Morning everyone, welcome to the committee meeting.

Uh, today's March 6th.

We're gonna start off before we get to the agenda.

We're gonna start off with Mr.

Cavallio as a certificate presentation.

Mr.

Cavalry.

Yeah, so thankful for uh our council council, of course.

Uh here presents certificate for International Women's Day.

And we have a few strong women here.

And just in brief, you know, the Zonda Club of Khoi is a member of the Zonta International and is uh working to raise awareness of special day, of this special day and Zonto International Stories Women from a rich fabric of empowerment and progressive change and to global organization of more than 26,000 members in 64 countries uh that continue to work to build better lives for women and girls.

And that's kind of like the bigger picture right there.

So with that, I just kind of want to turn it over to you folks, Edia and Regina, and I really appreciate you folks and the work that you folks are doing, of course.

But we do recognize you for this certificate, and of course, council members afterwards.

Well, thank you very much, Council members.

Um, today um I'm Regina Carvalho, and I'm the president of the Zonta Club of Kauai, and we're here to um raise awareness for International Women's Day.

International Women's Day has been around for over a hundred years, and that was news to me because I've been in Zelda men for that long, but I've been a hundred years, and um and it is to build awareness that women are still um working to have our our thing this year for International Women's Day is accelerate it's gonna take at least five generations so that women can get to parity with men, according to some World Forum um report that we uh we read.

And I I just want you to know that we're still working hard, we still don't have the ERA or anything.

Um we have a lot of strong women in our world, and to think it a hundred years ago that this occurred.

Um also I would just like to say that in 2011, President Obama, he um has marked acknowledged March as Women's History Month.

So it's women's history month.

March 8th is celebrated for um International Women's Day and then celebrated in many countries and it's a holiday in many countries as well.

And that was I didn't know that either.

I was like, wow, that's cool.

And um, I know in Hawaii we have Girls' Day, and that's a more of a cultural thing, but there's a lot of things going on, and we just want to bring attention to that.

Um I want Edie's here today.

Iggy's also a member of our club, and she is going to share what something that the Zonta does, and it's called Rose Day.

It's it's in concurrence with International Women's Day, and we have a Rose Day.

Edie is going to share that with you.

Good morning, Council members.

Thank you for having us here today.

So Rose Day is celebrated on in March 8th, also, along with International Women's Day, as Regina mentioned, as a time to reflect and give tribute to individuals who have empowered you or the women in your community.

The yellow rose symbolizes friendship, caring, loyalty.

Since 1999, the yellow rose has served as a symbol of Zonta Rose Day, which falls on March 8th, and coincides with International Women's Day.

Zantchans worldwide are encouraged to publicly display yellow roses or items bearing images of yellow roses accompanied by information about Zonta International and issues relating to improving the lives of women and girls.

Again, as uh Councilmember Carvalho mentioned, Zonta's mission is build a better world for women and girls.

I would like to um also mention that um this week um for women's history month, there's we are such all fires about it.

So Edie's gonna share something else that's happening this upcoming Saturday.

So coincidentally, um the Committee on the Status of Women is hosting uh the women's women's history month, but we're gonna be featuring a film on Rise of the Wahini on Title I and Title IX is a landmark that states that no persons in the United States shall on the basis of sex be excluded from participation, denied the benefits of or subject to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.

So it's uh it's it includes gender equality, what Title IX is about, especially in women's sports, and uh especially for women's sports.

So this film is about the UH Wahini in the 1970s, how they are champions of Title IX.

So I know I've invited all of you.

I hope you can come and share the information for Saturday.

Thank you.

Our goal today was just to raise awareness.

There's lots of things occurring across the world for this day and acknowledging women who have been impactful in many areas and raising women up.

So with that I want to say thank you for the certificate.

And anything you want to say oh and purple is the color of international work.

Thank you so much again.

Thank you folks thank you folks so much members comments.

I I will just say thank you all of you for the good works that you guys did not too many years ago you hosted it for the whole country right here in legal A and I appreciate the work that you do for problems of like child sex trafficking.

I know that there's a lot of overlap with the committee for the status of women but um you guys partner and oh deeply overlap in your because both of you are on the committee right we're both on the committee.

So um it's it's good when there's the partnership and just that you really do a meaningful job of going right for the jagular.

You know a lot of times it's a lot more than about a a day to look pretty or something like that.

It is it's really about the most serious challenges domestic violence different challenges you guys um have a high focus on what really matters most so um I thank you for that anyone else no I just want to say yeah thank you um for everything you do for the island um yeah I think you mentioned five generations for a gender equality yes I think um if you come to my house you'll see that I'm three girls and a white yeah I'm there's no equality there in my house it's happening probably a lot faster no but um thanks again and then yeah I believe um they had the Res of the Waheine um show at the Wimea Theater yeah a bunch of years ago and yeah I just remember it was uh it's a pretty inspirational and um great show for anyone to watch so we encourage you to bring your friends and families and it's pretty especially sports teams coaches coaches yes well thank you again yeah I'll just echo that thank you so much for all you guys do for our women in our community um I didn't know anything about the Rose Day celebration so I'm looking up yellow rose thing I love it thank you so much I appreciate you guys thanks for everything that you just want to echo everything that has been shared um this is such such interesting times that we are in so anything that we can do to uplift celebrate support um rally and and do anything that we can do to um help each other is super important right now especially um you know for women for um all the situations that we're all falling into um as you guys know my wife does uh the amazing work that she does and so I'm surrounded by um just amazing women doing amazing things all the time I'm always inspired um and uh my best friend I I like to share about this is is actually my grandma and so I always talk about her and she passed away about six years ago it's um funny story when I was growing up I thought I had three moms I thought I had my mom my grandma which is my mom and then my mom's sister that I thought was my mom um because all of them raised me they're fantastic moms and I just I can't say enough about the work that all of you is doing so anything that we can do to support I'm all in thank you everything with Chef okay um yeah happy International Women's Day everybody and women's history month March cool um my birth month also um congratulations to you um Mahalo Nui Lo for all the work you guys keep doing um the majority of my bosses and mentors in life over the years have always been women um and they inspired me and helped me be the person I am my grandma and my mother easily were my biggest role models growing up when it comes to education hard work and serving others and then of course um Princess Bernice Paulahi Bishop who was thoughtful enough to invest in the rest of the generations for native Hawaiian children and education and all so that's been a major difference in my life that allowed me to experience Honolulu and then go on to uh the mainland which I probably wouldn't have done otherwise so thank you women thank you thank you uh first of all I just want to thank the Zonta Club you know you you folks have an amazing presence here on Kauai you got powerful membership and you guys are everywhere especially you know both of you actually it's like everywhere we go the the Zonta is there um and the mission is is a very important one it is hard to imagine not that long ago I mean before Title IX and Patsy Mink and her amazing

my biggest role models growing up when it comes to education hard work and serving others and then of course uh princess bernice pawahy bishop who uh was thoughtful enough to invest in the rest of the generations for native Hawaiian children and education and also that's been a major difference in my life that allowed me to experience Honolulu and then go on to uh the mainland which I probably wouldn't have done otherwise so thank you women thank you thank you uh first of all I just want to thank the Zonta Club you know you you folks have an amazing presence here on Kawaii you got powerful membership and you guys are everywhere especially you know actually it's like everywhere we go the the Zonta is there um and the mission is is a very important one it's hard to imagine not that long ago maybe for title nine and Patsy Mink and her amazing efforts at Congress um women weren't allowed to play certain sports I mean how can anyone think that's right or fair and fast forward to today now we have uh women playing flag football um that's going to be a collegiate sport that's going to probably take this country by storm and uh there was a time where that was not even spoken about just no that's no no women can't play football but they can and uh in the NFL we have women coaches now I mean that was a no no uh not too long ago so we have a lot more to do but let's celebrate the accomplishments that's happened so far thanks to women like yourself in the Zonta Club and um yeah just keep on going thank you guys so much yeah and again thank you for all the work that you folks do I know in the back of that one over there I was going to ask if there's typically it'd be a conflict of interest when you know we'll we'll let that one hold up as far as okay scrolling on the first women's day with there was over a million um people and that was um 1911 so there was men also there that was noted okay so men are big part of helping us to get women kind of stuff in our side yes our men in Zonta clubs it just it's according to their bylaws so it's not just all women but can I just add partnership I know Felicia mentioned that was Anta always partners with other organizations and status of women the same thing.

So at the film we're gonna have uh resource tables so Zonta Club of Kawaii is one of the resource table YWCA KCC Title 9 KCC Performing Arts Center and of course committee on the status of women because we're hosting it so I still welcome anybody to come to see the film again.

Okay, yeah so again thank you guys for all the work that you folks do today's international women's day and to all the women in the back sitting down I know you guys part of the team they have an awesome team that that does so much in so many different ways and so I wanted to recognize them as well.

Yeah and Mahalo to Christian for working hard on this team and again for all that you folks do and if there's anything we can do obviously you know support you folks all the way so with that we go picture okay

Yeah, I would like to call our public works committee.