Description

Progress and Prosper Board of Health

Meeting Minutes

Sunday -- October 11, 2020

Opening

The Collaboration and Decision-Making meeting of the Progress and Prosper Board of Health was called to order at 3:02pm EST on Sunday -- October 11, 2020 via Zoom Meeting.

Present

Quinn Hennessy-Snow, Jamal Wilkinson, Jhansi Lanka, and Rachel Waltzer

Approval of Agenda

The agenda was unanimously approved as distributed.

Approval of Minutes

There were no previous minutes to approve, as this was the board’s first meeting.

Open Issues

None

New Business

Identify a prioritization process for choosing just three determinants of health and safety as a focus for your local public health organization.

●       Prior to this meeting, all four board members filled out two THRIVE worksheets with community members and emailed them to the rest of the board. See the THRIVE worksheets for all board members attached below.

●       Keeping in mind the goal of this meeting -- to determine three determinants of health for our organization to focus on -- we had a discussion as a board via this Zoom meeting to discuss the best and most efficient methods for choosing these three determinants

●       As a board, we wanted to reflect the population we are serving, so we discussed the best way to fairly choose the most representative health and safety determinants

●       As a board, we decided that the best strategy for choosing our determinants would be to compare the determinants chosen in the THRIVE worksheets via Google Sheets and tally the top three from each of the eight worksheets. Since Google Sheets would be accessible by all board members, and since we felt a tally would best represent the choices by our community members, we felt that this was the most fair, efficient, and effective way to determine our organization’s health and safety focus.

●       Jamal created a Google Sheet and shared it with the board. Each board member then added the top three THRIVE factors from their two worksheets. Please see the Google Sheet in the attachments below

●       A tally was made in the Google Sheet to assess which factors were the most commonly chosen.

●       The top factors from the tally included:

o   Participation & Willingness to Act for the Common Good had 5 tallies

o   Getting Around had 3 tallies

o   Housing had 3 tallies

o   Living Wages and Local Wealth had 3 tallies

o   Education had 3 tallies

●       Participation & Willingness to Act for the Common Good was automatically chosen because it had the most tallies.

●       We then had a discussion about the remaining four factors which tied for the second most tallies. We decided after our discussion that the most fair and efficient way to narrow the top four down to two was to have a vote. Each board member voted for two of the four they felt were most important and representative of the community. The two most voted for became the other two chosen health and safety determinants

●       The top three health and safety determinants chosen by our board are Participation & Willingness to Act for the Common Good, Getting Around, and Living Wages & Local Wealth.