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4J7U3RJSI September 23, 2019
WASHINGTON
CALL TO ORDER
The Human Services Committee meeting was called to order by Jason Berry at 4:00 pm
on Monday, September 23, 2019 at 1 East Main Street, Auburn, WA.
Committee Members present: Jason Berry, Lela Brugger, Barb Derda,Tammy Gourdine, Sue Miller,
Shawn Parkhurst Paton
Staff present: Community Services Manager-Joy Scott(phone), Director of
Community Development-Jeff Tate, Human Service Program
Coordinator-Kyla Wright
Absent: JoAnne Walters,Shanece Dedeaux
Guest: Shawn Campbell, Clerk's Office
II. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
• Member Shawn Parkhurst Paton moved to accept the August 26, 2019 meeting
minutes; Member Sue Miller seconded the motion. All committee members were in
favor of adopting the minutes as amended.
The August 26, 2019 meeting minutes were approved:.
III. MISCELLANEOUS
• Member Jason Berry began by relaying the he recently had a good conversation with
the Community Wellness Special Focus group with Council Member Claude
DaCorsi and Director of Community Development Jeff Tate. Councilmember Yolanda
Trout-Manuel is also a part of the Community Wellness Special Focus group but was
unable to attend this meeting. Director Jeff Tate discussed that Community Wellness
Special Focus group and the Human Services Committee both have the same goals
of providing services to Auburn residents and that the Joint Meeting will be a good
opportunity for collaboration and goal setting.
• Shawn Campbell joined the meeting at this time to refresh Committee members
about processes and protocols for joint City Council and Committee meetings and
reminded everyone that the Joint meeting is video recorded and that ceiling
microphones are used instead of the table microphones used during full Council
meetings. Shawn mentioned that Councilmember Trout-Manuel will call on either
Committee members or Council members who would like to speak and that Council
and Committee members can indicate they have comments by raising a hand.
Shawn also mentioned that the Joint Meeting will begin with a roll call, with any
excused absences verified by the Human Services Committee Chair.
• Jeff added that the Joint meeting will be a good opportunity to ask questions about
the Community Needs Assessment since Julie McFarland and Joel Warren from
Cloudburt Consulting will be presenting on their findings and recommendations. The
Council and the Human Services Committee will be getting this information at the
same time so there will be time to ask questions and clarifications to Joel and Julie
before the conversation between City Council and the Committee.
• Kyla added that the Needs Assessment was likely to include funding priorities related
to housing and homelessness as that was a topic that cited as a concern in every
focus group in addition to the survey results from Auburn residents.
• Barb and Sue mentioned that the Committee may want to revisit the Council mission
statement as a good reminder and guiding principle as we move towards the
application cycle.
• Kyla brought up that the committee had previously considered taking a Winter hiatus
during November and December due to the scheduled meetings being so close in
date to holidays and that lieu of meetings, Kyla would schedule 1-on-1 meetings with
Committee members during these two months. There was a suggestion to have a
Committee holiday party at the end of the year.
• The Vice-Chair nomination was tabled until next month.
IV. ANNOUNCEMENTS
• Joint Council meeting on Monday, October 14th, 2019, 5:30pm
• Human Services Committee Meeting, October 28th, 2019, 4:00pm
V. ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjournedrn at 5:12 p.m.
APPROVED THE 2SQ`day of OCIT # , 2019
Jason erry, Human Ser ittee Chair Jeff Tat= %t'''�?� 'Community Development