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Human Services Advisory Committee
Meeting Report
Renton City Hall
Council Conference Room, 7th Floor
April 18th, 2017 3:00 p.m.
ATTENDANCE: Brook Dodd,Amy Koehl, Leslie Anderson,Joanie Howe, Krista Townsend,Tina Harris,Teresa
Kenney
Excused:Sheila Houston
Absent:
Guest: Brandy Brown, Cynthia Jones,Yoon 10o Han and Mirya Munoz-Roach
Staff: Guy Williams, Dianne Utecht,Jeannie Gabriel
Introductions around the table with Human Services Advisory Committee and guests
1. Approval of Previous Minutes: Moved by Teresa,seconded by Tina, al)ayes, motion carried.
2. Presentation:
■ Asian Counseling and Referral Services;Yoon Joo Han.Agency has been open since 1979 by Asian
volunteers.They currently serve 25K clients living in King County with a small percentage living out
of King County.This agency provides mental health help and is also the only food bank that
provides rice/Asian food.Asian Counseling and Referral Services currently provides help to 600
Renton residents.
■ Centro Rendu (St.Vincent de Paul):
For the past 95 years,the heart of their work has been home visits they provide to clients.There
are 54 Catholic churches, 5 thrift stores throughout King County. City of Kent and City of Renton
are the only facilities that provides services. Centro Rendu has doubled Renton Technical College
numbers for GED enrollment. Centro Rendu has been working with Renton School District for the
past 2 years.Agency provides Case Management and Legal Services in Renton. Food bank is
located in Gerogetown. Clients connect with Centro Rendu by calling 211, help line then asks for
zip code which helps them connect one of the 54 local Catholic Churches.
3. Status of Recruitment of additional members:Teresa, Krista and Amy were in the interview panel.We are
currently awaiting Mayor letter for Brandy Brown and Cynthia Jones to join the committee. Brandy
currently works for the Port of Seattle in the Human Resources department. Prior to working of the Port of
Seattle,she was a Case Manager for 7 years.She believes that being in the Human Services Advisory
Committee, she will be able to give back to the community and learn more about the City of Renton.
Cynthia Jones currently works at Boeing and has years of volunteer services.She has been on a few board
committees with Boeing for funding and also with Metro Center YMCA and United Way. Guy would like to
have 1:1 meeting with our currently board members to better know one another.
4. DocuSign update: Our previous Administrator Terry H wanted our department to sign electronically.This
program has been in use since January 1St, 2017.Very easy, upload documents,tag where signatures are
needed and send.
5. Future Quarterly Reports/What do you absolutely need to see? Last year,we used Sharel.Sharel is no
longer being used, instead agencies are sending Excel spread sheets.Teresa will help with Excel of help
with a program that can easily do reports from all agencies. Dianne will send a few examples of what she
has received from agencies. Main points that committee wants to see are the narrative,goal,and how
agency is doing towards goal.
6. Mission/Vision Statement:Committee will come up with their own take on missions. During next meeting
Post-it posters will be brought in for each member to write down their missions.
Future Dates: Meeting every other month?Or every month?Committee agrees to meet every month unless
there is no topics on agenda.August and December 2017 there will be no meeting.
Next meeting: We will review committee comments on rating tool. May, mission/rating tool,June, agency
visits.
City of Renton Human Services Advisory Committee
November 17, 2015
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We will continue to have agencies present 15 minutes during our monthly meetings during our non-funding
cycle year.June 27th, 2017 is South King County Human Services luncheon from 1130AM-1PM at Emerald
Downs.
Respectfully submitted,
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Brook Dodd, Chair
Next regular meeting: ,2017, Council Conference room 7th Floor,Renton City Hall