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Wednesday, February 9, 2022

6:30 PM · 1h 35m
Topic tracked across meetings:
2024 Annual Human Services Strategic Plan Update (I) ID 1552 8/15
Section
1. CALL TO ORDER
1a
Commission Membership
packet pp.3
Staff report:
HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION Staff Liaison About Hannah Roberts, Human Services Coordinator Created in 2007, this commission advises the Email Hannah Roberts Mayor and City Council on matters concerning human services planning and funding. The commission plays a vital role in studying Regular Members emerging issues and concerns in the human 2022 - Manny Brown services area to ensure that the basic survival 2022 - Susan Leonelli needs of Issaquah residents are met and that 2023 - Jaime Fajardo support systems are in place to help people 2023 - Patricia Sadate- through economic and personal crisis. Each Ngatchou year, the commission focuses on its workplan. 2024 – Sarah Soriano 2025 – Trish Bloor 2023 – Claire Hansen Membership The Human Services Commission is comprised Alternate Members of seven regular members, with four-year 2022 - Lucrecia Choto terms; and two alternates, with two-year…
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
3a
Minutes of January 19, 2022
packet pp.5–6
Staff report:
APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 01-19-22 Human Services Commission Minutes Page [0001] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Human Services Commission 6:30 PM Virtual Meeting January 19, 2022 MINUTES
4. STAFF REPORT
4b
Other Community & Human Services Updates, (I)
Hannah Roberts, Human Services Coordinator
Topics: Equity
5. AGENDA ITEMS
5a
Draft Human Services Strategic Plan Feedback Summary (D)
30 min · Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager · packet pp.9–84
Topics: Equity
Staff report:
AGENDA ITEMS a) Issaquah Human Services Draft Strategic Plan – Summary of Feedback Received During the Community Engagement Process January 11 – Feb 4, 2022 Feedback from City Council: Response & How Feedback was Addressed January 11, 2022, Council Study Session The emphasis on homeless may be limiting services for Clarified language in several places throughout the low-income individuals who are working. document to ensure residents with low-incomes, and those working in minimum wage jobs, were highlighted, in particular in Section 4.4. – What We Learned and Goal areas 3 and 5. Added data in the City Characteristics & Demographics section to reference number of residents in poverty who are participating in the labor force. Need to consider increasing Human Services funding so The Administration plans to return to City Council for a agencies will consider expanding services into…
5b
Human Services Grant Draft Supplemental 2023-2024 (D)
20 min · Hannah Roberts, Human Services Coordinator · packet pp.85–89
Topics: Equity
Staff report:
Human Services staff would like to present the Draft Supplement to be included in the 2023-2024 grant funding cycle application.
5c
Human Services Commissioner Transition (D)
20 min · Hannah Roberts, Human Services Coordinator
Topics: EquityBoards & Commissions
0:02 okay
0:03 well thank you all for joining us
0:04 tonight uh tonight is the um february
0:07 9th 2022
0:10 uh meeting of the city of issaquah human
0:12 services commission um i am your chair
0:16 susan leonellian and on behalf of myself
0:18 and vice chair pat sadat and gotchu we
0:21 welcome you to this
0:23 uh regular meeting and we are
0:26 excited to
0:28 have a action-packed agenda tonight
0:31 and i think uh one of the first things
0:33 on the
0:35 the agenda here is to just
0:39 make official note of our attendance and
0:41 i see sarah has joined us as well so
0:44 hi sarah the only
0:46 person that we know is not currently in
0:48 attendance is jaime who will be joining
0:50 us um shortly is that correct
0:53 do i need to do any sort of formal role
0:55 call are we okay with that hannah
0:58 we are good to move forward okay well
1:00 thank you so much and so glad to have
1:03 everybody join us tonight uh
1:05 uh the second item on our agenda as
1:07 usual is um a
1:10 a time for any public comments do we
1:12 know tonight hannah if we've got anybody
1:14 in attendance from the public or
1:16 somebody who would like to make a
1:17 comment
1:18 we have one um attendee who is um in
1:22 public and this is our intern dominique
1:24 um so she's joined us for the evening to
1:26 observe but there are no public comments
1:29 um that have been made
1:31 okay well welcome dominique thank you
1:34 glad to have you
1:36 with us tonight
1:38 so the next item on our agenda as usual
1:41 is the approval of the minutes
1:44 i'm sorry did somebody want to say
1:45 something
1:47 nope okay uh if folks would uh please
1:51 take a look if you haven't already at
1:52 the minutes the draft of the minutes
1:54 that was prepared and these are the
1:56 minutes of the meeting of january 19th
1:59 2022 and
2:01 i'll watch for anybody who might have
2:04 any
2:05 corrections or other statements that
2:07 they would like to make and i see claire
2:09 you have a
2:10 this is
2:10 pure vanity but my name is misspelled
2:14 uh on page one
2:16 uh c-l-a-i-r-e
2:18 there's an e at the end of my name
2:27 anyone else see any
2:30 corrections clarifications
2:34 all right
2:35 well i would like to um seek approval by
2:38 a unanimous consent of a minute as
2:40 presented with the correction of um
2:43 claire's
2:44 name spelling
2:46 um any objections to
2:49 to that
2:50 i see none so i would like to
2:53 see that the minutes are approved as
2:55 presented with that change
2:58 thank you very much
3:00 and then our
3:03 next item on the agenda
3:06 looks to be um staff report and that
3:09 will be presented um by hannah and
3:12 monica so monica i believe the first
3:14 part might be yours
3:16 is that correct
3:18 thank you very much um
3:20 susan
3:21 um i think yes typically i provide
3:23 updates from um mayor paulie and city
3:26 council with your permission i think the
3:28 update that i have it's related to the
3:31 upcoming city council study session and
3:33 actually it's on our agenda the main
3:35 agent one of
3:36 the first agenda items regarding the
3:38 human services strategic plan so we can
3:41 just talk about that at that time if
3:42 that's okay
3:44 thank you and i believe hannah has some
3:47 other updates yeah thank you monica um
3:50 so just wanted to go over briefly the
3:52 human services and uh commissioner uh
3:54 commission update uh we are excited to
3:57 be celebrating this month black history
3:59 month and we have two events coming up
4:02 that i want to make you all aware of and
4:04 invite you and your families to join uh
4:06 so the first one is our cultural
4:07 conversations
4:09 um this is going to be focusing on black
4:11 history month um the
4:14 it's going to be thursday february 17th
4:16 from noon to 1. um so kind of a lunch
4:19 hour
4:20 meeting and um this is
4:23 led by our city of vista cross equity
4:25 board we'll be hosting uh just a
4:28 thought-provoking conversation on the
4:30 meaning of black history month um so
4:32 we're very excited to have panelists
4:34 there uh to join us and um have some
4:37 in-depth conversation uh so um you can
4:40 register or join us at the time um and
4:43 again that's next week february 17th new
4:46 to one and then the other event um this
4:48 is more of a fun family trivia night um
4:52 type of event for black history month
4:54 and this will be on the thursday
4:56 february 17th so the same day but in the
4:59 evening at 6 30 i'm really just supposed
5:02 to be a fun educational virtual event
5:05 both events will be virtual um i would
5:08 love to see you all there so please uh
5:10 consider joining us and then claire did
5:12 you have a question how does a family
5:15 um or a person register for the black
5:18 history month um noon panel discussion
5:22 yeah so the link um was included in this
5:26 uh staff report um so i did hyperlink
5:28 that so that's one way you can access or
5:30 you can go on to our issaquah calendar
5:33 and you can find it on the 17th and then
5:36 just register there great question and
5:38 then la crestia did you have anything
5:40 else
5:42 we're twins i had the same questions
5:44 okay yeah really hope to see you all
5:46 there we're very excited for this event
5:48 and excited for these uh conversations
5:50 that well very important conversations
5:55 with your permission i'm gonna jump in
5:57 if if you're receiving the city uh
6:00 weekly newsletter the insider um it's
6:03 also being promoted on that one so last
6:05 friday
6:06 it was promoted and this friday will be
6:08 promoted as well and of course as always
6:10 we can also just send you a quick email
6:12 if helpful so you have it on the top of
6:14 your
6:15 many probably
6:17 emails that you're receiving
6:22 thank you was that um is that all you
6:24 had hannah
6:26 yes susan that's it thank you
6:28 thank you um and if i could just
6:32 get some quick advice i realize um
6:35 hannah and monica that i made a
6:36 technical error i called this a
6:39 regular human services meeting and i
6:41 realized now looking at the top of the
6:43 agenda it's a special meeting do we need
6:45 to clarify that or would you mind
6:46 capturing that in the notes
6:50 is that okay do i need to say anything
6:52 else with regard to that
6:54 yeah i think we're okay to move forward
6:56 thanks for correcting
6:57 thank you claire i saw your
6:59 you saw that too
7:01 thank you
7:03 all right um so it looks like the next
7:06 item on our agenda is uh item 5a the
7:10 draft human services strategic plan
7:13 feedback summary
7:14 and
7:16 it looks like monica this will be
7:17 presented by you is that correct
7:20 yes thank you very much susan and good
7:22 evening commissioners once again as you
7:25 might have seen for the first time in a
7:26 while we decided not to have a
7:28 powerpoint presentation
7:30 um but rather we do have the summary of
7:33 all the feedback that we received and we
7:35 are hoping for a more
7:37 open conversation
7:39 um and really i think um
7:42 my main question to you tonight i will i
7:45 would like to use a
7:50 sentence that it's um
7:52 notoriously known at weddings when
7:55 somebody i went at some point during the
7:58 wedding ceremony uh the question is
8:00 asked if if there's someone in the
8:02 audience who feel that these two should
8:04 not be wed please speak now or forever
8:06 hold your peace uh with your permission
8:08 i think i would like to the question for
8:10 tonight to be if uh if you see any
8:13 reasons in the draft strategic plan why
8:16 they should not be presented to city
8:18 council
8:19 for final
8:21 feedback next week please let us know
8:23 now
8:24 or otherwise we would love to move this
8:27 forward we do understand that the
8:29 strategic plan um and the adoption it's
8:32 really not the end it's just the very
8:34 beginning
8:35 uh we are excited to start work on it
8:37 and operationalize it um
8:41 and and so i think we would love to have
8:44 and hear from you tonight if there are
8:45 any
8:46 final suggestions that you have um
8:49 definitely we would love to hear them um
8:51 and with that if there are any initial
8:53 questions i'm gonna pause otherwise i
8:55 will share my screen so i can
8:57 show you a little bit um how we gathered
9:00 all the feedback from the community and
9:03 how we addressed it in the plan does
9:05 that sound good
9:08 moving forward okay
9:12 so i'm gonna attempt to share my screen
9:19 and give me just a moment to make sure i
9:21 have the right page open
9:27 i after two years of
9:30 virtual meetings i'm thinking i think
9:33 i'm finally
9:35 getting this sharing thing down down to
9:41 the last details so um you had in your
9:45 packet uh this in your packet
9:48 uh this rather lengthy table thanks to
9:51 hannah for all her work on this
9:54 um we what we did if you remember in the
9:58 last month we had a community engagement
10:00 process asking for feedback from city
10:03 council from u.s admission from the
10:06 community our non-profit partners and
10:08 the residents
10:10 asking for feedback and um
10:13 input on what um
10:15 edits and changes we should make
10:18 and so we summarized everything in this
10:20 feedback on the left hand side we have a
10:23 summary of the feedback that was
10:24 proposed and then on the right hand side
10:28 we have a response on how we address the
10:30 feedback and or what our response was
10:33 um i want to know that
10:35 i believe that at least 95 of the
10:39 feedback that we received um we really
10:42 try to um
10:44 implement it i think the the very few
10:47 things um that we were not able to
10:49 change were either because
10:52 um perhaps the feedback was not directly
10:54 related to the
10:58 um to the plan or perhaps there were
11:01 some just technicalities small small
11:04 details and so forth
11:09 with that um you will see as i go
11:12 through the
11:13 information
11:15 we received
11:18 three types of
11:20 feedbacks i think um
11:23 grammatical typos
11:26 editing content wording
11:29 that's one along with um
11:32 perhaps suggestions to add different
11:34 pictures or highlight different things
11:38 then we had some suggestions to
11:41 highlight
11:42 or to
11:44 focus more on certain populations
11:47 seniors in particular we also heard from
11:51 someone in the community regarding lgbtq
11:55 as you might know on those who are low
11:57 income and working
11:58 so that was a another category of
12:01 feedback that we received
12:03 and then a third category um i think was
12:07 included in
12:08 various suggestions regarding either
12:12 [Music]
12:14 parts of the document in highlighting
12:16 different performance metrics
12:20 focus more on
12:22 on the challenge or problem or the why
12:26 and then just highlighting some data
12:28 documents um
12:30 so with that
12:33 i'm gonna dive a little bit
12:34 in more detail
12:36 um on january 11th as you may recall uh
12:39 we went to city council so we summarized
12:42 their feedback here
12:46 just going briefly emphasis the the
12:48 there was concern that there's perhaps
12:50 too much emphasis on homelessness
12:52 and then perhaps if we could highlight
12:54 more
12:55 uh the population whose low income uh
12:58 and working i think the
13:00 the wording used was working poor
13:05 there was oh and i forgot to mention
13:06 we'll talk a little bit more about the
13:08 funding uh there were also
13:10 recommendations to add um
13:12 [Music]
13:13 more information regarding the budget
13:15 and then also
13:18 consider the human services grants into
13:21 that i'm going to address this at the
13:22 the very end
13:26 as i mentioned including seniors was one
13:28 of the recommendations and we addressed
13:30 that
13:31 including the human services city-wide
13:33 performance measures we address that
13:38 the strategic actions to just review
13:41 them to make sure that those are
13:42 measurable we did that
13:44 highlighting basic needs and the food
13:46 bank in particular within that
13:51 again i'm gonna address the financial
13:52 piece just in a few moments i'm gonna
13:54 come back to this
13:56 uh then we had the commission meeting on
13:57 january 11th
14:00 here we received some great feedback on
14:03 again grammatical content and also
14:05 adding numbers next to percentages this
14:08 is one of the areas where we did it but
14:10 we did not do it across
14:12 all numbers that we are providing in
14:15 in the document we are however proposing
14:18 to to provide a separate document just
14:20 with the demographic data and include
14:23 numbers uh with percentages as well
14:27 provided additional information on how
14:29 to tell the story of those who are
14:32 chronically poor working poor
14:34 um so we provided some information there
14:37 we did have some limitations in terms of
14:39 reliable data
14:41 uh there
14:43 again
14:44 we added also a different appendix uh
14:47 just focusing on describing populations
14:49 the different populations
14:53 to the feedback on on addressing the why
14:57 we focused we do have quite a lengthy
15:00 sanction
15:01 on on addressing the community needs and
15:04 so we added some information in the
15:08 goal section as well
15:11 and then we also plan to further address
15:13 that during implementation
15:16 um we also received feedback from you as
15:18 a commission to get feedback from
15:19 non-funded organizations we did that we
15:24 thanks to um some of you who um put us
15:27 in contact with an organization but also
15:29 we reached out on our end
15:32 um to other organizations here on the
15:34 east side um who we did not fund and um
15:39 we had great conversations with them as
15:41 well
15:44 also we had recommendation to use part
15:47 of the grants funding process so this is
15:49 a higher level
15:50 uh process related feedback on how to
15:52 use the grants funds
15:54 um and
15:56 again i'm gonna come back to that in
15:58 just a minute address that a little bit
16:00 more
16:02 we received um
16:05 the star model from one of you we
16:07 appreciated that
16:09 we reviewed it um it seemed like the
16:11 model
16:12 um was rather addressing organizations
16:15 and
16:16 employees we are still going to look
16:18 further into how we may
16:21 implement some of that model into the
16:23 community strategic plan
16:26 um and then next we also as you may
16:29 recall actually we had two of you attend
16:32 the community workshop we had a
16:34 community-wide workshop
16:37 where we had guests from our non-profit
16:39 partners
16:40 um great conversation there um as well
16:44 and then we received some feedback on a
16:47 bigger picture and then also smaller
16:49 details
16:51 on including certain age demographics on
16:54 seeing the behavioral health program
16:57 grow and expand
17:00 increasing frequency to some of the
17:03 actions in the plan especially
17:05 technology assistance transportation
17:08 calling that out
17:10 then again some some editing to some of
17:12 the descriptions like wording
17:15 um for some of the organizations
17:23 so wording for saint vincent wording for
17:25 um the framework for the resource center
17:29 um another warning for the iso cultural
17:32 circle so all of those have been
17:36 included and edited
17:40 more information again for seniors
17:42 addressed that
17:44 as i mentioned earlier um some other
17:47 suggestions for photos
17:49 uh we we include quite a few
17:52 photos there
17:55 again increase frequency for some of the
17:57 action oriented goals and this is um
18:01 another one in we of course we would
18:03 love to increase frequency wherever
18:05 possible
18:07 on the other end uh
18:10 we know that for all the goals that had
18:12 a frequency we put minimum and that's a
18:15 minimum that we felt like we could
18:17 commit with existing staffing resources
18:20 we would love to increase uh frequency
18:22 of course if that's available
18:25 but we did we could not commit all the
18:27 time to be able to do that
18:32 and also again how we would measure
18:34 success we edited and we added some
18:36 information there
18:39 and then in addition to that as you
18:40 might have seen
18:41 we did reach out directly via email to
18:44 non-profit partners to community members
18:47 that we engaged with over the last
18:49 couple of years and also the draft plan
18:52 went out um via the
18:55 city's
18:56 newsletter the insider and we invited
18:58 the community to contact us and so we
19:01 did receive emails or phone calls and we
19:03 set up meetings with different community
19:06 members so then this is a section that
19:08 includes that feedback
19:12 we received the concern from a community
19:14 member that perhaps
19:16 the plan will
19:18 provide a departure from the traditional
19:20 human services grant funding process
19:22 and how that is measured and then we
19:24 assure that we do not
19:27 plan to
19:28 uh completely move from that we just
19:30 plan on
19:32 providing um
19:34 different priorities and different
19:36 packets for that
19:38 then we also received questions on and
19:41 general feedback on what is the role and
19:43 purpose of the strategic plan
19:46 um we received feedback um
19:48 um regarding child care options and we
19:51 included that in the plan
19:53 uh we also received great feedback and
19:56 we had a great meeting with a community
19:58 member who identifies as lgbtq
20:02 um and again in the part and section on
20:08 where people feel stigmatized safe and
20:10 welcoming we added some information
20:12 there to make sure that the lgbt
20:14 community is also
20:15 heard and
20:16 part of this
20:18 plan
20:20 and
20:20 last but not least
20:23 eastside community development fund
20:25 which is a newer non-profit organization
20:28 created by private entities
20:30 on the east side um made recommendations
20:35 and they suggested that we include their
20:37 recommendations uh on how to address
20:40 homelessness into the strategic plan and
20:42 so the city already works with ecdf and
20:45 with the regional homelessness authority
20:47 and then of course i think the next step
20:49 in this plan once the plan is adopted as
20:52 we start to operationalize it uh the
20:55 next step will be to really identify
20:57 partners in addressing many of the
21:00 actions on the plan so absolutely we
21:02 would love to continue and work with
21:05 ecdf um and other partners in addressing
21:08 homelessness
21:11 this concludes the
21:13 brief overview on the changes and edits
21:16 that were included in the plan
21:18 um i'm happy to share the screen and go
21:21 through the 72 pages of the plan if you
21:24 would like to to have a visual in case
21:26 you didn't see it i do trust that um all
21:29 of you have it though on the screen and
21:31 i'm not gonna do that unless
21:33 specifically
21:35 you are requesting it
21:38 however
21:39 i would love to
21:41 ask for questions comments
21:48 anything that you would like to share
21:51 again in terms of next steps
21:54 if and i see jaime also share
21:56 join good evening and welcome
21:59 um i think
22:02 the question that we have in front of
22:03 you tonight is we really what we are
22:06 looking for you is to let us know if you
22:08 have any
22:10 concerns any serious concerns of why
22:13 this plan should not move to city
22:16 council
22:17 next week for their final feedback if
22:20 you see any major concerns
22:25 and
22:27 any final thoughts on it
22:31 no christian
22:35 um i just want to commend you monica and
22:37 hannah and your staff for taking all of
22:40 our comments into consideration when
22:42 creating this um
22:44 hopefully final draft that will move
22:46 forward
22:47 i would like to ask in addition to
22:51 what you've done now
22:52 is that for in the future if there's a
22:54 way
22:56 to collect that data that has been
22:58 difficult to
22:59 to gather this this time around with
23:01 regards to
23:02 who are our residents in need because i
23:05 do think it it
23:07 telling the story for me
23:10 um humanizes the situation right like
23:13 are we talking about
23:14 retirees with fixed income are we
23:17 talking about
23:18 people who have been damaged
23:20 in their service to the country and
23:23 therefore
23:24 need certain services are we talking
23:26 about chronic pover generational poverty
23:29 are we talking about
23:30 people who are in situational poverty
23:33 such as college students who have
23:35 limited income but
23:37 through by finishing their degrees they
23:39 will be able to you know take a leap out
23:42 poverty and i think that that
23:44 informing ourselves with that kind of
23:47 data
23:48 also gives us
23:50 some leverage as to how
23:53 to allocate money and then help us
23:56 um to better um
24:00 explain why we're choosing to fund what
24:02 we're choosing to fund
24:04 and and that's the only thing that i
24:06 would like the record to show is that
24:08 for future reference it would be
24:11 really great to kind of know who our
24:13 community members are and why they're in
24:15 that situation
24:17 thank you
24:19 thank you very much lucrecia and um it's
24:22 very very helpful to hear your thoughts
24:24 and thinking
24:25 um there is and
24:28 we do have those personal stories and i
24:30 would love for us to have a way to share
24:32 those i think our concern was when it
24:36 it's time to put those in a demographic
24:38 data
24:39 right we know that let's say a little
24:41 bit over seven percent of the population
24:44 lives in poverty and then we provide
24:46 some information
24:48 um but we cannot because we heard let's
24:50 say from five families or from 20
24:54 residents we cannot expand that those
24:57 stories but
24:58 certainly i think there's a place for us
25:01 to share those stories especially during
25:03 the granting allocations and
25:06 recommendations to share those stories
25:08 that what we heard it's just it did not
25:10 seem fair for us
25:14 write um expand that data and to make
25:16 assumptions to the gen based on the
25:18 general population right but yeah i
25:21 really love i love your suggestion and i
25:23 would love to kind of like look into how
25:25 in the future we can use that
25:27 data that we gather in those stories
25:31 thank you
25:33 if i can just expand on that lucretia
25:35 because i did a lot of research on this
25:36 um just to find the in-depth data um
25:40 that you're talking about because i
25:41 think you're right it is important to
25:43 paint the story and for us specifically
25:45 in the strategic plan part of painting
25:47 the story is including the data so i
25:49 just wanted to share specifically what i
25:51 gathered from um that suggestion and i
25:54 was able to find a little more in-depth
25:57 data point to include in the strategic
25:59 plan so you'll see on page
26:03 yeah 17 it was added
26:06 that um of the 7.8 percent who are in
26:09 poverty um but just over half were in
26:13 the labor force um so i just wanted to
26:15 share that data point that was added
26:16 based off of your comment so
26:19 like monica said it was hard to include
26:21 all the
26:23 the stories that humanize what we're
26:25 trying to do and who we're working with
26:27 and for
26:28 um but that that is just one thing i
26:30 wanted to add to what monica had said
26:33 thank you appreciate that hannah thank
26:34 you
26:42 there i see you have a comment or
26:43 question and then anna
26:45 i also just wanted to recognize the
26:47 incredible work that you guys have done
26:48 and it's really
26:50 it's very impressive and it
26:53 it's a really nice comprehensive look
26:55 and i just really appreciate it
26:58 there were a couple thoughts that i had
26:59 as you were reviewing kind of all the
27:01 comments and one of the things that
27:03 really jumped out at me and
27:04 this is not the most polished thing i've
27:06 ever said so i apologize but
27:08 i was shocked to see that two of the
27:11 different outreach meetings you had
27:14 some someone or some group came with
27:18 some pushback about the focus on persons
27:20 who are homeless
27:22 i thought that was really interesting
27:23 especially in the light of our last
27:25 meeting where you told us that
27:28 because of the severe weather in
27:30 issaquah there was a
27:33 motel rooms that were rented and service
27:35 that was provided and i mean the
27:37 compassion of that outreach is excellent
27:40 it also cost eighteen thousand dollars
27:42 which is a lot of money and i don't at
27:45 all blink at the cost of it because i
27:46 think that was actually probably pretty
27:48 good deal
27:49 considering all of the things that were
27:51 needed and provided
27:53 but
27:54 that that that piece would be pushed
27:56 back in in your plan i mean that is
27:58 clearly a
28:00 a huge problem and an unsustainable
28:06 part of the
28:07 the city's budget if we're going to have
28:09 this unexpected 18 000 thing every year
28:13 i actually thought the focus on persons
28:15 that were homeless and all of the
28:17 different interventions was a really
28:19 great thing and i was glad to see that
28:21 in there
28:24 i guess two other thoughts one was
28:26 i really appreciated all the focus on
28:28 measurement and
28:30 all the financial pieces that you
28:32 included
28:33 and i think that goes a long way to the
28:38 asked what's it going to be like
28:41 also i was struck with two other things
28:43 one was
28:44 that the median age in issaquah was 37.
28:49 that is just
28:51 i just had to pull that out in front of
28:52 everyone and just say
28:54 wow
28:55 that's young
28:58 that maybe explains a little bit of
29:02 kind of our
29:07 lack of experience in grappling as a
29:09 city with some of these issues that have
29:11 come up in the last few years
29:14 so that just really stood out to me
29:17 also it stood out to me that
29:19 it was just past about 40 000 people
29:22 from the census and i was thinking
29:25 on my own time i need to go back and
29:26 look at the census numbers from before
29:28 that from the last few censuses since i
29:32 since
29:33 don't know
29:35 and see what the rate of increase is
29:37 because i'm assuming that it's just been
29:39 like kind of an explosive growth here
29:42 um and that that's part of the the need
29:45 for this action plan is to respond to
29:48 the rate of growth
29:49 so um those are just a few of the things
29:51 that stood out to me both as like
29:54 not problems or anything but just
29:56 pieces that i thought were excellent
29:58 that were in there in
30:00 just commending you for your research
30:02 and
30:03 all of the above so
30:05 wow thank you thank you very very much
30:08 up there uh so so appreciating that
30:11 feedback and
30:13 yeah just thank you
30:14 and in 2010 the population and the only
30:18 reason i remember it's because it's a 10
30:20 10 10 incremental i believe the
30:22 population was 30 000 so 10 years 10 000
30:26 growth in since the last census
30:30 since 2010. at least that's what i
30:34 monica you're totally right i just
30:35 looked it up because it's been a number
30:36 i've been looking at as well so i'll
30:38 just add here
30:39 um that since the last sentence says it
30:41 was a 32 increase and issaquah is um
30:45 growing at a rate of 0.7
30:48 annually
30:52 i see ana's hand um i actually also had
30:55 a comment about the
30:57 homeless comment that claire made but um
31:00 anna after you
31:06 first of all monika hannah that's a
31:09 great document takes a lot of time
31:12 version effort to
31:14 put that together and the other thing
31:17 once council approves this uh
31:21 document
31:22 could it be a possibility
31:26 stated somewhere that
31:29 addendums might be
31:31 updated
31:33 with you know
31:35 current data and maybe the stories that
31:37 you could show us on there
31:40 and
31:41 maybe a link
31:43 for people to go to those
31:45 addendums that have been
31:49 this is running but added after council
31:52 has approved this
31:53 piece of document
31:55 thank you
31:57 thank you um anna uh definitely
31:59 absolutely great suggestion and uh um
32:02 great opportunity for me to tell you a
32:04 little bit of what would happen next so
32:07 absolutely we believe and we want this
32:10 document to be a live document and we
32:12 have already although it's a five-year
32:14 plan we do have a two-year mark and
32:16 three-year mark of formal update but
32:19 meanwhile we also started working
32:22 internally with our data analyst
32:25 in our finance team because we hope to
32:27 create the web page where all the
32:29 metrics that we have uh we are going to
32:32 be able to share them on the website and
32:33 then kind of like share
32:35 how we are making progress or what are
32:37 the challenges on that and then the
32:39 absolutely provide opportunities for the
32:41 public to to provide input and for us to
32:45 continue to make edits it should be a
32:46 live document right uh we should start
32:49 working on those actions and then learn
32:51 from see what's working and see what's
32:53 not working
32:54 um so great suggestion great idea and
32:57 definitely i think that's the intent
33:01 susan you had a comment and then
33:06 also pat and hi man
33:09 thank you um uh i have a couple comments
33:11 of one on the homeless um
33:15 point and then the other one i'll just
33:16 hold till later um
33:18 but the
33:20 the one thing that i
33:21 it was interesting how you framed out
33:24 what we learned about the needs of
33:27 the homeless population in issaquah and
33:29 then some of the barriers to getting
33:32 services i
33:33 i can't say that i'm surprised by any of
33:35 it because you've been sharing it with
33:37 us you know all along and we've you know
33:39 some of the issues are
33:41 uh long-standing you know and we we've
33:44 been trying to address them in different
33:45 ways the one thing that i thought might
33:47 not have been called out um is clearly
33:50 is we have been
33:53 as a city supporting and funding
33:57 homeless shelters for years
33:59 and um
34:01 but the the method that we've been using
34:04 is this this sort of
34:07 share cost share whatever for these
34:10 regional centers
34:12 so i wonder if if a reader might get the
34:15 misimpression that because we don't have
34:18 actual shelters in the city that we
34:20 really aren't doing anything except you
34:23 call it the outreach and you call
34:25 these types of things but it
34:27 i wonder if
34:29 the um
34:31 if we could paint a picture of
34:33 a city in transition of how we address
34:37 homelessness not if we address
34:39 homelessness because we've been
34:40 addressing homelessness with lots of
34:42 money
34:43 and it may not be very effective and we
34:46 may have to
34:47 do a different strategy and i think
34:49 we're kind of working toward that but um
34:52 that i think is a little bit of a
34:54 different story than like why aren't you
34:56 addressing homelessness which
34:57 you know some one might get that
34:59 impression you know
35:01 in the document what what are your
35:03 thoughts on that you've been a lot
35:05 closer to it and you're kind of living
35:07 that
35:09 conversation right now
35:11 that's a great point susan i would love
35:14 to go back and definitely i think we can
35:19 make a stronger
35:22 um perhaps
35:24 call out for that i think
35:26 we do
35:27 link the current
35:31 programs and organizations that we fund
35:33 but i would love to go back and kind of
35:34 like look and see how we paint a picture
35:37 of what we are doing now because you're
35:38 right and we've been addressing
35:39 homelessness and we've been responding
35:41 to homelessness it is a regional issue
35:43 and we've been responding to it
35:45 regionally what we've been learning
35:47 which is new this time around during
35:49 this community engagement is that
35:51 whatever we are doing it does not
35:54 impact positively or it does not help
35:58 homeless folks in issaquah locally right
36:01 because
36:02 and specifically um on page 30 in the
36:07 what we learned section maybe you could
36:09 it can just even be
36:11 there you might want to just
36:12 see if that's a good place for it to fit
36:14 because you talk about
36:18 you know what
36:20 what
36:21 unsheltered individuals are likely to
36:23 access but then you go right to the
36:25 barriers of accessing
36:27 accessing services transportation
36:30 and which is one of them
36:31 well like why do they need
36:33 transportation it's because the services
36:35 are elsewhere because that's our model
36:37 our model is to utilize services that
36:39 that require transportation and that was
36:42 kind of like purposeful um and now we
36:45 realize like oops there was a missing
36:47 link in that
36:49 because um anyway it it just might give
36:52 this city and all of
36:54 the folks who've been on you know
36:56 working hard on this for years a little
36:58 bit of credit for like trying to address
37:00 this in various ways and we've been
37:02 trying this and trying that now we
37:04 realize that you know those funds might
37:06 might be better utilized in a different
37:09 model and that's what you're going to
37:10 see coming out of this new you know
37:12 human services strategic plan because we
37:14 have a we have a like take care of our
37:17 own lens whereas before it was like you
37:20 know participate in the region lens that
37:22 may be an oversimplification but yeah
37:25 no that's very helpful and and you're
37:26 right especially that part of the
37:28 document focuses on what the need is in
37:30 the community and not so much on what's
37:31 existing but we do have in the first
37:34 part like the existing resources and
37:36 then perhaps there we should if not on
37:39 page 30 um
37:40 and the place where we talk about what's
37:42 existing and existing resources to focus
37:44 more on um on touching more on the
37:47 regional aspect there
37:49 i do know that we touch on that but i
37:50 don't know that it's enough to focus on
37:52 you know things that have been
37:54 done yeah thank you for that
37:57 anna do you have a follow-up on that
38:00 okay
38:01 thank you assistant
38:03 we give money to these agencies that are
38:05 not in issaquah and they do not have a
38:08 shelter
38:11 can
38:12 they be tapped to see if they are
38:15 willing to share the
38:16 cost of providing a place for our
38:20 homeless during these emergency
38:22 situations since they have a contract
38:25 and if our clients would go to their
38:28 agency
38:30 they would be served so
38:33 how does that
38:34 come to any attention
38:37 or to say hey you know
38:40 we gave you like
38:42 20 000 and we need a thousand from your
38:44 agency to cover
38:47 the homeless
38:49 but we have to provide them because of
38:51 mother nature hearing isabella
38:55 thank you
38:57 joanna um so yeah unfortunately it's
39:01 it's so much more complex and um while
39:05 we we've been supporting regional
39:07 shelters most often um they are at
39:10 capacity or beyond capacity
39:13 and even when they are not at capacity
39:16 what we learned
39:17 that
39:18 the folks who live in issaquah
39:21 they just simply don't want to
39:25 leave issaquah they don't want to go to
39:27 another city so even if they had
39:29 capacity and understandably even if if
39:32 they don't have a home this is their
39:34 home right so it it's it's complex um
39:37 definitely we are working and we are
39:39 going to continue to work
39:41 but but now that we've been actively
39:44 engaging creating a buy name database
39:47 when database when we start to know
39:48 people by name really knowing their
39:50 stories
39:51 knowing their challenges
39:53 these are the types of things that that
39:55 we learned this year
39:57 so yeah thank you definitely more to
39:59 talk on homelessness for sure it's um
40:04 yeah
40:06 so thank you and i think i can remember
40:09 pat was next and then jaime i believe
40:11 yes thank you and again amazing work and
40:16 it was really encouraging uh to see the
40:18 enthusiasm of the community uh at that
40:21 session i attended they really paid
40:23 attention and they gave really great
40:25 feedback
40:26 i just wanted to clarify something on
40:29 terms in terms of uh this being a living
40:32 document so
40:35 how do we make it living is it that we
40:38 have said that intentionally i can't
40:40 remember at some time uh at some
40:43 specific point in time we will make a
40:47 modification to it or is it any time we
40:50 can make modifications to it thank you
40:53 thank you pat in the documents we note
40:56 um the end of 2023 and then
40:59 again at the end of 2024
41:02 as points where we formally will review
41:05 everything and make edits and
41:07 modifications
41:09 and so i believe that that will be the
41:11 formal process
41:13 before that we can certainly
41:17 accept feedback
41:19 and if there is a point that so we are
41:22 already in 2022 so end of 2023 it's next
41:25 year right
41:26 if before that
41:28 there's gonna be a reason why we need to
41:30 make a major update uh or edit then we
41:33 could come back to the commission and
41:35 counsel and make that but otherwise we
41:37 hope to start implementation here in the
41:39 next month in the next quarter and then
41:42 go until next year and do a formal
41:45 um update at that time okay thank you
41:49 thank you
41:53 hi man
41:55 yeah absolutely thank you this is a lot
41:57 of work uh
41:59 so i i tip my hat to folks that you know
42:02 participate in this uh monika um
42:05 i did does the star model design does
42:08 that
42:09 i mean i mean i'm looking at it does
42:11 that kind of address a lot of the root
42:13 concerns that people are
42:14 expressing
42:17 on a model that you've all selected
42:24 um personally i when i read the star
42:27 model i felt like it's more applicable
42:29 to empowering employees in an
42:31 organization rather than the community
42:34 based level
42:35 so i think i would love the opportunity
42:38 to perhaps meet individually with
42:41 claire i believe it was you who sent
42:43 that model to us and see how we may
42:45 implement or use it in implementation
42:49 so i think that that's where we are at
42:51 this point with it um
42:58 yeah and the next question would be um
43:01 yeah the even the the
43:04 the demographics are you know
43:06 interesting too so my question would be
43:08 i think there was a
43:10 i think they got changed in terms of the
43:13 culture connecting group let me see real
43:16 quick here update services and histock
43:18 description from latino events to
43:19 culture events and at a club
43:22 response update cultural circle
43:24 description at a club
43:26 can you walk me through
43:29 yeah so those were specific um
43:32 suggestions from that cultural group so
43:35 for example the isoqua cultural
43:38 circle
43:39 formally used to be
43:41 known as the latino club
43:43 we had a section in the plan where we
43:46 provided a brief description on the
43:48 existing agencies in isapra and so they
43:52 they made a
43:54 suggestion on kind of like modifying a
43:56 little bit the description um pertaining
43:59 to their organization
44:08 there's a couple of work changes and so
44:10 they would they wanted highlighted the
44:12 fact that in addition to
44:13 of supporting latino um events they want
44:17 to just support other cultural events as
44:20 well
44:26 does that help
44:28 yeah and i think what stood out to me
44:30 was of the people living in poverty i
44:32 think uh hispanic like
44:34 32 percent um
44:37 you know outstanding just
44:39 yeah
44:40 heartbreaking um no no thank you so much
44:43 i i've been kind of looking at
44:45 right now so thank you
44:48 thank you so much it's the same hymen
44:52 commissioners anyone else with comments
44:55 questions or
44:57 any final
45:02 thoughts while you are thinking about
45:05 that i would like to also just point out
45:07 a few things that i mentioned earlier
45:09 that i will talk speak to and that is
45:11 the budget and the human services grants
45:14 funding so you might have seen
45:17 some of the modifications or edits that
45:19 we made in the strategic plan
45:21 based on input received from you and
45:24 city council was that we provided some
45:26 information on the cost of the
45:29 program in particular we provided some
45:31 visuals some icons and we
45:36 assigned each goal and each action to
45:39 one of the three buckets that we
45:41 proposed so um what we basically said in
45:44 the plan was that each of the goals and
45:46 actions
45:48 can be addressed with either existing
45:50 staffing resources
45:52 to the human services grants
45:55 or three
45:57 funds that we need to identify
46:00 new funding sources either one-time or
46:03 ongoing funding sources and this can be
46:06 a combination of grants or federal state
46:09 county
46:10 dollars not just necessarily city
46:12 dollars
46:13 so then we assigned as i mentioned each
46:15 to each of the goal areas and each of
46:17 the specific actions we assign them to
46:19 one bucket either
46:21 you know staff resources grant resources
46:25 additional funding needed
46:27 and with that
46:29 i know the city council also had asked
46:32 and proposed that perhaps we have a
46:35 conversation on
46:37 the amount of the human services grants
46:40 and we are proposing to city council to
46:43 go back to a separate meeting and just
46:46 have a separate conversation just on the
46:48 granting allocations uh so then that
46:52 meeting can be dedicated this way we we
46:54 separate the strategic plan
46:56 which really should focus on identifying
46:59 the needs and identifying the priorities
47:02 once we have those um
47:05 and everybody feels comfortable with
47:07 those then we can move into identifying
47:10 money to implement those goals so um
47:14 more to come on that uh and that's where
47:16 we are in the financial piece also last
47:19 but not least in
47:21 in the plan
47:22 within those three categories we also
47:25 um kind of like put a price tag if you
47:28 wish uh we
47:31 had three levels of funding um
47:34 projects that will
47:36 let's say
47:37 need a base
47:38 uh funding and we
47:41 we put that range between zero and fifty
47:44 thousand dollars then we identified a
47:46 second rate range between fifty thousand
47:50 and two hundred thousand dollars and
47:51 then anything that's above two hundred
47:53 thousand dollars and then we um noted
47:56 those um across all
47:59 action items as well
48:02 just wanted to highlight that
48:07 hey
48:09 any other
48:11 final questions or if not if there are
48:13 no questions comments or suggestions i
48:15 think
48:16 perhaps with a
48:18 show of hands i think we are very good
48:20 with with the thumbs up uh down or
48:23 unsure how do you feel about this moving
48:26 forward
48:28 next week to city council for final
48:30 feedback
48:33 you see hands up from everyone except
48:36 for manny and anna or thank you
48:40 manny and anna as well okay
48:43 thank you very much commissioners we
48:44 appreciate that
48:46 um so just one 20 more seconds on this
48:49 next week on
48:51 um february 15 we go to a council study
48:54 session for last uh
48:56 uh hopefully uh what people even hope to
48:59 be a last um feedback sought from city
49:02 council and if we receive the green
49:04 light from them as well then we will
49:06 return the following week on february
49:08 22nd for adoption
49:12 or march 70s also so we provide a couple
49:15 of options for city council in case they
49:17 would like to choose a different group
49:19 and that's it
49:21 thank you very much
49:23 very exciting thank you
49:26 thank you for all the
49:28 the great feedback um to the
49:30 commissioners so
49:32 i appreciate that very exciting
49:35 all right um
49:36 so we're doing great on time uh i think
49:40 the next item on our agenda is b the
49:43 human services
49:44 grant draft supplemental for the
49:47 2023-2024
49:49 grant cycle and i believe that will be
49:52 presented by hannah
49:55 thank you susan yes so i'll be
49:57 presenting our supplemental and then um
50:00 i'll have monica share the screen um
50:03 when um we need to pull that up
50:07 so i'll go ahead and begin
50:10 would you like me to pull it up now or
50:11 just you're gonna tell me sorry hannah
50:13 um i'll tell you when to pull it up um
50:16 i'm gonna show the um next steps um
50:20 all right so i'll go ahead and start us
50:22 off
50:22 um so in preparation for the human
50:24 services grant funding cycle which is
50:27 coming up as you all know
50:28 we wanted to spend time this meeting to
50:30 discuss the supplemental that will be
50:32 included in the grant application
50:34 process so tonight i'll be reviewing the
50:37 background information providing an
50:39 overview of the draft supplemental that
50:41 we've provided and a timeline of what
50:43 next steps will look like
50:45 so as i review i just ask for you to
50:47 consider the following two questions
50:50 what kind of information would you like
50:52 to see on the city supplemental
50:54 and what is unique about issaquah
50:57 compared to the other cities in the
50:58 region
51:00 so what is a supplemental the 2023-2024
51:04 supplemental it's a part of the share1
51:07 app 16 city application process that
51:10 allows organizations to submit one
51:13 application for multiple cities
51:16 each city provides a supplemental to
51:18 describe their focus areas or include
51:20 additional questions for organizations
51:22 that become a part of the application
51:25 process
51:26 as an overview of what the draft
51:28 supplemental includes um which again is
51:31 provided in the agenda packet
51:35 the approximate available funding that
51:36 we are anticipating in 2023 and 2024 as
51:39 of now
51:40 is uh 500 000 per year which is the same
51:43 as our last funding cycle
51:45 uh the funding recommendations are made
51:48 by human service commission
51:50 you all
51:51 and final funding decisions are made by
51:53 your city council during the budget
51:55 process that will be taking place in the
51:57 fall in 2022
52:00 so the application review process we
52:04 have funding recommendations will be
52:06 made by commission
52:08 by september with considerations by city
52:11 council plan for october december 2022
52:15 um final allocations amount will be
52:17 approved and adopted as part of the
52:19 overall city budget and the city of
52:21 issaquah staff will notify those
52:23 agencies of the final allocations
52:26 expected by late november um and then
52:29 the award the awarded funds will be
52:31 available starting january 1st 2023
52:35 um so
52:36 for the city of issaquah um what we are
52:39 wanting to include in the supplemental
52:41 we really want to focus and highlight
52:43 the the focus areas from the human
52:45 service strategic plan
52:47 so the human service commission will use
52:49 the strategic priorities from the human
52:51 services strategic plan to guide its
52:54 funding decisions hence why it's very
52:56 important for you all to know and
52:58 understand the strategic plan
53:01 and where the focus and priority areas
53:03 are
53:05 this supplemental summarizes the
53:07 strategic plan
53:09 focus areas and highlights a commitment
53:11 to advancing equity diversity inclusion
53:14 and social justice through initiatives
53:16 and our work in human services centered
53:18 around the vision of issaquah
53:22 so as you are aware the strategic plan
53:24 um really was created to for the human
53:28 services initiatives for the next five
53:30 years to help inform our priorities
53:32 provide a roadmap for social services
53:34 investments policy recommendations
53:37 advocacy and technical assistant needs
53:39 i'm so
53:41 um seen on the strategic plan the
53:42 service gaps identified
53:44 that were included in the supplemental
53:46 were the physical and behavioral health
53:49 the housing continuum including housing
53:51 affordability and homelessness
53:53 cultural specific services and language
53:55 access
53:57 and community resources
54:00 as well
54:03 so the purpose including this
54:04 information in our supplemental is to
54:07 help guide applications
54:09 emphasize how their organization can
54:11 meet the needs of issaquah specifically
54:17 with this
54:18 the supplemental we are proposing and we
54:20 seek input tonight
54:22 or some feedback of
54:24 what kind of information would you like
54:26 to see on the city supplemental um as
54:29 you have reviewed it and what do you
54:31 feel like is unique to issaquah compared
54:34 to the other regions
54:36 um so that is kind of what we're looking
54:39 to have a discussion on and before we
54:41 jump into that i'd like for monica if
54:43 you don't mind sharing the screen it
54:45 could be helpful to have the visual of
54:46 our next steps
54:48 that was included
54:50 in uh memo
54:53 oh we may not have it it's not in this
54:56 one
54:57 sorry
55:03 sorry hannah would you like me to
55:05 um share the memo
55:07 yes
55:08 okay give me just you can pull it up
55:10 sorry about that
55:11 no worries
55:12 and for anybody who's following along in
55:14 their packet these items are at the way
55:16 way way end of the packet like
55:19 page 83 84.
55:21 after the strategic plan
55:24 yeah
55:25 the large strategic plan okay perfect so
55:28 real quick here i just again i wanted to
55:30 show you the visual just because it's
55:31 easier that way um so so here's what
55:33 we're looking for next steps in the
55:35 application process
55:37 um so february 22nd is the first this is
55:40 when we will have um
55:42 shareone app will open to organizations
55:46 make any updates to their profile
55:48 um we will have the official
55:50 supplemental due at the end of the month
55:53 if you want to scroll down monica
55:55 um and then the important date here is
55:58 march 14th that's when our applications
56:00 will open up
56:01 and then on the 15th and 16th we will be
56:04 having funders workshop so this will be
56:06 kind of a city
56:08 or region-wide with the other cities
56:10 providing um just
56:12 more guidance and information on the
56:14 process of how to apply for agencies um
56:17 but i will also add here that um for the
56:19 city of issaquah we we do offer
56:21 one-on-one technical assistance in this
56:24 process so
56:26 if there's any grassroot organizations
56:27 or anybody who has any questions they're
56:29 always welcome to reach out to us and we
56:31 can provide on that one-on-one support
56:34 this is something important i think for
56:36 commissioners to note here
56:38 cities are in conversation we are
56:39 looking at
56:41 april um to have an all-city human
56:44 services commission equity training um
56:46 so i think we've done this before a few
56:48 months ago but this will be um including
56:51 all the other cities bellevue redmond
56:53 smamish
56:55 kirkland who will join us for an equity
56:58 training with the intention and thought
57:00 behind of having this training right
57:02 before application review um as we can
57:04 have an equity lens in approaching the
57:07 applications
57:09 so may 1st is when we also anticipate
57:11 new commissioners to begin the term and
57:14 then i put here on may 18th that's our
57:16 regular commission meeting um what i'd
57:19 like to do is make sure that we kind of
57:21 set the stage for everyone to be
57:23 successful of the application review
57:25 preparation um so especially with new
57:28 commissioners coming on board want to
57:29 set us up for success of what will this
57:31 process look like how do we prepare for
57:34 and then come summer we'll be doing the
57:37 application review and we'll have more
57:39 information as we get closer of what
57:40 that procedure and process will exactly
57:42 look like and then um september we will
57:45 have recommendations so
57:47 that's what we're looking at for next
57:49 steps um so we're going to take down the
57:52 screen monica
57:55 um so with that i just would like to
57:58 conclude just the presentation on the
58:00 supplemental um and i'd like to open up
58:03 the floor for just any thoughts or um
58:07 if anybody wants to discuss you know
58:08 what kind of information
58:10 you would want to see on a supplemental
58:12 in addition to what's there
58:14 um any other thoughts about what's
58:15 unique about issaquah that you think
58:17 should be included
58:20 so i will go ahead and open the floor
58:26 i believe anna you have your hand out
58:35 is there going to be a
58:38 like a spreadsheet or a list
58:41 of previous years
58:45 receivers of brands
58:47 that way
58:49 the new commission really but also the
58:52 community can see how we try to address
58:57 you know as many aspects
59:00 in our community as possible
59:03 and also give
59:04 maybe
59:07 widely known or widely not known
59:10 agencies a chance to apply to this
59:13 problem
59:15 and
59:17 it it also
59:20 assures them that we are
59:23 trying our best to allocate the money
59:26 where it's needed the most
59:29 but also keep in mind that it's really
59:31 real you know but we also have to keep
59:33 the local picture
59:35 in mind
59:36 you know
59:37 finding
59:39 everything
59:40 that way everybody knows okay you know
59:43 we're moving like everybody else not
59:45 independently you know in a nutshell but
59:49 we try to do our best to expand those uh
59:51 funds
59:54 thank you
59:56 thank you anna yeah that's a real
59:58 point as we're preparing for the
1:00:00 application process we do have a
1:00:02 document exactly um summarizing what
1:00:05 you're talking about so that can be
1:00:07 definitely included in our presentation
1:00:09 as we prepare
1:00:13 and so i think that is important
1:00:15 to address as well so we can include
1:00:20 thank you susan
1:00:24 sort of building up anna's
1:00:26 comment there about can you hear me okay
1:00:28 transparency
1:00:30 oh hi trish yes
1:00:34 do you want me to continue or should i
1:00:35 pause
1:00:37 oh it looks like a turn
1:00:39 froze
1:00:41 sorry susan was just making her comment
1:00:42 and then you can go right after her
1:00:44 trish go ahead susan
1:00:46 okay thank you uh so building on the
1:00:49 transparency comment um i'm also
1:00:51 wondering if it might be helpful
1:00:54 to set expectations and provide a little
1:00:56 bit of data to the um folks who are
1:00:59 going to be
1:01:00 applying this coming cycle
1:01:02 about our historical funding
1:01:05 rates
1:01:06 so i know we don't want to share
1:01:08 specific details and specific like who
1:01:11 got what you know that's not really what
1:01:13 we're after but would it be helpful to
1:01:15 know that
1:01:16 uh you share like the 500 000 target
1:01:21 last year i think we were able to fund
1:01:24 probably
1:01:26 i'm just going to pick a number 60
1:01:28 percent of what
1:01:30 the ask was maybe it was maybe it was
1:01:33 even less than that 40 of what the ask
1:01:35 was the year before it may have been
1:01:39 of the ask we funded does that kind of
1:01:42 information help um an applicant know
1:01:46 about
1:01:47 sort of like what to expect like you
1:01:49 know we want you to give us a really
1:01:51 great proposal that's very compelling
1:01:54 but just so you know
1:01:56 we've never funded 100 we just don't
1:01:58 have the capacity to do that so kind of
1:02:00 like expectations wise do you think that
1:02:02 would help or do you think that would
1:02:08 yeah i'll go and start off um here
1:02:12 so i would say there's a comment in the
1:02:14 supplemental that kind of
1:02:16 grazes over that basically saying
1:02:19 that um that please be reasonable in
1:02:22 your request you know but let us know
1:02:25 what you are needing as an agency so i
1:02:28 think we do touch base on that briefly
1:02:30 uh but
1:02:31 i'm wondering if we could add an
1:02:33 attachment to the supplemental to see
1:02:36 the summary of right what was what was
1:02:39 allocated in the last years that could
1:02:41 be easily
1:02:43 attached what do you think monica
1:02:45 yeah and i don't even think there is we
1:02:48 need to have an attachment to an
1:02:49 attachment i think it's just data it's
1:02:51 just a brief i think i really love the
1:02:53 idea like a brief either table format or
1:02:56 paragraph in saying
1:02:58 you know because we already have it for
1:03:00 the 20 20 2021 funding where we say
1:03:04 we received we have 500 000 but we
1:03:06 received 1.2 million
1:03:09 right and then just go back one more
1:03:11 cycle to say this much how much money we
1:03:13 had and this much how much received you
1:03:16 know or maybe two two funding cycles so
1:03:18 then people can see
1:03:20 to kind of like compare just high level
1:03:22 i think that's doable and i think very i
1:03:25 would appreciate it as an applicant to
1:03:27 kind of compare so i think it's great
1:03:29 exactly because we're actually you know
1:03:30 we're sort of challenging them to tell
1:03:32 us what they need but you know they work
1:03:34 hard to tell us what they need and we're
1:03:36 like yeah you you know you never really
1:03:38 had a chance to get all of what you need
1:03:40 because we don't have that much money so
1:03:42 it's it's kind of like the
1:03:44 opportunity to get 100 of what you need
1:03:46 is almost like
1:03:48 false hope you know just because of the
1:03:51 the mismatch between the the
1:03:54 you know the requests and the ask
1:03:57 and the funding and that i mean i
1:03:58 understand that's how
1:04:00 that's how the grant process works but
1:04:02 um just maybe just being a little bit
1:04:04 more candid and say you know this is we
1:04:07 we trust you to tell us what you really
1:04:09 need and what's really going to be
1:04:10 impactful and then you can trust us to
1:04:13 um you know to be upfront with with what
1:04:15 we have to work with
1:04:17 yeah no that's a great idea great great
1:04:19 thank you
1:04:22 all right thank you susan and trish you
1:04:25 had something to add
1:04:29 before trish
1:04:31 okay can you hear me
1:04:34 you can hear me okay so this will be
1:04:37 first time going through the granting
1:04:39 process with human services
1:04:41 um is there a question this kind of goes
1:04:44 along with susan's
1:04:47 is there a question where we say
1:04:50 if you don't get the full funding you're
1:04:52 requesting
1:04:57 will you be able to execute do we have
1:04:59 anything like that
1:05:02 it is part of the application yes
1:05:04 that's part of the common application
1:05:07 and then yes we do ask them to show us
1:05:09 how they're going to leverage the funds
1:05:16 it's a good idea though for us to go and
1:05:18 specific and then sometimes leveraging
1:05:20 friends it's a little bit different yeah
1:05:23 anyway sorry we do have it in the
1:05:25 application but we'll go back and if
1:05:27 it's not specifically addressed it might
1:05:29 be good to add it to the supplemental
1:05:35 um and then can you repeat those two
1:05:37 questions you were asking us
1:05:43 happy two what makes quite different
1:05:44 that was one right
1:05:47 yeah so what is unique about issaquah
1:05:49 compared to the other cities in the
1:05:51 region
1:05:52 and what kind of information would you
1:05:54 like to see on the city supplemental so
1:05:57 we've added the data that susan
1:05:59 mentioned
1:06:00 about previous requests versus what was
1:06:03 allocated
1:06:05 anything else
1:06:09 you know
1:06:13 cities that has an equity board
1:06:17 doesn't that make us different
1:06:21 oh that's that's a very good point
1:06:24 monaco
1:06:28 i was just gonna jump in to say that you
1:06:30 are spotty and we couldn't understand
1:06:32 but we understood the last two words and
1:06:34 i think we made up
1:06:37 what you were trying to say before
1:06:41 it's you're cutting it now so we
1:06:43 couldn't really
1:06:44 hear oh you didn't catch my question it
1:06:47 feels like the equity board
1:06:52 what's that i'm what i was saying is
1:06:55 do the other cities that participate
1:06:58 um have an equity board right yeah no so
1:07:01 that's why we understood and that might
1:07:02 be something yes to in a brief
1:07:04 description about issaquah for us to be
1:07:06 able to know that
1:07:08 yeah great suggestion
1:07:11 and then um
1:07:13 just because i think you're a little
1:07:14 delayed i want to make sure was there
1:07:15 anything else that you wanted to add
1:07:20 no that's it
1:07:22 okay great and then i did have here um
1:07:25 pat actually um
1:07:27 message comment and question and then on
1:07:29 i saw your hand so i'll have you go next
1:07:31 after pack
1:07:34 yes uh it is a comment also it can be a
1:07:37 question so in terms of
1:07:39 what we can put there i know um
1:07:42 do we have statistics as to
1:07:45 the organizations that we have funded
1:07:48 what exactly they have
1:07:50 they've used the money for or
1:07:54 i can phrase phrases another way when we
1:07:56 fund something we don't fully fund it do
1:07:59 we ask
1:08:00 them to do something specific from their
1:08:02 proposal or it's up to them to do it
1:08:09 i can respond to that so that part goes
1:08:12 uh we do that during contracting um so
1:08:15 once the human services commission makes
1:08:18 the recommendation and then the council
1:08:20 adopts the budget depending on how much
1:08:22 money then we have then we start the
1:08:24 contracting and negotiation process
1:08:26 individually with each organization and
1:08:29 then that's when we we look at their
1:08:31 application and we say okay you propose
1:08:33 that you're gonna serve 50 residents but
1:08:37 only pay you half does that make sense
1:08:39 can you then serve 25 residents with
1:08:42 half the money or do you have other so
1:08:44 that's where we begin that during the
1:08:46 contracting process we do that okay so i
1:08:49 guess maybe that
1:08:50 if we have the information as to what
1:08:53 specific services have been funded
1:08:56 in the past that can be helpful but then
1:08:59 because we have a new strategic plan
1:09:03 where the priorities might be slightly
1:09:05 different but we also refer them to the
1:09:07 strategic plan and our priorities
1:09:13 yes thank you definitely we will refer
1:09:16 them to the strategic plan
1:09:19 and the information is public already
1:09:21 available we can certainly send and
1:09:23 follow up on email it is on the human
1:09:25 services web page of the city uh
1:09:29 certainly we can share it with the
1:09:31 commission
1:09:34 great
1:09:35 thank you pat thank you monica um claire
1:09:38 i'm sorry i didn't see your hand earlier
1:09:40 so i'll go ahead and have anna go if
1:09:41 that's okay and then i'll have you go
1:09:42 next claire thank you
1:09:44 thank you
1:09:48 back a few years
1:09:50 when we were working on the grants there
1:09:52 was a minimum
1:09:57 a financial request
1:10:00 for the application to be looked at
1:10:04 that will not apply anymore
1:10:07 because so now that we have grassroots
1:10:11 organizations that might not need like
1:10:14 for example five six ten thousand
1:10:17 they might need maybe just a thousand
1:10:21 or fifteen hundred
1:10:24 we're not having any of that this year
1:10:26 maximum or minimum
1:10:30 thank you anna for your question so
1:10:32 you'll find on funding criteria area
1:10:34 number six
1:10:36 funding requests less than four thousand
1:10:37 per program will not be considered for
1:10:39 the human services commission um so if
1:10:43 their organizations are requesting um
1:10:46 under 4 000 they could have a separate
1:10:48 conversation with us
1:10:51 but so i would say the answer to your
1:10:52 question i believe is um our minimum
1:10:55 right now is four thousand
1:10:56 dollars thank you
1:10:58 so we're not going to do the grant
1:11:00 grassroots
1:11:02 pathway anymore or you're just saying
1:11:04 that you'll have those conversations
1:11:07 separately with those cover with those
1:11:09 yeah we're definitely wanting grassroots
1:11:11 um to apply um and we will provide
1:11:14 technical assistance for that um but the
1:11:17 funding
1:11:18 would look
1:11:21 similar would look like four thousand
1:11:22 dollars minimum
1:11:24 monica my thinking about that correctly
1:11:29 yes um so we will continue to keep the
1:11:31 minimum of four thousand dollars just
1:11:33 because um
1:11:34 financially and contracting wise
1:11:36 sometimes you spend that money by the
1:11:39 time you allocate them so i think that
1:11:40 was decided a couple of years ago from
1:11:43 even just the amount of work that needs
1:11:45 to be done with our financial system
1:11:47 however
1:11:48 we do want to encourage organizations
1:11:50 and if there's someone especially
1:11:51 smaller grassroots that
1:11:53 that have a case we would want to hear
1:11:55 from them and then we would make a case
1:11:56 right it's just
1:12:04 all right thank you um claire would you
1:12:05 like to share your comment
1:12:09 i don't know this is our comment and i
1:12:12 i just want to put it out there it feels
1:12:15 a little
1:12:16 early to me for us to um to our horn
1:12:20 about having all this equity work
1:12:23 let's see
1:12:24 how we actually do the equity work like
1:12:27 what actually
1:12:29 gets done
1:12:30 from our board and how well our board
1:12:32 builds out those relationships across
1:12:35 the city
1:12:36 it's something that i hesitate to bring
1:12:38 up it feels like it's front and center
1:12:40 in our strategic plan which i think is
1:12:42 fine because it's our strategic plan to
1:12:45 build that out and to do such a powerful
1:12:47 job and make a big impact with it but
1:12:51 it just it also feels a little too over
1:12:54 marketed
1:12:56 we're so proud of
1:12:58 something that we haven't really done
1:13:01 and i guess i just
1:13:04 i wasn't sure if i wanted to say it but
1:13:05 there's a part of me that just feels
1:13:09 a little uncomfortable
1:13:13 i just had to put that out there
1:13:17 thank you claire
1:13:23 fresh you want to comment
1:13:29 clear
1:13:32 i get where you're coming from okay can
1:13:34 you guys hear me
1:13:38 yeah i get where you're coming from but
1:13:40 just the fact
1:13:42 that the
1:13:44 city council
1:13:48 test it it's a big just the fact that we
1:13:50 have an equity board even though it
1:13:52 hasn't been around for very long i think
1:13:54 it's a big deal
1:14:00 did you guys catch what i said
1:14:05 and then susan you had your hand up yeah
1:14:07 i was just going to say maybe
1:14:09 maybe we can find a
1:14:11 little bit of way to balance and just
1:14:13 the city has a newly created equity
1:14:16 board
1:14:17 that will you know help guide
1:14:20 you know our future
1:14:22 work in this area so be a little bit
1:14:24 aspirational but you know to
1:14:27 claire's point like don't oversell it
1:14:28 like we are
1:14:30 you know rocking and rolling with equity
1:14:32 quite yet
1:14:38 thank you susan
1:14:40 pat i saw your hand
1:14:43 and i think monica also had her hand but
1:14:46 i just wanted to say in terms of what is
1:14:48 different about us
1:14:50 so the statistics that we've been able
1:14:52 to gather about uh issaquah uh if uh
1:14:56 if we have the same for other cities uh
1:14:59 can't that can't that be used as
1:15:02 maybe good or bad in a way but it's tax
1:15:04 right so
1:15:05 i'm thinking for instance that in terms
1:15:08 of homelessness i saw that uh other
1:15:10 races make up 40 or close to 41 percent
1:15:14 whereas the other races are only six
1:15:16 percent what about the other cities
1:15:19 around us is it the same thing
1:15:21 uh i'm just saying if we want to get
1:15:24 something that is unique it can be both
1:15:27 ways unique in a good way unique in a
1:15:29 way that this is challenge that we need
1:15:31 to to address
1:15:34 thanks
1:15:38 yeah i appreciate that i forgive i'm
1:15:40 still trying to learn the commissioner's
1:15:42 name so my apologies in advance
1:15:44 um but i i know
1:15:46 uh for your name in terms of bringing up
1:15:48 the equity conversation and you know and
1:15:51 being intentional about it that's what
1:15:53 hopefully i'm interpreting that
1:15:54 correctly
1:15:56 but there there is some truth to it look
1:15:58 at uh our council members here at city
1:16:00 of issaquah i think from what i'm
1:16:02 looking at the page right now they're
1:16:03 mostly all white
1:16:07 you know and i'm i'm not
1:16:10 throwing shade
1:16:12 but that is something that we have to
1:16:13 you know be
1:16:15 i think you have to you know
1:16:17 when i
1:16:18 the commission that's the first thing i
1:16:20 did is scanned and
1:16:22 see where representation is because
1:16:24 we're going to be talking about
1:16:26 historically marginalized populations
1:16:28 and what that experience is that
1:16:29 connection to really advocate
1:16:32 you know um i'm not saying we have to
1:16:34 hide for it but i think we should be
1:16:36 accountable and speak to speak to that
1:16:38 saying hey
1:16:40 you know our i'm fortunate enough that
1:16:41 are looking at the commission here i was
1:16:44 you know doing our best to be diverse
1:16:48 which i'm very happy to see that but
1:16:50 then you speak around the people that
1:16:52 are also making adoptions to this plan
1:16:55 there's something to be said to that you
1:16:56 know i don't know if
1:16:58 anyone as i can
1:17:00 um you know that's one thing within our
1:17:02 agency amish kind of superior court is
1:17:05 you know we're trying to do a better job
1:17:06 of you know with our elected judicial
1:17:08 officers is you know
1:17:10 when we open up the hood
1:17:12 and if there's not representation
1:17:14 then we're having that hard conversation
1:17:17 we're we're having a hardcore because
1:17:18 we're dealing with uh kids of color that
1:17:20 are coming in at historically rates
1:17:22 it's similar to what what's been raised
1:17:25 in our plans right i've you know looked
1:17:27 at the residents living in poverty it's
1:17:29 mostly you know latinos hispanics
1:17:32 and also talked about
1:17:34 the other person
1:17:36 i guess i'm learning the names
1:17:38 but i think if we're going to be looking
1:17:40 at data it's always data around
1:17:41 historically marginalized population and
1:17:43 the first thing you ask
1:17:45 that i ask is
1:17:47 that people are making decisions you
1:17:50 know what what is the demographics
1:17:52 and his representation does matter
1:17:55 i think i think i don't know if it's a
1:17:57 circle here but i think if someone's
1:17:59 gonna ask me and say hey jaime
1:18:02 this plan is great
1:18:03 who's making the decisions and who's
1:18:05 advocating i have to also speak well
1:18:08 here's what our council member's makeup
1:18:10 looks like you know and and i'm going to
1:18:13 be speaking and saying hey
1:18:15 this is a direction but also this is how
1:18:17 we're accountable to
1:18:19 i think it's good to you know name it i
1:18:21 think there's there's no shame in naming
1:18:23 it and having a hard conversation
1:18:25 because these are the people are going
1:18:26 to be adopting our plans
1:18:28 so i just wanted to
1:18:29 you know put that out there
1:18:33 thank you
1:18:36 i i do want to just kind of i see a few
1:18:38 hands here i just want to know our time
1:18:40 we do have one more um agenda topic that
1:18:42 i'd like to get to so i would like to
1:18:44 move forward from this topic if that's
1:18:46 okay but um also want to
1:18:48 get final final thoughts
1:18:50 um to la crossian anna or anybody else
1:18:53 who needs to speak on
1:18:56 specifically on the supplemental
1:18:59 mine is really brief jaime
1:19:01 if you hover on this on each individual
1:19:05 thumbnail you get the person's name
1:19:07 that's all i needed to add
1:19:09 it's aggression that's helpful
1:19:12 anna did you want to add anything
1:19:15 i mean that's a nice comment on your
1:19:18 and i would invite you to
1:19:23 have a cup of coffee with the council
1:19:25 members because my experience over the
1:19:28 years in isabel is that
1:19:30 even though we might not have that
1:19:32 diversity of skin colors in our council
1:19:37 go very very thoroughly or documents and
1:19:40 things that they are going to pass
1:19:42 and they question every little design
1:19:46 so i mean i support our pencil and it
1:19:50 also depends on the people that
1:19:53 that apply to those positions which is
1:19:55 out of our control you know we can
1:19:57 suggest
1:19:58 we need more people of
1:20:02 community and this other community but
1:20:04 if they're not open i mean cannot leave
1:20:06 council positions open
1:20:08 some very important decisions uh to be
1:20:11 made not only for the human services
1:20:14 commission agreements but other
1:20:17 services provided in the city so i mean
1:20:21 they are great people
1:20:23 they are
1:20:24 very very focused on what they do
1:20:27 and they they have their heart rate not
1:20:30 only their brain their heart isn't
1:20:33 that's my little suggestion thank you
1:20:37 yeah i'm not saying they're not good
1:20:38 people like i'm not saying that all
1:20:41 i just think that there there has to be
1:20:43 that conversation of representation
1:20:45 that's all i'm saying is there's i'm not
1:20:47 saying i think everyone's heart is
1:20:49 always in the right place i i'm a firm
1:20:50 believer in that regardless of your
1:20:52 journey
1:20:53 but there has to be a conversation of
1:20:55 representation at the end of the day
1:20:57 uh there's just a um you know i don't
1:21:00 know what it is to be black i'm brown
1:21:02 right so i'm just saying that i think
1:21:04 representation matters especially when
1:21:06 you're dealing with public dollars
1:21:08 um that's that's that i guess that's why
1:21:11 i'm getting involved right in terms of
1:21:13 mission and knowing my way this is my
1:21:15 first what three months into uh
1:21:18 my arena you know i work in the
1:21:20 superior court and uh it's it's a
1:21:22 conversation with our judges you know if
1:21:25 if we're making some hard decisions we
1:21:28 got to have hard decisions internally
1:21:30 and um and that's why i just raised that
1:21:32 question it's not saying hey no one's
1:21:35 you know good or anything it's just
1:21:36 if we're going to be accountable i think
1:21:38 we should i should be able to speak to
1:21:40 that and speak to our uh our kids and
1:21:43 people that are to talk the numbers are
1:21:45 showing right
1:21:46 i think that's um
1:21:48 that's all i'm saying is this we we
1:21:50 should be having these accountable
1:21:52 conversations
1:21:53 um so i appreciate everyone i said this
1:21:56 is my new my first rodeo
1:21:58 just taking notes just really reflecting
1:22:00 listening and all that so thank you
1:22:03 i may thank you so so much for um very
1:22:06 thought provoking and bringing uh those
1:22:10 things up absolutely would love to
1:22:13 continue to see how we can
1:22:15 um elevate your opinions and voices here
1:22:18 so i would love to circle back um and
1:22:21 see how
1:22:22 yeah this is the time this is the place
1:22:24 to have these difficult conversations
1:22:26 right
1:22:27 absolutely
1:22:31 well thank you all for um the
1:22:33 information on uh the supplemental
1:22:37 we i do appreciate the feedback that we
1:22:39 received so we'll provide those edits
1:22:42 um again thank you for the conversation
1:22:45 susan may i ask if there's anything else
1:22:48 that anyone thinks of after this
1:22:50 conversation about something that might
1:22:52 differentiate issaquah or be nicely
1:22:55 called out do you have um
1:22:58 any flexibility to receive like
1:23:00 suggestions by end of day tomorrow or is
1:23:02 it or do you need it by tonight or what
1:23:04 you're thinking yeah the supplemental is
1:23:07 not due until february 28th so
1:23:10 um if i could have any other comments or
1:23:12 suggestions um a few days prior to that
1:23:15 i'll provide an email with a few of
1:23:17 these updates that we talked about
1:23:18 tonight um and so that'll be one of them
1:23:20 with a deadline for any additional
1:23:23 thoughts or updates or edits
1:23:25 great so if folks have a chance to just
1:23:27 go over and scan through that document
1:23:30 one more time and if anything else comes
1:23:32 up yeah we'd love to have your thoughts
1:23:34 so thank you yeah thank you susan
1:23:37 great and then i think we're on to our
1:23:40 um next agenda item and we're running
1:23:42 now a little bit a little bit behind so
1:23:45 we'll try to to
1:23:46 stick as close to time as possible but
1:23:49 some very important information that
1:23:51 hannah's going to share with us about
1:23:53 human services commissioner transition
1:23:56 yes so as we um thank you susan as we're
1:23:59 approaching the end of the term um
1:24:01 coming in april um the city is currently
1:24:04 recruiting for new human service
1:24:05 commissioners to begin a new term
1:24:07 starting may 1st um so if your term
1:24:10 expires in april we would love for you
1:24:12 to consider renewing your term and
1:24:14 continuing serving on the commission um
1:24:17 we've heard from some of you of your
1:24:18 plans and if you have not had an
1:24:20 opportunity to let us know please just
1:24:22 reach out
1:24:24 tonight though um we do have a
1:24:26 commissioner uh dude's health reasons
1:24:29 this will be their last meeting um so
1:24:31 anna we just wanted to um
1:24:34 just give an opportunity um just to say
1:24:37 thank you um we
1:24:39 uh commend you for your services your
1:24:41 your um
1:24:43 your support for human services for the
1:24:46 city of issaquah and um i'd love to just
1:24:49 kind of give the floor for you to i'm
1:24:50 just share a few words and uh and then
1:24:53 also for others commissioners um to
1:24:55 speak as well
1:25:01 well anyway just uh
1:25:04 to the major to the city to the staff
1:25:08 council
1:25:09 community
1:25:10 everybody that has been
1:25:13 involved in any activity decision making
1:25:17 all the process that makes us a great
1:25:20 community i would like to thank them
1:25:22 really and uh
1:25:25 it was not an easy decision because i
1:25:28 really love the usa
1:25:31 that's my passion um
1:25:35 but uh
1:25:36 when i do things i got to do
1:25:40 maybe 200 or more
1:25:42 so right now
1:25:44 i think it's time to give other people
1:25:47 an opportunity
1:25:49 because uh for medical reasons that you
1:25:51 guys already know i have to step down
1:25:54 because uh
1:25:56 it would be very very uphill for me to
1:25:59 work on this grant process
1:26:01 so i would like to thank everyone and to
1:26:04 the new uh
1:26:06 good luck
1:26:07 once you go to the first uh process
1:26:11 you'll fall in love with it
1:26:13 the first one is the the proof of fire
1:26:16 but uh
1:26:18 i hope you guys
1:26:19 continue the excellent work with the
1:26:21 staff the city the mayor also everybody
1:26:25 and and i wish well and i'll be hearing
1:26:28 you some
1:26:30 i guess forever
1:26:32 so if you guys uh cross paths
1:26:35 you know in the store or church or
1:26:37 anywhere
1:26:38 or you guys have a question you have my
1:26:40 email and just go for it i'm open for it
1:26:43 but really as as a commissioner i have
1:26:47 to step down now so
1:26:49 thank you very much for the opportunity
1:26:51 for them
1:26:53 and i'll miss you guys
1:26:56 thank you
1:26:57 thank you everyone
1:26:59 and anna if you don't mind i you know i
1:27:01 was thinking about
1:27:03 uh you know i knew what was coming
1:27:04 tonight and i was thinking about like oh
1:27:06 my gosh what what are all my
1:27:08 wonderful memories of of working with
1:27:11 you i think we've worked together for
1:27:12 about
1:27:13 three or four years now and
1:27:15 you know i was right the the first grant
1:27:18 process is pretty intimidating but once
1:27:21 you go through it you you know you do
1:27:23 really
1:27:24 realize what kind of an impact you have
1:27:26 and and always remember
1:27:28 being um
1:27:31 so grateful that uh you know i guess for
1:27:34 a couple of things um anna was
1:27:38 persistent
1:27:40 and effective in her
1:27:44 reminders to us about
1:27:47 things that we should be considering and
1:27:51 people that we shouldn't be forgetting
1:27:53 and you know i always i look back now on
1:27:56 and i see a lot of your
1:28:00 uh you know a lot of your ideas baked
1:28:02 into this city this human services um
1:28:06 strategy and you know i think like
1:28:09 you know god bless you for continuing to
1:28:11 championing that year after year after
1:28:13 year until the time was right and then
1:28:15 we could actually
1:28:16 take action on it and you know sometimes
1:28:19 you find yourself kind of like getting
1:28:21 caught up in
1:28:22 i don't know like small details or you
1:28:25 know the math or something like that and
1:28:27 anna was always so helpful in making
1:28:30 sure that we remembered it was about the
1:28:32 people it was about the people that we
1:28:34 were serving it was about the people who
1:28:36 needed our help it's about the people
1:28:39 who needed something as small as a place
1:28:42 to go in issaquah where they could get a
1:28:44 telephone number in the middle of the
1:28:45 night
1:28:46 and and it's just so exciting to see
1:28:48 some of that thinking really um
1:28:51 really take flight so i just
1:28:54 i appreciate your patience i appreciate
1:28:56 your persistence and
1:28:58 your ideas are are going to be all
1:29:01 around you so i want to just thank you
1:29:03 so much for
1:29:04 for all you've done and um you know we
1:29:07 owe you a big debt of gratitude
1:29:09 so thank you
1:29:17 i see your hand
1:29:22 anna thank you so much for all the
1:29:24 service that you have contributed to
1:29:27 the commission and in other ways to the
1:29:29 city of issaquah
1:29:31 um i would like to actually challenge
1:29:34 your retirement
1:29:36 uh from the commission by saying that um
1:29:40 if as you as your health improves i
1:29:43 really do hope that you will reapply for
1:29:47 for one for this position or others as
1:29:50 they become available as your voice
1:29:52 is essential to what we the work that we
1:29:54 do here
1:29:56 and um and in the meantime i'd like to
1:29:58 encourage you to continue to call in
1:30:01 and hold us to
1:30:03 what we have signed ourselves up to
1:30:06 contribute um and to remind us i think
1:30:09 that your voice is important and so
1:30:11 those are my two challenges to your
1:30:13 retirement
1:30:14 from the commission and again thank you
1:30:16 for your service i really appreciate
1:30:18 what i have learned from you
1:30:28 and i hope we i hope we can cross paths
1:30:30 again in person one of these days when
1:30:33 when everybody is uh
1:30:35 is able to uh
1:30:37 to gather and enjoy uh again so
1:30:41 maybe at a community event or whatever
1:30:44 really wish you well and and uh we know
1:30:47 we'll be hearing from you again
1:30:50 so thank you for your kind words uh are
1:30:53 you purposeful we have another
1:30:56 group susan
1:30:58 a what
1:31:05 i'm so sorry i couldn't hear that last
1:31:06 word maybe somebody else could a class
1:31:09 reunion
1:31:11 oh class reunion
1:31:13 i think that's that's an excellent idea
1:31:15 that's an excellent idea no but thanks
1:31:18 very kind words and my blessings we will
1:31:21 we'll be always always for you thank you
1:31:25 thank you
1:31:27 anna is there anything else that you
1:31:28 wanted to cover tonight or
1:31:31 any other business or announcements
1:31:35 um so the last thing that i just want to
1:31:36 touch base on um so we just wanted to
1:31:39 also take this opportunity to share some
1:31:41 upcoming transitions um so the following
1:31:44 um here tonight will be stepping down at
1:31:46 the end of april um and they will be
1:31:48 ending their turn so wanted to announce
1:31:51 that tonight so lucrecia
1:31:54 susan and claire um you will all be
1:31:56 sorely missed um this is not your
1:31:58 official farewell so um but we did want
1:32:01 to give commissioners just a heads up of
1:32:04 the upcoming transitions and the opening
1:32:06 positions um and so we'll talk more
1:32:08 about the transitions and again we'll
1:32:10 have a proper farewell um not now not
1:32:13 and we still have you for a few more
1:32:15 months so um
1:32:17 yeah um that their terms will be ending
1:32:20 end of april and again we were we are
1:32:22 doing recruitment so you'll be seeing
1:32:24 more information about that so
1:32:26 that's the final comment i had for this
1:32:28 evening um thank you all
1:32:31 i appreciate um our conversation tonight
1:32:34 susan
1:32:35 yeah thank you and then um just uh
1:32:38 moving on to
1:32:39 item number seven before we adjourn um
1:32:41 the next meeting and uh just uh if you
1:32:45 don't mind recap of next steps on uh
1:32:48 the uh human services plan and you know
1:32:52 the study session etc just so
1:32:56 a good reminder for up for what's coming
1:32:58 up for this group
1:32:59 optional and
1:33:01 regular
1:33:02 okay i'm gonna give a stab at it monica
1:33:04 you tell me if i missed something
1:33:06 all right so um next tuesday february
1:33:09 15th we have our study session where we
1:33:11 will presenting um hopefully the final
1:33:14 human service strategic plan
1:33:16 um i will also be sending an email about
1:33:19 that in addition um on the 17th on an
1:33:22 unrelated note related note we have our
1:33:26 black history month events at noon and
1:33:29 evening i'll send more information about
1:33:32 then we have on the 27th second of
1:33:35 february
1:33:36 our adoption so that'll be a regular um
1:33:39 council session um currently scheduled
1:33:43 22nd it could be moved to the march 7th
1:33:45 so more information to come on that
1:33:48 and then we are looking to meet again um
1:33:52 as a commission on march 16th
1:33:55 am i missing a meeting monica
1:33:59 wonderful job
1:34:02 you covered that sorry susan
1:34:05 oh no thank you i'm sorry i thought i
1:34:06 saw one of the commissioners um trish
1:34:08 did you want to add anything to that
1:34:10 schedule i saw maybe a hand
1:34:16 okay thank you um any any other business
1:34:20 announcements um from any of the other
1:34:22 commissioners
1:34:26 all right
1:34:27 well again thank you all so much for
1:34:29 your um for your great input for
1:34:34 sending anna off with some thanks and
1:34:36 again congratulations to hannah and
1:34:38 monica on this fabulous work um you know
1:34:41 there's a lot of
1:34:43 passion built into it and i think that
1:34:45 city council is recognizing that in
1:34:48 spades and i um i'm just really excited
1:34:51 about next steps so congratulations to
1:34:54 everyone in advance and um
1:34:57 i would like to adjourn uh this meeting
1:35:00 this special meeting of the issaquah
1:35:03 human services commission of february
1:35:05 2022 at 805 pm
1:35:08 so thank you all very much and
1:35:11 we will see you again soon