Equity Board · Wednesday, December 7, 2022 · City Council Digest

3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of November 17, 2022

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APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 11-17-22 Equity Board Minutes Page [0000] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Equity Board 6:00 PM Steelhead Room, 235 1st Ave. November 17, 2022 MINUTES SE, Issaquah

4. AGENDA ITEMS

Issaquah School District Equity Department - Introductions and Overview (I, D)

30 min · Alisa Stewart, Equity Board Member Monica Negrila, Staff Liaison, Human Services Manager

Topics: EquitySchools

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0:06 ↗ each calendar

0:10 ↗ of the people that live in that

0:13 ↗ community so I'm telling them you want

0:15 ↗ to do this and you authentically want to

0:17 ↗ do it you have to do all the hard work

0:19 ↗ that our Equity board did and you really

0:21 ↗ have to listen to the community and make

0:24 ↗ some hard decisions and choices to make

0:26 ↗ this all fit together so because Council

0:29 ↗ just adopted it and now it's part of the

0:31 ↗ way we communicate and engage and

0:33 ↗ celebrate in our community that felt

0:35 ↗ like I had to come by and say thank you

0:36 ↗ so Monica thank you for supporting the

0:38 ↗ sport and board members really

0:41 ↗ give yourself a hand it is Leading Edge

0:44 ↗ you guys are doing super fantastic

0:49 ↗ thank you mayor Paulie we so appreciate

0:51 ↗ your support Ray go ahead I think you're

0:53 ↗ gonna say something I'm sorry oh no

0:55 ↗ thank you yeah too you Monica for it was

0:57 ↗ a very robust discussion so thank you

0:59 ↗ for helping us through it and mayor

1:01 ↗ Paulie for stopping by and acknowledging

1:03 ↗ it we I know I speak for the rest of the

1:04 ↗ board we appreciate you coming to buy a

1:06 ↗ good thing thanks to us thanks for being

1:09 ↗ here okay big accomplishment big

1:11 ↗ accomplishment thank you for your

1:13 ↗ treatment thank you for showing up each

1:15 ↗ time and thank you for having difficult

1:16 ↗ conversations that not everybody's ready

1:18 ↗ to have so great work keep it up

1:22 ↗ thank you

1:24 ↗ man we appreciate the fact that the city

1:26 ↗ is willing to engage in this work

1:28 ↗ because I think it's really important to

1:30 ↗ have this information posted and it's

1:32 ↗ definitely helped unify and it's better

1:35 ↗ creates a sense of community that we can

1:37 ↗ recognize all the the rich culture and

1:40 ↗ celebrations in this community

1:43 ↗ yeah

1:45 ↗ you guys are just

1:48 ↗ spiritually a year ago and now it's just

1:50 ↗ I'm I feel like the proud parent as you

1:52 ↗ start producing these

1:55 ↗ amazing so thank you Lorna thank you

2:00 ↗ any other board members any other

2:02 ↗ comments

2:06 ↗ okay

2:07 ↗ thank you Monica and thank you for

2:08 ↗ taking some time have a great meeting

2:10 ↗ tonight everyone thank you mayor have a

2:13 ↗ good evening

2:18 ↗ thank you and Welcome to our friends

2:21 ↗ from the Baha'is of Issaquah

2:25 ↗ um I think that actually leads us to

2:27 ↗ public comments in case you uh would

2:31 ↗ like to say anything or if you're just

2:34 ↗ here listening in and joining

2:41 ↗ I guess

2:43 ↗ um we just sent you a little bit of a

2:46 ↗ description a bunch of photos of the

2:49 ↗ December 3rd uh meeting that we had

2:52 ↗ meeting conference together you know

2:56 ↗ and I know it was difficult day so not

3:00 ↗ everybody could attend but uh

3:02 ↗ um well quite a few attended uh Ray was

3:06 ↗ there and Christina was there and

3:09 ↗ um the question was there so yeah thank

3:12 ↗ you we had a very good representation

3:16 ↗ um from the equity board we really

3:19 ↗ appreciate it because I think everybody

3:21 ↗ enjoyed it yeah yes can I say something

3:24 ↗ um I thank you for hosting such a

3:26 ↗ wonderful event

3:27 ↗ um it was a really great way to to

3:29 ↗ really bring people together to have a

3:31 ↗ really honest discussion um I like the

3:33 ↗ group that that you brought together

3:35 ↗ with different um age ranges I could set

3:37 ↗ with the teenagers and really just sat

3:39 ↗ there and listened to him and get to

3:41 ↗ know him better so

3:42 ↗ um I think it really brought a lot of

3:44 ↗ meaningful conversation to the way you

3:46 ↗ structured the meeting so it was a it

3:48 ↗ was a pleasure to be that I'm sorry I

3:49 ↗ couldn't stay longer but I really really

3:50 ↗ enjoyed myself so thank you for hosting

3:53 ↗ thank you we missed the rest of you

3:56 ↗ thank you I understand that the report

3:59 ↗ that uh thanks I would essentially you

4:01 ↗ could perhaps circulate the share it

4:03 ↗ share with the board yes

4:05 ↗ kind of a nice summary it's a lot of

4:08 ↗ good fun and always anxious to hear any

4:10 ↗ um ideas for the future so we could

4:13 ↗ continue to do these kinds of community

4:15 ↗ building things together

4:17 ↗ um because that was so much fun

4:20 ↗ thank you so much for having this event

4:22 ↗ hello Chris yeah we see your hand out

4:24 ↗ please

4:25 ↗ yes thank you

4:27 ↗ um I too would like to thank the Baha'i

4:29 ↗ community and the other

4:31 ↗ various members of the community who

4:33 ↗ showed up to the Gathering I found it to

4:36 ↗ be very informational especially with

4:38 ↗ regards to the history and the activism

4:41 ↗ that has come out from the community

4:44 ↗ that was present I think it's important

4:46 ↗ for us to recognize that

4:50 ↗ um some of the flowering that we're

4:51 ↗ seeing with our Equity board and some of

4:54 ↗ the other efforts of the city

4:56 ↗ um have Decades of work that have been

4:59 ↗ done throughout

5:01 ↗ various communities in this particular

5:03 ↗ Community I was really impressed to hear

5:06 ↗ that people have been here since the 70s

5:09 ↗ doing a lot of work being active

5:14 ↗ um

5:15 ↗ but I thought of

5:17 ↗ um in in um

5:19 ↗ processing with my husband after we left

5:22 ↗ the meeting was at it dawned on me that

5:27 ↗ the

5:29 ↗ Persian Community is probably counted

5:33 ↗ under the white Community even though

5:37 ↗ they face similar challenges as other

5:40 ↗ people of color and I don't know what to

5:43 ↗ do with that information I just I just

5:45 ↗ feel like it's important to point out

5:48 ↗ um and yeah I mean and I think we could

5:51 ↗ devote an entire meeting around

5:54 ↗ processing

5:56 ↗ what we did at that meeting

5:58 ↗ um one of the things that I would like

6:00 ↗ to point out today though

6:04 ↗ um

6:05 ↗ I really like the format of that meeting

6:07 ↗ um we did work

6:09 ↗ um with regards to identifying how we

6:12 ↗ Define community and what is important

6:14 ↗ to us

6:15 ↗ prior to then breaking bread as a

6:19 ↗ community and I thought that that was

6:21 ↗ really a great way to

6:23 ↗ get work done but at the same time also

6:26 ↗ get to know one another and thank you

6:28 ↗ Sabah and and

6:32 ↗ father correct

6:34 ↗ yes I'm sorry my mind is kind of still

6:38 ↗ afraid I got sick again Believe It or

6:40 ↗ Not people I don't know what's going on

6:41 ↗ but anyways so thank you

6:47 ↗ thank you very much Lucrezia and we hope

6:50 ↗ you feel better soon

6:54 ↗ I wanted to say that I'm very sorry that

6:56 ↗ I missed the meeting and I hope

6:58 ↗ I don't know if it's just meeting or if

7:00 ↗ it's a party celebration and Community

7:02 ↗ Building act you know activity but I

7:05 ↗ hope that I am able to join the next

7:07 ↗ time

7:08 ↗ thank you

7:11 ↗ thank you

7:14 ↗ hey board members

7:16 ↗ um

7:17 ↗ oh right I apologize I thought it was a

7:20 ↗ high five hand go ahead very quickly uh

7:23 ↗ Farah saba and Ted I hope um you're able

7:26 ↗ to send the

7:28 ↗ um

7:29 ↗ pictures the products that were produced

7:31 ↗ at the meeting I'd like to get a second

7:32 ↗ look at them

7:34 ↗ um just to share I think you'd mentioned

7:36 ↗ that you might take pictures of them so

7:37 ↗ if you have that opportunity we'd love

7:39 ↗ to share with the board and what we

7:40 ↗ discussed together wonderful that's what

7:43 ↗ pharah just sent I mean yeah figures as

7:46 ↗ you pointed out we were able to have a

7:48 ↗ good conversation and have a lot of fun

7:50 ↗ and have art and there are people of all

7:52 ↗ ages and they it was Baha'is and people

7:55 ↗ were in Upper highs and people who are

7:56 ↗ religious and people who are not

7:57 ↗ religious because we're all interested

7:59 ↗ in the same thing Community Building

8:02 ↗ and it's an interesting conversation how

8:04 ↗ do we do that that was kind of the

8:06 ↗ essence and we can you know continue

8:09 ↗ that kind of conversation in a fun

8:12 ↗ friendly kind of way in the future with

8:15 ↗ in partnership with the equity board

8:17 ↗ I just pulled a document up may I share

8:20 ↗ it now as of course I will check via

8:23 ↗ email but

8:24 ↗ um let me play on the screen or yeah for

8:26 ↗ members to see

8:30 ↗ okay

8:37 ↗ foreign

8:50 ↗ they think

8:54 ↗ some work that

8:57 ↗ has been done

9:02 ↗ with the conversation about how what are

9:05 ↗ your ideas

9:06 ↗ and how would you illustrate in art your

9:10 ↗ ideas

9:11 ↗ we broke into tables and everybody had a

9:14 ↗ really great conversation about 45

9:15 ↗ minutes an hour we could only get people

9:17 ↗ to stop in time to eat

9:21 ↗ so great

9:23 ↗ I'm so sorry for missing it as well

9:30 ↗ that's today's work

9:36 ↗ [Music]

9:44 ↗ yeah

9:45 ↗ it's wonderful way to build community

9:51 ↗ thank Equity board members for

9:53 ↗ representing the board

9:55 ↗ and the community

10:18 ↗ her husband your kids

10:22 ↗ [Music]

10:24 ↗ food was amazing

10:29 ↗ thank you again looks like a

10:31 ↗ wonderful event it was a lot of fun no

10:35 ↗ thank you

10:37 ↗ okay uh board members uh tonight it's a

10:41 ↗ little bit of a different meeting

10:43 ↗ um we do have uh we call the meeting to

10:45 ↗ order uh and now that we are about 15

10:48 ↗ minutes into the meeting I would love to

10:51 ↗ uh just do a brief roll call

10:54 ↗ um and

10:55 ↗ um note who is missing tonight I just

10:59 ↗ want to know that we have an excuse

11:01 ↗ absence from Christina who has an event

11:04 ↗ she wasn't able to to to be with us

11:10 ↗ um welcome across the street sorry to

11:13 ↗ bother you no worries a lot of evening

11:16 ↗ meetings

11:18 ↗ um in this city I think that was the

11:20 ↗ cemetery board or something like that um

11:22 ↗ we would love to join forces but

11:26 ↗ um

11:27 ↗ uh Elisa you're here

11:31 ↗ um Helen is absent I have not heard from

11:34 ↗ Helen

11:35 ↗ uh Lorna you're here welcome lucrecia

11:40 ↗ you're online welcome

11:43 ↗ right right

11:46 ↗ here also here

11:49 ↗ um Shea is absent

11:52 ↗ um I know I shared with you that she had

11:54 ↗ a medical emergency last month that

11:57 ↗ continues to be on and uh off

12:00 ↗ um so I'll provide more updates as I

12:02 ↗ know or I know that she will reach out

12:04 ↗ as well please just keep praying your

12:07 ↗ thoughts

12:09 ↗ um Tony is absent

12:12 ↗ um for now

12:13 ↗ and um Kelly you're right here

12:17 ↗ and pretty over here

12:19 ↗ okay so that concludes the um just a

12:23 ↗ quick follow-up on the roll call I was

12:25 ↗ saying that it's a little bit of a

12:26 ↗ different uh meeting you might have seen

12:29 ↗ my note earlier

12:31 ↗ um we have a uh we had a last minute

12:33 ↗ change in our agenda item

12:36 ↗ um in our agenda items tonight we were

12:39 ↗ gonna have our guests from Issaquah

12:41 ↗ school district from the equity

12:42 ↗ department they had the last minute

12:45 ↗ change in their schedule so they are not

12:47 ↗ able to attend uh they are hoping to

12:49 ↗ attend at our meeting on January 4th

12:53 ↗ um and I'm also initially

12:57 ↗ um you you don't know this because we

12:58 ↗ did not put in the agenda planning but

13:00 ↗ initially we also had a tentative

13:03 ↗ schedule to have a open meeting act

13:05 ↗ refresh your training and our city

13:08 ↗ clerks are planning to also come and

13:10 ↗ talk about the in-person and virtual

13:13 ↗ attendance policy and so both of those

13:16 ↗ are scheduled for the January 4th

13:18 ↗ meeting

13:19 ↗ um and so with that that gives us more

13:21 ↗ time tonight to hopefully finalize the

13:24 ↗ conversation and have a good robust um

13:26 ↗ meeting on the 2023 work plan items and

13:31 ↗ so with that

13:33 ↗ Alyssa is also appreciate the initiative

13:36 ↗ Elisa offered to facilitate this

13:40 ↗ conversation tonight uh as we work on

13:43 ↗ finalizing the prioritization

13:46 ↗ um last month I just want to provide a

13:47 ↗ big another big small background last

13:51 ↗ night we had a great first conversation

13:53 ↗ and

13:55 ↗ um we as we discussed the different

13:58 ↗ items that that we have planned my

14:01 ↗ recommendation of staff was to

14:03 ↗ prioritize certain items

14:05 ↗ um acknowledging that everything that

14:07 ↗ was proposed so far is very very

14:09 ↗ important but that we don't really have

14:12 ↗ enough capacity and time to tackle all

14:14 ↗ those items in 2023 so the request was

14:17 ↗ to prioritize them so then we can start

14:21 ↗ with a few I'm always a big believer and

14:23 ↗ let's let's do a few and let's do them

14:25 ↗ right instead of trying to take a too

14:27 ↗ big of a bite and then not being able to

14:29 ↗ accomplish anything

14:31 ↗ um so with that I know Lisa you have

14:32 ↗ your hand up I'm gonna hand it to you

14:34 ↗ and I'm also gonna share

14:36 ↗ um the on the prioritization that you

14:39 ↗ all worked on so thank you for all of

14:41 ↗ you for getting back with me in in

14:43 ↗ expressing yours I'm gonna put that on

14:45 ↗ the screen Melissa yeah before you

14:48 ↗ before you put that up um I actually

14:50 ↗ have a deck to share

14:51 ↗ okay sounds great thank you and also do

14:54 ↗ we need to do the approval of the

14:56 ↗ minutes first

14:57 ↗ oh thank you for that good reminder I

15:00 ↗ totally skipped over doing this that's

15:01 ↗ why please next next time somebody else

15:05 ↗ uh facilitate the meeting thank you yes

15:07 ↗ we did not do approve the meetings the

15:09 ↗ minutes and actually have a correction

15:11 ↗ for the meeting so I have a

15:12 ↗ self-correction if that's okay

15:14 ↗ um thank you is it okay then let's pause

15:16 ↗ on the minutes

15:18 ↗ um so board members please take a few

15:20 ↗ minutes if you didn't you already uh to

15:23 ↗ um look over the minutes but I did

15:25 ↗ notice that um

15:28 ↗ um I did not include on their guests I

15:31 ↗ did not include our friends from the

15:32 ↗ Baha'is so I just want to make that

15:35 ↗ correction to the minutes under public

15:37 ↗ comments we did note

15:39 ↗ um uh that the Baha'is of Issa power

15:41 ↗ here and about their invitation I just

15:43 ↗ did not call out their name so uh

15:45 ↗ apologies for that I will correct that

15:47 ↗ before we post the final minutes

15:51 ↗ and then with that my question is does

15:54 ↗ anyone have any other corrections to

15:55 ↗ them in it

15:58 ↗ um and if there are no other Corrections

16:00 ↗ proposed we can consider them and it's

16:02 ↗ approved with the Amendments proposed

16:06 ↗ um it looks like that's unanimous unless

16:08 ↗ the crestia array anyone else

16:12 ↗ okay

16:13 ↗ uh Lucrezia we cannot see you so do you

16:16 ↗ mind giving us a virtual something yes

16:18 ↗ thank you

16:19 ↗ that you approve them as well okay thank

16:22 ↗ you with that so the minutes are

16:24 ↗ approved and now we can go back to you

16:26 ↗ oh Alyssa

16:28 ↗ I'm going to share my screen

16:31 ↗ and give me um let me know if you don't

16:34 ↗ have that capacity it looks like I do

16:38 ↗ you do great thank you

16:51 ↗ okay so the

16:55 ↗ 2023 work plan

16:58 ↗ um

16:59 ↗ as Monica

17:00 ↗ alluded to if I can make it work

17:04 ↗ um we were asked given the task to

17:06 ↗ prioritize a list of the proposed work

17:08 ↗ plan items in order to define the work

17:10 ↗ of the equity board for 2023.

17:14 ↗ and thank you to everyone who

17:16 ↗ participated

17:18 ↗ our step one of that was what Monica

17:20 ↗ also mentioned that the community and

17:22 ↗ board members identified 11 possible

17:25 ↗ 2023 work plan items

17:28 ↗ and those are the items that you were

17:30 ↗ asked to prioritize and these are those

17:32 ↗ items they're on the agenda and I know

17:34 ↗ you've all ranked them so I know you've

17:36 ↗ all seen them so we walked through them

17:38 ↗ right this moment

17:40 ↗ the next step in us us doing that was

17:43 ↗ that each board member was asked to rank

17:45 ↗ the Selections in order of their

17:47 ↗ preference for which items should be

17:49 ↗ addressed first and second Etc

17:52 ↗ and we were asked that while we did that

17:55 ↗ prioritization to consider a few things

17:58 ↗ which initiatives are bringing us closer

18:01 ↗ to not causing harm for people at the

18:04 ↗ margins

18:05 ↗ which initiatives can bring communities

18:07 ↗ historically impacted by inequities to

18:10 ↗ have a real partnership with the city

18:12 ↗ which initiatives can support and

18:14 ↗ cultivate the voices of the diverse

18:16 ↗ communities in Issaquah and are there

18:19 ↗ initiatives that provide for friendly

18:21 ↗ opportunities so these are some of the

18:23 ↗ things that we all considered while we

18:25 ↗ were doing the ranking

18:26 ↗ foreign

18:30 ↗ work items have now been put in order

18:33 ↗ based on the supplied rankings

18:36 ↗ and we'll show those in a moment the top

18:39 ↗ five items are proposed for the 2023

18:42 ↗ work plan

18:44 ↗ these are those top five items

18:48 ↗ and I know there are six

18:51 ↗ however I think that um I suspect that

18:55 ↗ reporting bias was included for some

18:58 ↗ folks as a part of Data Tracking and

19:00 ↗ identifying bias and that's why you're

19:01 ↗ seeing six but we can talk about that a

19:03 ↗ little bit more in a moment these are

19:06 ↗ the top five items we've identified for

19:08 ↗ now as the 2023 work plan items so the

19:11 ↗ Data Tracking and identifying bias

19:13 ↗ science and business customer service

19:16 ↗ for development difficult conversions

19:19 ↗ conversations

19:21 ↗ supporting bias and collaboration with

19:24 ↗ the school district

19:26 ↗ okay so we're going to dig into that a

19:28 ↗ little bit more just to understand how

19:30 ↗ we got to those

19:33 ↗ hopefully you can still see my screen

19:35 ↗ this is the place where everyone was

19:39 ↗ putting in their rankings

19:40 ↗ and these are the rankings that were

19:42 ↗ finally collected and now they're just

19:45 ↗ in order by the items that were

19:47 ↗ identified so these top six items are

19:50 ↗ the items that were on the list we were

19:52 ↗ showing and everything below the black

19:54 ↗ part are the items that just didn't we

19:57 ↗ just aren't sure we're going to have the

19:58 ↗ capacity to meet it doesn't mean that

20:00 ↗ they're not important and it doesn't

20:02 ↗ mean I don't I don't think that we

20:04 ↗ wouldn't address them provided there's

20:06 ↗ time

20:08 ↗ um but just in terms of prioritization

20:10 ↗ these top items are the ones we think

20:12 ↗ that we can cover

20:14 ↗ um

20:15 ↗ what it will say about the the

20:17 ↗ methodology that this was definitely an

20:20 ↗ exercise in data-driven decision making

20:23 ↗ in the sense that everyone's rankings

20:26 ↗ have are included here

20:29 ↗ um no Monica and I use might have used a

20:31 ↗ slightly different process to come up

20:33 ↗ with the same answer what I did

20:36 ↗ personally was to take all of the items

20:38 ↗ and literally some across the row and

20:43 ↗ um so you can see that the total for for

20:45 ↗ number one was 19 and then to sort the

20:49 ↗ list in

20:50 ↗ um ascending order and the reason is

20:53 ↗ that if everyone had identified for

20:55 ↗ example Data Tracking and identifying

20:57 ↗ bias as their first choice

20:59 ↗ and this total would be 11. since or I

21:03 ↗ think it's 11. and it was piece that's

21:05 ↗ total of the board members and it would

21:07 ↗ be the lowest number so that that's the

21:10 ↗ methodology there

21:12 ↗ um what I also want to point out is that

21:16 ↗ um every one of the board members number

21:19 ↗ one choice for item that needs to work

21:21 ↗ on with that methodology

21:23 ↗ represented in these top items

21:28 ↗ almost all of the board members number

21:31 ↗ two items are included in this top list

21:35 ↗ of items

21:36 ↗ and every one of the board members heard

21:40 ↗ ranked items were are included here in

21:44 ↗ this top list of items so all together

21:48 ↗ this list represents for sure

21:51 ↗ um top the top three items that we all

21:55 ↗ chose so

21:57 ↗ um with this method

21:59 ↗ um okay

22:02 ↗ um the items that are below the list are

22:05 ↗ also ranked and it should be have lots

22:09 ↗ of speed on the items above it I think

22:12 ↗ Monica you'll probably say that you know

22:15 ↗ we would be able to continue on the

22:18 ↗ items that we also think are very

22:20 ↗ important for this just a little lower

22:22 ↗ on the priority list

22:25 ↗ okay so this is the proposed list and I

22:29 ↗ want to open it up and ask if there are

22:31 ↗ questions comments concerns at this

22:34 ↗ point

22:35 ↗ thank you so much Elisa and while born

22:38 ↗ members you're thinking of questions may

22:40 ↗ I please make just two quick comments

22:43 ↗ um on that

22:44 ↗ um one thank you so much Elisa this

22:46 ↗ looks great I am so so grateful for all

22:48 ↗ your work on this

22:50 ↗ um I uh you're right I think we had a

22:53 ↗ slightly two different Melodies but we

22:55 ↗ got the same results I wanted to point

22:58 ↗ out two things uh lucrecia and you might

23:00 ↗ have seen um had a different comments

23:02 ↗ some of you had some comments on your

23:05 ↗ prioritization uh Lucrezia had a little

23:07 ↗ bit of a different comment on how she

23:09 ↗ sees those combined and I just wanted to

23:11 ↗ mention that while yes we can certainly

23:14 ↗ look at combining items I think the

23:16 ↗ reason why we wanted to also like spell

23:18 ↗ them out a little bit differently was

23:20 ↗ again just not to

23:23 ↗ um group too many items under one theme

23:26 ↗ and then not be able to uh to address

23:28 ↗ those so for example Elisa even said you

23:31 ↗ know about reporting bias in some of the

23:34 ↗ conversations that I had individually

23:36 ↗ with you reporting bias can be a

23:39 ↗ totally separate big topic on how we

23:42 ↗ even perhaps create a different

23:43 ↗ mechanism or do research on What

23:45 ↗ mechanisms are for reporting bias but

23:48 ↗ yes could be so many other things

23:50 ↗ um another quick comment that I want to

23:52 ↗ make we have a difficult conversation as

23:55 ↗ one of the top

23:57 ↗ um five topics and under those difficult

23:59 ↗ conversations uh basically uh perhaps

24:03 ↗ pretty much everything that's under a

24:06 ↗ number you know 789 could be included as

24:11 ↗ a difficult conversation topic right

24:13 ↗ like how to include more people in

24:15 ↗ public comments or public meetings or

24:18 ↗ redlining and history of racism so to

24:20 ↗ some degree we will tackle all the other

24:23 ↗ ones but like you said um just wanted to

24:25 ↗ also be laser focused on what we can and

24:28 ↗ cannot and then the last I a quick

24:30 ↗ comment I wanted to make uh you all said

24:33 ↗ they're total we started this

24:35 ↗ prioritization with a total of 11 items

24:37 ↗ I just also wanted to to remind us that

24:40 ↗ these 11 items are in addition to the

24:42 ↗ other seven that were already identified

24:46 ↗ as coming from different departments

24:48 ↗ that need our support for the year

24:51 ↗ um so that they are not you know these

24:54 ↗ five six that are a priority are

24:58 ↗ um being added to the existing seven

25:02 ↗ um so I just wanted to provide that as a

25:05 ↗ reminder

25:07 ↗ you're going to be busy

25:09 ↗ god

25:12 ↗ um

25:13 ↗ basically we're going to be busy and I'm

25:15 ↗ wondering

25:19 ↗ do we just stick with four or five

25:24 ↗ um ideally I think it would be great oh

25:26 ↗ yes I think if we can

25:28 ↗ have more I would love uh as a staff I

25:31 ↗ think looking at the six that are all

25:33 ↗ big items

25:34 ↗ um it seems a little bit much so I would

25:36 ↗ love to reduce them to 405.

25:41 ↗ I already said I'd like to facilitate I

25:44 ↗ think Lucrezia has her hand out yes

25:49 ↗ thank you

25:51 ↗ um Monica will you and or Elisa be

25:56 ↗ um clarifying what the difference

25:57 ↗ between Data Tracking and identifying

26:01 ↗ bias bias in business customer service

26:04 ↗ and Reporting bias but those how those

26:08 ↗ three are different or

26:11 ↗ why they're separate items I guess I'm a

26:13 ↗ little bit unclear thank you

26:18 ↗ can we go through the definitions that

26:21 ↗ were here

26:22 ↗ sure if you would like yes and then I'm

26:25 ↗ happy to also provide additional

26:26 ↗ information Alisa okay so the the two

26:29 ↗ items you mentioned look right here

26:30 ↗ where Data Tracking and what was the

26:33 ↗ second item

26:36 ↗ it's a one two and five one two and five

26:40 ↗ okay

26:42 ↗ so number one

26:45 ↗ I I read this this way Monica you you

26:47 ↗ wrote These so help me if if I get this

26:50 ↗ wrong I read number one is being

26:52 ↗ specifically about

26:54 ↗ um identifying basis uh bias in and

26:57 ↗ traffic tickets

26:59 ↗ and so not talking about bias in the

27:03 ↗ other ways in which it could be viewed

27:05 ↗ specifically

27:07 ↗ um what's come out of the conversation

27:09 ↗ with the Issaquah chief of police and

27:11 ↗ and traffic tickets

27:13 ↗ is that a fair assessment Monica

27:17 ↗ yes thank you yeah so this this uh item

27:20 ↗ came from the conversation we had with

27:23 ↗ the chief of police a couple of months

27:24 ↗ ago when Chief Swan was here for

27:27 ↗ introduction and you all

27:29 ↗ um uh pointed out rightfully so that

27:32 ↗ perhaps it might be worth looking into

27:33 ↗ how do we identify bias in police as a

27:36 ↗ general item and in particular the

27:38 ↗ conversation on traffic tickets came up

27:40 ↗ so we added that as an item and if that

27:43 ↗ and that is a priority number one

27:45 ↗ actually my recommendation this path

27:47 ↗ would be to create a small ad hoc

27:49 ↗ committee to three members that will

27:51 ↗ work individually with me and perhaps

27:54 ↗ the staff from the police department to

27:56 ↗ even look at what kind of data is being

27:58 ↗ tracked now how to identify bias what

28:01 ↗ kind of other data we would want tracks

28:03 ↗ there so that's per se it's a it's a a

28:06 ↗ topic for like a few months of work in

28:09 ↗ itself can we call it instead bias and

28:12 ↗ law enforcement it is because I

28:15 ↗ personally think when I first thought I

28:17 ↗ was like wow there's a lot of bias and

28:18 ↗ it feels it can go all together but it's

28:21 ↗ three different when I read it I

28:23 ↗ realized one was bison it's called law

28:26 ↗ enforcement one was in biased in local

28:29 ↗ businesses and the fifth one was really

28:31 ↗ about community members when they

28:34 ↗ experience it to come in and report so

28:37 ↗ to me I saw them as the very different

28:39 ↗ ones

28:41 ↗ and so but if you look at it I was like

28:43 ↗ oh Data Tracking identifying and

28:46 ↗ recording seems the same and so I think

28:48 ↗ there's there was a disconnect and I

28:52 ↗ want to say I think I think that there

28:54 ↗ can still be overlap but because part of

28:56 ↗ it that depends on what the individual

28:59 ↗ teams come up with as a tracking

29:01 ↗ solution so as an example if second item

29:04 ↗ is primarily about about bias

29:08 ↗ experienced

29:09 ↗ um in retail settings

29:11 ↗ and the fifth one is primarily about

29:16 ↗ um reviewing the the current systems

29:18 ↗ that are in place and providing a

29:19 ↗ mechanism for residents to report the

29:22 ↗ bias to experiencing you know maybe this

29:25 ↗ system that comes up out of question

29:27 ↗ item number five is actually going to

29:30 ↗ track attracts both of these

29:33 ↗ so so it's a potential for overlap for

29:36 ↗ crazier keep your hand up

29:39 ↗ all right I was trying to hit the thumbs

29:40 ↗ up I completely agree with what you're

29:42 ↗ saying Elisa thank you

29:46 ↗ so so does that help to explain the

29:49 ↗ difference between these three items the

29:51 ↗ first being around law enforcement the

29:53 ↗ second being specific to

29:56 ↗ um experiences and Retail

29:59 ↗ um and the the fifth being how can

30:01 ↗ people report specifically how can they

30:04 ↗ report the bias they're experiencing

30:09 ↗ any other any other questions or

30:13 ↗ comments yes Kelly

30:16 ↗ um so I clearly thought of it

30:18 ↗ differently

30:20 ↗ um I although it had the explanation

30:22 ↗ that was police focused for Data

30:24 ↗ Tracking and identifying bias I saw it

30:26 ↗ as a generic Data Tracking and that's

30:28 ↗ why it was number one I mean I probably

30:30 ↗ still learned place but um it seems to

30:34 ↗ me that before we can say not that I'm

30:37 ↗ saying they're not biased but before we

30:39 ↗ can publicly say that there's bias in

30:41 ↗ the business Community we should

30:42 ↗ probably do some Dave track first that's

30:45 ↗ how right and so you have we have to do

30:48 ↗ the Data Tracking

30:49 ↗ in it and so we would need to probably

30:52 ↗ rename it for me and at least the way I

30:57 ↗ think about it because it's

30:59 ↗ um

31:00 ↗ because I because it would be could

31:02 ↗ create a problem for the community to

31:05 ↗ see that the one that they have bias and

31:08 ↗ then they're going to say and how do you

31:10 ↗ know that and then we're going to tell

31:11 ↗ anecdotal stories

31:13 ↗ so we need to data track and identify

31:16 ↗ bias in the you know just kind of do the

31:20 ↗ same thing for both of them does that

31:22 ↗ make sense for both the date for

31:25 ↗ police and for

31:27 ↗ bias in business and customers so one

31:30 ↗ question for you

31:31 ↗ um part of the statement here in the

31:34 ↗ bias in in business and customer service

31:37 ↗ this is a proposal or an idea of

31:40 ↗ creating a training for business and the

31:42 ↗ community to address unconscious bias

31:47 ↗ um

31:49 ↗ is that something that you feel would

31:52 ↗ need to wait

31:54 ↗ until you've created the tracking

31:58 ↗ measure fact

32:00 ↗ you know gotten people to submit data

32:03 ↗ over a period of time before we could

32:07 ↗ actually do something like that uh if

32:10 ↗ the business Community is asking for it

32:12 ↗ we should do it but if the business

32:14 ↗ Community isn't asking for it yet then

32:17 ↗ we need to think that through well these

32:20 ↗ ideas came from the community

32:22 ↗ yes

32:28 ↗ yes because on the flip side let's say

32:33 ↗ um and that's what I use our Police

32:35 ↗ Department as an example and I actually

32:37 ↗ want to go back to to uh even two steps

32:41 ↗ back for example we did not identify the

32:43 ↗ police department necessarily as just

32:46 ↗ the one and only because I think my

32:49 ↗ recommendation was done before the team

32:50 ↗ who's going to work on the Data Tracking

32:52 ↗ you had

32:54 ↗ um different departments that you saw

32:55 ↗ throughout the year and so the question

32:58 ↗ would be for me would you like to focus

33:00 ↗ on the depart Police Department solely

33:02 ↗ or would you like to identify other

33:03 ↗ departments and see what kind of data

33:05 ↗ should we would we look at tracking

33:07 ↗ within the city as a whole and now going

33:10 ↗ back to to your comment if we say that

33:12 ↗ if we are going to do a training only if

33:14 ↗ the business Community is asking are we

33:16 ↗ gonna do

33:18 ↗ um any other Data Tracking or

33:19 ↗ identifying bias only if a city

33:22 ↗ department is asking for it or if it

33:24 ↗ comes as a need from the community we

33:27 ↗ are still going to do it enough for it

33:28 ↗ so difficult conversations and

33:30 ↗ challenging conversations for sure and

33:33 ↗ that's that's exactly the reason why I

33:36 ↗ think if we focus on less items we will

33:38 ↗ have more time to really dive deeper

33:40 ↗ because all of these items are pretty

33:42 ↗ big items

33:43 ↗ the difference is that we're talking

33:46 ↗ about really still these top items

33:49 ↗ yeah so we haven't left the conversation

33:52 ↗ of these top items and they are still

33:54 ↗ you know the items that we're saying we

33:57 ↗ want to do work on for 2023.

34:00 ↗ yes

34:02 ↗ so I was just you know I'm looking at

34:04 ↗ the comments so under uh the description

34:06 ↗ under number two here and so it says

34:09 ↗ community members reported during

34:11 ↗ Community conversations so I do I mean

34:14 ↗ I'm I think I'm getting into scoping a

34:16 ↗ little too much but you know looking at

34:18 ↗ our community data the listening session

34:20 ↗ data to see which um areas emerge as

34:24 ↗ where where the community is already

34:26 ↗ reporting bias and that might be where

34:29 ↗ we prioritize so like if it's law

34:31 ↗ enforcement if it's you know in you know

34:34 ↗ businesses or retail

34:36 ↗ um if it's in other ways and then maybe

34:39 ↗ that's where we start and then we can

34:41 ↗ create like a data collection kind of

34:43 ↗ pathway for reporting bias but kind of

34:46 ↗ letting what we already what community

34:48 ↗ has already told us to to start and

34:50 ↗ prioritize and that's documented so I

34:53 ↗ could read it

34:54 ↗ someone could read it their listening

34:56 ↗ sessions yes that would be great yeah

35:00 ↗ because that helps I don't think they

35:02 ↗ have a lot of great it sounds like we we

35:04 ↗ are passionate about the top items at

35:07 ↗ the top the items at the top of this

35:08 ↗ list because you're all already coming

35:10 ↗ up with ideas

35:12 ↗ which is great

35:15 ↗ um okay so despite our methodology

35:19 ↗ um I want to make sure that

35:22 ↗ none of the other items

35:24 ↗ 7 through 11 are items that anyone wants

35:28 ↗ to make the case for

35:31 ↗ uh needing to be at the top of our list

35:34 ↗ or or are we are we are we satisfied

35:37 ↗ with

35:39 ↗ um the overall prioritization of the

35:41 ↗ items I'll go back here I want to say

35:44 ↗ something

35:46 ↗ uh Alyssa I just have one question so I

35:49 ↗ noticed that two people did not rank

35:51 ↗ Beyond three and those uh that could

35:56 ↗ change data quite considerably

35:59 ↗ considering you know it's four five six

36:01 ↗ they're big numbers and the difference

36:03 ↗ between number three and number four is

36:06 ↗ only by one point

36:08 ↗ and so I really wanna I'm very curious

36:11 ↗ to find out if those two people did

36:14 ↗ right because right now it is very

36:16 ↗ it is I think it's the data is a bit

36:19 ↗ skew because we don't have data for from

36:21 ↗ all people for averages

36:26 ↗ I'm sorry

36:28 ↗ I can speak to that if that's okay and I

36:30 ↗ think that goes back to the slightly

36:33 ↗ different methodology that Elisa and I

36:36 ↗ used so we had two board members who

36:39 ↗ only used one two

36:41 ↗ four or one to five one two three

36:44 ↗ two three now we have one of them we had

36:48 ↗ four

36:50 ↗ we had four to both

36:52 ↗ um Lucrezia and Christina and and so

36:57 ↗ um that's why on my reading I only used

37:00 ↗ the the ratings that the two members

37:03 ↗ used and basically for everyone else

37:05 ↗ following that I did not assign points

37:08 ↗ so what I did I assigned a point system

37:11 ↗ uh to basically saying number one gets

37:15 ↗ the highest point system and I assign 10

37:17 ↗ points number two gets eight points and

37:19 ↗ so forth until four

37:21 ↗ um and then for everyone else basically

37:23 ↗ I I did not prioritize so

37:26 ↗ um as Elisa has a seven eight nine ten

37:28 ↗ rating I only have the top ratings and

37:31 ↗ that's why on my end the top ratings

37:33 ↗ were exactly the ones that Elisa came uh

37:36 ↗ upward except for reporting bias so for

37:38 ↗ me reporting bias did not come up but

37:40 ↗ the other ones are are there

37:44 ↗ does that make sense so that's the in

37:45 ↗ the skewed in the skewed data that's the

37:48 ↗ only skilled item that for me reporting

37:50 ↗ bias did not come up

37:54 ↗ does that make sense Laura now

37:56 ↗ and then what I also did if and the

37:59 ↗ board probably does not you know in case

38:01 ↗ somebody wanted to fact that we had two

38:04 ↗ non-voting members I also accounted for

38:07 ↗ those and I have numbers to compare and

38:10 ↗ then those are not secured either like

38:11 ↗ in in general like URL in agreement on

38:14 ↗ those okay so even with the four through

38:18 ↗ eleven yeah it's not factored in the top

38:21 ↗ four for example not including reporting

38:24 ↗ buyers would still always be the top

38:26 ↗ four yeah and then five and six could be

38:30 ↗ different based on

38:32 ↗ um

38:33 ↗ six was the same was six came up for

38:37 ↗ both Monica and I as well

38:39 ↗ the only one that did not come up on

38:42 ↗ Monica's methodology was reporting bias

38:46 ↗ so for me number one was Data Tracking

38:48 ↗ and diet

38:51 ↗ um number two was biasing customer

38:53 ↗ service

38:55 ↗ number three was collaboration with

38:58 ↗ Issaquah school district and number four

39:01 ↗ was difficult conversation

39:04 ↗ conversations sorry

39:09 ↗ right well I I didn't I didn't think

39:12 ↗ that we were at this point trying to

39:15 ↗ split amongst the top items but if we

39:18 ↗ are then that's fine too we need to

39:21 ↗ identify that

39:22 ↗ that we were trying to identify the the

39:25 ↗ top items

39:27 ↗ and

39:30 ↗ [Music]

39:35 ↗ so I'm fine with that if both your

39:38 ↗ methodology LED with at least a top four

39:41 ↗ top

39:42 ↗ um and especially if anyone questions

39:44 ↗ about non-voting versus boarding members

39:46 ↗ you're looking at at least four maybe

39:49 ↗ five right the other thing is that the

39:52 ↗ purpose of tonight's meeting is to

39:54 ↗ review the proposal but I I thought

39:57 ↗ Monica you might recommend whether or

39:59 ↗ not the group should still vote whether

40:02 ↗ or not to accept the list

40:04 ↗ yes I think as a general rule you and

40:07 ↗ you can choose to do a formal Vote or

40:09 ↗ you can choose to

40:11 ↗ um to have some sort of consensus I

40:14 ↗ think being in an agreement that are you

40:16 ↗ okay with putting forward these top

40:19 ↗ four or five items or as as you asked

40:22 ↗ Lisa is there anyone who feels strongly

40:25 ↗ about moving to the top any of the items

40:28 ↗ that right now are not a prior ID

40:31 ↗ for for this coming year

40:35 ↗ so those items are the inclusion in

40:38 ↗ public meetings the Alternative forms of

40:40 ↗ leadership and structures in public

40:42 ↗ meetings Civics 101 redlining

40:45 ↗ representation in public offices

40:48 ↗ hello Chris here

40:54 ↗ you scroll up

40:59 ↗ possible to

41:02 ↗ and I don't know if since we've already

41:04 ↗ voted with with the name but maybe the

41:07 ↗ definition

41:09 ↗ might be more inclusive number two bias

41:12 ↗ and business and customer service

41:14 ↗ for me it would make more sense to say

41:16 ↗ bias in

41:18 ↗ community

41:21 ↗ engagement I mean I don't even know what

41:23 ↗ the word is to be honest I don't want to

41:26 ↗ limit it to business only right because

41:28 ↗ I feel like a lot of conversation has

41:31 ↗ been around the bias that our families

41:33 ↗ experience with regards to Issaquah

41:35 ↗ school district

41:38 ↗ so I I would like to be able to fold in

41:41 ↗ there's the school district whether it's

41:44 ↗ the medical community whether it is a

41:47 ↗ private business public business Etc

41:50 ↗ and I'm just trying to find a way to

41:55 ↗ to be more inclusive

41:58 ↗ Mr Monica

42:00 ↗ when the Committees take on these items

42:02 ↗ will they have the flexibility to do

42:05 ↗ what the crazy is asking

42:08 ↗ absolutely the flexibility is going to

42:10 ↗ be their board members

42:14 ↗ would want to recommend at least hey

42:17 ↗ laser focused especially on something

42:19 ↗ that comes from the community and I also

42:22 ↗ want to call out that already

42:23 ↗ collaboration with the Issaquah school

42:25 ↗ district is there as a priority for us

42:28 ↗ for next year and we have the

42:30 ↗ opportunity to to customize that based

42:34 ↗ on what we hear from the Issaquah school

42:36 ↗ district so I just want to provide that

42:38 ↗ as an option

42:40 ↗ um also for naming and titling I I

42:42 ↗ totally agree I think for all of the

42:44 ↗ items we can rename them and and name

42:47 ↗ them to something that it's more

42:50 ↗ um that that more clearly defines what

42:54 ↗ we want to do at this point these were

42:57 ↗ just like again as we put them together

42:59 ↗ based on input that I heard from from

43:01 ↗ all of you

43:03 ↗ um but my again just caution would be if

43:07 ↗ we received from the community feedback

43:09 ↗ that they don't they feel followed in

43:11 ↗ retail stores or that they're that they

43:14 ↗ have that they reported to us a bias in

43:17 ↗ in the customer service and businesses

43:19 ↗ that they frequent in Issaquah

43:22 ↗ um it and that's why even I think the

43:25 ↗ action plan that was identified was not

43:27 ↗ to go and point fingers to businesses

43:29 ↗ but to invite them to perhaps you know a

43:33 ↗ community training that we would put

43:35 ↗ together that would be open to the

43:37 ↗ community and the businesses so it

43:39 ↗ wouldn't be pointing out Fingers

43:42 ↗ um but it would be also something very

43:44 ↗ tangible and very specific that we would

43:46 ↗ address that and it wouldn't be just

43:48 ↗ something that could potentially be

43:50 ↗ deluded to include some many other

43:56 ↗ um

43:57 ↗ themes

44:00 ↗ again open either way it's just I know

44:02 ↗ from when you're trying to put together

44:04 ↗ events and activities if you don't know

44:07 ↗ exactly clearly what we want it's even

44:09 ↗ difficult to identify a trainer or

44:13 ↗ um

44:14 ↗ scope of work and so forth I have a

44:16 ↗ clarification the Issaquah school

44:19 ↗ district is said possible there now

44:22 ↗ you're saying it's on our work plan

44:23 ↗ already am I misunderstanding so

44:25 ↗ collaboration with Issaquah school

44:27 ↗ district was a as a placeholder and you

44:30 ↗ all rated it high yeah it's in our top

44:33 ↗ five to see collaboration with this

44:35 ↗ across School District I left it as a

44:37 ↗ placeholder because I did not want to

44:39 ↗ create a specific

44:41 ↗ um work item until we have a chance to

44:44 ↗ meet with the Issaquah school district

44:45 ↗ and hear from them what their needs are

44:48 ↗ and work collaboratively like I wouldn't

44:50 ↗ want to create a work item without a

44:52 ↗ it's a school district being part of it

44:54 ↗ does that make sense so it's like a

44:56 ↗ placeholder yeah

44:58 ↗ but you already at high as being

45:01 ↗ interested in tackling I didn't

45:05 ↗ you didn't but he was a group you as

45:07 ↗ individuals you have you can make a case

45:10 ↗ to propose it and I'm just gonna put on

45:12 ↗ the floor why it's a system that is also

45:15 ↗ has its problems and collaborating with

45:18 ↗ that system I mean the committee may be

45:21 ↗ awesome I I really don't know but it's a

45:24 ↗ system that has its own Equity issues

45:26 ↗ and since we're trying to work out the

45:29 ↗ city's Equity issues I'm I'm seeing that

45:34 ↗ as

45:36 ↗ uh

45:39 ↗ that it would be it could be very hard

45:41 ↗ so so devil's advocate here couldn't you

45:44 ↗ make that case for every organization

45:46 ↗ within the city

45:48 ↗ every business every whether it's a

45:50 ↗ retail business or whether it's

45:53 ↗ don't know the police

45:55 ↗ yeah it's

45:59 ↗ a a

46:01 ↗ it has to do with the

46:04 ↗ it has to do with what we want to do are

46:07 ↗ we going to become a conduit for

46:09 ↗ bringing parents with concerns to the

46:12 ↗ schools that's one role we could have is

46:14 ↗ it that we're building policies together

46:17 ↗ that we could both influence in our own

46:20 ↗ in respective organizations you know

46:23 ↗ it's a lot of ways you can do this and

46:25 ↗ I'm trying to sort out because

46:28 ↗ um I'm concerned about

46:33 ↗ pointing fingers at what they're doing

46:34 ↗ wrong when we're not doing stuff when

46:36 ↗ we're not doing it right either yeah

46:38 ↗ right that's my concern then very good

46:41 ↗ point and that's why the idea is

46:42 ↗ collaboration and that's why it's a

46:44 ↗ placeholder we would never want to do

46:46 ↗ anything to point finger at someone

46:48 ↗ because of that like I Envision if there

46:52 ↗ is a classical District comes and says

46:54 ↗ you know we really have and we know this

46:56 ↗ this challenge in our school district

46:58 ↗ and we feel that we need more partners

47:01 ↗ that we cannot do this alone can we do

47:03 ↗ this community training or can we do

47:05 ↗ this conversational can we have this as

47:07 ↗ a community I think that's where we can

47:09 ↗ influence you're absolutely right

47:11 ↗ they're totally different system we as a

47:13 ↗ city Advisory Board we cannot create

47:15 ↗ policies for the school district or

47:17 ↗ influence those in any ways and that's

47:19 ↗ why that's a good reminder thank you so

47:21 ↗ much Kelly it's a good reminder for all

47:23 ↗ of us board members we are an Advisory

47:25 ↗ Board to the City of Issaquah Council

47:29 ↗ and mayor right so everything that we do

47:31 ↗ and we focus on community Equity

47:33 ↗ initiatives and anything that we propose

47:36 ↗ and make recommendations should have a

47:38 ↗ community impact so we can have events

47:43 ↗ training events educational events that

47:46 ↗ are geared towards the community and we

47:49 ↗ can also make recommendations to the

47:51 ↗ city and Council and mayor on possible

47:54 ↗ policies that the city can consider

47:57 ↗ internally right so

47:59 ↗ um so those those are but yes

48:02 ↗ such good clarification and that's why

48:04 ↗ at this point the collaboration and

48:06 ↗ highlight the word collaboration with

48:08 ↗ the school district it really is a

48:10 ↗ placeholder because we have not heard

48:11 ↗ from them yet and we don't know they

48:13 ↗ might come and say this is what we do

48:15 ↗ and Equity board members great good luck

48:17 ↗ with your work we don't need any

48:18 ↗ collaboration with you and then that's a

48:20 ↗ good job right and that's that's totally

48:22 ↗ fine right Lorna you're going to say

48:26 ↗ something yes thank you

48:28 ↗ yeah so um

48:32 ↗ I know from my work the vehicle school

48:36 ↗ district has its own Equity Advisory

48:37 ↗ Group

48:38 ↗ the equity Advisory Group hasn't been

48:41 ↗ since covid and they're talking about

48:43 ↗ what that means and the city was part of

48:46 ↗ that group along with many different

48:48 ↗ Community organizations

48:50 ↗ so I think I'm struggling with the

48:53 ↗ collaboration with the Issaquah school

48:55 ↗ district based on my personal knowledge

48:58 ↗ and that's why I didn't rate it as such

49:01 ↗ because I'm also curious to see what

49:03 ↗ Elena and Sharon would say as part of

49:06 ↗ our work and so I was trying to focus on

49:08 ↗ on what we as a community grew in an

49:12 ↗ advisory capacity could actually do an

49:15 ↗ influence I think I was looking at the I

49:18 ↗ like the conversation of when we're

49:20 ↗ talking about reporting bias how to

49:22 ↗ enable how to teach how to help uh

49:25 ↗ people Advocate and know how to report

49:27 ↗ bias in general and Reporting bias and

49:31 ↗ that could be within Medical in you know

49:35 ↗ different non-profits that visispa has

49:38 ↗ many of those in retail in all of that

49:42 ↗ so that would impact everything

49:45 ↗ rather than just on

49:48 ↗ um

49:50 ↗ so that would be inclusive for the

49:52 ↗ school district also so

49:55 ↗ that's where I was coming from and I see

49:58 ↗ the city work we're doing in the

50:00 ↗ influence we have in the city as being

50:02 ↗ part of our work because the City of

50:05 ↗ Issaquah

50:07 ↗ runs the city of physical police

50:09 ↗ department so I think we have much more

50:12 ↗ influence on that part than we would

50:14 ↗ have on the iska school district to also

50:17 ↗ is comprised of Renton Newcastle

50:20 ↗ Bellevue Sammamish unincorporated King

50:23 ↗ County and Preston so that's where I'm

50:27 ↗ struggling with that part but

50:28 ↗ collaboration is great but I'm just

50:31 ↗ wondering how big a priority it is in

50:34 ↗ this work

50:37 ↗ so great comments and I wonder if we

50:39 ↗ could hear from other board members who

50:42 ↗ perhaps prioritize this item would love

50:44 ↗ to hear their thinking pretty yeah so I

50:47 ↗ I had it listed as number two because I

50:50 ↗ I totally understand that the school

50:52 ↗ district is a separate kind of

50:55 ↗ governmental jurisdiction from the city

50:59 ↗ um but I also think that our kids live

51:01 ↗ in the city for many of them do I know

51:05 ↗ some live outside of the city limits but

51:08 ↗ I I think what I would like to explore

51:11 ↗ is what is that area of overlap that

51:13 ↗ makes sense and so that's why I agree

51:15 ↗ with kind of like the placeholder I

51:17 ↗ think it's open for conversations and if

51:19 ↗ there isn't anything that comes from it

51:21 ↗ so be it but I think um it's something

51:24 ↗ that I feel is worthwhile to explore

51:26 ↗ because our youth are our future and the

51:29 ↗ school district is educating them so

51:33 ↗ thank you so much really

51:36 ↗ Elise

51:40 ↗ of course it was

51:43 ↗ was near the top of my list as well but

51:45 ↗ pretty much for the same reasons that

51:47 ↗ preaching just said

51:51 ↗ anyone else have any any feedback on the

51:54 ↗ collaboration

51:58 ↗ as I think I would like to just

52:01 ↗ reiterate that I feel like the one we

52:05 ↗ have had conversations with community

52:08 ↗ that the district comes up a lot and so

52:11 ↗ I feel like

52:12 ↗ if they do not feel heard through the

52:16 ↗ Avenues that are currently being

52:17 ↗ provided and they're seeking for

52:20 ↗ other levels of guidance and or places

52:22 ↗ where they can come to

52:25 ↗ that we should at least you know

52:27 ↗ consider that making our decision with

52:31 ↗ regards to how to collaborate with with

52:33 ↗ the district

52:35 ↗ Ray you have your thank you Lucretia Ray

52:38 ↗ you have your hand up as well yeah this

52:42 ↗ exercise was really enlightening um

52:44 ↗ these six items could be dissected in so

52:47 ↗ many different ways

52:48 ↗ um for me that's Data Tracking I'm All

52:51 ↗ About Numbers to really support the

52:52 ↗ thinking that we have I think as we dive

52:55 ↗ into these it's going to require a lot

52:56 ↗ more conversation everything that

52:58 ↗ everybody said was I was just really

53:00 ↗ enjoying listening especially the

53:02 ↗ um uh Lorna with the comments about the

53:04 ↗ school district and um and your

53:07 ↗ relationship with them I'm fascinated by

53:08 ↗ that because I really feel like youth

53:10 ↗ needs to be at our table we lost two

53:13 ↗ um and I'm hoping that we can we can

53:15 ↗ have others that might be interested in

53:17 ↗ taking those roles but for me I I think

53:20 ↗ it's I don't know taking it to the next

53:22 ↗ level as how how we assign these I don't

53:24 ↗ know if um if that was going to be a

53:27 ↗ topic of discussion today Elisa and and

53:29 ↗ uh Monica probably not but how this gets

53:33 ↗ broken up are we going to take them one

53:34 ↗ by one our two board members can be

53:36 ↗ assigned one and report to the rest of

53:38 ↗ the group because there's a lot of work

53:39 ↗ under these

53:40 ↗ um but really for me I get the data

53:42 ↗ really is is going to drive the

53:44 ↗ conversation as to which direction we

53:45 ↗ take

53:46 ↗ that was

53:48 ↗ awesome thank you okay

53:51 ↗ Monica so with that thank you Alicia so

53:54 ↗ with that board members are we okay with

53:56 ↗ putting the collaboration with uh the

53:59 ↗ Issaquah school district back of just

54:01 ↗ being a placeholder at least until next

54:03 ↗ month or when we have a chance to really

54:06 ↗ talk and hear from the Issaquah school

54:09 ↗ district and just leave it as a

54:11 ↗ placeholder for now

54:13 ↗ and focus on the on on the other making

54:16 ↗ sure that we have perhaps the other I

54:19 ↗ would recommend leaving this as a

54:21 ↗ placeholder and identifying four top

54:23 ↗ items for tonight

54:26 ↗ in addition other than the the school

54:28 ↗ district what are your thoughts about

54:30 ↗ that board members

54:36 ↗ my other question is board development I

54:39 ↗ don't know if that's something that we

54:41 ↗ need

54:42 ↗ like how much it is a job that we as a

54:46 ↗ boarded doing and how much that is

54:48 ↗ something that we say hey we need more

54:49 ↗ training on bias or we need to do more

54:53 ↗ to figure out you know board

54:56 ↗ something bored I haven't been on the

54:58 ↗ board so I don't know what I need but

55:00 ↗ and I think that's one of the things

55:02 ↗ because I feel like we need to do A

55:05 ↗ needs assessment before we can really

55:07 ↗ tackle projects and to me all of the

55:11 ↗ work around bias is definitely needs

55:14 ↗ assessment like what is the need in our

55:16 ↗ community and so a lot of the work

55:19 ↗ around bias the police department in the

55:22 ↗ community and businesses and so forth

55:24 ↗ and if do families even know how to

55:26 ↗ report bias because it might be much

55:29 ↗ less or much more than we are aware of

55:31 ↗ and in places that we're not even

55:33 ↗ considering so to me reporting bias is

55:36 ↗ kind of like our needs assessment in

55:38 ↗ figuring out what exactly is the issue

55:40 ↗ before we can do more work in inclusion

55:43 ↗ and try to you know do those uh some

55:47 ↗ kind of changes history inclusion is

55:49 ↗ then the work behind it and having

55:52 ↗ difficult conversation is Again part of

55:54 ↗ reporting by so I see all of that as a

55:57 ↗ nice little

55:58 ↗ top four type things and the board

56:01 ↗ development as something that

56:04 ↗ is separate

56:06 ↗ still there so I don't see think it

56:09 ↗ needs to come away but I think it is not

56:11 ↗ something that

56:13 ↗ is really part of how it's something

56:15 ↗ that we do together to learn but not

56:18 ↗ something we do to produce something

56:21 ↗ for the community yes that makes sense

56:24 ↗ yes absolutely and there's for many of

56:27 ↗ them it's an internal component and the

56:29 ↗ community facing component I think the

56:31 ↗ reason why I decided to actually add it

56:35 ↗ to the list was also the time commitment

56:37 ↗ because often like even just looking

56:40 ↗ back at this last year you had a few

56:42 ↗ training opportunities there are always

56:44 ↗ ongoing opportunities to participate on

56:46 ↗ interview panels to participate in other

56:49 ↗ board than commissions so it's so in

56:52 ↗ itself it could take up more time and so

56:56 ↗ if that's for example your interest like

56:58 ↗ in my mind the way I see board

57:01 ↗ development and equity and you have

57:02 ↗ heard me say this before in an Ideal

57:05 ↗ World the way I envision our city is

57:08 ↗ that maybe I don't know when but at some

57:11 ↗ point we are not going to need an equity

57:13 ↗ board anymore right and the reasoning

57:15 ↗ behind is that each boredom commission

57:18 ↗ each City department has Equity embedded

57:21 ↗ so much in what they're doing on a daily

57:22 ↗ basis that we are no longer needed right

57:25 ↗ part of the board development to me it's

57:28 ↗ also being able to participate and

57:30 ↗ actively take part in what other boards

57:33 ↗ and commissions are doing and what other

57:35 ↗ City departments are doing and kind of

57:37 ↗ like start infiltrating those Equity

57:39 ↗ lands uh and that Equity lens and those

57:43 ↗ Equity perspectives right so I totally

57:46 ↗ agree that it's a little bit different

57:47 ↗ it's a little bit internal and building

57:49 ↗ the muscle for the organization but it

57:52 ↗ also takes a lot of time

57:54 ↗ so it's up to you for sure if you want

57:58 ↗ to and you know your time and capacity

58:03 ↗ for those things I have to agree it's

58:07 ↗ what I thought as well was that that was

58:09 ↗ part of the reason it was there so while

58:11 ↗ the work is different on board

58:12 ↗ development we're not you know doing an

58:15 ↗ Outreach to the community it's still

58:17 ↗ work that takes time and I miss a

58:20 ↗ limited resource

58:22 ↗ that's

58:26 ↗ um okay so we have we have four items

58:30 ↗ and so I'm I'm gonna ignore those for a

58:34 ↗ minute and I'm gonna say we we know we

58:36 ↗ we know that we could right now say that

58:38 ↗ these are the top four items and uh

58:40 ↗ we're gonna work on these whether we

58:42 ↗ think that vocal conversations is more

58:45 ↗ or less important than board development

58:47 ↗ that necessarily matter

58:49 ↗ what would matter is if you thought

58:52 ↗ reporting bias was more important and

58:55 ↗ should be in the top four or any other

58:57 ↗ of the other items on the list

59:00 ↗ and so starting with reporting bias

59:04 ↗ um does anyone think that reporting bias

59:08 ↗ should be and I'm going to go down the

59:09 ↗ list so I'm just starting randomly

59:11 ↗ anyone think that reporting bias should

59:13 ↗ be in our top four

59:16 ↗ all right

59:18 ↗ Gracia is that a vote for yes you think

59:21 ↗ it should be in the top four or or a

59:22 ↗ comment

59:24 ↗ um that's a vote okay and so I'm gonna

59:28 ↗ ask you to substantiate that some

59:31 ↗ and what makes you say that it should be

59:33 ↗ in the top four for me

59:35 ↗ um for development is just an ongoing

59:41 ↗ you know as things come up as we need to

59:43 ↗ learn

59:44 ↗ um there are

59:45 ↗ a lot of opportunities where Monica will

59:48 ↗ say you need this kind of training

59:51 ↗ basically what she said earlier

59:54 ↗ and so I feel like the board development

59:56 ↗ will happen whether or not is in the top

59:59 ↗ four

1:00:01 ↗ um

1:00:02 ↗ that that's just my understanding from

1:00:04 ↗ my previous service it could be that

1:00:06 ↗ that's not the case now

1:00:08 ↗ that's what my

1:00:10 ↗ um reasoning for reporting bias making

1:00:13 ↗ it to the top four as opposed to board

1:00:16 ↗ development

1:00:20 ↗ any any other comments

1:00:24 ↗ Elisa you might not have seen in the

1:00:26 ↗ room but we had all board members in the

1:00:29 ↗ room raised their hand earlier as well

1:00:31 ↗ so we had the question Kelly and pretty

1:00:33 ↗ right I can't I can only see who's

1:00:36 ↗ speaking at the moment so it would be

1:00:38 ↗ helpful if you can help monitor that

1:00:40 ↗ Monica

1:00:41 ↗ yes absolutely so

1:00:43 ↗ um not sure Lorna would you like to

1:00:45 ↗ start with

1:00:47 ↗ I think all of you yeah yeah I would

1:00:49 ↗ definitely prefer having reporting bias

1:00:51 ↗ in the top four because board

1:00:54 ↗ development to me is something that is

1:00:57 ↗ going to happen and I know it takes time

1:01:00 ↗ but I so just so believe that that

1:01:05 ↗ information has to be there needs to be

1:01:08 ↗ a mechanism to collect and Report

1:01:09 ↗ because without that information we

1:01:12 ↗ really we don't have enough data to to

1:01:15 ↗ move

1:01:17 ↗ thank you Lorna thank you this is this

1:01:20 ↗ is Kelly I'm I just second Lorna we need

1:01:23 ↗ the data for me to convince white people

1:01:25 ↗ they need to see something

1:01:28 ↗ I I heard that and I I'm also thinking

1:01:31 ↗ about the the phrase reporting bias

1:01:33 ↗ because

1:01:34 ↗ um bias seems to be such a low threshold

1:01:37 ↗ so I would think like

1:01:39 ↗ I don't know what the word is but you

1:01:41 ↗ know

1:01:42 ↗ like not negative experience but I also

1:01:45 ↗ feel like reporting bias puts a burden

1:01:47 ↗ on the person who experienced it to try

1:01:50 ↗ to Define it as bias and I think that I

1:01:54 ↗ don't know like if I experience bias or

1:01:56 ↗ what I think I don't actually know

1:01:57 ↗ what's going on and that person's head

1:01:58 ↗ to be able to say it's bias so

1:02:02 ↗ but I think it's important for us to

1:02:04 ↗ unpack if we want to become a welcoming

1:02:06 ↗ community

1:02:10 ↗ any any other comments from the room

1:02:14 ↗ I think that's it for the room oh Elisa

1:02:16 ↗ I think you and Ray were the only ones

1:02:18 ↗ who did not speak yet to reporting bias

1:02:20 ↗ being part of the top four

1:02:26 ↗ I'm fine with it being in the top floor

1:02:29 ↗ I'm fine with that as well I think that

1:02:32 ↗ might be where I had put it for myself

1:02:33 ↗ as well so

1:02:37 ↗ okay so board members it sounds like

1:02:41 ↗ we're having the top four now reporting

1:02:43 ↗ bias but we are taking off board

1:02:46 ↗ development from the top four correct

1:02:51 ↗ and so with that are you all comfortable

1:02:55 ↗ with the top four Alyssa please take it

1:02:58 ↗ from here

1:03:01 ↗ no that's the question

1:03:05 ↗ so this is our our new top four

1:03:17 ↗ where does it go

1:03:19 ↗ under difficult conversations

1:03:23 ↗ so we are just swapping board

1:03:25 ↗ development with reporting bias

1:03:29 ↗ okay

1:03:33 ↗ what are your thoughts board members

1:03:35 ↗ about these top four

1:03:37 ↗ I see Hands Up from Lorna in the room

1:03:40 ↗ and pretty so we have

1:03:44 ↗ why not

1:03:48 ↗ Kelly Ray lucrecia we have thumbs up

1:03:50 ↗ from everyone in the room oh okay thumbs

1:03:53 ↗ up I thought they were hands up okay I'm

1:03:56 ↗ sorry

1:03:57 ↗ right I think we made a decision

1:04:00 ↗ hey

1:04:02 ↗ here's our top four

1:04:05 ↗ okay

1:04:06 ↗ great and I want a second repeat this

1:04:09 ↗ side because that's part of what my

1:04:11 ↗ uncomfortableness was was it was about

1:04:13 ↗ bias in business is that we call it

1:04:16 ↗ something else that includes it brings

1:04:18 ↗ people to us and then we teach them how

1:04:21 ↗ we can be more inclusive together

1:04:24 ↗ and that's why and I'm a big fan of less

1:04:27 ↗ is more I would love to invite you next

1:04:29 ↗ to the next step if that's okay first

1:04:31 ↗ congratulations and thank you all of

1:04:33 ↗ these looking at them they could be like

1:04:35 ↗ even just taking one out and it could be

1:04:37 ↗ a whole one year big item right because

1:04:39 ↗ there's so much from looking at needs

1:04:42 ↗ conducting A needs assessment even

1:04:44 ↗ defining there's just so much training

1:04:47 ↗ opportunity education opportunity and

1:04:50 ↗ also just like a you know more Data

1:04:52 ↗ Tracking

1:04:54 ↗ um so I would love to see a small ad hoc

1:04:57 ↗ Committee of two three four board

1:04:59 ↗ members who have the time and capacity

1:05:01 ↗ and working with me between now and the

1:05:05 ↗ um maybe even the main in February

1:05:08 ↗ to really dive deeper in creating

1:05:10 ↗ scoping out exactly a plan for all of

1:05:14 ↗ these and perhaps even like

1:05:16 ↗ intersections or just creating a really

1:05:19 ↗ um specific timeline

1:05:21 ↗ um perhaps even meeting with some of our

1:05:24 ↗ Data Tracking and analysts at the city

1:05:26 ↗ uh to to look at what are we tracking at

1:05:29 ↗ the city what's available what's not

1:05:31 ↗ what's needed and all of that

1:05:35 ↗ and even just with that like renaming

1:05:37 ↗ and and coming back to the board at the

1:05:40 ↗ meeting in February with with a proposed

1:05:42 ↗ release

1:05:43 ↗ detail scope for

1:05:45 ↗ um for the year and at the same time

1:05:47 ↗ start working on it because it's gonna

1:05:49 ↗ be already February

1:05:52 ↗ I had a question Monica sorry I can't

1:05:56 ↗ raise apparently can't raise my hand

1:05:58 ↗ while I'm sharing

1:05:59 ↗ um

1:06:00 ↗ um would that be one one committee that

1:06:04 ↗ would look at all of the bias items to

1:06:07 ↗ start with

1:06:09 ↗ to begin with initially yes I would

1:06:15 ↗ love timelines for each of the items and

1:06:17 ↗ just reorganize them a little bit and

1:06:20 ↗ then once we have that then I think we

1:06:22 ↗ can create other committees for for

1:06:24 ↗ tackling each of the topics but I would

1:06:27 ↗ like to integrate this with the other

1:06:29 ↗ work plan items that come from other

1:06:30 ↗ departments and just just create a very

1:06:33 ↗ specific

1:06:35 ↗ um

1:06:36 ↗ basically projects

1:06:39 ↗ tracking

1:06:41 ↗ scope of work for the year

1:06:44 ↗ what do you think of that

1:06:51 ↗ okay

1:06:53 ↗ so with that you don't need to decide

1:06:54 ↗ tonight but if you know tonight that you

1:06:57 ↗ would like to volunteer

1:06:59 ↗ um please let me know if not

1:07:02 ↗ follow up via email the only thing is

1:07:04 ↗ that we cannot have more than four

1:07:06 ↗ maximum four people right

1:07:09 ↗ um that includes you correct oh no yes

1:07:15 ↗ we can have two we can't have three or

1:07:17 ↗ four but not more than that so we don't

1:07:18 ↗ have a quorum and we're just gonna come

1:07:20 ↗ back to report to the larger board can

1:07:22 ↗ we decide on January 4th who's gonna be

1:07:25 ↗ on there because I feel it's awkward

1:07:27 ↗ with four people absent

1:07:29 ↗ um we can certainly do that

1:07:32 ↗ um we would just need to work really

1:07:34 ↗ fast at that time but we can certainly

1:07:37 ↗ do that you're right we do have quite a

1:07:40 ↗ few members missing including the chair

1:07:42 ↗ approaches yeah I do feel like that

1:07:44 ↗ really puts a crunch in January yes

1:07:48 ↗ make decisions for February I mean could

1:07:51 ↗ that be part of the email communication

1:07:53 ↗ Monica for people to

1:07:55 ↗ volunteer who are interested

1:07:58 ↗ and secondly a follow-up from tonight

1:08:00 ↗ um and at least individually I would

1:08:02 ↗ still like to commit to doing some work

1:08:04 ↗ before the meeting in January because

1:08:05 ↗ it's the time time flies so much faster

1:08:08 ↗ than we think we say it's two months and

1:08:10 ↗ before you know it it's there but yes

1:08:12 ↗ that's a great idea board members so I

1:08:14 ↗ can follow up with an email to ask for

1:08:16 ↗ volunteers and then if I have more than

1:08:18 ↗ four volunteers and just like well we'll

1:08:20 ↗ figure that one peace out

1:08:23 ↗ um

1:08:25 ↗ that's peace

1:08:28 ↗ um

1:08:30 ↗ okay

1:08:33 ↗ I think that's it for tonight

1:08:35 ↗ congratulations well well done not easy

1:08:39 ↗ we're going to talk about Community

1:08:41 ↗ engagement

1:08:42 ↗ yeah so I think with community so for

1:08:45 ↗ Community engagement I think once we

1:08:47 ↗ have the final very clear

1:08:50 ↗ work plan I think that's when as a board

1:08:54 ↗ we can delegate to the community

1:08:57 ↗ engagement committee's specific tasks

1:08:59 ↗ for the year so if the community

1:09:00 ↗ engagement committee is still okay with

1:09:02 ↗ holding off until we identify really the

1:09:06 ↗ scope for each of these items

1:09:08 ↗ uh that probably might make it more

1:09:11 ↗ structured are you I'm looking at you

1:09:13 ↗ and Rey being part of the

1:09:16 ↗ committee

1:09:19 ↗ right is that does that yeah I I thought

1:09:22 ↗ there was going to be some philosophical

1:09:24 ↗ conversation around

1:09:26 ↗ you know the community engagement is a

1:09:28 ↗ lot of different things right and what

1:09:30 ↗ is it that we want I mean I I'm pretty

1:09:33 ↗ clear that we want to go out and talk to

1:09:35 ↗ people and get their impressions of

1:09:37 ↗ things and bring those Impressions back

1:09:39 ↗ so that I'm really clear on but what

1:09:41 ↗ happens with those Impressions on let's

1:09:43 ↗ put it on and

1:09:45 ↗ um

1:09:47 ↗ as Priestly pointed out and it's super

1:09:49 ↗ important who's building the

1:09:50 ↗ relationships

1:09:52 ↗ right and that question needs to really

1:09:54 ↗ you know because I'm an alternate yeah

1:09:58 ↗ so those are all great conversations and

1:10:01 ↗ that's why I think

1:10:03 ↗ my reasoning and and there's so many

1:10:05 ↗ ways to tackle everything right but my

1:10:07 ↗ reasoning let's wait to finalize the the

1:10:10 ↗ work plan because I think the board can

1:10:14 ↗ delegate specific

1:10:16 ↗ items to the committee based on the

1:10:19 ↗ board because ideally it would be good

1:10:21 ↗ for you as a committee engagement

1:10:23 ↗ committee not to go and just do

1:10:26 ↗ engagement just for the sake of

1:10:28 ↗ Engagement but doing it related to the

1:10:30 ↗ work plan right of course and then could

1:10:32 ↗ be part of the needs assessment that we

1:10:34 ↗ need to yeah

1:10:36 ↗ yeah too

1:10:39 ↗ but we can certainly start if you would

1:10:40 ↗ like to start conversation with the

1:10:42 ↗ board tonight we can certainly do that

1:10:44 ↗ we have time

1:10:47 ↗ I don't think I would eventually

1:10:49 ↗ prepared to run a conversation can I see

1:10:52 ↗ it right you have your hand up

1:10:54 ↗ yeah that all makes sense as far as the

1:10:56 ↗ community engagement

1:10:57 ↗ um because we're looking to this

1:10:59 ↗ analysis and then you just mentioned the

1:11:01 ↗ community needs assessment where where

1:11:03 ↗ is that on the radar um

1:11:05 ↗ is that still happening

1:11:07 ↗ so I think that's we well we share that

1:11:11 ↗ as a board we are interested in helping

1:11:14 ↗ and supporting that I'm not sure that

1:11:16 ↗ that's something that we can take on

1:11:18 ↗ alone as a board so I think as the city

1:11:21 ↗ and City departments uh continue to work

1:11:24 ↗ on it

1:11:25 ↗ um I was invited recently to a senior

1:11:28 ↗ leadership uh Retreat uh when the senior

1:11:31 ↗ leadership team is going to discuss this

1:11:34 ↗ and see how and what we can integrate it

1:11:37 ↗ in in within the city so at this point I

1:11:40 ↗ don't have more information on that but

1:11:43 ↗ as soon as I hear more I think honestly

1:11:45 ↗ board members I think for everyone is

1:11:47 ↗ Staff capacity and how do we and that's

1:11:52 ↗ I think as a board would be great to

1:11:53 ↗ have your input and goes back to what I

1:11:56 ↗ was saying earlier like how do we get

1:11:59 ↗ everyone at the city

1:12:02 ↗ to breathe and see and ink

1:12:07 ↗ incorporate equity in what they do and

1:12:09 ↗ it it doesn't feel like another work

1:12:13 ↗ item added to their extra load so I

1:12:17 ↗ think that's one of the challenges

1:12:19 ↗ um

1:12:20 ↗ always is

1:12:24 ↗ although isn't that work part of the

1:12:28 ↗ I forget what we called it um that

1:12:31 ↗ postcard tool yes so it should be

1:12:34 ↗ systematically built into their planning

1:12:37 ↗ yes as they make decisions on like where

1:12:40 ↗ to Resource things and you know whatever

1:12:44 ↗ yeah and I'm so glad you brought it up

1:12:46 ↗ right because that item still needs to

1:12:48 ↗ be implemented and operationalized and

1:12:50 ↗ so that's another item that we have an

1:12:53 ↗ opportunity to help inform and even

1:12:56 ↗ support the different departments it's

1:12:58 ↗ it's on on the other still part of our

1:13:01 ↗ work item right it's on

1:13:04 ↗ the equity framework right so we have it

1:13:06 ↗ on our work aisle to look at

1:13:09 ↗ um how do we support implementing it and

1:13:12 ↗ how do we evaluate that so

1:13:14 ↗ um in the third quarter of this year we

1:13:17 ↗ need to go back to city council or even

1:13:19 ↗ earlier I'm not sure we need to go back

1:13:21 ↗ to city council and say how is this

1:13:22 ↗ working and report on that but um we

1:13:26 ↗ have an opportunity to help

1:13:28 ↗ Implement that and you're right that

1:13:30 ↗ should be part of that we are just not

1:13:32 ↗ there yet right like and here I want to

1:13:35 ↗ I'm sorry if I'm talking too much I hope

1:13:37 ↗ it makes sense

1:13:39 ↗ um

1:13:40 ↗ so we start with an idea we make a

1:13:42 ↗ recommendation here at the board level

1:13:43 ↗ it eventually goes and it's created into

1:13:46 ↗ a policy which it happened with the

1:13:48 ↗ framework right so that was created at

1:13:51 ↗ the council level now the next step is

1:13:54 ↗ to operationalize it to the entire city

1:13:56 ↗ we have about 200 employees everybody

1:13:59 ↗ needs to be trained on how to use the

1:14:02 ↗ tool before being able to use the tool

1:14:04 ↗ then they need to use it for a while

1:14:06 ↗ before we see how it works so all of

1:14:09 ↗ that easier to say than done we are just

1:14:12 ↗ not there yet

1:14:16 ↗ is that what the Issaquah Equity the

1:14:18 ↗ city's Equity committee does

1:14:21 ↗ um yes and no

1:14:23 ↗ um yes I think in terms of their working

1:14:27 ↗ and they are working on a training tool

1:14:29 ↗ to train everyone on it that's where we

1:14:31 ↗ are

1:14:32 ↗ um

1:14:36 ↗ so I think it implied in that framework

1:14:39 ↗ well it's to understand which

1:14:41 ↗ communities are most impacted and so

1:14:44 ↗ that I so I think Community engagement

1:14:46 ↗ of some sort might be implied and if

1:14:48 ↗ it's not maybe we need to like also

1:14:51 ↗ reflect to see whether that needs to be

1:14:53 ↗ made more explicit yes and to that point

1:14:57 ↗ you're gonna see again on on your work

1:14:59 ↗ plan we have this is an overdue from

1:15:02 ↗ this year communication the

1:15:04 ↗ communications team has worked on their

1:15:06 ↗ own framework that includes a community

1:15:09 ↗ engagement toolkit so they are coming to

1:15:12 ↗ you I think the meeting in February with

1:15:15 ↗ that piece for input so it starts

1:15:18 ↗ trickling down I think the community the

1:15:21 ↗ communications team it's a little bit of

1:15:23 ↗ ahead because they started working on

1:15:25 ↗ the toolkit earlier but I think that's

1:15:27 ↗ going to be a first opportunity for us

1:15:29 ↗ to see how

1:15:30 ↗ did they include that in their toolkit

1:15:45 ↗ great conversation and not easy

1:15:47 ↗ I feel like the the deeper we died the

1:15:50 ↗ more challenging it gets

1:15:56 ↗ um but still very important

1:16:01 ↗ very very important

1:16:03 ↗ Elisa is also appreciating you tonight

1:16:05 ↗ for walking us through this exercise and

1:16:08 ↗ prioritizing thank you thank you so much

1:16:14 ↗ my pleasure glad we were able to

1:16:16 ↗ finalize the list

1:16:18 ↗ me too and I'm excited to see going

1:16:21 ↗ diving deeper for the next steps

1:16:25 ↗ so any any other

1:16:26 ↗ [Music]

1:16:28 ↗ any other comments for the good of the

1:16:31 ↗ order any other updates I think

1:16:34 ↗ um on my end as far as staff updates

1:16:37 ↗ um just wanted to report it I recently I

1:16:40 ↗ was fortunate to attend

1:16:42 ↗ um

1:16:43 ↗ um a training on institutional racism

1:16:46 ↗ redlining with Puget Sound Regional

1:16:49 ↗ Council

1:16:50 ↗ um I have the recording of that and I

1:16:53 ↗ would be happy to share it with you

1:16:55 ↗ um I found that very very helpful

1:16:57 ↗ especially as it was

1:16:58 ↗ um specific for our region that issaqua

1:17:01 ↗ in general but

1:17:03 ↗ um originally

1:17:05 ↗ um

1:17:06 ↗ so I found that very helpful

1:17:09 ↗ um as we are part of the human services

1:17:11 ↗ team if if you would like to hear a few

1:17:13 ↗ updates from the Human Services Division

1:17:18 ↗ um

1:17:18 ↗ recently we had an emergency

1:17:21 ↗ um weather situation where in human

1:17:25 ↗ services we try to respond and support

1:17:27 ↗ uh the most vulnerable community members

1:17:30 ↗ in particular those who are on house so

1:17:32 ↗ as last year we had uh dangerously low

1:17:35 ↗ temperatures

1:17:36 ↗ we worked with our partners at Motel 6

1:17:39 ↗ and we sheltered about 35 community

1:17:42 ↗ members for um several days that went

1:17:46 ↗ well it went smooth

1:17:48 ↗ um but there are many many complex

1:17:51 ↗ challenges for each person on a good

1:17:54 ↗ note though I'm very happy to report

1:17:56 ↗ that our team was able to work with

1:17:58 ↗ no

1:18:00 ↗ um other Regional partners and uh

1:18:03 ↗ to date for this year we were able to

1:18:06 ↗ place 27 community members in permanent

1:18:09 ↗ housing or on our unhoused in Issaquah

1:18:12 ↗ so are you saying that 27 people are

1:18:15 ↗ living in the what was formerly the

1:18:18 ↗ built-in

1:18:20 ↗ no okay now all of those oh each each of

1:18:25 ↗ the 27

1:18:26 ↗ um

1:18:27 ↗ community members who are on house and

1:18:29 ↗ now are permanently uh housed they live

1:18:31 ↗ in uh Apartments so they are permanent

1:18:35 ↗ Apartments most of those come from the

1:18:39 ↗ um housing vouchers that we are able to

1:18:41 ↗ to secure through the King County

1:18:43 ↗ Regional homelessness Authority in King

1:18:45 ↗ County Housing Authority uh but some

1:18:48 ↗ other came through other sources as well

1:18:50 ↗ and um yeah so those are just permanent

1:18:54 ↗ yeah people permanently transition into

1:18:56 ↗ housing

1:18:57 ↗ which is which is huge it's fantastic

1:19:00 ↗ yes

1:19:02 ↗ many more people yeah I didn't I don't

1:19:05 ↗ need interrupt but can I ask a question

1:19:07 ↗ I think I saw over email that there was

1:19:09 ↗ a vote on Transit oriented development

1:19:12 ↗ by the Issaquah Transit Center with

1:19:15 ↗ what's the status in that yes just this

1:19:18 ↗ past Monday night and that was a

1:19:19 ↗ training I missed that that meeting but

1:19:22 ↗ um yes the the city is moving in

1:19:25 ↗ partnership with King County Housing

1:19:26 ↗ Authority is going to take over that

1:19:28 ↗ project so

1:19:30 ↗ um here at the transit center there are

1:19:32 ↗ plans to create a

1:19:34 ↗ Housing Development we call it Tod

1:19:38 ↗ um

1:19:40 ↗ Transit oriented development that's

1:19:42 ↗ going to include affordable housing and

1:19:45 ↗ it's also going to include

1:19:46 ↗ service opportunities for for people

1:19:50 ↗ living in those housing so so we're

1:19:53 ↗ moving forward uh the transit center at

1:19:55 ↗ the ASAP transit center next to it

1:19:57 ↗ Tibbetts Valley Heritage Creek Park it

1:20:00 ↗ has a skate park yeah it's across the

1:20:04 ↗ street from us so does the

1:20:07 ↗ park and ride the transit center and the

1:20:09 ↗ skate park is on this side with the new

1:20:11 ↗ portway in between

1:20:12 ↗ it's on what direction is that it's it's

1:20:18 ↗ adjacent to the transit center right

1:20:20 ↗ next to it not on the skateboards so

1:20:23 ↗ those are vacant space there that

1:20:25 ↗ they'll develop and it's going to tear

1:20:27 ↗ down

1:20:28 ↗ it's not vacant it's purchased from

1:20:31 ↗ private

1:20:33 ↗ um yeah

1:20:34 ↗ yeah so that's going to be the big

1:20:35 ↗ property that they're gonna maybe put

1:20:38 ↗ things like the food bank and different

1:20:40 ↗ offices or is it just going to be for

1:20:42 ↗ living space so living spaces there will

1:20:45 ↗ be service spaces at this point the food

1:20:47 ↗ bank is not a plan to move the food bank

1:20:49 ↗ there but initially service spaces were

1:20:52 ↗ for medical

1:20:53 ↗ um and child care services and dental

1:20:56 ↗ services so that scoping

1:20:59 ↗ um still needs to be determined and

1:21:01 ↗ finalized but there is space shared for

1:21:05 ↗ um

1:21:07 ↗ for services

1:21:09 ↗ to my knowledge the food bank does not

1:21:11 ↗ plan to be the part of that

1:21:14 ↗ yeah

1:21:16 ↗ great questions Ray

1:21:20 ↗ oh okay I can't hear you

1:21:25 ↗ I'm fascinated by the strategy that the

1:21:27 ↗ city had to address the homelessness

1:21:28 ↗ with this weather that we had um I think

1:21:31 ↗ that's that would be a great topic for

1:21:33 ↗ us how exactly were they supported and

1:21:35 ↗ how would they

1:21:37 ↗ um help to find temporary or may you

1:21:40 ↗ even mentioned permanent I mean all of

1:21:42 ↗ us who regularly drive into Seattle I

1:21:44 ↗ think that's one of the things that we

1:21:46 ↗ see visibly and we don't want that

1:21:48 ↗ happening to our community so I know

1:21:50 ↗ that's a challenge there so if there's

1:21:52 ↗ some sort of um

1:21:54 ↗ long-term plan that was considered so we

1:21:57 ↗ continue to address an appropriately

1:21:58 ↗ like the city did with this situation in

1:22:00 ↗ this weather I I would love to be

1:22:02 ↗ educated on it um and learn how they did

1:22:05 ↗ how exactly they did that maybe we could

1:22:07 ↗ invite a speaker to come in for 15-20

1:22:09 ↗ minutes to go over the details

1:22:11 ↗ yes we would love to and thank you for

1:22:13 ↗ bringing that up actually

1:22:15 ↗ um one of the items here that um when I

1:22:19 ↗ drafted your work plan item for 2023

1:22:23 ↗ um was uh an update on the Human

1:22:25 ↗ Services strategic plan and what I

1:22:27 ↗ envisioned was a joint meeting with the

1:22:30 ↗ Human Services Commission because this

1:22:32 ↗ is what the Human Services Commission

1:22:34 ↗ does every time when we need uh they

1:22:37 ↗ they are uh really

1:22:40 ↗ um the to go commission to to address

1:22:42 ↗ Any Human Services related things so

1:22:45 ↗ right now I had a tentatively for

1:22:47 ↗ February as we are already getting busy

1:22:49 ↗ in January February we might postponent

1:22:51 ↗ for March or April but I do want to find

1:22:53 ↗ a meeting when I think if you are open

1:22:55 ↗ to that to have a joint meeting with the

1:22:57 ↗ healing Services Commission we can just

1:22:58 ↗ dedicate the entire meaning for updates

1:23:01 ↗ questions educating you all more on on

1:23:04 ↗ everything Human Services related what

1:23:07 ↗ do you all think of that

1:23:10 ↗ does that sound good sounds good yeah

1:23:14 ↗ because there's a lot of overlap and so

1:23:16 ↗ that would be appropriate yes

1:23:18 ↗ there's a lot of overlapping at some

1:23:20 ↗ point we even love to have you know

1:23:22 ↗ before we create an equity board there

1:23:24 ↗ were conversations and people proposed

1:23:25 ↗ can we just assigned to the Human

1:23:28 ↗ Services Commission and have it uh

1:23:30 ↗ equity and Human Services uh commission

1:23:33 ↗ and then at that point we decided for

1:23:35 ↗ now there are just way too many things

1:23:36 ↗ let's keep them separate but that is

1:23:38 ↗ something that at some point

1:23:40 ↗ um we may reconsider and see where's the

1:23:42 ↗ overlap and and what are the options but

1:23:45 ↗ I think it's way too early and we are

1:23:47 ↗ way too busy with everything else but

1:23:49 ↗ yeah

1:23:51 ↗ okay now create comments great input

1:23:54 ↗ thank you so much I think that's it for

1:23:56 ↗ updates from staff perspective and so

1:23:58 ↗ with that I think the the last agenda

1:24:01 ↗ item it's really other business other

1:24:03 ↗ announcements for any of you anything

1:24:05 ↗ else that you would like to comment on

1:24:08 ↗ before we adjourn

1:24:18 ↗ other announcements on your own Lucrezia

1:24:24 ↗ for helping us through this process it

1:24:28 ↗ was very painful it was because of all

1:24:30 ↗ preliminary work that went into

1:24:32 ↗ preparing the presentation so that it

1:24:34 ↗ was easy to understand follow and be

1:24:38 ↗ able to make decisions based on that

1:24:40 ↗ thank you

1:24:42 ↗ [Music]

1:24:47 ↗ thank you so much lucasia for saying

1:24:49 ↗ that and board members if I may just say

1:24:52 ↗ one more thing that's related to this

1:24:53 ↗ it's also appreciating Elisa and really

1:24:56 ↗ appreciating the initiative it just

1:24:59 ↗ means so much as as staff

1:25:02 ↗ um but you know if you remember and

1:25:05 ↗ Lucrezia you brought this up last year

1:25:07 ↗ you all wanted to look for alternative

1:25:09 ↗ ways and for opportunities for other

1:25:11 ↗ members to be involved I would love to

1:25:14 ↗ invite all of you please if you would

1:25:16 ↗ like to take an agenda item to uh or

1:25:18 ↗ even just to facilitate when we don't

1:25:20 ↗ have a chair and vice chair and other

1:25:22 ↗ ways like these are ways for us to Pilot

1:25:25 ↗ and try things out please please feel

1:25:28 ↗ free to say pay the meetings facilitate

1:25:30 ↗ topics and all of those things

1:25:33 ↗ just I have so much respect for all of

1:25:36 ↗ you and

1:25:38 ↗ why not

1:25:45 ↗ Elisa and then

1:25:48 ↗ all right I just wanted to say it was a

1:25:50 ↗ pleasure to help and to do to actually

1:25:52 ↗ do something besides just

1:25:55 ↗ um listening in in the meetings and I

1:25:58 ↗ would just encourage us I think the

1:26:00 ↗ things that we did that made this

1:26:02 ↗ process go a little faster like Lucrezia

1:26:05 ↗ alluded to the the pre-work the everyone

1:26:09 ↗ going in and putting their priorities in

1:26:13 ↗ on the items Monica for giving us some

1:26:16 ↗ definitions to work with while we were

1:26:19 ↗ doing that helped us to do some of the

1:26:22 ↗ you know what work outside of the

1:26:25 ↗ meeting and and it's so that we had a

1:26:28 ↗ really great and meaningful conversation

1:26:30 ↗ tonight because everyone was aware of

1:26:32 ↗ what it was we were talking about coming

1:26:35 ↗ into the meeting rather than seeing it

1:26:38 ↗ when we got here and so I would just

1:26:40 ↗ encourage us that if there are other

1:26:42 ↗ opportunities like that where some of

1:26:45 ↗ the groundwork and they start added

1:26:49 ↗ um

1:26:50 ↗ outside of the meeting and let's look

1:26:53 ↗ for those opportunities so that we can

1:26:55 ↗ be a little more efficient with our time

1:26:57 ↗ [Music]

1:27:01 ↗ absolutely

1:27:02 ↗ no great thank you

1:27:04 ↗ [Music]

1:27:07 ↗ Lucrezia I think you also had your hand

1:27:09 ↗ up earlier

1:27:11 ↗ yes just really quickly I know that

1:27:14 ↗ probably there isn't one person here who

1:27:16 ↗ would raise her hand and say that at

1:27:19 ↗ some point they would like to run for

1:27:20 ↗ office

1:27:21 ↗ but I feel that even if there isn't

1:27:25 ↗ anyone who would like to run for office

1:27:27 ↗ that it is important for us to model for

1:27:31 ↗ the the youth who participate and for

1:27:34 ↗ community members who

1:27:36 ↗ um join us virtually

1:27:39 ↗ um that we model the different people

1:27:41 ↗ who have these leadership roles and if

1:27:44 ↗ we do get enough gumption and enough

1:27:46 ↗ training through these um participatory

1:27:50 ↗ roles that maybe at some point we might

1:27:53 ↗ see at least one of us

1:27:54 ↗ rise in the ranks to you know take a

1:27:57 ↗ position whether it be with the council

1:27:59 ↗ or at the county level or whatever what

1:28:02 ↗ whatever level we feel is important that

1:28:04 ↗ is missing our voice I think that that's

1:28:06 ↗ why I have pushed as much as I have to

1:28:10 ↗ to question why we conduct the meetings

1:28:13 ↗ the way we do

1:28:14 ↗ um it's because I I do think that it

1:28:17 ↗ could produce some people for other

1:28:19 ↗ roles as well thank you

1:28:22 ↗ absolutely well said thank you

1:28:27 ↗ okay board members thank you thank you I

1:28:30 ↗ also appreciate each and every one of

1:28:32 ↗ you and I so appreciate you being

1:28:33 ↗ responsive and

1:28:35 ↗ um completing the pre-work and putting

1:28:39 ↗ up with all my emails and text messages

1:28:40 ↗ and calls when I bug you

1:28:45 ↗ well thank you so much hope you don't

1:28:46 ↗ feel like you're bugging us we

1:28:48 ↗ appreciate the reminders

1:28:53 ↗ no thank you lots of respect all of you

1:28:56 ↗ and foreign

1:29:04 ↗ thank you

1:29:07 ↗ okay more effort to be done

1:29:09 ↗ um for those of you who celebrate any

1:29:12 ↗ holidays at the end of the year happy

1:29:14 ↗ Holidays happy New Year we'll see you

1:29:17 ↗ bright and early at the beginning of the

1:29:18 ↗ year January 4th if you have any

1:29:22 ↗ conflicts please let me know in advance

1:29:23 ↗ so we can plan for Forum I I don't want

1:29:27 ↗ to bring uh some board members in person

1:29:29 ↗ and we don't have a quorum I don't want

1:29:31 ↗ to do that to any of you so please and I

1:29:33 ↗ appreciate your staying in touch and all

1:29:36 ↗ of you feel better

1:29:37 ↗ uh hopefully speedy recovery to all of

1:29:40 ↗ you so we adjourned the meeting at 7 38.

1:29:44 ↗ thank you

1:29:46 ↗ thank you good night everyone have a

1:29:49 ↗ good night

1:29:51 ↗ Monica if many people end up

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Council / Members (8)

Cristina Abonce (absent, excused)

Alisa Stewart

Lorna Gilmour

Hellen Kibenge (absent, excused)

Lucrecia Choto

Ray Manahan

Priti Mody-Pan

Kelly Munn

Staff (2)

Mary Lou Pauly, Mayor

Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager

Excused

Tony Curry

Shalanda Fleming

Guests (3)

Fara Mahanian, Bahá’ís of Issaquah

Saba Mahanian, Bahá’ís of Issaquah

Ted Lucas, Bahá’ís of Issaquah

Recommendations & actions (4)

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Board members agreed to have the staff liaison assist with facilitating the meeting.
Minutes were approved unanimously with the corrections recommended.
Staff recommended creating an ad hoc committee to work on planning the scope for each of the initiatives recommended.
OTHER BUSINESS / ANNOUNCEMENTS Board members in attendance asked staff to send an email to all board members asking to confirm attendance for the January 4th, 2023, meeting to ensure quorum as possible holiday travel…