MEETING

February 10, 2025 IRC meeting

Meeting details

Date and time

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How to participate

In-person

City Hall Room 4161 Dr Carlton B Goodlett Pl
San Francisco, CA 94102

Online

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Overview

Members of the Commission will attend this meeting in person. Members of the public are invited to observe the meeting in-person or remotely using Webex or by calling the phone number and entering the access code above. Everyone attending the meeting in person is encouraged to wear a mask throughout the meeting. Each member of the public attending in person may address the Commission for up to two minutes. Public speakers using consecutive interpretation assistance will be allowed to speak for twice the amount of the time.

Agenda

1

Call to Order and Roll Call

2

Ramaytush Ohlone Land Acknowledgment

We, the San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission, 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.

3

General Public Comment

(Information)
This item is to allow members of the public to address the Commission on matters that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Commission and that do not appear on today’s agenda.

4

Action Item: Approval of previous minutes

(Discussion/Action)
Discussion and possible action to approve the minutes of the Immigrant Rights Commission’s Full Commission meetings of November 18, 2024 and January 13. 2025.

5

Discussion/Action Items

a. Follow-Up Action from Special Hearing: Statement in Support of Sanctuary City Policies

(Discussion/Action)
This item Commissioners to discuss issuing a statement in support of San Francisco’s sanctuary city policies.

b. Proposed Letter in Support of California State Assembly Bill 91 (Commissioner Fara)

(Discussion/Action)
This item allows Commissioner Fara to propose that the Commission write a letter in support of California State Assembly Bill 91: State and local agencies: demographic data (Harabedian).

6

Chair Reports

(Information)

a. Chair’s Updates

This item allows the Commission Chair to provide updates and discuss upcoming meetings.

b. IRC Awards Committee

This item allows the Chair to appoint co-chairs and members to the IRC Awards Committee.

c. IRC Strategic Planning Retreat

This item allows the Chair and Director Rivas to provide an overview of planning for the IRC Strategic Planning Retreat. Every Commissioner is asked to complete the pre-retreat survey sent by OCEIA staff to inform planning for the retreat.
 

7

Staff Reports

(Information)

a. Director’s Updates

Report on OCEIA and IRC activities and announcements. This item allows Director Rivas to provide brief updates on activities and announcements.

b. Update on the Language Access Summary Report

This item allows for Director Rivas to provide an discuss the 2025 Language Access Compliance Summary Report submitted to Mayor’s Office, Boards of Supervisors, and the Full Commission.

c. Update on IRC Letter to the Department of Human Resources

This item allows Director Rivas to provide a brief update on the IRC’s letter to the Department of Human Resources, which was approved by the Full Commission at its November 18, 2024 meeting.

d. Reappointment Hearings for Board-Appointed Commissioners

This item allows the Director to discuss Commissioners up for reappointment. As of June 2024, five Commissioners are up for reappointment by the Board of Supervisors.

8

Old and New Business

(Information)
This item is to allow Commissioners to provide updates on items the Commission has previously discussed, and to introduce new agenda items for future consideration by the Commission.
 

9

Adjournment