November 28, 2022 — Human Relations Commission Regular Meeting

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Manually captioned by City of Boulder staff. All segments attributed to uploader — not individual speaker labels. [MM:SS] timestamps correspond to the YouTube recording.

[0:00] and hi Christine how are you sorry I didn't hear that because I heard the zoom voice at the same time no problem I just said how are you I'm good thanks how are you pretty good pretty good so we're just waiting for fiker and we um she's planning on coming as far as we know Ingrid that is correct thank you everybody for your patience I'm gonna go ahead and turn on the interpretation uh feature right now and share my screen as you noticed I already got the um record any progress and interpretation is on right now so please go ahead and select select um the glove icon and select your preferred Language by clicking on the interpretation glove icon that you

[1:01] should see on your screen um if I can have a thumbs up that will be great I see two three awesome four great so yes we're waiting for fikir um I have not gotten any Communications okay she will be here soon uh I just got a communication as I was saying that so just running a little late but we'll be here soon so just as a friendly reminder um when we have meetings and um and we're using the expertise of our local interpreters we ask you all to please speak slowly pronounce your words Embrace between sentences this goes to um grantees who are presenting reports today to grantees who are presenting their proposals staff and Commissioners

[2:01] and everybody in present in these meeting who will be speaking um if you have a headset please use it or microphone and please click mute when you're not speaking to limit any kind of background noise and avoid using any kind of idioms or um phrases that might be a little bit more challenging to translate given that not everything translates exactly the same way we thank our interpreters for their expertise they're extremely skilled and thank you for being here in advancing language Justice so um public participation in city meetings we have a couple of guidelines that we invite you all to follow so um in order to have productive meaningful and inclusive Civic conversations we ask

[3:02] you to please follow these guidelines because they do support the physical emotional safety of our community members staff and commission members as well as the Democracy for people of all ages identities live experiences and political perspectives I shall correct myself it doesn't necessarily we're not meeting in person but emotional and mental safety is important if you want to learn more about what these guidelines are please visit the link that you see on the screen or you can text me and I can put the link in the in the chat as well um these are some examples of those guidelines so please um follow them as as much as possible or remarks and testimony should be limited to matters related to City business and we ask for participants to not make

[4:02] any threats or use any other forms of intimidation against any person obscenity racial epithets and other speech and behavior that disrupts or otherwise impedes the ability to conduct a meeting are prohibited participants are required to sign up um using their night their name and they should display their name before being allowed to speak online this last sentence here is no longer true as of last month all audio and video will be posted on um in in um it will be recorded for archives and available to online audiences you do um have to use testimony only via audio if there's the participation of

[5:00] community members grantees that are sharing their screen please let me know and I'm happy to um grant that access to you and I'm just going to stop right there and hand it off to Lindsay loberg our interim chair thanks Ingrid um it is 608 so we will call meaning to order immunizations submission it is November 28th Monday um and I've got I've got some um uh first let's see after you the approval of minutes will make space for an item four which Community participation

[6:00] um hey Lindsay it may be other it may be just me but it's hard to hear you audio's kind of spotty I may have to call in I've been struggling um and there's really the only thing um um Lindsay what what you could do is call in and do audio on your phone but leave your camera on and just mute on on your computer and that way we can get both yes um can you all hear me like at all or well enough to proceed okay yes but it's just it goes in and out so we're missing some words um uh let's see um let's do agenda adjustments and then I'll call in on the phone so you all can hear me better um so

[7:00] um or if anyone can take over the meeting because it does take about like I've had to do this a number of times it'll take me about three or four minutes if someone can take over running the meeting I did not catch all of that I'm sure I've understood foreign you just want to make sure I mean we're happy to move ahead if you just need to call in real quick it's fine the first item is really just any changes to the agenda um JH Christine Carlos any changes to suggest

[8:01] um I I was wondering if we might just uh when when Lindsay is back on if we might just take a a few moments of Silence um to to just think about what happened in Colorado Springs with the shooting at the club Q I think um you know it's uh if we could add that to the agenda that would be great Carlos JH thumbs up do you support that Jade sorry um if you're if you're talking we can't hear you you're on mute Lindsay was that you coming in on Audi on phone

[9:07] okay try again yeah awesome the moment of silence maybe to start off um anything else we're um uh missing our um uh public participation item which would become four and then action items bump down after that um so um and I think that's everything

[10:06] is that's right correct okay Christine I heard I heard away party where they included okay uh just as uh solo come on

[11:01] um foreign Daniel Austin Derek rump Ashley Parr

[12:29] OT thank you gracias thank you gracias thank you Christy gracias Christine

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[14:14] just Segundo okay a Carlos the motion in um in Spanish and then I did not hear interpretation or other um people experiencing that or is it because I'm calling in I think it may be because you're calling in yeah we heard it okay cool we can we can move forward like that then um uh thanks for clarifying that for me

[15:01] um okay and um then that brings us up to the modified um uh item five public participation um so if anybody is um here uh to address the commission again you'll have three minutes for that and we just need um an indication um an indication from you that you're here that you're here for that I from how I can see uh the icons on my screen um uh one way that you could do that is with uh because I believe we're not in our webinar format we're in um our meeting format so um folks could

[16:00] add a reaction um or um or take themselves off mute and indicate that verbally um if if I'm incorrect about that and we're in the webinar format you can use the Q a feature church I am not seeing anybody indicate that they want to speak and Ingrid no one's indicated to you that they would like to speak is that correct that is correct thank you um and so that brings us in to um our action um our action items oh when we were

[17:01] doing apologies I was I was um during agenda adjustments um was distracted by um calling in so I forgot to make a note that this isn't a full adjustment but just a note on timing um for folks who are looking at the agenda for our fund requests we have an estimated 20 minutes on there um but I think what's there since we're allowing we allow five minutes and and I'm looking to um Ingrid and Elizabeth to fact check me on this we allow five minutes for the presentation and then three minutes for a q a um so if we do not run over on either of those things we're looking more at like fifty five zero minutes for our item c um uh so just that just that note on time for folks who are joining us we probably will not end this item at

[18:00] um this this action items items um by 650 like we're planning it it um will be a bit it will be a bit later than that for the folks who are late who are at the end of the list to get their fund requests um from when we're starting right now I estimate would probably be a little bit closer to 705 710 when we're finishing the fund request um if we stay on track with our with our with the time a lot of tour items Lindsay just a quick note on that that that may be right um and um some of the applications or requests are actually um different um organizations applied for parts of the same event and so they're actually going to kind of be some collaborative presentation on that which probably won't take as long

[19:00] things things sometimes go over but um that's one and I see Minister Glenda is here um and some other folks who are going to be kind of making that um collaborative request okay thank you for clarifying I I understood there was a collaborative proposal but it's good to know that like that'll um be also collaborative presentations that'll help with the with the timing um thanks for that clarification Elizabeth so then um we're going to uh begin with our um protected class um Forum proposal um and then we're going to get in photos foreign

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[23:14] Ingrid Elizabeth foreign thanks Elizabeth um Elizabeth unfortunately and I'm sorry English

[24:08] Elizabeth um Elizabeth commissioners is it okay if I um stop the interpretation for a minute and ask you resume it and then ask it to rejoin not rejoin the meeting but resume the interpretation of course um you don't need to do anything uh yet I'm gonna stop it and then once it's resumed I'll let you know okay thank you sorry about that it's okay

[25:13] I'm actually going to stop sharing so I can see my full bar to rejoin interpretation in the memo thank you it should be ready in just a minute

[26:01] thank you my dad give me just a second I'm still working on it and now I'm going to resume it um so please everybody select interpretation the language of your choice under the interpretation icon do you need a thumbs up from commissioners muy bien wonderful all good Gage hi yep that's yes thank you thanks thank you all right thank you for that process point so we can all right let's hand it back to you

[27:05] so as Lindsay said um when we met um Lindsay and Carlos and Ingrid and I just to talk about the meeting for tonight we Revisited this um how to move forward with this discussion um and what is on this slide is what we talked about how staff might be able to help you know kind of structure and agenda item for say a February commission meeting um get some more input on exactly who um you might want to have uh as a panel if you will could include some of the community local community organizations um someone from the city attorney's office or a staff member that has or previous staff member that has a lot of background and context for the human

[28:02] rights ordinance as it was originally crafted there could also be some representatives from organizations um um outside of Boulder that have expertise and experience in applying racial Equity or other Equity assessments to this question and there are a couple of you know suggestions for networks um kind of social justice networks there are networks like the government Alliance on race and Equity um just other groups that have some national perspective in addition to the folks present um who originally um had suggested this as a as a something for the HRC to look at and we're more than happy Ingrid and I to kind of assist in reaching out um to folks as Lindsay said one of the um issues we just as staff it's our due diligence to check on is um because there is an

[29:02] active um lawsuit um regarding homelessness we just don't want to make a misstep um and create an awkward situation um or do something that we're not supposed to do or that the HRC might not be able to do um so there are a bunch of ways to to address that and and again be smaller group um on advisement from the HRC um just to identify people for that session and I believe um the reason that we were looking at February is just acknowledging that we've got some major holiday time uh coming up in December and January um it's a reset time kind of end of year beginning of year and that would give us plenty of time um we think um to reach out to potential speakers panelists and let folks know that this is an agenda item in case they wanted to to come and listen make comment so let's see Lindsay and Carlos is that

[30:00] pretty much cover it um anything else that you wanted to add to the proposal is for me it looks complete I don't know what Lindsay says and the rest of the Commissioners as well you hear me now um I have I have a question but I'll hand it to Christine who who may cover my questions um yeah I I just I had a procedural question which is um for for a topic an item of the scope which I think is is a very significant

[31:00] scope um um at what point if we were to decide that we would need some kind of public hearing about this would that occur after we have this as an agenda item in our meeting in February and then we would decide next steps uh and part of the reason I'm asking this now up front is before we start scoping out who we would invite um you know I I I I guess you know at one point is it is it uh I mean obviously we have public meetings so anybody can come to our meetings but um you know having a set aside a special session on this um so as to best utilize the time and expertise of the people who would come and speak um you know what would sort of be the right sequencing of steps I guess

[32:00] Lindsay did you want to respond to that or would you like me to have a shot at it yeah I think you know um I'll answer from like my perspective of like um what we were discussing you know initially back in back in Spring and and um uh what I understand like the the purpose of having the of the item on this agenda is um really I think what we're talking about in February is having a more full context and understanding of this issue um the intended implications and the unintended implications so we as a commission can decide like what we want to do to advance the item um so I personally feel like

[33:00] you know you said Christine like this this is like a like a a big in scope item um and I think we're like a ways away from considering or like planning for uh a public hearing um and because it has hro human rights ordinance implications I think it's a it's it's a helpful thing to to think about up front so I'll pass it to Elizabeth to add on that makes sense I would only add I think there's some flexibility um and concur with Lindsay that's that's the gist of what we discussed previously with Carlos and Ingrid as well thank you and and then Elizabeth I just I wanted

[34:02] to a clarifying question what you said it we are it is okay to invite you you pointed out the the like potential conflict with the ACLU it does feel okay to invite them like there's no there is no conflict there like we to invite them to the meeting um what I understand from our city attorney's office is um their is not necessarily a conflict asking them to come and speak on on this topic if it were to kind of touch on anything that has to do specifically with an active lawsuit regardless of who that would be um that's they would let us know otherwise thank you I certainly would not wager to speak for the city for the city attorney's office but they I think would let us know specifically what if any boundaries we'd have to know about much more

[35:05] thank you for Claire um so that um that was my question so I'll pass it um back to the group um for other questions that might have come up while we're talking and then we can talk a little more about puzzle itself okay so it sounds like we're all um we're all clear on the proposal uh to have a February 2023 meeting agenda item to host a panel of speakers that um includes those uh groups that Elizabeth named

[36:01] um or you know types of groups that Elizabeth named in order to really like more fully inform us on this issue um so that um we can better understand the implications um both like intended desired and maybe unanticipated and potentially undesired of of this thing we've been um uh curious about for some time now um uh part of this is that one to two of hrfc members are going to work closely with staff on invitation Logistics and I think it would be helpful for us to kind of zoom in a little bit here and we are up on that 38 39 minute mark that I noted earlier um so I'm going to propose that we go through the fund requests and the fund reports and fund requests and then loop back to this item to more conversation

[37:00] about which of us HRC members are going to do that work um and then making a decision about this action item them out of request of out of respect for the time of the presenters tonight um that I would just like a thumbs up from the Commissioners um or any kind of like objection well good JH good with you awesome so that brings us back um to our only fund report from I recall it's from Rondo and we have Travis presenting thank you very much I need to ask the question everyone asks

[38:00] can you hear me excellent okay I was on a zoom two weeks ago and I was talking and talking and talking and found out I've been talking to myself no one could hear me for five minutes it was amazing um thank you very much that would be terrible in our case Travis because we have five minutes [Laughter] thank you for being here I'll uh pass it to you for your report thank you my name is Travis slippers I'm executive director and founder at parlato school of musical arts our collaborative collaborative partner um author Vista Carson um is not going to be able to make it this evening she's actually teaching a class at CU on Mondays this semester and um she couldn't step out uh for the meeting I guess the students needed her too much um it's nice to be back here with the HRC after a very successful series of book readings and performances which was

[39:00] funded in part through your generosity a little bit about parlando to start uh we offer music lessons and classes we produce Musical and Theatrical works and we provide Outreach to thousands of people every month including Early Childhood groups on-site support for school band Orchestra and choir programs performances and educational opportunities for senior citizens music and arts programming for people with intellectual disabilities and neurodiversities and tuition assistance for students who can't afford music lessons I remain very excited about this collaboration with Vista because it combines many of the efforts we are seeking to advance including additional ways to engage school-aged children the opportunity to engage new members of the Boulder Community the promotion of boulder-based artists and it promotes accessibility representation representationality um financially and by removing Transportation barriers oh I think we were going to say the same

[40:00] thing the interpreters requested if you could please slow down just a little bit she'd appreciate sure thank you I have this bad habit of talking really fast and mumbling um and I'm glad my wife's not here right now because she would just say that you know all the time she's told me those two things uh she's been right it's not just me um so I'll back up just a little bit uh we remain really excited about the collaboration with Vista because it combines many of the efforts that we are seeking to advance and that we believe overlap with the hrc's efforts um specifically ways to engage school-aged children the opportunity to engage new members of the Boulder Community uh promotion of artists in Boulder specifically boulder-based artists and this collaboration also promotes accessibility um through representation uh Financial accessibility and by bringing the book

[41:00] readings and performances to places where kids and families already are it removes Transportation barriers as well during a time when we are somehow having conversations once again about the Banning of books it has been very refreshing to share a new book with our community that centers and celebrates diversity we are excited to share that nine book readings and performances have been completed in 2022 thus far with nearly 300 books and over 400 barakas being given away during this time while we believe this project we always believe from the beginning this project would be a success we certainly needed proof of concept your funding helped jump start this program in addition to the nine readings we completed this year we already have several readings confirmed or in the works for 2023 and these includes readings at the dairy Arts Center with students from Whittier

[42:00] Elementary and we're hoping at least one additional school during that event with the dairy um at least three branches of the boulder Library including the main library and those are um either the dates are confirmed or we're in direct communication with the branch directors um to just you know we're just finalizing the dates um at least one additional non-boulder library and at least two schools in Arvada additionally we have two bbsd combined school programs during in-service days that will be happening and at least two additional in-school performances in the city of Boulder um in 2023 all in the spring semester so first half of the year uh and finally Miss Carson is currently finishing a second book entitled we danced together and this companion book follows the same format as we play music together just focusing on dance and we are planning to do a combined reading and performance of the two books in mid

[43:01] to late 2023 bringing dance and music together um once the presentation is ready we'll reconnect with all the schools organizations and groups that we've previously worked with and make a return appearance and given that we're working with mostly preschool for second grade most of the students will be cycling through and they'll be new even if it's the um the same organization or school or Library and at this point I would love to answer any questions you have and thank you so much for your your support thank you so much Travis questions from the commissioner Gage did I see your hand uh I don't think I have a question but I just want to say uh to Travis

[44:01] keep up the good work because both of my kids went to palmando from PM yes it was a good experience and John and Elizabeth they're still doing music which is good so that's great and they were in um what was it honk the musical as well actually you and I sat there right there yeah yeah both of my kids okay I love that personal connection that's so lovely Carlos so you think yes I have a question do you have a plan or does this course that you're giving um do you are you thinking about presenting it in Spanish or is it just in English that's a great question uh and currently it's just uh in English

[45:01] um we did do a um we did a presentation at the Broomfield Library um we did a promotion in Spanish um so that we would have you know more people likely to come to the event but we do not have it in Spanish the presentation itself in Spanish although having said that I realized that the book is I mean the words in the book being that it's a board book for kids it's so simple um that it really wouldn't take any extra time to do it that way so I'm gonna make a note um that even though we don't have the book in Spanish I see no reason why we couldn't do our the readings that we're planning on um in a bilingual setting thank you for that 15. um also not a question just uh just a comment I just want to thank you for the

[46:01] work that you're doing and um you know when you were last here a few months ago which must have been with the request I remember hearing your retrospective back from then and then I'm looking listening to your retrospective now and I feel like you know you you just keep doing more and more and and reaching more and more kids so I just think that's terrific so thank you very much thank you and thank you for the um the connection to Aubry at bbsd bbsd um we've actually gotten into a few more schools in bbsd because of that connection um and then there was another connection um where um we actually just joined um the boulder branch of the NAACP officially last week um as a corporate member um and we're hoping to do uh hoping to learn a lot but also do some great things in conjunction with them that's great and I see Minister Glenda giving a thumbs up and

[47:00] um and I I hope you'll um you'll be able to do some work with the Dei collab that's part of the NAACP because that's that's where all the great elementary school work is happening that's perfect thank you so much Travis uh for your report and if there are no other questions um hello and welcome beaker so nice to see you um we're uh we're going to um make a motion um to approve the report from parlando so we're looking for emotions motion a second and then a vote um I I moved to approve the report from parlando

[48:03] I second the motion thank you and everybody says hi I and um we'll note for the notes that we got a visual or verbal eye from all of the Commissioners um Travis thank you for your work and for your report we appreciate you being here thanks for your time really appreciate your support oh and um Travis you're welcome to um hang on the call with us uh for as as long as you like and um you're also invited to sign off as works for you and your night um appreciate it thank you you're so welcome thank you okay and then um we have our round of fun requests and

[49:03] at the top of the meeting um or earlier on in our action item item um I um I'm I was a I was a little unclear on how people were how the the groups were collaborating were um going to be presenting um so I'm hoping for a little facilitator's help um right now if we can highlight how um how the groups are planning on presenting um together for the fund requests and then we can we can call up appropriately I'm happy to support with that um commissioner Robert so we have [Music] um first and foremost um modus Theater Grand request presented by Rita Valente Queen

[50:01] um then we have how the community organization uh request and the request will be presented by and then we have the nwacp Second Baptist Church a museum of Boulder co-presenting together and last but not least we will hear the grant request presented by Michael Sandrock on behalf of one world running thank you so much Ingrid okay that is helpful that we have everything in order and [Music] Rita are you with us yes I'm here

[51:01] sorry I couldn't change my name for whatever reason so I just show up as Modis theater but um I'm here thank you so much for having me tonight um I'll go right ahead with the presentation if that's okay with everyone yes I see the knot thank you so Modis theater is proposing in honor of Dr Martin Luther King Jr Day a special arts based event that is created with three goals in mind one to educate the Boulder Community about the roots of Dr Martin Luther King Jr's understanding of the intersectional oppression of poverty poverty and race particularly in the last five years of his life that's from his speech I Have a Dream until his assassination so between 1963 and 1968 uh the second goal is to help the Boulder Community reflect on how the

[52:00] intersectional oppression of poverty and race which the Civil Rights Movement led by Dr King Jr fought to overcome manifests in the present particularly in the criminal legal system and thirdly Inspire the Buller Community to honor Dr King's Junior Legacy by taking action toward racial Justice director of CU Boulder Center for African and African-American studies will present a critical critical and Hip-Hop poetry Reflections on Dr Martin Luther King's Junior's work at the Nexus of poverty in race Dr Rebecca will focus um on Dr King Jr's radical thinking in the last five years of his life and by radical we take the concept of radical from Angela Davis um and from her quote radical simply means grasping things by the root so Dr

[53:00] Rebecca will be getting at the root of Dr King's Junior's thinking during those five years last five years of his life um modus um then modus will also present a monologue from our Justice project the monologue will be presented by Colette Payne who is also the director of the women's Justice Institute and her monologue will illustrate how the exploration of poverty and race at the core of Dr King's Junior's thinking manifesting the criminal legal system um uh Colette Spain's autobiographical monologue opposes the false narrative that her criminal record is about her drug addiction and crime and demonstrates that her story is actually about poverty and that in her words the story of poverty in black brown and Indigenous communities is directly related to the history of slavery genocide black codes Jim Crow and all the redlining laws of the government that pushes us into projects instead of

[54:03] homes in the suburbs end quote finally the lauded Regional and National singing group the reminders will weave musical responses throughout the event by blending their Soulful sounds and insightful reflections with calls to a place musicians Educators Educators and social justice leaders and they will perform musical responses that will energize the audience to embrace their radicalness that is the root of Dr King's Junior's Legacy and converted into action we expect 200 people to attend this event which will be free and open to the public and now I would love to hear any questions you may have

[55:05] questions yeah there you go Lindsay thanks sorry about that I forget and use the zoom controls um uh speaker of I'm I'm on audio and video because I'm having an audio issue um uh but um yeah I was just I was just calling for uh questions from Commissioners and looks like we have one from Christine Dean handing it to you thank you very much um this actually sorry this is actually not a question about the the modus request this is actually um a process question that I should have asked before this first went so my apologies um Elizabeth and Ingrid can you can you remind us again um with the MLK grants what the total

[56:03] amount is and also uh how the division works with the Arts commission and and us just so process-wise in case questions related to that could pop up over the next presentations yeah yeah absolutely so this is uh one of those special funds where um the HRC has five thousand dollars that are matched by the um arts and culture office with another five thousand dollars hence there's a total of ten thousand dollars to be allocated to MLK um Junior celebrations and I do have the spreadsheet um for your deliberation ready great thank you and you're welcome Ingrid can I just ask for clarification my understanding is that each each group each applicant each organization could

[57:02] ask for up to a thousand from the HRC and a thousand five hundred from the bacs that right that is correct yes and that's the request that modus is doing because we have an Arts component to our um project great thank you thank you very much for the for the presentation it looks really interesting so cute questions we thank you so much for your presentation and we will move on to the next fund request just uh just a few quick

[58:01] reminders um before we do um one is a call to speak slowly um for our interpreters um which can be difficult to remember to do um the other is just a reminder around around timing um Rita thank you for being um for keeping to our five um minute request request um and then we'll usually have a few a few a few moments um per question um so next up we are um going to hand it over to lojo hamoi um from the highway Community organization for your request thank you so much for being here welcome thank you so much uh first of all I would like to apologize for being late uh I just reached home from my work and

[59:01] I apologize for coming late so first and foremost I would like to uh thank all the the staff of human relation Commission again for this time meeting together for Dr Martin Luther Day celebration so how will a community organization uh is now the second time beneficiary of human relation commission and Ebola art Commission so we're so grateful to be part of this and to take to be partaking this community uh Bola County celebration uh precisely how will a community organization is yearning to be part of Boulder Community initiative and Dr Martin Luther King

[60:02] initiative to make sure that we continue the dreams and the love and peace and coexistence with each other in Bola community and around the nation so our Community Values community coexistence peace and engagement respect to each and everyone so basically only try to have uh performance not during that day I will have like three faces phase one uh will be the traditional dancing uh will present women dance uh as a sign of peace a sign of being in Boulder Community celebrating each other and celebrating Dr Luther King uh peace

[61:01] so that's going to be the the first phase then the second phase is going to be local musician we have local artists uh we have a local black artist community in our community who are really facing hardship in funding uh some of their musics some are recording their musics and messages of peace and coexistence and inclusivity they've been having issues so with this uh Dr Luther King Grant only present peace communication with the each and every person in polar Community because songs and musics that are carrying the message of love and coexistence and diversity and inclusion because each and every person playing part in in role of the community to make sure that we live in viable community of respect and

[62:01] coexistence then the second phase is going to be uh the choirs from The Blood Church in our community in which you know Martin Luther King was using charge to preach you know non-violent to preach God the word to make sure that we live uh we tell ours our issues in peace in non-violence because when you have any situation you have to say that God may you protect our community may you protect our leaders within our community so that is the meaning of the child coming in our choir you know praising songs song of love songs of you know celebration together with our brothers and sisters in Ebola community and we will be involving all stakeholders the members and executive that in human relation commission and bowler are Commission so precisely this

[63:01] is what exactly how the community is going to present and will welcome each and every person the staff will send the messages they will also try to go through the media to make sure that all non-profit organizations and partners to join us when that day comes so I will hold on here if any question asked I'll be able to to answer them and we go from there thank you so much and thank you lojo hamoi a Premiere um I already see uh Christine has her hand up to you Christine thank you very much it's nice to see you here again thank you so much thank you so much Christine uh I have a quick question I it may be in your written application

[64:00] um if it was I'm sorry if I missed it um how many people do you think will be engaged with your programming uh we're expecting 80 200. okay thank you very much you're welcome questions from other commissioners hey thank you so much uh for being here and for your presentation um again um you I I think most of the presenters are familiar with our process you're welcome um to hang out uh and uh stay with us for our the rest of the presentations and our deliberations um or we will uh or staff will follow up with you

[65:00] um thank you so much and then um we are going to pass um pass the mic here to our um collaborative Grant request um so we have NAACP um we've got Second Baptist Church and we've got the Museum of Boulder so I'm going to just um pass it off to you folks to like introduce yourself however you think makes sense with how you've planned um on on presenting um uh Mr Glenda Graham Lori we're so glad you're all here today thank you for your presentation we'll pass it to you okay hey I guess I'll take it away I'm the talker here I'm the preacher here I should say my name is Minister Glenda strong Robinson

[66:00] I'm a 42-year resident of Boulder County as serve as associate Minister and historian at historic Second Baptist Church Boulder which is 115 years old on January I am historian an executive committee member for the NAACP Boulder County Branch and I'm also currently serving at the Museum as their most uh recent project proclaiming Colorado's black history as the oral history Outreach coordinator or liaison the exhibit opens September 29th 2023 proclaiming Colorado's black history my focus is on proclaiming Boulder counties black history

[67:00] I guess my claim to fame is since we're talking about Dr Martin Luther King is that I was in the last March with him on March 28 1968. I lived at Memphis State University and so um some of you know that some of you didn't thus my passion is to tell the story the real story of how we along with Dr King just marched for basic human rights basic decency basic civil rights ladies and gentlemen that was 55 years ago and to that I usually pose a question how are we doing America it's a rhetorical question but I offered the suggestion that while we've come a

[68:01] long long way from the segregated Jim Crow South that I grew up in in Memphis I say we still have much much work to do and thank God for all these fellow people that will be presenting and celebrating his life uh in this time so that picture that I'm in is the I was in the I Am a Man March which was March 28 1968. I was also in the April 8th March of 1968 which was called four days after he was assassinated called the Dr MLK Jr memorial March and it's in two places in the Smithsonian African-American Museum of History and culture in Washington DC it's in the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis and uh so I'm a Storyteller we gotta tell this story because freedom

[69:00] is not free somebody paid for it with human life for for us to be still talking about basic voting rights I don't mean to preach to everybody but I'm just thinking we got a lot of work to do our program focuses on let me let me just give some facts um it'll be Sunday January 15 2023 at 4 pm at the Jewish Community Center here in Boulder and it features Dr Raylan rabaca I understand that someone else will have him presenting and we will have the spirituals choir the the spirituals uh choir from du at Boulder it's a group of people losing acapella 55 people singing nothing but Negro spirituals that will

[70:00] move your soul I promise you it will and so we're inviting everybody out the exciting thing I'm sorry I don't mean to take up all the time but to my fellow presenters I serve at the museum with Emily who will be presenting and I also serve with the NAACP with graham who will also be presenting everybody if there ever was a time for this community to come together and really be Lo become the Beloved Community it is now and so I better stop and let them uh share with you so what we've done is we've taken components of of the program and we'll be paying we each will be paying for certain portions of the program so I'll let Emily and Graham present thank you oops

[71:00] thank you Glenda as usual you're a very tough act to follow but my name is Graham Hill I'm a lifetime member of this community and what's most important to me is that we reach Harmony in this community and we're always looking for it and so I'm very involved with the NAACP on special projects criminal justice committee and others the NAACP Boulder County Branch is pleased to collaborate with historic Second Baptist Church and Museum of Boulder so we can present a special program for the Martin Luther King Jr day of 2023 as it is keeping with the Dr King's Beloved Community to work with many people in the community in different organizations we envision an inclusive community rooted in Liberation where all persons can exercise their civil and human

[72:01] rights without discrimination we are very lucky that this community event will serve as an educational and cultural social tool to heighten the awareness of those that we serve the MLK 2023 uh committee uh has a uh slogan and um it is in in uh in line with the dream Keep Hope at the center with a focus on learning from Dr King and how to meet the challenges with love Justice and hope for the Beloved Community let me just add real quickly that the NAACP has done some incredible events over the last few years we sell out all the events because they're free and they are amazing so please attend and

[73:00] um I guess I'll hold off because it doesn't sound like others are discussing the individual budgets but in this collaboration uh we are seeking uh 2500 uh towards the support of of this uh event um of the MLK uh weekend which will be on Sunday as Glenda pointed out at the boulder Jewish Community Center thank you for your time foreign I'm the director of education at the Museum of Boulder and the project manager on proclaiming Colorado's black history that Minister Glenda referenced I'm actually representing Lori in the museum tonight and I do know that on the agenda it has Lori's name um our portion of this collaboration with Second Baptist Church and NAACP Boulder County is

[74:00] um to support the funding of the production of services from black cat video productions so together with the Boulder County Martin Luther King Jr day planning committee um we will be funding the lifetime achievement and living legend award interview which is a centerpiece of the program at The JCC um and uh and every Year's honoree um has just made a profound impact on the community and to see them honored and elevated in that way um really means a lot and for this year's um missing as bugs is moved immensely to be honored um she has impacted countless lives um whose lives were changed thanks to the healing they received at Clinica

[75:01] Campesina and through the healthcare providers there her story reflects the theme the dream hope at the center and celebrates a story of service and giving additionally Black Cat video productions Production Services will transform the day's live stream into an Abridged film of the program that can be accessed on YouTube into this video for the accident on YouTube so proud to support and grow Dr King's Beloved Community and promote engagement with this program which is the Community Driven program by long time leaders of Second Baptist Church and NAACP Boulder County that's an ongoing celebration that the museum prefers to creating our own programming that might pull Community away from those events thank you

[76:11] thank you thank you everyone um for your collaborative presentation um and I'm going to pass it to Commissioners for questions for any and all of you Christine thank you very much for those presentations um I saw the The Daily Camera article about the project black history and I'm I'm super I saw a little picture of Dr Amy Nelson in there along with you as well and so I was really happy to see that um and also just wanted to add that I was I was at the Museum of Boulder with my daughter's field trip class about two months ago and so Emily I saw you then and I just thought you all did a terrific job so um so I have um two questions one same

[77:01] question I had asked earlier which is uh anticipated reach of each of these programs how how I realized with the video that's a little bit hard to say because that will have you know a life long after it's made but um just curious how many how many people you you hope to engage with each of these and then if I could just ask for some clarification about um if I'm not mistaken it's actually uh three parties asking for two grants is that correct three three grants okay if you could break that down a little bit that that could be helpful too so we can understand that so each of us is asking for twenty five hundred dollars and each one is designated uh in our budgets we've designated the dollars for

[78:01] uh specific things Emily is going to take care of the videographer the uh not the videographer we'll have a different videographer but uh Black Cat video productions will will uh take care of Mrs bugs his uh production if you will and she will also take care of live streaming and those things associated with that so that's one thing um and then NAACP is going to take care of another portion I think let's see I'll just look at second theft I can speak to it if you'd like okay go ahead Graham okay sure um so we're um again requesting three uh line budget items for our 2500 and that's three hundred dollars for security uh one thousand dollars for our featured honorarium speaker which is Dr reeland

[79:02] Rebecca and then uh twelve hundred dollars for the uh JCC facility um the question came up how many people do we expect uh I think we're gonna sell the house out so I think it holds 500. so we don't want to turn anybody away I don't think in this case that'd be a good problem to have um I don't know about the Boulder Police Department or a fire department allowing for more people but um as I mentioned in in my remarks um we did this a a wonderful program um a couple years ago at Mackey Auditorium which holds I believe 1100 folks um 2000 and uh and that was sold out so um again when I say sold out we don't charge the public for any of these uh events and they're wonderful because a lot of them are based out of a different region in the United States so uh

[80:01] Boulder County gets a real treat with um seeing this kind of entertainment and then this year's events um the January events on YouTube received over five around 500 views in addition to a sold out um what is it the Graham theater at uh uh the dairy um so their largest theater and um and then we funded the Juneteenth films that were featured that day um and they are split up and so you can watch the whole thing or pieces it's a little harder to quantify but again many hundreds of views on top of the people who are present on the day I also don't know if there will be a question to this end but I do want to point out that Katrina Miller and black

[81:00] cat Productions are driving a lot of the transformative race conversations in this community especially that are bringing in people from a variety of backgrounds that maybe haven't engaged in race conversations previously and she often works for free and so when she does screenings and when she does talk backs a lot of times it is unpaid or for very very minimal speaker fees um and so hence the request for the full amount for her art yeah she's she's been she's been here before and we we gave a grant to her her film so sorry if I if I can just get clarity again it's it's three organizations and three Grant requests okay I feel like I'm I feel like I'm missing something and maybe that's just okay you there's the event at The JCC

[82:03] one event one event three team death the museum folder the NAACP Boulder County and Second Baptist Church of Boulder okay yes and and so so and the three grants are for video security and speakers is that correct well it okay for NAACP as Graham said for the keynote speaker space expenses at The JCC and security I'm sorry okay that that's one that's one request okay and then Second Baptist Church I'll be paying for the spirituals project which is the

[83:00] musical group that's coming got it the equipment uh which is 800 and the Transportation uh from du to Boulder we got to get a bus and from Boulder back to Du and then the Museum of course is paying for Katrina okay understood thank you very much I was very confused I'm sorry we're sorry for the confusion don't want that thanks for those questions Christine and for those clarifications I'm I'm curious can we um zoom in a little bit more on um uh with the black cat Productions the um the video the video production that's um so it sounds like there's um like some amount of money in there for like technical video production and

[84:02] then also like like an honorarium is kind of also an inside of that of that amount can you clarify Emily um the the entire amount is for the technical video production that includes the the interview which has already been filmed actually this morning um with Missy nice bugs and then uh it was a what two hour interview that's going to be seven minutes long um so trimming that down um and making it Lively and very watchable um and then that is partnering that is paired with the technical production from black cat to take the film of the live stream and make it more like a one hour video on YouTube is is one hour about right Mr maganda

[85:02] I think so it'll be like essentially a documentary there that's that can be used as well it's his oh it's all historical so it's historical documentation I've heard 30 plus years at um and she's one of the founding members of Clinica Clinica Campesina and Katrina was actually we found out today in the interview Katrina was actually serviced by them when she was a student and a young mother and all anyhow it's a great story I don't want to tell this story but yeah thank you so much thanks for the clarity I really appreciate that other other questions from commissioners

[86:06] foreign no for me it's all clear okay well then we will um get into our last fund request which is from Michael at one world running and achieve thank you to remind you oh go ahead oh thank You Ingrid um uh I really appreciate everyone's doing um such a lovely job at speaking speaking slowly for the interpreters just want to express appreciation and um keep that reminder thank you so much thank you Lindsay um Jerome I sent you a message I would like to know if you are here on behalf of one world running otherwise

[87:02] um because I do not see Michael on the call and he has not communicated to me that he was not attending but he's not here Jerome um can you please unmute or um post something no I'm not here I'm not here on representing One World running beautiful thank you so much so um Lindsay with that I think we can just go ahead and move on into the deliberations thank you thank You Ingrid um for clarifying that um thank you Minister Glenda um so okay um I will

[88:01] um pass um uh kind of the the screen uh the visual control over to Ingrid who has a spreadsheet all queued up that is always so helpful um for us to bring our conversations into context um and relevance here um but um so we have thank You Ingrid um and as Ingrid pointed to before we have um five thousand dollars um to allocate on behalf of HRC um 5 000 on behalf of the Arts commission um but before we get into um into that I believe we have Lauren um um Lauren I think you wanted to share um about the funding opportunities available to

[89:00] the the funding opportunities available from from the Arts commission so I'm going to hand it over to you while we're getting all prepared for our funding deliberation sure and I do not envy you you've reached a point where things are um where you have so much good programming to look forward to um I just I've been messaging with Ingrid and thank you so much for letting me butt in here but the boulder Arts commission grants our for 2023 the program is now open to review and I would recommend um depending for this and for your other programs looking at our funding in particular the VIN the venue and online event affordability funds for example hiring Katrina to make the film would be cover you could apply to cover that and their first come first serve starting January 1st um it's all on boulderarts.org I'll put the link in when I'm done talking but we do also have a an info funding session

[90:00] coming up where I've invited members of the county-wide Statewide other funders from around Colorado really to come and talk about other funding opportunities that you might be eligible for so other grants um also finally there is there are a couple other grants that I have in mind I will just post all the stuff into the chat since it looks like it's open and please feel free to ask Ingrid or ask anybody for my email if you want me to send you anything in particular because I do think you all have really strong programs and I think there are other upper other funding opportunities for you um to look at why you're why you're organizing things for this event and for the future that's all I want to say thank you Lauren and do you mind introducing yourself um you are our beloved co-worker um so it will be great if you can introduce yourself and close that up sure oh sure my name is Lauren click um

[91:02] she her and I'm with the city of Boulder office of arts and culture I run our grant programs I think I've actually spoken to many of you for about grants and other things it's nice to see all of you um we partner um as they've mentioned we offer some sponsorship funds for HRC programs because they're so wonderful and strong and I'm really looking forward to seeing what you're all doing next year thanks thank you Lauren so thanks so much Lauren I'll go ahead and um share my screen um give me just one moment and there you go in the meantime I just asked one quick question

[92:00] um are there any uh I can't remember because I feel like we maybe we've run into this before but are there any uh parameters or risk restrictions for one world running because they weren't here for the presentation or are they because of the written application considered in same standing as everyone else my understanding would be they have the same standing as everyone else okay thank you and for the record that did submitted their application on time

[93:07] are you all um able to look at the spreadsheet I can see it Ingrid oh wonderful okay so while Ingrid um Ingrid thank you for pulling that up so um to kind of frame this conversation um we cannot fully fund all of um all of the requests we have a total of 15 000 requested um and um and

[94:00] um then we have a total of uh 10 000 that we can award so um some difficult decisions to make because all um really exciting projects um I'll just I'll just weigh in with one suggestion which is just for the for the sake of discussion I think um I think it might be easier if we treat the um the three Grant applications from the collaboration as one large Grant application and whatever amount we end up deciding for the entire collaboration those organizations can then decide how they want to divvy that up whatever the the number ends up being I think that just might make it easier

[95:02] to have this discussion I find that easier to wrap my brain around I think that's a good idea Christine and then um I'll also just add one thing which is if I recall right from the One World running application um you know the question that I was asking you heard me ask everyone tonight was sort of the reach that they expected to have and I believe the One World running reach they were expecting to engage one to two hundred people if I if I remember right maybe I'll take a moment and double check that while we're discussing thanks Christine um I think you know um one thing um that I

[96:00] find really helpful um is to Center the conversation around um the priorities that we set when we revised um when we revised the funding structure most recently um and Christine you were really leading that up so I wonder if um I can pass if I can like pass the virtual mic to you um to Center us around like what we were hoping to see in in funding so move the funding deliberation conversation of forward and if you want I can look for the um the reach number for one world running sure that would be great then then I don't have to uh do two things at the same time that would be helpful thank you um yeah so when we uh when we revised

[97:03] our um our our application process um I guess it was about a year ago uh I think you know we we had sort of reframed the application with an eye towards um I think I think previous previously uh our our grants were oriented towards celebrating um multiculturalism a lot of the grants that we were given where were actually um given towards uh arts and celebration events I do think this is a little bit different because this is specifically the MLK fund and not the general human relations fund um but I do think that the lens through which we were looking at are ones in which issues of equity would be highlighted not just diversity um and then we had also uh sort of

[98:01] discussed um trying to bring in organizations that may not have heard of our grant before although I believe with the exception of one world running I'm not sure about them I think that uh you know every other organization here has received grants from us before so that wouldn't actually be relevant to this discussion um but that's the general gist um JH and Lindsay do you have I'm afraid I I did not do a very good job capturing the conversation we had at the beginning of this year but JH and Lindsay if you have anything to add or Ingrid and Elizabeth that would be helpful I put you on the spot too so thank you for calling calling up what you remember Christine

[99:05] I did I did find um the reach number while you were while you were speaking um a hundred participants and twice as many Spectators was what was in the application and it might be helpful just for the other Commissioners really quickly to just summarize what what the event was It was a a a a a run aimed at youth I believe a coupled along with an Arts presentation that is correct um if I may um so he's I believe it's um assume run in town and then it wraps up with an event an Arts event where kids and youth

[100:01] are invited to come to these art gallery that is actually on um by a local African-American um business owner who would like to host it and they will supply with art supplies um and refreshments after the run in the art activity and the gallery is located downtown Thank You Ingrid for bringing that into context for us and thanks for the call for that Christine I think that was really helpful um we have a few threads here um the um thank You Ingrid Christine for um the um the uh the context

[101:00] um for um for one world running and the other thread is um the funding criteria and again I kind of put on I kind of put Christine on the spot there but I well Ingrid was was explaining the One World running event to us I had a moment to look up um our our criteria so I could add on to what Christine said um uh projects um that have um uh um projects that reinforce the goals of respect for diversity inclusivity and Equity um activities that are free of charge and open to the public projects that are community-led collaborations with other organizations diversity among planners and decision makers inclusivity among participants access to people with disabilities projects or activities that provide

[102:01] opportunities for communities that experience marginalization activities that Advance the ongoing and annual priorities of the human relations commission ability or inability to access multiple sources of funding projects that have not received prior funding from the HRC and the extent to which the project or activity might engage and educate the larger the larger community um so adding that on as context

[103:02] and thank you I'm curious Christine if we could like dig a little bit deeper into your suggestion around considering the um the three organizations collaborating on the one event as one considering um that as one one request episodes sure did you have a specific question about that yeah um uh can um um I'm looking really I guess for um I mean ultimately we want

[104:01] um suggestions for like funding amounts or or percentages um so that's ultimately like the my my question um and um so like really like I'm looking I'm looking I think for a proposal just for a place to begin conversation from um and it can be difficult to throw out funding amounts when we don't have um enough funding to fully fund every group I'm also just entertaining some suggestions in the chat um while I'm trying to facilitate the meeting so I'm also kind of just trying to pass to somebody so I can have a moment to take in information while I'm not putting it out there let's let's why don't we just review the numbers quickly so we have a total of ten thousand to disperse um we currently have a total of 15

[105:01] 000 in total requests half of the 15 000 is being requested from the collaboration between Second Baptist Church and double ACP and Museum of Boulder um you know the other half are the smaller Grant requests for uh for Modis uhaula and one world running may I correct you actually it is I'm wrong um the Museum of Boulder and wacb and Second Baptist Church accounts for uh more than half of the funding because each one of them is requesting for twenty five hundred dollars sorry I meant half of the total requests oh okay so the requests are fifteen hundred right sorry fifteen thousand and then 75 50 of that of the total request not the amount that we actually have to Grant

[106:00] does that make sense yeah so if we were to do a straight up proportionate um proportionate distribution it would be half for the collaboration and then the other half divided evenly amongst the other three um if we're Lindsay if you're if you were if you were looking for for numbers uh as a starting point I was I would suggest um that we do more than half for the collaboration um between Second Baptist Church NAACP and Museum of Boulder and my reasoning for that is because the scope of what they are proposing altogether

[107:02] if both um it's both a wide scope in terms of the number of people they will reach and given that they are holding the event at The JCC I think they'll also have the additional publicity engine of The JCC behind them to to Really you know publicize the event and because uh the content that they're proposing to put on I feel is very on point um for the legacy of Dr Martin Luther King Jr so I I would suggest that we allocate um 6000 towards the collaboration and then the remaining four thousand we would then want to figure out how to distribute amongst the other organizations so that would be my starting proposal thanks Christine it is it is really helpful just to have some numbers to start from I think it really brings things into context and relevance

[108:02] so I um I I like I like that suggestion to um because that is like based in one of our our funding criteria to consider like the impact on um like like the scope and the number of the people of in the community who um who will be reached by the event um I'd like to um put in a plug for or um I'd like to um you know raise the Highlight the criteria

[109:01] that we have around supporting the um um the organizations that might have like fewer uh sources of potential funding or like less established access to funding um as well as something that's important to us uh in like playing around with um with or adjusting the numbers so if um So Christine your suggestion was to begin with um more than awarding more than half of the funding

[110:03] to the collaboration between Second Baptist Church NAACP the Museum of Boulder um first question am I understanding that right yes the numbers that Ingrid put in there are reflect what I was suggesting where we start discussion thank you and then what if um what if as another place to begin with and work from um we uh we applied the same suggestion um uh at least to haola community organization um and one world running cool I understand um may have less potential sources of funding and I um

[111:00] would like to highlight that that's kind of just like my own assumption but it is one of our criteria so I'm I'm going to put it out there as my assumption as part of the conversation we don't have really like a way like acknowledge that we don't really have a way to make that's clear in the application so it's just an invitation to point out if I'm wrong to understand I just I have a quick question here I'm I'm I'm look it's it's hard because One World running isn't here and um you know the questions that we would have about their application they're not here to answer them which makes this challenging um so I'm one one question of clarification

[112:00] which is I believe looking at their application they did not request 1500 I see 1400. so someone can check me on that collectively it's a 2400 dollar uh request I'm sorry 24 not I meant I meant 24 not 25. so their request is actually um for uh let me see they filled it in as a thousand from the HRC and 1400 from the Arts Commission I don't know if we have that those columns flipped but I guess it doesn't matter um and then it's not clear to me if they've received a grant from the HRC before don't believe they have they have not right

[113:00] correct they have not and then and then I guess another question I have is that they're saying that in their application that um no street closures would be necessary on their course so I I don't because it would be on Pearl Street in front of the courthouse but from a study perspective you know is there any permitting involved also um we don't know the answer to questions of how they're going to engage children to sign up for this um and how they'll do Outreach to the community we just don't have answers to those questions at all concerned Christine and I think we could go like

[114:00] I think they highlight in their application that they would promote through running Community the running Community running stores and then they'd advertise on The Daily Camera and Boulder weekly oh thank you there are just to say obviously not responding to the organization that um there are permits the application um does say that they are familiar with the permitting process but correct that they there's not um more detail there okay so I'll I'll just I'll just add one thing Lindsay I think the way you're looking at this makes a lot of sense to me um but I also just do want to add that

[115:01] um you know with one world running not here to answer questions I I want to make sure that the other organizations who are here to answer questions you know aren't we have a fuller picture of what they're proposing so that should be taken into consideration too yeah I agree with that that could you know like um are you does it make sense to you Christine to like adjust adjust funding for that or to like like fund pending follow-up I I if I'm not mistaken um I think we are not going to be having a December meeting is that correct so so these events will correct at the moment these events will all happen before we meet again

[116:01] um so my inclination would be to adjust funding based on what we know now and and not not revisit um any of the other Commissioners want to weigh in with some suggestions see yes looking at what we have already what I what I see right now is it's fine but we don't want one world running why don't we give them a thousand dollars and the other three thousand distribute them between maltus theater and Hala Community organization I don't

[117:01] know what do you think about that sorry um I think it's a good place to work from 750 750 750

[118:03] . for Motors theater and howler Community it would that would be yeah fifteen hundred may may I just ask a quick question um Lauren to Lauren I don't know if this is a question you're able to answer here and now um but of these proposals that you've seen which ones of them would be eligible to apply for additional funding from the Arts commission that's good oh sure so I think that it depends um so a lot of our grants the deadlines are a little bit after this event but we do have this venue and online affordability fund so that would help pay for say the

[119:02] um rental of The JCC for sure and to pay Katrina as I mentioned and so they could apply separately for those too um otherwise I mean really all of these if they're renting a space they would be able to apply for that fund it's first come first serve and it opens January 1st and it's a very simple application so I highly recommend it for everybody um so I think really quite a few of them would have access to that one but really the other grants wouldn't cover these programs except for like our community project grants or Arts education grants but the deadlines are after the events so they would be applying for events in 2024. okay and and for this very simple application that you're mentioning yeah um is there is there sufficient funding to cover some of the gaps between what we would not be able to fund today and what they're requesting

[120:01] yes so you can apply for up to a thousand dollars um and that has to be fifty percent of the max or fifty percent of your uh fee or more so for example if you're paying Katrina 2500 you could apply for the full one thousand dollars um so I think that would accommodate at least a few of these events that are paying I'm not sure how much like Modis is paying for their performance space but we have in that fund we have sixteen thousand dollars right now so it could certainly um be used up very quickly and it usually is so just a note for any of our grant applicants okay um all right well let me just let me just put out an idea here um I'm and Rita please correct me if I'm mistaken but I believe it's about a 900 fee for space rental for Modis

[121:01] um I would say that I'm sorry Ingrid could we see the the spreadsheet again I'm sorry I'm gonna go ahead and do that uh Rita is not here any longer oh she's not okay so I believe I believe it was a 900 for their space rental I mean I I would I would probably say that Modis Museum of Boulder NAACP have the um the ability and the time to put in that application uh in January for additional funding from the Arts commission through this uh these online venue and online event affordability funds um you know there's six weeks between now and MLK Junior so we might want to consider making adjustments there sorry I need to go off camera for just one minute

[122:05] thank you Christine so the suggestion the suggestion is to adjust um adjust for those to adjust the funded amounts for the um less the space costs so that impacts the Modis request and then our collaborative event is am I understanding that right

[123:02] I was just gonna say I think that's what you were saying Christine yes well and then and then Christine you said that it was 900 for the notice uh let's see space rental Gordon gam theater rental 908 dollars is there projected expense for for space and then for the collaborative proposal so they could receive thank you for clarifying that Lauren so they could receive half of the 908. from the Arts commission fund so so on the collaborative we had NAACP um

[124:00] to pay for the space expenses of twelve hundred dollars held by the oh I'm sorry apology all right on the budget table remember I said each one of us would be responsible for a financial um obligation and so that was assigned to um the NAACP and that's twelve hundred dollars that we had assigned there I don't know if that confuses the issue any anymore but I I think that's helpful minister Glenda I think you know we there was an earlier suggestion um to to consider those requests

[125:00] the the request from the three organizations um the NAACP Second Baptist um and um uh and the museum as one request right so like um I think that might help folks wrap their minds around around how that that modification might impact okay the funding okay so Lindsay if you can give me one minute I'm just gonna do some math here and then I'll I'll make another suggestion thanks Christine

[126:29] if you need my calculator skills I have it open and ready for you all you're I you've got mad Excel skills which I do not have okay all right so um I'm I'm gonna suggest we go to um given what we've learned here from Lauren um 5500 for the collaboration assuming that they'll be able to make up

[127:00] some of that difference from from the arts arts fund um 2 000 total for howla uh 1500 for Modis and a thousand for one world in part because I just I'm I'm afraid we just don't have enough information

[128:08] thank you thank you Christine for the proposal and thanks Ingrid for putting all of it in the spreadsheet it is the thing that makes it real for me give Commissioners a moment just to review I think the the collaboration it sounds like they might be able to apply for for more than one because they have a venue at the jccc as well as um uh possible funds for video so it wouldn't even just be the event venue

[129:07] you mean that it wouldn't just be the additional funding they could receive for the event Christine is that for the event venue it could also be additional funding for black cat suggestions from other Commissioners to modify what Christine has suggested not on my end I think this is a great uh

[130:01] suggestion it took into consideration all of the priorities that we've talked about and um how what groups can get extra funding elsewhere so I think this is really good Christine thanks for doing breaking it up and kind of guiding us I agree thank you Suka Christine thank you for giving us some figures to consider I'm just going to give another few moments here for um other Commissioners to like jump in with any other modifications it's a lot to absorb

[131:09] that there's nothing to add we'll look for a motion a second and then put um uh put that that motion to a vote

[132:16] foreign a question the Museum of older says that it's going to produce a video would they have the opportunity to apply for different fundings or funds from from other people or other organizations is that a question to us or to commissioners

[133:08] I don't know if Commissioners can answer this question or even yourself says the Miss Boulder or maybe Lauren if you may have an answer to this yeah I mean the the Museum of Boulder funds uh Katrina Miller and her many Pursuits including this one and um intends to uh pay her equitably for this production and um would would seek alternative funding sources if um based on what we would receive here

[134:01] thanks Emily um Lauren anything anything to add or or to clarify we just have so many I think this um or like highlight from what you've told us already it's just a lot of numbers um kicking around in our minds no and I think you've done a good job at talking through everything there's so many pressures for it and um however it works out it's going to be a really fun celebration and educational thank you well looking at it from this perspective I think it's all right now I don't know what the other Commissioners think

[135:08] I think it's just a matter of if anyone else has any questions or discussion we should do that now but if not then maybe somebody can make a motion yeah I agree I see I feel um I I feel conflicted as I always do when we don't have enough funds to make a full full request um and um uh I agree with with Christine about where we are the um [Applause] I agree with you Lindsay that okay yes that we cannot give everything there that it's been requested from us but you know as they say something is something

[136:06] I agree I agree um as a um New York Commissioners haven't done so many of these more complicated um funding uh funding proposals um the way one makes emotion um is to read all of the uh all of these specific amounts by organization um so the person who who makes the initial motion um uh uh funds um uh are just reads each of the um of the funding amounts by organization as part of The Proposal because I'm hearing um no more

[137:00] conversation no more questions so thinking we might be ready to make a motion um uh I always avoid doing that because um traditionally as a facilitator um one doesn't but um just want to explicitly invite folks to do that so um uh maybe those that have more experience like JH or Christine I I would be I would be happy to make the motion um Ingrid and Elizabeth do I need to to also read out the breakdown with HRC and arts or can I just give the totals I think you can give the totals and just refer to the spreadsheet okay um I'm gonna I'm gonna we have one

[138:01] dollar to spare so I'm gonna I'm going to uh to just put it on the top item there so um I move that we Grant 1844 to Second Baptist Church 1833 to the NAACP 1 500 to Modis 2 000 to howla community organization 1833 to Museum of Boulder one thousand to One World running and also that the total funds for Second Baptist Church NAACP a museum of Boulder that the total amount of 5500 for those organizations that those organizations decide how they will allocate those funds thank you for a second

[139:00] okay second done and um I'll say thank you and then um all right the eyes um we'll just note for the notes that everybody gave either uh audio or visual yes affirmative right and I just want to thank all the applicants um again for coming I know um these these meetings can be long and protracted and we really appreciate uh what you're doing and um we're really looking forward to to um hearing about your events after January I agree thank you so much for the work

[140:00] um that you do in the community every day and thank you so much for the work that you're proposing to do um as part of the event series we really appreciate you and wish that we could fully fund your requests um and thank you so much for being here for our meeting tonight um and and thank you Lauren for sharing the future funding opportunities um I'm excited for the possibilities there thanks for being here and um Christine thanks uh thanks for um giving us a starting point for the conversation I think that's really helpful um and for bringing it into context um with the uh criteria that we've set in the past in your work on that thank you Minister Glenda

[141:03] all right um so for again and also for all of um the applicants tonight thanks for being here um staff will follow up um with all of the logistical items and technicalities um and uh you're welcome to stay for the rest of our meeting um the um uh and your welcome uh to uh say uh say good night to us and leave us to the rest of the agenda again we really appreciate you um for being here and um well those folks transition to either hanging on or signing off I got the call in the chat for um a little bio break so let's take a break until 8 30. be back at 8 30. thank you all so much everyone

[148:00] hello everyone as you're coming back if you can come on camera or give some other indication that you are here and maybe not completely ready to come back on camera h hi JH I see that you've unmuted yourself thank you for coming back and you're all here thank you speaker nice to see you all right um so coming back into our um our agenda um we're going to loop back um to what's original item four on um on our original agenda action item um a um for a on the original the protected class form proposal um so before we ran out of

[149:00] um ran out of time um for that item and wanted to give that time to the um the guests um we had proposed um hosting a forum um for um to better understand this protected class um this protected class concern that we've had on not on our work plan certainly but like on our minds um for much of this year um so that proposal was to host this forum in February of 2023 and to invite a variety of groups um both from the city and then external um to the city in order to better inform us about that so we could make a decision about if we want to continue exploring um um exploring the protected protected

[150:00] homelessness as a protected class um so yeah just the scope of that Forum will to be to better understand the issues so we can make a decision part of that will a part of that proposal is that one to two Commissioners need to work with staff to work out logistics and invitations to those groups who will be joining The Forum um anything I missed in that looping back summary I think you got it so I think just like either either um affirmation or kind of friendly recommendations to the proposal um and then if if it's if affirmation um just names of people who will follow up with Ingrid and I or who Ingrid and I can follow up with just to make logistical Arrangements

[151:05] thank you well so the first thing we're looking for is affirmation and we have this on our action items um um so this this is um uh formal proposal requiring a vote um so um um I kind of just made emotion uh Elizabeth earlier had um the motion on the screen for those of us who are more visual um information takers um uh I I think I'm going to kind of like um circumvent my own protocol and make a proposal

[152:00] um because I feel like I'm the person who has the best understanding of what I'm suggesting here uh so the proposal is in February of 2023 um and and I'm making a motion for this proposal um in February of 2023 um the HRC will host a forum with um City staff and um uh Community groups Representatives external to the city um for the purposes of better informing the HRC around um uh the homelessness as a protected class um with the human within the human rights ordinance um and um uh for in order to make that happen at least one of us has to work with staff on Logistics um uh I wonder if I can get a second

[153:02] I second that motion thank you Christine and then we are looking for a vote what do you all say I and then JH just looking to hear from you okay Jake I'm gonna put a pin in your vote um and circle back to you um uh because we still have this other um we still have this other concern about working with staff on the logistics Logistics about who um who to invite and inviting those groups

[154:00] um is anybody willing to um to participate with staff staff in those Logistics and actually Elizabeth I have a clarifying question with this it seems like is is the responsibility split here it seems like staff are pretty connected to other staff and and would have the best sense of like the staff who are appropriate to invite is is Staff kind of taking point on that part and then um of taking point on inventory invitations to other staff um and then Commissioners work with external groups um I think it could be a combination um it's it's really up to up to you right not looking to overstep at all um but just knowing how things go with event planning you ask one person they can or can are you going to wait or make that conditional on asking the next people or is there a slate you know just

[155:00] thinking about the combination of folks so I I think we could go at it a bunch of different ways but just simply you know we're we're kind of here this is our work um it's not your work during the daytime hours and so sometimes there are also efficiencies um things that we might be able to help with regardless of who you might be so it's I would just suggest treating it as you know how can we work together to help support you um in in making happen what you want to happen um in an efficient way whatever that might look like thanks so much Elizabeth for clarifying that anybody interested in working um with staff on this can I volunteer like in a half capacity like if you're asking for one to two people I feel like I could maybe be worth half a person

[156:01] um I'm I'm I'm pretty capacity constrained but I'm also very interested in this topic and I would like to you know do some research and maybe directionally try and suggest some possibilities of speakers we could bring in but I don't think I will be able to actually work on any kind of logistics I think that could work yeah it's not our role to just kind of make decisions on behalf of the HRC but just having that guidance being able to you know be a sounding board if you need us for that and then again just being able to help just follow through on your suggestions and recommendations for whom and how and um I'm in a similar place as you Christine interested

[157:01] um very like like low capacity like um you know a fraction of a person's full person um fraction of a person's capacity um uh so um I um I would love to I would love to contribute as one of the two full people contributing parts of their capacity I can um I think one thing um uh that I could offer is bringing um you know like like making a request like crafting a request and actually making the requests to groups once um your research informs who we should ask so it sounds like together we've got a full resourced person between us a full person

[158:00] [Laughter] and maybe we need another half to a full person yeah yeah there's definitely room for I think for what it's worth I think that if the two of you can you know I think that's probably totally doable and if others want to weigh in there's also opportunities to you know get input by email like lots of things that wouldn't need to necessarily be a be a burden right on on other folks either could also support as well as long as I've got the time

[159:05] so I think collectors then awesome thank you Carlos thank you Christine I'm excited to work with with you all and then jh are you do you are you able to join us not necessarily in the group but can you come off of mute Gage I see you came off of mute but I can't hear you but I am and it definitely like not Ideal Audio setup I did I can hear you now

[160:04] let's see this thing doesn't work let me try the good we can also see if it's easier jadege to get a message in the chat or a thumbs up or um some other way very high can you hear me now yes it's hard on the to get it I have to call my son to help me you can see you can see it um thank you um

[161:06] well awesome thank you JH um and thanks Elizabeth for that suggestion um okay I think we're good um so we've got um next we're moving into our uh discussion and informational items which contain a whole bunch of Staff updates um so we're handing it over to Steph thank you even though there are several different items on the list we'll try to move through fairly swiftly um my name is Elizabeth Crow I realize I did not introduce myself at the top of

[162:00] the hour um at the top of the six o'clock hour that is um but uh deputy director for our city Boulder housing Human Services um so let me screen share again just a brief PowerPoint to um get to see I don't know why I can't share well let's see it's not giving me the window option let me try this and see if it works please let me know how can I be of assistance to Elizabeth yeah it's just giving me the option to share my entire screen like not the PowerPoint which is very strange I've never had that problem before so I'm just getting rid of a bunch of

[163:01] stuff on my desktop um which is always way too crowded and then I should be able to share or at least we'll try can you all see that they can and we respect your privacy okay yeah because I can't see you at all right now so I'm just gonna make it really big okay so a few things um starting off with the human relations fund so given this is process is fresh on your mind um recalling that we've been working on uh strategy a plan to help kind of get the the guts of the funding program responsibilities kind of off of the shoulders of the human relations commission and restructure it in such a way that we're really maintaining the purpose um that we are really upholding the

[164:00] values and considerations that make this funding source such a really meaningful um part of what the city can offer and what the community uh really needs and and benefits from and at the last meeting in October we shared with you some of the survey responses that we received from grantees and have been thinking as staff about how to bring back to you some recommendations for how to move forward with the program so what we wanted to take to you tonight is uh uh more specific proposal for how we would how we would approach this kind of restructured human relations fund and the first thing we looked at was um you know based on survey responses thinking about um other ways in which we manage funding programs um in the within the housing Human Services Department one option to help really streamline the

[165:01] process we think we hope will be to just establish two deadlines per year um that can be a deadline for events like um MLK Day Juneteenth indigenous people's day as well as funding of other programs that don't fit into those kind of event celebration categories and um we would look at the the kind of the primary deadline at least the first next one that would come up being March um to accept proposals for any kind of event or happening that's taking place June through November that's the vast majority of events that the human relations fund has been funding which include June Juneteenth pride month um uh um immigrant Heritage Month um other events like that when we look back at the last several years and see when are we getting requests coming in and what are they for we would also add in another

[166:01] um deadline in sometime in the fall possibly in September um for these events that are taking place December through May and if we need to kind of um issue some type of Invitation Only deadline to get us through this period of time we're in right now um which is that we've just made the MLK Day event Awards um typically there are a small handful of other events that take place in the first several months of the year so we would work that out again the gold medium were not disenfranchising anyone who um has been receiving funds from the human relations fund for an event that takes place in that time frame um we would try to make the applications available a couple of months at least a couple of months ahead of a deadline so that organizations do have plenty of time to plan um and we would make them available um as well as having one-on-one meetings

[167:01] with staff which we highly encourage for all of our other funding programs um to just discuss ideas clarify eligibility and requirements so the second element for the application process recall that in the survey we sent out we were asking our grantees our current grantees in past years um if they have strong opinions as to whether or not they prefer um to submit um a document that they would write up as word or a PDF and then submit it by email or if they would prefer a grant management system just an online application and the vast majority really preferred an online system and thankfully we already have that we can make that available in English and Spanish so that grantees or applicants rather can request funding in the language of their choice um and obviously as we do with our other funding programs um have a grant

[168:01] specialist who can provide technical assistance um in use of that application process so moving to the next um kind of element of this restructure in terms of decision making process it would no longer be the HRC as a body but we do think that it would benefit from a very small funding advisory committee which would review and make recommendations for funding and it could be comprised of THS staff member like the Ingrid or person in in that role it could potentially include someone from Office of arts and culture knowing they would are still planning on making some of their funding available to um to add to the overall capacity of the fund it would be great if there is an HRC member who would like to be on that

[169:01] committee um and then we could also recruit one to two other community members that represent populations that would tend to benefit in which we want to benefit from Human relations fund and then in terms of Eligibility and other criteria we would suggest for the moment that we keep the eligibility guidelines and kind of prioritization criteria the same so that we're able to ease into this structure however moving forward it could be this funding advisory committee that could make recommendations for any changes so if there were to be any kind of prioritization um based on um uh you know organizational structure on the total budget amount um the kind of amounts of money that might be available per application or per event

[170:00] combination of any of those things that's the group that would make recommendations just making sure that we kind of keep that North Star of really wanting to benefit organizations that are led by um the community members they're primarily serving and other such criteria and then in terms of reporting and evaluation um we would likely not require um organizations to present in person either to make a request or to report it can be very valuable we know that it is but it's also a lot of time for them um and is not something that we tend to have happen for other funding programs it doesn't mean we couldn't but the responses that we got back from our grantees are that they're really um some really would prefer not to have to uh present in addition to providing a

[171:01] written request and Report and we have somewhat really easy templates the Arts um arts and culture um commission does um where we can be sure to we're really getting meaningful feedback um from the grantees um about their work and the impact without making it an onerous process and then as a whole um we would also want to just create a brief annual funding report that just itemizes um the funding that the human relations fund is provided overall for that public transparency so that's in a nutshell um what we're proposing I'm gonna stop sharing so I can see you all um and just ask if you have any any thoughts or comments how does how does this sound um do these specific suggestions feel like

[172:00] um we are honoring the intent and the spirit of what the human relations fund has been for these many years um with the HRC making decisions or or do you have any concerns or anything else we should take into account Christine um I've got just a couple points I wanted to phrase I don't maybe they're questions I'm not exactly sure I'll just start talking and find out um I I guess the first question is um like uh can would we be able to build in as part of this some way of looping back to the full HRC maybe twice a year you know just so we we have visibility into where these funds are are going and sort of understanding absolutely in aggregate what's going on great super um that's easy and then um the second question I had was you

[173:03] know with the small advisory committee um sort of pulling in the one to two community members that are potentially representative of organizations that would that would be receiving funds what what does that look like um and part of the reason I raised this question is you know um there are a lot of very diverse groups who come to us and for any of them to sort of represents an aggregate many groups with many different interests like how does that what is that going to look like sure so the suggestion isn't necessarily that we would get um organizational representatives in fact it's often better if we get um we've experienced this in our other committees um individuals who represent um

[174:00] kind of populations or perspectives or experiences in the community but that are not very directly like not a staff or board member for an organization that's likely to be applying for funding um that can just create a conflict of interest that's better to avoid um but what we do for other funding committees um and is is generally pretty common is just accept applications um for do you want to be on this committee you know kind of established in very simple terms and guidelines um and and make that available for a period of time for people to apply and is that what helpful Christine um it is and then how are those how are those people selected then sure so the way we um select committee members for other funding committees is people apply staff are responsible for kind of interviewing

[175:02] um for you know kind of looking for um qualifications um which again are focus on many of the same qualities I think HRC members would also want to see including lived experience a broad range of perspectives um some kind of knowledge right about in background in organizing event planning cultural celebrations that is to say some experience or perspective um um about the work that they'd be helping decide to fund and ultimately it's a city manager that just approves um committee members as they're recommended it doesn't it's these are committees I'm not boards or commissions so no need for um you know kind of applications that would go to city council or something like that thank you that's super helpful Lindsay

[176:05] thanks so much Elizabeth I just want to um Express a lot of appreciation um for like the thoughtfulness and like reaching out to all of the grantees and Gathering that feedback um and I think it's a really thoughtful proposal um I don't have a specific suggestion but I'm really I'm really excited about like like the different possibilities for um having like a block of time for the funding organizations you know it like like if I like one thing I'm thinking of is like oh what could these like relationships look like or what could like a block of time for a group to have a connection with the HRC or like a connection with the HRC for these funded groups look like

[177:00] um because you know I've heard like um you know for us it's important to maintain the relationship but if we're not really so like um you know ins inside of this funding process I'm curious how the relationship between the HRC and the grantees could be leveraged um like um I don't know like one thing that popped into my mind is like if if there's a space in um in meetings irregularly where like we could hear from a group about their work and um issues that are impacting their work for like 10 to 15 minutes like once a year and they don't have to like be waiting through other parts of our meeting or like hearing from other groups and that could just be a more like um valuable time um for us to like interact and hear from them for example

[178:00] um I wish you'd have like more specific suggestion but I just like find it exciting to think about and thanks again well thank you and that's such a great idea I mean um we uh as as many of you know I'm again some of our other funding programs we have you know our funding 30 40 50 different organizations and programs um at a time and um the volume is not as much for this fund which is a good thing I I could see on that organizations might be interested in um and maybe while as Commissioners would be interested in having one meeting you know where a significant portion and maybe in person right if that happens again um that um you're able to just celebrate um and hear each other and and kind of see each other in that way without having to you know kind of have the

[179:01] relationship only focused on you know the allocations in the reporting but just really um be able to celebrate um all that they're doing and kind of the collective contribution and impact on the community so none of those kinds of ideas I think are off the table um just based on um commissioner's interest and um making sure that the opportunity is one that the our grantees would really want to take advantage of not feel like it's you know kind of another thing that's not beneficial to them any other questions or concerns suggestions

[180:17] okay I don't know that this needs to result in a vote but it would be great just to have some kind of affirmation if any of you are interested potentially and um serving on this committee um I don't know that we need to know that right now but it would be good to just let Ingrid or myself know about that and if it's something that you'd want a little bit more information as we get a little more detailed and how we would put this together we can certainly um we can certainly do that in terms of what might the time estimate be you know for reading reviewing um you already have a good sense of that based on what you have been doing but um

[181:01] we could certainly help provide more information to help them decide Ingress or anything you wanted to share no I think everything was covered pretty well I will say to um our grant specialist her name is markisha key Hagen um and who's been working primarily on our Health Equity Fund Human Services fund substance education awareness fund has been um helping Ingrid out a lot the past several months in getting the contracts out for human relations fund as well so she's already been doing some of that work it's not nothing um so it's it's an additional step for

[182:00] them um and she's just really good at it as well and so and Ingrid has been as well right but this um will really kind of enable Ingrid to focus a little bit more on all the other other elements um of community relations Human Rights Management which we appreciate and then um Julia Daly is our quite new um Human Services Investments manager um so she's actually taken my slot um in that role she started at right at the end of October and um has participated in some of our conversations so far about restructuring this um and is really eager to learn more and know what she can do to help and they're both pretty fabulous we're glad to have him on our HHS team and and I think he'll be really um pleased collect with collectively um how we they will be able to make the process work and if it's not we will we will change it right I mean they're

[183:01] probably kind of looking at this next year as a bit of a pilot to make sure um the process um Works um all the way around and if it doesn't we shall change it and make it so well thank you very much um for your support throughout this process I know it can be really gratifying and also um you know something that um we all would love to just love to to have continue to succeed so for some other staff update elements I'm going to go back to screen share and it's still not giving me any option to do the window so if you have a question um if you don't mind just shouting it out um please do and I'll just kind of stop after each segment see if there are any questions um and then if there are not just continue to move on

[184:01] and we can provide this PowerPoint presentation to you all afterwards so you actually have the links that are embedded in here so just wanted to provide um some updates on um opportunities for um Commissioners to get more information on projects and programs that were either leading here in HHS housing and Human Services or um that you have kind of following up on some of the items that have been presented and discussed at recent past meetings uh so the first thing just because it's happening this week um the city staff including um a team here in HHS are going to be presenting to City Council on Thursday this coming Thursday December 1st uh during the council meeting um for our American Rescue plan act or arpa tranche 3 are kind of like third

[185:01] phase um funding allocation proposals and among the programs that we are proposing be supported include a a guaranteed income pilot project and for folks who are not familiar um this um is a finance a type of financial assistance program that just provides enough an amount per month typically of of cash um of funding to people chosen to participate in the program with no strings attached to really um see um and kind of test right the model that people who are experiencing low income do not have any lack of character um but just lack cash and to see what kind of outcomes economic mental health um physical health and well-being

[186:00] employment what other kinds of changes can be brought about for an individual and a community we are also going to be proposing funds be utilized for mental and behavioral health support for child care support for a second mortgage program um to help enable very low-income community members in manufactured housing communities first Ponderosa and then as part of a revolving fund hopefully to other community members as well and then also um some conversation around um how to allocate any funds that might be unspent that we've already allocated for use for things like Arts programming and basic needs assistance so that's going to be on Thursday and the link is um in the in the um in the PowerPoint on that goes to the

[187:01] link to watch City Council meetings look at the agendas Etc if you have any questions about that please let me know and the second item on this page is just some updates on the reimagining policing and the community Assistance Response Team initiatives and my our colleague Wendy Schwartz presented a couple of different times on this first with um Chief Harold about the reimagining policing uh program there is a community engagement window kind of the fourth window that is open now and Community survey available in English and Spanish um it was just made public on November 19. um so if it's something that you all might be interested in taking if you can help share it around to other community members who really appreciate that

[188:01] and then on December 8th um Wendy will be presenting again to City Council on the community Assistance response team and um again this is a presentation a discussion you had at a recent HRC meeting and um Lindsay I know provided some additional feedback and some suggestions about other cities co-responder models and uh to look at and so I know that Wendy's has taken a look um so again on December 8th you're more than welcome and encouraged to watch that meeting agenda um I am let us know if you have any questions or comments in the meantime and help spread the word foreign so next is we have received um a request from the city attorney's office and the Municipal Court staff

[189:01] to um to get the input to get input to come to an HRC meeting um so they can share with you some about the community Court program and hopefully get your feedback and input on a draft ordinance that would kind of codify Community Court as an offering from the city and so um there's a link in the um in the presentation where you can read about the community court process it's been quite successful so far and this would be an opportunity maybe at a January meeting or March um to to hear more about this and provide some input on that draft ordinance um language so this is actually one item for which it would be really helpful to hear back from Commissioners as to whether or not this is something you'd be interested in and if so we can go

[190:01] ahead and add it to the list of possible agenda items for meetings in 2023. and then two um kind of final updates here um one of the one is a grantee event uh for bridge house the day of remembrance for unhoused um community members is going to be on December 21st at 4 pm um the full information is not yet on our website at least I didn't see it earlier this afternoon but they'll be providing more of that later on and then HRC recruitment um will be continuing Ingrid and I to stay in touch with our staff colleagues about um just opening up processes for the next year in recruiting members and that is all I have by way of update I will stop sharing again and just see

[191:00] if there are any um comments or questions from you all more affirmation for me um I I saw a lot of good work in there but I'm really excited about the guaranteed income income program um so um thank you for your work on that and um all the other cool stuff that you all staff do appreciation for you thanks Lindsay are any of you interested in getting I I recognize the email overload so I would not take this as an assumption um but we can share with anyone who any of you who want any more information about

[192:00] any of the arpa or American Rescue plan act proposed allocations Carlos is quite familiar with the second mortgage program um um others um Lindsay I know you're familiar um with with at least some of the um some of the proposals but if any of you are interested in getting more information or just want to get some updates on moving forward we certainly can do that great um so another question then is um the request for HRC input on the community court system is that something that you all are interested in um having as an agenda item on an upcoming meeting if we assume for the moment that the February meeting is going to be on the

[193:00] protected classes I don't think we want to load that one up with anything else but this could be a January or March you know depending on the time frame um that they're looking for input seeing nods and thumbs up JH how does that sound to you that sounds really good to me okay yep great then we will move forward with that as well and schedule thanks speaker anything else that you have heard about wondered about um either from HHS or city in general that is on your minds that you would like for Ingrid and I to follow up on just yeah I just I just I I'm I'm interested at some point and

[194:02] understanding what the status is what the police oversight panel um I I read a I read an article a few days ago and from Boulder reporting lab about some of their recommendations not being taken and also with uh staff leaving and uh one of the committee members residing I just kind of interested in understanding what's happening sure um are you at least at the moment Christine thinking that might be someone from um staff coming and giving an update and kind of getting questions and input or is there some that's not a leading question just wondering kind of what format you're thinking would be most helpful I would I would just like to be more informed than I am I guess that's

[195:02] that's my goal oh any other um any one second we're not taking a vote but a firm affirm that recommend that suggestion rather or anything else specifically you want to know about that panel that we could reach out to our colleagues I second the second that I I um specifics right now um you know I I would have to I I saw that article and have not yet read it so I I think I'd want to better understand like um like the concerns to have specifics um but I remember um after the um after the police encounter that

[196:01] you know precipitated the formation of the police oversight um uh a board that um you know was The Zeta Atkinson incident I had a conversation with um Rose Salamanca from the Department of Justice and she was really insistent about the role of hrc's Municipal hrcs as um a permanent feature that was originally established among other things but really to um act with like like to be a permanent feature with some police oversight because what they found is like these that like committees um and Boards like the police overstate commission we have in Boulder

[197:01] um or the police oversight body that we have in Boulder um they come and they go and the hrcs tend to stick around so she seemed to think that like our our role in um like being a more institutionalized body um was really important in like the the oversight of the functioning of the oversight committee because this isn't something that sounds like atypical for these types of oversight bodies so it could be an update on you know kind of like what's what's going on with panel what's current status um kind of an update again given some some more recent news and then maybe just I don't want to read put words in your mouth Lindsay far be it um but just also just what is the role or kind of what is the interplay of of or intersection of roles

[198:01] um between the HRC and the panel right so just kind of where did the issues overlap connect some exploration or discussion about that it sounds might be helpful as well yep yeah I think that's that's a pretty yeah that's a pretty accurate like direction or like it's a good direction um to go in with what I'm like highlighting and suggesting and I think it would be um like one helpful step I think would be to open a collaboration with the some of the people or conversations with the people on that body itself um or even um the um uh the person or the people who felt like they could no longer serve on that body to understand um to understand what was getting in the

[199:01] way or making that difficult hey I am taking notes uh and I know Ingrid is as well um what I suggest just um let's take this um ingridges kind of over to some of our city colleagues and see what and kind of bring back um a more specific suggestion for an agenda item in kind of first quarter 2023 and if there are very specific questions in the meantime that we might be able to help kind of get an answer a response or more information by email um we can do that too okay anything else um yeah I just have one more thing which is not substantive but more uh process

[200:00] thing and but maybe now it's the right place to bring it up um I was wondering if maybe we need to reassess what week of the month we have our meetings because I was just realizing now that like with MLK January Presidents Day in February those of us with kids we have spring break in March um Juneteenth and June Thanksgiving in November and Christmas in December I'm not sure that it makes sense for us being on the third week of the month because that's half the year where we have to be kind of settings setting up for rescheduling the whole yeah so I don't know if we should maybe reconsider like meeting the first or second week of the month instead it feels like we might run into to less scheduling issues with holidays um but I just want to throw that out there We could decide we could talk about it next month I don't know

[201:01] do you are folks open to that um just to see it it seems like it would make a lot of sense just at minimum to avoid the very set you know major kind of milestones in the holidays that none of us can control the timing of which none of us can control so maybe um what we could do is Ingrid and I can just kind of look at again kind of the overall calendar and just see if there are some consistent um maybe it's still a Monday maybe it's a different a different Monday you know is it a different time day all together um and just kind of see what you're all's availability is um and just playing that out and seeing if there are any other what what avoids the least um other disruptions

[202:00] Carlos and Jade does that sound okay yes yes I agree but for me it would be better maybe to the last week of each month or the last Monday of each month I feel that would be a good option as well thank you we'll look at that NC Garcia saw your thumbs up thank you great thank you for Christine for bringing that up as well well I think that's all we have um except to say um the meeting's not quite done yet but just um thank you so much um if we're not having a meeting in

[203:00] December currently we do not have one scheduled when Ingrid kind of spoke with everyone and we um talked about a little bit last month again um hard to pick a a day in the last part of the month um that would be likely to work well for you all um you put in a lot of time and effort all year long um and there's going to be plenty to do um starting up again in January so just again thank you so much um for everything that you do the way you show up in these spaces and um for helping make sure that we as staff and the city as a whole um do our jobs as equitably and inclusively as possible thanks so much Elizabeth

[204:04] that brings us to our events updates what events have you been at since we last met I see you I've got one um I went with my family to um to the feet forward event uh on Thanksgiving where um I don't know how many turkeys were cooked up but about 200 people were served um served uh Thanksgiving uh dinner and this was uh I've been intending to go for over a year to one of their Tuesday events um but I I finally made it on Thursday and I just wanted to say I am just really impressed and Blown Away by what Jennifer livovich has done in really I think two and a half three years um so we we had a really nice afternoon

[205:00] there Carlos see you it's the message today and those eventos yes this month I attended a couple of events first I went to an interview that we had where we're talking about Omni Health which is uh an insurance for undocumented people or people without documents this was put together by the newspaper El Comercio in Colorado and [Music] the person that led that event is the person in charge of putting together this process for health coverage so we had some conversation I

[206:02] had some questions about this insurance and it's going to be coming out in the newscast in Univision on TV and also I believe in the newspaper El commercial this interview we have it was about seven people present from the community and the second event was a training that I went from with nine to five where we talked about leadership and empowerment these were the events that I attended thank you Carlos I went to this isn't an event that we um that we funded with the Arts commission funded um also feed forward

[207:01] um uh the um I forget the name the lived experience photography exhibit at um at the library um it was a collaboration between feet forward and um unboxed but photography um I really enjoyed that and it was interesting to see the photos that got selected and many more got selected many more were submitted than like got selected the the photo project was um people experiencing homelessness get a disposable camera take photos and then a photographer develops them and selects a number for display at the library and so it was interesting to see just like how people frame their lives and the images that got that got selected um and um I also went to

[208:00] um to trans day of remembrance at out Boulder um and there were so many people basic there because this was um really like the the full day after the uh the Club Q shooting um and it was standing room only into um the hallway and people were um shoulder to shoulder um people really showed up for that event and they all were wore masks which made the proximity feel a little bit more comfortable um because I think there were over a hundred people there and if you've ever been in Al Boulder's community room it's quite small

[209:02] any other um any other updates from commissioners I have I have a quick update that I want to um uh uh we spend a few minutes on um before we sign off since we won't be meeting in December um this this month uh actually marks my five years on the commission um and um uh I have really learned a lot um and um been a part of um some really cool work um and feeling uh very appreciative um and um I'm also moving on um to some like cool professional work in 2023 um that I'm really excited about so

[210:02] before the end of the year I am I'm going to send a letter uh to city council letting them know that I'm going to be resigning at the next cycle um for appointments um uh for new Commissioners um so that means uh that in the spring I forget if it's April or May will be my last meeting but that will be um my last meeting so I wanted to let you all know about that first um and one thing that I would really love to begin to do and thanks for all the Emoji support um but one thing that I would really love to do and I'm actually going to need to do um in January because part of my um the professional things that I'm excited about are international and come with some like incredibly early morning

[211:00] commitments um like 6 a.m um so I'm I'm not going to have the capacity to facilitate these these meetings into into the late night and then do such an early morning meeting the next morning um so I'm hoping we can talk about um uh the interim part of my interim chair and of someone else taking over the responsibility uh uh of facilitating these um these meetings especially when um they fall immediately mere hours before this meeting I'll have to have with people from across the world so um uh more on that to come I'm going to follow up with Elizabeth and Ingrid over email but I wanted to share that with you all before since we're not meeting in December foreign that is quite something to celebrate Lindsay or five years and I know you you've mentioned it to the group before but just again lots of

[212:02] appreciation uh for your work and I I believe we can make it uh help make it a doable task uh even given your other commitments moving forward thank you so much and appreciation for all of you too all right well with that if we have um nothing else for other items I'm going to hand it off to Steph for follow-up items and then we'll adjourn okay well I'm going back to the first agenda item for um the meeting tonight is um following up with uh Lindsay with um Christine and Carlos about scheduling

[213:02] um uh the agenda item on protected classes for February um Ingrid and markisha and I will get to work on contracts and just kind of supporting getting contracts in place for the MLK Day events for those those funding decisions that you made today and then um a few different items for follow-up um reaching back out to our colleagues about uh on coming to an HRC meeting in first quarter 2023 on Community Court um checking in with some of our colleagues for just kind of several questions and discussion possibilities regarding the oversight panel and um last but not least um up looking at revising the day and time of the month for next meetings and then I'm getting this new funding program structure in place

[214:00] Ingrid what else um I have can you hear me am I muted I'm sorry I'm great let me look at my notes Here uh uh nope I think you got it all and wishing you all a pretty fabulous holiday season however with whomever you celebrate whatever you celebrate and a really great New Year I bet we'll be in touch at least by email before then would love an opportunity to have some in-person meetings again starting in January if that works out

[215:02] yeah and I believe that just as a reminder that the um January meeting has been scheduled for January 23rd based in our conversations that Martin Luther King day is Monday the 16th just wanted to remind you all of that thank you for that thanks everybody appreciate y'all can I have a motion to adjourn yes thank you I'm gonna make that motion too motion to adjourn thank you

[216:01] I second that yeah thanks to everyone good night and we'll see you next year indeed okay have a good one everybody thank you interpreters for your help too everyone thanks so much thanks interpreters take care everyone