Equity Board · Wednesday, April 6, 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…

4. AGENDA ITEMS

March 21, 2022 City Council Meeting Presentation - Report Out (I)

10 min · Shalanda Curry, Equity Board Chair Tony Curry, Equity Board Vice Chair · packet pp.13–16

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Staff report:

I - Information Page 13 of 35 AGENDA ITEMS b) 2022 Equity Board Workplan - Draft

Draft Workplan - Review & Brainstorming (D)

30 min · Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager

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5. STAFF REPORT

Acknowledging Cultural, Diversity & Religious Holidays in April

Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager

Topics: EquityArts & Culture

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0:00 ↗ bring our meeting to order it is now 604

0:04 ↗ um

0:06 ↗ oh i'm sorry i forgot the date april 6th

0:09 ↗ so 2022

0:12 ↗ and we want to remind everyone that due

0:14 ↗ to the government governor's

0:15 ↗ proclamation on 2028 um park relation

0:18 ↗ 2028 related to the covet 19 emergency

0:21 ↗ and open public meeting this meeting is

0:23 ↗ being held remotely

0:25 ↗ um via webex um so we asked that well

0:28 ↗ will actually address some housekeeping

0:31 ↗ rules um following roll call and i want

0:34 ↗ to just um

0:35 ↗ actually turn over to monica and ask her

0:37 ↗ can you confirm that we have quorum

0:41 ↗ good evening shay this is morning canada

0:43 ↗ yes you do have quorum tonight

0:46 ↗ thank you so very much and do we have

0:48 ↗ any members who weren't able to make it

0:49 ↗ tonight

0:51 ↗ yes we do have a couple of members who

0:53 ↗ are absent and they were excused they

0:56 ↗ let us know in advance that they cannot

0:57 ↗ attend

0:58 ↗ so um kelly mann um let us know she

1:02 ↗ cannot attend tonight she's traveling

1:04 ↗ and megan uh riley uh richly i'm sorry

1:08 ↗ she's also absent tonight and she cannot

1:10 ↗ make it i do see however that we still

1:13 ↗ have a couple of board members who are

1:15 ↗ not um in the attendance yet tonight in

1:19 ↗ attendance

1:20 ↗ um and they may join us a little bit

1:23 ↗ later but i don't see

1:24 ↗ christina um i also don't see helen

1:29 ↗ and

1:30 ↗ i think that's it

1:32 ↗ that's it thank you

1:34 ↗ all right

1:35 ↗ well if that's okay we can go ahead and

1:38 ↗ move forward

1:42 ↗ um

1:43 ↗ so we'll start um with the approval of

1:46 ↗ last week of the minutes for last week

1:48 ↗ march 2nd um or i'm sorry actually

1:52 ↗ monica do we have any public comments

1:56 ↗ uh thank you say no we don't have public

1:59 ↗ comments nobody signed up uh tonight for

2:01 ↗ public comments and i don't see anyone

2:02 ↗ in the attendance either

2:07 ↗ wonderful and then it looks like

2:11 ↗ we have okay in in that case we're ready

2:14 ↗ to move forward um so now we will

2:17 ↗ actually do the approval of last uh last

2:19 ↗ month's meeting um for march 2nd 2022

2:23 ↗ um

2:25 ↗ does anyone need time to review the

2:27 ↗ minutes from

2:28 ↗ march

2:30 ↗ say if i may i have one quick um

2:33 ↗ clarification for the board

2:36 ↗ tonight board members you are reviewing

2:38 ↗ two sets of minutes you are reviewing

2:40 ↗ the minutes from the regular meeting

2:42 ↗ that we held on march 2nd and we are

2:45 ↗ also you are reviewing the minutes that

2:47 ↗ we held we had for the special meeting

2:49 ↗ that we held on march 14th

2:52 ↗ and so um if you have no

2:55 ↗ um edits to the minutes you can just

2:58 ↗ approve them all together um or

3:00 ↗ separately as well if you have um edits

3:05 ↗ thank you

3:06 ↗ everyone had a chance to review the

3:07 ↗ minutes

3:10 ↗ all righty then if we're ready um we can

3:12 ↗ go ahead and vote to approve the minutes

3:15 ↗ with no adjustments if we don't have any

3:17 ↗ do we have any adjustments that we need

3:19 ↗ to make

3:24 ↗ all right it looks like no um so

3:27 ↗ uh and i'm sorry monica should i propose

3:30 ↗ a vote

3:32 ↗ you can also do just that shortcut if

3:35 ↗ there are no objections and no one wants

3:36 ↗ to make edits you can just um say say

3:39 ↗ that okay if if there are no no

3:42 ↗ amendments or objections to the minutes

3:44 ↗ i'd like to propose the minutes be um

3:46 ↗ unanimously approved is that correct yes

3:49 ↗ it's presented yes absolutely

3:52 ↗ all right wonderful okay i'll say it one

3:55 ↗ more time if there is an if there is no

3:57 ↗ amendments or objections to the minutes

3:59 ↗ i'd like to propose the minutes be

4:01 ↗ unanimously approved

4:06 ↗ thanks everyone

4:09 ↗ the minutes are approved and then we

4:11 ↗ will move forward

4:12 ↗ with our agenda items and our first one

4:15 ↗ is actually the march 21st 2022

4:18 ↗ um council meeting that tony and i

4:20 ↗ attended um and i think tony is actually

4:22 ↗ going to be our presenter for tonight

4:25 ↗ welcome tony

4:27 ↗ thank you very much shay um so actually

4:30 ↗ um nothing visually to to present but i

4:33 ↗ will just now again just talk through um

4:36 ↗ the the thoughts of the um city council

4:39 ↗ members um the first thing i'd like to

4:40 ↗ impart on the meeting in which

4:43 ↗ we wrote a great um

4:46 ↗ i guess would call it maybe a public

4:48 ↗ relations release or if you want to call

4:50 ↗ it a resolution um the all of the city

4:53 ↗ council

4:54 ↗ they all made great personal comments

4:58 ↗ some made comments about

5:01 ↗ their own personal experiences

5:04 ↗ in dealing with what their

5:07 ↗ their family members have dealt with

5:09 ↗ during world war ii and

5:11 ↗ their their culture uh in that and

5:15 ↗ the different types of

5:17 ↗ things that happened to to them as well

5:19 ↗ as

5:21 ↗ them that the city council really

5:23 ↗ imparting uh our work you're just really

5:25 ↗ imparting their their their love of our

5:27 ↗ work what we've done what we

5:29 ↗ painstakingly put together in that

5:32 ↗ message that um

5:34 ↗ that they really so much enjoyed what i

5:36 ↗ liked about it within the meeting from

5:38 ↗ before the meeting started

5:40 ↗ is that every council person that um

5:43 ↗ had a chance to to to meet um and talk

5:46 ↗ with me they all love the fact that we

5:49 ↗ as an equity board are doing something

5:52 ↗ you know we're not just sitting on our

5:53 ↗ hands we're not spinning our wheels i

5:55 ↗ know sometimes we feel that maybe we are

5:57 ↗ because we're not really

5:59 ↗ proactively doing a lot of things

6:02 ↗ but they were very appreciative of our

6:04 ↗ work especially the mayor as well very

6:06 ↗ very appreciative of our work um

6:09 ↗ but but

6:11 ↗ back to the message that uh that we put

6:13 ↗ on our resolution and our that message

6:15 ↗ about ukraine what they loved about that

6:18 ↗ message is not only that we talked about

6:21 ↗ the war going on in ukraine but also

6:24 ↗ that our

6:25 ↗ our plight and our fight is not with

6:28 ↗ russian citizens it's not to blame all

6:30 ↗ you know russian citizens so that was

6:32 ↗ great to actually have that in our

6:35 ↗ letter to the community as well as that

6:37 ↗ call to action about equity in our homes

6:40 ↗ and equity in our places of business and

6:42 ↗ equities in our places of worship

6:45 ↗ so they were all very moved and that's

6:47 ↗ the the right uh uh i guess maybe not

6:50 ↗ the right but that's what i would

6:51 ↗ actually really say about uh how they

6:55 ↗ enjoyed the message uh that they were

6:57 ↗ very moved by our work and uh very

7:00 ↗ excited about uh seeing what comes next

7:03 ↗ from us in our married group here in the

7:05 ↗ equity board so i'm really really very

7:07 ↗ very excited about uh it made me feel

7:11 ↗ very honored not that i didn't feel

7:12 ↗ honored before but just hearing it from

7:14 ↗ outside of our group i felt very honored

7:17 ↗ to be a part of this this very very

7:19 ↗ fascinating team of of one mind for

7:22 ↗ equity but yet different personalities

7:25 ↗ and different experiences and different

7:27 ↗ passions and uh you know that's just my

7:31 ↗ take on the meeting

7:34 ↗ thank you so much tony i 100 agree i

7:37 ↗ think the meeting went phenomenally um

7:40 ↗ we did get a lot of great feedback

7:42 ↗ um i felt like everyone kind of saw

7:46 ↗ themselves in the statement

7:49 ↗ so i must commend you all for putting

7:51 ↗ such great wording and making it just

7:54 ↗ feel welcoming it was a really really

7:57 ↗ phenomenal message and it was very clear

7:59 ↗ that we wanted to support ukrainians

8:01 ↗ while still supporting our russian

8:03 ↗ colleagues as well so that was actually

8:06 ↗ really quite moving and it came through

8:09 ↗ very clearly

8:11 ↗ in addition to the fact that we wanted

8:13 ↗ to highlight some of the ways that

8:14 ↗ people could actually get involved and

8:16 ↗ people saw value in that and

8:19 ↗ i i can't tell you how appreciative i

8:21 ↗ was in in presenting but

8:25 ↗ also

8:26 ↗ very appreciative in seeing how everyone

8:28 ↗ reacted um

8:30 ↗ it was just very joyful and really

8:32 ↗ reminded me how important this group is

8:40 ↗ did anyone have any questions or

8:42 ↗ concerns

8:48 ↗ no

8:49 ↗ all right we're quiet tonight

8:51 ↗ that's

8:52 ↗ okay well in that case then we will go

8:56 ↗ ahead and move on to our next agenda

8:57 ↗ item um but before we do that i do want

9:00 ↗ to do um come back to just take a quick

9:03 ↗ step back just to remind everyone to

9:06 ↗ please um remember our housekeeping

9:08 ↗ rules

9:09 ↗ and of course if you have a question or

9:11 ↗ a comment be sure to

9:14 ↗ write question or comment in the chat

9:16 ↗ and not ask or state your question or

9:18 ↗ comment in the chat so that way we are

9:20 ↗ able to all share in the answer for

9:23 ↗ those who call in

9:25 ↗ also we'd like to remind you to just

9:27 ↗ please be sure to speak clearly

9:30 ↗ concisely and slightly slower than

9:32 ↗ normal so that our interpreters can

9:35 ↗ actually go ahead and provide that

9:37 ↗ interpretation piece

9:39 ↗ and then lastly of course just try to

9:40 ↗ make sure that your comments are

9:42 ↗ relevant um courteous and fair to the

9:45 ↗ group

9:47 ↗ alrighty so our next agenda item for

9:50 ↗ tonight

9:51 ↗ um is gonna go back to monica actually

9:55 ↗ um

9:56 ↗ oh i'm sorry oh and monica i'm sorry did

9:59 ↗ you have any comments about the special

10:01 ↗ meeting we had

10:03 ↗ oh thank you so much

10:05 ↗ no i was just gonna say yes i just

10:07 ↗ wanted to say a big shout out and thank

10:09 ↗ you to both you and tony for attending

10:12 ↗ that meeting i know that lots of evening

10:14 ↗ meetings in addition to the regular

10:16 ↗ board meetings are not easy but it was

10:18 ↗ just so wonderful to uh to have you both

10:21 ↗ there one virtual wanting person and so

10:24 ↗ yeah i just wanted to add plus one it

10:27 ↗ was really really

10:28 ↗ um

10:30 ↗ heartwarming to see the support from a

10:33 ↗ mayor paulie and city council so

10:35 ↗ definitely a great atmosphere that that

10:37 ↗ evening although of course we know the

10:39 ↗ the war is not um

10:41 ↗ not positive um for sure and it just

10:44 ↗ continues so thank you thank you

10:47 ↗ thank you so much monica um and i see

10:50 ↗ tony had a comment i'm sorry tony would

10:52 ↗ you please share with us yes actually

10:54 ↗ just a one quick comment like it was and

10:57 ↗ piggybacking off what you said monica it

10:59 ↗ was great to actually be there in person

11:01 ↗ and to finally meet someone from our

11:02 ↗ equity board in person so i wish more of

11:06 ↗ you could have been there i mean i hope

11:07 ↗ we're able to

11:09 ↗ um sometime in the near future even just

11:12 ↗ get together and

11:14 ↗ talk hang out whatever so

11:16 ↗ i enjoyed actually being there in person

11:20 ↗ thank you so much tony i'm sure we all

11:23 ↗ are looking forward to the time when we

11:25 ↗ can all be together and

11:26 ↗ get to know each other a little bit

11:28 ↗ better

11:28 ↗ yeah

11:30 ↗ all right our next agenda item is going

11:32 ↗ to be um the work plan review and

11:35 ↗ brainstorming monica are you ready to

11:38 ↗ share with us i am good evening again

11:40 ↗ thank you so much before i move into

11:43 ↗ talking about our work plan for 2022 i

11:47 ↗ want to just pause and welcome this

11:49 ↗ evening also christina i saw that you're

11:51 ↗ about to join and helen um and just

11:54 ↗ wanted to know that since um you're not

11:56 ↗ quite there early at the meeting

11:59 ↗ um but good to see you and good evening

12:02 ↗ so boardman members for the work plan

12:05 ↗ conversation i don't have a powerpoint

12:07 ↗ presentation but with your permission i

12:09 ↗ would like to share my screen just to

12:11 ↗ share the

12:12 ↗ uh the actual work plan draft with you

12:16 ↗ um i would love to speak for a few

12:17 ↗ minutes uh to just provide like a

12:20 ↗ reminder of where we were where we

12:22 ↗ started and the ideas moving forward and

12:25 ↗ then after that i'm gonna stop sharing

12:27 ↗ the screen and i have a couple of

12:29 ↗ questions for for you all brainstorming

12:32 ↗ um as a follow-up from suggestions uh

12:35 ↗ received from you last month um so with

12:39 ↗ that

12:40 ↗ um

12:41 ↗ allow me give me just a moment

12:47 ↗ i had it all open just right and now all

12:50 ↗ of my word documents are not

12:54 ↗ like i want them to so

12:56 ↗ give me another moment here i go

13:01 ↗ okay

13:02 ↗ so

13:05 ↗ i believe you should be able to see the

13:08 ↗ blue table document

13:09 ↗ is that what you see on the screen

13:12 ↗ yes you can get a little bit larger

13:14 ↗ monica please yes so i would love to

13:16 ↗ make it larger i'm wondering is that the

13:19 ↗ only thing that you see on the screen or

13:20 ↗ do you see other documents as well

13:23 ↗ i see another document i was going to

13:25 ↗ ask if we needed to put them side by

13:27 ↗ side or if you can put them on top yeah

13:29 ↗ no and that's why i i apologize and

13:31 ↗ thank you i got upgraded to this very

13:33 ↗ big fancy screen and i'm not sure how it

13:37 ↗ um how it shares if it shares my entire

13:39 ↗ screen is this a little bit better

13:42 ↗ yes we can see the document or at least

13:44 ↗ i can

13:46 ↗ i don't want to speak for the group here

13:47 ↗ but yes i can see it

13:49 ↗ and then lucretia is the font large

13:51 ↗ enough where you can see

13:55 ↗ or not

13:56 ↗ let me okay bye

14:01 ↗ let me just increase it even more

14:06 ↗ is that better

14:08 ↗ perfect

14:09 ↗ okay

14:11 ↗ thank you so much

14:12 ↗ so what you see on the screen board

14:14 ↗ members it's i just started putting

14:17 ↗ together the the draft work plan for us

14:19 ↗ for the year um and then side by side i

14:22 ↗ also added some of the community

14:24 ↗ conversations this is gonna be our next

14:26 ↗ agenda item so with your permission i'm

14:27 ↗ just gonna

14:29 ↗ talk just briefly about this part

14:31 ↗ because we are gonna talk a little bit

14:32 ↗ in more details in in a little bit later

14:36 ↗ um but just wanted to to remind you as

14:39 ↗ as this board formed in november with an

14:41 ↗ opening um meeting and then followed by

14:45 ↗ that in december

14:48 ↗ we had

14:49 ↗ we've been quite busy we had quite a few

14:53 ↗ topics assigned by the administration

14:57 ↗ and so we worked on on quite a few

14:59 ↗ things but one of the first

15:01 ↗ um assignments that we received from

15:03 ↗ mayor paulie if you may recall early on

15:07 ↗ was to conduct an um equity

15:10 ↗ gap analysis

15:12 ↗ and so that's something that we really

15:15 ↗ did not have time to tackle yet and i

15:17 ↗ would like to talk about that uh before

15:20 ↗ we go there and i just wanted to provide

15:22 ↗ a brief overview if you remember we

15:24 ↗ worked on rules and regulations in

15:26 ↗ addition to basic trainings and opens

15:29 ↗ meetings act in in january you adopted

15:32 ↗ rules and regulations for the board

15:34 ↗ um then we started having an equity

15:37 ↗ conversation this was like a member

15:39 ↗ proposed tony led us in some great

15:41 ↗ conversation on equity versus equality

15:44 ↗ uh then we didn't have time so we had to

15:46 ↗ postpone that a little bit

15:49 ↗ and then part of that

15:51 ↗ starting that process of the equity gap

15:54 ↗ analysis

15:55 ↗ if you recall we had jeff watling the

15:58 ↗ director of parks and community services

16:00 ↗ provide an overview of the parks

16:08 ↗ thank you so much interpreters i

16:10 ↗ apologize for that

16:11 ↗ um

16:13 ↗ so yes so then followed by that we had

16:16 ↗ um

16:17 ↗ jeff wattlings provide an overview of

16:20 ↗ the parks and community services

16:25 ↗ and then we were assigned a great topic

16:28 ↗ on the cultural and religious calendar

16:31 ↗ we worked on that topic for two months

16:34 ↗ in january and february

16:37 ↗ um

16:38 ↗ during that time

16:40 ↗ we also started working with our human

16:43 ↗ resources director

16:45 ↗ on the city's equity framework

16:49 ↗ as a brief reminder that topic will come

16:52 ↗ back to you next month

16:54 ↗ as um per your request with a training

16:59 ↗ um if

17:00 ↗ you recall

17:02 ↗ a training was requested to dive deeper

17:04 ↗ before making a recommendation so next

17:07 ↗ month we will continue that

17:10 ↗ so for two months we discussed the low

17:12 ↗ balance equity framework

17:14 ↗ um

17:15 ↗ then we continued with community

17:17 ↗ engagement process we had black history

17:20 ↗ month as an event hosted by you

17:23 ↗ as the board

17:26 ↗ and so

17:27 ↗ that takes us now to where we are today

17:30 ↗ um in conversations with our board

17:33 ↗ leadership shay and tony

17:35 ↗ um we were discussing that really we did

17:38 ↗ quite a few things but we really did not

17:40 ↗ have time to focus on long-term planning

17:44 ↗ and developing a longer term

17:47 ↗ plan for the board and so

17:51 ↗ therefore what i would like to propose

17:54 ↗ for your discussion tonight

17:56 ↗ is to go back to the initial assignment

18:01 ↗ that

18:02 ↗ we received from mayor paulie

18:05 ↗ which was to

18:07 ↗ do a gap analysis

18:10 ↗ for the city

18:12 ↗ and for that what we had planned

18:15 ↗ initially to do

18:17 ↗ um was to

18:19 ↗ um

18:21 ↗ first is the first step to really learn

18:23 ↗ in more depth what the city is doing

18:26 ↗ internally and what are the resources

18:29 ↗ available in the community so both an

18:31 ↗ external external and an internal

18:34 ↗ component

18:35 ↗ for the internal component

18:37 ↗ we are going to invite

18:39 ↗ each

18:41 ↗ department director to come and attend

18:44 ↗ an equity board meeting

18:46 ↗ to

18:47 ↗ introduce their department the services

18:49 ↗ that they provide so you as an equity

18:52 ↗ board you have a more in-depth

18:53 ↗ understanding of what the city does

18:57 ↗ and how things work at the city

19:00 ↗ the second thing that we proposed for

19:02 ↗ that was the external the community

19:04 ↗ component to that

19:06 ↗ and for that we were gonna invite um

19:10 ↗ community equity groups in issaquah

19:14 ↗ and in the

19:15 ↗ east side region

19:17 ↗ for us again as an equity board for you

19:19 ↗ to

19:20 ↗ learn in more depth on what work they're

19:23 ↗ doing

19:25 ↗ so then once we

19:27 ↗ learn um of of the existing services

19:31 ↗ within the city

19:32 ↗ both internally and externally then we

19:35 ↗ can talk about an approach on how to

19:38 ↗ really go about identifying what are the

19:41 ↗ equity related gaps and

19:44 ↗ those would then help us

19:47 ↗ create a plan for

19:49 ↗ a longer term

19:51 ↗ action item for the equity board

19:55 ↗ so with that i think i just as you may

19:58 ↗ have seen also in your agenda packet i

20:00 ↗ just drafted for the upcoming months

20:04 ↗ when you see city department and or

20:07 ↗ community equity group introduction

20:09 ↗ it's basically inviting different

20:11 ↗ departments and different community

20:13 ↗ groups

20:14 ↗ in the upcoming months to come and visit

20:16 ↗ you

20:17 ↗ to introduce themselves

20:22 ↗ also left as i mentioned you started

20:24 ↗ working on the equity framework with our

20:27 ↗ human resources

20:28 ↗ um

20:29 ↗ director

20:31 ↗ and as i mentioned there's a training

20:34 ↗ scheduled for

20:36 ↗ next month for may

20:38 ↗ um and then depending on how the

20:40 ↗ training goes and the discussion

20:42 ↗ if you are going to be ready to make a

20:44 ↗ recommendation at that meeting then you

20:47 ↗ you can make a recommendation for city

20:49 ↗ council uh at that meeting otherwise uh

20:53 ↗ we'll add either another special meeting

20:55 ↗ or we'll move to the meeting in june to

20:58 ↗ make a recommendation for city council

21:02 ↗ um

21:03 ↗ so

21:04 ↗ these are

21:05 ↗ for now kind of like this is um the

21:07 ↗ draft plan

21:09 ↗ um and the way we've been thinking about

21:12 ↗ starting the work for the equity board

21:14 ↗ so we really we can start diving a

21:16 ↗ little bit deeper

21:17 ↗ um

21:18 ↗ instead of just having the short

21:21 ↗ um timely

21:23 ↗ topics which i'm sure we are still going

21:26 ↗ to have short and timely topics

21:29 ↗ however it would be also great to kind

21:30 ↗ of like focus a little bit on long-term

21:33 ↗ action items and so with that

21:36 ↗ i think i would like to pause

21:38 ↗ and um ask for your thoughts on this

21:41 ↗ proposed plan for for the next few

21:43 ↗ months

21:44 ↗ and then my second question is

21:46 ↗ and after this discussion

21:49 ↗ um

21:50 ↗ ray brought up last month um a great

21:54 ↗ um

21:56 ↗ idea

21:57 ↗ since

21:58 ↗ you had a chance to introduce at the

22:00 ↗ very first meeting

22:02 ↗ but because everything was so new

22:05 ↗ i think it may be worth revisiting that

22:08 ↗ introduction ray suggested last month

22:10 ↗ that perhaps it would be great to hear

22:11 ↗ from each of you on

22:14 ↗ why did you decide to choose the equity

22:16 ↗ board and kind of like what would you

22:18 ↗ like to see accomplished

22:21 ↗ as part of the equity board and then i

22:23 ↗ think we can make the list and kind of

22:25 ↗ like add those wishes

22:27 ↗ um

22:28 ↗ to uh the work plan and then see how we

22:31 ↗ may incorporate it with the other things

22:33 ↗ that were assigned to us so those are my

22:35 ↗ two questions for you tonight

22:37 ↗ um and

22:39 ↗ i'm gonna

22:41 ↗ hand it back to you in case we'd love to

22:42 ↗ hear questions and comments

22:45 ↗ thank you so much monica it looks like

22:47 ↗ ray is ready to jump in and i encourage

22:50 ↗ you to come off mute and

22:53 ↗ tell us your comment

22:54 ↗ hi yeah good evening everybody just to

22:56 ↗ piggyback on what monica said i think

22:58 ↗ that's really critical for our

23:01 ↗ our equity board here to really just

23:03 ↗ share

23:04 ↗ what brought us

23:06 ↗ to the table what is it that inspired us

23:09 ↗ to be want to be part of the

23:11 ↗ of this committee of uh serving the city

23:14 ↗ of issaquah there's something must have

23:15 ↗ driven us to the table and i think that

23:17 ↗ might open up some avenues on which we

23:19 ↗ want to pursue

23:20 ↗ whether that be our involvement with

23:24 ↗ activists or organizations or special

23:27 ↗ events that might have occurred in the

23:28 ↗ city of esqua or outside the city of

23:30 ↗ issaquah some of us are transplants

23:32 ↗ right we're not really we haven't been

23:34 ↗ here that long so what was it that we

23:36 ↗ may have seen outside of our city that

23:38 ↗ we feel would be appropriate to

23:41 ↗ expound upon and apply to our our

23:44 ↗ community so i mean i have some things

23:46 ↗ in mind and i thought it would be a

23:47 ↗ great um venue for us to share some of

23:49 ↗ that

23:50 ↗ with some ideas

23:54 ↗ thank you so much ray

23:57 ↗ and um

23:58 ↗ before i actually comment i would like

24:02 ↗ to just ask the group is anyone ready to

24:05 ↗ actually answer monica's questions and

24:09 ↗ to raise point share why you decided to

24:11 ↗ become an equity board member and what

24:13 ↗ you'd like to see

24:21 ↗ well if no one's ready i look ahead and

24:24 ↗ jump in um just to give some people some

24:27 ↗ ideas

24:28 ↗ um and of course i'm also of the mindset

24:31 ↗ that it's better to be to volunteer than

24:34 ↗ to be voluntold

24:36 ↗ so

24:37 ↗ i'll jump right in

24:38 ↗ um okay so um i moved here from st louis

24:42 ↗ about four years ago

24:44 ↗ um and

24:46 ↗ i

24:48 ↗ saw a pretty significant need to help

24:52 ↗ others

24:53 ↗ become more educated about the things

24:56 ↗ that are happening outside of issaquah

24:59 ↗ and then of course

25:01 ↗ once

25:03 ↗ life started changing um

25:05 ↗ with the

25:07 ↗ presence of the pandemic and all of that

25:09 ↗ i

25:10 ↗ found a whole lot of concern with how

25:13 ↗ issaquah was actually handling

25:16 ↗ equitable issues um

25:18 ↗ and

25:20 ↗ i found it hard to understand how they

25:23 ↗ could address those without having a

25:26 ↗ member of the community that experiences

25:29 ↗ some of those things that we

25:31 ↗ see as opportunities to grow the city

25:34 ↗ and help us become a better community

25:37 ↗ so

25:38 ↗ i of course decided to apply

25:40 ↗ and um it was probably one of the

25:44 ↗ better experiences i've had with just

25:48 ↗ convincing people that i love doing dei

25:50 ↗ work um it's something i do in my job

25:54 ↗ it's something that i like doing in the

25:56 ↗ community and it's definitely something

25:58 ↗ that i feel is necessary to help our

26:01 ↗ community be better be better um

26:04 ↗ there's

26:05 ↗ i'm raising two small citizens that

26:08 ↗ intend to

26:09 ↗ um one day be a part of isopod's future

26:12 ↗ and i want to make sure that they

26:14 ↗ not only know the struggles and the work

26:17 ↗ that it takes to make these things

26:19 ↗ happen but also

26:21 ↗ help preserve those things and help

26:23 ↗ bring our community forward as

26:26 ↗ life changes as our community changes as

26:28 ↗ things begin to adjust and people start

26:30 ↗ to

26:31 ↗ even change in their perceptions so i

26:33 ↗ want

26:35 ↗ my my part of the community to be ready

26:38 ↗ for that because change is happening and

26:41 ↗ it's happening a little bit faster than

26:42 ↗ i think a lot of people think um

26:45 ↗ but any either case

26:47 ↗ my goal

26:48 ↗ or my hope for this group is that we are

26:52 ↗ able to not only make issaquah more

26:54 ↗ equitable

26:55 ↗ but make it a very welcoming place for

26:58 ↗ all kinds of people

27:00 ↗ and um i think i share in the experience

27:02 ↗ that it hasn't always been as welcoming

27:04 ↗ as i'd like it to be or as much as i

27:07 ↗ wanted it to be and i think that that is

27:09 ↗ changing

27:14 ↗ all right and then i will go ahead and

27:16 ↗ throw it to tony because it looks like

27:18 ↗ he also has a comment or he's ready to

27:20 ↗ comment sure i'm ready to comment so

27:23 ↗ good evening everyone i didn't say that

27:24 ↗ before when i was talking about the

27:26 ↗ meeting with uh at the city council but

27:28 ↗ um

27:29 ↗ so yeah i'm going to answer those same

27:32 ↗ questions so for me i mean i moved here

27:34 ↗ to issaquah in

27:36 ↗ 2015. um but

27:39 ↗ i always heard what i'm not always heard

27:42 ↗ um i had been to issaquah many times

27:46 ↗ before i worked for a company called lg

27:48 ↗ electronics and in my job as a regional

27:52 ↗ corporate trainer i would come out here

27:54 ↗ to issaquah and i would come out to talk

27:56 ↗ with the folks at at t and folks at

27:59 ↗ verizon and t-mobile and whatnot and

28:01 ↗ talk with them about our devices and

28:03 ↗ whatnot so i never really thought of

28:04 ↗ more of issaquah

28:06 ↗ as other than maybe kind of a closed-off

28:09 ↗ community

28:10 ↗ until actually moving here in 2015. and

28:13 ↗ so when i moved here in 2015 for me um

28:17 ↗ i was the only person of color i saw

28:20 ↗ every day i go to the safeway in the

28:22 ↗ highlands i'd go to emerald city

28:24 ↗ smoothies down on gilman i go to the ups

28:27 ↗ store where shea and i almost got a

28:29 ↗ chance to meet each other um i'd go down

28:32 ↗ and i would be the only not the only

28:34 ↗ blackface but the only person of color

28:36 ↗ that i'd pretty much see but over the

28:38 ↗ years i've started to see it change so

28:41 ↗ the reason why i got involved in the

28:42 ↗ equity board is actually i would love to

28:45 ↗ say that i saw a need in issaquah but it

28:48 ↗ really wasn't an easy it's a for me for

28:51 ↗ me personally it wasn't a need of just

28:53 ↗ an issaquah it was a new enter in the

28:55 ↗ world and i saw that that i mean

28:59 ↗ everyone has a lofty goal of maybe i

29:01 ↗ want to say everyone but some people

29:02 ↗ have a lofty goals they'd love to change

29:03 ↗ the world and i would love to be able to

29:05 ↗ change the world in terms of like equity

29:08 ↗ and love and unity and

29:11 ↗ caring for your fellow person you know

29:13 ↗ and so that's why i wanted to get

29:15 ↗ involved i found myself like after i

29:17 ↗ left the military i loved service i

29:20 ↗ loved like my time spent in the military

29:23 ↗ even though

29:24 ↗ what i did in the military was more

29:29 ↗ i just say was of a violent nature but

29:32 ↗ we kept the peace

29:34 ↗ and i miss that service that service to

29:37 ↗ not just my country but my service to

29:40 ↗ keeping the peace into the world and i

29:42 ↗ sat on the sidelines too long and i felt

29:45 ↗ like it was just time for me

29:47 ↗ to

29:48 ↗ and you know and i will admit and then

29:51 ↗ just outing myself

29:52 ↗ it really took what happened with george

29:54 ↗ floyd for me to say

29:56 ↗ it's time for me not just to speak up in

29:58 ↗ my home because you guys have heard me

30:00 ↗ talk like my wife she's white and so

30:04 ↗ there's a lot of conversations that we

30:06 ↗ did not have

30:08 ↗ until george floyd and it took those

30:11 ↗ conversations for me to realize that

30:14 ↗ wow

30:15 ↗ a lot of people here in issaquah

30:17 ↗ definitely need to know about equity

30:20 ↗ need to know about you know get a true

30:23 ↗ education

30:24 ↗ on true history and then that i think

30:27 ↗ that if we can all just like get there

30:30 ↗ get there to the fact of true history

30:33 ↗ get to the fact of

30:34 ↗ true lived experiences

30:37 ↗ in the world if we can just start one

30:40 ↗ with our homes and then two start with

30:43 ↗ our communities which in issaquah maybe

30:46 ↗ that will just spread and spread and

30:47 ↗ spread and spread and just balloon out

30:50 ↗ and hopefully you know to washington

30:53 ↗ state to the united states to the world

30:55 ↗ so for me that's why i really wanted to

30:58 ↗ want to get involved and i'm so

31:01 ↗ very appreciative of

31:03 ↗ the camaraderie that we have as a group

31:06 ↗ that's why i really want to meet all of

31:07 ↗ you in person because you know we talk a

31:10 ↗ lot about you know the things that we

31:12 ↗ want to do and we talk about the things

31:14 ↗ that we are doing as an equity board and

31:17 ↗ sometimes we have a little fun with each

31:18 ↗ other before call begins but it's nice

31:21 ↗ to actually be a part of this great

31:22 ↗ equity board that wants to see change

31:25 ↗ happen

31:26 ↗ and that's what i

31:28 ↗ that's the biggest reason

31:30 ↗ why

31:31 ↗ i joined the equity board is to make

31:35 ↗ change

31:36 ↗ happen and i think i see that in every

31:38 ↗ single one of us

31:40 ↗ so that's my take on it

31:45 ↗ thank you so much tony there's so much i

31:48 ↗ want to say

31:49 ↗ but it is not my turn

31:53 ↗ lisa would you please come off mew and

31:55 ↗ join us and with your comments

32:00 ↗ um

32:02 ↗ i

32:03 ↗ i grew up in a community that was um

32:07 ↗ almost 99

32:09 ↗ african-american

32:11 ↗ and

32:12 ↗ um when i then went to college was

32:16 ↗ in an environment that was almost 99

32:19 ↗ not african-american

32:21 ↗ and

32:22 ↗ um

32:23 ↗ my

32:24 ↗ my experience in college was that i felt

32:28 ↗ that

32:28 ↗ i was around a lot of really good people

32:31 ↗ who had just never had the chance to

32:34 ↗ interact with an african-american person

32:37 ↗ as a peer

32:39 ↗ and i felt that it was

32:42 ↗ my responsibility to be an ambassador

32:46 ↗ and

32:47 ↗ and and to bring that opportunity

32:50 ↗ because there wasn't anyone else that's

32:52 ↗ a little bit like the expression you

32:54 ↗ might be the only jesus someone knows

32:56 ↗ well you might be the only black person

32:58 ↗ that someone knows

33:00 ↗ and

33:01 ↗ i moved to issaquah

33:04 ↗ i went to washington state from the east

33:07 ↗ coast in 2020

33:09 ↗ [Music]

33:10 ↗ and i moved to issaquah in 2021

33:14 ↗ and

33:15 ↗ um

33:16 ↗ i really haven't seen any particular

33:18 ↗ things missing or lacking in this aqua

33:20 ↗ you know

33:21 ↗ but

33:22 ↗ certainly during that time and and

33:25 ↗ during the time i've been in washington

33:27 ↗ all of the um protests for black lives

33:30 ↗ matters

33:31 ↗ you know happened and and

33:33 ↗ so much political polarization happened

33:36 ↗ and

33:37 ↗ you know i think some of the gains that

33:39 ↗ i thought we had made it just seemed

33:41 ↗ like wow there's a lot of gains that we

33:43 ↗ still really need to make and more than

33:46 ↗ maybe i even realized that we needed to

33:48 ↗ make

33:49 ↗ and

33:50 ↗ also begin to appreciate that

33:52 ↗ change really happens

33:54 ↗ at

33:56 ↗ the

33:57 ↗ individual and local level

33:59 ↗ much more so than at a national level so

34:03 ↗ i think that the conversation i have

34:05 ↗ with

34:06 ↗ the person who i meet at the store

34:10 ↗ just this week i was at the pharmacy and

34:14 ↗ the pharmacist was an asian woman who

34:16 ↗ said to me

34:18 ↗ you know someone came in the other day

34:20 ↗ and said to me i need to speak to

34:22 ↗ someone who speaks english

34:24 ↗ i don't want to speak to you

34:27 ↗ and

34:28 ↗ you know

34:29 ↗ i think that my conversation with her

34:33 ↗ was more impactful than some of the

34:36 ↗ things that might happen on a national

34:38 ↗ level my conversation with her won't

34:40 ↗ make headlines but i think it makes more

34:42 ↗ of a difference

34:44 ↗ and

34:45 ↗ so when the opportunity to join the

34:47 ↗ equity board arose i said okay you know

34:50 ↗ this is an opportunity

34:53 ↗ to

34:54 ↗ just be

34:56 ↗ be a part of that change on a local

34:58 ↗ level

35:00 ↗ and

35:01 ↗ i i think

35:02 ↗ you know change i think change happens

35:05 ↗ on small levels but that make big

35:07 ↗ changes ultimately

35:09 ↗ and that's all i'm hoping to see and

35:11 ↗ accomplish out of this group

35:13 ↗ is

35:15 ↗ more small steps towards positive change

35:20 ↗ that's it

35:24 ↗ thank you so much alyssa that was

35:26 ↗ beautiful

35:28 ↗ i love it thank you so much you both

35:30 ↗ have given me so many things to talk

35:32 ↗ about um but i'd like to invite monica

35:36 ↗ back because i think we have someone in

35:38 ↗ attendance today

35:40 ↗ thank you very much um shea and board

35:43 ↗ members yeah i just wanted to pause for

35:45 ↗ a moment i noticed that we have someone

35:47 ↗ in the attendance and just welcome them

35:50 ↗ for the evening

35:51 ↗ uh julian uh we see you in the attendee

35:54 ↗ section thank you so much for being here

35:56 ↗ with us tonight um

35:59 ↗ and feel free if you have any questions

36:02 ↗ or follow-up comments to follow up um

36:05 ↗ via email or even just let me know via

36:08 ↗ chat

36:09 ↗ um

36:10 ↗ if you would like to make a public

36:11 ↗ comment while that section passed i'm

36:14 ↗ sure that if

36:16 ↗ if you would like to make a public

36:17 ↗ comment i'm pretty sure that the equity

36:19 ↗ board members would love to hear your

36:21 ↗ comments

36:23 ↗ um so feel free to just send a chat or

36:26 ↗ use the

36:27 ↗ raise hand feature um otherwise we'll

36:30 ↗ just assume that you're just here

36:32 ↗ listening which is absolutely

36:34 ↗ uh fine and we welcome that so just

36:37 ↗ welcome

36:40 ↗ thank you so much monica and i'd also

36:42 ↗ like to welcome julian we are happy that

36:44 ↗ you are here

36:46 ↗ um and i see lucretia you had a comment

36:50 ↗ would you please come on mute

36:54 ↗ thank you shay

36:56 ↗ so the reason that i came on to um the

36:59 ↗ equity board was

37:01 ↗ um

37:02 ↗ it takes me back to when i first joined

37:05 ↗ the commission of human services

37:09 ↗ i joined the commission

37:11 ↗ with the intention of

37:14 ↗ doing the work that it would take to get

37:16 ↗ this board up and

37:17 ↗ up and running and so i came onto the

37:20 ↗ commission to make sure that this board

37:23 ↗ took root

37:25 ↗ and did

37:27 ↗ the work with the other commissioners

37:30 ↗ as well as monica to get us to where we

37:33 ↗ we where we were when we when we all

37:36 ↗ first became the equity board

37:38 ↗ prior to that um

37:40 ↗ i have a long history of

37:43 ↗ activism wherever i have lived i

37:46 ↗ consider myself an activist rather than

37:48 ↗ just a private citizen i'm i'm always

37:51 ↗ been pretty active in any community i

37:53 ↗ have lived in

37:55 ↗ and um

37:57 ↗ i worked in higher education for about

37:59 ↗ 15 years

38:01 ↗ and my role there was to send

38:04 ↗ u.s students

38:05 ↗ overseas so i designed all of the study

38:08 ↗ abroad programs for a small liberal arts

38:10 ↗ college in portland oregon

38:12 ↗ but

38:14 ↗ when i first started at that institution

38:17 ↗ i was one of two people of color

38:20 ↗ in administration

38:22 ↗ um

38:23 ↗ the faculty was made up of 98 men

38:27 ↗ and so there was a lot of there were a

38:28 ↗ lot of issues that i saw coming from the

38:31 ↗ outside i was kind of a

38:33 ↗ i was kind of like the underdog in that

38:36 ↗ um i didn't come from higher ed i came

38:39 ↗ from social from social work

38:42 ↗ and so i um worked really hard at the

38:44 ↗ small liberal arts college

38:46 ↗ to

38:48 ↗ join different committees and and ask

38:51 ↗ the questions that needed to be asked

38:53 ↗ such as you know where are the students

38:55 ↗ of color why are we counting foreign

38:57 ↗ students as

38:59 ↗ in the numbers that we're using for

39:01 ↗ um

39:03 ↗ represent representing people of color

39:05 ↗ um why why don't we offer scholarships

39:08 ↗ to more students of color and or

39:10 ↗ students who come from

39:13 ↗ limited income backgrounds etc

39:16 ↗ and so i feel that i i have i have that

39:18 ↗ history under my belt

39:20 ↗ um

39:22 ↗ i am not as uh emotional in public about

39:26 ↗ the work that i have done historically

39:31 ↗ but i am in my own way enjoying up and

39:33 ↗ doing the work and doing the research

39:34 ↗ and

39:35 ↗ making sure that when we go to make a

39:38 ↗ presentation that we have

39:40 ↗ solid data to back up what it is that

39:42 ↗ we're asking for

39:44 ↗ because i believe that yes there is a

39:47 ↗ place for our emotions

39:49 ↗ to to kind of be the foundation that

39:52 ↗ guides us

39:54 ↗ but unfortunately that that isn't always

39:57 ↗ enough to get us from point a to point b

40:00 ↗ and moving in the direction that we need

40:02 ↗ to be going

40:03 ↗ and so i always go back to kind of like

40:05 ↗ the work that i did for my master's

40:07 ↗ degree

40:09 ↗ my master's work was around recognizing

40:13 ↗ social um

40:15 ↗ social capital and what that looks like

40:17 ↗ and what it means

40:19 ↗ because a lot of us take that for

40:20 ↗ granted we don't know what our social

40:22 ↗ capital is worth because we don't know

40:24 ↗ what we don't know

40:26 ↗ and we also don't know what other people

40:28 ↗ don't know

40:29 ↗ um and so my work was around addressing

40:33 ↗ access

40:34 ↗ funding

40:36 ↗ college going knowledge and social

40:38 ↗ capital

40:40 ↗ and so when

40:41 ↗ we decided to you know bring the

40:43 ↗ proposal to the council

40:46 ↗ um

40:46 ↗ as monica can attest um the work that i

40:49 ↗ contributed was more around getting

40:51 ↗ people to understand

40:53 ↗ the importance of

40:55 ↗ getting

40:57 ↗ all of us across that finish line and

40:59 ↗ why that matters

41:01 ↗ so currently if we look at the numbers

41:03 ↗ in issaquah we we will see from the 2010

41:07 ↗ to the 2020 census

41:09 ↗ a huge change in the demographics of the

41:12 ↗ community right

41:14 ↗ and with that change we are

41:16 ↗ one of the the things that i want to

41:19 ↗ keep drawing our attention back to

41:21 ↗ is how our children are faring in our

41:23 ↗ schools

41:24 ↗ our children of color okay because they

41:27 ↗ are the future they are the ones that

41:28 ↗ are coming up

41:30 ↗ and whereas we may see a lot of success

41:33 ↗ in our european-american students um you

41:35 ↗ know who are getting you know

41:37 ↗ very high

41:39 ↗ ap scores and ac sats and they go to

41:42 ↗ college etc

41:43 ↗ i want answers to where are our children

41:46 ↗ of color why are they not

41:51 ↗ competing at the same level as their

41:54 ↗ peers

41:55 ↗ because at the end of the day what we

41:57 ↗ need to remember is that those youth

42:00 ↗ who are outnumbering our european youth

42:03 ↗ in terms of numbers

42:05 ↗ if they are not equally educated if they

42:08 ↗ don't have access

42:10 ↗ then

42:12 ↗ the community will be impacted

42:14 ↗ and that's why it matters right um and

42:17 ↗ so anyway so

42:19 ↗ basically um

42:21 ↗ i have a long history of doing the sort

42:23 ↗ of work before dei was a thing

42:25 ↗ i yeah i still kind of laugh about the

42:28 ↗ fact that we now have a you know an

42:30 ↗ acronym for it

42:31 ↗ um and i just want to keep asking the

42:34 ↗ question of

42:35 ↗ the work that we're doing today

42:37 ↗ needs to include the younger generations

42:40 ↗ i want to hear their voices well

42:42 ↗ represented

42:43 ↗ and for us to keep asking okay when we

42:46 ↗ retire right because we all shared more

42:48 ↗ or less our age tonight when we retire

42:51 ↗ in a few years there has to be people

42:54 ↗ who have

42:55 ↗ the same level of education or better

42:57 ↗ than we have

42:59 ↗ to keep this

43:00 ↗ this agenda alive well and moving

43:03 ↗ forward

43:04 ↗ thank you

43:08 ↗ thank you so much lucretia i

43:11 ↗ loved your backstory it was so good

43:13 ↗ hearing about what you've done prior to

43:15 ↗ this

43:16 ↗ so thank you for sharing

43:18 ↗ um and i also see that rey has a comment

43:22 ↗ followed by lorna

43:24 ↗ and

43:25 ↗ helen

43:27 ↗ oh and jacob

43:29 ↗ so we'll start with ray if he's ready

43:34 ↗ oh i don't know how i ended up back on

43:35 ↗ the list but since you called it

43:38 ↗ all

43:41 ↗ since i got this opportunity shea i

43:42 ↗ wanted to share some things that brought

43:44 ↗ me to the table i i work in healthcare

43:46 ↗ and one of the things that i'm

43:48 ↗ passionate about is um how challenging

43:50 ↗ it is to get health care in this country

43:53 ↗ so uh for those of you who don't follow

43:55 ↗ trends healthcare now accounts for the

43:57 ↗ largest um expense in our gross domestic

43:59 ↗ product and you can see that with people

44:02 ↗ especially ones with families so

44:04 ↗ i worked for the healthcare institution

44:06 ↗ here that resides in issaquah which is

44:08 ↗ swedish medical center so i thought

44:10 ↗ opportunities where our equity board can

44:12 ↗ work not only with the hospital system

44:15 ↗ that's largest here

44:16 ↗ and we talk about healthcare systems

44:18 ↗ it's not just swedish it's physically

44:20 ↗ present here we also have clinics from

44:21 ↗ the university of washington we have

44:23 ↗ clinics that are associated with um

44:26 ↗ multicare down in tacoma they all have

44:28 ↗ clinics here that serve our communities

44:30 ↗ so i think if there's opportunities to

44:31 ↗ partner with them if they understand the

44:33 ↗ makeup and going back to

44:35 ↗ lucretia's comments are these these

44:36 ↗ organizations need to be involved in our

44:38 ↗ strategy so that if there's ways to

44:40 ↗ connect with them and show that people

44:43 ↗ are in need of better and more

44:46 ↗ affordable health care

44:48 ↗ using our population as a sample that

44:49 ↗ might be a good target for this equity

44:51 ↗ board

44:52 ↗ so thank you

44:54 ↗ thank you so much ray and you make such

44:56 ↗ a good point i would love to hear more

44:58 ↗ about your work and how we can support

45:02 ↗ um even more

45:03 ↗ but of course i know that we're a little

45:05 ↗ limited on time so i'll jump right over

45:07 ↗ to lorna if she's ready

45:10 ↗ yes thank you so much and rape was my

45:12 ↗ fault i thought we'd missed skipped you

45:15 ↗ um in the comment section of like okay

45:17 ↗ wait anyway um so this is my 22nd year

45:21 ↗ living in issaquah and i have watched

45:23 ↗ the city of physical change quite a bit

45:26 ↗ uh through that time my sister actually

45:28 ↗ moved here in 87 and

45:30 ↗ in between that time even in the 90s i'd

45:32 ↗ stayed with it several times as i was

45:33 ↗ going to school

45:35 ↗ and so again watching your support grow

45:37 ↗ and i suppose very much remote very much

45:39 ↗ considered rural community

45:41 ↗ and even when i got hired i was

45:43 ↗ literally one of two teachers who were

45:44 ↗ not white so my district was pretty much

45:47 ↗ all white teachers

45:50 ↗ you please slow down your pace oh sorry

45:53 ↗ including the students um

45:56 ↗ but things started changing and as

45:58 ↗ things started changing in my work

46:00 ↗ i started hearing experiences

46:03 ↗ from students and staff about the

46:05 ↗ experiences in the community

46:07 ↗ comments made by parents about

46:10 ↗ people of color about our

46:11 ↗ african-american students

46:13 ↗ and at that time i was working as a

46:15 ↗ teacher and so it didn't imp it impacted

46:18 ↗ me but i unlike lucretia i never saw

46:20 ↗ myself

46:20 ↗ as an advocate

46:22 ↗ as someone who would you know fight for

46:24 ↗ social justice i was very much

46:27 ↗ all about just being an educator a

46:29 ↗ teacher type

46:30 ↗ but in this job right now i am doing a

46:33 ↗ lot more work

46:34 ↗ in equity and that is something

46:37 ↗ different and it opened my eyes to a lot

46:38 ↗ more

46:39 ↗ and one of the very first things that i

46:42 ↗ learned and i heard from students was

46:44 ↗ you know you guys are doing all of this

46:46 ↗ great work

46:47 ↗ to support teachers and students but

46:49 ↗ what are you doing to the community and

46:50 ↗ that's where we are feeling the so much

46:52 ↗ impact they're coming to school after

46:54 ↗ having people neighbors you know you

46:57 ↗ know community stores

46:59 ↗ say things to us and what are you doing

47:01 ↗ about that and it hit me because i

47:02 ↗ wasn't i couldn't

47:04 ↗ i didn't know how to help that

47:07 ↗ and when you hear students crying out

47:09 ↗ for that you know you have to do

47:11 ↗ something to help because that's painful

47:14 ↗ and so i wanted to do more work and so

47:18 ↗ while i'm not in this role as a employee

47:21 ↗ of the square school district and

47:24 ↗ working here and doing this work as a

47:26 ↗ community member it's more because i'm

47:29 ↗ i'm very committed to students and

47:30 ↗ children still

47:32 ↗ and i want to have those conversations

47:35 ↗ with our community members with our

47:38 ↗ neighbors but people that our students

47:40 ↗ interact with so that they are not

47:42 ↗ saying in doing things that are harmful

47:45 ↗ and damaging

47:46 ↗ because if they're going through these

47:47 ↗ microaggressions in the community when

47:50 ↗ they come to school they're not ready to

47:53 ↗ learn

47:54 ↗ so we the teachers in the schools cannot

47:56 ↗ be fully responsible

47:58 ↗ it is a community responsibility

48:01 ↗ and in working with the community very

48:03 ↗ often it was like oh no this is issaquah

48:06 ↗ this doesn't happen here

48:07 ↗ so then i had to tell all my you know

48:09 ↗ horror stories

48:11 ↗ they're like what no way

48:13 ↗ and it's hard because you don't have to

48:15 ↗ tell them and teach them every single

48:17 ↗ time

48:18 ↗ it has to be a community effort people

48:20 ↗ have to recognize

48:21 ↗ and lead into this work you don't you

48:24 ↗ cannot constantly be having to

48:26 ↗ defend and say yes this is why the work

48:29 ↗ is needed

48:30 ↗ we also need more allies white allies i

48:32 ↗ know they exist but they don't i think

48:34 ↗ there's a hesitancy like me to get

48:36 ↗ involved like other people are fighting

48:38 ↗ this fight

48:39 ↗ so how do we make this more about a

48:41 ↗ community kind of

48:43 ↗ conversation

48:45 ↗ and pull a whole bunch of people in

48:47 ↗ to start off by saying yep this problem

48:50 ↗ does exist

48:51 ↗ and yes as a community we're going to

48:54 ↗ recognize that we need to be aware

48:57 ↗ and address this issue because we want

48:59 ↗ all kids

49:01 ↗ to be successful

49:02 ↗ and so i truly want to lean into the all

49:05 ↗ kids

49:06 ↗ not just the privileged few

49:08 ↗ and so how do we do that

49:14 ↗ thank you so much lorna um i

49:17 ↗ wholeheartedly relate to your comment

49:20 ↗ because i absolutely experienced

49:23 ↗ all of that including the

49:26 ↗ microaggressions all of it and

49:28 ↗ people not believing me when i said that

49:30 ↗ this has happened in this city um

49:34 ↗ with these people with my students who

49:36 ↗ go go to school alongside yours so thank

49:39 ↗ you so much for sharing um

49:42 ↗ i i just love this conversation so thank

49:46 ↗ you

49:47 ↗ um helen i see you were next

49:52 ↗ there you go

49:53 ↗ hi everybody um thank you for the

49:55 ↗ opportunity grateful this one

49:59 ↗ um i moved to issaquah from uganda in

50:02 ↗ east africa

50:03 ↗ in

50:04 ↗ february of 2016 i moved with my husband

50:07 ↗ and my my daughter um

50:12 ↗ for work so i've been a stay-home mom

50:14 ↗ all this time and uh

50:18 ↗ yeah coming from a place of course in

50:20 ↗ africa where

50:22 ↗ some of these issues are not very

50:24 ↗ they were not in my face are not

50:26 ↗ prevalent i was coming into a community

50:28 ↗ where

50:30 ↗ it was obviously going to be glaring in

50:31 ↗ my face and in my daughters that um i

50:34 ↗ was standing out as the different one

50:36 ↗ but i didn't make much of it until i

50:38 ↗ started to have experiences

50:41 ↗ for myself for my daughter and for my

50:42 ↗ husband within the community

50:45 ↗ i think the first that stood out for me

50:47 ↗ was my daughter in preschool

50:49 ↗ who got told by a kid they can't play

50:51 ↗ with her because she's black

50:53 ↗ um a preschooler this is three year old

50:55 ↗ so

50:56 ↗ it got me a bit scared if i'm living in

50:58 ↗ a good community for my kid and if she's

51:00 ↗ going to be safe

51:02 ↗ in public school this was preschool i

51:03 ↗ was more worried actually about public

51:05 ↗ school

51:06 ↗ um a lot of uh the other community of

51:09 ↗ ugandans and africans live in other

51:11 ↗ communities not in issaquah so we kept

51:14 ↗ hearing comments like what are you guys

51:16 ↗ doing in izakaya like can't you find the

51:18 ↗ rest of us where we are

51:20 ↗ but we had our reasons for coming to

51:21 ↗ issaquah we haven't left um we've

51:24 ↗ weathered the stones um

51:26 ↗ and and we love it we're happy to be

51:28 ↗ here

51:28 ↗ so when the opportunity came a friend of

51:30 ↗ mine told me about it she couldn't be

51:32 ↗ part of it and she said look helen you

51:34 ↗ have an opportunity to make a difference

51:36 ↗ instead of ranting on calls this has

51:38 ↗ happened to my daughter this has

51:39 ↗ happened to me

51:40 ↗ come and be part of a community or group

51:42 ↗ of people who will make a difference it

51:44 ↗ might be small but over time by the time

51:46 ↗ your daughter maybe is in middle school

51:48 ↗ somewhere

51:49 ↗ there might be something better so

51:52 ↗ and then i was also in dear and i i just

51:54 ↗ started also the interest and i took a

51:56 ↗ course in it

51:58 ↗ but aside from that i felt i need to be

52:00 ↗ a part of a change especially for my for

52:03 ↗ my daughter um

52:05 ↗ and another thing i i volunteer on on

52:07 ↗ her on her school pta so on one of the

52:10 ↗ times i was in for um recess help

52:12 ↗ there's a

52:13 ↗ child who saw me in the corridor wearing

52:16 ↗ a reflector jacket a kid of color and

52:19 ↗ she was shocked she was happy she didn't

52:21 ↗ know what to do with herself she was

52:22 ↗ literally like

52:23 ↗ i was like no but i don't know you and

52:25 ↗ of course you have to be careful because

52:26 ↗ you're within a school community

52:28 ↗ and i just she waved to me but you know

52:31 ↗ she turned back still looking at me in

52:33 ↗ almost shook that i took it that she's

52:36 ↗ not seen anyone in as as a racist helper

52:39 ↗ of color or a parent taking interest

52:41 ↗ anyway to come in and help theresa and

52:44 ↗ it stayed with me for a long time and i

52:46 ↗ felt okay i i think

52:49 ↗ like we can't keep hiding and

52:50 ↗ complaining behind the scenes we have to

52:52 ↗ come out and be a part of this

52:54 ↗ and then other incidents happen with my

52:56 ↗ daughter in school so we got to meet the

52:58 ↗ principal and we spoke about it

53:01 ↗ there were issues of course just being

53:03 ↗ picked on because she's just black

53:05 ↗ um

53:06 ↗ and what the school was open to learn

53:08 ↗ and i felt like wow they were like we

53:10 ↗ don't know these things we need to hear

53:12 ↗ from you guys we don't get to have

53:14 ↗ conversations with parents of color

53:15 ↗ raising these issues you're raising a

53:17 ↗ black girl in a community where she's

53:19 ↗ being picked on by boys like what does

53:21 ↗ that mean for her so

53:24 ↗ they were open to hear it but the school

53:26 ↗ i didn't have an avenue i don't know i

53:29 ↗ didn't even know that the school

53:30 ↗ district had um a community of this kind

53:33 ↗ or where we could share some of these

53:35 ↗ experiences and just make our points to

53:37 ↗ them so when the opportunity came i

53:39 ↗ thought wow this this is it for me i i

53:42 ↗ have to be part of it if not for

53:44 ↗ anything for my daughters i have two

53:46 ↗ girls

53:47 ↗ and we've been in issachar all this time

53:49 ↗ they're going to a public school

53:52 ↗ they must make it because we've made it

53:54 ↗ but we made it because we are outside of

53:56 ↗ america they cannot not make it because

53:59 ↗ they are here

54:00 ↗ and and we made it because we are away

54:02 ↗ from here for our education and for our

54:05 ↗ career growth so i'm in it for my

54:07 ↗ children and for every other child of

54:09 ↗ color

54:10 ↗ yeah

54:12 ↗ oh helen you touched my heart because

54:15 ↗ that is my story dear

54:17 ↗ i

54:18 ↗ and as i'm sure it's most people's

54:20 ↗ stories or a lot of people have had that

54:22 ↗ experience and maybe hadn't had an

54:24 ↗ opportunity to share it or didn't know

54:26 ↗ who to share it with

54:28 ↗ so thank you so much for sharing that um

54:31 ↗ again it it really touched my heart

54:34 ↗ because

54:35 ↗ that was my experience and i came from

54:37 ↗ the united states it wasn't even a

54:40 ↗ i didn't even come from another country

54:42 ↗ so

54:43 ↗ um

54:44 ↗ to know that you're having some of those

54:45 ↗ same experiences it's heartbreaking but

54:48 ↗ um it's also nice to know that there are

54:51 ↗ others out here and we just have to find

54:53 ↗ each other and get together and try to

54:54 ↗ fix it

54:56 ↗ so thank you for sharing

54:58 ↗ um yes jacob i see you were next

55:02 ↗ oh yeah um thank you

55:04 ↗ um i guess i just wanted to say that one

55:06 ↗ of the reasons i joined um was because

55:08 ↗ as i was talking like as i talked to

55:10 ↗ like a lot of different people about a

55:12 ↗ lot of the things happening in our world

55:14 ↗ with relation to like race and equity

55:16 ↗ and diversity it like every time i have

55:18 ↗ a conversation it like expands

55:21 ↗ my point of view and like even within

55:23 ↗ and so one of the reasons i wanted to

55:25 ↗ join was to expand my point of view even

55:26 ↗ more for one um like i just did with

55:29 ↗ listening to helen's story um so that

55:31 ↗ even after all of us it assuming that

55:34 ↗ there's a

55:35 ↗ time and place when some of us aren't

55:37 ↗ able to be on this sport anymore we can

55:39 ↗ take all this experience with us to

55:40 ↗ other places

55:42 ↗ um where we're able to have

55:44 ↗ a widened perspective and then

55:46 ↗ one of the things that i want to um

55:48 ↗ another reason why i joined the board

55:49 ↗ and one of the things that i look

55:50 ↗ forward to as we move forward with the

55:52 ↗ board and i know this is something we've

55:53 ↗ talked about in past meetings is having

55:55 ↗ more touch points with the community

55:57 ↗ because i think having conversations

55:58 ↗ with the community is a great way to

56:00 ↗ like um like some of you have mentioned

56:02 ↗ is like

56:03 ↗ a great way to widen you know everyone's

56:05 ↗ perspective including ours and theirs um

56:08 ↗ and i know that's something we've talked

56:09 ↗ about and like the meetings are open to

56:11 ↗ community members and so that's one of

56:12 ↗ the reasons i was most excited about the

56:14 ↗ board and that i still am as we move

56:16 ↗ forward

56:21 ↗ thank you so much jacob and i am so

56:23 ↗ happy you are here

56:25 ↗ um i don't i'm sure everyone else is too

56:28 ↗ um but it's always nice to have the

56:30 ↗ younger generation with us um it is also

56:33 ↗ even better to know that you're wanting

56:36 ↗ to learn you're coming into this with an

56:37 ↗ open mind and that is key

56:40 ↗ so thank you so much for sharing your

56:43 ↗ story with us we are happy to have you

56:45 ↗ here

56:46 ↗ um preethi i think you are next

56:49 ↗ yeah thank you um

56:54 ↗ so i guess

56:55 ↗ you know for my story i've always been

56:58 ↗ interested and passionate committed to

57:01 ↗ issues of social justice and so even

57:04 ↗ through school

57:06 ↗ my first job out of uh well graduate

57:09 ↗ school was

57:10 ↗ similar i think to what lucretia was

57:12 ↗ saying was in higher ed i was

57:15 ↗ doing research and program evaluation

57:17 ↗ work on programs that were designed to

57:20 ↗ increase diversity in science technology

57:23 ↗ engineering and math fields so looking

57:25 ↗ at students as well as faculty and staff

57:27 ↗ and advancement

57:30 ↗ and somewhere through that journey

57:32 ↗ kind of flipped a switch and said i need

57:34 ↗ to go upstream

57:36 ↗ not just look at kids when they're

57:38 ↗ starting university so then i went fully

57:40 ↗ in the opposite direction to early

57:42 ↗ learning and looking at access and

57:43 ↗ readiness to kindergarten things like

57:46 ↗ that and then um shifted over into

57:49 ↗ government about five years ago so i

57:51 ↗ work for a different local government

57:54 ↗ doing issues around

57:55 ↗ data-driven decision-making and using

57:58 ↗ more data

58:00 ↗ in management and operations but

58:03 ↗ i would say about three or four years

58:05 ↗ ago

58:07 ↗ i heard

58:08 ↗ john powell from berkeley talk about

58:11 ↗ othering and belonging

58:13 ↗ and um

58:14 ↗ that made it more personal to me because

58:16 ↗ then all of a sudden i realized my own

58:17 ↗ personal history

58:19 ↗ and you know family history about like

58:24 ↗ being a model model minority and

58:26 ↗ assimilation

58:27 ↗ and so

58:28 ↗ um it just made me think more about

58:31 ↗ being othered and what it would take for

58:33 ↗ folks to feel like they actually belong

58:35 ↗ and so that

58:38 ↗ made me want to engage more hands-on in

58:41 ↗ the community and over the last couple

58:44 ↗ years i've had some direct roles

58:45 ↗ supporting

58:47 ↗ the pandemic with public health

58:49 ↗ supporting schools and child care

58:52 ↗ managing through the pandemic and so now

58:55 ↗ i'm just kind of

58:56 ↗ from that experience just wanting to

58:58 ↗ engage just more personally and directly

59:00 ↗ in this work so that's why i'm here

59:04 ↗ thanks

59:06 ↗ thank you so much preethi um

59:09 ↗ everyone has

59:11 ↗ so much good stuff to say and it's all

59:14 ↗ stuff that i've experienced um i love

59:16 ↗ that talk by the way

59:18 ↗ thank you for sharing

59:20 ↗ um

59:21 ↗ oh my goodness uh let's see um we still

59:24 ↗ have uh christina christina are you

59:26 ↗ ready

59:29 ↗ i think

59:31 ↗ oh i know you are so please share

59:35 ↗ okay

59:45 ↗ well there's a um of reasons that

59:46 ↗ brought me here but first and foremost

59:48 ↗ my personality

59:56 ↗ i mean ever since i i was a kid growing

59:59 ↗ up i found that there's there's no

1:00:00 ↗ justice

1:00:07 ↗ you know i saw that i was treated

1:00:08 ↗ differently just because i was a female

1:00:11 ↗ and i didn't like that

1:00:20 ↗ my mom would say no you can't watch tv

1:00:22 ↗ no you can't play sports no you can't do

1:00:24 ↗ this that or the other because you're a

1:00:26 ↗ female it'd just be a waste of time for

1:00:27 ↗ you

1:00:35 ↗ you need to learn how to cook and clean

1:00:38 ↗ and do the housework and do the things

1:00:40 ↗ you need to need to learn for being a

1:00:42 ↗ housewife

1:00:49 ↗ i i think from that point forward i felt

1:00:52 ↗ like there needed to be change and i

1:00:54 ↗ needed to raise my voice to it

1:01:07 ↗ perhaps my mom wasn't a fan of my

1:01:09 ↗ opinions at the beginning but i think

1:01:10 ↗ she got she got used to it and

1:01:12 ↗ and she understood

1:01:30 ↗ so now

1:01:31 ↗ i'm happy to say you know my brothers

1:01:33 ↗ don't just sit around but they do help

1:01:35 ↗ their wives with cooking and cleaning

1:01:37 ↗ and child care and and i feel like i was

1:01:40 ↗ part of an influence on them

1:01:48 ↗ i think i'm just a rebel by nature

1:01:55 ↗ and when i see injustice i just can't

1:01:57 ↗ keep my mouth shut

1:02:04 ↗ is i'm coming here to issaquah has

1:02:07 ↗ really opened my mind and and i'm really

1:02:10 ↗ appreciative

1:02:21 ↗ not everyone has the opportunity to to

1:02:24 ↗ experience so many great cultures in one

1:02:26 ↗ place and to see all the things that

1:02:28 ↗ life has to offer

1:02:45 ↗ and i really want them to feel like they

1:02:47 ↗ belong here

1:02:56 ↗ and you know not even just here but

1:02:59 ↗ anywhere in the world i want them to

1:03:00 ↗ feel that they have their place that

1:03:02 ↗ they feel confident and they feel sure

1:03:04 ↗ of themselves

1:03:10 ↗ and and i feel like god is speaking for

1:03:13 ↗ me because this is all just beautiful

1:03:15 ↗ sounds beautiful

1:03:20 ↗ i don't know i just really like it

1:03:28 ↗ excellent

1:03:38 ↗ and i feel like my daughters are having

1:03:40 ↗ the opportunity to grow up in a

1:03:41 ↗ wonderful place and it's going to be

1:03:43 ↗ helpful to them

1:03:44 ↗ and i think

1:03:46 ↗ if there's change it's we're we are the

1:03:56 ↗ changes i remember the experience you

1:03:59 ↗ know when i was in high school i did not

1:04:01 ↗ like math

1:04:03 ↗ no i know

1:04:04 ↗ not at all

1:04:06 ↗ okay

1:04:10 ↗ um

1:04:23 ↗ and i remember a teacher i remember our

1:04:25 ↗ teacher he

1:04:27 ↗ he pushed each and every one of us to

1:04:28 ↗ participate whether we wanted to or not

1:04:30 ↗ even when we'd say no no no he'd say no

1:04:33 ↗ come on you can do it

1:04:40 ↗ and i feel like sometimes our own

1:04:42 ↗ securities are what actually hold us

1:04:44 ↗ back from doing things

1:04:49 ↗ but that math teacher he changed my life

1:05:10 ↗ and i really want to be a contributing

1:05:13 ↗ factor so that these children can see

1:05:15 ↗ and not just my children all children or

1:05:17 ↗ my children

1:05:30 ↗ that they can all feel that they belong

1:05:32 ↗ that they can all feel that they're a

1:05:34 ↗ part of this community and of this world

1:05:36 ↗ and there was the question what do what

1:05:37 ↗ do we see differently in this community

1:05:42 ↗ different

1:05:44 ↗ that's something that i see that's

1:05:45 ↗ different

1:05:47 ↗ aqui quando for preschool

1:05:52 ↗ here when my kids entered preschool and

1:05:54 ↗ only spoke spanish

1:06:01 ↗ they didn't want to play they were

1:06:03 ↗ pretty unsure of themselves i believe

1:06:13 ↗ she was all by herself and she wasn't

1:06:15 ↗ able to learn how to speak english

1:06:23 ↗ there was no one there for her there was

1:06:26 ↗ not one teacher there for her to push

1:06:29 ↗ her forward and tell her to come here

1:06:32 ↗ and join the group and play

1:06:35 ↗ yes

1:06:45 ↗ i hope that the reason why that didn't

1:06:48 ↗ happen

1:06:49 ↗ it was because of the covet situation

1:06:52 ↗ and not because

1:06:53 ↗ just that's the way life is

1:06:55 ↗ here in this community

1:07:04 ↗ but if that's the case i want to

1:07:08 ↗ uh make changes and that's why i joined

1:07:11 ↗ i want this to change

1:07:17 ↗ and i'm here really to learn a lot from

1:07:20 ↗ you all

1:07:26 ↗ because when i'm able to i will do

1:07:29 ↗ whatever it takes uh to do so

1:07:33 ↗ gracias thank you

1:07:38 ↗ thank you christina um

1:07:42 ↗ i may say this wrong but i'm going to

1:07:44 ↗ try it anyway

1:07:45 ↗ um me and contentus

1:07:52 ↗ espanol pero um

1:08:08 ↗ yeah

1:08:10 ↗ love to hear you speak your spanish

1:08:14 ↗ gracias

1:08:15 ↗ um yes in a group all i told her was

1:08:18 ↗ that i really love when she comments and

1:08:20 ↗ i'm still learning spanish but i i love

1:08:23 ↗ to hear her speak and i'm so happy that

1:08:25 ↗ she's here so um thank you uh for your

1:08:28 ↗ comments christina i think that you

1:08:31 ↗ really spoke to a lot of us with what

1:08:33 ↗ you said so thank you again

1:08:36 ↗ um and i don't see anyone else

1:08:39 ↗ um but did i miss anyone

1:08:43 ↗ and if not i'd like to hear from monica

1:08:46 ↗ if she is available

1:08:49 ↗ thank you very much shay and thank you

1:08:52 ↗ so much board members

1:08:54 ↗ it was so so great to to hear your

1:08:56 ↗ comments i took some notes

1:08:58 ↗ as you might have learned so far from me

1:09:00 ↗ if you have ideas i always want to

1:09:03 ↗ um

1:09:04 ↗ to bring them to life and see how i can

1:09:06 ↗ elevate those voices so um thank you um

1:09:10 ↗ going back circling back to the initial

1:09:12 ↗ question and conversation on how we

1:09:14 ↗ continue to develop our work plan um for

1:09:18 ↗ the equity board i think as and then it

1:09:21 ↗ was just again so so great to hear your

1:09:23 ↗ thoughts and comments and introductions

1:09:25 ↗ please continue to think about now that

1:09:28 ↗ you you are a few months into the board

1:09:31 ↗ um bring those ideas contact me directly

1:09:34 ↗ between now and the next few months as

1:09:36 ↗ ideas come

1:09:38 ↗ to you so then then we can add them to

1:09:40 ↗ the work plan you might have remembered

1:09:43 ↗ mayor paulie

1:09:45 ↗ really wanted to look at you as a board

1:09:47 ↗ and

1:09:48 ↗ saying okay as you conduct this gap

1:09:50 ↗ analysis of what's needed um she does

1:09:53 ↗ want to hear from you and i hear a lot

1:09:55 ↗ of definitely a lot of cumulative

1:09:56 ↗ conversations that need to continue to

1:09:58 ↗ happen and so that's our actually next

1:10:01 ↗ agenda item i'm gonna transition to that

1:10:03 ↗ if i have

1:10:05 ↗ your permission but then to close this

1:10:07 ↗ one um i think we don't need a decision

1:10:10 ↗ but i would like your permission is it

1:10:11 ↗ okay then for us to continue as as we

1:10:14 ↗ are

1:10:15 ↗ to invite

1:10:16 ↗ um

1:10:17 ↗ community groups uh that do equity work

1:10:20 ↗ in in uh issaquah in the region to

1:10:23 ↗ invite department leaders from the city

1:10:25 ↗ to come and introduce themselves as you

1:10:27 ↗ learn more in that while also we are

1:10:29 ↗ adding

1:10:30 ↗ um other topics to the work plan is that

1:10:34 ↗ a good plan for the next few months

1:10:36 ↗ um and like here i see a question from

1:10:39 ↗ prithee so i'm gonna pause there

1:10:43 ↗ yeah thank you sorry um my my question

1:10:46 ↗ is when i hear a gap analysis i think

1:10:49 ↗ you know there's what's the current

1:10:51 ↗ state and where do we want to be like

1:10:54 ↗ what's our aspirational state and um i'm

1:10:56 ↗ not sure have we

1:10:59 ↗ do we know where we want to be or is

1:11:01 ↗ that part of what the plan needs to help

1:11:04 ↗ kind of clarify what's that future state

1:11:07 ↗ so we know what how to articulate the

1:11:09 ↗ gap yeah so that's exactly i'm so glad

1:11:12 ↗ you brought it up because that's exactly

1:11:13 ↗ i think we identified the first step we

1:11:15 ↗ need to see where we are and so that's

1:11:17 ↗ why by inviting uh internally department

1:11:20 ↗ leaders and inviting the community

1:11:22 ↗ members i think we are going to see

1:11:24 ↗ where we are at and once we are going to

1:11:26 ↗ see where we are at i think then that's

1:11:28 ↗ when probably we need to talk um as a

1:11:31 ↗ board again to see where do we even want

1:11:33 ↗ to go and what's realistic within the

1:11:36 ↗ the scope of this board so then in the

1:11:38 ↗ end then we'll identify the gaps right

1:11:40 ↗ so great i think and you put it so much

1:11:42 ↗ better into words uh pretty you're right

1:11:45 ↗ i don't think we identify that

1:11:47 ↗ um but i i also believe and i may be

1:11:50 ↗ wrong but in my thinking was i don't

1:11:52 ↗ know that we can identify where we want

1:11:54 ↗ to be before we at least learn

1:11:57 ↗ where we are right so that's that was

1:11:59 ↗ like let's do the initial

1:12:02 ↗ learning

1:12:03 ↗ part

1:12:04 ↗ right

1:12:05 ↗ um i i thought that that would

1:12:07 ↗ help us right okay thank you

1:12:11 ↗ and shay you also have a question

1:12:14 ↗ yes um just because uh

1:12:17 ↗ as i'm sure you probably know i have um

1:12:20 ↗ a pretty vast network of people that i'd

1:12:23 ↗ love to share with the group

1:12:25 ↗ um that may be able to help us along

1:12:28 ↗ this journey um however uh my question

1:12:32 ↗ is

1:12:33 ↗ whether or not we would be expected to

1:12:35 ↗ bring those group member or to bring

1:12:36 ↗ those members to the group or say hey

1:12:38 ↗ you know i i'd like to invite a speaker

1:12:41 ↗ to just talk to us for a little bit

1:12:43 ↗ about some of the issues we want to

1:12:44 ↗ address

1:12:46 ↗ so absolutely send me ideas i think on

1:12:48 ↗ my end we were gonna start initially

1:12:50 ↗ with issaquah internally the city

1:12:52 ↗ departments and in the community with

1:12:55 ↗ the issaquah community and perhaps the

1:12:56 ↗ east side but yes i don't think that i

1:12:59 ↗ know

1:13:00 ↗ all the groups in the region so please

1:13:02 ↗ do send ideas and and the

1:13:04 ↗ connections as you have

1:13:06 ↗ um

1:13:07 ↗ so great great

1:13:09 ↗ thought thank you so much

1:13:15 ↗ okay i see no other questions so

1:13:17 ↗ i think if you don't mind giving me a

1:13:19 ↗ thumbs up that we are going to proceed

1:13:21 ↗ as as mentioned

1:13:23 ↗ and with that thank you so much

1:13:25 ↗ board members then with that with your

1:13:27 ↗ permission

1:13:28 ↗ uh we can move to the next agenda item

1:13:31 ↗ that dives a little bit deeper in the

1:13:33 ↗ community engagement and community

1:13:35 ↗ conversations

1:13:38 ↗ so wanted to separate them just because

1:13:40 ↗ it seems like a little bit complex so

1:13:42 ↗ with your permission i'm gonna share my

1:13:44 ↗ screen i do have a brief

1:13:46 ↗ powerpoint presentation to to keep me

1:13:49 ↗ focused here so i'm gonna

1:13:51 ↗ share that and then after that i'm gonna

1:13:54 ↗ open it up for discussion

1:14:06 ↗ and

1:14:11 ↗ can i have a confirmation that i'm

1:14:13 ↗ sharing this live show

1:14:17 ↗ i can see it yes um but it looks like

1:14:19 ↗ you have a your presentation mode up

1:14:22 ↗ it is a presentation load up

1:14:26 ↗ yeah cause um i can see your your main

1:14:28 ↗ slide and then also your next slide

1:14:32 ↗ um

1:14:34 ↗ yes

1:14:35 ↗ i'm not sure if i know how to

1:14:40 ↗ there you go

1:14:43 ↗ yes thank you

1:14:46 ↗ okay so

1:14:47 ↗ um

1:14:48 ↗ in in talking about community engagement

1:14:51 ↗ would love to discuss with you board

1:14:52 ↗ members and this would be also taking

1:14:55 ↗ action so you will be voting hopefully

1:14:58 ↗ um at the end of this

1:15:00 ↗ tonight on what we previously discussed

1:15:03 ↗ uh regarding creating a committee uh

1:15:06 ↗ that will address community

1:15:09 ↗ conversations and community engagement

1:15:13 ↗ so as a brief reminder we talked a

1:15:16 ↗ couple of times in previous meetings

1:15:20 ↗ about

1:15:21 ↗ how to work as a board

1:15:24 ↗ in um engaging more with the community

1:15:27 ↗ and also having more uh cultural

1:15:30 ↗ conversations or community conversations

1:15:32 ↗ around equity

1:15:34 ↗ and so

1:15:35 ↗ we discussed um a few options uh we

1:15:37 ↗ discussed the idea of creating a

1:15:39 ↗ committee um and this

1:15:42 ↗ would be um

1:15:44 ↗ because on one end we meet once a month

1:15:46 ↗ as an equity board and perhaps there's

1:15:48 ↗ just not enough time for us to have

1:15:50 ↗ community conversations and also focus

1:15:52 ↗ on on advancing equity so um on one end

1:15:57 ↗ we considered creating a committee uh we

1:15:59 ↗ also considered

1:16:01 ↗ adding special meetings or additional

1:16:03 ↗ meetings to the board or you know we

1:16:05 ↗ brainstorm a little bit other

1:16:07 ↗ options but i think if um

1:16:10 ↗ i understood correctly the preference

1:16:13 ↗ was for us to land on a committee

1:16:15 ↗ um and so again just as a brief

1:16:18 ↗ reminder of why

1:16:21 ↗ addressing community engagement um

1:16:24 ↗ and why

1:16:25 ↗ by the equity board i think i'm

1:16:27 ↗ preaching to the choir to all of you but

1:16:29 ↗ in case anyone in the community wonders

1:16:32 ↗ right um equity conversations in the

1:16:35 ↗ community are really important um

1:16:38 ↗ because this is

1:16:40 ↗ um

1:16:41 ↗ about engaging with the community and um

1:16:44 ↗ so

1:16:46 ↗ are very very important in order for us

1:16:48 ↗ to really advance equity we want to

1:16:51 ↗ engage with the community we want to

1:16:52 ↗ talk with the community we don't want to

1:16:54 ↗ do it for the community right

1:16:57 ↗ um

1:16:58 ↗ so

1:17:01 ↗ with that

1:17:03 ↗ um

1:17:04 ↗ the

1:17:05 ↗ the recommendation tonight and the

1:17:08 ↗ proposal for you tonight is to create a

1:17:11 ↗ committee

1:17:12 ↗ on community engagement

1:17:15 ↗ i'm going to talk a little bit about

1:17:16 ↗ what would mean in terms of a timeline

1:17:19 ↗ what would be the scope and membership

1:17:21 ↗ of the committee

1:17:24 ↗ so when you create a committee

1:17:27 ↗ as part of the board you have the option

1:17:30 ↗ to have an ad hoc committee or a

1:17:33 ↗ standing committee

1:17:34 ↗ the standing committee would be a

1:17:37 ↗ permanent committee

1:17:40 ↗ and as you may know or guess the ad hoc

1:17:43 ↗ committee it's a short term

1:17:46 ↗ specific committee let's say you can

1:17:49 ↗ create a committee

1:17:50 ↗ um

1:17:51 ↗ for three months um

1:17:54 ↗ you have a specific start time and the

1:17:56 ↗ specific end time or you can have a

1:17:59 ↗ standing committee which basically would

1:18:00 ↗ be a permanent committee

1:18:02 ↗ you can still at some point review the

1:18:05 ↗ scope of work of a standing committee a

1:18:07 ↗ permanent committee let's say on an

1:18:09 ↗ annual basis and you can still decide at

1:18:12 ↗ some point to say oh if the committee um

1:18:15 ↗ met all the its initial scope you can

1:18:19 ↗ sunset it um but um a standing commit

1:18:23 ↗ committee um

1:18:25 ↗ what it's understandable would be a

1:18:27 ↗ longer term one than just one that would

1:18:29 ↗ be a couple of months long so with your

1:18:32 ↗ permission our recommendation would be

1:18:34 ↗ then for this community engagement

1:18:36 ↗ committee to just create a standing one

1:18:39 ↗ because i think there's quite a bit of

1:18:41 ↗ work that could be done

1:18:43 ↗ that would warrant the standing

1:18:44 ↗ committee

1:18:46 ↗ um the scope specific scope we need to

1:18:49 ↗ um

1:18:50 ↗ define it and our recommendations would

1:18:52 ↗ be to the scope of the

1:18:55 ↗ committee to

1:18:57 ↗ um

1:18:58 ↗ address cultural conversations that the

1:19:00 ↗ equity board will be hosting

1:19:03 ↗ and to come back to you as a board with

1:19:06 ↗ recommendations regarding ongoing

1:19:09 ↗ community engagement opportunities

1:19:12 ↗ so if you choose to create a a committee

1:19:17 ↗ the committee would not take decisions

1:19:20 ↗ on its own it would be as part of the

1:19:22 ↗ equity board so the committee would need

1:19:25 ↗ to come back to you

1:19:27 ↗ for any final decisions

1:19:30 ↗ and also come back to you with reports

1:19:32 ↗ so the committee would make

1:19:34 ↗ recommendations to the board would not

1:19:36 ↗ be a separate entity that would take

1:19:38 ↗ decisions and actions outside of the

1:19:41 ↗ board

1:19:43 ↗ um so a membership you can have for the

1:19:46 ↗ the committee no more than four members

1:19:49 ↗ as you might have guessed and you know

1:19:51 ↗ by now

1:19:52 ↗ if you have five members of

1:19:55 ↗ the equity board you have a quorum uh

1:19:57 ↗ which then that

1:19:59 ↗ creates um other needs and rules and

1:20:01 ↗ regulations that we need to follow in

1:20:03 ↗ terms of open meetings act

1:20:05 ↗ so um you will have to have no more than

1:20:08 ↗ four members

1:20:10 ↗ um the members will be determined by

1:20:12 ↗ nominations you can self-nominate or you

1:20:16 ↗ can nominate someone we'll discuss that

1:20:18 ↗ just in a few minutes

1:20:21 ↗ and then also the committee would have a

1:20:23 ↗ chair that would be selected at a first

1:20:26 ↗ meeting of that committee

1:20:30 ↗ so

1:20:30 ↗ our recommendation to keep it simple

1:20:32 ↗ would be number one tonight then to

1:20:34 ↗ create a committee on community

1:20:36 ↗ engagement

1:20:37 ↗ and then if you are okay with that as a

1:20:40 ↗ board then our also recommendation would

1:20:43 ↗ be then to appoint

1:20:45 ↗ four members to serve on that committee

1:20:50 ↗ so in terms of what would need to happen

1:20:52 ↗ next um if you agree as a board tonight

1:20:55 ↗ to take action on creating the committee

1:20:58 ↗ we would go and move forward in

1:21:00 ↗ forward with implementing the committee

1:21:03 ↗ um and so that committee will start

1:21:05 ↗ meeting outside of the regular equity

1:21:08 ↗ board meetings

1:21:09 ↗ and the committee will return someone

1:21:12 ↗ the chair or representative of the

1:21:14 ↗ committee would return to the board with

1:21:16 ↗ recommendations let's say

1:21:19 ↗ um

1:21:20 ↗ because we had one

1:21:22 ↗ cultural conversation back in february

1:21:25 ↗ regarding black history month

1:21:27 ↗ perhaps the committee can go and discuss

1:21:30 ↗ what other

1:21:31 ↗ cultural conversations um

1:21:35 ↗ we have capacity and um

1:21:38 ↗ interest in doing for the remainder of

1:21:40 ↗ the year and then come back with those

1:21:42 ↗ specific recommendations to the board

1:21:45 ↗ ask permission for implementation

1:21:48 ↗ and then start hosting those

1:21:51 ↗ conversations

1:21:53 ↗ the recommendation is also to provide

1:21:55 ↗ monthly updates to the board

1:21:57 ↗ perhaps if the committee let's say does

1:22:00 ↗ not meet for one month the the report

1:22:03 ↗ can be just as as simple as this month

1:22:05 ↗ the committee did not need

1:22:07 ↗ um or of course if it's more active and

1:22:11 ↗ um

1:22:12 ↗ depending on um

1:22:13 ↗ what the tasks were then the report may

1:22:16 ↗ be um

1:22:17 ↗ more comprehensive

1:22:20 ↗ so with that i'm gonna pause this is

1:22:22 ↗ just a repeat on what the recommendation

1:22:24 ↗ is tonight

1:22:26 ↗ and that is to create a committee on

1:22:28 ↗ community engagement and then if

1:22:31 ↗ you take action on that to also appoint

1:22:34 ↗ members to that

1:22:36 ↗ so

1:22:37 ↗ with that i think the first

1:22:39 ↗ ones i'm going to stop sharing

1:22:42 ↗ we even have a proposed motion for you

1:22:45 ↗ before discussion

1:22:55 ↗ um

1:22:56 ↗ so the proposed motion and if um if the

1:22:59 ↗ motion

1:23:00 ↗ uh sounds professional i want to give a

1:23:03 ↗ shout out to our city clerk tisha gizer

1:23:06 ↗ um i did not come up with this on my own

1:23:09 ↗ i'm very very grateful for having

1:23:11 ↗ great um

1:23:13 ↗ support from our clerk's office

1:23:17 ↗ who can walk us through the legalities

1:23:20 ↗ so i'm just gonna put it

1:23:23 ↗ give me a moment so i can read the

1:23:24 ↗ motion to you

1:23:26 ↗ all

1:23:28 ↗ so you can start discussion

1:23:30 ↗ so

1:23:30 ↗ the motion to establish a committee

1:23:32 ↗ would be a move to establish a standing

1:23:35 ↗ community engagement committee to be

1:23:37 ↗ composed of four members who are to be

1:23:40 ↗ nominated by the board

1:23:42 ↗ the purpose of the committee will be to

1:23:44 ↗ make recommendations to the board

1:23:46 ↗ regarding cultural conversations to be

1:23:49 ↗ hosted by the board

1:23:50 ↗ and ongoing community engagement

1:23:53 ↗ opportunities

1:23:54 ↗ and provide reports at the monthly board

1:23:57 ↗ meetings

1:23:58 ↗ so we need someone to make the motion

1:24:02 ↗ and someone else to second the motion

1:24:05 ↗ once you have a motion and second then

1:24:07 ↗ you can start conversations questions

1:24:11 ↗ around this

1:24:13 ↗ and

1:24:15 ↗ we don't put typically things in the

1:24:16 ↗ chat but we do have permission to put

1:24:18 ↗ the motion so everybody can see it

1:24:22 ↗ in there

1:24:24 ↗ okay

1:24:26 ↗ so i guess with that do we have a motion

1:24:28 ↗ a formal motion

1:24:32 ↗ before we do that

1:24:33 ↗ so typically we want to have the motion

1:24:35 ↗ and then you start the discussion around

1:24:37 ↗ it so you can have questions yes if you

1:24:40 ↗ don't mind having a motion and second

1:24:42 ↗ and then you can have yes

1:24:45 ↗ you can also have without

1:24:46 ↗ right

1:24:48 ↗ okay i moved to establish a standing

1:24:50 ↗ committee community engagement committee

1:24:52 ↗ to be composed of four members who are

1:24:55 ↗ to be nominated by the board the purpose

1:24:57 ↗ of the committee will be to make

1:24:59 ↗ recommendations to the board regarding

1:25:01 ↗ cultural conversations

1:25:02 ↗ to be hosted by the board

1:25:04 ↗ and ongoing community engagement

1:25:06 ↗ opportunities and provide reports at the

1:25:09 ↗ monthly board meetings

1:25:12 ↗ thank you

1:25:13 ↗ i'll second

1:25:15 ↗ thank you

1:25:16 ↗ and yes now thank you so much so yes

1:25:18 ↗ please bring comments and questions

1:25:21 ↗ um

1:25:24 ↗ okay so can i go then

1:25:28 ↗ okay so i guess my question is um have

1:25:31 ↗ we

1:25:33 ↗ given any thought as to what other

1:25:35 ↗ committees may be coming down the

1:25:37 ↗ pipeline

1:25:38 ↗ that we have identified either either

1:25:40 ↗ through

1:25:41 ↗ um some of the conversations that we

1:25:43 ↗ have had and or some of the comments

1:25:45 ↗ that we have made to either you monica

1:25:48 ↗ or

1:25:49 ↗ the the two chairs

1:25:51 ↗ and the reason for my

1:25:53 ↗ question is because

1:25:55 ↗ this seems like a very interesting

1:25:57 ↗ opportunity

1:25:59 ↗ but

1:26:01 ↗ you know

1:26:02 ↗ i guess people should know

1:26:04 ↗ if a different committee comes up are we

1:26:08 ↗ allowed to change to the new committee

1:26:10 ↗ what are the logistics

1:26:12 ↗ around committing now versus committing

1:26:14 ↗ to something

1:26:16 ↗ that may be a closer match later on

1:26:19 ↗ such a great question lucia thank you so

1:26:21 ↗ much and actually i know tony brought up

1:26:24 ↗ and say we did have conversations about

1:26:26 ↗ perhaps down the line having

1:26:28 ↗ a need for additional committees um so

1:26:31 ↗ rightfully so as the

1:26:33 ↗ board develops i possibly we may have

1:26:37 ↗ other committees my recommendation the

1:26:40 ↗ staff was let's start with one

1:26:43 ↗ just because as we are still developing

1:26:45 ↗ as a board and as we still have quite a

1:26:47 ↗ bit of work to do it seems already

1:26:50 ↗ overwhelming

1:26:52 ↗ so um so that's where we are we don't

1:26:54 ↗ have it figured out and i think that's

1:26:56 ↗ why it would be great to hear from other

1:26:57 ↗ board members and as we developed to see

1:26:59 ↗ what the need is

1:27:01 ↗ now to the second part of your question

1:27:03 ↗ lucrecia

1:27:05 ↗ nothing stops you from let's say serving

1:27:08 ↗ on a committee

1:27:09 ↗ and then later serving on a second

1:27:11 ↗ committee as well if you have the

1:27:13 ↗ capacity as long as you as board members

1:27:16 ↗ are also okay with just having if there

1:27:19 ↗ are more people interested in

1:27:22 ↗ multiple committees just like making

1:27:23 ↗ sure that everybody has a chance to

1:27:25 ↗ serve but

1:27:27 ↗ um there's nothing that would stop you

1:27:28 ↗ as long as you have capacity to serve on

1:27:30 ↗ more than one committee or even changing

1:27:33 ↗ later

1:27:34 ↗ um let's say like we say

1:27:36 ↗ even something happens and you don't no

1:27:39 ↗ longer have capacity to serve on a

1:27:40 ↗ committee you can only step down and

1:27:42 ↗ someone else may step in

1:27:44 ↗ um or change this did that answer your

1:27:47 ↗ question

1:27:48 ↗ yes thank you

1:27:50 ↗ and then

1:27:52 ↗ tony and ray

1:27:55 ↗ yeah i just wanted to just a quick

1:27:57 ↗ comment just to make sure that um

1:27:59 ↗ everyone understands who might um

1:28:01 ↗ be thinking about participating in you

1:28:04 ↗ know this this committee is that um

1:28:07 ↗ one thing that we talked about monica

1:28:09 ↗ shea and i is that um

1:28:11 ↗ if this is something you'd want to do

1:28:14 ↗ that doesn't mean that you actually have

1:28:16 ↗ to be a panelist let's say on a cultural

1:28:18 ↗ conversation it's really planning out

1:28:21 ↗ the um everything all the logistics that

1:28:24 ↗ go forward in

1:28:26 ↗ making those cultural conversations

1:28:27 ↗ happen that doesn't mean it doesn't

1:28:29 ↗ preclude you from being a panelist but

1:28:30 ↗ it doesn't mean you have to absolutely

1:28:33 ↗ be a panelist in a cultural conversation

1:28:36 ↗ as well so i just wanted to make that

1:28:37 ↗ clear

1:28:39 ↗ great clarification tony thank you for

1:28:41 ↗ that

1:28:42 ↗ and then i think to add to that um i

1:28:44 ↗ remember our conversation as well let's

1:28:47 ↗ say since you we can all have we cannot

1:28:51 ↗ have more than four members serving on

1:28:53 ↗ the committee um depending on

1:28:56 ↗ on the conversations or on the topic

1:29:00 ↗ you know it might be where the committee

1:29:02 ↗ will come and say hey we don't have the

1:29:05 ↗ expertise for this topic but we would

1:29:07 ↗ like to invite someone who has that

1:29:09 ↗ expertise right i'm gonna use myself as

1:29:12 ↗ an example it which is silly maybe you

1:29:15 ↗ want to have something on romanian

1:29:16 ↗ hungarian heritage i don't know i'm just

1:29:19 ↗ saying that because i'm i have both and

1:29:22 ↗ maybe you know if you don't know someone

1:29:24 ↗ maybe we'll reach out to someone who's

1:29:26 ↗ of hungarian heritage too to provide

1:29:28 ↗ that that input right on the board so

1:29:32 ↗ um

1:29:33 ↗ so i guess it's like just because the

1:29:36 ↗ committee has four members it doesn't

1:29:38 ↗ mean that they're not going to be

1:29:39 ↗ opportunities for others to weigh in and

1:29:41 ↗ provide their

1:29:43 ↗ professional input right

1:29:48 ↗ so thank you for that and array

1:29:52 ↗ yeah thanks monica um just one question

1:29:54 ↗ about the

1:29:55 ↗ hierarchical structure um from this

1:29:59 ↗ this

1:30:00 ↗ establishment so if we create the

1:30:02 ↗ community engagement committee

1:30:04 ↗ and i can see that as an opportunity to

1:30:07 ↗ bring forward other issues so let's say

1:30:10 ↗ as an example

1:30:11 ↗ this by engaging the community

1:30:14 ↗ this

1:30:15 ↗ by engaging this creating this community

1:30:17 ↗ and engaging the community

1:30:20 ↗ we find the need to focus on let's just

1:30:23 ↗ use an example homelessness right so

1:30:26 ↗ by creating that homelessness group

1:30:28 ↗ through this

1:30:30 ↗ community engagement committee do they

1:30:32 ↗ report up to that community or they can

1:30:34 ↗ they report directly to the board

1:30:36 ↗ because we find that this is an issue

1:30:39 ↗ that should be of equal stature to this

1:30:41 ↗ community engagement committee

1:30:43 ↗ that's my question such another great

1:30:46 ↗ great question ray thank you so let's

1:30:48 ↗ say that through the community

1:30:50 ↗ engagement committee you identify

1:30:52 ↗ another um important

1:30:55 ↗ issue of equity that you would like to

1:30:57 ↗ address so as the committee that as

1:31:00 ↗ the committee cannot take decisions on

1:31:03 ↗ its own without the equity board so it

1:31:05 ↗ would be the committee to come back to

1:31:07 ↗ the entire board to make that

1:31:09 ↗ recommendation and let's say they're

1:31:11 ↗ gonna make their account they come back

1:31:13 ↗ and say you know we identified

1:31:15 ↗ homelessness this is a really a big

1:31:17 ↗ equitable issue that we want to address

1:31:19 ↗ in in the in the community so they can

1:31:21 ↗ come to you with a recommendation and as

1:31:24 ↗ i foresee and i understand the options

1:31:26 ↗ at this point they could either

1:31:28 ↗ recommend a subcommittee to the

1:31:29 ↗ committee so it would be then the equity

1:31:32 ↗ board committee and the subcommittee or

1:31:34 ↗ they can come to you and recommend a

1:31:36 ↗ different committee so you would have

1:31:37 ↗ the equity board committee on engagement

1:31:39 ↗ and committee on homelessness for

1:31:41 ↗ example but again they would come to you

1:31:43 ↗ as the larger board with the

1:31:45 ↗ recommendation and it would be the

1:31:46 ↗ entire board who may take that decision

1:31:49 ↗ or maybe there's going to be a totally

1:31:50 ↗ different option maybe they're going to

1:31:52 ↗ say you know what human services

1:31:53 ↗ commission you are dealing with human

1:31:55 ↗ services issues we want to collaborate

1:31:58 ↗ with you and let's work on homelessness

1:32:00 ↗ something like that right so did that

1:32:02 ↗ help answer the question yes thank you

1:32:05 ↗ thank you

1:32:08 ↗ and lucrecia

1:32:10 ↗ that question was answered thank you via

1:32:13 ↗ the other question that was asked thank

1:32:14 ↗ you

1:32:16 ↗ thank you

1:32:17 ↗ board members any other questions about

1:32:20 ↗ the motion and the recommendation in

1:32:22 ↗ front of you tonight

1:32:26 ↗ actually do have another question monica

1:32:28 ↗ can you please remind me and anyone who

1:32:30 ↗ doesn't know the answer to this

1:32:32 ↗ um

1:32:34 ↗ the people who are

1:32:37 ↗ not voting members do they count as a

1:32:40 ↗ whole

1:32:43 ↗ as a whole member when creating a

1:32:46 ↗ committee

1:32:47 ↗ meaning like do we reach quorum with

1:32:50 ↗ someone who is a non-voting member

1:32:54 ↗ um let me see if i understood your

1:32:56 ↗ question so for example in this case you

1:33:00 ↗ will be voting tonight on creating a

1:33:02 ↗ committee so technically the non-voting

1:33:05 ↗ members if if there's no alignment and

1:33:09 ↗ let's say we have a an alternate member

1:33:12 ↗ and they don't agree with the rest of

1:33:14 ↗ the the group in that case their vote

1:33:17 ↗ really doesn't count so we don't we we

1:33:20 ↗ want to encourage you to see if you get

1:33:22 ↗ to an agreement but if you don't get to

1:33:23 ↗ an agreement those who are alternate

1:33:25 ↗ members their vote is not

1:33:28 ↗ counted in although i would hope

1:33:30 ↗ and i would encourage you as a board to

1:33:32 ↗ really hear their voices

1:33:35 ↗ um so

1:33:36 ↗ however

1:33:38 ↗ we do have

1:33:40 ↗ um in terms of voting and that's a good

1:33:42 ↗ reminder when it comes comes time to

1:33:45 ↗ voting we do have one of the youth

1:33:46 ↗ members who is

1:33:48 ↗ absent tonight so actually jacob who's

1:33:51 ↗ an alternate would step in in that

1:33:54 ↗ role and he will be voting so he will be

1:33:56 ↗ a voting member tonight although he is

1:33:59 ↗ uh an alternate regularly

1:34:01 ↗ um so did that answer though your

1:34:04 ↗ question chrissy about

1:34:06 ↗ the following part but what about

1:34:09 ↗ it

1:34:10 ↗ you said that we needed four members to

1:34:12 ↗ have a committee and not reach quorum

1:34:15 ↗ so can we have a fifth member that is

1:34:18 ↗ who is not a voting member be a part of

1:34:20 ↗ that okay that was okay thank you yes so

1:34:23 ↗ then uh alternate members can also be

1:34:25 ↗ part of the committee but you cannot

1:34:27 ↗ have more than four members no you

1:34:28 ↗ cannot have a fifth yeah you want to

1:34:30 ↗ have four and that can include

1:34:32 ↗ alternates and regular members great

1:34:35 ↗ question got it

1:34:38 ↗ because so the way it works is

1:34:41 ↗ on alternate automatically steps into

1:34:44 ↗ the role of a regular member

1:34:46 ↗ when when a regular member is not

1:34:48 ↗ present right

1:34:50 ↗ so then if you had a fifth member they

1:34:52 ↗ would be automatically representing the

1:34:54 ↗ board

1:34:55 ↗ so it would be a quorum

1:35:00 ↗ it so yeah four yeah

1:35:03 ↗ um

1:35:04 ↗ thank you other

1:35:06 ↗ questions

1:35:08 ↗ before

1:35:10 ↗ we move to

1:35:11 ↗ voting

1:35:15 ↗ i see no

1:35:17 ↗ other questions

1:35:19 ↗ so in that case actually before so you

1:35:22 ↗ can do two things board members you can

1:35:24 ↗ vote

1:35:25 ↗ first on the creation of the committee

1:35:28 ↗ and then you can nominate members for

1:35:31 ↗ the committee or

1:35:33 ↗ we can now nominate members of the

1:35:35 ↗ committee and you vote at the end once

1:35:38 ↗ for both for creating the committee and

1:35:41 ↗ to also um

1:35:43 ↗ acknowledge the members of the committee

1:35:46 ↗ do you have a preference

1:35:49 ↗ if you don't have a preference

1:35:53 ↗ no i don't feel free to put comments

1:35:55 ↗ questions if you don't have a preference

1:35:56 ↗ then instead of just voting now once i

1:35:58 ↗ would

1:35:59 ↗ um recommend that we

1:36:02 ↗ talk about

1:36:03 ↗ um nominating so feel free to nominate

1:36:06 ↗ someone for the committee or

1:36:08 ↗ self-nominate yourself if you're

1:36:10 ↗ interested in being part of the

1:36:12 ↗ committee

1:36:13 ↗ um

1:36:15 ↗ so we would need

1:36:17 ↗ four members

1:36:22 ↗ interested in

1:36:24 ↗ the community engagement

1:36:34 ↗ okay

1:36:36 ↗ we need a committee

1:36:37 ↗ or we need to minimally nominate some

1:36:40 ↗ people in order to then vote whether

1:36:42 ↗ it's going to pass so

1:36:44 ↗ i would like to express interest if

1:36:46 ↗ people feel that

1:36:48 ↗ they're comfortable with what i bring

1:36:50 ↗ and offer to the table then i would like

1:36:52 ↗ to nominate myself

1:36:57 ↗ thank you lucrecian any other nomination

1:37:01 ↗ self nominations for nominating someone

1:37:03 ↗ else

1:37:04 ↗ for the engagement committee

1:37:06 ↗ community engagement committee

1:37:16 ↗ can we nominate multiple people

1:37:21 ↗ i don't see why not

1:37:23 ↗ okay uh the first person i'd like to

1:37:26 ↗ nominate is christina

1:37:29 ↗ um the second person i'd like to

1:37:32 ↗ nominate is prithee

1:37:35 ↗ the third person look i'm just going

1:37:37 ↗ down a list here the third person i like

1:37:38 ↗ to nominate is helen

1:37:41 ↗ fourth person

1:37:43 ↗ is alicia

1:37:45 ↗ and

1:37:48 ↗ yeah i gotta nominate ray

1:37:52 ↗ and you know and i'm using this based on

1:37:54 ↗ like when we were putting out that

1:37:56 ↗ message everyone who spoke up is

1:37:58 ↗ literally on this call and lorna as well

1:38:01 ↗ everyone who was like really

1:38:02 ↗ contributing the most to that message is

1:38:05 ↗ on this call right now

1:38:09 ↗ so thank you so much i nominate myself

1:38:12 ↗ as an alternate member

1:38:16 ↗ thank you shay so before i'm gonna go to

1:38:18 ↗ ask all the nominees to see if they

1:38:21 ↗ accept the nomination then i see alyssa

1:38:24 ↗ has a comment

1:38:28 ↗ unfortunately what i was going to say

1:38:29 ↗ was just that i don't know that i will

1:38:32 ↗ be able to commit the time

1:38:34 ↗ so i appreciate the nomination but

1:38:37 ↗ after

1:38:39 ↗ uh decline

1:38:40 ↗ thank you

1:38:42 ↗ thank you alisa and that's totally

1:38:44 ↗ understandable this is an extra time

1:38:46 ↗ commitment so

1:38:47 ↗ so we have lucrezia we have a lisa

1:38:51 ↗ nominated but she she cannot make the

1:38:54 ↗ time commitment we had christina

1:38:56 ↗ as one of the uh

1:38:59 ↗ person who was nominated christina would

1:39:02 ↗ you like to comment on that are you

1:39:04 ↗ interested in

1:39:06 ↗ the committee

1:39:10 ↗ maintenance

1:39:22 ↗ i am i am interested there's

1:39:25 ↗ some limitations that i do

1:39:27 ↗ face

1:39:28 ↗ uh for instance the language barrier and

1:39:32 ↗ also i don't drive but if those aren't

1:39:35 ↗ any uh impediments then i'm interested

1:39:38 ↗ in participating yes

1:39:42 ↗ and thank you tony

1:39:45 ↗ thank you christina and i see tony has a

1:39:47 ↗ comment before i respond to one of your

1:39:50 ↗ questions i was just i was just going to

1:39:52 ↗ say um

1:39:53 ↗ but i shouldn't be trying to convince

1:39:55 ↗ anybody to be a member of this committee

1:39:57 ↗ but um

1:39:59 ↗ christina i uh in my personal opinion

1:40:02 ↗ with your your

1:40:04 ↗ uh experiences here in issaquah

1:40:08 ↗ the experiences from your daughters the

1:40:10 ↗ experiences that you face um as well um

1:40:14 ↗ i i think your voice will be a very very

1:40:17 ↗ important voice on this committee in

1:40:19 ↗ terms of

1:40:20 ↗ equity um

1:40:22 ↗ all up i mean oftentimes we don't think

1:40:24 ↗ about is one thing i'm doing at work at

1:40:26 ↗ microsoft is thinking about language

1:40:28 ↗ barriers that that occur and the

1:40:31 ↗ different trainings that we have and i

1:40:33 ↗ think that that's a very big factor in

1:40:36 ↗ these community conversations that occur

1:40:38 ↗ so

1:40:39 ↗ i'm glad that you

1:40:40 ↗ thankfully would like to be a member of

1:40:42 ↗ this committee

1:40:47 ↗ that's it for me

1:40:48 ↗ thank you very much tony and uh

1:40:51 ↗ christina if you are okay uh we will

1:40:53 ↗ figure out the um interpreters so the

1:40:56 ↗ language should not be a barrier and the

1:40:59 ↗ same with driving

1:41:00 ↗ um access should also that not be a

1:41:03 ↗ barrier so we'll work

1:41:05 ↗ through those details

1:41:07 ↗ um so thank you next we had um pretty

1:41:13 ↗ um

1:41:14 ↗ what are your thoughts about the

1:41:16 ↗ nomination

1:41:19 ↗ i am honored to be nominated um

1:41:22 ↗ i don't feel like community engagement

1:41:24 ↗ is

1:41:27 ↗ a strength for me

1:41:28 ↗ so i would

1:41:31 ↗ i would like to decline because i think

1:41:34 ↗ other folks could contribute in um

1:41:37 ↗ more creative engaging ways than i could

1:41:41 ↗ but i do appreciate the nomination tony

1:41:47 ↗ thank you so much pretty and um tony for

1:41:50 ↗ sure

1:41:51 ↗ um i think helen

1:41:58 ↗ how are you doing

1:41:59 ↗ i hope i got all the nominations

1:42:01 ↗ correctly

1:42:02 ↗ please stop me if i didn't

1:42:05 ↗ go ahead helen

1:42:06 ↗ thank you tony um

1:42:09 ↗ i i i accept it with a lot of honor

1:42:11 ↗ thank you so much i i would be glad to

1:42:13 ↗ be part of it

1:42:15 ↗ thank you very much

1:42:17 ↗ thank you so much helen

1:42:19 ↗ and then rey and lorna

1:42:25 ↗ uh this is ray i respectfully accept and

1:42:28 ↗ i look forward to working closely with

1:42:30 ↗ this committee one caveat i i um the

1:42:33 ↗ time constraints when it comes time to

1:42:35 ↗ decide i would prefer not to be chair

1:42:37 ↗ but i would love to be part of the

1:42:38 ↗ committee

1:42:40 ↗ thank you so much ray

1:42:42 ↗ and lorna

1:42:47 ↗ at this time i think i would love to be

1:42:49 ↗ a backup person

1:42:50 ↗ after shay

1:42:52 ↗ but um sometimes with my work it gets

1:42:55 ↗ confused with the work of the district

1:42:57 ↗ especially it since it is so community

1:43:01 ↗ visible within our community and so

1:43:04 ↗ with this kind of community engagement

1:43:06 ↗ i'd rather be

1:43:09 ↗ part of conversations as a member a

1:43:11 ↗ community member rather than

1:43:13 ↗ organizing just to make sure i'm drawing

1:43:16 ↗ boundaries

1:43:18 ↗ and eliminating my role in the district

1:43:20 ↗ versus

1:43:21 ↗ with this working with the city so i

1:43:23 ↗ will decline thank you for the

1:43:25 ↗ offer the nominee tony

1:43:29 ↗ thank you so much all of you and i know

1:43:31 ↗ shea you also offer to be an alternate

1:43:34 ↗ any other nominations before i summarize

1:43:37 ↗ everything i heard here

1:43:40 ↗ or self nominations

1:43:47 ↗ it goes once twice

1:43:50 ↗ so

1:43:51 ↗ it actually it seems like it works all

1:43:53 ↗ just kind of like perfectly because

1:43:56 ↗ unless i um did not do my math correctly

1:43:59 ↗ i think we have nominations that were

1:44:02 ↗ accepted we have lucrezia christina

1:44:05 ↗ helen and rey

1:44:07 ↗ and then alternates possible backups

1:44:10 ↗ being lorna and shea

1:44:13 ↗ correct did i get that correct and then

1:44:15 ↗ tony can be also an alternate if needed

1:44:18 ↗ but i think we do have the four members

1:44:20 ↗ so i think now with your permission we

1:44:23 ↗ can move to the vote so

1:44:27 ↗ the actual vote would be for you in

1:44:29 ↗ front of you tonight board members

1:44:32 ↗ part one

1:44:33 ↗ to um

1:44:35 ↗ vote the creation of an engagement

1:44:37 ↗ committee and i'm gonna go back to

1:44:41 ↗ to the motion because tisha reminded me

1:44:44 ↗ that we need to be very specific with

1:44:47 ↗ putting all the details so

1:44:49 ↗ um

1:44:53 ↗ oh i lost my comment about where is the

1:44:55 ↗ motion

1:44:57 ↗ there you go so the vote for you tonight

1:45:00 ↗ would be creating a standing community

1:45:03 ↗ engagement committee to be composed of

1:45:06 ↗ four members which will be lucrecia

1:45:08 ↗ christina helen and rey

1:45:12 ↗ um

1:45:13 ↗ so

1:45:14 ↗ they are nominated they were nominated

1:45:16 ↗ by the board the purpose of the

1:45:17 ↗ committee will be to make

1:45:19 ↗ recommendations to the board regarding

1:45:21 ↗ cultural conversations to be hosted by

1:45:23 ↗ the board and ongoing community

1:45:26 ↗ engagement opportunities and then to

1:45:28 ↗ provide reports at the monthly board

1:45:31 ↗ meetings

1:45:33 ↗ so

1:45:34 ↗ um we would proceed with a roll call for

1:45:37 ↗ this and so when i call your name please

1:45:39 ↗ just tell um as how you vote so you can

1:45:43 ↗ vote that you agree i or yes or if you

1:45:47 ↗ don't agree

1:45:48 ↗ you say no or nay

1:45:51 ↗ um

1:45:53 ↗ so with that i'm just gonna

1:45:56 ↗ please vote when i call on your name and

1:46:00 ↗ the first person

1:46:01 ↗ to vote will be christina how do you

1:46:04 ↗ vote

1:46:09 ↗ can i vote for

1:46:10 ↗ any other person right so now you just

1:46:13 ↗ need to vote yes or no so whether or not

1:46:15 ↗ you agree to create the committee and

1:46:17 ↗ the four members so basically you vote

1:46:19 ↗ either yes or no you vote yes if you

1:46:22 ↗ want to create the committee with the

1:46:24 ↗ four members that we mentioned lucrecia

1:46:26 ↗ yourself helen and ray or you vote no

1:46:32 ↗ okay

1:46:33 ↗ yes

1:46:34 ↗ okay thank you

1:46:37 ↗ megan is not here so instead of megan we

1:46:39 ↗ have jacob who's gonna vote

1:46:42 ↗ yes

1:46:44 ↗ thank you

1:46:45 ↗ alisa how do you vote

1:46:47 ↗ yes

1:46:48 ↗ thank you lorna how do you vote

1:46:52 ↗ yes thank you

1:46:55 ↗ um helen how do you vote

1:46:58 ↗ yes

1:46:59 ↗ thank you lucrecia how do you vote

1:47:03 ↗ yes

1:47:04 ↗ thank you ray

1:47:06 ↗ yes

1:47:07 ↗ thank you tony

1:47:17 ↗ tony i'm sorry i did not hear sorry

1:47:19 ↗ talking on mute sorry yes there you go

1:47:22 ↗ thank you

1:47:23 ↗ and say how do you vote

1:47:26 ↗ yes

1:47:27 ↗ thank you

1:47:29 ↗ and um i think that passes unanimously

1:47:32 ↗ thank you very much my query board

1:47:34 ↗ members and congratulations

1:47:36 ↗ you have now a community engagement

1:47:38 ↗ committee

1:47:42 ↗ yes congratulations

1:47:44 ↗ so committee members again thank you so

1:47:46 ↗ much to christia christina helen and ray

1:47:48 ↗ i will follow up with you

1:47:50 ↗ directly and we will proceed to schedule

1:47:53 ↗ the first meeting and um

1:47:57 ↗ we'll go from there

1:47:59 ↗ congratulations again thank you

1:48:03 ↗ say back to you i think we can move to

1:48:05 ↗ the next agenda either

1:48:08 ↗ all righty so thank you so much monica i

1:48:12 ↗ we are actually at the end of our agenda

1:48:15 ↗ um other than that i think the only

1:48:17 ↗ thing we have left is the staff report

1:48:19 ↗ do you have anything for us today

1:48:23 ↗ thank you very much say i have just this

1:48:26 ↗ it's not small i think however it would

1:48:29 ↗ be nice this is

1:48:30 ↗ uh on

1:48:31 ↗ based on recommendation from tony on

1:48:35 ↗ acknowledging starting perhaps for us to

1:48:37 ↗ acknowledge religious cultural heritage

1:48:40 ↗ related

1:48:41 ↗ um

1:48:44 ↗ holidays for the month um so i would

1:48:47 ↗ just like while we and

1:48:50 ↗ definitely we will rely on the community

1:48:52 ↗ engagement committee in the future to

1:48:54 ↗ see how we may acknowledge the the

1:48:56 ↗ religions or the different holidays not

1:48:59 ↗ just the religious holidays um i think

1:49:01 ↗ that i just wanted to take a couple of

1:49:03 ↗ minutes to highlight

1:49:05 ↗ a few holidays for the month of april

1:49:09 ↗ um and again this can be heritage month

1:49:12 ↗ type of events or cultural religious

1:49:14 ↗ holidays

1:49:16 ↗ um

1:49:16 ↗ and it's just um an opportunity for us

1:49:19 ↗ to read more or to reflect upon those

1:49:22 ↗ so with your permission as i was looking

1:49:25 ↗ we have quite a few holidays in the

1:49:28 ↗ month of april

1:49:30 ↗ um

1:49:32 ↗ so in terms of heritage type events

1:49:37 ↗ allow me just a moment to bring up my

1:49:39 ↗ notes

1:49:40 ↗ um so

1:49:43 ↗ um

1:49:45 ↗ perhaps not as known in the community or

1:49:48 ↗ i want to acknowledge that i was not

1:49:50 ↗ aware but april is also

1:49:53 ↗ a national

1:49:55 ↗ arab american heritage month um

1:50:00 ↗ i also know um april is autism autism

1:50:04 ↗ awareness month

1:50:06 ↗ um it's national deaf history month

1:50:10 ↗ sexual assault awareness month

1:50:13 ↗ uh national child abuse prevention month

1:50:17 ↗ um

1:50:18 ↗ and so these are a few highlights in

1:50:20 ↗ terms of heritage months

1:50:24 ↗ in terms of cultural and religious

1:50:26 ↗ holidays

1:50:27 ↗ um

1:50:28 ↗ we just started earlier this month a few

1:50:31 ↗ days ago

1:50:32 ↗ ramadan started and it's being observed

1:50:35 ↗ by our islamic community members

1:50:39 ↗ um started on april 2nd it's going to go

1:50:42 ↗ ramadan until

1:50:44 ↗ may 2nd so you may see as if my you may

1:50:47 ↗ have friends co-workers

1:50:50 ↗ or yourself um

1:50:53 ↗ i know that the

1:50:55 ↗ community um often

1:50:57 ↗ um

1:51:00 ↗ observes fasting from sunrise to sunset

1:51:04 ↗ um so um just a note on that

1:51:10 ↗ um

1:51:12 ↗ multiple

1:51:13 ↗ other holidays throughout the month uh

1:51:17 ↗ the jewish community members start on

1:51:20 ↗ april 15th passover begins

1:51:23 ↗ between so um april 15 to the 23rd

1:51:27 ↗ um the baha'i community members observe

1:51:30 ↗ a couple of holidays

1:51:33 ↗ the first first day of read fun

1:51:37 ↗ the

1:51:38 ↗ christian community members celebrate

1:51:40 ↗ easter

1:51:42 ↗ in april

1:51:43 ↗ um so you're gonna have holy week easter

1:51:46 ↗ on april 17

1:51:48 ↗ um also following

1:51:51 ↗ the the week after

1:51:53 ↗ um

1:51:54 ↗ the regular easter

1:51:56 ↗ those who celebrate are the eastern

1:51:58 ↗ orthodox

1:52:00 ↗ dogs church celebrates easter a week

1:52:02 ↗ after

1:52:03 ↗ so similar they will have good friday

1:52:05 ↗ and the holy week and easter just the

1:52:08 ↗ following weeks so the orthodoxy starts

1:52:10 ↗ on april 24th

1:52:12 ↗ um

1:52:14 ↗ and

1:52:15 ↗ another baha'i um holiday at the end of

1:52:18 ↗ the month the ninth date of reid van

1:52:22 ↗ um also another jewish holiday at the

1:52:24 ↗ end of the month

1:52:26 ↗ the day of remembrance

1:52:28 ↗ um

1:52:30 ↗ earlier actually just in a couple of

1:52:32 ↗ days

1:52:33 ↗ there's the national day of silence

1:52:36 ↗ um

1:52:37 ↗ observed by the

1:52:38 ↗ lgbtqi plus community members

1:52:42 ↗ um

1:52:43 ↗ hindu community members

1:52:46 ↗ um also celebrate on april 10th

1:52:50 ↗ um ramana

1:52:52 ↗ bami i apologize i'm not sure if i

1:52:54 ↗ pronounce it correctly

1:52:57 ↗ um

1:52:59 ↗ punjabi new year's

1:53:00 ↗ is next week on april 14th

1:53:03 ↗ um so many many holidays

1:53:06 ↗ at the end of the month at the very end

1:53:08 ↗ of the month the mexican community

1:53:10 ↗ members celebrate the children's day

1:53:15 ↗ so just wanted to highlight these at

1:53:18 ↗ this point would love for us to continue

1:53:21 ↗ the conversation how we can acknowledge

1:53:24 ↗ all the holidays in the future

1:53:26 ↗ and perhaps how the community engagement

1:53:28 ↗ committee can choose in advance

1:53:31 ↗ um perhaps holidays that um we can have

1:53:34 ↗ community conversations around

1:53:37 ↗ on

1:53:38 ↗ and so with that i'm just gonna pause to

1:53:41 ↗ see if there are any comments or

1:53:42 ↗ questions

1:53:43 ↗ but that would conclude i think

1:53:47 ↗ um

1:53:49 ↗ my portion of the small presentation for

1:53:51 ↗ staff

1:54:00 ↗ thank you

1:54:01 ↗ no comments no questions

1:54:04 ↗ thank you for that

1:54:06 ↗ i think that concludes my presentation

1:54:08 ↗ in that case equity board members

1:54:10 ↗ thank you so much for a great meeting

1:54:12 ↗ tonight

1:54:14 ↗ oh monica i'm sorry i did have a

1:54:16 ↗ question i was just typing really slowly

1:54:18 ↗ um i wanted to ask um

1:54:22 ↗ i guess i was more so concerned on how

1:54:25 ↗ we would be

1:54:27 ↗ um reflecting um is this something where

1:54:30 ↗ we would actually post a comment

1:54:32 ↗ somewhere or

1:54:34 ↗ have a statement much like we did with

1:54:37 ↗ ukraine or something in that realm of

1:54:38 ↗ things

1:54:41 ↗ and and i think my recommendation to

1:54:43 ↗ that shay would be i would love to take

1:54:45 ↗ the opportunity now that we have a

1:54:46 ↗ community engagement committee to

1:54:48 ↗ discuss this at the community level and

1:54:49 ↗ perhaps we can come back with a

1:54:51 ↗ recommendation to the entire board

1:54:54 ↗ um

1:54:55 ↗ because um i think

1:54:57 ↗ yeah just one there are just so many

1:54:59 ↗ things that we should be mindful of and

1:55:00 ↗ how to best do that so

1:55:02 ↗ is that okay with you if we come back

1:55:04 ↗ from the community

1:55:06 ↗ engagement committee with a

1:55:07 ↗ recommendation how to best do that in

1:55:09 ↗ the future

1:55:13 ↗ absolutely thank you so much yeah thank

1:55:15 ↗ you

1:55:23 ↗ all right last opportunity folks we're

1:55:24 ↗ coming to the end of the meeting

1:55:29 ↗ all right if there's no one else

1:55:32 ↗ then um monica said okay if i give you

1:55:35 ↗ all four minutes back

1:55:37 ↗ oh you're right

1:55:40 ↗ no questions no comments well as usual

1:55:43 ↗ it was so good seeing all of your faces

1:55:46 ↗ i'm so happy you're here

1:55:48 ↗ um our next meeting is going to be may

1:55:50 ↗ 4th 2022

1:55:53 ↗ i look forward to seeing everybody then

1:55:55 ↗ but other than that we are adjourned

1:56:01 ↗ bye everyone remember have a good night

1:56:04 ↗ you too

1:56:06 ↗ good night everyone thank you bye

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Cristina Abonce (arrived late)

Megan Reichley, Youth Member, (excused absence)

Alisa Stewart

Lorna Gilmour

Hellen Kibenge (arrived late)

Lucrecia Choto

Ray Manahan

Tony Curry

Shalanda Fleming

Jacob Rubenstein, Youth Member

Priti Mody-Pan

Staff (1)

Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager

Excused

Kelly Munn

Guests (3)

Harry Hughes, Spanish Interpreters

Hilary Hughes, Spanish Interpreters

Julian Mydlil

Recommendations & actions (3)

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There being no proposed changes, the minutes were approved by unanimous consent.
Board Member Lucrecia Choto motioned that a Committee on Community Engagement be created by the Equity Board.
Board Chair Shay Fleming seconded, and the Board unanimously approved the creation of a standing committee that would make recommendations to the Equity Board regarding Cultural Conversations hosted by the Board, and…