The Racial Justice Task Force is coming to an end and has one meeting left before submitting its report to the County Board and the community at large. For more information on what the RJTF is and why it was created by the County Board you can either go to the RJTF website here or for the brief cliff notes on this site here. The live stream on the county board website did not appear to be functional to watch it from home. I'll update this when I get an answer on if there's a new link not on the County Board website on Monday. Until then, livestream appears to be down:
This second to last meeting was almost entirely working on the final report, and a lot of time dedicated to the introduction of that report. You can imagine a committee editing typos and suggestions on a google documents up on the overhead projector and all the excitement that work entails. Short but civil debates occurred on being clear, concise, but ensuring the content accurately represented the reasons for the report, why it the task force was necessary, and effectively describing it all.
There was a lot of work to do and I imagine the final meeting will probably run long as well. Many subcommittee/subgroup tasks were assigned to format and fix their assigned portions and also to review them prior to the next meeting. If you're curious to see the nitty gritty work that goes into having to work on projects as a committee within county government, that last meeting may be interesting as the pressure to complete is either met or runs late. This meeting adjourned at 9:51 pm by the wall and my clocks, so remember where the bathrooms are from the "Attend a Meeting" primer.
There haven't been any minutes posted for recent RJTF meetings, but older ones are available here at the very bottom of the page under the 2017 and 2016 meeting menu buttons. Also it's been a couple months since any videos of the meetings have been uploaded, but those older ones are available here.
For most sane people, the next big news will be when that report is released in its final form. The very buried lede is that they were looking to present it at the next County Board "Committee of the Whole" meeting and get it on the agenda for that to present and answer questions on November 14th. There was an initial concern about the regular County Board meeting being right before Thanksgiving (moved from its usual Thursday spot to the earlier Tuesday), so I'll try to update here on which way that ended up getting on the COW agenda or the general County Board meeting agenda.
If you're still reading this...
...you may be getting wonky! #nerdgoals
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