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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2022_0119_CSW_Minutes_Open_Draft.pdf COUNTY OF KAUAI Minutes of Meeting OPEN SESSION Board/Committee: Committee on the Status of Women Meeting Date January 19, 2022 Location Microsoft Teams Teleconference Start of Meeting: 5:02 p.m. End of Meeting: 6:23 p.m. Present Vice Chair Deena Fontana Moraes. Treasurer Darcie Yukimura. Members: Nicole Cristobal, Kathy Crowell, and Monica Kawakami. Hawai‘i State Commission on the Status of Women (HSCSW) Executive Director Khara Jabola Carolus (5:02 p.m. to 6:07 p.m.) and Commissioner Edith Ignacio Neumiller. Office of Boards and Commissions: Administrator Ellen Ching and Commission Support Clerk Sandra Muragin. Excused Chair Regina Carvalho and Secretary Angela Hoover. Absent SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Committee Members Monica Kawakami and Darcie Yukimura were reappointed to serve a second term ending 12/31/25 and New Committee Member Nicole Cristobal was appointed to serve a first term ending 12/31/23. Prior to the meeting being called to order Nicole Cristobal was asked to introduce herself to the members. Ms. Cristobal was born and raised on Kaua‘i and for the past 12 years has committed her studies to understanding women and girls gender equity issues in Hawai‘i. Her goal was to use her extensive educational studies as a service to the community. She was finishing up her PhD on educational administration and policy with a specialized PhD certificate in gender sexuality and women studies. She also double majored in sociology and women’s studies. The commission extended a warm welcome and looked forward to her contributions. Call To Order Roll Call Chair Pro Tem Moraes called the meeting to order in open session at 5:12 p.m. Commission support clerk Sandra Muragin verified attendance and requested a verbal response of present or here; Member Cristobal replied here. Member Crowell replied here. Member Kawakami replied here. Secretary Hoover was excused. Committee on Status of Women Open Session January 19, 2022 Page 2 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Treasurer Yukimura replied present. Vice Chair Moraes replied present. Chair Carvalho was excused. Commissioner Ignacio Neumiller replied here. Introduced Hawai‘i State Commission on the Status of Women Executive Director Khara Jabola-Carolus. Administrator Ching replied present and alone. Commission Support Clerk Muragin replied present and alone. Quorum established with five members present. Public Testimony No one from the public submitted written testimony or logged into the Teams meeting. Business CSW 2022-01 Annual election of officers for calendar year 2022 per Kaua‘i County Committee on the Status of Women By-Laws, Article IV. Organization and Officers, Section 3. Officers and Section 4. Election. a) Nominate a committee member to serve as chair Chair Pro Tem Moraes opened the floor for chair nominations. • Ms. Yukimura nominated Deena Fontana Moraes to serve as chair and Ms. Kawakami seconded the motion. Chair Pro Tem Moraes declined due to work obligations. Ms. Yukimura withdrew her motion and Ms. Kawakami withdrew her second. • Ms. Crowell nominated Monica Kawakami to serve as chair and Ms. Yukimura seconded the motion. Ms. Kawakami declined due to work obligations. Ms. Crowell withdrew her motion and Ms. Yukimura withdrew her second. • Ms. Yukimura nominated Nicole Cristobal to serve as chair and Chair Pro Tem Moraes seconded the motion. Ms. Cristobal declined due to school commitments. Ms. Yukimura withdrew her motion and Chair Pro Tem withdrew her second. • Chair Pro Tem nominated Kathy Crowell to serve as chair. Ms. Crowell declined. Commissioner Ignacio Nuemiller stated that Ms. Hoover was not present at the meeting and Ms. Yukimura nominated Angela Hoover to serve as chair. Ms. Crowell seconded the motion. Roll Call Vote: 5- Ayes 0-Nays. Motion carried 5:0. Committee on Status of Women Open Session January 19, 2022 Page 3 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION may not want to serve as chair. Administrator Ellen Ching replied that if Ms. Hoover declined it would be posted back on the next agenda. b) Nominate a committee member to serve as vice chair Chair Pro Tem Moraes opened the floor for vice chair nominations. c) Nominate a committee member to serve as secretary Chair Pro Tem Moraes opened the floor for secretary d) Nominate a committee member to serve as treasurer. Chair Pro Tem Moraes opened the floor for treasurer • Secretary Yukimura nominated Kathy Crowell to serve as treasurer. Ms. Crowell declined. • Secretary Yukimura nominated Nicole Cristobal to serve as treasurer. Ms. Cristobal declined. In the absence of Chair Hoover and Vice Chair Carvalho, Secretary Yukimura assumed the position of Chair Pro Tem and Chair Pro Tem Moraes assumed the Treasurer position. Chair Pro Tem Moraes nominated Regina Carvalho to serve as vice chair. Ms. Crowell seconded the motion. Roll Call Vote: 5-Ayes 0-Nays. Motion carried 5:0 Ms. Yukimura nominated herself to serve as secretary. Ms. Crowell seconded the motion. Roll Call Vote: 5-Ayes 0-Nays. Motion carried 5:0. Chair Pro Tem Moraes nominated herself to serve as treasurer. Secretary Yukimura seconded the motion. Roll Call Vote: Ayes-5 Nay 0. Motion carried 5:0. Approval of Agenda Treasurer Moraes moved to approve the agenda. Ms. Cristobal seconded the motion. Motion carried 5:0. Approval of A. Open Session Minutes of August 18, 2021. Ms. Cristobal moved to approve Committee on Status of Women Open Session January 19, 2022 Page 4 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Minutes the Open Session minutes of August 18, 2021, as circulated. Treasurer Moraes seconded the motion. Motion carried 5:0. Treasurer’s Report a) 2021-2022 Fiscal Budget 1. Treasurer Moraes to report on the 2nd quarter fiscal budget balance. The fiscal budget had an ending balance of $380.00. b) State Grant M15001 1. Treasurer Moraes to report on the 2nd quarter fiscal budget balance. The ending balance in the state grant was $567.04; no changes from the August 2021 report. c) Logo Inventory update 1. Treasurer Moraes to report on the 2nd quarter logo inventory. No changes from the August 2021 report. Ms. Cristobal moved to approve the treasurer’s 2nd quarter report of the 2021-2022 Fiscal Budget, State Grant M15001 and Logo Inventory update. Ms. Kawakami seconded the motion. Motion carried 5:0. Business Ms. Ching asked that Chair Pro Tem Yukimura move CSW 2021-05 as the next discussion on the agenda. CSW 2022-05 Hawai‘i State Commission on the Status of Women Executive Director Khara Jabola-Carolus to share upcoming bills for the 2022 Legislative session. Ms. Jabola-Carolus shared she was chair of the Hawai‘i’s Women Coalition, a community Committee on Status of Women Open Session January 19, 2022 Page 5 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION table made up of grass roots feminist that engage in balancing policy, gather ideas about problems in their communities and help draft and introduce bills to the legislature. She shared a power point presentation Intersectional Feminist Legislation 2022 that outlined the top bills of the 30 they plan to introduce. She said none of the bills were numbered but they would have them by next week. • Campaign spending used for childcare and eldercare • Menstrual equity in schools • Child support TANF pass-through • Bodies back • The right to exit prostitution • Equal employment for transgender and non-binary people • Access to certified professional midwives Chair Pro Tem Yukimura asked about funding for the menstrual equity in schools. Ms. Jabola Carolus replied that they were researching their options. Commissioner Ignacio Neumiller commented that the Mai movement provided free access to sanitary products to one school on Kaua‘i, Chiefess Kamakahelei Middle School. Chair Pro Tem Yukimura commented that the principals at each school decided if they wanted to provide these items or not and requested a digital copy of the power point and bill list once its developed. Ms. Jabola Carolus shared that the HSCSW was in the planning stage for a statewide conference in July and a date would be confirmed. She was also working with the U.S. Department of Labor Union Women’s Bureau to explore development of a budgeting tool that would track Federal COVID funds that do not have a gender discriminatory impact. It’s in the development stage and Commissioner Ignacio Neumiller would share updates with this committee. CSW 2022-07 Missing Murdered Native Hawaiian Women and Girls’ Task Force a) Share updates from Zoom meetings; August 19, 2021, October 28, 2021, and December 9, 2021. b) Fourth meeting Thursday, February 10, 2022, 12:00 p.m. Committee on Status of Women Open Session January 19, 2022 Page 6 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Ms. Jabola Carolus shared that the task force has met three times and was led by the HSCSW and Office of Hawaiian Affairs. She said they were the only task force led by women and native women advocates. They are in the development phase of quantitative data collection from law enforcements and service providers. The final report was due in July and hopefully it could be presented at the state conference. They were in the process of securing a researcher and would announce that soon. With no further questions from the members, Ms. Jabola Carolus left the meeting at 6:07 p.m. Communication CSW 2022-02 House of Representatives Chief Brian L. Takeshita letter to Chair Regina Carvalho dated May 4, 2021 regarding Resolution No. 11, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, adopted the regular session of 2021 on a task force to study missing and murdered native Hawaiian women and girls. Ms. Ching stated that Ms. Jabola Carolus provided an update on the task force and the members did not have any further questions. CSW 2022-03 HSCSW paid invoice #2021 #18 National Association of Commissions for Women annual dues of $100, on May 25, 201 of $100 for the Kaua‘i County Commission on the Status of Women. Members did not have any questions. CSW 2022-04 Letter received from Charter Review Commission Chair Reid Kawane dated October 1, 2021, requesting any proposals to amend the Charter. Ms. Ching explained that this was distributed to all the commissions. She asked if anyone wanted to provide a proposal the charter review commission had a June deadline. Hearing none she asked for a motion to receive all the communications and that would take it off the agenda. Treasurer Moraes motioned to receive CSW 2022-02, CSW 2022-03 and CSW 2022-04. Committee on Status of Women Open Session January 19, 2022 Page 7 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Ms. Cristobal seconded the motion. Motion carried 5:0. CSW 2021-07 Women’s History month Essay Contest. Theme: Women providing Healing, Promoting Hope. a) Event Planning Guide b) Ms. Muragin to review revised Essay Contest Entry Form c) Discussion and possible decision-making on other related matters. Ms. Muragin shared that she updated the essay entry form and the members already allocated contest money at the last meeting. She apologized for not including a copy in their packet and would distribute a copy by email with a request that they review and submit any additional comments or updates. CSW 2022-06 Meeting schedule per Kaua‘i County Committee on the Status of Women By- Laws, Article V. Meetings, Section 1. Meetings. a) Review and discuss meeting schedule for 2022. b) Discussion and possible decision-making on other related matters. Ms. Ching explained they committed to at least four meetings a year and the meetings were scheduled around the budget. The April meeting would finalize the end of year fiscal budget and the July meeting would discuss the allocation of the new fiscal budget. Ms. Crowell moved to approve the 2022 meeting schedule as circulated. Ms. Cristobal seconded the motion. Motion carried 5:0. State Commission Report CSW 2022-08 Update on the Hawai‘i State Commission on the Status of Women Commission Ignacio Neumiller. a) Discussion and possible decision-making on other related matters. Commissioner Ignacio Neumiller shared that HSCSW Executive Director Khara Jabola- Carolus covered most of the items; however, she did share that the period poverty report would be included in the next scheduled meeting. She said she forwards webinars and encouraged the members to use those free resources. Committee on Status of Women Open Session January 19, 2022 Page 8 SUBJECT DISCUSSION ACTION Ms. Crowell and Chair Pro Tem Yukimura thanked Commissioner Ignacio Neumiller for keeping them appraised. Announcements Next Scheduled Meeting: Wednesday, April 20, 2022, 5;00 p.m. by Microsoft Teams Teleconference. Adjournment With no objections, Chair Pro Tem Yukimura adjourned the meeting at 6:19 p.m. Submitted by: _________________________________________ Reviewed and Approved by: _________________________________________ Sandra M. Muragin, Commission Support Clerk Darcie Yukimura, Chair Pro Tem ( ) Approved as circulated. ( ) Approved with amendments. See _____ meeting minutes.