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 COMMON COUNCIL PRESIDENT ASHANTI HAMILTON, CO-CHAIR Chris Abele, Raymond Banks, Robert Cherry, Spencer Coggs, William Coleman, Ellen Gilligan, Torre Johnson, Jeanette Kowalik, Leigh Kunde, 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, June 28, 2018 10:00 AM Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee Community Services Building 650 West Reservoir Milwaukee WI 53212 1. Call to Order at 10:19 AM 2. Roll Call. Present 14 - Hamilton, Barrett, McManus, Sain, Coggs, Cherry, Crowley, Gant, Reed, Gilligan, Rainey, Banks, Johnson and Coleman Absent 3 - Kunde, Randolph and Washington 3. Approval of the April 26, 2018 meeting Minutes. Mayor Barrett, seconded by Mr. Reed, moved to approve minutes of april 26, 2018 meeting. There were no objections. 4. Community Engagement Achievement Collaborative Director Update (Mayor Tom Barrett/Sharon Robinson). Mr. Michael Peeples introduced himself as the new Community Engagement Achievement Collaborative Director. 5. Obama Foundation MBK Community Challenge Grant Proposal Update (Shannon Reed, United Way) The United Way of greater Milwaukee is the agency fulfilling the mentoring piece of the BMAAC. They are waiting on s submitted MBK Community Challenge Grant proposal for funding. United Way has joined forces with other agencies such as MPS, Employ Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Bucks to develop and implement a comprehensive mentoring model. City of Milwaukee Page 1 BLACK MALE ACHIEVEMENT Meeting Minutes June 28, 2018 ADVISORY COUNCIL 6. Campaign for Black Male Achievement Presentation (Sheba Rogers/Steve Vassor). (excerpts from report) Campaign for Black Male Achievement (CBMA) - The Promise of Place from the executive summary The CBMA core mission is to build beloved communities across America, where Black men and boys are healthy, thriving, and enabled to achieve their fullest potential. The report highlights the progress made by the 50 cities in the Black Male Achievement (BMA) City Index featured in the first edition of the report released in 2015. Promising cities adhere to three BMA core values: collective work and responsibility; respect and recognition; and bodl goals and outcomes. Ther three core vlaues underpin eight building blocks of progress: city administration commitemnt to Black men and boys (BMB), reimagining BMB, BMB stakeholder community, actionable agenda for BMB, targeted funding, effective practice base, coordinated capacity-building infrastructure and coordination and continuum of BMA acitivitites. The report profiles five cities - Baltimore, Detroit, Louisville, Milwaukee and Oakland - that have encompassed these critical BMA field building blocks needed to become a promising city for Black Male Achievement. for full report click - https://www.blackmaleachievement.org/community/city-index Mr. Vassor said that, currently, there are 280 cities that are applying for $750,000 dollars for Black Male Achievement. At the Campaing for Black Male Achievement mission to the role is to breath life into building bridges for those who how are they leading the charge around black men and boys. either people have position or not, thye belong to a board room or on the block, building a passage of those people who care about black men and boys. do that in five direfernt activities: graduation from HS, healthy and healed, fellowships, block symetric forces. how and where do we align. Promise of a Place Ms. Rogers roles translate national model. 7. Office of Violence Prevention Update (Reggie Moore/David Muhammad). The office has been extremelly involved among the community with activities such as the kick-off for We Got This, Conflict Resolution Circles, Juneteeth Festival, to name a few. Also in collaboration with other agencies such as Boys and Girls Club and Running Rebels, offering presentation among the topics of youth and family violence prevention, said Mr. Muhammad. 8. Current Events. Dr. Howard Fuller, with the support of Alderman Russell W. Stamper II will host a community meeting on the future of North Division High School - Thursday, June 28. The meeting will feature discussion on the Road Forward for North Division High School – Discussion: Community “Control” School. During the month of August, the City will be celebrating Hip-Hop week. City of Milwaukee Page 2 BLACK MALE ACHIEVEMENT Meeting Minutes June 28, 2018 ADVISORY COUNCIL 9. Meeting adjourned at 11:57 AM Joanna Polanco Staff Assistant 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. Whether a simultaneous meeting is occurring depends on whether the presence of one or more of the Common Council member results in a quorum of the Common Council or any of the above committees, and, if there is a quorum of another committee, whether any agenda items listed above involve matters within that committee’s realm of authority. In the event that a simultaneous meeting is occurring, no action other than information gathering will be taken at the simultaneous meeting. 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