2016-01-08 Committee on the Status of Women Minutes

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D. Hawaii Island Women's Leadership Forum • Committee meeting this afternoon; 2 venues identified; voting next week; date is going to be August 26, 2016. • Program Committee met a couple of times and narrowing down topics, themes, and will be a part of the formal announcements. Planning is well underway. • Growth versus no growth will be discussed at today's committee meeting. Action: Farrah will send email to committee to solicit topics for leadership forum. E. CSW Brochure • Feedback pending - delete white border; lighter red; no updated pictures. F. Cell Phone Safety Cards • Cyd's update - 50 BISAC; 300 Waiakea high school; 100 to HAAS; 100 Ola I Ka Hana. • Brooke's update - 50 to counselor at Kohala Middle School 50 girl scout leaders • Lee -Ann's update - bringing extra cell phone cards to February 2016 meeting to hand out to CSW members. • Mele inquired about idea of Council Members receiving cards. Action: Lee -Ann to bring cards to next meeting and look for purple raffia. G. Equal Pay • $400 budget • Next equal pay day is Tuesday, April 12th 2016. • Farrah is sending a link to committee for consideration of ideas. • At next month's meeting, plant to put together a project plan for Equal pay day. Action: Lee -Ann to bring info from Sherry Bracken; confirm w/ Danny Jesser; ad ideas from link from Farrah on ideas to be explored and looked at next meeting. Look at radio ad rates for ad runs from Wednesday to Tuesday or Sunday to Tuesday. H. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) • Clarification needed on language regarding "non-discriminatory" clause • Renee updated CSW; Sunshine from Val's office called Renee. Val's office thought proposing such a bill would require an insertion of an article in the administrative chapter of the county code. • Pending action due to funding issue being explored at State CSW. 4