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Wednesday, July 19, 2023

6:30 PM · 1h 29m
Topic tracked across meetings:
Adopting Virtual Attendance Policy 2/2
Section
1. CALL TO ORDER
1a
Commissioner Membership
packet pp.3
Topics: Boards & Commissions
Staff report:
HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION Staff Liaison Hannah Roberts, Human About Services Coordinator Created in 2007, this commission advises the Email Hannah Mayor and City Council on matters concerning human services planning and funding. The commission plays a vital role in studying Regular Members emerging issues and concerns in the human 2024 – Huma Mohibullah services area to ensure that the basic survival 2025 – Madeline Fish needs of Issaquah residents are met and that 2025 - Trish Bloor support systems are in place to help people 2026 – Maury Edwards through economic and personal crisis. Each 2026 - Manny Brown year, the commission focuses on its workplan. 2027 - Jaime Fajardo 2027 – Keena Esemuede
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
3a
Minutes of May 17, 2023
packet pp.5–7
Staff report:
APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 05-17-23 Human Services Commission Minutes Page [0000] CITY OF ISSAQUAH Human Services Commission 6:30 PM Steelhead Room, 235 1st Ave. May 17, 2023 MINUTES SE, Issaquah
4. AGENDA ITEMS
4a
Adopting Virtual Attendance Policy
Action · 5 min · Hannah Roberts, Human Services Coordinator · packet pp.9–16
Staff report:
Proposed Amendments to Human Services Commission Rules & Regulations
4b
Human Services Grant Background and Quarterly Report (I)
30 min · Hannah Roberts, Human Services Coordinator · packet pp.17–37
Topics: Equity
Staff report:
Review the 2023 Quarter 1 Grants performance
4c
Community Partner Site Visit Report
30 min · Jaime Fajardo, Vice Chair Madeline Fish, Commissioner Manny Brown, Commissioner Trish Bloor, Chair · packet pp.39–53
Staff report:
Community Partner Site Visit Commissioner Report-Out July 19th, 2023| HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION MEETING
5. REPORTS
5a
Chair and Commissioner Reports
packet pp.55
Topics: Boards & Commissions
Staff report:
City Council Meeting – June 5, 2023 • City Council authorized to enter into an occupancy agreement with the Owner of Motel 6 in Issaquah, Old West 1885 LLC, for the purpose of creating a pilot Emergency Housing Program, consisting of twelve (12) rooms to temporarily house Issaquah residents who are homeless. • City Council authorized to approve funding for two Behavioral Health positions, one (1) Full Time Equivalent (FTE) Behavioral Health Coordinator position and one (1) FTE Behavioral Health Supervisor position, to create a Co-Responder Crisis Response program. The proposed positions would be funded through the 0.1% Affordable Housing Sales Tax revenue (HB 1590). If approved, the salary classification for the Behavioral Health Supervisor position, will be included in the revised master Salary Ordinance, scheduled for June 26, 2023.
5b
Staff Report
6. OTHER BUSINESS / ANNOUNCEMENTS
6a
Human Services Commission will take a recess in August. No meeting on August 16
Topics: Equity
0:02 Services Commission meeting of July 19th
0:05 to order
0:07 and the first thing on our agenda is
0:09 public comment and I know we have
0:12 um city council member Barton Center
0:14 you're welcome
0:21 oh well are you here on behalf of the
0:23 city council and during this month we
0:27 are going out and meeting with each of
0:30 our boards and commissions and say thank
0:33 you for all of your work and thank you
0:35 so much for participating and being part
0:38 of our city and I was really honored to
0:41 be able to give this particular
0:42 Commission because uh I really admire
0:47 the work that you do in terms of the
0:49 Grant and things that you do I know that
0:51 and say tremendously difficult and long
0:54 process but we're always pleased with
0:57 the results that you've come up with and
0:59 also I just think that this technician
1:02 has been such a lot of report of how we
1:04 respond to responding to covid and the
1:09 Human Services footprint in the city has
1:11 grown so much in just the last three
1:13 years and all of that has come through
1:16 this commission and so just much
1:18 appreciation for Minecart for everything
1:20 that you itself but on behalf of the
1:23 Issaquah city council occupation League
1:25 thank you thank you very much thank you
1:30 yes and then I'm going to take that out
1:32 that's okay yeah all right so yes have a
1:35 good meeting and
1:39 okay good to see you thank you
1:43 and I'm gonna
1:45 I'm gonna Push pause real quick
1:51 she'll be on soon I just I don't know is
1:55 if I'm recording it properly I think
1:58 we're good actually
2:00 okay okay
2:02 so do we have anybody else
2:05 um that signed up for a long time
2:07 no okay so we can move on to approval of
2:11 the minutes for two months ago
2:15 if you can remember that box
2:18 and if anybody wants to make a motion
2:22 as commissioner fish and I motion that
2:24 we approve the minutes from the May 17th
2:27 meeting
2:28 last second
2:30 okay it's the early discussion
2:34 okay and if I don't hear of any um
2:38 descents I'm just going to redeem them
2:40 approved is that the right way to say it
2:43 I will say
2:45 okay I mean I'm not going to ask
2:46 everybody Yes sounds good okay
2:51 um okay and now we're going to move on
2:53 to our agenda items
2:55 okay adapting the virtual attendance
2:57 policy
2:59 all right so I'm going to go ahead and
3:00 take that one so
3:05 Tisha was going to be here um but she
3:08 has a uh family uh event that's
3:11 happening tonight so she's I'm not able
3:13 to present this to our meetings or she
3:15 asked me to do that and I um want to
3:18 present this is going to be in our June
3:20 meeting
3:21 um but ultimately we want to look at
3:22 adopting the virtual attendance policy
3:25 um so it is in your agenda items um
3:28 Tisha was able to provide
3:30 um the proposed changes that show what
3:33 the edits would be and then the cleaned
3:35 version and then the memo saying if we
3:37 don't see any changes that we can adopt
3:39 it uh the main thing that I just kind of
3:41 want to note here
3:43 um is that section 6A it's it's
3:46 ultimately saying if virtual meeting
3:48 platform and Equipment um
3:51 sorry up top section one it's regular
3:54 meetings will also include a virtual
3:56 attendance option using a virtual
3:57 meeting software and so then you'll see
4:00 the rest of the um language changed to
4:04 the
4:05 um to include uh virtual options
4:08 um this is the same uh the same rules of
4:12 regulations as our Equity board
4:15 um ultimately stating that we uh do
4:17 provide an offer virtual and in-person
4:21 options are available for commission
4:24 meeting agenda
4:28 so do you have any questions or anything
4:30 that you um
4:32 want to talk about before we vote
4:34 just for people that weren't here
4:38 if we enter meeting in May
4:41 we decided we were just gonna basically
4:44 I don't want to say
4:46 I have no rules it's not correct but be
4:49 very liberal okay to make to make it
4:52 very inclusive and we had a lot of input
4:55 from our new Commissioners which was
4:57 important and we decided
4:59 um for more inclusivity we needed to
5:02 just make it as old as possible and um
5:05 we didn't make any requirements about
5:08 people having to show up at a meeting
5:10 right so there's nothing like you have
5:13 you didn't put anything in like at least
5:15 two out of the okay
5:17 it's pretty much as an open as
5:20 well yeah
5:22 yeah it's a great recommendation of the
5:27 right
5:29 absolutely yeah
5:32 is that I think we had a conversation in
5:34 May around axis access and then I think
5:38 having an equity perspective around
5:40 information also being deliberate about
5:43 it so that was
5:45 she came and gave a great presentation
5:47 kind of here's what groups are doing
5:49 here's what Equity board is kind of
5:51 recommending I think commissioner man
5:53 who spoke to an old opponent in the
5:54 sense of
5:56 if Equity board is already set in a way
5:58 with how to provide access we've
5:59 probably it's probably been our best
6:01 interest to follow Sue
6:03 um so that was a conversation that
6:05 happened two months ago
6:08 did appreciate all the answers
6:12 I think they all
6:14 they all they all were leaning in that
6:16 direction encouraged us to go in that
6:18 direction because when we initially had
6:19 a meeting about this
6:22 a long time ago and this conversation
6:25 started we were not necessarily
6:34 yeah
6:36 so if there's no further discussion we
6:38 can move forward with an action
6:45 so I need
6:46 um if somebody to
6:52 the last paragraph that's basically um
6:55 moving the action door okay I'm gonna so
6:58 I'm gonna make a motion
6:59 right okay I moved to amend Human
7:02 Services commission's rules and
7:04 regulations by adopting amendments to
7:07 article 3 section one regular meetings
7:10 session seven rules of the meeting and
7:13 add a new section six six virtual
7:16 attendance test for both do I have a
7:19 second a second I'm Rory Edwards
7:23 and
7:26 if you all in favor raise your hands
7:30 okay it looks like a shinanas beautiful
7:33 all right congratulations Human Service
7:35 Commission
7:38 [Music]
7:45 thank you
7:51 okay well that was easy
7:53 okay
7:55 um so are we ready to move on yeah okay
7:58 and the next one is in Hannah's Court as
8:01 well Human Services Grant background and
8:04 afford delivered work
8:06 Perfect all right so I'm gonna just pair
8:08 my screen here
8:11 um and I'm going to walk us through
8:14 um a little bit of background of Human
8:16 Services Grants and and especially since
8:18 a few folks are new here
8:21 um and then
8:26 yeah
8:27 okay
8:29 um and then I'm also going to discuss
8:30 kind of the quarterly reports so I'll
8:32 start off with the background here so
8:35 um yeah is Rucker with us I saw Rutgers
8:40 thank you so much
8:44 let me double check that she's still
8:45 here
8:47 I Heard a Voice too yes thank you I can
8:51 hear you and I will turn my camera on
8:53 very shortly I'm just trying to figure
8:55 out how to do it
9:04 and I can see you all perfectly and hear
9:07 you very well thank you that's great to
9:10 know thank you
9:11 all right
9:15 so again uh the purpose of this
9:18 presentation this evening is really to
9:20 provide a little bit more of a
9:21 background some of you sat through this
9:23 similar information some of you have
9:25 some new information I also want to give
9:27 an opportunity for kind of the current
9:29 Commissioners who went through the
9:30 funding process
9:32 um to have a time of reflection and just
9:33 sharing so we'll just know that I have
9:35 some time set aside for that and then
9:38 I'm also going to just kind of give you
9:39 an update of how our organizations and
9:42 programs how they did the first quarter
9:44 and um give you the quick update on that
9:47 yeah
9:52 so this Human Service Commission was
9:55 created back in 2007.
9:59 um and since then you can see kind of
10:00 the the funding process has really grown
10:04 um in the work that you're doing and the
10:06 funding that we're we're seeing
10:08 um you know what what is the role of
10:10 Human Service Commission what what's the
10:12 point of coming together and really it's
10:14 to make these recommendations to our our
10:17 city mayor our city council really
10:19 regarding some of these Human Services
10:21 funding we have not just these grants
10:24 but additional programs and services
10:26 that we do
10:28 um but again your main role is to and it
10:31 is a very daunting task so I don't say
10:34 this lightly
10:36 um but you review these applications of
10:38 our nonprofit organizations and
10:40 determine which one will meet the needs
10:42 of our community which one should we
10:45 fund as a city and how much should we
10:47 fund them
10:48 um so that is a huge part of what this
10:51 Commission and I just think this is a
10:53 helpful graph to see kind of how the
10:55 funding Cycle Works and how much money
10:57 we've given um in 2015 it was just over
11:01 200 000 and we have now doubled back
11:04 here in this funding cycle so excited to
11:06 see that growth and continuous growth as
11:09 well
11:11 okay so
11:14 um the commission was created in 2007
11:17 when did the human services department
11:20 where was that created you know yeah so
11:23 so I'll minor eruption were actually
11:26 division so division yes so a little the
11:29 only reason why I say that is because
11:30 we're a part of parks and Community
11:33 Services you all are probably Familiar
11:35 of Parks and Recreation well we decided
11:38 back in 20 I want to say 2019
11:41 um there was a reorganization for Human
11:43 Services to go from sustainability under
11:46 Parks and Recreation changing it to
11:48 parks and community services and so
11:51 Human Services back in 2019 was a part
11:56 of parks and
11:58 um and it was just Monica at that time
12:00 so when was Human Services created
12:02 period within the city yeah and you can
12:06 say you have to look it up I think I
12:08 have to look it up
12:15 um but yeah that's a great question
12:16 because I don't think it's been around
12:18 forever I you know it it hasn't I know
12:21 the the purpose and Human Services used
12:23 to be just a single part-time job right
12:25 and it has grown and expanded and now
12:27 you are seeing we are going to be a team
12:30 of ten that is mind-blowning so more
12:33 more information on that so we it's a
12:36 growing need in our community and if
12:37 we're growing the city is growing with
12:39 it and I'm very proud of us for that
12:45 so what are the Human Services Grants
12:48 that we're talking about so this is a
12:51 biennial cycle so every two years the
12:53 application process opens up and it's a
12:56 funding cycle for two years
12:58 um again the the process where it goes
13:01 is our human services our non-profit
13:04 organizations spend a lot of time on
13:06 these applications for those of you who
13:08 have seen them they are lengthy wordy
13:10 and very thought out and so um
13:14 so that comes to you all to review and
13:17 again you're not going into it blindly
13:20 and provide some tool guides and
13:21 toolkits and guidance of how to review
13:24 it and how to score
13:26 um but that is the main job that we do
13:28 as most organized and efficiently as we
13:30 can
13:31 um and then we present your decision to
13:34 our city mayor
13:36 um who then kind of just checks it off
13:37 and then it goes to our city council for
13:39 the final approval
13:41 um very rarely do they come back and say
13:43 oh no no I want this funded or this
13:45 needs to be different I think our city
13:47 council really rely and Trust our
13:51 commission and the work that you're
13:52 doing and the thoughtfulness that goes
13:54 behind some of these decisions
13:58 so again your role kind of uh zooming in
14:02 a little bit when you do receive an
14:03 application
14:05 um what we typically have done and we
14:07 certainly will be discussing how we want
14:08 to do it this year but we will kind of
14:11 divide and conquer is our approach to
14:13 not all commissions and different cities
14:14 do it differently but for us there's uh
14:18 quite a few applications so
14:20 um we kind of put it in small groups for
14:22 you to review in more depth and we
14:25 provide you with a review card
14:28 um that again helps you uh kind of give
14:30 them a score and again more details and
14:33 training to come this is just trying to
14:34 be a high level to give you a better
14:36 understanding of your role and then we
14:39 provide
14:40 um basically a list of what we recommend
14:43 um and again not an easy task
14:47 um so just in summary I think it's
14:48 helpful to see you know what what did we
14:50 decide for this funding cycle
14:52 um so I again I just I think it's
14:54 important to note these big differences
14:55 so we had over 1.3 million dollars in
14:59 requests these are organizations saying
15:01 I mean this much money from the City of
15:03 Issaquah to be able to do the service
15:05 that we're doing and you can see we only
15:07 had a slim amount and again this is we
15:10 started off with 500 we were able to
15:12 increase it to
15:14 um over 556 thousand dollars
15:17 um but I think the number shows here
15:19 also
15:21 um the number of programs that apply
15:23 were 81 and we had to cut half
15:29 and again we're talking about
15:30 organizations who are all working so
15:33 hard they all are very deserving and all
15:35 need the funding um but again that is
15:38 your job to kind of make those big
15:40 choices and recommendations
15:43 so we do use a review criteria
15:47 um really the we come off from our Human
15:49 Services strategic plan
15:51 um that is something is really our our
15:53 bread and butter of why and what and how
15:56 we do things here in human services uh
15:59 so that's something that really LED our
16:01 uh for the first time this cycle really
16:03 LED our priority areas
16:06 um and then
16:07 um we did also I I think some of you are
16:10 part of there was an equity training uh
16:12 one every two years we do a East Side
16:15 training so all commissions from um
16:18 around doing Equity training before it's
16:20 uh review time to kind of help kind of
16:23 start putting on that lens and again our
16:25 approach within the equities not that
16:27 we're saying oh yes you are you're an
16:29 equitable organization you check the box
16:31 we really are taking it kind of a
16:33 embedded process in this entire review
16:37 process
16:38 we then give you some Maroon Grant
16:41 review card tool
16:43 um that has worked for us in the past so
16:45 we keep it simple
16:47 um again because it's a complicated can
16:49 be very complicated we um prioritize
16:52 also locations
16:54 um and accessibility and then we also
16:56 sometimes look at their past
16:57 performances if that's a part of it
17:01 so this is just kind of an example of
17:03 what the review card looks like
17:05 um the green again is yes we definitely
17:07 want to fund them Fred is no does not
17:09 make sense for us
17:11 um but we kind of have a list of
17:13 what we score on such as the equity
17:15 Focus the performance
17:17 um are they do they meet the community
17:19 priority areas and such
17:24 so again I'm just recapping um what the
17:27 grant overviews for for this cycle
17:30 um we have 556 um thousand dollars 720
17:34 that would give annually
17:37 um that is a providing funding for 34
17:40 organizations across 42 programs
17:44 um and I will say the number that is
17:47 estimated it's just under 5 000 but I
17:50 will tell you it's usually like triple
17:51 that from what we see
17:53 um that but that is the goal that they
17:55 are saying they want to see
17:59 um and this is just giving you a
18:00 different visual of how the funding is
18:02 divided again these are our priority
18:03 areas from our uh Human Services
18:06 strategic plan
18:08 um including housing Continuum that
18:11 includes homeless programs such as
18:13 shelters or affordable housing programs
18:17 um and a homeless Outreach programs we
18:21 have Community Resources which is kind
18:23 of a catch-all be-all including like
18:25 Employment Services
18:27 um the food bank
18:29 um different resources like that we have
18:31 physical and behavior at Health
18:34 um and that focuses on substance use
18:36 Mental Health and a few physical
18:38 services and then a new one that I think
18:41 is really important is making sure that
18:44 it was a big cause in our strategic plan
18:45 is making sure that there's programs
18:47 here in Issaquah that are very culture
18:50 specific
18:52 um to certain groups that make them feel
18:54 safe and welcome and included in
18:57 services so um that is something that
18:59 was a priority area in our fun being
19:04 so I kind of want to just take pause
19:06 here and kind of open open it up to new
19:09 Commissioners right you're the one to
19:11 not too long ago went through this and
19:14 then we have a few new Commissioners who
19:15 are going to kind of be geared enough
19:16 for this
19:18 um love to hear a few thoughts on good
19:20 bad ugly
19:22 takeaways
19:25 come on guys
19:27 this is Maury Edwards and uh I felt like
19:30 the tools that we had worked really well
19:32 the scoring card that we had
19:35 um Trish came up with a chart that we
19:38 used uh that was really handy and uh
19:41 communication was good and we met often
19:44 enough I think to uh
19:47 to get it to get it done and done in a
19:50 timely manner I feel real good about it
19:51 at the time at the end I felt like yeah
19:54 we've done something it was better
19:58 good
20:02 Glory one thing that I really
20:06 appreciated was providing concrete and
20:09 that's what I was saying
20:10 yes going to come back and go to 90 of
20:14 with this and try to figure out which
20:15 one it was or more less support yeah so
20:21 was really helpful and uh working with
20:25 the team seriously
20:29 uh this is Madeleine fish I agree with
20:31 Maury and Manny those are both really
20:33 great points especially the divide and
20:36 conqueror I just thought that made it a
20:38 lot more achievable it wasn't quite so
20:40 overwhelming especially with the the
20:42 volume of applications I always find
20:44 myself I'm struggling with how to make
20:47 that process
20:49 have bigger impact I mean there's things
20:51 we don't control and how organizations
20:53 are working together especially around
20:56 access you know our people I mean we
20:59 just we don't always know so that's a
21:02 I'd love to be able to figure out how to
21:05 kind of get to that next level making
21:06 the process more efficient for funders
21:09 and for organizations that are applying
21:11 for support yeah definitely
21:15 good point
21:17 keep us safe my reflection is if we
21:20 could give all that money would be great
21:22 that one point three million I think
21:24 there is
21:25 trying to figure out I know we had a an
21:27 equitable discussion about the best
21:29 thing for your buck right like
21:31 priorities do we uh fund uh agencies
21:35 that have been kind of well known or
21:37 more grassroot vacancies so I'm having a
21:40 discussion of
21:41 Buster's best for the mean and it was
21:44 just I also was tough tough to kind of
21:46 aggressive with you know folks's needs
21:49 and the non-profit
21:51 um also I think we call compromise and I
21:54 looked at her Equity uh statements that
21:57 get her strategic plan looked at our
21:59 goals our priorities like what the
22:01 housing the behavioral health what does
22:03 it mean I think that kind of assisted
22:05 that vehicle so there's maybe less bias
22:07 just trying to move in that direction
22:09 but it was
22:10 sometimes it was not easy discussion I
22:12 think it's tough when you're dealing
22:13 with human elements and I find ways to
22:17 assist with or alleviate the suffering
22:20 that's happening and it basic needs of
22:22 humanity so I think that was
22:24 I think it was a good conversation he
22:26 and I want to make one other point
22:27 because I think something that was a
22:29 little bit different this year when we
22:31 were talking about the
22:33 the
22:34 um our our goals or that wasn't the word
22:36 we used the uh priority areas in that um
22:41 we you encouraged us to kind of
22:45 think about doing
22:48 allocating more for fewer organizations
22:50 rather than going thin and everyone and
22:54 that I I think that that's a good way to
22:58 have more impact I understand that means
23:00 that
23:01 um we were only able to to make Awards
23:06 to 42 programs from the 80 that
23:08 requested it but I I do feel like there
23:10 is a that increases the opportunity to
23:13 really have show impact yeah yeah
23:15 definitely appreciate that and that was
23:18 the message we got at least I remember
23:21 getting to our city council yeah because
23:23 the previous uh granting cycle announced
23:26 during covid and I think there was this
23:28 Embassy Asylum okay we got to help all
23:31 the nonprofits right so they kind of it
23:33 was like spreading peanut butter they
23:35 just spread it all over the place and I
23:36 don't have the statistics in front of me
23:38 but um I think the message we got from
23:40 the mayor and the council after that you
23:43 know when we did the branching last year
23:45 was okay let's just really focus on
23:47 where we really think it's going to make
23:48 an impact it was also an emphasis which
23:51 I really supported I think we all did
23:53 was supporting local
23:55 if there was an organization
23:58 that could deliver the service that we
24:01 wanted that was local
24:03 versus not local one and then of course
24:06 if it's not local there's a
24:07 transportation issue so I mean there's
24:09 so many reasons to support local yeah
24:11 and we did really have that emphasis in
24:13 mind as well and then I I can't help but
24:15 say having the Strategic plan as a
24:18 Guiding Light I totally agree oh my
24:20 goodness yeah yeah
24:23 I also um appreciate the follow-up when
24:26 we came together and said well okay
24:30 and one of the students we came up with
24:33 was the visit the site visits yes
24:50 what you just said was that the uh the
24:54 gei training that we had to begin with
24:57 um kind of the focusing the lens through
25:00 which to view this whole process was out
25:03 in the open it was stated it was it was
25:06 uh it wasn't like implied or any of that
25:09 it was right out there and I really
25:11 appreciated that as a new commissioner
25:13 knowing that that was you know it wasn't
25:16 just it wasn't going to be an uphill
25:17 battle yeah yeah exactly and I think the
25:20 takeaway of the Dei training
25:24 is that not everybody can afford a grant
25:27 writer right and so there's these small
25:29 organizations that they may not have the
25:33 as well written or spoken in their Grant
25:35 but that we should really just kind of
25:37 put away some of the minor grammar
25:40 issues or maybe you know just kind of
25:42 the logistics and really focus on well
25:43 what are they continually do do their
25:45 services because we know these
25:47 organizations are working hard all of
25:49 them are and they're all deserving of
25:51 funding and so I really I know I
25:53 personally really appreciated that
25:54 perspective from that training so Hannah
25:58 do you maybe this isn't the right place
26:00 to ask this question but so that's you
26:02 know that's what kind of word that's
26:04 what those are tools that we all found
26:06 effective have you heard much from the
26:08 other side from the organizations that
26:10 are actually going through the process
26:12 of getting you know getting their um
26:14 requests in front of
26:16 those do you mean are you talking about
26:18 you're not talking about like
26:19 specifically the equity like no I'm I'm
26:22 talking about like if the the programs
26:25 that made their applications or funding
26:27 from the City of Issaquah that we
26:29 reviewed have you heard much about is
26:31 that process working for them are they
26:33 finding that that it's straightforward
26:36 and I don't want to say easy to navigate
26:38 because I think that would be a stretch
26:40 but yeah at least doable yeah so I mean
26:43 here's the challenge with these
26:46 organizations they're most of them
26:49 right right and so Issaquah we come in
26:51 and say well here's our strategic plan
26:53 and here is uh all the priorities that
26:56 we have please give us a paragraph to
26:58 explain how you meet some of these
26:59 priority areas
27:01 um they have to do that now for pretty
27:03 much every city and figure out what
27:05 their their interests are are basically
27:08 how can they pose themselves in a way to
27:10 say you should outfit your needs please
27:13 give me money right right
27:15 um and so I think
27:18 um the the feedback we've heard is that
27:22 um it's they want some more um
27:24 streamlining and consistency and I'm
27:27 happy to report that our meet north east
27:29 and south plunder so kind of all our
27:31 city funders are in um we are on
27:34 bi-weekly meetings to kind of try to
27:36 make this process a little bit smoother
27:38 more organizations to make um our uh to
27:42 make things more meaningful
27:44 um in the process for our uh kind of the
27:48 outcomes that we're seeking that show
27:49 the needles actually being removed so
27:52 we're actually really trying to polish
27:54 this process and take some of that
27:56 feedback you know that we have received
27:59 um because you know we want it to be
28:03 an equitable process and
28:05 um you know we also know a lot of them
28:07 don't have time to write these grants so
28:09 doing what we can to streamline it I
28:11 think will help so
28:13 um so yeah so I think as as funders we
28:16 are working on that back end of things
28:18 and in preparation for our funding
28:21 um and so
28:22 so yeah so I I think
28:26 um I think some of them also don't know
28:29 to that it's helpful to come in front of
28:32 the commission and kind of just give a
28:33 10-minute you know presentation
28:35 presentation you know maybe another
28:37 month or a couple months prior
28:39 um to uh kind of to those funding
28:43 application working process uh so that's
28:45 something right now I'm already trying
28:46 to kind of put in our nonprofits ahead
28:49 of like hey this would be you know
28:51 please you know you are more than
28:52 welcome to come and visit us at our
28:54 commission meeting and talk about your
28:55 organization
28:57 yeah those are a few of our our kind of
29:00 updates and changes that we're trying to
29:02 do to improve the process
29:06 it's better to do it before than to be
29:09 the one that doesn't get the money and
29:10 do it after right yes yes exactly that's
29:13 true so Tina do you have any other
29:15 questions or anything you're in the
29:18 Newbie here at Rucker as well yeah I
29:21 just want to say I look forward to
29:23 the grants with you all
29:27 but yeah yeah we look forward to having
29:30 you
29:31 really good discussion yeah yeah thank
29:33 you rocker I just want to I know your
29:35 screen's not really working
29:38 yes I don't have any further questions
29:41 and it's helpful to hear the feedback
29:43 and suggestions for
29:46 Improvement for the next round too
29:48 yeah
29:50 thanks Parker
29:52 all right so then I'm going to continue
29:53 here with our
29:56 presentation almost done through this I
29:58 just kind of want to give you again one
30:00 of the things that I like to do is
30:03 um I like to provide you all with kind
30:07 of quarterly updates so each
30:09 organization provides invoices on a
30:12 quarterly basis and in that they give us
30:13 their service units that they are
30:16 basically are they meeting their goals
30:17 are they on track to meet their goals
30:19 for funding um
30:22 one of these things that the again this
30:24 is kind of
30:26 information to help you understand but
30:28 part of our contracts are what we call
30:32 Pool contracts so I mean that we have
30:33 they have one contract with the city of
30:36 Bellevue but it's it's upon contract so
30:39 about half of our contracts we go
30:41 through the city of Bellevue and City of
30:44 Bell basically we pay city of Bellevue
30:46 city of Bellevue pays our nonprofit
30:49 organizations so it's our money but
30:51 they're they're doing some of the apps
30:52 so okay so wait I'm confused sorry so
30:57 you there's a decision has been made
31:00 that the city of Bellevue for example is
31:02 going to get a certain amount of uh
31:04 funding from the City of Issaquah and
31:06 allocate that based on their process
31:08 it's not no no it's our allocation so
31:11 everything that we are saying but it's
31:13 called a cold contract and the point of
31:15 that is really to help the nonprofit
31:17 organizations okay to be able to do one
31:19 report versus five because they have
31:21 five cities got it so they get one
31:23 report of all of our city information we
31:26 approve I I'm the one who's processing
31:28 it I'm the one who's saying yes make
31:30 this payment
31:32 um but it's city of Bellevue who does
31:34 some of the admin
31:41 um is that because
31:43 a lot of this the work is actually done
31:46 in the city of Bellevue
31:48 no is it a site thing no no it's not a
31:51 site
31:52 it is a
31:53 thunderstorms yeah it's what we call
31:55 pooled versus non-pooled contract so is
31:57 it directly with is there um contract
32:00 and check that is directly from Issaquah
32:02 or is it going through Bellevue who's
32:04 representing all of these other cities
32:06 in this one it makes sense to me yeah
32:08 but it is definitely our money it is
32:11 definitely our allocation and our
32:14 approval we are still overseeing that
32:16 contract
32:18 um and
32:19 um in contact with those organizations
32:21 but they are also affected by multiple
32:23 organizations are we able to break out
32:26 people that are that are being served
32:28 that are physical residents yes yes okay
32:31 so yeah so sorry for the confusion I
32:33 didn't think about it
32:38 yeah yeah
32:45 so before
32:47 this quarter I know that we're like I
32:49 actually just got I'm working on my
32:51 Quarter Two reports right now and
32:52 invoicing because the way it works is
32:54 that they do the first quarter is
32:56 January
32:59 yeah
33:00 right okay thank you so you have January
33:04 February March and then it's due
33:07 um the next month on the 15th so for
33:09 example Quarter Two just finished at the
33:11 end of June but they were due just here
33:13 a couple days ago so I'm not seeing
33:15 those but I can give you the quarter one
33:17 um and this is something it's what we
33:19 call like a desktop
33:21 monitoring so this is I review their
33:23 invoices and I monitor
33:26 um where the reports submitted on time
33:28 okay are there reports complete meaning
33:30 do they have the signature do they have
33:32 all the information that I need
33:34 um and then I also look at their Service
33:36 Unit goals so for example in quarter one
33:39 I want to see them close to 25 in
33:42 Quarter Two I want to see them close to
33:44 50 meeting their total goal for their
33:47 for their own local and the same with
33:49 their residential
33:55 um there are some
33:57 secrets that get most of their um
34:01 I guess uh input for like in episodes or
34:06 you hold that so it's hard to see that
34:09 they might have seasonal absent flow
34:11 right so it's hard to see that okay
34:14 you're not a 25 but this isn't
34:16 receivable you can take that and it
34:18 won't happen absolutely yeah we have
34:20 those conversations all the time with
34:22 our organizations if they're not quite
34:23 meaningful
34:25 um usually they providing the narrative
34:26 or it means that maybe I am following up
34:28 with them and saying
34:30 um you know hey I'm seeing your numbers
34:32 are low
34:33 um what can we do to help improve
34:35 services and I think a great example is
34:37 we have some organizations that have big
34:39 events right and so um so that's not
34:42 until quarter two so in quarter one they
34:44 have very small numbers because they're
34:47 gearing up for their Quarter Two event
34:49 so at that time we would still make a
34:52 payment with order one uh and so yeah
34:58 typically yeah a lot of organizations
35:00 that's typically how we do they take the
35:01 total amount so if we were giving them
35:05 twelve thousand dollars in total we give
35:08 them divided three thousand they
35:10 typically build about three thousand for
35:13 example no matter what the uses yeah
35:16 sometimes again sometimes it's different
35:17 depending on the organization some
35:20 organizations will or invoice less
35:22 others more if needed and Justified yeah
35:26 so here reporter um one again we have 42
35:30 uh total programs
35:32 um a few things to know like I mentioned
35:34 we had uh 20 so of those 42 20 of those
35:37 are not pooled which means they are
35:39 contracted directly with the city and
35:41 again I do oversee these contracts I do
35:43 oversee the payments um they are to
35:45 Issaquah residents but some of them
35:48 um are pooled
35:50 um I do want to note that two of those
35:51 20 uh contracts are to the state not
35:54 quite completed
35:56 um we require quite a few documents such
35:59 as business license insurance
36:01 um endorsements and so those are a few
36:02 documents that we're waiting on and we
36:04 weren't really closely with the
36:05 organizations to try to support them and
36:07 expedite that
36:09 um and so
36:15 so of the 22 total pool programs our
36:18 contract
36:21 payment goes through the city of
36:22 Bellevue
36:24 and this again is for q1 this is for q1
36:27 and I did this in June and um there was
36:30 a few contracts within Bellevue that
36:32 were not complete all to say is that
36:34 there was there was some delay in some
36:37 of our contracts with our organization
36:39 not too common but there's usually a
36:42 handful that uh it's just a smaller
36:44 organization it's a little bit harder to
36:46 get some of these
36:47 um these people so does that mean then
36:50 Maury Edwards again does that mean then
36:52 that they don't get paid okay so they
36:55 don't get paid until their contracts is
36:57 what we call executed but they will
36:59 certainly they they can back that we can
37:02 they will not they will see the money
37:04 once if they've done the services right
37:06 so for these small organizations that we
37:08 don't have contracts for we are going to
37:11 pay them
37:12 up like um three quarters payment in
37:16 quarter three quarters
37:19 yeah
37:22 oh yeah it's important I mean it's just
37:25 it's part of our city policy I would
37:27 love to just say yeah here's your check
37:28 but there's a lot of you know we are
37:30 stewards of taxpayer dollars and right
37:34 um we need to make sure we have
37:35 insurance in place to properly be liable
37:38 so yeah
37:41 um so as far as our Service Unit again
37:43 service units really they vary
37:46 um and they vary depending on the
37:48 organization on the services the
37:51 programs and so sometimes you could see
37:53 things like a Service Unit being number
37:55 of nights that somebody stayed at a
37:57 shelter or
37:59 a case management hours or an emergency
38:03 assistant funding
38:05 um dollar amount so it does vary but we
38:07 set those goals before we sign the
38:10 contract and
38:13 um of of the reports we received 85 were
38:16 on target
38:18 um and maybe 25
38:21 well that's pretty cool because uh only
38:23 80 were uh contracted not the contract
38:27 so that means somewhere over achieving a
38:30 little bit definitely excellent
38:32 yeah I don't need them actually
38:35 um and then as far as um the residents
38:38 meeting quarterly goals for the first
38:39 quarter
38:41 um we had um four organizations who were
38:44 not fun maybe the resident in school at
38:47 um but again Corner one there's a lot of
38:49 like
38:50 you know they're just starting the year
38:52 and stuff so
38:53 um we there's usually no more big
38:56 concerns in the beginning as it's coming
38:58 to Quarter Two quarter three and if
39:00 numbers are low that's when I really
39:01 step in and and again I take the
39:03 approach of hey how can I help you right
39:05 like let's get your number it's about
39:07 these Services how do we get your your
39:10 services out there I there's ways we can
39:12 promote your organizations you can be a
39:14 part of some of our events we have
39:16 um so again we it's not a I don't I
39:18 really don't think I approach of you're
39:20 doing something wrong it's just
39:22 what happened how can I help you
39:29 and so I just I wanted to note here
39:31 again quarter one is not a good
39:33 reflection of timeliness and
39:34 completeness we had a few technical
39:36 issues with the um share one app where
39:38 they do submit so just kind of in Bull
39:40 transparency
39:42 um the reports it was just a little bit
39:44 different of a quarter for sure but we
39:47 survived and now we're we're kind of
39:49 smooth sailing reported to so far
39:54 um I also like to pull out again they
39:56 provide narratives sometimes it's you
39:58 know just it's client stories sometimes
40:01 it's challenges
40:02 um so I just want to point out a few
40:03 things here from our one of our
40:05 organizations that we fund the 2-1-1
40:08 um in January 2023 marked our first year
40:11 since the launch of the two-on-one
40:13 transportation program
40:16 um they have expanded
40:19 programs to provide six one-way rides to
40:22 eligible people in King County
40:24 um this is up from two so that's a big
40:27 deal to be able to kind of keep in mind
40:31 um their programs
40:33 um hopefully I thought this was just a
40:34 fun
40:36 um kind of a client story
40:38 um our financial capabilities this is a
40:40 new program for hopefully uh where they
40:43 really do one-on-one coaching
40:45 um for uh just you know how how do you
40:48 use money how do you get out of debt
40:51 um and so this is I think a great
40:53 example of a client
40:57 of how it really helped her and how it
41:00 it built confidence for her
41:06 um I'll just note that at the end um one
41:08 of the things she said I just
41:10 transferred to my savings account and
41:12 I'm shocked by how great and excited I
41:14 feel
41:16 um I feel proud of myself and I
41:18 certainly haven't felt that way in
41:19 Forever
41:20 so again these these little things that
41:23 you get to see
41:24 um these little stepping stones that
41:26 were our organizations are giving our
41:28 our residents is
41:30 um it goes It goes a long way
41:33 um so just wanted to share it's a great
41:34 story yeah wanted to show that one
41:37 and again I think it's really important
41:39 to also highlight the challenges right
41:41 it's not all hungry story Out There Our
41:43 nonprofits are struggling
41:45 um a big one that I keep hearing over
41:46 and over again is Staffing and the
41:49 increase of need is going up
41:51 um but the ability to be able to provide
41:53 services is it's just really hard
41:56 um especially with the challenge of
41:58 inflation and competitive wages one of
42:02 the numbers I got from our proven
42:03 clothing bank
42:05 um just to show kind of the increase in
42:07 need
42:08 um is from La this time last year the
42:10 food bank had an increase of 14.
42:14 um yeah so is that right
42:18 two
42:19 five seven nine over 744 is a lot more
42:22 is a lot more than fourteen percent yeah
42:25 I did not do the math I just copied an
42:27 eight
42:29 yeah I mean it's a lot a lot more yeah
42:32 anyways okay everybody can do that but
42:34 we can say there's definitely an
42:36 increase
42:40 so so what does it now look like moving
42:43 forward with these
42:45 um with our current
42:46 um funding I bet this 744 was per month
42:50 and then if you multiply that for a
42:52 quarterly basis that would come closer
42:54 to the wouldn't it 700 times three
42:56 months maybe 2100 and then there are
43:00 2500 so I think they used quarter and
43:02 monthly math we're gonna that's
43:04 something I think yeah that that's I'm
43:08 just guessing here those numbers very
43:10 good point yeah
43:13 um okay so next up again we have the AP
43:15 ril through June um so that's something
43:17 that's processing and
43:19 um most likely in September I'll be able
43:21 to provide you an update on kind of a
43:23 quick review of how how things went um
43:26 another thing that's happening
43:28 um uh the rest of the year as I'm
43:31 starting what we call on-site monitoring
43:33 visits and so this is a a bi-annual
43:37 um process that we'd go and do uh visit
43:41 these non-profit organizations and
43:43 basically
43:44 um review everything from their their
43:46 policies their grievances policies uh
43:50 their board lists
43:52 um their uh Appliance uh caseloads We've
43:56 basically kind of just make sure that
43:58 they are up to standard and this is a
44:00 part of a state requirement that we have
44:02 to do but I'll tell you that this is
44:04 probably one of my favorite job is is
44:07 not putting on the audit hat but just
44:09 putting on the relationship going on
44:11 site and saying you know hey we're here
44:13 to advocate for you like show me all the
44:15 good work that you're doing yes there's
44:17 a few things that we have to check off
44:18 the list that are important and they're
44:20 there for a good reason but uh it's been
44:22 such a great opportunity to
44:25 um meet some of our partners and see
44:27 their organizations in action so
44:30 um yep so that's been happening and I
44:32 will probably provide an updates uh next
44:35 quarter so how many partners
44:37 organizations are you going to be able
44:39 to are you going to do all of them no
44:41 I'm not going to do all of them we're
44:42 going to do all the ones that solely
44:44 just Issaquah funds um so I'm definitely
44:46 doing those I am a part of some of the
44:49 ones that uh value is going to be taking
44:52 lead of and then I'll fit in on those
44:55 um and then I am inviting like for
44:58 example like the food bank
45:00 um city of uh swimming Amish Institute
45:02 Issaquah or Global Food Bank
45:05 um I will invite their Human Services
45:07 City staff to Joy Duty for that
45:09 sometimes it's I feel single sometimes I
45:11 have friends with me so
45:13 yeah
45:16 so that's kind of what it looks like
45:17 last yeah what is the next
45:21 what Manny what is the next Grit
45:23 it opens April 2024.
45:27 um for organizations to start applying
45:33 next year so next year and yeah in 2024
45:36 it'll open for the next cycle 2025.
45:40 so in May of 2024
45:44 June he will be real busy
45:48 thank you
45:50 okay
45:52 perfect all right will that concludes
45:55 mine
45:56 quarterly report background thank you
45:59 yeah thank you all for your great
46:01 questions and really helpful
46:02 conversation
46:06 okay now we're moving on to
46:09 um Community Partners psych there's a
46:11 report and Jaime's gonna have that up
46:14 that presentation I'm here to help I'm
46:17 gonna make my best effort this is
46:18 commissioner Jaime um
46:20 we were doing our grant information
46:23 strategic plan Equity training as we're
46:27 kind of working on that one of the
46:28 things we highlighted was doing the
46:30 community side visits so students in the
46:32 PowerPoint here
46:34 so as we were doing uh kind of the
46:36 distribution around hey what
46:39 what we want to kind of uh visit and
46:42 support and I think kind of spoke to it
46:44 where that relationship had
46:46 and but also too I think one of the
46:48 things we kind of vocalize is kind of
46:49 being centered around cultural equity
46:52 and there's a reason why these four got
46:55 selected I that was this is pop cultural
46:58 Circle it's successful foundations
46:59 Indian American Community Services
47:00 Muslim Community Resource Center
47:02 and that was the purpose for that is the
47:04 fact that the trying to be intentional
47:06 of wearing a relationship had not just
47:08 moving audit but more hey how do we
47:09 build on the relationship and it might
47:11 you know what I learned out of it is you
47:13 might create volunteer hours out of that
47:15 where how do you kind of network and
47:18 kind of share information among some of
47:20 your networks and that's what I got out
47:22 of it when I went to visit Issaquah
47:24 Hotel Circle
47:25 uh any thoughts comments here before we
47:27 move on to the next slide
47:30 great
47:32 uh the background to it Human Services
47:35 Commission makes recommendations uh this
47:38 is not an application review therefore
47:39 the folks to learn about the
47:41 organizations and I would say more as
47:43 I'm going to use Anna's terms you know
47:45 where the relationship at I think it's
47:47 important also to be stewards to our
47:49 board why we what's the board about
47:53 um and then also try to you know what I
47:56 learned in doing the one that I did was
47:58 knowing the person's background their
48:01 passion around contributing to the
48:03 community and why they care
48:07 and also then we speak around the
48:09 impacts through it
48:13 learn build relationships visit cultural
48:16 specific I think what I one of the
48:18 things I got I got out of it was
48:19 actually naming the location I think for
48:22 so long we look at a map and we say okay
48:24 it's here but it's a different narrative
48:27 when we're actually walking the
48:29 community walking the environment walk
48:31 into the space
48:32 and then connect in that way
48:35 um I thought it was I'll give you my my
48:37 little story when I was business who
48:39 fought cultural I thought it was
48:40 somewhere down here
48:42 realized it was actually on the other
48:44 side of getting a village which is
48:46 closer to my place
48:47 uh so as I'm going back and forth and
48:50 like you guys were the senior center or
48:52 around the senior center realized that
48:53 it was actually
48:55 um and the new building uh Loft storage
48:58 top and uh it was really good to connect
49:02 now regarding to it was a physical space
49:04 so I would encourage folks to when we do
49:08 these community site visits to kind of
49:10 uh you know reflect
49:11 as we not just the numbers but reflect
49:14 that in terms of the relationship
49:21 so I I'm just adding here for
49:24 um the green is the one that we bought
49:29 so these are all the cultural services
49:33 um programs that have
49:36 applied to Issaquah the gray are the
49:39 ones that we don't fund but we wanted to
49:41 take the answers to see all of all the
49:44 programs
49:54 so we're gonna have few folks have done
49:56 the community side visits to kind of
49:58 talk about their experience I know it's
50:00 it was in May when he was kind of
50:02 embarked in this journey
50:05 I can speak to this about cultural
50:07 Circle but it was the one that's on my
50:09 side
50:11 I'll read the
50:13 we welcome and help individuals and
50:15 families to get the resource they need
50:17 and to become active community members
50:18 by building cultural competence
50:20 uh the executive director name is Alicia
50:23 spinner Gonzalez
50:25 uh she actually gave me the most final
50:27 proportion she gave me a like a
50:29 one-on-one tour where it's space and
50:31 what they do and why they do and I know
50:33 she's connected with a school district
50:34 as well uh but the point of it is that
50:37 they try to work with a lot of
50:39 marginalized immigrant folks from rental
50:42 assistance uh homelessness homes Housing
50:45 Services but I think what I got out of
50:47 it was the connection piece
50:50 having folks connected in terms of their
50:53 diverse backgrounds and assisting
50:55 there's a few um examples that speak to
50:59 that they'll have a start your own
51:01 business how do you bring professionals
51:04 in to kind of help folks that maybe want
51:05 to start their own business
51:07 another one that got brought up
51:08 inclusive circles neighbors helping
51:09 neighbors out so more in an informal way
51:12 you know some uh one of the things that
51:14 Lucia spoke to was not everyone uses the
51:16 internet not everyone has computer
51:18 access and what she recognize folks
51:22 coming from an immigrant background is
51:24 that connecting helps
51:28 but also ways to assist and support if
51:30 it's child care if it's uh I think the
51:33 one when I was there the most recent was
51:35 I was gonna buy a house or the the
51:38 rental how to rent
51:40 um in the fact that folks were coming in
51:41 and new to that system was ways to
51:44 connect within that group
51:48 I want to take up some time they also
51:50 had to learn English in your community
51:51 so they had folks from different
51:53 backgrounds from different trunks that
51:55 come together and kind of work around
51:58 their English access
52:01 um so I thought it was pretty cool she
52:02 was talking about that
52:04 oh and the circle is open to all it's
52:06 open to it's a Issaquah Community
52:10 um which is kind of cool was that when I
52:12 was chatting with her she said you need
52:14 to go check out that I'm pulling up on
52:16 my phone here the inclusive Circle and
52:19 that's the circle for all kids for all
52:21 abilities every second Thursday of the
52:24 month from 7 pm to 8 30 they meet to
52:26 enjoy Circle time with music works
52:28 Northwest it is physically it's right
52:31 here on the next side I didn't know that
52:34 she was like oh it's going to be in this
52:35 location I'm like okay okay but actually
52:37 I I played my basketball games on
52:39 Thursdays around six o'clock and I heard
52:42 noises and I was like I bet you that it
52:44 might be that the garage
52:47 and I I have my little girl with me and
52:50 I saw a list uh Lisa outside and I was
52:53 like listen what's going on and she's
52:54 like remember I was telling you about
52:55 that I was like two weeks later and I'm
52:58 like okay and then walked by and I was
53:01 able to check out the the kids with all
53:02 abilities and we man they were jamming
53:05 out and it was really a joy to see that
53:07 someone takes time to provide that space
53:10 for all kids that have
53:13 um disabilities are not and provide that
53:15 access to their music Endeavors uh you
53:18 just stop all the kids is having a blast
53:21 and so it was kind of cool to see my
53:23 little girl see that too she's seven
53:25 years old and it was kind of cool to
53:27 reflect so um I really encourage folks
53:30 to check out her place
53:33 um it's small but powerful in the sense
53:34 of what it helps to the community the
53:37 action the past have done Day of the
53:39 Dead
53:40 here at the community center so I know
53:42 they're trying to you know bring more
53:44 presence around cultural events not just
53:46 the Latino but all when it comes to
53:48 connecting folks because connection is
53:50 different I just they just sent an email
53:52 out but more about the the
53:54 non-traditional ways and I like the fact
53:57 that she highlights that within the
53:59 network so that's my
54:02 that's my report out I know twitch you
54:03 checked it out so if I don't wanna yeah
54:06 I'll just I mean that was great I'll
54:08 just add a few things
54:11 um Alicia spinner and marisong what
54:15 looked last night but she wanted to go
54:16 by bear saw uh uh bye okay
54:20 um they were doing this on a volunteer
54:22 basis for years for years
54:25 because they're both from Mexico and
54:28 these and I don't remember how long ago
54:29 they immigrated here but they said
54:31 basically
54:32 they had to figure this all out on their
54:35 own and and you know it's it's that even
54:37 more difficult because is it possible so
54:40 much and uh you know in some ways it
54:42 supplies more strength but and they
54:44 wanted to provide
54:46 um services to anybody that you don't
54:49 even have to be an immigrant just
54:50 anybody that needs to figure out how to
54:54 do things anybody new to the community
54:57 and you know a good proportion of their
55:00 clients are from other countries uh but
55:04 yeah they used to do this uh just on
55:05 their own time yeah they they actually
55:08 were formerly known as the Latino Club
55:11 um and then they changed as kind of they
55:14 as as their Network started growing and
55:16 they were seeing that it's not they
55:17 don't want to disturb that Community
55:19 they want to serve all
55:22 um and it started off with Day of the
55:24 Dead uh this year at her uh just kind of
55:27 opened up her house one year and all the
55:29 neighbors started coming and then the
55:30 next year she did a big event and people
55:32 like she didn't even know are coming in
55:34 and enjoying kind of the cultural aspect
55:37 of it and then and then they got
55:39 connected to the city to have a hosted
55:41 in the train depot and the community
55:44 center so it's I mean yeah they do a
55:48 good job they know people very well and
55:49 know how to break people in so yeah and
55:52 I think where their their logic we are
55:54 their largest vendors yeah they're they
55:57 were a grassroot organization which
55:59 means they weren't quite considered a
56:00 non-profit but the um
56:03 the required 501c and so they
56:08 they we gave them a small funding and so
56:12 they didn't have to go through the
56:13 traditional application cycle same with
56:15 the garage actually last cycle but they
56:18 both uh received nonprofit status and
56:20 then applied
56:22 um yeah so they're they're still both of
56:24 them are still considered Grassroots and
56:26 they won't be I mean Marisol works in
56:29 the city I mean they both have paid jobs
56:31 yeah and so they just do this because
56:34 they're so passionate and like Alicia
56:37 was telling me you know right now we
56:38 don't really have a clothing thing
56:40 Alicia told me that her front porch is
56:42 turned into a closing bed and
56:46 yeah so I mean she they're just very
56:49 passionate about helping people however
56:51 they can help you yeah something great
56:54 organization yeah
56:56 all right we're going to move on to the
56:57 next uh site visit uh discuss school
57:01 foundation so I did I attended their
57:03 event back in April um I can also tell
57:06 you right now that it is a I don't know
57:08 how familiar you are with this possible
57:09 Foundation it's been around for a long
57:10 time
57:11 um it started a couple of programs teals
57:14 and voice that they kind of developed
57:16 incubated and they've actually turned
57:18 those over so voices now been turned
57:20 over actually to this by School District
57:23 um teals is now run by Microsoft
57:25 philanthropy they are an organization
57:28 I'm going to say in transition their Ed
57:30 left recently one of their staff members
57:33 Val korik stepped in to be the interim
57:36 uh executive director and I I know
57:39 they've lost another staff member too so
57:42 I know that they're asking a lot of
57:44 questions there
57:45 um School enrollment on the east side is
57:49 moderately down I'm sure you guys also
57:50 have followed the whole thing in
57:52 Bellevue where they actually shut down a
57:54 couple of
57:55 elementary schools I think and so
57:58 there's there's they are asking
57:59 questions about how to have the most
58:02 impact and also that they've got to
58:05 figure something out with uh with their
58:07 reduced Staffing which you had a slide
58:09 earlier
58:11 talking about that the challenge of
58:13 finding people to work on the non-profit
58:15 Arena anyway they have a lot of great
58:17 programs they used to focus on grants to
58:19 teachers they focus more now on um
58:22 programs that might support academic
58:24 success uh stem education support for
58:28 the Arts support for basic needs they
58:30 have a backpack program
58:34 their event this year that I attended
58:37 was the first time they had held they
58:41 used to hold a kind of they used to
58:43 actually hold a breakfast and a lunch on
58:46 the same day this year they did just the
58:49 lunch at the community center so they're
58:51 just kind of the post-covet reentry into
58:54 the
58:55 um into the event world I guess so
58:59 hopefully that'll help
59:01 engage more people when they as they
59:04 become more aware of the
59:06 of the great work that they do in the in
59:08 the community you guys have any
59:10 questions
59:14 thank you
59:16 one thing that I'll just know when I put
59:18 it in the slide here
59:20 um so this is actually a fundraiser
59:21 event
59:22 um yes and again we we didn't want to
59:25 put out to Commissioners that this is a
59:27 site visit in a sense of that we didn't
59:29 want you to build any obligation as a
59:31 fundraiser however Madeline was already
59:33 attending
59:35 um as a non-commissioner asked so I
59:37 thought it would be a great opportunity
59:38 just to to present it in this forum
59:41 um however
59:42 um I would like to still pursue an
59:44 on-site visit if you're interested
59:46 absolutely um I do know that they're
59:48 going to do some staffing transition so
59:51 we'll move forward with that so it's
59:53 recycling remind me we're the office
59:54 Society
59:57 uh they used to be there they used to be
1:00:00 up here in one of the buildings on the
1:00:04 um what's the school here now uh no um
1:00:10 but I would have to double check that
1:00:12 honestly because they have had different
1:00:13 locations because for a while though
1:00:15 they were by Sunset Elementary yeah I
1:00:19 think I saw them on the platform yeah I
1:00:22 would I would have to look up the actual
1:00:23 desk but I will pursue a site listen
1:00:28 foreign
1:00:59 you're there yes hi Manny so yeah Manny
1:01:05 and I a few weeks ago attended a day at
1:01:11 the North Bellevue Community Center that
1:01:15 was hosted by Indian the Indian American
1:01:18 Community Services organization I think
1:01:21 it is safe to say that we were both
1:01:24 very impressed at what a broad and
1:01:29 Scrappy in the best sense of the word
1:01:33 um organization
1:01:37 and stuff
1:01:39 um that that we that we met with on that
1:01:45 um the iacs
1:01:49 provides a huge range of services to the
1:01:54 Salvation
1:01:55 uh Community uh
1:01:58 everything from little tiny kids to
1:02:02 seniors
1:02:04 women uh business owners helping helping
1:02:10 coach small business owners helping
1:02:13 people in crisis both mental health as
1:02:17 well as
1:02:18 I think Financial counseling for people
1:02:22 who need support in navigating U.S
1:02:27 financial systems
1:02:29 the day that we were there included a
1:02:33 whole host of events
1:02:36 um well
1:02:37 we we were invited to join a seniors
1:02:41 event so what would you say many dozens
1:02:45 of of seniors mostly of Indian origin
1:02:50 who were eating a free lunch delicious
1:02:53 they gave us some as well
1:02:58 Bingo preceded by I think a yoga or
1:03:02 dance class
1:03:05 um following that they try to integrate
1:03:08 on-site
1:03:11 discussion groups which are meant to
1:03:15 encourage people who culturally might
1:03:17 not have a lot of support for discussing
1:03:20 a mental and emotional challenges so
1:03:23 encourage people to
1:03:26 to share and listen and then there's
1:03:30 also options for one-on-one mental
1:03:32 health counseling as you can imagine we
1:03:35 were told by one of the I think six
1:03:39 staff members that took time to speak
1:03:43 with us that the mental health
1:03:47 counseling something that during the
1:03:50 pandemic uh really skyrocketed in terms
1:03:54 of demand and they
1:03:58 kind of stepped up to to to meet that
1:04:02 demand
1:04:03 iacs also hosts on-site events and
1:04:09 regular activities in Issaquah as well
1:04:12 as samamish in addition to to Bellevue
1:04:17 yeah I'm very impressed by the warmth
1:04:21 and commitment of their staff members
1:04:24 and again by the breadth of the
1:04:26 activities
1:04:28 service provider to their Community
1:04:36 I was just actually on a zoom
1:04:39 presentation this morning that they were
1:04:41 co-sponsoring um it had to do with the
1:04:44 rental crisis on the east side
1:04:50 and they also um oh thank you
1:04:54 they also uh it's open to anybody
1:04:59 it's not just um
1:05:02 he said Indian site about that for
1:05:05 anybody and uh the staff is amazing
1:05:08 there were many different hats and by
1:05:12 very warm thank you
1:05:19 and yeah they are engaging in some
1:05:21 policy work as well I was curious about
1:05:25 the kind of what their approach to
1:05:27 Partnerships with other community
1:05:29 organizations that might focus on
1:05:32 different
1:05:33 um demographic and cultural communities
1:05:39 but kind of with shared missions like
1:05:42 how do we support small businesses or
1:05:44 how do we get more
1:05:46 um space for people to gather how can we
1:05:50 meet XYZ there's a whole variety of
1:05:53 things and they did explain to us
1:05:56 um that yeah they are on one of their
1:06:00 roles is to
1:06:02 build a Partnerships but really advocate
1:06:07 foreign
1:06:13 but they're really focused on
1:06:18 the Indian origins of the community that
1:06:22 that's there some of whom of course born
1:06:25 in India some of whom uh just identify
1:06:27 as being of Indian origin
1:06:38 then we have our next community site
1:06:40 visit Muslim Community Resource Center
1:06:43 the trip yeah well Pat and I
1:06:50 who works in international Public Health
1:06:54 and we were really sorry that she felt
1:06:57 that she had to resign but she often is
1:07:02 not in the United States
1:07:04 and there were I think did anybody today
1:07:06 the new Commissioners who either I don't
1:07:08 think so yeah but um but anyways we had
1:07:12 a great time we went there together
1:07:15 um the health fair was held at the
1:07:18 mosque in Redmond had people been to the
1:07:20 class A long time ago yeah and kind of
1:07:24 like of the Asian Society I'm not even
1:07:26 saying that right on ihcs
1:07:30 um it's open to everybody
1:07:33 yeah very very opening and welcoming and
1:07:37 I was it was some I can't remember the
1:07:40 weekend in May
1:07:41 it wasn't
1:07:43 as well attended as it could have been
1:07:46 and I think
1:07:47 um but they had tons of people there
1:07:50 helping out and assisting and they had
1:07:54 all these um vendor or
1:07:57 people could bring booths for free you
1:08:00 didn't have to pay a booth fee like King
1:08:03 County Library was here and then all
1:08:06 these different King County
1:08:07 organizations that most of them didn't
1:08:09 have to do with help but the library
1:08:11 wasn't really I mean libraries
1:08:15 a lot more than hell
1:08:17 um and it was just really fun and a lot
1:08:20 of kids were there
1:08:22 and um it was just a really tons of sway
1:08:26 times of sway I came back with a lot of
1:08:30 stuff for my granddaughters yeah tons of
1:08:34 swag and all they were giving out cover
1:08:36 chat she would go there and get a cover
1:08:39 oh I do get my um I did get my blood
1:08:43 pressure
1:08:46 I might have like glucose I might get my
1:08:50 hand right and my glucose tested and it
1:08:53 was really interesting the way they
1:08:54 phrased the conversation with me they
1:08:58 wanted to know if I had a physician that
1:09:02 I see and I said yeah and they
1:09:05 um and I could tell that they might be
1:09:07 used to servicing people that don't see
1:09:09 doctors on a regular basis and they
1:09:12 wanted to know if I was going to be
1:09:14 following up in my position and I said
1:09:16 oh yeah I love but
1:09:19 um I do think that they might part of
1:09:22 um the neat thing about an event like
1:09:24 this is that if you don't have a health
1:09:26 care provider or can't afford one for
1:09:28 whatever reason
1:09:29 you can go to an event like this and get
1:09:32 some of your services
1:09:34 you know just some
1:09:37 um and um
1:09:41 I want to say when they apply
1:09:45 they they had many programs do you
1:09:48 remember how many programs I think they
1:09:50 have four and we funded period with
1:09:52 water and wish for the three that we
1:09:54 funded
1:09:55 um there was a Gas Distribution there
1:09:58 was the women
1:10:00 um shelter and then there was the
1:10:03 behavioral health
1:10:04 okay and we didn't
1:10:06 um we didn't fund the rental assistance
1:10:09 right yeah and I will just tell you from
1:10:12 my volunteer work with Issaquah
1:10:14 Community Services which provides her
1:10:16 assistance
1:10:18 we often you know if if we can't service
1:10:22 a client for whatever reason maybe
1:10:23 they've been coming to this and talking
1:10:25 Community Services too frequently we'll
1:10:28 often refer them to their rental
1:10:30 assistance program here and and you
1:10:33 don't have to be Muslim you know they're
1:10:37 very open to serving the community
1:10:39 anyway they can is there health fair in
1:10:42 Ann Millie Ben I think it is a national
1:10:45 event I mean non-national annual annual
1:10:49 oh and another really neat thing that
1:10:51 didn't have to do with the health care
1:10:53 but it was fair I think
1:10:55 once a month
1:10:57 they have this really spectacular
1:11:01 veterinarian
1:11:03 um I guess
1:11:04 clear it's out in the parking lot and
1:11:07 it's for homeless people to bring their
1:11:10 pets off they'll need I guess you don't
1:11:13 I mean it could probably be anybody
1:11:15 could bring up that's but it's here for
1:11:17 people that can't afford a vet visit
1:11:20 and it was really spectacular yeah and I
1:11:22 didn't go with our pets but we spent
1:11:24 time walking around and I think it's
1:11:27 once a month that it's for anybody that
1:11:29 wants to bring pets that need
1:11:31 veterinary services
1:11:33 this is outstanding uh
1:11:36 group The when we were moving we did all
1:11:40 of our troops out of Afghanistan and
1:11:42 there were so many people that were
1:11:43 Afghans that were coming into the states
1:11:45 and Sutherland got here in Renton they
1:11:49 rented a bunch of uh sites up in Redmond
1:11:52 and it helped gather household goods and
1:11:56 really basically set up about 250
1:11:59 families with uh just you know and it
1:12:02 was all free it was all volunteer work
1:12:07 when there were
1:12:10 they're politically involved also I saw
1:12:12 Bob Ferguson up there one time was must
1:12:15 have been a thousand of us and I mean
1:12:17 this is a great new yeah yeah
1:12:22 foreign
1:12:34 yeah so um as you can see we haven't
1:12:36 quite hit all of our side lenses that we
1:12:39 want for this here
1:12:41 um so some of our next steps up I'm
1:12:44 reaching out to our organizations
1:12:46 um I want to just kind of put on your
1:12:47 radar here uh mission Africa
1:12:50 um they're an organization they are
1:12:53 um they're locating in Federal Federal
1:12:56 Way they're not local
1:12:58 um but they do have a couple of events
1:13:00 that we can consider
1:13:02 um they recommended the celebration for
1:13:03 the end of African health advocacy
1:13:05 projects
1:13:06 um I didn't have a date on that but
1:13:08 that's going to be in writing
1:13:09 um so I can get more information on that
1:13:11 as it comes as I get that information
1:13:13 I'll follow up soon but they also have a
1:13:15 back to school event
1:13:16 um in August
1:13:18 um so I just kind of want to put some of
1:13:19 those things on your radar and I can
1:13:21 follow up with an email as well
1:13:23 um books I know we want to do a site
1:13:26 visit with them and then there's other
1:13:28 organizations I'm in conversation with
1:13:31 um our Chinese information service
1:13:33 center
1:13:34 um essential heart first and kin on
1:13:37 Healthcare and then balance taking
1:13:39 leadership on the school's Foundation
1:13:41 yeah can you go back to mission Africa
1:13:45 what was the event that you didn't have
1:13:46 a date for it's celebration it's a oh do
1:13:50 they have it up now yeah uh Saturday
1:13:52 July 22nd that's this weekend this
1:13:55 weekend if any of you want to go
1:13:57 I can't send you an email without
1:13:58 information
1:13:59 I have signed up for
1:14:02 unfortunately Africa that's okay we have
1:14:05 August and we can certainly do any
1:14:07 something totally different as well do
1:14:09 you have lists of who we signed up for
1:14:12 um so these this is the list uh over
1:14:14 here is that we still need to schedule a
1:14:16 site for example
1:14:18 um so that's uh did I sign up for any of
1:14:21 these people oh the list of who yes yeah
1:14:22 I have to revisit that okay yes but um
1:14:25 we actually have a few new Commissioners
1:14:27 that we want to check in with and so
1:14:29 we'll probably kind of need to re-look
1:14:32 um so I'll put that on my radar here in
1:14:35 August and September of reconnecting
1:14:36 with these organizations to kind of put
1:14:39 something here for the fall
1:14:41 um for all of us to visit and then and
1:14:43 then we can kind of recite our form four
1:14:45 places okay that's okay yeah
1:14:48 and I will tell people
1:14:51 um last year it was my first time in the
1:14:54 granting cycle and
1:14:56 um I just made soft visits on my own
1:14:58 that's great I went to I went to
1:15:00 Essentials first I didn't know anything
1:15:02 about it and they applied for Grant you
1:15:05 know to Issaquah and
1:15:07 um yeah I mean everybody is mannequin
1:15:10 has said that she will if anybody wants
1:15:13 to just go someplace on their own
1:15:15 whether it's any of these organizations
1:15:17 that be granted this past granting cycle
1:15:20 or anybody that applies in 2024
1:15:23 you know you can go just on your own
1:15:26 yeah and Hannah will help yeah those
1:15:29 connections absolutely happy to do that
1:15:33 um so more to come in September I'll
1:15:35 provide an update during our next
1:15:36 special opinion
1:15:38 so that wraps that up
1:15:41 thank you honey so much thank you all
1:15:44 for your wonderful presentations really
1:15:46 appreciated on your Insight
1:15:49 okay we're moving on to reports we offer
1:15:53 okay so the next section it is to say
1:15:56 the chair report and that we've now
1:15:58 changed it to chair and commissioner
1:16:00 reports so if anybody have anything
1:16:03 Human Service related that they want to
1:16:05 give a shout out on
1:16:08 I have a question yes I know that um the
1:16:12 uh the Motel 6 project and that you
1:16:16 would put that out for contract and that
1:16:18 that and so then you maybe didn't do a a
1:16:20 position yeah I'm I'm it's part of my
1:16:22 staff report so I'm always happy to give
1:16:26 you an update on some of that if you
1:16:28 don't mind calling off on that
1:16:30 absolutely yeah absolutely yeah
1:16:32 definitely a Hot Topic
1:16:35 anybody else before we turn it over to
1:16:37 Hannah to give her staff report
1:16:39 good segue
1:16:41 all right and I will just add we
1:16:43 typically do have a history report but
1:16:45 Preston
1:16:46 um email me and was not able to extend
1:16:48 and reported that he did not have a
1:16:49 report so okay
1:16:58 our city council
1:17:00 um did approve uh our um Motel 6
1:17:04 um lease and so we currently have uh 10
1:17:08 um temporary rooms that are going to
1:17:10 house
1:17:11 um residents who are experiencing
1:17:13 homelessness for our emergency housing
1:17:16 pilot program
1:17:18 um I am happy to report that we have
1:17:20 three staff fully on board and they are
1:17:23 on day three oh my God
1:17:27 um and so yes we are very excited about
1:17:29 the work that they're doing and we have
1:17:31 some fantastic staff great policies in
1:17:34 place
1:17:35 um as you all know this program or maybe
1:17:37 you don't it's it's a really intended um
1:17:40 it to be a high barrier shelter for the
1:17:43 individuals that we are already working
1:17:44 with and are homeless and behavioral
1:17:46 health program
1:17:47 um it's really intended to be that
1:17:49 transitional place
1:17:51 to get them to permanent housing and
1:17:54 living independently and so it is it's a
1:17:57 Supportive Housing Opportunity for them
1:18:00 um with staff
1:18:02 um the max of residents that we'll have
1:18:04 there at one time will be 20. so that's
1:18:06 a very small program in comparison
1:18:09 um so um yeah so we're really excited
1:18:11 for the work that's happening there and
1:18:13 we will have some of those new staff
1:18:15 you'll get to meet them probably
1:18:17 September October
1:18:18 um they'll be able to uh they'll be able
1:18:21 to meet them and they'll provide more of
1:18:23 a presentation so some more information
1:18:24 to come on that but we're very excited
1:18:26 for the work that we're dealing with is
1:18:28 very near and dear to all of our hearts
1:18:30 so did you see some people have moved in
1:18:32 already
1:18:34 um So currently um we started the lease
1:18:36 of July 1st and so we've been using it
1:18:38 more so not to waste the room we've been
1:18:42 using it for um some of our individuals
1:18:44 not necessarily in the program but they
1:18:47 were using it temporarily
1:18:49 um and then uh and then we do have some
1:18:52 uh residents who've already been
1:18:55 identified in the program I'm not I'm
1:18:57 not quite sure exactly where they're at
1:18:59 if they've officially moved in but I
1:19:01 know our staff have officially moved
1:19:03 into their office as a Monday
1:19:05 um so it is there are there offices at
1:19:08 hotel City one of the room sets is being
1:19:11 leased and has been converted into an
1:19:12 office our staff so there's actually
1:19:14 nine rooms available there's 10 10. yeah
1:19:18 so there's an 11 for them
1:19:43 [Music]
1:19:51 um team was one step oh yeah I mean
1:19:53 we're in communication with all the time
1:19:54 there we will have um some more data as
1:19:57 they start going to be able to be
1:19:59 accountable to our community and so that
1:20:01 so we'll have more information publicly
1:20:03 but then they'll be coming to our
1:20:05 commission to kind of do a presentation
1:20:07 provide an update of their program I
1:20:10 just wanted his core Believers
1:20:14 um that they report
1:20:20 [Laughter]
1:20:25 no report yet
1:20:31 so into that the other exciting news for
1:20:33 Human Services is that our city council
1:20:35 did approve two additional Behavioral
1:20:37 Health coordinators positions so that is
1:20:39 not our emergency housing specialist
1:20:41 those are three special positions for us
1:20:43 that are within this program but now
1:20:46 these are um to really add on to uh to
1:20:51 be part of our Police Department a
1:20:52 little more um rather than referral
1:20:54 things a little more on call
1:20:57 um and so we are in the process of
1:20:59 application review process how's that
1:21:01 working out as far as you had one little
1:21:04 step we're ready sure so we so we had
1:21:07 one originally it's about two and a half
1:21:09 years ago right when I started
1:21:11 um so that's Amir Shabana who's still
1:21:13 with us and then we had a second
1:21:15 coordinator who recently just
1:21:17 um I think moved out of the state so she
1:21:20 left so that's opened that position and
1:21:22 then we have the two new positions
1:21:24 um open
1:21:26 um so that's gonna be a total of four
1:21:27 Behavioral Health coordinators it's huge
1:21:29 so are these people the I'm trying to
1:21:32 remember that they respond rather than
1:21:34 performance
1:21:36 um yes so so right now we have more so a
1:21:39 homeless outreach program coordinator
1:21:41 and then we have a behavioral health
1:21:43 Outreach coordinator the behavioral
1:21:45 health program is a little more geared
1:21:46 towards working with our Police
1:21:48 Department
1:21:49 um but we just the numbers have just the
1:21:51 Staffing issue and then the numbers are
1:21:53 very difficult to manage and so yeah so
1:21:57 we are just
1:21:58 um so it's still a patrol car with a an
1:22:00 officer that goes out with one of them
1:22:02 no not typically but they're not those
1:22:05 type of calls if it is a call that it
1:22:07 seems if there's an incident that they
1:22:08 need to have more than one person on the
1:22:11 call we certainly do that we also
1:22:12 partner a lot with our park ranger
1:22:15 um for some of these halls or these
1:22:17 uh homeless Outreach
1:22:20 they can see notices that they need
1:22:23 so so yeah we're on team
1:22:26 good job uh
1:22:30 I'm supposed to say we have the combined
1:22:33 meeting with Equity over at the OE
1:22:36 Chambers Amir and Kailyn were there yeah
1:22:39 but okay they didn't okay did they yeah
1:22:45 and we are still here yes yeah it would
1:22:49 be nice for him because he's a long
1:22:51 timer right yeah
1:22:56 yeah well we're definitely planning on
1:22:58 on that I'm really lovely for you to get
1:22:59 finally more of our staff and get them
1:23:02 here to present a little more of what
1:23:03 they do as well because Human Services
1:23:05 we do a lot do we have we talked about
1:23:08 Community responders since then
1:23:14 for the community responders as opposed
1:23:17 to the police responders too that's
1:23:20 essentially what these Behavioral Health
1:23:22 coordinators are intended to eat we just
1:23:25 didn't have I mean if you're going to
1:23:27 have that co-response model you need
1:23:28 kind of 24 7 because that takes a lot of
1:23:31 sacking for that yeah yeah um so we're
1:23:33 just not quite there yet but we're it
1:23:35 looks like we're heading in that
1:23:36 direction with these these new tires
1:23:39 there's uh three cities in the North End
1:23:42 of the lake I know five cities yeah that
1:23:44 have yeah they have cooled their
1:23:45 resources together yeah so we could pull
1:23:48 say with some Amish uh or or Preston and
1:23:52 uh you know and everybody contributes
1:23:54 and yeah yeah
1:23:59 I like it no I really do I think I think
1:24:02 that we would just need to start pulling
1:24:04 in the city uh staff Liaisons to kind of
1:24:07 start talking about that I will also say
1:24:10 I'm coming from uh police funding
1:24:15 um kind of from there
1:24:18 the pool like our behavioral coordinator
1:24:20 is funded by that school opening so
1:24:22 great so yeah so I mean work those
1:24:24 conversations I like
1:24:28 uh anything else regarding those updates
1:24:34 um so then I just kind of um this is a
1:24:37 part of our June um meeting is we have a
1:24:40 Juneteenth event and then we had an
1:24:41 honoring Pride event those were both
1:24:43 hosted by our Equity board thank you for
1:24:44 those who uh participated or joined any
1:24:47 capacity shout out to Manny over here he
1:24:49 was a part of our gym team event with
1:24:51 his beautiful beautiful woodwork
1:24:54 um so that was very fun to have him
1:24:55 participate there
1:24:57 um we enjoyed Juneteenth um in the staff
1:25:00 report there's some links with some
1:25:01 videos
1:25:02 um to kind of cap these events
1:25:06 um so that's kind of interesting good
1:25:08 job on those yeah they do I love those
1:25:09 little videos our communication team
1:25:11 said such a great job
1:25:13 um so those are great highlights um that
1:25:15 happened in June um but coming up here
1:25:17 in July we have a resource Fair next
1:25:21 Tuesday it's going to be um during the
1:25:23 chalk art festival this is where uh our
1:25:27 uh arts department basically gives our
1:25:31 city a bunch of
1:25:32 it says go for it it's pretty impressive
1:25:35 it is so impressive yeah
1:25:38 um it is so impressive it's um yeah they
1:25:42 there are some beautiful artwork and
1:25:44 it's it is a little more geared towards
1:25:45 like family and children so we have a
1:25:47 resource Fair
1:25:48 um with some of our non-profit
1:25:49 organizations
1:25:51 um shouldn't be too large I think
1:25:52 there's currently 15 or so
1:25:56 right behind us at their
1:25:59 Community Center the resource Fair will
1:26:01 be right on the lawn
1:26:06 I and I do believe and I hope I'm not
1:26:08 supposed to speaking in previous years
1:26:10 they provided free one free ice cream
1:26:11 for participants
1:26:13 um and I believe they're having that
1:26:15 this year for their
1:26:17 foreign
1:26:20 Festival is from 12 to 4. the resource
1:26:24 Fair though is just from 12 to 2. um so
1:26:26 we hope to see you all there I will be
1:26:29 running around one people
1:26:32 that is next Tuesday July 25th
1:26:38 12-4 is the Chalker and then once in
1:26:40 we're sorry 12 to 2 is the resource
1:26:45 so um the other thing that I can put in
1:26:48 our staff report that you will be
1:26:49 receiving more information on
1:26:52 um is our uh welcome week event it is on
1:26:55 a please put it on your calendar this is
1:26:57 a spectacular event
1:26:59 um it is uh September 8th which is a
1:27:02 Friday from 5 to 8 P.M
1:27:04 um you'll start seeing probably lots of
1:27:06 um promotion and advertisement outside
1:27:09 that Flyers
1:27:10 um but this event we are so excited
1:27:12 we're going to have an um African
1:27:14 fashion shows our main piece we have
1:27:18 um we have some interactive art
1:27:21 um that will really be inviting one of
1:27:24 the things we're hoping to do is have
1:27:26 Community do like little art pieces that
1:27:28 we will ultimately try to kind of make a
1:27:29 big Community mural out of
1:27:32 um so we're gonna we're really trying to
1:27:33 gear towards kids and have
1:27:35 um some fun things one thing is is a
1:27:38 little bit of push I think we're gonna
1:27:39 have like an animal balloon artist again
1:27:41 for the kids
1:27:43 um handsome uh we're having some
1:27:44 volunteer do some
1:27:47 and then we'll have some great music
1:27:49 some interactive dancing so um bring
1:27:52 your families bring your neighbors bring
1:27:54 their kids bring your kids kids uh
1:27:59 similar information on that so that's my
1:28:01 last little step report that I have
1:28:03 thank you great well
1:28:07 so that leads us into there's all these
1:28:09 things that are happening before our
1:28:11 next meeting I realize that yeah yeah
1:28:12 because okay apparently the city has
1:28:15 mandated that we cannot meet in August
1:28:17 right now so we're not going to have a
1:28:20 meeting in August and so we will be
1:28:23 meeting after these events so be sure to
1:28:25 stay tuned to the emails and they want
1:28:27 Hannah sends us
1:28:30 um and then our next meeting will be
1:28:31 September 20th sounds like a long ways
1:28:35 that's so good so I hope you all enjoy
1:28:38 your August when your time off and I
1:28:42 know and I'll be just just keeping an
1:28:43 eye out on your emails for updates on
1:28:46 site visit opportunities with our
1:28:48 non-profit organizations as well as
1:28:52 um kind of the events that are coming up
1:28:53 such as our welcome week event and our
1:28:55 resource Fair
1:28:58 and it's not going to be a resource fair
1:29:01 at the welcome in the background oh yes
1:29:03 there is a big resource there at the
1:29:07 organizations and also different
1:29:10 organizations that if if you were new to
1:29:13 Issaquah what would you what would be
1:29:14 helpful for you to know ways to
1:29:16 volunteer ways to participating Services
1:29:20 um those type of things
1:29:22 good option well okay so
1:29:27 um unless anybody has anything for the
1:29:29 good of the order we will adjourn
1:29:31 thank you