January 27, 2022 Our City, Our Home Oversight Committee Meeting

Opportunity for the public to comment on any matters within the Committee’s jurisdiction that are not on the agenda. 

Approval, with possible modification, of the minutes of the December 2, 2021 Special Meeting. 

• Discussion and motion 
• Public comment
• Roll call vote

Discussion and approval of Resolution Making Findings to Allow Teleconferenced Meetings Under California Government Code Section 54953(e). 

RESOLVED, That the Our City, Our Home Oversight Committee finds as follows:

The State of California and the City remain in a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At this meeting, the Our City, Our Home Oversight Committee has considered the circumstances of the state of emergency.  

State and City officials continue to recommend measures to promote physical distancing and other social distancing measures, in some settings.

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, conducting meetings of this body in person would present imminent risks to the safety of attendees, and the state of emergency continues to directly impact the ability of members to meet safely in person.

FURTHER RESOLVED, That for at least the next 30 days meetings of the Our City, Our Home Oversight Committee will continue to occur exclusively by teleconferencing technology (and not by any in-person meetings or any other meetings with public access to the places where any policy body member is present for the meeting). Such meetings of the Our City, Our Home Oversight Committee that occur by teleconferencing technology will provide an opportunity for members of the public to address this body and will otherwise occur in a manner that protects the statutory and constitutional rights of parties and the members of the public attending the meeting via teleconferencing.

FURTHER RESOLVED, That the secretary and staff of the Our City, Our Home Oversight Committee is directed to place a resolution substantially similar to this resolution on the agenda of a future meeting of the Our City, Our Home Oversight Committee within the next 30 days. If the Our City, Our Home Oversight Committee does not meet within the next 30 days, the staff is directed to place a such resolution on the agenda of the next meeting of the Our City, Our Home Oversight Committee.

• Discussion and motion
• Public Comment
• Vote

Presentation from the Controller's Office on Our City, Our Home Fund Revenue and Fund Balances, with discussion and possible action by the Committee

• Discussion
• Public comment

Presentation and discussion of Community Liaison workplans with possible action by the Committee

• Public comment

Discussion and approval of Resolution on Ramaytush Ohlone Land Acknowledgement

WHEREAS, The San Francisco Human Rights Commission (HRC) published a report in 2007, Discrimination by Omission: Issues of Concern for Native Americans in San Francisco, detailing the ways in which Native American communities experience systemic erasure and exclusion in San Francisco and identifying numerous recommendations for improved outcomes, a process which was guided by members of Native American Communities, including the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples; and

WHEREAS, The Our City, our Home Oversight Committee (OCOH Oversight Committee) joins with HRC in acknowledging that the Ramaytush Ohlone are the original peoples of the San Francisco Peninsula; and

WHEREAS, The OCOH Oversight Committee joins with HRC in acknowledging that the area comprising the City and County of San Francisco was originally inhabited by the Yelamu, an independent tribe of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples; and

WHEREAS, The OCOH Oversight Committee joins with HRC in acknowledging that the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone has actively worked to research, expand public awareness of, and preserve Ohlone history and culture; and

WHEREAS, The OCOH Oversight Committee joins with HRC in acknowledging that the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples have survived the brutalities of colonialism, enslavement, genocide, discrimination, racism, gender-based violence, theft, forced assimilation, and other atrocities driven by local, federal, and global governments; and

WHEREAS, The OCOH Oversight Committee joins with HRC in acknowledging that Ramaytush Ohlone peoples are not a mythical population of the past, but an integral and active community in the present San Francisco Bay Area region, and beyond, whose ongoing exclusion and invisibility threaten the greater Native American community’s inclusion and respect in San Francisco; ands

WHEREAS, The OCOH Oversight Committee joins with HRC in acknowledging that the City and Count of San Francisco was founded on unceded territory, and continues to participate in the erasure and exclusion of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples; and

WHEREAS, The OCOH Oversight Committee joins with HRC in acknowledging the truth of a land’s history is a human right and demonstration of honor and respect for the contributions and sacrifices of the ancestors that inhabited and cared for this land before us; and

WHEREAS, The San Francisco Board of Supervisors, HRC, and the Office of Racial Equity (ORE) have urged all boards and commissions in the City and County of San Francisco to begin each meeting with the below land acknowledgement, which was written and approved by the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone. Now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, From this date forward, the OCOH Oversight Committee will join the Board of Supervisors, HRC, and other Commissions in stating the following land acknowledgement at the beginning of each OCOH Oversight Committee meeting:

We acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the Ramaytush Community and by affirming their sovereign rights as First Peoples; and, be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, this land acknowledgement is a first step needed in acknowledging and honoring the land, culture, and contributions of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples throughout the San Francisco Bay Area; and be it

FURTHER RESOLVED, that this resolution be adopted and copies of it be submitted to the Mayor, Board of Supervisors, HRC, and ORE.

• Discussion and motion
• Public comment
• Vote

Members propose agenda items for subsequent meetings and provide Committee updates, with possible action by the Committee in response to this item. 

• Public Comment