City of Sunnyvale
Excerpt Meeting Minutes - Draft
Human Relations Commission
7:00 PM Online and Bay Conference Room (Room
145), City Hall, 456 W. Olive Ave.,
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Thursday, September 12, 2024
CALL TO ORDER
Chair Syquia called the meeting to order at 7:13 p.m. in the Bay Conference Room.
ROLL CALL
Chair Nenuca Syquia
Vice Chair Venkata Siva Ramisetty
Commissioner Esther Rosenfeld
Present: 3 -
Commissioner Claudia Camacho
Commissioner Maria Paulina Zapata
Absent: 2 -
Commissioner Camacho’s absence is excused.
Commissioner Zapata’s absence is excused.
Council Liaison Srinivasan (present)
PUBLIC HEARINGS/GENERAL BUSINESS
3 24-0076 Evaluate and Consider Adoption of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) Pilot Program (Study Issue)
Affordable Housing Manager, Ernie Defrenchi, provided the staff report and slide presentation on Universal Basic Income (UBI) and General Basic Income (GBI) outlining the context for the pilot study, current programs, outreach efforts, fundamental questions of the program, funding, execution, and next steps for the study issue.
Commissioner Rosenfeld questioned how long the program has been tracked and how City staff measures the success rate. Ernie answered by discussing the City of Stockton’s and University of Tennessee’s success rate of the program and some of the challenges it faced during the pilot.
Chair Syquia questioned if there are any benefits of doing the Universal Income Pilot Program at the county level. Ernie answered that because the County has
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September 12, 2024Human Relations Commission Excerpt Meeting Minutes - Draft more funding, a benefit would be that the City of Sunnyvale could work with more agencies. Ernie clarified that the City would want the program to be specific to Sunnyvale residents, which is why the program is not being requested at the county-level.
Ernie confirmed with the Human Relations Commission that the agenda item will be presented to the Housing and Human Services Commission on Tuesday September 17 and they will make a formal recommendation to Council, and Council will be hearing it at the end of October.
Chair Syquia asked what the role of a co-funder and Ernie confirmed that co-funders can propose where they would like the funds to go for a specific program.
Chair Syquia opened the public hearing.
Marie Bernard, Executive Director of Sunnyvale Community Services, spoke in support of the proposed program and highlighted the benefits it will provide to the City and residents of Sunnyvale.
Chair Syquia closed the public hearing.
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