April 24, 2024: IRC Executive Committee meeting

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.

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.

(Discussion/Action)
Discussion and possible action to approve the minutes of the Immigrant Rights Commission’s Executive Committee meeting of March 27, 2024.

a. Language Access Ordinance and Language Access Compliance Report Hearing
This item allows Director Rivas to provide an update on the upcoming Language Access Ordinance and Language Access Compliance Report hearing and allows the Executive Committee to discuss and take possible action.

b. Immigrant Leadership Award Recipients (Commissioners Ricarte and Obregon)
This item allows Commissioners Ricarte and Obregon to present the list of nominees recommended by the Awards Committee and allows the Executive Committee to discuss the recommendations, make any final changes to the list, and finalize and vote on the 2024 Immigrant Leadership Award recipients.

c. Immigrant Leadership Awards Event Planning (Director Rivas)
This item allows Director Rivas to provide an update on the Immigrant Leadership Awards event scheduled for June 10, 2024 at City Hall.

d. Proposed Letter on City Priorities (Commissioner Obregon)
This item allows Commissioner Obregon to discuss the letter she drafted regarding City priorities and allows the Executive Committee to discuss and take possible action. This item was introduced during New Business at the Full Commission’s January 8, 2024 meeting and has not yet been voted on by the Executive Committee or reviewed by the Full Commission. During its April 8, 2024 meeting, the Full Commission voted to approve the IRC retreat action plan, which includes adding two items from the Commission’s Strategic Planning Retreat to the letter being drafted.

e. IRC Strategic Planning Retreat Follow-Up
This item allows the Executive Committee to discuss follow-up actions from the IRC Strategic Planning Retreat on March 11, 2024. Commissioners identified newcomers and workforce development as their top two priorities for the year, and the Full Commission approved the action plan at its April 8, 2024 meeting.

f. Proposed Statement on DACA and Sanctuary City
This item allows the Executive Committee to discuss, and take possible action on, issuing a statement affirming the Commission’s support for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and San Francisco’s sanctuary status. On September 13, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas found the DACA final rule to be unlawful, and the case is expected to reach the U.S. Supreme Court. During the October 25, 2023 IRC Executive Committee meeting, Chair Kennelly suggested that the statement include a reference to the Commission’s hearing on workforce development. On October 30, 2023, the Full Commission voted to empower the Commission Chair to issue a statement.

g. Proposed Statement on Expansion of Medi-Cal
This item allows Commissioner Paz to propose issuing a statement on the expansion of Medi-Cal to all California residents, regardless of immigration status, and allows the Executive Committee to discuss and take possible action. Commissioner Paz introduced this item under New Business during the January 22, 2024 Executive Committee meeting, and volunteered to draft a statement.

(Information)
a. Director’s Updates
Report on OCEIA and IRC activities and announcements. This item allows the OCEIA Director to provide brief updates on activities and announcements. If the Commission would like a full report, we can place that matter on the agenda for a future meeting.

b. Update on IRC Workforce Recommendations 
This item allows Director Rivas to provide an update on the workforce recommendations approved by the Full Commission at its April 8, 2024 meeting. 

c. Follow-up on IRC Housing Recommendations and Resolution
This item allows Director Rivas to provide an update on the housing recommendations and resolution approved by the Full Commission at its April 8, 2024 meeting.

(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.