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Good evening.

Our first uh well, call order.

Um, but the second is approving our uh meeting minutes from August 26, 2026.

So, okay, any discussion?

The

last those have been approved.

Great.

And moving into light speed into our first uh number four action item, letter A, our equity tool in action.

Um tonight we're gonna be taking the majority of the meeting to look at the comprehensive housing study and action plan using the equity rubric that we've been using.

Um so um, go ahead and open the floor for discussion analysis and see where we can go from there with uh the housing plan.

Um I would just say that you know I think it's challenging because we have a big plan, I think.

It's a challenge.

So I think part of what we should also consider is is this working?

Because this is one of the first plans we're really really using.

Is there another way that we can use the rubric and then bring it to uh the table to really analyze and give some uh good feedback?

Um for me, I'm I'm taking a lot of the the notes, reading through it, and then trying to condense um some thoughts to be able to give some good feedback to the city to actually um hopefully we have some time that we can actually change uh or or uh influence the the scanning plan today.

My different uh printout of what I've I've done.

So anyways, I'll just those are my kind of thoughts uh before we get in the kind of discussion about it, but I'll open the floor.

I

guess also like I think I did mine like a much lighter level than you.

And so my like my notes are uh, yeah, just like two pages of and like in that kind of scoring sheet.

So um, yeah, so I I'm not sure.

Like I I did go ahead and do the scores and then just kind of did like bulleted comments in the section of you know like a little evidence of like why I picked that number, but I didn't you're like super detailed in a way that I'm sure people really appreciate, but I think probably those take way more time.

What

is

I

did a

similar dive?

I

was wondering what the um what would be helpful for the city

because

you're kind of two sides of it, and I'm sorry to interrupt you.

So this came up as a request from some city staff that learned that there's this rubric now, and so they wanted to kind of see the team talk about it in action and see the rubric be used on a current plan.

Um so I know I have I have document that maybe you have sent me.

I can share it on my screen, so I clean I have yours on my uh computer right here.

So if you'd like I can just share it.

But if you can just talk through how you um use the rubric on the housing plan, that's that would be really helpful for staff.

They kind of get a better idea of how this will work in practice.

Maybe let me get

that shared.

I

might have to be on this.

I mean to be able to share it, because I don't think oh she is gonna share it okay there we go all right so this is the clean document this is her rubber so I'll leave it to you to share kind of my came up like yeah I think it like you said I just you know I I went ahead and scored in a way that I felt was aligned with kind of how we um outlined things in the in the rubric and so for the equity outcome I mean and this to me makes sense because they didn't have our rubric beforehand so it makes sense that there wouldn't be a clear outcome listed in there.

So basically um you know I think a fairly easy fix is just to create at least one clear equity outcome for the housing plan like connected to data um and so the next one is data and evidence and there's quite a bit of data in the report so it wasn't that there's not data but what there wasn't is a lot of disaggregated data by race which again they didn't get our rubric until after they've done this whole process so this may not be like the fairest ask of somebody who's on like basically at the end of the process

um but just I'm glad you said

that but you know just so for for people who are moving forward with this you know the expectation or the hope would be that as they are gathering data themselves that that could be disaggregated by various measures of um like different demographic measures and so um again and I think with this report it might be a little different as well because they took so many other reports and put them all together so they it wasn't necessarily even up to them like how they were analyzing the data they were just kind of combining data from different pieces.