Back Up Agenda Item 1_DRAFT Minutes Joint Inclusion Committee (JIC) Regular Meeting February 26 2025 — original pdf

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JOINT INCLUSION COMMITTEE (JIC) REGULAR MEETING MINUTES The JOINT INCLUSION COMMITTEE (JIC) convened a regular meeting on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2025, at 3:00 P.M. CST in the BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS ROOM #1101 (301 W. Second Street, Austin, Texas 78701) Chair AMANDA AFIFI called the JOINT INCLUSION COMMITTEE meeting to order at 3:05 p.m. Commissioners in Attendance: Hispanic Latino Quality of Life Resource Advisory Commission: Amanda Afifi (Chair) Commission on Aging: Richard Bondi (Vice-Chair) Commissioners in Attendance Remotely: African American Resource Advisory Commission: Elaina Fowler Asian American Quality of Life Commission: Nayer Sikder Commission on Immigrant Affairs: Melissa Ortega Commission for Women: Becky Bullard Early Childhood Council: Alice Navarro Human Rights Commission: Morgan Davis LGBTQ+ Quality of Life Commission: Jerry Joe Benson Mayor’s Committee for People with Disabilities: Jennifer Powell Commissioners Absent: Commission on Veterans Affairs: Philip Reichert or Curtis Wyman PURPOSE OF THE JOINT INCLUSION COMMITTEE: City Code § 2-1-204 mandates The Committee shall: 1) advise the council on issues pertaining to equity, diversity, and inclusion; and 2) promote close cooperation between the council, City management, City boards, commissions, committees, and taskforces, and individuals, institutions, and agencies to increase and sustain equity, diversity, and inclusion in the city. AGENDA APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1. Approve the minutes of the JOINT INCLUSION COMMITTEE’s REGULAR MEETING on JANUARY 22, 2025. 1  3. 4. 5. 6. 8. The minutes for the JOINT INCLUSION COMMITTEE’s JANUARY 22ND, 2025 MEETING were approved at the FEBRUARY 26th, MEETING on COMMISSIONER BECKY BULLARD’s motion, COMMISSIONER MORGAN DAVIS’ second, on a 10-0 vote. (Absent: Commission on Veterans Affairs: Commissioners Phillip Reichert or Curtis Wyman) DISCUSSION ITEMS 2. Discussion on the Budget Recommendation Writing Process for the Joint Inclusion Committee’s member Commissions. Updates on member commission’s budget workgroups. Discussion on member Commissions FY26 Budget Recommendation’s topics and progress. Updates on member commissions’ budget recommendation topics; including funding updated quality of life studies, communicating with the arts commission, and supporting the Paramount Theatre. Discussion on maintaining quorum in the Joint Inclusion Committee’s member Commissioners through the FY2025-26 Budget Recommendation writing period by using the City’s holdover period. Updates include attendance at member commissions. Discussion on updates from the Commission on Aging on the Age Friendly Action Plan as it relates to the JIC. Updates include a change in the vocabulary of the plan. The word initiatives will be used to allow for an addendum to the plan when the Commission on Aging’s Quality of Life Study is complete. Discussion on upcoming nominations for the annual Commission on Aging’s Community Service Awards. Due date for nominations is at the end of March. DISCUSSION AND ACTION ITEMS 7. Approve a recommendation to establish an Office of Military and Veterans Affairs and Resources Center. Recommendation PASSES on JENNIFER POWELL’s 1st and ELAINA FOWLER’S 2nd on a 10-0 vote (Not present: Philip Reichert or Curtis Wyman) Approve fiscal year 2025-26 budget recommendation, 20240212012 Older Adult Focus at City Job Fairs from the Commission on Aging. Recommendation PASSES on JERRY JOE BENSON’s 1st and JENNIFER POWELL’s second a 9-0 vote (Off the dais: Elaina Fowler. Not present: Phillip Reichert or Curtis Wyman). 2  9. 11. Approve fiscal year 2025-26 budget recommendation for sustained funding of the Equity Division’s Undoing Racism Workshop through the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond. Recommendation PASSES on MELISSA ORTEGA’s 1st and SONNY SIN’s 2nd, on a 10-0 vote. (Not present: Philip Reichert or Curtis Wyman). AGENDA ADDENDUM DISCUSSION AND ACTION ITEMS 10. Approve changing the name of the Investigating the involvement of Indigenous People and/or Native Americans to afford the group a voice Workgroup, to the Native American and Indigenous Community partnership workgroup, with the purpose of co-developing a Native American and Indigenous Community Commission. The motion PASSES on MELISSA ORTEGA’s 1st and ELAINA FOWLER’s 2nd, on a 10-1 vote. (Not present: Philip Reichert or Curtis Wyman). STAFF BRIEFINGS 10. Briefing from Kerri Lang, Director of Office of Budget and Organizational Excellence, Katie Stewart, Manager of Budget and Performance, and Blake Johnson, Budget Analyst II as to the fiscal year 2025-2026 budget process, how and when Boards and Commissions’ Budget Recommendations with be considered and included in the budget, and the financial forecast for 2026-2030. Director Lang presents to the Joint Inclusion Committee’s updates on the City’s budget process. Stating, “Starting with the FY 2024-25 budget, the City adopted a structurally balanced, biennial budgeting approach. Previously, unmet departmental needs were reviewed annually, but now enhancements are planned for the following fiscal year. For example, during the FY 2025-26 budget process, most enhancements will be considered for FY 2026-27. Details of the FY 2025-26 Proposed Budget and FY 2026-27 enhancement requests will be available when presented to City Council on July 15, 2025.” Director Lang also shares, that City Boards and Commissions should “Focus on desired outcomes rather than specific vendors when making recommendations,” and “Evaluate whether current programs or services need enhancements to ensure more equitable service delivery.” Director Lang shares that Boards and Commissions are requested to complete an online form after submitting their budget recommendations. Briefing from Adrienne Sturrup, Director of Austin Public Health, as to Austin Public Health’s Bond Process. Director Sturrup uses a presentation to share about Austin Public Health’s (APH) 1) Department Overview 2) Guiding Principles 3) Bond Funding History 4) Bond Success 5) Health Disparity Data and 6) Bond Proposals. APH’s mission is “to prevent disease, promote health, and protect the well-being of all. Part of how through low-cost vaccinations, health screenings, infant/maternal health, 3  13. birth/death certificates, diabetes education/prevention classes, mosquito testing/abatement, and rent assistance/food pantries/job application support. After giving an introduction and overview of the work APH provides throughout Austin, Director Sturrup shares that since 1998, less than !5 of the City Bond Funding has been available to APH and ranks 19th place, out of 21, priority distribution of bond money. By stretching 2012 and 2018 bond money, APH opened the Dove Springs Public Health Center in 2024, the Montopolis Recreation and Public Health Center in 2020, the Women and Children’s Center in 2018, renovated the Betty Dunkerley Campus and opened 50 additional animal shelter kennels in 2017, and expanded parking at two APH sites in 2016. Director Sturrup shares the outline for APH’s Bond Selection Process: project considerations are first looked through the lens of the City’s Guiding Principles; after this screening, a project is analyzed for alignment with APH’s guiding principles and is then compared to APH’s Technical Criteria and the City’s Master Plans. The last consideration is to grade a project through an APH Grading Matrix. Director Sturrup shares epidemiological, health effects, and quality of life data that determines APH’s proposals for money allocations. A great area in need is the Colony Park area due to it’s Equity Gap Analysis (95th percentile of residents are in low-income, 97th percentile are linguistically isolated, 97th percentile of residents make less than 80% of area median income family income while spending 30% of incoming on housing, and residents rank in the 42% percentile of people agenda 25 or older whose education is than a high school diploma.) In addition to the Equity Gap Analysis, travel times to current APH locations from Colony Park range from 1 hr 8 mins at the most to 31 minutes at the least. Another area in deed are the City’s Northeast zip codes due to their Equity Gap Analysis (87th percentile of residents are in low-income, 98th percentile are linguistically isolated, 92th percentile of residents make less than 80% of area median income family income while spending 30% of incoming on housing, and residents rank in the 41% percentile of people agenda 25 or older whose education is than a high school diploma.) In addition to the Equity Gap Analysis, travel times to current APH locations from the City’s Northeast zip codes range from 1.5 hours to 1 hour). Director Sturrup answers questions from Commissioners. WORKING GROUP UPDATES 12. Budget & Policy Priorities Workgroup – updates on issues related to the FY25-26 City Budget (Workgroup Members: Commissioners Amanda Afifi, Richard Bondi, Morgan Davis, Melissa Ortega, and Elaina Fowler). Investigating the involvement of Indigenous People and/or Native Americans to afford the group a voice Workgroup. Update on progress connecting with the local Native American community. (Workgroup Members: Commissioners Amanda Afifi, Richard 4  14. 15. Bondi, Elaina Fowler, and Morgan Davis). Emergency Preparedness Workgroup. Update on meetings, FY26 Budget Recommendations and next steps. (Workgroup members: Commissioners Amanda Afifi, Richard Bondi, Melissa Ortega, and Lisa Chang). Get to Know Your Commissions Workgroup. Updates on projects and input from community organizations. (Workgroup members: Commissioners Amanda Afifi, Richard Bondi, and Elaina Fowler). Budget Recommendations. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS: ADJOURNMENT: 5:07 p.m. The minutes for the JOINT INCLUSION COMMITTEE’s FEBRARY 26, 2025 MEETING were approved at the _________ MEETING on COMMISSIONER _____________motion, COMMISSIONER _________ second, on a _____ vote. 5