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Equity Board

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

6:00 PM
Topics tracked across meetings:
Equity and the City's Boards and Commissions - Evans Consulting Group Presentation (D) 1/3
Equity Framework Implementation - Resilience Hubs 3/3
Section
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
3a
Minutes of January 8, 2024 Meeting
packet pp.3–5
Staff report:
APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 01-08-25 Equity Board Minutes Page [0000] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Equity Board 6:00 PM Steelhead Room, 235 1st Ave. January 8, 2025 MINUTES SE, Issaquah
4. CHAIR REPORT
4a
Opening Question
Priti Mody-Pan, Equity Board Chair
5. STAFF REPORT
5a
Updates from January Meeting
Dale Markey-Crimp, Assistant to the City Administrator
6. AGENDA ITEMS
6a
Equity Impact Assessment - Evans School Consulting Group
20 min · Gillian Straub, Management Analyst · packet pp.7–13
Topics: Equity
Staff report:
The Administration and the Evans School Consulting Group seek to: 1. Receive feedback on the proposed scope of work for the Evans School 2. Identify 2-3 Equity Board members to serve as an informal subcommittee for the Evans School Consulting Group to interview as needed 3. Preview that Evans School Consulting Group will bring its findings and recommendations to the Equity Board for
6b
Equity Framework Implementation - Resilience Hubs
40 min · David Reedy, Sustainability Coordinator · packet pp.15–33
Topics: Equity
Staff report:
Office of Sustainability 130 E Sunset Way | P.O. Box 1307 Issaquah, WA 98027 issaquahwa.gov
6c
2025 Work Plan Discussion with Mayor Pauly
30 min · Dale Markey-Crimp, Assistant to the City Administrator
7. OTHER BUSINESS / ANNOUNCEMENTS
7a
Closing Thought Facilitated by: Priti Mody-Pan, Equity Board Chair
5 min
Topics: Equity
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Attendance

Council / Members (10)
Ray Manahan
Shalanda Fleming
Varnika Dokka
Priti Mody-Pan
Karthik Kashinath
Lesley Millender-Irwin
Lorna Gilmour
Kelly Munn – Alternate
Shani Kapoor – Alternate
Kunal Srivastava* - Alternate (virtual attendee)
Staff (5)
Dale Markey-Crimp, Assistant to the City Administrator
Mayor Mary Lou Pauly
Gillian Straub
David Reedy
Jared Schneider
Excused
Tony Curry
Audience commenters (1)
Saba Mahanian

Recommendations & actions (3)

Sentences extracted from the narrative containing words like recommended, requested, directed, moved, or approved. Best-effort — verify against the full minutes for context.

  • Marsh asked why resilience hubs were being discussed instead of the larger issue of emergency management; she also requested that the City website be updated, and shared concerns about the terminology and reading level…
  • The minutes of the January 8, 2025 meeting were approved with one grammatical error.
  • The consulting group requested a small subset of the Equity Board to participate in their ongoing work outside of regular board meetings given the 3-month time-frame of their work.