Known PAC Views. The majority of PAC members, in individual meetings or in previous public meetings of the full commission or of its sub-committees, have expressed the desire to have clarity on certain processes that are addressed in the bylaws to ensure that future conversations have a clear and pre-determined framework that all PAC members have been a part of developing. Previous PAC Understanding: The PAC agreed to collect draft text from drafting groups composed of 2-3 members of the sub-committee, receive final drafts in advance of the meeting, and collect them into a single document for consideration by the sub-committee at its January 18 or February 12 meetings. These were all consolidated following the February 12 meeting. Potential Agreement: Approve the PAC Draft Bylaws, as amended during today’s meeting of the Sub- Committee on Bylaws and Internal Processes, for review by the full Police Accountability Commission in its later March 2022 meetings. Potential Agreement: Allow co-chairs and staff to reorganize or reformat the draft bylaws (not to change text) in advance of presenting them to the full commission in order to make them clearer to the reader. Can the PAC change this agreement later? Yes. The sub-committee will not meet again on this issue, but the full PAC has yet to begin its consideration of the draft bylaws. Coming to this agreement, as a sub-committee, allows the PAC to begin that consideration.
Known PAC Views. All members of the sub-committee have been a part of developing at least one section of the draft bylaws. All sections have been discussed at least once (February 12) by the sub-committee and will be discussed a second time on March 5.
Known PAC Views. All members of the sub-committee have been a part of developing at least one section of the draft community engagement framework.
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Known PAC Views. Many PAC members have said they anticipate that only some PAC members will want to be directly involved in drafting bylaws – not all 20. Some of the PAC have said they want to do this already, and others have said they’d prefer not to be involved in that. Previous PAC Understanding: If the PAC creates a sub-committee, membership is voluntary for PAC members and PAC members can join more than one sub-committee. Anything a sub-committee agrees to would eventually need to be approved by the full PAC. (Discussed on December 9)
Known PAC Views. During one-on-ones with city staff, several PAC members discussed the importance of community engagement to develop a sense of co-creation with communities, in particular those who are most affected by policing, over-policing, and police misconduct, and to ensure that the proposed code package the PAC will present City Council at the end of this process has community support.
Known PAC Views. Some of the PAC have said they want to develop this framework already, and others have said they’d prefer not to be involved in the details of this themselves. Sub-committees allow subsets of the PAC to draft a framework before the full PAC would discuss and approve the framework.
Known PAC Views. PAC members who have discussed this item in previous meetings have indicated a desire to have clear values and goals, to refer to them frequently, and to use them as success criteria for the commission’s work and output. Previous PAC Understanding: At the two December meetings of the PAC, members agreed to develop Values at the full commission meetings, and discussed them at the January 27, March 3, and March 17 meetings. Additionally, members were aware they could send in suggested text, and co-chairs would add in the text or combine ideas together for clarity. Potential Agreement: Approve the PAC Draft Values and Goals, as amended during today’s meeting, as the PAC Values and Goals.
Known PAC Views. The majority of PAC members, in individual meetings or in previous public meetings of the full commission or of its sub-committees, have expressed the desire to have clarity on certain processes that are addressed in the bylaws to ensure that future conversations have a clear and pre-determined framework that all PAC members have been a part of developing.
Known PAC Views. All members of the sub-committee were involved in developing the draft Bylaws, which were discussed at six meetings of the sub-committee and referred to the full PAC at the sub-committee’s March 12 meeting.
Known PAC Views. All members of the commission were asked to give input on the draft Bylaws prior to the March 24 meeting of the full commission. All suggestions received were incorporated into the draft document shown during the March 24 meeting.