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Wednesday, June 1, 2022

6:00 PM · 2h 9m
Topics tracked across meetings:
ADA Self-Evaluation and Transition Plan AB 8350 2/6
Heat Pump Program for Low Income Residents AB 8370 2/5
Heat Pump Program 2/3
Community Engagement Committee Report Out [15 minutes] 2/2
Section
1. CALL TO ORDER
1a
Commission Membership
packet pp.3
Staff report:
EQUITY BOARD Staff Liaison Monica Negrila, Human About Services Manager Created in 2021, this board is to support and Email cultivate the voices of the diverse communities in Issaquah by advising the Regular Members Mayor, City Council and City departments on the City’s plans, policies, regulations, and 2023 - Alisa Stewart programs related to equity initiatives. 2023 - Megan Reichley* 2024 - Hellen Kibenge 2024 - Lorna Gilmour Membership 2024 - Lucrecia Choto The Equity Board is comprised of nine 2025 - Ray Manahan regular members, with four-year terms; 2025 - Shalanda Fleming and three alternates, with two year terms. 2025 - Tony Curry Initial terms of the board are staggered. All 2026 - Cristina Abonce members are appointed by the Mayor and subject to confirmation by the City Council. Terms expire April 30 of the year listed. For Alternate Members more information, see Ordinance No.…
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
3a
Minutes of May 4, 2022
packet pp.5–8
Staff report:
APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 05-04-22 Equity Board Minutes Page [0001] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Equity Board 6:00 PM Virtual Meeting Wednesday, May 4, 2022 MINUTES
4. AGENDA ITEMS
4a
Equity Assessment & Work Plan Development Update (I) [20 minutes]
Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager · packet pp.9–23
Topics: Equity
Staff report:
2. Defining Task 3. Proposed Process and Timeline
4b
Office of Sustainability Overview and Project Input (D) [30 minutes]
Stacy Vynne McKinstry, Sustainability Manager · packet pp.25–51
Topics: Climate
Staff report:
Office of Sustainability Overview and Early Project Input JUNE 1, 2022 – EQUITY BOARD STACY VYNNE MCKINSTRY, SUSTAINABILITY MANAGER
4c
2022 ADA Self-Evaluation & Transition Plan Project Briefing (I) [30 minutes]
John Mortenson, Transportation Engineering Manager Jennifer Salemann, Transportation Solutions, Inc. · packet pp.53–71
Staff report:
2022 ADA Self-Evaluation & Transition Plan Project Briefing City of Issaquah Equity Board
5. COMMITTEE REPORT
5a
Community Engagement Committee Report Out [15 minutes]
Ray Manahan, Committee Chair · packet pp.73–83
Staff report:
At our April 6 meeting, the Equity Board voted to form a subcommittee focused on increasing community engagement around Equity. Subcommittee Members*: • Cristina Abonce • Hellen Kibenge – no longer available to serve on the ocmmittee • Lucrecia Choto – no longer available to serv eon the committee • Ray Manahan • Monica Negrila (staff liaison) - others Board Members interested?
6. STAFF REPORT
6a
Human Services, Equity, City Council, & Mayor Updates [10 minutes]
Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager
Topics: Equity
0:02 all right thank you all for joining us
0:04 tonight this is june 1st it is 6 06 p.m
0:08 um i wanted to go ahead and get ready to
0:11 call this meeting to order
0:13 um first and foremost we're going to um
0:16 take roll
0:23 thank you shea good evening um board
0:25 members this is my internet gorilla
0:28 and we can start with a roll call
0:31 um i'm gonna call your name and please
0:33 just um
0:35 say that you are here or present when
0:37 you hear your name
0:38 um alyssa stewart actually she got in
0:41 touch with me tonight she has a conflict
0:43 she's unable to attend so she's excused
0:47 and next on my list here it's megan
0:49 richly
0:52 rosie
0:53 good to see you megan
0:55 um helen key bench i know she's on the
0:59 phone helen i'm gonna
1:01 and meet you for a moment so you can
1:06 hi welcome good evening
1:09 and helen is on the phone for the
1:11 beginning of the meeting but she will
1:13 join via video in about a half an hour
1:18 and lorna gilmore is also excused
1:21 tonight she's traveling she's unable to
1:23 attend
1:25 next on my list is lucrecia toto
1:28 i'm in attendance
1:30 good evening christian thank you
1:33 ray mayhem
1:39 uh ray i couldn't hear you
1:43 oh we lost we lost we could hear you
1:46 earlier but right now we cannot hear you
1:48 how's that can you hear me now yes okay
1:51 thank you sorry
1:52 good evening and welcome
1:54 uh shay
1:58 i'm here
1:59 good evening
2:02 i don't see tony uh yet with us
2:06 um so i'm hoping he's gonna join a
2:08 little bit later
2:10 uh next is christina abonson
2:15 thank you thank you
2:17 good evening and welcome
2:19 caliman
2:21 i'm here
2:23 good evening
2:24 pretty muddy pan
2:26 here
2:28 welcome and jacob rubenstein
2:32 i'm here
2:33 hi jacob
2:35 welcome everyone good evening that
2:37 concludes the roll call ah shay
2:41 and we have quorum
2:43 thank you so much monica i appreciate
2:45 that
2:47 to begin we'll start by giving the
2:50 statements about why we're doing this
2:52 meeting virtually essentially the state
2:54 of washington and the city of issaquah
2:56 continue to have a declared emergency
2:58 due to the covenant 19 pandemic under
3:01 chapter 115
3:03 laws of uh 2020
3:05 two i'm sorry loss of 2022 the city of
3:08 issaquah has determined that
3:10 um an in-person meeting cannot be held
3:13 with reasonable safety due to these
3:15 factors and this meeting is being held
3:17 remotely
3:19 okay so
3:21 for our next item
3:28 will actually uh our oh i'm sorry monica
3:30 let me ask you this are we going to
3:32 approve the previous minutes
3:39 uh did we have any public comment public
3:41 comments first if you don't mind
3:44 we did not have anyone signed up for
3:46 public comments i just want to note that
3:48 we do have um
3:52 someone in the attendee section uh we
3:54 have paul wally from right to breathe he
3:58 joined the meeting to observe uh when i
4:00 checked in earlier paul noted that he
4:03 would not like to make a comment at this
4:05 point but uh is just here to listen in
4:08 um as a reminder for those of you who
4:10 may or may not know paul volley and the
4:12 right to breed committee were
4:14 instrumental in working with us in
4:16 creating the equity board so it's always
4:18 nice to have paul with us
4:20 um also in the attendees section we have
4:23 one of the human services staff kalyn
4:25 wood
4:26 and later in the meeting i will invite
4:29 her to introduce herself during staff
4:31 report
4:32 um and with that i don't see anyone else
4:34 in the attendance and we did not have
4:37 anyone signed up for public comment so
4:39 that concludes that section thank you
4:42 awesome thank you so much monica for
4:44 that
4:45 um and thank you for all of our
4:47 attendees joining us tonight
4:49 um we would like to move forward with
4:52 approving the minutes um from may 4th
4:55 2022 has everyone had a chance to or
4:58 does anyone need an opportunity to
5:00 review
5:04 no if not then we will move forward with
5:07 the approval of the
5:08 minutes um
5:11 and i'm sorry monica i
5:14 i don't recall the statement for a
5:16 unanimous approval
5:18 no worries at all shay thank you so much
5:20 so board members at this time if you
5:22 would like you can propose amendments if
5:25 you see any edits that need to be made
5:27 to the minutes uh if you don't propose
5:30 edits then at this time shay you would
5:32 say with no
5:34 amendments and if no one if there are no
5:36 objections to approve the minutes then
5:39 then you would consider the minutes
5:41 approved unanimously
5:43 and we might pause for a moment in case
5:45 anyone has any edits or
5:47 if anyone has concerns about approving
5:49 the minute
5:53 but i don't see none at this point so i
5:54 think you're okay with it
5:56 kelly did you have something uh yeah i
5:59 just wanted to check that it was it's
6:01 the minute said i i didn't not read
6:03 through the minutes my picture went out
6:05 but um
6:07 uh that i was present i was late coming
6:12 and so it may say it i don't know
6:15 um i don't think it said you were late
6:18 but we i do see that you were present
6:20 okay um thank you
6:22 so yeah we do have you down as president
6:24 so thank you
6:26 if there are no amendments or objections
6:29 to the minutes i'd like to propose that
6:30 the minutes be unanimously approved
6:35 alrighty and with a unanimous approval
6:38 we will move on to our next agenda item
6:41 um we are going to go over our equity
6:43 assessment and monica is going to
6:45 present that
6:47 thank you very much shay and board
6:49 members with your
6:51 permission i have a brief presentation
6:54 that i would like to
6:56 share my screen so give me just a moment
7:16 and
7:18 can i get a confirmation that what you
7:20 see on the screen is
7:23 the powerpoint slide
7:25 yes um it's just not in presentation
7:28 mode okay
7:31 i have it in presentation mode so give
7:33 me just a moment because i'm
7:34 [Music]
7:36 having on my end some technical
7:38 difficulties
7:44 wonderful we can see it now
7:46 you can see it now
7:48 and it's in presentation mode yes
7:51 okay
7:54 so board members um we had uh talked a
7:58 little bit last month as well and in
8:00 some previous months about
8:01 uh creating an equity assessment this is
8:04 a task that mayor paulie
8:06 um in charge the uh the equity board
8:09 with uh and also ties uh really well i
8:12 believe with creating a longer term work
8:16 plan uh for our board
8:19 um so i was hoping to to give you a
8:21 little bit of context tonight um and a
8:24 refresher as we are gonna dive deeper in
8:27 the upcoming months on on that
8:29 assessment
8:31 um so i'm hoping to give you a little
8:34 bit of a background and defining a
8:36 little bit of the task
8:37 um and then uh talk with you a little
8:40 bit about the proposed process and
8:42 timeline
8:45 so uh just going back to to our roots
8:48 the the equity board launched back in
8:51 november of 2021
8:53 and we are an advisory board to the
8:55 mayor's city council and other city
8:57 departments
8:59 we provide feedback we develop
9:01 recommendations as you know you already
9:03 developed quite a few recommendations
9:05 that went to city council
9:06 successfully
9:08 and we also have a role in developing
9:11 relationships with the community and and
9:14 advising the various departments uh in
9:17 our city
9:18 i put a link in my presentation to onto
9:21 the actual code that created our equity
9:24 board in in case anyone uh is interested
9:27 in a refresher for that
9:29 um and so with that as we launched the
9:31 board at the beginning of the year uh
9:34 mayor paulie tasked the board with
9:37 conducting an equity assessment and the
9:40 gap analysis and make recommendations
9:43 for what should be the isoqua specific
9:45 priorities in terms of equity
9:48 since um our
9:52 work is so broad um i think mayor paul
9:55 is looking for us in
9:57 making recommendations or on where to
9:59 start and what should be our priorities
10:03 in addition to that we also had some
10:05 other tasks assigned by administration
10:07 and city council as you remember uh just
10:10 last month you worked with our equity
10:13 consultant and the equity framework and
10:15 as you remember we also worked on a
10:17 cultural calendar
10:19 uh we also
10:21 helped and made the recommendations for
10:23 a statement on the war on ukraine
10:27 and so forth
10:29 we also have as you're to see tonight
10:32 sometimes we have other city departments
10:34 to reach out to to us and seek input and
10:38 you're going to hear a couple of
10:39 presentations later tonight
10:42 and so with that
10:44 as our board continues to develop and as
10:46 we have still
10:48 this is a very new board and as we
10:50 continue to work to learn to work
10:53 together
10:55 uh for 2022 our priorities were going to
10:58 be to
11:00 create a
11:01 map
11:02 kind of like the resources and the
11:04 existing initiatives that exist in terms
11:07 of equity at the city internally and in
11:10 the community and work together in
11:13 conducting that assessment
11:14 um and um
11:17 in addition to that
11:19 we would also work in parallel on
11:21 those one-time
11:23 action items that might come our way
11:26 but then we hope that with the work that
11:28 we conduct on the assessment
11:31 and um
11:33 we will help inform our work
11:36 long work term work plan for 2023 based
11:40 on on that assessment
11:43 and so with that i'm gonna pause just
11:45 for a moment to give you the bigger
11:47 picture on how a typical work plan
11:50 process works
11:51 um at the city no matter what um
11:56 division or department we are in
11:59 um a
12:00 typical board or commission would start
12:02 with input received from the community
12:06 we tie any input received into the
12:09 strategic planning
12:11 that
12:12 eventually essentially gets tied into
12:14 the city annual budget and work plan
12:16 item
12:18 and in addition to that
12:20 combined with additional direction
12:22 received by mayor and city council ends
12:25 up in creating the work
12:27 the board work plan for the for the next
12:30 year
12:35 with that i'm and i apologize i'm not
12:38 sure why i don't see the chat so i can
12:41 pause for questions now or i can finish
12:43 my presentation and um i can take
12:46 questions and comments at that point
12:49 shay do you have a preference
12:53 i don't have a preference i think we can
12:55 pause and maybe digest and
12:57 while you
12:58 get your chat box pulled up and then
13:02 of course if anyone else has any
13:04 questions or concerns then we can raise
13:06 them now
13:08 okay
13:14 hey what um it looks like lucia has a
13:17 comment
13:18 would you mind coming off mute
13:20 thank you so monica could you remind us
13:23 what our fiscal calendar year looks like
13:25 beginning
13:27 and etc so that we
13:29 understand where we are now
13:31 and any recommendations that we may have
13:33 how it'll apply to the budget thank you
13:36 thank you very much great question
13:37 lucrecia so for the fiscal year the city
13:40 uh starts the year on january 1st so
13:42 it's a january 1st december 31st fiscal
13:45 year and it's a great great question
13:47 because
13:48 this is june and this is when we start
13:50 preparations for the
13:52 um for the fiscal year so we start with
13:55 budget preparations now internally and
13:58 at the community level and mayor polly
14:01 typically presents her budget to city
14:04 council in september
14:06 uh city council goes through budget
14:08 deliberations from september typically
14:10 until november uh with a hope of having
14:13 by the end of the november the budget
14:15 approved for the next year so then when
14:18 the budget is approved then that informs
14:20 the work plan for the following year
14:24 so yeah great question and so that's why
14:26 i think for us doing the
14:28 mapping the resources and conducting the
14:30 assessment
14:31 now
14:32 we hope that that can inform in the fall
14:36 at least partially
14:37 some some of that process by the end of
14:40 the year
14:43 great question other questions or
14:45 comments
14:52 now
14:53 monica i did have a question do we
14:54 expect that any of our recommendations
14:56 will require budget
14:59 not necessarily great question not
15:01 necessarily and depending on where we
15:03 are in our work we may or may not uh you
15:07 know we may just partially complete the
15:09 assessment
15:12 but yes not necessary not not all of our
15:14 ask
15:16 or tasks or recommendations will require
15:19 a budget
15:20 approval
15:26 okay
15:27 so if i don't see other questions then
15:29 i'm gonna move forward with the second
15:31 piece
15:32 um and telling you a little bit about
15:36 what uh the equity assessment or what
15:39 are some initial thoughts that we were
15:40 having about how to approach the equity
15:42 assessment
15:45 am i still sharing my screen
15:47 okay okay
15:49 and
15:50 is it still in presentation mode
15:52 no it's now displaying the entire
15:55 presentation
15:56 okay
15:59 let me see if this works
16:05 looks like when i have in presentation
16:08 mode i cannot see the chat but as long
16:10 as you can see it well then i'll move
16:12 forward and i'll pause
16:17 um can you see it okay this time
16:21 we can all still see it um but again
16:24 it's not in presentation mode oh no now
16:26 it is
16:27 okay i think there might be a delay on
16:30 my end so i apologize for that
16:35 okay so
16:36 in terms of how to go about the equity
16:38 assessment uh what um
16:41 we were hoping and as we discussed i
16:44 believe in previous months with you all
16:46 was that we can start with a resource
16:48 mapping and what we mean by that is
16:51 uh looking into what is the current
16:53 landscape within each city department
16:56 internally right so one piece the
16:58 internal piece and then what is the
17:00 current landscape in the community
17:03 and next we would also love to work with
17:05 the equity consultant to identify gaps
17:08 uh and establish priorities for 2023 and
17:11 beyond of course as always i did not put
17:14 this but all of this should be done with
17:16 the community right we don't ever want
17:18 to do things for the community
17:21 we always want to do it with the
17:22 community
17:25 so i'm hoping that that goes without
17:28 say
17:29 um but in terms of mapping the resources
17:35 for members
17:37 i apologize for apologizing so many
17:39 times but i really
17:40 my computer is not working tonight very
17:42 well so
17:43 um please
17:45 let me know if the slides are not moving
17:50 for the resource mapping
17:56 we were as i mentioned um we have two
18:00 components the internal parts with city
18:02 departments and
18:04 externally in the community
18:06 for city departments we are hoping to
18:09 invite
18:11 department leaders and department staff
18:14 for each of our departments to come and
18:16 introduce themselves introduce the work
18:19 that they are doing
18:21 and
18:23 have a chance to
18:24 collaboratively work with you on
18:27 addressing
18:28 equity related
18:31 initiatives that they
18:34 would like to
18:35 present to you but also give you an
18:38 opportunity to
18:40 learn
18:41 what the city does how the city uh does
18:46 its work so then that would also give
18:48 you ideas in information on where uh you
18:52 as a board may be able to
18:55 um provide input and feed feedback and
18:58 i'm gonna tell you in just a moment here
19:00 the the proposed schedule that we have
19:02 so that's that's the internal piece um
19:05 in the on the community side uh we are
19:07 hoping to invite different community
19:09 groups
19:10 here locally
19:12 but also regionally who
19:15 [Music]
19:20 who address equity locally at the
19:22 community level
19:23 regionally
19:26 businesses the school district
19:27 non-profits
19:29 but also really
19:31 equity community groups
19:34 and then with that we were also hoping
19:36 of course to pull in our equity
19:38 consultant
19:39 who is doing
19:42 more in-depth
19:44 assessment
19:46 that includes
19:48 interviews and surveys with city staff
19:52 and additional landscape analysis
19:57 so for that on on our end for
19:59 discussions and next steps
20:02 um we i have a tentative schedule for um
20:06 community member for um city departments
20:11 that i invited to come and introduce
20:13 themselves to us
20:16 so you can learn
20:17 their work
20:19 and that's what you see on their screen
20:20 the tentative dates for that and then i
20:23 also have tentative dates for when i
20:26 would like to invite different community
20:27 groups uh depending on their
20:30 availability um i am yet to reach out to
20:33 the community groups and check their
20:36 availability um but my hope is that
20:38 between now and october
20:42 we will have september october we will
20:44 have a chance to meet with as many
20:47 community groups and as many departments
20:50 at the city level as possible
20:56 and with that
20:59 that concludes my presentation
21:02 and i would like to just open it up for
21:05 further questions and
21:08 kind of like comments on what do you
21:09 think about this as an initial approach
21:12 i think the last thing that i would like
21:13 to mention that's not on the slide is
21:15 that
21:16 i'm hoping that you're gonna have a
21:18 chance to meet with everyone internally
21:20 at the city and as many community groups
21:22 as possible to hear from them between
21:24 now and the fall
21:25 and in the fall i'm hoping that we will
21:28 connect them again with our equity
21:30 consultant who we met last month
21:33 so then we can coordinate the work that
21:36 they've been doing and see how we may
21:38 support that body of work as well
21:40 so thoughts concerns
21:44 reactions
21:52 all right it looks like oh okay we have
21:55 two we have lucretia who has some
21:57 thoughts and then kelly also has a
21:59 question
22:01 i've spoken to can we go first
22:04 um i i think community mapping is
22:07 always a good idea but i wanted to make
22:10 sure i understand to what end we were
22:12 doing it what were we going to have
22:14 a write-up
22:17 of what who's doing what
22:20 we looking at partnering i just want to
22:22 make sure i know
22:24 that's a great great question kelly and
22:26 yes i think from everything that we
22:28 learned in the end we do want to have a
22:30 write-up of kind of like what what's our
22:32 learning right what is everyone doing so
22:34 we have a good understanding of what are
22:37 the resources
22:39 that exist and i think that i'm hoping
22:41 that that will also help us identify
22:44 where the gaps are so then where we can
22:46 come in
22:47 and um
22:50 and provide input right
22:54 so yeah i do envision a write-up at the
22:56 end for sure
23:03 so chrissy i think you're next
23:05 um so do we currently have a place where
23:09 community members can come to the city
23:11 and say hey
23:13 we're we're xyz organization here's what
23:15 we do we would like to for you to be
23:18 made aware of us
23:20 and if we don't have that place
23:22 is it is it an appropriate thing to have
23:25 somewhere on the city page so that
23:27 community groups that are out there can
23:29 self-identify
23:30 and or
23:32 you know for example if i'm aware of a
23:33 group that i can fill out a form and
23:36 make us all aware so that
23:38 eventually there's a repository where
23:41 community can report who they are and
23:43 also resource out back to the community
23:47 so that people are aware what's
23:48 available
23:51 yes great idea lucrecia absolutely i
23:54 think um
23:55 um we would want to take a look at our
23:58 webpage to see how inviting that is now
24:01 but i think we can be more intentional
24:03 about in addition to the webpage to
24:05 really reach out broad broadly and
24:08 encourage and invite others to identify
24:11 themselves in case we might not know
24:13 everyone right and we might not there
24:15 might be groups that we we are not aware
24:18 but definitely i think also that can be
24:22 uh in addition to the web page and what
24:24 you suggested which i really really love
24:25 your idea uh i wonder if perhaps could
24:28 be also
24:29 one of the roles of the
24:32 community engagement committee and i
24:34 know we are going to talk a little bit
24:35 later about that but i would love to
24:37 hear thoughts on that and and their role
24:39 in reaching out intentionally to others
24:41 and other groups that we might not be
24:43 aware of
24:45 right
24:48 so yes thank you for that yes let's
24:50 let's look i would love to follow up
24:51 with you to see what else can we do on
24:53 the website at least webpage
24:56 great suggestions thank you
25:00 monica i think that's all we have for
25:02 now
25:03 okay
25:06 thank you board member so with that that
25:08 concludes my presentation tonight and
25:10 then moving forward you will hear um
25:13 more and more guests in the upcoming
25:14 month uh which then i think that's a
25:16 good segue into our next and because one
25:19 of our presenters tonight
25:21 uh is from our sustainability office
25:25 say back to you and stacy
25:28 thank you um our next agenda item is
25:31 going to be the office of is
25:32 sustainability they're going to be doing
25:34 an overview on a project they're working
25:37 on and get our input stacy will actually
25:40 be presenting tonight um stacy are you
25:42 ready to join us yes thank you very much
25:46 monica are you still good doing the
25:48 presentation or if you're having any
25:49 issues let me know if you want me to
25:51 pull it up yeah i am give me a moment
25:53 and you let me know if it doesn't work
25:56 then i would be happy to give you the
25:58 uh the role uh i'm not sure why today i
26:02 think my computer is just maybe slow
26:04 that's what i'm guessing
26:09 well monica's pulling that up i'll just
26:10 do a quick introduction so thank you so
26:12 much for making time tonight um i really
26:15 wanted to get on your june agenda
26:17 because i am hoping to come back to you
26:18 all uh later this summer or in september
26:22 um to talk to you in more depth about
26:24 one of our projects so
26:25 really appreciate the time tonight um so
26:28 my name is stacey vin mckinstry i'm the
26:30 sustainability manager with the city of
26:32 issaquah and our office of
26:34 sustainability which is the office of
26:36 one
26:36 right now i started just back in
26:39 december so i am still getting up to
26:41 speed um on city practices and the work
26:44 of this office but we'll talk to you
26:46 tonight about some of the
26:49 items that we have underway
26:51 and we are also battling uh colds at our
26:54 house so hoping my voice makes it
26:55 through the presentation
26:57 um monica it looks like it's in
26:59 presentation mode with the notes so i
27:02 don't know if you're able to switch
27:03 maybe your screen
27:07 um stacy
27:09 on my end it shows regular presentation
27:12 modes and that's where i'm puzzled about
27:16 my challenge tonight
27:18 would it be more helpful if i just um
27:21 give you the presenter role sure i could
27:24 try that yeah
27:26 i apologize
27:28 no problem
27:30 okay give me just a moment
27:35 i have it in
27:36 pdf so hopefully i can show that version
27:39 with no
27:40 issues okay
27:43 and you are now presenter
27:45 okay
27:46 second
27:51 okay
28:09 all right monica are you seeing the pdf
28:12 version of that presentation yes it
28:14 looks great okay great
28:18 all right um so tonight i'm gonna go
28:20 through four topics pretty briefly i
28:22 know you all have a packed agenda um
28:23 i'll give you a quick overview of our
28:25 office overview of the climate action
28:28 plan
28:28 and then as monica mentioned i'm going
28:30 to dig in a little bit deeper on two
28:32 projects that are underway because we
28:33 would love to get some feedback from the
28:35 equity board tonight
28:37 as i mentioned this won't be the first
28:38 time we come to you we are planning to
28:40 be back
28:41 in september to dig in deeper into our
28:44 climate vulnerability assessment
28:48 so the office of sustainability
28:53 is currently as i mentioned a single
28:56 staff person i do have a
28:59 part-time
29:00 intern billy almanza
29:02 who is working with me and will be
29:04 working full-time this summer which i'm
29:06 very excited about
29:07 we sit within the executive office and
29:09 we report to our city administrator
29:13 as you know our city really prides
29:15 itself in our surrounding natural
29:17 environment and has a strong commitment
29:19 to environmental stewardship
29:21 our office develops and implements
29:23 projects programs and policies within
29:26 the city
29:27 and the community in order to advance
29:29 sustainability and environmental
29:30 stewardship in issaquah
29:32 and we're really working to achieve the
29:34 community's
29:36 interrelated goals of environmental
29:38 economic and social sustainability
29:41 we previously
29:43 within the office of sustainability
29:44 housed the human services program waste
29:47 management we had an extensive green
29:49 building program environmental education
29:52 a whole range of other initiatives but
29:54 our office has shifted
29:56 and now we are really focused on
29:58 implementing our climate action plan
30:01 we also i also staff the environmental
30:04 board which is a fairly new board for
30:06 the city as well
30:08 this is a photo of one of our
30:10 consultants working at a recent eco
30:12 market in the highlands
30:14 where she was teaching folks about
30:15 alternatives to hazardous cleaning and
30:17 yard products
30:19 she'll be at a number of additional
30:21 events around the city this summer
30:27 our climate action plan as i mentioned
30:29 is really the primary focus in the
30:30 office of sustainability some of you may
30:33 have participated in the development of
30:35 the plan
30:36 it recognizes that our climate is
30:38 changing and that we need to act quickly
30:40 in order to prevent further impact to
30:42 our planet and be prepared for the
30:44 changes that are already underway
30:47 our plans that's really bold and
30:49 ambitious targets for reducing emissions
30:51 that cause climate change
30:53 we've also aligned our targets with
30:55 those of many of our regional partners
30:57 we work across multiple cities and
30:59 counties to
31:01 achieve those targets collectively
31:03 based on input from the community the
31:06 climate action plan addresses both the
31:08 causes of climate change
31:10 as well as identifies the actions that
31:12 we need to take
31:15 that are already underway as i mentioned
31:18 as well as there's a number of actions
31:19 that address both of those
31:22 so examples of mitigation actions those
31:25 that would reduce further emissions into
31:26 the atmosphere include things like
31:29 investing in clean energy moving off
31:31 fossil fuels improving opportunities for
31:33 transportation that are not based on
31:35 cars
31:36 and waste reduction
31:37 examples of adaptation include items
31:40 such as preparing for disasters building
31:42 resiliency and redundancy in our systems
31:46 creating more green spaces
31:49 and then examples of those actions that
31:51 meet both mitigation and adaptation
31:53 needs are things such as water and
31:55 energy conversation and making sure our
31:57 buildings are as efficient as possible
32:04 our climate action plan for this city
32:06 was developed on a very fast timeline
32:09 one of the fastest ones that i'm aware
32:12 for nearby cities it was done in about
32:14 nine months um and but it did involve
32:17 many touch points with the community
32:20 my predecessor worked on this plan and
32:22 coming into the position i was just very
32:24 impressed on how much community
32:26 involvement there was given the fast
32:28 timeline for its
32:30 development as well as occurring during
32:32 covid
32:34 throughout the entire process we engaged
32:36 with community members through meetings
32:38 workshops
32:39 there was a survey
32:41 across the entire community that got a
32:43 pretty good response rate we had
32:44 targeted focus groups such as with the
32:47 business community and on other topics
32:50 and there were other opportunities to
32:51 engage through our boards and council as
32:54 well
32:55 the goal of this engagement process was
32:57 really to ensure that we developed a
32:59 plan that fit issaquah specifically that
33:02 aligned with our community's priorities
33:04 and that also had the best chance of
33:06 being supported by residents
33:14 since the adoption of the climate action
33:16 plan back in december we have been
33:18 working on implementing it
33:21 as i mentioned we have very bold targets
33:23 it's really going to take the entire
33:25 community working together to reach
33:27 those targets these include things such
33:29 as changing behavior of individuals
33:32 getting our building owners to commit to
33:33 energy efficiency and really standing up
33:36 the city as a leader in terms of our own
33:39 practices
33:40 and policies
33:42 looking across all of our actions we
33:44 identified those
33:46 to implement this year that we thought
33:48 we could get done quickly without a lot
33:50 of preparation but that would also have
33:52 meaningful and long lasting impact
33:55 we also looked at some of the actions
33:57 that were slated for longer term
33:59 implementation to see what work we could
34:01 start do
34:02 doing now to begin to prepare for those
34:05 actions
34:06 such as if we were looking at a
34:08 potential policy change in the future
34:11 could we start incentives outreach
34:13 programs this year in order to prepare
34:15 for those
34:19 as we did in the development of the plan
34:21 we're really trying to focus on equity
34:23 through implementation of the climate
34:24 action plan
34:26 this means making sure we have an equity
34:28 lens in terms of access
34:30 to the programs the benefits the
34:32 programs are providing
34:34 the emissions reductions and where those
34:36 are being achieved and also making sure
34:38 the community has input on
34:40 implementation
34:43 we have a lot of projects underway this
34:45 year and i welcome
34:47 more opportunities to share
34:49 with you all and and seek feedback on
34:52 the work that's being implemented
34:54 in just a moment i do want to dig into
34:56 two of those projects we're working on
34:58 and get your input
34:59 but before doing that i thought i would
35:01 pause and see if there are any questions
35:05 overall on what the work sustainability
35:08 is doing or on the climate action plan
35:17 stacey it looks like we don't have any
35:19 oh wait i think kelly has a question i'm
35:21 sorry
35:22 kelly would you come off me please
35:36 kelly i apologize for interrupting you i
35:38 don't think we can hear you
35:45 i would like to hear i'm sure you guys
35:47 have done it so you can keep it really
35:49 brief but i'd love to hear the equity
35:52 um analysis
35:54 around the work that you've done so far
35:57 i mean i'm i know you've got reached out
35:59 to people but i'd like to hear who
36:02 and um what kind of framing you were
36:04 using around equity
36:06 yeah that is a great question though
36:08 that is actually part of what i'd like
36:09 to talk to you all about next on the two
36:12 major programs we're working to
36:14 implement and get feedback on whether
36:16 our approach is appropriate or are there
36:18 shifts we should make to our approach so
36:20 if we can hold off that's where i'd
36:22 really like your input tonight
36:33 other questions
36:34 i don't think we have any more okay
36:37 great
36:41 all right so let's launch into those two
36:44 programs um where i really do want to
36:46 hear your feedback on whether our
36:48 approach
36:49 so far
36:50 seems on track are there shifts we
36:51 should make other things we should be
36:53 considering
36:54 so the first program is our energy smart
36:57 east side heat pump campaign
37:00 so issaquah along with the non-profit
37:02 organization spark northwest as well as
37:05 four other east side cities is working
37:07 to launch a heat pump campaign
37:09 heat pumps run on electric power it
37:11 allows us to transition off fossil fuels
37:14 such as natural gas or oil as a heating
37:16 source they're also great for cooling so
37:19 they're a great replacement and much
37:20 more energy efficient replacement for
37:22 air conditioning
37:24 they run in both cold and hot
37:25 temperatures
37:28 and overall provide a much more
37:30 comfortable
37:31 home
37:32 our program is looking to simplify the
37:35 process for those that are interested in
37:37 transitioning to a heat pump
37:39 we're going to be running two components
37:41 of this program one is a market rate
37:44 program for standalone detached homes
37:47 with incentives that will be available
37:49 from puget sound energy at this time
37:52 there's likely not going to be
37:53 additional
37:54 discounts unless our manufacturer is
37:57 able to provide those
37:59 the other component of this program is
38:01 one for low-income residents we are
38:04 going to be putting in a request for
38:06 funding from council to cover
38:08 installations in low-income multi-family
38:12 housing likely at the 80 percent or
38:15 below ami
38:17 we have been talking with imagine
38:19 housing as an affordable housing
38:21 provider that works across the five
38:23 participating cities in this program
38:27 and then we've also been in contact with
38:28 hope link as they have direct
38:30 connections
38:32 to individuals in both multi-family as
38:34 well as
38:36 detached housing housing and they can
38:39 put us in contact
38:40 contact
38:41 with eligible interested
38:44 residents
38:49 so here's where i'm really interested in
38:51 hearing from you all and both in terms
38:54 of how can we best reach out to our
38:56 community
38:58 in terms of this program as well as our
39:00 approach um for the low income component
39:03 of the program
39:05 as i mentioned we are planning to have
39:07 to run a market rate program again this
39:09 will have um it pretty much at cost for
39:12 as a if someone knows to go out
39:14 independently and do a heat pump install
39:17 but we're cutting down the process and
39:19 making it more streamlined for them
39:21 to go through that process to do install
39:24 we're getting information out on the
39:26 program we really want to make sure we
39:28 are reaching our whole community
39:30 we are planning to do some translation
39:32 of materials
39:34 we're going to be doing communication
39:35 through the
39:37 city's normal communication channels
39:39 tabling at summer events
39:41 there will be workshops for interested
39:43 participants to attend
39:45 and through that we will connect them
39:47 directly with the installers
39:49 as i mentioned for the low income
39:51 component of the program we are planning
39:53 to work with imagine housing
39:55 because they are represented across the
39:58 five cities that are partnering this
39:59 program
40:01 but also with hope link so that they can
40:02 identify
40:04 individuals that we might be interested
40:06 in working with
40:07 so that is our planned approach i would
40:10 really like to hear from you all on are
40:13 there ways that we could be better about
40:15 making sure we're getting information
40:17 out to the community should we
40:19 be thinking differently about our low
40:21 income
40:22 component of this program or any other
40:26 considerations that you all have as we
40:28 move into implementing this program
40:36 um i had a question i was gonna ask um
40:39 so if i understand correctly this will
40:41 be available only to single family homes
40:45 is that correct
40:46 um well um
40:48 yes because there is um work that
40:52 happened there is an installation that
40:54 happens
40:55 either a ductless
40:57 system where there is a head
41:00 installed in a room of a house or
41:02 through the existing
41:05 duct work
41:07 so we will be really targeting single
41:09 family for the market rate program for
41:11 the low income component of this program
41:13 we are planning to work primarily with
41:16 multifamily because we think we can get
41:18 the most work done there and a lot of
41:21 our cities as i understand it a lot of
41:23 our low income and likely most
41:25 vulnerable populations do live in
41:29 multi-family
41:31 but we are interested in possibly
41:33 working with hope link to identify
41:35 either some
41:37 fixed income seniors that are living in
41:40 single family that we might want to work
41:42 with
41:43 as well
41:45 in i'd say that's for this initial year
41:48 in future years we are hoping to expand
41:51 this program and work with multi-family
41:53 housing providers um
41:56 beyond just the affordable housing
41:58 providers
41:59 but for this initial year for our equity
42:01 component we were planning to work with
42:03 low income multifamily
42:05 did that answer your question or too
42:07 much information no that was perfect
42:09 thank you so much stacey and it looks
42:11 like pretty has a question and then ray
42:15 also has a question
42:17 yeah thanks for the presentation stacey
42:19 um my my question and maybe there's
42:22 there'll be a comment to follow is um
42:25 wanting to know you noted that um you
42:27 would be using the normal communications
42:29 channels
42:30 that the city uses i was just wondering
42:32 if you could share a little bit more
42:34 because i
42:34 think that there could be opportunities
42:36 with like ethnic media and other outlets
42:38 um depending on what the city
42:40 already uses
42:42 yeah great thank you um so typically
42:45 i think we're hoping to reach beyond our
42:47 regular uh sustainability listserv but
42:51 sending out information via
42:54 our
42:56 weekly issaquah insider possibly through
42:58 the mayor's report
43:00 we have a number of listservs that go to
43:04 communities
43:07 trying to think of the other ones we do
43:08 channels through social media our
43:10 communications manager usually works
43:12 through as well
43:14 but then also planning to do a lot of
43:16 that that in-person
43:18 kind of one-on-one conversations with
43:20 folks at farmer's market
43:22 at concerts on the green
43:25 the art walks other events that we can
43:27 get to this summer
43:29 but yeah i welcome if there's other
43:31 ideas um
43:32 either through social media uh
43:35 materials that go out
43:37 or even events that we can hand out
43:40 flyers and talk with folks would love to
43:42 hear those ideas
43:44 yeah and just uh one quick follow-up in
43:46 terms of translations um
43:49 is there like a list of most spoken
43:51 languages in issaquah that you would be
43:54 looking
43:55 to in terms of the number of languages
43:57 for translation
43:59 yes um i do i believe monica or someone
44:02 provided that to me early on
44:05 and then looking across the three cities
44:07 right now we were looking at spanish
44:08 chinese and possibly japanese because of
44:11 our work in mercer island as well
44:14 i'll need to see if if we have i would
44:16 hope we'd have capacity to go beyond
44:18 that so if there are other recommended
44:20 ones
44:21 i know that there's more on the list
44:23 that have been provided as
44:25 kind of the next year for translation
44:26 but yeah welcome feedback on that
44:29 thank you yeah
44:34 and ray if you're ready you can come off
44:36 mute yeah hi stacy may i ask you to jump
44:39 back a few slides if you
44:41 on that one that says icap development
44:43 process
44:44 yes um a couple questions oh i think you
44:48 passed it
44:51 that one right there thank you
44:53 has
44:53 you had said the sustainability team is
44:56 fairly new um maybe this is more of a
44:58 question for monica but has this
45:00 flow workflow
45:02 this plan been initiated or followed
45:04 with other um committees the issaquah
45:08 city official that involve community
45:09 engagement
45:11 to sustainability
45:12 or is this something that's being
45:14 initiated by the sustainability
45:16 team
45:21 um ray from my perspective this is
45:23 monica
45:24 this is similar with um with other
45:27 initiatives that the city has been doing
45:29 in developing different plans
45:32 for example we on our end our team
45:36 completed
45:37 earlier this year the human services
45:39 strategic plan
45:41 and it is a little bit different on our
45:43 end we started with with actually some
45:48 non-profit focus groups and interviews
45:51 and community group interviews but
45:55 pretty much we touched on all of the
45:58 other ones like boards and commissions
46:00 and stuff and all of that so yes
46:02 wonderful i don't know if if a light
46:04 bulb is going on in your head but it
46:05 isn't mine monica the subcommittee that
46:08 we created for equity and community
46:10 engagement can very well follow this
46:12 plan right
46:13 so if this is something that can happen
46:15 in parallel or together where we create
46:17 a workshop and initiate a public survey
46:20 and create focus groups
46:22 very very similar so i greatly
46:24 appreciate this slide because if there
46:26 is a
46:27 initiative that's happening before what
46:28 we're trying to expand with community
46:31 engagement we can learn from one another
46:36 so thank you stacey and i look forward
46:38 to staying connected with you on how
46:39 this progresses
46:41 great thanks ray
46:46 all right and um
46:48 oh i was just gonna check with uh i
46:50 believe it was kelly too that asked the
46:52 question earlier that i deferred this is
46:54 just one of the projects that i wanted
46:56 to jump into
46:58 but wanted to see if hearing a little
47:00 bit more about what we're currently
47:02 considering for equity if i was
47:04 helping to answer your question or
47:06 anything else i can follow up on that
47:11 i think my my questions to monica also
47:14 and that is is is is the framework that
47:18 we have given the city council now going
47:21 to start being implemented by the
47:24 organizations and is this one that could
47:27 be done and when people come to us
47:30 they've already done the framework so we
47:32 can see what they're thinking
47:35 such a great question kelly yes
47:37 absolutely so i think that would be the
47:39 next step actually so the framework that
47:42 you worked on and recommended last month
47:45 is gonna go and be presented to city
47:47 council later this month and so if city
47:50 council approves it uh right they they
47:54 need to approve it it becomes a policy
47:57 so then that becomes a policy of the
47:59 city that will be implemented at each of
48:01 the departments so you're absolutely
48:03 right and hopefully in the next few
48:05 months each of the departments when they
48:08 work on an initiative they will have to
48:10 go through that equity framework through
48:12 those questions prior to bringing an
48:15 item to you or to city council
48:18 so that's exactly the intent it's not
48:19 quite there so i think stacey and her
48:21 work she's been doing already this work
48:24 i know that stacy and i we worked
48:25 together she consulted with us um but um
48:29 that's why stacy is coming to you with
48:31 okay this is what we've been thinking we
48:33 don't have at this time yet
48:35 an equity framework to use but this is
48:38 what we've used and what do you think
48:40 board members such a great question
48:42 great great kelly thank you
48:46 great yeah
48:47 that will be exciting to have because um
48:49 yes this the work we're presenting
48:51 tonight is really based on a couple
48:52 conversations with monica and her team
48:54 so having a framework to walk through
48:56 and really think about this more
48:58 comprehensively it'll be much
49:00 appreciated
49:02 um i have one other project i wanted to
49:04 um present on that it can be
49:07 quick i just wanted to check check
49:08 monica make sure we're okay time wise
49:13 yes but i know shea wanted to say i
49:15 think we have another comment from
49:16 lucrezia
49:19 thank you
49:23 thank you so stacy since you asked for
49:25 feedback with regards to how to do um
49:28 outreach i would like for your
49:30 department and the city of issaquah in
49:32 general
49:33 to consider having
49:36 button at the top of your page
49:39 which translates the page to whatever
49:42 language the visitor
49:44 needs the page to be in
49:47 i feel like i've i've visited quite a
49:50 few pages and other
49:52 areas
49:53 where they use that function and i can
49:56 tell you that it's pretty accurate it
49:58 minimally gets
50:00 the
50:01 the essence of the information
50:04 that people need
50:05 and i think that it's just a good
50:07 practice to have
50:09 access to information where people
50:12 who are reaching out to you can actually
50:14 access you and it's just an idea thank
50:16 you yeah
50:19 great suggestion yeah monika good
50:22 if i may i would like to respond to that
50:25 great great suggestion lucrecia and
50:27 actually we have that capability the
50:29 only difference is that it is now found
50:32 at the bottom of the page there's a
50:33 button that says select language and so
50:36 you can translate in many many many
50:39 languages
50:40 each of the
50:42 um city web pages it's just it's at the
50:44 bottom of each of the pages so if you go
50:47 on everywhere in the city of izakaya you
50:49 should be able to find it but a great
50:50 suggestion to perhaps
50:52 make a recommendation to try to put it
50:54 at the top of the page
50:56 yeah i was going to actually say if you
50:58 if you did a ux design
51:01 sort of
51:03 analysis of like where people navigate
51:05 the bottom of the page it's probably not
51:07 the best place to have that
51:10 thank you we'll definitely make that a
51:12 suggestion to our communications team
51:14 thank you so much
51:19 and i think that's all we have as far as
51:21 questions and comments go stacy if you'd
51:23 like to proceed
51:25 great thank you um i'll try and move
51:28 through this quickly and and this is one
51:30 item that we're seeking early input on
51:32 this is one i do hope to come back to or
51:34 plan to come back too early
51:37 in the fall late summer
51:38 to dig in a little bit deeper and get
51:40 some more specific impact
51:42 input
51:44 so in our 2021 climate action plan we
51:47 provided a very high level overview of
51:50 the anticipated climate impacts in
51:52 issaquah
51:53 what we expect to see locally such as
51:55 rising temperatures increased risk of
51:57 wildfire
51:58 reduced snowpack
52:01 and changes in precipitation leading to
52:03 drier wind drier summers and wetter
52:06 winters
52:07 one of the early actions in the climate
52:09 action plan was to complete a more
52:11 in-depth vulnerability assessment
52:13 we have recently contracted with
52:15 cascadia consulting group to support
52:17 this work
52:19 and are just beginning to initiate this
52:21 project
52:23 as part of the climate vulnerability
52:24 assessment we are planning to cover the
52:26 following items do a deeper dive into
52:30 anticipated climate climate impacts
52:34 such as what are the resulting impacts
52:36 from changing precipitation river and
52:38 storm water flooding what are the
52:40 resulting impacts from
52:42 hotter temperatures
52:44 etc
52:46 we are then planning to look at where
52:49 our most vulnerable areas within the
52:51 community where our most vulnerable
52:53 populations within the community
52:55 and then develop
52:57 actionable actions things that we can
52:59 actually put into policies or
53:02 communication materials that we can take
53:04 out to the community
53:06 that come in different formats different
53:07 languages
53:09 that are really accessible to the
53:11 communities that are going to be most
53:13 impacted from climate change
53:16 we were originally planning on two
53:19 community engagement events to hear from
53:21 the community about their concerns
53:23 actions we should be taking
53:25 but after talking with monica's team
53:27 we're thinking of maybe shifting that to
53:29 four to five
53:31 more focused outreach opportunities
53:33 where we would meet people where they're
53:35 instead of them coming to a big workshop
53:38 that we're hosting
53:40 so example um going to
53:43 the senior center and having a meeting
53:45 there going to the hutchison house
53:48 other opportunities where we can really
53:50 go to
53:51 our community and hear from them
53:53 instead of asking them to come to us
53:56 we're still shaping this idea we're also
53:58 seeking some funding so that we can
54:00 further expand on the community
54:02 engagement as well as on the number of
54:05 communication materials that we're able
54:07 to develop out of this project
54:11 so i was i know we're running a little
54:13 bit short on time
54:15 but i wanted to put these questions to
54:17 your board
54:18 and welcome to take feedback after this
54:20 meeting too
54:22 i wanted to hear from you a bit on what
54:24 is success of a climate vulnerability
54:26 assessment for issaquah look like
54:28 and how can we really best reach the
54:31 members of our community that maybe
54:33 aren't the typical ones showing up to
54:35 our climate events
54:37 but are really the ones that might be
54:38 impacted by
54:40 changes that we are seeing and we'll see
54:43 so a few ideas from our staff the very
54:46 initial staff brainstorming session
54:49 are up here but really wanted to hear
54:50 from you if you have other ideas of what
54:52 would make this project successful
54:54 and how can we really reach
54:57 our community and involve them in this
54:59 project
55:01 so all paul's there for any initial
55:03 feedback
55:05 that folks have now
55:08 all right and ray i saw you first if
55:10 you're ready you can come off you well
55:12 the first two that i thought of when i
55:14 thought of that second item there are
55:16 two um
55:18 high school students on this committee
55:20 um those who are most interested in
55:22 climate change and discussions i would
55:24 suspect is happening at that
55:26 that
55:27 level in high school so i encourage if
55:29 there's opportunity megan and
55:32 jacob to
55:33 if this is happening at the high school
55:34 how we can make that connection with the
55:36 work going on here and the work we're
55:37 doing as a board as a whole
55:43 great thank you
55:53 and i see pretty as a comment
55:57 yeah when i'm um i'm thinking about the
55:59 the community groups noted here um
56:02 in in some of the limited community
56:04 engagement i've done it seems like um
56:07 trusted messengers and um i i like the
56:10 idea and i think
56:12 like using leveraging community
56:15 organizations that have a strong
56:18 membership in
56:21 who
56:22 who's likely to be the most impacted and
56:24 the most vulnerable
56:26 i think you probably have a decent sense
56:29 of who that is ahead of you know any
56:31 official or formal assessment but um
56:34 uh kind of leveraging the community
56:36 groups um
56:39 that exist for uh like language access
56:44 thinking about sometimes the faith-based
56:46 organizations might be the best route to
56:50 with trusted messengers to get into the
56:51 communities
56:53 so i would um kind of recommend that
56:55 approach i think that might end up being
56:57 one of the more effective paths for you
57:01 great thank you yeah maybe we could
57:03 think of kind of a training opportunity
57:05 for those community groups for them to
57:07 have the conversations or something oh
57:10 thank you
57:18 and then stacy i wanted to ask and um
57:21 don't feel like you're on the spot here
57:23 um have you all discovered any drawbacks
57:25 to this particular product being
57:28 installed or these things being
57:30 presented to the community
57:33 um through the climate vulnerability
57:34 assessment
57:38 yeah i guess
57:39 if you have
57:40 ideas of what you're thinking in terms
57:42 of drawbacks just
57:44 increasing concern or or fear could you
57:47 share a little bit more and then maybe
57:48 i'll be able to answer better what
57:50 you're thinking or
57:52 thanks um so for example um i i know
57:55 when it comes to climate for me i'm
57:58 thinking about the timeline on the
58:00 effects of what my changes actually have
58:03 are we actually slowing the process down
58:06 do we eliminate any of the um toxins
58:09 that we often put back into the
58:10 environment um have you all
58:13 at least
58:14 well i'm sure you all have that
58:16 information available but is there
58:17 somewhere where you can actually go to
58:19 review that
58:21 yeah um great question so one campaign i
58:24 didn't talk about tonight is our climate
58:26 action challenge which is helping
58:28 provide individuals the resources um
58:32 they need to make changes in their daily
58:34 life to reduce their impact
58:36 and there's a lot of information in
58:38 there about what influence those or the
58:42 um amount of impact those different
58:44 actions take
58:45 um i think for the
58:47 so not quite i don't know if that quite
58:49 answered your question i could dig in
58:50 further um if there's interest i think
58:53 for the climate vulnerability assessment
58:55 um what we're really trying to work with
58:58 the community on is saying
59:00 no matter what we do today we still know
59:02 that we are going to face some impacts
59:04 we're already seeing impacts because of
59:07 the emissions that have already been
59:08 generated in the past
59:10 so let's make sure our community is as
59:13 resilient as possible and that our
59:15 entire community is resilient as
59:17 possible because we know that those
59:19 impacts are going to affect
59:22 members of our community that don't have
59:25 necessarily access to
59:26 resources or maybe that live in certain
59:28 parts of our community
59:30 and often are the ones that are
59:32 most impacted
59:34 during other
59:35 major events so
59:38 it's a the climate vulnerability
59:40 assessment is really an opportunity to
59:41 educate the community and give them the
59:43 resources that they need to
59:46 increase their own resiliency as well as
59:48 our community's resiliency
59:50 so a little bit of a different focus
59:52 versus
59:54 kind of the mitigation approach and
59:56 reducing our emissions but that is an
59:58 area that we're working on in building
1:00:00 out our website um
1:00:01 to show
1:00:03 the impacts of those different actions
1:00:05 um as well as launching the the climate
1:00:07 action challenge campaign but happy to
1:00:09 talk more about uh that um as well if
1:00:12 there's interest oh thank you so much
1:00:15 stacy i appreciate you answering that
1:00:16 question for me and then um i see we
1:00:19 have lucrecia and jacob who also have uh
1:00:22 comments
1:00:23 i will let jacob go since i've spoken
1:00:26 thank you um kind of going off what race
1:00:29 said earlier i just know at least in my
1:00:32 experience in my high school i feel like
1:00:34 um energy usage and like climate change
1:00:37 are the two things or the two issues
1:00:38 which i feel like the most high
1:00:39 schoolers are um passionate about um and
1:00:43 like me we have like stats projects we
1:00:45 do where we go around school asking
1:00:46 people questions and through like my
1:00:48 project and various friends projects
1:00:50 like that was definitely backed up and i
1:00:52 feel like
1:00:54 um the second question here on this
1:00:56 slide um about how we can like best
1:00:59 reach people like i think like high
1:01:00 schoolers would definitely be interested
1:01:02 and not just high schoolers but like any
1:01:04 youth like in my experience
1:01:07 that's the issue that like i felt i
1:01:10 other high schoolers are most passionate
1:01:11 about as a whole
1:01:14 that's excellent yeah i know our um
1:01:17 intern is really eager to work on a
1:01:19 youth engagement component for the
1:01:21 vulnerability assessment so we might
1:01:22 follow up with you and try and
1:01:24 flush out that idea and get some
1:01:29 thoughts around how we might best
1:01:30 implement that so thank you for sharing
1:01:37 all right and uh lucretia were you ready
1:01:40 to go um
1:01:41 because i also saw that megan oh i'll
1:01:43 let megan go
1:01:46 and i guess to kind of go off of uh what
1:01:48 jacob was saying and kind of building
1:01:49 off of what ray was kind of asking as
1:01:52 far as community engagement it was
1:01:54 ischool high school is very uh similar
1:01:56 in that regard as we a lot of students
1:01:58 take a lot of
1:01:59 a lot of passion around climate change
1:02:01 and uh being
1:02:03 eco-efficient and i feel like another
1:02:05 way that would be really good reach um
1:02:07 out for you
1:02:10 stacy is to actually reach out to
1:02:12 individual clubs within the schools
1:02:13 because that's where students are
1:02:15 collaborating with ideas and what they
1:02:18 think would be a good idea um and also
1:02:20 you know continuing to promote that as
1:02:22 well by engaging with them and i think a
1:02:24 lot of students would be super
1:02:26 interested in that
1:02:28 great thank you your suggestion
1:02:32 okay so um
1:02:34 stacey i was hoping that you could tell
1:02:37 in the language that you're using in the
1:02:39 slide here um how to best reach
1:02:42 those that are typically not involved i
1:02:44 would like to know who is typically
1:02:46 involved so that we have comment kind of
1:02:48 an idea of like
1:02:50 who's already engaged and maybe we can
1:02:54 be a better help to you
1:02:56 yeah thank you that's a great question
1:02:58 um i could have phrased that a little
1:03:00 bit better i guess
1:03:02 as we were talking with our consultants
1:03:05 when we hold
1:03:06 climate conversations or environmental
1:03:09 events we tend to see a lot of the same
1:03:12 folks showing up at those that are
1:03:15 members of some of the local nonprofits
1:03:17 such as people for climate action
1:03:20 we have a few
1:03:22 youth
1:03:23 groups such as the sustainability
1:03:24 ambassadors that are really involved so
1:03:26 i think we're hoping to
1:03:29 reach
1:03:31 those that maybe
1:03:32 right now don't see a connection between
1:03:35 climate in their their life
1:03:38 or a personal connection to it
1:03:41 where we can
1:03:42 bring them into the conversation
1:03:45 and make sure
1:03:46 ultimately we really want to make sure
1:03:48 that the communication
1:03:50 materials that are coming out of this
1:03:52 project are
1:03:54 reaching people in the reaching the
1:03:56 right people in the right way those that
1:03:57 are going to be most impacted
1:04:01 by any climate impacts in this community
1:04:06 so yeah i'm trying to think of a better
1:04:07 way to phrase that it's a lot of the
1:04:09 folks that are typically
1:04:11 showing up to our events
1:04:14 mostly as i mentioned through those
1:04:15 groups such as people people for climate
1:04:17 action
1:04:19 and those that might not see that direct
1:04:21 personal connection
1:04:23 um to climate in their lives so
1:04:27 not a great answer they're trying to
1:04:29 think of a better way to describe that
1:04:31 um kind of beyond our kind of usual
1:04:34 suspects that are
1:04:35 showing up and really involved
1:04:38 thank you
1:04:44 stacy i think that's all we have oh wait
1:04:46 i'm sorry
1:04:47 [Laughter]
1:04:51 thank you shea and board members this is
1:04:53 i think a broader question to all of you
1:04:56 board members as as it is to stacy
1:04:58 because i what i really like stacy again
1:05:01 thank you so much for coming here
1:05:03 tonight what i like about the plan is
1:05:06 that intentionally you are creating
1:05:08 projects that address those who are the
1:05:09 most vulnerable in our community but
1:05:12 also you know um this made me think with
1:05:14 even just the previous questions and
1:05:16 comments
1:05:17 uh and as i was reminded recently about
1:05:20 you know how we created the equity board
1:05:23 um and as we define how do we define
1:05:26 those who are the most vulnerable and we
1:05:28 talk about different languages
1:05:30 i i do wonder if we should always remind
1:05:32 ourselves uh
1:05:34 and whether we should always also lead
1:05:36 with racial equity because within the
1:05:39 most vulnerable groups in our community
1:05:42 i think it's always good to remind
1:05:43 ourselves that those
1:05:48 are um
1:05:50 black or african americans in particular
1:05:54 that um
1:05:55 are even more marginalized or more
1:05:58 impacted than what we call those who are
1:06:01 just low income so we didn't would
1:06:03 always wonder if we can
1:06:06 um reflect within the groups that are
1:06:08 the most impacted within the groups that
1:06:11 are low income
1:06:13 if we should always
1:06:14 lead with that racial equity
1:06:19 intentionally as we consider
1:06:21 outreach to also intentionally
1:06:24 do outreach and conduct outreach
1:06:28 to those community groups as well
1:06:31 thank you thank you monica
1:06:35 okay well thank you so much for the time
1:06:38 tonight um
1:06:39 i am looking forward to taking the
1:06:42 feedback we received incorporating that
1:06:44 into our work if you have additional
1:06:46 feedback after this meeting feel free to
1:06:48 send it to me or to monica
1:06:51 happy to also talk with folks one on one
1:06:54 we are planning to be back dig in a
1:06:56 little bit deeper on some of the initial
1:06:58 work under the climate vulnerability
1:06:59 assessment and seek your feedback
1:07:01 and just going forward
1:07:03 i'll work with monica to see
1:07:06 when and where we might be able to bring
1:07:07 our other initiatives to this board and
1:07:09 get your feedback so really look forward
1:07:11 to continuing to work with you all so
1:07:14 please do reach out
1:07:15 and this is our interns contact he'll be
1:07:18 working quite a bit on the vulnerability
1:07:20 assessment this summer and we are happy
1:07:22 to meet with you all and be back anytime
1:07:24 so thank you so much
1:07:27 thank you stacy that was such a great
1:07:29 presentation um monica i did want to ask
1:07:32 if it was possible for you to share this
1:07:34 deck with us so that some of us could
1:07:35 take it in a little bit more and we
1:07:37 could um actually definitely reach out
1:07:39 to stacy and
1:07:41 give us some of our feedback
1:07:46 thank you shay and that's a great segue
1:07:48 into a reminder that yes all of the
1:07:50 presentations are in the agenda packet
1:07:53 on the web page in the link that you
1:07:54 received so you you have that and i'm
1:07:57 happy to follow up if if needed for sure
1:08:00 thank you so much
1:08:02 and it looks like uh kelly has a comment
1:08:09 so monica thank you so much for
1:08:11 reminding us
1:08:13 about racial equity thank you i
1:08:15 appreciate that
1:08:18 i'm trying to sort out something right
1:08:20 now and i'm so this is a kind of a
1:08:22 pondering out loud and that is
1:08:26 it appears to me as the organization the
1:08:28 city is going through equity right that
1:08:32 there is this
1:08:34 really a fantastic understanding
1:08:37 to ask
1:08:40 people who are living racial inequities
1:08:43 right
1:08:44 and so
1:08:47 um that they work
1:08:49 in somewhat apart from each other is
1:08:52 that a correct assumption or are they
1:08:55 always going through you
1:08:57 how do you
1:08:59 let me step back
1:09:00 has the city thought about having and
1:09:02 we're different because we do policy too
1:09:05 so are we
1:09:07 is the city thinking about having what
1:09:09 prithee was talking about which is um
1:09:14 key communicators in different
1:09:16 communities
1:09:17 being updated and talk to about what's
1:09:20 going on in the city in a way that works
1:09:22 for them
1:09:24 is that
1:09:25 part of the plan
1:09:27 and and so that's kelly that's a great
1:09:29 question i think the city is a very
1:09:32 interesting place where
1:09:35 interested and wants to address equity
1:09:38 more and more internally in the
1:09:40 community and i don't think that's
1:09:42 exactly why we need to do an assessment
1:09:44 we don't have a clear plan of like okay
1:09:47 this is what we are gonna do i think we
1:09:49 started with small projects here and
1:09:52 opportunities in different areas but
1:09:54 that's exactly why we need we need a
1:09:57 more strategic plan on how and what
1:09:59 right which
1:10:00 came back what you suggested and pretty
1:10:02 suggested i think that can be
1:10:04 one of the the ways in which we work and
1:10:07 they have there have to be multiple i
1:10:09 don't think that we have a
1:10:11 clear initial plan there's intent and
1:10:13 genuine interest from the city from
1:10:16 different departments but there's no yet
1:10:18 a very cohesive plan that's implemented
1:10:21 does that make sense we are thinking
1:10:23 very beginning initial stages of that
1:10:27 as you can see that's why i think
1:10:28 different like all the departments
1:10:31 uh individually are trying but i think
1:10:33 everybody's saying where do we start how
1:10:35 do we do this well and all of that so
1:10:37 it's it's we are that interesting stage
1:10:42 yeah so
1:10:45 thank you so much did we have anyone
1:10:47 else that had questions
1:10:49 or possibly comments
1:10:56 that's a great presentation then we will
1:10:58 move on to our next agenda item
1:11:02 it looks like we have the 2022 ada self
1:11:04 evaluation oh and i'm sorry i think
1:11:06 stacy already went over that um just
1:11:08 kidding we have our committee report um
1:11:13 say you are right it is the next one is
1:11:15 the ada okay it's the ada
1:11:17 self-evaluation and transition plan
1:11:19 project i'm sorry i thought i skipped a
1:11:21 section there
1:11:23 right now
1:11:24 um and that will be presented by john um
1:11:27 and it looks like jennifer
1:11:30 are you all uh ready to present
1:11:33 we are thank you very much
1:11:35 thank you mortensen the transportation
1:11:38 engineering manager with the city of
1:11:39 issaquah really excited to
1:11:42 be talking about this project that we're
1:11:44 working on
1:11:47 in the transportation group
1:11:49 we've really focused around the mobility
1:11:51 part of the strategic plan which says
1:11:52 getting around town is easier for people
1:11:54 who live work and play here
1:11:58 for people with disabilities
1:12:01 there are a lot of barriers that are
1:12:04 excluding and make it so people cannot
1:12:07 get around town and this project that
1:12:10 we're working on is beyond just the
1:12:11 transportation system that looks at
1:12:13 parks and facilities but it's really
1:12:16 exciting
1:12:17 project when the americans with
1:12:19 disabilities act was signed into law 32
1:12:22 years ago president bush
1:12:24 at the time said let the shameful wall
1:12:26 of exclusion finally come tumbling down
1:12:30 i like to think of it not as one
1:12:32 shameful wall because 32 years would be
1:12:34 a long time to still have a wall up and
1:12:36 to need a transition plan but many walls
1:12:40 need to come down this transition plan
1:12:42 is a plan for the city to remove these
1:12:45 barriers for people with disabilities
1:12:48 and to update this we did a transition
1:12:51 plan back in about 2014 and
1:12:55 this year we're working to update it and
1:12:56 so we hired transportation solutions and
1:12:59 jennifer's the project manager with
1:13:01 transportation solutions and she's going
1:13:03 to talk to you about the project
1:13:05 jennifer
1:13:09 hi equity board thank you for your time
1:13:11 this evening
1:13:12 monica
1:13:13 shall i share my screen
1:13:19 let me try and then you'll tell me if it
1:13:21 doesn't work
1:13:24 i'm gonna try to steal the idea from
1:13:26 stacy to see if sharing the pdf version
1:13:29 might be more helpful
1:13:32 can you see it and does it
1:13:34 look okay yes
1:13:36 perfect then
1:13:39 and if you want full screen you can go
1:13:41 to view
1:13:42 and full screen
1:13:51 did that work
1:13:56 when you have your file edit view
1:13:59 options yep if you want to go to view
1:14:11 if you move up
1:14:13 next to file just go to view there yep
1:14:15 and then full screen mode that should
1:14:17 make it a little bigger for everyone
1:14:20 thank you i feel like i'm learning so
1:14:22 much tonight
1:14:27 so tonight i'll be providing an
1:14:29 informational update about what the
1:14:32 self-evaluation and transition plan is
1:14:35 and why it's needed
1:14:37 as well as the project scope and how
1:14:40 we're
1:14:41 moving through a schedule that's roughly
1:14:43 a year
1:14:44 for this project
1:14:46 and then i'll be discussing the ada
1:14:48 advisory group that we're trying to form
1:14:51 at this early stage
1:14:53 in the project
1:14:55 and our next steps with some time for
1:14:57 questions
1:15:00 next slide
1:15:02 an ada transition plan is a document
1:15:05 that shows how
1:15:07 an agency moves towards compliance
1:15:10 to remove barriers with peop for people
1:15:13 with disabilities
1:15:15 and the plan needs to have four pieces
1:15:18 it needs to identify physical and
1:15:21 communicative barriers
1:15:23 that limit accessibility
1:15:26 and that is in the city's programs
1:15:29 services and activities so the public
1:15:32 right-of-way
1:15:33 its buildings parks and trails and the
1:15:36 programs that the city offers
1:15:40 the plan
1:15:41 also needs to describe the methods to
1:15:44 make all of these city facilities and
1:15:48 and et cetera
1:15:49 accessible
1:15:52 it also needs to provide a schedule so
1:15:55 you know the planning
1:15:56 component to implement this plan
1:16:00 and also the plan needs to identify who
1:16:03 is responsible from the city to
1:16:05 implement the plan
1:16:07 next slide please
1:16:11 as john mentioned the americans with
1:16:13 disabilities act
1:16:15 is what created the federal mandate for
1:16:18 an ada transition plan
1:16:21 and the plan needs to have
1:16:24 a self-evaluation
1:16:26 piece
1:16:27 as well as
1:16:29 an implementation piece
1:16:32 within the existing
1:16:34 facilities
1:16:35 that need to be looked at
1:16:37 there is some specific requirements for
1:16:42 pedestrian access through curb ramps and
1:16:46 walkways serving
1:16:48 state and local government offices and
1:16:50 facilities
1:16:53 transportation
1:16:55 public accommodation
1:16:56 and employers and so
1:16:58 we are looking at places likely accessed
1:17:01 by members of the ada community for
1:17:03 services
1:17:05 and then also a plan is needed to
1:17:08 maintain grant eligibility for the
1:17:11 washington state department of
1:17:13 transportation
1:17:16 next slide
1:17:19 this plan that the city is embarking on
1:17:23 quite um
1:17:25 comprehensive
1:17:26 it is looking at
1:17:28 different types of public right-of-way
1:17:30 facilities
1:17:32 you can see listed curb ramps
1:17:35 sidewalks
1:17:37 accessible pedestrian signals
1:17:39 and accessible on-street parking
1:17:44 am working to
1:17:45 use the 2014 data the city has already
1:17:48 worked to gather
1:17:51 as well as
1:17:52 establish
1:17:54 methods for
1:17:55 collecting new data as
1:17:58 new curb ramps and improved
1:18:00 curb ramps and other facilities are
1:18:02 built in the city
1:18:05 we also are evaluating building
1:18:08 facilities
1:18:09 parks and shared use trails
1:18:13 these are paved trails identified by the
1:18:16 issaquah parks department
1:18:18 and we are again are using
1:18:21 2014 evaluations that are still valid
1:18:25 updating some of those
1:18:27 and adding some new
1:18:30 facility evaluations to have
1:18:32 as big a
1:18:34 an assessment of
1:18:36 existing facilities as possible
1:18:41 the other oh back one slide
1:18:46 there are also some administrative roles
1:18:49 and policies and procedures
1:18:52 the city already has an ada
1:18:55 coordinator a grievance procedure and
1:18:58 the public notice
1:18:59 saying that the city will not
1:19:01 discriminate based on disability
1:19:04 we also will help the city develop an
1:19:07 accessible pedestrian signal policy
1:19:13 deciding when
1:19:14 new accessible pedestrian signals are
1:19:17 built and how to address requests from
1:19:19 the public
1:19:21 and we also will designate who's
1:19:23 responsible to implement the claim
1:19:25 next slide please
1:19:30 this spring we have worked to identify
1:19:34 how much of the 2014 data is useful and
1:19:37 what new evaluations are needed
1:19:41 and as we move into the
1:19:44 summer and fall we will be
1:19:47 assessing
1:19:49 and developing a barrier removal
1:19:53 schedule and plan
1:19:56 remove barriers across all of the listed
1:19:59 areas
1:20:02 in november in the
1:20:04 late fall early winter we'll provide a
1:20:06 draft plan to be reviewed by the public
1:20:10 by the city committees or councils who
1:20:14 desire to see it council will see it and
1:20:17 the ada advisory group were forming
1:20:20 with expected adoption in february of
1:20:23 next year
1:20:25 next slide please
1:20:29 stakeholder engagement is very important
1:20:32 in the ada transition plan process
1:20:35 and the city is going above and beyond
1:20:39 federal requirement for engagement
1:20:42 the only
1:20:44 requirement is that the draft plan be
1:20:47 made available for public comment
1:20:49 but we are also
1:20:51 seeking out um
1:20:54 we're going to do online surveys for the
1:20:56 community to
1:20:58 submit barriers they experience
1:21:01 and possibly also to
1:21:04 share their
1:21:05 uh preferences for
1:21:07 priorities of removing barriers
1:21:11 and then also
1:21:12 an ada advisory group
1:21:15 that we want to be involved from the
1:21:17 bidding beginning of this project
1:21:19 through its completion
1:21:21 we'd like that group to be comprised of
1:21:24 members of the local ada community who
1:21:27 best know the barriers in issaquah
1:21:31 we also have a few transportation
1:21:33 advisory board members at least one that
1:21:37 expressed their intent to participate on
1:21:40 this advisory group
1:21:43 and it's also
1:21:45 one of our intentions tonight is to see
1:21:47 if anyone from this group is interested
1:21:50 in participating
1:21:53 or who may know people who could provide
1:21:56 insight for this project
1:22:00 the draft plan will be viewed by city
1:22:03 council and it will be open for the
1:22:05 public
1:22:06 comment on as well and that will be in
1:22:08 probably december early january
1:22:12 next slide please
1:22:16 the ada advisory group will start out as
1:22:20 limited
1:22:23 commitment of attending three to five
1:22:25 virtual meetings
1:22:27 uh so that we can make it convenient for
1:22:30 people
1:22:31 uh presentation materials will be
1:22:34 provided in advance as well
1:22:38 this group we hope that it can advise
1:22:40 our project team
1:22:43 making sure we
1:22:45 have found the barriers that exist and
1:22:48 we're not over
1:22:49 looking barriers that people in our
1:22:52 community experience
1:22:54 this group could will also
1:22:56 help refine
1:22:57 how we
1:22:59 prioritize barrier removal
1:23:03 and the group can recommend
1:23:05 improvements
1:23:06 to make our program services and
1:23:09 facilities more accessible
1:23:13 and most importantly this group can
1:23:16 promote this project through
1:23:18 relationships with other local
1:23:19 organizations that provide services to
1:23:23 members of our community with
1:23:25 disabilities
1:23:28 next slide please
1:23:32 so time for questions maybe we'll go
1:23:34 back one slide so you can see that list
1:23:37 of advisory group activities
1:23:40 uh so we're
1:23:42 our main intent is to make this process
1:23:45 inclusive of the people that
1:23:49 have the most expertise and
1:23:52 um will be impacted the most by the ada
1:23:56 transition plan to remove barriers
1:23:59 john do you have anything else you'd
1:24:00 want to add
1:24:04 no i don't thank you
1:24:12 so if this group has any questions
1:24:15 welcome to
1:24:18 take them
1:24:19 about the project
1:24:21 um and our goal to be
1:24:23 inclusive in
1:24:25 providing
1:24:26 removal of barriers to the city of
1:24:28 issqua
1:24:33 and it looks like lapisha has uh our
1:24:35 comment
1:24:39 thank you so much for your presentation
1:24:41 it was very informative
1:24:44 especially for
1:24:45 those of us who
1:24:47 may not be familiar with your office
1:24:53 as with any of the different departments
1:24:56 that come to us i i guess it's the same
1:24:58 sort of questions that you saw us
1:25:01 earlier to stacey jennifer with regards
1:25:04 to are you taking into consideration
1:25:06 different cultures how are you reaching
1:25:08 communities that have
1:25:10 which barriers etc are those things that
1:25:14 you as a
1:25:15 as a department are already working on
1:25:20 i'll take that question it's a really
1:25:22 good question and
1:25:24 well you guys are asking the state's
1:25:25 question
1:25:26 stacy questions from her presentation it
1:25:29 really got me thinking about how can we
1:25:34 include equity and
1:25:36 in addition to just i think for one
1:25:39 reaching out to people with disabilities
1:25:42 reaching out to an important group that
1:25:46 but then how do we also incorporate
1:25:49 equity into how we reach out
1:25:53 we're very early on in the process and
1:25:55 haven't
1:25:57 worked out the details uh how do you do
1:25:59 that i know that
1:26:01 i heard you guys talking about an equity
1:26:03 framework that's going to counsel i'd be
1:26:05 curious about
1:26:07 but ways where we can
1:26:10 incorporate equity into that ada
1:26:12 advisory group to make sure that it is a
1:26:15 very representative
1:26:19 group for the community
1:26:21 is something that i think would be
1:26:23 important i don't have
1:26:24 answers for how do you go about doing it
1:26:26 but i think it's something that i would
1:26:28 like for us to do
1:26:32 and i guess i i would post the question
1:26:34 if anyone
1:26:35 has any good ways to
1:26:37 incorporate equity into
1:26:39 our outreach to form this ada advisory
1:26:42 group we'd love to hear that
1:26:46 one idea that comes to mind for me is
1:26:53 it's just a starting point and obviously
1:26:56 we can branch off from there but
1:26:58 if i recall correctly the state provides
1:27:00 a zero to three um
1:27:04 outreach to make sure like you know kids
1:27:06 are either physically delayed or
1:27:09 developmentally delayed in some way
1:27:11 and they do a really good job of having
1:27:13 those services in multiple languages at
1:27:15 least in southern washington they do i
1:27:18 don't know how it is here because my
1:27:20 use those services when they were very
1:27:21 little and that's where i lived at the
1:27:23 time but i'm thinking of some place like
1:27:25 that that is already doing the sort of
1:27:27 outreach to the various communities in
1:27:30 the various languages i would say
1:27:33 i would encourage you to start there
1:27:34 because they're already doing that sort
1:27:36 of work and you kind of can piggyback
1:27:39 in their outreach efforts to make
1:27:42 your department and what is happening
1:27:43 here and it's unknown it's one avenue
1:27:46 that i would venture to say would be a
1:27:48 good start and also our k-12 system
1:27:52 right because that's typically where we
1:27:54 see people who have 504s or ieps or any
1:27:58 other sort of accommodation for their
1:28:00 kids and then by default you have access
1:28:03 to the various communities that you may
1:28:05 not be aware of otherwise
1:28:07 those are my recommendations thank you
1:28:10 thank you i really appreciate that great
1:28:12 ideas
1:28:27 all right does anyone else have any
1:28:29 questions or comments
1:28:36 all right thank you freefie she has the
1:28:39 comment for us
1:28:40 yeah this um
1:28:42 it's not i i worry that it's not going
1:28:45 to be a very constructive comment but um
1:28:47 i feel like you know what in in terms of
1:28:49 the project schedule and the plan it
1:28:51 feels like you know the right steps are
1:28:53 listed out but i think it's really when
1:28:56 you start digging into the details
1:28:58 around how are you recruiting folks for
1:29:01 this advisory group and
1:29:03 how you're finding out those barriers
1:29:06 it's it's
1:29:07 i think the
1:29:08 it's in the details when you can really
1:29:10 dig in and and respond
1:29:13 uh i think in a in a more meaningful way
1:29:16 so i feel like i
1:29:17 i'm kind of stuck in this like not
1:29:19 having enough detail to react to so um i
1:29:23 think i think the great first step in
1:29:25 which you have teed up is like a really
1:29:27 diverse um
1:29:29 i would suggest intersectional um
1:29:32 advisory group so you know folks at the
1:29:35 intersection of living with disabilities
1:29:38 of a uh
1:29:39 maybe a wide range of we know that that
1:29:42 you know group is very very you know
1:29:44 diverse in in range of abilities and um
1:29:48 also thinking about yeah like the
1:29:50 intersection with language with race and
1:29:53 um just making sure
1:29:56 you know those different groups are
1:29:57 represented and then i would also say
1:29:59 you know for folks who've been
1:30:03 very limited and restricted you know in
1:30:05 their access to different parts of the
1:30:08 physical environment you know i'm
1:30:09 thinking about other transportation
1:30:10 related things where there's like a
1:30:12 writer and non-writer survey
1:30:14 thinking about um who hasn't had access
1:30:18 for so long and how do you reach out to
1:30:20 folks like that so they can start
1:30:24 you know figuring out how to give them
1:30:26 some access so um
1:30:29 so yeah just casting a wide net in terms
1:30:32 of representation of the group
1:30:36 thank you
1:30:50 i don't see any other comments or
1:30:53 questions
1:30:55 so i would like to say it's safe to say
1:30:58 that you all gave a great presentation
1:31:02 gave us a lot of information that we're
1:31:04 digesting and we're uh we will likely
1:31:07 reach out once we have more information
1:31:09 to share
1:31:12 thank you for attending tonight
1:31:14 yeah thank you everyone
1:31:25 alrighty and monica did you have any
1:31:26 feedback for us
1:31:30 no i apologize i was just waiting
1:31:31 goodbye
1:31:33 to our guests
1:31:36 thank you
1:31:37 yes um really good presentations tonight
1:31:42 alrighty if we are ready we will um move
1:31:45 forward to our community engagement
1:31:49 um committee report out and that is
1:31:51 going to be presented by ray ray are you
1:31:53 ready
1:31:55 i am yeah looking forward to sharing
1:31:59 um monica did you want to bring up the
1:32:02 slide deck again
1:32:04 thank you
1:32:06 oh thank you
1:32:07 as she teased this up i think just
1:32:10 listening into the other presenters that
1:32:12 preceded me gives gave me at least great
1:32:14 insight to
1:32:16 perhaps a better trajectory for the
1:32:18 community engagement
1:32:19 committee
1:32:20 i'm certainly hearing the board work
1:32:22 plan monica that you presented with the
1:32:24 concentric circles and how we
1:32:26 kind of build upon a community plan um
1:32:29 and then listening to stacy and her icap
1:32:32 development process
1:32:33 this really does require a lot of
1:32:38 engagement not only across our board but
1:32:41 um within the community so just to step
1:32:43 back a bit remember how this was created
1:32:46 um at our april 6th meeting the equity
1:32:48 board voted to form a subcommittee
1:32:49 focused on increasing community
1:32:52 engagement keep that as at the forefront
1:32:54 community engagement
1:32:56 around equity and then at that time we
1:32:58 took a poll of our members to see who
1:33:00 would be interested in joining
1:33:02 so um the folks that you see listed here
1:33:06 uh volunteered to do so so um
1:33:09 uh christina and i are still on and
1:33:11 monica acts as our staff liaison but
1:33:14 helen and lucretia let us know
1:33:16 due to their availability they are no
1:33:18 longer
1:33:19 available to serve on this subcommittee
1:33:22 so would love if anybody else would be
1:33:24 interested in joining monica christina
1:33:26 and i as we move forward with this
1:33:28 effort please let us know because we
1:33:29 certainly gonna need some help with the
1:33:32 development of this plan
1:33:35 monica educated me on what we're doing
1:33:37 here it's really just uh doing some
1:33:39 initial assessments initial reach outs
1:33:42 but bringing it back here to the board
1:33:44 to really get your feedback are we
1:33:46 headed the right way um are we when we
1:33:50 talk about these short terms and we also
1:33:51 have a slide that that um
1:33:54 shares a long term plan
1:33:56 um i would love your feedback if these
1:33:58 are good starting points to help us
1:34:00 mature with this effort so let me start
1:34:02 here with the short term
1:34:05 um a lot of this i think is going to be
1:34:07 really helpful um with partnering and
1:34:10 understanding what's going on from a
1:34:12 from a cultural perspective
1:34:14 and let me use
1:34:16 the all these great events that are
1:34:18 happening over the summer um like the
1:34:20 pride event june is is uh focused on on
1:34:23 lgbtq plus pride so we're trying to
1:34:26 align ourselves with other organizations
1:34:28 that will help us better be involved
1:34:31 across the community but have a focus
1:34:33 point right we have to start somewhere
1:34:35 so if we understand that there's a focus
1:34:37 going on on any specific month
1:34:40 how do we connect to that specific
1:34:42 population here in the city of this
1:34:44 aquatics we use a board member could be
1:34:46 better one better educated and more
1:34:48 involved
1:34:49 and sticking to that one with the june 5
1:34:52 monica and i are in communication with
1:34:54 folks um we started with contacts in
1:34:57 seattle but we're going to try to do is
1:34:59 well i know where we have it on the
1:35:01 calendar and perhaps want to comment but
1:35:03 we're going to have some speakers that
1:35:05 can help us talk about pride with
1:35:07 history but also have just the dialogue
1:35:09 so it's going to be an opportunity to
1:35:10 both educate but open up to a panel
1:35:12 discussion um
1:35:14 later this month so monica you want to
1:35:16 comment on that i don't know how firm
1:35:18 that date is i think it's pretty firm
1:35:20 but that's just
1:35:21 one of the short-term plans that we have
1:35:23 sure yes thank you very much ray so
1:35:26 definitely we are working on organizing
1:35:28 a virtual pride event as ray mentioned
1:35:31 we are hoping for now to to have it on
1:35:34 june 23rd i think we have a pre-firm
1:35:37 um from date around that at 6 30
1:35:40 um and we are gonna share more
1:35:43 information with you at the end of this
1:35:44 week and early next week
1:35:46 um but we are excited and ray i'm just
1:35:49 so so grateful to be working with you i
1:35:51 know you've been instrumental in in in
1:35:54 gathering this group and and uh laying a
1:35:57 good foundation for for what will be
1:35:59 hopefully a great event i have no doubt
1:36:02 yeah thank you and sticking to the
1:36:04 subject when i talk about focus points
1:36:07 i'm going to put something in the chat
1:36:08 because this is a great reference for um
1:36:11 folks when we talk about
1:36:13 diversity equity and inclusion um
1:36:16 there's actually
1:36:18 communities that are targeted based on
1:36:20 the on the date so maybe perhaps we can
1:36:23 use this calendar that i put in as do
1:36:26 these do these populations exist here in
1:36:29 the city of issaquad that we can make
1:36:30 them a focal point for some of our
1:36:32 outreach so just a reference point that
1:36:34 you can look at i thought that was a
1:36:35 great tool that i put in the chat
1:36:38 continuing on with the short-term
1:36:40 efforts so outreach and collaboration
1:36:42 opportunities again keep this in mind
1:36:43 these are just recommendations um
1:36:46 greater issaquah community and
1:36:47 engagement groups um
1:36:50 the right to breathe faith-based
1:36:52 organizations how do we partner with
1:36:54 them and just knock on their door and
1:36:56 say hey
1:36:58 do you have a an existing equity plan
1:37:01 that we might we as an equity board
1:37:03 could be better educated on and perhaps
1:37:05 there's an opportunity to collaborate
1:37:07 the large businesses i think i mentioned
1:37:09 this a couple months ago when i
1:37:10 mentioned
1:37:11 partnering with these very large
1:37:13 organizations such as costco you know
1:37:15 one of the largest organizations in the
1:37:17 country meet even the world is right
1:37:19 across the highway from us and on costco
1:37:22 so i would assume that they
1:37:24 because they decided to make issaquah
1:37:26 their home base that they would be
1:37:28 outreaching to the community to say how
1:37:30 do we work with you to really build an
1:37:32 equity strategy so i have an email out
1:37:34 to them to see if they're willing to get
1:37:36 sit down at the table with us
1:37:38 on swedish medical center up the hill
1:37:41 hospital organizations are very keen on
1:37:44 building diversity equity and inclusion
1:37:46 strategies and um the speaker that we
1:37:48 had last week shannon kelly ray she
1:37:50 actually worked for providence and i i
1:37:52 don't know if you're aware but swedish
1:37:53 is part of providence and she led the
1:37:56 diversity equity and inclusion division
1:37:58 of providence health services which
1:38:00 speech reports so i have an email out to
1:38:02 her because i missed last week's meeting
1:38:03 to say if you have a contact at issaquah
1:38:06 swedish medical center
1:38:07 let's sit down and chat we already got
1:38:09 feedback from pcc market i got in
1:38:11 contact with some of their leadership to
1:38:13 see how we sit down with them rei's
1:38:15 another recommendation
1:38:16 again if there's anything that sticks
1:38:18 out in your mind let's let's talk
1:38:20 through them and see how we can
1:38:21 collaborate let's not forget that third
1:38:23 bullet right we're not focused on
1:38:25 specifically large organizations but
1:38:27 let's ensure that we're also making
1:38:28 connection with small businesses those
1:38:31 ones that are family owned most likely
1:38:33 they're going to be owned by um
1:38:35 foreigners who just are trying to get
1:38:37 themselves established
1:38:39 so really let's if you have a connection
1:38:42 with a small business that might help us
1:38:44 uh form a strategy around community
1:38:47 engagement i'd love to hear about that
1:38:49 public events um we were chatting about
1:38:52 this how do we how do we broadcast this
1:38:54 effort broadly why not set a booth up at
1:38:56 the farmers market and say we as an
1:38:58 equity board really like to outreach to
1:39:00 the community
1:39:01 um do do you guys have any ideas that
1:39:03 you can share with us maybe just setting
1:39:05 up a table there schools you know megan
1:39:07 and jacob i i would um i would
1:39:11 uh pretty confident to say that there's
1:39:13 probably a lot of focus around how the
1:39:16 school engages from an equity
1:39:17 perspective so we'd love to chat with
1:39:19 you about it and align our efforts there
1:39:21 too so lots of opportunities here um if
1:39:24 there's events that are going on let's
1:39:26 not limit ourselves to the city of
1:39:27 issaquah but if there's events going on
1:39:29 outside of our city that we can use as
1:39:34 as a launching point or as a means of
1:39:35 educating ourselves and how to how do we
1:39:37 better connect with the community i
1:39:38 think we're open to that too
1:39:41 so those are those are we mean by short
1:39:43 term at least for now so before i jump
1:39:46 to the long term any questions comments
1:39:48 about
1:39:49 bullets on this slide
1:39:58 uh next slide please
1:40:00 so when we talk about long-term strategy
1:40:02 i would love your thoughts on this i
1:40:04 think
1:40:04 i think developing a long-term strategy
1:40:06 really requires us to be better educated
1:40:10 what a great
1:40:11 way to do that with the presentations
1:40:13 that we had prior to mine right we need
1:40:15 to understand what the city is doing um
1:40:18 from a specific strategy perspective
1:40:21 whether it be the icap that stacy shared
1:40:25 the aba strategy that was shared
1:40:27 previously
1:40:30 monica educated me that there's going to
1:40:32 be more of those so let's always put an
1:40:34 equity lens on it and then not only
1:40:36 equity but how do we
1:40:38 along with those other committees reach
1:40:40 out to the community let's make sure our
1:40:42 board is somehow is informed and is
1:40:44 involved in the process when they start
1:40:46 to do outreach to the community getting
1:40:48 feedback on any ada strategies
1:40:51 they had asked earlier if some of our
1:40:52 board members could listen in on some of
1:40:54 that i would assume
1:40:56 uh they'd want feedback from us based on
1:40:58 on groups or organizations they outreach
1:41:01 to mature the the ada strategy plan
1:41:04 nurture existing partnerships i think um
1:41:07 when we hear from these presenters that
1:41:08 monica has teed up um
1:41:11 we can nurture them so they are working
1:41:13 with us from an equity lens on how they
1:41:16 develop their strategies going into 2022
1:41:19 and i think i touched on that creating
1:41:21 new partnerships i think um that's just
1:41:23 going to require boosts on the ground
1:41:25 that's where we need to help we need to
1:41:27 make those phone calls we need to walk
1:41:28 up to some doors and just say hey is
1:41:30 there is there um uh
1:41:35 uh challenges that you're having with
1:41:37 with the business that exists here in
1:41:38 issaquah that we might be able to be
1:41:40 better educated on how can we partner
1:41:42 with you to address those challenges
1:41:44 with an equity lens so
1:41:46 a lot of that is boots on the ground and
1:41:49 foundational work
1:41:52 questions about this long-term strategy
1:42:00 i don't know if there's a last slide
1:42:01 here i could touch on it if any but i
1:42:03 believe that was it yep i think that was
1:42:07 well ray i did have a question
1:42:11 i really love the idea of having boots
1:42:13 on the ground and people getting
1:42:14 involved with the community
1:42:16 so and and by the way your presentation
1:42:18 was awesome
1:42:19 um but i i do have concerns about how
1:42:22 people react when you come to their door
1:42:25 and um i i'm also aware of um i guess
1:42:29 some specific documentation that you
1:42:31 have to have to be able to go
1:42:34 door-to-door
1:42:35 so i'm wondering if that's been brought
1:42:37 up in any of the subcommittee meetings
1:42:42 it has not but that's a great call out
1:42:44 um i think once we just initiate the
1:42:45 phone conversation um maybe that's an
1:42:47 initial task instead of just walking
1:42:49 door-to-door when i was thinking
1:42:50 door-to-door i was thinking of the small
1:42:51 businesses so i don't think they're more
1:42:53 formalized in that process but certainly
1:42:56 we can learn from the dialogue that we
1:42:57 have and the relationships that we
1:42:59 develop with the larger ones i have no
1:43:01 doubt
1:43:02 um that uh there's things that are going
1:43:04 to come up like that shade that we have
1:43:06 to check the legal box right to make
1:43:08 sure we're following the right place
1:43:11 absolutely and um i am going to go ahead
1:43:14 and volunteer myself to help with the
1:43:16 subcommittee so
1:43:17 that way
1:43:18 we can make sure we have seats filled
1:43:20 and we can have bodies to help
1:43:24 thank you fantastic
1:43:26 and creepy has a question
1:43:29 yeah great presentation ray
1:43:32 um my my question is so you know i've
1:43:34 seen the purpose of the subcommittee is
1:43:36 to increase engage community engagement
1:43:39 around equity
1:43:42 i guess in my mind i'm struggling a bit
1:43:45 just because that's such a broad
1:43:48 thing so is it you
1:43:50 know i always find you know it's helpful
1:43:53 when you we have conversations with
1:43:55 people that have a bit of a focus in
1:43:58 mind so it's like
1:43:59 if if
1:44:00 i'm just trying to think about how best
1:44:02 to refine that is it like a longer term
1:44:05 uh equity strategy for the city like you
1:44:09 know i feel like it just needs a little
1:44:11 bit more
1:44:12 focus there to help but it's just a
1:44:15 suggestion no no no that's a that's a
1:44:17 great suggestion i think we just started
1:44:19 with a blank sheet of paper i'm pretty
1:44:22 and just started throwing things at it
1:44:23 from from short term and long term and
1:44:26 and the ones that popped out to me
1:44:28 just because of their broad reach for
1:44:29 those large organizations
1:44:31 in the city of issaquah that's why i was
1:44:33 mentioning pcc costco and swedish
1:44:35 medical center
1:44:37 but the fine print needs to also be part
1:44:39 of that right how do we get into the
1:44:40 detail that's why i really loved stacy's
1:44:43 presentation earlier when we talk about
1:44:45 community engagement it really needs to
1:44:47 be foundational um and it start needs to
1:44:50 start with us so i was happy when monica
1:44:53 said you know i think the strategy is
1:44:54 going to be hard to create
1:44:56 unless we as
1:44:58 an equity board are further educated on
1:45:00 what's going around in the city so
1:45:02 having somebody like stacy talk about
1:45:04 this community engagement throughput i
1:45:06 mean i'm looking at her slide right now
1:45:07 from from earlier and saying god she did
1:45:10 the work for me she said she said
1:45:13 engage with the city staff create
1:45:14 workshop in meetings and create a public
1:45:16 survey
1:45:17 so it's not a limited group and i would
1:45:19 lean to monica for guidance on how that
1:45:20 occurs does it occur online does it
1:45:22 occur as a mailer
1:45:24 how do we reach the broader community
1:45:26 create focus groups based on those data
1:45:28 the data that receive um
1:45:31 so i'm going to start with that and i
1:45:32 would love and we're going to continue
1:45:34 to vet that with this group to see the
1:45:35 kind of progress that we make but i
1:45:37 think i think following that template
1:45:39 really resonated with me
1:45:40 so this work just so like so it feels
1:45:43 like it's it's how to
1:45:45 create a
1:45:47 a community activate a community network
1:45:50 that we can um
1:45:54 put to use once we have like a focused
1:45:58 question or something
1:45:59 my goal is once we create what if we
1:46:02 once we create that network they are our
1:46:04 eyes and ears out there
1:46:06 they're the ones the small businesses
1:46:08 the schools the large organizations all
1:46:10 of them together if we have a point of
1:46:12 contact with those subsets then my my
1:46:15 thought is that's how we engage there
1:46:18 and and surveys and things like that
1:46:20 have a broader audience but at least we
1:46:21 have some foundation of how we're
1:46:23 interacting with the
1:46:24 community thank you
1:46:33 i think lucretia has a comment
1:46:36 yeah i think i want to go back to the
1:46:38 comment i made earlier during stacy's
1:46:40 presentation about the importance of
1:46:42 having some sort of
1:46:44 equity board landing page where people
1:46:47 can can come to us and say hey
1:46:49 here's what here's who we are here's
1:46:51 what we do we're a non-profit we're an
1:46:54 informal ad hoc whatever it is that they
1:46:57 so that we have that communication
1:47:01 tool available to the community because
1:47:03 right now
1:47:04 i mean i know who i know and what i know
1:47:06 but i have no idea who rey knows
1:47:08 nor who you know
1:47:10 any anybody else on this board knows
1:47:13 that a good place to start is inviting
1:47:16 the communication from the community
1:47:19 a repository that can then also be
1:47:21 available to the community
1:47:25 great idea
1:47:27 i like the comment about who ray knows
1:47:29 and who others know i mean if you if any
1:47:31 of us are in
1:47:33 regular visitors to a business that we
1:47:35 think would that is owned by
1:47:38 a minority group um talk to them next
1:47:41 time you're there say what's going on
1:47:43 from an equity lens um
1:47:46 have that discussion with the restaurant
1:47:47 owner or the small business owner and
1:47:49 introduce yourself boots on the ground
1:47:54 i love that and
1:47:56 it look crucial must have sparked a lot
1:47:58 of comments and questions because we
1:48:00 have monica megan and kelly
1:48:05 and foreign members on the staff liaison
1:48:07 i'm happy to go at the end i was just
1:48:08 gonna commend you and yeah so i'm gonna
1:48:10 go at the end okay thank you
1:48:15 looks like um
1:48:16 megan
1:48:18 yeah well this is kind of like a
1:48:20 suggestion it just kind of came to mind
1:48:23 well when i was thinking about how can
1:48:27 you know get out to other community
1:48:28 members uh and get them really engaged i
1:48:31 think another tool we could really be
1:48:32 using a social media
1:48:34 i mean that might just be me being a
1:48:36 young person since i'm always on
1:48:38 twitter like i think it's such a great
1:48:40 place if we want to put surveys out we
1:48:42 can post it there if we can promote what
1:48:45 we're doing as a board to really
1:48:46 activate people so that may be another
1:48:49 role another person can do on that
1:48:50 committee is being kind of like a media
1:48:52 coordinator and kind of creating that
1:48:54 content and that kind of buzz
1:48:56 great idea
1:48:58 thank you
1:49:03 and kelly are you ready
1:49:08 oops you're on youtube
1:49:12 i think i'm hearing everybody say
1:49:17 what we're doing in the
1:49:19 in this committee is
1:49:24 building relationships with other
1:49:26 organizations and individuals who
1:49:30 influence our community in some way or
1:49:32 another with a focus on racial equity
1:49:36 and that we built that network with
1:49:39 intention
1:49:40 to collaborate for example a campaign
1:49:43 i've done many many many campaigns
1:49:46 and so i would like to join the
1:49:48 committee because it sounds very
1:49:49 interesting to me
1:49:51 fantastic
1:49:56 thank you kelly
1:50:01 thank you board members and i think
1:50:02 that's such a good uh exactly what you
1:50:05 said kelly i think uh and and all of you
1:50:08 earlier i think being able to connect
1:50:11 with the community and staying in touch
1:50:13 with the community it's going to give
1:50:14 you not only the information of what's
1:50:16 working in our community but also what
1:50:18 what needs addressing right you're going
1:50:20 to hear from the communities directly of
1:50:23 of um of what's not working
1:50:26 where where are people still hurting and
1:50:28 so then you're gonna be so informed and
1:50:30 you're gonna be able to make better
1:50:32 recommendations for city council to
1:50:34 consider right so that's why i really
1:50:36 want to commend you because while you
1:50:38 are all representing the community i i
1:50:41 so appreciate the fact that you don't
1:50:42 want to just stay singular into just
1:50:44 your feedback and your um expertise but
1:50:48 you really want to continue to reach out
1:50:50 to the rest of the community and stay in
1:50:52 touch with them so for that i thank you
1:50:54 and with that i'm going to make a small
1:50:56 tiny comment uh regarding subcommittee
1:50:59 committee and this is my fault because
1:51:00 when i we started the conversation about
1:51:02 creating a committee on an engagement
1:51:05 committee i kept using the word
1:51:07 subcommittee i used it over and over and
1:51:10 over again until somebody at the city
1:51:12 clerks on the city clerk's team told me
1:51:14 monica is actually a committee you have
1:51:16 the equity board and you're creating a
1:51:18 committee but i think i used it so often
1:51:21 that now i just realized that everybody
1:51:22 else is using subcommittee so it's
1:51:25 actually a committee
1:51:26 so my apologies and thank you for
1:51:28 allowing that clarification for what is
1:51:31 worth right whether it's committee
1:51:32 subcommittee but
1:51:34 so thank you for that
1:51:38 and thank you for giving us that
1:51:40 information monica
1:51:43 i'm sorry ray would you did you have
1:51:45 something
1:51:47 um one last comment to shay and to kelly
1:51:49 so um
1:51:50 i will work with you to get another date
1:51:52 on the calendar so we can meet as a
1:51:55 committee um to talk about next steps
1:51:58 and see where we've landed so look out
1:51:59 for that and i'll send you an email for
1:52:01 the five of us
1:52:02 could i also be included in that i would
1:52:05 love i would love that i would love your
1:52:07 perspective that would be fantastic
1:52:09 megan i'll make sure you're on there
1:52:11 awesome thank you
1:52:14 and i'm sorry it looks like lacriscia
1:52:15 has um
1:52:17 she has a comment as well
1:52:19 um actually i'm i'm asking for
1:52:22 clarification monica um when i attended
1:52:25 the um committee
1:52:28 uh for outreach i remember or correct me
1:52:31 if i don't uh remember this correctly
1:52:34 you had asked the committee to wait
1:52:38 to do any sort of outreach because we
1:52:40 needed approval from the board before
1:52:43 doing that
1:52:44 and so i need clarification as to
1:52:47 when can i put on my equity board member
1:52:50 hat when i'm out in the community and
1:52:53 when does it not go on
1:52:55 you know i mean it's just not clear to
1:52:57 me how
1:52:58 how and when and what the protocols are
1:53:02 and thank you lucrecia for that that's
1:53:04 such a such a great great question i'm
1:53:06 gonna try to um answer the question but
1:53:08 i want to also
1:53:10 ask permission to ask for further
1:53:12 clarification from the city clerks
1:53:14 because yeah so
1:53:16 my understanding is we are a board we
1:53:19 are an advisory board to the mayor and
1:53:21 city council right we cannot take
1:53:23 decisions whether we are in the
1:53:24 committee or as a board we cannot take
1:53:27 decisions on behalf of the city
1:53:30 so right so if we have let's say if we
1:53:32 want to propose a policy uh we would
1:53:35 need to propose it make the
1:53:37 recommendation to mayor and city council
1:53:39 to that extent though our role is to
1:53:42 engage with the community so i see that
1:53:44 reaching out to the community for
1:53:46 engagement to invite let's say we reach
1:53:48 out to someone and we invite them to the
1:53:50 equity board hey we would like to hear
1:53:52 from you we would like to learn from you
1:53:54 i think that that is appropriate because
1:53:56 we don't take a decision on behalf of
1:53:58 the city we just reach out to a
1:54:00 community group to invite them to
1:54:02 educate us right and and we are going to
1:54:05 use that education and the information
1:54:07 to make a recommendation to to the mayor
1:54:09 and city council that's how i see the
1:54:12 distinction
1:54:13 um and i hope that helps a little bit
1:54:15 answer your question but i also feel
1:54:18 like i would like to ask for further
1:54:19 clarity from city clerks in case
1:54:22 i'm missing something
1:54:24 does that help lucrecia a lot actually
1:54:27 thank you
1:54:28 yeah thank you
1:54:36 say i know it's eight o'clock and board
1:54:39 members are we okay with moving to the
1:54:41 last agenda item i foresee that it's
1:54:43 gonna take definitely less than 10
1:54:45 minutes and i'm hoping it's gonna be
1:54:47 about five minutes
1:54:50 is that okay
1:54:52 i think we're good
1:54:55 thank you very much and such a great
1:54:57 meeting tonight i'm just uh yeah
1:55:00 that's actually one of my questions but
1:55:02 so before under staff report um i have a
1:55:05 couple of
1:55:09 informational items for you and then a
1:55:11 couple of questions for you board
1:55:12 members so i'm gonna start first with
1:55:15 some updates um rey started earlier
1:55:18 tonight with sharing a little bit about
1:55:20 the work that we've been doing together
1:55:23 around organizing a pride month event in
1:55:26 june 23rd more information to come at
1:55:29 the end of this week and early next week
1:55:31 related to that also in june we are
1:55:34 working with a few of you and i know
1:55:36 shay has been instrumental in that and
1:55:38 tony we are working on organizing an
1:55:41 event for june 10th
1:55:43 um that is scheduled to be an in-person
1:55:46 event and also looking into hybrid
1:55:49 option as well for that
1:55:51 and it is
1:55:52 right now scheduled for june 20th which
1:55:55 is monday at 5 00 pm
1:55:58 more information to come on that i'm
1:56:00 very excited about both events i think
1:56:02 they're going to be very solid
1:56:04 educational events for the community
1:56:06 um um and
1:56:08 we'll send you more information uh via
1:56:11 email and also communication will go out
1:56:13 through our
1:56:14 city-wide newsletter
1:56:18 very very very excited about both events
1:56:20 just blown away and thank you board
1:56:22 members for um for helping with those
1:56:25 um the next staff update it's a briefly
1:56:29 human services related update i heard
1:56:32 from some of you in individual
1:56:34 conversations that there's an interest
1:56:36 as as there's an interest
1:56:38 uh more broadly to learn about each
1:56:41 different city departments i think in
1:56:43 particular there was an uh interest
1:56:45 expressed
1:56:47 um regarding the human services division
1:56:50 in our city so i will look for an
1:56:52 opportunity in the upcoming months
1:56:54 depending on the guests that we have to
1:56:57 also offer a more in-depth presentation
1:56:59 regarding the human services initiatives
1:57:02 and and our department
1:57:04 um but meanwhile i just wanted to
1:57:07 provide a two-minute update
1:57:10 regarding one of our programs
1:57:14 you may or may not know
1:57:16 last year
1:57:17 our city
1:57:19 increased the human services roles
1:57:21 within the city one of the programs that
1:57:24 we launched last year
1:57:26 was a behavioral health and homeless
1:57:28 outreach program
1:57:30 it is a combination of two distinct
1:57:32 programs
1:57:33 the behavioral health program focuses on
1:57:36 working with our police department
1:57:38 in responding to
1:57:40 a behavioral health crisis that the city
1:57:44 receives through 9-1-1 we work in
1:57:46 supporting the police department who
1:57:48 refers certain cases to us
1:57:51 and then we also initiated a homeless
1:57:53 outreach program
1:57:56 in which we intentionally
1:58:00 started reaching out to the homeless
1:58:02 community in issaquah learning
1:58:04 more about the face of homelessness in
1:58:06 our community and trying to um to really
1:58:10 better understand how to support those
1:58:13 who are homeless and connect them to
1:58:15 services
1:58:16 so part of that program last year we
1:58:18 hired our first staff um his name is
1:58:21 amir sabana
1:58:24 also recently we
1:58:27 launched the dashboard um for which i'm
1:58:30 happy to provide you the link if you
1:58:32 don't have that information
1:58:34 that tracks some of the the the data
1:58:38 and information that we've been able to
1:58:41 uh to gather based on that outreach
1:58:43 uh more recently we hired a second staff
1:58:48 and second behavioral health coordinator
1:58:50 her name is kailyn wood and she's with
1:58:52 us tonight i would like to take the
1:58:54 opportunity to introduce to you
1:58:57 and by hiring the second behavioral
1:58:59 health coordinator our intent is to
1:59:02 provide the seven day coverage for our
1:59:05 services so um
1:59:08 until now we were limited to providing
1:59:10 five-day service with having two staff
1:59:14 uh we'll have um
1:59:17 seven-day coverage for 10 hours a week
1:59:19 to provide um support not only to our
1:59:22 homeless folks in issaquah but also to
1:59:25 our police department through the
1:59:26 behavioral health program so with that
1:59:28 i'm gonna pause kaylynn welcome if you
1:59:30 would like to introduce yourself
1:59:36 hi all i'm kalyn wood and i'm the newest
1:59:39 member of the human services department
1:59:41 uh thank you for having me and thank you
1:59:43 for such a robust conversation tonight
1:59:45 it's really
1:59:46 nice to see how engaged you are you all
1:59:48 are and your very thoughtful questions
1:59:51 look forward to being more part of this
1:59:54 of city planning as well as um taking my
1:59:58 experience from working through doing
2:00:00 direct service with clients so thank you
2:00:02 for having me
2:00:06 thank you caitlyn and welcome
2:00:08 and so board members i will make sure to
2:00:10 follow up with you so you have a link to
2:00:13 our homeless outreach dashboard
2:00:15 the dashboard provides information not
2:00:18 only on
2:00:19 how many people we interacted with and
2:00:21 what kind of service needs they had
2:00:24 but it also provides information
2:00:26 regarding the service gaps that exist in
2:00:28 our community and the lack of services
2:00:31 often that that exist
2:00:33 um and with that we hope that um
2:00:37 that gave us uh information to come back
2:00:41 our city administration and to city
2:00:44 council to propose
2:00:46 services and additional services to
2:00:49 effectively respond to homelessness
2:00:52 so for those of you interested more in
2:00:54 that and who have more interest in that
2:00:56 again we would love to come back with a
2:00:58 more in-depth presentation regarding our
2:01:01 work uh but also i wanted to say that
2:01:03 there's an opportunity on june 22nd if
2:01:06 anyone is interested
2:01:09 our human services division will present
2:01:12 at the safety services and parks
2:01:16 committee
2:01:17 the city council committee
2:01:19 we will have quite a few presentations
2:01:22 that touch on services for homeless
2:01:25 human services grants the larger human
2:01:27 services strategic plan
2:01:29 as well as
2:01:31 services
2:01:32 and options for landlords and tenants in
2:01:35 the city
2:01:36 again i would be happy to provide more
2:01:38 information on that
2:01:41 and so that concludes my reports for
2:01:43 tonight and um
2:01:46 then my two quick questions for you uh
2:01:49 for to end the meeting tonight are
2:01:51 as we dive into learning more about the
2:01:53 different departments within the city
2:01:56 and community groups in our city and
2:02:00 regionally um
2:02:02 what what are your initial thoughts what
2:02:04 the type of presentations that you had
2:02:06 tonight was that helpful should we
2:02:08 continue on this path with inviting
2:02:11 probably
2:02:12 at least probably two presentations per
2:02:14 night we will have
2:02:16 is this working it seems like i see had
2:02:18 not yes or had
2:02:20 yes not yes
2:02:23 okay so that's working please let's
2:02:25 continue conversation
2:02:27 uh on what and what's not not working
2:02:31 also in terms of my second question we
2:02:34 actually addressed the subcommittee it
2:02:36 seems like we have a couple of board
2:02:38 members interested in serving on the
2:02:41 committee
2:02:44 so thank you for that
2:02:48 oh my my next question was regarding
2:02:50 next steps lucrezia
2:02:53 and also some other board members in
2:02:55 previous months uh you made great
2:02:57 suggestions about the equity uh board
2:03:01 landing page
2:03:02 i would like to follow up with an email
2:03:04 to send you the link to our existing
2:03:06 page and would love to hear suggestions
2:03:09 from you i know we had some
2:03:10 conversations on what can we you know
2:03:13 there was also some suggestions at some
2:03:15 point in not only providing an
2:03:17 opportunity for others to
2:03:19 engage or um
2:03:21 provide input but also perhaps to show
2:03:24 some of the work that we completed so
2:03:27 far and perhaps work that's on the
2:03:29 agenda upcoming so there are some
2:03:31 opportunities for us and would love to
2:03:33 hear from you i will follow up with an
2:03:35 email and i will ask you i guess if you
2:03:37 don't mind just respond and give me your
2:03:40 suggestions so we can move forward with
2:03:42 those
2:03:45 and also i guess uh then the last
2:03:48 question kind of regarding is
2:03:51 i would need to follow up with our
2:03:52 presenters um so i'm gonna ask you if
2:03:55 anyone is interested in participating or
2:03:57 if you know anyone who may be interested
2:03:59 in participating in the ada work group
2:04:02 from our presentation earlier tonight
2:04:05 so um just be on the lookout for an
2:04:07 email with follow-ups on that end
2:04:10 and thank you so much great a lot of
2:04:16 i think that's it
2:04:17 oh i think christina has a comment
2:04:25 [Music]
2:04:36 projects
2:04:42 [Music]
2:04:45 so i was looking at the web page and
2:04:48 there's a section that says major
2:04:50 projects i'm assuming that all of the
2:04:52 major projects from the different
2:04:54 departments that the city is working on
2:04:56 at this time should be listed there is
2:04:58 that correct
2:05:01 including
2:05:04 those and that also includes the one
2:05:07 that we the ones that we were addressing
2:05:09 tonight correct
2:05:12 um it should absolutely think these are
2:05:15 major projects i'm gonna try to check to
2:05:18 see but i would assume that yes it
2:05:20 includes all major projects and i'm just
2:05:23 looking at it right now
2:05:27 [Music]
2:05:28 yes i think i believe that's correct
2:05:30 christina
2:05:32 gracies
2:05:36 thank you
2:05:38 and i would be happy to email that link
2:05:40 as well to all of you in case you don't
2:05:42 have it
2:05:46 and also as a connection as you might
2:05:48 have seen it tonight in the presentation
2:05:50 it it's always all of the major projects
2:05:52 connect to the strategic plan right um
2:05:57 so that's another great resource
2:05:59 christina thank you
2:06:05 alrighty do we have any other questions
2:06:06 or comments for tonight
2:06:12 then we are only six minutes over but we
2:06:14 are ready to adjourn
2:06:16 um thank you all for joining us tonight
2:06:19 um i hope you all have a wonderful
2:06:20 evening
2:06:24 good evening board members thank you
2:06:31 oh thank you very much paul
2:06:35 thank you for having me
2:06:37 thank you for being here we always would
2:06:39 love to hear from you on what how can we
2:06:44 yep indeed thank you great presentation
2:06:50 thank you monica i'll see you tomorrow
2:06:53 thank you kaylan have a good evening
2:06:54 thanks for being there
2:06:59 and say as always great great job you
2:07:02 are becoming a pro at this stop
2:07:07 uh yeah i had like a
2:07:10 brain malfunction and too many things
2:07:12 going on today it was a very long day
2:07:14 anyhow
2:07:15 i'm glad we we got through it um great
2:07:18 presentations tonight uh
2:07:20 really really good stuff so i'm so
2:07:23 excited about what's going on or what's
2:07:24 coming in the future
2:07:26 right yeah that's why i think it's it's
2:07:28 great presentations i think more and
2:07:30 more as you hear from more departments i
2:07:32 think we are going to get additional
2:07:34 ideas and at some point i think the
2:07:36 pieces of the puzzle will come together
2:07:39 but i think we've been doing with a lot
2:07:40 of new stuff and not knowing where to
2:07:42 start and
2:07:43 yeah just a lot of new stuff but
2:07:46 again you're i think it's so seamless
2:07:49 you're uh for salutation it's just
2:07:52 better and better all the time so don't
2:07:54 it's okay before i for i completely
2:07:56 forgot about like initial like reminding
2:07:59 people to speak slowly and whatnot oh
2:08:02 yeah and i happen to look at the
2:08:04 interpreters and i was like
2:08:06 look at that
2:08:09 but i was also a little flustered
2:08:10 because
2:08:12 i jumped into the meeting late and i was
2:08:13 just like oh geez let me just get in
2:08:15 here and get started so we can all get
2:08:18 everybody out on time so
2:08:21 i i appreciate you being so
2:08:22 understanding and the group being so
2:08:24 understanding and then of course you
2:08:25 know we'll continue to work through it
2:08:27 and um
2:08:28 i think that uh i i want to i know in
2:08:31 the next meeting i really want to
2:08:33 encourage everyone to
2:08:34 um not think in terms of perfection but
2:08:37 think in terms of good enough because we
2:08:40 we do have to start so we don't want to
2:08:43 delay our processes by thinking
2:08:44 overthinking things but outside of that
2:08:47 i think we're going to be good
2:08:49 yeah and i think i also noticed that now
2:08:51 more and more uh members are feeling
2:08:53 comfortable about speaking up and i
2:08:55 think next will be like those who don't
2:08:57 feel so comfortable speaking up just
2:08:58 encouraging them right because i think
2:09:00 it's um
2:09:02 um also um
2:09:05 yeah i think i i
2:09:07 some sometimes i think that people are
2:09:09 don't feel comfortable asking questions
2:09:11 or commenting so they hear the
2:09:13 presentation and they maybe they they're
2:09:15 afraid of saying something wrong so like
2:09:17 you said maybe just reminding them it
2:09:19 doesn't have to be perfect don't be shy
2:09:21 don't be afraid and actually i wanted to
2:09:23 to say that i just forgot don't be fr uh
2:09:25 afraid don't be shy in in asking the
2:09:27 questions and the tough questions and
2:09:30 right
2:09:30 absolutely and i i think kelly jumped
2:09:33 right in so i think she's a perfect
2:09:35 example of how to do that so hopefully
2:09:39 we can get the rest of the board members
2:09:41 and there's not very many that are quiet
2:09:43 but um i definitely want to hear from
2:09:45 other board members more often so
2:09:49 um i think that that's going to be kind
2:09:50 of key