March 19, 2024 — Human Relations Commission Regular Meeting

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[0:11] Yeah. So we now move on. Any agenda adjustment. I'll be. 80 Commissioners. 80 Commissioners. And. And adjustment at this point. But you, Christine. it's your last day. Now, it's tight. We cannot want to approving our previous meeting. Minutes. At every meeting. Alistair great. Mary takes notes. Those notes are called. It's every month between. Minutes. Included, now. Packet. We review them and prove there to the following month, and that is always. Part of the agenda. Any adjustment to the minutes.

[1:07] Can I get a motion to approve and. Minutes Move, to approve the. Minutes for my January meeting. I want. Hammered. I second the motion. Southern. It's been all in favor. and that brings us up to. Item 4, we. Which is community participation? Do I speak louder as owner. If, and. Give. Open swimmer, sure. Recognition start slides. Little too fast.

[2:00] There's certain ingrid. Do you want me to. Screen. Share the slides. Do that all Then we're good. Okay? Payment? Oh, okay. or community participation. Members of the. Right now meetings. Contribute. They have 3 min to share. And staff has time to. Phone. The meeting members can sign. Fine! Sorry! Open events. Ingrid. Has anyone sign up. Speak. I've been nervous. Have any requests for to sign up to speak. However, we. Do, have, a. Request for micro. Main meeting, member. Who's asking and. Commissioner is fully for the. Is, that. Sell. Oops! Joke!

[3:00] Started. Yes. My name is John. And I go by J. And Chair of the committee. And for now. Name is Carlos. And device share of the. Mexico. I'm thicker. And I. In a tough part of the. Tragedy for 2 years. For its my name is Omar, and. I looks. Part of Hsc. For one year. Austria. My name is Christine Chen. And I've been. Sort of Hrc. Paper. 3 years, and Evening, if. My final. Meaning. Camp of We. There is a couple of people from Staff who are Preston at this meeting. My name's Cindy Festival, and I serve as the city liaison still in

[4:08] Mita is not assigned as an interpreter. so she can one moment, please sec have lost the meeting for a moment. Our interpreters have a request. might as not. But

[5:41] thank you. We had a short permission. I'll know yourself. Competitors, confirm. Would be. Interpreters, that everything is. Act and. I did get. Request from my team. In. Umberg. People like to speak. Happen sooner. I'll go ahead and.

[6:01] And Grant them access right away. Mark. Can you? Yes, we can. Kim. All right. 2 min. And. I will be. I mean, you right now. okay. Thanks. Hello! Commissioners! In the. Elizabeth and Elena. I. My name is Mark Fearer, and. I am a. Member of the. Advisor. The committee. Of the. Eviction, protection, and. And rental assistance services, or eprus. which. Hopefully. All our. Familiar with, but I'm not sure. To, a. You are I'm. Also Member. I'm a. Resident Commissioner. I will! Board of Can. Stairs, for. Older housing partners.

[7:00] So I'm speaking in these capacities. But not on behalf of either. Of these bodies. And I'm speaking it tonight. Oh! And. Also, I'm a long time to. Activist. And I have. Address. This group. I think it was a couple. Years ago. I can't. Remember it was mostly on the issue of Bring. Control and tenant issues for those. Might remember. And just a little reminder of the history of the Ap. Hrc. The Hrc. Used to. Deal quite extensively with tenant. Issues back in the 19 eighties, when I was director of the Boulder Tenants Union. Often the City Council would. Fur Issues to the Hrc. So the city Council wouldn't have to do. With them when it came to tenant issues. So tonight I'm asking you. To see if there's a way to perhaps collaborate between the different

[8:00] Groups that I've. Mentioned. Board of. The Bhp and. The tenement advisory. Committee. The issue of. 'kay. Issues. We are. Looking, we. The 10. Advisory Committee is looking. To. Banned. It's. Right now, we focus. Pro. An early on a. Actions, and. Acting. Tenants. That could. Cassidy. We're looking to. Explain. Banned. Are. Role to dealing with additional. Tenant protection. Issues you. And the City of Boulder. Thank you, Mark. Time! Is up. Look it. Any responses from commissioners. Part of that is is like, I know Marco has, too. finish the last thing you was going to say so, he said. He's part of another housing. Which ones I think I'm. I was taking notes when it.

[9:01] Was A. To them a Bi story committee. Anxiety. Question didn't finish. She didn't say how we can collaborate to Alan. I don't know how to do it, so if you can, if you. That appear to give him one more minute to just explain. What does it need to collaborate. Because like. To do. Wanted that. Say I think I have an alternate suggestion. I can. Maybe. Fill in a little bit of blanks because I work with the Senate Advisory Committee. And maybe Mark could just share in the in the chat. If that's something. Sounds good. We can facilitate all sorts of next steps. The one option is that. The Hrc. Is interested in. Hearing more from the committee. We could. Work, with. Committee chair and have someone attend this. They're not. Meeting. They have quarterly meetings. You can have as. Mark or other members of the 10 Advisory Committee to come in April and hear a little bit more about what they.

[10:04] Do and What some of the options are. There! I think it would be difficult to kind of use a public comment. Forum to have a conversation. And what I believe. Believe he's asking. Or is just to see if the Hrc. Is interested in. Having a conversation kind of hearing more about where the. Advisory committee, Is that what they're. Working on, and just to see if there's. Let me put in. For communication or cloud. Operation. Think. And Mark will let me know if that's incorrect. Always wait to see what. Christmas. He just. Something. I have Chris favorite. So let me put something in Mark, go ahead. Oh! Can you hear me? Yes. Oh, okay, great. I'm I'm sorry I didn't mean to. To intrude on.

[11:00] Your agenda, and I didn't mean to have any kind of lengthy conversation tonight. With you, but. Rather just raise the issue to be honest. I'm. Not sure exactly how. Or what. What it would look like to collaborate. I just know the need is. There to strengthen protections for tenants, which. Make up About 50. 3% of the population of boulder. In. Was. A human. Relations Commission Issue long ago. I still think it is. Is. and. Beyond that. I'm a. Again, very hesitant. To take up any more of your time on it. I'm planting a seed in hope we could talk through. Further. On this. Issue. Thank you, Mark. I also. Send you. A message. Me! And I'll remind community members that. You can't. Reached. Thank you. Relations, for. Yeah. As well to follow up with comments

[12:03] I I'm interested in. To know more about this need to have one personal recon, connect even. It's been. I'm surprised. Is it? Questions personal? That's nice. Yeah. I mean. Oh, yeah, I think it's. Yeah, but we are. All of us. Even Chris. Christine is leaving. I believe she will still be. In good. Well, I think it will be a conversation to have, but I don't know. Usually Help! There's no, we can't. I think that's correct. We're doing the way we bought it is. We can't have a meeting more than 2 people. Go inch. Correct. Yeah. So we didn't. To be extremely careful. Bill. but. I think it's something. It's more flexible. Going to see. And I think. without us being so young with the Hrc. And so anybody that's been on it for too long, you know. Probably the most senior here.

[13:05] And I think. You know as much benefit. Actually brings. Not to say in the eighties. I think it's a. Recession that's worth having. To make sure. That you know. We could move forward with that. So is there anybody else there? You. Oh, gingrich! Sorry. Is there anybody else? There. And else has requested for Polycom. Now, is that correct? Christian? Correct? You know we didn't want to. I mean, I don't. Now we are part of part of the meeting where we have a discussion and informational items. As a provider, we do need to vote, but. Invite you all to participate over here.

[14:02] Right. Correct, ingrid. During action items. Tim. Okay. Yeah. That that just means that whatever. Discussion is maybe some. Thing that we'll need to. You'll need to vote on in order to. Okay. Make a decision already. Kids. Quit. May I? Sure. Okay, well, I guess my first question. It's if. Is there any way. I can. On! To the Wi-fi Oh. Is it? It should be connected. I was trying, but it'll it should pop up. Up a little. You know. Gotta accept the the terms except the terms need to open a new tab. Probably it's like showing that And take a peek. Yeah. I think it's good.

[15:12] yeah, I mean, I did share it with you. So. Screen. Okay, that. I'll do it now. Okay. Oh, he might have it open. Well, go ahead and start speaking. So. I think. As as you all know, City Council. As invited. All boards and commissions. To Provide any kind of feedback. If you to. Before they have their annual retreat, which I think is coming up. Pretty soon. And so It's. I took the liberty of drafting. A letter. From all of us. And. Hopefully, you. All. Received it from me last week, individually and hopefully. You had a chance to look at it.

[16:00] Okay. I heard from back from a couple of you that you were. Happy, with. Where the letter was, but I added a few things this morning, so I wanted to go through them and make sure that everybody feels. That they can get behind this letter. And if there's any edits we need to do. We can also spend the next. You know some. Several minutes working on them. The gist of this letter. It reflects some of the issues that I raised. In my resignation letter. To city council last month. Namely, that I think that. Clay should. Prioritize reform of all boards and commissions, and. How they work. Oops. And I'll just I'll. Let's run. Through this. A parent. Paragraph by paragraph. Actually, before I. Do that. Let me ask. Anyone have any questions or feedback. On a previous draft. You may have seen. No. Okay. Okay. So the. Just this. The first 2, 3 paragraphs.

[17:00] I edited a little bit. First of all. to Frank. Them for the opportunity. A. Provide feedback. and then I added a new. Second paragraph, because. Because I wanted to acknowledge. Knowledge that there are. Many issues. Use, the. That we have waived as priorities in the past, and that we still think. They are 5. But we also recognize city council also. They accept their. Priorities, for example, homeless. Tess. For example, all the issues around Is, for. Site in the last. See, which. 3 years. I don't have. you know, not been resolved very. Quickly, and we've. Made it clear. Just really, count. So that we don't think that's gone very well. And I think. There's been an acknowledgement from them that not to us specifically, but to the city at large, that could have been better. But I just wanted to to put that in there to acknowledge that there are other issues beyond. The reform. According to commissions. So I wanted to add.

[18:00] Anybody. All of you to see if there is any host. We would like. To add to that, if you want to take a minute and just read the second paragraph. You need. Need to some submit. So in. If anybody wants to add something we can discuss, or if we want to leave it, as I. That's also fine. Amen whoops! Do. Does anyone need to. More time.

[19:00] For the second paragraph. You get. Beautiful. Okay. No. Okay. Alright, then on the third. Paragraph I. Also added a sentence. To acknowledge that there already is for going. On! To look at. Boards and Commission. Because I want to diagnose. Much, this. Is on, so. People, for. Minds, but really the main issue. Shoes that we. Can be. Need to. Prioritise it more. Our instructor. Eat it up for. So. But otherwise that. App is largely the same. so I'll give you a minute. To make sure you're okay with that. No oops. Okay, I see. No, I'm sorry. If you could keep. Going down a little bit. I didn't. You know there there were a few categories here. I. Think I. Made no changes there. made no changes there. If you could keep on going to the next highlight. Did! Highlighted section.

[20:01] so one of the things I wanted to know. Oops, for 30. Council. It's as they. Bring on new members of all boards and commissions, that they not only look into. Fiber, so. They have experiences, but also diversity. Of still. So set. and so I highlighted. That, sometimes. It can be uneven. This is something they should consider. That are looking into. So that's just one additional. Since I added. See? Nods. Okay? We can keep going. And then here I. I. Really I I didn't want to say that Hr. See. Necessarily think we should. Be, a bigger. Commission. The shorter term. Rooms, but that. They should consider, consider, look. Looking at that. So I softened that a little bit, too. and those are all the changes I've made. Since. Last, Friday.

[21:01] Can. Can you make sure. Spelled speaker's name. Right this time. you know. Laughter. Therapy. That's fair, I guess. Okay. So I think if everybody feels good about that. This, I. Stage you're probably up to. Where's Frank? A little bit. That's chair you should. Should probably. Sorry if you responded to your email. So some they don't, I. Don't know why, but I because I read it 10 times so. So I. I told. It would be pretty quick, but it looks like any. Quick, but I. Do think we probably odd to vote, so I will make a motion. It's very. I move that we Approve this. Letter and finalize. It, and send it to. The council. Oh, the back! Goodness me! Thanks like. Last. Yep. Yes. Point here. Yeah, we should. Leather and. Thank you. Christine.

[22:00] The loose. Who's out. I was thinking of sending one as well. But you you were. Wait for a hair. Yeah, I'll also add, I think when we. Michel. Updates, I'll tell you more. But I also met with. A couple of members of City Council. About the. Too, and they were very accepted. So thank you again. More. Thank you. Quick clarification. Are you planning on sending that directly? Or do you need, or want ingrid to write for. Or denoted. I'll leave. Optional. You were. Support, and that would be great. We just need to. Move the yellow highlights, and that's it. Got it. Consider it, though. Thank you. Cool. Now we are moving into the stop. Updates. Work on discussion, information. Description. Particularly missile. Sorry now we're at the parts of meeting room. We have just. And additional information items.

[23:00] We minor. We didn't. Not me too far. But. I invite you all. Participate, open. And ingrid. Can you enable screen sharing for me? Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. With. Do have, as you can see in the agenda, an update on. Minimum wage. June. Remember that in the past we have the pleasure of having taken. Peter Raymond. Dr. Sentin. And an overview of the minimal. Hold on! Latest. Up. Take us in the timeline. Today. Taylor is here to provide you with an update oops right. You. In. This. I think I have someone. Yeah. Well, you can do me robos. There you go!

[24:05] Hi! Everyone again. Nice to see. You all, Taylor Ryan. And she her. Pronouns, and I believe I would. As, with. Y'all last October. Sure, yeah. Yeah. October. Just to share that this was happening. And we were moving into next steps. This is actually work that has. Happened. And since May of 2,022. So we're almost. This project is almost 2 years old. It took a little. Long time to. To build support across the county. To get us to. Where we are right now. But this is the exciting time. Because. We are engaging with community members to see how they feel, and I. It's on. Most in exactly halfway between our. Engagement. Window right now, so I wanted to come in. Share it up. About how engagement is going? What were he? Hearing what we have planned after engagement, and what the. For the full.

[25:00] Process. Looks like. I have a little video to share, just to start up. Us off. Oh, you know what I totally didn't share with sound. Patience. Aunt Lafayette and Louisville and the town of Erie are working together to consider a regional minimum wage in 2,024. This team of cities are engaging community members in the conversation and working with a consultant to conduct an economic analysis over the next few months. Community members are invited to share their feedback through the survey, or attend one of the many sessions that will be hosted in person and virtually across these 5 cities.

[26:01] It's that's terrific. I'm just gonna pause it for a second and see we get some buffer and let's try it again. Oh, wait. To our community to explore every avenue available, to make our cities places for all to thrive. Minimum wage is one of those avenues, and we are eager to begin exploring this with our partners side by side with the communities that are most impacted. The small businesses are the backbone of our community. Therefore we must find a balance that allows them to attract and retain employees who deserve to earn a living wage, while also maintaining the economic viability of those businesses. All the Chambers should be at the table. All the businesses within those communities that want to participate should be at the table. All single parents that want to participate should be at the table. We want our community to continue to thrive. The minimum wage is an important part of maintaining these qualities of life. But it's important that we understand all impacts of our decisions on all stakeholders. We can't do it without your help. So please participate in this assessment by sharing your thoughts and opinions. Your input will help regional leaders make an important decision about this topic. A new minimum wage would not be implemented before January of 2,025.

[27:22] Please visit the link on your screen for ways to add your voice to the discussion. Thank you for making the time to share your perspective on this topic that is so important for our community. Okay. Sorry. The audio was good. The video, the visuals. We're terms. Now, do you need to wait? and I just show that, too. I think it helps highlight. The Unique. Weakness, of. But this project. And the way that. Approach. It's not uncommon for cities to work together on things.

[28:01] But. But for. Us, our 5. Is to be coming. Together. To work on an issue like minimum wage in. A way. That we're doing it. By. Partnering. And 2, 4. Consultant, announced. Classes, by. Doing like a shared model of community. Engagement. That's implemented. Unique. In each. In, the. Based on their needs. It's. It's really. An incredible collaboration. Duration. project. And. Maybe I should have. For. Ingrid's. Expert help on this. But. Like got it. So since we met in October. Curved. Since we met in October, represent. Additives from all of the. Organizations. On this screen have. The meeting to create.

[29:00] Like this, now. For both the. Evening. Consultant analysis. It says. Happening right now. As well as the community engagement model. Zoom hasn't like created as standard and are being uniquely implemented. In each city. You could show your meeting. We have a little audio test, tense. Okay, test, test. We updated. Should you be muted?

[31:18] Yeah, I couldn't hear anything. It's like the sound got turned up. Can you test now, Elena. having difficulties with audio again. It's a lifestyle choice. Let me just confirm. Okay, we're good. I got the thumbs up Taylor. I can share this screen. I just need to cause. I think they might be cutting some audio from there. Am I eating too loudly. Age talking about, you know. Or can you try again sharing without audio? Yes, thank you. We have

[32:00] a little under Months. Left until the. Engagement. Window closes and. And. We have in full. We have 3. More sessions planned. So folks. Can come and join in person, and share their thoughts about. They think about this. We've been free. For. Framing, session. As community sessions or business sessions and. Anybody can go to anything, but it's just helpful. Or to. Do that framing because. Sometimes business owners. Hers. Wouldn't share. Things if they. Knew that there were like customers or employees around. and vice versa. There's like, maybe. Some are. And I know so. Come into play. Those environments. And it's just. Flow. Some from a. Facilitations. Standpoint. Of like capturing. Feedback. And. Managing Conversations. But. Anybody can come to any session long on. As host. Listed 12 sessions. So. Far. And they have one more planned over the next. Next month. And then, like I said, that questionnaire remains. Is available. So. 5 min questionnaire. Part of why?

[33:01] Upcoming. And sharing this with you. Because. Really, look. To the commissioners. Yeah. And. I, honestly, everybody I've been able to get the ear of over the last month. And. To help us spread the word. And let people know. That this. Engagement opportunity as a. Available. Both. The more. Voices. That join the conversation the better. One of the things that. Noticed from a very. Early session. Was. Add, it was the first set. And it was. Business sort of business focus session. There was a lot of downtown business. Businesses represented, we. Partnered with the Chamber of Commerce. Worse to do that. You know. Noticing that? Yeah. Yeah, we. We have to be responsive. And so. We have put together a team of people who are going out. In person. Walking up to businesses. And talking to folks, whether it's the manager or an employee, and during. Like we sharing and. This opportunity is available. Cool, actually. Ran into Carlos today. As I was in North.

[34:00] Boulder. Yeah. In business. Canada. To sing, and I looked up, and there he was. So it's actually been really great for me, too, to get to know the community. And you know. Some folks. Folks are like, why is the. Ever made. Here, and. Some folks are like. Wow, we really appreciate. She! Coming out to us, so it's been a good opportunity. Unity. To just build relationships. Lips. and. Over the last week that we've been doing. This, we've made contact with over 100. 100 and 50 businesses. In person. Now, how that translates to. You. Are people. Actually showing up. Focus group session. Trends are people. Actually, bill. Out questionnaire is a different story. But maybe. Can contact. That. In person contact. I think. Those really Letting folks know that we care. Out there. Opinion. So we're full. We're chatting with you. Look, to. Day. We're also chatting with the Boulder County consortium of cities, which is where all of these conversations originally started. On April third, and we'll be sharing with council members.

[35:08] That we are. Present all 5 cities. A similar. Update like we. Doing right now about how things are going. I mean. And then looking ahead. It, which. I have a visual to show. So you. In time. Sorry intermission. That's my computer desk phone is, is that the whole presentation. It's not. And I wasn't sure if there's one. Yeah, I have like option. 2. No, okay. do it up. Is this 1 one of the ones that you.

[36:00] For sure as well. Just on the website. Ingrid. Can go to. minimum wage. Webpage. So mad. So they went. Age. There's a graphic in English and in Spanish. So I have for you. Yeah. So we could show that I get the rest of this. and I think I need to be reprimanded. Loaded to co-host. Interesting! Give me just 1 s. Consistent amount. Technical. So I need to. You can minimize

[37:04] co-host. Very cool. I have. I'm sharing this screen right now. I am ready. So I'm gonna we'll share this web. Link with everybody. So you have all the information. Nation right here. This is. What? We just are. Right now. In the State of Colorado. It's a visual representation. And. Just. To help folks out. Because. There are a couple of communities. Is in the state. That have lifted minimum wage. Above the state level. But several have not. Not. So the Denver was the first to do this, and they raised theirs to $15 an hour.

[38:01] We're back in. 29. 19. Since then it's been escalating slightly each. Year, for in. Replacement. So now it's 1829. And then edge water. Just last. Last year. Has to do minimum. Age, and. Their their schedule. Because you typically have like a target that you try to reach in like 3 to 5 years. And then you have an escalation. Schedule which. Will help you ramp up to that term. Because we can't just take minimum. Waited for. 10 to $20 overnight, right? So as waters escalation schedules basically just gonna. Match Done. Eventually in a few years. And then Boulder County also just passed a new minimum wage. And they're gonna escalate to $25. 2030. The blue cities. Is. We don't know what we're doing yet. We're trying to figure that. That. Which is what the. Analysis and. Engagement is. Supposed to. Important desk. You remind me what, what. What it. Currently is in the city of Boulder. Earth. Yeah. So the the rest of everybody else, including the blue folks, are at the State level at 1442.

[39:04] Yes, I know. I think $25 by 24 $100 as a minimum wage sounds great, but with already being 6 years away. Cost of living for sure. The cost of living, having to. Increase by then. How do you guys determine. If it's going to be. A wage that's comfortable. Goal for people is that he. Can make a. Friends, the number. Going up. But it's the way people. Live, going to be changing. Right. Because if minimum wage goes up and in full. Station. Keeps up. It's a good point. We can only like the legislation at the State level. Even a lot. Us to do anything with minimum wage. Because before 2,019 do anything like this. State precluded us from touching minimum. Wage laws. So now that we can do. It is a. Very conditionally. The State says. You can. And but. You can't raise it more than.

[40:00] 15% in any. Good. So we're. Hacked at. How. Much. Hmm. I'm not sure. I don't remember exactly what. Boulder's Escalation schedule. Is, but you can only go so. So fast basically These are the questions that we. Us during focus groups. There's a there's a whole questionnaire. Like I had shared. At that, at that link, and they have a. Of more like. Close, ended questions about how much do you make? Where do you live? Things like. That these are our open form. Feedback questions that were. Asking in the focus groups. So a lot of these are very dialogue, rich conversation based. Types of you. Feedback that we will be. Ian. Analyzing shortly the engagement numbers are actually. A 400. 100 and 30. 8, question. Questionnaire responses as of. Right now they just. Checked. And we have. 50 participants in focus group. Sessions from Boulder, but 40 participants.

[41:00] Participants have. Been participating in long months. So far, so 90, so far. Between our 2. 2 cities. And here is a high. Level time. Timeline that we put together. This just shows. Different tracks of. That we're looking at. As you can see, there's the consultant analysis that's. Happening. Right now. There's the session. Signet. Sessions and questionnaire. That is also. Happening right now. We're gonna report findings and see during. Direction. One of those reports is gonna be. Yes. Your meeting June. Any team. So we'll come back and we'll let you know. What are the results of what we heard as well as city Council in July. There's going to be another chance. For public. Comment when we do go to City Council, assuming that public hearings and ordinance and things. Things like that happen. There will be the normal public comment period have and if we. Direction from house.

[42:00] So to draft an ordinance. We will, you know. Have that happen. And communicate the decision, but. It is still uncertain. At this point. Linked, if. Shift. All 5 Councils are. Or or. Any of them really will say. Go forth and. Draft an ordinance. I think that's my last slide. So that was really jumbled. Sorry I is there any questions. First, but. Should I forget it? You said you talk to businesses. Is the employees correct. What feedback do you get between the 2. Like? Is this both positive. Labour. With some of them. Yeah. So the whole. Bit. There's a lot of folks that are. Very impassionate to. To, the. Affordable. Any challenges. That we have. In the community right now. All. And and some folks on that side of compassion. With the community. You're like, yeah, raise minimum wage.

[43:01] Like, definitely got. Get it up there, but there are some folks. Good! Hi! Light, just. The. Challenges, of. The. Being in the business. Us of owning. A business, and. And. There's a lot of different things property taxes going up. Up. Care being a big issue. I had. Heard actually from several. Folks! Well, if I didn. Have to pay for healthcare like. Of course I'd love to pay more, but like healthcare costs so much. and they're just the margin. Are getting. Slimmer and slimmer, especially for industries like restaurants. So they're very apprehensive about this. This They also, if it is. Says you. Is going to have. I've been. Would like to know sooner rather than later, because they start budgeting for their next year. Around the summer timeframe. So a heads up sooner rather. And later would be good. But it's it's really mixed reviews. But I'll move.

[44:00] My question. I gotta say, you guys wanna raise the minimum wage. You know, it's a good. Thing, and I do believe. You know. But one thing I I'm just, gonna you know, Torret you. So you can think about it, too. That could make it better. We, you know. Because. As a business owner. I'm speaking that way. Do the link? Either you get. As can be. Gave us a tax break to. Speed. Crazy like. Like. You raise it, we're going to have to figure out. Way to pay. What you. Guys come out with. As a if it's an ordinary school. Cool Cowboy. But when you look at it nothing goes down for us like as a business owner like. So healthcare says the same. And the taxes change. So my whole thing. Is, if there is a. Trying to get. 8. If it works, you guys can think it's boulder. Hence high time. Max like it's pretty hard. So just toying it so at least everybody can have a soft. Off north. Management to it. So

[45:03] I was wondering, are you doing any. Have targeted outreach for. Feedback from. students, both high school and college students, who often, you know, like. The of the. Minimum. Minimum wage jobs, particularly at. Thinking about it all. Gearing up for the first. Robert. So we are. Part of our. Are. Strategy. About reach. We're. Going in person to. Businesses, and talking. Employees, and and all. All sorts of. Let's. It includes the hill. But I have to. A heart. My envy. Engagement, for. Professional. Her name's Angela. She's been. Doing. A tremendous. Does job of contact. So many organizations. I I'm not even confident I have a whole list of my head, so I'll have to ask for about schools. And make sure. Sure that we've. We've made outreach to them. Yeah. Yeah, it just seems like it would be a good demographic to hear from. So no, absolutely. And the. The question of emancipated minors does come up. The legislation, and it has come up.

[46:02] In conversation, you know. On one hand, I think a lot of folks make the assumption that unemanated minors a lot of time they're in. Jobs to get spending. Money to go to the Mall. And things like that. There's. Of that argument. That there are many minors that make serious contributions to family wealth building. So. It's take. All of these truths. Together. and trying to make Generalized decision on. And have food community amidst a lot of very different opinions and experiences. So the more the more feedback that we get, the better we can. Sort of understand. What the impact of those decisions will be. Can you just clarify what it meant? A minor. Narsney. Oh, unemancipated my arms. So later. Are children that are still. So. In the custody, if you will, of. Parents. Some. Sometimes kids can become emails. The padded. From their parents. Normally, kids at the age of like. 1617.

[47:00] So they're legally adults as a status, even though they're only 16 or 17. Unemanated minors are just like regular. Kids. If you will. Kids. Still with their. Family legal gardens. Yeah. With yeah legal, their parents having legal authority. Over there. I have one more question. are there any studies being looked at of just regionally? What. To have. To labour patterns for. Since 20. 19, when we have uneven minimum wages. Across. Graders don't. Metro area. And If, if, like businesses who are. Currently, You know. like here in Boulder. We're at 14. Whatever it is. We're seeing. Neighboring areas that have finer minimum wages. Like, we're seeing more challenging. It's in, I. Rendering teams. Perhaps. I don't know.

[48:00] If he. Like, for example, right, Denver, raise their wage, so does that make us less competitive, as like an employment. And market. I don't know of any reports on that. The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment does put out. A report every year. For the local minimum wage report, and it includes special and. Analysis. For any cities that have raised minimum wage. So Denver is in there edge water. And boulder. Will be in there this. Year, About Boulder County right in particular, but it's still. Writing, part. Neighbors, and in some cases it's a matter. That's correct. Off like a street where somebody might find a higher paying job on that. Outside of street as opposed to the other side. Is that what kind of effect. Like that right? Which is what makes this conversation so relevant. I mean, I I have to your point. Jh, had several conversations. With people being like. Well, you know, I. Can't really afford that. What I have heard several folks say is, will we also. Have. To remain competitive with our Metro partners, you know. Maybe not. 25.

[49:01] Like, but like. We have to be competitive with Denver, so there might be points of agreement. That that we find in the meeting. The engagement. Feedback. Once we. Analyze it all, and I'm not just like recalling some things from memory. But the there is a report. That. Yeah. And. Sorry to interrupt. Can you speak a little bit slower? Oh, thank you. There is a report that Cdl. E. Colorado. So department of labor and employment. What's out every year. But it's pretty limited in what they look. They look. Look at. Books, is. Earnings. They look. At businesses. And I'm sorry. Local. All. Tax. Sales tax revenue. Which is what part of why. We're doing. A third party analysis. With a consultant. Is because the consultant is going to do a much. Ushed. More Granular impact. Analysis. Our, our. Specific region. Be? Thank you. What's that?

[50:00] Yeah, I feel like I'm way over on time. I wanted this. Remind you. That is. Your package. To have the Powerpoint presentation that Taylor Can it? To to share it with you all night, with the informational links. go ahead. I'm sorry I was just gonna. Suggest. that we screen share. Share, what. The survey looks like. Like. So Taylor. So. Ingrid and I are both working with. Taylor, and. Other city staff to help do the outreach to businesses and community members and. One of the things that Taylor has. Shared with speaking with business. Businesses. Is that sometimes people will say, well, let me just tell you right now. It's like we need. We need to have all these. Input to. Sure we're recording it kind of appropriately in the survey.

[51:00] and we hope that. You! All will take. This yourself, because you. Members of this community. It is available in English and Spanish. She did. But just wanted to maybe just show you what what it's like. Like it's not. Very long. And it's really just. Kind of checking. Checking, by. Boxes. Yeah. So if you are employees. You know. Where do you work? Which of the following describes your work, situation, and you can. Select multiple. For some of these. This. Which best describes your job. What is your hourly way. Each range. If you have more than one job, what. Does that ring? Which statement? Best, describes your opinion, and. These. These are actually so. So the engagement. Remember that, timeline, we have the engagement process. But then the consultant analysis. There are. Where is the. Those 2 processes inform each other. And this question is one example. Sample of that. The the scenarios that you see there. Are all being. Forecast. By the consultant as as part of their.

[52:02] Scope of work. And so But. Gonna we're gonna see. A little. Bit of a look into the future. Kind of, because you can't. Really do that. From the consultant and. And based on the. Feedback. Code. Folks's opinion. We're also gonna be able to combine that are you participating any. Any of the. Engagement, sessions, just. To let folks know that those. Are. Available. And then this one. And do. Identify as a business. Owner, or someone that employs people. And then there's a couple of more questions on the next slide. But if you just wanted to do that. Would be fine, too. So. So you could. You could. Stop it at 8. well. That was all. But it was all. Yes. yeah. So hopefully, that's helpful. Just to kind of see it. Taylor. And I'm happy to follow up. Up with! The links to this. Surveys both Languages, and also a flyer. Then we have. With the upcoming. Events that are coming. I think the next.

[53:02] To make. Week. I believe so. So yes. So. Do. If you wanna attend or share those with community members that you have contact with. Please, do. So, yeah, I actually forgot to go. On, but. There's fires right over there before I leave. I'll pop in, and I'll drop some off. We've been hanging. I'm on bulletin board. Ready to. Shops. And give them out to people. I'll leave a stack so. You want to take a couple. To wherever you go, but we want to hear from everybody people who. Work people. Who employ people. Students, retirees any but. Basically if you. We're not an infant, we would like to know? European. You should also probably like, know what infant. Think about this because it impacts them, too. Look at your. Absolutely. Yeah. So I see. May I ask one last question? Okay. I see you know. Slack. You mostly look at restaurants. What kind of business do you. Have you been in touch with like restaurant super. Oh, my God! Who. Thank you to go. Grocery stores.

[54:00] Yeah. Small grocery stores. Like kind of. City is nails. Lines, a lot of mail lines. And up several smoks. Ops, actually. They've just been like in between. All of the businesses. So you know. And hit him. So. Act. We're oh. Was good. Dry cleaners and. And. Went to Boulder. Filter for the. When we. Today. That's not a a business, but dropped off some flyers there. And. All sorts of other like message. Massage, studios. Health, and. Illness places. tattoo shops. mostly. Small businesses of boulder. Cause. I think that's yeah. That's could be an issue that was between small and big. I think it's big, you know. Sorry. Okay. sorry. I think it's a big issue between small and big business, because the competition is up.

[55:02] Think it's pretty hard, and I think that's why. Maybe if you could look at the big businesses and small as well. Of the. Guess that point. Big of it. Open a whole new. And area. For, for. What you guys are doing. Maybe. Like is what I'm trying to say to you is like. there's a big business that's all established. They can pay certain minimum wage to small businesses. There's no way. and they can compete. So. That's all that time. hey, Sess? Taking a lot of your time. It's it. and I'll be back. Nope. Now we're moving them to the stuff.

[56:00] Webinar. Item there! Well, he's oversee. Oh, wow! Oh, like being next time I will. it's mine. So no mechanics. So police oversight. Oh, phone! Is that correct? Yeah, that is correct. You got I can give just. The overview of when we met with Ja. H. And Carlos to set up the agenda. Us. Both of Liverpool. A few. Question. S. That. I. I said. Like to. A chair, and. And vice chair. Of the police oversight panel. Those answers were in your. Packet. And this is a time. For you! Want to share. What? Those questions where the answers is a time for. To discuss a hundred.

[57:01] Yourselves And follow up on it. Go ahead. Els. Okay. hard to perpetuate with us. I can't even start counts. I think that what I what I ask was, who was elected on that, and then I don't remember exactly. But I have to go back to it if I can go back to it. So go ahead as I had to. Actually reasonably you. But I. Ask you. yeah. At the end of that meeting there were 3. The main. Question. Is. Happy to pull up the. Pack it. It, and be them. and. Me just pull it up real. Quick.

[58:03] Do any of you need? Do you just need more, maybe more time to kind of. Read. What was in the packet, and then you can. Talk about it later, too. You guys are prepared to. To do that tonight. It's totally fine. It's low, it's up. That's fine. You can also take a break if you want to to. Then kind of in the conversation, are you implementers for like consigners? No different time as well. little boy. It calls. The brain will be good. Okay, thank you. So. We're 10 min. Past our meeting time. We did started late. I need a bit. Like 17 min late, but So I'll go ahead and pause. Video. And we're. Be back. How about the

[59:27] what's Luke? Thank you. Welcome back from your break. So you took a break in across to Reassess and review the. Okay. In it, and decide whether you want to move forward and have this conversation amongst yourself. Right. Right now. About. The questions. Can you pose to the police oversight panel. Chair. Vice chair, and the answer. That you've got. So please kind of got it.

[60:00] hey, Carlos? You can. You can choose. Used to. Whatever you choose to do, or do you wanna go. And disclose them right. Now, or. Maybe I said. 5 at a later meeting. I think we are going to take. We're going to choose to talk in the next meeting. Evening book, this. May I just make one suggestion before we close this item? I have found that oftentimes. I want to have a better. Understanding, the situation. And it's. Can be very helpful. Just to have a. One on one meeting with some. Bunny. That you may. All want to consider just. Reaching out. To the. Up to the chair, or other new members. The place oversight. Hamil. To have. Better understanding of what's going on. You know we have a new. We have several new members. The police oversight panel. and I've already seen in the last week

[61:01] some news about their concerns again, that people have been meeting with certain civil society groups, or the N. Double Acp, and. And if. Feels to me that things are getting politicized. Thanks! Again. And I feel like the Hrc. Good opportunity to be a check. Again. Just the politicization of a lot of this going on. But you know. May want to consider inviting. Members of the. Police oversight panel to come to our meeting. And have a talk instead of doing it. Over email and having it be about procedure. First. or that some viewing. They want to. Actually. Go to. Police! Sorry to. To tell me the. And see. It's all about. Think that can. Just. I'll send a faster way to understand the complexities. Situation. That would just be my suggestion. As you think about. This. In the future. Yeah, I think I agree, for Christian, too. Think of!

[62:01] The I wouldn't say. Would be like you just. Scribon. Later. And so in our role and stuff like that, like, you know more. But I think yes, I did. I put some notes in about that, and I feel like I'm not really prepared, and I think it's better to talk about it in a different meeting. And I think I will? Isn't it the That to meet with. You know, and one and one, and that's probably will be more helpful. Once they don't vote. You know. Thank you. Hmm. Dh, so we you can move into the next. Item. let's just start funding. Sure. And now we're moving on the. Stop. Updates. Great Thank you.

[63:00] As you go. Aware, the human relationship. Nations, could. And elections. And appointments. Occur last week by city council and. And. There were 2 newly. And at Hrc. But. Members. Are there, and Emily Elkhart. For the terms that you see on the screen, and will be well. Yes. Appointed for a 5 year term, and Emily right. Here term as. You all have been through. You're gonna go through a. The onboarding process. Both. We did the city clerics office, and as well with city staff with. Us, and the onboarding. Packet will be sent to them, and. And. I need attach. Should, that. Appointment. And slink. The 3 council meetings that occur on March. For tink. If you want to revisit.

[64:00] That a. Appointment, and there will be so. Ian. Next month, maybe in joining that group. We. Are sold. Thankful. For Christine's. And add us, contribute. To that commission. I. All of that. But Christine. Need to work in the Commission for 3 years. Ersk. Bottle. and your contributions. Happy to meet. Seen, and I was a. For one term here. Last year, and is. I can't. To a conclusion so. Thank you, Anna. In your time. As well with a commission. That is the update of. The Commission elections. And new members. I would like to highlight that in the past, usually the 2. Chair or vice chair. Meet with new hrc. Members. Sleep. To. Get them up to speed! Need. Yeah. Part of of Warner Wall. I mean. Then again has to happen, while. And want.

[65:00] and. I just wanna pose that possibility because you'll have the chance to do that. Just to do it, you know. Have to make a vote or choose it right. Away. Do you. Can just establish that conversation. Later on. Do you have anything to. Elizabeth to that item. Not about the. New. Member. So. Reserve. Some comments at the end. For 2. Bring on the. Steve. Thank you. The other update that I would like to give you is related to a human related. Patience. Fund. This is an item that we also. So provide an update. Last month. and I would like to remind you. The second. Ground is going to be is going to open really soon. That's. First week of April. Broke, and I. Encourage you to share his. Opportunity with community members. Has been a. Going to say. Patience. That are community led who might be interested in applying for.

[66:03] The funds. Be as far. Will be available. 4 of it. And happening. Between. Second. Part, but. The year. Which is from June to December 2024. All of the information in the option. Occasion will be an. Is available. Online, I would like also to share with you that for the first half. Up the EU. Year. Events that happen between January as of May of 20. And 24. 9 groups. So agencies were granted, funds. For 7 different events. Yes. You'll have, at least in here a few of the organization. Sessions. That were granted funds, and that includes Portland. Be mock up. Let me see. That also known. We can't leave, but. Undergrowl. My. Speaker, and Wacb. the Museum of Boulder and the Second Baptist Church.

[67:00] to go ahead. What is. A Return. I don't know that group. Mitchati is a movement dance center. January. How they define it. It is not. Located on. Thirtieth. With, and. 30 of an Arakhole shopping mall. Area. They do have. All sorts of. That's classic. This is the space. That is open for juice. Where? And Jonathan. Dots. I don't. I don't know that it's limited in terms of HI know that. They also practice danza in. Little dances, hip, hop. And others. Yeah. Is. Is one of those groups, smaller organizations that. Started Line for funds, I believe. Last. There? Great. Yeah. Very impressive, and those who are young at heart that is correct.

[68:04] There's a lot of talent. In our. Community at large and. And. In this specific group, as well. Before we leave. The Human Relations Fund just wanted. To note. And. Figure. I didn't. Back, to. View ahead of ahead of time, but we. When we. That process to kind of remove. This grant making function from. Hrc. And embed it. Within our human human service. Versus investments team. Which is led by Julia Daly and. He should. Key, Hagen, The. Her, was. Kind of. Offered to be a representative from the Human Relations Commission. And to help. Review grant applications and make those decisions. I know it's been a lot. Of. You've had some challenge. As well, just. Kind of time. And scheduling. Just want to kind of bring that up. We have.

[69:01] Other city. Staff member. Anger. Read, and. And what. Of our colleagues. Bar Butca does not otherwise work in. You know, kind of on these issues at all. Helping review. That much. And making decisions. So just wanted to lift that up, and that one of the the structure that we put in place was that the Hr. Or see, could. Have someone. Help. Review these applications, and Pika just wanted to empower you to say. Like. If you want to like. Like this is going. Well, is it something you want to keep doing. Hey! Do you feel like you need to, you know. See if somebody else wants. Wants to. Yeah. I so. With Adam, who. I don't really. and ingrid, and said that it was just so hard to so hard. Can fit it into this. Schedule, and have a time for. To me, and. So I would really appreciate it if someone else would be able. To take on. That goal I know. Matui right here, right.

[70:00] So. I know I'm only talking. To 2 people who already. Have taken on another role with the address. But maybe when our 2 new members. Come on. It can be something that we can discuss. For sure at the time. Time I can. Speak little bit about the time required. Departments are. Just in terms of general capacity. Is. When the Application. Cycle opens, right is when is when. The. Look of the work. Argued. In Israel. I mean. Application which has been. Please. Simplified to the Max, as of you may recall from previous. Application, process. See. So I think both. Like these. Yeah. And Staff also appreciate the fact that it's a much simpler process. This. Include. The reviewing team to. See, the application is not. A long way. Doesn't take. Lot of time for grading. And. Then the the

[71:01] committee, the reviewing committee. We, we. And compare. Results of. Those grading skills. And from there. The suggestion. Questions, on. Funding. Come come, come. True. So we will provide, maybe more specifics about that. But was that it. To the tiniest. First. Come on. Board so you can. I mean. Aside. Amongst yourself. Who would like to be. Part of that. Process any questions for me? Yeah. Any questions about a human relations fund? No questions. Great. Okay. The next step of date is regarding. Being our senior. Attorney's office and the. The, a.

[72:00] Delegated. Staff member who works with housing and humans. I guess. As you know, warehouse on your housing, human services. And Did you all recall when on during our. Speak, to. Read, and, Sarah, I'll retrieve. Sent. Throughout the. He is. 3, almost. Streets, in. History of the Hrc. Lucas Markley. Was. The attorney. That you. To be. You know. That can. Action, with. The city attorney's office, and will. If. Provide guidance to. Commission. Look at. As, to. At a different. And an exciting opportunity. Community, and a sister municipal. With the. And he's no longer, which is. City However. Roberto Ramirez joined the city. Early on. This year. And. This is a picture of him, and. And I will share a little bit about. Him and Who he is, and if you wish at a later.

[73:01] Or day. To make that connection. So maybe once. New members come on board. Like. You can always. In by hand, to. To have a conversation and. To know each other. There. So Roberto Ramirez is. Order's new deputy. The attorney. He is also our tenant caller, Colonel. In that. United States Air Force reserves in a Federal job. Dutch. The Air Force Court of Criminal. Appeals. As a civilian he has been the head. Ahead of litigation. For the city of our. Butta. And has been a State judge. A swap. In the Air Force. He has. Work legal issues as an area. Force, Federal prosecution. Peter. terminal, defense, counsel. trial, consult. or instructor. Of the. Okinawa. Pan. Mail in Japan, South Korea, Africa. That will. Blam. Singapore. Australia.

[74:01] Diego Garcia, which is the in. Again Ocean Colombia Green. And. Nico, Hawai, Colorado, California, Jamaica. Oh, why not? I mean. North Dakota, South. Koran. Cows. Success. Oklahoma. Texas, Louisiana, Alabama. It's hard access. Carolina, Florida. Georgia, New Jersey, and Washington, DC. Pleasants. Isn't it that impressive. Arso is also a Marshall fellow, where he tried. Travel to Belgium, Germany, France, Switzerland. And Greece. But. Mia! Needless to say, we are. Like. Extremely lucky that Rowan. And is. Part of. Of the. CDO. Where, and. Resource to the. Human Relations Commission. And He is also.

[75:00] By, the. What I wouldn't be amazed if he speaks more than one language that is not listed. His bio. But I wanted to. To make. You are up to date with. And are. Staff. Changes and. Fact that we are in amazing hands. I don't think secret. You're welcome our next. Next, that. Update is a little bit. Recover. And I'll go ahead. And Anne. ask will be submitted to provides with that update. So yes. JH. And Carlos had requested that we provide another. Update. On this. Project. We've shared with you about it several times in the past year. And and. Happy to do so. So. It is a. They! Pilot, project. Correct. Thank you. That. We are the city. It's funding with some of our COVID-19.

[76:02] Aim American. Rescue Plan act, funds. I'm free. Rebel. In, to. In total of the cities. Investment. From that recording. It's probably us from that. from those 5. Else. and. And we are doing this. Again, because. We know how many. And he. Challenges there are with people who are living in this community with lowest. Income. And direct cash assistance. That is not. That is unconditional and unrestricted, which means we know you don't have any. Enough money. Hey? We're going to give you money, and we're not going to tell you. What you have to do with that. We're not going to. And tell you you can only spend it on food, or you can only spend it. Rent, or you know. Can only spend it on help. Health, care. It's up to you, because. We trust that individual. Rules are. And families. Know their needs better than anyone else.

[77:00] It's a process that is. Been already. Test. Than that is. In place. Skin. More than 30 communities all over the country. Some have just been. And. Pilot projects that. And have. Started in the. And ended. Others are going up. And. I mean, with the hopes of that. Last, you know. For many, many years. This is a pilot. Project. So right now we do not have plans in place to continue. After 22. 1,000. 26, when the. Funds need to be expended or spent. But however. We hope that it is. A project. Check that when it proves successful we'll be able to continue so just have a few things. On this. Slide again, just as a reminder for how we. Got to this. Place. The project was open to. For people to. To apply eligible back in the fall. From

[78:02] kind of November. Nope. Sorry. Like from October. Through November and. And people needed to. The residents of. City. Boulder the. At least 18. Here's a bolt, a. Each. Had to have. Experience, that. Negative. Impacts, for. COVID-19. Which was. Pretty much everybody and then have in common. Household. The income. Between 30 to 6. 60%. Area Median income. And again, it's kind of a complicated. Did. Formula but it. The numbers are. Different. Depending on. And where you and how many people are in your area. Your household. But those were the eligibility. Criteria. In terms of the. Process, we. Had. Back in January 2,020. 3 9 community members. Verse. Who applied to. And we're. Part of the community task force.

[79:02] That helped identify those eligibility crises. Criteria. And just other. Up key. Kind of. Program or Project, Element. Like, how much. Finding, a. People going to receive, and for. How long. and how often. Pen. And we also work very. Closely. Not only with. That task force, but also. A number of nonprofit organizations in the community. Particularly. Regularly organized. That serve our low income population. That are also led by the people, who they. Are sir? So a Latino organization that's led by Latinos and serving. Latino, or. Led by. People who Are identify as. As. Lgbtq. Who are serving that. Population. So a number of those. Organizations. And then many more. More, who helped, spread. The word and make sure people were aware of this opportunity.

[80:00] After all the applications. Came in. We one of our. Consultant. When. Ahead and did a. Selection by random lottery. That was not anything that Staff participated in November and went through and said. You're in. You're not. It was a random. Lottery. Process. How many applicants? Charlotte, Well over a thousand. 1,000, and we had from that selected 200 based on the criteria. After people were selected we had a review process to make sure that everyone. He was selected. Was eligible. And. Fortune. With programs like this. Where people could apply. From their homes. Right. You didn't have to come in person. We have to just. Make sure that people are who they say the. Are, and unfortunately. Fortunately, but expected. There were some people. Who were not, who they said they were. Or just report it. Information that meant they were not.

[81:00] Eligible. Didn't live in the city. That was mostly the case. And fortunately. And. By design, the system. And that. We use to collect applications enable. So. People to us to go in and be. Of the. See whether or not somebody was submitting accurate information or not. so that turned out to be very. Helpful. In the end people who were selected and kind of approved to verify. That their information was. Correct. They, then. Moved on to an enrollment. Process. And they. We had 200 people. Success. So we're. All. And they started receiving. Being payments of 2. $250. Llers. So receiving. Those payments. Twice per month, just like. Like you. Paycheck. I'm so. Started on January. But Dean. So the program has been payments

[82:01] going out every. You know. Twice a month. Since January fifteenth. And that will. Continue through January 22. And be 6. So if you go to the next. Slide. JH. And Carl. Us. Specific. Typically kind of interesting little bit more information about who who are the participants. One thing I'll share again is that the names of the people who are participating in this project. Members are not public. We have no intention of doing that. People had the opportunity. Need to In di-. Kate. They wanted to be. Part of an evaluation process. Us, like filling out. Survey or. Coming to a focus group. Meeting. Potentially Engaging in storytelling. For people who. Wanted to share their story about how. This process is, in fact. Them that is completely up to them. We're not requiring anyone to to.

[83:02] Share their story. But there are a number of people who did say they want to, or they want. Opportunity. So we'll be. Continuing. To. Work with them. To to just see how they want to do that. There are a lot of other there are many examples for him. How that. Happens or takes place for other pilot. Raja. In the country. And. Everything from just kind of sharing a photo or a story. Or a quote. And a website to. Project. Like. In. St. Paul, Minnesota. where people who are receiving direct. Cash assistance. Our Artists. And people have put together Dan's. Performances. Poetry, readings, narrative. As murals, all sorts. It's a really creative ways to express. This opportunity. Utilities, so. So. We're still kind of working on what. But that might look like.

[84:00] And what opportunities will make available. To people who participate. Is, the the. If if they want to do that. But one of the things. But jh and Carlos we're interested in is just. Without revealing anyone's idea. Identities kind of who are. The people who are participating. Hitting in the project. so this what you see on the screen is from the. Kind of the dashboard. That is within the application system. and so what you can see. And unfortunately, I'll read these out on my screen. I can hover over the the circles, and it'll tell me percentages. But I could. Reckless. That on this screen. Reading. but. Of the people who were selected. I. 65%. Percent of them who applied. I. Identified as. Women. 7 or 3.5% identify. That is to. Transgender 30% identified as male. And then 2 people identified.

[85:00] Multiply this. As kind of the other option. They didn't want to say. For race and ethnic. Sadie. 45 point. 5% of participants identified as Hispanic or Latino. 34% are. Light. 7. Sent Asian. 4.5. Like person identified as black or. Yeah, for kindergarten. Ken. 6 point. 5 As Multi race. One person. And. American Indian, and these might not be. The terms that we would. Use, their sense. As she. Terminology. and then 3 people. Does not. Identify 15%. And of. The people who applied identified as having a disability, and that. Could be. They they chose, you know they they would know what they mean, but that in our minds can include. Would be. Well, that. Have a physical. Disability, perhaps a mental.

[86:02] developmental or intellectual decision. Ability. Anything, so. It was like. Up to them, to. Check. Yes or no. We didn't ask for any of those details. The household. Size is the. The bar graph on right! And that indicates. That I to put my glasses back on. Starting with the pink bar. I know it's a little bit hard to read on the left. Thank you, Ingrid. that. Is, represents, the. Of peace. People. So 35. People. Just a one person, household. But. Most of the rest. Of the. Applicants, as you can see combined, are. Household, of. 2 or more people. People. We had 2 people who are receiving the direct cash assistance, have a. Household of 7. And we didn't ask for. Or any. I've been. And people. So there! Might have been somewhere. Part.

[87:01] One thing that I think is really what we know about. These guys. Kinds of programs. Is. That if you are in a where, you have 2 or more people in your household, and especially if they're. Children in the House. All. It's the adult who is obviously. Receiving the funding. but everybody back. Methods. And. This is what I one of the things. That I find really exciting. About this. Is that there are 149 of the 2. And a. Applicants. have children in their household. and if you add the number of. Children. Who are in those households. Together. Owner. We had. 200. And 72. So in addition. To 200 individual. Receiving the direct hash assistance. There's Was 3. 100. People in this. City, who are. Automatically. And directly benefiting because their their children living in that household. When we think about

[88:01] The challenges that children have. If you are in a family that might lose. Its house. Or where your family can't pay for utility. These. Or can't pay for transportation or enough food. This is also where that matters right. So when she'll. Children, are. Able to be a. Household! That. Where they're. Basic needs. Are met that impacts everything else in their life. From it. A case of. And to health, to make. The other indicators. So we're just really I think that's exciting. Sightings. To see right. So we just know there's. Automatically, many more. People who are directly benefiting. We will be conducting surveys. Uses it. Mentioned a minute ago. For people who selected that option. Many people did choose. Choose to press. Participate in. And Evaluate. Through surveys. If they select. That option when they enrolled in. Appropriate.

[89:00] They sold out. And. A baseline. Survey with just. All sorts of questions about about them, and. You know what. Their ability was to. Pay for basic. Need. For food. About mental health, because we know that that and physics. Health. We know that's a huge can. Be really hugely affected by. Again. Whether you have enough money in your household. To take. Care of your need. It's. And so. We. We're working with a consult. Buttons. Big for. That evaluation process the next time. Be serving people who. Indicated. They want it to be. He was. Is in August. Guest. So that's kind of like the next. Milestone it which. Will have more information to see at that point. Night how people are reporting like, How is your like. Sorry. How is? Your life different. Based on before. Or master. and then we'll do. You another. Survey In the second year. Here. Just to ask them some.

[90:00] The same questions. so we don't. Have anything, really. To report. And I'm like, how's it going? Typically. It takes. Little bit. or, you know, for you to really start seeing impact. Max. Although every time. And that we. The system automatically sends the funds out to people. We do have a number. Of people who just. Right in to our customer service. Portal. And we'll. Say things like, can I share my. Story. I wanna tell you something. Who can? Is there something. I can do. Like. Is there something I can do to volunteer to help like I just want. Be able to contribute more. This is. Helping me so much. and. We say no, you. Don't need to do that like we're going. Be happy to take your. Story when you want to share. But this is Restricted. Funds. There's no obligation. But I to me, that. That's just reflective of people are. Just. you know, like, really. Excited, and one issue.

[91:03] So. That's kind of what I have to share now. I'm happy to answer any questions. And you have. Of One more thing I know, like there are always. These people, and. Including among our task force members. City. Staff. People who say I know some. Buddy. You know. Who's participating. Yeah. Something like that. So. Okay, they it's up for them to share their story, which we don't have to but at the same. 5. If you know people. Or just hear questions in the community about people who heard about it. Not quite sure. What it means. We are all. Always. Here. We still. You know. You know. Us. You know what I mean. Just ask them they can reach out anytime my name is on the city web page. We'll continue to post information. About the program. Room. As we. Habit. Thank you for doing that. Yeah. I think one other question I asked.

[92:01] When we were preparing in some, let me. I was just checking it. So. So how do you? The numbers that you have compared to the Us. Census for same income range in the model? So. I don't have our our census data open right now, definitely, get back. Back to on that. But. Just looking at one. And saying. Like like a couple of different examples for what we know, and then what we don't know. So race and ethnicity. Is. Actually, if we just look at this. City of Boulder. This is. A an extreme. More diverse group of people than the city as a whole. It is. More representative. Of the. Diversity we have among our low income populations. But certainly happy to compare that as if we just look at. This. City. All. City residents. I believe. Leave our like our It's. The percentage of community members who identify as.

[93:01] Hispanic, or. Latino is around. 5%. Don't know if you is that. About. Right. Ish 9 to 11, maybe. Adrian. And so in this case we have almost. Half of the. People in the program replied, and and then we're randomly selected. Were. Represent, that. Group, for our black and African American. Come on! Population, like. I think it's close. Sir, but it. It is. More kind of a more people in this pool. Of a. Participants than in the general population. 10. Disability is really. Tricky. Right? Because there. Summons. Information. That people. Collect. I mean. About disability. It's like. You have. Have benefits. Like Matt. Local benefits. We. Because you're at. Disability. We have. Some of that information. Information is available. There are many, many Nicked. Disabilities that are called invisible disability. Yeah, so. Somebody who has a brain injury or a learning.

[94:01] Disability or Experiences. This A form of autism. Those are. Or like we. We just don't have good information on that. We connected with organizations like. Think. the center for people with disabilities. Ladies. To help us kind of. Assess, like. What, how should we conduct outreach. To make sure we're getting. People that represent all populations, including people with disabilities. Thanks. And we had them as a partner organization, so that if somebody wanted to apply. but they have a disability and they needed some extra assistance. They were there, you know, to help. Them with the pros. And that was the same thing with people with other languages, particularly Spanish and the poly. 8. Although we have. People. Who needed help in other languages. Have a leg. Which line so overall we try. To me. Sure that it was not only up

[95:00] inclusive process, but. Also in dignified. 5 process. Where people. People felt like they had with the information. Nation, that. Needed is a way that they needed it. Able to. Understand it. And go through the process. I straight from your question, but hopefully. Helpful. Yeah, we could. Do, you know, like a more of a side by side, comparison. And. Gender identity is another one that's like. Little bit. Tricky. Because we don't. Always ask people we don't want to be invasive. Some people to. They're like, I don't wanna tell you. How I identify. And that is. Yeah, you know. But we work with outlook. All the. To you. For example, to try to understand like how should we, you know, make sure that. Were Reaching as broad a population as possible. School. If you don't. Any other questions or comments about elevate boulder.

[96:04] We'll make. Events, Brian opworks. Elizabeth, person answer all the questions that I have. With this, I think when people ask me. You can. Yeah. And I should say that we I will admit in our if our communications colleague is listening, she'll say. Like, I owe her some information to update. One of the. Just it. We may not put these graphs on exactly. Week is. Again. They don't show percentages. It's also. So, just really. Barred. It's not. Hour. City dashboard. There are a lot of dashboards on our web. The city website. Site. But we don't kind of it's through another website. So I just cut and. Pasted and stuck it on a you know slide. But we'll probably have information on the website that just kind of. And be a. Some of the Exam. Tools of the percentage.

[97:00] Of you know who the who, the participants. Participants are and could. Do some comparisons, you know. For Pete's. That's helpful to kind of the general population. So that's coming. It's not been. List. I will just highlight that it would be important not only to. Turn! For listening to those back full stories and testimonies of. Of how. How? The program has impacted. That. Participants, but also the continuation and potential. Special. Duration of the program. Later on. Right Which we'll see more and learn more. Has. That was all. There was. assess the program and share a soul. And it's a long process of. Sentiment to city officials. Send me! Cetera, but is

[98:00] it's a pilot. Project and I just invite you to stay tuned. and if any of you are interested, there are several of their exhibits. In, their. Projects all over. The country. There's another very large project in Denver. Called the Denver Basic. Income Project. They have a very Robust, I would even say. Of complex. Research, Evaluation. Program. Where they're giving some people. A certain amount of. Money, and another. Group of people. A different amount. So they can really. Come, tear. Among. People. Receiving my. Food. The impacts are different. We're not doing that very, very deep, broad rate. Search. Because it's been done already. And many other. Cases. But there are other programs just right in our region. That are also doing this.

[99:00] Strategy. And and they're looking at expanding. And extend. The project there. paint? Any questions, comments. And since. No? Well, we can move on into the next. Next agenda, I. And I'm oh. You can check. Yeah, I still have one item to go over which. Is human. Trafficking trainings that are coming. I thought I'd. But a slide here. But I'm not seeing it. Oh, here it is. Okay. Great. So I wanted to share with you a learning overview. Opportunity for us. Mission and. And. Anyone who's interested. There are community trainings that are having. Happening. In our region. I happen to attend a one. In Longmont.

[100:00] Over a month ago. These trainings are on human trafficking and. And. The training is very. Overhead. Serve on a more updated on set. But. Of what human trafficking. Means. In our country in in this country. And they're hosted by the. Left. Auditory. Need to combat. Human trafficking, and the district. But. Attorney's office. There is an upcoming training on a. Proof. Third from 10 am. To 1130 A. M. If you want to. We can attend. Does the QR. Code that will take you to the. Signed. Mean to the sign up, form. Where. You can. Are more about. About the training. Specifically because a number of city staff members were able and invited to attend to that training in Longmont which, by the way, was open to the entire community. and there were materials required.

[101:00] See! With Larry! Circulating around. And. We are hoping to an organize. Seen. To host. Series of. Sessions coming up this summer. This is in collaboration with the city of older office. Equity. In the login, and our. The office like. Humor, right. Ice. And we will be able to share more information with you about those upcoming sessions and opportunities. In summer we're hoping to have a variety of options, and. And invite people. Who are interested in learning more about it. This is. Part of a national campaign that has amazing material. In several. Languages. It's really. Rich and The people who facilitate the training also are very well earned. First off. On a specific region, problematic.

[102:01] Like areas so. It is very relevant. To the of the. Customer Relations Commission, and I'll invite you. To participate. State, and if you're able on, if. April. And or attend to any of the summer sessions. Just. Just one thing. Oh. can you make decisions in the afternoon? Because 10 to 11. Very easy. Is a little. Difficult for me. Third place. Yeah. I understand that this is not a session, that. Be, to. Together. Is a session. That is available right now, that is before. Birdie name. In partnership. Shape with our. Agencies, include. The district attorney's office. We will be contemplating. And. Dates and times that are suitable to, and, you know, accessible to communities. Members that we we yeah. Or maybe yes, weekends or

[103:00] it means, yeah, that's something that we strike to do. Even in When we hosted the. A recent series on. Migrant. Ums. We were hosting those here in this building during Saturday morning. Oops! And there is one that. Is coming up at some point as. Well, so yes, thank you for making that suggestion. We will absolutely. Be. Take that into. Account. Thank you. The way I get this update information, I told her. I'm sorry. What may you do to some formation. Both. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. We will make it available in our work. Website. And since you're exiting that people. Relations Commission that we just. Encourage you to stay. Touch in a. And he's in. Yeah. Stay, touch with your peers as well. But we will make it, you know, as accessible as possible.

[104:02] For the. Entire community to be aware that these sessions are. Available ink. Anything else. No. thanks. I will share the the slides. I don't eat. So you can have also access to the QR. Code. Code and. Information that is included here. But we can move on into. The next. Agenda item, which is actually Commissioner solates before following up close and closing. So. Did you have. Updates. Not a few so a couple of things one mentioned earlier. I met with a couple members of the city council. It was at. Lauren Fulford and her letters!

[105:00] But I'm. Talk about the need for. Nervous. Board, and. Commission, Reform and. They were, they were one. Triple. They were, you know we we had coffee and. I have. Listen to like. To say. Both of them are former. Or. And Commission members themselves. And so what. What base won't we. What's that? What I was raising was something that they're seeing across. Multiple. Rips and commissions. Kind of. A. They recognise that. He's very sorry. Whole group of people who are very willing to volunteer their time and energy to help. And that the. System is not really. Working as as it should. So. I believe I believe they have various subcommittees and city council, and I believe. Leave. They are the ones who. Are assigned to look at. For to commit. Shions. So so I just wanted to let you all know about that and I also, when I set my resignation letter I firstroom

[106:03] most of the city council emailed me back individually. Employees to say that they, they. A message, and. And there for me September issues. But I I. My take. Away from this. If. That they're all very open and willing. And to. To hear from us, although, interestingly, I I think it sometimes is more effective to do so as an individual. Sure. Then through 4. Or not. Channels. And so that door is open. To all of you. And I will also say that We. I believe in the 3 years that I've been on this commission there are only 2 members. Of city, council. Well, now, we're also part of City Council. Yeah, me. There is a whole new group of people. Include. All the new members who were elected in November, and they themselves are in the middle.

[107:01] Trying to learn. About all this. Works So I just say, that's. That. If you ever have any issues or concerns you want to raise. I. Do you think I would encourage you. To reach out. To members of city council individually and just have coffee with them and talk, cause I think they're very receptive, and that's good way to sort of elevate issues for future Confederation. So that's one thing. I wanna tell you all. The second thing is, I had coffee yesterday with one of the new incoming members of the Hrc. Erin. It's a mayor or not. I don't know how to pronounce. Brooks. you may or may not know. Erin actually ran. City council. And was not elected. But he! You know. He is. Going to take the 5 years. Term, and I think you've. Great. He is. He's young, he's energetic. He has experience working.

[108:01] And. Civil society and on policy issues. City. And he's very excited to join the H. Actually. And so I. Just Met with him, and told. Him a little. In, about. Mike. Experience on the Hrc. I. Encouraged him. To reach out to all of you and to other former members of the agent. See. And and so I think, you know. I think you have a really nice new addition. And. I have not spoke, spoken to Emily Logar, but. I did look at. Her application, and I think she also has good. Policy. Policy, mind? And I also think both of them have connections to the University. City as well, which I think is also nice, because. I don't think any of. Us. Officially. Week, and I. Capacity of connections. Universe. Be great, so. So I just wanted to. But from. You know that. Too! On there. I wanted to thank all of you. Too. It's been a.

[109:00] Barrier. Learning. Experience. Yeah. Like I said last month. I have mixed feelings. Things, about. To be a. But I'm sure I will. You know we'll stay in time. And there were. The other ways. In the future. Where I can get involved. Thank you, Christine. Yes. Thank you, Christian. I'll be in touch. you know any responses. At least. You know, comments additional updates. It's not about Christine. It's about me. I also would like to. I think the. But. It, gives. Opportunity to be a part of human. Alright, I'm not sure. Yeah, it was great. You dance. For me, and. I also understand. She.

[110:00] Okay, yeah. People is great. One moment. real quick. So much. I think. So. Message. It sounds good. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So we can move on into follow up items in closing. I can. Theater. What I have. He's there. That are default. Enough with with all of you. Oh, yeah. So I will Go ahead. And remove the highlighted area. Yes, from. later you have put together to council and submitted. I will also reshare the link to minimum wage survey as well as the flyer, with each. Upcoming. Events. I will also share the slide deck

[111:01] for tonight's meeting. So you can have access to the. Presentations. and I will also add the flyer. For the upcoming human. Traffic. Event that is happening. Home, April. Third, and keep. If you. Said. As. And when other sessions. Are scheduled. Feature. There. Those aren't gonna happen in summer. So. Yep. Do you have any. Other. Hello Island, Senator. Bless you! Just one. I think, and. Addition to those is So the when mark fear. Public comment and. Beginning from tenant advisory Committee. That's another committee that. that the. Our department, our housing. Service. Department Staff. Apps. I will be in touch with the. Some of our. Ingrids in my.

[112:00] I found a. Thanks. Which? What carrier. Closely. Let's close. Get that committee the committee chair, and and Mark and others there. So. We've had. Kind of hear a little bit more about. What they have in mind, and just and. Able. Or direct. Additional direct communication. with them. and you from issues that you find mutually a mutual interest in use. I I. Think. The other comment I would just make on that. Is, that. So it it kind of goes back to. What Christine was. Share it. Hang, and. The letter that you. I think the letter that you're going to submit to council about. So Needing clarity, right on whose roles are. And was. Will be. As. And as staff, regardless of what the Board or in our committee. We So committees are, are yet enough. Other. Type of particip Participatory. Body in in our department we have probably.

[113:01] I think, 8 or 9 committees that help manage our funding. Programs that. Tenant, advisory committees. Is an older adult. If I. Misery, commit. The youth, Opportunity. It is a. Advisory Board. Already got locked. And so it's just we we wanna keep eyes on Ensure that everybody. Is really. Is really as clear as possible. Possible on what their role. Is otherwise everybody's kind of doing it. Everything. And and there's less impact to have right? So I just wanted to share that is that I think there's always we want to foster communication between all the different groups. We're. You want. Do that, and it doesn't necessarily mean that you are expecting. Elected. Take on all of. Issues and. In fact, that's probably not. Good idea! But we're we'll follow up. Just hear a little bit more. About what mark has in mind, and you know, for the next meeting. See how you want to proceed with that communication.

[114:01] and then my other comment is just to to add. Add on, but thank you. Is Christy. Team and. To Anna. We will miss. SU, and. It's really been a pleasure to get to, to work with you, to to learn from you both. Both. And to just. Help try to be responsive, to. You. What you find. is. Not only an an issue in our community, but ones that you are particularly interested about. Trying to. The back change. Charles. It. We greatly admire you and everyone. Wants to step into these roles and thank you very much. Is it? Crap 50 bucks on the phone before anything closely? Also, if you can. Eva! They come in a band. Answer. Remote. And all those organizations.

[115:01] There! Oh, those are already already happened. Because those were taking place. Is between January. Married in May are in the still, are still. If I up. I think we mobilized. Second cycle. Okay. the homecoming cycle. But some. But we go. Through, through, may also. I think the. From the. Probably haven't had. But yeah, okay. Anyway, the events are in your spreadsheet. Where the events are that other. So make sure I. So say that. Pretty. Thank you. Sold yours. Oh, is it? Can you take a motion to return one? Yeah, that's Christine. Would you like to take a last motion. Sure. Yeah. Goodbye, Allen. So click, it. But that. I hope that we adjourn tonight.

[116:01] Dating second. 21. Yeah, I don't know. Thank you. Froze. I will say, Hi! Hi! James, Hi. Adam. Have a good day every good night, and.