Human Services Commission · Wednesday, February 19, 2025 · City Council Digest

3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

Minutes of January 15, 2025

packet pp.3–4

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Staff report:

APPROVAL OF MINUTES a) 01-15-25 Human Services Commission Minutes CITY OF ISSAQUAH Human Services Commission 6:30 PM Steelhead Room, 235 1st Ave. January 15, 2025 MINUTES SE, Issaquah

4. AGENDA ITEMS

2024 Annual Human Services Strategic Plan Update (I)

30 min · Hannah Roberts, Sr. Human Services Coordinator · packet pp.5–19

Topics: Equity

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Staff report:

Provide an update on the implementation & outcome report on 2024 Human Services Strategic Plan

2024 Human Services Grants Performance Review (I)

30 min · Hannah Roberts, Sr. Human Services Coordinator · packet pp.21–36

Topics: BudgetEquity

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Staff report:

Provide an annual performance and outcome report on 2024 Human Services Grants.

5. REPORTS

Chair and Commissioner Reports

Topics: Boards & Commissions

Youth Report

packet pp.37

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Staff report:

• Black History Month Event: Onyx Arts Collective, the City of Issaquah and Highlands Council presents Black Artists of Change will feature art at the Blakely Hall Gallery that is open to the public to view from February 17-28 Monday through Friday 9am-4pm. There will be a public reception at Blakely Hall 5-8 pm featuring "Fly for Freedom" performed by Living Voices. Visit here for more information.

Staff Report

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0:02 ↗ still good to go there it

0:06 ↗ is hello this is

0:08 ↗ uh Vice chair and commissioner Manu

0:11 ↗ Brown calling to our mean order of the

0:14 ↗ isal Human Services Commission from

0:15 ↗ February 19

0:18 ↗ 2025 and um should we go straight to

0:22 ↗ public com comments or yeah first I'm

0:24 ↗ going to just kind of call out our

0:26 ↗ attendance uh we currently do have

0:28 ↗ Quorum but we are missing a few Comm

0:29 ↗ commers uh we have our chair haime who

0:33 ↗ is uh excuse absent uh we have Huma who

0:37 ↗ is who should be joining us online but

0:40 ↗ running late today um Trish blor and the

0:43 ↗ cresia Cho uh are currently absent and

0:47 ↗ hopefully they'll join us later uh but

0:49 ↗ they are um not in attendance currently

0:52 ↗ so yeah so we're good to move forward

0:53 ↗ now great um can I get a motion to

0:57 ↗ approve the minutes from I'm assuming

1:00 ↗ there's no public correct no public

1:01 ↗ comments um in the room or virtual

1:03 ↗ comments okay I read the minutes and I

1:06 ↗ uh this is commissioner fish and I

1:08 ↗ propose that the minutes as submitted be

1:11 ↗ approved and I

1:13 ↗ second thank you Mar you have a

1:16 ↗ unanimous consent we do thank you Annie

1:21 ↗ well um well hello as I said I'm

1:25 ↗ commissioner Manny Brown um currently

1:28 ↗ the vice chair of is Callum Service

1:30 ↗ Commission before we begin I'd like to

1:32 ↗ give homage to the original caretakers

1:35 ↗ of this land I thank you all the tribes

1:38 ↗ of the Pacific

1:41 ↗ Northwest I've been asked many times

1:44 ↗ what does Human Service Commission

1:46 ↗ do I think it's important that in

1:49 ↗ today's environment to state that this

1:50 ↗ commission plays a vital role in

1:53 ↗ studying the emergence of issues and

1:56 ↗ concerns regarding human services to

1:58 ↗ ensure that basic survival needs of Bal

2:00 ↗ residents are met and that support

2:02 ↗ systems are in place to help people

2:04 ↗ through economic and personal crisis

2:08 ↗ today's agenda will be dealing with the

2:11 ↗ distribution of limited funds available

2:13 ↗ to the Human Services of

2:15 ↗ isqua I've worked with the members of

2:18 ↗ members and staff of this commission and

2:20 ↗ you can be assured that with every

2:22 ↗ decision that's made I believe the

2:24 ↗ foremost thought in the process is the

2:27 ↗ Safety and Security of the residents of

2:28 ↗ our diverse community

2:31 ↗ I'd like to remind myself that most of

2:33 ↗ us have either personally or have

2:36 ↗ ancestors that have migrated from

2:38 ↗ different places from around the world

2:39 ↗ and I age urge each of you each every

2:42 ↗ one of us to work together as a

2:44 ↗ community to make is AAL a weling place

2:47 ↗ for all with that I'd like to um go

2:51 ↗ right

2:52 ↗ into Miss uh Hannah Roberts for our

2:57 ↗ annual service strategic Plan update

3:00 ↗ thank you Mary Brown that was a

3:01 ↗ wonderful speech and a really good

3:03 ↗ reminder of why we are here and what we

3:05 ↗ are committing ourselves to so I

3:07 ↗ appreciate those words and they mean a

3:08 ↗ lot to me thank you um so let me just

3:11 ↗ give me a second folks as I share my

3:12 ↗ screen oh hey Trish and Huma hi Huma I

3:15 ↗ see you both there thanks for joining us

3:19 ↗ online well you have uh both of you we

3:21 ↗ just started so you really have not

3:22 ↗ missed much we are just hitting our

3:24 ↗ first agenda

3:26 ↗ item oh excuse me one second

3:33 ↗ okay we are doing our strategic Plan

3:44 ↗ update all

3:46 ↗ right okay so hi everyone Hannah Roberts

3:49 ↗ our senior human services coordinator um

3:52 ↗ this evening appreciate you all being

3:54 ↗ here on midwinter break um in the cold

3:57 ↗ weather uh this evening I really want to

4:00 ↗ use our time to just provide our

4:03 ↗ commission a reflection at 2024 and

4:06 ↗ that's going to look like in two parts

4:07 ↗ this first one is our T services

4:09 ↗ strategic plan um this is as a reminder

4:12 ↗ A Five-Year Plan but I feel like it's

4:15 ↗ our responsibility to provide you as a

4:17 ↗ commission um updates um uh annually as

4:20 ↗ how we are doing on the implementation

4:22 ↗ of our strategic plan um so that will be

4:26 ↗ um the presentation tonight

4:35 ↗ um all right so just a step back because

4:37 ↗ I'm sure most of you are not on your

4:39 ↗ weekends looking through our 100 plus

4:42 ↗ page strategic plan on our website um

4:45 ↗ I'm going to just kind of provide just a

4:46 ↗ reminder uh reorientate us around what

4:49 ↗ is our strategic plan um where are we

4:52 ↗ currently at and then provide the update

4:55 ↗ um so as you may recall our strategic

4:57 ↗ plan really it's it's our first one

4:59 ↗ within Human Services it's intended to

5:02 ↗ be a five-year plan to really be

5:04 ↗ essentially a roadmap for the work that

5:06 ↗ we're doing um as a staff as city um as

5:10 ↗ you may have recalled this was a huge um

5:13 ↗ guideline for us when our Human Services

5:16 ↗ grant funding uh decision process and

5:19 ↗ really this is helpful information for

5:21 ↗ us as a city to understand I will also

5:24 ↗ add that our strategic plan here is

5:26 ↗ implemented into the comprehensive plan

5:29 ↗ so large wide City strategic plan um

5:32 ↗ it's been a nice and it's been easily

5:34 ↗ embedded into the larger plan as

5:37 ↗ well and again the Strategic plan uh

5:40 ↗ again quite lengthy but it's kind of

5:42 ↗ broken up in these main sections really

5:45 ↗ we kind of steep back and first um back

5:48 ↗ in 2021 is when we started the building

5:50 ↗ our strategic plan through um surveys

5:53 ↗ focus groups interviews to talking to

5:56 ↗ our uh nonprofit organizations our uh

5:59 ↗ residents in our community you all were

6:00 ↗ a part of that process to build this as

6:02 ↗ well and and so in that we identify you

6:05 ↗ know what are the barriers to Services

6:07 ↗ what are the gaps of services what does

6:09 ↗ isoa have what what build our community

6:12 ↗ and in that we really took um kind of

6:15 ↗ four key areas that we were uh wanted to

6:18 ↗ focus on um which I'll go in more detail

6:21 ↗ here um shortly and in that we created

6:24 ↗ measurable action items we wanted this

6:26 ↗ to be a doe project we wanted to be able

6:28 ↗ to do

6:30 ↗ um the uh the steps to see what changes

6:33 ↗ are we making and and identify the

6:36 ↗ funding source as well in those

6:38 ↗ actions so again you're probably very

6:41 ↗ familiar with these priority areas um I

6:44 ↗ just want to remind us that in that um

6:47 ↗ we have four main ones that you see here

6:49 ↗ um but really we kind of step back and

6:51 ↗ realize that there's an overarching

6:54 ↗ Community need as well um which is

6:56 ↗ facilities which is support and so we

6:59 ↗ recognize that that's there are some

7:01 ↗ strategic actions that build that

7:04 ↗ priority as well but it it embodied all

7:06 ↗ areas that needed

7:09 ↗ that so where are we now again it's a

7:12 ↗ Five-Year Plan 2021 we we did the

7:15 ↗ research we built it you were part of

7:17 ↗ that process and March 2022 is when we

7:20 ↗ took it to council and we had official

7:22 ↗ adoption and we started the

7:24 ↗ implementation um in December of 2023 we

7:28 ↗ did kind of a check-in to say hey are we

7:30 ↗ on track any major uh changes so it was

7:32 ↗ a very light level focus groups with our

7:35 ↗ partners um with our commission with you

7:37 ↗ all and we presented that to council um

7:40 ↗ here we are at 2024 this is our annual

7:43 ↗ review and then moving forward we have

7:45 ↗ basically two more years to um of the

7:49 ↗ implementation and come 2027 is when we

7:52 ↗ will provide the the edits um and the

7:55 ↗ updates and work on kind of a a revamp

7:58 ↗ as you as you will kind of a redo if we

8:00 ↗ need to so another focus group and um

8:03 ↗ Outreach as

8:06 ↗ well okay so zooming back into to

8:11 ↗ 2024 um sorry computers acting slow

8:15 ↗ today um so looking at 2024 I want to

8:20 ↗ just have a few highlights so um I

8:22 ↗ printed here if you are in person I have

8:25 ↗ um a three-page sheet it's a staff memo

8:28 ↗ if you have the agenda online you can

8:30 ↗ also reference to that feel free to kind

8:32 ↗ of take a closer look at that I think um

8:35 ↗ the Sao is really intended to provide a

8:38 ↗ um sorry Mor did you have a

8:41 ↗ question no I don't it was someone was

8:44 ↗ talking to me here sorry about that no

8:46 ↗ problem just want to make sure I didn't

8:48 ↗ miss

8:49 ↗ something um but this staff membo is

8:52 ↗ really it we have at the end of the

8:54 ↗ Strategic plan 21 outcomes that we're

8:56 ↗ measuring basically saying are we

8:59 ↗ completing them are we on track and so

9:02 ↗ um this is the report that you can see

9:03 ↗ in details of how well we are doing um

9:07 ↗ but I thought instead of going line by

9:09 ↗ line that can be a little daunting you

9:10 ↗ can look at that on your own and please

9:13 ↗ feel free to bring any highlights

9:15 ↗ questions or any comments on those um

9:18 ↗ but a few things I don't want to

9:19 ↗ highlight in 2024 that I think we did

9:21 ↗ really well in the

9:22 ↗ implementation um

9:25 ↗ was we did the 2025 2026 teaming

9:28 ↗ Services Program I if you all remember

9:30 ↗ that bely yeah yeah but that was all

9:33 ↗ work done in 2024 it took the majority

9:35 ↗ of the year and I've got to say I'm so

9:39 ↗ proud of this commission um for that

9:41 ↗ process but really you used the

9:43 ↗ Strategic plan well intended right it

9:45 ↗ was a well embedded um wellt tracked

9:49 ↗ strategic plan built by our community

9:51 ↗ that you really listen to I I sat in all

9:54 ↗ those meetings you all I know had

9:56 ↗ organizations that you personally said

9:58 ↗ this is a great organiz gation I want to

10:00 ↗ fund this but you all were very aligned

10:02 ↗ with well let's just go back to the

10:04 ↗ Strategic plan does it make sense so

10:06 ↗ kudos to you that's a hard process but

10:09 ↗ I'm appreciative that you use this tool

10:11 ↗ in that way um a few other areas to

10:13 ↗ highlight I um I feel like in 2024 was

10:17 ↗ one of our best year for cultural events

10:19 ↗ so as a city we have been um tasked with

10:23 ↗ having um six different cultural events

10:26 ↗ throughout the year uh to be honest it

10:28 ↗ took us a couple years years to figure

10:29 ↗ it out but one of the big lessons we

10:31 ↗ learned last year was um we shouldn't be

10:33 ↗ the ones in charge we should be

10:35 ↗ promoting supporting helping helping the

10:38 ↗ voices be raised so we wanted to find

10:41 ↗ those Community Partners um that could

10:45 ↗ lead us in these cultural events so huge

10:47 ↗ shout out to the circle um they let us h

10:49 ↗ a Hispanic Heritage Month uh it was a

10:52 ↗ fun uh family dance at the Pickering

10:55 ↗ Barn that was a wonderful event um they

10:58 ↗ also did for the first time our

10:59 ↗ in-person

11:01 ↗ aapi um Heritage Month Asian-American

11:03 ↗ Pacific Islander month and that was such

11:05 ↗ a fun event over at our community center

11:07 ↗ with beautiful um cultural um

11:12 ↗ entertainment um we had Pride event over

11:15 ↗ at the garage and so we really let them

11:17 ↗ take the lead on that with one of our

11:20 ↗ community members leading that um we had

11:23 ↗ welcoming week which was a beautiful

11:25 ↗ large one of our largest events um in

11:27 ↗ partnership with a a lot of our

11:29 ↗ community members so again the the

11:32 ↗ intention is well well received well

11:36 ↗ attended and well planned by Our

11:38 ↗ Community Partners so just a great

11:40 ↗ success in

11:42 ↗ 2024 uh we did resource fairs twice a

11:45 ↗ year um that is a great way for

11:47 ↗ networking with our nonprofits as well

11:49 ↗ showing to our community these resources

11:52 ↗ so that ran really smoothly again this

11:54 ↗ year um our Behavioral Health and

11:56 ↗ homeless outreach program um that

11:59 ↗ started in 2021 and it's grown so much

12:02 ↗ and just they've gone through a lot of

12:03 ↗ some staffing changes in 2024 policy

12:06 ↗ changes but really they've been um doing

12:09 ↗ a great job collecting data working with

12:12 ↗ our community members um so huge shout

12:15 ↗ out to the team in and the work that

12:17 ↗ they do um if you ever have any

12:19 ↗ questions about that program we have a

12:21 ↗ beautiful dashboard that kind of help

12:23 ↗ shows the numbers and stories that we

12:26 ↗ have um but that's a strong program that

12:28 ↗ we have as a city um the other shout out

12:32 ↗ I think that uh one of our areas that

12:35 ↗ was on the weaker end or one of our

12:37 ↗ challenges in 2023 was our educational

12:39 ↗ events a lot of our strategic items are

12:43 ↗ using our current resources to provide

12:45 ↗ educational events about homelessness

12:47 ↗ mental health um pretty much an each

12:49 ↗ priority area we wanted to provide

12:52 ↗ information to our community so I think

12:53 ↗ there was a good focus on that this year

12:55 ↗ to make sure that we accomplished those

12:58 ↗ um and then financial aid I think

13:00 ↗ financial aid um want to shout out to

13:04 ↗ our partners Who provided um emergency

13:06 ↗ financial aid it was hard to do that

13:09 ↗ during a year where a lot of funding was

13:11 ↗ cut but their numbers really were very

13:13 ↗ strong and showed um showed in their

13:16 ↗ abilities to continue to serve our

13:19 ↗ community um so before I move on from

13:22 ↗ our highlights I'll talk about some of

13:24 ↗ our challenges next but do any folks

13:26 ↗ have any questions about that or

13:28 ↗ anything that may stood out to you on

13:30 ↗ the report or

13:33 ↗ anything of interest to

13:36 ↗ discuss no worries if not

13:44 ↗ either all good

13:47 ↗ okay okay challenges right every plan uh

13:50 ↗ doesn't go perfectly so we are going to

13:54 ↗ call out um the challenges that we have

13:56 ↗ fortunately we still have time some of

13:58 ↗ these outcomes are Meed annually some of

14:00 ↗ them are five years this one has always

14:02 ↗ been our challenge is our multi-resource

14:04 ↗ Center our city really wants to be able

14:07 ↗ to provide a localized space for

14:10 ↗ nonprofits to be able to provide their

14:13 ↗ services out of it's just very expensive

14:15 ↗ and very hard to find that space I will

14:18 ↗ tell you it's um it's not just this it

14:21 ↗ just brick and mortar here and esqua

14:23 ↗ expensive and a challenge not just for

14:26 ↗ Human Services for but for uh for

14:29 ↗ profits

14:30 ↗ alike um so which kind of takes us to

14:33 ↗ the third one which is again if there's

14:35 ↗ not we don't have space to offer our

14:36 ↗ nonprofits and they don't it's expensive

14:38 ↗ to be able to rent here and be able to

14:40 ↗ provide services um that has although

14:43 ↗ there has been a strong expansion in

14:45 ↗ isqua there hasn't been a huge expansion

14:47 ↗ expansion of brick and morar type of

14:49 ↗ services here um and so that's also been

14:52 ↗ a challenge and then the biggest one

14:56 ↗ we've provided some reports and updates

14:58 ↗ as this has gone on but but I really

14:59 ↗ want to call out um the loss of our

15:01 ↗ emergency housing program has been a big

15:03 ↗ hit for Human Services and for our

15:05 ↗ community members um not having a

15:08 ↗ shelter in isoa has really hindered our

15:11 ↗ work and is a huge gap for us um but

15:14 ↗ again not easy to find that space or

15:16 ↗ providers to run that so the city had it

15:19 ↗ lasted about a year um at Motel 6 to be

15:22 ↗ able to provide uh programming um and

15:26 ↗ for transitional housing um so to not

15:29 ↗ have that as an option and we currently

15:31 ↗ don't have uh we're still trying to

15:33 ↗ problem solve some other options and

15:36 ↗ what it could look like moving forward

15:38 ↗ um but not having that is part of 2024

15:41 ↗ was my huge

15:43 ↗ challenge okay so just next steps kind

15:47 ↗ of want to where we are at for the next

15:49 ↗ couple years um so this year just kind

15:52 ↗ of keep moving forward um with our

15:55 ↗ implementations continue to work with

15:57 ↗ our partners track the data that needs

15:59 ↗ to be tracked um come 2026 towards the

16:03 ↗ end um we will do focus groups really

16:06 ↗ start doing our research and digging in

16:09 ↗ and then in 2027 we'll have some updates

16:12 ↗ um for that fiveyear plan um where we'll

16:14 ↗ take it to our commission and to council

16:16 ↗ kind of for final approvals Trish did I

16:18 ↗ see your hand

16:21 ↗ up yeah thanks I was just going to ask

16:25 ↗ regarding the emergency housing you know

16:27 ↗ the Motel 6 project um is the um uh

16:31 ↗ homeless Outreach team still in touch

16:34 ↗ with those folks I mean how many how

16:37 ↗ many people were finally let go at the

16:39 ↗ very very end yeah that transition was

16:43 ↗ hard as you can imagine the folks who

16:45 ↗ were residing in Motel 6 were not very

16:48 ↗ happy with the program ending um it was

16:51 ↗ a difficult transition for them um some

16:54 ↗ of them we were able to transition them

16:56 ↗ into shelters some of them had vehic so

16:59 ↗ they went to save parking and we had a

17:01 ↗ few of them um be able to move out of

17:03 ↗ isoa and have some temporary housing

17:06 ↗ options whether it was with family

17:08 ↗ members or or friends um I will say

17:11 ↗ we're

17:12 ↗ probably working with half of the there

17:15 ↗ was about 12 that were there so we're

17:17 ↗ probably still working with half of them

17:20 ↗ um we were able to permanently house I

17:22 ↗ forget the number but a decent amount

17:24 ↗ from that program before it ended um but

17:27 ↗ we weren't able to get folks into

17:29 ↗ permanent housing quite afterwards and I

17:32 ↗ will

17:33 ↗ say yeah we're we still keep in touch

17:37 ↗ with those folks but it's not as we're

17:38 ↗ not having daily touch points like we

17:40 ↗ used

17:41 ↗ to and um I mean is is Council

17:46 ↗ even talking about I mean are you guys

17:49 ↗ even talking about another

17:51 ↗ place yeah so I think um we are

17:56 ↗ researching alternative options we have

17:58 ↗ have the funding for it um but we have

18:01 ↗ we don't have the space options for it

18:03 ↗ so we are digging into you know kind of

18:07 ↗ turning the Rocks trying to see what

18:09 ↗ options we have and from there um we

18:14 ↗ will then uh take that conversation to

18:17 ↗ our city mayor and City administrator

18:19 ↗ and see where they would like to take it

18:21 ↗ and then um and then we will once we

18:24 ↗ have a formal proposal that's when we'll

18:26 ↗ actually go to council so there's 's a

18:28 ↗ lot of kind of behind the scene works

18:30 ↗ that needs to happen in steps before a

18:32 ↗ council conversation happens right yeah

18:36 ↗ okay thank you yeah great questions

18:38 ↗ thank

18:41 ↗ you okay I think that was my last slide

18:43 ↗ for the Strategic plan

18:47 ↗ um did anybody have any questions or

18:50 ↗ comments in regards to that 2026 when

18:53 ↗ you say focus groups and research is

18:55 ↗ that internal is that when we're start

18:58 ↗ start talking about the funding or is

18:59 ↗ that external to be soliciting input

19:03 ↗ from the community yeah it'll be like

19:06 ↗ the end of 2026 where we'll start kind

19:08 ↗ of the whole process over again we won't

19:10 ↗ necessarily erase the Strategic plan but

19:13 ↗ I can already tell our priorities areas

19:16 ↗ have shifted a little bit a little bit

19:18 ↗ um where I think our strategic actions

19:20 ↗ may need to take a different approach

19:21 ↗ and so we will start the same process

19:24 ↗ and we can even discuss it as a

19:25 ↗ commission the best way to do it but

19:27 ↗ what I appreciated was there was such a

19:28 ↗ diverse uh way of trying to get voices

19:31 ↗ that aren't typically heard and so

19:34 ↗ working with our nonprofit organizations

19:36 ↗ working with their clients working with

19:38 ↗ the unhoused um working with non-english

19:41 ↗ speakers um

19:43 ↗ seniors um one of the things I've really

19:46 ↗ recognized is

19:49 ↗ um kind of we is working with the

19:52 ↗ population uh people who are disabled um

19:55 ↗ I want to make sure that their voices

19:56 ↗ are part of it I've been with some

19:59 ↗ organizations and um have realized um

20:02 ↗ and and they spoke on this is that uh

20:05 ↗ they really were forgotten in Co because

20:08 ↗ a lot of people with disabilities it was

20:11 ↗ not safe for them to come out and

20:14 ↗ somebody commented of you know it's like

20:18 ↗ the our society has forgotten what it's

20:20 ↗ like to have people embedded into our

20:22 ↗ community with disabilities when they're

20:24 ↗ trying to find employment for example um

20:27 ↗ because it's just now feeling safe for

20:29 ↗ for folks to kind of come back and get

20:32 ↗ reintegrated so especially those who

20:34 ↗ have compromised immun compromised yeah

20:37 ↗ exactly exactly yeah exactly so now

20:41 ↗ they're they're that Community is facing

20:43 ↗ a different challenge so so with that I

20:45 ↗ just recognize there's some some gaps

20:46 ↗ that I think we need to make sure that

20:48 ↗ we're hitting and I'd love to invite the

20:50 ↗ commission to maybe help me strategize

20:53 ↗ what that kind of Outreach would look

20:55 ↗ like and what that focus group would

20:56 ↗ look like um

20:59 ↗ so um so that will come towards the end

21:01 ↗ of

21:02 ↗ 2026 and then um in 2027 we'll work on

21:07 ↗ um we'll work on edits um to it where

21:10 ↗ then we'll take it back to our focus

21:11 ↗ group here and other focus groups to

21:13 ↗ kind of review and provide edit it's a

21:15 ↗ very extensive process uh probably need

21:18 ↗ to give ourselves over a year um and so

21:22 ↗ by 20128 I want to have the next

21:25 ↗ fiveyear plan ready to go um so it needs

21:28 ↗ to be in action and ready to be voted on

21:33 ↗ ideally by 2020 end of

21:41 ↗ 2027

21:44 ↗ okay is is there a

21:47 ↗ um you know as you mentioned the focal

21:50 ↗ point has shifted a bit um is there

21:54 ↗ emphasis on um immigration necessary

21:58 ↗ migrations and um

22:02 ↗ Multicultural what's happening in is

22:04 ↗ because know we don't live in a bubble

22:07 ↗ yeah you know even though we're it's a

22:09 ↗ great City but you know we still have

22:12 ↗ other cities around us in the

22:16 ↗ state so yeah yeah I think I think the

22:20 ↗ reality is this is a new era um that

22:24 ↗ many of our nonprofit organizations are

22:28 ↗ really feeling and I think our residents

22:30 ↗ will soon feel um and so immigration and

22:34 ↗ Refugee Services I think is a currently

22:36 ↗ part of our strategic plan um but I

22:39 ↗ would be wouldn't be surprised in a year

22:41 ↗ or two when we start re reviewing if it

22:44 ↗ becomes a higher priority area based off

22:46 ↗ of our current climate a lot could

22:49 ↗ change between now and I mean I don't

22:51 ↗ know what's happening next week right I

22:54 ↗ don't know what's gonna happen in two

22:55 ↗ years so it really is hard to say so I I

22:58 ↗ think a focused group and very

22:59 ↗ intentional surveys and Outreach will be

23:02 ↗ very timely for us to better understand

23:06 ↗ what is our community

23:08 ↗ experiencing um but yes it is that is

23:11 ↗ one of in 2025 it in current is really

23:15 ↗ uh um immigration and Refugee services

23:19 ↗ are of high need and scarcity

23:26 ↗ so okay well if there's no other

23:29 ↗ comments on the Strategic plan that then

23:31 ↗ concludes uh my presentation for

23:37 ↗ that well thank you Hannah um so we're

23:42 ↗ go right into the Human Services Grants

23:44 ↗ for R do yeah let me jump right back

23:46 ↗ into it thanks you all appreciate

23:48 ↗ hanging in there with me tonight doing

23:50 ↗ the all the

23:53 ↗ presentations all right let me see if I

23:55 ↗ can get this to share

24:02 ↗ sorry

24:09 ↗ apologies maybe I will

24:21 ↗ do I'll just do it this way maybe this

24:24 ↗ will be better

24:28 ↗ okay so I'm coming this evening with our

24:31 ↗ update on Human Services Grants and so

24:34 ↗ every annual at the end of the year um

24:38 ↗ we have our organizations report on

24:41 ↗ basically their final numbers and um

24:44 ↗ every quarter I typically provide you

24:46 ↗ just an update on hey any Trends we're

24:48 ↗ seeing are they doing well are they they

24:51 ↗ meeting their Service Unit goals all

24:52 ↗ that information um well this one is the

24:55 ↗ end of the whole cycle and so just

24:57 ↗ wanted to provide update of how our

25:00 ↗ organizations are

25:01 ↗ doing um and just again our typical

25:05 ↗ outcome report and then just highlight a

25:07 ↗ few additional trends that we're seeing

25:09 ↗ um so kind of reorientate us back to

25:12 ↗ 2023 2024 numbers different from our

25:15 ↗ numbers we've been used to um but we

25:17 ↗ funded 42 pro programs with 34

25:20 ↗ organizations uh we had uh just under

25:24 ↗ $550,000 of funding and in that they we

25:28 ↗ were intended to estimated to serve

25:33 ↗ 4,913 we had these priority areas with

25:37 ↗ um the amount of uh programs funded in

25:40 ↗ each

25:41 ↗ category so similar but a little

25:44 ↗ different from this

25:46 ↗ cycle um again you've seen this slide

25:48 ↗ show I typically report on did they get

25:50 ↗ their reports on time did they complete

25:52 ↗ it well um how did they meet their

25:55 ↗ service units again this is the end of

25:56 ↗ the year so this this is the one that

25:58 ↗ really

25:59 ↗ matters um so I will say we do require

26:03 ↗ reports to come much earlier so

26:05 ↗ typically they have the 15th until the

26:07 ↗ end of the month this um for the Q4 they

26:10 ↗ have until the 5th which is always

26:12 ↗ harder during the holidays so not a

26:14 ↗ surprise that we had a few uh reports

26:17 ↗ late um everyone knows how to fill them

26:20 ↗ out so they're good there um and then

26:22 ↗ you'll see here as far as Service Unit

26:25 ↗ goals met um

26:28 ↗ that is what they get paid for right so

26:31 ↗ this is this is the hard line within

26:33 ↗ Human Services that we are responsible

26:36 ↗ we are responsible for Grant or tax

26:38 ↗ dollars right so we need to be able to

26:41 ↗ show our community and any Auditors of

26:43 ↗ hey this is well spent money they

26:45 ↗ completed their contract requirement and

26:48 ↗ so the service unit is a little can be

26:50 ↗ stressful um if if our programs are not

26:53 ↗ meeting it so you can see here three U

26:56 ↗ of the 42 did not meet service goals um

27:00 ↗ however most of them did get paid if

27:01 ↗ they could justify their reasons I

27:04 ↗ always want to pay our nonprofits but

27:06 ↗ again it's that balance of this is tax

27:09 ↗ dollar funding and they have a contract

27:11 ↗ to

27:13 ↗ fulfill so can you give an example of

27:16 ↗ what not meeting service goal is yeah so

27:19 ↗ what we like to see at the end of the

27:20 ↗ year ideally we want to see them meet

27:23 ↗ 100% of their goal so um if their goal

27:26 ↗ was to have 100 hours of case management

27:29 ↗ hours um and they met um let's say they

27:34 ↗ met only 50 of them then it then there's

27:38 ↗ times that they don't have a

27:40 ↗ justification where funding may need to

27:42 ↗ be withheld because they didn't meet

27:43 ↗ that Service Unit goal um if they're

27:46 ↗ usually at 75% or higher I really try to

27:50 ↗ find justification to provide payment um

27:53 ↗ at the end of the year so we like to see

27:56 ↗ 75% of the annual goal

27:58 ↗ and these are the goals that they pretty

28:00 ↗ much set themselves exactly so it's on

28:02 ↗ the application and I work like right

28:05 ↗ now I'm negotiating with them right now

28:07 ↗ and making sure that they are these are

28:10 ↗ achievable and um

28:14 ↗ reasonable yeah well Hannah yeah Hannah

28:19 ↗ are you gonna tell us which programs did

28:20 ↗ not

28:24 ↗ meet um if you are interested in knowing

28:27 ↗ them I can follow up I I actually don't

28:29 ↗ have it off the top of my head um and so

28:33 ↗ I can follow up with you if you're

28:35 ↗ interested yeah I mean I mean I'm

28:38 ↗ wondering if you funded if we refunded

28:40 ↗ them again in the next bium that's a

28:43 ↗ good that's a good point Trish um I we

28:45 ↗ should kind of know this information

28:47 ↗ before we contemplate funding them again

28:50 ↗ for another two years you know no that

28:53 ↗ that's a really good point the timing um

28:56 ↗ the timing is challenging because I

28:57 ↗ don't have this report until um mid

29:02 ↗ January is typical and you're making

29:04 ↗ funding decisions back in September so I

29:07 ↗ will say during our I'm monitoring this

29:10 ↗ every quarter and I'm in contact with

29:12 ↗ those who are struggling um so in our

29:16 ↗ review process it was something that I I

29:19 ↗ did inform uh Commissioners if there was

29:23 ↗ interest in um funding an organization

29:27 ↗ that I knew was really challenged I I

29:29 ↗ made sure to report that to in the

29:32 ↗ review process um so I totally agree

29:35 ↗ with you it is important to understand

29:37 ↗ outcomes um in the next funding cycle I

29:41 ↗ I don't believe the programs that the

29:44 ↗ ones that did not meet their goals um

29:48 ↗ were not were not actually they didn't

29:50 ↗ apply um there was one that didn't apply

29:54 ↗ uh that was mission Africa they didn't

29:56 ↗ meet their goals they had a hard time uh

29:58 ↗ serving isqua residents they are based

30:00 ↗ in

30:01 ↗ Auburn um yeah yeah okay so you you said

30:05 ↗ you can't remember but now you're

30:07 ↗ remembering I'm remembering one now I

30:09 ↗ can't remember the

30:10 ↗ two I would be I would be interested

30:13 ↗ yeah I mean I imagine everybody on the

30:15 ↗ commission would be interested yeah yeah

30:18 ↗ what I can stop sharing my screen and

30:20 ↗ find that information um and while we do

30:23 ↗ our commission report and I can report

30:25 ↗ it back if that's okay um I can pull up

30:28 ↗ real quick I just want to take my screen

30:29 ↗ off yeah no I don't want to interrupt

30:32 ↗ your flow I wasn't sure if it was on the

30:34 ↗ next slide to be quite honest oh yeah to

30:37 ↗ be honest I don't really want to call

30:38 ↗ out especially on a public um written

30:42 ↗ agenda that's posted right I don't want

30:44 ↗ to necessarily negative call out an

30:46 ↗ organization because although maybe they

30:47 ↗ didn't meet a service unic goal right we

30:49 ↗ all know it doesn't mean they're not

30:51 ↗ doing amazing work in our community

30:53 ↗ they're just having a hard time

30:54 ↗ connecting with isaa residents for

30:56 ↗ various reasons a lot of them being

30:58 ↗ they didn't have the staff um to be able

31:01 ↗ to um complete it or you know for

31:04 ↗ mission Africa for example they they

31:07 ↗ didn't have a way to connect with isqua

31:09 ↗ residents as they are outfaced in Auburn

31:12 ↗ and as much as I try to get them

31:13 ↗ connected it just they didn't have

31:16 ↗ capacity to do it um and they were okay

31:19 ↗ with that they they actually didn't

31:20 ↗ submit invoices um so so I don't really

31:23 ↗ want to call it out like especially on a

31:24 ↗ slide I'm happy to discuss it in in a

31:26 ↗ public setting like this but but um just

31:29 ↗ want to be mindful yeah I I appreciate

31:31 ↗ that thank you yeah but it's good for us

31:33 ↗ to understand why I mean particularly as

31:37 ↗ we go into another uh granting cycle the

31:40 ↗ challenges and that should influence you

31:44 ↗ know kind of our decision- making go

31:45 ↗ forward yeah yeah and actually Trish

31:48 ↗ that's a good point maybe you guys can

31:49 ↗ all help me remember when we are up next

31:51 ↗ cycle one thing we can consider adding

31:53 ↗ to our toolkit is kind of a review if it

31:57 ↗ makes sense to add at like a how was

32:00 ↗ their outcome from last cycle we would

32:02 ↗ have to be careful because that would

32:04 ↗ could put somebody at a disadvantage who

32:06 ↗ wasn't right um I think it's also to

32:10 ↗ understanding why they weren't able to

32:12 ↗ what what were the hurdles yeah right

32:14 ↗ it's not just you didn't do your job but

32:16 ↗ understanding why they weren't able to

32:18 ↗ yes yes yes yes exactly so that could

32:21 ↗ that's a good point Trish we can

32:22 ↗ consider including that just remind me

32:29 ↗ okay um and then as far as residents um

32:33 ↗ here this is basically all the numbers

32:36 ↗ from the different organizations of

32:37 ↗ unduplicated

32:39 ↗ residents um how many all of them

32:42 ↗ together served one thing to note is

32:46 ↗ when you pull them all together though

32:47 ↗ you there's no way to be able to tell if

32:50 ↗ it's duplicated so for example one

32:53 ↗ person is counted at the food bank one

32:55 ↗ person is counted at isqua Community

32:57 ↗ Center one person's Community is at

32:59 ↗ meals program so they do all those three

33:02 ↗ programs that's three numbers in that so

33:04 ↗ I will say it's a little bit of a

33:06 ↗ misrepresentation but it's really hard

33:08 ↗ to be able to um show those exact

33:12 ↗ numbers um but to highlight in

33:15 ↗ comparison um it was a 24% increase from

33:18 ↗ from last year that's a huge number yeah

33:21 ↗ I think that that is telling you people

33:24 ↗ are accessing Services um a lot more

33:27 ↗ here in

33:29 ↗ 2024

33:30 ↗ um yeah so just wanted to point that

33:34 ↗ out yeah so highlighting here a few

33:37 ↗ things that I think went well with our

33:39 ↗ organizations this year um again this is

33:42 ↗ I'm gathering information from their

33:43 ↗ reports with their narratives and really

33:45 ↗ just trying to see the

33:47 ↗ trends um so I guess this is a positive

33:51 ↗ but maybe not a positive but our

33:53 ↗ organizations are um doing a great job

33:57 ↗ in serving our esca residents our

33:59 ↗ numbers are tripled from our goals again

34:02 ↗ it's one of those catch22 we want them

34:04 ↗ to help people but we also don't want

34:05 ↗ people to need

34:06 ↗ help so but but again it just I want to

34:09 ↗ highlight the heavy lifting that our

34:11 ↗ nonprofits do um and and really what it

34:15 ↗ takes um I kept on seeing and hearing

34:19 ↗ that there was improved collaboration

34:21 ↗ with any within each other and um

34:23 ↗ nonprofits learning more about this year

34:25 ↗ their organizations and be able to lean

34:27 ↗ into each other for different resources

34:30 ↗ different referrals um so I I think that

34:33 ↗ is a great um a need that was met this

34:37 ↗ year uh one thing that was different

34:39 ↗ from last year is again not all of them

34:41 ↗ but I saw an increased trend of

34:43 ↗ organizations that were staffed it was a

34:46 ↗ major problem in 2022

34:48 ↗ 2023 um and so again not perfect some

34:51 ↗ organizations still struggle but um

34:53 ↗ overall I saw some some patterns that

34:56 ↗ organizations were selling celebrating

34:58 ↗ that they got the position

34:59 ↗ filled um so those are nice to hear I I

35:04 ↗ believe these are great numbers I mean

35:06 ↗ you're over 4,000 more than

35:08 ↗ anticipated right so um

35:12 ↗ that for the next cycle you you're

35:15 ↗ talking about okay these are the funds

35:17 ↗ and you know to qualify

35:20 ↗ that keeping the funds as is or more so

35:23 ↗ than reducing them yeah is I think

35:26 ↗ that's a great a great data point you're

35:28 ↗ right to share hey there was a 24%

35:31 ↗ increase and every year it's gone up I

35:33 ↗ can show

35:35 ↗ that um okay so what I want to do is a

35:37 ↗ little different than my typical

35:39 ↗ quarterly updates is just kind of zoom

35:41 ↗ in on a few organizations that stood out

35:42 ↗ to me that I think provide some helpful

35:45 ↗ information so this is the chart that I

35:47 ↗ got from um our crisis connections um so

35:50 ↗ this is like 211 um organization where

35:53 ↗ people can call 247 in crisis for

35:56 ↗ resources

35:58 ↗ um so 2024 where it's highlighted you

36:01 ↗ could just it just similar Trends but I

36:03 ↗ wanted to show um that their how food

36:07 ↗ need went up um from it started off the

36:10 ↗ bottom this year to the fourth and then

36:13 ↗ by the end of the year you saw which I

36:15 ↗ think we're all experiencing food

36:17 ↗ increase of prices by the end of this

36:19 ↗ year and then that became a high need so

36:22 ↗ these are people calling in saying um

36:25 ↗ hey I need resources for this and report

36:29 ↗ kind of where those um resources and

36:31 ↗ needs are going so housing and shelter

36:33 ↗ always up there and then kind of the

36:36 ↗ twos and threes kind of

36:38 ↗ change so I found that interesting

36:40 ↗ wanted to share you with you all um the

36:43 ↗ circle again one of our just well

36:46 ↗ embedded organization here um they

36:48 ↗ report kind of on the top needs that

36:50 ↗ they work with with their partners and

36:53 ↗ just again I think the trends that I'm

36:55 ↗ seeing so you can see here all the

36:57 ↗ different resources that they are making

36:58 ↗ sure their folks are connected with and

37:00 ↗ a lot of them are non-english-speaking

37:03 ↗ um uh residents that they work with and

37:06 ↗ so it takes additional work to make sure

37:07 ↗ they're not just saying hey here's a

37:09 ↗ link to this you know website or here go

37:12 ↗ to the food bank it is making sure that

37:15 ↗ they understand it there's cultural

37:17 ↗ navigation that's what they're we're

37:18 ↗ funding them for and one of the things

37:20 ↗ that I see here is just how much

37:22 ↗ financial aid is needed right uh whether

37:25 ↗ it's for with food or rental assistance

37:28 ↗ uh Finance information um they report I

37:31 ↗ think Arabic is a language that has

37:33 ↗ increased recently um so I find that

37:37 ↗ interesting um so again just to kind of

37:39 ↗ see the the different types of resources

37:42 ↗ needed in our community so you're saying

37:44 ↗ these are these like the top 10 that

37:46 ↗ kind of stood out in terms of um what

37:50 ↗ people needed the most from the circle

37:53 ↗ specifically so the the circle works

37:55 ↗ with a lot of our okay and so when you

37:57 ↗ employment here is that people needed

38:00 ↗ help with Employment Services okay yeah

38:02 ↗ so helping them kind of whether it's

38:04 ↗ resume building

38:06 ↗ or so is Food Services number one and

38:09 ↗ then or yeah yeah kind of goes

38:14 ↗ down

38:16 ↗ um so of course our food bank I think is

38:20 ↗ I think uh I mean obviously a very um

38:23 ↗ sorry let get this the food bank is a

38:25 ↗ very Central organization um and I think

38:27 ↗ their numbers really help tell the story

38:30 ↗ of what's going on with our community so

38:32 ↗ wanted to talk about some of their

38:34 ↗ numbers and a little bit of their Trends

38:37 ↗ um so the food big saw a 26% increase in

38:40 ↗ number of um individual households uh

38:44 ↗ receiving Food Services I think that's

38:45 ↗ in par with how many Resident increase

38:47 ↗ we saw 24 26 um their numbers also keep

38:51 ↗ on

38:52 ↗ increasing um they their numbers of um

38:58 ↗ they provide emergency food and U that

39:01 ↗ went up

39:03 ↗ 32% uh their power packs that they

39:05 ↗ provide went up 21% again just the theme

39:08 ↗ and the trend of their numbers are going

39:10 ↗ up um two things I want to note about

39:13 ↗ the food bank um that they reported to

39:15 ↗ us is the biggest takeaway from them

39:18 ↗ they saw this year is yes they saw their

39:20 ↗ numbers increase um but what they saw

39:22 ↗ mostly increase was just the num the

39:25 ↗ number of touch points each person need

39:28 ↗ so their households number of households

39:30 ↗ you see yeah that's a pretty significant

39:32 ↗ increase they need to serve um but the

39:34 ↗ amount of times that people came and

39:36 ↗ utilized their services they had Case

39:38 ↗ Management Services um it really

39:41 ↗ increased and I think a lot of our

39:42 ↗ nonprofit saw that was that each um kind

39:46 ↗ of it it wasn't just like oh here's your

39:49 ↗ help or here's your you know your um

39:51 ↗ food or your um gas ticket or whatever

39:54 ↗ it is it was people were just needing

39:57 ↗ more more indepth services and more

40:00 ↗ often um the other thing I want to note

40:02 ↗ from the food bank is um which really

40:06 ↗ aligns with um also that I heard from

40:08 ↗ our school district which is a little

40:10 ↗ bit of change in our non-english

40:13 ↗ speaking neighbors and um what the

40:15 ↗ trends we're seeing so Spanish is still

40:17 ↗ one of our highest languages mandrin as

40:20 ↗ well but the big shift is uh Ukraine and

40:23 ↗ Russian um and so there's been a that

40:26 ↗ was one of the bottom

40:28 ↗ um languages and it's it's taken now a

40:30 ↗ third spot in our school district and

40:33 ↗ something that again the food bank has

40:35 ↗ has beened so as a city that's been

40:37 ↗ noted so when we try to translate um

40:39 ↗ items um Spanish and Mandarin are always

40:43 ↗ it but we realize we probably need to

40:45 ↗ have a third one uh as our um Ukraine

40:48 ↗ and Russians speaking community members

40:50 ↗ it's it's

40:55 ↗ growing okay so a few highlights here on

40:59 ↗ our housing so again I think one of the

41:01 ↗ things I saw in 2024 was just a major

41:04 ↗ need of affordable housing and financial

41:06 ↗ aid

41:07 ↗ assistance um we saw that um our our F

41:12 ↗ our rental assistant programs had to

41:14 ↗ really cut back on how much they gave

41:16 ↗ how often um so they had to kind of

41:18 ↗ tighten their checkbooks understandably

41:21 ↗ uh because their funding went down sign

41:24 ↗ significantly uh but what I saw was this

41:26 ↗ really cool collaboration of um people

41:30 ↗ trying to tap into other resources

41:32 ↗ working with the food bank ICS St

41:34 ↗ Vincent depal Maps

41:36 ↗ MCC um so just really wanted to

41:38 ↗ highlight just again that other theme of

41:41 ↗ kind of collaboration within or

41:43 ↗ nonprofits that it really takes a

41:48 ↗ village um but again um Human Services

41:51 ↗ there's always challenges that we see um

41:54 ↗ with our nonprofits the work that are

41:55 ↗ seeing like I mentioned just that

41:57 ↗ increase of needs and touch points um

42:00 ↗ cost of living is really challenging

42:02 ↗ because when that goes up you see our

42:04 ↗ nonprofits struggle to keep livable

42:06 ↗ wages for their staff and then also

42:08 ↗ their clients of course are also

42:10 ↗ struggling and usually needing more

42:12 ↗ financial aid or basic need assistance

42:15 ↗ which again I think another Trend I saw

42:16 ↗ in 2024 was that became more of a focus

42:20 ↗ is making sure people had um food and

42:23 ↗ gas to go to work and um hygiene

42:27 ↗ Essentials because that became really

42:28 ↗ hard to afford for many of our community

42:34 ↗ members um I think this is helpful to

42:36 ↗ see some of the housing needs and the

42:38 ↗ increase so I pulled numbers from our

42:40 ↗ rental assistant programs um so in 2024

42:43 ↗ we had three with maps mcrc isqua

42:45 ↗ community services and St Vincent Paul

42:49 ↗ um so Maps mcrc saw 40% increase of um

42:53 ↗ eviction notices um that they came to to

42:56 ↗ try to kind of keep them out of eviction

42:59 ↗ you all are probably aware that a lot of

43:02 ↗ those laws in place that protected

43:03 ↗ tenants have completely gone away yeah

43:06 ↗ uh and so evictions are happening more

43:09 ↗ rapidly IC had 86% increase in Services

43:13 ↗ um so there they saw quite a few more

43:15 ↗ households and individuals and again

43:18 ↗ keep in mind so you see 262 households

43:22 ↗ in

43:23 ↗ 2024 that's unduplicated they are 100%

43:27 ↗ not 100% most likely seeing those people

43:29 ↗ twice a year um so although that's maybe

43:33 ↗ just one household most households will

43:35 ↗ tap into IC twice a year which is the

43:37 ↗ max they can so I mean they're seeing

43:39 ↗ probably 500 households that they're

43:42 ↗ serving so that means in 24 they sell

43:48 ↗ 14500 am I reading that right

43:52 ↗ no for so I'm looking at the households

43:56 ↗ 262 so that's a unique um household who

43:59 ↗ to to use their services at least once

44:02 ↗ but I'm saying most of them use them at

44:03 ↗ least

44:05 ↗ twice um and then similar St Vincent dep

44:09 ↗ Paul um again their trends that they

44:10 ↗ were seeing was just inflation job

44:13 ↗ losses I mean was a common reason why

44:16 ↗ people needed financial aid

44:22 ↗ assistance okay so that's uh that's a

44:25 ↗ little bit recapit 2024 some really good

44:29 ↗ things some some heavy

44:32 ↗ challenges overall I think you

44:35 ↗ see um you see some really impressive

44:38 ↗ numbers um and again they're not all

44:41 ↗ reported here I think the overall trend

44:44 ↗ that I see is I mean our nonprofits do a

44:47 ↗ lot of our heavy lifting in our city

44:48 ↗ they do a lot more work kind of the

44:51 ↗ Unseen work that really changes people's

44:54 ↗ lives um and again if if resident is

44:57 ↗ utilizing something like the food bank

44:59 ↗ usually they are also um connected to

45:03 ↗ the circle or to the meals program or um

45:06 ↗ to rental assistant programs so really

45:08 ↗ it's um it's impressive seeing the the

45:12 ↗ embedded organizations really working

45:14 ↗ together um to make an impact on our

45:18 ↗ community so looking ahead what we're

45:20 ↗ excited for in 2025 and what we're kind

45:22 ↗ of gearing up for in

45:24 ↗ 2025 um as you all know we have our new

45:27 ↗ contracts so 42 programs that we're

45:30 ↗ funding um we are working on Advanced

45:32 ↗ payments which is kind of a let's see

45:34 ↗ how this goes kind of a thing um so we

45:37 ↗ are in the process of Contracting um

45:39 ↗ just about to start signatures so we're

45:41 ↗ in a good so that's a go it is a go

45:45 ↗ people and I'm very excited about it let

45:47 ↗ me tell you took took many red cakes to

45:51 ↗ get through but we made it so here we

45:53 ↗ are um but I also want to call out some

45:55 ↗ some new trends I'm seeing right

45:57 ↗ this was a 2024 report all good to know

46:00 ↗ and reflect on but my goodness 2025 is

46:04 ↗ ramping up and needs are are growing in

46:08 ↗ a little bit of a different direction

46:10 ↗ that I really just want to sit back and

46:12 ↗ just have a human services conversation

46:14 ↗ about if you all are interested and just

46:16 ↗ kind of call out the changes that we are

46:19 ↗ seeing um as a nation is impacting us as

46:22 ↗ a community um and we're feeling that

46:25 ↗ and so I really wanted to kind of

46:27 ↗ highlight again this this was about 2024

46:30 ↗ but I want to transition as to what's

46:32 ↗ going on today and how are we preparing

46:34 ↗ for what's ahead of us um so the trends

46:37 ↗ that I'm hearing and the needs that I'm

46:39 ↗ seeing one um obviously severe weather

46:43 ↗ was just Forefront just because we had

46:45 ↗ that cold we had I want to say it's

46:47 ↗ almost 21 days of um so when there's

46:49 ↗ severe weather King County basically

46:52 ↗ does daily severe weather calls where

46:55 ↗ with all the shelters and providers to

46:57 ↗ basically say what are your numbers

46:59 ↗ what's going on it's a it's a Well oil

47:01 ↗ machine now that works well and so that

47:05 ↗ that we saw our community members really

47:07 ↗ when it's cold people will ask for

47:09 ↗ shelters and go into shelters which is

47:11 ↗ good um so that's a big thing the other

47:14 ↗ thing we're seeing is legal services

47:16 ↗ that is a major need of how what are

47:19 ↗ know your rights right what what are

47:21 ↗ people's rights in this time of error um

47:25 ↗ and and then I can't tell

47:28 ↗ you I can't tell you how many messages I

47:31 ↗ am getting from our nonprofit

47:33 ↗ organizations and from individuals just

47:35 ↗ about like this sense just this like

47:39 ↗ fear you know what I mean this just like

47:42 ↗ living on in unknown yeah and and like

47:45 ↗ we all know psychology tell us like if

47:47 ↗ you're in unknown it creates this high

47:49 ↗ level of stress and cortisol and I'm

47:51 ↗ just seeing that like our nonprofits

47:54 ↗ carry this heavy weight of the their

47:57 ↗ residents who are struggling not knowing

47:59 ↗ if they're safe or not safe um and I

48:03 ↗ just I can't help but to call it out to

48:06 ↗ you all of like this is a problem in our

48:07 ↗ community and there's there is fear and

48:10 ↗ I I just I would love to hear your all

48:14 ↗ perspective

48:15 ↗ and I don't know it just kind of safe

48:18 ↗ place to open up about 2025

48:25 ↗ Trends I think had your hand up and Huma

48:28 ↗ no no uh we have a hand up up here

48:32 ↗ though Huma please thank you um yeah I

48:36 ↗ was just going to share in h the

48:39 ↗ Community and Technical colleges system

48:42 ↗ it's very much the same

48:44 ↗ environment um many of our students are

48:46 ↗ too afraid to come to campus anymore

48:48 ↗ because the parking lot is a public

48:50 ↗ space where ice can come in um we have

48:54 ↗ conversations and informal training

48:57 ↗ about what to do as instructors on

48:59 ↗ campus if Ice is to enter our classroom

49:01 ↗ to detain our students um so it's very

49:04 ↗ much that sort of climate I think uh one

49:08 ↗ of the first kind of baby steps that

49:10 ↗ we've taken is provide know your rights

49:12 ↗ information in any format we can in

49:15 ↗ multiple languages so for example uh

49:19 ↗ next week we're going to be holding a a

49:21 ↗ Ramadan table and using Ramadan as a way

49:24 ↗ to hand out goodie bags that have no

49:26 ↗ know your rights pamphlets in them in

49:28 ↗ multiple

49:29 ↗ languages um and I and I know that you

49:33 ↗ know we have an undocu allies group that

49:36 ↗ um works with more of the latinx

49:37 ↗ population they're doing a similar

49:39 ↗ approach with know your rights

49:40 ↗ information Etc um I wonder if um I'm

49:45 ↗ sure many of the organizations that

49:46 ↗ we're funding are already you know doing

49:49 ↗ similar work with their clientele but

49:52 ↗ can we as a city um make make such

49:55 ↗ signage more visible or available at

49:58 ↗ places like the food bank if we aren't

50:00 ↗ already um yeah that's it just wanted to

50:05 ↗ share the know your rights experience

50:07 ↗ and what's going on Huma thank you so

50:10 ↗ much for sharing what's going on in your

50:11 ↗ community I think it's really important

50:13 ↗ and great to hear the support that you

50:15 ↗ all are having in the training um I love

50:18 ↗ the know your rights I think the city of

50:20 ↗ bie has a really helpful website um

50:23 ↗ their police chief did a really helpful

50:24 ↗ video um City basa has not uh posted

50:28 ↗ anything about that um and I believe

50:31 ↗ they're working on something still I'm

50:33 ↗ not a part of that conversation though

50:38 ↗ yeah uh I saw another oh Trish there you

50:40 ↗ are go for it yeah well um Huma thank

50:44 ↗ you for

50:45 ↗ bringing all that up and your current

50:48 ↗ experience that's really important for

50:51 ↗ us to know about and so this very last

50:55 ↗ bullet you know regarding the sense of

50:57 ↗ fear and high anxiety is that mostly

51:00 ↗ from The Immigrant population Hannah

51:02 ↗ that you're sensing that or hearing

51:05 ↗ about it yeah thanks for clarifying that

51:07 ↗ Trish yeah I would say it is primarily

51:10 ↗ from our immigrant and Refugee

51:12 ↗ population but I will also say our

51:14 ↗ nonprofits are also really fearful of um

51:18 ↗ funding cuts and what does that mean

51:22 ↗ right and so we're kind of everyone's

51:23 ↗ just kind of holding their breath

51:24 ↗ waiting yes um there was an article

51:27 ↗ somebody sent me that said you know

51:29 ↗ there's an about worst case scenario

51:32 ↗ Medicaid and Med Medicare will see up to

51:35 ↗ 33% of programming and funding cut so if

51:40 ↗ somebody who lives off a Medicaid

51:43 ↗ Medicare in a very expensive time of era

51:46 ↗ to live here and in general had 33% of

51:49 ↗ their funding cut that's going to have a

51:52 ↗ huge trickle effect so so yes I will I I

51:56 ↗ think there's two I think it's a general

51:58 ↗ feeling that our community members that

52:01 ↗ we work with in human services in

52:03 ↗ nonprofit and are um they clients that

52:07 ↗ they're working for um for various

52:09 ↗ reasons I think um immigrants and

52:12 ↗ refugees and then also our nonprofits

52:15 ↗ for funding and then just people in

52:17 ↗ general for who who rely on these

52:20 ↗ resources and it's a lot of hold your

52:22 ↗ breath and weight yeah okay thanks for

52:26 ↗ that and then um this is another thing I

52:29 ↗ wanted to bring up are we did we decide

52:31 ↗ to fund elap this next bium we are

52:35 ↗ funding them we are funding them for

52:37 ↗ their housing stability program we are

52:40 ↗ not funding them for their uh it's

52:43 ↗ called pooled contract Legal Services uh

52:47 ↗ it doesn't mean that they won't service

52:48 ↗ a residents uh but they we don't have

52:51 ↗ funding from them directly part of the

52:53 ↗ reason why I'm asking is I've gone on

52:57 ↗ website um several times since the

52:59 ↗ beginning of the year to refer clients

53:03 ↗ you know because I work for is isqua

53:05 ↗ community services and they are not

53:07 ↗ taking on new clients so that has been

53:10 ↗ very disappointing to me because if

53:13 ↗ Eastside Legal

53:15 ↗ Services uh what is the other group that

53:19 ↗ that Services provides legal services

53:22 ↗ for free to low income King yeah King

53:26 ↗ count

53:28 ↗ it's proo

53:32 ↗ um there's two of them right elap and

53:36 ↗ then another one right yeah it's king I

53:38 ↗ think it's King

53:40 ↗ County I think it's yeah I'll have to

53:44 ↗ look them up yeah so I've been really

53:46 ↗ disappointed because if elap is not

53:48 ↗ taking any new clients I mean yeah just

53:52 ↗ I just wanted to point that out that's

53:54 ↗ great yeah no that's good to know lack

53:56 ↗ of Legal Services again big gap for us

54:00 ↗ right now so really great stuff in the

54:03 ↗ chat and why are they not I mean I'm

54:06 ↗ sure they say that they're at capacity

54:09 ↗ but so what do we need to do to help

54:11 ↗ them get over that hurdle I don't know

54:14 ↗ yeah yeah and um there's other

54:17 ↗ organizations too that we refer

54:19 ↗ immigrants and refugees it's called

54:20 ↗ Northwest projects they provide support

54:23 ↗ it's it's a little different than elap

54:26 ↗ um but I could send you that so in case

54:29 ↗ that's a relevant resource for you to

54:32 ↗ yeah no I'm very familiar with North you

54:34 ↗ are great okay um yeah thank you okay

54:39 ↗ thanks

54:40 ↗ Trish c a i r w also provides legal

54:44 ↗ support perfect okay so I just want to

54:45 ↗ call out a few um comments from Huma

54:47 ↗ humo I'm happy to read them but is there

54:50 ↗ anything that you would you like no I

54:52 ↗ just didn't want to interrupt and I

54:53 ↗ didn't want to lose the thought either

54:55 ↗ uh good but yeah Care Washington is a

54:59 ↗ civil rights organization uh it's like a

55:02 ↗ Muslim civil rights organization but of

55:03 ↗ course they represent uh everybody so

55:06 ↗ especially in know your rights types

55:08 ↗ issues discrimination cases any types of

55:11 ↗ civil rights issues they do provide

55:12 ↗ legal services and I know a couple of

55:14 ↗ years ago uh they hired a full-time

55:16 ↗ attorney on their staff so I don't know

55:18 ↗ what their case load is like but that's

55:20 ↗ another organization located in downtown

55:22 ↗ Seattle uh to think think about and then

55:24 ↗ I was sharing that um our College

55:27 ↗ received uh an ominous letter from the

55:30 ↗ office of civil rights from the federal

55:32 ↗ government that kind of indicated that

55:34 ↗ we might have

55:36 ↗ to cancel the sort of Dei work that we

55:40 ↗ do um it is not the the letter is not

55:44 ↗ saying it's illegal for you to do this

55:45 ↗ it's just like here's our interpretation

55:47 ↗ of what the law is and um the bottom

55:52 ↗ line is that we may just need to change

55:54 ↗ the way that we do things maybe rename

55:56 ↗ departments and titles etc etc and um I

56:01 ↗ assume that that's not just limited to

56:04 ↗ the colleges system it's gonna also be

56:07 ↗ municipalities nonprofits or or anybody

56:10 ↗ who receives funding so I imagine we'll

56:12 ↗ be having those conversations as

56:14 ↗ Commissioners as well

56:17 ↗ here yeah yeah and I'm glad you point

56:20 ↗ brought up the point about the trans

56:22 ↗ students I mean oh my gosh

56:27 ↗ so if I if I can add to that comment

56:30 ↗ actually I we we are funding now PR

56:32 ↗ across the bridge um and so in

56:36 ↗ Contracting and working with their their

56:38 ↗ Ed um you know just had opportunity to

56:42 ↗ ask how are you doing how is your

56:43 ↗ community doing and it is very Bleak for

56:45 ↗ them right now um there Ed reported that

56:51 ↗ uh maybe for those who are transitioning

56:53 ↗ who are at a place maybe they could stop

56:55 ↗ transitioning that's what they're

56:56 ↗ choosing because they feel safer not

56:59 ↗ continuing that because they don't know

57:00 ↗ if they'll get the care or right stuck

57:03 ↗ in it car is being denied right now in

57:06 ↗ some places

57:08 ↗ Anna car is being denied in some places

57:12 ↗ yeah Children's Hospital for instance is

57:15 ↗ not doing uh trans work right now wow so

57:20 ↗ it's it's it's impacted not just the

57:23 ↗ Immigrant Community but it's also the

57:25 ↗ LGBT Q Plus Community is um is really

57:31 ↗ really afraid right now and uh

57:35 ↗ yeah yeah no I think that's really

57:38 ↗ important to call that out and and again

57:42 ↗ we're calling this out and you know we

57:44 ↗ will not be able to solve this problem

57:46 ↗ but our role it's a good question is as

57:48 ↗ a city what is our role in this you know

57:53 ↗ um to I go back to as humans Services we

57:56 ↗ are here to support Advocate um be the

58:01 ↗ voice for the

58:03 ↗ voiceless um be in a place where we can

58:07 ↗ um fund and lift up all our residents

58:11 ↗ all our residents and and specifically

58:15 ↗ the most vulnerable population that is

58:18 ↗ Human Services heart and our mission is

58:20 ↗ to really serve those who need that

58:24 ↗ additional support and help I think a

58:26 ↗ real challenge is going to be um and I

58:29 ↗ it already came up in a previous

58:30 ↗ conversation but people that are going

58:33 ↗ to be hesitant to access services so

58:36 ↗ what how are we going to think

58:37 ↗ creatively about still being able to

58:39 ↗ provide some level of of service to keep

58:44 ↗ those people housed and fed and safe

58:47 ↗ yeah yeah and you've seen um the

58:50 ↗ organization like the circle they made a

58:52 ↗ comment um that they they don't because

58:54 ↗ of safety concerns are going to have

58:56 ↗ have a less social media presence their

58:59 ↗ work continues but it's just not

59:02 ↗ advertised the way that it used to be um

59:05 ↗ yeah so really understanding where're

59:08 ↗ fear factors coming in yeah Happ yeah

59:12 ↗ exactly and I I would say as as a city

59:16 ↗ uh I feel like the rule is for us to

59:18 ↗ provide educational information right so

59:21 ↗ like making sure we have information

59:23 ↗ people to know their rights or what does

59:27 ↗ this law mean for us what can or can we

59:30 ↗ not do how what are the resources out

59:33 ↗ there and so I think it's just a little

59:35 ↗ bit of everybody's in limbo right now

59:36 ↗ just trying to figure out very much so

59:39 ↗ um what is going on with the world what

59:41 ↗ what is all these changes mean for us

59:44 ↗ you know on a micro level um so I think

59:48 ↗ that's just it's a little bit of a wait

59:50 ↗ and see at this point but um the the

59:54 ↗ hurt the fear uh the the kind of lack of

59:58 ↗ safety and lack of belonging is is

1:00:00 ↗ boiling It's You Feel It In in our work

1:00:05 ↗ so I appreciate this conversation y'all

1:00:08 ↗ it's not easy um but it's important to

1:00:11 ↗ have it's important to call it out and

1:00:14 ↗ it's important to be thinking ahead and

1:00:15 ↗ thinking creatively

1:00:18 ↗ and

1:00:20 ↗ yeah any other comments or closing

1:00:23 ↗ thoughts on this

1:00:30 ↗ it it's just such a huge topic I mean

1:00:33 ↗ it's just

1:00:34 ↗ huge yeah yeah well let's just team

1:00:38 ↗ let's

1:00:39 ↗ all if if it's appropriate we'll put

1:00:42 ↗ these items on our agenda but let's just

1:00:44 ↗ if if um during our future com meetings

1:00:48 ↗ that we want to continue to talk about

1:00:49 ↗ this there every month I think we'll

1:00:51 ↗ feel and see changes we can use our you

1:00:54 ↗ know commission or staff report time to

1:00:56 ↗ also discuss some of the different

1:00:57 ↗ Trends or updates or resources or

1:01:01 ↗ challenges that we see so please I just

1:01:02 ↗ want to have this our purpose is Human

1:01:06 ↗ Services not just the grants right but

1:01:08 ↗ our human services and this is very much

1:01:10 ↗ us so let's keep talking about it change

1:01:12 ↗ the name to

1:01:14 ↗ Services yeah

1:01:16 ↗ exactly exactly okay well then I'll go

1:01:19 ↗ and stop sharing

1:01:21 ↗ here

1:01:23 ↗ oops okay

1:01:26 ↗ all right Manny we're we are done with

1:01:29 ↗ that one all

1:01:32 ↗ right well thank you Haren appreciate it

1:01:34 ↗ it's like you said it's a very difficult

1:01:37 ↗ conversation to have and being in a

1:01:40 ↗ public forum you have to be conscious of

1:01:45 ↗ everyone um moving on to the chair and

1:01:49 ↗ commission

1:01:53 ↗ reports um I believe myy a report for us

1:01:57 ↗ and unless any other Commissioners

1:02:00 ↗ have anything they want to update us

1:02:03 ↗ on I can wait till the end I just have a

1:02:07 ↗ flyer to share at the end

1:02:10 ↗ thanks would you like to go

1:02:13 ↗ first

1:02:15 ↗ okay all right so on the on the 10th of

1:02:19 ↗ February I attended the Human Service

1:02:21 ↗ Commission meeting for the City of

1:02:23 ↗ Redmond they invited us to attend uh

1:02:27 ↗ with the idea that um if we went to that

1:02:30 ↗ meeting then the presenters there

1:02:32 ↗ wouldn't have to come to our meeting and

1:02:34 ↗ present to us also so by me sharing you

1:02:38 ↗ with you today what they shared uh there

1:02:41 ↗ um then U we they got to two um uh

1:02:46 ↗ commission uh two Commissions in one uh

1:02:49 ↗ it started off with a uh it was

1:02:51 ↗ introduced by the remarks of a a fellow

1:02:53 ↗ by the name of Brad fold from the

1:02:55 ↗ Seattle and King County Public Health

1:02:58 ↗ departments his remarks address the

1:03:01 ↗ growth in overdose deaths uh

1:03:04 ↗ particularly those in involving

1:03:07 ↗ fanol um he started us with an alarming

1:03:10 ↗ statistic last year over 1,000 people

1:03:14 ↗ died of fanol related overdoses in King

1:03:17 ↗ County that's a lot of

1:03:20 ↗ people uh even more alarming 50% of the

1:03:23 ↗ fentanyl overdoses occurred with the

1:03:26 ↗ victim having methamphetamines in their

1:03:29 ↗ system so it was that we used to call

1:03:32 ↗ that when I was a kid we used to call

1:03:33 ↗ that a goofball you get the you know the

1:03:36 ↗ the thing to put you to sleep and the

1:03:38 ↗ thing to keep you awake and you would um

1:03:41 ↗ uh put you in a different I have no idea

1:03:44 ↗ but anyway they did it

1:03:46 ↗ um um so he uh talked about the a rent

1:03:50 ↗ and a loan for The Last 5 Years 80% of

1:03:54 ↗ all overdoses in Redmond

1:03:56 ↗ um not all were fatal but they involved

1:03:59 ↗ fentanyl so this is a huge huge

1:04:03 ↗ issue um in 2020 there were two

1:04:06 ↗ fatalities 41 o all overdoses were 41

1:04:10 ↗ 2021 four fatalities 58 all overdoses uh

1:04:15 ↗ 2022 10

1:04:17 ↗ fatalities uh 83 so it's just it's just

1:04:21 ↗ exponentially increasing uh last year

1:04:24 ↗ 2024 there were 11 fatalities in redmund

1:04:29 ↗ Alone um and

1:04:31 ↗ 73 um of all the overdoses he talked

1:04:34 ↗ about the need for outreach and care for

1:04:37 ↗ people that are using uh he described

1:04:40 ↗ the need for low threshold low threshold

1:04:44 ↗ availability of Naran and Other Drugs

1:04:46 ↗ that save lives as well as needles and

1:04:49 ↗ condoms I showed it us showed us slides

1:04:52 ↗ of free to the public vending machines

1:04:54 ↗ in Seattle great big things look like a

1:04:57 ↗ Coke machine or a or a big cigarette

1:05:00 ↗ machine free to the public you just push

1:05:02 ↗ a button and boom there you get what you

1:05:04 ↗ need right um there's a lot of

1:05:07 ↗ resistance to having

1:05:09 ↗ those uh he introduced us to the staff

1:05:12 ↗ of the of the point of this whole thing

1:05:15 ↗ it's a a group called Health Point it's

1:05:17 ↗ a new clinic in Redmond and it's the

1:05:20 ↗ only one I believe on the east side

1:05:23 ↗ correct me if I'm wrong there Hannah um

1:05:25 ↗ are three people he introduced us

1:05:28 ↗ to Dr Duncan who ran the clinic there

1:05:31 ↗ was a a middle-aged woman with a ton of

1:05:33 ↗ nursing experience who was the nurse and

1:05:35 ↗ there was a young person a cam horn

1:05:38 ↗ who's the Outreach person for a lot of

1:05:41 ↗ King County mostly on the east side and

1:05:43 ↗ down into South King

1:05:45 ↗ County um the clinic is open uh for

1:05:50 ↗ Walkins on Wednesdays from 11: to 1 now

1:05:54 ↗ this cam person spoke spoke of saving

1:05:57 ↗ lives constantly by being there with Nar

1:06:00 ↗ Naran or supplying others with Naran it

1:06:05 ↗ was Cam's opinion that everyone should

1:06:07 ↗ have a can of naron Naran on them or

1:06:11 ↗ available to them um available close at

1:06:14 ↗ hand I can tell you that just two days

1:06:18 ↗ ago one of my children who runs a DS

1:06:21 ↗ DSHS um intake Center down in Kent uh

1:06:25 ↗ had to use Naran on a woman in the

1:06:28 ↗ bathroom um it's this is um you know she

1:06:32 ↗ was dying and uh was basically purple

1:06:36 ↗ and it worked brought her

1:06:38 ↗ back um let's see where was I hear yes

1:06:44 ↗ um Cam said they spent he that they

1:06:46 ↗ spend four days a week in the field

1:06:48 ↗ trying to get people to services and a

1:06:51 ↗ half day at the Redmond Clinic helping

1:06:53 ↗ there uh cam also mentioned the recent

1:06:56 ↗ politics making it harder to serve those

1:06:59 ↗ in needs when asked about that I asked I

1:07:01 ↗ said what do you mean by that Cam said

1:07:03 ↗ that some local municipalities don't

1:07:06 ↗ allow some of the life-saving drugs in

1:07:08 ↗ their Community they're okay with naram

1:07:11 ↗ they're okay with uh methadon but some

1:07:14 ↗ of the other things that treat some of

1:07:15 ↗ the other drugs they're not okay with

1:07:18 ↗ and they don't want there so you're you

1:07:21 ↗ know it's and the way that cam also

1:07:23 ↗ described that that that the uh um uh um

1:07:28 ↗ methamphetamines which are so prevalent

1:07:30 ↗ down in the southern part of the county

1:07:33 ↗ um are being cut with fanol by the uh by

1:07:36 ↗ the by the um the cartels uh to try to

1:07:40 ↗ get people a little bit hooked on that

1:07:43 ↗ um let's see what

1:07:46 ↗ else um I guess that's about it it was a

1:07:50 ↗ you know these people were Heroes

1:07:51 ↗ they're saving people's lives and uh I

1:07:55 ↗ was I was totally touched and uh and

1:07:58 ↗ felt honored to hear their story so

1:08:01 ↗ that's

1:08:02 ↗ it I I don't I don't know if you know

1:08:05 ↗ Mor I was at that meeting too I just

1:08:07 ↗ didn't have my camera on and thank you

1:08:10 ↗ for thank you for taking such good notes

1:08:14 ↗ um the the question was asked about are

1:08:18 ↗ there other areas on the east side that

1:08:21 ↗ Health Point

1:08:22 ↗ services and they basically well and I'm

1:08:26 ↗ just talking to the whole group here

1:08:27 ↗ they basically said the only Clinic they

1:08:30 ↗ have on the east side is in Redmond

1:08:32 ↗ right and right now right now cam I mean

1:08:35 ↗ cam physically goes out and walks around

1:08:39 ↗ and so he walks around Redmond and you

1:08:41 ↗ know the radius around the clinic or

1:08:43 ↗ whatever but um so we don't have any

1:08:46 ↗ kind of service like that now here

1:08:49 ↗ actually actually Cam said that they

1:08:51 ↗ don't spend much of their time in

1:08:53 ↗ Redmond most of the time they spend down

1:08:56 ↗ in the southern part of the county

1:08:58 ↗ because that's where they're needed

1:08:59 ↗ they're needed so much more right and

1:09:02 ↗ Brad fine good he's really well known in

1:09:05 ↗ King County he actually lives in issaqua

1:09:08 ↗ and his kids go to school here I do want

1:09:11 ↗ to point out one thing and I meant to

1:09:14 ↗ get a clearer understanding of this the

1:09:17 ↗ overdoses spiked I'm looking at I took a

1:09:20 ↗ picture of the graph the overdoses

1:09:22 ↗ spiked in 2023

1:09:25 ↗ and then started to go down in

1:09:28 ↗ 2024 and I can't remember what Brad said

1:09:32 ↗ was the reason for that do you remember

1:09:34 ↗ what remember I don't remember him

1:09:36 ↗ saying anything about it they did Spike

1:09:37 ↗ at around 1400 I looked at the same

1:09:40 ↗ graph um but and and Health Point has

1:09:44 ↗ only been there in Redmond I believe for

1:09:46 ↗ about three months now they real I'm

1:09:49 ↗ looking at a King County graph that he

1:09:51 ↗ gave yes yeah yeah but the trend now is

1:09:54 ↗ is going down and I can't remember if

1:09:56 ↗ it's because of people's education or if

1:10:01 ↗ it was because you know during Co the

1:10:03 ↗ fentanyl overdoses were really bad but

1:10:06 ↗ anyways so we'll see if 2025 is lower

1:10:09 ↗ than 2024 in terms of

1:10:12 ↗ overdoses yeah I'm I'm gonna guess

1:10:17 ↗ no yeah well thank you Commissioners uh

1:10:21 ↗ Huma you have uh something to

1:10:23 ↗ share oh yeah um if it's okay I'm just

1:10:27 ↗ going to drop a flyer in the chat and

1:10:30 ↗ then maybe Hannah can email if it's

1:10:32 ↗ relevant but I just um want to share

1:10:35 ↗ that Maps we fund a couple of their

1:10:39 ↗ programs um is giving out food boxes

1:10:43 ↗ that support a family of four um for

1:10:47 ↗ dinnertime meals for the entire month of

1:10:50 ↗ Ramadan and of course these are geared

1:10:53 ↗ towards fasting families but um a mosque

1:10:57 ↗ is not going to turn away anybody in

1:10:59 ↗ need so I do want to share this with the

1:11:02 ↗ commission if you know any um any folks

1:11:06 ↗ in need Muslim or otherwise Maps is

1:11:09 ↗ having this program I think it's ongoing

1:11:11 ↗ till February I can't remember the date

1:11:14 ↗ but the Flyer's

1:11:15 ↗ there thank you sure

1:11:19 ↗ yeah thank you thank you all

1:11:22 ↗ Commissioners um youth report

1:11:28 ↗ pres can you hear me all right

1:11:32 ↗ yes all right so just a few things today

1:11:36 ↗ so I don't remember if I said it last

1:11:38 ↗ time but we have an official event

1:11:40 ↗ official event date for the Izzy kids

1:11:42 ↗ triathlon that being June 8th from about

1:11:46 ↗ 8 to 4: and if you don't know the Izzy

1:11:48 ↗ kids triathlon is um the most like

1:11:52 ↗ basically the largest event held by the

1:11:54 ↗ youth Commission where we um host

1:11:57 ↗ approximately like almost 50 to almost a

1:12:00 ↗ hundred kids every year to do a um small

1:12:02 ↗ Triathlon usually middle Elementary to

1:12:05 ↗ Middle School Age and and near the end

1:12:07 ↗ of um near the beginning of jun is kind

1:12:10 ↗ of like is an end of year

1:12:12 ↗ celebration and then the other two

1:12:15 ↗ things I have is so during spring break

1:12:18 ↗ during um the isqua School District

1:12:21 ↗ spring break we're going to try to be

1:12:23 ↗ holding an isqua issues you debate

1:12:25 ↗ tournament and that's going to be um at

1:12:29 ↗ the first held in two sectors the first

1:12:32 ↗ sector being a seminar where um students

1:12:35 ↗ will be able to listen to different um

1:12:39 ↗ nonprofit organizations to learn about

1:12:41 ↗ different issues that are facing the

1:12:43 ↗ community and then the second sector is

1:12:45 ↗ going to be a debate um sector where

1:12:47 ↗ students will take a position and have a

1:12:50 ↗ full debate tournament with um Awards

1:12:53 ↗ and such and then the final thing I have

1:12:56 ↗ is prep to impress which is our event

1:12:58 ↗ that's going to be held in I believe

1:13:00 ↗ March and this is part two to something

1:13:03 ↗ that we held in January um part of a uh

1:13:07 ↗ two part um programed for teen

1:13:10 ↗ preparation um in January we held an

1:13:12 ↗ event that was for basically a job fair

1:13:15 ↗ and resume building for um isqua upper

1:13:18 ↗ classman and this part two is about

1:13:21 ↗ marketing and working on like networking

1:13:24 ↗ and and building a LinkedIn

1:13:27 ↗ page and I think that's it I that's all

1:13:29 ↗ I have for

1:13:31 ↗ today thanks Preston thank you

1:13:35 ↗ Preston staying busy I can't believe how

1:13:38 ↗ much they do all right um St for okay

1:13:43 ↗ just a couple quick things but first I

1:13:45 ↗ just wna um I want to thank myy and

1:13:47 ↗ Trish thank you so much for both being

1:13:49 ↗ there um on your Monday evening I really

1:13:52 ↗ do appreciate that and and the ray Port

1:13:54 ↗ out I think very helpful

1:13:56 ↗ information um so just again want to

1:13:58 ↗ thank you both for um attending and for

1:14:01 ↗ the report out and of course Huma thank

1:14:03 ↗ you for the resource I'm happy to follow

1:14:05 ↗ up with um everybody to share that um as

1:14:07 ↗ an option um and I will also share it

1:14:10 ↗ with some of our nonprofits as well

1:14:12 ↗ thank you for that um okay staff report

1:14:16 ↗ two items here uh February Black History

1:14:20 ↗ Month I know we've got um an event uh

1:14:23 ↗ it's not it's a city sponsor event but

1:14:25 ↗ it is um it is out of isqua Highlands

1:14:29 ↗ Blakeley Hall in Partnerships with Onyx

1:14:32 ↗ Fine Arts um this is um the organization

1:14:36 ↗ that we partnered with last year if you

1:14:38 ↗ recall the um event was at the community

1:14:41 ↗ center so we have just moved it over up

1:14:43 ↗ into the highlands um that is open

1:14:46 ↗ they're open Monday through Friday

1:14:47 ↗ please feel free to stop in they have 13

1:14:49 ↗ different artists there um displayed um

1:14:53 ↗ and um and they're open basically to go

1:14:56 ↗ view uh they will have on the 27th

1:14:59 ↗ though a familyfriendly event where

1:15:01 ↗ they're going to have a performance um

1:15:03 ↗ again that's the end of this month so if

1:15:05 ↗ that's something of Interest please uh

1:15:07 ↗ look into that more um love to have you

1:15:09 ↗ all there and then the other last one is

1:15:14 ↗ uh recruitment so brought this up um

1:15:16 ↗ just want to do another friendly

1:15:18 ↗ reminder um recruitment for boards and

1:15:20 ↗ commission is currently open um friendly

1:15:23 ↗ reminder to those who's turned terms are

1:15:25 ↗ I don't know if you've already reapplied

1:15:27 ↗ but if your terms are ending you do need

1:15:29 ↗ to go through the quick application

1:15:31 ↗ process again um happy to touch base

1:15:34 ↗ with the two of you separately about

1:15:36 ↗ that um but yes please we have quite a

1:15:38 ↗ few positions to fill um and kind of

1:15:41 ↗ historically kind of a lower um

1:15:44 ↗ application to rate for it for some

1:15:46 ↗ reason um so if you know anybody um that

1:15:49 ↗ you may want to recruit I think would be

1:15:50 ↗ interested um and then also please don't

1:15:53 ↗ forget we have a stip in program for

1:15:54 ↗ your El or those that you're may be

1:15:56 ↗ helping us recruit um we will start

1:15:59 ↗ interviews in March and I will ask myy

1:16:02 ↗ and hie to join me on those I forgot to

1:16:05 ↗ ask okay great so myy you have a hands

1:16:09 ↗ raised yes uh I have two people that uh

1:16:13 ↗ are interested in the information and uh

1:16:16 ↗ I'm wondering what how do I make that

1:16:19 ↗ connection could you just give them what

1:16:21 ↗ they feel comfortable like texting me or

1:16:23 ↗ emailing me um um and and saying hi I'm

1:16:27 ↗ so and so I'm interested in the

1:16:28 ↗ commission can you tell me more or

1:16:30 ↗ should I reach out to them I'm I'm happy

1:16:32 ↗ just to chat with them if that's what

1:16:34 ↗ they're wanting or do you need um the

1:16:35 ↗ information for to send to them to

1:16:38 ↗ apply um

1:16:43 ↗ yes so I'm I'm thinking just that

1:16:47 ↗ perhaps if it's you know as maybe to

1:16:50 ↗ winnow out the

1:16:51 ↗ faint-hearted uh maybe I should have

1:16:54 ↗ them email you um and um or you could

1:16:59 ↗ just um let me know how it is that they

1:17:02 ↗ apply and I'll and uh uh I'll give them

1:17:07 ↗ that

1:17:08 ↗ whichever yeah I will email you more

1:17:11 ↗ than the um actually Commissioners would

1:17:13 ↗ it be helpful for all of you to have the

1:17:15 ↗ link should just follow up with

1:17:16 ↗ everybody great yeah all right so my

1:17:20 ↗ homework is to follow up with everybody

1:17:22 ↗ on the recruitment process and link to

1:17:25 ↗ reply thank

1:17:28 ↗ you did you see hum did you see humus um

1:17:33 ↗ her comment in the

1:17:35 ↗ chat yes I just I I told her and

1:17:39 ↗ hopefully this is not incorrect that she

1:17:42 ↗ could just sit out of the when we're

1:17:44 ↗ reviewing grants and you know not do the

1:17:46 ↗ circle to resolve the conflict of

1:17:49 ↗ interest is that correct that is correct

1:17:51 ↗ I think Trish is a great example she

1:17:54 ↗ works with is Community Services she

1:17:55 ↗ still reviews the applications but how

1:17:58 ↗ we divide it up um we just remove her

1:18:00 ↗ from that category and that's what we

1:18:03 ↗ would do with this individual and happy

1:18:05 ↗ to do that okay awesome yeah thanks Huma

1:18:08 ↗ appreciate it

1:18:11 ↗ sure I like the idea of uh what my

1:18:14 ↗ mentioned about weeding out the F of

1:18:16 ↗ heart because tell somebody I'm

1:18:19 ↗ interested but to save you time and

1:18:21 ↗ effort and not to bother you with

1:18:24 ↗ someone was not going to totally so

1:18:27 ↗ thank you Lai yeah thank

1:18:30 ↗ you all right um that moves us to uh

1:18:36 ↗ other business any announcements or

1:18:38 ↗ anyone have anything

1:18:41 ↗ add can I make a comment yes go ahead

1:18:45 ↗ okay um Manny I really appreciate the

1:18:49 ↗ the land acknowledgement you did at the

1:18:51 ↗ beginning of the

1:18:52 ↗ meeting and um I would like to to see

1:18:55 ↗ that happen you know more often uh

1:18:58 ↗ within our meetings and if and as this

1:19:03 ↗ is um you know black heritage month and

1:19:06 ↗ we missed it maybe we could have a labor

1:19:08 ↗ acknowledgement uh next month is if

1:19:11 ↗ that's okay with with Hannah and the and

1:19:14 ↗ the

1:19:16 ↗ city um sounds great um let you know

1:19:19 ↗ that I didn't run my little thing

1:19:21 ↗ through Hannah first um I like is

1:19:25 ↗ approved and admired and loved I didn't

1:19:28 ↗ really care tell you

1:19:29 ↗ [Laughter]

1:19:31 ↗ too it was perfect it was perfect but

1:19:34 ↗ ask for forgiveness later

1:19:37 ↗ right no I think I think it's great um

1:19:41 ↗ and I appreciate that Mar and I would

1:19:42 ↗ love I am with you and I would love if

1:19:44 ↗ the commission agrees and and finds that

1:19:46 ↗ suit you know in in line with our

1:19:49 ↗ meetings like it love to include that so

1:19:52 ↗ I will work with our current chair and

1:19:53 ↗ vice chair and Manny on what that will

1:19:56 ↗ look like moving forward and also um

1:19:59 ↗ I'll just double check with our clerks

1:20:01 ↗ it should be fine but I'll just double

1:20:03 ↗ check so we are in a compliance one I

1:20:05 ↗ didn't get cic on tribe names and I

1:20:10 ↗ would anyone so yeah man I have a labor

1:20:14 ↗ acknowledgement already hammered out if

1:20:16 ↗ I can send to you um if you

1:20:20 ↗ want yeah that' be great yeah okay yeah

1:20:26 ↗ yeah yeah we'll see how we can

1:20:27 ↗ incorporate that into our meeting more I

1:20:29 ↗ appreciate that thank you yeah thank

1:20:33 ↗ you okay anything

1:20:36 ↗ else well um our next meeting is

1:20:40 ↗ scheduled for March 19th correct and um

1:20:44 ↗ please inform Hannah if you can make it

1:20:48 ↗ personally or Thea

1:20:51 ↗ uh net internet

1:20:55 ↗ the

1:20:55 ↗ wall everyone be safe for the

1:20:59 ↗ next few

1:21:01 ↗ months and uh be kind to yourselves what

1:21:05 ↗ was the date on that one Manny uh March

1:21:08 ↗ 19th third Wednesday thank you see you

1:21:12 ↗ all in a month and it is

1:21:16 ↗ 7:59 and we are

1:21:20 ↗ a I do want

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Attendance

Council / Members (8)

Jaime Fajardo, Chair, excused absent

Trish Bloor, arrived 6:44

Manny Brown

Maury Edwards

Madeline Fish

Huma Mohibullah, arrived 6:39, virtual attendance

Lucretia Choto, Alternate, absent

Preston Miele, virtual attendance

Staff (1)

Hannah Roberts, Human Services Coordinator

Recommendations & actions (3)

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Commissioner FISH motioned to approve the minutes of January 15, 2025 as presented.
Commissioner EDWARDS seconded the motion, there was unanimous consent to approve the minutes as presented.
OTHER BUSINESS / ANNOUNCEMENTS Commissioner EDWARDS shared his appreciation for the land acknowledgment in the beginning of the meeting by Vice Chair BROWN and requested that we continue that practice in Commission…