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Wednesday, November 17, 2021

6:30 PM · 1h 31m
Topic tracked across meetings:
2023 Human Services Grants Annual Report 1/4
Section
1. CALL TO ORDER
1a
Commission Membership
packet pp.3
Staff report:
HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION Staff Liaison Monica Negrila, Human About Services & Social Created in 2007, this commission advises the Sustainability Coordinator Mayor and City Council on matters concerning Email Monica Negrila human services planning and funding. The commission plays a vital role in studying emerging issues and concerns in the human Regular Members services area to ensure that the basic survival 2022 - Manny Brown needs of Issaquah residents are met and that 2022 - Susan Leonelli support systems are in place to help people 2023 - Jaime Fajardo through economic and personal crisis. Each 2023 - Patricia Sadate- year, the commission focuses on its workplan. Ngatchou 2024 – Sarah Soriano 2025 – Trish Bloor Membership 2023 – Claire Hansen The Human Services Commission is comprised of seven regular members, with four-year Alternate Members terms; and two alternates, with…
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
3a
Minutes of October 27, 2021
packet pp.5–6
Staff report:
APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 10-27-21 Human Services Commission Minutes Page [0001] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Human Services Commission 6:30 PM Virtual Meting October 27, 2021 MINUTES
4. STAFF REPORT
4a
Updates from Mayor and City Council
5 min · Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager · packet pp.7
Staff report:
• City Council Meeting – November 1, 2021 • City Council authorized the Mayor to enter into an agreement with King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA) to administer Emergency Housing Vouchers (EHV) for people experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk of homelessness In Issaquah. The Emergency Housing Vouchers (EHV) offer long-term rental assistance and provide for initial housing search, leasing assistance and limited move in costs. An estimated number of 11 vouchers will be allocated through this agreement to Issaquah community members. Additional details regarding the program may be found by accessing the Council meeting information on the City’s webpage: https://www.issaquahwa.gov/316/City-Council • Equity Board- November 3rd, 2021 • The Equity Board officially launched on November 3rd. The first meeting consisted of members introductions, training and selection of a…
4b
Other Community & Human Services Updates, (I)
5 min · Hannah Roberts, Human Services Coordinator
Topics: Equity
5. AGENDA ITEMS
5a
Presentation about the Indian- American Community Services (I)
20 min · Lalita Uppala, Executive Director · packet pp.9–37
Staff report:
2023-2024 Human Services Grants – Process and Timeline NOVEMBER 17, 2021 HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION MEETING
5b
Human Services Grants - 2023-2024 Funding Application Timeline and Process (D)
35 min · Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager · packet pp.39
Topics: BudgetEquity
Staff report:
I - Information
5c
Issaquah Human Services Commission
10 min · Hannah Roberts, Human Services Coordinator
Topics: Equity
0:01 okay
0:03 thank you very much just to let everyone
0:04 know that we are recording
0:06 so i want to welcome everybody tonight
0:09 to the
0:11 meeting of the issaquah human services
0:14 commission on wednesday november 17th
0:16 2021.
0:19 you
0:20 will notice a couple of differences
0:22 tonight in our format because we are
0:23 going to be recording and i'm going to
0:25 run through um
0:27 just a couple of uh
0:30 quick updates uh for the commissioners
0:33 and anyone else who will be
0:34 participating tonight so due to the
0:37 format the virtual format of tonight's
0:39 meeting i'd like to start by providing
0:42 some guidelines as a reminder this
0:44 meeting is being recorded and will be
0:46 posted on the human services commission
0:48 web page and available for viewing
0:51 moving forward all human services
0:53 commission meetings will be recorded
0:56 we have participants attending by
0:58 computer and others who may be attending
1:00 by phone for all attending the meeting
1:02 please
1:04 make sure that you speak clearly and
1:06 pause frequently
1:07 that you state your name each time
1:09 before speaking
1:11 you mute your microphone when not
1:13 speaking and if you have technical
1:15 issues
1:16 there are various ways i think we've all
1:18 been troubleshooting that tonight about
1:20 joining the the meaning on a different
1:22 device
1:24 i'd like to ask now if we have any uh
1:27 noted excused absences i believe we've
1:31 got uh one commissioner who's on his way
1:34 and actually two commissioners who are
1:36 on their way and otherwise we have one
1:38 excused absence is that right
1:41 okay so um
1:44 i would like to go ahead and uh take
1:48 roll call uh of those commissioners who
1:51 were in attendance so i'd like you to
1:53 unmute your microphones and when i say
1:55 here excuse me when i when you call when
1:58 i call your name if you would say here
2:00 in response i'd really appreciate that
2:02 um so i'll start off with um
2:05 ana jimenez inman
2:12 so and i don't know that we heard that
2:15 but we saw her
2:19 can you hear me now
2:21 yes okay thank you uh
2:24 i'm here good evening everyone
2:27 thank you
2:28 claire hansen
2:30 here
2:32 lucia choto
2:34 i'm here
2:37 sarah soriano
2:39 yes
2:40 i'm here
2:41 thank you trish bloor
2:45 and manny brown
2:46 here
2:48 thank you
2:52 okay so hannah
2:53 that uh covers our roll call is that
2:56 correct
2:59 okay
3:01 uh and then our uh next
3:05 item
3:06 on the agenda tonight is a public
3:08 comment so i'd like to ask
3:11 hannah do we have any members of the
3:13 public who would like to speak tonight
3:14 or who are in attendance
3:19 um there are no
3:21 um attendees um or public comments that
3:23 were made
3:25 okay
3:26 thank you very much
3:28 okay then next item on the agenda then
3:30 is approval of minutes
3:32 so uh if folks have had a chance to scan
3:36 through the minutes
3:37 from our last meeting and if anyone has
3:42 any correction or edit that they would
3:45 like to make i'm going to
3:46 look at the audience for any indication
3:51 any edits
4:05 okay so i'm seeking approval as
4:08 presented uh of the minutes from the uh
4:14 meeting of october 27 2021 and hearing
4:18 or seeing no objections or corrections
4:21 the minutes are approved by unanimous
4:24 consent
4:26 so thank you
4:28 uh the next item on the agenda tonight
4:30 is staff report and so i'd like to turn
4:33 it over to uh hannah and monica
4:39 good evening commissioners this is
4:41 minecraft group i'm gonna start us off
4:43 with the staff report
4:48 from
4:49 the city council and our mayor's office
4:52 a couple of updates
4:54 um on november 1st city council
4:58 authorized the mayor to enter into an
5:00 agreement with king county regional
5:02 homelessness authority
5:03 uh to administer emergency housing
5:06 vouchers for people experiencing
5:08 homelessness or at imminent risk of
5:10 homelessness in our city
5:13 the emergency housing vouchers
5:16 offer long-term rental assistance and
5:18 provide for initial housing search
5:21 leasing assistance and limited moving
5:23 costs
5:24 we will receive an estimated number of
5:26 11 vouchers
5:28 through this program and through this
5:30 agreement
5:32 and additional detail details if
5:34 anyone's interested
5:36 may be found by accessing the council
5:38 meeting information from november 1st on
5:41 the city
5:42 council's web page
5:44 and we posted the link for you in the
5:47 agenda packet
5:49 um another
5:51 related we are focusing by the way when
5:53 we provide updates from the mayor and
5:55 city council we are focusing on updates
5:58 that specifically relate to human
6:00 services or
6:01 to items that the human services
6:03 commission is tracking
6:06 another agenda item um
6:09 it's just um brief updates that the
6:11 equity board officially launched on
6:14 november 3rd
6:15 we had the first meeting
6:18 um and um
6:21 the meeting consisted of uh members
6:23 introducing themselves getting to know
6:25 one another uh we provided some training
6:28 we also selected the chair and the vice
6:30 chair
6:31 uh so moving forward that um
6:34 board will meet on the first wednesday
6:36 of every month at 6 00 pm
6:39 as all other boards and commission
6:41 meetings they are all open to public if
6:43 anyone's interested in attending and
6:46 they're also all being recorded
6:48 so the recording of the first meeting um
6:51 [Music]
6:52 is already available on the website
6:55 and again um the link to accessing that
6:57 is provided in your agenda packet
7:00 otherwise you can just find it under
7:02 the boards and commissions webpage on
7:04 the city's web page you can just search
7:07 for the equity
7:08 board
7:10 and you will find additional information
7:12 there
7:13 and last but not least for me just a
7:16 brief update city council
7:20 on monday passed the 2022 budget
7:24 um under that budget proposal now
7:27 approved um for human services
7:31 we will
7:32 expand our team with another
7:35 full-time position a new another
7:37 behavioral health coordinator position
7:39 is added to our team
7:42 this will be focused on homeless
7:43 outreach
7:45 so we will in the upcoming months we
7:47 will start recruitment for that position
7:50 and so that concludes our staff report
7:54 from um
7:56 mayor's office and city council and i'm
7:58 gonna hand it over to hannah uh with
8:01 another uh brief human services
8:04 uh related update
8:06 thank you monica so this is hannah and i
8:08 am going to be giving a staff report on
8:10 our human services and commission
8:12 updates
8:14 so as many of you know uh city of
8:16 issaquah human services division is in
8:18 the process of creating a human services
8:20 strategic plan that will inform the
8:22 city's priorities in human services for
8:24 the next five years community engagement
8:26 began in summer 2021 and took place
8:29 through interviews focus groups and
8:31 workshops with nonprofit organizations
8:34 local businesses issaquah school
8:35 district senior and youth residents
8:38 community members of color
8:40 individuals experiencing homelessness
8:42 and non-english speaking residents
8:45 community engagement is scheduled to be
8:47 complete by the end of november and then
8:49 our next step is including the drafting
8:52 of the plan
8:53 return to the human services commission
8:55 and presentation to the city council
8:58 the completion and adoption of the human
8:59 services strategic plan is anticipated
9:02 in early 2022
9:06 and that concludes the staff report
9:14 thank you hannah and monica before we
9:17 move on to
9:18 agenda item
9:20 number five i'd just like to ask if any
9:22 of the commissioners have any questions
9:24 or comments on
9:26 the staff updates
9:33 okay
9:34 seeing none thank you um uh we can go
9:36 ahead and proceed with uh the next set
9:39 of agenda items um and
9:42 uh hannah will you be introducing our um
9:46 guest presenter tonight
9:50 yes so our guest uh okay monica
9:54 um so our guest presenter tonight is
9:56 scheduled to join us in a few minutes um
9:59 unfortunately she's coming from other
10:01 public meetings and jumping to this one
10:04 um as a commission if you would prefer
10:07 we can just jump ahead and to one of the
10:10 other agenda items i know that later on
10:12 we do have an agenda item that focuses
10:15 on the work plan items for 2022 i
10:17 believe that that's a briefer agenda
10:19 item and so i would recommend perhaps if
10:22 you're okay with that just let's cover
10:23 that topic and then we'll come back to
10:25 when we have our guests join the meeting
10:30 sounds good monica thank you
10:35 all right so i'll go ahead and start us
10:36 off to go over our work plan for 2022
10:40 and i will go ahead and
10:44 share my screen here so that way
10:46 everyone has a visual or you can also
10:48 open up your agenda packet to also view
10:51 the um a work plan oops
10:56 sorry about that
11:04 okay can everyone see my screen all
11:05 right
11:07 okay great i'm going to keep it zoomed
11:10 in just so you can see a little bit
11:11 better
11:12 but let me just review over here and
11:14 this is the draft plan for the issaquah
11:16 human services commission for uh our
11:19 2022 year
11:21 so there are a couple of main focuses um
11:24 here we have begun our
11:27 to 2023-22
11:28 granting cycle preparation part of that
11:31 it will be
11:32 a funding cycle process timeline and
11:35 overview our target funding our funding
11:37 priorities and equity um we will
11:41 end our preparation by february of 2022
11:45 and then we will begin reviewing these
11:47 applications and funding recommendations
11:50 in march
11:51 and um we'll have that completed by
11:54 november so next year
11:56 another big portion of next year that we
11:58 will be focusing on here coming up is
12:01 presenting our human services strategic
12:03 plan uh we hope to do that by january or
12:05 february
12:07 um then we will
12:09 have our implementation of our human
12:11 services strategic plan
12:13 2022 and beyond since it's a five-year
12:16 plan
12:18 in addition we will looking looking at
12:20 commission recruitment
12:22 fill in complete orientation have that
12:25 completed by may
12:27 then in addition for preparation uh for
12:30 these the funding cycle we hope to have
12:33 non-profit organization um provide
12:36 introductions and presentations so we
12:39 believe we can start that in the spring
12:40 and end by august
12:43 and then in addition we have regional
12:44 human services landscape so uh
12:47 continuing to do our joint east human
12:49 service commission meetings that we just
12:51 had
12:52 last month and our joint equity training
12:56 as well so that'll be focused in 2022
12:58 and
12:59 time to be determined
13:02 and then a few of our topics that we
13:03 want to keep
13:05 our human services commission updated
13:08 and track is our behavioral health and
13:10 homeless outreach program
13:12 the city of issaquah's rental assistance
13:13 program legislative updates
13:17 homelessness the regional efforts health
13:20 and human services transformation and
13:22 our community court
13:25 so that concludes uh the 2022 draft work
13:28 plan
13:29 i just want to open it up to any
13:31 questions
13:39 this is claire hansen
13:42 and um just following up with a question
13:44 i see at the top of the work plan hannah
13:46 under the
13:48 point number one grant funding cycle
13:50 preparation
13:53 you have equity down there is that a
13:57 part of the
13:59 service the part of the work plan that's
14:01 going to be collaborative with the
14:02 equity board or is it just um
14:07 i guess i'm just curious about that
14:11 monica did you want to speak on that i
14:13 saw your hand go up
14:14 i was gonna say i can help with that if
14:16 you would like so historically the human
14:18 services commission has been focused on
14:21 equity in human services funding so
14:23 equity is a big process of of what the
14:26 human services commission is focusing on
14:28 we will look for opportunities to
14:30 collaborate with the equity board um but
14:33 at this point we don't have anything
14:34 specific yet as the new equity board is
14:36 going to start working on their work
14:38 plan as well we will look for that
14:40 opportunity but regardless the human
14:42 services commission has a strong
14:46 equity focus on
14:49 the funding process
14:53 thank you
14:54 this is susan i have a
14:56 question um just really about the
14:58 sequencing of events
15:01 because i i understand that the grant
15:03 funding
15:04 cycle review is a long
15:07 long chunk of time from march
15:10 to november
15:14 and
15:14 [Music]
15:17 so a couple things that catch my eye are
15:20 the um
15:22 non-profit organization introductions
15:24 and presentations so those will be
15:26 happening
15:27 simultaneously with the grant reviews
15:30 going on is that correct
15:34 that's the initial thought yes
15:36 okay
15:39 i know we've we've strived in the past
15:41 to kind of get those done in advance
15:44 so that we can go into the
15:46 grant
15:47 uh sort of review and deliberation
15:49 process um
15:52 armed with that knowledge but i
15:55 understand that there are so many
15:56 organizations that it's really kind of
15:58 impossible to concentrate them like that
16:00 i i guess i'd like to
16:03 make sure that we are not uh
16:06 inadvertently like putting like
16:08 decisions before we hear from certain
16:10 folks like i just be curious of your
16:13 thought and and how that is likely to
16:16 play out
16:19 yeah i think
16:20 um i think i'll have monica jump in on
16:23 this one if that's okay
16:26 yes i just had the privilege to to go
16:28 through another um funding cycle right
16:31 and so
16:32 um thank you so much susan for that
16:34 question
16:35 since um
16:36 this year the commission did not have an
16:39 impul time to really visit like in past
16:41 years to visit organizations
16:44 um and we are already running against
16:46 the time of being able to visit 50 some
16:48 organizations because
16:50 we are going through human services
16:52 strategic planning and um considering um
16:57 working on the funding approach what we
17:00 thought about doing um is as for example
17:03 during the the review process
17:06 as we are gonna have the different
17:07 buckets let's say we work on reviewing
17:10 behavioral health um
17:14 applications or
17:15 applications on homelessness and
17:18 shelters and and that then we thought
17:20 about inviting the providers who applied
17:23 for that bucket
17:25 before we take a decision inviting them
17:27 to the table present their information
17:29 so in addition to having a
17:32 summary from staff then you will hear
17:34 from the organizations then we can go
17:36 into
17:38 decisions
17:40 this way we will focus on inviting the
17:42 organizations that applied rather than
17:44 trying now to guess in advance who may
17:46 or may not apply
17:48 um to the funding cycle and knowing that
17:51 we only have
17:52 really a couple of months or so before
17:54 we open the application application
17:56 process excuse me so kind of like that's
17:58 why we thought about kind of like
18:01 um merging those two
18:03 okay
18:04 thank you that that makes sense um so i
18:07 appreciate that
18:08 uh and then the other
18:10 i guess lesson learned that we've had
18:11 from prior years is
18:13 as you um
18:15 so ably guided us through last time is
18:17 that
18:18 we always seem to um sort of run out of
18:21 time at the end for for some of the the
18:25 um finer discussions and decisions that
18:28 so i would
18:30 you know fully support like kind of
18:31 backing up from whenever we need to have
18:33 the recommendation to city council and
18:35 then
18:36 giving ourselves plenty of time at that
18:39 end if possible just because i think
18:40 we're all gonna benefit from that type
18:43 of discussion and
18:45 i know folks don't want to feel rushed
18:46 when it comes time to these important
18:48 decisions so
18:50 i'm sure you will
18:51 you will keep us
18:54 keep us organized in that fashion and
18:57 i don't know if your
18:58 what your plan is for 2022 but you know
19:01 just as a
19:02 heads up to the newer commissioners um
19:05 there are times during this period of
19:07 time where we meet more frequently
19:09 because of that workload so we may be
19:11 meeting like every other week at some
19:13 point for a certain period of time
19:15 and by the way it's over the summer so
19:18 in spring and summer so we'll have to
19:20 make sure that we all
19:22 just keep that in mind with regard to
19:25 uh you know our own personal commitments
19:27 and what else we have going on but um
19:30 just to to let you know it's a very busy
19:33 busy time of year with a lot of
19:35 um incredible work that gets done
19:38 it's
19:39 it's very satisfying but
19:41 it takes a big commitment i guess is
19:43 what i would say
19:45 and we will try to uh definitely keep it
19:47 very organized and as easy as possible
19:50 and actually since we just changed a
19:52 little bit the topic we will talk uh
19:54 about that uh in just a little bit uh we
19:57 just reversed um i guess the the order
20:00 of some of the topics um but yeah i
20:02 would love to talk a little bit more
20:03 about in our um human services
20:06 grant funding overview
20:08 thank you
20:09 monica i'm sorry just one more quick
20:11 question um
20:12 uh or hannah on this on the schedule the
20:15 other thing that caught my eye was
20:16 commission recruitment fill and
20:18 orientation
20:19 do we have any flexibility to make sure
20:22 whatever positions we have
20:25 that the new commissioners are fully
20:28 onboarded and capable of
20:31 sort of joining in at the very outset of
20:34 the grant review process so that they
20:36 don't have to come in sort of halfway
20:37 through and and pick up
20:41 you know kind of the the process that's
20:43 already going on
20:45 so we will work on
20:47 getting them up to speed uh regardless
20:49 the um
20:51 the new commissioners will join on the
20:54 first meeting in may and that typically
20:56 coincides with perhaps the first
21:01 uh meeting when we discuss reviews so on
21:04 our end staff we will work individually
21:06 with uh with that or those commissioners
21:09 new commissioners to just give them uh
21:12 the
21:14 background information uh we will have
21:16 decided by then a funding priority and
21:19 we will already have the grants but they
21:22 will just join right when we start
21:24 reviewing so uh we'll work on making
21:26 sure that
21:27 they are aligned we have two positions
21:29 open and we may or may not have new
21:31 commissioners joining it's actually
21:33 susan you whose term is expiring in 2022
21:37 and manny's position so we will
21:39 yeah we will discuss those in the
21:41 upcoming months
21:42 and then another uh related comment that
21:46 i talked with hannah about i think uh
21:48 offline was will we have a youth
21:50 representative identified by that time
21:52 who can also participate with us if
21:54 there's anybody who's interested
21:57 yes we have talked um
22:00 we've have historically we have received
22:03 um youth participants from the youth
22:06 advisory board and
22:08 we have been in communications with the
22:11 staffies onto the youth advisory board
22:14 and so um
22:16 as soon as they have identified the
22:17 youth we will get them started it would
22:20 be great to have also you participating
22:22 in the grant reviews for sure
22:26 thank you very much
22:28 thank you great questions
22:30 thanks susan
22:32 all right with that i do want to welcome
22:34 our guest speaker lolita ubela
22:37 lolita can you hear us all are you are
22:40 you ready to start presenting
22:41 [Music]
22:43 i think so can you hear me hannah
22:46 yes we can hear you thank you so much
22:47 for your patience
22:50 absolutely
22:52 great
22:53 well i will go ahead and give you the
22:54 floor um just want to uh welcome here uh
22:57 we have a presentation about the indian
23:00 american community services and tonight
23:02 we have lolita ubela
23:04 executive director
23:06 well good evening everyone thank you so
23:09 much uh
23:10 what a warm welcome thank you
23:14 especially when it's so cold outside
23:18 i wish i could be in my
23:21 in the country of my birth in the warm
23:23 sun today
23:25 but
23:27 but i can breathe here so i always say
23:29 that's that's
23:30 i can breathe in america so
23:33 you know
23:35 well hello and i as hannah mentioned
23:38 thank you monica for getting me on this
23:42 platform i'm very grateful to be here
23:44 and i'm lalitha the executive director
23:46 of indian american community services
23:49 also known as india association of
23:51 western washington um i'm not sure if uh
23:54 do you should i share my presentation
23:57 hannah
23:58 i'm glad to share for it unless you
24:00 prefer to share
24:02 thank you back now you can go ahead and
24:03 put it on thank you great i will then
24:05 put that up now
24:06 sure and uh we were known as uh india
24:10 association of western washington
24:12 at one point but last year after
24:16 doing uh
24:17 innumerable focus groups with our
24:19 community and really hearing our youth
24:22 who identify themselves as american with
24:25 indian heritage
24:27 uh we
24:28 believe that we can only carry the
24:30 mission of our community so far and that
24:33 it is our youth who have to then carry
24:35 it on from us and
24:38 that identity and the allegiance that
24:41 our youth have to america had was
24:44 critical for us to add to our name and
24:47 hence
24:48 we named ourselves indian american
24:50 community services and community
24:52 services because we want families in our
24:55 community to really understand and know
24:58 who we are and what our mission is and
25:01 that we are about the power of the
25:03 community and we are about supporting
25:05 community um so hence for
25:09 our mission and if we can go to the next
25:11 slide hannah thank you
25:15 so i just wanted to give you a couple
25:18 slides about what our key services are
25:22 we truly are inter-generational and
25:24 multi-generational
25:26 our community lives in homes that are
25:28 multi-generational so it's very apt that
25:31 we as iacs are also about wrap-around
25:35 services and really starting from our
25:38 toddlers newborn and toddlers
25:41 to really equipping and strengthening
25:44 and empowering parents in our community
25:47 to understand the challenges as well as
25:50 the strengths of
25:51 raising bicultural
25:54 youth and children and the challenges
25:56 that really come with stigmas and taboos
25:59 around
26:00 seeking access to support services so
26:03 our early childhood program where we
26:05 really bring in a lot of enrichment and
26:07 play therapy
26:09 once a week in person switched to
26:11 virtual last year so we now are four
26:14 days a week with families in our
26:16 community on a zoom platform and while
26:18 we really provide enrichment and play um
26:22 for our
26:23 young families uh our approach really is
26:26 to weave into that early intervention
26:31 asq assessment developmental screening
26:34 support therapy for autism for speech
26:37 for audiology and to really uh
26:40 help our families understand the value
26:43 of seeking counseling and support which
26:45 is culturally nuanced and is embedded
26:48 into our programming versus
26:51 helping them reach out outside the
26:54 community into areas where they are not
26:57 comfortable and where they may carry
26:59 that stigma with them so it's really
27:01 very community informed and community
27:04 supported and four days a week our
27:07 families meet on a zoom platform um
27:10 three times they meet with their
27:12 children and one time it is for moms a
27:15 wellness program that sometimes is about
27:17 bollywood dancing and sometimes it's a
27:20 strength training or a yoga and a
27:22 meditation so we always
27:25 cycle those sessions out
27:27 because we believe that our
27:30 young mothers have to be
27:32 actually nurtured as much as their
27:34 toddlers are and uh going on to our
27:37 youth leadership program which actually
27:39 is uh
27:40 one of the oldest pillars of our program
27:43 it enters its 33rd year this year uh
27:46 where as a youth leadership program we
27:50 provide support to 250 plus youth year
27:54 round uh we have different levels from
27:56 fifth grade to twelfth grade and youth
27:59 have an opportunity to sign up it's uh
28:02 first come first serve from
28:04 fifth through ninth grade and then
28:06 there's a selection process for the
28:08 leadership board of course uh but they
28:11 uh do typically they go with mentoring
28:14 peer tutoring uh we have 35 youth who
28:17 actually work with the 4c coalition in
28:20 seattle which is the black coalition and
28:24 there is a peer tutoring program every
28:26 sunday that our youth step on to zoom to
28:28 peer tutor
28:30 youth who are from vulnerable families
28:33 in the african-american community part
28:35 of this is because we want our families
28:38 to integrate with the larger community
28:40 and we don't necessarily want to be
28:42 insular hence we don't really have a
28:45 building called indian american
28:47 community services but we really believe
28:49 in the pop-up community center model
28:51 where we go out to existing community
28:54 centers and senior centers and we
28:56 operate our programming one day a week
28:58 in the different cities that in king
29:00 county uh to really provide support
29:03 services to our community so that the
29:05 community that typically visits these
29:06 community centers also has an
29:09 opportunity to
29:10 develop relationship with us and our own
29:13 community gets an opportunity to
29:15 integrate with a larger community so
29:17 there's a model of uh you know really
29:20 intentionally reaching out and forming
29:22 bridges and
29:24 building collaborative impact which is
29:26 very critical and our youth love that
29:29 sunday afternoon peer tutoring program
29:31 but they also do a lot of work on
29:34 climate change on advocacy civic
29:37 engagement and voter registration
29:42 meeting uh to
29:44 go and do
29:45 park and trail cleanups
29:48 there basically the meetings are every
29:50 sunday or saturday and so they do meet
29:53 four to five times a month but then also
29:56 the youth leadership board goes on to
29:58 organize a five-day summer camp in port
30:00 townsend which has entered its 33rd year
30:04 in fact our youth program director is an
30:06 alum of that program and advisors
30:10 in that program have grown up
30:12 participating as campers and are now
30:15 young adults who are advising youth so
30:17 the model of it really is it is youth
30:19 informed and youth led and the
30:23 newest
30:24 pillar that we are looking at with the
30:25 youth leadership program is to really
30:28 create a youth informed mental health
30:30 support program
30:32 in every pillar you will see that mental
30:34 health and wellness is very critical to
30:36 who we are and we believe in that
30:40 culturally informed embedded system of
30:42 mental health support so we have parent
30:45 support groups we have youth support
30:47 groups that happen twice a month and
30:49 then we also offer youth opportunities
30:52 for one-on-one counseling we're all
30:54 aware that youth 13 and older can step
30:56 forward to their schools or
30:59 to their community organizations and
31:01 reach out for the counseling if they
31:03 feel like they are at a point when they
31:04 need that one-on-one counseling so we
31:07 have created a net network of vetted
31:10 south asian mental health
31:12 providers from therapists to
31:14 psychiatrists to counselors and these
31:18 individuals are pretty much present in
31:20 our support groups and sometimes they're
31:23 also present in our chai and chat
31:25 sessions for parents or coffee sessions
31:28 for our seniors and so they become
31:31 familiar figures to our community which
31:34 carries with it a huge burden of stigma
31:38 social stigma around
31:40 gender around the lgbtq identity around
31:43 mental health and around accessing
31:45 housing assistance or
31:47 food assistance all of that carries a
31:50 stigma of shame so mental health and
31:53 wellness is very critical to who we are
31:56 we can go to the next slide
31:59 great thanks lolita um a question for
32:01 you before i switch this over would you
32:03 like to do um questions and answers at
32:05 the end of the presentation
32:07 or would you like to take them in
32:08 between i can take them in between two
32:11 i'm okay with that great and monica if
32:14 you can help me monitor anybody raising
32:15 their hand for questions
32:17 yes i think we have lucrezia who has one
32:19 question
32:20 sure
32:23 uh first of all miss
32:25 oppala thank you so much for this
32:27 presentation it's so enlightening and
32:29 just incredible to hear about all the
32:31 services that are provided
32:33 to the community via this organization
32:36 i wanted to hear more about a little bit
32:38 if it's possible and it doesn't take too
32:40 much from your presentation around
32:42 the curriculum that you use for the home
32:45 visits for early childhood intervention
32:48 um and it's just out of curiosity and
32:51 then um
32:53 [Music]
32:54 as well with regards to the possibility
32:58 your youth leadership program
33:00 working in conjunction with other
33:02 organizations where they could be
33:04 of great use i have several that came to
33:07 mind as you were speaking since they're
33:09 already on that track it would be
33:11 important to kind of give them a broader
33:14 scope of what is available in the
33:16 community and i thought that that would
33:18 be a good way to connect
33:20 and then
33:21 [Music]
33:23 i'm also interested to know
33:25 um if people who are
33:27 who are not from india but from south
33:31 asia if they are eligible for your
33:33 services and how you make that known to
33:36 them since the name is
33:39 indian in your title thank you right
33:43 sure so to start with the the
33:45 developmental screening program we have
33:48 some partial funding from best arts for
33:50 kids and it is the king county's best
33:52 arts for kids asq approach that we use
33:55 our staff has been trained by ccr the
33:58 child care resources team and best arts
34:00 for kids but we also have a network of
34:04 screening providers as well as
34:08 speech and autism therapy
34:11 professionals but we also collaborate
34:13 with kindering in order to
34:15 bring in access to
34:18 the screening developmental screening
34:20 that our families may be reaching out to
34:22 because you will typically see that in
34:25 immigrant refugee families
34:27 they will not necessarily seek out these
34:29 resources they will typically wait till
34:31 the child is five years and in public
34:34 school and has access to these options
34:38 as a family or is familiar at that point
34:41 with
34:42 with those resources with our program we
34:46 we intentionally bring in uh tindering
34:50 and specialists on a monthly basis so
34:52 that our families become very familiar
34:54 and reach out to those resources with
34:57 regards to collaboration on our youth
34:59 leadership program
35:01 as i mentioned we collaborate with the
35:02 fosee coalition we also work with youth
35:05 eastside services uh we work with
35:09 eastside baby corner
35:11 uh with
35:13 we also work with
35:15 you know the city of kirkland
35:18 and its parks department to bring in
35:20 horticulture therapy for our youth they
35:23 just
35:23 started work with a master gardener in
35:27 a park in kirkland where they helped
35:30 restore habitat for the last six months
35:33 so our youth are very definitely very
35:35 engaged in uh collaborative partnerships
35:38 with youth from other communities with
35:41 the with the ymca with the
35:44 bellevue youth
35:46 group leadership group that actually
35:48 works on some of the projects with them
35:51 and then they also work with kin county
35:53 elections offers to work on civic
35:55 engagement
35:56 uh with regards to your question on um
35:59 how do is this uh uh the services we
36:03 offer are they just for individuals from
36:05 the indian american community no they
36:07 are not but uh
36:09 as we can recognize our community has
36:12 grown significantly in numbers and it is
36:14 one of the largest immigrant communities
36:16 on east king county right now
36:19 we do provide our services to our
36:22 community because we are the only
36:24 secular
36:25 non-linguistically non-religiously
36:28 divided
36:29 organization that
36:31 provides such services as a community we
36:34 have several micro communities within us
36:37 who are linguistically and religiously
36:38 divided and we really truly believe uh
36:41 that we cannot uh
36:44 propose such divisive approaches to
36:47 providing services hence we also open
36:50 our services to members from other
36:52 communities and we have very healthy
36:54 partnerships with members from the
36:56 pakistani association the bangladeshi
36:59 association we are part part of the asia
37:01 pacific islander coalition the epic
37:03 coalition so our support services and
37:06 our newsletters are shared by our
37:08 partners and
37:10 by existing in pop-up community centers
37:13 and by be not having a building for
37:16 asian indian community we truly believe
37:20 in the power of being out there where
37:22 the mainstream community is so that that
37:25 trust and the familiarity can be built
37:27 with a larger community who can access
37:29 our services
37:31 i love that concept miss apollo thank
37:33 you so much of course thank you for
37:35 asking great question
37:39 and we can move on to the next slide
37:40 hannah thank you
37:43 and so
37:44 going on to
37:47 going on to the next set of services
37:49 that we offer
37:51 um i think i have a little
37:53 box here that's hiding it okay
37:56 individual and family services
37:58 as i mentioned we do work on civic
38:01 engagement
38:02 and we provide mental health and
38:04 wellness on different demographics but
38:07 also what's unique about our
38:09 organization is we come up with very
38:11 innovative approaches to providing legal
38:13 services to providing crisis services
38:16 our legal clinics we were the first in
38:19 king county who
38:21 chose to go with the low bono legal
38:24 service model we provide low bono
38:27 payments to attorneys in our legal
38:30 clinics and
38:31 that way we can provide free legal
38:33 clinics for our community members and to
38:35 communities at large we found that when
38:38 we were waiting for uh women in our
38:40 community who were going through
38:42 domestic violence who were ending up
38:44 being deported because they were on
38:46 dependent visas for this five spouses
38:49 who were on h1 visas and the women were
38:51 on a dependent visa without a work
38:54 permit
38:55 when there was a situation of personal
38:57 family crisis with domestic violence and
39:00 there was a divorce that was happening
39:02 the women were getting deported and
39:04 their young children were being raised
39:06 by the parent who was left here and
39:10 the women in our community were ending
39:12 up losing their children so it was a
39:15 very devastating situation for us we
39:17 could not get them legal representation
39:19 fast enough very often these women reach
39:22 out to us in the nth hour and most of
39:25 our partners
39:26 have wait lists that are pretty long
39:29 hence we could not accommodate those
39:31 services so we developed a model where
39:34 we started paying low bono rates to
39:36 attorneys and family law and immigration
39:38 and we started this in 2016 with one
39:41 legal clinic a month in 2019 we were
39:44 serving one legal clinic a month but we
39:46 had increased the number of uh clients
39:48 we were serving 2020 march saw us
39:51 catapult to three legal clinics in a
39:54 week and we address the needs of 325
39:58 individuals in 2020 and that 325 we've
40:02 already surpassed in august of this year
40:05 so you can see that with covered and
40:08 with the situation where
40:11 individuals there's cultural uh barriers
40:14 there are challenges uh families do get
40:17 into situations where domestic violence
40:19 or family law situations happen and
40:23 there is a need for legal service for
40:25 immigration our seniors tend to reach
40:27 out to such services we have small
40:30 businesses now reaching out to us for
40:32 legal support because
40:34 they need to figure out how they are
40:35 structured so our legal clinics are
40:37 really
40:38 partially funded by
40:40 seattle foundation uh its resilience
40:43 fund and this was the last year we were
40:45 going to be funded by uh the resilience
40:47 fund so we are now looking for funding
40:50 that's a huge area of challenge for us
40:52 the other part i did want to address in
40:54 this is emergency crisis services as an
40:57 as a community we typically get
40:59 stereotyped and boxed into the
41:02 definition the asian indian and the
41:04 south asian community is a community of
41:06 tech workers and they are high income
41:09 earners and there are no needs no need
41:12 to these no challenges that such
41:14 communities have to start with
41:17 that is a myth and a stereotype that we
41:20 truly are not as we exploded in tech
41:23 workers we also exploded in numbers that
41:25 are service workers who work in
41:28 restaurants who work at in the mom and
41:30 pop stores who are our cab drivers who
41:33 are our small business owners and
41:35 regarding tech workers 60 of our tech
41:38 workers are
41:40 subcontractors to contracting companies
41:42 which pay them barely 60k a year and we
41:46 already know where that falls in under
41:48 the ami category so to just give you yes
41:51 we are a community that has tech workers
41:53 that are uh reasonably well off we have
41:57 individuals who are comfortable but then
41:59 we also have individuals who are in need
42:03 of emergency assistance in fact last
42:05 year when we gave the
42:07 housing this rent assistance from the
42:09 city of redmond
42:11 we 40
42:12 of our rent assistance went to single
42:16 moms who were asian indian in origin
42:19 and that was because these were moms in
42:22 crisis these were moms who were under 60
42:26 of ami they were making so just giving
42:28 you a little example of who we are as a
42:31 community and the different services we
42:33 provide under crisis uh the last being
42:36 that with senior services again mental
42:38 health and wellness is critical for us
42:40 we really believe in getting our seniors
42:43 out into the senior centers our seniors
42:46 before covid were coming once a week on
42:48 mondays to issaquah senior center the
42:51 idea was to really address mental health
42:53 and wellness but also address their
42:56 isolation because they live in
42:57 multi-generational homes or they live by
43:00 themselves but there's very little
43:01 conversation there there's a big
43:05 gap between
43:07 our youth and our seniors and we have
43:09 started creating intergenerational
43:11 senior youth body programs with whatsapp
43:14 groups for our seniors so that they can
43:16 communicate with youth this way our
43:18 seniors learn how to speak to their
43:20 grandchildren
43:22 because when they typically ask them how
43:24 well they're doing in math and science
43:25 they lose them right then and there and
43:27 so the idea is what else can you talk to
43:30 your grandkids and to our youth what can
43:32 you talk to your grandparents other than
43:35 the fact that
43:36 i have eaten this and i have studied
43:38 that right there's more to life and
43:40 there's more to family relationships
43:41 than that uh so we really work through
43:44 uh by hearing our community and that's
43:47 because we have staff that are 100 from
43:49 our community board members that are 100
43:52 from our own community and volunteers
43:54 are 100 from our own community and we
43:57 can go on to the next slide
44:02 these are just again some small examples
44:04 of what work we do the small business
44:06 service by ics really stood out in 2020
44:09 with covet crisis uh resulting in a
44:13 large network of small businesses that
44:16 we reached out to uh to provide
44:18 technical assistance to help them apply
44:20 for relief grants and we're a part of
44:22 washington state's small business
44:24 resiliency network where we really do
44:27 intentionally provide workshops and
44:29 one-on-one mentoring to our small
44:31 businesses we also have a women's career
44:34 service program that really helps employ
44:36 our women into
44:39 jobs that they may be equipped for but
44:41 also provides career training legal
44:44 services and support groups for women in
44:46 crisis
44:47 we can go on to the next slide
44:51 this is a picture of our collaborative
44:54 work
44:55 and how we believe in forming
44:57 intentional mutually beneficial
44:59 collaborative partnerships we do work
45:02 with the different community partners we
45:05 have inside thanks to the city's east
45:06 side cities uh you see the city of
45:09 issaquah right there as a partner for us
45:12 the human services staff has been
45:14 amazing to us and we have had some great
45:16 conversations on how to best support our
45:19 community so thank you for that and we
45:22 can go on to the next slide i couldn't
45:23 quite fit everybody's logos in but i
45:26 think uh i had some further down in my
45:29 presentation this is just giving you an
45:31 example of who we are as a demographic
45:36 and the fact that you know we come with
45:38 our stigmas and we come with our needs
45:40 and our challenges as an immigrant
45:43 refugee community and community
45:45 organizations like ours are needed to
45:48 provide those basic urgent and emergent
45:51 services
45:52 and we can move on to the next slide
45:55 and this is just a continuation of our
45:57 partners again
45:59 i couldn't fit everybody in one slide
46:01 and i wanted to make sure that we
46:04 understood that we had partnerships in
46:06 different places
46:08 moving on to the next slide
46:12 this is this gives you a brief um and i
46:15 will share this present i've shared this
46:17 presentation with monica but um
46:19 this gives you a brief idea of how many
46:22 do we impact and in the last three years
46:25 how we have grown how uh the work on
46:28 hate crime info sessions and the
46:30 microaggression
46:31 that we see in our community how do we
46:34 address that what kind of workshops do
46:37 we have the bystander trainings that we
46:39 reach out for to our partners to bring
46:41 to our community
46:42 the small business technical assistance
46:44 the growth in our legal services in our
46:47 mental health services the fact that we
46:49 provide culturally nuanced embedded
46:52 mental health support groups for
46:53 different uh
46:55 demographics in our community
46:57 and we can go to the next slide
47:03 so a brief uh you know look into what
47:06 successes we had
47:09 90 percent of our community in essequa
47:12 did get vaccinated and in fact by
47:14 february of 2020 we had vaccinated 90 of
47:19 our seniors first and we
47:21 did that right away with providing
47:24 transportation
47:26 providing education doing a lot of small
47:29 focus groups on why vaccination was
47:32 needed making sure that ppe was provided
47:35 to our small businesses and as well as
47:38 to uh places of worship making sure that
47:43 we understood that our small businesses
47:45 were getting impacted in revenue and
47:47 coming up with an innovative approach
47:50 where we started hosting festival
47:52 bazaars for small businesses in our
47:54 pop-up community center in bellevue just
47:57 before our holidays and every quarter we
47:59 are going to do that we're going to
48:01 provide three to four holiday bazaars
48:03 and we're going to end it in an outdoor
48:07 small business fair in end of summer as
48:10 well as in winter we will do that
48:12 indoors once and the idea being that
48:14 50 percent of our small businesses will
48:17 be women and seniors run who are
48:19 struggling in a crisis and 50 percent
48:21 will be successful small businesses so
48:23 that they can feed off of each other and
48:26 learn from each other in that so these
48:28 are some great successes that we've had
48:30 our hate crime work really started after
48:33 september 11 and has grown since then in
48:36 providing info workshops to our
48:38 community in setting up documentation
48:40 and taking reporting while we understand
48:43 that
48:44 microaggression and bullying doesn't
48:46 really
48:48 you know get placed into a police report
48:50 there is follow-up after that there's
48:52 education there is awareness building
48:55 there's bridge building that helps
48:56 address that uh so we're really about
48:59 that and we had extensive conversations
49:01 with port of seattle this year
49:04 to bring in informational kiosks for
49:06 international visitors because we knew
49:09 that
49:11 the delta variant which originated in
49:13 india
49:14 was potentially going to cause issues
49:16 for our community and we were reaching
49:19 out to seatac and port of seattle to
49:21 make sure that international arrivals
49:23 were getting information for testing and
49:25 vaccination and we reached out and made
49:28 sure all our international arrivals had
49:31 possibilities of getting scheduled for
49:33 vaccination with us
49:35 and we can go to the next slide
49:41 and
49:43 you know the challenges that we have as
49:45 a organization we're a small grassroots
49:48 organization
49:49 um we are not necessarily heavily funded
49:53 we would like to be funded uh such that
49:56 we can provide these kind of services we
49:58 are the go-to organization for the
50:00 largest immigrant community on east side
50:03 now and we still are struggling to find
50:06 uh the funds to be able to support the
50:09 different programs and services that we
50:10 provide and to build capacity in the
50:13 different areas that we recognize we
50:15 really need to grow in and
50:18 to fund such navigational support
50:21 we really need the human services
50:23 commissions in our cities to understand
50:25 who we are as a community the challenges
50:28 we face the fact that we stereotypically
50:31 get misunderstood as a community who
50:33 does not need support
50:35 and the fact that we are innovative in
50:38 our approach and in many places from
50:40 legal service to mental health to
50:43 the way we do civic engagement to the
50:45 fact that we recognize that there are
50:47 caregiver services that are needed for
50:50 seniors our families are
50:51 multi-generational they cannot afford
50:54 more than two to three hours of
50:56 caregiver support at home well we've
50:58 created mitra which means friend a
51:01 volunteer caregiver program where we
51:04 have volunteers who can go and sit at
51:06 visit our seniors have a cup of tea with
51:09 them have watch a movie with them and
51:11 then we have women in crisis who who we
51:15 are training in cpr first aid and basic
51:17 caregiver services so they can get jobs
51:20 and they can go out and work with our
51:22 families in becoming caregivers too so
51:24 we do come up with those innovative
51:26 approaches and we do hope that our
51:29 cities and
51:30 city governments recognize the need for
51:33 these kind of services that
51:34 community-based organizations like ours
51:36 provide
51:38 and i think this was the last slide
51:40 hannah i don't think there's anything
51:41 after that that's correct
51:46 so i am open for questions and i
51:48 apologize if i took longer than i was
51:50 given time to i think i got carried away
51:52 somewhere in the middle
51:54 great presentation thank you so much
51:58 um does anybody have any questions for
52:00 lolita
52:02 this is the time to ask
52:06 it looks like claire has a question
52:08 thanks susan hi claire
52:12 hi this is uh claire hansen i'm one of
52:14 the commissioners
52:16 um i really appreciated the presentation
52:18 and uh the intergenerational nature of
52:21 the work that you do from
52:23 uh youth all the way through seniors
52:27 i guess i'm wondering
52:29 um one of the questions i had was kind
52:32 of whether you're primarily
52:34 staff driven
52:36 or whether you're primarily volunteer
52:38 driven and i saw towards the end of your
52:40 presentation you noted
52:41 i think you had four staff members and
52:43 three
52:45 uh contracted um people
52:47 do you do a lot of training of
52:49 volunteers from among the people that
52:52 you serve to serve kind of
52:55 inside the organization in other arenas
53:01 maybe you could share a little bit about
53:03 that and then
53:04 another question that i had was
53:07 what is the annual kind of operating
53:09 budget of your organization and within
53:12 that budget you know
53:14 where do you feel like is the biggest
53:16 you know bang for your buck you know
53:18 what is
53:20 maybe the part that you are
53:22 um thinking wow that that really yields
53:25 a return on the work that we invest in
53:27 that so those are my questions
53:30 right right and i think um
53:32 regarding the volunteers we
53:35 do quarterly volunteer orientations and
53:37 training we provide first aid and cpr
53:40 training to our volunteers but we also
53:42 provide a volunteer training that
53:46 is a blend of the trauma-informed care
53:49 kind of training to the navigational
53:51 training which really helps our
53:53 volunteers get the do's and don'ts of
53:55 volunteering with the community and for
53:58 example when you are going to visit a
54:00 senior
54:01 how you do not
54:03 drive that senior anywhere how do how
54:06 you do not necessarily take that senior
54:08 for a walk or that if the senior needs
54:11 to have a bath then it's a family member
54:13 who needs to take care of that that
54:15 you're really supposed how you don't
54:16 take a treat from your home to their
54:18 home
54:19 part of it is
54:21 but but also
54:22 you know what are some ways you can best
54:24 approach conversations that may become
54:26 delicate or what else would a senior
54:29 like so we have uh different levels of
54:32 volunteer training for volunteers who
54:34 are in the senior services to volunteers
54:36 who are in our youth program each are
54:38 very
54:40 specialized in their own but definitely
54:42 all of them go through a certain amount
54:46 the do's and don'ts of volunteering and
54:48 the trauma-informed care
54:51 the boundaries of
54:52 being able to volunteer and
54:55 cpr and first aid
54:57 plus they all get food handlers permits
54:59 that they get to take so there's a basic
55:02 level of training that we have within
55:04 our own capacity i wouldn't say that we
55:07 are very good at what we do because we
55:09 still are very small and we struggle
55:10 with providing all the resources that we
55:13 need to provide for our volunteers but
55:15 we would love to provide them a
55:16 volunteer driver training for example
55:18 but we don't have the capacity to do
55:20 that right now
55:22 in terms of um
55:24 yes we do have uh we have four on staff
55:27 and three
55:28 contracted navigators and then we have
55:31 smaller contracted yoga instructors or
55:34 the attorneys that do our legal clinics
55:37 these are all also contracted out so
55:41 across board i would say where's the
55:43 biggest bank for a buck i would not be
55:45 able to save one place but i would
55:47 definitely say because we meet our
55:50 community on a daily basis and because
55:53 we meet the toddlers we meet the youth
55:56 we meet the seniors we meet the women
56:00 it's it's hard to point where that
56:02 biggest bank i i think it's because we
56:04 meet all demographics of our community
56:06 on a daily basis
56:08 and we provide the wraparound services
56:11 because we do that i think across board
56:14 all four are the biggest bang for our
56:15 buck hence they feed into our mental
56:17 health program they feed into our legal
56:20 clinics they feed into our small
56:21 business services and they feed into our
56:24 civic engagement so it's mostly because
56:27 we address it as an intergenerational
56:29 but also as
56:31 each demographic services have to be
56:33 addressed
56:38 thank you thank you for that answer
56:40 lolita
56:42 if there are no other questions
56:46 i see legracia had a comment to make and
56:47 then we will go ahead and wrap up
56:52 again i just want to reiterate just how
56:54 innovative i found
56:56 what you are describing
56:58 and i find it to be very proactive
57:01 inclusive and
57:02 simply empowering and i'm wondering if
57:06 if you have the capacity to help other
57:09 organizations
57:11 learn the process that you are
57:12 describing because i think
57:15 it is very different from other services
57:18 other organizations that i'm aware of
57:20 with regards to
57:22 for example just like the pop-up concept
57:25 i think that that's very um
57:27 very smart on your part
57:29 um to be able to reach into various
57:32 pockets of the community and meet people
57:35 where they are and where they frequent
57:37 as opposed to expecting people to come
57:38 to you i found that to be just very
57:40 fascinating um and then the last thing
57:43 is um you mentioned
57:45 you know the increase in
57:47 [Music]
57:48 in um
57:49 [Music]
57:50 i think that you said domestic violence
57:52 but i'm not sure but just like the
57:54 various crises during 2020 and i'm
57:57 wondering if you could maybe just touch
58:00 on if that has improved in 2021 or if
58:03 you just don't have the data yet
58:05 and again thank you for your time
58:06 sure and uh to answer uh are we working
58:10 or showing other grassroots non-profits
58:12 these working models so for tomorrow
58:15 which is a latina
58:17 community
58:18 organization
58:20 we started doing rent emergency rent
58:22 assistance work in 2019 with the city of
58:24 bellevue and the city of redmond and
58:26 kirkland and we were doing that for the
58:28 latina community but we were and our our
58:32 own community as well as other
58:33 communities but what we also did with
58:35 that was that year we
58:38 worked with for tomorrow and uh showed
58:41 the organization our working model and
58:44 then last year in 2020 uh they became
58:48 our subcontractors i would say and this
58:52 year we ensured that we stepped out of
58:55 the rent assistance for the latino
58:57 community but instead for tomorrow took
59:00 on the latina communities emergency rent
59:02 assistance work for some of the east
59:04 side cities and today we are working in
59:06 partnership on some areas
59:09 we work in partnership on civic
59:11 engagement again so again this year it's
59:13 about working with them on helping them
59:16 learn about the model of um for civic
59:19 engagement that we do uh however not
59:22 every community i would say is attuned
59:25 to the way our pop-up model maybe
59:27 because they have a space of their own
59:29 typically
59:31 but we also work with the muslim
59:33 community neighborhood association uh
59:35 really helping them understand the small
59:37 business model that we have
59:40 so we've had some
59:42 some success in
59:44 in really sharing our working model
59:47 maybe not the entire one but different
59:49 parts of our working models have been uh
59:52 there
59:53 and i i'm trying to remember what the
59:55 last part of your question was
59:59 with regards to whether the numbers have
1:00:01 improved from 2020 to 2021 violence and
1:00:04 i think um
1:00:08 you know uh it's almost like uh women in
1:00:11 our community have discovered
1:00:14 over the last three years that we are
1:00:16 the go-to organization to support them
1:00:18 in their crisis work so the numbers just
1:00:21 keep rising for us and i don't think
1:00:23 it's necessarily i think those numbers
1:00:25 were there in 2019 too i just think
1:00:28 awareness that we are providing support
1:00:30 services has grown and access to uh
1:00:36 service has increased but also i think
1:00:39 kobet has added a very severe
1:00:42 level of trauma to working families
1:00:44 particularly because these typically are
1:00:47 individuals who come from singular
1:00:49 families because they are on dependent
1:00:51 visas on their spouses and they cannot
1:00:57 thank you
1:00:59 thank you very much
1:01:02 that concludes our presentation about
1:01:04 the indian american community services
1:01:06 lolita thank you so much for joining us
1:01:09 this evening very impactful presentation
1:01:12 so um thank you again for coming here
1:01:16 thank you very much and thank you for
1:01:18 listening to me
1:01:21 excellent well i'll i will go ahead and
1:01:23 give it back to susan to continue us on
1:01:25 our agenda items
1:01:27 well thank you so much um fabulous
1:01:30 presentation and a hint of all the great
1:01:33 uh goodness that is to come as we
1:01:36 continue our journey to understand these
1:01:38 organizations so
1:01:40 thank you very much
1:01:41 just a really excellent presentation
1:01:44 uh so now uh we're moving to item uh
1:01:47 number five b on the agenda which is the
1:01:50 human services grant funding application
1:01:53 timeline and process and i believe i
1:01:55 will hand it over to monica
1:01:58 thank you susan
1:02:01 that is me and hannah if you don't mind
1:02:04 um sharing the powerpoint
1:02:09 appropriate yes sorry once again i'm
1:02:11 working on that
1:02:13 your time
1:02:15 thank you so much for
1:02:16 offering to present
1:02:25 sorry one second
1:02:30 nope not that one
1:02:32 sorry
1:02:33 no worries
1:02:34 while you're putting it up i can start
1:02:39 talking a little bit
1:02:42 so i think this is a great segue into
1:02:44 starting to talk about
1:02:47 the funding process for the human
1:02:49 services grants
1:02:51 and for tonight the goal for us would be
1:02:54 to twofold on one end
1:02:57 we would love to review the 2020 2021
1:03:00 human services grants funding process
1:03:03 and then
1:03:04 moving to discussing the 2023 2024
1:03:08 funding process can you believe we are
1:03:10 talking about 2023 and 2024
1:03:13 um and so the next steps with that um
1:03:17 as a reminder we anticipate that the
1:03:20 2023-2024
1:03:22 human services funding process
1:03:24 will open in march of 2022
1:03:28 a joint meeting of the 16 cities
1:03:30 collaborating on this process is
1:03:32 scheduled for tomorrow and we will
1:03:34 return to you next month with any
1:03:36 proposed changes so i'm going to talk to
1:03:38 you about that in just a moment
1:03:40 um next slide please hannah
1:03:45 so as a brief reminder and overview
1:03:48 the human services grants are part of a
1:03:51 16 cities funding collaborate
1:03:53 collaborative
1:03:55 and they run on a biennial cycle what
1:03:58 that means is that 16 cities use a
1:04:01 single one joint
1:04:03 common grant application that allows
1:04:06 non-profit agencies to request funds
1:04:09 from multiple cities using one single
1:04:12 application
1:04:13 this is
1:04:14 a really
1:04:16 flexible and welcome process especially
1:04:20 to organizations that provide services
1:04:23 in multiple cities and have multiple
1:04:25 programs
1:04:27 and then the biennial cycle um
1:04:31 just like grants are awarded for a
1:04:33 period of two years since the
1:04:35 application is so expensive again it is
1:04:39 more flexible for organizations and
1:04:42 easier
1:04:43 to manage to have grants awarded for a
1:04:45 period of two years and having to
1:04:47 reapply for funds every two years
1:04:50 rather than
1:04:51 having to do that
1:04:53 every single year
1:04:55 um also
1:04:57 kind of like just a few
1:04:59 notes about the process each city
1:05:01 reviews applications submitted to their
1:05:03 own city so for example
1:05:06 an organization can choose can select
1:05:10 from the 16 cities can select one
1:05:13 two three or sixteen cities that they
1:05:15 can apply to but then each city takes
1:05:18 those applications individually that
1:05:20 they received and they they use their
1:05:22 own review process and they have their
1:05:24 own processes in place for grant reviews
1:05:27 and recommendations
1:05:29 in issaquah um human services staff work
1:05:32 typically with the human services
1:05:34 commission
1:05:35 who then makes the grants award
1:05:37 recommendations to the mayor
1:05:40 the recommendations are then further
1:05:42 included in the budget process and the
1:05:44 final decision regarding the grant
1:05:46 awards is made by city council
1:05:49 so most of the cities follow a similar
1:05:51 approach
1:05:52 however some cities don't have a
1:05:54 commission or a board that they work
1:05:56 um and so
1:05:58 there might be some slight changes in
1:06:00 processes
1:06:01 for each city
1:06:06 next slide please hannah
1:06:09 thank you
1:06:11 so for the 2021 i'm gonna now start
1:06:13 talking a little bit giving you just a
1:06:15 little bit of background on where we
1:06:17 were and what we did for the
1:06:19 2021-2022 funding process um before
1:06:22 moving into talking a little bit more
1:06:23 about the next um cycle
1:06:26 um so our city received 91 applications
1:06:30 totaling
1:06:32 over 1.3 million dollars in requests
1:06:36 we had available
1:06:38 500 000
1:06:40 um in in funding to give out to
1:06:43 organizations and
1:06:45 with the help of the this commission
1:06:48 we distributed the 500 000
1:06:51 to 39 different organizations across 57
1:06:55 different programs
1:06:56 and the reason why you see 39
1:06:58 organizations and 57 programs is that
1:07:01 one organization may submit funding
1:07:03 requests for more than one program so
1:07:05 even just as you saw earlier tonight
1:07:07 from lalita's presentation they have a
1:07:09 multitude of programs and so you may
1:07:11 have an organization who may submit a
1:07:14 request for their senior programming and
1:07:17 maybe for their youth leadership
1:07:18 programming so then one organization may
1:07:21 have multiple programs
1:07:25 next slide please thank you
1:07:28 so the grants are submitted through a
1:07:30 portal um that's we call it you're gonna
1:07:33 hear more and more the shareone app
1:07:36 it's it's the shareone app portal uh
1:07:38 commissioners uh you will get access to
1:07:41 the portal um if you would like to
1:07:43 review the grants directly from the
1:07:45 portal you can do so
1:07:47 uh we also typically save and provide
1:07:49 pdfs of of the applications
1:07:53 um also a staff we plan and
1:07:56 plan to provide you summaries of of the
1:07:59 applications
1:08:02 but then following their applications
1:08:05 all grant recipients must enter into a
1:08:08 standard contracting relationship with
1:08:10 the city in order to receive funds
1:08:12 typically we will provide all that
1:08:15 information in advance we are currently
1:08:17 working on that
1:08:19 as cities
1:08:20 prior to releasing the grant process
1:08:23 we give a checklist we provide a list of
1:08:26 all the documentations that
1:08:28 organizations need to provide in order
1:08:30 to contract with the city
1:08:33 and so
1:08:34 our approach to funding in the past has
1:08:38 focused on a wide distribution of
1:08:40 resources to both local and regional
1:08:43 providers
1:08:45 in other words
1:08:46 we were focusing on giving even a small
1:08:49 amount of money to as many organizations
1:08:52 as possible
1:08:53 again just recognizing um the need and
1:08:56 the demand in the community
1:08:58 um on the downsides um this has caused
1:09:01 some limitation with impact
1:09:03 right it's it's harder to to request or
1:09:06 to make an impact when um
1:09:09 when we only give out um four or five
1:09:11 thousand dollars to an organization so
1:09:14 there are pluses and minuses about the
1:09:16 approach and we will talk about that in
1:09:18 the upcoming months
1:09:21 next slide please hannah
1:09:25 well next i'm gonna
1:09:27 um i would like to say a few words about
1:09:29 the current applications um in your
1:09:32 agenda package you might have noticed
1:09:34 you received
1:09:36 a sample grant application
1:09:38 um so that was one of the 91
1:09:40 applications we received it was just to
1:09:42 give you an example we are definitely
1:09:44 welcome to read it in detail however is
1:09:47 a brief outline
1:09:48 an application will include kind of like
1:09:50 contact information of course then a few
1:09:52 questions about a program description
1:09:54 about program impact
1:09:57 program accessibility uh we focused on
1:10:00 on equity um and starting to advance
1:10:03 equity in the grant making process last
1:10:06 year so there are a few questions about
1:10:09 any additional information that an
1:10:10 agency would like to share with us
1:10:13 and then there's a section which
1:10:14 required documents there's a budget
1:10:17 section that organizations need to fill
1:10:19 out and then there are other
1:10:21 requirements as i mentioned earlier from
1:10:22 insurance to business license and all
1:10:25 other things that they need for
1:10:26 contracting with us
1:10:28 so applications in general uh change
1:10:32 very little from one funding cycle to
1:10:34 the other
1:10:35 um during the last funding cycle
1:10:37 actually we did have the most
1:10:39 significant changes um
1:10:41 in in the last several years
1:10:44 we worked on trying to provide more
1:10:46 flexibility for agencies to reduce the
1:10:48 burden
1:10:49 and increase the equity in the grant
1:10:51 application process
1:10:54 however
1:10:55 commissioners
1:10:56 challenges really arise when we are
1:10:58 trying to implement changes um due to
1:11:01 the requirements that each cities have
1:11:03 um their priorities so
1:11:06 trying to get 16 cities and
1:11:10 follow their own processes and try to
1:11:12 get to
1:11:15 agree on one change um often has been
1:11:18 proven um
1:11:19 challenging
1:11:20 so for that reason there are not many
1:11:22 changes that you will see from one
1:11:23 application cycle to the other and then
1:11:26 for 2023 and 2024
1:11:29 we don't foresee any major changes
1:11:32 um however we will follow up with with
1:11:35 u.s commissioners at the next meeting
1:11:37 based on the information that we learned
1:11:39 at tomorrow's joint meeting with the
1:11:42 other 16 cities 15 i should say since we
1:11:45 are one of the 16.
1:11:48 next slide please hand i'm almost done
1:11:50 oh i'm sorry sorry may i interrupt just
1:11:53 uh a quick second this is susan do you
1:11:55 prefer to take questions as you go or
1:11:58 hold to the end i'm i'm happy to take a
1:12:00 question says as i go now i'm happy and
1:12:03 i apologize i don't see the chat so
1:12:06 well the only question i had is i see
1:12:08 claire you have a hand raised i don't
1:12:10 know if that was from before or if
1:12:11 that's current
1:12:14 i mean this is claire it was from before
1:12:17 okay okay that's not it's not current to
1:12:19 monica's presentation thank you so much
1:12:21 thank you so much
1:12:22 sorry for any interruption back to you
1:12:24 monica
1:12:25 oh no thank you so much yes please feel
1:12:27 free to interrupt me no worries at all
1:12:29 and um yes i do have just a couple of
1:12:31 more minutes and then we can pause for
1:12:33 discussion
1:12:34 i'm also trying to go a little bit fast
1:12:36 to pick up on time that uh perhaps yeah
1:12:39 so uh i should just stop and keep going
1:12:43 um so we thought we were talking about
1:12:45 the applications um and next yes just a
1:12:48 little bit about some of the review
1:12:50 tools that you you had in the past as
1:12:53 commissioners or the commission had in
1:12:55 the past and
1:12:58 you know um again as i mentioned the
1:13:00 staff we plan on providing an
1:13:02 application summary um
1:13:05 to kind of like high level summary of of
1:13:08 the content of the applications in the
1:13:10 past uh
1:13:12 there were um a variety of score cards
1:13:16 um that were used um at this
1:13:19 most recent funding cycle instead of a
1:13:22 scorecard and actual scores um lessons
1:13:25 learned we found that it wasn't really
1:13:27 helpful and if somebody got an 81 or an
1:13:30 83 sometimes
1:13:32 as a commission then you would still
1:13:35 have a hard time deciding really um who
1:13:38 should
1:13:39 get a word that so then this most recent
1:13:42 cycle uh we just use um used a
1:13:47 myself an actual scorecard we had more
1:13:51 review
1:13:52 card that focused on on
1:13:55 [Music]
1:13:56 colors as you can see on the screen it
1:13:59 was either like
1:14:00 reds no funding recommended yellow more
1:14:02 discussion is needed or green if it was
1:14:05 clear
1:14:06 um and again for for our next funding
1:14:08 process we can brainstorm and discuss
1:14:11 what would be most helpful to you as
1:14:13 commissioners and we will provide
1:14:14 recommendations as well
1:14:16 um but so just uh just a few notes uh
1:14:19 review criteria um we are gonna discuss
1:14:22 that in advance based on the funding
1:14:24 amount and based on the priorities
1:14:29 so again we will talk some more in the
1:14:31 upcoming months about that um
1:14:33 and then
1:14:34 next slide please hannah
1:14:37 um last three slides here i i think i
1:14:40 was overly zealous with i just wanted to
1:14:42 provide timelines
1:14:44 and um
1:14:45 visuals of what's coming up so the first
1:14:48 visual here of the timeline and overview
1:14:51 it's really to provide you some
1:14:52 information about the grand cycle
1:14:56 so for example in 2021 this is the year
1:14:59 where we focused on the community needs
1:15:01 and working on our first human services
1:15:03 strategic plan right and this is
1:15:05 important because the results of that
1:15:07 strategic plan and community needs it's
1:15:10 gonna
1:15:11 inform the funding process and the
1:15:14 priorities that that we should focus on
1:15:16 in human services right
1:15:18 so then those priorities will inform
1:15:22 um the grand review right so if we're
1:15:25 gonna say okay perhaps we should focus
1:15:27 on behavioral health housing and whatnot
1:15:29 then those are gonna be your priorities
1:15:31 and those are gonna be your focuses
1:15:33 focus areas for
1:15:35 um for the grants process um in the
1:15:38 second quarter of next year um
1:15:42 we're going to focus on reviewing the
1:15:44 grants
1:15:46 the third quarter
1:15:47 we are going to focus on on the
1:15:49 recommendations
1:15:51 um and then the council will work
1:15:55 um on on their budget so again just um
1:15:59 a little bit quarter three is typically
1:16:02 july august september so those are the
1:16:05 months june starting right in june june
1:16:07 july august
1:16:10 you're going to work on we are going to
1:16:11 work on recommendations um and then
1:16:13 september october november
1:16:17 the the awards are going to be put
1:16:19 through the budget process
1:16:21 typically in november council adopts the
1:16:23 budget and that's the time in november
1:16:26 when we um typically november december
1:16:28 we inform the agencies of their awards
1:16:31 and then we start the contracting
1:16:33 process
1:16:34 because then january comes and they
1:16:36 already
1:16:37 um we need to have the contract
1:16:40 agreements in place so then case they
1:16:41 start providing the services
1:16:44 and then the cycle continues with that
1:16:46 year then in 2023 um we will
1:16:49 conduct desktop monitoring and then
1:16:52 in-person monitoring and then the
1:16:54 following
1:16:55 year then the cycle begins again with
1:16:57 the application process so
1:17:00 it's quite a process next slide please
1:17:03 hannah
1:17:06 so this is a little bit of a visual of
1:17:08 the upcoming months and kind of like
1:17:10 showing you what we've done so far so in
1:17:12 september is the time when you first had
1:17:15 a brief overview of the granting process
1:17:18 now we are returning to you with the
1:17:19 timeline review and a little bit in more
1:17:22 depth information about the process
1:17:24 in december we are going to return to
1:17:26 you hopefully with the draft strategic
1:17:28 plan um and
1:17:30 or at least the information of that
1:17:32 draft strategic plan to you
1:17:35 um we are going to start talking about
1:17:36 funding priorities and approach we are
1:17:39 going to continue that discussion about
1:17:41 funding approach in january
1:17:44 also in january we are gonna start
1:17:46 talking about the draft city
1:17:48 supplemental uh you're gonna hear more
1:17:50 about that that's just an information
1:17:52 that's gonna go into the
1:17:57 granting when we open the grand reviews
1:17:59 and the rfp for the grants is just
1:18:01 information about our city and
1:18:04 and our priorities
1:18:06 um so in february we hope to finalize
1:18:09 that city supplemental with you and then
1:18:11 we can start
1:18:13 really talking about how are we gonna
1:18:15 review the grants
1:18:16 um in march is when we release the
1:18:18 grants um unless any city tomorrow is
1:18:21 gonna ask for an extension
1:18:23 uh so in march we will release the
1:18:25 grants the organization are going to
1:18:27 start working on their applications we
1:18:29 are going to continue to talk about
1:18:31 lessons learned how are we going to
1:18:33 improve our review process how are we
1:18:35 going to make it easier for us
1:18:37 um and then in april we are going to
1:18:39 finalize that process and be ready to
1:18:41 review the schedule and be ready because
1:18:43 we are starting to review and receive
1:18:45 the applications
1:18:47 from the organization so
1:18:49 we are going to be all set in may too to
1:18:52 start reviewing and final slide please
1:18:55 hannah
1:18:56 um again this is just a brief summary of
1:18:59 the next three months so we are working
1:19:01 now and finalizing the human services
1:19:03 strategic plan that's gonna
1:19:05 inform our funding priorities
1:19:08 then we are going to create a funding
1:19:10 approach
1:19:11 and then we are going to start the grant
1:19:13 application process
1:19:15 so that is an overview of
1:19:18 what we did so far where we are and
1:19:20 what's coming um
1:19:22 very very excited to be part of this
1:19:25 process with all of you
1:19:26 i'm grateful for having hannah here also
1:19:29 with us this is her first
1:19:31 grand
1:19:32 process review
1:19:35 and we are open for questions
1:19:45 unless it sounds like i was so clear
1:19:47 that perhaps nobody has any questions
1:19:49 see manny has a question
1:19:55 hi everyone um
1:19:56 i believe you answered my question
1:19:58 monica i was
1:20:00 wondering whether or not the schedule
1:20:02 was based on calendar year or fiscal
1:20:05 year as far as
1:20:06 where the city is set up
1:20:09 yes thank you manny and that's a great
1:20:11 question and the nice thing about the
1:20:13 city uh which is not always the same
1:20:16 with all agencies but the city's fiscal
1:20:20 is the same with the calendar year so it
1:20:23 starts in january and it ends december
1:20:27 but um yeah sometimes like the award
1:20:29 process it's a little bit different
1:20:32 on your end as a commission you want to
1:20:34 finalize the
1:20:36 recommendations by the end of august
1:20:38 early september the latest
1:20:41 so then
1:20:42 then your recommendations will be
1:20:44 presented in the mayor's budget usually
1:20:46 the mayor
1:20:48 presents her budget to budget proposal
1:20:51 to city council in september
1:20:53 and that starts the budget review
1:20:56 having it done hopefully in november so
1:20:59 everything can start in january
1:21:02 well well thank you that's interesting
1:21:04 because um
1:21:05 in the year seems to be a busy time so
1:21:08 you're trying to
1:21:09 get all that information out and
1:21:13 whoever you're
1:21:15 applying those grants to
1:21:18 are also waiting for
1:21:20 that year in
1:21:22 things so uh
1:21:24 is that
1:21:25 set in stone as far as timing wise
1:21:31 i believe so as far as now we are happy
1:21:34 to propose any changes to that many but
1:21:38 it seems like this has been the process
1:21:40 for several years there are multiple
1:21:42 cities involved
1:21:44 it would be difficult to change it
1:21:48 but you're absolutely right i think
1:21:50 the end of the year and the beginning of
1:21:52 the year typically are very busy times
1:21:55 in terms of budget and fiscal processes
1:21:58 and yes payments and everything it's
1:22:01 very busy for everyone
1:22:03 but we have great teams and it's been
1:22:05 working
1:22:07 thank you
1:22:09 thank you
1:22:12 any other questions or comments
1:22:22 if none then we look forward to
1:22:23 continuing we are going to keep on
1:22:25 adding information each month we are
1:22:27 going to bring more so
1:22:29 our hope is that we are going to work
1:22:30 together so
1:22:31 um really
1:22:33 our goal is to make this process as easy
1:22:35 as possible for all of you we are here
1:22:37 to support your work and
1:22:41 yeah we are committed to make it
1:22:43 easy and flexible
1:22:45 despite the amount of work
1:22:48 thank you very much monica and and for
1:22:50 those who may not have had a chance
1:22:53 i do recommend that you go back and look
1:22:55 at that um attached grant in the packet
1:22:59 it's quite lengthy um
1:23:02 and it's a good idea i always remember
1:23:05 the first time i went through this not
1:23:06 really understanding like well what's an
1:23:08 application going to look like and so at
1:23:10 least you can see what the format is and
1:23:13 how the organization kind of goes about
1:23:16 expressing their
1:23:17 what they're offering and what they're
1:23:19 asking for
1:23:20 and um the nice thing about it is
1:23:23 because it's fairly common across all
1:23:25 the grant applications you kind of get
1:23:27 into a
1:23:29 a rhythm pretty quickly of like knowing
1:23:31 where to look and knowing what to look
1:23:32 for so for those who of you who are
1:23:35 curious i'd um advise you to go in and
1:23:38 just take a look at that when you can
1:23:41 just for a heads up as to to what these
1:23:43 things look like unfortunately they're
1:23:45 not like little paragraphs they're very
1:23:48 you know well thought through lengthy
1:23:50 applications so uh with a lot of
1:23:53 information in them
1:23:57 so thank you uh i'm sorry lacrosse i see
1:24:00 you have a question just real quick
1:24:02 around that susan um and this question
1:24:04 is for anyone who's gone through this
1:24:06 process in the past
1:24:08 um is it possible to you know like if we
1:24:11 receive a hundred of them
1:24:13 to divide them
1:24:14 in in batches of 10 or whatever the
1:24:16 number
1:24:18 to the various
1:24:21 commissioners and then from that select
1:24:24 the top two and then
1:24:27 whittle it down to now we're down to 20
1:24:30 and then those are the ones we focus on
1:24:32 or are we going to be reading like all
1:24:34 of the applicants
1:24:38 that's a great question lucrecia and
1:24:42 during the last funding cycle i see
1:24:44 susan smiles because
1:24:46 she's been through a couple of
1:24:48 days and i think she's been through a
1:24:50 cycle where
1:24:51 commissioners had to review all of them
1:24:52 we are not going to have you go through
1:24:54 that it's not fair it's not right so the
1:24:57 last funding cycle we divided them and
1:24:59 we divided folks in different groups by
1:25:02 we are going to divide the grants in in
1:25:04 different buckets um and we are going to
1:25:07 do the same and so then let's say three
1:25:09 commissioners are assigned to one bucket
1:25:12 so you're going to have 10 15 or so
1:25:15 to review so um kind of like that's our
1:25:17 goal to do as well and again now we have
1:25:20 additional staff we also hope to have
1:25:23 staff review and really good
1:25:24 presentations and summaries for you so
1:25:27 then you don't have to
1:25:28 um go through all of that it's you know
1:25:31 ultimately this is a volunteer
1:25:34 board
1:25:35 it's not fair for you to read thousands
1:25:38 and thousands of
1:25:40 applications so
1:25:42 that clarification
1:25:44 one quick thing to add to that is um i
1:25:47 appreciate the uh
1:25:49 the sort of um narrowing down process
1:25:52 that you were suggesting the one thing i
1:25:54 that we find is that a lot of these
1:25:57 programs are just hard to compare with
1:26:00 each other because they really do very
1:26:02 different things and so sometimes you're
1:26:04 left with
1:26:06 not a really great way to say this and
1:26:09 not that and so the way that monica
1:26:12 guided us through last time we were sort
1:26:14 of able to
1:26:15 group and cluster like um
1:26:18 uh applications and i think that made
1:26:21 the the deliberation process a lot
1:26:23 easier
1:26:24 that then of course the hard part comes
1:26:26 down to okay now when you've got you
1:26:28 know the ones that you really feel
1:26:30 strongly about
1:26:32 what if the money doesn't go that far
1:26:34 then what do you do and so that there
1:26:36 you have sort of another layer of
1:26:38 discussion and decision which sometimes
1:26:43 you know really great things against
1:26:45 really great things and then how do you
1:26:47 decide and and so that's where again uh
1:26:50 monica and hannah will sort of take us
1:26:53 through some various exercises and
1:26:55 different approaches and angles and um
1:26:57 speaking just very briefly for
1:26:59 pat who could not join us tonight she
1:27:02 also has some
1:27:03 experience
1:27:04 in grant funding process and and brought
1:27:06 some ideas to our previous conversation
1:27:08 that we had planning for this meeting so
1:27:10 i think
1:27:11 monica would like to hear um
1:27:14 at our next call like if there are other
1:27:16 ideas that folks have that could enhance
1:27:18 you know your already um great approach
1:27:22 to you know kind of how to go through
1:27:24 these deliberations because it is tough
1:27:27 and and it
1:27:28 um you know we're doing the best we can
1:27:31 but at the end of the day there's much
1:27:32 more need than there is money and so we
1:27:36 do have to have some um structure but
1:27:38 also some flexibility to
1:27:41 to be able to
1:27:43 you know um
1:27:44 apply what the city is asking us to do
1:27:46 which is our good judgment and and
1:27:48 really identifying what um what the city
1:27:50 should prioritize
1:27:55 so thank you for for those comments and
1:27:57 if any folks have other comments we'd
1:28:00 like to hear them
1:28:01 uh you know either now or at the at the
1:28:03 next meeting as well
1:28:07 i know we're we're getting close to time
1:28:08 so thank you all i i know it was a lot
1:28:11 to absorb tonight
1:28:13 before we
1:28:15 close out is there any other business or
1:28:17 any other announcements that folks have
1:28:21 on the commission that you would like to
1:28:22 share
1:28:26 i have something to say and i apologize
1:28:28 i feel like i have so many things that i
1:28:30 that i'm saying tonight but um something
1:28:32 that came up earlier and i think i
1:28:34 brought this up when i first started in
1:28:36 the commission and that was in terms of
1:28:41 in in the department um i'm really glad
1:28:44 to hear that we're adding a new
1:28:45 behavioral person but i can't help but
1:28:48 but think
1:28:49 that monica and hannah could
1:28:52 could possibly use more administrative
1:28:56 and one of the ideas that i
1:28:59 posited when i first began and that i
1:29:01 want to bring up again
1:29:02 is the possibility of
1:29:04 hiring people who are
1:29:07 training at the college level for
1:29:10 something around you know like
1:29:12 administration or
1:29:15 office management or something like that
1:29:17 and hiring them through the work study
1:29:19 program because the work study program
1:29:22 through the federal government pays
1:29:24 anywhere from 75 cents to 90 cents on
1:29:26 the dollar on behalf of the student
1:29:29 and then the hosting agency pays
1:29:32 anywhere from 25
1:29:33 cents on the dollar
1:29:35 to as low as uh what is that doing
1:29:37 somebody help me um
1:29:39 do 10 cents a dollar right so
1:29:42 hiring an fte or even to fte
1:29:46 it it's just very financially feasible
1:29:49 to do that
1:29:50 and we would have to be strategic about
1:29:52 it right because i'm sure that monica
1:29:54 hannah and the rest of your staff don't
1:29:56 have time to train people
1:29:57 all of the time but if we
1:30:00 could think about that
1:30:02 as a possibility in the future
1:30:05 i would just like to kind of bring that
1:30:07 up again
1:30:13 thank you so much lucia we appreciate
1:30:15 that input
1:30:16 for sure so thank you
1:30:22 okay any anything else
1:30:25 either from commissioners or monica
1:30:28 hanna
1:30:31 anything else
1:30:33 no the last thought here is that our
1:30:35 next meeting is then december 15
1:30:38 it's the third wednesday of the month
1:30:41 so please mark your calendars
1:30:46 and then you look forward i'll add to
1:30:48 that since it's a holiday month um
1:30:50 you'll be seeing a few emails from me of
1:30:52 course and if you are not able to attend
1:30:55 due to holiday vacations or any other
1:30:57 reasons just please email me to let me
1:30:59 know for an excuse absent
1:31:04 all right so
1:31:06 hearing no other business
1:31:09 meeting of the issaquah human services
1:31:12 commission of wednesday november 17 2021
1:31:15 is adjourned
1:31:17 806 pm
1:31:20 thank you all very much really
1:31:21 appreciate your
1:31:23 time and attention today and and wish
1:31:25 everyone a happy thanksgiving