JOINT INCLUSION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA MAY 25th, 2022 JOINT INCLUSION COMMITTEE (JIC) May 25th, 2022 at 3:00 PM Austin City Hall Boards & Commissions Room 301 W. 2nd Street, Austin, TX MEETING AGENDA This meeting is being held in a hybrid format, and some members of the Commission may be participating by videoconference. Public comment will be allowed in person or via telephone. Remote speakers must register in advance (May 24th by 12pm-Noon). All public comments will occur at the beginning of the meeting. To speak or attend remotely, residents must contact the Equity Office’s Commission/Neighborhood Liaison, Jeremy Garza, no later than 12pm-noon on Tuesday, May 24th, 2022. Please telephone call at (512) 978-1797 or email jeremy.garza@austintexas.gov. The information required is the speaker’s name, the item number(s) they wish to speak on, whether they are for/against/neutral, email address, and telephone number (must be the same number that will be used to call into the meeting). CURRENT JIC MEMBER COMMISSIONS & REPRESENTATIVES: Member Commission: African American Resource Advisory Commission Asian American Quality of Life Advisory Commission Commission for Women Commission on Immigrant Affairs Commission on Seniors Early Childhood Council Hispanic/Latino Quality of Life Resource Advisory Human Rights Commission LGBTQ+ Quality of Life Commission Mayor’s Committee for People with Disabilities JIC Representative: Alternative: Gregory Smith Serita Fontanesi Vincent Cobalis Hanna Huang Rebecca Austen Karen Crawford (Vice-Chair of JIC) Amy Temperley Raul Alvarez Amanda Afifi Jamarr Brown Charles Curry (Chair of JIC) Robin Orlowski Vanessa Bissereth Krystal Gomez Sally VanSickle Johanna Hosking Pulido Sharon Vigil Idona Griffith Ryn Gonzalez Joey Gidseg JOINT INCLUSION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA CALL TO ORDER: ROLL CALL: MAY 25th, 2022 ● Gregory Smith – African American Resource Advisor Commission ● Vincent Cobalis – Asian American Quality of Life Commission ● Amy Temperley – Commission on Seniors ● Karen Crawford – Commission in Immigrant Affairs ● Charles Curry – LGBTQ+ Quality of Life Commission ● Robin Orlowski – Mayor’s Committee for People with Disabilities ● Amanda Afifi – Hispanic Quality of Life Advisory Commission ● Rebecca Austen – Commission on Women ● Raul Alvarez – Early Childhood Council (30min late) ● Jamarr Brown – Human Rights Commission Absent: Present: PUBLIC COMMUNICATION: GENERAL The first 10 speakers signed up prior to the meeting being called to order will each be allowed a three-minute allotment to address their concerns regarding items not posted on the agenda. Public comment will be allowed in-person …
JOINT INCLUSION COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES MAY 25th, 2022 JOINT INCLUSION COMMITTEE (JIC) May 25th, 2022 at 3:00 PM Austin City Hall Boards & Commissions Room 301 W. 2nd Street, Austin, TX MEETING MINUTES This meeting is being held in a hybrid format, and some members of the Commission may be participating by videoconference. Public comment will be allowed in person or via telephone. Remote speakers must register in advance (May 24th by 12pm-Noon). All public comments will occur at the beginning of the meeting. To speak or attend remotely, residents must contact the Equity Office’s Commission/Neighborhood Liaison, Jeremy Garza, no later than 12pm-noon on Tuesday, May 24th, 2022. Please telephone call at (512) 978-1797 or email jeremy.garza@austintexas.gov. The information required is the speaker’s name, the item number(s) they wish to speak on, whether they are for/against/neutral, email address, and telephone number (must be the same number that will be used to call into the meeting). CURRENT JIC MEMBER COMMISSIONS & REPRESENTATIVES: Member Commission: African American Resource Advisory Commission Asian American Quality of Life Advisory Commission Commission for Women Commission on Immigrant Affairs Commission on Seniors Early Childhood Council Hispanic/Latino Quality of Life Resource Advisory Human Rights Commission LGBTQ+ Quality of Life Commission Mayor’s Committee for People with Disabilities JIC Representative: Alternative: Gregory Smith Serita Fontanesi Vincent Cobalis Hanna Huang Rebecca Austen Karen Crawford (Vice-Chair of JIC) Amy Temperley Raul Alvarez Amanda Afifi Jamarr Brown Charles Curry (Chair of JIC) Robin Orlowski Vanessa Bissereth Krystal Gomez Sally VanSickle Johanna Hosking Pulido Sharon Vigil Idona Griffith Ryn Gonzalez Joey Gidseg JOINT INCLUSION COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES CALL TO ORDER: ● JIC Chair, Charles Curry, called the meeting to order at 3:03 pm. MAY 25th, 2022 ROLL CALL: Absent: Present: ● Gregory Smith – African American Resource Advisor Commission - ● Jamarr Brown – Human Rights Commission - ● Vincent Cobalis – Asian American Quality of Life Commission + ● Amy Temperley – Commission on Seniors + ● Karen Crawford – Commission in Immigrant Affairs + ● Charles Curry – LGBTQ+ Quality of Life Commission + ● Robin Orlowski – Mayor’s Committee for People with Disabilities + ● Amanda Afifi – Hispanic Quality of Life Advisory Commission + ● Rebecca Austen – Commission on Women + ● Raul Alvarez – Early Childhood Council + PUBLIC COMMUNICATION: GENERAL The first 10 speakers signed up prior to the meeting being called to order will each be …
STRATEGIC PLAN | 2019-2023 American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Investments for Early Childhood & Family Supports Joint Inclusion Committee May 2022 CATHY MCHORSE, VICE PRESIDENT, SUCCESS BY SIX COALITION UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN 2 ADDRESS GAPS IN CHILD CARE FOR FAMILIES Workforce Solutions Capital Area Continuity of Care Expansion Family & Community Engagement Navigator Staff City: $1,965,104 - Underway City: $533,832 - Underway County: $906,399 - in process Goal: Prevent childcare disruptions and move children off waitlist and into care County: $168,233 - in process Goal: Move children off scholarship waitlist and into care through childcare scholarships, Head Start, Early Head Start, or public Pre-K 3 STABILIZING THE CHILD CARE WORKFORCE Workforce Solutions Capital Area – Child Care Essential Worker Premium Pay City: $765,945 - Underway County: $385,785 - in process Goal: Incentivize retention of childcare staff who have performed in-person throughout the pandemic at heightened risk to themselves 4 STABILIZING THE CHILD CARE WORKFORCE Texas Association for the Education of Young Children -T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood Texas Scholarship Program City: $157,000 - pending administrative contract (April/May 2022 start) County: N/A Goal: Support early childhood educators to further their education in the field of early childhood to improve their qualifications and impact the quality of care provided to the children they serve 5 STABILIZE PROGRAMS THAT SUPPORT FAMILIES WITH YOUNG CHILDREN Any Baby Can – Ready Families Collaborative City: $177,083 - pending administrative contract (April/May 2022 start) County: (included in City amount) Goal: Retain staff who are providing direct face- to-face services and reduce turnover rates 6 EXPAND ACCESS TO FULL-DAY PRE-K Austin ISD – Full-day Pre-K 3 City: $902,075, pending Council Approval May 19th County: N/A Goal: Expand full day Pre-K3 to 5 classrooms Del Valle ISD – Dual-language Full-day Pre- K 4 City: $750K –Underway County: $250K - Pending contract approvals Goal: Expand access for children of families that do not qualify based on state income eligibility guidelines but cannot afford tuition-based Pre-K 7 ENSURE HEALTHIEST START POSSIBLE FOR CHILDREN APH – Family Connects Expansion City: $2,000,000; Underway County: N/A Goal: Expand services to another hospital system – Ascension Seton United Way For Greater Austin – Family Connects Evaluation City: $325K - Underway County: N/A Goal: Evaluation focused on local outcomes, with emphasis on ROI for health care payer 8 INCREASE ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE QUALITY CHILD CARE TO MEET NEEDS OF ALL FAMILIES United Way for Greater Austin …
Report on Budget Recommendations to Council for FY 2022-23 Joint Inclusion Committee The Joint Inclusion Committee (JIC) made significant changes to its approach to budget recommendations for FY 2022-23 based on comments and suggestions from the past several years. The changes were intended to reflect the mission of the JIC to better "promote close cooperation between Council City management, City boards, commissions, committees, task forces, individuals, institutions, and agencies to increase and sustain equity, diversity, and inclusion in the City of Austin. This year, we began the process by preparing a list of the issues that we believed were most pressing for the marginalized communities represented by the commissions that make up the JIC. We intended to focus our recommendations and endorsements on these priority issues without limiting commissions from making individual recommendations on issues specific to their communities. Accordingly, chairs, vice-chairs, and designated JIC representatives from the member Commissions vetted these issues in a virtual meeting. The identified issues included: ● Affordability ● Resilience ● Access ● Engagement ● Public Safety ● Health The second step was a briefing from the Budget Office on what prior-year recommendations had been included in the current adopted budget, followed by an opportunity to meet with departments to discuss their current year plans. Unfortunately, this briefing did not occur until late January of this year rather than at the beginning of the fiscal year as has been done in past years. This delay put commissions at a considerable disadvantage in preparing informed budget recommendations, given the shortened time frame between the budget briefing and the deadline for submitting recommendations. The six priority issues served as the basis for organizing our three town hall sessions, which began immediately following the Budget Office briefing. Although the priority issues provided a focus for the town halls, discussions were not limited to those subjects. Overall, the town halls supported the focus on the identified issues but provided additional contexts based on how individuals had experienced the issue. For example, while we had originally defined safe and affordable housing to include the related expense of childcare, we heard from the community that family members with disabilities presented unique unmet needs in terms of access and affordability. Additional meetings with City departments were scheduled to discuss possible recommendations and get department input. Those were scheduled so that multiple commissions with similar issues could meet with departments simultaneously to better …
