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ATTACHMENT A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING THE COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLANNING WHEREAS, the Santa Ana Strategic Plan states that economic development is a goal and a priority forth city, and that the City of Santa Ana will work aggressively to encourage businesses to locate and invest in our community, providing good jobs, reducing unemployment, and bolstering our City's tax base, and WHEREAS, the Santa Ana Strategic Plan considers the completion of a comprehensive economic development strategy to be a key strategy in achieving goals of economic development, and WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana struggles with high rates of unemployment and low incomes, yet is a vibrant and culturally diverse city with a growing youth population that has significant potential for economic development, and WHEREAS, economic development is critical to the financial well -being and future growth of our city, and responsible economic development must bring opportunity to all of Santa Ana's residents, businesses, and workers. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED as follows: 1. There is hereby established the City of Santa Ana Community Advisory Committee for Economic Development Planning ( "Committee "). The Committee shall consist of: (15) fifteen voting members. 2. The membership of the Committee must represent a number of critical stakeholder groups; to this end, seats of the committee will be designated to representatives as follows: a. Eight (8) seats to be held by representatives of the business community: i. One (1) seat for a business affiliated with each of the following business communities in Santa Ana: 1. The Santa Ana Business Council 2. The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce 3. The Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce 4. The Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce 5. The Orange County Business Council ii. Three (3) seats for businesses located in diverse geographic regions of Santa Ana, including the South Main corridor and downtown Santa Ana. Seven (7) seats to be held by stakeholders, one representing each of the following groups or affiliations: i. Two (2) seats for representatives of organized labor. if these seats are held by representatives of individual unions rather than councils of labor unions, the unions represented must be from different industries. it. One (1) seat representing workforce development or employment training (e.g. the Workforce Investment Board) iii. One (1) seat representing formal continuing education, either from high school employment - preparation or from community college iv. Two (2) seats to be held by representatives of the Santa Ana community, one adult (over 25 years of age) and one youth (16 to 25 years of age). Both must have been residents of Santa Ana for at least three years. WS -A -97