 at 2 p.m. at EBAYC

Town Hall Meeting

• ESAA planning to do monthly community meetings. Cultural event with speaker. Child care and food
  • July—ESAA coming to Hismen Hinnu presentation on cultural center and 23rd Avenue plan
  • August—Education. What are implications of state takeover. After-school programs. EBAYC plan multicultural dance and drum presentation
  • September—Juvenile justice and safety
    • Critical Resistance will be invited
    • Other collaborative members
  • October—Family art-making workshop just before Dia de Los Muertes
  • November—Immigrant and deportation cross-generational issues
  • December—Tamalada
• Attach voter registration to each town hall
• Question about whether to have it in one place or move it around. Should be on a consistent day each month
• Do outreach to Dradden Manor
• Hold regularly in Hismen Hinnu
• Approach management company to support town hall—help with outreach, get them to play a role, contribute money
• How to feed residents into collaborative activities?
  • Do they get involved in cluster groups or work groups?
• Thinking about doing event on last Friday of month