I Did the Time Advocacy Meeting Agenda September 24, 2014 6:30-6:40 6:40-6:55 6:55-7:00 Introduction & Welcome—Meeting new faces Old Business Update • Law & Justice Council Update • Ban the Box Presentations—Stuckart & Snyder loved it! o City Policy in 1 month • Civic Engagement Work o 2 Hour Booths @ SNAP, Worksource & Goodwill during week of 9/2910/3 (Deadline: October 6) o Voting Party at Next meeting (Bring your ballots & celebrate our liberties!) • Compiling a List of Employers & Housing Providers • Meeting with Unions of Spokane Alliance Fundraising/Grants • • • 7:00-7:20 Upcoming Meetings Criminal Justice Panel with Don’t Shoot: September 27th @5pm @ The Community Building (I Did the Time presents on the panel) • Organizing Service Organizations: October 3rd @ 3:30 @ Fulcrum  Find out who does what for our population & present our needs  The Ash Street Station  Get in on the Business Round Table (Breakfast on Oct 28 th) • Legislative Action: October 14th @ 3pm—Meeting with Rep.’s Riccelli & Ormsby to present stories & ask for support on 2 bills:  LFO Reform (ACLU)  Fair Chance Act (Washington Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers) • Still scheduling times to present to the rest of City Council & Mayor… • Smart Justice Symposium—(11/15) New Business • 7:20-7:30 Applied to RESIST for $4k (will know by December) The Community Building Foundation (up to $2k) North West Justice Fund for $10k (Ban the Box/Fair Chance Act Campaign)—work with PJALs & Smart Justice I Did the Time meet with city council members, Ben Stuckart and Jon Snyder, on Friday 5, 2014 I Did the Time members, Layne Pavey, Geven Sutherland, Dom Felix, Brandon Mast, Steve Syverson, Bill Keizer, Jerry Fennen, and Julie Schaffer from Center for Justice meet with Stuckart and Snyder to discuss Ban the Box. I Did the Time members presented their own stories of hardships they have faced with gaining employment and how important Ban the Box is to Spokane. I Did the Time Steering Committee Meeting Agenda August 27th, 2014 6:30pm at Open Gate Reentry (218 S. Howard) 6:30-6:40 Introduction—Meeting new faces 6:40-6:55       Old Business Update Law & Justice Council Update Ban the Box—Meeting with Mayor & City Council (no date yet) PhotoVoice Recovery Group Reentry work in prisons with Open Gate Civic Engagement Work—Dom    Fundraising/Grants Anne Martin with Smart Justice Applying for $4k Grant from RESIST Creating a Board 6:55-7:05 7:05-7:20         Upcoming Events Voter Reg @ Pig Out in the Park with EWV (August 27-31) Phone Conference with ACLU (9/4 @2pm on LFO Reform) Compassion Games—Pick a community service project (9/11) Suicide Prevention Walk (Sept 20th) Don’t Shoot Kick Off Fundraiser—Justin (9/27) Smart Justice Symposium—Dom (11/15) 7:20-7:25 Big Event: I Did the Time Panel with Legislators  At Riverpoint: Sponsored by School of Social Work  Pick Date based on when 3rd District Legislators can attend  Set up Sub-committees: Invites, decoration, hosts, food/drinks?? 7:25-7:25 New Business  Felon-Owned Business   Adornment 7:30 Agenda August 16, 2014 Unity in the Community We at I Did The Time would like to give a special thanks to “OPENGATE RE-ENTRY of SPOKANE” for sponsoring the booth and partnering up with our coalition. All of our affiliates are listed at “ididthetime.org”. We are unified in our joint efforts to create system change to better the lives for ex-offenders and their families. The I Did The Time Coalition would like to thank all the community support we received while having our booth at Unity in the Community. OpenGate and Ididthetime would like to give a special thanks to all the other organizations who are so willing to support us in such a worthy cause. WE THANK YOU ALL. The “I did the time coalition” consists of many ex-offenders and professionals. The only way Saturday could have been any better, is if our other dedicated members busy schedules could have allowed them to be part of this great photo. Agenda I Did The Time. July 30, 2014 at Open Gate Reentry 6:30pm Introductions (New Members) 6:40pm Update on meeting with Gloria Ochoa (Assistant to Mayor Condon)—Layne  Ban the Box Strategy  Upcoming meeting with Mayor Condon (Thursday mornings at 9am)  Select 6-8 of our members to tell their “Job Discrimination” story o Create another meeting to put presentation together? o Presentation must be less than 30 minutes 7:00pm Update on Support Group—Geven  Places to put Flyers—Bill (Pioneer, Brownstone, Fulcrum) 7:10pm Civic Engagement Events—Jessie & Dom  Hillyard Festival: Friday August 1st—Volunteers between 5-9pm  Unity in the Community: Saturday August 16th—Volunteers between 9am5pm  Booth at Work Source/Goodwill?  Don’t Shoot Events—Justin  Partnering with Spokane CAN for Civic Engagement trainings & trip to Olympia on Lobby Day 7:20pm New Business  (c)3 Status  Creating a construction business  Owning & fixing up rental properties  Grants—Geven