This is the January 14th, 2026 regular meeting of the Youth Task Force at 5 p .m. in Board of Supervisors Chambers.

I

call this meeting to order on January 14th at 5 .08 p .m. First off, we have a roll call.

Member

Doe?

Present. Member

Potok?

Present. Member

Bogoski?

Present. Member

Kaki?

Present. Member

Arun? Present. Member Olivares?

Present.

Member

Gee?

Present.

Member

Bonn is absent.

Member

Tan?

Present. Member

Huon is absent.

Member

Tang?

Present. Member

Kor?

Present.

Member

Fisher?

Present. Co

-Chairperson Nord?

Present.

And

Member Garg?

We

have Kor?

Present.

Sorry.

Thank

you. Thank you. Thank you. And with that, we will be adjourned. And with that, are there any requests to speak,

or

any requests for public comment at this time?

There is no public comment in person at this time.

Thank

you.

So

now we'll move on to approving the consent calendar,

and

I believe we do roll call again for that.

We

need a motion and second first. Oh,

motion and second.

I,

Nico Fisher, motion to approve the consent calendar and changes to the task force agenda.

And

I, Kendall Nord, second that motion.

And

seeing no public comment, we'll do roll call. Member Doe?

Aye. Member

Patak?

Aye. Member

Bogowski?

Aye. Member

Cockey?

Aye.

Member Arun?

Aye. Member

Olivares?

Aye. Member

Gee?

Aye. Member

Bond is absent. Member Tang?

Aye. Member

Huon is absent. Member Tang?

Aye. Member

Kor?

Aye. Member

Co -Chairperson Fisher?

Aye.

Member Co -Chairperson Nord?

Aye.

And

Member Garg?

Aye. Great.

Motion passes.

Excellent. We'll

move on to agenda item number four, which is to receive a report from the Office of Children and Families Policy.

So,

Melissa.

Thank you.

Hello,

commissioners.

To

those I haven't seen yet, Happy New Year. It feels kind of weird to say that in the middle of January, but Happy New Year to you all I haven't seen.

And

I hope that you all had a wonderful break.

Okay.

Just some updates.

So,

per usual, general reminders for commissioners that I share at every meeting.

Please

do remember to respond when I reach out via email or text with some sort of action.

It's

just for me to confirm quorum so that we can hold a meeting

or

confirmation so that we can move forward with something.

I

cannot assume that a commissioner will or will not attend a meeting, which is why your responses are very important.

So,

thank you all always for responding.

Please

keep me in the loop when you reach out to, like, agencies, organizations, elected officials, or other entities. Again, because our office oversees you all,

keeping

me in the loop helps maintain lines of communication. You

know,

I will say that we are doing a very good job steering more towards policy -related work because, again, you as a body serve to advise the Board of Supervisors.

So,

you'll want to think about the work that needs to be done, what impact the work can have, and what can be shared back with the Board.

We

always want commissioners to remember that when it comes to government work, change takes time.

And

it begins by conducting research to better understand an issue, followed by analysis to make a policy recommendation.

This is

a new one that I'll add.

So,

if any commissioners have any, like, ideas or topics that you'd like to put on the agenda for the next month, if you all can just tell me as soon as you can. Because based on internal timelines, there's no guarantee that it will be agendized on time for the upcoming meeting. But it might be for the following meeting. So, for example, if you want something on the agenda for February, now would be a really, really good time to tell me. You'd have to tell me before the end of April. Because if not, the item would have to be put on the March agenda. Again, that's just based on internal timelines for me and Clerk of the

Board.

So,

just something to keep in mind. Another reminder is that we do have about five months left in this fiscal school year. So, we should continue to be realistic about our goals and what we'd like to accomplish. Just sharing a small update on the request from Supervisor Ellenberg to have some members of the YTF present a speech or a poem at the 2026 State of the District next month. So, again, this is an annual event that Supervisor Ellenberg hosts. And it's a community gathering to highlight community leaders across District 4. So, the details of that, it's on a Wednesday, February 18th, from 6 to 8 p .m. at Willow Glen High School.

Your YTF commissioners, Nico, Sanvi, Christian, and Carissa, have indicated that they will be participating in this event. I think this is a super great opportunity. Because I don't think that the YTF commissioners will be participating in this event. The YTF has had many speaking opportunities. So, you know, I'm super excited to see what they come up with. Once the invite is available and more information,

and I have more

information, I will definitely share that out with everyone. Because I think that would be super cool for all of us to go.

Okay. I

do want to share an update from the office.

So,

I do want to ask, is anyone familiar with what ADA stands for?

Okay.

We

have one person.

Do

we know what it stands for?

Are

you referring to the American? The Americans with Disabilities Act?

Yes. Yes.

Awesome.

Okay.

Yes.

That

is the ADA stands for the Americans with Disabilities Act.

So,

effective April 2026, the U .S. Department of Justice's final rule under ADA Title II.

So,

Title II requires state and local governments to make sure that their services, programs, and activities are accessible to people with disabilities,

including

those services, programs, and activities that are offered online and through mobile apps. So, essentially, public entities will need to ensure that their digital documents, especially PDFs, comply with accessibility standards. So, this affects the YTF, because on our YTF website,

we

have a handful of documents, PDFs, that are posted that will either need to be updated to make sure that they meet this new accessibility requirement or they have to be removed.

So,

in reviewing the documents we have, the three documents are the Youth Leadership Guide, the YTF Bylaws, and the Youth Leadership Guidelines.

So,

for the Youth Leadership Guide that came out of the Youth Leadership Summit in 2024, we're looking to see if we can move it to an Excel sheet online.

So,

that would be what the county calls Power BI. So, it's just the data sheet is available, and you can just access it online. The Bylaws and the Work Plan, we will be redirecting

individuals,

like when they click on the button. It's a link that will redirect to the Clerk of the Board website so that we don't have to hold it. So, when members of the public go to like, oh, I want to see the bylaws or whatnot, they'll go to Clerk of the Board website and they can download it themselves so that we as an office are not

hosting

that. The YTF application is also something that is normally posted on the YTF website, but that is changing a little bit, but I'll discuss that more at the next item. And then, an update, another update our office would like to share is regarding the YTF application. The County Schools Collaborative. Okay. So, in October 2024, Supervisor Arenas requested a report regarding a potential collaborative model that connects systems to improve the health of children, youth, and young adults, especially those who are living in the highest -need zip codes. So, this collaborative would consist of county staff, school principals,

school

directors of student services, and other identified system leaders. So, the goal of this collaborative is to strengthen the system. To strengthen the relationships with schools. To improve coordination and collaboration between county departments and school districts. To strengthen, then, services and supports for youth and families. So, essentially, what we're trying to do is, because similar to how you all as youth groups, you kind of function in silos, you kind of do the same thing, but you all do it independently of each other. With this collaborative, it's trying to facilitate cross -agency, cross -jurisdictional engagement. Cross -jurisdiction meaning, you know, county level to district level. To, like, city level, school level.

So, we will be having the first meeting with county staff and schools next Thursday. So, after that, I'll be sure to share more information just so you all can keep updated with how that progress is going.

Okay.

I did receive the email from the housing subcommittee. So, when we get to that agenda item, I'll address my comments there. Lastly, I will be out of office all of next week. So, if you all have any, like, emails, questions, texts, I'll address those when I return January 26th. Okay.

And

that concludes my verbal report.

Thank you so much, Melissa. Does anyone have any questions regarding that report?

No? Okay.

And

are there any requests for public comment at this time?

There is no request for public comment at this time.

Thank you so much. And with that, we'll move on to agenda item number five, which is to discuss fiscal year 2026 to 2027 youth task force membership recruitment strategies and approve, I'm not sure what that's called. I don't know what that says, but maybe the recruitment strategies?

Approve

recommendations if anybody got cut off. Approve recommendations. Yeah. There.

Okay. So, this will be the last time that we'll have this specific agenda item because the 26 -27 YTF recruitment period is going to be opening in February before the next YTF meeting. The application period will be open from February to March 31st, 2026, which is coming up in, like, a few weeks. Okay. Friendly reminder that the YTF bylaws have been updated. And so, because member in seat 16, Erinuma, will be graduating this year, we will be removing seat number 16. So, the YTF will be composed of 15 members. So, this will also help with meeting quorum, which will change from currently quorum is nine and quorum will now be, well, quorum will be eight

next year. We have ten vacancies since almost all of our members are graduating seniors. And we also still need to fill the current vacancy that we've had since a member resigned. Okay. I just want to confirm my information. So, that means that everyone except for Christian, Eileen, Jessica, and Kishleen, everybody else is leaving us. Did I get that right?

I'll also be staying next year. Ah.

Okay. Cool. So, I think then we actually have nine. I think we have nine vacancies then. But even so, that's a high number of vacancies because you all are going to be leaving us to go to college. Thank you, Kaylin, for correcting.

Okay.

As mentioned, we do have a slight change to the application this year. So, normally, as most of you probably know, we host a PDF that we, like, update a little bit every single year. So, we upload that to the YTF webpage. And then we have links to access this application. So, because we are going to be required to make sure that everything is accessible, we decided to move away from uploading a PDF and we've moved towards just an online form. Okay. So, since the county uses Microsoft, the form is going to be hosted via Microsoft Forms. The questions are practically the same. There's no change to the question. We've only added one question and that's

specific to the Intern and Earn program because we do, we are going to be outreaching to them. So, if there are any youths who have participated in this program, they indicate that. That also flags it for us to be like, oh, this is a, we should prioritize this application. Okay. So, that all said, does the YTF and or the outreach committee have any additional thoughts on how to reach more schools and or students? If not, then we continue with our process. But just always wanting to allow this space for you all to weigh in.

Are there any updates from anyone in the outreach subcommittee who can talk about what you guys are, like, developing in terms of, like, pamphlets, et cetera?

Yeah. So, you just mentioned it. But the

pamphlet is definitely the thing. It's the thing that we're focusing the most on right now. And I actually have it open on my computer. But some of the different areas that we're trying to focus on are kind of giving an introductory information on what the YTF is, what subcommittees do, and also what the YTF as a whole does. That includes meeting frequency and our main focus areas. And then we also wanted to focus a little bit on accomplishments and highlighting things that we've done in the past. In the past couple of years. So, I think a lot of those accomplishments have been through subcommittee work. There was also some summer internship accomplishments. And then the

youth leadership summit that was held, I believe, April 2024.

And then I think we also wanted to then just kind of add the link to our website and where the application is so that people can directly apply using a QR code or a link on the back. But I think we are still in the drafting period for the pamphlet. So, hopefully in the next month before or probably the next couple of weeks, hopefully we get that finalized so that we can send it out right as the application period is opening up.

Thank you, Kendall. Yeah, awesome. I think it's ‑‑ it would have been ideal had we had a pamphlet kind of ready kind of at the same time. But it's also okay that we ‑‑ you know, it's not the same time. Because this pamphlet is kind of meant to be like a general info flyer. That, you know, you all can use when you go to like events and things that you can share. So, can't wait to see that draft. But thank you for your work on it.

Okay. So, then the last thing for this item, David just walked in. But I will be asking David, your public relations officer, to create a post to advertise the recruitment period. And I'll also be reaching out to various groups. So, community‑based organizations, other youth groups, you know, to just garner, like, interest. Everywhere. And then you all can do what you all always do. Share, what not. Tell your friends. Because, yes, we have like nine vacancies. Okay. Any other thoughts or comments for this? Okay. I do also want to say that in the next couple of months or so, I will be ‑‑ we'll be having an agenda item to go over which commissioners will be

reviewing the application. So, that will be for the 26, 27 applications as well as going over logistics and details related to that.

What does the timeline look

like right now in terms of, like, when the application is going to be open and when it is, like, going to close?

So, February 2nd? Technically, it should be the first. But because the first is a weekend,

the

applications should go live February 2nd to March 31st. Okay. So, then that means that, you know, April, April, May‑ish will be the review time.

It

just depends on how many applications there are.

Because,

again, us as an office, we review all of it.

And

then you as commissioners, we only give you, like, a select number. Because we don't want to overload you all.

But

that's what it looks like in order for us to provide our recommendations to the board in time for June.

So,

yeah, April, May is review time.

So, is the goal to have, like, the recruitment pamphlet, the social media post, for example,

is

the goal to have that done and, like, released by February 2nd?

It would be ideal. But that's not a requirement.

Because

the ‑‑ again, ideal, but it's

okay

if it isn't. So, it's really whenever the subcommittee is able to kind of finalize a draft, send for my review, and then we kind of go through that.

So, yeah. No.

No.

It's not required by February 2nd.

Other

comments?

No. Then

that's it for that item.

Excellent. Thank

you.

Deputy

Clerk, can we please take a short recess?

Yes. And there is no public comment.

Okay.

I'm

calling this meeting back to order at 545 p .m., January 14th.

I

believe we're going to need a roll call.

Member

Doe? Present.

Member

Patak?

Present. Member

Bogoski?

Present. Member

Kaki?

Present. Member

Arun?

Present.

Member

Olivares?

Present. Member

Gee?

Present. Member

Brown is absent.

Member

Tan?

Present. Member

Huynh?

Present. Member

Tang?

Present. Member

Kor?

Present.

Co‑Chairperson Fischer?

Present. And

Co‑Chairperson Nord?

Present.

And Member Garg?

Present.

We have a quorum.

Excellent. Then we have a motion. And we can begin discussing agenda item number 6, which is to discuss inviting elected officials to present at a future youth task force meeting

and

approve recommendations, if any. Before that, do we have any requests for public comment? Deputy Clerk?

There is no request for public comment.

Excellent. So Melissa, was there a, like, chain of thought with

this? It's sharing. Sure. But if you have any thoughts before I share? Okay.

So

this item we discussed at the previous meeting

about

potentially inviting state representatives or their staff

to

come and speak to the YTF, similar to how we have the supervisors come and speak. So we connected with IGR, so the Office

of

Intergovernmental Relations, and hooray, it's a fairly simple process to actually do this. So depending on the state representative you want

to

hear from, there are a few things that the YTF will have

to

do in preparation to submit the request. We would need to provide

agenda

items. We would need to provide agenda details, who the audience is, and what you're asking the state representative to speak about.

So

this is important because what this means is that you

as

the YTF will need to create a structured outline or a frame

so

that the state representative

or

their staff can come prepared. So previously, your co -chairs, Nico and Kendall, drafted up a lobbying day framework, which has now been repurposed to inviting state representative or their staff to come and speak to the YTF, because that's an easier ask. So some examples of state representatives from our state delegation would be Assembly members Alex Lee, Ash Kalra, Mark Berman, Patrick,

I

think it's pronounced Ahrens, and then we have Senators Josh Becker and Dave Cortese, Dave Cortese

of

which was a former Board of Supervisors member, and he also formerly oversaw the YTF. So if

this

is something that the YTF is interested in, you would all need to work together to work on developing like an outline, you know, providing details on what you'd like to ask the state representative or their staff to come talk about. You also should be thinking

about

which meeting you'd like for them to come.

For

the rest of this year, you only have about like March through May, so you'll want to be strategic to work

on

those pieces of information relatively quickly

so

we can submit our request sooner. So once you all kind of have that information,

you

share that with me, and I will submit the request on behalf of you all as the YTF. Thank you. And I'll keep us updated. You know, if that kind of doesn't work

or

if we're not interested in hearing from individual kind

of

state representatives, there were also some suggestions about inviting some other agencies or community -based organizations,

including

California Departments of Agency.

So

for example, that would be like the California, I think it's a department, or it's the Health

and

Human Services, et cetera. The State Office of Youth and Community Restoration. The Office of the Governor. California Volunteers. First Five California. We also could actually get First Five Santa Clara County

because

our office has a very good, close working partnership with them, as well as the Juvenile Justice Division.

So,

you know, just examples of different speakers that we could have come. So thoughts? Questions?

We

can also agendize this for discussion next month as well if this is something that members are interested in.

So

just wanted to share that update in terms of like, okay.

Well,

how do we go about this? Thoughts? Comments?

It

sounds great to me.

I

think that me and my co -chair will definitely work

on

developing an outline to invite certain elected officials, specifically Patrick Ahrens, who oversaw this commission in the near future. Dave Cortese, sorry.

And

also Patrick Ahrens.

I

really want to meet him. And my understanding is that he has a reverence

for

the task force. He was in contact with Anushka last year about it. So, yeah. Does anyone else have any questions for Melissa or any, like, points of discussion for inviting elected officials?

So

essentially, you could just work off of that document that you and Kendall had created and just kind of refine it a bit more

because

what the state representative

or

their staff will be looking for is like, okay,

what

exactly is it that you want me to speak on, as opposed to just come and talk about anything.

That's

why it helps them to have kind of a structured outline or agenda

so

that they know what they can speak to.

And,

oh, the other thing, too, is, sorry, Kendall.

The

other thing, too, it may

or

may not be the state representative themselves. I do think, I want to say, I'm going to be hopeful in thinking that if we invite Senator Cortese, he might come

because

this used to be his thing. But there's no guarantee

that

the representative themselves will come. It could be their staff.

So

just as a disclaimer. Yes, Kendall. No,

I was just going to say, that sounds perfect. And Nico and I will definitely work

on

making sure that the information on there. Is less

about

transportation, which is what it was before and kind

of

more focused on the other parts of it that were about our focuses and how their work can relate to that and what we'd like to hear from them. So with that, I think, are there any requests to speak at this time? No,

there isn't.

Perfect.

I think we can probably move on to agenda item number seven,

which

is to receive verbal reports. And that goes to Commissioner Kaki, the legislative affairs officer.

Perfect.

I can go ahead and

start

with you. So I'm going to start with you. So I'm going to start with you. One of the key items reviewed this month was a report from the Department of Family and Children's Services on child welfare reform efforts. This item has been under advisement for nearly a year,

and

it reflects multiple touch points across 2023 to 2025. The board took several actions based on Supervisor Ellenberg and Vice President Arenas' requests. First, the board directed that the Valley Health Foundation report back in March 2026 with an update

on the

child care facility grants funded by the American Rescue Plan Act.

This

future report will include the final status

of

these grants, lessons learned during implementation, and any unmet child care needs still present. Next, the board also emphasized renewed focus on dually involved youth, or DIY, which are youth who are involved in both the child welfare

and

juvenile justice systems.

The

administration was directed to report back through the Children, Seniors, and Families Committee on a date uncertain. With feedback

from

both the Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council

and

the Child Welfare Community Roundtable.

So

this report will evaluate the effectiveness

of

the DIY programs and look into the performance

of

voluntary service programs designed to support these youth.

Then

from the Children, Seniors, and Family Committee meeting on December 10th, the CSFC meeting staff from both the City of San Jose

and

the County of Santa Clara presented updates

on

key youth -focused initiatives and discussed opportunities for stronger alignment across agencies. So the City of San Jose staff

presented...

The City of San Jose staff presented the goals and structure of the Newly Adopted Children and Youth Services Master Plan, or the CYSMP, which is a long -term strategy to improve outcomes for youth from birth to 24 years old. So this plan was built on community input from over 1 ,000 youth and families,

and

it aims to reduce disparities by race, income, and neighborhood. Some key features of the CYSMP include a new Children and Youth Services Fund to support youth -serving programs,

a

Children's Bill of Rights outlining the City's commitment

to

youth well -being, emphasis on early childhood care, mental health access, workforce readiness, and safe spaces for youth, and a roadmap to embed youth voice

in

City decision -making and expand partnerships with schools, CBOs, and public agencies. So the City expressed a lot of interest in sharing this data with the County and aligning funding systems where possible. Councilmember Sergio Jimenez emphasized the need for regional collaboration, especially around violence and prevention and mental health. Thank you.

Awesome.

Thank you so

much,

Nitya. Does anybody have a question? Does anyone

have

any questions?

No? Okay, with

that,

we can move on to the Homelessness Ad Hoc Committee updates.

Would

you like to share your comments first, Melissa, or should I go ahead? I'd refer to you. Okay, cool. So, so far, since our last meeting, the Homelessness Subcommittee has been continuing

to

outreach to schools, sending emails.

We

have managed to get responses from 10 schools in terms of their willingness

to

fill out the survey. And right now, I just checked. We have three responses on the Google form, which is really awesome.

It's

from Foothill and then I have it open, sorry.

Foothill, Homestead, and William C. Overfelt High School. And we will continue to be getting those responses in. As for the schools that haven't responded, we are calling their offices, trying to get in contact with the administration, with principal or McKinney -Vento liaison, whoever we can get. And

hopefully,

we will be able to get most, if not all, of our schools to respond. And then I did send Melissa an email yesterday about other options in case we aren't able to get responses

from

some schools.

So,

if you'd like to share your comments on those.

Thank

you, Arunima. Okay. So, I'll respond, but I will also respond in an email

too,

just so that you all have this in writing. But, okay.

So,

yes, for the schools that have not responded. Please go ahead

and

call them. Figure out who you should be kind of getting in contact with. Just some thoughts on why people didn't respond. Thank you, Christian, for providing those insights. But my thoughts also are that we asked these individuals

a

question. We were like, hey, can you get us in touch with the person to take the survey? So, because we didn't want to assume

that

the principals would be the ones taking the survey. So, because principals have a lot going on

and,

you know, inboxes tend to kind of get flooded with emails

and

things, that probably could be another reason why. Like, it's not just that one reason that, oh, because we didn't have, like, the link in there. Because the first contact was, hi, let us know who to get

in

touch with. Okay. So, I do agree that for the schools who, you know, haven't responded, you know, you've been calling them, trying to just get in contact with them. Go ahead and just send out the survey link to the principal. You know, hopefully, they'll get it

to

the right people. So, this part is important.

I

don't think I saw in some of the emails,

but

you should all add a line that clarifies that the survey is meant for school staff.

Because

I think there were some schools

that

I think they just immediately saw an email and they, like, just forwarded it to, you know,

all

the families and students. You know, so we just want to clarify that this is not supposed to happen. This is supposed to go out. We're not asking students to complete this. I thought that I had updated this language somewhere, but I guess I didn't.

So,

in my email response with this summary, I'll also just include the line that you all can use,

that

I've been using when I was following up with the schools about that.

Okay.

Okay. So, regarding additional schools, in case, you

know,

you just don't hear back. I would say that if the members have capacity. Then, by all means.

Like,

I don't see a problem with reaching out to more schools.

My,

I do have two questions, though one question is relating to that. So, we'll call this the second round of outreach, you

know,

for the additional schools. What does that timeline look like for survey completion, right? Because, in a way, you still have to ask, like, okay, well, let me ask you all. Like, are we going to