November 18, 2024 — Human Relations Commission Regular Meeting

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[0:16] All right. Welcome to the November 18th Human Relations Commission meeting as a reminder. This is a bilingual meeting, and so we have interpretation service available for you. If you can. Please take some time to. If you have not done so already. go to the bottom of your screen. You should see a globe at the bottom of your screen click on the globe, and you will see the English and Spanish. The languages are your options, for tonight. If you can just pick one of those to select the language that you would like to listen to this meeting in Este es la reunion de

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[2:06] Okay, I'm going to share my screen so we can see the agenda. Give me one second. and, Carlos, I will hand it over to you. Appears to me. Okay, good evening. And today is, Thursday, November 1820, 24. And it's 6 13. We are going to start our meeting on this day.

[3:03] Oh, we are going to stir and call the orange here. I didn't. We already did that. Let's go to the agenda adjustment. Anybody have any agenda adjustment? Or do you want to do any. Carlos. If any of the commissioners do now would be the time to bring that up. Okay. so let's go to the next pointless. We're going to proof the minutes of last month, October, and somebody wants to do

[4:09] any command of the last minutes of agenda or. I approve the minutes for the Human Relation Commission meeting that was held on October 1520, 24. Second. A second. Okay, thank you. Let's go to the open payment online. You assume that we have any people or person that wants to comment. We do, and since we do, I am going to say our

[5:04] little spiel here. So give me one second. Let me get this pulled up for public comments and public participation. Okay, so public participation at city meetings. the city has engaged with community members to co-create a vision for productive, meaningful and inclusive civic conversations. This vision supports physical and emotional safety for community members, staff and board and commission members as well as democracy. For people of all ages, identities, lived experiences and political perspectives. For more information about this vision and the community engagement processes. Please visit the websites that are showing on your screen.

[6:11] The following are examples. Jen, we're not seeing the screen share, if you please. That meeting. I am seeing the screen share. Then it's just me. I am told I'm sharing the screen by zoom. Is anybody else is. Can anybody else let me know if they're seeing it? Yep, see. It's just me. Right. Technology is great when it works. Okay. The following are examples of rules of decorum found in the Boulder revised code and other guidelines that support this vision. These will be upheld. During this meeting

[7:02] all remarks and testimony shall be limited to matters related to city business. No participant shall make threats, or use other forms of intimidation against any person. Obscenity, racial epithets, and other speech and behavior that disrupts or otherwise impedes the ability to conduct the meeting are prohibited. participants are required to sign up to speak, using the name they are commonly known by, and individuals must display their whole name before being allowed to speak online. Currently, only audio testimony is permitted online. And for those who are joining for public comment. Once I finish this here, I will just ask that you raise your hand, and I will temporarily promote you to panelists so that you may speak. and I'm going to stop sharing my screen. I believe we have one person here tonight for public comment.

[8:03] Can you please raise your hand alright? Joy! I see you're raising your hand. I am going to promote you to panelist. You should see a message come up on your screen. Alright, and we have joy. Alice Eisenhower. Hi! Can you hear me? We can hear you give me one second. I'm gonna put a timer up on this screen for you. You have 3 min for public comments. Thank you so much for having me letting me join. I appreciate your time, Commissioners. My name again is Joy Alice Eisenhower. Oh, there we go. There you go! Okay, were you able to hear my hello and thank yous. Already. Great. I am the Cultural Arts director at the Boulder Jewish Community center, and I'm excited to share with you that we are hosting a Smithsonian traveling exhibit this February 20 second to March 23.rd It's called the Bias inside us, and this is a multimedia exhibition

[9:19] that is free to the public open Monday through Friday, and I am excited to get everybody in Boulder. Aware of this exhibition, and that there's an opportunity for our community to all engage in this conversation around bias. The exhibition really brings awareness to our implicit and then explicit bias. And through this awareness there's opportunity for us to learn and hopefully grow. And as you all know, this is very timely work and important for our community conversations. I've been reaching out to lots of organ arts, organizations, and community leaders. We already have many like 20 different community partners from the rotary to the Office of Arts and Culture to the Chamber

[10:16] that are involved and are going to be promoting and doing programming along with us. And I just wanted to have a little time to share with you to see if you have any questions. I Christian, was wonderful enough to connect me with your marketing department, and they've agreed to help promote it. But I just wanting to. you know, honor this very exciting opportunity that we have in Boulder to be hosting this exhibition, and I want to make sure, as many people are aware of it as possible. So if you have any suggestions or ideas or questions for me, I would love to answer them, and again thank you so much for having me.

[11:11] Hey, Joy, thank you so much for being here. I have a question. You said that it was a multimedia experience, and I'm just wondering if you'd share a little bit more about what someone who chooses to go to this exhibit might experience. Yeah, so it's It's a multimedia. It's there's a lot of written information. There's artwork that's incorporated in it. There's audio. And there's videos. And so anyone could come at any age. We have a preschool at our at our Jcc. And we'll be engaging the preschoolers and the teachers. But it is maybe geared more to high schoolers, middle school and high schoolers, and above, because there is reading and attention needed to go through it. But there's no.

[12:00] there's nothing that would be off putting or inappropriate for younger people. And I can share with you online or Christian can share with you online on the Smithsonian website, the entire exhibition is available to look through virtually so you can see every piece of it. It's a different experience. But you'll get a sense. Great. Thank you. After the excuse me, after the meeting tonight I can send the materials and information joy that you had provided to me as well for the communications folks. Thank you. And if, after looking over this information, if you all have any questions or suggestions how to best reach out to the wider community. I you know, I just like, I said, this is such a great opportunity. I want. Really.

[13:04] the exhibition is only as good as the people that come, and the conversations that we have in boulder, and the impetus that this potential has for us to really delve into this dialogue around bias. which I think is so important, and really the foundation to so much of the social justice and inclusion work that we have all been doing in the arts and our city. I really feel that this is part of a conversation that has been going on and will continue. But this is just a really, I think, accessible way, and a Smithsonian exhibit. It brings a certain notoriety for us, and so I'm just excited to share. Thanks, so much joy. Appreciate you sharing excited about it. Do. Do you have any flyer that we can share with the community members. Yes, we will be building assets for all of our community partners to be able to share. We don't do a lot of print at the Jcc. But we'll be printing a few posters for different partners that want to put up in their organizations. But we'll be doing social media assets and emails that you can forward along to your

[14:23] businesses and mailing lists and all of those things. And of course, everything is going to be online. And was that one other thing that I wanted to add to that? Yeah, we just try not to print that much these days, you know. No, no, that that's fine. But I don't know if Christian have the flyer. And he can share to us online to or by email. Yes, we can definitely share all the information virtually.

[15:06] Thank you. Thank you, Joy, for sharing the information with us. Yeah, thank you so much for giving me some time. I appreciate it. Perfect. Thank you. Joy. Joy is the only person that we had tonight for public comment, Carlos. So I will put the agenda back up on the screen for you.

[16:03] It's okay. I have a Mayan. Okay, perfect. Ha! Ha! I always have mine. Okay, let's go to the make sure. Mine is a section items. And I think in this point we are going to talk about the Handbook update. Yes, so I can speak to this a little bit. At the last meeting Elizabeth and I asked if there were any commissioners who would be interested in helping with the update of the Commissioner's handbook. Emily graciously offered to help with this work. We also reached out to Roberto, who, you all know.

[17:02] through the city attorney's office, to just sort of find out the steps in this process. And make sure that we are acting in accordance with all the other boards and commissions at the city. So what we will be doing with the goal of having the updates complete by the seating of new commissioners in 2025 is have a small subcommittee. including myself and Elizabeth, to make updates to the Handbook, and then we will share that work with you all as a whole for feedback and input and then finalize those updates be looking to move pretty quickly because the new Commissioners would be seated in the April 2025,

[18:09] meeting. And so that is gonna come up faster than we know it. So, Emily, we will be trying to compare schedules pretty soon here after, but just wanted to share that brief update, Elizabeth. Anything else to add. No, I think we'll just We'll do what works for people involved. So we'll just yeah kind of do some scheduling offline. I don't know specific. Next step. I think once, yeah, once we dig in, we'll know how big the task is and be able to set some meeting milestones. After that. I have a question for you, Elizabeth, and Christian.

[19:01] Because before we used to do a motion to let somebody to do some extra work do we have to do now with Emily? I don't know that you need to vote, I think. Last time at the last meeting, Emily, you know, volunteered to step into that role, and everyone agreed to that, since there's just one member and not more than 2 who are involved. I think I think your agreement was your kind of consensus support for her doing that was noted, and I don't think you need to have a vote. Okay? Good. No, that's fine. Do you have any other question? Or about this point?

[20:00] The Hamburg of tapes? No, okay. Me shake your head. Gmail. This go to the next point is 6. So discussion, informal. Item. we are going to talk in this point about the lab to combat human traffic in presentation is our first, st the point page. Yep, and the intent of this space is to just have some more conversation between Commissioners following up after the presentation and conversation with Kara at the last meeting, for folks who were there.

[21:00] Aaron, I know, was not so. I'm not sure if anybody wants to kind of quickly sum up what happened in that conversation. But we ended with wanting to have some more combo and talk about potentially putting on an event. In early 2025. There's also information, Erin. If you haven't seen there's information in the meeting minutes. that is part of the meeting packet you have as well. Perfect. Yeah. I glanced over, but I haven't looked in detail, so appreciate the overview. No problem, so I'll turn it over to you all. I'm quite rusty on all that Kara talked about. But kind of our what I am remembering is that the lab to combat human trafficking does a lot of workshops

[22:01] and that it would likely be a pretty low lift on our part and on our on Elizabeth and Christian's part to identify a space and an audience. And then I think we might do some outreach to specific communities that we were interested in inviting But as I recall, there was some energy from us commissioners with hosting a workshop that would support people and identifying and combating human trafficking. And we were interested, maybe, in working with the schools, the school district, because Kara said that they weren't aware of any work in the schools in Boulder Valley schools on it, if I remember right. And we we're wanting to talk more about timeline and venue, and and all that good stuff is my recollection. But I'm

[23:04] curious. Vicker or Carlos, if there's any anything I missed there. No, I think you kind of summarize everything that we were saying next steps would be. I think we decided to just take a pause, because we wanted to make sure Aaron and Jh. Were on board before we just made the call. I wish Aj. Agents here today as well, but we can send him a message separately, or see how we want to move forward. Yeah, that all sounds good to me sounds like a good pathway forward. And I think, you know, we we talked about this briefly when I came back with my report, and it sounded like jade. Was like pretty on board with all this team. So I I think, yeah. Still great to follow up with him. But yeah, it sounds sounds like a pretty clear. Okay.

[24:02] Okay, great. What do next steps look like for us? Then? Christian or Elizabeth. You wanna go, Christian, or shall I go ahead? Is Christian frozen. Looks like it. Okay, so. Looks like it. All right. I'll jump in and hopefully he'll come back. I think your next step would be to if you want to have a public meeting or or training that you could just identify, even. I think, at this point what month you might be thinking about, and Christian and I can help, you know, support you as you as you might need if you wanted to split amongst yourselves, who might reach out to the school district, or, you know, some other key partners

[25:06] to talk to them proactively about about what they might be, what they might be interested in. But I think the 1st step is is just doing that dance of kind of figuring out what timeframe you're you're interested in that feels most realistic. We can help. And you know Christian can help you connect with the the lab and and then do that community outreach, leaving, of course, plenty of time to skip the holidays and and the New year. and yeah, we could just help you with that. I think if you had an idea if you wanted to go in that direction. one, you know. Perhaps obvious option you would have is to think about just holding training as a more public event for a monthly Hrc meeting.

[26:00] You could do that if you wanted to hold it separate, so that you have like a regular monthly meeting and another that you know you that would obviously take a little bit more effort. To find another date. That would work. But that's probably enough just to get you going with some possible next steps. and Christian sent a note. He got the boot so he should be back in hopefully in a little bit. But please carry on with the discussion. Oh, sorry figure! Were you gonna say something? No go ahead! Maybe starting off with pros and cons of holding it at our regular for one of our regular meetings versus for a separate event.

[27:02] Yeah, pros would probably be that most likely all of the Hrc members will be able to attend. Cons. It takes away from our meeting time. Pro. It's I don't know if the community members kind of track this the times that we meet. So if there are people who do. It might be nice to continue on the calendar that we have updated on the website and stuff. But either way works for me. I like the idea of doing it during this time. Yeah, make sure. It ensures that we can all be there, and then we can still, like, advertise it on its own. That feels nice to me. I think we have enough meetings where it's like there's not a whole lot that we need to discuss, but I think it should be fine for us to pack into one of these and ensure that we yep

[28:05] appropriately handle the missed one in the month before, and the month after, that'd be my vote. That works for me. I guess the only benefit I could see from an alternative day would be to be available on the weekends or not. What do y'all think if we hosted it on a week on like a Saturday as a Saturday workshop instead of a a Tuesday, just not sure more people would be available or not. Hmm! I'm forgetting if this was going to be in person, or if it was online. I think we talked about in person, but I could just be misremembering.

[29:04] Hmm! I feel like, if it's in person, more people would be available over the weekends. If it's online, I don't think it's a big inconvenience. It might be a little convenient to actually join over Zoom. So I really don't know I think that's a great question to ask Kara from the lab, maybe what what they've experienced with virtual trainings, because if it is. if it is a very like similar experience, or they've had a lot of engage positive engagement online to your point figure, I think, having it virtually might open more accessibility. Seeing and hearing me.

[30:01] It's a little tinny. But yes. although I shouldn't trust my technology, since I couldn't even see the slides. Yeah, I just wanted to to chime in and say, Lab can do virtual or in person. That would be up to us. I can ask definitely ask Kara about engagement for virtual versus in person presentations and circle back with you all here. It's like the that would be in person more than online. But but you decide, is is the same ordering.

[31:01] It might also be nice to ask her out when she suggests we host this because I don't know if any of us have a specific month we prefer so I feel like whatever she says is best. I'm happy with. I. Actually, we talk about to do it, and I don't remember. It was February, Emily, or January. Right. Yeah, Carlos, I remember, Kara said. Human trafficking month is either February or January, like you're saying, but I can't remember which. And I think maybe Kara is going to be pretty busy during that month. So we talked about potentially. using that as like a a reason to advertise and and hold the training, but saying, like in honor of human trafficking awareness, month, be it January or February, and then hosting it the next month, because we do have that that flexibility. And then that would give us more time

[32:06] to advertise, especially if it's January. Then we would just basically have the the winter holiday season to advertise, which may be tough. Okay. Any other question. Just to point out Kara had blocked off the Tuesday evening. 3rd Tuesday evening of January, February, and March as potential nights to have the presentation What had been discussed was potentially using a Hrc meeting night to have Lab present and using that, doing that in lieu of a meeting if we want to

[33:07] sort of move this faster, a little bit faster than like having me just go back and get info from Kara, waiting until next meeting to share. Out with you all. An idea that we could do is if you all were to name a committee. Like a subcommittee similar to the landlord or not. The landlord, the handbook update. Sorry I'm thinking about my old job, the landlord, tenant handbook, the Commissioner's handbook, naming a subcommittee to work on that I can work with that subcommittee. And we can have some more efficient communication, probably back and forth between lab and the Hrc. Commission.

[34:00] That would. I believe Elizabeth is went off camera for a second, but Carlos, kind of circling back to your previous question. That naming a committee would, I believe. require a vote to happen. If that is something that is of interest to the group. How many people typically serve on a committee. I believe it can be no more than on a subcommittee. It would could be one or 2. I think 3, then becomes quorum, and is a subject to like the open meetings. I'm happy to volunteer to do that. I know, Emily, you're passionate about this topic, so if you'd rather do it, that's fine with me as well. I definitely don't wanna hog anything. If if no one else wants to serve with you, I'd also be happy to to sort to serve with you on the committee.

[35:05] But I don't wanna take it away from Carlos or Aaron, although Aaron is gross, so I don't. Still here, isn't Aaron. But okay, there you go. Give me one second. Still, here, you. For some reason my camera likes to randomly freeze, and I have to do with. And help us. Got it. Really dramatic. Yeah, Carlos and Aaron, what are? How are you 2 feeling? Do either of you want to serve, or you? Okay, if speaker and I serve together. Yeah, I personally love you 2, doing it good, not doing it myself. Credits. I'm open to the weather. You decide. If you want me to join with give, or if you want to do it, it's fine. but we need to decide who. Sounds like you 2 are doing it. I like that.

[36:02] And then we can ask just to clarify, because I don't think I've been here for the forming of a committee like we could still ask you, Carlos and Aaron, to do outreach if you were open and able to do that right. This is not just like, yeah, speaker, and I will take on all of everything for this event. I think it's like y'all are just like directing, and tell us how we can help. Yeah, yeah, I can help you, too. I was. Gonna say, I think to kind of clarify role. It would be like the work that happens between meetings. Would be the work of the subcommittee, and that at this point sounds like some more information gathering from Cara and then bringing that work back to this group. For discussion, further conversation, etc.

[37:02] Yeah on It's hard because we didn't. We decide to have our December meeting, the whole Board and Commission meeting on December 4, th so we don't have a December meeting. Is that accurate? To my not to my recollection. I believe we left it kind of open, ended. We would have a meeting if there was agenda material to discuss not having a meeting and doing the all boards and commissions meeting instead. If there wasn't material to discuss. Elizabeth, does that sound right to you? That's what I recall. Okay. Great. Thank you. Hey?

[38:00] Let's continue to the point. B potential community dialogue regarding conflict perspective on words in my book is. Cool. So I guess that's that's for me to share a little update there. Yeah. So what's happened? There is. I had a meeting a couple of weeks ago with Nuria and the city is is super interested in what we're discussing regarding. How do we facilitate more dialogue around the Middle East and they're already actively working on it. We talked 2 weeks ago. Nuria said she was in conversations with someone at Cu who runs a thing called difficult dialogues, and so there was some movement forward. There. She said she was. Gonna give me an update before this meeting, but that did not happen, so I don't have any more information than that other than that the city is working on it, and it seems like it's a thing that's already in motion. And it would be a thing that we can kind of

[39:02] sponsor like support and sponsor in some way. So I think we'll have more information soon about what's happening. And I can share that once that information comes through. But basically, yeah, that's that's in motion. And if we choose to, we can choose to sponsor it. Yeah. And it's like, also, Naria welcomes more perspectives on that. So I think I was able to share a lot of what we had discussed here, and my thoughts around, that my thoughts and our thoughts around that so I think that helped inform where it's going. But yeah, there's anything more that people feel would be useful to communicate. Then we can do that together, or individually. Thank you for talking to her, Erin. My only thought would be that similar to what we did for the minimum wage and for the eviction prevention. It might be nice if they do decide to partner with cu dialogues, to have some type of meeting with us, to talk over like their

[40:08] workshop plan and then get feedback from us or from a committee of us. I would definitely be interested in in walking through that with them, if if they were open to it. Yeah, I I think that's the plan. And I think, yeah. Maria's intention was to either share some some thoughts during this meeting or forward them through Elizabeth or Christian, so we could discuss and give feedback. And my guess is, things are just moving a little slower than anticipated. That does happen sometime. Emily, do you mind? I'm sorry, just for notes. Could you repeat what you? The the question you had about wanting to engage ahead of time. I just missed something in there. Want to be sure I got it right. Sure. Yeah, I just offered that similar. We might do similar like, feedback potential

[41:09] as we've done for the eviction prevention program and the the minimum wage. Oh, my! Just have the people from cu dialogues. If they are the people who Nuria chooses to work with, come and present to us, and then give them our thoughts on their proposed agenda. Okay, so can I repeat it back and make sure. I understand. And sorry if I'm the slow one here tonight. Okay. So if what you're saying is the you would like the Hrc. To be able to to engage with the Cu staff would be facilitating that dialogue. Add an Hrc. Meeting before the dialogue takes place.

[42:00] Yeah, if the timing works out. Okay. And then, if if the timing wasn't working out, we could form a committee and committee and provide, maybe ask them to send over a draft agenda to us, and then all of us give feedback or something, and 2 of us deliver the feedback or something to that effect. But it would be really nice to be involved in the shaping of the agenda of the workshop. And Christian. Is there anything else? you observe from the material, from what you saw about the about the sessions, in addition to what Commissioner Nair shared. It's not a leading question, but I think you had a chance to look at it.

[43:02] After quite a bit of searching. Elizabeth? And I did. Come across the website for the difficult dialogues which I can share with you all as part of follow up to the meeting. I don't really have a whole lot of info to share out. Aside from it seems to be pretty aligned with at least my read of it. It was. It was pretty aligned with what we had discussed previously. It was more geared towards I'm trying to think of how I want to say it. It like engaging with folks who have differing perspectives rather than specifically having

[44:04] conversation on the Israel Gaza. Situation. It's more of how to engage with one another in. see, empathize and seek to understand other folks points of views and continue to interact in a way, in a respectful way. so it seemed like it could be very similar to what we were discussing. That is just what I gleaned from looking at the the website which I can share. Out with you all as well. Yeah, thank you, Christian. I'm curious. If you came across the materials through the events they've done at Chautauqua, is that the same group? Okay. Yes, that Yeah, through the center for humanities at sea.

[45:02] Yep. Yep. CHA. Okay. Yeah, I've actually attended one of their events at the Chautauqua Meeting meeting house, or whatever they call it. and I know that they're continuing to do them. I I was misinterpreting what Erin was talking about, because Cu also has a cu dialogues program. Yes. Yes. No. Clarify 2 different things. Yeah. Okay, yeah. Now, thinking about it, I'm like, Oh, well, they they may not be able to offer that as a community offering, because maybe cu dialogues is just what it sounds like and only offered to university context. Hmm, yeah. Yeah. But. I haven't been familiar with cu dialogues. But yeah, but I think I agree with what Christian said, which is like the sense I got from difficult dialogues. It seems very aligned with like what our discussions already were like when I had a conversation with Nuria like I offered feedback, but like. Mostly it just felt like

[46:05] what what she was in discussion around was very resonant with what we were looking at. Yeah. And also to share a personal update. I I attended an event just a couple of nights ago that councilwoman, Taisha Adams, co-hosted with a friend of mine, Lee, who's also a professor at Cu who does some dialogue things, and it was oriented around a similar thing. It was more just like 15 people sharing a meal together, and like touching, touching on a little bit of this topic around the Middle East. But it seems like this. It's echoing through a number of ways. And so I I made sure that Taisha and Nuri and know that they're both interested in same similar things. There.

[47:07] Let me other form. I have a question. No, okay. You go to. Oh, sorry. Quick question before you leave, so I'm not quite sure, unless Christian heard it like, what is. There's a key next step that your asking staff to take, or if you want to kind of take the similar approach, you know, to the other, to the com lab to combat human trafficking. You could. 1, 1 or 2 people could reach out again to city manager, and of course we can help with that But just wanted to make sure we capture, you know. Kind of the key. Next step. Yeah, I think it seems like one key. Next step is, if there's information that comes to y'all from Naria about this thing happening, just let let her know that we're interested in being involved. But I think she already pretty much knows that.

[48:10] And so yeah, forwarding in information, and sounds like Emily. You might want to like. Join me in like a little like subcommittee here, so that if I hear back from Naria it can include you in that conversation. Does that sound good to everybody else involved as well. Oh. well, I guess I'm curious from Carlos and Speaker. Do you? Do you all want to weigh in on the agenda? especially if the time allow, since it sounds like they're moving pretty deliberately, intentionally, which is great. I don't wanna cut you all out of giving your your feedback on the shaping of the agenda.

[49:01] I like the idea that we get to see the agenda beforehand, that Emily suggested that way. We can give our feedback. See what changes or additions we'd like to make. I think that's a great idea. But thank you, Erin, for handling it so far. I'm excited to see if this will happen. I think it will be a good discussion. So yeah, I'm totally on board. They haven't agree to being with her. With this we need to think better in all this. It sounds like if timing allows, it's ideal for Nuria or somebody to share a little bit of what's happening at whenever our next meeting is, and we can all share share feedback there. And you know, we can see what

[50:01] seems like. Yeah, it. If the timing is is not such, then we can probably find a way to get some small feedback in. But ideally, if timing allows. Yeah, having feedback in an Hrc meeting seems ideal. Okay, us. okay, let's continue up. Let's go to the point 7 staff of race. And we have 4 points of discussion here. Man, Melissovan and Christian are going to share. With 2 opportunities to provide some input that will be coming down

[51:03] the line here. So Carlos actually brought up. The 1st 2, which was the Boulder Valley comprehensive plan which is going to be in its almost 50th year of existence. It is a sort of regional plan on policy and feel like I'm saying, plan a lot planning and policy for the Boulder Valley area, including city of Boulder as well as the neighboring communities. in Boulder County. They will be asking for input. There was a kickoff party at the Dairy Arts Center on October 19, th I want to say, and they will be looking for input. And there will be various ways to provide input throughout 2025.

[52:04] The plan gets updated every 10 years and is slated to be updated in 2026. So they want robust community engagement with it, and I'll be sure to share opportunities that I am aware of as I get them alright. and then the other is the civic area, which is, if you are thinking about Boulder. The area between Canyon Boulevard to Arapahoe. From the north to the south, and then 9th Street to 14th Street from east to west or west to East There is some planning going on for what the physical and kind of social community future of that area

[53:03] what that will look like. And so the city is asking for folks input on that as well. Currently, there is there in the second phase of engagement. And so there's there have been a few open houses in person and virtual. And then there is a survey where you can provide some input. That I'll be sure to share out after the meeting, so you can have your voice heard in the planning for that area as well. I believe the other item that we have is the December 4.th Hhs, all boards and commissions event which I sent the invite for you. I hope you all received it. If you didn't, I can resend it.

[54:01] That is slated to take place from 5, 30 to 7, 30, and, Elizabeth. if you can help me with the location I am blanking on where it's actually happening, but it will be in person. It will be in person. Yes, and it's going to be at 2550. I believe the address is 55th Street. So it's on 55th Street, off of Arapaho, or between Arapahoe and Pearl kind of across from the where the Humane Society is. If you have ever visited or picked up a suite dog, or Kitty there, or other little fuzzy creature and we're gonna have dinner. There's just be some time for you all to network with each other and meet a very kind of brief background on what you all do. And how you engage with our with our staff and through community. And then we also want to share with you all. An idea that we've been working on for

[55:02] how we are housing Human Services Department will actually do. And kind of an online story map, annual report, and would just think you all are the perfect test pilots for this idea. So it'll be a little bit of a short presentation, very interactive, and just get some feedback from you all on how we can do better as a department and telling the story of how we, you know, work to serve our community and also your role in in helping do that. So it should be fun event. And if you haven't already filled out the Rsvp form, please do that if you can, by mid next week. So before the holiday, so that we can get all set up for food, language, access, and any other thing we need to do to prepare thanks.

[56:03] When it's going to be. December 5.th 4, December 4.th Of course. Okay. 30 to 7, 30, and if there's no questions, the only other thing that I wanted to share out as well. is on December 19th Bridge House will be holding its memorial for folks experiencing homelessness who have passed away. That will be at the boulder that the bandshell. I didn't see a time yet posted, but I believe it typically happens after work hours and that will be on December 19.th I'll share the

[57:00] link to the event as well. And Christian, there is a point that you are forgetting that you're going to talk about the boards and commissions, recruiting. That is true. Thank you. The. It's actually an update on the recruitment process for boards and commissions. So taking some of the feedback that you all provided before my time with this commission. The, I guess, recruitment boards and commissions, recruitment work group within the city has been incorporating and making some changes to the process and recruitment experience and

[58:02] We were most recently informed that the application for to be on a boarding commission at the city is now standard across all boards and commissions, and so The folks applying for the Hrc. Would theoretically be looking at the same application for any other board or commission there, which I have no experience with the recruitment process, but I am told, remove some barriers and simplifies the process quite a bit, and so just wanted to share with the group that your feedback has been helpful in creating some meaningful change within that process. There. Do you know, then, Christian, with the and Elizabeth with the interview process also be standard across all of them. Or is there going to be an interview for each different. Maybe you're applying for 3 boards.

[59:14] Will the interview be different for each board. It's a good question. I'm looking back, Christian. You might be, too, just to see. I don't know that we got more more information on that I believe it would be. I mean, that's been described to us as the key change and then there will still be interview process. So presuming that has not changed. that those would take place the 1st week of February. So yeah, I it looks like that process will won't change but having a more streamlined application process. and the recruitment will be for 7 weeks, which I think is a little bit longer than it has been in the past.

[60:12] Whatever you said just did not come through Christian. Just saying, that is my understanding as well. Thank you. Christian. Okay. Commissioners updates, let me or you have something to say or share with us. Yeah, I can share that in conjunction with my nonprofit. We hosted a this event last last month called Cohere. And so I started doing a lot more networking with a lot of different nonprofits. And just. it's just been trying to bring more diverse perspectives into a lot of these community spaces. So that felt felt really impactful. And seems to momentum is building. We're actually a number of us are going to go and present

[61:06] at city Council during open comment this Thursday to share share some of the harvest that came through around that. So that was good. And and during that me, and a few people who were involved attended the Boulder Valley comprehensive plan, Kickoff, and I just think it was really inspiring. In some super super glad about how the city and the county are working together, and the way that they're eliciting more, more engagement and public feedback. And it just yeah, feels feels really impactful. So I'm I'm excited to be more engaged in that process and encourage people to check out. I'm guessing it was. It was recorded, there was a really cool playback improv with modis theater that brought this really creative, artistic expression into how how they were receiving feedback. And so it just felt like a super meaningful way to kick off the process. So yeah, check it out and get involved. If you're not already.

[62:12] Here, Emily! Sorry go ahead. No, I honestly have no updates. I was just gonna say, thanks, Erin, for the update, but I just have not been attending any events over the last month, so nothing to report on. I just wanted to say, in addition to what Erin mentioned about the Kickoff event having modus theater which was worth watching in and of itself. To see people's stories and and perspectives played back on stage was really impactful. They also had the State demographer go through the demographics of boulder and employment and

[63:03] job prospects over the decades, which I thought was was really interesting. So co-signing that that was that might be something that would support artwork, just to have a a broader scope and understanding of of what what might be down the pipe. For boulder. And then I guess my other update is I I might have a very different perspective from other folks here, or we might have a similar perspective. I wanted to check in I think that the election results may have profound impacts on some members of our community. and so that's just something to be that I wanna be mindful of particularly. What I have in mind is the incoming administration's plans to deep work

[64:09] people. And I specifically heard that Denver was on the list of targeted cities. so, and I don't yet have and we don't yet have updates for how this next administration will approach deportations. But that. And then obviously reproductive health care and gay marriage. I think I'm just personally, I work in renewable energy and environmental justice. And so I'm coming from from my own perspective. But just wanting to be responsive as a community, as a Human Relations Commission, for how our national politics may impact our

[65:08] community members. So wonder if other commissioners have anything to say? Along those lines. And again, I don't. I don't have any action items right now. It's something I am keeping an eye on. And we'll see. Once once the administration changes. Talking you about that. I have had some calls about people that is right now a little scared about that. But, I don't know what to do or what to tell them, but I'm going to find something, because people is

[66:02] doesn't know what is going to happen with this. and if you can, to keep me inform something that you hear, it will be helpful, you know. because I have a lot of community that to inform. Thank you. Emily. Yeah, I think. You, Carlos? Yeah, can I? Can I? Can I? Sorry? Can I ask? Elizabeth and Christian per Carlos's question? And again, obviously we don't yet know what the implications of this administration will be. But are there any resources you can point us to in terms of immigrant rights, and and all of that stuff, especially on a city level.

[67:05] Christian, you wanna go, or shall I? But start, I can jump in. Okay? Yeah. So we, I would say that we we being boulder have a number of different nonprofit organizations and initiatives that have been, and regionally, of course, serving the needs and and working really hard to serve the needs of our immigrant population. That includes a number of different organizations providing legal services. Basic needs assistance for people who have been, you know, immigrated and have been living in our community for a long time, or those that have more newly arrived. Probably too many to just kind of list here, but if it is something the Hrc. Would like to have included in the minutes, or, you know, kind of supplement information in what Christian, you know, will be emailing out. We can certainly provide

[68:10] some of the organizations that the city supports with grant funding or otherwise has partnership with There has been also in 2020 earlier this year. It's still 2024, isn't it. A series of workshops. Community public workshops that Sorry I got distracted for a second public workshops. 4 immigrant community members that were hosted by the Cu immigrant law clinic. And there may be some events like that happening again next year. Ingrid Castro Campos, who formerly held the royal Christian, does now. She was very involved in those events, and if they do take place again, I think we'd obviously be more than happy to share that information out ahead of time.

[69:07] But yeah, I mean, as you've acknowledged any other. you know, kind of information on on possible impacts from national policies. It's it's a little soon to tell. But we're all you know, kind of as as community members, as as people who live in this country, just kind of looking and and trying to ask some of those same questions as well. So thanks for bringing that up. Yeah, thanks for thanks for present presencing it. Emily. Yeah, it feels it feels it feels valuable to be well informed to support being responsive, and I think beyond beyond that, like, what feels really important is just like holding the tenderness that that many in our community are feeling, that people are ray, that people are uncertain, I think. Yeah, I just appreciate us being able to hold that together.

[70:03] Thanks for bringing it forward. I really don't have anything new to add, I think in feeling. And thinking about the same things all of you guys have mentioned. So thank you, Emily, for definitely bringing it up. I think it is good for us to be to stay informed on the resources that we can get from the Hrc. so, yeah, thank you. Okay, thank you. Everybody, miss. Try to keep inform about this this, because it's important for the Latin people. Now, yeah. and thank you to everybody for this. The next point is follow up items, and closing

[71:05] is 7 21. I think we are going to close early tonight or medium. Anything that you want to add or say before we're closing our meeting. Appreciate everyone to be with you. Okay, I would say, thank you, all of you. This is the time for to do it. Air. We are having a good year get there. And I hope that we continue working like this. Yeah, thank you, Christiane, that you were the

[72:03] person that joined us at the last. And you are doing a great job, Elizabeth. Thank you for everything that you do for the commission. Emily and Aaron. Where are they? New commissioners? Thank you. What do we hear? Click here? Thank you for all your work. And I want to thank you also, Elena and Myra. that we have tonight like interpreters. Okay, anything that you want to ask. Thank you, Carlos. So much for leading, especially these last few meetings where you've you haven't known you were gonna lead, really appreciate you taking us through. Thank you.

[73:00] Okay, I need a motion to finish. This meeting is 72311182024. Making, the motion. Erin, did you say you motion to address. Oh, oh! He was suggesting a motion. I then yes, I move to adjourn. Okay, I stuck it. Good. Thank you. I hope to see you in next month in a meeting. Have a good Thanksgiving Day. Everybody. Thank you so much. You know. Thank you all so much, too.