Brewer questions CEC on language access and funding advocacy
Brewer asks about language access request volume and whether CEC advocates for community board funding. Saeed says they receive occasional requests, and Salter notes boards' biggest frustration is lack of funding for language outreach. Saeed confirms funding advocacy is a different process outside CEC's role.
And the other question I have is, do you get a lot of requests for language?
Do you have to refer to MOIA quite a bit?
How does that work?
Because I've
Obviously, that would be good if you did.
I just didn't know.
Yeah, I don't think we are getting a lot.
We do get them occasionally.
Benjamin, do you want to add?
I mean, we get one or two a month of somebody asking for interpretation or translation services.
Yeah, we should be doing more because then that would bring more people into the community.
I think that's one of the biggest frustrations that boards have is the lack of ability and funding to do that.
To do the outreach for that.
Okay.
And do you advocate for community boards to get more funding, or that would be something that would come out of a different process?
That would not be what CEC would do?
It's a different process.
Different process.
Okay.