Ogden Community Engagement and Opportunity Commission

MINUTES Ogden Diversity Commission Virtual - Zoom WEDNESDAY, July 13th, 2022 – 4:30 PM In Attendance: Stacy Bernal, Colt Jarvis, Rebecca Tierney Shardae Jones, Kevin Lundell, Tom Szalay, Monica Gil, CJ Hernandez Excused: Mara Brown Absent: Ogden City Staff Present: CJ Hernandez, Anne-Marie Birk Guests: Jonathan Puente, Ciara Gregovich, Pam Richardson, Kathie Darby Recording will be posted with the minutes here: DC Meeting Recording 1. Welcome & Roll Call. 2. Action Item - approval of minutes from 06/08/22 a. 3. New Business. 3.1. Current events in the community - Chair 3.2. Jonathan Puente – Office of Fairness and Accountability, Utah Courts- https://kutv.com/news/local/utah-judicial-council-creates-new-office-of-fairness- accountability a. Jonathan Puente presented on the new Office of Fairness & Accountability for the Utah Courts (please see meeting recording for full presentation).  3.3. Noella Sudbury and Ciara Gregovich- Clean Slate Utah - https://www.cleanslateutah.org a. Ciara Gregovich presented on the Clean Slate Utah program. This program will remove most Class B & C and Infraction charges from a person’s criminal history automatically based on the Clean Slate policies. Utah was second in the nation to adopt these policies. Eligibility depends on what happened, how many offenses, and when the offenses occurred. Information can be found at cleanslateutah.org (see meeting recording for full presentation). 3.4. Functional Committee Leads –Chair a. All members can find the google doc with the sub-committees and who is involved in each committee. Please give input on what subcommittees you want kept or combined and if anyone would like to chair a committee or be a member of a committee. This will be talked about further in our next meeting. 3.5. Recommendations for City Council Recognitions for August 23 (Educators), September 6 (Hispanic Heritage Month)—Chair a. Please add any nominations to the google document for August and September. Only 4 nominations will be taken for each month. Deadline for nominations will be a week prior to the actual date. 4. Committee Reports. 4.1. Outreach- a. Commissioner Szalay and Vice-Chair Jones would like to brainstorm ideas for making the tabling more exciting. Possibly creating different activities during the tabling events. Anyone that would like to join the outreach committee can give their suggestions as well. Commissioner Tierney suggested having a polo shirt with the Diversity Commission logo on it for events. Commissioner Tierney also asked how the public could send comments/suggestions to the Commission from tabling events. Vice-Chair Jones suggested possibly having a comment box at tabling events or a written record. These can be given to CJ to bring to the Commission. b. August 7: Ogden Pride, Amphitheater- 11 to 7pm- Please sign up as a volunteer c. August 16: Ogden’s Night Out Against Crime, Amphitheater- 5:30 to 7:30 pm d. Back to school nights - Ogden High - Aug 18, Ben Lomond - (TBA) 5. Old Business- Christmas Village Cottage Project  a. The Diversity Commission needs to decide if they want to have a cottage at the Christmas Village. This is quite an undertaking and if there is interest, it needs to be decided ASAP. If there isn’t time this year, it can be done next year when there’s time to properly plan it. Commissioner Tierney suggested we partner with other organizations to get students involved in the creation of the cottage. Two cottages are being held for the Diversity Commission. Commissioner Szalay has volunteered to send a design by next month for this year's Christmas Village and this design can be built on for the coming years. 6. Comments from Staff. on-boarding) 7. Comments from Commission Members. 7.1. Chair Bernal a. Chair Bernal reminded everyone there will be no meeting in August and meetings will be reconvened in September. 8. Public comment: This is an opportunity to address the Commission regarding concerns or ideas on any topic. To be considerate of everyone at this meeting, public comments will need to be submitted electronically, diversity@ogdencity.com or by calling 801-629-8109. Participants are to state their first and last name for the record. Comments will then be submitted for the record. 9. Adjournment 9.15.22 Diversity Commission Chair Minutes Approval: _____________________ Date: __________________ NEXT REGULAR OGDEN DIVERSITY COMMISSION MEETING WEDNESDAY, September 14th, 2022 Hybrid Meeting- 7th Floor Conference room and Zoom *** Public meetings will be held electronically in accordance with House Bill 5002, Open and Public Meetings Act Amendments, signed into law on June 25, 2020. 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