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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2018_0516_CSW_Minutes_Open_ApprovedCOUNTY OF KAUAI Minutes of Meeting OPEN SESSION Board/Committee: Committee on the Status of Women Meeting Date May 16, 2018 Location Mo'ikeha Building, Liquor Conference Room 3 Start of Meeting: 5:00 p.m. End of Meeting: 6:09 p.m. Present Vice Chair Edith Ignacio-Neumiller. Secretary Wendy Martinez. Treasurer Erika Valente. Members: Jamie Bucao, Regina Carvalho (arrived at 5: 03 p.m.), Kathy Crowell, Sharon Lasker (left at 6: 06 p.m). Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women Kauai Representative Lisa Ellen Smith. Deputy County Attorney Mahealani Krafft. Boards and Commissions Staff: Commission Support Clerk Sandra Muragin. Excused Chair Patricia Wistinghausen and Administrator Nicholas R. Courson. Absent SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Call To Order Vice Chair Ignacio-Neumiller called the meeting to order at 5:00 p.m. with six members resent constituting a quorum. Approval of Open Session Minutes of April 18, 2018 Minutes Ms. Bucao directed the Committee to page two, CSW 2018-06, and said she should have recused herself from voting since she is an employee of the YWCA. She explained that she remained silent when the vote was taken, and asked if the motion carried could be changed to 6:1 instead of 7:0. Deputy County Attorney Mahealani Krafft said the motion stands as is. Ms. Bucao promised to recuse herself from all future YWCA discussions. Ms. Lasker moved to approve the Open Session Minutes of April 18, 2018, as circulated. Ms. Martinez seconded the motion. Motion carried 6:0. Business CSW 2018-11 Discussion and possible action on the County of Kauai Health and Wellness Fair (Women's Health Month) scheduled Wednesday, September 19, 2018. a. Discussion and possible action to establish a Permitted Interaction Group (PIG) the scope of which to be defined by the Committee. Committee on Status of Women Open Session May 16, 2018 Page 2 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION The Committee debated the feasibility of continuing their participation in the Health and Wellness Fair and considered changing the date to a Saturday to increase public participation. Ms. Smith explained historically, the health fair was held on a weekday to accommodate the County of Kauai employees, and the event was staged in the Civic Center's meeting rooms and breezeway area. Ms. Carvalho said the Mayor normally granted county employees administrative leave, which allowed them time to attend the fair and take care of their health and wellness needs. Ms. Bucao shared that she reviewed last year's discussions and stressed that a lot of work was involved. She advocated Ms. Valente's idea on reinventing Women's Health Month to a social media event as a way to reach a wider audience. Like Ms. Valente, she could not envision public participation during a work week. Life's Choices Prevention Coordinator Maile Murray commented that the Committee was faced with a decision to takeover this event or plan their own separate health fair. Due to other commitments, their office would assume a mentorship role and hand over majority of the responsibility to this Committee. She said the only support they would take care of would be the vendor registration. Ms. Bucao was apprehensive about moving forward with the health fair and indicated there were many health -type events that occurred throughout the year that the Committee could partner with. Ms. Carvalho hoped that the Committee would support and organize the health fair for the Mayor's final year in office and suggested they Ms. Valente motioned to create consider changes next year. a PIG for the Health and Wellness Fair. Ms. Carvalho Ms. Carvalho, Ms. Crowell and Ms. Martinez volunteered to be part of the Permitted seconded the motion. Interaction Group (PIG) and the Committee decided the scope of the PIG would be to determine the date, theme, venue and overall planning of the event. With no further discussion, Vice Chair Ignacio-Neumiller called for the question. Motion carried 7:0. CSW 2018-10 Continued discussion and possible action to expend remaining balance in the Committee on the Status of Women's FY2017/2018 budget. [Discussed 41181181 The Committee reviewed the various logo items and the new yard signs that Chair Wistinghausen suggested they purchase. Ms. Valente proposed the Committee use part of Committee on Status of Women Open Session May 16, 2018 Page 3 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION the remaining balance to sponsor an upcoming community event that would impact young women to which Ms. Bucao suggested sponsorship of 10 young women for next year's Ms. Lasker moved to expend YWCA financial empowerment conference. An inquiry about ADA requirements came up the remaining balance in the and Ms. Krafft said she would look into it. 2017/2018 fiscal year budget and purchase 10 sponsorships to the YWCA 2019 4th Annual Financial Empowerment for Women Conference, yard signs, logo pens and post -it notes. Ms. Carvalho seconded the motion. Motion carried 6:1. Ms. Bucao recused herself from the vote and remained in the room. (recusal: Bucao) CSW 2017-10 Continued discussion and evaluation on Career Day held on Friday, April 6, 2018. [Discussed 41181181 a. Discussion and evaluation on the 2017 Career Day event. b. Continued recap from Committee members. Vice Chair Ignacio-Neumiller drew attention to the student evaluation forms and inquired if the Committee still intended to send them out to the schools that participated for completion. Ms. Martinez said she received the updated evaluation form and emailed it to her contact at Kapa`a High School. She pulled out 10 completed student evaluations that she got in the mail and handed it over to the Committee. Ms. Lasker commented that their window of time expired due to school ending in a couple of weeks. Ms. Bucao was curious to find out the Counselor's assessment on the process of recruiting students, and the Committee agreed that a simple email to gather their feedback on the value of Career Day would be helpful. Ms. Crowell agreed to contact the counselors at Waimea High School and Kanuikapono Charter School. CSW 2018-03 Denim Day Proclamation scheduled with Life Choices Kauai Rotunda Rally on Monday, April 2, 2018, at the County of Kauai Mo`ikeha Building Rotunda, 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. a. Recap from Committee members. Committee on Status of Women Open Session May 16, 2018 Page 4 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Ms. Bucao observed a larger crowd this year; however, she did comment that the Committee purchased too much food. CSW 2018-04 Equal Pay Day scheduled Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at the County of Kauai Mo`ikeha Building Rotunda, 12:30 p.m. a. Recap from Committee members. Vice Chair Ignacio-Neumiller thanked everyone who were able to attend the events. CSW 2018-07 Continued discussion and possible action on establishing a Photo GallerX and Video Archive collection of events and activities on the County of Kauai Committee on the Status of Women website. [Deferred from 3121119, Discussed 41181187 Ms. Lasker moved to defer CSW 2018-07 to the June 20, Vice Chair Ignacio-Neumiller asked to defer this item to the next meeting. 2018, meeting. Ms. Bucao seconded the motion. Motion carried 7:0. CSW 2018-12 Discussion and possible action on the use of Google docs to communicate routine administrative matters. Ms. Lasker moved to defer CSW 2018-12 to the June 20, Vice Chair Ignacio-Neumiller asked to defer this item to the next meeting. 2018, meeting. Ms. Carvalho seconded the motion. Motion carried 7:0. CSW 2018-13 Discussion and possible selection of CSW members to attend the National Association of Commissions for Women (NACW) 48th Annual Conference scheduled for August 1-4, 2018, in Los Angeles, CA. Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women Kauai Representative Lisa Ellen Smith informed the Committee that the state meeting to vote for travel funds for this conference is on tomorrow's agenda and due to work commitments, she will not be in attendance. At the last meeting, the five members who stated they wanted to attend were Chair Wistinghausen, Vice Chair Ignacio-Neumiller, Ms. Valente, Ms. Bucao and Ms. Lasker. Ms. Carvalho suggested that travel funds received for the conference should be split amongst the three Committee on Status of Women Open Session May 16, 2018 Page 5 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION other members since Vice Chair Ignacio-Neumiller and Ms. Lasker attended last year. Vice Chair Ignacio-Neumiller and Ms. Lasker agreed to pay for their own airfare and hotel accommodations. Ms. Smith confirmed that the five registration fees would come out of the Ms. Carvalho moved to allocate travel fund. the HSCSW travel fund to pay the NACW registration fees for Chair Wistinghausen, Vice Chair Ignacio-Neumiller, Ms. Bucao, Ms. Lasker and Ms. Valente, and the remaining funds split equally amongst Chair Wistinghausen, Ms. Bucao and Ms. Valente to fund their airfare and hotel accommodations, and if additional travel funds are needed that they seek assistance from the County. Ms. Bucao seconded the motion. Motion carried 7:0. Announcements 1. Next Meeting: Wednesday, June 20, 2018 — 5:00 p.m., Mo'ikeha Building„ Meeting Room 2A/2B. 2. Announcements and other pertinent updates from Hawaii State on the Status of Women Commission/Kaua`i Representative Lisa Ellen Smith Ms. Smith announced that Executive Director Khara Jabola-Carolus had planned to attend the June or July meeting. She asked if this could be placed on the next agenda to discuss a press release and to gather some community partners for her to meet. Ms. Smith referenced the flyer that was provided earlier seeking nominees for the Young Feminist Leaders Committee and asked Committee members to please share with their contacts. Committee on Status of Women Open Session May 16, 2018 Page 6 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION 3. Kaua`i Drug Court Thirty First Graduation Ceremonyy, Friday, May 10, 2018, Fifth Judicial Circuit -Courtroom 4, 3970 Ka'ana Street, Lihu`e, Hawaii 96766. Ms. Valente and Ms. Bucao volunteered to attend and Ms. Bucao offered to pick up the pizza and lei from the Office of Boards and Commissions at 11:30 a.m. Ms. Carvalho announced Wilcox Medical Center's Girls Night Out event will be taking place tomorrow from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Adjournment Ms. Crowell moved to adjourn the meeting at 6:09 p.m. Ms. Bucao seconded the motion. Motion carried 7:0. Submitted by: Sandra M. Muragin, Commission Support Clerk ( X ) Approved as circulated. 06/20/18 ( ) Approved with amendments. See minutes of meeting. Reviewed and Approved by: Edie Ignacio-Neumiller, Vice Chair