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Monday, March 14, 2022

6:00 PM · 1h 32m
Topic tracked across meetings:
Statement Regarding War on Ukraine AB 8355 2/3
1. CALL TO ORDER
1a
Board Membership
packet pp.3
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. AGENDA ITEMS
3a
Recommend Public Statement Regarding War on Ukraine (A)
30 min · Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager · packet pp.5–8
Staff report:
To: City of Issaquah Equity Board From: Monica Negrila, Staff Liaison to the Equity Board Re: Statement on War in Ukraine
0:00 and welcome to our meeting today um
0:04 monday march 14th
0:06 we're starting at 607 p.m
0:09 and this is uh the meeting that we're
0:11 going to have regarding our statement
0:12 for uh our solidarity with ukraine um so
0:16 first i'd like to acknowledge that there
0:18 is a quorum and we are going to go ahead
0:21 and get started
0:24 monica would you like to go ahead and
0:25 call roll for us
0:28 sure i would be happy to good evening
0:30 board members this is monica grilla
0:32 human services staff and staff lives
0:34 onto the board
0:35 uh so uh
0:37 i'm gonna read your name and when i read
0:39 your name if you don't mind just telling
0:42 us verbally that you are here tonight
0:44 um christina bonsa
0:49 good evening megan uh richly
0:53 president
0:55 good evening megan elisa stewart
0:58 present
1:00 lorna gilmore
1:06 i saw lorna here maybe she doesn't have
1:09 oh there you are
1:10 lorna you're not here there you are
1:13 can you let me know yes we can hear you
1:15 now everything
1:18 uh helen ki banjo
1:22 good evening lucrecia
1:25 here
1:26 hi ray manahan
1:28 here
1:30 good evening
1:31 tony curry
1:32 i'm here
1:35 fleming
1:36 i'm here
1:38 uh and jacob we did not hear i don't see
1:40 him he's not present
1:42 uh pretty molly penn
1:44 here
1:45 thank you pretty and caliman here
1:50 good evening board members that
1:51 concludes the roll call
1:53 thank you so much for that monica and
1:55 thank you everyone who decided to join
1:56 us tonight we appreciate you taking your
1:58 time to be here with us
2:00 we actually only have one item slated oh
2:04 i'm sorry let's first go over
2:06 our any public comments if we have them
2:09 but well but we'll first go over our
2:11 rules for um just engaging in this
2:13 meeting so first and foremost we want to
2:16 remind everyone to please um just be
2:18 really concise with your statements and
2:20 try to keep them under a minute
2:22 also
2:23 please speak slowly um so that we can
2:26 make sure that the interpreters actually
2:28 can understand what you're saying and
2:30 relay that to anyone who may need their
2:32 services tonight and then of course we
2:34 want you to keep your information
2:35 relevant and please be courteous um to
2:38 all of our members as i'm sure we all do
2:40 on a regular basis and then we also just
2:43 want to remind you that if you have a
2:45 question please just type question and
2:47 be prepared to actually state your
2:49 question aloud
2:51 or if you have a comment please also
2:53 only write comment in the chat and state
2:55 your comment aloud when you're called
2:56 upon
2:58 other than that i think that covers our
3:00 ground rules
3:01 we will go ahead and move over to monica
3:04 who will go ahead and bring our go over
3:07 our first agenda item or the one agenda
3:09 item we have
3:11 thank you very much jay and with that i
3:13 just want to mention that um we did not
3:16 have anyone sign up for public comments
3:17 and i don't see anyone in the attendance
3:20 tonight
3:21 um and so with that our only and one
3:23 identity item for tonight is um the
3:26 public statement
3:28 regarding the war on ukraine and i just
3:30 want to say thank you to um
3:33 all of you for one um being so open to
3:36 make a statement and for those of you
3:38 who uh proposed this as an idea and we
3:42 made it happen so um just as a brief
3:45 reminder at the at the end of last
3:47 meeting um it was actually kelly he
3:49 brought brought up a very good question
3:51 i love how years aboard you are very
3:53 very thoughtful and um and she said what
3:56 about ukraine what does the city do
3:58 about ukraine uh then from that helen
4:00 proposed what if we make a statement uh
4:03 as a board and so
4:05 from that we are making it happen um
4:08 just uh letting you know uh that you are
4:11 actually so um as you're gonna work on
4:13 an actual statement tonight
4:17 the next step in this process is gonna
4:19 be to make the recommendation to city
4:21 council for adoption so it's gonna be
4:24 the public and official statement of the
4:27 city
4:28 as as of tonight is it scheduled to
4:30 actually go to the very next city
4:33 council to be on the city council agenda
4:36 um next monday
4:38 um so um
4:40 kudos to you equity board members for
4:42 speaking up raising your hand
4:44 and um i'm very excited about um city
4:48 council actually taking a formal
4:51 stance on it as well
4:54 so with that um i think the first
4:57 question we have two questions for you
4:58 tonight the first question is
5:01 um just a confirmation that as a board
5:04 everyone is um actually interested and
5:07 is okay with moving forward making a
5:10 public statement regarding the word on
5:12 ukraine and so if you're okay with that
5:14 i would just need just a thumbs up from
5:16 everyone i do realize that we don't see
5:18 tony so tony if you don't mind um if
5:22 either turning on your camera or your
5:24 mic to say that you are also okay with
5:26 formally making a public statement
5:29 thumbs up for me
5:30 okay and i think i saw everyone alisa
5:33 did i see her there you go
5:35 thank you
5:36 and then with that the second note that
5:39 i want to say i want to also thank very
5:41 much tony and lucrecia uh because as as
5:45 we were working and announcing and
5:47 checking in with all of you to see if
5:49 this is something that you would like to
5:50 proceed as a board they actually um
5:54 uh took it uh and and um
5:57 took took the idea and actually drafted
6:00 a statement for us tonight which i
6:02 believe it's wonderful because it gives
6:04 us a starting point and so what you had
6:06 in your agenda packet is a combination
6:09 of tony's statement and including that
6:12 um also part of lucrecia statement so
6:15 thank you to both of you
6:18 and and so um
6:20 i think there are a couple of ways we
6:22 can work on this on one end i'm happy to
6:25 share the screen and put the statement
6:27 on the screen maybe somebody can read it
6:30 and as all of you then we can start
6:31 really just word submitting it um or we
6:35 can still put on the screen and then
6:37 take it off so you can see each other
6:38 discuss points that you would like to
6:41 change or things that perhaps you you
6:44 would like to modify and i can still
6:46 take notes in the background and then
6:48 put it back on at the end and finalize
6:51 i personally don't have a preference but
6:55 whatever i would be willing to read it
6:57 if you want it read out loud monica is
6:59 that what you're asking for sure on one
7:01 and definitely read it out and then the
7:02 other one is like do we want it on the
7:04 screen or does everyone have it in front
7:06 of them and then i you can as you make
7:08 edits i can take notes and we can put on
7:10 the screen at the end i don't know
7:12 what's easier for you to see one another
7:14 or to see the statement
7:18 and i think it might help too
7:22 that we may still be able to see each
7:25 other if we just change our layout
7:27 so um
7:29 everyone may want to
7:31 extend their layout to either a stacked
7:33 or a side-by-side layout so that way you
7:36 can see the screen and individuals who
7:39 want to speak or comment
7:43 that's a great suggestion as well shay
7:48 so with that should we i would love if
7:49 lucrezia would like to read it and i'm
7:51 happy to share my screen if that's is
7:52 that okay with everyone then
7:54 yes yes
7:56 okay
7:58 uh lucrezia feel free to read it as i
8:01 start sharing my screen
8:13 and if the interpreter could just remind
8:15 uh lucrezia or whoever is reading to
8:17 read it a little slower than normal
8:19 speed so that we can read along
8:21 thank you so much
8:28 for some reason for me it's showing up
8:30 only partially
8:34 can everybody see the statement or
8:37 no i am not sharing it quite yet give me
8:40 a moment okay got it
8:41 sorry about that
8:49 ah i apologize
8:57 okay can you see it on your screen
9:02 yes
9:05 yes
9:09 can i proceed
9:11 please yes
9:13 the city of issaquah's equity board is
9:16 heartbroken
9:17 to learn of the atrocities in ukraine
9:21 as we have seen in international news
9:25 millions of ukrainians have left our
9:27 country seeking refuge
9:30 and an additional 2 million are
9:32 internally displaced
9:34 while thousands of russian allies have
9:36 been arrested for protesting the war in
9:38 russia
9:39 as well as many others across the world
9:43 knowledge of profane horrific war crimes
9:45 committed against ukrainian civilians as
9:48 well as the humane practices of racism
9:51 and bigotry
9:52 committed against south asians and
9:55 africans attempting to flee
9:57 alongside ukrainian citizens have been
10:00 worrisome
10:06 our equity board stands with justice
10:10 and fair and equitable treatment for all
10:12 mankind
10:14 the mission of the board is to unify our
10:16 community
10:18 therefore condemnation of these actions
10:20 comes with the understanding that our
10:23 outrage is against the war and not
10:24 against the russian community
10:26 as we lift our voices our hearts and
10:29 minds in support of our fellow neighbors
10:32 we call upon the community of issaquah
10:34 king county the state of washington the
10:37 united states and the world to stand up
10:40 for justice
10:41 stand up for peace
10:44 stand up for equity in our homes
10:46 places of business
10:48 and of worship
10:50 to help where your heart leads you
10:52 lend a gentle peaceful voice to where
10:55 your mind takes you and extend the
10:57 helping hand to where your body pushes
10:59 you
11:05 thank you
11:06 [Music]
11:09 so much
11:10 lucrecia i think the rest of the
11:12 statement is
11:13 resources
11:15 in case people would like to help
11:21 okay
11:28 so cheyenne board members i as i share
11:30 my screen i cannot see um
11:33 things so say you're gonna call on folks
11:35 as they have comments or questions
11:37 correct
11:38 yes i wanted to just tell everyone great
11:40 job i love this statement i think it's
11:42 really really beautiful and captures a
11:45 lot of what we all want to say and what
11:48 we're feeling so um i definitely
11:51 love the fact that the statement also
11:53 points people to
11:55 resources or reputable resources which
11:57 is something i'm sure we all could use
12:00 when it comes to these kinds of things
12:05 does anyone else
12:07 in the group have a comment or a
12:09 question that they'd like to ask about
12:11 this statement
12:18 alrighty i saw rey first so ray i will
12:20 go ahead and i'll
12:22 remind you to come on off mute and go
12:25 ahead and give us your comment please
12:27 yes just um to echo what you said shave
12:30 wonderful um words put together so thank
12:33 you for
12:34 giving us a good start on this um i i
12:37 just wanted to call out one thing and it
12:38 was the
12:41 careful way that we acknowledge that
12:43 it's not
12:44 all russians right and it's not pointing
12:47 a finger at anybody but it's really
12:49 um understanding where the attention
12:51 needs to lie
12:53 i think getting into words that that
12:55 call people out because we know within
12:57 the rush the russian population it's not
12:59 all russians that are in agreement with
13:00 this war we see that from protests like
13:02 that are going on um but in in the same
13:06 vein we know that their
13:07 um leadership um
13:09 is held accountable so thank you for
13:11 putting this together and calling that
13:13 out that was really nice
13:18 thank you so much ray and i also saw a
13:21 question and a comment from preethi
13:24 uh yes so again um appreciation for uh
13:27 the folks who uh took the lead to draft
13:29 this
13:30 um so mine so it's a question and a
13:33 comment and um
13:35 i'm also noting how carefully
13:38 racism and bigotry are being noted here
13:42 and um so i just wanted to first of all
13:44 know like if this
13:46 was crafted in this way
13:50 by intention
13:52 and um partly because
13:54 i would almost want us if there's
13:57 agreement to be a little bit stronger in
13:59 the statement because
14:03 my sense of the racism that's happening
14:06 it goes beyond just uh the refugees
14:10 trying to leave ukraine i think it's
14:12 it's bigger than that and so i just
14:14 wanted to know if there is any appetite
14:16 for this to be a
14:19 broader statement than what it is
14:26 i would say yes um i am sure that the
14:28 entire group is open to
14:30 some dialogue to make sure that we get
14:32 this statement right
14:35 so um
14:36 i i'm interested in knowing what you'd
14:39 like to add to it or what we can work
14:41 together to add to make it a stronger
14:43 statement
14:46 um so
14:47 what um
14:50 let's see so i was actually trying to
14:52 look it up so i would have a little bit
14:53 more substance here
14:55 um and so
14:58 i'm trying to keep to the time limit so
15:02 i think that
15:04 there's
15:06 it's not just the refugees that are
15:08 being implicated you know in terms of
15:10 racism but it's also how the
15:13 the global community and the countries
15:17 involved are treating ukraine in
15:20 comparison to other countries such as
15:22 you know afghanistan and syria and um
15:26 places in africa that have seen um
15:29 similar types of conflict
15:32 and um in my mind there seems to be a
15:38 a dehumanization of how folks who might
15:41 be black or brown are treated compared
15:44 to fellow europeans who are our
15:46 neighbors in in terms of the rhetoric
15:48 with the journalism and policy that's
15:51 being made here
15:56 thank you so much preethi for bringing
15:58 that to our attention because i i think
16:00 you have a good point here in
16:05 and i
16:06 wonder is this an instance where we may
16:10 want to
16:14 be more specific
16:19 maybe use stronger
16:20 words um and i saw i'm sorry tony you
16:24 have a comment please come off mute and
16:25 share with us
16:27 yeah i think preethi what you're saying
16:29 spot on um
16:32 i didn't know what to put as far as
16:35 i kind of purposely left some stuff out
16:37 as far as that's concerned so it's nice
16:39 that to know that someone else has that
16:41 appetite to put that in there um so i
16:43 appreciate you calling that out
16:46 yeah because when i look at like how to
16:48 media
16:50 cover has covered
16:51 this there's been a huge disparity in
16:55 that
16:57 i don't know what delicate language for
16:59 you know i just couldn't think of
17:01 anything like how we could
17:03 i mean obviously we're all here we're
17:05 all liking we're all a great team i'm
17:06 sure
17:07 we can all come up with something but i
17:09 think i definitely think it needs to be
17:11 addressed because
17:12 how the media has covered this versus
17:16 syria other conflicts in africa and
17:19 maybe that's just it you know maybe it's
17:20 just although the media has covered this
17:23 in a different manner of other conflicts
17:25 across the world we as a
17:28 body of
17:30 saquons or no not the car we as the
17:33 equity board are not silenced in knowing
17:36 that um
17:39 the atrocities that occur across the
17:41 world need to be addressed i don't know
17:43 i'm just
17:44 throwing words out there but i it would
17:47 be great if we could address it some way
17:52 thank you so much tony we appreciate
17:55 your comment and it looks like you
17:56 sparked some comments with a few others
17:59 appreciate i saw you next and then um
18:03 and megan
18:07 sure um
18:09 thank you breezy for bringing that to
18:10 our attention um
18:13 i think one way that we could address
18:15 what we're trying to say here is
18:18 uh maybe starting right after in between
18:21 the two paragraphs that we have
18:24 where it ends something like um
18:28 let's see
18:28 [Music]
18:30 knowledge of profane horrific war crimes
18:32 committed against ukrainian civilians as
18:35 well as inhumane practices of racism
18:38 and bigotry committed against south
18:39 asians and africans attempting to flee
18:41 alongside ukrainian citizens have been
18:43 worrisome and then add somewhere there
18:47 since we have
18:49 the attention of the world we would like
18:51 to take
18:52 the opportunity to bring attention to
18:55 and then fill in whatever it is that
18:56 we're trying to say i think that
18:59 we could
19:00 we could be purposeful in terms of
19:03 identifying that we're using this
19:05 platform to bring attention to
19:08 the items that we feel or situations
19:10 that we feel need need this level of
19:12 attention as well
19:15 that's just my
19:17 kind of like the beginning of how to get
19:18 us going
19:23 thank you so much lucia i think that's a
19:25 great start
19:26 um pretty i saw you had another comment
19:29 yeah so i do have something drafted i
19:33 like what lucretia was saying though as
19:35 a the segway but i i do have something
19:37 drafted that we could play with and
19:41 um i could just chat it and say it out
19:43 loud and chat it in so monica could pick
19:45 it up if that works
19:48 um but i think it does need word
19:50 smithing
19:52 so my statement would have been
19:55 this level of global denunciation of
19:57 russia's actions under its current
19:59 regime is unprecedented unprecedented in
20:02 the post-cold war era we also ask for
20:05 our residents to learn about conflicts
20:07 in other parts of the world and reflect
20:09 on why we see less outrage for those
20:11 travesties journalists have noted that
20:13 the ukraine is european and civilized in
20:15 contrast to con
20:17 conflicts in other parts of the world
20:18 such as africa and then have you read
20:20 more slowly yeah i'm gonna paste it in
20:23 sorry let me just do that right now
20:30 okay so this
20:33 it's a little long and it could be
20:34 wordsmith so that's what i would
20:37 recommend at starter dough
20:49 thank you so much preethi that was a
20:52 great
20:53 addition
20:57 and uh i'm sorry megan um
21:00 did you want to go ahead and comment for
21:04 um i really like that statement or i
21:07 think it's really nice for being really
21:08 specific but we're also being like we're
21:10 bringing attention and awareness to
21:12 um the media and the language being used
21:14 and also we're asking our community
21:16 members to be mindful of the language
21:19 and the tone on which we're talking
21:20 about this and company in comparison to
21:22 other travesties that have happened so i
21:24 really like um
21:26 what pre-t said and i think we should
21:28 add it
21:29 like some form of it in there just put
21:31 that in there as well
21:38 thank you so much megan for that comment
21:43 um so i guess i would ask the group
21:47 what do you think about this statement
21:49 lucretia and preethi really gave us some
21:50 good things to add to this statement
21:53 and i'd like to get some feedback from
21:55 the group on
21:57 what we think it sounds like at this
21:59 point
22:05 um i think the only feedback that i have
22:07 with regards to this statement vt is in
22:10 your second sentence you state we also
22:12 ask
22:13 um we haven't asked anything thus far
22:15 and so i would also i would just take
22:17 that also out so we asked for our
22:19 residents to learn about
22:21 i suppose we also ask
22:23 that's the only thing um and then
22:26 did you not finish this sentence or did
22:28 your your uh cut and paste
22:31 cut off because there is
22:33 where you say
22:35 such as africa and the middle east and i
22:37 don't know if there's
22:38 okay
22:40 yeah just making sure there wasn't
22:41 something else
22:48 actually i'm gonna come off because i'm
22:50 sorry i know you've been trying to keep
22:52 up with the comments and i've been
22:53 trying to get in for
22:55 like 12 months sorry sorry about that
22:58 come on uh that's okay
23:00 um okay um i first of all great job
23:03 everybody um and i think you know i
23:06 think the statement's great um i noticed
23:09 a couple of things i'll comment about
23:11 previous posts first um i think that's a
23:13 great statement i do think you need we
23:15 probably need some clarification around
23:18 what it is we're trying to say when we
23:19 say that the journalists have noted that
23:21 ukraine is european and civilized in
23:23 contrast to complex in other parts of
23:25 the world
23:26 if you leave it there it's not clear if
23:28 we're saying those other parts of the
23:30 world are not civilized
23:32 are we
23:33 are we agreeing with that statement that
23:36 the other parts of the world africa and
23:37 middle east are not civilized or are we
23:40 trying to say
23:41 you know they've you know
23:43 incorrectly
23:45 or mischaracterized those other parts of
23:48 the world
23:51 okay um a couple of other things just in
23:54 terms of um
23:55 wait one second i had some notes where
23:58 did they go
24:00 okay comment on earlier in the passage
24:03 we talk about millions of ukrainians
24:05 have left their country
24:07 and 2 million are internally displaced
24:10 with thousands of russians so we have
24:11 some numbers there and i would just
24:14 suggest that prior to it going out that
24:16 we just double check and make sure our
24:18 numbers are still accurate just because
24:19 the numbers have been changing
24:25 there is a place where we talk about um
24:28 there's a sentence that starts up stand
24:30 up for equity
24:32 towards the end of the passage
24:40 and
24:41 that sentence
24:44 right you're highlighting the first part
24:46 right so i think that second sentence if
24:49 we read that sentence it says stand up
24:51 for equity in our homes places of
24:53 business and of worship to help where
24:55 your heart
24:56 leads you
24:58 we might need to just add a little
25:00 something to the very beginning of that
25:01 sentence you know prior to that sentence
25:04 we start out by saying something like we
25:06 ask um
25:08 as we lift our voices our hearts in
25:10 support we call upon the community of
25:12 issaquah to
25:16 etc and we may want to just say in front
25:19 of that you know we call on the
25:20 community exactly
25:29 last one is
25:31 in the list of resources i clicked on
25:34 all the links and then clicked on the
25:36 link for the king county 24-hour crisis
25:38 connections
25:40 and i'm unfamiliar with the group but
25:42 when i clicked on it it took me to a
25:44 page that does talk that is the crisis
25:46 connections page it just doesn't
25:48 specifically say that it is the king
25:50 county crisis connections it talks about
25:53 several different areas
25:55 and so i'm just
25:56 wanting someone to verify that it is
26:00 specifically the king county
26:03 it just looks like it's several
26:11 except for me
26:15 thank you so much alyssa and those were
26:16 really really great call outs um
26:20 and i saw that ray also had a question
26:24 about the limit so ray would you mind
26:26 coming off mute really quickly just to
26:28 ask your question for us yeah some just
26:31 logistics questions um
26:33 is this going on a website it's going to
26:35 the list serve i understand this is our
26:37 first opportunity to share our concerns
26:39 and voice but i'm sure we're going to
26:40 have
26:41 some other opportunities just curious
26:43 about
26:45 the length of the message and
26:47 the
26:49 and another comment the people that it
26:50 will most likely reach are the ones that
26:52 are already pretty knowledgeable about
26:53 what's going on
26:55 i mean i get it through
26:57 employer through work who all want to
26:58 get involved
27:00 even at my church and others you who go
27:03 to a religious service most likely have
27:05 had that messaged by the leader
27:07 so just to just to know that
27:10 this isn't probably the first time
27:11 they're going to hear what's going on
27:12 and we we shouldn't make this too
27:14 lengthy
27:17 hey thank you so much i'm going to jump
27:19 in with an answer to your question this
27:20 is monica um absolutely right so um this
27:24 is gonna go to city council for adoption
27:26 and then after that it's gonna go
27:28 probably on the city's website and
27:30 probably most likely being shared with
27:33 the newsletter or social media um so
27:36 definitely well really good comments
27:38 about not making it too long right
27:41 thank you
27:46 and thank you so much for that question
27:49 ray i think that's a good one for us to
27:51 just know
27:52 um the
27:54 attention span of many of our community
27:56 members
27:59 let's see
28:00 and i saw lakrisha i think you still
28:03 have a comment is that correct shay i
28:05 apologize for interrupting a little bit
28:07 i think lauren i had a comment a while
28:09 ago i'm not sure if we had a chance to
28:10 call on her as well
28:12 oh and my apologies lorna if i missed
28:14 you
28:16 no worries am i uh two ascetic just
28:19 hosts so um i fixed it now i just wanted
28:22 to echo this is a long time ago i wanted
28:24 to echo what uh ray had talked about
28:26 about the
28:27 acknowledging the russians and
28:31 that it was a part of the country and
28:32 not
28:33 to make sure that we're acknowledging
28:35 the allies
28:37 because for our
28:38 um i know that my daughter came home and
28:40 told me that a student in her school in
28:43 a class was being harassed by other
28:45 students
28:46 and being told you know
28:48 shouldn't you be
28:50 i think it wasn't bombing but it
28:51 shouldn't you be like nuking
28:53 some countries or something is what they
28:55 told a child a student um by two other
28:58 students and it's just something that
29:01 we just want to be mindful for i mean
29:04 more than anything else we need to learn
29:05 from history and not target
29:08 a country or the people you know like
29:10 the japanese for what was happening and
29:12 so i just don't want to see that happen
29:14 to russians in our community based on
29:17 what
29:18 is happening in their country you know
29:20 due to the choices of the
29:22 politics of the leader
29:23 um and then the last thing if you go to
29:25 the very last sentence there's something
29:27 about pushes that didn't quite
29:30 ring um
29:32 and extend the helping hand to where
29:33 your body pushes you that's the only
29:35 other comment otherwise i really really
29:38 appreciate um all the work put in this
29:41 especially talking about how the
29:43 journalists because in equity we really
29:44 talk about the power of words
29:47 and the power of journalists
29:49 and how they um very often call on black
29:52 and brown boys differently
29:56 versus on how you know they refer to
29:59 white students or white people in the
30:01 community so this is an important
30:03 teaching moment for us
30:04 but um i really appreciate all the work
30:07 everyone has done in making this
30:08 statement
30:12 thank you so much lorna we appreciate
30:14 that comment
30:16 um and it looks like uh lucretia do you
30:19 and preeti do you all have more comments
30:23 behind on those let me double check
30:26 um i just had a quick comment
30:31 me or a suggestion instead of the word
30:34 mankind i would like to suggest
30:38 something like all of humanity or all
30:40 humanity
30:43 humankind or humanity
30:46 okay
30:47 that was it thanks
30:52 this is lucas speaking
30:54 um i went ahead and and tweet um
30:56 pretty's um
30:59 submission
31:01 um i moved some of the words around so
31:04 that
31:05 i don't know
31:06 it made more sense to me in this way
31:09 would you be willing to read it
31:11 yes um
31:13 this level of global denunciation of
31:15 russia's actions under its current
31:17 regime is unprecedented in the post-cold
31:20 war era
31:21 whereas journal journalists note that
31:23 ukraine is european and civilized in
31:26 contrast to how they portray conflicts
31:28 in other parts of the world such as
31:30 africa and the middle east
31:32 we challenge this overt bias we ask for
31:35 our residents to learn about conflicts
31:37 in other parts of the world and reflect
31:38 on why we see less outreach for these
31:41 travesties
31:45 thank you so much
31:46 and i think that that was
31:49 great um
31:50 you really captured a lot of thoughts
31:53 that i think we all shared here
31:58 wasn't able to follow
32:00 so if you don't mind if you have it
32:02 written or if you don't mind repeating
32:04 slowly for me also and then also for the
32:07 interpreters i would so appreciate it
32:10 i put it in the chat um
32:13 monica
32:15 can you see it
32:16 yes
32:17 i'm gonna grab it thank you
32:21 yes and i'm more than willing to read it
32:23 again i mean it
32:24 but i i just wanted to point out that it
32:26 was in the chat thank you
32:32 thank you so much lucretia and then um
32:35 kelly i saw that you had a
32:37 question
32:39 yeah it's about the part first off this
32:42 is fantastic just
32:44 flat out fantastic i
32:46 you know i can't believe people can
32:48 wordsmith things like this
32:49 so it's fantastic i love the points that
32:51 everybody's bringing up i just have a
32:53 question about
32:55 um there's a section where it talks
32:57 about
33:00 that thousands of
33:02 russians have been arrested post-testers
33:04 have been arrested
33:06 and
33:08 and it says as well as many others
33:11 across the world
33:13 and is are we trying to say protesters
33:15 across the world or arrested protesters
33:19 because it sounds like arrested posters
33:21 which may be inaccurate
33:24 um so
33:27 i pulled up an article
33:30 and the article um stated that
33:33 whereas there were thousands of
33:35 protesters that were being arrested in
33:37 russia that there were many others
33:39 around the world and i and now i can't
33:42 say that they were they were saying that
33:43 they were all arrested or if it was just
33:45 protesters i kind of searched a link
33:48 i i did a google search while we were
33:51 sitting here to see if there was any
33:53 uh references to others being arrested
33:56 and i'm not seeing it
33:58 so i just don't want to put anything
33:59 that's inaccurate
34:01 okay um there's definitely thousands of
34:03 other there's definitely lots of i think
34:05 there's
34:06 yeah i think that it this refers to
34:09 protesters not necessarily that they've
34:11 been arrested
34:15 oh sorry i think we we should tweak
34:17 those words if it is confusing in that
34:20 way
34:21 but i did send the article links to
34:24 monica
34:25 so that she had that information
34:27 as well
34:29 thank you
34:34 verification from all of you board
34:36 members so are we should we just delete
34:39 this last part at all or just clarify
34:41 that it was other protesters across the
34:45 world
34:46 is there
34:47 a consensus on that
34:49 i almost think that that's not necessary
34:52 for us to say that there's a lot of
34:54 protesters because um
34:58 raise point and and others of
35:00 course i think we all kind of know that
35:03 there are protesters out there
35:06 and we may not need to say that
35:07 specifically
35:11 hey thank you
35:16 um and so since there's a moment of uh
35:19 um i'm gonna continue with jumping in a
35:22 little bit um with um summarizing and um
35:25 adding a couple of questions for you i
35:28 did hear uh ray suggest perhaps to keep
35:31 the statement shorter i do hear all of
35:33 you um chiming in with just great great
35:36 input and comments
35:38 um as as you look at
35:40 continuing the word smithing and um
35:43 adding more or taking off language um i
35:46 wanted to encourage you as a board like
35:48 what are the values that we want to
35:50 instill what are the values of the
35:52 equity board right you know um
35:55 equity
35:56 um inclusion
35:58 justice are are things that and social
36:00 justice are
36:02 definite values for for our board is
36:06 there anything else or do you feel that
36:08 the statement includes our values
36:11 is there anything else that you would
36:12 like to add or not
36:14 and then perhaps
36:16 depending on where you are we can maybe
36:18 somebody can read the statement
36:20 uh and see
36:22 what does it
36:23 feel like right now as it is i believe
36:26 this sentence probably at this point
36:27 needs to be taken out since we have
36:29 another paragraph on that but i don't
36:31 want to do it without your approval
36:36 um i think it would be worth
36:38 reading one more time just to kind of
36:40 see
36:41 what it sounds like with all of the
36:43 edits that we've recently had
36:46 yeah
36:49 and then before we do that this this
36:50 sentence now it's going to be deleted
36:52 right because instead of this sentence
36:54 we added this paragraph correct
36:56 yes
36:59 if everyone's in agreeance
37:02 nots
37:04 yeses yes
37:05 agreed
37:07 thank you thank you
37:12 okay
37:30 or any other
37:34 edits
37:46 i hear you all thinking
37:51 all right and it looks like ray has a
37:53 comment right would you mind coming off
37:55 neat for us
37:56 um lucretia or excuse me uh monica you
37:59 have brought up a really good question
38:01 about what are the goals and objectives
38:02 of the equity board i mean if we go to
38:04 our home page it's very broad right i
38:06 think we've all seen the home page for
38:08 the issaquah equity board
38:10 the sports role is to support and
38:12 cultivate the voices of the diverse
38:14 communities
38:16 in issaquah so if there's um a tie-in to
38:19 that that kind of helps set the
38:20 foundation of what we're trying to do
38:22 and this is an example of that right so
38:24 perhaps a sentence at the beginning
38:26 saying as to support our role
38:29 in supporting cultivating the values of
38:31 diverse communities you'd like to take
38:33 this opportunity to share our concerns
38:35 about what's going on in ukraine
38:45 ray do you mind repeating for me
38:48 this thing i'm sure monica yeah it was
38:50 just um going if going back to the
38:53 website um and uh maybe i can just paste
38:56 it in there right if we all if you don't
38:58 know that's where it is and if you look
38:59 at the section about
39:01 um what are we about
39:04 and the verbiage there's the board's
39:06 role is to support and cultivate the
39:08 voices of the diverse communities in
39:10 issaquah and we'd like to take this
39:12 opportunity by commenting on
39:16 the occurrences in ukraine just
39:18 just to kind of narrow down why we're
39:20 voicing ourselves is we want to
39:24 support what we were
39:25 asked to build right
39:33 great thank you
39:44 okay
39:56 and i think tony you had a question or
39:59 comment sorry
40:00 and here i can
40:01 [Music]
40:03 while i do this
40:14 hello
40:16 monica is it possible for you to make
40:18 your font just the slightest bit bigger
40:22 yes i am making it bigger here
40:25 yeah i
40:26 up there and above there
40:28 oh no above there is just
40:31 yeah it's just
40:32 [Music]
40:35 tony do you still have a comment
40:41 tony you may still be on mute
40:50 uh shay can i speak oh yes please
40:54 keeping to our mission
40:56 as the as the equity board
40:59 and then start from there as opposed to
41:01 support cultivate and all this other
41:02 stuff because i think it's it becomes
41:05 too wordy then
41:32 something like this
41:36 so keeping the equity board's mission to
41:39 support and cultivate the voices of the
41:40 diverse communities in issaquah we would
41:42 like to propose the following statement
41:45 where does this reflect and lucrecia
41:47 what you were trying to say earlier yes
41:50 keeping in line with the equity board's
41:52 mission
41:53 sorry sorry monica
42:01 or in line
42:08 with
42:20 okay
42:28 anyone who would like to then reread the
42:30 statement to see how you feel about it
42:32 report numbers question why propose
42:36 there
42:40 i'm sorry elisa do you mind if you said
42:44 it says we would like to propose the
42:45 following statement but
42:48 we recommend it we can recommend the
42:50 statement to to the city council right
42:54 okay okay so we're recommending it to
42:56 them okay yeah okay
43:00 great
43:02 comment there
43:10 so then the statement is the city of
43:12 issaquad's equity board is heartbroken
43:15 to learn of the atrocities in ukraine
43:18 everyone okay with that statement
43:22 please speak up if not as we have seen
43:25 in international news millions of
43:27 ukrainians have left their country
43:29 seeking refuge
43:31 and an additional 2 million are
43:33 internally displaced while thousands of
43:35 russian allies have been arrested for
43:38 protesting the war in russia
43:43 knowledge of profane horrific war crimes
43:45 committed against ukrainian civilians as
43:48 well as inhumane practices of racism
43:51 and bigotry committed against south
43:53 asians and africans attempting to flee
43:56 alongside ukrainian citizens have been
43:58 worrisome
44:01 the level of global denunciation of
44:04 russia's actions under its current
44:06 regime is unprecedented
44:09 in the post
44:11 cold war era whereas journalists note
44:15 that ukraine is european and civilized
44:18 in contrast to how they portray
44:21 conflict in other parts of the world
44:23 such as africa and the middle east
44:25 we challenge this overt bias we ask for
44:28 our residents to learn about conflicts
44:31 in other parts of the world and reflect
44:34 on why we see less outreach for those
44:36 travesties
44:38 our equity board stands with justice and
44:41 fear
44:42 and equitable treatment for all humanity
44:45 the mission of the board is to unify our
44:47 community
44:49 therefore condemnation of these actions
44:52 comes with the understanding that our
44:54 outrage is against the war and not
44:57 against the russian community
44:59 as we lift our voices our hearts and
45:02 minds in support of our fellow neighbors
45:04 we call upon the community of issaquah
45:06 king county the state of washington the
45:09 united states
45:10 and the world to stand up for justice
45:12 stand up for peace
45:14 we call on the community to stand up for
45:17 equity in our homes places of business
45:19 and of worship
45:21 to help where your heart leads you lend
45:23 a gentle peaceful voice to where your
45:26 mind takes you
45:27 and extend the helping hand
45:35 this is a just a technicality and it
45:38 could just be
45:39 a stylistic thing but where we say
45:42 something where we begin we call on the
45:44 community to stand up for equity and
45:46 home in our homes places of business in
45:49 worship
45:50 and then we change it to to help where
45:52 your heart leads you
45:54 those are two different
45:57 what cases i don't i don't even know
45:59 what the word is it it's either going to
46:01 be your homes or it's going to be our
46:02 homes our minds and our
46:05 our places of worship like our heart
46:09 where our heart leads us
46:10 lend a gentle peaceful voice where our
46:12 mind takes us and extend unhealthy hand
46:16 change the first part where we talk
46:18 about
46:21 our homes and make that your homes
46:23 but
46:24 it depends on what we're trying to say
46:26 like are we being inclusive of us as a
46:28 whole or they are
46:31 right yes i i agree i think we should
46:33 say our because i feel like that's more
46:35 inclusive to say our homes our families
46:38 our community
46:40 versus your because that kind of
46:42 individualizes it and puts all the work
46:45 on on you and not us
46:48 correct i feel the same that's why i
46:50 brought it but
46:52 i mean this is someone else's paragraph
46:54 so i just wanted to be
46:55 mindful of that
46:58 also i wanted to say stylistically the
47:00 way your heart
47:01 leads you to where our mind takes you do
47:04 where our uh our mind takes us
47:07 and also if you want to keep to where
47:09 are
47:10 something something it's i think
47:12 something about the body pushing you
47:17 felt wrong so if there's something else
47:19 we can say to extend a helping hand
47:24 to where
47:25 something else is someone else can come
47:27 up with something just
47:28 somehow i'm just supposed to push it
47:37 you're to where your consciousness
47:39 leads you
47:42 that's my proposal to where your
47:43 conscious
47:44 conscience leads you
47:47 wouldn't that be our though because we
47:49 just moved everything to our you're
47:51 absolutely right sorry i was just
47:53 reading yours
47:55 extend the helping hand to where
47:58 our community are
48:06 and creepy i saw you also had a comment
48:10 uh yeah so i i guess i'm working on this
48:13 last statement is it so extend a helping
48:15 hand to
48:18 maybe it's just like to help to our
48:20 neighbors
48:22 just keep it simple so that's a
48:24 possibility there just
48:26 extend a helping hand to our neighbors
48:28 it's my community
48:30 yeah oh yeah to our community um
48:34 the i was actually i had comment because
48:37 i just had a tiny i'm like in the weeds
48:39 of the details now but um so that the
48:42 beginning of this paragraph
48:45 where it says our equity board stands
48:47 with justice and fair and equitable
48:49 treatment i'm is it win is with the
48:52 right word or is it stands for justice
48:55 i was just getting hung up on the with
49:02 yes i think four is a better fit
49:05 okay
49:06 thanks
49:09 great call out
49:12 i feel like we have some
49:14 english specialists or english majors
49:16 here
49:18 i also took the liberty is it too many
49:21 ends here does it make sense to put
49:23 comma and stuff and there or
49:25 should we just leave end and
49:28 i do feel like there's too many ands but
49:30 that might just be the way i'm reading
49:33 yeah i agree to accept fair and
49:35 equitable treatment kind of go together
49:38 versus justice and that's
49:41 i i know even lucretia hesitated as she
49:43 was reading it
49:44 but it
49:47 so we can do our equity board stands for
49:50 justice
49:52 fair and equitable treatment or even
49:54 just take out as you suggest lorna
49:56 you're suggesting to take one out
50:00 yeah
50:02 too many ends but it goes together yeah
50:05 even if you just take n then just put
50:07 comma there i think that would work for
50:09 justice fair and equitable treatment
50:12 right
50:15 i agree i think that works a little
50:17 better
50:18 okay
50:20 and also going up to um i don't know
50:23 that got fixed
50:24 um the when we change the level of
50:27 global denunciation
50:30 whereas the journalists can you scroll
50:32 to that part the one that we look
50:34 creative edited
50:37 here we go um
50:39 whereas journalists know that ukrainian
50:41 ukrainian european and civilized
50:44 the next part in contrast to how they
50:46 portray conflicts that doesn't quite
50:49 read it's just a word smithing i think i
50:51 think it's just
50:52 contrast it's two i think needs to be
50:55 gone so
50:56 whereas journalists note that ukraine
50:58 and
50:59 um is european and civilized in contrast
51:02 comma they portray conflicts in other
51:05 parts of the world
51:06 such as africa and middle east
51:12 it contrasts i don't know if it's in
51:14 contrast
51:15 it contrasts the way they portray
51:17 conflicts in other parts of the world
51:19 such as
51:20 african middle east period we challenge
51:23 this overt bias
51:27 i have a bigger question about this
51:29 paragraph i like the paragraph a lot but
51:31 at the same time i feel like we're
51:33 putting a really
51:34 heavy bit of blame on journalists
51:39 and we're not necessarily accepting any
51:42 responsibility as viewers as consumers
51:46 for driving what gets provided
51:51 and i'm not 100 sure that it's fair to
51:55 put all of the blame squarely on
51:57 journalists for
52:00 the way that that this gets
52:03 presented
52:05 and i almost wonder if we could say
52:08 maybe um
52:09 [Music]
52:10 whereas uh you know
52:12 popular media
52:16 sometimes notes
52:20 versus us saying that it's most
52:23 definitely journalists
52:26 yeah there's still something also in
52:28 addition to that there's still something
52:29 a little off in the sentence because now
52:32 it reads
52:33 whereas journalists note that ukraine is
52:35 european and civilized in contrast they
52:39 portray conflicts in other parts of the
52:40 world such as africa and the middle east
52:43 it doesn't it's not there's something
52:45 missing from that sentence they portray
52:47 what
52:48 with regards to that correct i think
52:51 it's it contrasts the way they portray
52:54 conflicts in other parts of the world
52:56 it is in contrast
53:00 if i may um jump in i i think so i know
53:04 the media was portraying it in this way
53:06 however
53:07 i think um
53:09 it's policy makers who are also acting
53:15 their journalists
53:18 are amp
53:22 yeah so they're amplifying it um
53:26 and policymakers are acting upon racism
53:30 um and how and where they choose to act
53:33 and i don't i don't have the right words
53:35 for that but yeah i i agree with what
53:37 elisa was saying around it's it's
53:39 there's too much blame here on
53:40 journalists so the media is portraying
53:43 ukraine as european and civilized
53:47 and
53:48 policy makers are acting in
53:52 are making decisions
53:54 in response to that and the other part
53:56 of that is that we as consumers of media
53:59 are tuning in for it
54:01 and they say okay great people are
54:03 watching it so i'll give them more of
54:05 that they weren't watching haiti so okay
54:09 let's give them less of that
54:10 so we're that's what i mean in terms of
54:12 acknowledging our part in this
54:15 you know
54:16 it's too much to add in this but we just
54:18 want to make sure we're not putting not
54:21 putting so much of the blame in one spot
54:23 and not acknowledging that there's
54:26 policy makers journalists consumers of
54:28 media all of us are playing a part
54:31 and i wonder if it might even be a
54:33 better fit to just place in something
54:35 like as consumers of media we often see
54:38 that ukraine is displayed this way um i
54:41 don't know if we can do that in in a
54:43 shorter sentence but
54:46 maybe
54:47 just
54:48 um automatically taking the blame per se
54:51 and just saying hey as consumers of
54:53 media this is what we often see
54:58 and and and maybe wording that a little
55:00 differently to make sure that it kind of
55:02 fits into
55:04 us taking responsibility for
55:07 accepting that information as it's
55:09 presented
55:11 and board members as you think about um
55:15 wordsmithing this this section
55:17 um i think i want to call out kind of
55:22 like a little bit the higher level
55:23 what's the goal of
55:25 the statement
55:27 and because i see that um
55:29 [Music]
55:30 as i read i think it seems like we have
55:32 a couple of different goals
55:34 but while making the statement right is
55:36 the statement the goal of the statement
55:40 call out
55:42 the need for
55:44 unity and peace and just calling out um
55:48 the atrocities of the war um is it also
55:52 a secondary goal to call out
55:55 an inequities on how
55:58 this is
56:02 [Music]
56:03 presented
56:05 as compared to other
56:08 it's yeah so i'm just i think
56:09 encouraging you to think about what's
56:11 the goal and and purpose in making the
56:13 statement
56:16 i i
56:17 i agree i'm kind of um been silent for a
56:20 while because i'm putting on my project
56:22 manager hat and thinking i'm at work and
56:24 i kind of coin a phrase sometimes when
56:26 i'm in my meetings and say there's so
56:28 many cooks in the kitchen but no dish is
56:30 getting made
56:32 i kind of feel like this that's what
56:33 we've done in this in this particular
56:35 meeting
56:36 we've all got great great ideas great
56:38 opinions great great
56:42 i don't know
56:43 great things in our mind that we want
56:44 this message to be but i i echo your
56:46 sentiments monica we need to figure out
56:48 like what do we want that message to
56:51 really say you know is it really just to
56:53 call out what's going on in ukraine and
56:55 some of these great things we have all
56:57 have in our minds maybe they're safe for
56:59 a community conversation that we have
57:01 with the community and a uh because
57:04 i think everything that everyone's
57:05 brought up different topics of that
57:07 could be great topics for community
57:09 conversation to engage the community
57:11 about those different things of why are
57:15 so focused as a society on this
57:18 particular crisis but not thinking about
57:21 the other things that have happened and
57:24 what do we want that message to be
57:25 because it could be it could be
57:26 perceived as too long
57:31 and um lucretia saw you had a comment
57:33 did you want to or
57:36 or a request i'm sorry lucretia would
57:38 you like to i would just like to request
57:41 monica could you
57:42 um please copy and paste the paragraph
57:46 that begins with this level of global
57:49 denunciation
57:52 and ends with the word travesties into
57:54 the chat so that i can
57:57 manipulate it on my end
57:59 thank you
58:02 thank you
58:04 and i would like to
58:06 maybe add maybe this is a good time to
58:08 maybe take a step back and look at what
58:10 our goal of this statement is
58:12 and then kind of move forward and
58:14 determine if
58:16 that information is is needed at this
58:19 time
58:20 because maybe this statement is the
58:22 beginning part of the conversation and
58:25 then
58:26 we may look at
58:28 a cultural conversation happening later
58:31 in the month or something that can
58:33 address
58:35 where we've seen some inequities
58:43 i would second that statement she
58:45 because in listening to tony it makes me
58:47 wonder if we're not being also
58:49 hypocritical
58:50 in making this comment
58:52 about you know uh there's so much focus
58:55 on it when
58:56 then again we're also very young and we
58:57 haven't had time to
58:59 comment on others but keeping the
59:01 message very directed like those
59:03 messages about ukraine
59:05 we need to take other
59:07 focus out of it and just leave it on
59:10 you know
59:11 this is an atrocity that's happening
59:13 over period
59:22 would it be helpful for me to stop
59:24 sharing for a minute so you can discuss
59:26 this for a couple of minutes and then
59:27 get back to it so you can see one
59:29 another better
59:33 i can actually see everyone so i'm not
59:35 really sure but um
59:38 i think tina has a con or christina has
59:40 a comment
59:41 and it looks like kelly also has a
59:43 comment
59:44 um christina would you mind coming off
59:46 mute to share with us
59:54 okay
59:56 yeah that's fine
59:58 i would like
1:00:11 i would like to add this we are all
1:00:14 drops of the same ocean
1:00:19 the leaves of the same tree
1:00:24 the same pearls of the same shell
1:00:31 the same flowers and fragrant pears
1:00:36 plants of the same garden
1:00:42 [Music]
1:00:44 the level of empathy and love that's
1:00:46 being cultivated at this moment
1:00:53 would be the fruitage of our society
1:00:57 tomorrow
1:01:04 the peace peace is felt in the majority
1:01:08 of the of hearts on a worldwide level
1:01:16 and the people deserves to be listened
1:01:19 or to be heard
1:01:21 that's what
1:01:22 that's it thank you
1:01:25 thank you very much christina and that
1:01:27 was so beautiful
1:01:34 um kelly i saw that you also had a
1:01:37 comment and it looks like helen and you
1:01:39 will follow kelly
1:01:44 i love
1:01:45 hair i love the um
1:01:48 [Music]
1:01:50 the enthusiasm of all of us for
1:01:53 for writing
1:01:54 and really getting across what we're all
1:01:57 trying to say
1:01:58 however
1:02:00 to me this is getting really long
1:02:04 somewhat unclear even to me
1:02:07 i'm going to tell you what my values are
1:02:10 and what i wanted when i
1:02:13 proposed this
1:02:14 and um
1:02:15 [Music]
1:02:16 maybe we think about how do we say it
1:02:19 like shorter and quicker
1:02:20 but i wanted
1:02:23 i i just wanted us to so i wanted us to
1:02:26 support our russian and
1:02:30 ukrainian neighbors
1:02:33 i wanted us to
1:02:36 uh put pressure on equitable equitable
1:02:40 treatment for those who were trying to
1:02:41 flee ukraine
1:02:43 which we've got we've got all of these
1:02:44 in here and i wanted us and and given
1:02:48 the conversation today i realized that i
1:02:50 want us to be to encourage awareness in
1:02:52 our community
1:02:54 about whether we are
1:02:56 um supporting
1:02:58 all countries equally when they're in
1:03:00 war right and so somehow
1:03:05 getting down to what our each of our
1:03:07 values are because i bet many of you
1:03:09 agree with what i just said maybe some
1:03:11 of you would add a little bit take a
1:03:14 little bit add one but me like maybe
1:03:16 come back to bullet points
1:03:19 i'm serious
1:03:21 because
1:03:23 it's it's just it's blooming
1:03:26 is what it's doing which is exactly what
1:03:28 should be happening at this point
1:03:30 i'm just trying to help i used to do
1:03:33 this for a living i haven't talked about
1:03:36 that much but
1:03:37 and so at this point you start to say
1:03:39 what do we really want
1:03:44 thank you so much for that comment kelly
1:03:46 because i think we all kind of
1:03:48 are at the point to where we want to say
1:03:49 this is what we want and we want to get
1:03:52 to the point and make it simple uh so
1:03:55 thank you for sharing and giving us all
1:03:57 that great information
1:04:00 and i'm sorry helen i see you had a
1:04:02 comment as well would you please come
1:04:03 off mute and join us
1:04:07 yeah thank you um just to reiterate what
1:04:09 kelly said absolutely that that also for
1:04:12 me that was
1:04:13 my thought as thinking of it more more
1:04:15 in community not not um more personal
1:04:18 more closer to home more neighbor
1:04:20 more my neighbor is having trouble
1:04:22 because she's ukrainian and she can't
1:04:23 find her family how am i thinking about
1:04:25 it with her my daughter's friend is
1:04:28 russian and they're being picked on in
1:04:29 school because of this i was just
1:04:31 thinking how are we as a board
1:04:34 they have to say we are sympathetic with
1:04:36 our ukrainian community with what is
1:04:38 happening and your family and your
1:04:40 people and the russian community as well
1:04:42 who are not in agreement with it who are
1:04:44 potentially going to be pitched on for
1:04:45 these things just like megan said so
1:04:48 and and in fact when we talked about
1:04:49 with monica we're thinking okay to make
1:04:51 sure it doesn't get very mushy and very
1:04:54 political and very
1:04:56 but at the same time i completely
1:04:57 understand
1:04:58 that the passion and the heart for the
1:05:00 the board
1:05:01 in bringing out these issues
1:05:04 i just feel like it's it's going very
1:05:06 wide and yet i feel like as the equity
1:05:09 board
1:05:11 i don't know how it will speak to my
1:05:12 neighbor who is sending me messages that
1:05:14 she can't find her family because for me
1:05:16 that's where it was coming from it was a
1:05:18 little more personal to my next-door
1:05:20 neighbor who is going through this and
1:05:22 as a as a community how am i supporting
1:05:24 and how am i feeling the sympathy with
1:05:26 her and my daughter's russian friend who
1:05:28 is you know like oh you people are
1:05:30 bombing your friends i mean i mean it's
1:05:32 kids and i know that it's our school
1:05:33 district has put out something but
1:05:36 what what are we saying in that regard
1:05:43 and i almost wonder and lorna you may be
1:05:46 able to help with this
1:05:49 do we have a copy of the school board
1:05:51 statement
1:05:52 so maybe we're not repeating the same
1:05:55 things that are already being said
1:05:58 i don't have a copy i can look it up but
1:06:01 it's pretty much only focused on ukraine
1:06:15 into the conversation while i look up i
1:06:16 don't want
1:06:18 sure and i'm sorry for the silence we're
1:06:20 just kind of i'm sure everyone's kind of
1:06:22 thinking through this
1:06:26 preethi would you mind sharing your
1:06:28 comment here um
1:06:30 because i really like the some of the
1:06:32 points that you brought out would you
1:06:34 please share
1:06:35 sure yeah so i was just kind of
1:06:38 reflecting on the current statement and
1:06:40 it and going back to where monica and i
1:06:43 think ray were also driving us
1:06:46 it's now so i think it started off being
1:06:49 so i have it sounds like there's four
1:06:51 different purposes in this statement so
1:06:53 the first one would be to sympathize
1:06:55 about the tragedy of the invasion of the
1:06:56 ukraine and the humanitarian crisis
1:06:59 the second is um
1:07:01 uh and this is the one i think i
1:07:03 introduced at the top of the meeting is
1:07:05 to put a spotlight on racism on a global
1:07:07 scale
1:07:08 and then there's a call to action for
1:07:10 our residents to reflect on racism in
1:07:12 that context and then the fourth is
1:07:15 providing resources to support the
1:07:17 ukraine in our community so it seemed
1:07:19 like the original statement was the one
1:07:21 in four which i think lorna said that
1:07:23 that would be her preference
1:07:25 um i would say my preference would be to
1:07:27 focus on two and three
1:07:29 and um but i know i didn't initiate this
1:07:32 or do the initial draft so i can
1:07:33 appreciate that but um so i just thought
1:07:36 if we're trying to distill back down to
1:07:38 what is our primary purpose of the
1:07:40 statement so we can hone in on it
1:07:43 those were the four things that are now
1:07:45 in here so we might want to
1:07:48 pull out some of those
1:07:51 purposes
1:07:54 thank you so much for that comment
1:07:56 please and i i have to wonder would the
1:07:58 group be opposed to maybe coming
1:08:01 maybe two portions of that information
1:08:05 to say hey this is what we're going to
1:08:13 i almost find it a little bit hard
1:08:15 because i feel like every statement
1:08:16 should have a call to action
1:08:18 um if it's being stated uh
1:08:21 however
1:08:22 i can't say that we know exactly what
1:08:24 that call to action would be
1:08:26 because there's so many ways to
1:08:29 participate
1:08:34 any suggestions on
1:08:37 how we should kind of
1:08:39 reground ourselves into what we want
1:08:41 this statement to be
1:08:44 and thank you preety for sharing that
1:08:46 information with us i think you really
1:08:48 captured what the statement is at this
1:08:51 point
1:08:58 hey shay can you stick that statement
1:08:59 one more time
1:09:01 if you don't mind
1:09:03 i'm sorry
1:09:04 can you say that one more time shay you
1:09:05 you asked a question and just like my
1:09:07 audio kind of cut out sorry oh sure yeah
1:09:09 no problem i i was wondering if the
1:09:11 group would be um
1:09:13 just interested in maybe kind of looking
1:09:15 at those four pieces that pretty
1:09:17 presented to us or reminded us that
1:09:19 we're present in this statement and
1:09:22 possibly just kind of narrowing it down
1:09:24 to one or two things um
1:09:28 maybe exclu
1:09:30 i don't want to say excluding a call to
1:09:33 action but i feel like
1:09:35 you know the the statement has to have a
1:09:37 call to action otherwise we don't we may
1:09:39 not need to say it um and secondly thank
1:09:43 you so much lorna for bringing in the
1:09:45 school statement because that at least
1:09:46 gives us a rubric to what we already
1:09:49 have out there or we already know is out
1:09:51 there
1:09:55 and possibly just bringing it back in a
1:09:57 little bit more so we can kind of
1:10:01 structure the statement to be a little
1:10:03 bit smaller and
1:10:04 easier to take in
1:10:07 but also
1:10:08 get to the point of
1:10:10 not only what the equity board does but
1:10:12 what we would like to see in our
1:10:14 community with relation to ukrainians
1:10:16 and our russian colleagues here or i
1:10:20 guess you would say neighbors
1:10:25 i mean i'm just going to speak my
1:10:27 opinion if you guys don't mind um
1:10:30 and um if we go through the four points
1:10:33 uh definitely the first one which was
1:10:35 the i mean that's what this is all about
1:10:37 that's why kelly you had the great idea
1:10:39 of bringing this to light and then
1:10:40 actually
1:10:41 cascading this message out to the
1:10:43 community so definitely number one um
1:10:46 i mean
1:10:48 number two i mean they're all great
1:10:49 points um but kind of back to what i was
1:10:52 saying before at least my thoughts i
1:10:54 mean and i think a few others as well
1:10:57 some of this could be you know cultural
1:10:59 conversations that we end up having uh
1:11:02 and to put all of this in a message
1:11:04 could be too lengthy um and too much to
1:11:07 actually
1:11:08 bury everything in one box and not
1:11:11 actually focus on one thing so i would
1:11:13 say one definitely of course and
1:11:16 my thoughts would be
1:11:19 i mean you can't do two without three
1:11:22 you can't do you know putting a
1:11:23 spotlight on racism on a global scale
1:11:25 without actually a call to action and i
1:11:27 think it's just maybe it it doesn't
1:11:29 necessarily need to be a paragraph it
1:11:30 could just be a couple of sentences we
1:11:32 can combine that data
1:11:34 i think so and it could just be a couple
1:11:35 of instances a couple of sentences long
1:11:38 based on um but i think we if we're
1:11:40 going to
1:11:42 you know what actually let me back up
1:11:44 i think in a certain sense
1:11:46 and everyone's in a pretty you're pretty
1:11:49 your idea on and
1:11:51 that's why i was trying to write
1:11:52 something around that like the way the
1:11:54 media has viewed uh or has portrayed
1:11:59 and i think that that is absolutely
1:12:00 fantastic but i think if we just focus
1:12:03 on the like the main topic which was the
1:12:06 crisis going on in ukraine and we just
1:12:08 like put a pin like if we were all
1:12:10 looking at a map and we're looking at a
1:12:11 and we put a pin in ukraine right now
1:12:13 it's like just that reason it's like
1:12:15 what's going on right there so
1:12:18 how does it relate to
1:12:20 russians in the uh in the area how does
1:12:22 it relate to
1:12:23 ukrainians in the area and i think it's
1:12:26 maybe just focused on the i don't know
1:12:28 if we can really
1:12:31 everything to a global message
1:12:33 and maybe it just needs to be region
1:12:34 focused kind of like what's just going
1:12:36 on in ukraine right now in terms of
1:12:38 racism and that although we know that
1:12:42 i don't know that um
1:12:44 the way the media is portraying this it
1:12:46 is different
1:12:48 and that we would like to have cultural
1:12:50 conversations around i don't know i
1:12:52 don't know but definitely one and two
1:12:58 i thank you so much for that tony i can
1:13:00 kind of agree with you that
1:13:02 um you know we can't have two without
1:13:05 three but i do think that
1:13:07 we can represent two and three
1:13:09 in a smaller version
1:13:11 because i don't want it to take away
1:13:13 from our bigger message that we
1:13:14 sympathize with the tragedy that's
1:13:16 occurring here and that we want to
1:13:20 show our support and ask our community
1:13:22 to do the same
1:13:27 i think bringing two and three to a
1:13:31 separate conversation that allows for us
1:13:33 to talk about how
1:13:35 differently
1:13:37 this mat these kinds of matters have
1:13:39 been handled
1:13:40 with other
1:13:42 uh countries
1:13:44 maybe the easier method
1:13:46 to make sure that we get a concise
1:13:48 message out
1:13:51 [Music]
1:13:52 and um megan i saw you had a comment
1:13:54 would you please come off mute and share
1:13:56 with us
1:13:57 yeah um i would say like one of my
1:14:00 concerns like i would love to use this
1:14:02 as a platform to raise awareness around
1:14:04 racism on a global scale but i also want
1:14:07 to be careful to make sure we're not
1:14:09 taking
1:14:10 away people's like we want to bring
1:14:11 attention to what's going on in ukraine
1:14:13 and not using that as a platform to like
1:14:16 kind of promote that
1:14:18 um racism on a scale i hope i'm like
1:14:21 making sense
1:14:23 um i want to be sensitive to that and
1:14:25 acknowledge and we want to help them but
1:14:27 then i think there is also space where
1:14:28 we can also in a minor comment also just
1:14:31 point out some of the things but not
1:14:32 make it our main intent
1:14:38 thank you so much megan and i think
1:14:40 we're kind of all in the same boat there
1:14:43 monica i saw you had a comment would you
1:14:44 please share with us
1:14:47 yes thank you um so definitely you have
1:14:49 the option of not voting but seeing like
1:14:52 you don't need to reach consensus you
1:14:54 need to have a majority of board members
1:14:57 in this
1:14:59 the other
1:15:01 comment so that's one comment the second
1:15:03 comment that i had is perhaps you can
1:15:07 consider
1:15:08 putting this second piece which seems
1:15:10 like it's a different goal or purpose of
1:15:13 the meaning you can put it
1:15:15 as a kind of like as a call to action
1:15:18 with the other resources because here
1:15:20 you know like if you may be struggling
1:15:22 here are some resources and then you
1:15:24 provide some other resources we can also
1:15:26 include
1:15:28 um kind of like
1:15:30 that statement about the global racism
1:15:34 um and the call for action like for the
1:15:37 community to reflect we can put it as as
1:15:40 a kind of like
1:15:41 you may also choose to reflect on this
1:15:44 and and put it there
1:15:45 um which is still including the larger
1:15:48 but it's not maybe part of the main
1:15:50 shorter statement
1:15:54 if you if you would like to consider
1:15:55 that that's also an option
1:16:00 thank you
1:16:01 thank you monica i think that does give
1:16:03 us at least some choices
1:16:05 um i'd like to hear from everyone in the
1:16:08 group to see what you think um not to
1:16:11 necessarily put anyone on the spot but
1:16:13 um i think we can get a little further
1:16:14 if we kind of gauge where everyone is
1:16:17 um is everyone okay with that we have
1:16:20 you do a quick comment to just kind of
1:16:22 see what you think is most important in
1:16:24 the statement
1:16:26 and um i'm only calling preethi because
1:16:28 i see her first
1:16:30 however um pretty if you would just
1:16:32 nominate the next person to speak then
1:16:34 that'll help get through all of us and
1:16:36 hopefully we can keep it under a minute
1:16:38 so we can just preserve everyone's time
1:16:42 sure um i
1:16:44 can align to what i'm hearing from the
1:16:46 rest of the group around um
1:16:48 one and four
1:16:51 i i do like uh monica's suggestion about
1:16:55 putting
1:16:55 some statement about it as a call to
1:16:58 action near the end i just feel like it
1:17:00 would we would be remiss if we didn't
1:17:02 note that in some way so i appreciate
1:17:04 that compromise
1:17:06 and i'll i i'll call on kelly next
1:17:12 i actually
1:17:13 completely agree with you preethi one
1:17:15 and four
1:17:17 move that one paragraph to the bottom
1:17:19 that sounds like a great solution and
1:17:21 just everything a little shorter
1:17:25 um i'll call on ray
1:17:29 i agree with you both i think we touched
1:17:31 on it um uh sharing our concerns and
1:17:33 giving our
1:17:36 community resources to
1:17:39 investigate and where they can take
1:17:40 action so those work
1:17:42 to the top ones that i was thinking that
1:17:44 we brought in the statement so thank you
1:17:48 um i will call on tony
1:17:52 i agree 1 and 4 sound good to me as long
1:17:55 as we can get a message out quickly to
1:17:56 the community that's the most important
1:17:58 thing
1:18:03 oops i forgot to call on somebody sorry
1:18:07 i called on you shay how about you
1:18:10 i'm going to join the consensus um i
1:18:13 know this is a bit of groupthink but um
1:18:15 i just think that if we try to
1:18:18 tackle
1:18:19 global racism
1:18:21 in this statement we may lose the point
1:18:24 of our our statement
1:18:27 not to say that it's not important
1:18:28 because it absolutely is and i 100 would
1:18:31 be happy to lead the conversation
1:18:34 in a cultural conversation but as a
1:18:37 statement
1:18:40 i think back to like a lot of the george
1:18:42 floyd statements i wouldn't have heard
1:18:44 it the same way if i heard someone bring
1:18:47 in another
1:18:50 another instance that
1:18:52 was similar but not necessarily related
1:18:55 or timely
1:18:57 and i probably wouldn't have taken it
1:18:59 the same way
1:19:00 if that focus was placed um on something
1:19:04 that's a bigger problem that we know is
1:19:06 the bigger problem so um
1:19:10 i i do think we probably need to scale
1:19:12 it back just a bit because we can
1:19:14 definitely expand this conversation
1:19:16 later
1:19:17 and to get this statement out it it will
1:19:20 get long when we start to bring in the
1:19:22 global aspect of things
1:19:27 um i'm going to go ahead and call on
1:19:32 let's do lucretia please
1:19:36 i think i want to be respectful of um
1:19:42 of pretty's
1:19:44 call to action i really
1:19:46 see the importance of doing that um i do
1:19:50 the the way that monica has um
1:19:53 out uh outlined what we can do with
1:19:56 regards to moving that's that particular
1:19:58 statement
1:20:00 to the section where we where we um give
1:20:04 a call to action to the community
1:20:05 because i think a lot of people
1:20:08 for example we could have just said yes
1:20:10 this statement is great let's work
1:20:11 dismiss it for grammar purposes or
1:20:14 whatever send it out
1:20:16 i i do agree with pretty that it is very
1:20:19 important to give context and give
1:20:22 people something
1:20:23 to open their minds right because i
1:20:25 think very few people are going to
1:20:28 openly admit that they support putin and
1:20:31 his crazy decisions right so that we're
1:20:34 not even addressing we're addressing
1:20:36 where we're coming from what we believe
1:20:38 is representative of our mission and and
1:20:42 i think that that's what the first half
1:20:44 the the first two paragraphs that we had
1:20:46 originally but in respect to
1:20:49 uh preachy's comment i really don't want
1:20:51 us to
1:20:52 do away with it i really want us to find
1:20:55 a way to include it in some way and
1:20:57 monica's
1:20:58 um recommendation is what i'm supporting
1:21:01 at this point
1:21:08 thank you lucia and who would you have
1:21:10 go next
1:21:13 i'm sorry i don't even know who hasn't
1:21:15 spoken
1:21:16 i i i call on christina
1:21:23 okay when i mean
1:21:40 everything is important to me and
1:21:42 the letters
1:21:44 should be to be bigger and i think
1:21:48 everything should be left where it is i
1:21:49 like everything that's been added to
1:21:58 thank you christina
1:22:00 um and would you be willing to nominate
1:22:02 another person
1:22:06 who hasn't spoken yet
1:22:23 i'm sorry
1:22:26 thank you
1:22:30 um i really like the idea of doing uh
1:22:32 option one and four together with a
1:22:34 really good emphasis on call to action
1:22:36 and how we can support uh ukrainians and
1:22:42 uh provide
1:22:43 information around uh how we can help
1:22:46 with that sorry i'm like being a little
1:22:47 repetitive um but i also really like
1:22:50 monica's suggestion and really
1:22:52 i think that'd be a great compromise to
1:22:53 also add in points two and three um
1:22:57 and then is there anybody else who
1:22:59 hasn't spoken yet
1:23:05 laura have you spoken yet
1:23:07 lorna hasn't and i don't think helen has
1:23:09 either
1:23:11 i don't know what ray has either
1:23:13 okay uh lorna when you go next
1:23:16 okay thank you um i would support one in
1:23:19 four for sure i think number four
1:23:21 already has a call to action if we use
1:23:23 that last sentence about uh i stand by
1:23:27 and i also like monica's sentence about
1:23:29 a statement about adding
1:23:31 something uh
1:23:33 regarding the last statement about
1:23:35 racism
1:23:36 um but it has to be brief because i
1:23:38 agree very much that if it's too long i
1:23:40 know based on criticism for the district
1:23:43 e-news that people like to have short
1:23:46 concise
1:23:47 emails
1:23:48 staying to the point
1:23:56 thank you can i nominate
1:23:58 ellen
1:24:05 i'll go one and four um it speaks to my
1:24:08 heart and yes i do agree that two and
1:24:10 three can be placed somewhere um
1:24:12 in a call to action to get us started
1:24:14 for the conversations that will come up
1:24:16 in the future
1:24:21 thank you helen is there anyone else who
1:24:23 has a comment about how we should
1:24:26 proceed
1:24:31 all right i think we're good monica did
1:24:33 were you able to capture everyone's
1:24:35 feelings on what we should see is more
1:24:37 important here
1:24:39 all right i believe i did hear a
1:24:40 majority for sure and so um it seems to
1:24:44 me like if i um
1:24:46 summarizing
1:24:48 uh your input board members that i think
1:24:50 we can stay with the core message being
1:24:52 this one um
1:24:54 that um was originally proposed um
1:24:59 and even there if you would like to even
1:25:01 make it a little bit shorter perhaps
1:25:03 there are some opportunities to just
1:25:05 wordsmith very gently
1:25:07 um for example
1:25:09 it's not going to cut much but
1:25:11 i was reading here as we lift our voices
1:25:14 our hearts minds in support of our
1:25:16 fellow neighbors we call upon the
1:25:18 community of issaquah king county state
1:25:20 of washington united states and the
1:25:21 world here i think we could if if you
1:25:24 would like to we could just take
1:25:27 those out and just leave the community
1:25:29 of issaquah and the world perhaps um so
1:25:33 there are those i don't think that if if
1:25:35 you would like those are small they are
1:25:37 not going to take away from from the
1:25:39 meaning um of
1:25:40 of the statement and there are ways to
1:25:43 make it a little bit
1:25:44 shorter the same perhaps there are some
1:25:46 areas where there are like two three
1:25:48 commas that we can just make it a bit
1:25:50 shorter um and with that um i think we
1:25:53 can just make the call to action with
1:25:56 the resources and the final call to
1:25:58 action to reflect upon uh
1:26:00 racism and and putting it here
1:26:03 um it seems to me like that
1:26:05 would um
1:26:07 include everybody's
1:26:10 input and feedback and not leave things
1:26:17 thank you so much monica i think you you
1:26:19 captured everything that the group had
1:26:23 and i think we've come up with a really
1:26:25 great compromise to make sure that the
1:26:27 statement's shorter and
1:26:29 also has the resources that people need
1:26:31 to reflect on some of the global
1:26:33 standpoints of racism with relation to
1:26:36 this event
1:26:38 thank you shay and with that i just want
1:26:40 to tell you board members you've been
1:26:42 doing you're doing a very very
1:26:44 challenging this is not easy stuff and i
1:26:46 want to commend you i know we are way
1:26:48 over time from what we are hoping to do
1:26:49 tonight but i definitely want to commend
1:26:53 for for the very challenging work you're
1:26:56 doing this is not easy task
1:26:58 um and so i think in terms of next steps
1:27:01 if all of you feel comfortable with just
1:27:03 a very final words meeting
1:27:06 that is left
1:27:07 perhaps we can call and and
1:27:11 on on the statement um and with your
1:27:14 permission i would love to work with um
1:27:18 tony and prithee and making it um
1:27:22 um just really final i would love to
1:27:24 just finalize it send it out i can
1:27:27 actually send it out to all of you so
1:27:29 you can
1:27:30 for sure see it um
1:27:34 but um if you would like i can we can
1:27:36 just finalize it tonight and propose it
1:27:39 to uh city council next week
1:27:42 um i don't foresee really any
1:27:44 big changes other than just putting into
1:27:46 sentence a couple of things that
1:27:49 just making it align really
1:27:52 and may i make a suggestion um kelly i
1:27:55 think you would be a good person to
1:27:57 actually join that final conversation as
1:28:02 just based on your suggestion um i think
1:28:04 your input would be valuable in making
1:28:06 sure that we stay to the point of of
1:28:09 this gesture
1:28:13 yeah and whoever i just named i think
1:28:15 tony because he worked initially and
1:28:16 also christian worked on it and yeah but
1:28:19 also absolutely not to take away from
1:28:21 any work that they've done
1:28:24 because you all have done a magnificent
1:28:27 job but um i do want to make sure that
1:28:29 everyone that wants to be a part of
1:28:33 making this a really great piece for us
1:28:35 to share
1:28:36 is a part of that process
1:28:39 and then my question to you all is i'm
1:28:41 gonna stop sharing do you feel
1:28:42 comfortable voting on this tonight as it
1:28:45 is final but yeah we are gonna put a few
1:28:47 comments there or here do you feel
1:28:49 comfortable voting on it tonight
1:28:52 and if you do i do have a proposed
1:28:54 motion for you all
1:28:58 and would you like for me to say it
1:29:00 yes please thank you
1:29:03 um i moved to recommend that issaquah
1:29:06 city council adopts the following
1:29:08 statement
1:29:09 regarding the war in ukraine
1:29:12 this is the truth
1:29:15 thank you
1:29:19 monica did you get that
1:29:21 yes moved and seconded so ashay moved it
1:29:24 and lucretia seconded and now we need to
1:29:29 um so we can do an actual role call or
1:29:32 you can just all say i and um
1:29:35 well actually i apologize it's a virtual
1:29:37 meeting we do need to do a roll call so
1:29:39 i'm gonna proceed with a roll call for
1:29:41 the vote
1:29:43 uh give me a moment
1:29:46 i have technical challenges there i am
1:29:49 um so as i call your name please vote um
1:29:53 if you vote yes just say i if you vote
1:29:57 no just say nay or if you abstain you
1:30:00 can just say that you're abstaining
1:30:02 uh christina bonsa how do you vote
1:30:07 i agree
1:30:09 i agree
1:30:10 thank you
1:30:12 megan
1:30:16 thank you elisa stewart
1:30:23 i think we may have lost alyssa
1:30:25 oh sorry to hear that
1:30:28 lorna
1:30:30 i agree
1:30:32 ellen hi
1:30:35 lucrecia
1:30:42 hello
1:30:46 i pretty
1:30:50 i'm kelly
1:30:54 thank you everyone
1:30:56 seems like the motion passes unanimously
1:30:58 thank you
1:31:02 so i'm gonna work internally with our
1:31:05 staff and then with you in finalizing
1:31:07 this so it's gonna go on city council's
1:31:10 agenda for next week congratulations
1:31:12 board members in your very short four or
1:31:15 five months this is your second
1:31:17 item moving forward to city council
1:31:22 thank you thank you thank you great job
1:31:24 team such a good work
1:31:27 indeed i'm always so very impressed
1:31:30 i love lucretia's spirit fingers that's
1:31:33 my favorite
1:31:36 i think it's the official way to um
1:31:40 to wave in sign language
1:31:43 it is i love that
1:31:46 hey that makes me happy great deal
1:31:50 i'm so very proud of this team so thank
1:31:52 you all so much
1:31:53 um if we are
1:31:56 i think we're at the point to adjourn
1:31:57 monica is that correct yes you may
1:32:00 adjourn
1:32:01 again congratulations board members
1:32:03 thank you very much very very
1:32:04 challenging work
1:32:06 you're amazing
1:32:08 all right thank you everyone have a
1:32:10 wonderful night have a good night
1:32:12 turning that's 7 39
1:32:15 good night yes thank you i'm sorry we're
1:32:16 a journey at 7 39 thank you everyone
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