Speaker 7: The report of the full council agenda item one Resolution 31613 Creating the Demographic Data Task Force to recommend strategies to standardize and disaggregate demographic data used by city departments in allocating resources and developing city policies, programs and services. Introduced September eight, 2015.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Councilmember O'Brien. Excuse me, Okamoto.
Speaker 0: Thank you. It's getting to be a long day here. Yes, we always have it. Yes, yes. So have you. As you have heard me speak in the past about data, disaggregation and the importance of it. As the city becomes more and more diverse, we're finding new populations moving into our city, populations that have service needs but unfortunately are often invisible by government and the services we provide. For example, federal and city race data both for diverse immigrant and refugee communities from Europe, the Middle East and North Africa into the white category. Those from other parts of Africa into the black category, and immigrants and refugees from more than 25 unique countries and cultures into the Asian American and Pacific Islander category. The reality is, though, as we lump these different, diverse refugee and immigrant groups into these larger categories, we often miss their their unique needs that they have because their data and their needs are masked within these larger groups. I convened a group of data managers from several departments with the support of the Mayor, and in our discussion we determined that data is collected and analyzed in different ways across different departments. Some departments use federal data, which is often our data or has a high margin of error. In other cases, departments just captured data on populations they serve, but not on populations that they should be serving but aren't being collected. This resolution today takes a step forward on what we've learned. And basically, in a nutshell, it creates a task force made up of data managers from departments and offices across the city to find ways to standardize and just aggregate data and make it easily accessible for policymakers and make major administrative decisions when it relates to our services and allocation of resources. This task force will will come back to the City Council and make recommendations on what's needed to, again, both standardize and desegregate data so that we aren't missing high risk populations that need our services. I urge you to support this resolution.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Questions or comments? All in favor of adopting Resolution 31613 vote. I oppose Vote No. The resolution is unanimously adopted and the chair will sign it. The last item on our agenda today is consideration of an administrative appeal. The City Council will now consider an administrative appeal to an exclusion issued to an individual on August 13, 2015. The question before the Council is whether the decision to exclude this individual from council meetings for a period of 20 days should be sustained. Those in favor of sustaining the exclusion will vote, ie. Those opposed to sustaining the exclusion will vote no on August 13, 2015. Marguerite Richard was served with an exclusion notice. At the full council meeting on Monday, August three, 2015, the presiding officer repeatedly directed Ms. Richards to end her comments at the expiration of the allotted time. Ms. Richards ignored those directions and continued to shout from the podium and it became necessary for the Presiding Officer to request the assistance of our security officers to remove her from council chambers. On Tuesday, August four, 2015, at the park's Seattle Center Libraries and Gender Pay Equity Committee. Ms.. Richards engaged in similar behavior and continued to shout from the audience for several minutes after the expiration of her allotted public comment time. She ignored repeated requests from the presiding officer to stop this behavior and again was escorted from the chambers on Tuesday, August 11, 2015, at the Seattle Public Utilities and Neighborhoods Committee meeting. Ms.. Richards engaged in similar disruptive behavior by talking past her allotted time and then disregarding repeated directions to end her disruption, leading the presiding officer to request that she be escorted from the chambers. The same behavior was repeated at the Finance and Culture Committee meeting on Wednesday, August 12, 2015. Are there any questions or comments from council members? Those in favor of sustaining the exclusion vote by those opposed to sustaining the exclusion vote no. The motion carries and the exclusion remains in effect. Is there any other business to come before the council? Thank you. We are adjourned.
A RESOLUTION creating the Demographic Data Task Force to recommend strategies to standardize and disaggregate demographic data used by City departments in allocating resources and developing City policies, programs, and services.