LGBTQ+ Commission Meeting

Description

Cambridge LGBTQ+ Commission

Agenda: Thursday, May 25th, 6-7:30 pm

Co-Chairs: Bill Barnert and Frank Arce

Tonight’s meeting chaired by:  Frank Arce

1. Welcome
2. Assign Minute Taker
3. Approve / Modify Agenda
4. Approve Previous Minutes
5. Introductions, including the new Commissioners: Cindy Telingator. Jason Doo, M Joyce-Anderson, Mary Rebecca Gardner, & Zachary Dresser
6. Project Updates (current actions, and plans) including reports from Jennifer, Amelia, & Phoebe
7. Working Group Reports

• All-Gender Bathrooms
• Budget
• City Forms
• Communications
• Community Center
• Diversity
• Events
  •  Tabling at Cambridge Community Pride Day, Friday, June 6th, 3:30-6:30 (or any subset)
• Handbook
• Housing
• Public Health & Safety
• Pride Brunch - Pride Glam Up and Go Brunch- Saturday, June 10, 2023 at 9:30am-11:30am
• Recruitment - This cycle is closed. Excited for new commissioners.
• Strategic Planning - Preliminary conversation on Commission goals and structure
• Youth - 2nd Annual Cambridge Community Pride Day - Friday, June 6, 2023
  • Need tabling volunteers

8. Old Business

9. New Business

• Review and consolidation of working groups 
• On-boarding the new Commissioners
• Rainbows Across Communities LGBTQ+ Picnic - There will be a multi-town community-building pot-luck picnic on XXXXX at YYYY. Do we want to be a part of it?
• Cambridge LGBTQ+ Community Picnic - Separate from the multi-town picnic, do we want to host one for Cambridge? When? Where?
• The annual Let Trans Athletes Play event has been canceled this year, so we don’t need to vote on whether to co-sponsor it.
• Report from Rainbows Across Communities

10. Public Comments / Announcements
11. Next Commission Meeting: Thursday, June 22, 6-7:30pm, over Zoom

To register for the meeting or to participate in public comment visit: https://cambridgema.zoom.us/j/89723365868

For more information regarding Zoom technology visit: https://www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/citycouncil/zoomonlinemeetinginstructions