Commission on the Status of Women - 11/9/26

The Glendale Commission on the Status of Women met on November 9, 2026. No contracts, bids, or procurement awards were considered. The commission reviewed a YWCA of Glendale and Pasadena request for a $10,000 sponsorship for its 2027 events and programming; the request was not approved or denied. Instead, commissioners voted 5–0 to bring it back at the December meeting with additional detail, including a marketing plan and clearer information on the activities the sponsorship would support. The commission had provided $8,000 for the YWCA’s centennial-year programming. Commissioners also discussed a financial institution’s proposed financial-literacy and home-down-payment program for a future event; staff will add it to the December agenda for consideration.

The commission approved exploring a women’s health event and established an ad hoc committee to plan it. It also authorized an ad hoc committee to develop a December networking and fundraising event. On domestic-violence response, commissioners approved recommendations for further work on survivor housing, community outreach and multilingual information, technology and app options, and coordination with service providers; these include potential affordable-housing set-asides and funding opportunities, but no spending or housing allocation was approved. The commission formed a domestic-violence ad hoc committee. A legislative-session update reported that five of eight bills previously supported by the commission were signed into law and three were vetoed.