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Community Leadership Academy graduates complete resource fair serving unhoused residents
Summary
City staff reported on the 2025 Community Leadership Academy: 6-week program with 11 graduates, a student-initiated resource fair Dec. 4 that served roughly 75 unhoused people and hands-on civic education including voter registration.
Monica Sardina, Community Service Manager for the City of Salinas, briefed commissioners on the 2025 Community Leadership Academy, a six-week program of 12 sessions that ran from mid-September to late October and was designed to introduce residents to local government and community organizing.
"We met twice a week, from September 16 to October 23," Sardina said, describing a curriculum that…
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