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8.A. - Page 24 of 104 <br />1. City Activities and Recommendations from the Ad Hoc Committee on Policing <br />Equity in Public Safety, in City Services and Throughout the Community <br />,T. <br />REDWOOD CITY <br />LISTENING <br />RACIAL EQUITY, CITY <br />SERVICES AND POLICING <br />Listening, Learning, Leaning -in <br />• Meetings of the Ad Hoc Committee on Policing and/or the City Manager with stakeholders: <br />o Black Lives Matter protest organizers (June 2, 2020, Courthouse Square) <br />o Latino Focus <br />o Los Bomberos (Latino Firefighters Association) <br />o Mid -Peninsula American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Volunteer Chapter <br />o National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) <br />o National Black Firefighters Association <br />o National Hispanic Firefighters Association <br />o Redwood City Community for Racial Justice and Fair Policing <br />o Redwood City Police Officers Association <br />o Redwood City Police Supervisor's Association <br />o Sequoia High School and Sequoia Unified School District <br />o Silicon Valley Democratic Socialists <br />• June 10 virtual town hall meeting on community policing <br />• Six virtual in-depth community listening sessions on racial equity, and additional pop-up <br />outreach, facilitated by Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center <br />• Individual conversations with community members and City Council members, and comments <br />made during City Council meetings <br />• City declarations to racial equity and inclusion as a matter of public policy <br />o Became a Welcoming City in 2017 <br />o Adopted a proclamation supporting the United Against Hate initiative in 2018 <br />o Established a broadly inclusive Vision Statement when adopting a new Strategic Plan in <br />January 2020: A community where people of all backgrounds and income levels can <br />thrive <br />BUDGET MESSAGE 393 <br />