Equity Board · Wednesday, December 6, 2023 · City Council Digest

3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of November 1, 2023 Meeting

packet pp.3–6

Open packet at p.3 ↗

Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 11-01-23 Equity Board Minutes Page [0000] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Equity Board 6:00 PM Steelhead Room, 235 1st Ave. November 1, 2023 MINUTES SE, Issaquah

4. AGENDA ITEMS

Issaquah Economic Development Action Plan (D) [45 mins.]

Jen Davis Hayes, Economic Development Manager · packet pp.7–29

Topics: Economic Development

Open packet at p.7 ↗

Staff report:

Equity Board Presentation, December 6, 2023 Jen Davis Hayes, Economic Development Manager

Cultural and Religious Calendar Review and Finalization (A) [45 mins.]

Dale Markey-Crimp, Assistant to the City Administrator · packet pp.31–101

Topics: Arts & Culture

Open packet at p.31 ↗

Staff report:

Calendar Development The City of Issaquah first developed this Religious and Cultural Calendar in 2022. The purpose of the calendar was two-fold: 1. To provide a diversity and inclusion tool for City staff by creating a list of important religious and cultural holidays that the City should take into consideration and make every effort to avoid scheduling public meetings on. 2. To formalize the City’s commitment to diversity and inclusion and help increase awareness of the religious and cultural diversity represented in Issaquah.

5. OTHER BUSINESS / ANNOUNCEMENTS

January Special Meeting Discussion - Determining Date/Location [10 mins.]

Dale Markey-Crimp, Assistant to the City Administrator

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0:02 ↗ recorded we are now recording okay

0:06 ↗ welcome I call the December meeting of

0:08 ↗ the equity board to order at

0:12 ↗ 601 due to the hybrid nature of today's

0:14 ↗ meeting I'd like to start by providing

0:16 ↗ some guidelines this is a reminder that

0:19 ↗ the meeting is being recorded and that

0:21 ↗ we have live Spanish interpretation

0:24 ↗ happening in the background we have

0:26 ↗ participants attending in person and

0:29 ↗ others who may be attending by computer

0:31 ↗ or by phone for all meeting attendees

0:34 ↗ please speak clearly and pause

0:36 ↗ frequently state your name each time

0:39 ↗ before speaking if applicable mute your

0:42 ↗ microphone when not speaking if having

0:45 ↗ technical issues try joining the meeting

0:48 ↗ using a different device such as a

0:50 ↗ smartphone or tablet or use the call-in

0:52 ↗ information in the meeting invite to

0:54 ↗ call into the meeting so now we'll Begin

0:58 ↗ by taking a roll call vote of uh board

1:01 ↗ members in

1:03 ↗ attendance um

1:05 ↗ should I think I have the list here got

1:08 ↗ theist right in front to do okay D

1:12 ↗ please um Christina

1:18 ↗ Aon present hi

1:22 ↗ everyone

1:24 ↗ chto I'm

1:25 ↗ here Tony

1:28 ↗ Curry Lura Gilmore here caric Kino I'm

1:35 ↗ here uh Ray manahan here Kelly man herey

1:41 ↗ M Pam here vernica DOA here and then

1:45 ↗ absent tonight Shay Fleming um excuse

1:48 ↗ absence Nema Kali absent and Helen kipen

1:53 ↗ G

1:56 ↗ absent okay I guess um how do we want to

2:01 ↗ take a moment to introduce ourselves I

2:04 ↗ guess um do you would you like to go

2:07 ↗ first or would you like to go

2:09 ↗ last I can go first

2:12 ↗ okay oh name and a little bit about

2:14 ↗ yourself uh my name is Rena DOA um I'm

2:18 ↗ currently a sophomore at Skyline High

2:21 ↗ School and I like I have a lot of

2:24 ↗ hobbies like singing and dancing and one

2:26 ↗ of them is also debating so I was really

2:28 ↗ interested to join the equity board as

2:30 ↗ well cuz I'm interested in equity around

2:32 ↗ the community and diversity and

2:34 ↗ promoting all like rights for everyone

2:37 ↗ so we're really to have

2:41 ↗ you all right uh caric would you like to

2:44 ↗ go sure yeah I'm carthic hash um been at

2:48 ↗ the board for about six months now a

2:50 ↗ fairly new resident of isqua BU year a

2:54 ↗ half work as a climate scientist and

2:56 ↗ glad to be part of the

2:58 ↗ board Tony I'm Tony Curry um I've been

3:02 ↗ living here in isqua since 2015 uh I'm a

3:05 ↗ program manager at Microsoft I very much

3:08 ↗ enjoy the equity board and trying to

3:10 ↗ make our society hopefully a more

3:12 ↗ Equitable one for all and it's so

3:14 ↗ fantastic to see the youth involved in

3:16 ↗ that what I love about the youth today I

3:19 ↗ remember when I was a kid the last thing

3:22 ↗ I was thinking about society and stuff

3:25 ↗ like that your generation is so

3:27 ↗ fantastic I have three daughters who are

3:30 ↗ now adults and just to see them and just

3:33 ↗ their passion for the world and how it

3:36 ↗ should be much pressure to your

3:38 ↗ generation but I think the world will

3:41 ↗ become a much better place because you

3:42 ↗ guys are involved now when you're young

3:44 ↗ so it's fantastic welcome to the

3:47 ↗ board I think we'll continue on the

3:49 ↗ table before we go on the screen yeah um

3:51 ↗ Kelly M we met I'll give you a little

3:53 ↗ bit more background I have three kids um

3:55 ↗ who are grown now went through the

3:57 ↗ school system here I've lived in the

3:59 ↗ area since ' 89 but I lived in samamish

4:01 ↗ then moved down here about four years

4:03 ↗ ago five years ago um I have a passion

4:05 ↗ for Equity it was actually my job in you

4:08 ↗ know worked for an education advocacy

4:10 ↗ organization where we were trying to get

4:12 ↗ more equable educations still a lot of

4:15 ↗ be lot to be done at least we're talking

4:16 ↗ about it now that's that's a good news

4:19 ↗ um and I is a passion for me in my life

4:22 ↗ so I was at a senior center event this

4:24 ↗ week and we talked about race it was

4:28 ↗ quite good it really fun to be act you

4:31 ↗ know people were one 82 year old said to

4:34 ↗ me you know I don't know anything this

4:35 ↗ is really interesting that's never to

4:39 ↗ you never to no and that was my takeaway

4:42 ↗ from it just came up because of

4:44 ↗ something that was

4:45 ↗ said and so anyway it was

4:49 ↗ awesome well um I'm pepy mod K and um

4:53 ↗ let's see in my day job I do like

4:55 ↗ operations management and I've been

4:58 ↗ working in equity related work in higher

5:01 ↗ education and then Early Education

5:04 ↗ before that so I've been kind of

5:06 ↗ adjacent to equity for about 20 years

5:09 ↗ and I have two kids a sophomore and a

5:11 ↗ senior at isqua High um and so

5:16 ↗ welcome arica welcome I just I'm sure I

5:19 ↗ speak for Kelly when I say it was a

5:20 ↗ pleasure to interview you and get to

5:23 ↗ know you better and Dale all so um

5:26 ↗ really excited to have youth present at

5:29 ↗ these meeting and we look forward to

5:31 ↗ really really getting feedback from you

5:32 ↗ and let's let's make sure we pause and

5:35 ↗ always get her feedback on things I

5:36 ↗ think that's really important with our

5:37 ↗ strategy moving forward um I've been on

5:40 ↗ the equity board since its onset I have

5:42 ↗ one daughter she's a junior at um ISO

5:45 ↗ high school and is's very excited

5:46 ↗ because she made the varsity basketball

5:49 ↗ team she has a game tonight actually

5:52 ↗ against against uh gosh is she playing

5:55 ↗ tonight did I say Ted um anyway

5:57 ↗ tomorrow's Skyline that's what I'm going

5:59 ↗ to see

6:00 ↗ um what's this North Ben she's

6:03 ↗ playing thank you completely my m so um

6:07 ↗ we're really I'm really excited to be

6:08 ↗ here and I'm looking forward to the work

6:10 ↗ this team's going to do in

6:12 ↗ 2024 welcome you hi I'm a guest here

6:17 ↗ today my name is Jen Davis Hayes I'm the

6:19 ↗ economic manager economic development

6:21 ↗ manager Economic Development housing

6:23 ↗ manager soon to be get longer all the

6:25 ↗ time um for the city um and I'm G to be

6:28 ↗ talking about the uh Economic

6:30 ↗ Development action plan tonight but I am

6:32 ↗ also part of the founding member of the

6:34 ↗ internal Equity committee at the city um

6:38 ↗ and I've worked there for about 10 years

6:40 ↗ so and I have two kids as well but one

6:43 ↗ is out of high school but they go to

6:45 ↗ Liberty High

6:49 ↗ School oh

6:52 ↗ yeah much time her that I just like we

6:55 ↗ know each other we spent a whole

6:58 ↗ afternoon together a couple weeks ago D

7:00 ↗ Mary crimp I'm the assistant of the city

7:01 ↗ administrator here for the city um so I

7:03 ↗ work at our executive office and I am as

7:06 ↗ of a handful of months ago the new um Le

7:09 ↗ staff Le is on to this board

7:13 ↗ yeah and

7:28 ↗ Christina

7:37 ↗ my name is

7:39 ↗ Christina my name is my name is

7:41 ↗ Christina Von um I think I feel like I'm

7:44 ↗ representing the mothers here in the

7:46 ↗ city of isqua due to the fact that my

7:48 ↗ daughters kind of made me made me go

7:51 ↗ into this and I'm very glad to be able

7:54 ↗ to uh join this uh meeting thank

7:58 ↗ you

8:04 ↗ hi everyone um

8:07 ↗ hello so I am Laura Gilmore I work um

8:11 ↗ I've been a teacher for the past 23

8:13 ↗ years in the es School District my first

8:17 ↗ 15 years was as a high school teacher in

8:19 ↗ ISO middle then in Dean and now I work

8:22 ↗ in the district as a family partnership

8:25 ↗ uh specialist which is a teacher on

8:27 ↗ special assignment and I do a lot of

8:29 ↗ work with our families and community

8:31 ↗ members in the district helping them

8:34 ↗ better understand and navigate school

8:36 ↗ systems and my department is part of the

8:39 ↗ equity Department in the district I have

8:42 ↗ also lived in the city of isqua since

8:45 ↗ 2011 and I have two children in the

8:48 ↗ school district so welcome award to this

8:53 ↗ team and last but not least

8:58 ↗ lucrecia

9:00 ↗ thank you um yes hello my name is

9:02 ↗ lucaria chotto and I moved to isqua in

9:06 ↗ 2019 I then joined the um as a

9:11 ↗ commissioner with human services and

9:15 ↗ then I joined the committee that helped

9:17 ↗ establish the equity board and then I

9:20 ↗ came on board um along with everyone

9:23 ↗ else who's

9:25 ↗ here um my background in equity is just

9:30 ↗ that I believe that everything can be

9:32 ↗ seen through the lens of equity and so

9:34 ↗ the struggle that I've been involved in

9:37 ↗ um probably initiated when I was in high

9:40 ↗ school and like you um I started pretty

9:44 ↗ early on um volunteering with my my then

9:49 ↗ City and throughout any any City that I

9:52 ↗ have lived in I have volunteered in some

9:54 ↗ capacity with the purpose of ensuring

9:57 ↗ that voices that are are not at the

9:59 ↗ table are considered and that we think

10:02 ↗ outside of what keeps us

10:05 ↗ comfortable and um yeah that's basically

10:08 ↗ who I am I also you know contribute in

10:12 ↗ other ways to the community I volunteer

10:15 ↗ with the food bank and with Habitat for

10:18 ↗ Humanity and more recently I've taken on

10:21 ↗ becoming a narrator with the talking

10:24 ↗ books and brao library in Seattle and I

10:27 ↗ apologize for not being there in purpose

10:29 ↗ uh in person but I have a cold that I've

10:32 ↗ been fighting and I don't think any of

10:34 ↗ you would want me there to infect you so

10:38 ↗ thank

10:40 ↗ you great okay well thank you all for

10:43 ↗ those quick introductions and uh now

10:45 ↗ we'll move into public comments and just

10:48 ↗ really quickly the guidelines around

10:50 ↗ public comments uh they are an important

10:53 ↗ part of the public process we take them

10:55 ↗ seriously and Factor them into the

10:57 ↗ decisions we make and and Dale I'm sing

11:01 ↗ with Ted here we have a public

11:04 ↗ comment okay and is there anyone else

11:07 ↗ who had public comments no one else

11:09 ↗ reached out to express public the need

11:12 ↗ for public comment we received no emails

11:14 ↗ ahead of this meeting um I'm sorry

11:17 ↗ there's an event that you guys are

11:18 ↗ having that I think is oh you're passing

11:20 ↗ out the

11:21 ↗ flyer okay I want to make sure there was

11:23 ↗ nobody else before we got it yeah okay

11:27 ↗ well invite you to come I'm K live on

11:31 ↗ I've been here since 2013 and I have a

11:33 ↗ stud in high school so all parents

11:35 ↗ grandparents and whatever and as you

11:38 ↗ know um just wanted to share that the

11:40 ↗ next Community Building social that some

11:42 ↗ of you have been able to attend it's

11:43 ↗ really open for everybody and is a qua

11:45 ↗ but it's especially a great place to

11:47 ↗ just meet people and and talk about

11:50 ↗ Community Building conversations and

11:52 ↗ that's what the the socials are as you

11:54 ↗ know about so we have the next one will

11:56 ↗ be the first Saturday of February okay

11:59 ↗ sounds like a long way away but not

12:00 ↗ really Saturday February 3rd and at the

12:01 ↗ next um Equity board meeting in January

12:04 ↗ we'll give you the the final on it and

12:07 ↗ it will be uh conversation topic

12:10 ↗ supporting Community build and social

12:11 ↗ we're thinking of realizing the equality

12:13 ↗ of men and women or human rights and the

12:17 ↗ well-being of humankind kind of it's

12:20 ↗ kind of interesting topics I'm pretty

12:22 ↗ heavy but they kind of kind of roll out

12:25 ↗ in uh in good conversational sharing

12:28 ↗ ways usually 30 45 minutes people are

12:32 ↗ sharing and then we have to dinner and

12:34 ↗ stuff like that a good social time last

12:36 ↗ time the subject was community service

12:39 ↗ and we had uh one of the women who works

12:41 ↗ on that here in the community as the

12:43 ↗ facilitator of that conversation so

12:45 ↗ we'll get back to you uh next month with

12:48 ↗ the details but Mar calendar February 3D

12:52 ↗ I'm sorry February Saturday February 3rd

12:54 ↗ yeah on

12:55 ↗ Saturday uh usually from like 5: to 7:30

12:58 ↗ something like that don't have to be

13:00 ↗ there the whole time but it's really

13:01 ↗ really open for everybody and people

13:02 ↗ really enjoy it yes thank you awesome

13:08 ↗ thanks okay and now for the approval of

13:10 ↗ minutes um so I'll refer everyone to

13:13 ↗ their board packets and we have minutes

13:15 ↗ from November one our last meeting um

13:19 ↗ I'll let folks take maybe a minute to

13:22 ↗ span them to see if uh we have someone

13:26 ↗ who will be ready to make a motion to

13:28 ↗ approve

13:57 ↗ look okay I'd like to see if we have a

14:00 ↗ board member who can make a motion to

14:03 ↗ approve the

14:07 ↗ minutes sure I can make a motion to the

14:10 ↗ minutes perfect and does anyone have any

14:15 ↗ edits to

14:23 ↗ propose all right well I'm not hearing

14:26 ↗ any edits so I think we can approve them

14:31 ↗ unanimously all

14:34 ↗ righty

14:35 ↗ okay now as we get into the her of our

14:39 ↗ agenda today we have Jen Davis Hayes

14:41 ↗ from um well Economic Development and

14:45 ↗ how soon to be soon to be okay unless

14:49 ↗ you have a better name for

14:50 ↗ it there's a lot there but welcome and

14:54 ↗ um I think this is a a continuation of

14:57 ↗ the conversation or yeah or is it last

15:01 ↗ summer yeah so we were here we had a

15:03 ↗ joint uh commission meeting with the

15:05 ↗ economic diality Commission in July at

15:07 ↗ the very beginning of our process for

15:09 ↗ economic development action plan and so

15:11 ↗ we wanted to come back tonight um we uh

15:15 ↗ just to give you an overview of kind of

15:17 ↗ where we're at and uh get your input on

15:20 ↗ some things and talk about our next

15:22 ↗ steps for our action plan I know that

15:24 ↗ planning is no fun but uh we've been

15:26 ↗ doing a lot of Outreach um

15:29 ↗ and uh we're excited to start getting

15:31 ↗ moving on in 2024 but so we're going to

15:34 ↗ be asking tonight just to kind of look

15:35 ↗ at the vision and mission statements the

15:38 ↗ theme and the goals and strategy to see

15:39 ↗ if there's anything that kind of you

15:41 ↗ have questions uh about and then um

15:45 ↗ really what's I think really important

15:47 ↗ as we do this Outreach to folks is to if

15:50 ↗ there are businesses organizations or

15:51 ↗ other folks that we should be talking to

15:54 ↗ um really letting us know that because

15:57 ↗ um we're a team so there's three people

15:59 ↗ on our team uh myself and then two

16:02 ↗ coordinator positions and earlier this

16:04 ↗ year my position shifted a bit to

16:06 ↗ include Redevelopment in centralis Squat

16:08 ↗ and affordable housing so that's why the

16:10 ↗ housing thing was added in there so

16:12 ↗ really most of this work will be done by

16:14 ↗ the two coordinator positions um so

16:17 ↗ there's a lot and but but we know that

16:20 ↗ we can really you know do more with our

16:22 ↗ Community Partners and so we do have

16:24 ↗ some um organizations like the chamber

16:27 ↗ in downtown is called and visitor Squad

16:29 ↗ that we work with but we need to get to

16:32 ↗ that next level and and and of the Rings

16:35 ↗ of community groups that I think would

16:37 ↗ be helpful for this so I'm going to dive

16:40 ↗ in um so we created a vision and mission

16:43 ↗ statement um if anybody has ever been

16:45 ↗ involved in vision and mission statement

16:47 ↗ you know how you can argue about the

16:49 ↗ versus

16:50 ↗ a um and so the vision statement that we

16:53 ↗ created is more for the longer term um

16:56 ↗ so it was really important to talk about

16:58 ↗ um the historic charm but also the

17:01 ↗ changes in the modern amenities that we

17:03 ↗ have um and the inclusiveness of our

17:06 ↗ community so pretty basic vision

17:09 ↗ statement um again yeah there were many

17:12 ↗ many edits to get here um and then our

17:15 ↗ mission statement we are looking at

17:18 ↗ really focusing what we're doing in the

17:19 ↗ next three years so um as with any plan

17:23 ↗ and work plan that you have uh we will

17:26 ↗ continue to do anything and everything

17:28 ↗ that comes our way but if we don't

17:31 ↗ prioritize and focus some of our effort

17:33 ↗ um we're not going to move some things

17:35 ↗ forward so we will continue to support

17:38 ↗ any business or respond to any concern

17:41 ↗ that comes up in the business Community

17:43 ↗ throughout you know the next three years

17:45 ↗ but really deliberately focusing on

17:47 ↗ trying to build up our outdoor wreck

17:49 ↗ Arts and Cultural businesses as well as

17:52 ↗ a home base um we feel we have a

17:54 ↗ strength in there around the outdoor

17:56 ↗ wreck and arts and culture creative

17:58 ↗ Industries and we you know we're known

18:01 ↗ for that I talked fast sorry my East

18:04 ↗ Coast it's my East Coast um and so we uh

18:09 ↗ want to do some intentional work on this

18:12 ↗ in the next several years and I

18:15 ↗ apologize for talking us I little

18:19 ↗ see um and then um so we came up after

18:26 ↗ uh and I thought I had to slide here

18:28 ↗ about the uh out Outreach we've had

18:31 ↗ since July we have uh did surveys to

18:35 ↗ businesses and to Residents we did uh

18:40 ↗ what are we called office hours where we

18:42 ↗ s sat in coffee shops and said hey we're

18:44 ↗ here to talk to you um we did uh door

18:49 ↗ knocking we did uh work within um our

18:54 ↗ vision partners going to their

18:56 ↗ boards um and and yeah we there was a

18:59 ↗ couple other things so uh what we heard

19:02 ↗ a lot with these three themes about what

19:04 ↗ we could um really be really where our

19:08 ↗ work should continue to focus and uh

19:11 ↗ continue to be uh uh continue to or to

19:15 ↗ refocus

19:19 ↗ on um there's a lot of words on this I'm

19:22 ↗ not going to read the themes but

19:24 ↗ basically theme one I call our me me and

19:26 ↗ potatoes of our economic vment work it's

19:29 ↗ really about providing assistance

19:31 ↗ referral to resources serving as that

19:33 ↗ leaz onto the city and being the

19:35 ↗ internal business voice um intentionally

19:38 ↗ we talk about the you know reverse

19:40 ↗ historic systematic po patterns of

19:42 ↗ inequitable access Tech opportunity so

19:46 ↗ um really thought it was important to

19:47 ↗ talk about access to opportunity as its

19:52 ↗ theme theme two is how um this is the

19:56 ↗ area where we can really utilize our

19:57 ↗ connection to bring businesses together

20:00 ↗ and organizations to lever leverage

20:02 ↗ efforts so it may not be things that

20:03 ↗ we're all we the city are always doing

20:07 ↗ but um hopefully uh helping others

20:10 ↗ supporting others and or bringing

20:12 ↗ businesses and um interested parties

20:14 ↗ together to to make those connections

20:17 ↗ and networking so the businesses to

20:19 ↗ business

20:22 ↗ opportunities and then the third theme

20:24 ↗ again I mentioned before about

20:25 ↗ leveraging the assets we have so how

20:28 ↗ people know about our amazing creative

20:30 ↗ district and Village Theater and of

20:33 ↗ course outdoor W you look around and so

20:35 ↗ how can we really um and we saw an

20:39 ↗ uptick on in homebased businesses as

20:41 ↗ well so how can we provide the support

20:43 ↗ for that to build that Synergy that uh

20:46 ↗ grows our

20:51 ↗ economy so uh in general this gives a

20:54 ↗ little bit more because what does that

20:55 ↗ all mean what do you do dayto day then

20:57 ↗ right and and so really uh under access

21:01 ↗ to opportunity there's three main areas

21:04 ↗ here and um again giving you some more

21:07 ↗ detail I won't read through all these

21:08 ↗ but giving you some details of what you

21:10 ↗ can what we will be doing we have

21:12 ↗ probably 41 Action steps under this

21:15 ↗ whole plan um but basically making sure

21:19 ↗ again that we the technical system of

21:21 ↗ whatever that may be is available and

21:23 ↗ we're one number of things that we talk

21:26 ↗ about here is to build relationships to

21:28 ↗ reach underserved businesses so we have

21:31 ↗ some Community Based organizations that

21:33 ↗ will continue to work with and grow

21:35 ↗ those relationships there's a program

21:37 ↗ called the community business connector

21:40 ↗ that we work with our King County

21:42 ↗ organization that um

21:45 ↗ intentionally uh is meant to help

21:47 ↗ connect those that are that are not in

21:49 ↗ the system now so whether that's um

21:52 ↗ language cultural or other barriers um

21:55 ↗ connecting with Community Based

21:57 ↗ organizations to serve as Le Lon so they

21:59 ↗ may actually be with that business owner

22:02 ↗ or entrepreneur with the Business

22:04 ↗ technical assistance to help um

22:06 ↗ translate slash um Advocate explain um

22:11 ↗ if it gets you know confusing

22:14 ↗ so um again theme two really thinking

22:17 ↗ about how do we engage those within our

22:21 ↗ community and the peer-to-peer support

22:24 ↗ if there's interest in a lot a lot of

22:26 ↗ these things are if there's interest we

22:28 ↗ will support we may provide some funding

22:31 ↗ to uh the chamber to do um again

22:35 ↗ leveraging those things and the amplify

22:37 ↗ piece is really something that we've

22:40 ↗ seen a lot of um uh effort around

22:45 ↗ recently around tourism that we've

22:46 ↗ support the our tourism organization

22:48 ↗ really has benefited from and so um how

22:51 ↗ can we continue to to grow that piece

22:54 ↗ because that's how people hearing it

22:56 ↗ multiple different places comes back to

22:59 ↗ wanting to be

23:00 ↗ here and then again mentioned this so we

23:03 ↗ you know we really even though we know

23:06 ↗ outdoor wreck creative Industries

23:08 ↗ homebased businesses are are a thing

23:10 ↗ here um we really need to dive in a

23:12 ↗ little bit some focus groups um and

23:15 ↗ these three are the categories there

23:18 ↗ very diverse businesses within there so

23:19 ↗ it was a very clear like boom this is

23:21 ↗ the one thing so but although I will say

23:24 ↗ the one thing that people do want is um

23:27 ↗ connectivity that networking opportunity

23:29 ↗ and so actually um one of the things

23:32 ↗ I'll mention is that the isol Arts

23:34 ↗ Network just was created it's a new

23:36 ↗ nonprofit that was created out of the

23:38 ↗ out the Outreach that they've done the

23:41 ↗ Arts commission and the creative

23:42 ↗ districts have done and heard and um we

23:45 ↗ heard over and over again during our

23:46 ↗ Outreach and so it's a brand new thing

23:48 ↗ on LinkedIn we you know check it out um

23:51 ↗ and so they want you know artist and art

23:54 ↗ enthusiasts so you don't have to be an

23:55 ↗ artist um to be connected to try to grow

23:58 ↗ that opportunity so um so those type of

24:00 ↗ things we will continue to explore in

24:03 ↗ for then that situation when I said I

24:05 ↗ asked uh because they just they just

24:07 ↗ launched it and I said so do you need uh

24:10 ↗ LinkedIn training for artists who don't

24:12 ↗ have LinkedIn pages right you know and

24:14 ↗ so those small little things I probably

24:16 ↗ I gotta use LinkedIn training too but

24:19 ↗ small things that we could help to

24:21 ↗ leverage um them to be able to access so

24:25 ↗ again we're incorporating feedback right

24:26 ↗ now into the action plan

24:28 ↗ uh we plan to finalize it this month and

24:31 ↗ next and go to city council Committee in

24:34 ↗ January for uh final

24:38 ↗ adoption and then we get to do the fund

24:40 ↗ work in 2024 go out and start uh

24:43 ↗ focusing on U building new new

24:45 ↗ relationships and building uh upon the

24:47 ↗ ones that we already currently

24:51 ↗ have that's it yes so I can pull up any

24:55 ↗ of the slides if you wna go back and

24:58 ↗ specifically ask a question or talk more

25:01 ↗ generally about the

25:04 ↗ plan any questions or

25:07 ↗ comments go ahead Ray if you want you go

25:09 ↗ first sure

25:10 ↗ um this is a lot of work

25:13 ↗ obviously to build all these things that

25:16 ↗ you pull but two questions came into

25:19 ↗ mind one was how how has Vitality

25:23 ↗ changed from

25:24 ↗ 2022 going into 2023 did businesses

25:28 ↗ leave did they come are we losing them

25:31 ↗ um was it an uptick or a down tick um

25:34 ↗ that's that's the um initial question

25:37 ↗ and I guess the second question was

25:39 ↗ around Equity um as we as we as you try

25:42 ↗ to build your strategy I'm interested in

25:44 ↗ what what from an equity lens are you

25:46 ↗ looking at are you looking at to get

25:48 ↗ more

25:50 ↗ um specific ethnic groups and I can be

25:53 ↗ very precise about that like on on

25:54 ↗ Gilman Road here but there's a wonderful

25:57 ↗ Southeast Asian grocery store that is

25:59 ↗ fantastic I don't know if you ever been

26:01 ↗ there but what what lacks is Southeast

26:03 ↗ Asian businesses like I have to go to

26:06 ↗ South Center or over in Belleview to go

26:08 ↗ to to a Chinese grocery store so it's

26:11 ↗ specific things like that that I'm

26:12 ↗ curious about but I guess it's also

26:15 ↗ based on demographics too how many of

26:18 ↗ actually reside here so of course that's

26:20 ↗ some businesses that are going to pop up

26:22 ↗ so those are the two things the numbers

26:24 ↗ and a Target on specific ethnicities

26:26 ↗ yeah so you you might you mean just you

26:29 ↗ going around May notice that some

26:31 ↗ businesses have changed since 2020 our

26:33 ↗ um job numbers decreased but they are

26:36 ↗ back up to pre 2020 so for instance when

26:40 ↗ Corner Bakery closed Tipsy Cow came in

26:43 ↗ you know so there's been some of that

26:45 ↗ change um so job job numbers were back

26:49 ↗ to pre-2020 and I think one of the

26:52 ↗ challenges so like yeah recruiting

26:54 ↗ recruit wanting to recruit a Chinese uh

26:56 ↗ grocery store or whatever

26:58 ↗ vacancy rate is really low for retail so

27:02 ↗ it's about two or 3% right now um and so

27:05 ↗ if you have a space that you know of

27:07 ↗ that I don't know of I mean there are

27:09 ↗ some spaces right but um uh so so um we

27:14 ↗ we continue to uh talk to property

27:17 ↗ owners and uh making sure that we're

27:19 ↗ aware and informing them of what

27:21 ↗ interests there are but if there are

27:23 ↗ businesses that or specific needs that

27:26 ↗ for the different communities that would

27:28 ↗ be great to know um we haven't gone out

27:30 ↗ for an equity lens so we used I should

27:32 ↗ have mentioned this we used the the

27:35 ↗ equity framework internally to do our

27:37 ↗ RFP and our um our um consultant also

27:44 ↗ kind you know we talked about uh Equity

27:45 ↗ all throughout the process but what we

27:47 ↗ haven't done is to say okay the looking

27:50 ↗ at our demographics and saying okay so

27:52 ↗ we have a high Southeast Asian we have a

27:54 ↗ high this we you know um are the the

27:58 ↗ they're talking to that community and

28:00 ↗ saying are there Services you need or

28:02 ↗ not but that could be a next kind of

28:03 ↗ thing we haven't we didn't really focus

28:05 ↗ a lot on recruitment businesses you know

28:07 ↗ we're talking about kind of supporting

28:09 ↗ businesses but there the recruitment

28:10 ↗ side is there as well um so so that is

28:13 ↗ definitely something we can do um hard

28:15 ↗ part is tell us tell us who to partner

28:17 ↗ with so this is that part like are there

28:19 ↗ are there groups of people that we

28:21 ↗ should and when I say groups meaning you

28:23 ↗ know is there a the highlands I know has

28:25 ↗ a lot of uh uh Community groups um are

28:29 ↗ there other groups like that that we

28:31 ↗ should be reaching out to or or you know

28:34 ↗ um uh religious organizations or you

28:37 ↗ know Community groups that may not just

28:38 ↗ be a squa but cover the side um and I

28:42 ↗ think that's again that's where we do

28:43 ↗ want to start uh we have a long list of

28:46 ↗ people that are involved in the um

28:49 ↗ community business connectors that we

28:51 ↗ want to connect and um engage in more

28:54 ↗ and that part of the question is yeah

28:56 ↗ know what do you what businesses do you

28:58 ↗ know or work with in isqua what things

28:59 ↗ are people in isqua that you're aware of

29:02 ↗ from your other side of the house not

29:03 ↗ working with businesses but with the

29:05 ↗ community need so yeah but yeah there's

29:08 ↗ some places you know that could fit a

29:10 ↗ grocery store we could start going and

29:12 ↗ talk to people they're gonna ask about

29:13 ↗ demographics like what would make us

29:14 ↗ want to move out here I need to see your

29:16 ↗ numbers this squa how many we can show

29:18 ↗ you we can show you amazing demographics

29:20 ↗ up higher than okay higher than higher

29:23 ↗ than um an average uh income and

29:28 ↗ education and yeah yeah I kind of thing

29:30 ↗ I yeah okay so the data person here okay

29:34 ↗ so that you know the hard part is we

29:36 ↗ don't know you know getting down you

29:39 ↗ know you say in Southeast Asian right

29:41 ↗ but it's like or Asian and it's like

29:43 ↗ what's all the breakdown within that so

29:45 ↗ we can kind of get through those some of

29:47 ↗ those numbers and the hard part is we

29:50 ↗ also don't know for our business owners

29:52 ↗ their demographics as well so that's one

29:54 ↗ of the things're we're starting to

29:56 ↗ optionally ask we ask that in our every

29:58 ↗ four year are you uh minority owned

30:02 ↗ women owned uh veteran owned um and then

30:05 ↗ we are just starting talking about

30:07 ↗ having a follow-up survey and that's one

30:09 ↗ of the questions um that Dale and I were

30:11 ↗ talking about today is having an

30:13 ↗ optional question right because we we

30:15 ↗ cannot ask that on our business license

30:18 ↗ because it's through the state and they

30:20 ↗ um have to keep everything I guess I

30:21 ↗ don't so so um it's been really

30:24 ↗ challenging too to talk to you know

30:26 ↗ identify besides

30:27 ↗ I think I know that person right you

30:29 ↗ know so over time we start to collect

30:30 ↗ that information and we collect it

30:32 ↗ during the business grants but um it is

30:34 ↗ something that it's harder to get so

30:37 ↗ that was a very long answer I don't know

30:38 ↗ if I answered your question okay yes I

30:40 ↗ think it's I'm very curious about the

30:41 ↗ numbers so I'd be curious to see we were

30:43 ↗ given some at the very beginning last

30:45 ↗ year demographics I don't know if that's

30:47 ↗ changed that's something that we can get

30:48 ↗ an eye on again oh yeah not to not to

30:53 ↗ like I don't know what would call put

30:55 ↗ the cart before the horse or whatever

30:57 ↗ the idiom is but we shortly will be um

31:01 ↗ launching an open data portal for the

31:02 ↗ city where that at a glance demographic

31:05 ↗ data will be available for anyone to

31:06 ↗ take a look cool Jen's hope and dream

31:10 ↗ since I it probably before that's the

31:12 ↗ whole reason I came to join your data

31:13 ↗ management group happen well and and you

31:16 ↗ know it'll be interesting when you see

31:17 ↗ some of that data because one of the

31:18 ↗ interesting data points we found and we

31:21 ↗ keep scratching our head about is that

31:23 ↗ 70% of households in isqua don't have

31:26 ↗ children under 18 you say

31:30 ↗ 70% right that's why I'm like huh that

31:33 ↗ that is normal for a community

31:35 ↗ any because I used to run School

31:39 ↗ campaigns for Bond and L so it's

31:41 ↗ definitely definitely 30 or less we

31:43 ↗ noticed in the in the region where you

31:45 ↗ know besides I think samamish is a

31:47 ↗ little higher but we noticed that we're

31:48 ↗ similar but but you think isqu families

31:51 ↗ everywhere right yeah because we used to

31:54 ↗ say that yeah families you have to vote

31:56 ↗ because 75% of you in is oh thank you

31:59 ↗ yeah now we were scratch our head going

32:01 ↗ what's that you know we know we have

32:03 ↗ some you know assisted living things

32:04 ↗ those counts units you know blah blah

32:06 ↗ blah it's not that much to so okay

32:10 ↗ Tony okay um this is Tony C everyone um

32:14 ↗ my question gen one is back to the

32:15 ↗ mission statement if you mind going

32:17 ↗ there um is it more aspirational I kind

32:21 ↗ of feel like okay it's like Jim Kirk

32:23 ↗ Star Trek threeyear

32:25 ↗ Mission so is it aspirational um for

32:29 ↗ maybe it wasn't mission

32:32 ↗ statement is more aspirational okay yes

32:35 ↗ this is more aspirational um do you plan

32:38 ↗ to let's say as you go throughout 2024

32:42 ↗ to maybe iterate on this in different

32:45 ↗ forms or is this pretty much going to be

32:48 ↗ 2024's Mission State uh no this is

32:50 ↗ vision for longer this yeah so we want

32:53 ↗ this uh if our next update in three four

32:57 ↗ years um I mean unless things have

32:59 ↗ changed um you know we're we're thinking

33:01 ↗ this is the longer term so is there

33:04 ↗ something missing or something no no no

33:06 ↗ no I wouldn't say something missing at

33:07 ↗ all I was just

33:10 ↗ um well maybe it feels like you know

33:13 ↗ like can you make something a recipe at

33:15 ↗ home and you're just it's like

33:16 ↗ something's missing there's something

33:18 ↗ missing I just don't know what it is

33:21 ↗ okay and maybe maybe you guys talked

33:23 ↗ about in the last minut no no no no we

33:25 ↗ didn't because we didn't have a vis St

33:27 ↗ in the last meeting so we just yeah

33:29 ↗ again

33:29 ↗ we something I'm not sure what it is

33:32 ↗ yeah

33:34 ↗ right I mean if you're willing to allow

33:36 ↗ us to maybe talk about it a bit more and

33:39 ↗ get back to you that yeah of course yeah

33:42 ↗ yeah my other question Jen is about the

33:44 ↗ if you don't mind going to the theme

33:46 ↗ slide um in your themes you talked about

33:49 ↗ what the systemic patterns of

33:51 ↗ inequitable access to to economic

33:54 ↗ opportunities of course there's so much

33:55 ↗ I mean I'm a veteran I know my friends

33:57 ↗ that are veterans have not been as

33:58 ↗ blessed as I have to be able to find

34:00 ↗ gainful employment as far as gainful

34:02 ↗ businesses whatnot as well as from a

34:04 ↗ racial component as well I might you

34:08 ↗ might have talked about this in the

34:09 ↗ previous meeting with the coordinator

34:10 ↗ position but are the coordinators doing

34:13 ↗ as you answer Grace's question

34:14 ↗ recruitment to let's say demographic

34:17 ↗ groups as well as in that process

34:21 ↗ allowing or not allowing helping them

34:24 ↗ navigate the the Universe of Grants and

34:29 ↗ small business loans and different

34:30 ↗ things like that is that what the

34:31 ↗ coordinators actually do or we be going

34:34 ↗ to we refer um to our uh Community Based

34:38 ↗ organizations so for instance business

34:40 ↗ impact Northwest is an organization that

34:42 ↗ serves not just they're in Seattle but

34:45 ↗ they serve actually the whole state but

34:48 ↗ um and so they actually do have venor

34:50 ↗ Center Women's Center minority women

34:53 ↗ Center yeah so um so we would we have

34:55 ↗ organizations that we would connect them

34:57 ↗ with um we do try to you know connect

35:00 ↗ them with the multiple things that they

35:02 ↗ may be interested in um but as far as

35:04 ↗ like recruiting so like are you saying

35:06 ↗ do we go out and specifically try to

35:08 ↗ find veteran owned businesses well maybe

35:10 ↗ not from an active book standpoint but

35:12 ↗ maybe from even from a passive

35:13 ↗ standpoint whether that be let's say you

35:15 ↗ know mcord joint face Le m is right here

35:18 ↗ so let's say soldiers who are maybe

35:21 ↗ officers um and not the non-officers

35:25 ↗ wouldn't have the C aptitude to start

35:26 ↗ small business here you know a pamphlet

35:30 ↗ hey have you considered starting your

35:31 ↗ business in isqua and you know we right

35:33 ↗ down the street talk to us so I'm

35:36 ↗ smiling because we're just finishing up

35:38 ↗ how to do business in isqua so it kind

35:39 ↗ of has our little sales you know I do

35:41 ↗ business in isqua and then some the

35:43 ↗ steps you need to do so we're just

35:45 ↗ finishing that up um and so when we um

35:49 ↗ there was a spotlight on isqu in the

35:51 ↗ last business 425 magazine 425 business

35:54 ↗ magazine and we took it that out like

35:57 ↗ encouraging people you know consider

35:58 ↗ doing your business here you know so

36:00 ↗ trying to build upon things like that

36:01 ↗ that happen um and then then in that

36:03 ↗ same uh issue they had the mayor you

36:06 ↗ know talking about you know the business

36:08 ↗ climate and that kind of thing so so if

36:10 ↗ they're so this is that piece of like

36:12 ↗ tell us like who we could be going out

36:13 ↗ to and and connecting and saying if

36:16 ↗ you're interested in starting a business

36:17 ↗ now somebody lives in Tacoma they're

36:19 ↗ probably not gonna you know like it's

36:22 ↗ it's it's a far reach but um but you

36:25 ↗ know uh if somebody comes from Sam we're

36:27 ↗ not going to be like you know go away um

36:30 ↗ U because a lot of the organizations

36:31 ↗ serve regionally um and I think so we

36:34 ↗ used to do through the startup 425

36:36 ↗ program like 101 business workshops and

36:39 ↗ we discovered a lot of during the

36:41 ↗ pandemic a lot of organizations started

36:43 ↗ doing that so we kind of pivoted and

36:45 ↗ said that's great they still they still

36:47 ↗ do them we are doing um entrepreneurial

36:50 ↗ like uh co-working and panel discussions

36:54 ↗ um really think again really focused on

36:57 ↗ theme one um so so we're we're trying to

37:00 ↗ offer something different so those

37:02 ↗ things still exist yeah so so before

37:04 ↗ like it was was held the the uh esqua

37:07 ↗ library and mean you know okay which

37:09 ↗ ones are in esan and who wants to start

37:10 ↗ in esqu and sometimes people walked away

37:12 ↗ and said I don't want to start it's more

37:15 ↗ than I thought right and that's good

37:17 ↗ because then they're not losing you know

37:18 ↗ money and time on something that doesn't

37:20 ↗ work out so yeah if you know groups that

37:23 ↗ again we'll go and talk to anybody about

37:26 ↗ um the benefits of that and then we'll

37:28 ↗ you know go shop local right you know

37:30 ↗ like pitch the current businesses too so

37:33 ↗ we will we we cold call we do anything

37:36 ↗ so yeah I'm hoping that any of you that

37:39 ↗ want to have connection even if it's a

37:40 ↗ small group you know that want to learn

37:42 ↗ more yeah and one last question um what

37:47 ↗ about let's say organizations that

37:49 ↗ really help out let's say with skills

37:51 ↗ because we find not we but um you know

37:54 ↗ of course one of the one of the reasons

37:57 ↗ why businesses fail is oftentimes

37:59 ↗ education especially restaurants and

38:00 ↗ stuff like that they don't really know

38:02 ↗ like how to really rest one what hardest

38:05 ↗ businesses to run so let's say

38:08 ↗ organizations like I'm going to segue to

38:10 ↗ let's say organization like Toast

38:11 ↗ Masters which is really about public

38:13 ↗ speaking how to speak and how to write a

38:15 ↗ mission statement how to do an elevator

38:16 ↗ pitch those are all business skills so

38:19 ↗ are your coordinators reaching out to

38:21 ↗ business organizations that can help

38:23 ↗ develop Isa businesses for free yeah

38:26 ↗ know through let's say skill development

38:29 ↗ uh networking the whole NS yeah that's

38:32 ↗ interesting The Toast Masters I'm gonna

38:33 ↗ put um so yeah so for um again so for

38:36 ↗ instance some of those workshops you're

38:38 ↗ talking about around slow down thank you

38:41 ↗ thank you some of those uh organizations

38:45 ↗ do marketing so marketing is a big ask

38:48 ↗ finances because you're right somebody

38:50 ↗ who opens a restaurant it's a great cook

38:52 ↗ doesn't know how to do manage employees

38:54 ↗ doesn't know how to you know stuff like

38:56 ↗ that exactly so yes so when I say that

38:59 ↗ we have that community business

39:00 ↗ connector group The or the technical

39:03 ↗ assistance providers they go to provide

39:05 ↗ all all of that usually um the

39:08 ↗ SBA score we have a small Business

39:11 ↗ Development Center advisor that also can

39:13 ↗ sit down oneon-one with businesses and

39:16 ↗ it's it is about getting you know what

39:18 ↗ do you need specifically right because

39:21 ↗ yes you can't yes you need all these

39:22 ↗ things but maybe it's better to hire a

39:25 ↗ bookkeeper and focus on this if that's

39:27 ↗ what you're you know and so really

39:28 ↗ working individually about that but so

39:30 ↗ there's two options you know going to a

39:32 ↗ workshop and listening and learning and

39:34 ↗ asking questions you know about

39:35 ↗ marketing 101 and you know the

39:38 ↗ individual 101 so both of those exist

39:41 ↗ okay and yes those are the connections

39:43 ↗ we make and if they need assistance

39:45 ↗ through language or other barriers we

39:48 ↗ then connect them through the community

39:50 ↗ business connectors okay fantastic

39:51 ↗ thanks that's a king countywide program

39:53 ↗ that just started uh they're relaunching

39:56 ↗ this year yeah yeah it's it and that was

40:00 ↗ a lot of fun developing because you you

40:02 ↗ uh you realize everybody kind of came

40:04 ↗ together during covid and you're like

40:06 ↗ okay how can we keep this going and pay

40:08 ↗ people for it versus ask them to do it

40:10 ↗ for

40:11 ↗ free thank you yeah I think we have lcia

40:17 ↗ next yes thank you um I had a question

40:20 ↗ regarding whether um you have any

40:25 ↗ inclination or if the city is at all

40:28 ↗ interested in something a little bit

40:29 ↗ more organic like providing parking lots

40:32 ↗ for Popup businesses um that are local

40:37 ↗ I'm not saying popup businesses that

40:38 ↗ would come from

40:39 ↗ outside um but trying to get businesses

40:42 ↗ that are you know maybe run out of homes

40:44 ↗ and that are not brick and mortar to

40:47 ↗ give them someplace so that they can be

40:49 ↗ more

40:50 ↗ visible and as well as um food trucks

40:55 ↗ because I know of at least two two food

40:56 ↗ trucks that have left isqua um they

40:59 ↗ didn't shut down because they didn't

41:01 ↗ know what they were doing they basically

41:03 ↗ needed to move because they couldn't

41:04 ↗ find where to

41:05 ↗ park um and and they and that's business

41:08 ↗ that has left the squa and is now one

41:12 ↗ left for squami and another went to

41:15 ↗ Bellevue and so I'm just wondering you

41:17 ↗ know what are we doing to attract um

41:21 ↗ something that's not as formal as

41:23 ↗ needing a brick and mortar storefront

41:26 ↗ thank you great question and I'm smiling

41:30 ↗ because uh space was the number one

41:32 ↗ concern across all Industries so you

41:35 ↗ know from the creative Industries to all

41:38 ↗ of them and so um one of our big uh

41:41 ↗ points is about space figuring out

41:43 ↗ alternative things working with property

41:45 ↗ owners so one I won't so the isal Arts

41:49 ↗ organization uh the new network is

41:51 ↗ talking about that as well and has

41:52 ↗ something coming up they'll be able to

41:54 ↗ announce next year but early next year

41:55 ↗ but

41:56 ↗ um the uh the popup kind of ideas is on

42:01 ↗ our list the uh we do have some current

42:06 ↗ uh buildings that have smaller spaces

42:08 ↗ and so letting people be aware of if

42:10 ↗ they're more office there's um the metal

42:13 ↗ Creek Business Center where you can rent

42:15 ↗ a room a conference room for a day a

42:18 ↗ week a month a year um and then the work

42:22 ↗ Lofts which is something different but

42:24 ↗ it's you know uh it's it's on across

42:26 ↗ from Gilman Village and um there's

42:29 ↗ smaller spaces so when you move out you

42:31 ↗ know you need more space out of your

42:32 ↗ garage um food trucks uh breaks my heart

42:36 ↗ because it is about private property

42:39 ↗ owners and being able to lease out we

42:41 ↗ have in our code that that uh was

42:43 ↗ updated last year or beginning this year

42:46 ↗ um uh we don't allow food trucks in our

42:50 ↗ um right of way um so they have to be on

42:54 ↗ a private property and

42:56 ↗ um it's really hard I mean I because if

42:59 ↗ you're a shopping center and you have

43:02 ↗ restaurants your in your shopping center

43:03 ↗ you're not going to bring a food truck

43:05 ↗ in to compete against your tenants um I

43:07 ↗ have talked to many and worked with many

43:10 ↗ food trucks of trying to locate you know

43:12 ↗ the rally family who owns 80 acres um

43:16 ↗ they would bring in food checks for a

43:17 ↗ while for their tenants um uh the large

43:21 ↗ B uh business park over where Microsoft

43:24 ↗ and Costco was would bring and some um

43:27 ↗ they have a stop doing that because

43:28 ↗ those are empty now but if there there

43:31 ↗ there is we actually are also working on

43:35 ↗ a a one pager for food trucks because

43:36 ↗ the other thing is it's it's challenging

43:38 ↗ to get through our system of what you

43:40 ↗ need to do so um but yeah I wish there

43:43 ↗ were more locations for it

43:45 ↗ um if you know any Property Owners I

43:48 ↗ mean that's the hard part it's this is a

43:49 ↗ private property you know where I would

43:51 ↗ send them to different places and like

43:54 ↗ even on the end of front and Gilman

43:56 ↗ where there's the coconut tie so the

43:59 ↗ empty parking lot that's to the north of

44:01 ↗ that is a different parcel owner and so

44:03 ↗ I multiple times send people there and

44:07 ↗ you know I can't make Property Owners do

44:09 ↗ something but um we worked with a I

44:12 ↗ don't um food truck that was in front of

44:14 ↗ the Grange for a

44:15 ↗ while yeah I know we we we lost we lost

44:19 ↗ a few of them and and we fought so when

44:21 ↗ they when they first had the title 18 so

44:24 ↗ this is a little bit of the we advocate

44:25 ↗ for the business voice when the title 18

44:27 ↗ rules first came out it

44:29 ↗ said you know it was stricter around

44:32 ↗ food trucks and not wanting them there

44:33 ↗ for more than a month total and we said

44:36 ↗ hey food truck owners this is what

44:37 ↗ they're saying if you want to talk you

44:39 ↗ know come to councel and so then they

44:41 ↗ did and they and it end up changing the

44:43 ↗ rules a bit so but it really um yeah

44:47 ↗ it's a challenging one and so we could

44:49 ↗ talk about we don't want to do too many

44:52 ↗ events but we could talk about you know

44:54 ↗ bringing them into more events that the

44:55 ↗ city does um hosting you know uh food

45:00 ↗ truck rodeos you know we do get gffs

45:02 ↗ then from our restaurant tours so um but

45:07 ↗ I I understand both sides of the the and

45:10 ↗ how most of our food what I what I

45:12 ↗ pointed out during cleas most of our

45:14 ↗ food trick owners were minor and women

45:18 ↗ so um you know it's kind of that extra

45:20 ↗ little push there so um you know we can

45:23 ↗ work with our organizations when they

45:24 ↗ have events to PR bring in food trucks

45:27 ↗ um as as as they're able

45:31 ↗ to yeah and again if you know any

45:33 ↗ property owners that you think would be

45:34 ↗ willing to to do that as private

45:37 ↗ property yeah I have a comment on a

45:40 ↗ questions one is on the vision statement

45:43 ↗ because Tony you you like had me stare

45:45 ↗ at it when you were asking the

45:47 ↗ question what what I am having a hard

45:51 ↗ time reading it because you know if I

45:53 ↗ just still take out some of the

45:54 ↗ adjectives Forge a place feels like a

45:57 ↗ weird expression so I just want to put

46:00 ↗ that in there yeah that that feels a

46:02 ↗ little weird but then okay so then my

46:04 ↗ question again like my mind melding with

46:07 ↗ Tony here going back to this like so

46:11 ↗ access to opportunity theme one so the

46:14 ↗ reverse historic and systemic patterns

46:17 ↗ of inequitable access to Economic

46:20 ↗ Opportunity um so can you speak a little

46:23 ↗ bit about what those patterns are

46:26 ↗ and then what does it mean to reverse it

46:29 ↗ because I

46:31 ↗ think if if it's been historic then we

46:34 ↗ have certain communities of business

46:37 ↗ owners who are starting at a deficit so

46:40 ↗ reversing it do you mean pulling them up

46:43 ↗ or is it more of a

46:45 ↗ proequity to not just bring them to to

46:49 ↗ the mean or is it bringing on further up

46:52 ↗ so I'm just kind of wondering what you

46:53 ↗ mean by reverse so maybe starting with

46:56 ↗ that yeah what are the historical

46:57 ↗ patterns on that what does it me to

46:58 ↗ reverse it yeah so yeah and I was just

47:01 ↗ thinking about that bring him to the me

47:02 ↗ or bring him up I mean so I think what

47:04 ↗ the way we approached this was that we

47:06 ↗ you we recognize the historical P not

47:10 ↗ that we went and did a deep analysis of

47:12 ↗ of isqua I'll say that um but um one of

47:17 ↗ the ways is that we are going to

47:19 ↗ intentionally uh focus more efforts on

47:24 ↗ working with underserved businesses

47:26 ↗ getting them connected to the right type

47:27 ↗ of technical assistance we don't have

47:30 ↗ money for Grants people talk about

47:32 ↗ grants all the time there's no grants

47:33 ↗ allowed to businesses in in the state

47:36 ↗ because of um our state constitution so

47:39 ↗ it's you know um and Finance Loans

47:42 ↗ aren't always what they need right so it

47:44 ↗ is really about the services um we also

47:49 ↗ and so part of this is working with them

47:51 ↗ to find out what they need but we have

47:53 ↗ the welcoming week where we want to do

47:55 ↗ something to promote businesses um we

47:58 ↗ haven't really hit it hit on something

48:00 ↗ yet so that so hopefully hopefully

48:02 ↗ there's some opportunities to um plug in

48:05 ↗ these businesses and more and more

48:07 ↗ opportunities we also talk about getting

48:09 ↗ them for the ones again not everybody

48:11 ↗ fits in in one lane but um getting

48:14 ↗ connected to on procurement lists more

48:16 ↗ for our local state um and federal if

48:21 ↗ you know that's a lot of more strings

48:24 ↗ but um so so working intentionally we

48:27 ↗ have also talked internally and I'm not

48:29 ↗ sure if you were part of that

48:30 ↗ conversation Dale about um our

48:32 ↗ Contracting processes and our insurance

48:34 ↗ requirement process and um and that's

48:37 ↗ something too that Human Services who

48:38 ↗ have small nonprofits also buttheads

48:41 ↗ against so can what can we do we and our

48:43 ↗ and our Pro um our procurement Finance

48:46 ↗ person like want you know we want to

48:48 ↗ work something out so so there's things

48:50 ↗ there like systematically that we can

48:52 ↗ try to do there are things that we want

48:55 ↗ to uh intentionally try to figure out

48:57 ↗ okay what is it that would best help how

49:00 ↗ can we connect you with some of the

49:01 ↗ other things that we do so to promote

49:03 ↗ you more um and um yeah and and

49:09 ↗ improving our process and getting

49:10 ↗ connected with what resources are out

49:12 ↗ there because there's

49:13 ↗ a there's you know to be certified as a

49:17 ↗ minority would be you know that's okay

49:19 ↗ but that doesn't not all businesses need

49:22 ↗ to do that but there's a lot of

49:24 ↗ resources out there and especially since

49:26 ↗ Co has been focused on that so making

49:28 ↗ sure those connections are made and so

49:30 ↗ when people asked us during Co okay

49:32 ↗ where the black own businesses I'm like

49:35 ↗ let's go to the you know and there were

49:36 ↗ none at the time on um intentionalist is

49:40 ↗ that I say yeah intentional um and so

49:44 ↗ you know we we you know we we put out

49:46 ↗ calls like in our our business E news

49:48 ↗ like if you're you know one of these

49:50 ↗ please put you know consider going here

49:53 ↗ right you know people are are asking for

49:55 ↗ that so again collecting that

49:56 ↗ information and saying and being able to

49:58 ↗ support So during when we have

50:00 ↗ celebrations that we do as a community

50:02 ↗ are there ways that we connect those

50:04 ↗ businesses you know better so there's

50:06 ↗ multiple different ways I don't know

50:07 ↗ that you know it's it's a a highly

50:10 ↗ scientific you know um really focused on

50:13 ↗ okay here we know in it's these

50:15 ↗ businesses have had these discriminatory

50:17 ↗ things happen um because yeah we haven't

50:21 ↗ done that okay and then how you said

50:23 ↗ underserved is that women and minority

50:27 ↗ veteran that's how you would Define it

50:29 ↗ um yeah I mean it may be some folks that

50:32 ↗ have other challenges other barriers you

50:34 ↗ know so maybe if you're have uh some

50:37 ↗ type of uh disability um yeah so we're

50:41 ↗ we you know so we didn't we didn't

50:42 ↗ specifically call it I try to we have a

50:46 ↗ better word to use but it's just baby

50:47 ↗ people that aren't uh connected already

50:50 ↗ with the

50:51 ↗ with Services Andor they already have

50:54 ↗ you know relationships with their Banker

50:56 ↗ that you know they don't need to work

50:58 ↗ with us to work with a community

51:00 ↗ development financial institution to get

51:02 ↗ you know a technical assistance or loans

51:06 ↗ um

51:07 ↗ so

51:10 ↗ yeah I'm sorry this is curry again so I

51:13 ↗ do have another question there something

51:15 ↗ brought up Jen um you mentioned that the

51:17 ↗ city of isquad doesn't have the

51:18 ↗ resources for financial grants it's been

51:22 ↗ a long time like since I worked in the

51:24 ↗ grant space I want to like the late 90s

51:26 ↗ early 2000s but I do know from in the

51:29 ↗ technology space there's a number of

51:31 ↗ companies well even out of the

51:33 ↗ technology space who won't actually

51:35 ↗ let's say support a financial Grant but

51:38 ↗ will support a let's say equipment

51:41 ↗ grants or software grants like into it

51:43 ↗ at one time they were teaching as well

51:46 ↗ as providing QuickBooks to businesses on

51:49 ↗ a grant basis a grant proposal was

51:51 ↗ written um Fu not Fujitsu um Cisco can't

51:55 ↗ believe I forgot about that Cisco would

51:56 ↗ provide Cisco servers to a business if

52:00 ↗ they needed it it would be an older

52:02 ↗ server but it was still a decommissioned

52:04 ↗ server and this was in the late 90s but

52:06 ↗ they would do things like that um zero

52:09 ↗ would do some things with the bigger

52:10 ↗ bigger copy machines and different

52:12 ↗ things like that would the city of isaan

52:14 ↗ be willing to support and connect with

52:16 ↗ these companies who would like not from

52:19 ↗ a financial basis but even from a

52:21 ↗ training basis I think there was another

52:22 ↗ company I think there's another company

52:25 ↗ the that's a big technology company I

52:27 ↗ can't remember who they were but they

52:29 ↗ would even sit on your board if you

52:32 ↗ wanted to like you know you were you

52:33 ↗ know having a board for your particular

52:36 ↗ business or whatever they would donate

52:38 ↗ let's say some people from donate um

52:41 ↗ some people from the executive

52:42 ↗ management team or SE Suite that would

52:44 ↗ help you out in structuring your board

52:46 ↗ sitting on your board and be an advisory

52:49 ↗ so was it monetary but in a sense sort

52:52 ↗ of much

52:53 ↗ more expertise yeah

52:55 ↗ yeah and and I think we saw again a lot

52:57 ↗ of that happen during covid um like for

52:59 ↗ Comcast had grants but it wasn't really

53:01 ↗ grants it was like media buys and that

53:03 ↗ kind of stuff right so they didn't

53:05 ↗ actually give money but they gave a

53:07 ↗ value um so yeah I think and so again is

53:11 ↗ knowing that now a lot of the business

53:14 ↗ we work with are you know one you know

53:16 ↗ one to 10 employees and 10 se you know

53:19 ↗ so um so part of that is they may not

53:22 ↗ have a board they may have the yeah you

53:25 ↗ know that kind of thing but how they Qui

53:27 ↗ books yeah yeah right so so if yeah I'm

53:31 ↗ I'll look that stuff up and I think um

53:34 ↗ those are the treasures those gems that

53:36 ↗ yeah if we can find that maybe because

53:38 ↗ yeah we've searched you know and there's

53:41 ↗ there's uh online portals of like here's

53:44 ↗ you know resources right but it it's

53:47 ↗ there's always something more it's kind

53:48 ↗ of like when you you know talk about all

53:50 ↗ of our high school kids going for

53:51 ↗ scholarships there's like then you hear

53:52 ↗ about scholarships that don't get

53:53 ↗ applied for you're like hi

53:56 ↗ you know there's Reon how to hell how

53:58 ↗ right so that's really said yeah go look

54:03 ↗ for them yeah they they do there's a lot

54:06 ↗ yeah if you if you can find them so yeah

54:08 ↗ um if you can yeah if there are if

54:10 ↗ there's any again that's I think the

54:12 ↗ last thing of like how can we connect

54:13 ↗ who these people like so in your worlds

54:15 ↗ if there's somebody you that knows

54:17 ↗ somebody um yeah you know and and you

54:20 ↗ know um this is something too that we

54:22 ↗ should be working with the chamber for

54:23 ↗ right um because

54:25 ↗ I think that when I first started in

54:28 ↗ 2013 um they had an

54:31 ↗ advisory they didn't they don't have

54:33 ↗ this anymore but the basic where the

54:34 ↗ chamber members of a

54:37 ↗ lawyer you know marketing whatever we

54:40 ↗ going to volunteer two hours or whatever

54:42 ↗ their time to other smaller chamber

54:43 ↗ members for that you know the thing as

54:45 ↗ part of Industry experts they call it so

54:48 ↗ that's something that we could look at

54:50 ↗ um how we grow internally you know

54:52 ↗ support people who want to be mentors um

54:56 ↗ yeah business mentors yeah yeah yeah I

55:00 ↗ had a question about how you found in on

55:02 ↗ these three sectors um yeah D creative

55:06 ↗ and businesses it's a lot self-evident

55:10 ↗ but I was curious what what other

55:11 ↗ choices you might have had yeah so we um

55:15 ↗ I think so we had two surveys um out to

55:18 ↗ businesses and to um residents and um I

55:23 ↗ think the one of the things is because

55:26 ↗ there's a lot going on with the creative

55:28 ↗ District we've been working a little bit

55:30 ↗ more with them and but not there hasn't

55:32 ↗ again been like a this is how we're

55:35 ↗ going to support you so I think that was

55:36 ↗ a given that it made sense to because

55:39 ↗ there seemed to be it was the creative

55:41 ↗ district is about creative Industries

55:42 ↗ not just artists or events and so that

55:44 ↗ was what spoke to us and outdoor W is

55:47 ↗ like our brand that we don't ever just

55:49 ↗ say right true right and so for the

55:53 ↗ whole 10 years people we talking about

55:54 ↗ brand it's like we don't need to do any

55:57 ↗ work on it it's outdoor now because REI

56:00 ↗ moved here boom we're building on that

56:03 ↗ because Village Theater is here we're

56:04 ↗ building on that so this is a thing in

56:06 ↗ Economic Development I'm sure in any of

56:07 ↗ your worlds if you you could it's best

56:10 ↗ to build from what you have some assets

56:13 ↗ right as opposed to like oh I want to be

56:14 ↗ a biotech Center okay so um I think um

56:19 ↗ having REI you join um and we're we're

56:23 ↗ working with both cost and and REI to

56:26 ↗ make connections with their vendors so

56:28 ↗ then you get down that because you know

56:30 ↗ REI and Costco are not are not coming to

56:32 ↗ us for Business technical

56:34 ↗ assistance but we are meeting with them

56:36 ↗ to say how you know how's it going how

56:38 ↗ can we support your employees um and so

56:41 ↗ REI has

56:42 ↗ a I'm G remember the name of it but a a

56:46 ↗ incubator like program for minority own

56:48 ↗ outo back owners and so we're like we

56:51 ↗ need to talk to you right and so um we

56:54 ↗ found somebody who knows some some who's

56:55 ↗ made that connection right and so like

56:58 ↗ okay we see enough of these these

56:59 ↗ tangents to like make it work so so yeah

57:02 ↗ in three years if if we you know we

57:04 ↗ tried multiple different things um and

57:07 ↗ we've talked to organizations and

57:08 ↗ businesses in that industry that are

57:10 ↗ outside in the region to say hey what do

57:13 ↗ you thinking what do you think of and

57:15 ↗ that's and there was enough bubbling up

57:18 ↗ so yeah so when you feel that ex you

57:21 ↗ know you feel that yes yes yes then

57:23 ↗ you're like okay this makes sense and

57:24 ↗ then home based businesses we held our

57:26 ↗ first work from home we call or work

57:28 ↗ from here um networking event in May and

57:31 ↗ they're like oh my God thank you for we

57:33 ↗ we don't feel connected to the city

57:35 ↗ thank you so much for doing this blah

57:36 ↗ blah blah blah right and so we're like

57:38 ↗ okay you know it's one of those that we

57:41 ↗ you know we send a welcome to a squal

57:42 ↗ letter when you first start but you how

57:45 ↗ do we uh continue that when it is very

57:47 ↗ different they don't need that

57:50 ↗ storefront um so I'm really intrigued

57:54 ↗ with what you're doing I think what

57:55 ↗ you're doing is fantastic I um am

57:58 ↗ interested in knowing what you think a

58:00 ↗ year and threeyear

58:02 ↗ um goals or successes look like

58:06 ↗ particularly I know I we just talking

58:09 ↗ today about metrics and and particularly

58:12 ↗ around Equity right and the named

58:15 ↗ historically underserved groups you know

58:17 ↗ because without

58:18 ↗ that the vision is great but you need to

58:21 ↗ know what you're trying to do yes yeah

58:23 ↗ yeah yeah so one of the things that I

58:25 ↗ can remember because again we started

58:27 ↗ with 41 metrics I'm like no um is uh one

58:31 ↗ of the things we talked about is is

58:33 ↗ building increasing our relationships

58:36 ↗ with the cbos that serve the underserved

58:38 ↗ underserved groups right increasing the

58:40 ↗ number of referrals to those right right

58:43 ↗ so um really make building those

58:46 ↗ relationships up um I was at a inclusive

58:49 ↗ Kirkland event last Saturday and like I

58:52 ↗ was like I took a picture of their their

58:54 ↗ St you there organizations that SP I'm

58:56 ↗ like okay I got to call that you know um

58:59 ↗ and so yeah just kind of starting to

59:00 ↗ build that beyond the business

59:02 ↗ connections that we have um I'm trying

59:05 ↗ to think us again so we so do you the

59:08 ↗ process do you name so you will come up

59:10 ↗ with yeah your so big big hub for

59:13 ↗ instance is a Korean uh Association that

59:16 ↗ supports Korean businesses in the east

59:19 ↗ side so we don't have a relationship

59:21 ↗ okay let's go and talk to

59:23 ↗ them um pandemic I I talk to the because

59:27 ↗ again cold calling I go and search and

59:28 ↗ find the Japanese and there there's like

59:31 ↗ three different Japanese groups I was

59:33 ↗ talking to one of them you know so so um

59:36 ↗ we um we will yeah we have a group of

59:39 ↗ those organizations that have been work

59:42 ↗ are in that Economic Development sphere

59:44 ↗ that work with um East Side for all so

59:48 ↗ becoming better friends with them figure

59:49 ↗ out how we can support them because

59:51 ↗ that's other things so I don't want to

59:51 ↗ go there and go hi can we yeah can you

59:54 ↗ work for us for free basically right so

59:56 ↗ realizing that um but yeah one of the

59:59 ↗ ways that we have there's maybe some

1:00:00 ↗ valuable ways right so maybe it's not

1:00:02 ↗ that rant but maybe there's a value that

1:00:04 ↗ we can provide to to their folks that

1:00:07 ↗ know great so figuring that out um and

1:00:10 ↗ then I think um yeah in three years I

1:00:12 ↗ mean I don't you know we're getting

1:00:14 ↗ again to getting trying to be more

1:00:16 ↗ sophisticated about collecting that data

1:00:19 ↗ jobs sales now not everybody wants to

1:00:21 ↗ provide that information but um if we

1:00:23 ↗ can if there're will to um that's the

1:00:26 ↗ ultimate goal right is increasing the uh

1:00:29 ↗ success of that business and that means

1:00:31 ↗ jobs and or doesn't have to be jobs you

1:00:34 ↗ know um uh the sales or the income for

1:00:38 ↗ those individuals um that's a little

1:00:40 ↗ harder to get because people you know

1:00:42 ↗ always get the government stuff they

1:00:44 ↗ don't have

1:00:47 ↗ to good question yeah um I'm just trying

1:00:50 ↗ to learn like a little bit more about

1:00:51 ↗ allit but um in your first second theme

1:00:55 ↗ uh could you expand a little bit more

1:00:57 ↗ about like your Regional business needs

1:00:59 ↗ and how you're engaging with regional

1:01:02 ↗ like some of your main techniques you're

1:01:03 ↗ doing to engage your yeah now that's a

1:01:05 ↗ great question so how many people think

1:01:07 ↗ we can solve Transportation on our own

1:01:09 ↗ or affordable housing or yeah so um so a

1:01:13 ↗ couple things we have a regional uh

1:01:16 ↗ recruitment agency called uh greater

1:01:18 ↗ Seattle partners and so um recruitment

1:01:21 ↗ is that big sexy thing around economic

1:01:23 ↗ development but it's really really

1:01:25 ↗ really it's almost like SP spaghetti in

1:01:28 ↗ the wall a little bit so um so they are

1:01:31 ↗ traveling internationally to go talk to

1:01:33 ↗ firms all across the all across the

1:01:35 ↗ world and Country um to come to this

1:01:38 ↗ Legion right so they're never going to

1:01:40 ↗ say I want to come to isqua they're

1:01:41 ↗ gonna say I want to come to the pesan

1:01:42 ↗ region and then we work with them to

1:01:44 ↗ identify we have these you know places

1:01:46 ↗ and we do site visits and all that kind

1:01:48 ↗ of good stuff so so making sure that

1:01:50 ↗ we're in that conversation because we're

1:01:52 ↗ 40,000 people right you know they serve

1:01:54 ↗ the actually Ser Three Counties so it's

1:01:56 ↗ a lot pretty big um with Transportation

1:02:00 ↗ um so we so we we as economic

1:02:03 ↗ development but also we as City want to

1:02:05 ↗ make sure that business perspectives are

1:02:08 ↗ included in when Sound Transit and and

1:02:10 ↗ Metro we talking about bus service now

1:02:13 ↗ Light Rail later um so we're we're uh

1:02:16 ↗ making sure we're at the table for that

1:02:17 ↗ affordable housing I get to do that now

1:02:19 ↗ so but um working again that's something

1:02:21 ↗ that we are not going to solve ourselves

1:02:22 ↗ since we have a coalition on the east

1:02:24 ↗ side called a regional Coalition for

1:02:27 ↗ housing

1:02:28 ↗ Arch um and there's probably like 10

1:02:31 ↗ other issues but um making sure we also

1:02:34 ↗ meet uh the economic development uh

1:02:37 ↗ staff uh for the East Side started a

1:02:39 ↗ meeting during P during the pandemic and

1:02:42 ↗ so now we're meeting monthly so it's

1:02:45 ↗ amazing how many common problems we have

1:02:47 ↗ and so especially during the pandemic

1:02:49 ↗ we're like hey great you already created

1:02:51 ↗ a grant program thing great I'm going to

1:02:53 ↗ use that here you can create the here's

1:02:54 ↗ the streetery stuff we created so um and

1:02:58 ↗ and scratching your head oh Workforce

1:03:00 ↗ that's the big one yeah Workforce so

1:03:02 ↗ there was a large system around

1:03:03 ↗ Workforce which includes community

1:03:05 ↗ colleges organizations that serve people

1:03:07 ↗ that need skill training to get to the

1:03:10 ↗ job or support services and so we that's

1:03:13 ↗ another thing we want to work with

1:03:15 ↗ businesses in isquad we say okay it's

1:03:17 ↗ hard to find employees well think about

1:03:18 ↗ something nontraditional right here's a

1:03:21 ↗ group of organizations like the why but

1:03:23 ↗ and other ones that support the people

1:03:27 ↗ that you will hire right you're going to

1:03:29 ↗ hire somebody off the street or you're

1:03:30 ↗ going to hire somebody that has that

1:03:31 ↗ backup support if your car breaks down

1:03:33 ↗ they have it access to get it fixed so

1:03:36 ↗ that's why I'm trying to sell it well

1:03:37 ↗ you know you know it has you know it

1:03:40 ↗ clicks with some people and not with

1:03:41 ↗ others so um yeah so there's a lot of uh

1:03:45 ↗ organizations out there you'll learn you

1:03:47 ↗ be like wait did they do that and they

1:03:49 ↗ do that and yeah it's kind of how things

1:03:52 ↗ Sprout up right so in your third team uh

1:03:56 ↗ third theme yes and you talked about

1:03:57 ↗ like identifying opportunities and

1:03:59 ↗ challenges and reinforcing like guess it

1:04:01 ↗ because identity is this something you

1:04:03 ↗ just like discussed within your own like

1:04:06 ↗ groups of parties or do you gain like

1:04:08 ↗ public opinion on this like maybe even

1:04:11 ↗ like youth or like people in

1:04:13 ↗ isqua yeah so for regarding the um I'm

1:04:17 ↗ going to make sure I understand when I

1:04:18 ↗ go back here so the the needs I'm TR me

1:04:23 ↗ see where this is say it's like across

1:04:28 ↗ um then I think we would want to better

1:04:30 ↗ understand the needs of the businesses

1:04:32 ↗ more specifically um but we always do

1:04:34 ↗ want to know like if if people in the

1:04:36 ↗ community are saying I really wish there

1:04:38 ↗ was a we have ski rental we have lots of

1:04:42 ↗ bike shops but yeah know whatever that

1:04:44 ↗ may be um again then then we know we can

1:04:46 ↗ put that out in the world we can start

1:04:47 ↗ talking to people talking to businesses

1:04:49 ↗ that are in another would you like to

1:04:51 ↗ open a second or third location here

1:04:53 ↗ that type of thing but as far as The

1:04:55 ↗ Branding and identity identity that's a

1:04:57 ↗ CommunityWide thing so again we haven't

1:05:00 ↗ really put our arms around we are

1:05:02 ↗ outdoor W right you know we are the

1:05:05 ↗ whatever you know branding and that's

1:05:06 ↗ not my thing um branding slogan thing we

1:05:09 ↗ want to have but um yeah so I I really I

1:05:12 ↗ do see that as a as a community wider

1:05:16 ↗ conversation so because it hasn't make

1:05:18 ↗ sense right if you if I all of a sudden

1:05:20 ↗ say hey we're the center of wooden

1:05:23 ↗ trolls well maybe but but the center of

1:05:26 ↗ you know uh I don't know water bottles

1:05:29 ↗ you okay right um so it has to make

1:05:32 ↗ sense as well and so if the community is

1:05:35 ↗ going yeah whatever that's stupid that

1:05:37 ↗ doesn't help us at all because we want

1:05:39 ↗ like if somebody if a new business comes

1:05:41 ↗ to downtown like say say and they're

1:05:43 ↗ like looking to do business here and

1:05:44 ↗ they happen to see you and they hey what

1:05:45 ↗ do you think about this sad blah blah

1:05:47 ↗ blah blah and you know I hear you're

1:05:49 ↗ you're the center of outdoor back oh

1:05:50 ↗ yeah I go hiking all the time I go to

1:05:52 ↗ lakish that's that you know you know

1:05:55 ↗ it's real then right as opposed to

1:05:57 ↗ something outdoor W never heard of

1:06:00 ↗ it okay well and Christina has her oh oh

1:06:03 ↗ she was first yes okay CH I assume she's

1:06:06 ↗ not waving this time okay we have

1:06:08 ↗ Christina and Ray and then I think we

1:06:10 ↗ need to Wi yes yeah yes

1:06:15 ↗ okay okay gracias

1:06:23 ↗ um

1:06:41 ↗ so as we're talking about different

1:06:44 ↗ businesses it occurs to me about all the

1:06:47 ↗ people who can't pay rent so I'm

1:06:50 ↗ wondering about some s sort of personal

1:06:53 ↗ services that could be offered and how

1:06:56 ↗ one goes about

1:06:58 ↗ that uh you mean rent for commercial

1:07:01 ↗ space or rent for

1:07:22 ↗ housing

1:07:36 ↗ so it could be both um points of view

1:07:40 ↗ both uh individuals and businesses The

1:07:42 ↗ Interpreter had to get a repetition

1:07:44 ↗ because somebody sneezed and The

1:07:45 ↗ Interpreter wasn't able to hear what was

1:07:46 ↗ said but I'm thinking principally of

1:07:48 ↗ those who don't have um uh jobs and can

1:07:53 ↗ can't make ends

1:07:57 ↗ meet so more residents and business

1:08:00 ↗ owners I'm sorry I just want to make

1:08:01 ↗ sure I answer that question

1:08:08 ↗ correctly

1:08:14 ↗ indidual individual right right right

1:08:17 ↗ families or individuals okay so I think

1:08:20 ↗ then I would connect them with our Human

1:08:21 ↗ Services programs um because we work

1:08:24 ↗ with business owners and business

1:08:26 ↗ programs but um and and it doesn't mean

1:08:29 ↗ a business owner can't have that need as

1:08:31 ↗ well um so we would connect them with

1:08:33 ↗ our Human Services Program which um I

1:08:35 ↗ think Monica you remember Monica is the

1:08:38 ↗ queen of so that's how we would help and

1:08:41 ↗ we for instance we are working with

1:08:43 ↗ their transitional shelter program try

1:08:46 ↗ to connect with businesses to help

1:08:48 ↗ people there

1:08:49 ↗ but yeah I wouldn't have access to

1:08:52 ↗ resources for

1:09:07 ↗ so I was referring to maybe Services

1:09:09 ↗ where you can help you know they're not

1:09:12 ↗ able to pay their rent and maybe uh

1:09:14 ↗ there are some there is some sort of

1:09:16 ↗ service rendered by the city where they

1:09:18 ↗ can offer their services or work uh and

1:09:23 ↗ that way they can generate some funds to

1:09:26 ↗ cover their expenses oh to work in a

1:09:29 ↗ business or to work in the city you're

1:09:33 ↗ [Music]

1:09:45 ↗ [Music]

1:09:52 ↗ saying

1:09:58 ↗ well like I'll give you an example for

1:10:00 ↗ instance a person who's trying to

1:10:02 ↗ generate income we're talking about

1:10:04 ↗ generating some sort of income people

1:10:06 ↗ who are struggling for instance they can

1:10:09 ↗ offer some sort of service like let's

1:10:11 ↗ say takeing care of children is there

1:10:14 ↗ any way that and they don't have license

1:10:17 ↗ to do so is there any way for instance

1:10:20 ↗ that type of service could be provided

1:10:22 ↗ to so can generate some

1:10:25 ↗ income yeah okay so so if someone wanted

1:10:28 ↗ for instance to become a a licensed

1:10:31 ↗ child care inome provider yes we would

1:10:34 ↗ connect them with um again the community

1:10:37 ↗ organizations that that can help

1:10:39 ↗ entrepreneurs that's an entrepreneur

1:10:41 ↗ right so they don't have a business yet

1:10:43 ↗ but they have an idea or they've been

1:10:44 ↗ doing something on the side they want to

1:10:45 ↗ make it more formal that's exactly who

1:10:47 ↗ we work with so we would make sure

1:10:49 ↗ because the thing is we wouldn't want to

1:10:51 ↗ support we wouldn't want to tell people

1:10:52 ↗ just don't don't worry about the

1:10:53 ↗ licensing don't permitting you know

1:10:55 ↗ that's we got to make sure that that

1:10:57 ↗ it's a it's a safe business and that

1:10:59 ↗ they're they're being protected too so

1:11:03 ↗ that's ex yes we would we would work

1:11:05 ↗ with anybody to take whatever dream they

1:11:08 ↗ have to turn it into a business and

1:11:10 ↗ again there's I think entrepreneurship

1:11:13 ↗ is is what a lot most of the our

1:11:15 ↗ business organizations uh are

1:11:22 ↗ best

1:11:38 ↗ [Music]

1:11:40 ↗ so like for instance uh there are people

1:11:43 ↗ who need some help and we're in a

1:11:46 ↗ position to hire them is there any sort

1:11:50 ↗ of way to check if they're reliable if

1:11:55 ↗ there're a good source to to hire and

1:11:59 ↗ also is there another a place where we

1:12:02 ↗ can verify that they're businesses that

1:12:05 ↗ are

1:12:08 ↗ local okay um so we we the city wouldn't

1:12:12 ↗ talk about reliability I mean that's you

1:12:14 ↗ know maybe the Yelp or whatever you

1:12:17 ↗ know's list uh what a Better Business

1:12:19 ↗ Bureau um we could confirm that there

1:12:22 ↗ are City like they have a city business

1:12:25 ↗ license there's ways to look up on the

1:12:27 ↗ internet for if they're registered with

1:12:29 ↗ the state if they're contractor you have

1:12:31 ↗ to be bonded all those things you can we

1:12:33 ↗ can look up we can help people look up

1:12:35 ↗ Andor they can look up themselves um and

1:12:39 ↗ is there something else in there

1:12:42 ↗ um was there anything else in there did

1:12:44 ↗ I miss a part of

1:12:52 ↗ that yes I think you got everything

1:12:56 ↗ right now that's all that I can think of

1:12:58 ↗ thank you okay and and please uh

1:13:01 ↗ encourage people to contact us if they

1:13:03 ↗ if they are interested in starting a

1:13:05 ↗ business that's that's our that is our

1:13:08 ↗ bread and

1:13:09 ↗ butter I'll be very quick um for the for

1:13:12 ↗ us here I think a good action item is

1:13:14 ↗ when you're sitting around at your

1:13:15 ↗ dinner table and especially for those of

1:13:17 ↗ us who have kids talk to them and say

1:13:20 ↗ what why why where why are you going all

1:13:21 ↗ the way out there is there nothing here

1:13:23 ↗ so ilar that could provide that service

1:13:25 ↗ to you maybe that instigate some good

1:13:27 ↗ discussion and comments about oh that

1:13:28 ↗ business would do well in is because

1:13:30 ↗ we're having to drive our

1:13:33 ↗ children get something that's a great

1:13:35 ↗ idea so we we have a a buiness a Isa

1:13:38 ↗ loyal Shopping Guide that's now for the

1:13:41 ↗ holidays you can go to visit isqua

1:13:44 ↗ wa.gov I'm sorry

1:13:46 ↗ or um and we want to do two more next

1:13:50 ↗ year uh updating that that list it's not

1:13:53 ↗ not a directory so what we did we worked

1:13:56 ↗ with some teens to develop the teen gift

1:13:59 ↗ list so if you have ideas that you want

1:14:02 ↗ to create a list you go we right now in

1:14:04 ↗ Spring we're going to talk about dads

1:14:06 ↗ and grads and moms you know that kind of

1:14:08 ↗ stuff gardening you know so but if there

1:14:11 ↗ are things you hear that yeah the teens

1:14:13 ↗ are going to whatever um we may have it

1:14:17 ↗ and or we could then you know start to

1:14:19 ↗ try to get it here so we would love that

1:14:21 ↗ kind of input because that's you know

1:14:23 ↗ it's uh it's it's really fun to kind of

1:14:26 ↗ show off what we have here right yeah so

1:14:29 ↗ I love that we talk so much and I want

1:14:30 ↗ to keep talking and I don't know if you

1:14:32 ↗ know we invited you to a social

1:14:34 ↗ gathering on December 13th I

1:14:37 ↗ know how fun is that so read all my

1:14:41 ↗ emails get them I know so December 13 um

1:14:46 ↗ over at the uh environmental Watershed

1:14:50 ↗ Center or what sh it's up at the

1:14:53 ↗ Hatchery at 7:00 till

1:14:56 ↗ 8ish um we so we have our economic

1:14:58 ↗ Vitality meeting that starts at 6 we're

1:15:00 ↗ going to do an hour of talking about

1:15:02 ↗ metrics woohoo and then uh we're pausing

1:15:05 ↗ and and invited your commission your

1:15:08 ↗ board in planning policy commission and

1:15:10 ↗ arts Commission because we worked with

1:15:12 ↗ you all throughout the year and we have

1:15:15 ↗ enjoyed so much that connection and

1:15:18 ↗ again waned to talk more right so we

1:15:20 ↗ thought let's have this um it's not an

1:15:22 ↗ official meeting so I don't have to

1:15:23 ↗ worry about Quorum but I do need to make

1:15:27 ↗ sure we have enough Refreshments like

1:15:29 ↗ Refreshments so if you can attend just

1:15:30 ↗ let us know if you decide the last

1:15:32 ↗ minute you want to come don't not come

1:15:34 ↗ because you didn't

1:15:35 ↗ RSVP um and yeah so we would love to I

1:15:39 ↗ mean be able to connect with the people

1:15:41 ↗ that are in our commission which I know

1:15:43 ↗ last time it was it was hard we didn't

1:15:45 ↗ have everybody in the same which just

1:15:46 ↗ you know hard but um but they yeah they

1:15:50 ↗ want to continue this conversation and I

1:15:52 ↗ think as hard hard that it is sometimes

1:15:54 ↗ to get a joint commission meeting I

1:15:55 ↗ think those are just um have been really

1:15:59 ↗ not just fun but just like enlightening

1:16:01 ↗ because you kind of hear perspectives

1:16:03 ↗ that are uh that are like entwined and

1:16:05 ↗ you're like oh yeah and then there so

1:16:08 ↗ yeah all right so we look at all of at

1:16:11 ↗ all of you to help us implement

1:16:13 ↗ this I don't mean like you're the work

1:16:15 ↗ every day although unless you want you

1:16:17 ↗ but um but there's lots of opportunity

1:16:20 ↗ and ideas that everybody has and we you

1:16:23 ↗ know we are not um the experts at all of

1:16:26 ↗ this but we definitely um have a lot of

1:16:29 ↗ resources we can connect with people

1:16:31 ↗ with and who knows

1:16:33 ↗ right so awesome thank you J thank you

1:16:36 ↗ yeah

1:16:37 ↗ sorry and as is always the case you know

1:16:41 ↗ if you're like me and you sleep on

1:16:43 ↗ things so your whole thoughts are formed

1:16:46 ↗ feel free to follow up J of you over

1:16:48 ↗ email yes yes please

1:16:51 ↗ yeah awesome

1:16:53 ↗ on to you D on to me hello

1:16:57 ↗ everyone I'm always here but I'm often

1:17:00 ↗ silent I'm excited to get a chance to

1:17:03 ↗ present a bit of an update tonight um on

1:17:06 ↗ our cultural and religious calendar

1:17:07 ↗ pilot that we've been engaged in over

1:17:10 ↗ the course of the last year plus uh

1:17:12 ↗ really with the intention tonight uh of

1:17:15 ↗ doing two things sharing an update on

1:17:18 ↗ the calendar the pilot implementation

1:17:20 ↗ that occurred in 2023 so the course of

1:17:23 ↗ this year and then also to collect

1:17:26 ↗ feedback ahead of I'm not sure if

1:17:29 ↗ permanentiy is a is a true word I might

1:17:32 ↗ have made it up but there we'd like to

1:17:35 ↗ move from Pilot to a permanent calendar

1:17:37 ↗ knowing that of course the dates will

1:17:40 ↗ change every year but that the um

1:17:43 ↗ specifically we'll talk about the the

1:17:45 ↗ days of utmost significance on that

1:17:46 ↗ shorter list um finalizing those with

1:17:51 ↗ some caveats of course

1:17:53 ↗ uh so that's the the hope for tonight

1:17:55 ↗ and I've got two specific questions long

1:17:58 ↗ questions but specific questions I'd

1:18:00 ↗ like us to consider are there any

1:18:02 ↗ cultural Andor religious holidays

1:18:04 ↗ missing from the overall long calendar

1:18:07 ↗ the 100 plus um day calendar that we

1:18:12 ↗ should include in the final and

1:18:15 ↗ permanent calendar and do you support

1:18:17 ↗ the changes that have been made on this

1:18:19 ↗ shorter calendar um given the Community

1:18:23 ↗ feedback and the input that uh staff

1:18:26 ↗ received over the course of 2023

1:18:28 ↗ lucrecia before I move

1:18:30 ↗ on uh yes please I I don't believe we

1:18:34 ↗ have any but if we do forgive me but if

1:18:37 ↗ we don't have them I would like for us

1:18:39 ↗ to reach out into the um Native American

1:18:44 ↗ community and see if there are events

1:18:47 ↗ that are important to them um that we

1:18:51 ↗ should be including and that we as a

1:18:54 ↗ city should eventually consider having

1:18:57 ↗ days off for example indigenous day I

1:19:01 ↗ don't know if we do that already but if

1:19:04 ↗ not that that minimally needs to be

1:19:06 ↗ added and I would like for us to

1:19:09 ↗ consider having a day off for that in

1:19:12 ↗ particular thank you thank you I'm happy

1:19:15 ↗ to share a bit about uh the work the

1:19:18 ↗ mayor has already done in Consulting the

1:19:20 ↗ snow FY tribe and and decisions that

1:19:24 ↗ she's put forward and we can absolutely

1:19:25 ↗ add that recommendation if the group

1:19:27 ↗ would like to um okay so want to give

1:19:30 ↗ you a little bit a background you all

1:19:31 ↗ probably know more about this calendar

1:19:33 ↗ than I do uh which is not true I've now

1:19:36 ↗ downloaded all that information from the

1:19:38 ↗ folks that have led that work uh but I

1:19:41 ↗ was new to this calendar to

1:19:44 ↗ understanding the Deep um work that's

1:19:46 ↗ been done on this calendar um the

1:19:49 ↗ calendar was originally developed in

1:19:51 ↗ partnership with some of the folks in

1:19:53 ↗ this room um both at the table and in in

1:19:56 ↗ our audience tonight to provide a tool

1:20:00 ↗ for diversity and inclusion for City

1:20:02 ↗ staff by creating a list of important

1:20:05 ↗ religious and cultural holidays that the

1:20:07 ↗ city should take into consideration when

1:20:10 ↗ planning public meetings so whether

1:20:12 ↗ those are public meetings that have been

1:20:14 ↗ on the calendar all year like our City

1:20:16 ↗ Council meetings uh regular board and

1:20:19 ↗ commission meetings like the ones that

1:20:20 ↗ we have or even just open open meetings

1:20:25 ↗ um open houses that we might need at an

1:20:27 ↗ ad hoc manner throughout the year and

1:20:30 ↗ the second purpose is to formalize the

1:20:32 ↗ city's commitment to diversity and

1:20:33 ↗ inclusion and help increase awareness of

1:20:36 ↗ the religious and cultural diversity

1:20:38 ↗ represented here in our

1:20:41 ↗ city when the calendar was developed

1:20:45 ↗ three criteria were used in determining

1:20:49 ↗ what holidays days of significance would

1:20:52 ↗ be prioritized we could have made a list

1:20:56 ↗ of every day of significance that exists

1:20:59 ↗ across the world and that would have

1:21:02 ↗ potentially you know every day you add

1:21:04 ↗ it becomes a little bit more diluted in

1:21:06 ↗ terms of the ones that we're saying we

1:21:07 ↗ really want to attend to and as we will

1:21:12 ↗ have a discussion at the end of this

1:21:14 ↗ presentation about even our own planning

1:21:16 ↗ for a meeting it can be very hard to

1:21:19 ↗ negotiate the planning of public

1:21:21 ↗ meetings um with each that we say we

1:21:23 ↗ can't have a public meeting on the days

1:21:25 ↗ that we can have them become fewer and

1:21:27 ↗ fewer and we have many many um boards

1:21:30 ↗ and commissions I think 13 boards and

1:21:32 ↗ commissions um in addition to council

1:21:35 ↗ committee meetings in addition to

1:21:37 ↗ regular Council meetings so that's

1:21:39 ↗ hundreds of meetings over the course of

1:21:41 ↗ the year so we used these three criteria

1:21:44 ↗ to determine which holidays and

1:21:47 ↗ significant days would be put would be

1:21:49 ↗ prioritized in this calendar prior was

1:21:53 ↗ given for holidays that POS significant

1:21:55 ↗ work restrictions and therefore would

1:21:57 ↗ limit members of our community from

1:21:59 ↗ engaging in public spaces consideration

1:22:02 ↗ was also given to the demographic

1:22:04 ↗ representation in isqua making sure that

1:22:06 ↗ the holidays and significant days

1:22:08 ↗ celebrated by residents here are

1:22:10 ↗ reflected in when we choose to have

1:22:12 ↗ meetings so not just how our meetings

1:22:14 ↗ are conducted but literally the days

1:22:16 ↗ that they're on matter for

1:22:19 ↗ inclusion and then last certainly not

1:22:21 ↗ least consideration

1:22:23 ↗ was given for holidays that provide an

1:22:25 ↗ opportunity for individual and Community

1:22:28 ↗ reflection for increased awareness and

1:22:30 ↗ for deeper

1:22:32 ↗ understanding this is likely not news

1:22:34 ↗ for too I mean some of you are like yep

1:22:36 ↗ I helped write the document that said

1:22:38 ↗ those words which is

1:22:40 ↗ great the implementation this is maybe

1:22:43 ↗ where I get to bring some of the fun new

1:22:46 ↗ knowledge to the group so at a very high

1:22:49 ↗ level there were sort of three elements

1:22:51 ↗ of implementation sharing that full

1:22:54 ↗ longer calendar with

1:22:56 ↗ staff from that full calendar

1:22:58 ↗ determining the days of upmost

1:23:00 ↗ importance that should be used in

1:23:03 ↗ scheduling public meetings specifically

1:23:05 ↗ which days not to schedule public

1:23:07 ↗ meetings on and that was that shorter

1:23:10 ↗ list was shared on the city's website

1:23:12 ↗ and then we have three specific teams uh

1:23:15 ↗ that really led the implementation and

1:23:17 ↗ I'm going to talk a little bit about you

1:23:18 ↗ saw in the memo for tonight a little bit

1:23:21 ↗ about what each of those teams

1:23:23 ↗ endeavored to um in the implementation

1:23:27 ↗ effort the first one is a city clerk um

1:23:32 ↗ I I if Tisha and Chris don't have to be

1:23:34 ↗ at a meeting I really tell them please

1:23:36 ↗ take the night off because they're often

1:23:38 ↗ at meetings and so I'm going to talk a

1:23:40 ↗ little bit about their

1:23:42 ↗ implementation our city clerks focused a

1:23:45 ↗ lot on that utmost significance holidays

1:23:48 ↗ on our City's website they were 14 or 15

1:23:51 ↗ days in particular that

1:23:54 ↗ um the city clerks went and looked at

1:23:58 ↗ all of the public meetings that we had

1:24:00 ↗ for the entire year the city council

1:24:01 ↗ calendar Council committee calendar and

1:24:04 ↗ our boards and commission meetings and

1:24:06 ↗ made sure that none of them conflicted

1:24:09 ↗ with any of those 15 days um I believe

1:24:13 ↗ the direct number of of City Council

1:24:17 ↗ meetings that were moved was actually in

1:24:19 ↗ the memo itself and I don't want to get

1:24:20 ↗ it wrong um but I know they needed to

1:24:22 ↗ move a number of City Council meetings

1:24:25 ↗ and then when it came to board and

1:24:26 ↗ commission meetings you know it's one of

1:24:28 ↗ those really fun you move one Domino you

1:24:31 ↗ move many dominoes so if you move from

1:24:35 ↗ one meeting you may have to now move

1:24:37 ↗ another meeting um space as we've talked

1:24:40 ↗ about and I know this group has

1:24:42 ↗ experienced space for public meetings at

1:24:44 ↗ the city is also kind of limited and so

1:24:48 ↗ if you have 13 boards and

1:24:50 ↗ commissions you know I don't want to use

1:24:52 ↗ were battling but you know vying for two

1:24:54 ↗ to three public meeting spaces it can

1:24:57 ↗ become very um challenging and so we saw

1:25:00 ↗ we didn't quantify that we didn't go

1:25:02 ↗ back and kind of look at exactly how

1:25:04 ↗ many but we do know that there's a lot

1:25:05 ↗ of moving around um of meetings to

1:25:09 ↗ accommodate that calendar ambitious yet

1:25:11 ↗ feasible something that the clerks in

1:25:13 ↗ reflection said I'm really glad we did

1:25:15 ↗ this it was really tough to do it midle

1:25:18 ↗ to not do it from the beginning of the

1:25:20 ↗ year but they feel they're really

1:25:21 ↗ excited to have a clear calendar to plan

1:25:23 ↗ around going into

1:25:25 ↗ 2024 um hopefully to be able to with

1:25:28 ↗ those days already um to plan around

1:25:30 ↗ from the start

1:25:32 ↗ so challenging but it worked so they

1:25:35 ↗ ensured that no city council Council

1:25:37 ↗ committee or Advisory board or

1:25:39 ↗ commission meeting was scheduled on any

1:25:40 ↗ of those dates that from the pilot

1:25:42 ↗ calendar from the utmost significance

1:25:45 ↗ list let me talk through the the next

1:25:47 ↗ two implementation pieces then I'll

1:25:50 ↗ pause I believe that's when we'll talk a

1:25:51 ↗ little bit about what's what's hope what

1:25:53 ↗ I'm proposing Communications was another

1:25:56 ↗ team that really

1:25:59 ↗ um I would say led a lot of

1:26:01 ↗ implementation of this pilot

1:26:03 ↗ specifically by sharing holidays from

1:26:06 ↗ the calendar with Community through both

1:26:08 ↗ Twitter or X or whatever we call it

1:26:10 ↗ these days and Facebook um and also they

1:26:13 ↗ created and they maintain the city web

1:26:15 ↗ page on which this calendar exists and

1:26:18 ↗ they monitor for um resident feedback or

1:26:21 ↗ commun feedback that comes through the

1:26:23 ↗ website we of course are accepting

1:26:25 ↗ feedback through all sorts of channels

1:26:27 ↗ but we do have right on the website a

1:26:29 ↗ place to say hey I have a holiday or a

1:26:32 ↗ day of cultural significance that's not

1:26:33 ↗ reflected in

1:26:35 ↗ this and Human Resources so on the

1:26:38 ↗ internal piece you know one of the big

1:26:39 ↗ reasons for this

1:26:41 ↗ tool was to support the Learning and

1:26:46 ↗ Development of our staff also and our

1:26:48 ↗ staff awareness around the holidays or

1:26:51 ↗ celebrated by members of this community

1:26:53 ↗ that we work and serve um I realize

1:26:57 ↗ there's words up there that maybe don't

1:26:59 ↗ make sense so I'm going to say explain a

1:27:00 ↗ little bit so the holidays were the

1:27:03 ↗ holidays are shared through with our

1:27:05 ↗ staff community Through what we call the

1:27:07 ↗ quanal which is our internal newsletter

1:27:09 ↗ I know we can't avoid it over here if

1:27:11 ↗ it's not qua something it's salmon

1:27:15 ↗ something but HR making an effort to

1:27:18 ↗ make sure that at the the start of every

1:27:20 ↗ month that they share not just that

1:27:23 ↗ those holidays are happening but share

1:27:25 ↗ the information that the Human Services

1:27:27 ↗ team and that you all give feedback on

1:27:30 ↗ about each of those

1:27:31 ↗ holidays also sharing um the option for

1:27:34 ↗ staff to put calendar holds on their own

1:27:36 ↗ work calendars so they can be aware of

1:27:39 ↗ those days as they come up over the

1:27:41 ↗ course of the week that also helps with

1:27:43 ↗ some of the planning and scheduling that

1:27:44 ↗ we talked about

1:27:46 ↗ before um and as is mentioned aware of

1:27:51 ↗ them alongside the holidays that are

1:27:52 ↗ already sort of pre-populated into our

1:27:54 ↗ calendars um the federal holidays are

1:27:56 ↗ the holidays on which the city city hall

1:27:58 ↗ is

1:27:59 ↗ closed feedback we did get feedback

1:28:02 ↗ throughout the year on this pilot and I

1:28:04 ↗ want to share a little bit about the

1:28:05 ↗ feedback that we got um specific I know

1:28:09 ↗ I I will talk just through the three

1:28:11 ↗ bullet points specifically we got some

1:28:12 ↗ feedback on the exclusion of Christian

1:28:15 ↗ holidays of most significance in the

1:28:17 ↗ calendar namely Good Friday Easter and

1:28:19 ↗ Christmas um I think it was It was a

1:28:22 ↗ really great convers speaking from

1:28:24 ↗ personal um I was personally in a

1:28:26 ↗ conversation where we talked about this

1:28:27 ↗ a bit and that the the purpose of the

1:28:31 ↗ calendar was inclusion and diversity and

1:28:34 ↗ so there was really an issue of

1:28:36 ↗ exclusion when we took away holidays of

1:28:39 ↗ utmost significance for other uh for

1:28:41 ↗ other religious uh

1:28:43 ↗ groups a change was recommended for the

1:28:46 ↗ for the bigh holidays that are on the

1:28:48 ↗ utmost significance calendar um in

1:28:50 ↗ consultation with the beis isqua um

1:28:53 ↗ looking ahead there are many holidays to

1:28:55 ↗ celebrate and so we wanted to make sure

1:28:57 ↗ that after this pilot year the the two

1:29:00 ↗ that were on that shorter list are these

1:29:02 ↗ the ones that we want to make sure we're

1:29:03 ↗ really protecting when it comes to when

1:29:05 ↗ we plan public meetings and a change to

1:29:07 ↗ the Buddhist holiday on the utmost

1:29:09 ↗ significance calendar to better reflect

1:29:10 ↗ a holiday that's most holy to the

1:29:13 ↗ largest number of Buddhists the holiday

1:29:15 ↗ that was originally on the um utmost

1:29:18 ↗ significance is really only celebrated

1:29:20 ↗ by one sect of Buddhism

1:29:22 ↗ and it's not even truly the most

1:29:24 ↗ significant holiday for that sect of

1:29:26 ↗ Buddhism and so we we were the

1:29:28 ↗ recommendation was made to change it to

1:29:31 ↗ um a holiday that is universally

1:29:33 ↗ celebrated by Buddhists and is a

1:29:35 ↗ considered to be a a a Holier day um

1:29:38 ↗ which is reflected in the short calendar

1:29:40 ↗ which we'll talk about in a moment um so

1:29:43 ↗ this brings us to the 2024 calendar um

1:29:47 ↗ there were no there were no changes to

1:29:49 ↗ the long calendar we didn't have anyone

1:29:52 ↗ reach out and say you forgot holidays um

1:29:55 ↗ I don't feel that I'm my my community is

1:29:58 ↗ reflected in this uh pear lucrecia's um

1:30:02 ↗ comment and question mayor Paulie has

1:30:05 ↗ worked closely with the snow colomy

1:30:06 ↗ tribe one of our closest Partners around

1:30:08 ↗ which days they'd like to see reflected

1:30:11 ↗ and they've and I think I can still

1:30:14 ↗ bring the recommendation if this group

1:30:15 ↗ would like me to bring their

1:30:16 ↗ recommendation they've explicitly asked

1:30:18 ↗ us not to to celebrate indigenous

1:30:20 ↗ people's day that's not a day that they

1:30:22 ↗ feel reflects uh the they the day that

1:30:25 ↗ they want to honor but they'd like their

1:30:27 ↗ Founders Day in that calendar and so we

1:30:30 ↗ have the founders day in the calendar

1:30:31 ↗ it's not a day that requires a work

1:30:33 ↗ restriction so we've asked them

1:30:35 ↗ explicitly should that be a day we plan

1:30:37 ↗ around um and they've said no you can

1:30:40 ↗ hold public meetings on that day so

1:30:42 ↗ that's a conversation she has ongoing

1:30:44 ↗ relationship with tribal leaders um and

1:30:47 ↗ so we've chosen to honor that I think if

1:30:49 ↗ this board would like to make a

1:30:51 ↗ recommendation and addition I think you

1:30:52 ↗ should feel free to during discussion to

1:30:54 ↗ talk about adding that and we can I can

1:30:56 ↗ carry that forward to council committee

1:30:59 ↗ so agree yeah we'll come back to that

1:31:01 ↗ but so for the 2024 calendar the changes

1:31:03 ↗ we made um which I just sort of talked

1:31:05 ↗ through a bit right here um the the one

1:31:09 ↗ additional in in addition to the

1:31:11 ↗ feedback so the changes up here the

1:31:13 ↗ first three bullets reflect the feedback

1:31:15 ↗ that we received from staff and from the

1:31:17 ↗ community the last bullet I think is

1:31:19 ↗ also really important there was a great

1:31:20 ↗ conversation around there's got to be

1:31:24 ↗ some way

1:31:25 ↗ to put these utmost days of utmost

1:31:30 ↗ significance which are almost entirely I

1:31:33 ↗ think maybe entirely reflective of

1:31:35 ↗ religious in significant days alongside

1:31:38 ↗ other cultural days of cultural

1:31:40 ↗ significance many of which are already

1:31:43 ↗ days that are granted no work days by

1:31:47 ↗ the federal holidays system and days

1:31:49 ↗ that our city hall is closed and so this

1:31:51 ↗ shorter list that you could you see in

1:31:52 ↗ front of you is longer than last year's

1:31:54 ↗ short list um I wouldn't say it's a I

1:31:58 ↗ wouldn't say a star and then a double

1:32:00 ↗ star is a perfect way to connote um the

1:32:02 ↗ difference between the difference

1:32:04 ↗ between the days within the list but um

1:32:07 ↗ emerging of this utmost significance

1:32:09 ↗ calendar with our federal holiday city

1:32:12 ↗ hall closed calendar uh was also a

1:32:14 ↗ recommendation for 2024 that we bring

1:32:16 ↗ those together um in a way that we can

1:32:19 ↗ say these are holidays of of a similar

1:32:21 ↗ significance even if we will still be

1:32:23 ↗ open for business from 9: to

1:32:27 ↗ 4 timing and next steps as it's helpful

1:32:29 ↗ and then we'll come back to the

1:32:30 ↗ questions um input from y'all excited to

1:32:34 ↗ hear your thoughts on this in many ways

1:32:37 ↗ the folks that have been on this board

1:32:38 ↗ for you know over a year now you've had

1:32:40 ↗ touches on this item before even I've

1:32:42 ↗ had touches on it from here um whatever

1:32:45 ↗ you recommend will go to city council

1:32:48 ↗ Committee in January late January I

1:32:51 ↗ believe the dates that the 23rd and then

1:32:52 ↗ we'll go um to consideration for city

1:32:55 ↗ council for permanent adoption the way

1:32:57 ↗ that that will look as you likely read

1:32:59 ↗ in the memo is that doesn't mean that we

1:33:01 ↗ we put it in uh we give it to the clerks

1:33:04 ↗ and we say Good Good carry this on there

1:33:06 ↗ will it will always be open for

1:33:08 ↗ revisiting anytime a Community member

1:33:10 ↗ reaches out and says hey we've got

1:33:12 ↗ something that's sound in here you know

1:33:13 ↗ we will revisit annually and add

1:33:15 ↗ holidays as needed um and we'll keep the

1:33:18 ↗ website up to date and allow people to

1:33:20 ↗ continue to to leave comments on it um

1:33:22 ↗ this is really just moving it from being

1:33:25 ↗ a pilot to being a permanent practice

1:33:27 ↗ that the city engages in so I think it's

1:33:29 ↗ a statement of saying yeah we're glad we

1:33:31 ↗ did this we're glad we did this and we

1:33:33 ↗ feel like it represents um our city

1:33:35 ↗ taking a big step forward and making

1:33:37 ↗ sure that our meetings happen um at a

1:33:40 ↗ time and on a dates that are that are

1:33:43 ↗ available for community members so

1:33:46 ↗ that's the long and short of it think I

1:33:49 ↗ did pretty good on time there these are

1:33:51 ↗ the two questions and so I know luri has

1:33:53 ↗ already made a recommendation for the

1:33:55 ↗ group to consider but I'm happy to take

1:33:57 ↗ questions um maybe first and then we can

1:34:00 ↗ move to

1:34:02 ↗ discussion so any questions yeah well I

1:34:05 ↗ don't know if this was a question but

1:34:07 ↗ just say say it you know I was looking

1:34:10 ↗ at the longer calendar and and I was

1:34:13 ↗ texting back and forth with my husband

1:34:15 ↗ who's from Taiwan and thinking about

1:34:17 ↗ Lunar New Year and I know there's a lot

1:34:20 ↗ of days where folks who observe that in

1:34:26 ↗ the region um they take a lot of days

1:34:28 ↗ off and a lot of businesses close so I

1:34:31 ↗ don't know what that means but it is a a

1:34:35 ↗ period of significance you know for uh

1:34:38 ↗ that the region and we have I think J

1:34:41 ↗ point you know earlier demographics here

1:34:43 ↗ we do have a lot of folks from that area

1:34:46 ↗ yeah so I don't have like a clear like

1:34:49 ↗ this day but just thinking about if how

1:34:52 ↗ that could be reflected in the UT most

1:34:55 ↗ significance thing yeah we have lar New

1:34:58 ↗ Year in there we have the one day that

1:35:00 ↗ is considered to be I believe the start

1:35:02 ↗ of Chinese lunar new year which I know

1:35:05 ↗ is one yeah day so I don't know how to

1:35:08 ↗ like operationalize it so just putting

1:35:11 ↗ it out there for a little more

1:35:14 ↗ consideration and then I just have a

1:35:16 ↗ broader comment that I'm really proud of

1:35:18 ↗ the city for moving this forward and to

1:35:20 ↗ make it a per so that that's just a

1:35:23 ↗ great signal out to the community about

1:35:26 ↗ the uh being welcoming and

1:35:30 ↗ inclusive

1:35:33 ↗ awesome this is more of a just can't

1:35:36 ↗ remember like everything that went on

1:35:38 ↗ with this when I when I look at this and

1:35:40 ↗ I I I think about okay well why did we

1:35:44 ↗ not include

1:35:49 ↗ Han I can address that a little bit yeah

1:35:52 ↗ I can too but yeah go for it remember

1:35:55 ↗ why so for our calendar we have Hana but

1:36:00 ↗ when working with uh Rabbi she literally

1:36:04 ↗ wanted me to put in there that this is

1:36:05 ↗ not like Christmas this is not one of

1:36:07 ↗ the most significant holidays and that

1:36:11 ↗ they really wanted to protect Dr y

1:36:13 ↗ Kipper and rashishana and even I think

1:36:17 ↗ sukut was one of the other ones that

1:36:20 ↗ Hanukkah wasn't really a high religious

1:36:24 ↗ holiday uh so we put it in but it

1:36:28 ↗ literally says in ours that it might

1:36:30 ↗ impact families but really it doesn't

1:36:32 ↗ say that the kids are going to be

1:36:34 ↗ absent um but we just put it in there

1:36:37 ↗ for that like more knowledge

1:36:40 ↗ but thank you Lorna that was a good good

1:36:43 ↗ quick reminder for me as well um it is

1:36:46 ↗ on the long calendar um okay yeah when I

1:36:50 ↗ just didn't see it here like what

1:36:53 ↗ and Dale I can talk about Luna New Year

1:36:56 ↗ also a little bit if you want that would

1:36:58 ↗ be great so for the school district in

1:37:02 ↗ working with a very large uh Chinese

1:37:05 ↗ population and families we shared the

1:37:08 ↗ calendar with them and we asked using

1:37:11 ↗ the social media platform WeChat about

1:37:15 ↗ this and the parents wanted to kind of

1:37:19 ↗ just be more aware of the main day of

1:37:22 ↗ the Luna New Year which was the Eve but

1:37:24 ↗ we did put in a blurb about that it

1:37:27 ↗ might impact in other days it might be

1:37:29 ↗ days for families to be traveling and we

1:37:32 ↗ have that in our comment in our

1:37:34 ↗ information section of our calendar and

1:37:38 ↗ I'm wondering Dale if the day is put in

1:37:41 ↗ there I know we're playing with the same

1:37:44 ↗ idea of adding this to uh how do we

1:37:47 ↗ share it more effectively with our staff

1:37:49 ↗ but the idea was to maybe put put it in

1:37:51 ↗ the

1:37:53 ↗ notes in The Not So when people when it

1:37:57 ↗ pops pop opens if there's some way to

1:38:00 ↗ like do a popup or just like a little

1:38:02 ↗ blurb somewhere in the note if they're

1:38:04 ↗ adding it like what that means to them

1:38:07 ↗ so that was a suggestion given to me to

1:38:09 ↗ add some of these you know details just

1:38:13 ↗ so that uh staff understands because

1:38:16 ↗ sometimes it's Sunset to Sunset and so

1:38:20 ↗ people get confused about that and they

1:38:23 ↗ schedule something and it's like no you

1:38:25 ↗ can't because Sunset is right now and

1:38:27 ↗ driving home is going to impact students

1:38:29 ↗ who are Jewish and they wouldn't be able

1:38:31 ↗ to attend the event and so we want to

1:38:33 ↗ make sure they can

1:38:35 ↗ so I think that is a great

1:38:40 ↗ recommendation I'm curious before I

1:38:42 ↗ Lucia go to you I would I just be

1:38:44 ↗ curious to get folks thought on that as

1:38:46 ↗ a thing to bring back to the

1:38:48 ↗ administration internally to in those

1:38:50 ↗ calendar holds

1:38:52 ↗ copying some of the the Nuance I would

1:38:55 ↗ say that we have in some of the longer

1:38:56 ↗ calendar so that folks know yes

1:38:59 ↗ absolutely

1:39:02 ↗ okay

1:39:05 ↗ lcia yes I think that in addition to

1:39:07 ↗ what you just said Dale in terms of

1:39:09 ↗ adding this because of nuance I think it

1:39:11 ↗ would be important to have um maybe a

1:39:15 ↗ way to like link each culture that

1:39:18 ↗ belongs to the different holidays with

1:39:21 ↗ an

1:39:22 ↗ explanation um like the one Lura just

1:39:25 ↗ gave as to why we have you know certain

1:39:29 ↗ days on the calend on the shorter

1:39:32 ↗ calendar and not others but specific to

1:39:35 ↗ the cultures so that for those of us who

1:39:38 ↗ are not familiar like what is lunar uh

1:39:41 ↗ what is lunar observance what is yon

1:39:44 ↗ Kapur to be able to say oh this is a

1:39:46 ↗ Jewish holiday oh this is a South Asian

1:39:49 ↗ holiday because I think could also serve

1:39:52 ↗ as an educational tool for the community

1:39:55 ↗ not just in recognition of but to inform

1:40:00 ↗ ourselves of who our neighbors are and

1:40:03 ↗ what they are celebrating thank

1:40:05 ↗ you what I hear you saying is some of

1:40:08 ↗ the same resources we provided our

1:40:10 ↗ internal

1:40:12 ↗ staff having those so as we think about

1:40:15 ↗ the the update to the

1:40:16 ↗ website correct making sure that there's

1:40:19 ↗ that that same resources

1:40:21 ↗ May packaged a little bit differently

1:40:22 ↗ but those same resources are available

1:40:24 ↗ externally Kurt I'm I'm correct I'm

1:40:27 ↗ thinking like you know when I'm looking

1:40:28 ↗ at the website if I click on Christmas

1:40:32 ↗ that they'll take me to the cultures

1:40:34 ↗ that celebrate Christmas and why is that

1:40:37 ↗ included and then maybe even a blurb as

1:40:40 ↗ to what other holidays are important but

1:40:42 ↗ that are not included and why and that I

1:40:45 ↗ think is community building right

1:40:48 ↗ because if you're from that culture you

1:40:51 ↗ understand it's it's inherent it's part

1:40:52 ↗ of your day-to-day but if you're from

1:40:55 ↗ not that culture I think a way to to

1:40:59 ↗ Bridge and create Community is to inform

1:41:04 ↗ us great thank you comment

1:41:09 ↗ too um last year if if some of you may

1:41:13 ↗ recall I worked with Hannah and and uh

1:41:16 ↗ Monica when um pride month came to

1:41:19 ↗ celebrate lgbtq I got um students from

1:41:22 ↗ isqua high school and we got the garage

1:41:25 ↗ participated in the event now just for

1:41:27 ↗ for um sharing purposes there's no date

1:41:30 ↗ for for gbq celebrations there is one I

1:41:33 ↗ can think of it's probably Stonewall

1:41:34 ↗ riots from New York that happened on

1:41:36 ↗ June 28 um if we're listing events here

1:41:39 ↗ that aren't necessarily fall into the

1:41:41 ↗ two buckets at the top meaning there's a

1:41:43 ↗ significant work restriction or the city

1:41:45 ↗ offices are Clos your federal holidays I

1:41:46 ↗ see one uh Dia de lto that's neither of

1:41:50 ↗ go but it's on here but it's an

1:41:53 ↗ opportunity for us from an equity lens

1:41:55 ↗ to educate maybe there's an opportunity

1:41:57 ↗ for us to include something in there if

1:41:59 ↗ there's a de that we can

1:42:01 ↗ signify um so just just some feedback

1:42:04 ↗ from the group on that and then and then

1:42:05 ↗ following up on L's thing I think that

1:42:07 ↗ was really powerful for us as an equity

1:42:10 ↗ board to be to to to um leverage this

1:42:14 ↗ calendar and see if there's opportunity

1:42:16 ↗ for us to be more involved and Tony I

1:42:20 ↗ thought you and and um you were involved

1:42:22 ↗ in um a juneth event yes right I don't

1:42:25 ↗ know if you were not this year but the

1:42:27 ↗ previous years yeah so so so that event

1:42:29 ↗ was online it was it was set out through

1:42:32 ↗ the city website it says hey we have an

1:42:34 ↗ equity board member here it was me and

1:42:36 ↗ then invited city folks um to help me

1:42:39 ↗ facilitate like Monica and Hannah andol

1:42:41 ↗ involve some speakers it's just a way

1:42:43 ↗ for us as an equity board to be part of

1:42:44 ↗ the calendar and to be um messaging

1:42:47 ↗ after to the community in a more

1:42:49 ↗ efficient manner yeah and good news I

1:42:52 ↗ mean Monica is continuing to carry the

1:42:54 ↗ the work forward on those community

1:42:55 ↗ events and so she'll be she'll be

1:42:57 ↗ reaching out to the equity board she'll

1:42:59 ↗ likely be visiting the equity board but

1:43:02 ↗ yeah our Human Services team is still

1:43:04 ↗ planning those those community events

1:43:05 ↗ throughout the year okay

1:43:08 ↗ yeah yeah I I mean if it's if you want

1:43:11 ↗ like I

1:43:13 ↗ said pride pride there's a lot of those

1:43:16 ↗ that fall into a month right you

1:43:17 ↗ celebrate for the whole month there's no

1:43:18 ↗ specific date but if there is one that

1:43:21 ↗ we can just Mark and that doesn't need

1:43:22 ↗ to be happening but at least it's just

1:43:24 ↗ acknowledges the city of isquat knows

1:43:26 ↗ that the state exists so there's a

1:43:28 ↗ different version of the calendar online

1:43:30 ↗ and so there's a loving day oh okay Jun

1:43:34 ↗ the court case June 12th and then

1:43:36 ↗ there's a national coming out day and

1:43:40 ↗ where is it it's in October yeah October

1:43:42 ↗ 11th okay okay what day is Ling day 11

1:43:46 ↗ day was I believe June 12th on here okay

1:43:50 ↗ that was second yeah yeah yeah that's

1:43:53 ↗ cool and then along the lines of

1:43:55 ↗ educating you know Ted there's a couple

1:43:56 ↗ baj events on here like if there's if

1:43:58 ↗ think we work partners with the

1:44:00 ↗ organizations that have US helped us put

1:44:02 ↗ these on the calendar and do one of

1:44:03 ↗ those educational things online to help

1:44:05 ↗ talk just yeah

1:44:08 ↗ okay curiosity question Dale from a city

1:44:11 ↗ perspective let's say as far as Equity

1:44:13 ↗ is concerned for a city as a city

1:44:15 ↗ employee like yourself are there a

1:44:17 ↗ number of let's say loading holidays at

1:44:20 ↗ City employees are allowed so that they

1:44:23 ↗ can take advantage of cultural cultural

1:44:26 ↗ holiday we have one you get one floating

1:44:32 ↗ holiday I have said that in a public

1:44:34 ↗ meeting yeah I would actually like to

1:44:38 ↗ petition the mayor that it should be

1:44:40 ↗ more it should at least be three at the

1:44:43 ↗ very least three quoting please yeah at

1:44:47 ↗ least feel right that down

1:44:51 ↗ we want to have a subcommittee in 2024

1:44:53 ↗ that wants to push that I'm not going to

1:44:55 ↗ get in your way yeah let's do it let's

1:44:58 ↗ do it you should at least I mean two

1:44:59 ↗ maybe but definitely

1:45:02 ↗ three I think did you want yeah I had a

1:45:05 ↗ question about

1:45:07 ↗ um yeah the these are categories for

1:45:11 ↗ cultural and religious events but I'm

1:45:13 ↗ also curious if there is a broader set

1:45:15 ↗ of categories that includes

1:45:17 ↗ environmental events these are

1:45:20 ↗ significant like Earth Day or climate

1:45:22 ↗ day water day Etc I want to say Earth

1:45:26 ↗ Day actually may be I'm not surey has

1:45:30 ↗ the thing up in front of her um but it

1:45:33 ↗ might not be it's not on that online one

1:45:37 ↗ and I don't think it's it's definitely

1:45:39 ↗ not in the short yeah I also see that as

1:45:42 ↗ a as an opportunity to bring various

1:45:44 ↗ communities together absolutely because

1:45:46 ↗ we are I think all concerned about these

1:45:48 ↗ issues could be a really nice Bridge

1:45:51 ↗ um so yeah I mean I have a whole list of

1:45:54 ↗ possible days but Earth Day is a pretty

1:45:57 ↗ wellknown one I think that's March 22nd

1:45:59 ↗ if right I thought it was

1:46:04 ↗ April April okay

1:46:10 ↗ um yeah so that's that

1:46:12 ↗ one and the comment is it's very

1:46:15 ↗ comforting to see 30 days marked on this

1:46:19 ↗ list I I was born and raced in India and

1:46:22 ↗ we had about 30 holidays for all the

1:46:25 ↗ possible festivals and events and

1:46:28 ↗ cultural things going on in the country

1:46:30 ↗ um and when I first came to the US I was

1:46:32 ↗ like what you only have eight

1:46:35 ↗ holidays I'm going back to India

1:46:40 ↗ tomorrow this is like first conv that is

1:46:44 ↗ quite close to what I saw as a kid so

1:46:46 ↗ yeah yeah

1:46:49 ↗ nice

1:46:51 ↗ there is one holiday that it is kind of

1:46:54 ↗ like nine whole days and I don't know

1:46:57 ↗ like it is a Hindu holiday but I'm not

1:46:59 ↗ sure like how many people definitely

1:47:01 ↗ celebrate it like within this region but

1:47:03 ↗ it's called like n n 3 and are you still

1:47:07 ↗ accepting like Community responses for

1:47:10 ↗ people to yeah okay yeah I I mean the

1:47:14 ↗ website you could you could share that

1:47:16 ↗ link with all the people you

1:47:19 ↗ know well it's on the it's on

1:47:25 ↗ long cool because I think the thing that

1:47:28 ↗ is really and and I'm sure Laura I think

1:47:32 ↗ I think the school district went through

1:47:33 ↗ this process prior to the city going

1:47:35 ↗ through this process and what the

1:47:38 ↗ biggest challenge and I would be curious

1:47:40 ↗ to hear your perspective and not having

1:47:42 ↗ been in some of those meetings but was

1:47:45 ↗ really to trying to work with our

1:47:47 ↗ community groups to decide what are the

1:47:50 ↗ things that go on the long list the the

1:47:52 ↗ holidays that we that we do want to to

1:47:55 ↗ make sure people know and then what are

1:47:56 ↗ the ones that we really need to plan

1:47:58 ↗ around yeah uh we really need to make

1:48:00 ↗ sure that we're not prohibiting people

1:48:03 ↗ from participating right um and that's a

1:48:05 ↗ hard balance because if um as as Ted

1:48:08 ↗ knows um if we took every behind

1:48:12 ↗ Holiday we we would not have a lot of

1:48:14 ↗ public meetings here at the city of

1:48:16 ↗ isqua potentially and so it's been a

1:48:18 ↗ hard um I think it's been a hard line to

1:48:21 ↗ walk but I really yeah good and we

1:48:23 ↗ checked and it's there and Dale that's

1:48:27 ↗ exactly what happened for us we went out

1:48:30 ↗ to the community we interviewed Families

1:48:33 ↗ Our culturally diverse families and we

1:48:35 ↗ asked them you know what holidays were

1:48:38 ↗ really impacting your child's learning

1:48:40 ↗ so we very much focused you're looking

1:48:43 ↗ at it from events meetings and such we

1:48:46 ↗ looked at it from what's impacting a

1:48:48 ↗ child's learning and ability to perform

1:48:50 ↗ in class and so some of them were like

1:48:53 ↗ well we celebrate this for 9 days but

1:48:55 ↗ honestly we don't want these days to

1:48:58 ↗ impact our child's learning and so you

1:49:01 ↗ know when we were sharing information

1:49:03 ↗ with staff we' say that this is a

1:49:07 ↗ holiest day this isn't a very important

1:49:09 ↗ day versus these days the families might

1:49:12 ↗ be doing evening

1:49:13 ↗ events but you know the kids just

1:49:16 ↗ informing kind of the ones that you'd

1:49:18 ↗ put on a long list versus be very aware

1:49:22 ↗ be sensitive to uh this date so uh you

1:49:26 ↗ know the Persian new year was New for us

1:49:28 ↗ we added that Roshes and yam kipor for

1:49:31 ↗ example many Jewish holidays but they

1:49:33 ↗ didn't the rabbi we worked with was very

1:49:37 ↗ clear that she didn't want it to become

1:49:39 ↗ white noise and if you add too many

1:49:41 ↗ holidays that's what happens right

1:49:43 ↗ because then the teachers complain we

1:49:45 ↗ can't give tests at all because there's

1:49:47 ↗ a holiday every other day this month and

1:49:50 ↗ and so how do we balance that and so it

1:49:52 ↗ was really hard Balancing Act and we

1:49:55 ↗ kind of fluctuated for a couple years

1:49:58 ↗ adding maybe you know not deleting but

1:50:01 ↗ just talking with community members

1:50:03 ↗ about other days but it was hard it it's

1:50:05 ↗ definitely a balancing act that we

1:50:07 ↗ always have to as you said it's a living

1:50:09 ↗ document and it just keeps on changing

1:50:13 ↗ as a community is changing and

1:50:19 ↗ growing

1:50:22 ↗ other reactions comments

1:50:30 ↗ feedback are there any issues with the

1:50:33 ↗ recommended changes that have been made

1:50:35 ↗ and looking ahead I know there are a

1:50:37 ↗ couple outstanding items including some

1:50:39 ↗ considerations also for the longer list

1:50:42 ↗ um that I do think we probably need to I

1:50:44 ↗ need to add on um ahead of the council

1:50:48 ↗ committee um I guess the one thing that

1:50:51 ↗ we haven't talked about I know I gave

1:50:54 ↗ the explanation that's that that I've

1:50:56 ↗ gotten from the mayor around not having

1:50:58 ↗ indigenous people's day as a day that we

1:51:00 ↗ don't plan public meetings around based

1:51:02 ↗ on our partnership with the snowy tribe

1:51:05 ↗ but I would love to hear if this group

1:51:08 ↗ has a consensus around a different

1:51:11 ↗ recommendation or um anything that you

1:51:14 ↗ would want to see carried forward to

1:51:15 ↗ council committee for

1:51:17 ↗ consideration um well just regarding

1:51:20 ↗ indigenous people's day I feel that like

1:51:24 ↗ it's something I noticed not being there

1:51:26 ↗ kind asked you about it and know lurio

1:51:28 ↗ just asked and so it feels like a

1:51:31 ↗ glaring Omission if it's not noted you

1:51:36 ↗ know so there might be a footnote or

1:51:38 ↗ something about it yes yeah

1:51:41 ↗ yeah I agree with that it almost seems

1:51:44 ↗ just on its face it almost

1:51:46 ↗ seems yeah yep so yeah the explanation

1:51:50 ↗ would be okay I'll bring that to the

1:51:52 ↗ mayor is that

1:51:55 ↗ a to not U say utilize it but to not

1:51:58 ↗ observe it is that a done deal deal I'm

1:52:02 ↗ not sure it is I think I I haven't

1:52:04 ↗ talked with her about it recently um and

1:52:07 ↗ so it's worth returning to her with that

1:52:10 ↗ I I'll bring that from this meeting to

1:52:12 ↗ her and say this is the this is the

1:52:14 ↗ biggest piece of feedback we got because

1:52:16 ↗ if this felt like an Omission what do

1:52:18 ↗ you want to do with that I mean from my

1:52:20 ↗ personal opinion I don't speak for the

1:52:22 ↗ whole equ but it needs to be on it

1:52:25 ↗ absolutely needs to be there there's no

1:52:26 ↗ reason to not

1:52:28 ↗ haveen but the tribe didn't want but the

1:52:30 ↗ tribe didn't want it oh well you know

1:52:33 ↗ want

1:52:34 ↗ itet what

1:52:36 ↗ said they've explicitly talked about it

1:52:39 ↗ oh okay well forget that then

1:52:41 ↗ okay isn't it on the long calendar as a

1:52:44 ↗ date it is it is UN yes and neither

1:52:48 ↗ indigenous people's day nor found day

1:52:51 ↗ are on the short calendar and that was

1:52:55 ↗ again all conversations mayor paully

1:52:57 ↗ meets regularly with so they've talked

1:53:00 ↗ about this many times so I this is

1:53:03 ↗ Luccia speaking I think it's important

1:53:06 ↗ to to respect what the tribe is saying

1:53:10 ↗ but it further emphasizes why I believe

1:53:14 ↗ that it is important and imperative to

1:53:16 ↗ have an

1:53:17 ↗ explanation that accessible to the

1:53:20 ↗ community so that it it isn't just a

1:53:23 ↗ glaring Omission it is a

1:53:25 ↗ conscientious respect of what the tribe

1:53:27 ↗ is asking for um and then I think the

1:53:31 ↗ only other feedback that I have is since

1:53:34 ↗ they have already voiced that they don't

1:53:36 ↗ want these two dates maybe open it up to

1:53:40 ↗ what date would you like because it

1:53:43 ↗ could be that they would want you know

1:53:45 ↗ Chief Seattle's birthday or some sort of

1:53:49 ↗ day that is important to the larger

1:53:52 ↗ Community not just this squami tribe but

1:53:54 ↗ the duwamish right um maybe open it up

1:53:58 ↗ to something where as a state or even as

1:54:02 ↗ a as a county we could you know reach

1:54:06 ↗ out and say is there a date that is of

1:54:08 ↗ significance to you that you would like

1:54:10 ↗ on the

1:54:12 ↗ calendar yeah I'll bring I'll bring this

1:54:14 ↗ feedback back to the mayor I also worry

1:54:18 ↗ that we are trying to OS something from

1:54:21 ↗ our belief and culture onto them because

1:54:24 ↗ if they've already said no because we

1:54:27 ↗ also asked and they also said no for us

1:54:31 ↗ and it feels like we're trying to push

1:54:34 ↗ like we want to honor you and that's not

1:54:38 ↗ part of their culture yeah and that is

1:54:41 ↗ not a significant thing there's so many

1:54:43 ↗ other ways we can honor the indigenous

1:54:46 ↗ people and our community and by pushing

1:54:48 ↗ them to do something that that that's

1:54:50 ↗ not part of their Community feels very

1:54:52 ↗ inauthentic so I have definite

1:54:55 ↗ reservations about this yeah agree thank

1:54:58 ↗ you

1:55:00 ↗ Laura I do think the not that I get a

1:55:03 ↗ real opinion here I'm just the staff Le

1:55:05 ↗ aison but I do really like this I I do

1:55:08 ↗ think naming this

1:55:09 ↗ tension you you've uneed a really

1:55:11 ↗ important tension which is that it's

1:55:13 ↗ been really intentionally not included

1:55:16 ↗ in the calendar and yet nothing has been

1:55:17 ↗ said about that the intentionality a

1:55:19 ↗ deliberateness with which it it has not

1:55:22 ↗ been included and so it it does make

1:55:24 ↗ sense to um we're missing an opportunity

1:55:28 ↗ for learning which is the point of this

1:55:30 ↗ calendar um by not having that

1:55:32 ↗ information in there

1:55:34 ↗ so that's that's well

1:55:37 ↗ taken okay we are we are getting close

1:55:40 ↗ to time and we have a very important

1:55:43 ↗ thing in other business that I need to

1:55:45 ↗ make sure that we get to and then I want

1:55:46 ↗ to make sure that we open it up for any

1:55:49 ↗ other other business so back to you to

1:55:52 ↗ yeah welcome us over so okay before Dale

1:55:56 ↗ uh before it goes back to Dale to

1:55:58 ↗ discuss uh special meeting scheduling

1:56:01 ↗ for January I do want to see if folks

1:56:03 ↗ have other business they want to bring

1:56:05 ↗ up so we know how to manage the

1:56:06 ↗ remaining few minutes we have of this

1:56:08 ↗ meeting so was there any other business

1:56:11 ↗ folks wanted to bring up I have one I I

1:56:14 ↗ was wondering if there could be I was

1:56:16 ↗ wondering if other people are interested

1:56:19 ↗ in

1:56:20 ↗ putting aside some time in the near

1:56:22 ↗ future at one of our meetings about just

1:56:26 ↗ getting to know each other better yes

1:56:28 ↗ yeah absolutely you know we have new

1:56:30 ↗ people and we've never yeah we've talked

1:56:33 ↗ about it but we've never actually done

1:56:34 ↗ it

1:56:36 ↗ yes can we uh maybe tie that to some of

1:56:41 ↗ the work planning conversation because I

1:56:43 ↗ think in January because that will help

1:56:44 ↗ us schedule out our time and figure out

1:56:46 ↗ how to plan to have that

1:56:50 ↗ okay thanks Kell yeah anyone

1:56:55 ↗ [Music]

1:56:56 ↗ oppose any opposition to having Kelly's

1:56:59 ↗ topic

1:57:00 ↗ around maybe I get to know each

1:57:04 ↗ other

1:57:08 ↗ session you said it on the public

1:57:18 ↗ recordal

1:57:21 ↗ yes

1:57:23 ↗ Laur yes uh I wanted to see if those

1:57:27 ↗ interest in having a conversation a

1:57:29 ↗ Community member approached me and

1:57:31 ↗ wanted to talk to me about how we can

1:57:34 ↗ work with the city and um maybe the

1:57:37 ↗ senior center or other groups to make

1:57:41 ↗ the city or the senior center more

1:57:43 ↗ welcoming or have more activities for

1:57:45 ↗ our culturally and linguistically

1:57:48 ↗ diverse

1:57:49 ↗ senior in isqua the Community member was

1:57:54 ↗ concerned that um some of our

1:57:58 ↗ senior who are retired seniors who are

1:58:02 ↗ linguistically culturally diverse are

1:58:04 ↗ sometimes fi other and um don't feel

1:58:08 ↗ like they have a space to me to do

1:58:11 ↗ activities you know welcomed I guess and

1:58:15 ↗ so I wondered if there was a space or

1:58:18 ↗ conversation time um I'm hoping to

1:58:21 ↗ invite her when we can we do this so

1:58:23 ↗ that she can share since I don't want to

1:58:25 ↗ play telephone but I just wanted to see

1:58:28 ↗ if there was a interest in having this

1:58:32 ↗ conversation thanks for bringing that up

1:58:34 ↗ lur I think it ties that too a comment

1:58:37 ↗ Kelly was making at the top of the

1:58:38 ↗ meeting um again this feels like it

1:58:41 ↗ could tie into the work planning

1:58:43 ↗ discussion for January so I would uh

1:58:45 ↗ move to also include that as we start to

1:58:48 ↗ give our work plan in some shape what

1:58:50 ↗ what our role could be in supporting

1:58:53 ↗ some of that

1:58:54 ↗ work will that be and you have to ask if

1:58:57 ↗ anyone object does anyone

1:59:05 ↗ object

1:59:11 ↗ unanimous last so then me last other

1:59:14 ↗ business item we we talked at our last

1:59:17 ↗ meeting about moving our January date

1:59:19 ↗ which we needed to do what I this is on

1:59:22 ↗ me what I failed to do was confirm that

1:59:24 ↗ this space was available on the date to

1:59:27 ↗ which we moved our meeting to and so the

1:59:29 ↗ question I posed in the email ahead of

1:59:31 ↗ this meeting was whether or not folks

1:59:33 ↗ are available to meet on Tuesday which

1:59:36 ↗ is that would be that the I will check

1:59:39 ↗ the data the way the

1:59:40 ↗ 9th Tuesday the 9th um we could meet in

1:59:44 ↗ this space on Tuesday the 9th the

1:59:48 ↗ alternatively if people are not

1:59:50 ↗ available on Tuesday the 9th um we I can

1:59:53 ↗ I can inquire us to some other space um

1:59:56 ↗ I know however we feel very strongly

1:59:58 ↗ about not meeting in some particular

2:00:00 ↗ spaces and we are unfortunately quite

2:00:02 ↗ Limited in where we can meet um just

2:00:05 ↗ physical space that can

2:00:07 ↗ have five five plus of us plus wh

2:00:11 ↗ whatever staff members and can hold

2:00:14 ↗ space for the public so that's the

2:00:17 ↗ Challen and is set up to

2:00:19 ↗ um support a hybrid me we have a lot of

2:00:22 ↗ really fun things that we get to work

2:00:23 ↗ around um I think that's a beautiful

2:00:25 ↗ part about this group is that we're

2:00:27 ↗ really deliberate in the choices that we

2:00:29 ↗ make to be accessible um and to be not

2:00:32 ↗ be on certain ground um that does make

2:00:34 ↗ us kind of limited in where we can meet

2:00:36 ↗ so the question I pose is are people

2:00:40 ↗ available to meet on Tuesday the 9th um

2:00:43 ↗ here in the steel head room uh if not if

2:00:46 ↗ we will not if many people are not

2:00:48 ↗ available or even a couple people since

2:00:51 ↗ it'll be our work plan conversation um I

2:00:54 ↗ can we can keep the tenth I'll just need

2:00:57 ↗ to find some other space I don't know

2:00:59 ↗ where it will be yet um we'll figure it

2:01:01 ↗ out might be a big echoey Pickering Barn

2:01:04 ↗ moment but we'll make it work is the

2:01:07 ↗ community center like something we can

2:01:09 ↗ keep it is the only challenge is that

2:01:12 ↗ they don't really have an unused space

2:01:16 ↗ during evenings um as as as we talked

2:01:20 ↗ about in our last meeting they are quite

2:01:22 ↗ booked um all the time uh and so they

2:01:26 ↗ actually already have that Spa that Spa

2:01:28 ↗ their space is already taken and booked

2:01:30 ↗ I know it's would have be a great idea

2:01:32 ↗ one potential option um would be to meet

2:01:36 ↗ in the park offices across the street

2:01:38 ↗ it's very small but we probably could

2:01:41 ↗ get all of us in a few members of the

2:01:43 ↗ public in there um so it can be done I

2:01:47 ↗ don't want to say it can't be done but

2:01:48 ↗ um

2:01:50 ↗ I suppose we can't steal council

2:01:57 ↗ chambers they already have a the

2:01:59 ↗ development commission meeting oh

2:02:02 ↗ okay I've really I've really gone

2:02:04 ↗ everywhere so I is is is Tuesday off for

2:02:07 ↗ anyone Tuesday is unavailable for anyone

2:02:08 ↗ here I can't do it well we can't have

2:02:11 ↗ the conversation

2:02:14 ↗ then well that so we will stay with the

2:02:17 ↗ T we will stay with the which was what

2:02:19 ↗ we talked about last time I will find us

2:02:21 ↗ a space be ready for an update on

2:02:24 ↗ wherever we may end up physically being

2:02:27 ↗ um and I'll let you know long before the

2:02:31 ↗ meeting happens but we will keep the

2:02:32 ↗ 10th we will get

2:02:34 ↗ creative okay sounds good Dale I can go

2:02:37 ↗ on the 10th I can't attend on the 10th I

2:02:39 ↗ have an event however can we hold my

2:02:42 ↗ conversation till February or is that

2:02:45 ↗ too late or maybe I can see if the

2:02:46 ↗ Community member can come or try try to

2:02:49 ↗ figure out what we can do why don't we

2:02:52 ↗ um why don't you and pry connect about

2:02:56 ↗ the the potential work plan item that

2:02:58 ↗ you think might happen as a result and

2:02:59 ↗ then we will use time in either February

2:03:02 ↗ or March for that Community member to

2:03:04 ↗ come to our meeting

2:03:06 ↗ um

2:03:08 ↗ yeah okay and I just want to uh

2:03:12 ↗ regarding if we change location I don't

2:03:15 ↗ present a transportation problem for

2:03:17 ↗ folks so I would say maybe reach out via

2:03:20 ↗ Dale if folks need rides and we

2:03:24 ↗ can that I'm happy to pick someone up on

2:03:26 ↗ the way

2:03:28 ↗ over yes I'm G to have an answer by the

2:03:30 ↗ end of this week about where we'll be

2:03:32 ↗ meeting so you'll you'll know

2:03:34 ↗ shortly thanks for working out a

2:03:36 ↗ solution there I got a quick question

2:03:39 ↗ um remember

2:03:42 ↗ when it's a couple of years ago when

2:03:45 ↗ what happened in Ukraine we as an equity

2:03:48 ↗ board

2:03:49 ↗ um but I don't want to call it a

2:03:51 ↗ proclamation or a declaration as far as

2:03:53 ↗ Ukraine is

2:03:55 ↗ concerned I once again I apologize for

2:03:58 ↗ missing the last meeting but should we

2:04:02 ↗ have made something what's going on in

2:04:04 ↗ Israel in the Gaza Strip right now did

2:04:08 ↗ we miss a step by not speaking by not

2:04:11 ↗ saying something like we did with

2:04:16 ↗ Ukraine I kind of feel like we should

2:04:18 ↗ but I'm not sure we all have appetite

2:04:20 ↗ for that I'm hesitating to respond

2:04:22 ↗ because I had this conversation with a

2:04:24 ↗ couple of people oh you did yeah like a

2:04:27 ↗ week ago because I too had felt like we

2:04:31 ↗ were not doing something that we had

2:04:34 ↗ done before

2:04:37 ↗ exactly it's a tough conversation I say

2:04:40 ↗ that because this I think if we did do

2:04:43 ↗ something this statement would have to

2:04:45 ↗ be would be really tricky to make this

2:04:47 ↗ statement yes but I feel like we need to

2:04:50 ↗ make a

2:04:51 ↗ statement so if only because of I'm

2:04:55 ↗ sorry to interrupt your thought for but

2:04:57 ↗ only because how could we do one and not

2:05:00 ↗ the other but then before you like then

2:05:03 ↗ why are we not talking about mear why

2:05:05 ↗ are we not talking about Sudan so it's

2:05:07 ↗ like okay like is that something for us

2:05:09 ↗ to discuss in the next meeting I mean

2:05:12 ↗ definitely not right now but just food

2:05:13 ↗ free thought what I would suggest is if

2:05:19 ↗ there

2:05:20 ↗ are uh enough folks who are interested

2:05:23 ↗ in pursuing what that statement could be

2:05:26 ↗ we could set up a committee okay to to

2:05:29 ↗ do that yeah so if we're able to maybe

2:05:31 ↗ we could get a raise of hands to see who

2:05:34 ↗ is interested and we don't right now we

2:05:37 ↗ could talk about it in January right now

2:05:41 ↗ just Bo for

2:05:43 ↗ that's your decision do you um well do

2:05:47 ↗ folks want to

2:05:50 ↗ do we want to see if there's enough

2:05:51 ↗ interest right now to to have a

2:05:54 ↗ subcommittee versus waiting until

2:05:57 ↗ January I wonder if the first step would

2:06:00 ↗ be to have a

2:06:03 ↗ subcommittee by talking to a few people

2:06:06 ↗ I was helped along the way about

2:06:08 ↗ reversing and thinking not do it I'm

2:06:11 ↗ wondering if we should have a

2:06:11 ↗ subcommittee that's goal is should we do

2:06:15 ↗ this at all yeah right yeah because it

2:06:19 ↗ did make me hesitant yeah

2:06:25 ↗ exactly okay so perhaps we could just do

2:06:29 ↗ see who has do a raise of hands to see

2:06:31 ↗ if uh who would like to be part of a

2:06:35 ↗ committee who determines whether the

2:06:37 ↗ equity board should

2:06:39 ↗ pursue public it seems like overarching

2:06:42 ↗ public de like are we yeah Bey beyond

2:06:45 ↗ the city is what I was thinking to be

2:06:47 ↗ specific are we talking specific about

2:06:50 ↗ the the current conflict or in general

2:06:53 ↗ when

2:06:54 ↗ conflicts of an international nature

2:06:57 ↗ emerge that could keep us really really

2:06:59 ↗ busy yeah so specific to this conflict I

2:07:03 ↗ I was well I'd like to hear from other

2:07:06 ↗ people but I was thinking that do we

2:07:09 ↗ want to make statements that are beyond

2:07:11 ↗ the

2:07:11 ↗ city right yeah in general what do you

2:07:15 ↗ mean King by fiance um

2:07:19 ↗ making a statement about the

2:07:22 ↗ region right

2:07:24 ↗ that you know is it our is it for us to

2:07:29 ↗ make a statement about the region or is

2:07:30 ↗ it for the city we are in the city I

2:07:32 ↗ think it's a it's an interesting

2:07:34 ↗ conversation and one that will help us

2:07:36 ↗ figure out when we do make statements so

2:07:39 ↗ kind of coming up with a policy yeah

2:07:42 ↗ basically right and I'm not saying that

2:07:44 ↗ we should or shouldn't I I was just that

2:07:47 ↗ that's where I started to get mired in

2:07:50 ↗ was how far do we go like you said M Mar

2:07:54 ↗ yeah M thank you for pronunciation thank

2:07:56 ↗ you um but

2:07:59 ↗ yes so I'm hearing okay uh if there is

2:08:04 ↗ interest in a com

2:08:07 ↗ volunteers uh forming a committee to

2:08:11 ↗ discuss uh the equity board's um stance

2:08:16 ↗ on making statements

2:08:19 ↗ related to things Beyond

2:08:21 ↗ City centered

2:08:24 ↗ topics so I'd help with

2:08:27 ↗ that be are you I'm just thinking of if

2:08:31 ↗ is that that potentially becomes an

2:08:33 ↗ entire work plan item is the only thing

2:08:35 ↗ that I'm thinking of could yeah it

2:08:38 ↗ depends on how how much conversation it

2:08:40 ↗ depends on how much that subcommittee

2:08:42 ↗ you know it needs to be less than quum

2:08:45 ↗ so you just you need less than four you

2:08:48 ↗ need four people or less right and how

2:08:50 ↗ many volunteered two so far but I three

2:08:54 ↗ because I'll pull out I'm

2:08:59 ↗ fine is fine take one more if anyone's

2:09:02 ↗ interested Lucia

2:09:06 ↗ or seriously you do it I think it's

2:09:10 ↗ something I could be interested in but I

2:09:12 ↗ have to like think more about it okay

2:09:15 ↗ yeah actually I was raising my hand

2:09:17 ↗ because for some reason the camera was

2:09:20 ↗ pointing at the was pointing at the wall

2:09:23 ↗ and I couldn't see who was speaking but

2:09:25 ↗ it it it doesn't

2:09:27 ↗ matter okay so lucrecia are you

2:09:31 ↗ volunteering or that was not a raiseed

2:09:33 ↗ hand to

2:09:34 ↗ volunteer right like I just explained I

2:09:37 ↗ raised my hand because the camera was

2:09:39 ↗ pointing at the glass wall and I could

2:09:42 ↗ see who was speaking that was it okay so

2:09:45 ↗ I think we Kelly Tony caric and ver

2:09:51 ↗ okay so is there something like I like

2:09:54 ↗ as a youth member I

2:09:56 ↗ could okay there's nothing that you

2:09:58 ↗ can't partip we in this room so all

2:10:02 ↗ right any other topics so D is we on the

2:10:06 ↗ January meeting dat we're going to try

2:10:08 ↗ to keep the same day but look for

2:10:10 ↗ alternate

2:10:11 ↗ location um and we'll know very soon

2:10:15 ↗ okay and then we've uh we're adding

2:10:18 ↗ uh Kelly's suggestion around uh doing

2:10:23 ↗ some sort of getting to know you uh

2:10:26 ↗ session to our January work planning

2:10:29 ↗ conversation and Laura and I are going

2:10:31 ↗ to connect um on the senior center uh

2:10:36 ↗ becoming more welcoming what that could

2:10:38 ↗ look like as a possible work plan and we

2:10:41 ↗ will then talk about it in the larger

2:10:44 ↗ meeting February March time frame most

2:10:47 ↗ likely okay right um any other um

2:10:52 ↗ comments uh

2:10:54 ↗ questions for the good of the

2:11:00 ↗ order all

2:11:03 ↗ right end up but I think that's still

2:11:06 ↗ it's the it's the got it okay so our

2:11:10 ↗ next meeting so as we move to adjourn

2:11:13 ↗ the next meeting is currently scheduled

2:11:14 ↗ for January 10th location to be

2:11:17 ↗ determined

2:11:18 ↗ I adjourn this meeting at 8:12 pm. thank

2:11:22 ↗ you all for staying a little bit longer

2:11:25 ↗ I appreciate the extra time you gave to

2:11:27 ↗ the meeting and have a lovely uh evening

2:11:31 ↗ and thank you all for uh contributing

2:11:33 ↗ tonight thank you thank you

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