Equity Board · Wednesday, July 17, 2024 · City Council Digest

3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of June 5, 2024 Regular Meeting

packet pp.3–5

Open packet at p.3 ↗

Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 06-05-24 Equity Board Minutes Page [0000] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Equity Board 6:00 PM Steelhead Room, 235 1st Ave. June 5, 2024 MINUTES SE, Issaquah

4. CHAIR REPORT

Opening Question Facilitated by: Priti Mody-Pan, Chair

5. STAFF REPORT

Update on Items from Previous (June) Meeting

Dale Markey-Crimp, Assistant to the City Administrator

6. AGENDA ITEMS

Emergency Management: Equity Considerations in Alerts and Response

30 min · Jared Schneider, Emergency Manager · packet pp.7–19

Topics: Public SafetyEquity

▶ Watch from 5:11 Open packet at p.7 ↗

Staff report:

Issaquah Emergency Management Equity Considerations in Alerts and Response JULY 17, 2024 | EQUITY BOARD JARED SCHNEIDER, EMERGENCY MANAGER

Letter to Mayor and City Council Related to Regional Events

20 min · Priti Mody-Pan, Chair and Ray Manahan, Vice Chair · packet pp.21–22

▶ Watch from 44:55 Open packet at p.21 ↗

Staff report:

We, the Issaquah Equity Board, write to you with a deep sense of responsibility and commitment to equity and inclusion within our community. As representatives entrusted with the task of promoting fairness and justice, we acknowledge the climate of unease that has recently been heightened in our region for members of the Black and LGBTQIA+ community. Despite celebrations for Juneteenth and Pride Month, recent events have underscored the challenges continually faced by these communities, highlighting the need for deliberate action and support.

Welcoming Week Table Discussion Facilitated by: Dale Markey-Crimp, Assistant to the City Administrator

10 min

▶ Watch from 1:11:24

Closing Thought Facilitated by: Priti Mody-Pan, Chair

5 min

▶ Watch from 1:24:39

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0:03 ↗ order and with that I think we need to

0:06 ↗ do uh it's like attendance or roll call

0:10 ↗ and Dale can I ask your assistance with

0:12 ↗ there

0:13 ↗ absolutely uh voka yeah shaie

0:22 ↗ kapor

0:24 ↗ yeah yes yes excellent uh Ry manahan

0:30 ↗ here Leslie melinder Irwin present pry

0:33 ↗ mod pan here Kelly mun here Christina

0:41 ↗ obon here hi

0:43 ↗ everyone we miss we're so happy you're

0:48 ↗ back

0:51 ↗ uh and the rest of our um the rest of

0:54 ↗ our uh board has excused absences this

0:57 ↗ evening um Lura Gilmore Tony Curry sha

1:01 ↗ Fleming karthic kashinath um and Kunal

1:06 ↗ Shava thank you D okay so next item on

1:11 ↗ the agenda is public comments and so I

1:13 ↗ believe we have at least one person here

1:16 ↗ comment D are you aware of anyone else

1:19 ↗ doing public comment today uh no one but

1:22 ↗ Ted is here for

1:24 ↗ public okay please thank you thanks for

1:26 ↗ this moment and good evening everybody

1:28 ↗ my name is Ted Lucas say host most of

1:30 ↗ you know and just citizen here in uh is

1:34 ↗ and also a member of the B High

1:35 ↗ community and we have been so excited

1:38 ↗ about U hosting Community Building

1:40 ↗ socials you know for the last year or so

1:42 ↗ and some of you have been able to attend

1:43 ↗ it's been wonderful and we are prepping

1:47 ↗ up for a couple of more so this is just

1:49 ↗ kind of a heads up and the first one

1:51 ↗ will be in September September

1:54 ↗ 14 and of course when we get to August

1:58 ↗ actually July when we get to August and

1:59 ↗ September meeting will give you more

2:01 ↗ information more of the details it's

2:02 ↗ going to be at Ray's house none other

2:05 ↗ Ray has volunteered to uh kind of host

2:08 ↗ Us in his home for that uh very informal

2:11 ↗ conversation and he will be the topic

2:14 ↗ facilitator on strengthening healthc

2:16 ↗ care delivery with community- based

2:18 ↗ organizations cvos yeah yeah so that's

2:21 ↗ the cool one for community building a

2:23 ↗ topic of you know 45 minute or less

2:25 ↗ informal conversation learning together

2:28 ↗ sharing so that's the way these things

2:30 ↗ go Community Building social is followed

2:31 ↗ by some food and social part which is

2:35 ↗ always fun kind of it's a wait for

2:37 ↗ everybody get to know each other better

2:38 ↗ share ideas and so forth so that's why

2:40 ↗ it's gone so well so that's uh we'll get

2:42 ↗ more information for you September 14

2:44 ↗ the address and all that and then

2:45 ↗ another interesting thing is none other

2:47 ↗ than Council vice president Barbara J

2:50 ↗ Michelle attended one of the socials the

2:53 ↗ last one or the prior one I don't

2:55 ↗ remember which but it was with um the

2:56 ↗ director of the garage forgetting her

2:58 ↗ name right now and uh Robert Michelle

3:01 ↗ had been a major sponsor Advocate at the

3:03 ↗ formation of the garage so she came

3:05 ↗ along uh presentation by that that

3:07 ↗ direct which is great and then she uh

3:10 ↗ Barbara came back uh a little while ago

3:12 ↗ and said that she would like to burn

3:15 ↗ herself and two other city council

3:17 ↗ members to a future Community Building

3:19 ↗ social and be the presenter to talk

3:22 ↗ about uh isal activities from the point

3:25 ↗ of view of the city council things that

3:28 ↗ are happening in in the city

3:30 ↗ as a point of conversation and Society

3:33 ↗ social kind of community building so

3:35 ↗ that'll be in November we don't have the

3:36 ↗ firm date yet but we think we're talking

3:38 ↗ about the middle of November and that'll

3:40 ↗ be fun exciting and we'll U give you

3:42 ↗ more information about that soon okay

3:46 ↗ thanks so much for your your interest

3:48 ↗ and your support and it's just a great

3:50 ↗ way to build community thank you all

3:53 ↗ I'll take a back seat

3:55 ↗ okay appreciate the B community outreach

3:59 ↗ and

4:01 ↗ Community yes

4:05 ↗ than okay and next up is approval of

4:09 ↗ minutes um I'll give you all one minute

4:11 ↗ to do a quick scan because I'm assuming

4:14 ↗ you all will have had reviewed

4:20 ↗ it and then when anyone's ready please

4:24 ↗ make a motion to approve

4:48 ↗ I make a motion to approve do we have a

4:50 ↗ second second nice okay any uh

4:54 ↗ discussion or

4:57 ↗ amendments um suggested

5:03 ↗ [Laughter]

5:07 ↗ I think with that we can uh consider our

5:08 ↗ minute approved y all right moving right

5:11 ↗ along next agenda item is um of opening

5:17 ↗ question all right I gave most of you a

5:19 ↗ preview of the opening question and uh

5:22 ↗ the purpose of the opening question is

5:24 ↗ to build relationship and community and

5:27 ↗ to make sure that we have everyone and

5:29 ↗ everyone has an opportunity for their

5:31 ↗ voices to enter this space I think once

5:33 ↗ you talk once it's easier to uh speak up

5:37 ↗ and ask questions and comment when we

5:39 ↗ get to other agenda topics of uh more

5:41 ↗ substance so with that um the iceberger

5:46 ↗ question is uh what is a song that

5:49 ↗ inspires or motivates you and um I would

5:53 ↗ love for someone just to volunteer to go

5:55 ↗ first and then poporn it over to the

5:57 ↗ next person until everyone has an

5:59 ↗ opportunity

6:00 ↗ I will one I can't remember the name of

6:03 ↗ a song ever so are you gonna sing it

6:07 ↗ for but I'm not gonna do an individual

6:09 ↗ song Anything by Abba makes me want to

6:12 ↗ dance and sing and motivates me to get

6:16 ↗ you know to just get moving and do

6:18 ↗ whatever it is I want to do so there you

6:21 ↗ go

6:23 ↗ lesie thank you gosh I'm glad this

6:25 ↗ popped in my head really quickly um it's

6:28 ↗ an old song by an artist by the name of

6:31 ↗ Teddy Pendergrass I kind of incorrectly

6:33 ↗ told you how old I was um and it's

6:35 ↗ called life is a song worth singing and

6:38 ↗ it's just an inspirational song it talks

6:40 ↗ about it may feel rough it may feel

6:42 ↗ tough right now but you're made of

6:44 ↗ better stuff so yeah it's a good song

6:48 ↗ inspiring so let's see hey okay I was um

6:53 ↗ you GNA laugh I'm going to date myself

6:55 ↗ but I was at a concert over the weekend

6:57 ↗ in um marrymore Park and the band was

7:00 ↗ none other than an air

7:03 ↗ supply and I'm trying to think of

7:05 ↗ anything that they play um inspires me I

7:08 ↗ can't pull any song it was a lot of fun

7:11 ↗ so and weather and crowd is

7:16 ↗ perfect who's next R oh I'm sorry Monica

7:20 ↗ okay I I feel kind of young because I

7:22 ↗ don't know who anyone is

7:24 ↗ but to this question for us but I think

7:28 ↗ my favorite song is it's called in the

7:29 ↗ stars by Von Boon um it's kind of like

7:33 ↗ it's like a sad song but it just like

7:34 ↗ Hypes you up at the same time so and

7:38 ↗ then

7:39 ↗ D excellent I also wrote that down I was

7:42 ↗ like I need to know if the young people

7:43 ↗ are listening to these

7:45 ↗ days I feel like my song changes pretty

7:48 ↗ frequently um my husband makes a workout

7:52 ↗ a quarterly workout playist and one of

7:54 ↗ the songs that I have been just vibing

7:56 ↗ to a lot that gets me kind of Pumped up

7:58 ↗ is this song called sophisticated by

8:00 ↗ Rick

8:01 ↗ Ross a little bit of different uh maybe

8:04 ↗ Spirit than what we've shared so far but

8:07 ↗ um and I will turn it over to

8:11 ↗ Christina Well I am like Dale I I have

8:15 ↗ many songs that I really appre but

8:19 ↗ um we can say the bittles um

8:28 ↗ imagine people

8:37 ↗ Christina do you want to uh name pass it

8:40 ↗ to someone else to answer the

8:43 ↗ question um yeah

8:46 ↗ [Music]

8:48 ↗ um I think R didn't say

8:53 ↗ anything do you want it's a little hard

8:55 ↗ to see the video in this look at how

8:57 ↗ Wild the video is for this room I got to

8:59 ↗ say

9:01 ↗ yeah got her hand

9:05 ↗ up know I know if there's no one

9:10 ↗ else um so um most of the songs that

9:14 ↗ inspire me are um from the Hindi

9:17 ↗ language like that I go back to again

9:19 ↗ and again but as I was growing up um one

9:22 ↗ of the first songs that I could

9:24 ↗ completely understand that was in

9:26 ↗ English was um another day in par Parise

9:29 ↗ by Phil Collins and till that till date

9:34 ↗ that song just resonates so much with me

9:38 ↗ I mean it's it's the lyrics are simple

9:40 ↗ but they're so deep and emotional

9:43 ↗ there's a social message with it and I

9:46 ↗ just uh that's a song I keep going back

9:48 ↗ to in in different moods and different

9:56 ↗ feelings how about Jared all right

10:00 ↗ um so also kind of maybe breaking from

10:03 ↗ the current pattern nothing as eloquent

10:06 ↗ and beautiful as pH Collins but there's

10:08 ↗ a band called Idols which is a UK band

10:11 ↗ um and it's kind of like it's it's

10:13 ↗ pretty hard rock and when I need to feel

10:15 ↗ motivated that's what I turn on the

10:16 ↗ particular song is called never fight a

10:19 ↗ man with a perm so if that gives you any

10:21 ↗ indication of what type of music we're

10:23 ↗ dealing with that's a that's a hint um

10:26 ↗ that might also make you think that I

10:27 ↗ have a perm that that's not the case

10:28 ↗ from

10:29 ↗ you know I'm not getting my haired but

10:32 ↗ for me that's that's my pump up so yes

10:35 ↗ and I think the last

10:39 ↗ person close okay

10:43 ↗ yeah spot T okay I'll switch it all up

10:46 ↗ for you because I love all kinds of

10:48 ↗ music and I was downtown in Seattle at a

10:51 ↗ place called monkey Loft late on

10:54 ↗ Saturday night just as loud week which

10:55 ↗ is kind of what they call dance music

10:58 ↗ today electronic dance

11:00 ↗ house music and this and that and it was

11:02 ↗ sometimes it's Latin kind of vibe or

11:05 ↗ sometimes it's africanamerican Vibe and

11:07 ↗ a guest DJ from Los Angeles mixing it up

11:12 ↗ and makes me happy I like to move and

11:15 ↗ feel good you a lot of people so that's

11:18 ↗ very recent thing of

11:20 ↗ mine did not expect that from

11:24 ↗ you I just out

11:27 ↗ there and I we

11:31 ↗ know I think I might be the last person

11:34 ↗ um I had a couple of songs I think I'm

11:36 ↗ going to select one based on the vibe of

11:38 ↗ the room but um Eminem Lose Yourself so

11:42 ↗ for some reason I associate it with

11:44 ↗ getting married

11:46 ↗ but it's but it's a pump up s in a good

11:50 ↗ way in a good way so and my alterior

11:53 ↗ motive here is to actually add more

11:55 ↗ music to my motivation play with so I

11:58 ↗ notes of All all of the songs all right

12:01 ↗ thank you all for playing along uh let's

12:04 ↗ see the next item is Dale with the staff

12:07 ↗ report

12:08 ↗ y a very brief report this evening um

12:12 ↗ you all received this you are actually

12:13 ↗ all received followup already on our

12:15 ↗ meeting last uh month uh HTI hogland who

12:20 ↗ actually works in that office right

12:22 ↗ there we're right in her uh neighborhood

12:24 ↗ here sent out followup from the feedback

12:27 ↗ that the board gave on the park Plan

12:29 ↗ update already um so she went ahead and

12:32 ↗ if you've not reviewed that already I

12:35 ↗ would encourage you to take some time to

12:36 ↗ look at the changes they made to the

12:38 ↗ sort of mission statement of the plan to

12:40 ↗ reflect the feedback that this group

12:42 ↗ gave that is the I guess the only other

12:45 ↗ update we have name tense again and

12:49 ↗ reflective of our election at our last

12:52 ↗ um at our last meeting reay's name tent

12:54 ↗ has been updated for his uh new position

12:57 ↗ here as Vice chair on the board yeah and

12:59 ↗ that uh concludes my update great and

13:02 ↗ next up we have Jared Schneider with us

13:05 ↗ emergency manager um Dale any setup you

13:09 ↗ want to do a very brief I'll make a very

13:11 ↗ brief comment as the board knows one of

13:13 ↗ our major work plan items has been uh

13:17 ↗ hearing from every single Department

13:19 ↗ over the course of the past year about

13:21 ↗ the ways that they've used and consider

13:23 ↗ the equity framework in the work that

13:25 ↗ they do administrative Services is a

13:28 ↗ giant Department

13:29 ↗ um that encompasses a number of

13:31 ↗ different divisions one of which is

13:33 ↗ Emergency Management uh and so Jared is

13:36 ↗ here this evening on behalf of not only

13:38 ↗ his his personal division um but also on

13:41 ↗ behalf of administrative services to

13:43 ↗ share a little bit about uh the work

13:45 ↗ that he's doing and the way that it

13:46 ↗ incorporates Equity as well as

13:48 ↗ reflecting on uh some of the questions

13:51 ↗ within the equity framework and how that

13:53 ↗ shaped the work that he's doing now and

13:55 ↗ that he foresees the city doing in its

13:57 ↗ approach to Emergency Management so

13:59 ↗ without further Ado I will turn it over

14:01 ↗ to jar cool thanks Dale yeah while we're

14:03 ↗ a giant Department um Emergency

14:05 ↗ Management is a it's pretty small team

14:07 ↗ it's U

14:09 ↗ me plus an intern he's like 16 hours a

14:12 ↗ week um but uh but it's so much more

14:14 ↗ than that too um Emergency Management

14:16 ↗ for those that don't know is kind of a

14:18 ↗ it's kind of an oddity in in government

14:20 ↗ honestly um it's something that's often

14:22 ↗ unseen or really kind of flies under the

14:24 ↗ radar under um most most governments you

14:26 ↗ know things like parks and um ARB public

14:29 ↗ and with you know Human Services and

14:30 ↗ things like that but what Emergency

14:32 ↗ Management does for those that don't

14:33 ↗ know is um we coordinate um our response

14:36 ↗ to disasters so um leading up to those

14:39 ↗ disasters for preparing but what that

14:41 ↗ really looks like you know during the

14:42 ↗ disaster is we bring together people so

14:45 ↗ whether it's you know fire police Public

14:47 ↗ Works Human Services you know wall city

14:50 ↗ council right like we kind of serve as

14:52 ↗ the tent in which everyone sits

14:54 ↗ underneath so that we can make sure that

14:56 ↗ our response um is coordinated to to

14:59 ↗ whatever's happening you know in the

15:01 ↗ city so um like I said you know it's not

15:04 ↗ unique TOA there's emergency managers in

15:06 ↗ every city and up in the county state

15:09 ↗ and then all the way up to Federal level

15:10 ↗ which is FEMA um which is what most

15:12 ↗ people recognize from Emergency

15:14 ↗ Management so um I'm the city's

15:16 ↗ emergency manager uh that's me um just a

15:19 ↗ little bit about myself I've been here

15:20 ↗ for uh only a year uh with the city uh

15:23 ↗ prior to that I was with King County for

15:24 ↗ five years and the Red Cross before up

15:27 ↗ in s homish County um but what really

15:29 ↗ got me into this um actually is a topic

15:32 ↗ that's really rooted I think in this

15:33 ↗ group too um I I was living in India

15:36 ↗ believe it or not I was actually working

15:37 ↗ in India for a year for a laof firm um

15:40 ↗ and while I was there there was a really

15:41 ↗ bad monsoon season and I saw how um how

15:44 ↗ bad the mon actually affected those that

15:46 ↗ were um poor or disadvantaged within the

15:49 ↗ community and it just got me super

15:50 ↗ interested and in Disaster Response and

15:53 ↗ and emergency management in general and

15:55 ↗ so when my Visa didn't get renewed and

15:58 ↗ they said go back home Jared um I came

16:00 ↗ back and I kind of started down this

16:02 ↗ this path of Emergency Management so uh

16:05 ↗ that's a little bit about me first of

16:06 ↗ all but I'm really excited to talk to

16:09 ↗ you all because this is um this is an

16:11 ↗ area in um in government that has I

16:14 ↗ think so much to grow in terms of equity

16:17 ↗ um Emergency Management and to kind of

16:19 ↗ um tee up the conversation a little bit

16:21 ↗ I just I want to talk about some of the

16:23 ↗ principles under Emergency Management

16:25 ↗ that we have that kind of guide the way

16:27 ↗ that we do things but really we I think

16:29 ↗ you know this group and and hopefully

16:30 ↗ you know all of us can get to a better

16:32 ↗ place in the field of Emergency

16:34 ↗ Management so um there's really three

16:37 ↗ main priorities when it comes to any

16:38 ↗ instant response it's it's life safety

16:41 ↗ instant stabilization which just means

16:43 ↗ like you know stopping the thing from

16:45 ↗ getting worse and then the last one is

16:46 ↗ property preservation right but um what

16:49 ↗ we know um it's just life safety uh it's

16:52 ↗ not good enough it is only really the

16:54 ↗ tip of the iceberg when it comes to

16:56 ↗ disasters and and typically

16:59 ↗ long after the disaster is gone right is

17:02 ↗ like 95% of of what's left right and so

17:05 ↗ there's all the recovery there's the

17:07 ↗ recommunity building you know they're

17:08 ↗ trying to pick up the pieces of of these

17:10 ↗ lives that have been really interrupted

17:12 ↗ by whatever you know Hazard might have

17:14 ↗ might have done this so um life safety

17:16 ↗ isn't good enough that's the only that's

17:17 ↗ not the only thing that we can focus on

17:19 ↗ in emergency management or is the city's

17:20 ↗ you know emergency

17:22 ↗ manager um a community is only as

17:24 ↗ resilient as our most vulnerable uh

17:25 ↗ elements we know that's true we'll talk

17:27 ↗ about that a little bit more and about

17:29 ↗ how disaster is really you know impact

17:31 ↗ different for folks and then you know

17:33 ↗ really ultimately we want to build a

17:35 ↗ more effective Emergency Management

17:37 ↗ program by integrating Equity into

17:39 ↗ really all the levels of what we do

17:40 ↗ right before during and after a disaster

17:45 ↗ happens so with that um there's a little

17:47 ↗ bit of a misconception about disasters

17:49 ↗ it's that um everyone is essentially

17:51 ↗ impacted equally right like you know

17:54 ↗ often times you'll hear right oh the

17:56 ↗ hurricane doesn't discriminate or the

17:57 ↗ earthquake doesn't discriminate right

17:59 ↗ but um we do know that people experience

18:02 ↗ disasters uh inequitably throughout um

18:05 ↗ our our city and throughout our

18:06 ↗ communities right so really what it does

18:09 ↗ is it actually kind of highlights those

18:10 ↗ inequities even more right so uh some of

18:13 ↗ the areas that you know we're

18:15 ↗ conscientious where you know more

18:16 ↗ vulnerable populations are dealing with

18:18 ↗ more exposure is in that list there like

18:21 ↗ there's typically closer proximity to

18:23 ↗ hazardous material facilities right

18:24 ↗ which could be potentially

18:26 ↗ lifethreatening to folks right if those

18:27 ↗ fail there's typically less insurance

18:30 ↗ coverage poor quality of housing stock

18:33 ↗ right I don't think that's a problem

18:34 ↗ this you know we don't need to worry

18:35 ↗ about that um poor quality public

18:37 ↗ infrastructure typically right you know

18:39 ↗ you'll find nicer roads and nicer you

18:41 ↗ know elements of infrastructure and

18:43 ↗ richer neighborhoods typically and then

18:45 ↗ no installation against shock and and

18:47 ↗ shock what we mean here right is like

18:49 ↗ Financial shock right whenever there's a

18:51 ↗ disaster there's a financial element for

18:53 ↗ folks that are living paycheck to

18:55 ↗ paycheck right to add something like oh

18:57 ↗ you know you're the place you were

18:59 ↗ renting all your all your items are lock

19:01 ↗ in it you know how do you recover from

19:03 ↗ something like that right when when you

19:05 ↗ are paycheck to paycheck so again yeah

19:07 ↗ while the natural or while the hazard

19:09 ↗ itself might not discriminate what's

19:11 ↗ left you know is a very dis

19:14 ↗ disproportionate impact on our community

19:16 ↗ right so um that's something that you

19:18 ↗ know like I said we have in mind but

19:20 ↗ there's still so so much farther to

19:23 ↗ go um so in that I really want to talk

19:26 ↗ about this element probably when we get

19:29 ↗ to the end of my of the presentation in

19:31 ↗ particular because I'd love to pick your

19:33 ↗ all's branding about um how to really

19:35 ↗ incorporate the equity framework best

19:38 ↗ into our Emergency Operations so um we

19:42 ↗ have that 10 that I was kind of

19:43 ↗ referring to earlier is called is called

19:45 ↗ our emergency Operation Center that's

19:47 ↗ where everyone comes together right and

19:49 ↗ and some of the activations and

19:51 ↗ responses I've been part of I've seen it

19:53 ↗ play out in different ways like some

19:55 ↗ jurisdictions will actually like appoint

19:57 ↗ an individual who's like the equity

19:59 ↗ officer and their whole job is to be

20:01 ↗ looking out for you know um for equity

20:04 ↗ and how you know different programs or

20:06 ↗ how our actions or our response may you

20:08 ↗ know may not be Equitable another way

20:10 ↗ that I've seen is like everyone gets

20:11 ↗ like really kind of like a rush Equity

20:14 ↗ training and then you know as instructed

20:16 ↗ to be like okay you know keep the whole

20:18 ↗ community in your mind right as as we're

20:20 ↗ doing these things and you know both

20:22 ↗ have pros and cons um both have

20:24 ↗ shortfalls right and really um yeah I'm

20:27 ↗ excited to talk about that a little bit

20:28 ↗ more at the end of the presentation like

20:30 ↗ I said but really what it comes down to

20:33 ↗ and why it's so important in response is

20:35 ↗ because um we know there's populations

20:36 ↗ that we aren't hearing from right you

20:38 ↗ all know the adage right the squeaky

20:40 ↗ wheel gets you know gets the oil and so

20:43 ↗ that's true really for a lot of

20:45 ↗ government response too traditionally

20:47 ↗ when it comes to emergencies right the

20:49 ↗ person who picks up the phone that calls

20:51 ↗ you that tells you like oh you know Hey

20:54 ↗ My My Street hasn't been plowed in you

20:56 ↗ know two hours or something like that

20:58 ↗ right like you know we tell our public

21:00 ↗ works department they're out there right

21:02 ↗ you know but there's so many populations

21:04 ↗ within isqua that you know may not be

21:07 ↗ comfortable with interfacing you know

21:09 ↗ with the government or with this sad

21:10 ↗ that way or maybe just don't know that

21:12 ↗ they can pick up you know the phone and

21:14 ↗ call and be like hey get out here right

21:17 ↗ um there's just this you know um it's

21:19 ↗ not a it's not a Level Playing Field

21:21 ↗ right um when it comes to information

21:24 ↗ flow um yeah one other thing that we

21:26 ↗ think about right is there is there any

21:28 ↗ other complications caused by whatever

21:30 ↗ Hazard or emergency we're having that

21:32 ↗ might make someone more vulnerable right

21:33 ↗ so so one of the ones that we're

21:35 ↗ actually planning for right now kind of

21:37 ↗ like dealing with is um people who rely

21:39 ↗ on like medical devices at home like

21:41 ↗ hard medical devices uh pound energy is

21:44 ↗ planning on turning um the power off in

21:47 ↗ response to like really high Wildfire

21:49 ↗ risk days now this is something that

21:51 ↗ they're that they're rolling out this

21:52 ↗ year you know but you know that's an

21:54 ↗ example of a population right where like

21:57 ↗ you know PSD flips the switch and po off

21:59 ↗ that in itself is an emergency for that

22:01 ↗ individual right um but that's just one

22:04 ↗ that's just one example you know you

22:06 ↗ take all these other hazards that we

22:08 ↗ have right smoke heat cold snaps and and

22:11 ↗ obviously you know the bigger ones like

22:12 ↗ earthquakes and things like that you

22:14 ↗ know where you know wildfires where

22:16 ↗ there's all these considerations of our

22:18 ↗ populations that are sometimes really

22:20 ↗ challenging um during you know the heat

22:23 ↗ of an incident for for responders and

22:26 ↗ for people in that you know in that

22:28 ↗ emergency Operation Center to really be

22:30 ↗ accounting for right and so um it's a

22:33 ↗ huge area for growth and I think um I

22:36 ↗ think the equ framewor can help with

22:37 ↗ that and like I said I I'm really

22:39 ↗ excited about the discussion um when we

22:41 ↗ get there but uh yeah uh the SL bullet

22:44 ↗ point is kind of the lead into one

22:47 ↗ program that I want to highlight that I

22:49 ↗ think we're um doing I think we're um

22:52 ↗ we're going the right way about it but I

22:53 ↗ want to check with you all to see if you

22:55 ↗ have other thoughts and um and areas

22:57 ↗ that we can also improve with but it's

22:59 ↗ really you know how do we reach people

23:01 ↗ when um when there is an emergency going

23:03 ↗ on right do we talk about languages um

23:06 ↗ there's hundreds right spoken within

23:08 ↗ King County and you know this cause no

23:10 ↗ exception I think like the last there's

23:13 ↗ this public use micro area data that we

23:15 ↗ look that we can look at there's like

23:17 ↗ 129 between us samamish and Kirkland so

23:20 ↗ that's that's a ton of languages right

23:22 ↗ and um when you get emergency alerts

23:24 ↗ they're most likely going to be sent in

23:26 ↗ English right so there's a huge um risk

23:29 ↗ that are emergency messages don't reach

23:31 ↗ the whole population so that kind of

23:33 ↗ plays into um one of the topics I want

23:36 ↗ to focus on with you all here and and

23:38 ↗ that's emergency notification during

23:40 ↗ emergency so um before we kind of delve

23:43 ↗ into what the um what a kind of equity

23:46 ↗ strategy is with it I want to highlight

23:48 ↗ the capabilities because it'll kind of

23:50 ↗ make more sense right within the context

23:52 ↗ of knowing what our options are uh when

23:54 ↗ it comes to alert

23:56 ↗ notification so there's a system called

23:59 ↗ lurkin county code red um it's also a

24:02 ↗ known as reverse 911 in some circles but

24:05 ↗ really what it is it's a system that the

24:08 ↗ county owns that um we just that they

24:11 ↗ make available to US cities where we can

24:13 ↗ send text calls emails tdd messages um

24:17 ↗ and then all those messages are

24:19 ↗ translated into 13 messages or into 13

24:21 ↗ languages excuse me like automatically

24:23 ↗ which is like a little fraud I know too

24:26 ↗ like go that raises the eyebrows some

24:28 ↗ times right um but it's pretty good from

24:30 ↗ what we've heard from native speakers

24:32 ↗ and then it also gives us the capability

24:34 ↗ that we can put like pre-translated

24:35 ↗ messages into them so you may have

24:37 ↗ received them before um they they're

24:40 ↗ something that we send out pretty

24:42 ↗ infrequently it's h something that by

24:44 ↗ state law we can only send out for life

24:46 ↗ safety issues and considerations um so

24:49 ↗ it's not something you know that we'd

24:50 ↗ ever be like you know come to concerts

24:52 ↗ on the green you know we would never use

24:54 ↗ that system for that right it's

24:56 ↗ something um that is truly for emergency

24:58 ↗ there's kind of two databases that make

25:01 ↗ up that system there is um pretty much

25:04 ↗ the phone book like the white and yellow

25:05 ↗ pages all those contacts are

25:07 ↗ automatically added but how many people

25:09 ↗ do you know have landlines anymore you

25:11 ↗ know not not many but some um and then

25:15 ↗ there's also um optins essentially so

25:17 ↗ people who can sign up on a website

25:19 ↗ which is what that um poster is trying

25:22 ↗ to get folks to to do um so that's one

25:25 ↗ of our tools that's probably the tool

25:26 ↗ that we use the most honestly because we

25:28 ↗ can ensure that it hits a lot of

25:31 ↗ different message outlets right and

25:32 ↗ mediums like that text call emails is

25:34 ↗ really good the second tool that we have

25:37 ↗ is something called wireless emergency

25:39 ↗ alerts now these you've probably gotten

25:41 ↗ um before they're they're like Amber

25:43 ↗ Alerts they're that same that same type

25:45 ↗ of message we can also send those um

25:48 ↗ what's great about those is you know you

25:50 ↗ don't need to be signed up for a service

25:52 ↗ uh you just draw a square on the map um

25:55 ↗ and then if you drive through that

25:57 ↗ square or if someone's in that Square

25:59 ↗ they're going to receive that message as

26:00 ↗ long as they have it not or turned on on

26:02 ↗ their phone there's like a little

26:03 ↗ setting most everyone has it turned on

26:05 ↗ automatically but some people do get

26:07 ↗ annoyed with those Amber Alerts so they

26:09 ↗ they turn them off which is unfortunate

26:11 ↗ you know for for us who are worried

26:12 ↗ about life safety things um that's a

26:15 ↗ that's actually a ferally ran system um

26:18 ↗ and they have recently uh rolled out the

26:20 ↗ ability to send it in either English or

26:23 ↗ Spanish so that's a system Improvement

26:25 ↗ and they've they've stated that they

26:26 ↗ want to expand it to more and more

26:28 ↗ languages as the years go

26:30 ↗ on the third the third uh tool that we

26:33 ↗ use is the emergency alert system I'm

26:35 ↗ sorry that all these names are so

26:37 ↗ similar I it you can definitely tell

26:39 ↗ that this was not done in a coordinated

26:41 ↗ way right considering one another but

26:43 ↗ what the emergency alert system is is

26:45 ↗ that classic three-tone Radio message

26:47 ↗ that you'll that you'll hear you

26:49 ↗ know this test the emergency alert

26:51 ↗ system so that's another tool we have

26:54 ↗ that one we use really sparingly because

26:56 ↗ whenever we send out one of those it

26:58 ↗ actually hits um pretty much the whole

27:00 ↗ west side of Washington um just the way

27:02 ↗ that oh thanks D just the way that our

27:05 ↗ um radio towers are set up and whatnot

27:07 ↗ um it'll essentially alert yeah a huge

27:10 ↗ area right and and some of these other

27:11 ↗ tools that we've highlighted are a

27:13 ↗ little bit more precise right a little

27:15 ↗ bit more control on where it goes as

27:17 ↗ opposed to 13

27:19 ↗ counties lastly you know we kind of have

27:21 ↗ the traditional the traditional media

27:23 ↗ set that you think about social media

27:25 ↗ news alerts um TV etc etc right like the

27:28 ↗ news channels there we we push those

27:31 ↗ messages to those individuals too um and

27:33 ↗ they you know help us amplify whatever

27:35 ↗ emergency message that we have to share

27:37 ↗ with the community so that's our

27:39 ↗ existing tools right you just got to you

27:41 ↗ got to look in the tool box of of what

27:43 ↗ it what it looks like for alerted

27:45 ↗ morning so that's what we're playing

27:47 ↗ with um yeah as we were saying earlier

27:50 ↗ we have hundred hundreds of languages

27:52 ↗ right spoken area you see like 13 like

27:56 ↗ up there on code red that's a huge gap

27:58 ↗ right and that's also assuming that

27:59 ↗ someone has a cell phone you know to

28:01 ↗ also to also use that system so um

28:04 ↗ alerts and alert and warning is

28:07 ↗ something that is is difficult but it's

28:09 ↗ something that we have to pursue right

28:11 ↗ because you look at something like

28:12 ↗ lahina you know recently where you know

28:16 ↗ not everyone got the message to evacuate

28:18 ↗ right and we had over 100 people di who

28:21 ↗ died you know on Maui and that's yeah

28:23 ↗ that's just like not acceptable right

28:25 ↗ when it comes to when it comes to

28:27 ↗ government Alert warning of a of an

28:28 ↗ incident right so that's that's like the

28:30 ↗ nightmare scenario right that's what

28:31 ↗ we're trying really hard to to to avoid

28:34 ↗ a situation like that

28:36 ↗ in so with that I would like to

28:39 ↗ introduce you all to droll

28:42 ↗ please the trusted partner Network um so

28:45 ↗ this is a uh this is a what is it it's a

28:49 ↗ it's a volunteer group is really what it

28:51 ↗ is in a volunteer program that is

28:53 ↗ comprised of individuals who have access

28:56 ↗ to communities um either via language or

28:59 ↗ just you know they're part of a

29:00 ↗ community that maybe government doesn't

29:02 ↗ traditionally have the best relationship

29:04 ↗ with or doesn't have the ability to send

29:07 ↗ those um those messages translated to so

29:10 ↗ really what it is it's a it's a it's a

29:13 ↗ it's like a language-based group of

29:14 ↗ volunteers that will receive those

29:16 ↗ emergency messages that we get and then

29:18 ↗ reamplify them out through their

29:20 ↗ Community right so yeah the way it works

29:23 ↗ is they get the message and they share

29:24 ↗ it out right and they encourage those

29:26 ↗ you know community members to also share

29:28 ↗ it you know to others who may not be

29:30 ↗ receiving that

29:31 ↗ information um like I said this is a

29:33 ↗ county this is a county program too

29:35 ↗ right so like everyone King County's

29:36 ↗ become part of this so you know while

29:38 ↗ we're sitting here in isqua it really

29:40 ↗ Taps into really the wealth of language

29:42 ↗ you know speakers throughout throughout

29:44 ↗ the whole County area um what it

29:46 ↗ practically looks like is um the cities

29:49 ↗ along with King County um we host

29:51 ↗ orientations we host drills and then um

29:54 ↗ really try to do as much freeor as we

29:56 ↗ can with pre translations for like our

29:58 ↗ hazards right so a good example of that

30:00 ↗ is like our Wildfire alerts like we

30:02 ↗ already have our Wildfire emergency

30:04 ↗ messages like translated I think into

30:05 ↗ like 17 languages at this point saying

30:08 ↗ that you know there's a wildfire outside

30:10 ↗ of the lank neighborhood you know

30:12 ↗ evacuate immediately like we we've been

30:14 ↗ doing work on like pre-translated those

30:17 ↗ so that group um helps us with that you

30:20 ↗ know it's it's completely volunteer you

30:22 ↗ know um we don't yeah ask or you know we

30:24 ↗ don't hire anyone to do anything and um

30:27 ↗ but a lot of these community members are

30:28 ↗ pretty pretty passionate about you know

30:30 ↗ making sure that their Community gets

30:32 ↗ get that gets that information um so all

30:35 ↗ to say you know it's not it's a it's a

30:36 ↗ system that's managed right and ran and

30:38 ↗ it has a lot of support there's um

30:40 ↗ actually someone at King County who it's

30:41 ↗ like 50% of their their job is to really

30:44 ↗ just manage this this group of people

30:46 ↗ which is great it's a great investment

30:49 ↗ so yeah so how it works is the

30:51 ↗ individual whose interest in

30:52 ↗ volunteering would sign up for that

30:54 ↗ Alert in county that reverse 911 system

30:57 ↗ right that we were talking about then

30:59 ↗ let's just say we do have a wildfire

31:01 ↗ right um that those members like

31:03 ↗ regardless if their prox to their

31:05 ↗ regardless of their proximity to that

31:07 ↗ Wildfire will receive that English

31:09 ↗ message saying you know there's a

31:11 ↗ wildfire outside of this area um yada

31:14 ↗ yada yada immediately after that they

31:16 ↗ receive another message that says you

31:18 ↗ know trusted partner Network volunteer

31:20 ↗ please redistribute and reso and like

31:23 ↗ rebroadcast this message out to your

31:25 ↗ community you know as you see fit so

31:27 ↗ that's really like the that's some bolt

31:28 ↗ of How We Do It um one of thing about it

31:31 ↗ is like really King so King County

31:33 ↗ sometimes they will ask for information

31:34 ↗ about how the message was distributed

31:36 ↗ right like they want to know like oh did

31:38 ↗ you send this over like a or Discord or

31:41 ↗ did you like send it over WhatsApp right

31:43 ↗ like what are the kind of like what are

31:44 ↗ the Avenues um that you're using to

31:46 ↗ rebroadcast this right because

31:48 ↗ eventually the hope is like government

31:50 ↗ wants to grow with the community too you

31:52 ↗ know what I mean like yeah we also want

31:54 ↗ to make sure that we support platforms

31:56 ↗ and different types of media that um

31:58 ↗ that can be fit into those whatever they

32:00 ↗ are whatever um whatever Avenue they're

32:02 ↗ taken so then lastly um the TPM members

32:06 ↗ then will kind of um they they can

32:08 ↗ report back right to the county if they

32:10 ↗ hear from someone in their Community who

32:11 ↗ does have a need right that that the

32:13 ↗ county may not be filling or the city

32:15 ↗ might not be filling right um so you

32:17 ↗ know I like I was saying earlier it's

32:19 ↗ wey wheel right like this kind of gives

32:21 ↗ another option for community members to

32:23 ↗ be like hey can you tell Jared you know

32:26 ↗ that you know our our group or I you

32:28 ↗ know like trapped in my house and I need

32:31 ↗ to get to a doctor's appointment you

32:33 ↗ know for this you know serious health

32:35 ↗ condition I have or the serious

32:36 ↗ operation I have right that's something

32:37 ↗ that we hope you know gets filtered back

32:39 ↗ up to us because then you know we can

32:41 ↗ help with resources to get that person

32:43 ↗ to where they need to go right so that's

32:45 ↗ the ultimate dream that's how it works

32:47 ↗ how it helps you know I don't think we

32:49 ↗ need to spend too much time on this you

32:50 ↗ know is I think we can all see the

32:52 ↗ benefit in a program like this you know

32:54 ↗ just making sure that we get get that

32:56 ↗ information to people who don't speak

32:58 ↗ English um here's some frequently asked

33:01 ↗ questions that we typically get about

33:04 ↗ about this program it's like how I be

33:06 ↗ contacted we usually like send them out

33:08 ↗ three to five times a year is when those

33:10 ↗ events kind of reach that level of of

33:13 ↗ act like life safety message that seems

33:15 ↗ pretty high right but that's like a

33:17 ↗ county that's a countywide threshold you

33:19 ↗ know and somewhere some other City you

33:22 ↗ know there might be something going on

33:23 ↗ whether it's like a boil water advisory

33:25 ↗ or you know um some small Hazard right

33:29 ↗ uh is my information protected yes

33:32 ↗ community members you know we don't we

33:34 ↗ don't share any of that we keep you know

33:36 ↗ individuals confidential throughout the

33:37 ↗ whole process you know they're not

33:39 ↗ identified am I always expect to

33:41 ↗ translate you know um no it's really the

33:44 ↗ answer you know working on pre

33:46 ↗ pre-translated stuff but no there's not

33:48 ↗ an expectation like we've heard that

33:50 ↗ sometimes too from I think we have a

33:52 ↗ volunteer who has like a community or

33:54 ↗ like a in with like a really

33:56 ↗ anti-government group of people up in

33:58 ↗ the hills of King County and you know

34:01 ↗ they're like hey you know like like I

34:04 ↗ disagree with a lot of what you guys are

34:05 ↗ doing but you know like I want to make

34:07 ↗ sure if there's something I could

34:08 ↗ wildfire that my people know right and

34:10 ↗ so like that's an example of someone who

34:12 ↗ um they all speak English right but that

34:14 ↗ but that person kind of serves as that

34:15 ↗ bridge right and that and they're

34:17 ↗ trusted within that community so they

34:19 ↗ can you know make sure that even that

34:21 ↗ group right gets gets the information um

34:24 ↗ what need

34:25 ↗ is um yeah often do I know when to stop

34:28 ↗ sharing the information when it's the

34:30 ↗ emergency over right it's like just keep

34:32 ↗ going you know keep sharing it as much

34:33 ↗ as you can and then you know we don't

34:35 ↗ really send like a you know stop sharing

34:38 ↗ the message message out to trusted

34:40 ↗ partner Network volunteers only because

34:42 ↗ like you know we don't want to blow up

34:44 ↗ their phone anymore than we're already

34:46 ↗ doing and not only that is like the

34:48 ↗ emergency like I was saying earlier

34:50 ↗ right sometimes like they they're uh

34:52 ↗ longer right they're longer than just

34:54 ↗ like the immediate impact of what's

34:55 ↗ happening right so if later you know

34:58 ↗ we're going to be doing things like

35:00 ↗ Public Assistance or individual

35:01 ↗ assistance out in the community in terms

35:03 ↗ of like you know come here and you know

35:05 ↗ the Red Cross is here to help with you

35:07 ↗ know hotel vouchers right that's that's

35:09 ↗ potential information someone may be

35:11 ↗ interested in right that's that's

35:12 ↗ outside of that initial emergency

35:15 ↗ message right so again yeah we just keep

35:17 ↗ sharing it keep sharing it to people um

35:20 ↗ and then yeah are there orientations and

35:22 ↗ are there engagements yes absolutely we

35:24 ↗ do them all the time so um yeah so

35:28 ↗ also should say too if anyone has any

35:29 ↗ questions or anything just yeah please

35:31 ↗ slow me down and stop me and yeah feel

35:34 ↗ free to ask because I just I think you

35:36 ↗ said it but not only do you send them

35:40 ↗ emergency information you also send them

35:43 ↗ information that could be meaningful to

35:45 ↗ their Community yeah yeah that's awesome

35:48 ↗ because otherwise it's so one way right

35:51 ↗ exactly yeah and that's yeah that

35:53 ↗ honestly to me that's one of the biggest

35:55 ↗ values is if it starts flowing back up

35:56 ↗ to us right that's yeah um were you all

36:00 ↗ kind of tuned into like the flooding in

36:01 ↗ South Park like like a couple like a

36:04 ↗ year ago or something that there was

36:05 ↗ like some there was like a coastal it

36:07 ↗ was like a high tie plus a lot of rain

36:10 ↗ puted out like a a big area in South

36:12 ↗ Park in Seattle and it turned out that

36:14 ↗ there was like I don't know like 30 30

36:16 ↗ individuals I think from like the M

36:18 ↗ Community perhaps I forget which

36:19 ↗ Community it was but they were just like

36:21 ↗ sent to living out in this like flooded

36:23 ↗ apartment and you know they essentially

36:25 ↗ you know there was like this um of

36:27 ↗ communication that was happening because

36:29 ↗ they wen't getting in the messages and

36:31 ↗ you know but but if we have someone

36:33 ↗ right who does have an inroad hopefully

36:34 ↗ we can avoid situations like that right

36:37 ↗ and we could hear that oh you know

36:39 ↗ there's these 30 individuals who are

36:41 ↗ looking for housing maybe we can hook

36:43 ↗ them up with Monica you know and her

36:44 ↗ Human Resources team and let's see if we

36:46 ↗ can find a spot you know for them and

36:49 ↗ and that's the ulri so yeah yes yeah

36:51 ↗ it's not just the emergency alert it's

36:53 ↗ kind of like that's the primary but then

36:55 ↗ after that it's like information about

36:56 ↗ the emergency right that may be that may

36:58 ↗ be beneficial and it's not it's used

37:01 ↗ very sparingly right like we are not

37:04 ↗ trying to you know again promote yeah

37:06 ↗ concerts on the green or anything you

37:08 ↗ have through these through these Avenues

37:10 ↗ it's truly life safety stuff a couple

37:12 ↗ more questions um which natural

37:14 ↗ disasters or disasters are in scope for

37:16 ↗ this work and then which 13 like how are

37:19 ↗ the 13 languages identified yeah

37:21 ↗ definitely so um let me actually pull up

37:25 ↗ another slide from another presentation

37:26 ↗ that I happen to have up that I'm giving

37:28 ↗ tomorrow morning so it's actually looks

37:31 ↗ very nice um okay let's see you're

37:34 ↗ already in here yeah can we yeah okay

37:36 ↗ can we see that okay so here are the

37:38 ↗ hazards that we actively plan for um

37:41 ↗ within the city of isqua so we have them

37:43 ↗ separated into two different categories

37:45 ↗ natural and human caused um Hazard so we

37:48 ↗ have earthquake volcano which if you're

37:50 ↗ like Jared where's the volcanoes in

37:52 ↗ isqua um it's really like the the tea

37:54 ↗ the ash you know from the volcano right

37:56 ↗ that could impact

37:58 ↗ landslides Wildfire flood severe weather

38:01 ↗ is kind of a catch all for like heat

38:03 ↗ waves cold snaps things like that on the

38:05 ↗ human cause side we have hazardous

38:07 ↗ material releases Health incident that's

38:10 ↗ that's like a pandemic essentially you

38:11 ↗ know I think we can all think of an

38:13 ↗ example of that one um terrorism cyber

38:16 ↗ incidents and then damn failure that's

38:18 ↗ kind of like the other one that

38:19 ↗ typically surprises people you're like

38:21 ↗ yeah we're the dams you know in isqua

38:23 ↗ but we actually have all these big storm

38:24 ↗ water PS um up in the highlands

38:28 ↗ they're so big that if they failed they

38:30 ↗ would actually be um they cause a lot of

38:31 ↗ property damage honestly so it's

38:34 ↗ something also that we that we actively

38:36 ↗ plan for um so yeah those are the

38:38 ↗ hazards we that we have the 13 languages

38:42 ↗ that have been added into that um code

38:44 ↗ red system are just by the vendor they

38:47 ↗ were the ones who um are driving that

38:49 ↗ they have to kind of upgrade the system

38:51 ↗ to be able to send the characters or

38:54 ↗ something like that in those different

38:55 ↗ languages I'm not sure the exact

38:57 ↗ specifics of it but it's something that

38:59 ↗ we don't unfortunately have much control

39:02 ↗ in especially as it's uh the county who

39:04 ↗ who's the one who contracts with that

39:06 ↗ vendor and we just really benefit from

39:08 ↗ that contract um but it is growing which

39:11 ↗ is the good news so hopefully more and

39:13 ↗ more we'll get

39:14 ↗ added

39:17 ↗ yeah any other

39:19 ↗ questions I have a couple yeah I'm just

39:21 ↗ going to wait till you're down oh okay

39:22 ↗ all

39:23 ↗ [Laughter]

39:25 ↗ right um okay so here's just a few

39:28 ↗ numbers that I you know that I want to

39:30 ↗ highlight but um it's really oh we also

39:33 ↗ Christina I see your hand

39:36 ↗ raised and J um I just I'm wondering

39:40 ↗ what happened

39:41 ↗ when a disaster is here and we don't

39:45 ↗ have Internet or

39:47 ↗ electricity are you considering any any

39:50 ↗ other way to communicate with people by

39:53 ↗ radio or I don't

39:55 ↗ know yeah this a huge challenge right I

39:58 ↗ mean that's like one of the other yeah

40:00 ↗ we're so Reliant you know on our phones

40:02 ↗ and technology and things like Wi-Fi

40:04 ↗ that yeah we have a we actually have a

40:06 ↗ community radio station um 1700 a.m. I

40:11 ↗ wouldn't recommend you tune in because

40:12 ↗ there just a looping message saying you

40:15 ↗ know in the case of an emergency we'll

40:17 ↗ you know give you information here but

40:19 ↗ that is something that we have uh we

40:20 ↗ actually broadcast at a Pickering bar

40:22 ↗ believe it or not so uh that's one tool

40:25 ↗ that we do have um there's also a pretty

40:27 ↗ big network of um ham radio operators

40:31 ↗ throughout isqua um for those that don't

40:33 ↗ know it's like kind of an oldfashioned

40:34 ↗ version of radio um and we have a lot of

40:36 ↗ Spirited volunteers um who are happy to

40:40 ↗ uh share that information with their

40:41 ↗ neighbors um and and that also extends

40:44 ↗ to a whole bigger volunteer group of

40:46 ↗ individuals that we have called the

40:47 ↗ community Emergency Response Team uh in

40:50 ↗ this sad it's like a group of about 400

40:52 ↗ volunteers that um also are are here to

40:54 ↗ help out you know the city of isqua that

40:56 ↗ are a lot of them are trained in that

40:58 ↗ ham radio so we communicate with them um

41:01 ↗ in a situation like you described

41:02 ↗ Christina via radio um but again it's

41:06 ↗ it's a serious

41:08 ↗ challenge thank you so

41:12 ↗ much um okay great so yeah just a a few

41:16 ↗ numbers here it's really it's been three

41:18 ↗ years since recruitment began for this

41:19 ↗ program um that's kind of a a misnomer

41:22 ↗ though it was only really in the last

41:23 ↗ like six months has this program been

41:26 ↗ beneficial but we had some very um when

41:30 ↗ when this idea was first being kind of

41:31 ↗ hatched there were some individuals who

41:32 ↗ were really excited about it so they

41:34 ↗ wanted it on the ground floor so that's

41:35 ↗ why I say three years but um oh yeah

41:37 ↗ five months since the official hunch the

41:39 ↗ program that's the literally the number

41:41 ↗ underneath it there we go um at this

41:43 ↗ point we have 64 active volunteers uh 29

41:46 ↗ languages are spoken by those volunteers

41:48 ↗ and then um in the drills that we've

41:50 ↗ done 17 of those languages you know have

41:52 ↗ been people partaken in those drills

41:54 ↗ right kind of re r or taking actions

41:58 ↗ that would simulate them rebroadcasting

42:00 ↗ those messages right they don't actually

42:01 ↗ do it as part of the drill but um yeah

42:04 ↗ that's that's where we're at right now

42:06 ↗ um so we still got a long ways to go

42:09 ↗ right when you look at it but like I

42:11 ↗ said you know this is we're just

42:13 ↗ starting it um so here's some of the

42:15 ↗ ways and this is where I would love

42:17 ↗ y'all's feedback on um here's kind of

42:19 ↗ our plan to to build this out in isqua

42:22 ↗ um I think the last time I checked only

42:24 ↗ three of those individuals are uh

42:26 ↗ residents with

42:28 ↗ um of those of those volunteers which

42:30 ↗ again isn't the biggest deal because you

42:33 ↗ know we as a county it's like a county

42:35 ↗ thing right we kind of share those

42:36 ↗ languages and help rebroadcast those but

42:38 ↗ again I think personally you know I I

42:41 ↗ would rather have a squad you know

42:43 ↗ residents involved in this right because

42:45 ↗ chances are they're going to you know in

42:47 ↗ their micro Community right um they'll

42:49 ↗ be located in this squad but I'll this

42:51 ↗ say um here's our plan so we're going to

42:54 ↗ partner with existing Community

42:55 ↗ organizations or entities for confidence

42:57 ↗ already exists right so um one of the

43:00 ↗ one of the people that I've already

43:01 ↗ engaged with this topic about is

43:03 ↗ actually Laura because yeah because

43:06 ↗ Laura you know has a great Network

43:09 ↗ through um the school district right

43:10 ↗ where she um makes

43:20 ↗ sureesh yeah we got some we got some

43:23 ↗ background work to do essentially

43:25 ↗ because you know the school's super

43:26 ↗ sensitive about you know anything

43:28 ↗ anything like that um one thing that we

43:30 ↗ kind of know um is that when we recruit

43:32 ↗ from existing pools of volunteers like

43:34 ↗ you know you're you're kind of already

43:36 ↗ you're fighting like a downhill battle

43:38 ↗ right when you recruit from existing

43:39 ↗ volunteers only because we know that you

43:41 ↗ know there people who kind of have that

43:43 ↗ volunteer Spirit or whatever you want to

43:45 ↗ call it you know um so I mentioned that

43:48 ↗ the CT uh group you know that's that's R

43:50 ↗ in the city you know within there I'm

43:52 ↗ sure we have some volunteers who could

43:54 ↗ be potentially interested in in uh and

43:57 ↗ also volunteering for the trusted

43:58 ↗ partner Network and then lastly you know

44:00 ↗ we hope to just do some just broad

44:02 ↗ advertisement through the regular City

44:04 ↗ channels right whether it be Twitter or

44:07 ↗ the news flashes or next door you know

44:09 ↗ Facebook ADB whatever whatever you know

44:11 ↗ we want to do really to just to just

44:14 ↗ kind of highlight this program right um

44:16 ↗ but with that uh that's pretty much all

44:18 ↗ I was going to say about the trusted

44:19 ↗ partner Network and I'd love to hear you

44:22 ↗ know um one any ideas that you have for

44:24 ↗ potentially you know getting more folks

44:25 ↗ involved or two just feedback on how um

44:28 ↗ we can make this program better or if

44:30 ↗ there's other ways that you're aware of

44:32 ↗ where we can we can help Reach people um

44:35 ↗ with emergency alerts outside of the

44:36 ↗ trust dep partner Network right

44:39 ↗ so yeah that's it I know it's l

44:42 ↗ dig first of all what a fascinating toic

44:45 ↗ when it comes to everybody I mean my

44:47 ↗ mind is just going thinking who what

44:49 ↗ when where how why you know um so when I

44:54 ↗ think of iso I don't think of major diss

44:57 ↗ for some reason so have you guys done

45:00 ↗ any kind of like what is it that would

45:03 ↗ cause an

45:04 ↗ emergency response so massive that it

45:07 ↗ would really require what I'm asking is

45:09 ↗ predictive modeling so this could happen

45:12 ↗ here in this part of isqua that would

45:15 ↗ affect this community and is that

45:17 ↗ Community going to have challeng of

45:20 ↗ receiving the the care that they need

45:21 ↗ because of where they live like I'll

45:22 ↗ give you an example the only one that I

45:24 ↗ thought of immediately was when the bad

45:26 ↗ rain season happened like Juniper

45:28 ↗ flooded um yeah or that or

45:32 ↗ that oh yeah yeah yeah it's right by

45:38 ↗ yes so uh that's just a question um if

45:42 ↗ if that's been done because that would

45:43 ↗ be yeah there's so many components to

45:45 ↗ that right what is it that caused a

45:47 ↗ disaster what region was impacted and is

45:49 ↗ there an equity issue in that region

45:51 ↗ definitely so um this is perfect timing

45:54 ↗ that you have this question because of

45:55 ↗ two things so we um updating something

45:58 ↗ called the hazard mitigation plan um all

46:00 ↗ jurisdictions do it but the the part

46:03 ↗ that's important about this plan is just

46:05 ↗ that so what we do is we look at every

46:06 ↗ single Hazard right and um really

46:09 ↗ understand our vulnerability and

46:10 ↗ exposure to that Hazard right so um one

46:13 ↗ of the ones that we know um for sure is

46:15 ↗ like wildfire right so this is a

46:17 ↗ situation where um we know that like

46:20 ↗ yeah if it happens to just say outside

46:22 ↗ of Talis right um that we're going to

46:24 ↗ need to make sure that yeah it it hits

46:26 ↗ that threshold that you were talking

46:27 ↗ about right where we need to send those

46:29 ↗ emergency alerts you know we know that

46:31 ↗ there's a pretty high likelihood given

46:32 ↗ the right climatic situations or or

46:34 ↗ what's happening you know that it could

46:36 ↗ spread and be pretty catastrophic right

46:38 ↗ to what extent we're not quite sure um

46:40 ↗ it's actually something that we just

46:41 ↗ kicked off today as we're studying um

46:43 ↗ our Wildfire evacuation in in isas we'll

46:46 ↗ actually get real time estimates on how

46:48 ↗ long it'll take for for um people to get

46:51 ↗ outside of thisa but part of that um

46:53 ↗ part of the what plays into factor is

46:55 ↗ just the is just actually getting the

46:58 ↗ message right that there's an evacuation

47:00 ↗ uh going on so like you know if it takes

47:02 ↗ someone you know 30 minutes right to

47:04 ↗ even hear that there's an evacuation

47:06 ↗ going on you know what does that do to

47:08 ↗ you know their ability to evacuate right

47:10 ↗ it's it's not good for it so um yeah so

47:13 ↗ all to say yeah we're we're semi I know

47:16 ↗ like isqua you don't really associate

47:18 ↗ right with with hazards it's actually

47:20 ↗ something that us on the west coast

47:21 ↗ really struggle with or really

47:23 ↗ Washington and Oregon in some ways is

47:25 ↗ like you know in the south other places

47:27 ↗ in the US they had hurricanes every year

47:30 ↗ you know what I mean it's it's like this

47:31 ↗ is all muscle memory right but for us

47:34 ↗ our hazards are what we call like low

47:36 ↗ frequency like they don't happen very

47:38 ↗ much but high impact so you know when

47:41 ↗ they do happen they're typically um

47:42 ↗ really bad right so like think like Oso

47:45 ↗ landslide you know um think you know

47:47 ↗ like if we have big earthquake like the

47:50 ↗ you know Cascadia abduction Zone Ora RS

47:53 ↗ rumbling yeah I know yeah um yeah so I'm

47:57 ↗ not sure if that fully answers your

47:58 ↗ question right okay all right but

48:00 ↗ yeah thank you and the other question

48:02 ↗ that I have is you know you mentioned

48:04 ↗ like South Park and when I think of our

48:06 ↗ neighboring City Seattle there's

48:09 ↗ definitive um income gaps based on the

48:12 ↗ ZIP code or the area like the Central

48:14 ↗ District could have a heat wve and their

48:16 ↗ air conditioner wouldn't work and that

48:17 ↗ would cause some issues it's it's again

48:19 ↗ because of equity and and um that hits

48:23 ↗ those topics has like where in isqua

48:26 ↗ would that be an issue because is and

48:28 ↗ it's it's not a poor City yeah I mean so

48:31 ↗ the actually probably is a good answer

48:33 ↗ for this was already put you on the spot

48:35 ↗ well I mean we we've done a little bit

48:37 ↗ of an assessment of of across the city

48:41 ↗ as part of some of the surveying we've

48:43 ↗ done on parts of the city that maybe do

48:47 ↗ have greater need um or are more likely

48:50 ↗ to be vulnerable David actually and our

48:52 ↗ sustainability team have done a lot more

48:53 ↗ work on it that it's true even um we

48:56 ↗ have but we we're actually working with

48:58 ↗ our Parks te and and and they've come

49:00 ↗ and talked a little bit about this but

49:02 ↗ we're working with our um with our Parks

49:04 ↗ team on their survey but also with our

49:06 ↗ Public Works team on their survey to

49:08 ↗ sort of map some of the demographic

49:09 ↗ information we have including income um

49:12 ↗ across the city to know if there are

49:14 ↗ pockets of the community that may be

49:16 ↗ more at risk okay yeah it's as c as also

49:20 ↗ like an aging Community um the age is

49:22 ↗ going up right and with that also comes

49:24 ↗ like income typically right so there's

49:26 ↗ not that yeah Mobility Mobility right so

49:29 ↗ yeah that's one of our big

49:30 ↗ considerations but it's been a challenge

49:32 ↗ honestly for us because there's a lot of

49:34 ↗ grants available um at Federal levels

49:36 ↗ that really prioritize vulnerable

49:38 ↗ populations of which we know we have in

49:40 ↗ isqua right but it's not the same

49:42 ↗ isolation that you're talking about

49:44 ↗ right like in in South Park and so it's

49:46 ↗ like a it's an added Challenge on how do

49:48 ↗ we advocate for you know vulnerable

49:50 ↗ populations in a community you know um

49:53 ↗ that does have you know a decent amount

49:55 ↗ of influence right but those individual

49:56 ↗ are still there right it's it's this

49:58 ↗ huge gap in um yeah in really Federal

50:02 ↗ systems to provide for those individuals

50:04 ↗ to be honest and so yeah it's a huge

50:06 ↗ Challenge and you're totally hit hitting

50:07 ↗ on it right um so yeah and then just one

50:11 ↗ last comment because you were talking

50:12 ↗ about building the network um uh you're

50:15 ↗ familiar with the isan nourishing

50:16 ↗ Network that um it sounds familiar okay

50:19 ↗ I I would recommend speaking to Monica

50:21 ↗ Monica and Hannah okay because they're

50:23 ↗ the ones that all these groups that meet

50:25 ↗ once a month and they talk about the

50:27 ↗ services they provide and the people

50:29 ↗ that can benefit from those Services Ian

50:32 ↗ on the C Series so it's just a way to

50:34 ↗ get the word out

50:35 ↗ awesome there's it's it's online just

50:37 ↗ look at it's nourishing Network and at

50:39 ↗ all these organizations that are here

50:42 ↗ that um that could benefit from this

50:44 ↗ presentation I think just feedback from

50:46 ↗ great thank you

50:48 ↗ perfect just have a a general uh a

50:51 ↗ comment um and I'm a bit partisan in in

50:54 ↗ that I actually am a uh general manager

50:57 ↗ for Providence Point and it is um a 55

51:02 ↗ and better community and um yeah not not

51:06 ↗ exactly better um our average age is

51:09 ↗ about 70 years old and it's starting to

51:11 ↗ tick up to where it's actually getting

51:13 ↗ older so um it's a relatively affluent

51:18 ↗ Community but our vulnerability is the

51:20 ↗ age of our our our populace um Mobility

51:24 ↗ challenges um and so and a lot of the

51:27 ↗ concerns that I've been talking to them

51:29 ↗ about for close to a year are things

51:31 ↗ like how are we notified about

51:33 ↗ emergencies that are happening or

51:35 ↗ challenges anything along that line that

51:37 ↗ are happening in the the greater um

51:40 ↗ isqua area that could have a effect on

51:43 ↗ the community um communication is always

51:46 ↗ um a huge consideration and so um we

51:49 ↗ have some C members we have our own hand

51:52 ↗ radio on uh community and so I'm very

51:57 ↗ interested in um in joining this network

51:59 ↗ because I want to make sure that we're

52:02 ↗ pushing out information that's impactful

52:04 ↗ that makes sense to the community and

52:05 ↗ gives them a feeling that they're not

52:07 ↗ just an island to themselves there's a

52:09 ↗ huge concern that if something happens

52:12 ↗ whatever the if is that they won't have

52:15 ↗ the attention the resources the whatever

52:18 ↗ it is that one with need during an

52:19 ↗ emergency and so I I want to lay that

52:22 ↗ that concern yeah with action and with

52:25 ↗ communication so think this is a great

52:27 ↗ initiative I I would love to be part of

52:29 ↗ it awesome thank you yeah that's huge

52:32 ↗ yeah that's a community that also yeah I

52:34 ↗ would love to do more work in I think

52:35 ↗ you all met with David at one point to

52:37 ↗ talk about resilience hubs right um he

52:39 ↗ came here my dream was to have one up

52:41 ↗ there in Providence Point perhaps at the

52:43 ↗ community center but I'd love to talk

52:45 ↗ that okay that sounds great okay awesome

52:47 ↗ I'll also be up there next Friday I

52:50 ↗ think for a province Point board meeting

52:52 ↗ believe it or not they're having me out

52:53 ↗ to talk about is amazing sometime in

52:55 ↗ July is it the

52:57 ↗ I think it might be yeah absolutely okay

52:59 ↗ yeah cool so up there all right a

53:02 ↗ friendly face

53:04 ↗ yeah

53:06 ↗ so I mean I have like these Grand dreams

53:09 ↗ right I'm thinking about like this idea

53:10 ↗ of like it seems like there's several

53:12 ↗ layers of issues here right like you

53:14 ↗ know toise Point like where do you where

53:17 ↗ can we predict where incidences of

53:20 ↗ various kinds are going to happen and

53:22 ↗ then I'm thinking about like demographic

53:24 ↗ characteristics of what make people very

53:26 ↗ vulnerable so you know it could be

53:28 ↗ income it could be Health um just other

53:33 ↗ like mobility issues things like that um

53:37 ↗ and then I'm thinking

53:40 ↗ about we don't have that information yet

53:42 ↗ right but um I think you know in the

53:45 ↗ short term or in the absence of having

53:47 ↗ that type of

53:49 ↗ information um if there's like and you

53:52 ↗ kind of named one like if there's a set

53:53 ↗ of personas you could be thinking about

53:56 ↗ like like some of the worst case

53:57 ↗ scenarios like people who have these

53:59 ↗ intersections of being living in a

54:02 ↗ certain area having you know mobility

54:05 ↗ issues being cut off from electricity

54:07 ↗ and just thinking about how can I reach

54:09 ↗ those people and then when it comes time

54:12 ↗ to like recruiting and partnering with

54:13 ↗ organizations you know

54:16 ↗ like if you in the absence of like

54:19 ↗ mapped like where you know there's gaps

54:21 ↗ like maybe try to design and out do

54:23 ↗ Outreach and recruit people who can

54:25 ↗ reach those most vulnerable groups the

54:28 ↗ idea being like if you reach those

54:30 ↗ you're probably going to catch all the

54:31 ↗ other folks too oh God yeah yeah yeah so

54:35 ↗ I don't know what that those personas

54:37 ↗ could look like but maybe kind of

54:38 ↗ designed for like thinking about

54:40 ↗ individuals in L I always thinking about

54:41 ↗ my mom but I mean I obviously she's got

54:44 ↗ access to me but you know she's like you

54:47 ↗ know in her mid 70s she lives alone

54:49 ↗ she's um she's mobile but she's not like

54:52 ↗ great with the internet and I'm thinking

54:54 ↗ if her power gets cut off like what is

54:57 ↗ yeah yeah I love that idea of like those

54:59 ↗ personas I mean honestly as we're

55:01 ↗ updating this plan it would be pretty

55:03 ↗ cool almost like aach a Persona to each

55:05 ↗ of the hazards to be like you know this

55:07 ↗ is someone who may be particularly you

55:09 ↗ know vulnerable to this Hazard you know

55:11 ↗ just to bring it down to um Earth

55:13 ↗ because I mean you you all know you've

55:15 ↗ seen some of the plans you know that we

55:17 ↗ put together and like you know the city

55:18 ↗ has you know they're not always the most

55:21 ↗ uh yeah like user friendly or really

55:23 ↗ invocative right in the in especially in

55:25 ↗ the heat of a response you know but

55:26 ↗ something like yeah imagining a person

55:29 ↗ you know is a I think that's a great

55:30 ↗ shortcut to to yeah thinking about

55:33 ↗ others and I'm thinking about even that

55:35 ↗ last image with the mud slide or the

55:37 ↗ land slide you had um so that road was

55:39 ↗ blocked off for a while and so it was

55:41 ↗ detoured but the detour was to get on

55:43 ↗ I90 so what do you do if you're you you

55:47 ↗ use a bicycle or you go how you can't

55:49 ↗ use I90 to get past that the reroute is

55:53 ↗ like five times as long or something

55:57 ↗ right yeah so what you do in

56:00 ↗ circumstance I mean luckily it wasn't

56:02 ↗ for very long but yeah yeah that's all

56:05 ↗ great yeah thank you yeah I know it kind

56:07 ↗ of plays into that response question too

56:09 ↗ that you know not just the trust

56:10 ↗ Partners Network one but I was you know

56:12 ↗ like oh we'll get to that too but like

56:14 ↗ yeah like how do we really you know make

56:15 ↗ sure that Equity is integrated right in

56:18 ↗ our response and yeah ask those

56:20 ↗ questions it's it's hard you know but I

56:22 ↗ think that's a I love that idea of the

56:24 ↗ personas and I'm I'm thinking what you

56:26 ↗ shared with us today is the first part

56:30 ↗ you know of a response right just

56:32 ↗ notifying people of the response and

56:34 ↗ what's it do but like when people have

56:35 ↗ needs and you know things like that so I

56:38 ↗ was part of the the co response the

56:41 ↗ public health response way so I'm like

56:43 ↗ like we know what happened in snow

56:45 ↗ County but we could have also predicted

56:47 ↗ that South King County would be the most

56:48 ↗ impacted because of this intersection

56:51 ↗ around Health income rates yeah and all

56:54 ↗ that but yet we were late to

56:57 ↗ so like how do you anticipate all yeah

56:59 ↗ oh so cool maybe we'll have to trade

57:01 ↗ stories

57:02 ↗ later cool I was just wondering like

57:05 ↗ what is the process to become a

57:07 ↗ volunteer and also do we have like an

57:08 ↗ age restriction no yeah no age

57:10 ↗ restriction yeah so um if you visit that

57:13 ↗ URL there um kingcounty.gov tpn which

57:16 ↗ stands for that trusted Partners Network

57:18 ↗ they have a form there and some more

57:19 ↗ information you know things maybe that I

57:21 ↗ didn't cover but yeah that's the best

57:23 ↗ spot um to sign up and then do you guys

57:26 ↗ have like a social media page o I don't

57:30 ↗ I don't know I know there's like rules

57:31 ↗ and regulations like certain like

57:32 ↗ organizations like under the government

57:34 ↗ like can't create or like I know

57:36 ↗ specific rules but like that could help

57:38 ↗ in like spreading like um information

57:40 ↗ and allowing volunteers to like yeah I

57:43 ↗ think like I know you know for sure we

57:45 ↗ have like just regular government you

57:46 ↗ know random ones but yeah having an

57:48 ↗ individual one I'll float that by yeah

57:51 ↗ by the the King County folks who who

57:52 ↗ manage it to see um they be interest in

57:55 ↗ that that's a great idea like that thank

57:57 ↗ you

57:59 ↗ yeah can I ask a

58:01 ↗ question please so one thing is to

58:04 ↗ become a volunteer I think and the other

58:06 ↗ thing is to become a beneficiary or

58:08 ↗ recipient as a group to be contacted in

58:11 ↗ a micro Community for example and then

58:13 ↗ spread it how does that how does a

58:16 ↗ person get connected or enroll to become

58:19 ↗ a recipient of the information so to be

58:22 ↗ part of that trusted Partners Network

58:25 ↗ yeah here for the this I mean is is that

58:27 ↗ the same thing as being a member um so I

58:30 ↗ think so you ask him like to not be like

58:32 ↗ a volunteer itself but to be someone who

58:33 ↗ like gets contacted by a trusted

58:35 ↗ Partners Network member um yeah honestly

58:39 ↗ it's not really something yeah you

58:42 ↗ enrolling only because it's like that

58:44 ↗ individual's really Community right like

58:46 ↗ whatever like um trying to think what's

58:49 ↗ the best way to put it like so sometimes

58:51 ↗ there there can be like uh WhatsApp you

58:54 ↗ know group chats right full of like you

58:57 ↗ know like Russian speakers or something

58:58 ↗ like that right and so you know if

59:01 ↗ you're already part of that group right

59:03 ↗ then TR a trusted partner Network who's

59:05 ↗ member who's also part of that WhatsApp

59:07 ↗ group would hopefully send the message

59:08 ↗ there right so really it's more just

59:11 ↗ like if you're part of one of those

59:12 ↗ communities you'll hopefully get in

59:14 ↗ contact or you will be contacted by that

59:16 ↗ person but it's not really like yeah oh

59:18 ↗ yeah so okay that is the connection to

59:20 ↗ be a member uhhuh you'll get if you're a

59:22 ↗ member you'll get this this information

59:24 ↗ yeah and potentially in language that

59:26 ↗ you needed yeah okay got it yes to then

59:28 ↗ be able to circulate it or share it with

59:31 ↗ your community ah I see what you're

59:33 ↗ saying yeah yep it's got to be that

59:35 ↗ bridge somebody got to really magnify

59:38 ↗ and replicate this many many microp

59:41 ↗ exactly you got it yeah yeah there's

59:43 ↗ many yeah many like you said we need a

59:45 ↗ lot more than 64 volunteers so

59:48 ↗ yeah yeah so how are you going about

59:52 ↗ telling people and recruiting yeah so um

59:55 ↗ honestly

59:56 ↗ you heard my one and only effort so far

59:58 ↗ which is reaching out to Laura but um

1:00:01 ↗ this whole year is really it's a it's

1:00:02 ↗ going to be a focus of our Emergency

1:00:04 ↗ Management program so um the

1:00:06 ↗ communications team is going to help me

1:00:08 ↗ out um a lot more the public side of

1:00:10 ↗ things but really um yeah hearing about

1:00:13 ↗ the the the Care Coalition I think is

1:00:15 ↗ what yeah nursing Network I got written

1:00:18 ↗ down okay yeah like but that's a that's

1:00:21 ↗ a great you know way that I can yeah

1:00:23 ↗ hopefully get in front of folks you know

1:00:25 ↗ and um oh I have also talked to like

1:00:27 ↗ Stephanie you know at the food bank

1:00:28 ↗ right like they there's all these flyers

1:00:30 ↗ and these pre-made resources too that

1:00:33 ↗ exist out there and so even just like

1:00:35 ↗ putting them you know in the food bank

1:00:36 ↗ right and places where you know

1:00:38 ↗ community members frequent is is another

1:00:40 ↗ way but yeah hopefully you know we're

1:00:42 ↗ going to be we're actually going to

1:00:44 ↗ track the metrics on it and see how

1:00:46 ↗ we're doing you know and see if we can

1:00:48 ↗ get more in in this aot but yeah that's

1:00:51 ↗ the plan so yeah not too much yet but

1:00:53 ↗ more coming there certain netw work is

1:00:56 ↗ very um is really highly regarded right

1:01:00 ↗ I I know people who are in it I know of

1:01:03 ↗ it I have been part of you know actions

1:01:06 ↗ with them oh awesome you know it floods

1:01:08 ↗ down here

1:01:10 ↗ yeah yeah so um it I I just wonder how

1:01:15 ↗ it became so highly regarded and how you

1:01:18 ↗ do the same with this so that it's

1:01:20 ↗ something people want to be a part of

1:01:23 ↗ yeah right yeah and I think that that is

1:01:25 ↗ what they're trying to so like there's

1:01:27 ↗ even um like kind of social get

1:01:28 ↗ togethers with all the the trusted

1:01:30 ↗ partner Network um members I've actually

1:01:33 ↗ never made it to one but I hear they

1:01:34 ↗ really fun like honestly because you

1:01:36 ↗ just get a lot of you know um like

1:01:39 ↗ similar to United people but very

1:01:40 ↗ different people all together right so

1:01:42 ↗ it's like kind of a yeah a rockus party

1:01:45 ↗ it's good to know that that's what you

1:01:46 ↗ that's part of it it's absolutely going

1:01:48 ↗ to be part of success I think that is a

1:01:50 ↗ big reason why the S um program has been

1:01:52 ↗ really successful in this cuse because

1:01:54 ↗ it is like it feels like a community

1:01:56 ↗ for a lot of the members yeah

1:02:00 ↗ definitely so since you guys recruit

1:02:03 ↗ from all ages in high schools they have

1:02:06 ↗ clubs for different communities the

1:02:08 ↗ Korean Club Indian club and I think if

1:02:12 ↗ you recruit MERS from there you can like

1:02:13 ↗ tap into those communities and yeah and

1:02:17 ↗ if you need any help with that I'd be

1:02:18 ↗ happy oh thank you okay great yeah we

1:02:22 ↗ see shaunie's got her hands up shaie

1:02:24 ↗ would you like to comment or questions

1:02:26 ↗ uh just just some thoughts um so uh in

1:02:30 ↗ my experience of working on disaster man

1:02:33 ↗ uh you know um I think the couple of

1:02:35 ↗ things that really worked were to when

1:02:38 ↗ you divide the whole thing into phases

1:02:40 ↗ like preparedness response and

1:02:44 ↗ Rehabilitation and then when you talk

1:02:46 ↗ about partner networks uh mapping

1:02:49 ↗ through that and seeing like which uh

1:02:52 ↗ which bodies actually can feed into

1:02:54 ↗ which part of the management and uh not

1:02:58 ↗ like uh like U you know he just

1:03:01 ↗ mentioned about tapping into high school

1:03:04 ↗ just tapping into nonprofits or

1:03:06 ↗ religious religious organizations can

1:03:08 ↗ always be tricky but um those kind of

1:03:11 ↗ systems that are already there for

1:03:13 ↗ example if I given the Indian Network

1:03:16 ↗ let's just say because I'm close to that

1:03:18 ↗ um if we have a system where we know

1:03:21 ↗ that somebody's registering any seniors

1:03:23 ↗ that are coming into the community uh

1:03:26 ↗ then that takes care of a lot of things

1:03:28 ↗ and you know that's that organization is

1:03:30 ↗ there to take care of a large part of

1:03:33 ↗ that part so um when you say 64 people

1:03:37 ↗ in the network does it only cater to my

1:03:40 ↗ question would be does it only C to

1:03:42 ↗ individuals or can we encourage

1:03:45 ↗ organizations to be uh part of that

1:03:48 ↗ Network that's number one um so

1:03:51 ↗ something something on those lines and

1:03:53 ↗ the um the other thought that was also

1:03:56 ↗ concerning was um you know when there is

1:03:59 ↗ any kind of disaster um one part that

1:04:03 ↗ we've talked about is communication

1:04:04 ↗ which is so important but the other part

1:04:06 ↗ is also to kind of plan ahead and think

1:04:10 ↗ of the things that may be needed right

1:04:13 ↗ in and in the response and to make sure

1:04:15 ↗ that that's where the equity part is um

1:04:19 ↗ is taken care of because some things can

1:04:21 ↗ be easily overlooked um which which uh

1:04:25 ↗ you know which we're not taking um which

1:04:29 ↗ are specific to certain gender or or or

1:04:33 ↗ needs yeah right yeah thank you for that

1:04:36 ↗ yeah I know that's um that's certainly

1:04:39 ↗ an area that we could grow in honestly

1:04:41 ↗ is just our preparedness um yeah it's

1:04:44 ↗ typically it's it's interesting whenever

1:04:46 ↗ we do you know put on certain

1:04:48 ↗ preparedness events we end up getting a

1:04:51 ↗ um a population that looks really like

1:04:53 ↗ mono you know just it tends to be the

1:04:55 ↗ same group over and over again and I

1:04:57 ↗ think that is a huge area that we can

1:04:59 ↗ that we can definitely grow in So yeah

1:05:00 ↗ thank you for that feedback on both

1:05:02 ↗ accounts and for your first question um

1:05:04 ↗ in terms of like Community or like more

1:05:06 ↗ like organizations signing up um that's

1:05:09 ↗ actually something I'm not sure that's

1:05:11 ↗ kind of the first I've heard of that so

1:05:12 ↗ I'll I'll follow up um with like the

1:05:14 ↗ King County folks too to just see if

1:05:16 ↗ that's something um maybe that they have

1:05:19 ↗ like more experience in but I think

1:05:20 ↗ honestly it wouldn't be hard you know

1:05:22 ↗ and and if not maybe what it could just

1:05:25 ↗ look like is just adding all those

1:05:27 ↗ people individually you know into into

1:05:29 ↗ that um list of trusted Partners you

1:05:31 ↗ know and um yeah it may not be like the

1:05:35 ↗ group right but it'd be the indid

1:05:36 ↗ individuals who make up the group

1:05:37 ↗ perhaps so yeah I'll look into that

1:05:39 ↗ though and I can let yeah Dale is that

1:05:42 ↗ way all

1:05:43 ↗ right okay I think we're just about

1:05:46 ↗ wrapping up this topic any last comments

1:05:48 ↗ or questions for

1:05:54 ↗ Jared

1:05:56 ↗ awesome so much appreciate your energy

1:05:59 ↗ commitment to Bringing more Equity into

1:06:02 ↗ this work likewise no thank you all yeah

1:06:04 ↗ I was really excited to come here

1:06:06 ↗ because I got a lot of great nuggets you

1:06:08 ↗ know to take back so yeah thank you um

1:06:12 ↗ rest your Mee

1:06:15 ↗ yeah uh okay well so our next topic is

1:06:19 ↗ the the letter to the mayor and city

1:06:22 ↗ council relate oh to the mayor and city

1:06:24 ↗ council related to Regional events and

1:06:28 ↗ um R didn't uh we didn't plan how we

1:06:31 ↗ were going to cover this but Ray do you

1:06:33 ↗ want to do any kind of

1:06:35 ↗ opening um comments

1:06:38 ↗ setup you go and I'll support

1:06:40 ↗ you I'm

1:06:42 ↗ happy first of all a big thank you to

1:06:44 ↗ Dale for writing this I mean the verbi

1:06:47 ↗ is perfect so she's the one that put it

1:06:50 ↗ together and just um uh fry and I had um

1:06:53 ↗ opportunity to comment and we reached

1:06:55 ↗ out to folks for some feedback um yeah

1:06:59 ↗ um I guess one point of clarification

1:07:02 ↗ here D can I name jurisdictions as I

1:07:04 ↗ discuss the context uh you can just know

1:07:07 ↗ that you're on the record all right okay

1:07:11 ↗ so

1:07:13 ↗ um recently I would say probably in the

1:07:16 ↗ last um six weeks or so there's been a

1:07:22 ↗ couple of new stories about um a a City

1:07:26 ↗ and a neighboring County um so

1:07:28 ↗ neighboring City and a neighboring

1:07:30 ↗ County around remarks by elected

1:07:33 ↗ officials that are uh I guess harmful

1:07:37 ↗ discriminatory and biased against our

1:07:41 ↗ lgbtq plus uh populations as well as our

1:07:46 ↗ uh black um populations and so um this

1:07:51 ↗ happened like so I'll just say so

1:07:54 ↗ Newcastle they um there was objections

1:07:58 ↗ in the city to raising the pride flag

1:08:00 ↗ for

1:08:01 ↗ June um and then there was a County

1:08:05 ↗ council member I believe in Pierce

1:08:07 ↗ County who made remarks about how she

1:08:09 ↗ felt

1:08:11 ↗ uncomfortable um being in the room where

1:08:14 ↗ they had a pride flag on display and

1:08:17 ↗ then um the mayor of Newcastle also made

1:08:19 ↗ remarks about how about like that were

1:08:22 ↗ just against reparations for uh our past

1:08:26 ↗ with enslaved people and also just

1:08:29 ↗ saying you know dismissive remarks about

1:08:31 ↗ how they need to get over it and things

1:08:33 ↗ like that and so it's just really I

1:08:37 ↗ think given our history and the progress

1:08:42 ↗ I know progress is uneven but it seems

1:08:45 ↗ like we're in a moment of tremendous

1:08:48 ↗ backlash and people feeling very

1:08:51 ↗ comfortable to make these statements out

1:08:53 ↗ loud and I think when more folks talk in

1:08:56 ↗ this like um I would say hate hateful

1:09:00 ↗ way it amplifies the hate and the

1:09:04 ↗ actions and and the bias and it also

1:09:06 ↗ makes folks from those communities feel

1:09:08 ↗ less safe where they live and so I think

1:09:11 ↗ because of that we wanted

1:09:13 ↗ to say something that acknowledges it

1:09:17 ↗ and then also tries to make you know a

1:09:21 ↗ move in a positive direction yeah and

1:09:24 ↗ I'll CA

1:09:25 ↗ well um thank you that was uh great TI

1:09:30 ↗ um with the history behind this but I

1:09:32 ↗ think one it uh we have our mayor who

1:09:35 ↗ puts out a picture raising the pride

1:09:37 ↗ flag so we should be very proud of our

1:09:39 ↗ leadership here also our C the council

1:09:41 ↗ members who support us um and then uh

1:09:45 ↗ what we want to use this as an

1:09:48 ↗ opportunity to continue the discussion

1:09:51 ↗ on why we need um an equity impact

1:09:55 ↗ assessment here's an example of

1:09:56 ↗ something that's surfaced in a

1:09:58 ↗ neighboring Community why not do that

1:10:00 ↗ here so we can understand the better uh

1:10:02 ↗ if there's any concerns within the

1:10:04 ↗ residence isqua There's an opportunity

1:10:06 ↗ to do an assessment and hear their

1:10:07 ↗ voices so maybe they're somebody

1:10:10 ↗ thinking this and here's a chance for us

1:10:11 ↗ to dive into our community and just get

1:10:14 ↗ feedback um or they're being too quiet

1:10:16 ↗ or um maybe somebody had an issue with

1:10:18 ↗ mayor Paulie raising the five here and

1:10:20 ↗ we just haven't uncovered it so uh it's

1:10:22 ↗ just a way for us to move that

1:10:24 ↗ discussion forward

1:10:25 ↗ um I think there's a there's a budget

1:10:27 ↗ discussion that needs needs to be

1:10:29 ↗ incorporated in maybe you can elaborate

1:10:30 ↗ a little bit on that so it was good

1:10:31 ↗ timing for us to he's an example of a

1:10:35 ↗ situation that we want to be in a

1:10:36 ↗ position to address should it happen

1:10:39 ↗ here which is why we want an equity

1:10:41 ↗ assessment to her does that make sense

1:10:44 ↗ completely

1:10:46 ↗ okay so with that I don't D do you want

1:10:50 ↗ have any I'll I'll provide a little bit

1:10:51 ↗ of framing for because this group very

1:10:53 ↗ rarely do we have um besides approving

1:10:56 ↗ our minutes very rarely do we vote on

1:10:59 ↗ anything um pry has instructions on how

1:11:02 ↗ to conduct the conversation making a

1:11:05 ↗ motion to approve the letter which

1:11:07 ↗ similar to minutes you sort of make a

1:11:08 ↗ motion to approve you get a second and

1:11:10 ↗ that opens discussion during discussion

1:11:13 ↗ people then can propose amendments and

1:11:15 ↗ there's also some instructions in there

1:11:16 ↗ about how to go about proposing and

1:11:18 ↗ approving amendments in this group

1:11:20 ↗ tonight and I think the the hopeful goal

1:11:23 ↗ is that this group this evening decides

1:11:24 ↗ to approve the letter or not to approve

1:11:28 ↗ the letter um I will make a couple of

1:11:30 ↗ notes or just highlevel meta thoughts on

1:11:34 ↗ this process that I think are important

1:11:36 ↗ so if you if you you are you are welcome

1:11:40 ↗ to take as many edits on this as you'd

1:11:41 ↗ like to but know that the more revision

1:11:44 ↗ that's done the longer this process will

1:11:46 ↗ be the city council um is poised to have

1:11:49 ↗ a budget uh budget related Retreat on

1:11:52 ↗ the 27th Saturday the 27th and so

1:11:55 ↗ they're receiving this letter prior to

1:11:57 ↗ that date uh will probably very

1:11:59 ↗ advantageous for anything that you want

1:12:01 ↗ to sh want to share it also feels timely

1:12:04 ↗ to make sure you know just given the

1:12:05 ↗ Cadence of our meetings these events

1:12:07 ↗ were happening in you know earlyish in

1:12:10 ↗ the month of June um and we're coming to

1:12:12 ↗ them a month later never a bad time to

1:12:15 ↗ write a letter and send a letter but

1:12:16 ↗ just note like if we were to push this

1:12:18 ↗ off to our next meeting that would be

1:12:20 ↗ September we're deep into budget season

1:12:22 ↗ at that point we can make amendments the

1:12:25 ↗ letter in the group today however if

1:12:27 ↗ you're going to recommend pretty

1:12:29 ↗ substantial changes say you there's a

1:12:32 ↗ whole additional paragraph you want to

1:12:33 ↗ add something that would require me to

1:12:36 ↗ take this and kind of come through with

1:12:38 ↗ another draft um that would require

1:12:40 ↗ another meeting so we would have to wait

1:12:42 ↗ until our next meeting um or you may try

1:12:45 ↗ to find a special meeting an additional

1:12:47 ↗ special meeting to gather um though I'd

1:12:49 ↗ warn against uh quum challenges in

1:12:52 ↗ August when potentially this group and

1:12:54 ↗ other groups have been planning to be

1:12:56 ↗ off in August it might be hard to get

1:12:57 ↗ everyone together so those are just the

1:13:01 ↗ meta level here um but that that's sort

1:13:05 ↗ of the instruction for this evening so

1:13:07 ↗ we at some point there would hopefully

1:13:09 ↗ we'll vote um and everyone will get a

1:13:12 ↗ chance to vote and vote in favor of or

1:13:14 ↗ against whatever wherever we land with

1:13:16 ↗ the letter um and that is the Hope for

1:13:19 ↗ this evening you had another thought

1:13:21 ↗ though well I know you spoke to Kelly

1:13:23 ↗ and um to Lorna right was and and I I

1:13:26 ↗ took the um opportunity to speak to

1:13:28 ↗ Canal and and share it with verica so I

1:13:29 ↗ want to make sure our our students here

1:13:32 ↗ um had time to share anything from your

1:13:34 ↗ point yeah I I thought the letter was

1:13:37 ↗ really well it seemed to touch on all

1:13:39 ↗ the bases that I I like to see covered

1:13:42 ↗ and um I just had a quick question yeah

1:13:46 ↗ um about I'm not I'm not sure if this is

1:13:50 ↗ a about the difference between sexual

1:13:53 ↗ orientation and gender identity

1:13:55 ↗ I'm not sure so well educated on the

1:13:58 ↗ topic so you want you'd want that to be

1:13:59 ↗ defined here just for

1:14:03 ↗ clarity yeah for for if possible sexual

1:14:07 ↗ orientation is who um you designate

1:14:10 ↗ yourself as and who

1:14:12 ↗ you might be attracted to General

1:14:14 ↗ identity goes a little bit deeper

1:14:16 ↗ because

1:14:17 ↗ there's um I would call that out as like

1:14:19 ↗ transgender um not knowing your identity

1:14:22 ↗ identity and want to change it upad I

1:14:25 ↗ was not sure if like one could cover the

1:14:27 ↗ other no no yeah lgbtqi Community proba

1:14:31 ↗ wants to keep them separate okay thank

1:14:33 ↗ you yeah I think the letter was really

1:14:36 ↗ well written as well the only thing I

1:14:37 ↗ emailed back to R about was like maybe

1:14:39 ↗ thinking or like we could include like

1:14:41 ↗ just a little bit on like why it's

1:14:43 ↗ important for us to like address this

1:14:45 ↗ matter but I think like this that was

1:14:47 ↗ pretty like State U like not broadly but

1:14:49 ↗ it was stated throughout the whole

1:14:50 ↗ letter and its significance as well um I

1:14:53 ↗ looked over it I don't think there's

1:14:54 ↗ anything we need to to add like I know

1:14:55 ↗ it doesn't go in depth about in dep

1:14:58 ↗ about the like specific thing that event

1:15:00 ↗ that happened which I think is like good

1:15:02 ↗ that we're keeping it um like specific

1:15:05 ↗ on what needs to happen yes

1:15:08 ↗ yeah I have a question about and this is

1:15:12 ↗ actually going to help me understand the

1:15:14 ↗ equity impact assessment which was does

1:15:17 ↗ anyone have any information about the I

1:15:20 ↗ guess similar study that was done about

1:15:23 ↗ climate how that was set up with

1:15:25 ↗ deliverables were and yeah so I will say

1:15:28 ↗ um from the the equity the in the city's

1:15:31 ↗ internal Equity team is currently

1:15:34 ↗ working on getting an idea of what the

1:15:36 ↗ scope of the impact assessment should be

1:15:39 ↗ um So my answer is like no not quite yet

1:15:43 ↗ but we will have more clarity about what

1:15:46 ↗ the process will look like what the the

1:15:49 ↗ action plan that comes out of it will

1:15:50 ↗ look like it will certainly the goal is

1:15:52 ↗ certainly to produce something like the

1:15:54 ↗ ISA climate action plan that

1:15:57 ↗ outlines action steps the city needs to

1:15:59 ↗ take um align to I would imagine

1:16:03 ↗ Community level

1:16:04 ↗ indicators um but also isolates what can

1:16:07 ↗ the city do specifically okay it is

1:16:12 ↗ again they had s we that that that

1:16:14 ↗ internal team had a preliminary

1:16:15 ↗ conversation looking at about 10

1:16:17 ↗ examples of similar assessments from

1:16:19 ↗ other

1:16:20 ↗ jurisdictions um to get an idea of what

1:16:24 ↗ what that scope they want to look like

1:16:25 ↗ and of course the plan is for the

1:16:28 ↗ captains of that team to come back to

1:16:30 ↗ this group in probably November um to

1:16:34 ↗ get the board's input on what the

1:16:36 ↗ assessment should what the scope should

1:16:38 ↗ be um that will go out to bid probably

1:16:41 ↗ for a consultant to lead okay perfect

1:16:43 ↗ you answered my question understood

1:16:45 ↗ thank you so I would add maybe Dale

1:16:47 ↗ something you could pass on to that team

1:16:49 ↗ is um I think it's important not just to

1:16:52 ↗ be you know like look at indicator

1:16:55 ↗ and be quantitatively oriented but also

1:16:58 ↗ have a qualitative element to it so

1:17:00 ↗ which is what we noted here and so that

1:17:02 ↗ might be I don't know if they're

1:17:03 ↗ considering that as the scope but I

1:17:05 ↗ think it would be really that I would

1:17:08 ↗ say is a preview of what I would say if

1:17:11 ↗ they came to us in November I would just

1:17:13 ↗ say right now I can definitely relay

1:17:15 ↗ that absolutely okay um shaie I see your

1:17:19 ↗ hand is raised I don't know if it was

1:17:20 ↗ raised from before or if you have a

1:17:23 ↗ comment or question

1:17:25 ↗ right now uh no it was from before sorry

1:17:29 ↗ about that oh no worries um so I guess

1:17:33 ↗ what maybe I would propose is to see if

1:17:35 ↗ someone would want to make a motion to

1:17:37 ↗ approve and as y all said after someone

1:17:40 ↗ makes a motion and we have a second we

1:17:43 ↗ we can discuss it and discuss if there's

1:17:45 ↗ any concrete amendments or changes we

1:17:48 ↗ would like to make keeping in mind the

1:17:52 ↗ the the more substantial the change the

1:17:55 ↗ less likely we're going to have an

1:17:57 ↗ approved letter before we leave

1:18:00 ↗ today so with that can I see if anyone

1:18:03 ↗ would like to make a motion to approve

1:18:05 ↗ I'd like to make a motion to approve the

1:18:07 ↗ letter as written yeah nice second

1:18:10 ↗ second okay so with that do we have um

1:18:14 ↗ any proposals for amendments edits or

1:18:16 ↗ changes or any lingering questions that

1:18:20 ↗ are coming up for folks

1:18:27 ↗ all right I think does that mean we can

1:18:30 ↗ consider approve you can call a vote uh

1:18:32 ↗ should I call a vote or yeah so we can

1:18:35 ↗ we can just call a vote and and it

1:18:36 ↗ doesn't need to be one person at a time

1:18:38 ↗ we can say all in favor of approving say

1:18:40 ↗ I and then anyone not in favor say nay

1:18:43 ↗ um and then we'll go that will that will

1:18:46 ↗ that will be official and do we have

1:18:48 ↗ Quorum with regular members or we have

1:18:50 ↗ quum with our I mean our alternates are

1:18:52 ↗ serving tonight the only non- voting

1:18:55 ↗ alternate here tonight will be Canal

1:18:56 ↗ because verick is here but we do have

1:18:58 ↗ Quorum across the board and so uh folks

1:19:01 ↗ folks on the um on the the uh on the

1:19:06 ↗ virtual team you can also unmute and say

1:19:10 ↗ your vote and then if you would like to

1:19:12 ↗ type it in the chat you can also do that

1:19:14 ↗ uh just so we have that running record

1:19:17 ↗ but okay well I guess maybe all those in

1:19:21 ↗ favor say I I I

1:19:28 ↗ and all those opposed say

1:19:35 ↗ no the eyes have it right the eyes have

1:19:37 ↗ it okay I guess with that we can

1:19:40 ↗ consider the letter

1:19:42 ↗ approved um thank you rayan yeah yes

1:19:46 ↗ thank you yeah thank you D and Dale yeah

1:19:51 ↗ all I did was uh put some words together

1:19:54 ↗ these two it to me as an issue that that

1:19:56 ↗ this group need they felt this group

1:19:57 ↗ needed to W on and we you had such a

1:19:59 ↗ nice invitation from Council president

1:20:01 ↗ wal yes at your last meeting to make

1:20:03 ↗ sure that you reach out to the council

1:20:05 ↗ and share your thoughts with them and so

1:20:08 ↗ I feel like this is exactly the the

1:20:10 ↗ purpose of this board so excellent

1:20:13 ↗ job um and then Dale can you share like

1:20:16 ↗ next steps yep so next steps um I need

1:20:19 ↗ to confirm with Tisha but the the letter

1:20:22 ↗ will likely come from your your chair

1:20:24 ↗ and our vice chair um and it will be an

1:20:27 ↗ email directly to the mayor um with me

1:20:29 ↗ copied on it so we'll we'll go from

1:20:32 ↗ there and I'll include the isquat equity

1:20:34 ↗ board I will I will recirculate it to

1:20:36 ↗ the board after one of the two of you

1:20:37 ↗ sends it so um stay tuned for

1:20:40 ↗ instructions tomorrow on exactly how to

1:20:42 ↗ do that and then expect a forward update

1:20:44 ↗ to this group and if if we receive um

1:20:47 ↗ responses what we'll make sure that they

1:20:49 ↗ get disseminated back out to the whole

1:20:51 ↗ group great and then is it going to

1:20:54 ↗ Council as well it will go to city

1:20:56 ↗ council and it will also go to Mayor

1:20:58 ↗ Paulie okay if there's anyone else you'd

1:21:01 ↗ like it to go to um we can do that I

1:21:03 ↗ know it's currently addressed to those

1:21:04 ↗ two people so we would just need to

1:21:06 ↗ amend the we need to go back we just

1:21:07 ↗ voted on the letter we would need to

1:21:08 ↗ amend who we'd want to send it to but

1:21:11 ↗ know that if it goes to those two um

1:21:13 ↗ those two groups it will be shared more

1:21:15 ↗ broadly okay um any questions comments

1:21:20 ↗ before we move on to the next topic

1:21:24 ↗ all right well thank you all for

1:21:27 ↗ that um now we have the welcoming week

1:21:30 ↗ table discussion let's

1:21:34 ↗ see welcoming week one of the city's um

1:21:38 ↗ most incredible events honestly from my

1:21:40 ↗ perspective has is coming around again

1:21:43 ↗ um and we've been invited to and i' I've

1:21:48 ↗ talked with your chair and vice chair

1:21:50 ↗ about the potential of the equity board

1:21:52 ↗ having a table at welcoming week one of

1:21:54 ↗ things that this group has talked a lot

1:21:55 ↗ about is int being in intentional places

1:21:58 ↗ where Community is to able to learn and

1:22:00 ↗ hear from them rather than sort of

1:22:02 ↗ sponsoring your own Equity board

1:22:04 ↗ listening session or anything like that

1:22:06 ↗ and welcoming week is a great

1:22:07 ↗ opportunity it's a it's an event the

1:22:09 ↗ city puts on that already really

1:22:10 ↗ encourages folks from all the different

1:22:12 ↗ communities across the city to attend um

1:22:15 ↗ and when you're thinking about some of

1:22:17 ↗ that qualitative um input that uh might

1:22:20 ↗ be helpful in guiding the scope of the

1:22:23 ↗ equity and Fa assessment welcoming could

1:22:26 ↗ be a great opportunity to gather some of

1:22:28 ↗ that input and so I wanted to open it up

1:22:30 ↗ to this group to consider uh I guess the

1:22:32 ↗ primary question is are you interested

1:22:34 ↗ in having a table um the event is

1:22:37 ↗ September 6th from I think it's 5: to

1:22:39 ↗ 8:00 pm right outside this building on

1:22:42 ↗ this community center lawn um so primary

1:22:45 ↗ question is yes no on a table and then

1:22:49 ↗ from there uh I would recommend the

1:22:52 ↗ group consider a smaller sub committee

1:22:56 ↗ that would be interested in working with

1:22:57 ↗ me closely over the course of the month

1:22:59 ↗ of August to put together that table um

1:23:02 ↗ I'll add one additional piece of

1:23:03 ↗ information that could be helpful in

1:23:04 ↗ this discussion um I know that the

1:23:07 ↗ esquad history museum has reached out

1:23:09 ↗ and is interested in supporting in any

1:23:12 ↗ way that they could support um around

1:23:15 ↗ sort of different narratives and

1:23:17 ↗ perspectives they they sort of keep a uh

1:23:20 ↗ they have a Archive of different voices

1:23:23 ↗ of isqua pass

1:23:25 ↗ um and I said I would I would introduce

1:23:27 ↗ that as a potential partner if you're

1:23:28 ↗ interested don't feel pressured this

1:23:30 ↗ table should be what you want it to be

1:23:32 ↗ um but I would be REM Miss if I didn't

1:23:35 ↗ add that

1:23:38 ↗ reason I have question yeah questions

1:23:41 ↗ first I've been to it and it seemed to

1:23:43 ↗ me that it was for the most part made up

1:23:47 ↗ of tables of organizations in the

1:23:49 ↗ community not of the city

1:23:52 ↗ yep and so so that would be something

1:23:56 ↗ for us to be aware of because we will be

1:24:00 ↗ viewed as the city right and the

1:24:03 ↗ questions to us could be very broad so

1:24:07 ↗ it's just something to you know we can

1:24:10 ↗ take advantage of that there's ways to

1:24:12 ↗ take advantage of that but it could also

1:24:15 ↗ be

1:24:17 ↗ um confusing for us as to what we're

1:24:20 ↗ doing here I I totally see what you're

1:24:22 ↗ going like like there's no table for the

1:24:25 ↗ human services department or um for the

1:24:28 ↗ city council members just to have an

1:24:30 ↗ open opportunity for residences to ask

1:24:34 ↗ questions so let's just talk about what

1:24:37 ↗ the purpose of this is are we trying to

1:24:38 ↗ advertise or just inform that the equity

1:24:41 ↗ board exists because we don't want to

1:24:43 ↗ overp things when we're sitting there

1:24:45 ↗ Manning the table that questions that we

1:24:47 ↗ might receive that we don't have answers

1:24:49 ↗ to um I thought Kelly it was just does

1:24:52 ↗ the city even know that an Equity board

1:24:54 ↗ exists that share some of the history

1:24:57 ↗ behind it but don't go too far on any

1:24:59 ↗ specific topic if they have a question

1:25:01 ↗ for us maybe say oh that's a great

1:25:03 ↗ question yeah I help man the equity

1:25:05 ↗ table that's why I know oh you did okay

1:25:08 ↗ it kind of because it was not at at a

1:25:11 ↗ previous event for this Equity board yes

1:25:13 ↗ you manned a table a long time ago with

1:25:15 ↗ Monica a little bit okay A little it was

1:25:19 ↗ I'm we saw each other at that one but it

1:25:21 ↗ was so loose by then I'd walk away

1:25:24 ↗ because it was like I wasn't clear what

1:25:26 ↗ we were doing to be honest so I'm just

1:25:28 ↗ going to say I will weay we need to have

1:25:31 ↗ a purpose which could be uh really

1:25:34 ↗ anything but clar Clarity that's all we

1:25:37 ↗ need yeah I will be there the whole time

1:25:40 ↗ yeah so I I can feel some of those

1:25:42 ↗ questions or to redirect them Council

1:25:44 ↗ won't have let one I also can't confirm

1:25:46 ↗ or deny what other tables exist at this

1:25:49 ↗ Cent stage so this is this is really is

1:25:51 ↗ this group interested in having a table

1:25:54 ↗ in isolation do you feel like you have

1:25:56 ↗ clear enough of a purpose for having a

1:25:58 ↗ table um and then I can follow up with

1:26:01 ↗ Hannah and find out who else will have

1:26:02 ↗ tables Human Services doesn't usually

1:26:04 ↗ have their own table because they're

1:26:05 ↗ running the whole scene yeah um and city

1:26:07 ↗ council members are present usually but

1:26:10 ↗ they're kind of often working the crowd

1:26:12 ↗ a little bit um so you'd want to think

1:26:16 ↗ about what does your table look like

1:26:17 ↗ that delineates that you're not the city

1:26:19 ↗ but you're a board within the city MH

1:26:22 ↗ yeah but great Point very

1:26:31 ↗ Point

1:26:33 ↗ sorry it's only it's three hours um and

1:26:36 ↗ I I actually am questionable with that

1:26:38 ↗ dat so if who would be comfortable

1:26:40 ↗ Manning the table I guess I should ask

1:26:42 ↗ this group and who has the availability

1:26:45 ↗ to do so yeah I'm out of town you are I

1:26:49 ↗ would love to be there to listen and

1:26:50 ↗ learn more but I'm I've not been on this

1:26:53 ↗ board long enough I hear you I would I

1:26:56 ↗ would do it if we knew what we were

1:26:58 ↗ doing yeah so we have to be and talk

1:27:01 ↗ about it right that's what I'm saying

1:27:03 ↗ and I'm available to to do it as well um

1:27:07 ↗ so it sounds like there is enough

1:27:09 ↗ initial interest we might need to

1:27:11 ↗ organize a a working group yeah to to

1:27:15 ↗ plan with more intention the the purpose

1:27:18 ↗ our purpose there and then kind of move

1:27:20 ↗ it forward um which do we want to see

1:27:24 ↗ who would be interested in um I guess

1:27:27 ↗ the folks who are going to be there

1:27:28 ↗ right so maybe that's how we right there

1:27:33 ↗ dale

1:27:35 ↗ pry canol yeah okay now is I I be happy

1:27:41 ↗ to support shaie shaie okay and I think

1:27:45 ↗ that might be that's your number you you

1:27:48 ↗ cannot have more than that okay so uh we

1:27:52 ↗ will do a not to say that others can not

1:27:54 ↗ be part of the table but in terms of

1:27:56 ↗ meeting outside of meeting times you are

1:27:57 ↗ you are out right underneath Quorum yeah

1:28:00 ↗ um right there okay and then I think to

1:28:03 ↗ follow up on the next Point are we

1:28:05 ↗ interested in the history museum

1:28:08 ↗ partnering in some way I will say I kind

1:28:11 ↗ of I'm I'm really intrigued by the idea

1:28:13 ↗ of them having I don't I don't know what

1:28:15 ↗ it would be like vignettes of different

1:28:18 ↗ diverse yeah members of the community

1:28:21 ↗ like historically and their

1:28:22 ↗ contributions that would be kind of the

1:28:23 ↗ love way to set it up that would be a

1:28:26 ↗ great TR in absolutely yeah so I think

1:28:29 ↗ we also have interest in partnering with

1:28:31 ↗ the history museum great next upep um as

1:28:34 ↗ is helpful I will follow with this group

1:28:36 ↗ tomorrow um I'll connect you to Paul um

1:28:41 ↗ winterstein who's the current executive

1:28:43 ↗ director of the museum um a former city

1:28:46 ↗ council member here um and we can go

1:28:50 ↗ from there find a time to connect as a

1:28:52 ↗ group and I guess my invitation is is

1:28:54 ↗ think about um what you feel like the

1:28:57 ↗ purpose could be so weely won't meet

1:29:00 ↗ this week but we'll probably meet

1:29:01 ↗ virtually at some point in the next

1:29:03 ↗ couple of weeks um I'll send it a doodle

1:29:06 ↗ to try to get some Avail idea of

1:29:07 ↗ availability and that that group will

1:29:09 ↗ plan to come to the September meeting

1:29:11 ↗ mere days before the um before the table

1:29:15 ↗ um and share that purpose and see if

1:29:18 ↗ there's anyone else that would like to

1:29:20 ↗ volunteer to to join you at some point

1:29:23 ↗ the to

1:29:25 ↗ that's great any less thoughts related

1:29:28 ↗ to that topic I

1:29:31 ↗ just you know what a great opportunity

1:29:33 ↗ to I

1:29:35 ↗ like to can you record people at these

1:29:37 ↗ events like hey hey hey resident what do

1:29:39 ↗ you what what what is your definition of

1:29:41 ↗ equity just you know and just give their

1:29:43 ↗ feedback can you can can you have that

1:29:46 ↗ opportunity or or just give them a piece

1:29:47 ↗ of paper and as you walk around here can

1:29:50 ↗ you come back in five minutes and say

1:29:51 ↗ what is your how do you define equity

1:29:53 ↗ from your perspective yeah you a big

1:29:55 ↗ bulletin board you know last year they

1:29:56 ↗ had the big bulletin board that was the

1:29:57 ↗ map and you kind of put a pin where

1:29:59 ↗ you're where you're from okay I could

1:30:02 ↗ see something similar it's like a big

1:30:03 ↗ board that says what does equity mean to

1:30:05 ↗ you and give people strips that they can

1:30:08 ↗ post or I think I think it was Canal at

1:30:10 ↗ one of our previous um meetings when the

1:30:14 ↗ park when HTI came to talk about how do

1:30:16 ↗ you get feedback on the park and there

1:30:17 ↗ was like the quick you were like oh yeah

1:30:19 ↗ I'm way more likely to fill out like the

1:30:21 ↗ open response on a Tik Tok than I or an

1:30:23 ↗ Instagram than I am like a big onean

1:30:25 ↗ survey this group could also think about

1:30:28 ↗ a way to

1:30:29 ↗ use yeah way to use social some sort of

1:30:32 ↗ social media to gather data um as well

1:30:35 ↗ so I think there's a lot of potential

1:30:37 ↗ when you're thinking about input and how

1:30:39 ↗ to to hear voices so there are some

1:30:42 ↗ historical voices what are the new

1:30:43 ↗ voices of isqua like there's you know

1:30:46 ↗ like I said in in my conversation with

1:30:48 ↗ PR and Ray I'm I'm I'm going very middle

1:30:50 ↗ school science fair in in my mind around

1:30:53 ↗ the

1:30:54 ↗ but like I think there's a lot of

1:30:56 ↗ potential when you think about some of

1:30:57 ↗ the information you've been eager toar

1:30:59 ↗ more about so that's fantastic yeah

1:31:03 ↗ that's exciting it really is um okay I

1:31:06 ↗ think we might be heading into wrapping

1:31:08 ↗ up early today um yeah we're on to our

1:31:13 ↗ well can I switch and well we can't do

1:31:16 ↗ other business right we cannot do any

1:31:18 ↗ other business today unfortunately okay

1:31:20 ↗ can we do announcements if anyone has

1:31:22 ↗ announcements we cannot cannot

1:31:26 ↗ okay and we need to scratch number seven

1:31:29 ↗ off yeah we should have scratched okay

1:31:31 ↗ just checking okay so our closing

1:31:34 ↗ thought um I haven't come up with a new

1:31:37 ↗ one but I also kind of like leaving with

1:31:40 ↗ that what's one word or feeling you're

1:31:42 ↗ leaving the meeting with and I take a

1:31:45 ↗ volunteer and we'll popcorn it

1:31:48 ↗ around pry so can you repeat the

1:31:51 ↗ question I didn't get it like the

1:31:53 ↗ closing

1:31:55 ↗ what is one word or feeling or phrase

1:31:58 ↗ that you will be leaving this meeting

1:32:01 ↗ with I mean I think I can start mine's

1:32:04 ↗ pretty basic I guess I'm just excited uh

1:32:06 ↗ the emergency alert system was really

1:32:07 ↗ interesting and I'm glad we're like

1:32:09 ↗ sending out this letter and having a

1:32:11 ↗ table so today's been like exciting

1:32:16 ↗ event oh

1:32:19 ↗ um I'm going to mirror you I it was

1:32:22 ↗ exciting meeting I think we're getting

1:32:24 ↗ work and we're getting out

1:32:29 ↗ there oh yes um is Christina still on

1:32:35 ↗ yeah Christina can you hear

1:32:39 ↗ us she may muted to

1:32:43 ↗ moment yes of

1:32:46 ↗ course baby you call him someone else

1:32:49 ↗ yeah uh who else is uh not Sean is Sean

1:32:54 ↗ yes sh um um

1:33:00 ↗ solidarity a good one you want to call

1:33:03 ↗ on someone

1:33:06 ↗ shie from here to see but uh Dale I

1:33:10 ↗ guess I see her in there I'm in here

1:33:14 ↗ um yeah energized

1:33:17 ↗ energized um Leslie gosh all of this

1:33:21 ↗ deception it just it feels incredibly ow

1:33:24 ↗ like we really have a a direction and uh

1:33:28 ↗ the ability to do some impactful work so

1:33:31 ↗ I'm excited too so there's two so

1:33:36 ↗ great Jared for this but curious the

1:33:40 ↗ work he's doing it's so like it's so

1:33:42 ↗ Equity heavy um and I'd love to say

1:33:45 ↗ connected witha his work

1:33:49 ↗ prodes um probably hopeful um the letter

1:33:54 ↗ and for the letter and I'm excited to

1:33:57 ↗ see what the assessment can do and how

1:34:00 ↗ we can build on

1:34:04 ↗ that yeah

1:34:06 ↗ um forward looking I guess like I feel

1:34:10 ↗ like we're we're laying a lot of

1:34:11 ↗ groundwork for some exciting work coming

1:34:13 ↗ up so it's it's exciting forward looking

1:34:17 ↗ and exciting awesome all right okay um

1:34:22 ↗ and I guess with that we're are at the

1:34:23 ↗ end of our agenda Christina oh yes sorry

1:34:26 ↗ Christina yes that's fine no problem I

1:34:30 ↗ just I want to say I'm feeling grateful

1:34:33 ↗ for the great team we have and I am so

1:34:37 ↗ proud of you guys you're are doing a big

1:34:40 ↗ job thank you thank you so much for

1:34:42 ↗ being

1:34:44 ↗ there we're so glad you're back

1:34:46 ↗ Christina yes and I guess Ted as

1:34:49 ↗ honorary member today would you like oh

1:34:52 ↗ yeah she took the words ch

1:34:54 ↗ grateful to U all of you as individuals

1:34:58 ↗ but Equity board is a is an institution

1:35:01 ↗ now here in the city of

1:35:04 ↗ isqua this has come a long way you like

1:35:08 ↗ this this evening being a model how far

1:35:11 ↗ you come your action items today in the

1:35:14 ↗ so I'm

1:35:17 ↗ grateful okay well thank you all for uh

1:35:20 ↗ the engagement this evening and the the

1:35:22 ↗ Lively and conversation and uh the

1:35:26 ↗ exciting agenda topics and so with that

1:35:30 ↗ I adjourn the July 17th uh Equity board

1:35:34 ↗ meeting at 7:37 pm. and our next meeting

1:35:39 ↗ I believe is September 4th and so see

1:35:42 ↗ you all then and I hope you have some

1:35:44 ↗ lovely time away um in the room thank

1:35:49 ↗ you all thank you thank you

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Council / Members (8)

Ray Manahan

Varnika Dokka

Cristina Abonce

Priti Mody-Pan

Leslie Millender-Irwin

Kelly Munn - Alternate

Shani Kapoor – Alternate

Kunal Srivastava - Alternate

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Dale Markey-Crimp, Assistant to the City Administrator

Jared Schneider, Emergency Manager

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Shalanda Fleming

Tony Curry

Karthik Kashinath

Lorna Gilmour

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a) Minutes of June 5, 2024 Regular Meeting were approved unanimously without revision.
The letter was approved unanimously by the Board to be sent to the Mayor and City Council.