In attendance – Lisa (D2), Christine (D3), Leslie (D5),
Chia, Betsy (D1)
The agenda for this meeting was approved and there was a
review of notes from June and July by those members who had been absent, with
time for any questions or clarifications about the notes.
Status of the work: Chia had spent some time looking for
Parks curriculum because Everyday Democracy is no longer advising us closely as they have been. She found a set that had been based on Everday Democracy’s work on the
website for the Parks and Recreation National Association. Steering committee members present in July
worked on localizing it to our area. In addition, 4 Community Action Team
members came together to work on a different curriculum that de-emphasized
using a racial equity lens. The Steering Committee decided to take the second
curriculum and use it as comments to tweak the original curriculum to assure
that these dialogues continue to focus on how our racial and social positioning
effects how we interact with city services. The purpose of these dialogues is
to create a safe forum for open and honest conversations about racial equity in
our city.
We reviewed the August timeline – It is time for Steering Committee members to send their
second invoice to the D1 office. We are getting ready to train facilitators
on Saturday August 29. We need to assure that we have at least 3 facilitators
per group if the groups are going to be large (i.e. 25 or so). CHIA will create a flyer to recruit for
both dialogues that can be distributed to potential recruiting partners. Both
sets of community dialogues will be done before Thanksgiving. Locations are now
set (Police/Youth at Wellstone Center, and Parks at Arlington Hills). We will
look at fall events prior to the Parks dialogues starting on October 19 to see
if there will be continuing opportunities to recruit. Our police partners are
recruiting both police members and reaching out to local faith organizations
for potential participants. We need
a concentrated push to recruit.
Review of the budget: To date, most of our expenses have
been in staff time. Most additional funds are set to be expended when the
actual dialogues are taking place. We had a lengthy discussion on how to award stipends
for facilitators, given that the PED event has a separate planning group. This PED
dialogue could be a large group. District Council staff members will facilitate
the PED dialogues. WSCO had a staff member on the planning group for the PED
discussions, WSCO will look who it can send as an alternate to that group. The
budget line for participant stipends led to lengthy discussion given that we
are looking at more participants now than when the proposal was developed – two
times as many… The emphasis will be on using these funds to minimize
impediments to people’s participation.
LISA
(with help from Chia) will draft a participation form that will alert us to
the barriers folks may face. BETSY will draft a standard form people
can fill out to receive the stipend to address their barriers to participation.
BETSY will contact Smart Trips about potential
help on free bus passes (NOTE:
Smart Trips was able to get Metro Transit to donate free bus passes). BETSY
and CHIA will go over the specifics of the budget line items and let the
steering committee know how stipends will be dealt with (NOTE: up to 10 district councils can receive stipends for staff
participation – starting with $360/council. Should fewer than 10 councils
participate, additional funds will be available to the PED Planning group
members). Printing costs should be covered by the line item amount with
additional printing being provided by participating steering committee councils.
CHIA will send
out both versions of the curriculum for Parks so committee members can edit.
Recruiting – need to recruit district councils for PED
dialogue; LESLIE will check with
Arlington Hills about PED dialogue location (NOTE: that location is now confirmed).
Next meeting for
Steering Cmte will be September 8 from 10-12p at D1 office.
NOTE: Police and
Youth/Family dialogues are Mondays September 14 – October 12 from 6-8p at the
Wellstone Center, 179 E. Robie Street
Parks and Community
dialogues are Mondays October 19 – November 16 from 6-8p at the Arlington Hills
Community Center, 1200 Payne Avenue
PED and District
Council dialogue is Wednesday October 14 from 2 – 8p at Arlington Hills
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