Planning Committee

Hismen Hinnu
January 2, 2003
Meeting Notes

Work Group Reports

Housing and Economic Development

• There is a meeting on Monday.
• Proposal pending for TA to look into potential properties.
• Need to talk about economic development and asset development focus.

Health

• Fred and Bart Like the Proposal
• Waiting to hear from Pat Chaulk
• Example of Models
• Pat St. Onge recapturing traditional healing/health practices – Talking to Cal Endowment.
• Contact Native American Health Center- Marty Talk to project Manager at EBALDC

23rd Avenue Corridor

• Invite Redevelopment Staff to the next 23rd Avenue meeting
• Debrief on UE
• Discussion of Redevelopment
• Concern about understanding the process
• Fred- Brad Paul interested in supporting community input.
• Follow-up at next 23rd Ave meeting

Newspaper

• December Issue went out
• January issue going to the printer at the end of the month
• Working on Strategic Plan
• Meet every Tuesday at noon.

Arts and Culture

• ESAA went on a tour of the south. Asha’s Cultural Center in NO
• Looking at Hismen Hinnu leasing agreement
• Will focus on building issues
• Planning a train the trainer event on voter education
• Would like to put together a series of town hall meetings on issues
• Want jazz festival to be more community owned
• Should LSA do a site visit to Lemert park

MCMOI- Pat St. Onge

• Pat and Jennifer hired to take the work on.
• It is clear that they do not have enough youth participation
• Working on Legacy screenings- will do one at Garfield or Roosevelt.
• Will use film to look at parent-child relationships
• Next film in pipeline is Matter of Race
• Casey wants folks in the community to make a film
• Fred is concerned about weak link between MCMOI and collaborative. There is no clear way to identify how MCMOI move the collaborative agenda.
• Need better coordination.
• Can we integrate MCMOI into Arts & Culture?

Fred Report

• Oakland officially in Phase II
• Celebration being planned- choose date
• Oakland will be assigned a trustee, will schedule a site visit
• Cross site evaluation meeting January 26-27 in Baltimore. Up to phone surveys/ site. Evaluation linked to common ground outcomes.
• 750,000-800,000 per year for grant making
• TA pool= 5 million across all sites.
• Other pieces more flexible with money that Bart & Fred have access to
• Need to work out how money is distributed for conferences and travel.
• FES Institute January 28-29.
• What is FES? Introduce consultants and TA.
• FES summit in LSA to get new players involved – maybe in early February
• PRI is starting up- up to $500,000 per PRI, but opportunities to make deposits in community development banks. Deb Montesinos will be new TARC liaison.

Next Steps on Outcomes Development

• Work group follow-up
• Work Groups need to have a discussion.
• Planning committee should meet after work groups have met and make a recommendation to the full collaborative.
• Clarify what is expected of work groups at 1/9 meeting.
• Work plan development
• Ratification

January 13 Collaborative meeting

• Agenda

Planning Committee Composition

• Representation from work groups