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Engagement with reparations community and RFP status
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Council Member Williams inquires about CORE's engagement with various factions in the reparations space and the status of the RFP release.
- CORE is engaging with all groups who approach them and seeking out additional perspectives
- An RFI was released, but the RFP release has been delayed
- The RFP is now expected to be released in March or April
Nantasha Williams
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Yeah.
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You just said that.
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It made me think of something.
2:44:55
So there's like different factions of the reparation space.
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So how are you engaging with the various factions?
Linda Tigani
2:45:03
We're talking to everyone who approaches us, and we're seeking out groups as well.
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At the end of every session, we do ask if there's someone who we should be talking to, please let us know.
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The it's extremely important that we are really clear with the public, and we have been.
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There's no there's no sides from core on any of these questions.
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We want the process to actually occur properly.
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So the RFP questions are going to be based in the human rights framework and the United Nations framework, and everyone and anyone is gonna have access to the RFP and be able to apply.
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We are gonna hold additional QA sessions as the RFP is out so that people understand what we're looking for.
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And our focus is also to create safe spaces for people to come together.
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A lot of the work from truth healing and reconciliation with respect to how are we setting up hearings, how are we bringing people together, what is the social emotional support that we need to have ready in the room, we're gonna be applying that to reparations.
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We have already seen a call for that and community is asking for that as well.
Nantasha Williams
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Thank you.
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We also know that core is expected to release an RFP as you just mentioned.
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Have you released it at the plan date which has passed?
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If not well I think you have, right?
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You released it?
Linda Tigani
2:46:41
We so we released a request for information.
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We did not release the RFP yet.
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In earlier conversations with your office as well as the other elected officials sponsored this work.
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We wanted to release in February, but we were not able to.
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Okay.
Nantasha Williams
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When will you be releasing a RFP?
Linda Tigani
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Yeah.
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We're hoping to release it likely by the March or the April.
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And have you gotten any responses from your RFI yet?
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With respect to the RFI, we received, I believe, less than three, maybe three, certainly less than five written comments.
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All the comments and feedback that's coming in is coming in verbally.
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And then just to note the context of an RFI, anything that is submitted to the city is foilable.
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And I think in this current political climate, people are feeling more comfortable talking to us rather than writing it down.
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And so what we've done is just make ourselves more available.
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I do wanna note that we didn't we don't have any staff to work on this project.
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So part of the delay in getting the RFP out is we still have five charter mandates that we are consistently working on and the call for community consistently
Nantasha Williams
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to have more time to talk with us to inform what the RFP is going to look like and what are the aspects that we need to take into consideration
Linda Tigani
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is why we are currently delayed.