Where do the School Board candidates stand on issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion?
WAIC joined with the Wilsonville Spokesman to develop a questionnaire and publish responses. Read what the candidates had to say (CLICK HERE)! Be sure to fill out your ballots and vote.
Let’s get vaccinated
FREE COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic on May 22
The West Linn-Wilsonville School District will host a FREE COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic on Saturday, May 22 at Wood Middle School. The Clinic is open to EVERYONE in the community with appointments available between 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. The District will host a second clinic on June 12.
This opportunity is open to anyone age 16 and up, including all interested students. The District has partnered with Clackamas County Public Health and GetAFluShot.com to offer this vaccination clinic.
To learn more about this opportunity, and to sign up for a vaccination appointment, please visit the district website.
Clínica de Vacunas COVID-19 sin costo el 22 de mayo
El Distrito Escolar West Linn-Wilsonville será anfitrión de una Clínica de Vacunación COVID-19 SIN COSTO, el sábado 22 de mayo en la Escuela Secundaria Wood. La clínica está abierta a TODOS en la comunidad con citas disponibles entre 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. El Distrito presentara una segunda clínica el 12 de junio.
Esta oportunidad está abierta a cualquiera con edades de 16 años en adelante, incluyendo a todos los estudiantes interesados. El Distrito se ha coordinado con el Departamento de Salud Pública del Condado de Clackamas y GetAFluShot.com, para ofrecer esta clínica de vacunación.
Para enterarse más acerca de esta oportunidad, e inscribirse a una cita para vacunarse, por favor visite el sitio web del distrito.
April meeting recap: Next steps on police reform and accountability
On April 29, eight people met to take the next step towards making Wilsonville a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable place.
We discussed the Derek Chauvin verdict and talked about what should be our next step for police reform and accountability. After a robust discussion, we landed on the following actions:
Put together a best practices document on similar-sized cities to Wilsonville and what they are doing for reform and oversight
Engage and follow along with the City of Wilsonville’s new DEI committee to see how they are going to address policing
We then did a roundtable of updates on WAIC actions, which included a meeting with the West Linn Mayor to talk about standing up a DEI committee in that city, meeting with the Clackamas County restorative justice coalition, supporting on-going efforts for vaccinations, and we met with a group of Wilsonville High School students to talk about how we can support their interest in standing up a DEI group.
Housing Equity Action Team
A group of six people met to discuss and coordinate efforts around supporting inclusive housing in Wilsonville. As you can see from the image below, we covered a lot. Keep scrolling to read the recap. If you would like to join our next meeting, email us today!
We discussed and agreed upon a purpose for this group, that we would coalesce around the issue of housing, and acknowledged that we have the time and privilege to take time to be in this meeting to plan, but that our actions will be grounded in the relationships with
We did a brainstorming session to map out the issues of interest under the main topic areas: middle mix income housing, emergency short term, medically supported long term, and housing history/communications.
In addition to topics of interest, we discussed the challenges and opportunities to pursuing outcomes for inclusive housing (green arrows), which were as follows:
Transportation costs, connections, and low-cost options such as carsharing (which we have none of in Wilsonville)
If we bring in resources, they need to connect to existing residents? Many times this misses the mark and new resources are framed for people moving into the community
HOA and ongoing fees can be difficult to maintain but are not talked about much in housing affordability.
How will we deal with larger, macroeconomic issues like high land and development costs?
With a severe lack of suburban resources for mental health and people experiencing homelessness how do we offer resources but not bear the entire south regional burden as the “magnet”?
In the end, we decided to focus on the following topics:
Housing communication, information, history, facts, and organizing
Emergency and short-term transitional housing and resources
If you would like to join our next meeting, email us today!