Equity Board · Wednesday, December 4, 2024 · City Council Digest

3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of November 6, 2024 Regular Meeting

packet pp.3–5

Open packet at p.3 ↗

Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 11-06-24 Equity Board Minutes Page [0000] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Equity Board 6:00 PM Steelhead Room, 235 1st Ave. November 6, 2024 MINUTES SE, Issaquah

4. CHAIR REPORT

Opening Question Facilitated by: Priti Mody-Pan, Equity Board Chair

10 min

Topics: Equity

5. STAFF REPORT

Updates From November Meeting

Dale Markey-Crimp, Assistant to the City Administrator

6. AGENDA ITEMS

2024 Equity Board Report

Discussion · 30 min · Dale Markey-Crimp, Assistant to the City Administrator · packet pp.7–9

Topics: Equity

▶ Watch from 51:49 Open packet at p.7 ↗

Staff report:

To be published in the Equity Board Year End Report Informational Update to City Council

2025 Work Plan

Discussion · 30 min · Dale Markey-Crimp, Assistant to the City Administrator · packet pp.11–13

▶ Watch from 1:15:26 Open packet at p.11 ↗

Staff report:

APPROVED: [Month Day] REVISED: [Month Day]

7. OTHER BUSINESS / ANNOUNCEMENTS

January Meeting Date

10 min · Dale Markey-Crimp, Assistant to the City Administrator

▶ Watch from 1:39:03

Closing Thought Facilitated by: Priti Mody-Pan, Equity Board Chair

10 min

Topics: Equity

▶ Watch from 1:49:03

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0:03 ↗ we're good to go all right so it's 605

0:06 ↗ and I call the December 4th meeting of

0:09 ↗ the equity board to

0:11 ↗ order um D could I have your assistance

0:14 ↗ with roll call absolutely we have um

0:18 ↗ three excused absences for this evening

0:21 ↗ uh Tony Curry Lura Gilmore and shaie

0:24 ↗ kapor are all excused absences we're

0:27 ↗ still expecting a few other members to

0:28 ↗ show up but it will do roll call really

0:30 ↗ quickly um Ray manahan here Jay Fleming

0:34 ↗ is not currently here ven Kadoka is not

0:37 ↗ currently here pry M pan here carthic

0:40 ↗ kinof here Leslie Melinda Irwin here

0:43 ↗ Kelly M here and canol is also not quite

0:46 ↗ here yet but he is intending to be here

0:48 ↗ as well so we'll welcome them in as they

0:51 ↗ arrive thank you here's one of there all

0:54 ↗ right you're

0:57 ↗ good that the

1:01 ↗ the warmth of Youth right there on

1:03 ↗ display welcome

1:07 ↗ in okay

1:10 ↗ great does he need to stay

1:12 ↗ here to are you here today I am amazing

1:17 ↗ here okay and then um I don't see anyone

1:21 ↗ here and I don't see anyone I don't

1:22 ↗ think anyone was on teams do we have

1:23 ↗ public comments we do not have public

1:26 ↗ comment for this evening and we did not

1:27 ↗ receive any emails since our last

1:28 ↗ meeting directly to to the equity board

1:31 ↗ righty okay on to the approval of

1:34 ↗ minutes how about we take uh two minutes

1:38 ↗ to review the minutes that are in our

1:41 ↗ packets and um I will look for someone

1:44 ↗ to uh make a motion to approve

2:01 ↗ yes

2:13 ↗ okay is team set up on the

2:18 ↗ screen sh notaker over there anymore I

2:22 ↗ remove Shay's not taker um but it is

2:26 ↗ otherwise it'll when Shay joins it'll

2:29 ↗ start

2:30 ↗ it'll show her up there um The View

2:34 ↗ right now that I have just shows us

2:45 ↗ okay the motion to

2:48 ↗ approve do we have a second I'll second

2:51 ↗ all right um any comments Corrections

2:58 ↗ suggestions I will will note the one uh

3:02 ↗ correction that I've seen is on the uh

3:06 ↗ the minutes of the September 4th meeting

3:09 ↗ and is November 16th and I think it it

3:12 ↗ should be October 16th ah it should be

3:15 ↗ thank

3:17 ↗ you all right anyone else just just a

3:21 ↗ question um will we get to look at the

3:25 ↗ the is there a link or something to that

3:28 ↗ you can uh look at the current version

3:30 ↗ in last month's materials but also part

3:34 ↗ of the implementation recommended in the

3:36 ↗ last meeting um will mean that it will

3:38 ↗ be available on the city website um in

3:40 ↗ q1 of the upcoming year so probably

3:44 ↗ February um we want to make sure we'll

3:46 ↗ share more about this in just a moment

3:49 ↗ but

3:54 ↗ yes right any other um questions or

3:58 ↗ suggestions for edit

4:03 ↗ I think with that we can consider it

4:05 ↗ approved

4:08 ↗ okay all right so now we're on to the

4:10 ↗ chair report and so that's the opening

4:14 ↗ question and um this is I have asked R

4:18 ↗ to pause his bomb Cyclone story because

4:21 ↗ the question I have for you all is share

4:24 ↗ something about your bomb Cyclone

4:26 ↗ experience good bad whatever you want to

4:29 ↗ share about

4:32 ↗ it you would like to go um I guess I

4:35 ↗ kind of realized like how bad like

4:37 ↗ samamish and isqu drivers are and

4:39 ↗ knowing how stop signs work nobody knew

4:43 ↗ how aged at the four-way stop signs and

4:45 ↗ the lights out nobody knew how how to

4:47 ↗ navigate that so it's just like it's

4:49 ↗ also like really funny just watching

4:50 ↗ people trying to figure out when to get

4:53 ↗ funny and

4:55 ↗ scary hey ver we're doing H we just

4:58 ↗ started our ice Breer which is share an

5:01 ↗ experience about the your B bomb we'll

5:04 ↗ share something about your bomb Cyclone

5:07 ↗ expence that was a good observation

5:09 ↗ though yeah also you'd like to go

5:13 ↗ next CH so I live up on CER mountain and

5:16 ↗ my primary road to get up there was

5:19 ↗ closed for five days and didn't have

5:22 ↗ power for seven days so um patience is

5:28 ↗ key with these situ ation but you know I

5:30 ↗ took a pause um because we got our power

5:32 ↗ back right for the Thanksgiving holiday

5:34 ↗ and we were expecting guest so that was

5:37 ↗ great down our big event wasn't altered

5:41 ↗ in any way but um uh patience and

5:46 ↗ grateful for the city workers who spent

5:49 ↗ days and hours trying to get us back up

6:00 ↗ he who's

6:01 ↗ next go this is gri but the big 150t do

6:06 ↗ for that's next door home um fell onto

6:11 ↗ the neighbor's home and basically split

6:13 ↗ the

6:15 ↗ home thankfully no one was badly injured

6:18 ↗ they have some glass shorts that their

6:21 ↗ arms but um the house is basically

6:25 ↗ destroyed and I'm sure there's many

6:28 ↗ other Ms that up

6:36 ↗ so I'll go next um I had an opportunity

6:41 ↗ to see a true community in in action at

6:44 ↗ a a Providence Point um it was uh pretty

6:48 ↗ challenging for a lot of uh the seniors

6:50 ↗ that live there it's a 55 and over

6:52 ↗ community and we have a two warming

6:54 ↗ centers and uh it was great to see

6:57 ↗ owners not just congregate in those are

6:59 ↗ but they brought things from their homes

7:01 ↗ so um someone had a lasagna someone had

7:04 ↗ like a makings for suit or whatever it

7:06 ↗ was but everyone brought things from

7:08 ↗ their homes and they just were so open

7:10 ↗ and willing to share it with their

7:12 ↗ neighbors and so it was just I kind of

7:14 ↗ stepped back and just watched everyone

7:16 ↗ just really loving each other and just

7:18 ↗ you know say it's okay we're here for

7:19 ↗ each other no matter what doing puzzles

7:22 ↗ reading charging phones or whatever so I

7:24 ↗ just saw community in the making and I

7:26 ↗ was I was pretty heartened to see that

7:28 ↗ uh that you know know the belly aching

7:30 ↗ about I don't have electricity or

7:32 ↗ whatever and we just have people just

7:33 ↗ surrounding each other and giving

7:35 ↗ comfort so was nice to

7:37 ↗ see lesie I'll go after you because

7:40 ↗ mine's similar uh we went for like a

7:42 ↗ two-hour walk after because what what

7:44 ↗ else was there to do and um it was

7:47 ↗ amazing to see the number of people

7:49 ↗ anybody who owned a

7:52 ↗ uh know sry I can't get what you call it

7:55 ↗ you know anything that could break the

7:57 ↗ limbs off trees there anybody who the

8:01 ↗ people who couldn't were um dragging

8:04 ↗ limbs away so it's not in the walkway

8:06 ↗ and and we're and the city's everywhere

8:08 ↗ they can be but these are regular people

8:10 ↗ these are my neighbors and people I

8:12 ↗ don't know who are just clearing just

8:14 ↗ clearing it so it's not impassible at in

8:18 ↗ some cases and just not dangerous in

8:20 ↗ other cases it was incredible it was

8:23 ↗ just incredible to see the number of

8:24 ↗ people I didn't you know very few people

8:26 ↗ were just walking we we were but we were

8:29 ↗ moving things over you know just limbs

8:32 ↗ right and so it was just heartwarming

8:36 ↗ and then um a senior center opened up

8:39 ↗ which is awesome I live right next to it

8:40 ↗ my husband charged his phone there um

8:43 ↗ and I had a request and that is can we

8:45 ↗ get the text when those texts go out

8:48 ↗ there's a text that went out that said

8:50 ↗ the senior Center's open and I forwarded

8:53 ↗ it to groups that I knew of but I

8:55 ↗ thought oh we could get that text and we

8:59 ↗ like you definitely could I didn't get

9:00 ↗ that yeah there's a Tex I got it yeah

9:04 ↗ I'll I'll find out

9:07 ↗ yeah yeah growing the distribution left

9:10 ↗ s like a great idea well I'm just

9:11 ↗ wondering if yes it's I I'll

9:19 ↗ addrow I guess we got back ours like

9:23 ↗ after six days so it was quite a long

9:26 ↗ time but I still had school so I went to

9:28 ↗ school and then my family just went to

9:30 ↗ work so like the only time we were at

9:32 ↗ home was like sleeping time but I guess

9:34 ↗ like my favorite memory was we have a

9:36 ↗ gas stove so my mom l it up and we just

9:38 ↗ made pasta together which was

9:41 ↗ yeah when I go next because mine's

9:43 ↗ related and so we lost power for I think

9:46 ↗ over five days and so around two and a

9:49 ↗ half days and we lost hope in our fridge

9:52 ↗ right so we're like okay open the doors

9:55 ↗ what do we want to eat and so like

9:57 ↗ everyone kind of grabbed some random

9:58 ↗ stuff so we had um like ravioli and BR

10:02 ↗ worst and um we're all cooking with in

10:04 ↗ front of our guest with headlamps on and

10:07 ↗ my son said this is an awesome memory so

10:10 ↗ I was just like oh there's something

10:11 ↗ good about like yeah and so we had a

10:13 ↗ couple of meals like that just cooking

10:14 ↗ with headlamps

10:16 ↗ on oh that's

10:18 ↗ delightful um I was part of the

10:22 ↗ emergency Operation Center that got

10:24 ↗ activated for this emergency um I don't

10:27 ↗ live in the city of isquat or the city

10:29 ↗ of samamish um and was one of those

10:31 ↗ people that was driving in from Seattle

10:33 ↗ as everyone else seemed to be fleeing

10:35 ↗ every day to charge their electric

10:37 ↗ vehicles and go to work and charge all

10:39 ↗ their devices um but got to be part of

10:42 ↗ standing up both of our both of our

10:43 ↗ resilience have our warming centers uh

10:46 ↗ charging centers and it was just a

10:48 ↗ really one I think you know David Rey

10:51 ↗ came and spoke to us like earlier this

10:54 ↗ year about this idea of Brazilian hubs

10:57 ↗ he and J Jared came and spoke to us

10:58 ↗ about emergency activation um and even

11:02 ↗ though we've had those

11:03 ↗ conversations the planning for those

11:05 ↗ things is still very nent and to see in

11:10 ↗ a lot of ways what we were hoping for

11:12 ↗ not what we were completely hoping for

11:13 ↗ in the in the largest activation that we

11:15 ↗ would activate like but seeing seeds of

11:18 ↗ those the conversations with boards and

11:21 ↗ commissions and as a staff about what

11:22 ↗ we'd like to be able to activate in an

11:25 ↗ emergency it was just really cool to see

11:27 ↗ that happen um and to be a ble to be as

11:30 ↗ Nimble as we could um I think so so so

11:33 ↗ often in the past what the the city

11:36 ↗ would do would would be a lot of that

11:38 ↗ public work staff Park staff getting the

11:40 ↗ trees out of the road but we haven't

11:42 ↗ often activated a a sort of people

11:45 ↗ facing uh program in any way so that was

11:48 ↗ really cool to see that happen it was a

11:49 ↗ really Scrappy situation anyone that was

11:51 ↗ at the senior center uh that saw the

11:53 ↗ like chains of plugs uh that were that I

11:57 ↗ had to go and buy and then we kind of

11:58 ↗ had to talk to facil to make sure like

12:00 ↗ okay is can the senior center actually

12:02 ↗ deal with all these things being plugged

12:04 ↗ in and we told people small electronics

12:06 ↗ but we got all sorts of things plugged

12:08 ↗ in um in including a Pickering bar we

12:11 ↗ had got all sorts of things plugged in

12:13 ↗ when we activated that location um but

12:16 ↗ just really um there was a lot to learn

12:19 ↗ we're having our debrief our first de

12:21 ↗ first debrief uh tomorrow actually uh

12:24 ↗ but just really cool to see

12:27 ↗ it start to happen lots of Lessons

12:30 ↗ Learned but really excited that we could

12:32 ↗ provide emergency response um and not

12:35 ↗ just be focused ultimately on where we

12:36 ↗ are now which is recovery so it was

12:39 ↗ amazing yeah really

12:43 ↗ cool I think everyone went all right

12:46 ↗ Dale over to you I think for updates

12:50 ↗ that indeed indeed so I'm G to provide

12:52 ↗ two um two pieces of update as you know

12:55 ↗ this section we've added it in for this

12:57 ↗ year specifically to make sure that

13:00 ↗ um we're coming back the administration

13:02 ↗ is coming back to the board to talk

13:04 ↗ about the impact of last meetings

13:07 ↗ discussion the impact that that's now

13:09 ↗ had and continuing to have um and then I

13:11 ↗ want to give a little bit of a brief

13:14 ↗ update on just the emergency response

13:16 ↗ because I think um I think that would be

13:18 ↗ good to just share a little bit here

13:19 ↗ about that um and we'll take any

13:21 ↗ questions too um so we had three main

13:24 ↗ items at our last meeting uh we reviewed

13:26 ↗ the culture and religious calendar for

13:28 ↗ the upcoming year

13:29 ↗ um that has

13:31 ↗ now passed and has been taken into

13:34 ↗ account by city council it passed at

13:35 ↗ City Council on Monday night and has

13:38 ↗ been um adopted for the year so all of

13:40 ↗ the City Council meetings board and

13:41 ↗ commission meetings Council committee

13:43 ↗ meetings um will be planned around the

13:45 ↗ dates that you all affirmed um at our

13:47 ↗ previous meeting the deib glossery um

13:51 ↗ went back to the internal Equity team um

13:53 ↗ our subcommittee presented our plan for

13:55 ↗ implementation with some of the

13:56 ↗ suggestions that the equity board

13:58 ↗ recommend

13:59 ↗ um and so we will be coming back that

14:01 ↗ sub committee will come back to the

14:03 ↗ equity board mid year um to give an

14:05 ↗ update on implementation so they're

14:07 ↗ really excited to do that um and we'll

14:09 ↗ bring with us what information what

14:11 ↗ information and data on progress we can

14:13 ↗ I think we had a really robust

14:14 ↗ conversation about how are we going to

14:16 ↗ know if it's being used and what's the

14:18 ↗ purpose and um but we'll come definitely

14:21 ↗ with some information about who the

14:24 ↗ glossery has reached um and likely

14:27 ↗ building on just the lunch and learn

14:28 ↗ plan there was Al a recommendation to

14:30 ↗ actually go to each work group um and

14:32 ↗ talk with each workg group about the

14:34 ↗ glossery and so that was added on um

14:37 ↗ after the discussion we had last month

14:39 ↗ the last thing that we talked about last

14:41 ↗ month was the school zone safety camera

14:43 ↗ Equity impact assessment um the topic of

14:46 ↗ school Z safety cameras went to the city

14:47 ↗ council on

14:50 ↗ November 25th I want to say was the date

14:53 ↗ the date could be wrong but the the

14:55 ↗ Monday prior to the Thanksgiving holiday

14:58 ↗ um

14:59 ↗ um

15:01 ↗ honestly most exciting council meeting

15:04 ↗ um that I presented at um it was a

15:07 ↗ really robust conversation if you want

15:09 ↗ to see local governance in action highly

15:12 ↗ recommend going and watching the

15:13 ↗ recording um the administration was

15:15 ↗ making the recommendation for one school

15:17 ↗ zone Lo New School Zone location on

15:19 ↗ Newport Way next to esquad Valley

15:21 ↗ Elementary um at one point there was it

15:25 ↗ seemed like the council was going to

15:26 ↗ vote for both locations um they ended up

15:29 ↗ Landing in a place where um we're moving

15:32 ↗ forward with the ISA Valley elementary

15:34 ↗ site and they recalled the Grand Ridge

15:37 ↗ site to um Council committee and the

15:41 ↗ main concern they have over that

15:42 ↗ location uh ended up being the the

15:45 ↗ rapidity with which it can be

15:47 ↗ implemented so the administration

15:49 ↗ recommended an alternative simply to do

15:51 ↗ a staff capacity which is one of the

15:54 ↗ concerns called out in the equity impact

15:56 ↗ assessment uh that standing up two new

15:58 ↗ school's Z sites at the same time would

16:01 ↗ be very difficult for staff to manage

16:04 ↗ and actually likely would need something

16:06 ↗ between 12 and 18 months time to recover

16:10 ↗ from what is anticipated to be the first

16:12 ↗ bump in violations and citation

16:14 ↗ processing from one new location to then

16:16 ↗ an additional new location and so the

16:18 ↗ council committee wanted to hear more

16:20 ↗ about why it was going to take exactly

16:22 ↗ that long and so we'll be going back to

16:24 ↗ committee uh with staff from the police

16:27 ↗ department and the municipal Court to

16:29 ↗ talk more about those limitations so

16:31 ↗ they're still considering considering

16:32 ↗ the second loation they just wanted more

16:34 ↗ information on why it would take as long

16:37 ↗ um given our staff capacity to implement

16:39 ↗ so um I will add the equity impact

16:42 ↗ assessment was well regarded by the

16:44 ↗ council they took the data in there

16:46 ↗ seriously um and recommended that you

16:50 ↗ know especially the opportunities that

16:51 ↗ are mentioned in there that those be a

16:53 ↗ serious part of implementation one of

16:55 ↗ the biggest things that they insisted on

16:58 ↗ and that I'm excited about I think this

16:59 ↗ group will be excited about as well um

17:01 ↗ is is a pretty robust annual report on

17:05 ↗ not just the efficacy of the camera in

17:07 ↗ terms of um reducing the incidence of

17:10 ↗ speeding in the zone but also the impact

17:12 ↗ on the community um and so we'll be

17:15 ↗ using guidance from the state on what

17:17 ↗ that annual reporting looks like uh but

17:19 ↗ that came out of a recommendation out of

17:21 ↗ the equity impact assessment and is

17:23 ↗ something that the council adopted as

17:25 ↗ part of the new camera location so that

17:28 ↗ is my update on those three items I'll

17:31 ↗ pause there in Cas there any like

17:32 ↗ followup

17:35 ↗ questions not a question but kudos to

17:38 ↗ you for writing up the yeah absolutely

17:42 ↗ turns out when your item gets bumped out

17:43 ↗ a month you have time to do a little bit

17:45 ↗ more work which is great advantageous

17:48 ↗ for me um the other thing I just wanted

17:50 ↗ to provide a quick update on for this

17:52 ↗ group um and we've already kind of

17:53 ↗ started to talk about it and I think

17:55 ↗ have different levels of maybe awareness

17:57 ↗ or sight into this City's actions during

18:00 ↗ the response to the wind event um I

18:03 ↗ think one thing I wanted to make sure to

18:04 ↗ talk to this group about was the

18:06 ↗ activation of our two uh resilience hubs

18:09 ↗ uh which we called warming and charging

18:11 ↗ centers because we wanted the the we

18:14 ↗ wanted the labeling of them to be

18:16 ↗ accessible to people we were like I

18:17 ↗ don't know if anyone's going to know

18:18 ↗ what a resilience they certainly know

18:20 ↗ what a warming and charging Center is um

18:22 ↗ so the city was able to on on Wednesday

18:26 ↗ um make a plan to activate those

18:28 ↗ locations

18:29 ↗ um again I think speaking to the ncy of

18:32 ↗ this even being a thing the city does um

18:35 ↗ but open a location at the senior center

18:37 ↗ on Thursday and that location was open

18:39 ↗ through the weekend um and opened a

18:41 ↗ location at Pickering barn on Friday and

18:43 ↗ it was also open on Saturday um and so

18:47 ↗ and on Saturday I think notable the city

18:49 ↗ had planned to have a a Winter Market um

18:53 ↗ made the choice I think wisely to cancel

18:55 ↗ that Winter Market but also encouraged

18:57 ↗ our food truck vendors who were playing

18:59 ↗ to come to that Winter Market to still

19:00 ↗ come um and provide the opportunity for

19:03 ↗ folks to come and buy hot meals um

19:06 ↗ really the focus of both locations was

19:09 ↗ on um I would say inclusive snacks and

19:13 ↗ beverages um we wanted to make sure that

19:15 ↗ the snacks we offered were uh we had

19:18 ↗ something for every dietary restriction

19:20 ↗ that was a big um I think a big learning

19:23 ↗ and I think one of the questions I think

19:24 ↗ when David and Jared come back to talk

19:26 ↗ about resilience hubs again in the new

19:27 ↗ year um I think there are some good

19:30 ↗ Lessons Learned and I'm hoping they'll

19:31 ↗ share around some of our food decisions

19:33 ↗ and how those may or may not have um

19:36 ↗ provided maybe a um inclusive food for

19:40 ↗ everyone um especially when it came to

19:43 ↗ some serving of hot food um that then

19:45 ↗ quickly became clear that not everyone

19:47 ↗ could eat the hot food that was being

19:48 ↗ served because of dietary restrictions

19:50 ↗ um I think on the whole the resilience

19:52 ↗ hubs were really well received and I

19:54 ↗ think provided much needed support I

19:56 ↗ think the city is thinking about and

19:58 ↗ will'll be reflecting on you know did we

20:00 ↗ activate quickly enough did we activate

20:02 ↗ enough um should we have activated both

20:05 ↗ sites at the same time and of course

20:07 ↗ while this was a devastating uh storm we

20:10 ↗ also know that in many ways this is far

20:12 ↗ from what could be an even more

20:14 ↗ devastating event in the future um and

20:17 ↗ learned a lot about how ready we were

20:19 ↗ compared to some of our partners which I

20:20 ↗ think was encouraging um but that we

20:23 ↗ could we need to be even more ready um

20:27 ↗ there are a lot of other things I could

20:28 ↗ share we're currently we've transitioned

20:30 ↗ from response to recovery so we're now

20:32 ↗ in recovery mode um we're still engaged

20:36 ↗ in debris cleanup um there is a a final

20:39 ↗ debris um collection happening at tibits

20:42 ↗ Manor uh this coming Sunday and it's

20:44 ↗ that's the third of those events um and

20:47 ↗ also exploring opportunities for um pick

20:51 ↗ sort of curbside pickup with Recology

20:54 ↗ another thing that happened on Monday

20:55 ↗ night that I thought this group in

20:56 ↗ particular would be interested in

20:58 ↗ hearing about out the city council um

21:01 ↗ adopted an ordinance allowing for the

21:04 ↗ waving of permit fees um for individuals

21:08 ↗ at or below 80% area median income um we

21:12 ↗ wanted to reduce as many barriers to uh

21:15 ↗ to folks getting what they need to get

21:18 ↗ say trees off of their houses especially

21:20 ↗ if we know um they they might have a

21:23 ↗ financial uh barrier to doing that and

21:25 ↗ so that was adopted by City Council on

21:27 ↗ Monday night and will go into and goes

21:29 ↗ into effect immediately uh that means

21:32 ↗ you know when you're applying for a

21:33 ↗ permit to get a tree pulled off of your

21:34 ↗ house or something like that uh we're

21:36 ↗ going to try to make the process as

21:37 ↗ straightforward as possible um

21:40 ↗ originally the language was for 50% Ami

21:43 ↗ uh which

21:44 ↗ is often used because 50% is used by a

21:49 ↗ lot of other um organizations you know

21:52 ↗ it's your your or your reduced fee Ora

21:54 ↗ card you're able to really quickly

21:56 ↗ without having to share any additional

21:57 ↗ sort of taxes information demonstrate

21:59 ↗ that I qualify for this um the challenge

22:03 ↗ that the council insisted on raising

22:04 ↗ that to 80% that's really excellent but

22:08 ↗ it also provides a real challenge when

22:10 ↗ it comes to the city being able to very

22:12 ↗ quickly in a streamline way Val validate

22:14 ↗ that that's the case um our our

22:17 ↗ inspectors have been out and about

22:19 ↗ though and so they have already have a

22:21 ↗ pretty good sense of what buildings are

22:23 ↗ likely going to qualify for this um or

22:25 ↗ even it although the destruction has

22:27 ↗ been pretty

22:29 ↗ spread um there are I think two

22:32 ↗ buildings that have red tags which means

22:34 ↗ there's like significant damage no one

22:36 ↗ can be inside the building um six no

22:39 ↗ eight eight with yellow tags which is

22:41 ↗ unsafe to be in parts of the building um

22:44 ↗ and so those will be the the primary

22:46 ↗ residences that will be or buildings

22:48 ↗ that will be looked at first um but yeah

22:51 ↗ that fee waver was really exciting and

22:52 ↗ then there will be fee deferrals for any

22:55 ↗ um Family making above that income level

22:57 ↗ so we're in recovery mode uh we're in

23:00 ↗ debris cleanup mode um we also as a city

23:03 ↗ are in the process of really taking

23:05 ↗ stock in the damage to public spaces um

23:08 ↗ and really being able to quantify that

23:10 ↗ so that we can qualify for

23:12 ↗ reimbursement um I think it's safe to

23:15 ↗ say we are much further from our tree

23:17 ↗ canopy goals than we were a couple of

23:18 ↗ weeks ago um but getting a sense of

23:21 ↗ exactly what the impact of that has been

23:23 ↗ as well so um all of our teams are still

23:26 ↗ meeting every other day uh to discuss

23:28 ↗ recovery efforts and so that'll be

23:30 ↗ ongoing over the next few

23:31 ↗ months and that's the like General

23:34 ↗ update but I'd be happy to answer any

23:35 ↗ questions that folks have so for the red

23:39 ↗ tag and yellow tag are these for City

23:40 ↗ buildings or just buildings no these are

23:42 ↗ private property owned buildings um the

23:45 ↗ city building that was the most impacted

23:47 ↗ by this storm is actually this building

23:49 ↗ um which had its roof ripped off not the

23:52 ↗ full roof but like all the shingles came

23:54 ↗ off in a good layer from right above us

23:56 ↗ so it's perhaps unsurprising that the

23:59 ↗ technology did not work today um when I

24:02 ↗ first was alerted to that in this

24:04 ↗ building but they got it reshingled

24:06 ↗ really quickly um which was great um the

24:09 ↗ rest of the city buildings were

24:11 ↗ miraculously um pretty unharmed a lot of

24:14 ↗ our infrastructure had impacts on it um

24:16 ↗ a few of our uh water pumps and Sewer

24:18 ↗ pumps um but we were able to the city

24:21 ↗ has a lot of really old looking

24:23 ↗ generators that we were able to really

24:25 ↗ quickly um make sure we kept all that

24:27 ↗ infrastructure online

24:29 ↗ thank you and that was my question so um

24:32 ↗ piing barn and the C work we were able

24:35 ↗ to offer that but they were running on

24:37 ↗ generators they were running on

24:38 ↗ generators time it is it is a lot of

24:41 ↗ time it required a lot of I think really

24:44 ↗ our fleet manager is perhaps one of has

24:47 ↗ one of the coolest heads in an emergency

24:48 ↗ of anyone I've ever seen I I always kind

24:51 ↗ of knew this about him that he was an

24:52 ↗ action guy but um he was able to

24:54 ↗ mobilize uh th those larger generators

24:57 ↗ very quickly um a number of our

24:59 ↗ buildings also permanently have

25:00 ↗ generators you know like we our Public

25:02 ↗ Works building our city hall you know

25:04 ↗ they're equipped for that um but we do

25:06 ↗ have a number of mobile generators that

25:07 ↗ we able to to come and with some with

25:10 ↗ some uh replacement of some spark plugs

25:13 ↗ quickly get some buildings um online

25:17 ↗ yeah other

25:21 ↗ questions awesome I would add that it's

25:25 ↗ not just a warming and charging place

25:29 ↗ but it's a community place because I

25:31 ↗ know many people who went there because

25:35 ↗ they live alone Y and they just wanted

25:38 ↗ someone to talk to because now it's day

25:40 ↗ three yeah day one you could go outside

25:42 ↗ and see people day three they're alone

25:45 ↗ with

25:45 ↗ nothing it was a very impactful to my

25:49 ↗ community oh they truly are resilience

25:52 ↗ Subs I think I at one point we'll all

25:54 ↗ get we'll get the lingo we'll all we'll

25:56 ↗ all understand what that means um um

25:59 ↗ yeah that was definitely the case I mean

26:01 ↗ I I saw it in both locations Senior

26:03 ↗ Center was packed to the gills yes I I

26:06 ↗ looked around and I was like I think I

26:07 ↗ need to remove myself from the space we

26:08 ↗ are certainly over capacity here yeah um

26:11 ↗ but even Pickering Barn you could tell

26:12 ↗ I'm in a much more open space but we had

26:14 ↗ you know we had Disney Plus movies set

26:16 ↗ up in streaming for kids and uh people

26:19 ↗ were there doing everything from their

26:20 ↗ literal jobs remotely on computers to

26:24 ↗ you know just doing some of the chores

26:26 ↗ that they would have done at home that

26:27 ↗ they needed to do in Place yeah so it's

26:30 ↗ awesome because it was amazingly fast I

26:32 ↗ know it what is Right weren't quite

26:34 ↗ prepared you know I was the only one

26:36 ↗ buying H power power strips at Fred's I

26:39 ↗ gota say that I had my choice no one

26:41 ↗ else power strips in a chainsaws

26:50 ↗ yeah great well I'll provide um an

26:54 ↗ update monthly about where things are at

26:56 ↗ um and please don't hesitate to reach

26:58 ↗ out in between if you've got any

26:59 ↗ questions um you know I'd love to think

27:02 ↗ about I think Kelly your question around

27:04 ↗ the text that went out um I have a

27:06 ↗ feeling it was actually it was not city

27:08 ↗ started but it was sech started um but I

27:11 ↗ think there is a good question on sort

27:13 ↗ of how do we how do we continue to um

27:17 ↗ multiply that the impact of you know

27:20 ↗ we've got 30 C members or so um who

27:23 ↗ started those texts within their Network

27:25 ↗ it had language accommodation and

27:28 ↗ yep it just made me think that all the

27:30 ↗ Commissioners should be on yeah I that's

27:32 ↗ a great

27:33 ↗ idea awesome just that raises the

27:37 ↗ question for me when you have a power

27:39 ↗ outage and so people don't have Wi-Fi

27:41 ↗ and internet is super spotty how do you

27:44 ↗ get a hold of people oh yes like and

27:48 ↗ this is a thing that we had to quickly

27:50 ↗ consider um so our com team clearly was

27:52 ↗ using our socials as much as possible

27:54 ↗ but we also went very old school with

27:56 ↗ some flyers and so we utilized you know

27:59 ↗ one of the things that the city uses

28:00 ↗ especially when we're having um when we

28:03 ↗ have any sort of uh like right now

28:05 ↗ there's the the construction happening

28:07 ↗ on The Pedestrian Park um over right off

28:10 ↗ of Front Street um we have these big

28:13 ↗ billboard sandwich boards that sort of

28:14 ↗ say like it's where we post like here's

28:16 ↗ what's going on here we use those pretty

28:19 ↗ liberally in a number of what we

28:21 ↗ consider to be main thorough fairs and

28:22 ↗ places that we also expected people to

28:24 ↗ be walking um and also had um Flyers

28:27 ↗ that are our C members who were going

28:29 ↗ around to different parts of the city

28:31 ↗ grocery stores Etc hand out um we were

28:35 ↗ really lucky to get we have a close

28:36 ↗ partnership um with the circle um and so

28:39 ↗ we had um Alicia was very was able to

28:41 ↗ very quickly translate um for us because

28:44 ↗ we also were having trouble getting in

28:46 ↗ touch with the services we use for

28:47 ↗ translation and so we were able to get

28:49 ↗ some quick translation from her um at

28:51 ↗ least to get things into Spanish um

28:53 ↗ knowing that when you look at

28:55 ↗ demographically linguistically the the

28:58 ↗ community in our in our city that

29:01 ↗ doesn't speak English as a primary

29:03 ↗ language and speaks English the least

29:05 ↗ well um it is Spanish speakers and so we

29:07 ↗ knew that was our biggest priority so I

29:10 ↗ think leveraging our Partnerships um but

29:12 ↗ also like good old fashioned paper um

29:15 ↗ was a thing that we used uh quickly with

29:17 ↗ it we realized very quickly on Tuesday

29:20 ↗ that it wasn't going to be just a full

29:22 ↗ core press to phones and whatnot yeah

29:29 ↗ awesome end of Staff report okay the

29:33 ↗ Dale show again so uh the equity board

29:36 ↗ reports yes the the lovely thing on

29:39 ↗ tonight's agenda we have two items um

29:41 ↗ discussion of our Equity board report

29:43 ↗ for the year on the 2024 report and then

29:46 ↗ and a discussion of our 2025 draft work

29:48 ↗ plan and so while it seems like the Dale

29:50 ↗ show it's actually going to be the

29:52 ↗ equity board discussion show and I'm

29:53 ↗ going to take notes um and so I'm I'm

29:56 ↗ hopeful that we'll spend a certain

29:58 ↗ amount of time maybe 20 minutes or so on

30:00 ↗ this first item and then about 30

30:02 ↗ minutes or so on the next item but

30:04 ↗ really the purpose of tonight is to give

30:06 ↗ feedback and input we're not um voting

30:08 ↗ on or adopting anything tonight what

30:10 ↗ I'll do with tonight's uh discussion is

30:12 ↗ I'll take that um that feedback and I'll

30:15 ↗ implement it into both documents and in

30:17 ↗ January when We Gather again um we will

30:21 ↗ um move to adopt both documents that

30:23 ↗ evening so this is just meant to be open

30:26 ↗ discussion but we'll start with

30:28 ↗ um the board report so I hand it back

30:31 ↗ over to you to facilitate okay so I

30:36 ↗ think have have folks to read the the

30:39 ↗ draft

30:40 ↗ report yes yeah okay or do we need like

30:44 ↗ a couple minutes a couple minutes okay

30:47 ↗ and one thing I'll just maybe give you a

30:49 ↗ prompt as you all kind of Refresh on

30:51 ↗ this is you know as you read the 2024

30:54 ↗ draft report I I want you all to be

30:57 ↗ thinking about what do you think is the

31:00 ↗ equity board's Zone like what have we

31:02 ↗ been doing well where have we made the

31:04 ↗ most impact and then also think about is

31:07 ↗ that where we want to be making the most

31:08 ↗ impact so we can think about that those

31:11 ↗ types of questions as we go into our

31:13 ↗ 2020 five work plan

31:17 ↗ conversation yes and I left that comment

31:19 ↗ in so we would not forget to

31:23 ↗ discuss give it about three minutes yeah

31:56 ↗ for

32:26 ↗ e

32:56 ↗ e

33:26 ↗ e

33:56 ↗ e e

34:28 ↗ FKS feeling like they're in a good

34:30 ↗ place

34:32 ↗ okay um so maybe before we jump into

34:35 ↗ that meteor question um is there

34:38 ↗ anything that feels like it's missing

34:40 ↗ from here that you think we accomplished

34:43 ↗ in the past year and I also want to

34:47 ↗ thank Dale for drafting this

34:52 ↗ up anything missing

35:11 ↗ would it be appropriate to say that we

35:12 ↗ had turnaround in this team we have two

35:15 ↗ new members and two that left is that

35:17 ↗ something that's important that we've

35:19 ↗ been able to fill those seats and um I

35:22 ↗ don't know terms are expiring this year

35:24 ↗ but it takes effort to do that because

35:26 ↗ we had to interview folks yeah we

35:28 ↗ forunate to get new members on I think

35:30 ↗ we could definitely talk about welcoming

35:31 ↗ new members

35:33 ↗ yeah I'll add that to the um this top

35:37 ↗ part the top part

35:42 ↗ yeah and we added the concept of

35:45 ↗ mentoring at least a bit yeah yeah as an

35:49 ↗ ad an important ad you know I hadn't

35:52 ↗ thought about this but I also um I do

35:55 ↗ think some of our new routines are also

35:59 ↗ really

36:00 ↗ notable um and

36:02 ↗ so I wonder

36:05 ↗ where to include that it almost feels

36:07 ↗ like that can go towards the end um as

36:11 ↗ I'm

36:12 ↗ like I don't know exactly where but I do

36:14 ↗ think there's probably something to to

36:17 ↗ add about some of the ways that we've

36:19 ↗ we've sought to build more connection

36:22 ↗ and within our board yeah I think it'd

36:25 ↗ be important to have like a paragraph

36:26 ↗ like new members and also doing like the

36:30 ↗ question how that help us Bond as a

36:32 ↗ board one this year maybe that's its

36:34 ↗ entirely own paragraph like the

36:36 ↗ welcoming of nov members that I think

36:38 ↗ that's a great Point like in your last

36:41 ↗ sentence you talk about the forming

36:43 ↗ forming Waring and storming so I think

36:46 ↗ those are kind of the

36:48 ↗ Norms I think there's something about

36:50 ↗ like maturing right so we we've said

36:52 ↗ goodbye to members as terms got you know

36:55 ↗ ended and new members new chair new Vice

37:00 ↗ chair um just yeah like all of those

37:03 ↗ things yeah the new

37:04 ↗ routines yeah I like

37:07 ↗ that absolutely I can add something in

37:10 ↗ that I do think that section could be

37:11 ↗ built out a little more to talk about

37:12 ↗ that in particular and I like the idea

37:14 ↗ of framing it as a as a maturing of the

37:16 ↗ board I think that's a great way to

37:18 ↗ think about all of those changes really

37:23 ↗ yeah and Dale I just Echo PR's comments

37:26 ↗ I articulated this the way

37:29 ↗ you I had the last years to work from

37:32 ↗ which is good thank

37:35 ↗ you

37:38 ↗ course anything else missing that's a

37:40 ↗ great

37:53 ↗ question so I guess so across these

37:57 ↗ different you know activities and

37:59 ↗ accomplishments um where do you think we

38:01 ↗ had our most

38:09 ↗ impact or where have you felt where have

38:11 ↗ you all felt the most

38:13 ↗ satisfied in the in the feedback you've

38:15 ↗ given or the input you've given it I'd

38:18 ↗ be like really curious to know if

38:20 ↗ there's like a meeting that really I can

38:21 ↗ think of a few meetings that stuck out

38:23 ↗ to me as meetings where it's was like

38:25 ↗ whoa we got stuff done and I feel like

38:28 ↗ this is going to have a lasting impact

38:31 ↗ but I be really like I'm curious to hear

38:33 ↗ what what you all also

38:35 ↗ feel just kind of building off of there

38:38 ↗ I think one of the newer routines also

38:40 ↗ has been the the report out about what

38:43 ↗ you know what happened because of so

38:46 ↗ that helps us know where we so I think

38:49 ↗ that's a nice uh part of the routine

38:53 ↗ yeah of the

38:54 ↗ bardis think we had a meeting he was of

38:57 ↗ focused on um

38:59 ↗ transportation um and um I felt that it

39:02 ↗ was great discussion and an opportunity

39:05 ↗ for us to put an equity lens on um I

39:08 ↗ mean the the issue that I remember um

39:10 ↗ speaking on was the fact that we need a

39:12 ↗ shelters that are are comfortable and

39:14 ↗ well lit for people to be able to

39:16 ↗ utilize because um that's a mode of

39:19 ↗ transportation for many people for a lot

39:21 ↗ of reasons so um I thought that was a a

39:24 ↗ great discussion and I thought it really

39:26 ↗ had a place for equity yeah I was gonna

39:28 ↗ say like our meeting with the Human

39:30 ↗ Services Commission about the I think

39:33 ↗ that was one of our productive meetings

39:34 ↗ like most productive and I also learned

39:36 ↗ a lot and I think like a common theme I

39:39 ↗ see is like diversity inclusion are

39:42 ↗ pretty important for Equity

39:46 ↗ board so we're in the zone y it does

39:49 ↗ feel good we're in the right place

39:54 ↗ yep one one to of comments right across

39:57 ↗ a lot of the meetings is just of this

39:59 ↗ the inquiry and the spirit of the

40:02 ↗ inquiry and it often unfolds as like you

40:05 ↗ know one question leads to another and

40:07 ↗ at some point you can tell that

40:10 ↗ there's this sort of aha moment when

40:13 ↗ things click and the person that's

40:16 ↗ presenting is like oh I see where you're

40:18 ↗ coming from yeah and I can kind of see

40:20 ↗ how that be implemented yep so I feel

40:23 ↗ like the Q&A is really helpful and I

40:26 ↗ wonder if there might even be some sort

40:28 ↗ of process that can be built around that

40:31 ↗ I mean it's worked organically so far

40:33 ↗ yeah that looking towards the next year

40:35 ↗ is like do we have an approach to how we

40:39 ↗ fire and get Fe back yeah yeah it makes

40:43 ↗ me think about one of the work plan

40:44 ↗ items around the the evolution of the

40:46 ↗ equity framework too um which I'm hoping

40:49 ↗ we sink our uh teeth into a little bit

40:52 ↗ more in

40:53 ↗ 2025 um because I think there's some

40:56 ↗ potential there to both set ourselves up

40:58 ↗ but also set the folks coming to us up

41:02 ↗ to get to that place maybe a little bit

41:05 ↗ faster so I'm thinking about your your

41:08 ↗ comment there is does that mostly come

41:11 ↗ up when we were doing bad Equity

41:14 ↗ framework um implementation so when

41:16 ↗ folks are coming and talk about how

41:18 ↗ they've done their kind of their

41:19 ↗ analysis and we're kind of probing a

41:23 ↗ little further okay so it's the three

41:27 ↗ four meetings where that at Le I can

41:31 ↗ recall the transportation the Parks and

41:35 ↗ Recreation

41:38 ↗ um sorry I'm blocking up but yeah three

41:42 ↗ or four of those yeah but it's around

41:45 ↗ the equity

41:50 ↗ framework I one thing that I would say

41:53 ↗ I'm most proud of was the letter yeah

41:56 ↗ that we sent over to

41:58 ↗ council and

42:00 ↗ um kind of in response to some other

42:03 ↗ stuff that was happening in neighboring

42:05 ↗ cities but I also feel

42:07 ↗ like it was nice to feel heard and to

42:11 ↗ see like that there was action kind of

42:14 ↗ in response so um I felt like that was a

42:18 ↗ step in our maturity as well in terms of

42:20 ↗ like finding our a voice to advocate for

42:24 ↗ things like that

42:27 ↗ I would from my perspective I think that

42:30 ↗ was one of the most impactful things the

42:32 ↗ board has done um I think I said this

42:35 ↗ last time uh in a budget bium where many

42:40 ↗ things were removed um even though we

42:43 ↗ didn't get as much dollars towards an

42:45 ↗ equity impact assessment as we had

42:46 ↗ originally hoped to still get dollars

42:49 ↗ added in for that and a commitment from

42:50 ↗ the

42:51 ↗ administration um that that is going to

42:53 ↗ be a priority going into the next two

42:56 ↗ years that was big um and I think that

43:00 ↗ came in part uh through the letter I

43:03 ↗ think it came came in Little Bits I

43:05 ↗ think there were lots of little moments

43:07 ↗ um where

43:08 ↗ either this your board chair was

43:10 ↗ advocating for something I was

43:12 ↗ advocating for something but I think

43:13 ↗ that letter cemented it um and cemented

43:15 ↗ it not only for our mayor but also for

43:17 ↗ our legislators our city council who

43:20 ↗ ultimately say yes or no to the budget

43:22 ↗ so I think you should be really proud of

43:24 ↗ that um decision is that something that

43:27 ↗ that should be in the report out it is

43:29 ↗ it is it that

43:32 ↗ um yes under your policy

43:35 ↗ recommendations um and it comes up both

43:39 ↗ as a pride month and June te promotion

43:41 ↗ of an equity impact

43:48 ↗ assessment I also think I'll add I mean

43:51 ↗ I I think the glossery um although maybe

43:56 ↗ maybe a little bit

43:57 ↗ you know the the equity impact

43:59 ↗ assessment is a very public you know it

44:01 ↗ went into the budget um you wrote a

44:04 ↗ letter for it the glossery I think we'll

44:07 ↗ see how it plays out but I think it's

44:09 ↗ going to have some of the longest term

44:11 ↗ impact because it's really about

44:12 ↗ changing the way the city talks about

44:14 ↗ what it does um and I know that's in an

44:17 ↗ early stage still but I do think some of

44:21 ↗ the work that you all um advise on that

44:24 ↗ is our sort of internal staff culture

44:27 ↗ work so not just projects and programs

44:30 ↗ but even how people think and Orient

44:32 ↗ towards the work they do um I just think

44:35 ↗ that culture shift uh stuff has some of

44:38 ↗ the the biggest potential so I think the

44:42 ↗ more that this board engages with the

44:44 ↗ stuff the equity team is thinking about

44:46 ↗ as that team becomes a more robust actor

44:49 ↗ um you know that's a place to have real

44:51 ↗ impact as well

44:57 ↗ yeah one one thing I guess to flip it

45:01 ↗ that I'm I'm struggling with like in the

45:04 ↗ first sentence of this report you know

45:06 ↗ amplify the voices of diverse

45:08 ↗ communities uh I don't literally doing

45:13 ↗ that um despite you know being at

45:17 ↗ different Community cultural events and

45:19 ↗ things like that and I know Ray that's

45:20 ↗ been something I be passinate about and

45:22 ↗ so

45:24 ↗ I I don't know if we're doing that or if

45:27 ↗ we're getting there with what we're

45:28 ↗ doing and if there's energy or should we

45:32 ↗ be doing more I think you know part of

45:34 ↗ my take on that is like if we're

45:35 ↗ building relationships or who in the

45:38 ↗ city should be building relationships

45:40 ↗ with community members and part of me

45:41 ↗ wants to say it's the staff people who

45:44 ↗ own the programs to do the work so I

45:47 ↗ don't necessarily feel like it's my role

45:49 ↗ or our board's

45:51 ↗ role literally to do that but I guess

45:54 ↗ I'm just wondering is is there something

45:56 ↗ we need to be doing in that space around

45:58 ↗ amplifying

45:59 ↗ voices it's a

46:01 ↗ question yeah um I was going to say that

46:04 ↗ until we

46:05 ↗ go2 com around that I think we we have a

46:08 ↗ lot of lessons here just from these

46:10 ↗ three years that we've been in existence

46:12 ↗ the way the process has been here if you

46:14 ↗ invite other commissions to meet with us

46:19 ↗ if there's appetite for us to sit in at

46:21 ↗ their meetings and just listen and say

46:24 ↗ what is going on with you

46:27 ↗ that um that might have an

46:29 ↗ equity lens to it and maybe we are that

46:32 ↗ lens and the reason I say that is I've

46:34 ↗ sat in a specific commission which is

46:37 ↗ the Human Services Commission I was not

46:38 ↗ invited I inserted myself in the process

46:42 ↗ and you know I'm curious what you guys

46:44 ↗ talk about can I just sit in and listen

46:45 ↗ and I and I learned a lot of things and

46:48 ↗ so that's what got me thinking about how

46:50 ↗ is how can Equity play a role in the

46:52 ↗ conversation that this commission is

46:53 ↗ having so if we feel as a group that

46:56 ↗ there might be commissions that would

46:58 ↗ benefit from an equity board member

47:00 ↗ sitting in and listening and maybe bring

47:02 ↗ back to us maybe that's something we can

47:05 ↗ consider

47:08 ↗ idea yeah I I think it'll be interesting

47:11 ↗ so we we did actually have a request

47:14 ↗ from the Transportation Advisory Board

47:16 ↗ um to have some Equity board members

47:18 ↗ come and join not necessarily a joint

47:20 ↗ meeting um and my my pose back to them

47:24 ↗ was can you tell me an agenda can you

47:27 ↗ show me an agenda because what I don't

47:29 ↗ want to do is just send a board member

47:31 ↗ to a meeting and give them no like let's

47:34 ↗ let's find a strategic agenda where you

47:35 ↗ feel like there's a going to be a topic

47:38 ↗ um that could really use um an equity

47:42 ↗ board members lens on it I think the

47:45 ↗ cool thing also about the transportation

47:47 ↗ Advisory Board is they actually

47:48 ↗ requested from the and engaged in some

47:51 ↗ Equity training specifically around

47:54 ↗ Transportation so they're already as far

47:56 ↗ as and commissions go they're like

47:58 ↗ actually like a little bit further along

47:59 ↗ their Journey which is really cool um

48:01 ↗ and I think could be a maybe a good

48:03 ↗ first as we get into our 2025

48:05 ↗ conversation might be a good first stop

48:08 ↗ potentially um especially if anyone's

48:10 ↗ particularly interested in

48:12 ↗ transportation um that could be a

48:15 ↗ potential as well so I think there is

48:18 ↗ definitely more opportunity for

48:21 ↗ that this curious pretty your question

48:24 ↗ was also around maybe other channels

48:28 ↗ outside of what we're doing with the

48:30 ↗ other City council's

48:33 ↗ departments yeah so just like let's

48:36 ↗ let's think about is is that like a a

48:39 ↗ zone of work like a function of some

48:43 ↗ sort that we could or should be doing

48:46 ↗ more of um because I would say I'm not

48:50 ↗ sure if we're we're fulfilling that

48:53 ↗ currently yeah because I know you know

48:55 ↗ we've got the cultural community or

48:57 ↗ Community cultural events but you know I

49:00 ↗ I can't tell you like I've been to those

49:03 ↗ and I haven't talked to a ton of people

49:05 ↗ yeah

49:09 ↗ yeah he anything else like any like big

49:13 ↗ suggestions or recommendations on this

49:16 ↗ report that we would might want to make

49:18 ↗ ahead of the next meeting where we would

49:20 ↗ be voting to approve it

49:33 ↗ great I think we were kind of naturally

49:35 ↗ moving to the next topic anyways I think

49:38 ↗ it's it it is not surprising in this

49:40 ↗ group that we are looking ahead to what

49:42 ↗ is the impact um that we may have in the

49:44 ↗ coming year so I'll provide a little bit

49:46 ↗ of a frame um so our board I actually

49:49 ↗ don't know if you all know this also

49:51 ↗ unfortunately printer was not very smart

49:53 ↗ it definitely cut off ORS three and four

49:57 ↗ um when it came to when exactly all but

49:59 ↗ we can still see the the topics and the

50:01 ↗ items in general um I'm actually not

50:03 ↗ sure if I shared this so uh last year in

50:06 ↗ 2024 the equity board was one of three

50:08 ↗ boards that um piloted a more um a more

50:14 ↗ formatted structured work plan uh the

50:17 ↗ city has not always asked its boards and

50:19 ↗ commissions to have a from the start of

50:20 ↗ the year a really clear plan for the

50:22 ↗ year of what they were going to engage

50:24 ↗ in uh we found this to be really helpful

50:27 ↗ um although I modified and adjusted as

50:29 ↗ we went um you know we we actually did a

50:32 ↗ lot of what was on our work plan which

50:33 ↗ was kind of not kind of was quite

50:36 ↗ exciting for me someone that likes to

50:37 ↗ create a strategic plan and follow it um

50:40 ↗ and so now all of our boards and

50:41 ↗ commissions will be using this template

50:43 ↗ this year to plan their work from the

50:45 ↗ beginning um and make sure that they're

50:47 ↗ making progress towards that and so all

50:48 ↗ of the board and commission Le ons are

50:50 ↗ are going to be using this with their

50:51 ↗ boards and commissions so there's a

50:53 ↗ little there's a little piece of impact

50:55 ↗ you didn't even know you had um this

50:56 ↗ year so thank you for that um the work

50:59 ↗ plan itself is broken up into a few

51:00 ↗ different sections we've got this um

51:03 ↗ part on the front which is around you've

51:05 ↗ got a section for sort of General work

51:07 ↗ plan items you can think of that as the

51:09 ↗ stuff that we get reports on the stuff

51:11 ↗ that you discuss as a group the stuff

51:13 ↗ you vote on then there are some of the

51:15 ↗ administrative item pieces in one of

51:18 ↗ which we're engaging in tonight which is

51:20 ↗ the discussion of our work plan um but

51:22 ↗ you also see some portions in here that

51:24 ↗ are a little bit more of the invisible

51:26 ↗ work or work that I do with one or two

51:28 ↗ of you or three of you so the

51:30 ↗ interviewing board recruitment strategy

51:32 ↗ as Rey alluded to we have a number of

51:34 ↗ positions that are going to be opening

51:35 ↗ up this year and so we'll be engaging in

51:37 ↗ some of that recruitment starting in

51:39 ↗ February um the welcoming of new board

51:41 ↗ members uh and that's a a big part of

51:43 ↗ what I think this group is really

51:45 ↗ committed to doing in an intentional way

51:47 ↗ um the election of officers some of this

51:49 ↗ is just a single agenda item but all

51:51 ↗ really important administrative tasks

51:53 ↗ that do take up time you know we we have

51:56 ↗ basically a whole meeting in June

51:57 ↗ usually where we're doing administrative

52:00 ↗ tasks um the board report and the work

52:02 ↗ plan for the upcoming year and then

52:04 ↗ you'll notice here in this in this last

52:05 ↗ section some potential uh future work

52:08 ↗ items so some things we might consider

52:10 ↗ adding in as we get clearer on whether

52:12 ↗ um it fits within our the scope of our

52:14 ↗ work and then below that you can see so

52:16 ↗ you've got kind of the big overarching

52:18 ↗ items and then below you've kind of got

52:20 ↗ the month by month plan so taking what's

52:22 ↗ above and then putting that actually

52:24 ↗ into does this fit into a schedule um

52:26 ↗ does it can we actually uh do more than

52:29 ↗ you know the two things or the one thing

52:32 ↗ um can we get that into an agenda so you

52:34 ↗ can see a suggestion um really just a

52:37 ↗ different way of communicating the same

52:39 ↗ information above but I think a little

52:40 ↗ bit more helpful to actually see it

52:42 ↗ broken down by month um and one thing I

52:44 ↗ would like to discuss tonight you'll

52:46 ↗ notice it's not so easy to see in black

52:48 ↗ and white here or grayscale um there are

52:51 ↗ two meeting dates that I already know

52:53 ↗ are we're going to have conflicts for um

52:56 ↗ our regular January meeting date is on

52:58 ↗ January 1st uh which is the day that

53:01 ↗ this city hall is closed and I hope

53:02 ↗ everyone is not uh at work if you can be

53:05 ↗ um so I'm going to propose changing that

53:07 ↗ date we'll discuss that during other

53:09 ↗ business um and then also October our

53:12 ↗ current October 8th meeting date

53:14 ↗ conflicts with yam kapor um one of our

53:16 ↗ cultural religious calendar holiday

53:18 ↗ dates um and so we'll need to reschedule

53:21 ↗ that as well we do not need to

53:23 ↗ reschedule that this evening um but I

53:25 ↗ wanted to give folks a heads up from far

53:26 ↗ as far in advanced as I could um and

53:28 ↗ then also noted on the calendar um our

53:31 ↗ August recess um which we'll take um as

53:36 ↗ all of our boards commissions and city

53:38 ↗ council do take the month of August um

53:40 ↗ off so uh just to you know summer break

53:43 ↗ it's important and good for everyone um

53:46 ↗ so that's just a little bit of the the

53:48 ↗ structure of the document um you'll

53:50 ↗ notice uh the the main work items and

53:53 ↗ I'll talk a little bit about each of

53:54 ↗ those and then we can have a broader

53:55 ↗ discussion about them

53:57 ↗ so one is the equity impact assessment

53:59 ↗ um it is there are kind of two

54:01 ↗ components to that um one is that we um

54:06 ↗ have are have already had an orientation

54:09 ↗ for I wouldn't say they've been like

54:10 ↗ fully onboarded but had an orientation

54:12 ↗ for our graduate school Consulting team

54:15 ↗ from the Evans school at the University

54:16 ↗ of Washington um they're going to be

54:18 ↗ supporting the sort of PR work that

54:21 ↗ we're anticipating before bringing on um

54:24 ↗ a full-time consultant for the equity

54:26 ↗ impact assessment one of the big

54:27 ↗ questions that we discussed in our

54:29 ↗ Equity team meeting a couple of weeks

54:31 ↗ ago was What is the work that we think

54:33 ↗ is well suited to a graduate student

54:36 ↗ Consulting Group um versus some of the

54:38 ↗ more technical or expensive work that we

54:41 ↗ might want a consultant to do um and so

54:44 ↗ we're hoping that graduate school group

54:46 ↗ will come to the board in January or

54:48 ↗ February likely February um but January

54:52 ↗ or February to consult with the board

54:54 ↗ specifically on their work and get

54:55 ↗ feedback and they'll also present to the

54:57 ↗ board in May um or early June May or

55:01 ↗ June depending on exactly when the end

55:03 ↗ of their project is going to land we're

55:04 ↗ a fun board because we're the first of

55:06 ↗ the month so for some people may they

55:10 ↗ were thinking miday or late may but that

55:11 ↗ would actually be our June meeting so

55:13 ↗ they'll come to the board a few times um

55:16 ↗ but really would like the board to

55:17 ↗ advise on their work as their work is

55:19 ↗ going to lay the groundwork for the

55:21 ↗ equity impact assessment Consulting team

55:23 ↗ that will come on board in the second

55:24 ↗ half year um and then of course we will

55:27 ↗ this board would engage with that

55:29 ↗ consultant um the non-graduate

55:31 ↗ Consultants as well around the work that

55:33 ↗ they would do and so you can see in here

55:36 ↗ that sort of February April we'll have a

55:38 ↗ sort of every other month Cadence around

55:40 ↗ that work is what I'm proposing at this

55:42 ↗ juncture um dib training for board and

55:45 ↗ commission members this has been

55:47 ↗ something that has showed up on this

55:49 ↗ board's work plan a couple of times

55:51 ↗ actually um it hasn't really we haven't

55:53 ↗ had I think the staff capacity to move

55:55 ↗ this item forward

55:56 ↗ um but it's something I know our city

55:58 ↗ clerk is thinking about as we look ahead

55:59 ↗ to the June um orientation for new board

56:04 ↗ commission for all new board and

56:05 ↗ commission members um but also thinking

56:07 ↗ about um if there are boards and

56:09 ↗ commissions that are particularly

56:10 ↗ interested in doing some subject matter

56:13 ↗ specific training um potentially getting

56:15 ↗ some feedback from the equity board

56:17 ↗ prior to that board liaison doing that

56:19 ↗ training for their board um Equity

56:22 ↗ framework pilot implementation um as

56:25 ↗ carthic mentioned we've had a lot of

56:26 ↗ folks come to us uh and share their

56:29 ↗ approach to the implementation of what

56:31 ↗ is generously called the equity

56:33 ↗ framework what you all know I call the

56:35 ↗ equity questions um I think that we are

56:38 ↗ at a place where we've gotten a good

56:40 ↗ amount of feedback and I think the

56:42 ↗ question that I'd like to posee to this

56:43 ↗ group this year is what is the what does

56:45 ↗ the evolution of that tool look like um

56:47 ↗ that would largely be a me coming to you

56:50 ↗ it would be a little bit like the

56:51 ↗ glossery like it would likely be a lot

56:52 ↗ of me leading that conversation with

56:55 ↗ this group um um but I think there it is

56:58 ↗ a tool that is one part um and I think

57:02 ↗ that there we now have what we need to

57:04 ↗ figure out what the evolution of that

57:05 ↗ tool looks like um based on the

57:08 ↗ presentations we've gotten and then as

57:11 ↗ was mentioned and discussed at our

57:13 ↗ November meeting um the glossery the

57:15 ↗ glossery will come back to the board mid

57:17 ↗ year and towards the end of the year um

57:20 ↗ because we one you all would like it to

57:23 ↗ uh and two we'd like to get feedback on

57:24 ↗ the implementation of the tool and how

57:26 ↗ it's going um and then any updates we

57:28 ↗ might want to make to language so the

57:30 ↗ terms in the glossery um as we think

57:34 ↗ about the the ongoing evolution of that

57:36 ↗ tool as well so those are the main items

57:39 ↗ that I am recommending for the board to

57:41 ↗ advise on would love to get feedback on

57:45 ↗ those items and then also consideration

57:47 ↗ of some of the other potential uh future

57:50 ↗ work plan items and anything else that

57:52 ↗ you're thinking of any sort of seeds

57:54 ↗ that were planted by question around

57:57 ↗ like where where have we you all felt

57:59 ↗ that you've had the most impact and

58:01 ↗ where are places where we're maybe not

58:02 ↗ living yet into the full vision of the

58:04 ↗ board's intent um so I'll stop babbling

58:08 ↗ um and open up just the discussions um

58:11 ↗ maybe with first the conversation of you

58:14 ↗ know how how do you all feel about these

58:16 ↗ first four items

58:19 ↗ um as items we want to pursue um and

58:24 ↗ then in buis on in the upcoming year um

58:26 ↗ is there anything that feels missing

58:28 ↗ from those really there are things that

58:29 ↗ feel like they're missing but anything

58:31 ↗ in those four um that you see issue with

58:34 ↗ or you feel like it's outside of um what

58:37 ↗ the board should be advising

58:42 ↗ on the one as you were describing the

58:45 ↗ glossery

58:47 ↗ again

58:49 ↗ it I think we have an opportunity as it

58:53 ↗ initially gets launched to kind of

58:54 ↗ evaluate what the Imp pacce right

58:57 ↗ because I know I and I feel it too like

58:59 ↗ I feel like it's got great potential and

59:02 ↗ uh indirectly to support Better

59:04 ↗ Community engagement right because

59:06 ↗ people will now have the right words

59:08 ↗ will feel more comfortable doing that

59:10 ↗ type of work so I I would be really

59:12 ↗ curious and and to if if there

59:15 ↗ were maybe a more structured kind of

59:18 ↗ evaluation process associated with that

59:22 ↗ so we could really kind of document it

59:25 ↗ yeah I know one thing we talked about is

59:27 ↗ we actually had a really long discussion

59:29 ↗ about this afterwards because the big

59:31 ↗ question was like how will we evaluate

59:33 ↗ whether the tool is quote unquote

59:34 ↗ working yeah um and one of the things we

59:37 ↗ talked about is is actually it like will

59:39 ↗ be the absent like what everyone at the

59:41 ↗ table agreed is it's like it actually

59:42 ↗ might not be the use of the terms that

59:45 ↗ are recommended but the absence of the

59:48 ↗ terms that we're saying people should

59:49 ↗ avoid yes um and then we talked about

59:53 ↗ how hard that would be to document um

59:55 ↗ but we also talked about the use of our

59:57 ↗ internal staff survey uh that we

59:59 ↗ normally give by by anually so every

1:00:03 ↗ other year that's such a confusing word

1:00:05 ↗ we really should have a different word

1:00:06 ↗ for yeah but anyways um but given a lot

1:00:11 ↗ of what the city has gone through in the

1:00:13 ↗ last six months with the budget and our

1:00:14 ↗ staff reductions um we're going to be

1:00:16 ↗ giving it this year and we have an

1:00:18 ↗ equity section in the survey and so

1:00:21 ↗ we've already earmarked some questions

1:00:24 ↗ about um the glosy or whether it be a

1:00:28 ↗ question directly about the glossery or

1:00:29 ↗ a question about the equity resources

1:00:31 ↗ and tools that you have used and found

1:00:34 ↗ value in having that be one of the

1:00:36 ↗ options for sure if it were to be

1:00:38 ↗ structured that way so a note has been

1:00:39 ↗ made I still think I mean it's an

1:00:42 ↗ anonymous survey so I think we can

1:00:44 ↗ expect people are honest and as the

1:00:46 ↗ person that runs the survey and has read

1:00:47 ↗ all the open response people are honest

1:00:49 ↗ in that survey um I think the question

1:00:53 ↗ is the difference between self

1:00:56 ↗ report um and actual Behavior change and

1:00:59 ↗ how you're able to see that behavior

1:01:02 ↗ change I think everyone on our Equity

1:01:04 ↗ team um knows the people they're

1:01:06 ↗ thinking of that they're like I'm

1:01:07 ↗ excited for the language to change um

1:01:10 ↗ but I think that's a little bit hard to

1:01:12 ↗ quantify so I think we're wrestling with

1:01:14 ↗ that same yeah thing of like how do we

1:01:17 ↗ how do we quantify the impact when it

1:01:20 ↗ seems like it we're not going to get a

1:01:22 ↗ baseline um that would be anecdotal and

1:01:24 ↗ so how yeah how do you how do you do a

1:01:27 ↗ quasi

1:01:29 ↗ experiment um to some

1:01:32 ↗ degree yeah yeah um I think I think it

1:01:37 ↗ would be important to do something there

1:01:39 ↗ and I I'm glad you you all have been

1:01:41 ↗ thinking about it because we're in a

1:01:43 ↗ climate where the stuff is not as uh

1:01:47 ↗ welcome so the more we can show what the

1:01:50 ↗ the benefits are to doing this type of

1:01:52 ↗ work I think the better yeah

1:01:56 ↗ but we will definitely come in June or

1:01:59 ↗ July with a report on the results of the

1:02:02 ↗ staff survey at the very least um in

1:02:05 ↗ terms of people being able to self

1:02:07 ↗ report this is a tool I use found value

1:02:09 ↗ in yeah I guess I'm I'm just wondering

1:02:11 ↗ if there's an opportunity I know budget

1:02:13 ↗ is tight but like to get Baseline data

1:02:16 ↗ versus just capturing a

1:02:20 ↗ retrospective I guess my question would

1:02:21 ↗ be like what would be what's the base

1:02:23 ↗ what's the Baseline data I we'd have to

1:02:26 ↗ capture it like yeah I mean we'd have to

1:02:29 ↗ know like Comfort to me it's like uh

1:02:32 ↗ folks comfort in talking about equity

1:02:36 ↗ which we do ask yes have that we do have

1:02:39 ↗ we do have some baseline data okay I

1:02:41 ↗ guess the the question I have is like do

1:02:43 ↗ we expect do we expect that indicator to

1:02:47 ↗ change hopefully over time maybe not in

1:02:49 ↗ the past six months totally yeah but

1:02:52 ↗ retaining that question for sure yeah

1:02:54 ↗ but I mean I think maybe it's like a

1:02:56 ↗ exercise and what are the expected

1:02:58 ↗ outcomes of this and then seeing if

1:03:00 ↗ there's data from the past that line up

1:03:04 ↗ to to those outcomes y yeah we asked a

1:03:07 ↗ question about um comfortability having

1:03:11 ↗ uh disc sort of Dei conversations with

1:03:14 ↗ members of your direct team your

1:03:15 ↗ department across City departments we

1:03:18 ↗ also ask a question um specifically

1:03:20 ↗ about the experience of

1:03:23 ↗ um verbal aggressions um and sort of

1:03:27 ↗ like did you intervene did someone else

1:03:29 ↗ intervene did no one intervene um so we

1:03:32 ↗ do have some of that Baseline data that

1:03:34 ↗ we can look at yeah also like maybe you

1:03:37 ↗ know uh conversations

1:03:41 ↗ with diverse members of the public or

1:03:43 ↗ people from other groups outside of your

1:03:46 ↗ own you know things like

1:03:48 ↗ that yeah sorry I don't want to get into

1:03:50 ↗ like an evaluation design conversation

1:03:52 ↗ but yeah I just thought H the more we

1:03:54 ↗ can if we're just

1:03:56 ↗ yeah no and that's and that's super

1:03:58 ↗ helpful because actually we do have more

1:04:00 ↗ Baseline data than we have it's broader

1:04:03 ↗ it's less direct about the tool itself

1:04:06 ↗ yeah but we do have two two iterations

1:04:08 ↗ of Baseline data on on Equity Equity

1:04:11 ↗ related comfortability

1:04:13 ↗ self-report um microagressions Sobe

1:04:15 ↗ Chase it with some focus groups later or

1:04:17 ↗ something yeah

1:04:19 ↗ yeah I've forgotten this but are we

1:04:21 ↗ going to post this glossery okay yes yes

1:04:25 ↗ it'll be made available on the um Equity

1:04:27 ↗ board page following initial internal

1:04:30 ↗ City staff roll out we want to make sure

1:04:31 ↗ staff gets it first um and then we'll

1:04:33 ↗ share it publicly so by the end of the

1:04:35 ↗ first

1:04:36 ↗ quarter and they're doing you're doing

1:04:39 ↗ some internal trainings on it yes would

1:04:41 ↗ it be possible to attend I'd be really

1:04:44 ↗ interesting I've already used it some

1:04:46 ↗ people it was very interesting great

1:04:48 ↗ yeah we'll be designing the trainings

1:04:50 ↗ likely in January I think is our plan

1:04:53 ↗ and so um I would imagine those will

1:04:56 ↗ happen in

1:04:58 ↗ February so yeah we can I'll definitely

1:05:01 ↗ keep the board apprised of when they're

1:05:02 ↗ happening yeah and it'll likely be at

1:05:05 ↗ least one of them will be like a a

1:05:06 ↗ virtual yeah one that will pre will

1:05:09 ↗ record and then have keep that in

1:05:11 ↗ perpetuity because I'm I'm using it as a

1:05:14 ↗ tool to talk to people about stuff that

1:05:18 ↗ they're saying yeah and it's it's really

1:05:21 ↗ quite me it's you know if you're nice

1:05:22 ↗ about it they're quite a minable to

1:05:24 ↗ learning oh absolutely

1:05:26 ↗ so what I'm hearing is De glossery keep

1:05:28 ↗ this in the work plan yeah yeah check

1:05:31 ↗ for

1:05:32 ↗ sure those other three items do those

1:05:35 ↗ feel within within what the what you're

1:05:38 ↗ expecting to advise on do they feel like

1:05:40 ↗ they're aligned to The Bard's Mission I

1:05:42 ↗ just have a question on the timing for

1:05:44 ↗ the impact

1:05:46 ↗ assessment I I thought that would be

1:05:48 ↗ driving the pilot so the pilot is grayed

1:05:51 ↗ out in January are they looking for us

1:05:53 ↗ to start thinking

1:05:54 ↗ about group who was going to be acting

1:05:57 ↗ as this pilot doesn't the impact

1:05:58 ↗ assessment drive that conversation it

1:06:01 ↗ doesn't because we won't be like

1:06:03 ↗ eliminate eliminating that tool it's

1:06:05 ↗ still a tool the city will use

1:06:07 ↗ internally I think for its own its own

1:06:11 ↗ assessment of programs and policies

1:06:12 ↗ between now and whenever we have the

1:06:14 ↗ recommendations from the equity impact

1:06:16 ↗ assessment and so I

1:06:19 ↗ think my

1:06:22 ↗ goodness arrived at 712

1:06:26 ↗ yeah grab the packet we're talk the Dale

1:06:29 ↗ printed out document so in the packet

1:06:31 ↗ yeah because that's the Turks item

1:06:34 ↗ Dale

1:06:36 ↗ January where the timing of this is so

1:06:39 ↗ provide input and feedback on City

1:06:41 ↗ projects policies initiative across the

1:06:43 ↗ city so we would have to think about

1:06:45 ↗ those projects and

1:06:47 ↗ apply what we've been discussing without

1:06:50 ↗ having the impact suspect in our hands

1:06:52 ↗ that's what I'm thinking well yeah so

1:06:54 ↗ it's it's sort of continuing the work we

1:06:55 ↗ been doing around providing feedback to

1:06:57 ↗ City staff I you know I don't want us to

1:07:00 ↗ Cease the work we've been doing as we um

1:07:03 ↗ work in an ongoing way to with the

1:07:06 ↗ Consultant Group what I'm imagining Ray

1:07:08 ↗ for January in particular is us taking a

1:07:10 ↗ look at those 13 questions and asking

1:07:13 ↗ ourselves how does this need to evolve

1:07:15 ↗ to become a truth framework um right now

1:07:18 ↗ it's in my very humble opinion um it's

1:07:22 ↗ one quarter of a framework it's sort of

1:07:24 ↗ one portion

1:07:26 ↗ of what would actually be a framework of

1:07:28 ↗ implementing an equity lens on the work

1:07:30 ↗ and so I think it's time for us to think

1:07:32 ↗ about what the evolution is and I think

1:07:34 ↗ this board should advise on that so I

1:07:37 ↗ think it your your point is well made

1:07:39 ↗ there's kind of like a few things

1:07:40 ↗ happening it's sort of like well we know

1:07:42 ↗ the we know there are improvements that

1:07:44 ↗ need to happen overall to the vision and

1:07:46 ↗ Direction um but we're not going to stop

1:07:49 ↗ sailing our ship it's because we're not

1:07:52 ↗ exactly sure if we should be going

1:07:54 ↗ Northwest or north

1:07:56 ↗ um it would be uh I think like a little

1:07:59 ↗ it would I don't want us to stop just

1:08:01 ↗ because we know we to change direction a

1:08:03 ↗ little

1:08:04 ↗ bit does that make sense yeah yeah it's

1:08:07 ↗ just everything hinges on what the verby

1:08:10 ↗ is just the impact assessment I think

1:08:11 ↗ that's just having a pilot you're right

1:08:15 ↗ we've been doing that already it might

1:08:17 ↗ change based on the outcome of the

1:08:19 ↗ assessment absolutely okay and then my

1:08:21 ↗ other question was if if are you like

1:08:24 ↗ this stuff I jump over the month work

1:08:26 ↗ plan but if you're looking for stuff to

1:08:28 ↗ put under General work plan items is it

1:08:31 ↗ appropriate to say we're going to

1:08:32 ↗ continue our our involvement with black

1:08:35 ↗ history month with lgbtq with pride

1:08:37 ↗ month where should that land should that

1:08:39 ↗ land in the specific month or should

1:08:40 ↗ that land in

1:08:42 ↗ the that's a great

1:08:45 ↗ question also welcome week too welcome

1:08:49 ↗ community and

1:08:51 ↗ cultural as a general work y

1:08:57 ↗ yeah I guess it can all be lumped into

1:08:59 ↗ that in that one line right continue the

1:09:01 ↗ engagement with cultural events because

1:09:04 ↗ that captures pride month that captures

1:09:06 ↗ Black History Month y that

1:09:08 ↗ captures but I think adding that in

1:09:10 ↗ there makes a big I think

1:09:16 ↗ absolutely yes you have a you have a

1:09:18 ↗ concern to look on your oh this confused

1:09:20 ↗ I'm not sure if we're already at the

1:09:22 ↗ stage where we are brainstorming

1:09:25 ↗ extensions six yeah but I don't want to

1:09:28 ↗ get to that point after we want we want

1:09:31 ↗ to close out anything else well I guess

1:09:33 ↗ the question is on the other General

1:09:34 ↗ work plan items that are listed here um

1:09:38 ↗ that we haven't discussed so di training

1:09:41 ↗ for board and commission members um

1:09:43 ↗ which again would like you to advise on

1:09:45 ↗ what we put together as an idea for that

1:09:48 ↗ and then how it goes afterwards and then

1:09:50 ↗ some potential you can see that's

1:09:52 ↗ happening like spring until May given

1:09:55 ↗ that that orientation happens in in June

1:09:58 ↗ I don't imagine it will be a work plan

1:09:59 ↗ item every month but I will likely come

1:10:03 ↗ with it at least two of those months um

1:10:06 ↗ I have yet to me meet with Tisha to

1:10:07 ↗ discuss exactly how we want to structure

1:10:09 ↗ that so that'll that meeting with her

1:10:11 ↗ will happen in January and then we'll

1:10:12 ↗ get a plan together um and then yeah

1:10:15 ↗ just any I mean I feel like we are on

1:10:18 ↗ board with advising on the equity impact

1:10:20 ↗ assessment but we just haven't no one

1:10:21 ↗ said yay or nay on that and so want to

1:10:23 ↗ get uh thoughts and then yes carthic

1:10:27 ↗ additional ideas we'll dive

1:10:32 ↗ in just one one comment on the general

1:10:35 ↗ work plan items I'm wondering

1:10:40 ↗ if like I have like lots of feelings and

1:10:44 ↗ thoughts about training and so more than

1:10:48 ↗ what would come up on as an agenda item

1:10:50 ↗ and I don't know if other folks have

1:10:52 ↗ like strong feelings or ideas about any

1:10:55 ↗ of these items in particular so I think

1:10:58 ↗ what I'm wondering is like could it

1:11:02 ↗ would it be helpful if we have like a

1:11:04 ↗ subcommittee or someone who would like

1:11:06 ↗ volunteer to like dig a little deeper

1:11:09 ↗ into some of this like to do more than

1:11:11 ↗ just a super superficial kind of advice

1:11:14 ↗ but yeah yeah so just wanting if that's

1:11:18 ↗ an opportunity wanting to put it out

1:11:19 ↗ there for folks who who might want to

1:11:21 ↗ dig in more on specific items absolutely

1:11:25 ↗ I given the the little Sprint that will

1:11:27 ↗ happen around that in the first half of

1:11:29 ↗ the year um when I present the original

1:11:33 ↗ idea in February I think if we want to

1:11:36 ↗ propose a subcommittee to go a little

1:11:37 ↗ deeper and meet a few times in between

1:11:39 ↗ similar to our like prep for welcoming

1:11:41 ↗ week this year um we can absolutely do

1:11:44 ↗ that

1:11:45 ↗ totally we'll get there when we get

1:11:47 ↗ there February

1:11:56 ↗ okay speak now or speak later but I'm

1:11:59 ↗ going to open it up to other

1:12:02 ↗ ideas sure I've got I've got a few but

1:12:04 ↗ I'll just and I'll I'll try to tell you

1:12:08 ↗ to things that we're already doing so it

1:12:10 ↗ doesn't exping scope to one or if it

1:12:14 ↗ is um but tied to the

1:12:17 ↗ equity um one thing that seems to come

1:12:21 ↗ come up as a Common Thread through

1:12:23 ↗ multiple of these conversations of the

1:12:25 ↗ year it's just how we get the data that

1:12:28 ↗ we need to inform yeah projects and

1:12:31 ↗ policies and initiatives and decision

1:12:34 ↗ making and it's always challenging

1:12:36 ↗ because often these you know the data

1:12:39 ↗ that we need to make clear decisions is

1:12:41 ↗ not available yep and so we sort of have

1:12:44 ↗ to maybe ask proxy questions that help

1:12:48 ↗ us to get to that data or or look at

1:12:51 ↗ other Alternatives so I'm just wondering

1:12:53 ↗ if we could try to come up with

1:12:55 ↗ ways in which we can help guide the

1:12:58 ↗ Gathering of data and the asking of

1:13:00 ↗ proxy data questions to help us you know

1:13:03 ↗ better

1:13:04 ↗ inform policies and and

1:13:07 ↗ decisions um and maybe there's some

1:13:10 ↗ common common threads in various

1:13:12 ↗ different topics there so that's yeah

1:13:15 ↗ maybe a data Gathering framework or

1:13:18 ↗ something like that I think it's a big

1:13:19 ↗ part of the evolution of the equity

1:13:21 ↗ questions into a framework I think

1:13:23 ↗ that's going to be a big part of that

1:13:24 ↗ discussion

1:13:28 ↗ yeah totally

1:13:32 ↗ agree okay the other

1:13:37 ↗ well can I go okay the other is curious

1:13:41 ↗ if we might this ties back to maybe the

1:13:44 ↗ question that you brought up um earlier

1:13:48 ↗ could we immerse ourselves in also way

1:13:50 ↗ you were saying are there ways for us to

1:13:52 ↗ immerse ourselves in known areas of

1:13:55 ↗ inequity that are just happening in the

1:13:58 ↗ city not necessarily within the

1:14:00 ↗ different departments this is a bit B

1:14:03 ↗ but I'm still forming this up but first

1:14:05 ↗ we understand better where you know

1:14:08 ↗ where we know there's inequity can we

1:14:10 ↗ understand how severe it is and what

1:14:13 ↗ forms does it take Etc to then kind of

1:14:18 ↗ Channel our efforts more in that

1:14:21 ↗ direction um well I I have to throw that

1:14:24 ↗ back at you are there on that you're

1:14:25 ↗ thinking of that there might be ones

1:14:27 ↗ that we should on the farmers market is

1:14:29 ↗ like one example where I'm just like

1:14:32 ↗ maybe we're just observers but we can

1:14:34 ↗ sort of be there I can volunteer to be

1:14:37 ↗ there go there pretty much every time it

1:14:39 ↗ happens I to understand how does that

1:14:41 ↗ you know how is how are people

1:14:42 ↗ participating are there ways for to

1:14:44 ↗ gather data on like who's who's using

1:14:46 ↗ the farmers market who's who are the

1:14:48 ↗ buyers so the sellers is it you know is

1:14:52 ↗ there access for different communities

1:14:55 ↗ different people

1:14:57 ↗ Etc that's one thought but yeah more I

1:15:02 ↗ kind of hear two things in that I hear

1:15:04 ↗ both an interest to be in spaces and

1:15:06 ↗ observe but also I also hear in this

1:15:09 ↗ particular case like a a city service

1:15:12 ↗ that there's still some learning

1:15:14 ↗ potential to do a little bit more about

1:15:15 ↗ like we've never had Kelly Deane come

1:15:16 ↗ and present um on the way that she

1:15:19 ↗ thinks about Equity um in the management

1:15:22 ↗ of the market the design of the market

1:15:24 ↗ um the implementation of snap and EBT at

1:15:27 ↗ the market over the course of the last

1:15:28 ↗ few years and how we have all the data

1:15:30 ↗ on this this is something she and I

1:15:31 ↗ worked on their impact um their impact

1:15:33 ↗ statement just a couple of months ago

1:15:35 ↗ and so um there could also just be an

1:15:37 ↗ opportunity there might be some little

1:15:39 ↗ corners of the organization that that

1:15:42 ↗ would be good to hear from again um as

1:15:44 ↗ well so I kind of hear two things there

1:15:47 ↗ one of like being in places but also I

1:15:51 ↗ hear learning more about some of the

1:15:53 ↗ work that we haven't necessarily heard

1:15:55 ↗ from yet too

1:15:57 ↗ so I think really another example was

1:16:00 ↗ that one that Connie brought forward

1:16:03 ↗ around how welcoming are in City spaces

1:16:06 ↗ in the buildings

1:16:09 ↗ yeah and I discuss I've chatted with

1:16:12 ↗ facilities I think it's actually already

1:16:13 ↗ in here they're going to be coming to a

1:16:14 ↗ meeting in the new year I think I'd also

1:16:17 ↗ be curious to see we just had a very big

1:16:20 ↗ kind disaster happen and for me the

1:16:24 ↗ district one of the big eye openers was

1:16:26 ↗ when Co hit the inequities in that

1:16:30 ↗ students and parents were able to access

1:16:33 ↗ was even more visible and so I would

1:16:36 ↗ love to debrief about the bomb cyclone

1:16:41 ↗ and learn more about which communities

1:16:44 ↗ were more impacted than others so that

1:16:47 ↗ that would advise us and help us better

1:16:49 ↗ understand how we prepare for future

1:16:52 ↗ natural disasters or disasters in

1:16:54 ↗ general

1:16:55 ↗ stance it's definitely uh certain people

1:16:59 ↗ are able to bounce out of

1:17:02 ↗ those disasters a lot more than others

1:17:05 ↗ and what are we doing to prepare so I

1:17:08 ↗ don't know how to put that in because

1:17:10 ↗ I'm very curious to address that because

1:17:13 ↗ I know I've worked with David ready in

1:17:15 ↗ the resilience Hub and such I don't know

1:17:18 ↗ it's if it's through him or the city has

1:17:21 ↗ some data or we need some listening

1:17:24 ↗ spaces to find out hey how did you fair

1:17:27 ↗ and what did you need and were you able

1:17:29 ↗ to access what you need and what

1:17:31 ↗ services were available and not

1:17:33 ↗ available y but the school would have

1:17:36 ↗ great data on that like the students

1:17:39 ↗ which ones were't able but see 100% we

1:17:43 ↗ could but the school is not responsible

1:17:46 ↗ and the school shut down it and so we're

1:17:50 ↗ not the ones who are reacting to the

1:17:54 ↗ natural disaster the city and the

1:17:56 ↗ community respond with resources and

1:17:59 ↗ support system and so my question is

1:18:03 ↗ when the did how did the people how are

1:18:07 ↗ they able to get their resources we can

1:18:09 ↗ survey families to find out what

1:18:12 ↗ happened to them but that's not really

1:18:13 ↗ an appropriate use of resources because

1:18:16 ↗ it's not never going to be the district

1:18:18 ↗ swamp responsibility to act on the data

1:18:21 ↗ does that make sense yeah it's I was

1:18:23 ↗ just thinking as far as we we're all

1:18:25 ↗ talking about data is how we're getting

1:18:26 ↗ that data there has to be a source for

1:18:28 ↗ it so for example if the principal of

1:18:30 ↗ the school sent out an email inquiring

1:18:33 ↗ hey students did you have an issue with

1:18:35 ↗ this and then you guys tally it up there

1:18:37 ↗ was like 50 students that weren't able

1:18:40 ↗ to get a andc while the others were and

1:18:42 ↗ then maybe dig into that population and

1:18:44 ↗ say well is there some sort of inequity

1:18:47 ↗ there that we and then use that as a

1:18:49 ↗ sampling to broaden not only within the

1:18:52 ↗ school but within a larger city right

1:18:55 ↗ access the things that other people

1:18:56 ↗ might have had and others didn't I can I

1:18:58 ↗ can say so you please watch the video of

1:19:02 ↗ the first hour of the meeting we talked

1:19:03 ↗ a little bit about that and and we'll

1:19:05 ↗ also um we'll have we're in recovery

1:19:08 ↗ mode now and so we're actually having

1:19:09 ↗ our first true like

1:19:12 ↗ postevent debrief we've kind of just

1:19:14 ↗ been in response response response and

1:19:17 ↗ just transition to like more recovery

1:19:19 ↗ we're finally going to have this larger

1:19:21 ↗ debrief um as an organization about you

1:19:24 ↗ know what worked what didn't work where

1:19:27 ↗ I will say and I didn't say this earlier

1:19:28 ↗ like Equity was one of the key pillars

1:19:30 ↗ of Jared's

1:19:32 ↗ activation um but I think we also won't

1:19:34 ↗ know necessar like this will continue to

1:19:37 ↗ have Ripple effects over the next number

1:19:38 ↗ of months

1:19:41 ↗ um we do and are working on and I uh

1:19:44 ↗ haven't told the vendor yet who got the

1:19:46 ↗ contract but we are are we do have a

1:19:49 ↗ survey a community survey coming up uh

1:19:51 ↗ we give that survey every other year um

1:19:53 ↗ it's scientifically valid based off the

1:19:55 ↗ demographics of our community and we

1:19:57 ↗ will be asking some questions related to

1:19:58 ↗ the wind event um in the survey some

1:20:01 ↗ like specific questions understand the

1:20:03 ↗ impact that different communities

1:20:04 ↗ experience different individuals

1:20:06 ↗ households experienced we'll be able to

1:20:08 ↗ cut that data by demographics so we'll

1:20:10 ↗ know and Geographics I mean we'll know

1:20:12 ↗ some of that information as well so

1:20:18 ↗ yeah and some there were other exciting

1:20:21 ↗ I don't want to repeat so I'll tell you

1:20:23 ↗ ones were done

1:20:31 ↗ other so one thing down in

1:20:34 ↗ administrative items we have the welcome

1:20:35 ↗ you board

1:20:37 ↗ members when we were talking about the

1:20:39 ↗ equity framework it reminded me I so I

1:20:41 ↗ don't know Leslie have you seen a copy

1:20:43 ↗ of the equity framework like the 13

1:20:46 ↗ questions I don't think I've seen it

1:20:48 ↗ yeah so I think I think we actually have

1:20:50 ↗ like content to on board too more than

1:20:53 ↗ just like hey welcome nice to have you

1:20:55 ↗ here right like there's the equity

1:20:57 ↗ framework the Deb glossery now the

1:21:00 ↗ cultural

1:21:02 ↗ calendar maybe it's the Strategic plan

1:21:05 ↗ you know so there certain things that

1:21:07 ↗ are part of an onboarding process as

1:21:10 ↗ well yep yep that's a great point so

1:21:14 ↗ maybe that's part of a mentoring contact

1:21:16 ↗ Maybe

1:21:29 ↗ are they all accessible on like

1:21:32 ↗ a drive document that all F have access

1:21:35 ↗ to then we can just kind

1:21:38 ↗ of no we finally have I think some

1:21:42 ↗ guidance on internal external sharing

1:21:44 ↗ through SharePoint that honestly we

1:21:46 ↗ didn't have

1:21:47 ↗ until two or three months ago um and so

1:21:50 ↗ I think there's also the potential for

1:21:53 ↗ that to start being a

1:21:55 ↗ a thing that exists and that lives um

1:21:58 ↗ and so I'll make a note to look into

1:22:00 ↗ that I actually now that we have the

1:22:01 ↗ guidance have to read the guidance um

1:22:04 ↗ Next Step um but I'll look into that too

1:22:07 ↗ because it would be good to have

1:22:08 ↗ something that you all can go to a

1:22:11 ↗ folder a shared SharePoint folder that

1:22:13 ↗ we all have access to and be able to

1:22:14 ↗ access that be good because I know I

1:22:16 ↗ don't always actually never listen to

1:22:20 ↗ recording some previous meetings and I

1:22:23 ↗ always say I'm going to and my God

1:22:26 ↗ so

1:22:28 ↗ so thinking forward forward thinking

1:22:32 ↗ exactly you know some of the stuff

1:22:34 ↗ though if it's available publicly it

1:22:36 ↗ could just be links on the equity

1:22:38 ↗ board's page sure yeah

1:22:41 ↗ sure for

1:22:50 ↗ everyone one one more thought SL idea um

1:22:54 ↗ again I'm not sure if this is within

1:22:56 ↗ scope but I'm personally very curious

1:22:59 ↗ about how other cities Equity boards

1:23:02 ↗ operate got the chance to maybe have a

1:23:06 ↗ little like show and tell about like I

1:23:09 ↗ don't know how does bobia do it North B

1:23:12 ↗ do it yeah if they have

1:23:14 ↗ like um that could be a r i don't know

1:23:17 ↗ how complicated that might

1:23:19 ↗ be let me I can explore um it might it

1:23:23 ↗ might not take them form of like a board

1:23:25 ↗ meeting um but we can definitely I I

1:23:29 ↗ happen to know mostly Olympia is like

1:23:32 ↗ the the city that I um I would say most

1:23:35 ↗ closely talk to all the time but they're

1:23:38 ↗ oddly like a similar size uh when not in

1:23:41 ↗ session um and have a similar sized

1:23:44 ↗ organization and a lot of the same we're

1:23:46 ↗ often like either two steps ahead or two

1:23:48 ↗ steps behind what they're working on as

1:23:50 ↗ a result um in fact they're there's is

1:23:54 ↗ not called an equity board but their

1:23:56 ↗ group has been working on an equity

1:23:59 ↗ impact assessment um with a Consulting

1:24:01 ↗ Group for the last couple of years and

1:24:03 ↗ so was one of the big drivers and that

1:24:06 ↗ being something that we are now pursuing

1:24:08 ↗ and working on so but I think I could

1:24:10 ↗ look into that I can do a little bit of

1:24:12 ↗ inquiry

1:24:19 ↗ yeah thoughts soing out to Canal

1:24:26 ↗ barnica is there I'm thinking there

1:24:29 ↗ might be some generational things like

1:24:32 ↗ you know this side of the older side of

1:24:34 ↗ the table might be skewed a certain

1:24:37 ↗ way so like are there issues coming up

1:24:41 ↗ in like you know diversity Equity

1:24:43 ↗ inclusion belonging that are feel

1:24:46 ↗ particularly relevant to like high

1:24:49 ↗ school high schoolers youth that you're

1:24:53 ↗ not hearing come up in this work plan or

1:24:57 ↗ in the past topics we've talked

1:25:00 ↗ about I guess the main thing I am

1:25:03 ↗ hearing it being talked about but I

1:25:05 ↗ think a main problem especially at udub

1:25:07 ↗ is like diverse populations like not

1:25:10 ↗ being like given certain resources or

1:25:13 ↗ not having access to certain things that

1:25:15 ↗ others are having but um those

1:25:17 ↗ communities are they're small or they're

1:25:19 ↗ not heard of so no one knows about them

1:25:21 ↗ but I think that is something that we

1:25:23 ↗ have talked about

1:25:24 ↗ but that is a common problem I think now

1:25:27 ↗ that is you know not discussed in like

1:25:29 ↗ former formal boards like

1:25:33 ↗ this yeah I really like the um diversity

1:25:37 ↗ equity and inclusion uh glossery like I

1:25:40 ↗ think a lot of high schoolers they don't

1:25:42 ↗ really think about what they say they

1:25:43 ↗ just say it not about the the impact

1:25:45 ↗ it'll have on other people and I think

1:25:47 ↗ if there's it it would be good to like

1:25:50 ↗ look into a way to I guess educate more

1:25:52 ↗ high schoolers like um

1:25:54 ↗ saying using these kind of words will

1:25:57 ↗ let the will make these people feel

1:26:00 ↗ excluded um and just having like an

1:26:02 ↗ honest conversation with them like if if

1:26:04 ↗ someone came to me like I'm not like at

1:26:06 ↗ least for me if I found myself doing

1:26:08 ↗ that I know I'm not purposely trying to

1:26:09 ↗ do it like I remember back in our

1:26:11 ↗ meeting when um I forgot um someone was

1:26:16 ↗ doing public comment and was talking

1:26:17 ↗ about the words and the effect that

1:26:19 ↗ could have I was like oh I didn't even

1:26:21 ↗ think about that um I think that that's

1:26:23 ↗ what a lot of high schoolers would be

1:26:25 ↗ going through and just having that

1:26:27 ↗ realization I think would be really

1:26:31 ↗ helpful could that lend itself I'm

1:26:35 ↗ trying to think of like what a Next Step

1:26:36 ↗ could be there um thinking about like

1:26:39 ↗ the youth Advisory Board and sharing the

1:26:42 ↗ glossery with them to see about how to

1:26:47 ↗ um scale it out to more youth Community

1:26:51 ↗ groups definitely do

1:26:55 ↗ we can bring that up our next are you

1:26:58 ↗ both okay

1:27:01 ↗ fantastic yeah we're doing like um a

1:27:05 ↗ Stam and art fair and cic engagement

1:27:08 ↗ conferences so can definitely bring it

1:27:10 ↗ up any those yeah and also I think maybe

1:27:13 ↗ like kind of putting this out there

1:27:16 ↗ towards high schoolers are specifically

1:27:18 ↗ in schools would help

1:27:21 ↗ us we also in school we have social em

1:27:25 ↗ learning always it's always been like

1:27:27 ↗ like no one really pays attention but

1:27:30 ↗ like I think it's also good like

1:27:31 ↗ important that I think we should

1:27:33 ↗ incorporate some kind of like Equity um

1:27:37 ↗ or it doesn't necessarily need to be

1:27:39 ↗ Equity just at least acknowledging that

1:27:42 ↗ every like our words matter and because

1:27:45 ↗ that's not never really brought up it's

1:27:46 ↗ mostly just like annoying surveys they

1:27:49 ↗ yet to

1:27:51 ↗ take I I think that that would be more

1:27:53 ↗ helpful like I said earlier that

1:27:55 ↗ self-realization and checking yourself

1:27:58 ↗ yeah I think it be a good idea for the

1:28:00 ↗ Youth Advisory Board who attend the

1:28:02 ↗ school district give that feedback as a

1:28:05 ↗ board to the school district board

1:28:09 ↗ because um as someone who has talked

1:28:12 ↗ about those kinds of teachings in

1:28:15 ↗ classes and how it's done it is a big

1:28:17 ↗ conversation yeah and for my department

1:28:20 ↗ it has been a big frustration on how to

1:28:23 ↗ do it

1:28:25 ↗ so that students are learning because it

1:28:28 ↗ has been a lot of effort made and as a

1:28:31 ↗ know sometimes me class me it doesn't

1:28:34 ↗ fall well it's not really listening

1:28:36 ↗ because what is the accountability and

1:28:39 ↗ there's also a lot of push backs

1:28:41 ↗ surprisingly enough not sure

1:28:45 ↗ exact from community and some people as

1:28:47 ↗ to what is being Tau in that so so it's

1:28:51 ↗ not something that the school district

1:28:53 ↗ can come and say hey we're going to do

1:28:56 ↗ this and people to say where is this in

1:28:58 ↗ the standards for you to be teaching

1:29:01 ↗ there things that can be that can be

1:29:04 ↗ addressed so if there's something

1:29:07 ↗ specific you're looking for as a youth

1:29:09 ↗ Advisory Board you do have power and you

1:29:12 ↗ should leverage that power to work with

1:29:14 ↗ the school board and work with the

1:29:16 ↗ district to make such things happen as a

1:29:20 ↗ school district we have things we can do

1:29:23 ↗ and is

1:29:24 ↗ around education and the

1:29:27 ↗ standardss

1:29:29 ↗ by so maybe there's an opportunity for

1:29:31 ↗ some collaboration with yab to to

1:29:35 ↗ see what support that group that you all

1:29:39 ↗ might need if you do want to carry

1:29:41 ↗ something forward or you know lesson

1:29:43 ↗ learned from the letter writing of this

1:29:45 ↗ board to our essential essentially our

1:29:48 ↗ school board the city council um you

1:29:52 ↗ know how can we apply some of what we

1:29:53 ↗ learned there if that's next video you

1:29:56 ↗ can bring it up yeah if you bring it up

1:29:58 ↗ and then let you can let me know and

1:30:00 ↗ then we can put it into an agenda

1:30:02 ↗ item I'm also kind of curious you know

1:30:04 ↗ caric brings up this like you know like

1:30:07 ↗ what's the how does the city think about

1:30:09 ↗ the farmers market I'm I'm kind of also

1:30:11 ↗ curious about if there are any other

1:30:12 ↗ topics or things the city does or that

1:30:15 ↗ you're curious about what the city does

1:30:17 ↗ that you know you two would like to

1:30:19 ↗ learn more about because that is

1:30:21 ↗ also an unofficial part the purpose of

1:30:25 ↗ you being here not only to provide your

1:30:26 ↗ insights and perspective but also to to

1:30:28 ↗ learn about how the City Works and so if

1:30:31 ↗ there's something that you're like oh

1:30:32 ↗ the farmers market sounds cool but also

1:30:34 ↗ like here's this really specific thing

1:30:36 ↗ that I wonder what the city does um you

1:30:39 ↗ know would love to make room for those

1:30:41 ↗ staff members to come and present as

1:30:43 ↗ well so think on it let me

1:30:48 ↗ know so varnica you said something about

1:30:51 ↗ diverse populations not having access

1:30:54 ↗ that kind of reminds me of what caric

1:30:57 ↗ said

1:30:59 ↗ around what

1:31:02 ↗ how writing immerse ourselves in real

1:31:05 ↗ Equity issues something like that so if

1:31:09 ↗ you all have like examples of maybe a

1:31:12 ↗ diverse population that's not being

1:31:13 ↗ adequately served that's something we

1:31:16 ↗ could try to dig in on I think we have

1:31:18 ↗ to just kind of hone in a little bit

1:31:19 ↗ more specifically about what group that

1:31:21 ↗ might be and what the the issue is

1:31:24 ↗ yeah what the area like if there's a

1:31:26 ↗ particular area where we feel like the

1:31:29 ↗ resources aren't being made

1:31:31 ↗ accessible um I mean I also think it

1:31:33 ↗ relates a little bit to the welcoming

1:31:35 ↗ environment yeah top as well well um I

1:31:38 ↗ have to throw this in there because the

1:31:40 ↗ garage our neighbor here has struggled

1:31:42 ↗ to establish a similar facility in the

1:31:45 ↗ samamish area and and I think I bed you

1:31:48 ↗ into one of those right so there just

1:31:51 ↗ has not there's been a lack of interest

1:31:52 ↗ but that's a Haven for for students to

1:31:54 ↗ just go hang out and feel comfortable

1:31:56 ↗ and welcome um for different uh

1:31:59 ↗ backgrounds so there's any way for us to

1:32:02 ↗ and I sit on one of their committees and

1:32:04 ↗ they told me that they they've just

1:32:05 ↗ struggled to get the approval to set up

1:32:08 ↗ a similar thing so they've had to kind

1:32:10 ↗ of set up shop in a library where we

1:32:12 ↗ they're again desney a time and a place

1:32:14 ↗ for team to just hang

1:32:16 ↗ out have an opportunity those that feel

1:32:19 ↗ left

1:32:21 ↗ out this is this is for they

1:32:27 ↗ there's not a lot of great locations too

1:32:29 ↗ around the skyline it's like all the

1:32:32 ↗ there's not like all the there's just

1:32:33 ↗ shopping centers you but not really

1:32:36 ↗ built

1:32:39 ↗ might one thing I'll also it's it's

1:32:41 ↗ related to a potential future work plan

1:32:43 ↗ item um around um engaging in the

1:32:47 ↗ implementation of the updated strategic

1:32:49 ↗ plan um but one piece that was added to

1:32:52 ↗ the Strategic plan following the task

1:32:55 ↗ force

1:32:56 ↗ recommendation a little bit related to

1:32:58 ↗ what you're talking about um and I know

1:33:01 ↗ our Human Services I'm going to be

1:33:02 ↗ working with our Human Services team on

1:33:04 ↗ um a sort of ways

1:33:08 ↗ to approach the epidemic of

1:33:11 ↗ loneliness um it's something that we're

1:33:13 ↗ it's in a strategic plan um and I I've

1:33:17 ↗ got some conversations already set up

1:33:19 ↗ for January um but potentially that that

1:33:22 ↗ might be something that ends up here or

1:33:25 ↗ for consideration depending on where it

1:33:27 ↗ goes I don't know where it's going to go

1:33:29 ↗ um at this point but could be something

1:33:31 ↗ also that might find its way to the

1:33:33 ↗ board um or strategic plan

1:33:34 ↗ implementation and approach um more on

1:33:37 ↗ the inclusion side I think of Dei in

1:33:40 ↗ some ways but you know it could be

1:33:43 ↗ something that this group might want to

1:33:44 ↗ weigh in on as

1:33:46 ↗ well yeah I passed on the application

1:33:49 ↗ you sent and I know a few of my friends

1:33:51 ↗ applied for it but I'm curious to know

1:33:53 ↗ what happened after

1:33:55 ↗ that

1:33:58 ↗ yeah I could go back to

1:34:01 ↗ the the like the the grocery on so I was

1:34:07 ↗ just thinking about how like I see like

1:34:10 ↗ that's like right now being used High

1:34:12 ↗ School a little bit like in my social

1:34:14 ↗ studies class um we were just learning

1:34:16 ↗ US History we were just learning about

1:34:17 ↗ slavery and then just this is just an

1:34:20 ↗ example but what my teacher always does

1:34:22 ↗ with start every unit uh he makes sure

1:34:24 ↗ to like tell us the right words to use

1:34:29 ↗ that so for the using in enslaved people

1:34:33 ↗ not slaves and then like having that

1:34:36 ↗ conversation and then like I I wasn't

1:34:39 ↗ too aware of that before um and then

1:34:42 ↗ indigenous people like all these things

1:34:44 ↗ all these people in American history so

1:34:47 ↗ I think maybe if you work with the

1:34:48 ↗ district to incorporate this more to the

1:34:50 ↗ curriculum um it already is is yeah yeah

1:34:55 ↗ yeah so we have a lot of changes that

1:34:57 ↗ are coming the US is so all of the

1:35:00 ↗ social studies but they have embedded

1:35:03 ↗ some vocabulary in social studies and in

1:35:06 ↗ English Arts Anda in intense stuff like

1:35:11 ↗ that and what words to use so the

1:35:13 ↗ district is we can

1:35:16 ↗ embed those kinds of changes within

1:35:19 ↗ curriculum Rather Make Them stand alone

1:35:21 ↗ where there's no accountability sure not

1:35:24 ↗ part of an actual less yeah I think

1:35:26 ↗ that's a good conversation to have just

1:35:28 ↗ to learn more about how that works um

1:35:31 ↗ like how like how they would go about um

1:35:35 ↗ choosing or like like keeping the kids

1:35:43 ↗ accountable my little teacher heart just

1:35:46 ↗ went I think that's a great question but

1:35:48 ↗ I honestly think a lot of those

1:35:50 ↗ questions need to be addressed to the

1:35:52 ↗ school board right rather than this

1:35:54 ↗ board because the school

1:35:58 ↗ board I think that's something that is a

1:36:00 ↗ great question to ask the school the

1:36:02 ↗ principls the teachers what they are

1:36:05 ↗ doing to hold students accountable for

1:36:08 ↗ comments made in class what

1:36:11 ↗ administration is doing to hold teachers

1:36:13 ↗ accountable or how they're teaching

1:36:15 ↗ certain units um and what parents are

1:36:18 ↗ doing or not doing in support of our

1:36:21 ↗ students um and setting expectations

1:36:24 ↗ because a lot of the push back also

1:36:27 ↗ comes from fam it does seem like yeah

1:36:30 ↗ there's a there's an opportunity for

1:36:32 ↗ this group to support the youth Advisory

1:36:35 ↗ Board in in in preparing to have that

1:36:39 ↗ those conversations or M make that

1:36:42 ↗ advice to the school

1:36:44 ↗ board I think is probably where we would

1:36:47 ↗ end

1:36:48 ↗ up and I think that would be a much more

1:36:51 ↗ appropriate way rather than going

1:36:52 ↗ through the SC because this board in the

1:36:55 ↗ city have really little power and impact

1:36:58 ↗ on how the school approach is

1:37:01 ↗ all I think one one thing there one

1:37:04 ↗ opportunity I see with what you just

1:37:06 ↗ shared though is um I think my son's in

1:37:09 ↗ the same class at IHS but um so he was

1:37:13 ↗ sharing some words that were like off

1:37:15 ↗ limits and I was like can you make a

1:37:17 ↗ list of those words so they can go into

1:37:19 ↗ the glossery so I think it can tools

1:37:22 ↗ that can feed each each other yeah so I

1:37:25 ↗ think what what you're doing at school

1:37:27 ↗ with this class can identify more words

1:37:29 ↗ to add into the glass glos so it could

1:37:32 ↗ go in that direction versus US kind of

1:37:35 ↗ trying to influence and that's for the

1:37:36 ↗ change right all elementary kids are

1:37:38 ↗ using indigenous they don't yes and so

1:37:41 ↗ as our new generations are coming they

1:37:44 ↗ will be more prepared than some of our

1:37:47 ↗ old generation yeah and so that is where

1:37:50 ↗ the education is coming and how things

1:37:52 ↗ are going

1:37:54 ↗ shifted we don't I have not heard the

1:37:56 ↗ word slavery very often unless it's by

1:37:59 ↗ non teacher of some non School setting

1:38:02 ↗ but in the school setting we always use

1:38:05 ↗ see

1:38:06 ↗ indigen all of that so I think our

1:38:09 ↗ schools are making that change but we

1:38:12 ↗ don't have any control on how to change

1:38:15 ↗ our community and so if there's

1:38:19 ↗ something so that's why it's important

1:38:20 ↗ to keep in a the difference right what

1:38:24 ↗ is it you're asking School versus what

1:38:26 ↗ is it you're asking the city in the

1:38:28 ↗ community and I from what you're saying

1:38:31 ↗ I'm very proud of what our district has

1:38:34 ↗ done and so I think my question is what

1:38:37 ↗ else are you asking and it sounds like

1:38:38 ↗ you have some ask and so how do you do

1:38:42 ↗ those TS using the and leveraging this

1:38:45 ↗ board and the

1:38:48 ↗ city let us

1:38:51 ↗ know yeah

1:38:54 ↗ Kelly's the advocacy person

1:38:56 ↗ right we're we're getting to sort of the

1:38:58 ↗ end of the time

1:39:00 ↗ yeah any last thoughts we do have a

1:39:03 ↗ couple of other business items and

1:39:05 ↗ includ including or closing yeah one

1:39:07 ↗ last thought is um should should we be

1:39:12 ↗ preparing for potential concerns around

1:39:15 ↗ the change of the

1:39:17 ↗ administration to our existence our work

1:39:20 ↗ the city Etc you should not be concerned

1:39:23 ↗ about that at this time the city is

1:39:25 ↗ fully committed to supporting the

1:39:28 ↗ ongoing Equity work at the city of isqua

1:39:31 ↗ it is in our budget it is in our

1:39:33 ↗ strategic plan um and we are not

1:39:37 ↗ planning to change what we're

1:39:39 ↗ doing is all I will say right

1:39:42 ↗ now so one thing that so I I had the

1:39:45 ↗ privilege of getting an advanced copy of

1:39:47 ↗ this so I actually typed in some of my

1:39:49 ↗ so under that uh future potential work

1:39:51 ↗ plan items I added in some ideas and so

1:39:55 ↗ I think related to what you're saying

1:39:57 ↗ like yeah I didn't get the sense that

1:39:59 ↗ we're in danger of like the equity board

1:40:01 ↗ going away in isapa but I think people

1:40:03 ↗ are gonna start

1:40:05 ↗ experiencing hostility yes perhaps right

1:40:07 ↗ so that's where you know I have like you

1:40:09 ↗ know recommending or supporting more

1:40:11 ↗ inclusive Pro Equity messaging to

1:40:14 ↗ continue to make folks feel welcome and

1:40:17 ↗ kind of double Downing on that was one

1:40:19 ↗ of the things that I was noting and then

1:40:21 ↗ we at the postmortem on the bomb side CL

1:40:23 ↗ of meeting diverse Community needs was

1:40:25 ↗ something yeah that I'm also very

1:40:27 ↗ interested in and then yeah like and

1:40:29 ↗ then with the Strategic plan there's a

1:40:32 ↗ whole thread in there around

1:40:33 ↗ operationalizing Equity throughout it

1:40:35 ↗ and so in my mind I don't know if like

1:40:38 ↗ as the different teams in the city start

1:40:41 ↗ engaging with that and trying to figure

1:40:43 ↗ out what does it mean to operationalize

1:40:44 ↗ equity I thought we could be a good you

1:40:47 ↗ know that need to help support that so

1:40:49 ↗ those were some of my quick ideas that I

1:40:52 ↗ had Jed in here but the only thing i'

1:40:54 ↗ add to that is um on December 17th I

1:40:58 ↗ asked this sparing Network can meet to

1:41:01 ↗ discuss the impacts the upcoming

1:41:05 ↗ new presidency is going to have on our

1:41:09 ↗ imigrant population because we already

1:41:12 ↗ noticing some fear in some of our

1:41:14 ↗ parents and students

1:41:17 ↗ and we're trying to anticipate and

1:41:20 ↗ figure out how to make sure that we are

1:41:22 ↗ showing up and supporting our families

1:41:24 ↗ and students as they need to be to

1:41:28 ↗ ensure that children in this community

1:41:31 ↗ are getting the best education that they

1:41:34 ↗ can starting in January and that we

1:41:37 ↗ don't see a change in the ability for

1:41:40 ↗ students to access and feel supported at

1:41:44 ↗ schools from January on down and so it's

1:41:48 ↗ a conversation I ask the dis nourishing

1:41:51 ↗ Network to have just so that we can

1:41:54 ↗ prepare and I don't know when it would

1:41:57 ↗ be appropriate if you're all collecting

1:41:59 ↗ data in the city and trying to find out

1:42:02 ↗ how or what impacts it's going to have

1:42:06 ↗ to um immigrants in

1:42:09 ↗ isur and what data you all have about

1:42:11 ↗ imants or that

1:42:13 ↗ something I don't know what I don't know

1:42:15 ↗ I just know what we're

1:42:17 ↗ hearing I know it's the Human Services

1:42:19 ↗ team is thinking

1:42:22 ↗ about but we haven't talked more broadly

1:42:25 ↗ as a team I met with the pan estd the

1:42:28 ↗ educational school district and I asked

1:42:31 ↗ if the ESD and OSBI can talk OSBI is

1:42:34 ↗ Office of the superintendent scholr can

1:42:38 ↗ address it because I don't feel like

1:42:39 ↗ it's fair that each school district has

1:42:41 ↗ to address it when it's really a thing

1:42:44 ↗ and I believe Washington State and will

1:42:48 ↗ be completely in support of our students

1:42:51 ↗ and our families but we just need to

1:42:52 ↗ verbal it because in the absence like me

1:42:55 ↗ knowing oh don't worry you're safe is

1:42:57 ↗ not helpful and so I'm wondering if

1:43:00 ↗ people different groups need to

1:43:03 ↗ moralize some some make some statements

1:43:06 ↗ to ensure that our

1:43:08 ↗ community very local and let our

1:43:11 ↗ immigrant populations from be safe here

1:43:14 ↗ that you know OSBI if they can give us

1:43:17 ↗ or estd can give us some statements that

1:43:19 ↗ can share that school information or

1:43:21 ↗ school districts in general are safe so

1:43:24 ↗ that consistent messages are being heard

1:43:26 ↗ because then in the absence of that you

1:43:29 ↗ get these social uh media groups who are

1:43:34 ↗ spreading or telling information uh

1:43:36 ↗ sharing information of one of incidents

1:43:40 ↗ that are happening in certain cities

1:43:41 ↗ about ice coming in and so forth so and

1:43:44 ↗ that kind of starts building seeds of

1:43:47 ↗ distress in the community right and so

1:43:49 ↗ how do we make sure that our community

1:43:53 ↗ has shared with it people that it is a

1:44:00 ↗ safe or

1:44:02 ↗ reiterated decisions in that have

1:44:04 ↗ already been made in the past yes um

1:44:06 ↗ this is not our first go around with

1:44:08 ↗ this Administration

1:44:12 ↗ so so then we've had other ideas start

1:44:16 ↗ bubbling up here how how should we go

1:44:20 ↗ from this conversation to getting ready

1:44:23 ↗ at next month's meeting to approve

1:44:25 ↗ over um there may likely be a lot of

1:44:28 ↗ items that sit in potential in future um

1:44:32 ↗ that don't necessarily affirm exact

1:44:34 ↗ place but I'll make sure that everything

1:44:35 ↗ we've talked about as a potential future

1:44:37 ↗ item does make it in here also a lot of

1:44:40 ↗ what we talked about I actually think is

1:44:42 ↗ embedded in some of the general items

1:44:44 ↗ and so I'm I'm less concerned about

1:44:45 ↗ needing to add a ton in that future and

1:44:48 ↗ potential it's more like yeah of course

1:44:50 ↗ that will be part of our discussion of

1:44:51 ↗ this it'll be part of our work I think

1:44:53 ↗ that the few just looking at also my

1:44:57 ↗ left-handed uh handr it's hard to read

1:44:59 ↗ um a few things that stick out in

1:45:01 ↗ particular as as really new coming out

1:45:03 ↗ of this conversation or that weren't

1:45:05 ↗ already in this draft in some capacity

1:45:07 ↗ is this potential collaboration with the

1:45:09 ↗ youth Advisory Board I do want to add

1:45:11 ↗ that in as something that we should be

1:45:13 ↗ thinking about um and and potentially

1:45:16 ↗ advising on moving forward that feels

1:45:18 ↗ like a a truly unique item um that we

1:45:21 ↗ discussed

1:45:24 ↗ adding in at the community and culture

1:45:25 ↗ events item that's not in here yet that

1:45:27 ↗ should be in here um are definitely two

1:45:29 ↗ that I think need to be added in um I

1:45:33 ↗ think the rest of them in some

1:45:36 ↗ way live in here so I think some of this

1:45:38 ↗ like learning I'm not quite sure how to

1:45:41 ↗ capture this like immersing ourselves in

1:45:44 ↗ particular areas of inequity I think we

1:45:46 ↗ need to get a little clear on what that

1:45:47 ↗ might mean um I'll I'll put some words

1:45:51 ↗ to that into the future potential items

1:45:54 ↗ um so that we know what we're talking

1:45:55 ↗ about and we're looking back at the end

1:45:56 ↗ of q1 and saying okay where do we want

1:45:57 ↗ to fit this in um but I also see that in

1:46:00 ↗ some ways showing up in our ongoing uh

1:46:03 ↗ Equity framework work um so those are

1:46:06 ↗ some of the things that I've gotten here

1:46:08 ↗ already um that I'll make sure that I

1:46:10 ↗ build in as a move

1:46:14 ↗ Bo okay any last thoughts on the work

1:46:18 ↗ plan before we move topics

1:46:25 ↗ this was going to sound kind of

1:46:26 ↗ frivolous I've been holding back but um

1:46:29 ↗ the concert's in the

1:46:33 ↗ park okay let's do

1:46:37 ↗ it they're white they're

1:46:41 ↗ [Laughter]

1:46:42 ↗ old the

1:46:45 ↗ musici I've done a little asking around

1:46:48 ↗ it's like one guy they've been using for

1:46:50 ↗ who does it as a volunteer for a really

1:46:52 ↗ long time and he's got a base of con of

1:46:55 ↗ and that's what he's doing it means it

1:46:58 ↗ it's an equity issue because you you

1:47:00 ↗ know A diversity issue in the sense of

1:47:03 ↗ what you have to find is the people in

1:47:04 ↗ the community who are who have those

1:47:06 ↗ same talents who are from different

1:47:09 ↗ communities that's how that's literally

1:47:10 ↗ the how and we just have done

1:47:14 ↗ work I know nothing about concerts on

1:47:17 ↗ the green I know nothing about uh any of

1:47:21 ↗ that it's just so visible yes um I can

1:47:24 ↗ do a little bit of inquiry I'll talk to

1:47:26 ↗ our Arts team our Parks team about even

1:47:29 ↗ I know it used to be an Arts fund yeah

1:47:32 ↗ Grant te but it's not anymore and so I'm

1:47:35 ↗ not exactly sure yeah that's why I'm

1:47:37 ↗ bring I'm not even sure if it's funded

1:47:39 ↗ if you guys give a a little bit you give

1:47:41 ↗ the the you give the space we give the

1:47:42 ↗ green but it's still it's not inclusive

1:47:45 ↗ right it should be more diversity in the

1:47:49 ↗ artists I'll do a little I'll do a

1:47:51 ↗ little uh digging I don't think that's

1:47:56 ↗ frivolous yeah I don't think it's frous

1:47:58 ↗ at

1:47:59 ↗ all I also

1:48:01 ↗ think just in general I should remind

1:48:03 ↗ everyone in this board I mean I know you

1:48:05 ↗ also talk directly with the mayor but

1:48:07 ↗ like please feel free to reach out to

1:48:09 ↗ the city council and the mayor directly

1:48:11 ↗ over email and share some of these

1:48:13 ↗ thoughts like this is one venue where we

1:48:15 ↗ advise the city on things but on things

1:48:17 ↗ like that

1:48:18 ↗ where the city might actually not really

1:48:21 ↗ be too it might have too much um

1:48:24 ↗ influence over it and it might be at

1:48:26 ↗ this point this Legacy event that we

1:48:28 ↗ provide permits for um you know the the

1:48:31 ↗ long change to that could be changing

1:48:33 ↗ our permit requirement like you know

1:48:35 ↗ there probably is a way for a more

1:48:36 ↗ immediate change to happen with a little

1:48:38 ↗ more direct advocacy to our city council

1:48:41 ↗ so remember that you are all still um

1:48:42 ↗ active members of this community who can

1:48:44 ↗ Advocate outside of the equity board for

1:48:46 ↗ things I'll do a little I'll learn a

1:48:48 ↗ little bit yeah probably the best thing

1:48:50 ↗ we could do is find people who know how

1:48:52 ↗ to promote different

1:48:54 ↗ cultures music

1:48:58 ↗ yep okay I'm gonna I'm gonna go first

1:49:02 ↗ and then you'll have our I know it's out

1:49:03 ↗ of it's out of order on the agenda um J

1:49:06 ↗ it's out of order on my minutes who

1:49:09 ↗ knows um January we will not be meeting

1:49:12 ↗ on January 1 uh that is a day I hope

1:49:16 ↗ everyone else is doing something

1:49:17 ↗ different um also the city facilities

1:49:19 ↗ will be closed so and I and I have a

1:49:21 ↗ vacation day

1:49:23 ↗ um I'm proposing January 8th which is

1:49:26 ↗ the following Wednesday um and wanted to

1:49:29 ↗ see if there were any concerns with that

1:49:31 ↗ date or concerns with meeting Quorum on

1:49:34 ↗ that date um as a preview we'll have uh

1:49:37 ↗ two agend three three agenda items we'll

1:49:40 ↗ be looking at both the things that we

1:49:42 ↗ discussed this evening with the

1:49:43 ↗ modifications um from the feedback this

1:49:45 ↗ evening and then we'll also be um

1:49:48 ↗ starting to discuss our Equity uh

1:49:51 ↗ evolution of the equity questions and a

1:49:52 ↗ framework so it'll be a part one of that

1:49:54 ↗ discussion will be the main uh things on

1:49:57 ↗ the agenda for that evening so just so

1:49:58 ↗ you know it it'll be a special meeting

1:50:00 ↗ so regardless we won't be meeting on the

1:50:02 ↗ first so whatever meeting would be a

1:50:04 ↗ special meeting so we don't have any

1:50:06 ↗ other business items on that evening we

1:50:07 ↗ just have our agenda items um but is the

1:50:11 ↗ eth seem like it works for folks at this

1:50:15 ↗ table okay decided Jan 8 uh change your

1:50:19 ↗ calendars I will send an updated

1:50:21 ↗ calendar invite I know some of you love

1:50:23 ↗ those Outlook calendar invites some of

1:50:25 ↗ you live in a blessed world with no

1:50:27 ↗ online calendar um and so just note that

1:50:30 ↗ in your own uh your own recordkeeping

1:50:33 ↗ however you need

1:50:35 ↗ to gonna be in India on the 8th is there

1:50:38 ↗ any chot could we on the 15 I will be on

1:50:40 ↗ vacation on the 15 yeah yeah we will

1:50:44 ↗ miss you I hope you'll be having fun um

1:50:48 ↗ okay so um and

1:50:50 ↗ we'll at yeah 2 am or whatever time it

1:50:54 ↗ will

1:50:54 ↗ be um but we'll we'll make sure to get

1:50:57 ↗ you caught up on everything we discuss

1:51:00 ↗ um and please let us know in between

1:51:01 ↗ caric if you've got any other thoughts

1:51:02 ↗ about either of these two items um let

1:51:05 ↗ me know hopefully before the 19th of

1:51:08 ↗ December um that's what I'm going to

1:51:10 ↗ meet with these two to talk about our

1:51:11 ↗ January

1:51:13 ↗ agenda

1:51:15 ↗ okay okay closing thought where's my

1:51:19 ↗ closing thought

1:51:21 ↗ okay I wanted to mix it up a little bit

1:51:24 ↗ and in light of Thanksgiving having been

1:51:26 ↗ last week um Wanted folks to share

1:51:29 ↗ something that are thankful for to wrap

1:51:31 ↗ up this

1:51:33 ↗ meeting like to go

1:51:38 ↗ first I'll go I am incredibly thankful

1:51:41 ↗ for this group it is amazing the the

1:51:44 ↗ different perspectives that come in and

1:51:47 ↗ and really remind me to think about

1:51:50 ↗ things I hadn't been thinking about and

1:51:51 ↗ I just so so thankful

1:51:55 ↗ for thankful for our city leadership I

1:51:57 ↗ mean this Cyclone made like National

1:52:07 ↗ world to her departments to just an

1:52:12 ↗ amazing

1:52:12 ↗ job

1:52:17 ↗ very I would say that I am uh thankful

1:52:20 ↗ to live in such a Progressive in diverse

1:52:24 ↗ City uh and to hear what Dell said about

1:52:28 ↗ uh the the city's commitment um uh uh

1:52:32 ↗ irrespective of the incoming uh

1:52:34 ↗ Administration there is a clear and

1:52:37 ↗ strong commitment to equity that that

1:52:40 ↗ partens and makes me feel a lot better

1:52:43 ↗ about what's going to be uh challenging

1:52:45 ↗ four years so I'm very thankful of

1:52:49 ↗ that I'm thankful for all the city Crews

1:52:52 ↗ who worked very hard to make sure that

1:52:54 ↗ we go back to school and have

1:52:56 ↗ Thanksgiving with all of our family and

1:53:00 ↗ friends yeah I'm thankful for them too

1:53:02 ↗ and I'm thankful for this board and also

1:53:05 ↗ um how like there's youth inclusivity on

1:53:08 ↗ this board because we definitely don't

1:53:09 ↗ know as much as allot of you do but I'm

1:53:12 ↗ glad we can you know work together to

1:53:14 ↗ solve so many issues for people in is

1:53:19 ↗ class thankful for fire at this for

1:53:26 ↗ the original

1:53:30 ↗ story and I know Mother Nature was very

1:53:33 ↗ cruel to is when it is hard but in

1:53:37 ↗ walking around for the turkey trop I was

1:53:40 ↗ actually thankful that it wasn't worse I

1:53:43 ↗ mean I literally saw probably a 100

1:53:45 ↗ trees down and I think three

1:53:48 ↗ four you know buildings that were

1:53:50 ↗ damaged which still devast ating but

1:53:53 ↗ potential for it to be so much

1:53:57 ↗ worse and so much longer and so it's

1:54:02 ↗ thankful that it wasn't worse and

1:54:03 ↗ thankful for all the crews and people

1:54:06 ↗ who worked and my husbands went shopping

1:54:08 ↗ several times and said people were very

1:54:11 ↗ kind when he was shopping around so this

1:54:14 ↗ really stepped

1:54:17 ↗ up yeah ditto um really grateful it was

1:54:20 ↗ such a um really grateful for my

1:54:22 ↗ colleagues really grateful I think

1:54:26 ↗ sometimes we can forget that there is

1:54:29 ↗ such an incredible amount of expertise

1:54:31 ↗ in our Public Works and Parks Crews um

1:54:34 ↗ in particular the the speed that they

1:54:36 ↗ moved at not just to clear the trees and

1:54:40 ↗ debris that I think all of us were

1:54:42 ↗ dealing with but the speed at which our

1:54:43 ↗ utility managers moved to ensure that

1:54:47 ↗ water was still working that sewer was

1:54:50 ↗ still working um that those things were

1:54:53 ↗ secure and safe um you know it just

1:54:57 ↗ there's that so much invisible work

1:54:59 ↗ sometimes like we take for granted in

1:55:01 ↗ this country that you're going to turn

1:55:02 ↗ your tap on and the water will come out

1:55:03 ↗ and it will be safe to drink um and

1:55:05 ↗ there is a lot of work that goes on

1:55:07 ↗ behind that um and so just to see them

1:55:09 ↗ activate how quickly they did to see the

1:55:11 ↗ tireless effort of our emergency manager

1:55:14 ↗ all of whom you've all met him um and

1:55:17 ↗ the the spirit that he kept up through

1:55:19 ↗ the many days that he worked with very

1:55:21 ↗ few hours hours of sleep um it was just

1:55:25 ↗ a real joy to be a part of and allowed

1:55:28 ↗ me to have still have my

1:55:31 ↗ than one day I want to sit down and find

1:55:33 ↗ out what needs to be done to make sure

1:55:35 ↗ we have clean water I never even thought

1:55:37 ↗ about

1:55:38 ↗ it said that I was like wait

1:55:46 ↗ what

1:55:48 ↗ yeah I think oh well I mean it's what's

1:55:51 ↗ been said I'm just thankful for the many

1:55:53 ↗ layers of community that showed up for

1:55:56 ↗ for me for each other you know I can't

1:55:58 ↗ tell you like how many people reached

1:56:00 ↗ out to see if needed a place to take

1:56:02 ↗ shower or charge and not not only that

1:56:05 ↗ but the city providing those services

1:56:07 ↗ and so it's just very heartwarming to to

1:56:10 ↗ know

1:56:11 ↗ that there's

1:56:13 ↗ just there's options and there's you

1:56:16 ↗ know some through personal connections

1:56:18 ↗ but also just more generally available

1:56:21 ↗ and so I really value having that

1:56:24 ↗ Community around

1:56:27 ↗ us all right did everyone go almost

1:56:31 ↗ track okay all right and with that I

1:56:35 ↗ adjourn this uh December meeting of the

1:56:38 ↗ equity

1:56:40 ↗ board thank you all than you you

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Council / Members (8)

Ray Manahan

Varnika Dokka

Priti Mody-Pan

Karthik Kashinath

Lesley Millender-Irwin

Lorna Gilmour (late arrival - 7:12pm)

Kelly Munn – Alternate

Kunal Srivastava* - Alternate

Staff (1)

Dale Markey-Crimp, Assistant to the City Administrator

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Shalanda Fleming

Tony Curry

Shani Kapoor – Alternate

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a) Minutes of November 6, 2024 Regular Meeting The minutes of the November 6, 2024 meeting were approved with a minor change to date of the meeting from the previous month.
Markey-Crimp shared that the City Council adopted their calendar for the year, which ensured that no meetings will be planned over the dates on the Cultural & Religious Calendar.