Pasadena
From the meeting · Planning Commission, · 0:58
Will the city's outreach reach people who won't talk to officials?
During an update on the city's first Environmental Justice Element, which focuses on Northwest Pasadena, a commissioner asks whether outreach is reaching churches and food distribution sites.
a commissioner and city staff
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a commissioner What I'm thinking, and I didn't see any of it, mentioned here, a lot of the resource areas or providers, churches and neighborhood social.
a commissioner How are we engaging them?
a commissioner A lot of individuals might not talk to people walking up and down the street with a clipboard, but they'll go in there and talk to their their pastors.
a commissioner Or...
a commissioner I mean, are we in the churches?
a commissioner Are we in the areas that are disseminating food?
a commissioner Those places.
city staff I'm not in the church, but we actually...
city staff One of our virtual meetings, there was a reverend from the church right across the Robinson Center.
a commissioner Correct.
city staff And so he provided a lot of insight, and we are gonna...
city staff You know?
city staff So we're gonna, as a next step, figure out how we make those connections and how we use his connections to him share the information.
city staff We we haven't figured out the next steps, so we are engaging with those groups as well.
Where it's from
- Update on the new Environmental Justice Element Item 5A: what happened
- The episode: Drone training grant, child mental health funds, and a work/live rethink
- The full recording from here