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Cultural Communities Board (CCB)
Meeting Notes
January 24, 2017
Green River College – Kent Station (Room 323)
417 Ramsay Way Kent, WA 98032
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Board Members Present: Yusuf Bashir, Davies Chirwa, Marvin Eckfeldt, Rand Al
Hammadi, Josephine Karanja, Satwinder Kaur, Shanrkeep Kaur Shoker, Sonia
Morales, Mizan Rahman, Cesar Rangel, Ted Schwarz, Semisi Vaivao Tupou, Norma
Maldonado, Marwa Almusawi
Absent: Hussein Kinani, Yuriy Zaremba, Ta Kwe Say
City Staff Present: Mayor Suzette Cooke, Dinah Wilson, Hardy Awadjie
City Council Members: Brenda Fincher, Jim Berrios, Dana Ralph
Guests: LeAnn Lofgran, Cindy Hayward, Tiffany Carbajal, Dick Wing (The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Planning youth conference for February 23rd-25th,
2017-service project by youth for refugee community)
Welcome
Dinah Wilson and Mayor Suzette Cooke
December 2016 CCB Minutes approval
Motion to approve – Ted Schwarz
Announcements (only current announcements are included)
Iraqi Community Food Festival (Aldarboune Food Festival) - Iraqi Center,
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Free income tax electronic filing help
-(AARP) – Kent Library (for low income individuals only) February 13, 2017,
10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
-Public Health (Kent East Hill next to Home Depot) Tuesdays 5:00 PM – 8:00
PM, Thursdays 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM, Saturdays 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (no small
business taxes)
Bengalese New Year’s celebration – April 15, 2017 (5:00 PM-10:00 PM) Kent
Senior Activity Center – Food/Music/Activities
Reserving City of Kent Parks during summer months for CCB meetings and
activities
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Training: How to facilitate meetings - Parliamentary procedures made fun
(Robert’s Rules of Order) - February 13, 2017 @ 6:30 PM (Council Chambers
or TBD) Trainer – Ann MacFarlane of Jurassic Parliament
3
CCB Discussion
CCB elected a Chair (Satwinder Kaur) and Vice-Chair (Cesar Rangel); the
meeting facilitation was turned over to Satwinder
Youth arrest (incarceration rate) follow-up – Previous CCB meeting item-
data, which includes referrals from KSD, was passed out
CCB Action Plan (priorities identified by the Board, not listed in order of
importance)
1. Organizing local MLK Day event in 2018
2. Policing (Chief Thomas will be invited to the February meeting; CCB may
invite up to three guests)
3. Health/Housing: Quality & longevity of life
4. Education: CCB (organize a panel) + community engagement w/Kent School
District (Q&A)
Based on the discussion, CCB decided to invite Chief Thomas to the February
2017 CCB meeting (CCB members may invite up to three guests)
Items for follow-up
The Kent City Council passed an ordinance prohibiting source of income
discrimination in rental housing (City Council members present shared
information about the ordinance; staff will provide an electronic copy of the
ordinance to CCB members)
CCB expressed an interest in creating an orientation to American Culture
pamphlet (Dinah will research and provide samples for CCB to review)
There is also interest in inviting decision-makers to the meeting to provide
background on various topics; e.g., what is the role of CPS and how does
staff decide when to intervene in families? (Josephine will invite someone
from CPS to a future CCB meeting)
Adjourned
Next CCB Meeting – February 28, 2017 @ First Christian Church, 11717 SE
240th St. Kent, WA
Notes taken by: Hardy Awadjie (VISTA – AmeriCorps)