Human Rights Commission Committee Meetings   3/2/2023

Then I will call this meeting to order at 6.30 and we'll do roll call.

Feel free to say your names.

Great.

You're both present.

I think you know it by heart.

OK. ETR.

You got it.

I always read it off.

I can punt it to next time.

We can always take it to the retreat.

So you're about to go on vacation.

Could I look at it?

So it's just been sort of a draft document so far ahead.

My goal was to have it to... Do you know where to find it?

I think it probably doesn't make sense for me to read it now.

It would be wordsmithing in a live meeting.

I don't think it'll be on the agenda for our retreat because we have other business planned, but I would like for at least substantive edits from you and from Ernest, who is now on the housing subcommittee.

I had not looked up how long the flight that I'm taking is, and so I will put that on my list of things to do while tracked.

But I think that the nature of the letter is to say this is a priority for us, this should be a priority for you, and so there should not be a decrease in funding for any of these issues.

We haven't voted to do that at all.

The rezoning plan is just such a big

I mean, not that we can't talk about it here, but obviously we need more than two of us to say yay.

or like other policy things that you want to be on the table for discussion.

Perfect.

So let me bump that email real quick.

I mean, there's so many people in the city who

I can read them, but it's also like I'll be reading them offline.

Periodically, even if we've heard from them before, I think it's good.

And that's one due out.

OK.

So I just wanted to see what would be your preferred communication method for housing subcommittee issues.

Can I text you?

Is that okay?

It would be awesome.

If it's okay.

Okay, great.

And is there like I guess a good time of day that I should but like I should realize that you're not available during this time of day if I text you

But it won't bother me, it'll just be sitting there.

It's not going to like ping or wake you up?

I'm an early person.

And then the email account that I made when I was 12.

Yeah, I have one of those.

OK. And.

If number three doesn't make sense, I cannot explain.

Is this something for the research element that I was talking about last time?

So that was something.

Yeah, I thought when Anna Mendez came a couple times and spoke, I thought she had such great things to say that, I don't know, reducing that to writing somewhere and putting it somewhere actually could be really

The New Zoning Ordinance, what month was that that Anna Mendez came and spoke eloquently about concerns that she had about it?

pin essential location in a way that's visible for everybody accessing it through Outlook.

And so you can click on Teams and then just go to the team where all the files are stored.

You have a Human Rights Commission Teams page.

I think I made that a while ago.

We're all members.

Yeah, good.

Ashley Marshall is on there.

We use Teams at work, so I use it as well.

No, we probably are not going to get rid of it, though.

We've shifted all of our operations into teams, in the office at least.

I think there's a lot of advantage to communicating that way.

It has to be shared if that person leaves.

and then it just has one channel and you put all your files in there really easily so I don't know how complicated that is but it's just something to think about or you yeah however you want to manage it but.

Yep I can set up a team.

Pretty cool.

And also to record our conversations that we have.

yeah it's for the retreat retreat yeah yep she's out of town or else probably would have been here this evening too so okay

I don't know if you have more, Todd, you had recommended the planner.

I have not used it on Teams, but it's recommended by IT.

Do you use other project management?

So I've never used the Teams.

Ernest.

Hello, everyone.

Good evening.

Hey, I thought we were meeting hybrid.

So a hybrid I think I was also confused about this and sat for some time at the city parking deck reading over the emails and trying to figure out if we were partially in person yeah so it's fine to be online and it's fine to be in person okay I just want to make sure I think you're okay because you gave us written notice that you were going to be online and I think that's what we needed yeah to have somebody be online okay yeah

He notified you, you were the chair of this committee.

I know you're I should be looking over to the left.

Okay, sounds good.

What else?

Just FYI.

There's a lot more here than the work.

It may be more than we can do right now, but.

Yeah, I'm realizing that.

There's all sorts of stuff, each of which may have.

And polls.

Benefits, so.

So I'm going to make a Teams page

Okay, did anyone listen to or go to the Louisville, the Seville, Louisville Seville, golly, something that happened earlier this week?

Not this week.

It was last week.

It was last week.

It was on zoning.

I wish I was interested in that, but I did not.

I don't have it on my plan, which means I wasn't tracking that something was happening.

Last weekend they had it somewhere, it was at Buford, I think on some Wednesday, they had it somewhere on Saturday, and they had it somewhere else earlier in the week.

Do you know if they're having any more?

You probably go on the livable CBA website.

I can look up the date for that, but.

Ernest, did you get to go to any of the ones that were this past week?

It was talking about housing.

Oh, yeah, they had one last night.

Yes, there's some last night.

Shucks.

As far as when city council has decided to put money behind things, are they putting money behind the things that are going to make an impact and going to make an impact right now?

Yeah.

And that's my concern is that, I mean, it's good for us to have good information to know exactly what to, what should we champion and get behind.

Yeah, I have that same concern just because I know all of us want to be as knowledgeable as we can before we make, try to make informed decisions.

Right.

But I know my knowledge only goes so deep.

Same here.

So I really want to rely on organizations that are doing this work, have been doing this work and try to just lift up their voices.

You know, I don't want to go against them and what they have already put in place.

I do think that there's some value in having the Human Rights Commission of the city saying those same things, like lifting up those messages about what we want, for example, our zoning laws to be.

But I think our voice is, I hope our voice will be appreciated to know that we're involved in that process.

What might look like a process for drafting that?

Well, I guess first the whole commission has to say they want to do that because we didn't really have, like I just threw that out at the very end.

I thought we agreed to it.

Especially since you have a six hour plane ride tomorrow.

That is a good point.

The commission should say, yes, we want to do that.

I don't have to co-opt your vacation.

Sounds good.

But I think that that letter is still something we would write even if we chose to focus on emergency housing instead of affordable housing more broadly.

I could try to pull down some of the letters that have been written by other groups that we might want to reference.

In terms of the commission process, I don't think there's anything that would prevent you from writing a letter upon which we would later vote to approve.

Excellent.

Ernest, I think you froze a little bit.

I like the way he's controlling San Francisco there.

Yeah, you are hovering above the Golden Gate Bridge.

Maybe I'll just say something positive.

It's a really good picture.

Selfie at the end.

Something that I think is maybe a good positive note about change in our community is that we've advocated for language access, and I think I mentioned that Ashley's been surveying department heads, like what are your language access needs, what resources do you currently have?

I did a fun census data poll for her to see what languages have been spoken the past two years according to census data, just a random roll-up, which is interesting.

So just putting that out there.

So the first thing on the group chat will be Ernest floating above the Golden Gate Bridge.

I'm going to write down my phone number.

Thanks, y'all.

Thanks, everyone.

See you.

Good job getting unorganized.