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Yakima City Committee Minutes
ETHICS AND EQUAL RIGHTS COMMITTEE
Yakima City Hall, 129 N. 2nd St., Yakima, WA 98901
August 24th, 2017
A meeting of the Ethics and Equal Rights Committee was held at 129 N. 2nd St., Yakima, WA
98901, and was called to order by Madam Chair Maria DJ Rodriguez at 5:30 p.m. The purpose of the
meeting was for discussion of the agenda items listed.
Those in attendance were:
Maria DJ Rodriguez
Bradley Hill: Vice Chair
David Morales
Deb Sterling
Absent:
Isaac Garcia: Secretary
Diana Lopez-Batista
Felipe Vargas
The August 24th, 2017 agenda items were addressed as follows:
1. Minutes of Previous Meeting: The minutes of June 28, 2017 were presented. Bradley Hill moved to
approve minutes, David Morales seconded the motion. All were in favor.
2. City Council Report Updates: Madam Chair explained how the group’s presentation went at the last
city council meeting where our committee presented its second report. David Morales elaborated on how
the City Council thought we lacked on researching the issue of “Ethics” itself. (At this point Diana Lopez-
Batista joined the meeting.) David acknowledged there were areas we did not explore. He gave an example
of the diversity within the City of Yakima staff. Madam Chair then elaborated on how the City Council
recommended we find a path for the permanent committee to take. She then stated that she felt that wasn’t
necessarily our job, our job was to ‘identify’ the issues, and then the path to take could be decided by the
permanent committee, if such a committee is going to be established. Bradley Hill elaborated on his
thoughts regarding how ethics ties into this committee. The whole group then went back and forth on
discussions regarding how they “think” the City Council wants us to bring more ‘ethics’ into the big picture.
No final determination could be made, but rather a broad picture of what ethics could mean and whether or
not it should be related to an Equal Rights Committee at all. Should they be joined, or separated as two
different committees, the result was in impasse. Ultimately some more solid direction from City Council
was agreed; would be very helpful.
3. Next Steps: Madam Chair notified the committee that she would be sending out a general email and
copying NCBC Committee as well to try and get some feedback from everyone on the direction to be taken
for ethics and the final report.
4. Audience Participation: No public audience was in attendance.
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Meeting adjourned, at approximately 5:53 p.m.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,
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Isaac Garcia, Secretary
ACKNOWLEDGED:
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Maria DJ Rodriguez, Madam Chair
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