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In an effort to encourage young residents to realize and be excited about
their role as their community’s future leaders, The San Pablo Youth Commision
allows the city’s vast youth population to represent their community
in an official capacity. “I am inspired by our Youth Commision,” expressed
Choy. “They are taking civic engagement to a whole new level.”
planning. “We are going to make sure the forums have professional
facilitation, translations, daycare, and food,” she described. “We will
be going out to the community to spaces that work for residents,
to make it very accessible.” Additionally, Choy described ways the
EDC and the city will further support local entrepreneurs and small
businesses, such as through revolving loan programs. “We can help
them with technical advice for gathering everything needed for loans
and we are also going to be able to make very low-interest loans,”
she said. “The whole idea is that the loans made are to companies
that can demonstrate that they are going to be able to retain and
even hire new employees through the loans.” Schools are also on the
EDC’s radar as an area to help improve outcomes for the city from
the beginning.
Choy acknowledges that the Culture of Health Prize is not going
to solve the challenges San Pablo faces but that it is a tool to further
the steps already in process. “We want to hold onto our community
and if we do not engage people, if we do not show them that there
is opportunity here, then our youth will leave and our families will
leave,” she admits. “So, we have a lot of building ahead, and we will
keep looking at what we can do to push San Pablo forward toward
the long-term visions.”
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