Contact Person: Lara Weisiger
Telephone: (510) 747-4800
Date: November 17, 2016
The City Council is soliciting applications from residents who would like to serve on the Social Service Human Relations Board (SSHRB). Interested persons are encouraged to apply by Thursday, December 1, 2016.
Members of the Social Service Human Relations Board work to create an environment which will encourage and bring about mutual understanding, respect, and goodwill among groups of people in the community and to improve social services in the community. Their current efforts include development of a comprehensive Community Needs Survey, playing an advisory role in the development and implementation of Alameda’s Homeless Action Plan, and helping facilitate a community dialogue in response to recent bias-motivated events affecting the Alameda community and beyond.
The SSHRB meets the fourth Thursday of each month, except for a combined November/December meeting on a different day due to holidays, at 7:00 p.m. in City Hall. The board was established to assess the social service needs of the community and to facilitate provision therefor; encourage the formation of private social welfare organizations; foster mutual understanding, respect, equality and good will among community groups; facilitate the provision of social services in the community by informing private agencies of needs and areas of duplication of effort; disseminate information concerning programs and functions of social service and regulatory agencies; and report to the City Council the social service needs of the people.
Application forms may be obtained from, and filed with, the City Clerk, City Hall, 2263 Santa Clara Avenue, Room 380. Forms are also available by telephoning the Office of the City Clerk at 510-747-4800 or on the City’s website at: http://alamedaca.gov/permits/boardscommissions/888.
