Okay, thank you.

Alright, I'm gonna call this meeting to order.

This is the June 26 regular meeting of the Human Rights Commission of the City of Tulsa, and we do have a quorum.

Uh we do not have a presentation from Compassionate Tulsa today, but we'll be revisiting that topic later in the agenda.

The first item on the agenda of action here is to consider the prior meeting minutes for approval.

You were provided a copy of the May 26 regular meeting minutes for advanced review.

Is there any discussion and/or corrections?

No.

Do you have a motion to approve?

I have a motion to have a second.

Second.

Alright, motion second.

All those in favor of approving the May 26 regular meeting minutes say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed say nay.

Alright, the motion carries.

The next item on the agenda is to appoint uh review committee chair for the humanitarian of the year award.

I think we are heading into the fourth or fifth, is it the fifth?

Gosh, the fourth or fifth year of the Humanitarian of the Year Awards where we honor a Tulson who has gone above and beyond to really improve their community through the advancement of human rights.

It's been a great celebration late every year.

And this year will be no different.

But to get to that point, we need to establish an ad hoc committee of just a handful of people.

I would like to remain on that committee, but I need someone to chair that.

I think we probably want to get maybe an odd number, maybe three total.

Um, and there will be some other opportunities for involvement later in the meeting if this is not your jam.

Uh, there might be something else later that does interest you.

But is there anyone that has any questions or would you anyone have any interest in ultimately what you'd be doing is reviewing the nominations uh for humanitarian of the year, helping make a selection, contacting the winner, and then ideally participate in the event planning uh for the humanitarian of the year ward in typically December.

Is that of interest to anyone on the commission?

I'll do I have one interested party.

Uh would you like to chair?

That committee.

I can help.

Okay, two.

I have Whitney and Katie.

Anyone else want to throw their hat in the ring?

Come on, it'll be a party.

I'll hold.

I don't want to chair it, but I'll definitely support.

Is this a voting issue, or do we just do I just get a pick?

You get to just pick people.

Oh, good thing we've there.

Okay, so Katie Casey and and Whitney have all uh been interested in uh joining the humanitarian of the year selection process, uh, and that is my choice for for that committee.

It is uh oddly that I've been the one most associated with it, is near and dear to my heart.

I got it by accident, but it is important to me that we uh do the best we can to honor folks and uh we can meet about that separately, but I appreciate your interest in helping continue that great uh award ceremony.

Next on the agenda is the uh chair report.

Looks like already gone out of order.

Um it's been a busy month, but most of the updates are actually gonna come later when we discuss the Human Rights Commission's goals and projects.

I will tell you in case you missed it like late last week.

The Tulsa Equity Indicators Annual Report for 2025 was released.

It does show overall improvements but also continued struggles in certain areas.

Uh, that report, as many of you know, is a snapshot of 54 indicators to measure inequalities in six areas.

Those areas are education, economic opportunity, housing, public health, services, and justice.

Uh, each indicator is scored on a scale from one to a hundred, with one being a high level of inequality, one hundred being a high level of equality.

Uh, the city's overall score for 2025 was 44 and a half.

That's out of 100, and that is a nearly six-point increase since the base year of 2018, and a over one-point increase since last year's report.

Of those six themes, the city saw improvements in the past year in education, housing and services.

It saw declines in equality scores in economic opportunity, public health, and justice.

And that is an unfair sort of summary of the entirety of the lengthy report.

I do encourage you, if you're interested, to go back to the Tulsa World article on the 12th of June.

They did a really nice job of summarizing the mayor's comments and going sort of across some of the items and really pointing out uh some of the stark changes that have happened, both positive and negative over the last several years, to really highlight areas that our community needs to focus on to build a better community.

Uh, specifically, our commission has talked quite a bit about the political empowerment scores that fall under the services category.

I will share that the government representation by race score uh raised one point from 36 to 37.

That's where we look at the membership on the city's authorities, wards, and commissions, specifically in the context of Hispanic representation.

We do know that generally white Tulsans are far more represented on the ABCs, and that is one of the projects that we're working on to increase recruitment and representation.

The other metric we've talked about in this group is voter turnout, which is historically low for Oklahoma and for our community.

That remained flat at 46 in the last two reports.

Uh and we know that voter turnout is far higher in South Tulsa, nearly twice that of what it is in North Tulsa.

It will be interesting to see what the turnout is tomorrow and the rest of this year when there are several high profile elections.

Uh, we know our community and our state have a lot to do when it comes to increasing voter turnout.

Drew, can I add a quick note on that?

Of course you can.

Um there's a launch for the report on July 7th at Tulsa Area United Way.

And if it's your first time hearing about it, highly recommend it.

The data is tricky, because for example, two metrics I'm interested in from the Asian Affairs Commission or chronic absenteeism and small business ownership, and those both reached a score of 100, which sounds great.

We're perfectly equal in Tulsa.

But we reached that score because Asians were the highest performing group in chronic absenteeism and small business ownership when these started, and we are now below the lowest performing group at the time.

And that reads on this report as an improvement.

So I saw like Tulsa Flower was like, we've seen great progress in these areas, and it's like, well, now everybody's doing bad.

Um, so it is kind of a tricky data set to interpret.

So I highly recommend going to United Way, and I'm sure Melanie Poulter will explain.

Yes, David Queen herself.

Yeah, and if I can just jump in, I always remind folks or or teach folks if they're not super familiar with the methodology behind the report that the quality indicators does not measure overall wellness of our community, it measures disparities, right?

So seeing a score of 100, it's like, oh my god, we've solved chronic absenteeism, and anybody even adjacent to education is probably laughing right now because we know that we haven't solved chronic absenteeism, right?

It just means that the gap between 2018 and our baseline, the lowest performing group and the highest performing group that that gap is closed, and that's all that that's measuring.

So and isn't the it's just the m the the baseline was set in 2018, whatever group was identified as the lowest performing, and so as that changes, it doesn't re-classify the new groups that continue to track the most advantaged and the least advantaged groups from that 2018 baseline.

Okay.

I ask a question of Lexi.

I assume this is your department.

Who does this?

Or like who is okay, then follow-up question, or maybe more follow-up comment.

I know from the 2S LGBTQIA plus committees perspective, um, it does not have any measurement in terms of like non-binary identities, trans identities, sexual orientation, anything gender identity.

Um, and so if there is a way to also highlight or elevate Tulsa's municipal equality index score through the HRC, I feel like this would be a natural place to share that information with the community.

Um, so maybe that's an ask if that's something that you all would consider, since that is the somewhat comparable framework.

I mean, different, but I feel like if we don't talk about it, people and there's if we're not measured, so how can we talk about issues when we don't have data?

Yeah, thank you.

Uh go ahead.

How are new items of concern or things that would benefit to be measured added to the index?

Yeah.

Um there's a lot, a lot of conversation happening around that.

Um, my recommendation would be reaching out to DeAntree directly because she manages that process.

Um, there's conversation with several different communities that have elevated that, you know, uh, with the indicators that were originally selected.

Um not to spend the whole meeting on equality indicators, but essentially the the indicators were selected, whether it's chronic absenteeism or you know, uh domestic violence calls or business ownership, right?

And then at that baseline time in 2018, um the data guru herself, Melanie Poltera looked across all possible demographic categories and found where the biggest disparity was is that by geography, is that by gender, is that by race, etc.

Um, and so that's why some indicators are measured by geography, you know, once others are measured by race and and other demographic categories.

Um so uh, you know, naturally certain communities don't have as strong of like data that's that's available and things like that.

They you know um there are certainly gaps there.

So um there's a lot of conversation and momentum building around potentially changing or adding indicators for the next report, and so if that's something that you care about, definitely be part of that conversation by reaching out to DeAntree again.

Hopefully, I have a question around that.

So I will I'll be reaching out to DeAndre on that.

To your point, it it feels like about every year we get some sort of presentation on the data, and while that's helpful, it almost feels like what you're describing was a more interest.

How how why is it this data?

How do you change that data over time?

And thinking that you get what you measure, and it's important to have some sort of quantifiable sense of progress or regression.

Uh, I think that stuff matters.

Uh and to clarify, Whitney, you're you're describing a more inclusive set of measures that someone could present to the HRC.

Could be.

So what I'm referencing is the basis for the city committee for the community.

I'm not gonna do the letters again.

Um but yeah, it's a framework from the human rights campaign.

So this is a measurement across municipalities across the country.

So it's not quite apples to apples, but it is a common language to start talking about the issues, and they do the scoring for you.

So City of Tulsa doesn't have to do any additional work, except it could be a great way to elevate some of the things that have been named in our most up-to-date um report for Tulsa.

Well, if you or someone else would like to make a presentation to the human rights commission, I I certainly would support that.

Um I think any time that we talk about the quality indicators report, it's germane and it's helpful to us to talk about this the subject matter uh both broadly and specifically.

So I I hope that you can uh bring that back to us and then we can learn more about that process.

I have a live update that if you are SPP for the July 7th event, one of the registration questions is are there any additional indicators you'd like to see in future reports?

So, Jesus.

So they are soliciting.

And to your point, a big thank you to United Way and Melanie and others that really do a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to that community level data.

Um, so appreciate that.

Well, I'm glad you all have so much interest in that topic because as I did, uh just wrapping up my comments.

I did attend the mayor's community conversation in North Tulsa uh last Tuesday.

Uh it's a great way to meet city staff, a lot of city staff are in the room.

Uh a lot of folks are running for office surprise were in the room, uh, your neighbors.

So I do encourage people if you haven't been to a community conversation to uh get out to one.

There is one last one I think for West Sulsa at the Dream Center West Campus next Tuesday on 4122 West 55th place.

I can imagine these will recur in the future, and then you know there's comparable opportunities in your city counselors have town halls, uh any sort of public meet gathering like this.

I think it's a great opportunity to to interface with uh other Tulsons and encourage you to do so.

I always go uh and and I'm glad I went because um I just met so many people uh both friends and people I haven't met, friends I hadn't met yet.

So I encourage you to do that.

Uh I'm gonna wrap up here.

Uh with this is our last meeting until August.

We will take July off, but uh, spoiler alert, there's a couple things in the hopper that I can't disclose right now, but I'm excited.

I think give us a few weeks of kind of some planning to look at our bylaws and our committees, some things that some folks are pushing that we'll bring back to you in August.

I think there's some good things uh as we end of the year, uh, some opportunities that we'll have to discuss.

I look forward to sharing those uh with you in August.

Uh but at that this point I will move on to the updates for the HRC goals, which unfortunately is gonna come back to me, but I'm gonna hand it to Commissioner Eller Murray before she hands it back.

Um lots of amazing progress.

Thank you to Commissioner Roberts and Commissioner France about just the progress that we've made in conversations.

Um I'd like to hand it off to Commissioner Roberts if you have any updates on your end, because you've you've done quite a bit of research, and then we can pass it off to Well, I will pass it off to Drew, great.

We gave you a little bit of a question.

Yeah, yeah.

By the way, I'm hopped up on antibiotics, so apologize for the voice here.

I uh whatever I got I can't shake, but I I am now fully loaded on antibiotics.

Um, yes, uh Commissioner Roberts has done a lot of work from from being a test balloon to see how the process works from Hersey to looking at other cities, but two exciting things have happened in addition to that in the last I don't know, 10 days.

Um for some time we've been trying to get with Black Tech Street and Microsoft who are working with the city to advance civic engagement through the use of technology.

Um I did get a meeting uh with those folks, and I made a pitch that pitches in front of you on the human rights complaint process.

The idea being that our current uh complaint process is operationally outdated.

Uh, it shows its age, it's very um required on sort of physical presence at the city clerk's office on wet signatures and the types of things that don't feel very 2026 and beyond.

Uh so I did the best I could to sort of advocate the problem that we'd like to have solved.

I think it was well received.

Uh that day, Microsoft and Black Tech Street heard several different pitches from different constituencies.

Uh they seemed uh genuinely interested in all of it, and uh they asked for the summary, which I've shared with you, and we're largely just awaiting them to follow up and decide if there's anything they can do.

But uh, at least in that meeting, Microsoft describes some comparable work in other cities.

I think there's some obvious opportunities for technology to maybe streamline and modernize uh the complaint process.

So more to come, but we finally got that audience, and then this of course was the mayor's idea to leverage that consultation.

And I'm hopeful, uh cautiously optimistic that there might be some progress and some some free uh expertise that might move the ball forward when it comes to uh leveraging technology in that space.

But that's not exciting enough, even more exciting.

About an hour ago, uh at Councillor Gilbert's request, uh, we met with City Councillor Gilbert, who has worked to draft some updates to the human rights ordinance, uh, specifically that would delete the requirement to file complaints with the city clerk, with the hopes being that we could drive more online um complaints through the 311 process or comparable processes.

Uh Commissioner Roberts was there, Lexi was there.

Uh, very importantly, Le Kendra was there, our our compliance officer.

We had a great conversation with the councillor.

Um, I believe she wants to move this for the first reading next week.

Uh generally in her mind, this is some obvious improvements uh to make sure that we don't have these um barriers that were never intended to be there and that make uh transportation and and physical presence and and folks that aren't accustomed to entering city hall, hopefully remove all that from barriers of people that want to or need to file a complaint.

I think her goal is that we get a more accurate reflection of the types of challenges in this community that manifest through human rights violations, whether that's in housing or public accommodations or or city services.

Um and Lakendra herself, who obviously has to make this all work since she is the central figure in processing these complaints.

Uh, really was excited to get that support from this council and others.

Uh Lexi, anything to add about that conversation?

But I'm cautiously optimistic that there's gonna be some progress in this space.

I think that's perfect.

Well, uh more to come, but um she uh the councilor invited us to um attend next week and uh see that first reading and hopefully uh move the ball forward on taking away some of the barriers.

Anything else on that project?

That's a lot.

Um, I think by August we'll have some good news to report.

And we're also gonna do some research on what uh what success would look like in terms of if we're able to unblock this.

What is a what do comparable cities get in terms of the number of uh complaints so we can kind of understand because you know we could bump it up, but it may not be actually what others are saying.

Um so we don't really know what success looks like that's unblocked.

I think that's fair.

I think we're very concerned, it seems like it's underutilized.

Um, that the reporting certainly doesn't reflect the realities for for many across our community.

Um, I think outside this room, we have a lot of work to do to educate the community on the new process that's legit legitimate and trustworthy and that worth their time.

If they've been aggrieved that um that's gonna be a wider process to sort of renormalize use of the complaint process.

Mercifully, I'm gonna hand it over to Commissioner Pielamar to talk about rule number two, which is to increase representation and equitable recruitment across the city's authorities, boards, and commissions.

Thank you, Drew.

Uh it's been a long time coming.

As a reminder, we sent a memo to city council and the mayor's office back in a while ago.

Um, April?

It's been a minute.

Yeah.

Um, with data on a quality indicator 49 around representation in the authorities, boards, and commissions.

And we focused on city council data showing that more than half of city uh authorities, boards, and commission members come from two city council districts.

When we sent that, we then had the opportunity to meet with the mayor's office to talk about the mayor office role in helping recruit and some of the changes that they've made.

We got some great uh early indicators in the data, like that 20% of seats have turned over and mayor uh Nichols' tenure, which is great for making sure we're increasing new voices at City Hall.

And as of right now, the work that we've done as a commission is you gave some feedback on like a potential blueprint of what we would present in the spring, and then we have the chance to send a list of recommendations to the mayor's office and city council for how HRC and City Council could partner together.

Or was that just a city council?

City council.

Okay.

As a result of that, last memo.

City council uh specifically councillor Dutton from District 3.

Who's behind you by the way?

Well, hello.

Uh has invited us, thank you so much, to speak on June 24th at 2.30.

So Drew and I still have the strong blueprint that you all helped us put together, and we're gonna make a nice slide deck, the joy of my life, just making slide decks.

I can't wait.

Um, and we're excited to bring this work at last to city council for discussion.

So that is kind of all of my update.

I'm curious if there's any you know lingering thoughts that you want to make sure we mention that you've been thinking about throughout this process, but it really will just be the chance to have a conversation versus just like a here's a memo and then send it out into the upper.

So we're excited.

And you are all more than welcome to attend.

We'll take contributions.

Counselor Dutton, did you want to add anything while you why you invited us your interest in the topic?

Well, I personally come represent an underserved district.

And I really would like to amplify the fact that we really need better representation.

I know in the climate right now it's difficult for some of the cultures that encompass my district to feel comfortable getting involved.

We lack a lot of bilingual information, and it's not just Spanish, it's Vietnamese, it's uh Burmese.

So bringing you all to the table, I think is going to help amplify the fact that we really need to focus deeper and more hardy in human rights issues within the city itself.

Um I think partnering with human rights commission and all of you is something that we need to do and be better at.

We as the city council don't do enough, I don't think, to bring in all the information that our commissions work hard, our volunteers work hard to bring to the table.

So I think having everybody at the table is imperative to moving the city forward.

Thanks for having us.

Yeah, more than happy any time.

Well, we appreciate that.

I think our best purpose is to use data as a flashlight to sort of raise issues.

We're we're somewhat powerless to you know take action, but but you're not, and uh I think all we can do is sort of facilitate conversations and let the best ideas rise to the top.

So we appreciate the invitation and look forward to continuing that conversation with you and your colleagues.

Um any other comments on project number two right now?

Can I make a quick one?

Of course.

Um, because I'm a nerd, over the weekend I did documenters train with training with the Tulsa Flyer, but that was really interesting because I know quite a few people in Tulsa, and I only knew one other person who was there, but it was a really interesting cross-section of folks, and a lot of the work they do to document is public meetings like ABC's, and there wasn't a strong literacy of like what that actually looks like.

I don't know to the powers that be whoever wants to take this information.

I think it could be a very cool opportunity to see if you could partner with the Tulsa Flyer, just because they said they had like a hundred and seventy-nine active documenters right now that seem to span quite a few demographics and geographies.

Yeah, I um did the training last summer and then I realized I don't know if I have like conflict of interest with school board meetings, these meetings, things like that.

So I haven't documented that.

Um but it is really important, and I know they pick strategically which meetings they cover, so I think there could be a conversation around their volunteer base around which meetings they cover.

I don't know if again, this is truly I don't know, not an assumption.

I don't know if the Tulsa Flyer knows what each meeting does to send documenters, because I don't think this meeting has ever gotten one.

Um and what we do to the point of the modernization process is pretty important to a lot of Tulsans who don't know how to use it.

So I mean I could flag it for them now.

We had one at the Greater Tulsa Aragon Affairs Commission meeting.

Okay, two, three weeks two or three months ago.

Yeah.

Asian affairs pretty much always has one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I I would love for them to get some of what we're doing because it's like directly I mean it's all directly relevant, but I've been interested that this hasn't been on the list yet.

So I like so badly want to create a one-two-threes of the ABCs and then just tour it.

Like around.

Yeah, yeah, I guess.

It's good to know.

Yeah.

So happy to deputize others.

Because I can only be one place at a time.

Maybe we need a LinkedIn campaign.

That's all I have to do.

Thank you for sharing that.

I've been it's a fascinating niche that Tulsa Flyer is promoting, and um I think it's an important civic duty, so it's great that people are stepping up to carry that mantle.

Uh, the next item on our agenda, our committee advocate and Title V commission calls for action, specifically uh Commissioner Walker.

Uh, when she and I met one-on-one a while ago, one of the things she said struck me, and I wanted to make sure it got some air time, and she's about to explain it to you.

But you know, some of us end up on these, whether they're nonprofit boards or commissions or any parts of life.

You sometimes you end up for a really long time and you realize that if you weren't there, uh you're not sure who would do what you do.

And I think we all carry something, and that's a that's both a great thing and a dangerous thing sometimes.

And one of the things she shared, I had not really considered, and I just want her to kind of explain what might be an opportunity for someone to really carry for carry on some important work that she's led, uh, that I think eventually we need to find another home for.

Thank you.

So, yes, I don't know, you guys probably associate me with Compassionate Tulsa somewhat, and so this is compassionate Tulsa is an initiative that we it really derived out of my early work in the HRC where we were we actually had a committee at that time on interfaith issues, and so after meeting with several different groups from various faiths in the Tulsa area, we um moved into the direction of developing compassionate Tulsa, which is from the international campaign of compassionate communities movement, and it's basically you know a statement of you know equality, it's a statement of you know respect for others.

It's um you could actually you know Google this and find the charter for compassion, a short little two-minute video YouTube video that really just kind of summarizes the mission and purpose.

And so we developed as a group, you know, you guys know the story, those of you who've been here for a few months anyway.

Um, you know, we as a group developed kind of like a statement, a declaration for the city of Tulsa, and then we met with the city council at that time, and they voted to affirm that Tulsa as a compassionate community, and so as a result of that vote, the standing committee compassionate Tulsa was created in the HRC, and so it's been in existence ever since.

I've been the liaison, which I've fine with.

I enjoy the work, and I can plan to continue the work with Compassionate Tulsa, but I won't be around forever, right?

You know, so I've been around for quite a few years now, so it won't last forever, and so I am just um wanting to encourage anybody who might be interested in sort of learning more about compassionate Tulsa for the purpose of potentially kind of moving into a liaison sort of position where you're participating in the meetings with compassionate Tulsa, and then you come and report the relevant events and when you have calls for action, report that to the rest of the HRC.

It's uh it's a really great committee, I'll just say these are very dedicated and committed folks that serve on this committee.

I've been really honored to be a part of that, and so I just wanted to kind of spread the net to see if there are any anybody who might be interested in being a little bit more active in compassionate Tulsa for that purpose.

So you don't have to like say it now, but think about it and maybe reach out to me or reach out to Chair France, and then we can start discussing that and what that might look like.

Remind us how long you've been on the human rights commission.

Thirteen years now, so it's been a long time.

It was 2013 when I first started.

So May 16th?

Yes, May 16th, a little over 13 years and one month.

Yeah.

I think the blunter way to say it is um, you know, if you were to not be on, if you were to not have a next term, that that work is going to abruptly stop.

So I really think it behooves us to identify a succession plan and make sure that we build those relationships and that that compassionate Tulsa work continues uh in your inevitable absence.

Yes, absolutely.

We want it to continue.

A lot of work went into developing it, and I think it it's totally aligns with the purposes of the HRC.

So yes, we want we want it to continue.

That's my desire.

I'll keep bringing this up at meetings until we identify that someone, but we'll uh we'll keep shopping this around with people that aren't at the meeting and others saying, Yeah, you don't have to make a public statement, but we'd love to find someone that this feels like a great fit for them because I know it is a great fit for somebody.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Commissioner Edwards, can I put you on the spot?

I was told by another commissioner that you gave a presentation recently and hit a home run, I'm told.

Can you tell us what you were doing on behalf of the women's group?

Um, sure.

So I was uh one of the breakout speaker sessions um at the women's leadership summit with Leadership Tulsa this last week, and I spoke uh along with Dr.

Laura Lotta on what the women's commission um has been focusing on with the pay equity pledge, with the um child care lack of access and uh affordability to child care in Tulsa and our units of inquiry and what we're focusing on.

Um, and during that session, I was able to give a whole lot of information on the status of child care in Oklahoma and how dire it is.

Um, and so it was a really great commit, it was a really great um uh presentation.

One of the things that I commend Dr.

Lotta for doing is she uh in the very beginning of the presentation, she was like, are is anybody familiar with Title V Commission?

Uh and she wouldn't and no one raised their hand.

Well, I think a couple people raised their hand, yeah.

Um but she went through and like this is what this is, and this is when they meet, and like if you have a passion in this area.

So I was like, that's brilliant.

We can all do that more with our presentations.

Um, and so I thought that was that was awesome.

Um, and then coming out of that, we learned all more about the Alice data.

So if anybody's a data nerd with the Tulsa Area United Way, asset limited, income constrained, employed, it's all about um when people don't qualify for benefits but don't follow but don't make a living wage, that gap.

Um so if you're data nerd, go on to uh okayalce.org or go to the United Ways website and look at that, and it's fascinating.

Um, but that was that was kind of the big did anybody else attend and anything else stick out to them.

I mean, it was it was very well done, and I just want to reiterate what you said is it presentations like yours were great examples of the work that's being done with the Title Five Commissions and the Human Rights Commission.

So it's like that's a great way.

I mean, the number of times they plugged, this is when we meet.

It is open to everybody.

So it's like that's a great recruiting tool when we're talking about, you know, our our project too.

Is like, hey, these are great ways to demonstrate all the great work that's being done.

So get on those get on those panels.

Can you see Anthony Whitney?

Any committee reports or anything you want to share?

Happy Pride.

Yeah.

There are a few different pride celebrations since OKQ moved like the official Tulsa Pride Festival to October for weather, but it's actually been quite lovely.

Um, but look checkout.

I know the Eagles doing celebrations.

Alote is doing a street festival.

Um, the Equality Gala, which is OKAQ's major fundraiser, is June 27th.

We do still have tickets or sponsorships available.

Um, but yeah, we're we're just hoping to raise money.

Our clinic has been inundated because of some policies that went into effect about gender-affirming care.

So if you know folks who are passionate about that issue, a great time to contribute.

Thank you.

Any other committee updates?

Nothing really to report um from my area.

We had our games this weekend up in up at um in Edmond.

Uh so from that, we have a lot of people that are getting things geared up after everybody met and um and gave out each other's resources and different things like that.

So we should have something come down and pipeline or zone about any upcoming events.

Um, the fair housing committee met and they created a a flyer on support animals.

A lot of um individuals and don't know how to access or they get online and they pay $75 for a certification that's actually not needed, nor is it even accurate.

So we created a flyer.

The goal of the flyer was to facilitate it to agencies that receive HUD funding under the city of Tulsa, where they can give it to clients, give it to landlords, have it at housing fairs and so forth.

We were super excited about it, legal aid, reviewed it, and then there's some changes regarding support animals that are out.

So we went ahead and moved full forward because most landlords tend to not always be up to times or know what's going on or how to navigate, but it was an easier way on how to have those conversations with your landlord, how to get the secure of a statement that you might need to be able to get that deposit waived and move forward.

Um, fair housing connects to at least one active flyer a year, but we really have to go through all the right proper channels to make sure that it's legally appropriate and it's a literacy level that clients can access as well.

Um, we are moving forward, we are trying to partner with um life senior services.

This year was identified that fair housing, a special kind of fair housing summit be into the categories of people aging, wiser individuals.

So we are trying to partner with life senior services and see if we can do something at their site.

Last year we did the veteran community, and the year before we did the two SLGBTQIA plus when he was even there community.

So again, we're trying to just offer some of these really specific fair housing opportunities for the community.

We also partner with Tulsa Area Fair Housing to do more than like four to six fair housing kind of trainings throughout the year, whether you're a housing case manager to a case manager to a landlord to a tenant.

So there's lots of information in the city also regarding fair housing and how to navigate that.

Apologies for coughing through your good.

Um Asian Affairs Commission update is that as of August, I will be stepping into the chair position, which is exciting, and it is not necessarily recommended that your chair also be on another commission.

So this is tentatively my last meeting.

We have a buy in July for the title five retreat, which I don't know if you're gonna plug, but you know, teeing you up if you will, um, and I'm working to identify someone who can come, be the leaning son on this committee, uh, and really working to invest them in.

What a special space this is to bring all of our commissions together.

So just wanted to let you know that so you're not confused whenever uh there's a I don't know that they will be like voted in.

We're gonna vote on the new person in August, and then of course there's the city process, so I'm not quite sure what the gap will be, but wanted to thank you all for uh being on this commission with you and excited to go out with a bang at city council.

Thank you.

Any old business we need to attend to?

Any new business we need to attend to?

Any public comments?

I have an announcement.

Yeah.

All right, you go ahead.

Go ahead.

Um, just in line with uh what she was mentioning, um, I am also uh need to step off of this committee.

I have you guys have noticed I've missed a couple meetings.

I have a uh SLT meeting that's exactly for my work, exact same time as this.

Um, and so with the women's commission, we have a couple of people that have indicated interest and would love to join the uh this committee, and so we're gonna be voting on it with the next um meeting, and they will be joining as well.

So I just wanted to say quick thank you to every single person that I've met on here and got to learn from.

Iron sharpens iron, and I am a better, more uh educated person because of the people in this room.

So thank you.

Thank you.

We hate to see you go, but look forward to your success success.

Uh someone else said.

So I have a public announcement here, and this is you may know about this already.

You talked probably in the elevator.

Yeah, okay.

So this is called PRISM, which is a new organization that has been put together with some area volunteers and TPAC.

Um, so it's a program for queer and allied youth, and there is a PRISM launch party that is happening June 27th, 2 to 4 p.m.

at LaFortune Studio at the Tulsa PAC.

And the instructions enter enter through the third street entrance.

So PRISM is an inclusive program geared towards teens.

Anyone is welcome to the launch.

There it's free music, free snacks.

It this is not something that's being advertised on social media to prevent any kind of negative uh whatever, and so it is basically carefully being um shared.

And so I have permission to share this with you and share this information with anyone you think may be interested in attending or want to support, and so June 27th, 2 to 4, LaFortune Studio Tulsa PAC.

I just want to remind folks that TIE PRO's Pub Club Commission is on July 21st.

Commissions will join TIE PRO's monthly events to talk about the commissions, recruit committee members, and encourage individuals to apply for authorities, boards, and commissions.

Do we have a location yet?

Is anyone know if we have a location yet?

Yes, it is let me pull it on the calendar real quick.

It's at nothing's left brewing, nothing's left brewing.

July 21st.

Programming, not okay, it loose the event 5 30 to 7.

Um, would love to have a handful of you join uh Commissioner France and uh Vice Chair Rogers to represent the human rights commission, get more folks interested.

Is this every pub club that you need people at, or is it just this next one?

The really one that we're yeah, collaborating with to have the pub clubslash authorities title five commissions fair and showcase.

So yes, yeah, I'll come join the party.

Wonderful, and I'm happy to forward the calendar hole to anyone who can be there, and then on July 24th, we have the Title V and Beyond Apology Commission retreat breakout sessions with the Office of Health and Well-Being, Mayorial Priorities, and Economic Development.

Uh is that for all commissioners?

Yes, so that's all, yeah, all Title V and Beyond Apology Commissioners.

Um, the full slate of different breakout sessions will include the mayor's Office of Children's Family, health and well-being, Economic development, New Tulsons, and then Dana Walton and Brenton Todd from the Mayor's Office will also be presenting about the oral priorities.

I've been working with the phenomenal Marcia Bruno Todd to develop a civic leadership engagement workshop that we will do during the retreat as well as have commission-led presentations.

So Chairman France will be presenting on how to like vocalize around goals.

Commissioner Pilovar will be presenting for Asian Affairs Commission as well about how to be people first and data driven.

Commissioner McNeil, who isn't here today, but who sits on GTAC, will be talking about her process of creating and distributing a commission newsletter.

So a lot of really wonderful information and opportunity to connect across commissions.

Thank you.

And we'll have Chipotle for lunch.

Well there you go.

Nothing else about you than that.

Unless there are any further announcements, uh, do I have a motion to adjourn?

Oh, I would love, sorry, I would love to hold space for maybe some public comments.

I want to recognize these lovely women back here.

Um they are all students at UNC Chapel Hill and are interning with the Department of Resilience and Equity.

So I'm putting you all on the spot, but if you wouldn't mind just like introducing yourselves and saying like what your major is, we would love to hear from you.

Yeah, absolutely.

Well, thanks for letting us sit in.

I know this was really um important for us, and just so nice to get a glimpse into sort of what the inner workings of a city government look like.

Um my name is Cassie, and I'm a history and sociology double major with a minor in gender and women studies at Chapel Hill.

My name is Clear Billings Lee.

I'm uh from the Georgia.

I am an advertising public relations major with a minor in Sanish.

My name is Nabi Harakwan.

I'm from Kerry, North Carolina.

Also going to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

I'm a health policy and management major, public health and all the pre-med track.

My name is Katie.

I'm from Snowden, North Carolina.

I'm a political science and human organization development and education.

I'll go major in a minor economics.

Wonderful.

Thank you all.

Hi, hello everyone.

I'm a big fan of Tulsa, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around going to Chapel Hill and being assigned to Tulsa in the summer.

You do you.

Thank you for thank you for uh joining us.

Uh but Chapel Hill's great.

Uh all right, can I have a motion to adjourn?

Social.

Do I have a second?

Second.

All those in favor say aye.

Any opposed say nay.

The meeting is adjourned.

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