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Wednesday, May 15, 2024

6:30 PM · 1h 19m
Topics tracked across meetings:
Human Services Grants - Quarterly Report (I) 3/3
2025-2026 Human Services Grants - Application Review (D) 2/2
Section
Topic
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
3a
Minutes of April 17, 2024
packet pp.3–4
Staff report:
APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 04-17-24 Human Services Commission Minutes Page 1 CITY OF ISSAQUAH Human Services Commission 6:30 PM Steelhead Room, 235 1st Ave. April 17, 2024 MINUTES SE, Issaquah
4. AGENDA ITEMS
4a
Human Services Grants - Quarterly Report (I)
15 min · Hannah Roberts, Human Services Coordinator · packet pp.5–17
Topics: BudgetEquity
Staff report:
To provide commissioners a
4b
2025-2026 Human Services Grants - Application Review (D)
40 min · Hannah Roberts, Human Services Coordinator · packet pp.19–42
Topics: BudgetEquity
Staff report:
Grant Review Card Commissioner: _________________________________ Goal Area __________ Agency: _________________________________ Application # __________ Program: _________________________________ Request $_________ Initial Rec. $_________ Focus Area: _________________________________
4c
Election of Chair and Vice Chair
Action · 10 min · Trish Bloor, Human Services Commissioner Chair · packet pp.43–47
Topics: Elections
Staff report:
AGENDA ITEMS c) 11/10/2020
5. REPORTS
5a
Chair and Commissioner Reports
Topics: Boards & Commissions
5b
Youth Report
5c
Staff Report
0:04 okay we're good to go okay well good
0:07 evening Commissioners it is May 15th and
0:12 um 6:30 and we're going to be starting
0:14 the Human Services Commission
0:16 meeting and
0:19 um uh I'm going to turn it over to you
0:22 to tell me who is not here yeah we we
0:25 have Quorum uh there's five
0:26 Commissioners here as well as our youth
0:29 Advisory board members
0:30 um and we currently have Mor Edwards
0:33 Manny Brown and meline fish who have an
0:37 excuse oppsite for
0:39 the okay thank you um did anybody
0:44 contact you with public comments no
0:46 public comments this evening written or
0:49 here today okay I don't see anybody okay
0:53 all right well did everybody get a
0:55 chance to peruse the minutes from our
0:58 April meeting
1:00 and does anybody want to make a motion
1:03 I'll make a
1:04 motion I move to approve the minutes
1:07 from April 17
1:10 2024 I'll second that okay is there any
1:14 discussion okay does anybody not approve
1:18 that's how I'm going to go okay I don't
1:21 see any non approvals so they are
1:27 approved okay moving right into the
1:29 agenda
1:31 items um Hannah do you want to start
1:34 with the uh quarterly report absolutely
1:38 all right I'm G share my screen up here
1:40 me just a
1:42 second God this
1:49 weird alrighty so this evening um well
1:54 first off Commissioners just want to say
1:55 thank you for being here to even me it
1:56 is a beautiful sunny day outside for the
1:59 record
2:00 um and I just want to say thank you for
2:01 your commitment to the work that we're
2:03 doing um so this evening this first
2:06 topic I'm just going to cruise through
2:09 um I I on a quarterly basis like to give
2:12 you all an update of how our current
2:14 funded programs are doing um and so that
2:17 is the goal for this evening quick
2:19 background here um so we are part of
2:21 Sher one app that's probably starting to
2:23 look a little more familiar to you all
2:25 since we have that app through the
2:27 applications um but this is a
2:29 collaborative uh with 16 other cities
2:32 that we use so a lot of these programs
2:34 that we fund are also funded from other
2:36 programs so um I'll go in more details
2:39 but this is again our common information
2:42 we have 42 programs that we fund as a
2:44 city for this 20123 2024 cycle uh I
2:48 haven't talked too much about this it's
2:49 a little more in the nitty Gades but
2:51 just so you all know um we do have out
2:53 of those 42 22 of those programs are
2:56 non-poled which is probably po term to
2:59 you but basically what that means is
3:01 that they have a direct contract with
3:02 the city of isqua the pooled programs is
3:06 through the city of Belle uh city of
3:08 isqua spends money to have some admin
3:11 work I will tell you all that is
3:12 changing for this next cycle so any
3:14 programs that we fund for this next um
3:17 cycle will be a direct uh directly with
3:19 the city um just because they're pooled
3:21 doesn't mean I don't have relationship
3:23 with them I'm not I'm still very much
3:25 tracking their progress and there's
3:27 still very much a contract with isqua
3:28 but it's just more
3:30 a formality piece of it again normally
3:33 don't share that because as you can tell
3:34 I'm that gritty information um in our uh
3:38 quarter uh performance update this is
3:40 what we like to call desktop monitoring
3:43 so this is where we keep tabs of these
3:45 four main items um are they submitting
3:47 their uh their reports on time these
3:50 reports include um the invoice how much
3:53 money they're asking for for this
3:54 quarter and it also is giving updates on
3:57 how many um service units or residents
4:00 they've served in this quarter I'm also
4:02 looking at is this uh
4:04 complete um for this annual um for this
4:09 uh quarter one what I'm looking for is
4:11 are they at at least 25% of what their
4:13 annual goals
4:15 are so here timeliness um this one
4:19 actually is a record for me um
4:21 19% were not able to submit their
4:24 reports on time I'm pretty leany about
4:26 that um but um to me I'm more concerned
4:29 because I want them to get paid I can't
4:31 pay them if I don't have the invoice so
4:33 a lot of more back and forth
4:34 conversation a lot of kind of some
4:36 staffing issues technical issues to um
4:39 to kind of cause some of that um I think
4:42 just the start of the Year things like
4:44 that so just you all know um most of the
4:47 uh reports were complete though there
4:49 were one or two that I had to kind of
4:51 follow up with to get some more
4:54 information um now this is a little more
4:56 what I care about are the service units
4:58 um did they meet their goal are they add
5:00 at least 25% um and so 14% are not um
5:05 they still receive payment if they don't
5:06 reach it but we are tracking that uh we
5:09 are typically we fund base off of
5:11 service units so I try all that I can to
5:14 make sure our organizations get paid
5:16 through extra support or um if there's
5:19 exceptions that I can make um so the uh
5:23 programs did receive payment in full for
5:25 their quarterly request but just there
5:28 are going to be a few programs that I'm
5:30 going to be looking at closer keeping
5:31 tabs
5:33 on and the good news is a lot of
5:36 organizations are meeting their
5:37 residents goals um they are seeing a lot
5:42 residents um a few things that I want to
5:44 highlight um here and then in our
5:47 reports there's an area that I uh
5:49 there's a narrative where I like to
5:51 learn more about what's going on this is
5:53 a place where they can tell us what are
5:54 their challenges what's going well share
5:56 a story so a few trends that I want to
5:58 share with you all uh I was really happy
6:01 and excited to hear that there was um
6:02 just an increase of Staffing and new
6:04 hires and positions filled in key1 um
6:07 when that last year was considered a
6:10 huge challenge so to hear you know that
6:12 there's some changes of uh movement
6:14 forward for nonprofits is really
6:17 encouraging um I also want to share I'm
6:19 very so so thrilled to see this
6:21 networking happening within um our
6:24 organizations a lot of narratives
6:26 explain their Partnerships with these
6:28 other nonprofits so I think since Co
6:30 there's just been such a Unity with
6:32 organizations and cross serving that you
6:35 can see they really utilize each other
6:38 and lean into each other's different
6:39 services so that I think was a huge
6:41 highlight for me a few stories come come
6:44 kind of narrow down to some actual uh
6:47 where this money is going and who it's
6:48 serving uh one organization reported
6:51 that their program was supporting two
6:52 single moms in a DV situation they're
6:55 facing eviction and basically through
6:58 their services they're able to keep them
7:00 house and their children um as you know
7:02 that's a really big deal um another
7:05 organization um they're continuing their
7:07 Outreach they're seeing a lot of
7:09 different uh uh individuals coming to
7:11 ISA from different backgrounds um so you
7:14 can see kind of the vast different
7:15 countries that they're coming from I
7:17 found very interesting and seeing a
7:20 larger group of Arabic families um we're
7:22 always kind of keeping tabs
7:24 on okay okay um so again I I I always
7:30 appreciate those narratives that they
7:31 share with us because they are doing
7:32 such excellent work some challenges some
7:35 common challenge things that I saw uh
7:38 basic needs continues uh to go up a lot
7:41 of organizations reported just um just U
7:44 more insecurities from uh residents
7:47 which also includes rental
7:50 assistance um so that's your quarterly
7:52 report just so you all know we'll do
7:54 another Q2 I know we're kind of going to
7:56 be knee deep in um our that's going to
8:00 be our Focus but I also want to keep um
8:02 tabs on um how our current funded
8:04 programs are doing to keep you all
8:06 reported on that um so come July um I
8:12 might actually oh July 15th is when
8:15 their report is due for Q2 and then yes
8:17 September is when we'll kind of you can
8:19 see it's a little bit of a stretch based
8:21 off of our other agenda items um but
8:24 just so you know that's always on my
8:26 radar any questions
8:32 it was quick if it was too fast I can
8:35 slow down I I'm just very excited for
8:37 our next
8:39 topic any questions about how our
8:41 organizations are doing hey L
8:43 CIA can you go back to the slide where
8:47 you talk about service units sure can
8:50 you if you have the time Hannah explain
8:53 a little more deeply because it seems
8:55 like it's hours for some
8:58 and something else yeah wasn't really
9:01 sure I could follow thank you yes let me
9:06 share my screen one more time for
9:12 you sorry I ran through this one and I
9:14 know lucaria as our new commissioner
9:17 welcome welcome very excited to have you
9:19 here um this is service units um are
9:24 based off of what we contracted with
9:26 them so when in the beginning of the
9:28 funding cycle I work with them
9:29 individually to say okay so your program
9:32 is doing this but now let's create what
9:34 we call scope of work in that scope of
9:37 work we determine what services are you
9:39 going to Pro be providing for that
9:41 funding that you are receiving and
9:43 what's proportional to the funding of
9:45 the service units that you're providing
9:48 obviously organizations vary some are
9:50 shelters some do case management um some
9:54 provide Employment Services some provide
9:56 uh rental assistance so Service Unit is
9:59 kind of the general term we use when we
10:01 talk about all these different Services
10:04 um and since every single contract and
10:07 scope of work is a little bit tailored
10:09 and different to that organization and
10:12 how they plan to serve as a qu residents
10:14 so that's why you can see it's a little
10:15 bit lengthy but maybe that helps make
10:17 sense of um what kind of outputs that
10:20 we're looking for so I I have a question
10:24 to picky that like the food bank what is
10:27 their Service Unit um their service unit
10:30 is um number of individuals who utilize
10:34 their services so um so there's and
10:37 there's a c some have one Service Unit
10:39 that we're measuring some have some up
10:41 to three service units that we're
10:42 measuring um and so that one we're
10:45 measuring it's considered Food Services
10:48 and we measure it through the
10:50 individuals that come in which is
10:52 different from the residents because
10:54 residents measure
10:55 unduplicated um individuals who are
10:58 utilizing these services is um where the
11:01 um Service Unit will be how many times
11:04 is one person coming in how many visits
11:07 right I didn't mean to interrupt you I
11:09 was just hoping that that would help a
11:10 little
11:11 bit do you want do you have anything
11:13 more you want to ask
11:15 about no it it really helped to clarify
11:19 now I understand that depending on
11:21 whether they're providing uh you know
11:23 like a bed for the night versus how many
11:25 times people go in for the food at the
11:28 food bank so thank you for that Hannah
11:30 yeah great question question thanks for
11:32 bringing that
11:34 up any other questions Commissioners on
11:37 that topic
11:38 on well I just have a general question
11:41 as we go into granting and we're going
11:43 to have a lot of the same organizations
11:46 that we're supporting
11:48 now I'm sure they've already
11:51 applied okay is there anything that our
11:54 group as we evaluate our grants for the
11:58 coming bium do we need to know anything
12:02 like you know are you going to be
12:04 putting together a report and letting
12:06 any of the the subgroups know like you
12:10 know what I mean right so a report card
12:13 or you know yeah so I mean just like you
12:16 you gave us a report card right now kind
12:18 of yeah you know we haven't done that in
12:20 the past that's something Commissioners
12:22 that you think would be helpful I will
12:24 just caveat it with now what it does is
12:29 that could put some sort of biases on it
12:31 right when you're reviewing these
12:32 applications because we have data points
12:34 now for certain organizations but now
12:36 these new ones are coming in we don't
12:39 which can help sometimes but also maybe
12:42 if organizations are having a hard time
12:44 meeting service
12:45 units um then um I know for last cycle
12:50 the ones that were having a harder time
12:51 for service units um if they were
12:55 wanting if Commissioners were wanting it
12:57 to be funded I shared with them the
12:59 information just so you know this is
13:02 this is my experience with this program
13:04 and this
13:05 organization um and this is what I
13:07 foresee for next cycle so that's what
13:10 you did two years ago so it was a case
13:12 by case situation however if you what do
13:14 you guys
13:16 think just commissioner I don't know if
13:19 I I think I like just reading for what
13:22 it is and having my own judgment and
13:24 then reporting I think having more into
13:26 the weeds of like scoring ABC or one two
13:29 three there's different reasons of why
13:31 folks aren't billing or invoicing that's
13:34 just my perspective I think I'd like to
13:36 have my own View and just hey here's my
13:39 thoughts on it and then share with the
13:40 group and then the group can kind of
13:41 distribute their own thoughts around it
13:44 without without getting the information
13:46 from Hannah in advance yeah I don't I
13:47 don't know if but but what about how she
13:49 did it last two years ago where if if
13:52 people were really you know had already
13:54 selected it then then Hannah would say I
13:56 just want you to know that or or
13:58 sometimes Commissioners asked me I think
14:01 that's more so how it came up is like
14:02 especially if it was on the yellow where
14:04 we're questioning certain things there
14:06 were times where you know and we have
14:08 that data point right we have that
14:09 information that's technically public
14:11 information so we can certainly share it
14:14 as as needed um but again I think you
14:17 need to also consider like the pros and
14:20 cons of that what do you guys think
14:22 commissioner some like thing I think I
14:24 want to mitigate bias obviously so just
14:27 having that fa value with the
14:30 information yeah I think that
14:33 helps yeah um I I agree I'd like to
14:37 mitigate bias um but my question
14:40 is since it seems like the uh in your
14:44 indexes are measured
14:46 quarterly so if somebody was not doing
14:50 well how do we know that they're
14:54 still on that path right like so in
14:58 terms of Buy is like what is uh is it
15:01 accurate to think well do we really want
15:05 to invest in them anymore because what
15:06 if in those last three months they're
15:09 doing amazing or they've made I don't
15:11 know yeah and that's why I lean into
15:13 more like the annual reports like come
15:15 Q4 like how are they doing like because
15:18 a lot can happen in Q4 for something
15:21 right and usually by that point if an
15:24 organization is not meeting their
15:26 getting or not close to their goals by Q
15:29 three they're having a lot more
15:31 conversations and in it's a very
15:33 supportive conversation I am not I I
15:37 have to be responsible with public funds
15:39 but I also like know they work so hard
15:41 and it's a it's a little bit of money
15:43 from a barrel I'd love to support our
15:46 organizations when we can also um don't
15:48 they get paid depending on their results
15:50 as you were
15:52 saying yes I guess that mitigates the
15:55 risk
15:56 of I I don't have to feel like throwing
15:59 money at an organization that might not
16:02 follow through because they simply won't
16:03 get paid if they don't follow yeah
16:05 exactly but then we don't want that bit
16:08 of money sitting unused right correct
16:10 exactly yeah okay so let let me get this
16:13 straight we're in our second
16:15 year so this is basically our fifth
16:18 quarter of data right we've had four
16:21 from 2023 and now okay so we have five
16:25 quarters of data okay yeah yeah okay
16:29 just and I can provide like part of the
16:32 Q4 annual reports I I haven't included
16:36 necessarily the financial information of
16:38 organizations that are not funded um
16:40 because there there has been every year
16:42 some programs that don't get funded
16:44 fully um not my favorite thing but it
16:48 happened um and so that's something that
16:51 I could include for future reports that
16:53 financials are important um we just
16:56 don't necessarily call them out in a
16:59 called out specific organizations in a
17:00 public setting
17:02 so I say that maybe the bigger question
17:04 is have you been to a situation where
17:07 this commission H is that where there
17:09 was unused money like towards the
17:11 towards the end I think that's where it
17:12 gets kind of and does it roll over to
17:15 the next year or you just have to spend
17:16 the money and how is it re um allocated
17:20 yeah this is a finance question I'll be
17:22 perfectly honest
17:28 pie of it um but from my experience is
17:32 that it's rolled over in the next cycle
17:35 um for but then but then the contract's
17:38 done after two years right and so um
17:41 that get so Human Services is a part of
17:44 the larger cities General funds um Human
17:47 Services is a part of what we call Parks
17:50 and Community Services um dep department
17:53 so that includes like the summer camps
17:55 the recreation the community center the
17:57 senior centers so you can see we're just
17:59 a small part of a larger department so
18:02 our money is technically a part of the
18:04 larger department so it gets absorbed
18:06 back into the department um I don't know
18:09 where that dollar bill goes necessarily
18:11 but it goes in the
18:12 department lcraa did you have any
18:15 questions about
18:17 this okay or comments
18:20 okay well helpful again a lot of you
18:22 guys are learning a lot more about my
18:23 job wonderful it's you in my experience
18:26 is always like your general fund right
18:28 City County and then you have these
18:30 other grants that are like either you
18:32 you lose it if you don't use it and it
18:34 goes yes and that's where I wouldn't
18:36 want to be in that position where we're
18:37 trying to help services and say hey but
18:40 it's going to be comforting it goes back
18:41 to a general fund to hopefully be
18:44 utilized yeah unfortunately me we've
18:46 looked into the possibility of changing
18:49 some of the funding just how we have it
18:52 um there's a lot to it that we can't
18:54 change it because it's tax dollar it's
18:56 your tax dollars um and so there has to
18:59 be accountability however this this
19:01 cycle we are excited to offer what we
19:02 call Advanced payment um so
19:04 organizations can receive up to 50% um
19:08 on the first q1 um to help kind of um
19:12 support their work so for example I
19:14 think
19:15 um isqua Community Services is a zero
19:19 employee like it costs zero money to run
19:22 that organization and so all the funding
19:24 that goes to them goes directly to our
19:27 residents um but they have to give out
19:29 that money but right checks don't go out
19:32 until until pretty much right like May
19:35 15th is when it's due or sorry April 15
19:38 so they don't see money until May their
19:40 first check they don't see until May
19:42 that that can hurt especially non a
19:44 small organization who need to put cash
19:47 out for their uh community so U really
19:50 excited to offer that for some of our
19:52 organizations qualify for
19:56 that well great information we can
19:59 probably talk about that all night long
20:01 um but I will give it back to Trish to
20:05 get us to our next topic if that's okay
20:07 I think I'm just gonna toss the ball
20:09 back to
20:11 you we're on B now right application
20:15 review I think I'm still sharing my
20:17 screen there Lucia how you doing over
20:19 there virtual attendee thank you okay so
20:24 kind of where we are at right now is our
20:27 Human Services Grants so this really
20:29 this presentation my my end goal for
20:33 this presentation is by the end you feel
20:36 much more confident and have a better
20:38 grasp of what this review process is
20:41 going to look like I feel like last uh
20:44 month we went kind of more a little high
20:45 level kind of a good introductory of
20:47 what we're about to do this is now where
20:49 we're going to get in more details of
20:51 the process um and so um I will give you
20:56 a lot more updates and a lot more
20:57 information
20:59 so here these are the numbers that I
21:00 gave last time um in such has changed
21:03 but initially we received a total of 99
21:06 applications from 63 organizations $2.1
21:10 million plus in request since reviewing
21:14 the applications though we have
21:15 identified four organizations that do
21:18 not qualify for the review process so we
21:21 have eliminated the first two here are
21:25 organizations where it simply was just a
21:27 mistake uh they clicked the isqua box
21:30 but there was not an application I
21:32 confirmed with these organizations that
21:34 was the case so we're removing the first
21:36 two from Bright spark you'll see bright
21:38 spark again because they apply to with
21:41 three different programs um and then
21:43 cono uh counseling they did not mean to
21:46 select isqua so those two were in error
21:49 and if you also remember from last
21:50 meeting we had three or a handful of
21:52 organizations who did not meet
21:55 requirement because of the minimum
21:57 amount um two of the three agreed to
22:00 increase their um the amount to the
22:03 5,000 minimum amount uh families of
22:05 color Seattle uh were appreciative of
22:08 the offer but declined um so they would
22:11 keep their amount as is which therefore
22:13 disqualifies them the other one was kind
22:15 of interesting I've never heard of this
22:17 organization they appli to multiple
22:19 cities it's called Weare um their
22:22 address at least when in their
22:23 application was in Florida I'm sure they
22:26 do some Services here in Washington but
22:28 ultimately they're for-profit
22:29 organization we only um are uh funding
22:33 nonprofit with a 501c3 so and you can
22:37 also see they were asking over $100,000
22:40 so that actually did significantly
22:42 change some of our numbers um so those
22:44 four were eliminated um from that so
22:47 therefore these uh this is our final
22:49 number here we have 95 application from
22:53 60 different organizations of just shy
22:55 uh or just over $2 million
22:58 so from there uh what we are working
23:01 with is you've seen the slide before but
23:03 this is how much money we have for the
23:05 next cycle as I reviewed last time we
23:08 use a formula um and each year you can
23:11 see there's two different amounts uh for
23:13 Simplicity um and efficiency we have
23:16 found decided to use the average um so
23:18 the average amount of that we have to
23:21 provide for year one and year two in
23:23 this cycle is $612,350
23:30 so now there's a lot of information here
23:32 um but now what we have here is we have
23:36 um reviewed the applications and have
23:39 categorized them in our four Human
23:41 Services strategic plan priority area so
23:44 first we have our physical and
23:45 behavioral health we had 22 applications
23:48 these programs you'll see will consist
23:50 of any services for mental health
23:52 substance use preventative Services um
23:56 Medical Dental um in that physical run
23:59 um they um ask for uh
24:06 $343,000 um you'll see here what we put
24:09 the available amount I'm going to go in
24:11 more details in the next slide for that
24:14 and it'll make a little bit more sense
24:17 our next category is housing Continuum
24:19 um this was our smallest application
24:21 pool of 20 applications and this um
24:24 includes services like rental assistance
24:27 affordable support of Housing Programs
24:30 um homelessness services including um
24:33 shelters or Transitional services um so
24:36 that's within housing
24:38 Continuum the next one I find the most
24:41 interesting actually this is our
24:42 cultural specific and language access as
24:45 you can see is our largest um pool now
24:48 this is really identified program
24:51 organizations rather organizations that
24:53 are experts in specific cultural groups
24:57 or language
24:58 um that provide various services so
25:02 you'll see in this one that these
25:05 cultural it's a organization that's
25:07 identified as a cultural specific
25:09 language access and they are providing
25:11 services such as housing or shelter or
25:15 Behavioral Health but they are specific
25:17 to a certain language or culture so what
25:20 I find the most interesting is um if for
25:22 some who may have been around this or uh
25:26 category was actually the smallest last
25:29 cycle so I'm very thrilled to see that
25:31 this um has increased and you can see
25:34 also the amount is much
25:36 larger the next largest one is um
25:39 Community Resources and now this also
25:41 includes basic needs Essentials um
25:44 Employment Services advocacy Services
25:47 things like that so um kind of an array
25:52 things so now you're probably wondering
25:54 okay how did we get to these available
25:56 numbers here um so want to show you a
26:00 little bit of the math and how we um the
26:03 distribution was um was determined um so
26:08 the amount available is the rounded
26:12 average amount of the percentage of the
26:15 total applications amount and the
26:18 percentage of total request so you can
26:20 see for example Community Resources if
26:23 we just looked at like the applications
26:25 in this category you can see there's 27%
26:28 whereas if you started to look at how
26:30 much was requested it goes down to
26:33 23%
26:34 so in our approach to keep it even and
26:38 allocated this is how much so what this
26:41 means is out of the 612 618 total
26:44 dollars that we have each year your
26:47 subgroup each cat priority area
26:50 ultimately has this amount to fund or to
26:54 use this will be helpful when you're
26:56 trying to make some funding decisions
26:58 but I do want to cave out this is this
27:01 is a little bit in pencil which means um
27:04 this is really guidelines to just help
27:06 this process however if we are reviewing
27:09 it and Commissioners find oh we we
27:11 actually have a little bit of extra
27:13 money and this maybe subg group is
27:15 really tight on money making a hard time
27:17 with decisions we can kind of move
27:19 around the money if
27:22 needed the other thing is we have
27:25 decided as a commission we want to do
27:27 the review process instead of reviewing
27:29 all those 95 applications everyone
27:31 talking about it we're going to divide
27:33 and conquer method and so we have made
27:36 these assignments based off of
27:38 preferences and also uh to avoid some
27:40 conflict of interest um and so you've
27:43 seen this in an email if you have any
27:45 feedback please let me know um but this
27:47 is this is how the subgroups will
27:51 work okay so how are we going oh sorry
27:54 Le pressy I saw hand
27:58 so yes I have a really quick question so
28:01 when I go into the one I think it's
28:04 called one share share one
28:07 app it doesn't let me sort based on the
28:11 categories that we were assigned like I
28:14 can
28:16 only so good point sorry go
28:19 ahead that was my question eventually
28:21 too thank you for
28:24 asking yes so I will say
28:28 the tools that we have offer different
28:32 things share one app is um again this is
28:36 the program that 16 other cities use so
28:39 we cannot design it to be isqua specific
28:42 we can use other apps and other
28:44 resources that we have to make things
28:46 more specific and you'll see here I've
28:48 set us up for that um but share one app
28:51 is designed to for you to just view what
28:55 is submitted on that platform how how do
28:58 we know which organization belongs to
29:00 our category like some could be
29:03 Community Services as well yes exactly
29:06 so you will have a list in one of the
29:08 the application summary Master list um
29:10 that we're going to go over actually
29:12 tonight um you'll be able to so if you
29:14 end up liking using the share onean app
29:16 platform to review these applications
29:18 versus the PDF form you will you will
29:21 have a basically an Excel spreadsheet
29:24 that you can see the list and in
29:26 addition what I can do is if you
29:28 remember I think last time there's a
29:30 large packet a larger packet with a
29:32 summary of programs what I can do is
29:34 also do a summary list for each category
29:38 pretty pretty easily and can send that
29:40 I'll I'll include that in your subgroup
29:42 emails if that's helpful so to help kind
29:44 of guide you in that that help
29:49 L yes thank you I do solve the issue but
29:52 it's and um commission that the approach
29:56 I took was just going into SharePoint
30:00 and then I just mapped it back to what
30:01 was in the one shair so that was pretty
30:04 easy to that's helpful to know good
30:07 feedback thank
30:08 you um okay so with that I want to go
30:13 over a little bit of the review tools
30:15 that we have and how they're intended to
30:17 be used so first off as uh Luccia
30:21 mentioned we do have this is our share
30:24 one app so if you had a chance to log in
30:26 this is ultimately what this looks like
30:28 and like um you have pointed out um
30:32 they're not categorized they are
30:34 alphabetical um and so you'll have to
30:36 look at your list that you'll have of
30:38 your subgroups and then view it what
30:40 you'll do also here is you can review
30:46 it sorry it is it's a large application
30:49 so it is still loading and here you have
30:54 the information and attachment so you
30:56 can see their narrative here and then to
31:01 get to the next page this is where they
31:02 describe like the programs all the
31:04 helpful detailed
31:07 information you go next here to the
31:09 agency profile so this tells you a
31:12 little bit more about the agency itself
31:16 their budgets information like
31:19 that and then you also look at um some
31:23 of the narrative
31:25 information similar to the first page I
31:27 think that is first
31:31 page all right so that's one way you can
31:34 access and look at it now the other way
31:36 you can access is through PDF uploads so
31:40 you can access the share one point or
31:43 excuse me the SharePoint that we have
31:45 here this is more isqua Focus
31:48 information so here you can see I
31:50 categorized it by folder so if you're in
31:52 the community resource for example you
31:54 can go in here and I took the next step
31:56 and it'll make maybe a little more s
31:58 after I show you the other tools and
32:00 then I've also put it in other
32:02 categories so the food and basic need
32:05 applications are all um put
32:09 together
32:13 um physical and behavior health for
32:15 example you have behavior health
32:17 programs domestic violence programs and
32:19 physical and ultimately you can open one
32:22 of them and you'll see the application
32:24 in this PDF
32:32 a larger document of what you can see
32:35 online so this is more about your
32:38 preference on how you like to view it
32:40 but both are I think helpful tools to be
32:43 able to
32:44 access um that the applications I'm a
32:47 little more partial to the is across
32:49 specific one
32:51 because it's it's aass specific and
32:53 hopefully sets you up for a success for
32:55 that um with also I included the review
32:58 uh tool cards that we'll go
33:01 over so we have the applications itself
33:05 as one of the tools the other thing I
33:07 want to help orientate us to is our
33:08 Human Services strategic plan now that's
33:11 a lot the uh 100ish page lots of
33:15 pictures I will add but I don't expect
33:17 you to read or know that very well
33:19 however what I want to implore you all
33:20 to do is is to look at this summary the
33:23 summary really is what I basically I
33:26 pulled from our iic plan um and I want
33:29 to encourage you before you start really
33:31 diving into your applications orientate
33:33 yourself to our strategic plan it is
33:35 very easy to start looking at these
33:37 applications and go based off of your
33:39 feelings or oh I like this organization
33:41 or I like this person or I don't know
33:42 these people but that's not how we want
33:44 to be funders that's not how we've been
33:45 trained we want to do we want to be
33:48 guided by our strategic plan which is a
33:50 datadriven plan that really identifies
33:54 what our community needs are and the
33:56 goals for our funding is to support
33:58 those needs so here this is ultimately
34:01 it looks long but this is ultimately
34:03 going to be a two-page read for you this
34:05 first page is really just to give you
34:06 kind of the high level of hey what is a
34:09 strategic plan what is um our funding
34:12 process and how are we supposed to use
34:14 these Grant fundings the next page
34:16 really is just a highlight of our
34:18 strategic plan some definitions who
34:20 we're serving that mid year review we
34:24 had and then this is where you just
34:26 focus on your specific um subcategory
34:29 now this is just the copy paste uh
34:31 version of the Strategic plan so this
34:33 helps us okay how do we Define it as a
34:36 city when we did our needs assessments
34:39 and interviews which is a very lofty
34:41 process that we had um what what is a
34:44 summary of that Community need what is
34:46 our goal to um address this need and
34:49 what's our strategic approach and some
34:51 specific actions that we want to
34:54 see I think again that will help
34:57 eliminate some biases that I think we
34:59 all naturally can have in this process
35:02 um if we have a written data formula
35:05 that we are saying hey this is what's
35:07 important to the city and um and we have
35:10 a strategic plan and a road map to
35:14 follow so I encourage you to um touch
35:19 the application know how to access it
35:21 start off by getting orientated with our
35:23 strategic plan and then our next tool
35:26 here
35:28 is our review card now this review card
35:30 is similar to what we used last cycle
35:32 but it's been a little vamped up um this
35:35 is an important piece to our review
35:37 process um we have the green yellow and
35:41 red version and basically this is saying
35:43 green yes I want to fund it now read
35:45 through this what makes it agreeing what
35:47 makes us want to fund a program and you
35:50 see here it's it's a program that is
35:53 clearly under our priority Focus areas
35:57 um that it's clearly uh serving a um a
36:02 population that has been identified in a
36:04 strategic plan um that there is
36:07 alignment within the Strategic actions
36:09 um that the description um of the
36:12 program of the services actually
36:13 pertains to what we need to see here in
36:16 isapa is it close is it local is it easy
36:19 to access do they have virtual option um
36:22 is it going to be accessible because
36:24 there's great programs out there don't
36:26 don't get me wrong that would be great
36:27 to fun but we need to focus on what's
36:29 going to make the most impact in
36:32 Isa and do they have an equity Focus
36:34 that's a very important piece for our
36:36 city is um are there does their
36:38 leadership show um diversity do they
36:42 serve diverse populations um as well as
36:46 what kind of program impact are they
36:47 going to make and of course their budget
36:49 piece is important um some of the pieces
36:52 that will maybe put it into a right
36:54 category of no we just cannot find them
36:56 they're great but we can't fund them are
36:58 they're not aligned to our strategic
37:00 plan it feels like it's a duplicate type
37:02 of service um it the application doesn't
37:06 make sense there's some incompleteness
37:07 pieces to it um which there are some
37:10 applications that have some missing
37:12 information um so that would be an
37:15 example of that might put something in a
37:17 c red category and now this yellow one
37:19 is basically saying like I am having a
37:22 hard time understanding this it seems
37:23 like it could could align but I would
37:25 love some conversation um to talk
37:28 through um to really determine if if we
37:30 should fund or not fund so again that
37:33 that is just kind of first step of
37:36 looking at
37:37 that so those are the tools now the last
37:40 tool I want to show you all is is a
37:43 newer one but will really help guide
37:45 this entire process before I get into
37:47 that because it's a lot of information I
37:49 just want to pause any questions so far
37:52 because that's a lot of information yeah
37:54 yeah love it a lot of information
37:58 um so the share
38:01 one um after I reviewed the application
38:05 and I learned from the last commission
38:07 meeting that we would have the option to
38:11 leave comments and those comments would
38:13 be centralized so all other
38:15 Commissioners could access those
38:17 comments H but when I submitted the
38:20 comment it said thank you for your
38:22 feedback and I have no idea how to
38:25 retrieve the comment interesting
38:28 how would one do that
38:31 um let's see I'm look if you look here
38:34 on the screen let's try so I just um
38:37 let's see I'll show you where I went
38:40 first let me get out of this real quick
38:42 and get back
38:43 in um good question I don't know the
38:46 answer off the top of my head so let's
38:47 kind of explore this together and if I
38:49 can't figure it out in the next minute
38:51 or two I will have to get back to you on
38:53 that so we're looking at a comment or
38:55 looking at an application we want to add
38:57 a comment you have this option correct
39:00 all right so then let's say I'm going to
39:03 do a
39:04 test comment and we're going to
39:09 submit that's what you received yeah
39:28 to the homepage and see if there's an
39:32 option um how do I find additional
39:41 form
39:51 um okay Commissioners I'm I am not
39:54 seeing a direct answer to this one so
39:58 um it might my initial thought is that
40:03 um we have the view only option um so I
40:08 thought we would have access to the
40:09 comments but maybe that's part of our
40:12 accessibility with that so I just need
40:14 to ask our um mainpoint person for this
40:17 and my second question
40:21 is I guess where the comment is
40:24 transmitted because I want to make sure
40:26 it's not going back to an
40:29 wonder who theer is of the comment too
40:33 great great question um not leave any
40:35 more
40:39 comments right um that's a great
40:41 question I'll see where it goes and then
40:43 how to access the comments again yeah I
40:46 don't that's a good point Luccia you had
40:49 your hand
40:52 up no
40:54 okay um I did but but changed my
40:58 mind very good all right let me keep
41:01 going and then again more questions this
41:04 might help um or more questions who
41:07 knows okay so this is another um tool
41:10 that you can access um on our share one
41:13 app here and so um it this is a format
41:19 that if you make changes on it it will
41:21 sa so everyone has access to the same
41:23 thing so what I recommend is maybe
41:25 downloading your own version of this if
41:27 this is the tool you would like to use
41:29 this is a tool as a subgroup we are
41:31 going to use um and so now let me go
41:34 through this real quick this ultimately
41:36 is a summary of all the applications
41:38 with the intentions of filtering it so
41:41 what I will do when we are meeting as a
41:43 subgroup is I'm going to filter it um
41:46 based off
41:48 of um based off of the subgroup we're
41:50 looking at so physical and behavioral
41:52 health will be our
41:54 example so here we have um let me show
41:57 you the categories that I have done this
42:00 my intention of creating this it looks
42:03 very lofty but really my intention is to
42:05 make your application review process
42:08 more efficient and have all the
42:10 information that you truly truly need
42:12 right here however the application is
42:15 important to review the details of that
42:17 is important but this is more this is
42:19 specifically aligned to the review um
42:22 toolkit the red yellow and green toolkit
42:25 of what puts a um a program in those
42:28 categories so first here we have our
42:30 agency we have the program name now this
42:34 is our priority area so um this is how
42:37 we're ultimately going to filter it so
42:39 as a subgroup we're going to look at
42:41 this this is the subcategory so what
42:45 I've done is we have our priority areas
42:48 but for categorizing them you'll see for
42:50 example physical and behavioral health
42:52 there's three different categories I
42:53 want to see all the programs that are
42:55 more specific to physical health health
42:57 or more specific to behavioral health or
42:59 more specific to DV type
43:02 Services now the next column here is
43:06 copy and paste from the application of
43:08 their program description so this is my
43:11 categorize but this is from their
43:13 application so important to read I also
43:16 created a column for us to look at the
43:20 population this is a very
43:22 generalized uh a category um they didn't
43:27 all perfectly fit in these categories
43:29 but choosing the best one fit hence why
43:33 you can see from the app I think it's
43:35 important for you to read it from their
43:37 description I will make a note here
43:39 Target population I notice a lot of
43:43 applicants provided a lot of really
43:46 important information about their
43:48 program yeah yeah it was a very
43:50 interesting tactic to me I didn't I
43:52 hadn't seen it before but I encourage
43:54 you to really not just read the program
43:56 because sometimes was pretty slim U but
43:58 the target population had a lot of um
44:01 data and detailed information so I
44:04 included that there as well the next
44:07 colums here are um I think it's helpful
44:10 that we also track how much did they
44:12 request last cycle and were they funded
44:14 for example you could see like this
44:16 organization asked but then was not
44:18 funded did we fund them or not and then
44:21 how much are they asking for this cycle
44:24 another piece that I included was
44:25 accessibility um where are they are they
44:28 in a squa specific type location is
44:30 there a squa site um are they virtual
44:34 options um um or or where they're
44:37 located so this is really I to be a very
44:41 kind of um guided summary
44:45 tool um that we will use in our subgroup
44:48 meetings that you will see make sense
44:50 did you say this is new this year did
44:52 you say that um this is this is new
44:55 where uh we use a very similar tool last
44:58 year in our subgroup meetings but this
45:01 is something where I am you added more
45:03 columns more columns and giving access
45:06 to our commissioners to make sure you
45:07 have access and and potentially can use
45:10 this and the intention really is to help
45:12 the process be more efficient for you
45:14 all
45:16 um so back to this real quick so again
45:21 just summarizing what we went in all the
45:24 details for so first step is um
45:28 um first step is
45:31 to see how you like to view the
45:33 application through that portal through
45:35 the PDF SharePoint Drive see how you
45:37 like to access it and review it um
45:41 before you do familiar familiarize
45:43 yourself with a strategic plan orientate
45:45 yourself to what's important to the city
45:48 the other piece is use that tool card to
45:49 determine kind of what color your first
45:52 review are are you thinking it's a green
45:55 it's a yellow or it's a red um and then
45:58 use that summary cell spreadsheet um for
46:00 that quick
46:03 reference Luc than can J up
46:07 right thank you Hannah just real quick
46:10 for clarification and it it may be
46:12 obvious once I delve deeper into each
46:15 application but when you say virtual are
46:19 they being are they providing us with
46:21 information as to how many people in Isa
46:24 well they're serving even though they're
46:26 virtual like could they be in I don't
46:28 know Florida or some other
46:31 place
46:33 um oh so virtual they're still in King
46:36 County so their services are um they
46:40 they have a site in King County um but
46:42 they provide services virtually um so it
46:46 might make more sense when you read the
46:47 actual program or know the organization
46:49 a little bit better uh but um a lot of
46:54 organizations if they don't have a local
46:57 site um in isqua they have talked about
47:00 oh we come into issaqua and serve
47:02 whether that's partnering with the food
47:04 bank or the senior center or or we can
47:07 provide a lot of our services they don't
47:09 need to come to our doors we can um
47:11 provide uh it all virtually for example
47:14 like fral assistant programs that may
47:17 not be specifically in isqua um but can
47:19 do all their applications and um online
47:22 and virtually is what that will be made
47:25 more obvious once I start delve deeper
47:27 is what you're saying correct yes okay
47:30 okay thank
47:32 you so now um in our sub we're we're
47:35 we're nearing the end so hopefully so
47:38 bear with me um the subgroup review
47:40 steps now the next steps that we want to
47:44 do and the way that the process will
47:45 look is is ultimately three steps two
47:49 meetings maybe three meetings the first
47:52 step is um look through the applications
47:56 and color codeing
47:57 right green is like oh very obvious to
47:59 me makes a lot of sense yes we need to
48:01 fund this or like there's some red flags
48:03 or um just don't think this is aligned
48:06 with isoa um going to put it in the red
48:10 and then you're going to of course come
48:11 through those yellows or you're like oh
48:13 I don't know this is a hard one I need
48:15 to talk about it put that in your Yow
48:18 category um I do want to put this goal
48:20 in it sounds pretty harsh but I I want
48:23 to ask um for folks to initially going
48:26 through look to try to eliminate half of
48:29 these organizations and keep in mind um
48:33 the amount of money we have versus how
48:35 much requested is a third um so that's
48:39 why initial goal is around that half
48:42 mark to
48:43 eliminate the next step that we're going
48:46 to do whether it's in still that same
48:47 meeting or maybe requires a second
48:49 meeting will be to really dive deeper
48:51 into those yellow categories and really
48:54 with the intentions of how most likely
48:56 some of them are going to need to go
48:57 into the red category or we're going to
48:59 all agree that they they should be
49:01 funded um so those are the yellow ones
49:03 that we will spend a lot more time so
49:05 you can see the intention with this
49:08 Excel spreadsheet we're going to go
49:11 through basically say Okay um
49:13 Commissioners uh who are in the subgroup
49:16 um Alpha support of living is this a
49:18 green red or yellow and then we'll color
49:20 code it okay Bridge disability
49:21 Ministries this program green yellow and
49:24 we'll just go down and we'll color code
49:25 it and then we will categorize the
49:28 yellow and look at those a little bit
49:29 closer or the ones that have different
49:34 opinions
49:37 then the last piece of it is once we
49:40 have decided the greens the ones that we
49:41 want to fund then we kind work with the
49:44 numbers um and we decide based off of
49:48 how much they are requesting how much
49:49 money we have and determine if we can
49:52 meet their dollar amount they're asking
49:53 or how much makes sense based off of
49:56 who's all being
49:58 funded
50:00 so what that looks like here in the next
50:02 couple months for us is a busy season um
50:05 so between now and mid June you have
50:07 about a month to review your subgroups
50:09 so some groups are 20 some are
50:12 27 um so I try to make it as even as
50:14 possible but that's what we're working
50:16 with um so the goal is really you will
50:20 be having your homework here in the next
50:23 month come mid June you'll be hearing
50:25 from me before for then to schedule out
50:27 our first um subgroup meeting and I'll
50:30 probably also try to schedule our second
50:32 subgroup meeting and then we'll see if
50:34 we need a third but between June uh mid
50:36 June and our next commission meeting
50:39 that we will be meeting um uh we will
50:43 have our first draft of
50:46 recommendations um as you we've noted
50:48 before we will not have a June meeting
50:50 it falls on a Federal holiday juneth uh
50:52 but also you can see we'll be seeing a
50:54 lot of each other so it'll be a busy
50:56 month still July 17th the goal is this
50:59 is where we um have each subgroup do a
51:03 report out of what their recommendations
51:06 are um this is a time to challenge ask
51:10 each other questions how did you get to
51:12 decision or maybe there's certain
51:13 organizations you see are not funded
51:16 great time to ask hey why are these ones
51:17 not funded um can you provide more
51:20 information um I do encourage you to
51:22 trust trust each other um that this is
51:25 you all have have intentionality you're
51:27 all here for a reason um and that um
51:32 that that there are good reasons for
51:34 this but um but please this is the time
51:37 to have those in-depth
51:39 conversations um I did put in case
51:42 there's any follow-up that needs to
51:43 happen maybe there's some some uh
51:45 questions that the subgroups have um
51:48 there might be some additional subgroup
51:49 meetings come July August um but come
51:52 the 21st our really our goal is to make
51:54 that formal recommendation where we'll
51:56 have our final um action vote on uh what
52:00 we want to recommend to our city mayor
52:02 and city
52:06 council um I did want to go through as
52:08 an example but I feel like I already did
52:11 that through our review toolkits but I
52:12 certainly can further if there's any
52:15 others but that really does conclude um
52:19 that in-depth presentation and just want
52:21 to see if anybody has thank you I can
52:24 tell a lot of work has gone into this
52:27 yeah thank you yeah very welcome it's uh
52:30 it's honestly it's very fun for me I I
52:34 enjoy what I do I'm here for a reason so
52:36 um yeah I I second that I I feel that um
52:42 the tool that you created in house is
52:45 probably more useful for my style of
52:49 reviewing these sorts of um Grant
52:52 applications so I'm just really grateful
52:54 that you did that thank you Hannah great
52:57 I'm glad it works out we press you thank
53:02 you everyone feel like that's a
53:04 manageable time frame a month between
53:07 now and then to look at the 2027
53:09 application I know you all have
53:12 lives it's a busy season do we need more
53:14 time how we feel about
53:18 that well we I think it's manageable but
53:22 it's not we we have to get it done by
53:24 then I mean that's
53:27 I mean um we could push it out I think
53:29 if we needed to we can bump our time
53:31 frame like a month out so instead of let
53:34 me just look good um let me share my
53:37 screen
53:39 second this will just help me visually
53:42 it's just similar to the um time frame
53:45 that we had last time yeah it might be a
53:49 little more ambitious because I think
53:50 August I think September might have been
53:53 when we did the official vote um so one
53:55 option if you you are based off of your
53:57 life and schedules ahead if you're
53:59 feeling that come mid June you're not
54:04 going to be ready to do our first
54:06 initial meeting we
54:08 could bump out report out to August 21st
54:13 so that way I
54:16 can chat with you all we can maybe even
54:20 cancel our July 17th
54:22 meeting I'll keep it as is for now um
54:26 does anybody here I mean I saw lcia you
54:28 had your hand
54:30 up did you want to make a comment yeah I
54:32 I that that was exactly what I was going
54:34 to recommend if there was like a
54:36 midpoint where we could you know make a
54:39 decision then like what pace are we
54:41 going do we need more time but Hannah
54:43 just covered that so
54:46 yeah so yeah I summertime's always hard
54:50 I mean it's it's a busy season lot of
54:52 vacations and travels and stuff so if
54:54 we're feeling like the
54:58 initial you're going to be really busy
55:01 because you're meeting with all the
55:02 subgroups Y yeah and I will ask
55:06 subgroups my my preps is that we meet
55:09 during um work hour time um but if if
55:13 Commissioners are unable I know you also
55:15 work and have other duties so if a
55:18 evening meetings are preferred I'm happy
55:20 to do that as well um but I can meet
55:23 during lunch hours I can meet uh during
55:26 yeah work hours virtually is probably
55:29 would be easier for everyone that's how
55:33 we've done it in the past so so those
55:35 details can be sorted out on the emails
55:37 of how and when we meet I think more so
55:39 we just need to decide this evening is
55:41 our time frame if if we're feeling a
55:42 little bit if this is a little too
55:44 ambitious of a time frame um with
55:47 knowing your your own personal schedule
55:49 and the summer it the other option is
55:55 um the basically I could we could start
55:58 our first
55:59 meeting um after the 4th of July or mid
56:04 July
56:06 even I'm game with us sticking with
56:09 this you to yeah I just kind of prefer
56:13 diving in yeah yeah yeah
56:18 yeah for sure I yeah I again I I I can't
56:23 emphasize enough just like being able to
56:25 in the middle
56:27 you know say this is too much or
56:29 whatever then to start
56:33 later yeah why don't we why don't we
56:35 give this a go and if if we're finding
56:37 like we're having a hard time getting
56:38 meetings scheduled um you know for
56:41 example our dear Commissioners Nanny and
56:44 myy are on vacation right now so we'll
56:47 probably I'll be meeting with them
56:49 they're in a group together so it works
56:50 out nicely I'll be meeting with them
56:52 probably a little more down the road so
56:55 I can tailor it to each subgroup and
56:57 what those needs are and we have a
56:59 buffer we I think we we'll give
57:00 ourselves we'll follow this but then we
57:02 we know we have a buffer and there's
57:04 some flexibility because we all have
57:06 lives so very understandable so I should
57:09 probably pull this up on my laptop but
57:11 just my eyes sound very good so in two
57:14 months when we
57:16 meet um summarize again okay great you
57:20 you blew it up so when we made in
57:24 July okay so this is regular Human
57:27 Services Commission you need right the
57:28 goal is to have our decisions made at
57:31 the subgroup
57:33 level that would be the goal um or but
57:36 it would be very rough Dr so maybe at
57:38 this point you're not sure about money
57:40 or funding but we or or maybe there's
57:43 the yellow categories and just since
57:45 they're small subgroups the two of you
57:46 are having a hard time deciding and want
57:48 to lean into a larger group that would
57:50 be a great time to let's say let me
57:52 bring it to the larger group here and
57:54 have a discussion okay um please note
57:57 that these are U public recording items
58:00 so like we want to be very considerate
58:03 about talking about our our nonprofit
58:06 organizations um but um but those are a
58:09 great opportunity to talk to the larger
58:11 group um so yes so that would be the
58:15 goal is to kind of have the initial and
58:17 maybe it's not like a final
58:18 recommendation at that point and that's
58:20 okay but that would be essentially the
58:22 goal um it's not the final work um
58:26 recommendations but it is but at least
58:27 by that time have everything either
58:29 green yellow or red andure the progress
58:32 and maybe like how and maybe this is a
58:34 good touch Point as a group of like hey
58:36 how haven't seen you all in a while
58:38 how's everyone doing right let's share
58:40 like what what are your challenges in
58:42 these applications like what are what
58:44 questions you have maybe this is a time
58:46 just to kind of like as Commissioners
58:48 just to discuss your experience and see
58:50 if we need to recalibrate in any
58:52 direction so it could be also more seen
58:54 as just a checkpoint with you other um
58:57 and share where we are
58:58 currently
59:00 um and then go sounds
59:04 good perfect well are are
59:08 people do people want to talk about this
59:10 anymore or can we move
59:12 on you can
59:17 move so like my fingers were crossed
59:20 like please don't push it back cuz I've
59:22 already started looking at the
59:23 application thank you great
59:27 just to get it done commiss I really
59:29 appreciate your umiss and all that's
59:32 really doal which which a subgroup are
59:34 you in Kenan the housing continuing okay
59:38 and who else is in that medine right
59:41 yeah and I know we're in the cultural
59:44 and then what are you uh physical and
59:47 behavior health okay okay
59:51 H um can I can I please bother everyone
59:55 to turn the their names to face the
59:57 camera so I can learn your names please
1:00:00 Trish I can see yours I just can't see
1:00:02 anybody
1:00:03 else's thank you very good
1:00:07 question very good request I should say
1:00:10 okay well now we're moving on to a
1:00:13 really critical part of the
1:00:15 meeting right we're going to elect for
1:00:18 the next year and I guess the next
1:00:22 officers will start in July at our next
1:00:24 meeting we're going to have um a new
1:00:26 chair and a new Vice
1:00:29 chair and you know this is really laid
1:00:31 back you
1:00:33 guys but we do have Quorum I will
1:00:35 reiterate so we can't make a vote on
1:00:36 this without say that again we do have
1:00:39 Quorum yeah so we can make a vote on it
1:00:42 right okay so Hannah was kind enough to
1:00:46 give me a
1:00:47 script okay okay uh I'm going to call
1:00:53 for nominations for the chair the world
1:00:57 that I'm doing
1:00:59 now and when all the nominations have
1:01:02 been made I will close I'm reading the
1:01:04 script I will close the nomination if
1:01:08 only one nomination is is made the
1:01:11 member will be considered elected to the
1:01:13 position by unanimous
1:01:15 consent if multiple nominations are
1:01:19 made okay and do we really want to do
1:01:21 this no you're good we can we can
1:01:26 I'm reading the script okay I think
1:01:30 we'll just I think we'll just see how it
1:01:32 goes okay because I mean you know this
1:01:34 is such a laidback thing
1:01:36 okay do we have any nominations for
1:01:41 chair I do I have a
1:01:44 nomination I'd like to nominate haime
1:01:47 who's been my loyal Vice chair for this
1:01:51 year does anybody else have any other
1:01:55 nomination for
1:01:58 chair I can nominate H me
1:02:02 too please don't have
1:02:05 fantastic second from K oh we have to
1:02:08 have a second or no sorry no we do not
1:02:11 okay we document that yeah voted twice
1:02:16 okay if only one nomination is made
1:02:19 which is I guess right we're gonna okay
1:02:21 so hi
1:02:24 me I'll do my
1:02:26 best my best okay okay now we get to
1:02:31 repeat this for vice
1:02:34 chair okay the same thing I'm going to
1:02:37 call for
1:02:38 nominations and if only one nomination
1:02:40 is made the that member will be
1:02:42 considered elected to the position it's
1:02:45 nice that we don't have to vote I mean
1:02:48 you know it's just should be yeah yeah
1:02:52 okay do we have any nominations for Vice
1:02:54 cheriff
1:02:59 commissioner how I nominate umaa umaa y
1:03:02 thank you I didn't know if I could self
1:03:07 nominated
1:03:09 go okay do we have any other
1:03:12 nominations yes I I I would like to
1:03:14 nominate um Manny
1:03:18 Brown okay have you talked to him I have
1:03:22 in the past yes say that again I have in
1:03:25 the past
1:03:27 okay because when we've asked him in the
1:03:28 past he said no
1:03:30 way you talked to him recently yeah okay
1:03:35 that's interesting okay someone else
1:03:38 check that again yeah I mean I have to
1:03:40 be okay with that I mean if that's vot
1:03:42 we have two nominations we'll we'll may
1:03:44 just have to
1:03:45 vote that's okay there's nothing wrong
1:03:47 with that yeah no no the only reason why
1:03:50 I and I'm not hearing you very well the
1:03:52 only reason why I'm saying that is we
1:03:54 would want to make sure he would want to
1:03:56 do this so you're pretty sure at least
1:03:58 you you probably have more recent
1:03:59 information than I do
1:04:04 right I I don't know Trish okay okay
1:04:09 okay well unfortunately um commissioner
1:04:11 Manny Brown is not present so we cannot
1:04:14 confirm if he would accept the
1:04:16 nomination because it's another piece of
1:04:18 it they need to be willing to accept the
1:04:20 nomination um do you want me to text you
1:04:23 yeah I was going to say vacation right
1:04:24 now in a different country country so he
1:04:26 may not country yeah this country um
1:04:31 isn't this
1:04:33 funny wouldn't it be NE like if he
1:04:36 was so so we have two options
1:04:40 Commissioners either can we uh bothe me
1:04:42 in and I can gladly abdicate the vice
1:04:45 chair position if he feels strongly
1:04:48 about yeah so so Comm yeah so here here
1:04:51 are two options either um we can treat
1:04:54 this as a nomination
1:04:56 whether he accepts it or not and we can
1:04:59 um we can vote on it I don't think I
1:05:02 feel very comfortable um without
1:05:04 confirmation of putting him into a
1:05:06 position that he hasn't confirmed with
1:05:08 myself um and so an he's not here to
1:05:11 confirm yay or nay um he I am sure
1:05:15 wouldn't I'm
1:05:16 sure so anyways I don't know how he
1:05:19 would respond to that um so I I feel
1:05:22 more comfortable since he has uh he has
1:05:25 not able to uh confirm his nomination um
1:05:29 that he will not be considered this
1:05:31 evening so we could either consider Huma
1:05:34 and vote for Huma in as the vice chair
1:05:37 or we can hold off on do another
1:05:39 election during our July meeting after
1:05:42 we speak to him
1:05:44 um I'm fine with it well why don't we I
1:05:47 mean I want to honor lacious um you know
1:05:50 nomination why don't we just I mean
1:05:53 again this is so you guys this is said
1:05:56 that's okay yeah not a big deal um and I
1:05:59 mean you saw how much Hae had to work
1:06:02 this past year as Vice chair like I mean
1:06:04 I I mean I guess you know it it was good
1:06:08 I guess that I showed up so much because
1:06:09 you didn't have to cheer any meetings
1:06:10 right but um how about if we wait until
1:06:14 July yeah because I want to honor your
1:06:17 contribution with
1:06:18 c yeah I appreciate that thank you Trish
1:06:22 yeah great okay thanks for bearing this
1:06:26 is the first for me so I appreciate you
1:06:27 bearing with me as I try to figure out
1:06:30 how to navigate that um Luccia thank you
1:06:33 so much for your nomination I will
1:06:34 follow up with Manny and we will um
1:06:37 complete a vice chair voting um for our
1:06:41 next July meeting so I will not forget
1:06:45 um but we will move forward with hae's
1:06:47 uh nomination and uh selection for chair
1:06:50 so congratulations we're very excited
1:06:52 for your chair role um star and you you
1:06:56 I I should just hand you the script down
1:06:58 before I you'll get oh yeah that's right
1:07:01 in'll be doing the I'll have a script
1:07:08 you just the yourself great but I would
1:07:10 say I I appreciate you all I think I've
1:07:13 been here for about two years and it's
1:07:15 very rewarding um to kind of see the
1:07:19 grant funding cycle but also then um you
1:07:22 know visit the agencies their Mission
1:07:25 Vision and values and how they impact
1:07:27 our communities it's very for me it's
1:07:29 been very rewarding so this time I'm
1:07:31 kind of moving in with more of a
1:07:34 understanding you know I was in your
1:07:35 shoes where I was like I think I
1:07:37 reviewed all 90 some applications the
1:07:39 first time and and and I made comments
1:07:43 and realized like I only had to do 30
1:07:45 and so I'm I'm coming in with you know
1:07:48 more of a relaxed approach and kind of
1:07:50 but I I think of it is the Strategic
1:07:53 plan is in place it's helped me Center
1:07:56 my my thoughts and I will do my best to
1:07:59 serve as a chairish to the human
1:08:00 services so thank you so much for the
1:08:03 this is my first time kind of jumping
1:08:05 into like a Civic role out way so I will
1:08:07 do my best thank you you'll do
1:08:10 just very excited to have you thank you
1:08:12 and and I will also like to um share my
1:08:16 thanks to Trish Trish has been with us
1:08:18 as a chair uh for a couple years now
1:08:21 you've done a really wonderful job and
1:08:23 it's been wonderful working with you oh
1:08:25 been it's you know it's such an easy
1:08:27 group to work with you know everybody
1:08:29 it's just a very team oriented
1:08:32 environment space to be yeah yeah well
1:08:35 that's a huge part to your leadership as
1:08:37 well so thank you so much and want to
1:08:39 honor your
1:08:40 timec thank you for your service and
1:08:43 I'll still be around you will very much
1:08:45 be around I'll still be around yes very
1:08:47 exciting so okay so we we are moving
1:08:52 reports um okay uh the the next is the
1:08:57 chair and commissioner reports this is
1:08:59 where if anybody wants to talk about
1:09:01 anything that they think is important
1:09:03 that they want to share with other
1:09:05 Commissioners that you know in the Human
1:09:08 Services
1:09:09 realm does anybody have anything they
1:09:11 want to
1:09:15 share it almost looks like luar is
1:09:17 coming out with something I can't tell
1:09:20 um I don't have anything to
1:09:23 share okay and we can just move on at
1:09:26 that point then to
1:09:27 Preston okay so very quick thing um our
1:09:32 last meeting had a wonderful total of
1:09:35 approximately 10 out of our 40 members
1:09:38 because no one was here because it was
1:09:39 AP testing so nothing new was really
1:09:42 done but we're reaching the end of our
1:09:44 cycle because the youth Advisory Board
1:09:47 does not have any meetings over the
1:09:48 summer um we just had our deadline for
1:09:51 the new application so we're going into
1:09:53 our reading week where we all as members
1:09:56 try um start to read the applications
1:09:58 for the first phase before giving emails
1:10:00 for interviews inperson interviews um
1:10:03 going into final events for the year I
1:10:06 believe on the 31st yes 31st of May we
1:10:10 have our um Art in the Park event which
1:10:13 is basically just like an end of year
1:10:15 event for elementary schoolers it's
1:10:17 going to be at um constant park over
1:10:21 there and it's basically we're just
1:10:23 going to have um a couple activi acties
1:10:26 like um we're doing like these cute
1:10:29 slime this little jellyfish thing and
1:10:32 like just like foraging so we're it's
1:10:34 just like this fun event for all the
1:10:35 elementary schoolers just like signify
1:10:37 the end of the year help them make
1:10:38 friends for the summer and then like
1:10:40 transition over and then on the 1 um of
1:10:44 June we are going to have our first easy
1:10:47 hackathon and that will be for middle
1:10:49 school and high school students so there
1:10:51 will be a competition for hacking with
1:10:54 the prompt of how do you make isqua
1:10:57 better very
1:10:59 open-ended and it's also going to be
1:11:02 time where we have a couple workshops on
1:11:05 website design and just coding overall
1:11:08 and we're gonna have judges couple
1:11:09 prizes just like a kind of laidback ofen
1:11:12 L to comsi and such and yeah I think
1:11:16 that's it I think I think I'm done great
1:11:20 work thank you so much Preston I just
1:11:22 also want to say thank you for being
1:11:23 part of the commission this year it's
1:11:25 been I know you're about to enjoy your
1:11:27 summer break and I know our meeting is
1:11:28 not till July um I just want to say
1:11:32 thank you for participating and your
1:11:34 wonderful youth staff reports are are
1:11:37 fabulous so thank you thank you are you
1:11:39 gonna be staying with us yes cool I will
1:11:43 for this year hopefully until senior
1:11:47 year and I will consider myself 18 to
1:11:50 apply for vice
1:11:52 chair we're excited for that
1:11:57 we'll be 18 probably running
1:12:00 for we're excited to have you Preston
1:12:03 you it's you are bringing a lot to the
1:12:05 table and youth voice is really
1:12:08 important in our next generation and you
1:12:10 do a great job representing your youth
1:12:12 so thank you thank you you give me hope
1:12:14 for my children growing up in this way
1:12:16 you do yeah thank you and I hope you're
1:12:18 enjoying it learning fun I got to read a
1:12:22 couple of the applications specifically
1:12:25 um what are they called the behavioral
1:12:28 health ones and I just thought it was
1:12:30 like really cool just to see like how
1:12:31 like all these programs are just like
1:12:33 helping out I mainly looked at um Nami
1:12:37 the Nami ones and I really thought Nami
1:12:39 was cool specifically like obviously
1:12:41 like as a youth giving seeing as they
1:12:44 give opportunities for the mental health
1:12:47 services and once we finish a scram
1:12:50 process and I no longer had to be
1:12:52 nonpartisan I'm probably going to apply
1:12:54 there
1:12:55 I'm gonna probably might apply for the
1:12:57 program that's great but um yeah I just
1:13:00 think it's just really cool just to see
1:13:01 how like all of these different programs
1:13:03 and how we're able to help fund them
1:13:05 just so that they can give back to the
1:13:07 community yeah yeah yeah you you totally
1:13:10 get it that's exactly it thank you so
1:13:12 much and thank you for doing the extra
1:13:13 stuff and looking at those
1:13:15 applications really appreciate
1:13:17 it okay stamp report right no actual
1:13:21 report um other than a few events coming
1:13:23 up want to invite you all at
1:13:25 this Saturday here at our community
1:13:27 center starting at 4 pm is our
1:13:29 Asian-American and Pacific Islander
1:13:32 Heritage Month
1:13:33 celebration um this is a pretty historic
1:13:36 um event for us as a city it's our first
1:13:38 in-person aapi celebration um and it
1:13:42 will be it's just Saturday and it's this
1:13:45 Saturday May 18th from 4: to 6 at the
1:13:48 community center inside and um there's
1:13:51 going to be Dragon dancing fashion shows
1:13:53 kid events kid um
1:13:56 um hand activities that they can get
1:13:58 involved in um as well as um egg rolls
1:14:02 free egg rolls so I don't yeah do you
1:14:06 need a ticket like we did for the
1:14:07 children's day thing at the community
1:14:09 center um to get an egg roll yes no just
1:14:12 what tickets to get in um so technically
1:14:16 RSVP just helps with the numbers like
1:14:18 for food and stuff but it'll be where
1:14:19 you come in and you need to just sign in
1:14:21 they'll give you a ticket and then
1:14:22 that'll be your ticket and that's
1:14:24 honestly just account heads because they
1:14:26 have to report that for for funding
1:14:28 purposes um so um we're very excited
1:14:31 we're partnering with the circle um the
1:14:33 circle is an organization nonprofit
1:14:34 heritance Squad that we um fund for
1:14:36 Human Services they uh have typically
1:14:39 done our Hispanic Heritage Month for
1:14:41 Human Services they do Children's Day
1:14:43 Day of the Dead that's through the Arts
1:14:45 programs um but they have a Chinese
1:14:47 Circle um and so working with their
1:14:50 executive director she's put on um her
1:14:53 staff from the Chinese Circle and their
1:14:56 board members um who identify in aapi um
1:14:59 to um to lead this event so um yeah it
1:15:05 should be it should be really fun so
1:15:06 just want to encourage you if you're
1:15:07 around um four o'clock at the the
1:15:09 Saturday please stop by um and then I
1:15:12 won't I also want to put on your radar
1:15:15 we have a pride month event um here at
1:15:18 the garage actually so it's kind of a
1:15:20 two event in one the garage pride is a
1:15:23 youth focused um event that they lead
1:15:25 and set up and then afterwards we have
1:15:28 one of our Equity board members um set
1:15:30 up a panel um it's going to be um uh
1:15:33 Pride with different perspectives so we
1:15:35 have youth we have parents we have Den
1:15:38 Pride we have pride across the bridge
1:15:40 I'm going to speak um and have a very
1:15:42 wonderful conversation is it Saturday as
1:15:44 well yep it's going be back to back that
1:15:46 one's a Saturday June 15th so Pride um
1:15:50 month is in June so the event will be
1:15:52 mid June you'll see some emails coming
1:15:54 out just want throw throw that on your
1:15:56 radar um 1 to 4 is kind of the lawn fun
1:15:59 activity events and then from right
1:16:01 afterwards from 4:00 to 6 will be the
1:16:02 panel event um please consider joining
1:16:05 for that and then there's a few other
1:16:08 events coming up but not till September
1:16:09 I'll share with you as it gets closer so
1:16:11 we are busy planning and are you doing
1:16:14 welcoming week we are doing welcoming
1:16:16 week we just start planning would you
1:16:18 like to yeah I have a musician
1:16:21 recommendation otherani musician in our
1:16:23 community who's amazing amazing I love
1:16:26 that okay
1:16:27 perfect and he's really really amazing
1:16:30 before we adjourn can I say another
1:16:32 event I should have probably said this
1:16:34 during Sher but um because I didn't want
1:16:36 to say it during ort because this is in
1:16:38 not with the yab with yab but um I'm a
1:16:43 JDRF representative this year so that's
1:16:45 the juvenile diabetes Research
1:16:47 Foundation as a type 1 diabetic and on
1:16:50 Sunday we are holding our beat the
1:16:51 bridge at vent so um a deadline to apply
1:16:55 is this Friday and it's $30 but it's to
1:16:58 a really good cause because all this
1:17:00 money goes all the way goes to type 1
1:17:03 diabetes research and going to a cure
1:17:06 funding different treatment programs and
1:17:08 just a ton of different research and
1:17:09 it's this really good thing and
1:17:11 basically beat the bridge is just this
1:17:12 event um it starts at depending on what
1:17:16 you want to do it's just um we have a
1:17:19 walk we have a run Diaper Derby for
1:17:21 children and then an 8K which is like
1:17:23 the big one and and basically it's just
1:17:25 this really fun and interesting event
1:17:28 and you should come because we're
1:17:31 looking for volunteers as well so you
1:17:33 can come to participate and do the run
1:17:35 or do the walk and or you can
1:17:37 participate as a volunteer because we're
1:17:40 really needing them right now at so it's
1:17:43 kind of early but 7:45 is the start of
1:17:46 our walk 8:15 is the start of the one
1:17:49 mile fun run 8:30 is the 8 and 8:30 is
1:17:52 the start of the 8K and if you stay all
1:17:55 the way until 10:00 they're making me I
1:17:57 mean I'm willingly doing a
1:18:00 speech so that'll be fun gu and what day
1:18:04 is this again Preston um Sunday oh this
1:18:07 Sunday this Sunday so then the deadline
1:18:09 is on Friday I can send you the site but
1:18:12 if you want to find it yourself it's
1:18:14 just such a JDRF beat the bridge and
1:18:17 there's a lot of information out already
1:18:19 and information and pictures with my
1:18:21 face online
1:18:25 well we will uh we will I can probably
1:18:28 look it up and I can send it to the
1:18:29 commission with a few other information
1:18:32 thank you question thank you very much
1:18:34 okay are we ready to adjourn I have a
1:18:37 quick question for Preston Preston can
1:18:39 you explain why it's called beat the
1:18:40 bridge like oh yeah this is the big part
1:18:44 I forgot this so beat the bridge is
1:18:47 because in the 8K so basically it starts
1:18:50 at University of Washington like the
1:18:53 campus like the stadium
1:18:55 and then you keep running to if you know
1:18:57 where it is it's University bridge and
1:18:59 then you keep running there and then
1:19:00 it's um I don't know how exactly long it
1:19:03 is but the goal is that you like beat
1:19:05 the bridge because at a certain point
1:19:06 the bridge goes up and then everyone has
1:19:08 to wait everyone has to wait until it
1:19:10 comes
1:19:11 back there's like festivi so it's not
1:19:14 like if you meet the bridge everyone's
1:19:16 just like well that's too bad for you so
1:19:19 it's still like there's festivities but
1:19:21 it's just like fun beat the bridge cuz
1:19:23 they'll like bring it up and like the
1:19:24 goal is to like make it there before it
1:19:27 goes up I love that thank you for that
1:19:30 detail that makes it even more exciting
1:19:32 to like go and participate in some way
1:19:35 thank you thank
1:19:37 you okay well um we'll see each other as
1:19:42 a whole in two months summer will be
1:19:45 here by then but we'll be in touch in
1:19:48 our subg groups okay thank you so much
1:19:51 okay so I'm gonna adjourn this meeting
1:19:55 and you can stop the recording perfect