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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02-17-16 Agenda PacketVirginia Beck Members: Chair Kathy Crowell Edie Ignacio - Neumiller Liza Cabal- Trinidad Erika Valente Jenai Yoshii Vice Chair Suzanne Ellis Secretary Sharon Lasker Lisa Ellen Smith Treasurer HSCSW Representative Ex- Officio COUNTY OF KAUA'I COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN NOTICE OF MEETING AND AGENDA Wednesday, February 17, 2016 5:00 p.m. or shortly thereafter Mo`ikeha Building, Meeting Room 2A/2B 4444 Rice Street, Lihu`e, HI 96766 CALL TO ORDER • Approval of meeting minutes for January 20, 2016 BUSINESS CSW 2015 -06 Discussion and possible decision - making on future Committee events including but not limited to: • Rise of the Film Wahine Event • 2016 Career Day Event • 2016 March Women's History Month • 2016 April Equal Pay Day (Deferred on 1/20/16) ✓ Selection of date /time /Mayoral Proclamation ✓ Form Subcommittee to handle specific tasks CSW 2015 -07 Update from HSCSW Kauai Representative Lisa Ellen Smith on the 2016 National Association of Commissions for Women Conference to be held on Oahu from July 16- 21, 2016, and other pertinent updates An Equal Opportunity Employer CSW 2015 -09 Discussion on responding to acting on state Legislative bills during the 2016 legislature session (Deferred on 12/16/15) CSW 2016 -01 Discussion and possible decision - making on partnering with other organizations on doing a Powerpoint presentation in the community that reflects the Committee's mission statement CSW 2016 -02 Discussion and the possible decision - making on having a one -time showing of a film produced by Hawaii based attorney Teresa Tico called Miss South Pacific in place of the film Rise of the Wahine ANNOUNCEMENTS • Next regular scheduled meeting — March 16, 2016, at 5:00 p.m. at the Mo`ikeha Building, Meeting Room 2 A/B. • Next Empowerment "Tool Belt Series" — Thursday, February 24, 2016, from 5:30 — 6:30 p.m. at the YWCA Women's Center 4410 Hardy Street, Lihu`e, Hawaii 96766 EXECUTIVE SESSION Pursuant to Hawaii Revised Statutes, H.R.S. §92 -7(a), the Committee may, when deemed necessary, hold an Executive Session on any agenda item without the written public notice if the Executive Session was not anticipated in advance. Any such Executive Session shall be held pursuant to H.R.S. §92 -4 and shall be limited to those items described in H.R.S. §92 -5(a). Discussions held in Executive Session are closed to the public. ADJOURNMENT cc: Deputy County Attorney Mahealani Krafft Committee on the Status of Women — February 16, 2016 2 1 P a g e PUBLIC COMMENTS and TESTIMONY Persons wishing to offer comments are encouraged to submit written testimony at least 24 -hours prior to the meeting indicating: 1. Your name and if applicable, your position/title and organization you are representing; 2. The agenda item that you are providing comments on; and 3. Whether you will be testifying in person or submitting written comments only. 4. If you are unable to submit your testimony at least 24 hours prior to the meeting, please provide 10 copies of your written testimony at the meeting clearly indicating the name of the testifier; and While every effort will be made to copy, organize and collate all testimony received, materials received on the day of the meeting or improperly identified may be distributed to the members after the meeting is concluded. The length of time allocated to persons wishing to present verbal testimony may be limited at the discretion of the chairperson or presiding member. Send written testimony to: Committee on the Status of Women C/o Office of Boards and Commissions 4444 Rice Street, Suite 150 Uhu`e, HI 96766 E -mail: mromoRmkauai.gov Phone: (808) 241 -4920 Fax: (808) 241 -5127 SPECIAL ASSISTANCE If you need an alternate format or an auxiliary aid to participate, please contact the Office of Boards and Commission Support Clerk at (808) 241 -4920 at least five (5) working days prior to the meeting. Committee on the Status of Women — February 16, 2016 3 1 P a 8 e COUNTY OF KAUAI Minutes of Meeting DRAFT OPEN SESSION Board/Committee: Committee on the Status of Women — Mayor's Meeting Date: January 20, 2016 Advisory Committee Location Mo'ikeha Building — Meeting Room 2A/B Start of Meeting: 5:00 p.m. End of Meeting: 6:00 p.m. Present Chair Virginia Beck; Vice -Chair Jenai Yoshii (arrived at 5:09 p.m.) Members: Edie Ignacio- Neumiller, Kathy Crowell, Sharon Lasker Also present: Board & Commissions Office Staff: Administrator Jay Furfaro; Support Clerk Mercedes Omo; Deputy County Attorney Mahealani Krafft Excused Suzanne Ellis Absent Erika Valente SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Call To Order Chair Beck called the meeting to order at 5:00 p.m. with five (5) members present constituting a quorum. Approval of Regular Open Session Minutes of December 16, 2015. Minutes Chair Beck called for a motion to approve the meeting minutes. Ms. Ignacio- Neumiller moved to approve the meeting minutes of December 16, 2015, Ms. Cabal- Trinidad seconded the motion. Motion carried 5:0 Business Discussion and possible decision - making on future events including, but CSW 2015 -05 not limited to: Rise of the Wahine Film Event Chair Beck: Jenai is on her way here, but she is stuck in traffic on the Kapa`a by -pass road. But in the meantime, she will report that just before Christmas she spoke to Heidi Schmitz, Administrative Assistant to the CEO at Nike, and was informed by her that she was going to help find the person to address the issue which she thinks is a great marketing opportunity for Nike. Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 Page 2 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION She also thought that maybe Nike could fund an event here on Kauai as a kick -off project, but that's all speculative because we didn't ask them for money; we asked them if they wanted to take this on because she feels it is the committee's mission to outsource all of this stuff. As you all know, we have certain roles and missions that we're supposed to be fulfilling and we need to make sure we do that. Given that the film is not yet ready for release and because there hasn't been a lot of forward progress... later on, when we get to the announcements I will share with all of you my suggestion on what we could do so that we have a project where we can use our funds in a timely manner and complete the same goal and perhaps then later on we can revisit the Rise of the Wahine when they have something ready to release because at this moment, we are stuck in limbo. With that said, can I call for a motion to postpone the activity on the Rise of the Wahine film event? Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: Do we need a motion for that? Administrator Furfaro: Madame Chair, if you want to defer this item you may want to specify a date; perhaps in two months. Chair Beck: Okay. Administrator Furfaro: Or you can just flat out receive it and put it on as a new agenda item. Chair Beck: Okay, I would prefer to have it deferred for two (2) months until after the Women's History event, and if that's agreeable with everyone, I will need a motion to that effect. Committee on the Status of Women - Advisory Committee Regular Open Session - January 20, 2016 Page 3 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Ms. Lasker: I move that we defer the Rise of the Wahine project for two (2) months after our Women's History month event or until we have more information. Chair Beck: Is there a second? Ms.Ignacio- Nuemiller: Second. Chair Beck: All those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying aye. Opposed? Hearing none. The motion carries 5:0. 2016 Career Day Event Chair Beck: Okay, the next agenda item is the Career Day event which is on- going. I sent out an updated version of my Career Day notebook which you received as a notebook binder with tabbed sections of each activity. Or if you prefer, you can go to the menu on your computer and hit view and you can see it as a regular document. But it is useful to have the tabs and the resources for each section, which I will send to you as an updated version as updates comes in. Jenai should be here shortly but we are making good progress. So we do have our speakers confirmed with the exception of Eileen Conaty because currently there is a mission scheduled for that date, but there is slippage on all of these missions so it all depends. But we do have our other speakers confirmed and currently we have on this beautiful (thank you very much Lisa) program Tessa McSwain, a social media expert at the National Tropical Botanical Gardens. We have Abbey and Kuulei Santos. Abbey is the owner of the No Ka Oi Landscape Service with her husband Frank. Kuulei Santos is her daughter and they are dynamic team. Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 __ , SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Kuulei Santos is a salt maker expert at the Hanapepe Salt Pond who has taken over for her father. We have Erika Valente the owner of Kalapaki Joes as an entrepreneur and we have Senior Radar Engineer Eileen Conaty from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in Mans. She is a maybe but with Abbey and Kuulei, we would actually have four (4) people either way. Teresa Tico has agreed to be our keynote speaker, which is fantastic. She has been doing a lot of amazing things like making a documentary film. I have received from her (which we can address that at a later time) a film called Miss South Pacific — beauty and the sea. It is a story about the Miss South Pacific contest where participants from the different Polynesian island nations decided they wanted to use climate change. They wanted to do their dances and they wanted everyone to tell the world that their islands are sinking and that they are losing things. It's a very moving, beautiful and courageous film and it is particularly significant because these women are using this as their platform... they have the ability to speak out not to just say oh, I want to be a heart surgeon or I'm going to be a pediatrician and want to save the world. Pardon me, but those goals are small given what is going on in the world today. These women are trying to save their country. So I have received her permission to have a one -time (free) showing in a venue of our choice, which tells you what type of person Teri is. Ms. Yoshii arrived at 5:09 p.m. Chair Beck: Jenai is here and she can tell you more about... Ms. Yoshii: I'm sorry for being late. Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 Page 5 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Ms. Smith: Traffic. Ms. Yoshii: Yes, the by -pass was interesting. Chair Beck: Okay, Jenai you can give your report in just a moment. So from what I understand, we are in the process of getting all of our financing confirmed to cover the sponsorships for all of the girls. We don't have the final head count yet and the schools are wrestling with the transportation issue because we made it clear to them that it will be their kuleana. Ms. Cabal- Trinidad: Chair, in regards to Kauai High School, I don't have the names of the girls yet, but I did invite their counselors to serve as the girls' guardians. I was able to get funding for all of the girls; maybe twelve. However, he did not commit and he wants to see... but I did mention to him that we needed help with some funding. Chair Beck: Okay, so we have Kauai High School and we have Island School covered through Mokihana for ten people. We have Waimea High School covered through a donor who is going to send her check to the YWCA so she can get a tax write -off and in turn, the YWCA will make the check out to Aqua Kauai Beach Resort. Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: Chair, there are a few more you listed here. Is this the charter schools? Chair Beck: Yes, excuse me, there are two (2) charter schools. Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: They have donors (inaudible). Chair Beck: The Anahola School has a donor and they have a van. I will ask them how big the van is in case they are able to bring more students but Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 0M. SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION that's really their kuleana. We want to be very careful what we get involved in. Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: What is the other one here? Chair Beck: It's the Kekaha Aupuni Kahelalani Aloha. Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: So that's two more. So that's seven (7)? Chair Beck: Yes, that would be a total of seven (7) from the Charter Schools; maximum. Ms.Ignacio- Neumiller: Yes. Chair Beck: The Anahola School may bring in more because they also want to bring their counselor or their principal, which will be included in the count so that we are not over flowing. Ms. Lasker: Chair, I want to clarify that we do have funding established for all three high schools ... Kaua`i High School, Island School, Waimea High School, including the Charter Schools. Is that correct? Chair Beck: That is correct. Ms. Lasker: Thank you. Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: And Kapa`a ... did you say that? Ms. Yoshii: Kapa`a ... Title Guarantee would like to sponsor, but they want to know if they can put their company logo on something like the brochure or tool kit... you know the bags. I don't know if there are limitations with Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 Page 7 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION that. Chair Beck: Perhaps on the brochure. Ms. Yoshii: She asked if we could put it on the brochure and I said I will have to check tonight and will let her know. Chair Beck: Are we allowed to do that? Ms.Omo: Yes, Ms. Yoshii: I know that we can put things into the bags from businesses, but in terms of printing the logos. Ms. Omo: On the back of the draft flyer, it mentions the Mokihana Club as one of the sponsors. Ms. Smith: Can you email me their logo so that I can add it in? Ms. Yoshii: Okay. The Lions Club is also interested, but they will not know until February. But if we are secured with just Title Guarantee, it sounds like we're done. Chair Beck: We have the commitment if we can use it. I was going to pay for the two (2) girls from Kekaha; Kanaka is what they call their school because it's such a long name. But if we have funding, I would prefer not to as I am already funding a speaker. We need to discuss funding for the different speakers' lunches as well. Committee on the Status of Women - Advisory Committee Regular Open Session - January 20, 2016 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Ms. Ignacio- Neumiller: Erika said she would be able to donate or provide funding for five (5) students but she's not here so... Chair Beck: So we could use that money for the Charter students. Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: Yes, that's what she was going to do. Ms. Yoshii: Yes, I'll be willing, too. Ms. Cabal- Trinidad: Bank of Hawaii said if we sent a request to Sonia Topenio, she would be willing to sponsor as well. Chair Beck: I just want to highlight somethings we have really activated ourselves compared to last year. I really love this because everyone has pitched in and a lot of really good forward progress has been made, so it's not a last minute crunch. Plus, we are fulfilling our mission by educating the community and the organizations that these are some of the issues they need to step up and help take care of. This year, I didn't even have to go to talk to Waimea. I just sent them an email saying that I'm going to the meeting tonight and he said you don't need to come, we have decided to give you the money. So all of the work that each one of you are doing is going to have long -term benefits because once we get people to support the Committee on the Status of Women, it will make it so much easier to move into the next event because we are doing things they want to see happen in the community. Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: Could I also suggest that if we have leftover money from the people that are stepping up, if they could sponsor the speakers' lunches. Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Chair Beck: Yes. Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: Students first and then rollover to the speakers. Ms. Smith: Chair, may I ask Liza a question? Chair Beck: Of course. Ms. Smith: When you get the confirmation from BOH, can you please let me know so I can add it to the brochure including all of the icons? Ms. Cabal- Trinidad: Yes. Ms. Smith: I think it will work better than just the names. Ms. Cabal- Trinidad: My next question; what about (inaudible) you know Dr. Diaz wants to sponsor two (2) of the girls ... I mean he's willing to sponsor two (2) of the girls .... so with these individual people, can we put their names on the brochure as well? Ms. Crowell: Lisa Ellen, did you hear her question? Can you repeat that Liza? Ms. Smith: Any names that you want to add I'll be more than happy to put it on the brochure; just let me know. Ms. Cabal - Trinidad: Okay. Chair Beck: Do we need to vote on this? Ms.Omo: No. Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 Page 10 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Chair Beck: The other thing is after we're done, we should write a really nice article about what we've done and mention in the article that this was a community activity that was sponsored by the community under the Committee on the Status of Women. Ms. Smith: Chair, real quick, I'm just being weird on my editing. I can shrink this up on this page right under the island of Kauai icon that way I can add more people. These are the people who are going to be sponsors and I want to have their names in big letters. Chair Beck: Pardon me, but we could shrink the island of Kaua` i because everyone recognizes that icon. Ms. Smith: Yes, I was hoping just to get the outline. I have to do more photo shop work just to get the outline so that the.... Chair Beck: I'd just take a satellite picture of the whole island... Ms. Smith: I know, but I would like to do more photo shop and make it so there's just the outline then you can see through it ... which will make it look better. Chair Beck: I'm so thrilled that you're doing it. Ms. Smith: No problem. And if there's anything you ladies would like to edit, please let me know. I read a bunch of stuff about Teresa Tico and I said close to forty years since it was thirty- eight. Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 Page 11 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Chair Beck: That's fine. Lisa Ellen was gracious enough, as well as Mercedes, to make this actually happen. This is a copy of the invitation that will be given to the schools. I made it clear to the schools that this is not a flyer; it is a limited addition. I also made these little things on the bottom for the girls just to (inaudible). Another important business matter (and as always Mercedes is right to the point), we have a non - refundable deposit of $500.00 that was originally due on January 18th. Ms. Omo: I just need Jenai's payment today then I can go to Kauai Beach Resort tomorrow and give Ms. Cera the full deposit. Chair Beck: As a reminder, the remaining balance is due on February 12th. All of you who are interacting with your sponsors about their donation, we need to get those funds to Mercedes no later than February 11 t' so there's no hassle at the last minute. Can you all do that? Members: Yes. Chair Beck: Lisa Ellen. Ms. Smith: Is this event open to the public or people that are interested in attending? One of my girlfriends who is a Teen Court Manager was like oh, my gosh, I want to support this. I said, I don't know I have to find out. Ms. Yoshii: Are we limited in... Chair Beck: I think at this point, because of the head count, the size of the room and the group's dynamics, we need to limit the count just to the students, counselors, speakers and the committee because the event is Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 Page 12 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION growing. Maybe next year we can have it at a different venue, but it's good to know that the people out there is aware of it. Okay, so everyone got the February 11 m date (very important date) to submit the money to Mercedes so that she can do this on time. Ms. Lasker: Do the members have to agree to close the event to the public in terms of a motion? I think the committee needs to make these type of decisions as a whole because we all have to be in agreement and if we are in agreement, a motion needs to go forth unless I'm wrong about that. Chair Beck: I believe that the motion needs to be made by Lisa Ellen. Ms. Smith: Chair, I'm not allowed to make motions. Chair Beck: Right, you're an Ex- Officio. So a motion needs to be made by a member to allow other people to attend the event than the original designees. So would that have to be the motion because it's a new proposition? Right. Ms. Smith: It was just a question from your Ex- Officio. Chair Beck: You're better than I am on the points of order, Sharon. Ms. Lasker: I know just enough to get me into trouble, Chair. (Laughter) Chair Beck: And I don't know enough to get myself into trouble. Ms. Smith: I don't think that a motion needs to be made, but I definitely can be corrected by Mr. Furfaro. Committee on the Status of Women - Advisory Committee Regular Open Session - January 20, 2016 Page 13 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Administrator Furfaro: Either way. But because there is some discussion on it, I suggest we have a motion and let the majority agree. Chair Beck: Okay, would someone make the motion? Ms. Lasker: I move that we keep this year's event closed to the public and only invite the student, counselors, speakers and the committee. Ms.Ignacio- Neumiller: Second. Chair Beck: All those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying aye. Opposed? Hearing none. The motion carries 6:0 Ms. Cabal- Trinidad: One more question, Chair, for Mercedes. The room rental is it still $200.00? Ms. Omo: The total came out to $250.00 which includes a service charge and tax. Ms. Cabal - Trinidad: Okay. The room fee was decreased to $200.00 that was the agreement. Ms. Omo: They added on service charge and tax. Ms. Cabal- Trinidad: Okay. Chair Beck: Is there any more discussion on the Career Day event? Ms. Yoshii: The Kapa`a High School counselors asked me about transportation for the girls because they cannot drive themselves. They also mentioned that the last time Regina drove I'm assuming a passenger Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 Page 14 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION van) the girls to the event, so I wanted to see what we can or cannot do ...I mean, I can drive them. Ms. Smith: I volunteered last year to drive and we went from Waimea to Kapa`a, and back. I'm happy to drive again. Ms. Yoshii: Okay, I'm just thinking if there's seven (7) girls that need transportation we can use my vehicle and another one. Chair Beck: It's possible that the Anahola Charter School (because they have their own van) might be willing to take additional passengers. But I don't know anything about liability between the schools. Ms. Yoshii: I was just thinking about that. Chair Beck: All of you need to be aware of liability issues. I have, with me, copies of the County's liability waiver form that must be signed by the girls' parents and returned back to Mercedes before the event. I asked Waimea and Kauai High Schools if they could be responsible for their own transportation and I even suggested to them to have the parents of the girls volunteer to cover that. Ms. Yoshii: Yes. So do we need the students to fill out the waiver form prior? Ms. Omo: Not the student... the parents. Ms. Yoshii: Okay. Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 Page 15 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: Chair, I have one more thing maybe a couple weeks before the meeting... do you still want Dennis Fujimoto there to take photos during the Career Day event? Chair Beck: I think we had a discussion about that. Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: Okay. Chair Beck: I believe it was Erika Valente. I can't remember if it was for this event or the Women's History event to see if she could find someone to video tape the event so that we can have it shown on public television. Ms. Yoshii: It was for the Women's History Month. Chair Beck: Okay. Are you going to communicate with Dennis Fujimoto? Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: I will. Chair Beck: Thank you very much. I'm going to prepare a handout for the schools to use as an activity for the girls if they so do choose. It will be more than just an evaluation. It will be something that will give the girls personal introspection and feedback on the event which they could get credit for that way they would have to pay attention. The school counselors can either use it or create one of their own because usually when you give somebody something like this, they will write something on it, so let them do their own. But I think that we can make the feedback portion of it more effective. Another possibility, I would like bring up only because we won't have another meeting before the event right which is on the 19'h. Do we meet before then? I think it's the 16t'- Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Logistically speaking, the room Mercedes got for us,,, what may work. ...there are two (2) possibilities to consider. One of which is because the girls are already on staggered, we could have the speakers move from table to table during the breakout sessions, and to make things more chaotic, we could give each girl a different color card and depending on the color, we would have them sit at a different table so they wouldn't just stick to their best friend. Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: I like that idea. Ms. Yoshii: I like that idea, too. It's a little bit of trouble and its extra staff, but I think it would be good. Ms. Smith: They all want to sit together ... all the Westside girls wanted to sit together and we had to get them up, say okay, you're going to sit over there. So this is a much better way to maneuver the girls. Chair Beck: Maybe we could have them put their cellphones in their goody bags /toolkit. It occurred to me that calling it a goody bag sounds like they are going to a kid's birthday party .... if we put in some things like pampering items. Savita was kind enough to donate some lipsticks? Ms. Smith: All kinds of stuff. Chair Beck: You know, we should put in things that are encouraging. Perhaps some leadership traits where they would have to use their brain; things we want for the schools. I have no idea what the items are, but I will go out and scout around, so if any one of you have ideas. We could make it like an enrichment... so it fills the goody bag that's a little more adult. Committee on the Status of Women - Advisory Committee Regular Open Session - January 20, 2016 Page 17 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Ms. Crowell: What about calling it a gift bag? Chair Beck: It could be a gift bag, but I really like the idea of something along ... you guys can think of a better name than I. The thing that came to mine is a toolkit, and I don't mean that they should be pipefitters or carpenters. The tools I'm talking about is for living, so I'm going to look for some booklets that are inexpensive, but we can re- address it at the next meeting. Also, I think that the girls should put their cellphones in their own gift bags with their names on it and held until the end of the event that way there would be no cellphone distraction. Ms. Yoshii: Were the girls asked last year to put their cellphones away? Chair Beck: No, we were completely stupid. Ms. Smith: That was a learning curve. Chair Beck: Yes, it was. We were ignorant of the power of the cellphone. Yes, please. Ms. Renae Hamilton: For the record, Renae Hamilton, YWCA Executive Director. We have a scholarship and I would like to ask if it would be alright if I brought copies of the scholarship forms for the girls to go into their toolkits /gift bags. Chair Beck: Absolutely. Ms. Hamilton: One of the girls who attended last year was the recipient of our scholarship. Committee on the Status of Women - Advisory Committee Regular Open Session - January 20, 2016 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Ms. Smith: Who? Ms. Hamilton: Jenna Snow. She was a student from Kapa`a High School. Chair Beck: Right, that's good. Ms. Hamilton: It was a $1000.00 scholarship. When would I need to get the forms to the members? Ms. Yoshii: Our next meeting is on the 17''. Ms. Smith: I suggest we probably should spend a little more time putting all of the stuff together on the 17''. Chair Beck: After the meeting. Ms. Hamilton: Okay, so I'll bring it... Chair Beck: If we have it by the 17'', we would be thrilled. Ms. Hamilton: How many girls are you...? Chair Beck: I will give you a head count later; we are anticipating fifty (50). Ms. Hamilton: That's awesome. Thank you. Chair Beck: Renae, thank you for always being a champion for women. Ms. Hamilton: My pleasure ... m assion. Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 Page 19 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Chair Beck: Is there anything further on this? Ms. Lasker: Do have committees that we need to hone in on for the day of, such as set -up and decorations? Because I think if we waited until the 17' to decide, it will be too late. Chair Beck: Good point. Ms. Lasker: I'd be happy to help with the set -up and decorating, and even volunteer to be in charge unless someone else... Is everyone okay with that? Of course it would be nice to have another person formally to help with the set -up. Ms. Yoshii: I'll help... absolutely. Ms. Smith: If I have to drive, I can't, and if not, I will. Ms. Yoshii: Set -up would be... Ms. Smith: In the morning. Chair Beck: I have some semi - unlimited plant materials if we need them. Ms. Lasker: That's what I had in mind. Ms. Smith: So we should have at least seven (7) tables? Chair Beck: The way things are going, yes. So we have the new problem, the problem of success. Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 • #, SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Ms. Cabal- Trinidad: Do we have leis for the speakers? Chair Beck: What did we do the last time? Did we provide them? Ms. Cabal- Trinidad: Yes. Chair Beck: Do we have the funds? Ms. Omo: You didn't budget for the leis. Chair Beck: So we don't have a budget for this year. So perhaps... Ms. Cabal - Trinidad: If it's okay with you, I can donate the flower leis for the speakers. Chair Beck: That would be lovely, Liza. Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: We have six (6) speakers. If Eileen doesn't come we will have five (5). Chair Beck: I was kind of looking at if Eileen doesn't. But if we have one more, I can donate a lei for her and pay for her lunch. Ms. Cabal- Trinidad: I'll sponsor five (5) leis. Chair Beck: Five (5) leis sponsored by Ms. Liza. Thank you so much. I'm so excited. This is going to be great. Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: I can help with set -up, too. Chair Beck: Is there any further discussion on this item? Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 Page 21 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Ms. Smith: Program/timeline. I threw something together, but maybe this could be done via email. Whoever wants to provide input for this part right here... I just threw some stuff in the meet and greet. Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: Do you have last year's? Ms. Smith: Yes. It's in the email. Chair Beck: With your permission, Lisa Ellen and I will go over the program from last year, tweak it to the new timeline, and then we'll send to Mercedes who will forward it to all of you so you can include your own input. Ms. Smith: Thank you, Virginia that would be good. Chair Beck: Okay, so you'll remind me. Ms. Smith: You remind me and I'll remind you. Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: Is there a deadline? Chair Beck: We'll have it by the 17d. Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: No, the input. Chair Beck: Yes, when we get the input, yes. It will probably be a 24 -hour turnaround. Ms. Yoshii: I just have one correction. The name is spelled No Ka Oi Landscaping Services. Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 Page 22 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Ms. Smith: When I looked it up on the website, it showed Na Ko Oi. But it could be No Ka Oi. I'll fix it. Chair Beck: Okay. Ms. Cabal- Trinidad: Do you want the girls to have name tags or do you want name tags for everyone? Chair Beck: I think we need nametags; however, given the changing headcount... last year Waimea committed to ten (10) girls, but at the last minute three (3) of the girls couldn't make it. I think we should have the girls do their own nametags. Ms. Smith: I agree. Ms. Cabal- Trinidad: So should we bring the labels? Chair Beck: Yes, I have some labels. Is there anything further on this item? Are we complete? Okay. Moving on. 2016 Women's History Month Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: Chair, I invited Renae Hamilton today because at a previous meeting, she agreed to be a co- sponsor for the Women's History Month. I know we have budgeted for some things. Mercedes, can you refresh my memory? I know we already budgeted for food, advertisement and venue, except the leis for the speakers. Chair Beck: At the last meeting, we discussed inviting a group of women from different ethnic backgrounds to speak for ten (10) minutes about what it's like to be a woman on Kauai. So far I was able to connect with Jenny Yukimura and Leiana Robertson who, along with Alicia Kaohi, said Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 Page 23 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION something about bringing someone from Niihau. I wasn't able to reach Josephine Duvachelle or Ulu Green, but I heard she was in a Care Home so she's probably not going come. But I was able to connect with Hawaiian Cultural expert Malia Chun. Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: Was Sabra Kauka not available? Chair Beck: Sabra was not available, but she gave me the names of two (2) kupuna's; one of which is Janet Kahalekomo and another person. Ideally, the program should last for an hour followed by refreshments. It also occurred to me that the Historical Society might be able to provide the refreshments if we ask them, being its Women's History Month. Do we need that? Ms. Omo: The committee has already budgeted $200.00 for the refreshments. Chair Beck: That's plenty. Ms. Omo: In addition, the committee budgeted $400.00 for advertisement and $200.00 to cover the cost of renting the venue. Chair Beck: Okay. Maybe next year we can ask the Historical Society just to some save money. Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: Since you didn't get a hold of Josephine Duvachelle, we also have Sonia Topenio as a backup. Kathy was supposed follow -up with that. Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Ms. Crowell: And Liza. I told her that Liza and I was with the committee and are working together to see if she could be a speaker. Chair Beck: That's great. Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: Okay, so we are going to shoot for Sonia. Ms. Cabal- Trinidad: And if she's not available, I have another person. Ms. Ignacio- Neumiller: Who is that? Ms. Cabal- Trinidad: Norma. Her mom is the owner of the first Care Home here in Hawaii. Norma Doctor - Sparks. Chair Cabal- Trinidad: That would be great. Chair Beck: Okay, the date is set for March 9, 2016. Ms. Smith: If we are able to get the flyers done before the Career Day event, we can place the flyer in the toolkit or gift bags. Even though we have a couple of speakers, we can still do a half sheet. Chair Beck: Some of these women may be older. Do they have a microphone? Ms. Smith: They had a podium. Ms. Omo: All of the audio equipment, including the podium, came from the County. I'll set up the equipment (sound system), including the podium, earlier in the day. Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 Page 25 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Ms. Renae Hamilton: For the record, Renae Hamilton from the YWCA. Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: Would the leis be appropriate for you to sponsor? We'll put your logo on the flyer. Ms. Hamilton: Sure. Just let me know. Another thing that I would like to offer once all of the speakers are confirmed, we can introduce them on our weekly radio broadcast show. It's a half an hour radio show leading up to the event and after the event just to keep the conversation going. Ms. Lasker: Didn't we do that last year? Ms. Hamilton: Yes, so whoever wants to come, please bring your speaker(s) or someone from the committee. We also can do anything social media wise to help out as well. Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: Great. Once we get the flyer, we will share it with you. Ms. Hamilton: Absolutely. Chair Beck: Do you have women at the YWCA who might want to do a video? Ms. Hamilton: To video tape it? Chair Beck: Yes, to do a video of the event because it occurred to me when we put forward so much energy to create something, if it gets videoed and it got put on Hoike, we will have it forever. Some of these women are going to disappear; it's like a library going out of existence. Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 Page 26 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: Erika is working on getting that. Chair Beck: You're right, thank you. Sorry. Ms. Hamilton: If that doesn't work, let me know and I can look around. Chair Beck: But redundancy would be good. It sounds as though we are in good shape. Ms. Ignacio- Neumiller: Once we get the speakers confirmed, we should get their photo and bio so that Lisa Ellen can work on placing it on the flyer. Ms. Smith: I'm happy to do it, but if someone else wants to do the flyers, I'm not opposed to it, nor am I the dictator of the flyer. Chair Beck: We love your work. We'll get the flyers in time for it to go into the toolkit or gift bag. Ms. Smith: Even if it's just a Save the Date, we can do the real flyer at a later time. Ms. Hamilton: Edie, will you be my point of contact for the radio show? To let me know if anybody wants to come. Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: Sure. If anybody wants to be on the radio, let me know. Ms. Hamilton: We record either Thursday's or Friday's and it airs on Saturday morning. Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 Page 27 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Chair Beck: Okay, we are complete with this. Renae, thank you for all of your support. Ms. Hamilton: Off the topic, I just want to share a flyer on the Women's Financial Conference which is coming up on Friday, January 291'. I'll just leave a few posters. Thank you. 2016 April Equal Pay Day Chair Beck: Okay, moving on. The April Equal Pay Day. This is for the selection of a date and time and a mayoral proclamation. Is the Equal Pay Day already established? Is there a date that has already been established? Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: I think it's nationally, but I don't know the date. Ms. Smith: It changes every year because of how many days there are in the year... its April because that's long it takes women to equal ... give me a second and I can look it up. Chair Beck: I have a request that we consider (when we get the date from Lisa Ellen) that we consider deferring this... Ms. Smith: It's April 171i. Chair Beck: To the next meeting or maybe even to the March meeting. Ms. Lasker: I move that we defer the Equal Pay Day event to the March meeting. Ms.Ignacio- Neumiller: Second. Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Chair Beck: All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Opposed? Hearing none. The motion carries 6:0 CSW 2015 -07 Report from HSCSW Kauai Representative Lisa Ellen Smith on the 2016 National Association of Commissions for Women Conference to be held on Oahu next year from July 16 — 21, 2016, and other pertinent updates. (On- going) Ms. Smith: I just received an email today for Mercedes to send out to all of you, but currently, the dates are July 16 -21. We are looking right now for sponsorships and I will read the email real quick. As I said, I just got it from Catherine Betts today and will send it out to Mercedes, but not till later. There is a sponsorship packet and potential, as well as a Save the Date flyer that will be going out to you guys tomorrow because I decided to just send it to Mercedes. I don't have another update other than we are still working on getting sponsorships; anybody that will be interested because we would like attendance and participants from the outer islands. I will know more next week after Thursday; Thursday is the women's legislative caucus breakfast meeting where we discuss all of the bills. I will also be able to send out a spreadsheet with all of the bills on events for this legislative session. Mercedes was really awesome by giving all of you the legislative calendar and as soon as I have the list of bills, I will be asking and begging to please write a letter of support for the bills that will be supported by the Commission on the Status of Women. Individually or as group, however you see fit. There's a lot of bills that's coming up, including (what I think is very important) the Paid Family Leave. I would love it for us to be the first state in the country to have that as a state law. Committee on the Status of Women - Advisory Committee Regular Open Session - January 20, 2016 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Chair Beck: Are you going to give us a heads up on the three (3) most critical ones that we need besides the.... Ms. Smith: I will definitely, and as soon as I have that spreadsheet, I'll sort it and highlight it and track it for the rest of the legislative session. And I guess I have gone on to CSW 2015 -09; therefore, I have nothing more for you today. CSW 2015 -09 Discussion on responding to acting on State Legislative Bills during the 2016 legislature session. (On- going) Administrator Furfaro: Madame Chair, may I ask that you copy our office on the bills that you wish to have tracked? I regularly will be tracking all of the bills for the county, so I would like to know which ones you are interested in. Ms. Smith: I'll forward the list to you or Mercedes... it's going to be the same list from the women's legislative caucus. Administrator Furfaro: Okay. Chair Beck: Alright, are we complete with that? Ms. Smith: Yes, I'm good. Chair Beck: So we have actually covered both agenda items. CSW 2016 -01 Discussion and possible decision - making on partnering with other organizations on doing a Powerpoint presentation in the community that reflects the Committee's mission statement. Committee on the Status of Women - Advisory Committee Regular Open Session - January 20, 2016 Page 30 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Chair Beck: This last item is about a discussion on making presentations to other organizations within the community relating to women's issues. It occurred to me that we are gathering useful data that can be a resource for the community and to make community organizations more aware of the existence and the function of the Committee on the Status of Women. I find it a missed opportunity that there are so many empty chairs in this room, and I think there are many more women who are interested so by making people more aware we would help everybody and make this organization more useful. One of the things that we can do is the things we discussed about videoing things and putting it on Hoike because people will see it there. But we could also do outreach for the different wants of us ... we are already doing outreach in a Kauai style where you talk to the people who are in the club that you're in or your own "`Ohana. We could have more formalized presentations such as the equal pay you know, having people go to the rotaries; this is why equal pay is important. Your wife needs it, your daughters needs it ... half the people on Kauai are not getting equal pay. The shocking statistic is even though women I think are 46% of all the attorneys graduating school only 5% become management partners and less than 12% become equity partners. It's just over and over again. So, I think it's really important and part of our mission that we go back to organizations and make talking points so that for example, Lisa Ellen who spends a lot of time studying these issues could come up with five (5) talking points. And you go to your church group... Suzanne could go back to Mokihana .... we could go to the rotary ... we could go to Zonta and say the Committee on the Status of Women has been really looking into this thanks to our earth well state representative and we want the community to Committee on the Status of Women - Advisory Committee Regular Open Session - January 20, 2016 Page 31 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION consider that this is an issue for everyone. So, I think that's one thing that we could do. Ms. Smith: You have been gathering data ... we did have quite a lengthy discussion with the DHS Representative and Malia who is the attorney for the DHS (Rachel Wong's right hand) about the data that has been collected and about how it's not easy to shift through and how important it is. So, I really wanted to thank you Chair for putting those questions forward. Virginia started asking questions for data from DHS through CSW and then HSCSW about a year ago, and it's taken constant emails and trying to pull out. Its public data and so we are still trying to and I wanted to say real quickly because of your efforts ... there was a big topic of discussion on how the data needs to be better qualified. Chair Beck: So the community can use it. Ms. Smith: Yes. Chair Beck: The data that I asked for was for three (3) numbers for two (2) populations of women. Women fifteen (15) to nineteen (19) and women twenty (20) to hundred (100). How many women are on food stamps; how many women are getting welfare; and how many women are getting housing subsides. You know, our legislators /county council talks about making plans for this community but nobody really has any idea of the demographics or what we're dealing or what the community needs. So getting clear on some of these things will help us make better strategic plans and leverage the little bits of financing we have to everyone's benefit. I'm still at work on this Powerpoint that I sent you some of you that I have not sent Did I send it .... Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 Page 32 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION to you Jay? Administrator Jay: I don't remember seeing it at all. Ms. Smith: You'd remember it; it's huge. Chair Beck: I'm sorry it's clucky... it's good but it's still clunky and needs to be cleaned up. So, if anybody sees anything that's erroneous or if you have better information let me know and I'll clean it up. It's a draft so do not distribute it to the world in general because it's a draft. But once we get it done it will be something that the community can have in common so that everyone can have access to the data so we can all make better decisions and better planning. Some of the numbers are jaw- dropping in terms of planning for the future. Okay, so that was one thing the other thing is it's possible that the Committee on the Status of Women could sponsor events that cost us zero money; that would cost us a little of bit of energy and collaboration with another organization. So that when we get a Teri Tico who's willing to share a first class film of outstanding proportions for free that we can say okay, here is an event that's going to happen in the community and we need someone to sponsor the payment for the Performing Arts Center or the Waimea Theater. So we have the resources to educate our community. The Financial Empowerment Workshop that Renae is putting on is really wonderful; there's a Charles Swabb representative coming and I said I think you need to give us some materials so that we can give these young teens to start saving now because your lives depends on it. You know, Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 Page 33 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION there are things that we can do that won't cost money but will cost a little bit of effort and it won't take a lot of logistics and set -up. But we can just say okay, at the moment I have the Hanapepe Library meeting room reserve one Saturday of every month for the rest of the year. Typically, I'd use it for various health things but that is booked so if there were other things we wanted to do in that time for the community we could do it. These girls need help and they all will be taking care of all us some day so they better know how to do it. Lastly, but not least, Ms. Savita would you care to share some more about your workshop that's coming up. Ms. Agarwal: Thursday, January 28, 2016, is the date of my next Tool Belt Empowerment series. Every workshop will have different things and different tools which I will be discussing and talking about. I would like to encourage all your friends to come and enjoy it. It's free to the public and starts 5:30 and ends at 6:30 p.m. at the YWCA Facility in Lihu`e. YWCA has been very gracious and kind to offer the use of their room. Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: I just want to let you know that it's been on Facebook and I think it's also on the PSA's or at least has been distributed to the media. Ms. Smith: Yes, as of today because I saw it posted. Chair Beck: And I been sending it via email and Facebook tool. so, Ms. Agarwal: Thank you everybody. Ms. Smith: Savita and I was having coffee one day and we ran into a young man who I know through my other work but as a social worker and Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 Page 34 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION he's like oh...he was all excited. You're the person. ..you're the person who is going to speak ... we're all going to be attending. I don't remember what organization it wasn't through DHS... Ms. Agarwal: I think it was. Ms. Smith: Was it? I think it might have been DHS or it might have been through the HS ... their sending all of their staff to go see her and I just thought that was really great because it is becoming known in the community and we're all excited,. he was excited. I just wanted to share that.. . Ms. Agarwal: Yes, he was excited. Thank you. Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller: I also, emailed about everybody that signed up at all of your workshops ... so I did the email. So, I do that all of the time for Savita's classes. Ms. Agarwal: Thank you Edie. Ms. Ignacio - Nuemiller: Everything that we sponsor. Chair Beck: Savita remind me afterwards to talk to you about OCET at KCC (Kaua`i Community College) about doing a presentation there. Ms. Agarwal: I can do that. Chair Beck: So is there any other business? CSW 2016 -09 Discussion and the possible decision - making on having a one -time showing of a film produced by Hawaii based attorney Teresa Tico called Miss South Pacific in glace of the film Rise of the Wahine. Committee on the Status of Women — Advisory Committee Regular Open Session — January 20, 2016 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Announcements • Next meeting — February 17, 2016, at 5:00 p.m. at the Mo'ikeha Building, Meeting Room 2A/2B. • Tickets are still on sale for The Zonta Club 23`d "Eat Dessert First" event to be held on February 11, 2016, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Kauai Beach Resort. Cost: $25 in advance and $30 at the door ($15 tax deductible). • Women's Financial Empowerment Conference - Ms. Ignacio - Neumiller will be one of panel interview speakers at the conference. • Ms. Lasker announced on same night as Eat Dessert First will be the next Kupuna Family Bingo at Kukui Grove of which all proceeds will be benefiting Relay for Life. • The next Chamber of Commerce business after hours will be held on February 9, 2016. KONG Radio is s onsorm the event. Adjournment With no further announcements, At 6 p.m. Chair Beck declared the meeting adjourned. Submitted by: Mercedes Omo, Staff Support Clerk () Approved as circulated on: () Approved as amended. See minutes of meeting. Reviewed and Approved by: Virginia Beck, Chair