Commission approves minutes, excuses absent member and forwards Welcoming Week and Hispanic Heritage Month proclamations

The Mountlake Terrace Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Commission approved several routine motions and forwarded two proclamations to the city council for signature during its meeting.

At the start of the session commissioners voted to excuse a member who had requested an absence and then moved to approve the July meeting minutes.

Later in the meeting commissioners reviewed and amended the draft Welcoming Week proclamation and voted to recommend the amended proclamation to the city council for approval. The commission also reviewed a draft National Hispanic Heritage Month proclamation; editors removed an extraneous conjunction in a country list, standardized numeric percentage formatting to use the percent symbol and agreed to identify Latino/Hispanic communities in the document. Commissioners moved and seconded the revised proclamation and the motion passed.

All motions were moved and seconded on the record and commissioners called for the question; the meeting record states "Those in favor, motion carries" for each item but the transcript does not capture a roll‑call tally.

Ending: The commission forwarded the amended Welcoming Week proclamation to the city council and adopted the revised Hispanic Heritage Month proclamation for council signature; no precise vote counts were recorded in the meeting transcript.