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045pLITH 8E4'O U \ d W PE R x 186 OFFICE OF THE CLERK KAREEMAH N. FOWLER, CITY CLERK COMMUNITY RELATIONS MARCH 12, 2018 4:45 P.M. (ORGANIZATIONAL) Committee Members Present: Regina Williams-Preston, Sharon L. McBride, Gavin Ferlic, Karen White Committee Members Absent: None Other Council Present: John Voorde, Jo M. Broden, Oliver Davis, Tim Scott Other Council Absent: Dr. David Varner Others Present: Kareemah Fowler, Bianca Tirado, Graham Sparks, Bob Palmer Agenda: Organizational Meeting Committee Chair Regina Williams-Preston called to order the Community Relations Committee Organizational meeting at 4:45 p.m. She introduced members of the Committee and proceeded with the meeting. Organizational Meeting Committee Chair Williams-Preston briefly went over the Community Relations Committee 2017 Annual Report. She stated, There were three (3) main areas of focus and we had four (4) public meetings last year to cover those three (3) main topics. The three (3) topics were about racial and economic justice, reducing violence by building peace, and housing and neighborhood development. With regards to racial and economic justice, we hosted the American Democracy Collaborative early on to talk about working with the anchor institutions in our community to address issues of income inequality by focusing on community wealth building. We were looking at how or would the City be interested in investing in things like Cooperatives to address some of these inequities. Out of those conversations, and working with Christina Brooks in the Diversity and Inclusion Office, there was a partnership with Prosperity Now and that created the Race and Wealth Divide Report. That gave us some numbers and gave us a slap in the face as to where we are. It is a great place to start to address these issues.We held one(1)meeting on reducing violence by building peace. We invited local organizations to work on peace building and one (1) of the biggest themes of those reports was restorative justice.That is the idea of building better and strong relationships throughout the community to be able to address things.We will be talking about what we can do this near in terms of moving that forward. One(1) suggestion was to replicate the South Bend Community School Corporation's restorative justice implementation team. We need to look at that so we can actually identify youth,seniors,and community members to learn how to actually INTEGRITY1 SERVICE1 ACCESSIBILITY JENNIFER M.COFFMAN BIANCA L.T7RADo JOSEPH R.MOLNAR CHIEF DEPUTY/DIREcToR OF OPERATIONS DEPU'T'Y/DIREcFoR OF POLICY ORDINANCE VIOLATION CLERK EXCELLENCE I ACCOUNTABILITY I INNOVATION I INCLUSION I EMPOWERMENT 415 County-City Building 1 227 W.Jefferson Blvd,I South Bend,Indiana 466011 p 574.235.9221 1 f 574.235.91731 www.sou,llendin.gov