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[ AGENDA CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZEN ACTION COMMISSION City Hall - Council Chambers 6131 Taylorsville Road May 2, 2024 6:00 P.M. ]
I CALLED THE MAY 2ND MEETING OF THE CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZENS ACTION MEETING TO ORDER AT 6:12 PM JEFFREY, WHEN YOU GET BACK, PLEASE GET A ROLL CALL.MS. TROTTER? PRESENT? MR. CHAA? EZ.
JUST GONNA PUT IT IN MY PHONE AND MAKE IT, KEEP PRACTICING IT BACK TO ME UNTIL I CAN GET IT RIGHT.
LET'S MOVE TO APPROVAL OF MINUTES FOR APRIL, 2024 MEETING.
UM, AT THIS TIME SHE IS ON, UH, TEMPORARY LITTLE MEDICAL LEAVE.
NEXT, WE'LL MOVE TO THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FOR THE APRIL 24TH MEETING.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY EDITS TO THE MINUTES? UH, I HAVE ONE EDIT.
I NEED TO BE PRESENT ON THE ROLL CALL, JEFFREY.
UM, IS YOUR NAME SPELLED CORRECTLY THIS MONTH? YEP.
ANY OTHER EDITS OR CHANGES NEEDED TO THE MINUTES? NO.
MOTION TO APPROVE WITH THE S MADAM VICE CHAIR.
I MOVE THAT WE ACCEPT THE APRIL 7TH, 2024 HUBER HEIGHTS CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZENS ACTION COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES WITH THE ONE CORRECTION FOR THE ROLL CALL TO INCLUDE MR. ERIC RICHARDSON'S NAME.
WE DON'T NEED A ROLL CALL FOR THAT, RIGHT? MOVED AND SECONDED.
MR. RICHARDSON, LET'S MOVE TO CITIZENS' COMMENTS.
LADIES, FOR YOU HERE TO MAKE SOME COMMENTS THIS EVENING.
WELCOME, IF YOU DON'T MIND, UM, JUST STATING YOUR NAME AND COME UP TO THE DICE OR THE PODIUM.
WE ARE ACTUALLY THE LADIES OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY.
MY NAME IS CARLA SCOTT AND I'M THE VICE PRESIDENT OF BETA EIGHT OMEGA CHAPTER OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INCORPORATED.
I'M HONORED TO BE WITH YOU THIS EVENING TO PROMOTE BETA EIGHT AT OMEGAS 90TH CHARTERING OBSERVANCE.
UM, THE CHAPTER IS OFFICIALLY LOCATED IN DAYTON, OHIO, UM, AND WAS CHARTERED ON JUNE 8TH, 1934.
HOWEVER, OUR COMMUNITY SERVICE OUTREACH, OH, OUR COMMUNITY SERVICE OUTREACH EXTENDS OVER THE ENTIRE MONTGOMERY COUNTY AREA.
UM, AS VIDE OMEGA CHAPTER CELEBRATES 90 YEARS, MY CHAPTER WILL CONTINUALLY AMPLIFY THE COMMITMENT TO SERVICE.
THIS IS ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH, UM, A VARIETY OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAMS THAT SUPPORT EMPOWERING FAMILIES, BUILDING ECONOMIC WEALTH, UM, ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY, SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY, AND SUPPORTING THE DAYTON AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES, ALL OF WHICH ALIGN WITH ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA'S.
PROGRAMS OF SERVICE BE EIGHT OMEGA SERVES AS OVER AS ONE OF OVER A THOUSAND CHAPTERS THAT OPERATE LOCALLY, NATIONALLY, AND INTERNATIONALLY.
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INCORPORATED, IT IS THE OLDEST BLACK GREEK.
IT IS THE OLDEST GREEK LETTER ORGANIZATION ESTABLISHED BY AFRICAN AMERICAN COLLEGE EDUCATED WOMEN IN 1908, WITH INFLUENCES THAT EXTEND BEYOND COLLEGE CAMPUSES TO 360,000 COLLEGE EDUCATED WOMEN.
THE MISSION OF THE ORGANIZATION IS TO BE
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OF SERVICE TO ALL MANKIND.DURING THE WEEK OF JUNE, FIRST THROUGH JUNE 8TH, 2024, BETA EIGHT OMEGA WILL CELEBRATE 90 YEARS OF CONTINUOUS DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE DAYTON COMMUNITY, UH, DAYTON AND SURROUNDING COMMUNITY.
TO COMMEMORATE THIS SPECIAL OCCASION, WE ARE HOSTING A SERIES OF EVENTS TO INCLUDE HARE, WHICH IS OUR SIGNATURE PROGRAM, CELEBRATING WOMEN AND GIRLS ON JUNE 1ST AT THE HOLIDAY INN IN FAIRBORNE.
UM, IT'S AT 4:00 PM AND IT'S OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
UH, OUR HEALTH AND WELLNESS EXPO WILL GO ON DURING THAT TIME AS WELL.
UM, AND IT'LL BE AGAIN, AT THE HOLIDAY INN.
THE EXPO WILL HOST EXHIBITORS FEATURING THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS OF HEALTH, FITNESS, AND NUTRITION.
UM, ALSO MASSAGES AND YOGA DEMONSTRATIONS.
AND THAT'S FROM 1230 TO THREE 30, AND THAT'S FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
UM, WE'LL DO A GET OUT TO VOTE VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT ON JUNE 4TH, DOWN AT THE WEST, UH, WEST DAYTON SOCIAL TAP AND TABLE ON THIRD STREET.
THAT IS FROM FIVE 30 TO SEVEN 30 AND IT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
THEN WE'LL DO A KARAOKE NIGHT ON JUNE 6TH AT THE RESERVE ON THIRD, UM, DOWN AT, UH, YEAH, THE RESERVE ON THIRD AT 6:00 PM AND OUR CULMINATING EVENT CALLED A PINK CARPET AFFAIR WILL BE ON JUNE 8TH AT THE SINCLAIR PUNS CENTER.
UM, THAT'S AT SIX FROM 6:00 PM TO 10:00 PM AND THAT'S OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AS WELL.
AND ALL OF THIS INFORMATION IS LOCATED ON OUR WEBSITE, AKA DAYTON.ORG.
AGAIN, I THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE A LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA SORORITY INCORPORATED, AND MORE SPECIFICALLY MY CHAPTER BETA EIGHT OMEGA.
IS THERE CONTACT INFORMATION ON YOUR WEBSITE FOR US TO REACH OUT TO YOU TO MAYBE PARTNER, UM, ON SOME OF OUR EVENTS? ABSOLUTELY, YES.
OR AT LEAST HAVE YOU ATTEND EVEN AS A VENDOR.
AS SOON AS YOU PULL UP OUR WEBSITE, YOU WILL SEE OUR PRESIDENT.
YOU MUST HAVE JUST SNUCK OUTTA HERE,
BUT YES, CONTACT INFORMATION IS THERE.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR THEM? NO.
DID YOU WANT TO GIVE ANY COMMENTS THIS EVENING? SIR, YOU'RE WELCOME TO.
STEP UP AND INTRODUCE YOURSELF AND FEEL FREE TO GIVE ANY COMMENTS.
UH, ANOTHER, ANOTHER NAME TO
SO, UM, UH, JUST MOVED TO THIS, UH, TO YUBA HEIGHT.
SO I MOVED RECENTLY LAST YEAR.
AND, UM, LAST WEEK, UH, WE MET AT THE LIBRARY AND THEN, UH, I WAS, UH, QUITE INTERESTED OVER YOUR PROGRAMS AND WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE CITY.
SO I WILL, I RECEIVED THE INVITATION TO PASS BY.
I'M HERE TO LEARN, I'M LEARNING.
AND, UM, WE HAVE SOME INITIATIVES WHICH ARE GOING ON AND, UH, MAYBE I WILL GET A TIME TO SIT WITH SOMEBODY AND THEN TALK TO YOU WHAT KIND OF INITIATIVE DO WE HAVE? BUT, UH, MOSTLY WE HAVE SOME OF THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO WANTED TO GROW, UM, CROPS.
THEY WANT TO GROW, EGG BAT, AFRICAN EGG, POTATOES, UH, TOMATOES.
THEY WANT TO GROW, UH, SOME BEANS.
SO SPECIFICALLY THIS IS FOR THE ADULT POPULATION, THOSE WHO ARE NOT ABLE TO STAND IN A FACTORY, UH, EIGHT HOURS OR 10 HOURS.
SO THEY WANT TO BE ACTIVE IN THE SOCIETY.
SO WE ALSO HAVE SOME INITIATIVE, UH, ADDRESSING THE LANGUAGE BARRIERS.
SO WE ALSO SERVE AS INITIATIVE, UH, HELPING THE COMMUNITY TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF GENDER INEQUALITY.
SO MAYBE ONCE I GET A TIME TO PREPARE, I CAN BRING SOMETHING BULLET POINT TO PRESENT, MAYBE NEXT TIME.
BUT AT THIS MOMENT, I WANT TO JUST SAY TO HELLO, HELLO TO EVERYBODY AND THANK YOU.
WITH THAT, WE WILL MOVE RIGHT ALONG.
UM, IT'S MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL UPDATES, AN OLD BUSINESS.
UM, I HAD A, A QUICK MEETING BEFORE THIS MEETING.
UM, JUST TO KIND OF DISCUSS NEXT STEPS.
UM, THERE WAS SOME CONCERN FROM THE CITY STANDPOINT ON US CANCELING THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL FOR THIS YEAR.
UM, AND GIVEN THAT INFORMATION, UM, THE CITY DECIDED, UM, THEY'RE GOING TO
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MOVE FORWARD WITH, UH, SOME VERSION OR ITERATION OF THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL, UM, IN OCTOBER OF THIS YEAR.UM, GIVEN THAT, UM, WE HAD MADE THE DECISION TO CANCEL IT, THE CITY DECIDED THAT THEY WOULD MOVE FORWARD WITH IT.
UM, GIVEN THAT THAT IS VIEWED AS MAYBE NOT CANCELING OR AS WE WERE UNABLE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH IT.
SO THEY ARE GOING TO, UM, I AM, I AM EXCITED TO HAVE THE PARTNERSHIP OF THE CHAMBER, UM, AND THE CITY, UM, MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS EVENT, UH, FOR NEXT YEAR.
UM, I THINK GIVEN THE SUPPORT AND THE OUTREACH OF THE PARKS MANAGER AND THE CITY, UM, I THINK WE CAN TAKE A LOT OF THE HEAVY LIFT OFF OF THIS COMMISSION WHEN IT COMES TO THE PLANNING OF THAT EVENT, UM, AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THAT EVENT.
UM, IF WE ARE IN AGREEMENT THAT WE WOULD STILL OBVIOUSLY BE INVOLVED, UM, BUT NOT LIKE ON THE FACE PAINTING AND THE BOUNCE HOUSES AND, YOU KNOW, MAPPING STUFF OUT, UM, THAT OUR INVOLVEMENT WOULD SIMPLY BE, UM, MAYBE THAT'S NOT THE BEST WAY TO PUT THAT, BUT OUR INVOLVEMENT WOULD BE MORE THE CULTURAL COMPETENCY, UM, TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE DOING THINGS, UM, CORRECTLY TO DOING THINGS WITH THE CORRECT CULTURAL COMPETENCY.
UM, AND THAT WE WOULD BE USING OUR EXPERTISE IN THIS REALM, UM, JUST TO ENSURE THAT, THAT THE CITY DOES THIS EVENT, UM, THROUGH THE CORRECT LENS.
UM, AND AS A CELEBRATION OF THE MANY CULTURES, UM, THAT WE HAVE HERE IN HUBER HEIGHTS, UM, THERE'S REALLY NOTHING FOR US TO VOTE ON WHEN IT COMES TO OCTOBER.
OTHER, THERE'S NOTHING FOR US TO VOTE ON WHEN IT COMES TO OCTOBER.
UM, THEY WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT OUR LEVEL OF INVOLVEMENT WOULD BE FOR THIS YEAR.
UM, I HAVE LIMITED AVAILABILITY IN OCTOBER.
JEAN ALSO HAS VERY LIMITED AVAILABILITY IN OCTOBER.
UM, SO WE WOULD STILL HAVE CREDIT FOR THE EVENT, UM, THIS YEAR, AND OF COURSE WE WOULD, IT WOULD STILL BE OUR EVENT NEXT YEAR.
UM, IT WAS A CONCERN THAT THE MARIGOLD FESTIVAL WAS ALSO CANCELED, UM, AND THEN WE CANCELED OUR MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL.
AND FROM A, AN UPPER CITY COUNCIL VIEWPOINT, THEY JUST DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE TWO FESTIVALS CANCELED AND THEN HAVE VERY LIMITED EVENTS LEFT FOR THIS YEAR.
I GUESS THAT'S THE BEST WAY I CAN PUT THAT.
SO WITH THAT, WE NEED TO DECIDE.
IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE TODAY, HONESTLY.
UM, WE NEED TO SET A DATE FOR NEXT YEAR FOR THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL.
AND WITH THAT, WELL, I GUESS WE DON'T, BECAUSE IF WE'RE HANDING IT OVER, I THINK THE CITY GETS TO SET THE DATE.
I DON'T KNOW HOW, I DON'T KNOW.
FOR NEXT YEAR'S EVENT, HOW INVOLVED DO WE WANNA BE AS A COMMISSION? AND IF WE HAND OVER THE MAJORITY OF THE LIFT TO THE CITY, IT TAKES THE APPROVAL PROCESS OUT OF THIS COMMISSION'S HANDS.
SO WE DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE RULES WHEN IT COMES TO SITTING AT THE TABLE WITH MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY AND THE CHAMBER TO PLAN THESE EVENTS.
IT DOESN'T HAVE TO COME BACK HERE FOR APPROVAL.
SO THAT'S KIND OF A BENEFIT, UM, THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE THAT CONSTANT CHECK-IN EVERY MONTH ON WHERE WE HAVE THE BUDGET, WHO'S GOT THE FACE PAINTER, DID WE DO THIS? OUR, OUR INVOLVEMENT WOULD BE, HERE ARE THE CULTURAL GROUPS, THIS IS THE PLAN, HOW DO WE DO THIS RESPECTIVELY AND WITH CULTURAL COMPETENCY.
SO, FEELINGS, THOUGHTS, CONCERNS, HAVE, ADAM, I HAVE A QUESTION I MIGHT HAVE ANSWERS.
IT'S JUST FOR MY GENERAL KNOWLEDGE.
I'M JUST CURIOUS, UM, IS IT STANDARD PROTOCOL THAT THE CITY CAN MAKE THESE KIND OF DECISIONS WITHOUT TALKING TO THEIR COMMISSIONS FIRST? YEAH, BASICALLY WHAT I WAS TOLD IS THESE ARE CITY EVENTS, WHETHER OR NOT WE'RE THE ONES PLANNING 'EM OR IMPLEMENTING THEM, THEY'RE CITY EVENTS.
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SO IF WE CANCEL SOMETHING, WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO CANCEL IT, BUT THE CITY HAS THE RIGHT TO SAY THEY'RE NOT GONNA CANCEL IT.AND THAT'S BASICALLY WHAT HAPPENED AS SO IT WAS SAID TO ME, I HAVE A FOLLOW UP TO THAT QUESTION.
SO IS THAT STATED IN WRITING SOMEWHERE, NUMBER ONE AND NUMBER TWO, THIS COMMISSION, AS WE ALL KNOW, WE'VE BEEN COORDINATING THIS EVENT FOR ALMOST THREE YEARS NOW.
SO WHY NOW? THIS IS BEING BROUGHT UP.
WE'VE ASKED FOR THEIR HELP BEFORE, HAVEN'T WE? YEAH.
AND I, AND, AND, AND THEY'RE TO GIVE SOME CONCESSION.
THEY'VE ALSO HAD A LARGE TURNOVER AND NEW PEOPLE IN THESE POSITIONS THAT WERE NOT IN THESE POSITIONS WHEN WE WERE PLANNING THESE EVENTS IN THE LAST VERY MANY YEARS.
SO WE VERY MUCH WANTED THE CITY TO START TAKING SOME OWNERSHIP IN THESE EVENTS.
MAYBE NOT IN THIS WAY, UM, BUT IT JUST HAPPENED TO BE THE WAY THAT THINGS FELL OUT.
WE CANCELED CITY COUNCIL, MET CITY STAFF MET, THE MEMO WENT OUT, AND IT GOT TO SOCIAL MEDIA BEFORE IT COULD GET TO US.
SO THERE, THERE WAS A CONCEDED LACK OF COMMUNICATION, I WOULD SAY, UM, THAT GOT US TO THAT POSITION AND, AND GOT US TO FEELING LIKE THIS WAS A, A HOSTILE TAKEOVER OF OUR EVENT.
UM, AND I TRULY BELIEVE THAT THAT WAS NOT FAIR INTENT.
BUT IT, IT DID NOT NECESSARILY ROLL OUT VERY WELL, UM, AT THE END OF THE DAY.
SO WITH THAT CONCESSION, YOU KNOW, UM, IT, IT WAS OUR, OUR WANT TO HAVE THE CITY TAKE SOME OWNERSHIP.
AND I THINK THE PARTS THAT THEY'RE WILLING TO TAKE THE OWNERSHIP IN ARE THE PARTS THAT WE NEED THEM TO TAKE THE OWNERSHIP IN THE PLANNING OF THE MAPPING OUT OF THE EVENT AND THE GETTING THOSE KIND OF VENDORS AND REGISTRATION AND STUFF DONE.
AND WE CAN FOCUS ON THE CULTURAL GROUPS AND MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE PLANNING THAT PART OF IT CORRECTLY, AND THEN WE CAN BE THERE AND LITERALLY A VOLUNTEER CAPACITY.
AND SO WE DON'T, WE WON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT A BUDGET.
WE DON'T HAVE TO DO ALL OF THAT APPROVAL PROCESS.
AND THAT WAS, I, I TALKED MYSELF INTO THAT AT THE END OF THE MEETING.
I WAS LIKE, SO WHO'S THE APPROVAL PROCESS? BUT IF IT'S THE CITY'S EVENT, IT'S NOT OUR APPROVAL PROCESS.
PROBABLY STILL OUR BUDGET, MAYBE NOT OUR PROBLEM.
THAT'S ANOTHER PIECE OF THAT TOO.
I DIDN'T THINK ABOUT WHOSE BUDGET DOES IT START? HEY JEFF.
HEY, WHOSE BUDGET DOES IT START COMING OUT OF
UM, OBVIOUSLY JUST TALKING WITH, UH, ABRAHAM AND, UM, BYRAM WITH THE IDEA OF ADDING MORE EVENTS.
I WON'T SPEAK THAT MUCH INTO IT, BUT THE IDEA OF, YOU KNOW, A A, A TURKISH, UM, DINNER, UM, AND HOPEFULLY SOMETHING THAT'S AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR WITH MORE EVENTS, UM, IT WOULD PROBABLY COME OUT OF YOUR GUYS' BUDGET JUST LIKE THINKING, LIKE THINKING ABOUT IT NOW.
BUT THAT'S NOT TO SAY THAT YOU GUYS WOULD JUST GET AN INCREASE IN FUNDING BECAUSE THERE ARE MORE PROJECTS AND, AND YOU KNOW, HOW, HOW MUCH YOU GUYS ACTUALLY WANT TO ADD TO THEM.
SO, YOU KNOW, IF INITIALLY, WHAT IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, I THINK WE'RE AT 15,000 FOR THE BUDGET FOR THE YEAR.
I MEAN, IF WE'RE, IF THE IDEA RIGHT NOW IS AS ME AND SARAH MCPHERSON TALKING, NOW WE'RE THINKING OF ADDING TWO MORE EVENTS TO YOU GUYS' CALENDAR, YOU KNOW, AND THEN THE WHOLE IDEA OF YOU GUYS DOING MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL, WE'RE PLANNING FOR IT THIS YEAR.
AND I WOULD SAY MAYBE YOU GUYS EVEN KIND OF LIKE MAYBE ONE UP IT FOR NEXT YEAR, I THINK IN RETURN, I THINK THAT JUST MEANS, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WE TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE CAN ADD MORE MONEY TO YOUR GUYS' OVERALL BUDGET.
SO, YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS AREN'T WORRIED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER, YOU KNOW, EVENTS THAT WOULD PROBABLY GET, YOU KNOW, LESS FUNDING AND WE CAN LIVE TO GETTING SPONSORS THAT ARE ACTUALLY PAID FOR SURE.
THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S SLAPPING PEOPLE ON SPONSORSHIPS THAT ARE NOT SPONSORS.
SO, UM, I THINK I GET, I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
SO BASICALLY, IF WE DON'T USE THE BUDGET, THE CITY WANTS TO WILL, IF YOU DON'T WANNA USE YOUR MONEY, WE'LL USE IT.
WHEN WILL THE DATE BE SOLIDIFIED? OCTOBER TOOK, TOOK CARE
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OF MONEY.WHAT ABOUT THE DATE? OCTOBER 12TH.
AND WHO SPECIFICALLY IS LEADING THE CHARGE FOR THE EVENT? THE PARKS DEPARTMENT AND PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CHAMBER.
AND THEN WHEN WILL THE PLANNING MEETINGS BE ANNOUNCED AND WHEN WILL WE BE LOOPED IN? I HAVE NO IDEA.
SO, SO CARLO, THAT'S SOMETHING I COULD SHOOT YOU GUYS ON THAT EMAIL.
UM, I DON'T KNOW TARA FOR THAT, IF YOU THINK THAT'S BETTER, UM, BECAUSE I KNOW THE LAST TIME WE HAD A MEETING, I KNOW BY ROOM WAS EAGER WHERE HE WAS TRYING TO COME FROM TOO.
SO, I MEAN, AGAIN, IT'S NOT LIKE, I GUESS IT'S JUST THAT EVERYONE'S CAPACITY.
UM, JUST BECAUSE OCTOBER'S MAYBE NOT A GOOD TIME OF THE YEAR FOR EVERYONE, BUT I, I THINK THE IDEA IS, UM, I GUESS SOMETIME I'LL SHOOT YOU GUYS THAT EMAIL JUST TO KEEP THOSE, UM, MEMBERS IN MIND WHO WANT OR HAVE THE ABILITY TO KIND OF HELP OUT, KIND OF GIVE THAT OUT OF THAT INPUT FOR HOW THEY KIND OF WANT TO SEE THE EVENT TO GO.
UM, DEFINITELY GONNA SHOOT YOU GUYS AN EMAIL AND TRY TO SEE WHERE YOU GUYS', UH, AVAIL AVAILABILITY IS.
SO IT REALLY IS, IF YOU WANNA HELP, FEEL FREE TO HELP.
I'M PROBABLY NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO HELP IN A LARGE CAPACITY THIS YEAR, BUT, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE WE'RE DEFINITELY GONNA BE STARTING THE PLANNING FOR NEXT YEAR, LIKE NEXT MONTH.
SO WHO DETERMINED THE OCTOBER 12TH DATE FOR THE EVENT? I THINK THAT WAS, THAT WAS SARAH.
AND, UH, I'M, I'M ASSUMING, UH, UH, LOST TRACK OF THOUGHT.
OH, UH, HUBERT HEIGHTS, UH, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, I'D SAY.
I BELIEVE IT WAS THEM WHO CAME UP WITH THE, THE DATE.
JUST POLITICS, HONEY POLITICS.
IT'S, IT'S, I MEAN, LITERALLY OUR HANDS ARE TIED.
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL AND, UH, I, UM, I I FEEL LIKE I JUST WISH THAT, UH, SOMEBODY WOULD'VE REACHED OUT AFTER OUR LAST MEETING.
UM, I FEEL LIKE I WAS SITTING COLLEGE ALL OF A SUDDEN AND I, I FEEL LIKE AN OUTCOME MAY HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT.
HAD THE CITY SAID, HEY, WE SAW YOUR LAST MEETING.
WE UNDERSTAND THE STRUGGLES YOU WERE HAVING IN, UH, THE SCENE, IF YOU COULD PULL IT OFF IN, IN JUNE.
AND YES, WHILE BYRAM HAD MADE GREAT HEADWAY AND CONNECTIONS AND WHATNOT, LET'S, UM, YOU KNOW, LET'S SIT DOWN AND TALK AND, AND WHILE WE UNDERSTAND, SOME OF YOUR COMMISSION MEMBERS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE IN OCTOBER.
UM, FIVE OF YOU WILL BE SO, HEY, WE'VE GOT THE, THE CHAMBER ON BOARD.
UH, LET'S, LET'S, YOU KNOW, ALL SIT DOWN.
BUT, UH, WHAT HAPPENED WAS ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND I'M LEFT GOING WTH LIKE ALL VERY CONFUSING.
AND I'M NOT GONNA LIE, IT FEELS A LITTLE ICK TO ME.
I MEAN, THAT'S, AND I'M NOT SPEAKING FOR ANYONE ELSE.
I DON'T WANT ANYONE ELSE TO AGREE WITH ME.
SO I, I FEEL LIKE IT COULD HAVE GONE IN SUCH A DIFFERENT WAY.
AND NOW I, I UNDERSTAND TARA HAS MET AND BROUGHT BACK INFORMATION, BUT THERE ARE STILL MANY THINGS THAT ARE UNCLEAR AND UNCERTAIN.
AND ON ONE HAND, I LOVE THAT THE CITY WANTS TO COME ON BOARD AND, AND, AND, UH, DO WHAT THEY WANNA DO.
I DON'T THINK THAT IT SHOULD BE CANCELED, BUT I, I JUST FEEL THAT HAD THEY COME TO US AFTER THEY WOULD'VE SAID, HEY, YOU KNOW, LET'S SIT DOWN.
AND THEN WE COULD HAVE RETHOUGHT, OH, WELL MAYBE WE COULD GO AHEAD AND, AND MAKE IT HAPPEN IN OCTOBER.
AND WE WEREN'T GIVEN THAT OPPORTUNITY.
AND, AND CHRISTIE, YOU KNOW, I, I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND AND TARA UNDERSTANDS, 'CAUSE I WAS IN THAT MEETING AS WELL WITH RICK AND UNDERSTANDING, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS, THERE HAD BEEN A LITTLE BIT OF SOUR, I GUESS, INPUT OF HOW, LIKE, OBVIOUSLY THE CITY HANDLED THIS TOO, BECAUSE
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AT THE SAME TIME WE WEREN'T TRYING TO DISTURB WHAT YOU GUYS WERE TRYING TO DO.UM, AND COMPLETELY, I CAN PROBABLY SAY THIS, HOW IT KIND OF HAPPENS AND HOW YOU REFER TO THE WHOLE SOCIAL MEDIA, UM, YOU KNOW, OUTCOME OF IT.
IT COULD HAVE O OBVIOUSLY IT COULD HAVE BEEN, UH, A A LOT NICER.
UM, BUT I, I, I GUESS I'LL JUST SAY LIKE, WE UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU KNOW, THE WHOLE WAY THIS WAS HANDLED, OBVIOUSLY THIS IS JUST THE, YOU KNOW, OB THE UNDERSTANDING IS WE WILL DO BETTER IN THE FUTURE.
I THINK, I THINK THAT IS THE ONLY THING I I, THAT WE CAN KIND OF PUT OUT NOW, UM, UNDERSTANDING, YOU KNOW, THE FORMS OF COMMUNICATION.
UM, OBVIOUSLY YOU, YOU, I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE ME, AND I GUESS THAT SAME THING TOO IS FOR MYSELF MOVING FORWARD, IS TO MAKE SURE IF THERE ISN'T ANY POTENTIAL BACKLASH, UM, WHERE IT COMES FROM EITHER, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THE PUBLIC OR, YOU KNOW, MAYBE HIGHER UPS WITHIN THE CITY AS WELL.
MAKE SURE EVERYONE IS CONSTANTLY COMMUNICATION, UH, COMMUNICATING.
AND THESE THINGS DON'T NECESSARILY HAPPEN.
OR IF, YOU KNOW THERE IS A DISAGREEMENT, MAYBE IT'S NOT AS PUBLIC.
SO, AGAIN, I, I'LL APOLOGIZE FOR, FOR HOW THAT KIND OF CAME OUT THERE.
I WANT THAT TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR THAT THESE CONVERSATIONS WERE BEING HAD ABOUT US AND NOT WITH US.
AND IT MADE ME FEEL LIKE A PETULANT CHILD AGAIN.
LIKE, YOU KNOW, DON'T TALK ABOUT ME BEHIND MY BACK
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, IT WAS UNFORTUNATE HOW THIS WENT DOWN AND I, AND I DON'T THINK THAT ANY OF US CAN HELP HOW WE FEEL.
UM, AT THE END OF THE DAY THOUGH, I MEAN, IT, IT'S, IT'S DONE UNFORTUNATELY.
AND SEE THIS IS AN EXAMPLE THAT MAKES ME QUESTION WHAT ELSE WOULD THE CITY POSSIBLY DO AS FAR AS TAKING OVER PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE STARTED? MM-HMM.
IT'S HOW THEY DID THIS SITUATION.
AND, AND I THINK JUST WITH THE MEETING THAT TARA HAD WITH RICK THIS AFTERNOON, I THINK THE UNDERSTANDING NOW IS THERE ISN'T, THERE ISN'T ANY TRY TO GAIN OR, OR, OR TAKE AWAY OR CLAW AT WITH THE THINGS THAT ANY OF THE BOARDS THAT HE PROVIDES HAS.
UM, AGAIN, THE PERCEPTION OF THIS IS OBVIOUSLY OFF.
UM, AND THEN AGAIN, THE ONLY THING I THINK WE CAN KIND OF DO NOW IS TRY TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THE COMMUNICATION WAS LOST AND THEN OBVIOUSLY TRY TO AMEND THOSE FENCES AND OBVIOUSLY GIVE YOU GUYS THE SUPPORT THAT YOU GUYS ULTIMATELY ARE ASKING FOR.
AND O OBVIOUSLY AS THE LIAISON TO YOUR GUYS' COMMISSION.
I'LL DO A LOT BETTER WITH THAT ASPECT AS WELL.
THEY DON'T OBVIOUSLY HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION TO THAT EITHER, BUT I ASK HIM TO CHANGE THE NAME.
IF YOU'RE GONNA TAKE OUR FESTIVAL, CHANGE THE NAME THIS YEAR, MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL LIGHT FOR OCTOBER OF THIS YEAR, ANY OTHER FEELINGS? ARE WE OKAY WITH? IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE OR IS THAT JUST A WHAT, WHAT, JUST TAKING IT? NO, JUST CHANGE.
I MEAN, THEY CAN TAKE THE FESTIVAL, THEY CAN CHANGE THE NAME TOO.
I DON'T THINK THAT'S A REALITY.
NOT, I'M JUST KIND COSIGN HONESTLY, DON'T, HONESTLY, I ASKED HONEST.
IF THAT'D BE THE CASE, BUT ALL I CAN DO IS ASK.
THE WORST THEY OBVIOUSLY THEY CAN SAY IS NO.
I MEAN IT'S, I DON'T, I WAS JUST CURIOUS.
YEAH, IT'S JUST A PRETTY GOOD IDEA.
YOU KNOW, NOT THAT IT HAS TO OR DOESN'T HAVE TO HAPPEN, BUT I THOUGHT THAT HEBREW HEIGHTS PRESENTS THE CULTURE AND DIVERSITY, CITIZENS ACTION COMMISSION'S, MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL,
IT'S REALLY STICKY TO, SO I, I'LL BE REAL HONEST, THAT WAS NOT OUR LEGISLATION.
I, I TRULY BELIEVE IN THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL AND I TRULY BELIEVE IN 2025, WE ARE GOING TO BRING IT BACK AND WE ARE GOING TO MAKE IT EVEN BETTER.
BUT I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND US THAT OUR LEGISLATION IS REVOLVED AROUND CIVIL RIGHTS AND HISTORICAL DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF COMMUNITIES.
UM, ESPECIALLY, UM, NATIVE AMERICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES.
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AND SO LET'S BRING IT BACK.UM, CAN WE CLOSE OUT MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL? 'CAUSE IT GIVES ME A HIGH TWITCH.
OKAY, ERIC, YOU ARE ON SPOTLIGHT FOR JUNETEENTH UPDATES.
ALL RIGHT, LET'S PICK THIS MEETING UP A LITTLE BIT.
OKAY, SO JUNETEENTH EVENT, UM, THINGS ARE GOING GREAT.
UM, EVERYTHING IS, ALL OF OUR CONTRACTS ARE SIGNED.
ALL OF OUR VENDORS ARE IN, UH, THANK YOU TO CHRISTY.
SHE'S GOT OUR PRESS RELEASE, UH, DONE.
SO, UH, WE'LL START SENDING THAT OUT AND GET THAT GOING FOR US.
WHAT I DO NEED FROM YOU GUYS IS TWO THINGS.
ONE, I KNOW Y'ALL NOT SOCIAL MEDIA PEOPLE, I GET IT.
BUT FOR THIS EVENT, YOU NEED TO BE, ALL RIGHT.
SO HERE, HERE'S A SITUATION TO BE UNCOMFORTABLE, GET COMFORTABLE, ALL RIGHT? SO SHARE IT, TALK WITH YOUR FRIENDS, TELL THEM ABOUT THE EVENT, CALL 'EM, TEXT 'EM, EMAIL 'EM, WHATEVER IT IS YOU GOTTA DO.
UM, LET FOLKS KNOW THAT THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE AND THIS IS WHAT WE GOT GOING ON.
THE NEXT THING IS, UM, AND JEFFREY'S GOING TO EMAIL YOU GUYS THE, UM, SPONSORSHIP LETTER.
OKAY? SO IF YOU HAVE SOME FOLKS THAT WOULD LIKE TO BE A PART OF THE EVENT AND BE A SPONSOR OF THE EVENT, IT, WE DO HAVE SPACE FOR THEM.
AND THEY CAN GET IN AT THE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF THE SPONSORSHIP.
AND IN THE EMAIL THAT JEFFREY WILL SEND YOU GUYS, YOU'LL SEE THE DIFFERENT LEVELS THAT THEY CAN GET IN.
AND IF THEY WANT TO DO A DIFFERENT AMOUNT THAT'S ON THERE, JUST CONTACT, I THINK IT'S SARAH THAT'S ON THERE, RIGHT? YES.
SARAH, SARAH WILLIAMS. JUST CONTACT SARAH WILLIAMS ON THERE.
SHE WILL WORK WITH THEM ON TO CREATE A LEVEL FOR THEM SO THEY GET ADVERTISEMENT AT DIFFERENT OTHER CITY EVENTS BESIDES JUST THE JUNETEENTH EVENT.
SO I THINK IT'S A GOOD THING FOR THOSE THAT MAY WANT TO GET INVOLVED FROM A SPONSORSHIP STANDPOINT.
UH, OUR HOPES IS THAT WE CAN INCREASE THAT SO THAT WE CAN TAKE CARE OF WHICH WE HAVE IN OUR BUDGET TO TAKE CARE OF THE TENT IN THE BOUNCE HOUSE.
WE COULD DO THAT, THAT'S NO PROBLEM.
BUT IF WE COULD GET THOSE COVERED THROUGH OUR SPONSORSHIPS, THAT WOULD EVEN BE BETTER.
IS THAT FAIR? CAN EVERYBODY HELP ME WITH THOSE TWO THINGS PLEASE? I THOUGHT WE KILLED THE TENT IDEA.
NO, I FEEL LIKE THAT TENT WAS JUST SUCH A WASTE OF MONEY.
WE HAVE THE, WE HAVE THE TENT.
YOU, WE, WE'VE RESERVED A TENT.
WE HAVE NOT RESERVED A TENT YET.
OH, YET? YEAH, WE HAVEN'T DONE THE TENT YET, BUT WE, I DON'T NEED TO RESERVE A TENT.
I DON'T KNOW IF, I MEAN, THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN VOTE ON REAL QUICKLY, BUT I DON'T IT, I DON'T THINK WE NEED ONE.
IT WAS SUCH AN EXPENSIVE, IT WAS YOUR SUGGESTION.
WELL, THAT WAS ONLY TO GET THE PEOPLE ON THE HILL IN THE BACK BY THE YMCA.
AS LONG AS THEY CAN BRING THEIR OWN LIKE POPUP TENTS AND PUT 'EM TOWARDS THE BACK OF THAT AREA.
AREA, THAT'S WHAT THEY CAN'T DO.
THAT'S WHAT THEY CAN BRING THEM ALL THE WAY, BUT THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO ENJOY THE ENTERTAINMENT.
THOSE, THEY'RE ALL WAY IN THE BACK.
BUT THEY CAN, IN THAT AREA, THEY CAN BRING THEIR TENTS AND PUT THEM IN THE BACK AREA OF THE GRASS AREA.
THEY CAN, THEY CAN DO THAT, BUT JUST NOT DOWN THE STEPS.
THEY CAN'T COME, THEY CAN'T COME ON THIS SIDE OF KIND OF LIKE WHERE THE RESTROOM IS AND THAT KIND OF DEAL.
YOU CAN'T BRING THAT THERE THAT WAY.
WHY? BECAUSE WE ALL HAD OUR OWN TENTS THERE LAST YEAR.
WE HAVE OUR OWN COMMISSION TENTS THERE.
NO ONE ELSE HAD TENTS ON THE INSIDE OF WHERE THE RESTROOMS ARE COMING TOWARDS THE STAGE.
AND A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE WANTING TO SIT UNDER OUR TENT BECAUSE THERE WAS NO SHELTER.
SO THEY'RE GONNA ACTUALLY, BUT EVEN THE BIG TENT WAS GONNA BE OH, BY THE RESTROOMS. IT WASN'T GONNA BE AT THE BACK OF THAT AMPHITHEATER.
IT WAS GONNA BE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SIDEWALK OVER BY THE RESTROOMS. I'M NOT GONNA BEAT THE TENT IDEA TO DEATH.
BUT THAT WAS JUST TO GET PEOPLE SOME SHADE.
I I JUST FOR, IS THAT, IS THAT THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS I THINK IS, IS THAT SET ON WHERE THE TENT IS GONNA BE AT LIKE AT LOCATION? YEAH.
LO I MEAN DOES IT HELP IF WE KIND OF RE REMAP IT AND KINDA LOOK AT IT ABOUT, WELL WE CAN DEFINITELY REMAP IT, BUT I THOUGHT THE PURPOSE OF HAVING THE CORRECT, BECAUSE IT'S GONNA BE FOLKS SHOULD HAVE THE SHADE.
AND YOU'RE PROBABLY GONNA NEED IT THAT DAY.
SO YOU'RE GONNA NEED AT LEAST FOR THOSE THAT WANT IT, RIGHT? CORRECT.
SO, BUT HERE, HERE'S WHERE I PREFERENCE THIS AT THE BEGINNING, THAT YOU GUYS CAN HELP OUT, RIGHT? WE HAVE THE MONEY AND THE BUDGET TO DO IT.
BUT IF YOU, IF, IF THAT MAKES YOU GUYS FEEL BETTER TO GET SOME SPONSORSHIPS, THEN KNOCK YOURSELF
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OUT AND GET THE SPONSORSHIPS AND GET THE 10 COVERED.OTHER THAN THAT WE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE GONNA NEED TO MOVE ON IT, RIGHT? YEAH.
BECAUSE WE NEED TO MAKE THE RESERVATION SO THAT WE'RE NOT, UH, WE NEED TO VOTE EMBARRASSED ON IT AND NOT HAVING IT IF THAT'S WHAT WE WANT.
WHAT ABOUT, WHAT ABOUT THE SEATING? I KNOW LAST WEEK WE TALKED, LAST TIME WE TALKED ABOUT BLEACHERS AND CHAIRS.
WHAT WOULD THEY SIT IN? THEY JUST BRING THEIR OWN CHAIRS.
THEY BRING THEIR OWN LAWN CHAIR AND SIT UNDERNEATH THERE IF THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT TO DO.
I FOUR 10, LET'S ROLL WITH IT.
WHAT WAS THE QUOTE ON THE 10? IT WAS LIKE 1500, 2000 SOMETHING.
UH, I THINK IT WAS, I THINK IT WAS $2,200 FOR THE 10.
WE NEED TO APPROVE THAT EXPENSE.
I FEEL LIKE, KIND OF HAVE A BLANK CHECK FOR THIS EVENT SO FAR.
WELL, YOU DON'T HAVE A BLANK CHECK.
WELL, YEAH, YOU SAVE LIKE $1,500 ON BANDS THAT YOU DIDN'T PAY FROM LAST YEAR.
THIS YEAR WE GOT THE SAME, PAYING THE SAME PRICE FOR THE DJ.
NO, I MEAN LIKE, WE JUST NEED TO DECIDE AS A COMMISSION IF WE'RE GETTING A TENT OR NOT.
WE'RE NOT DOING THE MULTICULTURAL, SO I DON'T HAVE AN ISSUE WITH IT.
WE JUST NEED TO VOTE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.
SO CAN SOMEBODY, WELL, WHEN I SAY WHEN YOU STILL HAVE MONEY FOR THE BUDGET, IF YOU WERE STILL DOING THE JUNE, IF YOU WERE STILL DOING THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL, YOU STILL HAVE THAT MONEY.
AND WE STILL HAVEN'T USED UP WITH THE WHAT'S EARMARKED FOR JUNETEENTH.
I JUST FEEL LIKE DON'T THINGS LIKE THAT NEED TO BE APPROVED AS LINE ITEMS IN THAT BUDGET AS A COMMISSION.
THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE DISCUSSING IT.
IF THAT'S WHAT YOU GUYS WANT TO, WE NEED TO PUT THE, WE COULD DO THE TENT TO THE VOTE AND THEN NOT TO INTERRUPT YOU.
I'M SO SORRY, ERIC, BUT WE ALSO DISCUSSED YOUR ADVERTISING BUDGET LAST MONTH AND WE DID NOT VOTE ON THAT EITHER.
AND THAT WAS GONNA BE LIKE 700, 7 50.
SO WE CAN PUT THOSE BOTH UP TO THE VOTE AND GET 'EM APPROVED TONIGHT.
OR APPROVED OR NOT? I DON'T KNOW.
I DON'T HAVE BIG FEELINGS ABOUT THAT TENT.
I, I DON'T KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT IT BECAUSE I HAVE A QUESTION.
HOW LARGE IS IT? WEDDING SIZE? 30.
IT'S A BIG TENT, LIKE WEDDING SIZE TENT.
THEN WHAT IF IT RAINS? WHAT IF IT MM-HMM.
I JUST THINK IT'S, IT'S JUST NOT I, LET'S VOTE ON IT.
SOMEBODY HAS FEELINGS ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.
WHO'S MAKING MOTION? OH, I'M NOT.
ANYBODY MAKING ALL? I GUESS I'LL MAKE THE MOTION.
UM, WHAT IS IT? WHAT IS THIS? FOR THE 10TH.
AND WHAT IS THE OTHER ONE? DO YOU WANT MAKE THE MOTION FOR BOTH OF THEM? NO, JUST JIM FOR THE CHAT CHAPTER.
'CAUSE STILL GONNA BE UP FOR DISCUSSION.
ARE WE JUST VOTING IT? VOTING WELL, I THINK.
MAKE A MOTION THAT, UH, THE, UH, TENT BE APPROVED FOR 2200 MOVING FORWARD.
UM, ALRIGHT, SO THE TENT IS THAT WE'RE ALSO, UM, DR.
WE'RE GONNA DO KINDA LIKE A, UM, A MOVIE TRAILER KIND OF THING.
UM, SO THAT WE CAN PUT LIKE A LITTLE SNIPPET OUT ON WHAT SHE'S GOING TO DISCUSS IN REFERENCE TO THE TRUE COLORS OF JUNETEENTH, KIND OF THE HISTORY OF JUNETEENTH.
SO SHE'S NOT GONNA GIVE AWAY HER WHOLE PRESENTATIONS THAT SHE'S ACTUALLY GONNA DO FOR THE PROGRAM ON JUNETEENTH, BUT JUST KIND OF A, A LITTLE QUICK SNIPPET, UM, TO DO.
AND, UM, I'LL HAVE THE SHIRTS FOR US.
AND MY HOPES IS THAT YOU GUYS WEAR THEM RIGHT? TO LET PEOPLE KNOW, RIGHT? OKAY.
IS THAT VENDOR ALSO GONNA BE THERE? THAT VENDOR WILL
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BE THERE AND AWESOME.AND SHE WILL BE SELLING THOSE SHIRTS.
UM, SO HOPEFULLY JEFFREY'S GONNA GET US FIXED UP AND TRY TO GET US SOME TV TIME AND ALL KIND OF GOOD STUFF.
GLORIA, IS THAT LITTLE MOVIE TRAILER FOR SOCIAL MEDIA? DR.
WHO'S GLORIA? UM, THERE MUST BE SOMEBODY DON'T MIND ME.
SO, UH, WILL SHE, IS THAT LITTLE MOVIE TRAILER FOR SOCIAL MEDIA, LIKE FOR, IS THAT WHAT THE PURPOSE OF THAT IS? SAY THAT AGAIN? THAT LITTLE SNIPPET THAT SHE'S CREATING, IS THAT FOR LIKE SOCIAL MEDIA OR WE GONNA DO, WE GONNA DO THAT FOR SOCIAL MEDIA, BUT WE ALSO GOING TO PROBABLY BE ABLE TO, UH, WHAT SARAH'S IDEA ON THAT IS MAYBE WE COULD TIE THAT WITH OUR PRESS RELEASE, UH, TO PUT IT WITH THAT.
UH, TRY TO GET IT OVER TO THE LOCAL TV STATION, MAYBE SEE IF THEY WILL RUN THAT ALONG WITH, UH, AD SPACE, YOU KNOW, US FOR AD SPACE AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
DON'T FORGET THAT WE ALSO HAVE THE POET, UM, THAT WAS FROM MLK, THAT'S CREATING A LITTLE SPOKEN WORD THAT YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO THROW IN THERE, MAYBE AT INTERMISSION OR BETWEEN ONE OF THE BREAKS.
OH, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT A COUPLE TIMES.
WELL I TOLD YOU SO I TOLD YOU I HADN'T GOTTEN IN CONTACT WITH HIM AND THEN I SAID I WAS ABLE TO GET IN CONTACT WITH HIM.
I EMAILED YOU OR TEXT YOU ABOUT THAT.
UM, AND YOU SAID YOU'D JUST WORK HIM IN.
SO, OKAY, WELL, SIM MAKE SURE I GOT HIS NAME BECAUSE YEAH, HE WON'T, HE'S NOT IN THE PRESS RELEASE.
'CAUSE WE GOT ALL THE ARTISTS, ALL THE VENDORS, EVERYBODY ARE IN THAT PRESS RELEASE.
CYNTHIA MENTIONED SHE SHOULD BE IN THERE IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN.
YOU, YOU SENT ME THE DOCUMENT.
I'LL SEND YOU, UM, YEAH, SEND ME WHAT HIS, HIS CONTACT INFORMATION.
YEAH, SO I'LL NEED HIS NAME, PHONE NUMBER, AND THEN IF HE HAS A LOGO, HE'S THE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT.
WELL, I'M SURE, I GUESS I'LL ASK HIM.
I'M NOT SURE IF I HAVE HIS PHONE NUMBER, BUT I MIGHT.
UM, AND WHAT'S THIS? $700? SO THAT'S, IT'S ABOUT, SO THAT'S ABOUT WHAT IS THAT YOUR APPROVAL FOR BUDGET, FOR ADVERTISING, FOR FLYERS, FOR, UH, YOU HAD TALKED ABOUT NEW SIGNS, THE NEW BANNERS.
UM, THERE WAS A TALK THAT OUR BUDGET WAS $5,750 LEFT OR SOMETHING.
WE WERE GONNA SPEND THAT SEVEN 50 ON ADVERTISEMENT.
YOU, WERE YOU HERE LAST MONTH? YOU HAD THAT NUMBER.
SO, SO I THINK, YEAH, SHE'S RIGHT.
SO WE WERE LOOKING AT 57 50 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
WE TAKE PROBABLY THAT SEVEN 50.
I USE IT TOWARDS ADVERTISEMENT.
UM, I DO NOT PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY.
I CAN'T, I CAN'T RECALL IF YOU GUYS DID VOTE ON THAT.
I WAS AT HOME REAL, UM, NOT HAPPY IN MY KITCHEN AND WENT OH DAMN.
SO WE NEED TO, I CAN MAKE THE MOTION LET, BUT WE NEED TO LET'S THE MOTION.
UM, I'LL MAKE THE MOTION THAT WE, UM, ALLOT $750 OF OUR BUDGET TO THE ADVERTISEMENT.
I'LL SECOND UMBRELLA FOR JUNETEENTH.
I SAID IT DIFFERENT THAT TIME.
UH, I USED TO HAVE A TURKISH CASELOAD WHEN I WAS, UH, IN MY LAST POSITION.
MY ENTIRE MAJORITY OF MY CASELOAD WAS TURKISH.
AND YOUR LAST NAME STILL ISN'T THE MOST DIFFICULT ONE THAT I'VE HAD TO BECAUSE IT'S A GEORGIAN LAST NAME ACTUALLY.
AND THEN THE WOMEN ALL HAVE AN A AT THEIR NAME AT THE END AND THE THE MEN DON'T.
AND YEAH, THERE'S SOME, THERE'S A LOT OF, THERE'S NOT A LOT OF VOWELS IN THOSE NAMES
ARE WE DONE WITH JUNETEENTH? SO, NOPE, WE'RE NOT.
WELL CORY'S GONNA GIVE US, HE'S WORKING ON THE, UH, POLICE EXPLORER KITS FOR US.
SO HE'S ALREADY REACHED OUT SO WE SHOULD BE GOOD TO GO.
UH, THERE, THE POLICE EXPLORER KITS THIS THERE.
UM, THEY'RE GONNA HELP WITH PARKING, RIGHT? DO YOU GUYS WANT TO
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UH, LOOK AT A BOUNCE HOUSE? DO YOU WANT TO DO THAT? YOU WANT TO TAKE A VOTE FOR THAT OR NO? THAT WAS IT.WE KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN.
I FEEL LIKE THAT'S WHAT WE DEFINITELY SAID NO TO LAST TIME.
JUST BECAUSE OF THE ISSUE WITH SOMEONE HAVING TO WATCH THE KIDS AND SAFETY.
IT'S DOES THAT RING A BELL? ANYBODY? IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE A KID TYPE.
I MEAN IT'S A FAMILY FRIENDLY EVENT, BUT IT'S JUST NOT GEARED TOWARDS CHILDREN.
WELL, THE RENTAL OR THE BOUNCE HOUSE COMES WITH AN EMPLOYEE.
YEAH, BUT PROBABLY NOT ENOUGH TO BE BOUNCING CHILDREN.
SO DO YOU WANT PUT THAT A VOTE? I'M GOOD WITH THAT.
'CAUSE THAT TAKES THAT OFF MY TO-DO LIST.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE FEELINGS IT IN? DID YOU DO THE, DID YOU CONTACT THEM? WE CAN CANCEL IT.
WE GOTTA, YOU GOTTA VOTE ON IT.
NOT IF WE'VE NEVER BEEN TO HAVE IT THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO HAVE IT.
NO, BECAUSE IT WAS ONE OF OUR TO-DO ITEMS ON THE LIST.
SO IF YOU DON'T WANT TO DO IT, I DON'T THINK WE EVER VOTED TO DO IT.
SO I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO VOTE TO UNDO IT.
IF NOT, THE ONLY REASON I WAS, WE WERE VOTING ON THE TENT IS JUST 'CAUSE IT'S SUCH A, A LARGE, I MEAN TECHNICALLY WE SHOULD BE VOTING AT EVERY ACT AND HOW MUCH THEY'RE GONNA GET PAID.
AND WE HAVEN'T APPROVED THOSE ONE BY ONE EITHER.
I MEAN, TECHNICALLY EVERY SINGLE BUDGET ITEM IN THERE SHOULD BE SEPARATELY VOTED ON FOR APPROVAL.
ESPECIALLY WHAT WE'RE PAYING THE BANS.
'CAUSE WE DON'T COLLECTIVELY KNOW THAT INFORMATION.
ARE WE TALKING ABOUT THE BANDS OR ARE WE TALKING ABOUT THE BANDS HOUSE? YEAH.
WHICH ONE? WELL, I I THINK THE BANDS, BECAUSE WE KNOW WE'RE DOING THAT.
I DON'T, I MEAN, I, I MEAN BOUNCE HOUSE, I THINK, AND I THINK TO TEAR TO YOUR POINT, I, THE BAND'S ALREADY PAID FOR IT.
THOSE CONTRACTS ARE ALREADY DONE.
SO, BUT WE'RE, WE'RE CANCELING THE BOUNCE HOUSE, RIGHT? YEAH.
COME JUNE 16TH, YOUR GRANDKIDS NOT BOUNCING IN THE BOUNCE HOUSE.
WHO ELSE HAS GRANDKIDS UP HERE? BUT YOU
I'M OLD ENOUGH TO BE A GRANDMA.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME? ARE YOU HANDLING THE NEWS RELEASE FROM HERE ON? WHERE AM I JUST GONNA ADD IN THE NAMES YOU NEED ME FOR ANYTHING? DO NO, DON'T NEED ANY MORE NAME.
I'VE ALREADY GIVEN IT TO SARAH, SO, UM, BUT THAT'S WHY I NEED TO GET THE POET'S NAME SO WE CAN GET THAT ADDED TO THAT ROB, BECAUSE WE'RE GONNA DO TWO VERSIONS OF THAT RELEASE.
SO THE ONE THAT YOU DID FOR US IS GONNA BE CLOSER TO THE EVENT.
'CAUSE IT LISTS EVERYBODY IN THERE.
THE FIRST RELEASE THAT WE'RE GONNA DO IS JUST KIND OF LIKE, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING.
YOU KNOW, KIND OF LIKE A WHO, WHAT, WHEN AND WHY.
THAT NEXT ONE IS GONNA BE THE DETAILED ONE THAT WE DO, THAT WE SEND OUT.
AND YOU'LL BE GETTING A FLYER.
YOU'LL BE, SHE'S ALSO CREATING A, A FLYER THAT THAT CAN MAKE SURE GET PUSH YOU GUYS.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING YOU CAN USE TO, UM, YOU KNOW, EITHER EMAIL, TEXT, SHARE ON SOCIAL MEDIA, THAT KIND OF DEAL.
WE DO YOU WANT MORE, UM, BANNERS OUT OF THAT BUDGET? DO YOU WANT TO TASK JEFFREY WITH GETTING QUOTES FOR NEW BANNERS? 'CAUSE OUR BANNERS HAVE BOTH.
WE YEAH, WE THAT WAS THE OTHER.
HE'S ALREADY, HE'S ALREADY GOT IT.
HE'S ALREADY GOT IT COVERED ALREADY.
YEAH, HE'S ALREADY GOT IT COVERED.
WHO'S MAKING THE GRAPHICS FOR SOCIAL MEDIA? UH, SOMEBODY IN THE CITY KICK OUTS FOR THE WHICH ONE? FOR LIKE THE, UH, WELL YOU JUST TOLD US TO POST.
OH, UH, SARAH IS, SHE'S GONNA CREATE THAT FLYER FOR US.
SO WILL YOU LET, WILL IT BE ON YOUR PAGE FIRST AND WE NEED TO GRAB IT OR HOW? SO WHAT I'LL DO, I'M GONNA DO TWO THINGS.
ONE, I'LL TAG YOU GUYS AS WELL.
ONE AND I'LL TEXT YOU A COPY GOTCHA.
THAT YOU CAN AND EMAIL IT TO US.
ADD TO AND I CAN EMAIL IT, SEND IT ALL OF THE WAYS, BUT SNAIL MAIL.
AND THEN WE'LL GET IT ADVERTISED.
UM, SHE'S BEEN WORKING ON IT AND SHE'S HOPEFULLY SHE WAS HOPING TO HAVE IT DONE, UH, BY MIDWEEK, BUT SHE COULDN'T GET IT DONE YET.
AND THAT'LL GIVE US WHAT, SIX WEEKS OF WHAT? HITTING IT HARD.
AND THEN YOU'LL GET WHEN HERS, THE FULLY WITH ALL THE NAMES, THE ONE'S THAT GONNA COME OUT THAT IS SUPPO.
I THINK SHE'S PROBABLY EARLIER.
SARAH'S GOT THAT SCHEDULED TO COME OUT I THINK TWO WEEKS BEFORE.
WHERE WE'LL DO LIKE TV SPOTS OR WHATEVER, GET IT OUT THERE.
THIS HAS BEEN A, A WELL ATTENDED EVENT.
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ATTENDED 'CAUSE IT'S FATHER'S DAY AND IT'S JUNETEENTH AND IT'S, THERE'S NOT A LOT TO DO THAT WEEKEND FOR PEOPLE.I MEAN FOR US FATHERS, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S JUST FATHER'S DAY.
I GUESS THIS AIN'T THE MEETING FOR THAT.
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? THIS IS REALLY AGGRAVATING.
PROBABLY DEFINITELY NOT MOTHER AWARE.
THANK HEAVEN FORBID WE SCHEDULED THIS ON MOTHER'S DAY THING.
IF IT WAS MOTHER'S DAY, TALK TO YOU THE OTHER 364 DAYS WITH YOUR DISHES IN THE SINK.
ALRIGHT, WHAT'S NEXT FROM THE AGENDA? NO RESPECT.
UM, AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN TALK ABOUT NEXT YEAR.
'CAUSE JUNETEENTH IS NOT, UH, IT'S FARTHER FROM FATHER'S DAY WEEKEND NEXT YEAR WE CAN PROBABLY MOVE IT OFF OF FATHER'S DAY WEEKEND NEXT YEAR.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING TO CONSIDER.
I'M GIVE YOU YOUR FATHER'S DAY BACK NEXT YEAR.
YOU JUST HAVEN'T HAD IT LAST FOUR YEARS.
THAT'S THE ONLY THING I CELEBRATE THAT WEEKEND.
UM, ADDITIONAL UPDATES MOVING ON IF THERE'S NOTHING ELSE FOR JUNETEENTH.
HEY ERIC, I KNOW YOU HAD ASKED ME ABOUT THE NUMBER OF PAID, SIR.
UM, IS THAT YOUR I'M STILL, NO, IT'S JUST MINE.
I'M, I'M STILL WORKING ON THAT.
'CAUSE I KNOW YOU SAID THAT YOUR WIFE'S NAME WASN'T ON THAT AND I SAW THAT, YOU KNOW, SHE ALREADY PAID.
SO I'M HOPEFUL THAT I'LL TALK TO FINANCE TOMORROW AND WHICH I, SO I DOUBLE CHECK WHEN EVERYBODY YEAH.
SO FAR AND THEY'VE ALL HAD THEIR PAID RECEIPTS, SO THEY HAVE WHEN THEY DID IT ONLINE.
SO WE DON'T, SO THERE'S NOBODY THAT'S OUTSTANDING.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE WE'VE GOT THAT ON OUR LIST.
SO WHEN WE GO TO LOOK, WE'RE LIKE, OKAY, HEY, THIS IS HOW MANY PEOPLE WE EXPECT BECAUSE I THINK SOME OF THOSE FOLKS ARE NOT WITH THE JUNETEENTH EVENT THAT'S THERE.
SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT LIST THEY RAN FOR THAT.
I'LL DOUBLE I'LL, I'LL PLAY WITH IT AND MAKE SURE WE GET THE RIGHT PEOPLE AND EVERYTHING ON THAT.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR ME? QUICK QUESTION, CHRISTY.
YOU'RE ON A TWO QUESTION LIMIT TONIGHT.
BUT ONLY IF WE'RE DONE WITH THE
DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE? I'M GOOD.
JUST TO REVISIT POINT A REALLY, REALLY QUICK BEFORE YOU GO BACK.
IF YOU GUYS WANT TO ATTEND A MEETING, WE, WE ARE MEETING NEXT WEDNESDAY.
UM, WHAT I WANTED TO ASK WAS IF IT WOULD BE, AND I DON'T WANNA, I HATE TO REVISIT THIS, I'M SORRY, I SHOULD HAVE ASKED IT WHEN WE WERE AT THE POINT THAT WE WERE.
BUT, UM, I JUST WANTED TO KNOW IF IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE THAT WE COULD REQUEST THAT THE CITY, UM, PUT OUT SOME SORT OF PUBLIC STATEMENT PERHAPS ON THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE, UM, REGARDING THE, UH, TRANSPIRING EVENTS OF THE MUT MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL.
YEAH, I MEAN THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I CAN ASK.
UM, YEAH, I WAS NOT AWARE OF THIS FACEBOOK HUBBA BLB THAT BLEW UP REGARDING THIS EVENT.
'CAUSE PROBABLY BLOCKED FROM LIKE FOUR OF THE HUBER PAGES.
UH, SO I THINK WE WOULD LIKE TO RESPECTFULLY ASK THAT THE CITY CLEAN UP THAT MESS.
I'M A REDHEAD THROUGH AND THROUGH DOES NOT STOP.
HOW ARE WE WITH IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING WITH THE, THE UPDATES OF THE COMPUTER SYSTEM AFTER THE UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT OUT HERE.
UM, THAT THE ABILITY TO START GATHERING EEOC DATA FROM APPLICANTS MM-HMM.
UM, 'CAUSE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS STILL FROM OUR UNDERSTANDING NOT HAPPENING, UM, THAT WE'RE NOT TRACKING YEAH.
WHO'S APPLYING AND WHO IS GETTING JOBS.
I I THINK IT WAS IN THAT CONVERSATION THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
UM, AND YOU'RE RIGHT, I THINK THAT WAS, MAYBE IT WAS SOMETHING HIPAA RELATED OR SOMETHING.
IF I, IF I, IF I CAN VAGUELY RECALL, THERE'S NO HIPAA, I COULD BE WRONG BETWEEN A CITY AND AN EMPLOYEE.
THE HIPAA IS BETWEEN THE DOCTOR AND THE PERSON.
THERE IS NO HIPAA IF
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SO I, I THINK THERE WAS A REASON WHY WE WEREN'T DOING IT.THERE, UM, WHATEVER THAT REASON MIGHT BE.
AND I THINK IT WAS THE ABILITY TO KEEP THEM SEPARATE FOR SURE.
THE APPLICATION AND THE EEOC DATA.
UM, THE ABILITY TO KEEP THEM SEPARATE.
THEY CAN'T BE IN TANDEM WITH THE APPLICATION.
UM, BUT, BUT HIPAA IS DEFINITELY NOT OKAY.
AT, AT ANY RATE, UM, I ASKED, I TALKED TO KATIE OKAY.
UM, EARLIER THIS WEEK ABOUT THAT, UM, UPDATE.
UM, I THINK FROM WHAT SHE TOLD ME, UH, SHE WRITTEN A REPORT, UM, WHICH WAS NOT COMPLETED.
UM, THEY'RE GOING BACK FROM, UH, I WANNA SAY THE DATE WAS JUNE OF JUNE OF LAST YEAR.
UM, BUT SHE DID SAY THAT, UH, SHE COULD HAVE THAT FULL REPORT COME NEXT MONTH.
SO JUNE, YOU GUYS WOULD HAVE THAT.
I DON'T KNOW NECESSARILY IF WE NEED A REPORT OR, OR YOU GUYS, YOU JUST NEED TO KNOW THERE IS THE ABILITY TO, AND IT IS HAPPENING.
SO, SO MY UNDERSTANDING, AND I BRIEFLY LOOKED AT WHAT SHE GATHERED FOR ME.
UM, SHE, IF I'M, I'M READING THIS RIGHT NOW.
I, LIKE, WHEN I THINK ABOUT IT NOW, SHE CAN JUST GRAB THE PAPER.
BUT AT ANY RATE, I WANNA SAY THAT SHE WAS GOING TO DIVIDE IT UP IN, EXCUSE ME.
UM, I'D PROBABLY JUST SAY DIFFERENT DEMOGRAPHICS, BUT I CAN'T RECALL EXACTLY WHAT THOSE WERE.
BUT I'D ASK YOU NOW, WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? IT NEEDS TO BE IN A FORMAT SO THAT IT'S ABLE TO BE ABLE TO PULL STATISTICS AND AGGREGATE OUT OF THAT.
IF I HAVE A, A POSITION OPEN FOR, YOU KNOW, P DRIVEWAY PAVER AND I HAD 25 APPLICANTS, AND OF THOSE APPLICANTS 16 WERE BLACK AND WE HIRED THE WHITE GUY, THERE'S, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR IS WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE STATISTICS TO BE ABLE TO STAND THEM UP AGAINST QUALIFICATIONS.
AND WE'RE HIRING THE MOST QUALIFIED PERSON FOR THE POSITION AND NOT NECESSARILY BECAUSE WE KNOW THEM OR THEY LOOK LIKE US.
SO SOMETHING THAT'S ABLE TO BE AGGREGATED IN DIFFERENT WAYS, SHAPES AND FORMS AND FASHIONS AND, AND ABLE TO BE PULLED INTO A WAY THAT IF THERE WAS A, A, A CLAIM OF, UM, BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST, THE PROOF IS IN THE STATISTICS OR IN THE DATA.
SO, SO THAT'S, THAT'S THE POINT THAT IF WE DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO COLLECT THE DATA, THEN HOW CAN WE SAY THAT WE ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING? IT GOES BEYOND, YOU KNOW, MY NAME IS JOE SMITH AND I HAVE SLIGHTLY HIGHER, YOU KNOW, QUALIFICATIONS THAN NECESSARILY SOMEONE ELSE.
I MEAN, EVERY NORMAL CORPORATION AT THIS POINT THAT YOU'RE FILLING OUT A JOB APPLICATION, YOU'RE FILLING OUT EEOC DATA, IT JUST GOES TO HR AND THAT GOES TO THE HIRING MANAGER.
SO THAT'S REALLY, WE'RE JUST LOOKING FOR THE UPDATE ON WHERE THE CITY IS AT WITH THAT ABILITY TO DO THAT.
WAS THERE, AND I'D ASK YOU THIS, WAS THERE AN AGREEMENT ON WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE? OR IS THIS JUST WAS A FORMAL RECOMMENDATION THAT WE MADE? PROBABLY IN 2020.
RE UH, I'LL, I'LL START FORMAL RECOMMENDATION.
IT WAS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL ONES.
I MEAN, ALL OF THIS IS GOING BACKWARDS.
IS THIS THE ONLY PROPOSAL WE HAVE? SO, SO, UM, JUST RECENTLY, SO WE, OR AT LEAST THE COMMISSION SHOULD KNOW OF THAT, WE INITIALLY HAD FOUR, UH, VENDORS THAT HAD APPLIED, UH, FOR, UH, CITY RIGHTS NEEDS ASSESSMENT.
UM, OUT OF THAT FOUR, UM, WITH THE HELP OF CARLA, UM, WE NARROWED IT DOWN TO TWO.
UM, UNDERSTANDING CARLA HAD KIND OF GUIDED ME EXACTLY WHAT WE WERE KIND OF LOOKING AT WHEN WE WERE, I'LL TALK ABOUT IT.
SO WE NARROWED IT DOWN TO TWO AND ESSENTIALLY ONE, THERE'S ONE THING THAT STOOD OUT MORE THAN THE OTHER AND IT WAS THE DIVERSE STAFF.
BUT OTHER THAN THAT, THERE WERE A FEW THINGS THAT WE WANTED TO DIG A LITTLE DEEPER IN, IN THE INTERVIEWS.
SO IT WAS COST, TIMELINE, CADENCE, AND ACCOUNTABILITY.
AND SO THOSE FOUR, WE KIND OF, LET'S SAY WEED IT OUT IN THE, IN THE INTERVIEW AND THAT'S HOW THEY ENDED UP GETTING THE CONTRACT.
SO IT ISN'T THE NECESSARILY, IT ISN'T THE CONTRACT, IT'S JUST, JUST A LITTLE BIT OF INFORMATION THAT I GAVE KIND OF GAVE YOU GUYS,
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UM, FROM OUR, UM, THE MEETING THAT ME AND RICK HAD WITH THEM PROBABLY A COUPLE WEEKS AGO.UM, IT JUST KIND OF GIVES, WHAT WE HAD ASKED FOR, AT LEAST WHAT I HAD ASKED FOR THEM IS I NEEDED THE TIMELINE AS WELL AS I NEEDED, UH, BASICALLY, UH, UH, UPTODATE BUDGET OF WHAT WE WOULD BE LOOKING FOR WHEN IT CAME TO THEIR ACTUAL PROPOSAL.
UM, I THINK THAT NUMBER CAME IN AT AROUND 75,000 A LOAD NORTH OF 75,000.
UM, SO THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE ARE.
UM, I HAVEN'T NECESSARILY FORMALLY, UH, TOLD THEM THAT UH, THEY HAVE BEEN AWARDED THE CONTRACT.
UM, BUT I HAVE SPOKEN WITH ER AND I TOLD THEM THAT WE WERE GONNA MOVE TO ANOTHER DIRECTION.
UM, BUT UH, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, I HAVE A CALL WITH RAMA TO DISCUSS EVERYTHING WITH THEM.
I WANNA SAY A NOT NEXT WEEK, BUT PROBABLY SOMETIME THE FOLLOWING WEEK.
IT'S ON MY CALENDAR SOMEWHERE.
ARE YOU, HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT IT, CAROLYN? GOOD.
YOU HAVE YOUR, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE THING IT SAYS MAY, SO LET'S, LET'S GET GOING.
IT'S ONLY BEEN FOUR YEARS IN THE MAKING.
IF ONLY YOU HAD BEEN HERE FOUR YEARS AGO, YOU COULD HAVE HAD THE FUN WITH US THIS WHOLE TIME.
NO, I REALLY DO APPRECIATE YOUR HARD WORK ON THIS GETTING THIS CHECKED OFF.
UH, CARLA, THANK YOU FOR PUTTING YOUR HANDS IN THIS AND USING YOUR EXPERTISE, UM, TO GET US HERE.
UM, I WOULD LIKE TO, I DIDN'T INCLUDE IT AND I'M PUTTING YOU ON THE SPOT, JEFFREY, FOR NEXT MONTH.
CAN YOU BRING US AN UPDATE ON THE DIVERSITY TRAINING WE HAD JUST THAT ONE QUICK HOUR.
UM, BUT COULD YOU LET US KNOW ABOUT A CADENCE OF AN ONGOING, UM, CITY REQUIRED, UM, DIVERSITY TRAINING? I WAS A LITTLE DISMAYED AT THE ONE WE HAD, UH, LAST TIME.
UM, JUST A PERSONAL PERSON THAT HAS NO LOVE LOST BETWEEN US, I'M ASSUMING, BUT, UM, WAS JUST SO EXCITED AT IT ONLY BEING AN HOUR AND WAS READY TO GET OUT OF THERE.
SO IT WASN'T LIKE IT WAS OPEN AND WILLING TO BE RECEPTIVE OF THE INFORMATION AT THE TRAINING.
SO IT, IT'S HARD WHEN WE'RE ASKING THINGS AND, AND PEOPLE ARE NOT INTERESTED.
UM, FINALLY, 'CAUSE I DO HAVE A LITTLE TIMELINE.
UM, THE CCRB WE DID QUICKLY TOUCH ON THAT.
UM, WE HAVE NOT HAD ANY APPLICANTS FOR THE CCRB.
UM, WE'RE GONNA DO ANOTHER BIG PUSH FOR THAT INFORMATION, BUT WE ALSO WANTED TO, UM, THEY'RE GOING TO DOUBLE CHECK ON THE ABILITY OF COMMISSION MEMBERS TO SIT ON THAT BOARD, THIS COMMISSION, AND OTHERS.
SO, UM, IT IS SOMETHING THAT WILL BE USED ONCE IN A BLUE MOON.
UM, THE CCRB, UM, FOR THOSE THAT ARE HERE IS A, UH, CITIZEN COMPLAINT REVIEW BOARD WHEN IT COMES TO POLICE ISSUES, THAT IF YOU WENT THROUGH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S PROCESS FOR A CIVIL RIGHTS COMPLAINT, UM, AND DID NOT LIKE, OR DID NOT AGREE WITH THE OUTCOME, UM, THEN YOU COULD USE THE CCRB, WHICH IS AN IMPARTIAL GROUP TO OVERSEE.
THERE'S NOT A LOT OF TEETH IN IT, BUT IT DOES ADVISE.
UM, BACK ON THE ISSUES, IT WAS SOMETHING THAT AFTER GEORGE FLOYD'S DEATH, UM, THE DAYTON NAACP CHAPTER PUT OUT AN EIGHT POINT INITIATIVE TO ALL OF THE LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT, UM, CHIEFS.
AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE, THE MAIN ASKS WAS TO HAVE AN IMPARTIAL CITIZEN COMPLAINT REVIEW BOARD, UM, BECAUSE AS IT STANDS OR STOOD, IF YOU HAD COMPLAINTS, THE ONLY PEOPLE REVIEWING THEM WERE THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, ASKING THE DOGS WHO PEED IN THE CORNER.
SO, UM, I FEEL VERY STRONGLY THOUGH, IN HUBER HEIGHTS, WE HAVE A WONDERFUL POLICE CHIEF, UM, WHO VERY MUCH BELIEVED IN POLICE REFORM INITIATIVES AND THE WORK THAT WE ARE DOING.
UM, AND AFTER SPENDING ABOUT TWO YEARS IN HIS BUSINESS, UM, I, I TRULY DO FEEL THAT WE ARE THE EXCEPTION TO THE RULE WHEN IT COMES TO THOSE ISSUES.
AND I TRULY DON'T BELIEVE THAT WE WILL HAVE THEM.
I HOPE THAT WE NEVER HAVE THEM.
UM, I HOPE WE NEVER HAVE TO USE THE CCRB, BUT IT IS IN PLACE FOR THAT REASON.
SO, UM, TELL YOUR FAMILY, TELL YOUR FRIENDS, LET'S GET SOME APPLICATIONS IN.
IT'S NOT SOMEBODY THAT HAS TO TO BE MONTHLY.
IT IS ONLY GOING TO BE USED WHEN IT IS INDICATED BY A CITIZEN THAT IT IS NEEDED AND THEY PUT IN AN APPLICATION
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FOR THIS PROCESS TO START.UM, IT WAS A BIG DO, IT WAS A BIG ASK, AND IT IS A BIG NEED.
UM, IT IS FLAT OUT, THE REASON THAT WE WERE ALL CALLED TO SIT UP HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE WAS AFTER GEORGE FLOYD'S DEATH.
UM, AND TO ENSURE THAT WE WERE PROACTIVE IN THAT WORK IN OUR COMMUNITY MOVING FORWARD.
ANYTHING ELSE FOR ADDITIONAL UPDATES? ANYBODY GOT ANYTHING? UH, YEAH, I HAVE A COUPLE THINGS.
UM, I KNOW YOU HAD ASKED ME ABOUT A COUPLE MORE THINGS ABOUT THE MEETING SITUATIONS JUST ON IF, YOU KNOW, IT WAS MORE FOR MULTICULTURAL AND SO IF WE TAKE IT OUT OF OUR HANDS, THAT KIND OF BECOMES A MOOT POINT.
BUT IT WAS JUST, I KNOW THAT IF IT'S FIVE OF US, IT'S A QUORUM.
UM, AND THAT NO DECISIONS CAN BE MADE IN THOSE TYPE OF MEETINGS.
I JUST NEED TO KNOW IF THERE'S ANY GUARDRAILS.
SO, SO, SO YEAH, JUST SPEAKING WITH TONY TODAY, SO HE WOULD, HE OBVIOUSLY TOLD, UH, ME TO NOT THINK ABOUT USING QUORUMS. UM, SO ANYTHING LESS THAN THE FIVE.
UM, AND THEN AT THE SAME TIME, UH, EVEN, EVEN IN THAT CASE WHERE IT WAS FIVE OF YOU GUYS, IT'S JUST THE IDEA THAT THESE MEETINGS AREN'T CONSTANT.
UM, SO OBVIOUSLY KIND OF LOOK OUT FOR THAT.
IF, IF, YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS HAD SAID, HEY, WE NEEDED A COMMITTEE FOR SOMETHING, UM, OR AN EVENT OR, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
JUST KIND OF BE COGNIZANT ABOUT HOW OFTEN YOU GUYS ARE MEETING.
SO WE DON'T NEED TO PUBLICLY POST THEM IF IT'S JUST A MULTICULTURAL PLANNING MEETING.
AND THEY'RE NOT, AND THEY'RE NOT CONSTANT.
BUT WHAT IF THEY ARE NOT CONSTANT, BUT WHAT IF THEY ARE AT A CADENCE OF ONCE A MONTH FOR THE NEXT? SO I, SINCE IT HITS THAT ONCE A MONTH, THEN THEN IT STARTS THEIR MEETINGS.
I THINK WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT IT A LITTLE LATER.
IT'S SOMETHING WE CAN TALK ABOUT, BUT WE'LL FIGURE IT OUT.
I JUST WANNA KNOW WHAT THE GUARDRAILS ARE BEFORE WE START DOING STUFF.
AND THEN I THINK YOU ASKED ABOUT FACEBOOK.
I NEED TO KNOW HOW TO GET OTHER PEOPLE, THE REST OF US PERMISSION TO POST ON THE COMMISSION'S FACEBOOK PAGE.
AND, UM, IF WE START COORDINATOR POSITIONS, ONE OF THEM WAS GONNA BE LIKE A SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR.
UM, AND THERE'S, IT'S LIKE MYSELF, JEAN, AND MAYBE YOLANDA THAT HAVE ACCESS TO OUR FACEBOOK PAGE.
SO AS OF RIGHT NOW, 'CAUSE I THINK YOU HAD ASKED IF THERE WAS LEGISL LEGISLATION AROUND IT, THERE'S NO LEGISLATION, UM, THE ROUTE THAT THE CITY'S MOVING FORWARD NOW WHEN IT COMES TO FACEBOOK PAGES, OR AT LEAST WHAT YOU GUYS CAN DO, IF THOSE WHO DON'T HAVE ACCESS, JUST SEND ME WHAT YOU GUYS WANT POST OR SEND IT TO SARAH WILLIAMS AND SHE COULD POST IT.
UM, AND THEN I GUESS THE PLAN IS RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE YOU GUYS ARE THE LAST OF THE BOARDS AND COMMITTEES, UH, TO HAVE A FACEBOOK PAGE, BUT THE PLAN IS FOR THE CITY IS TO KIND OF CONSOLIDATE INFORMATION SO THAT FACEBOOK PAGE WILL EVENTUALLY BE TAKEN AWAY.
SO, SO WE WOULDN'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO CONTINUE TO POST INFORMATION ON OUR COMMISSION'S BEHALF.
SO IN THAT CAPACITY, OR WE JUST HAVE TO SEND IT ALL THROUGH YOU.
SO YOU GUYS INDIVIDUALLY WOULDN'T, AND I GUESS THE OPTICS OF WHAT TONY WAS KIND OF TELLING ME WAS IT'S A LOT EASIER TO KIND OF REGULATE CITY STAFF ON POSTING SOMETHING RATHER THAN, YOU KNOW, VOLUNTEERS TO DO SOMETHING.
BECAUSE AT THE, AT THE SAME TIME, AND IT'S NOT TO SAY THAT ANY OF YOU GUYS WOULD DO IT, IT'S JUST THE IDEA THAT ANYTHING COULD BE POSTED AT THAT ABILITY SINCE YOU GUYS WOULD HAVE THAT ABILITY TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO I GUESS WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO MOVE AWAY FROM IS NOW IS THAT IT WOULD BE STRICTLY THROUGH YOU GUYS, PASS US THE INFORMATION AND CITY STAFF WOULD PLACE IT ON THE CENTRAL FACEBOOK ON YOUR GUYS' BEHALF.
IF YOU START CENSORING US, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A PROBLEM JUST PUTTING THAT OUT THERE.
NOW,
I JUST, I JUST DON'T WANT THERE TO BECOME A, A POINT WHERE THE FLOW OF INFORMATION REGARDING THIS COMMISSION IS THROUGH A THIRD PARTY WHERE THEY HAVE THE ABILITY TO DECIDE
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WHAT INFORMATION IS ACCESSIBLE OR NOT.UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAD A, A, SOME IDEAS ABOUT SHARING, UM, YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY-WIDE EVENTS, THINGS TO HELP DISPARITIES, UM, TRAININGS, EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, AND, AND IN OUR CAPACITY, I JUST FEEL, UM, I WAS HOPEFUL THAT WE COULD MOVE TO USING OUR SOCIAL MEDIA A LITTLE MORE OFTEN, UM, TO KIND OF BECOME THAT LINKAGE BETWEEN ALL OF THE RESOURCES IN THE COMMUNITY.
WE'LL SEE HOW IT GOES AND, AND WE'LL CROSS THAT BRIDGE WHEN WE GET THERE.
UM, ANYTHING ELSE FOR THAT, UM, NEW BUSINESS? OUR RECOMMENDATION FOR TURKISH MEMORIAL DAY? MR. SHAHA? NOPE.
YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A GIVE US CLASS.
IT'S LIKE, I'M NOT PREPARED TO BE GIVING
SO, UH, TURKISH MEMORIAL MEMORIAL DAY, UM, THIS YEAR IS THE 80TH YEAR FOR, UM, OUR PEOPLE'S DEPORTATION FROM THEIR HOMELAND SINCE 1944.
AND, UH, WE WANTED TO MAKE IT A BIG EVENT THIS YEAR AND, UH, INVITE, UH, CITY LEADERS AND THE SENATOR AND ALL AS WELL AS THE, UM, TURKISH AMBASSADOR FROM WASHINGTON, DC AND THE COUNCIL MEMBERS IN, UM, CHICAGO.
AND, UH, WE, IT, THIS EVENT IS GONNA BE FOR ABOUT, UH, ROUGHLY 400 PEOPLE, UH, COUNT IN THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS AS WELL.
AND, UH, I LOOKED FOR THE VENUE PLACE SOMEWHERE IN HUBER HEIGHTS.
WE SPOKE WITH JEFFREY AND, UM, WANTED TO MAKE THIS EVENT HOSTED BY HUBER HEIGHTS DIVERSE COMMITTEE.
BUT, UH, UNFORTUNATELY WE WERE NOT ABLE TO FIND A VENUE PLACE IN HUBER HEIGHTS THAT WOULD ACCOMMODATE 400 PEOPLE WITH FOOD AND ALL THE OTHER STUFF WE'RE GONNA HAVE THERE.
SO, UM, THIS EVENT IS GOING TO TAKE PLACE IN NOVEMBER 15TH.
THE, UH, NOVEMBER 14TH IS THE ACTUAL DAY OF THE DEPORTATION, BUT, UM, THEY DIDN'T HAVE A AVAILABLE SPACE FOR THAT DATE.
SO WE, THE RESERVE, THE SINCLAIR GREAT HALL IN DAYTON FOR THE NOVEMBER 15TH AT 6:00 PM SO, UH, FOR ABOUT 400 PEOPLE THAT WILL INCLUDE DINNER AND, UM, AND WE'LL HAVE SPEAKERS OUT THERE.
AND, UH, MAYOR OF HUBER HEIGHTS WILL BE, UH, PRESENTING US A, UH, PROCLAMATION REGARDING THAT, UH, DEPORTATION AND MAKING IT NOTICEABLE.
SO, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE YOU GUYS WANT TO KNOW ABOUT IT.
UM, TICKET SALES, WHEN DO TICKETS GO ON SALE AND ADVERTISING AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
SO, UM, WE HAVE FEW ROUTES IN MIND OF, UH, DOING THAT.
UH, FIRST OF ALL, I WAS, UH, THINKING, BEING A PART OF THE DIVERSE COMMITTEE IN HUBBERT HEIGHTS, I WAS THINKING IF WE CAN HOST THIS EVENT OURSELVES AS HUBERT HEIGHTS, BUT, UH, SINCE THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE, BECAUSE IT'S NOT WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF HUBERT HEIGHTS, IT'S HAPPENING IN DAYTON.
SO, UH, I KIND OF NEEDED THE YOU GUYS', UM, THOUGHTS ON THAT AND SEE HOW WE CAN COME UP WITH SOME KIND OF, UH, PRICING FOR TICKETS OR THE SPONSORSHIPS.
SO, UH, I DID SPEAK WITH, UM, DAYTON, MATT, JOSEPH, ME, AND BYRAM, ACTUALLY, WE SPOKE WITH HIM LAST WEEK, AND THAT THEY ARE WILLING TO BE THE SPONSORS OF THIS EVENT AS WELL.
AND, UH, JEFFREY MENTIONED THAT HUBER HEIGHTS WOULDN'T HAVE PROBLEMS TO BE A SPONSOR, PART OF THE SPONSOR AT ALL.
WHO WAS THE FIRST ONE YOU SAID? UH, WE SPOKE WITH MATT JOSEPH.
SO THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE ON NOVEMBER 15TH, AND, UH, UNTIL THEN, WE HAVE A LOT OF TIME.
SO I WANTED TO SEE HOW WE CAN MAKE THIS POSSIBLE AND US BE PART OF IT, OF THIS EVENT, MAKING IT HAPPEN FOR THE TURKISH COMMUNITY IN HUBER HEIGHTS.
WHAT IS IT THAT YOU NEED MOST FROM US? IS IT THE ASSISTANCE WITH SPONSORSHIPS? SINCE THIS ISN'T GONNA BE LIKE A COMMISSION EVENT, SINCE
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IT'S NOT, I'M ASSUMING, 'CAUSE IT'S OUT OF THE CITY, WE CAN'T USE OUR BUDGET.SO IT SOUNDS LIKE THE MAJORITY OF THE NEED WILL BE ON US ASSISTING WITH SPONSORS OR SO, UH, NOT, NOT NECESSARILY SPONSORSHIP.
THERE IS, UH, SPONSORS OUT THERE THAT WILLING TO, UH, BE PART OF THIS EVENT.
LIKE, UH, MAYBE PUT SILVER, GOLD AND PLATINUM SPONSORS AND, OR IF WE COULD BREAK IT DOWN AND SELL IT BY THE TICKETS OR BY THE CHAIRS.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE ABOUT 400 CHAIRS AT WOOD TABLES, AND IT, IT'S GONNA BE CATERING.
THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TWO TYPES OF DINNER, TWO MEALS.
SO, AND WE WANT TO HAVE, UM, WE'RE GONNA HAVE NEWS CHANNELS THERE AS WELL, UH, AS WELL AS THE TURKISH LIVE NEWS CHANNEL THAT'S GONNA RECORD AND PUT IT LIVE IN TV IN TURKEY AS WELL.
YEAH, I THINK, UM, FOR OUR COMMISSION, WE COULD LOOK TO DOING THE PROCLAMATION.
UM, I KNOW THAT YOU SAID THE MAYOR WOULD DO THE PROCLAMATION OR IF THEY'VE ALREADY DECIDED TO DO ONE.
UM, BUT WE COULD FIND A WAY TO DO THE EDUCATION PIECE BEHIND THIS, UM, AND MAYBE FIND A WAY TO, UM, COMMUNICATE THAT INFORMATION VIA SOCIAL MEDIA OR, OR VARIOUS WAYS TO ASSIST WITH YOUR CULTURE AND HOW YOU GOT HERE, YOU KNOW, THIS BACKGROUND OF THE DEPORTATION.
UM, AND THEN I'M NOT SURE WITH IT BEING IN DAYTON AND KIND OF BEING LIKE OUTSIDE OF THE COMMISSION, HOW WE CAN LIKE OFFICIALLY GET BEHIND IT.
BUT I'M OPEN TO ANY IDEAS ON HOW WE CAN SUPPORT IN AN OFFICIAL MANNER BESIDES, UH, SUPPORTING, YOU KNOW, THROUGH OUR SOCIAL MEDIA AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
I THINK THAT THE SPACE FOR US IS GONNA BE IN THE, THE EDUCATION AND THE, YOU KNOW, IMPLEMENTATION AND, AND ASSISTANCE IN ANY WAY.
SO, DOES ANYBODY ELSE HAVE IDEAS? HOW CAN WE, SO THE PRO PROCLAMATION IS ALREADY TAKEN CARE OF.
AND, UM, UH, AS THE COMMISSION MEMBERS, I, I, IF YOU GUYS CAN, UH, HELP, UH, AND, UM, CREATING THOSE, UH, THE SPONSORSHIP FLYERS MM-HMM.
I CAN GET THE EXACT COST AMOUNT FOR THAT EVENT.
UM, IT'S ROUGHLY AROUND, UH, 10, $12,000 BIG ONE YEAH.
SO IF YOU GUYS, UH, CAN GIVE SOME KIND OF IDEAS OF, UH, SHOULD WE JUST SELL THEM BY THE CHAIRS OR TO SELL IT TO THE EVERYBODY OR JUST, UH, TO THE BUSINESS OWNERS, UM, BREAK IT DOWN INTO LIKE SILVER, GOLD, AND PLATINUM STATUS AND GIVE THEM THAT OPPORTUNITY AS WELL TO BE SPONSOR AND MARKET THEIR BUSINESS.
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO THAT LUNCH? UM, SO WE, WE, WE HAVE PLENTY OF TIME UNTIL MAY, BUT, UH, I MEAN, BEING READY AHEAD OF TIME, IT'S ALWAYS GOOD.
SO I ASSUME, YEAH, I'M JUST A SLOW PROCESSOR, SO I FEEL LIKE IF YOU CAN BE TILL NEXT MONTH, I PROBABLY CAN COME.
YEAH, THAT SHOULD BE FINE UNTIL NEXT MONTH.
THAT WAY I WILL HAVE AN EXACT AMOUNT BECAUSE I ALSO IN TOUCH WITH THE DAYTON DIVERSE COMMITTEE AS WELL.
AND, UH, AND THE SINCLAIR TO SEE IF THEY WANNA BE PART OF IT AND, UH, MAYBE KIND OF LOWER THE COST FOR US, BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT OF COMMUNITY IN DAYTON AS WELL.
AND, UH, DAYTON CITY, BY ITSELF IS WILLING TO BE A SPONSOR IN COVERING THE COSTS.
SO IT JUST, UH, THE POINT IS JUST TO HAVE THE EXACT AMOUNT AND KIND OF BREAK IT DOWN AND YEAH.
SEE, AND ALSO WE'RE GONNA SEND OUT INVITATIONS FROM HUBER HEIGHTS TO THE CITY LEADERS AND EVERYBODY.
SO IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY IDEAS TO PUT ON THE INVITATIONS FOR THESE PEOPLE AND THE SENATE, I MEAN, WE CAN ALSO CONSIDER THAT IS THE, THE TURKISH SOCIETY IN DAYTON.
I'M ASSUMING THEY'RE HAVE A BIG HAND IN THIS TOO, WITH YOU GUYS.
UH, WHAT WAS THE QUESTION AGAIN? THE TURKISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN DAYTON OR THE TURKISH SOCIETY, I ASSUME THEY'RE ASSISTING.
UH, PART OF THIS AS WELL, OF COURSE.
SO YEAH, THAT'S, THAT'S HOW IT'S GOING TO BE.
A HUNDRED PEOPLE FROM OUR COMMITTEE AND, UH, ALL THE OTHER CITY LEADERS WILL BE THERE, DAYTON, WE HAVE A FEW
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OTHERS TO INVITE, AND THE REST IS GONNA BE COMMUNITY PEOPLE THAT'S GONNA COME OVER THERE.AND DO WE NEED TO COVER FLIGHTS FOR THE CITY OFFICIALS IN DC AND CHICAGO HOTELS? NO, WE'RE NOT.
AND THEY'RE ON THEIR OWN FOR THAT.
UM, WELL, THE CHICAGO AMBASSADOR, I MEAN, AND THE DC AMBASSADOR IN CHICAGO COUNCIL, UM, THEY, THEY WILL BE TAKING CARE OF THEIR SITES ON THAT AND OKAY.
YEAH, WE HAVE SPACES IF THEY NEED TO STAY.
WE, WE HAD GOT THAT COVERED, BUT, UM, I HAVEN'T THOUGHT ABOUT THE OHIO SENATE YET, AND I'M NOT SURE HOW WE CAN GET HOLD OF THEM, BUT THAT'S WHERE HUBER HEIGHTS WOULD COME IN AND HELP US OUT TO GET, PUT THE WORD OUT THERE AS WELL, GET THEM IN THE EVENTS.
YEAH, WE'RE THINKING TO MAKE IT A HUGE EVENT.
SO THAT WAY IT'S, IT'S EVERYWHERE IN THE NEWS, ALL OVER THE, YOU KNOW, AND I, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD AS WELL, I WOULD DEFINITELY REACH OUT TO THE WELCOME DAYTON INITIATIVE.
JEANETTE IS, UH, IN HOLD WITH JEANETTE AND COORDINATED STUFF, SO EVERYTHING IS MOVING ALONG FINE.
UH, I, I REALLY WISH THAT WE COULD HAVE MADE THIS EVENT IN HUBER HEIGHTS AND US AS A DIVERSE COMMITTEE.
MAKING THE EVENT FOR THE TURKISH COMMUNITY.
THAT WOULD'VE BEEN A VERY NICE OPPORTUNITY FOR US AS HUBER HEIGHTS, BUT, UH, SINCE WE CAN'T DO THAT, BUT WE CAN AT LEAST, UH, MAKE IT THE BEST WAY AS POSSIBLE, EVEN IF IT'S IN DAYTON.
SO YEAH, JUST HAVE OUR PART IN IT.
THAT'S A HUGE TURKISH POPULATION IN DAYTON.
AND THERE'S HUGE TURKISH POPULATION OUT HERE TOO, SO, YEAH.
SO IT'S THE KIND OF BROTHER AND SISTER.
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL HOMES I'VE EVER BEEN IN ARE THE, THE TURKISH HOMES DOWN BY, UH, DAY CHILDREN'S.
UH, I'M PART OF A NLI PROGRAM IN DAYTON, SO, UH, LAST SATURDAY WE HAD A BUS ALL DAY.
WE TRAVELED THROUGH THE DAYTON NEIGHBORHOODS, ACTUALLY ALL 64 OF THEM.
AND YEAH, THERE WAS, THERE WAS PRETTY NICE HOUSES OUT THERE ACTUALLY ON THE WEST SIDE.
VERY BEAUTIFUL CONSTRUCTION AND THE STYLE OF HOMES, YOU KNOW, SO, OH, THERE'S SOME MANSIONS ON THE WEST SIDE OF DAYTON.
I I DIDN'T KNOW THAT IT WAS THERE.
I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S WONDERFUL.
LET US KNOW HOW WE CAN BE IN ASSISTANCE.
UM, IF THERE'S QUESTIONS OR ANYTHING FOR THAT.
SO JUST MOVING FORWARD TO THE NEXT ITEM, LOOKING FORWARD, UM, INITIATIVES AND COORDINATOR POSITIONS.
I STARTED THIS, UM, LITTLE DOCUMENT, UM, THAT WAS INITIATIVES AND COORDINATOR POSITIONS.
AND THE REASON I STARTED THAT IS JUST BECAUSE WE ARE EIGHT, NINE VERY DIVERSE PEOPLE AND THERE ARE INITIATIVES OR EVENTS OR THINGS THAT MAY NOT BE SPARKING OUR JOY OR OUR SOUL OR THE REASON THAT WE WANTED TO DO THIS WORK.
SO I'M JUST GONNA TASK YOU WITH SOME HOMEWORK FOR THE NEXT MONTH, IS TO THINK ABOUT WHY YOU APPLIED FOR THIS POSITION.
THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT TO FOCUS ON AND IF IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE ARE ALREADY HAVING IN PLACE, LET'S TALK ABOUT SOME NEW INITIATIVES AND IDEAS AND GOALS FOR MOVING FORWARD.
BUT AS YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT THESE THINGS, UH, THE LENS THAT YOU SHOULD BE LOOKING THROUGH IS HISTORICAL INEQU INEQUITIES, HISTORICAL RACISMS IMPACTS, UM, AND CIVIL RIGHTS AND DIVERSITY.
IT SHOULDN'T BE THAT WE WANNA DO A COMMUNITY GARDEN BECAUSE WE WANT THAT AREA TO BE PRETTIER.
IT SHOULD BE THAT WE WANT TO FOCUS A COMMUNITY GARDEN IN THE AREA BY THE COMMUNITY CENTER BECAUSE IT'S A FOOD SWAMP AND THERE ARE NO GROCERY STORES AND THERE'S NO ACCESS TO HEALTHY FOOD AND NUTRITION.
AND SO THE TARGET POPULATION IS MINORITY YOUTH AND ADULTS THAT ARE LOCATED IN THAT AREA.
AND THEN WHAT ARE GONNA BE OUR NEEDS IN THAT TYPE OF AN INITIATIVE.
AND THEN BELOW THAT ARE SOME COORDINATOR POSITIONS THAT I KIND OF STARTED TEASING OUT.
UM, LIKE A VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR, WHICH WE DISCUSSED A COUPLE MONTHS BACK.
AND WE GOT, I GOT SIDETRACKED.
UM, A VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR WHO'S GONNA BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE RECRUITMENT OF VOLUNTEERS FOR COMMISSION EVENTS AND INITIATIVES.
UM, RESPONSIBLE FOR KEEPING THAT VOLUNTEER LIST TOGETHER, A COMMUNICATION COORDINATOR WHICH
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WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CREATION AND DISSEMINATION OF COMM COMMISSION COMMUNICATIONS, UM, INCLUDING EVENTS, INFORMATION, RESOURCES, AND OTHER INFORMATION.UM, WE'RE DOING THIS WORK IN SILOS.
THERE ARE MANY, MANY, MANY GROUPS IN THIS COMMUNITY THAT ARE DOING THIS WORK.
I WOULD LIKE US TO FIND A WAY TO BECOME THAT SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
HOW CAN WE HOOK COMMUNITY MEMBERS UP WITH THE FREE MEALS? HOW CAN WE HOOK IT'S SIMPLY A POST ON THE FACEBOOK PAGE, BUT HOW CAN WE BECOME THAT SOURCE OF INFORMATION FOR DIVERSE MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY TO GET THEIR NEEDS MET? ACCESS IS HOW YOU START EQUALIZING THE PLAYING FIELD.
ACCESS OF INFORMATION, ACCESS OF, OF MATERIALS, ACCESS OF FAIR HOUSING.
SO I WANT US TO START THINKING ABOUT WAYS OR, OR GROUPS IN OUR COMMUNITY THAT WE KNOW OF THAT ARE PO POSTING THIS INFORMATION THAT WE CAN REPOST ON OUR PAGE OR SHARE A CALENDAR OF TRAININGS OR EVENTS OF THINGS THAT MIGHT BE OF INTEREST.
UM, COME TO FIND OUT, WAYNE HIGH SCHOOL HAS A DIVERSITY, WHAT IS IT? A DIVERSITY CONFERENCE COMING UP AND NOBODY TALKED TO NOT ONE PERSON SITTING ON THIS GROUP AND THEY KNOW WE'RE HERE 'CAUSE I MET WITH THEM THIS YEAR.
SO IT'S THOSE TYPE OF RELATIONSHIP BUILDING, UM, COORDINATOR POSITIONS IS ANOTHER ONE THAT I NEED TO WRITE ON THERE, BUT WE SHOULD BE SEEKING OUT THESE CONNECTIONS AND MAKING SURE THAT THESE PEOPLE KNOW WE'RE HERE AND UTILIZING US AS A RESOURCE AS WELL.
THINK OF ANY POSITIONS THAT YOU WANT TO TAKE OWNERSHIP OF.
UM, JEAN HAS DECIDED TO, SHE'S ALREADY DECIDED SHE'S OKAY WITH BEING THE CITY INFORMATION COORDINATOR AND SHE'S GONNA HELP TAKE THE LEAD ON MLK DAY.
SO IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT SPARKS YOUR JOY THAT WE'RE NOT DOING, LET US KNOW.
'CAUSE THE LAST THING I WANT IS FOR PEOPLE TO COME AND SIT HERE FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF AND TWO HOURS AND BE MISERABLE BECAUSE WE'RE NOT SPEAKING TO THEIR SOUL.
SO TELL US WHAT YOU NEED AND LET'S DO IT, BUT LET'S DO IT THROUGH THE LENS OF DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION.
I WOULD REALLY LIKE US TO BRING BACK THE COMMUNITY FORUMS. ERIC RICHARDSONS.
WE WERE ONTO A GOOD THING WITH THOSE POLICING FORUMS. SO LET'S FIND A WAY TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION WITH THE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT AND GET BACK ON TASK WITH THAT.
UM, IS THAT ONE OF THE TOPICS AT THE DIVERSITY CONFERENCE? MAYBE SOMEBODY ASKED DURING Q AND A ABOUT IT.
WHEN IS THE WAYNE MAYBE WE ADVERTISE THAT DIVERSITY, THEIR DIVERSITY.
YEAH, I MEAN MY SON HASN'T SAID ANYTHING TO ME ABOUT IT.
SHE'S HOW ABOUT YOURS? WELL, HE DOESN'T OH, HE DOESN'T GO TO WAYNE.
HE GOES TO WAYNE ONLY FROM BASKETBALL.
HAS YOUR SAID ANYTHING TO YOU? MY SON WOULDN'T SAY ANYTHING TO ME ABOUT THAT ANYWAY, SO YEAH, HIS LIKE, MOM, ARE YOU GONNA, YOU GONNA BE AT MY SCHOOL?
SO, UM, OTHER THAN THAT, SEE GUARDRAILS, UM, FOR MEETINGS AND COMMUNICATIONS, IF WE'RE COMMUNICATING ABOUT ANYTHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH THIS COMMISSION VIA EMAIL, PLEASE CC COURTESY COPY MYSELF AND YOLANDA ON ANY COMMUNICATIONS VIA EMAIL MOVING FORWARD.
UM, I WOULD JUST ASK THAT IF IT HAS NOT BEEN DISCUSSED UP HERE ON CAMERA, IT IS NOT DISCUSSED WITH ANYONE IN THE COMMUNITY AS AN OPTION, AS A NOT OPTION, AS ANYTHING, UM, THAT COULD BE AN OPTION UNTIL IT IS DISCUSSED UP HERE AND IT IS ON RECORD.
THAT WILL SAVE ME, UM, A COUPLE MORE GRAY HAIRS THAT I HAD TO GET COVERED UP AGAIN TODAY.
IF ANYBODY ELSE HAS ANY ADDITIONS FOR
WE DIDN'T COPY YOU 'CAUSE I WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT NO, IT'S FINE.
CAN WE JUST MOVING FORWARD, MAKE SURE THAT YOU KEEP US IN THE LOOP SO WE KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON SO WE'RE NOT BROADSIDED BY ANYTHING, BUT I DON'T, IT'S FINE.
THERE'S NOTHING THAT'S HAPPENED.
BUT IF YOU WANNA FORWARD US ANYTHING THAT WE MIGHT NEED TO KNOW, THAT'S FINE TOO.
I DON'T KNOW WHEN YOLANDA'S GONNA BE ABLE TO RETURN, BUT IT'S NOT PROBABLY GONNA BE BEFORE JULY.
I PROBABLY WON'T VOLUNTEER FOR ANYTHING ELSE, SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT.
SOME OF US HAVE VOLUNTEERING IN OUR SOULS.
SO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON'T VOLUNTEER? YOU GET VOLUNTOLD, RIGHT? ERIC? LISTEN ERIC,
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Y'ALL, Y'ALL GONNA STOP BULLYING ME.THIS IS THE LAST, THIS IS Y'ALL LAST OPPORTUNITY TO BULLY ERIC.
YOU GET VOLUNTOLD TEAMED UP HUH? IS A COMMUNITY FORUM.
I ANYTHING ABOUT THAT? IT'S WITH THE POLICE BILL.
ALRIGHT, SO NEXT MEETING IS JUNE 6TH.
YEAH, I MAKE A MOTION TO ADJOURN.
YEAH, THAT WAS THE ASK ABOUT CLEANING UP THE SOCIAL MEDIA MESS.
UM, JUST MAKE A, A POST ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE AND SHARE, UM, AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY CAN JUST, I'M SORRY, I GOING TO DRAW YOUR PHONE LIKE THAT.
DISCUSS, UM, THESE COMING GOINGS ONS AT THEIR NEXT MEETING AS WELL.
SO FROM NOW ON WHEN WE WANT TO POST SOMETHING ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE, THAT'S THE SARAH AND JEFFREY THING, OR IS THAT YES, NOW WE'RE OKAY.
SOME OF US STILL HAVE, HAVE, SO GOING FORWARD WE I STILL HAVE ACCESS.
SEND IT TO YOU AND THEN YOU ALL PUT ON THE PAGE JUST TO KEEP IT CLEAN.
JUST TO KEEP YEAH, JUST TO KEEP IT CLEAN.
BECAUSE I THINK, TARA, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, YOU GUYS SAID THAT SOME OF YOU GUYS HAVE ACCESS TO THE FACEBOOK PAGE BECAUSE ULTIMATELY THE I DO.
ULTIMATELY, BECAUSE ULTIMATELY THAT FACEBOOK PAGE IS GONNA COME DOWN AND WE'RE GONNA CONSOLIDATE ALL OF THE INFORMATION ON THE CITY OF HUBER HEIGHTS FACEBOOK PAGE.
THAT'S UNDER, SO, SO IT'LL BE, SO FOR EXAMPLE, IF IT'S SOMETHING THAT REPRESENTS SOMETHING, ONE OF OUR INITIATIVES, IT WOULD GO THROUGH THE CITY FACEBOOK PAGE, BUT SAY THE DIVERSITY COMMISSION IS, WOULD LIKE YOU TO GO TO THIS EVENT.
I THINK AND WE ALSO HAVE, I DIDN'T MEAN TO CUT YOU OFF, WE ALSO STILL HAVE OUR PAGE ON THE CITY'S PAGE AS WELL THAT I THINK WE SHOULD START USING FOR THIS TYPE OF COMMUNICATIONS ON THIS.
I DON'T KNOW, IS THAT GOING AWAY TOO? UM, MY UNDERSTANDING IT IS NOT, BUT I THINK MOVING FORWARD, LIKE IF YOU, IF IF WE'RE CONSOLIDATING ON ONE FACEBOOK PAGE, MAYBE IT'S A GOOD IDEA TO, LIKE TARA'S TRYING TO SAY, HAVE IT ON YOUR GUYS' FACEBOOK OR HAVE IT ON THE CITY'S, UH, UH, WEBSITE PAGE OR HOMEPAGE AS WELL AS THE FACEBOOK PAGE.
BUT I THINK TOO, WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO ASK FOR IS, HEY, DOES IT TITLE, LIKE DOES THE TITLE OR THE, LIKE, DOES IT SAY, HEY, CULTURE AND DIVERSITY IS PROMOTING THIS, PROMOTING? I THINK IT, I THINK IT WILL.
I DON'T COMPUTER, BUT, UH, I, I KNOW THERE'S SOMEBODY YOU TOLD YOURSELF GO, LISTEN, WE GOTTA STICK TOGETHER.
JUST HE JUST, I GOT, I GOT IT.
WE'LL BE BACK AT THIS SAME BAT TIME AND SAME BAT PLACE JUNE 6TH AT 6:00 PM AND A GENTLE REMINDER, WE DO NOT HAVE A MEETING IN JULY.
YOU GET A FREE MONTH OFF IN JULY.
WE WILL MEET IN JUNE AND WE WILL MEET IN AUGUST.
UH, I GUESS I HAVE TO DO MY PART.