Equity Board · Wednesday, December 1, 2021 · City Council Digest

1. CALL TO ORDER

Board Membership

packet pp.3

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Staff report:

EQUITY BOARD Staff Liaison Monica Negrila, Human About Services Manager Created in 2021, this board is to support and Email cultivate the voices of the diverse communities in Issaquah by advising the Regular Members Mayor, City Council and City departments on 2022 - Cristina Abonce the City’s plans, policies, regulations, and 2023 - Megan Reichley* programs related to equity initiatives. 2023 - Alisa Stewart 2024 - Lorna Gilmour 2024 - Hellen Kibenge Membership 2024 - Lucrecia Choto The Equity Board is comprised of nine 2025 - Ray Manahan regular members, with four-year terms; 2025 - Tony Curry and three alternates, with two year terms. 2025 - Shalanda Curry Initial terms of the board are staggered. All member are appointed by the Mayor and subject to confirmation by the City Council. Alternate Members Terms expire April 30 of the year listed. For 2022 - Jacob Rubenstein* more…

3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of November 3rd, 2021

packet pp.5–8

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Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 11-03-21 Equity Board Minutes Page [0000] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Equity Board 6:00 PM Virtual Meeting November 3, 2021 MINUTES

4. AGENDA ITEMS

City's Equity Team Introductions

Discussion · 30 min · Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager · packet pp.9–60

Topics: Equity

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Staff report:

Rules & Regulations DEC. 1, 2021 | EQUITY BOARD TISHA GIESER, CITY CLERK

Equity Board Rules & Regulations/Bylaws (I)

30 min · Tisha Gieser, City Clerk

Topics: Equity

▶ Watch from 37:52

Board Development Discussion: Equity vs. Equality (D)

30 min · Tony Curry, Equity Board Vice Chair

Topics: Equity

▶ Watch from 1:08:44

Next Steps: Workplan Development

Information · 15 min · Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager

▶ Watch from 1:39:36

5. STAFF REPORT

Updates from Mayor and City Council

5 min · Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager

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0:04 ↗ you're ready

0:06 ↗ all right

0:07 ↗ and we are recording

0:10 ↗ and um i apologize here i think this is

0:12 ↗ where we're going to start to take do

0:14 ↗ roll call yes we do they can assist with

0:18 ↗ that if you would like shay

0:20 ↗ yes please

0:22 ↗ so yes good evening everyone

0:25 ↗ um

0:25 ↗ [Music]

0:26 ↗ i'm gonna go ahead

0:28 ↗ and start with introductions

0:31 ↗ when i call your name

0:33 ↗ please state your name that you are here

0:36 ↗ um

0:37 ↗ christina

0:42 ↗ present

0:45 ↗ good have you good evening also as a

0:47 ↗ reminder for those of you in attendance

0:49 ↗ and watching online

0:52 ↗ later

0:53 ↗ this

0:54 ↗ meeting we provide spanish

0:56 ↗ interpretation services thank you for

0:58 ↗ the interpreting services

1:00 ↗ um

1:01 ↗ next member megan riley

1:04 ↗ here

1:06 ↗ thank you good evening

1:08 ↗ um alyssa stewart she's excused she's

1:10 ↗ gonna be a little bit late she's going

1:12 ↗ to join us a little bit later

1:14 ↗ uh lorna gilmore

1:18 ↗ here

1:20 ↗ thank you lorna

1:21 ↗ helen kibanja

1:24 ↗ yeah good evening

1:30 ↗ and present

1:32 ↗ hello christian ray manahan

1:35 ↗ here

1:36 ↗ hi ray

1:38 ↗ tell me curry

1:39 ↗ right here

1:40 ↗ hi tony again

1:45 ↗ here

1:46 ↗ you're welcome

1:48 ↗ and jacob

1:50 ↗ rubenstein sorry jacob

1:52 ↗ here hi jacob

1:55 ↗ um pretty molly pam

1:58 ↗ here

1:59 ↗ hi pretty

2:01 ↗ and caliman

2:03 ↗ here

2:06 ↗ so that concludes the roll call um

2:10 ↗ most of the members are in attendance

2:12 ↗ back to you say for the minute i believe

2:17 ↗ great and in our minutes today we're

2:19 ↗ going to um go over the agenda

2:23 ↗ um

2:23 ↗ [Music]

2:25 ↗ so for today we're meeting december 1st

2:29 ↗ uh

2:30 ↗ 2021 at a little bit past six uh monica

2:34 ↗ should i be saying six a six pm when we

2:36 ↗ normally meet or should i give the time

2:38 ↗ we started

2:40 ↗ yeah we started i think the meeting

2:42 ↗ at six eleven

2:46 ↗ pm

2:47 ↗ um there is a quorum present

2:51 ↗ um and we have one member that's being

2:53 ↗ excused as she will be joining a little

2:55 ↗ bit late

2:59 ↗ all righty and if we're ready we can go

3:02 ↗ over the agenda and monica can i ask you

3:04 ↗ to help with that please

3:06 ↗ yes shay absolutely so the next item on

3:09 ↗ the agenda is reviewing the minutes from

3:12 ↗ the previous meeting which was our first

3:15 ↗ meeting

3:16 ↗ and so if you would like perhaps members

3:19 ↗ you can check if you don't have a chance

3:21 ↗ yet to look over the minutes you have

3:23 ↗ them in your agenda packet

3:26 ↗ uh feel free to take a few minutes to

3:28 ↗ review them

3:29 ↗ um and then after that

3:31 ↗ shay you can ask board members if um

3:34 ↗ anyone would like to make a motion to

3:36 ↗ approve the minutes following that you

3:39 ↗ can ask members for discussion

3:42 ↗ um

3:44 ↗ and with that i see that lucia has a

3:47 ↗ comment i'm not sure if you can see the

3:49 ↗ chat

3:50 ↗ i cannot see the chat thank you

3:53 ↗ yeah i'm happy to help with that as well

3:56 ↗ um yes i'd like to note that um we

3:58 ↗ misspelled paul wally's name

4:01 ↗ in one section of the

4:03 ↗ minutes uh okay his name is spelled as

4:06 ↗ paula as opposed to paul

4:08 ↗ we need to change that please

4:10 ↗ good catch lucia thank you will

4:13 ↗ will make that correction

4:20 ↗ without any other notes that you can see

4:23 ↗ in the minute and if not perhaps you you

4:26 ↗ can ask somebody to make a motion

4:29 ↗ to approve the minute

4:31 ↗ all right if we have no other

4:33 ↗ corrections or

4:34 ↗ comments

4:35 ↗ then i'd like to request that someone

4:38 ↗ make a motion for us

4:42 ↗ and board members since this is your

4:43 ↗ second meeting you did not make motions

4:45 ↗ to approve minutes before so if anyone

4:48 ↗ feels comfortable from the board you you

4:50 ↗ can make a motion and you just say that

4:52 ↗ um i move to approve the minutes

4:56 ↗ um

4:56 ↗ with the corrections noted or

4:59 ↗ anything else this is lucrezia speaking

5:02 ↗ um so are we doing this differently than

5:04 ↗ we do in the commission where the

5:07 ↗ chair actually says there are no no

5:10 ↗ comments and or

5:11 ↗ discussion

5:13 ↗ then the minutes are here so fast are we

5:15 ↗ not doing that here

5:17 ↗ we can there are a couple of points

5:21 ↗ so um i apologize because i'm not

5:23 ↗ completely familiar with it

5:25 ↗ um

5:26 ↗ so would you repeat the statement and

5:28 ↗ i'll repeat it for you

5:30 ↗ so with that board members there are a

5:32 ↗ couple of different ways to approve

5:34 ↗ minutes and solo crazia you you have

5:36 ↗ familiarity from other boards and

5:38 ↗ commissions i'm sure that you know once

5:40 ↗ you all get more familiar if there are

5:42 ↗ no corrections you can certainly go

5:44 ↗ through that otherwise kind of like the

5:46 ↗ traditional way of approving minutes is

5:48 ↗ that you make a motion and then if you

5:51 ↗ know you can still as a chair can still

5:52 ↗ make the

5:53 ↗ the

5:54 ↗ comment that if there are no other

5:56 ↗ corrections

5:57 ↗ um then the minutes are approved and not

6:00 ↗ um

6:02 ↗ unanimously

6:04 ↗ okay

6:05 ↗ um then if there are no other

6:07 ↗ corrections then we can approve the

6:09 ↗ minutes

6:14 ↗ okay i don't see any other corrections

6:17 ↗ so with that um we will approve the

6:19 ↗ minutes

6:21 ↗ with the correction

6:23 ↗ mentioned earlier

6:24 ↗ that's okay with all of you

6:30 ↗ okay

6:31 ↗ i'll shade the next item on the agenda

6:35 ↗ or actually i apologize i realized that

6:38 ↗ i jumped over public comments

6:41 ↗ um

6:42 ↗ and so for the public comment sections i

6:44 ↗ just wanted to mention that i don't we

6:47 ↗ did not receive any public comments or

6:49 ↗ requests for public comments and i don't

6:51 ↗ see any um

6:53 ↗ members of the public in attendance

6:55 ↗ tonight so um with that we don't have

6:58 ↗ any public comments

7:00 ↗ um we can move to the next agenda item

7:05 ↗ since there are no public comments then

7:06 ↗ we'll move to the next item on the

7:08 ↗ agenda

7:09 ↗ um

7:10 ↗ and from what i'm seeing here

7:12 ↗ uh

7:13 ↗ say

7:14 ↗ i apologize for just a moment

7:17 ↗ um

7:19 ↗ tisha wanted to make a comment

7:22 ↗ yes i'm i'm sorry for the interruption

7:24 ↗ jay i see that um harry and hillary have

7:26 ↗ a raised hand didn't know if they might

7:27 ↗ need something addressed oh okay i did

7:31 ↗ not notice that thank you so much

7:35 ↗ hillary and harry are our interpreters

7:38 ↗ do you need anything on our ends

7:41 ↗ uh hilary harry son

7:44 ↗ no i think we just didn't know how to

7:46 ↗ lower our hand we didn't realize it was

7:48 ↗ up

7:48 ↗ oh

7:49 ↗ thank you so much for letting us know

7:52 ↗ and

7:53 ↗ i'm trying to see it here i don't see it

7:55 ↗ on my end

8:03 ↗ well thank you so much for checking in

8:06 ↗ say back to you if you would like to

8:07 ↗ move to the next item on the agenda

8:10 ↗ actually

8:13 ↗ yes

8:14 ↗ i can just say if we're ready we'll move

8:16 ↗ to the next agenda item

8:20 ↗ and actually the next agenda item it's

8:23 ↗ the city equity team introductions

8:27 ↗ we have um tonight with us

8:29 ↗ representatives from the city's equity

8:32 ↗ team

8:33 ↗ um

8:34 ↗ as you might have remembered from the

8:36 ↗ first meeting as we had a broad

8:39 ↗ brief overview of the city and the

8:42 ↗ different departments

8:44 ↗ equity initiatives at the city have been

8:47 ↗ divided into internal and community

8:49 ↗ facing

8:50 ↗ of course no one single person

8:53 ↗ is responsible for

8:57 ↗ equity since it's such a

8:59 ↗ big and important topic and shouldn't be

9:01 ↗ just in one single person's hands

9:03 ↗ however it's helpful to have a lead

9:05 ↗ person or a group

9:07 ↗ for the internal equity initiatives our

9:10 ↗ hr department takes the lead

9:13 ↗ in human services the point

9:16 ↗ the human services are the point persons

9:19 ↗ for the community facing

9:21 ↗ equity initiatives

9:24 ↗ of course there's a great connection

9:25 ↗ between the internal and the

9:27 ↗ community-facing initiatives

9:29 ↗ um as one always impacts the other

9:31 ↗ but i'm just so so proud to also be part

9:34 ↗ of the equity team and to have some

9:35 ↗ representatives with us tonight

9:38 ↗ our equity team has about 18 members i

9:40 ↗ believe

9:41 ↗ um and then say we can

9:44 ↗ at your leisure we can invite equity

9:46 ↗ members to introduce themselves however

9:48 ↗ you would like to um

9:51 ↗ go with that

9:53 ↗ all right great um so equity board

9:55 ↗ members um we would like for you to go

9:57 ↗ ahead and introduce yourselves please be

10:00 ↗ sure to state your name um how long

10:02 ↗ you've been with the board and tell us

10:05 ↗ why you joined

10:14 ↗ volunteers

10:21 ↗ i'll all on me myself i'm happy to go

10:24 ↗ first uh to kick us off hi everyone it's

10:26 ↗ so nice to meet you my name is stephanie

10:28 ↗ johnson and i'm the city's human

10:30 ↗ resources director so i

10:34 ↗ certainly have equity on the forefront

10:36 ↗ of

10:37 ↗ not just my responsibilities but my

10:39 ↗ passion as a human resources

10:40 ↗ professional cliche or not my passion is

10:44 ↗ to be a resource for humans and i

10:46 ↗ believe equity uh diversity equity

10:48 ↗ inclusion is a huge piece of that in my

10:51 ↗ role

10:52 ↗ um

10:53 ↗ we have i've been with the city for

10:56 ↗ going on seven years um we have uh

11:00 ↗ morphed um in our dei efforts over time

11:04 ↗ um there was um some initiative by

11:07 ↗ staff members starting

11:09 ↗ [Music]

11:10 ↗ uh 17 2017 2018

11:14 ↗ that did some

11:16 ↗ gear training and we began to form

11:18 ↗ our first internal equity

11:21 ↗ uh committee internally

11:24 ↗ in 2020

11:26 ↗ many events took place uh you know

11:28 ↗ following certainly the death of george

11:31 ↗ floyd um and brought you know some

11:34 ↗ just some need to bring you know equity

11:37 ↗ is not something that can exist on a

11:39 ↗ shelf

11:40 ↗ um and to bring that to the forefront

11:42 ↗ and so we did a call

11:44 ↗ for interest um those gear members and

11:48 ↗ additional staff across the organization

11:51 ↗ that were interested in dei efforts

11:55 ↗ and we got to a place where we have the

11:58 ↗ equity

11:59 ↗ internal committee that we have today

12:01 ↗ that monica

12:03 ↗ introduced in terms of

12:05 ↗ roughly 18 members across city staff

12:08 ↗ department departments

12:09 ↗ people that are passionate about this

12:11 ↗ work

12:12 ↗ we've done other initiatives in the city

12:14 ↗ around

12:16 ↗ issaquah as an employer of choice and

12:20 ↗ employee experience plan

12:22 ↗ i'm really excited as the hr director to

12:27 ↗ um to really

12:28 ↗ um

12:29 ↗ work together and bridge so many

12:31 ↗ different building blocks that we've had

12:34 ↗ um you know we we have certain building

12:36 ↗ blocks in certain areas that we need to

12:38 ↗ bring together

12:40 ↗ we've done some

12:41 ↗ internal staff training we've done some

12:44 ↗ work with council we now have this

12:46 ↗ equity board

12:48 ↗ you know it's time to get to work

12:51 ↗ we've done some ground work i think

12:53 ↗ we've done some good work

12:55 ↗ but we have a long way to go and so i'm

12:57 ↗ really excited to partner um with all of

13:00 ↗ you in terms of you know how we can know

13:04 ↗ what the right and the left hand is

13:05 ↗ doing in terms of internal staff um the

13:08 ↗ public in which we serve the council

13:11 ↗ embedding this into our culture not just

13:14 ↗ for the staff but the community um of

13:17 ↗ issaquah and i'm really excited about

13:18 ↗ that so um i

13:21 ↗ i'm excited to work with you um i do

13:24 ↗ have some you know oversight myself to

13:27 ↗ the equity

13:28 ↗ um committee and carrying out the

13:30 ↗ initiatives there

13:32 ↗ um managing contracts for um you know

13:36 ↗ professional services that we tap into

13:38 ↗ um so i'm really looking forward to

13:40 ↗ working with you more in the months

13:43 ↗ weeks years ahead um as we figure out

13:46 ↗ what our work plans are and what you

13:48 ↗ know what what those actionable items

13:50 ↗ that we really want to achieve um as a

13:52 ↗ cohesive whole as we really as as we

13:55 ↗ really shape our framework so it's very

13:57 ↗ nice to meet you um and

14:00 ↗ i'm excited to at least get to do some

14:03 ↗ introductions this evening um and i'm

14:05 ↗ hopeful uh come january um i know

14:08 ↗ tonight is very introductory um but i'm

14:11 ↗ really looking forward to some some real

14:13 ↗ work plan items

14:15 ↗ coming ahead

14:19 ↗ thank you so much stephanie we

14:20 ↗ appreciate you giving us that

14:22 ↗ introduction

14:27 ↗ does anyone else want to volunteer

14:33 ↗ i'll go next

14:35 ↗ hi

14:35 ↗ my name is jen davis hayes and i'm the

14:37 ↗ economic development manager

14:40 ↗ here at the city i've been here just

14:41 ↗ over eight years

14:43 ↗ and 20 years ago when i started in the

14:46 ↗ municipal government i worked for the

14:47 ↗ city of seattle and went through some

14:49 ↗ training there

14:51 ↗ which was called at the time undoing

14:52 ↗ institutional racism

14:54 ↗ so the terms may have changed that we

14:56 ↗ were using but it's just as important

14:58 ↗ topic and dear to my heart and so i was

15:00 ↗ part of that gare initial cohort that

15:03 ↗ stephanie mentioned along with monica

15:06 ↗ brian and steven that are here tonight

15:08 ↗ and so that was a nine month training

15:10 ↗ program so gare stands for government

15:13 ↗ alliance for racial equity and we went

15:15 ↗ with um

15:16 ↗ other other government entities and did

15:19 ↗ um nine months of um discussions and

15:22 ↗ trainings and thinking about things

15:24 ↗ um around uh racial equity um and then

15:27 ↗ uh joined of course the uh the internal

15:30 ↗ staff uh equity team meeting to continue

15:32 ↗ that work

15:34 ↗ um in my role as economic development

15:35 ↗ manager so we work a lot with you know

15:37 ↗ small businesses of all size to help

15:39 ↗ access

15:40 ↗ resources so that's information training

15:43 ↗ and more recently money um but mostly

15:46 ↗ the about information and connecting

15:48 ↗ people with uh where they can get help

15:50 ↗ to succeed so it's really important that

15:53 ↗ we are serving everybody and we get to

15:55 ↗ those businesses and entrepreneurs

15:57 ↗ that don't typically have access to

15:59 ↗ resources or information so um we

16:02 ↗ started this year a program to provide

16:05 ↗ micro uh to private technical assistance

16:08 ↗ to micro enterprises so that's

16:09 ↗ businesses with five employees or less

16:12 ↗ for low and moderate uh income

16:14 ↗ entrepreneurs

16:15 ↗ and um so we're really excited to start

16:17 ↗ doing that and we've also have an east

16:19 ↗ side coalition that works a lot with on

16:22 ↗ this topic with helping to get more um

16:25 ↗ people of color more women

16:27 ↗ and small businesses better connected so

16:30 ↗ i know that i was asked i think

16:32 ↗ on an email to say what are you looking

16:34 ↗ forward to

16:35 ↗ working on there's we have a long list

16:37 ↗ i'm sure all of you have a long list

16:39 ↗ um one of the things that

16:42 ↗ i look forward to working on

16:44 ↗ um is

16:45 ↗ working with our finance department to

16:47 ↗ work on

16:48 ↗ improving our procurement policies to

16:50 ↗ help improve

16:52 ↗ small

16:53 ↗ again small businesses women and and

16:55 ↗ people of color business owned

16:57 ↗ businesses to access um all the research

17:00 ↗ all the opportunities that we have in

17:02 ↗ our government so that's one thing that

17:04 ↗ we

17:05 ↗ uh

17:05 ↗ attended a train intended a workshop

17:08 ↗ that about what renton is doing and we

17:10 ↗ can see lots of opportunities to kind of

17:11 ↗ move us forward but thank you all for

17:14 ↗ volunteering to be part of this board um

17:16 ↗ we

17:17 ↗ look forward to working you know

17:19 ↗ hand-in-hand at times and um but

17:22 ↗ parallel to other times to really

17:24 ↗ move the needle on this important topic

17:35 ↗ thank you so much jen

17:37 ↗ please yes i was just gonna say shay i

17:39 ↗ think is transitioning from phone to

17:41 ↗ computer so she's gonna be back right

17:43 ↗ with us so please go next thank you

17:48 ↗ uh my name is team padua i'm the

17:50 ↗ currently the senior transportation

17:52 ↗ planner for the city on public works but

17:54 ↗ in two weeks i'll actually be starting a

17:56 ↗ new role

17:58 ↗ with as the long-range planning manager

18:00 ↗ for committee planning and development

18:01 ↗ department

18:04 ↗ i was raised in the northwest my

18:06 ↗ family's from hawaii in the philippines

18:09 ↗ i

18:10 ↗ i got involved with the equity team

18:11 ↗ because i've

18:13 ↗ i've always kind of i've always been

18:15 ↗ involved involved in local government um

18:17 ↗ like jen and

18:19 ↗ seeing

18:20 ↗ in equities and a lot of the community

18:22 ↗ systems that i've been involved in and

18:24 ↗ it really wasn't until later in my

18:26 ↗ career where i had the skills and

18:27 ↗ knowledge to to do something about it to

18:29 ↗ know what to do

18:31 ↗ and um joining the equity team was

18:33 ↗ really one of those those opportunities

18:35 ↗ for me to be able to do

18:37 ↗ and and make a difference or at least

18:39 ↗ feel like i'm making a difference

18:41 ↗ um

18:42 ↗ to answer the question on

18:44 ↗ what i would want to accomplish i'm a

18:46 ↗ long-range planner so i'm looking 20

18:47 ↗ years in the future

18:50 ↗ and i i hope

18:52 ↗ someone would be able to

18:55 ↗ walk from their home to the light rail

18:57 ↗ station

18:58 ↗ and in between those two two places see

19:02 ↗ a vast multitude of

19:04 ↗ cultural food establishments to see

19:08 ↗ different varieties of retail to

19:10 ↗ to really see a diversity of families

19:14 ↗ um out and about on the playground

19:17 ↗ going to school

19:18 ↗ and that's that's really what i look for

19:21 ↗ in a lot of my work

19:22 ↗ primarily because most of what i do

19:24 ↗ you'll see on the ground in 20 years so

19:27 ↗ that's that's what i hope to accomplish

19:29 ↗ as part of the equity team but also as

19:31 ↗ kind of a staffer with the city of

19:32 ↗ issaquah

19:38 ↗ thank you so much and i think we have

19:40 ↗ one more

19:43 ↗ i'll go uh matt ellis i'm a senior

19:46 ↗ engineer with public works department

19:48 ↗ and i

19:49 ↗ uh design and construct roads

19:53 ↗ sewer water storm projects um and

19:57 ↗ uh yeah i

19:59 ↗ similar to

20:00 ↗ everyone i

20:02 ↗ you know

20:03 ↗ fell in love with the public service and

20:05 ↗ wanted to help the community and i i

20:07 ↗ think as a major focal point is i don't

20:10 ↗ want to just serve one aspect of the

20:12 ↗ community i want to make sure that i'm

20:14 ↗ serving

20:15 ↗ the entire community and i think equity

20:17 ↗ really provides that opportunity so

20:19 ↗ we're not blind

20:20 ↗ to

20:22 ↗ a certain group

20:23 ↗ or or anything we're actually

20:25 ↗ serving the community that we are here

20:28 ↗ to do to serve and

20:30 ↗ i also think um

20:32 ↗ you know i've worked and traveled in

20:34 ↗ different countries and just see that

20:36 ↗ equity also provides opportunities

20:40 ↗ and um

20:42 ↗ inspires innovation in the workforce and

20:44 ↗ i think that's such a cool thing that

20:45 ↗ you know you get different ideas and i

20:47 ↗ think that's so great to

20:50 ↗ provide

20:51 ↗ um opportunities to to

20:54 ↗ everybody um

20:56 ↗ and make that a priority

21:02 ↗ thank you so much matt we appreciate

21:04 ↗ that your feedback on that

21:06 ↗ um and uh now i think we have one more

21:09 ↗ i think yeah i think i'm last up i guess

21:12 ↗ right and thank you for the opportunity

21:14 ↗ to be here tonight it's much appreciated

21:16 ↗ i'm brian bernstein i'm with the

21:19 ↗ parks and community services department

21:21 ↗ i'm a recreation manager which means

21:24 ↗ i get the i have the opportunity great

21:26 ↗ opportunity to work with the teams from

21:27 ↗ the community center

21:28 ↗ the pool senior center pickering barn

21:31 ↗ which

21:32 ↗ i appreciate kelly throwing out the

21:34 ↗ farmer's market which is a program that

21:36 ↗ we run down there which is awesome so

21:37 ↗ thank you for the shout out on that one

21:39 ↗ that's much appreciated

21:40 ↗ um i've worked for the city for she's 27

21:44 ↗ years now i think it is

21:45 ↗ um yeah even goofier than that i'm

21:48 ↗ fourth generation from issaquah specific

21:51 ↗ it's kind of really cool and weird all

21:54 ↗ at the same time

21:56 ↗ i went into uh public service because i

21:58 ↗ love people i truly do i i function on a

22:00 ↗ basic principle that i just kind of

22:02 ↗ assume everybody really likes me

22:04 ↗ and i know that's probably not true in

22:06 ↗ all cases but i like pretty much

22:08 ↗ everybody i come across so it's a basic

22:10 ↗ principle i live by but it's kind of how

22:12 ↗ i roll um when this opportunity came up

22:15 ↗ as jen mentioned you know we were able

22:17 ↗ to take part of the gear and and

22:20 ↗ you know and like i said

22:21 ↗ born and bred essel it was an eye-opener

22:23 ↗ for me to really just be able to

22:24 ↗ participate in something to truly

22:26 ↗ understand

22:27 ↗ that lens coming from somebody else's

22:29 ↗ viewpoint right it's

22:31 ↗ i have friends and we've talked about

22:32 ↗ stuff but it's just hearing that other

22:34 ↗ viewpoint and when this opportunity came

22:36 ↗ up to join the equity board or actually

22:38 ↗ with a city for me it was more just

22:40 ↗ about not sitting on the bench and

22:42 ↗ wanting to be a part of helping make

22:44 ↗ something positive happen so

22:46 ↗ that's really why i got involved is you

22:48 ↗ know i'm in a people business have been

22:50 ↗ it's what drew me to this profession

22:52 ↗ love serving people in the various

22:54 ↗ capacities that we do you know with from

22:56 ↗ we talked you'll cradle the grave right

22:58 ↗ we have seniors and over the covid big

23:01 ↗ thing we did a lot of outreach to make

23:02 ↗ sure they weren't isolated to make sure

23:04 ↗ they felt connected because in a lot of

23:05 ↗ cases they are lonely and that's a

23:07 ↗ lonely place to be if you don't have

23:08 ↗ somebody reaching out to you so that was

23:10 ↗ important work that we did with that

23:12 ↗ just with that business unit so

23:14 ↗ like i said like serving people and

23:15 ↗ that's kind of why i jumped on on this

23:17 ↗ it's important work and i appreciate

23:19 ↗ each and every one of you because i've

23:21 ↗ worked with boards and commissions over

23:23 ↗ the years and and this it's always a big

23:25 ↗ commitment it's a lot of work and thank

23:26 ↗ you for those of you that have stepped

23:28 ↗ up to be on this because this is very

23:29 ↗ important work that's going to be huge

23:31 ↗ moving forward and i'm really pumped for

23:33 ↗ what's uh what's going to come what you

23:35 ↗ guys are going to come up with in the

23:36 ↗ future it's great we're here to help and

23:37 ↗ and support you any way we can so thank

23:40 ↗ you for having me here tonight

23:43 ↗ and thank you so much for joining and i

23:45 ↗ see we have two comments

23:47 ↗ um i saw monica's first and then

23:50 ↗ stephanie is that correct

23:54 ↗ thank you so much uh shay and the equity

23:57 ↗ board members i realize since we started

23:59 ↗ a little bit

24:01 ↗ late there there's a one reminder that

24:04 ↗ i'm meant to

24:06 ↗ pass on to you all and that comes from

24:08 ↗ our amazing interpreters tonight um i

24:12 ↗ think we are all doing great and i would

24:13 ↗ all

24:14 ↗ love to encourage them to speak up if

24:16 ↗ they want us to slow down but because

24:18 ↗ they are providing

24:19 ↗ a concurrent interpretation in the back

24:22 ↗ when we

24:23 ↗ say

24:24 ↗ and share a lot of information just to

24:26 ↗ be mindful to speak a little bit slower

24:29 ↗ and perhaps pause

24:31 ↗ in between sentences to allow them to

24:34 ↗ catch up with the interpretation

24:36 ↗ so that was my comment and just thank

24:38 ↗ you

24:42 ↗ thank you monica and stephanie i think

24:44 ↗ you have the next comment

24:45 ↗ [Music]

24:47 ↗ thank you um you know as part of

24:49 ↗ introductions i thought it would be

24:51 ↗ valuable to at least um leave you this

24:54 ↗ evening with a little bit of work about

24:56 ↗ what the internal committee has been

24:58 ↗ working on just for

25:00 ↗ your benefit as you're you know

25:03 ↗ seeing our faces and names for the first

25:05 ↗ time

25:06 ↗ so over the last year or two years as we

25:10 ↗ have been forming our equity committee

25:12 ↗ we have structured our committee in

25:14 ↗ three focus areas around recruitment

25:18 ↗ engagement

25:19 ↗ and training and so

25:22 ↗ um you know i i just wanted to afford

25:24 ↗ that to this team

25:26 ↗ we've had subcommittees around those

25:28 ↗ three areas all the city staff have had

25:31 ↗ training um over the last year so that

25:34 ↗ we're talking the same

25:35 ↗ language when we're using terms and

25:37 ↗ concepts um we're looking at ways that

25:40 ↗ we can engage with the community

25:43 ↗ through interpreter services or access

25:45 ↗ to services

25:47 ↗ just a framework

25:49 ↗ was identified to the council

25:52 ↗ recruitment how we recruit for board and

25:55 ↗ commission members to internal staff

25:57 ↗ members

25:59 ↗ so

25:59 ↗ aside from

26:01 ↗ seeing our names and faces and why we

26:03 ↗ joined this team i thought it might be

26:05 ↗ beneficial as we introduce

26:08 ↗ ourselves to understand kind of how we

26:10 ↗ have focused ourselves over the last um

26:13 ↗ you know two years um but then also that

26:17 ↗ we are um just last week or la la over

26:21 ↗ the last couple weeks i started to talk

26:23 ↗ about okay we've done some good

26:24 ↗ groundwork what does our work plan look

26:26 ↗ like for 22 and beyond and now we have a

26:29 ↗ new you know equity board and we've done

26:31 ↗ some leg work with council and so um i

26:34 ↗ just didn't want to be remiss

26:36 ↗ tonight other than introductions that we

26:38 ↗ also

26:39 ↗ introduce to you

26:41 ↗ um our subcommittees our structure uh

26:44 ↗ some baseline we can get into detail um

26:47 ↗ as we work together but that you kind of

26:50 ↗ understand where we're coming from and

26:52 ↗ then also just

26:54 ↗ you know offer the opportunity to ask

26:56 ↗ any of us any questions while we're

26:58 ↗ while we're here tonight

27:04 ↗ thank you so much for that

27:07 ↗ stephanie we appreciate it and i think

27:10 ↗ we have a question from tony and we also

27:13 ↗ have another question with la fijia

27:15 ↗ following tony um tony are you ready i

27:18 ↗ am ready so um the question i have is

27:21 ↗ not specific to any individual but i who

27:24 ↗ so whoever wants to answer the question

27:26 ↗ that would be great um

27:28 ↗ a lot of you have been with the city for

27:30 ↗ a long period of time and you have a

27:32 ↗ passion for equity like we all do but

27:35 ↗ what wins have you seen since your board

27:38 ↗ has commenced uh up till now if there

27:40 ↗ been any wins in terms of equity with

27:42 ↗ the city

27:43 ↗ that you've seen witnessed and or been a

27:45 ↗ part of

27:48 ↗ more progress doesn't have to be a win

27:50 ↗ it could just be progression

28:07 ↗ someone needs to call on monica

28:09 ↗ i can

28:12 ↗ okay well monica if you would please i

28:16 ↗ can i was gonna say i can start uh

28:18 ↗ with one and perhaps others can join i

28:21 ↗ think the first thing that comes to mind

28:23 ↗ for me which is a big win it's this

28:25 ↗ board itself um i think uh

28:28 ↗ the creation of the equity board was a

28:31 ↗ year-long

28:33 ↗ community-led process

28:35 ↗ it was an amazing process where we um

28:38 ↗ interacted and engaged with community

28:40 ↗ members that we as the city did not

28:42 ↗ interact or engaged before and the fact

28:45 ↗ that we are among one of the very first

28:47 ↗ cities in the region uh to have an

28:50 ↗ equity board i think that's a huge

28:51 ↗ success

28:52 ↗ um others that come to mind i think at

28:55 ↗ the city council level had um

28:58 ↗ and also all staff have all had um

29:02 ↗ a series of training sessions and

29:06 ↗ um

29:08 ↗ i

29:08 ↗ it's just been amazing to see

29:12 ↗ [Music]

29:13 ↗ the

29:14 ↗ city leadership and city council

29:17 ↗ being interested and

29:19 ↗ already they assigned to this board um

29:23 ↗ a topic of being

29:26 ↗ and informing the creation of a

29:28 ↗ city-wide equity toolkit

29:31 ↗ which i think it's also another

29:34 ↗ win so if others would like to join with

29:36 ↗ other

29:38 ↗ um i'm definitely

29:41 ↗ want to get this one all right brian it

29:42 ↗ looks like you're ready to go

29:44 ↗ thank you i'll just i'll just add on to

29:46 ↗ that well said monica and good question

29:48 ↗ tony um i'd say that it's it's important

29:50 ↗ we're having this discussion right the

29:52 ↗ city of issaquah itself is having this

29:55 ↗ discussion and trying to figure figure

29:57 ↗ it out i'm so proud of the city for

29:58 ↗ doing some of this great work and it's

30:01 ↗ neat too that this it's supported from

30:03 ↗ at all levels of our of our city right

30:05 ↗ um and i think we have a lot of people

30:07 ↗ too that are willing to acknowledge that

30:09 ↗ there's a lot of things we just don't

30:10 ↗ know but we're having those discussions

30:12 ↗ and leaning into it and it's it's

30:14 ↗ exciting so

30:18 ↗ thank you so much brian and did any of

30:21 ↗ the other board members have some

30:22 ↗ comments on some wins that we've had

30:25 ↗ uh yes is jen i kind of saw your hand go

30:28 ↗ up real quick am i correct on that yes

30:30 ↗ yes sorry i put a comment in there um

30:33 ↗ yeah i think there's been a lot of

30:34 ↗ things again we have a really long list

30:36 ↗ and then we kind of got you know oh no

30:38 ↗ we didn't get all these grandiose things

30:40 ↗ done but a couple of the things i think

30:42 ↗ that are important steps um are that we

30:45 ↗ we now include an equity question in the

30:47 ↗ interview panel in interviews when we go

30:50 ↗ and sorry uh stephanie i took your your

30:53 ↗ response but the very fascinating thing

30:55 ↗ is it is very telling when somebody how

30:58 ↗ somebody answers

31:00 ↗ and

31:01 ↗ um and and how and what they say so you

31:04 ↗ know there's not really a right answer

31:05 ↗ right i mean you know there's definitely

31:06 ↗ some wrong but a lot of times you can

31:08 ↗ tell if somebody isn't even thinking

31:11 ↗ about equity and then they say they

31:13 ↗ answer like

31:14 ↗ way you know over here and so it's like

31:16 ↗ okay right so you just you get an

31:18 ↗ understanding for if you want to if we

31:20 ↗ want to add to our team

31:22 ↗ of people that are thinking about equity

31:24 ↗ then we want to bring people in that are

31:26 ↗ that are

31:27 ↗ able to you have some

31:29 ↗ um openness and willingness to kind of

31:32 ↗ think about that

31:33 ↗ i think the fact that we had a training

31:35 ↗ and it worked for every single employee

31:37 ↗ um you know we had an experience in the

31:40 ↗ past that didn't work out well and we

31:42 ↗ went we went right back and said

31:44 ↗ you know this is important let's figure

31:46 ↗ out how to do that and then um i think

31:49 ↗ you know the celebrations that we've

31:51 ↗ done we've done um you know celebrating

31:53 ↗ different months

31:54 ↗ um along along the year and the events

31:57 ↗ even having i mean this is pre-covered

31:59 ↗ but having an event that you know

32:01 ↗ monica's hosted of bringing in peop

32:04 ↗ people to talk to the internal so like a

32:06 ↗ lunch brown bag lunch to kind of talk to

32:08 ↗ people um in our community and learn

32:10 ↗ more about what they do and how ways

32:12 ↗ that we can best work with them and hear

32:14 ↗ about their their experiences so it's

32:16 ↗ really

32:17 ↗ been um

32:18 ↗ for me multiple little things but um we

32:21 ↗ all have

32:22 ↗ grandiose ideas and we'll with you guys

32:26 ↗ get there

32:30 ↗ thank you so much jen we appreciate it

32:32 ↗ and stephanie did you still have a

32:33 ↗ comment

32:35 ↗ you know

32:36 ↗ jen stole a few of mine that we're on

32:38 ↗ the forefront of my mind just in terms

32:40 ↗ of what we've been working on but you

32:42 ↗ know um i i will just say that

32:46 ↗ we are establishing a comfort level

32:49 ↗ about talking about these things in our

32:51 ↗ organization i think that you know um

32:55 ↗ it's

32:56 ↗ it's kind of had a sense of oh that's

32:58 ↗ sensitive territory let's not talk about

33:00 ↗ it and how do we make change if we're

33:02 ↗ not able to talk about it and so um you

33:04 ↗ know part of those trainings and part of

33:07 ↗ embedding into our recruitment and this

33:08 ↗ board and all the things that we

33:11 ↗ um you know have made you know progress

33:14 ↗ on um is a an awareness and just a

33:18 ↗ comfort level to let's talk let's you

33:20 ↗ know let's figure this out let's admit

33:22 ↗ we're not great at this how do we become

33:24 ↗ better it you know there's there's a

33:26 ↗ laundry list of things to do how can we

33:28 ↗ be a part of that change what's my role

33:31 ↗ in that change what's your role in that

33:32 ↗ change um so i think that in itself is a

33:35 ↗ success um you know i guess the only

33:38 ↗ other thing i would say on top of you

33:40 ↗ know the training and the recruitment

33:42 ↗ and and those things that we've done is

33:44 ↗ you know we're um we're measuring

33:47 ↗ metrics that we've never you know um

33:49 ↗ measured before as well um recruitment

33:52 ↗ comes to mind you know whether it be

33:54 ↗ we're recruiting for city positions or

33:57 ↗ voices on community boards um

34:00 ↗ who are we tracking and what voices are

34:03 ↗ we hearing and

34:04 ↗ um how is that different today than it

34:07 ↗ was before and have we casted the right

34:09 ↗ nets and reevaluating that and so we had

34:12 ↗ not

34:14 ↗ done some of those baseline metrics and

34:16 ↗ data before and so you know again long

34:19 ↗ way to go but quick quick little wins

34:21 ↗ that we're moving that needle on even

34:24 ↗ having these conversations gathering

34:26 ↗ that data and trying to be better and

34:30 ↗ and and having humility that we don't

34:32 ↗ have it all figured out but but we're

34:34 ↗ trying to get there

34:36 ↗ so that's all i was gonna ask

34:39 ↗ thank you so much stephanie and um if i

34:42 ↗ understood correctly lucia you passed on

34:45 ↗ a comment all right and then i also

34:47 ↗ understood that christina had a comment

34:50 ↗ is that correct

34:56 ↗ but i can say thank you so much for you

34:58 ↗ um help us

35:00 ↗ find

35:04 ↗ thank you christina we appreciate it

35:07 ↗ thank you and um i also saw some really

35:10 ↗ really great questions um in the

35:14 ↗ in the chat box so uh tony i don't want

35:16 ↗ to steal your thunder here but uh did

35:18 ↗ you want to know what the uh interview

35:20 ↗ question was yeah just out of curiosity

35:22 ↗ just be interesting to know that yeah

35:25 ↗ because i think it's great that you're

35:26 ↗ asking those questions because it does

35:29 ↗ yeah and i used to be a recruiter many

35:31 ↗ many years ago and some of those

35:32 ↗ questions that you got you can ask and

35:34 ↗ then on an application or in an

35:36 ↗ interview can actually really identify a

35:38 ↗ lot of different things about how

35:40 ↗ someone is thinking so i'm just curious

35:41 ↗ about what that question is

35:44 ↗ i'll take this one um it's not a single

35:46 ↗ question it's a banker question so what

35:48 ↗ we do when we orient panels for

35:51 ↗ interview processes

35:52 ↗ um is you know dependent upon the

35:55 ↗ position and the role of that position

35:58 ↗ um there's questions about

36:00 ↗ a

36:01 ↗ a bank of questions that um the hr staff

36:04 ↗ at this point um ensure that we have

36:07 ↗ any equity question embedded within our

36:10 ↗ recruitment processes

36:12 ↗ you know what i can do is i can give you

36:15 ↗ that bank of questions and that training

36:18 ↗ dialogue that we use um to monica and we

36:21 ↗ can share amongst this team but um i

36:24 ↗ mentioned that we have subcommittees

36:25 ↗ working on different initiatives and it

36:27 ↗ was our recruitment subcommittee that

36:30 ↗ came up with a bank of questions say hey

36:33 ↗ you know this is you know if if we're

36:35 ↗ looking at

36:36 ↗ a leadership position this would be a

36:38 ↗ good you know diversity equity and

36:40 ↗ inclusion type question that you might

36:42 ↗ select from and and so forth so it's not

36:45 ↗ a single question um it's a bank

36:47 ↗ um that we choose depending upon um the

36:50 ↗ position in which we're recruiting for

36:52 ↗ i'm happy to share all that along that

36:54 ↗ would be fantastic i think for us as a

36:56 ↗ board to actually have some insight into

36:58 ↗ those questions would be fantastic

37:01 ↗ oh thank you so much guys that's really

37:04 ↗ really great questions um does anyone

37:06 ↗ else have any questions that we could

37:08 ↗ post to the board

37:10 ↗ yes it looks like kelly you have

37:11 ↗ something

37:16 ↗ oh kelly i think you're still on mute

37:18 ↗ i am

37:20 ↗ sorry about that it's very exciting to

37:22 ↗ hear about the trainings and the works

37:24 ↗ that the city is doing it would be very

37:26 ↗ helpful to at least me and probably

37:28 ↗ others if i could take a look at the

37:30 ↗ training materials or any

37:33 ↗ videos or anything and you know to just

37:35 ↗ get a sense of what the city has been

37:38 ↗ doing and what i can learn to join the

37:40 ↗ conversation

37:42 ↗ so that i'm speaking the same language

37:44 ↗ also

37:47 ↗ thank you so much kelly i think that's a

37:48 ↗ great idea

37:51 ↗ did we have anyone else that had any

37:52 ↗ additional comments

37:56 ↗ uh i i can add to that i will tell you

37:59 ↗ um one thing that we have um embedded

38:02 ↗ into our onboarding process

38:04 ↗ is three particular trainings um

38:08 ↗ around dei work that um we have selected

38:11 ↗ with a company called trelliant

38:14 ↗ um i will check but our user rights but

38:16 ↗ i don't see why we couldn't introduce

38:19 ↗ that curriculum to this team so that you

38:22 ↗ see

38:23 ↗ you know you are

38:24 ↗ maybe going through that same training

38:27 ↗ um and have that available to you

38:29 ↗ um

38:30 ↗ the

38:32 ↗ another so we have that as one of our

38:34 ↗ training as part of onboarding this last

38:37 ↗ year um we sent everybody through

38:40 ↗ facilitated conversations and that was

38:44 ↗ um

38:46 ↗ something that we used a consultant for

38:49 ↗ um and the title of the training was

38:50 ↗ called deconstructing our biases um it

38:53 ↗ is coppery right material we could

38:55 ↗ explore um having that consultant chan

38:59 ↗ and kelly come out to this team she's

39:01 ↗ worked with our equity board she's

39:02 ↗ worked with the council um in terms of

39:04 ↗ that uh introduction i said about you

39:06 ↗ know making sure that we're all using

39:08 ↗ that same language and know what the

39:10 ↗ right the left hand is doing um we can

39:12 ↗ certainly explore those avenues um but i

39:14 ↗ think a quick win would um maybe be to

39:17 ↗ introduce those trulian um

39:19 ↗ uh those three particular uh trainings

39:23 ↗ to you that we could assign to you to go

39:25 ↗ through um and then maybe a future

39:28 ↗ training um for that deconstructing our

39:31 ↗ bias facilitated conversation and what

39:33 ↗ we did there and sent all the staff

39:36 ↗ through but that's not curriculum that

39:37 ↗ we have and are able to just freely give

39:41 ↗ like the trulian so i just wanted to

39:43 ↗ clarify that based on the comment

39:47 ↗ thank you so much stephanie for

39:49 ↗ clarifying that for us i think we're all

39:50 ↗ kind of excited and happy to hear that

39:52 ↗ we have those available and that we may

39:54 ↗ be able to join in the conversation

39:57 ↗ i'm sure that makes everyone feel a

39:59 ↗ little more included

40:01 ↗ and then uh if we don't have any other

40:04 ↗ comments i think we're okay to move to

40:07 ↗ the equity board rules and regulations

40:09 ↗ and bylaws

40:11 ↗ um and monica correct me if i'm wrong

40:14 ↗ should we be taking a motion for that

40:17 ↗ no emotions needed for that now we can

40:19 ↗ just say goodbye to the equity team

40:22 ↗ members thank you so much for being here

40:24 ↗ you're welcome to stay for the remaining

40:26 ↗ of the meeting or if you have perhaps

40:28 ↗ other uh commitments feel free to jump

40:31 ↗ off the call but um it was just also

40:33 ↗ great to have you thank you for being

40:34 ↗ here

40:35 ↗ um and so yes we can shea move to the

40:38 ↗ next item on the agenda and for that we

40:40 ↗ are inviting on tisha

40:43 ↗ who you may remember from our previous

40:45 ↗ meeting she's our uh city clerk

40:48 ↗ and tisha is here tonight to talk about

40:50 ↗ rules and regulations for the equity

40:53 ↗ board

40:54 ↗ equity board members this is the first

40:57 ↗ meeting we will continue the

40:59 ↗ conversation on rules and regulations at

41:01 ↗ the next meeting when my hope is that we

41:04 ↗ will adopt our very first set of rules

41:07 ↗ and regulations

41:08 ↗ the only quick uh note that i want to

41:10 ↗ make about that before i'm going to hand

41:12 ↗ it over to tisha is that um

41:15 ↗ i know that everything is just very new

41:17 ↗ and as you are a very new board

41:20 ↗ maybe two three months down the road you

41:22 ↗ may come up with some creative ideas to

41:26 ↗ run the meetings and

41:28 ↗ perhaps you're gonna decide to

41:31 ↗ edit and uh change the rules and

41:34 ↗ regulations that you're adopting so keep

41:36 ↗ that in mind that don't feel like

41:39 ↗ uh when we are going to adopt the first

41:40 ↗ set of rules and regulations they are

41:42 ↗ going to be set forever uh it's

41:44 ↗ something that you can change every few

41:46 ↗ months

41:47 ↗ if needed

41:48 ↗ i think it's just great to have to to

41:50 ↗ get us started to have a set of rules

41:53 ↗ and regulations that we can follow just

41:55 ↗ for the first few months as we build the

41:58 ↗ board

41:59 ↗ and so with that i know tisha has such a

42:01 ↗ better way of explaining all of this so

42:04 ↗ trisha i'm gonna hand it to you thank

42:07 ↗ you again for being here again with us

42:10 ↗ thanks monica and hi everybody um monica

42:14 ↗ do you mind giving me the presenter

42:15 ↗ privileges i do have a few slides to

42:18 ↗ help me stay focused

42:20 ↗ yes absolutely give me just a moment

42:23 ↗ here tisha

42:24 ↗ i'm gonna do that as soon as i find you

42:27 ↗ here on my

42:28 ↗ participants list

42:30 ↗ and

42:40 ↗ you should now have the ability to

42:43 ↗ present

42:44 ↗ yes thank you

42:47 ↗ thank you

42:52 ↗ all right

42:53 ↗ you get the slideshow going

42:58 ↗ you see what you're seeing you're seeing

43:00 ↗ my notes let me change that

43:06 ↗ okay

43:08 ↗ all right so it's nice to see everyone

43:10 ↗ it was nice to hear from the equity team

43:12 ↗ we have some really awesome staff

43:14 ↗ working for the city

43:15 ↗ um i'm really really proud to to work

43:18 ↗ for issaquah

43:20 ↗ i'm here to talk to you about uh rules

43:23 ↗ and regulations another fun topic um

43:27 ↗ so

43:28 ↗ what are your rules and regulations

43:30 ↗ let's start there

43:33 ↗ so um as you all know the city council

43:36 ↗ adopted an ordinance that established

43:39 ↗ the equity board and um so there's a lot

43:42 ↗ of provision such as how many

43:44 ↗ members there are on the board and some

43:47 ↗ of the specific makeups of the board

43:49 ↗ members that are in our city code and

43:51 ↗ changes to any of those things require

43:54 ↗ an ordinance that would need to be

43:56 ↗ adopted by the city council

43:59 ↗ the rules and regulations are sort of

44:01 ↗ the next level of um

44:04 ↗ of rules to help guide you as a group

44:06 ↗ and this document is something that you

44:08 ↗ adopt and that you can change as a board

44:10 ↗ and um i really appreciated what monica

44:13 ↗ started with because um what's in your

44:15 ↗ agenda packet tonight and what i'm going

44:17 ↗ to give you just a brief overview of is

44:20 ↗ um essentially sort of a template of the

44:23 ↗ rules and regulations

44:25 ↗ that are other we have 13 other advisory

44:28 ↗ boards and commissions in the city and

44:30 ↗ the clerk's office has been working to

44:32 ↗ bring some standardization to the rules

44:34 ↗ for all the boards um

44:36 ↗ as you can understand it would be

44:38 ↗ tedious to be managing boards with

44:40 ↗ really divergent

44:42 ↗ rules so tonight the document you're

44:44 ↗ looking at is very consistent with our

44:46 ↗ other boards but as monica said as you

44:48 ↗ sort of get a feel for how you work as a

44:51 ↗ board and may want to make changes to

44:53 ↗ things like your order of business or

44:54 ↗ your committees or other other aspects

44:58 ↗ um you can modify this document i'd love

45:00 ↗ to help partner with you on it and i

45:02 ↗ expect you're going to want some changes

45:04 ↗ made

45:05 ↗ um but we'll start here and of course if

45:08 ↗ you hear anything tonight you have

45:10 ↗ questions about or you want to see some

45:12 ↗ amendments brought forward before you

45:14 ↗ adopt these at your next meeting please

45:17 ↗ speak up and and we can certainly that's

45:19 ↗ why we wanted um for you to have two two

45:21 ↗ meetings to touch these rules so you

45:23 ↗ have that opportunity

45:26 ↗ so um this is a hierarchy i didn't cover

45:28 ↗ state law but state law we can't change

45:30 ↗ state law we need our state legislators

45:32 ↗ to do that we need the city council to

45:34 ↗ amend the city code this is the next

45:36 ↗ layer that these rules provide a little

45:38 ↗ more specificity of what's outlined in

45:41 ↗ the city code

45:43 ↗ and then below these rules are your

45:46 ↗ adopted parliamentary authority and in

45:48 ↗ this case we're recommending that you

45:50 ↗ adopt sort of a

45:51 ↗ a standard that many deliberative bodies

45:54 ↗ um adopt which is robert's rules of

45:56 ↗ order and robert's rules kind of kind of

45:59 ↗ fills in the blanks if you come across a

46:01 ↗ situation where you're looking for some

46:02 ↗ guidance um

46:04 ↗ that that document can help provide some

46:07 ↗ some a path forward

46:10 ↗ um so the sec the third the first two

46:13 ↗ sections of the rules are just sort of

46:14 ↗ the name of the board um

46:16 ↗ and there's another section that i'm

46:18 ↗ missing here

46:19 ↗ i think that cites the municipal code

46:22 ↗ the third article is

46:24 ↗ officers and duties we talked a lot

46:27 ↗ about this at your or a bit about this

46:29 ↗ at your last meeting so i wasn't going

46:31 ↗ to go into it here but as you are very

46:33 ↗ aware um you have a chair and a vice

46:35 ↗ chair and the um

46:37 ↗ the draft rules and regulations just

46:38 ↗ identify some of the roles of the chair

46:42 ↗ specifically and it also specifies the

46:44 ↗ terms that they serve which is through

46:47 ↗ april 30th of each year

46:50 ↗ the next section of the rules is article

46:52 ↗ 4 which talks about meetings so this

46:55 ↗ document establishes your regular

46:57 ↗ meeting schedule

46:59 ↗ which

47:00 ↗ currently would be the first wednesday

47:02 ↗ of the month at six o'clock

47:04 ↗ we went ahead and put a physical

47:06 ↗ location in the rules because we don't

47:09 ↗ expect to be meeting virtually forever

47:11 ↗ um some something that um the board and

47:14 ↗ other of our boards might consider in

47:16 ↗ the future is sort of requirements

47:19 ↗ around or

47:20 ↗ provisions that allow board members to

47:23 ↗ attend meetings virtually um after the

47:25 ↗ kovid pandemic is over

47:28 ↗ right now the governor's ordered all

47:30 ↗ groups like yours i think i've explained

47:32 ↗ this before

47:33 ↗ is sort of requiring a virtual component

47:36 ↗ but eventually we expect that will go

47:38 ↗ away and it may be that our boards have

47:40 ↗ some interest in still allowing for some

47:42 ↗ virtual participation so that could be a

47:44 ↗ future change

47:45 ↗ for right now we are anticipating that

47:47 ↗ when you do be physically it will be at

47:50 ↗ tibbetts creek manor which is a city

47:52 ↗ property

47:53 ↗ that you may or may not be familiar with

47:55 ↗ it's a it's a nice facility um and then

47:58 ↗ the rules specify that you might also

48:00 ↗ have special meetings that can be called

48:03 ↗ um

48:04 ↗ by the chair or a majority of the board

48:06 ↗ and often those are motivated by by

48:08 ↗ monica alerting you that there might be

48:10 ↗ a need for a special meeting

48:14 ↗ um the rules also talk a little bit as

48:16 ↗ does the the cities code about a quorum

48:19 ↗ we also talked about this at your last

48:21 ↗ meeting a quorum of your board of nine

48:24 ↗ um is five members you always need five

48:26 ↗ members um just to start a meeting and

48:29 ↗ um i'll i'm jumping ahead but to amend

48:32 ↗ these rules the requirement

48:34 ↗ would be five as currently written it

48:36 ↗ would be five board members that's a

48:38 ↗ little stronger requirement because

48:40 ↗ you don't we don't want you changing

48:42 ↗ your rules all the time willy-nilly so

48:45 ↗ five members seems like a reasonable

48:46 ↗ number to just ensure there's some

48:48 ↗ thought before they're modified

48:52 ↗ these roles also establish an order of

48:54 ↗ business this is what you'll see on your

48:56 ↗ agenda shea is doing a lovely job of

48:58 ↗ navigating you through the agenda

49:00 ↗ tonight i also expect you might have

49:02 ↗ some changes to this in the future you

49:04 ↗ might want to create a standing i know

49:06 ↗ for example tonight you sort of have a

49:08 ↗ sort of an educational discussion

49:10 ↗ component of your meetings if that's

49:12 ↗ something you want to have every meeting

49:14 ↗ and you want to sort of bake that into

49:16 ↗ your rules in the future we could bring

49:18 ↗ forward an amendment as well in the

49:20 ↗ meantime it can fit under the regular

49:22 ↗ business

49:23 ↗ heading

49:27 ↗ um

49:29 ↗ am i i'm jumping ahead a little bit here

49:32 ↗ i'm i'm sorry you guys my note screen is

49:34 ↗ one slide ahead so i've been a little

49:36 ↗ off from my slides i'm realizing okay so

49:39 ↗ let's talk about attendance um

49:42 ↗ your attendance is important we need

49:44 ↗ five of you to hold a meeting there's a

49:46 ↗ lot of planning and thought that goes

49:48 ↗ into the timelines for the work that

49:49 ↗ you'll be um working on so we do ask

49:53 ↗ that you provide five days notice of um

49:56 ↗ planned travel um to monica and the

49:59 ↗ chair

50:00 ↗ that would be helpful um the chair

50:02 ↗ typically announces um the abs excused

50:05 ↗ absences prior to a meeting

50:08 ↗ if you have an emergency situation come

50:10 ↗ up we understand but if you don't

50:12 ↗ provide advance notice and you aren't in

50:14 ↗ an emergency situation and you're absent

50:16 ↗ it is considered an unexcused absence

50:19 ↗ and if you have three of those

50:21 ↗ consecutively that can be grounds to

50:24 ↗ for removal from the board so so please

50:27 ↗ communicate when you can't attend we

50:29 ↗ understand you won't be able to attend

50:31 ↗ all meetings but it is helpful to have

50:33 ↗ that that heads up and um that's the the

50:36 ↗ beauty of having some alternates so that

50:38 ↗ we can make sure there's a full group of

50:40 ↗ people making decisions at your meetings

50:45 ↗ all right now we'll talk about your

50:47 ↗ order of business which i just covered

50:49 ↗ here's the list here and you see it

50:50 ↗ reflected on your agenda tonight

50:57 ↗ all right um the rules also explain that

51:00 ↗ you can appoint a committee i imagine

51:03 ↗ stephanie you heard stephanie mentioned

51:04 ↗ earlier that the internal equity team is

51:07 ↗ utilizing committees in some cases and

51:09 ↗ you may as well especially if you end up

51:11 ↗ with a really big work plan item and you

51:13 ↗ think there might be some benefit and

51:15 ↗ having a few board members go off and do

51:17 ↗ some some research and make some

51:19 ↗ recommendations

51:21 ↗ so some i'm not going to go with there's

51:23 ↗ more to explore here that if you're

51:26 ↗ if you're wanting to pursue committees

51:28 ↗ um you know i can work with monica and

51:30 ↗ we can go through some more of the

51:32 ↗ details but some of the basics to be

51:33 ↗ aware of the rules say that the

51:35 ↗ committee can't be more than four

51:37 ↗ members that's because if there's more

51:39 ↗ than four of you it triggers um noticing

51:42 ↗ and open public meetings requirements

51:44 ↗ that can be burdensome for the committee

51:46 ↗ so um and and uh just one other thing

51:49 ↗ for you to be aware of committees don't

51:51 ↗ make decisions on behalf of the board

51:52 ↗ but they bring a recommendation to the

51:55 ↗ full board um to make a decision on and

51:58 ↗ again we we can talk about some more

52:00 ↗ specifics you'll see some of the things

52:02 ↗ listed here some best practices of

52:04 ↗ course here to define the members of the

52:06 ↗ committee and their scope and the the

52:08 ↗ time frame that you want them in place

52:10 ↗ and what you want them to tell you and

52:12 ↗ report back on

52:16 ↗ i also want to quickly touch on the role

52:18 ↗ of alternates so in talking with monica

52:20 ↗ i believe

52:22 ↗ the majority of your work plan is going

52:24 ↗ to be providing discussion and input and

52:26 ↗ feedback and working collaborat

52:28 ↗ collaboratively

52:31 ↗ to gain consensus on on items um

52:34 ↗ there may be occasions where there are

52:37 ↗ more formal motions and votes taken that

52:40 ↗ might be if the board is specifically

52:42 ↗ asked to provide a formal recommendation

52:44 ↗ to the mayor or council on a topic and

52:47 ↗ in that in those cases it might be

52:49 ↗ beneficial to sort of have a record and

52:51 ↗ sort of a formal motion that the board

52:53 ↗ votes on

52:55 ↗ when it comes time for those formal

52:57 ↗ moments where there's a motion and a

52:58 ↗ vote

53:00 ↗ alternates are not able to vote unless

53:03 ↗ there's an absent regular member

53:05 ↗ so at any of your given meetings you can

53:07 ↗ have a total of nine people voting and

53:10 ↗ we want nine people voting

53:12 ↗ so alternates are are encouraged to

53:15 ↗ participate fully in all other aspects

53:17 ↗ of the board but when it does come time

53:19 ↗ to those

53:20 ↗ um

53:21 ↗ formal motions in voting they would not

53:23 ↗ be able to make a motion or can

53:26 ↗ participate in that debate and vote

53:28 ↗ um that's it's important that when when

53:31 ↗ you come time and again i i don't

53:33 ↗ imagine this is going to be frequently

53:34 ↗ for the board but it will be helpful for

53:36 ↗ the chair to help clarify if there's

53:38 ↗ someone absent like there is tonight you

53:40 ↗ know which alternate will be um voting

53:42 ↗ in their place

53:47 ↗ there are a couple of questions or are

53:49 ↗ you okay with taking them especially one

53:52 ↗ is in particular about a slide that you

53:54 ↗ had before

53:55 ↗ um

53:56 ↗ so i see

53:58 ↗ krecia had actually a question first and

54:01 ↗ then christina

54:03 ↗ uh yes tisha as always thank you so much

54:05 ↗ for being so thorough and clear um for

54:08 ↗ my own

54:09 ↗ clarification however i'd like to ask if

54:12 ↗ you can

54:13 ↗ address whether alternates

54:15 ↗ are consider can can alternates serve on

54:19 ↗ committees

54:20 ↗ and if so are they considered

54:22 ↗ non-members

54:25 ↗ so that you know you would have four

54:27 ↗ four four people participating plus a

54:31 ↗ non-voting person does that meet you

54:34 ↗ know like

54:36 ↗ the law or how does that work

54:38 ↗ that's such a great question so um an

54:40 ↗ alternate member would be i would say

54:43 ↗ would be considered a regular member so

54:44 ↗ they'd be in your count of four but i

54:47 ↗ see no reason why uh um alternate

54:50 ↗ i think it's entirely appropriate to

54:52 ↗ have an alternate serve

54:54 ↗ on a committee

54:55 ↗ perfect thank you thank you for

54:56 ↗ clarifying that it wasn't clear like

54:58 ↗ non-member alternate

55:00 ↗ thank you

55:04 ↗ all right were there any other questions

55:07 ↗ yes um i think christina had another

55:09 ↗ question

55:12 ↗ yes

55:13 ↗ uh i mean would you mean with membership

55:17 ↗ in the last section when you

55:19 ↗ mention this

55:23 ↗ christina can you say that one more time

55:26 ↗ yes um

55:36 ↗ membership

55:38 ↗ yeah i wanted to ask you what are you

55:40 ↗ referring to

55:42 ↗ about the last section uh of with the

55:45 ↗ membership

55:47 ↗ what does that mean

55:49 ↗ okay let's see here

55:54 ↗ oh

55:55 ↗ yeah that's a good question christina um

55:58 ↗ so which i probably that would be better

56:02 ↗ said as a point appointee so

56:05 ↗ who

56:06 ↗ the board

56:07 ↗ uh would

56:09 ↗ if they decide if you decide to have a

56:11 ↗ committee then you as a group would

56:14 ↗ determine who is appointed to serve on

56:17 ↗ the committee

56:19 ↗ or you could i suppose you could

56:20 ↗ delegate that decision

56:22 ↗ um to

56:24 ↗ the chair but i what i would encourage

56:26 ↗ is that you would make that decision as

56:28 ↗ a group be one of like a formal action

56:31 ↗ you would take that might uh

56:33 ↗ uh i would recommend that you make a

56:35 ↗ motion to appoint a committee to explore

56:38 ↗ um

56:40 ↗ you know uh the the

56:42 ↗ structure of the equity lens um that

56:45 ↗ you've been asked to develop and that

56:46 ↗ the appointments would consist of you

56:49 ↗ know christina shea and ray

56:52 ↗ and you could have some discussion about

56:54 ↗ that and ask for volunteers and things

56:56 ↗ like that but that's what membership's

56:57 ↗ referring to the members of the

56:59 ↗ committee

57:04 ↗ and and your committees could include

57:06 ↗ other non-equity board members too

57:09 ↗ so that's not very common i haven't seen

57:11 ↗ that happen much in our um boards but

57:14 ↗ you could if you felt like there was

57:16 ↗ someone on the internal equity team or

57:17 ↗ someone from the public that you wanted

57:19 ↗ to serve on that committee that that

57:20 ↗ could you could either work with them or

57:22 ↗ you could formally appoint them so as i

57:24 ↗ mentioned there's lots of options and if

57:26 ↗ you get closer to wanting to do this we

57:28 ↗ could we could talk more about some of

57:30 ↗ the choices

57:31 ↗ that you might have

57:34 ↗ all right any more questions

57:36 ↗ this time

57:38 ↗ just i want to say thank you because

57:40 ↗ when you say membership i think that

57:42 ↗ person needs to have a membership for

57:44 ↗ global like

57:46 ↗ i don't know maybe to find information

57:48 ↗ and stuff

57:49 ↗ in some specific places or

57:52 ↗ something like that thank you you're

57:54 ↗ welcome

57:56 ↗ okay let me find my place here

57:58 ↗ okay

58:00 ↗ so we talked about alternates

58:03 ↗ i'm going to talk a little bit about

58:05 ↗ motions but we're not going to spend a

58:06 ↗ lot of time on this um

58:09 ↗ i i think just from tonight's meeting

58:11 ↗ even they've come up a little bit

58:13 ↗ they're really just a formal proposal

58:16 ↗ um

58:17 ↗ to sort of help

58:19 ↗ document the recommendation of the group

58:21 ↗ again i believe a lot a lot of your work

58:23 ↗ will be conversation facilitated

58:26 ↗ conversation

58:27 ↗ consensus

58:28 ↗ working towards consensus and feedback

58:30 ↗ but sometimes you may need to make a

58:33 ↗ more formal recommendation that's sort

58:35 ↗ of on the record that goes in your your

58:37 ↗ minutes and that would be emotion and um

58:40 ↗ i know that monica and myself as well

58:42 ↗ are happy to provide some recommended

58:44 ↗ motions for situations that will come up

58:47 ↗ at your your few meetings your next few

58:50 ↗ um

58:52 ↗ the meetings at which you have them uh i

58:55 ↗ i'm sure that monica would be happy to

58:56 ↗ provide some sample wording um so you

59:00 ↗ know they it usually sounds something

59:01 ↗ like i you know i move to approve the

59:03 ↗ minutes of the november meeting or i

59:06 ↗ move that we um

59:08 ↗ that we submit the recommendation letter

59:11 ↗ that was included in our in our agenda

59:13 ↗ packet um to the mayor or something like

59:16 ↗ that and then the chair would facilitate

59:18 ↗ a vote um on on the item

59:22 ↗ and she would ask all who are in favor

59:24 ↗ and all who are opposed and then she

59:26 ↗ would announce the outcome of the vote

59:29 ↗ and in robert's rules and actually in

59:32 ↗ the ordinance that established the

59:34 ↗ equity board a majority of the board

59:36 ↗ members present would would sort of

59:37 ↗ carry emotion or approve one of those

59:40 ↗ motions so um that would be if all that

59:43 ↗ nine members are present that would be a

59:45 ↗ vote of five if there are fewer um it

59:47 ↗ would just be a majority of that of that

59:50 ↗ number um

59:52 ↗ and um you know i i think i can move

59:55 ↗ past this slide but just just something

59:57 ↗ to mention as board members if you're

1:00:00 ↗ ever unclear i know especially when it

1:00:01 ↗ comes to motions it can be a little bit

1:00:03 ↗ confusing and um if you're ever unclear

1:00:06 ↗ what's being voted on or what's being

1:00:07 ↗ discussed or decided please speak up

1:00:10 ↗ because we really want to make sure that

1:00:12 ↗ everybody is crystal clear on the

1:00:14 ↗ decision that's being made and it can be

1:00:16 ↗ a little too late sometimes if you wait

1:00:18 ↗ until after so please speak up um it can

1:00:22 ↗ always be helpful to have things in

1:00:23 ↗ writing um so

1:00:26 ↗ uh

1:00:27 ↗ that's that's what i would encourage

1:00:28 ↗ with that i'm going to move us along um

1:00:32 ↗ to debate debate is the formal word if

1:00:35 ↗ um there's a motion on the floor um for

1:00:38 ↗ debate is used to talk about the

1:00:40 ↗ discussion that you might have but i

1:00:42 ↗ would say that these

1:00:43 ↗ these guidelines that i'm showing you

1:00:45 ↗ here really should just pertain to any

1:00:47 ↗ discussion and and probably don't need

1:00:49 ↗ to be introduced to this group i can

1:00:51 ↗ tell you're taking great care to listen

1:00:53 ↗ to each other

1:00:55 ↗ but one of the things i do want to touch

1:00:57 ↗ on is that you've probably noticed

1:00:59 ↗ shea's kind of facilitating the

1:01:01 ↗ conversation

1:01:02 ↗ robert's rules recommends and i think

1:01:04 ↗ it's really a great practice for just

1:01:06 ↗ keeping

1:01:08 ↗ keeping on topic but also just keeping

1:01:10 ↗ the tenor of the conversation um as

1:01:13 ↗ neutral as possible is having uh the

1:01:15 ↗ chair acknowledge the next speaker so

1:01:18 ↗ what this prevents is that back and

1:01:20 ↗ forth maybe with people with opposing

1:01:22 ↗ views can say can sort of start talking

1:01:24 ↗ to each other

1:01:26 ↗ but at your meetings what we're asking

1:01:28 ↗ is that you let the chair know you have

1:01:29 ↗ a comment she'll acknowledge you then

1:01:32 ↗ you can make your comment if you have a

1:01:33 ↗ response you wait until it's your turn

1:01:36 ↗ and the goal is to have everyone speak

1:01:38 ↗ or everyone have an opportunity to speak

1:01:40 ↗ before anyone speaks a second time an

1:01:42 ↗ exception can be made if someone has a

1:01:44 ↗ question for you

1:01:45 ↗ so it can feel a little formal and rigid

1:01:47 ↗ but i've also seen how it really can

1:01:49 ↗ help diffuse tense conversations when

1:01:52 ↗ it's facilitated that way

1:01:57 ↗ uh and then again real quickly on this

1:01:59 ↗ slide you know just just some um

1:02:02 ↗ some some don'ts you know um we just ask

1:02:05 ↗ you to be respectful and courteous um

1:02:07 ↗ also something to think about when the

1:02:08 ↗ board sort of makes a recommendation on

1:02:10 ↗ something um even if if you may have not

1:02:13 ↗ been in agreement with it at that from

1:02:15 ↗ that point forward the goal is to really

1:02:17 ↗ honor the outcome of the board and

1:02:19 ↗ recognize that that was the decision

1:02:21 ↗ that was made and so we don't sort of

1:02:23 ↗ negatively speak about it we move we

1:02:25 ↗ move on

1:02:30 ↗ there are some protocols related related

1:02:32 ↗ to voting i'm not going to go over these

1:02:33 ↗ tonight i think they're they're fairly

1:02:35 ↗ straightforward

1:02:37 ↗ and can be helpful to the the chair

1:02:39 ↗ we're happy to go over any of this with

1:02:41 ↗ you before

1:02:43 ↗ a formal vote of the board takes place

1:02:45 ↗ if that's helpful to you

1:02:47 ↗ nearing the end of the slides here um so

1:02:49 ↗ we've talked a little bit tonight about

1:02:51 ↗ how motions and um

1:02:54 ↗ are help determine help demonstrate an

1:02:57 ↗ outcome of the board like a formal

1:02:58 ↗ recommendation and so one thing i wanted

1:03:00 ↗ to touch on is when you're out in public

1:03:03 ↗ talking

1:03:05 ↗ about a certain position it can be

1:03:07 ↗ helpful to distinguish if you're

1:03:09 ↗ representing yourself or you're

1:03:10 ↗ representing the equity board of course

1:03:12 ↗ you can always share i'm a member of the

1:03:14 ↗ equity board

1:03:15 ↗ if it's if you're talking about

1:03:16 ↗ something the equity board has weighed

1:03:18 ↗ in on at one of their meetings and

1:03:20 ↗ there's been like some clear consensus

1:03:22 ↗ or maybe a formal vote was taken

1:03:24 ↗ of course you can you can share and

1:03:27 ↗ summarize what occurred and in that way

1:03:29 ↗ you're representing the action of the

1:03:31 ↗ board but if you're sharing an opinion

1:03:33 ↗ related to something the board hasn't

1:03:35 ↗ talked about yet or hasn't maybe made a

1:03:36 ↗ final decision on yet or your

1:03:38 ↗ perspective is in conflict with what the

1:03:41 ↗ board decided you know we encourage you

1:03:43 ↗ to please um identify that in your

1:03:45 ↗ comments that you're not speaking on

1:03:47 ↗ behalf of the board this is something

1:03:49 ↗ that comes into play a lot with our city

1:03:50 ↗ council i don't know that it will be

1:03:53 ↗ um as as as pertinent here but wanted to

1:03:56 ↗ make you aware you can also always reach

1:03:58 ↗ out to monica if you know you might be

1:04:00 ↗ in an opportunity to make comments and

1:04:01 ↗ you'd like you'd like some advice on how

1:04:03 ↗ best to

1:04:04 ↗ to speak to an issue

1:04:11 ↗ all right um i talked earlier about the

1:04:13 ↗ fact that um robert's rules is the

1:04:16 ↗ parliamentary authority i don't think

1:04:18 ↗ the board will often be wading into

1:04:20 ↗ these procedures but it is a reference

1:04:23 ↗ document for you

1:04:25 ↗ i also have a fly these are just some of

1:04:27 ↗ the principles in robert's rules um

1:04:29 ↗ again there's an emphasis here on the

1:04:32 ↗ majority of the board and minority of

1:04:33 ↗ the board but again in talking to monica

1:04:35 ↗ i am understanding that a lot of the

1:04:36 ↗ board's work will be conversations

1:04:38 ↗ getting feedback and input

1:04:40 ↗ and so um

1:04:41 ↗ i think the the the formal voting

1:04:44 ↗ process will be less of an emphasis on

1:04:46 ↗ your board and honestly is less is is

1:04:49 ↗ not too frequently visited in many of

1:04:51 ↗ our boards and commissions much of the

1:04:52 ↗ work is done through informal feedback

1:04:54 ↗ and consensus

1:04:58 ↗ all right i mentioned to you earlier to

1:05:00 ↗ make amendments to the document in your

1:05:03 ↗ packet we'll take a vote of five members

1:05:05 ↗ and some advance notice in your agenda

1:05:07 ↗ so if you have an idea for a change what

1:05:09 ↗ would be appropriate is to bring it up

1:05:11 ↗ at a prior meeting

1:05:13 ↗ and uh request that monica um

1:05:16 ↗ draft some language to bring forward at

1:05:17 ↗ a subsequent meeting so that a change

1:05:20 ↗ can be made

1:05:23 ↗ and with that uh monica was there

1:05:25 ↗ anything that you wanted to add to

1:05:27 ↗ anything i said i know you have a lot of

1:05:29 ↗ experience

1:05:31 ↗ supporting a board

1:05:33 ↗ thank you to sean you're very very kind

1:05:35 ↗ no i think as always you are just so so

1:05:37 ↗ very

1:05:38 ↗ um right on point very detail-oriented

1:05:41 ↗ just great information um would love to

1:05:43 ↗ hear if board members have any questions

1:05:45 ↗ since um

1:05:47 ↗ it would be great to

1:05:48 ↗ to hear that so thank you

1:05:56 ↗ and while board members are thinking

1:05:57 ↗ whether or not they have questions i

1:05:59 ↗ think

1:06:01 ↗ we we need to remind ourselves until we

1:06:04 ↗ get in and this becomes our second

1:06:06 ↗ nature and a natural flow of the meeting

1:06:09 ↗ is to pause and slow down a little bit

1:06:12 ↗ again just to help interpreters catch up

1:06:15 ↗ we so appreciate them again being here

1:06:17 ↗ tonight um and so equity board members

1:06:21 ↗ questions

1:06:25 ↗ comments i see lucrezia you have a

1:06:26 ↗ comment

1:06:28 ↗ say i'm gonna

1:06:29 ↗ yeah i just wanted to apologize for

1:06:32 ↗ earlier just saying you know somebody

1:06:34 ↗ needs to call on monica because i felt

1:06:37 ↗ like you were raising your hand and to

1:06:40 ↗ clarify i i have no idea how to raise my

1:06:43 ↗ virtual hand in this system like

1:06:46 ↗ somebody said that there was a virtual

1:06:47 ↗ hand i i can't find that where is that

1:06:52 ↗ um so what uh what kind of device are

1:06:54 ↗ you using and that's not the case we're

1:06:56 ↗ doing this on the screen are we doing

1:06:58 ↗ some some sort of e-hand

1:07:03 ↗ so the the traditional process is just

1:07:06 ↗ like what you did now just put comment

1:07:08 ↗ in the chat uh and that's great so if we

1:07:11 ↗ have comments and questions again ashay

1:07:13 ↗ and i will work together i think sheath

1:07:16 ↗ has done an amazing job tonight and just

1:07:18 ↗ monitoring the chat uh it just again i

1:07:20 ↗ think i also want to give yourself a

1:07:23 ↗ little bit of a break this is your

1:07:25 ↗ second meeting and if you think about it

1:07:27 ↗ it's your very first official meeting

1:07:29 ↗ with the chair and i think you're doing

1:07:30 ↗ a fantastic job in running the meeting

1:07:33 ↗ and so i think even for

1:07:35 ↗ um boards and commissions and entities

1:07:38 ↗ that are well versed and

1:07:41 ↗ have the experience of a year and a half

1:07:43 ↗ of doing this sometimes it's hard to

1:07:45 ↗ catch every comment in the chat or all

1:07:47 ↗ of that so yes i think ideally just

1:07:50 ↗ since we started if you have a question

1:07:51 ↗ comment put it in the chat and then with

1:07:54 ↗ that you can also if you feel that

1:07:56 ↗ you're not acknowledged start waving

1:08:01 ↗ thank you so much for that monica um i

1:08:04 ↗ did have a quick comment if you um did

1:08:06 ↗ want to use your virtual hand

1:08:09 ↗ if you pull up the participants list

1:08:12 ↗ there should be a little virtual hand

1:08:14 ↗ right at the bottom of the list

1:08:16 ↗ i think it also kind of depends on what

1:08:18 ↗ device you're using

1:08:20 ↗ um but i put my hand up so i don't know

1:08:22 ↗ if you guys can see that in the chat

1:08:25 ↗ um or in the participant list but

1:08:27 ↗ usually there's a little hand that

1:08:29 ↗ actually pops up next to your name

1:08:31 ↗ so it may be a matter of you having both

1:08:34 ↗ the participant box and the chat box

1:08:36 ↗ open at the same time

1:08:39 ↗ however i will do a better job of making

1:08:41 ↗ sure that i'm paying attention to people

1:08:43 ↗ waving at the screen

1:08:47 ↗ i see christina put her hand up

1:08:51 ↗ and i'm sorry christina did you have a

1:08:53 ↗ comment or were you just testing that

1:09:02 ↗ thank you

1:09:03 ↗ i see some other hands went up and went

1:09:05 ↗ back down pretty quickly

1:09:09 ↗ um but that may help if we want to use

1:09:11 ↗ those virtual hands versus waving

1:09:16 ↗ thank you for that

1:09:17 ↗ yeah

1:09:19 ↗ so definitely the chat feature it's the

1:09:21 ↗ most

1:09:22 ↗ noticeable it's sometimes not as

1:09:24 ↗ as easy to see the

1:09:27 ↗ raised hands in the paneling section but

1:09:29 ↗ definitely i love your idea shay with

1:09:32 ↗ using that as an alternative form

1:09:35 ↗ yeah i think i agree with you monica in

1:09:37 ↗ terms of like writing the comment

1:09:38 ↗ because i would have not known

1:09:40 ↗ [Music]

1:09:41 ↗ to scr you know scroll up and down to

1:09:44 ↗ see the virtual hand i didn't even

1:09:46 ↗ like i said i didn't even know how to do

1:09:47 ↗ that

1:09:48 ↗ so thank you for that

1:09:51 ↗ regardless excellent questions and these

1:09:53 ↗ are things you're gonna learn to work

1:09:55 ↗ with one another and um yeah just

1:09:59 ↗ great questions

1:10:02 ↗ all right does anyone else have a

1:10:04 ↗ question

1:10:05 ↗ maybe for tisch

1:10:08 ↗ no

1:10:10 ↗ um well if not i'd like to propose that

1:10:13 ↗ we take a brief five minute break

1:10:16 ↗ so

1:10:17 ↗ i wanted to pose that to the board if

1:10:20 ↗ you guys are ready or if you'd like to

1:10:23 ↗ move forward with the next agenda item

1:10:33 ↗ i second that

1:10:36 ↗ all right i don't see any hands raised

1:10:38 ↗ or anyone waving at the screen

1:10:41 ↗ um if everyone agrees we will take a

1:10:43 ↗ five minute bio break

1:10:48 ↗ that's good thank you

1:10:51 ↗ in that case board members we are back

1:10:53 ↗ at 7 27.

1:10:59 ↗ all right i think everyone's back and

1:11:01 ↗ thank you all

1:11:02 ↗ um just to reiterate we are back in our

1:11:07 ↗ meeting tonight december 1st

1:11:09 ↗ um we're starting back up and do it do i

1:11:12 ↗ need to save the time

1:11:14 ↗ all right um and we're going to

1:11:17 ↗ just remind everyone that we want to

1:11:19 ↗ make sure that we speak slowly so that

1:11:22 ↗ the interpreters can understand what

1:11:24 ↗ we're saying we also want to make sure

1:11:26 ↗ that we use the chat box not to put

1:11:28 ↗ anything

1:11:29 ↗ substantial substantiative thank you

1:11:34 ↗ but more so uh make sure that we um

1:11:37 ↗ write in comment if we have something to

1:11:39 ↗ say um also type in question if you have

1:11:41 ↗ a question

1:11:43 ↗ um and of course uh be prepared to just

1:11:45 ↗ speak for yourself unless you'd like for

1:11:48 ↗ someone else to speak for you and then

1:11:49 ↗ of course we'll make sure that we leave

1:11:51 ↗ room for everyone to say

1:11:53 ↗ um whatever it is they have to say um

1:11:56 ↗ does that sound fair

1:12:00 ↗ great great then if we have nothing else

1:12:03 ↗ um we can go ahead and start with our

1:12:06 ↗ next agenda item and that's going to be

1:12:08 ↗ our discussion on equity and equality

1:12:15 ↗ and uh we're going to have tony go ahead

1:12:17 ↗ and present that

1:12:19 ↗ tony our co-chair

1:12:20 ↗ uh and tony if you would please give us

1:12:23 ↗ a brief uh introduction for those people

1:12:25 ↗ that don't know you

1:12:27 ↗ okay um brief introduction to tony curry

1:12:29 ↗ let's see um first of all i'm really

1:12:32 ↗ excited to be a part of what we're all a

1:12:34 ↗ part of is and equity for the city and

1:12:37 ↗ we all want equity of course for you

1:12:39 ↗ know outside the city to state the world

1:12:42 ↗ i am a us army veteran of 12 years

1:12:45 ↗ served all over the world

1:12:48 ↗ loved actually serving currently i

1:12:49 ↗ worked for microsoft

1:12:52 ↗ as a project manager in the learning and

1:12:55 ↗ learning and development

1:12:56 ↗ sphere for a number of partners across

1:12:58 ↗ the world so

1:13:00 ↗ equity and inclusion is very very

1:13:01 ↗ important to me it always has been even

1:13:03 ↗ for my youth i don't know where it's

1:13:05 ↗ actually come from but it's also been

1:13:08 ↗ very very important to me

1:13:11 ↗ i am 53 years old got five children

1:13:14 ↗ i have a son who's also serving in the

1:13:16 ↗ us army as well

1:13:18 ↗ or is serving

1:13:20 ↗ and i have four daughters 22 she

1:13:23 ↗ graduated university of washington so go

1:13:26 ↗ huskies

1:13:28 ↗ and i have a 21 year old daughter who

1:13:30 ↗ works in town in essaquah she works at

1:13:32 ↗ orange theory uh right over by bevmo so

1:13:35 ↗ if you need a workout go over and see

1:13:36 ↗ her at orange theory she's actually a

1:13:39 ↗ social media manager and

1:13:41 ↗ receptionist there and i have a 16 year

1:13:44 ↗ old daughter who's actually very blessed

1:13:46 ↗ to be able to be going to bellevue

1:13:49 ↗ college

1:13:50 ↗ as a college student and she will

1:13:51 ↗ actually graduate in two years even

1:13:54 ↗ though she's 16 years old she's actually

1:13:55 ↗ in college right now in a running start

1:13:57 ↗ program so she'll graduate with a high

1:13:59 ↗ school with an associate's degree so

1:14:01 ↗ great family love the city of issaquah i

1:14:04 ↗ absolutely love it i moved here in 2015.

1:14:09 ↗ i've loved it ever since and it's been

1:14:10 ↗ nice to see issaquah grow in diversity

1:14:13 ↗ it's growing slowly you know it's

1:14:15 ↗ getting there just getting there um

1:14:17 ↗ but uh it's nice to see and i i you know

1:14:19 ↗ when i moved here in 2015 the only

1:14:21 ↗ person of color i saw was myself in the

1:14:24 ↗ mirror when i moved here in 2015. so

1:14:26 ↗ it's nice that helen my neighbor it's

1:14:29 ↗ also

1:14:30 ↗ a part of the equity board here and just

1:14:33 ↗ seeing more people in our apartment

1:14:34 ↗ complex that are more people of color

1:14:36 ↗ and now seeing that not just in its

1:14:39 ↗ citizens but also seeing it in the

1:14:41 ↗ stores i'm starting to see that move

1:14:42 ↗ forward in stores where i go to trader

1:14:45 ↗ joe's i go to pcc i go to uh many other

1:14:48 ↗ different places in issaquah and i see

1:14:50 ↗ it not only going forth like i said in

1:14:52 ↗ the citizens but also in employment um

1:14:55 ↗ and i hope to see that actually

1:14:57 ↗ transpire more at other employers within

1:15:00 ↗ the issaquah like the for one period of

1:15:02 ↗ time i'm sorry for the long introduction

1:15:04 ↗ but one period of time i worked for

1:15:05 ↗ costco the headquarters

1:15:07 ↗ location

1:15:09 ↗ not the store but the actual costco

1:15:10 ↗ headquarters i was a project manager

1:15:12 ↗ there

1:15:12 ↗ for a little while

1:15:14 ↗ and i was the only person there and so i

1:15:17 ↗ would love to see that grow not just in

1:15:19 ↗ the retail sphere but also in the white

1:15:22 ↗ collar issue if you want to call that

1:15:24 ↗ that type of work as well so

1:15:27 ↗ i'm happy to be talking about equity

1:15:30 ↗ today so

1:15:33 ↗ monica can you please provide me

1:15:35 ↗ presenter privileges

1:15:39 ↗ and tony i just wanted to give a quick

1:15:41 ↗ comment to thank you for that great

1:15:43 ↗ introduction and we also want to thank

1:15:46 ↗ you for your service

1:15:48 ↗ it was my pleasure an absolute pleasure

1:15:50 ↗ and an honor thank you for thanking me

1:15:55 ↗ i could do it all over again i would

1:15:59 ↗ thank you tony and you should now have

1:16:01 ↗ uh presenter privileges

1:16:03 ↗ thank you very much i'm gonna actually

1:16:05 ↗ just instead of sharing my screen i'm

1:16:07 ↗ going to share the

1:16:09 ↗ powerpoint let me know when you are

1:16:11 ↗ seeing my screen

1:16:14 ↗ let me go into slideshow mode

1:16:17 ↗ there you go you can see it all right so

1:16:20 ↗ i won't be able to see chat but

1:16:22 ↗ uh we can talk so hopefully you guys are

1:16:24 ↗ seeing my screen right now or you

1:16:25 ↗ already said you could so here we go um

1:16:28 ↗ what you see right here is of course

1:16:31 ↗ something going on you see a gate or it

1:16:34 ↗ could possibly look like a fence to you

1:16:37 ↗ you also see something going on behind

1:16:39 ↗ it

1:16:40 ↗ you can

1:16:41 ↗ pretty much guess possibly i mean that

1:16:43 ↗ gate what i want you to do in this

1:16:45 ↗ conversation we're going to talk through

1:16:46 ↗ today

1:16:47 ↗ see this gate or fence

1:16:49 ↗ as a barrier it's a barrier don't just

1:16:52 ↗ see it as a gate or a fence now you see

1:16:53 ↗ something going on behind it it's a game

1:16:56 ↗ you can probably guess maybe

1:16:58 ↗ possibly baseball

1:16:59 ↗ maybe

1:17:00 ↗ cricket possibly could be cricket as

1:17:02 ↗ well see a crowd kind of watching what's

1:17:04 ↗ going on but see i want you to see what

1:17:07 ↗ this you know what's going on behind

1:17:08 ↗ this barrier as life

1:17:11 ↗ see it as life and life's opportunities

1:17:13 ↗ and there's a barrier

1:17:15 ↗ that's keeping

1:17:17 ↗ maybe you

1:17:18 ↗ from viewing or participating

1:17:21 ↗ in these opportunities and this

1:17:22 ↗ opportunity that what you're what you

1:17:24 ↗ see going on behind this gate

1:17:28 ↗ now if we look at this if we look at

1:17:31 ↗ this now it's not moving okay why is my

1:17:34 ↗ slide not moving give me just a second

1:17:36 ↗ here i have no idea why

1:17:38 ↗ my slide is not advancing there we go

1:17:40 ↗ just took a while okay

1:17:42 ↗ so now you see

1:17:44 ↗ three boxes

1:17:46 ↗ and these three boxes you could stand on

1:17:48 ↗ them

1:17:49 ↗ you could stand on them and maybe you

1:17:50 ↗ can

1:17:51 ↗ get in and participate

1:17:53 ↗ in the game

1:17:54 ↗ you can participate in whatever's going

1:17:56 ↗ on here and everyone gets a box now some

1:17:59 ↗ of you may have seen this image maybe in

1:18:01 ↗ social media maybe you've seen it

1:18:04 ↗ somewhere and maybe your employer has

1:18:06 ↗ actually gone through this type of uh

1:18:09 ↗ conversation with you in some way shape

1:18:11 ↗ or form

1:18:13 ↗ and so in this in this scenario and this

1:18:15 ↗ picture here like i said you everyone

1:18:17 ↗ gets a box now so you could stand on the

1:18:18 ↗ box and you could participate like in

1:18:21 ↗ life's you know opportunities you could

1:18:23 ↗ participate and or you could just watch

1:18:25 ↗ and see what's going on and everyone

1:18:27 ↗ gets a box right and there's nothing

1:18:29 ↗ wrong with that that's all great

1:18:30 ↗ everyone gets a box

1:18:34 ↗ but here now i apologize for my closed

1:18:37 ↗ captioning covering up part of the image

1:18:38 ↗ here

1:18:40 ↗ but this is this image kind of

1:18:42 ↗ represents

1:18:43 ↗ reality

1:18:46 ↗ some people

1:18:47 ↗ get three boxes

1:18:50 ↗ some people

1:18:51 ↗ they've only got one they've got one

1:18:53 ↗ that one box

1:18:54 ↗ this is reality this is the world we

1:18:57 ↗ live in at least you know what what i'm

1:18:59 ↗ gonna say

1:19:00 ↗ from my opinion what i'd love to hear

1:19:02 ↗ from you in a few moments what are your

1:19:04 ↗ opinions on this particular image and

1:19:06 ↗ you see this this little person

1:19:09 ↗ um you could say it's a kid you know i

1:19:11 ↗ was gonna say it's a little person

1:19:13 ↗ and this is you know what i see me

1:19:15 ↗ personally and like i said i'd love to

1:19:17 ↗ hear your thoughts

1:19:19 ↗ is

1:19:20 ↗ some people don't even get a box

1:19:23 ↗ you know ben carson said at one period

1:19:26 ↗ of time

1:19:27 ↗ um a few years ago he said something

1:19:29 ↗ like you know

1:19:30 ↗ people just have to pull themselves up

1:19:32 ↗ by their bootstraps

1:19:34 ↗ some people don't even have boots

1:19:36 ↗ and in this image here which you can see

1:19:40 ↗ this person doesn't have a box they're

1:19:41 ↗ not even on the ground

1:19:43 ↗ they're under the ground they're

1:19:44 ↗ starting out and trying to view life's

1:19:47 ↗ opportunities and participate in life's

1:19:50 ↗ opportunities

1:19:52 ↗ not even at the same stage of others

1:19:56 ↗ so let's talk about this

1:19:58 ↗ and we're going to get a little work out

1:20:00 ↗ in terms of our rules as you see here's

1:20:02 ↗ the reality so the reality of society

1:20:06 ↗ so

1:20:07 ↗ i mean i can't see chat right now but

1:20:08 ↗ i'd love for you to participate with me

1:20:10 ↗ in this conversation because this is not

1:20:12 ↗ just let's say me teaching equality and

1:20:15 ↗ equity and you know

1:20:17 ↗ we're all a group and we all want to see

1:20:20 ↗ not only the city of issaquah the state

1:20:22 ↗ of washington and our world become a

1:20:23 ↗ more equitable society

1:20:26 ↗ but so definitely want to

1:20:28 ↗ get some thoughts from you and how you

1:20:31 ↗ view equity and how you view let's say

1:20:33 ↗ this particularly right now how you view

1:20:35 ↗ this image is this reality does this

1:20:37 ↗ image represent today or yesterday

1:20:41 ↗ will it represent tomorrow

1:20:43 ↗ is it dependent on social status

1:20:47 ↗ and here's a big one that my daughter

1:20:48 ↗ and i were discussing today my my middle

1:20:50 ↗ daughter

1:20:51 ↗ are positive and negative effects

1:20:55 ↗ recognized by all

1:20:57 ↗ you know are they recognized by all and

1:20:59 ↗ so in my opinion and i'm just going to

1:21:01 ↗ start off that because i can't see chat

1:21:02 ↗ and i'd love to you know shave monica

1:21:04 ↗ for you to um you know monitor chat and

1:21:06 ↗ see if there's some comments love to get

1:21:07 ↗ some comments from you and what you see

1:21:09 ↗ but

1:21:10 ↗ the way i see i'm going to take a couple

1:21:12 ↗ of comments here that from my my

1:21:14 ↗ daughters in my conversation that the

1:21:16 ↗ positive and negative effects you know

1:21:18 ↗ are they recognized by everyone

1:21:20 ↗ i moved to say me personally

1:21:23 ↗ that

1:21:24 ↗ someone starting out with the three

1:21:26 ↗ boxes

1:21:27 ↗ they have no idea of the negative

1:21:29 ↗ effects

1:21:30 ↗ they think that everyone else and we see

1:21:33 ↗ that in our society today they think

1:21:35 ↗ that everyone else's has the same

1:21:36 ↗ opportunities as they do

1:21:38 ↗ maybe they won the birth lottery in

1:21:40 ↗ whomever they were born to and they were

1:21:43 ↗ given i'm not saying everyone doesn't

1:21:45 ↗ have this and this is the reality of

1:21:47 ↗ life everyone doesn't have the same

1:21:48 ↗ opportunities sometimes based on birth

1:21:51 ↗ sometimes based on many other different

1:21:53 ↗ factors

1:21:54 ↗ but i can tell i can say one thing

1:21:57 ↗ i think also the person with one box

1:22:00 ↗ they're definitely seeing the person

1:22:01 ↗ with three boxes they're seeing it like

1:22:03 ↗ you know hey you know i've got some

1:22:05 ↗ opportunities there but i don't really

1:22:08 ↗ have as many opportunities as someone

1:22:10 ↗ else

1:22:12 ↗ but are they seeing the person that's

1:22:13 ↗ underneath the ground

1:22:15 ↗ that their opportunities and all and i

1:22:17 ↗ will admit i'll save within myself

1:22:19 ↗ i didn't see that until

1:22:22 ↗ i really got involved more into my

1:22:25 ↗ community um which at the time was in

1:22:27 ↗ the um which at the time when i was in

1:22:30 ↗ surfing in the military i didn't get

1:22:31 ↗ really more involved with the community

1:22:33 ↗ i was living at the time and then i

1:22:35 ↗ realized that that other people didn't

1:22:37 ↗ have the same opportunities but i can

1:22:38 ↗ tell you one thing the individual that's

1:22:41 ↗ underneath the ground there

1:22:43 ↗ oh yeah he definitely recognizes not

1:22:46 ↗ only the negative effects

1:22:49 ↗ but also the positive effects

1:22:51 ↗ and wishes that there was some change

1:22:54 ↗ and wants to see that change happen

1:22:56 ↗ so

1:22:57 ↗ before i move on are there any comments

1:22:59 ↗ because i can't see chat

1:23:02 ↗ hi tony and i'll jump in here um because

1:23:05 ↗ i have a comment alyssa also has a

1:23:07 ↗ comment

1:23:08 ↗ um

1:23:09 ↗ so i'll be quick and brief

1:23:12 ↗ so when i look at this picture i really

1:23:14 ↗ do see that um

1:23:16 ↗ i i do see reality

1:23:18 ↗ because um

1:23:21 ↗ privilege is afforded to everyone

1:23:24 ↗ and although it may not always be race

1:23:26 ↗ um it could also be how you start

1:23:29 ↗ um it could be being coupled it could be

1:23:32 ↗ being single it could be having children

1:23:35 ↗ or not it there are

1:23:37 ↗ lots and lots of things that put us in a

1:23:39 ↗ position where we have a few more boxes

1:23:42 ↗ uh than someone else and it's hard to

1:23:45 ↗ look back and see who doesn't have a box

1:23:47 ↗ or where you can share a box

1:23:49 ↗ um and this is where i've learned that

1:23:52 ↗ when you come from a place of abundance

1:23:54 ↗ you share

1:23:55 ↗ um and you help others who wouldn't

1:23:58 ↗ normally have the same privileges that

1:24:00 ↗ you would

1:24:01 ↗ and that's what i really love about this

1:24:03 ↗ image um

1:24:05 ↗ alyssa if you would please i think

1:24:08 ↗ you're next and then uh i see lorna

1:24:11 ↗ um

1:24:12 ↗ has a response

1:24:14 ↗ and um megan so um lorna if you'd like

1:24:18 ↗ to speak up i'd love to give you the

1:24:19 ↗ opportunity to do so

1:24:22 ↗ and yeah

1:24:24 ↗ pretty has has one thank you

1:24:28 ↗ i had comments

1:24:29 ↗ conversation with someone about submits

1:24:31 ↗ just recently

1:24:33 ↗ the first thing they said to me was

1:24:36 ↗ you're assuming that the people in the

1:24:39 ↗ image want to watch the game

1:24:42 ↗ and

1:24:43 ↗ you're not recognizing that

1:24:45 ↗ maybe they lost their ball over the

1:24:46 ↗ fence and they're wanting to get their

1:24:48 ↗ ball

1:24:50 ↗ um

1:24:51 ↗ here

1:24:52 ↗ and the point of that was to say that

1:24:54 ↗ the equity conversation has to start

1:24:56 ↗ with

1:24:58 ↗ the people

1:25:00 ↗ who are on those boxes or don't have

1:25:01 ↗ boxes

1:25:02 ↗ to understand what it is from their

1:25:05 ↗ perspective

1:25:07 ↗ that

1:25:07 ↗ they want or need

1:25:10 ↗ and that we've made an assumption about

1:25:11 ↗ the what or need

1:25:13 ↗ um

1:25:14 ↗ the other part of that and probably in

1:25:16 ↗ the same line is

1:25:18 ↗ even if all these kids say i want to be

1:25:20 ↗ able to see the game

1:25:22 ↗ and

1:25:23 ↗ they all have enough boxes to be able to

1:25:25 ↗ see the game and have the same view

1:25:28 ↗ still behind that fence

1:25:31 ↗ right

1:25:32 ↗ and all the other spectators are sitting

1:25:34 ↗ in the stadium

1:25:37 ↗ and i'm not really sure what what that

1:25:39 ↗ says but it still feels

1:25:41 ↗ like it's not quite equity

1:25:43 ↗ that maybe we

1:25:45 ↗ haven't taken that conversation far

1:25:47 ↗ enough

1:25:48 ↗ um that regard

1:25:51 ↗ not yet

1:25:52 ↗ but great comment great comment

1:25:57 ↗ i think i'm next um

1:25:59 ↗ i'll just say coming from a young person

1:26:02 ↗ i think sometimes we don't even know

1:26:05 ↗ that this inequality is even happening

1:26:07 ↗ maybe we're not aware that they're even

1:26:08 ↗ boxing those at all and that everyone's

1:26:10 ↗ equal

1:26:11 ↗ and i think the first step and you know

1:26:14 ↗ one is recognizing that and then

1:26:16 ↗ understanding what again is my role and

1:26:18 ↗ how to make it

1:26:20 ↗ more equitable and so everyone can see

1:26:22 ↗ over the fence at the same level

1:26:27 ↗ fantastic

1:26:29 ↗ fantastic i know i couldn't remember it

1:26:31 ↗ was you alyssa or ushay that

1:26:35 ↗ made a comment i think it was you alyssa

1:26:37 ↗ that um

1:26:38 ↗ that what first has to happen is a

1:26:40 ↗ conversation on and it seems like you

1:26:42 ↗ were saying that based on need like what

1:26:44 ↗ is it that you need and it to to be able

1:26:47 ↗ to achieve what you want to achieve is

1:26:49 ↗ that what you're saying

1:26:51 ↗ correct correct that

1:26:53 ↗ that sometimes

1:26:55 ↗ even being well meaning we assume what

1:26:59 ↗ the other group wants or needs without

1:27:01 ↗ having the conversation to find out what

1:27:03 ↗ that one or need is first

1:27:06 ↗ and that's why i think and that's that's

1:27:08 ↗ a really good point and you know what

1:27:10 ↗ alyssa i didn't even think about that

1:27:12 ↗ myself and i think that you know for us

1:27:14 ↗ as an equity board together as a

1:27:16 ↗ collective group i think as we make you

1:27:18 ↗ know recommendations and we make

1:27:20 ↗ decisions and that's why i really i

1:27:22 ↗ personally feel it's very important for

1:27:24 ↗ the public to be here

1:27:26 ↗ in these meetings in these discussions

1:27:28 ↗ so we can find out for the public

1:27:30 ↗ because

1:27:31 ↗ to your point ellis is like where we

1:27:32 ↗ could be possibly making decisions

1:27:35 ↗ without actually really having an idea

1:27:38 ↗ on what's needed from a public

1:27:40 ↗ standpoint um so i think that's great

1:27:42 ↗ that's great and i'm definitely for

1:27:44 ↗ myself i'm gonna

1:27:45 ↗ definitely keep that top of mind as i

1:27:48 ↗ vote on different things or maybe

1:27:50 ↗ introduce a motion for something or or

1:27:52 ↗ whatever so that i think that's great

1:27:54 ↗ that's fantastic fantastic okay

1:27:57 ↗ all right are there any other comments

1:28:00 ↗ yes tony i think we had a comment from

1:28:02 ↗ lorna if you want to speak and pretty

1:28:06 ↗ um if she still has a comment

1:28:08 ↗ lorna did you want to share your comment

1:28:12 ↗ sure um in looking at this i definitely

1:28:14 ↗ think this image represents today and i

1:28:16 ↗ think alyssa's point of need to needing

1:28:19 ↗ to be a chain-link fence so that there's

1:28:21 ↗ no barriers to something that we are you

1:28:24 ↗ know that's the ultimate goal

1:28:26 ↗ because i think the main barrier to me

1:28:28 ↗ in what i see

1:28:30 ↗ in my world is that it's mainly implicit

1:28:32 ↗ bias and

1:28:34 ↗ microaggressions

1:28:36 ↗ that are limiting younger people's

1:28:38 ↗ ability to access

1:28:40 ↗ because no matter the way they judged is

1:28:42 ↗ going to impact everything else moving

1:28:44 ↗ forward

1:28:45 ↗ absolutely that's so even

1:28:48 ↗ as an adult maybe things may be

1:28:51 ↗ different but by then it feels like

1:28:53 ↗ there have been so many hardships that

1:28:56 ↗ it's harder sometimes to overcome

1:28:58 ↗ that and then also learning the

1:29:00 ↗ rules of engagement

1:29:02 ↗ you know sometimes as a person of color

1:29:05 ↗ it's harder for me to figure out what

1:29:06 ↗ that rule of engagement is because so

1:29:08 ↗ many of those rules um unwritten

1:29:11 ↗ and so

1:29:12 ↗ right away

1:29:14 ↗ in any kind of a

1:29:16 ↗ greater

1:29:17 ↗ um you know not greater but in any kind

1:29:19 ↗ of a

1:29:20 ↗ more

1:29:21 ↗ certain kind of um what am i trying to

1:29:24 ↗ say kind of um formal meetings and

1:29:27 ↗ situations like that's one of the

1:29:28 ↗ reasons i love that monica and the city

1:29:31 ↗ is taking so much time to teach

1:29:33 ↗ everyone here the rules of engagement

1:29:34 ↗ for the being a board member because

1:29:36 ↗ sometimes that limits the ability to

1:29:39 ↗ participate

1:29:40 ↗ and so

1:29:41 ↗ right away some people have that

1:29:43 ↗ step up versus other people not because

1:29:46 ↗ they've just never been exposed to that

1:29:48 ↗ because they were never invited to the

1:29:50 ↗ table because they never had that to

1:29:52 ↗ begin with and so

1:29:55 ↗ i i can relate to this

1:29:57 ↗ um visual and you know i definitely see

1:30:00 ↗ that as today's

1:30:02 ↗ society um independent of source

1:30:04 ↗ economic

1:30:05 ↗ status

1:30:06 ↗ because we have a lot of people in

1:30:08 ↗ issaquah who are of higher socioeconomic

1:30:10 ↗ levels that are still experiencing this

1:30:15 ↗ very very true very very true and thank

1:30:17 ↗ you for um

1:30:19 ↗ that um you know that that insight into

1:30:22 ↗ your your thoughts and feelings on this

1:30:24 ↗ owner thank you for that comment those

1:30:26 ↗ comments

1:30:28 ↗ thank you and pretty are you ready

1:30:31 ↗ uh yes so i just had you know a couple

1:30:34 ↗ of thoughts as i was looking at this

1:30:36 ↗ visual and one was um

1:30:38 ↗ similar to what alyssa was saying and

1:30:41 ↗ you know us

1:30:42 ↗ and i think

1:30:43 ↗ you know the municipal government being

1:30:47 ↗ i'm thinking about the

1:30:50 ↗ how the internal equity group had you

1:30:52 ↗ know those three focus areas and

1:30:54 ↗ engagement was one of them i think

1:30:56 ↗ that's also really critical to have that

1:30:58 ↗ community engagement to really

1:30:59 ↗ understand what the community and all of

1:31:01 ↗ its you know diversity diverse

1:31:04 ↗ characteristics

1:31:05 ↗ wants in certain things rather than

1:31:08 ↗ making those assumptions i think that's

1:31:10 ↗ so important

1:31:11 ↗ and um

1:31:12 ↗ the other you know comment i have is you

1:31:15 ↗ know and it's something that i've been

1:31:16 ↗ thinking a lot about as

1:31:18 ↗ trying as a change agent around equity

1:31:21 ↗ and social justice and anti-racism work

1:31:23 ↗ is

1:31:24 ↗ i think one of the biggest challenges

1:31:26 ↗ here is

1:31:27 ↗ you know if we look at the person

1:31:29 ↗ standing on the three boxes that feels

1:31:31 ↗ normal to that person and so any changes

1:31:35 ↗ we have like loss of privilege you know

1:31:37 ↗ a loss of privilege is experienced as a

1:31:40 ↗ loss and with that loss there's going to

1:31:42 ↗ be resistance and

1:31:44 ↗ i think that's one of those big the

1:31:46 ↗ biggest challenges we have to navigate

1:31:48 ↗ on this work is

1:31:49 ↗ understanding and supporting people

1:31:51 ↗ through this feeling of loss

1:31:55 ↗ absolutely thank you

1:31:58 ↗ thank you

1:32:01 ↗ um and we also have alyssa who has

1:32:03 ↗ another comment

1:32:04 ↗ i just wanted to comment on what

1:32:06 ↗ pre-teacher said which is

1:32:08 ↗ there's this uh

1:32:19 ↗ am i speaking

1:32:22 ↗ okay um

1:32:24 ↗ i i just wanted to comment on what

1:32:26 ↗ pretty commented and just to say that

1:32:29 ↗ yes there's this this

1:32:32 ↗ faulty concept that

1:32:34 ↗ in order to

1:32:36 ↗ make equity that we have to take away a

1:32:39 ↗ box from someone

1:32:41 ↗ in order to give it to someone else

1:32:44 ↗ and

1:32:45 ↗ i

1:32:46 ↗ agree with you there's we have to

1:32:49 ↗ there has to be some conversation or

1:32:51 ↗ some understanding that creating equity

1:32:55 ↗ doesn't necessarily mean taking away

1:32:58 ↗ anything from someone else

1:33:03 ↗ fantastic that is absolutely correct

1:33:06 ↗ absolutely we're going to talk about

1:33:07 ↗ that in a little bit as well

1:33:10 ↗ tony i'm sorry do we have time for a few

1:33:13 ↗ more comments

1:33:14 ↗ sure yeah all righty and i see uh helen

1:33:18 ↗ uh

1:33:19 ↗ is ready to speak are you yes i am all

1:33:23 ↗ right great

1:33:25 ↗ yeah and thank you all for all those

1:33:26 ↗ wonderful comments i was just looking at

1:33:28 ↗ the

1:33:29 ↗ the one with the one box and proximity

1:33:31 ↗ and what that does that mean for

1:33:33 ↗ the closer you go out to the person who

1:33:35 ↗ is

1:33:36 ↗ who can view things with the three boxes

1:33:38 ↗ and the closer you are to

1:33:40 ↗ the one further down like what does that

1:33:41 ↗ mean

1:33:42 ↗ you have either the strength to get up

1:33:44 ↗ and see things better or you're at risk

1:33:46 ↗ of falling further down and how does

1:33:48 ↗ that balance play out who is around you

1:33:51 ↗ to help you either hold you to not go

1:33:53 ↗ further down or help you to go further

1:33:56 ↗ up and what responsibility does that um

1:33:59 ↗ who takes that on do you make the effort

1:34:01 ↗ do you try not to i see the shoe is

1:34:04 ↗ slightly on the edge it's it's it's a

1:34:06 ↗ slippery slope it can easily go down or

1:34:08 ↗ it can go up and what's the

1:34:09 ↗ responsibility of people who are seeing

1:34:11 ↗ that to help you to

1:34:13 ↗ probably stabilize and go further up or

1:34:15 ↗ not to go further down

1:34:19 ↗ kind of the concept of reach back behind

1:34:21 ↗ you to help those um stand on the box

1:34:24 ↗ that you're standing on

1:34:27 ↗ yeah

1:34:28 ↗ great comment helen

1:34:30 ↗ and we have kelly

1:34:32 ↗ and then lucretia

1:34:36 ↗ um thank you uh

1:34:39 ↗ i i thought about this image a lot

1:34:42 ↗ and

1:34:43 ↗ personally i think the wall has to go

1:34:45 ↗ away

1:34:47 ↗ i think everyone equity means everyone

1:34:49 ↗ can be sitting in that game

1:34:52 ↗ one way or another i know that is not a

1:34:54 ↗ capitalist view of the world

1:34:56 ↗ but if we got rid of the wall there'd be

1:34:58 ↗ more fans there'd be more energy in the

1:35:01 ↗ in that field cheering on these teams

1:35:04 ↗ there'd be more people who could become

1:35:08 ↗ qriket players or baseball players or

1:35:09 ↗ whatever they're playing because they

1:35:11 ↗ get to experience that excitement of a

1:35:14 ↗ game in the stands with other people to

1:35:17 ↗ me that's equity

1:35:20 ↗ very good

1:35:23 ↗ thank you kelly

1:35:25 ↗ and

1:35:26 ↗ lucretia if you're ready

1:35:28 ↗ sure i think um i was thinking right

1:35:31 ↗ along the same lines as kelly in that

1:35:34 ↗ you know for me the question that i have

1:35:37 ↗ is

1:35:38 ↗ why do these three individuals

1:35:41 ↗ need to be on the outside of the fence

1:35:43 ↗ looking in regardless of how

1:35:46 ↗ you know one has three

1:35:48 ↗ all the way down to having none and even

1:35:50 ↗ being dug in a hole

1:35:51 ↗ so then my question becomes you know

1:35:54 ↗ this image kind of reminds me of um

1:35:58 ↗ school district districting and how that

1:36:00 ↗ happens how we divide things based on

1:36:03 ↗ um

1:36:05 ↗ uh

1:36:06 ↗ you know these lines that are drawn

1:36:08 ↗ and who has access right so for me it

1:36:11 ↗ becomes more of a question of access

1:36:14 ↗ um so

1:36:16 ↗ it also repre it also reminds me kind of

1:36:18 ↗ a like redlining right you can see what

1:36:21 ↗ it's like to live in a different

1:36:22 ↗ neighborhood like the people in the

1:36:24 ↗ stands

1:36:25 ↗ but you're still kind of like not in the

1:36:27 ↗ right on the right side of the fence so

1:36:28 ↗ to speak

1:36:30 ↗ um

1:36:31 ↗ this image also

1:36:33 ↗ was very interesting to me because i

1:36:34 ↗ noticed that the tone of the skin

1:36:37 ↗ of the three individuals on the boxes

1:36:40 ↗ are

1:36:40 ↗ darker toned

1:36:42 ↗ and so um it reminded me kind of of that

1:36:46 ↗ whole

1:36:48 ↗ issue that we have among our communities

1:36:50 ↗ with regards to passing

1:36:52 ↗ um passing as white um

1:36:55 ↗ being lighter skinned what does that

1:36:57 ↗ mean um

1:36:58 ↗ and again why are the individuals on

1:37:00 ↗ this side of the fence and not sitting

1:37:02 ↗ in the stands

1:37:03 ↗ i mean there's so many things that come

1:37:05 ↗ up that

1:37:06 ↗ that

1:37:07 ↗ i mean we can go in various directions

1:37:09 ↗ but like kelly said

1:37:11 ↗ it's for me it's more a question of like

1:37:13 ↗ why

1:37:15 ↗ why is it that even if you have quote

1:37:17 ↗ unquote more access you're still

1:37:20 ↗ standing on the outside and what does

1:37:22 ↗ that look like

1:37:23 ↗ and

1:37:24 ↗ furthermore

1:37:26 ↗ yes this person is standing on these

1:37:28 ↗ three boxes and could be unaware like

1:37:31 ↗ some other people have said

1:37:33 ↗ but what are we doing to engage

1:37:36 ↗ those people who who are

1:37:39 ↗ better off than others

1:37:42 ↗ so that they can take the time to look

1:37:44 ↗ around them and notice what is actually

1:37:47 ↗ happening right because i feel like that

1:37:49 ↗ can be very simple

1:37:50 ↗ like you can you can become very

1:37:52 ↗ comfortable with saying like okay i may

1:37:54 ↗ not be part of

1:37:56 ↗ having access to the stand seats

1:37:59 ↗ but damn it i can at least see the game

1:38:01 ↗ right

1:38:02 ↗ so then you kind of lose track of

1:38:06 ↗ the end game i guess

1:38:08 ↗ that's my comment

1:38:11 ↗ great comment thank you lucretia that's

1:38:13 ↗ a great comment and christina i saw you

1:38:15 ↗ had a comment um so would you like to

1:38:19 ↗ share

1:38:20 ↗ let's see

1:38:37 ↗ people have different uh

1:38:43 ↗ i resources know if i lose hillary you

1:38:45 ↗ can hear me

1:39:11 ↗ i remember um before in the community i

1:39:14 ↗ lived in

1:39:15 ↗ we had an issue

1:39:22 ↗ we had a meeting to solve the problem

1:39:36 ↗ and really nobody not everybody showed

1:39:38 ↗ up and i remember not everybody wanted

1:39:40 ↗ to know what was happening with other

1:39:42 ↗ people

1:39:44 ↗ says

1:40:05 ↗ and then as you know i i don't mean to

1:40:08 ↗ exalt myself or anything but

1:40:11 ↗ in spite of the fact that i have two uh

1:40:14 ↗ two baby girls i went and knock on the

1:40:18 ↗ doors

1:40:19 ↗ to find out and help with the issue and

1:40:24 ↗ find out what was really going on

1:40:34 ↗ the point i'm trying to make is that we

1:40:35 ↗ can do uh different things

1:40:50 ↗ but what we really need to find out is

1:40:53 ↗ what is the

1:40:55 ↗ issue with the with the people who have

1:40:58 ↗ the problem

1:40:59 ↗ and we need to focus on that issue

1:41:15 ↗ and maybe

1:41:16 ↗ although this sounds a little bit

1:41:18 ↗ old-fashioned maybe we should go

1:41:20 ↗ door-to-door and find out what's going

1:41:22 ↗ on

1:41:34 ↗ a friend of mine recently told me that

1:41:35 ↗ her neighbors were facing different type

1:41:38 ↗ of problems due to the pandemic

1:41:51 ↗ and she was sure that the people would

1:41:53 ↗ not show up to the meeting that they

1:41:56 ↗ were

1:41:57 ↗ uh that was taking place

1:41:59 ↗ once a week and to offer prayer

1:42:05 ↗ but anyway

1:42:07 ↗ she

1:42:09 ↗ went ahead with the plan and she was

1:42:11 ↗ pleasantly surprised

1:42:22 ↗ many people from different countries

1:42:23 ↗ showed up and now they have that weekly

1:42:26 ↗ meeting

1:42:46 ↗ i believe that if we

1:42:48 ↗ clean

1:42:49 ↗ uh or put aside our own ideologies and

1:42:53 ↗ preconceived ideas

1:42:55 ↗ we can as a person go out and be

1:43:00 ↗ a positive um

1:43:06 ↗ a positive influence in our community

1:43:08 ↗ and do a lot of things

1:43:15 ↗ in those parties

1:43:17 ↗ i believe that we can split society in

1:43:19 ↗ two different sections

1:43:22 ↗ last

1:43:29 ↗ there's the people who have lived here

1:43:31 ↗ for a very long time

1:43:33 ↗ and have homes

1:43:36 ↗ personas

1:43:42 ↗ and the people who are here temporarily

1:43:44 ↗ and aren't planning to stay

1:43:50 ↗ navigable

1:44:07 ↗ uh and if we are able to connect those

1:44:10 ↗ two parts of society i think that we

1:44:13 ↗ someday we might be able

1:44:15 ↗ to bridge uh the difference and improve

1:44:18 ↗ uh society and get rid of the fence

1:44:31 ↗ and i believe that people like myself

1:44:33 ↗ immigrants who just came to this country

1:44:36 ↗ and and do not know about all the

1:44:38 ↗ process

1:44:40 ↗ that takes place

1:44:41 ↗ it's important to

1:44:44 ↗ be made aware of all this

1:45:03 ↗ whether you have money or

1:45:05 ↗ not

1:45:06 ↗ the important thing here is

1:45:09 ↗ you need to be made aware of the process

1:45:13 ↗ and how to be

1:45:15 ↗ or

1:45:16 ↗ know how to become part

1:45:18 ↗ of the process

1:45:20 ↗ and that's the way that a person can be

1:45:23 ↗ motivated to advance in this society

1:45:42 ↗ and it worries me when i go out to the

1:45:45 ↗ park with my children i see people who

1:45:48 ↗ are just spending time

1:45:50 ↗ and just wasting time with no purpose

1:45:53 ↗ that

1:45:54 ↗ that troubles me

1:46:10 ↗ a

1:46:33 ↗ i feel that that young person who is

1:46:35 ↗ just

1:46:37 ↗ doing

1:46:38 ↗ nothing being idle i feel that if they

1:46:41 ↗ focus maybe an older person

1:46:44 ↗ uh an aged person

1:46:46 ↗ uh and i'm sorry to say this and age it

1:46:49 ↗ but just an older folk

1:46:51 ↗ could

1:46:52 ↗ if they could connect i think that would

1:46:54 ↗ be

1:46:55 ↗ a positive outcome outcome

1:46:58 ↗ for both parties

1:47:14 ↗ [Music]

1:47:26 ↗ and i comment about this because i'm

1:47:31 ↗ studying positive discipline and there

1:47:33 ↗ was a comment in the positive discipline

1:47:36 ↗ class that in prior

1:47:38 ↗ times the communities would

1:47:41 ↗ gather

1:47:42 ↗ and

1:47:43 ↗ people from different uh

1:47:47 ↗ stages in life

1:47:48 ↗ would get together and that would

1:47:51 ↗ provide a place for them together and

1:47:54 ↗ it had a very positive outcome

1:47:59 ↗ okay

1:48:04 ↗ i think if we could implement something

1:48:06 ↗ like this that we could advance quite a

1:48:09 ↗ bit in society thank you that's all i

1:48:11 ↗ wanted to say

1:48:13 ↗ thank you christina thank you very much

1:48:15 ↗ for sharing i mean great great comments

1:48:17 ↗ and thank you for um giving us some

1:48:19 ↗ insight into

1:48:21 ↗ your past and uh your experiences we

1:48:23 ↗ really appreciate that i think we

1:48:25 ↗ will definitely be learning a lot from

1:48:27 ↗ uh you and all of us learning a lot from

1:48:29 ↗ each other all the comments that

1:48:31 ↗ everyone made on just one slide i mean

1:48:33 ↗ it energizes me and makes me so happy

1:48:36 ↗ and so excited to be a part of this

1:48:38 ↗ group because um

1:48:40 ↗ i i think we're all we're all going for

1:48:43 ↗ the same goal but it's nice to know that

1:48:45 ↗ a lot of you have definitely inside that

1:48:47 ↗ into this image that i didn't think

1:48:49 ↗ about myself so it's great to have this

1:48:51 ↗ conversation with you so are there any

1:48:53 ↗ more comments in uh uh that anyone wants

1:48:56 ↗ to make

1:48:56 ↗ or can we move on jay

1:48:59 ↗ i don't see anything else so i can't i'm

1:49:02 ↗ going to safely assume that we can move

1:49:04 ↗ on all right i want to stay cognizant of

1:49:06 ↗ time and unfortunately i can't see my

1:49:08 ↗ clock how are we at right now

1:49:10 ↗ so uh right now it's 806 so we have a

1:49:13 ↗ few more minutes um

1:49:17 ↗ how

1:49:17 ↗ do you have an estimate on how we're

1:49:19 ↗ looking right so it's getting through

1:49:21 ↗ the presentation

1:49:22 ↗ this was slide number one of 10. and but

1:49:25 ↗ i'm laughing because i'm excited that

1:49:28 ↗ we're going to probably i hope that we

1:49:30 ↗ can continue this conversation with the

1:49:32 ↗ other parts that we're going to talk

1:49:34 ↗ about like what actually equity does

1:49:36 ↗ look like versus equality

1:49:38 ↗ so i don't want to breeze through things

1:49:41 ↗ so i would hope to make a motion that we

1:49:43 ↗ continue this conversation in our next

1:49:45 ↗ meeting i'll do better in um my pm

1:49:50 ↗ skills and getting through the slides

1:49:52 ↗ but i don't i don't want to stop

1:49:53 ↗ anybody's comments and thoughts and

1:49:56 ↗ introspection and insight into this so

1:49:59 ↗ i really appreciate it so hopefully we

1:50:00 ↗ can continue this conversation in the

1:50:02 ↗ next meeting

1:50:04 ↗ thank you so much tony and monica

1:50:08 ↗ agrees that um i think we can

1:50:12 ↗ save this one or continue the

1:50:14 ↗ presentation in our next meeting if

1:50:16 ↗ everyone is in agreement with that

1:50:19 ↗ um just in the interest of time

1:50:22 ↗ um and monica do we have time

1:50:24 ↗ for

1:50:25 ↗ uh the next steps or the work plan

1:50:27 ↗ development

1:50:29 ↗ um with your permission i can uh just

1:50:31 ↗ provide a two-minute overview um if that

1:50:34 ↗ is okay and then tony thank you so much

1:50:37 ↗ for a great discussion and uh just

1:50:39 ↗ closing with that um equity board

1:50:42 ↗ members i think this topic was a tony's

1:50:44 ↗ idea and what a great suggestion as an

1:50:46 ↗ equity board for you to have

1:50:48 ↗ conversations sometimes easier sometimes

1:50:50 ↗ challenging conversations that we you

1:50:52 ↗ can have as a board on various topics

1:50:55 ↗ and so if you're interested in

1:50:57 ↗ continuing them definitely it seems like

1:50:59 ↗ this topic is going to continue next

1:51:00 ↗ month but if you have other ideas for

1:51:02 ↗ different topics for discussion and

1:51:04 ↗ training please bring them forward and

1:51:06 ↗ take the lead on on leading those we

1:51:09 ↗ would love to hear from you um and so

1:51:11 ↗ again just thank you um so so um

1:51:14 ↗ humbling and honoring to listen to you

1:51:16 ↗ all

1:51:17 ↗ um the next item on the agenda for

1:51:19 ↗ tonight was to talk briefly about the

1:51:21 ↗ next steps and um

1:51:24 ↗ about our work plan development if you

1:51:27 ↗ remember i touched very briefly on this

1:51:30 ↗ during our first meeting

1:51:32 ↗ and i would love to touch again on this

1:51:35 ↗ uh to bring forward just a couple of

1:51:37 ↗ things um as you work and develop as a

1:51:40 ↗ board and as you work on

1:51:43 ↗ learning one another and

1:51:45 ↗ learning to work together

1:51:48 ↗ we also

1:51:49 ↗ are going to begin working on

1:51:51 ↗ developing a work plan for you as a

1:51:54 ↗ board and

1:51:56 ↗ i think this is going to be a two-way

1:51:58 ↗ process on one end we are going to

1:52:00 ↗ receive recommendations from the mayor

1:52:02 ↗ and city council and they are going to

1:52:05 ↗ assign to us different topics as of now

1:52:08 ↗ uh we do have two topics that were

1:52:10 ↗ assigned to you as a board and we are

1:52:12 ↗ going to start bringing them forward

1:52:14 ↗ next month one is as you may remember

1:52:17 ↗ to

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1:52:20 ↗ inform and make recommendations on the

1:52:22 ↗ development of an equity framework or

1:52:25 ↗ equity toolkit that city council and the

1:52:28 ↗ other in the entire city can use when

1:52:31 ↗ taking decisions on various projects so

1:52:34 ↗ we are going to start talking about next

1:52:35 ↗ month and then the second topic you were

1:52:38 ↗ asked to provide recommendations

1:52:41 ↗ on a city calendar of cultural and

1:52:43 ↗ religious events that we should be aware

1:52:46 ↗ of

1:52:47 ↗ um and make sure that as a city we don't

1:52:50 ↗ schedule different meetings and be

1:52:52 ↗ respectful of those so those are a

1:52:54 ↗ couple of work plan items that are

1:52:55 ↗ starting to

1:52:57 ↗ be added

1:52:58 ↗ to us

1:53:00 ↗ and then in addition to that after

1:53:02 ↗ having a chance to

1:53:03 ↗ check in with mayor paulie um last week

1:53:07 ↗ mayor paul is really really interested

1:53:09 ↗ and very excited about our initial

1:53:12 ↗ plan of

1:53:13 ↗ learning as you had a chance to meet the

1:53:16 ↗ equity team for example tonight and

1:53:17 ↗ perhaps learning in more depth about the

1:53:20 ↗ different departments of the city and

1:53:21 ↗ what the city does and how does it work

1:53:23 ↗ so you really get a solid understanding

1:53:25 ↗ of that but also get a really solid

1:53:27 ↗ understanding of what's going on in the

1:53:30 ↗ community um perhaps with the school

1:53:32 ↗ district and other community

1:53:34 ↗ um

1:53:35 ↗ cultural groups so then once you have a

1:53:38 ↗ good understanding of that then you can

1:53:40 ↗ move forward to create like a gap

1:53:41 ↗ analysis of what is needed and then

1:53:45 ↗ therefore you

1:53:47 ↗ have a say into making recommendations

1:53:49 ↗ of what

1:53:50 ↗ should

1:53:51 ↗ we address as a city so and you get um

1:53:55 ↗ to make recommendations for um the work

1:53:58 ↗ plan items as well so kind of like this

1:54:01 ↗ is a brief overview just kind of like

1:54:03 ↗ having you getting you started in

1:54:04 ↗ thinking and brainstorming and as you

1:54:07 ↗ perhaps you're gonna have a lot of

1:54:08 ↗ questions so bring them forward um but

1:54:11 ↗ that's kind of like we will start diving

1:54:13 ↗ deeper into that into this in the uh

1:54:16 ↗ upcoming months uh and certainly just

1:54:19 ↗ start thinking about this and

1:54:21 ↗ as i said bring questions forward

1:54:24 ↗ uh as

1:54:25 ↗ in the upcoming

1:54:26 ↗ meetings

1:54:28 ↗ so with that i'm gonna pause in case

1:54:30 ↗ there are

1:54:31 ↗ questions now or comments um

1:54:34 ↗ and then we can move

1:54:37 ↗ uh to the very last item which is going

1:54:39 ↗ to be another minute and that's it

1:54:44 ↗ you don't see comments or perhaps i was

1:54:47 ↗ i will say that we're we're good to go

1:54:50 ↗ for our staff report

1:54:52 ↗ yes thank you very much ashay so for the

1:54:55 ↗ staff report again just a very very

1:54:57 ↗ brief uh report uh that's uh two two um

1:55:02 ↗ announcements that are related to equity

1:55:04 ↗ um one of them we just briefly talked

1:55:07 ↗ about um something related so the city

1:55:09 ↗ council um earlier in november passed

1:55:13 ↗ the 2022

1:55:15 ↗ uh city budget which

1:55:18 ↗ why is this um related to equity is

1:55:21 ↗ because

1:55:22 ↗ um the city budget typically informs the

1:55:25 ↗ city work plan which then further in

1:55:28 ↗ informs the different department work

1:55:31 ↗ plans and board and commission work

1:55:34 ↗ plans so as i was talking about our work

1:55:36 ↗ plan and um kind of like the next steps

1:55:40 ↗ in addition to what i just shared a

1:55:41 ↗ minute ago we will also bring to you in

1:55:44 ↗ the upcoming months the city-wide work

1:55:46 ↗ plan so then again if that's gonna be

1:55:48 ↗ part of that understanding deeper

1:55:50 ↗ understanding of how the city works so

1:55:52 ↗ then again it's gonna perhaps give you

1:55:54 ↗ ideas for different equity related

1:55:56 ↗ initiatives that that we can engage in

1:55:59 ↗ so that was one quick announcement and

1:56:01 ↗ then the second brief announcement

1:56:03 ↗ um

1:56:04 ↗ in terms of staff report for you tonight

1:56:07 ↗ um is that the

1:56:11 ↗ governor's office so this is at the

1:56:12 ↗ state level has several appointment

1:56:15 ↗ positions open for boards and

1:56:17 ↗ commissions

1:56:19 ↗ so perhaps if anyone on this board and

1:56:21 ↗ commission is interested in also serving

1:56:23 ↗ the state level boards and commissions

1:56:26 ↗ there are several openings for a variety

1:56:28 ↗ of

1:56:29 ↗ boards and commissions including the

1:56:31 ↗ human rights commission or there's an

1:56:33 ↗ environmental justice commission um

1:56:36 ↗ there's housing there are several

1:56:37 ↗ several commissions so if anyone is

1:56:40 ↗ interested in serving and representing

1:56:42 ↗ having someone from issaquah represented

1:56:44 ↗ at the state level i will share in the

1:56:46 ↗ email um the link on where you can see

1:56:49 ↗ that and how you can go about

1:56:52 ↗ signing up

1:56:54 ↗ to

1:56:55 ↗ represent

1:56:56 ↗ uh and

1:56:58 ↗ be

1:56:59 ↗ on a border commission at the state

1:57:00 ↗ level

1:57:01 ↗ so that concludes my brief report for

1:57:03 ↗ all of you tonight and i think that was

1:57:05 ↗ the last item on our agenda

1:57:09 ↗ um yes it is

1:57:11 ↗ um if anyone does anyone else have

1:57:14 ↗ questions or comments

1:57:20 ↗ i don't see any hands raised

1:57:23 ↗ i kind of have a comment but i'm like i

1:57:24 ↗ should just save it for the next meeting

1:57:26 ↗ because we're over time

1:57:27 ↗ oh go for it tony all right i'll go for

1:57:30 ↗ it um kind of would like to make a

1:57:32 ↗ motion here because i i'm all about okay

1:57:34 ↗ like you know when the strike when

1:57:35 ↗ iron's hot and so i i think i would like

1:57:39 ↗ to what i think i would like to make a

1:57:40 ↗ motion to create a committee that will

1:57:43 ↗ proactively

1:57:44 ↗ engage with the community

1:57:47 ↗ to find out what are the needs for

1:57:49 ↗ equity

1:57:50 ↗ everyone who commented today said

1:57:52 ↗ something of that nature about it um

1:57:55 ↗ like i said i'm all about striking while

1:57:57 ↗ the fire is hot um

1:58:00 ↗ i think that's something we need to do

1:58:02 ↗ to you know if there's certain members

1:58:04 ↗ who are passionate about that passion

1:58:06 ↗ about the community

1:58:07 ↗ so that you know

1:58:09 ↗ someone can just you know these

1:58:10 ↗ committee members can reach out to the

1:58:12 ↗ public bring those community needs to us

1:58:15 ↗ as a board and then we can start

1:58:17 ↗ figuring out how we can help implement

1:58:20 ↗ those needs for change

1:58:24 ↗ but we can talk about that next meeting

1:58:25 ↗ it doesn't have to be a vote right now

1:58:29 ↗ um would you guys like to take a vote no

1:58:32 ↗ um if i can get a show of hands

1:58:36 ↗ maybe some eyes or nays

1:58:39 ↗ i'm gonna jump in really quick because

1:58:41 ↗ now i wish we had still tisha here

1:58:44 ↗ uh this might be a technical issue since

1:58:46 ↗ it wasn't on the agenda i can't recall

1:58:48 ↗ if you can actually vote on it or

1:58:50 ↗ perhaps what we can do is put it as an

1:58:52 ↗ agenda item for next time

1:58:54 ↗ um just because again if

1:58:57 ↗ it wasn't on the agenda so that means

1:58:59 ↗ that the public did not have access to

1:59:01 ↗ it so my suggestion would be

1:59:03 ↗ great common great conversation great

1:59:05 ↗ discussion let's bring it forward as an

1:59:08 ↗ agenda item next time so then um the

1:59:11 ↗ public's gonna be notified of that and

1:59:13 ↗ then you can have a further conversation

1:59:15 ↗ and make more plans because that sounds

1:59:17 ↗ good to me thank you and it looks like

1:59:19 ↗ uh lucretia has confirmed that that's

1:59:22 ↗ pretty accurate so

1:59:24 ↗ i i agree i think that's a great option

1:59:27 ↗ yeah okay

1:59:29 ↗ does anyone else have any questions

1:59:31 ↗ concerns comments

1:59:33 ↗ oh lucretia has a comment

1:59:36 ↗ yeah i just wanted to follow up and say

1:59:37 ↗ that i think um whenever we have i i

1:59:40 ↗ believe

1:59:41 ↗ in what you're saying tony with regards

1:59:42 ↗ to like striking with the iron is hot

1:59:45 ↗ but

1:59:46 ↗ i think there is also um

1:59:49 ↗ in some sort of um

1:59:51 ↗ i guess it can be equally valid

1:59:53 ↗ to pose the question like you did now

1:59:55 ↗ and give us some time to think and then

1:59:57 ↗ allow for

1:59:59 ↗ the community

2:00:00 ↗ who is watching now or will watch later

2:00:03 ↗ to then weigh in and have an opinion as

2:00:04 ↗ well before we you know make decisions

2:00:08 ↗ thank

2:00:10 ↗ you thank you lucretia

2:00:13 ↗ really appreciate that

2:00:16 ↗ i'm sorry do we have another christina

2:00:18 ↗ did you also have a comment yes also i

2:00:20 ↗ want to say that

2:00:22 ↗ i agree with lucrezia

2:00:24 ↗ and

2:00:37 ↗ yeah

2:00:38 ↗ that would be great thank you

2:00:44 ↗ thank you

2:00:46 ↗ and i did not see any other comments or

2:00:49 ↗ questions

2:00:52 ↗ um if there is nothing else and we can

2:00:56 ↗ agree that we're going to have a few

2:00:58 ↗ agenda items to add next

2:01:00 ↗ week

2:01:01 ↗ then we will do that

2:01:03 ↗ um and we will move to adjourn

2:01:10 ↗ great so thank you so much so the

2:01:12 ↗ meeting is adjourned at 8 18. thank you

2:01:14 ↗ very much board members you've done it

2:01:17 ↗ second board meeting congratulations

2:01:21 ↗ thank you everyone

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Cristina Abonce

Megan Reichley, Youth Member

Alisa Stewart

Lorna Gilmour

Hellen Kibenge

Lucrecia Choto

Ray Manahan

Tony Curry

Jacob Rubenstein, Youth Member

Priti Mody-Pan

Kelly Munn

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Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager Staff Liaison

Tisha Gieser, City Clerk

Stephanie Johnson, Human Resources Director

Jen Davis Hayes, Economic Development Manager

Stephen Padua, Long Range Planning Manager

Brian Berntsen, Recreation Manager

Matthew Ellis, Senior Utilities Engineer

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a) Updates from Mayor and City Council (I) Presented by: Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager Monica Negrila, Staff Liaison, reported that the City Council adopted the 2022 budget, which informs the City wide workplan.