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Hawaii Together November 2, 2001 Meeting Summary |
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Queen Liliuokalani Children's Center in Kalihi-Palama, 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Attendance: Andrew Aoki, L.A. Burke, Sondra Dockham-Leong, Susan Doyle, Mary Alice Evans, Aaron Fujioka, Kathleen Hasegawa, Elizabeth Kent, Irving Lauber, Ron Mathieu, Oliver Schultz, Tin Myaing Thein, Kelly Walsh, Dan Watanabe, Claire Woods, Sylvia Yuen The members reviewed the draft meeting and agreed to the final form, which can be found on the Hawaii Together webpage at www.gilwell.com/HawaiiTogether (the case-sensitive username is "Hawaii" and the case-sensitive password is "Together"). A brief update on the special legislative session by Susan Doyle was followed by an overview of "people impacts" by Claire Woods. The service delivery team has been meeting weekly to pull together information on needs, gaps and potential strategies for filling them. This work will inform the work of the other teams. Mary Alice Evans gave an overview of the data team's work and proposed indicators of the social condition. The idea is to create a set of data that will be regularly updated to produce an overall picture of what is currently happening and how things are changing over time. A major challenge is identifying sources of reliable information that can be obtained quickly, so that data is as close to real time as possible. Data could be collected on such leading indicators as late mortgage payments, bounced checks, church attendance, number of foreclosures, number of people leaving the islands, etc. Sylvia Yuen reviewed proposed indicators and spoke about the HTC website and its potential capabilities. The Center on the Family is working on putting this in shape for Hawaii Together. Members are to look at the concept paper distributed and give her feedback. Sylvia, who will be working to significantly improve the website's functions, said that members can also give her things to put on the listserv. The members also discussed the possible indicators of success of the full Committee and those of the individual groups and explored the relationship between both. Susan said that if all teams came up with their own process and content indicators, then some could perhaps be used as the full Committee's indicators as well. This issue will be discussed at the next regular meeting. Susan also said that the strategy team should hold regular sessions and post its findings on the HTC website. Members should give some thought to what the major strategy issues are and email their ideas to Susan at SusanD@auw.org. Dr. Myaing Thein noted that there were a number of other discussions and efforts going on in the community on specific issues like housing, immigrant needs, helping entrepreneurs, etc. that seem like they should be tied in somehow. The members discussed that information regarding those efforts should flow in to the committee from members like Dr. Myaing who are involved in them. While Hawaii Together might not itself participate directly in these efforts, they might be supported by the task force's information and communications efforts, e.g., the website Sylvia discussed. The indicators of success and external and internal communications agenda items were deferred due to lack of time. Internal communications will continue to be primarily through postings on the website. Oliver will inform the membership about the location of the next meeting and continue to update the membership roster.
Attendance: Kai Brown, L.A. Burke, Mervina Cash-Kaeo, Josephine Chang, Doris Ching, Rev. Frank Chong, Rev. Dan Chun, Elisabeth Chun, Susan Doyle, Mary Alice Evans, Audrey Hidano, Gail Hironaka, Elizabeth Kent, Sondra Dockham-Leong (for Kathryn Koos-Lee), Irving Lauber, Andy Levin (by phone), Chris Lima, Ron Mathieu, Caroline Oda, Jeanne Ohta, Judith Perry, Ginny Pressler, John Sabas, Oliver Schultz, Tin Myaing Thein, Dan Watanabe, Mary Pat Waterhouse, Sylvia Yuen
The members reviewed the draft meeting summary, the revised ground rules, and the Committee focus. The Committee agreed to the final form of all three documents after a change was made to the ground rules. The final form of the ground rules can be found on the Hawaii Together webpage at www.gilwell.com/HawaiiTogether/ (cap "H", cap "T", no space between, with slash after; the case-sensitive username is "Hawaii" and the case-sensitive password is "Together"). An update on the special legislative session was given by Susan Doyle, who said that the Legislature had increased the funds earmarked for food from $250,000 to $1,000,000 and had agreed to let the funds for shelter remain at $1,000,000. The Committee discussed the timetable for its work and the indicators of success. It was agreed that the term "immediate" would refer to a 3-month time frame from the present to the beginning of the Regular Session of the Legislature, January 16, 2002; "short term" would mean 6 months, and "long term" would mean 12 months. A suggestion was also made to distinguish between the indicators of success for each of the small groups and for the Committee as a whole. The members discussed subcommittee reports and how to communicate the progress of the subcommittees to the membership. The team leaders will meet separately before the next regular meeting to discuss these issues further. Team leaders also need to email reports about their subcommittee meetings by the following Monday to Oliver Schultz (oschultz@dhs.state.hi.us), who will distribute them to the membership. A discussion on organizing a statewide food drive ensued. Rev. Dan Chun noted his concern that the HTC should first focus on developing a strong message about its work and goals, so that it would not become identified only with doing food drives. A consensus emerged on tabling the food drive idea and allowing the Message Team to move forward as it is recommending. To be as effective as we would like it to be, the communications effort will need to be funded properly. Dan's team is developing the costs. Oliver will inform the membership about the location of the next meeting and continue to update the membership roster. |