2013-06-04 Committee on the Status of Women Minutes

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She also checked on paying the airfare for committee members to attend the UH CSW Conference in September. Payment by department p-card would allocate the expenses to next fiscal year’s budget. Farrah-Marie Gomes inquired about the possibility of members paying their own airfare and requesting reimbursement. This item was tabled for New Business, University of Hawaii Committee on the Status of Women Conference. Carol Kitaoka suggested we double the amount of bags to $2,400. Nancy suggested we increase the order for bags and the committee could approve the increase today. This item was also tabled for New Business, Promotional Items. Katie Nova – accepted the treasurer’s report as presented. STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC Shelly Mahi came to the meeting with issues relating to the status of women, treatment of women and women’s health. She expressed concern about the HPD’s neck strike of women. Through her research, she found out that only the Big Island Police Dept, does this and it only applies to juveniles and females. She’s asking for statewide standards; asking that the county follow the law. She left literature with the committee hoping that we could assist her on Native Hawaiian women issues. The committee members will review the materials and decide if this is something within the scope of the committee to pursue. Since Elena Cabatu needed to leave by 11:00 a.m., committee went out of agenda order. REPORTS A. Liaison – reported by Elena Cabatu The Commission met in May and will meet again on June 20. There were two members that exited from the end of their term from the last administration so there will be two more joining in the near future. They will be expending the remainder of their funds to go to the National Conference on the Commission of Women in San Jose from July 24-27, 2013. She will bring back information from the Conference. She will e-mail the link to the conference which lists the workshops and if you have specific questions you want Elena to bring back, please let her know. There’s a section in which we can look at other successes that other Commissions have experienced and will bring back that information. The State Commission voted to do a two week statewide run of the radio ads. They asked that a couple of the ads be slightly tweaked to have a better balance between abstinence and safe sex education because some of the ads were only abstinence focused. The ads started running June 10 and end on June 23; two weeks worth of ad is a $12,000 ad campaign for four of the ads to run statewide and if you add the $3,000 already spent on the Big Island; it was a $15,000 campaign that ran. This includes two weeks worth of ads which this committee approved last meeting. Elena thanked the committee for their support. Farrah-Marie questioned if the $1,500 radio ads that we previously approved have all the fiscal paperwork in place to ensure payment this fiscal year. 2