[0:31] A August 27, 2026, if everybody please rise and pledge to the flag.

[0:43] To the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God,

[0:50] indivisible with liberty and justice.

[1:01] May we please have a roll call.

[1:03] Dr. Valerie Francisco M in Chavez.

[1:06] I'm present.

[1:09] Gabby Maximine.

[1:11] Here.

[1:12] Adrian Tissue.

[1:13] Here.

[1:15] Natasha Oto.

[1:17] Please, Ella Chan Luzero.

[1:20] Okay, thank you very much.

[1:22] All right.

[1:23] Does everyone want to just take a minute to look at the minutes if you haven't already?

[1:39] I moved to approve the minutes of July 23rd.

[1:43] Okay, we have a motion, is there a second?

[1:48] Hi, second.

[1:49] Okay, all in favor?

[1:51] Hi.

[1:52] Are you opposed?

[1:53] Hearing none.

[1:54] We'll go to oral comment.

[1:56] Are there any public speakers this evening?

[1:58] There's a young man out there to see what I speak.

[2:01] Okay.

[2:02] We'll move on to communications.

[2:05] We're going to have a presentation by hip housing.

[2:08] Like Kevin Joiner.

[2:09] He's a hip housing community outreach specialist.

[2:12] Welcome, Kevin.

[2:13] Okay,

[2:18] just a start. Can everybody hear me?

[2:20] Okay, the microphone's always my trouble.

[2:22] I'm just going to be with a boat. Oh, there we go.

[2:24] How about now still?

[2:25] Yeah, great.

[2:26] First, I just want to say thank you so much for having me tonight.

[2:29] Again, my name is Kevin Joyner.

[2:31] I'm the community outreach specialist with hip housing.

[2:34] Before I do dive in tonight, again, it's a pleasure to be here.

[2:37] Before I was with hip, I was a staffer of Supervisor Canada,

[2:40] so always being back in daily city has always been great to me

[2:44] and I'm very happy to be here tonight.

[2:45] Tonight, I'll be very brief, but I am here to share some of our programs that we are offering at hip to tell you a little bit about hip as well, as well as again, to spread awareness about how crucial housing is within our county as we move forward.

[3:00] So, to start, what is it, Palcine?

[3:02] Palcine, we are a nonprofit that has been around for, I know I don't look at it, but

[3:06] around over 50 years.

[3:08] We have been in San Mateo County since 1972, and in that time we have helped workers, residents,

[3:16] seniors, find and maintain affordable housing within San Mateo County.

[3:21] We do this through a lot of our social housing programs.

[3:24] Tonight, I will go into housing readiness as well as home sharing, but we do offer a lot more

[3:29] that. I just don't want to take up your time and we also do offer our housing properties that

[3:35] people can join on our weight list at any time. I will also like to mention that we don't charge

[3:39] for any of our services as we are a nonprofit and we are trying to keep workers here local.

[3:46] Just to start our housing readiness program in power of San Mateo County,

[3:50] low income older adults who are 62 in up

[3:54] and are making about 1,800 or less per month.

[3:59] With that in mind,

[4:01] experience staff, volunteers, and interns

[4:04] will support our older adults who contact our agency

[4:07] to help them become more housing ready.

[4:09] Now, what does that look like?

[4:11] A lot of times we see our seniors sell their houses,

[4:14] they've been here for a while

[4:16] and they haven't even looked at the housing market.

[4:19] We know how overwhelming that can be, we know how stressful that can be, and we know how tires

[4:24] something that can be.

[4:25] So we wanted to take that middle person out of this.

[4:28] With that in mind, what we're trying to do with the housing readiness program is with any

[4:34] senior who is again 62 and up, 1800 or below.

[4:37] If they enter the program, we can either meet them at hip housing, we can meet them at their

[4:42] or we can meet them in between at maybe a Starbucks or at a local neutral location and we can go over

[4:50] their housing debts and budgets. We can have them look out for online scams. There's a ton of them out there

[4:55] that trick me all the time and I can't even imagine, but you know that, um, after ten five hundred dollar

[5:02] two bedroom looks great doesn't exist. But making sure our seniors are up to code on this and

[5:08] what to look for really goes an extra mile. With their permission we can also not only sign

[5:13] them up for housing applications but we can really hold their hand with on-case management

[5:18] with helping these seniors of course transition into housing that is secured and a bit agility.

[5:27] I would also say I love the contact who works housing readiness. She is from South San Francisco

[5:31] originally. Lorraine doesn't amazing job with these seniors and really helps them get

[5:37] adjusted and get into a place of living. I will like also to mention with the House

[5:42] in Readiness Program we do have a scholarship with the Navigation Center in

[5:46] Redwood City. If seniors enter that scholarship, we can help them transition outside

[5:51] of the shelter once more into the House in Readiness Program. I believe I can get

[5:57] answer for you of course, but I believe it is they would not have to, you know, be the 1800

[6:02] below or they do, but again through the scholarship we can help them transition out of the shelters.

[6:07] Tonight I would also like to go into our home sharing program. Now home sharing has been around

[6:12] if you've heard about hip housing before home sharing is our bread and butter. I mean it's been around

[6:17] since 1979 and what we do is we match providers who have rooms to rent out in their house,

[6:23] their apartment or their accessory dwelling unit, or ADUs,

[6:27] feel like we've been hearing about those a lot lately.

[6:30] And we imagine with seekers who are trying to find rooms to rent out.

[6:33] So we are kind of like matchmakers.

[6:36] Both parties can come to us.

[6:38] They would have an interview to make sure they are right for the program.

[6:41] And what I mean by that is we don't have a lot of qualifications for our providers.

[6:45] But for our seekers, we ask about 1800 coming in for this program.

[6:49] As we do, keep our rents about 2,000 in below.

[6:51] We have two amazing coordinators who have been with hip housing for very long time, Barbara and Deborah.

[7:00] They work alongside both our providers and our seekers to make sure the match is right.

[7:05] Our matches usually last about five and a half years and the people that were matching our police officers and firefighters,

[7:12] generators and baristas, I would say, as well as flight controllers right now at

[7:17] the last couple of months, because sadly 85,000 is now low income within San Mateo County.

[7:24] So I would also like to say in this, as we all probably hate traffic, the more people

[7:28] that we can...

[7:30] More workers that we can keep local who don't have to commute from stocked in. The happy year I think we all are when it comes to 101.

[7:39] Again, I would also like to mention with home sharing.

[7:45] Again, we have living together agreements. They are very similar to leases, but it is of course with the provider needs in writing.

[7:51] What the secret needs in writing and sometimes with our older providers, we do have ranked exchanges.

[7:56] So to bring up that 1800 that I can always go down if maybe a younger provider can help the older provider

[8:03] Maybe with dishes or maybe getting driven to an appointment once or twice a week that can always be exchanged

[8:10] I will say of course, you know, we do check up about three months afterwards after a match

[8:15] You know if something does go wrong. We do help you through that

[8:18] We don't just change your name and change our business and go south for the winter

[8:21] but at the same time on the other end of the spectrum one batch got married I'm not going to say it's going to happen again

[8:27] but I always do like to bring it up once more as well with the housing readiness program

[8:34] we are of course in full support with daily city we think daily city for supporting this program

[8:40] and we are really trying to spread the word about this program up here so I would really really

[8:44] appreciate if you could spread the word and I am trying to get that flyer into every shop up here

[8:49] that you might see it a lot more, or me walking around.

[8:53] Lastly, we also, of course, have properties that we own in managed.

[8:57] We own and manage about 501 units of property within San Mateo County.

[9:03] We do have a wait list for that.

[9:04] If people do want to join that wait list at any time, they can go to www.ipousing.org.

[9:10] Go to our properties and sign up for Haven't Connect and make an account.

[9:14] Most of these properties are studios, one bedroom and two bedroom apartments.

[9:17] and people again can join this idea at any time.

[9:21] You can always give us a call at 650-348-6660.

[9:26] I do thank you guys for your time tonight.

[9:28] I always just want to mention, you know, we have a lot of great

[9:32] just woman running our program for a long time and they always keep us on track.

[9:37] So thank you so much for tonight and I really appreciate it again being here.

[9:40] Thank you.

[9:42] Thank you for all the hard work you do there.

[9:44] These are great programs they have around the first few years.

[9:47] and they do the home sharing one is a great one for people that want to stand their home

[9:51] and bring other people in and oftentimes they're very helpful to that individual that's usually

[9:54] older so it's a great program. I mean all your programs are great but I'm more familiar with that one

[9:59] because I do a lot of work that's seen here so it's terrific folks. So I will say the housing readiness program

[10:04] has been around for only three years now it's our newest program but you know it is it is really thriving

[10:10] and we're really trying to of course get those seniors that really need it but yes when it comes

[10:15] the home sharing as affordable housing is yes being built. It takes time. It takes money. This is a

[10:21] barely really good way to use the housing that we already have. It's a really good way to connect

[10:25] older generation with younger generation and just build connections overall. Thank you guys.

[10:31] Any comments? Yeah. I see you have a Spanish translation. Do you have a translation in the

[10:36] value? I am trying very hard right now. We are trying to get some volunteers. We just got it translated

[10:42] the HRP flyer to Mandarin, and we are trying to get it, I'm trying in the process of getting

[10:48] it translated to Cantonese right now, but I will take that, we're trying as much as

[10:53] the English language.

[10:55] In daily city there's a formidable Filipino population and many of them are aging migrants.

[11:01] And so I think like Madam Chair has thanked you for this, I think this is a huge issue in

[11:09] Filipino community in daily city and I think it would be really great if some of these

[11:14] flyers could be in English and Tagalog.

[11:18] So again, that is the process we're just a little bit slower and I will have that.

[11:22] But yes, to come, we are trying to get it as translated as fast as possible, just to make

[11:26] sure we reach every field of, of course, San Francisco County because we want to make sure

[11:30] people can stay here, can flourish here and work here.

[11:34] And when you have that translated in Tagalog, if you could forward it to us, I would be grateful.

[11:40] I would be very happy to.

[11:41] So, thank you.

[11:43] Sorry, I have one more question.

[11:44] Do you currently work at all with JFCS in Foster City Jewish Family and Children's Services?

[11:50] You know, we, I believe we've tried to get in contact.

[11:54] Ever since I've, I think Ben here, I don't, I'm not too sure.

[11:58] I can get that answered for you.

[12:00] If you're not in contact, I think it'd be a great organization because they have.

[12:04] A senior senior, a number of different senior programs for seniors within San Mateo County and I think that there could be a good connection there.

[12:15] I do really appreciate that. Thank you.

[12:17] Any other comments?

[12:21] Maybe not for our speaker, but your conversation really just inspired me to think.

[12:26] you mentioned ADUs, daily city lot sizes are so small that a lot of folks don't even think

[12:31] they can have an ADU and I know as the ADU laws are getting more and more relaxed or just like

[12:38] more seamless to do, I was wondering if daily city had any intention to do some like there are

[12:47] cities that have like ready-made plans that will get adopted and not have to do like housing

[12:54] inspection or anything or building code stuff if you. So yeah, what is

[12:59] stilicity doing about 80s? I can definitely find out from the

[13:04] Department of Community Development to find out what they're doing with

[13:07] 80s. Yeah, because you might want to do something like this and not have enough

[13:11] space, but like oh, my garage or something. I don't know. It's just really a cool

[13:15] program and I'm like, I don't know, space. Maybe I can make space. So I will just

[13:19] share again. I'm not sure if daily city right now, but I have fully

[13:23] sponsored the housing readiness program. That is my full point for tonight, of course, getting the

[13:27] word out about that. And we're really, really grateful to have that. Of course, they have

[13:32] supported home sharing. I mean, every city within Samutel County has just been wonderful to

[13:36] us and has always stuck by with us. I will just like to mention with the ADUs that is under our home

[13:43] sharing program. And a lot of the cities that we are working with is mostly to fill their housing

[13:48] element requirement, so just to share some, again, Hillsboro,

[13:53] ATHR-10, Petola Valley, and San Bruno has also just signed on.

[13:57] So, again, it is to fill our home sharing as you also have said,

[14:00] it's been interesting to see the red tape kind of get cut

[14:03] behind with the ADUs and it's exciting to see where that is going.

[14:07] But again, I just want to make sure that's clear though,

[14:10] we don't build the ADU, but we can help, you know, we know how, you know,

[14:14] of course you could go to Facebook Marketplace or

[14:16] to find a roommate or you can come to hip housing who's been doing this in 79 and they can find that roommate for you and

[14:23] hold your hand through the whole process.

[14:25] Good point.

[14:26] Thank you, Kevin.

[14:27] For being here, we really appreciate it as well.

[14:29] Just thank you so much for having me and hearing me tonight and please, I will just lastly

[14:32] did like to say, hip housing is actually at their permanent headquarters now so we actually

[14:37] bought our own building which is really nice and we are located right across from Central Park in

[14:42] Mattel, if 1-1-1-E-5 avenue, please come by.

[14:46] You guys are all welcome to come in.

[14:48] We're still freaking out the kinks, but it's been wonderful.

[14:51] I just wanted to leave some of our flyers if that's okay.

[14:53] And thank you so much.

[14:54] Thank you so much, tonight, guys.

[14:56] I really appreciate it.

[14:57] Thank you.

[14:58] Thank you very much.

[15:28] We're going

[15:32] to move on to item number two, which is two of our subcommittees. First, we're going to start with engagement subcommittee for the November 5 event updates. And I know we got some information in our packet. Who's going to start?

[15:59] I can get us kicked off. I have not done a ton on this this month because I was on vacation

[16:06] for most of the month, but I know that Lisa El has done a lot.

[16:13] So the Natalie put together

[16:15] this flyer. So that's being presented for the first time. I'd love to spend some time

[16:21] just chatting through this first to see, you know, people's first impressions, any edits, anything

[16:29] that we should get rid of, anything that we should add. Obviously, I'm sure we need this translated

[16:36] in a few languages to be great to get this in Spanish and to college. But as long as we first

[16:43] line sort of on on on on the language and feel good about it. I

[16:48] it feels a little wordy to me, like in terms of the two paragraphs, I would be my

[16:52] only feedback. I'm not I'm not sure they're necessary.

[16:58] But other than that, I think

[17:01] visually it it's good. I'd maybe get rid of one of the paragraphs. That's my only

[17:06] feedback. Well I think I think you're probably right. I mean it does spell it out

[17:10] or clearly, but up here it shows what all those things are that were said down here.

[17:15] So it could make it a little cleaner and then you have join on the inaugural speakers

[17:20] series, which I think is really important that they know this is our first and I guess

[17:26] one of the questions I have too, because we've got the different areas, expert panel resource

[17:30] booths, community connections, support and awareness, do we know who these expert panel

[17:36] are going to be yet or the resource boost? Do you have a lot of who the expert panel resource

[17:42] boost community connections and support awareness? We have those sort of locked in yet?

[17:47] I have contacted 2DAs this in case the other VA or one of the VA can make it. So the DA on our case,

[17:56] I actually contacted with him and he is interested to join. So either either one of them could come,

[18:04] at least we have a the irreversentation from the Femme Day County, but I'm waiting for him

[18:08] to, you know, suffer, solidify it, you know, yeah. So I, you know, like we were talking

[18:14] about it, I'm giving them until maybe September to finalize it. It's, you know, it's, I just

[18:22] have to, it's a great day about it. We're sure. Yeah. And then I had to confirm the two victims

[18:32] one is a number of LGBT community and the other one is, yeah so I got two of them already

[18:39] and then I'm actually asking for another one which is I don't know if you guys are familiar with

[18:46] you know the case that Lex is gave case in someone, a bunch of us the county, it's an

[18:52] install case. Can you turn your speakers on? I think that's what we're missing. I can't

[18:58] There I go, sorry, because I always thought that I don't need them like any more than I thought to.

[19:05] Yeah, so I was actually asking him, you know, it's, well, it's actually a case, you know,

[19:14] you know, you connect with the domestic violence.

[19:16] It was a January of 2022 case in Contra Costa County.

[19:21] It's the Alexis Gabe story or the case, which happened I know the father, which is the victim.

[19:27] so it wasn't a soul of case, so I told, you know, I invited him to come and speak up and

[19:35] see what happened to the case and what went wrong because there's a lot. So that's the one

[19:41] we were talking about for writing the case to her. So I contacted him about it and see if he can speak

[19:48] as well. So, and then we have on August 31st, right Gabby, we have like a Zoom meeting with the CEO of the Corag group, which is

[20:17] everything with all of them and then I didn't add to the chair. We do have a form, the next

[20:23] item behind the fire that this might be able to help confirm some of the speakers. It's

[20:28] in draw form, but it's a template to at least try to confirm who would like to participate.

[20:34] So we might be able to get more confirmed once this goes out.

[20:38] And I did mention a Gabby that I did talk to the police chief and he's going to have someone

[20:43] from their domestic violence unit or if they're not available and have a captain and he'll probably be there himself.

[20:49] So there will be somebody from Daily City that will be able to be on the panel.

[20:53] I told them there's probably a panel because you'd have something from the DA, police department,

[20:57] and you're having some kind of a specific talk about specific case.

[21:01] And the reason I thought it'd be good to have Daily City is then they could talk about what they decide that what they're doing here.

[21:07] So, you know, part of our role is to see what they're doing.

[21:09] or anything we think, we're not hearing that we want to hear and have people ask questions

[21:16] so they can see if there's something we're missing in what we're doing here in our own

[21:20] city. So that adds a third person in that panel if you know there's a hungry panel

[21:25] and people you want to touch it. This is really great and I appreciate all the hard work.

[21:32] I think this is such an important topic and it really needs to be illuminated and just be a more

[21:38] normal thing to talk about. I do want this form is awesome and I hope that we get it out

[21:44] and I can spread the word to. The speakers we have so far seem to lean really heavily in a police

[21:54] or like justice-minded. Is it possible to maybe really push for healthcare professionals or

[22:02] or therapists or women, I think that's the hope of talking to the Korra, because I think

[22:10] they have a lot of resources, so I mean that's my goal in that, so I think that there's

[22:18] the first set of speakers who are people who have personal experience, the second set

[22:23] of speakers that are let's adjust this oriented, and then the third set of speakers that

[22:30] Talking about resources and support, I mean, that was sort of what the, so I agree with you.

[22:38] So that sounds great.

[22:40] You're talking about three different panels, or you just sort of some will do speed direct speakers, versus being on a panel.

[22:45] I mean, we have to look at the timing of that.

[22:47] Well, and so I think that's part of, I mean, we have three hours.

[22:50] Right. So I think that there's, I mean, I'm not, I don't think it'd be like one hour, one hour, one hour.

[22:55] But like, you know, maybe like, three like 30 minute panels where, you know, each person gets, you know, five to ten minutes to talk and then there's some question and answer.

[23:06] So like, you know, from five to five, 30 people are getting settled from from five to thirty to seven.

[23:14] We have, you know, the various panel discussions and then from seven to eight, there's sort of, you know, people are whatever resources we have, snacks and, you know,

[23:25] schmoozy.

[23:26] Are you thinking about trying to finish my last question?

[23:28] Are you thinking of having a main speaker, like sort of overall breadth and depth of domestic violence and to kick it off?

[23:37] On that note, I think also, since we have multiple vantage points, I would suggest a more

[23:46] round table discussion, maybe putting a question out there from the different perspectives

[23:54] from survivors to police and then healthcare and organizations, that might be able to have an actual

[24:06] community conversation as you have here, rather than like one person doing like a keynote

[24:11] and then everyone contributing sort of disjointed separate talks, just something for y'all to

[24:18] think about. I guess my only reservation to that would be that then somebody needs to

[24:26] that conversation. So I don't know if we have that person identified, if we have somebody

[24:35] who would participate in that way. I mean, it could be one of us. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[24:49] And even to us, like, we could help you put those, or, you know, review them. I guess my

[24:56] like do you feel have you mediated conversations before have you participated in something like this?

[25:02] Well the only thing is you have to read a question, right?

[25:05] That's the only thing.

[25:06] If that's all you're thinking just somebody to sort of

[25:11] like a moderate question.

[25:12] I don't even know if my mind like, you know, like,

[25:15] because I was thinking that the panel's right there

[25:18] and then, I mean, community and everybody, you just have, you know,

[25:21] or just write a question or pass on the mic to somebody who wanted to speak up and ask

[25:26] question to the panel. That's like a Q&A portion which is totally great but what I was

[25:36] thinking is that someone is asking for a particular theme like around like what is considered

[25:46] domestic violence or intimate partner violence and then the panelists could address that and then that moderator could maybe, you know, say, okay, great. Thank you

[25:58] you know, make sure everyone gets a chance to speak. There's a little time keeping and then move on to the next question or theme.

[26:07] Because if we're marketing it, if we're marketing it, marketing it as a community conversation,

[26:15] then it should feel like a conversation.

[26:18] Maybe we change the marketing.

[26:21] My concern is, I don't feel equipped to, I would feel equipped.

[26:25] Okay, so you want to, and I have, I have done it before, I'm happy to work with Lizelle to do it.

[26:31] Okay, Lizelle also because you have relationships with somebody of the panelists, I think

[26:35] that it would be a really beautiful way

[26:37] to have a conversation since they're already warm to you

[26:40] and your knowledge of their work.

[26:42] And I think you'd do great, and how are you gonna learn

[26:45] if you don't try?

[26:46] I agree.

[26:46] But the only thing I'm trying to avoid

[26:48] is actually being personal, like my own question.

[26:52] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[26:52] Yeah, yeah.

[26:53] When you're in charge of the questions,

[26:55] you don't have to answer anything you don't want to.

[26:58] So I'm happy to back you up, you know,

[27:00] to help you with the questions and get prep for it.

[27:05] So with a third person on the subcommittee, like, do I need to step off the subcommittee?

[27:10] Like how do we manage it with three people now?

[27:13] I wouldn't join the subcommittee. I'd volunteer for the task to help Luzelle.

[27:17] Oh, in the event.

[27:17] Okay. Sounds good.

[27:19] Doesn't the event. I'm clear.

[27:21] You know, I think what might be helpful in the beginning is maybe we work up some of those questions.

[27:26] So you know what the questions are.

[27:27] Right. You're going to cover a variety of issues around domestic violence.

[27:31] And you have all those experts there.

[27:33] So when you have that round table, I don't think that's a bad idea at all.

[27:37] What I do think is I almost think you need a keynote speaker to kick it all off.

[27:42] Then you have the round table, and then you have the resources.

[27:46] So if you knew someone, I went to one of them, it wasn't cool, I can't think of the

[27:51] name of the group, and it was in coma, and one of the council members had been through

[28:00] and she kicked off this event that they did around the mess.

[28:03] This was years ago, and she herself was a victim.

[28:07] It was well done because it isn't that alley.

[28:11] Alice, that was it.

[28:13] And so it was really a great way to have someone kick it off

[28:15] to kind of frame the evening.

[28:17] And this is what I went through.

[28:19] And then you go into this panel discussion

[28:21] and have the questions ahead of time

[28:24] and have all these experts talking about it.

[28:27] And then, I'm using her as an example, it doesn't have to be her, someone might, you know, someone else that might want to do that.

[28:34] But then you do this sort of roundtable discussion, question answers, and maybe some questions for the audience after we do our question.

[28:41] And then you do your resources.

[28:43] And you know, you're also going to have refreshments while they do the resource, and then that takes up the three hours.

[28:49] By the time you check people in, you know, that's, you know, and this, this panel might be more of an hour because you're dealing with all, you know,

[28:57] instead of the half hour, half hour, half hour, it could easily be an hour, maybe even more.

[29:03] You just don't want it to go too long, people who's interested to say an hour with all

[29:07] those resources would be reasonable.

[29:10] And we have to set the timeframe, too, you know, and I think it's nice that you'll offer

[29:15] to help, because I think we all have to be sort of hands on deck here, because this is a lot

[29:19] of work between now and over and fifth.

[29:21] So whatever we do, we need to be helping the committee, like if I need to call somebody

[29:26] I'm happy to call. You know, we're not doing anything, we're doing the practice, just offered

[29:31] to do something like, do you did? I don't think that's an issue at all.

[29:36] Just thought, then about keynote speakers, do we want to find a keynote speaker?

[29:40] I don't know if we need one in the formal sense. I think, like, even just hearing why you guys

[29:47] were moved to have this event and just like a quick five minute intro or maybe gather

[29:52] something to frame it, but I do think it's really interesting when I've seen really good panels.

[30:00] Kind of assembled. It's really neat to hear four angles to that question, and I think the people that we're bringing in have such unique vantage points on the issue that will get really interesting deep conversations.

[30:17] And as a, as a, as a attendee, I'm always more into the lots of people talking than one person being and being talked at, but I think that's just like a

[30:30] preference versus like uh I don't know what that's just my preference um it doesn't

[30:36] matter you can you know it could be someone somebody has to frame the evening like

[30:39] mm-hmm yeah like I can travel yeah so maybe if whoever came up with it if they maybe you

[30:43] want to do the intro or you want to do that you know somebody to talk about how we got this to be

[30:49] our first and our speakers and why you thought it's so important and sort of lay the framework

[30:54] I like that. I'm open to actually speaking and doing the intro. My experience in terms of my

[31:04] survivorship was being a witness to a domestic violence event when I was a child, so that was

[31:12] very formative and they're traumatizing. So it does feel relevant, so I'm happy to do the intro.

[31:23] Yeah, I mean, I'm just saying these things so if you want to outline sort of the evening,

[31:28] you know, like I said, we don't have a lot of time, so we can kind of sounds like we're sort of outlining it here.

[31:35] And now the key is to get all the speakers that you think will think that breath and depth of what we need to have.

[31:40] Yeah, I think when I spoke to one of, you know, because I was, when it was one of this speaker as a victim,

[31:46] They had like a time in front of me and they gave me like five minutes to speak and, you know, to show my experience because what the, you know, like when we were over there we were talking about experiences and then they were like four panels and then they introduced themselves and what they do and what can do to help and then, you know, they have time, you know, and all, you know, for all of us.

[32:13] So, and then after that is the Q&A, so I don't know if you need it.

[32:18] I think she's talking about something else though.

[32:21] Because what I heard, what I heard was, I'll say, was each person have five minutes to speak.

[32:27] And then a Q&A.

[32:29] So, I'm trying to make sure that we're like locked in.

[32:32] No, still.

[32:33] What I was hearing is it's still a panel, but just the introductions and the wire here for each person.

[32:38] I see.

[32:39] That's like the question.

[32:39] Yeah, so we're okay in five minutes. Oh for the release. It's just, yeah, if you say that because if you say three, they might go five, but if you give them five, but you just kind of tell them a little bit of their background and so everyone gets a sense and then with a queue and they can do their part.

[32:56] Yeah, it makes mostly the Q&A is not for the victims. It's for the, you know, for the justice, for the police department and for the non, you know, for the agency. So those are, you know, the Q&A is not for the victims.

[33:09] I, again, I think she sang something else with the idea of

[33:14] that.

[33:14] No, no.

[33:16] Oh.

[33:17] So, like, what Natasha was saying, right?

[33:19] Like, if we have, let's say, five speakers.

[33:22] Okay, so I see your point, Lizelle.

[33:25] I think survivors should have a little bit more time

[33:27] because it is different, right?

[33:29] We can't, if we ask the question,

[33:33] how do you define, or what can someone do

[33:36] if they're experiencing domestic violence,

[33:38] The survivors will have a different answer than the police, then someone from Cora or something like that.

[33:45] But it's just the same thing.

[33:49] We ask folks one question that everyone in the panel can address,

[33:54] and then, you know, we do that maybe for three rounds.

[33:58] One of those rounds can you describe your experience and your relation to the issue of domestic violence?

[34:05] big and open like that, so survivors can talk about their own experience and the DA can talk

[34:10] about theirs and then Korra can talk about theirs. Then the next thing would be another

[34:15] question that we could come up with together and you won't have to do anything like bringing

[34:22] all the answers together. You could just say thank you so much our next question that we give these

[34:27] to the panelists ahead of time, right? Here are the three questions and those three questions

[34:31] you'll have five minutes to address over the five of you, right? And then they would be ready

[34:37] for that with their notes, and all you would have to do is kind of walk them through those

[34:41] things. Those questions.

[34:43] So one of those would almost send us some way, be it some self introduction. Absolutely.

[34:48] Yeah, I think that would be the same thing, but in a different form.

[34:52] So, but I think you'll probably need more information. I think you're going to need one, two

[34:56] questions if you do an hour's worth. If you can find it. But those are the things you can think

[35:00] What do you think we want to hear? What are we looking for if we think it's something we can help work on for the future?

[35:06] That's kind of way and it also depends on how many speakers you would have.

[35:11] So if you have eight speakers and three rounds of, you know, every person, every, you know, eight people describing their relationship to domestic violence, that's going to, that's already an hour.

[35:24] You know, I mean, I'm just sticking around five, but yeah, if you get more panelists and

[35:28] yeah, changes the timing and the number.

[35:31] Yeah, some of them are back up.

[35:32] Just in case the other one doesn't come.

[35:34] Oh, okay.

[35:35] What was the name of the other speaker?

[35:37] So to you and then there was someone else that you said it has a confirmed, I mean, I didn't

[35:41] have it in your email.

[35:44] Yo, one of them is Marianne Lason.

[35:46] She's a victim and she's a business owner and they're Lee City.

[35:50] I don't know if you guys know her.

[35:51] Pressed the homelombs.

[35:53] Yeah, so they get like, and then the other one that confirm is actually, well, I have to get his full name, but I've known him, he's a makeup artist, he's named his day, and he's the member of LGBT community too, he lives in daily city as well.

[36:15] Yeah, so those are the two, yeah.

[36:16] It's just, do you mention Korra also have you talked to them on Monday?

[36:22] On Monday. Yeah, we have a committee with a Monday. Yeah, okay.

[36:25] And then you're waiting to hear back from

[36:28] Gwyn Gave and Lucas King. Yes.

[36:32] And then process Francisco process too.

[36:35] In the do you?

[36:36] Yeah, because the day Francisco process,

[36:39] because he's more on supporting the Filipino community, but he said,

[36:46] He's, you know, like he's more in a different cases than domestic violence. There is an

[36:52] a de-a department that actually handled more on domestic violence. That's why I reach out to

[36:57] Lucas King because he was the one who actually handled our case. So and I, you know, he responded

[37:03] to me that I'll get back with you on it. Yeah. Does anybody know the health health provider you

[37:08] I mentioned that as a potential.

[37:11] Oh, yeah, for say, for sending this thing.

[37:13] Oh, got you.

[37:14] Like, it's gotten more Kaiser.

[37:15] Like, it's okay.

[37:16] I have a question, though, for I can, for Natalie.

[37:20] Do we have, like, I know that this is, this is very good,

[37:25] but like an email, an invitation to, like, I wanted to,

[37:30] formally invite them in the email like us came from the city. You know what I mean?

[37:37] Like because I don't want to be like my event or something. You know what I mean?

[37:41] I'm inviting him like it's just a random, yeah.

[37:44] Like the language to put in the email. Yes.

[37:48] This is an attachment. Yes.

[37:51] I know they can complete this and then send it to you.

[37:53] I can travel something. Thanks. I was going to do it, but I'm quite as well.

[37:57] Yes. Do you want to send it? Do you want Natalie to send it? Oh, Natalie can send it. That will be good. I can because I have their emails. I got their emails. So I can invite them for a minute.

[38:13] So then they send that we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

[38:21] Do you put DCPD?

[38:23] Yes, six.

[38:24] So that's six panelists without any health care folks.

[38:32] Ideally, we have two or three of those.

[38:34] So that'd be like eight or nine people.

[38:38] So when I've moderated before, even like, ten people,

[38:44] the first one, you can be, and I'm sure,

[38:47] Valerie, and when you work on these questions,

[38:49] Then you can have questions for specific people like break it out not everyone needs to answer

[38:52] I just question that's actually a good common thing to everyone wants to answer

[38:56] But then moderating you're like for you for these to for the health care and then you just kind of

[39:01] Section it off and I think once you get the final RSVP's that will be when you design it and yes

[39:06] You guys know how to do so

[39:10] Everything's planable once you get those final locked in

[39:13] I'm happy happy to check with the same material candy health department on a health provider

[39:19] I mean, they see a lot of people through the emergency room, they see a lot of it, so it might be a good way to find out who handles, who is it at the county that handles folks that have come through.

[39:30] It might be at the emergency room, doctor, I know, but somebody's handling it, so I can check that out and see if there's someone specific or a couple of them, so we could get one of them to come and talk to us about what they've seen over time and what they're trying to provide for them and they get there.

[39:48] What the follow-through is, things like that. I mean, I'll see what I come up with.

[39:52] We'll ask Korra on Monday, too. If there's anyone specific that they work with, or have some sort of connection.

[39:59] Oh, sure. Yeah, they might know specifically. I can just, I just know that some people have to help the problem talk to.

[40:05] So, um, okay.

[40:08] Is there anything else you need to just share? Have we talked about logistics or anything like that, yeah?

[40:14] Yeah, one of my questions was just on that just to get back to the flyer. I did hear that we should remove that second pair

[40:23] Sorry, I just wanted to just confirm that first. Okay, that'll be removed and then as far as the little icon for resource booths

[40:31] Resource booths

[40:33] Is that something that you'd like the speakers or the presenters to have access to for logistics in the

[40:44] the police department or Alice, you know, whoever's going to be.

[40:47] Even if they're not speakers, if we know people to have resources towards this, they could be there at the table.

[40:53] Maybe they aren't going to be the speakers, but they might have resources.

[40:56] Yeah. I think that's sort of the next step of this.

[41:00] Like we'll talk to Cora on Monday, see if there's other organizations that we reach out to.

[41:06] ideally we have like four or five resource tables and then a snack table.

[41:16] The resource table questions on the farm too, so maybe people will like often so only that.

[41:22] I think the key is sending this to the right people, right?

[41:27] And I'll try to identify those first.

[41:36] In terms of our meeting on Monday for tomorrow, do we have to wait until the next meeting

[41:41] to report on that or can we send out an email saying we talked to them and like here

[41:46] the next steps we're going to take?

[41:49] I think you can provide that in an email.

[41:51] I've been summary.

[41:52] And I can also summarize what we've discussed today and then also just make sure if you

[41:56] want to send me that information, I can include it in that.

[41:59] So you're getting one email with your updates and then just a summary of tonight.

[42:03] I mean, I might hear something from someone, but then you might hear from chorus, we might throw some names to say here.

[42:09] We've talked to this person, this person, this person, just so, you know, we don't bomb our due, we can give you the information and just gives us something to all have the information.

[42:18] It's not like we're voting on anything, we're just providing information.

[42:25] You've agreed with us, Rose?

[42:28] I want to make sure they attorney's happy.

[42:32] Okay.

[42:32] I have a few comments on the flyer, but maybe I could just share, just like some, if we're

[42:39] going to delete that second paragraph, I mean, because if we can make the date time a little

[42:47] bit bigger, then maybe have the women's commission of City of Daily City into that like one

[42:52] of these opaque circles to the left of it, just so we can have that as a bigger kind of

[43:02] But that's it. And I'm happy to give my notes to you, Lair.

[43:07] And that sort of leads me to, you know, we're opening this up to the community, but how are we doing the outreach?

[43:13] We're who are we going to? Um, so that's that's going to make a difference.

[43:18] It'll definitely be on the daily city website and all of their social media in addition to the human resources department social media and anyone

[43:26] and I'll see you'd like me to send this to you.

[43:28] Yeah, we do all the commissions, all the commissions,

[43:33] and you mentioned the Chamber of Commerce.

[43:35] Like, I think there's a list of like,

[43:37] I'm on the list, right?

[43:38] So I think we're all on a list of when stuff happens,

[43:41] we get invited to like the flag raisings and things like that.

[43:45] So that, that, that, and there's a lot of different groups.

[43:49] We'd have to think about like, PBRC is one.

[43:52] There's a lot, we have to think about all the different groups

[43:54] that exists as many as we can at least, and that might be something that you could get

[44:01] from the City Manager's office because we have different events for different groups and

[44:06] things like that. There might be a list of all those different groups and at least get the

[44:13] flyers to them. When does the next daily city wire come out? Can we get it started putting it

[44:22] and like towards the top because the daily city wires becoming like CVSVC. So, if we move it up to the top, that'd be great.

[44:32] That'd be great.

[44:33] I can find out.

[44:35] Well, there's the newsletter that we get mailed, so that's one.

[44:40] But then there's the email version of it, which has become like a CVSVC that's like a lot of different words.

[44:48] This and this and this and this partnership and this and recycle your e-waste and that it's like it's like it's like never ending

[44:54] So be great to get this like towards the top because I think people's attention fans are pretty

[45:00] Chamber, they put their list out of all the events, and this is not the Chamber of

[45:06] Ants, they list a lot of things.

[45:07] A lot of things.

[45:08] Yeah, getting this to foolish would be great.

[45:11] And maybe get the fires at the library?

[45:13] Yep.

[45:16] And the senior center.

[45:18] I mean, that would be a good one. All those are the community centers.

[45:21] We can definitely enter office this to all the departments.

[45:24] Regretion libraries.

[45:25] Okay, great.

[45:26] It's another plate of not related to this, but we want to make sure that the

[45:32] And that, and the, what is it, in B-shore? What is it called?

[45:38] A little B-shore community center.

[45:39] Oh, is it? Oh, is it? B-shore, yeah.

[45:41] Yeah, and then you have Lincoln Park too.

[45:43] Yeah, and Lincoln Park.

[45:46] Sorry, not related to this, but just got me thinking.

[45:54] So I guess the logistics will have to see who we have and how big the group is.

[45:58] And by then we can figure out if it's in here or somewhere where, you know,

[46:03] If there's five people on the panel, this is perfect because it's easy speaking, but if you have more than that, we're going to need a better environment or a different environment, I should say not a better, but a different one.

[46:14] You can't win it.

[46:17] Probably could, but you only have five microphones, but you only have five microphones, so that makes it hard.

[46:25] Thank you.

[46:25] I think once we figure out how many people we have for the panel.

[46:28] Okay, well, I just want to say that it's not necessarily back up.

[46:32] So you mentioned gay, Marian, you don't do.

[46:35] So those three, then go in gay, that's for being like as you can speak.

[46:41] It's five, and then the gay, and then the police chief is sex, and then so that's six for now.

[46:53] And then

[47:02] people will, you can tell people, you can actually never know.

[47:07] Because they do, because the D.A. is only one, but I contacted two.

[47:12] So one of them is the bottom line.

[47:14] Yeah. And same with the DCPD, they're going to have one person.

[47:18] It's either going to be the person around that.

[47:20] But the others will be here to attend and see and watch and, you know, because they'll be a resource,

[47:24] so to speak, for the police department.

[47:27] So, okay, I think that's all I had.

[47:35] If anybody thinks of any more places we should put these flyers or get them to,

[47:40] we should send them to Natalie.

[47:43] I'm just kind of doing the...

[47:45] Now that school is back in, I don't know if Skyline is back in,

[47:48] but do we have connections with the colleges or community colleges?

[47:56] I can check with the author, you have, okay.

[47:58] Yeah, if you can share that, otherwise I'll check with the author of the city manager.

[48:03] I'll also say on the health care perspective, I'm friends with Dr. Elise Nassal and she's a family medicine practitioner for the county or maybe the city,

[48:17] daily city but she works right over here and so I'm happy to reach out to her too to see

[48:23] if she or some of her colleagues have experienced that they want to share on the panel.

[48:30] I'll send you both of those emails, email addresses.

[48:33] Well that'd be great because she's right here at the Neven Center. So that means they could be even

[48:37] seeing people here with that issue coming into the clinic. Okay that's great.

[48:43] And that's my old one.

[48:47] Sorry.

[48:47] I've been thinking about what I've been saying.

[48:51] You're just reading.

[48:55] It's like, they just read, but they, I think one piece that's missing here,

[49:02] and so maybe there's somebody there from a healthcare provider from a resource provider

[49:06] that has some sort of perspective on, I can read.

[49:13] You tell center.

[49:15] You tell center.

[49:15] Yeah, they said I do a partnership.

[49:17] That was the only one.

[49:17] Yeah, they just, I just saw them in the kitchen.

[49:20] So I'll reach out to them.

[49:22] I'll get that.

[49:26] I'll get that.

[49:27] I'll get that.

[49:29] Okay.

[49:33] We lost the agenda for today.

[49:37] There it is.

[49:40] Yeah.

[49:41] Okay.

[49:42] All right.

[49:43] Is everybody good with that so far?

[49:45] I'll move on.

[49:48] Let's move on to research and report subcommittee, initial findings and recommendations.

[49:57] We want to start.

[50:04] Well, we'll just, we'll just vibe it out for the better word and I apologize if I am extremely

[50:11] sleepy today, so I'm a little less articulate.

[50:21] So maybe it wasn't the last meeting, but was it the last meeting in the past?

[50:30] Tasha that you went over a draft of this that is of a women in the city. Since then, Tasha

[50:37] and I have been working on this draft that we submitted to the commission, and some of the

[50:46] high-level data points that Natasha pulled last time are still in here and it warrants sort of

[50:56] competition, thinking about why daily city needs and warns its own analysis around the

[51:05] women's the status of women.

[51:08] Just a few things that is sort of in this second section is that, you know, daily city residents

[51:15] are foreign born, multi-lingual, we have larger average household sizes with lower household

[51:23] incomes.

[51:26] In this section we're also pointing out that, you know, the same, the same topics that

[51:32] were in the fund the future report are things that daily city women are also concerned about

[51:39] around economic freedom and viability care, caregiving responsibilities, housing.

[51:50] In the third section around what we found, there are a few headings here on economic opportunity

[51:59] and as Kevin from earlier talked about, if low income is 85k in the county in daily

[52:08] cities lower than that. In terms of education, the high-level statistics are that daily city

[52:16] whole bachelor degrees that are approximately 39% to the 54% in the county.

[52:26] In terms

[52:26] housing, multi-generation.

[52:30] All in multi-family housing is prevalent here. And in terms of language and foreign-barren population,

[52:42] it's just more dense here in the city, which then has consequences for access to health and housing

[52:49] and other types of economic opportunities. Do you want to add things there?

[52:55] No, I just think that because so much of our commission was based on the counties, like

[53:01] the success of the countywide commission, that getting daily city specific information

[53:07] with just this like rough first go, seeing so many disparities between our city and the

[53:12] county, and then just seeing, even further research, how daily city keeps coming up,

[53:19] C. Cag, which is the county's Council of Governments for San Mateo County,

[53:25] identifies daily city as one of their equity priority communities, which are,

[53:29] or sorry, equity-focused areas. It names that daily city has a history of so much,

[53:39] just like really interesting rationale on why it might be harder for daily city residents, especially

[53:45] day to the residents of color to have the same income attainability and things like that.

[53:54] So I do think that we're just asking if there are resources or if there is interest

[54:00] that we somehow because we don't have the resources to do it just as two members of this

[54:06] commission look deeper in this topic because I think it would inform a lot of policy decisions

[54:13] to know more about these issues.

[54:18] I think in terms of those policy decisions,

[54:20] policy decisions that might fit in the county level

[54:24] because of the disparities between women in the county

[54:28] versus daily city, those same policies

[54:31] might not work for the women in daily city.

[54:36] And so I think this is, this is,

[54:40] this isn't us trying to cobble this together

[54:42] with full-time jobs trying to raise young kids, I think one of the recommendations that we have is that there should be more

[54:51] time resources poured into really thinking about what are the what is the status of women in daily

[54:58] city and if you will allow me to dream, right, maybe a year or two, maybe the speaker series is a conference on

[55:06] the status of women in daily city instead of a five to eight we'd have you know a

[55:12] nine to two symposium around housing or on economic opportunities that has interpretation

[55:19] or translation services that have different organizations who serve the women and children

[55:25] and families in daily city present right and that the report would be shared in that way right

[55:31] as it stands to volunteer commissioners on a subcommittee will not do because this is what we could do and

[55:42] you know, we don't have the resources for more, but future recommendations would be doing a quantitative analysis,

[55:48] maybe even a secondary data and then the collection of maybe focus groups or interviews with women in daily city.

[55:58] I think I also want to say that in our findings and just in our conversations working on this report,

[56:09] I think it would be important to say that the link between the Women's Commission and City Council,

[56:19] there's a lot here to explore and clarify given that we are the, you know, inaugural women's

[56:27] commission around how we can weigh in, how we can contribute to discussions on the city county

[56:36] level, or not city council level around the issues that affect women.

[56:43] Yeah. I can't push this button very well. On the last page we have just outlined some initial

[56:50] brain. This is just like first brain storms on things that maybe could be brought to the

[56:55] commission to speak on, not decide. We're not a voting body that affects their decisions,

[57:02] but just inform. I think it's been really interesting to think about the topic of women being so

[57:11] women's issues are all issues and that can, as a blessing and a, and a curse in some ways,

[57:16] because it's like, oh, what do we want to talk about? And I think that outlined here, so it's like

[57:22] major housing and development, proposals affecting affordability or family services, could be an

[57:26] interesting thing to hear about or bring up. Parks and Recreation and Public Safety initiatives with

[57:32] significant impacts on women, children, older adults. It'd be really cool to see like the

[57:37] in part programs that maybe are women specific or hear about how they're reaching out to women

[57:42] young women for their programs. Things like that. I think it's interesting about the decision

[57:47] around not to bring up a hot topic but the West like Park being privatized when that's one of the

[57:54] few green spaces we have for many families in that area. Women facing heart disease is one of their

[58:00] top, you know, more, more, more, more, mortality if, like, issues. Like, we need access to

[58:06] groups. Like, that's all related, and I think that I would just really want City Council

[58:12] to think a little bit more about how to use the brain trust we all have here to maybe inform.

[58:19] We're just speaking on some issues. So I thought, I don't know that I can agree with all this yet

[58:25] until we kind of dig into a little bit more, but I do appreciate what you've done. One of the things

[58:29] So I was thinking of this, you know, kind of like we're doing a domestic violence, we're getting

[58:32] information in from the public and from a panel and then having people talk to us about

[58:37] what they've seen or done or things like that, it strikes me as one of the things we could

[58:43] do around this rather than trying to do all these comprehensive studies is actually of a town hall

[58:51] meeting for women specifically and talk about the different topics.

[58:55] I take this from experience at the county, you know, if you get a group of women, try to get as large a group of women and talk about what they're facing.

[59:06] And you start hearing specifically from the community. I mean, they're always doing comparisons with the county and things like that.

[59:13] But I think having if we're going to do speaker series or town hall meeting actually hear from the community themselves, where they think they need more help.

[59:22] You know, because some of the things I read said, oh, well, you know, we have these large families

[59:26] and it's hard to feed them all, we don't make enough.

[59:30] Well, you know, that's different than if it's just two people in a house, you know, you'd have a larger pot,

[59:37] but since you have multiple generations, you know, there's a lot of different things that happen here in Daily City

[59:43] because there's a lot of multi-generational families that live together, which is a wonderful thing,

[59:48] But it makes it harder also from an income standpoint if the grandparents aren't working, but now you're trying to feed eight people

[59:55] That's that's a different comparison than having a household of four against four

[1:00:00] You know what I mean? So there's different things. I just think there's a lot of things we want to hear from the community. It's kind of like those listening things, rather than just data driven.

[1:00:10] But I do think some of this helps.

[1:00:15] And, you know, there's a couple things in here that were suggestions of things that were, you know, they weren't specific, but there was somewhat suggestive.

[1:00:24] And I just think I'd, I'd like to spend a little more time digging in on this maybe for one of our next meetings and talk about, you know, how we can get more of the input from the community themselves and try to tell them what they need.

[1:00:37] I just find it more effective that way.

[1:00:41] At least I've seen it in the past because that's when legislation comes up, or recommendations to the council we heard from a hundred women that the biggest problem here in Daily City is XYZ.

[1:00:52] rather than trying to say, well, look at these comparisons.

[1:00:55] You're now what can you do for us?

[1:00:57] You have to give them something to support,

[1:01:01] rather than them having to tell us what to do.

[1:01:05] We're supposed to be providing to the council

[1:01:08] something that they can vote and support

[1:01:10] and take action on.

[1:01:13] I have a question about that framing.

[1:01:15] I have a lot of experiences

[1:01:16] a community organizer and know just how much work it takes

[1:01:19] to do that sort of effort and to make even a town hall,

[1:01:26] which would be awesome or a symposium,

[1:01:28] that's like a one moment impossible.

[1:01:31] The community organizing has to be done constantly

[1:01:34] over and over in perpetuity.

[1:01:36] And that is not something that we,

[1:01:37] as volunteer board members, can do were run.

[1:01:40] And I do think that there is an opportunity here

[1:01:44] to put multiple irons in the fire

[1:01:47] as far as work on a larger event that we can hear from constituents while also as a bureaucrat.

[1:01:57] Now, understanding that being able to chime in on active policy is one of the most powerful ways

[1:02:03] that us as members of the public or members of the board can have an impact.

[1:02:07] And I do think that this style of participation by committee or commission is nothing new.

[1:02:16] All other city commissions are used as resources on like topics that relate to them, and I find it

[1:02:25] Really perplexing that we haven't been brought a topic by

[1:02:31] Anyone in the city of like what are your thoughts on this because I do think that that is the way we can have the most

[1:02:39] Impact fast while also thinking of larger policy things we want to move forward over a longer arc of time

[1:02:47] which, unfortunately, daily see as a limited budget,

[1:02:50] limited staff time, you guys are under extreme dress,

[1:02:52] like new ideas are useful, but much harder,

[1:02:55] sometimes than molding 75% baked ideas.

[1:03:00] I just, I really are just to think about how we can do

[1:03:04] many things at once, because these are valuable hours

[1:03:07] of our time to be here, and we're doing cool stuff,

[1:03:10] but it would be nice to see where we can have lots of little impacts.

[1:03:15] Do we currently have any examples of any other commissions where the city is coming to the commission with some like like when I think about planning right I think planning discusses something and then it's brought to the council.

[1:03:32] Do we currently have any commissions where it works the other way where where the council is coming to a commission and asking them for recommendations or ideas.

[1:03:43] Because my feeling is, there is, which, the small business commission?

[1:03:47] The small business commission?

[1:03:51] They are, um, I'm looking at Rose and she looks confused.

[1:03:55] So, I, as you see, I'm asking, I'm looking at Rose.

[1:03:59] I'm looking at Rose.

[1:03:59] Okay.

[1:03:59] So I'm sorry that I didn't know that.

[1:04:01] That question was here.

[1:04:03] I'm sure it's it, but like, again, I'm just trying to get data.

[1:04:08] Do we currently have examples where the council is coming

[1:04:11] to a commission and asking them for perspective advice review.

[1:04:17] The re-init clarification.

[1:04:19] I don't mean the council, I mean city staff.

[1:04:21] As someone that also sits on the daily city

[1:04:22] by school and pedestrian advisory committee,

[1:04:24] we get designs brought to us to comment on

[1:04:27] ahead of their construction, ahead of their formal design.

[1:04:30] And we don't get to decide if they get built or not.

[1:04:33] We just share our opinion.

[1:04:35] And surely here's us.

[1:04:35] And she goes, cool.

[1:04:36] Thank you.

[1:04:37] And does what she can or cannot with that information.

[1:04:40] And so it's not Council members coming to us.

[1:04:44] I mean, city staff or city policy.

[1:04:46] Well, in a lot of those type of commissions, for instance,

[1:04:50] the Planning Commission.

[1:04:52] So it's slightly mandated.

[1:04:53] So a lot of the developments have to come to the advisory board

[1:04:57] before it goes to the Council,

[1:04:59] because it's a requirement to state law.

[1:05:01] So but in terms of your question,

[1:05:03] I have not seen it where the Council comes to the commission,

[1:05:07] because the commissions are designed to be advisory.

[1:05:09] And so they really are looking to the commissions as they're appointees to bring recommendations to them.

[1:05:17] That's how I usually see it.

[1:05:19] I have seen the complete, I don't know if it made it so verbiage, but the Reckon Park Commission,

[1:05:27] they comment on Reckon Park policies that are happening or things that might be taking place in the future.

[1:05:33] And they give their opinions on it, the small business commission comments on new business ideas,

[1:05:39] are like the grocery outlet that is on going in on top of the hill and they just shared their

[1:05:43] perspective about potential impacts to the community.

[1:05:46] Or like, the small business commission has consulted about the contracts around who gets

[1:05:54] a service like the DCPD car cars, right, and how we can keep that there can be like a ticketing

[1:06:01] system, right? So there has been ways that commissions, as you said, have been asked for recommendations.

[1:06:12] We've sat on this commission for a year and almost a year and a half and we have not

[1:06:17] been at all approached about any of the things that we said and actually maybe the bike and I'm

[1:06:30] industry and advisory committee. It's a long one. It is a women's issue. It's a women's

[1:06:34] issue because many women walk in bike their children to school and home. I consider that

[1:06:41] a women's issue. The grocery outlet, that's a bridge park, is a women's issue. I'm sure dad's

[1:06:50] do it too, but there's moms out there too. And there's there's nanny's that go too. So all of

[1:06:57] our women's issues. So I think not to be labor at the point. The report that we put together,

[1:07:06] we're asking the commission to read it carefully and look at our recommendations.

[1:07:12] We are, we are almost 10 minutes over a time. I'm happy to take this up at the next

[1:07:18] at our next women's commission meeting. Just to think together about

[1:07:23] the purpose of this commission and what other types of impacts we can make in conversation with city.

[1:07:30] Staff, and to inform the policies for the city.

[1:07:34] Well, I think the other thing you have to remember, and if you're trying to city staff, then we also have to think about what other jobs you're doing to be able to do all this kind of work.

[1:07:42] So we have to be sensitive to that as well. But I also think from a council perspective, you know, there are key things that they look out as budgets, infrastructure, you know, planning issues are kind of some of these bigger, bigger issues.

[1:07:55] And, you know, I think the hope when this was started is that we would look at issues within the realm of the women's commission.

[1:08:04] It could have been, you know, things that, if the Bicycle Committee said, you know, we'd like to get some input from the women's commission on impacts of women,

[1:08:11] or take that out to the community, the women's community, you know, they could also send those to us or suggest them to Natalie.

[1:08:18] But, you know, I think I still think we need to drill down a little bit more on what we can actually work on and what kind of information we can bring in the council and say, we'd like you to do a resolution on this that would filter through the city for the salary issue or filter through the city for this or that.

[1:08:38] That's why I want to kind of drill down a little bit more because I think some of these are very broad and you're right, it's a lot of work, but it's a lot of work for anybody to drill down a lot of these recommendations.

[1:08:47] because it's a lot of detail work and what I don't know is how I guess this was the census

[1:08:54] data from 2024 and their estimates and things like that. Drilling down on all the numbers

[1:09:00] because everything's changed. Daily city is no longer the largest city in the county.

[1:09:06] It's just by a little bit. I looked it up because I just knew because I was bothered that we

[1:09:11] the number one still. But I just think I'd like to just think some time to think about a little bit

[1:09:18] more. I think what I've seen on my plate a little bit more is really the commission focusing

[1:09:24] specifically on our event for November 5th because there's still a lot of work to be done. And I think

[1:09:30] if we're not successful with our first event, we're not going to be successful with the next one.

[1:09:36] So we have two months to make this a stellar event

[1:09:40] and put this all together.

[1:09:43] It doesn't mean we don't follow up

[1:09:44] and look at all these things and talk about them again

[1:09:46] next time, but I think the focus, I think right now

[1:09:50] because it's such a short time period,

[1:09:52] should really be on that event and each of us taking a role in that.

[1:09:56] And doesn't mean I won't go through this

[1:09:58] and ask more questions at our next meeting.

[1:10:00] I certainly will, but I think I'd like to see

[1:10:03] get through something that's kind of big right now and we'll sort of set the path for the

[1:10:09] women's commission for future speaker series and then and this is different than this speaker

[1:10:14] series. What you guys are doing but we might have to divvy up different parts of your research

[1:10:19] and some of us do some of that instead of leaving it strictly for staff because I think that's a

[1:10:25] big lift as well. And maybe it's something that we don't pursue further if this was brought up in our

[1:10:33] strategic planning effort just because of the, just like, what a resource, the county

[1:10:40] wide analysis was. And unfortunately, it leaves daily city, a lot of the daily city specifics

[1:10:47] out. So that was the only reason we wanted to dive a little deeper. And maybe we just leave

[1:10:52] it here with the data. We don't have, this already tells us a lot. So I thought the county and

[1:10:59] have to go back and talk to people. I thought the county when I was there, we specifically had

[1:11:07] the Missouri and it was really more North County, because North County has always been sort

[1:11:11] of the stepchild of the county, it's so much business gets done in the south end. So I'll go back

[1:11:18] and ask. I thought they had done something more in depth about the North County, which clearly

[1:11:23] was really my focus was on daily city at the time. So it was when I was on the board actually,

[1:11:29] because I recognize the Diff's Connect on things happening here.

[1:11:33] They had, I just went on the fun the future reports specifically.

[1:11:36] There was not a daily city or not a county specific call out.

[1:11:40] But there are plenty of North County reports.

[1:11:43] The future won the one the Jackie Spear did?

[1:11:46] No.

[1:11:46] So why?

[1:11:47] They didn't want that the, they presented you.

[1:11:49] They didn't want that, they didn't want that.

[1:11:51] And then the other ones she did, but I think it was more round children.

[1:11:54] But there was all, there are all, are others that we could, it would be a few years old.

[1:11:58] but it might have some greater detail about daily city

[1:12:03] than even the commission did.

[1:12:05] I'm not sure they made Doug into it, too.

[1:12:07] I'd have to find out, because it's been a few years,

[1:12:10] but yeah, I don't have a problem

[1:12:11] with continuing the conversation to get me wrong,

[1:12:14] but I'm really focused on making sure we have

[1:12:16] our first event as stellar.

[1:12:19] And I think we all have to play a role in that, too.

[1:12:22] Yeah, and you know, I mean, respectfully,

[1:12:24] I think the event in November is gonna be really excellent

[1:12:27] and I agree with you, Adrienne, we should all be all hands-on deck.

[1:12:32] I just am really curious and this is a question that we can take up later of like, is there

[1:12:38] like an allergy or something around? Am I not understanding the role of the women's

[1:12:43] commission? Because if our charge is to plan the events for the women's commission,

[1:12:50] then I'd be kind of understanding where to step, we're not to step. You know what I mean?

[1:12:56] but in the strategic planning retreat that we had,

[1:13:00] we had multiple conversations around policy impact

[1:13:05] and community engagement and things like that.

[1:13:08] And so I think the research subcommittee

[1:13:12] was really speaking to trying to complement the fund,

[1:13:15] the future report, and also speak to some of the other goals

[1:13:19] that we set for ourselves.

[1:13:21] If that's not what the role of the commissions are,

[1:13:25] then I'd be happy to hear that and so that we can, if we want to leave it to just these

[1:13:31] three pages and then that's it. That's okay too. That's why I was asking the question of

[1:13:38] rose specifically because I think we just need clarity around process, right? Like when we think

[1:13:46] about the planning commission and that being a law that the reason that they behave this way

[1:13:53] because there's a law. I don't know about the small business commission, but I also

[1:13:59] once sat on the pedestrian and bicycle committee. So I also know that that is also part

[1:14:07] of the law. So not the law, but there's a mission. There's like the mission is related

[1:14:16] that like they're not going to like paint roads or create bicycle lanes without the involvement

[1:14:22] of this commission. Our charter doesn't say, no policies, indeed, we city-affecting women will

[1:14:28] go into practice without the consultation of the women's commission. I am for this. I do believe

[1:14:37] that we should establish a collaborative process for referring policy matters. Right now, our charter

[1:14:43] doesn't call for that. And so I think it's more of where is that written for other, for other

[1:14:53] commissions and do we need to have a conversation around what our charter is and how do we do like,

[1:14:58] Is there even King?

[1:15:00] You even amend that chart, right? So I'm more thinking about today, based on our charter, no we're in our charter, does it say that we are part of some sort of collaborative process with the council or with city staff.

[1:15:14] That's not to say that maybe in the future that doesn't change, but I think in order to know what is what we can do and how we can participate, we need to understand the impact of the charter on that and right now our charter does not call for that.

[1:15:28] So I think that's part of the issue is that nobody asks us this like, it's part of our

[1:15:34] charter.

[1:15:35] And that's why they don't come to us asking for things because there's no, the charter does

[1:15:40] not connect to that.

[1:15:41] So I think it's definitely a bigger conversation and also trying to understand what's possible.

[1:15:47] If we feel, some of us feel like we are not able to do our life's work because the charter

[1:15:56] doesn't create a larger opportunity for dialogue.

[1:16:00] Like that's something that we have to, you know, think about.

[1:16:04] Well, I also see, there's a lot of info in here that talks about issues affecting women

[1:16:09] daily.

[1:16:09] See, I think if we could dig into some of them, if you can't dig into all of them,

[1:16:14] and really come back with a policy that we'd recommend to the city

[1:16:17] that they do a survey of whether it's employees here,

[1:16:20] or use a chamber or something to talk about women's salaries,

[1:16:23] things like that. You know, the equity issues around that, you know, we could bring something

[1:16:28] like that to the council. That's kind of our role is find out what you'd like them to

[1:16:33] try to accomplish as a council, because we don't get to say you have to do this. We're saying

[1:16:38] we're recommending to you that, you know, you take a look at the equity in salaries. I'll just

[1:16:44] use that as one specific. You know, and it could be, it might have been one of the things you put

[1:16:49] here I don't recall right now, but I think there's a lot of things we can do and be a

[1:16:56] send policy to the council. We just have to decide what those policies are, and if it requires

[1:17:01] more research, then we have to figure out what tools we have to do the research.

[1:17:06] A lot of it, too, vice chair is your charge as a commission is very broad, right? And that's

[1:17:15] just the way it has been written by ordinance. So when you're talking about BPAC, BPAC's been

[1:17:19] around for a long time.

[1:17:20] It has very specific goals, right?

[1:17:23] And I know we talked about the planning commission.

[1:17:25] You have personnel board, very, very specific

[1:17:27] to personnel issues.

[1:17:29] Whereas you are sort of in the driver's seat

[1:17:32] to identify those issues.

[1:17:33] And that's why it might feel kind of crazy

[1:17:36] because you have a lot of broad authority.

[1:17:39] And a lot of those are identifying

[1:17:41] what those priorities are.

[1:17:43] And impacts of what that might be.

[1:17:45] You might in a symposium, or even through the speaker series, find out their bigger broader

[1:17:53] issues that are impacting.

[1:17:55] So the council is looking to the commission as it was developed to look at this broad

[1:18:00] authority and to narrow it down to see what is it about the women's issues or identifying

[1:18:06] the women's issues that impact daily city.

[1:18:09] And I think that's why it can appear to look like, what's going on, this is so much, it's

[1:18:15] it is a lot. May I ask for a motion, since this is not a gender's item, to a gender's

[1:18:24] asking topics, as they relate to city policy, that we could like, themes of if this type of

[1:18:30] thing is being heard by council, we would like to hear about it too. Like is that, like if there

[1:18:37] changes to recommend, I don't know, I feel, I apologize if I sound dense or something,

[1:18:46] but this is, I don't know why I feel like I'm not being heard as far as it sounds easy to

[1:18:53] mean to say, like, what's the city working on right now? Let's share it with the women's commission,

[1:18:59] which of these topics are things that you would like to hear more about, because we cannot,

[1:19:04] So we don't know everything that you guys are working on and I, at my job, we have a community advisory council that each year sets a strategic plan for the year kind of like we did.

[1:19:17] But with help of staff of like here's all the stuff our agencies working on for the next three years.

[1:19:23] What are you guys interested of that? Let's pick something.

[1:19:27] And we might also come here or someone from the city manager,

[1:19:31] I'm not saying you are not the representative.

[1:19:33] But can we invite a representative from the city manager's office

[1:19:37] to come to a meeting and have that discussion?

[1:19:42] Because in terms of agendizing, no, I'm like, I don't think so.

[1:19:47] Like, there's nothing that we can ask to be agendized

[1:19:50] on the city council.

[1:19:51] No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

[1:19:53] So for us, I think if we're going to agendize something,

[1:19:56] we should invite someone then from the city manager's office

[1:20:00] to come and have that discussion with them.

[1:20:02] But I think we should do it in just like,

[1:20:06] not between now and the domestic violence meeting.

[1:20:09] Yeah, my one column with the event discussions are,

[1:20:15] if for event planning, we don't have to be a commission

[1:20:17] to do that.

[1:20:18] We can actually do it a lot better if we don't

[1:20:20] aren't in these one hour meetings.

[1:20:22] So, for the event, like, we can only talk about certain things during this one hour.

[1:20:29] Mm-hmm.

[1:20:30] We have to based on the Brown Act, have conversations here.

[1:20:34] Yeah, but she's saying that that's not the only thing that we can have a conversation about in these one hour meetings.

[1:20:40] So, these meetings are not one hour. They can go on indefinitely.

[1:20:43] Like, we can, I mean, the city council goes until three o'clock in the morning sometimes.

[1:20:46] Yeah, we've tried to keep periods.

[1:20:48] So it's not too late.

[1:20:50] I think there's a misconception on how some of this works, and that's where I'm trying

[1:20:56] to explain, and I don't know what we need to take up all this time to explain it.

[1:21:00] I might want to think it through and put it down so I could give you a better sense of how it works.

[1:21:06] They don't have like, or that maybe they do, and then we could have it.

[1:21:10] If they had every treat and said these are the five things we're going to work on this year,

[1:21:13] and they would share that publicly.

[1:21:15] But what usually happens with the council is someone comes into planning and wants to build something

[1:21:20] staff works on it, then it comes to the council and we can't really have that until the council has to see it first.

[1:21:30] They never give staff reports out before.

[1:21:33] That's maybe a broader picture.

[1:21:35] But if there's something that the council in general has had to retreat and says these are our ten goals.

[1:21:42] like you're saying they did with the community group and in the agency said these are the

[1:21:46] 10 things we're working on that might be a different story but the city does not operate

[1:21:50] that way they get all these things on their agenda because they have these all these infrastructure

[1:21:55] things they want to work on and staff works on them and then brings them to them and these

[1:22:00] aren't things well maybe they are something but we'd have to ask how that if they have

[1:22:05] something that they've focused on where it's already public and out there, and how is there

[1:22:10] any way that the Women's Commission could understand some of the things they're doing

[1:22:18] or working on so that we might give input, but not, you know, at the same time or once we

[1:22:26] know that's on the agenda that we can make comment.

[1:22:30] It does some things that might have an effect on the women in the community.

[1:22:33] I think Gabby was right that it's not, I think maybe it's just like the words that I'm

[1:22:37] using. I don't mean council only. The city manager, they got a work plan for the year.

[1:22:43] Like, what are they working on? The city council might take things that are more acute or something

[1:22:47] that pops up like a, like a development or something. That's that's one thing.

[1:22:52] But I do think that your idea of inviting the city manager and sharing an outlook of some kind,

[1:22:58] like a horizon, here's what's coming down the pike.

[1:23:01] Would be interesting.

[1:23:02] Just like a state of the daily city workload.

[1:23:08] And then we can know more.

[1:23:09] It's hard to know what's going on.

[1:23:15] I don't think it's necessary a bad idea at all.

[1:23:17] I just think what you're going to find out is it's not sexy stuff.

[1:23:21] They're doing this diagram treatment, basic thing,

[1:23:25] and they're doing the top of the hill thing.

[1:23:28] I don't think it's a bad thing to have them come in

[1:23:30] say we're just kind of trying to figure out a few things if there's anything that's kind

[1:23:34] of long range that you're working on that we might have an interest for us. But I think you're

[1:23:39] going to find it's more infrastructure-related. Just not things that you would normally think

[1:23:45] would come to a woman's good. I could be wrong, but I just haven't been on the council.

[1:23:49] Right, I think a lot of it, too, is narrowing that. I mean, you know, if you have the

[1:23:53] senior manager come in here and talk about everything he's working on with all the departments.

[1:23:58] It doesn't necessarily, it's not going to us, well, anyway, to the city, it just appears

[1:24:05] if you had some identified priorities and then the city manager can report back how

[1:24:13] those projects may be impacted by the priorities that you set.

[1:24:18] Yeah, and I think we have that.

[1:24:20] I mean, if we were to invite him, we would not say, we talked, I mean, we did as part

[1:24:25] the strategic plan identify our focuses and priorities. So I think we can definitely share have some sort of

[1:24:31] dialogue with the City Manager's office around that. I still think we should focus on the event first,

[1:24:39] but like I think the expectation of the council is for us to bring things that they should be focused

[1:24:46] on to them and not the other way around and perhaps in talking to someone from the City Manager's office,

[1:24:53] we can help maybe understand if there's anything that ties in with our priorities that we

[1:25:00] that spark some sort of idea that we can then come to the council on and say hey we need a

[1:25:05] resolution about this or we need more information like even supporting the development of the

[1:25:10] comprehensive report the the question that I would ask as a taxpayer like is why like what is the

[1:25:18] goal exactly like if we're going to invest in that what do we want to outcome of that to be like

[1:25:23] But in order to get that information, are we going to, you know, become, you know,

[1:25:28] raise our living wage to $30 an hour and like, it's just more of like,

[1:25:33] what are the goals that we're trying to achieve?

[1:25:35] So I think there's still more conversations that I think we need to have around that

[1:25:40] between all of us to then be able to come sort of eloquently and say,

[1:25:44] here's our request, here's our suggestions and here is why.

[1:25:49] Well, I can tell you, you know, the good news is they do have things that are priors, like

[1:25:53] affordable housing is number one on the council's list.

[1:25:56] Just take that and say to yourself, how does that relate to women's issues?

[1:26:03] But we probably could ask, what are the top priors for the city council?

[1:26:06] They have, they have top priors, and if they're topics that we think we might be able to help

[1:26:11] input when they come around to, you know, where we make a presentation saying we've been

[1:26:16] looking at affordable housing, we think it lends itself more to, you know, mail-dominated

[1:26:20] ownership than it does a female, do we have any kind of priority for, you know, low-income

[1:26:27] single moms to get into, I mean, I'm just telling that out.

[1:26:31] I have no idea, but I do know that's one of their biggest priorities.

[1:26:34] So, you know, maybe it's not a bad idea if Tom did come and, you know, lay down what the top

[1:26:40] for the council are and maybe for the city that they're working on and then gives us at least

[1:26:46] a breadth of what they're doing and then we can think about some of these things that might

[1:26:51] affect them and bring something to the council. I think that's what we're looking for is to

[1:26:56] understand what the city's doing and how do we bring that input and give my ideas that we think

[1:27:01] we'd like to see them adopt. And I think also bringing in here puts us on the radar. I think

[1:27:06] the other piece is like, you don't know what you don't know, right?

[1:27:10] We are a new commission, like, we're not, no one is thinking about us.

[1:27:16] Like, oh, we have this commission, we have this new thing.

[1:27:19] We should reach out to them like that, that, that, that's, that's a muscle that needs to

[1:27:23] be developed.

[1:27:24] And so creating that dialogue with, you know, maybe something down the road, all of a sudden

[1:27:30] someone's been like, oh wait, we should bring this to the women's commission and bring

[1:27:34] this and in front of them.

[1:27:35] the other thing I'm thinking of when you talk about how broad our horizon is for us that might be

[1:27:41] very difficult and maybe that's why we're struggling a little bit maybe we can think about that

[1:27:46] and perhaps it could be tightened up to certain issues or certain parameters or something so we

[1:27:52] have a bit of guidance because it is so broad it's so new and is so different from anything you know

[1:27:58] we've they've ever done in the city so I mean that might be something for us all think about it's also new

[1:28:04] for all the cities.

[1:28:05] But we first city to do it.

[1:28:07] Yeah, exactly.

[1:28:07] It's not an account of that stuff, right?

[1:28:10] So like, as different as we know,

[1:28:11] you have San Francisco that has a department and staff.

[1:28:14] I have a whole staff.

[1:28:15] I mean, the San Francisco Arts Commission is hiring for a CFO.

[1:28:20] I mean, like, it's just a different, it's a different ballgame, right?

[1:28:24] The county also has staff and then also city and county.

[1:28:27] So you know, that's a whole different area in the city,

[1:28:30] in your charter and all that kind of stuff.

[1:28:31] We're the only one in the county, but I don't think there's a ton of commissions out there that are just volunteering to have staff.

[1:28:39] Yeah, so.

[1:28:41] All right.

[1:28:41] Are we good tonight?

[1:28:44] I do want to adjourn in honor of Dalton.

[1:28:47] Oh, that's right.

[1:28:48] We have a adjourn of members.

[1:28:49] Thank you, Rose.

[1:28:50] We're being here.

[1:28:51] Thank you, Rose.

[1:28:54] I just, I wrote something.

[1:28:56] I'd like to adjourn tonight in honor of Dalely Parton.

[1:28:59] Obviously, we know Dolly for her music and her personality, but I think sometimes what gets overlooked is how much she did for women in children throughout her life.

[1:29:08] She started the imagination library because her father couldn't read or write and began in her small hometown grew into a program that has now given more than 300 million free books to children around the world.

[1:29:20] Today it sends more than 3 million books every single month to children from birth to age 5 regardless of their families income.

[1:29:27] And there's other programs that have sprung up as a result of that, including P.J. Library.

[1:29:34] She also put real resources behind women's health care.

[1:29:37] She helped raise a million dollars for the birthing unit at her local hospital

[1:29:41] and Tennessee, which ultimately led to the Dolly Parton Center for Women's Services.

[1:29:46] That center provides women in a rural community with access to things like maternity care,

[1:29:52] mammograms and other women's health services close to home.

[1:29:55] And she gave millions to children's health care as well, including a million to pediatric.

[1:30:00] Cancer, to the pediatric cancer program at Vanderbilt's Children's Hospital, and another million for pediatric infectious disease research.

[1:30:08] But I also think it's meaningful, especially for us as a women's commission, that Dolly was willing to talk about her own experience.

[1:30:15] She struggled with fertility and dealt with endometriosis that ultimately led to a partial hysterectomy. She talked about having imagined having children and then having to accept that it wasn't going to happen.

[1:30:26] And instead of letting that define her,

[1:30:28] she talked about thinking of other people's children as her own,

[1:30:32] I think there's something really beautiful about that,

[1:30:34] taking something painful in your own life and turning it into

[1:30:37] decades of work that made life better for women in children.

[1:30:41] So tonight, I'd like to adjourn our meeting in memory of Dolly Parton

[1:30:44] and in gratitude for the enormous amount of good she put into the world.

[1:30:49] Thank you, Gabby.

[1:30:51] Is there most to adjourn?

[1:30:54] I'm so moved. I second.

[1:30:56] All the favor?

[1:30:58] All right.

[1:30:59] Our meeting is adjourned.

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