{"content":[{"text":"SAN RAFAEL CITY COUNCIL AGENDA REPORT / Page: 2","bbox":{"left":0.088235,"top":0.045563,"width":0.4906319999999999,"height":0.015572999999999997}},{"text":"collaboratively with staff and leaders to address these urgent challenges and to work swiftly towards a \n path to recovery that puts equity front and center.","bbox":{"left":0.088217,"top":0.091169,"width":0.823553,"height":0.031478000000000006}},{"text":"On August 17, City and County elected officials and staff from both jurisdictions met with representatives \n from the coalition to discuss opportunities for rapid, collaborative action. Following this meeting, members \n of the coalition developed a set of specific recommendations for elected officials (Attachment 3) in the \n policy areas of health, housing and supporting the recovery of local businesses. In addition, they also \n recommended the creation of a Policy Task Force/Working Group.","bbox":{"left":0.088199,"top":0.139037,"width":0.823962,"height":0.07949900000000001}},{"text":"On September 18, the Canal Policy Working Group (CPWG) convened for the first time. The CPWG \n includes Vice Mayor Kate Colin, Cristine Alilovich, and Catherine Quffa, City of San Rafael; Supervisor \n Dennis Rodoni, Lorenzo Cordova, and Angela Nicholson, County of Marin; Omar Carrera and Ricardo \n Huerta Niño, Canal Alliance; Chandra Alexander, Community Action Marin; and Steffanie Haffner, Legal \n Aid of Marin. Since then, the CPWG is meeting on a weekly basis to further explore the health, housing \n and local business policy initiatives. In addition, staff from all the agencies represented on the CPWG, \n are working together collaboratively toward researching, analyzing and developing specific actionable \n solutions for consideration by the County Board of Supervisors and the City of San Rafael City Council \n in the near future.","bbox":{"left":0.088181,"top":0.234926,"width":0.823841,"height":0.143271}},{"text":"ANALYSIS: \n The CPWG’s initial focus is to prioritize the coalition’s recommendations and to identify what could be \n done quickly, while working in parallel on more long-term solutions. The CPWG wants to ensure that our \n efforts build upon, rather than duplicate, existing initiatives. Additionally, the CWPG is also focusing on \n policy solutions that would provide broad and long-lasting benefits to those most disproportionately \n impacted by COVID-19. On October 26, the coalition sent a follow up letter (Attachment 4) that \n summarizes recent activities and progress to date.","bbox":{"left":0.088181,"top":0.394434,"width":0.823956,"height":0.11533399999999999}},{"text":"The CPWG members expressed the urgency of having both the City and County leadership swiftly and \n formally articulate their support and commitment to these efforts. To that end, the CWPG members co- \n created the attached Resolution (English and Spanish versions found in Attachment 1) for consideration \n by both the San Rafael City Council and the Marin County Board of Supervisors.","bbox":{"left":0.088198,"top":0.526158,"width":0.8237519999999999,"height":0.06344099999999997}},{"text":"This resolution represents the commitment to address this crisis with urgency, however, recognizes that \n any policy-level changes would take some time to properly develop, vet, and move through the \n approval process.","bbox":{"left":0.088216,"top":0.605989,"width":0.823439,"height":0.04753599999999991}},{"text":"The Resolution recognizes that the history and contemporary manifestations of racial injustice have \n resulted in deeply unequal access to quality housing, employment, healthcare, education, resources, and \n opportunities, resulting in pockets of communities woefully susceptible to the deepest impacts of this \n unprecedented pandemic and economic crisis. As a result, the COVID-19 pandemic is having a \n disproportionate impact on our historically marginalized and under-resourced communities of color, who \n are least able to overcome the deep challenges. Further, it recognizes that the recovery and resilience \n of our most impacted communities is closely linked to the recovery and resilience of our local businesses, \n non-profits, and the public sector.","bbox":{"left":0.088223,"top":0.66995,"width":0.8237639999999999,"height":0.1273669999999999}},{"text":"The Resolution affirms City Council’s commitment to supporting our historically marginalized residents \n who have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 and to working collaboratively to build longer- \n term solutions for recovery and resilience. It also articulates City Council’s commitment to protect housing \n for our essential workers, preserving the ability for many community members to stay in their homes in \n San Rafael. An important tool to supporting this work is the allocation of Community Development Block","bbox":{"left":0.088241,"top":0.813554,"width":0.823653,"height":0.07949899999999999}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}