Human Services Commission · Thursday, September 15, 2022 · City Council Digest

3. SPECIAL BUSINESS

2023-2024 Human Services Grants - Process Review & Feedback [30 MIN]

Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager

Topics: BudgetEquity

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4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of August 17, 2022 meeting

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Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 08-17-22 Human Services Commission Minutes Page 1 CITY OF ISSAQUAH Human Services Commission 6:30 PM Virtual Meeting August 17, 2022 MINUTES

5. STAFF REPORT

Updates from Mayor & City Council

Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager

Other Human Services Updates

Hannah Roberts, Human Services Coordinator

Topics: Equity

6. AGENDA ITEMS

Year to Date Review & 2023 Work Plan Development

Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager

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0:03 ↗ [Laughter]

0:10 ↗ okay so um we are starting the meeting

0:14 ↗ and um

0:15 ↗ i want to do the call order

0:17 ↗ i'm calling a meeting order today

0:19 ↗ september 10. um welcome all of us to

0:23 ↗ our first in-person meeting

0:25 ↗ as um

0:26 ↗ of the human services commission i mean

0:28 ↗ how many years has it been

0:32 ↗ oh

0:32 ↗ two oh a little bit oh how many have

0:34 ↗ since been first years three months

0:38 ↗ yeah well and i think we all are new

0:41 ↗ since

0:42 ↗ yeah that coving

0:43 ↗ true yes right so we didn't have a

0:45 ↗ formal in person meaning in this format

0:48 ↗ wow

0:49 ↗ right and in fact we're all gonna have

0:51 ↗ to probably go around and shake hands

0:54 ↗ [Music]

0:55 ↗ okay um for all meeting attendees please

0:58 ↗ speak clearly and pause frequently

1:01 ↗ because we it is hard hybrid so we do

1:03 ↗ have people that are um coming in you

1:05 ↗ know virtually

1:06 ↗ state your name each time before

1:08 ↗ speaking

1:10 ↗ um mute your microphone if you're using

1:12 ↗ your mic

1:13 ↗ um i don't think that really applies

1:15 ↗ anymore now um okay how are we doing

1:18 ↗ with attendance hannah

1:21 ↗ um we do have quorum um we are missing

1:23 ↗ uh

1:24 ↗ patricia with um an excuse absence and

1:28 ↗ then kieran and jaime may show up a

1:30 ↗ little bit later

1:35 ↗ okay cool and first of all i want to

1:38 ↗ welcome your colleagues

1:40 ↗ [Laughter]

1:43 ↗ thank you thank you mr paulie for

1:45 ↗ attending yes

1:47 ↗ and

1:48 ↗ yeah and tisha

1:50 ↗ yeah

1:51 ↗ okay um

1:52 ↗ all right and um do we have anybody

1:54 ↗ that's going to be giving public health

1:56 ↗ we do we have jennifer coons in

1:59 ↗ attendance

2:00 ↗ okay so i'm going to provide the

2:02 ↗ guidelines for public comment

2:04 ↗ public comments are an important part of

2:06 ↗ the public process

2:08 ↗ we take them seriously and factor them

2:10 ↗ into the decisions we make

2:12 ↗ for the members of the public joining us

2:14 ↗ welcome

2:15 ↗ if there was if there is anyone in the

2:18 ↗ meeting room i think there is right

2:21 ↗ [Music]

2:25 ↗ uh

2:26 ↗ let me see if you have joined by

2:28 ↗ computer or smartphone look for the hand

2:31 ↗ icon this varies by device i'm not sure

2:33 ↗ if these instructions are relevant

2:35 ↗ anymore um we'll find you

2:38 ↗ we'll find you

2:40 ↗ um

2:42 ↗ okay uh

2:44 ↗ when recognized unmute your microphone

2:47 ↗ state your name address and relationship

2:49 ↗ to the city

2:51 ↗ speak clearly and pause frequently

2:54 ↗ please limit the comments to five

2:55 ↗ minutes

2:57 ↗ and mute your microphone when needed

3:00 ↗ okay

3:01 ↗ i think

3:02 ↗ you can introduce our first speaker

3:04 ↗ yeah

3:07 ↗ so jennifer welcome we hear you have a

3:09 ↗ public comment this is the time to make

3:12 ↗ your public comment

3:14 ↗ welcome

3:16 ↗ thank you can you guys hear me

3:18 ↗ can you guys hear me okay awesome um how

3:22 ↗ long is paul

3:23 ↗ i think my phone is about three minutes

3:26 ↗ yes typically no more than five minutes

3:28 ↗ so yes thank you you're

3:29 ↗ okay good we're good uh my address is

3:32 ↗ two two eight four five south east first

3:36 ↗ place

3:37 ↗ apartment 405

3:39 ↗ semantics washington

3:41 ↗ uh 98074

3:44 ↗ and i am an executive director of a

3:46 ↗ non-profit so i'm getting ready to speak

3:51 ↗ so if you're ready i'm ready

3:53 ↗ [Music]

3:54 ↗ all right

3:56 ↗ um well thank you thank you all for the

3:58 ↗ opportunity to make a public comment

4:00 ↗ today my name is jennifer coons and i am

4:02 ↗ the executive director of the samamish

4:04 ↗ based 501 c 3 non-profit essence health

4:07 ↗ and research foundation which is also

4:09 ↗ known as ehr in project thrive through

4:13 ↗ its program services

4:14 ↗ i'm here to talk to you about human

4:16 ↗ services grant funding which i think is

4:18 ↗ on your agenda for tonight so i think

4:19 ↗ you're trying to finalize that funding

4:22 ↗ essence health and research was left out

4:24 ↗ of this funding cycle and missed the

4:26 ↗ last funding cycle by one month two

4:28 ↗ years ago due to getting 501

4:31 ↗ status one month after applications were

4:33 ↗ due

4:34 ↗ so if ehr misses out again it's two

4:37 ↗ funding cycles of waiting for critical

4:40 ↗ and needed funding i'm here to highly

4:42 ↗ encourage you to reconsider putting

4:44 ↗ essence health and research back into

4:46 ↗ the funding even at a minimum level

4:48 ↗ because many of the services provided by

4:50 ↗ ehr have gone to issaquah residents

4:53 ↗ also this is critical funding for small

4:55 ↗ non-profits and we can't be left out due

4:58 ↗ to giving so much of the money to uh to

5:00 ↗ larger nonprofits who can raise money

5:02 ↗ elsewhere

5:03 ↗ it's critical that this funding reach

5:05 ↗ small non-profits like essence health

5:07 ↗ and research being able to begin that

5:09 ↗ formal relationship with issaquah is

5:11 ↗ important at this time

5:14 ↗ my biggest concern is small non-profit

5:17 ↗ included at this critical time

5:19 ↗ in our culture when inclusion is the

5:21 ↗ highest priority

5:23 ↗ i have also heard that

5:24 ↗ essence health and research was left out

5:26 ↗ of funding possibly by mistake because

5:29 ↗ it's believed that this non-profit is

5:31 ↗ similar to issaquah food bank

5:33 ↗ first that's incorrect and so i just

5:35 ↗ want to correct that because essence

5:36 ↗ health and research and issaquah food

5:38 ↗ bank are in two totally different

5:40 ↗ categories on the funding cycle and

5:42 ↗ provide different services

5:44 ↗ ehr is a medical clinic issaquah food

5:46 ↗ bank is a basic food and clothing bank

5:49 ↗ second the commission has recommended

5:51 ↗ funding for at least two other

5:52 ↗ nonprofits similar to issaquah food bank

5:55 ↗ at very high funding amounts while

5:56 ↗ skipping over a medical clinic like

5:58 ↗ essence health and research that serves

6:00 ↗ residents with medical conditions and

6:02 ↗ i've been serving people with post

6:04 ↗ carbon 19 autoimmune conditions a ton of

6:07 ↗ things

6:08 ↗ and also people with

6:09 ↗ financial need with emergency

6:12 ↗ prices kits

6:13 ↗ and this clinic serves all residents

6:15 ↗ including those with a variety of

6:17 ↗ cultural backgrounds and needs so this

6:19 ↗ is the perfect time to give funding to

6:21 ↗ essence health and research

6:23 ↗ but you haven't funded a medical clinic

6:26 ↗ like this yet in your funding cycle most

6:28 ↗ of your funding has focused on mental

6:30 ↗ health

6:30 ↗ my question is to get essence health and

6:32 ↗ research in the funding recommendations

6:34 ↗ here at the commission level before it

6:36 ↗ goes to the recommendation before the

6:38 ↗ recommendations go to the city council

6:40 ↗ where i would need to work for weeks to

6:42 ↗ get the council to override your

6:44 ↗ recommendations based on inclusion and

6:46 ↗ ensuring that small and lower nonprofits

6:49 ↗ are lower income nonprofits are not

6:50 ↗ looked over or pressed by in favor of

6:53 ↗ larger nonprofits so i would be more in

6:55 ↗ favor of getting you guys to reconsider

6:58 ↗ here so i don't have to feel like i'm

6:59 ↗ stepping on toes to get that change

7:02 ↗ ehr needs a way in the door

7:05 ↗ so before you finalize these

7:06 ↗ recommendations please communicate with

7:08 ↗ me i would love to talk with you more so

7:10 ↗ we can work together and collaborate to

7:12 ↗ get funding for essence health and

7:13 ↗ research reconsidered in this funding

7:15 ↗ cycle versus waiting two more years

7:17 ↗ thanks so much for your consideration

7:19 ↗ thank you

7:21 ↗ thank you jennifer

7:26 ↗ um okay we can move right into special

7:28 ↗ business right

7:31 ↗ yes

7:34 ↗ okay and that's you

7:40 ↗ so for special business tonight uh we

7:42 ↗ have mayor paulie with us

7:44 ↗ and to provide feedback and input from

7:47 ↗ you commissioners on the process for the

7:49 ↗ human services grants recommendations we

7:52 ↗ successfully made those recommendations

7:54 ↗ at our last meeting

7:56 ↗ mayor paulie had a chance to

7:58 ↗ um see those recommendations and mayor i

8:01 ↗ was so excited to meet with all of you

8:03 ↗ and have an opportunity to thank you and

8:06 ↗ um

8:07 ↗ get some feedback from all of you so

8:09 ↗ thank you

8:15 ↗ um thank you very much monica and thank

8:18 ↗ you very much to the human services uh

8:20 ↗ commission for allowing me to come

8:22 ↗ tonight and take up a valuable half hour

8:24 ↗ of your time that you donate to this

8:26 ↗ community there's a misconception out

8:28 ↗ there that you're all paid professionals

8:30 ↗ but let's get it on the record you are

8:32 ↗ compassionate interested

8:34 ↗ and hard working volunteers and i

8:37 ↗ appreciate everything that you do

8:39 ↗ um i wanted to come and check in with

8:41 ↗ all the boards and commissions

8:43 ↗ and really close the loop on feedback on

8:46 ↗ some of the processes that we have

8:47 ↗ originally i thought we might just be

8:49 ↗ able to do this you know over a a food

8:52 ↗ party outside of your meeting but it

8:54 ↗ seems to make more sense to have it at

8:56 ↗ your meeting and allow those members of

8:57 ↗ the community to listen to it as well

9:00 ↗ um i never served on the human services

9:02 ↗ commission so i've had lots of volunteer

9:04 ↗ roles in the city but not on the human

9:06 ↗ services commission this particular

9:08 ↗ group has

9:11 ↗ developed some council members you know

9:13 ↗ council this is the place where future

9:15 ↗ council members can come from and i find

9:17 ↗ that really exciting that's where i've

9:19 ↗ learned a lot about the work that you do

9:21 ↗ through those council members who first

9:23 ↗ started out as a volunteer here

9:25 ↗ i've been working these last few years

9:26 ↗ with monica and her team who are

9:28 ↗ absolutely amazing i cannot say that

9:30 ↗ enough absolutely amazing um

9:33 ↗ there has been an increased focus on

9:36 ↗ human services and what we do within the

9:38 ↗ city

9:40 ↗ monica has really

9:42 ↗ helped me with a message of compassion

9:45 ↗ and accountability that we are trying to

9:48 ↗ find people that are in need and they're

9:51 ↗ trying to help and that we are trying to

9:53 ↗ support the non-profit community within

9:57 ↗ this region that services of our

9:59 ↗ residents by following the strategic

10:01 ↗ plan that you develop and thank you very

10:03 ↗ much for that i always believe

10:05 ↗ it takes time out of your volunteer work

10:07 ↗ to work on a strategic plan but it's

10:09 ↗ such a guiding light once we have it and

10:12 ↗ also monica has

10:14 ↗ really

10:15 ↗ helped me understand

10:16 ↗ the reworking of the process that went

10:18 ↗ on which was

10:20 ↗ you know

10:21 ↗ we

10:22 ↗ my understanding when i was on council

10:24 ↗ is we would talk and understand what

10:26 ↗ non-profits did

10:28 ↗ but

10:29 ↗ i want the city to move towards a people

10:31 ↗ first approach which is how do we

10:33 ↗ measure the impact an individual has no

10:35 ↗ matter if they touch one or six services

10:38 ↗ and so this people first approach is

10:40 ↗ about

10:41 ↗ measuring impact

10:43 ↗ and measuring outcomes and the dashboard

10:45 ↗ just for

10:47 ↗ the pilot project work that we're doing

10:50 ↗ with outreach for those individuals that

10:52 ↗ are homeless is fantastic i can see

10:55 ↗ all the work that monica's team is doing

10:57 ↗ i can see how many people they connected

10:59 ↗ to services how many people got into a

11:01 ↗ shelter temporary housing a permanent

11:03 ↗ housing

11:04 ↗ i don't know any other jurisdiction that

11:06 ↗ does this

11:07 ↗ and this is how you find out the

11:09 ↗ investments that you are making the time

11:11 ↗ that you are all taking to do this work

11:14 ↗ is making a difference and you can see

11:16 ↗ it in the dashboard there's lots of work

11:18 ↗ to do still of course we would like to

11:20 ↗ see

11:21 ↗ more people moving into permanent

11:23 ↗ housing more people having an easier

11:25 ↗ time accessing all of the services they

11:26 ↗ need but this people-first approach is

11:29 ↗ the philosophy that monica has just

11:31 ↗ developed and helped me to understand

11:33 ↗ why it's so important to have the

11:35 ↗ strategic plan and to have you focus and

11:37 ↗ do your work

11:38 ↗ and for tonight what i'm hoping is i

11:41 ↗ know it's a two-year process for you and

11:43 ↗ i know some of you are very new and

11:45 ↗ others have been here for a few years

11:47 ↗ but i'd love to just have an open

11:49 ↗ conversation about your work

11:52 ↗ um thoughts and suggestions that you

11:54 ↗ have

11:55 ↗ or just comments on the process that you

11:57 ↗ went through which i guess was a virtual

11:59 ↗ process this time which for some of you

12:01 ↗ might have felt very different than the

12:02 ↗ first time that you did it so it's

12:04 ↗ really your time just to have open

12:07 ↗ conversation about the work that you do

12:09 ↗ why you do it how you do it what you

12:11 ↗ would like to do differently mr monica

12:13 ↗ thank you for letting me set us up for

12:16 ↗ this thank you again mayor for being

12:18 ↗ here and for the lovely pizza and i

12:21 ↗ still love when

12:22 ↗ initially commissioners as you may

12:24 ↗ remember the last meeting we said you

12:26 ↗ know next we would love to um meet with

12:28 ↗ mayor paulie and perhaps we can have one

12:30 ↗ two representatives and i remember that

12:32 ↗ actually all of you were so excited to

12:34 ↗ meet with me

12:36 ↗ and so i so loved when we met with mayor

12:38 ↗ the different meeting and mayor said you

12:40 ↗ know monica without me even mentioning

12:42 ↗ this mine i would really love to come

12:44 ↗ let me come to the commission and meet

12:46 ↗ with everyone so

12:47 ↗ so grateful

12:48 ↗ and then with that commissioners i

12:50 ↗ actually prepared a small um

12:52 ↗ cheat sheet if you

12:54 ↗ wish i'm gonna just share it on the

12:56 ↗ screen so you're gonna be able to see

12:58 ↗ just to help you provide the input like

13:00 ↗ kind of like not guidance for sure i

13:02 ↗ know it's small but i was thinking we

13:04 ↗ can take notes and we put some

13:06 ↗ categories right like

13:08 ↗ we would love to hear what worked well

13:10 ↗ in this process and i'm sure mayor would

13:11 ↗ love to hear that as well and then what

13:13 ↗ suggestions and the ideas you have for

13:15 ↗ improvement i think it would be so

13:16 ↗ valuable for us to take notes now before

13:19 ↗ still while it's fresh for the next

13:21 ↗ funding cycle

13:23 ↗ um and so with that you can start from

13:25 ↗ as early as the equity training that you

13:27 ↗ did mayor you may or may not know in

13:30 ↗ addition to the city's equity training

13:31 ↗ that um most of our commissioners did so

13:34 ↗ far

13:34 ↗ we also did right before the application

13:37 ↗ cycle an equity training focused on

13:39 ↗ funding um

13:42 ↗ specifically on funding so that was

13:44 ↗ great

13:45 ↗ would love to hear input on that um he

13:47 ↗ also met a little bit with other east

13:49 ↗ human services commissioners during

13:52 ↗ those trainings um and then other input

13:55 ↗ on how was the entire process for you

13:57 ↗ the small group

13:59 ↗ work that we did over the summer

14:01 ↗ um

14:03 ↗ the larger commission meanings um the

14:06 ↗ number of applications that you reviewed

14:08 ↗ how is that for you too much not enough

14:11 ↗ um

14:12 ↗ how was the score cards

14:15 ↗ model with mayor we had this model of

14:18 ↗ three colors green red and yellow for

14:21 ↗ initial review and discussion how was

14:24 ↗ the

14:25 ↗ share one app if any of you use the

14:27 ↗ share one app to log in or if you use

14:29 ↗ the pdfs to review

14:31 ↗ so all of that any any other information

14:33 ↗ communication with us anything that

14:35 ↗ comes to mind the timeline you would

14:37 ↗ love to hear so and monica before

14:39 ↗ research hannah are you doing the notes

14:40 ↗ on the

14:42 ↗ process review i think it's on monica

14:44 ↗ something like that that's okay i just

14:45 ↗ wanted to make sure mark we introduced

14:47 ↗ your intern as well tonight who's doing

14:48 ↗ this for the meeting because we do have

14:50 ↗ one guest in the room would you like to

14:52 ↗ introduce her

14:53 ↗ absolutely please yeah

14:56 ↗ elena

14:57 ↗ this is elena pan um she was at our

14:59 ↗ commission meeting virtually last

15:02 ↗ month but i don't think we had an

15:04 ↗ official introduction so elena here um

15:06 ↗ do you want i i don't want to take your

15:08 ↗ speech you want to introduce yourself

15:16 ↗ and i've been just recently getting

15:19 ↗ involved in this the human services

15:20 ↗ commission and it's been great to see

15:22 ↗ the process and it's been really

15:24 ↗ valuable to see how much of an impact

15:27 ↗ all of you have on this and it's been

15:28 ↗ just amazing because

15:30 ↗ i've been able to learn so much from all

15:32 ↗ of you i think

15:34 ↗ thank you oh thank you

15:37 ↗ i mean do we want to just go around

15:38 ↗ quickly and introduce because um there

15:41 ↗ are paula doesn't know everybody's names

15:43 ↗ here

15:44 ↗ okay i'll start

15:46 ↗ i'm trish floor but i do know trish

15:51 ↗ i'm jamie longoria um i just joined i

15:53 ↗ think in may

15:54 ↗ whenever some of these other guys joined

15:56 ↗ but um i'm also on the board of imagine

15:59 ↗ housing

16:00 ↗ and

16:01 ↗ yes and some other um

16:03 ↗ non-profits as well so this has been a

16:05 ↗ really great experience for me to put my

16:08 ↗ my

16:09 ↗ input on a different perspective of the

16:11 ↗ human services stuff so it's been um

16:14 ↗ really awesome

16:16 ↗ i think

16:17 ↗ the equity the diversity and equity

16:19 ↗ training that we started out with was

16:21 ↗ amazing a lot of us have had that

16:22 ↗ training and we have it every couple of

16:24 ↗ years but it's good to refresh

16:26 ↗ and then the additional training that we

16:28 ↗ did that focused just on funding the

16:31 ↗ equity part of things that really helped

16:33 ↗ put things into perspective when we

16:35 ↗ started to actually look at the grants

16:37 ↗ um because we looked at it through that

16:39 ↗ equity lens and that's what made me feel

16:42 ↗ comfortable making the decisions that i

16:43 ↗ made and so i felt really confident in

16:46 ↗ the decisions that i made and um

16:48 ↗ felt that i was being very fair and

16:50 ↗ equitable and and doing what was best

16:52 ↗ for the people of our city wow and thank

16:55 ↗ you for working for imagine housing i

16:57 ↗ have been associated with that group for

16:58 ↗ over 15 years i love the work yeah it's

17:01 ↗ been it's an awesome

17:02 ↗ cosplay

17:10 ↗ yeah he's awesome yes he is wow nice to

17:13 ↗ meet you thank you

17:15 ↗ maury edwards we met

17:19 ↗ [Music]

17:22 ↗ the reason that i came here was

17:25 ↗ to uh as an expression of my faith

17:27 ↗ and to try to

17:29 ↗ um

17:32 ↗ dismantle oppression and build equity in

17:34 ↗ my local community

17:36 ↗ and uh and i came in with those very

17:39 ↗ thoughts i mean that's how i talked to

17:41 ↗ hannah and monica and

17:44 ↗ i'm so thankful that i got to be part of

17:46 ↗ this

17:46 ↗ uh the training that we did was

17:48 ↗ excellent

17:49 ↗ we did a couple of sessions in the

17:51 ↗ beginning and then we've just done

17:52 ↗ another one here that was really good um

17:57 ↗ and i

17:58 ↗ i do a lot of other work in other areas

18:00 ↗ and i use some of the stuff from those

18:03 ↗ trainings actually quote them so um

18:07 ↗ good stuff

18:08 ↗ um

18:08 ↗ the the process itself was really really

18:12 ↗ smooth

18:15 ↗ it wasn't easy but it was smooth we had

18:17 ↗ great tools we had the tool that monica

18:20 ↗ talked about and also trish developed a

18:22 ↗ little

18:23 ↗ kind of a gathering tool for us for

18:25 ↗ manny and trish and i

18:27 ↗ so that we could see what each other was

18:30 ↗ thinking and we could have a record of

18:31 ↗ that

18:33 ↗ in addition to that

18:37 ↗ i have to say that it was really hard to

18:40 ↗ not fund

18:42 ↗ everybody

18:43 ↗ i mean i really wanted to fund everybody

18:45 ↗ there was a couple that maybe were

18:48 ↗ like oh well i don't know but

18:50 ↗ it was it

18:52 ↗ came down to making decisions

18:55 ↗ between different groups and

18:58 ↗ and seeing who was

19:00 ↗ being funded and what areas

19:02 ↗ were funded and weren't being funded

19:05 ↗ and also

19:07 ↗ you know what kinds of people were being

19:09 ↗ funded were being helped

19:11 ↗ and i really feel comfortable with what

19:14 ↗ we ended up with

19:16 ↗ very very very comfortable with what we

19:18 ↗ ended up with and

19:20 ↗ i still have all my little worksheets

19:22 ↗ that i had

19:30 ↗ it's been really great i'm looking

19:31 ↗ forward to the rest of this that's great

19:33 ↗ well thank you for joining us thanks for

19:35 ↗ having me

19:40 ↗ um and i don't think i don't think i

19:42 ↗ started attending meetings until

19:44 ↗ june so i might be

19:46 ↗ after everybody else

19:48 ↗ yeah because i was gone in may um

19:50 ↗ and you know so i'm delighted to be here

19:53 ↗ and we're in the friends of this amenity

19:56 ↗ board together

19:58 ↗ having a big event

20:00 ↗ [Laughter]

20:05 ↗ after the event on saturday you can

20:07 ↗ transition to the other event at the

20:08 ↗ senior center on saturday uh honoring

20:11 ↗ hispanic heritage month

20:14 ↗ that's right to make sure

20:17 ↗ that is good

20:30 ↗ about

20:31 ↗ two and a half years i guess it's right

20:32 ↗ there this is my first um go around with

20:36 ↗ the uh

20:38 ↗ drafts that we went through

20:40 ↗ and uh it was quite

20:42 ↗ a process um i worked with two amazing

20:45 ↗ folks trish and maury

20:49 ↗ on our section

20:50 ↗ and i felt that i bought in uh

20:54 ↗ equivalents

20:57 ↗ so that

20:58 ↗ many of the things that we looked at

21:01 ↗ i think right at first says well that

21:03 ↗ didn't have to do much with issaquah

21:06 ↗ but um the reason why it doesn't because

21:09 ↗ it's not

21:10 ↗ that equitable

21:11 ↗ divide in there as far as

21:15 ↗ people with business quality do not use

21:16 ↗ it because it's for

21:18 ↗ people of color well since there's not a

21:20 ↗ lot of people color

21:21 ↗ yeah

21:22 ↗ but it doesn't mean that we don't have

21:24 ↗ we can't help our neighbors out and be

21:26 ↗ able to

21:28 ↗ help in that area so i hopefully that

21:31 ↗ i've uh i brought in uh equitable lens

21:34 ↗ during the process and uh

21:37 ↗ i'm not a numbers man like uh

21:40 ↗ like mori

21:42 ↗ so i don't have my paperwork anymore

21:46 ↗ i know how to look it up

21:51 ↗ but yeah it was uh

21:53 ↗ quite the process and

21:55 ↗ that i've gone through it once

22:01 ↗ and did we have any on video yet or not

22:05 ↗ no commissioners on video

22:08 ↗ so that is it for tonight some

22:10 ↗ suggestions for process improvement it's

22:12 ↗ a heavy lift

22:14 ↗ um

22:15 ↗ even even minor suggestions of could you

22:17 ↗ consider this or that is helpful one

22:19 ↗ thing we've tried to do in this

22:21 ↗ organization and especially with

22:22 ↗ monica's health

22:24 ↗ is to continue to evolve so you know we

22:27 ↗ didn't used to have a human services

22:29 ↗ strategic plan

22:30 ↗ we didn't used to have categories of

22:33 ↗ focus

22:34 ↗ um and so anything that you would like

22:36 ↗ us to consider

22:38 ↗ nothing is too small for us we're a

22:40 ↗ we're an organization in evolution we

22:42 ↗ like to try new things we like to

22:45 ↗ yes

22:46 ↗ i have something to say um

22:48 ↗ this was my first round with the grants

22:52 ↗ for the human services commission i've

22:54 ↗ been on the arts commission for many

22:56 ↗ years and done granting there but this

22:58 ↗ is very different

22:59 ↗ and um

23:02 ↗ i would say but i don't really know how

23:03 ↗ to get around this

23:05 ↗ um

23:06 ↗ you know i know in the old days

23:11 ↗ in the old days

23:12 ↗ not too many cycles ago

23:15 ↗ all the commissioners on human services

23:17 ↗ used to look at all the grants

23:19 ↗ and i know that that was just like

23:20 ↗ overwhelming

23:22 ↗ okay and you know we've chunked it out

23:25 ↗ for the past two cycles this way

23:27 ↗ and it it was it was um not too

23:30 ↗ overwhelming and it was nice i i it was

23:33 ↗ i thought it was very manageable

23:35 ↗ but i felt siloed

23:37 ↗ i felt siloed

23:40 ↗ and i don't know how to get around it we

23:42 ↗ don't need to solve any issues

23:47 ↗ everybody else feel like

23:54 ↗ i think what you're saying is some of

23:56 ↗ the organizations the bigger

23:57 ↗ organization might have had multiple

23:59 ↗ grant applications that would have ended

24:01 ↗ up with a different subcommittee so you

24:03 ↗ didn't have a way of knowing necessarily

24:06 ↗ what the different like what is the

24:09 ↗ housing subcommittee thinking about this

24:11 ↗ organization right right i mean and

24:14 ↗ granted we all were welcome to read

24:16 ↗ everything but of course

24:20 ↗ on our category and um maury and manny

24:23 ↗ and i had community resources and you

24:25 ↗ know i think we really dived into that

24:28 ↗ but yeah i got really curious

24:30 ↗ about

24:31 ↗ the other when i say silo i just you

24:33 ↗ know other girls the other groups yeah

24:36 ↗ and um so that and i don't know how to

24:38 ↗ get around that because okay do you guys

24:40 ↗ want to

24:41 ↗ you know we're in two years do you want

24:43 ↗ to review 100 grams

24:48 ↗ [Music]

24:59 ↗ about how to do that first behind me

25:01 ↗ here

25:02 ↗ i am so late i was actually i was just

25:04 ↗ finishing my girls basketball practice

25:05 ↗ and i was like where's this building at

25:07 ↗ so i went all the way over there

25:08 ↗ went to the city hall

25:10 ↗ great

25:12 ↗ might be on the other residents so i had

25:14 ↗ to be like a full

25:15 ↗ [Music]

25:21 ↗ [Applause]

25:27 ↗ we have sword over here please feel free

25:29 ↗ to go grab it

25:31 ↗ i apologize for being late no worries

25:33 ↗ eating at the meeting is allowed tonight

25:35 ↗ um i wanted to come and meet all of you

25:38 ↗ as you came back in person

25:40 ↗ and

25:41 ↗ i would love to hear you introduce

25:43 ↗ yourself so i know you a little bit

25:44 ↗ better and what you walked in on was

25:46 ↗ trish really starting off with our

25:48 ↗ exercise tonight which is getting

25:50 ↗ process review and feedback um we're

25:53 ↗ a city that is evolving and we have done

25:55 ↗ so many things different in this area

25:57 ↗ over the last five years so we're just

25:58 ↗ wondering how the process work and if

26:00 ↗ there's something we might want to

26:01 ↗ consider but hi nick you can tell me a

26:03 ↗ little bit about yourself

26:06 ↗ who is the one that i work with that

26:07 ↗ work with you on the

26:08 ↗ [Music]

26:09 ↗ yes

26:11 ↗ [Applause]

26:27 ↗ [Music]

26:29 ↗ yeah i i think i uh

26:32 ↗ i'm glad

26:33 ↗ to be part of it but i um i actually

26:36 ↗ i've been live in this aqua since 2007.

26:39 ↗ so i've been here for quite some time

26:41 ↗ and uh

26:43 ↗ i actually it's interesting i did my

26:45 ↗ paid internship at city of bloody human

26:47 ↗ services so i knew on the back end what

26:49 ↗ you all do

26:51 ↗ um in terms of strategic goals plan

26:53 ↗ diversity equity inclusion belonging

26:56 ↗ initiatives how does that work with

26:57 ↗ residents in the area then

26:59 ↗ east side and trying to fight not fight

27:02 ↗ but advocate for issues around here and

27:04 ↗ what does that mean in terms of king

27:05 ↗ county dollars

27:07 ↗ uh so i knew that side and then so i was

27:10 ↗ like you know uh

27:12 ↗ you know i'm 38 and i just told myself

27:14 ↗ you know i'm gonna just

27:16 ↗ put my foot in there i work for stomach

27:18 ↗ county superior court so i'm always

27:20 ↗ sometimes running late i'm direct for

27:22 ↗ everett and so it's uh you know they

27:24 ↗ want me five days in the office you know

27:26 ↗ i i work with a lot of judges you know

27:29 ↗ we're a flexible organization you don't

27:31 ↗ have to be fighters

27:34 ↗ [Applause]

27:35 ↗ [Laughter]

27:43 ↗ you know my parents are immigrants from

27:44 ↗ mexico and uh residing in california

27:47 ↗ yakima moved here got my master uw

27:50 ↗ um

27:51 ↗ and honestly i i say this because

27:54 ↗ growing up in yakima i had a lot i was

27:56 ↗ uh

27:57 ↗ i had a lot of good people like good

27:59 ↗ neighbors that said hey every thought

28:01 ↗ about yeah i think they had like a grant

28:02 ↗ going on about working with the

28:03 ↗ community

28:04 ↗ planting trees walking around uh just

28:07 ↗ they call it a community beautification

28:08 ↗ of time

28:10 ↗ and i had a good friend of mine and he

28:12 ↗ and i got introduced to the job but i

28:14 ↗ also got introduced to the civic skills

28:16 ↗ around it

28:17 ↗ and i thank them for that because they

28:19 ↗ allowed me to see

28:21 ↗ other areas of how

28:23 ↗ you know how this work does around the

28:24 ↗ community and uh

28:26 ↗ so i've been living here for almost plus

28:28 ↗ 10 years and i said you know it's

28:30 ↗ probably a time that i

28:32 ↗ you know kind of put my towels to to

28:34 ↗ work a little bit um so

28:36 ↗ it's been a privilege and getting to

28:37 ↗ work with monica and

28:39 ↗ the whole group you know

28:42 ↗ it's uh you know hopefully i can provide

28:44 ↗ my

28:44 ↗ my experiences to better outcomes to the

28:47 ↗ kids that come in with me we're getting

28:49 ↗ more diverse i see around the

28:50 ↗ communities i walk through

28:52 ↗ um and it's uh it brings uh excitement

28:55 ↗ for me you know i have a little girl

28:56 ↗ here and um

28:58 ↗ she's in the

28:59 ↗ uh elementary school across the street

29:02 ↗ she was at la gallitos yeah you know i

29:04 ↗ have a couple friends yeah and uh you

29:07 ↗ know and uh it's it's been a good

29:09 ↗ experience to see uh balango services

29:12 ↗ being used in that regard and um

29:14 ↗ you know we tried out with our little

29:15 ↗ one to speak so much spanish because we

29:17 ↗ forget it and uh

29:19 ↗ you know my parents won't speak english

29:21 ↗ even to this day you know yeah and in

29:23 ↗ yakima so yeah they

29:27 ↗ but it's pretty cool to see

29:29 ↗ you know communities evolving and

29:31 ↗ thriving and you know i'm taking every

29:33 ↗ person

29:35 ↗ in terms of you know so it's kind of

29:37 ↗ it's it's super crazy and i want to be a

29:40 ↗ part of that wow we are lucky to have

29:42 ↗ you that is a great introduction we were

29:45 ↗ i was talking earlier too about all that

29:46 ↗ monica has taught me

29:48 ↗ being a public former public works

29:50 ↗ engineering consultant myself this is

29:52 ↗ one area that i really did not know a

29:54 ↗ lot about even though i was served on a

29:56 ↗ board served on council and served in

29:58 ↗ the mayor's chair but she's really

30:00 ↗ worked with me uh on these approaches to

30:03 ↗ being compassionate but yet requiring

30:05 ↗ accountability and putting people first

30:07 ↗ and measuring outcomes are we making our

30:10 ↗ investments in the place where the

30:12 ↗ person or the family

30:14 ↗ is benefiting that they are actually

30:16 ↗ having better outcomes because of the

30:18 ↗ services that they're obtaining so i

30:19 ↗ just i loved everything you said that

30:21 ↗ was amazing okay so sorry for

30:23 ↗ interrupting

30:24 ↗ doing a round robin um

30:27 ↗ any other suggestions if you're on the

30:28 ↗ table things that you think we might do

30:30 ↗ differently things that you liked or

30:33 ↗ things that you struggled with

30:35 ↗ i i

30:36 ↗ liked the tools i attempted a strategic

30:38 ↗ plan i liked the little um form that you

30:41 ↗ developed that we could take notes on um

30:43 ↗ i thought the online tools

30:45 ↗ were very helpful but when i wasn't

30:47 ↗ having trouble logging in

30:50 ↗ i found myself wondering a lot this is a

30:52 ↗ this is a common half common grant app

30:56 ↗ that goes to multiple east side cities

30:58 ↗ and i sometimes found myself wondering

31:00 ↗ because we did have to make choices

31:02 ↗ about you know

31:04 ↗ what percentage

31:06 ↗ we were going to fund you know based on

31:08 ↗ our you know available resources and i

31:10 ↗ sometimes found myself wondering well

31:13 ↗ you know maybe maybe this is going to be

31:15 ↗ a better fit for bellevue and bellevue's

31:16 ↗ going gonna step in you know and i i

31:18 ↗ don't know that that's something that

31:19 ↗ can change but i just found myself

31:21 ↗ wondering if it would be so interesting

31:23 ↗ to have the overall picture because you

31:25 ↗ know we issaquah has

31:28 ↗ limited resources as do those other

31:30 ↗ cities and that was just a question that

31:33 ↗ i found myself thinking about what's you

31:35 ↗ know what was the big picture here

31:37 ↗ a great question

31:39 ↗ yeah i

31:40 ↗ mean coming from a different country one

31:42 ↗ of the surprising things to me was how

31:44 ↗ much service delivery is done by

31:47 ↗ non-profits who are very mission focused

31:50 ↗ but may have overlapping missions or we

31:53 ↗ may have a gap in service and

31:55 ↗ one of the projects monica and i are

31:57 ↗ working on i'm very very lucky to be

31:58 ↗ working on it um it's called familiar

32:01 ↗ faces and what's the organization that

32:02 ↗ is it niko yes it's the national

32:05 ↗ association for counties

32:10 ↗ it's got to do with criminal justice

32:12 ↗ system and social justice as well and

32:15 ↗ it was going to be 10 or 11 counties

32:18 ↗ that talked about those again focus on

32:20 ↗ the individual those people who who need

32:23 ↗ services how do you know who's servicing

32:26 ↗ them are they getting that services and

32:28 ↗ so again it flips it from being

32:30 ↗ organization service provider based to

32:32 ↗ people first

32:34 ↗ and

32:35 ↗ again that brought up the whole

32:36 ↗ conversation of our system is still very

32:38 ↗ we don't know what other cities are

32:40 ↗ doing

32:41 ↗ we don't know the full sources of

32:42 ↗ funding you know and and again we don't

32:45 ↗ want to get there where

32:47 ↗ to be where everybody takes their pie

32:49 ↗ and shops in a different way what we

32:51 ↗ want to do is make a difference and so i

32:53 ↗ don't know the answer to that but that

32:55 ↗ was a fabulous question it's that same

32:56 ↗ silo issue that trish was talking about

32:58 ↗ yes only on a bigger scale yeah so

33:00 ↗ marilyn were you even like

33:02 ↗ thinking

33:04 ↗ is there a possibility that

33:06 ↗ all the cities could somehow know what

33:08 ↗ each other was doing while we're no

33:11 ↗ i don't know because when i when i think

33:13 ↗ about it and that way i just think

33:16 ↗ nightmare instant nightmare right

33:18 ↗ because how many overall grants

33:20 ↗ applications were there

33:22 ↗ 120 oh no 260 close to 300

33:27 ↗ across all yeah there are multiple yeah

33:29 ↗ actually i think even more yeah i don't

33:32 ↗ i mean i

33:33 ↗ i i'm happy that it's a common app

33:35 ↗ because i've been on the other end of

33:37 ↗ that you know

33:38 ↗ as you said baby corner where

33:40 ↗ you know multiple applications so i

33:43 ↗ really like the common app and it's good

33:45 ↗ to know that other cities have the same

33:48 ↗ information we do i don't i don't have a

33:50 ↗ suggestion for how to

33:53 ↗ that it wouldn't be absolutely daunting

33:55 ↗ quite frankly it was interesting

33:59 ↗ yeah

34:00 ↗ i think it would be also interesting to

34:02 ↗ know

34:04 ↗ if some of the organizations that apply

34:05 ↗ to us

34:07 ↗ who are the county funding those

34:09 ↗ organizations

34:11 ↗ and or and or the state funding those

34:13 ↗ organizations like my big thing with the

34:17 ↗ i think it was the king county sexual

34:18 ↗ assault they had applied for a grant

34:20 ↗ with us and my question there was well

34:22 ↗ isn't king county supporting this

34:24 ↗ organization so

34:26 ↗ what

34:27 ↗ impact is our little couple of thousand

34:29 ↗ dollars gonna have on that organization

34:31 ↗ and so i think it would be really

34:32 ↗ helpful to know what organization next

34:35 ↗ year or the next funding cycle what

34:37 ↗ organizations have those larger funders

34:41 ↗ who are guarant you know giving

34:42 ↗ basically guaranteed funds to them at

34:45 ↗ every funding cycles because

34:47 ↗ again we want to make sure that our

34:49 ↗ dollars are going towards our

34:52 ↗ community members and so even though yes

34:54 ↗ we have those issues in issaquah and we

34:57 ↗ do use the you know that particular uh

34:59 ↗ group that i mentioned of i'm sure

35:01 ↗ people in this count in this city do

35:03 ↗ um it would just be nice to know where

35:05 ↗ our dollars would be best spent and so

35:07 ↗ for me that would be helpful next

35:09 ↗ funding's like well for the next person

35:12 ↗ um it would be helpful to know um you

35:14 ↗ know like who those two let's tag on to

35:16 ↗ that you know king county formed a

35:19 ↗ new office a couple years ago called

35:21 ↗ local services local government services

35:23 ↗ i don't know what it was what it's

35:25 ↗ called officially but it's in

35:26 ↗ recognition of the fact that there are a

35:28 ↗ lot of people that live in

35:29 ↗ king county and have to go somewhere to

35:31 ↗ get services so i've asked our local

35:34 ↗ king county council member

35:36 ↗ in this operating budget that they're

35:38 ↗ talking about now you know some amish

35:41 ↗ and the city of issaquah provide money

35:43 ↗ to this buffering the closing bank but

35:45 ↗ the service area

35:46 ↗ covers an enormous area south of israel

35:49 ↗ that's unincorporated and their level of

35:52 ↗ government should be providing money to

35:55 ↗ the ischool food bank in proportion to

35:57 ↗ what the cities are doing and so i think

36:00 ↗ you bring up this really good point way

36:02 ↗ back in the day when isabo was the only

36:04 ↗ little town out here the service area

36:06 ↗ was the school district

36:07 ↗ but then some amish came and so now

36:10 ↗ sammamish is also a service provider so

36:12 ↗ there's some rationality there saying

36:15 ↗ are the right people paying into the pot

36:17 ↗ to keep these organizations at their

36:20 ↗ fully funded level so if any of you are

36:22 ↗ talking to our council member sarah

36:24 ↗ perry make sure that you ask that this

36:27 ↗ this approach should be looked at by the

36:29 ↗ local government services portion of the

36:31 ↗ county because i think this is this

36:33 ↗ could be a way to provide some more

36:35 ↗ sustainable funding it means managing

36:37 ↗ this car and going where neighbors count

36:39 ↗ right you know so

36:40 ↗ we can really set up funding that that

36:43 ↗ matches that that could be quite strong

36:45 ↗ for our organizations yeah i think it

36:47 ↗ would just help direct our dollars

36:49 ↗ just more towards our people in our city

36:52 ↗ so that they're receiving you know like

36:54 ↗ you said sustainable dollars like yeah i

36:56 ↗ want the money to be spent on our people

36:58 ↗ so

36:59 ↗ that that that was my suggestion

37:05 ↗ thanks manny um i really appreciated

37:08 ↗ the uh

37:10 ↗ the way the questionnaire was was set up

37:12 ↗ and it answered some of the questions

37:14 ↗ that i had in mind as far as um

37:18 ↗ how many how many females or

37:21 ↗ that it yeah approached and um delivered

37:24 ↗ services to i mean people calling on the

37:26 ↗ staff how many you know

37:29 ↗ those type of questions were or answered

37:31 ↗ and we were there to go look at okay um

37:34 ↗ what am i looking at here and uh

37:37 ↗ i thought the uh actual questionnaire

37:40 ↗ was put together really well oh that's

37:42 ↗ great i experienced that on my grant

37:43 ↗ program i was on where it's first time i

37:45 ↗ ever saw all that information i thought

37:47 ↗ this is fascinating right

37:49 ↗ it to tells us that you know this also

37:51 ↗ has a place in rift in the development

37:53 ↗ or whatnot and what percentage so we can

37:55 ↗ figure out um you know they if they

37:57 ↗ service 100 people and

37:59 ↗ 50 young were

38:01 ↗ from israel then we should be giving 50

38:03 ↗ of that yeah so

38:06 ↗ it really was

38:07 ↗ very helpful

38:09 ↗ maureen edwards here to piggyback on

38:10 ↗ what manny just said

38:12 ↗ um there was uh

38:14 ↗ with the information we got we were able

38:15 ↗ to parse out

38:17 ↗ things like beautiful programs for

38:19 ↗ training down in renton that weren't

38:21 ↗ accessible to people that don't have a

38:23 ↗ car that live in israel

38:24 ↗ right you can't get to renton from here

38:29 ↗ or

38:30 ↗ uh some other trainings that were really

38:33 ↗ good for people in the area specifically

38:36 ↗ people of color

38:37 ↗ but

38:39 ↗ weren't um

38:40 ↗ weren't necessarily

38:42 ↗ getting uh issaquah residents

38:45 ↗ but we're great programs right or the

38:48 ↗ the middle school program that had the

38:50 ↗ for 35 kids that

38:52 ↗ that they were going to uh to mentor and

38:55 ↗ they've had such a great

38:58 ↗ at success middle school it was down in

39:00 ↗ rentham

39:01 ↗ right they were thinking of coming to

39:03 ↗ issaquah so the forms that we got were

39:06 ↗ it was really evil

39:08 ↗ it was easy to parse that stuff out

39:14 ↗ i think there's an element of chicken

39:16 ↗ egg there too right a great program in

39:18 ↗ renton that with funding could come to

39:21 ↗ israel so

39:23 ↗ yeah but we actually did some research

39:25 ↗ and we found out that

39:26 ↗ that nobody had even approached

39:28 ↗ the middle school yet nobody knocked

39:30 ↗ down the door and said hey what about us

39:32 ↗ could we be there

39:34 ↗ they were just

39:36 ↗ interesting wow you guys get some great

39:38 ↗ detailed information

39:40 ↗ in your applications yeah i felt like it

39:42 ↗ was pretty detailed yeah

39:44 ↗ yeah i thought

39:45 ↗ i want to piggyback too on what manny

39:47 ↗ said um and i'm sorry this is madeline i

39:49 ↗ know i'm supposed to say that

39:51 ↗ um about the the questions on the

39:53 ↗ application did make it easy to get

39:57 ↗ an overall sense of the organization

40:00 ↗ especially

40:02 ↗ trying to look at things through the you

40:04 ↗ know through the eyes of the strategic

40:05 ↗ plan and through the eyes of the of the

40:08 ↗ equity lens

40:09 ↗ and i thought that the application asked

40:11 ↗ valuable questions and it was

40:13 ↗ kind of easy to get you know right no

40:16 ↗ organization it's just numbers on a page

40:18 ↗ but it did make it easy to get a little

40:20 ↗ bit of a picture

40:21 ↗ um

40:22 ↗ yeah this is manny again um also the

40:24 ↗ fact that we went through a strategic

40:26 ↗ plan

40:27 ↗ way ahead of time so we knew

40:30 ↗ what it was we were looking for and

40:32 ↗ whether or not

40:34 ↗ this application fit into that

40:36 ↗ plan because that that actually helped

40:39 ↗ us say okay

40:40 ↗ it's a great

40:42 ↗ it's a great

40:44 ↗ service but doesn't fit into

40:46 ↗ our plan right so oh my gosh you know

40:49 ↗ when i retired i'm just gonna call me

40:51 ↗ the strategic plan

40:54 ↗ we didn't have these kinds of documents

40:57 ↗ five years ago but we started with a

40:59 ↗ citywide strategic plan a mobility

41:01 ↗ master plan a parks master plan and

41:04 ↗ human services master plan and the

41:06 ↗ climate action plan

41:08 ↗ and

41:09 ↗ we in the past were very good about

41:10 ↗ writing documents but not necessarily

41:12 ↗ following through when i hear that you

41:14 ↗ are using these plans as a framework for

41:17 ↗ your decision making oh my

41:19 ↗ to make my strategic planning heart this

41:21 ↗ burst

41:22 ↗ thank you thank you for doing that that

41:25 ↗ is that is how we're going to move the

41:27 ↗ needle is by starting with those

41:29 ↗ frameworks so manny head is such a great

41:31 ↗ comment it also lets you know if you go

41:33 ↗ in the right direction direction

41:35 ↗ yeah because you can measure

41:38 ↗ wow

41:39 ↗ um this is jamie i i have another

41:41 ↗ comment um i'd like to say thank you to

41:43 ↗ monica

41:44 ↗ um because whenever i have questions

41:46 ↗ about a particular group she had the

41:48 ↗ answers um

41:50 ↗ she encyclopedia yes so she was able to

41:52 ↗ say you know oh well they've helped this

41:54 ↗ many people in our city in the last year

41:56 ↗ so that was very helpful so thank you

41:58 ↗ for the knowledge that you were able to

41:59 ↗ provide to us um

42:01 ↗ the other part the other thing i wanted

42:03 ↗ to mention is i did like how we can

42:04 ↗ leave feedback for those people that we

42:06 ↗ did or didn't fund

42:08 ↗ so that they know why

42:10 ↗ um so i loved that aspect

42:13 ↗ yeah i love that aspect of it um i do

42:15 ↗ have a suggestion for your next grant

42:17 ↗ funding cycle though

42:19 ↗ um i noticed that in our there was not

42:22 ↗ any asks for at least that i saw child

42:25 ↗ care assistance

42:27 ↗ and i know firsthand being a single mom

42:29 ↗ and raising kids in the city

42:32 ↗ what it's like to struggle with child

42:34 ↗ care

42:36 ↗ so maybe you guys as the human services

42:38 ↗ department can reach out to some of our

42:41 ↗ child care folks and

42:43 ↗ encourage them to apply next year

42:46 ↗ um i will tell you that for whatever

42:48 ↗ reason the isoqual school district is

42:50 ↗ not giving scholarships anymore for

42:52 ↗ their before and after school program

42:53 ↗ for the summer

42:55 ↗ this was the first summer in

42:57 ↗ 10 years that my kids didn't have child

42:59 ↗ care and one is autistic and one has

43:01 ↗ adhd so you can imagine that me working

43:04 ↗ full-time and having little kids at home

43:05 ↗ was insane

43:07 ↗ in

43:08 ↗ sane

43:09 ↗ and i didn't have the 70 a day that it

43:11 ↗ costs for each of them

43:13 ↗ to go

43:14 ↗ and so that is something that i think

43:17 ↗ you guys should reach out to whomever

43:19 ↗ local child care folks i also don't

43:22 ↗ think we have enough child care in this

43:24 ↗ city um especially for people who are on

43:26 ↗ dshs

43:28 ↗ um they took away that horrible daycare

43:30 ↗ in the corner over there by um the paint

43:32 ↗ store which thank god they closed it

43:34 ↗ down but

43:36 ↗ um we never we never got another child

43:39 ↗ care agency that takes dshs vouchers and

43:42 ↗ so that leaves all of these parents

43:44 ↗ it leaves all of these parents with

43:46 ↗ nowhere to take their kids and so that's

43:48 ↗ why you're seeing a lot of our

43:51 ↗ kids in the community who don't have a

43:53 ↗ lot of resources or a lot of money

43:55 ↗ you know that you get property

43:56 ↗ destruction they cause problems police

43:58 ↗ activity and those type of things

44:00 ↗ because there's

44:01 ↗ nowhere for those dshs voucher kids to

44:03 ↗ go

44:04 ↗ we just don't have anywhere in the city

44:06 ↗ so i would like to make that suggestion

44:08 ↗ that maybe you guys reach out to some of

44:10 ↗ our local daycare people for the next

44:12 ↗ but before the next funding cycle and

44:13 ↗ say hey we have funds we'd like you to

44:15 ↗ apply because some of our a lot of our

44:17 ↗ citizens don't have you know

44:19 ↗ access to child care that's a good place

44:23 ↗ point um this is manny

44:25 ↗ and again um

44:26 ↗ we were working on um putting together

44:29 ↗ the equity board one of the things that

44:31 ↗ we came up with was a stipend for

44:34 ↗ board and commission members so that

44:36 ↗ they can use that for that and

44:39 ↗ to extend that to

44:42 ↗ um people in the city and and uh that

44:45 ↗ really need daycare i think is a great

44:47 ↗ idea

44:48 ↗ yeah yeah so hopefully thank you and

44:51 ↗ even i think uh working with existing

44:53 ↗ child care providers to see if there are

44:55 ↗ opportunities for them to expand and try

44:58 ↗ to expand capacities yes

45:00 ↗ yes

45:01 ↗ um

45:07 ↗ man they're amazing in their little tiny

45:09 ↗ building that they have and there's so

45:11 ↗ many kids that i'm sure would love to

45:13 ↗ attend that school and oh yeah it would

45:15 ↗ be awesome to help expand them you know

45:17 ↗ a place like them that has been like

45:18 ↗ some a pillar in the community for child

45:20 ↗ care

45:21 ↗ so

45:22 ↗ yeah

45:24 ↗ there's even a team count dollars for

45:26 ↗ that they have better starts for kids

45:28 ↗ yeah that just started this year

45:45 ↗ yeah i mean the the issaquah school

45:46 ↗ district before and after school program

45:48 ↗ is amazing it is an amazing program my

45:50 ↗ without that program my kids who have

45:52 ↗ special needs would not have been as far

45:54 ↗ as they are so they are a great program

45:56 ↗ but they also have special funding um

46:00 ↗ like guidelines so it's like all parent

46:02 ↗ pa parent paid

46:05 ↗ it works in a funny way so i'm wondering

46:07 ↗ is there a way we could work with them

46:08 ↗ because if we could expand that program

46:10 ↗ to make it so that all kids that attend

46:12 ↗ our elementary middle schools have

46:14 ↗ access to that because right now they're

46:16 ↗ so limited and they have such a long

46:18 ↗ wait list

46:19 ↗ um that it's harder for for new people

46:21 ↗ or kids that are coming into

46:22 ↗ kindergarten they can't get in and so

46:24 ↗ and with the limited with the other

46:26 ↗ limited child care resources it would be

46:28 ↗ nice to talk with the

46:29 ↗ basque program at the school district

46:31 ↗ and just see

46:32 ↗ is there something the city can do to

46:33 ↗ work with them

46:35 ↗ even if it's a grant funding

46:41 ↗ i'm hearing some wonderful stuff

46:44 ↗ and

46:44 ↗ monica i probably blew my timing as well

46:47 ↗ right

46:47 ↗ [Music]

46:53 ↗ i would love to

46:54 ↗ you know another minute or two throw a

46:56 ↗ few more things on the table but i'd

46:57 ↗ also remind you that this is not the end

46:59 ↗ of the conversation you've got monica's

47:01 ↗ beer in my hair all the time so if you

47:03 ↗ walk away from tonight and these things

47:06 ↗ pop in your head please send them in um

47:08 ↗ what i'm hoping to do with this is i

47:10 ↗ have a council meeting on monday night

47:12 ↗ and i have a few minutes every meeting

47:13 ↗ to do a mayor's report and i'm gonna

47:15 ↗ work with monica if we're ready

47:18 ↗ and give a highlight of what i'm hearing

47:19 ↗ back from you you know i'll be able to

47:21 ↗ like thank on camera for all the hard

47:23 ↗ work you did and talk about some of the

47:24 ↗ really creative ideas you'd come forward

47:26 ↗ with and let the counsel know that and

47:28 ↗ let the community go back to the meeting

47:30 ↗ so that's the hope of

47:32 ↗ what we how we continue our work tonight

47:35 ↗ awesome yeah

47:37 ↗ well thank you guys for giving me part

47:39 ↗ of your meeting thank you for being here

47:41 ↗ see you thank you thank you for our

47:43 ↗ little gifts too yeah

47:45 ↗ ah they're little gifts they they're

47:47 ↗ cute in no way match these

47:49 ↗ effort and passions

47:53 ↗ that's great

47:54 ↗ and now you get to go to approval of the

47:56 ↗ minutes

47:58 ↗ so nice to see you all thank you

48:02 ↗ thank you

48:06 ↗ okay i know that uh last month's minutes

48:09 ↗ are very fresh in your mind

48:11 ↗ [Laughter]

48:13 ↗ right

48:14 ↗ so um does anybody want to make a motion

48:18 ↗ i

48:27 ↗ does anybody want to talk now

48:29 ↗ about it before we vote

48:32 ↗ okay i think we're good and we i forget

48:35 ↗ let's we don't vote we just

48:37 ↗ so you can you can choose not to vote

48:39 ↗ yeah so if you don't have discussion and

48:41 ↗ nobody has any edits

48:43 ↗ then you can just say something along

48:44 ↗ the lines of

48:46 ↗ if there are no edits to the minutes we

48:48 ↗ can um consider the minutes

48:54 ↗ heard what she said

48:58 ↗ okay

48:59 ↗ all right so

49:00 ↗ the minutes have been approved awesome

49:03 ↗ okay

49:08 ↗ and

49:11 ↗ okay then we go to um the stamp report

49:15 ↗ yes

49:16 ↗ thank you commissioners

49:18 ↗ we just have a couple of updates from

49:19 ↗ you as you may remember usually uh i

49:22 ↗ take the staff reports uh that are

49:25 ↗ updates from mayor and uh city council

49:27 ↗ mayor paulie was just with us but one

49:29 ↗ update from a recent city council action

49:32 ↗ um that i wanted to highlight was that

49:34 ↗ uh at the first meeting in september on

49:36 ↗ september 6th city council adopted an

49:39 ↗ ordinance that requires landlords in

49:42 ↗ issaquah to

49:46 ↗ provide 120 days written notice

49:50 ↗ to tenants for any rent increases over

49:52 ↗ three percent

49:54 ↗ this is an increase from a 60 day that's

49:56 ↗ the state legislation requires 60 days

49:59 ↗ uh city council extended that to 120

50:02 ↗ days so that goes in effect at the

50:03 ↗ beginning of october so that ordinance

50:06 ↗ was adopted on september 6th and it has

50:08 ↗ 30 days to go in effect so it's not

50:10 ↗ going back on october 6th

50:13 ↗ um

50:14 ↗ we are sending out communications to the

50:16 ↗ community but please

50:17 ↗ spread the word um

50:20 ↗ it is

50:21 ↗ an attempt to help tenants

50:24 ↗ uh with the

50:25 ↗ increased cost and

50:27 ↗ the increases in rent

50:29 ↗ so um that's that and we will continue

50:32 ↗ actually to go back on early october we

50:35 ↗ will continue to work with city council

50:37 ↗ on some other tenant protection programs

50:40 ↗ including

50:41 ↗ the city council is interesting in

50:44 ↗ further considering a cap on perhaps

50:47 ↗ late fees

50:49 ↗ as well as a cap on moving costs

50:52 ↗ as you might know um

50:55 ↗ capping grants in washington state is

50:58 ↗ illegal so there's not much that the

50:59 ↗ city council can do on that but they are

51:01 ↗ looking at any other creative ways to to

51:04 ↗ support tenants in the community and

51:07 ↗ also like looking at not hurting much

51:10 ↗ landlords because they are aware that

51:12 ↗ everybody is having

51:14 ↗ and when you say move in class and i i

51:17 ↗ have to remind myself to me i always

51:18 ↗ think okay that's when you go out and

51:20 ↗ get a

51:20 ↗ u-haul what does it cost for you to move

51:22 ↗ in

51:23 ↗ monica is talking about first and last

51:26 ↗ right yeah so typically the the what

51:28 ↗ biggest removing cost yes it's those

51:29 ↗ security deposits that you need to put

51:31 ↗ in advance or sometimes they ask yes the

51:33 ↗ first month rent and the last month run

51:35 ↗ so yes those that's very helpful yes

51:37 ↗ it's not the u-haul moving

51:39 ↗ [Laughter]

51:41 ↗ movement

51:42 ↗ so that's great great clarification

51:46 ↗ well this could be just me but that's

51:47 ↗ where my head goes yeah

51:49 ↗ is there a moratorium on addictions

51:54 ↗ that has been lifted in october of last

51:56 ↗ year i mean in june really but then

51:59 ↗ there was a bridge for october as of

52:01 ↗ october 31st there hasn't been

52:03 ↗ and so with that in october the city

52:05 ↗ last year the city council also adopted

52:08 ↗ a large amount of money significant

52:10 ↗ amount for rental assistance but then as

52:12 ↗ those

52:13 ↗ now they are coming to an end and king

52:16 ↗ county had a significant rental

52:18 ↗ assistance program as all those support

52:20 ↗ programs come to an end um

52:22 ↗ then um

52:24 ↗ tenants are seeing large increases in

52:26 ↗ rent all of a sudden so trying to give

52:28 ↗ them a little bit more time in case they

52:30 ↗ need to find a new place in case they

52:32 ↗ need to find a new job

52:34 ↗ um

52:35 ↗ so fall off that is that has there been

52:38 ↗ increase or decrease in

52:40 ↗ evictions or

52:42 ↗ people

52:43 ↗ um

52:44 ↗ i don't think there's enough data but we

52:46 ↗ did hear more and more of people who

52:48 ↗ have been evicted especially in the last

52:51 ↗ few weeks we do get calls at the city of

52:53 ↗ people who are looking for assistance

52:55 ↗ because they receive eviction notices

52:58 ↗ um the city though we do have a

53:00 ↗ mediation program that we found at the

53:02 ↗ city and this was during the pandemic in

53:05 ↗ my recall city council provided a lot of

53:07 ↗ assistance and uh providing mediation

53:10 ↗ services and funding for mediation

53:11 ↗ services was one of them so um for those

53:15 ↗ that there are those resources in place

53:17 ↗ for those who receive eviction currently

53:22 ↗ i'm sorry and just to follow up the

53:25 ↗ reason i asked is because

53:26 ↗ one of our areas was housing for the

53:28 ↗ grants

53:29 ↗ so i don't know how

53:31 ↗ that affects or who that affects as far

53:34 ↗ as

53:35 ↗ who received those grants

53:38 ↗ well we did find

53:40 ↗ some some of our organizations that

53:42 ↗ help a lot with the evictions like the

53:45 ↗ izakaya community services that's one of

53:47 ↗ the largest ones here so we've we funded

53:49 ↗ them with those i think a pretty

53:50 ↗ significant amount of funding because

53:52 ↗ it's used right yeah we tried very close

53:56 ↗ to what they requested one day yes

53:58 ↗ and we also funded uh

54:01 ↗ the low income housing the two major low

54:03 ↗ income uh housing providers uh imagine

54:06 ↗ housing and the ywca in the highlands so

54:10 ↗ there is but

54:11 ↗ of course it's yeah i don't know

54:15 ↗ yeah but those little bits of money that

54:17 ↗ help keep those residents in their

54:18 ↗ apartment when they can't make their

54:19 ↗ rent i mean when you're low income like

54:21 ↗ and living in those types of places you

54:24 ↗ when you're on section 8 you can only do

54:26 ↗ so much right you can't

54:28 ↗ get a better job and still keep your

54:30 ↗ affordable housing so it kind of blocks

54:32 ↗ you from yes from moving up in the world

54:34 ↗ and so those people constantly have

54:36 ↗ issues paying rent and paying their

54:37 ↗ bills because

54:39 ↗ you know they they can't go any higher

54:41 ↗ than a certain amount or they can't get

54:43 ↗ that assistance anymore and

54:44 ↗ unfortunately even going higher in

54:46 ↗ unemployment

54:48 ↗ it still knocks them down below what our

54:50 ↗ average weight cost is and so they get

54:52 ↗ stuck in this hard place and they

54:54 ↗ constantly

54:55 ↗ have issues paying for it so

54:57 ↗ yeah

54:59 ↗ you get over there

55:01 ↗ yeah

55:02 ↗ and then down and

55:04 ↗ baby did

55:05 ↗ [Laughter]

55:15 ↗ so a few other human services updates um

55:17 ↗ so first and foremost i would like to

55:18 ↗ thank everyone who was able to join us

55:21 ↗ at our welcoming week event last friday

55:23 ↗ that was a big success for human

55:25 ↗ services and and really that was our

55:27 ↗ first

55:29 ↗ major in person outdoor event we've had

55:31 ↗ one right before uh covet so in 2019 and

55:36 ↗ it was indoors because of weather so

55:37 ↗ that was the first

55:39 ↗ uh big one that i think we had a big

55:41 ↗ collaboration with our community

55:42 ↗ partners

55:44 ↗ we had over 40

55:46 ↗ organizations nonprofit community

55:48 ↗ partners um at the informational

55:51 ↗ resource fair uh which uh received a lot

55:53 ↗ of great feedback that um they had a lot

55:56 ↗ of traffic a lot of questions a lot of

55:57 ↗ people signed up for to volunteer which

55:59 ↗ is really a huge goal of ours um we also

56:02 ↗ had incredible entertainment um

56:04 ↗ throughout the evening that was just

56:06 ↗ outstanding um so it was just a just a

56:09 ↗ delight to see the number of people

56:11 ↗ attend um and

56:14 ↗ you know it's just the start of

56:15 ↗ something bigger and that's what just

56:17 ↗ standing in the middle of the grass

56:19 ↗ field and seeing the decorations and

56:20 ↗ hearing the music that's what i felt was

56:22 ↗ like this is going to be big this is

56:24 ↗ going to be a big part of our

56:26 ↗ our

56:28 ↗ voice in issaquah um to be an inclusive

56:31 ↗ welcoming environment so i'm excited to

56:34 ↗ see where that all goes here in the next

56:36 ↗ year so thank you all for joining us for

56:38 ↗ that event just wanted to share that was

56:39 ↗ very successful event uh we also have

56:42 ↗ another fun event happening

56:45 ↗ we are celebrating hispanic heritage

56:47 ↗ month

56:48 ↗ um and that

56:49 ↗ begins

56:51 ↗ today september 15th um and we are

56:54 ↗ celebrating an in-person event this

56:57 ↗ saturday the

56:59 ↗ 17th and we're gonna be at the senior

57:01 ↗ center

57:02 ↗ um and it's from

57:04 ↗ six to eight pm

57:06 ↗ um and uh we are going to have some

57:08 ↗ mexican folklore dance lessons

57:11 ↗ um some

57:12 ↗ arts and crafts we're going to have um

57:15 ↗ an author there

57:16 ↗ speaking about her book um so we are

57:19 ↗ very excited to have that so we are busy

57:21 ↗ getting ready for that event

57:23 ↗ so again that's this saturday um

57:26 ↗ celebrating hispanic heritage month the

57:29 ↗ event is called united we are stronger

57:32 ↗ um and so we look forward to seeing

57:34 ↗ hopefully you all there and anybody else

57:36 ↗ who can join us a very family-friendly

57:38 ↗ event so bring the kiddos

57:41 ↗ and that concludes human service updates

57:44 ↗ trish

57:45 ↗ back to you

57:48 ↗ um so are we down to number five now

57:51 ↗ the year-to-date review and 2023 work

57:54 ↗ plan development yes okay you're on

57:57 ↗ monica i am on thank you

58:00 ↗ and um commissioners please accept my

58:02 ↗ sincere apologies typically

58:05 ↗ we

58:06 ↗ provide you with additional

58:08 ↗ uh agenda packet and materials

58:11 ↗ this time you might have noticed it was

58:13 ↗ a very thin packet i hate fully

58:15 ↗ responsibility we were a little bit

58:17 ↗ stretched in between

58:19 ↗ all sorts of meetings and

58:21 ↗ commitments and events

58:24 ↗ i just

58:26 ↗ did not have enough time to put together

58:28 ↗ things however i'm gonna share my screen

58:30 ↗ this is gonna look familiar to you what

58:32 ↗ i was hoping was to look to our work

58:34 ↗ plan for 2022 wanted to highlight all of

58:37 ↗ our accomplishments what we accomplished

58:39 ↗ and start looking at 2023. this also um

58:43 ↗ uh aligns a little bit with our

58:45 ↗ discussion that we had ivan

58:47 ↗ said okay now that we finish this big

58:49 ↗ body of work what's left for us to do

58:51 ↗ what's coming up in uh for us at the end

58:55 ↗ of the year and then upcoming in the new

58:56 ↗ year so then we can

58:58 ↗ um really um start looking at those work

59:01 ↗ plan items so i'm just going to share

59:03 ↗ the screen you have seen this before

59:04 ↗ because we shared um

59:07 ↗ this um

59:08 ↗ [Music]

59:09 ↗ uh

59:10 ↗ other

59:12 ↗ commission meetings sorry i'm trying to

59:14 ↗ do two things so i'm like well i can't

59:16 ↗ find my work

59:19 ↗ [Music]

59:24 ↗ let's try this

59:36 ↗ so

59:37 ↗ does this look familiar from our this is

59:39 ↗ our plan for 2022.

59:42 ↗ um probably

59:52 ↗ needless to say

59:54 ↗ we started here

59:56 ↗ some of you were not quite here yet

59:59 ↗ but we started the year

1:00:00 ↗ with preparing for the

1:00:02 ↗ human services grants

1:00:04 ↗ we talked a lot about overview timeline

1:00:07 ↗ we talked a little bit about target

1:00:09 ↗ funding

1:00:11 ↗ all of those things in the first few

1:00:13 ↗ couple of months of the year

1:00:15 ↗ um

1:00:16 ↗ then we really started the application

1:00:18 ↗ review but if you remember we kind of

1:00:20 ↗ like um

1:00:22 ↗ prepped for for the applications to be

1:00:24 ↗ opened but at the same time we were also

1:00:26 ↗ doing recruitment for new commissioners

1:00:28 ↗ so then we wanted to align a little bit

1:00:30 ↗ the process of making sure that the new

1:00:32 ↗ commissioners on board and i'm looking

1:00:34 ↗ quite a few of you

1:00:36 ↗ here

1:00:37 ↗ many entries know

1:00:39 ↗ better that you know you're like okay

1:00:41 ↗ well you're gonna have to bring up the

1:00:43 ↗ to speed the new commissioner but there

1:00:44 ↗ was quite a bit of work done prior to

1:00:46 ↗ that right as we were getting ready to

1:00:49 ↗ to really launch the application process

1:00:52 ↗ also at the beginning of the year we

1:00:53 ↗ finalized the human services strategic

1:00:55 ↗ plan so a human services strategic plan

1:00:58 ↗ took a

1:00:58 ↗ quite a bit of work last year and i

1:01:01 ↗ can't believe did you start last year in

1:01:02 ↗ june may in april you started but as

1:01:05 ↗ henna started her new job brand new job

1:01:07 ↗ last year

1:01:09 ↗ like less than a month into the job i'm

1:01:11 ↗ like okay yeah we're gonna start in this

1:01:12 ↗ human services strategic plan so

1:01:15 ↗ typically the strategic plan uh it's

1:01:17 ↗ it's done in collaboration with a

1:01:19 ↗ consultant we at the city we felt like

1:01:21 ↗ we are really close to our non-profit

1:01:23 ↗ partners we are really loose on the

1:01:25 ↗ ground in the community we didn't need

1:01:27 ↗ to have a consultant

1:01:28 ↗ so we did that we took that on

1:01:31 ↗ on ourselves we did that with the

1:01:33 ↗ commissioners they did an elaborate

1:01:36 ↗ continuing assessment and the strategic

1:01:38 ↗ plan so that strategic plan was earlier

1:01:40 ↗ this year adopted in march by city

1:01:42 ↗ council just in time for our application

1:01:45 ↗ process to start in april and then we

1:01:48 ↗ used it so we didn't have

1:01:51 ↗ much of a break there in between right

1:01:53 ↗ okay i just want do people realize what

1:01:56 ↗ a big you know we helped every once you

1:01:58 ↗ know every once a month we

1:02:00 ↗ helped give comments to these two but

1:02:02 ↗ they put this strategic plan together

1:02:05 ↗ and it's very unusual for cities to do

1:02:07 ↗ that

1:02:09 ↗ and it's

1:02:10 ↗ very unusual to do it in-house they did

1:02:12 ↗ it in-house

1:02:14 ↗ good job yes

1:02:16 ↗ every single word in that

1:02:18 ↗ plan is written by us

1:02:21 ↗ so it's yes

1:02:23 ↗ and they say that city taxpayers all

1:02:25 ↗ sorts of money because we didn't yeah

1:02:27 ↗ and you're and you're so right you guys

1:02:29 ↗ are closer

1:02:30 ↗ to the social services here yeah we got

1:02:33 ↗ some really helpful information and i

1:02:35 ↗ think you can see it in the strategic

1:02:37 ↗ plan and i'm really glad that was able

1:02:39 ↗ to be highlighted

1:02:40 ↗ uh because it was it's a new process for

1:02:43 ↗ us our new tool in our tool kit to have

1:02:46 ↗ as we look at our human services great

1:02:47 ↗ hands so so this is matt

1:02:50 ↗ um

1:02:52 ↗ we've talked about what we

1:02:54 ↗ what the challenges and the things that

1:02:56 ↗ we like about the whole process how did

1:02:58 ↗ having a strategic plan did you without

1:03:01 ↗ a helpful tool for you

1:03:04 ↗ i will start off by saying yes

1:03:07 ↗ oh my goodness yes it really it gave us

1:03:10 ↗ something in black and white on paper

1:03:12 ↗ that we knew

1:03:14 ↗ recently came from our community and

1:03:16 ↗ that's the biggest thing is our

1:03:18 ↗ strategic plan really came from what we

1:03:21 ↗ heard from the community and the needs

1:03:23 ↗ and so we pulled that so knowing that i

1:03:26 ↗ heard and had those conversations i had

1:03:28 ↗ these data points to create the

1:03:30 ↗ strategic plan around that um made me

1:03:33 ↗ feel very confident moving forward and

1:03:35 ↗ creating some of these toolkits right so

1:03:37 ↗ that like green yellow red toolkit you

1:03:40 ↗ had a lot of it was taken out of the

1:03:42 ↗ strategic plan of our goals to help

1:03:44 ↗ guide us so for me it was a very helpful

1:03:47 ↗ tool

1:03:48 ↗ um that again was just it was very

1:03:51 ↗ fresh and

1:03:53 ↗ consistent to what we were we knew the

1:03:55 ↗ community needed

1:03:57 ↗ and also madeline and i would like

1:03:59 ↗ actually i'm gonna give it back to

1:04:00 ↗ hannah because she attended those

1:04:02 ↗ meetings uh taking it even a step higher

1:04:04 ↗ the regional level uh as we collaborate

1:04:07 ↗ with other entities who might not have a

1:04:09 ↗ strategic plan um it was a stark

1:04:12 ↗ difference to see how they were

1:04:13 ↗ struggling because they didn't have a

1:04:15 ↗ guiding star

1:04:16 ↗ and so um right you know would you like

1:04:19 ↗ to comment more because i know

1:04:20 ↗ yeah she was coming from some meetings

1:04:22 ↗ and like monica we are so lucky we have

1:04:24 ↗ a strategic

1:04:28 ↗ oh yeah exactly yeah a lot of

1:04:30 ↗ jurisdictions um

1:04:33 ↗ were

1:04:34 ↗ kind of going off old data um and making

1:04:36 ↗ their decisions off of that um they

1:04:39 ↗ you could tell they were still trying to

1:04:40 ↗ decide like

1:04:42 ↗ how do they want to do it with their

1:04:43 ↗ commission

1:04:44 ↗ and it was just it made me thankful

1:04:47 ↗ knowing

1:04:48 ↗ you know that we had guidelines

1:04:52 ↗ again that came from our community

1:04:54 ↗ um to help us kind of make these really

1:04:57 ↗ difficult decisions that you all had to

1:04:59 ↗ make so

1:05:00 ↗ um

1:05:01 ↗ yeah big difference

1:05:03 ↗ does does bellevue

1:05:05 ↗ human services have their strategic plan

1:05:08 ↗ so welcome does things a little bit

1:05:09 ↗ differently while they don't have a

1:05:11 ↗ strategic plan they do a needs

1:05:13 ↗ assessment that they update every other

1:05:15 ↗ year every other year so while we did

1:05:18 ↗ our needs assessment then we use the

1:05:20 ↗ needs assessment to create goals the

1:05:22 ↗ city of bellevue staff also they did

1:05:24 ↗ their needs assessment

1:05:25 ↗ um it's just that so they just use the

1:05:28 ↗ needs assessments right without

1:05:29 ↗ necessarily having a strategic

1:05:31 ↗ goal or planning or priority sensation

1:05:33 ↗ but

1:05:34 ↗ they have that um

1:05:36 ↗ on a side note those

1:05:38 ↗ interesting conversations we started

1:05:40 ↗ having

1:05:41 ↗ um

1:05:42 ↗ with the city of bellevue and some other

1:05:43 ↗ jurisdictions to see if is it even worth

1:05:47 ↗ considering

1:05:48 ↗ have an east king county regional

1:05:51 ↗ strategic planning process

1:05:54 ↗ so we provided some feedback where it

1:05:57 ↗ would be you know

1:05:58 ↗ yeah it would be probably helpful and

1:06:00 ↗ also call out some unique features

1:06:03 ↗ because each jurisdiction also has some

1:06:05 ↗ unique needs but i think it might be

1:06:07 ↗ worth it it's a big undertaking

1:06:10 ↗ and so we'll continue the conversation

1:06:12 ↗ in the next year

1:06:14 ↗ um but um

1:06:16 ↗ and there does seem to be other

1:06:17 ↗ coalitions

1:06:19 ↗ that are doing that

1:06:20 ↗ right

1:06:21 ↗ where yeah it is based on the east king

1:06:23 ↗ county and i i think that will be very

1:06:26 ↗ interesting to look somewhere into right

1:06:29 ↗ yeah

1:06:30 ↗ yeah possibly partnering

1:06:33 ↗ and i just want to put in i thought

1:06:35 ↗ having a strategic plan

1:06:37 ↗ i thought it was just wonderful

1:06:39 ↗ it just made it

1:06:40 ↗ i mean it was my first time doing the

1:06:42 ↗ grant review process but

1:06:44 ↗ can you guys imagine let's say doing

1:06:46 ↗ this

1:06:48 ↗ two cycles ago where you had to review

1:06:50 ↗ 100 grants and there was no strategic

1:06:52 ↗ plan right no i

1:06:54 ↗ i can't

1:06:55 ↗ how do you prioritize what's right yeah

1:06:58 ↗ i used it a lot i used the strategic

1:07:00 ↗ plan i referred to it all the time yeah

1:07:04 ↗ that's thank you that's very helpful

1:07:05 ↗ thank you for all of that but so yes so

1:07:08 ↗ going back a lot of work has been done

1:07:10 ↗ this year and again thank you

1:07:12 ↗ commissioners

1:07:13 ↗ um along with that just for tracking you

1:07:16 ↗ have received some updates and not so

1:07:18 ↗ much

1:07:19 ↗ uh in the last couple of months but you

1:07:21 ↗ are all familiar with our behavioral

1:07:23 ↗ health and homeless outreach program so

1:07:25 ↗ that is also a program that we just

1:07:26 ↗ launched launched last year

1:07:29 ↗ um we really created like somebody who

1:07:31 ↗ might uh reminded me recently that you

1:07:33 ↗ know just a little bit

1:07:35 ↗ over a year ago the human services

1:07:37 ↗ functions in the city were just one

1:07:39 ↗ full-time staff and we really created

1:07:42 ↗ the division since so

1:07:44 ↗ um a lot of work has been done

1:07:47 ↗ just to set up and

1:07:49 ↗ establish that behavioral health and

1:07:50 ↗ homeless outreach program you heard the

1:07:52 ↗ mayor

1:07:53 ↗ talk about the homeless outreach

1:07:56 ↗ dashboard

1:07:58 ↗ there's a lot of work in

1:08:00 ↗ tracking data for that

1:08:02 ↗ um and some some more work on

1:08:06 ↗ that gave us actually more information

1:08:08 ↗ on what does homelessness looks like in

1:08:10 ↗ issaquah so then now we can i'm going to

1:08:13 ↗ talk in a few minutes about what's

1:08:14 ↗ coming up but um then that data then can

1:08:18 ↗ provide it's almost like a needs

1:08:19 ↗ assessment just for homelessness that

1:08:22 ↗ gives us information on what services

1:08:23 ↗ are needed and that helps us then make

1:08:26 ↗ recommendations for services that way

1:08:29 ↗ um

1:08:30 ↗ you might have met marisol on one of our

1:08:33 ↗ other part-time human services staff

1:08:36 ↗ she's been supporting our community

1:08:38 ↗ courts that

1:08:39 ↗ launched just last year as well

1:08:42 ↗ so

1:08:42 ↗ a lot a lot of great work was

1:08:44 ↗ accomplished this this year so far

1:08:47 ↗ and so with that i think there are a

1:08:49 ↗ couple of things that were did not get

1:08:50 ↗ done

1:08:52 ↗ for example we were hoping to have

1:08:54 ↗ presentations

1:08:56 ↗ from non-profit organizations we didn't

1:08:58 ↗ have time over the summer to do that

1:09:00 ↗ there are way too many organizations

1:09:04 ↗ that um

1:09:06 ↗ that i can't imagine all of you uh

1:09:09 ↗ reviewing the grants and having those

1:09:11 ↗ typically

1:09:13 ↗ with your permission i'm gonna now start

1:09:15 ↗ talking about kind of what's coming up

1:09:18 ↗ in the past

1:09:19 ↗ after the grant reviews are completed

1:09:21 ↗ the human services commission would

1:09:23 ↗ start working on a plan to visit the

1:09:26 ↗ human services organizations that you

1:09:28 ↗ fund

1:09:29 ↗ and that you know that used to be

1:09:32 ↗ something that i really liked about

1:09:33 ↗ isaka because it was a little bit more

1:09:35 ↗ unique so our commissioners we would

1:09:37 ↗ work we would set up a schedule who's

1:09:38 ↗ going to our organization similarly like

1:09:41 ↗ of course you're not going to go to all

1:09:42 ↗ 40s in some programs that we found right

1:09:45 ↗ like we're everybody's going just uh

1:09:47 ↗ take a couple of depending on your

1:09:49 ↗ capacity but what was interesting is

1:09:51 ↗ that you went as commissioned uh without

1:09:54 ↗ even staff just want to to visit right

1:09:58 ↗ you got to see

1:10:00 ↗ in person the work that they are doing

1:10:03 ↗ interact with them build relationships

1:10:05 ↗ um which

1:10:07 ↗ we really like that it was unique about

1:10:09 ↗ issaquah because typically other

1:10:10 ↗ jurisdictions what they do they invite

1:10:13 ↗ the organizations to come to their

1:10:15 ↗ meetings and that's also an approach as

1:10:17 ↗ well but so some some

1:10:20 ↗ uh jurisdictions invite create a panel

1:10:23 ↗ let's say oh tonight we are gonna invite

1:10:25 ↗ all the food service organizations or

1:10:28 ↗ next month we are going to invite all

1:10:30 ↗ the rental assistants um organizations

1:10:33 ↗ and so they create a panel they allow

1:10:36 ↗ everyone to talk about for food for five

1:10:38 ↗ minutes and there are pros and cons

1:10:40 ↗ about both approaches really um but

1:10:43 ↗ that's something that i would love for

1:10:45 ↗ us to continue the conversation next

1:10:46 ↗ month

1:10:47 ↗ um and just to plan for 2023 what would

1:10:50 ↗ be best

1:10:51 ↗ for us to do so so right you've done it

1:10:54 ↗ so what i'm hearing

1:10:57 ↗ what i'm hearing is you've done it both

1:10:58 ↗ ways or in the past you've done site

1:11:00 ↗ visits

1:11:01 ↗ but you've also

1:11:03 ↗ created an opportunity for uh live or

1:11:06 ↗ virtual presentations where

1:11:08 ↗ representatives from an organization

1:11:10 ↗ would have five minutes to say

1:11:15 ↗ this is our organization other

1:11:17 ↗ jurisdictions so other cities have done

1:11:19 ↗ that approach

1:11:20 ↗ historically has been society okay okay

1:11:24 ↗ thank you um of course i mean there's

1:11:26 ↗ always an option just like tonight

1:11:27 ↗ organizations can come and provide

1:11:29 ↗ public comments but we didn't do a

1:11:31 ↗ formalized

1:11:32 ↗ just come and

1:11:34 ↗ let's have a panel of

1:11:36 ↗ but that's something i think i would

1:11:37 ↗ love for us to discuss start thinking

1:11:39 ↗ about it and i would like to have it as

1:11:41 ↗ an agenda item for the next couple of

1:11:44 ↗ months as we planned for 2023.

1:11:47 ↗ how should we do and it doesn't have to

1:11:48 ↗ be one way or that another maybe we'll

1:11:50 ↗ land on a hybrid or something

1:11:52 ↗ different but so in the past like did

1:11:55 ↗ you

1:11:56 ↗ did you so there's lots of organizations

1:11:58 ↗ that this that the city touches so did

1:12:01 ↗ you have a um a hierarchy like well

1:12:04 ↗ these are the top

1:12:05 ↗ these organizations received the most

1:12:08 ↗ funding so those will be the top ones we

1:12:10 ↗ want to

1:12:13 ↗ create

1:12:13 ↗ a great great question so i can tell you

1:12:16 ↗ there are two funding cycles that's the

1:12:18 ↗ information i have from the past two

1:12:20 ↗ funding cycles one is before i came to

1:12:23 ↗ the city and what they did at that time

1:12:26 ↗ they um

1:12:28 ↗ um

1:12:29 ↗ i don't know if they how they

1:12:31 ↗ prioritized but they visited a few

1:12:34 ↗ organizations from all the different

1:12:36 ↗ categories i'm not sure how they

1:12:38 ↗ prioritize to choose which one but their

1:12:40 ↗ last lesson learned was that well

1:12:43 ↗ um they realized that now they were

1:12:44 ↗ biased uh when they came to

1:12:47 ↗ um

1:12:54 ↗ so then that wasn't helpful so when i

1:12:56 ↗ came on board the first thing that we

1:12:59 ↗ did we sampled we chose one category and

1:13:02 ↗ we said that we are just gonna we want

1:13:04 ↗ to learn this year we chose atlanta

1:13:05 ↗ behavioral health we said that as a

1:13:07 ↗ commission we want to learn more

1:13:09 ↗ information about the behavioral health

1:13:10 ↗ organizations and then we visited all

1:13:13 ↗ the organizations in the behavioral

1:13:14 ↗ health category

1:13:16 ↗ but then

1:13:18 ↗ so that's right there are pros and cons

1:13:20 ↗ sure uh either way i would love to talk

1:13:24 ↗ a little bit more i would love to even

1:13:25 ↗ just gather more information from the

1:13:26 ↗ other jurisdictions on their end what

1:13:29 ↗ worked and what didn't with inviting

1:13:31 ↗ organizations to them

1:13:33 ↗ of course to apply the equity lands it's

1:13:35 ↗ always easier to go to the organizations

1:13:37 ↗ not necessarily to ask them to come to

1:13:39 ↗ us but yeah they're like

1:13:41 ↗ and then it depends on what kind of

1:13:42 ↗ presenters they are

1:13:44 ↗ you know

1:13:47 ↗ [Music]

1:13:51 ↗ and maybe that's why maybe we come up

1:13:52 ↗ with even something totally different

1:13:54 ↗ like us as commissioners how are we

1:13:57 ↗ going to spend the next year in really

1:13:59 ↗ educating ourselves more about

1:14:02 ↗ you know the community how are we going

1:14:03 ↗ to build those relationships to learn

1:14:05 ↗ more about what's going on in the

1:14:06 ↗ community

1:14:08 ↗ so

1:14:09 ↗ definitely that's one of our upcoming

1:14:13 ↗ items to tackle

1:14:15 ↗ um we also go

1:14:17 ↗ i just wanted to build on that a little

1:14:19 ↗ bit i'm just thinking that um

1:14:22 ↗ if you're a year ahead of your grant or

1:14:24 ↗ your

1:14:25 ↗ off year let's say that you

1:14:27 ↗ you take a few uh commissioners

1:14:30 ↗ and put them in your groups and say okay

1:14:33 ↗ these are the people you're gonna be

1:14:34 ↗ responsible for you have

1:14:36 ↗ nine ten months to go visit those ahead

1:14:39 ↗ of time

1:14:40 ↗ see

1:14:42 ↗ so we decided our subgroups early on

1:14:45 ↗ right oh wow

1:14:48 ↗ that

1:14:49 ↗ let's let's talk more about that's great

1:14:51 ↗ we just but unfortunately we don't know

1:14:53 ↗ who's gonna apply in two years for the

1:14:55 ↗ grant

1:14:56 ↗ not so much

1:14:58 ↗ not so much the

1:15:00 ↗ the uh

1:15:02 ↗ particular

1:15:04 ↗ organization but the commissioners know

1:15:07 ↗ what groups are going to be focused on

1:15:09 ↗ oh i see i see that's a great idea

1:15:12 ↗ that makes sense like for you to even

1:15:14 ↗ educate yourself let's say like more on

1:15:17 ↗ the housing continuing to get more

1:15:19 ↗ knowledgeable about housing

1:15:23 ↗ that's a great yes suggestion

1:15:25 ↗ so sorry

1:15:26 ↗ i don't know that's great thank you

1:15:29 ↗ so so we'll work on this um another big

1:15:32 ↗ item for us now we have a few human

1:15:34 ↗ services strategic plan and we are we

1:15:36 ↗ use that to guide our uh human services

1:15:39 ↗ grants but it doesn't stop there we have

1:15:42 ↗ several action items on the strategic

1:15:44 ↗ plan that we started working on

1:15:46 ↗ implementation so we would love to bring

1:15:48 ↗ you updates bring your challenges

1:15:51 ↗ work on that so 2023 it's gonna be a big

1:15:54 ↗ year for us to to work on implementing

1:15:56 ↗ the human services strategic plan so

1:15:58 ↗ more on that

1:16:00 ↗ my computer went let me go back

1:16:03 ↗ it's okay i

1:16:04 ↗ know it's just i have a white screen

1:16:06 ↗ because i know so what you're asking

1:16:09 ↗ from us right now is just kind of think

1:16:10 ↗ about what that might look like and

1:16:12 ↗ we'll discuss it more at the next

1:16:14 ↗ meeting so just giving a high of high

1:16:16 ↗ level like orientation like what's

1:16:18 ↗ coming on our agenda because if you also

1:16:21 ↗ remember we talked about

1:16:23 ↗ typically december is a recess month do

1:16:26 ↗ we want to take another recess month

1:16:28 ↗ because we didn't have august so just

1:16:30 ↗ wanted to give you a little bit more

1:16:31 ↗ information on what's coming and then

1:16:33 ↗ for us to spend a minute i don't know if

1:16:35 ↗ they're overtime really bad no

1:16:37 ↗ we are good then just to spend like what

1:16:39 ↗ makes more sense and

1:16:41 ↗ how much time we want to

1:16:43 ↗ so yes no just in conversation i'm not

1:16:46 ↗ asking you to take decisions tonight

1:16:47 ↗ that's right

1:16:49 ↗ i think we were going to they'll come

1:16:50 ↗ back

1:16:51 ↗ to tonight's meeting and decide whether

1:16:53 ↗ we were going to take

1:16:54 ↗ a month november december i think

1:16:57 ↗ november december or yes we already do

1:16:59 ↗ okay we're taking december

1:17:02 ↗ okay that question was going to be do

1:17:04 ↗ you would you like to take another month

1:17:06 ↗ off considering that you had a full

1:17:08 ↗ summer or should we continue to meet

1:17:10 ↗ october november and then start in

1:17:12 ↗ january do people have

1:17:15 ↗ i i have my opinion on this does anybody

1:17:18 ↗ else

1:17:19 ↗ i have an opinion but i'd like to know

1:17:20 ↗ what the impact on the staff is

1:17:23 ↗ what's the impact on youtube if we

1:17:25 ↗ to if we do take november up if we don't

1:17:28 ↗ take november

1:17:29 ↗ well she's gone well

1:17:32 ↗ y'all

1:17:44 ↗ so i will be out until uh the next year

1:17:48 ↗ is the plan so i will be going for the

1:17:50 ↗ remainder of the year so monitoring that

1:17:52 ↗ puts a lot more pressure on you right

1:17:55 ↗ so if we're not here and your intern

1:18:00 ↗ hey that's right

1:18:01 ↗ we got junior over here

1:18:04 ↗ the way i view it and i'm a little

1:18:08 ↗ bit more aware maybe of her day-to-day

1:18:09 ↗ stuff because i reach out i volunteer

1:18:12 ↗ it's a quad community services so i

1:18:13 ↗ reach out to these

1:18:15 ↗ ladies a lot

1:18:16 ↗ she always has something on her plate

1:18:20 ↗ okay so if we don't have that meeting in

1:18:23 ↗ november

1:18:24 ↗ show this

1:18:25 ↗ i mean i i view you as just always going

1:18:28 ↗ full state ahead no matter what do you

1:18:29 ↗ view if we have a meeting in november

1:18:32 ↗ is it going to be

1:18:34 ↗ hard a hardship for you

1:18:36 ↗ well thank you for being concerned

1:18:37 ↗ really i don't feel like this is about

1:18:39 ↗ me i feel like what is helpful for for

1:18:42 ↗ the commission and what is helpful for

1:18:44 ↗ us i think so allow me if i may i would

1:18:48 ↗ like to speak for a couple of moments

1:18:50 ↗ about two other things that are on our

1:18:52 ↗ agenda and then let's decide as a group

1:18:55 ↗ so

1:18:56 ↗ you might recall

1:18:58 ↗ once or perhaps twice during the summer

1:19:00 ↗ we came and provided a brief report on

1:19:04 ↗ um an emergency housing model that we

1:19:06 ↗ are proposing to city council so we are

1:19:10 ↗ happy i think that's going to be

1:19:12 ↗ proposed in in the mayor's budget next

1:19:15 ↗ next week and so we would love either in

1:19:18 ↗ october or november to do come back to

1:19:20 ↗ you as before the city takes a final

1:19:23 ↗ decision to discuss more details uh with

1:19:26 ↗ you on on that program i think it would

1:19:28 ↗ be helpful for you to have more

1:19:30 ↗ information and offer any

1:19:32 ↗ recommendations depending on what city

1:19:34 ↗ council asks

1:19:35 ↗ and then last but not least

1:19:37 ↗ um we have the human services grant so

1:19:39 ↗ we have the 2021-2022

1:19:42 ↗ human services grants um that we are

1:19:44 ↗ working we have quarterly reports

1:19:46 ↗ because we are so busy we didn't have a

1:19:48 ↗ chance to provide you updates on that so

1:19:51 ↗ um would love to come back and provide

1:19:53 ↗ you some updates on how we are doing

1:19:54 ↗ she's already answered the questions

1:19:57 ↗ yeah

1:19:58 ↗ it sounds like you want to meet in

1:19:59 ↗ november

1:20:12 ↗ let's wait and see because maybe in

1:20:14 ↗ october we come and if we are efficient

1:20:18 ↗ we can tackle all of this and we say

1:20:21 ↗ okay commissioners let's if you're okay

1:20:23 ↗ with that if we feel that we

1:20:25 ↗ accomplished what we wanted to do and in

1:20:26 ↗ january we still have time for

1:20:28 ↗ everything else i would say okay let's

1:20:30 ↗ take a walk reserve right now and come

1:20:32 ↗ back in january

1:20:34 ↗ that's something that's just reasonable

1:20:35 ↗ so we'll look at it next month

1:20:38 ↗ always like kicking again

1:20:43 ↗ because by then we will also know if

1:20:44 ↗ council has any particular discussions

1:20:47 ↗ uh questions for you sometimes you know

1:20:49 ↗ i

1:20:50 ↗ city council has a lot of respect for

1:20:52 ↗ your work i don't think that there are

1:20:54 ↗ many meetings when we are there and they

1:20:55 ↗ ask what does the commission think about

1:20:57 ↗ it and so i would love to to be able to

1:20:59 ↗ like this way we already have it on this

1:21:01 ↗ on the calendar we don't have to worry

1:21:03 ↗ about yeah

1:21:04 ↗ yeah

1:21:07 ↗ and speaking of calendar

1:21:09 ↗ this is our meeting that would have been

1:21:10 ↗ next week right yes okay so no meeting

1:21:12 ↗ next week our next meeting is scheduled

1:21:14 ↗ for october 19th that's the third

1:21:17 ↗ wednesday

1:21:18 ↗ and it's back here now in all the space

1:21:21 ↗ it will be here

1:21:36 ↗ so are we where are we now i think we

1:21:38 ↗ are done with this item okay and i think

1:21:48 ↗ [Laughter]

1:22:00 ↗ yeah yeah

1:22:02 ↗ well i just want to say thank you all

1:22:04 ↗ commissioners it's been just a pleasure

1:22:06 ↗ working with you this year through this

1:22:07 ↗ grant cycle getting to know you all

1:22:09 ↗ especially as new commissioners a lot of

1:22:11 ↗ you

1:22:12 ↗ um so i am sad to leave for just a few

1:22:15 ↗ months um but i'm excited to come back

1:22:17 ↗ and full steam ahead is the plan and

1:22:19 ↗ i'll have a little little addition to

1:22:21 ↗ the family um so can't wait to

1:22:24 ↗ introduce him to you all

1:22:26 ↗ uh so i'll have monica sending pictures

1:22:29 ↗ um

1:22:31 ↗ yeah so thank you all for your support

1:22:33 ↗ and uh working so well together i really

1:22:36 ↗ do appreciate that i hope everything

1:22:38 ↗ goes please number three for you oh

1:22:40 ↗ number three yes oh my goodness first

1:22:42 ↗ boy though yeah

1:22:43 ↗ oh three more you got a basketball team

1:22:46 ↗ yeah

1:22:49 ↗ [Music]

1:22:51 ↗ [Laughter]

1:23:04 ↗ yeah this is lovely

1:23:06 ↗ yeah so yes the same here it's so nice

1:23:08 ↗ to see everyone in person and uh people

1:23:11 ↗ feel great working with you and now just

1:23:12 ↗ staying down for something so yeah

1:23:15 ↗ well this will be my last meeting with

1:23:17 ↗ you guys because i am going to move to

1:23:20 ↗ the policy and planning commission

1:23:23 ↗ so it's been a pleasure working with you

1:23:25 ↗ guys over the last few months and i've

1:23:27 ↗ enjoyed the work that we did together

1:23:29 ↗ and

1:23:30 ↗ i learned a lot

1:23:32 ↗ thank you yeah so i look forward to that

1:23:34 ↗ be interesting

1:23:35 ↗ wow and like yeah that's a great

1:23:38 ↗ word it's a commission right yeah okay

1:23:41 ↗ yeah that's a good one to be honest yeah

1:23:43 ↗ we'll see it's gonna it's very different

1:23:45 ↗ than this but how is that one paid

1:23:47 ↗ [Laughter]

1:24:00 ↗ yes i'm happy to resend that out too

1:24:04 ↗ it's like we have to hire babysitters

1:24:06 ↗ right

1:24:07 ↗ it's for any any cost that can include

1:24:10 ↗ transportation for anything yes for

1:24:12 ↗ anything that you need to make it easier

1:24:15 ↗ for you to be here so it kept it very

1:24:17 ↗ good

1:24:23 ↗ please

1:24:25 ↗ thank you

1:24:27 ↗ okay well i think and i'm sorry to see

1:24:29 ↗ you go i know thank you it's been my

1:24:31 ↗ pleasure to work with you guys it really

1:24:32 ↗ has

1:24:33 ↗ but you'll have an impact on ppc we'll

1:24:36 ↗ see i don't know if they're ready for me

1:24:37 ↗ [Laughter]

1:24:42 ↗ i don't know

1:24:52 ↗ [Music]

1:24:57 ↗ on the commission right now are we still

1:24:58 ↗ being recorded so we can close okay okay

1:25:01 ↗ meetings adjourned

1:25:03 ↗ thank you so each board and commission

1:25:05 ↗ though has um

1:25:08 ↗ either

1:25:16 ↗ you

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Council / Members (8)

Manny Brown

Jaime Fajardo arrived 6:56 pm

Patricia Sadate-Ngatchou excused absence

Trish Bloor

Jayme Longoria

Maury Edwards

Kiran Singh unexcused absence

Madeleine Fish

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Monica Negrila, Human Services Manager

Hannah Roberts, Human Services Coordinator

Elina Pan, Human Services Student Intern

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Commissioners recommended for next cycle to compare overall plans and information from other cities, encouraging specific types of needed programs such as childcare, and exploring grant funding for Issaquah School…
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