Item 36 - School Collaboration City Council Subcommittee

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City Manager Office www.santa-ana.org/cm Item # 36 City of Santa Ana 20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 Staff Report September 7, 2021 TOPIC: School Collaboration City Council Subcommittee AGENDA TITLE: Resolution Establishing the School Collaboration City Council Subcommittee RECOMMENDED ACTION Receive direction from the School Collaboration Ad Hoc Committee and consider adopting a resolution establishing the School Collaboration City Council Subcommittee. DISCUSSION Background Since December 1998, there have existed subcommittees of the City Council. Initially referred to as "council committees", these subcommittees have served as advisory to the City Council, have consisted of less than a quorum of the City Council, and have met for the purpose of focusing greater attention on key priorities that would come before the City Council in the future. While the first mention of a subcommittee relating to collaboration between the City and educational institutions was in December 1998 with the establishment of the Youth Alternatives and Development / School Capital Development / Educational Enhancement and Coordination Subcommittee, a subcommittee of the City Council did not begin holding joint meetings with an outside educational institution, particularly the Santa Ana Unified School District Governing Board, until January 2013 when the City Council established the Joint SAUSD and City Council Committee. The Joint SAUSD and City Council Committee, along with all other subcommittees, were disbanded in February 2020. Ad Hoc Committees On March 2, 2021, the Mayor appointed several councilmembers to ad hoc committees to discuss discrete policy issues: Solid Waste Ad Hoc Committee Housing Ad Hoc Committee School Collaboration Ad Hoc Committee Homeless Ad Hoc Committee Ad-Hoc committees are committees of the City Council. What differentiates ad-hoc committees from subcommittees is that ad-hoc committees meet (1) for a specific