Equity Board · Wednesday, January 8, 2025 · City Council Digest

3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of December 4, 2024 Meeting

packet pp.3–5

▶ Watch from 4:54 Open packet at p.3 ↗

Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 12-04-24 Equity Board Minutes Page [0000] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Equity Board 6:00 PM Steelhead Room, 235 1st Ave. December 4, 2024 MINUTES SE, Issaquah

4. CHAIR REPORT

Opening Question

10 min · Priti Mody-Pan, Equity Board Chair

5. STAFF REPORT

Actions Since December Meeting

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

6. AGENDA ITEMS

2024 Board Report Approval

Action · 15 min · Dale Markey-Crimp, Assistant to the City Administrator · packet pp.7–9

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 Final Review and Approval (A)

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

Open packet at p.11 ↗

Staff report:

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

Equity Framework 2.0 Discussion

Discussion · 40 min · Dale Markey-Crimp, Assistant to the City Administrator · packet pp.15–17

Topics: Equity

Open packet at p.15 ↗

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

Discussion · 10 min

Topics: Equity

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0:03 ↗ good to go all right so it is 611 and I

0:07 ↗ call the January meeting of the equity

0:09 ↗ board to order and uh Dale can you

0:13 ↗ assist with a roll call I can indeed um

0:16 ↗ Ry manahan here vernica DOA here pry mod

0:20 ↗ pan here uh Leslie Melinda Irwin it

0:24 ↗ Laura Gilmore present and currently we

0:26 ↗ are missing a few members who are

0:29 ↗ expected to be here sha Fleming um and

0:31 ↗ shaie kapor um and Kunal will be joining

0:35 ↗ late this evening we have two we have

0:37 ↗ three excused absences Tony Curry Kelly

0:40 ↗ mun and Cari

0:44 ↗ ker and then next up is public comments

0:47 ↗ so I see we've got one maybe two coms

0:51 ↗ together okay uh please feel free to get

0:55 ↗ us

0:58 ↗ started go ahead follow

1:01 ↗ up so we are just here to give you a

1:04 ↗ little bit of heads up for our

1:08 ↗ February uh from building

1:12 ↗ Soo it's going to be on February 22nd

1:15 ↗ Saturday February 22nd and as usual it's

1:18 ↗ 5:00 pm and we have

1:22 ↗ invited

1:24 ↗ the is food bank as Stephanie the

1:29 ↗ executive you

1:31 ↗ actor either either she or or one of the

1:35 ↗ people that does the presentation but um

1:38 ↗ we are working together with the good

1:41 ↗ bank to talk about and the topic is

1:44 ↗ being worked on so please give us uh you

1:48 ↗ know your your feedback um but the RO of

1:53 ↗ the uh the role of the food bank in the

1:59 ↗ community bu

2:06 ↗ all

2:08 ↗ that changes are

2:13 ↗ exp into

2:15 ↗ ni

2:18 ↗ yeah yes so would Fe On The

2:22 ↗ Fly will bring and have available next

2:25 ↗ month next month the time of early

2:28 ↗ February to H pass out you know and yeah

2:32 ↗ The Punchy thing would be the role and

2:34 ↗ contribution of food bank in community

2:37 ↗ building what is that role function

2:39 ↗ contribution food banks and our very own

2:42 ↗ here with our folks to talk about it

2:45 ↗ they do we can do to support them in

2:48 ↗ conversation about what is the function

2:50 ↗ and role of f Bank in in a community

2:54 ↗ in topical World

2:57 ↗ conversation so that's the kind of thing

2:59 ↗ as you know many have attended there a

3:01 ↗ lot of fun really interesting these

3:03 ↗ Community Building socials you know

3:05 ↗ every quarter week we doing that last

3:08 ↗ one we had members of the city council

3:11 ↗ with us they wanted to you know share

3:15 ↗ what they're

3:19 ↗ doing um so we'll get more to you next

3:22 ↗ month but anyway save the date Saturday

3:24 ↗ February

3:26 ↗ 22nd also a teen little thing of MLK uh

3:29 ↗ weekend coming up okay the um bah will

3:34 ↗ be hosting and inviting East Side

3:37 ↗ Community to a better world talk and

3:41 ↗ concert with f Better World talk and

3:43 ↗ concert on Saturday uh we Saturday

3:47 ↗ January 18th at the East side of high

3:49 ↗ Center which is on this side of Bel Road

3:53 ↗ kind of way out here and it's a very

3:57 ↗ beautiful Community kind of open space

4:01 ↗ and ready think back Tok last year and

4:04 ↗ we had people from the B city council B

4:07 ↗ mayor and so forth towards a good

4:10 ↗ conversation about MLK but in this case

4:13 ↗ better world and live music and very

4:18 ↗ youth oriented a lot of fun Full House

4:21 ↗ so uh I think you might be getting

4:23 ↗ invitation what you might be finding in

4:25 ↗ your email to tell you more about that

4:28 ↗ early thank

4:30 ↗ you right thank you both and then D were

4:34 ↗ there any other public comments there

4:36 ↗ were no other public comments ahead of

4:39 ↗ this meeting okay I know there that

4:43 ↗ email is that for later that I'm GNA

4:46 ↗ send out a followup after today got it

4:48 ↗ okay great okay so that is everything

4:52 ↗ for public comments and then next is

4:54 ↗ approval of minutes so maybe I'll give

4:57 ↗ you all a minute or so to in the minutes

5:00 ↗ and see if there's any uh

5:03 ↗ changes and so when you're ready if

5:05 ↗ someone can make a motion

5:17 ↗ to

5:19 ↗ motion okay do I have a

5:21 ↗ second second right okay um any uh

5:27 ↗ changes or modific

5:36 ↗ to I think I noticed one little

5:39 ↗ typo that Dale I can just give you

5:43 ↗ before the meeting wraps up when we wrap

5:45 ↗ up sounds great

5:48 ↗ perfect any other edits modifications or

5:58 ↗ changes way no scanning yeah okay I

6:02 ↗ think with that we can consider our

6:04 ↗ minutes

6:06 ↗ approved

6:10 ↗ great okay next up the chair report okay

6:14 ↗ that's our opening question um the

6:18 ↗ opening question I have for you all is

6:21 ↗ as we think about we're heading into the

6:23 ↗ coldest part of the Year where is the

6:25 ↗ coldest place you've been and how cold

6:28 ↗ was it

6:34 ↗ who wants to go

6:39 ↗ first Alo it wasn't honestly in the 20s

6:44 ↗ of that cold but I thought I was going

6:46 ↗ to die I was so cold it was Washington

6:50 ↗ DC it was December 26th through January

6:54 ↗ 31st uh dece um sorry January 1st she

6:57 ↗ had gone to visit a friend and it was so

6:59 ↗ cold we were literally running from the

7:01 ↗ car to the front inside our house

7:03 ↗ because the husband would park the car

7:05 ↗ in the street and then he realized we

7:07 ↗ were very not strong and so when we

7:10 ↗ visited the many sites in Washington DC

7:13 ↗ he would have to drop us as close to the

7:16 ↗ the national museums or the Muse many

7:19 ↗ museums because we like oh my goodness

7:21 ↗ it's so cold I feel like running I was

7:23 ↗ holding myself but it wasn't that cold

7:26 ↗ I'm just

7:28 ↗ not strong

7:32 ↗ I'm thinking actually that it was

7:34 ↗ probably only 30 31 it wasn't even

7:37 ↗ snowing but I'm convinced that's what it

7:40 ↗ was I'm convinced it was a windchill

7:43 ↗ factor because I was super cold and then

7:46 ↗ a year or two later my sister went to

7:47 ↗ New York for the ball drop and she said

7:50 ↗ she was outside for a few minutes

7:52 ↗ refused to stay out there anymore and

7:54 ↗ went back to hotel room for by

7:57 ↗ herself thanks no not gonna do the too

8:00 ↗ good oh my

8:04 ↗ goodness um I'm trying to think

8:07 ↗ I I was living in Southern California at

8:09 ↗ the time and this gal who had kind of

8:11 ↗ the Alaska territory she got married and

8:14 ↗ moved to Denver so they gave the

8:15 ↗ territory to me had never been to Alaska

8:17 ↗ and I was oh my god I've never gone up

8:20 ↗ there and it was part of the coldest

8:21 ↗ part of the year um I think it was

8:24 ↗ around 10 degrees so pretty cold and and

8:27 ↗ with the wind chill that really makes it

8:28 ↗ worse but dry ding is just you don't

8:30 ↗ want to be driving in situation so what

8:33 ↗ I recall is um I was with my boss at the

8:35 ↗ time in the driver's seat and he was in

8:38 ↗ the passenger seat and I got into an

8:41 ↗ accident wasn't major I didn't give

8:44 ↗ enough Breaking time and I slid into his

8:46 ↗ car stopped in front of us it was just

8:48 ↗ so embarrassing because my boss was

8:49 ↗ sitting next to me

8:51 ↗ like I think that might have been the

8:53 ↗ first time we were physically together

8:56 ↗ too of course they need to get out in

8:59 ↗ the hole

9:00 ↗ to get out the call so um that's that's

9:03 ↗ what I call

9:08 ↗ my um I'll go um I think it was the

9:12 ↗ first time I went um skiing on a Mammoth

9:15 ↗ Mountain in uh California and I just

9:18 ↗ remember being at like the bottom part

9:20 ↗ of the mountain and going up and just

9:22 ↗ watching the temperature drop and I

9:24 ↗ remember when we got to uh the top it

9:26 ↗ was around 16

9:27 ↗ degrees I I couldn't believe it I just

9:30 ↗ watched the temperature just rock it was

9:33 ↗ astonishing but we were kind of all

9:36 ↗ dressed like the Michelin Man so it was

9:39 ↗ cold but we didn't feel it so just got

9:42 ↗ to have the right equipment right I

9:45 ↗ probably I'm trying to think I've been

9:47 ↗ in some cold places I do I do think um

9:50 ↗ one winter we went to Fairbanks in the

9:54 ↗ middle of the winter to try to see uh

9:56 ↗ the northern lights and it was probably

10:00 ↗ -10 like reading is10 but the wind was

10:04 ↗ definitely blowing so I have no idea

10:05 ↗ what it felt like but it was it was cold

10:07 ↗ it was one of those things where you

10:08 ↗ kind of you're like you know your

10:10 ↗ eyeballs aren't going to freeze because

10:11 ↗ it's not quite that cold but you walk

10:14 ↗ outside and you're kind of like okay

10:16 ↗ like let's make sure that these are

10:19 ↗ going to make it um that's probably

10:21 ↗ that's probably the coldest that's very

10:24 ↗ it's really cold it's really

10:26 ↗ cold I think for me I recently went to

10:30 ↗ um Whistler um and like up on the skace

10:33 ↗ slopes and we didn't have like eye

10:35 ↗ protective we so the snow was like

10:37 ↗ falling and like you couldn't see

10:38 ↗ anything so it was terrible um also New

10:41 ↗ York in March like the streets are so

10:44 ↗ windy and so cold like it was terrible

10:47 ↗ you expect it to not be that cold in

10:49 ↗ March no it was an orchestra trip and

10:51 ↗ like most of the time my Orchestra

10:53 ↗ teacher like he went inside and then we

10:55 ↗ had to wait outside the door for him to

10:56 ↗ confirm everything and it was windy and

10:58 ↗ I was like oh can't be stuck outside

11:11 ↗ yeah I don't know I could I could go for

11:15 ↗ the classic joke of of of being in San

11:19 ↗ Francisco in the summer summer

11:30 ↗ back back back undergraduate going from

11:33 ↗ Seattle to Boston in December June

11:36 ↗ January January stopping getting off the

11:38 ↗ great bus in the middle of the night in

11:41 ↗ Montana oh oh my God that's when your

11:43 ↗ eyeball freeze freeze drive and

11:49 ↗ everything get back into the bus wow I

11:52 ↗ mean had a lot cold that was

11:55 ↗ yeah so mine's similar but Wisconsin yep

11:59 ↗ was conom for a couple years and it's

12:01 ↗ just talking like people with like cross

12:03 ↗ country ski to school and all this stuff

12:06 ↗ and so I think it probably got

12:08 ↗ down I would say conservatively say like

12:11 ↗ zero degrees so I had the big puffy code

12:13 ↗ and all that

12:15 ↗ stuff yeah it's not been I've not been

12:18 ↗ in cold like that

12:20 ↗ since yeah no thank

12:23 ↗ youly all right well thanks for playing

12:26 ↗ along you

12:27 ↗ all question is on team okay and over to

12:33 ↗ Dale for staff report my staff report um

12:37 ↗ which as you all know is a sort of

12:38 ↗ update on what's what what has the city

12:40 ↗ been up to related to equity board

12:43 ↗ recommendations from the previous

12:44 ↗ meeting um our previous meeting we

12:46 ↗ mostly talked about the equity board

12:48 ↗ report and the equity board uh work plan

12:50 ↗ and so there weren't a lot of other

12:53 ↗ items that we um engaged in and so my

12:56 ↗ report is quite short as in was done

12:59 ↗ with that was that I uh took your

13:01 ↗ feedback Incorporated it into what we'll

13:03 ↗ be looking at this evening um I did also

13:05 ↗ want to share in my report tonight one

13:07 ↗ of the um and I'll share more about this

13:09 ↗ in the in the follow-up email that I'm

13:11 ↗ going to send after this email after

13:13 ↗ this meeting um but one of the big

13:15 ↗ initiatives that the city is

13:16 ↗ prioritizing this year is around social

13:18 ↗ cohesion and connection um I think it's

13:21 ↗ something that should be on uh the maybe

13:25 ↗ not the plate but I do think this group

13:27 ↗ in particular this board should advise

13:29 ↗ on the city's approach there so I just

13:31 ↗ wanted to put it out there as a sort of

13:33 ↗ it's not in the work plan right now but

13:36 ↗ uh one of the work plan items around the

13:37 ↗ implementation of the Strategic plan and

13:39 ↗ this is one of the items that Rose the

13:42 ↗ top five priorities for the city this

13:44 ↗ year so that will come back at some

13:45 ↗ point um it is an update that's not

13:47 ↗ incorporated into any other part of our

13:49 ↗ conversation tonight so I just wanted to

13:51 ↗ share that with you all so you could be

13:53 ↗ thinking about um social cohesion and

13:55 ↗ the city's role in intervening in the

13:58 ↗ epidemic of loneliness

13:59 ↗ um so that's that's something to be

14:02 ↗ thinking about and very related to our

14:05 ↗ public comment tonight as well and that

14:08 ↗ is my report for um between our December

14:12 ↗ meeting and this evening it's the Human

14:14 ↗ Resources Group taking on that project

14:17 ↗ as a it's actually going to be a full

14:21 ↗ city um project so it's going be led

14:23 ↗ from the mayor's office um but will

14:26 ↗ involve our Human Services team our

14:29 ↗ Recreation teams um it's something

14:32 ↗ something that we're thinking about

14:32 ↗ across all of our all of our teams

14:35 ↗ across the city so um it's in its I

14:39 ↗ wouldn't even call it nent stages right

14:40 ↗ now um I'm currently the lead on the

14:42 ↗ project and I'm just starting to have

14:43 ↗ conversations with folks about it so um

14:47 ↗ we'll have you'll have information as I

14:49 ↗ have information it's such a broad topic

14:51 ↗ every every committee has a voice in

14:53 ↗ this right exactly I was thinking Human

14:55 ↗ Services too first off and the work that

14:58 ↗ they do in that group so yeah but it

15:00 ↗ also involves things like what is what

15:02 ↗ is the social infrastructure and the

15:03 ↗ built infrastructure that supports

15:05 ↗ social social interaction look like and

15:08 ↗ so in that case it also involves our

15:10 ↗ facilities our Parks it it kind of

15:14 ↗ touches all aspects potentially of our

15:16 ↗ work so um yeah just a

15:20 ↗ preview oh that's huge I'm also thinking

15:23 ↗ not you know so you've got the system

15:25 ↗ and the infrastr infrastructure as well

15:26 ↗ as like individual

15:29 ↗ people connecting with each other how to

15:33 ↗ facilitate that and emphasize that so

15:36 ↗ there will be more more information

15:38 ↗ coming about exactly what that

15:40 ↗ initiative will look like and and the

15:42 ↗ different opportunities to get more

15:43 ↗ involved in that so know that that's

15:45 ↗ coming

15:46 ↗ up okay thanks Dale and um this is the

15:50 ↗ Dale show tonight it is so the board

15:53 ↗ report approval any um set

15:57 ↗ up yes I do okay so one of our we have

16:00 ↗ three items this evening this first item

16:02 ↗ tonight is the approval of our board

16:05 ↗ report um this is the I will put it up

16:08 ↗ on the screen in just a moment but it's

16:10 ↗ sort of the report out to the city

16:12 ↗ council about um what the equity board

16:15 ↗ worked on and accomplished here in the b

16:17 ↗ in the past year I'm going to go ahead

16:19 ↗ and share my screen here in a moment um

16:22 ↗ your feedback from the

16:25 ↗ previous uh meeting was taken into

16:28 ↗ account and

16:29 ↗ add it into the most recent uh version

16:32 ↗ that you'll see tonight the goal of our

16:34 ↗ time together tonight is to vote to

16:37 ↗ approve um this report and then also as

16:42 ↗ a followup um actually I'll just put it

16:44 ↗ on the front end before I will zoom in

16:45 ↗ don't worry I know that's far away um is

16:49 ↗ also to to discuss an opportunity to

16:52 ↗ eventally um to present the board report

16:55 ↗ to city council so that is an option um

16:59 ↗ that every board and commission has when

17:01 ↗ they put together their annual report is

17:03 ↗ actually to present to city council um

17:05 ↗ and so if the this board is interested

17:08 ↗ in doing so uh we'll talk about that

17:10 ↗ briefly as well at the end of the review

17:13 ↗ um and so this was included in your

17:15 ↗ packet for tonight my big question is

17:17 ↗ are there any Sub sub substantive

17:20 ↗ changes um for this report um at this

17:25 ↗ stage

17:29 ↗ as a reminder I'll sort of scroll

17:30 ↗ through slowly um we outlined the main

17:33 ↗ topics that the board uh engaged in in

17:36 ↗ 2024 so our Equity framework um

17:39 ↗ implementation so we we had a number of

17:42 ↗ departments come and present on their

17:44 ↗ implementation of the uh the initial the

17:48 ↗ 1.0 version of the equity framework uh

17:50 ↗ Community cultural events collaboration

17:53 ↗ with City departments so in cases where

17:56 ↗ they weren't necessarily reporting on

17:57 ↗ their implementation of the

17:59 ↗ uh framework but they were coming to

18:01 ↗ present to us on something they were

18:02 ↗ working on or an approach that they had

18:04 ↗ taken um and then the Deb

18:07 ↗ glossery um so that first part just sort

18:10 ↗ of outlines the general topics that

18:12 ↗ we're engaged in and then the next

18:14 ↗ section outlines accomplishments so the

18:17 ↗ advancement of that framework um

18:19 ↗ actually seeing staff departments

18:22 ↗ implement it and provide feedback um and

18:25 ↗ having it change the decision-making

18:27 ↗ processes of some of our departments um

18:30 ↗ enhanced Community engagement so we did

18:32 ↗ more engagement this past year um and

18:35 ↗ then also integration of the cultural

18:37 ↗ and religious calendar so having that

18:39 ↗ transition from its pilot year to being

18:41 ↗ fully adopted by Council um for the next

18:44 ↗ four years and so a big accomplishment

18:47 ↗ of last year was just getting that over

18:49 ↗ that from the pilot to actually being

18:51 ↗ used um adoption of the Deb glossery for

18:55 ↗ City use and then some policy

18:57 ↗ recommendations so specifically

18:59 ↗ um around pride month in juneth

19:01 ↗ acknowledgement the elevation of equity

19:03 ↗ within the updated strategic plan and

19:05 ↗ the promotion of the equity impact

19:07 ↗ assessment which it was added to the

19:08 ↗ budget um the 2025 26 budget um then as

19:13 ↗ we looked at this last sort of section

19:14 ↗ we talked about sort of what what what

19:16 ↗ is to come that the board is going to

19:18 ↗ focus on in the upcoming year and so

19:20 ↗ these should be these will be uh you'll

19:22 ↗ see them again when we talk about our

19:24 ↗ our work plan in a moment but the equity

19:26 ↗ impact assessment revision and evolution

19:29 ↗ of our Equity framework um Dei training

19:32 ↗ for City boards and commissions um and

19:35 ↗ then really tracking closely the

19:37 ↗ implementation of the deib glossery uh

19:40 ↗ the biggest changes to this report that

19:43 ↗ occurred from our December meeting to

19:45 ↗ our um current meeting tonight we're

19:48 ↗ really around this the content of this

19:50 ↗ last bit so we really the feedback that

19:52 ↗ I heard most loud and clear was really

19:54 ↗ emphasizing some of the board maturing

19:57 ↗ that's occurred so specific

19:59 ↗ implementing some new processes and

20:02 ↗ practices to build more connection and

20:05 ↗ cohesion within our board to provide

20:07 ↗ more opportunities for getting to know

20:09 ↗ each other um and also uh supporting new

20:14 ↗ members as they on board to the board um

20:17 ↗ I feel like I've said the word board

20:19 ↗ dozens of times in the last couple of

20:21 ↗ minutes um but that is where we left off

20:25 ↗ so um again the purpose tonight is to if

20:29 ↗ there are any very minor tweaks to go

20:31 ↗ ahead and make them but hopefully to

20:33 ↗ vote to approve this to be transmitted

20:35 ↗ to the city

20:38 ↗ council so I have two minor edits that I

20:41 ↗ can give you at the end of the meeting

20:43 ↗ as well but there are more like typo

20:45 ↗ fake types of things love people

20:47 ↗ catching

20:50 ↗ typos were there any other lar were

20:53 ↗ there any non- typo or larger um content

20:56 ↗ questions or concerns just a couple

20:59 ↗ comments first of all thank you I know

21:01 ↗ it's this last time a great job of

21:03 ↗ documenting our um discussions and what

21:06 ↗ we talked about in a really cohesive

21:08 ↗ manner that I I mean if I was a city

21:09 ↗ counc member mayor Paul outow they've

21:12 ↗ done tremendous amount of work um thanks

21:14 ↗ to you documenting it and secondly if

21:16 ↗ you had if you and pretty hadn't decided

21:18 ↗ who's going to present this to them I

21:20 ↗ mean I would like to least listen

21:21 ↗ because my biggest question to the city

21:23 ↗ council and the mayor is is this what

21:25 ↗ you expected of the board is there

21:27 ↗ anything here because you guys made the

21:29 ↗ decision to create us was there

21:32 ↗ something that you were envisioning that

21:33 ↗ we did not capture the past few years um

21:36 ↗ and is there more that we need to focus

21:38 ↗ on perhaps expand whether it be

21:40 ↗ associating to a specific cultural event

21:43 ↗ I would just love their feedback give a

21:45 ↗ chance to really um look over this and

21:47 ↗ say yeah nice job Equity Ward but

21:49 ↗ perhaps you can do this too or expand on

21:52 ↗ this that could abolutely part of the

21:54 ↗ presentation can end with that question

21:56 ↗ okay yeah

21:59 ↗ when are is this going to be presented

22:01 ↗ that's we have a date we do not have a

22:03 ↗ date quite yet um I would imagine it

22:05 ↗ will go on one of the meetings in

22:08 ↗ February or potentially the first

22:09 ↗ meeting in

22:10 ↗ March have to look at how full the

22:12 ↗ current agenda is I am happy to attend

22:15 ↗ yeah even to just listen and not

22:18 ↗ presentend present as well I think part

22:21 ↗ of the conversation we have is like

22:23 ↗ should we and who should present that's

22:26 ↗ not a big deal

22:29 ↗ but um any any edits to the content yes

22:32 ↗ let's let's first let's first vote to

22:35 ↗ approve or not approve and then from

22:37 ↗ there we can uh we can open the

22:39 ↗ discussion about

22:41 ↗ presentation to

22:44 ↗ approve is this the making a motion yes

22:46 ↗ would you like to make a motion

22:49 ↗ motion motion okay and we haven't really

22:53 ↗ heard of any substantive things just a

22:55 ↗ couple of minor minutes so

22:58 ↗ I guess with that we can consider it

23:00 ↗ approved or do we need to do a let's do

23:02 ↗ a vote we'll do a vote um so everyone

23:04 ↗ here is voting tonight you are all

23:05 ↗ regular members um and we'll just say um

23:09 ↗ all those in favor say

23:12 ↗ I I all those opposed say

23:17 ↗ May and are there any

23:20 ↗ exensions okay it passes

23:23 ↗ unanimously great the next um the next

23:27 ↗ part of the first item is it seems like

23:30 ↗ there is energy to present because

23:32 ↗ there's energy to get maybe a little bit

23:33 ↗ of feedback from the Council on what

23:36 ↗ things look like moving forward um who

23:39 ↗ is O open to presenting open to being

23:42 ↗ present

23:44 ↗ um have

23:47 ↗ that and it and to say it will it will

23:50 ↗ mostly be a probably a very short um

23:54 ↗ couple slides that represent this um

23:57 ↗ that represent this content you could

23:59 ↗ choose I've seen some groups just split

24:01 ↗ up their report and each read a

24:03 ↗ different section um we probably have a

24:05 ↗ little bit of Le way and how you'd like

24:07 ↗ the information presented to them

24:10 ↗ um I'm happy to attend and Present part

24:15 ↗ if we break up slides I can't commit to

24:18 ↗ anything till I know dat because I have

24:20 ↗ events that I do totally fair I'm happy

24:24 ↗ to

24:25 ↗ attend I'm also happy to attend and

24:27 ↗ support

24:31 ↗ same okay so I think maybe once we

24:34 ↗ figure out a date we can kind of slot in

24:37 ↗ you know and it sounds like there's

24:38 ↗ multiple people willing and able to

24:41 ↗ present so we could think about like

24:43 ↗ dividing get out yep yeah I think it's

24:47 ↗ uh I think we're ready to like continue

24:50 ↗ to increase the the visibility of equity

24:52 ↗ in the city so I'm glad everyone is

24:56 ↗ willing to support that

24:59 ↗ great The Next Step will be from me um

25:02 ↗ and what I'll do is following tonight

25:04 ↗ I'll find out what um what potential

25:07 ↗ evenings we have to have this on the

25:10 ↗ council agenda um and I will email back

25:13 ↗ out to the group our potential dates and

25:16 ↗ sus out availability um usually count I

25:19 ↗ mean Council meetings are on Monday

25:20 ↗ evenings um both the council meeting the

25:23 ↗ regular meetings and the committee of

25:24 ↗ the whole which is a gathering of um all

25:27 ↗ the members of the city council usually

25:30 ↗ plus or minus the mayor she often calls

25:32 ↗ in for them but she doesn't preside over

25:33 ↗ those meetings so if I had to reckon

25:35 ↗ we'd probably go to a regular meeting um

25:38 ↗ given that we'd want the mayor to be

25:40 ↗ there as well yeah so that's the Monday

25:42 ↗ evening they're all Mondays yeah I am

25:46 ↗ probably not available okay good to

25:51 ↗ know I can help organize the

25:56 ↗ presentation okay I will follow up with

25:58 ↗ the group um when I have dates possible

26:02 ↗ dates thank you thank Youk you thank you

26:06 ↗ work on oh my go work of

26:10 ↗ course I will say one of the best thing

26:12 ↗ not one of the best I think the uh the

26:16 ↗ the structure we put in place also about

26:18 ↗ reporting out the following was very

26:21 ↗ helpful for this becoming um this report

26:26 ↗ coming together because I had notes

26:28 ↗ literally on everything that we did and

26:30 ↗ then everything the city did as a result

26:31 ↗ of that um so kudos to the board for

26:35 ↗ implementing that structure because it

26:36 ↗ really makes sharing out a lot

26:40 ↗ easier okay then I think we're ready to

26:43 ↗ top work plan final review and

26:46 ↗ approval we are indeed so also in your

26:49 ↗ packet for tonight was um was the

26:53 ↗ updated version of the work plan

26:56 ↗ following our conversation in December

26:59 ↗ um if you remember some of the additions

27:01 ↗ through the feedback um so we already

27:03 ↗ had Equity impact assessment training

27:06 ↗ for boards and commissions uh framework

27:09 ↗ and glossery we actually we added the

27:11 ↗ Deb glossery of terms specifically

27:13 ↗ moving to have a update in uh June

27:17 ↗ rather than just at the end of the year

27:19 ↗ and then we also added community and

27:21 ↗ cultural events which was um referenced

27:23 ↗ throughout but hadn't been like

27:25 ↗ specifically stated as one of our

27:27 ↗ general work plan it items so that was

27:29 ↗ added up here to the top we had a robust

27:33 ↗ discussion around some of the future and

27:35 ↗ potential items but also um the addition

27:39 ↗ of and actually I'm wondering if it

27:41 ↗ should be under our administrative

27:43 ↗ section um but the these four items down

27:45 ↗ here on the bottom we talked a lot about

27:48 ↗ the their potential role in the new year

27:51 ↗ so one was around new member orientation

27:54 ↗ so what do the materials we did it we

27:56 ↗ did at do something a little bit

27:57 ↗ different this year here um in that we

28:00 ↗ partnered people up to sort of have an

28:02 ↗ onboarding buddy uh we also held um some

28:05 ↗ social space which we'll do again um

28:08 ↗ this spring for new members um but

28:11 ↗ adding maybe some more robust materials

28:14 ↗ I think we we discovered that the

28:16 ↗ framework we're going to talk about

28:17 ↗ tonight Leslie had not seen um and that

28:20 ↗ was an oversight on my part um so making

28:23 ↗ sure that we've got a clear idea of what

28:25 ↗ we want um folks as they enter um the

28:27 ↗ board in May and June um what we want to

28:29 ↗ make sure they're equipped with uh we

28:32 ↗ also talked about uh strategic plan

28:35 ↗ implementation I spoke a little bit in

28:37 ↗ my report tonight about some items

28:39 ↗ excuse me that I think will come to the

28:40 ↗ board this year as a result of that um

28:43 ↗ but sort of at some point this year

28:46 ↗ getting clear on on how the equity board

28:49 ↗ will support in the implementation of

28:50 ↗ the Strategic plan and specifically the

28:53 ↗ city's 2025 priorities which are almost

28:55 ↗ ready to be published and I will share

28:57 ↗ with this group at February meeting we

29:00 ↗ also had a a really great conversation

29:03 ↗ that I I don't think has moved too far

29:05 ↗ forward um but about potential

29:07 ↗ collaboration or support of the youth

29:09 ↗ Advisory Board in some goals and aims

29:11 ↗ they might have um I've reached out to

29:14 ↗ the staff member that staffs that group

29:17 ↗ um and so we're looking at potentially

29:18 ↗ doing a joint meeting with youth

29:20 ↗ Advisory board at some point here um

29:22 ↗ probably in the second quarter um and

29:24 ↗ then ongoing Disaster Recovery that was

29:26 ↗ something that came up as something the

29:28 ↗ board was interested in knowing more

29:29 ↗ about um we will have a presentation in

29:32 ↗ February or I don't know if you want to

29:34 ↗ call it presentation Jared um and David

29:37 ↗ are going to come in February to share

29:40 ↗ more about the city's disaster recovery

29:43 ↗ and then the ongoing work that's being

29:44 ↗ done also the lessons learned and the

29:47 ↗ way that they're thinking about

29:48 ↗ preparing the city for the future um as

29:50 ↗ well when it comes to emergency response

29:52 ↗ so they'll have both data um on the

29:55 ↗ recovery and the the impacts but they'll

29:57 ↗ also be able to talk talk about here's

29:59 ↗ what we learned like resilience hubs we

30:01 ↗ stood them up here's what we learned

30:02 ↗ through that process and here's what

30:03 ↗ we're already changing um and you you

30:06 ↗ may get some insights into that even

30:07 ↗ before they're here in February because

30:09 ↗ I think you have a meeting at the end of

30:11 ↗ January um the 21st in fact just learned

30:15 ↗ that today I got invited to it I'm gonna

30:17 ↗ be on vacation but wish I could be there

30:20 ↗ um so those four items were added as

30:22 ↗ well one thing we talked about in great

30:24 ↗ detail but it didn't necessarily I think

30:27 ↗ really end

30:28 ↗ in the work plan was this sort of

30:30 ↗ discussion that that maybe in some ways

30:33 ↗ ends up in this community and cultural

30:34 ↗ events place but we talked a lot about

30:36 ↗ you know being in spaces and places um

30:41 ↗ to really better understand the

30:43 ↗ different experiences of um community

30:46 ↗ members uh that didn't necessarily I

30:49 ↗ feel like really concretize into a work

30:52 ↗ plan item uh but I do think also might

30:55 ↗ might manifest in a few of our work plan

30:58 ↗ items that are already in here so

31:00 ↗ whether it's attending and being at or

31:01 ↗ being in supportive events um or some of

31:04 ↗ this the training that I think we'll

31:07 ↗ we'll work on developing for our boards

31:09 ↗ and commissions um I think there's some

31:11 ↗ potential there to have um do some

31:13 ↗ listening and gather some some

31:16 ↗ information through that experience so

31:19 ↗ those were the big changes that were

31:20 ↗ made um following the feedback from um

31:24 ↗ the past meeting in December and so

31:27 ↗ tonight are our work is to um approve

31:31 ↗ this work plan um

31:33 ↗ for the year knowing that uh it changes

31:38 ↗ and adapts so it's we're not approving

31:39 ↗ something that will never change again

31:40 ↗ we're approving something that says this

31:42 ↗ is generally what we want to be working

31:44 ↗ on this year uh knowing that we're open

31:46 ↗ to other items ending up here over the

31:49 ↗ course of the

31:52 ↗ Year question or I guess move making

31:55 ↗ movements and then discussion I can take

31:57 ↗ question First St so I I do have a

32:01 ↗ question so for the the new items the

32:03 ↗ blue section I know we don't have any

32:05 ↗ dates like penciled in um should we

32:10 ↗ before we approve it or are we

32:12 ↗ comfortable with moving ahead without

32:14 ↗ having some plan of mind like for the

32:17 ↗ new member orientation I think we would

32:19 ↗ probably want to start that in March so

32:21 ↗ that's ready to go for May you know for

32:23 ↗ example I do think I do think it will it

32:26 ↗ will have to happen in March and uh

32:29 ↗ April and we do have below some

32:32 ↗ discussion of board recruitment um and I

32:34 ↗ think we could probably slot that in

32:35 ↗ there as well so if we wanted to say in

32:38 ↗ March and April really want to think

32:40 ↗ about your member orientation that would

32:42 ↗ be totally thank I think we have Canal

32:46 ↗ on board now oh nice hi

32:51 ↗ Canal I know he had

32:56 ↗ a 30 great to have

32:59 ↗ you sorry sorry I'm late worry you do

33:03 ↗ not need to

33:06 ↗ apologize we are just in the middle

33:08 ↗ Kunal of discussing the work plan and

33:11 ↗ one of the things pry has proposed is um

33:14 ↗ with these items down here at the bottom

33:16 ↗ the future potential work items

33:18 ↗ potentially just making a statement

33:20 ↗ about when abouts we think we might want

33:22 ↗ to work on them so getting a little more

33:24 ↗ committed on the

33:25 ↗ timeline okay sounds good

33:31 ↗ yeah and the Strategic plan

33:32 ↗ implementation I don't exactly it sounds

33:35 ↗ like there's a few different tabs on

33:37 ↗ that um so it's hard to say yeah and

33:41 ↗ I'll have that that is the I I will have

33:43 ↗ more

33:44 ↗ clarity at the end of this

33:47 ↗ month and probably throughout the first

33:50 ↗ quarter and so um you'll get more

33:55 ↗ information I I think yeah I I can't

33:57 ↗ even say I came out of a meeting today

33:59 ↗ and I was like okay time to think about

34:01 ↗ a strategy um so we're we're still

34:03 ↗ really in the early stages of that so

34:05 ↗ that might end up being middle of the

34:08 ↗ year more like I'm actually okay leaving

34:11 ↗ the timing a bit more flexible because

34:14 ↗ I'm struggling figuring out how we

34:16 ↗ getting this ongoing disaster because

34:18 ↗ we're still Gathering data so totally we

34:20 ↗ can say Yeah March April but we're

34:23 ↗ making guesstimates

34:25 ↗ and also we don't know what

34:28 ↗ there's a lot of information to gather

34:30 ↗ in the next couple months so I'm happy

34:32 ↗ to also revisit and not really put out

34:34 ↗ dates till another time and then revisit

34:36 ↗ this in March April Y and even the youth

34:39 ↗ advisory you really don't have control

34:41 ↗ over that because we need you need to

34:43 ↗ really work with that group so I don't

34:45 ↗ want to rush and put things when they're

34:48 ↗ not

34:48 ↗ really indicative of what we truly

34:52 ↗ think yeah I think we can we can

34:54 ↗ absolutely modify and adjust as we go

34:56 ↗ and as we check in like we know we're

34:58 ↗ going to have Jared and David here in

34:59 ↗ February so we can mark that one as like

35:02 ↗ that'll be part of our ongoing

35:03 ↗ engagement with information about that

35:05 ↗ but I mean this this will be updated at

35:08 ↗ least a couple of times over the course

35:09 ↗ of the year um definitely in May at the

35:14 ↗ very latest

35:15 ↗ so I do think committing to or new

35:18 ↗ member orientation stuff before the new

35:20 ↗ members show up does feel like a good

35:21 ↗ thing too that was the only one that I

35:23 ↗ could actually think of real dates for

35:26 ↗ but I understand like the flexibility

35:28 ↗ for the other ones yeah how do other

35:30 ↗ folks

35:31 ↗ feel I think leaving them um open gives

35:34 ↗ us a lot more flexibility at this point

35:36 ↗ so yeah neor of

35:40 ↗ that raise ning as well okay okay any qu

35:45 ↗ other questions before we make a motion

35:48 ↗ to approve and

35:55 ↗ vote so make a motion to

35:59 ↗ approve

36:01 ↗ second okay any edits comments

36:06 ↗ discussion

36:09 ↗ needed V so those in favor of approving

36:13 ↗ the plan say I

36:16 ↗ I those who are against say

36:20 ↗ nay I didn't say

36:22 ↗ I any

36:25 ↗ exensions oh can are you V saw him

36:29 ↗ probally say I he didn't say

36:33 ↗ anything sorry I I didn't realize I was

36:35 ↗ on mute okay thanks gal okay so I think

36:39 ↗ we've passed unanimously indeed

36:43 ↗ okay and there's nothing more to talk

36:45 ↗ about on that topic so we go to our

36:47 ↗ third topic of the evening which is a

36:50 ↗ discussion of the equity framework um I

36:54 ↗ brought a physical copy I didn't bring a

36:56 ↗ physical I didn't print out everything

36:57 ↗ for tonight but I did print out this

37:06 ↗ um um so for a little bit of History um

37:11 ↗ I think it's worth it to have history

37:12 ↗ also because we got a few folks who are

37:14 ↗ this is a new new brand new new um but

37:18 ↗ also um has has evolved I think a little

37:21 ↗ bit over time and actually predates my

37:24 ↗ time supporting the equity board um the

37:27 ↗ city of two two years ago now maybe two

37:30 ↗ and a half years ago um was working with

37:33 ↗ a a consultant on our our Equity work um

37:38 ↗ what did Equity look like at the city of

37:40 ↗ isqua um and really a lot of that work

37:44 ↗ looked like creating uh first and

37:46 ↗ foremost a tool that staff could use to

37:49 ↗ help ensure that Equity was being

37:51 ↗ considered specifically in decisions

37:53 ↗ that would that in all decisions but

37:56 ↗ very much in decisions that we knew uh

38:00 ↗ would impact or would have something to

38:02 ↗ do with the community itself um and so

38:05 ↗ this product which came through the

38:07 ↗ equity board for feedback um was

38:10 ↗ designed first and foremost by that um

38:12 ↗ consultant partner that we had at the

38:14 ↗ time um and the recommendation for staff

38:18 ↗ was to start using it um and in fact we

38:20 ↗ went through a process of having all of

38:23 ↗ our staff departments commit to um one

38:28 ↗ project program decision- making point

38:30 ↗ that they saw coming up on a project or

38:32 ↗ program um and use this tool to help

38:36 ↗ them uh make a more Equitable decision

38:39 ↗ and then come to the equity board to

38:41 ↗ share a bit about their process using

38:44 ↗ the tool um you'll notice I'm calling it

38:47 ↗ a tool and not a framework I have a have

38:50 ↗ an opinion I don't mind that it's on the

38:52 ↗ record that this is not a full framework

38:54 ↗ this is a set of questions um that helps

38:57 ↗ at one point in a in a Project's life

39:01 ↗ cycle um and I would even say like one

39:02 ↗ decision point in one part of one

39:04 ↗ Project's life cycle um

39:08 ↗ to hopefully have a take a more

39:10 ↗ Equitable approach um it is not

39:13 ↗ necessarily a full framework for

39:16 ↗ decision-making and understanding the

39:18 ↗ impact of the decisions that are made um

39:21 ↗ and so over the course of the last year

39:23 ↗ and a half and I included in the

39:25 ↗ materials for tonight um some some

39:27 ↗ presentation moments to go back and

39:30 ↗ potentially take a look at um to refresh

39:32 ↗ memories or to have initial memories for

39:35 ↗ the first time um over how the questions

39:38 ↗ have been used and the feedback from

39:42 ↗ those departments on what was helpful um

39:45 ↗ what was maybe less helpful or felt more

39:47 ↗ redundant and what was maybe incomplete

39:49 ↗ about this tool I think the hope for

39:51 ↗ this year is that we that you as a board

39:56 ↗ are able to give feedback on what what

39:59 ↗ more needs to exist around this tool um

40:02 ↗ for it to become truly a framework um

40:05 ↗ and not simply a set of questions does

40:07 ↗ that look like changes to the questions

40:10 ↗ um does that look like I shared a few

40:12 ↗ examples also in the materials for

40:14 ↗ tonight um from other um from other

40:17 ↗ jurisdictions that have done some

40:19 ↗ thinking around this um what does this

40:21 ↗ really look like U and what does the

40:23 ↗ evolution of this tool look like that

40:25 ↗ given what you've already heard from

40:27 ↗ from and seen from City staff you'd like

40:30 ↗ to see the next level um and so this is

40:34 ↗ just this is a beginning discussion this

40:35 ↗ is as you can see in the agenda for

40:37 ↗ tonight has a d next to it there's no

40:39 ↗ action necessarily needed this is sort

40:41 ↗ of a brainstorming opportunity for this

40:43 ↗ group to start thinking about like okay

40:45 ↗ we've now the city's been using this now

40:48 ↗ for about 18 months you know we've seen

40:52 ↗ some of the evidence of the impact of

40:54 ↗ using it um what feels like the next

40:57 ↗ level of the work that you as the equity

40:59 ↗ board would like to see um from City

41:01 ↗ staff um that might lead to a this this

41:05 ↗ tool evolving um I guess it's a long and

41:07 ↗ short so this is kind of open discussion

41:09 ↗ time um there's no um There's No Agenda

41:13 ↗ necessarily where we land tonight um but

41:16 ↗ it's about 6:52 and we have 30 or 40

41:19 ↗ minutes uh to cheat

41:27 ↗ I think one of my wonders

41:30 ↗ is it becomes a burden to use it when

41:33 ↗ you have to go through so many different

41:35 ↗ questions like does this really apply

41:37 ↗ what am I doing on this is useless and

41:39 ↗ sometimes it can frustrate people are

41:41 ↗ already busy working and thinking and

41:44 ↗ believing and knowing that they're doing

41:46 ↗ important work and I'm wondering if we

41:49 ↗ can um group some of these questions

41:53 ↗ based on different types of work people

41:56 ↗ are doing y like Community engagement

41:59 ↗ versus decision making on a policy and

42:02 ↗ plan or

42:04 ↗ Communications with stuff or introducing

42:08 ↗ starting a new project or budget

42:12 ↗ planning you know so and it's not

42:15 ↗ that certain questions are only going to

42:17 ↗ be in certain categories there could be

42:20 ↗ some there will be you know they might

42:22 ↗ fit in multiple categories but how do we

42:26 ↗ make it so it doesn't feel redundant or

42:27 ↗ useless and we can call out or highlight

42:31 ↗ like the top three or four questions at

42:33 ↗ least that we really want people to

42:35 ↗ focus on in that situation and then they

42:40 ↗ can prioritize those and maybe consider

42:43 ↗ the other ones

42:44 ↗ that just to make it a little bit and

42:47 ↗ I'm not saying easier is better but

42:49 ↗ easier sometimes will result and people

42:51 ↗ using it more frequently and

42:53 ↗ internalizing it and then saying oh what

42:55 ↗ else could we do to improve what we

42:57 ↗ doing over

42:59 ↗ time

43:03 ↗ y yeah I was thinking the same thing

43:06 ↗ more now like 11 12 and 13 almost could

43:09 ↗ be

43:11 ↗ wrong and to

43:13 ↗ be maybe hone in on something that

43:15 ↗ they've experienced and tie it into

43:18 ↗ those questions because it's a it's a

43:20 ↗ lot of thinking they going through is

43:21 ↗ try to think about answers to these

43:23 ↗ questions there might be

43:26 ↗ one but they can elaborate on one

43:29 ↗ scenario that they could use as an

43:31 ↗ example um that they can that like 11 12

43:36 ↗ 13 can be binded on just recall a

43:38 ↗ specific scenario that you encountered

43:40 ↗ that would benefit you asking this

43:43 ↗ question um whether it be on your

43:46 ↗ day-to-day work or a specific quarterly

43:49 ↗ meeting that you attended you know they

43:52 ↗ just they're very very broad um when you

43:55 ↗ ask about them

43:57 ↗ particular decision although I mean that

43:59 ↗ one I mean it's asking you 11 is asking

44:01 ↗ you a particular decision that's good

44:03 ↗ right so think about that moment when

44:05 ↗ you made that particular decision and

44:06 ↗ what was the equity thought process add

44:09 ↗ an equity lens to that I see 12 13 along

44:11 ↗ the sides so to summarize what I just

44:14 ↗ said combining them into

44:17 ↗ one would be good to minimize this

44:20 ↗ because 13 questions a lot for somebody

44:22 ↗ to

44:23 ↗ go on when you get them Ray you know

44:25 ↗ what I just noticed is that you bringing

44:28 ↗ that up like it actually is really

44:30 ↗ interesting I wonder the first point at

44:32 ↗ which someone is asked to Define what

44:34 ↗ decision they're making in this series

44:36 ↗ of questions and I think it is not until

44:38 ↗ you get down to there um because because

44:41 ↗ I think the idea is like you're making a

44:43 ↗ decision about something it's the

44:45 ↗ particular decision you should be like

44:46 ↗ inputting that you should be like our

44:48 ↗ water shut off policy or who who is

44:51 ↗ prioritized or who is I don't even know

44:54 ↗ how I would un phrase that but like that

44:56 ↗ almost needs to to happen at the top for

44:59 ↗ someone is like what is the decision

45:02 ↗ that I'm considering right

45:04 ↗ now and then some sort of start of

45:06 ↗ questions I hadn't actually thought

45:08 ↗ about that before I wonder if we have

45:10 ↗ something more to guide them to like for

45:12 ↗ 13 what are the unintended consequences

45:16 ↗ so like what are the

45:17 ↗ consequences to identify them first

45:20 ↗ before we figure out what the unintended

45:23 ↗ and the other one was uh sometimes when

45:26 ↗ I work with people I find that they

45:29 ↗ don't even know what are the groups that

45:31 ↗ are going to be who there's no

45:34 ↗ perception is who's going to whose view

45:37 ↗ is not being considered I think before

45:40 ↗ we do the knots we've got to say who is

45:44 ↗ being considered or maybe even to help

45:47 ↗ them help has have a framework like who

45:50 ↗ is in our community so identify who all

45:54 ↗ this is

45:55 ↗ being done

45:58 ↗ what your consideration is who are you

46:00 ↗ trying to help what does this group look

46:02 ↗ like to you and then once you have that

46:05 ↗ documented then you can say

46:08 ↗ oh I'll be making sure that every single

46:10 ↗ person in this group is being is

46:14 ↗ represented who is missing in this group

46:17 ↗ right and then as you're doing the work

46:19 ↗ to really say will they how will they

46:22 ↗ benefit who is not really or if we

46:24 ↗ looking to get voices did you get voices

46:27 ↗ from these groups because sometimes

46:30 ↗ people do work but they only hear from

46:32 ↗ one group all using one person's

46:35 ↗ perception so maybe to be a better

46:39 ↗ framework we have guidelines and an

46:41 ↗ outline on how you start with putting in

46:44 ↗ data like these are the groups that

46:47 ↗ we're trying to support this is what the

46:50 ↗ decision is intended to do this

46:53 ↗ is so that when they go through this

46:57 ↗ then they can say who is unintended who

47:00 ↗ is negative impact who's not being ConEd

47:03 ↗ whose voices were not heard as I ran the

47:06 ↗ report or collected data from the

47:08 ↗ community this is a data we had you know

47:11 ↗ 70 80% of the fact people reported were

47:14 ↗ white and 20% were Asians we didn't get

47:19 ↗ everybody else's

47:21 ↗ y yeah I agree I think the questions

47:24 ↗ like they really help um encourage like

47:27 ↗ thinking um like inclusively um

47:29 ↗ especially with marginalized communities

47:31 ↗ but like Lona and Ray said just like one

47:34 ↗ thing I noticed when I was looking at

47:35 ↗ this before um was like the last part of

47:38 ↗ question three like have I considered

47:40 ↗ how to mitigate harmful results in

47:41 ↗ question 13 like are kind of similar so

47:44 ↗ I could somewhat um combine those and if

47:48 ↗ we were to add more questions um

47:50 ↗ something El was thinking about was like

47:52 ↗ what steps one can take to address the

47:54 ↗ needs of marginalized populations

47:56 ↗ identified when you're making like

47:58 ↗ decisions or like planning a project and

48:00 ↗ also like what mediums are in place to

48:03 ↗ gather feedback if we face like these

48:05 ↗ unintended consequences but um like both

48:08 ↗ of them said I think grouping it based

48:09 ↗ on planning or projects or just like

48:13 ↗ what message each question is like

48:14 ↗ trying to convey would be um more

48:17 ↗ effective and also really helpful for

48:18 ↗ the staff will you repeat both those

48:21 ↗ questions that you recommended I

48:25 ↗ can last on

48:40 ↗ you just rushed through that that gold

48:43 ↗ right there

49:01 ↗ so I think for me Andale I you kind of

49:05 ↗ suggested this earlier on the set of

49:09 ↗ questions are to me centered on like a

49:12 ↗ planning process or a program design

49:15 ↗ process so it's like an early stage

49:20 ↗ of like

49:23 ↗ understanding context right so like

49:27 ↗ population most impacted who are those

49:29 ↗ groups you know using like population

49:32 ↗ level data um I think there's an

49:34 ↗ opportunity here to hone it in and so

49:37 ↗ once you know like the impacted groups

49:40 ↗ talk to people from those impacted

49:41 ↗ groups get information from them I would

49:44 ↗ go further and even start talking about

49:46 ↗ like go to Solutions with those groups

49:49 ↗ you know like so to me this is kind of

49:52 ↗ has elements of a planning process and

49:55 ↗ like a self-reflection of personal

49:57 ↗ biases right what biases am I bringing

49:59 ↗ to the table that could impact how I'm

50:02 ↗ thinking about these issues but to me

50:04 ↗ this is mostly situated in like planning

50:07 ↗ and designing something probably

50:10 ↗ new um I think when I looked at the

50:14 ↗ other uh examples you shared those are

50:17 ↗ much more so there's like planning and

50:19 ↗ then there's the doing of it in

50:21 ↗ collecting you know performance data

50:24 ↗ probably opportunities for disaggregated

50:26 ↗ data it's of these things we have built

50:27 ↗ into like operationalizing equity in the

50:30 ↗ Strategic plan which is great and then

50:32 ↗ evaluating like what you know like the

50:35 ↗ the consequences and the UN unintended

50:37 ↗ consequences so that's like so I think

50:41 ↗ there's an opportunity to complete the

50:42 ↗ like plan do check Y and adjust cycle um

50:47 ↗ with the the way the other questions the

50:49 ↗ other examples have framed it and this

50:52 ↗ is uh probably too much for like that

50:54 ↗ initial planning and Design so I I do

50:57 ↗ think we could uh do this a little bit

51:00 ↗ more efficiently yeah than what we

51:05 ↗ have

51:07 ↗ um trying to think so yeah so I I think

51:11 ↗ that's the big thing and I think there's

51:13 ↗ like components of this already put

51:14 ↗ together with like that Community

51:16 ↗ engagement toolkit that's already been

51:19 ↗ drafted um I think and then when I was

51:23 ↗ looking at some of those examples when

51:25 ↗ we've had the the presentations the

51:26 ↗ different groups it also sounded like

51:29 ↗ the lack of data meaningful data was a

51:32 ↗ big barrier and so I think we need to

51:35 ↗ leverage the equity impact

51:38 ↗ um assessment process and maybe like

51:41 ↗ even start with what what are data

51:43 ↗ points that our departments you know and

51:47 ↗ programs need in order to do have

51:50 ↗ meaningful change in their work and

51:53 ↗ maybe start thinking about that being

51:54 ↗ part of that data agenda

51:57 ↗ for the equity impact

52:00 ↗ assessment so those are some of my

52:02 ↗ initial thoughts here oh and I guess the

52:04 ↗ other thing is I know there's a similar

52:07 ↗ Well a different targeted universalism

52:10 ↗ as a framework and so when you know like

52:13 ↗ this some of these say like set the

52:14 ↗ outcome or like what is the decision

52:16 ↗ being made what is that Universal goal

52:18 ↗ we want for everyone and then you use

52:21 ↗ data to understand how far away

52:23 ↗ different groups are from that Universal

52:25 ↗ goal and then you identify like unique

52:28 ↗ strategies for each group or sometimes

52:30 ↗ several groups might have a same the

52:32 ↗ same strategy to reach you know the

52:34 ↗ universal goal and some of that thinking

52:37 ↗ might be a way to break this down so

52:39 ↗ everyone has the same goal we're trying

52:41 ↗ to keep in mind but it's a recognition

52:42 ↗ that the step the ladder the tools they

52:46 ↗ need are different um and I think that

52:49 ↗ could be a nice way to communicate about

52:51 ↗ it

52:54 ↗ yeah I like that because that's truly

52:56 ↗ about Equity right and the whole thing

52:59 ↗ about the ramp versus the stairs you

53:01 ↗ built the ramp everyone can access it

53:03 ↗ versus cleaning the stairs and not

53:06 ↗ everyone might ex

53:14 ↗ access right can I throw out an example

53:17 ↗ so having listened to some of these

53:18 ↗ meetings that happened with the other

53:20 ↗ committees and I'll just take the Human

53:22 ↗ Services Group that we met with so they

53:26 ↗ would be looking

53:27 ↗ to a formalized version of this and how

53:30 ↗ they can incorporate it into their

53:32 ↗ meetings so there's an equity lens to it

53:35 ↗ this is still focused on City staff

53:37 ↗ staff okay not not and specifically but

53:40 ↗ but I do think part of part of what the

53:44 ↗ training for other boards and

53:45 ↗ commissions could look like would be a a

53:49 ↗ whatever paired down version of this

53:51 ↗ that we're thinking about for staff I

53:52 ↗ think our boards and commissions are

53:54 ↗ always making community you know

53:57 ↗ decision-making questions and especially

53:59 ↗ if there's like this self-reflection

54:01 ↗ piece um I mean I think it would be a

54:03 ↗ tool Ray that would be Universal for

54:05 ↗ everyone and you mentioned data a few

54:07 ↗ times so like this like the parks and

54:09 ↗ rec group were the ones use them as an

54:11 ↗ example they come into our meetings and

54:13 ↗ they say oh we we recommend a and C well

54:16 ↗ was that decision made because of some

54:18 ↗ data sets that you came across because

54:20 ↗ there X number of of ethnicities that

54:23 ↗ that are more prevalent to using your

54:25 ↗ your services so we'd stop them and say

54:28 ↗ um if that wasn't in there maybe that's

54:30 ↗ a good data point that you can leverage

54:33 ↗ and that'll be more convincing as far as

54:35 ↗ a narrative because they said that we we

54:37 ↗ touched on this ethnic group more than

54:39 ↗ any others or we know that this ethnic

54:40 ↗ group utilized our services more than

54:43 ↗ others that would pause them and say oh

54:45 ↗ yeah we didn't think about that so let's

54:47 ↗ be more sensitive to that that um

54:49 ↗ group's needs right

54:52 ↗ okay and I think you you just touched on

54:55 ↗ um I I think the the conversation uh

54:57 ↗ that happened a few minutes ago which is

54:59 ↗ who the audience is for this because

55:01 ↗ that was the first thing and so since

55:02 ↗ that it's it's focused on um the city

55:05 ↗ then it makes sense because when I'm

55:07 ↗ looking at this I'm thinking if uh there

55:09 ↗ is discussion about engaging in a

55:12 ↗ contract making it um for services

55:14 ↗ making competitive and using this

55:17 ↗ framework in terms of uh the selection

55:19 ↗ of biders um things along that line so

55:23 ↗ um thank you for answering the question

55:24 ↗ you all as far as who the audience is it

55:27 ↗ makes sense I think if this is used

55:30 ↗ eventually and I hope that it is for um

55:32 ↗ other uh boards and commissions that it

55:35 ↗ could be paired down so when they're

55:37 ↗ having particular discussions or uh kind

55:40 ↗ of a decision points that they're kind

55:43 ↗ of using a very truncated version of

55:45 ↗ this to kind of guide their decisions

55:47 ↗ when so they have kind of a frame of

55:49 ↗ equity in their their minds when they're

55:51 ↗ even in a small way in terms of what

55:54 ↗ they're doing as a border commission so

55:57 ↗ yeah thank you for that Clarity oh of

55:59 ↗ course and I think you're right this is

56:01 ↗ not an equity framework so maybe we

56:03 ↗ retitled this document as we're working

56:06 ↗ on truly a framework and you know Equity

56:09 ↗ guidelines of uh

56:11 ↗ Equity considerations because really

56:14 ↗ it's it is what we're hoping staff City

56:18 ↗ staff consider as

56:20 ↗ their thinking of a project making a

56:23 ↗ decision working on Communications

56:25 ↗ working on different things and so it is

56:29 ↗ not there's not enough in there for it

56:32 ↗ to be a framework and so but this it's a

56:35 ↗ great starting point

56:38 ↗ yeah so I'm I'm working on something

56:41 ↗ related for a different organization

56:44 ↗ and we're also thinking of it in a

56:47 ↗ couple different ways one is like should

56:51 ↗ a set of questions or should there be

56:53 ↗ like a a template that

56:57 ↗ adapts for what the it is so if it's

57:00 ↗ like a policy decision a set of

57:03 ↗ questions might be slightly different

57:05 ↗ versus a new program versus like I don't

57:09 ↗ know like a Contracting process or

57:12 ↗ something right and so maybe like it's

57:14 ↗ more adaptable it's yeah so something

57:16 ↗ that is a little bit more adaptable and

57:18 ↗ then so that's like by function but then

57:21 ↗ I think there could be an opportunity to

57:24 ↗ refine questions based on the policy

57:26 ↗ area like something that's more

57:29 ↗ environments or land use related it it's

57:32 ↗ probably more about geography than it is

57:34 ↗ about like human populations you know or

57:38 ↗ there's there's some some you know like

57:39 ↗ it's more spatial versus people so I

57:43 ↗ mean that could start getting really

57:45 ↗ complicated but I think there could be

57:47 ↗ this like it it might almost need to be

57:50 ↗ kind something that gets developed by

57:52 ↗ committee so there's like a a standard

57:54 ↗ one and then people who are like subject

57:57 ↗ matter experts in different policy areas

57:58 ↗ or different like project managers

58:00 ↗ versus urban planners or something they

58:03 ↗ like figure out what is the right kind

58:05 ↗ of set of questions for that body of

58:08 ↗ work or Community engagers you know this

58:11 ↗ could also be the initial one and then

58:14 ↗ we ask them but what all did you

58:16 ↗ consider and as they answer those

58:18 ↗ questions we take those those things

58:21 ↗ that they were considering and help them

58:24 ↗ you know document it for future thoughts

58:27 ↗ and add it to different groups so then

58:29 ↗ you're building it as because it has to

58:32 ↗ be adaptable and it has to be it it it's

58:36 ↗ not a technical solution we don't want

58:37 ↗ to create a checkbox system because

58:39 ↗ that's not going to work this is about

58:42 ↗ guided questions because it's more of a

58:44 ↗ way of thinking

58:49 ↗ yes I do Wonder also moving kind of more

58:53 ↗ into implementation if there's a way to

58:55 ↗ track it

58:56 ↗ like I know you

58:57 ↗ like I can't imagine how much time it

59:00 ↗ took you to dig into like you know that

59:01 ↗ little table of like when when different

59:03 ↗ people talked about it at what time in

59:05 ↗ the meeting in the YouTube video it was

59:07 ↗ right but if we had like a a process

59:10 ↗ right to capture you know the folks who

59:13 ↗ did use this tool in like a template

59:15 ↗ like a form that drops in information

59:17 ↗ and so person doing it the next time

59:19 ↗ around hopefully will learn from what

59:22 ↗ someone did pre previously that was

59:24 ↗ related and so then we can kind of

59:26 ↗ Leverage The Learning but that's more on

59:29 ↗ the implementation

59:39 ↗ side I'm having all sorts of thoughts

59:41 ↗ your thoughts are generating a lot of

59:42 ↗ thoughts over here not none that have

59:45 ↗ been I can fully articulate quite

59:52 ↗ yet it does feel like there's there's

59:54 ↗ almost some sort of like even before you

59:56 ↗ get to the program policy decision like

59:59 ↗ program or project policy decision

1:00:02 ↗ internal process are some of the like

1:00:04 ↗ buckets of work that I almost picture in

1:00:07 ↗ the sort of what you were saying it it

1:00:10 ↗ it's kind of like even there are a set

1:00:12 ↗ of questions even before that a set of

1:00:13 ↗ like sort of self-awareness questions

1:00:15 ↗ before you even get to that point yes

1:00:18 ↗ that was Readiness yeah but I think pre

1:00:22 ↗ and then there'll be some questions post

1:00:24 ↗ like

1:00:26 ↗ reflect on this what yes like what

1:00:29 ↗ happened and there has to be honestly I

1:00:32 ↗ think one of the main things we noticed

1:00:34 ↗ was the data portion

1:00:36 ↗ yeah like who did you consider who did

1:00:38 ↗ you not consider who who did you gather

1:00:40 ↗ data from I think that was one of the

1:00:43 ↗ ongoing questions we came up with so it

1:00:45 ↗ feels like that's a question that we

1:00:47 ↗ need

1:00:48 ↗ to add into this yes the data that is

1:00:52 ↗ one of the big no surprise to anyone

1:00:54 ↗ this table has been one of the big

1:00:55 ↗ things that I've felt like needed to be

1:00:57 ↗ added to whatever the evolution of this

1:00:59 ↗ looks like is like the data

1:01:01 ↗ consideration the and then whatever the

1:01:03 ↗ framework looks like but that there's

1:01:05 ↗ also then data Gathering happening

1:01:07 ↗ during the project implementation and

1:01:10 ↗ then analyze in order to understand the

1:01:12 ↗ impacts of whatever decisions were are

1:01:14 ↗ made and maybe that's a question you put

1:01:17 ↗ in for all parts as you're starting of

1:01:19 ↗ the project what kind of data would you

1:01:21 ↗ consider looking at as you're doing it

1:01:24 ↗ what kind of data are you and then V

1:01:27 ↗ what so that people are really

1:01:30 ↗ considering that at all parts and being

1:01:35 ↗ deliberate yeah because they gather data

1:01:37 ↗ but they're not deliberate making sure

1:01:39 ↗ they're getting the voice of

1:01:41 ↗ groups hi

1:01:43 ↗ shaie hi this is just very loud today

1:01:47 ↗ we've been able to hear you all very

1:01:49 ↗ loudly oh okay you're good it's not on

1:01:53 ↗ your end it's on our end

1:01:56 ↗ everyone I'm sorry about joining in late

1:01:59 ↗ no worries we're just discussing the

1:02:02 ↗ equity framework and sort of our

1:02:04 ↗ thoughts on the evolution of the

1:02:06 ↗ framework given um given what we've seen

1:02:10 ↗ and heard from City staff over the last

1:02:13 ↗ 18 months um of their use of the tool

1:02:16 ↗ and I would say to sum up where we are

1:02:18 ↗ one of the thing a few things that have

1:02:20 ↗ come up repeatedly is a need to sort of

1:02:22 ↗ both pair down some of these

1:02:24 ↗ consideration questions

1:02:26 ↗ but also build out a broader um sort of

1:02:30 ↗ an actual cycle um I'll I'll borrow it

1:02:33 ↗ with the use of like actually a plan due

1:02:36 ↗ check adjust something like that so that

1:02:39 ↗ we're not just right now it's just

1:02:40 ↗ really a set of questions that really is

1:02:43 ↗ in the planning

1:02:44 ↗ pre-planning stage so it's not really a

1:02:46 ↗ a a framework

1:02:48 ↗ necessarily um as much as just a set of

1:02:51 ↗ considerations so we've talked about

1:02:53 ↗ sort of maybe we retitle this document

1:02:55 ↗ call it considerations pair it down a

1:02:58 ↗ bit and then think about what needs to

1:03:00 ↗ go

1:03:01 ↗ around um around the considerations to

1:03:04 ↗ make it a more usable tool um but also

1:03:07 ↗ one that leads to impact being

1:03:12 ↗ assessed like that was a off a cuff

1:03:15 ↗ attempt at summarizing the last 20

1:03:17 ↗ minutes so feel free to add um folks to

1:03:21 ↗ that

1:03:27 ↗ yeah other thoughts I mean this is just

1:03:29 ↗ conversation number one what I'll what

1:03:31 ↗ I'll do with this initial conversation

1:03:32 ↗ is probably come back with like some

1:03:36 ↗ prototypes

1:03:38 ↗ um not in February because we have a

1:03:41 ↗ very full meeting in February but in

1:03:52 ↗ March and it's okay if we're at a

1:03:55 ↗ pausing point point for this evening I

1:03:56 ↗ know you know we can fill up the whole

1:03:59 ↗ time or we can we can say our brains are

1:04:02 ↗ have really been stretched this evening

1:04:03 ↗ and you know no pressure I'm happy

1:04:06 ↗ between now and March to just talk again

1:04:10 ↗ and look again because I think sometimes

1:04:12 ↗ on the spot it's hard to process but as

1:04:15 ↗ you're creating it and you have some

1:04:17 ↗ thoughts and you just want to meet up

1:04:18 ↗ with Yeah couple people up I'd be happy

1:04:21 ↗ to do yeah and I will probably send some

1:04:23 ↗ stuff out between now and then um um

1:04:26 ↗ because I'll take some time to work on

1:04:27 ↗ this a little bit um and it will be a

1:04:30 ↗ topic for our our internal Equity team

1:04:31 ↗ as well um so I was trying to scan the

1:04:35 ↗ presentations but one one thing that I

1:04:37 ↗ think would be helpful because I mean

1:04:40 ↗ the the folks presenting were trying to

1:04:41 ↗ give us their best like analysis you

1:04:44 ↗ know going through the questions but it

1:04:46 ↗ would be helpful to have like a focus

1:04:51 ↗ group or something of the folks who use

1:04:53 ↗ the tool and ask them pointed questions

1:04:55 ↗ about the yeah yeah so we can hear what

1:04:59 ↗ worked for them what didn't work um

1:05:02 ↗ where they found it the most useful

1:05:04 ↗ where they found it limiting um yeah I

1:05:08 ↗ mean I I do think like the big part is

1:05:10 ↗ like what kind of data can we make more

1:05:11 ↗ ring available for folks is that

1:05:14 ↗ something the internal Equity Group

1:05:16 ↗ could do and then you could just kind of

1:05:17 ↗ noted for us that yeah I think I think

1:05:20 ↗ we could put together like a little

1:05:22 ↗ focus group or like a survey and a focus

1:05:24 ↗ group internally and get some that

1:05:26 ↗ feedback and then I think this like what

1:05:28 ↗ kind of data question that's like a

1:05:30 ↗ that's a big that's like a big question

1:05:32 ↗ um I know one thing that we did do this

1:05:34 ↗ past year that I'm really proud of um

1:05:36 ↗ that came through our whatw workk cities

1:05:38 ↗ process is that we now have a

1:05:39 ↗ demographic data standard for all of our

1:05:42 ↗ city surveys that goes out so any survey

1:05:45 ↗ from a city from the city um includes I

1:05:48 ↗ think it's six questions six demographic

1:05:51 ↗ questions and it's standardized across

1:05:53 ↗ it's the same ones that

1:05:56 ↗ parti yeah so we're getting that

1:05:57 ↗ information now um in the places that we

1:06:01 ↗ are surveying people um we're not

1:06:03 ↗ necessarily getting that information in

1:06:05 ↗ the places where we're not directly

1:06:06 ↗ surveying the community so we're like

1:06:09 ↗ some of our administrative data doesn't

1:06:10 ↗ necessarily that's sort of opt in people

1:06:12 ↗ can share their demographic information

1:06:15 ↗ if they would like to um we're not

1:06:18 ↗ necessarily seeing like a lot of that

1:06:20 ↗ being shared

1:06:22 ↗ so something that that's like a that's

1:06:25 ↗ that's going to an ongoing problem we're

1:06:26 ↗ not going to be able to solve that

1:06:27 ↗ problem um or force people to share that

1:06:29 ↗ data with us so to think about it it

1:06:31 ↗ will always be a

1:06:33 ↗ limitation or the administrative types

1:06:37 ↗ of data or

1:06:40 ↗ like do are there customer surveys that

1:06:43 ↗ go out after some transactions where

1:06:46 ↗ maybe there could be other data captured

1:06:49 ↗ on customers there are there there are

1:06:52 ↗ in some places but it's not

1:06:56 ↗ it's not a universal policy that

1:06:58 ↗ every program is sort of gathering that

1:07:01 ↗ customer data so like I know it I know

1:07:03 ↗ we do in the permit Center um that's

1:07:06 ↗ like one that I can think of um and that

1:07:09 ↗ arose because city council set a

1:07:10 ↗ priority to for getting feedback on

1:07:12 ↗ permit Center

1:07:14 ↗ experience um but some of that sort of

1:07:17 ↗ like and one of the things I've always

1:07:19 ↗ been really fascinated with is sort of

1:07:20 ↗ you know we don't we don't do a lot of

1:07:22 ↗ like the you finish doing the thing that

1:07:25 ↗ think actually private businesses are

1:07:27 ↗ really good at is like you do the thing

1:07:28 ↗ and then they're like send you service

1:07:31 ↗ yeah they're like can you give me

1:07:32 ↗ feedback I get them from climate pled

1:07:33 ↗ Arena all the time

1:07:35 ↗ um we don't have a practice of doing

1:07:37 ↗ that yet that's something to think about

1:07:40 ↗ yeah I mean because I think you know we

1:07:42 ↗ we heard the parts department talk about

1:07:44 ↗ that type of data as being a real

1:07:47 ↗ limitation for what they know and don't

1:07:49 ↗ know yeah um like yeah maybe that's just

1:07:53 ↗ something Implement a customer

1:07:56 ↗ experience customer satisfaction survey

1:07:59 ↗ standard that captures demographic

1:08:02 ↗ characteristics as

1:08:07 ↗ well also considering collecting data

1:08:10 ↗ things like movies in the park and

1:08:14 ↗ different neighborhood activities

1:08:16 ↗ because that kind of data sometimes is

1:08:19 ↗ hard because it's

1:08:20 ↗ usually all negative if they upset about

1:08:23 ↗ something but we want to know

1:08:26 ↗ who all have not been able to use it

1:08:28 ↗ what are they hoping to use from it get

1:08:30 ↗ general information from just the

1:08:32 ↗ everyday yeah people and how do we do it

1:08:35 ↗ at more yeah community events yeah I

1:08:39 ↗ know that's something that like our um

1:08:42 ↗ our Farmers Market team does do um they

1:08:45 ↗ do a they do a lot they have a active

1:08:47 ↗ survey throughout like usually the last

1:08:48 ↗ like four or five markets of the year

1:08:50 ↗ and gather that but it is not something

1:08:52 ↗ that we do at like concerts on the green

1:08:53 ↗ or movies or anything like that so yeah

1:08:56 ↗ and those kinds of events are great

1:08:57 ↗ opportunities to collect yeah

1:09:03 ↗ servants I mean thinking about our

1:09:05 ↗ social cohesion work it's they going to

1:09:07 ↗ be hopefully ample opportunities there

1:09:09 ↗ as well

1:09:11 ↗ so definitely

1:09:22 ↗ noted any other thoughts on this at this

1:09:28 ↗ juncture Speak now or email me later

1:09:32 ↗ speak now

1:09:33 ↗ on I can email you a couple of examples

1:09:36 ↗ of like how things have function like

1:09:40 ↗ you know taking this but then breaking

1:09:42 ↗ it out for project management or

1:09:44 ↗ Community engagement or

1:09:46 ↗ Poli that would be

1:09:52 ↗ dope okay I see the rest of my time back

1:09:55 ↗ to the chair okay let's see what's on

1:09:59 ↗ the

1:10:00 ↗ agenda um all right I think we are on to

1:10:03 ↗ our closing

1:10:06 ↗ thought and this was a pretty darn

1:10:09 ↗ efficient meeting we're at like 720 and

1:10:11 ↗ I think we started out around 610 or so

1:10:17 ↗ um what

1:10:19 ↗ are what is an aspiration you have for

1:10:23 ↗ 2025 moving away from our checkout

1:10:37 ↗ word this sticking sticky

1:10:43 ↗ question I can I can start um because I

1:10:46 ↗ just my partner and I just did this the

1:10:48 ↗ other day sat down and thought about our

1:10:50 ↗ aspirations um one of my one of my key

1:10:52 ↗ aspirations for 2025 is just to be

1:10:54 ↗ present

1:10:56 ↗ in what we are in while we are in it um

1:10:59 ↗ maybe that's a bit cliched but I think

1:11:01 ↗ it's really easy

1:11:03 ↗ to think about everything that's going

1:11:06 ↗ on and get lost in a bit of Despair or a

1:11:10 ↗ little overwhelm and so I really want to

1:11:13 ↗ just I aspire to be more present where I

1:11:17 ↗ am and where I can have

1:11:22 ↗ impact I can go next

1:11:26 ↗ can did you want to go

1:11:28 ↗ next yeah I can go um so for 2025 I

1:11:32 ↗ would probably say I want to be able to

1:11:34 ↗ be more positive I guess in just every

1:11:37 ↗ single thing in my life um from like

1:11:40 ↗ sofware games soccer practices to school

1:11:43 ↗ um I feel like one thing I learned a lot

1:11:46 ↗ from 2024 was that when I'm hard on

1:11:48 ↗ myself it does not go the way I want it

1:11:51 ↗ to so I think if I try changing that

1:11:54 ↗ then maybe

1:11:55 ↗ that will result in things being better

1:11:58 ↗ so that's what I want to try and see how

1:12:00 ↗ it

1:12:01 ↗ works that's a great reflection for a

1:12:04 ↗ teenager

1:12:06 ↗ to

1:12:10 ↗ really thanks for

1:12:14 ↗ sharing mine's more tangible I think I

1:12:18 ↗ spend 20 end of 2024 in Mexico on a

1:12:22 ↗ vacation and as I was in the water one

1:12:25 ↗ day

1:12:25 ↗ was literally plastic floating up to and

1:12:29 ↗ you watch that on the news and they talk

1:12:30 ↗ about the ocean project and all of that

1:12:33 ↗ but the plastic was literally itty bitty

1:12:35 ↗ pieces that had been broken down so it's

1:12:37 ↗ not like people in in Mexico the

1:12:40 ↗ neighborhood had been throwing trash no

1:12:42 ↗ this is literally the trash in the ocean

1:12:45 ↗ yeah and it was horrifying because you

1:12:48 ↗ know it's there you know it's a problem

1:12:50 ↗ and I'm on the environmental committee

1:12:52 ↗ and Kanas and we talk about reduce reuse

1:12:56 ↗ and we know talk about many things

1:12:58 ↗ but I want to commit myself to reducing

1:13:02 ↗ my consumption of resources in general

1:13:06 ↗ not just Plastics but just reduce

1:13:08 ↗ consumption

1:13:10 ↗ because it is bad right

1:13:19 ↗ now

1:13:21 ↗ gu I guess we're toally by I want to

1:13:24 ↗ start doing like are getting into more

1:13:26 ↗ Hobbies because last year you know I was

1:13:29 ↗ doing like school stuff and like things

1:13:31 ↗ for applications and all that and while

1:13:33 ↗ it was fun you know I was busy so I want

1:13:35 ↗ to start like just moving into like fun

1:13:37 ↗ simple things like crocheting even

1:13:39 ↗ though I suck at it but you know it's

1:13:42 ↗ fun you know once in a while I think

1:13:44 ↗ besides school I want to do something

1:13:45 ↗ like I'm really passionate about um I

1:13:48 ↗ think it'll be like positive and a good

1:13:50 ↗ dear

1:13:55 ↗ um I had to give us some thought because

1:13:57 ↗ I'm like I think this is the the first

1:13:59 ↗ year I didn't do a uh a New Year's

1:14:01 ↗ resolution so I'm like oh goodness the

1:14:04 ↗ pressure um I would say I want to do

1:14:07 ↗ more meaningful work for this year and

1:14:10 ↗ what I mean by that is this that um I

1:14:13 ↗ noticed my last six months of 2024 I was

1:14:16 ↗ it was a checklist mentality I was just

1:14:18 ↗ getting stuff done I wasn't thinking a

1:14:20 ↗ lot about it or signing meeting to it or

1:14:23 ↗ anything it was just the race to a blank

1:14:26 ↗ list which is virtually impossible but I

1:14:29 ↗ think for this year I want to make sure

1:14:31 ↗ that everything that I do has some

1:14:33 ↗ meaning either for me or the people that

1:14:35 ↗ I'm delivering work for if it's for my

1:14:37 ↗ family I want to make sure that there's

1:14:38 ↗ some meaning there and I take a minute

1:14:40 ↗ with it um as opposed to being checklist

1:14:43 ↗ Lesly so yeah yeah I think that's

1:14:49 ↗ it Ray

1:14:53 ↗ shie yeah uh uh so um my 10-year-old son

1:14:58 ↗ he was playing video games one day and

1:15:01 ↗ his friend his ID was me mine and

1:15:05 ↗ myself uh which uh I found rather

1:15:08 ↗ interesting and that inspired me for

1:15:12 ↗ this year um I'm usually the person who

1:15:15 ↗ takes on projects very easily and who

1:15:19 ↗ does a lot outside of me so this year I

1:15:24 ↗ decided the Focus will be me mine and

1:15:27 ↗ myself more um just just align things

1:15:32 ↗ get more fed um and um not take anything

1:15:39 ↗ extra that I don't need to maybe say

1:15:43 ↗ learn to say no to begin with um just

1:15:47 ↗ align more things as I had to towards

1:15:49 ↗ being 50 this year so yeah

1:15:53 ↗ congratulations

1:15:55 ↗ to take care of yourself to take care of

1:15:56 ↗ others yes yes yes

1:16:01 ↗ absolutely yeah

1:16:03 ↗ um we live in such a beautiful Community

1:16:06 ↗ here and there's so much going around us

1:16:09 ↗ that isn't necessarily

1:16:11 ↗ positive so when when things don't go my

1:16:14 ↗ way I always think about Ray you are not

1:16:17 ↗ there and I'm very specific about you

1:16:19 ↗ there like for example what's been going

1:16:21 ↗ on this week in Southern California you

1:16:22 ↗ are not there so there's people who are

1:16:26 ↗ were in so much more dire need of love

1:16:29 ↗ and attention that you think you might

1:16:31 ↗ need so I try to bring that in taking my

1:16:33 ↗ dog for a walk just really absorb around

1:16:37 ↗ me being

1:16:38 ↗ grateful I'm G to try to do more that

1:16:41 ↗ because it really helps level set me

1:16:43 ↗ with whatever situation I'm

1:16:47 ↗ in feel like mine was a blond of several

1:16:49 ↗ things that were said but it it's a

1:16:51 ↗ little bit about the me myself and I and

1:16:53 ↗ the hobbies and so just like making I'm

1:16:56 ↗ making sure I'm making time for hobbies

1:17:00 ↗ and uh for myself this year so yeah

1:17:05 ↗ that's

1:17:08 ↗ Michael all right well any um I know

1:17:13 ↗ it's we can't do any other business but

1:17:15 ↗ any parting thoughts before we

1:17:21 ↗ adjourn okay well with that um let's see

1:17:26 ↗ the next meeting of the equity board is

1:17:28 ↗ scheduled for February 5th and with that

1:17:32 ↗ I adjourn this meeting at 7:28 pm thank

1:17:36 ↗ you all for your contributions

1:17:40 ↗ tonight you excent

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