Concord City Council
January 10, 2023

menthol and all flavored tobacco products throughout the United States. This Bill was passed in the House of Representatives in February of 2020 but went nowhere in the Senate. In June of 2020 the
AATCLC along with its partner Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) filed a lawsuit against the FDA for dragging their feet by leaving menthol on the marketplace with overwhelming scientific evidence showing that it should be removed immediately. Subsequently and importantly the American Medical Association (AMA) and the National Medical Association (NMA) have joined the lawsuit as plaintiffs. Since the FDA has begin the rulmaking process, we have dropped the lawsuit, but we are prepared to reintroduce it if they do not take the appropriate action.

Call to Action!
Now is the time to adopt strong tobacco control measures that can protect our families.

We already know that menthol and flavors “make the poison go down easier.” Let’s not now allow menthol to make COVID-19 go down easier too! The City Council needs to put the health of Concord at the forefront of their thoughts, not the interests and profits of the tobacco industry, the vaping industry, and their surrogates. This is not the time for half-steps, like continuing to allow these products to be sold in adult-only venues, rather it is time to take a stand for the public’s health and say: No Selling of Menthol Cigarettes and All Other Flavored Tobacco Products in Concord! Say “No” to the continued predatory marketing of menthol-flavored tobacco products to our youth and say “Yes” to the health and welfare of our kids, who are the most vulnerable. Say “Yes” to the protection of all residents of Concord.

We are all counting on you!
Sincerely,
Phillip Gardiner, Dr. P.H. Co-Chair AATCLC www.savingblacklives.org Carol McGruder, Co-Chair AATCLC
Valerie Yerger, N.D., Co-Chair AATCLC
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Mendez D, Le TTT. Tob Control 2021;0:1–3. doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2021-056748 1 Consequences of a match made in hell: the harm
caused by menthol smoking to the African American
population over 1980–2018
David Mendez, Thuy T T Le
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Health Management and Policy,
University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Dr Thuy T T Le, Department of
Health Management and Policy,
University of Michigan School of
Public Health, Ann Arbor 48109,
MI, USA; [email protected]
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ABSTRACT
Background For many years, national surveys have
shown a consistently disproportionately high prevalence of menthol smokers among African Americans compared
with the general population. However, to our knowledge, no prior study has quantified the harm that menthol
smoking has caused on that population. In this work, we estimate the public health harm that menthol cigarettes have caused to the African American community over the
last four decades.

Methods Using National Health Interview Survey
data, we employed a well-established simulation model
to reproduce the observed smoking trajectory over
1980–2018 in the African American population. Then, we
repeat the experiment, removing the effects of menthol
on the smoking initiation and cessation rates over that period, obtaining a new hypothetical smoking trajectory.

Finally, we compared both scenarios to calculate the
public health harm attributable to menthol cigarettes
over 1980–2018.

Results Our results show that menthol cigarettes
were responsible for 1.5 million new smokers, 157 000
smoking-related premature deaths and 1.5 million lifeyears lost among African Americans over 1980–2018.

While African Americans constitute 12% of the total
US population, these figures represent, respectively, a staggering 15%, 41% and 50% of the total mentholrelated harm.

Discussion Our results show that menthol cigarettes
disproportionally harmed African Americans significantly over the last 38 years and are responsible for
exacerbating health disparities among that population.

Removing menthol cigarettes from the market would
benefit the overall US population but, particularly, the African American community.

BACKGROUND
For over 60 years, tobacco companies have targeted
menthol cigarettes to the African American community through aggressive marketing and promotion.1–3 It is well known that a disproportionately high number of African Americans smoke menthol
cigarettes. According to the 2018 National Survey
on Drug Use and Health, 85% of African American
smokers used menthol versus 39% of those in the
general population. This is not a recent phenomenon. In 1980, for example, menthol prevalence among African American smokers was 66% vs 33%
among the general population, according to the
National Health Interview Survey (NHIS).

Several articles4
have addressed the prospective harm to the black community that could be avoided if menthol cigarettes were banned from the
market; and while other studies3 5–9 have addressed
the historical causes that have made menthol the
preferred choice of cigarette products among
African Americans, to our knowledge, no prior
study has quantified the health harm that menthol
smoking has already inflicted on that population.

Following a recent study10 that calculated the
health damage caused by menthol smoking on the
entire US population over 1980–2018, the current
work estimates the share of such harm borne by the
African American community, and its disproportion
compared with the total menthol toll in the USA.

Our results may be helpful to the Food and Drug
Administration as they continue evaluating the
benefit of a menthol ban.

METHODS
We used the same simulation model and calibration
process as in the Le-Mendez article10 with parameters specific to the African American population.

The model formulation, definition of model parameters and how some parameters were calculated were thoroughly described in Le-Mendez’s work.10
The African American-specific parameters were
taken from several data sources described below
and summarised in online supplemental table A1.

For our initial year (1980), we obtained the African
American population by single year of age from the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.11 For
subsequent years, we got the African American birth
cohorts from 1981 through 2018 from the National
Vital Statistics Reports.12 13 The overall age-specific death rates for the African American population,
updated every 5years, were extracted from the
1980–2018 US Life Tables.14 We used relative risks of
mortality specific to the African American population,
derived from Cancer Prevention Study II (CPS-II data;
Relative risks for African American current and former
smokers were derived from CPS-II data and provided
by Dr Michael Thun from the American Cancer
Society for the 2011 Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee (TPSAC) Menthol Report. Available in online supplemental table A5) to calculate the death rates by age for never, current and former smokers
following the same procedure described in Le-Mendez’s article.10 Smoking prevalence for current and former smokers and the proportion of menthol use
among smokers in 1980 were estimated using NHIS
data. We calculated the overall smoking cessation
rates for African Americans by adjusting the general
population’s overall smoking cessation rates presented
in Le-Mendez’s work10 with the ratio of cessation
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rates between the African American and general populations (0.66) reported in ref 15. Then, using the menthol cessation multiplier for African Americans estimated by Mills et al16 (0.47, 95% CI 0.24 to 0.91) and the proportion of menthol smokers among current African American smokers, we applied the same process used in ref 10 to compute the cessation rates for African American nonmenthol and menthol smokers. The specific formulation and cessation values for 1980 are shown in the Supplement to ref 10 and online supplemental tables A2 and A3.

The annual adult smoking initiation rates for African Americans were computed by taking the average NHIS smoking prevalence among 18–24year-olds, consistent with ref 10. The switching rates between menthol and non-menthol smokers were calculated as in the 2011 menthol report17 (2.29% switching to menthol and 1.08% to non-menthol cigarettes). An extensive sensitivity analysis (see online supplemental table A4) showed that these parameters exert little influence on the results. The ratio of yields from experimenter to smoker18 19 and menthol mortality multiplier for the African American population remains as in the Le-Mendez work,10 following their same arguments.

As in ref 10, we first used NHIS smoking prevalence data over 1980–2018 (when the NHIS survey was conducted) to calibrate the model. Then, we used the calibrated model to replicate African Americans’ smoking prevalence trajectory during 1980–2018.

Finally, to quantify the harmful effect of menthol use on the African American population, we repeated the previous step to generate an alternative smoking trajectory for African Americans during the same period, eliminating the effect of menthol since 1980. We achieved this by adjusting the smoking initiation and cessation rates to eliminate the effect of menthol on those parameters (see the Appendices to the 2011 TPSAC Menthol Report17 and the Le-Mendez paper10).

Finally, we compared our results from both scenarios (with and without menthol cigarettes) to calculate the impact of menthol on smoking prevalence, life-years lost and smoking-related premature deaths. Additionally, we compared our results with those for the general population reported in Le-Mendez’s work10 and calculated the disproportionate harm inflicted on the African American population due to menthol.

RESULTS
The simulated smoking prevalence for African Americans closely captures the NHIS reported smoking prevalence over 1980–2018 with pseudo-R2
=0.95 (pseudo-R2=1−[Errors Sum of Squares]/[-
Total Sum of Squares]) (see online supplemental figure A1 and A2).

Table 1 shows the harm attributable to menthol cigarettes for the general population (from Le-Mendez’s work10), the African American population and the hypothetical low-menthol African American population. A complete sensitivity analysis on the values in table 1 is presented in online supplemental table A4.

The values in the first three columns of the table are selfexplanatory; the numbers within parentheses show the percentages that those values represent, relative to those for the general population. The last column shows the average proportion (over 1980–2018) of the corresponding population referred to on each row, relative to the entire US population. For example, the table shows that, among African Americans, menthol was responsible for 1.5 million extra smokers, 157 000 smokingrelated premature deaths and 1.5 million excess life-years lost during 1980–2018, representing 15%, 41% and 50% of the
total menthol toll, respectively. However, during the same period, African Americans constituted only around 12% of the overall US population.

The last row of the table shows a hypothetical African American population that exhibits the same menthol smoking-related parameters as the general population. We simulated this scenario by setting the values of menthol-affected parameters for the African American population to those of the general population. In this hypothetical group, the estimated menthol smoking excess initiation, premature deaths and life-years lost would have represented 13%, 16% and 21% of the overall menthol harm, respectively; much more in agreement with the proportional (relative to the entire US) size of this population (12%). It is worth noting, though, that the menthol death toll in the lowmenthol population is still above its proportional share. This is due to the mortality rates among African American smokers, which are higher than in the general population.

DISCUSSION
Since the 1960s, the tobacco industry has targeted the African American community for the consumption of menthol cigarettes through aggressive marketing, including intense advertising and price discounts. Simultaneously, the industry supported numerous African American organisations to gain the trust of the African American community. Several publications3 9 describe the marketing efforts by the tobacco industry to establish a special connection between menthol cigarettes and the African American community. In a fascinating article entitled ‘The African Americanization of menthol cigarette use in the United States’,3 Gardiner recounts the long history of, and explains the facts behind, the relationship between African Americans and menthol cigarettes, and how those products became an integral part of the African American culture. In essence, the identification of African American smokers with menthol has been purposely orchestrated by the tobacco industry following their goal of maximising their profits.

Unfortunately, this marketing strategy turned out to be a huge success for the tobacco industry, but deadly for the black community. Besides creating a brand with which African Americans could identify and call their own, the industry exposed this population to a substance that amplifies the damaging effects of cigarette smoking. Menthol intensifies this harm by increasing the chances that individuals transition from experimentation to regular smoking,18 19 and by increasing dependency, which leads to delayed cessation.16 These effects increase the number of smokers and the amount of time they remain smoking.

Table 1 Excess smoking initiation, smoking-related deaths and life-years lost due to menthol cigarettes over 1980–2018 for the adult general, African American and hypothetical low-menthol African American population Cumulative excess smoking
initiators (%) Cumulative excess deaths (%)
Cumulative excess life-years
lost (%)
Average percentage of
population (%)
General population 10 137 808 (100) 377 528 (100) 2 951 533 (100) 100 African American population 1 508 913 (15) 156 471 (41) 1 476 198 (50) 12 Hypothetical low-menthol
African American population
1 286 848 (13) 61 132 (16) 606 840 (21) 12
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The negative impact of menthol cigarettes on the public’s health is significant, as Le and Mendez described in ref 10. For African American smokers, though, the harm wrought by menthol smoking is much higher than that for the rest of the population. Despite having a similar overall smoking prevalence as the general population,20 it is well known that African Americans suffer, proportionally or disproportionately, more serious smoking-attributable health consequences.21 Main probable causes for this phenomenon are the high overall mortality rates due to economic and social conditions and the high prevalence of menthol among African American smokers, which causes them to be more addicted and quit less. In fact, our results show that menthol was responsible for 157 000 smokingrelated deaths among African Americans during 1980–2018, over two and a half times their proportional share of menthol deaths compared with the general population. And, what is even more depressing, 50% of all the life-years lost to menthol smoking during 1980–2018 occurred among African Americans. Additionally, our results (shown in online supplemental figure A1) also indicate that, without menthol, smoking prevalence among African Americans in 2018 would have been 8.3%, instead of the NHIS reported 14.9% (a 44% reduction). We note that our results may be considered conservative, since we do not take into account the future harm that menthol smoking over 1980–2018 will cause to the African American population.

Considering that cigarette smoking is the number one cause of preventable deaths in the USA, menthol in cigarettes is an important factor in creating and exacerbating health disparities in this country.

Removing menthol cigarettes from the market will save thousands of African American lives per year and help reduce health disparities at a time when inequalities among minority and socioeconomically disadvantaged groups are increasingly salient.

What this paper adds
► Menthol cigarettes have been disproportionately used among African Americans.
► Menthol cigarettes exacerbate health inequalities for the African American community.
► Removing menthol can have the double effects of saving lives and reducing inequalities.

Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the University of Michigan Data Analysis and Dissemination Core led by Dr. Jihyoun Jeon for providing us some data for this work.

Contributors DM and TTTL conceptualised the project. TTTL calibrated the model and conducted all the analysis. DM supervised the work. Both authors contributed to the writing of the manuscript.

Funding The research reported in this publication was supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health and Food and Drug Administration Centre for Tobacco Products (award number U54CA229974).

Competing interests None declared.

Patient consent for publication Not required.

Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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What more evidence is needed?
Remove menthol cigarettes from
the marketplace—now
Valerie Yerger 1,2
Tobacco remains the leading cause of
preventable death and disease in the USA
and many other countries. However,
among all racial and ethnic groups in the
USA, African Americans bear the greatest
burden from tobacco-related morbidity
and mortality.1
Every year, 45 000 African
Americans prematurely and unnecessarily
die from tobacco-caused diseases. An estimated 85% of them smoked menthol cigarettes.2
Menthol’s sensory properties reinforce
smoking, increase uptake of nicotine and
toxic smoke components, and discourage
cessation. Menthol’s cooling, anaesthetic
and analgesic effects ease initiation among
new smokers by masking the harshness
and irritation of tobacco smoke, reducing
pain sensations in the mouth and throat,
and enabling deeper inhalation that facilitates greater exposure to nicotine.3 On 3 March 2009, Representative
Henry Waxman and 124 congressional
cosponsors introduced H.R. 1256—the
‘Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco
Control Act.’4
Representative Waxman’s
Committee Report expressed concerns
about the disproportionate use of menthol
cigarettes among African Americans, the
targeted marketing of menthol cigarettes
in black communities, and the higher
rates of lung cancer among African American smokers compared with non-African American smokers, urging the Secretary
of Health and Human Services to move
quickly to address the unique public
health issues posed by menthol cigarettes.

Yet, although most other characterising
flavours in cigarettes were prohibited in
2009 under the final version of the Family
Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control
Act, menthol was inexplicably excluded.5
It has been estimated that hundreds of
thousands of African Americans and other
menthol smokers are destined to die
prematurely if the exemption of menthol
is allowed to continue.6
The disproportionate toll of menthol cigarettes among African Americans compared with the general population is a social injustice. The black community has long been subjected to the predatory marketing of
mentholated tobacco products, particularly
in lower income areas, where there are not
only more advertisements, but more promotions and cheaper prices for menthol cigarettes when compared with more affluent neighbourhoods.7
Tobacco companies also
heavily rely on their cooptation of community leaders to defuse tobacco control efforts.8
Black-led organisations with financial ties to the tobacco industry have played a critical role in disseminating misinformation throughout the black community. Such misinformation, for example, includes the
idea that local policies prohibiting the sale of
mentholated tobacco products are racist and
will increase the criminalisation of individuals who possess or smoke them, exploiting legitimate concerns about racist policing to
defend the tobacco industry’s targeted predation on the black community.9 10 Authors Mendez and Le, in their article
‘Consequences of a match made in hell:
the harm caused by menthol smoking to
the African American population over
1980–2018,’11 show why none of us can
remain silent and complicit. This paper
should serve as a kick upside the head
for those who are in a position to remove
these deadly products from the marketplace. Until this paper, no prior study has fully quantified the health harm inflicted
on African Americans by menthol cigarettes. Yet, for at least three decades, African American tobacco control activists
have been out there resisting the pervasive presence of the tobacco industry and their deadly products in black communities,12–15 including filing a lawsuit to get the Center for Tobacco Products of the
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
to act on menthol.16 Now the evidence is
irrefutable: menthol cigarettes are killing
our people at a rate unmatched by any
other assaults on our community.

Though constituting only 12% of
the total US population, African Americans bear an alarming amount of the total menthol-related harm: 41% of the
smoking-related premature deaths and
50% of the life-years lost. This analysis demonstrates the contribution of menthol cigarettes toward the annihilation of a people already under siege by a racist society and its myriad of inequities,
governmental policies and political domination.17 18 Institutionalised racism, its long historical impact, and the associated,
yet unresolved, intergenerational trauma
experienced by black people in America
have made them vulnerable to the clever
marketing and predatory dumping of
mentholated tobacco products in their
communities.

For decades, the tobacco industry has
exploited social and economic inequities
to foster the uptake and use of menthol
cigarettes, and create brand loyalty among
African Americans. Tobacco companies
strategically targeted menthol cigarettes to
low-income African Americans, blanketing
inner city communities with marketing,
free samples, and music promotions,19 and
thereby contributing to the tobacco-related
health disparities observed today, as Mendez
and Le have now confirmed. We can no
longer ignore the intersecting, overlapping
and distinctive systems of oppression that
shape ‘being black in America’ and how
menthol cigarettes contribute to sustained
and widening health disparities.20
This paper is compelling on its own
merit; however, read in tandem with the
authors’ previous paper,21 one can fully
appreciate the significant role menthol
cigarettes have played in addicting
millions of young people to nicotine and
in the deaths of thousands due to tobacco.

As the authors emphasise, mentholated
cigarettes have a ‘significant detrimental
impact on the public’s health and could
continue to pose a substantial health risk.’
More than a decade after the FDA was
given authority to regulate tobacco products,
long after other flavours favoured by white
children were banned from most tobacco
products, and long after the first of several
scientific reports found menthol cigarettes to
pose a public health risk above that seen with
non-menthol cigarettes,22–24 the FDA still has
not acted. The black community has been
abandoned at the federal level, leaving activists to seek local and state policy changes. So, the question for me is: Given the mountains
of evidence, will anything push the federal
government to consider social justice and act
on its commitment to finally ban menthol
cigarettes and all flavoured cigars?25 26
The recent highly publicised killings of
black men and women, including George
Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor
and many others, brought to the forefront
1 Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
2 African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council,
San Francisco, California, USA
Correspondence to Dr Valerie Yerger, Social and
Behavioral Sciences, University of California San
Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0612, USA;
[email protected]
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of our nation’s conscience how pervasively
racism permeates everyday life. Whether one
is on the receiving or perpetuating end of
racist behaviours or if one benefits from or
is negatively impacted by racist policies, we
all recently watched how quickly the world
mobilised to support the Black Lives Matter
movement. Are we in a moment to leverage
this movement?
If menthol cigarettes are allowed to stay
in the marketplace, the lives of African
Americans and others remain at increased
risk. Conversely, removing these terrible
products will benefit not only the black
community but also other racial and ethnic
groups, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, youth and those with behavioural health issues, since these groups
also disproportionately smoke mentholated cigarettes over non-mentholated cigarettes.27–30 I ask that others stand with us to repair a wrong done to the black community,
as we stand with you. There is simply no ethically acceptable reason to allow the tobacco industry to continue using a flavouring that
makes it easier to start smoking and harder to
quit. Whether we work at the federal, state or
local level, we are empowered in our collective work to protect our communities from our number one killer, a corporate industry
of federally adjudicated racketeers.31 This
paper provides us with added ammunition to
get that vital work done. It is long past time
for the FDA to get inoculated against whatever the hell is keeping it from getting these deadly products out of the marketplace.

Contributors As the sole author, VY, I made
substantial contributions to the conception and design
of the work. I drafted the work and revised it critically for important intellectual content. As the sole author, I provided final approval of the version published and
am accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring
that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

Funding The authors have not declared a specific
grant for this research from any funding agency in the
public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

Competing interests None declared.

Patient consent for publication Not applicable.

Provenance and peer review Commissioned;
internally peer reviewed.
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Jurisdiction Best
Practices
Score
Local Tobacco
Retail License
Required
Compliance Check
Frequency
End Flavored
Tobacco
Sales
End E‐
cigarete
Sales
Cigar Minimum Pack
Size
Minimum Price End Tobacco
Coupons
and
Discounting
Tobacco‐
Free
Pharmacies
Licensure Limits on Distance to Other
Uses
Other Retailer
Density Limit
Explicit Non‐
Criminalization of
Youth Around
Tobacco
Year ofMostRecentUpdate
Other notes or regulations Tobacco Retailer Licensing
Muni Code Reference
Unincorporated Contra
Costa County 7 Yes Not specified Yes Yes 10 little cigars, 10 cigars, 1 cigar if $5 or more
None No Yes 1000 ft from a school, library,
playground, or park, 500 ft from another
tobacco retailer
Cap of 90licenses issued
No 2019 Contra Costa Health Services is a grantee for the California Department of Justice's Tobacco Grant Program for FY 2022‐23 and was also a grantee in the FY 2018‐19 cycle. Contra CostaCounty Sheriff's Office was a a grantee for the California Department of Justice's Tobacco Grant Program FY 2020‐21 and 2017‐18.

CCCMC 88‐26, 445‐6, 445‐10
Lafayette 7 Yes At least once per retailer
per 12‐month period,with violatorsreinspected within a 3 month period at theirown cost
Yes No None None Yes Yes None Lesser of 11
licenses or 1license per2500 residents
Yes 2019 LMC 5‐9
Richmond 6 Yes Not specified Yes Yes 20 cigars or little cigars, except that single cigars costing atleast $5 may be sold
None No Yes No new retailers within 500 ft of an
existing tobacco retailer, or within 1,000
ft of a school, public playground, park, orlobrary
No No 2019 Limits on floor space dedicated to tobacco products in certain retailer types. Richmond Police Department was a grantee for the California Department of Justice's Tobacco Grant Program FY 2017‐

18. RMC 7.106, 7.107
Antioch 5 If retailer found in violation of
tobacco saleslaws
Not specified Yes Yes 20 little cigars or 6
cigars
$10 per pack ofcigarettes, littlecigars, or cigars
No No 1000 ft from youth areas No No 2022 Limits on floor space dedicated to tobacco products in certain use areas
AMC 6‐8, 9‐5.3843
San Pablo 4 Yes Not specified Yes No 25 cigarillos, 20 litle cigars, or 6 cigars $10 per cigar No No None No No 2018 No smoke shops ("any establishment that either devotes twenty percent or more of sales floor area or product display area to, or derives twenty percent or more of gross sales receipts from, the sale or exchange of tobacco or marijuana paraphernalia and/or tobacco or marijuana products") "shall be established within six hundred feet of any other smoke shop, or any school, licensed day care center, public park or playground, senior citizen facility, or licensed alcohol or drug treatment facility"; the San Pablo Police Department is a grantee for the California Department of Justice'sTobacco Grant Program FY 2022‐23 and was a grantee in FY 2019‐ 20 and 2017‐18 cycles as well.

SPMC 5.06, 17.62.180
Danville 3 Yes Not specified No. Flavored
e‐cigarettesales are not
allowed aspart of a
Yes None None No No Within 1,000 ft of a school, park,
playground, or library; within 500 ft of
another tobacco retailer
No No 2020 Hookah lounges, vapor lounges, significant tobacco retailing businesses prohibited. Danville Police Department was a grantee for the California Department of Justice's Tobacco Grant Program FY 2017‐18.

DMC 7‐6, 32‐95
El Cerrito 3 Yes "Reasonable efforts" to visit once during the first 12 months of licensureand periodicallythereafter
Mentholcigarettesales allowed,all otherflavored
No 5 cigars, 1 cigar if $5
or more
None No No Within 500 ft of a library; or of a public
or private kindergarten, elementary,middle, jr jigh, or high school; Wihtin 1,000 ft of an existing tobacco retailer
No No 2015 Significant tobacco retailers prohibited ECMC 6.100 Oakley 3 Yes Not specified No No None None No No No new retailers within 1,000 ft of a school, playground, park, library, or bus stop serving a school site, or within 500ft of another retailer No more than25 licensesmay be issued
Only for youthdecoysparticipating in
enforcementoperations
2018 Hookah lounges, vapor lounges, and significant tobacco retailers prohibited. Oakley Police Department was a grantee for the California Department of Justice's Tobacco Grant Program FY 2017‐

18. OMC 5.14, OMC 9.1.1234
Pinole 3 Yes Prior to issuance, otherwise not specified Menthol cigarette sales allowed,all other
No 5 cigars and little
cigars, except singlecigars costing at least
$5 may be sold
$10 per pack ofcigars or little cigars
No No None No No 2019 City of Pinole was a grantee for the California Department of Justice's Tobacco Grant Program FY 2021‐22 and FY 2020‐21 PMC 9.30
Moraga 2 No Not specified Yes Yes None None No No None No No 2022 Moraga Police Department was a grantee for the California Department of Justice's Tobacco Grant Program FY 2021‐22 MMC 7.24 Orinda 2 If retailer has been found in
violation oftobacco saleslaws
Not specified Yes Yes None None No No None No No 2022 Ordinance No. 22‐01, adopted 5/17/22 but not
yet codifiedhttps://library.municode.com/ca/orinda/ordinances/co Attachment 4

Pleasant Hill (adopted
2022; effective 1/1/23) 2 If retailer has been found in violation oftobacco saleslaws
Not specified Flavored
loose leaftobacco andcigarsallowed;flavoredtobacco salesmay begenerallyallowed in a Yes 20 little cigars or 10
cigars, except single
cigars costing at least
$7.50 may be sold
None No No None No No 2022 PMC 9.45
Clayton 1 Yes Not specified No No None None No No None No No Not clear; pre‐2016
CMC 8‐16
San Ramon 1 Yes Not specified No No None None No No None No No 2019 In Summer 2022, San Ramon Teen Council formed an ad hoc committee to consider additional tobacco‐related policies (see August 16, 2022 agenda). As of the November 15, 2022 meeting, it appears the Teen Council is still receiving information on possible updates.

SRMC B6‐77
Walnut Creek 1 If retailer has been found in
violation oftobacco saleslaws
Not specified Flavored
loose leaftobacco andcigarsallowed;flavoredtobacco salesmay begenerallyallowed in a Yes None None No No None No No 2022 WCMC 4‐15, 5‐4
Brentwood 0 No Not specified No No None None No No None No No N/A Moratorium on new smoke shops, last extended 10/25/22 10/25/22 minutes/agenda packet http://brentwoodca.iqm2.c
Hercules 0 No Not specified No No None None No No None No No N/A New smoke shops and tobacco stores (n.b. excludes "any grocery store, supermarket, convenience store or similar retail use that only sells conventional cigars, cigarettes or tobacco as an ancillary sale") must be 300 ft from schools, day care homes, child care facilities, youth centers, community centers, recreational facility, park, church, hospital, or other area where children regularly gather, or 500 ft from another smoke shop or tobacco store HMC Sec 5‐6
Martinez 0 If retailer found in violation of
tobacco saleslaws
Not specified No No None None No No None No No 2001 Martinez Police Department was a grantee for the California Department of Justice's Tobacco Grant Program FY 2021‐22 MMC 8.06
Pittsburg 0 If retailer has been found in
violation oftobacco saleslaws
Not specified No No None None No No None No No 1999 At the June 7, 2021 meeting of the Pittsburg City Council, that body unanimously adopted an item that included hiring a consultant to look at updates to the city's tobacco policies. Public updates since that consideration item were not found during a search of the recent council meeting packets. Pittsburg Police Department was a grantee for the California Department of Justice's Tobacco Grant Program FY 2021‐22 and 2017‐18 cycles.

PMC 5.68

From: Ali Wohlgemuth <[email protected]>
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Subject: Comment Attached - Agenda Item 5B - Tobacco Retail License Hello Mayor, Councilmembers, and Staff,
I'm Ali Wohlgemuth, a Director with Bay Area Community Resources, focused on health equity, particularly regarding youth. I hope to join you all at the meeting tomorrow, but given the weather, I am attaching my comment regarding Tobacco Retail License enforcement in advance.

Thanks for your time and commitment to protecting Concord's youth.

Best,

ALI WOHLGEMUTH
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Bay Area Community Resources
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Benched Correspondence
Agenda Item No. 5b
January 10, 2023

Hello Mayor and City Council Members,
I’m Ali Wohlgemuth, a director with Bay Area Community Resources (BACR) and a resident of Contra Costa County.

We all know what’s at stake here. We’ve heard personal stories, reviewed the data, and understand the facts. We know our behaviors are heavily influenced by how our environment is designed and that over 90% of adult smokers start before age 18. And we know the insidious tactics used by the tobacco industry to recruit young replacement smokers in the retail environment.

Cities and counties use tobacco retail licenses (TRLs) to help regulate the retail environment and reduce youth smoking and vaping. Currently, over 200 California cities and counties have passed TRLs.

As I understand it, the city is concerned about being able to enforce a TRL with current staffing levels. Given a similar challenge, the City of El Cajon has a model in place whereby the city contracts with a community-based organization that successfully conducts enforcement without requiring the staff time of police or code enforcement officers.

BACR has over twenty years of experience working throughout Contra Costa County, engaging retailers through our county-funded tobacco, alcohol, and other drug-related programs. This work has included conducing hundreds of store assessments, environmental scans, compliance surveys, retailer interviews, and partnering with the Richmond Police Department to conduct youth decoy operations. The data from these assessments and decoy operations is reported back to Contra Costa County Health and Human Services and used to follow up with retailers to help them come into compliance. As such, BACR has the expertise and is willing to partner with the City of Concord to enforce Concord’s TRL as needed. In addition to BACR, there are other Contra Costa-based nonprofits with similar experience working with alcohol, tobacco, and cannabis retailers that would also be competent to provide enforcement.

At the end of the day, it’s up to you, the council members, to decide whether the city will prioritize the interests of dozens of business people or protect the health of the over 26,000 children who call Concord home. With every passing month, more Concord youth become addicted to tobacco; the time to act is now.

Thank you,

From: Lynn Rodegard <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 12:11 PM
To: City Clerk <[email protected]>
Subject: Letter of support - #5b on the agenda,
Please see attached. This is in reference to #5b on tonight's Concord City Council's meeting agenda.

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John Muir Cancer Institute
Nurse Navigator
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Subject: Jan 10 Tobacco Control agenda item
Dear. Mayor Hoffmeister and Concord City Councilmembers, I’m am Dr. Wilson Tsai, Thoracic Surgeon and Medical Director for the Thoracic Program at John Muir Health. The bulk of my surgical practice is done right here at John Muir Health, Concord campus. I’m urging you to support stronger tobacco retail policies to protect the health of Concord residents, an important public health issue slated for discussion at the January 10th City Council meeting. Smoking kills more people than alcohol, AIDS, car crashes, illegal drugs, murders, and suicides combined. In California alone, 40,000 adults die each year from their own smoking, and there are 441,000 kids now under 18 in California who will ultimately die prematurely from smoking unless we do more about it.

As a Thoracic Surgeon, I’ve seen firsthand the effects of tobacco related disease in my patients. As a physician, I feel is it tragic that 20% of all cancers and 30% of all cancer deaths could be avoided. Those percentages don’t include all the other health consequences and deaths caused by tobacco use. As healthcare providers, we can only do so much to help our patients who smoke. This is a community problem that needs to community policy solution.

State law recently went into effect to end the sale of most flavored tobacco products, which was a great win for public health. That was an important tool to reduce access to youth, but there’s more we can and need to do in Concord. State law still allows flavored hookah tobacco to be sold, which is an increasingly popular product for youth. Unlike cigarettes which are required to be sold in packs of 20 and are highly taxed, cheap cigar products are still very popular among youth and are sold in singles and small packs for as little as $1.

That’s why I’m joining the American Cancer Society Cancer Action network in asking for the City Council to pass an ordinance to end the sale of all flavored tobacco products with no exemption for hookah, establish a minimum price and pack size for cigar products, and end the sale of all tobacco products in pharmacies. Pharmacies should be a place that Concord residents can trust for products that will improve their health, not make them sicker.

Thank you for your consideration.

Wilson S. Tsai, MD
Medical Director, Thoracic & Esophageal Program
John Muir Health

Tobacco Regulations
Justin Ezell
Assistant City Manager
January 10, 2023
1

Background
2 •Discussion referred to PDIO Committee on May 24, 2022 •Tobacco regulations discussed by PDIO Committee on
October 18, 2022
•SB 793 took effect on December 21, 2022, prohibiting the sale of most but not all flavored tobacco products

PDIO Committee Direction

1. Overview of the City’s special projects work program

2. Information on neighboring cities efforts to regulate tobacco

3. Discussion with the Chief of Police on the Police
Department’s ability to enforce tobacco regulations
3

Senate Bill 793
4 Prohibits the sale of flavored tobacco products with the following exceptions:
- Hookah/shisha tobacco
- Premium cigars sold for $12 or more
- Loose leaf pipe tobacco

Summary of Neighboring City Regulations
5 Requirement to obtain and display an annually-renewed tobacco retail license
- Concord established a Tobacco Retailer License program in 2006 - Licenses are issued concurrent with business licenses - Current fee is $238 annually
- Concord has 91 licensed tobacco retailers
- No proactive enforcement; complaint-based only

Summary of Neighboring City Regulations (cont.)
6 Suspension of tobacco retail license and/or fines to retailers who sell prohibited products or who make sales to persons under 21
- Concord Chapter 5.100 (Tobacco Retailers License Program) of the Concord Municipal Code specifies that licenses may be suspended or revoked for violations of the ordinance and/or any state or federal tobacco-related laws.

Summary of Neighboring City Regulations (cont.)
7 Routine enforcement to ensure compliance with product restrictions and laws against sales to persons under 21 - Concord does not perform routine compliance checks to ensure conformance with laws; enforcement is conducted on a complaint basis.

Summary of Neighboring City Regulations (cont.)
8 Prohibition on the sale of some or all flavored tobacco - Concord does not prohibit the sale of flavored tobacco. Enforcement of the new state law banning flavored tobacco will occur on a complaint basis.

Summary of Neighboring City Regulations (cont.)
9 Prohibition on the sale of electronic cigarettes
- Concord does not prohibit the sale of electronic cigarettes.

Summary of Neighboring City Regulations (cont.)
10 Minimum sale price for combustible tobacco products
- Concord does not impose minimum sale prices on tobacco products.

Summary of Neighboring City Regulations (cont.)
11 Prohibition on redemption of coupons for combustible tobacco products
- Concord does not prohibit the redemption of coupons for combustible tobacco products.

Summary of Neighboring City Regulations (cont.)
12 Minimum pack size for combustible tobacco products
- Concord does not impose minimum pack sizes for combustible tobacco products.

Summary of Neighboring City Regulations (cont.)
13 Prohibition on issuance of tobacco retail licenses to statelicensed pharmacies - Concord does not prohibit pharmacies from selling tobacco (these provisions would need to be incorporated in the Development Code).

Summary of Neighboring City Regulations (cont.)
14 Limitation on number of tobacco retail licenses issued - Concord does not limit the number of tobacco retail licenses issued (these provision may need to be incorporated in the Development Code).

Summary of Neighboring City Regulations (cont.)
15 Prohibition on issuance of new licenses within buffer zones around sensitive areas
- Section 5.100.050 (Limits on Tobacco Retailer Licenses) of the Concord Municipal Code specifies that licenses may only be issued to retailers at a fixed location. Concord has no other prohibitions related to buffers zones around sensitive areas (these provisions would need to be incorporated in the Development Code).

16 Discussion with
Chief Mark Bustillos

Summary
17 - Concord has existing tobacco regulations, including a TRL program, but does not proactively enforce the regulations - SB 793 prohibits the sale of flavored tobacco products; enforcement will occur on a complaint basis
-Development of new policies or enforcement programs
may require reprioritization of the work program
-Depending on the level of policy development, a
consultant may be needed at an estimated cost of $20,000

Possible Council Actions
18 A. Direct staff to begin developing additional tobacco regulations and/or enforcement programs (reprioritize
work program depending on the direction)
B. Postpone any direction on tobacco regulation until the next priority setting workshop (to occur in March 2023) C. Take no further action on the regulation of tobacco
within the City of Concord

Council Questions and
Public Comment
19 Discussion on Tobacco Regulations

Staff Report
Date: January 10, 2023
To: City Council
From: Valerie J. Barone, City Manager
Prepared by: Joelle Fockler, MMC, City Clerk
[email protected]
(925) 671-3390
Subject: Considering selection of applicants to interview for the Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group and directing staff on how to address having only one applicant for both the Mental Health Professional and the Substance Abuse Professional appointments.

Report in Brief
The City Council is being requested to establish a list of candidates to interview for seven seats on the Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group. Interviews will be conducted and interview questions determined at the January 24, 2023, City Council meeting.

Recommended Action
Select applicants to interview for seven seats on the Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group and provide direction to staff on how to address having only one applicant for both the mental Health Professional and Substance Abuse Professional appointments.

Background
The Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group was created by the City Council on December 13, 2022, with the adoption of Resolution No. 22-77.

The Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group is a Council appointed special-purpose Working Group to advise staff, the consultant team, and the Council on the development of the Homeless Strategic Plan. The Homeless Strategic Plan (Plan) is intended to guide future City efforts and investments related to responding to the impacts from and the needs of Concord’s unsheltered population, using data and factbased information.

5.c

City Council Agenda Report
Agenda Item No. 5.c
January 10, 2023
In very broad strokes, the Plan will be developed under Council’s direction and will incorporate:
 Strong community engagement/involvement including residents, businesses, individuals with lived experience, service providers, faith-based groups, etc.  A working Group, appointed by the Council, to work directly with staff and the consulting team to guide the development of the Plan.
 A comprehensive background report which, at minimum, describes:
o Current system and community services, where the services reside, and associated strategies, challenges, and costs.
o Unmet needs, system gaps, and system performance.
o Overview of federal, state, and regional/county data, roles, funding, and strategies.
 The development of a vision, goals, and objectives with measurable performance targets.
 Development of an implementation plan for the defined objectives, including prioritized recommendations or investment of the money Council has set aside to invest in responding to the impacts from and needs of Concord’s unsheltered population.

The Working Group is comprised of nine (9) members: two (2) Concord City Councilmembers, one (1) representative with lived experience of being homeless, one (1) representative from a nonprofit homeless services provider, one (1) substance abuse professional, one (1) mental health professional, one (1) Concord resident and property owner, one (1) representative that is a Concord representative and is either from Concord’s business community or an owner of commercial property in Concord, and one (1) representative that is a veteran homeless services provider. For the lived experience, nonprofit homeless services provider, and substance abuse and mental health profession positions, preference shall be given to applicants that are either from or based in Concord.

The Working Group will meet in person once per month, at minimum, for approximately nine to twelve months, and meetings are anticipated to last from 1-3 hours, depending on the agenda. Meetings will be subject to the Brown Act, noticed in advance, and open to the public with opportunities for public comment. Members are expected to attend all meetings, read all materials, and be prepared to listen and engage on the topics discussed.

On December 13, 2022, the Council announced a recruitment for the Working Group, and the application period closed on Tuesday, January 3, 2023. Twenty (20) applications were received: ten (10) for Concord Resident and Property Owner position;

City Council Agenda Report
Agenda Item No. 5.c
January 10, 2023
four (4) for Nonprofit Homeless Service Provider; five (5) for Lived Experience representative; four (4) for Business Community representative; one (1) for Mental Health Professional; two (2) for Veteran Homeless Services Provider, and one (1) for Substance Abuse Professional.

Analysis
Two categories, Mental Health Professional and Substance Abuse Professional, received one application each. As the expectation was that there would be more than one applicant for each type of position, the Council may want to consider some options for these two positions. The options are presented below without a staff recommendation and without any priority to their order:

1. reopen the recruitment for the two positions (Mental Health Professional & Substance Abuse Professional) so the Council has more than one applicant to interview for each slot;

2. Interview the applicants for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Professionals then either appoint or recruit for more applications; or

3. Choose to appoint the single applicants for each position (Menatl Health Professional & Substance Abuse Professional) based on the submitted applications, without interviewing.

If the Council chooses to open a recruitment for the two positions, interviews for these two positions could be held separately from the interviews for the other five positions.

Holding separate interviews could delay the Working Group start.

The Council is being requested to select two applicants to interview for each position in the working group in the following categories:
 Concord Resident and Property Owner
 Nonprofit Homeless Service Provider
 Lived Experience of Being Homeless
 Concord Resident and Either from Concord’s Business Community or an Owner of Commercial Property in Concord
 Veteran Homeless Services Provider
Applications received for each category (Summary List attached as Attachment 1) Concord Resident and Property Owner
John Tague
Andrea (Andie) Altman*
Kent Davis*

City Council Agenda Report
Agenda Item No. 5.c
January 10, 2023
Timothy Shindelus
Lance Goree
Desiree Mcdonagh
Harmesh Kumar*
Wayne Calhoon
John Eckstrom*
Linda Jacob*
Nonprofit Homeless Services Provider
Kelly Mckinley
Andrea (Andie) Altman*
Bob Pickett
John Eckstrom*
Lived Experience Representative
Stacy Ahlwardt
Kent Davis*
Melanie Taylor
Dawn Koch
Brandi Martinez
Business Community Representative
Eric Rehn
Don Freas
Mark Unterbach
John Eckstrom*
Mental Health Professional
Harmesh Kumar*
Veterans Homeless Services Provider
Leonard Ramirez
John Eckstrom*

City Council Agenda Report
Agenda Item No. 5.c
January 10, 2023
Substance Abuse Professional
Linda Jacob*
*Applications submitted for more than one position
At the January 24, 2023, City Council meeting, the Council will 1) determine the interview questions; 2) interview the applicants; 3) select and vote on the applicants; 4) select two Councilmembers to serve on the Working Group; and 5) ratify the vote and appoint Working Group members by resolution.

Financial Impact
There is no financial impact.

Public Contact
The City Council Agenda was posted and applicants were notified.

Attachments

1. Roster of Applicants

2. Applications

Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Application Summary # Full Name Date Received
Concord
Resident and
Property Owner
NonProfit
Homeless
Servides
Provider
Lived Experience
Representative
Business
Community
Representative
Mental Health
Professional
Veteran
Homeless
Services
Provider
Substance
Abuse
Professional
1 John Tague 12/27/22 x
2 Kelly Mckinley 12/27/22 x
3 Andrea (andie) Altman 12/27/22 x x
4 Stacy Ahlwardt 12/22/22 x
5 Eric Rehn 12/20/22 x
6 Kent Davis 12/20/22 x x
7 Timothy Shindelus 12/20/22 x
8 Lance Goree 12/20/22 x
9 Desiree Mcdonagh 12/19/22 x
10 Harmesh Kumar 12/18/22 x x
11 Wayne Calhoon 12/18/22 x
12 Melanie Taylor 12/17/22 x
13 Dawn Koch 12/17/22 x
14 Don Freas 12/16/22 x
15 Bob Pickett 12/15/22 x
16 Brandi Martinez 12/15/22 x
17 Leonard Ramirez 12/15/22 x
18 Mark Unterbach 12/15/22 x
19 John Eckstrom 12/15/22 x x x x
20 Linda Jacob 01/01/23 x x
Applications Received
by Position Type
#
Concord Resident and Property Owner 10
Nonprofit Homeless Services Provider 4
Lived Experience Representative 5
Business Community Representative 4
Mental Health Professional 1
Veteran Homeless Services Provider 2
Substance Abuse Professional 1
Attachment 1

Submit Date: Dec 27, 2022
First Name Last Name
Email Address
Street Address Suite or Apt
City State Postal Code
Primary Phone Alternate Phone
Employer Job Title Occupation
City of Concord
Profile

HOME ADDRESS
Number of years at above address:

1.5 Number of years in Concord:

1.5 Number of years in the county:

1.5 Number of years at employer:

Employer Address
Which Boards would you like to apply for?
Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group: Submitted
Andrea (andie) Altman
Andrea Altman Fully Retired Retired
Andrea (andie) Altman Page 1 of 4
Attachment 2

Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Are you available for daytime meetings?
Yes No
Question applies to multiple boards
Are you available for evening meetings?
Yes No
Would you like to be contacted about future Board, Committee, or Commission recruitments?
Yes No
Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Please identify the type of position you are applying for * Nonprofit Homeless Services Provider
Concord Resident and Property Owner
Interests and Experience
Why would you like to participate in the Concord Community Academy? I would like to participate in the Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group for many reasons but first and foremost I am passionate about working to solve homelessness. The Homeless Strategic Plan and its implementation will touch and impact human lives across the board from the currently unhoused as well as folks living in neighborhoods that may need to accept some change and possibly more housing. I believe I can help in identifying the multitude of issues, opportunities and solutions that exist for the purpose of assisting in the preparation of a strategic plan. Besides helping to operate a local nonprofit focused on homelessness, I am also a Concord homeowner who sees and interacts daily with our unhoused. I would like to be part of the process to develop a plan that could be discussed and ultimately accepted and implemented for concord residents and our homeless.

How did you hear about the Concord Community Academy?
Word of mouth
Other
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Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Do you or have you participated in any supply and/or food distribution to the community of unsheltered residents? If so, please explain your experience.

Upon moving to Concord I met unhoused neighbors living in a city park and began to regularly bring them food, clothing, and other supplies. Last spring, I met a woman (Kelly McKinley) who feeds and works with the homeless daily, and have been working with her daily. We founded a Nonprofit and our grass roots organization provides food and several services daily to 50-60 unhoused people in Concord. I not only participate in cooking and hosting the organized dinners of hot meals, sandwiches and snacks 3 nights a week, but I also coordinate the weekly showers for the unhoused, manage the weekly balances on laundry cards, and assist in acquiring supplies needed like tents, bedding, propane, hygiene products, transportation assistance to appointments. Our nonprofit does business under the legal name of GROW and behind the scenes I am responsible for the operations of the corporation.

Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Describe your most recent interaction with someone who you believe is unsheltered.

I had the pleasure last night of meeting two of my unsheltered friends trying to escape the incoming rain at a fast-food restaurant on Clayton Road. While enjoying our late-night snacks we chatted for over an hour about the storm, the way these 2 gentlemen handle weather changes versus the way I do, how they celebrated the holiday weekend and what we each would like to see for ourselves in 5 years. I speak to these 2 characters almost daily and we understand and trust each other, as far as the dialog about our dreams at least. I am learning that while each person has a somewhat different dream, they each have thought of some possible ways to get there. When I asked them this question back in June these two men each said he was on the street forever and would not engage in further discussion. Many neighbors have come into their lives since then and this has changed perspectives, mostly of themselves and some hope and believe that change for them is ok. Later I drove them to the trail of their camp sending them off with hugs and hoping for the best through the horribly windy, wet and stormy night.

Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Describe your experience using homeless response programs such as CORE, the Police Department, and non-profit providers.

The few experiences that I have had so far with the Police Department were professional and informative.

I was able to get names and numbers of resources and information on what to do in specific situations. I am building relationships with nonprofits that provide varying services; from detox beds to SLE's to assisted living facilities. Working with other nonprofits allows me to focus on our core objectives and know where to reach out for other needs. My limited experiences with CORE are mixed, disappointed at the times I was not able to get information or a reference for what I needed regarding an unhoused friend and disappointed that they have made appointments to transport folks and have not shown up. I was happy this past summer that my call was answered by CORE staff and not the answering service, so I was able to learn quickly that they could not help with a request for information.

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Education and Training
High School
Cheltenham HS, Wyncote, PA
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College
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Technicial/Vocational Training
Certification or Other
CCAM (CA Community Association Manager)
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ANDREA ALTMAN
Fully retired, I volunteer my time and energy to my community where it is most needed. My focus is exclusively on working with the unsheltered and I seek participation in programs and groups that effectively analyze and plan to solve the local unhoused population long term.

EXPERIENCE
2022-PRESNT

SECRETARY-TREASURER, COMMUNITY NETWORK CAPITAL- DBA GROW Business management of Concord-based Nonprofit dedicated to providing the local unhoused population with necessities while focusing long-term on rehabilitation and recovery. Responsibilities include all nonprofit business operations, partnership building with vital professionals and businesses, and daily support of our unhoused population. 2004 – PRESENT

FULL TIME VOLUNTEER/ BUSINESS CONSULTANT, VARIOUS
Kenwood Education Foundation President; Kiwanis Club of Oakmont President, Homeowners Association Board of Directors; Oakmont Community Foundation Board of Directors; California Parenting Institute Board of Directors, Business Relationship and Systems Consultant for Streetwise Reports, Crown Laboratories
2001-2014
FOUNDER, ANDREALA INC., Kenwood, CA
Business Relationship and Systems Consultant for Streetwise Reports, Logistics consultant Crown Laboratories of Las Vegas, Consulting for community Nonprofit development 1979 – 2000

VP, SYSTEMS AND DATABASES, MCKESSON DRUG COMPANY, SAN FRANCISCO Interface between business partners and tech; developed systems and business processes to improve and economize the delivery of medicines and healthcare products to pharmacies and hospitals.

EDUCATION
1979

BS, BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, LEHIGH UNIVERSITY – BETHLEHEM, PA
Graduated with Honors as Student-Athlete; Senior Management Case Study Published; Varsity Captain Field Hockey, Basketball and Tennis

2 SKILLS
• Collaborative
• Strong communicator
• Excellent listener and analytical person
• Goal focused
• Strong work ethic

ACTIVITIES
I enjoy giving back to my community and have become active everywhere I have lived; being fortunate to coach students in STEM programs; fundraise for vital programs for education, seniors, veterans; determine the educational and recreational needs of senior communities then design programs to meet those needs.

Since moving to Concord I have been active daily in getting to know my many unhoused neighbors while helping to organize efforts to provide food, clothes, supplies, showers, laundry, detox and rehab, and ultimately housing.

Submit Date: Dec 15, 2022
First Name Last Name
Email Address
Street Address Suite or Apt
City State Postal Code
Primary Phone Alternate Phone
Employer Job Title Occupation
City of Concord
Profile

HOME ADDRESS
Number of years at above address:
630 Francisco Court
Number of years in Concord:
5 Number of years in the county:

CA
Number of years at employer:

Employer Address
Which Boards would you like to apply for?
Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group: Submitted
Bob Pickett
Retired N/A Retired
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Are you available for evening meetings?
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Would you like to be contacted about future Board, Committee, or Commission recruitments?
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Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Please identify the type of position you are applying for * Nonprofit Homeless Services Provider
Interests and Experience
Why would you like to participate in the Concord Community Academy? RE: Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group (Not Concord Community Academy) Our organization has been providing a ministry to the homeless community in Concord and surrounding cities for over 12 years.

I believe that my experience with Hope680 has a lot to contribute and with cooperation among organizations, we can create the most effective approach to homelessness.

How did you hear about the Concord Community Academy?
Word of mouth
Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Do you or have you participated in any supply and/or food distribution to the community of unsheltered residents? If so, please explain your experience.

I have been participating in monthly outreaches to members of the homeless community for over 10 years. In total, I have engaged groups of homeless people, in their camps, on approximately 150 occasions. A typical day's outreach would include 2 to 4 camps and approximately 20 to 40 individuals.

We have provided homemade lunches, some clothing, tents, sleeping bags and toiletry items along with sharing our ministry message.

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Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Describe your most recent interaction with someone who you believe is unsheltered.

Saturday, December 7, 2022. I and five other volunteers visited two camps in Concord and encountered about seven people. Due to the heavy rain, we saw fewer people than we normally do. All of those that we met were exceptionally happy to see that we braved the storm to bring them hot coffee and lunches.

We were able to provide one gentleman (Curtis) with a nice, waterproof coat. In addition to lunches, we provided "blessing bags" and, as always, faith-based counseling. Two people expressed interest in seeking help from the Bay Area Rescue Mission. You can find more details of out outreaches on our website, www.Hope680.org.

Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Describe your experience using homeless response programs such as CORE, the Police Department, and non-profit providers.

We are familiar with Core and sometimes cross paths with them during our time in the field. We often refer people to Core to help with medical and housing needs. We also have a close relationship with the Bay Area Rescue Mission in Richmond which has developed a full-service program of counseling, shelter, job training and job placement. We hand out information on BARM and encourage people to look into it. I have had occasions to interact with the Trinity Center in Walnut Creek.

Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Do you have family members or close friends who are or have been unsheltered? Yes No
Education and Training
High School
Acalanes High School, Lafayette
College
U.C. Davis, BS in Engineering U.C. Berkeley, MBA
Technicial/Vocational Training
N/A
Certification or Other
N/A
TERMS OF ACCEPTANCE and SIGNATURE
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Re: City of Concord Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group I have been participating in a homeless outreach in Concord and surrounding cities for over eleven years. Our founding members started the ministry twelve years ago. We are supported by and put ourselves under the oversight of North Creek Church in Walnut Creek - our “sending church”.

Our outreach activities include visiting homeless campsites, sharing homemade lunches, personal items and necessities. We use these opportunities to provide faith-based counselling and to connect them with existing service providers including CORE, county rehab facilities and the Bay Area Rescue Mission. Over the last eleven years, I have participated in about 150 outreaches, I’ve visited an estimated 50 different homeless campsites and engaged with hundreds of individuals.

Our organization started with monthly outreaches conducted by a handful of individuals and has evolved into two outreaches each month with approximately 20 volunteers serving each at outreach. Another half dozen people help with preparation of lunches for us to hand out and many other volunteers assemble “Blessing Bags” which contain toiletries, socks, snack bars and juice boxes. We include serving hot coffee, which is very popular.

The items we distribute serve as great conversation starters. Over the years we have encountered many of the same people and have developed relationships that lead to trust and open conversation.

Contributors provide sleeping bags and warm coats for us to hand out in the winter time. Year around we provide socks and t-shirts. We have a total of about 90 volunteers, many of whom are Concord residents.

Hope680 incorporated in 2020 and received its tax-exempt status in 2021.

Just recently we signed a three-year lease for an office space in Concord.

We have been organizing our volunteers into four teams with two or three of those teams spending their day in Concord. We also serve in Martinez, Pleasant Hill and Walnut Creek.

You can learn more about Hope680 at our website:
www.hope680.org
Personal Information:
 I have lived in Contra Costa County my entire life (73 years)  I grew up in Lafayette and have lived in Concord or Walnut Creek for 50 years.
 I have served on the Walnut Creek Planning Commission for 20 years and have two years remaining on my current term. As a member of the Planning Commission, I have served on many other communityoriented committees.  I am on the Board of Hope680.
 My career was spent entirely developing and building single family homes throughout Central Contra Costa County.
 Education:
o Acalanes High School, Lafayette
o U.C. Davis, BS in Engineering
o U.C. Berkeley, MBA
Contact Information:

Email:

Phone/Text:

Submit Date: Dec 15, 2022
First Name Last Name
Email Address
Street Address Suite or Apt
City State Postal Code
Primary Phone Alternate Phone
Employer Job Title Occupation
City of Concord
Profile

HOME ADDRESS
Number of years at above address:
2 months
Number of years in Concord:
20 Number of years in the county:
25 Number of years at employer:

Employer Address
Which Boards would you like to apply for?
Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group: Submitted
Brandi Martinez
The Bay Church
Compassion Ministry
Administrative Assistant Compassion
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Are you available for evening meetings?
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Interests and Experience
Why would you like to participate in the Concord Community Academy? I want to make a difference in the lives of other people. I want to help people just like I was helped.

How did you hear about the Concord Community Academy?
Word of mouth
Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Do you or have you participated in any supply and/or food distribution to the community of unsheltered residents? If so, please explain your experience.

I have both received food from distributions and am actively involved in our food distribution at the church.

Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Describe your most recent interaction with someone who you believe is unsheltered.

I have daily interactions with unsheltered people. I work in the compassion ministry catering to our unsheltered guests and I work at a drug rehabilitation program where women are coming off of the streets. I was unsheltered myself not so long ago.

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We work side by side with CORE and Martinez PD t some of our shower sites. We have collaborations with most of the non-profits in the area as well as other churches.

Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Do you have family members or close friends who are or have been unsheltered? Yes No
Education and Training
High School
Ygnacio Valley High School
College
Diablo Valley College
Technicial/Vocational Training
Carrington College
Certification or Other
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BRANDI MARTINEZ

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Summary
Motivated Addiction Studies student seeking a position in a drug rehabilitation center to gain hands-on experience.

Outgoing and friendly with strong drive to succeed.

Experience
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT | 11/2021 - Current
The Bay Church - Concord, CA
 Provide case management assisting individuals with finding community resources such as housing, medical, mental health services, legal, employment and sobriety support networks.  Prepare and prioritize calendars and correspondence.
 Inventory and order supplies for Compassion Ministry.  Attend monthly council meetings to stay updated on current policies, programs, and community resources.  Collaborate with staff to ensure smooth delivery of services, as well as collaborate with community partners to coordinate joint events.
 Attend weekly staff meetings and trainings as needed.

SHIFT LEAD MANAGER | 10/2020 - 08/2022
Kinder's Custom Meats - Pleasant Hill, CA
 Reinforced rules to promote superior employee performance.  Upheld company standards and compliance requirements for operations.  Directed and led employees and team members on effective operations, methods, and procedures.

IN-HOME CAREGIVER | 06/2016 - 11/2019
Home Care, Robert and Patricia Fraga - Pacheco, CA
 Maintained clean and well-organized environment for client happiness and safety.  Supervised medication administration, personal hygiene and other activities of daily living.  Prepared high-quality nutritious meals for patients to promote better overall health and improve eating habits.

Volunteer Work
SITE LEADER - Clean Start Shower Program | 08/2021 - Current The Bay Church - Concord, CA
 Maintain an alcohol and drug free environment.
 Register new clients and assist with intake paperwork.  Regularly monitor clients’ safety due to prevalence of high fentanyl usage in the area.

VOLUNTEER - Food Distribution Ministry | 06/21 - Current The Bay Church - Concord, CA
 Assist with weekly food distribution to low-income members of the community.  Provide a non-judgmental, supportive environment to ensure community members feel welcomed and safe to return for additional services.

Education and Training
Diablo Valley College - Pleasant Hill, CA | Associate of Science Addiction Studies, Expected in 12/2023
Western Career College - Pleasant Hill, CA | Associate of Science Medical Assisting, 11/2001
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Submit Date: Dec 17, 2022
First Name Last Name
Email Address
Street Address Suite or Apt
City State Postal Code
Primary Phone Alternate Phone
Employer Job Title Occupation
City of Concord
Profile

HOME ADDRESS
Number of years at above address:
0 Number of years in Concord:
3 Number of years in the county:
3 Number of years at employer:

Employer Address
Which Boards would you like to apply for?
Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group: Submitted
Dawn Koch
Student Student Student
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Are you available for evening meetings?
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Yes No
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Interests and Experience
Why would you like to participate in the Concord Community Academy? Yes
How did you hear about the Concord Community Academy?
Facebook
Other Social Media
Word of mouth
Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Do you or have you participated in any supply and/or food distribution to the community of unsheltered residents? If so, please explain your experience.

No
Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Describe your most recent interaction with someone who you believe is unsheltered.

I just got my housing 2months ago
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Not very pleasant interactions
Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Do you have family members or close friends who are or have been unsheltered? Yes No
Education and Training
High School
Howell High School Farmingdale, NJ
College
City college of San Francisco
Technicial/Vocational Training
Certification or Other
Cpr
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Submit Date: Dec 19, 2022
First Name Last Name
Email Address
Street Address Suite or Apt
City State Postal Code
Primary Phone Alternate Phone
Employer Job Title Occupation
City of Concord
Profile

HOME ADDRESS
Number of years at above address:
17 Number of years in Concord:
25 Number of years in the county:
30 Number of years at employer:

Employer Address
Which Boards would you like to apply for?
Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group: Submitted
Desiree Mcdonagh
Full Circle of Choices SLS attendant
Social Servicesdevelopmental disabilities
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Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Please identify the type of position you are applying for * Concord Resident and Property Owner
Interests and Experience
Why would you like to participate in the Concord Community Academy? In fall of 2023 I begin my Master’s in Social Work and would like to gain experience involved in strategic plans to address outreach to the unhoused who struggle with mental illness.

How did you hear about the Concord Community Academy?
Other
Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Do you or have you participated in any supply and/or food distribution to the community of unsheltered residents? If so, please explain your experience.

None
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Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Describe your most recent interaction with someone who you believe is unsheltered.

Outside my townhouse complex which is gated a woman slept on the grass a few feet from one of our units. This young woman had a sleeping bag and a few food items. I saw her nearly every day as I left the complex for work. I also use the Concord library and have witnessed a few disputes over bathroom use with individuals who seem unhoused because they are carrying multiple bags and seem impaired by addiction.

Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Describe your experience using homeless response programs such as CORE, the Police Department, and non-profit providers.

No experience, but I have seen outreach working in todos santos park in Concord.

Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Do you have family members or close friends who are or have been unsheltered? Yes No
Education and Training
High School
Mount Diablo High school
College
CSU East Bay- Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology May 2023
Technicial/Vocational Training
Certification or Other
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Desiree McDonagh
Contact information
EDUCATION — Full Circle of
Choices :

California State University
East Bay, Hayward Ca
Graduation May 2023
with
Bachelor’s Degree in
Psychology
2016-Present
Job Description- Supported living and independent attendant.

I currently work with adults with developmental
disabilities and mental health diagnosis. I provide
supervision and help clients live independently by
assisting with cooking, cleaning, hygiene prompts,
transportation to events, dispense medication, and
supervision to ensure our clients can continue to live
safely and successfully. The clients I work with are on the Autism Spectrum and mild developmental
disabilities.

KEY SKILLS —
Family Support
Services of the
East Bay:

One-on-one direct care with
adults and children with
Developmental DisabilitiesSupported Living Skills
Independent Living skills
Respite
2016 (6 months)
I provided respite services to a child on the Autism
Spectrum twice a week for 3 hours. I provided social
skills and played games of his choice during our
session. I also provided weekly respite to young woman
who was blind with developmental disabilities to musical events of her choice.

Mt. Diablo Unified
School District:
2013-2016
I worked in several
cafeteria’s where I served
lunch to K-12 students.

REFERENCES
Full Circle of Choices- SupervisorSue Carty
Mt. Diablo Unified School District co-workerShawna Armstrong CSU East Bay ClassmateJulie Thai

Submit Date: Dec 16, 2022
First Name Last Name
Email Address
Street Address Suite or Apt
City State Postal Code
Primary Phone Alternate Phone
Employer Job Title Occupation
City of Concord
Profile

HOME ADDRESS
Number of years at above address:
44 Number of years in Concord:
30 years at our commercial propery
Number of years in the county:
60 Number of years at employer:

Employer Address
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Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group: Submitted
Don Freas
Freas Plastering Company, Inc. CEO / Owner Plastering Contractor Don Freas Page 1 of 3

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Interests and Experience
Why would you like to participate in the Concord Community Academy? Have a passion to help the unhoused.

How did you hear about the Concord Community Academy?
Other
Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Do you or have you participated in any supply and/or food distribution to the community of unsheltered residents? If so, please explain your experience.

Since October of 2019 I have been participating as a volunteer serving the Martinez unsheltered through the Bay Church (Shower Trailer) and the Homeless Action Coalition @ Camp Hope.

Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Describe your most recent interaction with someone who you believe is unsheltered.

Every Friday for the last 3 years in Martinez I interact with 25 - 35 unshelterd people. Every Sunday I bring breakfast to the Martinez Marina for the unhoused.

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I have been working along side all the programs that you have listed in the city of Martinez for the last 3 years
Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Do you have family members or close friends who are or have been unsheltered? Yes No
Education and Training
High School
College Park High School
College
N/A
Technicial/Vocational Training
4 Year San Francisco Apprenticeship program
Certification or Other
Volunteer Chaplain at the Martinez Detention Facility
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Submit Date: Dec 20, 2022
First Name Last Name
Email Address
Street Address Suite or Apt
City State Postal Code
Primary Phone Alternate Phone
Employer Job Title Occupation
City of Concord
Profile

HOME ADDRESS
Number of years at above address:
7 Number of years in Concord:
7 Number of years in the county:
20 Number of years at employer:

Employer Address
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Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group: Submitted
Eric Rehn
Kennedy Wilson Brokerage
Group Vice President
Commercial Real Estate
Broker
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Interests and Experience
Why would you like to participate in the Concord Community Academy? To help stop this crisis and get people the help they need.

How did you hear about the Concord Community Academy?
Other
Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Do you or have you participated in any supply and/or food distribution to the community of unsheltered residents? If so, please explain your experience.

Through Rotary. We support multiple organizations in the area for food & other services.

Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Describe your most recent interaction with someone who you believe is unsheltered.

Through commercial property activities at several locations we have to interact with people exhibiting mental illness. Unfortunately, the Police are the main resources for us.

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Only experience is handing them off to the police department.

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Education and Training
High School
Tracy Joint Union High School
College
California State University Fresno - BS degree
Technicial/Vocational Training
CCIM designation
Certification or Other
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Eric Rehn, CCIM

VICE PRESIDENT

KENNEDY WILSON BROKERAGE

PROFILE
Since moving to Northern California in 2003, Eric has worked on over 400 commercial real estate transactions, representing landlords, tenants, sellers, buyers and investors in Contra Costa, Napa and Solano counties. He specializes in industrial property types. Current projects include multiple industrial buildings, land and office properties, as well as investment offerings and cannabis-related real estate markets.

Eric continued his commercial real estate education by achieving the coveted CCIM designation for investment expertise and has attended various workshops on related industry issues. This training allows him to provide detailed analysis of commercial property valuations. He has been involved with the CCIM organization since 2012, serving as the Northern California chapter president in 2017 and as treasurer for two terms.

His past membership on the East Bay Leadership Council’s Land Use and Environmental & Manufacturing task forces kept him at the forefront of current political issues affecting commercial property in the market. He also served as a consultant to the Northern Waterfront Economic Development Initiative for Contra Costa County. Currently he serves in the Contra Costa County Taxpayers Association to promote “Good Government at Affordable Cost”.

CAREER HISTORY
For 20 years prior to receiving his real estate license, Eric worked in the medical device market as a surgical sales representative for 13 years and as a product marketing/development manager for six years after that. During his tenure in the medical field, he received numerous awards for sales and marketing performance and was responsible for the worldwide launch of hundreds of products in the minimally invasive surgical market.

His understanding of client concerns is based on personal investing experiences as well as handling the real estate for the family distribution/warehouse business.

This insight gives him a distinct advantage over the typical commercial broker’s focus on commissions rather than achieving the client’s goals.

SELECT CLIENTS
Advanced Elements
Alliance Support Partners
AREVA
Braddock & Logan
Century Window Cleaning
Concord Life Sciences Cntr
Current Electric
D & D Security
Eagle Bay Enterprises Inc.

East Bay Screenprint
Edward Pike Company
Envent Corporation
Fastenal
Glaser & Associates
Global Trading Company
Guilkey Construction
Helix Electric
Hertz Equipment Rentals
In Motion Dance Center
Irish Construction
John Deere Landscapes
JV Lucas Paving
Klamath Boats
Markstein Sales Company
Milgard Windows
New Key Construction
Onsite Health
PMI
Pro-Line Industrial Supply
RREEF
Speedy Glass
Wood Group, Inc.

CONTACT
www.kennedywilson.com

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science,
Business Administration
California State University, Fresno
CalBRE #01368267

AFFILIATIONS
CCIM, Northern California Chapter
Board of Directors 2012-2019
President 2017
Treasurer 2014-2015
Rotary International
East Bay Leadership Council
CERT - City of Clayton Emergency
Response Team
Contra Costa Taxpayers Association
Board Member

ACHIEVEMENTS
PADI Open Water Certified Diver

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HARMESH KUMAR, Ph.D.

Licensed Psychologist (PSY 16738)
Private Clinical Practice: Concord and Fremont, California, USA: 39 Years’ experience in Assessment and Treatment for psychological, neuropsychological problems including screening for dementia(s); competence evaluations; personal injury evaluations and treatments along with individual and family therapy in cultural and linguistic context. He has been in a private Clinical private practiceproviding individual, couple, family, group therapy, mental health consultation and psychological, neuropsychological and forensic evaluations and treatment and suicide prevention workshops. Providing behavioral consulting services to group homes serving the regional centers consumers with developmental disabilities and with behavioral challenges. Also providing training to staff on how to deal effectively with challenging behaviors of these consumers. (www.therapeutichomes.com)
Currently Working as a private contractor (Licensed Psychologist) with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation since March 2019 at California Health Care Facility Stockton and also worked last year at Medical Facility in Acute Psychiatric Program (PIP), Vacaville, CA.

Founder and President: Therapeutic Residential Care Services Inc. – September 7, 2004 - a agency specializing in providing residential and therapeutic services to people with mental, physical, developmental and seniors and new immigrants.

Founder and President: South Asian Behavioral Health and Training Foundation, Inc. – Founded in 2009 - A non-profit agency, to educate, create awareness and provide mental health and residential care services to South Asians in their cultural and linguistic context. (www.sabhfoundation.com)
Past Position: President/CEO and Founder – June 1993 – August 31, 2004 - d Neuro-behavioral and Psychological Institute (NPI) later renamed to Portia Bell Hume Behavioral Health and Training Center (State of California Licensed Non-Profit Mental Health Agency), Concord, CA. (It was founded in June 1993 with another clinical psychologist and the Center has grown from Two persons Clinic to Fifty plus persons Community Mental Health Center with three locations i.e. Concord, Fremont and Pittsburg). The mission of the agency was to serve the underserved communities and provide the highest quality of services training and supervision to trainees.

Started and developed Seven Programs from grounds up while directing each program initially and later handed them over to new Directors and Coordinators and provided supervision to them to make them independent, Outpatient Program (Three Locations), Partial Hospitalization Program, Residential Program, Training Program, Gero-Psychiatric Program, Behavioral Consultation Program, Neuro-behavioral/Psychological/Forensic Assessment Program. One additional Program i.e., Prevention Services was developed by one of the trainees in collaboration with Alameda County and provided supervision to her for seven years.

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Served as: Director of Training, Supervised pre and post-doctoral interns and clinical supervisors of thirty-six interns. Provided didactic training on various clinical and private practice issues including billing issues and dealing with insurance companies and court system along with group supervision. The training program was CAPIC and APPIC accredited.

Director of Residential and Behavioral Consulting Services: Started and currently supervising the operations of two Licensed Adult Residential Facilities for chronically mentally disabled patients under contract from Department of Mental Health Services of Contra Costa County in Concord, California. Also providing consultation to various licensed Board and Care operators in the area for many years in running and management of their facilities and prevention of crises with their clients and staff. Providing behavioral consultation to group homes serving regional centers consumers.

Director - Partial Hospitalization Program – Provided groups to patients, staff training for clinical notes, billing issues, supervised audit for Medical and Medicare.

Director - Gero-psychiatric Services – Consulted and supervised postdoctoral trainees in various nursing homes.

Education
June 1991-June 1993: Clinical Neuropsychology Fellow: St. Mary’s Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco under Dr. Ronald M. Ruff, Associate Professor, UCSF and Director of Neurobehavioral Rehabilitation.

June 1991- June 1992: Clinical Neuropsychology: San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco under Dr. Ronald M. Ruff, Director of Neurobehavioral Rehabilitation. 1991: Chemical Dependency and Human Sexuality: Certificate in Treatment of Chemical Dependency from California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP), 1991: Certification on Human Sexuality from CSPP, Alameda, CA. 1991: Certification on: Assessment and understanding of Child Abuse at CSPP, Alameda, CA. 1988-1990: Doctor of Philosophy: Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India. Major: Clinical Psychology, Specialty: Neuropsychology. Topic of Thesis: “A Study of Cognitive Deficits and Psychosocial Dysfunctions following Craniocerebral Trauma”.
1982-1983: Master of Philosophy: Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Major: Psychology.

Dissertation on “Job Satisfaction as related to Achievement Motivation and Adjustment among factory workers”.
1980- 1982: Master of Arts: Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Major: Psychology, Specialty:

Clinical Psychology, Guidance and Counseling.
1977- 1980: Bachelor of Arts: Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. Major: Psychology, Sociology and English, with distinction in Psychology.

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Professional Experience
Working as a private contractor (Licensed Psychologist) with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation since March 2019 at California Health Care Facility, Stockton and also worked for one year at California Medical Facility in Acute Psychiatric Program (PIP), Vacaville, CA
September 2004 to 2022 - Owned and operated various Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing Facilities in Contra Costa, Fresno, Sacramento and Tulare Counties in California and also in private practice and trained many clinical pre-doctoral and postdoctoral students under my clinical supervision.

Founder: Neurobehavioral and Psychological Institute (NPI), a non-profit mental health agency– later changed its name to Portia Bell Hume Behavioral Health and Training Center from June 1993 to August 2004. Worked in various capacities as staff psychologist, Associate Director, Assistant Director: Partial Hospitalization Program, and Assistant Director, Outpatient and Program;
Adjunct Professor: 1993- 1997 at Rosebridge Graduate School of Integrative Psychology, Concord, CA - Taught graduate students standardized psychological testing and clinical interviewing process.
1993 (February to July) Case Manager: Worked as a case manager at MILESTONES, a residential program for parolees and probationers with Chemical Dependency problems from San Francisco County and California Department of Corrections.
1991-1992 (October 91 to September 92) Counselor: Worked as a counselor at Transitions of Berkeley, a residential program for head injured and other neurologically and cognitively impaired patients.
1983-1990: Psychologist (Social Scientist): World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Mental Health and Research, Department of Psychiatry, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India with various positions between April 1983 and January 1988, and following that as a research fellow until 1990, completing my Ph.D. under Prof. V.K. Kak, Chief of Neurosurgery, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.

Administration
June 1993- Current - Major Duties: Administration, administrative and Clinical supervision of Staff and Development of almost all programs except one at Neurobehavioral and Psychological Institute, later renamed the Hume Center until Aug. 31, 2004. Since Sept. 7, 2004 founded private corporation, Therapeutic Residential Care Services, Inc. and providing individual, couple, family and group therapy to varied clientele population and did forensic and neuropsychological evaluations. Worked on various administrative positions at the Hume Center and supervised trainees and staff of about sixty at three locations i.e. Concord, Fremont and Pittsburg and collaborated with various similar agencies at County, State and Federal levels. Served as Director of Training and coordinated between various graduate schools and accrediting agencies e.g. CAPIC and APPIC. Sensitive to the issues and differences involved in administrative supervision, clinical supervision and therapy while supervising trainees, staff and providing clinical services to patients, thus, learning a great deal in these roles.

Clinical Supervisory Experience

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1993-Current Supervised practicum students, pre-doctoral interns and post-doctoral fellows at the Hume Center and currently supervising one post-doctoral student in private practice.

Chaired dissertation committees of Ph.D. students.

Also serving as Dean International Students, Rayat Bahra University, Kharar, Mohali, India.

Teaching Experience
1993 – 1998: Various classes in psychological testing and neuropsychological evaluation at Rosebridge Graduate School of Integrative Psychology, Concord, CA.

June 1986- May 87: Taught General Psychology and Personality Theory to B.S. and M.S. nursing students at College of Nursing, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.

Editing Experience
October 1984- June 1986: Served as Assistant Editor of the Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology, the official journal of the Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists (being published in English).

Research Experience
Co-Chaired: Two Ph.ds theses; one from Wright Institute, Berkeley, CA and One student from California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco.

Feb-July 1997: Principal Investigator: “Test Battery for Cognitive Screening in Elderly” NIH funded, SBIR-project (1 R43 AG14306-01).

June 1992- June 1993: Investigator: “Baseline study to predict outcome of head injured patients”, (with Principal Investigator, Ronald M. Ruff, Ph.D., Director, Neurobehavioral Rehabilitation, St. Mary’s Hospital and Medical Center and Adjunct Professor in Neurosurgery and Psychiatry at UCSF) in the Department of Neurosurgery, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.

May 1988- October 1990 Research Fellowship: Department of Neurosurgery, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.

Investigator: “Assessment of cognitive deficits and psychosocial dysfunctions of head injury patients”, and earned Ph.D. from Department of Neurosurgery, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.
1987- 1988: Investigator: “Long term nursing needs of head injured patients”, College of Nursing, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.
1984- 1986: Investigator: “A study of social-emotional support systems in India”, College of Nursing, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.
1983: Investigator: “Psychological profile of long-term cannabis users”, Department of Psychiatry, WHO Collaborating Center for Mental Health and Research, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India.

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Membership to Professional and Other Associations

1. Forensic Mental Health Association of California (FMHAC).

2. Member American Psychological Association.

3. Member of Northern California Neuropsychology Forum, San Francisco: Chaired a committee on cross-cultural issues in neuropsychology. (Sept. 1995 to Sept. 1997)

4. Founder - Neuro-behavioral and Psychological Institute (now The Hume Center), a Non-Profit Mental Health Agency, Concord, CA.

5. Member Sub-Committee on Neuropsychological Norms at Division 40 Committee on Minority/Ethnic Affairs (Feb. 1995 to 1997).

6. Member International Neuropsychology Society - INS - International Liaison Committee – 1993.

7. Member Asian American Psychological Association -1993

8. Life Member American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin and Current Chairperson for its Allied Health Professional Group (and from 1994-1995).

Community Services
2018- Present - Executive Board Member, Indo-American Community Federation, Fremont, CA 2003- 2015: Member of Executive Committee of Interfaith Council of Contra Costa County 2005-2010: Commissioner and Chair for Human Relations Commission for the City of Concord. 2005-2007: President: Federation of Indo-American Associations of Northern California (FIA-NC) 1998 - 2000: Member Older Adult Committee, Mental Health Commission, Contra Costa County. 1994 -1996: Member Advisory Council of AASRA - A Wing of Federation of Indo-American Association providing support services for victims of domestic violence in Fremont, CA (from August 1994 to June 1996).
1994- Present: Member United Religions Initiatives (URI), San Francisco Presidio, San Francisco 2001- 2002 Member Inter-Faith Council- Eden Church, Hayward. 2002- 2004: Founding Trustee IK Onkar Peace Foundation, Pleasanton. 2002- 2004 Member Advisory Council of President Business Commission, Washington, D.C. 2003-2005: Member Board of Directors, Monument Community Partnership, Concord.

AWARDS
Making A Difference Award in 2015 by Inter Faith Council of Contra Costa County Recognition Award for Community Services in 2003: Awarded by FEDERATION OF INDOAMERICAN OF NORTHREN CALIFORNIA in Sunnyvale, California.

Recognition Award by State of California: Certificate of Recognition from State of California Senate in honor of significant contributions to the well-being of citizens of State of California, August 15, 2002.

SBIR Award by NIH-1997: Awarded $100,000 grant for Innovative Research for Cognitive Screening in Elderly (1 R43 AG14306-01).

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Recognition Award - 1997: Awarded in Recognition of Dedicated Services As the Director of Neurobehavioral and Psychological Institute, (Now Hume Center) presented by the President of the Board of Directors on February 17, 1997 in Concord, CA.

Hind Rattan Award (JEWEL OF INDIA) 1996: Awarded for Outstanding Services, Achievements and Contributions by Mr. I.K. Gujral Hon’ble Minister of External Affairs (and Former Prime Minister of India at the 14th International Congress of NRI’s held on December 27, 1996, New Delhi by Non-Resident Indians Welfare Society of India, New Delhi.

List of Publications

1. Status of Cognitive and Psychosocial Functioning 6 months after Head Injury. Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology (1995) 22 (2) 11-16 (with Kak, VK and Pershad, D.).

2. Buffering Effect of Social Emotional Support on the Parents of Mentally Retarded Children. Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology (1985) 12 (2) 63-70 (with Moudgil AC).

3. Hospitalization Facilities for Mentally Retarded Children. Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology (1985) 12 (2) 79-84 (with Moudgil AC)

4. Construction and Standardization of Measure of Social Emotional Support. Indian Journal for Social Psychiatry (1986) 2 (1&2) 66-79 (with Moudgil, AC; Verma, S.K. & Pershad, D.).

5. Age and Achievement Motivation as Factors in Job Satisfaction. Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology (1986) 13 (1) 77-79.

6. Stress Management and Mental Health of Executives. Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology (1986) 3 (2) 155-160 (with Dubey, BL).

7. Making Again Productive. Indian Journal of Clinical Psychology (1986) 13 (2) 185-187 (with Dubey, BL and Dwivedi, P).

8. Assessment of Long-Term Nursing Problems of Head Injury Patients (paper presented at VIIIth Annual Conference of Neuro Nurses, New Delhi, India, December 12-15, 1986 (with Gupta, R. and Walia, I.).

International/National Conferences/Workshops - Participation

1. 2022 – State Authorized Risk Assessment – Tools for Sex Offenders on June 6-7, 2022, by D. D’Orazio.

2. 2021 - Neurodevelopmentally-Based Practical Assessment and Treatment Methods for Juveniles - by Norbert Ralph, Ph.D. - Regional Training by Forensic Mental Health Association of California.

3. 2020 – Suicide Prevention Training by CDCR at CHCF, Stockton

4. 2020 - Positive Behavioral Team Support Training by CDCR at CHCF, Stockton

5. 2019 - Safety Planning Intervention (SPI) by CDCR

6. 2019 – Clinical Outcome Measures by CDCR

7. 2019 - Differential Diagnosis in Complex Mental Health Cases

8. 2019 – Clinical Case Formulation by CDCR

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9. 2019 – Inter-disciplinary Treatment Team (IDTT): An Overview of the Clinical Thinking and Process by CDCR

10. 2019 - Suicide Risk Evaluations for Mental Health Clinicians by CDCR

11. 2019 – Using the C-SSRS to Evaluate Risk of Suicide

12. Technology Mind and Society, A conference on latest mental health technology and its pros and cons, Washington DC – Oct, 3-5, 2019.

13. 2018 – Ethical and Legal Checkboxes: Navigating the Minefield While Doing the Work by Lucy McAllister, Esq., Shelly Perry, Ph.D. and Shawn McCall, Psy. D. - NCNF

14. 2018 – The Globalization of Neuropsychology: Current Challenges and Future Directions with April Thames, Ph.D.

15. 2017 – Gambling Disorder and the Forensic Population

16. 2017 – Providing Care to Victims of Sex Trafficking in Juvenile System

17. 2017 – What Makes You Expert Opinion Expert

18. 2017 - Words or Deeds – Partnership to Serve Justice Involved Veterans

19. 2017 – Collision Between Technology, Statutes & Ethical Codes

20. 2017 – Stress Management, Job Burnout, Coping Mechanism and Effective Interventions by CCCL

21. 2017 – Death and Dying: Neuropsychological Perspectives by Michael Drexler, Ph.D.

22. 2017 – Updates on Supervision for Professional Psychology by Edward Shafranske, Ph.D. – San Francisco VA Medical Center

23. 2017 – Juveniles Who Sexually Offend: Characteristics, Assessment, Management, and Treatment by Norbert Ralph, Ph.D.

24. 2016 - Assessment and Treatment of Offenders with Co-occurring Disorders by Tom Granucci

25. 2016 - Applying the Risk, Needs, & Responsivity Principles to Sex offender Treatment by Gerry. D. Blasingame, Psy.D.

26. 2016 - Understanding sexual offending and the brain: Brain basics to state of the art by James M. Cantor, PhD.

27. 2016 - Ethical and Legal Issues by Laura Dunn, MD, David Naimark, MD., Ramila Diwali, MD., and Dilip Jeste, MD., Department of Psychiatry, UCSD.

28. 2016 – Psych Congress 1-Day Regional Meeting – San Francisco

29. 2016 – Alzheimer’s Disease and Latest Research by CCLD

30. 2016 - Mass Shooting and the Mental Health System

31. 2016 - Assessment of Malingering – An Evidence Based Approach

32. 2016 Part 1 Trauma & its Effects on Risk Taking

33. 2016 - Part 11 Trauma and its Effects on Risk Taking

34. 2016 - Comprehensive Approach to Mental Illness in California Justice System (CJS)

35. 2016 - Theory of Mind Deficits in Children with Attachment Disorders

36. 2016 – “What Works” – for People with Mental Illness in California Justice System (CJS)

37. 2016 – Mild Traumatic Brain Injury – Management and Treatment

38. 2015 - Beyond Delinquency: Specialized Housing and Services for Youth in Detention by Mary Romero, LCSW—Clinical Program Head (LAC-DMH), Miguel Porter, Erica Reynoso, Ph.D., LCSW

39. 2014 - Practical Strategies for Individualizing Therapy: An Integrated Model of Sex Offender Treatment – Adam Deming, Psy.D.

40. 2013 - Juveniles who sexually offend by James Rokop at FMHAC – 2013

41. Anatomy of Intimacy: Sexuality and Couples Therapy: Integrating Eroticism and Intimacy (Nov. 13-14, 2010), University of Irvine

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42. Recent Advances in Biomarkers for Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease by William Jagust, MD, on October 27, 2010, Oakland, CA by Northern California Neuropsychology Forum, San Francisco.

43. Ethical Decision Making and Risk Management by Jeffrey N. Younggren, Ph.D., California Psychological Association, San Francisco, October 23, 2010.

44. 2010 New Laws and Regulatory Updates for Convalescent Hospitals in California by Quality Care Health Foundation in Concord, on January 19, 2010.

45. Talking about Dementia by UCSF FRESNO Alzheimer’s and Memory Center by Linda Hewett, Psy.D. on June 17, 2010.

46. It’s Not a Midlife Crisis: Altered Social and Emotional Behavior in Early Onset Neurodegenerative Disease by Kate Rankin, Ph.D. on December 02, 2009 - Sponsored by Northern California Neuropsychological Forum, San Francisco,

47. Practical Principles in Forensic Neuropsychology: A Study of the Field and an Emphasis on Personal Injury by Ron Ruff, Ph.D., ABPP; Howard Friedman, Ph.D., ABPP; R. Michael Harwood, Esq.; and William H. Gavin, Esq. on September 26, 2009 - sponsored by Northern California Neuropsychological Forum, San Francisco, California.

48. Expanding The Horizons of Dementia Care by UCSF FRESNO Alzheimer’s and Memory Center by Linda Hewett, Psy.D, June 25, 2009.

49. What is Our Commitment To Our Veterans?: Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Returning Veterans and Their Families by Antonette Zeiss, Ph.D. - on April 19, 2009 - California Psychological Association – Oakland, California.

50. Born To Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life by Dacher Keltner, Ph.D.- on April 19, 2009 - California Psychological Association – Oakland, California.

51. The Time Paradox: How Our View of Time Affects How We Live and How We Feel by John Boyd, Ph.D. - on April 18, 2009 - California Psychological Association – Oakland, California.

52. Sowing the Seeds of a Healthcare Revolution: Holistic Care for Older Adults by Antonette Zeiss, Ph.D. - on April 18, 2009 - California Psychological Association – Oakland, California.

53. Ensuring the Relevance of Our Services to Diverse Communities by Glenn Masuda, Ph.D.; Paul Wang, Ph.D. - on April 18, 2009 - California Psychological Association – Oakland, California.

54. Master Lecture: Mental Health, Stigma, Disclosure and Social Policy: What Can Psychologists Do? By Steve Hinshaw, Ph.D. - on April 18, 2009 - California Psychological Association – Oakland, California.

55. Autism: Neurobiology and Neuropsychology by Alan Lincoln, Ph.D., MSCP - on April 17, 2009 - California Psychological Association – Oakland, California.

56. Master Lecture: SAGES (Spirituality/ Religion, Age/Abilities, Gender, Ethnicity/Race, Sexual Orientation): Shaping Leadership to Manage Diversity by Carl C. Mack, Jr., Ph.D. - on April 17, 2009 - California Psychological Association – Oakland, California.

57. Master Lecture- Seven Principles of Good Power: Machiavellian Myths and Power for the New World by Dacher Keltner, Ph.D. – on April 17, 2009 - California Psychological Association – Oakland, California.

58. Developing Leadership Competency through Education, Supervision and Mentoring on April 16, 2009 - California Psychological Association – Oakland, California.

59. Cultural Neuropsychology: What You Need to Know and Why (Neuropsychological Institute) presented by Xavier E. Cagigas, Ph.D; Carolos F. Saucedo, Ph.D; Bill Steh,

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Ph.D; David M. Lechuga, Ph.D; Linda Ercoli, Ph.D; Karen Miller, Ph.D. – on April 16, 2009 - California Psychological Association – Oakland, California.

60. APA Trust Legal and Ethical Risk Management: Sequence II by California Psychological Association – Oakland, California on October 11, 2008.

61. ADL’s and Executive Dysfunction in Neurological Disorder by Deborah Cahn-Weiner, Ph.D. - sponsored by Northern California Neuropsychological Forum, San Francisco, on September 17, 2008.

62. Malingering and Somatization Issues in Neuropsychology: Current Knowledge and Future Diagnostic Considerations by Kyle B. Boone, Ph.D, ABPP and Dean Delis, Ph.D., ABPP sponsored by Northern California Neuropsychological Forum, San Francisco, on June 7, 2008.

63. Using DBT in Treating Complex Suicidal Clients by Marsha M. Linehan, Ph.D. on June 2, 2008.

64. Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk: Core Competencies for Mental Health Professionals by M. David Rudd, Ph.D. – held on June 22, 2007

65. Understanding Social Intelligence – CA by Dacher Keltner, Ph.D. – held on March 30, 2007

66. Adults and Children Together Against Violence Training by JFK University held on February 23-24, 2007.

67. Bridging the Divide: Reflecting on Supervision and Diversity – A Conference on Clinical Supervision held on October 28, 2006

68. Neurobiology of Cognition and Cognitive Dysfunction and Psychopharmacology of ADHD by Stephen M. Stahl, MD, Ph.D., San Francisco on June 10, 2006 Psychopharmacology of Executive Dysfunction in Mental Illness by Ronnie G. Swift, MD, San Francisco on June 10, 2006
Neurobiology and Treatment of Alcohol Abuse by George F. Koop, Ph.D and Stephen M. Stahl, MD, Ph.D, San Francisco on June 10, 2006
Sleep Disorders: Neurobiology and Treatment by Stephen M. Stahl, MD, Ph.D., San Francisco on June 10, 2006
Diagnosis and First-Line Treatment of the Bi-polar Spectrum By Ronnie G. Swift, MD, San Francisco on June 11, 2006
Controversies and Tips for Managing Difficult Cases of Bipolar By Stephen M. Stahl, MD, Ph.D., San Francisco on June 11, 2006
The Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of CATIE by Jonathan Meyer, MD Choosing an Antipsychotic for Schizophrenia: If You Don’t Know Where You’re Going, Any Road Will Take You There By Stephen M. Stahl, MD, Ph.D., San Francisco on June 11, 2006
Treatment Issues in Depression By Ronnie G. Swift, MD., San Francisco on June 11, 2006

69. Building Conscience and Self Control by John F. Taylor, Ph.D. –Concord –Dec. 5, 2006

70. Community Care Options: “Food Safety and Presentation” by Tom Cullen – Concord – November 29, 2006.

71. California Psychological Association and Division II (Education and Training) – Bridging the Divide: Reflecting on Supervision and Diversity – A Conference on Clinical Supervision – October 28, 2006

72. Institute for Natural Resources (INR) – Concord, CA – Avian Flu and Viral Epidemics on Feb. 2, 2006.

73. Institute for Natural Resources (INR) – Concord, CA – ADHD, Dyslexia and Autism on November 18, 2005

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74. Aging and Long-Term Care by Melinda Ginne, Ph.D. on November 19, 2005 at Wright Institute, Berkeley, California.

75. California Psychological Association and Division II (Education and Training) – Supervisor as Gatekeeper: Dealing with Ethical and Legal Dilemmas Faced by supervisors: An Invitational Conference on Clinical Supervision on October 29, 2005 at Alliant International University, San Francisco.

76. 14th Annual Conference of Northern California Neuropsychological Forum on “Autistic Spectrum Disorders Across the Lifespan: Diagnosis and Treatment June 4, 2005, UCSF, San Francisco.

77. 23rd Annual Conference of National Academy of Neuropsychology, Dallas, Texas October 14-18, 2003

78. 12th Annual Conference of Northern California Neuropsychological Forum on “Neuropsychology of Memory: Recent Advances In Theory and Research, and Current Clinical Applications

79. 11th Annual Conference of Northern California Neuropsychological Forum on “Contributions of Neuroimaging to Clinical Practice”, May 11, 2002, UCSF, San Francisco.

80. 21st Annual Conference of National Academy of Neuropsychology, San Francisco October 31- November 3, 2001.

81. 10th Annual Conference of Northern California Neuropsychological Forum on “Assessment of Psychological Disability: Neuropsychological Dysfunction” May 19, 2001.

82. 9
th Annual Conference of Northern California Neuropsychological Forum on “Cognition and Brain’s White Matter”, May 13, 2000.

83. 8th Annual Conference of Northern California Neuropsychological Forum on “Rehabilitation of Brain Injuries”, at U.C.S.F., San Francisco, CA. April 10, 1999.

84. 7th Annual Conference of Northern California Neuropsychological Forum on “Differentiating Dementia Subtypes”, at U.C.S.F., San Francisco, CA. May 9, 1998.

85. 6th Annual Conference of Northern California Neuropsychological Forum on “Advances in the Neuropsychology of AIDS Dementia”, at UCSF, San Francisco, CA.

June 14, 1997.

86. 5th Annual Conference of Northern California Neuropsychological Forum on “Advances in the Neuropsychology of ADHD”, at U.C.S.F., San Francisco, CA. June 8, 1996.

87. 4th Annual Conference of Northern California Neuropsychological Forum on “Advances of Neuropsychology of Epilepsy”, at U.C.S.F., San Francisco, CA. April 29, 1995

88. 23rd Annual Meeting of International Neuropsychological Society, Seattle, WA.

February 8-11, 1995.

89. 3rd Annual Conference of Northern California Neuropsychology Forum on “Advances in Conceptualization of Attention and Memory”, at U.C.S.F., San Francisco, March 26th, 1994.

90. The 13th World Congress of Social Psychiatry; New Delhi, India. November 9-13, 1992.

91. The 20th Annual Meeting of International Neuropsychological Society, San Diego, CA, February 5 - 8, 1992.

92. Convention of the International Council of Psychologists Inc., San Francisco, CA, August 16-20, 1992.

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93. The 99th Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA, August 16-20, 1992.

94. Conference on Issues in Child Neuropsychology by Northern California Neuropsychological Forum at U.C.S.F., San Francisco, CA, March 7, 1992.

95. 42nd Annual Conference of the Indian Psychiatric Society, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India, March 1989.

96. Workshop on Orientation to Drug Abuse, Department of Psychiatry, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India, March 1989.

97. 38th Neurology Conference of Neurological Society of India, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India, December 18-21, 1988.

98. Second Annual Conference of Indian Association for Social Psychiatry, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India, March 6-8, 1986.

99. Workshop on Mental Retardation: Assessment and Management, sponsored by University Grants Commission of India, Department of Psychology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India, November 1985.
100. Workshop on General Hospital Psychiatry, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India, 1983. ______________

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SHELTER, Inc. Chief Executive Officer Homeless Services Provider John Eckstrom Page 1 of 3

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Yes - through SHELTER, Inc. programs.

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I meet with our homeless participants though our programs.

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SHELTER, Inc. collaborates with CORE, other non-profit agencies, and local police departments.

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Ygnacio Valley High School
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BA Psychology, San Francisco State University
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JOHN ECKSTROM

C HIEF E XECUTIVE O FFICER

I NSPIRING P EOPLE - C HANGING L IVES - E NDING H OMELESSNESS - 1 -

SUMMARY
Mr. Eckstrom has led one of the world’s most recognizable and leading non-profit healthcare institutions, Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, out of the most troubled time in its history to a position of leadership, solvency, and sustainability. Mr. Eckstrom’s areas of expertise include managing towards financial stability, strategic planning and initiatives, strengthening board governance, succession planning, developing organizational maturity, and planning for and carrying out merger and acquisition proposals. Early in his career Mr. Eckstrom was a leading and innovative technology executive and a charter member of the AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SHELTER, Inc. (Concord, CA) 2016 – Present
Chief Executive Officer
 Founded in 1986, SHELTER, Inc. is the largest provider of housing and homeless services in Contra Costa County  Serving over 3,600 people annually with a history of helping over 95% of at-risk clients to remain in their homes  Service models include: low-income housing, permanent supportive housing, rapid-rehousing, navigation centers, eviction prevention, and inclusive wrap-around services Eckstrom Strategies (San Francisco) 2014 – 2016
Executive Coach / Trusted Advisor to Non-Profits
 Provided strategy and advisory services to non-profit Board of Directors, CEO’s and CFO’s Consultant to Intel
 Successfully managed four drone projects including the winner of America’s Greatest Maker (Nixie) and Yuneec’s Typhoon H PRO Hexacopter with Intel RealSense Collision Avoidance TriZetto (Denver, CO) / Topaz Shared Services (Chapel Hill, NC) 2013 Management Consultant / Solution Executive – HealthCare Information Technology  TriZetto manages 250M lives - Topaz was building the back office for the Affordable Care Act with $1B in funding  Coordinated the efforts of, and integrating multiple internal and external organizations’ efforts including Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina and Blue Cross Blue Shield Kansas City Eckstrom Strategies (San Francisco) 2011 – 2012
Executive Coach / Trusted Advisor to Non-Profits
 Projects included: Strategic Planning, Board Governance, Succession Planning, and Program Development Haight Ashbury Free Clinics, Inc. (San Francisco) 2005 - 2011 Chief Executive Officer, Acting Chief Financial Officer  Rescued this venerable institution which was weeks away from certain business failure  Energized demoralized management team and staff
 Developed comprehensive Turn Around Plan including 5-year Financial Recovery Plan that was accepted by the Board and major funders which permitted continued financial support  Re-built the Board of Directors and established clear expectations, roles and governance responsibilities  Created innovative strategic vision for integrated services (primary medical care, mental health, and substance abuse)  Developed and expanded two navigation centers, one for women and children and one for adults  Coordinated with public and non-profit agencies for housing and legal services  Increased annual revenues from $10M to $ 15M during bleak economic times for nonprofits DHL (London, Prague, Scottsdale, Kuala Lumpur) 2003 - 2004 Management Consultant / Systems Architecture Executive
 Developed major IT Strategy for DHL’s 4,000+ staff and World-Wide Data Centers  Created Roadmap for world-wide deployment of new Enterprise Architecture Silver Oak Venture Partners (San Francisco) 2002 - 2003 Founding Partner – Boutique Investment Banking Firm
 Created business plan for biometric security company for funding/acquisition and presented to VC’s  Created business plan for unique WiFi ISP and secured venture funding KindMark (Mill Valley) 2000 - 2001
Strategy Consultant, Interim COO/CTO – Online Workplace Giving Startup - Acquired by Blackbaud  Advised CEO/Board on business plan, product strategy and financial execution  Secured $4M in start-up funding

JOHN ECKSTROM
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Charles Schwab (San Francisco, Phoenix) 2000 - 2000
Management Consultant, Interim Technology VP
 Executive Coach to Senior Vice President and staff of 10 VPs with staff of 400 AnyTime Access (Sacramento) 1997 - 2000
Chief Technology Officer
 Brought in by major Venture Capitalist as CTO
 Teamed with CEO and CFO to obtain $17M in venture capital  Defined eCommerce Strategy (back office to dot-com companies) Charles Schwab (San Francisco) 1996 - 1997
Technology Consultant
 Directed multiple web-based initiatives focusing on platform and performance  Established metrics driven approach to quantifying the end-users’ experience InPower (San Francisco) 1995 - 1996
Vice President of Product Development and CIO
 Directed the development of all products including HR & Payroll (Gartner Magic Quadrant)  Oversaw staff of 135 (two-thirds of the company’s employees) Bank of America (San Francisco) 1994 - 1995
Technology Vice President
 Instituted organizational and process discipline
 Managed multiple strategic projects and geographically distributed team of 200 TRW Financial Systems, Inc. (Berkeley, Oakland) 1992 - 1994 Vice President of Engineering and Advance Technology
 Led 150 software and hardware engineers specializing in high volume/bandwidth image transaction processing  Advised senior executives of major international financial institutions on emerging technologies and strategic technology planning
 Led multiple Continuous Process Improvement initiatives to increase project margins and customer satisfaction J. Frank & Associates (Palo Alto) 1990 - 1992
Vice President, Software Development
 As Employee #1 of this now public company, built software development team from the ground up  Led multiple product development projects for Sun, IBM, Hitachi, Intel, Fujitsu and others University of California Extension (Berkeley) 1979 - 1987 Instructor, Computer Science & Business Systems Design
 Developed and taught classes to post graduate students

EDUCATION
San Francisco State University
 Bachelor of Arts, Psychology (cum laude)
 Extensive courses in Music and Mathematics
Center for Creative Leadership
 "Leadership Development Program"
University of Santa Clara
 "The Leadership Challenge" – Kouzes and Posner
American Management Association
 Financial Management courses

NONPROFIT BOARD MEMBERSHIP
Solano County Continuum of Care – Housing First Solano Board (Member) Contra Costa County Council on Homelessness – Continuum of Care Advisory Board (Member) San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium (Director)
Academy of Friends (Director)
San Francisco Human Services Network (Director)
Berkeley Symphony (Director, Chair Finance & Governance Committees) Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra (Co-Founder and Board Chair) Diablo Youth Orchestra (Co-Founder and Board Chair)

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John Tague
Woods Family Investments LP Property Manager Property Management John Tague Page 1 of 3

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Why would you like to participate in the Concord Community Academy? I would like to participate because I care for my community & I don't trust the government. In my work managing properties mainly in San Francisco I have had numerous instances dealing with the homeless & I keep it real.

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Other
Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Do you or have you participated in any supply and/or food distribution to the community of unsheltered residents? If so, please explain your experience.

I did in college through my Fraternity Delta Sigma Phi - Beta Nu Chapter @ Fresno State. Thanksgiving meals.

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They set up camp in front of a lobby entrance to a building I manage & I had to get them to leave.

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I use SF 311 a bit to get homeless person's poo picked up. I know I could, but I haven't ever called police.

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Liberty High School - Business Technology Academy Tennis Team Captain College
Fresno State - BS in Business Administration - Real Estate & Urban Land Economics Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity Beta Nu Chapter
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Master Low Voltage Tech: Fire Alarms, Burglar Alarm, CCTV, Satellite, Cable, Networking, Phone.

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CA Real Estate Brokers License #01787805
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Kelly Mckinley
MDUSD Noon supervisor Child Safety Enforcer
Kelly Mckinley

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None Selected
Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Do you or have you participated in any supply and/or food distribution to the community of unsheltered residents? If so, please explain your experience.

I’ve been feeding, clothing, offering showers & laundry services, resources for detox and support for post rehab needs until individual is self sufficient around Southwest Concord. We serve up to 35 3 times a week since Feb 2022. We will be acquiring another 50-60 homeless from a different group to start similar services in North Concord in 2023
Kelly Mckinley

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Today I got 2 hotel rooms for 5 homeless that got rained out during storms.

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Police Department FABULOUS & very useful and informative during all my visits. CORE has been very ‘challenging’ to interact with to say the least. They did answer my phone call yesterday for the first time and were very helpful to mom & her 3yo that I was calling for.

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Clayton valley high school
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Two years
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Certified massage therapist
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Kelly Mckinley

Kelly Mckinley

Submit Date: Dec 20, 2022
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Kent Davis
Self Owner Dentist
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Concord Resident and Property Owner
Interests and Experience
Why would you like to participate in the Concord Community Academy? Not only was I homeless 35 years ago, but I am also a home owner and business owner that the homeless have an effect me
How did you hear about the Concord Community Academy?
Other
Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Do you or have you participated in any supply and/or food distribution to the community of unsheltered residents? If so, please explain your experience.

I have contributed to the Food Bank.

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My most recent interaction was a woman living in her car in the parking lot of the shopping center that my office is in.

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I have had no real experience with those programs.

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High School
I do have friends that were homeless many years ago (answer to last question) Graduate of Harry Ells High, Richmond, CA 1960
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DVC, UC, UOP, Wash U Dental School
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DMD
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Lance Goree
Union Square Alliance Director of Member Services Non Profit Executive Lance Goree Page 1 of 3

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Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Do you or have you participated in any supply and/or food distribution to the community of unsheltered residents? If so, please explain your experience.

I was a Board Member of the Dorothy Day House a volunteer-based 501(c)3 non-profit organization that for over 30 years has provided meals, shelter, and employment for low-income residents and people who experience homelessness in Berkeley, California.

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This is a daily occurrence.

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I currently manage the contracts of a 2nd chance street focused ambassador program, a 24-hour private security team, a retired officer team and a 10b officer program. I have also worked closely with organizations Downtown Streets Team and Miracle Messages. Having a myriad of responses, with levels of enforcement, to the symptoms attributed to homelessness is key. All communities are experiencing this very debilitating disease but are desperately trying to find a compassionate remedy, so this disease has as little negative effect on their socio-economic system as possible.

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Multiple - Graduated from Hutchinson High School in Hutchinson, Kansas College
Hutchinson Community College - AA Retail Management
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Con}rol No: 346772
Public Service Ethics Education
Online Proof of Participation Certificate
Date of Completion: Jan 11, 2017 Training Time*: 3 hr. 54 min.

This course is an overview course on all public service ethics issues necessary to satisfy the requirements of Article 2.4 of Chapter 2 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, including the following:
. Laws relating to personal financial gain by public servants, including, but not Iimited to, Iaws prohibiting bribery and conflict-of-interest Iaws.
. Laws relating to claiming perquisites ("perks") of office, including, but not limited to, gift and travel restrictions, prohibitions against the use of public resources for personal or political purposes,prohibitions against gifts of public funds, mass mailing restrictions, and prohibitions against acceptance of free or discounted transportation by transportation companies. . Government transparency Iaws, including, but not Iimited to, financial interest disclosure requirements and open government laws.
. Laws relating to fair processes, including, but not Iimited to, common law bias prohibitions, due process requirements, incompatible offices, competitive bidding requirements for public contracts, and disqualification from participating in decisions affecting family members; and . General ethical principles relating to public service.

The Fair Political Practices Commission and Attorney General have reviewed this course for course sufficiency and accuracy. " 's
By signing below, l certify that I fully reviewed the content of the entire online AB 1234 course approved by the Attorney General and Fair Political Practices Commission and am entitled to claim two of a ' lawandprinciplescredit.
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Leonard Ramirez
Veterans Accession House Executive Director Veterans Housing Provider Leonard Ramirez Page 1 of 4

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Why would you like to participate in the Concord Community Academy? I would like to have an impact on how the City of Concord addresses the Veteran Homeless. I am a Veteran, worked for the Department of Veterans Affairs, and now the founder of a nonfit organization, the Veterans Accession House which is contracted through the VA to provide Transitional Housing.

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Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Do you or have you participated in any supply and/or food distribution to the community of unsheltered residents? If so, please explain your experience.

I collected food stuff from local Churches for our organization to feed disadvantage Veterans and Veteran Families.

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I work daily with Veterans who are unsheltered. I employee case workers who engage them in the program's intake screen process. I personally meet with them to discuss their situation and explore how the program might help them to break the cycle of homelessness.

Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Describe your experience using homeless response programs such as CORE, the Police Department, and non-profit providers.

Our program works directly with CORE, accepting referral and participate in the CoC annual PIT Count.

We have relationships with Central and East County Police Departments' Homeless Services Officers. As a nonprofit service provider, the Veterans Accession House enjoys a working relationship with other County Based Homeless Service Providers.

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High School
Pittsburg High School
College
Los Medanos Junior College/ Diablo Valley College ending in an Associate Degree. I attended CSUEB into my senior year and transferred to SFSU where I am completing a double major in Sociology and Human Development. I am also an Adjunct Faculty member at Los Medanos College teaching Administration of Justice.

Technicial/Vocational Training
I retired as a Deputy Sheriff with specialization as a Domestic Violence investigator and trainer. I also retired as an Intelligence Officer with the U.S. Army Reserves. I facilitated Batterers Intervention groups for the Department of Veterans Affairs for 4 years and served as a Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist Certification or Other
Master Instructor with the State of California. Peer Support Specialist, Motivational Interviewer and Whole Health Planner and facilitator.

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LEONARDO C. RAMIREZ

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Nov 2016 VETERANS ACCESSION HOUSE, NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION Present FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Responsible for determining and implementing policies and making decisions supporting the administrative and operational oversight of the organization.

Prepares and files statutory documents and defines the organization’s mission.

Serves as the lead outreach person for public relations. Develops vision for strategic planning and governance, fund raising, technical advertisement, community development and collaborations. Conducts organization financial management, grant development, and administration of awards. Performs recruitment, hiring, and management of personnel. Oversees development and application of program services. Serves as principle member of the Board of Directors.

Aug 2019 RAMS CONSULITING – Resolution through Assault Management Skills Present AT EASE, BATTERERS INTERVENTION PROGRAM FACILITATOR Contractor with the San Francisco Pre-trial Diversion Court for Batterers Intervention Program (BIP) services. Responsible for leading a 52-week BIP for veterans mandated by the court to attend program training designed to examine and change belief system surrounding domestic violence. Maintain liaison with the local Probation Department’s Domestic Violence Unit, County Superior Court and the Department of Veterans Affairs, for the purpose of accounting for participants’ course attendance and performance. I am responsible to maintain attendance rosters, writing participants’ evaluations and progress reports for the courts. I screen referrals, review and assess arrest reports to determine suitability, sign contracts, and orient new students to the program. Curriculum focuses on theory and causes of conflict in relationships, legal consequences, types of violence, skills and alternative approaches to managing the emotions of anger, and how to nurture relationships.

Jan 2018 LOS MEDANOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE _______________
Present ADJUNCT INSTRUCTOR, ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
Responsible for presenting course curriculum for the Administration of Justice Department. Instructs on the subjects of Introduction to Corrections and Criminal Investigations courses. Select course textbook, research topics, create or edit course PowerPoint presentations, Assign course work, liaisons with local law enforcement agencies and coordinates guest speakers, prepare and administer tests; assign and upload grades to school web-posting site.

Holds office hours and counsel students. Attend faculty professional development training. Serves as a mentor and student advisor to the Occupational Work Experience program for Admin of Justice.

May 2015 SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS – CWT
Mar 2019 VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION SPECIALIST / GROUP

FACILITATOR

Served as the Community Based Employment Specialist for the Community Based Employment Services program. Received consults and meet with veterans on a one to one basis to evaluate eligibility for supportive employment
services. Conducted Vocational Assessment and work with veterans to design individualized career development plans. Participated in weekly staff meetings for supervision, to present cases and develop veterans’ treatment plans.

Managed targeted caseloads, aimed at preparing homeless veterans, those with Substance use and or chronic mental illness, for the competitive work force.

Promoted the development of community employment opportunities. Worked closely with VA, community based and State services organizations to assist veterans to competitive employment.

Split duties: Served as a Group Facilitator for the Veterans Affairs, At Ease - Batterer’s Intervention Program (BIP). Was responsible for leading a 52-week program for veterans mandated by the court to attend a BIP training program, designed to address and resolve belief system-based issues of domestic violence. I maintained a liaison relationship with the local Probation Department’s Domestic Violence Unit, and County Superior Court, for the purpose of accounting for participants’ course attendance and performance.

Was am responsible for writing participants’ evaluations, and progress reports.

I screened referrals, reviewed and assessed arrest reports to determine suitability, signed contracts, and orient new prospects to the program.

Curriculum focused on theory and causes of conflict in relationships, legal consequences, types of violence, skills and alternative approaches to managing the emotions of anger, and how to heal and nurture relationships.

Jun 2016 Served on the Mental Health Intensive Case Management Team as a Peer Dec 2017 Specialist. Provided direct monitoring of program participant at their Residences through regular visitation. Assisted in application of VA entitlement benefits through local VSO offices. Accompany participants to their medical and public appointments. Coordinate the Group and individual outing. Attend weekly staff meetings and wrote regular CPRS case notes.

Jun 1994 SAN FRANCISCO SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT
Feb 2015 DEPUTY SHERIFF, INSTRUCTOR

Assigned to the Sheriff’s Custody Division performing direct supervision, and the Alternative Program; conducted Electronic Monitoring. Worked in Field Services performing patrol duties at the County General Hospital. Duties included site security, criminal Investigations, arrests and report writing.

Served in the Custody Division, Intake and Release Unit. Served on Department’s Special Response Team as a tactical team member. I have served on the Sheriff’s Warrant Services Team, assisting the SFPD/ DOJ/CDC’s Fugitive Recovery Enforcement Teams to execute warrants.

Served as a Department’s Training Cadre, teaching Arrest Procedures, the Use of Force, Defensive Tactics/ Impact Weapons, and the M26 Air Taser.

Oct 2001 RAM’S CONSULTING
Jan 2004 COURSE DESIGNER AND INSTRUCTOR

I served as a private provider to law enforcement agencies teaching officer involved, and general public related domestic violence, stress and conflict resolution, communication skills and relationship building strategies. I am a program analyst, and Master Instructor with the State of California’s offices of Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST)/ Standards & Training for Corrections (STC); specializing in instructional systems design, geared to the Specific needs of an interested department requiring course development and instruction. I have held prior course certifications and taught in the areas of Laws of Arrest, the Use of Force, Special Emergency Tactics, Special Team Tactics, The Yawara Stick and Conflict Resolution, Stress in Law Enforcement, Anger Management and a Train the Trainer course on Family Conflict Training for Peer Support in Law Enforcement.

Sept 2000 LOS MEDANOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Dec 2001 INSTRUCTOR, PUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING CENTER
Formerly employed on call, assisting in the Basic Police Academy. Co-Taught Defensive Tactics and Impact Weapons Skills. I assisted in the operation of the Use of Force Simulator System for In-Service Officers. I assisted in running the pistol range for students attending the Patrol Operations and Enforcement Tactics course. I have co-taught courses on domestic violence and conflict resolution to students in the Administration of Justice Department.

Mar 1992 NABER TECHNICAL ENTERPRISES
Jun 1994 CONTRACT CONSULTANT
Private Consultant and instructor to Bill Naber Enterprises. Co-Taught instructional training courses titled: Training the Facility Trainer, Direct Supervision, Crisis Resolution and Controlling Special Emergencies. These courses were taught to City Jail, County Sheriff and Probation Department personnel. All courses were certified and complied with Standards for Training in Corrections and Peace Officers Standards in Training.

Sept 1984 CONTRA COSTA COUNTY PROBATION DEPARTMENT
Jun 1994 DEPUTY COUSELOR/ INSTRUCTOR
Served as a lead Probation Counselor supervising the operation of the Juvenile detention admitting unit. Supervised booking and release of custodies. Conducted computerized warrant searches and entered bookings.

Monitored building operations through a computerized console system which controlled all interior/exterior doors, cameras intercom systems. Served as a lead counselor in a direct supervision setting. Assigned to the transportation unit making custody pick-ups, and deliveries to court appearances. Served as a department Defensive Tactics and Crisis Management Instructor. I also, served on the Use of Force review board. Assisted in the development of the Department’s Use of Force policy.

EDUCATION:

Los Medanos Junior College, AA Degree in Psychology/Certificate Admin of Justice California State University Hayward, Senior - BA in Human Development San Francisco State University, Pending - BA in Sociology San Francisco Police Academy, POST Instructor Certification Course San Diego Regional Training Center, Master Instructor Development Certificate Santa Rosa Junior College, POST Police Basic Academy
Santa Rosa Junior College, STC Probation Basic Academy
SPECIALIZED TRAINING:

Robert Presley Institute of Criminal Investigations: Investigator Core Course Institute of Criminal Investigations: Domestic Violence Training San Diego Reg. Trng Center: Domestic Violence for Crisis Negotiators Institute of Criminal Investigations: Domestic Violence Investigations San Diego Reg Training Center: Domestic Violence Expert Witness San Diego Reg Training Center: Domestic Violence-Officer Involved Eslinger & Associates: Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence San Francisco Police Academy: Instructor Development Trainer San Diego Reg. Trng Center: Master Instructor Development Prog.

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center: Domestic Violence Instructor Trng.

Veterans Affairs Administration – Motivational Interviewing certification Veterans Affairs Administration – Whole Health Facilitator Veterans Affairs Administration - Whole Health Coaching

R.I. International - Peer Support Specialist certification

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I have been volunteering my time to distribute food and supplies to the homeless residents in Concord, CA. I've been working with Jack Fleihmann for the past 2 years distributing food and supplies the unsheltered residents of Concord, CA. I have put together food packages, made food, and drove around Concord distributing to the unsheltered residents of Concord, CA.

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I met a gentleman named Jack who was sleeping on the ground near Olivera and port Chicago. I brought him food and warm clothes. He was paralyzed on his side and I had to assist him getting dressed. With the assistance of Core we were able to get him into the homeless shelter.

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I met a gentleman named Jack who was sleeping on the ground near Olivera and port Chicago. I brought him food and warm clothes. He was paralyzed on his side and I had to assist him getting dressed. With the assistance of Core we were able to get him into the homeless shelter.

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Diploma- De Anza High School Richmond, CA
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DVC- AA drug and alcohol certificate
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drug and alcohol studies
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Submit Date: Dec 15, 2022
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City of Concord
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CA
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Mark Unterbach

EAGLE BAY ENTERPRISES,
INC CEO Business owner
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Why would you like to participate in the Concord Community Academy? Homelessness is one of the largest and fastest growing problems we face today. Along with education and veterans affairs, it is a passionate cause for me. I do believe business can greatly help here. In the past, I worked with The San Ramon Community Services Group and brought the same thought with great success with regard to Youth Services.

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Only through contributions to the local food bank. Part of my work has me traveling to downtown Los Angeles. In the past 9 months, their homeless issue has continued to get worse. Let's make sure we bring logical, workable ideas to Concord.

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There are hundreds of unhoused on South Alameda Street in LA, where I work from time to time. Each person has a different story. Some are allegedly there by choice. The community has a broad spectrum of problems that include, but are not exclusively, mental illness and drug use. I was able to get 2 people jobs at my company as a result of honest communication.

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Education and Training
High School
Roosevelt HS 1977
College
Pace University, White Plains, NY
Technicial/Vocational Training
General Motors Institute
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Submit Date: Dec 17, 2022
First Name Last Name
Email Address
Street Address Suite or Apt
City State Postal Code
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Employer Job Title Occupation
City of Concord
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Melanie Taylor
Home depot Cashier Cashier
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Why would you like to participate in the Concord Community Academy? The reason I would like to be part of this community academy is due to the fact that I was homeless from a 7 years and had the hardest time getting out of the hole that I'm in is hard hard nobody really understands this I have knowledge of the people I have a good rapport with all the people I am I would love nothing more than to help people find their way and find an easy way will not really easy but a way to help themselves get out of the hole that they're in it's not easy I'm trying to guard your stuff and trying to work trying to feed yourself keep yourself close and warm and guard your things at the same time is just horrendous it's awful and I would love for people do not have to go through this but I'm seeing more and more people coming into the homeless community more and more every day it is not a pretty sight it is not a glamorous it is really hard and it's hard for women especially and I would love to be part of helping people that want to be helped get up and get into a place of shelter to where they can have their own place and feel good about themselves again and feel like they are part of society. You start believing that you are a bad person or that you're being stereotyped or that you're no good because you're homeless and that's not true in every case. Every case is different every person is different and you can tell who are the ones that want to be helped and who are the ones who are abusing and using the system. The system, it needs to be changed it failed me I don't know how many times. I feel I would be great at giving some insight of to where it's working and where it's not from my end and I have again a good rapport with almost all of the homeless that are out here in Contra Costa county, well... in Concord that is. Nothing saddens me more then watching good people lose everything they own Time and Time and Time and Time again it hurts my feelings that people are stealing from each other when they have nothing really to steal but yet they're stealing it from each other and stealing from the community around them in order to survive. And I understand that it impacts everybody everybody the homeowners the business owners City councils everybody and it affects the homeless more than you know. Some of us don't want to be out here we don't belong out here but due to serious unfortunate events has thrown us into this situation that is not ideal or safe for anyone. I would love to be part of something great that helps get a lot of homeless people off the streets and in the safe environments that are out of the elements and able to keep their things and keep their dignity.

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I haven't participated in any City community distributions but I have done it myself I always getting extra food and giving it to other people constantly food dog food blankets coats clothes you name it I have given it away or it's been stolen from me but I have given a lot of food away and distributed to a lot of people batteries for flashlights.

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My most recent interaction with a person who is unsheltered was not on a good side she stole from me and that hurt my heart, she stole from my friend who was trying to help her as well but I understand and I don't blame her it's just the circumstances that she's in I just wish you would have trusted me more .

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I have to say that my experience with homeless response programs such as core has not always been the most pleasant the system has failed me a number of times the police department I have to say to some have been really great and some have been excused my French but some have been real assholes excuse my French but they just need to remember that they're human too.

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Del Norte high School Albuquerque New Mexico three and a half years got my GED College
Los medanos college 3 years not graduated
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Submit Date: Dec 22, 2022
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City of Concord
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Stacy Ahlwardt
N/a N/a N/ a
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Why would you like to participate in the Concord Community Academy? I myself was homeless for about two years, mind you it was quite a few years ago but I will never forget those days . I have always wanted to work with and somehow help with the growing issues of our homeless and have come up with several plans of my own I would love to share my ideas .

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I have a few certain people I give food and clothing to when I can and whatever money I can afford to give when I see them .

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Talking to a man at the light by Sam’s club whom seems to be there quite often ,gave him a couple $ and asked how he was doing ,he tells me he has a couple interviews coming up and was hoping for the best .

Told him if I can do it he can also and to keep trying no matter what that’s all you can do ! Question applies to Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group Describe your experience using homeless response programs such as CORE, the Police Department, and non-profit providers.

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Clayton Valley high
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Submit Date: Dec 20, 2022
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3165 ameno rd
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CA
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Timothy Shindelus
USPO 38 YEARS, hARBOR
fREIGHT TOOLS 13 YEARS
carrier, supervisor, manager /
Salesd supervisor
mail delivery service / retail
sales
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Other
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Knights of Columbus food collection and supply donations. St vincent donations. WIKICU Indonesion Catholic organization, Sunday meal preperation and food service.

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My wife and I tried to help a homeless middle aged man. We took him to a shelter and left him. Next day he was back on the street. When I asked him why he was not in the shelter his reply was " I can't smoke in the room".

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Working at Harbor Freight in Pleasant Hill, we had reasons to call the police for assistance. In cases where there was positive threats or positive theft the police were helpfull. Most time we could get a restraining order. Prior to the cold weather I was able to get a store discount for customers buying blankets for the homeless.

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High School
Mt. Diablo High
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DVC, USAF Communications center specalist. USPO, Delivery Service Managementr Technicial/Vocational Training
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Submit Date: Dec 18, 2022
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Wayne Calhoon
Sierra Pacific Tours SPAB Driver Driver
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Other
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Boots on the ground by myself and with Jack Fliehmann. Was on the planning & operational team for the Parkhaven Community Church emergency winter overnight warming shelter, including meals. I have a community share table in front of my house. More.

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Every day. Find out what homeless people need. Help them get it, if I can.

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Ineffective, ineffective, ineffective. But, well intentioned. Homelessness is a very complicated issue that needs a new paradigm.

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High School
Berkeley High School for college prep.

College
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo for mechanical engineering. Merritt College for blueprint reading & art.

Technicial/Vocational Training
Lots.

Certification or Other
Contractor's licenses (5 classifications). Class-B driver's license with passenger & air brakes endorsements.

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Selection of Applicants to Interview
for the Homeless Strategic Plan
Working Group
JANUARY 10, 2023

JOELLE FOCKLER, MMC

CITY CLERK
1

Background
2 • The Homeless Strategic Plan (Plans) is intended to guide future City efforts and investments related to responding to the impacts from and the needs of Concord’s unsheltered population, using data and fact-based information.
• A working Group, appointed by the Council, will work directly with staff and the consulting team to guide the development of the Plan.

Background
• The Homeless Strategic Plan Working Group was created by the City Council on December 13, 2022, with the
adoption of Resolution No. 22-77.
• Per Policy & Procedure No. 89, the City Council
announced a recruitment for the Working Group on
December 13, 2022, and the application period closed on Tuesday, January 3, 2023, resulting in 20 applications
received.
3

Working Group Composition
4 • 2 - Concord City Councilmembers
• 1 - Lived Experience of Being Homeless Representative • 1 – Nonprofit Homeless Services Provider
• 1 – Substance Abuse Professional
• 1 – Mental Health Professional
• 1 – Concord Resident and Property Owner
• 1 – Concord Resident and Either from Concord’s Business Community or an Owner of Commercial Property in Concord • 1 – Veteran Homeless Services Provider

Mental Health Professional and
Substance Abuse Professional
5 1. Reopen the recruitment for the two positions so the Council has more than one applicant to interview for each slot;

2. Interview the applicants for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Professionals then either appoint or recruit for more applicants; or

3. Choose to appoint the single applicants for each position (Mental Health Professional and Substance Abuse Professional) based on the submitted applications, without interviewing.

Select Applicants to Interview for
Each Position
6 The Council is being requested to select two applicants to interview for each position in the working group in the following categories:
• Concord Resident and Property Owner
• Nonprofit Homeless Service Provider
• Lived Experience of Being Homeless
• Concord Resident and Either from Concord’s Business Community or an Owner of Commercial Property in Concord
• Veteran Homeless Services Provider

January 24, 2023, City Council
Meeting
7 The Council will:

1. Determine the interview questions;

2. Interview the applicants;

3. Select and vote on the applicants;

4. Select two Councilmembers to serve on the Working
Group; and

5. Ratify the vote and appoint Working Group members by resolution.

Recommendation

1. Determine process for the Mental Health and Substance Abuse positions;

2. Select two applicants each from the other five categories to interview, reviewing the list one category at a time. 8

Questions?
9

Applicant Positions Applied For
Andrea (Andie) Altman Concord Resident & Property Owner Nonprofit Homeless Services Provider
Kent Davis Concord Resident & Property Owner
Lived Experience Representative
Harmesh Kumar Concord Resident & Property Owner
Mental Health Professional
John Eckstrom Concord Resident & Property Owner
Nonprofit Homeless Services Provider
Business Community Representative
Veterans Homeless Services Provider
Linda Jacob Concord Resident & Property Owner
Substance Abuse Professional
10

Concord Resident and Property Owner
Applicants
John Tague Harmesh Kumar*
Andrea (Andie) Altman* Wayne Calhoon
Kent Davis* John Eckstrom*
Timothy Shindelus Linda Jacob*
Lance Goree
Desiree Mcdonagh
11

Nonprofit Homeless Services Provider
Applicants
Kelly Mckinley
Andrea (Andie) Altman*
Bob Pickett
John Eckstrom*
12

Lived Experience Representative
Applicants
Stacy Ahlwardt
Kent Davis*
Melanie Taylor
Dawn Koch
Brandi Martinez
13

Business Community Representative
Applicants
Eric Rehn
Don Freas
Mark Unterbach
John Eckstrom*
14

Veterans Homeless Services Provider
Applicants
Leonard Ramirez
John Eckstrom*
15

Staff Report
Date: January 10, 2023
To: City Council
From: Valerie J. Barone, City Manager
Prepared by: Joelle Fockler, MMC, City Clerk
[email protected]
(925) 671-3390
Subject: Considering approval of the 2023 City Council Meeting Calendar (continued from December 13, 2022).

Report in Brief
The City Council regularly meets on the first, second, and fourth Tuesday of each month for City Council meetings (meetings). Meetings are cancelled when they conflict with City of Concord Holidays. Additionally, the City Council historically takes a break from meetings for one month during the summer, allowing City Councilmembers to take vacations without missing meetings.

This item was discussed by Council at its December 13 meeting but no action was taken. Direction was given to poll staff regarding their preference of a July or August break, to research meeting start times, and to bring the information back to Council for consideration of the 2023 City Council Meeting Calendar.

Recommended Action
Review and approve the attached calendar.

Background
The City Council regularly meets on the first, second, and fourth Tuesday of each month. Meetings are cancelled when they conflict with City holidays. Historically, the City Council takes a break from meetings for one month during the summer to allow City Councilmembers time to take vacations without missing meetings. In order to provide scheduling clarity, staff prepared a list of expected meetings in 2023, as done annually of each year for Council adoption.

5.d

City Council Agenda Report
Agenda Item No. 5.d
January 10, 2023
Analysis
Summer Break
The outstanding question for Council to discuss is which meetings should be cancelled in order to allow Councilmembers to schedule vacations without creating conflicts with public Council meetings. Historically, public Council meetings were cancelled in August.

This practice changed in 2018 when Council began cancelling meetings in July, so that councilmember vacations could occur prior to school resuming in August.

Having one month of time with no public meetings supports staff in two key ways: first, executive staff often schedule their main vacations during this period; and second, the City Clerk’s office uses the break to catch up on much needed “clean-up” work that is difficult to complete during periods of regular City Council meetings, and to focus on the nomination period in election years.

There is agreement from the Executive Team that a July break is better than August. In addition to the way it benefits their personal schedules, it also helps to ensure that end of fiscal year tasks are completed prior to July 1. The July break also assists Recreation Services by allowing staff to focus on summer programs rather than preparing Council action items.

To support Council’s discussion, a list of school opening dates for MDUSD, Clayton Valley Charter, De La Salle, and Carondelet is provided in the table below.

School Orientation Start Date
MDUSD August 10, 2023
Clayton Valley Charter High
School
August 2-4, 2022 (new
students)
August 8, 2023
De La Salle and Carondelet August 14 and 15, 2023 August 16, 2023 Council Calendar
The attached expected meeting calendar shows no meetings on July 4, 11, 25, August 1, and December 26. A meeting is not proposed for Tuesday, August 1, because it is National Night-out and City Councilmembers participate in community-hosted neighborhood gatherings. A meeting is not scheduled for December 26 due to its proximity to the winter City holidays.

The Mayor, working with the City Manager, may call special meetings or cancel meetings as needed to support the work of the City Council. The general public should always check the City’s website or contact the City Clerk regarding City Council meetings they desire to attend.

City Council Agenda Report
Agenda Item No. 5.d
January 10, 2023
Meeting Start Time
At the December 13 meeting staff was directed to research a 5:30 p.m. meeting start.

Resolution No. 91-102 amends Policy and Procedure No. 2, Section 3.1 to read as follows: “3.1 Regular Meetings. Pursuant to Section 2100 of the Concord Municipal Code, regular meetings of the City Council shall be held in the Farrel A. Stewart Civic Center, 1950 Parkside Drive, Concord. Regular meetings shall be held on the first, second, and fourth Tuesday of each month and shall convene at 5:00 p.m. The Council Agenda shall reserve 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. for non-hearing items, including authorized closed sessions. No hearing or public hearing shall commence before 6:30 p.m. No hearing or public hearing shall commence after 10:00 p.m. without a majority vote of the Councilmembers present.”
Changing hearing start times from 6:30 to 5:30 p.m. may create issues with Closed Session scheduling, and, while a 5:30 p.m. start time may be convenient for some City staff, it provides less time for the public to get to the meeting if coming from work. It also reduces the ability of the City Attorney and City Clerk to address end of day issues that impact agenda items.

If the Council wishes to change the language in Policy and Procedure No. 2 to reflect a change in the meeting start time, staff will prepare a Resolution for adoption at an upcoming meeting.

Public Contact
The City Council Agenda was posted.

Attachment

1. Proposed 2023 City Council Meeting Calendar

The Concord City Council regularly meets the first, second, and fourth Tuesday each month. Below are the dates for expected regular meetings in 2023. The Mayor, working with the City Manager, may cancel meetings or call special meetings to support the work of the Council. All meetings are publicly noticed in accordance with State law and Council policy. To the extent meetings indicated below as “cancelled” are reinstated, such reinstated meetings shall constitute regular meetings of the Concord City Council.

Because meeting dates can change, interested parties should always check the City’s website at www.cityofconcord.org or call the City Clerk’s office at (925) 671-3495 if they are interested in attending a meeting.
2023 City Council Meeting Dates
January 3 (Cancelled due to Winter Holidays) July 4 (Cancelled due to Independence Day) January 10 July 11 (Cancelled due to Council recess)
January 24 July 25 (Cancelled due to Council recess)
February 7 August 1 (Cancelled due to National Night Out) February 14 August 8
February 28 August 22
March 7 September 5
March 14 September 12
March 28 September 26
April 4 October 3
April 11 (Passover April 5 – 13) October 10
April 25 October 24
May 2 November 7
May 9 November 14
May 23 November 28
June 6 December 5
June 13 December 12
June 27 December 26 (Cancelled due to City Holiday)
Attachment 1