Equity Board · Wednesday, January 5, 2022 · 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 December 1, 2021

packet pp.5–11

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Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 12-01-21 Equity Board Minutes Page [0001] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Equity Board 6:00 PM Virtual Meeting December 1, 2021 MINUTES

4. AGENDA ITEMS

Parks & Community Services Presentation (I)

Director · 25 min · Jeff Watling, Parks and Community Services · packet pp.13–39

Topics: Parks

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Staff report:

Invest in PLACES – • Stewardship of Issaquah’s Parks, Trails and Open Space.

Cultural & Religious Holidays

Discussion · 25 min · Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager · packet pp.41–63

Topics: Arts & Culture

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Staff report:

City Acknowledged Cultural & Religious Holidays JANUARY 5 TH , 2022

Rules & Regulations/Bylaws

Action · 20 min · Tisha Gieser, City Clerk · packet pp.65–80

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Staff report:

City Clerk's Office 130 E. Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 425-837-3000 issaquahwa.gov

Community Engagement & Member Proposed Conversations Related to Equity (D)

30 min · Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager Tony Curry, Equity Board Vice Chair

Topics: Equity

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5. STAFF REPORT

Updates from Mayor and City Council

Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager

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0:00 ↗ welcome everyone to the first equity

0:02 ↗ board meeting of 2022

0:04 ↗ we are going to go ahead and call this

0:06 ↗ meeting to order

0:08 ↗ um

0:09 ↗ and uh first and foremost due to the

0:11 ↗ virtual format of today's meeting i'd

0:13 ↗ like to start by just providing some

0:15 ↗ quick guidelines um just because we have

0:17 ↗ participants attending my computer and

0:20 ↗ some may be attending by phone and of

0:22 ↗ course we have our spanish interpreters

0:24 ↗ with us so we want to um be respectful

0:27 ↗ of everyone's needs during this meeting

0:30 ↗ so i'm going to ask that all of our

0:32 ↗ attendees please speak clearly and pause

0:34 ↗ frequently so that our

0:37 ↗ all of our attendees can hear what you

0:39 ↗ have to say

0:40 ↗ um we want you to state your name um

0:43 ↗ before you start speaking in addition to

0:46 ↗ your pronouns um so my name is shay i

0:49 ↗ use she her hers

0:51 ↗ um and then of course uh mute your

0:53 ↗ microphone while you're not speaking

0:55 ↗ just to be respectful of someone who is

0:57 ↗ and if you have any technical issues

0:59 ↗ please try joining with a different

1:01 ↗ device

1:02 ↗ if you don't have a different device

1:04 ↗ please contact one of the board members

1:06 ↗ and we will try to help you get

1:08 ↗ signed up and monica can i direct people

1:10 ↗ to you if they need some help getting in

1:13 ↗ and then of course

1:14 ↗ use the call-in information on the

1:16 ↗ invite if you are still unable to get in

1:19 ↗ via

1:20 ↗ webex does anybody have any questions

1:26 ↗ all right if we are all set we're going

1:29 ↗ to go ahead and move to our next agenda

1:32 ↗ item

1:33 ↗ um we're going to go ahead and ask if

1:35 ↗ monica has any knows of any public

1:38 ↗ comments that we need to address

1:41 ↗ um

1:42 ↗ shay would you like to do a brief a roll

1:44 ↗ call before uh public comments

1:47 ↗ uh yes i'm sorry about that

1:50 ↗ let's go ahead and do roll call and

1:52 ↗ we're gonna do roll call a little

1:53 ↗ differently tonight um just because i

1:55 ↗ want to be respectful of everyone's

1:57 ↗ pronunciation on their names

1:59 ↗ so um i will start by introducing you

2:02 ↗ via first name um and then allow you to

2:06 ↗ go ahead and tell us how to properly

2:08 ↗ pronounce your name

2:09 ↗ okay so my name is shay fleming um i

2:13 ↗ used to be shay curry but now i'm jay

2:15 ↗ fleming and i use she her hers

2:17 ↗ um the next person i'm in our list and

2:20 ↗ i'm using the equity board um

2:23 ↗ the the equity board uh agenda to

2:27 ↗ determine who's next on the list we have

2:30 ↗ christina avonse and christina is

2:32 ↗ actually out today um so

2:35 ↗ she will not or i'm sorry she's not out

2:37 ↗ she's actually going to be attending

2:38 ↗ late um so we will talk with her later

2:42 ↗ um next we will have megan

2:44 ↗ is megan here

2:46 ↗ i'm here hi um i'm megan richly that's

2:49 ↗ how you pronounce my name nice to see

2:51 ↗ everyone

2:53 ↗ thank you megan

2:55 ↗ um and we have elisa

2:59 ↗ that's correct this is alisa stewart

3:02 ↗ thank you

3:04 ↗ um lorna are you here

3:09 ↗ yes i'm here and it's lorna gill thank

3:11 ↗ you

3:12 ↗ thank you

3:14 ↗ and helen

3:15 ↗ are you also here

3:22 ↗ monaco would you uh is helen i apologize

3:25 ↗ yeah i couldn't find my meet button um

3:28 ↗ helen is not able to join us to tonight

3:30 ↗ she's excused absent

3:32 ↗ she's traveling from overseas and she's

3:34 ↗ stuck in airports but she's small and

3:36 ↗ safe she will join us next time

3:38 ↗ we will miss her for sure

3:40 ↗ um okay and then we have lucretia

3:44 ↗ i also just heard from lucrezia she is

3:47 ↗ and that uh she's um absent tonight

3:49 ↗ excused as well

3:52 ↗ all right and then we have ray

3:54 ↗ hi good evening everybody ray manahan

3:56 ↗ here

3:57 ↗ thank you

3:59 ↗ um we also have tony here

4:01 ↗ hello everyone tony curry here and my

4:03 ↗ pronouns are he him

4:06 ↗ and prince yeah

4:09 ↗ and uh jacob are you here as well

4:13 ↗ jacob is also absent tonight excused um

4:16 ↗ thank you

4:17 ↗ thank you

4:18 ↗ and then pre-t

4:20 ↗ hi so my first name is pronounced

4:22 ↗ pre-thee the t is pronounced like a th

4:24 ↗ sound and my last name is modipan and i

4:27 ↗ use she her pronouns

4:29 ↗ thank you

4:31 ↗ and kelly you're the last person on our

4:33 ↗ list

4:38 ↗ oh kelly you're on mute

4:44 ↗ i'm gonna always be the one who does it

4:45 ↗ because i do this at least

4:48 ↗ i'm kelly munn

4:50 ↗ and she her

4:51 ↗ pronouns happy new year everyone

4:54 ↗ thank you

4:55 ↗ and thank you everyone who is

4:57 ↗ in attendance tonight and we will miss

4:59 ↗ those who are not

5:01 ↗ um if we are ready we can go ahead and

5:03 ↗ move to the next agenda item is that

5:06 ↗ correct monica

5:08 ↗ all right wonderful um now we will ask

5:12 ↗ monica if we have anyone with public

5:14 ↗ comments or any comments from the public

5:17 ↗ so thank you so much uh shay we did not

5:19 ↗ have anyone sign up for public comments

5:21 ↗ we did however receive a written

5:24 ↗ comment from the public that was shared

5:26 ↗ with the equity board earlier today and

5:29 ↗ with city council

5:31 ↗ it is in your packet

5:32 ↗ and the person who provided public

5:35 ↗ comment

5:36 ↗ provided feedback and input on several

5:39 ↗ or most of the agenda items for tonight

5:42 ↗ um in addition i do see

5:44 ↗ one attendee in the audience and i would

5:47 ↗ like to ask if um

5:49 ↗ if they have i recognize the name they

5:51 ↗ are one of our staff members um they're

5:54 ↗ also a part of the equity team and so i

5:57 ↗ would like to ask if they have a public

5:59 ↗ comment for perhaps they might be just

6:01 ↗ here in attendance joining us

6:04 ↗ um

6:06 ↗ and dale i'm gonna unmute you in case

6:10 ↗ you would like to just let us know if

6:12 ↗ you would like to make public comments

6:13 ↗ or just introduce yourself great can you

6:16 ↗ all hear me

6:17 ↗ yes

6:18 ↗ awesome just saying hi my name is dale

6:20 ↗ markey crimp i'm the management analyst

6:22 ↗ of performance and budget for the team

6:25 ↗ um and have been working

6:28 ↗ closely with the human services team

6:30 ↗ over the last few months and i was

6:32 ↗ unable to attend the meeting where the

6:33 ↗ equity team members joined so just

6:36 ↗ tuning in tonight um

6:37 ↗ to listen in and

6:39 ↗ keep up with the conversation that this

6:41 ↗ board is having

6:43 ↗ and really really grateful to be here

6:45 ↗ and really glad that this board exists

6:47 ↗ in issaquah

6:50 ↗ thank you very much they all we

6:51 ↗ appreciate

6:53 ↗ having you being here tonight

6:55 ↗ um

6:56 ↗ and so with that say i think that

6:58 ↗ concludes the public comment section for

7:00 ↗ tonight thank you thank you so much and

7:03 ↗ we appreciate everyone's input

7:05 ↗ um now i'd just like to remind people um

7:08 ↗ of our rules for tonight and then i'd

7:11 ↗ also like to

7:12 ↗ remind you that if you do have a

7:14 ↗ question or comment please be sure to

7:16 ↗ write question or comment in the chat

7:19 ↗ please try not to actually write your

7:21 ↗ question or comment in the chat just

7:23 ↗ write the word comment or question just

7:25 ↗ to be respectful of those who are not um

7:28 ↗ able to join the video call or see that

7:30 ↗ information

7:32 ↗ um and then of course um if you are

7:35 ↗ joining us via phone we'd ask that you

7:38 ↗ press star three in order to raise your

7:40 ↗ hand and let us know that you'd like to

7:41 ↗ make a comment or ask a question so

7:43 ↗ thank you for that

7:45 ↗ um our next agenda item is essentially

7:48 ↗ going to be the approval of the minutes

7:50 ↗ um does anyone have any

7:53 ↗ adjustments that we or i'm going to ask

7:55 ↗ that everyone take a

7:57 ↗ few minutes to review the agenda and

7:59 ↗ then um propose any changes that we need

8:02 ↗ to make to it

8:05 ↗ does everyone have access to that

8:08 ↗ fantastic

8:14 ↗ and i'll give you all about a minute to

8:16 ↗ review

8:35 ↗ all right

8:36 ↗ um if everyone is in agreeance with the

8:40 ↗ um and has no amendments or objections

8:43 ↗ to the minutes i'd like to propose that

8:45 ↗ we unanimously approve it

8:50 ↗ would someone please second for me i

8:52 ↗ second

8:54 ↗ thank you lorna

8:57 ↗ all right

8:58 ↗ in that case we are going to go ahead

9:00 ↗ and move forward to our next agenda item

9:02 ↗ we are going to be speaking tonight with

9:04 ↗ the park

9:05 ↗ parks and community services department

9:07 ↗ and our good friend jeff walt watling am

9:11 ↗ i saying that right jeff

9:13 ↗ is going to be presenting for us tonight

9:16 ↗ followed by monica who will go over our

9:18 ↗ cultural and religious holidays and

9:21 ↗ tisha who will then go over our rules

9:23 ↗ and regulations

9:24 ↗ and then monica will return to help us

9:27 ↗ with a conversation that we were having

9:29 ↗ from a previous agenda

9:33 ↗ and

9:34 ↗ i'm sorry jeff if you're ready would you

9:36 ↗ go ahead and introduce yourself for us

9:38 ↗ and begin your presentation

9:40 ↗ you bet shay very happy to hi good

9:43 ↗ evening everybody uh jeff watling uh he

9:45 ↗ him pronouns uh parks community services

9:47 ↗ director here with the city of issaquah

9:50 ↗ um

9:50 ↗ thank you so much for letting me be the

9:53 ↗ first department to come and give an

9:55 ↗ overview of what we do

9:57 ↗ um and thank you for your service um

10:00 ↗ you know monica and i have enjoyed

10:03 ↗ this journey together in

10:06 ↗ seeing the formation of of of this

10:08 ↗ equity board and just couldn't be more

10:10 ↗ thrilled and more thankful for

10:12 ↗ um for all of you um taking part on this

10:16 ↗ uh

10:17 ↗ sort of starting this journey um

10:19 ↗ with the city so

10:21 ↗ tonight my hope is in

10:24 ↗ a matter of 12 minutes maybe providing

10:28 ↗ you a quick overview and tour of what is

10:31 ↗ the parks and community services

10:33 ↗ department

10:34 ↗ um

10:36 ↗ if you have questions along the way pl

10:38 ↗ please feel free to stop me

10:40 ↗ i will

10:42 ↗ try to answer those as we go or you can

10:44 ↗ certainly save them for for the tail end

10:46 ↗ um

10:48 ↗ what's so exciting in in sharing this

10:50 ↗ overview is

10:51 ↗ um

10:52 ↗ i've had the pleasure of being in the

10:54 ↗ parks and recreation business for

10:57 ↗ boy a long time now 20 20 plus years and

11:00 ↗ i think one of the things that keeps me

11:02 ↗ so passionate about what we do is we are

11:04 ↗ very much an outward facing department

11:06 ↗ we

11:07 ↗ interact with the community in so many

11:09 ↗ different ways and so

11:11 ↗ um

11:12 ↗ i just i i look forward to the

11:14 ↗ conversation tonight i look forward to

11:17 ↗ really starting this relationship with

11:18 ↗ all of you and and really see

11:20 ↗ um the board and see the opportunities

11:23 ↗ uh that we have in in relationship

11:25 ↗ building and just ensuring that we are

11:28 ↗ an inclusive and equitable and how we

11:30 ↗ how we deliver all of our services so

11:33 ↗ with that thanks monica for the first

11:36 ↗ slide switch here um

11:38 ↗ you know to to really

11:40 ↗ i guess start off

11:42 ↗ with what we do we have two two really

11:45 ↗ core

11:46 ↗ roles and purposes we do a lot of

11:47 ↗ different stuff but it really boils down

11:49 ↗ to two

11:50 ↗ core things we invest in places and we

11:53 ↗ invest in people

11:55 ↗ how we invest in places is is the

11:58 ↗ department is

12:00 ↗ the stewards of

12:02 ↗ issaquah's parks trails and open space

12:04 ↗ system so we are tasked and responsible

12:07 ↗ with managing

12:09 ↗ your stuff managing your parks and your

12:11 ↗ trails and your open space acreage it's

12:13 ↗ roughly about 1600 acres of of park land

12:17 ↗ reflected in

12:19 ↗ that infrastructure then we also

12:21 ↗ manage

12:22 ↗ the public facilities that you all own

12:24 ↗ the community center the pool the senior

12:26 ↗ center and pickering barn are

12:29 ↗ really the four primary recreation

12:31 ↗ facilities that we

12:32 ↗ uh that we manage

12:34 ↗ both programmatically uh rentals um so

12:38 ↗ much of that work is done through

12:39 ↗ partnerships and through

12:41 ↗ other nonprofits who we partner with

12:43 ↗ along with us providing direct services

12:46 ↗ um

12:47 ↗ in that infrastructure and then

12:50 ↗ as we invest in people

12:52 ↗ that's really the programmatic side of

12:54 ↗ what we do we provide such a bright

12:56 ↗ variety of programs and services that

12:59 ↗ ultimately are the goal of building

13:01 ↗ community building individuals building

13:03 ↗ families

13:05 ↗ and just making this a livable place

13:07 ↗ through programs and services

13:10 ↗ and that really runs the gamut from

13:11 ↗ recreation based programs

13:14 ↗ to arts

13:16 ↗ investments and programs and human

13:18 ↗ services programs as well

13:21 ↗ and as i said earlier all really through

13:23 ↗ both direct service and also

13:25 ↗ partnerships

13:28 ↗ so as you look at those two sort of core

13:30 ↗ things of what we do

13:31 ↗ boiling it down to how we do it as a

13:33 ↗ department

13:34 ↗ we're

13:35 ↗ a very very diverse set of divisions and

13:38 ↗ work teams

13:40 ↗ so proud to lead such a diverse group of

13:42 ↗ professionals

13:44 ↗ we do a lot of different stuff and it

13:46 ↗ takes a lot of different skill sets to

13:47 ↗ do that so

13:49 ↗ within

13:50 ↗ our task of investing in places

13:53 ↗ that's really comprised of what was

13:55 ↗ three divisions it's now two divisions

13:56 ↗ i'll get to that

13:58 ↗ our park operations team park

14:00 ↗ maintenance team

14:01 ↗ a team of of 11 full-time staff and a

14:05 ↗ myriad of part-time staff and other

14:06 ↗ partners

14:08 ↗ that really are are set at the task of

14:10 ↗ of maintaining

14:12 ↗ um and managing

14:14 ↗ that 1600 acres that i mentioned earlier

14:17 ↗ we also

14:18 ↗ have a park planner and

14:20 ↗ a park planning and development

14:22 ↗ group

14:23 ↗ again a lot of that is done through

14:25 ↗ contracted work as well that really

14:27 ↗ focuses on how we invest into that park

14:29 ↗ system

14:30 ↗ so the operations folks maintain it

14:33 ↗ the park planning and development folks

14:35 ↗ really think about how we need to

14:37 ↗ continue to invest and reinvest into

14:39 ↗ that system to make sure it's

14:41 ↗ meeting the community's needs and

14:43 ↗ serving the community

14:44 ↗ that last group city facilities

14:48 ↗ i need to update this slide now monica

14:49 ↗ wow

14:50 ↗ in real time city facilities

14:53 ↗ as of january 1st

14:55 ↗ actually transferred to a new department

14:58 ↗ that's just been formed within the city

15:00 ↗ the support services department which in

15:03 ↗ many ways makes a lot of sense that

15:06 ↗ facility maintenance team really focuses

15:08 ↗ primarily internally on

15:10 ↗ maintaining city buildings taking care

15:12 ↗ of that infrastructure and so

15:14 ↗ they've transitioned to that to that new

15:17 ↗ department

15:18 ↗ in terms of the divisions of work teams

15:21 ↗ that focus on investing in people

15:23 ↗ again i mentioned earlier we have a

15:25 ↗ recreation division

15:27 ↗ and teams within each of these four

15:29 ↗ facilities

15:30 ↗ community center the pool the senior

15:32 ↗ center pickering barn

15:35 ↗ also do a mix of youth and adult sports

15:38 ↗ activities

15:39 ↗ um a immensely dedicated hard-working uh

15:42 ↗ team uh that accomplishes all of that

15:45 ↗ work

15:46 ↗ um another key division uh the human

15:49 ↗ services team you're you're probably

15:51 ↗ somewhat familiar with but monica

15:52 ↗ negrilla serves as the manager

15:55 ↗ [Music]

15:56 ↗ hannah and amir are the two other staff

15:59 ↗ this is a relatively new division

16:02 ↗ as as monica and i these last two years

16:05 ↗ have been working very very hard and

16:07 ↗ very very closely

16:09 ↗ and really a community that's

16:11 ↗ shown its

16:12 ↗ support in

16:14 ↗ diversifying and and thinking more

16:17 ↗ strategically and how we

16:18 ↗ um how we meet the human services needs

16:21 ↗ in this

16:22 ↗ in this community

16:24 ↗ so

16:25 ↗ very much a very important touch point

16:28 ↗ with the community and then last the the

16:30 ↗ arts

16:31 ↗ division arts team

16:34 ↗ amy dukes is the arts coordinator she

16:37 ↗ works very closely with an arts

16:38 ↗ commission

16:40 ↗ to look at strategic investments through

16:43 ↗ grants

16:44 ↗ both programmatic investments in the

16:46 ↗ arts as well as public art

16:49 ↗ throughout

16:50 ↗ throughout the city

16:52 ↗ park system

16:54 ↗ i should also mention

16:57 ↗ amongst that work team

16:58 ↗ you included as the equity board we have

17:00 ↗ five boards and commissions

17:02 ↗ that really support and advise us in all

17:05 ↗ of this work so

17:06 ↗ along with you the equity board there's

17:08 ↗ the human services commission

17:10 ↗ there's a park board

17:12 ↗ the art commission

17:14 ↗ and cemetery board

17:17 ↗ all give us really key feedback as we go

17:20 ↗ um next these next couple of slides i

17:22 ↗ really just want to take a quick second

17:24 ↗ and sort of give you a tour of each of

17:26 ↗ those divisions

17:28 ↗ um what the bullets represent are

17:30 ↗ highlights from some of our 2021

17:33 ↗ accomplishments

17:35 ↗ really just to give you a sense of what

17:36 ↗ we do

17:37 ↗ what is the type of work that's done

17:40 ↗ and i think more importantly from an

17:41 ↗ equity lens standpoint how do each of

17:43 ↗ these groups interface

17:45 ↗ with residents in in a variety of

17:47 ↗ different ways so

17:49 ↗ the park planning and development group

17:51 ↗ some of the accomplishments in 2021 if

17:53 ↗ you're familiar with central park up on

17:55 ↗ isiqua highlands that's a city of

17:57 ↗ issaquah park

17:58 ↗ we replaced some of the aging synthetic

18:00 ↗ turf on

18:02 ↗ some of the lower athletic fields

18:04 ↗ there

18:06 ↗ as part of the pandemic there was a real

18:08 ↗ desire by the mayor's office and and the

18:11 ↗ community

18:12 ↗ to look at how to make some strategic um

18:15 ↗ additional investments into our parks we

18:17 ↗ added some fitness stations at memorial

18:19 ↗ park or in memorial park right near the

18:21 ↗ senior center

18:23 ↗ um

18:23 ↗ the sunset trailhead which is right off

18:25 ↗ of sunset as you're heading up to the

18:28 ↗ i-90

18:29 ↗ on-ramp

18:30 ↗ we made some new

18:32 ↗ much safer trail connections there

18:34 ↗ you may be familiar with a 33-acre

18:37 ↗ acquisition we made several years ago

18:40 ↗ known as the bergsma property it really

18:41 ↗ serves as the gateway

18:43 ↗ from issaquah's city core up into cougar

18:47 ↗ mountain and all of the regional trail

18:49 ↗ system throughout cougar mountain

18:51 ↗ we were the recipient of a pretty

18:52 ↗ sizable grant that helped us

18:54 ↗ in that acquisition effort

18:57 ↗ so along with making investments were

18:59 ↗ this team

19:00 ↗ looks really closely how can we leverage

19:02 ↗ city dollars with with other funds

19:05 ↗ we've got a an effort going on right now

19:07 ↗ that's looking at standardizing some of

19:09 ↗ our wayfinding and park signage

19:11 ↗ over the decades we've

19:13 ↗ collected like many cities at sort of a

19:15 ↗ hodgepodge of various types of signs

19:17 ↗ within our park system so we're wanting

19:20 ↗ to sort of standardize and create a more

19:22 ↗ uniform look

19:25 ↗ for both park signage and wayfinding

19:27 ↗ two of our small neighborhood parks

19:29 ↗ blackberry park which sits on um

19:32 ↗ up on squawk mountain

19:33 ↗ or hillside park which is up on squawk

19:35 ↗ mountain blackberry park which is

19:37 ↗ in the south

19:39 ↗ lake some amish community

19:42 ↗ are going to get some neighborhood park

19:44 ↗ improvements

19:46 ↗ next slide uh the park operations team i

19:49 ↗ said these are really the on the ground

19:52 ↗ managers maintainers of our of our

19:54 ↗ infrastructure

19:55 ↗ we had a new park operations manager

19:57 ↗ position that came on board

20:00 ↗ we've launched a park ranger program if

20:02 ↗ any of you have been around our the

20:03 ↗ system the last couple months you might

20:05 ↗ see peter walters out there

20:07 ↗ this is a really

20:09 ↗ exciting program i think that really

20:11 ↗ focuses on

20:13 ↗ making sure the park experience is

20:15 ↗ safe

20:16 ↗ for

20:17 ↗ residents and for park users um peter's

20:20 ↗ also been invaluable in

20:23 ↗ uh working with our human services team

20:26 ↗ and being a bridge as we meet

20:28 ↗ individuals who are experiencing

20:30 ↗ homelessness and how do we get them

20:31 ↗ connected uh to services so

20:34 ↗ really important and exciting program

20:36 ↗ that was just launched last year

20:38 ↗ green issaquah is a program that we

20:43 ↗ got started several years ago this is

20:45 ↗ really taking a look at when you look at

20:46 ↗ 600 acres of parkland a lot of that is

20:49 ↗ forested

20:51 ↗ open space

20:52 ↗ green issaquah is a strategy where we're

20:55 ↗ really wanting to leverage volunteer

20:58 ↗ time and volunteer energy and being

21:00 ↗ really effective stewards of all of that

21:03 ↗ urban forest and in particular how do we

21:06 ↗ make sure that

21:07 ↗ um invasive plants blackberry

21:10 ↗ bamboo

21:11 ↗ um

21:13 ↗ ivy um some of those other um sort of

21:16 ↗ nasty noxious weeds that aren't so

21:18 ↗ friendly to urban forests we we keep

21:20 ↗ those under control

21:23 ↗ any of you that might be dog owners

21:24 ↗ we're

21:26 ↗ launched last year we're doing this year

21:28 ↗ again a dog park tour where we've sort

21:30 ↗ of got a mobile

21:32 ↗ dog park that we're putting at various

21:33 ↗ parts throughout the park system

21:35 ↗ ultimately our goal is to is to identify

21:37 ↗ one or two locations for a permanent dog

21:39 ↗ park but

21:41 ↗ it's been an exciting effort and

21:42 ↗ certainly a uh a large contingency of

21:45 ↗ dog owners in this community

21:47 ↗ and last thing we did is similar to the

21:49 ↗ adding the fitness equipment we've

21:52 ↗ added pickleball to a number of our

21:54 ↗ tennis courts again trying to diversify

21:58 ↗ the park system and

22:00 ↗ meet

22:01 ↗ meet the diversity of needs

22:03 ↗ with the limited amount of park space

22:05 ↗ that we have in terms of developed park

22:07 ↗ space

22:10 ↗ all right um how am i is this an okay

22:14 ↗ um elevation am i going okay time wise i

22:17 ↗ feel like i'm just bombing through this

22:19 ↗ but i will keep going um

22:21 ↗ switching over to our recreation group

22:23 ↗ and really are again investing in people

22:26 ↗ the community center team

22:28 ↗ i can't tell you enough all of our

22:30 ↗ service providers all of our service

22:32 ↗ groups have been so nimble throughout

22:34 ↗ the pandemic

22:35 ↗ um

22:36 ↗ recognizing the modifications we've had

22:38 ↗ to make and programming through the

22:40 ↗ pandemic but still making it a priority

22:43 ↗ to to

22:46 ↗ find ways for residents

22:48 ↗ to connect with each other in a in a

22:51 ↗ safe healthy way

22:53 ↗ as as those pandemic protocols

22:56 ↗ have ebbed and flowed

22:58 ↗ summer day camps summer sports camps are

23:00 ↗ a huge part of what we do

23:03 ↗ we offer a very traditional program the

23:06 ↗ concerts on the green in 2020 we had to

23:09 ↗ not do that because of the pandemic

23:11 ↗ there was huge enthusiasm by the

23:13 ↗ community when it came back this summer

23:14 ↗ probably some of the largest attendance

23:17 ↗ that that event has seen i think just

23:20 ↗ recognizing this community loves coming

23:23 ↗ together

23:24 ↗ we launched a new program through

23:26 ↗ the pandemic we call it schoolhouse rec

23:29 ↗ for any of you that might be of my

23:31 ↗ my generation you might remember

23:33 ↗ schoolhouse rock back in the day a

23:34 ↗ little play on that word but this is a

23:36 ↗ before and after school program that we

23:39 ↗ launched

23:40 ↗ in some ways through the pandemic but

23:42 ↗ now that we're back into normal school

23:45 ↗ it's certainly something the community

23:47 ↗ has identified a clear need for

23:52 ↗ and then within the community center we

23:54 ↗ transitioned the flooring there to

23:56 ↗ hardwood we've seen tremendous interest

23:58 ↗ in additional rentals there

24:00 ↗ another thing that the community center

24:02 ↗ has historically done and does an

24:04 ↗ amazing job with

24:05 ↗ is our youth advisory board

24:07 ↗ um

24:09 ↗ i think there's already been some degree

24:11 ↗ of interface between the youth advisory

24:12 ↗ board and the equity board and

24:14 ↗ definitely the community conversations

24:16 ↗ we had but a great opportunity for some

24:19 ↗ some connection between those

24:22 ↗ your group and in that group

24:24 ↗ next slide monica

24:26 ↗ the aquatics team same thing just so

24:29 ↗ many

24:31 ↗ uh ways of showing their agility through

24:33 ↗ the through the pandemic um and and

24:35 ↗ making that uh facility

24:38 ↗ immensely immensely popular or well-used

24:40 ↗ facility accessible for the community

24:43 ↗ both for lessons and lap swim we also

24:45 ↗ have a really extensive partnership with

24:48 ↗ the associate school district

24:53 ↗ pickering barn

24:56 ↗ very very iconic

24:58 ↗ building right by costco

25:00 ↗ um again a team that that managed a

25:03 ↗ farmer's market continued to offer a

25:05 ↗ farmer's market in a safe and healthy

25:07 ↗ way through

25:08 ↗ uh through these last two years with the

25:10 ↗ pandemic

25:11 ↗ also a facility

25:13 ↗ that is largely a rental facility

25:16 ↗ and does a lot of weddings and other

25:18 ↗ large receptions

25:20 ↗ or corporate events

25:24 ↗ next slide the senior center um

25:28 ↗ historically the senior center has been

25:30 ↗ around for a number of years for many

25:32 ↗ years 30 plus years it was operated by

25:35 ↗ a non-profit agency

25:38 ↗ in

25:39 ↗ 2016 that nonprofit agency needed to

25:43 ↗ absolve

25:44 ↗ for a variety of reasons

25:47 ↗ rather than having that senior center be

25:49 ↗ shuttered

25:51 ↗ the city

25:53 ↗ was asked and and the recreation team we

25:55 ↗ quickly responded and began interim

25:58 ↗ operations of the senior center um in

26:01 ↗ uh 2017 and have now

26:05 ↗ um are continuing to offer permanent

26:07 ↗ services at the at the senior center

26:10 ↗ an amazing team relies so much on

26:14 ↗ so many partnerships throughout the the

26:16 ↗ community both non-profit groups and

26:18 ↗ community groups

26:20 ↗ again pandemic was such a key time so

26:23 ↗ many of of of those

26:26 ↗ relationships and connections with our

26:28 ↗ seniors in the community

26:30 ↗ did a lot of creative stuff with virtual

26:32 ↗ programming just to make sure that

26:33 ↗ isolation wasn't too much of an issue

26:37 ↗ but great to see the senior center back

26:39 ↗ reopened

26:40 ↗ for a number of things that were done

26:42 ↗ the lunch program there

26:44 ↗ is is proven continued to be immensely

26:47 ↗ popular

26:50 ↗ great facility great great staff team

26:52 ↗ there next slide

26:55 ↗ if i'm gonna pause just for one moment

26:57 ↗ here um i have two quick um notes for

27:00 ↗ you one i i believe i saw there there's

27:03 ↗ a question in the chat do you prefer

27:05 ↗ questions at the end or are you okay

27:06 ↗ taking them throughout

27:08 ↗ i'll take it i'll take it right now i

27:10 ↗ see i just opened it sorry tony thanks

27:12 ↗ for the

27:13 ↗ um schoolhouse

27:15 ↗ rock reference yep amen uh question i

27:18 ↗ may have missed it to racket court

27:20 ↗ explanation does the city offer lessons

27:22 ↗ in pickleball or tennis

27:24 ↗ uh we great question we do offer tennis

27:27 ↗ lessons through our recreation programs

27:30 ↗ um

27:32 ↗ we do not offer pickleball lessons per

27:34 ↗ se we do have indoor pickleball at the

27:36 ↗ community center

27:37 ↗ um and then as i mentioned we striped um

27:41 ↗ six pickleball courts um two at tibbetts

27:44 ↗ valley park two at central park and two

27:46 ↗ at um

27:49 ↗ boy wise the name is escaping me over in

27:52 ↗ uh south park

27:54 ↗ area

27:57 ↗ mirwood park

27:58 ↗ sorry for that

28:01 ↗ and those are really just available as

28:02 ↗ drop-in courts

28:04 ↗ but yes tennis lessons no pickleball

28:07 ↗ lessons

28:09 ↗ schoolhouse wreck can you tell me more

28:11 ↗ yes absolutely so schoolhouse rec is a

28:14 ↗ before and after school program we run

28:16 ↗ at the at the community center

28:18 ↗ a place for

28:20 ↗ elementary school kids

28:22 ↗ to have some before school care

28:25 ↗ we partner with the school district and

28:28 ↗ transportation is provided to

28:30 ↗ [Music]

28:33 ↗ issaquah valley elementary and then next

28:35 ↗ door at clark elementary those same

28:37 ↗ students then have the opportunity to be

28:39 ↗ transported back to the community center

28:40 ↗ for after-school care

28:42 ↗ a mix of recreation programming

28:45 ↗ homework time

28:47 ↗ etc

28:54 ↗ oh go ahead lorna sorry can you tell me

28:57 ↗ approximately how many students

28:59 ↗ are enrolled and also if it's a

29:01 ↗ partnership with the before and after

29:03 ↗ school care

29:04 ↗ is there a preference given or is there

29:06 ↗ scholarships

29:08 ↗ uh associated with this to cost um

29:12 ↗ pretty much trying to find out if it's

29:14 ↗ the same program as a school and you're

29:16 ↗ kind of helping host it at your facility

29:19 ↗ or if it's a separate program with a

29:21 ↗ cost

29:22 ↗ and the way students

29:23 ↗ can qualify

29:25 ↗ to join the program great questions so

29:27 ↗ there's a huge need

29:29 ↗ in our area

29:30 ↗ yeah there is a huge need and some of

29:32 ↗ this is in response to that huge need so

29:34 ↗ this is not we the school district's

29:36 ↗ aware of this program it is not a it's

29:40 ↗ not the same program

29:42 ↗ um in terms of the before and after

29:43 ↗ school program we do have uh

29:46 ↗ scholarships available

29:47 ↗ um

29:49 ↗ i was going to mention that at the end

29:50 ↗ of our meeting um and monica is aware of

29:52 ↗ this next tuesday night we're we're

29:54 ↗ looking at making some modifications to

29:57 ↗ our

29:58 ↗ traditional scholarship program

30:02 ↗ to really in in many ways expand its

30:04 ↗ availability to the community but yes

30:06 ↗ the before and after school program is

30:09 ↗ definitely a program that would qualify

30:11 ↗ for

30:12 ↗ that financial assistance

30:15 ↗ and how many students and how is this

30:17 ↗ advertised

30:19 ↗ yeah so it's advertised through our

30:21 ↗ recreation guide

30:22 ↗ it's all also advertised at those two

30:25 ↗ schools since transportation is

30:26 ↗ available those two schools

30:29 ↗ so it's on site on our on our website

30:31 ↗ you can find information on that

30:33 ↗ we have in terms of enrollment

30:37 ↗ roughly 20 students in the morning and

30:41 ↗ roughly on average about 30 students in

30:44 ↗ the afternoon

30:48 ↗ you bet

30:53 ↗ so if there's no more questions i'll

30:55 ↗ continue on and we can keep taking

30:57 ↗ questions as we go

30:59 ↗ and with that jeff i will continue i

31:01 ↗ promise i will get you to the next slide

31:03 ↗ i just wanted and you've been doing uh

31:05 ↗ such an uh amazing job in having a great

31:08 ↗ pace but just reminding everyone that we

31:10 ↗ have spanish interpretation live going

31:12 ↗ on now as we had uh uh christina join us

31:15 ↗ uh so just be mindful and speak clearly

31:18 ↗ and slow down and pause frequently um

31:20 ↗ but i think you've been your pace has

31:22 ↗ been great so i believe and then i also

31:24 ↗ invite interpreters to let us know if we

31:26 ↗ are going too fast

31:28 ↗ thank you good subtle hint

31:36 ↗ all right

31:38 ↗ human services team within um

31:41 ↗ within our investments in people again

31:43 ↗ probably something you're very familiar

31:45 ↗ with but um

31:46 ↗ in 2021

31:48 ↗ we're really starting this department

31:51 ↗ as as monica has done such an exempt a

31:54 ↗ great job of coming on as the manager

31:57 ↗ we welcomed on board hannah and amir and

32:00 ↗ marisol as well

32:01 ↗ as part of that team

32:04 ↗ their work

32:05 ↗ and the work and really that broadening

32:07 ↗ the investment the city's making in

32:09 ↗ human services couldn't happen at a more

32:11 ↗ important time given

32:12 ↗ uh the pandemic and and now some of the

32:15 ↗ the continued uh work needed and

32:18 ↗ investment work needed post pandemic

32:20 ↗ um

32:22 ↗ don't know that we're post pandemic yet

32:23 ↗ but uh someday

32:25 ↗ um hats off to all of you the the

32:27 ↗ establishment of the equity board was

32:29 ↗ such an important step um in in

32:33 ↗ the work and in really in

32:35 ↗ um i think the strategic approach we're

32:37 ↗ trying to take uh with human services

32:40 ↗ um uh the establishment of a series of

32:43 ↗ community cultural conversations uh was

32:45 ↗ another

32:46 ↗ great step uh

32:48 ↗ last year

32:49 ↗ uh with the the diversification and the

32:52 ↗ expansion of our human services team how

32:54 ↗ we're able to respond to homelessness

32:57 ↗ and what our outreach strategy looks

32:59 ↗ like has certainly been able to to be

33:01 ↗ broadened as well

33:04 ↗ and then

33:05 ↗ the human services team in many ways is

33:07 ↗ a collaborator with non-profits but also

33:10 ↗ such a key collaborator

33:12 ↗ with other departments within the city

33:16 ↗ the work that we're doing

33:17 ↗ and really the bridge i think we're

33:19 ↗ providing to both our partners and

33:21 ↗ police

33:22 ↗ certainly the partners in park

33:24 ↗ maintenance as i mentioned earlier with

33:26 ↗ our park ranger

33:28 ↗ and how we

33:30 ↗ meet individuals that might be in need

33:32 ↗ within our parks but then a then another

33:34 ↗ terrific example is our municipal court

33:37 ↗ issaquah municipal court

33:39 ↗ has started a community court program

33:42 ↗ that really couldn't happen without the

33:45 ↗ partnership and the great work of

33:47 ↗ marisol

33:48 ↗ and the human services team and really

33:50 ↗ being coordinators and collaborators of

33:52 ↗ that

33:53 ↗ community court program

34:02 ↗ are you taking questions

34:04 ↗ i am i was just looking at those

34:06 ↗ um

34:07 ↗ ray's question on the demographics

34:09 ↗ changing in a manner that has impacted

34:11 ↗ planning significantly

34:14 ↗ ray are you asking that from a sort of a

34:16 ↗ park a park planning

34:18 ↗ standpoint jeff i'm asking you as a as a

34:21 ↗ recent

34:22 ↗ resident of issaquah having moved here

34:24 ↗ from kind of the downtown seattle

34:26 ↗ corridor so

34:27 ↗ there's a lot of obvious services

34:28 ↗ towards seniors in the area but

34:31 ↗ with organizations like costco building

34:33 ↗ a huge

34:34 ↗ facility here i would assume there's

34:36 ↗ going to be a different type of

34:37 ↗ demography that the parks need to

34:39 ↗ address i was just curious if that

34:41 ↗ impacts your planning in any way

34:43 ↗ yes in a big way so we in 2018 we

34:49 ↗ the council adopted so the city's first

34:51 ↗ park strategic plan and really looking

34:53 ↗ at that and aligning demographics with

34:56 ↗ both investment needs within our park

34:57 ↗ system

34:58 ↗ how do we need to position our parks to

35:01 ↗ really meet the needs and interests of

35:03 ↗ of those demographics

35:06 ↗ so yes very much so and then both really

35:08 ↗ on the recreation programming and

35:11 ↗ as well great question

35:13 ↗ thank you

35:14 ↗ and tony's question in regards to

35:17 ↗ homelessness outreach uh is it reactive

35:20 ↗ or proactive um

35:22 ↗ great question i would say a bit of both

35:25 ↗ um

35:26 ↗ um would be probably the the best way to

35:28 ↗ put it you know as we're

35:31 ↗ i think really expand in some ways

35:32 ↗ formalizing what that approach is um i

35:35 ↗ think it's both that mix tony of

35:39 ↗ um meeting people where they're at if we

35:41 ↗ notice an enchant an encampment it's

35:43 ↗ really

35:44 ↗ uh through the park ranger through amir

35:48 ↗ establishing that relationship

35:51 ↗ and

35:52 ↗ really earning trust through that

35:53 ↗ relationship to get them connected to

35:55 ↗ services

35:56 ↗ from a proactive standpoint

36:00 ↗ yeah how we

36:01 ↗ really invest our grant funds i think i

36:03 ↗ think monica will probably speak to that

36:05 ↗ better than i will and especially as we

36:07 ↗ get into our human services strategic

36:10 ↗ plan

36:11 ↗ that's going to be going in front of

36:12 ↗ council

36:14 ↗ as a first draft

36:16 ↗ next week

36:18 ↗ how we make proactive and strategic

36:20 ↗ investments in the housing continuum

36:23 ↗ to look at at sort of preventative ways

36:26 ↗ of meeting people and their needs before

36:30 ↗ it gets to that situation so

36:33 ↗ a bit of both monica do you want to add

36:36 ↗ anything to that

36:39 ↗ uh well said jeff uh thank you so much

36:41 ↗ uh perhaps if if helpful um

36:44 ↗ i can provide a quick example of the

36:46 ↗ most recent um endeavor in being

36:48 ↗ proactive in in reaching to our homeless

36:51 ↗ folks in issaquah

36:53 ↗ just a few weeks ago

36:55 ↗ planning and knowing that we had some

36:57 ↗ severe weather coming our way uh we

37:00 ↗ connected with the homeless folks that

37:02 ↗ we knew in in our community and we were

37:04 ↗ able to safely and securely shelter them

37:07 ↗ away from the really cold weather in a

37:09 ↗ partnership with motel 6

37:11 ↗ so they spent a couple of weeks there

37:14 ↗ and so i think that was

37:16 ↗ one proactive way we know that resources

37:18 ↗ are very limited

37:19 ↗ and we don't have um permanent um

37:22 ↗ housing options uh due to long wait

37:25 ↗ lists um but definitely um that's one

37:27 ↗ example in which we are trying to also

37:29 ↗ be proactive and not just reactive in in

37:31 ↗ our outreach um so

37:34 ↗ thank you

37:37 ↗ well thanks monica it's a great example

37:41 ↗ uh continuing on our quick tour here uh

37:44 ↗ the arts the arts group and and how we

37:46 ↗ really um invest in people

37:49 ↗ through the arts

37:51 ↗ shakespeare in the park i think much

37:52 ↗ like the concerts we saw record

37:54 ↗ attendance at confluence park uh this

37:56 ↗ year a wooden oh theater group is an

37:59 ↗ entity we partner with if any of you

38:01 ↗ have

38:02 ↗ seen wood know shows they

38:05 ↗ um do an amazing job of modernizing

38:08 ↗ shakespeare and sort of bringing it into

38:11 ↗ the now in a very

38:13 ↗ sort of diverse eclectic yet very

38:16 ↗ respectful way to to shakespeare that

38:18 ↗ it's like i i told my wife this was

38:20 ↗ several years ago we went to one and i

38:22 ↗ whispered over to her halfway through

38:23 ↗ and i said i finally get it

38:26 ↗ having read shakespeare all those years

38:28 ↗ it's like it made sense so anyways um

38:32 ↗ great example there sorry for the

38:33 ↗ personal note um chalk art festival

38:36 ↗ is something we do every year you see

38:38 ↗ the photo there to the right

38:39 ↗ if any of you

38:41 ↗ in august notice how colorful the

38:43 ↗ rainier trail gets down by the community

38:45 ↗ center that's thanks to the the chalk

38:47 ↗ art festival and many many young hands

38:50 ↗ who

38:51 ↗ display their artistic

38:53 ↗ skills

38:54 ↗ on the sidewalk

38:56 ↗ we took an approach with how we fund

38:58 ↗ grants a little bit differently

39:00 ↗ through the pandemic and rather than

39:02 ↗ doing one grant phase we broke it into

39:04 ↗ two grant phases that the art commission

39:06 ↗ oversees

39:07 ↗ and saw a lot of positive response from

39:09 ↗ the art community

39:11 ↗ and that really helping them to be a

39:14 ↗ little bit more nimble in what they can

39:15 ↗ provide uh through the pandemic

39:19 ↗ looking forward it might even be a a

39:21 ↗ a grant pattern that we'll continue to

39:24 ↗ hold on to just because we think it it

39:27 ↗ could be a more equitable way

39:29 ↗ of of making investments in those in

39:32 ↗ those funds

39:33 ↗ the new mural was created down on a

39:35 ↗ tunnel on the east lakes and amish trail

39:37 ↗ if any of you take that trail on the

39:39 ↗ tunnel through southeast 62nd

39:42 ↗ you'll see this a very colorful fox and

39:45 ↗ a couple of other

39:50 ↗ forms of wildlife that that you see

39:52 ↗ around us a really cool mural and then

39:55 ↗ holiday lighting another example if

39:56 ↗ you've noticed a front street being lit

39:59 ↗ up a little bit more uh through uh

40:01 ↗ through the the winter season uh that's

40:03 ↗ some of the work that the arts team has

40:05 ↗ been doing

40:09 ↗ next slide

40:17 ↗ yeah thanks i no real comment there hey

40:19 ↗ covid is is real and we continue to

40:22 ↗ encourage people to recreate in a

40:25 ↗ healthy responsible way

40:27 ↗ that's my tour

40:29 ↗ again i just can't thank enough

40:32 ↗ the chance to give you this overview

40:35 ↗ if i was to give kudos it would kudos to

40:37 ↗ an amazing team i've i've had the

40:39 ↗ privilege of working here for

40:41 ↗ five years a little over five years now

40:43 ↗ and um

40:44 ↗ again the diversity of skills the

40:46 ↗ diversity of perspective and the

40:48 ↗ diversity of services that we're able to

40:49 ↗ provide to the community are

40:52 ↗ it's a great team to work with

40:55 ↗ thank you

40:59 ↗ thank you so much jeff for that overview

41:02 ↗ it was fantastic

41:04 ↗ i am so excited about all the things

41:05 ↗ that you've done and we're really

41:07 ↗ looking forward to what you're going to

41:08 ↗ do in the coming months

41:10 ↗ um i think the monica are we ready to go

41:13 ↗ to the next agenda item

41:17 ↗ yes i believe so unless yes thank you so

41:19 ↗ much jeff um

41:21 ↗ can i i'm so sorry can i make one more

41:24 ↗ comment um

41:26 ↗ and i sort of teased it up and and um

41:29 ↗ um it was

41:31 ↗ lorna's question thank you so much lorna

41:33 ↗ for your question about schoolhouse rec

41:35 ↗ but

41:36 ↗ yeah we are we are taking a a look at

41:39 ↗ our recreation scholarship program uh

41:41 ↗ that again has been really really

41:42 ↗ successful

41:44 ↗ i'll

41:44 ↗ make a quick a quick plug for what we're

41:47 ↗ going to talk to council about but i i

41:48 ↗ would love the opportunity as you're all

41:51 ↗ thinking your work plan to maybe come

41:52 ↗ back to you and talk a little bit more

41:55 ↗ specifically and really put an equity

41:57 ↗ lens on what we're trying to do with

41:58 ↗ that scholarship program historically

42:02 ↗ that program has been dependent upon

42:04 ↗ donations and

42:06 ↗ the amount of money we have to give out

42:09 ↗ what we're going to be talking to

42:10 ↗ council about is

42:12 ↗ sort of updating that scholarship

42:14 ↗ program and rather than being dependent

42:16 ↗ upon

42:17 ↗ donations determined to determine how

42:20 ↗ many scholarships we can give

42:23 ↗ to turn it into what we're calling a fee

42:25 ↗ reduction model

42:26 ↗ where

42:27 ↗ it would allow us the opportunity for

42:30 ↗ qualifying

42:31 ↗ individuals who qualify for a

42:33 ↗ scholarship

42:34 ↗ for us to just discount what the program

42:36 ↗ fee is

42:38 ↗ it would allow us i think a much more

42:40 ↗ accessible

42:43 ↗ scholarship program so that's a

42:44 ↗ conversation we're going to start having

42:46 ↗ with council next week

42:48 ↗ um

42:49 ↗ again just love i i so love you this

42:52 ↗ group and the opportunity it gives us to

42:55 ↗ to i think

42:56 ↗ just bounce some ideas off of

42:59 ↗ in terms of how we think of equitable

43:02 ↗ and inclusive

43:03 ↗ delivery of programs so

43:06 ↗ i'm done now thank you so much

43:09 ↗ thank you and i think lorna still has a

43:11 ↗ question for you jeff lorna would you

43:12 ↗ mind coming off mute

43:15 ↗ yes

43:16 ↗ thank you so much jeff is there any way

43:18 ↗ for the program to grow you said 20 in

43:21 ↗ the morning and 30 in the evening

43:23 ↗ for both clark and ive so i was just

43:25 ↗ wondering what is the

43:27 ↗ potential for growth because i know all

43:30 ↗ the schools have huge waiting lists

43:32 ↗ yeah great question yes there is

43:34 ↗ capacity within the community center

43:38 ↗ part of that expansion has to do with

43:39 ↗ transportation right and how we work

43:41 ↗ with the school district but um

43:44 ↗ yes it is not it is not currently at

43:46 ↗ capacity

43:49 ↗ so there's room

43:51 ↗ to grow

43:52 ↗ and it looks like kelly has a question

43:54 ↗ as well

43:56 ↗ thank you

43:57 ↗ um

43:58 ↗ i am a beneficiary of so many of these

44:01 ↗ programs and i'm so uh i praise this

44:04 ↗ community

44:05 ↗ regularly at what it provides for all of

44:08 ↗ us

44:09 ↗ i had a distinct question and it may not

44:11 ↗ be able to be answered today so i

44:13 ↗ understand that we can always come back

44:14 ↗ to it but i would be interested in

44:16 ↗ knowing the process for deciding

44:20 ↗ what gets done in the community the

44:24 ↗ parks that are i mean i i know there's

44:26 ↗ an arts commission but the rest of it

44:29 ↗ like for example right near me memorial

44:31 ↗ park just got the

44:32 ↗ you know the

44:34 ↗ new

44:35 ↗ athletic equipment and i've always

44:37 ↗ wondered

44:38 ↗ they're fabulous but i've wondered how

44:41 ↗ how much was the community involved

44:43 ↗ in giving feedback in that and if

44:45 ↗ there's a set process or if it's

44:47 ↗ different all the time

44:50 ↗ i love it kelly um

44:52 ↗ yes so it starts

44:56 ↗ yes there's community interaction on so

44:58 ↗ many levels it starts with the park

45:00 ↗ strategic plan where we really try and

45:02 ↗ get a sense of how how what what are the

45:04 ↗ needs and how does this community want

45:06 ↗ to invest into its park system

45:08 ↗ and then as we do specific park

45:11 ↗ improvements we also embark on a really

45:14 ↗ robust community engagement process for

45:17 ↗ each of those specific

45:19 ↗ uh projects um

45:21 ↗ in fact uh yeah we're about to launch on

45:25 ↗ it on a planning effort a community

45:27 ↗ engagement effort around memorial park

45:29 ↗ and

45:30 ↗ sort of taking a look at

45:32 ↗ memorial park depot park pedestrian park

45:35 ↗ all those public spaces that serve old

45:37 ↗ town

45:38 ↗ um

45:39 ↗ how do we create what kind of

45:41 ↗ long-term vision does the community want

45:43 ↗ to have for for perhaps

45:46 ↗ improving those spaces and making them

45:48 ↗ even more

45:49 ↗ more usable and quite frankly more

45:51 ↗ supportive of front street so

45:54 ↗ you'll be hearing more about that

45:56 ↗ effort

45:58 ↗ through a variety of community

45:59 ↗ engagement ways so

46:01 ↗ um

46:02 ↗ yeah the planning effort is we're not

46:04 ↗ building these parks for ourselves right

46:06 ↗ it really is the communities the

46:08 ↗ community system and how do we

46:10 ↗ find ways to interface

46:13 ↗ and what's interesting and what is

46:14 ↗ useful for us is which communities get

46:17 ↗ to talk right

46:21 ↗ you're right and how do we make sure and

46:24 ↗ again that's where i you know we're not

46:28 ↗ um

46:31 ↗ how do i say this i

46:33 ↗ i want you know there's opportunities

46:35 ↗ for us to learn and to and to improve

46:37 ↗ quite frankly and how we are

46:40 ↗ making those engagement opportunities

46:42 ↗ uh truly uh universal so um so spot on

46:47 ↗ in your comments

46:52 ↗ i look forward to working with you

46:56 ↗ thank you so much kelly um and i had a

46:59 ↗ question as well but um i am going to

47:01 ↗ jump to christina's comment

47:03 ↗ um if she says that everything sounds

47:06 ↗ great she loves everything that's being

47:08 ↗ done for the community on the other hand

47:10 ↗ i would like to know about what those

47:12 ↗ who receive scholarships do for society

47:19 ↗ and i'm wondering jeff do we need a

47:21 ↗ little more clarification on that

47:22 ↗ question

47:23 ↗ yeah that would be that would be helpful

47:25 ↗ yeah sort of what's the public benefit

47:27 ↗ is that the question

47:28 ↗ hillary

47:52 ↗ yeah the thing is you know i agree that

47:54 ↗ people should be afforded

47:57 ↗ money and funds

47:59 ↗ uh to uh

48:01 ↗ do be able to do things but at the same

48:03 ↗ time i would like to see that uh those

48:07 ↗ who get those grants

48:08 ↗ give something back to society how how

48:11 ↗ it's more of a reciprocal uh type of

48:14 ↗ relationship

48:31 ↗ yeah so my question is you know yeah

48:33 ↗ there's people who get grants and

48:36 ↗ scholarships

48:37 ↗ and funds to uh to receive all these

48:40 ↗ benefits but then on the other hand is

48:43 ↗ there

48:44 ↗ something that society in general is

48:48 ↗ getting back from those people from the

48:50 ↗ people receiving uh

48:52 ↗ all this

48:54 ↗ funds

48:55 ↗ that's a great comment and a great

48:57 ↗ question christina i i guess i would

49:00 ↗ take a first chance at responding that

49:02 ↗ by saying

49:05 ↗ the recreation programs that this city

49:07 ↗ chooses to invest in

49:12 ↗ provide a public good to the whole

49:14 ↗ community and that we value we think

49:16 ↗ that

49:17 ↗ connection through recreation connection

49:20 ↗ through

49:21 ↗ learning

49:23 ↗ lifelong learning that happens social

49:26 ↗ interactions that happen through those

49:27 ↗ recreation investments do provide a

49:29 ↗ public good

49:31 ↗ the scholarship program

49:33 ↗ allows

49:34 ↗ the fee associated not to become a

49:36 ↗ financial barrier

49:38 ↗ and we would want to make sure that that

49:40 ↗ access to those recreation investments

49:43 ↗ are

49:44 ↗ equitable

49:46 ↗ for all residents in issaquah

49:49 ↗ and understanding i think in the end the

49:51 ↗ public good

49:53 ↗ is

49:55 ↗ what those all participants in those

49:57 ↗ recreation programs whether they have

49:59 ↗ scholarships or don't have scholarships

50:01 ↗ are are garnering

50:03 ↗ um

50:04 ↗ through through that through those

50:06 ↗ community investments

50:12 ↗ i love this we can really let's get into

50:13 ↗ some theoretical

50:16 ↗ thank you jeff that was such a question

50:19 ↗ and yes and definitely christina has

50:22 ↗ really good questions so thank you all

50:24 ↗ for

50:25 ↗ uh giving us an opportunity um

50:28 ↗ and i wanted to i wanted to ask if if

50:31 ↗ anyone else had any questions before i

50:33 ↗ post mine

50:38 ↗ everyone's so quiet tonight

50:40 ↗ all right well then i'll ask i just

50:42 ↗ wanted to know if the project roadmap

50:44 ↗ was made public um so that we could kind

50:47 ↗ of see what would be happening next um

50:49 ↗ in our community i think that everything

50:52 ↗ that you guys are doing is amazing and i

50:55 ↗ i'd like to know what what's coming next

50:57 ↗ and how we can participate

51:00 ↗ absolutely yeah and i can i can make

51:03 ↗ sure you all get a copy of that but on

51:05 ↗ our website is the park strategic plan

51:08 ↗ that lays out really the recommendations

51:10 ↗ and maps out the short-term investments

51:13 ↗ that that that the city's prioritizing

51:16 ↗ that is coupled with what's called the

51:18 ↗ the six-year

51:20 ↗ cip there's an acronym the six year

51:22 ↗ capital improvement plan

51:24 ↗ um i can get you a copy of that that

51:26 ↗ that shows the park and trail

51:29 ↗ investments that the city council is

51:32 ↗ strategically planning and making those

51:34 ↗ investments

51:35 ↗ so that's really those two start to show

51:38 ↗ that road map che of of what we're doing

51:42 ↗ um

51:42 ↗ and then specifically i'll be sharing

51:45 ↗ with the park board i can certainly

51:46 ↗ share with you as well and monica's

51:48 ↗ aware of this sort of our major work

51:50 ↗ plan items work plan for the year that

51:52 ↗ shows the specific park projects that

51:54 ↗ we're going to be working on

51:56 ↗ uh this year in 2022 so

51:59 ↗ i think all three of those

52:00 ↗ can sort of show you the the road map

52:03 ↗ from big to big to little

52:07 ↗ that's awesome thank you so much jeff um

52:10 ↗ and before we close out with jeff does

52:13 ↗ anyone else have any questions

52:15 ↗ comments

52:18 ↗ is doing some amazing things

52:24 ↗ all right

52:25 ↗ then thank you so much jeff for giving

52:27 ↗ us that overview we really appreciate it

52:30 ↗ we encourage you to stay on if you'd

52:32 ↗ like if it's getting a little late for

52:34 ↗ you feel free to drop off

52:36 ↗ but next we have um monica who's going

52:39 ↗ to go over our cultural and religious

52:41 ↗ holidays

52:44 ↗ thank you very much jay and board

52:46 ↗ members and jeff thank you so much again

52:48 ↗ for being with us tonight um

52:50 ↗ you will hear from different department

52:52 ↗ leaders in the upcoming months um as we

52:55 ↗ continue to kind of like dive deeper

52:57 ↗ into what does the city do and the work

53:01 ↗ that is being done in the various

53:03 ↗ departments

53:04 ↗ but um moving on to our next agenda item

53:09 ↗ i have the pleasure to talk with you a

53:11 ↗ little bit about some city acknowledge

53:14 ↗ cultural and religious holidays and

53:16 ↗ before i start i would like to

53:17 ↗ acknowledge you already had a chance to

53:19 ↗ meet dale who's also part of the equity

53:21 ↗ team but we also have matt ellis with us

53:24 ↗ um also part of the equity team and

53:26 ↗ actually jeff is also on the equity team

53:29 ↗ at the city um and um

53:32 ↗ matt had

53:34 ↗ previously done some work internally on

53:36 ↗ doing some research um on the religious

53:40 ↗ holidays and cultural holidays that

53:42 ↗ perhaps the the city uh should be aware

53:45 ↗ of so um

53:47 ↗ he's also available here for questions

53:49 ↗ now that i want to put him on the spot

53:50 ↗ but i know he did a lot of great work

53:53 ↗ and tisha who's uh you now know she's a

53:56 ↗ familiar face with us our city clerk uh

53:58 ↗ she has done some great work on on it as

54:00 ↗ well so i'm gonna just jump in really

54:03 ↗ quick with a brief presentation and

54:05 ↗ while i open um the powerpoint here i

54:08 ↗ just want to mention that

54:10 ↗ this is part one of what i hope to be a

54:14 ↗ two-part um

54:16 ↗ conversation on um acknowledging

54:19 ↗ cultural and religious holidays at the

54:21 ↗ city

54:22 ↗ um and i also want to mention that um

54:26 ↗ this is different

54:28 ↗ than

54:29 ↗ um

54:30 ↗ federal holidays

54:32 ↗ that the city

54:35 ↗ acknowledges when people have time off

54:38 ↗ um so the the goal in in this project is

54:42 ↗ really to create a list of cultural and

54:45 ↗ religious holidays that the city should

54:47 ↗ take into consideration when scheduling

54:50 ↗ public meetings this is really a way for

54:53 ↗ us to formalize our commitment to

54:55 ↗ respecting

54:56 ↗ um other communities and other religions

55:01 ↗ than the ones um

55:03 ↗ let's say respected in federal

55:06 ↗ holidays

55:07 ↗ and really respect and promote inclusion

55:10 ↗ and really make every effort to avoid

55:13 ↗ scheduling public meetings on dates that

55:15 ↗ conflict with

55:17 ↗ such holidays um

55:20 ↗ so

55:21 ↗ why do we

55:23 ↗ want to

55:24 ↗ acknowledge religious holidays uh

55:26 ↗ because as i said really it promotes

55:29 ↗ respect and um inclusivity um but um

55:33 ↗ also we acknowledge as a city that um

55:36 ↗ certain holidays are observed by the

55:38 ↗ federal government such as let's say

55:40 ↗ christmas day whereas other religious

55:43 ↗ holidays um that are equally

55:46 ↗ as relevant and important for certain

55:48 ↗ religious communities um are not

55:51 ↗ observed um and so perhaps um there are

55:54 ↗ times when

55:55 ↗ um um

55:57 ↗ out of respect for that holiday certain

55:59 ↗ communities cannot work or cannot

56:01 ↗ participate in public meetings

56:04 ↗ and therefore if we have public meetings

56:06 ↗ during those times

56:07 ↗ then we

56:09 ↗ limit

56:10 ↗ their chances to participate and provide

56:12 ↗ input

56:14 ↗ so

56:16 ↗ um the approach that we took in kind of

56:19 ↗ making uh proposing an initial list for

56:22 ↗ you to for consideration

56:24 ↗ uh was really our staff um

56:27 ↗ uh did research um and we

56:30 ↗ asked

56:32 ↗ other jurisdictions locally and

56:33 ↗ regionally on their approach so we did

56:36 ↗ some research on what others are doing

56:38 ↗ um we looked at the issaquah

56:40 ↗ demographics and the communities that we

56:42 ↗ have in isoquant in particular

56:45 ↗ um we also contacted um directly um some

56:49 ↗ representatives of various religions and

56:51 ↗ cultural groups here in issaquah i

56:54 ↗ actually reached out to some of the

56:55 ↗ equity board members

56:57 ↗ as well

56:59 ↗ and

57:00 ↗ then with gathering all of that

57:02 ↗ information then we made um created an

57:05 ↗ initial

57:06 ↗ list of proposed holidays uh that

57:09 ↗ perhaps we can

57:11 ↗ conti we can consider implementing and

57:13 ↗ then re-evaluating right um i think our

57:16 ↗ approach of the city often is we don't

57:18 ↗ want to um

57:20 ↗ have perfection being the way of making

57:22 ↗ progress so perhaps our first list is

57:25 ↗ not going to be the perfect list but we

57:27 ↗ um we like to pilot

57:30 ↗ things let's try it see how it works see

57:32 ↗ what's working see what's not re-valued

57:34 ↗ and keep making improvements

57:37 ↗ um so some examples of what other

57:39 ↗ jurisdictions are doing and you have in

57:41 ↗ the packet actually we linked um

57:45 ↗ information to

57:46 ↗ the washington state office of

57:48 ↗ superintendent of public instructions

57:50 ↗ they have a comprehensive list of

57:51 ↗ different holidays that they observe

57:53 ↗ our issaquah school district

57:56 ↗ also has a great list of holidays that

57:58 ↗ they observe and they are mindful of

58:01 ↗ when when conducting public meetings or

58:03 ↗ different school related meetings

58:05 ↗ um the kind of closest

58:08 ↗ city if you um

58:11 ↗ want

58:12 ↗ if you believe it or not the closest

58:14 ↗ city that we were able to research as

58:16 ↗ having implemented a policy on

58:19 ↗ cultural and religious holidays is the

58:21 ↗ city of berkeley in california

58:23 ↗ and actually we use that as kind of like

58:25 ↗ a

58:26 ↗ a starting point for our work and then

58:28 ↗ um

58:30 ↗ also examples from the university of

58:31 ↗ missouri

58:33 ↗ and there are certainly other examples

58:35 ↗ these are just a few of them and i think

58:38 ↗ this is where we probably we would want

58:41 ↗ um

58:42 ↗ your input and feedback on

58:44 ↗ um what other

58:46 ↗ research should we

58:48 ↗ be doing um next as i mentioned we

58:51 ↗ looked at um

58:53 ↗ the isoqua demographic um just a brief

58:57 ↗ highlight

58:58 ↗ uh based on the most recent census um

59:01 ↗ our estimated population is about forty

59:03 ↗ thousand

59:04 ↗ um twenty three percent of uh our

59:07 ↗ population is asian

59:08 ↗ about a little bit over two percent

59:10 ↗ african-american

59:12 ↗ um

59:14 ↗ five a little bit over five percent are

59:16 ↗ two or more races and nine percent of

59:18 ↗ our community um

59:20 ↗ um are hispanic or latino

59:23 ↗ um we also tried to look a little bit

59:24 ↗ about uh to the religion

59:27 ↗ uh group religious groups in in issaquah

59:30 ↗ uh we found some information that about

59:31 ↗ 38 percent close to 39 percent of

59:34 ↗ residents living in issaquah

59:36 ↗ self-identify as religious

59:39 ↗ and then here you have a

59:41 ↗ broken down um by percentages uh the

59:45 ↗ various

59:46 ↗ religious

59:48 ↗ affiliations and groups

59:52 ↗ and then here on this screen you have um

59:56 ↗ abbreviated list of some of the most

59:59 ↗ important holidays that um we um

1:00:04 ↗ considered using as a starting point

1:00:07 ↗ um i want to add that after reaching out

1:00:10 ↗ to some community members

1:00:13 ↗ to this list there are a couple of other

1:00:15 ↗ just um

1:00:17 ↗ holidays that um

1:00:20 ↗ a proposed that we should be adding

1:00:24 ↗ for example

1:00:26 ↗ um uh hanukkah was

1:00:29 ↗ [Music]

1:00:31 ↗ proposed as being added

1:00:33 ↗ as a holiday

1:00:34 ↗ um just not necessarily because um

1:00:38 ↗ it's um

1:00:41 ↗ mainly because perhaps people would like

1:00:44 ↗ to

1:00:45 ↗ spend time with family during that

1:00:46 ↗ holiday

1:00:47 ↗ rather than

1:00:49 ↗ um

1:00:52 ↗ attending public meetings

1:00:54 ↗ um

1:00:56 ↗ however this is kind of like an initial

1:00:58 ↗ list of those holidays

1:01:00 ↗ um that we would love to hear from you

1:01:03 ↗ on what are your thoughts what are your

1:01:06 ↗ um suggestions uh is this a good

1:01:08 ↗ starting point um

1:01:10 ↗ are we missing um

1:01:12 ↗ um holidays that we should add to this

1:01:15 ↗ list

1:01:16 ↗ um

1:01:16 ↗ [Music]

1:01:18 ↗ are there others that we should add

1:01:20 ↗ consider

1:01:21 ↗ and what not so

1:01:23 ↗ um as i said i'm gonna pause so we can

1:01:26 ↗ have a conversation

1:01:27 ↗ um

1:01:29 ↗ again as i mentioned at the beginning

1:01:30 ↗ i'm hoping that this is the just the

1:01:32 ↗ very first introductory conversation

1:01:34 ↗ let's start brainstorming let's start

1:01:36 ↗ thinking

1:01:37 ↗ and then let's all do some research

1:01:39 ↗ between now and next meeting and then

1:01:41 ↗ come back

1:01:43 ↗ with a more finalized list

1:01:46 ↗ for perhaps adoption for next month if

1:01:48 ↗ we feel that we are ready to um at least

1:01:51 ↗ start

1:01:52 ↗ um

1:01:53 ↗ observing those holidays and when i say

1:01:55 ↗ observing is really um

1:01:57 ↗ when um our various city departments are

1:02:00 ↗ considering public engagement meetings

1:02:03 ↗ um board meetings or council meetings

1:02:06 ↗ for us to be mindful and

1:02:08 ↗ not to

1:02:10 ↗ schedule those meetings on

1:02:12 ↗ religious holidays

1:02:15 ↗ so questions for you tonight is this a

1:02:17 ↗ good list of holidays um

1:02:20 ↗ the city should consider when scheduling

1:02:22 ↗ public meetings are there major holidays

1:02:25 ↗ missing i'm sorry i'm having technical

1:02:26 ↗ issues here

1:02:28 ↗ um

1:02:29 ↗ are there other things we should

1:02:30 ↗ consider um what is the right balance

1:02:33 ↗ between the needs to conduct multiple

1:02:35 ↗ public meetings and holidays observed uh

1:02:38 ↗ you did hear also earlier tonight from a

1:02:41 ↗ community member who expressed um

1:02:44 ↗ kind of like um concern or question

1:02:46 ↗ about

1:02:47 ↗ multiple public meetings what is the

1:02:49 ↗ right balance with that how can we be

1:02:51 ↗ inclusive and respectful and still

1:02:54 ↗ conduct um

1:02:56 ↗ community engagement uh with with the

1:02:58 ↗ community since that's the core

1:03:00 ↗ of what we do

1:03:03 ↗ as a note

1:03:04 ↗ you heard about the multiple boards and

1:03:06 ↗ commissions we have in the parks

1:03:07 ↗ department the city overall has 16

1:03:10 ↗ boards and commissions um so

1:03:14 ↗ we have a busy schedule and i'm gonna

1:03:15 ↗ invite tisha she can tell you more like

1:03:18 ↗ every every week we have several

1:03:20 ↗ meetings uh so um there'll likely be um

1:03:24 ↗ interference what's the right balance

1:03:26 ↗ though um

1:03:26 ↗ [Music]

1:03:29 ↗ and monica i'm going to stop you for

1:03:31 ↗ just a quick second here because i know

1:03:32 ↗ you have a few questions

1:03:34 ↗ um

1:03:35 ↗ and ray would you like to come off mute

1:03:37 ↗ and ask your question or i can ask it

1:03:39 ↗ for you

1:03:40 ↗ sure i'm happy to um monica going back

1:03:43 ↗ to that slide with the 40 000 plus

1:03:45 ↗ residents there's a big chunk that's

1:03:47 ↗ asian

1:03:48 ↗ two questions regarding that one is with

1:03:51 ↗ with outside of those listed are the

1:03:52 ↗ others what are they caucasian that are

1:03:55 ↗ so nuts this comprises what 30 40 so the

1:03:59 ↗ other 60 percent

1:04:02 ↗ yes about 65

1:04:03 ↗ of the population is white

1:04:06 ↗ okay

1:04:07 ↗ okay and then so my my question that i

1:04:09 ↗ put in the chat is that that chunk large

1:04:11 ↗ chunk of 23.15 asian is there a

1:04:13 ↗ breakdown of those and the reason i ask

1:04:15 ↗ that is because you know asia is a very

1:04:17 ↗ large geography it could be they could

1:04:19 ↗ be muslim they could be buddhist they

1:04:21 ↗ could be catholic

1:04:23 ↗ curious about that

1:04:25 ↗ um we don't have necessarily a breakdown

1:04:27 ↗ of those we can do additional research

1:04:29 ↗ that's a great question to try to get uh

1:04:32 ↗ deeper um information and more depth

1:04:34 ↗ information on that

1:04:35 ↗ at this time we don't have that breaking

1:04:37 ↗ down um into smaller pieces we rely on

1:04:40 ↗ census data and that's um

1:04:43 ↗ um

1:04:44 ↗ again we can do a little bit more

1:04:46 ↗ research um

1:04:47 ↗ but then

1:04:49 ↗ the reliability of of the data is gonna

1:04:51 ↗ be a little bit harder um actually i

1:04:54 ↗ would love to see if the school district

1:04:56 ↗ i know that it's it

1:04:58 ↗ has some information because they track

1:05:00 ↗ information on their family so i know

1:05:02 ↗ that we reached out and we contacted

1:05:04 ↗ them uh to to secure information on that

1:05:07 ↗ level

1:05:08 ↗ but that too at least we can have some

1:05:11 ↗ um

1:05:12 ↗ information but it's mainly at the

1:05:14 ↗ school district level uh which includes

1:05:16 ↗ more than issaquah um so okay but yeah

1:05:19 ↗ it's great great comments and um we will

1:05:21 ↗ look more but i don't know

1:05:24 ↗ we'll have that more

1:05:26 ↗ great question ray uh we appreciate that

1:05:29 ↗ um and then we have a pretty and then

1:05:31 ↗ alisa will follow

1:05:34 ↗ yeah so this is pretty um i appreciate

1:05:36 ↗ all the effort that went into uh

1:05:38 ↗ producing the the list of the proposed

1:05:41 ↗ list of holidays

1:05:42 ↗ and um so michael my question is really

1:05:45 ↗ like i was curious about

1:05:47 ↗ the the list that was generated you know

1:05:50 ↗ this proposed list and i just wanted to

1:05:52 ↗ know a little bit more about how like

1:05:54 ↗ what criteria might have been used for

1:05:56 ↗ this particular list to bubble to the

1:05:59 ↗ top because

1:06:00 ↗ you know for example

1:06:03 ↗ yeah i was wondering about hanukkah

1:06:05 ↗ as well and then um i know there's other

1:06:08 ↗ like ramadan and then um holy as another

1:06:11 ↗ hindu holiday and so i was just curious

1:06:14 ↗ about what what made these float to the

1:06:16 ↗ top so i can understand and maybe be

1:06:18 ↗ thinking along that same uh with the

1:06:21 ↗ same logic or criteria right thank you

1:06:24 ↗ so much and and that's a

1:06:26 ↗ another great great question we were

1:06:28 ↗ just having a conversation on this

1:06:30 ↗ earlier tonight um i think this is more

1:06:32 ↗ of a generic starting point

1:06:35 ↗ that i think it would be great for us to

1:06:38 ↗ um more customize more to what

1:06:40 ↗ issaquah's needs are

1:06:43 ↗ because we didn't find other

1:06:44 ↗ jurisdictions closer than the

1:06:46 ↗ city of berkeley

1:06:48 ↗ we kind of like stole their um

1:06:51 ↗ list uh as a starting point uh but as

1:06:54 ↗ you mentioned

1:06:56 ↗ holy it's something definitely that is a

1:06:58 ↗ holiday that's um

1:07:00 ↗ with 23

1:07:01 ↗ um

1:07:03 ↗ of the population being asian um that

1:07:05 ↗ definitely um would make it more

1:07:08 ↗ specific to issaquah and i see that

1:07:10 ↗ tisha can also provide a response to

1:07:12 ↗ this so i would love to hear your

1:07:14 ↗ thoughts on this decision yeah and

1:07:16 ↗ another thing that we looked at when

1:07:17 ↗ creating this list

1:07:19 ↗ were holidays that had significant work

1:07:21 ↗ restrictions and that is one of the

1:07:23 ↗ reasons that hanukkah wasn't listed on

1:07:25 ↗ this initial list so

1:07:27 ↗ monica cited the university of missouri

1:07:29 ↗ they have a really comprehensive list of

1:07:32 ↗ cultural and religious holidays and they

1:07:34 ↗ identify those with significant work

1:07:36 ↗ restrictions so not every holiday listed

1:07:39 ↗ has

1:07:40 ↗ is is classified as such um but the

1:07:43 ↗ majority are and that was one of the

1:07:45 ↗ criteria we used as monica was

1:07:48 ↗ explaining we're trying to find a

1:07:50 ↗ balance between recognizing holidays

1:07:52 ↗ that our community members um might be

1:07:55 ↗ um celebrating and recognizing but also

1:07:58 ↗ recognizing the city has a lot of a lot

1:08:00 ↗ of community boards and our of course

1:08:03 ↗ the city council our governing board so

1:08:04 ↗ wanting to ensure we still have some

1:08:07 ↗ capacity to meet during weeknights

1:08:10 ↗ and do the work of the city so we're

1:08:12 ↗ grateful for your input and thoughts

1:08:17 ↗ thank you tisha and going back to what

1:08:20 ↗ prithi was saying

1:08:22 ↗ ramadan was actually added as

1:08:25 ↗ we received the input that we should

1:08:27 ↗ consider ramadan the beginning of

1:08:28 ↗ ramadan

1:08:29 ↗ because it does have work restrictions

1:08:32 ↗ and

1:08:33 ↗ the sunset time during ramadan um

1:08:36 ↗ so

1:08:38 ↗ thank you

1:08:40 ↗ other questions and comments

1:08:44 ↗ yes alisa are you ready

1:08:46 ↗ yep sure um i have two questions

1:08:49 ↗ one is um have we defined the

1:08:55 ↗ scope of the

1:08:56 ↗ events

1:08:57 ↗ that

1:08:58 ↗ would not um take place on the holidays

1:09:02 ↗ that we're identifying so just the not

1:09:06 ↗ necessarily the specific events but the

1:09:08 ↗ scope like is it just meetings is it um

1:09:11 ↗ what types of activities that would be

1:09:13 ↗ included

1:09:14 ↗ and then the second question is

1:09:17 ↗ i really appreciate the use of the data

1:09:20 ↗ and trying to use the data to drive the

1:09:22 ↗ decision

1:09:24 ↗ and i'm wondering if there will be an

1:09:26 ↗ opportunity to actually ask the

1:09:28 ↗ community

1:09:29 ↗ with technology today we can easily

1:09:32 ↗ survey and ask people that you know is

1:09:34 ↗ this a holiday when

1:09:36 ↗ it you know is important to you to not

1:09:39 ↗ be

1:09:40 ↗ included in an event like this on that

1:09:42 ↗ on that day other holidays are great

1:09:45 ↗ holidays but maybe you know are not such

1:09:48 ↗ that people

1:09:49 ↗ are concerned about um having a meeting

1:09:52 ↗ that day

1:09:53 ↗ um

1:09:54 ↗ whatever the case may be so i'm

1:09:55 ↗ wondering if there's a way to if we

1:09:57 ↗ would be able to expand that to

1:09:59 ↗ really talk to the the

1:10:02 ↗ to find out what's important to them

1:10:07 ↗ this has such great questions and

1:10:08 ↗ comments and so um so i'm going to start

1:10:11 ↗ with your second one which yes like

1:10:13 ↗ opportunities to conduct more community

1:10:15 ↗ engagement right and perhaps yeah i i

1:10:18 ↗ love we can like you mentioned uh either

1:10:21 ↗ a survey or either this equity board

1:10:23 ↗ perhaps

1:10:24 ↗ as as early as next meeting conduct a

1:10:27 ↗ community

1:10:28 ↗ meeting where you um hear from the

1:10:30 ↗ community and we invite the community at

1:10:32 ↗ large i think um

1:10:34 ↗ at a small scale we started connecting

1:10:37 ↗ with different community members and

1:10:38 ↗ asking for input on the holiday list but

1:10:41 ↗ we can certainly um think about um

1:10:44 ↗ having a

1:10:46 ↗ um

1:10:47 ↗ kind of like a small convening or larger

1:10:49 ↗ convening and hear from the community

1:10:51 ↗ um

1:10:52 ↗ so so that's that's definitely an option

1:10:55 ↗ um and also to your first question if i

1:10:57 ↗ understood it correctly in regarding the

1:11:00 ↗ scope um i believe and here i would love

1:11:02 ↗ to hear more from tisha again um my

1:11:05 ↗ understanding is that yes um it's it's

1:11:08 ↗ strictly for meetings and just being

1:11:10 ↗ mindful let's say not to schedule public

1:11:13 ↗ meetings and that includes sometimes

1:11:15 ↗ when we conduct community engagement

1:11:17 ↗ meetings for various let's say jeff was

1:11:19 ↗ talking earlier about

1:11:20 ↗ let's say the dog tour park and if

1:11:23 ↗ there's a community engagement and when

1:11:25 ↗ we want to hear from the community on

1:11:27 ↗ where to put the next dog

1:11:29 ↗ um park uh then we would be mindful not

1:11:32 ↗ to schedule a meeting on that holiday or

1:11:35 ↗ let's say if the human services

1:11:36 ↗ commission is meeting

1:11:38 ↗ on at the beginning of ramadan for

1:11:41 ↗ example than to be mindful to

1:11:43 ↗ postpone that meeting so my

1:11:45 ↗ understanding is that that's the scope

1:11:46 ↗ did i answer though your question

1:11:48 ↗ because i'm not

1:11:49 ↗ sure

1:11:50 ↗ you you did you did um i did have i'm

1:11:53 ↗ sorry i did have one other question i'll

1:11:55 ↗ just throw it out there which was um we

1:11:58 ↗ talked about religious holidays and i

1:12:00 ↗ think there are probably other other

1:12:02 ↗ other holidays that may have more of a

1:12:04 ↗ cultural significance than necessarily

1:12:06 ↗ religious and wondering if we're

1:12:09 ↗ including those as well

1:12:15 ↗ just as

1:12:16 ↗ tisha said earlier today we can

1:12:18 ↗ certainly consider including them we

1:12:21 ↗ were hoping to start

1:12:23 ↗ somewhere to start smaller perhaps and

1:12:25 ↗ then see what the impact is i think

1:12:29 ↗ with the religious holidays like focus

1:12:31 ↗ heavily on the religious holidays um and

1:12:34 ↗ see how that works and the impact that

1:12:36 ↗ it has on multiple meetings and then

1:12:39 ↗ consider expanding to other cultural

1:12:41 ↗ holidays um as well

1:12:44 ↗ um

1:12:46 ↗ but but certainly

1:12:47 ↗ again we we want to hear what makes more

1:12:50 ↗ sense

1:12:51 ↗ um it's it's finding that balance right

1:12:56 ↗ um

1:12:57 ↗ is there anything that you would like to

1:12:59 ↗ add here

1:13:02 ↗ not not necessarily even though i i was

1:13:05 ↗ getting the sense um there there are a

1:13:07 ↗ few on this list or at least um

1:13:12 ↗ some that seem to have like um do wally

1:13:15 ↗ that

1:13:16 ↗ it it seemed that it was fairly broadly

1:13:19 ↗ recognized by multiple religions and

1:13:21 ↗ dias de los muertos i'm sure i'm not

1:13:24 ↗ pronouncing that correctly is also

1:13:25 ↗ included on the list um

1:13:28 ↗ but that's that's a good consideration

1:13:30 ↗ and something we didn't extensively look

1:13:32 ↗ at in creating this

1:13:39 ↗ such great questions and comments thank

1:13:40 ↗ you sorry go ahead no you're fine you're

1:13:43 ↗ fine no dude i'm really enjoying this i

1:13:46 ↗ love the engagement um we also had um it

1:13:50 ↗ looks like a question from christina um

1:13:52 ↗ christina would you like for me to go

1:13:54 ↗ ahead and

1:13:55 ↗ say your question or would you like the

1:13:57 ↗ interpreters to go ahead and do that

1:14:06 ↗ what about the people who are not

1:14:07 ↗ religious

1:14:09 ↗ how can they be included in the society

1:14:16 ↗ did you think about it

1:14:18 ↗ just some thinking about it and i don't

1:14:20 ↗ know

1:14:23 ↗ did you include them

1:14:26 ↗ yeah um thank you christina so i'm

1:14:29 ↗ thinking that if

1:14:31 ↗ for for the purpose of creating a list

1:14:34 ↗ um

1:14:36 ↗ where we wouldn't schedule public

1:14:38 ↗ meetings

1:14:40 ↗ i i would think that if people are not

1:14:43 ↗ religious perhaps

1:14:46 ↗ um

1:14:47 ↗ there might not be meetings that

1:14:49 ↗ conflict

1:14:51 ↗ or

1:14:52 ↗ holidays that conflict with

1:14:56 ↗ with um

1:14:58 ↗ with public meetings at least for this

1:15:00 ↗ purpose but i don't know i will need to

1:15:02 ↗ think about and i see lorna has her hand

1:15:04 ↗ up maybe

1:15:05 ↗ uh

1:15:06 ↗ you have thoughts on this i noticed you

1:15:08 ↗ have two dates kawanza and also

1:15:11 ↗ um you have lunar new year and both of

1:15:14 ↗ those days are cultural celebrations

1:15:15 ↗ rather than religious celebrations

1:15:18 ↗ so i believe that that does cover it

1:15:21 ↗ and um i actually created the district

1:15:24 ↗ school district's religious and holiday

1:15:26 ↗ calendar

1:15:27 ↗ and so i did a lot of work when i did

1:15:30 ↗ that and in interviewing

1:15:32 ↗ more than 30 families

1:15:34 ↗ in trying to come up with these dates

1:15:36 ↗ i made sure i represented and

1:15:39 ↗ interviewed families that represented

1:15:41 ↗ the majority we have 25 major languages

1:15:43 ↗ and so we looked at all the languages

1:15:45 ↗ and all the cultures that went with the

1:15:47 ↗ languages

1:15:48 ↗ and i try to make sure i represented all

1:15:50 ↗ of those cultures in my interviews and

1:15:53 ↗ asked them what days significantly

1:15:55 ↗ impacted student learning

1:15:57 ↗ and also i asked staff what days

1:15:59 ↗ impacted staff attendance at school and

1:16:01 ↗ that's what i used as my basis in

1:16:03 ↗ creating a calendar

1:16:04 ↗ i don't have as you will notice any

1:16:06 ↗ summer holidays and days that are

1:16:08 ↗ already non-school days

1:16:10 ↗ in december in our calendar so that's

1:16:12 ↗ why there might be some differences

1:16:14 ↗ um and finally one of the biggest

1:16:16 ↗ feedbacks because as the city is doing

1:16:19 ↗ the past year and a half i've been

1:16:21 ↗ amending my calendar based on feedback

1:16:23 ↗ from

1:16:24 ↗ staff and from parents and one of the

1:16:27 ↗ things that i realized

1:16:29 ↗ is that i did not put as very christian

1:16:32 ↗ and other

1:16:34 ↗ some christian holidays including

1:16:37 ↗ um i hadn't put in ash wednesday and

1:16:39 ↗ good friday

1:16:41 ↗ and so that's where we got most of our

1:16:43 ↗ feedback from

1:16:45 ↗ and given that the data for the city

1:16:47 ↗ does have a lot of different christian

1:16:49 ↗ groups i'm just wondering if we are

1:16:51 ↗ counting for some of those because

1:16:53 ↗ that's what i did see because i think

1:16:56 ↗ as our district is getting more diverse

1:16:58 ↗ we're noticing that there's an

1:16:59 ↗ assumption that we just have to go to

1:17:01 ↗ different cultures and different

1:17:03 ↗ religions non-christian

1:17:05 ↗ and i think we do need to realize that

1:17:07 ↗ we are to educate or at least i realized

1:17:09 ↗ others that

1:17:11 ↗ within the christian community we have

1:17:14 ↗ different celebrations and how do i

1:17:16 ↗ include that

1:17:22 ↗ thank you for that that's such a good

1:17:24 ↗ point and it looks like uh christina has

1:17:26 ↗ another question but christina can i

1:17:28 ↗ before you start is there anyone else

1:17:31 ↗ who has a question or comment that

1:17:33 ↗ they'd like to pose to the group

1:17:40 ↗ all right christina please

1:18:08 ↗ so yeah what i'd like to ask is about

1:18:11 ↗ the native americans is that

1:18:14 ↗ part are they included in

1:18:17 ↗ in consideration to the religious

1:18:20 ↗ festivities and also other immigrants

1:18:23 ↗ are also

1:18:24 ↗ considered in this list

1:18:30 ↗ excellent questions and comments and no

1:18:32 ↗ we have not directly reached out to the

1:18:35 ↗ native communities to ask about that so

1:18:38 ↗ great great input and feedback

1:18:40 ↗ and other immigrant communities thank

1:18:42 ↗ you

1:18:50 ↗ other questions and feedback before we

1:18:53 ↗ talk a little bit about next steps

1:19:00 ↗ go ahead elisa

1:19:05 ↗ i just wanted to add that i i think it's

1:19:07 ↗ a great approach that we want to have a

1:19:10 ↗ starting point and that we're going to

1:19:13 ↗ um be flexible to

1:19:16 ↗ get feedback and to potentially expand

1:19:19 ↗ the list as needed i just wanted to add

1:19:22 ↗ that

1:19:23 ↗ you know it's probably important and

1:19:26 ↗ somebody can tell me if i have this

1:19:27 ↗ wrong but it's probably important to

1:19:29 ↗ also let the community know that

1:19:32 ↗ i think just to avoid the possibility of

1:19:35 ↗ you know we're trying to

1:19:37 ↗ be inclusive but to not be offensive by

1:19:42 ↗ excluding someone whose voice we just

1:19:44 ↗ didn't just didn't make it onto the

1:19:46 ↗ initial list

1:19:48 ↗ right away just so people understand

1:19:50 ↗ this is a starting point and

1:19:52 ↗ let us know

1:19:54 ↗ if if you know we're missing something

1:19:58 ↗ that's all

1:20:00 ↗ great point elisa and preethi i think

1:20:03 ↗ you also had a comment

1:20:05 ↗ um yes so i was just you know reflecting

1:20:08 ↗ on some of the questions and comments

1:20:11 ↗ and i know it it seems like this list is

1:20:14 ↗ has a very narrow use in terms of a list

1:20:18 ↗ of dates where

1:20:20 ↗ they're uh where community or public

1:20:22 ↗ meetings aren't recommended but i think

1:20:24 ↗ there's this danger around

1:20:27 ↗ having a list like this available where

1:20:30 ↗ people you know for and for very good

1:20:32 ↗ reasons certain holidays would be

1:20:34 ↗ missing because they

1:20:35 ↗ they aren't necessarily recommended to

1:20:38 ↗ be scheduled around but

1:20:40 ↗ i think there's a danger in not

1:20:42 ↗ having

1:20:44 ↗ a fuller set of holidays so i'm almost

1:20:46 ↗ wondering if this is could be more like

1:20:48 ↗ a table where there's you know a

1:20:50 ↗ comprehensive list of of holidays by

1:20:53 ↗ various cultures and religions and then

1:20:55 ↗ maybe there's certain criteria where

1:20:58 ↗ you know you can indicate oh they're

1:20:59 ↗ just celebrations or days where you know

1:21:02 ↗ public events are not recommended and

1:21:04 ↗ you know various things like that

1:21:05 ↗ because otherwise i i do think that this

1:21:07 ↗ could be uh easily misinterpreted

1:21:11 ↗ um if we aren't careful

1:21:15 ↗ thank you preethi and matt um feel free

1:21:18 ↗ to jump in please to go ahead and

1:21:20 ↗ explain a little further

1:21:22 ↗ sure and i think it might

1:21:25 ↗ have morphed since we originally started

1:21:27 ↗ the scope for this

1:21:28 ↗ project but

1:21:30 ↗ the initial thought for this was that we

1:21:32 ↗ would put this

1:21:33 ↗ in our outlook folders city staff

1:21:35 ↗ outlook folders throughout the city so

1:21:37 ↗ that way we're not

1:21:39 ↗ trying to find a list somewhere and and

1:21:42 ↗ cross check it it would just pop up

1:21:44 ↗ automatically on our

1:21:45 ↗ outlook calendars and say oh we we

1:21:48 ↗ shouldn't be

1:21:49 ↗ uh

1:21:50 ↗ scheduling an event or neighborhood

1:21:53 ↗ meeting or whatever we're trying to do

1:21:55 ↗ uh and be

1:21:57 ↗ supportive of the community is not

1:21:59 ↗ i guess there's a there's a couple

1:22:00 ↗ different ways we could approach it

1:22:02 ↗ there's there's that where it's more of

1:22:03 ↗ the internal look where it's for us to

1:22:07 ↗ be

1:22:08 ↗ cognizant of events and holidays or it

1:22:12 ↗ can also be a celebratory thing that's

1:22:14 ↗ more of an external

1:22:16 ↗ thing where we're we're

1:22:19 ↗ showing support to the community so i

1:22:20 ↗ guess there's there's just it depends on

1:22:23 ↗ what the use

1:22:24 ↗ of the events uh and holidays calendar

1:22:27 ↗ is

1:22:28 ↗ um

1:22:29 ↗ and i guess that's

1:22:31 ↗ a question for you guys but but

1:22:33 ↗ internally our thought was that it would

1:22:35 ↗ be an internal uh

1:22:38 ↗ a piece of a piece of a tool

1:22:43 ↗ known matt i think that's a great idea

1:22:45 ↗ because to preach these points

1:22:48 ↗ the it could easily be misinterpreted

1:22:51 ↗ and

1:22:52 ↗ our intention is not to

1:22:54 ↗ exclude anyone it's more so just to be

1:22:56 ↗ aware so that our meetings don't

1:22:58 ↗ interfere

1:22:59 ↗ with with their events and or anyone's

1:23:02 ↗ events for that matter so we want to try

1:23:04 ↗ to adjust to that um and and i do think

1:23:07 ↗ that that's a a better way to handle it

1:23:09 ↗ just to avoid the backlash

1:23:15 ↗ does anyone else have a comment or

1:23:17 ↗ question

1:23:24 ↗ yes kelly please come off meal

1:23:29 ↗ this was kind of

1:23:30 ↗ i don't know any notes for me and i'll

1:23:32 ↗ tell you i think i've figured out what

1:23:34 ↗ it is

1:23:35 ↗ i think that there's a um

1:23:37 ↗ a framing that i i'm not personally

1:23:41 ↗ knowledgeable enough to know the

1:23:43 ↗ difference between things that require

1:23:46 ↗ no work and cultural

1:23:49 ↗ events

1:23:51 ↗ because there are a lot of cultural

1:23:53 ↗ events in many many communities and it

1:23:55 ↗ feels to me like some of these are

1:23:57 ↗ cultural and some of these are

1:24:00 ↗ religious

1:24:02 ↗ and

1:24:04 ↗ and

1:24:05 ↗ i think that

1:24:07 ↗ it is really important to get that

1:24:10 ↗ defined the two

1:24:12 ↗ that they are different and that

1:24:15 ↗ if we have to go to religious leaders

1:24:18 ↗ we do it i'll help because i think that

1:24:21 ↗ it's

1:24:22 ↗ will get confusing

1:24:24 ↗ if we're doing cultural events sometimes

1:24:27 ↗ and we say a meeting isn't going to

1:24:28 ↗ happen this day because of it

1:24:30 ↗ and then other times we say

1:24:33 ↗ on

1:24:34 ↗ that it you know somebody else's

1:24:36 ↗ event

1:24:38 ↗ is going to get scheduled on top of

1:24:40 ↗ so i'm just

1:24:42 ↗ um encouraging to get that really

1:24:46 ↗ clearly defined

1:24:48 ↗ and then

1:24:49 ↗ once you do to not be afraid to post it

1:24:53 ↗ i am so proud of the work this

1:24:57 ↗ city is doing

1:24:59 ↗ this is incredible work you can't find

1:25:01 ↗ you can't find it anywhere else right

1:25:04 ↗ post it so that other people know not

1:25:06 ↗ yet maybe it's a year away

1:25:08 ↗ but be proud of that work and share it

1:25:11 ↗ we all

1:25:12 ↗ need it once it's gotten more clarified

1:25:21 ↗ thank you so much kelly that was such a

1:25:23 ↗ great comment so

1:25:24 ↗ i appreciate that um does anyone else

1:25:27 ↗ have comments

1:25:30 ↗ oh yes please megan

1:25:32 ↗ uh kelly i literally had the exact same

1:25:34 ↗ thought as you i think we could really

1:25:37 ↗ use these holidays to not only respect

1:25:39 ↗ other people but also educate um the

1:25:42 ↗ predominantly white population and

1:25:44 ↗ really um expose our community to other

1:25:46 ↗ cultures and i think this could really

1:25:48 ↗ diversify us even more so i think

1:25:50 ↗ posting on social media holding more

1:25:53 ↗ events to kind of cater to those widely

1:25:55 ↗ celebrated um holidays like uh dealer

1:25:58 ↗ i'm gonna miss grounded the day of the

1:26:00 ↗ dead um for example and doing more

1:26:02 ↗ events like that so i hope there's uh

1:26:06 ↗ room in the project where we could do

1:26:08 ↗ more events like that

1:26:13 ↗ thank you so much megan

1:26:16 ↗ does anyone else have any comments i

1:26:17 ↗ think this conversation is so great

1:26:23 ↗ oh man

1:26:24 ↗ all right well

1:26:26 ↗ if we are ready to move on monica would

1:26:28 ↗ you like to go go ahead to our next item

1:26:32 ↗ yes in just a moment i would love to a

1:26:34 ↗ little bit some summarize and kind of

1:26:37 ↗ like make sure that we know the next

1:26:38 ↗ steps so um on one and so so much great

1:26:42 ↗ great conversation and great feedback

1:26:44 ↗ and input so so appreciate this group

1:26:46 ↗ and just just love collaborating with

1:26:48 ↗ everyone

1:26:49 ↗ um

1:26:50 ↗ so what i heard especially in the last

1:26:52 ↗ few comments i think there's a need to

1:26:54 ↗ yes let's expand the list but also

1:26:56 ↗ perhaps prioritize and have like i'm

1:26:59 ↗ almost imagining like color coded or

1:27:02 ↗ like explanations where we have the

1:27:04 ↗ let's say strict really religious um um

1:27:08 ↗ holidays that uh interfere with work and

1:27:11 ↗ then uh those would be the the core of

1:27:14 ↗ the ones that maybe will say absolutely

1:27:16 ↗ please do not or consider really do not

1:27:20 ↗ scheduling meetings and then expand that

1:27:22 ↗ to a multitude of cultural holidays that

1:27:25 ↗ hey we can celebrate we can observe uh

1:27:28 ↗ this holiday and celebrate it but it's

1:27:31 ↗ perhaps

1:27:32 ↗ on the

1:27:33 ↗ hierarchy of

1:27:35 ↗ really we cannot schedule a meeting it's

1:27:37 ↗ not essay that you cannot but

1:27:40 ↗ you know um if you want to do a

1:27:41 ↗ community engagement perhaps you can go

1:27:43 ↗ to this celebratory holiday instead and

1:27:46 ↗ the acute engagement there right so

1:27:48 ↗ that's what i'm hearing in in kind of

1:27:50 ↗ like uh doing the larger and expanding

1:27:52 ↗ that i also heard from all of you

1:27:54 ↗ perhaps definitely very great input in

1:27:56 ↗ like reaching to certain specific

1:27:58 ↗ pockets of cultural groups in our

1:28:00 ↗ community

1:28:01 ↗ and then last but not least i heard a

1:28:04 ↗ couple of times mentioning um like more

1:28:07 ↗ community engagement and that's where i

1:28:08 ↗ have a question for you tonight because

1:28:11 ↗ in terms of next step what we were gonna

1:28:14 ↗ propose is let's all of us do our

1:28:16 ↗ research wanna hear from you perhaps you

1:28:18 ↗ can send us

1:28:19 ↗ your feedback if you are reaching out to

1:28:21 ↗ others or if you know others

1:28:23 ↗ send us the feedback we'll incorporate

1:28:25 ↗ we'll do more research we'll incorporate

1:28:27 ↗ it and come back to you with a

1:28:30 ↗ more

1:28:31 ↗ um

1:28:32 ↗ advanced list for next time to consider

1:28:35 ↗ um

1:28:37 ↗ approving and adopting

1:28:39 ↗ but

1:28:40 ↗ we can also just pause still do all of

1:28:42 ↗ this but based on your feedback we can

1:28:44 ↗ also try to do a more community

1:28:47 ↗ engagement and so i'm asking you should

1:28:50 ↗ we consider that

1:28:51 ↗ um instead or in addition or do you

1:28:55 ↗ think that if we all do our research and

1:28:57 ↗ connect outside of this meeting and come

1:29:00 ↗ back with a list next time will that

1:29:02 ↗ suffice i think that's where i need

1:29:04 ↗ direction from all of you perhaps hands

1:29:06 ↗ up hand down

1:29:08 ↗ kind of like

1:29:09 ↗ uh my work like or shay please consider

1:29:12 ↗ other yes

1:29:14 ↗ yes um

1:29:15 ↗ i i really like the idea of the

1:29:17 ↗ community engagement piece and maybe

1:29:19 ↗ figuring out a way to pull them in

1:29:21 ↗ whether it be a next door poll or

1:29:24 ↗ something that allows our our community

1:29:27 ↗ to contribute to what they think may

1:29:30 ↗ have higher priority or what may

1:29:32 ↗ um affect our ability to meet on certain

1:29:35 ↗ days

1:29:36 ↗ um because uh

1:29:40 ↗ i i know that many of us aren't natives

1:29:43 ↗ to washington

1:29:44 ↗ and that could potentially put us at a

1:29:46 ↗ disadvantage on how to connect with more

1:29:49 ↗ community members um or limit us in some

1:29:52 ↗ ways um

1:29:54 ↗ or at least for me that's the situation

1:29:56 ↗ because i'm i'm still fairly new to

1:29:59 ↗ washington and um

1:30:01 ↗ i'm limited to the people that are

1:30:03 ↗ around me and honestly it's it's not in

1:30:06 ↗ the high numbers here

1:30:08 ↗ so um in that respect um

1:30:11 ↗ i definitely think that if we can get

1:30:13 ↗ some kind of pull um into the public eye

1:30:16 ↗ that might give us a better idea of how

1:30:19 ↗ to prioritize these days and where to

1:30:22 ↗ put them and i love the idea of a

1:30:23 ↗ color-coded

1:30:25 ↗ system to let us know kind of where

1:30:27 ↗ we're putting all of that

1:30:34 ↗ creepy please

1:30:36 ↗ yeah so i guess you know when i think

1:30:38 ↗ about community engagement it sounds

1:30:41 ↗ like there are some

1:30:43 ↗ pockets of robust community engagement

1:30:46 ↗ already happening you know across the

1:30:49 ↗ city and

1:30:50 ↗ i'm i'm

1:30:51 ↗ also worried about like

1:30:54 ↗ over surveying the community and you

1:30:56 ↗ know going to community members for

1:30:59 ↗ really you know basic questions when you

1:31:02 ↗ know their time is precious as well

1:31:04 ↗ so i'm i'm thinking you know like what

1:31:07 ↗ what a different model for that could be

1:31:09 ↗ and

1:31:10 ↗ maybe looking to our you know community

1:31:12 ↗ based organizations

1:31:14 ↗ uh some that serve you know different

1:31:16 ↗ communities across our region and maybe

1:31:19 ↗ reaching out to some staff at the those

1:31:22 ↗ types of community-based organizations

1:31:24 ↗ just to see you know like you know for

1:31:26 ↗ holidays for the community you serve you

1:31:28 ↗ know which ones and maybe you know we

1:31:30 ↗ can come with a standard list like which

1:31:33 ↗ ones are that do not schedule over those

1:31:36 ↗ dates religious holidays do not schedule

1:31:37 ↗ over which ones are holidays which you

1:31:40 ↗ know would be nice to acknowledge if

1:31:41 ↗ there is a meeting but it's okay to

1:31:43 ↗ schedule events on those days and

1:31:46 ↗ um maybe that could be an efficient way

1:31:49 ↗ to get to

1:31:51 ↗ a list that's organized with those

1:31:53 ↗ nuances that we've discussed

1:31:58 ↗ thank you so much prithee for that and

1:32:00 ↗ actually so uh so far we reached out to

1:32:04 ↗ three communities we reached out to the

1:32:05 ↗ baha'i community um to uh community

1:32:08 ↗ members um from

1:32:10 ↗ the islamic community and um a jewish

1:32:14 ↗ community member and so i i definitely i

1:32:17 ↗ think it's very doable for us to

1:32:19 ↗ continue to reach out individually to

1:32:22 ↗ uh to to certain groups um and ask for

1:32:26 ↗ their feedback because we really

1:32:28 ↗ received valuable um information kind of

1:32:31 ↗ like you may want to consider this

1:32:33 ↗ over this

1:32:34 ↗ um and definitely that is um

1:32:37 ↗ a way to do it and we also welcome you

1:32:40 ↗ as

1:32:40 ↗ board members if you

1:32:42 ↗ know community members or community

1:32:44 ↗ groups like that to

1:32:46 ↗ um

1:32:47 ↗ engage with them

1:32:49 ↗ so that's certainly

1:32:51 ↗ a possibility between now and next month

1:32:58 ↗ does that sound like for the rest of the

1:33:00 ↗ board numbers like one approach to

1:33:02 ↗ really directly reach out to community

1:33:04 ↗ members

1:33:05 ↗ instead of creating a

1:33:07 ↗ survey

1:33:10 ↗ that

1:33:11 ↗ yes i think that's a great idea

1:33:15 ↗ okay this way it also feels more

1:33:17 ↗ meaningful because it's directly

1:33:18 ↗ reaching out right and we go exactly to

1:33:21 ↗ the source

1:33:22 ↗ um

1:33:24 ↗ okay so we can certainly do that we'll

1:33:27 ↗ reach out i'm gonna probably reach back

1:33:29 ↗ out to some of you all as well um

1:33:32 ↗ but um

1:33:33 ↗ then we'll conduct more research we

1:33:35 ↗ would love to hear more from you we'll

1:33:37 ↗ come back

1:33:38 ↗ next month and um

1:33:43 ↗ with a more comprehensive list and we'll

1:33:45 ↗ see who we were able to engage with at

1:33:48 ↗ that point and if we are ready to start

1:33:50 ↗ with a brief adoption

1:33:52 ↗ of a of a list or if we want to extend

1:33:55 ↗ it because we may need additional

1:33:57 ↗ community engagement or engagement with

1:33:59 ↗ certain community groups at that point

1:34:01 ↗ does that sound like a good plan yes i

1:34:04 ↗ think that is and i'm sorry uh elisa you

1:34:07 ↗ had a comment as well sure um i think

1:34:10 ↗ and maybe for next time i'm sure we're

1:34:11 ↗ probably heading over time on this topic

1:34:14 ↗ but i would something that lorna

1:34:16 ↗ mentioned about um having gone out and

1:34:18 ↗ talked to

1:34:19 ↗ a very large um group or population of

1:34:23 ↗ people about the list and about a list

1:34:26 ↗ about the holidays and cultural

1:34:27 ↗ celebrations i would love to hear

1:34:29 ↗ more about the approach that was used

1:34:31 ↗ there to gather that information maybe

1:34:33 ↗ in another session

1:34:40 ↗ and and with your permission i would

1:34:42 ↗ love to also connect with laura not to

1:34:43 ↗ kind of like get some lessons learned

1:34:45 ↗ from all the work that she conducted

1:34:48 ↗ go ahead lorna apologies

1:34:50 ↗ it was a huge project it took up a lot

1:34:53 ↗ lot of my time and i'm very very happy

1:34:55 ↗ to share all that i learned and i'm

1:34:57 ↗ still learning and just so you know

1:34:59 ↗ i literally update that list that's on

1:35:01 ↗ the website all the time

1:35:03 ↗ and what

1:35:06 ↗ matt was talking about how to post it

1:35:08 ↗ and share it we have an internal website

1:35:10 ↗ but it's not very widely used and so a

1:35:13 ↗ lot of staff wasn't seeing it and so

1:35:14 ↗ that's why we posted it on

1:35:16 ↗ the district website just so that it was

1:35:18 ↗ more visible and there was transparency

1:35:21 ↗ with families because we learned that a

1:35:22 ↗ lot of families

1:35:24 ↗ didn't know that it was okay to call in

1:35:26 ↗ as an excused absence and so we were

1:35:28 ↗ trying to teach them that we're giving

1:35:30 ↗ them permission that the staff knows

1:35:32 ↗ and so it was also our

1:35:34 ↗ part of building community and what

1:35:36 ↗ you're talking about you know it's so

1:35:38 ↗ diverse some are cultural some are

1:35:39 ↗ religious so we do have a

1:35:42 ↗ final column it's kind of

1:35:45 ↗ a table that talks about how it's

1:35:47 ↗ celebrated if it's a religious or if

1:35:49 ↗ it's a cultural to differentiate how

1:35:51 ↗ it's going to impact because some of it

1:35:53 ↗ is attendance and absence the whole day

1:35:56 ↗ some of it is celebrations and what that

1:35:58 ↗ actual impact is and finally we are

1:36:01 ↗ trying to contact uh one of the things

1:36:03 ↗ on my list today this month is to

1:36:04 ↗ connect with mckenna dorman uh sweet

1:36:07 ↗ dormant to find out from the smokomi

1:36:09 ↗ tribe about holidays that impact uh

1:36:13 ↗ indigenous group and also i've been

1:36:15 ↗ trying to contact unsuccessfully some of

1:36:18 ↗ our hawaiian families and we don't have

1:36:20 ↗ a big population of native hawaiian that

1:36:23 ↗ i've been able to contact within

1:36:25 ↗ the district because finding out

1:36:27 ↗ specific areas is really hard and on

1:36:30 ↗ numbers

1:36:31 ↗ is

1:36:32 ↗ it's very low in our district so

1:36:34 ↗ um in doing some research myself it's

1:36:36 ↗ how do we how do we acknowledge and how

1:36:39 ↗ do we uh you know honor them and also

1:36:41 ↗ make sure that the list is not too long

1:36:43 ↗ because this is something else that we

1:36:45 ↗ add to our list

1:36:46 ↗ so

1:36:48 ↗ i was trying to be authentic in making

1:36:50 ↗ sure that it is based on conversations

1:36:52 ↗ and requests from the families in the

1:36:54 ↗ district

1:36:56 ↗ but i'm happy to talk about it

1:37:01 ↗ thank you so much lorna and um tony also

1:37:04 ↗ had another comment um tony did you want

1:37:06 ↗ me to speak your comment or would you

1:37:08 ↗ like to do it

1:37:12 ↗ i guess i'll go ahead and do it um so my

1:37:14 ↗ and as an example as to we may need some

1:37:17 ↗ type of messaging on what why specific

1:37:19 ↗ holiday may not be included um i i think

1:37:22 ↗ you know obviously based on

1:37:24 ↗ community whether it be religious or

1:37:27 ↗ cultural

1:37:29 ↗ holiday

1:37:30 ↗ i guess an example i might think of is

1:37:32 ↗ let's say washington state western

1:37:35 ↗ washington large veteran population i'm

1:37:37 ↗ a veteran myself although i i know that

1:37:41 ↗ veterans day is important but i could

1:37:44 ↗ see some veterans saying well how come

1:37:46 ↗ like you know why isn't veterans day not

1:37:48 ↗ on the list or something like that or

1:37:50 ↗ armed forces day or or something like

1:37:52 ↗ that or a d-day or something like that

1:37:53 ↗ so i think we might need some messaging

1:37:55 ↗ as to

1:37:56 ↗ when those questions are asked why those

1:37:58 ↗ holidays are maybe not on the list

1:38:01 ↗ is it it's not because it's not

1:38:02 ↗ important but why do we as an entity are

1:38:06 ↗ not recognizing it as a day if that

1:38:09 ↗ question may be asked i'm just thinking

1:38:11 ↗ that it might be

1:38:17 ↗ no i think that's a great suggestion and

1:38:19 ↗ um elisa i saw you had a comment as well

1:38:22 ↗ um was that just for tony or did you

1:38:24 ↗ want

1:38:25 ↗ no i i mean it was just pigging back

1:38:27 ↗ piggy backing off of what he said so

1:38:30 ↗ maybe part of making that clear is for

1:38:33 ↗ us to clearly define

1:38:36 ↗ what are the criteria that we're using

1:38:39 ↗ to say this holiday goes on the list and

1:38:41 ↗ the southern holiday while important

1:38:43 ↗ doesn't go on the list

1:38:45 ↗ so that it's

1:38:47 ↗ just so it's very clear and transparent

1:38:50 ↗ right

1:38:51 ↗ because you know if we look at let's say

1:38:53 ↗ the holidays that we celebrate um

1:38:56 ↗ primarily you know is basically what's

1:38:58 ↗ considered a major holiday or was

1:38:59 ↗ considered a

1:39:01 ↗ day off holiday

1:39:06 ↗ and that can vary from one person to

1:39:07 ↗ another it really can absolutely

1:39:10 ↗ so we just got to be a little bit i mean

1:39:12 ↗ everything we're talking about i think

1:39:13 ↗ is great we just got to be careful about

1:39:14 ↗ how we quantify and message it

1:39:20 ↗ no i think those are great suggestions

1:39:23 ↗ does anyone else have a comment or a

1:39:25 ↗ suggestion

1:39:26 ↗ maybe a question

1:39:28 ↗ and thank you both for your feedback

1:39:38 ↗ oh well i love i love this i think i'm

1:39:40 ↗ eager to see

1:39:41 ↗ how we actually

1:39:43 ↗ uh produce this list and how we uh get

1:39:45 ↗ it out to the public in our communities

1:39:47 ↗ to let them know that we're considering

1:39:49 ↗ them when we

1:39:50 ↗ when we we do our

1:39:52 ↗ meetings so monica if you'd like to

1:39:55 ↗ continue

1:39:56 ↗ thank you so much board members uh very

1:39:58 ↗ very uh great input and feedback uh just

1:40:02 ↗ a quick question to tisha and matt

1:40:05 ↗ i feel like i got the feedback that we

1:40:07 ↗ needed do you have any questions or

1:40:09 ↗ comments before we move to the next

1:40:11 ↗ agenda item

1:40:13 ↗ no okay

1:40:14 ↗ thank you again very much board members

1:40:17 ↗ um so the next agenda item i believe

1:40:19 ↗ it's actually tisha right

1:40:24 ↗ yes hi everybody

1:40:26 ↗ um

1:40:28 ↗ thank you so much for your thoughtful

1:40:29 ↗ input on that last agenda topic um i'm

1:40:32 ↗ back with you to

1:40:34 ↗ seek your adoption of the equity board's

1:40:37 ↗ rules and regulations which um it feels

1:40:39 ↗ like it was more than a month ago but it

1:40:41 ↗ was only about a month ago ago that we

1:40:44 ↗ last um you last met and we um talked i

1:40:48 ↗ provided you sort of an overview of what

1:40:50 ↗ the rules and regulations cover they're

1:40:53 ↗ they're kind of that additional um layer

1:40:56 ↗ of provisions to help um

1:40:58 ↗ put some parameters on how you function

1:41:00 ↗ as a group um

1:41:02 ↗ in addition to what's already in our

1:41:04 ↗ municipal code

1:41:06 ↗ and um tonight i'm looking i'm hoping

1:41:09 ↗ that you will consider adopting these

1:41:11 ↗ rules as i mentioned to you last month

1:41:13 ↗ they very closely mirror the rules and

1:41:16 ↗ regulations of

1:41:17 ↗ many of our other advisory boards but i

1:41:20 ↗ do expect that you will change them over

1:41:22 ↗ time and look forward to working with

1:41:24 ↗ you

1:41:25 ↗ on those changes

1:41:27 ↗ tonight this will require a formal

1:41:30 ↗ motion be moved by one of the members

1:41:32 ↗ and i'll i'll put the

1:41:34 ↗ the motion um in the chat here um and

1:41:37 ↗ then a roll call um vote will need to be

1:41:40 ↗ taken and any regular members or

1:41:43 ↗ alternates who are serving for regular

1:41:45 ↗ members should have an opportunity

1:41:47 ↗ to vote

1:41:48 ↗ after the

1:41:50 ↗ rules are adopted

1:41:52 ↗ they'll be signed by the chair and

1:41:53 ↗ co-chair and we'll put a copy of them up

1:41:55 ↗ on the board's website

1:41:58 ↗ i i'm here if there are any questions

1:42:01 ↗ about the rules or if anyone had any

1:42:03 ↗ proposed changes but otherwise they

1:42:05 ↗ don't have a formal presentation plan

1:42:07 ↗ tonight

1:42:13 ↗ thank you so much tisha um

1:42:16 ↗ and

1:42:17 ↗ uh do we need to allow everyone some

1:42:19 ↗ time to review

1:42:24 ↗ okay

1:42:25 ↗ well the proposed motion is i move to

1:42:27 ↗ adopt the equity board rules and

1:42:29 ↗ regulations as proposed

1:42:34 ↗ do we have a second to that

1:42:36 ↗ i second it

1:42:38 ↗ thank you tony

1:42:41 ↗ and if there is no amendments or

1:42:42 ↗ objections to the min to uh the new

1:42:45 ↗ proposed rules and regulations

1:42:48 ↗ um i'd like to propose that we

1:42:50 ↗ unanimously approve

1:42:52 ↗ uh those rules and regulations

1:42:56 ↗ are we too soon

1:43:01 ↗ pardon me i

1:43:02 ↗ i would um i would

1:43:04 ↗ and thank you you're doing a most

1:43:05 ↗ excellent job um chairing this group but

1:43:08 ↗ after a motion is made and seconded it's

1:43:10 ↗ appropriate to just make sure there's no

1:43:13 ↗ discussion

1:43:14 ↗ or ask ask the board if there's any

1:43:16 ↗ discussion and then if there's no

1:43:18 ↗ discussion or amendments then it's

1:43:20 ↗ certainly appropriate um to proceed to

1:43:23 ↗ vote i would recommend um on these rules

1:43:26 ↗ and monica maybe you would be willing to

1:43:28 ↗ call the role i would recommend we take

1:43:30 ↗ a roll call vote because there's a

1:43:32 ↗ certain vote requirement um

1:43:35 ↗ it's it's not necessary at all times but

1:43:38 ↗ i think for your rules that would be a

1:43:40 ↗ good idea and give the board some

1:43:41 ↗ practice at that

1:43:44 ↗ fantastic thank you

1:43:49 ↗ monica would you like to go ahead or do

1:43:51 ↗ i need to start over

1:43:53 ↗ well if

1:43:54 ↗ you could just ask the board members if

1:43:56 ↗ anyone has any discussion on on this

1:43:59 ↗ motion

1:44:01 ↗ well here we go does anyone have any

1:44:04 ↗ discussions or questions on this

1:44:07 ↗ proposed on our rules and regulations

1:44:14 ↗ all right i think we're we're all set

1:44:17 ↗ here monica if you'd like to go ahead

1:44:19 ↗ and do the roll vote

1:44:21 ↗ yes i would love to do a roll call

1:44:24 ↗ um and so when i call your name just

1:44:26 ↗ please state um

1:44:28 ↗ yes or no

1:44:30 ↗ yay or nay

1:44:31 ↗ and as you vote uh whether you vote yay

1:44:35 ↗ as a yes or nay as a no

1:44:37 ↗ for adopting the rules and regulations

1:44:40 ↗ so first here is christina abonson

1:45:00 ↗ christina this is where you would state

1:45:02 ↗ yay or nay if you so if you would like

1:45:04 ↗ to vote as yes adopting the rules and

1:45:06 ↗ regulations you would say yay or nay if

1:45:09 ↗ you do not want to

1:45:11 ↗ adopt the rules and regulations

1:45:21 ↗ was making a question to hillary about

1:45:23 ↗ the

1:45:24 ↗ the rules and regulations uh

1:45:26 ↗ that rules and regulation was um where

1:45:31 ↗ the

1:45:32 ↗ saying that you proposed in the first

1:45:34 ↗ meeting right

1:45:36 ↗ yeah okay i agree thank you

1:45:39 ↗ okay thank you very much christina

1:45:42 ↗ um

1:45:43 ↗ next um megan

1:45:46 ↗ richly

1:45:48 ↗ yeah

1:45:49 ↗ um yes i approve of the rules and

1:45:51 ↗ regulations

1:45:53 ↗ thank you

1:45:54 ↗ elisa stewart

1:45:56 ↗ yay

1:45:58 ↗ thank you lorna gilmore

1:46:01 ↗ yay

1:46:02 ↗ thank you

1:46:03 ↗ um helen is absent today uh lucrezia is

1:46:06 ↗ also absent today ray manahan

1:46:09 ↗ yay

1:46:11 ↗ thank you tony curry

1:46:16 ↗ you are a meal tony

1:46:19 ↗ just realized that yay

1:46:21 ↗ i approve

1:46:24 ↗ thank you

1:46:25 ↗ and chelanda curry we need to change

1:46:27 ↗ your name officially uh shay fleming

1:46:32 ↗ yes yay

1:46:35 ↗ thank you

1:46:36 ↗ um jacob is also absent today and

1:46:40 ↗ prithee um

1:46:42 ↗ is

1:46:44 ↗ gonna vote uh for helen and kelly's

1:46:47 ↗ gonna vote for

1:46:49 ↗ lucrecia

1:46:50 ↗ let's hope pretty

1:46:52 ↗ yay

1:46:54 ↗ and kelly

1:46:59 ↗ yay

1:47:01 ↗ thank you and i apologize you're not

1:47:02 ↗ voting for them or on behalf of them you

1:47:05 ↗ are uh as um

1:47:08 ↗ you're stepping in as regular members

1:47:10 ↗ for tonight

1:47:11 ↗ um

1:47:12 ↗ so that passes unanimously

1:47:15 ↗ um

1:47:16 ↗ thank you very much congratulations

1:47:18 ↗ board members you now have rules and

1:47:19 ↗ regulations in place

1:47:23 ↗ awesome

1:47:27 ↗ all right very good tisha did you have

1:47:29 ↗ anything else for us

1:47:33 ↗ no um i i don't thank you so much i i do

1:47:36 ↗ realize i have some follow-up with you

1:47:38 ↗ which is i will be sharing our um city's

1:47:40 ↗ code of ethics with you

1:47:42 ↗ by email so that you can read through

1:47:44 ↗ that code and make an attestation that

1:47:46 ↗ you've read it so be on the lookout for

1:47:48 ↗ that in your email but otherwise i'm

1:47:50 ↗ done and thank you so much

1:47:53 ↗ thank you tisha we appreciate all your

1:47:56 ↗ hard work and helping us understand and

1:47:59 ↗ learn

1:48:00 ↗ so thank you again

1:48:02 ↗ um

1:48:03 ↗ if we are ready monica we can go ahead

1:48:06 ↗ and jump into our um proposed engagement

1:48:09 ↗ conversation um but i'd like to propose

1:48:12 ↗ that we take maybe a five minute break

1:48:14 ↗ because i know where we've been doing a

1:48:16 ↗ lot of stuff for a very long time um so

1:48:20 ↗ i'd like to give everyone an opportunity

1:48:22 ↗ to take a break um

1:48:24 ↗ and and i understand that we need to

1:48:26 ↗ kind of vote on that as everyone in

1:48:28 ↗ agreeance to take maybe a five-minute

1:48:30 ↗ break

1:48:35 ↗ yes we got all yays okay well then um

1:48:38 ↗ the time now is 7 51 if we can have

1:48:42 ↗ everyone back by 7 56.

1:48:46 ↗ all right fantastic thank you

1:48:49 ↗ [Music]

1:48:51 ↗ fantastic and welcome back everyone

1:48:54 ↗ thank you for joining us

1:48:56 ↗ um okay so now that we we're realizing

1:48:58 ↗ that we're a little close to time so i'd

1:49:00 ↗ like to propose that we move the

1:49:02 ↗ community engagement conversation

1:49:05 ↗ um to the next meeting next month um is

1:49:08 ↗ everyone in agreeance with that

1:49:13 ↗ all right lots of yays

1:49:15 ↗ okay is this one of those situations

1:49:16 ↗ where i need to ask if we unanimously

1:49:21 ↗ okay i think you're okay with this being

1:49:23 ↗ more formal it's just you want one

1:49:25 ↗ compliment from the board right it's fun

1:49:27 ↗ i think when you have a formal vote uh

1:49:30 ↗ that's but yes no you're good great all

1:49:32 ↗ right fantastic then if everyone is in

1:49:35 ↗ agreeance we are going to move our

1:49:37 ↗ conversation about equity and inclusion

1:49:39 ↗ to our next meeting and we will move

1:49:43 ↗ forward with having monica update us on

1:49:46 ↗ our city council

1:49:49 ↗ thank you very much um board members um

1:49:52 ↗ i think the one brief

1:49:54 ↗ update that i have from for you as staff

1:49:57 ↗ and actually it came up a little bit

1:49:59 ↗ earlier in the meeting tonight when jeff

1:50:01 ↗ did his presentation so as part of our

1:50:04 ↗ human services work um our team has been

1:50:07 ↗ working in the last six months on a

1:50:10 ↗ human services strategic plan

1:50:12 ↗ and um

1:50:13 ↗ we did not have a chance to come to you

1:50:16 ↗ um to to land on equity events uh yet

1:50:19 ↗ just because you are in the forming

1:50:21 ↗ stages

1:50:22 ↗ however with the work of the human

1:50:24 ↗ services commission

1:50:26 ↗ who was so instrumental in creating the

1:50:28 ↗ equity board um

1:50:30 ↗ we we tried to apply an equity lens to

1:50:32 ↗ our work

1:50:33 ↗ um and um what i want to update you on

1:50:36 ↗ is that the draft plan is going to city

1:50:39 ↗ council this coming week um i will send

1:50:42 ↗ you the money cut i'm so sorry for the

1:50:44 ↗ interpreters could you speak a little

1:50:46 ↗ bit slower

1:50:47 ↗ thank you so much thank you so much

1:50:50 ↗ thank you

1:50:51 ↗ uh

1:50:52 ↗ great reminder

1:50:54 ↗ um so the draft strategic plan is being

1:50:57 ↗ presented to city council uh this uh

1:51:00 ↗ coming week on tuesday evening at a

1:51:02 ↗ council study session

1:51:05 ↗ um and you're most welcome to attend the

1:51:09 ↗ meeting if you would like or watch the

1:51:11 ↗ meeting

1:51:12 ↗ um if not certainly this is our first um

1:51:15 ↗ touch point with city council and we are

1:51:17 ↗ going to ask for their feedback on

1:51:20 ↗ whether or not we are on the right track

1:51:22 ↗ uh we are also going to ask whether or

1:51:24 ↗ not they think that um

1:51:26 ↗ we applied on equity lens um

1:51:28 ↗ appropriately and they may or may not

1:51:31 ↗ ask us to come to you

1:51:33 ↗ for feedback regardless

1:51:35 ↗ of of the city council's input

1:51:38 ↗ we certainly would welcome you as the

1:51:41 ↗ draft is coming out

1:51:43 ↗ following the council meeting next week

1:51:46 ↗ we will have a one-month community

1:51:48 ↗ engagement process where we would love

1:51:49 ↗ to hear from the community uh on the

1:51:51 ↗ draft and certainly we would also love

1:51:54 ↗ to hear from you uh individually or

1:51:57 ↗ as a board um so

1:52:00 ↗ i think for now that's just the update

1:52:01 ↗ letting you know i know you're not part

1:52:04 ↗ of the forming uh but certainly we would

1:52:06 ↗ love your input on on the draft

1:52:09 ↗ um and we would love to i'll i'll share

1:52:12 ↗ information and we can um invite you

1:52:14 ↗ next month to to be part of this

1:52:17 ↗ uh and that concludes my um

1:52:19 ↗ staff report for tonight just one brief

1:52:22 ↗ one

1:52:24 ↗ thank you so much monica we appreciate

1:52:27 ↗ that and i'm sure we're all excited to

1:52:30 ↗ get started some new work

1:52:32 ↗ we we have a lot ahead of us so thank

1:52:34 ↗ you again for that

1:52:36 ↗ um all right so our next agenda item is

1:52:40 ↗ just finding out if there's any other

1:52:41 ↗ business or announcements

1:52:55 ↗ all right well if there is nothing else

1:52:58 ↗ then i think we can move to adjournment

1:53:00 ↗ am i correcting that

1:53:03 ↗ all right oh i'm sorry christina do you

1:53:06 ↗ have something

1:53:09 ↗ okay

1:53:11 ↗ all right wonderful

1:53:13 ↗ in that case then we will go ahead and

1:53:15 ↗ move to adjournment and um i'm sorry i

1:53:19 ↗ could use a little bit of help on this

1:53:21 ↗ uh monica if you don't mind

1:53:24 ↗ um so if i'm doing this right

1:53:26 ↗ um if they're if all the agenda items

1:53:29 ↗ have been um addressed which i think

1:53:31 ↗ they have then we will go ahead and

1:53:33 ↗ adjourn our meeting until next month and

1:53:36 ↗ our next meeting is going to be on

1:53:38 ↗ wednesday february 2nd

1:53:41 ↗ um 2022 between 6 and 8 pm

1:53:44 ↗ yes and the only great job the only

1:53:46 ↗ other uh uh edit that you can add is

1:53:49 ↗ just your adjoining the meeting at 802.

1:53:52 ↗ all right and we are adjourning the

1:53:54 ↗ meeting at 802.

1:53:56 ↗ thank you all for all your contributions

1:53:59 ↗ we will see you all next month

1:54:01 ↗ good night

1:54:03 ↗ good night everyone

1:54:05 ↗ i just went

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