a city wide initiative to address institutional racism in the city of seattle to in city government but also we know that we can't do the work within city government if we're not in an equitable and accountable relationship with the community and so my position is a community court nater is to really find those places where our work overlaps and make sure that we're in alignment and in an equitable relationship ok yeah especially for us as an immigrant  really hard to try know what's going on in the local government having the information because we don't find the resources that helping us right so in this department we don't know what you do and i would start by saying that our city government is historically not been designed to be accessible to everybody and so the fact that immigrant communities have trouble accessing city government is the fault of the structure of the city government not communities themselves and that's exactly what the initiative is looking at is how can we reduce some of those barriers and make it a more accessible so that city government that works for everybody to answer your question about what our office does in addition to housing the initiative we also have civil rights investigators that take claims for job and housing discrimination in the city of seattle and the force state federal and city law regarding regarding discrimination in the workplace or housing so people that live within the city can use us as a resource if they feel like they've been discriminated based on race based on gender based on a lot of other classifications i'm not a lawyer so i don't know all of that but that is a resource that our at our office another part of our office is in forcing the labor standards so not only discrimination but making sure people are being paid minimum wage making sure that their benefits are being honored making sure that they have are all of their rights as an employee are being honored and that that's clear to businesses so they can do business in a good way that's good for the community so those are sort of the three elements that are within our office and all of those are we know connected to institutional racism we know that people of color immigrant communities of color are often the ones that are suffering the most because of language access barriers but also because of a history of racism in this country that sets up rules that benefit some groups mainly white groups at the expense of people of color so all those policies we need to be working through racialized lens and an understanding of how how are the communities most impacted by job discrimination or housing discrimination or what have you how are their voices being held at the table and how are we being accountable to them so that's that that's the work of our of our about what you do about the civil rights so yeah well i would say that we're working to be better at that and that my position as a community where nader is a newly created position just in the last year we've always had people who have been in a relationship with different communities in the city of seattle and there's many different departments that have different approaches towards trying to reach to the community trying to make sure that their services are well known that you know they're useful and all that sort of thing in our office were trying to make a visible trying to get the word out there so people know their rights about in these different places but i would say that we're still working on how to make that the most effective and i think part of that through building relationships like like we're doing now having conversations with folks in the community and really sharing information information that we have so that we can continue to be in relationship with each other and  an amount of money that the city council approves as part of our budget and the office for civil rights they say you know this much money you can use for this technical assistance grant and so  our the way that the grant has been structured is that we're looking to provide technical assistance through through money but also through whatever other resources that we have to support folks in the community that are addressing structural institutional racism and we've awarded between four and seven groups each here and  and they do a lot of amazing work and a lot of times they're not funded right i mean like their working blood sweat and tears to make things happen without the necessary resources to give them the capacity to really be able to do as much work as they want to do so this grant was structured and created so that we could help shift some resources from the city which has a lot of resources to the community where the work is really happening and where people are making meaningful change i think what we saw in alignment is that the work that happened  is really addressing the lack of traditional resources invested in young people of color to be able to build those skills around  technology media and really speaking their truth about their their communities that's often left out of mainstream media and that's something really important that changes the power dynamic in society that is where we all that addresses something that's part of structural racism we want to support that work and they they know what they're doing so they take it forward in the way that they see best but i think that alignment in values and in really supporting young people in speaking their voice is really important and that's where why we wanted to collaborate thank you very much again because it is a lemons year in that community activities you know training import to give voice to the issues that are important to people especially when it comes to so some things that are so important to just violence housing jobs these are things that mean you know life or death for family and really really important to involve all the stakeholders and you know a conversation about how do we make improvements together i think one really important thing is to at least from our perspective in the we you know do in all of our work but in particular around this project is to understand the racialized construct and history that creates the conditions for these types of things to be happening to people of color in particular whenever we see a statistic about housing or jobs or health or crime we know that people of color are on the bottom meaning they're most impacted and we have to ask ourselves you know why is that what is about our society that is having that result so i'm like really excited to have this conversation and i think that's what we would sort of bring community well i hope that you see our office as a resource for multiple things and that we can continue to have a conversation about how  office for civil rights but city government in general can better serve you because that's what city government is that works for the people we are we should be working for the people we know we are and we're not always doing the best job but that's why we want to manages which is funding projects in the community that specifically address structural and institutional racism funded and i'm really happy to be working with them because they represent an organization that's working with young people immigrant communities people of color to give voice to the issues that are important to them and not something that's not necessarily historically been part of traditional media sources and so we really wanted to support that work the racial equity fund because we know that there's a lot of great work happening in the community and we really want to partner with you in the future thank you hi my name is tis a toss up and i'm with you are safe and we would like to invite you to join us at town hall style panel discussions along with different members of our community to discuss issues pertaining to the east african communities some of the community members that will be joining us are police officers  the heads of local nonprofits such as a guy and longtime leaders in our community such as eunice and we really look forward to seeing you next wednesday july twenty ninth at the twenty one hundred building and future dates will also be advertised please look out for us and we want to hear from you we are a community and it takes all of us working together to create solutions and the lasting change july twenty ninth thank you see you next week thank you art african american rich and teach  mayor greg who is the mayor of sea tac and just want to hear from you a little bit about the sea tac area and then byron mental health issues and challenges as well as what is happening to really bring awareness in the community you know about environmental health as well as anything else that you like to share thank you so much well first of all i'd like to say thank you for allowing me to be here today to speak with you and i think we all know that place place matters and that means our homes our streets network our transportation system our air quality our noise quality access to schools access to health care and access to jobs with that you will see that our community has very clear issues related to how far it takes us to go to find healthy nutritious food and so with that in a county that's the fourteenth largest county united state called global the local which is a partnership a private public partnership around health disparities and with that we have a very high number rate of diabetes and obesity and so we're really look at that at the advocacy part which is similar to this event here today we also recognize that making sure that code enforcement issues are very clear in our community so people know how to take care of their homes and know where to contact their public officials for help out our community is extremely diverse and low income and so with that too we need to make sure we exercise private public partnerships with everything that we do so you'll see that the communities of opportunity grants are coming in to help us to map and identify where we can have more people and community garden  our faith based networks are huge and really connecting with our community you'll see that we're going to be serving fifty five thousand lunches over the summer lunch program yes because we have in the ninety percentile  and reduced lunches in our schools here on the east side of the runway which is tukwila and sea tac so with that you see on many things related to health and environment i know that in the work that we've been doing and we've been doing this just really since january so we're kind of the new kid on the block compared to global to local and some of the others but you know our focus is really trying to work to engage the ethiopian and the african american communities in this discussion and education around environmental how and we have had an opportunity to meet with a number of the providers so i know that you have a very strong network up to providers in this community and the other thing is that what comes to the language you know that's that's something that we have been really kind of addressing in the ethiopian community because we just recently come completed a survey people's understanding and knowledge about environmental how and even though we had the information and heart we'd still notice that there was  if it was more of a literal translation issue of understanding when you talk and in terms even though we did try to term it in ways that were appropriate we still found that  people were still kind of challenge about what it means to have a safe and healthy home and so that's something that we are focusing really on we have we have work with king county do recognize as you said when you look at the healthy mapping and what that looks like for the south king county as opposed to the north and so there is a lot of work to be done but there's also a lot of opportunity as we see so far apart during for collaborating and engaging the community even more and one of the things that i really appreciate hearing from you is the difficulty in  in the actual language barrier and how complex side it were i'm really finding that the next recommendations are coming is really understanding community liaison formalizing not certifying that actually make it and making it a paid position and what that does is it really honors those communities where they are and recognizes that you cannot just in church documents and expect the communities to actually engage or understand or connect with and we're not going to move the pendulum on these very big important issues and so that happens and so it goes back to the people the relationships things that are measurable and i think people forget is that we're not a business we're actually a community and community mean and my name is danielle gamba and so i'm here today pretty much answering questions about understanding what goes where in the recycling the garbage and the compost bin all of which are available to sea tac residents so just trying to make sure that people you know if they have questions they come up and ask also kind of highlighting the fact that we have a recall a g clean sweep store the closest one would be in in the highlands and that is a place where you can any sea tac resident or any customer of ecology clues capes can go and drop off a lot of the hard to recycle items so electronics batteries light bulbs you know all those things where you have a drawer of them somewhere in your house and you're looking to get rid of them in a responsible way we offer this free to our customers to be able to come and drop those things off yes i am for on a french or with seattle pup utilities and the local hazardous waste management program in king county and we manage all the different hazardous waste products within the county where a group of  entities from seattle king county as well as all of the other cities in king county working all together and so together we work on providing different ways for you to dispose of your hazardous materials and these are materials that have bad stuff in them holes toxins and so you don't want to put them in the garbage because then they end up in the landfill and they end up contaminating our environment and so with this you should take these different chemicals such as household cleaners oil based pain over to different houses waste sites where residents get to dispose of them for free and we have one to north seattle south seattle factorial and then we also have an auburn location and also traveling  mobility so any hazardous materials that you have you should definitely dispose of at one of these locations for free and that way we can to protect our environment we also have a lot of people have like tronics all televisions old cell phones and all of that should be taken to one of these free locations that you can find in the take it back to network location and this is a program that's provided for funded by the manufacturers of electronics so that people can take them back and get them disposed of for free because they have hard harsh stuff and that's bad for the environment we also have a new recycling program and this is for all of these mercury containing lights which are really great in terms of energy conservation but they do have chemicals in them that are bad for the environment mercury and so again we don't want to put those in the landfill and so we have a statewide program where you can't get dispose of them for free and yet that's what we're covering here we do also help businesses as well and so there's a small quantity generator program for businesses that have houses waste and can also take that to our one of our stations as well know it's been around for decades or actually about to have i think our anniversary i don't remember fits what the year is something like twenty fifth year anniversary and so we've been around quite a while and we're out here partnering with community folks and trying to help get the word about right out to help people protect themselves from heart harmful chemicals and figure out how to dispose of them so you know we've been around for quite a while all right and you know you're welcome to take we have from the new light recycle program magnets and and the sunglasses as well and then we also have pencils from our house or dissuasive program so yeah welcome take what you like yes i'm f seattle pope utilities and the local hospice waste management program in king county and we manage all the different hazardous waste products within the county where a group of entities from seattle king county as well as all of the other cities in king county working all together and so together we work on providing different ways for you to dispose of your house or is materials and these are materials that have bad stuff in them chemicals toxins and so you don't want to put them in the garbage because then they end up in the landfill and they end up contaminating our environment and so with this you should take these different chemicals such as household cleaners oil based paint over to different houses waste sites where residents get to should definitely dispose of at one of these locations for free and that way we can to protect our environment we also have a lot of people have left tronics all televisions old cell phones and all of that should be taken to one of these free locations that you can find in the take it back to network location and this is a program that's provided for funded by the manufacturers of electronics so that people can take them back and get them disposed of for free because they have hard harsh stuff and that's bad for the environment we also have a new recycling program and this is for all of these mercury containing lights which are really great in terms of energy conservation but they do have chemicals in them that are bad for the environment mercury and so again we don't want to put those in the landfill and so we have a statewide program where you can get dispose of them for free and that's that's what we're covering here we do also how this is while and so there's a small quantity generator program for