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START.[ AGENDA CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZENS ACTION COMMISSION City Hall - Council Chambers 6131 Taylorsville Road December 2, 2021 7:00 P.M. ]
OF THE CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZEN ACTION COMMISSION.UM, CAN I HAVE A ROLL CALL PLEASE? KATIE? OH MY POLISH.
ANYTIME TO GET BACK TO YOUR SEAT, DR.
HAWKINS, MISS HONAKER, MS. NEWBIE PRESENT MS. PURVIS PRESENT MR. RAMIREZ FROZEN.
MR. RICHARDSON, PRESENT MR. STEVENS, MS. STEPHENS PRESENT MS. SOMEONE.
SO MS. SIMON WILL BE A LITTLE LATER MANY TONIGHT AND MS. HONAKER HAS A WORK COMMITMENT TONIGHT, SO SHE WILL NOT BE HERE THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES.
WE'LL MOVE IT TO THAT TO THE NOVEMBER 4TH MINUTES.
ARE THERE ANY AMENDMENTS TO THE NOVEMBER? FOURTH MINUTES? NO MINUTES.
OKAY, SO WE'LL MOVE TO APPROVE OF THE MINUTES ALL IN.
IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES? SECOND IT'S BEEN PROPERLY MOVED AND SECONDED FOR THE APPROVAL OF MINUTES.
ALL IN FAVOR, ANY OPPOSITION, THEN IT HAS BEEN PROPERLY MOVED THE SECOND DAY THAT THE MINUTES HAVE BEEN APPROVED COMMITTEE REPORTS.
I THINK WE'LL GO WITH IT WITH, UM, WE'LL GO WITH OUTREACH.
WELL, WE'RE GOING TO GO FROM THAT INTO THAT.
AND SO, UM, UH, WE, UH, WE HAD THAT MEETING ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23RD, UM, 7 45.
UM, AND LET'S SAY WE DISCUSSED PIS CONTEST, GO IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER AS A CONTEST THAT IS UNDERWAY NOW, UH, THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS, BUT WE MOVED BACK TO DECEMBER 2ND CENTER.
UM, AND I KNOW THERE WAS SOME EMAILS GOING BACK AND FORTH.
SO JAMIE HAS TAKEN CARE OF THAT AND I THINK SHE'S EMAILED RHONDA.
SO RHONDA WILL HAVE THE INFORMATION FOR, SO WE'LL HAVE THE CONTEST IN ON THE SEVENTH.
WE WILL HAVE THOSE, UH, THOSE, UH, ESSAYS.
UM, LET'S SEE, MARTIN LUTHER KING CELEBRATION.
WE DID DISCUSS THAT IN SOME OF THE DETAILS OF YEAR, UM, PROGRAM AT A CHURCH.
I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER THE NAME OF NEW SEASONS MINISTRY, AND THAT WILL BE ON MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY, WHICH IS GOING TO BE ON MY ROUTINE, BUT IT'S, UH, JANUARY 17TH.
AND THEN WE WILL GO TO THE JUNE, JUNE FESTIVAL FESTIVAL.
WE'RE STILL WAITING FOR MORE THAN I DID.
I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH THE MOM LAST WEEK.
HE SAID, THERE'S BEEN NO MOVEMENT, LIKE IN REGARDS TO THAT, BUT WE ALSO HAVE CABIN PRICES AND COSTS THAT, UH, THAT CONTINGENCY IS, UH, SOMETHING THAT'S SMALLER.
AND I'VE HAD A FEW CONVERSATIONS WITH AN OLD FRIEND OF MINE WORKS FOR CAMEO.
I DIDN'T KNOW THAT I TALKED TO HIS PARENTS AND THAT KIND OF YOUR CONTRACT IS ON CALENDAR.
AND WE'LL MOVE ALONG WITH THAT.
UH, ONE BEING A CULTURAL WEEK IS, UH, THE EDUCATION
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PART, OF COURSE THE, UM, THE, UH, AGENDA, BUT WE DID DISCUSS, UH, A NEW BUSINESS ADVOCACY COMMUNITY WANTING TO FOCUS ON HEALTHCARE FOCUS AND, OKAY, PERFECT.ANY QUESTIONS? ALRIGHT, THANK YOU.
AKINS THAT'S WOULD BE REFORMED.
SO REFORM COMMITTEE, UH, WE HELD OUR, OUR LAST MEETING ON 15 NOVEMBER.
UH, THIS TIME THE MEETING WAS WITH, UH, CHIEF LEITNER.
AND, UH, THE PURPOSE OF THAT MEETING WAS TO HAVE A FOLLOW-UP WITH HIM ON A REQUEST THAT WE MADE ON THE INFORMATION REGARDING A STRATEGIC DIVERSITY RECRUITING PLAN, WHICH WAS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL RECOMMENDATIONS THAT, THAT WE HAD.
BUT WE PUT ON HOLD UNTIL WE WERE ABLE TO HAVE A FURTHER DISCUSSION, UH, ON THAT TOPIC, UM, BECAUSE WHAT THE CHIEF INITIALLY PROVIDED OBVIOUSLY REACHED OUT TO HIM AND ASKED HIM TO PROVIDE US SOME INFORMATION ON, ON, UM, ON A DIVERSITY PLAN, A RECRUITING PLAN, IF YOU WILL, AND, AND WHAT WE SAW INITIALLY JUST WASN'T ADEQUATE, BUT, UH, AT LEAST WHAT HE PROVIDED TO US INITIALLY, WASN'T ADEQUATE.
HOWEVER, UH, WHEN WE MET WITH HIM THIS TIME, UH, HE GAVE US A COPY OF, OF THEIR RECRUITING PLAN.
IT'S, IT'S CALLED A RECRUITING PLAN SLASH ANALYSIS DOCUMENT.
AND, UH, AND SO WE WENT OVER THAT AND WE FELT LIKE THAT PRETTY MUCH ADEQUATELY, ADEQUATELY CAPTURED WHAT WE WERE LOOKING FOR.
SO THE DOCUMENT SORT OF CAPTURES, UH, KIND OF THE RECRUITING OBJECTIVES, AND IT'S NOT SPECIFICALLY FOR MINORITIES PER SE, BUT, UH, THEY EMPHASIZED AND HIGHLIGHTED THE IMPORTANCE OF DIVERSITY, UH, WITHIN THAT, WITHIN THAT PLAN.
UM, AND SO, AND I, WE HAVE A COPY OF THE DOCUMENT.
I'LL SEND THAT TO THE, TO THE REST OF THE COMMITTEE, JUST SO OR TO THE COMMISSION SO THAT THEY CAN, UH, SEE IT, BUT IT KIND OF HIGHLIGHTS IN THERE.
UH, SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES, UH, THAT THEY'VE, UM, RECRUITING ACTIVITIES THAT THEY'VE, THAT THEY'VE HELD, OR AT LEAST, UH, CAPTURED AT LEAST SOME OF THE KEY THINGS THAT THEY LOOK TO, TO, UH, PERFORM AS A PART OF THEIR RECRUITING STRATEGY.
AND SO THEY DID SOME ANALYSIS FOR, FOR 20, 20 AND 2019.
I BACK IN 2020, BECAUSE OF COVID, A LOT OF THE ACTIVITIES WERE PUT ON HOLD, IF YOU WILL.
UM, AND SO, UH, BACK IN, UH, 19, SO, AND AGAIN, SO THEY DIDN'T REALLY HAVE, THEY SAID THEY DIDN'T REALLY ACCEPT ANY APPLICANTS BACK IN THE 2020 TIMEFRAME.
UM, HOLLER BACK IN 2019, THEY WERE, THERE WERE A LOT MORE ACTIVE.
UM, AND THEY, UH, THEY KIND OF POINTED OUT THAT THEY HAD OF THE, I GUESS THEY HAD 45 APPLICANTS BACK IN THE 2019, UH, TIMEFRAME OF WHICH ABOUT 20% OF THE APPLICANTS WERE FEMALE AND 24% OF THEM WERE OR MINORITIES.
AND SO, UM, SO THEY WERE A LOT, THEY A LOT MORE ACTIVE BACK BACK DURING THAT MONTH, OR I'M SORRY, DURING THAT YEAR.
AND THEN, UM, ALSO JUST ANOTHER THING TO NOTE WAS THAT THEY'VE, THEY'VE, THEY'VE DONE, I GUESS THEY DO THIS REPORT, THIS, UH, REPORT EVERY YEAR, RIGHT.
AND WHAT THEY'VE SHOWN IS A PROGRESSION, UH, AT LEAST SINCE 2017, WHERE BACK IN 2000 1790S, 96% OF THE POLICE WORKFORCE WAS WHITE WHILE 4% WAS AFRICAN-AMERICAN.
UH, HOWEVER, IN THE 2018, 19 TIMEFRAME, THEY STARTED, SHE AT LEAST TO A TREND WHERE THEY WERE BECOMING A BIT MORE DIVERSE WHERE, UM, UH, THE WHITE, UH, POLICE FORCE, OR I'M SORRY, THE POLICE WERE 92% OF THE POLICE WORKFORCE WAS WHITE, UM, OR THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN SLASH HISPANIC, UH, PORTION, UH, INCREASED 8%.
AND THEN IN 2020, UH, 90% OF THE WORKFORCE IS WHITE.
ABOUT 10% IS AFRICAN-AMERICAN SLASH HISPANIC OR OTHER.
SO YOU CAN SEE FROM 2017 TO 2020, THERE'S BEEN AN INCREASE IN DIVERSITY.
SO THEY POINT OUT THAT THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, MAKING STRIDES TO,
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TO, UH, INCREASE, UH, THE DIVERSITY OF THE WORKFORCE WITHIN HUBER HEIGHTS.UM, AND SO, UM, SO YEAH, SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE MOVING FORWARD.
NOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID ASK, UH, THE POLICE CHIEF, UH, TO DO WAS TO WHEN IT COMES TO ADVERTISING FOR POSITIONS IN THE, IN THE FUTURE.
I MEAN, TO ALSO, UH, LOOK AT POSTING THOSE JOBS AND, AND, UM, WITH ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS NOBLE, WHICH IS A ORGANIZATION FOR BLACK, BLACK POLICE OFFICERS, IF YOU WILL, AND ALSO SUGGESTED FOR OTHER MINORITY, UH, POLICE OFFER POLICE OFFICER ORGANIZATIONS THAT THOSE ADVERTISEMENTS OR POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTS, UH, BE PLACED THERE AS WELL.
SO THAT, YOU KNOW, WE KIND OF INCREASED THAT, THAT POOL, UH, YOU KNOW, INCREASE THAT, UM, THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR, FOR, FOR BRINGING IN A MINORITY.
SO, AND HE SAID HE WOULD, HE WOULD INCORPORATE THAT, UM, IN, IN HIS PLAN.
SO, UH, WITH THAT, UM, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? SO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS AT 10% MINORITY RIGHT NOW, IS THAT REFLECTIVE OF THE NUMBERS THAT WE LOOKED AT BEFORE REFLECTIVE OF THE, OF THE COMMITTEE MEETING OF THE BRIDES, UM, UH, DEMOGRAPHICS THAT WE WEREN'T GIVEN BEFORE WE WERE GIVEN SPECIFIC NUMBERS? I BELIEVE SO.
I DON'T HAVE THOSE IN FRONT OF ME, BUT YEAH, I BELIEVE IT'S, IT'S IT IT'S IN LINE WITH WHAT THEY'VE SHARED WITH US.
I KNOW I'VE ASKED YET THE POLICE CHIEF HAS GIVEN ME THE BREAKDOWN OF, OF THE, OF THE DEMOGRAPHICS WITHIN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT SOMETIME BACK, BUT I BELIEVE THAT'S STILL CONSISTENT WITH THIS REPORT THAT HE PROVIDED.
SO THERE'S NO, THERE'S A RECRUITMENT PLAN, BUT IT'S, THERE'S NO TARGETED PLAN TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF MINORITIES THAT WE HAVE WITHIN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
IT'S NOT A SPECIFIC PLAN FOR IT IN TERMS OF, UM, IT'S NOT A SPECIFIC DIVERSITY OF RECRUITMENT PLAN, RIGHT? THEY, AGAIN, THEY EMPHASIZE AND HIGHLIGHT IN THEIR TRACKING, UM, THOSE NUMBERS, RIGHT.
AND THEY'RE SEEING AT LEAST A, A, A MOVE IN THE DIRECTION OF MAKING THE DIFF, UH, MAKING THE DEPARTMENT MORE DIVERSE.
SO, UM, BUT AGAIN, I'LL, I'LL SHARE THIS WITH, WITH EVERYONE, UH, THE PLAN OR THE ANALYSIS THAT THEY'VE PROVIDED.
SO, SO WHAT ARE OUR NEXT STEPS IN TERMS OF REFORM AND THIS PLAN, ARE WE REVIEWING THIS AND MAKING ANY RECOMMENDATIONS OR RIGHT.
THEY ONLY RECOMMEND AGAIN, UH, UM, SO WE'RE GOOD WITH THIS RECRUITING PLAN SLASH ANALYSIS DOCUMENT THAT HE PROVIDED, RIGHT? AND AGAIN, THIS IS WHAT THEY DO ON AN ANNUAL BASIS.
UM, AGAIN, ONLY RECOMMENDATION SPECIFIC, BUT NOT A RECOMMENDATION THAT WE'RE, THAT WE'RE LOOKING TO BRING FORWARD THE COUNCIL OR TO, TO THIS BODY.
IT WOULD JUST MORE OF A RECOMMENDATION THAT THEY, IN TERMS OF ADVERTISING JOBS, YOU KNOW, OPENING OR POSITION OPENINGS THAT THEY, THAT THEY, AND THEY SEND THESE OUT TO SOME OF THESE MINORITY ORGANIZATIONS, YOU KNOW, UM, SO THAT WAS THE ONLY SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATION THAT WE HAD IS THAT ANYBODY RECALL, ANY OTHER RECOMMENDATION THAT WE HAD FROM THEM BEFORE? I JUST WANTED TO INTERJECT THAT THE REASON FOR US PULLING BACK THAT INITIAL RECOMMENDATION IS WE WERE SATISFIED WITH THE MATERIALS PRESENTED TO US THAT HUBER HEIGHTS IS ALREADY DOING THIS WITHOUT US HAVING TO MAKE THAT RECOMMENDATION.
THEY HAVE MOVED FROM A 4% TO AN 8% TO CURRENT DATE OF OVER 10% AND GROWING, UM, BASED ON WHAT WAS REPORTED FROM THE CHIEF.
SO WITH THAT ACCREDITATION, THEY DO ANSWER BACK EVERY YEAR TO THAT TARGETED RECRUITMENT AND WHAT THEY ARE DOING, NOT IT, IT IS TARGETED RECRUITMENT IN SAYING THAT THERE IS A MINORITY PIECE TO THAT.
UM, BUT HOW IT WAS PRESENTED IN THE MATERIALS SHOWN YEAR TO YEAR, UM, WE WERE SATISFIED THAT WE DO NOT NEED TO MAKE THAT RECOMMENDATION BECAUSE IT IS ALREADY BEING DONE IN OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT.
AND HONESTLY, I THINK HE'S CHIEF LIGHTENER, I THINK IS VERY, UM, VERY OPEN AND WILLING AND SEES THIS AS AN IMPORTANT PIECE TO ANY POLICE FORCE.
SO, UM, WE WERE SATISFIED AS A COMMISSION DURING THAT MEETING THAT WE DID NOT NEED TO MOVE FORWARD OR AS A COMMITTEE, EXCUSE ME, UM, THAT WE DID NOT NEED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT RECOMMENDATION ANY LONGER.
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DO WE KNOW, LIKE, DO WE HAVE A BREAK DOWN OF, UM, I KNOW THERE'S LEVELS OF PHYSICIANS IN THE DEPARTMENT, UM, BECAUSE I THINK AT ONE POINT WITH, UM, OUR PREVIOUS WHAT'S THE PREVIOUS CITY MANAGER.WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, UM, MINORITY RECRUITMENT AND THE POSSIBILITY OF INCREASING THAT, BUT THAT OFTENTIMES THEY CAN ONLY COME IN THROUGH ENTRY LEVEL POSITIONS.
UM, SO I WOULD JUST BE INTERESTED IN KNOWING WHAT THAT BREAKDOWN IS IN TERMS OF WHERE OUR MINORITY POLICE OFFICERS WORKED OUT OF WHERE THEY'RE AT IN TERMS OF PHYSICIAN CLASSIFICATION.
I REMEMBER HE PROVIDED THAT TO LIST BEFORE.
I JUST DON'T RECALL WHAT, YEAH.
THESE WERE THE MINORITIES, WHAT POSITIONS THEY ACTUALLY HOLD WITH THE DEPARTMENT.
I JUST DON'T KNOW, BUT WE CAN GET THAT INFORMATION.
THAT WOULD BE, THAT WOULD BE GOOD TO KNOW.
THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE, WE HAD OUR STANDING MEETING ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24TH AT THE HEBREW HEIGHTS POLICE DEPARTMENT.
AND THE MAIN FOCUS OF THAT MEETING WAS TO DISCUSS PLANS FOR OUR TWO MAIN FORUMS FOR 2022.
AND THE FIRST ONE HAS ALREADY STATED IS GOING TO BE A JOINT ONE WITH THE REFORM COMMITTEE ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12TH, 2022 WITH CHIEF LEITNER, AS WELL AS THE VANDELIA POLICE CHIEF KURT ALT HOUSE.
SO MR. STEVENS, THANK YOU FOR REACHING OUT TO CHIEF WHITENER FOR THOSE POC.
AND ALSO THANKS TO MRS. HONAKER, WHO DID DRAFT A FLYER FOR THAT, WHICH I'M NOT SURE EVERYONE ON THE COMMISSION MAY HAVE SEEN IT.
I THINK JUST THOSE OF US ON BOTH COMMITTEES HAVE, BUT I'LL MAKE SURE THAT YOU ALL WOULD REVIEW IT BECAUSE I DIDN'T HAVE A TO PRINT IT OUT, OBVIOUSLY, BUT I THINK THAT FIRE IS READY TO BE SENT OUT FOR THE ADVERTISEMENT TO BE DONE BECAUSE WE ARE READY IN DECEMBER.
SO WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THE RIGHT ADVERTISEMENT DONE FOR THAT.
ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, BOTH THE REFORM AND EDUCATION COMMITTEE, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A JOINT MEETING TO DISCUSS THE EVENT AT 7:30 PM AT THE CUPRA HEIGHTS POLICE DEPARTMENT.
NOW IN REGARDS TO THE OTHER FORUM FOR 2022, AS ALREADY MENTIONED BY DR.
AKINS, WHICH WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY, JUNE 23RD, 2022 IS GOING TO BE AGAIN, RACISM IS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS PART TWO.
SO THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PART TWO PART IS TO FOCUS ON PSYCHOLOGICAL, MENTAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES FROM RACISM, WHICH IS A VERY IMPORTANT PIECE THAT WAS STATED IN THE PROCLAMATION THAT, UM, CITY, THE CITY HAD AGREED TO.
SO THOSE DATES HAVE BEEN PUT ON THE CALENDAR FOR NEXT YEAR AND WE WILL DEFINITELY, UM, MAKE SURE THAT THE COMMISSION IS INVOLVED, YOU KNOW, BESIDES OUR SMALL COMMITTEE, WE DEFINITELY APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT AND FEEDBACK AS YOU ALWAYS HAVE GIVEN.
SO I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THAT, BUT THAT CONCLUDES THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE REPORT.
UM, UNLESS THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE THAT I MAY HAVE MISSED.
WHAT DOES THE COMMITTEE NEED FROM US FOR THE 12TH? UM, FOR THE, UH, FORM IN JANUARY? WELL, I WOULD SAY AFTER OUR MEETING ON THE 13TH, BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO JUST DISCUSS
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THE LOGISTICS, EVERYTHING.MY PLAN IS TO COMMUNICATE THAT TO YOU AND THE OTHER COMMISSION MEMBERS, UM, VIA EMAIL IN OUR GROUP TEXTS, WE'LL DOUBLE MAKE SURE THAT YOU ALL KNOW WHAT IS NEEDED.
AND EVERYBODY NEEDS TO DISSEMINATE THE FLYER EXACTLY.
AND ARE WE DOING PRINT OUTS OF THAT? UM, YES.
UM, THE SAME AS WE'D DONE BEFORE, WHEN WE POSTED THE FLYER ON OUR COMMISSION PAGE, I THINK ALSO ON THE CITY'S PAGE AS WELL.
SO WHEN YOU HAVE THAT FINISHED, YOU CAN GET THAT TO SARAH, SARAH WILLIAMS. SO WHATEVER, WHATEVER FORMAT MIA, I KNOW HER AND ME HAVE FIRE INFORMATION BEFORE, SO WHATEVER MIA HAS AVAILABLE, SHE CAN SEND THAT TO THAT'S FINISHED.
I'LL MAKE SURE THAT MIA DOES COMMUNICATE WITH HER AS SHE HAS DONE IN THE PAST FOR OTHER, OKAY.
ONE QUESTION ABOUT THE FORUM AND I APOLOGIZE IF I MISSED IT.
THANK YOU FOR ASKING THAT QUESTION BECAUSE JOSH WAS ASKING ME, SO I NEED TO MAKE SURE I TELL HIM TO RESERVE IT.
AND I, CAUSE I DID REACH OUT TO HIM TWO WEEKS AGO, SO THANK YOU.
I'LL JUST TALK IN THE ROOM WITH HIM BECAUSE WE TALKED ABOUT THIS WEEK, SO YES, YES.
SO HE DID CONFIRM WITH ME WHEN WE TALKED TWO WEEKS AGO THAT THIS FORUM WILL BE HELD AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER, 6:30 PM UNTIL 8:30 PM.
AND I WILL TALK TO HIM AGAIN TO MAKE SURE.
I'M LIKE HALF LOSING MY VOICE TODAY.
WE, UM, I'M MET TO THE POLICE DIVISION NEXT DOOR.
IT WAS ERIC'S BIRTHDAY OR SOMETHING.
UM, YOU KNOW, UH, THERE WAS NO CITIZENS COMMENTS AND, UM, RHONDA AND I HAD A REALLY GOOD CONVERSATION REGARDING ADVOCACY AND WHAT WE WANT TO DO MOVING FORWARD, UM, WITH OUR GROUP, I THINK WE HAD A LITTLE, UM, COME TO JESUS MOMENT PER SE, WITH OUR COMMISSION OR COMMITTEE.
SO, YOU KNOW, THESE KINDS OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EVENTS AND SCAVENGER HUNTS AND STUFF LIKE THAT ARE ALL WELL AND GOOD.
UM, BUT THOSE WERE NOT WHAT I, OR SHE CAME TO THIS TABLE NECESSARILY TO DO.
UM, WE CAME TO THIS GROUP TO FACE REAL SYSTEMATIC AND SYSTEMIC ISSUES, UM, THAT ARE FACED BY MINORITIES AND ALL OF THE SCAVENGER HUNTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT IS HONESTLY JUST US WASTING TIME.
SO WE HAD OUR DECISION AT THE END OF THE MEETING.
UM, MY, MY RHONDA AND WE DECIDED THAT FOR 2020, OR AT LEAST THE BEGINNING OF 2020, UM, 12,022, I'M LOSING MY MIND.
UH, AT LEAST FOR THE BEGINNING OF 2022 ADVOCACY IS BEGUN TO BEGIN THE WORK ON, UM, RESEARCHING AND TACKLING SOME OF THE HEALTHCARE AND INEQUALITY IN, UH, QUALITIES, UM, AND DISPARITIES FACED BY MINORITIES AND IN OUR OWN COMMUNITY, I FEEL LIKE WE WERE INITIALLY WAITING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THOSE TYPE OF INITIATIVES, UM, JUST WAITING ON COMMUNITY INPUT AND THE, UM, THE THING WE WERE GOING TO DO THAT HAS NOT MOVED FORWARD NOW, YOU KNOW, LIKE A YEAR IN.
SO WE'RE JUST GOING TO, UH, START TACKLING WHATEVER THAT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE FOR OUR COMMUNITY, IF IT'S GOING TO BE, UM, SOME TYPE OF, UH, UH, CENTER FOR THOSE BRIDGING THE GAP WITHOUT MEDICARE MEDICAID, UM, THOSE THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, RIGHT ON THAT CUSP OF NOT HAVING INSURANCE OR UNDER-INSURED OR HOWEVER WE'RE GOING TO GO ABOUT IT, OR IF IT INVOLVES LIKE A TYPE OF HEALTH CENTER TYPE IDEA, LIKE YOU WOULD SEE A CASSANO OR DREW HEALTH CENTER
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OUT ON THE WEST SIDE OF DAYTON, WHERE THERE ARE WIC OFFICES IN THE SAME BUILDINGS WITH THE DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENTS AND THE DOCTOR'S OFFICES, UM, SOME TYPES OF DENTAL CLINICS, UM, HEALTHCARE, SEXUAL TYPE HEALTH CARE AS WELL ARE ALL HOUSED IN ONE TYPE OF BUILDING.SO LONG STORY SHORT OF WE'VE PRETTY MUCH SCRAPPED EVERYTHING ELSE WE HAD BEEN WORKING ON AND WE'RE GOING TO START OVER AND I THINK THAT'S OKAY AND I'M EXCITED FOR IT.
SO THAT'S ADVOCACY, YOU THINK , UM, I THINK WE JUST WANT TO BE MORE FOCUSED AND DO SOMETHING THAT'S REALLY GOING TO MAKE AN IMPACT.
AND OUR LAST FORUM, WE ALREADY KNEW THE CARE AND EVERYTHING WAS A BIG ISSUE.
SO WE'D WANT TO JUST LOOK AT WHAT WE REALLY CAN DO TO IMPACT THAT TOTAL WOULD ADVOCACY STILL LOOK AT THINGS LIKE, UM, WE TALKED ABOUT THE BID PROCESS, THINGS OF THAT NATURE OR EXIT PROBABLY AS IT RELATES TO HEALTHCARE AND EQUITY OR INEQUITY IN GENERAL, NOT TO THAT TOP OF THAT, BUT I FEEL LIKE WE HAD KIND OF FINISHED UP THAT DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT PARAMEDIC PROCESS PART OF IT.
AND WE WERE JUST GOING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT, YOU KNOW, THE, THE CITY BEGAN TO TRACK INFORMATION.
UM, AND THEN IN PART IN WHAT'S THAT PLACE THAT, YOU KNOW IS PART OF THE FAIR BIDDING PROCESS BECAUSE WE'RE TRACKING DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION AND WE CAN MAKE THAT BIG PROCESS A LITTLE MORE FAIR, BUT WE HAVE TO, IF YOU CREATE FIRST IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO FACE THAT FAIR BIDDING PROCESS OFF OF THAT.
UM, BUT OTHER THAN THAT, I FEEL LIKE I CAN SEE THIS DEFINITELY GOING TO CONTINUE TO DO THE EVENTS LIKE WE DID FOR GEORGE FLOW'S HOMEWORK.
AND FOR THOSE, UH, LIKE THE STOCK ASIAN HATE RALLY THAT WE HELD AND THINGS LIKE THAT, THOSE ARE VERY ADVOCACY DRIVEN AREAS THAT WE FELT COMFORTABLE MOVING FORWARD WITH AS A GROUP OR AS A COMMITTEE.
UM, BUT THE OTHER PARTS OF THOSE THINGS, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SCAVENGER HUGS IN BLACK HISTORY MONTH, THOSE TYPES OF EVENTS FOR WHAT WE FELT WE COULD JUST KIND OF FLUSH AWAY WITH TO BE ACTIONABLE, TO BE ACTIONABLE IS ISN'T GOING TO DO ANYBODY ANY GOOD AT THE END OF THE DAY ABOUT BEING ACTIONABLE PURPOSE.
AND SO WE WANTED TO KIND OF DRAW THAT BACK AND PUT MORE PURPOSE INSTEAD OF ACTION, ACTUAL, WE KNOW THERE'S OTHER INEQUITIES THAT WE CAN TACKLE, BUT HEALTHCARE'S A BIG ONE AND IT'S IMPORTANT.
SO WE REALLY WANT TO LOOK AT THAT AS IT RELATES TO, I MEAN, THERE'S BIG WINS AND SMALL WINS, SMALL WINS.
AND SO WE WANT TO TACKLE SOMETHING THAT WE TRULY CAN SAY WE MADE A MARK IN THIS TWO SOUNDS GOOD.
UM, DID WE GET ALL OF THE COMMUNITIES? I THINK SO.
SO I THINK, UM, JUST TO KIND OF PIGGYBACK ON ADVOCACY IS THAT FOR NEXT YEAR, WE ALL NEED TO KIND OF TAKE A STEP BACK AND EVALUATE, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'VE DONE SO FAR.
UM, WHAT WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED, ARE WE ON MARK WITH WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO IN OUR COMMITTEES AND AS A COMMISSION, AND IT WAS GOING TO READ THE OVERVIEW FOR OUR COMMISSION, UM, FROM THE WEBSITE.
AND IT SAYS THE CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZEN ACTION COMMISSION WAS ESTABLISHED TO ACT IN AN ADVISORY CAPACITY TO CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY MANAGER TO PROMOTE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN THE FULL EXERCISE OF CIVIL RIGHTS FOR ALL PERSONS WITHOUT DISCRIMINATION, BECAUSE OF RACE, ETHNICITY, COLOR, OR NATIONAL ORIGIN TO COMBAT DISCRIMINATION, RACISM, AND OTHER BIASES THROUGH EDUCATION, MEDIATION, POLICY LEGISLATION, AND COMPLAINT REVIEW SLASH RESOLUTION.
THE COMMISSION WILL MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY MANAGER THAT MINIMIZE THE EFFECTS OF CIVIL RIGHTS CONFLICTS AND PROMOTE AN APPRECIATION
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OF DIVERSITY TO MEET THESE GOALS.THE COMMISSION SHALL PROVIDE A VARIETY OF SERVICES, EDUCATION, AND CULTURAL PROGRAMS THAT PROMOTE GLOBAL THINKING AND COURAGE, CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS AWARENESS, AND REFLECT THE RICH DIVERSITY FOUND IN THE CITY.
THE PROGRAMS MAY INCLUDE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION, TRAINING, TOPICAL FORUMS, VOTER EDUCATION, AND REGISTRATION AND COMMUNITY CELEBRATION.
IT MAY ALSO SERVE AS A REVIEW SLASH ADVISORY PANEL FOR INVESTIGATIONS AND COMPLAINT RESOLUTION FOR BIAS SPACE ISSUES BROUGHT ABOUT WITHIN THE CITY COMMUNITY OR CITY GOVERNMENT.
SO AS I READ THAT, AND THAT IS WHAT, UM, WHAT'S ON OUR WEBSITE THAT CAME FROM OUR INITIAL FOUNDING, UM, FOR EACH OF OUR COMMITTEES IN EACH OF US TO REALLY EVALUATE, ARE WE ON TARGET WITH WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO, AND TO REALLY HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS IN OUR COMMITTEES TO EVALUATE THAT.
AND IF WE THINK THAT WE ARE NOT, THEN WE NEED TO REGROUP.
SO AGAIN, IT'S SO WORK IN PROGRESS.
UM, IT'S A LEARNING CURVE FOR EVERYONE BECAUSE THIS IS BIG.
SO, UM, WE ALL NEED TO TAKE A STEP BACK AND REALLY JUST EVALUATE, ARE WE ACCOMPLISHING WHAT WE SET FORTH TO ACCOMPLISH? AND IF NOT, WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ACCOMPLISHING THESE THINGS? UM, WE ARE FOCUSED ON OR SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON SOME SYSTEMIC ISSUES.
AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE REALLY FOCUS THERE.
EVERYTHING THAT WE DO GETS TO THOSE GETS TO THE HEART OF THAT.
SO WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THAT.
UM, BUT I ASK THAT YOU ALL ADD THAT TO YOUR AGENDAS FOR YOUR COMMITTEE MEETINGS TO REVIEW THIS AND JUST TAKE A TEST FOR OURSELVES, SEE HOW WE'RE DOING.
AKINS GAVE US THE MLK PROGRAM UPDATE, BUT DO WE HAVE ANYTHING ADDITIONAL RATHER? YOU HAVE ANYTHING ADDITIONAL.
DID YOU SEE THE, YEAH, IT JUST OPENED IT UP A MINUTE AGO.
UM, SO AT THE TIME I DID, I DIDN'T ANNOUNCE EARLIER IT'S 10:00 AM.
UM, AND WE'RE ASKING EVERYBODY TO BE THERE AT NINE 30 AND THEN THE COMMEMORATIVE PROGRAM AT NEW SEASON MINISTRY WILL BEGIN AT 11 AND WE DO HAVE THE FLY AROUND TO SEND THAT TO ME.
SO I'LL SEND THAT OUT TO EVERYBODY TONIGHT IF IT'S NOT ALREADY, UM, THE SHOPPING CENTER WITH BURLINGTON NORTH HEIGHTS.
WHAT WAS MY QUESTION? UM, AND WE HAVE THE FLYER.
DO WE HAVE A PROGRAM, A DRAFT PROGRAM YET? WE'RE WORKING ON THE PROGRAM.
AND DID WE FIGURE OUT, ARE WE STILL DOING, UM, THEN AT FOOD, THE FOOD DONATIONS? YES.
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WAS THE CHURCH HOUSE.WE TALKED ABOUT IT, BUT THAT WASN'T PART OF THE, I THINK THERE WAS THREE CARS, A LOT WAS A MOBILE PANTRY.
UM, IT ENGAGE WITH THE THANK YOU OF GOD'S GRACE, THIS ONE, AND I THINK WE MENTIONED ENGAGE.
I THINK THE REASON WHY WE DIDN'T CONSIDER ST PETER'S WAS BECAUSE OF RESTRICTION.
YOU NEEDED AN ID IN ORDER TO YEAH, YEAH, YEAH.
THEY REQUIRE FOR YOU TO PICK UP AND A PIECE OF MAIL.
SO WE WERE TRYING TO KIND OF REMOVE IN YEARS TO GET FOOD TO PEOPLE WHO NEED IT.
AND I THINK WE'VE GOT , UH, WHERE, UH, THE 24 7, UH, SOUP KITCHEN OR, UH, A, THEY DON'T REQUIRE YOUR ID.
AND I'M TELLING YOU FROM EXPERIENCE.
CAUSE I'VE HAD TO USE CERTAIN ONES, DO CERTAIN ONES DOWN FISH, UM, ST.
CAUSE THEY ACTUALLY GIVE YOU A CAR AND THE CARD YOU HAVE TO SHOW.
WHEN YOU GO TO GET FOOD, YOU HAVE TO SIGN UP ONCE AND THEN YOU HAVE TO SHOW THAT CAR.
SO WE WERE TRYING TO ELIMINATE PEOPLE HAVING TO GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS.
UM, THAT WAS A SIGN OF SANCTION.
IF YOU DON'T HAVE AN ID, YOU CAN'T GET FOOD.
SO WE WANT TO ELIMINATE HAVING TO USE THOSE TYPES OF THEATERS THAT WE'RE DISCUSSING AND OUTREACH.
THE MORE WE CAN REMOVE THOSE BARRIERS AND THOSE SANCTIONS.
TRYING TO THINK IF THERE ARE ANY CHURCHES THAT ACTUALLY GIVE FOOD THEATERS, DOES THE CHURCH COMMERCIALLY AND PRECINCT, UM, HARSHMAN FIELD AND PAPERS, BUT SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO A SERMON FIRST.
SO YOU DIDN'T MENTION THAT THE CHURCH IN ST.
PETER'S WON'T TAKE IT OR WHAT ARE WE SAYING? ID TOO.
WELL, ST PETER'S IS A GREAT PANTRY.
IF YOU HAVE AN ID, BUT IF YOU'VE DONE, YOU GOT TO SHOW SOME PICTURE ID.
AND IF YOU HAPPEN TO BE IN THE CATEGORY OF, I CAN'T GET AN ID, THAT'S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT COMMUNITY RESOURCE.
AND IF THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT WE DID MOVE FORWARD, OR WITH THAT INFORMATION, NO, YOU NEED ID NEEDED, NOT NEED IT WITH THE ID AND NOT SO SECURITY CARD, THIS BILL, YOU KNOW, THAT'S INFORMATION THAT IS NEEDED FROM AN ADVOCACY STANDPOINT.
IF WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THOSE TYPES OF INITIATIVES AND GATHER THAT TYPE
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OF INFORMATION, PERFECT INFORMATION.THESE PEOPLE WILL WELL, WE DON'T WANT ONE BE, DO WE NEED SPEED FOR THE CHURCH FOREVER? OKAY.
ARE WE WRITING SPEECHES? CAN YOU JUST SHOOT US AN EMAIL IN ADVANCE IF WE ARE, I NEED A SOLID 48 HOURS.
THAT'S COMING UP PRETTY QUICK.
JUST TELL ME WHERE I NEED TO BE, BUT WHEN BY THE CAR AND IT BRINGS UP WHAT WON'T BE INSIDE AT LEAST, I MEAN, FOR THE PROGRAM PART.
ONE THING I DIDN'T WANT TO DO IS SEE A NAME OR WHAT'S THE COFFEE SHOP.
IT'S A BLACK COFFEE SHOP, MAYBE A MINORITY COFFEE SHOP.
AND MAYBE WE CAN ASK IF THEY WOULD DONATE.
I DON'T THINK, UM, CAFE 1 25 AND SHE'S THERE FOR US ONE YEAR.
CHICK-FIL-A GIVE US SOME BREAKFAST SANDWICHES.
CHICKEN BISCUIT SANDWICHES FOR BREAKFAST.
SO WE ARE GOING TO WORK ON THE MLK.
MAKE SURE WE HAVE A SOLID PROGRAM.
CAN WE HAVE THAT IN A WEEK? I THINK IT WOULD DO THAT.
UM, AND WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED TO Y'ALL NEED FROM US? OKAY.
LET US KNOW WHAT YOU NEED FROM US.
WELL, LIKE A GOOD YOU'RE BEING FUNNY.
AFTER EIGHT O'CLOCK WELL YOU DO TOO.
YOU'LL BE THERE NEXT WEEK, THE PEPPERMINT BALL EARLY NEXT WEEK.
SO WE CAN TALK FOOD, TEXT MESSAGE AND GET THAT FINALIZED.
VOLUNTEER PLANNING IS THE NEXT ON THE AGENDA.
AND WE HAVE START FOR VOLUNTEER PLANNING.
WE STARTED, UM, BRAINSTORMING WAYS TO RECRUIT VOLUNTEERS AND SET A PURPOSE TO IDENTIFY WAYS TO CONNECT PEOPLE TO OUR COMMISSION AND GET THEM INVOLVED, THE VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES.
AND SO WE'VE STARTED BRAINSTORMING A LIST OF IDEAS, UM, INCLUDING USING THINGS LIKE VOLUNTEER MATCH, WORKING THROUGH OUR SCHOOL SYSTEMS TO GET, UH, VOLUNTEERS, UH, SPECIAL OR LIKE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT CLASSES CONNECTING WITH LOCAL BUSINESSES, UM, AND ESTABLISHING A LIST OF ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE IN HUBER TO CONNECT WITH THEM, TO PULL, UM, VOLUNTEERS FROM THEM.
SO THAT IS A WORK IN PROGRESS, BUT THAT IS WHERE WE ARE WITH THAT.
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YES YES, YES, ABSOLUTELY.AND WE WERE GOING TO HAVE THAT TOO AT ALL OF THE OLIVE ART EVENTS, LIKE A VOLUNTEER SHOT SIGN UP.
UM, WE CAN DO A PHYSICAL SHEET AS WELL AS LIKE A QR SHEET THAT CONNECTS TO A GOOGLE FORM.
CAN WE ADD A LINK TO OUR PAGE AS WELL? JOIN OUR VOLUNTEER GROUP OR MESSIAH OR FIGURE TO SIGN UP FOR FORMATION OR VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES OR ON THE COMMISSION WEBSITE ON THE CITY PAGE? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
JUST SEND IT TO YOU JUST OKAY.
UM, AND WHO WAS ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL.
WHAT GOOGLE FORMS? I KNOW RHONDA IS, ARE YOU OKAY? OKAY.
SO CAN YOU PUT TOGETHER A REAL EASY GOOGLE FORM TO SIGN UP TO BOTTLE FOR BOTTLE HERE? OKAY.
AND THEN WE CAN, UM, ANNOUNCED THAT AT OUR, ALL OF OUR EVENTS AND WE CAN MAKE A QR CODE, YOU CAN SCAN AND WE CAN HAVE A PHYSICAL SHEET.
UM, AND THAT BRINGS ME TO THE SHARED GOOGLE CALENDAR, WHICH I'M HOPING EVERYONE COULD ACCESS.
UM, IF NOT, WE'LL BE ACCESSED, BUT WE CREATED A GOOGLE CALENDAR IN WHICH ALL OF OUR EVENTS WILL BE PLACED TO ONE.
SO WE KNOW WHERE, WHEN, UM, AND WE MIGHT, I DON'T KNOW, CAN WE LINK TO LIKE OUR GOOGLE, IF WE HAVE A SPECIFIC CALENDAR FOR THE COMMISSION IS A GOOGLE CALENDAR PROVIDE A LINK ALSO.
LIKE TECHNICALLY WE COULD, LIKE FROM TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS STANDPOINT, EVERY EVERY EVENT YOU HAVE, IT'S NOT DOWNLOADABLE.
IT MAKES IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE INTERESTED IN THE COMMISSION.
YOU CAN JUST DOWNLOAD THEIR GOOGLE CALENDAR.
SO JUST A THOUGHT ON MY BRAINS AS WELL.
I ALREADY HAD THE CALENDAR, A NEW BUSINESS THAT NEGATES ITEM A, BECAUSE WE ALREADY HAVE A CALENDAR AND THEY, EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE, UM, UPDATED.
THAT'S JUST SOMETHING WE'RE GOING TO KEEP CONTINUOUSLY USE IT CONTINUOUSLY KEEP OUR PROGRAMS ON THERE.
UM, SO WE KNOW WHAT'S ON THE RADAR FOR, YOU KNOW, THE MONTH FOR THE YEAR.
AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I CAN CONTINUOUSLY SHARE.
WHAT, WITH THE COUNCIL BUDGET FOR 2022, UM, OUR BUDGET FOR 2022, UM, BRIAN SHARED WAS, IS $15,000 FOR 2022, WHICH LEADS ME TO COMMITTEE FINANCIAL NEEDS AND REQUESTS BECAUSE WE HAVE TO PLAN AND WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT'S ON OUR RADAR, SO WE KNOW HOW MUCH WE NEED AND WHAT TO ALLOCATE, WHERE THAT'S GOING TO BE CRUCIAL.
SO PLEASE BEGIN TO WORK ON LOOKING AT, UM, YOUR BUDGET ITEMS FOR 2022 ASAP.
I WOULD SAY BY OUR NEXT, UM, ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, UM, AT LEAST LEADS ME TO THE JANUARY.
WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE THE BEACON JACOB JANUARY, AND THIS SAME.
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TO ME? THE COMMISSION? WELL, WE'LL TALK, I'LL JUST, I'LL LEAVE THEM DOWN THERE DOWN A DOCKET.SO AT YOUR NEXT MEETING AND YOUR JANUARY MEETING, ADD THAT TO YOUR AGENDA.
SO YOU GOT TWO THINGS, OUR AGENDA.
AND IF WE HAVE THAT, UM, I WILL SAY BY THE 1ST OF FEBRUARY, FEBRUARY, THE BUDGET IS FINISHED.
LET ME, WELL, WHILE WE'RE THERE TALKING ABOUT THIS BUDGET, WE, WE, WITH THE CHAIRS, WE KIND OF DISCUSSED WHETHER OR NOT WE NEEDED TO HAVE A JANUARY MEETING.
UM, AND I'VE HEARD FROM A COUPLE, BUT WHERE DO WE, HOW DO WE FEEL THAT? NO, NOT THAT WELL, WE KNOW THAT YOU DON'T NEED THE BUDGET ITEMS UNTIL FEBRUARY, CORRECT? IT'S NOT THAT YOU NEEDED IT BEFORE THEN, LIKE IN JANUARY, UM, BEST FORWARD.
THAT'S MORE OF AN, IT'S AN INTERNAL THING.
UM, NOW I DON'T SEE A NEED TO BE, I MEAN, WE CAN, I JUST WAS TRYING TO GIVE EVERYBODY A BREAK BECAUSE I KNOW THIS TIME OF YEAR CAN BECOME STRESSFUL FOR PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY WOMEN.
I JUST DID A WHOLE WORKSHOP ON THAT TODAY ABOUT GENDER NORMS AND GENDER STEREOTYPES ARE IN THE HOLIDAYS AND IT IS EVIDENT RESEARCH SHOWS WOMEN ARE MORE STRESSED OUT DURING THE HOLIDAYS.
UM, NEXT ITEM IS COMMITTEE CHAIRS FOR 2022.
SO WITH THE COMMISSION WILL HAVE A MEETING, BUT OBVIOUSLY THE COMMITTEES, I GUESS IT WOULD BE LEFT TO THEIR DISCRETION AS TO, OR NOT, THEY WANT TO YEAH.
THAT'S FINE AS SET THE COMMITTEE'S DISCRETION.
SO OUR NEXT ITEM IS COMMITTEE CHAIRS FOR 2022.
SO THAT I'M BRINGING IT UP SO PEOPLE CAN THINK ABOUT IT.
UM, NOW THAT WE'RE A YEAR IN WITH OUR CHAIRS, ALSO SOMETHING THAT'S DISCUSSED IN YOUR MEETINGS OR AS COMMISSION, IF THERE'S A DIFFERENT COMMITTEE YOU'RE INTERESTED IN, OR, UM, YOU'RE INTERESTED IN CHAIRING A PARTICULAR COMMITTEE OR STEPPING BACK FROM CHAIRING A COMMITTEE, WE WILL CONSIDER THAT AND THINK ABOUT THAT.
AND WE WILL, UM, DISCUSS THAT AT OUR FEBRUARY MEETING, WE'RE GOING TO REMAIN IN OUR CURRENT ROLES, OR IF PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN OTHER ROLES OR YOU CAN EMAIL ME EMAIL THAT TO ME, AND THEN WE'LL PUT IT ON OUR AGENDA.
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I WOULD, I WOULD SAY YOU COULD DO NOMINATIONS WHO, YOU KNOW, IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO NOMINATE, JUST LIKE WE WOULD FOR THE COMMISSION, UM, NOMINATIONS WE MADE AT THAT MEETING, AND THEN YOU CAN VOTE PLACE BY JANUARY OR FEBRUARY.WHAT ARE YOUR FIRST MEETING WOULD BE? SO WE LIKE THE COMMISSION, IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE TILL FEBRUARY, WE'LL DO THAT AT THAT FIRST MEETING WHERE YOU GUYS WILL ELECT THE CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR AGAIN FOR THE COMMISSION, FOR THE COMMISSION.
SO WHATEVER COMMITTEE FIRST COMMITTEE MEETING, YOU HAVE, YOU COULD DO THE SAME THING.
SO THERE'S NOT AN ACTUAL VOTE FOR COMMITTEE CHAIRS.
YOU COULD DO AN ACTUAL VOTE IF THERE'S MULTIPLE NOMINATIONS, YOU MIGHT WANT TO DO ABOUT REACH NOMINATION.
WELL, AND IT ALSO, BECAUSE WHAT IF SOMEONE'S INTERESTED, SOMEONE OUTSIDE OF YOUR COMMITTEE IS INTERESTED IN YOUR COMMITTEE OR INTERESTED IN SHARING THAT COMMITTEE OKAY.
SO WE'RE GOING TO MOVE WITHIN THAT WITHIN THE COMMITTEE MEETINGS WILL NOMINATIONS AND FOLKS WITHIN THE COMMITTEES.
CAN I MAKE JUST ONE, MY THOUGHT OF SOMETHING WE COULD ALSO CONSIDER, UM, TO MULL OVER WITH OUR COMMITTEES WOULD BE TO KIND OF MAYBE CHANGE UP THE COMMITTEES IN GENERAL AND THE WAY THAT WE GO ABOUT MEETING SO THAT WE COULD COME BACK TO MORE OF A COHESIVE GROUPING WOULD BE TO MAYBE MEET THE WAY THAT WE MEET AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MONTH, AND THEN SCHEDULE JUST ONE MEETING FOR WORK GROUP FOR ALL OF THE BREAKOUT GROUPS TO WORK TOGETHER AND SAY, IF IT'S A WORK GROUP THAT WANTS TO WORK ON MLK, THEN THAT WORK GROUP COULD BREAK OUT AND MEET AND WORK ON MLK VERSUS HAVING SOMETIMES THREE OR FOUR SEPARATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS, THEN THIS MEETING.
UM, AND THEN JUST KIND OF GETTING THESE COMMITTEE REPORTS BACK, TRULY JUST A SUGGESTION, SOMETHING THAT WE COULD TALK ABOUT, UM, THROUGH THE COMMITTEES, UM, WHEN WE MEET, BUT JUST AN IDEA, UM, WOULD BE TO SCHEDULE A ONE, MAYBE TWO HOUR NIGHT, TWO WEEKS IN OR THE MONTH, YOU KNOW, TWO WEEKS INTO THE MONTH TO DO A WORK GROUP SESSION, THEN HAVE OUR MEETING, DO OUR FORMALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS.
AND THEN WHOEVER MAYBE WANTS TO WORK ON SPECIFIC INITIATIVES CAN JUMP IN, JUMP OFF TYPE OF THINGS.
I DON'T, YOU KNOW, DUSTIN REFORM, NOT ALL OF US WERE NECESSARILY IN AGREEMENT WITH THIS NEXT INITIATIVE WITH A MENTAL HEALTH FOCUS.
UM, IT WAS JUST SOMETHING I HAD BEEN KIND OF MULLING OVER KIND OF AFTER RONDA AND I'S DISCUSSION THAT WE HAD AN ADVOCACY AS WELL.
UM, JUST SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, IF NOBODY THINKS IT'S A GOOD IDEA OR AGREES, YOU KNOW, NO HARM, NO FOUL, BUT JUST SOMETHING TO BRING TO THE TABLE TO CONSIDER, UH, MORE THAN I WOULD KNOW WHAT EDUCATION'S WORKING ON OR WHAT YOU'RE DISCUSSING.
AND SAME THING WITH OUTREACH REFORM AND ADVOCACY, UM, IN A WORK GROUP SITUATION, I BELIEVE THAT WOULD PROBABLY NO LONGER BE A WORK GROUP, BUT LIKE A WORK SESSION MADE THE WORD.
LIKE IF THERE WAS WE'RE ALL IN A ROOM, UH, DISCUSSING THAT WOULD BE A COMMISSION MEETING, WE WOULD HAVE A FORM, WHICH WE CAN, THAT WOULD BE ESSENTIALLY A COMMISSION MEAT.
YOU CAN HAVE YOUR WORK GROUPS, LIKE A COUPLE OF YOU GO HERE, A COUPLE OF YOU GO HERE, BUT IF YOU'RE ALL IN ONE ROOM WORKING ON THINGS AND DISCUSSING COMMISSION ITEMS, NO, I MEANT FOR THAT TO BE A FORMALIZED MEETING AS WELL, TO FORMALIZED MEETINGS, A MODEL, ONE WORK GROUP OR GROUP TO DISCUSS THE, THE MISSIONS
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WORK EXACTLY LIKE THAT.AND THEN HAVE THE MEETING, YOU KNOW, THAT NEXT MONTH, FIRST WEEK OF THE MONTH AFTER WE DISCUSSED WHAT YOU WERE WORKING ON AND THEN BREAK OUT THE GROUPS FROM THAT WORK SESSION, IF I WANTED TO HELP WORK ON PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS OR THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT WAS MY THOUGHT.
AS LONG AS IN THE WORK, IN THE BREAKOUTS, WE STAY BELOW, WHAT IS IT? BUT WHAT DOES THAT REALLY MEAN? 'CAUSE EVEN WITH SOMEONE, LIKE, WHEN IT SAYS, WHEN THE COMMITTEE MEETS, IT'S NO DIFFERENT THAN HAVING A COMMISSION MEETING, RIGHT.
IT'S JUST A SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE.
RIGHT? SO THE PROCESS DOESN'T REALLY CHANGE.
SO I KNOW THAT WE NEED TO WORRY ABOUT INSERT PER SE.
RIGHT? SO EVEN OUR PEOPLE, MEANING BEFORE TECHNICALLY NEVER HAD TO NOTICE THOSE MEETINGS.
EVERY COMMITTEE MEETING HAS TO HAVE A NOTICE.
AND AGAIN, IT WAS JUST FOUR OF US MEETING.
HAVE YOU CAN HAVE A WORK GROUP WITHIN YOUR COMMITTEE THAT GOES LIKE TWO OF YOU GO AND WORK ON SOMETHING AND TWO OF YOU COULD WORK ON SOMETHING ELSE.
THEN YOU COME BACK TO THE COMMITTEE AND THEN YOU COME BACK TO THE COMMISSION AFTER THAT.
WHAT THE THOUGHT THAT YOU HAVE IS THE GOAL TO TELL ME WHAT THE GOAL IS.
CAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S TRIPLING MEETING.
THE GOAL AND OUR VISION, MY VISION WOULD ADJUST TO BE MORE COHESIVE IN OUR WORK AS A COMMISSION THAT WE ARE NOT FOR MENTEES COMING TOGETHER AS A COMMISSION ONCE A MONTH AND NOT WORKING COLLECTIVELY OUTWARDLY COHESIVELY.
I THINK WE COULD CHANGE THE WAY THAT WE VIEW OUR INITIATIVES AS A COMMISSION REFORM HAS WORKED THROUGH A LOT OF OUR TRAVELING PIECES.
AND NOW REFORM IS GOING TO START ALIGNING AND ALIGNING WITH KIND OF THE HEALTH CARE DISPARITIES THAT ADVOCACY IS GOING TO BE WORKING ON.
WELL, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE COULD BE WORKING IN TANDEM ON SOME INITIATIVES.
IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT BROUGHT THAT I NOT OUTSIDE OF ADVOCACY OR ADVOCACY, YOU WANT IT TO WORK OUT.
YOU GO JUST WORK ON THAT, BRING OUR WORK BACK THE NEXT MONTH.
BUT I THINK THERE IS SOMETHING TO BE SAID OF HAVING A COLLECTIVE VISION AND ALL OF US WORKING COLLECTIVELY COHESIVELY, OR AT LEAST UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE OTHER HAND IS DOING.
AND IT JUST HELPS MOVE THESE INITIATIVES FORWARD THAT WHEN WE ARE ALL KIND OF HANDS IN THE POT AND MORE WASTE AT THE TABLE AND MORE OPINIONS AND THESE INITIATIVES OF THESE GROUPS THAT WORK.
SO I LIKE THE IDEA ON WRITING.
IT ALLOWS US TO, YOU KNOW, PULL FROM OTHER COMMUNITIES TO HAVING MORE INSIGHT AND INPUT TO SOMEBODY OTHER COMMITTEE.
LET'S MAKE A SENTENCE IS WAY, YOU KNOW, THIS WHOLE PIECE OF THIS THING.
I THINK THE OTHER FLIP SIDE IS RIGHT.
IT DOES CREATE AN ADDITIONAL LEADING RIGHT? CAUSE THEN EACH COMMITTEE IS MEETING.
WE HAVE A WORK SESSION AND THEN YOU HAVE A COUNCIL MEETING IS JUST ALL YOU'RE GOING TO DO AWAY WITH, WE DON'T NEED, AS WE NEED IN THE WORK GROUP.
AND WE NEEDED THE BEGINNING OF THE FALL AND THEN ELABORATE NEEDS TO WORK ON, I'M GOING TO DO THIS GOOGLE DOC AND BRING IT BACK.
AND I'M GOING TO WORK ON THIS FLYER WHERE THIS BROCHURE FOR AT, ON PAYDAY, THEN I'M GOING TO BRING IT BACK.
SO NOT TO NECESSARILY DO AWAY WITH THE COMMITTEE CHAIRS AND ALL OF THAT.
I FEEL LIKE IT COULD STILL WORK FOR COMMITTEES PER SE, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF A YEAR INTO THIS WORK THAT THAT COMMITTEE , I DON'T KNOW, A SPLITTING US UP INTO FOUR GROUPS OF A COUPLE OF PEOPLE HERE, A COUPLE OF FEW PEOPLE THERE HELP US MOVE OUR VISION AND OUR INITIATIVES FORWARD WITH WHAT THIS COMMISSION WAS TASKED TO DO.
UM, SO, OKAY, SO ROOTS LOOKING AT TWO MEETINGS, A WORK SESSION, RIGHT.
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EVEN IF YOU BRING EVERYONE TOGETHER, YOU'D ALMOST HAVE TO, I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY EACH GROUP OR EACH COMMITTEE HAS MAYBE TOPICS THAT PROBABLY GET SOME INTENSE, RIGHT.THEN REQUIRES TIME EITHER THE DETAIL AND RIGHTS, LIKE WHETHER IT BE EDUCATION OR WHAT HAVE YOU, I GUESS I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW WE CAN BE PRODUCTIVE.
YOU HAVE FOUR DIFFERENT COMMITTEES THAT SOMEBODY RIGHT.
THEY DO COME TOGETHER AT SOME POINT, BUT SOME OF THEM WERE A LITTLE DIFFERENT, RIGHT.
I'M JUST GOING HOW TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT ALL IN TO ONE WORK SESSION.
UM, I JUST DON'T WANT TO INSIGHTS AND REMEMBER THAT SOME FOLKS ARE WORKING MULTIPLE COMMITTEES.
I JUST DON'T KNOW HOW THAT WOULD WORK.
AND IT SOUNDS, BUT I'M JUST WONDERING HOW THAT WOULD, AND THEN TRY TO GET EVERYONE TOGETHER TO THAT DAY, FOR EXAMPLE, IS ALREADY, IT'S ALREADY A CHALLENGE JUST COMING UP WITH THE ONE BAGEL, YOU KNOW, MARK AND HIS DAD WAS THE THIRD OR THE RIGHT, BUT TRYING TO GET EVERYONE TO COME IN AND NOT THE OTHER THING I WAS THINKING WAS WHAT I WAS THINKING WAS COULD WE, IF IT MAKES SENSE, YOU KNOW, WITH THE THURSDAY MEETING THAT WE HAVE, MAYBE THERE'S, MAYBE IT'S JUST, MAYBE IT'S JUST EXTENDING THE MEETING.
AND MAYBE HAVING A WORK SESSION THAT WE COULD MAYBE DO WITHIN THIS MEETING.
I HAVE TO SAY THERE'S A WAY THAT WE CAN CAPTURE WHAT YOU WANT TO TARGET GIVEN TO SOME OF THE SPECIFICS OF THE CONVENIENCE THINGS THAT WE NEED TO BE DOING.
MAYBE WE DO IT ALL IN THE SAME NIGHT.
JUST TALK ABOUT HOW I STILL HAVE THE COMMITTEE MEETINGS THAT WE'VE BEEN HAVING, LIKE FOCUS ON THE SPECIFIC ISSUES AND THINGS THAT WOULD WORK.
MAYBE THOSE MEETINGS BECOME SHORTER.
I DON'T KNOW, BUT I DON'T KNOW.
IT'S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.
I KNOW I LIKE THE IDEA THAT IT'S JUST MAYBE HOW WE, YOU KNOW, HOW TO BEST GO ABOUT LOGISTICALLY, I GUESS, FIGURE THAT OUT.
I THINK THAT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA FOR THE COMMISSION TO HAVE A FOCUS FOR THE YEAR, WHETHER THAT'S FOCUS IS POLICE REFORM OR HEALTHCARE INITIATIVES OR HOUSING INITIATIVES.
AND THEN AS WE LOOK AT EACH INDIVIDUAL COMMITTEE FOCUSES ON HOUSE, IT WILL BE OUTREACH FOR HOUSING, HOUSING, HOUSING, EDUCATION, HOUSING INITIATIVES, BUT THE WHOLE COMMISSION HAS A FOCUS AND WE'RE ALL FOCUSED ON ONE INITIATIVE WITHIN OUR SPECIFIC.
I DO AGREE WITH WHAT TARA WAS SAYING IN TERMS OF, I THINK WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED A LOT, BUT I THINK WE HAVEN'T FOCUSED ON SOMETHING.
AND THEN IN OUR INDIVIDUAL COMMUNITIES, EACH TARGET THAT INITIATIVE THAT I THINK WE COULD HAVE FOUND TOGETHER THAT ARE INITIATIVE AS A COMMISSION, KIND OF LIKE COUNCIL WAS FOCUSING ON INFRASTRUCTURE IN 2022.
I THINK IF AS A COMMISSION, WE WOULD PICK AN INITIATIVE THAT WE WANT TO LOOK AT GOING BACK TO WHAT YOUR MAMA SAID BASED ON SYSTEMIC ISSUES AND WHY WE CAME TOGETHER.
MAYBE IT WOULD SEEM LIKE WE WERE ACCOMPLISHING MORE AND MORE.
I THINK IN ORDER TO GET THERE, WE HAVE TO FOCUS ON EDUCATION.
WE'RE SITTING IN A COMMUNITY THAT IS SCREAMING FOR THE NEED TO BE EDUCATED TO THE SYSTEMIC ISSUES THAT AFFECT THOSE THAT DO NOT LOOK LIKE THEM.
AND I THINK UNTIL WE HAVE DONE SOME SERIOUS COMMUNITY EDUCATION, LIKE WITH THE FORUMS THAT WE'RE DOING THAT ARE SO WELL ATTENDED AND ARE REALLY GETTING INTO THAT CORE AND THAT UNDERSTANDING, I THINK UNTIL WE GET THERE, WE'RE, WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET A LOT OF TRACTION.
SO I, IT WOULDN'T BE MY SUGGESTED PERSONALLY THAT WE MAKE OUR INITIATIVE FOR 2022 AUTHENTICATION AND WHATEVER THAT MEANS WE CAN FOCUS.
AND THEN IF WE MOVE INTO 2023, AND THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE ADVOCACY IN ITSELF CAN'T FOCUS ON OUR INITIATIVES OR HOWEVER WE MOVE FORWARD WITH HOW WE MEET JUST MEANS THAT 2023, WE COULD FOCUS ON NOTHING BUT HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES OR HOUSING DISPARITIES OR THINGS LIKE THAT.
BUT I THINK, I THINK JUST MY PERSONAL SUGGESTION WOULD BE TO HAVE THAT COLLECTIVE FOCUS AND THEN WORK ON MAYBE, YOU KNOW, AND AGAIN, IT'S JUST A SUGGESTION OF CHANGING UP HOW WE MEET.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THEN WE CAN FOCUS ON INITIATIVES THROUGHOUT 2022 THAT REVOLVE AROUND EDUCATION, SAME THING, YOU KNOW, WITH REFORM
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INSTEAD OF THESE REFORM MEETINGS, THESE TERMINATED MEETINGS, WE MEET THAT TARGET ON EDUCATION INITIATIVES, WHERE IT COMES TO POLICING ISSUES.THAT THAT'S THE SAME THING WITH OUTREACH, EDUCATING ALONE.
LIKE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE PANTRY, THE NEED FOR A PANTRY THAT IS INCLUSIVE, WHERE PEOPLE WHO CAN COME INTO A PANTRY THAT MAY BE TURKISH OR AFRICAN OR HISPANIC CAN COME INTO A PANTRY AND FIND THINGS THAT THEY CAN EAT.
SO LOOKING AT THE CULTURAL PIECE.
SO I THINK EDUCATION WOULD BE A GRATEFUL AND THEN LOOKING AT EACH OF OUR AREAS AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S THE, WHAT'S THE EDUCATION THAT WE NEED TO FOCUS ON REALLY THE SAME BIG.
THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING EXCLUSIVELY, BUT THAT'S THE PRIORITY.
THERE MAY BE SOME OTHER THINGS THAT CAN BE WORKING OR SUPPORTING EDUCATION.
FOR EXAMPLE, THAT SHOULD BE THE LENS, THE LENS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, ALL OF OUR WORK THROUGH BE EDUCATION.
IF THAT'S WHAT WE DECIDE DISPARITIES IN HEALTH CARE, FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN OF WHAT WE SAY, TEACHING EDUCATION, RIGHT? THE, THE, THE BIGGEST THING THAT CONTINUES TO BOTHER ME, EVEN THOUGH THAT RACISM AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS WAS A LITTLE BIT BETTER ATTENDED THAN THE ONE PREVIOUS IS THE TRULY HONEST.
IF I'M BEING HONEST WITH MYSELF, THE PEOPLE THAT NEED TO HEAR THAT THEY'RE NOT IN THE ROOM, RIGHT? SO HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE INCREASE THE NUMBER OF CITIZENS THAT ARE IN THOSE YEARS? AND MAYBE THEN WE CAN SAY EDUCATION WILL BE A FOCUS IF WE CAN GET MORE PEOPLE INTO THE ROOM, BECAUSE THE PREACHING TO THE CHOIR STUFF IS EFFECTIVE SO LONG.
DO WE NEED TO GET THE PEOPLE IN THE ROOM WORKING? WE NEED TO GO WITH THE PEOPLE? IS THAT SOMETHING, HOW DO YOU GET PEOPLE TO GET EXCITED ABOUT THIS STUFF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT? WHICH MANY PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT? DON'T BELIEVE IT EXISTS.
IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'VE MADE UP.
HOW DO YOU GET PEOPLE EXCITED ABOUT HEARING ABOUT HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES AND UNFAIR HIRING PRACTICES? SOME PEOPLE YOU CAN'T.
UM, AND THAT'S JUST, THAT'S THE REALITY.
AND I AGREE THAT, UM, EDUCATION IS, IS HUGE.
IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT PIECE, BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN ORDER TO EDUCATE SOMEONE, PEOPLE HAVE TO BE WILLING TO RECEIVE THAT EDUCATION.
UM, AND IF WE FOCUSED ON JUST EDUCATION AND WE'RE NOT GETTING THOSE PEOPLE THAT NEED TO BE THERE, OR WE'RE NOT REACHING THOSE PEOPLE, HOW SUCCESSFUL ARE WE GOING TO BE AT GETTING TO THE SYSTEMIC ISSUES? WE WORK MORE WITH THE SCHOOL SYSTEM.
I AGREE WITH THAT BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE THE MORE THAT WE CAN ENGAGE THE SCHOOL SYSTEM, BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE ENGAGED IN THE STUDENTS, AND I KNOW THAT THE SUPERINTENDENT ONCE, ONCE THAT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SCHOOL, THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE STILL, ARE THEY STILL NOT ALLOWING PEOPLE TO USE THAT? JANE IS THAT, I'M SORRY, THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER IS IT'S STILL UNAVAILABLE THE CENTER WELL AT THE TIME WAS NOT AVAILABLE BECAUSE ANOTHER, UM, ENGAGEMENT, THAT'S A PERFECT VENUE FOR US TO BRING THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER, TO TALK ABOUT THESE TOPICS.
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WANT TO EDUCATE, WE HAVE TO GO WHERE THE COMMUNITY IS.MAYBE WE HAVE SOME BONDS AT THE BOWLING ALLEY, SOME EVENTS AT THE BOWLING ALLEY.
UM, SOME OF THE LOCAL RESTAURANTS LET'S GO WHERE THE COMMUNITY IS.
HOW ABOUT, HOW ABOUT MAYBE YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE FOLKS THAT ARE .
SO WOULD YOU LIKE A FOCUS GROUP TYPE OF THING? THAT'S WHAT, UM, UM, OKAY THEN I DO YOU GO OUT THERE TRYING TO FIGHT THE MASSES, RIGHT.
BUT IF YOU COULD JUST PICK IT'S REALLY, IT'S ALMOST LIKE .
I LIKED THE IDEA BECAUSE SINCE WHAT YOU JUST READ, AS FAR AS OUR PURPOSE AND MISSION, AS A COMMISSION, WE'RE SUPPOSED TO SERVE AS A ADVISORY CAPACITY TO CITY COUNCIL.
IF WE HAVE THESE FOCUS GROUPS WHERE WE TALK TO THOSE PARTICULAR INDIVIDUALS, WE CAN TELL, SO WE COUNSEL, HEY, THESE ARE SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT THESE BUSINESS OWNERS ARE EXPERIENCING IN TERMS OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION, WHICH YOU NEED TO BE AWARE OF.
AND I THINK WE MENTIONED DURING OUR OUTREACH MEETING THAT AS A COMMISSION, THIS IS SOMETHING WE CAN DISCUSS THAT WE HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH CITY COUNCIL TO SAY, HEY, IT'S BEEN A YEAR NOW, DO YOU FEEL THAT WE ARE TRULY SERVING THE PURPOSE AS A COMMISSION TO ADVISE YOU ON THESE ISSUES OF DIVERSITY INCLUSION FOR THE CITY? SO WHAT CAN WE DO LEARN, RIGHT.
WHAT HAVE YOU PUT INTO PRACTICE? SOME OF YOUR PHARMACIES CHAIN, MULTIPLE RALLIES, UM, MULTIPLE CONVERSATIONS, ALL RIGHT.
WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED KNOWING YOUR POSITION LEADERSHIP FOR THE CITY AND WHAT YOU FEEL YOU CAN HELP CONTRIBUTE? AND WE NEED TO DO A CIRCUIT CITY COUNCIL IN GENERAL.
SO IT COULD BE QUALITATIVE, I MEAN, BUT JUST TO MEASURE WHERE THEY WERE AND WHERE THEY ARE.
AND WE ARE, UM, DOES THE, DOES THE CITY, DO YOU DO ANY SORT OF, I KNOW AT LEAST SINCE LIKE THE GEORGE ROBBIE'S SYNCING SESSIONS AND THINGS, THINGS OF THAT NATURE, UM, TALKING ABOUT DIVERSITY, TALKING ABOUT STATES WITHIN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, DO YOU ALL HAVE, WHETHER IT BE SENSING SESSIONS OR EVEN HAVE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION, ENTIRE TRAINING AND EDUCATION THROUGHOUT THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS? IS THAT SOMETHING THAT'S
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WOULD THAT BE A, UM, E-LEARNING OR FACE TO FACE LEARNER? WHAT FORMAT WOULD THAT BE PREVIOUSLY? IT WAS AND THEY GO THROUGH THAT.I THINK THIS IS A CONVERSATION WE NEED TO CONTINUE.
UM, BUT THE OTHER THING THAT WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT IS BECAUSE WE ARE IN AN ADVISORY CAPACITY THAT WE NEED TO ADVISE AND SOME THINGS WE'VE BEEN DOING IN THAT ADVISING TO DO SO THAT WILL CHANGE GOING FORWARD TOO.
SO WE NEED TO ALWAYS THINK ABOUT THAT.
ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING THIS OR ARE WE MAKING, YOU KNOW, ACTING IN AN ADVISORY CAPACITY ASKING RECOMMENDING THAT THIS BE DONE? UM, YEAH, SO WE, WE REALLY HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THAT.
I THINK THAT WE COULD ACCOMPLISH MORE TO, UM, SO ARE WE GOING TO TRY TO COME UP WITH A FOCUS? CAUSE I AGREE.
I THINK WE, I THINK WE'VE KIND OF APPROACHED THIS FROM A SHOTGUN PERSPECTIVE VERSUS A SNIPER PERSPECTIVE WHEN WE'RE HITTING, BECAUSE I WOULD ASK US TO SAY, OKAY, DID WE HIT THE TARGETS WE WANT TO HIT? YOU PROBABLY WOULD TELL THEM, WHAT DO YOU HAVE? WE HIT.
SO WE DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT OUR TARGET WAS.
SO CAN WE SET UP WHAT OUR TARGETS SHOULD BE SO THAT IT MAY BE, THE COMMITTEES ARE THE RIGHT ANSWER AND MAYBE THEY'RE NOT, BUT I DON'T, I COULDN'T SIT HERE AND SAY, THIS IS THE RIGHT GAME PLAYING BALL FORWARD UNTIL I THINK WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT OUR TARGET SHOULD BE AND WHAT DO WE WANT TO ACCOMPLISH AS A COMMISSION.
AND THEN I THINK THAT CAN BE DETERMINED BECAUSE IF WE SAY, HEY, BY THE END OF DECEMBER, WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE THIS, THIS AND THIS HAPPENED, THEREFORE, NOW I THINK WE CAN SAY, OKAY, WELL, DO WE NEED A COMMITTEE? DO WE NEED TO WORK THAT AS A GROUP? YOU KNOW, I THINK WE CAN BETTER GAIN MY HEAD VERSUS JUST SITTING BACK AND LET'S CREATE ALL THIS STUFF AND THEN CREATE THE TARGET.
I THINK WE NEED TO CREATE THE TARGET FIRST.
AND I THINK THAT WE DID INITIALLY CREATE SOME TARGETS.
UM, LIKE WE FORMED SPECIFICALLY, THEY WERE LOOKING AT POLICE AND RECRUITING AND THAT RELATIONSHIP.
SO THAT WAS THEIR SPECIFIC TARGET EDUCATION YOU WOULD TARGET WAS TO DO THE QUARTERLY SERIES AND EDUCATE THE COMMUNITY.
SO WE HAD SOME, SOME SPECIFIC TARGETS.
UM, BUT I THINK THAT WE DO NEED TO SEX AND SPECIFIC GOALS AND OBJECTIVES FOR THE COMMISSION AND THEN ALIGN OUR COMMITTEES TO THAT.
UM, HOW DO WE BEST DO THAT? BECOMES THE QUESTION.
SO, AND IF WE LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, JUST REVIEWING KIND OF OUR, OUR OVERLYING MISSION, WHICH IS WHAT WE JUST READ, ALL OF OUR GOALS, INDIVIDUAL COMMITTEE GOALS SHOULD BE ALIGNED TO THAT.
AND THE REASON WHY I SAY THAT IS BECAUSE WE'RE JUST A CITIZENS ACTION COMMITTEE.
WE, WE TALKED ABOUT GETTING THIS NEEDS ASSESSMENT DONE.
WELL, I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO IT.
I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT FELL OFF THE CLIFF AT, BUT IT FELL OFF THE CLIFF SOMEWHERE.
SO MY QUESTION IS, DO WE JUST NEED TO CREATE OUR OWN NEEDS ASSESSMENT? YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? DO I NEED TO SIT INTO BARBERSHOP AND DO A NEEDS ASSESSMENT? DO I NEED TO SIT AT THE COFFEE SHOP, DO A NEEDS ASSESSMENT TO FIND OUT WHAT DO THE PEOPLE, IF YOU RIGHT,
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HAVE A CONCERN WITH, BECAUSE HOW DO I GET INVOLVED WITH YOU? IF YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT I AIN'T EVEN INTERESTED IN.IF, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING, IF WE SUPPOSED TO BE THIS ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON BEHALF OF OUR CITIZENS, SO MAYBE WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO GET THAT INFORMATION BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE FACTS, BUT BASED ON WHAT I SEE ON FACEBOOK, IF I'M ASSESSING OF UNITY ABOUT SYSTEMIC ISSUES, THAT DOESN'T BELIEVE THAT THEY EXIST.
DO I REALLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT THEY THINK WE NEED TO BE FOCUSED ON? BECAUSE DO YOU UNDERSTAND, OR DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE MINORITY POPULATION THAT'S WHERE THAT'S WHERE THE ASSESSMENT NEEDS TO GO? RIGHT? WE DON'T NEED TO ASSESS THE CITY.
WE NEED TO LOOK AT UNDER-REPRESENTED PEOPLE IN THE CITY.
AND WE NEED TO ASSESS THAT BECAUSE IF I'M ASSESSING SOMEONE THINKS THAT YOUR DATA IS GOING TO BE, YOUR DATA WILL BE SKEWED IF YOU ASSESS EVERYBODY AND IT WILL LOOK FOR SLACK OFF THE FACEBOOK PAGE.
AND I MEAN, IT WOULDN'T BE NOTHING OFFICIAL, BUT WE COULD DO A VERY SPECIAL NEEDS ASSESSMENT THROUGH SOME TYPE OF APPROVAL MORE EASILY.
BUT I GUESS IT WOULD BE GOOD TO KNOW.
I WOULD SAY ANY ONE OF THEM HAD A FOCUS, MAYBE HAVE ASSESSMENT FOCUS SPECIFIC.
WELL MAYBE AT THE SURVEY, THAT VIBE IS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING RIGHT THERE.
RIGHT? DOES THE MAJORITY, WE LIKE TO KNOW WHETHER OR NOT PAY, PLEASE DO THEY PICK AS A PROBLEM OR NOT? RIGHT.
IT CAN DO COMPARISON TO SEE IF THAT SEE HOW WIDE THE THINKING IS RATHER THAN HOW IS IT.
BUT IT'D BE GOOD TO HAVE THAT DATA.
I MEAN, THIS GROUP RIGHT HERE THINKS THERE IS NO POINT 99% OR WHATEVER THAT PERCENTAGE IS.
BE GOOD TO AT LEAST KNOW WHILE THEY'RE THINKING.
I DON'T WANT, REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOUR BACKGROUND IS, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO BREAK IT DOWN.
HERE'S WHAT MINORITIES THINKING IS WHAT THE MAJORITY OF THINGS, YOU DON'T GET THAT INFORMATION RIGHT THERE.
I THINK IT'S ALL USEFUL, RIGHT? BECAUSE IT WILL HELP DETERMINE HOW TO BEST MOVE FORWARD.
UM, WITH, YOU KNOW, COMING UP WITH SOLUTIONS.
SO YOU JUST CAN'T HAVE ANY PART OF THE PICTURE AND COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS.
WHAT I'M SAYING, THE CITY AND ITS ASSESSMENT.
I DON'T THINK THAT MEETS THE CRITERIA OF WHAT THIS COMMISSION SHOULD BE TRYING TO DO.
WE NEED OUR OWN, YOU KNOW, SAM, YOU KNOW, WE TOLD THE STREET ASSESSMENT, RIGHT? THAT'S HOW YOU GET WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR.
WE'RE, WE'RE LIVING THE EXPERIENCE.
WE DON'T NEED ANYBODY TO SUBSTANTIATE WHETHER SYSTEMIC RACISM IS REAL.
SO I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO ASSESS OUR CITY BASED ON OUR VISION ABOUT SYSTEMIC RACISM.
WE KNOW WHAT IT SAYS NOW, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? SO OUR CITY DOES NOT FACE SOME, THE ISSUES LIKE WITH GEORGE CAUSE THAT'S ONE OF THE CASE AGAIN.
UM, I THINK WE DO NEED TO BE MORE LOOSE, LOOSE ON THE STREET GRASSROOTS TYPE OF INITIATIVES.
HOW WE DO THAT IN A CAPACITY OF A CITY BOARD.
UM, BECAUSE A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK WE SHOULDN'T BE DOING, WE PROBABLY CAN'T PROBABLY CAN'T DO, BUT IT'S THE WORK THAT'S NEEDED AND IT'S THE WORK THAT FAIRBORN BEAVER CREEK THEY'LL GROW.
THAT'S THE WORK THEY'RE DOING, BUT IT'S BOOTS ON THE STREET, BOOTS ON THE GROUND, GRASSROOTS WORK.
UM, WE NEED TO COME OUT WITH A DICE A LITTLE BIT MORE.
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IS IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE A COMMISSION MEETING WITH SOME OF THOSE GROUPS THAT YOU SPOKE ABOUT SECOND AGO, GO FROM FAIRBORN AND YOU SAID VANDALIA, IT'S A GREEN COUNTY VOICES.WELL ADVOCACY, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DOING AN EVENT AND PULLING THOSE GROUPS TOGETHER.
SO MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING WE FOCUSED ON.
I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT DOING IT IN FEBRUARY, RIGHT? WELL, WE HAVE KIND OF PULLED THAT ALL BACK.
I THINK THE REASONING BEHIND THAT IS JUST THAT WE ARE SINGULAR IN BEING CHARTER SUPPORTED AND THEY ARE TRUE GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS WITH, SO IT'S TWO TOTALLY DIFFERENT.
AND WE CAN LEARN FROM, YOU KNOW, IN THE STAKEHOLDER AGREEMENT IN THE WORK WE ARE DOING.
BUT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN US SITTING AS THE POSITIONS WE ARE IN, IN THIS COMMISSION AND WORKING IN GRASSROOTS, CIVIL RIGHTS TYPE ORGANIZATIONS.
AND THAT'S JUST THE LINE WE NEED TO KEEP ON THE FOREFRONT.
YOU KNOW, UNFORTUNATELY IN THE CAPACITY THAT WE ARE TASKED, WE ARE NOT DOING THE EXACT SAME KIND OF WORK, BUT ARE IN THE SAME STREET WITH, I STILL LOOK AT THOSE.
MAYBE WHETHER IT BE AS ARE ANY VIOLENCE FROM THAT GROUP, JUST TO GAIN SOME INSIGHT INTO WHAT THEY'RE DOING, RIGHT.
IT'S WE NEED TO GATHER THE INFORMATION AND THEN MAYBE AT SOME POINT WE CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT CAN WE DO? AND MAYBE WE CAN'T, BUT MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING THAT WE STILL CAN DO, BUT AT LEAST MAYBE WE CAN COME UP WITH A PLAN, A LONG PLAN ON HOW MAYBE A SEPARATE GROUP COULD BE BORN.
AND I'M SAYING, WE GET FOLKS FROM THE COMMUNITY INVOLVED, MAYBE FORMING SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO GIVE US, I THINK IT'S STILL A GOOD START, RIGHT? SO AT LEAST MAYBE HAVE THE MEETING, GET THE INFORMATION AND THEN FIGURE OUT WHAT THE NEXT STEPS, I GUESS WE CAN HEAR THEIR ORGANIZATION.
NO ONE SAYS PUTTING TOGETHER RECOMMENDATIONS BECAUSE THE WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE IN THE COMMUNITY, SITTING IN THIS CAPACITY AS A PUBLIC OFFICIAL, YOU TO BE A PART OF TWO ORGANIZATIONS WITH DIFFERENT HATS.
RIGHT? UM, ONE THING THAT I SEE THAT THE, AND I'M, I'M HUGE ON METHODOLOGY, RIGHT? SO WHEN WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT GATHERING CONCEPTIONS OF LARGE GROUPS OF PEOPLE, HOW WE ACCESS THEM, MOST PEOPLE BECOME REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE NO MATTER WHERE WE GET INFORMATION FROM, IF IT'S FROM ONE PLACE OR ANOTHER, IT'S GOING TO SKEW THE RESULTS AS YOLANDA WAS SAYING, RIGHT.
AND I WOULDN'T, I WOULDN'T SUGGEST PUT A LOT INTO THAT BECAUSE PEOPLE COME THERE TO ANTAGONIZE MEMBERS OR DISPROVE.
AND I MEAN, SO IF YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THEN YOU SEND, LET'S CREATE A FLYER THAT WE COULD SEND HOME WITH THE, WITH THE KIDS IN SCHOOL.
SEE IF PAYING THAT'S, THAT'S A GOOD WAY TO REACH THOUSANDS OF FOLKS, UM, WITH ONE QR CODE, HEY, HERE'S A THING ON THE PERSON.
LET ME CLICK IT AND SEE WHAT IT SAYS.
AND THEN WE HAVE NO, ABSOLUTELY NO CONTROL OVER WHO ARE WHERE THESE PEOPLE ARE COMING FROM WITH THE EXCEPTION THAT THEY ALL HAVE CHILDREN AND YOUR RIGHTS AT THESE SCHOOLS.
WOULD THAT BE IN A, UH, A PREMISE ON WHICH WE, WE GATHER PEOPLE IN THESE PERCEPTIONS OR CONCEPTIONS OF HOW THEY VIEW DIVERSITY AND MOST OF THEM ARE GOING TO BE, UM, I'LL SAY PEOPLE WHO ARE AT LEAST SOMEWHAT INVESTED IN THE UBER HEIGHTS COMMUNITY BECAUSE THEY HAVE THEIR CHILDRENS IN SCHOOL.
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GO OUT A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT PLACES AND SEE IF WE CAN GET, GET MORE, MORE FEEDBACK OR RESULTS OR INFORMATION OR WHATEVER OR DATA, IF YOU WANT TO GO THAT FAR.
BUT I WOULDN'T, UH, I MEAN TO GET PEOPLE FROM FACEBOOK TO ANSWER SURVEYS, THE ANSWER TO THAT, IT'S ALWAYS GOING,
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SO HOW DO WE REACH THE CITIZENS? SIT IT OUT IN THE WATERVILLE.WE KEEP TALKING ABOUT, GOT RESIDENTS FOR THE MOST PART, THAT PLAYING BILLS.
HOW COME YOU DIDN'T GET THAT, BUT EVERYBODY GETS A WATER BILL.
SO WHO'S GOING TO CREATE THE SURVEY THOUGH WITH EXPERTISE, MIGUEL INPUT QUESTIONS, AND YES.
CAN I GET GOOGLE? HOW WAS THAT DIFFERENT THAN THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT UNDERSTANDING? I THINK IT WAS INSTEAD OF WAITING.
I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT ADVISORY PANEL.
I THINK SOMETIMES BECAUSE WE ARE EMPOWERED AND THEY WANT, THEY WANT THE BOARDS TO BE EMPOWERED.
MAYOR BOARD HAS SAID THIS NUMEROUS TIMES, POWERFUL BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, SOME THINGS WE MAY HAVE TO TAKE THE LEAD ON AND DO WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DO AND MAKE THE RECOMMENDATION BASED ON WHAT WE FIND.
GIVE IT TO KATIE, KATIE, RUN IT THROUGH.
SO COULD WE HAVE THE CITY FIRE 40 SURVEY? AWESOME.
I MEAN, I SENT MANY PEOPLE THROW AWAY, BUT AT LEAST IT'S NOT A SEPARATE .
AND IF IT'S GOING TO BE LIKE A QR CODE OR A LINK OR SOMETHING, THEY COULD POSSIBLY RUN IT.
LIKE THEY DID THAT WATER SURVEY AND PUT IT ON THE KUPER HEIGHTS PAGE THAT IT CAME UP AUTOMATICALLY.
AND WE COULD GET PEOPLE TO DO THE SURVEY THAT WAY AS WELL.
IF THEY'RE ACCESSING THE CITY PAGE, NOT LIKE THE FACEBOOK PAGE, BUT THE REAL, OR, YOU KNOW, HH, WHATEVER.
O H R.ORG PAGE SO WE NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT RIGHT INCENTIVE, RIGHT.
I KNOW SOMEONE SAID THERE'S A NON-MONETARY.
I THINK MY ONLY CONCERN WITH THAT IS OUR LEVEL OF EXPERTISE TO BE ABLE TO BE ABLE TO, UM, PUT TOGETHER AN ADEQUATE ASSESSMENT NEEDS ASSESSMENT, THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WE TOUCH, UM, FOCUS.
I WANT TO DO FOCUS GROUPS, THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
I'M JUST THINKING THIS WAS A SURVEY, RIGHT? TO SURVEY THE LIST OF QUESTIONS THAT WE NEED ANSWERS.
I MEAN THIS, I MEAN THAT, THAT'S WHAT IT IS SURVEY.
RIGHT? WHATEVER THOSE QUESTIONS WE WANT TO CAPTURE.
I'M JUST TRYING TO GET A PULSE OF COMMUNITY HEIGHTS AS IT RELATES TO DIVERSITY WASTE.
WHAT HAPPENED THE WAY THAT'S DIFFERENT THAN THAT'S WHAT IT REALLY IS.
THAT'S DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT FIELDS.
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WE DID TAKE THAT TO COUNTER.WE DIDN'T HAVE TO TAKE THAT TO COUNCIL.
WE WERE WORKING WITH BRIAN BY THAT END OF IT.
AND I THINK EDITS AND WE MADE EDITS AND SENT BACK.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT SO THEN WE JUST MOVE FORWARD TO THAT MOVE FORWARD WITH, WITH THAT THEN.
WELL, LET ME SEE THE LAST DISCUSSION.
I REMEMBER US HAVING WAS HAVING BREAKING OUT THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT FROM THE, THE VARSITY PLAN.
SORRY, THERE WAS A NEEDS ASSESSMENT PIECE TO IT.
AND THEN THERE WAS A DIVERSITY OF REQUESTS.
DO YOU REMEMBER? CAUSE WE WORKED ON THIS JUST, IT WAS A PART OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS FOR THE REFORM, BUT WE WERE LOOKING AT, I THINK THAT'S WHERE THAT COLLABORATION WAS COMING FORWARD, WAS GETTING OUT TO YOU, FIGURING OUT WHAT STEP INSIDE OF THE APPLICATION PROCESS WE CAN ASK FOR THIS INFORMATION, BECAUSE THAT WAS A COMPONENT INSIDE OF IT WAS WHETHER OR NOT WE CAN ASK A DEMOGRAPHIC RELATED INFORMATION THROUGH THE APPLICATION PROCESS.
AND THERE WERE SOME QUESTIONS THAT WERE HALTED IN SOME THAT WERE UNKNOWN THAT JUST HAVEN'T BEEN ADDRESSED YET.
BUT THAT WAS THE PART OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS THAT WAS, UH, BEING ADDRESSED.
WE'LL HAVE TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT THAT BECAUSE I REMEMBER US TALKING ABOUT, WE ADDED A COMPONENT TO IT.
IT WAS NOT JUST A NEEDS ASSESSMENT.
IT WAS A DIVERSITY PLAN IS WHAT IT WAS.
AND BRIAN WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, DO WE KEEP THOSE TOGETHER OR DO WE JUST DID A NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND THEN HAVE SOMEONE DO WITH VARSITY PLAN? THAT'S WHAT I REMEMBER THE LAST COMPENSATION BEING, YEAH, YOU'RE YOU'RE RIGHT ON TRACK BECAUSE THE OVERALL GOAL IS, WELL, ONCE WE IMPLEMENT THIS, THIS, THIS GOAL, THIS, THIS, THIS PLAN WHERE THIS OBJECTIVE, HOW ARE WE ENSURING THAT THEY'RE MANAGING, MANAGING THE PROCESS? AND SO THAT WAS THE SECOND COMPONENT AND THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE, YOU'RE LEADING INTO WAS, UM, THE FOLLOWUP ENSURING THAT THERE'S ACCOUNTABILITY TO DENEEN ASSESSMENT AND INDUSTRY DID RECRUITMENT PLAN.
OKAY, WELL THIS REVIEW THAT I WILL READ YOU.
SO EVEN WITH THAT THOUGH, RIGHT? SO IT WAS SO MANY ASSESSMENT STILL.
ISN'T THE REASON WHY WE CAN'T DO THIS SURVEY THING.
BECAUSE THAT NEEDS ASSESSMENT.
I HAD TO GIVE US ALL THE INFORMATION, RIGHT.
BECAUSE OUR NEEDS IN OUR SURVEY COULD BE, YOU KNOW, TARGETED TO ANSWER SOME SPECIFIC QUESTIONS THAT WE WERE LOOKING FOR.
I'M JUST SAYING WE COULD STILL DO BOTH.
WELL, WE COULD, WE COULD WORK WITH WHOEVER DOES THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND IT MAKES SURE THAT OUR QUESTIONS ARE INCLUDED ON THAT.
WE COULD DO THAT BECAUSE THEN YOU WOULD HAVE TO DO A FOR PROPOSAL PROPOSAL.
WHAT DO YOU THINK THAT PROCESS I'D PROBABLY BE LIKE THREE MONTHS.
I THINK THE DATA WOULD JUST BE, YEAH.
I THINK THE DATA WOULD BE MORE SOLID BECAUSE YOU HAVE PROFESSIONALS PULLING IT TOGETHER.
AND WE'RE TRYING TO PULL BACK ON DOING A LOT OF BECAUSE WE'RE DOERS.
WE WANT TO MAKE THINGS HAPPEN.
SOMETIMES WE NEED TO KIND OF STEP BACK AND SAY, OKAY, YEAH.
SOME OF THAT VOLUNTEERS AND WE DO THAT.
SO MANY OTHER PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY TO COME TOGETHER AND CREATE SOME OF THESE THINGS LIKE A SURVEY
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I'M JUST THINKING ABOUT, ARE WE PUSHING SOMETHING THAT WE REALLY NEED? THAT'S WHAT I KEEP LOOKING AT.WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WE DO NEED A COMMUNITY.
BUT CAN WE AFFORD TO WAIT A YEAR TO GET A COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT TO DO, TO GET THE INFORMATION WE NEED? MAYBE WE NEED TO START WITH SOMETHING THAT'S MORE, I THINK WE CAN TURN IT ONCE WE PUT TOGETHER THE LIST OF QUESTIONS, RIGHT.
ONCE WE PULL THAT PACKAGE TOGETHER.
I'M SENSITIVE TO THOSE IN OUR CITY MANAGER.
PEOPLE HAVE MORE RESPONSIBILITIES.
NOT THAT THIS MIGHT NOT BE AT FIRST, BUT I DON'T KNOW.
EVERYBODY IS KINDA, I MEAN, I KNOW BRIAN IS HE'S ACTING RIGHT.
SOME OF THESE COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT IS NOT GOING TO BE A PRIORITY TO SPEAK IT.
I COULD BE SPEAKING TOTALLY AT A TIME, BUT THEY DON'T HAVE THE TIME TO YEAH.
WHAT IS, WHAT IS GOING TO BE THE FIRST PRIORITY FOR THIS COMMISSION IN 2022? IS IT GOING TO BE THIS NEEDS ASSESSMENT? IT SOUNDS LIKE IT COULD BE, OR WHAT YOU SUGGESTED.
TARA HAVING, YOU KNOW, SEPARATE MEETINGS TO FOCUS ON WOMEN INITIATIVE AS A COMMISSION THAT NEEDS TO BE, IN MY OPINION, MADAM CHAIR, THAT NEEDS TO BE DECIDED UPON NOW, OR THIS MONTH BEFORE 2022 COMPS.
WE WILL SURVEY THE COMMISSION, RHONDA AND I WILL WORK TOGETHER AND COME UP WITH SOME QUESTIONS TO SEE HOW EVERYBODY IS, WHAT WE NEED TO FOCUS ON, HOW WE'RE FEELING.
WE THOUGHT WE'RE ACCOMPLISHING OUR GOALS AND OBJECTIVES.
WHAT GOALS DO YOU HAVE? WHAT IS YOUR VISION FOR THE COMMISSION FOR THIS YEAR? THAT'S WHAT WE'LL DO.
AND WE'LL CONSOLIDATE THAT AND LOOK AT THE TRENDS.
AND I THINK THAT THAT WILL, AND PEOPLE CAN FEEL FREE TO BE AS CANDID AS THEY WANT.
IF THERE ARE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS THAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW NEEDS TO BE INCLUDED, PLEASE SEND THOSE TO ME SO WE CAN PUT THOSE.
IF THERE ARE QUESTIONS YOU WANT INCLUDED, SEND THEM TO ME AND WE WILL PUT TOGETHER A GOOGLE SURVEY TO ASSESS THE COMMISSION.
I NEED THE DATA, THE GOOGLE SHEET.
I DO THINK THAT WE REALLY NEED TO FOCUS ON PARTNERSHIPS BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS THIS YEAR, BECAUSE THAT WILL HELP US ACCOMPLISH A LOT MORE TOO, BECAUSE I WAS THINKING LIKE WITH THE SCHOOLS, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS I WAS THINKING WAS IF WE ARE CONNECTED WITH THE SCHOOL, WHEN THE SCHOOL BOARD, AND THEN WE CAN START GETTING MORE TRACTION WITH LIKE OUR ESSAY CONTEST, UM, THINGS OF THAT NATURE, GETTING STUDENTS INVOLVED IN VOLUNTEERING WITH THE COMMISSION, UM, THE SCHOOL NOW HAS A, WHAT IS THEIR GROUP? THEIR, UM, DIVERSITY GROUP CALLED? WELL, THEY JUST RE IMPLEMENTED A DIVERSITY GROUP AT THE SCHOOL.
UM, SO THAT'S ANOTHER AVENUE AS WELL.
BUT I THINK THAT WE DEFINITELY START PARTNERING AND CONNECTING WITH EXISTING LOCAL ENTITIES AND THAT WILL HELP US AND WE'LL GET VOLUNTEERS.
THEY GET A LITTLE CRANKY WHEN WE FORGET ABOUT THEM.
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THEY'RE SENIORS HAVE TO DO VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS OR LIKE SO MANY HOURS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE AT THAT STEM SCHOOL.SO THAT'S A NICE, EVERYBODY SHOOTS.
SO ONE, THE NOTE OF THE VOLUNTEERS WE HAD NOT ONE APPLICATION OR THE COMMISSION, UM, ADVERTISE IN ANY WAY, SHAPE, FORM, OR FASHION THAT THE POSITION WAS OPEN.
I DON'T THINK WE, I KNOW WE PUT IT ANYWHERE.
DO YOU REMEMBER, UM, TONY POSTED ON A WEBSITE? HE PUT IT ON THE FACEBOOK PAGE.
I KNOW HE WAS GOING TO REPOST IT.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE DEADLINE IS NOW? OKAY.
SO DO PETE, ARE PEOPLE AWARE THAT THERE IS A BANK AND SEAT ON THIS COMMISSION? WOULD IT, WELL, I'M JUST SAYING THIS YOU CAN TELL ME LATER AS TO WHY JUST CONSIDER IT.
SO OUR LAST ITEM IS, UM, CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION.
IT'S ACTUALLY, OH, WELL WE POSTPONED IT TILL, UNTIL JANUARY.
WELL, I POSTPONED IT UNTIL JANUARY BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO, UM, I WANT TO BE ABLE TO GIVE THEM A REALLY GOOD SOLID REPORT OF WHAT WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED THIS YEAR AND NOT US KIND OF RUSHED TO DO THAT.
SO THAT GIVES US MORE TIME TO BE ABLE TO PUT TOGETHER A SUMMARY OF WHAT WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED.
AND I THINK THAT THAT WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO, TO ASK SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WE JUST TALKED ABOUT.
AND IF WE WANT TO SURVEY IN COUNCIL, WE CAN DO THAT.
SO THAT'LL BE IN JANUARY AT A WORK SESSION.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE, NO, SO TECHNICALLY WE WILL, JANUARY 18TH, I WOULD SAY JANUARY 18TH.
SENT ME AN EMAIL ABOUT THE SURVEY, ABOUT THE ESSAY CONTEST.
DID YOU ALL TALK ABOUT ? UM, PRESENTATION YEAH.
I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT, UM, DURING THAT MEETING, UM,
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DR.AKINS, JUST BEFORE YOU CAME MS. SOMEONE THAT WE WOULD DO IT ON THE 13TH, IF POSSIBLE.
RIGHT? HOW MANY, UM, HOW MANY DID WE GET CAN WE EXTEND IT? YEAH.
I MEAN, DO YOU WANT TO DO AT THE COUNCIL MEETINGS OR THE WORK SESSIONS? I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT DURING THE MEETING.
RIGHT? SO, WHATEVER, WHATEVER WAS ASKING FOR INFORMATION WITH , WE'RE HAVING A CONVERSATION, THAT CONVERSATION, UH, THE NUMBER OF WE HAVE THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO HAVE SUBMITTED THIS SPECIFIC CONVERSATION, BUT HOW OFTEN ARE THESE GRADES IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEMS? HOW OFTEN ARE THEY REQUIRED IN THEIR DAY-TO-DAY LIVES? LIKE, IS THIS A SKILL THAT THEY'RE COMPARABLE IS THE SUB THING SET UP LIES AND STUFF THAT WE ARE TEACHING ARTISTS LIKE THAT.
SO MAYBE WE COULD LOOK INTO THAT LENS OF MAYBE IS IT TOO HIGH LEVEL FOR WHAT WE'RE ASKING? LOT OF OUR KIDS OR WHATEVER.
PROBABLY NOT THE CASE, BUT YEAH.
I THINK IN HIGH SCHOOL YOU SHOULD ALREADY BE WRITING ESSAYS.
UM, MAYBE DO YOU THINK THE TOPIC, DO YOU THINK THAT COULD BE WE HAD THAT DISCUSSION THAT, THAT I THINK THAT, I THINK I ASKED MY DAUGHTER, SHE HEARD ABOUT IT.
SHE, SHE HAD NEVER HEARD ABOUT IT.
SO I THINK THAT THAT'S THE ISSUE.
UM, BECAUSE THEY ARE WRITING ESSAYS.
MY DAUGHTER WROTE A WHOLE TWO PAGE ESSAY ON RACISM.
AND I THINK THAT'S WHERE THOSE PARTNERSHIPS COME INTO PLAY.
LIKE WE SHOULD BE CONNECTED WITH THE TEACHERS IN THE CLASSROOMS AND MAYBE IT MEANS GO INTO SOME OF THOSE ENGLISH GOVERNMENT AND WHATEVER CLASSES AND LIKE INTERESTS AND TELLING THEM, BECAUSE THE TEACHER JUST MENTIONED IN IT AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS, YOU KNOW, AND I, AND IT SHOULDN'T BE SOMETHING THAT'S COMPETITIVE, YOU KNOW? I THINK WE DON'T WANT TO JUST GIVE .
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TODAY IS TUESDAY.UM, YEAH, WE'VE GOT CCP ENGLISH CLASSES IN THE HIGH SCHOOL, SO I'M NOT UNDERSTANDING, I THINK IT'S A COMMUNICATION THING.
SO RHONDA WILL REACH OUT TO MS. .
I WILL EMAIL ALL THE TEACHERS.
AND ANYONE ELSE, THE DIVERSITY CLUB ADVISOR, A LOT MORE THAN OUTREACH RELATIONSHIPS.
I THINK THAT THAT IS EVERYTHING.
ANYTHING ELSE, BUT YOU KEPT TALKING OKAY.
SO WE'RE LEAVING WITH ACTION ITEMS. RUN ARE GOING TO PUT TOGETHER A SURVEY.
TARA'S GOING TO LOOK AT THE GOOGLE.
UM, TELL ME, YES, THE VOLUNTEER PIECE, UM, AND EDUCATION AND REFORM.
THEY'RE MEETING ABOUT THE EDUCATION FORUM COMING UP NEXT MONTH.
PLEASE LET US KNOW WHAT YOU NEED FROM US FROM.
UM, AND I THINK THAT'S EVERYTHING AND IF THERE ARE PARTICULAR THINGS THAT YOU NEED FROM THE CHURCH, LET ME KNOW THAT TOO.
AND WE CAN PUT IT ON THEIR PAGE ALSO.
AND WE HAVE THE, THE, UH, HUBER HEIGHTS GROUP OF CHURCHES ALSO, THAT CAN BE A PARTNERSHIP FOR US IN A WAY TO KICK THINGS OUT AS WELL.
SO THE MEETING IS ADJOURNED AT 9:07 PM.