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[ AGENDA CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZEN ACTION COMMISSION City Hall - Council Chambers 6131 Taylorsville Road October 5, 2023 7:00 P.M. ]
WE ARE CALLING THE MEETING TO ORDER.MEETING IS CALLED TO ORDER OF THE HUBER HEIGHTS CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZEN ACTION COMMISSION.
AND WE HAVE A ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
UH, MS. SIGLE HAS BEEN EXCUSED FROM TONIGHT'S MEETING.
MOVING ON TO APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES.
UM, ARE THERE ANY CHANGES? SO WE'RE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THE MINUTES.
ARE THERE ANY AMENDMENTS OR CHANGES TO THE MINUTES? UM, MADAM INTERIM CHAIR, I DO HAVE, UM, AN AMENDMENT RECOMMENDATION UNDER SIX A FOR OLD BUSINESS, WHICH IS THE CULTURE WEEK RECAP WHERE IT SAYS MS. NEWBY.
THE LAST NAME SHOULD BE SPELLED N E W B Y.
ALRIGHT, ANY OTHER CHANGES? IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES WITH THE STATED UPDATE REVISION? IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES? MADAM INTERIM CHAIR.
I MOVE THAT WE ACCEPT THE SEPTEMBER 7TH, 2023 HUBER HEIGHTS CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZENS ACTION COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES WITH THE, UM, ONE RECOMMENDED CHANGE.
IS THERE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND.
AND ARE APPROVED WITH THE UPDATE.
WE'LL MOVE ON TO O BUSINESS, WHICH IS COMMISSION GOALS AND FUTURE INITIATIVE.
THIS WAS PUT ON FOR OPEN DISCUSSION AND ACTUALLY CAME FROM OUR LAST MEETING.
UM, IS THERE ANYTHING THAT ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO BRING FORTH WITH GOALS AND FUTURE INITIATIVES? UM, MADAM CHAIR, I HAVE TWO, TWO MAIN GOALS AND THIS PERTAINS TO THE EDUCATION FORUMS FOR 2024.
UM, TO KIND OF GIVE LIKE A HISTORY TO MR. ADAMS AND MR. IS IT Z Z? YEAH.
UM, SINCE THE INCEPTION OF THE COMMISSION, THERE'S BEEN A TOTAL OF SIX FORUMS THAT FOCUSED ON TOPICS PERTAINING TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION.
THE PROCLAMATION THAT'S CURRENTLY ON OUR CITY WEBSITE PERTAINING TO RACISM AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS.
A FINANCIAL LITERACY SEMINAR, AND THEN THE LAST FORUM THAT WE HAD DURING CULTURE WEEK, WHICH WAS A HEALTH AND WEALTH BARRIERS DISCUSSION IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
UM, AS MENTIONED IN THE LAST COMMISSION MEETING AND EVEN MEETINGS PRIOR TO THAT, WE DEFINITELY NEED TO HAVE MORE OF A BUY-IN FROM CITY COUNCIL IN ADDITION TO THE RESIDENTS OF HUBER HEIGHTS.
AND FROM PRIOR DISCUSSIONS WE TALKED ABOUT THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT AS BEING ONE MECHANISM, UM, EVEN TALKING TO OUR OWN NETWORKS IN THE, UM, COMMUNITY IN THE VARIOUS WARDS THAT WE LIVE IN FOR BUY-IN.
BUT TWO MAIN IDEAS THAT I HAVE FOR EDUCATION FOR NEXT YEAR WOULD BE WHEN WE HAVE OUR M L K EVENT.
WELL, IF WE DECIDE TO DO THAT, BUT I THINK WE WILL
MR. MARVIN DALE, AS THEY WERE THE TRUE
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ORCHESTRATORS TO OBSERVE M L K UM, HOLIDAY IN HOOPER HEIGHTS.THEY WOULD HAVE AN ANNUAL DINNER.
AND THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON SINCE I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL.
SO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT OVER 25 PLUS YEARS.
SO I FEEL LIKE WE SHOULD JUST ACKNOWLEDGE THEM BASED ON WHATEVER WE DECIDE TO DO FOR THE EVENT, BECAUSE TRULY THEY WERE THE ONES THAT STARTED THE RECOGNITION OF, UM, DR.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR'S, UM, BIRTHDAY SECOND FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH.
WE ALREADY RECOGNIZED MRS. LUCILLE DELL AND MS. MARVA COLSTON, UM, THROUGH A PROCLAMATION FOR BEING THE FIRST IN TERMS OF THEIR ROLES OF CITY LEADERSHIP IN HUBER HEIGHTS, WHERE OF COURSE, MRS. LUCILLE DALE WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE VICE MAYOR.
AND MRS. MARVA COLSTON WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN OVER, UM, ZONING AT THE TIME, UM, IN THE MID SEVENTIES.
I FEEL LIKE THAT EDUCATION IS KEY WHEN WE TEACH OUR YOUTH THE HISTORY OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY.
SO MAYBE WE CAN HAVE LIKE A DISCUSSION ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH THE WAYNE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS DURING BLACK HISTORY MONTH, WHERE THOSE TWO LADIES CAN HAVE THEIR OPPORTUNITY TO MENTION THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CITY BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THESE YOUTH TO UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, THE FOUNDATION THAT THEY'RE ON AND OF COURSE OURSELVES.
AND, UM, I SAID TWO, BUT THIS IS THE LAST ONE.
UM, I WOULD SAY WE CONTINUE AS FAR AS WITH CULTURE WEEK TO HAVE ONE FORUM, AND AGAIN, TO GET THAT BUY-IN FROM CITY COUNCIL AND OF COURSE FROM THE RESIDENTS IN HOOPER HEIGHTS AS FAR AS WHAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE PERTAINING TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION.
BUT MADAM INTERIM CHAIR, THOSE ARE ALL OF MY RECOMMENDATIONS.
I THINK THE LAST ONE AGAIN, JEAN JUNE, UM, FOR A MULTICULTURAL WEEK TO CONTINUE TO HAVE ONE FORUM AS WE HAVE DONE IN THE PAST, WHAT, TWO YEARS? MM-HMM.
I KNOW YOU HAD MENTIONED, UH, MAYBE THAT WAS YOUR SECOND RECOMMENDATION ABOUT HAVING SOME SORT OF, UH, HI, UH, HIS SO BLACK HISTORY EVENT AT THE HIGH SCHOOL, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
UM, SO I REMEMBER WHEN WE TRIED, WHAT WAS THAT LAST? THAT WAS LAST YEAR, EARLIER THIS YEAR.
WE TRIED TO, UH, HOLD A WHAT, A POLICING FORUM AT THE HIGH SCHOOL, BUT GOT SOME PUSHBACK.
SO WOULD WE RUN INTO SIMILAR ISSUES? I'M JUST, I DON'T RECALL.
I KNOW YOU WERE WORKING, YOU AND ERIC WORKING AT, I'M JUST WONDERING, ARE WE STILL, UM, SITUATION WHERE WE MAY HIT A ROADBLOCK IF WE TRY TO HAVE SOMETHING AT THE SCHOOL? NO.
I'M GLAD YOU MENTIONED THAT 'CAUSE I DID FORGET THAT SIGNIFICANT DETAIL.
UM, I GUESS WITH THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE A DISCUSSION WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT TO SEE, YOU KNOW, GET A PULSE FROM HIM, YOU KNOW? YEAH.
WHAT WAS, I JUST CAN'T REMEMBER.
I I, I DUNNO IF ERIC, I DON'T THINK, WHAT WAS THE ISSUE WHY THEY PUSHED, WE DO A PUBLIC FORUM ON SEXTING AND THEY HAD MENTIONED THAT, UH, THEY HAD ALREADY DID A FORM OF EDUCATION ON THAT AND THEY DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT AGAIN.
BUT IT WASN'T TO THE EXTENT OF WHAT WE WANTED TO DO AS FAR AS GETTING THE JUVENILE DEPARTMENT FROM MONTGOMERY COUNTY INVOLVED THE PROSECUTOR.
WE WERE WANTING TO DO SOMETHING RIGHT.
A LITTLE BIT MORE ELABORATE THAN JUST A KINDA GUY TALKING AT THEM FOR CHAIR, A COUPLE HOURS
SO WE WANTED TO TRY TO DO SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT MORE INTERACTING, A LITTLE BIT MORE EDUCATIONAL, BUT, UH MM-HMM.
IT WAS AN ONGOING FORUM WITH THE HIGH SCHOOL, WITH THE STUDENTS, WITH THE, THE PARENTS, YOU KNOW, BUILDING THESE RELATIONSHIPS THAT NEED TO BE BUILT.
AND I THINK THAT'S WHERE WE NEED TO TAKE IT BACK, IS TO BUILD THOSE RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, YOU KNOW, TO, TO HAVE THAT SUPPORT
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TO MAKE THE CHANGES THAT WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE.YOU HAVE TO COME AT IT FROM A SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE AND WITHOUT ALL OF THE SYSTEMS WORKING TOGETHER, IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK.
AND ONE OF THOSE VERY LARGE SYSTEMS, IF WE'RE TRYING TO GET TO THE YOUTH AND THE CITY IS THE CITY SCHOOLS AND THE BOARD AND, AND THOSE, AND WE HAVE TO GET THE BUY-IN FROM THEM.
AS MUCH AS WE HAVE TO GET THE BUY-IN FROM CITY COUNCIL AND FROM THE MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY, WE DON'T SEE THE MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY AT SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS.
YOU'RE REALLY NOT SEEING THEM AT CITY HALL, AT, AT, AT CITY, UM, CITY MEETINGS.
IT'S BEEN A LONG WEEK ALREADY.
UM, AND I THINK JUST THAT, THAT OVERALL SYSTEMS PERSPECTIVE OF EVERYBODY HAS TO WORK TOGETHER TO MOVE FORWARD OR YOU'RE WORKING AGAINST EACH OTHER.
IF, IF THIS GROUP IS DOING THIS AND THAT GROUP IS DOING THAT, WE'RE NOT WORKING TOGETHER.
SO I THINK AS A COMMISSION, WE NEED TO TAKE THAT BACK AS A LESSON OR A TIME TO, TO BUILD RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD AND SEE WHY THAT DIDN'T WORK.
WHY COULD WE NOT BUILD THE RELATIONSHIPS TO DO THESE FORUMS? BECAUSE THE PEOPLE IN THE, THE PEOPLE THAT I'VE TALKED TO IN THE COMMUNITY AS A PARENT, WERE VERY MUCH LOOKING FORWARD TO THOSE DISCUSSIONS AND THEY WANT TO HAVE THESE THINGS HAPPENING IN THE SCHOOLS.
SO IT WAS MORE THEY DO, I'M SORRY.
I WAS SAYING, SO THE ISSUE, THE ROADBLOCK WAS MORE SO WASN'T SO MUCH THAT THEY DIDN'T, THAT THEY WERE NOT IN SUPPORT OF DOING FORUM.
IT WAS MORE SO THAT THEY DIDN'T WANT TO DO THE FORM THAT ON THAT PARTICULAR TOPIC.
AS, BUT THAT WAS THE NUMBER ONE TOPIC THE POLICE WANTED TO DO THOUGH.
YOU KNOW, WE, WE STARTED WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
'CAUSE OF COURSE THAT'S HOW THE COMMISSION STARTED.
WE HAVE TO ALWAYS REMEMBER WHAT BROUGHT US HERE.
WE WERE BROUGHT HERE IN THE WAKE OF GEORGE FLOYD'S DEATH.
WE WERE NOT BROUGHT HERE TO PUT ON EVENTS FOR EVERY HERITAGE MONTH.
SO WE HAVE TO REMEMBER OUR, OUR CAUSE AND OUR REASON FOR BEING HERE.
WE WERE BROUGHT HERE AFTER GEORGE FLOYD'S DEATH.
AND, AND TO JUST TO BRING IT BACK, WE STARTED WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IN THESE FORMS AND WE ASKED THEM IF WE'RE GONNA REACH THE YOUTH AND IF WE'RE GOING TO MOVE THIS FORWARD WITH YOUTH AND REALLY MAKE THE CONNECTION, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HAVE THE DISCUSSION? WE HAD THAT LIST, THAT WHOLE LONG LIST.
IT WAS SEXTING, IT WAS, I CAN'T REMEMBER, ERIC.
WE HAD A WHOLE LIST OF TOPICS THAT WE WANTED TO DISCUSS, YOU KNOW, VARIOUS FORUMS OVER THE MONTHS.
AND THE FIRST ONE THAT THE, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT SAID WAS SEXTING.
THAT'S THE BIGGEST ISSUE THAT THEY SAW THAT HAD HAPPENED.
AND WHAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT DID.
AND THEY HAD I A DISCUSSION AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
IT WAS A PERSON FROM, UM, THE FEDERAL, UM, GOVERNMENT THAT DID A COUPLE HOUR COURSE ON SEXTING AND BULLYING AND, AND CYBER BULLYING.
UM, IT'LL COME TO ME EVENTUALLY WHERE HE WAS FROM.
UM, BUT I DON'T THINK IT WAS JUST AS INTENSIVE.
SO I THINK JUST AS A COMMISSION, JUST TO QUICKLY WRAP UP MY RAMBLE, BUT WE NEED TO TAKE IT BACK.
WE NEED TO BUILD THAT RELATIONSHIP.
THE CITY HAS TO WORK WITH THE SCHOOLS.
THE SCHOOL HAS TO WORK WITH US.
AND, AND WE NEED TO WORK TOGETHER TO BRING THE COMMUNITY FORWARD, ESPECIALLY THE YOUTH.
THAT HAS, UM, BEEN AN ONGOING DISCUSSION.
AND THAT'S ACTUALLY ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I HAD AS A THING FOR US TO FOCUS ON BECAUSE WE'VE TALKED A A LOT ABOUT ENGAGING OUR YOUTH MM-HMM.
AND SO I THINK THAT AS A COMMISSION, WE SHOULD FOCUS THERE ON THE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SCHOOLS AND THROUGH THAT.
UM, BECAUSE WE, YOU KNOW, LAST YEAR WE DID THE M L K EVENT AT THE SCHOOLS.
I THINK THAT WAS A, A, A BIG BRIDGE BUILDER FOR US.
AND THEY WERE VERY, VERY OPEN TO THAT AND GOT EVERYONE INVOLVED.
UM, SO I THINK THAT WE SHOULD FOCUS ON BUILDING THAT PARTNERSHIP.
THERE'S A LEVY, YOU KNOW, IT REALLY, IT COULD, IT MOST OF THE TIME PROBABLY ISN'T PERSONAL.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT ON EVERYBODY'S PLATES ON THESE, THESE BOARDS, ESPECIALLY THE SCOREBOARD WHEN THERE'S LEVIES ON THE ON, ON THE PLATE.
SO JUST TRY TO REBUILD THEIR RELATIONSHIPS OR NOT REBUILD OR JUST BETTER BUILD THESE RELATIONSHIPS SO WE CAN BE SUCCESSFUL IN THESE EVENTS.
AND IT'S NOT THE SAME 20 PEOPLE SITTING IN THE ROOM TALKING TO EACH OTHER BECAUSE WE, WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
ANOTHER PARTNERSHIP THAT I'D LIKE TO LEVERAGE FOR IS WITH THE LIBRARY.
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WITH US HAVING THE NEW LIBRARY THERE.THEY'VE ALREADY SAID, YOU KNOW, WE CAN HOLD EVENTS THERE.
THEY HAVE THE BIG COMMUNITY ROOM.
SO I SEE US CONNECTING AND PARTNERING WITH THE LIBRARY.
'CAUSE THEY DO A LOT AROUND, UM, DIVERSITY INITIATIVES.
SO WE CAN KIND OF PLAY HAND IN HAND THERE AND WORK ON THAT RELATIONSHIP AS WELL.
I WOULD JUST QUICKLY LIKE TO NOTE, I DO OWE YOU AN APOLOGY ABOUT THE WEBSITE.
AND I WILL, FRANKLY, I WILL OWE YOU THE BIGGEST APOLOGY.
I LOOKED AFTER THE FACT, AND I THINK, SORRY, I CAN'T SEE.
UM,
AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT IT COMES DOWN TO IS THE COMMUNICATION IS THAT WEBSITE IS UPDATED AND, AND YOU'RE RIGHT, THERE'S A LITTLE GOOGLE BOX AND YOU HIT IT AND IT'S EVERY LANGUAGE THAT YOU COULD POSSIBLY WANT.
SO THANK YOU TO HUBER HEIGHTS FOR, FOR GETTING THAT TOGETHER ON THE CITY WEBSITE AS WELL AS THE SCHOOL WEBSITE.
AND AGAIN, I THINK IT'S JUST TIME TO SAY BETTER COMMUNICATION BACK TO US SO WE DON'T HAVE TO SAY, THIS IS SOMETHING ELSE THAT ISN'T DONE BECAUSE IT WAS DONE AND I WAS, IT DIDN'T EVEN NEED TO BE SAID.
NOW, IF WE CAN GET THE FORMS PRINTED, THAT IF I COME IN AND SAY, I WANT THIS IN SWAHILI, YOU CAN GET THAT DONE, THAT WOULD BE AWESOME.
I THINK WE JUST ALWAYS WANT TO COME AT THE MOST DISADVANTAGED PERSON IN OUR COMMUNITY.
WHAT DO THEY NEED? NOT WHAT THE CORPORATIONS NEED.
WHAT DO OUR MOST DISADVANTAGED PEOPLE NEED? BECAUSE IF, IF THEY'RE NOT HEALTHY, THE COMMUNITY'S NOT HEALTHY.
AND, AND THAT'S JUST THE, THE BOTTOM OF IT.
I'M, I'M VERY GOOD ABOUT THAT.
AT LEAST YOU KNOW WHEN I'M WRONG.
SO I, I WANTED TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, OUT LOUD.
I'M, I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT MOVE FORWARD.
I, I WANT TO SAY IF, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, I THINK ONCE YOU CHANGE, UH, THE LANGUAGE TOO, YOU CAN PRINT EVERYTHING.
IT WILL, IT WILL SWITCH EVERY FORM.
I THINK THE, THE, THE POINT TO MAKE THERE THOUGH IS JUST ACCESSIBILITY CORRECT.
IS TO REMEMBER THAT NOT EVERYBODY HAS INTERNET.
NOT EVERYBODY HAS THE ABILITY TO PRINT.
NOT EVERYBODY, YOU KNOW, YOU PUT A COMPUTER DOWN IN FRONT OF A, A 75 YEAR OLD WOMAN FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY AND SAY, TRANSLATE THIS INTO YOUR LANGUAGE AND THEN PRINT IT.
IT'S JUST BREAKING DOWN THOSE BARRIERS, RIGHT? SO IN THE, IN THE VERY RANDOM INSTANCE THAT SOMEBODY'S GONNA WALK IN HERE AND ASK FOR SOMETHING, WE JUST NEED TO, TO THINK ABOUT HOW WE WOULD BE ABLE TO PRODUCE THAT.
EVEN IF IT'S, WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO DO THAT FOR YOU RIGHT NOW, BUT WE'LL GET IT DONE AND WE'LL MAIL IT TO YOU.
SO I APPRECIATE THE UPDATES TO THE WEBSITE.
IT IS SOMETHING THAT JUST MAKES, UM, HEBREW MORE EQUITABLE FOR ALL OF THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE HERE.
IT MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF HUGE DIFFERENCE.
YOU KNOW, ENGLISH HAS SECOND LANGUAGE, SOME DON'T SPEAK, DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH.
AND SO WHEN THEY GO TO THE WEBSITE AND THEY, THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO.
I'M GLAD THAT THAT HAS HAPPENED AS WELL.
AGAIN, IT IS ABOUT ALWAYS LOOKING AT IT FROM SOMEONE ELSE'S LENS THAT IS NOT US.
JUST BECAUSE WE HAVE ACCESS TO THINGS.
THAT'S NOT THE CASE FOR EVERYONE.
THAT EVERYONE HAS ACCESS TO A PRINTER.
I DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO A PRINTER BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE ANY.
YOU NEED TO PRINT STUFF FOR ME.
IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE? I HAVE A FEW THINGS MAYBE TO TOSS OUT IF THAT'S OKAY.
I'M GONNA CIRCLE BACK ON THESE THINGS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT.
'CAUSE I WANT TO, UM, FIGURE OUT WHO WANTS TO BE A POINT PERSON ON THESE THINGS.
WELL, I WAS JUST GONNA SAY IN TERMS OF THE LIBRARY, GOT A POINT PERSON HERE.
UM, PART OF MY JOB TOO IS REACHING A LOT OF PEOPLE IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY WITH STUFF.
UM, ANOTHER THING TO THINK ABOUT TOO, UM, MAYBE, UM, IN TERMS OF LIKE THE LIBRARY DOING DIVERSE THINGS, UM, MAYBE THERE'S THE SINCLAIR CAMPUS ACROSS TOWN, UH, COULD BE MAYBE SOMEBODY THAT WE REACH OUT TO.
UM, I KNOW THEIR CAMPUS DOWNTOWN AND ALL THEIR SATELLITE CAMPUSES FOCUS ON DIVERSITY PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
UM, I COULD, UM, BE A LEAD IN AS THERE AS WELL
SO, UM, JUST TOSSING THOSE OUT.
UM, IN TERMS OF EDUCATIONAL FORUMS, UM, I HAD IDEAS, UM, CIRCLING AROUND, UM, BULLYING, BUT WE'VE ALREADY KIND OF TALKED ABOUT THAT.
SO I WAS JUST KIND OF THROWING THAT HAT IN THE RING.
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UM, TWO GOALS THAT I HAVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT BECAUSE I'M HERE FOR ANOTHER TWO AND A HALF YEARS-ISH.UM, SO I KNOW LAST TIME WE TALKED ABOUT MAINSTREAMING THIS, UM, THE R R F D PROCESS.
THAT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING OF A GOAL THAT I PERSONALLY WOULD LIKE TO SEE HAPPEN, UM, WHERE WE GET THAT PROCESS JUST MORE MAINSTREAMED SO THERE'S LESS ROOM FOR ERROR ON SOMEONE'S PART TO SAY, I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THAT.
WE DIDN'T DO THIS, WE DIDN'T DO THAT.
UM, THAT KIND OF THING IS WHAT I WOULD MAYBE LIKE TO, TO SEE.
UM, I'D ALSO LIKE TO SEE, AND AGAIN, THIS IS JUST MY PERSONAL THOUGHTS, UM, ON WHAT WE CAN DO AS A COMMISSION TO BETTER IMPROVE COMMUNICATION WITH THE CITY, CITY COUNCIL.
UM, UM, OPEN COMMUNICATION SO THAT OUR NEEDS ARE BEING MET AND CITY COUNCIL'S NEEDS ARE BEING MET MM-HMM.
AND THAT WE HAVE OPEN COMMUNICATION, THAT WE'RE ALL HERE FOR ONE ANOTHER AND THAT WE'RE SUPPORTING ONE ANOTHER.
AND CERTAINLY THAT MEMBERS OF THE CITY WILL HELP US MARKET OUR INITIATIVES AND OUR IDEAS AND SHOW UP AND BE A PART OF.
THAT'D BE THE PART OF, I THINK IS KEY TO SHOWING UP IS ONE THING.
WE HAVEN'T HAD A LOT OF INTERACTION.
SHAKE THE HANDS OF YOUR VOLUNTEERS, KNOW WHO'S ON YOUR COMMISSIONS, KNOWS WHO, KNOW WHO'S DOING WHAT.
UM, WHATEVER THAT, YOU KNOW, WE CAN SHOW THE PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY THAT WE ARE WORKING TO LITERALLY GROW TOGETHER.
SO THAT'S WHAT I, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE GOALS.
I'D LIKE TO, WHATEVER I CAN DO TO HELP ACHIEVE THOSE, I WILL DO.
CAN I ADD ONE? I FEEL LIKE WE'VE ADDED A LOT TONIGHT, BUT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A WHOLE YEAR OF STUFF, SO I GUESS IT'S FINE.
I'D LIKE TO BUILD ON A COUPLE THINGS.
I THINK WHAT WE DID LAST YEAR WITH M L K WAS FANTASTIC.
UM, OF COURSE IT WAS RIGHT AFTER MY KNEE SURGERY, SO I, I JUST STOOD THERE WITH MY CRUTCH.
UM, BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE GREAT TO GROW THAT EVENT INTO LIKE A FIVE K OR SOMETHING TO RAISE MONEY.
HOW HARD WOULD IT BE, YOU KNOW, TO, TO UP THAT EVENT AND DO IT AS A FUNDRAISER, MAKE IT FUN, UM, MAKE IT RELEVANT.
WE HAVE THE SCREEN THERE, UM, IF WE NEEDED IT TO, TO PLAY SOMETHING, TO DO SOMETHING.
BUT LET'S LINK IT BACK TO THE, TO THE, YOU KNOW, A DAY OF SERVICE PART AND, AND PIECE OF, OF THE, OF WHAT THAT WAS ABOUT AND WHAT THAT MEANT.
SO I THINK IT WOULD BE NICE, UM, AND I AM SAYING ALL OF THIS AS A, A SINGLE SOCCER MOM, BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE NICE TO GROW THAT EVENT, UM, TO SOMETHING LARGER, TO SOMETHING MORE COMMUNITY-WIDE OF FIVE K A FUNDRAISER.
I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE TO DONATE THE MONEY TO.
BUT I THINK WE COULD LINK THAT BACK TO ANOTHER IDEA TO WORK, YOU KNOW, WITH THE Y W C A ON ON SOME INITIATIVES.
WE HAVE SOME VERY LARGE PARTNERS IN THIS COMMUNITY THAT DO THIS WORK ALREADY.
UM, THE Y W C A IS A HUGE PARTNER FOR YOUTH.
UM, AND THEY'RE A HUGE PARTNER FOR, FOR VULNERABLE POPULATIONS OF, OF ALL TYPES.
SO I THINK THERE'S SOME ROOM MAYBE DOWN THE LINE TO DO SOME PROGRAMMING WITH THE Y W C A.
MAYBE IF IT DOESN'T WORK WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, WE CAN TAKE IT THERE INSTEAD.
UM, THEY DID A TEEN CONNECTION BACK IN MY SOCIAL WORK SCHOOL DAYS WHERE TEENS CAME AFTER SCHOOL AND AT NIGHT AND LEARNED ABOUT THINGS LIKE SEXTING AND APPROPRIATE RELATIONSHIPS AND VIOLENCE IN RELATIONSHIPS AND BULLYING AND ALL OF THESE THINGS.
SO IF IT DOESN'T WORK WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, WE DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO JUST LET IT DIE.
LET'S TAKE IT TO THE Y W C A, LET'S TAKE IT TO ANOTHER ONE OF THESE PARTNERS AND BUILD PARTNERSHIPS WHERE PARTNERS ARE WILLING TO BUILD THE RELATIONSHIPS.
AND I THINK MY OTHER THING CAME FROM THE FORUM, OUR LAST FORUM WHERE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT FOOD INSECURITIES.
UM, IT'S ANOTHER THING, YOU KNOW, BACK IN MY DAY WE DID A, UM,
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BACKPACK PROGRAM FOR ONE OF THE DAYTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS THAT I WORKED WITH.I WORKED WITH, IT WAS ABSOLUTELY THE MOST IMPOVERISHED SCHOOL IN, IN DAYTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
AND IT WAS A, IT WAS A, IT WAS A HARD, HARD PLACE TO, TO WORK IN, BUT THERE ARE CHILDREN THERE THAT EVERY FRIDAY GOT A BACKPACK FULL OF FOOD BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE FOOD BETWEEN FRIDAY TO MONDAY.
AND, AND, AND THEY WOULD GET A BAG OF PEANUT BUTTER AND SOME BREAD OR SOME STUFF WITH POP TOPS THAT, 'CAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW IF THEY HAVE ELECTRICITY AT HOME.
THESE ARE THINGS PEOPLE REALLY DON'T THINK ABOUT.
THERE MIGHT BE CHILDREN IN OUR COMMUNITY THAT ARE GOING HUNGRY OVER THE WEEKEND BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE ANY FOOD AT HOME.
SO I WAS JUST TO BUILD ON THAT, I THINK THE PERFECT SPOT FOR OUR COMMUNITY CENTER.
THERE'S ALL THAT OPEN GRASSY AREA, AND THAT IS A FOOD SWAMP.
IT'S NOT A FOOD DESERT THAT IS A FOOD SWAMP.
YOUR OPTIONS ARE DONATOS, UH, COUSIN VINNY'S, DOLLAR GENERAL.
IT'S THE BEST CHINESE FOOD IN HUBER HEIGHTS, BUT I'M NOT GONNA SAY THAT.
BUT THAT'S, THAT IS LITERALLY THE DEFINITION OF A FOOD SWAMP RIGHT THERE.
THERE IS NO ACCESS TO KROGER, THERE'S NO ACCESS TO FRESH MEATS.
THERE'S A TURKISH GROCERY STORE.
I WILL SAY THAT THERE IS THE TURKISH MARKET RIGHT THERE, THAT THERE ARE HIGH QUALITY PRODUCTS THERE.
BUT THAT'S THE LITERAL DESERT OF A FOOD SWAMP RIGHT.
SO I WAS THINKING WE COULD DO A COMMUNITY GARDEN, DO A COMMUNITY GARDENING PROGRAM, TRY TO GET THE PEOPLE FROM THE COMMUNITY TO COME AND HELP AND DO THE COMMUNITY GARDEN, GROW THE VEGETABLES, LITERALLY GIVE THEM AWAY FOR FREE, PUT 'EM ON THE STANDS, LIKE THE, THE HELP BOXES.
AND THEN IN THE COMMUNITY CENTER WE COULD DO FOOD PROGRAMS OR, OR MEAL PREP OR, YOU KNOW, HERE'S HOW TO MAKE STUFF WITH THE STUFF YOU JUST GREW FOR YOURSELF, THAT'S HEALTHY AND FRESH.
AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT CAN, TO LINK BACK TO WHAT WAS SAID IN THAT EDUCATION FORUM.
THE BEST THING THAT YOU CAN DO FOR PEOPLE IN THOSE AREAS IS TEACH THEM HOW TO GROW AND PRODUCE THEIR OWN FOOD AND REMOVE THEMSELVES COMPLETELY FROM THAT FOOD DESERT, YOU KNOW, AND, AND HAVE FRESHER OPTIONS.
AND THAT HONESTLY GOES BACK TO 2023 IS INITIATIVE OF HEALTH.
YOU'RE NOT HEALTHY WHEN YOU'RE SHOPPING AT DOLLAR GENERAL.
THAT'S YOUR OPTION FOR GROCERY STORES.
NOT ONLY THAT IS YOUR FOOD MONEY DOESN'T GO AS FAR 'CAUSE IT'S OVERPRICED.
SO I THINK THAT'S INITIATIVE THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HAPPEN THIS NEXT YEAR, UM, IS, IS SOME TYPE OF A, A COMMUNITY GARDEN IN THAT AREA.
UM, AND THEN SOME TYPE OF ONGOING PROGRAMMING, YOU KNOW, ONCE A MONTH, ONCE A WEEK, YOU KNOW, PICK THE GROCERIES, HELP GROW THE VEGETABLES.
THE KIDS ARE OVER THERE PLAYING ANYWAYS.
LET'S GIVE SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE TO DO.
UM, I DID A A, A HUGE BACK IN MY, WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE, I, MY RESEARCH FOR MY CAPSTONE WAS BASED AROUND A GARDENING PROGRAM.
AND IT WAS BASED AROUND CHILDREN THAT WERE IN A FELONY LOCKUP PROGRAM FOR AT LEAST A YEAR.
AND THE LINK TO HOW THESE KIDS WERE BEING REHABBED IN THIS PROGRAM WAS THIS GARDENING PROGRAM.
THIS GARDENING PROGRAM TOOK KIDS THAT SAT IN THEIR HOUSE, PLAYED XBOX, CUSSED THEIR MOM OUT, SMOKED, WEEDED, HAD NEVER BEEN OUTSIDE A DAY IN THEIR LIFE, NEVER USED A SHOVEL, NEVER DUG IN THE DIRT.
THEY, THEY TILLED THAT GARDEN.
THEY DONATED THE PRODUCE, THEY LINKED IT BACK TO SOUP KITCHENS, TO POVERTY, TO WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO LIVE LIKE THIS.
AND THEY TOOK THAT HOME TO THEIR FAMILIES WHEN THEY WERE DONE WITH REHAB, IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THESE KIDS, IT WAS THE LITERAL LINK TO THE REASON THESE KIDS WERE ABLE TO BE REHABBED AND PUT BACK INTO SOCIETY.
THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE SAID ABOUT THAT.
SO, YOU KNOW, I I JUST FEEL STRONGLY, OBVIOUSLY, AGAIN RAMBLING, SORRY, BUT I THINK WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING WITH THAT.
I KNOW THEY, THEY DO, UM, GARDENING PROGRAMS MM-HMM.
THE OHIO UNIVERSITY EXTENSION.
THERE'S A LOT WE COULD DO WITH THAT.
SO THAT'S ANOTHER PARTNERSHIP.
UM, SO IRONICALLY, THE, THE COMMUNITY CENTER USED TO BE CAMPFIRE, WHICH WAS A FOUR H CLUB.
IT WAS MY KIDS WERE LITTLE BECAUSE THEY DID IT INTERESTING.
I DID NOT KNOW THAT IT WAS FOR THE COMMUNITY.
SO WE LOST CAMPFIRE DUE TO GRANT FUNDING, BUT, UM, IT WAS, I'M SURE WE COULD FIND IT GREAT TO SEE THE CITY DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
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AND ALSO IN TERMS OF THE BACKPACKS, UM, THERE ARE SOME CHURCHES I DO KNOW SPECIFICALLY THAT NEW SEASON PACKS BAGS EVERY WEEK AND TAKES THEM TO THE SCHOOLS FOR KIDS TO HAVE FOOD.YOU KNOW, I WAS, I, I LOOKED OVER THE NEEDS, YOU KNOW, IN HUBER HEIGHTS AS I, AS I SAW IT AS A SOCIAL WORKER.
AND, AND WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, STUART BAKER HAS A MASTER CLOSET.
WE, WE HAVE CLOTHING OPTIONS WHERE IF YOU DON'T HAVE THAT, THAT'S AVAILABLE.
PETER'S AND MANY PLACES WHERE THERE'S FOOD PANTRIES AND THESE GIVING BOXES AND THERE'S, THERE'S PEOPLE IN HUBER HEIGHTS THAT ARE VERY GIVING, THEY'RE, THEY'RE MAKING THEIR OWN GIVING BOXES AND PUTTING 'EM OUT IN FRONT OF THEIR HOUSES AND, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE THE FREE LIBRARY OR YOU CAN TAKE THE FOOD AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S CATCHING ON.
THOSE ARE NOT NEEDS, THE BACKPACK PROGRAMS TAKEN CARE OF.
YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE NEEDS IN OUR COMMUNITY, BUT THEY ARE BEING MET.
THERE ARE OTHER AREAS WHERE WE CAN BE MORE USEFUL.
SO WOULD YOU LIKE TO, SO WE HAVE ENOUGH ON THIS LIST FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
I MEAN, THIS IS STUFF THAT'S BEEN GOING ON SINCE FOREVER
SO WE DO KNOW THAT THE PARTNERSHIPS WITH THE SCHOOLS IS A PRIORITY FOR US.
IS THAT A PRIORITY FOR OUR COMMISSION? YEAH.
DO WE WANT TO FOCUS OUR EFFORTS THERE FIRST? MM-HMM.
NO, I THINK THAT'S A GOOD, YES.
UM, WE PROBABLY SHOULD VOTE ON THAT.
UM, AND LET'S SAY IF WE WERE TO JUST, WE, THE, THE SCHOOLS AND THE PARTNERSHIPS, WE'LL JUST SAY THE PARTNER, THE SCHOOLS IN DEVELOPING THE PARTNERSHIPS, BECAUSE AS WE DEVELOP THOSE PARTNERSHIPS, I, I BELIEVE THAT SOME OF THESE OTHER THINGS WILL START TO HAPPEN.
WE'LL KEEP THOSE ON OUR RADAR.
FOCUS ON WORKING WITH THE SCHOOLS AND BUILDING THE PARTNERSHIPS THROUGH THE COMMUNITY.
INCLUDING SINCLAIR, UM, THE LIBRARY, THE Y W C A WITH FIVE RIVERS METRO PARK.
AND I ALSO ADDED PREMIER BECAUSE THEY HAD A, HAD A DISCUSSION WITH THEM AND THEY, THEY'RE HAPPY TO WORK WITH US.
THEY'VE BEEN A, A VERY GOOD SUPPORTER OF OURS.
A SPONSOR AT MANY OF OUR EVENTS HAS BEEN PREMIER, SO, ABSOLUTELY.
SO I ASSUME WE'RE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE ADDITIONAL THINGS THAT COMMISSION WANTS TO ACCOMPLISH BEYOND THE, WELL AT LEAST THE TWO MAIN EVENTS THAT WE'VE AT LEAST HAD OVER THE LAST COUPLE YEARS.
THE M L K AND THEN THE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, UH, CULTURAL FESTIVAL.
SO WE'RE SAYING IS THE PLAN IS TO STILL DO THOSE TWO EVENTS AND THEN ADD MM-HMM.
TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, FOLKS HAVE THE BANDWIDTH TO, TO BE ABLE TO DO THEM.
SO I THINK IT'S, IF THE FOCUS IS ON BUILDING THE RELATIONSHIPS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT TRYING TO MAYBE IMPLEMENT ALL OF THIS THIS NEXT YEAR, THIS NEXT YEAR IS BUILDING THESE RELATIONSHIPS, SEE WHAT WE CAN GET OFF THE GROUND WHEN IT COMES TO THESE OTHER THINGS, BUT KEEP THE SAME STUFF.
I MEAN, WE'RE NINE PEOPLE AND IT'S A LOT OF HEAVY LIFTING.
I MEAN, THOSE EVENTS IN JUNE ARE ENOUGH TO KEEP NINE PEOPLE BUSY FOR A YEAR BY THEMSELVES.
SO WE HAVE TO, WE HAVE TO DO WHAT WE CAN DO.
AND I THINK IF WE FOCUS ON BUILDING THE RELATIONSHIPS AND SEE WHATEVER HAPPENS, HAPPENS, YEAH.
I DON'T THINK WE CAN SET LOFTY GOALS AT THIS POINT, BECAUSE EVERY TIME YEAH.
AND AS WE LEVERAGE THOSE RELATIONSHIPS, LIKE 85 RIVERS METRO WOULD BE WILLING TO COME IN AND WORK AND START A COMMUNITY GARDEN.
I'M SURE WAGONS ARE, I, I NEVER CAN SAY THEIR NAME RIGHT.
BUT I FEEL LIKE THEY ABSOLUTELY WOULD HELP.
AND WE ALREADY HAVE THE METRO PARKS OUT HERE.
WELL, IF I MAY TOSS ONE MORE THING OUT REALLY QUICK, I JUST WANT A RECORD MAYBE.
YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN THIS WILL POP UP AND BE NEEDED.
BUT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IS, UM, OPENING A, A NEW, A THERAPY SERVICE HERE IN HUBER HEIGHTS, UM, YEAH.
BY THE CHILDREN'S URGENT CARE.
UM, AND IT'S, IT'S SUPPOSED TO HELP WITH ADOLESCENT ISSUES.
APPARENTLY HUBER HEIGHTS WAS, WAS PART OF THIS HEAT STUDY THAT THEY DID.
UM, SO I CAN GET MORE INFORMATION ON THAT.
I JUST, ON OUR STAFF DAY FOR THE LIBRARY, WE HAD, UM, DR.
BLANKENSHIP FROM THE
AND SO SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE SERVICES AND STUFF.
IT, IT JUST COULD BE SOMETHING USEFUL DOWN THE ROAD
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FOR AN EDUCATIONAL FORUM OR SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE, OR POSSIBLY ANOTHER, YOU KNOW, PARTNERSHIP TO, TO BUILD ON WITH OUR SCHOOLS IN TERMS OF MENTAL HEALTHCARE AND, AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.UM, WHEN YOU SAID PREMIER THAT MM-HMM.
WELL THAT, THANK YOU, CHRISTIE, AFTER THAT JUST GAVE ME ONE.
SO CHRISTIE'S GOING TO, UM, BE OUR POINT OF CONTACT TO START WORKING WITH THE LIBRARY AND, UM, SINCLAIR, ARE THERE ANY OF THE OTHER ENTITIES THAT PEOPLE JUST FEEL PASSIONATE LIKE THEY, THAT THEY WOULD REALLY WANNA WORK WITH THAT ORGANIZATION IN HELPING TO FORM THAT RELATIONSHIP? I WOULD LIKE TO DO THE GARDENING, IF YOU DON'T MIND BUILDING THAT RELATIONSHIP.
AND, UM, FOR ME, UM, WITH THE, UM, SCHOOL BOARD.
SO I'LL DO THE PREMIER, UM, FIREARM.
ERIC, ANY, WHAT'S LEFT? WE HAVE THE Y W C A AND I THINK THAT'S IT.
OR IF THERE'S ANOTHER ENTITY THAT YOU'D LIKE TO FOCUS ON FOR PARTNERSHIPS.
AND WE HAVE THAT PRESENTATION FROM THAT PERSON.
THAT ONE, WE'LL GET YOU, WHOEVER DID THE PRESENTATION FROM THE Y W C A, THEY CAN WE'LL GET YOU THAT.
IT WAS, UM, IT WAS BARB BARBARA WARD.
AND I CAN, IF YOU, I CAN WORK WITH YOU ON THAT TOO, IF YOU'D LIKE.
YOU SAID BARBARA WHO? WARD AND CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL.
ERIC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL, OR PREMIER.
WE PICK ONE OR FIND ANOTHER
SO ALL OF US, EACH, EVERY ONE OF US NEEDS TO BE WORKING TOWARD THESE PARTNERSHIPS.
IT'S GONNA TAKE ALL OF US TO DO THIS.
UM, SO WE NEED TO VOTE ON MOVING FORWARD WITH OUR FOCUS BEING ON FOCUSING ON ESTABLISHING RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE SCHOOL, WITH THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, HUBER HEIGHTS PUBLIC SCHOOLS, IN AN EFFORT TO BUILD A RELATIONSHIP THERE AND TO START TO DO SOME EDUCATIONAL THINGS WITH THE YOUTH.
IS THERE A MOTION, SO YOU'RE VOTING ON EACH ONE OF THESE, OR JUST THE SCHOOL? THAT'S A PRIORITY AS OUR PRIORITY ITEM.
WE NEED TO VOTE ON WHAT WE WANT TO PRIORITIZE AS FIRST.
SO TECHNICALLY IT WOULD BE THE SCHOOL BOARD AND THE, AND THE PARTNERSHIP.
BUT YOU KNOW, JUST FOR THE LOCAL AREA OF 2024, WE'RE GONNA FOCUS ON BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS WITH THE ENTITIES PREVIOUSLY IDENTIFIED.
IS THERE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND.
ANY IN OPPOSITION? ALL RIGHT, GREAT.
SO WE'VE GOT OUR FOCUS FOR 2024.
I MAKE A MOTION AND I JUST WORD, OKAY.
SO I RECEIVED A LETTER FROM THE, BUT DO WE NEED TO DISCUSS THE JUNETEENTH EVENT AND THOSE OTHER EVENTS OR NO, IT'S FURTHER.
DID WE NOT DO THAT LAST? IT'S ON C UNDER NEW BUSINESS.
SO I, AS YOU'RE AWARE, LAST MONTH WE PASSED A MOTION TO ELECT RHONDA SULAND AS A EX-OFFICIO MEMBER OF THE DIVERSITY COMMISSION.
BASED UPON OUR WRITTEN RESOLUTION, IT STATED THAT EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS DO NOT HAVE TO BE CITY RESIDENTS.
SO, BASED UPON WHAT WAS WRITTEN
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IN OUR RESOLUTION, WE TOOK A VOTE TO VOTE HER ONTO THE COMMISSION.HOWEVER, I RECEIVED A LETTER FROM OUR LAWYER, THE CITY LAWYER, WHICH I SHARED WITH EVERYONE, JUST TO KEEP EVERYONE IN THE LOOP.
UM, AND IN THAT LETTER WE WERE ADVISED THAT OF THE C D C D C A C OF THE LEGAL NULLIFICATION OF THE PRIOR ELECTION APPOINTMENT.
AND THE SAME SHOULD BE MEMORIALIZED IN THE C D C A MINUTES.
TO THE EXTENT THAT THE C D C A C MAINTAINS MINUTES AND RECORDS OF ITS PROCEEDINGS.
THE C D C A C SHOULD ALSO PASS A MOTION TO REPEAL THE PRIOR MOTION AND ELECTION APPOINTMENT OF MS. SUMMON FOR BEING IN VIOLATION OF THE CITY CHARTER.
BECAUSE APPARENTLY, UM, THE CITY CHARTER STATES SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WAS IN OUR RESOLUTION THAT WAS SIGNED BY CITY COUNCIL.
SO, GIVEN THAT DIRECTION, IS THERE A MOTION TO REPEAL THE PRIOR MOTION IN ELECTION APPOINTMENT OF MS. SUMLIN FOR BEING IN VIOLATION OF THE CITY CHARTER? YOU SAYING THE, THE CITY, UM, LAWYER MADE A RECOMMENDATION THAT WE REPEAL OR REVOKE OUR DECISION AS A RECOMMENDATION.
THE LAWYER SAID NO RECOMMENDATION, BUT SAID THAT WE SHOULD, SHOULD, SORRY.
A MOTION TO REPEAL THE PRIOR MOTION SHOULD VERSUS WILL.
IS THERE A MOTION? I WAS NOT HERE LAST MONTH, SO I CANNOT BE A PART OF THIS DISCUSSION.
I WAS SITTING AT A SOCCER GAME.
IS, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS? SO ESSENTIALLY OUR, WE HAD IT IN WRITING WORDED ONE WAY MM-HMM.
AND APPARENTLY THE TERMS OF THIS EX AFICIONADO WAS WORDED DIFFERENTLY SOMEWHERE ELSE.
THE, SO THERE'S A CONFUSION THERE, RIGHT.
I WOULD THINK, AT LEAST FOR ME, AS TO THE WAY THE CHARTER READS IT TRUMPS IT.
I'M SORRY, I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE PART OF THIS CONVERSATION, BUT THE WAY THAT THE CHARTER READS IT TRUMPS ANYTHING ELSE.
SO IF THERE'S ANY CONFLICT, CITY CHARTER TRUMPS EVERYTHING.
WHY DID YOU SAY YOU CAN'T BE A PART OF CONVERSATION? I MEAN, I KNOW YOU DIDN'T.
I CAN'T VOTE, BUT I, THAT WOULD, I'LL ADD MY 2 CENTS THERE.
'CAUSE I READ THE CITY CHARTER YESTERDAY.
WHAT? SO WHATEVER'S IN OUR RESOLUTION DOESN'T MATTER.
WHAT DOES THE CHARTER SAY? SO CHARTER CHARTER SAYS THE SAME THING.
IT HAVE TO BE AN ELECTOR OF THE CITY.
SO MR. ZICK, DO YOU KNOW WHERE THAT THE CITY WORK IS IN THE CHARTER? DO NOT KNOW, BUT AS WE DO THIS, I CAN TRY AND LOOK HIS LETTER IN REFERENCE A SECTION OF THE CHARTER? NO, HE ONLY REFERENCED FOR THE RESOLUTION.
AND THE RESOLUTION SAYS THAT SHE CAN'T, DOESN'T, IT'S NOT REQUIRED TO BE PART OF THE, UM, ARRESTING OF THE CITY.
BUT HE MENTIONS IN HIS LETTER THAT THE CHARTER, WHEN THERE'S A CONFLICT THAT YOU DEFER TO THE CHARTER, CORRECT.
THE CHARTER PROVISION CONTROLS THE CHARTER TAKES CONTROL THE INDIVIDUAL THAT VOTES RESOLUTION.
I CAN'T FIND THE EXACT WORDING IN THE, THE CHARTER REGARDING THAT.
SO I WILL READ THIS REALLY QUICKLY AND TRY AND PULL UP THE BULLET POINTS.
UM, BUT BASICALLY IT'S SECTION NINE OF THE CHARTER.
IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S BE GONNA BE SECTION 9.02 AND 9.03.
SO I'LL PULL OUT SOME WORDS IN SET HERE, WHAT'S GONNA BE MISSED.
I THINK HE REFERENCES THAT SECTION IN THIS LETTER.
YEAH, IT'S ON THE FIRST PAGE OF, UM, THE LOGIC.
SO I THINK THERE'S KIND OF TWO RELEVANT PARTS
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HERE.SECTION 9.02 UH, INDICATES THAT, UM, ESSENTIALLY ONLY COUNSEL CAN, UH, CAN ACTUALLY APPOINT MEMBERS TO BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
AND THEN THE WORDING IN 9.03, WHICH IS GENERAL RULES FOR BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
A ONE IT SAYS UNLESS OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR IN THIS CHARTER, MEMBERS OF A BOARD OR COMMISSION OF THE CITY SHALL BE ELECTORS OF THE CITY, WHICH MEANS RESIDENTS OF THE CITY.
AND THAT'S REALLY THE REFERENCE THAT THE LAWYER IS USING, UH, TO DETERMINE WHO CAN BE EITHER A FULL OR AN EX-OFFICIO MEMBER OR ANYTHING TO THAT REGARD.
SO THEN THAT NULLIFIES WHAT'S IN OUR RESOLUTION AS WELL AS WHAT'S IN THE RESOLUTIONS OF OTHER COMMISSIONS THAT WERE FORMED BY CITY COUNCIL THEN.
SO I BELIEVE, I DON'T KNOW WHICH COMMISSION IT IS, THERE IS ANOTHER COMMISSION THAT HAS AN EX-OFFICIO MEMBER, UM, I DON'T RECALL, BUT POSSIBLY THAT MEMBER DOES NOT LIVE IN THE CITY AND THEREFORE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO BE AN EX OFFICIO MEMBER OF THAT BOARD ANY LONGER EITHER.
SO THERE ARE NO OTHER EXISTING COMMISSIONS CURRENTLY THAT HAVE EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS OR, OR DOES TO SAY, EX-OFFICIAL MEMBERS THAT DO NOT LIVE IN THE CITY OF RIGHTS.
I THINK THERE'S ONLY ONE OTHER EX OFFICIO MEMBER THAT I'VE HEARD OF.
AND I DON'T BELIEVE, AND I CAN'T, CAN'T SAY THIS FOR CERTAIN, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT MEMBER LIVES IN THE CITY EITHER.
SO, UH, THERE WAS A DISCUSSION ABOUT CREATING A POSITION OF SPECIAL LIAISON.
I BELIEVE COUNSEL MAY HAVE DONE THAT A COUPLE MEETINGS AGO, POSSIBLY, OR LAST MEETING.
BUT THERE WAS A DISCUSSION OF CREATING SOMETHING CALLED A SPECIAL LIAISON.
THEY DON'T SIT ON THE BOARD, THEY DON'T HAVE VOTING, BUT IN SOME WAY THEY'RE STILL INVOLVED WITH THE BOARD.
SO IF I MAY ASK THEN, WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF OUR RESOLUTION? IF IT, IT'S STATED ONE WAY, SHOULDN'T IT BE ON BOARD WITH THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OR VICE VERSA, OR, I MEAN, DOES THAT MAKE SENSE WHAT I'M ASKING? LIKE YEAH, I THINK THAT THE CLEANEST THING, UH, AS I THINK THE LETTER FROM THE LAWYER SAID IS, IS, UM, IT WOULD BE EASIEST IF THE MOTION WERE WITHDRAWN, UM, BY THE COMMISSION.
UM, A REQUEST COULD ALSO BE MADE OF CITY COUNCIL TO APPOINT SOMEBODY AS A SPECIAL LIAISON, WHICH HAS BEEN A DISCUSSION LATELY.
AND JEFFREY, DO YOU REMEMBER, DID WE, DID THAT ALREADY? GO UP FOR, I'LL HAVE TO LOOK AT THE MINUTES FOR COUNCIL.
I WAS ABLE, SPECIAL LIAISON DID.
SO, YOU KNOW, THERE COULD BE A REQUEST THAT COUNCIL APPOINT A SPECIAL LIAISON, BUT THEY'RE ACTUALLY THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO CAN APPOINT RIGHT.
SO, BUT AT THE TIME, I THINK WE MADE THE MOTION THAT WE DID BASED ON WHAT OUR RESOLUTION STATED.
SO IF THE RESOLUTION'S NOT CORRECT, LET'S JUST SAY HYPOTHETICALLY IN THE FUTURE, WE WANT TO AVOID SOMETHING LIKE THIS AGAIN, HOW DO WE FIRST RECTIFY THAT AND, AND, AND THEN TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING ELSE? I, I DON'T KNOW.
I MEAN, DOES MAYBE I I AM TALKING IN A CIRCLE.
DOES ANY, I MEAN,
BECAUSE IT'S NOT JUST A MATTER OF US NULLIFYING.
I, I FEEL LIKE WE NEED TO, WHATEVER WE DECIDE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO DO WHAT STEMS IS THAT SOMETHING WRITTEN SOMEWHERE NEEDS TO BE UPDATED.
I THINK THAT'S WHAT THE LAWYER MAKES NOTE HERE, IS THAT COUNCIL NEEDS TO CONSIDER PASSING LEGISLATION TO RESOLVE THIS CONFLICT WITH THE CITY CHARTER.
SO, SO BASICALLY WHAT HE'S TELLING YOU IS THAT THE CITY CHARTER TRUMPS A RESOLUTION, AN ORDINANCE, ANY OF THESE OTHER THINGS, RIGHT? IF THERE IS A CONFLICT, WHEN THAT CONFLICT IS KNOWN, THEN COUNCIL NEEDS TO GO BACK AND FIX IT AND ADDRESS IT.
SO ARE WE SUPPOSED IT'S THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY WILL OR SHOULD THAT BE A FORMAL RECOMMENDATION THAT WE NEED TO MAKE? WELL, I DON'T, IS THAT LIKE JUST UNDERSTOOD THAT THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN? YEAH.
COUNSEL RECEIVED THE SAME LETTER YOU DID.
I THINK IT'S MORE IF YOU GUYS WANT, UH, THE LAWYER RECOMMENDS YOU CORRECT.
KIND OF YOUR ACTION COUNSEL CAN GO BACK, CORRECT THE RESOLUTIONS.
UM, AND THEN IF YOU WANTED TO MAKE A REQUEST FOR A SPECIAL LIAISON, YOU COULD DO THAT AS WELL.
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AGAIN, I WASN'T HERE FOR THE VOTE, BUT I THINK THAT, THAT THE CONFUSION, WE HAD AN ENTIRE DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS DURING A COUNCIL, ONE OF OUR COMMISSION MEETINGS ABOUT EX OFFICIO MEMBERS AND BRINGING IN A MEMBER OF THE NAACP AND, AND BRINGING IN ANOTHER, YOU KNOW, MEMBER FROM HERE AND THERE AND, AND WHEREVER AS LONG AS THEY WERE PERTINENT TO THE DISCUSSIONS WE WERE HAVING.SO I THINK A LOT OF THE CONFUSION PROBABLY STEMMED FROM THERE.
'CAUSE I DIDN'T GET THE CHANCE TO GO BACK AND FIND THOSE MINUTES.
BUT WE HAD AN ENTIRE DISCUSSION ABOUT HOW IT WOULD BE ALLOWED TO HAVE UP TO TWO EX OFFICIO MEMBERS THAT WERE NOT PART OF THIS COMMUNITY AS LONG AS WE COULD JUSTIFY THEIR SPECIALTY.
SO I'LL MEMORY, IS THERE A MOTION TO REPEAL THE PRIOR MOTION IN ELECTION APPOINTMENT OF RHONDA, OF MS. SUMMERLAND? I CAN'T, I, I THINK WE HAVE TO MAKE THE MOTION.
I MEAN, I, I THINK WE MAKE THE MOTION BASED ON THE FINDING FROM THE LAW DIRECTOR AND I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH WE CAN ADD TO THAT, BUT I THINK THERE'S GOTTA BE SOME CORRECTION THAT HAS TO BE MADE TO THE RESOLUTION IN ADDITION, SO THAT THERE IS NO CONFLICT.
SO YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE YOU'RE DOING THE WRONG THING.
BUT IT WOULD BE NICE TO BE ABLE TO SEE, OKAY, WHICH ONE IS WHICH? I MEAN, I FEEL LIKE I'M GETTING MY HAND SLAPPED FOR SOMETHING, YOU KNOW? YEAH.
WE FOLLOW WHAT WE THOUGHT WAS RIGHT.
I MEAN, AND IF I RECALL CORRECTLY, WE WERE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE LAST MEETING, SO, UH, I MEAN I AM, BUT IS IT MAKE A MOTION, UH, CONTINGENT UPON, OR LET'S JUST SAY, OR IS RESOLVING THE CONFLICT, IS IT CONTINGENT UPON MAKING A MOTION TO, UM, REPEAL THE PRIOR MOTION? WELL, I THINK WE NEED FURTHER, IN MY OPINION, I THINK WE NEED FURTHER INFORMATION BECAUSE WE MADE THE ORIGINAL DECISION BASED ON THE RESOLUTION.
SO I THINK WE NEED FURTHER CONTENT TO SAY, OKAY, YES, THERE'S AN ERROR.
'CAUSE THIS JUST THE LAW DIRECTOR'S OPINION IS WHAT HE SAYS.
RIGHT? HE'S, HE'S MAKING A RECOMMENDATION.
SO HE JUST SAYS THIS, HIS OPINION.
SO I THINK WE NEED SOME CLARITY AS FAR AS, OKAY, HEY, YOU KNOW, THERE IS A CONFLICT BETWEEN THE TWO.
HELP ME UNDERSTAND THAT THE CHARTER TRUMPS THAT.
I'M A VOLUNTEER, RIGHT? SO HELP ME TO UNDERSTAND, BECAUSE I MADE MY DECISION BASED UPON THE RESOLUTION.
SO IF I MADE MY DECISION ON THE RESOLUTION, WHICH IS WRONG, THEN SHOW ME THAT MY DECISION IS WRONG ON THIS DATA AND THAT I SHOULD HAVE USED THE CHARTER DATA.
ISN'T THAT WHAT THE LETTER SAYS? WELL, IT'S SAYING RIGHT, THAT THE CHARTER, WELL AFTER THE FACT, THE LANGUAGE IN THE CHARTER, ONE PERSON THAT IS NOT SORRY, TRUMPS THE RESOLUTION.
RIGHT? THAT'S WHAT THE LETTER SAYS.
BUT OKAY, SO THERE'S SO WITH THAT, RIGHT? THEN THERE'S SAYING THERE IS, EVEN THOUGH THERE'S A, THERE'S CONFLICT THAT YOU HAVE ONE DOCUMENT THAT THAT SUPERSEDES, RIGHT? THE OTHER RIGHT OR MM-HMM.
I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW THAT WE'RE REQUIRED TO DO THAT.
I MEAN, I JUST FEEL LIKE HAD WE KNOWN THAT THE CHARTER LANGUAGE WAS DIFFERENT FROM THE RESOLUTION LANGUAGE, WOULD WE HAVE EVEN MADE THE, THE, THE VOTE OR THE MOTION LAST TIME? RIGHT.
WOULD WE HAVE EVEN, I MEAN OBVIOUSLY IF WE KNEW, YOU KNOW, IT WASN'T GONNA STAND, I DON'T THINK WE WOULD'VE DONE THAT.
BUT I AGREE WITH, YOU KNOW, ERIC, THAT THERE'S DEFINITELY SOME, SOME THINGS THAT NEED TO BE, GO AHEAD MR. Z.
SO I GET THE SENSE THAT YOU FEEL LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOUR HANDS BEING SLAPPED AND STUFF MM-HMM.
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THE MISTAKE IN THE PAST BY APPOINTING AN EX-OFFICIO MEMBER THAT PROBABLY COULDN'T BE SO SIMPLY THROUGH THIS PROCESS, THE QUESTION WAS ASKED, THE RESEARCH WAS DONE BY THE LAW DIRECTOR AND THE CORRECT ANSWER WAS FOUND.AND SO I DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO FEEL LIKE THERE WAS A MESS UP.
I DON'T THINK ANYBODY BELIEVES THERE WAS.
IT'S SIMPLY NOW WE HAVE THE RIGHT ANSWER AND WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT INFORMATION.
SO JUST WANTED TO LET YOU GUYS KNOW THAT.
SO, SO IS THE RIGHT ANSWER THE CHARTER MM-HMM.
THEN THAT'S WHAT HIS OPINION THERE STATES.
SO GIVEN THAT THE CHARTER TRUMPS THE RESOLUTION, YOU MEET UP MOTION BASED OFF OF USING THE RESOLUTION AS A GUIDE DOESN'T EVEN MATTER.
SO EVEN IF WE MADE A RECOMMENDATION, THIS CASE TO BRING WHAT, UH, RUN THE BACK AS AN EX OFFICIAL, IT SORT OF DOESN'T NEED TO COME LIKE NULL AND VOID ANYWAY BECAUSE THE CHARTER TRUMPS IT.
SO I'M NOT GONNA PRETEND TO BE A LAWYER, BUT I THINK THAT'S A QUESTION THAT WE CAN, UH, ASK THE LAWYER.
UM, IT'S DAVE, I'M GUESSING DAVE WROTE THAT OPINION.
UM, BECAUSE I DON'T WANNA GET, I DON'T WANNA LEAD YOU GUYS ASTRAY WITHOUT HAVING ALL THE INFORMATION.
SO I'LL HAVE JEFFREY REACH OUT TO DAVE, UH, FIND OUT IF YOU TAKE NO ACTION, WHAT WHAT HAPPENS, AND THEN WE CAN PROVIDE THAT, THAT TO YOU.
AND AS WELL, AGAIN, WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF US HAVING A RESOLUTION IF IT CONTRADICTS IF IT'S GONNA CONTRADICT.
THERE'S, THERE'S STILL A LOT OF, IT SOUNDS LIKE FROM OUR DISCUSSION HERE, A LOT OF UNCERTAINTY OR NOT CLARITY AROUND THIS.
UM, SO GIVEN THAT IF YOU COULD HELP THE, I'M GUESSING THE CLERK OF COUNCIL IS GONNA BE WORKING ON SOME LEGISLATION TO CLEAN THINGS UP.
HE'S HE'S PRETTY PRECISE, BELIEVE ME.
'CAUSE I THINK WE DID THINGS, I GUESS PROPER ACCORDING TO THE RESOLUTION.
SO I DON'T KNOW THAT WE NEED TO, I DON'T KNOW THAT WE NEED TO WITHDRAW OR UNDO WHAT WE DID.
IN MY MIND, AGAIN, I'M NOT A
AFTER SOME LEGAL REVIEW, OKAY, THERE'S A CHARTER THAT TRUMPS THE RESOLUTION.
SO IT, IT NOW, GIVEN THE DECISION THAT WE MADE, IT WENT TO THIS NEXT TO THIS HIGHER LEVEL AND IN DECISION BASED OFF OF THE CHARTER SAYS IN THIS CASE, THIS PERSON CANNOT SERVE THE NEXT OFFICIAL.
SO IT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S DONE, BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT WE NEED TO TAKE ANY FURTHER ACTION IN MY MIND.
HONESTLY, I 100% AGREE WITH YOU.
IF YOU READ THE WAY THAT THIS LETTER IS WRITTEN, I DON'T KNOW WHY IT IS DIRECTED THAT WE NEED TO TAKE AN ACTION.
RIGHT? THE WAY THAT THAT LETTER IS WRITTEN, IT'S STATED IT'S A DONE DEAL.
SO WHAT I MEAN, HE'S SAYING POINT TO PUTTING IT ON THE RECORD JUST TO SAY OUR BAD.
WE WON'T DO IT AGAIN BECAUSE THAT SEEMS TO BE THE PURPOSE OF PUTTING IT ON THE RECORD.
THE WAY THIS THIS LETTER IS WRITTEN IS IT'S A DONE DEAL ACCORDINGLY MS. SOMEONE'S APPOINTMENT TO THE C D C A C AS AN NULL AND VOID AS IT IS A DIRECT VIOLATION OF THE CITY CHARTER.
AND BUT BOARD HAVE TO REPEAL THEIR, REPEAL, THEIR VOTE WHEN THEY VOTED TO INDUCT, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? THEIR EX OFFICIOS.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF QUESTIONS AROUND THIS.
SO WE CAN JUST GET SOME CLARITY AROUND IT.
DID WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR? I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO MAKE, WE HAVE A MOTION.
WE DON'T HAVE A, WE DON'T HAVE A MOTION ON FLOOR.
SO WE'VE MADE OUR, I THINK WE MADE OUR DECISION TO MAKE A MOTION AND THEN THEY MADE THEIR DECISION.
I MEAN, LAST MEETING WE, I THINK WE WROTE EVERYTHING AND I, I THOUGHT IT'S GONNA BE DONE, BUT WE HAVE DIFFERENT STUFF COMING UP.
RIGHT? IT WAS, IT WASN'T WELL REQUIRED.
IT JUST SAYS YOU SHOULD BE APPEALED.
THAT'S NOT, THAT'S NOT DIRECTION.
AGAIN, OBVIOUSLY I, I'LL LOOK INTO THIS AND TRY TO DOUBLE CHECK AND OBVIOUSLY SEE WHAT TONY SAYS ONCE HE COMES BACK, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I THINK YOU GUYS ARE FINE WITH JUST KIND OF TABLED IN THIS OR, OR JUST MOVING PAST IT.
AND IF ANYTHING EVER COMES OF IT, I'LL, I'LL DEFINITELY REACH OUT TO YOU GUYS AND LET YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT YOU GUYS SHOULD, I DON'T WANNA SAY SHOULD.
I DON'T, WE NEVER MADE A MOTION.
I DON'T THINK WE NO, NO MOTION WAS MADE.
EVEN IF THERE WAS A MOTION MADE OUT HERE SECOND.
I DIDN'T KNOW IF WE NEEDED THE TABLE TO MAKE
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A MOTION TO TABLE THE DISCUSSION.SO WE'LL TABLE, WE'LL GET MORE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THAT.
RECOMMENDATION SUBMITTED TO CITY COUNCIL.
WE HAVE OUR NEW CITY MANAGER HERE.
WELL WE ARE EXCITED TO HAVE YOU HERE TONIGHT AND, UM, SHARE WITH US.
I KNOW YOU AND I AND TONY MET, WHAT, ABOUT A WEEK AGO, I GUESS? YEAH.
UM, TALKED ABOUT SOME UPDATES TO SOME OF THE REST RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE STILL HAVE ON THE TABLE WITH CITY COUNCIL.
UM, AND MR. ZIG SAID THAT HE WAS COMING TO OUR MEETING AND I SAID, THAT'S PERFECT.
YOU CAN SHARE, YOU KNOW, THE STATUS AND THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
SO YES, I GOT LOOPED IN, UH, LAST WEEK.
UM, OBVIOUSLY THIS IS ONLY MY FOURTH WEEK SO FAR, UM, WITH SOME OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS YOU GUYS HAVE.
UM, ONE OF THE BIG FOCUSES, I KNOW IT'S BEEN KIND OF SITTING OUT THERE FOR A LONG TIME, UH, IS GETTING A NEEDS ASSESSMENT DONE.
I THINK THAT'S ONE OF MY PRIORITIES RIGHT NOW.
I THINK IT'S GONNA HELP GUIDE COUNCIL THE COMMISSION.
UM, SO I HAVE BEEN REVIEWING THAT.
I PROBABLY WILL FINISH REVIEWING IT TONIGHT, TRY AND ISSUE IT NEXT WEEK.
AND THE GOAL WOULD BE WHEN WE GET RESPONSES BACK FROM VARIOUS CONSULTANTS, UM, COME BACK TO THIS COMMISSION, ASK HOW, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S A HANDFUL OF MEMBERS YOU'D LIKE TO SIT ON THE EVALUATION COMMITTEE SO WE CAN PICK, PICK THE FIRM TO DO THAT AND NEEDS ASSESSMENT.
UH, A FEW THINGS ARE HAPPENING, ALBEIT MAYBE SLOWLY.
UM, OBVIOUSLY AS WE'VE SEEN, THE WEBSITE IS SLOWLY GETTING UPGRADED.
UM, IT'S A, IT'S A ONE WOMAN SHOW.
I KNOW YOU GUYS KNOW SARAH, SHE'S BEEN WORKING ON IT DILIGENTLY.
UM, AND SO SHE'S GETTING IT KNOCKED OUT AS QUICK AS SHE CAN.
UM, THE OTHER THING, I KNOW WE'VE TALKED ABOUT A, A PAID POSITION TO SUPPORT THE COMMISSION.
I THINK WE REALLY WANNA SEE THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT SUPPORT THAT.
UM, I KNOW I'VE HAD SOME, YOU KNOW, UM, WE'RE DOING A LOT OF EVALUATION OVER THE POSITIONS WE'RE HIRING IN THE CITY, ESPECIALLY WITH A LEVY.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THE CITIZENS KNOW WE'RE, WE'RE DOING A LOT OF DUE DILIGENCE ON SPENDING THE MONEY ON NEW PERSONNEL.
THE POSITION WASN'T NECESSARILY TO SUPPORT THE COMMISSION.
THE POSITION IS TO SUPPORT THE CITY.
IN MOVING D E I THROUGH THE CITY MM-HMM.
SO IT'S A CITY POSITION WITH A FOCUS ON D E I.
NOT TO SUPPORT US, BUT IN SOME WAYS TO SUPPORT US.
BUT IT WAS TO SUPPORT THE CITY IN MOVING THESE THINGS FORWARD.
SO TO PUT A PAID POSITION OF SOMEBODY WITH A FOCUS ON D E I IN THE CITY TO SUPPORT, JUST ALWAYS ENSURING THAT LENS IS THE LENS WE'RE LOOKING AT.
YOU KNOW, UM, JUST AS AN EXAMPLE, THERE WAS A, A, A LARGE GROUP OF PEOPLE BUILDING APARTMENTS FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE THAT WERE NOT HANDICAP ACCESSIBLE.
YOU'RE BUILDING THEM FOR 55 OLDER WITH THE WRONG CURVES.
THE DOORWAYS, YOU KNOW, THERE HAS TO BE THAT LENS FOR, FOR EVERYTHING WE'RE DOING, ESPECIALLY AS WE'RE GROWING IN THE CITY.
SO I THINK FOR CLARIFICATION TOO, I MEAN THAT'S A GOOD POINT.
WAS THAT I THINK THE ONLY THAT THE, SORRY, GO AHEAD.
I WAS GONNA SAY THE ONLY RECOMMENDATION THAT WAS SPECIFIC FOR THIS COMMISSION WAS TO, TO, AND YOU GUYS CORRECT, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, WAS TO HAVE SOMEONE FROM CITY COUNCIL SUPPORT THIS MEETING, BUT THAT WAS THE ONLY THING THAT WAS SPECIFIC FOR THE NEEDS OF THIS COMMISSION.
NEEDS SO JUST, BUT AGAIN, GOOD POINT TARA, TO POINT THAT OUT THAT YEAH, THIS WASN'T TO HIRE A PERSON TO SUPPORT THIS GROUP SPECIFICALLY.
UH, THE ONE THING THAT, UM, MRS. STEVENS AND I DID DISCUSS WAS THE C C R B UH, POLICY THAT WAS PUT TOGETHER BETWEEN EVERYBODY.
I DID HAVE A CHANCE TO REVIEW THAT TODAY, UM, MEET WITH THE CHIEF AND THE, UM, THE, UH, MY PREDECESSOR BRIAN, WHO WORKED WITH YOU GUYS ON ALL OF THAT.
UM, I INTEND TO HAVE PROBABLY A MEETING WITH THE MAYOR IN THE NEXT WEEK OR SO TO DISCUSS THAT C C R B POLICY AND SEE WHAT THE NEXT STEPS ARE.
SO, UH, I WILL, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THERE'S BEEN SOME DELAYS.
I WILL APOLOGIZE ON BEHALF OF THE CITY FOR THAT.
UH, I THINK LACKING A CITY MANAGER AND ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER FOR A WHILE HAVE CREATED SOME OF THOSE SITUATIONS.
SO NOW THAT WE'VE GOT EVERYTHING SQUARED AWAY, STAFFING WISE, I, I THINK WE CAN START MAKING SOME PROGRESS THAT MAYBE WE HAVEN'T SEEN FOR A LITTLE WHILE.
I MEAN, IT'S SORT OF INTERESTING THOUGH.
UM, SO OBVIOUSLY C C R B'S BEEN ON THE TABLE HERE FOR AT LEAST THE PAST YEAR OR SO, TWO YEARS, I THINK.
WELL, WHEN WE FIRST PRESENTED IT, MAYBE, UH, ABOUT A YEAR AGO.
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WITH YEAH, BRIAN AND WORKING WITH, UH, CHIEF LEER TO PULL THIS TOGETHER.AND, AND THEN EVENTUALLY WE SAT DOWN AND WE NOT ONLY, NOT ONLY DID WE CREATE THE KIND OF A, A FRAMEWORK FOR IT, BUT WE ACTUALLY PUT IT DOWN ON PAPER RIGHT.
WITH STEPS AND PROCEDURES AND WHO WOULD DO WHAT.
AND SO I GUESS WE WOULD'VE THOUGHT BY NOW, WOULD'VE IT WOULD'VE BEEN BROUGHT BEFORE THE COUNCIL TO MAKE A DECISION.
WE PRESENTED IT TO THE COUNCIL.
SO JUST INTERESTING TO, I'M JUST INTERESTED IN UNDERSTANDING WHAT'S, WHAT'S THE RE IF THERE'S RESISTANCE.
I MEAN, WE JUST LIKE TO KNOW IF THERE'S RESISTANCE OR IF THERE'S CONCERNS ABOUT THE PROCESS.
'CAUSE WE SPENT THE TIME ACTUALLY PUTTING IT TOGETHER.
I MEAN, ACTUALLY THE CITY, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
SO I'M JUST, I DON'T SENSE ANY RESISTANCE.
UH, I SPOKE WITH BOTH THE CHIEF AND, AND BRIAN TODAY.
THERE'S NO RESISTANCE FROM THEM.
I THINK THERE WAS, WE TALK ABOUT COMMUNICATION AND, AND ME BEING THE CITY MANAGER, IT IS MY JOB TO MAINTAIN COMMUNICATION, LINES OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN COUNCIL AND EVERYBODY AS WELL AS TONY'S.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK THERE WAS SOME THOUGHT THAT THERE WERE, WAS A LOT GOING ON WITH THE FIRST SUBURBS.
AND, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THE MAYOR SAID THAT WHETHER WE'RE GONNA TRY TO HAVE A CONSISTENT C C R B POLICY ACROSS, YOU KNOW, THE GREATER DAYTON AREA.
UM, SO THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN SOME MISINTERPRETATION THERE.
SO AT THIS POINT, YOU KNOW, I'M TRYING TO GET MY REIGNS ON A LOT OF THINGS.
I THINK WE'D ALREADY HAD THAT CONVERSATION ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT YEAH.
FIRST, WHAT, FIRST OURS, WE MADE A, I KNOW, I THINK I MADE A PRESENTATION THAT WAS A YEAR AGO.
AND I THINK WE HAD ALREADY MADE THE DECISION THAT WE WERE GONNA DO OUR OWN THING.
WHICH IS WHY WE SPENT THE TIME, RIGHT.
WITH BRIAN AND CHIEF COME UP THE LANGUAGE.
'CAUSE THE ASSUMPTION WAS WE WERE DOING OUR OWN PROCESS AND WE WERE NOT DOING SOME SORT OF, UM, LARGER C C B THAT INCLUDED OTHER CITIES.
FROM THE MAYOR SAYING, YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT WE WERE DOING THIS.
I'M JUST SAYING WE, WE, IT WAS, IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE AT A POINT NOW WHERE WE'RE TAKING THE CITY COUNCIL FOR THEM TO MAKE A DECISION.
WE'RE GONNA APPROVE THIS OR WE'RE NOT.
OR WE NEED MORE, WE NEED MORE INFORMATION.
I THOUGHT WE WERE DOING SOMETHING WITH FOR SUBURBS.
BUT, UM, AND NOT TO JUMP, BUT IT JUST CAME TO MIND.
SO I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF GREAT IDEAS FOR GOALS AND INITIATIVES HERE.
UM, OBVIOUSLY I KNOW YOU CAN'T DO THEM ALL AT ONCE.
YOU SAID IT'S A GOOD FIVE YEAR LIST,
UM, BUT AS YOU GUYS NEED RESOURCES FROM THE CITY, AND I, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALL PRETTY BUSY, DON'T GET ME WRONG.
UM, BUT IF WE NEED VENUES, IF WE NEED ACCESS TO SPACES IN THE CITY, PLEASE WORK WITH JEFFREY.
I THINK WE CAN TYPICALLY MAKE A LOT OF THINGS HAPPEN, UM, WHEN IT COMES TO THAT KIND OF STUFF IN YOUR EVENT.
SO, UH, EXCITED TO HEAR WHAT YOU GUYS HAVE PLANNED FOR NEXT YEAR AND MOVING FORWARD.
QUESTIONS FOR ME? UM, I HAD A COUPLE, YEAH, A COUPLE QUESTIONS JUST TO KIND OF CIRCLE BACK ON THE WEBSITE MM-HMM.
REMEMBER SARAH WILLIAMS USED TO BE, HE'S DOING THE ENTIRE WEBSITE.
SO THAT CHANGED THEN, BECAUSE MY UNDERSTANDING, OH, SHE'S NOT, HOLD ON.
SO LET'S LET JEFFREY CORRECT ME HERE.
I WANNA SAY, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, WHAT IS OUR VENDOR ON OUR WEB, ON OUR WEBPAGE? UH, UH, CIVICS, UH, CIVIC PLUS? YES.
SO, YES, SHE IS WORKING, I BELIEVE, WITH THEM.
AND THE IDEA IS THAT, UM, FROM WHAT SHE SAID, IT, WE SHOULD HAVE, UM, THE IMPROVEMENTS, UM, COME JANUARY.
I, I DON'T, I, I'M NOT SAYING THE BEGINNING OF JANUARY, I WANT TO SAY AT LEAST, LET'S PROBABLY PUSH IT TO THE END OF JANUARY, JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE JUST GIVEN THAT NICE CUSHION OF THINGS THAT COULD POTENTIALLY GO WRONG.
BUT THAT'S, THAT'S, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, I WANNA SAY SHE DID SAY SOMETHING SOMETIME IN JANUARY OF NEXT YEAR OR THE BEGINNING OF NEXT YEAR, IS WHAT SHE SAID, THAT THE WHOOPS, THE WEBPAGE WOULD BE COMPLETED.
UM, IN TERMS OF, I KNOW YOU SAID WE WANNA HOLD OFF ON THE ASSESSMENT ON THE PAID D E I PROFESSIONAL TO WAIT FOR THE ASSESSMENT DATA, BUT I DID ALSO WANT TO CLARIFY THAT THAT RECOMMENDATION DID NOT JUST COME FROM US, BUT IT ALSO CAME FROM THE MIAMI VALLEY REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION.
UH, FABRICE JUIN REGIONAL EQUITY, REGIONAL EQUITY INITIATIVE PROGRAM MANAGER.
SO THAT CAME FROM THEM AS WELL.
AND I THINK WHAT I WANT TO KNOW IS WHAT THE STRUCTURE OF THAT PERSON WILL LOOK LIKE, UH, AND ALSO BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN TO PEOPLE A LIST OF DUTIES.
AND IF THE LIST OF DUTIES IS A FULL-TIME POSITION, IT IS, IF IT'S A PART-TIME POSITION, IS THAT SOMETHING WE CAN ROLL INTO, UM, YOU KNOW,
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A POTENTIAL EMPLOYEE THAT WE STAFF THROUGH OUR HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.SO, UH, REALLY WHAT I'M LOOKING AT OUTTA THE ASSESSMENT IS, IS NOT, WHETHER, IT'S NOT WHETHER THE CITY NEEDS TO DEVOTE STAFF TIME AND RESOURCES TO OUR D E I INITIATIVES.
IS IT A COMPLETELY NEW PERSON? IS IT A FULL-TIME PERSON? IS IT A PART-TIME PERSON? SHOULD IT FALL UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF HUMAN RESOURCES? I, I DON'T KNOW THOSE ANSWERS QUITE YET.
AND THAT'S WHAT I'M HOPING SOMEBODY WILL TELL ME THROUGH AN ASSESSMENT.
SO, UM, WAIT, HOW WOULD WE GATHER THAT FROM AN ASSESSMENT, THE THINGS THAT YOU JUST SAID? WELL, I WOULD EXPECT THAT THE ASSESSMENT, WHEN WE GET OUR, UH, QUALIFICATIONS BACK, THEY'LL SHOW US EXAMPLES OF WHAT THEY'VE DONE IN THE PAST.
AND WE WOULD WANT THE ASSESSMENT TO TELL US NOT ONLY WHAT YOU SUGGEST THAT WE NEED THIS PERSON, BUT HOW WE WOULD UTILIZE THEM AND WHAT TYPE OF PERSON, WHAT DEPARTMENT MIGHT THEY FALL UNDER, IF ANY.
UH, AND, AND NEEDS ASSESSMENT OBVIOUSLY TELLS US WHAT WE NEED, BUT I FULLY EXPECT IN MY CONSULTING EXPERIENCE THAT THEY'RE GONNA GIVE US RECOMMENDATIONS FOR HOW TO MEET THOSE NEEDS.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S THE PART I'M MOST IN NEED OF AT THIS POINT.
SO THAT BECOMES THE NEXT LEVEL OF A D E I STRATEGY THEN? CORRECT.
SO WE'RE PULLING THAT IN AS WELL.
JUST QUICKLY, DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW, UM, YOU MAY NOT HAVE ALREADY BEEN HERE YET? YOU KNOW HOW THE POLICE JUST PUT IT OUT ON FACEBOOK AND THE WEBSITES AND EVERYTHING, THEIR SURVEY ON TO WEIGH IN ABOUT, YOU KNOW, DRIVING AND SAFETY AND THINGS IN THE CITY.
LIKE IT, THEY PROBABLY HAD AMAZING RESULTS AND, YOU KNOW, THROUGH A GOOGLE FORM ON FACEBOOK, I, IT, YOU KNOW, NOT THAT THIS NEEDS ASSESSMENT, I'M NOT GONNA SAY THIS NEEDS ASSESSMENT WAS THE FIRST THING THAT WE DISCUSSED WHEN WE SAT DOWN IN 2021 TO DO THIS.
SO I'M ALL BEHIND THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT, BUT I, YOU KNOW, I JUST THINK, YOU KNOW, HOW, HOW MUCH RESULTS DID THE POLICE DEPARTMENT GET JUST BY PUTTING A, A GOOGLE FORM ON FACEBOOK AND ASKING, YOU KNOW, HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT SAFETY IN HUB HEIGHTS.
UM, AND IF IT REALLY DOES TURN INTO A STRATEGY, THAT WOULD BE FANTASTIC.
THAT IS, AND THAT WAS THE RECOMMENDATION.
REMEMBER WHEN WE WROTE THE R F P? DO Y'ALL REVIEW THAT? IT'S SITTING ON MY COMPUTER RIGHT NOW.
IT'S GONNA BE WHAT I LOOK AT AS I'M MEETING DINNER TONIGHT.
UM,
WITH THE HOPES THAT I, UH, I CAN GET IT OUT NEXT WEEK.
SO I USED TO BE A FIREFIGHTER.
I TEND TO BE PRETTY DECISION ORIENTED.
THIS HAS OBVIOUSLY BEEN LAYING OUT THERE FOR A WHILE.
SO, AND IT WAS, THAT'S KIND OF WHERE I COME AT WITH, WITH THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT.
I MEAN, IT WAS APPROVED, IT WAS IN THE BUDGET.
WE HAD ALL, WE HAD THE MONEY SET ASIDE.
THIS WAS APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL.
DID WE HAVE THE BUDGET? I DID THOUGHT IT WAS THE BUDGET CITY'S BUDGET AND NOT OURS.
IT WAS, WELL, THAT'LL HELP ME KNOW AS WE GO THROUGH BUDGETING, THERE'S, THERE'S A BUCKET OF MONEY THAT WAS SET ASIDE FOR THIS, AND IT WAS NOT A SMALL AMOUNT OF MONEY.
WELL, THE BUCKETS CHANGE EVERY YEAR, SO I NEED TO MAKE SURE BUCKET, I DUNNO WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR BUCKET, BUT STILL EXISTS THERE.
AND IF I NEED TO GET THE BUCKET BACK, I NEED TO GET THE BUCKET BACK BEFORE DECEMBER.
THE BUCKET WAS THERE A COUPLE YEARS AGO.
SO
YEAH, THERE WAS A LOT CHANGES.
YEAH, I THINK I GOT IT FROM YOU, JEFFREY, DIDN'T I? SO IF JEFFREY HAD A FINAL COPY, WE'RE GOOD.
IT WAS A COPY THAT WENT TO COUNCIL.
AND, AND HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE BECOME MORE OF A PRIORITY ITEM ON THE COUNCIL'S SCHEDULE? BECAUSE THAT REALLY SEEMS TO BE WHERE THIS DIES.
WE DO, ON THIS TOPIC RIGHT HERE,
SO THE PROCESS, SO TELL US, WALK US THROUGH THE PROCESS OF WHAT, WHAT YOU, WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE IN TERMS OF TIMELINE OR WHAT YOU'RE ENVISIONING.
SO WHAT I'M ENVISIONING IS GETTING THE R F P DONE, BEING ABLE TO PUBLISH IT, WHICH YOU HAVE TO PUBLISH IT IN VARIOUS WAYS.
I'LL FIND OUT WHAT OUR REQUIREMENTS ARE HERE.
UH, I WILL ASK JEFFREY TO KIND OF RESEARCH SOME VENDORS WHO DO THIS WORK WHO ARE FROM THE AREA.
UM, AND HE WILL SEND THEM THE R F P.
SO IT'S NOT JUST THAT WE WAIT FOR PEOPLE TO FIND IT, WE TRY AND FIND VENDORS TO SEND IT OFF TO, UM, TO GENERATE THOSE BIDS OR THAT INFORMATION THAT WE WANT.
UH, I'M, I THINK GIVING IT A MONTH MAKES SENSE.
I MEAN, WE COULD GO AS SHORT AS TWO WEEKS, BUT I THINK WE WANT AS MUCH, UM, INPUT AS
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POSSIBLE.UH, THEN COME PROBABLY SHORTLY AFTER YOUR NOVEMBER MEETING, WE CAN HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT WHICH COMMISSION MEMBERS WILL SIT ON A, UM, AN EVALUATION TEAM TO, TO SELECT ONE OF THESE, UM, ONE OF THESE VENDORS.
SO THE GOAL WOULD BE, I KNOW HOW MUCH IT'S GONNA COST.
I PUT IT IN THE BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR.
MAYBE WE KICK THIS OFF JANUARY ONE.
SO THAT SEEMS LIKE, I MEAN, THAT'S MY GOAL, YOU KNOW, HOW TIMELINES ARE, BUT YOU GOTTA SET A DEADLINE SOMEWHERE AND THEN IF IT MOVES A WEEK OR TWO, IT MOVES.
SO, UM, I'M SURE THAT WE ALL HAVE SOME AVENUES TOO, OR OF SOME PLACES TO SHARE THAT, EMAIL 'EM TO JEFFREY IF YOU KNOW SOME VENDORS WHO DO THIS KIND OF WORK, PLEASE.
AND THEY COULD BE EVERYTHING FROM A ONE PERSON SHOW TO A BIG FIRM.
I MEAN, THERE'S A LOT OF INDEPENDENT CONSULTANTS OUT THERE THAT DO STUFF, SO.
SO IN TERMS OF SELECTION, I MEAN, I KNOW THE CITY HAS FINAL SAY, AND I KNOW THAT WE TRADITIONALLY GO WITH NOT NECESSARILY THE MOST QUALITY, BUT THE CHEAPEST.
THE RULES ON BIDDING ARE ALWAYS LOWEST AND BEST.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT SAYING WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO GO WITH THE CHEAPEST VENDOR.
WE'RE GONNA GO WITH THE LOWEST AND BEST.
UM, AND THERE'S ALWAYS SOME, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD BE THE BEST, BUT COST FIVE TIMES AS MUCH.
MAYBE WE'RE NOT GONNA GO THAT FAR.
BUT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU COST 20% MORE, AND YOU'RE A LOT BETTER THAN, SURE.
I THINK THIS WOULD BE A GREAT OPPORTUNE OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO UTILIZE, UM, MINORITY WOMEN OWNED BUSINESSES.
SO KEEPING THAT AS A GOAL AND FOCUS, OH GOSH.
NOW I FORGOT MY NEXT QUESTION.
SO I THINK WE'VE GOT ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THAT.
ANY QUESTIONS IN THE R F P PROCESS? SO WE'RE LOOKING AT SELECTION EVALUATION AROUND NOVEMBER.
AND THEN JANUARY ONE SELECTION.
WE WOULD HOPE THAT WHOEVER WE SELECTED WOULD BE ABLE TO START WORK IN JANUARY.
AGAIN, I, I ALSO USED TO BE A PROJECT MANAGER, SO I SET A DEADLINE KNOWING THAT IT COULD MOVE TO END OF JANUARY, BUT IF WE DON'T SET A TARGET, THEN WE'RE ALWAYS CHASING NOTHING.
UM, AND I DO WANNA SAY ONE MORE THING IN TERMS OF THAT D E I PROFESSIONAL.
WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT, LIKE, SIFTING IT TO ANOTHER POSITION, OUR ACTUAL RECOMMENDATION WAS TO FIND A PERSON THAT HAD SPECIFIC, A SPECIFIC SKILLSET IN D E I BECAUSE THEY WOULD BETTER BE ABLE TO PULL IN THAT STRATEGY PIECE AND SEE A LOT OF THE BLIND SPOTS THAT A HR GENERALIST MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SEE.
AND IF YOU CAN SEND ME THAT COPY THAT YOU HAVE SO I CAN JUST LOOK AT IT.
IT, IT DOES LOOK LIKE THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION ABOUT SOME OF YOUR COMMITTEES AND THINGS THAT I'M GUESSING YOU INSERTED INTO THE R F P THAT MAY BE WEREN'T THERE FROM THE ORIGINAL VERSION.
YEAH, THERE WAS, WE HAD AN ORIGINAL VERSION, BUT THEN WE WENT BACK TO BRIAN, I THINK WE HAD SOME, HE HAD SOME EDITS AND THEN IT CAME BACK AND WENT BACK.
SO I JUST WANNA, YEAH, I'LL SEND YOU THE VERSION I GOT.
I'M, I'M DOING JUST A LITTLE CLEANUP TWEAKS JUST ON LANGUAGE HERE AND THERE, SO I HAVEN'T CHANGED ANYTHING SUBSTANTIVE IN IT, SO.
WE DID HAVE A RECOMMENDATION THAT WE WOULD LIKE THE RECOMMENDATION THAT YOU TALKED ABOUT HAVING A LIAISON FROM CITY COUNCIL OKAY.
THAT ONE I DIDN'T TALK ABOUT YET, BUT I CAN TALK TO, UH, TONY AND COUNSEL ABOUT THAT AT SOME POINT.
I THINK THAT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL.
AND THAT WOULD HELP WITH THE COMMUNICATION PIECE AS WELL.
I'LL BE HERE IF ANYTHING ELSE COMES UP.
OH, THERE'S ANOTHER
I KNEW THERE WAS ONE THING I WAS FORGETTING.
SO, UM, WE ARE GOING TO BE, UM, DOING AN R F P.
THIS IS GONNA BE A BIG PROJECT FOR A COMPLETE, UH, FINANCE, PAYROLL, HR TAX, AND UTILITY SYSTEMS. BASICALLY EVERYTHING THAT RUNS THE CITY'S FINANCES AND HR IS PART OF THAT.
UM, THE, WELL, I KNOW THAT WHATEVER SOFTWARE WE SELECT WILL HAVE AN AUTOMATED E E O DATA COLLECTION TOOL.
UM, BECAUSE OUR HR USES PAPER NOW, IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THAT DATA BE SEPARATE FROM ACTUAL APPLICATIONS AND
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WITH ONLY, WELL, UP UNTIL NOW WITH ONLY ONE DIRECTOR AND ONE PART-TIME DIRECTOR WORKING ACROSS THE HALL FROM EACH OTHER, UH, KATIE WAS REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT, REALISTICALLY WHEN SOMEBODY TURNS IN AN APPLICATION TO ONE PERSON AND E E O DATED ANOTHER, ARE THEY REALLY SEPARATE? LIKE, HOW ARE WE MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE NOT BEING, YOU KNOW, COMBINED TOGETHER? SO, UH, WE'RE ISSU, WELL, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A FIRM WRITING AN R F P FOR US, I BELIEVE, UH, VERY SOON WE'LL CONTRACT WITH THEM.WE'LL START A SELECTION PROCESS ON THAT.
SO IT'S GONNA TAKE A LITTLE WHILE ON A SOFTWARE THAT BIG.
UM, BUT WE'RE GETTING THERE AS SOON AS WE GET TO ELECTRONIC, YOU KNOW, APPLICANT TRACKING AND TALENT MANAGEMENT AND STUFF.
I THINK THAT, I MEAN, THAT WOULD BE A GOOD PLACE TO BENCHMARK OTHER CITIES BECAUSE OTHER CITIES ARE DOING IT AND MOST OF 'EM ALSO HAVE ELECTRONIC APPLICATION SYSTEMS THAT WE'RE NOT USED TO.
THEY DO HAVE ELECTRONIC, BUT THEN THEY'RE, BUT THEY STILL HAVE A PROVISION BECAUSE SOME OF THEM CAN'T MM-HMM.
SO HOW ARE OTHER CITIES DOING THAT? BECAUSE YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
SO WHAT CAN WE START DOING RIGHT NOW? SO LOOK AT SOME OF OTHER CITIES AS TO HOW THEY'RE HANDLING THESE PAPER COPIES BECAUSE BUSINESSES AND CITIES ARE DOING IT.
SO THERE'S A WAY AND MIGHT, YOU KNOW, AND THE, THE CON I GUESS THE, UM, AND THIS IS A STRATEGIC MOVE ALSO BECAUSE WE WANNA BE ABLE TO CAPTURE THAT DATA TO SEE HOW MANY, UH, MINORITIES ARE APPLYING FOR OUR JOBS.
SO THIS BECOMES PART OF THAT WHOLE D E I STRATEGY PIECE.
THERE'S SOME DATA THAT WE CAN PROVIDE, FOR INSTANCE, WHO DOES GET EMPLOYED.
WE ACTUALLY, I THINK REPORT TO THE STATE EVERY YEAR ON OUR STATISTICS OF MALE FEMALE, UH, RACE, ETHNICITY.
UM, WHEN IT COMES TO WHO'S GETTING INTERVIEWS, THAT'S A LITTLE BIT HARDER.
UM, I MEAN, I GUESS WE SEE WHO WE'RE INTERVIEWING, WE COULD EASILY KEEP TRACK OF THAT.
BUT, UM, JUST COLLECT THE E E O DATA.
LIKE AGAIN, IT'S GONNA BE SEPARATE FROM THE CANDIDATE.
SO THAT DATA IS NOT GONNA REALLY TELL US WHO GOT INTERVIEWED AND WHO DIDN'T.
UM, WE'D HAVE TO KIND OF COLLECT THAT OUR ON OUR OWN.
UM, BUT IT WILL TELL US HOW MANY APPLICANTS WE'RE GETTING AND, AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, SO ONE OF THE THINGS I'LL SAY IS I CAN WORK WITH OUR HR DIRECTOR ON THAT.
PART OF THE STRUGGLE HAS BEEN, IT HAS BEEN A ROUGH LABOR MARKET AND AT THE SAME TIME SHE'S BEEN ABOUT SIX, EIGHT MONTHS WITHOUT, UH, AN EMPLOYEE UNTIL MONDAY.
SO SHE NOW HAS HER, UH, SPECIALIST HR SPECIALIST POSITION FILLED.
UM, SO THEY'RE PLAYING CATCH UP AND WE'LL WORK ON IT, PROMISE YOU THAT, SO.
LEMME KNOW WHAT YOU FIND OUT AS YOU LOOK AT OTHER CITIES.
AND WE CAN ALSO LOOK AT OTHER CITIES IN TERMS OF THEIR D E I MM-HMM.
MEANS OF INFORMATION AS WE START TO THINK ABOUT.
I'LL BE HERE IF ANYTHING ELSE COMES UP.
I CUT YOU OFF BECAUSE WE WERE STAYING ON THE NO, AND I APPRECIATE YOU RUINING MY A D H D BACK IN.
I JUST, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE BECOME MORE OF A PRIORITY, YOU KNOW, ON THE CITY SCHEDULE AND HOW DO WE CONTINUE TO BECOME AN ACTION ITEM ON THE WORK SESSIONS TO MOVE THESE THINGS FORWARD? AND, AND THAT'S JUST, WE'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK AND WE'VE SPENT A LOT OF HOURS ON THIS WORK, AND THEN IT KIND OF GETS THERE AND THEN THERE NO ACTION.
AND IT, THEN THAT'S THE POINT OF FRUSTRATION.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE TRULY APPRECIATE YOUR, YOU KNOW, WILLINGNESS TO JUMP RIGHT IN AND BE ACTIONABLE ON THESE THINGS.
BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST TO, TO BE A PRIORITY WOULD BE NICE.
WE, WE WERE ASKED TO, TO DO THIS AND YEAH, THAT WAS MY POINT ABOUT THIS, IS WE
THAT'S, THAT'S MY, THAT'S I'M SAYING
WELL, AND I CAN SAY ON THAT, I MEAN, I KNOW HOW IT IS, YOU KNOW, OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS, EVEN OUR MAYOR IS A PART-TIME MAYOR.
UM, AND THEY DO RELY ON ME AS A CITY MANAGER TO REALLY PUSH THINGS FORWARD WITH THEM.
SO, AND I DON'T WANNA HANG TOO MUCH ON THEIR, AROUND THEIR NECKS WITH THE WHOLE THING.
UH, THEY HAVE A LOT OF PRIORITIES.
SO, YOU KNOW, IF I NEED TO PRIORITIZE SOMETHING FOR THEM OR OH, DEFINITELY BRING SOMETHING ON THE RADAR, THAT'S KIND OF MY JOB.
SO, UM, I'LL MAKE SURE THAT THAT HAPPENS.
SO APPRECIATE AND HAVING THAT LIAISON WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL TOO, TOO.
THE 2024 CALENDAR, THIS IS WHERE THE GENTE FALLS
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UM, WE HAVE, UM, WE CAN DECIDE HOW WE WANNA MOVE FORWARD, BUT OF COURSE, LAST YEAR WE HAD OUR M L K DAY EVENT.WE HAD OUR, OUR MULTICULTURAL WEEK AND WHAT AM I MISSING? OUR ONGOING EDUCATION FORUMS. WE HAD THOSE.
SO WE NEED TO DECIDE HOW WE WANT TO MOVE FORWARD FOR 2024.
UM, IT SOUNDS LIKE WE STILL WANT TO DO SOMETHING FOR M L K DAY.
I KNOW THIS IS THE YEAR TO KIND OF EXPAND THAT A LITTLE BIT MM-HMM.
FOR THE M L K, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO LOOK AT EXPANDING OR DOING A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY? I THINK THIS IS A GREAT EVENT WHERE WE COULD REALLY LOOK TO PARTNER WITH THE SCHOOLS.
IF WE'RE GONNA DO IT AT THE SCHOOL AGAIN AND DO IT AT THE TRACK, I THINK IT WOULD BE A GREAT EXERCISE TO, YOU KNOW, WRAP THE ATHLETES IN AND, YOU KNOW, SOMEHOW I'M NOT SIGNING MYSELF UP FOR THIS
YOU MENTIONED, UM, FUNDRAISING OF SOME SORT.
UM, MAYBE TYING IN SOMETHING, I'M SORRY, I DIDN'T MEAN TO SHUT, BUT LIKE, UM, MAYBE LIKE, UM, LIKE A DOING SOME SORT OF, I DON'T KNOW, SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP OF SOME SORT.
A LITTLE COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP OF YOU WANNA MAKE IT A FUNDRAISER.
PEOPLE WANNA KNOW WHERE THEIR MONEY'S GONNA GO.
WELL MAYBE IT'LL GO TO, YOU KNOW, UM, I, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S SOMETHING TO DO MAYBE WITH THAT OR IF THAT'S JUST TOO MUCH TO TAKE ON.
WE COULD HAVE THE TEAMS COMPETE TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE WALK ON M L K, LIKE HAVE ALL OF THE KIDS SOCCER COMPETE AGAINST WHOEVER COMPETE TO RAISE MONEY.
BUT WE JUST HAVE TO FIND WHERE TO DONATE.
I'D LIKE TO KEEP IT LOCAL, BUT MAYBE, I MEAN, WE HAVE, IT COULD BE THE Y W C A.
UM, SOUNDS LIKE A LOT OF GREAT DISCUSSION.
UM, BUT ARE WE IN AGREEMENT TO MOVE FORWARD, WE NEED TO MAKE A, I'D LIKE TO MAKE THE MOTION TO PUT THE M L K EVENT ON THE CALENDAR FOR MONDAY, JANUARY 15TH FOR THE COMMISSION SO I CAN MAKE THE MOTION.
HAVING IT AT THE, YOU'RE SAYING HAVING AT SCHOOL.
WELL MAKE THE MOTION TO DO THE EVENT AND THEN DO THE TASK GROUP TO PLAN SAID EVENT 2020 FOURTH.
YOU HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR? IS IT? SECOND.
SO WE WILL MOVE FORWARD WITH THE JANUARY 15TH, UM, M L K DAY CELEBRATION AND HAVE A TASK FORCE TASK FORCE TO BRING SOMETHING BACK TO US, UM, NEXT MONTH AS TO WHAT THAT WILL LOOK LIKE.
WHO'S ON THE TASK FORCE? I'LL DO IT.
I'M ONLY GONNA DO IT 'CAUSE I HAVE THE KID IN SCHOOL SPORTS RIGHT NOW, SO I KIND OF HAVE THE END
WHO ELSE WANTS TO WORK ON IT? WOO.
YEAH, I'M NOT DOING THIS BY MYSELF.
I'LL START VOLUNT HOLDING PEOPLE.
BYRON, IS THAT YOU RAISING YOUR HAND? I CAN'T HELP.
ERIC, DO I NEED TO VOLUNTOLD TO YOU? TO THE, THE TO OH, ERIC IS, YEAH, I THINK SHE WAS LOOKING AT YOU.
BUT THAT'S THE THING WITH BOTH OF YOU HAVING THE SAME NAME, THAT'S NOT FAIR.
WE ONLY NEED THREE PEOPLE BECAUSE I THINK THAT WOULD BE, WELL WE WON'T BE VOTING ANYTHING, SO IT'LL BE FINE.
SO IT'LL, IT, YOU KNOW, IT'LL BE FINE.
YOU CAN COUNT ME AS A BACKUP MAYBE FROM KIND OF MEDIA TYPE THINGS OR EVEN LIKE, I DUNNO.
AND BYRON, ERIC, WHICH ERIC DID
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YOU SAY? YOU WERE, YOU SAID I JUST NO, I JUST, DID YOU SAY, OH, NO, I DIDN'T.THAT'S THE WHOLE, THAT'S EVERYBODY.
WE'LL, I'LL FIND SOMETHING TO, IT.
CAN, WE CAN MAKE THAT A BIG EVENT.
WE COULD HAVE A LOT OF FUN WITH THAT.
WE JUST NEED TO FIND A, A GOOD DONOR.
TARA, IF YOU WANT TO TAKE THE LEAD ON THAT.
YOU CAN SET UP A MEETING AND THEN SEND OUT, AND IT COULD BE A VIRTUAL MEETING.
UM, AND THEN WE HAVE OUR MULTICULTURAL WEEK.
JUNETEENTH FATHER'S DAY FUNK FESTIVAL WOULD BE JUNE 16TH, WHICH WE DID EXPAND THAT LAST YEAR, THIS YEAR TO INCLUDE VENDORS, WHICH I THOUGHT WAS REALLY GREAT.
UM, AND THEN THE EDUCATION FORUM, I'VE TARGET FOR JUNE THE 20TH, BECAUSE THAT'S THE THURSDAY OF THE WEEK, WHICH IS USUALLY WHEN WE HAVE THEM.
ANYTHING ELSE GOING ON IN THE CITY, WE CAN LOOK AT THOSE DATES.
BUT THAT IS THE TENTATIVE DATE FOR THE EDUCATION FORUM.
AND THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL WOULD BE SATURDAY, JUNE THE 22ND.
ARE WE, UM, ARE THERE ANY THINGS THAT WE WANT TO MODIFY? DO WE WANT TO CONTINUE MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS ENTIRE WEEK? OR, UM, WHAT ARE THOUGHTS THERE? WHAT WAS YOUR DATES AGAIN? YOLANDA JUNETEENTH.
JUNETEENTH IS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19TH.
IS THAT THE DAY WE, SO IF WE DID THE, THAT'S THE DAY WE HAVE OFF.
SO THE JUNETEENTH IS ON SUNDAY.
WELL, LIKE ACTUAL DATE IS ON A WEDNESDAY IS WEDNESDAY.
SO LIKE THE 22ND DOESN'T MAKE SENSE FOR THE WEEK.
IT'S THE 22ND ON A SATURDAY PROBABLY.
UM, SO YEAH, THE FEDERAL, THE FEDERAL HOLIDAY IS ON THE 19TH.
I THINK WE SHOULD DO A FORUM THAT DAY.
AND I THINK WE SHOULD DO A SERVICE PROJECT OR SOMETHING THAT DAY INSTEAD ON JUNETEENTH.
WHAT DO YOU THINK THE TURNOUT WOULD BE LIKE? I'M THINKING ABOUT WHEN WE HAD OUR HEALTH AND WELLNESS EVENT THAT WAS ON, THAT WAS THAT MONDAY THAT WAS JUNETEENTH ON.
AND WE DIDN'T GET A GOOD TURNOUT BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE PEOPLE WERE LIKE, IT'S MY DAY OFF.
AND THAT WAS THE THING ABOUT, LIKE, I, I DID AN M L K EVENT ONE TIME AND IT WAS THE WHOLE THEME OF IT WAS A DAY ON, NOT A DAY OFF.
SO IT'S, IT'S A DAY OF SERVICE AND EDUCATION AND LEARNING.
SO IT'S SOMETHING AGAIN WHERE WE COULD DO, YOU KNOW, A COMMUNITY CLEANUP THAT DAY OR YOU KNOW.
WHY COULDN'T THE FESTIVAL BE THAT DAY THOUGH? OH, WE DEFINITELY WOULDN'T GET THE TURNOUT FOR THAT.
YOU WANT TO KEEP THAT ON THE WEEKEND? NO.
WOULDN'T GET THE, I DON'T MEAN EVERY, IT'S A HOLIDAY, RIGHT? SO THERE'S NO SCHOOL UHUH MIDDLE OF THE WEEK.
CAN Y'ALL PULL THAT OFF?
OH, IT WAS, THAT FIRST YEAR WAS TERRIBLE.
WE DID LIKE FIVE EVENTS AND SEVEN DAYS.
I DON'T THINK WE WANTED NEVER DOING MORE THAN WHAT WE DID.
I MEAN THIS, AT LEAST THIS PAST YEAR, I THINK IT WAS MORE, UH, PALATABLE IF YOU WILL.
SO I FEEL LIKE WE MISSED THE MARK MAYBE WITH THE VENDORS FOR MULTICULTURAL.
I FEEL LIKE THEY WERE DEFINITELY NOT AS CULTURALLY REPRESENTATIVE AS MAYBE I WOULD'VE PERSONALLY LIKED.
UM, IT WOULD BE MY HUMBLE OPINION TO OR BY THOUGHT.
I WOULD THINK WE SHOULD COMBINE MULTICULTURAL IN JUNETEENTH INTO ONE DAY.
MAKE A ONE LONG FESTIVAL THAT HAS THE MULTICULTURAL STUFF DURING THE DAY THAT
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TURNS INTO THE MUSIC FESTIVAL AT NIGHT AND MAKE IT ONE DAY AND JUST MAKE IT LIKE A, A BIG FESTIVAL WITH THE JUNETEENTH MUSIC FESTIVAL AT NIGHT.AND THEN IT'S NOT TWO WEEKENDS.
IT'S NOT PUTTING ALL THIS EXTRA WORK ON THE CITY EMPLOYEES TO BE THERE TWO WEEKENDS IN A ROW AND, AND JUST TAKE IT DAY TO NIGHT.
BUT IT'S A THOUGHT THAT WE COULD DO IT ALL ON SATURDAY AND DO IT FESTIVAL TO A MUSIC TO A, TO A MUSIC FESTIVAL AT NIGHT.
I GUESS I WOULD, I MEAN, ANOTHER SUGGESTION WOULD BE THAT WE, THAT WE COULD STILL HAVE BOTH EVENTS BUT MAYBE SPREAD THEM APART.
I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY REASON WHY WE HAVE TO HAVE, SO YOU HAVE THE JUNETEENTH AROUND JUNETEENTH MUSIC FESTIVAL, BUT THE MU MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL, YOU CAN MOVE THAT TO SOME OTHER TIME DURING THE SUMMER.
IF WE WANTED TO, I DON'T IF I LIKE THAT IDEA.
WE DID IT FOR MARKETING PURPOSES, YOU KNOW, TO KEEP IT THE SAME FOR WHAT WE, YOU KNOW, CULTURE WEEK QUOTE UNQUOTE.
THAT WAS THE ONLY REASON I GOT YOU.
I'M JUST SAYING, BUT THERE'S NOTHING THAT, THAT SAYS THAT WE COULD NOT SPREAD THOSE EVENTS APART RIGHT.
MORE SO THAN TRYING TO HAVE ONE BIG COMBINED JUNETEENTH MULTICULTURAL EVENT ALL IN ONE DAY.
I DON'T KNOW IF I'M A BIG FAN OF THAT, BUT I MEAN THAT'S JUST MY OPINION.
I MEAN THAT'S, THE OTHER FOLKS MAY HAVE OTHER THOUGHTS.
I'M JUST, IF IT WERE MY CHOICE, 'CAUSE I UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO DO, AND THAT IS A LOT RIGHT? STILL RIGHT BACK TO BACK WEEKENDS HAVING TWO BIG EVENTS.
I THINK BOTH EVENTS HAVE BEEN WELL ATTENDED.
SO I THINK WE, YOU KNOW, COMMISSION, THE COMMISSION STILL SHOULD CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THOSE OR, YOU KNOW, CARRY OUT THE EXECUTION OF THOSE ACTIVITIES.
BUT, UM, BUT YEAH, MAYBE WE SPREAD 'EM APART AND THEN, AND THEN IF WE DID THE, LIKE IN TERMS OF THE FORUM, RIGHT? IF WE WANTED TO DO SOMETHING IN LIEU OF THE FORUM, IT COULD BE SOME OTHER TYPE OF EVENT, YOU KNOW? 'CAUSE I KNOW WE'VE BEEN, 'CAUSE WE'RE GOING LOOKING AT STILL DOING FORMS ANYWAY.
SO WE DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO DO A FORM THAT WAY.
UM, I KNOW WE STILL HAVE SOME CHALLENGES WITH TRYING OF SERVICE GET ATTENDANCE SERVICE, BUT IT COULD BE A DAY OF RIGHT.
IT COULD BE A DAY OF SERVICE IF YOU WANNA DO THAT.
BUT I THINK WE'RE JUST TRYING TO GET THE STUFF LIKE GET IT ON THE CALENDAR, RIGHT? YEAH.
I LIKE THAT IDEA ACTUALLY OF COMBINING THE, UM, COMBINING THE EDUCATION AND THE DAY OF SERVICE.
TOGETHER ON THE JUNETEENTH DAY.
UM, THE JUNETEENTH FESTIVAL AND THE MULTICULTURAL IN ONE DAY I FEEL LIKE WOULD DILUTE BOTH OF THEM.
SO I THINK WE SHOULD, THAT WAS KIND OF MY OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN FOR THAT WAY TOO.
SO THEN WE NEED TO, UM, ARE WE GONNA DO THE JUNETEENTH ON THE SUNDAY STILL? BECAUSE WOULD THE MONDAY STILL BE, SO YOU'RE SAYING THE MONDAY WAS, IS THE HOLIDAY STILL THAT MONDAY? IT'S NOT THAT YOU SAID IT WAS ON WEDNESDAY.
SO IT WOULD ALMOST BE MY SUGGESTION TO DO THE, SO WE DO IT ON, DO IT ON SATURDAY.
DO THE JUNETEENTH EVENT ON A SATURDAY AND THEN YOU AND SCRAP THAT BEER GARDEN.
WELL REMEMBER TOO WAS A FATHER'S DAY FUNK FEST AND WE WERE GETTING A LOT OF TURNOUT BECAUSE IT WAS FATHER'S DAY AND THERE WAS SOMETHING TO DO.
AND IT WAS, I, I LIKED, I MEAN, I HAVE NO OPINION ABOUT FATHER'S DAY, SO DON'T ASK ME.
I MEAN, I'M JUST THROWING IT OUT THERE BECAUSE IT WAS WELL ATTENDED.
I THINK BECAUSE OF THE DAY IT WAS, IT GAVE PEOPLE STUFF TO DO ON FATHER'S DAY.
WAS IT OVER? IT WAS OVER BY WHAT? I MEAN WE HAD TO BE OVER BY NINE.
BUT WE GOT OUR HAND SLAPPED ABOUT THAT TOO.
SO WHAT YOU FOUR TO NINE? IF IT'S NOT BROKE, WE DON'T NECESSARILY I AGREE WITH HIM ON THE SUNDAY.
THE LAST ONE HORSE OVER HERE, SO, OKAY.
SO WE'VE GOT THAT ON THAT JUNETEENTH JUNE 16TH.
DO WE NEED TO MAKE THE MOTION SUNDAY OR JUST DO IT? YEAH, BUT WE GONNA PULL ALL THESE TOGETHER.
AND THEN THE MULTICULTURAL, UM, 22ND.
ANY MORE DISCUSSION ON THAT? MY RECOMMENDATION IS THAT WE PARTNER WITH, UH, ARTS BECAUSE MUSIC DANCE, IT'S ALL IN ART
TO GET, 'CAUSE THIS IS A HEAVY LIFT THAT IS A VERY HEAVY LIFT.
AND WE GOT THE BUSINESS CARD FROM THE GUY THAT DOES, UM, THE CULTURAL AFFAIR.
GENE HAS, WE'VE GOT SOME INS AND I THINK WE NEED TO BE GOING TO THESE FESTIVALS AND SOMEHOW SHARING A QR CODE OR SOMETHING FOR OUR FESTIVALS FOR VENDORS.
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YEAH.WE NEED TO BE CREATING STUFF SO THAT WHEN WE GO TO THE HISPANIC FESTIVAL, WHEN WE GO TO THE IRISH FESTIVAL, THERE'S VENDORS THERE.
THAT'S YOUR CULTURAL VENDORS AND THERE'S A WHOLE BUNCH OF THEM.
WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO BE HANDING OUT OUR STUFF AT ALL OF, ALL OF US NEED TO BE HAVING THIS STUFF ON US TO HAND OUT TO BE, YOU KNOW, GETTING VENDORS.
BUT ALL THAT STUFF IS GOING ON A LOT RIGHT AROUND THIS TIME AND WHATNOT.
I MEAN OH YEAH, IT'S SUMMER, IT'S FESTIVALS.
UM, I MEAN THEY'RE ALL KIND OF OVER NOW, BUT I FEEL LIKE WE NEED TO START MAKING SOME PHONE CALLS NOW.
AND REACHING OUT NOW TO, TO ORGANIZATIONS AND VENDORS.
I MEAN YEAH, WE SHOULD, WE SHOULD BE MARKETING THE ENTIRE YEAR.
I MEAN THESE EVENTS ARE HUGE ACROSS VENDORS OR ANYTHING WE NEED TO SHARE ABOUT THE COMMISSION, SHARE OUR CONTACT INFORMATION.
UM, BUT THIS IS STUFF WE NEED TO BE PLANNING LITERALLY THE DAY AFTER.
WE NEED TO BE PLANNING IT FOR THE NEXT YEAR AND THE MORE WE DO IT, THE EASIER IT'S GONNA DO.
BUT I IT'S GONNA BE A HEAVY LIFT WITHOUT RHONDA AND I JUST NEED TO PUT THAT OUT THERE.
I MEAN, THIS IS GONNA BE HARD WITHOUT, I MEAN, RHONDA IN THAT JUNETEENTH IS, SHE IS THE REASON THAT THAT WAS AS AWESOME AS IT WAS.
SO WE CAN STILL WORK WITH, WITH US.
I THINK IT'S, YOU KNOW, WE LOVE HER TO DEATH DOWN TO, IT'S A STRUGGLE, BUT IT'S, IT, THESE ARE AMAZING EVENTS AND WE'RE DRAWING A LOT OF PEOPLE TO THE CITY AND WE NEED TO, IT IT'S RECOGNIZED THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT WE'RE DOING THIS.
SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S A HEAVY LIFT AND WE NEED PEOPLE'S HELP.
NINE PEOPLE ARE ARE, YEAH, IT'S A LOT.
UM, BUT WHAT DO WE THINK ABOUT PARTNERING WITH OTHER COMMISSIONS WITH THE MULTICULTURAL? I AGREE.
I DON'T HAVE THE BANDWIDTH FOR IT THIS MONTH, BUT WE NEED A TASK FORCE FOR THAT.
THERE'S NINE OF US
FOR THE, YEAH, EACH ONE OF THOSE IS A SEPARATE TASK FORCE.
WE'RE NOT REALLY TASK FORCE, BUT YOU KNOW, I'LL TAKE JUNETEENTH.
ARE YOU SURE TARA? 'CAUSE YOU HAVE A LOT.
I MEAN, I'LL START UH, MAYBE WITH A MULTICULTURAL.
DID I SAY JUNETEENTH? I DIDN'T, NOT THE MUSIC FESTIVAL.
I WILL DO SOMETHING FOR JUNETEENTH FOR THE DAY OF SERVICE.
I WILL COME UP WITH A SERVICE PROJECT AND, AND ALL OF THAT.
AND PARTNERS AND, AND ALL OF THAT.
THAT'S WHY BECAME A SOCIAL WORKER.
NOW THE MUSIC FESTIVAL, Y'ALL I HAVE STOP HITTING THAT.
YOU'RE ON THE OTHER END OF THE BENCH NOW.
SO QUIET HIM MIGHT THINK IT'S EARLY.
IS NOT BYRON HAS DONE A GREAT JOB WITH THE MULTICULTURAL.
I MEAN, I CAN I AM, I'M ALWAYS I CAN DO SAME THING.
I CAN DO ANYTHING NEEDS TO BE DONE.
I THINK, UM, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
AND MAYBE YOU, YOU ARE ALREADY WORKING TOGETHER, AREN'T WE? YOU WANNA WORK WITH SOMEBODY ELSE? GET A VARIETY ON MULTICULTURAL.
CHRISSY'S WORKING ON THAT TOO.
OH, WHAT DID I DO? OKAY, SO CHRISSY AND MY ROOM AND WHEN WE, I THINK WE SHOULD DO A MEETING AND PULL TOGETHER SOME OTHER COMMISSIONS.
I GOT SOME FRIENDS ISH PEOPLE I KNOW ON SOME OF THE COMMISSIONS WHILE WE TELL.
AND WE CAN GET A, WE HAVE ALL THEIR CONTACT INFORMATION.
YOU DON'T NO, WE DON'T, WE DON'T HAVE THE CURRENT BOARDS AND COMMISSION LISTS.
UM, AND THAT WAY WE CAN START SENDING, WE CAN SEND, SEND A LETTER OUT TO EVERYONE AND THEN MAKE PERSONAL CONTACTS WITH THE CHAIRS.
SO THE ONLY THING WE STILL HAVE ON THE TAPE IS THE EDUCATION JUNETEENTH.
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ON IF WE UM, WANT TO MOVE THAT TO JUNETEENTH TO THE ACTUAL JUNETEENTH DAY OF WEDNESDAY.I DON'T KNOW IF WE NEED TO VOTE ON THAT.
THAT'S THE ONLY DAY I CAN'T DO IT.
SO, BUT WE NEED TO, WE DO NEED TO VOTE ON ADOPTION OF THE ENTIRE WEEK THAT WE AGREED ON.
'CAUSE IT IS A FEDERAL HOLIDAY AND, UM, THE 22ND HOLD THAT DAY FOR THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL.
A ANY IN OPPOSITION? ALRIGHT, SO PASSED.
SO
AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN ADD LATER ONCE WE SOLIDIFY A OR SHE CAN MAKE HER ACTUAL RECOMMENDATION.
AND I'M GONNA START, UM, WE CAN VOLUNTEER MM-HMM.
YOU'RE NOT LOCKED IN BUT HEY, YOU KNOW.
SO, UM, CHRISSY'S BEEN DOING A PHENOMENAL JOB AT THAT.
SO I'M THINKING LIKE BACK TO THE BLACK HISTORY MONTH.
MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN PARTNER WITH THE LIBRARY.
CAN YOU CHECK INTO THAT? WE'VE DONE ESSAY CONTESTS.
THEY WEREN'T ALWAYS SO WELL, NOBODY WANTS TO WRITE
AND ARE WE LOOKING SPECIFICALLY JUST WITH THE CUBA BRANCH? YEAH, YEAH, YEAH.
AND WE NEED TO ALWAYS CONSIDER BETHEL.
WE, WE TEND TO FORGET ABOUT BETHEL, BUT BETHEL IS HALF OF OUR KIDS ARE, IT'S HUBER ZIP CODES AND IT'S BETHEL SCHOOLS.
SO WE, IN OUR FIRST COUPLE ESSAY CONTESTS DID NOT INCLUDE THEM.
BUT THAT'S ANOTHER AREA TO CONSIDER THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A SIGNIFICANT POPULATION OF OUR CHILDREN IN BETHEL SCHOOLS AS WELL.
YEAH, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE US GET TO WHERE, UM, DALE AND MARVIN DALE WERE WITH THEIR M L K DINNER COMMUNITY THING EVENTUALLY.
I'VE NEVER HEARD OF, I MEAN I'VE NEVER HEARD OF IT.
IT SOUNDS SO IT WAS A LONG, IT WAS A WHILE AGO.
SO I THINK THAT IS EVERYTHING FOR 2024 CALENDAR.
NOW, BUDGET WISE, YOU HAVE THE BUDGET IN FRONT OF YOU.
JEFFREY GAVE US A COPY OF THE BUDGET AND WHAT WE SPENT LAST YEAR.
THAT WAS LAST YEAR OR YEAR TO DATE.
OH, THAT WAS MR. THIS WAS YEAR TO DATE.
LIKE THE TRASH CANS AND ALL THAT STUFF STUFF, JEFFREY.
I MEAN, I WAS LOOKING THE SAME THING.
THAT WAS THE FIRST THING I SAW.
I WAS LOOKING, I WAS LOOKING THE SAME THING.
LIKE THE TRASH CANS, THEY FALL UNDER OUR BUDGET.
AND WEREN'T THEY THE SAME ONES FOR BOTH FESTIVALS? SO WHAT'S THE, WHAT DATE IS THAT? 7 31.
NOW THAT'S, AND THERE'S TWO FOR THE EXACT SAME AMOUNTS AND SAME PLACE.
DO YOU REMEMBER? OH, THAT'S THE PORT.
OKAY, LET ME ASK, I, I, AGAIN, I WOULDN'T KNOW WHAT THAT EXACTLY WAS.
IS THAT PERTAINING TO THE FESTIVALS? YEAH, IT WOULD HAD TO HAVE BEEN.
BUT IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN IN JULY.
OUR FIRST FESTIVALS WERE JUNE.
I I DON'T THINK WE SAW THIS FOR LAST YEAR.
BUT I, I DEFINITELY REMEMBER IT WASN'T ON IT LAST, IT WAS NOT ON OUR BUDGET LAST YEAR.
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I'LL JUST COMPARE WHAT LAST YEAR WAS AND THEN THIS YEAR.UM, BECAUSE I DON'T FEEL LIKE THEY BROUGHT NEW ONES.
I THINK BECAUSE I, I FORGOT IT.
BUT, UM, I WAS GONNA COMPARE WHILE I WAS SITTING HERE, BUT LET ME COMPARE AND THEN I'LL LET WAS SEND EVERYBODY EMAIL JUST SAY IF IT WAS THERE OR WASN'T THERE.
AND THEN OBVIOUSLY WHEN TONY COMES BACK I'LL SEE IF WE CAN MAKE SOME TYPE OF DISCRETION IF HE WANTS TO.
THAT'S REALLY ONLY, I MEAN THAT'S $500 I GUESS THAT'S WHAT I WAS THINKING.
BUT UM, SO WE WERE AT 12,000 THIS YEAR TO DATE OVER FOR THIS YEAR.
OUR BUDGET IS STILL 10, RIGHT? 15.
SO THEN THAT MEANS, BECAUSE WE DID HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL ITEMS FOR THIS YEAR, WE DID SOME, UH,
I HAVE NOT TURNED IN MY RECEIPTS FOR EVERYTHING I BOUGHT FOR THE KID ZONE.
WHY IS THE FREEDOM FUND BANQUET COMING OUT OF OUR, OR ASKED IF THEY WANTED TO ATTEND? I'M NOT SURE WHY THAT ONE WAS.
SO, SO MY UNDERSTANDING WAS, AND THIS IS WHAT I, THIS IS WHAT I TALKED TO TONY ABOUT MM-HMM.
BUT NONETHELESS IT CAME OUTTA GENERAL FUND.
UM, I GUESS, UM, MY SITUATION OF ALREADY GOING AHEAD AND PUTTING THE PO IN FOR THE AMOUNT THAT IT WAS, UM, YOU KNOW, JUST TELLING TONY I WAS LIKE, HEY, I ALREADY SPENT THE MONEY FOR IT FOR I WANNA SAY THE FIVE OF US THAT ARE GOING.
UM, HE KIND OF JUST LET IT LIKE GO AS UM, JUST BECAUSE I GUESS THE IDEA WAS, UM, THE MONEY'S COMING OFF FROM ONE PLACE.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IN THE FUTURE WE CAN KIND OF MAKE THE AGREEMENT THAT IT WOULDN'T COME OUT OF THAT IT WOULDN'T COME NECESSARILY OUTTA YOUR GUYS' BUDGET GOING FORWARD.
OR IF WE CAN TALK ABOUT POTENTIALLY INCREASING YOUR GUYS' BUDGET NOW THAT'S CITY MANAGERS AT THE CITY MANAGER'S DISCRETION.
IF, YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS WANT AN EXTRA, I DON'T KNOW, COUPLE THOUSAND DOLLARS IF YOU GUYS OBVIOUSLY HAVE A REASON FOR WHY YOU GUYS WOULD NEED THAT EXTRA COUPLE THOUSAND.
SO THERE'S FIVE OF US ARE IS EVERYBODY FROM THE COMMISSION? YOU'RE? NO, SO WE HAVE FOUR TOTAL.
I CAN'T REMEMBER EXACTLY WHO ALL IS GOING, BUT I I'M ALSO GOING AS WELL JUST, JUST FOR CITY PRE UH, PRESENCE.
AND THEN OBVIOUSLY I'M YOU GUYS' LIAISON AS WELL, SO I'LL BE THERE.
I I'M JUST, I'M JUST KIND OF DUMBFOUNDED BY THIS BECAUSE IT'S NOT A COMMISSION THING.
UM, IT SHOULD BE A CITY SUPPORT.
AND IS ANYONE FROM CITY COUNCIL GOING? I BELIEVE NOT.
I MEAN IT'S ALREADY, IT'S ALREADY BEEN PAID FOR IT.
AGAIN, I, YOU KNOW, I'VE ALREADY SUBMITTED THE FOR IT.
SO I DON'T, I DON'T BELIEVE SO.
I COULD BE WRONG BUT YOU KNOW, I THINK THE EVENT IS WHAT, AT THE END OF THIS MONTH IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN.
SO I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE THEY COULD SHOW, BUT I, I, I WANNA SAY FIVE TOTAL ARGO AND THAT INCLUDES ME.
THAT'S KIND OF SAD FROM THE ENTIRE CITY.
I KNOW FOR OUR COMMISSION THERE ARE QUITE A FEW OF US THAT ARE OUT OF TOWN, UM, THAT WEEKEND.
WE'RE ALREADY HAD SOMETHING PLANNED, BUT THAT'S WOW.
SO YEAH, I THINK IF WE ARE, IF THAT'S WHERE WE'RE SITTING, WE MIGHT WANT TO, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THIS BECAUSE WE'RE NOT THAT FAR OFF FROM THAT 15 AND WE HAD FOR THIS YEAR ADD IT SOME ITEMS TO OUR BUDGET.
SO I MEAN AT THE SAME TIME, I MEAN, ARE YOU GUYS OBVIOUSLY FOR THE THINGS THAT YOU ARE, YOU KNOW, LISTING OFF OF, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO GET MORE INFORMATION ON LIKE THE FIVE K WALK AND STUFF LIKE THAT, I THINK THAT IS ACTUAL EXTRA FUNDS THAT YOU GUYS MIGHT NEED.
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YOU KNOW, IF, IF YOU'RE THINKING THAT YOU MIGHT LIKE 15,000 ISN'T GONNA CUT IT, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, I JUST NEED THAT INPUT FROM YOU GUYS ALL SAYING, OKAY, HEY MAYBE WE MIGHT NEED A COUPLE EXTRA THOUSAND DOLLARS OR WHATEVER THE SUM OF THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS HAVE KIND OF COME OUT TO, AND I MEAN WE'RE STARTING BUDGET, WE STARTED, WE STARTED DISCUSSING ABOUT BUDGET INPUT WHAT THIS WEEK, LAST WEEK MAYBE.SO I GUESS THE SOONER RATHER THAN LET, AND IT'S NO, YOU KNOW, ACT ON YOU GUYS 'CAUSE YOU GUYS DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS LEFT OR THE MISCOMMUNICATION OF HOW MUCH YOU GUYS HAD TOTAL TO USE FROM.
UM, BUT UM, YEAH, IF YOU GUYS, I I, I'M NOT SAYING MAYBE WE CAN KIND OF, YOU GUYS CAN KIND OF LOOK OVER IT, KIND OF RUN THROUGH WHAT ARE YOU GUYS THINKING THAT THESE THINGS ARE GONNA COST FOR NEXT YEAR AND THEN I SOONER RATHER THAN LATER, BUT I'LL PROBABLY SAY NO LATER THAN END OF THIS MONTH, GIMME A NEW NUMBER AND THEN I CAN KIND OF TAKE THAT TO THE CITY MANAGER AND SEE WHAT HE SAYS.
DO WE HAVE 20 TWO'S NUMBERS OF WHAT WE SPENT IN 22? SO I HAVE THAT UPSTAIRS IN MY OFFICE AND AGAIN, YOU SEND IT.
YEAH, I'LL SEND IT TO YOU GUYS.
UM, I WANNA SAY IT'S NOT FAR OFF.
MAYBE, MAYBE MAYBE YOUR REMAINDER BOUND OF LIKE CLOSE TO 3000, MAYBE A LITTLE BIT MORE IS THE TOTAL AMOUNT THAT WAS NORMALLY LEFT OVER.
I KNOW YOU GUYS NEVER, FROM WHAT I SAW, YOU GUYS NEVER HIT THE TOTAL AMOUNT.
YEAH, NO, WE WERE, WE WERE WELL BELOW.
UM, AND, AND, AND PART OF BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS AND, AND STUFF LIKE THAT IS IN KIND DONATIONS AND, AND BUILDING THESE THINGS WITH COMMUNITY SUPPORT AND NOT NECESSARILY ON THE COMMUNITY'S DIME.
SO I MEAN, I THINK 1520 WOULD BE FANTASTIC, BUT YEAH.
AND UH, AND AGAIN, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO WORK WITHIN YEAH.
AND AT THE SAME TIME, I GUESS YOU GUYS ARE ALSO THINKING OF, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY KIND OF INCREASING YOUR GUYS' PRESENCE AS WELL WITH MORE EVENTS AND WHATNOT.
SO OBVIOUSLY I DON'T ABOUT MORE EVENTS, BUT NO, I'M JUST KIDDING.
WELL, YOU GOT THE WHOLE FIVE K, BUT THAT'S AN EVENT.
WE HAD A, WE ALREADY HAD AN M L K WALK, YOU KNOW, WE DID IT UP CHA, WE DID IT UP GRANT PIKE.
IT'S JUST CHANGING IT UP A LITTLE BIT.
SAME EVENT, JUST DIFFERENT STUFF.
AND, AND I GUESS FOR, FOR WHERE YOU GUYS ARE, YOU'RE, YOU'RE, WHEN YOU GUYS TALK ABOUT YOUR INITIATIVES AND GOALS AND THE EVENTS PLANS FOR NEXT YEAR, UM, DEFINITELY I I WANNA SAY IF IT'S NOT NEXT MONTH, WILL YOU GUYS WOULD HAVE A BETTER SENSE OF HOW THOSE ARE GONNA BE STRUCTURED.
UM, OBVIOUSLY I'M HERE TO, UH, ASSIST IN ANY WAY NEEDED TO KIND OF MAKE SURE, YOU KNOW, THOSE GO WITHOUT A HITCH.
YOU KNOW, WE WERE AT, CAN'T EVEN SEE, WE ONLY SPENT ABOUT HALF OF OUR BUDGET IN 2022 FROM THE AUGUST REPORT OF 2022.
WE HAD, IT WAS 10,010,000 862 68.
THAT WAS TOTAL BUDGET OR THAT'S WHAT YOU GUYS SPENT, THAT'S WHAT WE SPENT FOR, UM, 22.
WELL, JANUARY, AUGUST, THINK AFTER THAT.
UM, YEAH, I'LL, I, I KNOW I HAVE IT ON MY DESK.
I'LL, I'LL SCAN IT IN AND I'LL SEND IT TO YOU GUYS IN EMAIL AND LET YOU GUYS SEE WHAT WAS ALL ON THERE.
AND THE PORTA POTTIES ARE NOT ON HERE.
YEAH, BUT WHO KNEW? I MEAN, THEY'RE NOT AS EXPENSIVE AS YOU THOUGHT ONE WOULD BE TO RENT FOR, FOR FOUR PORTA-POTTIES.
SO WE, IS THERE ANY, UM, RECOMMENDATIONS IN TERMS OF WHAT WE THINK THAT WE MAY NEED? WE DO NEED AN INCREASE BECAUSE I THINK, I FEEL LIKE WE'RE BUMPING UP AGAINST THAT NUMBER.
UM, I MEAN DO WE EVEN NEED THE PORTA POPPIES IF THE BATHROOM, IF, I MEAN IF WE, IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ON OUR WHERE, WHERE WAS THAT? WAS THAT, WHERE WAS THAT AT? IT'S ONLY FIVE.
BUT $500 IN ALL OF THAT IS IT? AND SHOULD BE, YEAH.
WHAT WAS, WHAT WAS THE EVENT AT FOR THAT FESTIVAL? WAS IT OVER AT, IT JUST SAYS FOR FOUR FESTIVALS.
WHAT THE REMARK SAYS WHAT, SO YEAH, THAT'S, IT PROBABLY WAS.
SO WE HAVE JUNETEENTH MULTICULTURAL AND THEN 4TH OF JULY IS RIGHT AFTER IN MARIGOLD ARE THE FOUR BIG FESTIVAL.
SO WE JUST PAY FOR EVERYBODY'S, WELL I THINK IF WE
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GOT IT GOT ADDEDUH, YEAH, I'LL, I MEAN I'LL ASK, I'LL SEE WHAT, WHAT'S UP WITH WITH THAT ASK A LITTLE COUPLE OKAY.
AND MAYBE THAT'S A PRO RATE, MAYBE THAT'S A BREAKOUT OF EVERYBODY.
I MEAN IT COULD, IT COULD BE A AND IT COULD AND IT COULD, YEAH, IT COULD BE, BE A SHARED COMMENT ARE PART OF IT.
PORTA POTTIES AND TRASH CANS, IF YOU PAY 240 BUCKS FOR, IT'S PRETTY CHEAP.
SO WHEN WE MAKE A BUDGET REQUEST, DO YOU NEED LIKE A DETAILED BUDGET REQUEST OR WE CAN JUST THROW NUMBERS AT YOU? I, I, I, FOR, FOR WHAT I NEED IS OBVIOUSLY I NEED THE EXTRA OR THE, FOR EACH DIFFERENCE OF HOW MUCH YOU'RE THINKING.
NO, NOT NECESSARILY FOR EACH EVENT.
I JUST NEED HOW MUCH MORE AND THEN THE REASONING THAT THAT'S BASICALLY IT WE CAN JUSTIFY YEAH.
NOW, I MEAN, AGAIN, THE IDEA, THE IDEA IS THAT OBVIOUSLY I GOTTA PASS IT ON TO THE CITY MANAGER AND HE HAS TO MAKE THE AGREEMENT ON IT.
UM, BUT IF YOU GUYS ARE JUST TELLING ME, OKAY, HEY, WE NEED, LIKE, I'M THINKING THAT YOU GUYS MIGHT NEED MORE MONEY IF YOU GUYS ARE TRYING TO DO MORE THINGS, UM, YOU KNOW, THINGS, I MEAN THINGS ARE EXPENSIVE.
SO, UM, I THINK, YOU KNOW, I, AND IT'S NOT, I DON'T THINK IT'D NECESSARILY BE ANY ISSUE IF YOU GUYS KEPT THE 15 AND THEN SOMEHOW SOME WAY, YOU KNOW, WE GO TO DO SOMETHING, UM, YOU KNOW, COME TOWARDS THOSE, YOU GUYS ARE YOUR, YOUR BIGGER EVENTS AND WE'RE KIND OF LOW ON FUNDS.
I DON'T THINK THERE'D BE A PROBLEM FOR US TO ACTUALLY PAY FOR THAT.
BUT IT, IT'D JUST BE NICE THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S ALREADY THERE SO WE DON'T HAVE TO GO BACK AND, YOU KNOW YES.
GET, GET MORE, GET MORE MONEY.
SO I GUESS, I GUESS THAT'S WHY I'M TRYING TO SAY, I MEAN, IF YOU GUYS CAN COME UP WITH SOME TYPE OF IDEA TO THE ADDITIONAL MONEY THAT YOU GUYS MIGHT THINK YOU MIGHT NEED, UH, I THINK, I MEAN THAT, THAT HELPS ME OUT MORE RATHER THAN, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT EXACTLY, YOU KNOW, HEY, I, I THINK THAT THEY NEED AN EXTRA COUPLE THOUSAND DOLLARS RATHER THAN YOU GUYS, YOU KNOW, WHO, WHO ARE REALLY DOING THE WORK TRYING TO SAY, OKAY, HEY, THIS IS WHAT WE WANT TO DO FOR THE COMMUNITY.
THIS IS THE STUFF THAT I THINK WE NEED TO DO.
SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK, I THINK THAT INPUT KIND OF HELPS OUT A LITTLE BIT BETTER FOR AN ADDITIONAL FUNDS.
IT'S MORE TIME EFFECTIVE, UM, AND HAVING TO GO BACK AND BACKTRACK.
SO WHAT IS THAT NUMBER THAT WE NEED? I MEAN, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE NOW IF YOU, I MEAN OKAY.
I MEAN, WELL WE CAN THINK ABOUT THAT BECAUSE I KNOW THAT WE HAVE ADDED AT LEAST $2,000 BASED ON SOME, SOME ADDITIONAL THINGS THAT WE'VE ADDED TO LIKE OUR EDUCATION PIECE.
UM, WE'RE SITTING AT ANOTHER COUPLE OF THOUSAND RIGHT THERE.
AND UM, JEFF, Y'ALL CAN DO, BECAUSE I WANT TO KNOW HOW SOON WE CAN START TO LOCK IN FOR JUNETEENTH, THE BANDS AND THINGS.
I MEAN, WHAT WAS THAT? HOW SOON WE CAN START LOCKING IN FOR JUNETEENTH AND SO WE DON'T LOSE THE CONTRACTS.
ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT WITH THE SAME PEOPLE OR DO YOU WANT TO GET NEW PEOPLE? I DON'T KNOW.
UM, ARE THEY DID A, WELL, NOT WITH THE BANDS, WITH THE SOUND, THE SOUND COMPANY PREMIUM.
WELL LET ME, I GUESS THAT'S MORE OR LESS A SARAH THING OR KY THING.
'CAUSE I WANNA SAY THAT THEY'RE, THEY WERE THE ONES WHO KIND OF HANDLE THAT IT IS PREMIUM BLEND.
BUT LET ME, LET ME SEE WHAT THEY SAY AND THEN I'LL JUST EVERYONE TO EMAIL AND LET YOU GUYS KNOW.
IS THAT, SO, I MEAN, ARE WE FINE WITH MOVING WITH THE SAME PEOPLE? LIKE, LIKE IF I WENT AHEAD AND THEY SAID, HEY, WE CAN GO LOCK IN IT NOW, WOULD WE BE LIKE, WOULD YOU GUYS BE FINE WITH MOVING AHEAD OR DO YOU GUYS WANT ME TO COME BACK AND TELL YOU IT'S LIKE, HEY, THIS IS WHAT THEY SAID.
'CAUSE OKAY, WE HAD SOME CHALLENGES BACK AND FORTH THE LAST TIME, SO I WANNA MAKE SURE WE JUST LOOK AT IT.
NO, I MEAN, YEAH, I MEAN, I, I'M ALL FOR YOU GUYS WITH, YOU KNOW, BETTER COMMUNICATION.
I MEAN, I'M JUST TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, I'M DOING AS BEST AS I CAN FOR YOU GUYS.
SO I THINK THAT THAT IS EVERYTHING, UNLESS ANYONE HAS ANYTHING ELSE TO ADD.
WAIT, DID WE MISS C ON? OH, WE DID.
YOU KNOW WHAT JEFFREY? HOW YOU LET ME MISS THAT
DID I, DID I, EVERYBODY UP HERE, I'M SORRY WE DID NOT NOMINATION ELECTION OF CHAIR AND CO-CHAIR.
I'M NOT GONNA, I WON'T PUT THAT COMPLETELY ON YOU, JASMINE.
YOU'RE JUST HEAD NOMINATION, ELECTION OF CHAIR AND CO-CHAIR.
WHO WANTS TO BE CHAIR AND CO-CHAIR NEXT YEAR? STEVENS 2024.
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I'M NOT MAYOR ERIC STEVENS.MY TERM ENDS AT THE END OF THIS YEAR, SO THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE.
I THINK YOUR SEAT IS THE ONLY SEAT THAT'S SUB THIS YEAR.
FIREARMS IS THAT THIS YEAR? FIREARMS IS FIREARMS. OKAY.
I JUST GOT OFF THE COMMISSION.
HAS IT BEEN TWO YEARS? IT'S BEEN TWO YEARS.
UM, DO WE HAVE NOMINATION FOR CHAIR? I NOMINATE YOU.
ANY OTHER NOMINATIONS BY ME MEAN YOU DOING JUST FINE, RIGHT?
I MEAN, YOU AND MS. JEAN, THAT'S A BEST THING.
LET, I THINK WE NEED TO GO AHEAD AND VOTE ON THE CHAIR.
RIGHT? I HAVEN'T ACCEPTED THE NOMINATION.
I'M SAYING THAT'S, I'M SAYING NEED TO VOTE ON THE NOMINATION.
THERE NEEDS TO BE A NOMINATION.
THERE NEEDS TO BE A NO NOMINATION.
THEN THERE NEEDS TO BE A VOTE.
CAN WE MAKE A MOTION FOR YOU TO CONSIDER IT AND WE CIRCLE BACK? OR DOES IT HAVE TO BE LOCKED? IT'S, IT'S FINE.
SO WHAT ABOUT CO-CHAIR? I THINK YOU GOTTA TAKE CARE OF THE FIRST.
AND CHAIR FIRST, AND THEN CO-CHAIR.
IS THERE A MOTION TO, UM, NOMINATE
I WAS ABOUT TO SAY I CAN'T, I DON'T THINK I CAN.
WELL, JEFFREY WANTS A PROPER PROTOCOL FOR THIS.
YOU CAN MAKE THE MOTION VOTING FOR A CHAIR.
I CALL A MOTION FOR A NOMINATION FOR YOLANDA STEVENS FOR CHAIR OF THE COMMISSION FOR 2024.
HOW LONG PUT THAT ON THE INTERNET?
SO YOLANDA STEVENS WILL BE CHAIR MOVING FORWARD THROUGH 2024.
I, I WILL SAY
AND I AM A SINGLE MOM OF A KID THAT PLAYS SOCCER YEAR ROUND.
BUT I LOVE WHAT WE DO WITH MY HEART AND SOUL, AND I TRULY BELIEVE IN, IN OUR MISSION AND OUR PURPOSE.
AND I WOULD BE HAPPY TO CO-CHAIR WITH YOLANDA KNOWING THAT THE MORE TIRED I GET, THE MORE LOOPY I GET.
SO JUST, YOU'RE IN FOR A FUN RIDE SOME NIGHTS
I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE, UH, NOM, THAT WE, UM, WHAT MAKE A MOTION THAT WE NOMINATE, UH, TARA PUR IS, UH, VICE CHAIR OF THIS COMMISSION.
DAY GOING FORWARD IF WITH THE REST OF THIS YEAR IN 2024.
I AM ALSO GOING TO SAY THOUGH, THAT MY SON IS MY PRIORITY AND DURING HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER SEASON, HE IS MY PRIORITY IN HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER.
I TOTALLY, I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND.
IT'S, THAT'S, I'M SURE SOMEONE ELSE, I MEAN, LIKE, I LEFT MY HOUSE AT SIX 30 YESTERDAY MORNING AND GOT HOME AT 10 30 THE LAST NIGHT.
SO YOU PUT IT TO THE BOOK? YEAH.
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LOSE TRACK OF MY MIND.ANY IN OPPOSITION? ALRIGHT, MS. TARA PURVIS WILL BE CHAIR, CO-CHAIR.
UM, SO I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO PREFACE THANK YOU FOR PREFACING BECAUSE YOU ALL KNOW THAT I HAVE A MM-HMM.
UM, SO WE'LL HELP EACH OTHER OUT AND THEN IF ANYTHING HAPPENS, WE HAVE, DO YOU HAVE ERIC, ALL THESE OTHER PEOPLE ON THE DIET? IT'S BACK PROBABLY ENOUGH TO HAPPEN.
YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY CARRIES THE SAME LOAD IN SOME CAPACITY OR ANOTHER.
AND WE'LL KEEP MOVING IT FORWARD.
SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BRINGING US BACK AROUND TO THAT, CHRISTY.
WE JUST GONNA SKIP RIGHT OVER THAT.
REALLY? WELL, I DIDN'T KNOW I MADE A MENTAL, I MADE A MENTAL NOTE.
I FEEL LIKE YOU WERE GETTING READY TO WRAP UP AND I, I WAS, I WAS.
BECAUSE I DIDN'T GET THE TO MY MENTAL NOTE.
SO OUR NEXT MEETING DAY IS NOVEMBER THE SECOND, UM, CHAIR WILL BE SENDING OUT A MESSAGE TO THOSE WHO VOLUNTEERED FOR THE, WHAT'S IT? THE M L K MM-HMM.
THAT'S PERFECT TO START WORKING TOWARD THAT AND WHAT THAT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE.
SO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THAT FOR A MEETING.
OUR MEETING IS ADJOURNED AT NINE 13.