Human Rights Commission Meeting   10/19/2023

All right, we'll do roll call.

Jeanette?

Here.

Kathryn?

Here.

Andi?

Here.

We don't have any person in person to do public comment, so we will jump down to the approval of minutes from 9.21 from our regular meeting.

Jeanette?

Approve.

Wolfgang?

Abstain.

Kathryn?

Approve.

Suzanne?

Approve.

Andy?

Approve.

And those are the minutes from our work session.

Jessica?

Approve.

Jeanette?

Abstain.

Wolfgang?

Approve.

Kathryn?

I approve.

Andy?

Approve.

And do you want to select those people now?

You certainly could, yeah.

And the intent for coming together is just a working group to plan out what that celebration can look like and all that.

And Lily and I will work with you on that for sure to make that happen.

But it can only be, we would like to only have a working group of two people that we don't have to post public comment.

Will it be a public event?

But it will take the place of a meeting?

No, it's after our meeting.

We were going to do it separately just so you could still have your meeting and celebrate in whatever way seems best.

Ernest and I will be your working group.

Thank you both for taking out on another task, I appreciate it.

Office of Human Rights staff report?

I just I was like, is there a third thing?

No, it was perfect.

Lily, did you have things that you wanted to share?

I will try to attend in mass.

So a quick look.

I'm sorry, it's your turn, but can I say something?

Oh, you're the chair, of course.

Reminders would be great.

Like two days in advance, or one day in advance?

Like two days?

You could set, you could do a meeting invite and then you can always just go back to the meeting invite and hit send update and then it'll just send so you don't have to compose a new email.

I know on Google you can do multiple, like you can make the same thing alert you multiple times.

I do that for birthdays.

I don't know if that's on Apple, I don't know if it's Outlook featured.

We'll check it out.

Did you have more that you wanted to share with Outreach?

A lot of times, I'm looking at the data so I can kind of remember.

Good question, though.

Or you don't count them as unique?

Yeah.

There's like five different people that have made contact with 40 times.

So like, wow, this is a lot of, you know, resource navigation to one particular agency or some sort of liaison that we're serving as and so how do we how do we then adjust our relationship with that agency and or explore systemic solutions to increase services?

Yeah.

I remember before Victoria was hired, we were wanting to advocate with city council additional positions to help assist.

It's got a plan.

You know hiring staff kind of helps the mitigation but do you see in the near future where we can advocate or just help support the office to say like this is recurring like if there's funding that needs to be put in to help support the increase of numbers?

I think to the other piece of your question, though,

It's still bringing it to City Council's attention.

There may also be like mental health navigation stuff and so realizing where these trends are and people coming in the door and saying what does that mean and what could we do at a policy level to change that might be helpful.

But we'll get there.

And when we can give you bar charts and pie charts to aggregate it a little bit better than

That was really helpful last time.

Good.

It's nice to see it.

Absolutely.

You can feel like, for me, you haven't done a whole lot, but to see it on paper, you're like, OK, yeah.

So thanks for the work.

Now we're dropping down to the letter that we have to do the Martha rules with.

Oh, you still have it.

I have to scroll back up again.

Yay.

Yeah.

Totally.

Well, I actually think it means accessibility, as in

That may not have been how it.

Yeah, some of those, like the, but they give density bonuses and stuff, a lot of those come with requirements for ADA accessibility and things like that, so I think that would make sense, but it might be good to somehow make it a little clearer in the statement.

But it wasn't clear when I read it before.

Yeah.

Any other clarifying questions?

So I wanted to just get rid of the specific zoning codes that aim to make housing, because we're referencing the codes that aim to make housing more affordable, other than the specific ones that we don't talk about.

We have to say specific and we talk about them but we're just saying that we don't talk about them.

That's fair.

So what do you want to change it to?

Just get rid of specific.

Are there any other amendments?

Did we resolve the accessibility

I don't have any recommendations to make it more clear.

So I guess I was thinking if it's maybe state like and provide more accessible units, housing units or something like that where it's...

So you're recommending as an amendment to change and more accessibility to

And provide more accessible units.

So we could say more ADA accessibility or more accessible units.

So I'm confirming accessibility in the ADA sense is what was intended and yes we should probably make that slightly more clear.

I believe the verbiage was more ADA accessible units.

So, um, so, uh, yeah, maybe that will just fix it.

So can someone say that sentence fully?

Yeah, we're just adding ADA between more and accessibility.

Just adding the letterhead in our role as City Council.

No amendment but I didn't attach the referenced letter to the email that I sent and we need to do it so I am sending you that PDF.

Okay, so the amendment though is to add the letter.

But no further changes other than those two.

Okay, any other amendments?

That way it's like very clear.

It is like 25 organizations that signed on to it.

Could we, I have an amendment that we put in parentheses C attached at the end of that sentence.

In particular, the Human Rights Commission supports the coalition letter, parentheses, attached, that was sent to the City Council in the Planning Commission on July 4th.

The attached coalition letter?

Supports the attached coalition letter.

State additional detail can be found in the coalition letter which is attached, so that may be duplicative at this point.

Exactly.

It's only attached so many times.

We're not going to move on until we're finished.

Thumbs up with confidence.

Be sure no more edits or amendments.

I was like, oh no, two hands.

People can vote in favor of the proposal or can live with the proposal or opposed to the proposal.

Okay.

Let's do that.

Jessica.

Excellent.

And Jeanette.

In favor.

Wolfgang.

In favor.

Kathryn.

In favor.

Suzanne?

In favor.

I wrote down what they were, but just by way of administrative support, let us know what you want and we can do it.

I assumed you would because you are the chair and have to sign it.

Jessica, do you want us to do those edits, then send you a final version for Signature?

I can do those right now.

Did I reference the right one?

I'd have to look myself.

I have it here.

We can talk offline.

OK.

I have none.

Some of that's from Charlottesville DSA to promote.

If you have no public comments, we have no public in-person, then we're going to go to Commission Updates.

I think from 10, about 12 to 2 p.m. What date?

All right, we will adjourn at 712 p.m.