JOHNSON COUNTY DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION COMMITTEE
MEETING MINUTES
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Hybrid – Physical location: Betty Sass (Admin Bldg. First floor Room)
Members Present: Ines Beltre, Ethan Bettis, Gary Boseneiler, Brandon Davis, Sean Donaldson, Kathryn Edel, John Hannaford, Cindy Hudson, Shannon Innis, Paola Jaramillo, Fiona Johnson, Kristen Morrow, Laurie Nash, Jordan Plath, Lynn Rose, BJ Salazar, Kaitlin Schlotfelt, and Tony Stammler
Next Meeting Date and Time: Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Ice Breaker: What’s your favorite Fall activity?
Budget Balance: $32,200.00
Building an Employee Diversity Training Program
- Value of Lunch & Learn: Is it really changing anybody’s mind? There is good information. It’s usually not well attended. Most people only go to it because they already have an interest in the topic. Not more than 1 per quarter. It should not be the backbone of the D & I training. We should move it around to other office and not just at AB or HHS buildings.
- What are you interested in learning about: Send your suggestions to Paola.
- Online trainings: Probably get 2 on-line diversity classes for everyone to take. Also have new employees take the classes. Make sure it is not mandatory, but part of Respectful Workplace training.
Update on Language Access Planning: Make this program centralized Low English proficiency members of the public. Spanish and Mandarin are the 2 most frequent languages beside English. At home most frequent languages are Spanish, French, and Swahili. Public Health is already working on this initiative through language interpretation and translation. They will be a pilot program 9/26-9/30 collecting which languages are used by the public they see.
Diversity Website: https://www.johnsoncountyiowa.gov/diversity
*ACTION ITEMS*
Other items not on the agenda
9/15-10/15 is Hispanic Heritage Month. Articles in the JoCo Weekly.
- Please provide feedback (digital or on paper) for the Employee Spectra report before 9/21/2022