Equity Board · Wednesday, February 7, 2024 · City Council Digest

3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of January 10, 2024 Special Meeting

packet pp.3–6

▶ Watch from 9:59 Open packet at p.3 ↗

Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 01-10-24 Equity Board Minutes Page [0000] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Equity Board 6:00 PM Steelhead Room, 235 1st Ave. January 10, 2024 MINUTES SE, Issaquah

4. OPENING

Opening Process

[10 mins.] Ray Manahan, Equity Board Member

5. STAFF REPORT

Update on Actions Taken at January

Dale Markey-Crimp, Assistant to the City Administrator

6. AGENDA ITEMS

Resilience Hubs

[30 mins] David Reedy, Sustainability Coordinator · packet pp.7–41

▶ Watch from 1:54:37 Open packet at p.7 ↗

Staff report:

Office of Sustainability 130 E Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 issaquahwa.gov

Equity Framework: High Demand Recreation Program Registration Pilot [45 mins.]

Director · Jeff Watling, Parks & Community Services · packet pp.43–58

Topics: Equity

▶ Watch from 1:57:01 Open packet at p.43 ↗

Staff report:

Recreation Registration Process Update FEBRUARY 7, 2024 | EQUITY BOARD J E F F WAT L I N G , PA R K S A N D C O M M U N I T Y S E RV I C E S D I R E C TO R

7. OTHER BUSINESS / ANNOUNCEMENTS

Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Support for Seniors [30 mins.]

Dale Markey-Crimp, Assistant to the City Administrator

▶ Watch from 8:53

Closing Process Check

[5 mins.] Priti Mody-Pan, Equity Board Chair

▶ Watch from 9:26

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0:04 ↗ we are now we are now

0:06 ↗ recording all right well welcome I call

0:10 ↗ the February meeting of the equity board

0:12 ↗ to order at 6:07 p.m. and due to the

0:15 ↗ hybrid format of today's meeting I'd

0:17 ↗ like to start by providing some

0:19 ↗ guidelines this is a reminder that the

0:21 ↗ meeting is being

0:23 ↗ recorded we have participants attending

0:26 ↗ in person and others who may be

0:29 ↗ attending by computer or my phone for

0:32 ↗ all meeting attendees speak clearly and

0:35 ↗ pause frequently state your name each

0:37 ↗ time before speaking I think that's a

0:39 ↗ growth area for us if applicable mute

0:43 ↗ your mic when not speaking if having

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0:47 ↗ using a different device or use the

0:50 ↗ call-in information in the meeting

0:52 ↗ invitation and now we will move on to

0:56 ↗ attendance and so Dale can I look to you

0:58 ↗ for that please you

1:00 ↗ can let me just go right back um okay

1:05 ↗ Christina

1:07 ↗ abon I guess I should I I'm gonna do

1:09 ↗ them alphabetically anyways um we'll be

1:12 ↗ late tonight so not currently here luri

1:15 ↗ chotto currently unexcused absence Tony

1:20 ↗ Curry currently unexcused

1:24 ↗ voka currently unexcused Shay Fleming

1:29 ↗ I'm here here Laura Gilmore uh excused

1:34 ↗ absence caric

1:36 ↗ kashinath Ray manah manahan excuse me

1:39 ↗ Ray I'm here Frey mod pan here and Kelly

1:43 ↗ man also excused

1:47 ↗ absence all right so now next on on the

1:51 ↗ agenda is public comments and public

1:54 ↗ comments are an important part of our

1:57 ↗ public process we take them seriously

1:59 ↗ and fact them into the decisions we make

2:02 ↗ and Dale do we have folks signed up for

2:04 ↗ public comment we do um Lindsay Pinkston

2:08 ↗ is here to provide at least one public

2:14 ↗ comment you can stay there if you'd like

2:16 ↗ the camera will find you regardless of

2:18 ↗ you oh you're right that does make

2:24 ↗ sense hello hello welcome well thank you

2:29 ↗ I just I want to introduce myself I'm

2:31 ↗ Lindsay Pinkston I'm the executive

2:32 ↗ director of Highlands Council and we are

2:34 ↗ the community building leg of isqua

2:37 ↗ Highlands governance um so responsible

2:39 ↗ for communications our newspaper all of

2:42 ↗ our events um Community groups and also

2:46 ↗ uh doing um oh managing our our facility

2:50 ↗ Lely Hall uh and I just I wanted to come

2:54 ↗ and kind of let you know what we do and

2:55 ↗ invite you to some of our upcoming

2:56 ↗ things we haven't seen a lot of members

2:58 ↗ of this group coming to our events and

3:00 ↗ so we would love to see you um currently

3:04 ↗ we have over 50 events community events

3:07 ↗ on our calendar for this year those are

3:08 ↗ all public events open to everyone

3:10 ↗ nothing that we do up there is exclusive

3:13 ↗ to isqua Highlands residents um

3:15 ↗ everything is for the good of the entire

3:17 ↗ Community um and one of the reasons for

3:19 ↗ that just so so you understand where

3:21 ↗ we're coming from part of a big part of

3:23 ↗ our funding comes from the commercial

3:25 ↗ properties in isqua Highlands so the

3:28 ↗ more people we bring up to is

3:30 ↗ Highlands from outside is more business

3:34 ↗ for our stakeholders so there is a good

3:37 ↗ reason why we really you know not only

3:39 ↗ do we like to have people up there but

3:42 ↗ um it's good for us um so this year some

3:45 ↗ of those events we have we do some fun

3:47 ↗ events so we have a Super Bowl party we

3:50 ↗ do Halloween events we have teen events

3:53 ↗ like a flashlight egg hunt where we send

3:55 ↗ middle schoolers out in the dark to hunt

3:58 ↗ for eggs um we do do some markets for

4:01 ↗ vendors uh we also do art programming so

4:04 ↗ we have a gallery uh in Blakeley Hall

4:07 ↗ and so we rotate our Gallery

4:10 ↗ exhibitions um monthly or every couple

4:12 ↗ of months and so those are really

4:15 ↗ exciting and a really great place for us

4:16 ↗ to um exhibit some some culture and have

4:19 ↗ just something new um we also do Open

4:22 ↗ Mic nights and art workshops um and then

4:24 ↗ we do some cultural programming and um

4:27 ↗ we have a global grubbing Groove series

4:29 ↗ that we do every summer uh that

4:31 ↗ celebrates different

4:32 ↗ cultures uh and everything we do on the

4:36 ↗ cultural side is dependent on somebody

4:39 ↗ bringing that to us um so you know we

4:44 ↗ don't put on events by ourselves we

4:48 ↗ might put on a Super Bowl event but

4:50 ↗ we're not going to put on a try to think

4:53 ↗ of a celebration Indian New Year um or

4:57 ↗ Indian we do indep Indian independence

4:59 ↗ day every other year um but that's put

5:01 ↗ on by several um volunteers that are of

5:04 ↗ the culture so uh when I say we're

5:07 ↗ putting it on I'm using we in the global

5:10 ↗ sense of uh our team and all of the the

5:13 ↗ volunteers that are there um and then we

5:17 ↗ also have 15 Community groups that uh

5:20 ↗ meet at Bley Hall and those are open to

5:22 ↗ all as well I mean it runs the Gambit

5:24 ↗ from a poker night group that meets once

5:28 ↗ a month so we have a meditation club

5:30 ↗ that meets every week and you know

5:33 ↗ different things like that so it's a

5:35 ↗ whole a whole line we have a lot of kids

5:38 ↗ kids groups as well um and again those

5:40 ↗ are open to

5:42 ↗ everybody uh but upcoming I did want to

5:44 ↗ invite you especially to our March

5:47 ↗ Gallery which is called Zen ruse and

5:50 ↗ that means uh today's woman it's a a Art

5:54 ↗ Exhibit of Persian

5:56 ↗ artists uh that are going to be showing

5:59 ↗ art that demonstrates the power of women

6:02 ↗ today in

6:04 ↗ Iran uh and then on the 10th of March in

6:07 ↗ addition to coming in and seeing the

6:09 ↗ gallery we're also having a celebration

6:11 ↗ of no Ro which is the Persian New Year

6:15 ↗ and and a vendor bizaar of Persian

6:17 ↗ vendors so we're really excited this is

6:19 ↗ our first time doing anything to

6:20 ↗ celebrate Persian culture um and I think

6:24 ↗ it's going to be incredible the Arts

6:25 ↗ commission gave us a um a nice grant

6:29 ↗ that is really helping to pay for some

6:30 ↗ fabulous art and some performers so uh

6:34 ↗ and then in April our Gallery will

6:36 ↗ convert to autism awareness and we have

6:39 ↗ a really great young autistic artist

6:42 ↗ who's going to be showing in the gallery

6:44 ↗ and then on the 4th of April we have a

6:47 ↗ reception open to the public and we'll

6:49 ↗ also have a reading by local author who

6:52 ↗ um writes stories

6:54 ↗ about characters with a

6:57 ↗ neurodiverse um background so it's a

6:59 ↗ very cool kind of a kids book she writes

7:01 ↗ about animals with

7:04 ↗ neurodiversity um and then on the 20th

7:06 ↗ of April we're hosting a teddy bear tea

7:09 ↗ um for Autism Awareness for kids five

7:12 ↗ and under if they're Teddy Bears um so

7:15 ↗ that's really cute I also wanted to

7:18 ↗ invite you on February

7:19 ↗ 25th um I'm probably more excited about

7:22 ↗ this than I have been about anything in

7:23 ↗ five years uh we're hosting a screening

7:26 ↗ of the film Join or Die so I don't know

7:29 ↗ if you've heard of it but it is a movie

7:31 ↗ about um why it is so important for

7:34 ↗ people to join groups um whether it be a

7:39 ↗ book club or a dinner club or kianis or

7:42 ↗ church or wherever wherever you find

7:44 ↗ your group but why it's so important to

7:46 ↗ the health of our country um so I've

7:49 ↗ pre-screened the movie and it's really

7:50 ↗ amazing so encourage you all to come out

7:54 ↗ awesome uh oh and then for the summer

7:57 ↗ the cultures were celebrating the summer

7:59 ↗ in June um we're doing a celebration of

8:02 ↗ um e Al Ada uh which is Muslim culture

8:06 ↗ and then in August we're doing Mexican

8:08 ↗ culture and instead of celebrating

8:11 ↗ juneth this year with a global Breen

8:13 ↗ Groove because we don't want to conflict

8:15 ↗ with what the city is doing um we're

8:16 ↗ looking at doing um a vendor Market

8:19 ↗ instead since we have a lot of

8:21 ↗ experience with that we thought we'd do

8:23 ↗ a blackowned business um vendor

8:25 ↗ Market

8:27 ↗ awesome so great and I'm happy to send

8:31 ↗ kind of more information with dates and

8:33 ↗ things that would be super I was going

8:35 ↗ to print things out but our printer got

8:37 ↗ killed in a pipe burst at leley Hall so

8:40 ↗ we flooded and our printer got killed oh

8:43 ↗ can can we ask questions I mean

8:46 ↗ technically no so really yeah not during

8:50 ↗ public comment but if you're gonna stick

8:52 ↗ around you want to propose something for

8:53 ↗ other business we can absolutely do

8:56 ↗ that well I was definitely going to stay

8:58 ↗ for David

9:00 ↗ talk

9:02 ↗ so between yeah we we could also do a

9:06 ↗ quick a quick Break um between agenda

9:08 ↗ items if you want to catch Lindsay

9:10 ↗ before she leaves okay yeah I got I got

9:12 ↗ some explicit feedback about my not

9:15 ↗ allowing us to engage in questions

9:16 ↗ during public comments so we're sticking

9:19 ↗ to it okay good Roberts Rules of

9:22 ↗ Order went to the Valentine's Day popup

9:24 ↗ Market oh did

9:26 ↗ you to walk around yeah we're really

9:30 ↗ having a good time with those great and

9:32 ↗ I'll follow up with Lindsay to get all

9:34 ↗ those dates too um and send that out to

9:37 ↗ our group as well so we can um get them

9:39 ↗ around uh before before there is no no

9:44 ↗ there's one item before you are there

9:46 ↗ two we actually have a we have to

9:48 ↗ approve our minutes and then we have a

9:49 ↗ an item right above you on the agenda

9:51 ↗ but awesome any other public

9:56 ↗ comment okay great so next up is

9:59 ↗ approval of minutes and I'll give you

10:01 ↗ all a moment to scan the minutes to see

10:05 ↗ if there's any uh changes and then call

10:08 ↗ for

10:10 ↗ um

10:12 ↗ called motion a motion to uh

10:28 ↗ approve

10:37 ↗ okay once you've had a chance to review

10:39 ↗ I'd like to ask for a member to make a

10:42 ↗ motion to approve my motion to approve

10:46 ↗ okay um let's

10:49 ↗ see so is there any

10:53 ↗ discussion oh wait wait for a second I

10:56 ↗ need a second oh I'll second it okay

10:58 ↗ thank you

11:00 ↗ um does anyone would anyone like to

11:02 ↗ discuss anything in the minutes or have

11:04 ↗ any edits to recommend or propose I just

11:07 ↗ have a comment you guys mentioned that

11:09 ↗ um wonderful event that the bajis had so

11:13 ↗ um three of us were invited and um they

11:16 ↗ were so kind um Tony as you know had has

11:18 ↗ an issue with his family because of

11:20 ↗ covid but they set up a a virtual

11:23 ↗ computer so he could join and that was

11:25 ↗ really nice and I was there in person

11:27 ↗ and we had some really good dialogue

11:29 ↗ well they're so consistent with um

11:31 ↗ getting engaged with our Equity um board

11:34 ↗ so I just want to call them out and we

11:36 ↗ had the opportunity to join their last

11:38 ↗ event that's

11:40 ↗ nice sorry um are you suggesting we add

11:44 ↗ anything to the minute around that I'm

11:47 ↗ checking

11:50 ↗ um there's probably going to be more

11:53 ↗ events and and you know they're regular

11:54 ↗ members here so if we can get other

11:56 ↗ people besides me to go to these events

11:58 ↗ host by the B for maybe one or two other

12:01 ↗ Equity board members that would be nice

12:04 ↗ the only comment that can I changes okay

12:07 ↗ no changes for okay

12:10 ↗ yeah um let's see any of any uh

12:14 ↗ discussion or

12:16 ↗ edits

12:22 ↗ proposed okay then uh let's see I will

12:26 ↗ proceed to consider the minutes approv

12:28 ↗ grou with no edits

12:31 ↗ great all righty and next we have a

12:37 ↗ ray uh beginning our opening process

12:40 ↗ with an ice breaker to initiate I have a

12:43 ↗ question about this I completely forgot

12:44 ↗ I was doing this was there backdrop with

12:47 ↗ this like what am I supposed to um we're

12:49 ↗ going to pass this around from each

12:50 ↗ board member to each board member

12:52 ↗ monthly right it's just to initiate

12:54 ↗ conversation about anything uh ideally

12:57 ↗ it would be something more related to

12:58 ↗ activating our our engagement around

13:00 ↗ Equity our Equity conversations for

13:02 ↗ tonight so last month we had the the

13:05 ↗ sort of question on what is it that you

13:06 ↗ love about Equity work you might pick a

13:09 ↗ a

13:10 ↗ slightly uh maybe a different question

13:13 ↗ when when did a but it can be lighter if

13:16 ↗ you'd like it to be lighter than

13:19 ↗ that I'll I'll try to stick to the

13:21 ↗ equity topic and can I talk about what

13:23 ↗ you and I discussed earlier before

13:24 ↗ everybody got here yeah I think

13:26 ↗ potentially I was going to say right if

13:28 ↗ you didn't have a question ready uh I

13:30 ↗ thought a good one might be one is a

13:32 ↗ time that a an a conversation around

13:34 ↗ Equity arose uh during your your past

13:37 ↗ few weeks since we last met oh yeah yeah

13:39 ↗ yeah yeah um well two opportunities um

13:43 ↗ had happened so uh a member of the city

13:47 ↗ of isqua human um Services Department

13:50 ↗ reached out to me because um Hannah

13:52 ↗ Roberts she leads that group within

13:55 ↗ Human Services and she had a meeting

13:58 ↗ with Community leadership and their

13:59 ↗ focus was around Health Equity so um she

14:03 ↗ got me involved in that so there's

14:05 ↗ opportunities for our board members to

14:07 ↗ attend meetings that are hosted by

14:11 ↗ different groups under the city of isqua

14:13 ↗ it could be Parks and Recreation it

14:15 ↗ could be Health and Human Services it

14:17 ↗ could be human

14:18 ↗ resources we we should be aware of those

14:20 ↗ meetings that are happening if there's a

14:22 ↗ board member that can sit in those and

14:24 ↗ just listen is there a topic related to

14:26 ↗ equity that we might not have the answer

14:29 ↗ to at that meeting but why not bring it

14:32 ↗ back to this group and have a discussion

14:33 ↗ so I sat in one of those meetings which

14:36 ↗ is hosted by Hannah um uh and she uh

14:40 ↗ invited interestingly enough folks in

14:43 ↗ the isqua community who are focused on

14:44 ↗ Healthcare so there we we had some good

14:47 ↗ discussions and I connected her to a

14:49 ↗ resource up at Swedish isqua that I was

14:51 ↗ aware of working on some Equity work so

14:54 ↗ if there's ways for us to be involved in

14:56 ↗ meetings that are Le that are that are

14:59 ↗ hosted by leadership within the city of

15:01 ↗ isquat representing other departments I

15:04 ↗ highly recommend that we do that and

15:06 ↗ bring it up as a talking point whatever

15:09 ↗ we learned at those meetings and and

15:11 ↗ share with us like I said we might not

15:13 ↗ have the answers but if it's Equity

15:14 ↗ related why not presented to this board

15:17 ↗ right yeah

15:19 ↗ okay that was an indepth response no one

15:22 ↗ else's response needs to be as in depth

15:24 ↗ but yeah we just we literally just had

15:26 ↗ the conversation yeah when when is the

15:29 ↗ time that a conversation on Equity came

15:31 ↗ up since we in your work or your life

15:34 ↗ since we last

15:36 ↗ met a couple of them for

15:41 ↗ you cool questions around

15:44 ↗ that yeah

15:47 ↗ Shay oh I can share um if if that's what

15:51 ↗ we're doing here just to make sure um so

15:55 ↗ uh I recently had my read team meeting

15:59 ↗ for Nestle purina and pet care we talked

16:02 ↗ about Equity when it comes to pet care

16:06 ↗ and how some areas tend to have more um

16:11 ↗ access to veterinary care and how we can

16:14 ↗ impact that um and of course we ended up

16:17 ↗ getting some new leadership so I was

16:19 ↗ able to kind of pick his brain on our

16:21 ↗ plans for how we will address some of

16:25 ↗ the newer veterinary clinics that are

16:27 ↗ coming in how we're supporting people at

16:29 ↗ West um at um any vet conferences that

16:33 ↗ we're having um so that way we can make

16:35 ↗ sure that we're giving everyone all the

16:38 ↗ options that they need and we're

16:40 ↗ actually supporting our communities in

16:42 ↗ the right way um going Beyond just

16:45 ↗ handing out pet food yeah I love

16:49 ↗ that thanks for

16:56 ↗ sharing two board members F yeah I can

17:00 ↗ go next yeah U my wife's starting a new

17:03 ↗ job on climate equity and climate

17:05 ↗ Justice with the federal government and

17:08 ↗ I work as a climate scientist so yeah um

17:11 ↗ yeah we've just had some juicy

17:12 ↗ conversations in the last few weeks

17:14 ↗ around what that means and at what scale

17:17 ↗ I work more more into the global climate

17:19 ↗ change yeah and she's focusing on the

17:21 ↗ Pacific Northwest so you know what that

17:24 ↗ looks like yeah oh very cool awesome

17:27 ↗ thanks for sharing

17:30 ↗ yeah and I can uh wrap us up so just

17:33 ↗ recently in my office uh we're working

17:36 ↗ on bringing in a training on

17:38 ↗ allyship and um just having

17:40 ↗ conversations about what does it mean to

17:42 ↗ be an ally how do you uh disrupt uh

17:47 ↗ harmful behaviors and meetings things

17:49 ↗ like microaggressions how do you

17:52 ↗ acknowledge them and heal heal from them

17:56 ↗ and move past them and become the strong

17:58 ↗ organization once she worked through it

18:00 ↗ so it was just really interesting to

18:02 ↗ hear like the model of working through

18:06 ↗ that whole process so you come out

18:08 ↗ stronger at the end so that was just

18:09 ↗ kind of a really eye openening

18:13 ↗ conversation

18:14 ↗ yeah as the board Le on I'll share as

18:18 ↗ well um I I've been just it almost seems

18:21 ↗ like month after month especially as I

18:23 ↗ stepped into this role and then

18:25 ↗ inherited some different work items the

18:28 ↗ cultural and religious calendar which

18:29 ↗ was just approved on Monday night at the

18:33 ↗ council meeting

18:35 ↗ permanentiy been one of the places where

18:39 ↗ over the last three to four months I've

18:41 ↗ had some of the the richest

18:43 ↗ conversations about Equity um about

18:47 ↗ diversity inclusion and Equity um the

18:50 ↗ difference between those words how we

18:54 ↗ can conflate them all when we just refer

18:55 ↗ to them as

18:56 ↗ Dei um

18:58 ↗ and also just given our greater Global

19:02 ↗ Climate right now um conversations on

19:05 ↗ religion at work are a a fascinating

19:08 ↗ place to stretch your empathy stretch

19:12 ↗ your ability to to Really connect and

19:14 ↗ that's been some of the the richest

19:16 ↗ opportunity to be in those conversations

19:18 ↗ Jeff has been in some of those

19:20 ↗ conversations um it's just been a really

19:22 ↗ great a really great space so yeah

19:26 ↗ thanks for accepting my impromptu

19:29 ↗ question during other business we'll

19:31 ↗ find someone to to volunteer for next

19:34 ↗ month great okay uh thank you all for

19:37 ↗ participating in that uh opening that

19:39 ↗ we're uh We've tested out last month and

19:42 ↗ now I think we've got it in standard

19:43 ↗ rotation on our agendas um so the next

19:47 ↗ item before no no I'm sorry there's one

19:50 ↗ more you got up here and

19:54 ↗ everything so we have a deal with the

19:56 ↗ staff report um updates on actions taken

20:00 ↗ at the January meeting yep so there

20:02 ↗ there's nothing this is not as uh robust

20:04 ↗ maybe as our upcoming ones will be

20:06 ↗ especially we have two two groups from

20:08 ↗ staff coming here to to get our our um

20:12 ↗ advisory uh muscles working this evening

20:15 ↗ um but from our January meeting one of

20:17 ↗ the things we decided we wanted to

20:18 ↗ Institute was a time for me to share

20:21 ↗ back with the group as a result of the

20:22 ↗ previous meeting what has changed in the

20:24 ↗ way that you know we're doing business

20:26 ↗ or what was the impact of our

20:27 ↗ conversation

20:28 ↗ um one of the big things that came out

20:30 ↗ of our January meeting was the approval

20:32 ↗ of our work plan um and the addition of

20:34 ↗ two items to the work plan that were not

20:36 ↗ on it at the start of the meeting but

20:37 ↗ are now on it um as we look forward at

20:40 ↗ the rest of the year one of them is

20:42 ↗ around

20:44 ↗ um the budget so this the board advising

20:49 ↗ on a more Equitable um on potential more

20:51 ↗ Equitable approaches to budgeting for

20:53 ↗ the upcoming 2025 2026 budget and the

20:57 ↗ second one is data Data Systems um and

21:00 ↗ and our approach to data at the city and

21:02 ↗ so that has also been added to our work

21:04 ↗ plan as well for the second half of the

21:06 ↗ year um and so you'll see those things

21:08 ↗ not just show up on the work plan but

21:09 ↗ also show up in um conversations

21:12 ↗ starting in Q2 so starting in just a

21:15 ↗ couple of months so that's the the

21:17 ↗ near-term impact of our conversation in

21:21 ↗ January I have one other thing to add um

21:25 ↗ council member D Michelle reached out

21:26 ↗ ahead of tonight's meeting just wanted

21:28 ↗ to share her gratitude for the

21:30 ↗ incredible work of this group um on the

21:32 ↗ cultural and religious calendar that

21:34 ↗ you're not only you're advising on the

21:36 ↗ front end um but also your advising and

21:38 ↗ feedback in December uh and just sent a

21:41 ↗ big congratulations to this group is and

21:44 ↗ part of your participation for that so

21:47 ↗ that is my brief staff

21:49 ↗ report thank you um I feel like we're

21:53 ↗ just rolling through these agenda topics

21:55 ↗ so I don't think it's quite time to take

21:57 ↗ a break yet so so um I would invite

21:59 ↗ David Rey to talk with us about

22:01 ↗ resilience hubs

22:04 ↗ awesome and uh yeah just so excited I

22:07 ↗ couldn't sit back there and wait I had

22:11 ↗ to jump up um it's very exciting hearing

22:14 ↗ y'all talk this uh afternoon and I think

22:18 ↗ um you know I can even

22:20 ↗ say uh what good timing it is that I'm

22:22 ↗ at this meeting we'll be able to talk

22:24 ↗ about uh Equity board members getting

22:26 ↗ involved in city project we'll be able

22:28 ↗ to talk about climate Justice and

22:30 ↗ climate uh climate change and uh there's

22:33 ↗ even space to Talk About Pets tonight so

22:36 ↗ during my presentation so there's

22:39 ↗ there's some great things coming wow um

22:42 ↗ before I jump into um first off my name

22:45 ↗ is David REI I'm the sustainability

22:47 ↗ coordinator with the city I've been

22:49 ↗ before the equity board before and

22:51 ↗ before I dived into the uh resilience

22:53 ↗ Hub topic I did want to just move back

22:55 ↗ with y'all about the sustainable

22:57 ↗ purchase policy which I brought before

22:59 ↗ the board um to let you know that it uh

23:03 ↗ got approved by the senior leadership

23:05 ↗ team yesterday and it'll be signed into

23:08 ↗ uh into an administrative policy by the

23:10 ↗ mayor in the next uh week um and so then

23:14 ↗ we get to start implementing it and

23:17 ↗ exploring with staff really across the

23:19 ↗ city across departments what does it

23:21 ↗ mean to think about sustainability when

23:23 ↗ it comes to purchases what does it mean

23:25 ↗ think about social Equity when it comes

23:27 ↗ to purchases and and really dive into

23:30 ↗ upcoming purchases and procurement so

23:32 ↗ that's um going to be a really

23:34 ↗ challenging um and exciting moment and I

23:37 ↗ wanted to thank the equity board for

23:38 ↗ your input in the creation of that

23:40 ↗ policy uh and in the feedback around the

23:43 ↗ implementation guide a lot of y'all's

23:45 ↗ advice and thoughts kind of made it in

23:47 ↗ there so we're really excited and uh

23:51 ↗ we'll see how it

23:52 ↗ goes and now to dive into our my main

23:56 ↗ topic of the night brazili

23:58 ↗ hubs so uh tonight I figure we'll be

24:02 ↗ talking to yall first what is a

24:04 ↗ resilience Hub what do we mean by this

24:07 ↗ um we're gonna I'm going to give a

24:08 ↗ little bit of background on the isqua

24:10 ↗ resilience Hub topic uh project talk

24:13 ↗ about progress to date and then discuss

24:16 ↗ uh start the discussion uh on goals and

24:19 ↗ evaluation criteria um and that's really

24:22 ↗ where we're asking I'm asking for

24:23 ↗ feedback for

24:25 ↗ tonight so the input that

24:28 ↗ um I'll be seeking tonight is for

24:30 ↗ feedback on the developed project goals

24:33 ↗ feedback on criteria that we intend to

24:36 ↗ use to evaluate potential resilience Hub

24:39 ↗ sites and then as well any gen General

24:42 ↗ feedback

24:44 ↗ recommendations um for staff to

24:45 ↗ integrate as this progress project

24:48 ↗ progresses and I'm happy of course to

24:50 ↗ answer questions as

24:52 ↗ well so uh I throw around this word what

24:57 ↗ zilian hubs I invite people to join this

24:59 ↗ project and um one of the big questions

25:03 ↗ what does this even really mean um so I

25:05 ↗ have a definition on the board provided

25:07 ↗ by the urban sustainability director's

25:10 ↗ Network which is uh the main

25:12 ↗ organization that has been kind of

25:14 ↗ pushing this concept of resilience hubs

25:16 ↗ Nationwide and this language around

25:19 ↗ resilience hubs really came out of

25:20 ↗ Baltimore about 10 years ago uh maybe a

25:23 ↗ little bit more but to to Really narrow

25:27 ↗ it down what we're talking about with

25:28 ↗ resilience hubs are trusted Community

25:31 ↗ spaces physical locations that can

25:35 ↗ support community members before during

25:38 ↗ and after disruptive events namely where

25:43 ↗ they sustainability director's Network

25:45 ↗ comes in climate change impacts but it

25:48 ↗ doesn't it's not only climate change

25:49 ↗ impacts so thinking around physical

25:53 ↗ trusted spaces that can support

25:54 ↗ community members during Wildfire smoke

25:57 ↗ event or during uh flooding or during um

26:02 ↗ a pandemic that was one that came up

26:04 ↗ right so where can people go to get that

26:07 ↗ support leading up to an event during an

26:11 ↗ event and after and one of the things

26:13 ↗ that's really important in this

26:14 ↗ consideration and one of the things I

26:16 ↗ think that um can separate it from a lot

26:18 ↗ of Emergency Management um practices

26:21 ↗ otherwise is that well Emergency

26:24 ↗ Management does this too but um 90% % of

26:28 ↗ the time we're not in one of these

26:30 ↗ disruptive events necessarily right a

26:33 ↗ lot of the the work around these

26:34 ↗ resilience hubs is thinking about how do

26:36 ↗ we build the social connections how do

26:38 ↗ we build um the understanding the

26:41 ↗ resources um and really strengthen our

26:45 ↗ community so that we can weather these

26:48 ↗ disruptive events better when they

26:50 ↗ actually occur and then when they do

26:52 ↗ occur these resilience hubs can

26:54 ↗ transition into support centers and then

26:57 ↗ also um after the events support um

27:00 ↗ community members as they uh bounce back

27:02 ↗ from those

27:04 ↗ events so the urban sustainability

27:07 ↗ director Network they have broken it

27:09 ↗ down into these five areas of

27:13 ↗ um uh or categories of how resilience

27:16 ↗ hubs operate and all of these the idea

27:19 ↗ is that all of these pieces really play

27:21 ↗ a role into the operations of these

27:23 ↗ physical locations right so the first

27:26 ↗ one is resilient programming and

27:28 ↗ services thinking that a resilience Hub

27:30 ↗ is more than just a physical space but a

27:33 ↗ space that promotes Community

27:35 ↗ preparedness it improves residents

27:37 ↗ health and well-being all of that is

27:40 ↗ going to play a role when those

27:41 ↗ disruptions

27:43 ↗ occur resilient structure thinking about

27:46 ↗ is the building safe is the building

27:49 ↗ equipped to um support community members

27:52 ↗ on extreme heat days or on extreme cold

27:55 ↗ days right resilient Power Systems so

27:58 ↗ thinking about is the building able to

28:01 ↗ continue to operate if power is lost

28:04 ↗ right if there's an outage event and our

28:06 ↗ community members need

28:08 ↗ support it's um the ideal is a resilient

28:12 ↗ power system so that that physical

28:13 ↗ location and the programming that can

28:15 ↗ occur at that location can continue to

28:18 ↗ operate resilient communication so

28:21 ↗ thinking about before an event during an

28:24 ↗ event and after event during all of that

28:26 ↗ being a ble to communicate with our

28:28 ↗ community members and the folks that

28:30 ↗ we're hoping to serve with these sites

28:33 ↗ and then finally resilient operations

28:35 ↗ you can have the best resilience Hub in

28:36 ↗ the world but if you don't have the

28:38 ↗ Personnel to St it you don't have the

28:40 ↗ funding for it you don't have the plans

28:42 ↗ and processes in place to run that

28:45 ↗ facility and that those programs it's

28:48 ↗ not going to work so resilient

28:49 ↗ operations is really key to making it

28:51 ↗ all work together and one of the other

28:54 ↗ things I want to note about this this

28:56 ↗ idea of resilience hubs

28:58 ↗ uh is we are the the goal of them is to

29:01 ↗ support all um isqua community members

29:05 ↗ but it's also really tailored on those

29:07 ↗ most vulnerable to uh to disruptive

29:11 ↗ events and climate change right so

29:13 ↗ thinking about those who might have the

29:15 ↗ most trouble or most challenges in in a

29:18 ↗ flood situation or in um a wild fire

29:21 ↗ smoke days they don't have somewhere to

29:23 ↗ go or um because their own home might

29:26 ↗ not be equipped for that right or maybe

29:28 ↗ they're just new to the city and they

29:30 ↗ just don't know where those social

29:31 ↗ connections are if we do this project

29:33 ↗ right they might know well I can always

29:35 ↗ go to XYZ resilience sub

29:38 ↗ right so there's examples of this across

29:42 ↗ the country and I would say that this is

29:44 ↗ again a fairly newer concept within kind

29:47 ↗ of the this framing of it and there's no

29:50 ↗ you know slam dunk uh example right each

29:53 ↗ Community is trying to figure out what

29:55 ↗ it means for them trying to figure out

29:57 ↗ how to implement it correctly so I have

30:00 ↗ an a map up of uh resilience hubs across

30:05 ↗ the city of Baltimore um I because I'm a

30:07 ↗ Boston native I uh threw up a Cambridge

30:11 ↗ Massachusetts Community Center and

30:13 ↗ resilience sub um picture and then the

30:16 ↗ last one is Banbridge Island and

30:18 ↗ Banbridge Islands those are actually

30:20 ↗ disaster um hubs they're not even in

30:24 ↗ their mind they don't think these

30:25 ↗ disaster hubs really r to the level of

30:28 ↗ resilience ups but really the the point

30:30 ↗ there is thinking about this as an

30:32 ↗ ongoing long-term process of how can we

30:35 ↗ improve our community facilities how can

30:37 ↗ we um improve our our locations that

30:41 ↗ serve community members across the city

30:43 ↗ over the long term um to prepare folks

30:47 ↗ for uh disruptions when they

30:50 ↗ occur

30:52 ↗ so background on our project

30:56 ↗ specifically the city of isqua applied

30:58 ↗ for a solar plus storage Grant

31:00 ↗ application and was awarded it and that

31:02 ↗ is specifically to support us doing that

31:05 ↗ resilient power system planning and with

31:08 ↗ that Grant we will be doing some we will

31:10 ↗ be able to do some Community engagement

31:13 ↗ and we'll be do uh developing solar and

31:16 ↗ battery storage site designs for

31:18 ↗ potential resilience Hub

31:21 ↗ sites when we got this we said why why

31:23 ↗ are we just doing this on its own let's

31:25 ↗ Nestle it within a broader res of

31:27 ↗ project and so staff were able to attend

31:30 ↗ some workshops on this concept in

31:32 ↗ October and December and then we had a

31:34 ↗ kickoff meeting in November where we did

31:37 ↗ roughly what I'm doing today which is

31:39 ↗ talk about what do resilience of mean

31:42 ↗ what could it look like uh things like

31:44 ↗ that bringing in together Partners from

31:47 ↗ across the city bringing in City staff

31:49 ↗ from across departments um and Lindsay

31:53 ↗ and and Brian here with us today are

31:55 ↗ part of that conversation as you'll see

31:58 ↗ um then in December we took a step back

32:01 ↗ and said all right now that we've got

32:03 ↗ built some common understanding around

32:06 ↗ uh what a resilience Hub might be let's

32:08 ↗ talk about what our goals are for an iso

32:10 ↗ specific resilience Hub project and then

32:14 ↗ the most recent meeting the January

32:15 ↗ meeting was um to discuss what are going

32:18 ↗ to be the criteria that we want to use

32:20 ↗ to evaluate potential resilience Hub

32:23 ↗ sites because not every site is going to

32:25 ↗ be a good resilience hub and if we have

32:27 ↗ 500 resilient potential resilience hubs

32:30 ↗ it makes it challenging to prioritize

32:32 ↗ resources so really thinking how can we

32:34 ↗ be um focused in our efforts here and

32:39 ↗ the pictures on the bottom are just an

32:41 ↗ example of our go development exercise

32:44 ↗ um that we did In This Very Room in

32:48 ↗ December so this is showing uh this is

32:50 ↗ the table who's at the table um right

32:53 ↗ now um for the resilience Hub project so

32:56 ↗ we on the left you'll see there's a lot

32:58 ↗ of folks across the city that roughly

33:00 ↗ fall into those three departments um the

33:03 ↗ highlands Council we have uh the circle

33:06 ↗ Community connections Isa food and

33:08 ↗ clothing bank isqua School District um

33:11 ↗ and we're super lucky to have um one of

33:14 ↗ the equity board members Lorna Gilmore

33:16 ↗ on uh as a representative um along with

33:21 ↗ a few other folks from the school

33:22 ↗ district and so the idea with this is to

33:25 ↗ bring together folks who

33:27 ↗ um are invested in this concept of

33:30 ↗ providing uh support for community

33:32 ↗ members who can who have programming who

33:35 ↗ have physical locations not all of them

33:37 ↗ do but who have physical locations and

33:40 ↗ who can help us shape this project

33:42 ↗ moving

33:44 ↗ forward thinking about our next steps we

33:46 ↗ are going to have these regular monthly

33:48 ↗ meetings to talk about um a whole host

33:51 ↗ of different topics site selection um

33:54 ↗ what does operation in A disruption mean

33:57 ↗ how do we look at resilience Power

33:58 ↗ Systems things like that and we're going

34:00 ↗ to be developing an isqua uh resilience

34:03 ↗ Hub strategy that is really tailored to

34:06 ↗ what does this idea mean for our

34:09 ↗ community and then at the same time

34:11 ↗ we'll be implementing our solar Plus

34:12 ↗ Storage brand so we're trying to run

34:14 ↗ ahead with what we have funding for and

34:16 ↗ what we can Implement now while also

34:18 ↗ taking the time to do this

34:20 ↗ right and then at the end Community

34:22 ↗ engagement and Outreach uh because again

34:25 ↗ we want to do this

34:29 ↗ so before I dive into what we're asking

34:31 ↗ for feedback on just thinking back again

34:33 ↗ on the role of the city um it it's a

34:37 ↗ little bit complicated because uh we

34:40 ↗ came into this with an idea of what we

34:43 ↗ could do um and uh there's uh it's a

34:49 ↗ it's a delicate uh conversation because

34:51 ↗ not always uh resilience Hub sites are

34:54 ↗ not always City Sites so essentially

34:57 ↗ some of those sites some of our City

34:58 ↗ Sites could be potential resilience hubs

35:00 ↗ and so we might be a site list but we're

35:03 ↗ also oning our role as a facilitator and

35:06 ↗ a convenor bringing together these

35:08 ↗ Partners to say hey um you know a

35:10 ↗ community partner might actually have

35:12 ↗ this trusted physical facility that can

35:15 ↗ um uh play this role in the community

35:18 ↗ and therefore how can we best support

35:21 ↗ each other what can the city bring to

35:22 ↗ the table what can other partners bring

35:24 ↗ to the table to help really enhance that

35:27 ↗ space and that those that existing

35:29 ↗ programming and then also the solar plus

35:32 ↗ storage Grant we did get that Grant and

35:34 ↗ we're doing that uh we're implementing

35:36 ↗ that to look at potential sites and that

35:38 ↗ is likely to include some fac City

35:40 ↗ facilities but it might also again look

35:42 ↗ at some of those Community facilities as

35:46 ↗ well so I'm going to dive into the first

35:49 ↗ thing I'm going to ask for comments on

35:51 ↗ or feedback on um which is the

35:54 ↗ collaboratively developed goal so coming

35:56 ↗ out of of that uh December resilience

35:59 ↗ Hub partner meeting um we had folks put

36:02 ↗ up sticky notes about what they want to

36:03 ↗ see as part of this project um and then

36:06 ↗ City staff uh kind of took that and

36:09 ↗ boiled it down to these three

36:12 ↗ overarching goals um that we are hoping

36:15 ↗ can guide this work moving forward and

36:19 ↗ uh these goals are not set in stone this

36:22 ↗ is again very early in the process so we

36:25 ↗ are happy to fine-tune them tweak them

36:27 ↗ really work on them as well as the next

36:29 ↗ criteria to make sure that we

36:32 ↗ are moving forward in the right way so

36:36 ↗ our three goals are establish a network

36:38 ↗ of resilience hubs that offer services

36:41 ↗ that support community members basic

36:43 ↗ needs connection and reliable

36:46 ↗ information during times of

36:47 ↗ non-emergencies and

36:50 ↗ emergencies build on the existing work

36:52 ↗ of partners by augmenting services

36:55 ↗ communication and collab

36:57 ↗ collaboration and finally increase the

36:59 ↗ resilience of the whole Community while

37:01 ↗ providing tailored support for those

37:04 ↗ most at risk including but not limited

37:06 ↗ to seniors youth unhoused neighbors and

37:09 ↗ Multicultural

37:11 ↗ families so before I dive into the next

37:14 ↗ piece of this I would happily accept uh

37:18 ↗ any comments feedback thoughts on these

37:21 ↗ goals and then also I'm happy to answer

37:23 ↗ any questions on the project

37:25 ↗ itself

37:28 ↗ that's a question I'll okay um

37:32 ↗ resilience heads so I'm still wrapping

37:34 ↗ my mind around that concept so to me it

37:37 ↗ sounds like a community center that has

37:41 ↗ some of these special features around uh

37:47 ↗ like solar or power generation um you

37:51 ↗ know air conditioning heating maybe some

37:54 ↗ facilities for shelter things like that

37:57 ↗ is that kind of a a shorthand way of

37:59 ↗ thinking about it yeah I think that's

38:01 ↗ generally a good way to think about it

38:03 ↗ you know some of the folks who at usdn

38:05 ↗ who have piloted this concept um one of

38:08 ↗ the uh I guess jokes they make is that

38:13 ↗ they're using the language of resilience

38:16 ↗ Hub is a way to um bring people into the

38:20 ↗ fold and get funding and support right

38:23 ↗ from FEMA from state governments things

38:25 ↗ like that to really fund just the best

38:28 ↗ community centers that can be right so

38:31 ↗ it's not necessar and and these

38:33 ↗ resilience hubs don't necessarily look

38:35 ↗ the same even across the city right so

38:38 ↗ if we were to look for you know the

38:40 ↗ senior center becomes the resiliance sub

38:42 ↗ that's not going to serve every single

38:44 ↗ Community member that's more tailored

38:46 ↗ towards uh the senior population right

38:48 ↗ so thinking through not all resilience

38:51 ↗ hubs look the same but essentially it's

38:54 ↗ you know a really excellent Community

38:57 ↗ Center that's resilient in the face of

38:59 ↗ climate

39:01 ↗ change um do you guys have in your group

39:05 ↗ do you have that what if

39:07 ↗ conversation what if like I'll give an

39:10 ↗ example Isa Creek overflows and there's

39:12 ↗ homes right there that people need to

39:15 ↗ find shelter get food um and and and

39:19 ↗ another example is like Cougar Mountain

39:22 ↗ that road that connects residents up

39:25 ↗ there gets shut down snow or something

39:27 ↗ so when you think about creating these

39:29 ↗ Community hubs are are you getting to

39:31 ↗ that point already not yet but that is

39:34 ↗ where we hope to go and as you saw in

39:36 ↗ the the list of organizations a number

39:39 ↗ of Emergency Management um groups are

39:41 ↗ part of this both King County and within

39:43 ↗ the city and um as a sneak preview for

39:48 ↗ for the folks in the room who are going

39:50 ↗ to be in those meetings um I think our

39:53 ↗ April conversation is going to be a

39:55 ↗ scenario M where we actually have um

39:58 ↗ what if uh there's a wildfire and

40:03 ↗ something happens what does the

40:05 ↗ resilience Hub look like in that

40:07 ↗ situation and again thinking that not

40:09 ↗ every resilience Hub is going to operate

40:12 ↗ the same in that situation depending on

40:14 ↗ what the center is or what that space is

40:17 ↗ so I would say we haven't done those yet

40:20 ↗ but that is in the plans for the

40:25 ↗ future

40:27 ↗ I had a question around um yeah just the

40:30 ↗ scale of resources and services and

40:33 ↗ facilities in in a resilience Hub that

40:36 ↗ serves people in non-emergency

40:38 ↗ situations because it seems like by

40:41 ↗ definition emergencies are early where

40:44 ↗ well hopefully not well hopefully but

40:47 ↗ that is that is changing with climate

40:49 ↗ change uh but it seems like you're

40:52 ↗ you're probably not going to be using a

40:53 ↗ resilience Hub every single day and

40:55 ↗ maybe 10% of the days of a year so what

40:57 ↗ does it look like for the remaining

41:00 ↗ 90% yes and that goes to kind of the the

41:03 ↗ first of those five pieces of resilience

41:05 ↗ Hub so thinking about resilient

41:08 ↗ programming right so um generally the

41:13 ↗ the generally accepted best practice

41:15 ↗ here is that um for these resilience

41:17 ↗ hubs to be trusted Community spaces they

41:20 ↗ need to have things going on in that

41:24 ↗ that 90% of the time when an emergency

41:26 ↗ is not happening right and so what that

41:29 ↗ looks like again might be different

41:31 ↗ depending on resilience hubs but it's

41:33 ↗ it's programming that um builds

41:36 ↗ Community Connection it's programming

41:38 ↗ that supports community members to think

41:40 ↗ about what do I do in an emergency it

41:42 ↗ might be programming that improves the

41:44 ↗ health and well-being of those community

41:46 ↗ members right um and again right the

41:49 ↗ senior center for instance might have

41:51 ↗ different types of programming than the

41:53 ↗ garage say if the garage is one of those

41:55 ↗ or

41:56 ↗ um you know a different facility across

41:59 ↗ the

42:00 ↗ city does that get a your

42:08 ↗ question would you like us to see if

42:10 ↗ there's any um feedback on the goals

42:14 ↗ yeah if there's any if you have any

42:15 ↗ feedback on these goals as written um

42:19 ↗ I'd be happy to take that

42:22 ↗ um and then um and Al I will say if you

42:27 ↗ want to submit you you sit with it and

42:29 ↗ want to submit comments to me later that

42:31 ↗ is also perfectly works for

42:35 ↗ me so I have Multicultural family and

42:39 ↗ that the phrase what do you mean by

42:45 ↗ that yeah so

42:48 ↗ um that phrase was I believe used in a

42:52 ↗ few of the sticky notes um and the idea

42:56 ↗ a and this might not be the right

42:58 ↗ wording for this but the idea is making

43:01 ↗ sure that a resilience Hub

43:04 ↗ space is both is welcoming and inclusive

43:07 ↗ to folks and trusted by folks um who

43:11 ↗ might be newer to the community or who

43:13 ↗ might not speak English as a first

43:15 ↗ language or um who might have

43:20 ↗ um different backgrounds right and so

43:23 ↗ making sure that um we're not not just

43:26 ↗ catering to some of our population in

43:29 ↗ isqua but making sure that we are that

43:31 ↗ our spaces are more

43:34 ↗ inclusive I appreciate the sentiment

43:37 ↗ behind it I just that phrase sure I

43:40 ↗ don't there is just got something that

43:44 ↗ doesn't feel right too so I'd encourage

43:46 ↗ you to explore other words there

43:55 ↗ excellent

43:59 ↗ mhm um and I guess uh to raise a

44:02 ↗ question around the what is I wonder if

44:06 ↗ um there could be

44:08 ↗ some

44:11 ↗ uh mention of like geography right the

44:14 ↗ RIS due to geography or

44:18 ↗ something I mean it's not limited to so

44:20 ↗ there's there's openness there it seems

44:23 ↗ like that could be a critical dat to

44:25 ↗ yeah something that we could either look

44:27 ↗ to work into some of these or

44:29 ↗ potentially add a fourth goal as

44:37 ↗ well any other thoughts before David

44:40 ↗ moves on to the next

44:49 ↗ slide all right um so the next few

44:53 ↗ slides there's a lot of words on them I

44:55 ↗ do apologize olog for that in advance I

44:57 ↗ threw together these slides uh the day

45:00 ↗ we had this meeting to talk about

45:02 ↗ criteria because that's when the

45:04 ↗ materials were they were due maybe even

45:07 ↗ post due so um again my apologies here

45:11 ↗ but

45:12 ↗ essentially the way we split this out

45:14 ↗ and in this this was in our January

45:15 ↗ resilience Hub conversation we had a

45:18 ↗ whole host of potential criteria that

45:20 ↗ had been submitted by uh partners that

45:23 ↗ we pulled from the usdn website and went

45:26 ↗ around giving them sticky notes or

45:28 ↗ stickies saying we think this is an

45:31 ↗ essential near-term criteria for

45:33 ↗ resilience

45:34 ↗ hubs uh this is an essential medium to

45:38 ↗ long-term criteria for resilience hubs

45:41 ↗ and then this is an ideal situation

45:43 ↗ right so it might not be an essential

45:45 ↗ piece of a resilience subub moving

45:46 ↗ forward inot but it is something that we

45:49 ↗ would like to explore right and so these

45:52 ↗ were the ones these first seven were the

45:55 ↗ CR criteria uh the first seven are the

45:59 ↗ criteria um relating to these are are

46:03 ↗ what we think are essential

46:05 ↗ near-term um aspects to to think about

46:09 ↗ when we um are evaluating potential

46:12 ↗ resilience hubs right and I will note

46:14 ↗ the the tool that we will use to to take

46:18 ↗ this and evaluate potential resilience

46:19 ↗ hubs has not been developed yet so that

46:21 ↗ is um that is in the works but again

46:25 ↗ wanted to get early feedback from the

46:27 ↗ equity board so to summarize them the

46:30 ↗ first is that the resilience Hub is a

46:32 ↗ welcoming and trusted community space

46:34 ↗ already that can be transitioned to a

46:36 ↗ resilience Hub with limited effort the

46:40 ↗ infrastructure of the resilience Hub is

46:41 ↗ safe and accessible the ability to

46:44 ↗ operate success the resilience H has the

46:47 ↗ ability to operate successfully in an

46:49 ↗ emergency via established and reliable

46:51 ↗ communication networks in coordination

46:54 ↗ with existing Emergency Management PL

46:56 ↗ plans the uh facility has adequate

46:59 ↗ Operational Support in place for

47:01 ↗ near-term resilience Hub functions

47:04 ↗ planning and design of resilience Subs

47:06 ↗ includes input from from marginalized

47:09 ↗ groups the commitment and support for

47:12 ↗ current and expanded there is sorry some

47:14 ↗ of this is phrased wrong but there is

47:17 ↗ commitment and support for current and

47:18 ↗ expanded resilience Hub functions and

47:21 ↗ the resilience subub has defined

47:23 ↗ performance and outcome expectations and

47:26 ↗ that last one after talking about it

47:28 ↗ might be a not necessarily an evaluation

47:31 ↗ criteria but um a guiding principle we

47:34 ↗ have to Workshop that one a bit but so I

47:38 ↗ would say these

47:40 ↗ uh uh I

47:42 ↗ can do you think I should run through

47:44 ↗ all of them before asking for comments

47:46 ↗ or stop on each slide you have a

47:52 ↗ preference maybe R through them all yeah

47:54 ↗ okay yeah great so thinking about

47:56 ↗ medium-term

47:58 ↗ criteria um here you can see that

48:00 ↗ flexible energy infrastructure that

48:02 ↗ resilient energy uh

48:04 ↗ system um a network of volunteers and

48:07 ↗ Community Partnerships to support

48:09 ↗ ongoing operations and expanded

48:11 ↗ operations during disruptive events

48:14 ↗ adequate hbac systems for air filtration

48:17 ↗ Heating and Cooling access to and or the

48:20 ↗ ability to house resources and

48:23 ↗ supplies and then security

48:25 ↗ infrastructure to provide a secure

48:31 ↗ space

48:32 ↗ um LCA luia Luccia I'm so sorry no you

48:37 ↗ were right actually it's

48:39 ↗ lucrecia thank you for for that for the

48:42 ↗ effort of pronouncing my name correctly

48:45 ↗ um I apologize if you've already said

48:48 ↗ this before I

48:49 ↗ arrived

48:51 ↗ but is there any

48:54 ↗ um

48:56 ↗ oh what's the word I'm looking

48:58 ↗ for what have you planned for the grid

49:03 ↗ not being able to provide all that you

49:06 ↗ are trying to accomplish when you say

49:09 ↗ adequate HVAC system air filtration

49:12 ↗ heating cooling Etc and access to all of

49:15 ↗ this stuff the first thing that comes to

49:17 ↗ my mind is that's great but what if the

49:21 ↗ system can't take on all of these new

49:24 ↗ apparatuses

49:26 ↗ because my understanding is that the

49:28 ↗ system is currently built for what we

49:33 ↗ have historically needed to provide

49:35 ↗ which is typically heat right but now

49:39 ↗ we're adding air conditioning in months

49:43 ↗ when we in the past have never needed

49:45 ↗ that and so I guess my question is what

49:48 ↗ sort of conversations have you had what

49:52 ↗ sort of um plans do you have have to

49:56 ↗ make sure that the s that the system

49:59 ↗ that the PG and or whomever psse can

50:03 ↗ actually provide for us what we may need

50:07 ↗ as the the environment changes and we

50:11 ↗ are leaning towards towards heating up

50:14 ↗ thank you yeah great question so I think

50:18 ↗ uh to answer that

50:19 ↗ uh uh we haven't had any specific

50:23 ↗ conversations on it yet

50:25 ↗ because um as we select potential

50:29 ↗ resilience of sites that's when we can

50:31 ↗ start diving into what is the the energy

50:34 ↗ system in place for that building

50:36 ↗ currently and what might be uh the needs

50:39 ↗ for that facility moving forward it you

50:42 ↗ know it doesn't have say cooling

50:44 ↗ potential right what is that going to do

50:46 ↗ to the the electrical um capacity or um

50:51 ↗ uh infrastructure for that facility I

50:54 ↗ would also say that's where that

50:56 ↗ essential medium

50:58 ↗ longterm essential medium to longterm

51:00 ↗ criteria number one comes in thinking

51:02 ↗ about resilient and flexible energy

51:04 ↗ infrastructure so if we were to support

51:08 ↗ uh a potential resilience Hub with a a

51:11 ↗ solar and battery backup system right

51:14 ↗ that in theory is not going to help that

51:17 ↗ facility operate indefinitely with um

51:20 ↗ expanded Electrical uh with expanded

51:22 ↗ equipment but it should hopefully uh

51:25 ↗ allow that facility to operate during A

51:28 ↗ disruption when the power might be out

51:31 ↗ right and so that's where those two

51:33 ↗ pieces really get paired together

51:35 ↗ thinking about how do we support the

51:37 ↗ expansion of the the energy

51:39 ↗ infrastructure at that facility and then

51:41 ↗ how do we also dive into what does that

51:43 ↗ facility need equipment wise to make

51:46 ↗ sure that it can really support

51:47 ↗ Community needs in the face of climate

51:50 ↗ emergencies and and other

51:52 ↗ disruptions thank you for that I

51:54 ↗ appreciate your

51:55 ↗ response

51:58 ↗ yeah and then the final ideal ones um

52:02 ↗ there is kind of a a catchall for other

52:05 ↗ facility infrastructure opportunities

52:07 ↗ that includes things like showers

52:09 ↗ commercial kitchens loading docks quiet

52:12 ↗ rooms

52:13 ↗ Etc um space for Sheltering um including

52:17 ↗ those who may require care for health

52:19 ↗ professionals um thinking about uh the

52:22 ↗ making sure the residance Hub space is

52:24 ↗ actively used and then finally

52:26 ↗ infrastructure for distribution of

52:28 ↗ Community Resources so these were the

52:30 ↗ ones that um within the the January

52:33 ↗ meeting were tagged as ideal

52:37 ↗ conditions and that's all I have and so

52:40 ↗ I'd welcome any other feedback on these

52:43 ↗ developed criteria and or on the project

52:46 ↗ itself before I turn it over to our my

52:49 ↗ good friends in the parks

52:51 ↗ department have one question yeah um

52:53 ↗ with your strategies do you consider the

52:56 ↗ the composition of today's ex existing

52:59 ↗ residences of isqua so you know we have

53:01 ↗ north of 40,000 residences and if if

53:04 ↗ there's a need for one of these

53:06 ↗ facilities I imagine somebody who who is

53:09 ↗ a household that nobody speaks English

53:11 ↗ so how do they how do they um

53:16 ↗ uh how are they made aware of of the

53:18 ↗ services that's provided to them is a

53:20 ↗ translator needed or a specific group so

53:23 ↗ as you plan for those you know I know

53:25 ↗ was primarily white still but I think

53:26 ↗ the next demographic is Asian which is

53:28 ↗ very large because there's a lot of

53:30 ↗ Asian countries so um if there's a need

53:32 ↗ for that that that might be something to

53:35 ↗ consider that a translator may be needed

53:37 ↗ on site to um help them get acclimated

53:42 ↗ to

53:43 ↗ this facility that's

53:46 ↗ been yeah no I think that's a great

53:48 ↗ comment and I think when it comes to

53:52 ↗ thinking about how that fits into the

53:53 ↗ criteria right when we're looking at a

53:56 ↗ potential resilience Hub site we can say

53:59 ↗ um right do they already have these

54:00 ↗ services and does does this type of um

54:03 ↗ structure already exists at the facility

54:06 ↗ and if not is that something that we

54:08 ↗ think is really important to have at

54:10 ↗ that facility moving forward and if so

54:12 ↗ how do we make it happen right and so I

54:15 ↗ think that goes into kind of those

54:17 ↗ questions around um you know how it's

54:21 ↗ How potential sites are currently

54:23 ↗ operating and then

54:25 ↗ as we get to the point of ident picking

54:29 ↗ sites what investments and what support

54:31 ↗ can we really Wrangle together to make

54:33 ↗ it so these things that we're not going

54:35 ↗ to compromise on actually happen in the

54:37 ↗ future yeah yeah and I don't know if

54:39 ↗ those other resilience helps were

54:41 ↗ created that you share do happen in

54:43 ↗ other cities the scenarios play out in

54:46 ↗ there's a need for example translator

54:49 ↗ because there's there's a certain

54:50 ↗ population that needed it more than

54:53 ↗ others right many of

54:56 ↗ them uh definitely want to want

54:59 ↗ translation services or say that's an

55:01 ↗ important part of the operations

55:06 ↗ okay yeah had a question on

55:10 ↗ um what what sort of data do we have

55:12 ↗ from emergencies of the past that we've

55:15 ↗ dealt with here inqua and how that data

55:19 ↗ might help inform the choices that you

55:21 ↗ might be making the yeah that's a great

55:25 ↗ question and um I don't have data to

55:29 ↗ share with you right right now but I

55:31 ↗ will say um there's a lot of different

55:34 ↗ data we can pull into this right so

55:36 ↗ thinking about from our um Human

55:39 ↗ Services Department who are the people

55:41 ↗ that um they are working with who might

55:44 ↗ be best to who who might take advantage

55:46 ↗ of this right similarly um the school

55:49 ↗ district and East Side Fire and Rescue

55:51 ↗ who have a lot of those strong um

55:54 ↗ Community connections right um who are

55:56 ↗ those folks what do they need and how

55:59 ↗ could these resilience hubs best support

56:01 ↗ that when it comes to Emergency

56:03 ↗ Management working with our emergency

56:04 ↗ manager working with our um Recreation

56:07 ↗ team who runs some of our own facilities

56:10 ↗ working with K County's emergency

56:12 ↗ manager thinking

56:13 ↗ around um what are the climate hazards

56:16 ↗ here and what are the other potential

56:18 ↗ hazards and um how are our spaces

56:21 ↗ currently used how uh what is the

56:25 ↗ what is the uh the ability of that space

56:28 ↗ to operate effectively in say a

56:30 ↗ situation where Isa Creek floods or you

56:33 ↗ know looking at flood planes and things

56:34 ↗ like that so there's a lot of

56:37 ↗ opportunity to pull in a lot of data and

56:39 ↗ a lot of considerations into this

56:42 ↗ question especially as we're starting to

56:44 ↗ get to the point of what resilience Subs

56:47 ↗ do we want to try and move forward with

56:48 ↗ and then when we start operating that

56:51 ↗ resilience sub what does it even look

56:53 ↗ like right

56:55 ↗ thank you there's a question from Shay

56:58 ↗ in the

56:59 ↗ chat um I don't think I can see Shay do

57:03 ↗ you want to unmute I yeah I can speak it

57:06 ↗ if that's okay um so my question was you

57:09 ↗ mentioned earlier that there was room

57:11 ↗ for like pet support so my question kind

57:14 ↗ of entailed what that would look like as

57:16 ↗ well um because I'm the pet Enthusiast

57:19 ↗ of the group um I just for example last

57:22 ↗ year or not I'm sorry not last year a

57:24 ↗ couple years ago um maybe two or three

57:27 ↗ we had that huge heat wve and everyone

57:29 ↗ was looking for a place for their pet to

57:31 ↗ go that wasn't their car um and I I kind

57:35 ↗ of wonder if that would look something

57:38 ↗ like boarding or would those spaces look

57:40 ↗ like something that people and pets

57:43 ↗ could

57:44 ↗ join yeah so it's it's a great question

57:47 ↗ and I sorry I forgot to mention it it is

57:49 ↗ listed under the additional robust

57:51 ↗ facility infrastructure as pet spaces

57:55 ↗ um but really what that looks like um I

57:58 ↗ think there's opportunity to to really

58:00 ↗ figure that out um on a on a space by

58:03 ↗ space basis so generally when we think

58:05 ↗ about resilience hubs they're not um

58:09 ↗ they're

58:10 ↗ not uh generally overnight shelters

58:14 ↗ right and so it's unlikely that these

58:17 ↗ spaces would be you know pet boarding

58:19 ↗ spaces necessarily but when we think

58:22 ↗ about um creating

58:25 ↗ or or supporting trusted Community

58:27 ↗ spaces where people want to go where

58:28 ↗ they can feel comforted and supported

58:31 ↗ and um uh you know get the resources

58:34 ↗ they might need in these in disruption

58:37 ↗ disruptive events thinking about this

58:39 ↗ was actually brought up um within the

58:42 ↗ last meeting of well having um a plan

58:44 ↗ for pets having an idea on people don't

58:48 ↗ want to leave their pets at home right

58:50 ↗ people don't want to leave uh to worry

58:54 ↗ about them pets and so really kind of

58:55 ↗ thinking about that can help make these

58:57 ↗ spaces more inclusive more uh and more

59:00 ↗ effective in serving uh our population

59:02 ↗ and of course our

59:06 ↗ pets do that question yes thank you

59:17 ↗ umcia

59:19 ↗ yes yes thank you for your

59:22 ↗ clarifications David um um another

59:25 ↗ clarification I would like is that you

59:28 ↗ state space for Sheltering uh

59:30 ↗ approximately 100 people I would like to

59:33 ↗ better understand how you came up with

59:35 ↗ that number and also um you just stated

59:41 ↗ that Sheltering is not overnight and

59:45 ↗ therefore where would these hundred or

59:48 ↗ so people be going in the evenings and

59:51 ↗ at what point or at what level of of

59:55 ↗ catastrophe would we be you know calling

59:58 ↗ for the National Guard to pitch tents

1:00:00 ↗ somewhere thank you yeah so that's a

1:00:03 ↗ great question and so this is where it

1:00:05 ↗ gets into kind of just the complications

1:00:06 ↗ of thinking about resilience hubs within

1:00:09 ↗ the context of Emergency Management as

1:00:12 ↗ well right and so I think one way we

1:00:14 ↗ want to think about this is these

1:00:16 ↗ resilience Hubs Don't replace existing

1:00:18 ↗ Emergency

1:00:19 ↗ Management uh you know plans especially

1:00:23 ↗ in a major disaster like in earthquake

1:00:25 ↗ or something that is going to displace a

1:00:27 ↗ lot of folks right um and so in that

1:00:31 ↗ sense it's not meant to to be shelters

1:00:34 ↗ in that way this number was put in by um

1:00:38 ↗ this was really advocated for by our

1:00:40 ↗ emergency manager and so again this

1:00:42 ↗ isn't necessarily thinking that all

1:00:44 ↗ resilience hubs thinking about back to

1:00:46 ↗ our goal where we want a network of

1:00:48 ↗ resilience Subs in the city of isqua so

1:00:50 ↗ not every resilience sub will

1:00:51 ↗ necessarily have Sheltering capacity and

1:00:54 ↗ this would be for this it would be

1:00:56 ↗ overnight Sheltering capacity is what

1:00:58 ↗ our emergency manager had in mind for

1:00:59 ↗ this but thinking about what can we do

1:01:02 ↗ to um leverage this project and this

1:01:05 ↗ idea to um build the connections build

1:01:09 ↗ the Partnerships so that um we can

1:01:12 ↗ perhaps find a space that in an

1:01:14 ↗ emergency could shelter overnight um up

1:01:17 ↗ up to a 100 people and I think that

1:01:20 ↗ number 100 I'll have to ask him how he

1:01:22 ↗ got that I think that might have just

1:01:24 ↗ been um a number that he threw in for

1:01:27 ↗ now but um we can I'll I'll check with

1:01:30 ↗ him and we can kind of fine-tune that

1:01:31 ↗ number a bit um as well but again and

1:01:35 ↗ the the final thing I'll point out is

1:01:37 ↗ this is in the ideal criteria piece

1:01:39 ↗ right so thinking

1:01:41 ↗ around maybe down the line or maybe as

1:01:44 ↗ we really expand this convers or this

1:01:47 ↗ topic and and um question of what

1:01:49 ↗ resilience hubs look like for the city

1:01:51 ↗ this could be something that we're

1:01:52 ↗ really trying to work towards versus

1:01:54 ↗ something that um is going to be an

1:01:56 ↗ essential near-term aspect of the

1:01:59 ↗ resilience hubs here in

1:02:03 ↗ isqua okay so I've got maybe a couple of

1:02:05 ↗ comments one is uh thinking about

1:02:08 ↗ geographic distribution as you think

1:02:11 ↗ about where to site you know multiple

1:02:13 ↗ resilience hubs and then um there's

1:02:19 ↗ throughout the slide deck there's words

1:02:20 ↗ like you know the most vulnerable

1:02:23 ↗ Multicultural

1:02:25 ↗ marginalized groups and so I think it

1:02:28 ↗ would be helpful to to think

1:02:30 ↗ about which group specifically um you

1:02:34 ↗ all mean and are referencing and then

1:02:37 ↗ also thinking about like the specific

1:02:40 ↗ maybe the more unique needs that those

1:02:42 ↗ groups have with respect to facilities

1:02:45 ↗ because there's you know when you talk

1:02:47 ↗ about welcoming that that could be very

1:02:49 ↗ different depending on the identities of

1:02:53 ↗ the folks and um I'm especially thinking

1:02:57 ↗ of like Sheltering for a 100 people you

1:02:59 ↗ know there might be some requirements or

1:03:02 ↗ unique needs based on religion and

1:03:05 ↗ things like that so I think you know

1:03:06 ↗ maybe like uh shelters have probably

1:03:09 ↗ solved for some of those problems but

1:03:11 ↗ just thinking yeah around like language

1:03:14 ↗ religion um well families just you know

1:03:18 ↗ all of those things and especially when

1:03:20 ↗ you start looking at like intersectional

1:03:22 ↗ identities and what does that mean for

1:03:24 ↗ folks to be welcome so um I don't

1:03:27 ↗ necessarily I mean I think these words

1:03:29 ↗ are big and they're all in here but kind

1:03:31 ↗ of thinking about how those like add up

1:03:34 ↗ together and what it needs to be

1:03:36 ↗ welcoming yeah at these different

1:03:39 ↗ rers yeah thank you that's that's really

1:03:42 ↗ helpful as as we think about it and I

1:03:44 ↗ think narrowing in on the the language

1:03:47 ↗ that we want to use um has been

1:03:50 ↗ challenging right and you know I know

1:03:52 ↗ this has come before the board before

1:03:53 ↗ what do we mean by different terms right

1:03:55 ↗ and so um I think that's playing a role

1:03:59 ↗ in this conversation as well and um I I

1:04:01 ↗ definitely appreciate that one note I'll

1:04:03 ↗ just make on the geographic uh it

1:04:05 ↗ doesn't show up in these criteria right

1:04:07 ↗ now um and

1:04:10 ↗ that's we'll look to add that that

1:04:13 ↗ wasn't something that had come up at the

1:04:14 ↗ January meeting I I did expect it to

1:04:16 ↗ come up but nobody actually raised it

1:04:18 ↗ which is kind of funny but um within the

1:04:20 ↗ solar plus storage Grant um we actually

1:04:22 ↗ have a piece written in there that we

1:04:24 ↗ have to look at more than one

1:04:26 ↗ neighborhood of isqua so for instance

1:04:28 ↗ all three of those solar site designs

1:04:30 ↗ and uh projects can't just be in Bic

1:04:33 ↗ Center or

1:04:35 ↗ um Historic downtown or anything so

1:04:38 ↗ specifically thinking about um we don't

1:04:42 ↗ want all of our resilience Subs in one

1:04:43 ↗ corner the

1:04:44 ↗ same yeah and I do know I'm over time so

1:04:48 ↗ I'll just Elevate Shay had one other

1:04:51 ↗ question question comment in the chat

1:04:53 ↗ that got a lot of love and also taught

1:04:55 ↗ me that fist bump is an emoji that

1:04:58 ↗ Microsoft teams allows you to use which

1:05:00 ↗ I did not know prior to 7:08 PM so uh

1:05:06 ↗ Shay I'll I'll let you give voice to to

1:05:08 ↗ your question here

1:05:10 ↗ though yes um I wanted to ask about um

1:05:13 ↗ the needs of birthing people that may

1:05:16 ↗ have to utilize these areas um because

1:05:19 ↗ my thought would be would we be

1:05:22 ↗ considering feeding spaces or even

1:05:24 ↗ parent and children spaces um within the

1:05:27 ↗ sphere of health or more so in the

1:05:29 ↗ sphere of Sheltering maybe both um I'm

1:05:32 ↗ just kind of trying to get a better

1:05:34 ↗ understanding of how that kind of plays

1:05:37 ↗ into um what you envision for this

1:05:41 ↗ project yeah I think I think that's a an

1:05:44 ↗ a really great um aspect as well and I

1:05:48 ↗ think when we think about kind of a

1:05:50 ↗ network of resilience hubs again right

1:05:53 ↗ um certain spaces may be appropriate for

1:05:57 ↗ um for a mother's room or a feeding

1:06:00 ↗ space for instance and then again others

1:06:02 ↗ may not um but thinking about them as a

1:06:07 ↗ network right being able to make sure

1:06:10 ↗ that we are thinking about which spaces

1:06:12 ↗ do need that and also for a space that

1:06:15 ↗ might not have that what resources or

1:06:17 ↗ support or where can they Point folks to

1:06:20 ↗ to make sure that they can access that

1:06:22 ↗ support and have those spaces as well

1:06:24 ↗ right so um and then also I think one of

1:06:28 ↗ the other constraints that we will be

1:06:30 ↗ working with right is that some of our

1:06:32 ↗ some of the facilities that might move

1:06:34 ↗ forward in this are

1:06:36 ↗ small right so the food and clothing

1:06:38 ↗ bank if that is a space that folks want

1:06:39 ↗ to move forward with it's a small

1:06:41 ↗ building um right and so thinking about

1:06:44 ↗ how do we take small spaces and make

1:06:48 ↗ sure that they can be um able flexible

1:06:52 ↗ use for um for whatever the community

1:06:57 ↗ needs at any given moment right and

1:07:00 ↗ while also planning for the fact that

1:07:02 ↗ there might be a lot of needs in in uh

1:07:04 ↗ disruptive events right and so thinking

1:07:06 ↗ about how do we plan for that as well so

1:07:10 ↗ that was kind of a long way of saying um

1:07:12 ↗ it's a great idea I'll make sure it's

1:07:14 ↗ part of the considerations as well and

1:07:17 ↗ um uh it'll be definitely a great thing

1:07:20 ↗ to to include within planning for these

1:07:23 ↗ sites

1:07:25 ↗ thank

1:07:27 ↗ you Ste do you have what you need from

1:07:30 ↗ us I do I think I have some great

1:07:32 ↗ comments and points I will incorporate

1:07:34 ↗ those into this um and we are going to

1:07:38 ↗ keep rolling on this and I'll say I'm

1:07:40 ↗ I'm happy to come back and chat with

1:07:41 ↗ youall about this again as much uh or as

1:07:45 ↗ little as you want want to hear about it

1:07:47 ↗ and also since Laura's part of the group

1:07:50 ↗ um Laura will be able to uh I'm sure

1:07:53 ↗ keep you all updated as well yeah well

1:07:55 ↗ thank you and your team and all of your

1:07:58 ↗ partners on this SC it sounds like it's

1:08:00 ↗ a real uh just important part of uh

1:08:04 ↗ building our city up yeah thank you

1:08:07 ↗ thank you so I think with that maybe uh

1:08:10 ↗ can I suggest we take a five minute

1:08:13 ↗ break and then reconvene at 7:20 that

1:08:16 ↗ sounds

1:08:22 ↗ great

1:08:27 ↗ your

1:08:42 ↗ chance all the way and then it ends at

1:08:52 ↗ like oh no okay so you're hting off the

1:08:56 ↗ transit center you know where Ladro CFE

1:08:59 ↗ lad you're going up that up into the

1:09:02 ↗ Highland yeah and then all the way up at

1:09:05 ↗ the top

1:09:08 ↗ bys um and then we have our little our

1:09:11 ↗ Village Green s the park and it's right

1:09:13 ↗ there on the edge um that was question

1:09:16 ↗ number one and then question number two

1:09:17 ↗ were you aware as you start planning

1:09:19 ↗ some different um groups up there that

1:09:22 ↗ that calendar that we created was you

1:09:25 ↗ topic for any given

1:09:28 ↗ month yeah we have think that we haven't

1:09:31 ↗ the new one because it just got approved

1:09:34 ↗ but last year we

1:09:41 ↗ we we we put your calendar that calendar

1:09:45 ↗ on our calendar so we were aware of it

1:09:47 ↗ so especially because we didn't want to

1:09:48 ↗ schedule any specific meetings on days

1:09:51 ↗ so we follow that as well

1:09:54 ↗ and yeah in terms of holidays and things

1:09:58 ↗ like that for the most part abolutely we

1:10:01 ↗ wait for people to come to

1:10:03 ↗ us um it

1:10:06 ↗ feels it just doesn't feel good for me

1:10:08 ↗ to go out and hey we wanna you know we

1:10:12 ↗ really want to celebrate ex culture this

1:10:15 ↗ summer will you help us will you help us

1:10:17 ↗ it just feels organizing to be so I we

1:10:21 ↗ usually wait for people or yeah or comes

1:10:24 ↗ up in more of a organic conversation I'm

1:10:27 ↗ having a conversation

1:10:29 ↗ with unless the community really request

1:10:32 ↗ something

1:10:34 ↗ specific and then I might

1:10:37 ↗ looking out but in general try to have

1:10:41 ↗ people say we want to do

1:10:44 ↗ this do you think you can help us

1:10:48 ↗ yeah I'm excited for super

1:10:52 ↗ commun

1:10:57 ↗ yes almost done there's not really any

1:10:59 ↗ more space for

1:11:06 ↗ single and it's gonna be a few years

1:11:08 ↗ before anything

1:11:10 ↗ goes yeah but then there's 12200

1:11:13 ↗ Apartments going

1:11:18 ↗ in Big F between m s and

1:11:21 ↗ hospital that's thats

1:11:26 ↗ and then there's another

1:11:29 ↗ property doesn't

1:11:32 ↗ seeman and they're gonna build I think

1:11:34 ↗ apartment there oh wow okay thank you

1:11:36 ↗ allk you please always reach out if you

1:11:39 ↗ have any questions we can sit

1:11:43 ↗ for you don't have to sit next to each

1:11:45 ↗ other yeah all the better to make eyes

1:11:48 ↗ at each

1:11:52 ↗ other are you

1:11:59 ↗ Yeahs like we turn

1:12:03 ↗ the should

1:12:09 ↗ Beal place to watch the Super Bowl it's

1:12:14 ↗ free Ray you might have to put your your

1:12:17 ↗ tailor and your 49ers ey aside just for

1:12:21 ↗ the cookies ners fan then no

1:12:24 ↗ actively

1:12:34 ↗ against we get prizes for commercial

1:12:36 ↗ bingo so we support those people watch

1:12:39 ↗ the game we have plenty things to do

1:12:43 ↗ lots of

1:12:47 ↗ food to work okay there we

1:12:51 ↗ go yeah

1:12:54 ↗ little different than us where yeah our

1:12:56 ↗ work doesn't travel at home all that

1:12:58 ↗ take careks the parks home thank you

1:13:00 ↗ Lindsay for coming we'll talk soon and

1:13:02 ↗ if if you want to send me the dates that

1:13:05 ↗ you mentioned I'll get it I'll get it

1:13:07 ↗ sort of included in the

1:13:08 ↗ minutes I'll my not yeah I typed out my

1:13:12 ↗ notes and I didn't say things on them

1:13:14 ↗ because I was trying

1:13:19 ↗ to

1:13:22 ↗ obviously

1:13:25 ↗ have a good good evening of

1:13:29 ↗ them but you're right they move yes

1:13:32 ↗ please go for it I'll let you

1:13:41 ↗ drive yeah always fun when you can drive

1:13:44 ↗ yourself it probably is easier

1:13:48 ↗ than people back yes we can so I guess

1:13:51 ↗ for our friends on team when you're uh

1:13:54 ↗ when you're when you've rejoined can you

1:13:56 ↗ please turn your cameras on or raise

1:13:58 ↗ your hands so we know you're ready to

1:14:06 ↗ go this seems to be a technical issue

1:14:09 ↗ but it's not on them it's it's on us

1:14:11 ↗ over here there we go there we go there

1:14:13 ↗ we go okay I got you we're good hi

1:14:17 ↗ Shay oh Fair gotcha okaya we see your

1:14:23 ↗ I was going to do that here in person so

1:14:26 ↗ you're really setting the standard I

1:14:27 ↗ will not open my dinner while we're at

1:14:29 ↗ the table here Christina can you raise

1:14:32 ↗ your hand or something so we know if

1:14:34 ↗ you're ready to

1:14:36 ↗ go

1:14:42 ↗ Christina yes I'm ready to go okay

1:14:45 ↗ awesome great thank you all right and so

1:14:48 ↗ with that I think we've got Jeff and

1:14:50 ↗ Brian to Sher come back to return back

1:14:52 ↗ to talk about uh let's see the high

1:14:55 ↗ demand Recreation program registration

1:14:58 ↗ pilot so

1:15:00 ↗ yeah I will I will kick it off and then

1:15:03 ↗ uh pass the Baton over to Brian but uh

1:15:05 ↗ thank you for having us back um time

1:15:08 ↗ flies it was November uh that we were

1:15:11 ↗ discussing with you and and really um

1:15:14 ↗ you know as a department um as we look

1:15:16 ↗ at utilizing the equity framework on a

1:15:18 ↗ number of things that we do um I think

1:15:22 ↗ at that meeting we or talked about the

1:15:24 ↗ the joy we have as a department with the

1:15:26 ↗ diversity of services we provide from

1:15:29 ↗ Human Services to park operations to rec

1:15:32 ↗ programs um to designing parks there so

1:15:35 ↗ many ways to really think from an equity

1:15:38 ↗ standpoint um how are we delivering

1:15:40 ↗ services but what we brought to you in

1:15:42 ↗ November was one that um quite honestly

1:15:45 ↗ is a little bit more of a Nuance

1:15:46 ↗ challenge that we really wanted to to

1:15:48 ↗ have a discussion with you and look

1:15:49 ↗ forward to to tonight's discussion as we

1:15:53 ↗ look look at piloting um some ways we

1:15:56 ↗ look at registration differently but I I

1:15:58 ↗ guess I want to say this in preface this

1:16:00 ↗ with this is going to be a multi-year

1:16:01 ↗ effort for us um um if you remember the

1:16:05 ↗ discussion we have some immensely

1:16:07 ↗ popular Recreation programs namely our

1:16:09 ↗ swim lessons and our and our summer

1:16:11 ↗ camps that fill within minutes um we can

1:16:14 ↗ say that's a success but that in in a

1:16:17 ↗ lot of ways isn't a success it's not

1:16:19 ↗ giving the access um um that we really

1:16:22 ↗ want to provide so from the conversation

1:16:25 ↗ we had in November uh we just want to

1:16:27 ↗ report back on some things that we're

1:16:29 ↗ going to be instituting this year uh boy

1:16:31 ↗ calendar goes fast we're we're going to

1:16:33 ↗ be opening up and beginning to Market um

1:16:37 ↗ uh registration for for Camp so just

1:16:40 ↗ want to talk through some of that get

1:16:41 ↗ your feedback and perspective as as

1:16:44 ↗ we're looking at this and and in many

1:16:45 ↗ ways maybe develop some measures that we

1:16:48 ↗ want to take a look at this year as we

1:16:50 ↗ Institute this um and and again

1:16:52 ↗ understanding this is a going to be a

1:16:54 ↗ multi-year effort um one last preface I

1:16:57 ↗ want to make before handing it to Brian

1:16:59 ↗ is that as we as staff looked at this

1:17:01 ↗ over the last couple of months I think

1:17:02 ↗ we began to realize

1:17:04 ↗ when when we have a

1:17:07 ↗ limited um

1:17:09 ↗ quantity product that we're delivering

1:17:12 ↗ right so so it's it's not a product that

1:17:15 ↗ we could necessarily provide to

1:17:16 ↗ everybody there there's a limited number

1:17:18 ↗ of spots um so many of the things we're

1:17:21 ↗ looking

1:17:22 ↗ at definition feel more like this is

1:17:25 ↗ about

1:17:26 ↗ accessibility and equality of access um

1:17:31 ↗ not necessarily Equity of access and and

1:17:34 ↗ I I'll I guess I I want to oppose that

1:17:37 ↗ to you all and and as we think of of

1:17:40 ↗ again what we're doing this year uh with

1:17:43 ↗ increasing capacity and some things

1:17:45 ↗ we're looking at reg um resident

1:17:48 ↗ registration priorities

1:17:51 ↗ um I want to prepare for what feels like

1:17:54 ↗ is going to be a conversation for a

1:17:56 ↗ couple years in terms of as we build and

1:17:59 ↗ as we realize we're we're talking about

1:18:02 ↗ access to a finite resource um and and

1:18:07 ↗ how do we handle that and how do we work

1:18:09 ↗ with that and and um I'm G to stop there

1:18:12 ↗ because I could I could keep going

1:18:14 ↗ because it this starts to morph into

1:18:16 ↗ some of the some survey work we're going

1:18:18 ↗ to be doing with the community just

1:18:19 ↗ around how we deliver Recreation

1:18:20 ↗ programs so so that this this starts to

1:18:23 ↗ have tentacles so um I'm G to stop there

1:18:27 ↗ and and excited to get your feedback and

1:18:29 ↗ share what we're going to be um how we

1:18:31 ↗ how we're tweaking our registration

1:18:33 ↗ process this

1:18:35 ↗ yearing thank you once again I'm Brian

1:18:37 ↗ burs and I'm the Recreation services

1:18:39 ↗ manager for the parks new Services

1:18:41 ↗ Department uh Recreation services is a

1:18:43 ↗ reminder again is like all the programs

1:18:45 ↗ activities and events that are run

1:18:46 ↗ through the um isqua Community Center

1:18:49 ↗ Julius B pool isqua Senior Center pick

1:18:52 ↗ Barn and all the programming and rent to

1:18:55 ↗ take place on all the city in city parks

1:18:57 ↗ and on the ball field so that very

1:19:00 ↗ basically is your Recreation services

1:19:03 ↗ department or division

1:19:06 ↗ uh

1:19:08 ↗ okay all just I'm trying to figure out

1:19:10 ↗ how my oh there we go uh purpose tonight

1:19:13 ↗ Jeff sort of touched on this you know

1:19:15 ↗ it's to update you on the work that

1:19:17 ↗ we've been done in the registration

1:19:18 ↗ process that we kind of touched on in

1:19:19 ↗ our last meeting and said you know hey

1:19:21 ↗ we shared a lot of different input

1:19:23 ↗ we're here to share with you sort of

1:19:25 ↗ where we're at on that process um what

1:19:27 ↗ we heard Jeff again shared a bit on this

1:19:30 ↗ one but you know this kind of goes back

1:19:32 ↗ to the discussion we had in November

1:19:33 ↗ where we were sharing that you know some

1:19:35 ↗ of these high very popular programs with

1:19:38 ↗ limited capacity and we were talking

1:19:40 ↗ about day camps we talked about swim

1:19:42 ↗ lessons and a number of the folks in

1:19:44 ↗ this room were like uh been there done

1:19:46 ↗ that yes it's it's challenge right so

1:19:49 ↗ that's kind of why why we're addressing

1:19:51 ↗ this one as the first part of of this as

1:19:53 ↗ we go through it

1:19:57 ↗ um sorry my Mouse's a little

1:20:02 ↗ sensitive tonight as like said as we

1:20:04 ↗ discuss those different topics we

1:20:05 ↗ focused on three different items right

1:20:07 ↗ now for 2024 that uh is what we're going

1:20:10 ↗ to address what we're going after right

1:20:11 ↗ now at this moment that's increasing the

1:20:13 ↗ capacity of our of our popular programs

1:20:17 ↗ uh that's uh making the res you know uh

1:20:19 ↗ registration process easier hopefully a

1:20:21 ↗ little bit easier especially for this

1:20:22 ↗ our residents uh and then marketing and

1:20:25 ↗ Outreach and how we you how we getting

1:20:26 ↗ the word out to people I'm going to go

1:20:28 ↗ through each one of these in the next

1:20:29 ↗ couple slides so we'll be able to uh go

1:20:31 ↗ over

1:20:32 ↗ those uh with capacity increases um like

1:20:36 ↗ I said the two the two Focus programs we

1:20:39 ↗ have right now our camps our swim

1:20:40 ↗ lessons I have just a little bit of data

1:20:43 ↗ to share with you that I think I think

1:20:45 ↗ hopefully you'll find it interesting

1:20:46 ↗ because I find it interesting as I was

1:20:47 ↗ going through it and developing it with

1:20:49 ↗ our teams uh if you remember beginning

1:20:51 ↗ in 24 24 Recreation services is going to

1:20:54 ↗ we're going to add two additional camps

1:20:56 ↗ right so we're going to add a what's

1:20:58 ↗ called an adventure camp and we're also

1:21:00 ↗ going to add two weeks of a brand new

1:21:02 ↗ Spanish speaking camp that uh we've

1:21:04 ↗ never done before um that along with

1:21:07 ↗ some program modifications of some of

1:21:10 ↗ our other camps that I will I'll get

1:21:11 ↗ into as I start sharing a little bit of

1:21:13 ↗ the data on that um some are we're

1:21:16 ↗ planning for the following camps being

1:21:18 ↗ offered um so I'm I'm going to list them

1:21:20 ↗ to you so that you can sort of know what

1:21:23 ↗ they are I'll share the numbers with

1:21:24 ↗ them so I'm happy to repeat them it's a

1:21:26 ↗ bit of data but I think it's important

1:21:28 ↗ data to share um Al also I want to place

1:21:30 ↗ a quick caveat to this what I'm going to

1:21:33 ↗ share is we rely heavily upon this W

1:21:35 ↗ school district for the use of spaces so

1:21:38 ↗ the numbers I'm going to give you

1:21:40 ↗ assumes that we get the spaces we're

1:21:42 ↗ requested if we don't get the spaces we

1:21:45 ↗ request or it's a smaller space request

1:21:47 ↗ the program would be modified and the

1:21:48 ↗ numbers would be a little less so just

1:21:51 ↗ we're still waiting we work in the

1:21:52 ↗ school district has been very great

1:21:53 ↗ partners with us in the past and we

1:21:55 ↗ usually get what we request and some

1:21:57 ↗ capacity they work closely with us so

1:22:00 ↗ big nod with the school district because

1:22:01 ↗ a lot of these camps wouldn't even

1:22:02 ↗ happen without them um but it is harder

1:22:05 ↗ when they're not our facilities our

1:22:06 ↗ facilities we know exactly what we have

1:22:08 ↗ and what we to use we're still waiting

1:22:11 ↗ to figure out what those uses are with

1:22:12 ↗ the school district so um in 2023 we had

1:22:17 ↗ a Kinder Camp which is our um it was for

1:22:19 ↗ grades K1 this year it's going to be for

1:22:22 ↗ kind K1 is kindergarten first grade and

1:22:25 ↗ then this year it's going to be uh for

1:22:27 ↗ kindergarten for second grade uh run it

1:22:30 ↗ ran for eight weeks uh with 40 campers

1:22:33 ↗ per week um in this year we're planning

1:22:36 ↗ on running the same camper with 50

1:22:39 ↗ campers so we're going to expand that

1:22:40 ↗ capacity by 10 kids per week which will

1:22:43 ↗ give us additional 80 summer spaces

1:22:45 ↗ within that one Camp our camp qua which

1:22:48 ↗ is for grades second through 5ifth that

1:22:50 ↗ runs for nine weeks with 60 kids that

1:22:53 ↗ camp is staying the same same numbers

1:22:55 ↗ sameeh program with that one uh

1:22:58 ↗ adventure camp is for grades 5 through 7

1:23:01 ↗ and that's going to be a brand new camp

1:23:03 ↗ so that's 40 additional that's 40

1:23:07 ↗ campers per week which is going to add

1:23:09 ↗ 320 additional spaces for camps this

1:23:13 ↗ year uh and then our Spanish speaking

1:23:15 ↗ Camp is uh we're running that for two

1:23:17 ↗ weeks for grades 2 through five uh

1:23:20 ↗ that's 40 kids per week so 80 additional

1:23:23 ↗ camper spaces for this year in that new

1:23:27 ↗ program um so pending the school

1:23:30 ↗ district approval we're talking 480 SPAC

1:23:33 ↗ additional Camp spaces that we'll have

1:23:35 ↗ in 2024 that we didn't have in

1:23:40 ↗ 2023 um you know what that averages per

1:23:43 ↗ week Brian just for on a how many how

1:23:46 ↗ many spots per additional spots per week

1:23:49 ↗ oh uh way to hit me with the detail

1:23:52 ↗ question on that data I could break it

1:23:54 ↗ down and I have I have it broken down at

1:23:56 ↗ the higher numbers but I want to say for

1:23:58 ↗ the camps it's it's in the 40ish range I

1:24:01 ↗ think for week 40 40 additional spots a

1:24:03 ↗ week

1:24:05 ↗ within yeah within yeah you're getting

1:24:08 ↗ some Applause and some thumbs up oh

1:24:10 ↗ outand hey outand thank you so much but

1:24:12 ↗ significant on a weekly I just wanted to

1:24:14 ↗ sh from a weekly perspective many of

1:24:17 ↗ these camps have

1:24:19 ↗ a from a parent from a family standpoint

1:24:22 ↗ it's it's that that weak week by- week

1:24:26 ↗ lens looking at a pretty sizable

1:24:30 ↗ increase yeah it's 50 per week just

1:24:32 ↗ within the camps that we're directly

1:24:34 ↗ around that doesn't include the Spanish

1:24:36 ↗ speaking um and really quickly too just

1:24:39 ↗ want to share that you know we also and

1:24:41 ↗ is modifying the program a little bit is

1:24:43 ↗ we were a lot more like hey it's kind

1:24:45 ↗ our Kinder Camp was Kindergarten first

1:24:46 ↗ grade our camp CL was second through

1:24:48 ↗ fifth grade then you have the little bit

1:24:50 ↗ of the older camps we've crossed them

1:24:52 ↗ over a little bit so Kinder Camp is now

1:24:54 ↗ kindergarten through second grade Camp

1:24:57 ↗ qual runs second through 5ifth and then

1:24:58 ↗ adventure camp is 5ifth through seven

1:25:01 ↗ right so the second and fifth grades

1:25:03 ↗ depending on you know those could be big

1:25:05 ↗ transitional periods too sometimes your

1:25:06 ↗ kids like yeah second grade ready to be

1:25:08 ↗ in there some older kids well they might

1:25:11 ↗ want to be might want to stay in

1:25:12 ↗ kindrick or they're a fifth grader

1:25:15 ↗ that's oh my gosh I'm going to be some

1:25:16 ↗ sixth and seventh graders we don't want

1:25:18 ↗ to have that so if they don't they can

1:25:20 ↗ stay in Camp CLA or they toally they

1:25:23 ↗ launch with a lot of them are they can

1:25:24 ↗ be an adventure camp so that is also

1:25:27 ↗ going to help us spread out the youth a

1:25:29 ↗ little bit um so yeah it's GNA be really

1:25:32 ↗ exciting and we're excited to see how

1:25:34 ↗ some of these changes take effect this

1:25:36 ↗ year um with the swim lessons going into

1:25:39 ↗ that one a little bit you know beginning

1:25:41 ↗ in 2024 um you the swim

1:25:45 ↗ lesson program we at the very beginning

1:25:47 ↗ of this year we increased all the swim

1:25:49 ↗ lesson classes by one participant

1:25:53 ↗ doesn't seem like much so one student

1:25:54 ↗ more per class right but in 2023 we had

1:25:59 ↗ 3,41 spots available within the swim

1:26:01 ↗ lesson

1:26:02 ↗ program um in 2024 we're projecting

1:26:05 ↗ we're going to have

1:26:06 ↗ 3,985 spots available so that's

1:26:09 ↗ 944 additional swim lesson spaces in

1:26:12 ↗ 2024 than we had in

1:26:15 ↗ 2023 um and just s percentage this

1:26:18 ↗ percentage comes up that's a 31%

1:26:20 ↗ increase in available swimming lessons

1:26:23 ↗ that we're going to have that's if

1:26:24 ↗ everything's the same as 2023 as it will

1:26:27 ↗ be in 2024 and 2024 is actually probably

1:26:30 ↗ going to be a little bit bigger more

1:26:32 ↗ robust lesson program than we had in 20

1:26:35 ↗ space so conservatively I think we're

1:26:37 ↗ saying 944 additional

1:26:39 ↗ spaces and those of you that have had

1:26:41 ↗ kids in swim lessons no ratio is really

1:26:44 ↗ really important and so again hats off

1:26:47 ↗ to the step as we're looking at that

1:26:49 ↗ pretty sizable percentage increase we

1:26:51 ↗ want to do it in a way that that still

1:26:53 ↗ keeps a really important ratio um

1:26:57 ↗ instructor to to child ratio very much

1:27:00 ↗ so I'd say that our our ratios are we

1:27:02 ↗ have a lot more teacher to student a lot

1:27:06 ↗ less kids per class than a lot of other

1:27:08 ↗ places too we really put a high priority

1:27:11 ↗ it gives the it gives each kid a little

1:27:13 ↗ bit more attention for that class that's

1:27:14 ↗ a really like Jeff say very important

1:27:16 ↗ piece of the instruction for

1:27:20 ↗ us next uh topic is the resident

1:27:23 ↗ registration uh process that we talked

1:27:25 ↗ about like I said uh thanks for the

1:27:28 ↗ discussion on this last November we we

1:27:30 ↗ discussed a whole bunch of different

1:27:31 ↗ things uh one of the things we talked

1:27:33 ↗ about was uh what would it look like if

1:27:35 ↗ we did create a little bit of a

1:27:37 ↗ different program for our

1:27:40 ↗ um registrations and and including a

1:27:43 ↗ piece of the

1:27:44 ↗ um uh resident component right

1:27:49 ↗ um quick reminder you know people can

1:27:52 ↗ register with us on the phone they can

1:27:54 ↗ do it in person they can do it online

1:27:56 ↗ right so that's the venues it's almost

1:27:58 ↗ any way you want um in previous years

1:28:01 ↗ registration was opened to one was

1:28:03 ↗ opened at one time for City Visa

1:28:05 ↗ residents and City Visa non-residents at

1:28:08 ↗ the same time uh in 2024 you know

1:28:11 ↗ popular programs um the

1:28:13 ↗ capacity such as camps and swim lessons

1:28:16 ↗ um that we run it just they're filling

1:28:19 ↗ so quickly we have implemented a

1:28:22 ↗ opportunity for

1:28:24 ↗ registration for the citizens s the

1:28:28 ↗ residents of

1:28:29 ↗ this I've learned that one that's one of

1:28:31 ↗ my learning pieces in My Equity pieces

1:28:33 ↗ saying residents of dis for Citizens so

1:28:37 ↗ apologies for that I am really working

1:28:39 ↗ hard on my some of my own un what what's

1:28:42 ↗ that word it's the things you don't know

1:28:44 ↗ but you actually do

1:28:46 ↗ um culture BMP no not culture B you got

1:28:50 ↗ things that you do that you know aren't

1:28:52 ↗ aware of like saying that like not using

1:28:54 ↗ like

1:28:56 ↗ using it doesn't matter I'm there but

1:28:58 ↗ I'm obviously losing everybody no

1:29:00 ↗ worries we'll move on uh so what we've

1:29:03 ↗ what we've done is we've implemented a

1:29:05 ↗ uh a resident registration period for

1:29:08 ↗ summer camps what that's going to look

1:29:10 ↗ like is we're going to do it a week

1:29:11 ↗ prior right so this year and it just

1:29:14 ↗ information just came out where or this

1:29:16 ↗ gets a little bit more marketing and

1:29:18 ↗ Outreach but we just put out the

1:29:20 ↗ information that our res is going to be

1:29:22 ↗ able to register for camps on March 16th

1:29:25 ↗ and then the open registration is on

1:29:26 ↗ March 23rd right so that's a that's a

1:29:29 ↗ full weight difference there um with our

1:29:31 ↗ swim lessons um beginning in April for

1:29:34 ↗ our spring one session uh we're going to

1:29:37 ↗ do swim lessons just a little bit

1:29:38 ↗ differently we're going to have then

1:29:39 ↗ there's going to be a three-day

1:29:40 ↗ difference so um the resident

1:29:43 ↗ registration is going to be on April 5th

1:29:47 ↗ and then the open registration for

1:29:49 ↗ everybody will be on April 8th that's a

1:29:51 ↗ Friday to a mon M day um little bit of

1:29:54 ↗ reasoning behind that is and and please

1:29:56 ↗ know that everything I'm sharing tonight

1:29:57 ↗ is totally fluid um we're doing way

1:30:00 ↗ feels best but we are going to do it

1:30:03 ↗ we're going to assess it and change it

1:30:04 ↗ as needed to make it better if that's if

1:30:06 ↗ that is intended so with swim lessons

1:30:08 ↗ that shorter window they feel so fast

1:30:10 ↗ right if you've tried in literally

1:30:12 ↗ minutes right so they feel really

1:30:14 ↗ quickly it's a little bit more

1:30:15 ↗ streamline process for filling that out

1:30:17 ↗ so the three days will still need plenty

1:30:20 ↗ of time to help people that may having

1:30:22 ↗ challenges getting registered the day

1:30:24 ↗ camps have a lot more information right

1:30:26 ↗ lots to fill out lot more information

1:30:28 ↗ that week's going to give us a full week

1:30:30 ↗ before the open registration to help any

1:30:33 ↗ is Club residents get registered so we

1:30:35 ↗ can help walk like I was talking like in

1:30:37 ↗ November we talked about you know the

1:30:40 ↗ the the programs that don't have

1:30:42 ↗ capacity we can just run

1:30:45 ↗ them it's not too big of an issue

1:30:47 ↗ because we can work with people to get

1:30:48 ↗ them in there so it's when these ones

1:30:50 ↗ that fill so quickly and then if they're

1:30:51 ↗ not you they don't have the technology

1:30:54 ↗ or they don't know exactly what they're

1:30:55 ↗ doing and then they just miss it and

1:30:57 ↗ that's really tough when you live in a

1:30:59 ↗ Sly and you're like wow I bunch of

1:31:01 ↗ people that don't live in the sah got in

1:31:03 ↗ and I didn't get in so this it'll be

1:31:06 ↗ real interesting to see how this works

1:31:08 ↗ and we're excited to see you what how

1:31:11 ↗ how quick does it get for I can add to

1:31:13 ↗ that too Brian yeah it also gives us

1:31:16 ↗ that time that week gives us time to

1:31:17 ↗ work through scholarship information and

1:31:20 ↗ other other things and I know we talk

1:31:22 ↗ with with the team um as we talked with

1:31:24 ↗ the recreation team and really looked

1:31:26 ↗ through pros and cons do we consider a

1:31:29 ↗ lottery do we consider this sort of

1:31:31 ↗ Resident registration we really felt

1:31:33 ↗ like resident registration felt like the

1:31:36 ↗ the the the best first step uh to to

1:31:39 ↗ Really pilot this um because as as we

1:31:43 ↗ operate our facilities as Brian said

1:31:45 ↗ whether it's the pool the community

1:31:47 ↗ center the senior center we we're not an

1:31:50 ↗ exclusive resident only club and yet we

1:31:54 ↗ recognize and want to make very sure and

1:31:57 ↗ very very clear um our residents um

1:32:02 ↗ support those facilities in a different

1:32:04 ↗ way they they support them differently

1:32:07 ↗ than than our non residents do and um as

1:32:11 ↗ we Market this we're prepared and

1:32:12 ↗ certainly preparing staff I'm prepared

1:32:15 ↗ as a director and we're all prepared to

1:32:17 ↗ we'll have some non-residents who this

1:32:19 ↗ this isn't necessarily going to be the

1:32:21 ↗ the greatest news but we want to work

1:32:23 ↗ with those non-residents and make them

1:32:26 ↗ certainly aware we're we're we want our

1:32:29 ↗ facilities accessible and available to

1:32:30 ↗ them that when it comes to programs that

1:32:33 ↗ fill up so fast uh we really feel like

1:32:36 ↗ piloting a resident registration a

1:32:38 ↗ resident

1:32:39 ↗ pre-registration period um is really

1:32:42 ↗ really important so no thank you

1:32:45 ↗ absolutely no no that's big time helpful

1:32:48 ↗ um yeah so I'll move on to the

1:32:52 ↗ uh and thank you for bringing up the

1:32:54 ↗ scholarship piece because that is part

1:32:55 ↗ of that week time frame is sometimes

1:32:57 ↗ especially when you start talking with

1:32:58 ↗ some I can't tell you how many times

1:32:59 ↗ we've talked to a customer and you know

1:33:01 ↗ sort like you start talking would you

1:33:03 ↗ would you be interested in the

1:33:04 ↗ scholarship you know and they're like oh

1:33:05 ↗ what does you know sometimes if they

1:33:07 ↗ don't know then we're able to share that

1:33:08 ↗ with them get them signed up and then

1:33:10 ↗ get them registered so that that you

1:33:12 ↗ know is nonissue for them

1:33:15 ↗ um going back to the camps really quick

1:33:18 ↗ I did want to remind everybody that you

1:33:20 ↗ know we offer the camp the camps I'm

1:33:22 ↗ talking about are the camps are directly

1:33:23 ↗ run by a Recreation services team you

1:33:26 ↗ know mostly most of them are house and

1:33:28 ↗ newent we also offer a large Vari of

1:33:31 ↗ camps I mean tons of camps that we do

1:33:33 ↗ with our partners so those often have a

1:33:36 ↗ lot more capacity there's half day camps

1:33:39 ↗ there's full day camps so we also offer

1:33:42 ↗ a variety of camps amongst um all of our

1:33:45 ↗ partnered organizations um those camps

1:33:48 ↗ as well will be open for that

1:33:50 ↗ pre-registration with the residents

1:33:52 ↗ because all of our camps are going to be

1:33:54 ↗ open for registration at the same time

1:33:56 ↗ so the residents will have that extra

1:33:58 ↗ week for all those camps as well that's

1:34:01 ↗ Lego camp and Sports Camp yeah

1:34:05 ↗ exactly do do you all want to take any

1:34:08 ↗ questions that are coming up at this

1:34:09 ↗ time or do you have a question pause

1:34:10 ↗ coming up oh I'm way okay Christina you

1:34:14 ↗ have a great question in the chat um and

1:34:19 ↗ I don't want us to miss it so you like

1:34:22 ↗ would you like to ask

1:34:24 ↗ it well it is not a question it is more

1:34:27 ↗ like a comment because I would like to

1:34:30 ↗ to put the at the point table um maybe

1:34:34 ↗ you can consider uh to to block a

1:34:38 ↗ specific U amount of spaces for people

1:34:41 ↗ who are not using technology as you

1:34:43 ↗ mention it before

1:34:46 ↗ so it is good them so they can go in

1:34:49 ↗ person and block thank you you that's

1:34:52 ↗ all no thank you I remember that comment

1:34:55 ↗ from the first meeting and ab that that

1:34:56 ↗ that is one of the items on on our list

1:34:58 ↗ to be aware of no thank you for

1:35:04 ↗ that Lucia have acia you had your hand

1:35:07 ↗ up but

1:35:09 ↗ then yes um so to piggyback on what

1:35:13 ↗ Christina is saying um I would like to

1:35:16 ↗ know how you are taking into

1:35:19 ↗ consideration um the different groups

1:35:23 ↗ that make up our community and what I

1:35:25 ↗ mean by that is not only the people who

1:35:28 ↗ have limited access to technology but in

1:35:32 ↗ addition to let's say um if we know that

1:35:38 ↗ our community is made up of and these

1:35:39 ↗ numbers are just made up by the way for

1:35:41 ↗ my comment I don't know what the numbers

1:35:42 ↗ are but accessing is aest School

1:35:46 ↗ District data if you recognize that

1:35:49 ↗ let's say 25% of the students AR are on

1:35:51 ↗ free and reduced lunch and during the

1:35:55 ↗ pandemic we established that 30% of our

1:35:58 ↗ students do not have access to

1:36:00 ↗ technology at home VI it via computer or

1:36:04 ↗ Internet Etc are we making allotments

1:36:09 ↗ for that sort of information to inform

1:36:12 ↗ you so that when people go go to sign up

1:36:15 ↗ we have something in place to capture

1:36:18 ↗ those people in terms of giving them

1:36:21 ↗ Equitable access to these um these

1:36:26 ↗ courses that you are offering thank

1:36:30 ↗ you yeah it's hear you quick is how are

1:36:33 ↗ we gonna how are we reaching out to

1:36:35 ↗ those folks and and families that may

1:36:37 ↗ not have

1:36:39 ↗ as as much access as others do to that

1:36:43 ↗ information is that what I'm so not just

1:36:46 ↗ access but like for example like to

1:36:48 ↗ Christina's Point saying you know if we

1:36:50 ↗ know that there are 30% of students who

1:36:54 ↗ are part of the free and reduced lunch

1:36:57 ↗ um and we know that they do not have

1:37:01 ↗ computers at home or they do not have

1:37:03 ↗ internet that in that we should be

1:37:06 ↗ providing 30% of those slots to students

1:37:10 ↗ who meet that criteria whatever that

1:37:13 ↗ whatever criteria it is that we are

1:37:15 ↗ establishing as not being Equitable

1:37:19 ↗ making sure that that criteria

1:37:21 ↗ is you know

1:37:24 ↗ allotted representation for a lack of

1:37:27 ↗ better words thank you well well thank

1:37:30 ↗ you that's great

1:37:32 ↗ Point good

1:37:34 ↗ comment yeah if I can add and I know

1:37:36 ↗ Brian you're going to touch on this with

1:37:38 ↗ marketing and Outreach you know as we

1:37:40 ↗ look at having a much longer R runway

1:37:43 ↗ for getting information out for in

1:37:47 ↗ particular camps uh and swim lessons um

1:37:50 ↗ we're going to be working with our

1:37:51 ↗ partners in the department and Human

1:37:53 ↗ Services to make sure we're U getting

1:37:56 ↗ that getting that information out um

1:37:59 ↗ sort of all all population groups um and

1:38:03 ↗ I think as we learn or see if there's

1:38:05 ↗ need for um Assistance or support uh As

1:38:10 ↗ registration periods are coming we want

1:38:12 ↗ to be able to adapt to that um uh both

1:38:16 ↗ of your comments Christina and and lcia

1:38:19 ↗ were were really good and honestly speak

1:38:21 ↗ to I think we're trying to be realistic

1:38:24 ↗ with the capacity we have this year um I

1:38:27 ↗ think there's a lot more data that we

1:38:29 ↗ still need to collect as we're um sort

1:38:32 ↗ of piloting this first step um I don't

1:38:36 ↗ know that we know enough this year to

1:38:38 ↗ say hey let's absolutely set aside X

1:38:42 ↗ number of spots um uh for um again a a

1:38:47 ↗ um a a a small number of our programs

1:38:51 ↗ but these programs that are are so

1:38:53 ↗ immensely popular but um I think we

1:38:56 ↗ still have more work ahead this is not a

1:38:59 ↗ a one year hey we've we've we've done it

1:39:02 ↗ kind of

1:39:03 ↗ thing well thank you thank you Jeff for

1:39:07 ↗ contributing your opinion or your

1:39:09 ↗ feedback on my question I appreciate

1:39:14 ↗ it Christina you had your hand up

1:39:20 ↗ again yes basically is that I would like

1:39:23 ↗ to comment maybe we we

1:39:25 ↗ cannot uh know exactly how much or how

1:39:29 ↗ many people are able to use the

1:39:31 ↗ computers of Technology but at Le we can

1:39:35 ↗ uh block the specific some spe specific

1:39:39 ↗ uh spaces for one or two days because I

1:39:43 ↗ know in my experience when I go into the

1:39:46 ↗ into the website and try to block it is

1:39:49 ↗ so quickly it is feeling so quickly so I

1:39:52 ↗ cannot do it it is like five

1:39:55 ↗ minutes you have five minutes and that's

1:39:59 ↗ or less when you are checking the

1:40:01 ↗ classes everything is

1:40:03 ↗ gone so that's why I was thinking it's

1:40:08 ↗ good to keep at least few

1:40:10 ↗ spaces really good we're hoping that

1:40:13 ↗ window changes with the increased number

1:40:15 ↗ of spots and at least again allowing

1:40:17 ↗ residents to

1:40:19 ↗ have that that early access that's

1:40:23 ↗ that's where I was going to go with that

1:40:24 ↗ one is yeah that we're hoping that

1:40:26 ↗ window of like for Camp that week is

1:40:28 ↗ going to give those yeah that it

1:40:31 ↗ hopefully won't matter to an is resident

1:40:34 ↗ um that they will have that full week to

1:40:36 ↗ get registered if there's any problems

1:40:38 ↗ we can work through them with them the

1:40:40 ↗ important thing is getting the word out

1:40:41 ↗ to the people to make sure that

1:40:43 ↗ everyone's getting that word if they are

1:40:45 ↗ interested in a camp that they have that

1:40:47 ↗ they they know about it and can reach

1:40:49 ↗ out to us for that assistance and be

1:40:51 ↗ there for

1:40:52 ↗ them so I know you haven't quite

1:40:55 ↗ finished your presentation but um so I'm

1:40:59 ↗ I'm I'm thinking about so Jeff your

1:41:01 ↗ comment about equality of access versus

1:41:05 ↗ like equity and so I've been just kind

1:41:08 ↗ of thinking a little bit more about that

1:41:10 ↗ so when I think about swim lessons and

1:41:12 ↗ summer

1:41:13 ↗ camps um and I'm thinking about Equity

1:41:18 ↗ there's there's access right so people

1:41:21 ↗ you know lowincome families onl reduced

1:41:24 ↗ uh lunch there's

1:41:28 ↗ um I think not just that but if we look

1:41:32 ↗ at school related data we know like

1:41:36 ↗ summer camps can help uh prevent Summers

1:41:39 ↗ slide you know so keep kids caught up

1:41:42 ↗ for school the following year there's

1:41:45 ↗ social emotional skill development

1:41:47 ↗ executive functioning so there's all

1:41:49 ↗ these benefits to for that access to

1:41:51 ↗ Sumer spring um when I think about swim

1:41:54 ↗ lessons I know that there are certain

1:41:56 ↗ demographic groups

1:41:58 ↗ that uh die more from drowning than

1:42:02 ↗ other groups so you know there's just

1:42:04 ↗ all of these like Equity Dimensions that

1:42:07 ↗ getting Upstream with camps and lessons

1:42:10 ↗ can help offset and mitigate you know

1:42:13 ↗ like different health indicators

1:42:14 ↗ drowning you know these

1:42:17 ↗ educational um success you know measures

1:42:20 ↗ along the way we know the disparities

1:42:22 ↗ exist as soon as kids enter you know

1:42:24 ↗ before they enter kindergarten and they

1:42:27 ↗ keep the gaps keep widening as you know

1:42:29 ↗ students progress and so when I think

1:42:31 ↗ about Equity I think there is an

1:42:33 ↗ opportunity for you all to and I I don't

1:42:36 ↗ have the answer but to be thinking about

1:42:39 ↗ that as these are access points for kids

1:42:43 ↗ to have better life outcomes and

1:42:47 ↗ so access is one thing so I guess you

1:42:50 ↗ know think about so you've increased

1:42:52 ↗ capacity and you're uh giving preference

1:42:55 ↗ to Residents um do you know like so I

1:43:00 ↗ guess 2023 and earlier what your

1:43:03 ↗ demographic profile of kids for swim

1:43:06 ↗ lessons are in terms of like race

1:43:08 ↗ ethnicity you know and how that tracks

1:43:11 ↗ with like

1:43:13 ↗ educational um success measures and then

1:43:16 ↗ similarly like yeah swim lessons who has

1:43:20 ↗ access to pools because that has been a

1:43:23 ↗ historical uh barrier to certain groups

1:43:26 ↗ by Design so when we think about all of

1:43:29 ↗ that I think those are the opportunities

1:43:31 ↗ you all have to um to redress kind of

1:43:35 ↗ historical inequities and government

1:43:38 ↗ policies so I just want to put that out

1:43:40 ↗ there for just consideration I know

1:43:43 ↗ you're focused on equality of access but

1:43:45 ↗ I guess I just I do Wonder to what

1:43:49 ↗ degree we're going to see some

1:43:51 ↗ demographic changes with what your uh

1:43:54 ↗ new kind of capacity changes in

1:43:57 ↗ registration is is it going to

1:43:58 ↗ substantially increase access to groups

1:44:01 ↗ who might need like uh access to

1:44:05 ↗ Affordable swim lessons access to pools

1:44:08 ↗ access to you know higher quality summer

1:44:12 ↗ programming so to me that that's would

1:44:14 ↗ big question I'm not sure you're

1:44:16 ↗ touching the and I don't think we are

1:44:19 ↗ and you're so spoton and it's great

1:44:21 ↗ feedback and again as maybe I awkwardly

1:44:24 ↗ said in the introduction right this this

1:44:27 ↗ this framework conversation we had in

1:44:29 ↗ November around

1:44:30 ↗ registration is is important but it

1:44:33 ↗ really starts to overlap into Recreation

1:44:35 ↗ program in into how we build how we

1:44:39 ↗ deliver Recreation programs that I I

1:44:41 ↗ think your questions are incredibly

1:44:45 ↗ spoton um I don't know that we have all

1:44:48 ↗ those data points at this at this

1:44:51 ↗ juncture but we need to continue to get

1:44:53 ↗ them um we have yeah yeah you know we

1:44:57 ↗ have voluntary um our

1:45:01 ↗ registrant um have the voluntary

1:45:03 ↗ opportunity to give demographic

1:45:05 ↗ information so um it's it's not a high

1:45:08 ↗ return on on knowing some of those

1:45:12 ↗ um your your comment about pools and

1:45:15 ↗ lessons are so spoton to the point mayor

1:45:18 ↗ and I were having a conversation earlier

1:45:19 ↗ this week about

1:45:21 ↗ um you may or may not be aware we're

1:45:23 ↗ looking at how we can add pool capacity

1:45:25 ↗ at a very overprescribed pool and as we

1:45:27 ↗ add that

1:45:28 ↗ capacity um we both got really excited

1:45:32 ↗ about what what would it look like to

1:45:35 ↗ offer a lessons or the first session of

1:45:38 ↗ lesson is free to everybody um or let's

1:45:41 ↗ go back and let's partner with the

1:45:42 ↗ schools and let's let's partner with all

1:45:45 ↗ all fourth graders all fifth graders

1:45:47 ↗ have right I mean there's just some

1:45:49 ↗ things that we can do that are not

1:45:51 ↗ necessarily registra it's not this topic

1:45:53 ↗ of registration but it really opens up

1:45:56 ↗ and thank you for that because as we as

1:45:58 ↗ Recreation professionals to start

1:46:00 ↗ talking about registration and access to

1:46:03 ↗ registration it we we naturally then

1:46:06 ↗ start going well how are we delivering

1:46:07 ↗ the programs and how might we model that

1:46:10 ↗ or do that differently so um thank you

1:46:14 ↗ and I these the two topics um definitely

1:46:19 ↗ intersect

1:46:21 ↗ yeah a lot more work for us to do yeah

1:46:23 ↗ we should continue to yeah a lot more

1:46:26 ↗ work for us to

1:46:28 ↗ do how many how many years of data are

1:46:30 ↗ you do you have access to um as far as

1:46:33 ↗ the regist that I've been able to get

1:46:35 ↗ yeah I was thinking like

1:46:37 ↗ we got quite a few I mean the whole Co

1:46:40 ↗ years are a little interesting I was

1:46:42 ↗ just thinking like as you were talking

1:46:43 ↗ I'm thinking about a registration system

1:46:45 ↗ what what what data pieces is it

1:46:47 ↗ collecting and can we extrapolate that

1:46:49 ↗ what you're asking can we pull out from

1:46:51 ↗ the system I have to look into that and

1:46:53 ↗ see what we have it's I said I agree

1:46:55 ↗ Jeff you spot on it I'm just curious

1:46:57 ↗ like can our system pull that data and

1:46:59 ↗ do we have it in there so we shifted to

1:47:01 ↗ online registration in

1:47:06 ↗ 20 18 19 just before the

1:47:09 ↗ pandemic um so we have data I I think

1:47:13 ↗ and

1:47:14 ↗ and I'm gonna say this I'm pretty

1:47:17 ↗ certain as I think of the registration

1:47:19 ↗ form when we ask some of those

1:47:21 ↗ demographic questions um age ethnicity

1:47:25 ↗ Etc that's all voluntary and I don't

1:47:28 ↗ think our collection rate is all that

1:47:31 ↗ high I think most OP out so you know I I

1:47:35 ↗ agree that it would be very useful to

1:47:37 ↗ begin to get that there's a policy shift

1:47:40 ↗ we would need to make to say hey that's

1:47:42 ↗ not voluntary we we we really want to

1:47:44 ↗ collect that and obviously we can't

1:47:46 ↗ mandate it but how do we emphasize that

1:47:48 ↗ more to maybe get um get a higher return

1:47:53 ↗ I mean I I think you could use R rough

1:47:55 ↗ estimates of demographics and use an

1:47:59 ↗ overlay of what the the the school

1:48:01 ↗ report card for isqu school district or

1:48:04 ↗ the surrounding school districts to kind

1:48:06 ↗ of it's not going to be like the rigor

1:48:08 ↗ of a research study but there could be

1:48:11 ↗ some absolutely yeah you can glean from

1:48:15 ↗ that and we're and we're getting some of

1:48:17 ↗ that as we you might remember we shifted

1:48:19 ↗ our scholarship program to be um far

1:48:22 ↗ more accessible I think as we begin to

1:48:25 ↗ understand what what the the data we're

1:48:28 ↗ getting from

1:48:29 ↗ that um is going to be helpful in this

1:48:32 ↗ bigger picture of how how and who are we

1:48:35 ↗ delivering and how are we packaging the

1:48:37 ↗ delivery of recreation programs to make

1:48:39 ↗ sure we're making it um

1:48:44 ↗ um e equitably more equitably accessible

1:48:49 ↗ um to all of our residents

1:48:52 ↗ yeah well thank you for indulging that

1:48:55 ↗ no no me good to do some little bit of

1:48:59 ↗ research on thank

1:49:02 ↗ you I now we're nearing the end of time

1:49:05 ↗ you yeah say marketing Outreach and

1:49:07 ↗ we've had a lot of discussion and

1:49:08 ↗ feedback I would like to just you really

1:49:11 ↗ quickly and this is because it's me and

1:49:13 ↗ it's the people I get to work with you

1:49:15 ↗ know going through this list of stuff is

1:49:18 ↗ like really it looks really oh hey yeah

1:49:20 ↗ we're increaseing programs and camps

1:49:22 ↗ there is a large body of work that goes

1:49:24 ↗ on with it's huge it's hard to explain

1:49:26 ↗ how much work goes by it and so I'm just

1:49:28 ↗ giving a shout out to the rec Services

1:49:30 ↗ team that just is doing a lot of the

1:49:31 ↗ work on that because it's it's a big

1:49:33 ↗ lift and everybody's 100% behind it and

1:49:36 ↗ excited for it because it's making the

1:49:37 ↗ process better so I just a shout out to

1:49:40 ↗ too many names I can't name them but the

1:49:42 ↗ re Services teams Echo that Brian I too

1:49:45 ↗ was going to say in closing 40

1:49:47 ↗ additional spots a week that that that

1:49:50 ↗ has dominoes that's that many more

1:49:52 ↗ part-time staff that's that many more I

1:49:54 ↗ mean there's a lot of logistics and

1:49:57 ↗ dynamics that that go into

1:50:00 ↗ that excited we feel like this is just a

1:50:03 ↗ a little incremental step and we really

1:50:05 ↗ again look forward to um what's produced

1:50:08 ↗ from it but it's not this isn't light

1:50:11 ↗ and if I could say this shift to

1:50:13 ↗ resident registration this week ahead is

1:50:16 ↗ going to have that's a lot of that's a

1:50:19 ↗ there's a lot of shift that goes into

1:50:20 ↗ that and working with our GIS folks and

1:50:22 ↗ making sure we're we're we're ready

1:50:26 ↗ right and and part of this Outreach is

1:50:28 ↗ getting this news out to the community

1:50:30 ↗ six five six weeks ahead of time so they

1:50:32 ↗ can understand and hey are are you

1:50:34 ↗ curious if you're a resident or not here

1:50:36 ↗ please do this research ahead of time

1:50:38 ↗ we're really GNA do all we can to um

1:50:41 ↗ make that registration date not feel so

1:50:44 ↗ crazy but um um customers are able to to

1:50:47 ↗ plan and prepare for that too so a lot

1:50:49 ↗ of lot lot of moving Parts as Brian said

1:50:51 ↗ hats off to the Brian and the recreation

1:50:54 ↗ team yeah we got like so we had a little

1:50:56 ↗ information go out already through City

1:50:58 ↗ News blast and then next week or two

1:51:00 ↗ we're going to have Flyers brochures

1:51:01 ↗ going out to all the school all the

1:51:03 ↗ elementary schools in it's school

1:51:05 ↗ district and then we also have some

1:51:07 ↗ other social media follow-ups that will

1:51:09 ↗ be coming as we're going so we're we're

1:51:11 ↗ well ahead of this trying to get word

1:51:12 ↗ out there right and also like Jeff was

1:51:15 ↗ saying talking with our Human Services

1:51:17 ↗ how do we to trying to get it just to

1:51:18 ↗ all facets because there's a lot of

1:51:20 ↗ people that know about the how do we get

1:51:21 ↗ the ones that aren't hearing from us

1:51:24 ↗ too you all are doing I mean I think you

1:51:26 ↗ can tell from our passion you know time

1:51:30 ↗ you community and so thank you and your

1:51:34 ↗ team for well thanks for having us it's

1:51:36 ↗ yeah

1:51:40 ↗ pleasure

1:51:42 ↗ CIA I believe I brought this up the last

1:51:45 ↗ time we spoke but I'm still wondering if

1:51:50 ↗ there is any way to partner with the

1:51:51 ↗ school district since the school

1:51:54 ↗ district is able to identify those

1:51:57 ↗ students who have either language

1:51:59 ↗ barriers Andor Financial

1:52:02 ↗ barriers as they're doing an intake

1:52:04 ↗ Andor registration is there a way where

1:52:08 ↗ we could add to those forms a simple

1:52:10 ↗ thing like are you interested in

1:52:13 ↗ swimming lessons for your child or if

1:52:16 ↗ this was made available to you would you

1:52:18 ↗ be interested and therefore you

1:52:22 ↗ basically already have the information

1:52:24 ↗ as to how many

1:52:27 ↗ people we have from those demographics

1:52:30 ↗ who are wanting to access these services

1:52:34 ↗ and maybe through the school district

1:52:36 ↗ access those

1:52:37 ↗ people it's to me it it just seems like

1:52:41 ↗ if we already have the data somewhere

1:52:43 ↗ how do we access that data so

1:52:47 ↗ that we have a a more

1:52:53 ↗ or Equitable representation of our

1:52:55 ↗ community just a question thank

1:53:04 ↗ you well thank

1:53:08 ↗ you coincidentally Brian and I have a

1:53:11 ↗ meeting with the school district on

1:53:12 ↗ Friday to some of pretty Key School

1:53:15 ↗ District leadership and talking about

1:53:17 ↗ pool and and some other things so um

1:53:19 ↗ it's a great point we'll bring that up

1:53:21 ↗ we we've certainly talked to them about

1:53:22 ↗ that there's some limited information

1:53:25 ↗ that they can provide us since we're not

1:53:26 ↗ School District employees but um it's a

1:53:28 ↗ great point and we're constantly trying

1:53:30 ↗ to figure out how we can best partner so

1:53:33 ↗ that you know their students are our

1:53:35 ↗ customers our customers or their

1:53:37 ↗ students how are we uh working together

1:53:40 ↗ and and making sure we're abiding by all

1:53:43 ↗ privacy rules and and

1:53:48 ↗ laws again thank you

1:53:50 ↗ Jeff well thank you both appreciate your

1:53:54 ↗ time here with us thanks and I think

1:53:58 ↗ we're we'll just do yeah we'll do one

1:54:00 ↗ last thing right so because I think we

1:54:02 ↗ we're skipping the culturally

1:54:05 ↗ linguistically diverse support for Sen

1:54:07 ↗ yes I'll PR I'll provide a quick update

1:54:09 ↗ so Alisia um from the from the circle

1:54:14 ↗ was going to join us she and I did not

1:54:16 ↗ have a chance to connect this week my

1:54:17 ↗ email ended up in her SP

1:54:20 ↗ um and so we're going to connect ahead

1:54:23 ↗ of the March meeting and so she'll come

1:54:25 ↗ to to share some perspectives and input

1:54:28 ↗ at our March meeting around this topic

1:54:30 ↗ so you'll see that show up um on our

1:54:32 ↗ upcoming

1:54:33 ↗ agenda thanks and I think um the last

1:54:37 ↗ agenda item we have is Expos to process

1:54:40 ↗ check and I think last month we talked

1:54:42 ↗ about it being maybe just like a onew

1:54:44 ↗ checkout like how are you feeling at the

1:54:46 ↗ end of the meeting today and uh um it's

1:54:51 ↗ just popcorn out

1:54:53 ↗ f one word or takeaway maybe that you

1:54:56 ↗ have from today's

1:54:58 ↗ meeting and other staff should you

1:55:00 ↗ should feel free to to

1:55:03 ↗ participate sorry caric I cut you

1:55:10 ↗ off Trey had a word for

1:55:14 ↗ us yes because I was going to say robust

1:55:17 ↗ I I loved the conversation I I think we

1:55:20 ↗ we got some things

1:55:24 ↗ accomplished oh yeah again inspired

1:55:27 ↗ Inspire fantastic

1:55:33 ↗ Christina oh you're

1:55:37 ↗ muted okay just I don't want to leave

1:55:40 ↗ without telling something about the the

1:55:43 ↗ previous um information I was thinking

1:55:47 ↗ you thought something about the Spanish

1:55:50 ↗ Immersion in for summer camps so I was

1:55:55 ↗ why chose Spanish why not other

1:55:59 ↗ languages great question great question

1:56:02 ↗ um the community down Squad Valley

1:56:03 ↗ Elementary the school the circle a bunch

1:56:06 ↗ of the uh parents actually approached us

1:56:08 ↗ on that and we're looking to run a a

1:56:11 ↗ pilot a program we thought it was you

1:56:13 ↗ know because we had so much Community

1:56:14 ↗ interest from that group that we figured

1:56:16 ↗ it was a great opportunity to Pilot with

1:56:18 ↗ them we we had some discussion with the

1:56:20 ↗ school district we had some discussions

1:56:22 ↗ with this group they have a program that

1:56:25 ↗ is a what is it it's an ersing program

1:56:27 ↗ where they speak Spanish at that school

1:56:29 ↗ and so they just had a lot of energy and

1:56:31 ↗ resources behind it so we're working

1:56:33 ↗ with them to Pilot it this year to see

1:56:35 ↗ you how this will work and you know

1:56:36 ↗ maybe we can build off these types of

1:56:38 ↗ things in the future and make the camp

1:56:40 ↗ available to the entire Community right

1:56:43 ↗ yeah right yeah yeah no thank you yes

1:56:46 ↗ thanks

1:56:48 ↗ clarification

1:56:55 ↗ is a pleasure I will meet you next

1:57:00 ↗ time thank you

1:57:03 ↗ uh oh uh uh better connected better

1:57:07 ↗ connected yeah okay uh let's see

1:57:13 ↗ lcia yes I I believe I I feel very

1:57:17 ↗ hopeful I truly app appreciate each of

1:57:20 ↗ the presenters and your effort to answer

1:57:23 ↗ our questions when our questions are at

1:57:26 ↗ least for me some of my questions are

1:57:28 ↗ not necessarily the best worded but you

1:57:32 ↗ you parse out the meaning and I and I

1:57:34 ↗ truly appreciate how you're meeting me

1:57:38 ↗ and others more than halfway in order to

1:57:42 ↗ move forward with being more inclusive

1:57:44 ↗ in our community and I truly appreciate

1:57:47 ↗ that thank

1:57:48 ↗ you

1:57:51 ↗ Brian you I de with appr precies I

1:57:55 ↗ appreciate the time you guys gave us I

1:57:57 ↗ appreciate the input and I appreciate

1:57:58 ↗ this just conversation I appreciate

1:58:00 ↗ especially that you guys are actually

1:58:01 ↗ engaged with the stuff that we do so

1:58:03 ↗ thank you for that because it's it's

1:58:05 ↗ always nice to hear from people that

1:58:06 ↗ actually really enjoy what we do and

1:58:08 ↗ have that passion for so thank

1:58:12 ↗ you yes I

1:58:15 ↗ did uh I'll go with uh

1:58:20 ↗ how will we

1:58:21 ↗ know say it fast and it's one word how

1:58:24 ↗ will we know how will we

1:58:30 ↗ know yeah wow one word um there like

1:58:33 ↗ three I could say real fast I would just

1:58:35 ↗ say

1:58:37 ↗ encouraged just I I'm encourage we we um

1:58:42 ↗ as a department are

1:58:45 ↗ are so committed to serving the the

1:58:48 ↗ entire community and just encourage to

1:58:51 ↗ to have an equity board like this and

1:58:53 ↗ just your perspective that we're able to

1:58:54 ↗ bounce off and get honest feedback and

1:58:59 ↗ um yeah just encouraged this this is

1:59:03 ↗ helping us this is helping us move the

1:59:07 ↗ beatle and I'll say

1:59:09 ↗ energized for my word and I think so I

1:59:13 ↗ think everyone is gone and with that um

1:59:16 ↗ I will move us to adjournment so next

1:59:19 ↗ meeting is currently scheduled for March

1:59:22 ↗ 6 at our normally for normal first

1:59:24 ↗ Wednesday of the month I adjourn this

1:59:26 ↗ meeting at 8:06 PM have a lovely meeting

1:59:30 ↗ everyone and thanks so much for engaging

1:59:32 ↗ with us tonight have a good night thank

1:59:35 ↗ you good night

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