Social Justice and Equity Commission

Start including people, provide affordable housing, and practice what has already been made law. Discrimination is not okay.

Make shopping centers safe for pedestrians using wheels

The Capital Mall and surrounding strip malls such as Target Plaza do not have complete sidewalks to enter for people using wheelchairs, motorized scooters for the handicapped, baby strollers, or children on bicycles. To enter Target Plaza from Harrison there is a stairway which is unusable for many, especially our most vulnerable. They must enter at busy driveways where they compete with cars for right of way resulting in honking and life threatening maneuvers. In addition, many handicapped parking spots are ridiculous and rarely used as a result such JCPenney, Joanns, Capital High School, Jefferson Middle School and Garfield Elementary leading to locked doors, steep inclines, lack of curb cuts, or passageways occluded by posts (Joanns). Also sidewalks are uneven and in ill repair along Harrison which can cause damage to a scooter or wheelchair. These neighborhoods are walkable for the ambulatory and filled with people not using cars, but not designed or maintained for people with mobility limitations. Some preferred handicapped spaces are no longer designated and therefore filled by cars without handicapped tags.

I would like to see more diverse performers during public events.

For example, summer concerts in the park could include bands or shows with POC performers performing world genres that attract POC audiences.

Provide trash/recycle pick up regularly for all encampment areas and invest in mobile care centers with sinks, showers, toilets.

The unattended to encampments are hazardous for all, but sweeping is not the solution. We will need to start creating more humane conditions for our unhoused neighbors and address the serious ecological, social, moral, and psychological damage that occurs when folks don't have their basic needs met.

Review past incidents of OPD officers using a weapon against persons of color.

I am thinking of an incident of several years ago. Two teenage black males stole beer from the Westside Safeway and pushed a clerk on their way out of the store. An OPD officer chased them and shot at one of the boys who he said threatened him with a skateboard. The gunshot wound left the boy wheelchair bound. OPD ruled the shooting justified. In light of recent reports of police using excessive force, would pursuing and shooting a fleeing shoplifter be evaluated differently today? I am NOT suggesting the officer's actions be re-investigated. Rather, what was learned and have there been policy changes since then?

Stop being bigoted, biased, exclusionary, discriminatory, classist, racist, and spineless Stop covering up and protecting murderers. #J4Y

Justice for Yvonne McDonald - Justice for Andre and Bryson

Stop listening to people that talk like Evergreen political science graduates and Marxists...

Do deep evaluation of pay/hiring practices within city govt. and determine if any adjustments need to be made based on city demographics.

Deep Evaluation

Ensure the commission has a succession plan for leadership and mambers who complete terms - in perpetuity.

Olympia has a history of initiatives fading into the sunset, never to be heard of again.