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IS EVERYBODY, Y'ALL SETTLED AT YOUR SEATS? OKAY.
UM, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL THE COMMISSION FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS MEETING TO ORDER FROM AUGUST 28TH, THE 2024.
MADAM CLERK, COULD YOU PLEASE CALL THE TIME? THE TIME IS 6 33.
AND THEN I BELIEVE WE NEED OUR COMMISSIONER PARTICIPATING REMOTELY TO READ THE AB 2 4 4 9 STATEMENT.
HI, PURSUANT TO ASSEMBLY BILL 2 4, 4 9, I HAVE JUST CAUSED CIRCUMSTANCES AUTHORIZING MY REMOTE PARTICIPATION IN THIS PUBLIC MEETING.
I HAVE A CAREGIVING NEED OF A CHILD AND THERE IS NO ONE UNDER EIGHT, UH, OVER 18 IN THE ROOM WITH ME.
SO JUST TO REITERATE, THIS MEETING WILL FOLLOW THE REQUIREMENTS OF AB 2, 4, 4 9, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO PROVIDING AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE PUBLIC TO ATTEND AND ADDRESS THIS BODY VIA A CALL-IN OPTION, AN INTERNET-BASED SERVICE OPTION.
AND IN-PERSON AT THIS MEETING AS REFERENCED, UM, HERE TODAY.
AND I BELIEVE FOR THE RECORD, COMMISSIONER ALI LASTER IS EXCUSED FROM THE MEETING.
UM, ARE THERE ANY OBJECTIONS FROM THE COMMISSION? OKAY.
UM, SEEING NONE, WE'LL MOVE ON.
SO I WANTED TO MAKE JUST SOME WELCOME REMARKS TO START OUR MEETING.
UM, AS YOU CAN SEE, WE'VE OPTED TO TRY A NEW MENU FOR MEETINGS, AND THE PURPOSE OF THAT IS TO FACILITATE BETTER COMMUNICATION AMONG MISSIONERS.
I CAN SEE ALL OF YOU THAT WILL HELP AS WE'RE VOTING.
UM, I'M HOPING THAT IT WILL HELP WITH THE SOUND AS WELL.
SO THAT BEING SAID, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE IN A SMALLER SPACE, IF EVERYONE COULD STILL REMEMBER TO SPEAK UP BECAUSE THERE IS STILL SOME DISTANCE BETWEEN US, I WOULD APPRECIATE THAT AND I WILL PERIODICALLY REMIND FOLKS TOO.
SO DON'T I, I APOLOGIZE IF IT'S ANNOYING, BUT I AM GOING TO CONTINUE TO DO THAT.
UM, AND AS PART OF MY OPENING REMARKS TOO, I WANTED TO PROVIDE A RECAP OF THE COMMISSION'S PARTICIPATION IN THE LONG BEACH WOMEN'S FAIR ON MONDAY.
SO MONDAY WAS, UM, WOMEN'S EQUALITY DAY AND OUR VICE CHAIR, ZOE NICHOLSON AND ORGANIZERS WITH THE FEMINIST UPRISING PUT ON A REALLY BEAUTIFUL EVENT.
UM, OUR COMMISSIONER HARPER AND
UM, THE OFFICE OF EQUITY REALLY LIKE WENT HARD TO HELP US, UM, IN TERMS OF PRESENTATION.
SO THEY CREATED SOME OF THESE BEAUTIFUL, UM, FEMINIST STICKERS AS GROUPIES TO GIVE OUT, WHICH YOU HAVE ON YOUR TABLE.
AND THEY DID AN INTERACTIVE, UM, FEEDBACK KIND OF STATION.
SO THEY ASKED A QUESTION ABOUT THE RESULTS OF THE SURVEY, WHICH WE'LL TALK ABOUT IN A LITTLE BIT, AND PROVIDED SOME FEEDBACK ON WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO THEM.
SO WE'LL HAVE SOME INFO ABOUT THAT AT A LATER DATE ONCE WE HAVE A CHANCE TO, UM, TO READ ALL THOSE.
BUT THE OTHER REALLY COOL THING ABOUT THAT EVENT WAS THERE WERE SO MANY WOMEN'S ADVOCACY ORGANIZATIONS PRESENT, AND WE WENT AROUND AND CHATTED WITH EVERY SINGLE ONE OF 'EM.
AND I THINK THAT WAS REALLY, UM, A VALUABLE TOOL TO, TO HELP US KNOW, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT SOME OF THOSE OTHER NON-PROFITS ARE THAT ARE OUT THERE, UM, WITH SIMILAR GOALS SO FAR.
SO I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO LET EVERYBODY KNOW THERE WAS, UM, A SCREENING OF THE DOCUMENTARY STILL WORKING NINE TO FIVE AFTERWARDS THAT I ATTENDED.
UM, THAT PROMINENTLY FUTURES OUR VICE CHAIR NICHOLSON.
UM, AND IT TALKS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE, THE ISSUES, UM, THAT THE MOVIE NINE TO FIVE ADDRESSED, UH, ARE STILL VERY RUSSIAN TODAY.
UM, STILL MATTERS THAT WE'RE WORKING, THAT WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS.
BUT IF YOU HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE TO WATCH IT, IT'S GONNA BE A Q FILM FESTIVAL IN LONG BEACH COMING UP.
SO IF YOU'RE INTERESTED, UM, IT'S COMING UP.
AND WITH ALL THAT BEING SAID, THOSE RECAPS DONE.
UM, MADAM CLERK, IF YOU COULD PLEASE CALL OUR FIRST ITEM.
ITEM NUMBER ONE IS A RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FOR THE COMMISSION FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS MEETING OF WEDNESDAY, JULY 24TH, 2024.
AND CAN I GET A SECOND PLEASE? SECOND I BY COMMISSIONER ENGEL.
SO NOW WE WILL TAKE PUBLIC COMMENTS.
UH, PLEASE SPEAK UP AT PROVIDING PUBLIC COMMENTS.
MADAM CLERK, IF YOU COULD PLEASE CHECK IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM,
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EITHER IN PERSON OR, UH, VIA ZOOM.I WAS JUST WONDERING WHERE WOULD I FIND THE MEETING MINUTES WHEN WE ATTEND? I, I ASSUME YOU HAVE THEM PRINTED OUT FOR EVERYONE, BUT WHERE DO WE SEE THE MEETING MINUTES? THEY'RE HYPERLINK TO THE AGENDA AS WELL.
UM, WHEN YOU CLICK ON THE NUMBER.
SO IF THERE'S ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER ONE IN PERSON, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
IF IN THE ZOOM PLEASE USE THE RAISE HAND FEATURE.
SEEING NONE, THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ITEM NUMBER ONE.
OKAY, NOW, COMMISSIONERS, IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION ON THIS ITEM? I SEE YOU RAISE YOUR HAND.
UM, SEEING NONE, MADAM CLERK, PLEASE CALL FOR THE VOTE.
COMMISSIONER CHASE PATTERSON? YES.
COMMISSIONER DONATO SACK? YES.
COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ QUESTION I WAS ABSENT.
IF YOU REVIEWED THE VIDEO AND READ THE MINUTES, THEN YOU'RE ABLE TO, UH, VOTE ON THIS ITEM TO APPROVE IT.
I REVIEW THE MINUTES, NOT THE VIDEO.
UM, COMMISSIONER L LA VIOLLET.
OKAY, MADAM CLERK, PLEASE READ THE NEXT ITEM.
ITEM NUMBER TWO IS A RECOMMENDATION TO RECEIVE AND FILE A PRESENTATION ON THE LONG BEACH WOMEN AND GIRLS COMMUNITY SURVEY FINDINGS.
CAN I GET A MOTION ON THIS ITEM PLEASE? SO MOVE COMMISSIONER ETTE.
AND CAN I GET A SECOND? SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ.
OKAY, ULTA, UM, ONE REQUEST THAT I HAD JUST BREAK FOR A SECOND IS IF YOU CAN STATE YOUR LAST NAME WHEN YOU MOTION OR SECOND.
SO, UM, MOVE BY COMMISSIONER VIOLET, MOVE BY COMMISSIONER ARCHULETA.
SOMETIMES MY EYES CAN'T CATCH ME FAST ENOUGH.
UM, SO JUST AS SOME INTRODUCTION TO THIS ITEM AT THE DIRECTION OF THE LONG BEACH CITY COUNCIL, THE CITY COMPLETED A SURVEY OF LONG BEACH WOMEN AND GIRLS LAST MAY, MAY, 2023 WAS THE, WAS THE REPORT DATE.
UH, THAT REPORT SURVEYED WOMEN AND GIRLS IN THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THEIR LIVED EXPERIENCES IN THOSE COMMUNITIES IN LONG BEACH.
IT IDENTIFIED KEY AREAS IN WHICH WOMEN AND GIRLS ARE EXPERIENCING GENDER-BASED INEQUITIES.
AND ITS FINDINGS ULTIMATELY INFORM THE CREATION OF THE LONG BEACH COMMISSION FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS.
SO WE ARE TASKED WITH ADVISING THE CITY COUNCIL AND MAYOR TO ADDRESS INEQUITIES AND IMPROVE THE LIVES OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
AND THE SURVEY SERVES AS A GUIDEPOST FOR THE ISSUES THAT, UH, WE SHOULD BE EXAMINING.
SO, ANA GRANT, OUR, UM, EQUITY OFFICER IS GOING TO PROVIDE A PRESENTATION ON THE SURVEY SO WE CAN ALL BECOME BETTER ACQUAINTED WITH IT AND HOLD A DISCUSSION ON IT.
UM, SO
CAN YOU, ALANA, WOULD YOU MIND SPEAKING UP? SURE, THANKS.
UM, WITH THAT, UH, OUR CO MY COLLEAGUE IS SHARING THE PRESENTATION AND I'LL GO AHEAD AND JUMP INTO IT.
SO WHILE THIS IS NOT THE FIRST ATTEMPT AT ESTABLISHING A WELLNESS COMMISSION HERE IN THE CITY OF LONG BEACH, OUR JOURNEY BEGAN, UH, IN 2021, FOLLOWING DIRECTION FROM THE CITY COUNCIL TO CREATE A PLAN FOR THE COMMISSION ON WOMEN AND GIRLS.
UM, THAT PLAN WAS CIRCULATED VIA A MEMO IN JANUARY, 2022.
AND, UH, OUR OFFICE PROMPTLY BEGAN ALIGNING RESOURCES AND WORKING WITH AN AD HOC COMMUNITY ADVISORY TEAM TO DESIGN AN INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROCESS THAT WOULD INFORM THE MISSION AND SCOPE OF THE COMMISSION.
DURING THIS TIME, WE SOUGHT GRANT FUNDING TO, UH, FROM THE CALIFORNIA COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND OUR INTERNAL CAPACITY BUILDING.
UM, AND FROM WHICH WE RECEIVED $25,000.
UH, THAT LED TO HIRING A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAM SPECIALIST TO SUPPORT THESE EFFORTS AND ALSO IN, IN, UH, INVESTED INTO THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND DATA COLLECTION PROCESS TO CREATE WHAT IS NOW COMMISSION, GOLDMAN AND GIRLS.
BY ALL OF, UM, 2022, UH, THE COMMISSION PUBLISHED NOT COMMISSION, THE OFFICE PUBLISHED A COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY SURVEY TO SOLICIT INPUT FROM LONG BEACH WOMEN AND GIRLS.
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SURVEY WAS DESIGNED TO GATHER, UM, FEEDBACK ON THE NEEDS, ASPIRATIONS, AND PRIORITIES OF LONG BEACH WOMEN AND GIRLS.AND SO THIS WAS, UH, THE SURVEY SPANNED, UM, LATE 2022 INTO EARLY 2023, UM, AND CULMINATED IN THE CELEBRATION OF WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH WITH BRIEF UPDATES THAT WERE SHARED AT THE CITY COUNCIL.
AND THEN AGAIN, UH, ANOTHER UPDATE.
SO I'M OUTLINING JUST THE MILESTONES THAT LED TO THE RECOMMENDATIONS TO CREATE THE COMMISSION.
SO, AS CONSISTENT WITH ALL OF THE OTHER CORRESPONDENCES ALIGNED WITH THIS EFFORT, UM, OUR REFERENCES TO WOMEN AND GIRLS INCLUDE THOSE WHO IDENTIFY AS FEMALE, CISGENDER, TRANSGENDER, AND GENDER EXPANSIVE PEOPLE SUCH AS NON-BINARY, NON-CONFORMING, AND GENDER QUEER.
SO THE SURVEY WAS UNIQUE IN ITS APPROACH, ITS APPROACH, UM, AS WE INTENTIONALLY POSED QUESTIONS THAT TREATED THE RESPONDENT AS THE SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT ON THE NEEDS AND ASPIRATIONS OF LONG BEACH WOMEN AND GIRLS.
UM, AND THIS IS NOT WORK THAT WAS LED BY OUR OFFICE ALONE.
THIS WAS DONE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE COMMUNITY ADVISORY TEAM, UM, OF LOCAL LEADERS, UH, FROM DIFFERENT LIVED EXPERIENCES THAT HELPED TO SHAPE AND CREATE THAT, THAT SURVEY.
THEY ALSO GUIDED AND FACILITATED COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THAT LED TO THE RECOMMENDATIONS THROUGHOUT THE SERIES OF QUESTIONS.
PARTICIPANTS RATED THEIR LEVEL OF AGREEMENT OR DISAGREEMENT WITH KEY STATEMENTS, AND THEY IDENTIFIED POLICIES, PROGRAMS, AND RESOURCES RELATED TO THE SIX QUALITY OF LIFE INDICATORS.
UM, AND AS A REMINDER, THOSE INDICATORS INCLUDE INTERSECTIONALITY, ECONOMIC STABILITY, HEALTH, FAMILY CONNECTEDNESS, AND SAFETY.
JUST TO CLARIFY WHAT WE MEAN BY, BY FAMILY, UM, WE ARE ASKING PARTICIPANTS TO REFLECT ON THEIR INTIMATE AND DOMESTIC CONNECTIONS FROM MARRIAGE, WHOM THEY LIVE WITH HAVING CHILDREN AND OTHER ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES THAT ARE INFORMED BY ONE'S RELATIONSHIP TO OTHERS.
UM, WHAT'S DESIGNED THROUGH THE USE OF OUR EQUITY TOOLKIT, UM, AND ALSO OUR EQUITABLE DATA COLLECTION TOOLKIT.
UM, AND THIS WAS USED TO CREATE MANY OF THE QUESTIONS IN THE SURVEY, BUT IT ALSO WAS USED TO TO DESIGN OUR OUTREACH PROCESSES.
AND SO TO THAT END, WE INTENTIONALLY ADDRESSED POTENTIAL BARRIERS TO ACCESS, UM, BY ENSURING THAT THE SURVEY WAS AVAILABLE ONLINE AND, AND IN PERSON PARTICIPANTS COULD COMPLETE THE SURVEY USING QUALTRICS, WHICH IS, UM, AN ONLINE, UM, DATA COLLECTION PLATFORM.
AND SO THEY COULD DO THAT ON A PERSONAL DEVICE SUCH AS A LAPTOP OR A MOBILE PHONE.
UM, WE ALSO MADE SURE THE SURVEY WAS AVAILABLE AT ALL THE OPEN LONG BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
UM, SO THERE WAS FOUR ADVERTISEMENTS IN OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY CENTERS.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAD PAPER COPIES OF THE SURVEY AVAILABLE AT, UH, KEY PARK AREAS, INCLUDING, UH, KING CHAVEZ AND HAVIN PARK.
THE SURVEY WAS TRANSLATED INTO SPANISH HAWAIIAN TAGAL TO ENSURE THAT LANGUAGE DID NOT HINDER PARTICIPATION.
AND, UH, THE SURVEYS IN EACH LANGUAGE WERE, WERE AVAILABLE AT THE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED SITES AS WELL.
AND SO BROADLY, THE SURVEY PROMOTED, UM, WAS PROMOTED THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA NEWSLETTERS OUTREACH, UH, NOT ONLY BY OUR ADVISORY TEAM, BUT ALSO BY OUR CITY DEPARTMENTS, UM, AND PARTNERSHIPS WITH COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS TO EXPAND OUR REACH.
UH, WE ACTUALLY HAVE PARTNERS WHO COMMITTED TO HAVING AT LEAST 10 TO 20 OF THEIR MEMBERS COMPLETE THE SURVEY.
UM, AND, UH, TO INCENTIVIZE PARTICIPATION BECAUSE THE SURVEY WAS NOT A LIGHT, UH, YOU KNOW, SOLICITATION OF INFORMATION, WE DID PROVIDE $20 GIFT CARD, UM, INCENTIVES FOR ALL THE RESPONSES, AND THOSE WERE PROVIDED ELECTRONICALLY FOR THOSE WHO COMPLETED THE SURVEY ONLINE.
AND WE HAD PHYSICAL GIFT CARDS AVAILABLE TO THOSE WHO, UH, COMPLETED PAPER ONES FIVE.
SO JUST A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF WHO PARTICIPATED.
OUR FINAL REPORT EVALUATED HAVING 743 VALID ONLINE SUBMISSIONS, WHICH INCLUDED 42 PAPER SURVEYS.
UM, AND WE HAD REPRESENTATION FROM ALL OF THE ZIP CODES IN LONG BEACH.
UH, AND OUR AGE RANGE FOR PARTICIPANTS, UH, VARIED FROM AS YOUNG AS 12 TO 75 YEARS OR OLDER.
OF THOSE WHO RESPONDED, WE ALSO INCLUDED SO, UH, DEMO DEMOGRAPHIC QUESTIONS AND ASKED, UH, PARTICIPANTS TO SELF-IDENTIFY.
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OF OUR RESPONDENTS IDENTIFIED AS ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER, NEARLY 12% IDENTIFIED AS BLACK AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN.28.9% OF THE PARTICIPANTS WERE HISPANIC AND LATINX, 38% WERE WHITE.
AND ABOUT 2% OF THE SURVEY PARTICIPANTS IDENTIFIED AS MIDDLE EASTERN, SOUTHWEST ASIAN, OR NORTH AFRICAN, 2.7% IDENTIFIED AS NATIVE AMERICAN, ALASKAN NATIVE OR INDIGENOUS.
AND THEN 159 PARTICIPANTS INDICATED THAT THEY WERE LIVING WITH A DISABILITY, MOST OF WHICH WERE PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITIES.
NEARLY 90% OF OUR PARTICIPANTS INDICATED THAT THEIR GENDER EXPRESSION SCHEMA COMPARED TO 4% WHO IDENTIFIED AS MALE, 1.4% AS NON-BINARY OR GENDER EXPANSIVE, 2.4 AS TRANSGENDER, AND 0.4 AS TWO-SPIRIT, ALL OF WHICH REPRESENTS THE DIVERSE CROSS SECTOR OF WOMEN AND GIRLS IN LONG BEACH, WHICH IS ALSO UNDERSCORED WITHIN OUR, UM, INTERSECTIONALITY, UH, SECTION OF THE SURVEY.
SO USING ONE TIME FINDING, WE PARTNERED WITH CAL STATE UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR DR. AMBER JOHNSON AND A RESEARCH TEAM TO ANALYZE THE SURVEY RESPONSES.
UM, THE ANALYSIS PROVIDED BOTH QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE REVIEW, WHICH INCLUDED THE PARTICIPANTS' DEMOGRAPHICS, THEIR LEVEL OF AGREEMENT WITH THE QUALITY OF LIFE STATEMENTS, AS WELL AS THEIR DIS, UM, DISAGGREGATED DATA BY BOTH THE RACE AND ZIP CODE, UM, WHICH IS A VERY COMMON PRACTICE WITHIN OUR OFFICE.
WE WANT TO UNDERSTAND THE UNIQUE EXPERIENCES THAT OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS MAY HAVE AS WELL AS THEIR PERSPECTIVES, UM, BY IDENTITY, BUT ALSO BY PLACE.
UM, AND THE, THE ANALYSIS ALSO PROVIDED AN OUTLINE OF PRIORITIES TO GUIDE THE COMMISSION FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS.
SO TO ANALYZE THE QUALITY OF LIFE STATEMENTS, THE RESEARCH TEAM APPLIED VALUES TO EACH RESPONSE, PARTICIPANTS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISAGREE, WHICH WAS RATED AS ONE SOMEWHAT DISAGREE, WHICH WAS SCORE AS TWO SOMEWHAT AGREED, WHICH WAS RANKED THREE, AND AGREED, WHICH WAS, UH, SCORED AS A FOUR.
RESPONSES TO EACH STATEMENT WERE AVERAGE TO DETERMINE HOW MUCH PARTICIPANTS AGREED AND WERE REPORTED AS MEAN, OR AVERAGE SCORES RANGING FROM ONE TO FOUR.
AT THE CLOSE OF EACH INDICATOR, PARTICIPANTS WERE ASKED TO IDENTIFY POLICIES, PROGRAMS, AND RESOURCES THAT WOULD SUPPORT WOMEN AND GIRLS IN NEEDING, UM, AND THEIR NEEDS RELATING TO EACH TOPIC.
RESEARCH, UH, TEAM CODED THESE OPEN-ENDED RESPONSES TO IDENTIFY SIX PRIMARY THINGS AND FOUR RECOMMENDATIONS.
ALL RIGHT, SO ON SCREEN, I LOVE TO CALL OUT THIS WORD CLOUD BECAUSE THESE WERE MANY OF THE, THE WORDS THAT CAME FROM OUR OPEN-ENDED QUESTION.
THIS WAS, UH, VERY MUCH INFORMED BY THE QUALITATIVE FEEDBACK IN THE SURVEY.
SO THOSE LARGER AND BOLDER WORDS WERE MENTIONED MORE OFTEN, HIGH SURVEY PARTICIPANTS.
UM, AND OBVIOUSLY THE ONES THAT STAND OUT THE MOST ARE, UM, SUPPORT HEALTH EQUITY PROGRAMS. AND THEN THOSE ARE ALSO RE UM, REFLECTED IN OUR PRIMARY THEMES.
UM, AND THE TOPIC PRIORITY, OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS WERE, UM, EMPHASIZED, UM, A FOCUS AND A NEED FOR ECONOMIC SUPPORT.
AND SO SURVEY FEEDBACK FOCUSED ON JOB OPPORTUNITIES, PAY EQUITY, JOB TRAINING SKILLS FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS IN LONG BEACH, 185 RESPONDENTS, UM, UPLIFTED, UH, OPEN ENDED RESPONSES RELATED TO SAFETY AS COMMENTS FOCUSED ON CREATING COMMUNITY WHERE WOMEN FEEL SAFE.
183 RESPONSES AND THE TOPIC PRIORITY QUESTIONS PERTAIN TO HEALTH ACCESS AND EQUITY, WITH THE FOCUS ON INCREASED ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE, HEALTH, RESOURCES AND SERVICES.
SUPPORTING UNDER RESOURCED COMMUNITIES WERE UPLIFTED BY WOMEN AND GIRLS FROM TRADITIONALLY, UM, UNDER-RESOURCED COMMUNITIES.
THIS INCLUDED GENDER QUEER LANGUAGE DIVERSE PEOPLE OF COLOR, UNDOCUMENTED AND OR YOUNGER WOMEN AND GIRLS IN LONG BEACH.
AGAIN, INTERSECTIONALITY BEING UNDERSCORED AS A NEED FOR CONCENTRATED RESOURCES.
RESPONDENTS ALSO ENCOURAGED THE ONGOING SUPPORT FOR EXISTING PROGRAMS IN DEVELOPING ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS GEARED TOWARD WOMEN AND GIRLS IN LONG BEACH.
AND THEN THE SIXTH AND FINAL THING WAS RE RELATED TO EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT, UM, WHICH FOCUSED ON MENTAL HEALTH EDUCATION, SEX EDUCATION, EXPOSURE TO STEM, WHICH INCLUDES SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING AND MATH, EDUCATION, FINANCIAL LITERACY, AND CAREER EDUCATION.
USING THE QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE FEEDBACK FROM THE SURVEY, UM, THE RESEARCH TEAM IDENTIFIED FOUR RECOMMENDATIONS RELATED TO WOMEN AND GIRLS, ECONOMIC EQUITY, SAFETY, AND HEALTH EDUCATION.
SO MANY OF THE THINGS THAT WE SEE WITHIN THESE PRIMARY THINGS ARE
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THEN REITERATED WITH, UH, VERY SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, ON BOTH POLICY AND PROGRAMMATIC, UM, THAT YOU SEE IN YOUR REPORT.AND SO WE HAVE THOSE, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS ON SPRING.
AND AGAIN, THE FOUR WHICH INCLUDE EMPLOYING MULTI-LEVEL STRATEGIES THAT FACILITATE INDIVIDUAL COMMUNITY AND STRUCTURAL CHANGES TO PROMOTE ECONOMIC EQUITY FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS IN LONG BEACH.
AND THE FOURTH RECOMMENDATION BEING TO EXPAND AND CREATE OPPORTUNITIES TO PROMOTE GENDER EQUITY AND EDUCATION FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS IN LONG BEACH.
AND SO THAT'S JUST A HIGH LEVEL SYNOPSIS.
I WANTED TO MAKE SURE I COULD, WE COULD HOLD ROOM FOR QUESTIONS THAT MAY COME UP.
SO AS A REMINDER, FIRST WE WILL TAKE, UH, PUBLIC COMMENT AND I'LL GET INTO DISCUSSION QUESTIONS.
SO, UM, WE'LL NOW TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT, MADAM CLERK.
UH, IF YOU COULD PLEASE CHECK TO SEE IF ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM, EITHER IN PERSON OR VIA ZOOM.
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER TWO IN THE ZOOM, PLEASE USE THE RAISE HAND FEATURE NOW, OR DIAL STAR NINE CALLING IN.
AND IF IN PERSON PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
SEEING NONE, THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ITEM NUMBER TWO.
UH, DO WE HAVE ANY, SO OUR NEXT ORDER IS IF WE HAVE ANY COMMENTS FROM OUR MOVER OR OUR SECONDER, AND THEN WE CAN MOVE ON TO, UH, QUESTIONS IN OTHER CONFLICTS.
UM, COMMISSIONERS, IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION ON THIS, ON THIS ITEM? OKAY.
UM, VICE CHAIR NIELSON, I KNOW YOU WERE, RAISE YOUR HAND FIRST AND THEN WE'LL GET TO COMMISSIONER AND COMMISSIONER.
FAIL, LET, UH, I WANT TO, UH, ADD HISTORIC INFORMATION AND THE POLITICAL INFORMATION AROUND THIS AND THE OFFICE OF EQUITY FUNCTIONS WITHOUT TAKING POLITICAL POSITIONS, WITHOUT, UH, COMPLETING THAT SOMEBODY IN THE WAY, OR THEY JUST KEEP WORKING HARD AND GOING FORWARD AND INSISTING ON GETTING ALL OF US DONE INSIDE THE REALLY EXQUISITE PARAMETERS.
THEY HAD SELECTED THAT LIST THAT BEGAN WITH INTERSECTIONALITY.
UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A, A LOT OF, UH, HEART AND SOUL AND MIND AND WILL AND DESIRE AND DISGUST AND ANGER AROUND THE FIRST 50 YEARS OF TRYING TO GET THIS DONE.
AND SO THE OFFICE OF EQUITY STEPPING IN DID A MAGICAL JOB OF PUTTING ALL THAT IN A MANNA JAR AND SHOVING THE LID AND DOING WHAT NEEDED TO BE DONE.
AND I DON'T MIND RECALLING THAT THE FIRST TIME IT WAS PRESENTED IN COUNCIL, ALANA HAD PRESENTED IT.
TONY WAS SITTING NEXT TO HER AND THE MAYOR, HIS HEAD SWUNG, I REMEMBER SO VIVIDLY, AND HE SAID, ALANA, THAT WAS BRILLIANT.
I HAD NO IDEA THAT WAS SO DEEP AND WONDERFUL.
I MEAN, HE COMPLIMENTED ALANA FOR A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME, RIGHTFULLY SO, BECAUSE SHE WAS DEALING WITH THE AD HOC COMMITTEE, WHICH WAS FIVE 30 A HOTHEAD.
AND, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, I, I I WANT YOU TO RECEIVE YOUR COMMISSIONERS THAT THIS STARTED IN 1975, THE NEWLY ELECTED COUNCILWOMAN TOOK IT TO COUNCIL.
AND A MAN SAID, IF ANYBODY HERE VOTES FOR IT, I WILL DEMAND THE NEXT ORDER OF BUSINESS MEN'S COUNT, UH, MEN'S COMMISSION.
AND SO SHE NEVER GOT A SECOND.
THERE WERE A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT
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ACCOMMODATED THIS FROM OUTSIDE OF THE BEAUTIFUL STRUCTURE.AND ACTUALLY WHAT WE JUST WERE LED THROUGH HERE, I FEEL VERY PROTECTIVE OF THIS REPORT.
I FEEL VERY PROTECTIVE OF THIS REPORT.
AND, UH, I KNOW THE PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW.
SO I, AND I OFTEN FORGET WHO SAID WHAT, WHICH IS GOOD NEWS.
I TOLD YOU THAT 'CAUSE IT'S GOOD NEWS.
UM, BUT SOMEWHAT EARLY ON SAID, BUT WE NEED HARD DATA.
THIS IS TOO EMOTIONAL
AND, UM, I HOPE THAT ALL OF US RISE UP AND RISE TOGETHER AND FIGURE OUT THAT WE, EMOTIONS ARE GOOD.
IT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE BRING TO THE TABLE, BE THEY HOT OR COLD, WARM OR DISTANT.
UH, WE WANTED TO WELCOME PEOPLE TO EMBRACE THESE QUESTIONS AND DREAM OF THEIR FUTURES.
AND, UM, SO YEAH, I, I CONCUR.
IT IS NOT CALLED, IT'S NOT WHAT YOU TOOK IN STATISTICS CLASS AT UNIVERSITY, BUT THAT WAS NOT OUR INTENTION.
I CHOSE WOMEN SPECIFICALLY OF COLOR, COLOR.
THERE WAS ONE OTHER WHITE WOMAN BESIDES MYSELF, ALL OF THEM BY JUST A STROKE OF INSPIRATION.
EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM HAD SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN.
IT, IT WAS REALLY REMARKABLE AS THAT AD HO COMMITTEE UNFOLDED AND KEPT MEETING AND THEY KEPT SHOWING UP BECAUSE THEY KNEW THE SIZE OF THE STRUGGLE TO GET THIS COMMISSION.
THE REQUEST CAME OUT OF THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S CONFERENCE IN MEXICO CITY.
I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE GOT FUNDING.
THERE'S A SISTERHOOD OF COMMISSIONS.
AND, UM, I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT 50 YEARS AGO, THE COUNTY COMMISSION BEGAN, AND THEY WILL BE HAVING THEIR PARTY.
AND WE ACTUALLY HAVE THE ARCHITECT OF THAT PARTY IN MARCH.
IS IT MARCH 10TH? UM, WE'RE NOT SURE ON THE DAY YET.
OKAY, SO THERE'S A CELEBRATION.
THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY POINT BEING, WE ARE, WE ARE BABIES, BUT WE HAVE OLDER SISTERS IN THIS THAT KNEW ABOUT THE WORK THAT WAS GOING ON.
OR TRACY BEARD, ELIZABETH WARREN PEOPLE REALLY REACHED OUT TO CARE FOR US TO PUT THEIR ARMS AROUND US TO SAY, UH, HOW CAN I HELP? WHAT CAN I DO? AND IT WAS THE AD HOC IN SACRAMENTO THAT THIS WAS BASED ON.
AND THEY WERE ABOUT A YEAR AHEAD OF US, AND THEY GOT THEIR COMMISSION.
SO I WANTED YOU TO KNOW THAT THERE WERE ALL PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT LEVELS OF EMOTIONS, PICTURES, DESIRES, REASONS THAT, UH, MADE THIS OUTCOME.
AND THE MIRACLE OF THIS OUTCOME, YOU WON'T UNDERSTAND IF YOU DON'T KNOW THAT WE HAD VERY SERIOUS STRIDENT POLITICAL OBSTACLES, AND WE DID WHAT WOMEN DO.
THE OBSTACLE THEY COULD NOT OVERCOME WAS THAT WE HAD A SUPER MAJORITY OF WOMEN ON CITY COUNCIL, AND THEY COULDN'T OVERCOME THAT.
THEY COULDN'T OVERCOME IT IN STATES WHENEVER THEY NEEDED SOMETHING VOTED ON IN SUPPORT OF WOMEN.
AND, UM, I WANT VERY DELICATELY TO SAY THIS, AND YOU ALL KNOW DIPLOMACY IS NOT MY, MY FORTE.
I DID TAKE, I SKIPPED THAT CLASS IN SCHOOL.
LET'S PUT IT THIS WAY, WHEN YOU WERE WAITING FOR A MAYOR WHO WOULD LIKE TO BE IN OFFICE AT THE FOUNDING OF THE WOMEN'S COMMISSION.
AND, UM, SO THERE'S A BIG DE OF GRATITUDE HERE, UM, THAT THAT WAS A VERY SERIOUS BARRIER.
AND, UH, I CELEBRATE THAT THAT BARRIER, UM, WAS NO LONGER THERE.
SO I WANT YOU TO ALL REALLY KNOW YOUR SISTERHOOD AND KNOW YOUR PROVIDENCE OF THIS AND BE REALLY PROUD OF WHO YOU ARE AND THAT YOU ARE, UM, THE COMMISSION.
AND CONGRATULATIONS, UM, COMMISSIONER ADA, AND I'LL GO COMMISSIONER
SO I, I THINK FIRST AND FOREMOST, I WANNA THANK ALL OF THE, THE GREAT EFFORT THAT HAS GONE INTO, UH, SINCE 1975.
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INVOLVED IN WHAT HAS LED US TO THIS TO, TO BRING THE COMMISSION, UM, TO FRUITION.AND I JUST WANTED TO, UM, TO KNOW, AND I THINK WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT LIKE, OUR INDIVIDUAL STRENGTHS LATER AND IDENTITY AND POSITIONALITY AND ALL OF THAT.
BUT I'M JUST THINKING ABOUT, UM, AS I WAS READING LIKE THE, THE CONCLUSION AND THE FINDINGS ABOUT ENSURING THAT WE REACH THOSE MOST MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES.
I, I'M, I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO WHAT THAT WORK MIGHT LOOK LIKE AS, UM, FOR ME, LANGUAGE IS THE LENS THROUGH WHICH I VIEW THE WORLD.
AND SO I'M THINKING ABOUT THE MULTILINGUAL WOMEN OF OUR CITY, WOMEN AND GIRLS OF OUR CITY WHO MAY NOT HAVE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY, UM, OR MAY NOT HAVE HAD THE ACCESS OR THE KNOWLEDGE, YOU KNOW, TO, TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SURVEY AND HOW WE CAN REACH THEM.
UM, AND, AND ALSO AS AN EDUCATOR, JUST WORKING WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF FAMILIES AND JUST THINKING ABOUT HOW IF THE MOM IN THE FAMILY IS WELL, THEN THE CHILDREN ARE WELL, AND THEN THEY'RE WELL IN SCHOOL.
AND JUST THINKING ABOUT THAT, WHAT, WHAT THAT MEANS, UM, FOR OUR, OUR POTENTIAL TO, TO REACH THOSE, THOSE MOMS IN THOSE FAMILIES.
FIRST OF ALL, I DO WANNA SAY THANKS TO DR.
JOHN, DR. AMBER JOHNSON, FOR BEING, BEING THE LEAD ON THIS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY THAT IT, THAT HAS REALLY PROVIDED GREAT FRAMEWORK FOR OUR UNDERSTANDING OF COMMUNITIES.
AS SOMEONE WHO LIVES IN DISTRICT EIGHT, WHICH HAS A SIGNIFICANT SAMOAN, UM, AND CHAMORRO POPULATION, UM, THAT REP, THAT GROUP OF THAT POPULATION WAS NOT SIGNIFICANTLY REPRESENTED.
AND I DO, I WOULD LIKE TO FILE AN INQUIRY TO KNOW IF WE CAN DO, UM, UH, MORE WORK TO SEE WHAT THE NEEDS OF THAT SPECIFIC COMMUNITY, WHICH IS THE SIGNIFICANT COMMUNITY IN THE, UH, IN THE LONG BEACH AREA, BUT WAS NOT ALL PROPERLY REPRESENTED TO, UM, AND SEE WHAT THEIR SPECIFIC NEEDS IN THEIR INTERSECTIONAL, UM, NEEDS ARE FOR MY COMMUNITY.
UM, DID EVERYBODY GET A COPY OF THAT 1977 REPORT THAT I SENT OUT THAT, 'CAUSE THAT WAS, UM, THE MEETING OR THAT WAS WHEN ALL THESE WOMEN'S GROUPS GOT TOGETHER.
SO IT'S JUST BY WAY PIGGYBACKING ON ZOE ALWAYS SAYING, IT STARTED A HECK OF A LONG TIME AGO, AND THE JOKE USED TO BE WHEN THERE WERE TWO WOMEN ON CITY COUNCIL, THAT THERE WERE NO WOMEN ON CITY COUNCIL.
YOU CAN DO WITHOUT WHAT YOU WANT.
UM, BUT IT'S, THEY DIDN'T VOTE FOR SIGNIFICANTLY FOR WOMEN'S ISSUES.
BUT I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SAY BY WAY OF, UM, A TRIBUTE TO LONG BEACH.
WE HAD ONE OF THE FIRST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE MARCHES IN LONG BEACH IN 1980 OR 81, AND WE PLANNED IT IN THREE WEEKS AND WE HAD TELEVISION COVERAGE AND WE WENT THROUGH ALL THE PORNO BARS DOWN, YOU KNOW, AND, AND THAT HAPPENED AND IT WAS, IT WAS REALLY COOL AND EVERYBODY GOT BEHIND IT.
AND, UM, I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF RESOURCES.
THE OTHER THING WE DID IN LONG BEACH IS WE PILOTED TEAM DATING BY, UH, VIOLENCE CURRICULUM THAT CAME OUT OF THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COALITION ON BETTER WOMEN.
JORDAN HIGH SCHOOL WAS WHERE WE DID IT.
AND THAT WENT ON FOR 10 YEARS AT NO COST TO ANYBODY.
WE HAD A FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP AND WE WENT IN AND DID FREE TRAINING FOR THE TEACHERS AND FOR THE, FOR THE KIDS ON TEAM DATING VIOLENCE.
A DOCUMENTARY CBS DID A DOCUMENTARY.
AND THE ONLY COMPLAINT WE GOT WAS FROM THE KIDS.
'CAUSE THEY DIDN'T GET ENOUGH AIR TIME AND THEY ALL DRESSED UP FOR IT.
SO, SO WE HAVE DONE SOME REALLY COOL THINGS THAT WE COULD STILL DO THAT WOULDN'T COST THE CITY, BUT WE COULD FIGURE IT OUT.
SO ANY OTHER DISCUSSION OR QUESTIONS AROUND THIS ITEM? ON, ON THE SURVEY PRESENTATION? ALL RIGHT.
UM, I THINK, YOU KNOW, I I HOPE EVERYBODY'S HAD A CHANCE TO REALLY DIG INTO IT.
UM, IF YOU HAVEN'T, I WOULD, I WOULD DEFINITELY SUGGEST DOING SO.
IT REALLY, THERE REALLY IS A WEALTH OF INFORMATION HERE ABOUT THE LIVED EXPERIENCES IN OUR COMMUNITIES.
I THINK WITH ANY SURVEY, THERE'S ALWAYS GAPS, OBVIOUSLY, TO YOUR POINT, UM, COMMISSIONER DR.
BUT, BUT THE MEAT OF THE INFORMATION IS, IS QUITE USEFUL.
AND TO YOUR POINT, HOW CAN WE GATHER MORE INFORMATION? UM, SOMETHING THAT WE'VE BEEN
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CONSIDERING AND TALKING ABOUT IN OUR PLANNING MEETINGS IS STRUCTURING FURTHER PRESENTATIONS AROUND THESE SPECIFIC TOPICS SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO INFORMATION AND GATHER ABOUT, YOU KNOW, SOME THINGS THAT ARE ACTUALLY HAPPENING TO ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES.AND THEN WE CAN IDENTIFY WHERE THE GAPS ARE AND START GETTING TOWARDS SOME, SOME RECOMMENDATIONS AND SOME POLICIES HERE.
SO THAT'S, I'M HOPING TO HELP GUIDE AND FACILITATE, UM, AS CHAIR.
AND THEN OBVIOUSLY AS WE GET INTO THIS NEXT THING HERE, LEARNING MORE ABOUT FOR EVERYONE'S SPECIALTIES ARE OKAY.
UM, SO SEEING NO FURTHER COMMENT OR DISCUSSION, I THINK IF, UM, MADAM CLERK, YOU COULD PLEASE CALL FOR A VOTE.
COMMISSIONER CHIEF PATTERSON? YES.
UM, MADAM CLERK, IF YOU COULD PLEASE READ THE, UH, AGENDA OF ITEM NUMBER THREE.
ITEM NUMBER THREE IS A RECOMMENDATION TO DISCUSS THE COMMISSION'S AREAS OF EXPERTISE AND INTEREST.
CAN I PLEASE GET A MOTION ON THIS ITEM? SO MOVED.
UM, SO WHILE WE'RE AWAITING THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME TOGETHER FOR OUR COMMISSION RETREAT, AND WE'LL HAVE SOME NEWS ABOUT THAT SOON, UM, THIS ITEM IS TO SERVE AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER BETTER AND OUR AREAS OF INTEREST, PASSION, STRENGTHS, AND DIVISION FOR OUR WORK.
THAT'S NOT SOMETHING WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO.
IT'S NOT NECESSARILY SOMETHING WE WANT TO WAIT TO DO EITHER.
SO, UM, ALANA WAS GENEROUS ENOUGH TO DESIGN SOME REFLECTIVE BRAINSTORMING ACTIVITY TO THAT EVENT AND TO PREPARE, SHE ASKED US TO REFLECT ON THREE QUESTIONS.
WHAT SPECIFIC TOPICS OR AREA ARE YOU PERSONALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT AND WOULD LIKE TO SEE ADDRESSED AT FUTURE MEETINGS? I THINK WE HAVE COPIES IN OUR EMAIL.
ARE THERE TOPICS RELATED TO COMMISSION DEVELOPMENT OR EXAMPLE TRAINING, GOVERNANCE THAT WE SHOULD CONSIDER FUTURE MEETING? AND THEN REFLECTING ON THE PRIORITY THEMES OF THE WOMEN AND GIRLS COMMUNITY SURVEY FINDINGS, WHAT TOPICS SHOULD WE PRIORITIZE FOR DISCUSSION OR ACTION? NO, THANK YOU.
SO I'LL NOW ASK OUR EQUITY OFFICER TO PROCEED.
AND Y'ALL ARE GONNA HEAR A LOT ABOUT THIS.
YOU'RE GONNA HEAR A LOT FROM ME TONIGHT, SO I HOPE, UH, I DON'T WORRY YOU TOO MUCH.
UM, I'M GONNA TRY MY BEST TO FACILITATE THIS IN A HYBRID WAY 'CAUSE WE DO HAVE COMMISSIONER SHA PATON ONLINE.
UM, BUT RIGHT NOW OUR EQUITY TEAM IS PASSING OUT STICKY NOTES AND MARKERS, AND YOU ALREADY HAVE THOSE GROUNDING.
YOU ALREADY HAVE THOSE GROUNDING QUESTIONS FOR THIS ACTIVITY.
IT'S NOT NEARLY AS INTRUSIVE AS SOME OF US MIGHT BE IMAGINING.
UM, I WANNA USE THIS OPPORTUNITY THAT WE HAVE BECAUSE WE ARE MEETING AND WE'RE STARTING TO DISCUSS BUSINESS, UM, TO REFLECT ON THOSE SIX PRIORITY THINGS.
AND I WANT YOU TO USE THOSE STICKY NOTES TO WRITE ANY QUESTIONS.
UM, PERHAPS YOU HAVE A SUBTOPIC THAT ALIGNS WITH THAT AREA OF FOCUS, OR MAYBE YOU HAVE FEEDBACK, MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING MISSING.
SO, UM, USING YOUR AREA, YOUR BACKGROUND, YOUR AREAS OF EXPERTISE, I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU ALL ROUGHLY 10 MINUTES TO JOT DOWN AS MANY STICKIES AS YOU WANT.
IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT, LIKE A TOPIC THAT YOU'RE REALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT OR MAYBE SOMETHING THAT YOU WANT TO SUPPORT OR LEAD ON THE COMMISSION, PLEASE JUST INCLUDE YOUR INITIALS SO THAT, UH, WE CAN CODE THROUGH, UM, SOME OF THE RESPONSES THAT WE COLLECT FROM YOU ALL TONIGHT.
PATTERSON, IF YOU DON'T MIND JUST DOING THIS VIA EMAIL TO ME, JUST JOTTING DOWN ANY QUESTIONS, SUGGESTIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS.
UM, WE'RE, THIS IS VERY MUCH AN OPEN-ENDED BRAINSTORM.
UM, AS THE CHAIR, I WOULD LIKE TO CALL, UM, A FIVE MINUTE RECESS, PLEASE.
UM, EVERYBODY, IF YOU WANNA GET SOME DRINKS, GO TO THE RESTROOM, ANYTHING LIKE THAT, WE WILL CONVENE IN FIVE MINUTES.
I, I DO THE MEETING AND, UH, WE HAVE TO MADAM CLERK, IF YOU COULD AGAIN ON A ROLL CALL PLEASE.
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HERE.AND FOR THE RECORD, UH, COMMISSIONER ARCH EXCUSED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE MEETING REMAIN, I'LL ASK YOU.
THANK YOU, ALANA, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO RESUME.
SO, OR MAYBE, PERHAPS REFRESH US.
SO THIS IS VERY MUCH, UM, INTENDED TO BE A BRAIN BRAINSTORMING ACTIVITY.
UH, WHILE, YOU KNOW, DOING AS MUCH AS WE CAN TO BE INTERACTIVE WITH THE BROWN ACT.
UM, AND SO ESSENTIALLY WE JUST IDENTIFIED, OR WE OUTLINED ALL OF THE THEME AREAS FROM THE REPORT AND WE'RE ASKING YOU TO ANNOTATE WHETHER YOU HAVE QUESTIONS OR RECOMMENDATIONS OR THERE'S A TOPIC THAT YOU REALLY WANT TO FOCUS IN ON.
WE WANT TO COLLECT THAT FEEDBACK FROM YOU ALL.
AND SO JOT DOWN AS MANY NOTES AS YOU CAN, UH, WITHIN FIVE TO SEVEN MINUTES.
AND THEN WE'LL HOLD SPACE FOR YOU ALL TO SHARE ALOUD.
CAN I JUST DO A LOUD, OR DO YOU NEED FOR, UH, THE RECORD, THE WRITTEN POST? UM, WE CAN WRITE YOUR POST-ITS WHEN WE DO THE VERBAL THANK YOU.
AND THEN AGAIN, IF THERE'S, EXCUSE ME AGAIN, IF THERE'S, UM, LIKE A TOPIC THAT YOU ARE I ABSOLUTELY PASSIONATE ABOUT SOMETHING YOU SEE YOURSELF BLEEDING, PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR INITIAL SO THAT WE KNOW, UM, WHEN WE THINK ABOUT STRUCTURE OR YOU KNOW, AD HOCS IN THE NEAR FUTURE, UM, WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO KNOW WHO'S INTERESTED IN WHAT, WHAT KIND OF STUFF DID YOU SAY? DID YOU PUT A WHOLE SENTENCE? DID YOU, UM, PUT IT NOW AND THEN DID YOU SIGN IT? AND THAT'S WHAT'S EXPECTED HERE.
I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO.
I'M, HAVE YOU EVER SEEN SOMEBODY THAT DOESN'T, I, I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO.
I'M ASKING, I ASKED YOU TO SET ME THROUGH IT.
I YOU HAVE TO TELL ME WHAT YOU WROTE.
I'M ASKING YOU, DO YOU WANT A WHOLE SENTENCE OR COULD YOU PUT HIM DOWN?
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NOW IT'S OKAY.AND SOME VERBS AND SOME YOU WANT ME TO WRITE FOR YOU.
I FEEL LIKE I JUST HAVE A, SOME KIND OF DISORDER.
WELL, I WANTED TO, BUT IT DOESN'T SEEM TO BE, AND THAT'S WHY I ASKED IF THEY NEED TO VALIDATE FOR HISTORICAL RECORD WHAT SOMEBODY WANTS TO DO.
OR CAN I JUST SAY IT? THAT'S, I'M OPEN TO THAT.
IT'S NOT LIKE THAT I, EXCEPT THE WORD THAT MY PERSONALITY, THE TOPICS THEY, WELL, THE MISSING ONE ALL I, FOR EXAMPLE, I, A QUESTION I WANT ASK THAT I DON'T, I NEED, THERE'S ADVICE.
THE ADVICE OF THE ATTORNEY, YOU KNOW, CONVERSATION ABOUT OUR LIBERTY IN DOING THIS SERVICE.
THREE MORE MINUTES TO JOT DOWN.
ANY OTHER THOUGHTS? JUST LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING.
IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S SOME GOOD CHATTER GOING.
SOME OF THESE FIT INTO CATEGOR.
CAN I SAY SOMETHING TO YOU OUT LOUD RIGHT HERE IN FRONT, EVERYBODY I'D BE HAPPY TO WRITE IT DOWN.
UM, BUT I'D RATHER SAY IT OUT LOUD AND, BUT IF YOU NEED IT, BECAUSE OF THE CIRCUMSTANCE OF THIS BEING A LEGAL MEETING, DO YOU NEED A WRITING? THAT'S WHAT I WAS ASKING.
NO, THIS IS FOR THE WRITING IS REALLY JUST THE EXERCISE, BUT ALSO FOR US TO ANALYZE THE FEEDBACK THAT WE'RE HEARING FROM THE TEAM SO THAT AS WE PRIORITIZE TOPICS, WE, WE HAVE THE FEEDBACK, WE KNOW WHO'S INTERESTED IN WHAT WE WANT TO USE THIS INFORMATION TO, YOU KNOW, INFORM HOW Y'ALL WORK TOGETHER.
SO COOKIES, SOME CONVERSATION STARTERS.
THEY WERE INDENTED BY A WOMAN IN MINNESOTA.
YOU WANT PUT UP HERE? YEAH, EVERYTHING FOR ME JUST WOULD APPEAR WITH THE SECTION OF THIS ONE.
WELL THIS IS, IS PROVIDING THESE KINDS OF GROUPS.
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RECEIPT.ALRIGHT, SO I'M GONNA BRING US BACK TO PREPARE FOR COMMISSIONER AND DIALOGUE.
UM, THIS CONVERSATION HONESTLY STARTED IN THE LAST ITEM AS COMMISSIONERS, UPLIFTED ITEM, UM, ISSUES SUCH AS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND HAVING PROGRAMMING AND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO COMMUNITY AROUND THOSE TOPICS.
WE TALKED ABOUT OTHER TYPES OF DATA, RIGHT? WE HAVE QUALITATIVE DATA AROUND PERSPECTIVE, BUT WHAT ABOUT LIKE, SERVICE ORIENTED DATA AND PROGRAM ORIENTED DATA? WE ALSO UPLIFTED THAT WERE MISSING THE, THE VOICES AND ENGAGEMENT OF OTHER UNDERREPRESENTED AND COMMUNITIES THAT ARE RELEGATED TO THE MARGIN SCALE ALREADY STARTED TO, TO COME AWAY AT THE FRAMEWORK THAT OUR, OUR COMMUNITY HAS SHAPED FOR US.
AND SO NOW I'M GOING TO PASS THE, THE, I GUESS PASS THE CHAIR AND BACK TO THE, TO THE CHAIR, UM, TO INVITE YOU ALL TO SHARE SOME OF THE COMMENTS THAT YOU WROTE OR PERHAPS SOMETHING ELSE THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE ALOUD WITH THE GROUP JUST TO GENERATE DISCUSSION AROUND THOSE AREAS OF INTEREST OR, YOU KNOW, A TOPIC YOU REALLY THINK WE SHOULD PRIORITIZE AS AN, AS AN ADVISORY BODY.
SO CHAIRMAN LINK, IT'S ALL YOURS.
SO EVERYBODY RECEIVED FIRST OF ALL THREE QUESTIONS THAT WERE EMAILED.
SO THOSE ARE TALKING POINTS, UM, THAT I THINK I WOULD LIKE TO START WITH AND THAT SHOULD BE INFORMED HERE ON BOARD.
UM, I THINK MAYBE IF WE GO AROUND THE TABLE OR IF, IF SOMEBODY I'M A LITTLE NERVOUS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY'S GONNA RAISE THEIR HANDS AT ONCE AND NIGHT, I KNOW THAT.
AND WOULD EVERYONE BE OKAY IF WE JUST WENT KIND OF CLOCKWISE AROUND THE TABLE, UM, ONE AT A TIME? START REMOTE, START REMOTE, OH, AND START REMOTE.
SHANE PATTERSON I THINK WOULD BE GREAT.
SO, UM, REGARDING THESE QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT SPECIFIC TOPICS OR AREAS OR PERSONALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT AND, YOU KNOW, WOULD LIKE TO BE, YOU KNOW, SEE AT FUTURE MEETINGS OR, OR BE INVOLVED IN.
UM, WE'LL START WITH COMMISSIONER SHE PATTERSON AND THEN WE'LL MOVE CLOCKWISE AROUND THE TABLE.
WOULD YOU PREFER THAT I ADDRESS THAT ONE QUESTION BECAUSE MY RESPONSE KIND OF ADDRESSES QUESTION ONE AND THREE TOGETHER.
MEANING WHAT I'M INTERESTED IN IS WHAT I FELT WAS MOST IMPORTANT THAT CAME OUT OF THE SURVEY? OR DO YOU PREFER IV VERY SPECIFIC? I THINK THAT YOU SHOULD SPEAK YOUR, SPEAK YOUR MIND HERE IN THIS.
THE ONLY THING THAT I WOULD ASK IS, UM, FOR FOLKS TO BE MINDFUL OF TIME JUST SO THAT EVERYBODY HAS AN OPPORTUNITY, UM, TO SPEAK.
SO, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT THE SURVEY AND WHAT I, WHAT I, YOU KNOW, I WAS JUST LOOKING AT WHAT SCORED CLOSER TO THREE PLUS, RIGHT? BECAUSE FOUR BEING THE HIGHEST.
SO I REALLY FOCUSED ON WHERE DOES MY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE, UM, COULD HELP WITH LEADING SOME INITIATIVE OR WHATNOT.
SO I THINK THE MOST IMPORTANT, THERE'S SO MANY, I'VE BEEN ON A LOT OF BOARDS AND THERE'S SO MANY GREAT ORGANIZATIONS IN LONG BEACH THAT CAN SERVE THAT ARE SERVING THE NEEDS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS AND, AND, UM, THE NEEDS THAT WE'RE MENTIONED IN THE, THE SURVEY THAT WE SHOULD HAVE A RESOURCE BOOKLET AND WEBSITE THAT PUBLISHES ALL THOSE NONPROFITS, YOU KNOW, FOR THE CHILD IS, IS A CHILD ABUSE, UM, NONPROFIT THAT WILL GO, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN CALL THEM, THEY WILL GO TO THE HOSPITAL WITH A THERAPIST, UM, AND, AND SIT WITH YOU WHILE YOU ARE BEING TESTED AFTER A SEXUAL ASSAULT.
THERE'S NEW LIFE BEGINNINGS IS A SHELTER FOR WOMEN, SPECIFICALLY WITH CHILDREN.
SUE CASA IS A SUPPORT AND SHELTER FOR L-G-B-T-Q AND WOMEN, THEY HAVE SPANISH SPEAKING, UM, THERAPISTS THERE OR, OR, UM, YOU KNOW, ADVISORS THERE.
SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, REALLY MAKING SURE WE CREATE A LIST AND, AND A RESOURCE BOOKLET AND THEN BE INTENTIONAL WITH HOW IT'S DISTRIBUTED THROUGH SCHOOLS, PUBLIC SPACES, SOCIAL MEDIA OF COURSE.
AND THAT IT'S EASY TO SEARCH THROUGH, YOU KNOW, IF WE CAN UTILIZE AI SOMEHOW, UM, TO MAKE IT REALLY EASY THAT WHEN PEOPLE NEED THESE HELP, THEY GET, THEY KNOW THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT THIS IS WHAT THEY DO DAY, DAY IN, DAY OUT.
THIS IS WHAT THEY FUNDRAISE FOR.
SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL.
PREVENTATIVE HEALTH, I'M ON THE BOARD FOR MEMORIAL CARE HEALTH SYSTEM.
AND I'M PRIOR BOARD MEMBER OF LONG BEACH MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
THERE'S A LOT OF WORK AND THERE'S ONE OF THEIR STRATEGIC INITIATIVES IS PREVENTATIVE HEALTH IS COMMUNITY EDUCATION AROUND, AND THEN BRINGING MORE SPANISH SPEAKING, AMI SPEAKING, UM, UH, WORKERS OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY TO SHOW THEM THE IMPORTANCE OF EATING WELL AND, AND GOING TO THE DOCTOR BEFORE YOU ACTUALLY FEEL SICK.
AND SELFISHLY, IT'S GOOD FOR THE HOSPITAL'S PROFIT TO BE DOING THIS, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT PEOPLE WAITING UNTIL THEY'RE SICK TO GO INTO THE EMERGENCY
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ROOM.UM, BECAUSE, AND THEY ARE REQUIRED TO SERVE THESE PEOPLE.
SO IT, IT IS A DUAL BENEFICIAL FOR ALL.
SO I, I CAN DEFINITELY HELP WITH THAT.
I ALSO HAVE A COMMUNITY GARDEN PLOT AND THERE'S SEVERAL COMMUNITY GARDENS IN, IN LONG BEACH THAT WE, I THINK WE COULD PARTNER WITH.
THERE'S A LOT OF FOOD BEING THROWN AWAY.
YOU KNOW, I HAVE SO MANY TOMATOES, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.
I'M JUST GIVING THEM AWAY AT THIS POINT, YOU KNOW, AND I THINK WE COULD BE PARTNERING WITH THESE COMMUNITY GARDENS BECAUSE WE TALKED ABOUT A, A FOOD DESERT AND ACCESS TO HEALTHY FOOD THAT WE HAVE PEOPLE REALLY GROWING HEALTHY VEGETABLES THAT COULD BE FREE TO THESE FOLKS.
AND IT JUST, THE RESOURCE JUST NEEDS TO BE PUT OUT THERE AND, AND SOME TYPE OF ORGANIZATION AROUND THAT IN TERMS OF SAFETY, I MEAN, AND MAYBE WE CAN BE WORKING WITH THE CITY REGARDING STREETLIGHTS AND MAKING SURE IN THESE MORE, YOU KNOW, HIGH CRIME AREAS THAT THERE'S PROPER STREETLIGHTS.
BUT I WAS THINKING THERE COULD BE A FUND OF SOME SORT WHERE WE COULD HAVE AN EMERGENCY UBER OR TAXI SERVICE.
THERE WAS A YOUNG WOMAN MY DAUGHTER WENT TO SCHOOL WITH AT POLY THAT WAS WALKING HOME FROM WORK.
SHE DIDN'T HAVE TRANSPORTATION AND SHE WAS SHOT AND KILLED NEAR LONG BEACH POLY HIGH SCHOOL.
AND, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WE CAN DEVELOP SOME TYPE OF FUND THAT, HEY, IF IT'S NIGHTTIME AND YOU DON'T HAVE A SAFE WAY TO GET HOME, MAYBE THERE'S SOME UBER OR TAXI SERVICE THAT THEY CAN CALL FOR.
UM, AND THEN MENTORING, I KNOW I, I DO MENTORING MYSELF AND I KNOW A WOMAN WHO JUST STARTED A NONPROFIT PROVIDING COACHING TO WOMEN FOR FREE AND ALSO ON A SLIDING SCALE, IT'S CALLED PURPOSE CENTERED COACHING.
I KNOW THAT SHE WOULD BE OPEN TO A CITY OF LONG BEACH PARTNERSHIPS.
SHE'S RAISED MONEY HERSELF WITH SEVERAL LARGE COMPANIES IN LONG BEACH, UM, AS WELL AS LONG BEACH BLAST.
I HAVE A CONNECTION WHO PROVIDES MENTORING, ACADEMIC MENTORING, AND JUST GENERAL MENTORING TO YOUNG, TO THE YOUTH.
SO I THINK THERE'S SO MANY GREAT SERVICES HERE THAT I'VE HOPEFULLY BROUGHT YOUR ATTENTION TO THAT I THINK WE COULD REALLY CREATE PARTNERSHIPS WITH INSTEAD OF TRYING TO CREATE IT FROM SCRATCH.
I THANK YOU AND ALL GREAT CONCEPTS AND IDEAS.
I THINK, UM, RIGHT NOW AS WE'RE LIKE MOVING THROUGH THE DISCUSSION, WE WANNA KIND OF HEAR MORE ABOUT EVERYBODY'S AREAS OF FOCUS AND THESE LIKE SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS ARE AWESOME AND I THINK I WANNA PUT IN MY MEMORY BANK, BUT AS WE'RE THINKING ABOUT THINGS THAT MIGHT BE AGENDIZED IN THE FUTURE THAT WE, WE MIGHT WANNA RESEARCH, UM, FUTURE, THOSE ARE THINGS THAT, FOR INSTANCE, UM, COMMISSIONER, YOU COULD, UM, COME TO ME WITH SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR SPECIFIC, UM, AGENDA ITEMS THAT WE COULD LOOK INTO.
ENGEL, IF YOU COULD PROVIDE SOME FEEDBACK ON, YOU KNOW, WHAT SPECIFIC TOPICS HERE THAT WE'RE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IN OUR SURVEY THAT YOU ARE PERSONALLY, PERSONALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT AND, UM, WOULD LIKE TO BE INVOLVED WITH OR SEE ADDRESSED.
MY PERSONAL, MY, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE, UM, THE ASPECTS, THE FINDINGS FROM THE ECONOMIC SUPPORT OR ECONOMIC INDICATORS.
UM, SURPRI, UM, DID NOT SURPRISE ME, BUT IT DID EXPLORE, UM, IT DID ELUCIDATE THE PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE WITH, UM, WOMEN, ESPECIALLY WOMEN OF COLOR NOT BEING ABLE TO SPEAK UP FOR, FOR PAY, EQUITY PAY, UM, UM, GEN, UH, SOCIAL INCLUSION IN THE WORKPLACE.
THEN I WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES.
UH, I KNOW THAT, UH, OVER THE SUMMER, JENNIFER, JENNIFER, OR MS.
AND IT WAS OUT OF THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE IF WANTED TO PREPARE THAT MY, UH, MY INTEREST IS MY PROFESSIONAL, UM, MY PROFESSIONAL INTEREST, WHICH IS EDUCATIONAL SOCIOLOGY.
AND SO I, UM, PRACTICES IN EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC SUPPORT AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT WILL BE THAT, UM, WOULD BE MY BEST INTEREST.
BUT WHAT I AM GOING TO DO IS STEP AWAY AND SEE WHERE YOU NEED ME TO BE, TO BE, AND THAT'S WHERE I WILL GO.
UM, ALTHOUGH I WOULD LIKE EVERYBODY TO KNOW THAT I DO NOT VIEW MYSELF AS LIKE A SUPREME LEADER OR ANYTHING.
I
BUT THERE IS GONNA BE BE A SMALLER AREA.
BECAUSE WE HAVE A DISPROPORTIONATE AMOUNT OF EDUCATORS OF THINK THIS WHOLE ROW RIGHT HERE IS A ROW OF EDUCATORS, AND SO MAYBE WE'LL BE BETTER IF I STEP OUT AND JUST LET SOMETHING ELSE GO INTO THIS SPACE.
SO YES,
UM, WELL, MY AREA OF INTEREST FOR THE LAST 46 YEARS HAS BEEN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
I'VE WORKED WITH, UM, VICTIMS FOR 40, 46 YEARS AND PERPETRATORS FOR 45.
SO, UM, I'VE WORKED IN ALL AREAS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
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AND TEENS AND, UM, I'M PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN THAT.AND ONE OF THE THINGS I'M INTERESTED IN IS SEEING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DEDICATED COURTROOMS, BECAUSE I SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN WOMEN IN COURT BECAUSE WE ARE SEEING DIFFERENTLY.
WE ARE NOT, WE, THERE IS A LOW BAR FOR OUR BEHAVIOR IN COURT AND A HIGH BAR FOR NAILS IN COURT OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
SO I, I WOULD LIKE TO WORK ON THAT.
UM, AND THERE'S ONE OTHER THING, BUT I PROBABLY ALREADY FORGOT IT.
WE CAN COME BACK AROUND TOO, ASSUMING THAT EVERY, YOU'RE GOOD ON TIME AND EVERYBODY, YOU KNOW, HAS THAT TIME.
REAL QUICK, I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR US TO HEAR FROM SPEAKERS FROM SOME OF THE DIFFERENT GROUPS LIKE, UH, COMMISSIONER, UH, SHE PATTERSON WAS TALKING ABOUT, AND SO THAT WE FAMILIARIZE OURSELVES AND WE BECOME ADVOCATES WHO KNOW WHERE TO SEND PEOPLE YES.
AND IF ANYBODY HAS SUGGESTIONS FOR GROUPS THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO COME PRESENT, JUST AS YOU HAVE SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR CHILDREN, UM, FOR POLICIES, FOR EXAMPLE, PLEASE, UM, BRING THEM TO US AND WE CAN CONSIDER THAT.
AND WOMEN'S SHELTER HAS BEEN IN LONG BEACH SINCE 1977, SO THEY'RE GREAT RESOURCE.
SO I SHARED THAT I'M AN EDUCATOR AND, UM, SO THE LENGTH THROUGH WHICH I VIEW THE WORLD TENDS TO BE LANGUAGE AND UNDERREPRESENTED COMMUNITIES.
AND WITHIN THAT, ONE OF THE BIG ONES THAT I SEE IN THE FAMILIES THAT I SERVE IS A, A, LIKE PROBABLY THE TOP NEED IS HEALTH ACCESS AND EQUITY.
BECAUSE LIKE I SHARED, IF THE MOM IS WELL, THEN THE FAMILY AS WELL, THEN THE CHILDREN ARE WELL, AND THEN WE'RE WELL IN SCHOOL.
AND WE OFTEN TALK ABOUT HOW SCHOOLS ARE A MICROCOSM OF OUR, THE GREATER, UM, SOCIETY AND COMMUNITY.
AND SO IF WE REALLY WANT TO IMPACT SOME CHANGE FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS OR FOR OUR SOCIETY, THEN WE NEED TO START WITHIN THE SCHOOL.
THOSE CHILDREN WHO ARE MARGINALIZED IN SCHOOL THEN CAN MARGINALIZED IN GREAT SOCIETY.
UM, SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, UM, I THINK MY AREAS OF INTEREST AND STRENGTH ARE SUPPORTING UNDER-RESOURCED COMMUNITIES, SELF ACCESS AND EQUITY AND EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT.
UM, AND I SEE A LOT OF GREAT OPPORTUNITIES TO, UH, FOR OUTREACH AT SCHOOLS THAT HAVE ELAC COMMITTEES.
ELAC COMMITTEES MUST BE FORMED AT SCHOOLS WHERE MORE THAN 20% OF THE POPULATION OF STUDENTS ARE CONSIDERED ENGLISH LEARNERS.
SO THERE YOU WOULD FIND FAMILIES, UM, UH, MULTILINGUAL FAMILIES OF, IT COULD BE ANY, ANY LANGUAGE, BUT THOSE WHO ALSO TEND TO BE, UM, UNDER-RESOURCED, UM, COMMUNITIES WHO NEED HEALTH ACCESS.
UM, AND SO THAT WOULD BE KIND OF AN, AN EASY, YOU KNOW, TAKING ALL THESE GREAT RESOURCES AND GREAT PLACES TO START, UM, FOR AVERAGE.
COMMISSIONER HERBERT? UM, I, WELL MY PERSONAL INTEREST IS EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION.
THAT'S MY PROFESSION RIGHT NOW, BUT I THINK I SAID IT IS HIGHLIGHTED IN THE REPORT.
AND THEN I THINK I SEE EVEN ADDITIONAL LIKE INTERSECTIONS OF THINGS LIKE PAY EQUITY FOR THE WORKFORCE IN EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION THAT IS PREDOMINANTLY WOMEN, PREDOMINANTLY WOMEN OF COLOR THAT DO NOT RECEIVE DIGNIFIED PAY.
LIKE THERE'S A LOT OF LIKE THAT I THINK WHAT'S INSPIRED ME AS I HAVE ENTERED THIS FIELD OF EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION IS SEEING HOW MANY THINGS ARE HAPPENING RIGHT IN THAT ONE SPACE THAT ARE KIND OF REPRESENTED.
I THINK EVEN IN TERMS OF WOMEN'S EQUITY AND GENDER AND A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT ARE MENTIONED IN THE OTHER KIND OF TOPIC AREAS I THINK ARE ALSO REPRESENTED THROUGH EARLY PARENT EDUCATION, KEEPING WOMEN IN THE WORKFORCE AND, UH, THE REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE MADE OF TEACHERS AND OF WOMEN TO STAY IN THE WORKFORCE.
THERE'S JUST A LOT OF THINGS I THINK KIND OF ARE HAPPENING IN THAT AREA, WHICH IS REALLY INSPIRING AND INTERESTING.
AND THEN PERSONALLY, I THINK ALSO LIKE UNDER-RESOURCED COMMUNITIES AND FIGURING OUT HOW CAN WE PARTNER TO STRATEGICALLY USE OUR CAPACITY.
LIKE FIGURE OUT WHAT IS OUR CAPACITY IN TERMS OF A COMMISSION AND HOW WOULD WE LIKE, PRIORITIZE OR LIKE, AND BE REALLY STRATEGIC ABOUT WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO.
UM, VICE CHAIR NICHOLSON, WOULD YOU LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE, YOU KNOW, WHAT SPECIFIC AREA YOU'RE PERSONALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT REGARDING THE SURVEY OR, YOU KNOW, TOPICS YOU'D LIKE TO SEE AT COMMISSIONS? I WANNA TELL YOU HOW THIS STARTED.
I WAS INVITED TO BREAKFAST BY OR LUNCH BY A STAFFER HERE.
HE SAID, YOU DON'T KNOW ME, I WANNA BUY A LUNCH.
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I GOT A CALL THIS MORNING AT THE OFFICE FIVE SEVEN OH OFFICE AND A WOMAN SAID I'D JUST BEEN RAPED.AND WHEN I CALLED THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT SAID, I'M SORRY, WE JUST DISMANTLED THE RAPE, UH, UNIT.
THERE'S SOMETHING WE CAN DO FOR YOU.
THAT'S HOW THIS STARTED IN ME.
ADVOCACY FOR THE INVISIBLE AND UNDERSTANDING WHAT'S HAPPENING.
I WANT TO ABSOLUTELY GO BACK AND SAY SOMETHING.
THE REASON THE FAIR IS IN THE PLAZA, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THAT.
WHY, WHY IS THE FAIR IN THE PLAZA TO TELL CITY HALL THAT THERE ARE ALL THOSE WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS IN SERVICE TO WOMEN AND GIRLS? THAT'S WHY YOU ARE RIGHT.
THERE SHOULD BE AN INFO BOOK AND THIS LIST OF EXHIBITORS IS A GOOD START.
UH, BUT WE HAVE NEVER ALL COME TOGETHER AND SAID WHAT WE ARE OFFERING, HERE'S WHERE YOU GO FOR THAT.
HERE'S EXPERTISE HERE, HERE'S, YOU CAN DO THAT.
AND I WANT TO TELL YOU HOW DEEPLY I FEEL ABOUT THAT BOOK.
UM, ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I HAVE, WHICH IS GOING BACK TO STEPHANIE'S QUESTION, I KNOW I HAVE ASKED AGAIN AND AGAIN, AND I KNOW PE TELL ME YES, BUT I FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE, CAN I GO TO MY DISTRICT, FOR EXAMPLE, CAN, CAN SHE GO TO THE EIGHTH DISTRICT WHERE SHE LIVES AND START HARVESTING THE INTERESTS OF PEOPLE AND GO OUT AS A SPEAKER, UH, AND SAY, I'M ON THE WOMEN'S COMMISSION.
WE'RE HERE, WE'RE HERE TO LISTEN.
WE WANNA KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THIS DISTRICT.
AND I THINK THAT BECAUSE WE ARE ALL DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVES, UM, THAT IT, IT IT IS WHERE WE LIVE.
IT'S, AND I I REALLY WANT HER TO BE EMPOWERED, SOMEBODY TO BE EMPOWERED, TO GO TO YOUR DISTRICT AND SAY, I'M INTERESTED IN ISSUES SPECIFIC TO YOUR DISTRICT.
SO I I I AM HOPING THAT WE CAN DO THAT.
I FUNDAMENTALLY, WHAT I DO IS I FIND A WOMAN WHO HAS AN IDEA AND I GET BEHIND HER AND I DO ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING I CAN TO GET THAT PAPER WITHOUT PIE HOLES RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER SO SHE CAN GET IT DONE.
AND YES, I'M B****Y, BUT YOU DON'T GET THIS FAR UNLESS YOU'RE B****Y.
WHEN YOU NEED SOMEBODY TO COME IN AND SPEAK TO SPEAK ABOUT WOMEN, HOW WOMEN DO THINGS, THAT'S WHAT I DO.
I GO OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY AND TALK TO PEOPLE OF ALL ECONOMIC STRATA AND, UM, I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THAT WAS.
I WAS LIKE, WOW, ECONOMIC SUPPORT.
THAT'S, UH, ANYWAY, UM, MY INTEREST IS WHERE I HAVE SKILLS, WHICH IS LEGISLATION.
UH, MY INTEREST IS, AND ONE OF THE WORDS I JUST SAID, ADVISORY, ONE OF Y'ALL SAID THE WORD ADVISORY, IF YOU LOOK UP, THERE ARE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF COMMISSIONS AND I'VE SERVED ON FOUR NOW THIS ONE IS ADVISORY, WHICH MEANS WE DO WHAT ALANA DID.
WE GO THERE WITH A REPORT AND MOVE THE COUNCIL THAT THEY ACTUALLY ARE GONNA LEGISLATE ON WHAT THE DISCOVERY WAS.
SO I WANT ALL OF YOU TO DO WHAT SETS YOU ON FIRE AND, AND, UH, AND THEN COATE IT IN SUCH A WAY THAT YOU CAN PRESENT IT.
WE ARE AN ADVISORY GROUP OF WOMEN AND, YOU KNOW, AND BE AS WILD AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN.
WE THEN GO TO THE LEGISLATORS AND SAY, WE NEED THIS AND HERE'S WHY.
SO, UH, YOU KNOW, EVERYONE'S SAYING WONDERFUL THINGS.
UM, I WOULD'VE PREFERRED JUST NOUNS, I HAVE TO ADMIT.
BUT ADVISORY AND LEGISLATIVE, WHERE THE HELL'S THE RAPE UNIT? I WANT, I WANT TO LOOK AT THE CITY AND FIND OUT WHERE WOMEN'S SERVICES ARE MISSING.
AND I ALSO ABSOLUTELY WANT TO KNOW IF THEY ARE PRACTICING A WAGE FAIRNESS.
I HAVE A FEELING THAT THE CITY IS NOT PAYING MEN AND WOMEN EQUALLY FOR EQUAL WORTH.
SO, UH, YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I WANT DO.
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SKIP OVER MYSELF UNTIL THE END.I'M GONNA ASK COMMISSIONER
IF THERE'S ANY, YOU KNOW, SPECIFIC TOPICS OR AREA YOU'RE PERSONALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT, FEEL FREE TO SPEAK TO ANY OF THE POINTS THAT READ.
UM, MY AREAS OF INTEREST AND EXPERTISE ARE, UM, I'M KNOWN GLOBALLY FOR MY WORK IN DISABILITY JUSTICE AND I HAVE A NATIONAL CAMPAIGN RIGHT NOW WITH THE NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION CALLED BECOME A CHAMPION FOR DISABILITY RIGHTS AND INCLUSION.
I'VE HAD A REALLY TOUGH TIME GETTING MY ACCOMMODATIONS IN SCHOOLING, AND THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE SINCE IT IS ALSO AN INTERSECTIONAL ISSUE.
I'VE WRITTEN EXTENSIVELY ABOUT DISABILITY RIGHTS.
ANOTHER AREA IN MY SCHOLARSHIP IS ABOUT BLACK GIRLHOOD IN SCHOOLING.
AN IMPORTANT AREA OF INTEREST TO ME IS BULLYING.
I HAD SO MUCH BULLYING IN K THREE AND I SPEAK ABOUT THIS ACROSS THE NATION TO TEACHERS, AND I'VE WRITTEN SEVERAL SCHOLARLY BOOK CHAPTERS ABOUT MY LAST AREA OF INTEREST IS ON DECOLONIZING SCHOOL CURRICULUM.
I HAVE A 90 PAGE PEER REVIEWED ARTICLE ON THIS TOPIC, AND I WANT ADULTS TO TEACH THE TRUTH OF HISTORY TO GIRLS IN SCHOOLS.
YOU WANNA HELP? COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ? UM, WELL, UH, PROFESSIONALLY I'M IN, UH, THE ARTS AND CULTURE SECTOR.
I DO OPERATION AND
UM, PERSONAL INTERESTS ARE, UM, A COMMISSIONER.
I FEEL VERY STRONGLY ABOUT THAT.
UM, ANOTHER AREA I'M VERY INTERESTED IN IS, UM, OBVIOUSLY THE ISSUE OF CLIMATE CHANGE IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ALL OF US.
AND SO HOW THAT AFFECTS WOMEN.
UM, AND LAST, UH, LAST AREA IS BECAUSE I AM A MOTHER OF A ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AGE CHILD.
MY SON IS, I, UM, MY HUSBAND TRAVEL A LOT FOR WORK.
CHILDCARE IS VERY STRESSFUL FOR ME.
MY HUSBAND TRAVELS QUITE A BIT.
AND SO I AM LEFT WITH FIGURING OUT HOW I'M GONNA PICK UP MY CHILD AT TWO O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON WHILE I HAVE TO WORK.
YOU KNOW? SO FIGURING THAT OUT IS VERY CHALLENGING.
I, I WONDER WHAT, UH, POLICIES ARE IN PLACE FOR WOMEN WORKING PARENTS, I SHOULD SAY, WORKING PARENTS AND, AND, YOU KNOW, FOR THOSE OF THOSE WHO CAN'T FIGURE OUR KID ON AN EARLY RELEASE DAY WHEN WE HAVE TO THE CITY IN THE OFFICE.
THANK YOU, UM, MYSELF, UH, AS THE CHAIR A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MY AREA OF INTEREST AND WHY I'M INTERESTED IN THAT AREA.
I THINK, UM, MY MOTIVATION JOINING THE COMMITTEE WAS SPECIFICALLY THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AND SUPPORT AREA.
UM, I WAS THE EDITOR OF THE LONG BEACH BUSINESS JOURNAL FOR ABOUT COURT AND A JOURNALIST THERE FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS.
AND IN MY TIME THERE, I GOT TO INTERVIEW ALL THE TOP FOLKS IN TOWN, BUT ALSO ALL THE SMALL BUSINESSES AND FOLKS IN TOWN AND GET TO KNOW OUR CORRIDORS.
BUT IMPORTANTLY, AS SOMEBODY WHO GREW UP HERE, I GOT TO LEARN ABOUT ALL OF OUR MAJOR INDUSTRIES AND THE KINDS OF WELL PAYING JOBS THAT ARE IN THOSE INDUSTRIES.
AND THEN AS A JOURNALIST, I GOT TO SEE THAT MOST OF THE PEOPLE I WERE IN, I WAS INTERVIEWING IN THE C-SUITE, AND EVEN MANAGERIAL ROLES WERE BY FAR MOSTLY MEN.
AND THE PAY GAP IS OBVIOUS, IS OBVIOUS, I THINK PROBABLY TO EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM.
BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, AS SOMEBODY WHO GREW UP HERE, I DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE PORT.
I DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY.
I, I THINK THAT SPECIFICALLY THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES AROUND, UM, PROVIDING MORE ACCESS TO THAT INFORMATION AND TO MENTORSHIP, SO THOSE FIELDS, UM, AND INVOLVING THE WOMEN IN THOSE FIELDS SO THAT THE WOMEN IN THIS COMMUNITY HAVE A CHANCE TO PARTICIPATE IN THOSE INDUSTRIES THAT ARE BENEFITING THE CITY AND TO BENEFIT FROM 'EM.
UM, ADDITIONALLY, YOU KNOW, AS, AS YOUR CHAIR, I, MY BACKGROUND ALSO, I'VE STUDIED A LOT OF, UH, CITY HALL ORDINANCES AND POLICIES AND PROGRAMS, AND I'VE ANALYZED A LOT OF DATA IN MY CAREER.
AND SO I WOULD LIKE TO WORK WITH YOU ON EVERYTHING THAT WE JUST DISCUSSED TO KIND OF HELP, YOU KNOW, GUIDE AND SHAPE THE THINGS THAT COME OUT OF THE AD HOC COMMITTEES THAT WE'RE GOING TO FORM WHEN WE HAVE OUR, OUR RETREAT.
UM, SO THAT'S, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M ALSO PASSIONATE ABOUT COMING OTHER TOPICS.
I'M, I'M VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT WOMEN'S SAFETY.
I I KNOW MANY WOMEN IN THE COMMUNITY WHO HAVE HAD BAD EXPERIENCES, UM, DEALING WITH, YOU KNOW, UH, THE RESOURCES THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WITH, WITH RESPONSES.
AND SO I'M INTERESTED IN FINDING OUT WHAT'S GOING ON
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THERE, WHY, WHERE'S, WHERE'S THE RAPE RESPONSE, WHERE'S THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESPONSE? AND SO, UM, YEAH, GETTING SOME INFORMA MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THESE AREAS SO WE CAN, WE CAN BE SURE.YOU WERE DONE ON WITH YOUR TIME.
UM, I WANTED TO ASK ALANA, WHEN THESE TOPICS CAME UP, WERE THEY IN ORDER OF PRIORITIES FOR THE WOMEN THAT WERE INTERVIEWED? YES.
THE ORDER OF THE TOPICS IS BASED OFF OF THE NUMBER OF VOTES.
SO ECONOMIC SUPPORT AND SAFETY AND HEALTH ACCESS AND EQUITY, MANY OF WHICH CAN OVERLAP.
AND AGAIN, THOSE WERE CODED BASED OFF OF THE OPEN-ENDED RESPONSES, NOT THE QUALITATIVE.
SO BASED ON HOW FOLKS PROVIDED POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS OR EVEN PROGRAMMATIC NEEDS AND PERSPECTIVES, UH, THAT'S HOW, UH, OUR, OUR RESEARCH TEAM, UM, COMPILED THESE, UH, PRIORITY THINGS FOR YOU ALL.
IF FOLKS WOULD INDULGE ONE MORE QUESTION IN THIS AREA, IS EVERYONE OKAY WITH THAT? I, I'M CURIOUS, WE HAVE A, WHAT'S MISSING COMPONENT, IF ANYONE HAS ANYTHING TO SHARE, UH, IN TERMS OF WHAT'S MISSING FROM THE AREAS THAT WE SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON THAT ARE PRESENT THERE? DID ANYBODY CONTRIBUTE TO THAT SECTION THAT HAS THOUGHT? ANY THOUGHTS? WELL, I DON'T HAVE IT POSTED UP THERE, UM, BECAUSE I'M NOT GONNA DO THAT.
UM, LEGISLATIVE ADVISING, THE COUNCIL, UM, I FEEL VERY STRONGLY THAT THIS COMMISSION BREAKS OUT OF THE MOLD OF COMMISSIONS.
I BELIEVE THERE SHOULD BE 11 INDEPENDENT WOMEN HERE WHO CREATE WAYS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS THEY'RE ON FIRE ABOUT.
AND, UH, I, YOU KNOW, LISTEN, OTHER COMMISSIONS ARE LIKE THIS UNIT AND GOOD CONGRATULATIONS.
I WANT ALL OF YOU TO BE EMPOWERED AND US TO BREAK SOME TRADITIONAL WAYS OF COMMISSIONS BEHAVING, BECAUSE WE ARE WOMEN, WE TRAVEL DIFFERENT, WE INVEST DIFFERENT, WE DEAL WITH OUR KIDS DIFFERENTLY.
WE, WE DO EVERYTHING DIFFERENTLY.
AND THE MORE WE ARE GIVEN LATITUDE MORE, WE DISCOVER HOW DIFFERENTLY WE DO THINGS.
AND I'VE LEARNED A LOT OF THAT THROUGH GOING TO THE COUNTY COMMISSION MEETINGS.
THAT, AND, AND SO, UH, I JUST, I REALLY WANNA OFFER TO ALL OF YOU TO NOT LATERALLY LOOK AT WHAT OTHER COMMISSIONS ARE DOING AND WHERE THEY'RE BARRIERS ARE.
I WANT YOU TO COME BACK AND SAY, I FIGURED OUT THIS NEW WAY TO DO WHAT I WANT TO DO, AND THIS COMMISSION TO RISE UP AND SAY, YES, THAT'S THE PLAN HERE.
THAT'S WHY THEY DIDN'T WANT US.
THAT'S WHY I TOOK 50 YEARS FISHER TALKING MOTION TO READ WHAT? MISSING TO THE RECORD.
SIMONEAN HAWAIIAN AND POLYNESIAN MICRONESIAN DATA GRANT AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR FURTHER RESEARCH.
THE WOMEN WHO DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH, HOW CAN THE COMMISSION RECEIVE OR CONNECT WITH
IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION OR, UM, IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION ON THE STOP? OKAY.
UM, MADAM CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE CALL FOR THE VOTE BEFORE WE DO? SO CAN WE CALL FOR PUBLIC COMMENT? OH, SORRY, THIS WAS A DIFFERENT SET.
MADAM CLERK, CAN YOU CALL FOR PUBLIC COMMENT? YEAH.
SO IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER THREE, PLEASE, UH, RAISE YOUR HAND HERE IN PERSON.
OR IF YOU'RE IN THE ZOOM, USE THE RAISE HAND FEATURE.
NOW WE HAVE ONE PUBLIC COMMENT IN PERSON.
I'M HELD THIS FATHER, AND I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT SAFETY.
I SAW HER PUT SOMETHING UP ABOUT SAFETY,
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UH, HOW THAT IS, UH, WHAT BELT WERE YOU? GREEN BELT.UH, WE WANT HER TO BE A BLACK BELT BY THE TIME SHE GOES TO COLLEGE, BUT, YOU KNOW, KARATE COSTS ABOUT $200 A MONTH.
AND SO IT BECOMES THEN COST PROHIBITIVE, UH, FOR FAMILIES.
AND I KNOW THERE ARE SOME ORGANIZATIONS THAT OFFER SELF DEFENSE, BUT I WONDER IF WE MIGHT EVEN DO SOMETHING TO PARTNER WITH THE SELF-DEFENSE, CAROTID DOJOS, UH, ACROSS THE CITY THAT COULD SOMEHOW, UH, SUPPLEMENT OR OFFER, UH, CLASSES, UH, FOR YOUNG GIRLS SO THAT THEY COULD, UH, EQUALLY, UH, PREPARE FOR THEIR PHYSICAL SAFETY AS WELL.
ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENTS? SEEING NONE.
THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ITEM NUMBER THREE.
I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT THERE ARE A COUPLE OF WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS THAT PROVIDE WOMEN'S SPECIFIC SELF-DEFENSE, WHICH IS LIKE DIRTY STREET FIGHTING AS OPPOSED TO ANYTHING GOOD THAT YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, THAT YOU'RE LEARNING IN THE STRUCTURE.
BUT IT'S, YOU KNOW, MY FOLKS GRABBING THEIR TESTICLES, SORRY.
SO, UM, THERE ARE ORGANIZATIONS OUT THERE THAT, THAT DO THAT.
AND PEACE OVER VIOLENCE IN LA IS ONE OF THEM.
AND, UH, THE SEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS AGENCY IN LA MIGHT BE ONE.
AND, UM, WE COULD ACTUALLY PUT ONE TOGETHER.
I DON'T THINK THAT'D BE THAT HARD.
UH, COMMISSIONER? I'M NOT A COMMISSIONER.
I DON'T DO WELL WITH LIKE, READING LIPS ACROSS THE TABLE.
MADAM CLERK, CAN WE PLEASE OFFER THE VOTE? YES.
UH, COMMISSIONER CHAFE PATERSON? YES.
THANK YOU MADAM CLERK, CAN YOU PLEASE, UH, READ THE NEXT AGENDA? ITEM THREE.
ITEM NUMBER FOUR IS A RECOMMENDATION TO DISCUSS THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION'S RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE LOCAL ADOPTION OF THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT.
CAN I GET A MOTION ON THIS ITEM? OKAY, I LEFT.
SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ.
UM, SO AT THIS TIME I'M GOING TO ASK OUR VICE CHAIR ZOE NICHOLSON TO PROVIDE A BRIEF REPORT ON THIS.
I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT TIME THE MEETING IS SUPPOSED TO ADJOURN.
YOU HAVEN'T SET THAT AS A COMMISSION YET? YEAH, WE HAVEN'T.
THERE'S NO, WE HAVE NOT SET A TIME CERTAIN FOR ENDING OUR COMMISSION MEETINGS.
AND THANK YOU FOR THE MOMENT THAT I'M GONNA, YOU'RE GIVING ME RIGHT NOW.
SO IT SOUNDS LIKE I'M DO GOING TO DO A LONG STORY, BUT ENOUGH.
AND 1787, A GROUP OF WHITE MEN GOT TOGETHER AND CAME UP WITH A PLAN THAT THEY COULD BE INDIVIDUAL KINGS AND INDIVIDUAL KINGDOMS. AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THEY DID.
THEY DECIDED TO BUY AND SELL LANDFILL FENCE.
AND THEY OWNED EVERYTHING IN THE FENCE.
THEY OWNED THE SHEEP, THEY OWNED THE CHICKENS.
THEY OWNED THE LAND, THEY OWNED THE CROPS.
THEY OWNED THE, OUT THE INCOME.
THEY ACTUALLY OWNED THE WOMEN.
THEY OWNED THE SLAVES, AND THEY ALSO EARNED, THEY OWNED THE PROGENY OF ALL OF THOSE.
AND THEY WROTE A BOOK TO MAKE IT FOR SURE.
THE ONLY BLACK PEOPLE WHO WERE IN THE PLACE WERE THE TWO SLAVES THAT WERE IN THE KITCHEN.
ONE BELONGING JEFFERSON, ONE BELONGING TO WASHINGTON.
LYNN MANUEL DID A LOOK MORE HARM THAN I CAN EVEN TALK ABOUT.
SO THE ABILITY TO GET THE RIGHTS AMENDMENT, IT WAS DISCOVERED BY ALICE PAUL IN 1906.
SHE WAS 21 YEARS OLD WORKING IN A SETTLEMENT HOUSE IN LOWER MANHATTAN, WHICH WERE RECEIVING ITALIANS, IRISH PEOPLE AND PEOPLE FROM EASTERN EUROPE.
AND SHE WOULD TEACH THE, THE WHOLE POINT OF THE SETTLEMENT PROGRAM WAS TO TEACH PEOPLE THE LANGUAGE, THE FOOD, THE STREETS, THE TRANSPORTATION, HOW TO LIVE HERE IN AMERICA.
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COMING FROM ELLIS ISLAND.AND SHE HAD AN EPIPHANY, WHICH WAS, WITHOUT BEING FULL MEMBERS OF THIS PARTICULAR BOOK, THEY WILL NEVER HAVE THE ABILITY TO PROSPER.
AND THAT WAS HOW SHE CAME UP WITH THE IDEA OF EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT.
21 YEARS OLD GRADUATE OF SWAT ONE.
SO IN 1923, AFTER WOMEN GOT TO VOTE IN 1920, SHE PUT TOGETHER AN ORGANIZATION OF 13 FEMALE ATTORNEYS.
HOW DO YOU FIND THE 13 UNEMPLOYED FEMALE ATTORNEYS? THAT'S EASY BECAUSE WOMEN COULD GO TO LAW SCHOOL AND GET A DEGREE, BUT THEY COULDN'T JOIN THE BAR.
SO THERE WERE LOTS OF WOMEN AVAILABLE.
AND SHE, UH, ACTUALLY A WOMAN OF COLOR WAS THE HEAD OF THAT COMMITTEE.
AND THEY STUDIED ALL THE STATES THERE WERE, AND CAME UP WITH WHERE, WHERE THERE WERE INEQUITIES ACTUALLY.
AND, UM, THEY MADE LISTS AND REPORTS ON THAT.
AND THEY CAME UP WITH WRITING THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT, WHICH WENT INTO CONGRESS, UH, IN 1923, AND HAS BEEN INTRODUCED INTO CONGRESS EVERY SINGLE YEAR.
AND THE FACT THAT IT HAS NOT PASSED HAS ONE CONCLUSION TO DRAW, WHICH IS, IT'S TERRIFYING.
EVERYBODY WHO ACTUALLY UNDERSTANDS THAT WHAT THE APPLICATION WOULD DO.
THAT IS WHY NOW, WHY ISN'T SO SCARY IS VERY SIMPLE.
YOU GET A TATTOO THAT SAYS WOMEN ARE THE CHEAPEST LABOR FORCE IN THE WORLD.
THAT IS WHY, BECAUSE THEY'RE MAKING MONEY OFF OF US.
WE ARE PART OF THE LIFESTYLE AS EVIDENT BY THE GOP NOMINEE FOR, UM, VICE PRESIDENT.
SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT NOW SINCE 1923.
AND THERE ARE TWO SECTIONS IN THIS BOOK THAT TELL YOU HOW TO WRITE AN AMENDMENT TO A CONSTITUTION.
ONE IS, YOU HAVE THE WORDS THAT IT SAYS, QUALITY OF RIGHTS UNDER THE LAW SHALL NOT BE DENIED OR ABRIDGED BY THE UNITED STATES BY ANY STATE ON ACCOUNT OF SEX.
SECTION TWO, IT GOES INTO FULL EFFECT TWO YEARS AFTER THE VOTE OF A MAJORITY, A SUPER MAJORITY OF STATES, THAT'S IT.
SOMEBODY ELSE ADDED ON ILLEGALLY, NOT PART OF THE BODY OF THE AMENDMENT.
UH, A DEADLINE OF SEVEN YEARS.
IT WAS SOMEBODY WHO KNEW IT'S LIKE VOTING THE LAST CHESS PIECE.
AND, UH, ALICE PAUL KNEW THAT, AND SHE WAS RATHER UNHAPPY.
IT WENT OUT TO THE STATES MARCH 22ND, UM, 1972, IT, THE HEARINGS WERE HELD IN CONGRESS IN 71.
AND, UH, WE ARE STILL AWAITING PUBLISHING.
SO THE LAST ONE THAT VOTED IN 1977, INDIANA VOTED YES, BUT IT WASN'T THE SUPER MAJORITY, AND IT KIND OF WENT TO SLEEP.
AND I KNOW EVERY SINGLE STORY ABOUT THIS.
THERE IS, BUT I'M NOT GONNA KEEP YOU UP.
THEY DID IT BY PUTTING A MAJORITY OF WOMEN INTO THE ASSEMBLY.
A MAJORITY OF WOMEN LOOK AT US AND THAT'S WHY WE ARE HERE, HOW WE ARE HERE.
IN 2017, THE STATE'S GENERAL ATTORNEY SIGNED IT.
2018, ILLINOIS VOTED ON IT, AND THEY, THE STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL SIGNED IT.
THEY SENT IT TO THE ARCHIVIST, DAVID FERRARO, AND HE PUBLISHED IT.
38TH STATE, THE GRAND PRIZE, THE SUPER MAJORITY, VIRGINIA.
I WAS THERE THROUGH THE GENEROSITY OF A LOGO, AND THEY VOTED ON IT.
THE ATTORNEY, THE STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL SIGNED IT AND THEY SENT IT TO THE ARCHIVIST.
AND THE ARCHIVIST HAD GOTTEN THAT DAY A MEMO FROM BILL BARR SAYING, DO NOT PUBLISH.
AND THAT'S WHERE IT IS RIGHT THIS MINUTE.
AND THAT, UM, MEMO HAS NOT BEEN
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REVERSED, EVEN THOUGH BILL BARR DOES NOT WORK FOR THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.SO WE HAVE BEEN THRASHING AROUND LIKE, UH, FISH, I'M SHORE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE DIFFERENT WAYS TO DO IT.
IT'S AN ALL HANDS ON DECK SITUATION, BECAUSE THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THE WOMAN IS WRITING FOR PRESIDENT RIGHT NOW, IS NOT IN THIS BOOK.
YOU ARE NOT IN THIS BOOK EVERY TIME YOU HEAR A COMMERCIAL.
I HEARD SOMEBODY ELSE TODAY SAYING WOMEN ARE LOSING THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.
UH, YOU HAVE NO CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.
WHO NOT IN THIS BOOK, THERE WAS NOTHING TO LOSE.
ABORTION WAS NOT GUARANTEED, BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT IN THIS BOOK, YOU HAVE NOTHING EXCEPT THE DESIRE TO BE IN THIS BOOK AND BEING PERSISTENT, AND YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY GOING CRAZY ABOUT IT.
SO THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION HAD ENOUGH, AND THEY MET, HAD THEIR ANNUAL MEETING ON JULY, 2030 FIRST THIS SUMMER.
AND THEY HAVE DECLARED THAT ACTUALLY THE BILL BAR MEMO WAS, UH, SHOULD BE DISCARDED BECAUSE THEIR BOSS WAS NO LONGER PRESIDENT.
IT'S OBVI, IT'S MERRICK GARLAND NOW UNDER BIDEN.
AND THEY ALSO WANTED IT CLEAR THAT THE DEADLINE WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
AND THAT'S FUNDAMENTALLY WHAT THEY DID.
THEY, THEY ARE ASKING CITIES, STATES, COUNTIES, AND THE COUNTRY EVENTUALLY THROUGH PRESSURE TO ADMIT THAT THE DEADLINE WAS, UM, UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
AND THEREFORE THE VOTING FOR THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT SHOULD HAVE GONE INTO EFFECT TWO YEARS AFTER THE VOTE.
SO TWO YEARS AFTER THE VOTE WOULD BE JANUARY 20TH, 2022, WHICH MEANS WE'RE TWO YEARS INTO HAVING THE AMENDMENT.
WE JUST DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO IT YET, BECAUSE COLLEEN, HER NAME IS COLLEEN GAN THE NEW, UH, IT'S A BRAND NEW ARCHIVIST, UM, HAS NOT PUBLISHED IT.
AND SHE SAID, AND I HAVE, UH, ACCESS TO KNOWING WHAT SHE HAS TO SAY ABOUT IT.
AND, UM, SHE IS SIMPLY WAITING TO BE TOLD TO GO AHEAD AND PUBLISH IT.
UH, AND SO THE A BA IS ASKING BODIES, LEGISLATIVE BODIES TO AGREE WITH THEIR HOLDING.
AND THE REASON I'M BRINGING IN STUFF TONIGHT IS DOES THE WOMEN'S COMMISSION WANT TO ASK ADVICE? THAT'S OUR WORD, ADVISE THE CITY COUNCIL, WHICH HAPPENS TO HAVE A SUPER MAJORITY OF WOMEN, UH, TO ACTUALLY HONOR THE FINDINGS OF THE AMERICAN FIRE ASSOCIATION AND DECLARE THAT IT WENT INTO EFFECT JANUARY 20TH, 2022.
AND, UH, THAT IS WHAT, UH, THE ITEM THAT I'M PROPOSING TO THE COMMISSION.
AND, UM, IF ANYBODY HERE WANTS TO HAVE A, YOU CALL MOTIONS, DON'T YOU CHAIR? SO, OR I CAN, ARE YOU CONCLUDING WITH YOUR PRESENTATION? YEAH, I ONLY CLEAR QUESTION, SO I HAVE TO GO THROUGH A COUPLE HOUSEKEEPING, HOUSEKEEPING ITEMS FIRST AND THEN WE'LL GET TO THE DISCUSSION.
LEMME MAKE SURE I'M DOING THIS IN THE CORRECT ORDER.
UM, SO NOW IT'S TIME FOR PUBLIC COMMENT, IF WE CAN PLEASE.
MAD CLERK, IF YOU CAN, UM, CALL FOR PUBLIC COMMENT AND SEE IF ANY MEMBERS, UH, PRESENT HERE OR VIA ZOOM WOULD WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE A COMMENT.
YEAH, IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER FOUR.
UM, IN PERSON, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND AND IF ANY IN THE ZOOM, PLEASE USE THE RAISE HAND FEATURE NOW.
THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ITEM NUMBER FOUR.
SO NOW, UM, COMMISSIONERS, AND WE CAN START WITH THOSE WHO, UH, I DON'T HAVE IT MEMORIZED AT THIS POINT, BUT THOSE WHO MOVED AND SECONDED, IF, IF THEY'D LIKE TO PROVIDE THE COMMENT FIRST AND THEN, UH, THE REMAINDER COMMISSION COMMENT OR QUESTION.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IF EVERYONE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO READ THE ANALYSIS BY THE, UM, AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, BUT IT WAS ACTUALLY FAIRLY, UM, ACCESSIBLE, I THINK, AND REALLY DISTILLED THE ISSUE DOWN.
UM, SO THERE'S A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT WE DID HERE.
IF SOMEBODY WOULD LIKE TO MOVE TO MAKE THAT RECOMMENDATION TO COUNSEL, THAT CAN BE DONE OR WE CAN VOTE TO, UM, RECEIVE AND FILE THIS AND FURTHER, FURTHER DISCUSSING.
UM, AS ABOUT THE DATE WHERE WE'VE HAD SOME MORE TIME FOR
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WE'RE ABOUT TO INVESTIGATE, RIGHT? ARE YOU ASKING FOR A MOTION NOW? ARE YOU NO, I'M, I AM ASKING, UM, DISCUSS, I'M EXPLAINING THIS.THESE ARE THE OPTIONS THAT WE HAVE BEFORE US.
UM, I WANNA MAKE SURE WE DID THIS IN THE CORRECT ORDER.
MADAM CLERK, IF YOU COULD PLEASE CALL FOR A VOTE.
SO ARE WE UPHOLDING THE ORIGINAL RECOMMENDATION TO JUST DISCUSS? OKAY.
UM, WE'RE UPHOLDING THE ORIGINAL RECOMMENDATION JUST TO DISCUSS, YEAH, SO WE DIDN'T REQUIRE A SECOND MOTION FIRST AND SECOND SINCE WE'RE UPHOLDING THE ORIGINAL RECOMMENDATION.
OH, SINCE WE'VE ALREADY BEEN, YEAH, BECAUSE WE HAD ALREADY, UM, MOTIONED AND SECONDED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE ITEM, SO, YEAH.
WELL, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE.
I JUST NEED THE CLARIFICATION.
UM, SO WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND MOVE FORWARD WITH THE VOTES TO APPROVE THE RECOMMENDATION TO DISCUSS THIS ITEM ITEM.
COMMISSIONER CHA PATTERSON? YES.
VICE CHAIR NICHOLSON? I CAN'T, PROFESSOR, I HAVE TO VOTE.
NO, WE'RE NOT JUST GONNA RECEIVE A FILE.
I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A MOVEMENT ON THAT.
MOTION TO MAKE THIS THE TOPIC.
THE FIRST TOPIC ON OUR AGENDA FOR THE NEXT MEETING.
WE CANNOT, UH, TAKE A VOTE ON A NON AGENDA AGENDA ITEM, I BELIEVE IS UNTIL AFTER, I THINK BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG ON, ON ROBERT RULES OF ORDER, BUT I THINK BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY VOTED ON THIS ITEM, WE CAN NO LONGER VOTE FURTHER ON THIS ITEM.
UM, HOWEVER, THE COMMISSIONER, HE WOULD LIKE TO BRING THAT ITEM TO US AS THE CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR.
WE CAN IZE IT FOR THE NEXT MEETING BECAUSE WE SET THE AGENDA.
I, I JUST REALIZED THAT I THINK WE, YOU KNOW, I, I'M AGREEING WITH ZOE HERE.
THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A LONG TIME.
THEY HAVE LOTS OF HISTORY BEHIND IT.
I DON'T KNOW IF EVERYBODY FEELS LIKE WE NEED TO DISCUSS IT.
IF THEY DO, UM, I CAN RESCIND MY MOTION.
WELL, UNFORTUNATELY WE'VE ALREADY VOTED.
IT CANNOT, IT'S NOT, WELL, HERE'S WHAT I WOULD SAY.
THERE'S OBVIOUSLY A DESIRE TO BRING IT BACK.
IF FOLKS WOULD LIKE TO DO MORE READING ON IT, ONE OF YOU WOULD LIKE IT ME TO AGENDIZE SPECIFICALLY IN THE WORDING, IN THE WORDING THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEND THIS TO CITY COUNCIL TO RECOMMEND THAT THEY ADOPT THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT AS A POLICY FOR OUR CITY.
WE CAN ADD THAT TO THE NEXT AGENDA, AND I WOULD CERTAINLY BE HAPPY TO DO THAT.
UM, I, UNFORTUNATELY, I BELIEVE WITH ROBERT ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER, WE'RE NOT, THERE'S NO OPEN, UM, DISCUSSION AT THIS POINT, BUT WE DO HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENTS SECTION COMING UP HERE.
SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE WITH ME.
UM, I'D LIKE TO ASK IF IT'S POSSIBLE IF WE CAN HOLD OVER THE, UM, FIFTH ITEM, WHICH IS A PRESENTATION TO THE NEXT MEETING, GIVEN THE TIMING.
SOMEBODY OVER THE ITEM TO THE NEXT MEETING.
AND THIS WAS AN UPDATE FROM THE OFFICE, UM, OF EQUITY.
SO IF I COULD MAKE THAT MOTION ACTUALLY TO HOLD OVER THIS ITEM UNTIL THE NEXT MEETING, I HAVE A LITTLE MORE TIME.
ITEM NUMBER FIVE IS A RECOMMENDATION TO RECEIVE AND FILE UPDATES FROM THE OFFICE OF EQUITY.
SO IF WE CAN HAVE A SECOND BEFORE DISCUSSION, PLEASE.
WELL, VIOL WHAT SECOND? THANK YOU.
NOW THERE WOULD BE A PUBLIC COMMENT IF THERE'S ANY COMMENT ON, ON, UM, THE MOVEMENT TO MOVE THE ITEM TO THE NEXT AGENDA.
MADAM BART, COULD YOU CALL FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON THAT? THANK YOU.
IF THERE'S ANY PUBLIC ON ITEM NUMBER FIVE REGARDING ITS MOTION TO BE LAID OVER, UM, IN PERSON, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
AND IF IN THE ZOOM, PLEASE USE THE RAISE HAND FEATURE.
NOW SEEING NONE, THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT.
COMMISSIONER, IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT YES, I I ALSO WANNA GO HOME.
I HAVE A 6-YEAR-OLD AT HOME, BUT, UM,
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I'M JUST CURIOUS IF THERE IS ANYTHING URGENT, IF THERE WAS ANYTHING URGENT IN THE, IN THE OFFICE OF EQUITY UPDATES OR IF IT'S, YOU KNOW, YEAH, NO, IT CAN BE, YEAH.THAT WAS OUR SUGGESTION BECAUSE WE WANNA GET YOU HOME.
OKAY, THEN, UM, MADAM CLERK, IF YOU COULD CALL FOR A VOTE ON THAT, PLEASE.
UH, COMMISSIONER ALLEN HARPER.
COMMISSIONER CHIEF HATTERSON? YES.
COMMISSIONER LA VIOLETTE? YES.
UM, AT THIS TIME WE'LL TAKE NON AGENDA, PUBLIC COMMENT.
THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THE COMMISSION FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS ON NON AGENDA ITEMS. EACH SPEAKER IS LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES TO MAKE THEIR COMMENTS UNLESS EXTENDED BY THE CHAIR.
IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK IN PERSON, PLEASE.
WELL, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT LINING UP THE PODIUM, BUT RAISE YOUR HAND.
WE WILL TAKE ANY VIRTUAL PUBLIC COMMENTS AFTER, UH, THOSE PRESENT.
AS A REMINDER TO ALL PARTICIPANTS, PLEASE SPEAK UP WHEN PROVIDING YOUR COMMENTS.
UH, MADAM CLERK, IF YOU PLEASE SEE IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT.
YEAH, IF THERE ANY HERE IN PERSON THAT WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE NON AGENDA, PUBLIC COMMENT, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
SEEING NONE AND SEEING NONE IN THE ZOOM.
SO THAT CONCLUDES NON AGENDA PUBLIC COMMENT.
UH, AT THIS TIME, COMMISSIONERS, UH, MAY REPORT ON ANY PREVIOUS OR UPCOMING COMMUNITY EVENTS OR SHARE ANY INFORMATION.
THIS IS OUR ANNOUNCEMENT SECTION.
SO ARE THERE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM OUR COMMISSIONERS? UM, I, I DON'T KNOW IF PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED, BUT THERE'S A 40 HOUR BASIS TRAINING.
I DON'T KNOW WHETHER THAT I CAN SAY FOR YES, ABSOLUTELY.
TO WORK WITH PERPETRATORS OF ABUSE, BUT IT ALSO INCLUDES, UM, ALL KINDS OF THINGS ON VICTIMS OF ABUSE.
AND, UM, IT'S THROUGH THE GROUP ABS AND WE GO TO WWW DOT AB, LIKE BROTHER IP, LIKE PROGRAM S LIKE SISTER.COM, AND YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO SIGN UP FOR IT.
AND IF YOU TELL THEM THAT YOU'RE WORKING ON A COMMISSION, IT COSTS TO GO.
BUT THEY'LL, THEY'LL GIVE YOU THE LITTLE RATE AND YOU CAN LOOK AT THE TOPICS AND IF THERE ARE THINGS YOU'RE PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN, YOU COULD SIGN UP FOR THOSE.
AND IF NOT, YOU KNOW, BUT IT IS WORTH LOOKING AT.
AND THE SHELTERS OFFER 40 HOUR TRAININGS AS WELL, SO THAT'S ALL.
I WOULD LOVE, I PERSONALLY WOULD LOVE THAT.
UM, IF YOU CAN MAYBE AFTER THE MEETING DIRECT ME WHERE, WHERE WE CAN FIND THAT AND WE CAN HAVE THE OFFICE SEND OUT THOSE RESOURCES FOR ANYBODY WHO'S INTERESTED.
UM, ANY OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM OUR COMMISSIONERS? CAN YOU HEAR COMMENTS? UH, WHAT, NO.
I, I JUST, UM, I FEEL COMPELLED TO, UH, TO NAME THAT WE HAVE VARYING LEVELS OF EXPERTISE AND LIKE, JUST, UH, KNOWLEDGE ON ALL THINGS WOMEN AND GIRLS, RIGHT? AND SO I JUST DON'T WANT, UM, I I I REALLY DO THINK IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, TIME TO, TO DIGEST AND CONNECT REGARDING THINGS THAT WE MIGHT WANT TO BRING UP TO THE CITY COUNCIL.
SO, UM, WHILE I APPRECIATE EVERYONE'S, UM, PASSION AND LEVEL OF EXPERTISE, I, I DO THINK IT'S VALUABLE TO, TO THINK AND TO DIGEST AND TO FURTHER DISCUSS ALL SORTS OF TOPICS THAT I THINK WE'RE GONNA BE COMING ACROSS.
ANY OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS? UM, WAS THAT AN ANNOUNCE? WHAT WAS IT? COMMENT, COMMENT.
OUR CITY ATTORNEY, CAN WE COMMENT? YOU CAN HAVE, YOU CAN COMMENT.
UH, WE JUST CAN'T HAVE DISCUSSION DURING THIS, UM, SECTION DISCUSSION AMONGST EACH OTHER.
SO I CAN'T COMMENT ON WHAT WAS JUST SAID.
YEAH, YOU CAN MAKE A STATEMENT, BUT IT CAN'T, UM, ENSUE INTO A DIALOGUE.
I THINK THE WAY TO ELEVATE EXPERTISE IS TO ACTUALLY EACH OF US LEAN INTO WHO'S THE EXPERT.
AND WHEN SOMEBODY ARRIVES WITH A WHOLE LOT OF EXPERTISE ON CHILDHOOD EDUCATION OR WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE, I WANNA BE ABLE TO LEAN IN.
I'M NEVER GONNA LEARN EVERYTHING, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GONNA ADVISE ME WHAT TO DO.
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THE ADVISORS ON YOUR EXPERTISE.AND, UH, SO YOU HAD AN EXPERT COME HERE AND IT'S BEEN RECEIVED IN FILE AND NOW IT'S GONE.
ALL I WAS ASKING WAS, DO YOU WANNA BE IN THE CONSTITUTION IN THE CITY OF LUMBER? AND YOU VOTED? UH, OKAY.
UM, DO WE HAVE ANY FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS OR COMMENTS? OKAY.
I HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT, WHICH IS, UM, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND EVERYONE YOU WOULD LIKE TO, UM, SUGGEST ITEMS FOR UPCOMING AGENDAS.
YOU CAN REACH OUT, UH, TO US, TO YOUR CHAIR, AND TO YOUR VICE CHAIR AND RESET THE AGENDA AND WE'LL CONSIDER THAT AS WE'RE GOING FORWARD.
UM, CERTAINLY FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT TO, TO MYSELF, UM, JUST INDIVIDUALLY IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO.
UM, IF YOU WANNA HAVE A PHONE CALL OR COPY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, UM, I'M CERTAINLY AVAILABLE FOR YOU FOLKS.
SEEING NO FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS, IF THERE IS NO OBJECTION, I WOULD LIKE TO DECLARE THE MEETING ADJOURNED.
UM, AND MADAM, FOR IF YOU COULD PLEASE CALL THE TIME, THE TIME IS 8:27 PM.