BLACK MALE ACHIEVEMENT ADVISORY COUNCIL

200 E. Wells Street City of Milwaukee Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202 Meeting Minutes BLACK MALE ACHIEVEMENT ADVISORY COUNCIL MAYOR TOM BARRETT, CO-CHAIR and ALD. KHALIF RAINEY, CO-CHAIR Chris Abele, Raymond Banks, Robert Cherry, Spencer Coggs, William Coleman, Ellen Gilligan, Torre Johnson, Leigh Kunde, Patricia McManus, Robert Randolph, Shannon Reed, Mark Sain and Rashaad Washington Joanna Polanco, staff assistant, 286-2366; email: jpolan@milwaukee.gov Legislative Liaison, Ted Medhin 286-8681, tmedhi@milwaukee.gov Thursday, February 22, 2018 10:00 AM Room 301-A, City Hall 1. Call to Order at 10:05 AM 2. Roll Call Present 13 - Hamilton, Barrett, McManus, Sain, Cherry, Kunde, Gant, Gilligan, Rainey, Banks, Johnson, Washington and Coleman Absent 1 - Randolph Excused 3 - Coggs, Crowley and Reed 3. Approval of November 30, 2017 meeting minutes Mayor Barrett, seconded by Mr. Washington, moved to approve minutes of November 30, 2017 meeting. There were no objections. 4. MBK Action Plan - Steven Mahan Mr. Mahan said that the city of Milwaukee is now a member of the MBK Alliance which is the graduation of the MBK White House Initiative now housed within Obama Foundation; MBK Alliance has included City of Milwaukee in its Equity Intelligence Dashboard, meaning that COM will be able to put DATA and all of the MBK milestones tracking, calendar updates, events alerts with App ready; launched summer 2018. Mr. Mahan said that is to show the Whitehouse challenge met. The Obama Foundation is made up of six foundations that feed the one entity; it is an opportunity to show where the need is for RFP's from the larger national foundations. Administration will be the manager of inputting data into the system. Metric used are push priorities, pull priorities, barrier reduction priorities and fire-fueling priorities. Included in this alliance are all the Cities of the first class that answered the MBK challenge by submitting a plan. Mr. Mahan went over the ten priorities of the MBK City of Milwaukee Page 1 BLACK MALE ACHIEVEMENT Meeting Minutes February 22, 2018 ADVISORY COUNCIL Launched in October 2, 2017 The Black and Latino Male Achievement MATC Promised, a multicultural student services, community engagement and men of color under Americorp VISTA volunteer in Service To America City of Milwaukee Health Department Office of Violence Prevention Legal Action of Wisconsin City of Milwaukee Health Department Office of Family Community Health African American Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin Nonprofit Center Milwaukee Running Rebels Community Organization entire presentation available under Common Council File Number 130831 at https://milwaukee.legistar.com/Legislation.aspx 5. 2018 Racial Equity and Inclusion Funding - Eric Pearson Mr. Pearson brought a Racial & Equity Inclusion Funding presentation which City strategy goal is to promote racial, social and economic equity for all citizens. Disparities in community conditions negatively affect quality of life, so reducing disparities improve Milwaukee's social and economic quality. One of the reason council was form is that Young black males are significantly more likely to experience joblessness, low educational attainment, incarceration, family instability, and other challenges that perpetuate poverty. The Black Male Achievement Advisory Council requested information on 2018 funding that supports efforts to improve racial inclusion and reduce disparities affecting black men and boys. Information was organized by BMAAC Subcommittee areas: Education and Workforce Development, Criminal Justice and Violence Prevention, Health and Entrepreneurial Innovations. Summary of Programs and Funding identified 38 programs and initiative that directly or indirectly provide services to black men and boys. These services should reduce disparities. Funding for 2018 is $7.6 million. more than 15,000 black men and boys served by these programs in 2017. Funding sources for these programs were $1.9 million by City, $2.8 by the Community Development Block Grant Office and $2.7 million from grants and other sources. Department of Administration has three positions that support the City's efforts to promote racial equity and inclusion, these are: Community Engagement & Achievement Collaborative Manager (CEAC) Equal Rights Specialist Community Outreach Manager 6. Updates from the Office of Violence Prevention - Reggie Moore Mr. Reggie Moore, Director of the Office of Violence Prevention Mr. Moore said that the office of violence prevention will start working with the trauma response initiative and other programs funded by the office of violence prevention is to track referrals services provided. The mission of the office of violence prevention is to focus on prevention and reducing violence through partnership that strengthen youth, families and neighborhoods; some City of Milwaukee Page 2 BLACK MALE ACHIEVEMENT Meeting Minutes February 22, 2018 ADVISORY COUNCIL of the mission include staffing the Commission for Domestic Violence and sexual assault, coordinate the Safe Visitation Exchange Program, and partnership with Legal Aid , Sojourner Family Peace Center in Children’s Hospital, Pop Up for Peace, partnership with local and national artists and other community leaders to work with young people in schools to promote pro- social messages around violence prevention; OVP also works with RECAST Milwaukee, five year initiative on mental behavior and healing. The Blueprint for peace can be view online at 414forlife.com. Since the document was released, OVP has done several neighborhood briefing, presented before the Public Safety and Health Committee and are in the process of planning several more over the next coming months. 7. BMAAC Ordinance Re-Write Item not discussed 8. Current Events City Hall Rotunda Black History Month Celebration - The Soul of the black Folks Chair Rainey introduced Dr. McManus as Interim Health Commissioner said that there is a lot of work to be done within the Health Department. Jeff Roman from The Black Male Achievement Campaign is a national achievement network that works to build an engage black men across the country to advance and mobilize the community of leaders and organizations to impact black men and boys. In 2015 it released a report called the Promise of a Place, report card of community engagement nationally. Nicole Brookshire from of the Milwaukee County Office of African American Affairs, working on establishing a Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Milwaukee to be drive the resource center into the Milwaukee area, specifically in District 7. Ms. Brookshire said that the Office is currently working on filling two positions; Engagement Outreach Coordinator and Research and Program Manager. Also office is evaluating a national frame work for governance alliance on Race and Equity. 9. Meeting adjourned at 12:01 noon Joanna Polanco In the event that Common Council members who are not members of this committee attend this meeting, this meeting may also simultaneously constitute a meeting of the Common Council or any of the following committees: Community and Economic Development, Finance and Personnel, Judiciary and Legislation, Licenses, Public Safety, Public Works, Zoning, Neighborhoods & Development, and/or Steering and Rules. 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