The Tulsa Women's Commission met on May 1, 2026, to approve minutes, receive updates on initiatives, finalize committee structures, and discuss communication strategies for women's safety and well-being. The meeting also featured a resource demonstration and farewell to a departing commissioner.
Well, let's go ahead and call our meeting to order. Um, the first item of business is the approval of our meeting minutes from April. So uh let's take uh oh I guess I just got right into it. You said warm informations, and I just shot right in there, but uh so we'll go ahead and get started and then we can if we have time, we'll do some introductions and things like that. Um but let's uh review the minutes and I will entertain a motion to approve our minutes from April. So moved. Okay, there's and a second, all in favor of approving the minutes say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstentions? All right, that passes and our sorry that second was really quiet. Who was that? Okay, thank you. Um already done there. Okay, we're gonna open up just with some updates from chair and vice chair reports. Uh are there any updates on the family safety challenge? Um I've asked her for a wish list, and I'll I'll bug her again, but I know we've got some time. Yes. Yeah, they're very excited. Yay, that's wonderful. It is very exciting. October 3rd uh drive her. And that and that can be something that we discuss in our committee meeting too about you know, just maybe some marketing ideas and yeah, it'll be great. Perfect. All right, here's the here are the numbers from clinical awards. So 212,7 was raised from the cynical awards, and you can see the breakdown there. It really was uh a tremendous event, and um thank you to everybody who participated with the nomination committee and the event committee. Um, it was a very successful event and uh an incredibly uh worthy cause. Uh this last month, the this was kind of wild because the convergence and the synergy was like wild. But the Office of Financial Empowerment hosted an event with the Carter Center Inform Women Transform Lives, and it was about navigating student loans, which is like my wheelhouse. So it was like women, higher ed, uh all the things. All the things. Office of Financial Empowerment, but uh they shared in the session, and we worked with the student borrows student borrowers protection alliance or agency. They um provided this fact sheet about borrowers and the 1.5 billion dollars is in student debt owed by women in Tulsa. This is just in Tulsa. Wow. The disproportionate amount of debt that women incur. Because women are, I mean, when you look at the gender breakdown, more uh completing more degrees than than men, and thus have more debt. So that was something that I thought was really interesting from that session, and uh are kind of a cool synergy with the Office of Financial Empowerment. If you haven't looked into the work that they're doing, it really is tremendous. Um don't miss June's uh Tulsa Women's Commission meeting. Uh as a reminder, uh the Tulsa Area United Way is going to be presenting on Alice and uh have invited uh their leadership to come and share with us. They're very interested in our work, um, not only around safety, but also child care access uh and availability. And right now with funding challenges, it's now more than ever very um pressing, especially related to Alice, which is asset limited income constrained employed individuals in the city. The pneumonic devices I don't know. Uh just I'm keeping these on until these events happen. But uh June 3rd is leadership Tulsa. Uh do you have any uh updates on that event or anything you want to share that we should know? Uh that I'm really excited uh that the women's commission will be presenting as one of the breakout speakers. We tickets are selling out really fast.