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Home My WebLink About2023-04-19 Committee on the Status of Women MinutesMITCHELL D. ROTH County of Hawai` Mayor COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN c/o 655 Kilauea Avenue • Hilo, Hawaii 96720 (808) 961-0466 • Fax (808) 961-8908 MEETING MINUTES Wednesday, April 19, 2023 I. CALL TO ORDER - Meeting called to order by Chair Gomes at 9:34. ROLL CALL - In attendance: Farrah -Marie, Christina, Shana, Elena, Rachelle, Andrew joined at 9:38, Rachelle; Excused: Evelyn, Hannah, Lisa; Ex-officio: Jennifer, Suzanna. Quorum was met. III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES for March 15, 2023 — Elana moved to approve minutes, Rachelle seconded the motion. No Discussion. All voted in favor. Minutes approved at 9:38. IV. TREASURER'S REPORT — No expenditures for March. Expenditures will be made in May. County office has purchased gift cards, expenditure will occur in May. CSW has not spend any funds for this year. Motion to approve the treasurers report by Elena, motion seconded by Rachelle. No discussion. All voted in favor at 9:41 am. V. STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC — No statements from public. VI. CORRESPONDENCE — No correspondence received. VII. REPORTS A. Statements from the Public — no statements from the public. B. Hawaii State CSW (HSCSW) liaison report — Jennifer Stotter shared that Nikki Cristobal was on island yesterday. She presented to the Hawaii County Council in Kona where resolution 74-23 was passed. Later that night, UH Hilo hosted a presentation on the MMIWG report with about 50 people in attendance. Jennifer is putting together a list of attendees to share. Next State CSW meeting is on 6/1, but the time has not been set yet. There is no update on the status of the Executive Director position or hiring process yet. C. Family Violence Interagency Committee (FVIC) — Christina attended West Hawaii FVIC meetings. There was a lot of discussion on homelessness in West Hawaii and the situation with vandalism and crime, drug abuse. The Children's Justice Center Director resigned at the end of April. HPD and CWS are having forensic interviewers trained. Hilo has filled their forensic interviewer position. Hilo Director will assist in keeping Kona site going. County of Hawaii MITCHELL D. ROTH COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN Mayor c/o 655 Kilauea Avenue • Hilo, Hawaii 96720 (808) 961-0466 • Fax (808) 961-8908 D. Missing Murdered Native Hawaiian Women and Girls (MMNHWG) Task Force — Report submitted to legislative as completion of phase 1. Phase 2 is being developed. Next meeting of the task force is this Thursday at noon. Shana spoke about the meeting last night at UH Hilo and asked questions about information at the meeting. Qualitative data collection is currently in the works with talking to survivors and getting their stories. Suzanna shared that theAsia Pacific institute may be able to contribute data for the report. Vill. NEW BUSINESS A. Statements from the Public — No statements from public. IX. OLD BUSINESS A. Statements from the Public - No statements from public. B. Sub -Committee Memberships a. Nomination and Election of Sub -Committee members i. Jennifer Stotter was self -nominated for the research sub- committee. Shana made the motion to add Jennifer to the research sub-committe, Elena seconded the motion. There was no discussion. Approved by all members. ii. Shana asked about chairs for sub committees and how often meetings are held. Farrah provided explanation and guide- lines. Sub committees are required to follow same rules as CSW for all meetings. Sub -committees can select a chair if needed. Shana was concerned that sub -committees are not meeting regularly and was asking for assistance on how to proceed with the meetings and the process. Farrah provided explanation. Go through Allen to post the meeting date for the public. Suzanna provided more clarity on the meeting scheduling via email. C. Communications Sub -Committee reports a. Status of CSW gmail account — No updates. When email comes to Gmail account, Shana will get an alert to her email account. b. Facebook updates - Postings are continuing. FB page followers can share postings on the CSW page. Send information to Shana or Farrah for posting. Jpeg would be preferred format - they will post on FB page as received. Mahalo Christina for sending items to committee for review. Shana shared cover photo of RBG. 2 County of Hawaii MITCHELL D. ROTH COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN Mayor c/o 655 Kilauea Avenue • Hilo, Hawaii 96720 (808) 961-0466 • Fax (808) 961-8908 c. Family Services Directory i. Distribution log — No added logs noted. Allen stated their supply is gone. Christina has around 125 left for upcoming in service activities and will continue to pass them out. Possible project rationale for more directories in May meeting. Shana has half a full box left. D. Outreach Sub -Committee reports a. 2022 Year of the Mother i. Status of the Mother Report - wrapping up report at this time. Shana sent out preliminary report to members to review. Shana submitting report for her capstone and will submit to the group once completed. Kudos to team and especially Farrah for her support and advice on report creation. Will give it one more month to get completed and finalized. The plan is to release it around Mother's Day in May. Please do one more review and get feedback to Shana so report can be finalized. b. Teen Dating Violence i. Distribution log — No new distribution in this month. Project Rationale will be needed to print more. Christina distributed in West Hawaii and will provide numbers for tracking. Only a few left at this time. Allen says stock is depleted at OPA. c. Real Women Essay i. No report. Gift cards purchased but not yet distributed. d. Community Surveys i. Voted on last month. Purchase request of $250 approved. Will need to do some adjustments to fiscal reports for this expenditure. Motion to move $1000 from Travel and Confer- ence, $1100 from Printing, $900 from Mileage and $2540 from Misc Charges to Misc. Contracts. Shana made motion, seconded by Rachelle. No discussion, all approved at 10:37am. ii. Shana would like to edit the survey with the research sub- committee and update with best practice questions. E. Research Sub -Committee reports a. Status of Women Report i. Will vote on at May meeting. Think about what 2023 report will look like. County of Hawaii MITCHELL D. ROTH COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN Mayor c/o 655 Kilauea Avenue • Hilo, Hawaii 96720 (808) 961-0466 • Fax (808) 961-8908 b. Equal Pay i. Farrah will provide in Legislative report. ii. Shana discussed grant process for car seat purchases to give out. Allen emailed to Shana and Farrah to provide to the organizations that the CSW would like to provide funding or items to. F. Legislative a. Legislative priorities — Reminder that community can still provide testimony by zoom to council. The CSW should also remind council that we would like to be aware of bills or resolutions so that we can support with testimony, especially as it relates to Native Hawaiian women. b. Human Trafficking - Ho'ola Napua has free curriculum available to the community. LT is going into schools meeting with administration and teachers for awareness. c. Equal Pay — Farrah provided an explanation on why national equal pay day moved from April to March which means the pay gap is closing slightly. Will distribute literature on Equal Pay information once it is received. d. Hawaii Island Women's Leadership Summit - Farrah will share the grants paperwork to Friends of the Future. e. Missing Murdered Native Hawaiian Women and Girls (MMNHWG) - Previously approved purchases of red dresses has not been made. So cannot do event as discussed, red dress campaign on May 5t". Farrah provided discussion and options for honoring this date. X. ANNOUNCEMENTS a. Women`s Wellness Mana Mama will be on May 19th from 12-7pm in West Hawaii — Christina will send out flyer once it is available. b. MMIWG conference in Albuquerque in June. c. Denim Day 2023 is April 26. Flyer can be found on the CSW FB page. d. Malama the Mind 5/20 at Prince Kuhio Plaza. e. Revitalize Puna 7/8 - Rachelle will send flyer out to the committee. XI. ADJOURNMENT - 11:07 Adjourn Next meeting: Wednesday, May 17, 2023 at 9:30am via Zoom 11