we'll go to julie leadbetter. >> clerk: i believe we had a call-in. you want to check to see if it was ms. friedenbach? >> supervisor peskin: let's check on ms. friedenbach. i hear she is available. >> clerk: ms. friedenbach, if you're there, you would need to hit star 6 to unmute your line. >> supervisor peskin: can you unmute her, victor? >> clerk: we are unable to unmute her. >> supervisor peskin: all right, we'll come back. ms. leadbetter? ms. d'antonio? >> good morning. i'm piggy backing off what shanell said. we would like to finish out our term. we were kind of like rushing through a lot of things due to covid and making a lot minute decisions. i did participate in the design of prop c and setting more things in stone as far as processes and community engagement. that's really one of the roles that we've taken a piece of. just like the opportunity to continue figuring out that piece of really how to engage the community, how to use some of the administrative dollars to get folks paid for their participation. just continue the work that we've do

julie. so is it questions only or comments? >> either one. member leadbetter. >> yes, jessie, thank you so much for presenting this. it's really helpful to see. i think the committee had to -- kind of got a sense with this a few months ago, and then, we got really absorbed with the allocation process. it really makes my heart sing to be starting this work, and i think i care -- i just deeply appreciate the focus on the needs assessment and really, like, the -- it's not a generic systems planning approach, right? and what changed and was really part of my experience with this work in alameda county is that the focus groups, the lived experience work really changed what the system plan is understood as what was possible. i think for many of us, who's done this work for 20 or 30 years. we're used to working within the constraints of the funding sources or the models that come to us from other communities, all of this. but this turns everything upside down, and this is why it's so important so we can build an infrastructure that can just not only feed into the sys

julie. so is it questions only or comments? >> either one. member leadbetters, jessie, thank you so much for presenting this. it's really helpful to see. i think the committee had to -- kind of got a sense with this a few months ago, and then, we got really absorbed with the allocation process. it really makes my heart sing to be starting this work, and i think i care -- i just deeply appreciate the focus on the needs assessment and really, like, the -- it's not a generic systems planning approach, right? and what changed and was really part of my experience with this work in alameda county is that the focus groups, the lived experience work really changed what the system plan is understood as what was possible. i think for many of us, who's done this work for 20 or 30 years. we're used to working within the constraints of the funding sources or the models that come to us from other communities, all of this. but this turns everything upside down, and this is why it's so important so we can build an infrastructure that can just not only feed into the systems mo

julie. so is it questions only or comments? >> either one. member leadbetteresenting this. it's really helpful to see. i think the committee had to -- kind of got a sense with this a few months ago, and then, we got really absorbed with the allocation process. it really makes my heart sing to be starting this work, and i think i care -- i just deeply appreciate the focus on the needs assessment and really, like, the -- it's not a generic systems planning approach, right? and what changed and was really part of my experience with this work in alameda county is that the focus groups, the lived experience work really changed what the system plan is understood as what was possible. i think for many of us, who's done this work for 20 or 30 years. we're used to working within the constraints of the funding sources or the models that come to us from other communities, all of this. but this turns everything upside down, and this is why it's so important so we can build an infrastructure that can just not only feed into the systems modelling work but everything having

julie. so is it questions only or comments? >> either one. member leadbetterpresenting this. it's really helpful to see. i think the committee had to -- kind of got a sense with this a few months ago, and then, we got really absorbed with the allocation process. it really makes my heart sing to be starting this work, and i think i care -- i just deeply appreciate the focus on the needs assessment and really, like, the -- it's not a generic systems planning approach, right? and what changed and was really part of my experience with this work in alameda county is that the focus groups, the lived experience work really changed what the system plan is understood as what was possible. i think for many of us, who's done this work for 20 or 30 years. we're used to working within the constraints of the funding sources or the models that come to us from other communities, all of this. but this turns everything upside down, and this is why it's so important so we can build an infrastructure that can just not only feed into the systems modelling work but everything havin