Human Services Commission · Wednesday, March 16, 2022 · City Council Digest

1. CALL TO ORDER

Commission Membership

packet pp.3

Open packet at p.3 ↗

Staff report:

HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION Staff Liaison Hannah Roberts, Human About 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

Minutes of February 09, 2022

packet pp.5–7

▶ Watch from 1:30 Open packet at p.5 ↗

Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 02-09-22 Human Services Commission Minutes Page [0000] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Human Services Commission 6:30 PM Virtual Meeting February 9, 2022 MINUTES

4. STAFF REPORT

Updates from Mayor and City Council

Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager · packet pp.9

Previously discussed: City Council Regular Meeting · Mar 7, 2022

Open packet at p.9 ↗

Staff report:

City Council Meeting – March 7, 2022 • City Council approved the resolution of the adoption of the Human Services Strategic Plan that will help inform the community priorities in human services for the next five years and to help accomplish the City roles in human services by providing a roadmap for policy decisions, investments and allocation of funds, advocacy, and technical assistance needs. • City Council authorized to modify the Issaquah Rental Assistance Program created in October 2021 to lift the three-month limit on rental assistance provided through this program to include all rental arrearages, and to redistribute the original allocation of $500,000 in rental assistance to include: $350,000 to Hopelink (amend existing contract) and up to $150,000 to Imagine Housing (enter into a new contract)

Other Community & Human Services Updates, (I)

Hannah Roberts, Human Services Coordinator

Topics: Equity

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0:00 ↗ okay so i'd like to call to order the

0:03 ↗ meeting of the issaquah human services

0:06 ↗ commission on wednesday march 16 2022

0:10 ↗ and uh we are starting at 6 33 p.m

0:14 ↗ welcome everyone

0:16 ↗ and

0:17 ↗ i

0:18 ↗ um believe that we have uh quorum uh

0:22 ↗ this evening and um

0:24 ↗ hannah do you want me to facilitate a

0:27 ↗ roll call or are you okay with um

0:31 ↗ with uh visuals of uh attendees i have

0:34 ↗ attendees so i'm okay on my end okay

0:38 ↗ thank you so much

0:42 ↗ i just wanted to let you know that tracy

0:44 ↗ trish is shining trying to join by phone

0:47 ↗ i apologize

0:49 ↗ and so she's gonna be here in just any

0:50 ↗ minute

0:51 ↗ she has some technical issues wonderful

0:54 ↗ and i see jaime as well joining us

0:56 ↗ so that's great we'll have everyone

0:59 ↗ welcome

1:02 ↗ welcome homie

1:04 ↗ and while trish is joining um i would

1:07 ↗ like to

1:09 ↗ ask hannah if we have any members of the

1:11 ↗ public who are attending tonight or any

1:13 ↗ public comments that we would

1:16 ↗ like to hear

1:18 ↗ thank you susan at this time we do not

1:20 ↗ have any republic in attendance and we

1:22 ↗ did not receive any public

1:24 ↗ comments okay thank you very much

1:27 ↗ on the next item on the agenda is the

1:30 ↗ approval of the minutes from our prior

1:32 ↗ meeting on february 9th 2022

1:35 ↗ if i could ask if folks have not had a

1:37 ↗ chance to look through that if you could

1:38 ↗ take a couple of minutes now

1:41 ↗ scan through that and

1:43 ↗ signal if you have any

1:47 ↗ suggestions comments just by raising

1:49 ↗ your hand

1:51 ↗ and

1:52 ↗ hannah i'd like to go ahead and kick

1:54 ↗ that off it and the very

1:56 ↗ end of the um

2:00 ↗ the minutes we talk about human services

2:02 ↗ commissioner transition item c

2:05 ↗ um there are just a couple misspellings

2:07 ↗ of last names

2:09 ↗ um

2:09 ↗ hanson h-a-n-s-e-n

2:12 ↗ and leonelli with two l's at the end

2:15 ↗ please

2:17 ↗ thank

2:20 ↗ you thank you susan i've noted those

2:23 ↗ changes and updates

2:25 ↗ thank you

2:27 ↗ am i seeing any other

2:29 ↗ comments claire just a grammar thing

2:32 ↗ there's in that same paragraph the city

2:34 ↗ is capitalized not sure if you want city

2:36 ↗ capitalized there or if he meant he

2:38 ↗ meant to put the whole name in but

2:40 ↗ um it's not capitalized in other places

2:42 ↗ so

2:45 ↗ not as sad thinking anna's not here

2:48 ↗ yeah

2:52 ↗ as well

2:55 ↗ okay so i would like to seek approval of

2:57 ↗ the minutes as presented with the um

3:00 ↗ changes that we just discussed

3:03 ↗ and um i'm seeking approval by unanimous

3:06 ↗ consent

3:08 ↗ and if folks could signal excuse me

3:10 ↗ claire one more

3:11 ↗ item i'm so sorry there's one more

3:14 ↗ oddity in here in

3:16 ↗ agenda item b human services grant

3:20 ↗ draft supplemental

3:22 ↗ there's an odd thing in the middle of

3:24 ↗ the paragraph the supplemental is part

3:26 ↗ of the share one app 16 city application

3:29 ↗ i think

3:30 ↗ zera

3:31 ↗ it looks like a bunch of words have been

3:32 ↗ merged together it might just be the

3:34 ↗ software that uploads it to the

3:36 ↗ to the cities page but as you're looking

3:39 ↗ at that that might need a little

3:42 ↗ attention

3:45 ↗ so specifically the string share one app

3:47 ↗ all looks smooshed together is that what

3:49 ↗ you're it does i don't know i i just

3:51 ↗ raised that up as a thought

3:54 ↗ thanks for bringing that up claire so

3:55 ↗ the share one app which i don't expect

3:57 ↗ you to be familiar with that um that is

4:00 ↗ the the

4:02 ↗ title of the

4:04 ↗ um

4:05 ↗ the online portal where nonprofit

4:07 ↗ organizations send in their applications

4:10 ↗ um so it definitely looks funny on this

4:13 ↗ um

4:14 ↗ but that is the

4:16 ↗ that is the spelling excellent thank you

4:19 ↗ i'm sorry

4:20 ↗ i appreciate you taking a look at that

4:24 ↗ any other

4:27 ↗ uh thoughts

4:28 ↗ okay if i could get a uh

4:31 ↗ an indication please if you're

4:33 ↗ uh

4:34 ↗ if you would like to approve the minutes

4:36 ↗ as presented and amended as we discussed

4:41 ↗ thank you the minutes are approved

4:45 ↗ thank you very much

4:47 ↗ hannah um i believe the next item on the

4:50 ↗ agenda is staff report and the first

4:53 ↗ item under staff report are updates from

4:55 ↗ the mayor and city council presented by

4:58 ↗ monica

4:59 ↗ monica over to you thank you

5:02 ↗ thank you very much

5:03 ↗ susan and good evening commissioners i

5:06 ↗ think i also wanted to know that i think

5:08 ↗ trish was able to join us by phone you

5:10 ↗ will not see her on the screen because

5:12 ↗ she as she called in so

5:15 ↗ she does not have a video um

5:18 ↗ so just wanted to let you know that

5:20 ↗ welcome trish thank you yeah and then

5:23 ↗ and trish you may unmute yourself if you

5:25 ↗ would like to chime in so please don't

5:27 ↗ hesitate to do that

5:28 ↗ or hannah can assist please let us know

5:31 ↗ if you have a hard time with that

5:33 ↗ um and with that i'm gonna move forward

5:35 ↗ with um a couple of updates from uh

5:38 ↗ mayor and city council

5:40 ↗ uh for uh those of you who are not able

5:43 ↗ to chime in into uh last week's um

5:48 ↗ council meeting or the council meeting

5:50 ↗ on march 7th i'm proud to say and

5:53 ↗ grateful to say that city council

5:56 ↗ adopted our human services strategic

5:58 ↗ plan

5:59 ↗ um i want to

6:01 ↗ give a big shout out and a tremendous

6:04 ↗ thanks to susan who was

6:07 ↗ also

6:08 ↗ in attendance at the council meeting and

6:11 ↗ made some wonderful comments on behalf

6:13 ↗ of the commission so thank you for that

6:15 ↗ thank you also commissioners i know that

6:18 ↗ we brought this agenda item in front of

6:19 ↗ you quite a few times during work so now

6:23 ↗ we are moving into implementation uh

6:26 ↗ it's it's adopted by city council and

6:28 ↗ we're gonna start working on

6:30 ↗ implementing

6:31 ↗ um

6:33 ↗ all of those goals and action items that

6:35 ↗ we included in uh the strategic plan so

6:38 ↗ you will hear more about the strategic

6:40 ↗ plan but definitely uh very excited for

6:42 ↗ the adoption by city council

6:45 ↗ monica may i

6:46 ↗ excuse me i just make one uh build

6:49 ↗ comment off that

6:50 ↗ i um again i just wanted to thank monica

6:53 ↗ and hannah and team for just

6:55 ↗ an incredible

6:56 ↗ uh effort and and it was well recognized

6:59 ↗ by city council by the mayor and um

7:03 ↗ i really all i did was just kind of add

7:06 ↗ the voice of

7:08 ↗ uh what it was like as a commission to

7:10 ↗ work with um with hannah and monica

7:12 ↗ through this process and to learn along

7:15 ↗ with them and to contribute um our

7:17 ↗ voices to

7:18 ↗ help uh you know shape the um the final

7:22 ↗ product and

7:23 ↗ i also made a comment that it's going to

7:25 ↗ be super useful for this commission to

7:28 ↗ really help guide what comes next in

7:30 ↗ terms of

7:32 ↗ wrapping our mind around the grant

7:35 ↗ funding process and how to

7:38 ↗ consider what's being asked of us and

7:39 ↗ how we kind of align toward

7:42 ↗ really what the city would like us to do

7:44 ↗ and

7:45 ↗ um having been through this process a

7:47 ↗ couple times again i think this is going

7:49 ↗ to make a big difference in and keep us

7:52 ↗ well oriented and well organized in um

7:55 ↗ in the deliberation processes that's

7:57 ↗ coming up and i know that's going to be

7:59 ↗ a topic later today so and that seemed

8:01 ↗ to resonate the the utility of the

8:03 ↗ strategic plan

8:05 ↗ for that particular role among many

8:07 ↗ other things um seem to really resonate

8:09 ↗ with um city council as well so again

8:11 ↗ just wanted to add my congratulations

8:13 ↗ and thanks to the commissioners and and

8:15 ↗ then of course to monica and hannah and

8:18 ↗ all the staff who put that together so

8:20 ↗ it was just an incredible

8:21 ↗ deliverable and and and very well

8:23 ↗ received so congratulations

8:29 ↗ thank you very much commissioners and

8:31 ↗ susan definitely yeah we are so so

8:34 ↗ humbled and grateful to continue working

8:36 ↗ with you and

8:38 ↗ yes as

8:39 ↗ i mentioned you will hear

8:41 ↗ about the human services strategic plan

8:43 ↗ as early as in the upcoming months as we

8:46 ↗ are gonna dive into the application

8:48 ↗ process and priorities and um

8:52 ↗ uh what not so

8:54 ↗ uh yeah

8:55 ↗ um so with that um

8:57 ↗ on the same evening on march 7th at the

9:00 ↗ council

9:01 ↗ um

9:02 ↗ regular meeting

9:04 ↗ city council also authorized a couple of

9:07 ↗ modifications

9:08 ↗ to the issaquah rental assistance

9:10 ↗ program

9:11 ↗ if if you may remember we updated you on

9:15 ↗ this back in october

9:17 ↗ city council um authorized

9:20 ↗ 500 thousand dollars in rental

9:22 ↗ assistance

9:23 ↗ um

9:24 ↗ to

9:25 ↗ provide a bridge um for as you remember

9:29 ↗ at the end of october the moratorium

9:32 ↗ um ended and um the the rental

9:35 ↗ assistance allocation

9:36 ↗ was really

9:38 ↗ to help those in need and provide that

9:40 ↗ bridge uh between the end of the

9:42 ↗ moratorium and uh allowing time for

9:44 ↗ people to go back to work and and

9:47 ↗ regroup so a couple of modifications

9:50 ↗ were made uh the council meeting on

9:52 ↗ march 7th one of them being lifting the

9:54 ↗ three-month limit and that was initially

9:57 ↗ imposed uh we learned uh during this

10:00 ↗ time that some not too many but some

10:02 ↗ um

10:04 ↗ tenants have more than a three-month

10:07 ↗ um

10:10 ↗ oh more than three months back in rent

10:13 ↗ and so by lifting that three-month limit

10:17 ↗ the money

10:18 ↗ would be able to provide much needed

10:21 ↗ assistance for those who have more

10:23 ↗ months

10:24 ↗ in rental

10:25 ↗ [Music]

10:27 ↗ arrearages

10:28 ↗ and so that would help

10:30 ↗ the second modification to the program

10:32 ↗ was uh some redistribution of the

10:35 ↗ initial allocation uh initially the five

10:38 ↗ hundred thousand dollars were all

10:40 ↗ allocated to hopelink

10:42 ↗ um in the

10:43 ↗ last few months we learned on one end

10:46 ↗ that hopelink had some staffing

10:48 ↗ challenges

10:49 ↗ as many non-profits and many

10:51 ↗ organizations have

10:53 ↗ and so in order to help with

10:56 ↗ giving out the money a little bit faster

10:59 ↗ we redistributed um 150 000 of that

11:03 ↗ initial allocation

11:04 ↗ to go directly to imagine housing

11:08 ↗ which is um one of our

11:12 ↗ low-income housing providers in issaquah

11:14 ↗ actually the largest low-income housing

11:16 ↗ provider on the east side

11:18 ↗ and um

11:20 ↗ instead of asking all the residents from

11:22 ↗ those

11:23 ↗ four

11:25 ↗ apartment complexes in issaquah to apply

11:28 ↗ to hope link and slow down the process

11:30 ↗ more

11:30 ↗ we will just

11:32 ↗ give that entire amount of money

11:35 ↗ to the agency which then will cover

11:37 ↗ all the um

11:39 ↗ background

11:41 ↗ for all of the residents in those

11:43 ↗ apartment complexes

11:45 ↗ um

11:46 ↗ small changes to that rental assistance

11:48 ↗ program if you have any more questions

11:49 ↗ i'm happy to respond but other than that

11:52 ↗ this concludes

11:53 ↗ our update on

11:56 ↗ city council and mayor

11:58 ↗ updates

12:00 ↗ thank you

12:02 ↗ great thank you monica then i will go

12:04 ↗ ahead and continue us on on our human

12:06 ↗ services and commission updates so the

12:09 ↗ main one here um as we are shifting gear

12:12 ↗ to focus on

12:14 ↗ um the 2023 and 2024

12:17 ↗ human services grant application uh the

12:20 ↗ east side human services commission is

12:22 ↗ having a joint equity training

12:26 ↗ and this is going to be offered during

12:27 ↗ the month of april

12:29 ↗ um so we are looking at two trainings

12:31 ↗ they will be virtual

12:33 ↗ um the first one is going to be

12:35 ↗ april 7th at 6 30 p.m

12:38 ↗ um this one is going to be kind of lay

12:40 ↗ the foundation and it's going to be an

12:42 ↗ overview a background and just kind of a

12:45 ↗ level setting

12:47 ↗ um this will be recorded um so if you're

12:49 ↗ not able to attend this initial meeting

12:51 ↗ we will be sending out the link

12:53 ↗ and then in addition to this main equity

12:56 ↗ training there's going to be an

12:58 ↗ opportunity for commissioners to join um

13:01 ↗ small group equity training just so

13:03 ↗ they're looking to have

13:05 ↗ 10 to 12

13:06 ↗ commissioners to really have a more

13:08 ↗ in-depth training discussion dialogue

13:11 ↗ around this topic and so those

13:14 ↗ will be offered on the 19th april 19th

13:17 ↗ april 28th and then there will be one in

13:19 ↗ may

13:20 ↗ um which will be great for any new

13:22 ↗ commissioners who are joining us and

13:24 ↗ really the the concept and the idea of

13:26 ↗ this is um as

13:28 ↗ as we are about to look at applications

13:30 ↗ uh we are hoping that this equity

13:33 ↗ training really allows us to put on the

13:34 ↗ equity lens

13:36 ↗ in preparation for this

13:39 ↗ lofty task of looking at these

13:41 ↗ applications

13:42 ↗ um so just would like to invite you all

13:43 ↗ to those i'll be sending out more

13:45 ↗ information and more details

13:47 ↗ in an email with times and we'll discuss

13:50 ↗ more

13:51 ↗ of those options we'd love to get

13:54 ↗ a few things on the calendar with that

13:57 ↗ and

13:58 ↗ let's see that concludes um the human

14:01 ↗ services and commission updates on my

14:03 ↗ end

14:04 ↗ thank you

14:07 ↗ i'll pass it back to susan

14:09 ↗ okay thank you very much

14:11 ↗ so i believe that that moves us to

14:14 ↗ agenda item number five

14:16 ↗ which is human services grants review

14:18 ↗ process

14:20 ↗ again presented by monica and hannah

14:26 ↗ thank you again susan commissioners with

14:28 ↗ your permission i would love to

14:31 ↗ start by um

14:33 ↗ a

14:34 ↗ presentation um followed by a discussion

14:39 ↗ with all of you as we prepare

14:41 ↗ um for the funding reviews this season

14:46 ↗ allow me just a moment

14:56 ↗ and

15:02 ↗ go

15:10 ↗ okay we are all set thank you

15:14 ↗ so what we were hoping to cover with you

15:15 ↗ tonight commissioners is really to

15:18 ↗ provide you with information on how we

15:21 ↗ handled the 2020 2021 um

15:24 ↗ grant review process

15:26 ↗ and with that then have a conversation

15:28 ↗ on uh what were some of the lessons

15:31 ↗ learned uh what are some of the things

15:33 ↗ that really worked and what are some of

15:35 ↗ the modifications that we want to make

15:38 ↗ as as we head into the grand review

15:40 ↗ season here in the upcoming months

15:42 ↗ um so with that

15:45 ↗ um some of the things here are recap for

15:47 ↗ you as i know that you have heard this

15:50 ↗ now talk quite a few times over the last

15:53 ↗ several months about the grant process

15:56 ↗ uh just as a brief brief reminder

15:59 ↗ reminder all of our grant reviews are on

16:02 ↗ a biannual cycle so we review when we

16:04 ↗ review applications we review them for

16:06 ↗ the upcoming two years

16:09 ↗ like for now in 2022 we review the

16:12 ↗ applications and when you as

16:14 ↗ commissioners will make um funding

16:16 ↗ recommendations you will make the

16:18 ↗ funding recommendations for

16:20 ↗ 2023 and 2024.

16:23 ↗ um

16:25 ↗ again as a brief reminder

16:27 ↗ we just

16:29 ↗ opened

16:30 ↗ two days ago on monday

16:32 ↗ the grand cycle opened

16:34 ↗ and it will stay open until the end of

16:36 ↗ april

16:37 ↗ um

16:38 ↗ april 28th is when uh the grant

16:42 ↗ applications are due from community

16:44 ↗ organizations

16:45 ↗ uh we held at the regional level two

16:48 ↗ workshops one yesterday and one today

16:51 ↗ informing organizations and providing

16:53 ↗ information on what each city of the 16

16:57 ↗ cities what each city's requirements are

16:59 ↗ and how to handle the application and

17:02 ↗ whatnot we are also available to provide

17:04 ↗ individual technical assistance so if

17:07 ↗ you do know organizations in the area

17:09 ↗ who might be interested in um applying

17:12 ↗ or seeking funding from our city or from

17:14 ↗ any other cities in the region please

17:18 ↗ don't hesitate to have them contact us

17:20 ↗ we would be more than happy to

17:22 ↗ go over any details or questions that

17:24 ↗ they might have

17:26 ↗ so as in april we are going to receive

17:28 ↗ at the end of april we are going to

17:29 ↗ receive the applications between may and

17:32 ↗ august is when you commissioners

17:35 ↗ are going to be hard at work uh we are

17:37 ↗ going to work with you together in

17:39 ↗ reviewing those applications and making

17:42 ↗ recommendations to the mayor and city

17:44 ↗ council so um as

17:47 ↗ the last cycle at the end of august is

17:50 ↗ when

17:51 ↗ uh we completed the recommendations we

17:54 ↗ then handed them over to the mayor

17:57 ↗ who then

17:58 ↗ further included them in her

18:01 ↗ budget proposal to city council so the

18:04 ↗ budget proposal typically is made by the

18:06 ↗ mayor in september to city council so

18:10 ↗ the grant recommendations are included

18:12 ↗ in that

18:13 ↗ and then city council further

18:15 ↗ um

18:15 ↗ [Music]

18:17 ↗ go through the budget season and

18:19 ↗ deliberations

18:20 ↗ uh with an anticipated budget adoption

18:23 ↗ at the end of november

18:26 ↗ and so that then will give us time on

18:28 ↗ our end internally between november

18:30 ↗ december january we are working hard at

18:33 ↗ developing contracts with those agencies

18:36 ↗ who receive funding so just a little bit

18:38 ↗ of information about

18:39 ↗ that process

18:41 ↗ i

18:42 ↗ can also stop for questions throughout

18:44 ↗ or if you allow me to just speak for

18:45 ↗ another five ten more minutes hopefully

18:47 ↗ not more than ten i can just finish this

18:49 ↗ overview and then we can discuss as a

18:51 ↗ group

18:52 ↗ but don't hesitate to to stop me if i

18:54 ↗ just keep on talking at you a lot

18:58 ↗ um

18:59 ↗ so

19:00 ↗ um

19:01 ↗ next wanted to just uh give you a

19:03 ↗ snapshot and uh an overview of how we

19:06 ↗ handled things last last cycle

19:09 ↗ so as we receive the applications at the

19:11 ↗ end of april

19:12 ↗ uh you all of you will have access to

19:15 ↗ reviewing the applications and we

19:17 ↗ provided quite a few different ways you

19:19 ↗ can we can give you logins for you to

19:22 ↗ write go to into the share1 app system

19:24 ↗ and see the applications as they were

19:26 ↗ submitted that's one option

19:28 ↗ uh we also have the option of saving all

19:31 ↗ the applications as pdfs for you we put

19:34 ↗ them last season in a sharepoint site

19:36 ↗ where you can just go and see them all

19:38 ↗ in alphabetical order

19:40 ↗ and on a limited basis we don't want to

19:43 ↗ offer this for everyone just for the

19:45 ↗ sake of paper but if needed on a limited

19:48 ↗ basis we also can print them out

19:51 ↗ we are trying to

19:52 ↗ move away from this this habit just

19:55 ↗ because you know

19:56 ↗ printing thousands of pages um for 10 12

19:59 ↗ commissioners that that's a lot of paper

20:02 ↗ however on our end as a staff

20:05 ↗ we will also work on providing you a

20:07 ↗ snapshot of those applications we will

20:09 ↗ provide a list with all the summaries

20:12 ↗ and how much funding they requested and

20:14 ↗ if they uh received a funding in the

20:16 ↗ past so we will give you kind of like a

20:18 ↗ summary of that we will or also organize

20:21 ↗ the applications by goal areas um in

20:25 ↗ this season what this is going to be new

20:26 ↗ we are going to

20:28 ↗ group the applications by

20:30 ↗ uh the goal and priority areas in the

20:32 ↗ human services strategic plan so again

20:35 ↗ we are going to start implementing that

20:37 ↗ so we are going to provide you all of

20:38 ↗ that information our goal is that for

20:40 ↗ our meeting in may uh you're going to

20:43 ↗ already have all of these tools um

20:47 ↗ available

20:48 ↗ and so next then we would start the

20:50 ↗ review process

20:51 ↗ last season what we did and we found it

20:54 ↗ pretty helpful but again we are going to

20:56 ↗ discuss in a few minutes

20:57 ↗ um we

20:59 ↗ created three review

21:01 ↗ groups or if you wish subcommittees

21:04 ↗ two or three members were assigned to

21:07 ↗ each of those groups

21:09 ↗ and so then we divided the applications

21:11 ↗ as we divided them in goal areas then we

21:14 ↗ assigned to each subgroup a number of

21:16 ↗ applications to review instead of

21:19 ↗ everybody reviewing all applications as

21:22 ↗ a reminder last time we had i think 89

21:24 ↗ were close to 90 applications each each

21:27 ↗ of the subgroups then just

21:29 ↗ reviewed about 30 applications with that

21:32 ↗ seemed a little bit more reasonable

21:34 ↗ of course if you have the time capacity

21:36 ↗ and interest you're more than welcome

21:38 ↗ and you can review all 90 applications

21:40 ↗ or how many you will review

21:42 ↗ but at minimum by being part of a

21:45 ↗ subcommittee you will have just a

21:46 ↗ smaller number

21:48 ↗ um

21:49 ↗ we also had a review cards

21:52 ↗ last time and

21:53 ↗ a criteria associated with those review

21:56 ↗ cards

21:57 ↗ you have in your packet

21:59 ↗ the review cards that we used last

22:02 ↗ cycle in 2020

22:04 ↗ but you also have the score cards that

22:07 ↗ were used in 2018

22:10 ↗ the review cards which don't have scores

22:12 ↗ associated with was a modification that

22:15 ↗ we did last cycle and the reasoning

22:18 ↗ behind was that we learned from

22:19 ↗ commissioners that although they

22:21 ↗ assigned scores initially in the end

22:25 ↗ when they made the recommendations they

22:26 ↗ really did not use the scores and so if

22:29 ↗ they were not useful then we just

22:31 ↗ simplified those score cards and we we

22:34 ↗ created these review cards which you're

22:35 ↗ gonna see in your packet we have them

22:37 ↗ here on the screen too in a moment um

22:41 ↗ provided just a

22:42 ↗ green yellow and red

22:44 ↗ kind of like

22:46 ↗ coloring code along with some criteria

22:49 ↗ green

22:50 ↗ meaning okay you recommend them yellow

22:52 ↗ meaning you may want to discuss some

22:54 ↗ more in red meaning that you may not

22:56 ↗ recommend them um so it was just a

22:58 ↗ simplified way um

23:00 ↗ and then so in addition to those

23:02 ↗ subcommittees the subcommittee is met

23:04 ↗ individually

23:05 ↗ um depending on their time and

23:07 ↗ availability and made their own

23:09 ↗ recommendations and then we came back as

23:11 ↗ a larger group for commission

23:13 ↗ deliberations where we just summarized

23:16 ↗ everything and

23:17 ↗ each of the subgroups had a chance to

23:19 ↗ present

23:21 ↗ their recommendations and reasoning

23:22 ↗ behind so it made the process a little

23:25 ↗ bit easier

23:26 ↗ and then by august we made the

23:29 ↗ recommendations to city council

23:32 ↗ um

23:32 ↗ so for that just here at the bottom just

23:35 ↗ a brief brief um

23:37 ↗ timeline um

23:39 ↗ again

23:40 ↗ april and may equity trainings as you

23:42 ↗ heard hannah we are going to talk a

23:43 ↗ little bit more about that

23:45 ↗ in may we will be onboarding new

23:47 ↗ commissioners so on our end that's why

23:50 ↗ we've worked really hard at the regional

23:51 ↗ level to provide the equity trainings in

23:53 ↗ may as well so then the new

23:55 ↗ commissioners have access to them

23:57 ↗ um hopefully in june we would anticipate

24:01 ↗ the small group reviews to begin in july

24:05 ↗ we had commission deliberations in the

24:07 ↗ past as well and in august we made

24:09 ↗ recommendations

24:11 ↗ um so um

24:14 ↗ the prioritization the priorities

24:18 ↗ criteria uh this year would be new

24:21 ↗ compared to last year uh this time

24:23 ↗ around as i mentioned we are gonna use

24:26 ↗ the um human services strategic plan so

24:29 ↗ so

24:30 ↗ these are gonna be the the big buckets

24:32 ↗ if you wish

24:33 ↗ um

24:35 ↗ and

24:35 ↗ as an example i was just talking about

24:37 ↗ this was the review tool that was used

24:39 ↗ last time

24:41 ↗ as you see funding the green light and

24:44 ↗ what we were considering under that and

24:46 ↗ when we needed to have further

24:48 ↗ discussion perhaps um

24:52 ↗ and the application really there was um

24:55 ↗ a match but maybe the application was

24:58 ↗ incomplete or

24:59 ↗ maybe there were some concerns about

25:01 ↗ residents having access to a program or

25:03 ↗ whatnot

25:04 ↗ um and then in the red category we were

25:06 ↗ putting like either it wasn't the city

25:08 ↗ priority

25:09 ↗ perhaps or a need perhaps it was a

25:12 ↗ duplicate program there were other

25:13 ↗ programs who who better serve the

25:16 ↗ residents in that capacity or there were

25:19 ↗ no response or incomplete applications

25:21 ↗ um

25:23 ↗ so just examples there

25:25 ↗ and then with that i think that's that's

25:26 ↗ all in my presentation i think we'll

25:28 ↗ lose just to kind of like have a

25:30 ↗ discussion on what were the lessons

25:32 ↗ learned and what modifications

25:34 ↗ um you would propose based on what you

25:37 ↗ know

25:38 ↗ for us to implement for the upcoming

25:40 ↗ cycle

25:47 ↗ so with that susan and commissioners and

25:49 ↗ hannah any questions comments wherever

25:52 ↗ you would like to start with discussions

25:56 ↗ yeah i see pat made a comment that she

25:58 ↗ has a question and then i saw manny's

26:00 ↗ hand

26:04 ↗ uh thanks monika

26:06 ↗ this sounds like a long process but uh

26:09 ↗ is well thought um

26:11 ↗ my i have a few questions i'm gonna ask

26:13 ↗ maybe two and then i'll let manny uh ask

26:16 ↗ his questions and others as well the

26:18 ↗ first question is

26:20 ↗ so for each of the sub sub groups

26:23 ↗ when they make a recommendation besides

26:25 ↗ the scoring in red

26:28 ↗ yellow and and and green

26:31 ↗ do they recommend a cert are they

26:34 ↗ recommending a certain amount of grants

26:37 ↗ to be funded

26:38 ↗ and the other question is

26:41 ↗ more or less related um if let's say we

26:45 ↗ can only fund 10 grands

26:48 ↗ and a group has 10 green what do we do

26:51 ↗ so when everyone comes together all

26:53 ↗ groups come together do they reclassify

26:56 ↗ the greens or how do that go

26:58 ↗ how does that go thank you that's such

27:00 ↗ great questions thank you so so much pat

27:03 ↗ such great questions and then also i

27:05 ↗ look forward i i see susan would love to

27:07 ↗ hear her thoughts as she's been through

27:09 ↗ this but yes absolutely so um

27:13 ↗ the the subcommittees will will make

27:15 ↗ recommendations for amounts as well what

27:18 ↗ we did last time as we divided the

27:20 ↗ applications in the three subgroups we

27:23 ↗ also provided information on how much

27:26 ↗ for those subgroups

27:28 ↗ for the different um funding categories

27:31 ↗ how much

27:32 ↗ funding was provided in the last cycle

27:35 ↗ and an estimated total amount that the

27:38 ↗ subgroup would have to allocate uh so

27:41 ↗ let's say if we had five hundred

27:42 ↗ thousand dollars based on previous

27:44 ↗ allocations uh then we we allocate a

27:47 ↗ certain amount to each of the subgroups

27:48 ↗ so then you had that amount so you did

27:51 ↗ come to the large committee to the large

27:53 ↗ commission meeting with initial

27:56 ↗ um

27:57 ↗ agency recommendations and tentative

27:59 ↗ amounts now to the second question um

28:02 ↗ the difficult conversation that we are

28:04 ↗ gonna have in the upcoming two months

28:06 ↗ are gonna be

28:08 ↗ one and that's where i would love to

28:09 ↗ hear susan a lot um

28:12 ↗ the challenge is we have this amount and

28:14 ↗ we always are going to have more

28:16 ↗ applications and more requests than

28:17 ↗ money

28:18 ↗ um one option is to reduce the number of

28:22 ↗ grants and give larger amounts to

28:24 ↗ everyone and then in this case you just

28:26 ↗ don't we need to decide you you're just

28:28 ↗ not going to recommend funding for a

28:29 ↗ certain number

28:30 ↗ the other option that historically the

28:32 ↗ commission has used was to try to give a

28:36 ↗ little bit to as many organizations as

28:39 ↗ possible

28:41 ↗ the third option

28:42 ↗ that is always an option and i know that

28:44 ↗ city council actually is interested in

28:46 ↗ continuing the conversation on the grand

28:48 ↗ funding allocation is for you to make

28:51 ↗ recommendations as a commission based on

28:53 ↗ this is how much money we have and based

28:55 ↗ on the money this is how much we can

28:57 ↗ recommend however

28:59 ↗ um

29:00 ↗ we believe that

29:02 ↗ these organizations should also be

29:04 ↗ funded and you can request additional

29:06 ↗ funds

29:07 ↗ on our end again a staff i know that at

29:10 ↗ the city council level there is an

29:12 ↗ interest in discussing the funding

29:13 ↗ process so we are actually scheduled to

29:15 ↗ go in april to city council for an

29:18 ↗ initial conversation on this but yeah

29:20 ↗ that's

29:21 ↗ just another

29:22 ↗ we'll bring this back but i hope i

29:24 ↗ answered your question

29:27 ↗ just questions here thank you

29:32 ↗ and monica i'd be happy to share a few

29:34 ↗ thoughts but i want to make sure manny

29:36 ↗ um shares his question

29:38 ↗ oh thank you susan um this is

29:40 ↗ commissioner manny brown um

29:42 ↗ i just wanted the

29:44 ↗ definition of

29:46 ↗ a snapshot in the summary so

29:48 ↗ um

29:50 ↗ are we talking about cliff notes type of

29:52 ↗ thing or are we talking about just

29:55 ↗ taking the full application and and

29:57 ↗ putting it out there so we can read it

29:59 ↗ what's what's your definition of class

30:01 ↗ uh

30:01 ↗ snapshot

30:03 ↗ thank you and maybe for a visual we

30:05 ↗ would be happy to also email you i can

30:07 ↗ also bring up and share my screen to

30:08 ↗ what we provided in the past many great

30:10 ↗ question what we did was a table format

30:14 ↗ um but it was several pages long because

30:16 ↗ again we had 90 applications where we

30:18 ↗ had basically

30:19 ↗ um um

30:21 ↗ one column with the name of the

30:22 ↗ organization and the name of the program

30:24 ↗ you're gonna see that sometimes one

30:26 ↗ organization is gonna request funding

30:28 ↗ for multiple programs so then we had

30:30 ↗ that and then we also for each of them

30:33 ↗ we had a brief summary from their

30:35 ↗ application like a summary of what what

30:38 ↗ their proposal is all about and then we

30:40 ↗ had different columns with um that know

30:43 ↗ that if they were a first-time applicant

30:46 ↗ or if they received funding in the past

30:48 ↗ and if they received funding in the past

30:50 ↗ how much funding they received so kind

30:52 ↗ of like that's this it's a table format

30:54 ↗ for kind of like a snapshot it's it's

30:57 ↗ all a kind of like a brief summary of

30:59 ↗ all the applications in one document

31:02 ↗ rather than just having you know 90

31:04 ↗ documents open

31:08 ↗ okay and and um

31:10 ↗ example of a

31:12 ↗ classification would be for example um

31:15 ↗ helping

31:17 ↗ people with mental health problems right

31:20 ↗ right or

31:21 ↗ or

31:22 ↗ housing or

31:23 ↗ exactly

31:25 ↗ exactly yes that's why last time we had

31:28 ↗ for example housing was one category

31:30 ↗ roof overhead and basic needs so then we

31:33 ↗ had anything that had to do with housing

31:35 ↗ homelessness and food was in one

31:37 ↗ category and then we had medical and

31:40 ↗ behavioral health care into one other

31:42 ↗ category and then we had

31:44 ↗ um kind of like another category with um

31:48 ↗ language culture

31:51 ↗ um

31:54 ↗ domestic violence and all of that in

31:55 ↗ another category um so yeah absolutely

31:58 ↗ just like you said thank you

32:00 ↗ thank you

32:02 ↗ thank you thank you manny and susan i

32:04 ↗ know you wanted to speak i um i see here

32:06 ↗ though lucrecia chimed in and has a

32:08 ↗ question and comment if we don't mind

32:10 ↗ please explore to her first i'd be great

32:15 ↗ thank you susan and um hannah

32:18 ↗ i guess i i'm wondering if in part of

32:22 ↗ the information that the commissioners

32:24 ↗ will receive

32:25 ↗ to make a decision as to who

32:28 ↗ who you all will be deciding to fund

32:30 ↗ is

32:31 ↗ part of that information also includes

32:33 ↗ the success

32:36 ↗ past success of these agencies with

32:38 ↗ money that has been given in the past

32:41 ↗ like are they held to some sort of you

32:43 ↗ know reporting

32:45 ↗ you know like

32:46 ↗ i hope that makes sense and then

32:48 ↗ monica in your presentation you you

32:51 ↗ stated that

32:52 ↗ if there are organizations that are not

32:55 ↗ funded through

32:57 ↗ the human services that

32:59 ↗ the human services can make a

33:00 ↗ recommendation for them to be funded

33:03 ↗ elsewhere and i wanted to hear more

33:06 ↗ about like

33:07 ↗ where does that money come from

33:10 ↗ or did i misunderstand what you said

33:13 ↗ and then um

33:16 ↗ i guess i want to better understand

33:19 ↗ the deeper

33:20 ↗ funding versus broader funding a little

33:23 ↗ bit better and i think that that's what

33:24 ↗ susan's gonna do that was my

33:26 ↗ my third bullet point that i have

33:28 ↗ questions about

33:29 ↗ um

33:31 ↗ and yeah and i guess is

33:33 ↗ is today that day when we're having the

33:35 ↗ discussion as to when

33:37 ↗ if it will be deep or broad

33:40 ↗ and if not when will that discussion

33:42 ↗ actually take place

33:47 ↗ such great questions um

33:49 ↗ um lucrecia thank you so much so going

33:52 ↗ back to to your first question

33:55 ↗ um and actually that is something that

33:57 ↗ we would want to discuss tonight um

34:01 ↗ in the past this is prior to me joining

34:03 ↗ the city um including performance on an

34:07 ↗ organization was not included in in

34:10 ↗ in the commission's review

34:12 ↗ that is something that if you give us

34:13 ↗ direction tonight we would be happy

34:15 ↗ during the

34:16 ↗ um the review process to provide you

34:19 ↗ information on on organizations

34:22 ↗ performance

34:23 ↗ there are pluses and minuses about this

34:25 ↗ on one end if there are new

34:27 ↗ organizations that apply we do not have

34:29 ↗ information on them regarding their

34:31 ↗ performance so as long as um

34:35 ↗ we all

34:36 ↗ agree to use the information

34:39 ↗ somehow um

34:42 ↗ along every you know kind of like across

34:44 ↗ the board in a in a fair way

34:46 ↗ absolutely that is something that we can

34:48 ↗ do so that is one modification that we

34:50 ↗ can provide

34:52 ↗ to your second question

34:54 ↗ um i might have um

34:56 ↗ misspoke or did not explain myself

34:59 ↗ correctly when i um mentioned about

35:01 ↗ other organizations

35:03 ↗ i believe what i was trying to say that

35:06 ↗ if let's say we receive

35:09 ↗ many many applications and you as a

35:11 ↗ commission

35:12 ↗ you decide that all of these

35:14 ↗ applications are great and you would

35:15 ↗ like to fund more than we have money for

35:19 ↗ another a third option would be to

35:21 ↗ request additional funds to make a

35:23 ↗ request to city council or at least to

35:26 ↗ make a recommendation to say we would

35:27 ↗ also want to

35:29 ↗ fund these organizations but we don't

35:31 ↗ have more money and then kind of like

35:33 ↗ make a request from city council to

35:35 ↗ consider

35:36 ↗ that

35:37 ↗ i don't know if that helps if i'm better

35:39 ↗ at explaining this time

35:42 ↗ and then the third question was

35:44 ↗ regarding the the deep versus

35:47 ↗ peanut butter spread as we like to call

35:49 ↗ it um

35:51 ↗ initial conversations you we can start

35:53 ↗ tonight i think if you give us these are

35:55 ↗ again directions tonight like hey we

35:57 ↗ would like to talk some more about this

35:59 ↗ this is something that definitely i

36:01 ↗ think we need to address in the upcoming

36:03 ↗ months so while we can start i don't

36:06 ↗ anticipate that we should go into

36:08 ↗ a lot of detail tonight just because we

36:10 ↗ don't have more information other than

36:11 ↗ just we want to gather from your

36:13 ↗ thoughts on what would be helpful for

36:15 ↗ you to have as commission nurse

36:19 ↗ thank you

36:20 ↗ go for it just real quick monica um with

36:22 ↗ regards to

36:24 ↗ what

36:26 ↗ have the information

36:29 ↗ that some agencies that we may not have

36:31 ↗ some information on some agencies that

36:33 ↗ could be new to us

36:34 ↗ is there is there a way in the

36:36 ↗ application to capture that level of

36:38 ↗ information like saying

36:41 ↗ you know um

36:43 ↗ if you have not been funded through us

36:44 ↗ in the past

36:45 ↗ can you give references as to who has

36:47 ↗ funded you in the past

36:49 ↗ and allow us or tell us

36:52 ↗ what successes you've had with funding

36:54 ↗ from other places

36:55 ↗ just to show you know responsibility for

36:58 ↗ the funding that they're receiving

37:01 ↗ we can certainly get in touch with them

37:03 ↗ afterwards in the current application as

37:05 ↗ it opened across the 16 cities

37:08 ↗ that is not in currently in

37:11 ↗ as a possibility but as we receive the

37:13 ↗ applications we can then see which of

37:16 ↗ the organizations are new who applied

37:19 ↗ for funding from issaquah and then we

37:21 ↗ can get in touch with them and find a

37:23 ↗ way to request some information so yeah

37:25 ↗ those are great suggestions definitely

37:27 ↗ we can

37:28 ↗ you can we can look into that yeah

37:31 ↗ thank you

37:41 ↗ as we are waiting for others to jump or

37:43 ↗ to not to join i apologize i'm tired one

37:45 ↗ that is here if i don't know if trish

37:47 ↗ had any comments or questions also since

37:50 ↗ knowing that she's on the phone

37:52 ↗ trish can you hear us and see us

37:55 ↗ do you have

38:00 ↗ i just unmuted you on my end okay can

38:04 ↗ you hear me now yes

38:07 ↗ okay great um

38:09 ↗ um i am just listening i don't have

38:11 ↗ questions at this point

38:12 ↗ um

38:13 ↗ yeah but this is this is really good to

38:16 ↗ go over this will be my first time as

38:18 ↗ you guys know

38:22 ↗ that's great thanks trish

38:24 ↗ thank you susan

38:27 ↗ thank you is it okay monica if i just

38:29 ↗ share a few of my so um

38:32 ↗ hannah and monica and i were talking a

38:34 ↗ little bit

38:35 ↗ in preparation for this meeting and it

38:38 ↗ um aside from monica i i think i am the

38:41 ↗ only one who's sort of been through the

38:43 ↗ last couple cycles so i did have a few

38:46 ↗ observations to share because i remember

38:48 ↗ when i went into this myself for the

38:50 ↗ first time it was

38:52 ↗ a bit disorienting and confusing and i

38:54 ↗ wasn't sure what my job was and so i

38:56 ↗ thought i would just maybe share some

38:58 ↗ personal observations and some lessons

38:59 ↗ that i learned over time that that might

39:01 ↗ be helpful to you

39:03 ↗ um

39:04 ↗ i think one of the first

39:06 ↗ uh things that was helpful is

39:08 ↗ understanding the

39:11 ↗ jobs to be done so i think what's really

39:13 ↗ going to be useful for us is this human

39:16 ↗ services strategic plan because we know

39:18 ↗ where the city's priorities are and they

39:21 ↗ know

39:22 ↗ we know where they want to provide human

39:25 ↗ services to our citizens according to

39:28 ↗ kind of those

39:30 ↗ again job areas or jobs to be done and i

39:33 ↗ i think about when we're looking at all

39:36 ↗ the people who can or all the the

39:39 ↗ organizations

39:40 ↗ that can help deliver those services

39:43 ↗ it's almost like we are

39:46 ↗ interviewing them for a job that they

39:48 ↗ are going to do

39:50 ↗ to deliver those services to our

39:52 ↗ citizens who need them so in other words

39:54 ↗ sometimes it can get a little bit

39:56 ↗ confusing about are we giving grant

39:58 ↗ money to worthy organizations because we

40:02 ↗ feel

40:03 ↗ um

40:04 ↗ moved by their mission and we feel like

40:07 ↗ they are you know good people trying to

40:09 ↗ do good things sometimes your your heart

40:11 ↗ strings tug a little bit it's like oh i

40:12 ↗ want to give these people more because i

40:14 ↗ i really want to help help them move

40:17 ↗ forward their cause but you also have to

40:19 ↗ look at that are they well positioned to

40:22 ↗ actually do the job that we're hiring

40:24 ↗ them to do which is to deliver the

40:26 ↗ services to the serv to the to our

40:28 ↗ citizens in need

40:30 ↗ and sometimes that causes a little bit

40:32 ↗ of angst in in that

40:34 ↗ in that trade-off and we have had that

40:37 ↗ uh

40:38 ↗ that long standing discussion about

40:40 ↗ spreading and versus concentrating i

40:42 ↗ think the pros of concentrating are that

40:45 ↗ you can

40:46 ↗ come close to what the organization is

40:49 ↗ asking for so the organization basically

40:51 ↗ says

40:52 ↗ city you want us to do this job we can

40:54 ↗ do it effectively it's going to cost

40:56 ↗ this

40:57 ↗ and you want to

40:59 ↗ sort of respect that you want to give

41:00 ↗ them that funding because yes you want

41:02 ↗ them to do that job for you but then

41:04 ↗ that takes up a pretty big chunk of what

41:06 ↗ you have to spend and so you end up

41:08 ↗ making this bargaining in your head it's

41:10 ↗ like well if i only gave you maybe 80 of

41:13 ↗ what you're asking for or 50 of what

41:15 ↗ you're asking for how far can you get

41:17 ↗ and um sometimes that works sometimes it

41:20 ↗ doesn't it kind of depends on the

41:22 ↗ program it depends on the organization

41:24 ↗ and one of the other interesting factors

41:27 ↗ is that you will often see

41:29 ↗ the same

41:30 ↗ organization

41:31 ↗ having

41:33 ↗ applications in different categories so

41:34 ↗ some of these larger organizations might

41:37 ↗ have multiple programs that cross

41:39 ↗ different categories and there was a a

41:41 ↗ point in time where we did take that

41:43 ↗ lens um were we giving to the same

41:46 ↗ organization over and over um and how

41:49 ↗ did that feel or was that another um

41:52 ↗ sort of opportunity for us to spread it

41:54 ↗ around a little bit instead of sort of

41:56 ↗ concentrating it

41:58 ↗ in a single organization

42:00 ↗ the the sort of the irony is that the

42:02 ↗ the bigger more organized um

42:06 ↗ organizations that have like lots of

42:08 ↗ data lots of results lots of you know

42:11 ↗ they tend to get a lot of the money and

42:13 ↗ um that can be a good thing but then

42:15 ↗ that can also potentially shut out some

42:17 ↗ of the smaller more grassroots

42:20 ↗ more um you know newer organizations who

42:23 ↗ just need a chance to get in there and

42:25 ↗ deliver their services effectively so i

42:28 ↗ don't really have a

42:29 ↗ an answer for you on that um but it is a

42:32 ↗ it is a continual point of tension that

42:35 ↗ you know you're gonna have to

42:36 ↗ definitely pay attention to we also

42:39 ↗ looked at the concept of duplication so

42:41 ↗ when you going back to that jobs to be

42:43 ↗ done so when you're thinking about

42:44 ↗ delivering mental health services

42:46 ↗ delivering services to the homeless et

42:48 ↗ cetera

42:50 ↗ um we tried as hard as we could to

42:52 ↗ compare apples to apples

42:54 ↗ especially if we were in a situation

42:55 ↗ where we could not fund everybody we

42:57 ↗ wanted to pick the

42:59 ↗ the opportunities that were going to be

43:01 ↗ most effective again in serving the

43:03 ↗ needs of our citizens

43:05 ↗ so um we tried to minimize duplication

43:08 ↗ so if there was an organization who

43:11 ↗ delivered i'm just picking out thin air

43:13 ↗ mental health services to the youth of

43:15 ↗ issaquah and then there was another or

43:17 ↗ another organization who was delivering

43:19 ↗ mental health services to the youth of

43:20 ↗ issaquah but through the school system

43:23 ↗ and there was another one who and

43:24 ↗ there's these little subtleties that are

43:26 ↗ like oh but are those equal do they have

43:28 ↗ the you know the same reach are they

43:30 ↗ reaching the same type of

43:32 ↗ of um of need and now we also have our

43:37 ↗ equity lens that we're looking through

43:39 ↗ so you kind of say okay do you have a

43:41 ↗ program that is delivering mental health

43:43 ↗ services to the youth of issaquah

43:45 ↗ but they are uh you know by poc students

43:48 ↗ and then you have another one who youth

43:50 ↗ of issaquah who happened to be you know

43:52 ↗ a different um group and so like how do

43:55 ↗ you

43:55 ↗ how do you compare those and so that i

43:57 ↗ think the duplication challenge is going

43:59 ↗ to be an issue

44:00 ↗ and and i don't really know what to say

44:02 ↗ other than we you know we try to do as

44:05 ↗ much as we can to kind of like

44:07 ↗ find

44:08 ↗ situations where there truly is

44:10 ↗ duplication to um

44:12 ↗ and and use that in our in our selection

44:15 ↗ criteria

44:16 ↗ um the other thing is i find that when

44:20 ↗ we get to city council and we are ready

44:22 ↗ to make the recommendations through the

44:24 ↗ mayor and the city council

44:26 ↗ we often get questions about why we're

44:28 ↗ not funding somebody as opposed to why

44:31 ↗ we are funding somebody it's kind of

44:32 ↗ like

44:33 ↗ everybody

44:34 ↗ realizes that through staff through the

44:37 ↗ application process and through our

44:38 ↗ deliberations we'll find good people to

44:42 ↗ do good work and and do these jobs for

44:44 ↗ us um i don't think people are that

44:46 ↗ concerned that we will get you know

44:48 ↗ we'll go astray and fund an organization

44:50 ↗ that's just not going to do anything you

44:52 ↗ know where the money is going to be

44:53 ↗ wasted it's mostly about okay but why

44:56 ↗ didn't you fund that organization this

44:58 ↗ is a good organization why didn't you

44:59 ↗ fund that organization and

45:01 ↗ it

45:02 ↗ again it's um it's difficult but i will

45:05 ↗ say

45:06 ↗ what was really helpful was when we were

45:08 ↗ going through those deliberations in the

45:11 ↗ small groups that monica mentioned it's

45:13 ↗ really helpful to take good notes

45:16 ↗ and so that you can go back and kind of

45:17 ↗ remember like oh we were really

45:19 ↗ struggling here's you know the things

45:22 ↗ that we saw in favor here are the things

45:24 ↗ that we saw against and here's why we

45:26 ↗ net it out you know with our

45:28 ↗ recommendation whatever it is and then

45:29 ↗ you have those notes to remind yourself

45:32 ↗ to kind of put together the usually it's

45:34 ↗ like a one sentence narrative you know

45:36 ↗ well the reason why

45:38 ↗ we were not able to fund this

45:39 ↗ organization is because of this and

45:41 ↗ that's just going to be really helpful

45:43 ↗ for the process because it's sometimes

45:45 ↗ really hard to go back and remember you

45:46 ↗ know why you thought a certain thing

45:49 ↗ um and then i guess my last

45:51 ↗ suggestion monica was i i think the red

45:54 ↗ yellow green

45:56 ↗ structure that you set up last year was

45:57 ↗ really helpful it was it's kind of

45:59 ↗ simplified it's just a lot easier to

46:03 ↗ to kind of like put

46:04 ↗ you know

46:05 ↗ organizations in that type of category i

46:08 ↗ might suggest that we spend a little bit

46:10 ↗ of time as a commission on the reasons

46:12 ↗ that you have listed under each i think

46:14 ↗ there was just a bit of confusion about

46:16 ↗ well wait a minute what

46:18 ↗ you know what's a yellow and what

46:20 ↗ constitutes a red and what constitutes a

46:22 ↗ green so if the commission felt like

46:25 ↗ they wanted to do that now or later you

46:27 ↗ know when it got closer to the time i

46:28 ↗ think almost agreeing on

46:30 ↗ you know what what are the either

46:34 ↗ you know

46:35 ↗ major categories of reasons you know

46:37 ↗ under each or the criteria that would

46:39 ↗ that would typically put somebody in a

46:41 ↗ red yellow green i think that would be

46:43 ↗ just helpful as a small

46:45 ↗ improvement to the process

46:50 ↗ thank you any any questions or any other

46:55 ↗ discussion around anything i said or you

46:57 ↗ know i'd appreciate any feedback thank

46:59 ↗ you

47:00 ↗ all right

47:01 ↗ i just want to say yes glue cressie had

47:03 ↗ her hand up but i also want to say that

47:05 ↗ pat had a question um so lucas are you

47:08 ↗ okay if i go ahead and hand it over to

47:09 ↗ pat first and then

47:11 ↗ um pass it back to you

47:13 ↗ thank you all right pat

47:15 ↗ thanks uh susan actually two questions

47:17 ↗ the first one is um

47:21 ↗ do we know and he might have came come

47:23 ↗ up and i'm just not remembering for each

47:25 ↗ dollar we give to an organization do we

47:28 ↗ know how much is going to be spent on

47:30 ↗ the matter we're looking into and is it

47:33 ↗ always uh

47:35 ↗ in a way when an organization wants to

47:37 ↗ work with the city of issaquah do we

47:40 ↗ tell them you cannot have more than x

47:42 ↗ percent going to your overhead or x

47:44 ↗ amount has to go to implementation

47:49 ↗ such another great question pat

47:51 ↗ the way we contract with the

47:53 ↗ organizations is we contract for service

47:57 ↗ units that they provide so for um

48:01 ↗ the service that they provide and for

48:02 ↗ outcomes so

48:04 ↗ while typically though for overheads we

48:06 ↗ don't allow more than 10

48:09 ↗ in our contract we really

48:11 ↗ we um

48:14 ↗ we

48:14 ↗ contract for a number of residents that

48:17 ↗ they are going to serve and for a number

48:18 ↗ of hour of services that they provide so

48:21 ↗ then we

48:23 ↗ we have a range of dollars but we don't

48:25 ↗ go under or over depending on kind of

48:28 ↗ like what service they provide right so

48:30 ↗ let's say i'm gonna take as an example a

48:32 ↗ shelter um we have three four or five

48:35 ↗ shelters in the area that submit

48:37 ↗ applications to us and then they each

48:40 ↗ have a certain amount of dollars per bed

48:43 ↗ night that they charge right let's say

48:45 ↗ it's gonna be eighty dollars per bed

48:47 ↗ night so then depending on how much

48:49 ↗ funding we have we calculate how many

48:51 ↗ bad nights they they provide and so

48:53 ↗ that's going to be the contract so we

48:55 ↗ don't look at the overhead it's like the

48:56 ↗ cost for service that we are looking at

48:59 ↗ but let's say if if we provide for once

49:02 ↗ shelter let's say if we pay 80 per hour

49:05 ↗ and the other shelter wants to charge us

49:07 ↗ 400

49:08 ↗ then we would have a conversations with

49:10 ↗ both to understand what's the difference

49:12 ↗ and there's a certain amount that we

49:13 ↗ wouldn't go over

49:15 ↗ um

49:16 ↗ does that help a little bit yeah it does

49:19 ↗ and the reason i i asked about it is

49:20 ↗ because exact thank you

49:22 ↗ exactly what you were saying

49:25 ↗ although we have the buckets of green

49:27 ↗ yellow and orange and yellow will be

49:30 ↗ very important that we identify

49:33 ↗ the criteria that go under each of those

49:36 ↗ and

49:37 ↗ and i know we're moving away from the

49:39 ↗ point system but

49:41 ↗ i

49:42 ↗ i mean we can talk about this when times

49:43 ↗ get here when would the criteria are

49:45 ↗ clear right then it would be good to to

49:48 ↗ decide okay you have many of the greens

49:52 ↗ but if you have many of the yellows and

49:54 ↗ the oranges as well do we really want to

49:57 ↗ fund you right compared to another

49:59 ↗ organization and then that's where the

50:01 ↗ point system can come in but then point

50:04 ↗ only comes in when we have clear

50:06 ↗ criteria under each of the buckets and

50:09 ↗ thank you

50:13 ↗ may i clarify just one comment um and

50:16 ↗ monica maybe you can help me but

50:18 ↗ pat i think the the red yellow green

50:22 ↗ tool that we were using was really

50:24 ↗ a gestalt summary of an entire

50:27 ↗ organization and an entire application

50:30 ↗ we we weren't at least in my group we

50:32 ↗ weren't taking one application and

50:34 ↗ saying on this point you're green on

50:36 ↗ that point you're yellow on that point

50:39 ↗ you're red that's sort of the the way

50:41 ↗ that we were kind of doing it the cycle

50:43 ↗ before i think this past year we really

50:45 ↗ kind of did it almost like in a

50:48 ↗ simplified

50:49 ↗ you know okay i read through everything

50:51 ↗ i know what i'm looking for

50:53 ↗ are they a red are they yellow are they

50:55 ↗ green and it was very simple but it

50:57 ↗ seemed to be effective

50:59 ↗ but i just wanted to point out that

51:02 ↗ that yeah

51:03 ↗ thank you susan and i would love to add

51:05 ↗ to that a little bit i think what i

51:07 ↗ learned and heard from the commissioners

51:09 ↗ with the point system based on like

51:12 ↗ going to each application individually

51:14 ↗ by section and either assign points or

51:17 ↗ colors it's actually the very equity

51:20 ↗ issue

51:21 ↗ because what we learned

51:23 ↗ that sometimes then you have large

51:25 ↗ organizations who have excellent grant

51:27 ↗ writers and they're gonna present a

51:30 ↗ perfect application that's gonna score

51:32 ↗ very high but then you're gonna have a

51:34 ↗ small organization who has a hundred

51:37 ↗ percent volunteers and speaking of

51:39 ↗ overhead all the money goes directly

51:42 ↗ into services no overhead absolutely but

51:45 ↗ their applications not gonna score that

51:47 ↗ high because they just don't have that

51:50 ↗ capacity and especially if you look at

51:51 ↗ bipolar communities who might not have

51:53 ↗ the fancy ways of providing the organs

51:55 ↗ so that's the challenge that we were

51:57 ↗ running into with scores and very um

52:01 ↗ very specific criteria

52:05 ↗ yeah thank you

52:08 ↗ this is jaime um i'm glad we're talking

52:10 ↗ about that because i don't want to go

52:12 ↗ into this is my first time on this side

52:14 ↗ uh of really zoning in of

52:18 ↗ non-profit agencies or agencies in their

52:21 ↗ in their budget uh

52:23 ↗ you know that's not

52:24 ↗ i think what we signed up to look at

52:25 ↗ people's spreadsheets

52:27 ↗ i think i like what you said about

52:28 ↗ looking at the goals and does that match

52:31 ↗ our strategic plan

52:33 ↗ um but also too you know talking about

52:35 ↗ the unintended consequences we might see

52:37 ↗ applications that are really well

52:38 ↗ written

52:39 ↗ in the sense of and it just got brought

52:41 ↗ up about capacity you might have

52:43 ↗ agencies that have you know grant

52:44 ↗ writers where some of those agencies

52:47 ↗ don't have ground writers or the

52:48 ↗ staffing two provide statements and i

52:51 ↗ think that's what you talked about

52:52 ↗ monica then you have like the the

52:54 ↗ inequities within the bipod communities

52:57 ↗ or non-profit of you know so i'm glad

52:59 ↗ we're having a conversation and

53:01 ↗ but it doesn't have to be kind of looked

53:02 ↗ at how much has been into direct service

53:05 ↗ versus admin

53:07 ↗ you know i think that's uh something to

53:09 ↗ you know be aware

53:10 ↗ um but yeah i do appreciate and then i

53:13 ↗ know i'm going off the worksheet here it

53:15 ↗ sounds like

53:16 ↗ the scorecards

53:18 ↗ and then um

53:20 ↗ and talk about timelines right april may

53:22 ↗ equity trainings may onboarding

53:24 ↗ so

53:25 ↗ i'm looking forward to it um

53:30 ↗ thank you um so yeah i know lucrecia you

53:33 ↗ had questions and comments and then at

53:34 ↗ the end i would love to also um offer

53:37 ↗ a couple of thoughts that i had in

53:39 ↗ response to susan's

53:42 ↗ great comments and challenge with

53:44 ↗ duplications and some other things i i

53:46 ↗ just wanted to share with you those

53:48 ↗ thoughts

53:50 ↗ so far

53:57 ↗ i don't know if you heard me said i

53:58 ↗ passed thank you

54:00 ↗ oh i'm sorry i did not hear you

54:04 ↗ oh okay so in that case i think

54:06 ↗ one of the ideas

54:08 ↗ that we are entertaining here with

54:10 ↗ hannah and i think susan a month or so

54:12 ↗ ago

54:13 ↗ um as

54:15 ↗ because of covet and your hard work on

54:17 ↗ the creating the equity board we did not

54:20 ↗ have time to do uh what typically the

54:22 ↗ commission does uh on off years and that

54:26 ↗ is to visit with uh the nonprofit

54:28 ↗ agencies to get to know them a little

54:30 ↗ bit

54:31 ↗ so one way in which um

54:34 ↗ if you're interested in commissioners in

54:37 ↗ which we could perhaps

54:39 ↗ address some of the duplication issues

54:41 ↗ or if you would like to get to know

54:43 ↗ organizations

54:44 ↗ uh per categories we could invite

54:47 ↗ organizations um to come and introduce

54:51 ↗ themselves for a few minutes as you

54:52 ↗ review the applications let's say from

54:54 ↗ the mental health section even at the

54:56 ↗ subcommittee level we can invite them to

54:59 ↗ come and introduce themselves to you

55:01 ↗ um

55:02 ↗ it's going to be i think of perhaps it's

55:05 ↗ going to mean adding a few extra

55:07 ↗ meetings or extending some of the

55:09 ↗ meetings but that is one option that we

55:11 ↗ can consider as we get and divers

55:13 ↗ especially if you're going to feel that

55:15 ↗ it's really difficult to

55:16 ↗ to discuss and if you want to add an

55:18 ↗ equity layer to that but that those are

55:20 ↗ options to keep in mind for the future

55:23 ↗ months

55:34 ↗ this is this is manny

55:36 ↗ um

55:38 ↗ i'm glad you said that um

55:40 ↗ monica because

55:42 ↗ i was looking at

55:44 ↗ when you're talking about communication

55:46 ↗ is this a fluid thing so do doing this

55:48 ↗ whole process

55:50 ↗ are we going back and forth to these um

55:53 ↗ grantors or or is it

55:56 ↗ one one time in and done as far as

55:59 ↗ communicating

56:01 ↗ we have that we have the ability to

56:03 ↗ communicate with them if you want it's

56:05 ↗ just we want to find a fair way that's

56:07 ↗ um that's fair to everyone but we do

56:08 ↗ have and let's say if there's something

56:10 ↗ on their application is not clear we can

56:13 ↗ you know we we contact them and ask them

56:16 ↗ to explain something so we have that

56:18 ↗ ability to communicate uh what typically

56:21 ↗ we don't allow them is to

56:23 ↗ submit a new application or submit an

56:25 ↗ application late but if if something's

56:27 ↗ not clear and we need clarification

56:29 ↗ absolutely that's that's possible and

56:31 ↗ often it happens that um during the the

56:35 ↗ review process by nature organizations

56:38 ↗ know that we have a public comment

56:40 ↗ section and often you're gonna see that

56:42 ↗ they would want to sign up to come and

56:44 ↗ introduce themselves by default just for

56:47 ↗ them to

56:48 ↗ to have a chance to tell you who they

56:50 ↗ are and what to what they do

56:52 ↗ so that communication is is a yeah it's

56:54 ↗ an option

56:56 ↗ thank you

57:07 ↗ i just wanted to ask if

57:10 ↗ anybody else trish or sarah claire

57:13 ↗ anybody else has

57:15 ↗ additional comments or questions

57:28 ↗ i think everybody's

57:31 ↗ prepped and contemplating and

57:34 ↗ excited to get their arms around what it

57:36 ↗ is oh

57:38 ↗ sounds good i think hannah was trying to

57:39 ↗ say something but i think we couldn't

57:41 ↗ hear you hannah

57:43 ↗ nope no we cannot hear you

57:47 ↗ and i think uh meanwhile lucrecia i

57:49 ↗ think you had also yeah

57:52 ↗ um i was wondering if

57:55 ↗ since i think three of us are stepping

57:58 ↗ down next month correct

58:00 ↗ um so i'm wondering if the people that

58:02 ↗ are being brought on

58:04 ↗ um will have access to our our recorded

58:08 ↗ session today so that they can kind of

58:11 ↗ have

58:12 ↗ some sort of basis

58:14 ↗ to start working from

58:16 ↗ because they're going to need to hit the

58:17 ↗ ground running it's just a thought that

58:19 ↗ i had

58:21 ↗ yes thank you chrissy and that's exactly

58:23 ↗ the challenge that we were also kind of

58:25 ↗ like um

58:26 ↗ uh talking about because we we are ready

58:28 ↗ to dive deeper in these conversations

58:31 ↗ with you but we are also very aware that

58:33 ↗ we are going to have a new commissioner

58:34 ↗ so definitely they will have access to

58:37 ↗ the recorded session and we will also

58:38 ↗ meet with them individually to bring

58:40 ↗ them up to speed a little bit

58:41 ↗ and that's also the reasoning why even

58:43 ↗ with equity trainings we wanted to

58:45 ↗ extend them as much as we can so they

58:47 ↗ have access to those

58:49 ↗ for the adults

58:50 ↗ share we share the same

58:53 ↗ concerns for sure

58:55 ↗ thank you lacrosse yeah and then i'm

58:56 ↗ gonna go ahead and unmute trish um as i

58:59 ↗ believe she has a comment trish are you

59:00 ↗ there

59:02 ↗ yeah can you hear me okay we sure can

59:05 ↗ okay great yeah and you know um maybe i

59:09 ↗ should already know this

59:10 ↗ but

59:11 ↗ and i know that um the human services

59:14 ↗ department was stretched

59:17 ↗ um these past couple years and you know

59:19 ↗ had to bring on new staff and etc but is

59:22 ↗ there some kind of scorecard that you

59:25 ↗ all

59:26 ↗ have created so that

59:28 ↗ um

59:29 ↗ applicants that we have funded in the

59:31 ↗ past

59:32 ↗ that we can anticipate you know we'll be

59:35 ↗ asking

59:36 ↗ you know

59:37 ↗ will also come in as potential grantees

59:40 ↗ during this next cycle do you have some

59:42 ↗ kind of scorecard that you can share

59:44 ↗ with the commission about how well past

59:48 ↗ grantees have done

59:52 ↗ um

59:54 ↗ so trish i'm gonna try to answer and and

59:56 ↗ i think i might have a clarifying

59:58 ↗ question so score cards for applications

1:00:01 ↗ yes we do we also have and conduct

1:00:04 ↗ reports on

1:00:06 ↗ uh that we actually even some of them we

1:00:08 ↗ share with city council on how the

1:00:09 ↗ performance of of the applicants we also

1:00:13 ↗ from time to time we share that with the

1:00:15 ↗ commission or i think the commission we

1:00:17 ↗ share that in the summer i i think

1:00:20 ↗ a performance review so those we do have

1:00:22 ↗ available and we can certainly share

1:00:24 ↗ them with the commission

1:00:26 ↗ yeah that's what i meant maybe i was

1:00:27 ↗ using when i said scorecard i meant

1:00:29 ↗ performance review yes yes we do have

1:00:32 ↗ those and again we can share those

1:00:34 ↗ similar with the previous conversation

1:00:36 ↗ though it's just we want what we want to

1:00:38 ↗ use to make sure that if we have

1:00:40 ↗ performance reviews on all existing

1:00:43 ↗ organizations then we have something

1:00:45 ↗ also for new organizations

1:00:48 ↗ okay great thanks yeah thank you

1:00:53 ↗ and i wanted to susan your comments were

1:00:56 ↗ really helpful thank you

1:00:58 ↗ thank you

1:01:01 ↗ yeah it's it's sort of like you don't

1:01:03 ↗ really know what it's like until you

1:01:04 ↗ just get started but once you get

1:01:06 ↗ started you'll

1:01:07 ↗ you'll get the hang of it

1:01:12 ↗ so great conversations commissioners

1:01:14 ↗ tonight thank you so much susan and

1:01:16 ↗ thank you to all um

1:01:18 ↗ of you commissioners for input and

1:01:20 ↗ suggestions

1:01:22 ↗ um

1:01:22 ↗ i think um

1:01:25 ↗ we are gonna take in some of your

1:01:27 ↗ suggestions uh we are gonna start

1:01:29 ↗ preparing so we can share that

1:01:31 ↗ information with you

1:01:32 ↗ um

1:01:34 ↗ and

1:01:35 ↗ be ready in in may

1:01:37 ↗ uh we're gonna focus in april uh and may

1:01:40 ↗ and trainings and in may we are gonna

1:01:42 ↗ hit the ground running for sure but i

1:01:45 ↗ think it's gonna be

1:01:46 ↗ um an exciting season

1:01:48 ↗ we'll try to make it as

1:01:51 ↗ pain-free as possible

1:01:53 ↗ for you

1:01:55 ↗ and thank you for all you do it's a it's

1:01:58 ↗ a commitment for sure

1:02:03 ↗ okay

1:02:04 ↗ thank you monica so that that wraps up

1:02:06 ↗ your section

1:02:07 ↗ i believe so yes

1:02:09 ↗ okay

1:02:11 ↗ well awesome we're actually um doing

1:02:13 ↗ great on time so uh the next item on our

1:02:16 ↗ agenda is other business or

1:02:17 ↗ announcements um

1:02:19 ↗ do any of the commissioners have

1:02:20 ↗ anything that they would like to

1:02:23 ↗ add or

1:02:24 ↗ bring up this new business

1:02:30 ↗ okay i don't see any so

1:02:33 ↗ um

1:02:34 ↗ hannah anything else you would like to

1:02:35 ↗ add

1:02:36 ↗ yes thank you susan so there are just a

1:02:39 ↗ couple things that i'd like to spend

1:02:41 ↗ some time um

1:02:42 ↗ in the remainder of our time and

1:02:44 ↗ hopefully we can wrap up early um but

1:02:47 ↗ i want to go back to the equity joint

1:02:51 ↗ commission meeting the east side joint

1:02:52 ↗ commission meeting that's happening in

1:02:54 ↗ april

1:02:55 ↗ um

1:02:56 ↗ in we are would like to suggest and get

1:02:59 ↗ everyone's opinion and approval um with

1:03:03 ↗ gearing up for the application process

1:03:05 ↗ and knowing just how

1:03:07 ↗ intense it might be um we would like to

1:03:10 ↗ propose that in april i'm in lieu of our

1:03:14 ↗ regular human services commission

1:03:16 ↗ meeting that we continue um we have our

1:03:20 ↗ joint equity board or sorry everybody

1:03:23 ↗ commission meeting

1:03:24 ↗ um

1:03:25 ↗ that is scheduled for april so again

1:03:28 ↗ dates that we had were april 7th

1:03:31 ↗ was the um overview one and then there

1:03:34 ↗ are two other meetings in april and one

1:03:37 ↗ in may

1:03:38 ↗ um that we are hoping commissioners can

1:03:40 ↗ join for those

1:03:42 ↗ um so we wanted to have that discussion

1:03:44 ↗ here during this time

1:03:46 ↗ um to see

1:03:48 ↗ if we would be okay having um

1:03:52 ↗ that meeting instead of our regular

1:03:53 ↗ commission meeting and i see monica has

1:03:56 ↗ her hand up so i'll let her chime in

1:03:57 ↗ here

1:03:58 ↗ yeah i just have a clarifying question

1:04:00 ↗ for the commissioners hannah right so

1:04:02 ↗ the meeting on april 7th that is a joint

1:04:05 ↗ one initial training session right it's

1:04:08 ↗ an overview basics training on

1:04:11 ↗ equity and funding so ideally it would

1:04:14 ↗ be great for as many people to attend

1:04:16 ↗ but the nice thing about that is that

1:04:18 ↗ that session is going to be recorded if

1:04:20 ↗ you're not going to be able to attend

1:04:23 ↗ um we would need hannah would need

1:04:26 ↗ information on attendance though as soon

1:04:29 ↗ as in the next couple of weeks i'm gonna

1:04:31 ↗ let hannah put a deadline to that

1:04:33 ↗ because depending on how many of you are

1:04:35 ↗ able to attend we will notice that

1:04:38 ↗ meeting as a special human services

1:04:40 ↗ commission meeting

1:04:41 ↗ so that's number one right am i correct

1:04:44 ↗ so far hannah

1:04:46 ↗ yes of that and then the other three

1:04:48 ↗ sessions two in april and one in may

1:04:52 ↗ those are going to be

1:04:53 ↗ small group follow-up

1:04:56 ↗ discussions facilitated training

1:04:58 ↗ discussions to dive deeper into the

1:05:00 ↗ equity issues around funding

1:05:03 ↗ so for those you would not have to

1:05:05 ↗ attend all those three sessions you will

1:05:07 ↗ have to pick one of those

1:05:10 ↗ three sessions correct hannah

1:05:12 ↗ that's correct monica thanks for

1:05:13 ↗ clarifying and then for that you would

1:05:16 ↗ also want to sign up from commissioners

1:05:18 ↗ right on who's going to be able to make

1:05:20 ↗ which session yes i would need to know

1:05:23 ↗ who's going where so we can send you the

1:05:26 ↗ correct panelist link for those events

1:05:29 ↗ and for that shamelessly i'm gonna note

1:05:32 ↗ that perhaps

1:05:33 ↗ that is one session if possible to leave

1:05:36 ↗ and allow as many as the new

1:05:38 ↗ commissioners to join for the one in may

1:05:41 ↗ uh we will probably know who are going

1:05:44 ↗ to be the new commissioners by the end

1:05:45 ↗ of april but chances for them to attend

1:05:47 ↗ that and also watch the recording of the

1:05:50 ↗ one in early april

1:05:52 ↗ so monica and hannah so for the three

1:05:55 ↗ that were asked to choose

1:05:57 ↗ one of the three

1:05:59 ↗ there's no reason for like all of us to

1:06:01 ↗ try to pick the same event to attend

1:06:03 ↗ together as a commission because we'll

1:06:04 ↗ still be mixed with other cities is that

1:06:06 ↗ right it's just

1:06:08 ↗ anyone and it doesn't matter okay yes

1:06:10 ↗ exactly

1:06:11 ↗ thank you

1:06:16 ↗ and i think my understanding from the

1:06:18 ↗ other cities is that the attempt is

1:06:20 ↗ going to be to have those three groups

1:06:22 ↗ as

1:06:23 ↗ even as possible so encouraging people

1:06:26 ↗ to choose from three different

1:06:28 ↗ right

1:06:29 ↗ sessions instead of everyone

1:06:31 ↗ signing up for one

1:06:33 ↗ yeah

1:06:35 ↗ thanks monica yes so to just summarize

1:06:38 ↗ again

1:06:39 ↗ um there is the april 7th meeting um

1:06:43 ↗ that i will need to know if you will be

1:06:44 ↗ attending or not to see if we are

1:06:46 ↗ meeting quorum to see if we need to post

1:06:48 ↗ that as a special meeting so that's

1:06:51 ↗ number one i'll need to know and then

1:06:52 ↗ number two is

1:06:54 ↗ which of the three

1:06:56 ↗ um

1:06:57 ↗ joint meetings will you be attending on

1:06:59 ↗ april 19th april 28th or may 11th and we

1:07:02 ↗ would definitely encourage one of the

1:07:03 ↗ april dates so what i will do next then

1:07:06 ↗ is i'm going to send out an email

1:07:08 ↗ and then i hope to hear from everybody

1:07:10 ↗ by next friday if not sooner um so if

1:07:14 ↗ you can look at your calendars

1:07:16 ↗ and respond as soon as possible um so

1:07:19 ↗ that way we can just prepare for with

1:07:21 ↗ the other cities as well and coordinate

1:07:23 ↗ that

1:07:24 ↗ um so i would greatly appreciate that

1:07:26 ↗ and then

1:07:27 ↗ again we would like to suggest that we

1:07:29 ↗ um

1:07:30 ↗ use our april for these meetings instead

1:07:33 ↗ of having our human services

1:07:36 ↗ regular meeting

1:07:38 ↗ which currently is scheduled for april

1:07:43 ↗ let's say 16th my calendar is pulling up

1:07:48 ↗ um

1:07:48 ↗ [Music]

1:07:51 ↗ sorry april 20th is our current schedule

1:07:54 ↗ for the next meeting

1:07:56 ↗ we are suggesting

1:07:58 ↗ canceling that one

1:08:00 ↗ um and having the equity

1:08:03 ↗ training so

1:08:04 ↗ thumbs up down questions

1:08:08 ↗ say a couple thumbs up any questions or

1:08:11 ↗ concerns

1:08:12 ↗ so hannah may i just um remark then that

1:08:15 ↗ that this meeting that we're on now will

1:08:18 ↗ be the last

1:08:19 ↗ official

1:08:20 ↗ human services commission meeting that

1:08:22 ↗ will attend together for some of us who

1:08:25 ↗ are going to be

1:08:26 ↗ um departing is that correct

1:08:29 ↗ that's what that would mean

1:08:31 ↗ then i would like to spend the last few

1:08:33 ↗ minutes then if we are all on a grant

1:08:36 ↗ um to have this be um or to cancel the

1:08:41 ↗ regular meeting in april i'd like to

1:08:43 ↗ just kind of spend the last minute few

1:08:45 ↗ minutes that we have together we have

1:08:48 ↗ plenty of time just to um

1:08:50 ↗ just to wish a few of our commissioners

1:08:52 ↗ who will be ending their term

1:08:54 ↗ um so

1:08:56 ↗ sounds like we're okay we're we're okay

1:08:57 ↗ with our plan for april then

1:09:00 ↗ monica

1:09:02 ↗ oh sorry i thought you were raising your

1:09:03 ↗ hands

1:09:04 ↗ no i was trying to see because i don't

1:09:06 ↗ know if we heard from everyone i think

1:09:08 ↗ uh

1:09:10 ↗ pat maybe there's a question or yeah i

1:09:12 ↗ don't know yeah and and the april 7

1:09:15 ↗ meeting is at the same time right

1:09:19 ↗ it's either 6 or 6 30. i'm not sure

1:09:21 ↗ exactly the time but it's similar yes 6

1:09:24 ↗ 30 might be the time

1:09:26 ↗ yes

1:09:28 ↗ sorry were you asking for the april time

1:09:31 ↗ 7 8 7 6 30 to 8.

1:09:35 ↗ yeah it's on page 9 of the packet yeah 6

1:09:37 ↗ 30 to 7 30. it looks like the

1:09:40 ↗ thursday the 7th meeting is that what

1:09:42 ↗ you're talking about

1:09:44 ↗ yeah

1:09:49 ↗ okay

1:09:51 ↗ okay um

1:09:52 ↗ looks like we have everybody

1:09:55 ↗ in the greens

1:09:56 ↗ so with that said um we want to take

1:09:58 ↗ this time to um just say thank you to a

1:10:02 ↗ few of our commissioners susan

1:10:04 ↗ leonelli thank you so much for

1:10:06 ↗ yes your your time as the chair your

1:10:09 ↗ leadership uh your compassion um it's

1:10:12 ↗ just

1:10:13 ↗ um we are so sad to see you move on but

1:10:16 ↗ we are just so thrilled to have had you

1:10:18 ↗ for the many years on this commission so

1:10:20 ↗ thank you thank you thank you

1:10:22 ↗ well thank you it's bittersweet i i wish

1:10:24 ↗ you all well i know you guys will

1:10:27 ↗ i'm i'm very excited about the the

1:10:30 ↗ passion and the leadership that i see on

1:10:33 ↗ this call and i know we'll be getting

1:10:35 ↗ another couple of

1:10:37 ↗ new commissioners joining the crew and

1:10:39 ↗ and with monica and hannah's leadership

1:10:42 ↗ i think um you guys will go on to do

1:10:45 ↗ awesome things and and continue to

1:10:47 ↗ deliver

1:10:48 ↗ um

1:10:49 ↗ all the the great insight and

1:10:52 ↗ expertise that the city needs um from

1:10:55 ↗ its citizens and and it was just a

1:10:57 ↗ pleasure to work with all of you so

1:10:59 ↗ thank you i may show up as an attendee

1:11:01 ↗ one of these days

1:11:03 ↗ just to share my support

1:11:05 ↗ we welcome it susan thank you so much

1:11:08 ↗ um i would also like to acknowledge a

1:11:11 ↗ few other commissioners who will be

1:11:12 ↗ stepping out and love to open the floor

1:11:14 ↗ up for everyone to um

1:11:16 ↗ share their gratitude or comments or

1:11:18 ↗ anything so cressia we want to say thank

1:11:21 ↗ you again for your many

1:11:23 ↗ years and participation in the human

1:11:25 ↗ service commission we are thrilled to

1:11:27 ↗ see you serving in the equity board so

1:11:30 ↗ we appreciate your continued service to

1:11:32 ↗ the city and um we will miss you on here

1:11:35 ↗ on the human services commission side of

1:11:37 ↗ things um but i'm sure we'll see on the

1:11:39 ↗ other side of equity and our password

1:11:42 ↗ will will cross again so i just want to

1:11:43 ↗ say thank you again so much for um just

1:11:46 ↗ being here it's been loving lovely to

1:11:48 ↗ work with you so thank you

1:11:51 ↗ thank you hannah

1:11:53 ↗ yeah

1:11:55 ↗ and then i'd also like to acknowledge

1:11:57 ↗ claire uh we will i'll be missing claire

1:12:00 ↗ here um

1:12:02 ↗ claire will be moving on um as well

1:12:05 ↗ claire thank you so much for your

1:12:06 ↗ service here i have thoroughly enjoyed

1:12:08 ↗ working with you and hearing your input

1:12:11 ↗ i value everything that you've shared

1:12:13 ↗ in the meetings that i've been able to

1:12:15 ↗ attend and work with you on the last

1:12:17 ↗ year so you will be very missed i really

1:12:19 ↗ do appreciate your time

1:12:22 ↗ so thank you thank you

1:12:24 ↗ thank you so much hannah thanks to

1:12:26 ↗ everyone here it's been a really good

1:12:28 ↗ experience

1:12:30 ↗ just feeling more called to

1:12:32 ↗ be more present to my family here and i

1:12:34 ↗ really appreciate the time i've been on

1:12:36 ↗ the commission and

1:12:38 ↗ really

1:12:39 ↗ just

1:12:40 ↗ looking back this evening talking about

1:12:42 ↗ these things thinking how much has

1:12:43 ↗ happened in the last

1:12:44 ↗ two years in this commission and i just

1:12:47 ↗ really

1:12:48 ↗ recognize all of you and

1:12:51 ↗ especially monica and hannah and all the

1:12:53 ↗ work that you've done so thank you

1:12:57 ↗ thank you so much claire all right well

1:12:59 ↗ those are the three goodbyes so i want

1:13:00 ↗ to definitely give some space and room

1:13:02 ↗ for for many others to to share and

1:13:05 ↗ speak

1:13:07 ↗ i just wanted to thank claire and uh

1:13:10 ↗ lucrecia

1:13:11 ↗ and all of you but it's because of the

1:13:14 ↗ because of the two of you now leaving um

1:13:17 ↗ along with myself i i think your impact

1:13:20 ↗ on

1:13:21 ↗ what this commission is and the the

1:13:26 ↗ um

1:13:27 ↗ the the tasks that we are going to be um

1:13:31 ↗ carrying out as a commission are just

1:13:33 ↗ uh

1:13:34 ↗ incredible and and i just you know i

1:13:37 ↗ think back to the influence that you've

1:13:39 ↗ had the guidance that you've provided

1:13:41 ↗ and

1:13:42 ↗ i just want to let you know that your

1:13:44 ↗ your contributions will live on

1:13:46 ↗ it's it's really going to be so helpful

1:13:48 ↗ in in

1:13:50 ↗ um keeping this this commission moving

1:13:53 ↗ forward in the right direction and i

1:13:55 ↗ know you won't be going far you you'll

1:13:57 ↗ be um you know obviously continuing to

1:14:00 ↗ be

1:14:00 ↗ um part of the city and and i think that

1:14:03 ↗ you should just be very um proud of your

1:14:06 ↗ of your contributions and i just want to

1:14:08 ↗ thank you personally for all of your

1:14:10 ↗ dedication

1:14:17 ↗ thank you and i know monica you wanna

1:14:19 ↗ yeah please anybody

1:14:21 ↗ can i say something um yes

1:14:24 ↗ i just wanna thank especially um monica

1:14:28 ↗ lucrecia and manny

1:14:30 ↗ i think we've had some really special

1:14:32 ↗ experiences

1:14:33 ↗ and i just feel lucky to have been part

1:14:35 ↗ of that and it has deeply affected me

1:14:39 ↗ and i'm really appreciative

1:14:41 ↗ for being pulled into that and being

1:14:44 ↗ given a seat there

1:14:46 ↗ so i just want to thank you especially

1:14:49 ↗ thank you and that's exactly what i was

1:14:51 ↗ gonna um um call out a little bit i was

1:14:54 ↗ gonna mention that claire believe it if

1:14:57 ↗ or not it's been less than two years

1:15:00 ↗ uh because as new commissioners you

1:15:03 ↗ started at a mid-year in september um

1:15:07 ↗ so many many many things have happened

1:15:10 ↗ since you joined and you made such a big

1:15:12 ↗ difference i have fond memories

1:15:16 ↗ from our color-coded preparation for

1:15:19 ↗ council meeting

1:15:21 ↗ if you recall as we were preparing for

1:15:25 ↗ for the council presentation on

1:15:28 ↗ proposing uh to cancel the creation of

1:15:30 ↗ the equity board

1:15:33 ↗ and so i can't

1:15:35 ↗ believe that in less than two years we

1:15:37 ↗ had so many great

1:15:38 ↗ community conversations uh

1:15:41 ↗ those um

1:15:44 ↗ this is just so much happened while

1:15:46 ↗ responding to covet it's almost like a

1:15:49 ↗ blur

1:15:50 ↗ and you've been part of this and we made

1:15:52 ↗ it happen and we have a successful

1:15:55 ↗ equity board that i'm so so proud of

1:15:58 ↗ they've been in in

1:16:00 ↗ an action for four months they're still

1:16:02 ↗ learning to work with one another and

1:16:05 ↗ they already

1:16:06 ↗ proposed and went through two

1:16:09 ↗ proposals to city council

1:16:11 ↗ um and so

1:16:13 ↗ they are go getters and they make it

1:16:16 ↗ happen and i'm just so so proud of them

1:16:18 ↗ and humbled to work with them and i just

1:16:22 ↗ look forward to see where they go so

1:16:24 ↗ thank you for that you made a huge huge

1:16:26 ↗ impact

1:16:26 ↗ really long lasting impact in this

1:16:28 ↗ community

1:16:29 ↗ and and susan i i remember you've been

1:16:32 ↗ on this commission before i started with

1:16:34 ↗ the city and i've been out with the city

1:16:36 ↗ for about three and a half years

1:16:38 ↗ i have beautiful memories from the times

1:16:40 ↗ when we were meeting in person virtual

1:16:43 ↗ meetings were not defined we had no idea

1:16:45 ↗ what those were

1:16:46 ↗ we were in in the

1:16:49 ↗ um

1:16:50 ↗ in the room downstairs that i can't even

1:16:52 ↗ remember the name of it now which now is

1:16:54 ↗ no longer a meeting room it's actually

1:16:57 ↗ it's uh it's the city's permitting

1:16:59 ↗ center believe it or not

1:17:02 ↗ there's at the main city hall then we

1:17:04 ↗ moved to city hall northwest in the

1:17:06 ↗ pickering room i remember the times when

1:17:08 ↗ we had packets so the agenda packet

1:17:11 ↗ that's now online commissioners used to

1:17:13 ↗ be printed out for every commissioners

1:17:16 ↗ you would have your 20 page 30 page

1:17:18 ↗ packet

1:17:19 ↗ with agenda

1:17:21 ↗ just i can't believe so

1:17:23 ↗ many beautiful memories with all of you

1:17:25 ↗ and so much um change

1:17:28 ↗ in in less than two years really so

1:17:30 ↗ thank you thank you thank you for all

1:17:32 ↗ your time long evenings

1:17:35 ↗ extra meetings

1:17:37 ↗ i don't want to scare commissioners with

1:17:39 ↗ extra meetings because those happen

1:17:41 ↗ during the funding process

1:17:44 ↗ so thank you

1:17:46 ↗ so honored to have a chance to work with

1:17:48 ↗ all of you

1:17:49 ↗ yeah this is commissioner manny brown um

1:17:53 ↗ first of all um susan

1:17:55 ↗ thank you so much for your leadership

1:17:57 ↗ um

1:17:58 ↗ it's been amazing

1:18:00 ↗ and you're a tenure that you've brought

1:18:02 ↗ so much experience

1:18:04 ↗ to this group i i just can't even

1:18:08 ↗ comprehend

1:18:09 ↗ being here without without you being

1:18:11 ↗ there so thank you so much

1:18:13 ↗ thank you

1:18:14 ↗ and my uh

1:18:16 ↗ my other two quads uh claire

1:18:19 ↗ and lacrecia we've uh

1:18:21 ↗ we've gone through a lot and um

1:18:24 ↗ you guys really helped

1:18:26 ↗ make this uh some place i wanted to be

1:18:29 ↗ so thank you so much

1:18:35 ↗ uh i'll echo everything that's been said

1:18:38 ↗ so far just to say i really truly miss

1:18:40 ↗ you you've been very inspiring

1:18:43 ↗ and i

1:18:44 ↗ i wish we could go out for you know

1:18:47 ↗ just to see each other i've not seen

1:18:49 ↗ each one any one of you in person

1:18:52 ↗ would be good to maybe one of these days

1:18:55 ↗ you know

1:18:56 ↗ have a coffee or

1:18:58 ↗ you know

1:18:59 ↗ but thank you thanks for inspiring and

1:19:01 ↗ all your hard work and

1:19:04 ↗ being so thoughtful thank you

1:19:07 ↗ and i would also like to add that uh

1:19:10 ↗ sarah and jaime you uh

1:19:13 ↗ step up now

1:19:16 ↗ i'm getting a little nervous now i

1:19:17 ↗ didn't realize that folks were kind of

1:19:19 ↗ moving on you know so

1:19:21 ↗ that's part of the journey i think it's

1:19:23 ↗ always uh

1:19:24 ↗ i often say you know you pass the baton

1:19:26 ↗ you pass the baton for

1:19:28 ↗ for improvement so i appreciate you all

1:19:31 ↗ as as i kind of get to do this more and

1:19:33 ↗ more i'm gonna realize some of the hard

1:19:35 ↗ work you all put in

1:19:36 ↗ and realize like wow they all did

1:19:38 ↗ it so

1:19:39 ↗ i appreciate it you know i i hope to

1:19:41 ↗ keep continuing passing the baton for a

1:19:43 ↗ better world a better place and

1:19:46 ↗ especially for the people that we serve

1:19:48 ↗ so um it's something i don't take

1:19:49 ↗ lightly

1:19:50 ↗ so i appreciate all putting

1:19:52 ↗ stewards of tax million dollars back to

1:19:54 ↗ historically marginalized populations

1:19:56 ↗ it's a very important role and

1:19:58 ↗ um i will do my best so i want to say

1:20:01 ↗ thank you all for um

1:20:03 ↗ you know sharing space uh tonight so

1:20:06 ↗ thank you

1:20:09 ↗ yes and i think i saw claire once at the

1:20:12 ↗ grocery store when i was leaving and

1:20:13 ↗ that's about as close as i can

1:20:15 ↗ i was like gonna start shouting anyway

1:20:17 ↗ it was a while ago um but if i ever see

1:20:20 ↗ you again i'll shout and shut you down

1:20:22 ↗ because you guys have been just um so

1:20:24 ↗ welcoming over

1:20:25 ↗ virtually i mean so i can't even imagine

1:20:28 ↗ what uh those years ago that you weren't

1:20:31 ↗ mentioning monica but

1:20:33 ↗ thank you for for being so welcoming and

1:20:36 ↗ getting us up to speed and making it

1:20:38 ↗ look easy so

1:20:42 ↗ i guess keep us in your thoughts as we

1:20:44 ↗ move forward and looking forward to

1:20:46 ↗ staying in touch and and seeing what

1:20:48 ↗ else is in store for you guys as isoqua

1:20:50 ↗ just continues to grow thank you thank

1:20:53 ↗ you so much

1:20:58 ↗ i wanted to say one last thing you know

1:20:59 ↗ i just want to say susan i've only been

1:21:01 ↗ in this commission for two years but i

1:21:04 ↗ just have to say what an awesome job

1:21:06 ↗ you've done leading leading us this year

1:21:08 ↗ um

1:21:10 ↗ i mean derek was not easy to

1:21:12 ↗ to follow you know he was did you could

1:21:14 ↗ you tell how terrified i was for about

1:21:17 ↗ half the year

1:21:18 ↗ no

1:21:19 ↗ incredible

1:21:20 ↗ shoes to fill but yeah i just thank you

1:21:25 ↗ you're just so prepared at every meeting

1:21:27 ↗ and i find it really centering in our

1:21:30 ↗ conversations because i know that you've

1:21:33 ↗ you've got

1:21:34 ↗ a really thorough grasp of the issue and

1:21:37 ↗ you've just you've guided us in this

1:21:38 ↗ really intentional way and i really

1:21:40 ↗ appreciate that so i just want to

1:21:42 ↗ say what a pleasure it's been this year

1:21:45 ↗ to be here with you as our leader so

1:21:47 ↗ thank you

1:21:48 ↗ thank you

1:21:50 ↗ appreciate that

1:21:51 ↗ thank you and i'm gonna go ahead and

1:21:52 ↗ unmute here trish um trish wants to say

1:21:55 ↗ a few words

1:21:57 ↗ she should be on youtube

1:21:59 ↗ yeah well you know i don't know if i'm

1:22:00 ↗ bringing up the caboose but um you know

1:22:03 ↗ i really plus one plus one plus one plus

1:22:06 ↗ one to everything everybody has said and

1:22:08 ↗ susan your your leadership has just been

1:22:10 ↗ outstanding and yes i would have been

1:22:13 ↗ nervous too if i had to follow derek but

1:22:16 ↗ i i couldn't tell at all that you were

1:22:18 ↗ nervous i thought you just were

1:22:20 ↗ as smooth as could be and you were just

1:22:23 ↗ a great um bridge from you know

1:22:26 ↗ from him is the chair to you and uh

1:22:29 ↗ yeah and we've really accomplished a lot

1:22:32 ↗ while you guys have been here and in

1:22:34 ↗ fact i'm thinking now is there any way

1:22:36 ↗ we can twist these guys arms to you know

1:22:38 ↗ to reconsider their decisions

1:22:41 ↗ but

1:22:42 ↗ you know everybody needs to do what they

1:22:44 ↗ got to do so thank you all very much

1:22:50 ↗ thank you all and i think that's the

1:22:52 ↗ challenge and the bittersweet i think

1:22:54 ↗ susan you put it so well definitely like

1:22:56 ↗ gosh your leadership and your excellence

1:22:59 ↗ and organization

1:23:00 ↗ um and then at the same time we are

1:23:02 ↗ selfish and we would love to have you

1:23:04 ↗ and we do need to though um

1:23:07 ↗ acknowledge that these are volunteer

1:23:09 ↗ positions and

1:23:10 ↗ all of you i know have professional and

1:23:12 ↗ personal lives that require

1:23:14 ↗ um so much more of you and and it's only

1:23:17 ↗ fair you know to to allow you to do that

1:23:20 ↗ um and uh definitely we would hope that

1:23:23 ↗ we will have you back as an attendee

1:23:25 ↗ like you said susan or maybe yes

1:23:28 ↗ would be so wonderful to go out and

1:23:31 ↗ have a small celebration in person as

1:23:34 ↗ the weather gets better i know that you

1:23:36 ↗ all got together last fall and why not

1:23:39 ↗ have that again right

1:23:42 ↗ that's a great idea and

1:23:44 ↗ and always making room for new voices i

1:23:46 ↗ mean that that is one of the

1:23:48 ↗ the nicer consequences of turnover is

1:23:51 ↗ you get new folks with new points of

1:23:54 ↗ view and and i think that keeps us

1:23:56 ↗ learning from each other and um

1:23:59 ↗ and so i i know we've got some great

1:24:02 ↗ interviews already set up and i i'm sure

1:24:05 ↗ we'll we'll be um

1:24:06 ↗ you know very pleased with the

1:24:08 ↗ with the additional um folks who'd like

1:24:11 ↗ to to play a role in these important

1:24:13 ↗ discussions and decisions so the nice

1:24:15 ↗ thing is we all just get to meet each

1:24:17 ↗ other along the way and then we end up

1:24:19 ↗ building a big alumni community

1:24:21 ↗ yes

1:24:22 ↗ another wonderful way to have you thank

1:24:24 ↗ you again susan even for that to have

1:24:26 ↗ you part of the interview process of the

1:24:29 ↗ incoming commissioners

1:24:31 ↗ um as you know you you can lead your

1:24:33 ↗ experience in

1:24:35 ↗ um in

1:24:37 ↗ in the recruitment process so i think

1:24:39 ↗ that that's that's we are so grateful

1:24:41 ↗ for that and with that one my last

1:24:44 ↗ comment from you commissioners i hope

1:24:46 ↗ it's not gonna be feel shocking but i

1:24:48 ↗ think just prepare yourself emotionally

1:24:50 ↗ that i think at the next meeting in may

1:24:53 ↗ as we come together

1:24:54 ↗ you will have three new faces to meet

1:24:58 ↗ and greet

1:24:59 ↗ uh you're also gonna have the task of um

1:25:02 ↗ um

1:25:02 ↗ [Music]

1:25:04 ↗ um

1:25:05 ↗ voting for your new chair a new vice

1:25:08 ↗ chair for next year

1:25:10 ↗ so quite a few uh

1:25:12 ↗ tasks to accomplish right away as we are

1:25:15 ↗ also gonna hit you with this is how many

1:25:17 ↗ applications we have to review

1:25:20 ↗ and let's get started

1:25:22 ↗ so uh just giving you that worm just be

1:25:25 ↗ ready

1:25:26 ↗ uh for what's coming in may

1:25:29 ↗ um so with that start thinking um of

1:25:33 ↗ how would you you know

1:25:35 ↗ if you're interested in maybe stepping

1:25:37 ↗ up as uh in the chair position or if

1:25:40 ↗ you're thinking of

1:25:42 ↗ um

1:25:43 ↗ recommending someone for the chair

1:25:45 ↗ advice to your position i know we have

1:25:47 ↗ pat she did an amazing job in the vice

1:25:50 ↗ chair position we would love to continue

1:25:52 ↗ hearing from her and her preference and

1:25:54 ↗ all of you so a lot coming up but

1:25:56 ↗ exciting and yeah

1:26:00 ↗ so thank you

1:26:06 ↗ all right well thank you all and um

1:26:08 ↗ hannah anything else that you

1:26:10 ↗ had

1:26:12 ↗ i think that concludes the um

1:26:15 ↗ other business and announcements so i'll

1:26:17 ↗ give it to you susan

1:26:19 ↗ okay so

1:26:20 ↗ exactly on time we

1:26:23 ↗ we will go ahead and adjourn the march

1:26:25 ↗ 16 2022 meeting of the issaquah human

1:26:28 ↗ services commission

1:26:30 ↗ at

1:26:31 ↗ 7 59 p.m

1:26:33 ↗ thank you all

1:26:36 ↗ thank you one minute early one minute

1:26:38 ↗ early

1:26:40 ↗ thank you thank you everyone have a

1:26:42 ↗ great evening

1:26:43 ↗ take care

1:26:44 ↗ take good care

1:26:46 ↗ oh

1:26:47 ↗ have a good night

1:26:50 ↗ oh i'm so sad

1:26:53 ↗ are you guys stuck do you want me to

1:26:54 ↗ just end the meeting

1:26:56 ↗ i'll end the meeting how about

1:26:59 ↗ bye good night

1:27:06 ↗ oh you know what hold on

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