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>>> Good morning, everyone.
The February 11, 2022 regularly
scheduled meeting of the
meeting will come to order.
I'm Tammy Morales chair of the
committee.
Will the clerk please call the
roll.
>>>
>> Lewis.
>> Present.
>> Strauss.
>> Present.
>> Sawant.
>> Present.
>> Morales?
>> Here.
>> Thank you, Devon, council
member Nelson will be absent.
Let the record show her absence
is excused.
If there is no objection,
today's agenda will be adopted.
Hearing no objection, today's
agenda is adopted.
>>> So I want to start with
three things quickly, and then
at this point, we don't have
anybody signed up for public
comment.
I'll give it just a few minutes
while I cover the agenda and
then we'll go to see if anybody
has signed up.
>> So we have three things on
the agenda today.
We will hear from the office of
arts and culture on their 2022
work plan, we've got two
appointment, reappointment to
the human rights commission and
then a briefing from the
Department of Education and
early learning about the
rollout of their youth led
social Justice grant.
My colleagues, I want to just
share with you briefly there
was a technology issue that
resulted in dozens of students
receiving notification that
they had been awarded grants
when they had not.
I heard about this from
constituents who were concerned
that young people were very
confused.
And really unsure of their
status as recipients.
So I want to thank director
Chapelle and his team for being
very responsive to this
question and concerns,
answering my questions and in
being prepared to come before
the committee today.
One of council's key
responsibilities is providing
oversight of how our
departments function and
provide good service to our
neighbors, so in the spirit of
transparency, and providing
that good governance, today
we'll hear from deal about what
happened and how the department
plans to ensure transparency
about these mistakes so we can
prevent them again and also so
we can repair the harm done to
the young people who sought to
participate in the program and
understand where we are with
that.
>>> So with that, I will move
to public comment.
I still do not see anybody
signed in, is that correct?
>> There are currently no
public comment registrants.
>> Okay, so I will open and
close the public comment
period.
And we can move on to the first
item on the agenda, Devon, will
you please read item 1 one
record.
>>>
>> Agenda item 12022 office of
arts and culture work preview
for briefing and discussion.
>> Thank you.
So is director Barnes on?
I don't believe I see her. I
see, Mike Davis and Tina.
>> Yes, hello.
Thank you so much councilwoman
Morales.
>> Good morning I don't Tina
will not be joining us but Mike
and I are hear with bells on.
We'll be happy to tell you what
is coming up here at arts.
I'll share my screen now.
Oh, you know what?
Let me get back to the top.
All right.
Hello.
Thank you so much for having us
here today.
We are going to be talking
today about some of the
upcoming and current
opportunities of the office of
arts and culture offering to
individual artists, to folks
who work in arts education,
community development as well
as individual cultural workers
and Mike will be talking about
the cultural education funds
from the equitable communities
initiative that we got out the
door last year and we are
working this year to solidify.
>>> First thing we want to talk
about is the individual artist
grant called city artist.
This year 2022 and you'll see
2023 on the name of this slide.
Because we are doing the work
ahead of time to make sure
artists get paid right when
2023 starts.
So this funding cycle is for
this next couple of years.
2023 to 204 grant.
$180,000.
And we have set funding amounts
at 2, 5 and $8000.
What is interesting about this
program and part of the
innovations toward equity we
have provided is it is an
artist focused grant, no the a
project based grant as you'll
find in many individual artist
spaces.
It is focusing on the artist
and their trajectory and
career.
Are they an early, mid career,
established?
Typically the panel looks at
all three and gives awards
across-the-board and we, of
course, try and get our awards
to folks who are representing
the diverse cultural landscape
of Seattle and its communities.
Typically 200 plus applications
come in.
24 or so awards are awarded
based on that spread and we do
alternating years of funding.
So this year we are doing dance
choreography, as well as music
composition and theater and
playwrighting, in the other
years we have filmmaking and
media and a few others as well.
Visual arts in one of them.
So it is open now, until April
27.
2022.
>>> I'll pause and then move
forward.
>>> Yeah, go ahead and finish
the presentation and then we'll
open it up if there is
questions afterwards.
>> Beautiful, thank you.
>>> All right.
So the next one is another
opportunity for individual
artists called artists up.
It is a fund collaborative
across agencies from the city
arts and culture to king
counties culture and the
Stitt's arts agency.
And it is a focus on artists
statewide, based on community
feed each of those
constituencies we move forward
with this program around
mentoring artists of color,
mentoring other artists of
color, that peer to peer
mentoring is what these asked
for.
When we do is cover the time of
the mentoring artists and make
opportunities for the meantee
artists.
This is supported by the
national endowment of the arts.
We are excited to be able to
scale up this program and have
artists show up for each other.
We are going to be opening this
twice this year.
The first is March 1 and the
second will be in the fall.
>>> Now we are going to get
into the youth work of the
office of arts and culture.
There is a cup of opportunities
open now.
One of which is the youth arts
grant.
It is a two year grant of
$12,000 per organization or
individual teaching artist or
it could also be social service
agencies and institutions as
well.
This supports out of school
arts time programs.
You'll hear this next, we also
have in school programs.
This is specifically after
school, summer, those kind of
programs and they prioritize
young people from diverse
socioeconomic and racial
background.
This is open to like I said,
various types of
constituencies.
This program opens March 7, and
it will be open for about six
to eight weeks.
>>> And then we will make
decisions by the time the fall
arrives.
>>> And finally, the advantage
roster is open now.
The creative advantage roster
is a vetted list of cultural
responsive teaching artists and
organizations that work in
Seattle public schools and that
receive city funding for that
in based school work.
These partners from the
community from integrated and
cultural arts students and also
special development for
teachers.
And of course the benefits of
arts learning from many, some
of which are exposing young
people and teachers to
different methods of expression
approximate viewing the world.
This is mainly open to teaching
artists and individuals and
community and cult rat
institutions.
Of the roster is 125 partners
deep and we will be adding more
and more annually as the
program continues.
>>> And I will now talk about a
brand new program at the office
based on federal funding and
city support.
In addition to the national
endowment for the arts where we
also receive some funning
you'll see it on the right side
of the
slide here.
The $1.5 million city funds and
$500,000.
This program is really
connecting under and unemployed
creative workers into the
creative industries.
There is six focus areas we are
hoping individuals and groups
to apply for.
Public health, mental health
and healing, food security,
storytelling and journalism,
arts education and social
cohesion and belonging.
The impact is 100 plus creative
workers will be employed for up
to six months and earning up to
12 kfor that, that does not
cloud for example supplies and
materials.
That is really just the wage
for the creative worker for
that six months.
>>> Types of work of this,
include things like artists in
residence, free theater, free
music lessons, free courses at
community centers, public arts
like theater, music writing,
design.
There could be also W P.A.
south projects, including
historic theater.
And this is also open to
projects that are currently
already happening that already
sustain the existing creative
educational research and
service work that supports any
of these service areas.
Food security is a great
example.
A ton of projects came up
during Covid around making sure
we are helping each other be
secure in our food needs.
And those projects are up for
funding for this program as
well.
>>> Timeline is looking late
April to August is the sort of
application through selection
process.
And that is currently being
refined as well.
>>> I'm going to pass it over
to Mike Davis to talk about the
cultural education.
>>> Hello, everyone.
I'm Mike Davis.
Cultural education adviser for
the office of culture.
The cultural education fund we
have was born from the
equitable communities
initiative task force in 2021.
They identified a $30 million
budget for recommendations to
investing in the Seattle.
Arts of culture was awarded 2
hundred dollars in these funds
so we put together a process to
aware organizations that were
doing the work of cultural
education in our communities.
The first thing we do was
coordinate with internal art
staff.
We reached out to the Seattle
arts commission, the Seattle
music commission, we circled
back to EC I task force
members.
We also engaged community
members who had doesn't work
with our office and we reached
out to fellow city department.
And through all of this
communication, we were able to
identify 100 organizations that
were currently providing
cultural education experiences
for youth in the city of
Seattle.
Using the criteria identified
by the EC I task force, which
was organizations that serve 75
of youth and organizations that
had deep community connections,
we were able to cut that list
of
100 organizations down to 66
organizations that directly met
the EC I, T frecommendations.
After that we convened members
from the arts community.
We had a couple of community
members who, for a long time,
have worked in arts, both as
artists and as funders, as well
as a couple EC I task force
members themselves and we put
them together for a selection
panel and these folks came
together, they did the
deliberation, and they
identified the organizations
that would receive funding.
So, in the end, our selection
panel selected 29 organizations
for funding.
Of that $2 million we were able
to award, $1.85 million, we had
12 organizations were awarded
$100,000, nine organizations
awarded $50,000 and eight
organizations were awarded
$25,000.
And as you can see, this list,
it is a very diverse list of
organizations, and they all
perform the work of cultural
education in different ways.
For example we have learn TV,
they create digital programming
for preschoolers, so it is
basically like our own local
version of sesame street.
We also have the Buffalo
soldiers of Seattle.
They take youth from urban
neighborhoods in Seattle, they
take them out and give them
outdoor experiences, as well as
experiences in cultural
education and learning about
the histories of the Buffalo
soldiers.
It is a cool organization.
>>
>>> And geeking out kids of
color was a new one.
They are an organization that
teaches youth how to cope in
hopes that they will be able to
get jobs that would that Lou
them to live in their
neighborhoods when they grow
up.
So that is what we did for
2021.
Right now, you know, we did the
contracts at the end of the
year.
The organizations are doing the
work right now.
And we also have $500,000 to
award for 2022.
So we are working internally to
kind of build out what that
process will look like, we are
engaging a lot of these
organizations that you see in
front of you right now, and we
are going to work with
community to build out another
process for this $500,000 and
at the end of the year, we are
hoping to do another funding
process.
So if anyone has questions,
feel free to let me know.
Thank you.
>>> Okay.
Do I see any questions from
colleagues for our friends of
the arts department?
I have a few questions.
Oh, I just saw director Ali
Barnes.
Good morning, how are you?
You are muted.
Still muted.
.
>> Welcome to the technology
difficulties.
My apologies, council member
and colleagues.
One of the things I wanted, Ali
Barnes, acting director of the
office of arts and culture.
One of the things I really want
to emphasize in each the last
piece we saw from this amazing
partnerships education grants
group is the cultural education
grants that went out through
the EC I. The staff actually
did this in three weeks.
Getting that money assigned in
September of 2021, it was
important to get it out to the
arts sector so that we knew
that these 30 organizations
would be able to open their
doors beginning January 2022
and continue doing the work
that they had been doing
previously.
So the efficacy of time and
people and purpose and place is
really driving this group that
presented this morning.
And I wanted to publicly
acknowledge that.
>> I appreciate that.
It is good to know that when we
have the right leadership we
can get money out the door
quickly.
That is very important.
>>> So I have a couple of
questions.
Just for my own clarification,
my understanding was that part
of the selection criteria would
be organizations that had, that
could demonstrate some loss due
to Covid?
Am I understanding that right?
>>> With all the AARP pool
funds the federal guidelines
will be applied, you are
correct I don't okay.
I wanted to make sure I
understood that.
Then my other list here of
okay.
So this is really helpful, just
to show kind of the breadth of
ways that we as a city are
funding artists.
I think it is important to
demonstrate the different
funding opportunities, you
know, to show support for
cultural workers, who are
really contributing to the
vitality of the city.
I want to congratulate you all
on getting, I have already
forgotten his name, but the
artist who did the MLK mural.
Goating him up from Mexico to
do those repairs.
I think that was really
important and so happy to see
that that is going to be
repaired and that he was
willing to come up and do it.
>>> And then I also want to
acknowledge the mentoring
program you are supporting,
particularly now, when we are
talking about people who have
you know, been so acutely
impacted by Covid.
Providing support, particularly
for black and brown artists,
for people artists experiencing
disabilities or other kind of
underrepresented folks.
Having that four hour mentoring
opportunity to tap into and
providing support for that, I
think is really important.
So I just want to thank you all
for the work you are doing
there.
And realizing the cultural
education work, as we are
talking about ethnic studies in
school and really trying to
address the cultural erasure
that has happened in our
education system programs like
this are important to make sure
we are supporting young people
and making sure they feel seen
and are seen in our community.
So I want to thank you all for
the work that you are doing.
And really appreciate that.
I did want to touch base on a
couple of things we spoke about
in our monthly meeting but that
aren't addressed here.
If you could provide an update
on the cultural space agency
PDA, and we had talked about I
know you were looking for a
recovery manager to coordinate
with the neighborhoods and
provide that sort of
interdepartmental coordination.
Can you give us an update?
>> I can give you a very brief
update.
The cultural space agency is
just again flourishing, and we
were just so proud to be able
to send out a contract to the
agency for the base program,
which really impacts so many
organizations and young people
and people of color who want to
learn about what it takes to be
moralized and keep cultural
space.
So we actually moved the base
program for the PDA's contract
to the PDA.
And arts is funding that
program in 2022 with $60,000 as
well as a $10,000 support for a
base network new website, if
you will.
Initially we got out $500,000
to the FDA in 2021 to support
the start up again, and there
will be an additional $250,000
worth coming in 2022.
So it is great to put joint
signatures on a letter to joint
constituency about a program
like base that is really
important to them in that
regard.
>>> The good news on the
recovery manager is that we are
now in deliberations and
looking at references that we
actually went through the
process and Seattle human
resources was so, I mean they
are amazing.
How they do all of this is just
kind of amazing to watch.
And we are really grateful that
we have their support.
So we are well on our way into
that process and will be making
some other determinations
shortly and will bring those to
your office as well.
>> All right.
Thank you.
>>> Okay.
Colleagues, are there any
questions for our friends at
the arts department?
Council member Strauss I think
I saw your hand.
>> Thank you, chair.
I have no questions.
I think this was a thorough
presentation and I really
appreciate everyone's work.
Having been a member of
aamerica corp for two years,
I'm very excited.
Please let me know Ma I can do
to help support you.
Also acknowledging director Ali
Barnes.
Your work, many museums and
institutions were able to
receive Covid and AR P.A.
funding and some were left out.
And I want to highlight the
work director Barnes is doing
right now to help me and all of
us identify who those
organizations were that were
left out and how we can
continue to support them.
So no questions.
Just a big thank you, kudos and
keep up the great work.
>> Perfect.
Thank you council member
Strauss.
>>> I don't see any other
questions.
So I want to thank you all for
joining us this morning.
And we will move onto the next
agenda item.
>>> Okay.
Devon, could you please read
item 2?
>> Agenda item 2, Department of
Education and early learning
youth social Justice grant
briefing for briefing and
discussion.
>> Perfect.
Thank you very much.
So I want to welcome director
Ali Barnes and Marissa and I
want to just again state,
before you get started, that we
are here to shine a light on
some of the mistakes that were
made and to learn from them,
not to point fingers.
My hope is we can look into the
processes more deeply to see
what changes we need to
consider.
And to just get some clarity on
what happened and what we can
do to talk to make sure that we
are serving con stiff weather
center, and especially that we
are serving young people well.
So I'm going to ask you to, I
know you have a presentation.
So please go ahead.
>>> Thank you.
God morning, council member
Morales and other distinguished
council members present today.
As you know I'm Dwayne Chapelle
director here at the Department
of Education and early
learning.
I want to thank you for this
opportunity to update you on
deals youth social Justice led
many grants.
We are going to share as you
mentioned council member
Morales, crust the challenges
we face implementing this grant
and how we have been able to
work through them to fund all
89 youth projects, and then
inform
you of our next step.
>> So what I would like to do
here is give a little
background and quick background
and time lines on the youth led
social Justice mini grant.
So this opportunity originated
as a joint effort by council
and the executive office in
response to hate crimes and
bias incidents that was
occurring in early 2021.
And to give our youth
opportunities for civic
engagement and leadership on
topics that they are deeply
passionate about.
Our youth had the autonomy to
develop their own projects, and
we set award amounts ranging
from 500 to $8000 per
applicant.
What you'll see here is this
slideshow shows the initial
considerations that went into
the design of the grant, and
really guided deals, internal
processes.
You can also know this a lot of
intention in the and youth
engagement actually went into
this design and how we can make
this the best possible
experience for our young
scholars.
And through a series of virtual
meetings, we had internal work
groups that engaged the Seattle
youth commission and youth
interns to really co-design
this opportunity.
There was a public survey that
was conducted for you to find
out more about their interests
and accessibility needs.
About Maria feedback we
designed the application
process to conassist of a short
three page application
accepting both written and
video submissions, and the
application included questions
asking youth to basically just
describe the intended impacts
of their projects and how their
proposals would be Covid safe.
Our intent really ultimately
was for it to be youth
friendly, low barrier and
noncompetitive.
>>> So now what this slide
provides, ultimately, is just
an overvow of the grant
timeline.
So I mentioned this a moment
ago.
So the summer of 2021 was all
about youth engagement.
The grant was released in
September, followed by the
Covid stay virtual information
and technical assistance
sessions.
The applications were due on
October 25, and the application
review period required an
extension of the timeline and
was completed in January.
>>> On February 1 we issued a
miscommunication to an cants
about awards which we will
cover in detail in just a
moment.
Our message, it caused
confusion amongst applicants,
and we knew we had to act
quickly to address this error.
So we promptly consulted with
the mayor who directed to issue
a new statement with the
commitment to fully funding the
applicants or fully funding all
applicants after learning about
them.
So on February 7, all
applicants were notified that
they would receive full funding
for their proposals, and what
I'm going to do now is, I would
like to invite Marissa, she is
our interim director of policy
and communications, to discuss
our
process for notifying
applicants.
>>> Thank you.
I'll share a few slides just
about the internal process of
the application.
What you see on this slide is
the timeline of applicant
notification that occurred
starting last week.
For this process, and as a
standard per deal we issued a
standard e-mail notification
informing applicants of their
fund ago wards.
Last Tuesday was when this
miscommunication occurred where
all applicants were informed
that they would be funded.
Can then we retracted that e-
mail and issued directed
information.
What we heard from community as
well, of course, with his the
confusion this caused, the
burden it policed on adult
allies and fiscal sponsors to
help these understand what they
were reading from a city led
process and therefore we need
some pivots in how we are
approaching communication
moving forward.
So on Monday director Chapelle
issued a video statement we
sent to an can't by e-mail,
trying to take a more relation
al and personal approach to our
communication with them.
And our staff have started
making individual phone calls
to all of the applicants to
first make sure that they
received director Chapelle's
video and that they understand
that it means that funding has
been made available to support
their projects.
And we are also confirming the
information in their
applications with regard to the
amount of funds requested and
clarifying if they have a
fiscal sponsor or if they still
need to have a fiscal sponsor
identified.
>>> As part of the original
grant release, we had a
selection process identified in
that application and that is
reflected on your slide in this
purple table.
When we sent the e-mail to an
can't last week, we informed
them that this table was not
used.
And that the department had
moved to a random selection
process.
So I just want to briefly touch
on why we made that change, as
well as remind council
identifying of these processes
is currently used and still has
made the commitment to support
all-pro Gentex.
So our initial intent with this
was to prioritize our limited
$100,000 in funding to
communities most impacted
biracial hate and bias, as well
as to direct resources to
address root causes of those
acts.
And what we found, when we
applied this rubric, we did
have more than 50 applications
who received the maximum
points.
So our rubric did not work as
designed.
>> Therefore we pivoted to
randomization which we
internally discussed and found
to be the most equitable
approach given there was not
variation in the points award
and that we wanted to maintain
our commitment to a youth
friendly inclusive and
noncompetitive process.
So again this random selection
was what was in that February 1
communication.
Which we have now creaked with
the video commitment to all
applicants, indicating that
they will receive funding.
>>> A little bit about our
applicants.
The majority were ages 14 to
17.
And we were also really excited
to see 15% of applicants were
ages 1 to 13.
The majority did identify a
fiscal sponsor in their
application, and at that time
around 20% also said they did
not have a fiscal sponsor.
So later in the presentation
we'll talk about the support
the department will be
providing in the space.
And then as director Chapelle
mentioned we did allow video
submission and it was great to
see 20% of applicants chose to
apply in that format.
Director Chapelle?
>> Yes, thank you.
Thank you, Marissa.
So as I mentioned earlier, I
just want to make sure I say
that you know, I deeply regret
the mistake that our team made
with the initial notification.
As a father of four amazing
children and a former teacher
who has taught hundreds and
thousands of children, I know
that we must teacher and
principal, we must do better by
our young scholars.
They are our leaders.
>>> Working with the mayor, we
have collaborated to identify a
path forward that is in the
best interest of our dedicated
young leaders.
And I am like so excited that
we will now be funding all-pro
Gentex with over $525,000.
And I'm just proud of our
city's excitement to continue,
just our commitment to
investing in our youth, to
advance racial Justice and
inclusion and this grant truly
celebrates them and shines a
positive light on all of our
communities.
The initial $100,000 comes from
the 25, 2021, and the
additional funds comes from the
projected 2021 savings in k-12.
You will get a chance to see
this reflected in a carry
forward request as part of the
regular process.
There is no anticipated impacts
to other programs at all.
And are you, they really
propose the diverse range of
brilliant ideas, just
advocating for social justice
and up resisting their
communities through art, as we
heard arts present, right?
Music, student conferences,
community conversations and
meaning more.
Their leadership is invaluable
in speaking out against hate
and biases.
And it is just important early
this supported and included in
our city strategy to address
these urgent issues.
>>> So what I'm going to do now
is, is talk about next steps
between like February and
March.
So this was and conges to be a
learning process for us.
Although this has been
challenging, we are improving
our processes, and he will be
better for it.
Right now, we are working on
creating opportunities for the
young people to share how they
want to be supported in this
grant going forward.
And provide honest input about
their experience.
And then from there, we'll be
learning from our youth, and
we'll be, should I say learning
from our youth.
It will be central to how we
move forward.
Just build stronger
relationships within the
community.
We will be also working with
the fiscal sponsors of each
project to complete all
paperwork required to issue the
abar.
If we learn the youths do not
have fiscal sponsors, we are
working with them to help find
one.
>>> We also just remain
committed to supporting our
young scholars on this very
important project, just to
ensure that they have a
positive experience and that
they are successful in what
they have set out to do.
>>> So, as we move forward, it
is possible that new challenges
may arise.
Or, they may need additional
support in ways not wet
identified.
But we are committed to
supporting our scholars the
best that we can.
Today my team, we will begin
making individual phone calls
to an cants, just to confirm
details of their projects,
their project proposals and
inquire about the support
needed.
And we ultimately intend to
develop just support of
resources they may need based
on their feedback.
>>> And I also, before we close
this, you can go, what I wanted
to do is just really just
provide some, just?
Some primary initial
reflections.
We are implementing protocols
now to prevent the risk of
another error like this in the
future.
We are putting some additional
internal systems in place just
to check for accuracy when it
comes to communicating with our
grant applicants.
And another reflection that we
have learned is that we learned
just that the adults in our
community organizations and
schools who support our
scholars are key allies in this
work.
And they should have the
opportunity to inform if are
you facing opportunities in
addition to you know, the youth
themselves.
And I would say the last thing
that I would like to share is
that we also learned the fiscal
sponsor should be secured early
on, to guarantee all youth
applicants will meet the grant
requirements in a timely
manner.
I wanted to shear that with the
committee.
>>> And so, as we stated
earlier, we are exited that
this process is ultimately
resulting in being able to
serve and positively impact
those individuals who we have
all committed our lives to
serving.
And we look forward to sharing
more with you about the funded
projects in the coming months,
as we continue to celebrate
these young scholars for their
social Justice work that they
are doing.
So want to just again thank you
for your time.
We are excited, I'm excited for
what is to come.
And if questions are needed
we'll take questions if you
have them.
And then I will pass it over to
chief Emory.
>>> Thank you.
I just want to take a moment
council member Morales to thank
you for having me in this
space.
And I'm just here to echo the
messages from both Dr. Chapelle
and Marissa, that we will make
it right if those kids.
Kids' voices are what centers
us and we are going to
celebrate it.
And from our space, we are
going to make sure that deal is
supported in rolling this
process out and will continue
to monitor and make this be a
success story for our kids.
So thank you.
>>> Thank you.
Thank you, also Marissa and Dr.
Chapelle.
I do have several questions.
So maybe I will start so you
talked a little bit about the
co-creationof the R p, itself.
Ening what I heard you say at
the very end was that maybe the
youth advocates or the adults
organizations weren't as
involved, and that might have
helped create some of the
challenge?
Is that?
Did I hear that right?
>> What I was saying was more
so, so as we were developing
this, we know that like adult
youth yes, they, so there was
like a component of like we
learned for example as I
mentioned about fiscal sponsors
should be secured early on to
make sure that our youth you
know, applicants, can have
access to those.
So just using that for an
example, that is just an
example of something as we are
continuously improving.
We just learned about that.
Something we learned from it.
Marissa please feel free to add
more if I loaf anything out.
>> So I want to go to slide 5.
And talk a little bit about the
selection process.
So you explained why you
switched to the lottery system.
It sounds like the rubric you
had designed, the intent of
which was to help you
prioritize, didn't actually
work.
And so that explains why you
made that shift.
But can you talk a little bit
about how that was explained to
the recipients?
Because that was another issue
that I heard is people were
frustrated that it seemed to
them things sort of shifted
midstream and they weren't
aware of that.
>> Yes, thank you.
We heard that feedback as well.
So, last week, the change was
included in the e-mail
notification to an cants.
So that was how they were
informed of the change in
design.
So that cadence and format
communicating a change in
process is something we'll be
looking at further and
brainstorming alternative
approaches to, moving forward.
I don't and in terms of the
design itself, I looked at that
rubric and I had questions.
So for example, how points were
allocated by district.
When I think about sort of the
areas that with for example
low, that had been identified
as areas high risk for
displacement, low economic
opportunity, it is usually kind
of north and south Seattle.
You know, d5 and d2.
So I was surprised to see d5
ranked lower, if you will.
Another question I had about
the rating is how you could
rate based on inner section all
thety, rather than prioritizing
race over for example, LGBTQ
status, if there was a way to
blend those two.
Because we know many people
struggle navigating multiple
identities.
So you know, clearly the way it
was designed, you are
understanding now wasn't quite
right.
And I don't know how you go
about fixing that or if you'll
just choose a different kind of
selection criteria or ranking
criteria.
But I wonder if you have any
thoughts about, what about that
design process didn't work?
>> Thank you.
Ia.
Your reflections are similar to
what we have learned internally
certainly.
The issue of intersection in
thety was very present.
Their understanding of the
issues our city faces.
So no surprise from them there,
but we did not anticipate that
in this rubric and that is part
of why it did not work.
>> Moving forward, if deal were
to do this again, another piece
of feedback we received is that
our intention to have a
noncompetitive process actually
doesn't resonate with many of
the young people we have heard
from.
So they felt like that
undermines the value and the
intention in the they put into
their proposals.
Perhaps it does need to be
competitive.
Perhaps it would need a panel
of reviewers looking at the
applications.
Our intention was to not be
ageist in having adult staff
reviewing the applications for
quality.
But again, we are just learning
a lot about how our intention
mismatched with the needs of
youth and we are sincerely
eager to look at that more and
find out how we could better
meet their needs moving
forward.
>> Okay.
Thank you.
>>> So that, I was going to go
to slide 6, but that point last
point you made takes me to
slide 7. Which is that one of
the categories of applicants
you identify as 12 to 13-year-
olds, which is really cool to
know that our 12 and 13-year-
olds are applying for grants.
But it does make me wonder
about how they were sort of
educated about things like
fiscal sponsorship, you know.
My guess is not many 12-year-
olds have a fiscal sponsor.
So, when you talk about being
technically compliant with the
grant, is that, it seems that
was part of the issue?
That they didn't have a sponsor
identified.
And I'm wondering if it was
mostly the younger set who
didn't have that?
Or do we know why they didn't
have a sponsor identified?
>> I don't have the data in
front of me at this time.
I could get it.
My reflection is that we did
see applicants without a fiscal
sponsor in all age ranges.
For the younger applicants,
many did apply as part of a
school.
And so there had been teachers
reaching out to deal to help
those younger applicants
understand our communications.
So that is part of the intent
of this next round of phone
calls is to get clear about if
someone had a fiscal sponsor or
not, if they have a fiscal
sponsor, who that is, and so
that deal can identify the
adult allies helping the
applicants, so that moving
forward, we can communicate
with both the adults and the
fiscal sponsor together.
I'm sorry both the youth and
the fiscal sponsor together.
>> Okay.
So, going back to slide 6, the
funding decision effective
February 8. So 525 clouds.
You said $100,000 was?
>> Yes, $100,000 was initially
from the yes k-12.
>> K-12 funding?
>> Uh-huh.
>> So all of it is actually
coming from k-12 funding?
>> Yes, it is.
>> But $425,000 is carry over
from last year.
So I'm glad to know that we can
actually fund all of these
students who worked really hard
to get this done.
It does raise another question
for me about why we had so much
unspent funding last year in
this program.
But maybe we can talk about
that later.
So just wanted to make sure I
understood where the money was
coming from, to be able to do
this.
It seems like communication
challenges between sponsors and
the department are being worked
out and I'm glad to know that
you know, our adult allies are
willing to make sure that young
people are understanding better
what processes are needed in
order to them to participate in
these kind of grants.
>>> I do think I want to add to
the last, well slide 10, the
kind of process check.
Some parameters maybe on when
it is okay to change a
selection criteria, you know, I
would say not after putting in
writing that things are going
to be graded judged one way.
And yeah, and I think maybe, I
haven't read all of the
materials that were shared with
young people about how these
processes work.
But you know, how we explain in
nontechnical language about all
of the requirements is
obviously something I'm sure
you are already considering.
>>> Okay.
I want to thank you all.
And see if my colleagues have
any questions for our folks
from deal and oh, council
member Strauss, please.
>> Thank you, chair.
And thank you Dr. Chapelle and
Marissa.
Look, we are all human.
We make mistakes, things
happen.
I think that what you
demonstrated today what you
showed on the how you reacted
to making a human mistake
demonstrates leadership, it
demonstrates your leadership
and why people continue and I
still have trust in you.
Because so many people when
they make a mistake try to hide
it, put it under the rug, fix
it, make sure nobody notes tis
and moves on.
It takes real leadership to
confront it head on, speak
directly to people, make the
change and move forward.
So doing so in the light rather
than trying to hide in the
dark, it just continues to
demonstrate why so many people
on our city trust you.
So thank you to your team,
thank you to you.
Let's keep doing good work.
>> Thank you.
>>> Thanks council member
Strauss.
>>> Sorry.
I do have one more question.
I don't think this is
necessarily one time funding.
But can you talk about how and
whether there may be other
opportunities for this kind of
youth led grant?
>> So, I didn't mean to cut you
off.
What were you saying the last
part?
>> I'm just curious about if
this is kind of a pilot?
A one time opportunity, or if
this is something that you
anticipate being able to do
again and.
>> Yes, it was a one time
opportunity.
First time that we have done
something like this.
And we didn't and don't have
any plans in the future to do
anything like this.
This is why it is so important
that we get it right.
Because we are committed to
just operational excellence and
excellence for our scholars.
So yes this was a one time
opportunity.
>> Okay.
Okay.
Well thank you very much.
I'm glad we have found a way to
support the students, the young
people and I really do
appreciate that you are here to
help answer questions and
clarify for our community what
happened and how we are going
to resolve it.
So thank you all.
Thank you for being here.
>>> Let's see.
Okay.
I am going to move to the next
agenda item.
Devon.
Sorry, will you please read the
next item into the record?
>> Agenda items 3 and 4.
Appointment 2094 and 2095.
Reappointment of Allen and
Julie Ishmael as members of the
Seattle human rights commission
for terms January 2022 to 2024
for briefing, discussion and
possible vote.
>>> Terrific, thanks very much.
Let's see.
I know marta is here from
office of civil rights.
Marta, are you here alone?
Or is Janet with you as well?
You are muted.
>> Marta, you are muted.
still muted.
C1.
>> Sorry.
>> There we go.
Okay.
>> Okay.
Can I go ahead and start?
>> Yes, go ahead.
>>> Okay, hello and good
morning, my name is marta,
civil rights advisory
commission liaison to the
Seattle human rights commission
and women's commission and I
work in the Seattle office for
civil rights.
And I would say a few words
about the condition make up and
then some information in
support of our two
reappointment this morning I
don't thank you.
>> Excuse me.
>> So Seattle human rights
commission consists of 21
commissioners who live or work
in Seattle and are appointed to
serve as advisers to the mayor,
city council, Seattle office of
civil rights and many other
city department in the city.
In matters affecting human
rights.
There are eight commissioners
appoint by the mayor, eight by
the council, four by the
commission and the 21st
appointment joins us as youth
commission.
And it is called the get
engaged program.
I want to note that we are
starting our recruiting process
to fill current vacancies.
I wanted you to be alerted to
that.
So the first person I would
like it talk about today for
her reappointment is Julia.
Julia started off on the
commission as the only chair
voted into office last year,
and led the commission into
this year until two were voted
at the retreat that we had a
couple of weeks ago.
And that was on January 29.
In her role as chair, she met
with each of the commissioners,
one-on-one, she led planning of
their retreat and led some of
the topics on the agenda, she
led the election process of the
two new chairs, and then we
also have an appeals chair the
outgoing appeals chair and a
new incoming appeals chair that
was voted on also at the
retreat.
She helped with on boarding of
a new commissioner who ended up
being one of the co-chairs of
the commission at that retreat.
Julia has been trained as, a
member of the appeals panel,
along with all of the
commissioners who come on
board, we get them trained with
law department and our office,
do a training and get them
acclimated into how to do that
role.
She also helped with updates of
the by laws that we that are
currently on review at the law
department.
She helped organize and
moderated the Seattle human
rights commission event on
December 9, 2021 last year,
overcoming hate, reflections on
healing post 9/11.
Did some restructuring of the
co-chair roles and
responsibilities and defining
each of the co-chair roles and
what areas they would actually
work and be responsible for.
Like she is over the
administrative side, we have
another commissioner over
>>> EACH COMMISSIONER IS
RESPONSIBLE FOR BEING A
TIMEKEEPER FOR THE MEETING AND
ALWAYS CAN HELP VOLUNTEERING IN
THE ROLES.
HE ATTENDED THE DEVELOPMENT OF
THE WORKPLAN AND I WOULD LIKE
TO NOTE THAT WHILE WORKING IN
HIS ROLE ON THE COMMISSION,
ALLAN IS CURRENTLY A GRADUATE
STUDENT AT THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL
WORK, AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE AT
THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON,
TACOMA.
THIS IS COMMENDABLE FOR HIM,
EXCUSE ME, I'M HAVING TROUBLE
WITH MY VOICE TODAY.
COMMENDABLE FOR HIM TO COMMIT
TO THE COMMISSION AND ATTEND
GRADUATE SCHOOL.
WE ARE HAPPY HE IS ABLE TO
FULFILL THE ROLE AND FOR ALL OF
HIS CONTRIBUTIONS.
ALLAN HAS ALSO BEEN INVOLVED
IN COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH
SECTOR FOR SEVERAL YEARS,
FUNCTIONING IN VARIOUS
CAPACITIES AS A CASE MANAGER,
THERAPIST, HIS INTEREST IN
WORKING THROUGH COMMUNITY, THE
MORE INFORMATION THAT SEATTLE
RESIDENTS HAVE ABOUT PUBLIC
POLICY THAT AFFECTS THEM, THE
MORE EMPOWERED THEY ARE TO
OVERCOME SYSTEMIC OPPRESSION.
HE IS A PASSIONATE MENTAL HEALTH
ADVOCATE AND BELIEVES IN
INTEGRATING MENTAL HEALTH AS A
DAILY VEHICLE OF SELF
EMPOWERMENT FOR IMMIGRANT AND
MINORITY POPULATIONS.
HE CURRENTLY SERVES ON THE
CRIMINAL JUSTICE TASK FORCE ON
THE COMMISSION, WHERE HE IS
USING HIS EXPERTISE IN MENTAL
HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES TO
ADVOCATE FOR ACCOUNTABILITY IN
POLICING.
HE ALSO IS A MEMBER OF THE
FELLOWS COMMITTEE, THE SCHOLARS
PROGRAM, THAT DOES RESEARCH AND
WRITING REPORTS, HE ALSO SERVES
AS A LIAISON TO THE REFUGEE
COMMISSION, JOINING OUR FIVE
COMMISSION MEETINGS, WHICH ARE
FOUR MANDATED MEETINGS WE HAVE
IN FEBRUARY, MAY, AUGUST, AND
NOVEMBER OF EVERY YEAR AND AS A
COLLABORATION WITH THE
IMMIGRANT REFUGEE COMMISSION, WE
COLLABORATE THEM IN WORK
TOGETHER IN WAYS THAT THE
COMMISSION CAN SEE COMMONALITIES
IN THEIR WORK AND WORK TOGETHER.
WITH THAT I RESPECTIVELY
REQUEST THESE TWO
REAPPOINTMENTS FOR JULIA AND
ALLAN MOVE FORWARD WITH
CONFIRMATION.
THANK YOU.
I AM SORRY ABOUT MY VOICE TODAY!
>> THAT IS ALL RIGHT, THERE IS
A SIGN IS SOMETHING IN THE AIR
FOR ME TODAY TOO.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, THESE ARE
REAPPOINTMENTS, JULIA IS A
COMMISSION REAPPOINTMENT, SO I,
I HAVE NO QUESTIONS AND WE HAVE
MET WITH BOTH OF THEM IN THE
PAST.
I THINK IT IS COMMENDABLE THEY
ARE WILLING TO HELP CONTINUE
SERVING IN THIS ROLE IN SERVING
OUR NEIGHBORS.
DO ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES HAVE
QUESTIONS?
OKAY, SEEING NONE.
I WILL MOVE THAT THE COMMITTEE
RECOMMENDS CONFIRMATION OF
APPOINTMENTS APPT 02094 AND
APPT 02095.
IS THERE A SECOND?
>> SECOND.
>> THANK YOU.
MOVED AND SECONDED.
DEVIN, PLEASE CALL THE ROLE.
>> COUNCILMEMBER LEWIS.
>> YES.
>> COUNCILMEMBER STRAUSS.
>> YES.
>> VICE CHAIR SAWANT.
>> YES.
>> CHAIR MORALES.
>> YES.
>> FOUR IN FAVOR.
>> THANK YOU.
THE MOTION CARRIES IN THE
COMMITTEE RECORDATION AT THE
APPOINTMENT BE CONFIRMED WILL
BE SENT TO THE FEBRUARY 22nd
COUNCIL MEETING.
MARTA, I HAD A QUESTION FOR YOU.
BEFORE YOU GO.
WE HAVE, IF I UNDERSTAND, THERE
ARE FOUR VACANCIES, THE TERMS
WILL AND THIS SUMMER.
SO JUST SO I UNDERSTAND, TELL
ME HOW THE APPOINTMENT PROCESS
WILL WORK AND IT WILL HAVE TO
BE REAPPOINTED AFTER THE
SUMMER, AFTER THE TERM ENDS.
>> YES, THEY WILL HAVE TO BE
REAPPOINTED.
>> OKAY, IF WE ARE ABLE TO FILL
THOSE BEFORE JULY.
>> YES.
I MENTIONED A LITTLE BIT
EARLIER THAT WE WERE RIGHT IN
THE PROCESS OF DOING THE
RECRUITMENT PROCESS.
WE ARE ON THAT.
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
>> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
HAVE A GOOD DAY.
>> YOU TOO.
BYE-BYE.
>> COLLEAGUES, I WANT TO MAKE A
COUPLE CLOSING COMMENTS AND SEE
IF THERE IS ANYTHING FOR THE
GOOD OF THE ORDER.
WE HAD TWO DEPARTMENTS
PRESENTING TODAY, I THINK IT IS
CLEAR WE NEED TO BE MORE
THOUGHTFUL IN HOW WE CREATE
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES AND
REALLY HOW WE SET EXCITATIONS
FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
WE HEARD FROM TWO DEPARTMENTS
TODAY TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH
REALLY GOOD EQUITY WORK BUT
DOING WITH LIMITED FUNDING AND
AT LEAST IN THE CASE OF THE
YOUTH GRANTS AND THE CULTURAL
EDUCATION FOR ARTS FUNDING,
THOSE ARE ONE-TIME FUNDS.
ONE-TIME PROGRAMS.
AND IT REALLY, IT REALLY RISKS
SETTING UP COMMUNITY, IT RAISES
COME EXPECTATIONS THAT MAY NOT
BE MET AND PUTS THE BURDEN ON
COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO ENGAGE IN
A PROCESS THAT MAY NOT BE
SUSTAINABLE.
I WANT IS TO BE AWARE AS WE GO
INTO THE NEW YEAR AND
EVENTUALLY START APPROACHING
OUR BUDGET SEASON.
AS A CITY I FEEL WE ARE MAKING
SOME IMPORTANT SHIPS AND TAKING
ABOUT WHAT EQUITABLE FUNDING
LOOKS LIKE.
PARTICULARLY FOR COMMUNITIES
THAT HAVE BEEN HISTORICALLY
IGNORED OR UNDER RESOURCED.
WE ARE MOVING IN THAT DIRECTION
AND I THINK THAT IS HUGE.
BUT WE ALSO NEED TO UNDERSTAND
OUR SOCIAL EQUITY COMMITMENTS
ARE ONLY AS STRONG AS THE
COMMIT MINTS THAT COME WITH
THEM.
IF WE WILL TRULY ADDRESS THE
HISTORY OF SYSTEMIC RACISM IN
OUR CITY, IF WE ARE GOING TO
ACHIEVE THE DESIRED OUTCOMES OF
GREATER HEALTH, RATER
PROSPERITY FOR EVERYONE IN
SEATTLE, I THINK WE HAVE TO BE
UNAPOLOGETIC ABOUT SHIFTING,
HOW WE SPEND PUBLIC DOLLARS, SO
WE ARE TARGETING INVESTMENTS IN
A WAY THAT REALLY BUILDS
CAPACITY AND LONGEVITY FOR THESE
PROGRAMS WE ARE TRYING TO SET
UP SO THAT WE DON'T END UP
UNDERMINING THE EQUITY OUTCOMES
WE ARE LOOKING FOR AS A CITY.
SO I DO WANT TO THANK OUR ARTS
DEPARTMENT AGAIN AND THANK THE
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND
EARLY LEARNING FOR COMING AND
SHARING WHAT THEY ARE DOING,
SHARING THE LEARNING THAT THEY
HAVE MADE IN SOME OF THESE
PROCESSES, AND REALLY REPAIRING
THE HARM THAT WAS DONE TO THE
YOUTH IN THIS PROCESS.
AND I AM GLAD TO HEAR IT IS
HAPPENING.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR
QUESTIONS FOR THE GOOD OF THE
ORDER?
I DO NOT SEE ANYTHING.
THE NEXT COMMITTEE MEETING WILL
BE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25th, AT
9:30.
IF THERE ARE NO FURTHER
WESTERNS, COLLEAGUES, WE ARE
ADJOURNED.
HAVE A GOOD DAY EVERYBODY.
THANK YOU.
>> RECORDING STOPPED.
>>