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City Council Ad Hoc Committees and Standing Subcommittees December 21, 2021 Page 3 Collaboration City Council Standing Subcommittee is to study, review, and/or discuss the following topics: • Create opportunities to collaborate with educational institutions that serve Santa Ana, including public school districts (such as the Santa Ana Unified School District, Garden Grove Unified School Districts, and others), private schools, charter schools, higher education institutions, and others to improve service delivery. • Identify existing and future joint -use agreements for City -owned and school district - owned facilities to streamline and modernize service delivery. The School Collaboration City Council Standing Subcommittee may meet jointly with subcommittees of legislative bodies should those legislative bodies decide to establish their own subcommittees that meet at the same time, place, and manner of the School Collaboration City Council Subcommittee; moreover, the School Collaboration City Council Standing Subcommittee may meet with subcommittees of legislative bodies or their representatives in the form of those individuals attending and participating in the subcommittees of legislative bodies as attendees as agendized in those meetings. There is a desire among members of the City Council to establish additional standing City Council subcommittees: SUBCOMMITTEE SCOPE Legislative Provide on -going guidance and direction to help facilitate the City's legislative affairs efforts. This includes setting legislative priorities, directing legislative advocacy, making policy recommendations relating to how the City may respond to legislative actions that may affect the City. Public Safety and Provide on -going guidance and direction relating to public safety services Homelessness (police and fire) in Santa Ana. Provide on -going guidance and direction relating to homeless services in Santa Ana. Assess the impacts of homelessness on the quality of life of community members. The City Council may consider the attached resolution (Exhibit 1) to establish the Legislative City Council Standing Subcommittee and the Public Safety and Homelessness City Council Standing Subcommittee. If the resolution is adopted, the newly established standing subcommittees will create and approve its own by-laws that will provide further detail relating to their scope of work of advising the City Council. Staff recommends that each member of the standing subcommittee serve for a two-year term commencing with the first meeting of the newly installed City Council following a general election. These provisions are consistent with the provisions established in Resolution 2017-009 and Resolution 2021-XXX, which established the last series of standing subcommittees. Standing committees of the City Council are subject to the various meeting requirements of the Brown Act. Agendas for standing committees must be posted, minutes must be taken, and the meetings must be open and accessible to the public, among others. City Council 40 — 3 12/21/2021