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[ AGENDA CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZEN ACTION COMMISSION City Hall - Council Chambers 6131 Taylorsville Road December 7, 2023 7:00 P.M. ]
UM, IT IS SEVEN OH SIX AND WE WILL CALL THE DECEMBER MEETING OF THE CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZENS ACTION COMMISSION.TO ORDER WE GET A ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
UM, LET THE MINUTES REFLECT THAT, UH, MRS. STEVENS IS EXCUSED FOR THE MEETING.
UM, NEXT WE WILL, UM, SWEAR IN OUR NEWEST MEMBER, DR. OWENS.
WHAT'S YOUR FIRST NAME? I APOLOGIZE, CORY.
LOOKED QUITE THAT, UH, SO MR. COREY OWENS, DOCTOR CORY OWENS HAS JOINED THE CULTURAL DIVERSITY CITIZENS ACTION COMMISSION.
UM, WE WILL SWEAR HIM IN THIS EVENING, FOLLOWED BY, UM, SWEARING, UH, MR. BULA LEAVE BACK IN AGAIN ON THE PERMISSION.
SO THANK YOU FOR EXTENDING, UM, YOUR TIME WITH US.
IF YOU MIND
UM, DO YOU HAVE TO DO THE, JUST LET HIM REPEAT.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE YOU REPEAT AFTER ME.
CO OWENS DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR OR AFFIRM DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR OR AFFIRM TO SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES TO SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF OHIO, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF OHIO, THE CHARTER AND ALL ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF COOPER HEIGHTS, THE CHARTER AND ORDINANCES.
ALL ORDINANCES AND ALL ORDINANCES OF, AND THAT I WILL FAITHFULLY, HONESTLY, AND IMPARTIALLY.
AND THAT I WILL FAITHFULLY, HONESTLY, AND IMPARTIALLY DISCHARGE THE DUTIES OF MY OFFICE.
DISCHARGE THE DUTIES OF MY OFFICE TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITIES.
I BYRON ULA, I BYRON, DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR OR AFFIRM YOU SOLEMNLY SWEAR OR AFFIRM TO SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES TO SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF OHIO, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF OHIO, THE CHARTER AND ALL ORDINANCES, THE CHARTER AND ALL ORDINANCE OF THE CITY, OF C HEIGHTS OF THE CITY OF HEIGHTS.
AND THAT I WILL FAITHFULLY, HONESTLY, AND IMPARTIALLY.
AND THEN I WILL FAITHFULLY, HONESTLY, PARTIALLY DISCHARGE THE DUTIES OF MY OFFICE.
DISCHARGE THE DUTIES OF MY OFFICE TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITIES.
MOVING ON TO THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM NOVEMBER 2ND MEETING.
WERE THERE ANY CHANGES TO, WELL, DID EVERYBODY GET A CHANCE TO REVIEW THE MINUTES AND WERE THERE ANY CHANGES AND CHANGE I NEED TO BE TAKEN OFF THE PRESENT LIST.
OH,
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FROM LAST ONE.WAS THAT THE ONLY CHANGE?
CAN WE GET A MOTION TO APPROVE NOVEMBER 2ND MEETING MINUTES WITH THE REQUEST OF CHANGE? MADAM VICE CHAIR.
I MOVE THAT WE ACCEPT THE NOVEMBER 2ND, 2003 CULTURE DIVERSITY CITIZENS ACTION COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES WITH THE ONE, UM, CHANGE SECOND.
WE DON'T NEED, WE NEED ROLL CALL FOR THAT.
UM, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE, UM, ONE AMENDMENT UNDER OLD BUSINESS.
UM, WE NEED TO, UM, DEAL WITH THE EX OFFICIO LANGUAGE, UM, UNDER OLD BUSINESS.
I GUESS WE COULD JUST ADD THAT BEFORE MLK DAY AND JUST GET THAT TAKEN CARE OF.
REAL QUICK, IS THERE ANYBODY WHO WOULD LIKE TO MAKE ANY OTHER CHANGES TO YOU THAT ARE THE AMENDMENT THE AGENDA? HOLY HELL.
EITHER WAY WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT.
UM, OUR CHOICES ARE TO VOTE AS A COMMISSION TO REVOKE THE PRIOR APPOINTMENT OR TO LEAVE IT TO AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT FROM THE CHAIR OR VICE CHAIR IN THIS CAPACITY, UM, THAT THE ACTION WASN'T VALID.
SO WHICH OF THE TWO WAYS WOULD YOU GUYS LIKE TO GO ABOUT THIS? OR DO WE HAVE OPINIONS? I HAVE A QUESTION.
UM, AT THE TIME THAT THE RESOLUTION WAS REVIEWED AND APPROVED, WHO, WHO APPROVED THE LANGUAGE INITIALLY TO STATE THAT THE EXHIBITION MEMBER DOES NOT NEED TO BE A RESIDENT FOR THE CITY OF PEOPLE HEIGHTS? I JUST WANNA GET SOME CLARIFICATION ON THAT.
THAT WAS ONE QUESTION I HAD PER, IF ANYONE CAN RECALL THAT DURING THE TIME OF THE COMMISSIONS, UM, ESTABLISHING THE CONVERSATION THAT I REMEMBER SURROUNDING THE EX OFFICIO WAS JUST THAT IF SOMEBODY HAD SPECIALIZED SKILLS THAT WE COULDN'T SOURCE FROM WITHIN THE COMMUNITY, THEN THEREFORE THAT IT COULD BE SOMEBODY FROM OUTSIDE OF THE COMMUNITY.
UM, BUT THAT WAS MORE DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE CCRB LANGUAGE AND THE USE OF NO, IT WASN'T, I TAKE THAT BACK.
UM, THAT WAS IN REGARDS OF USING AN EX OFFICIO MEMBER OF THE NAACP TO ADVISE AND TO HELP OUR COMMISSION.
UM, BUT SINCE THAT TIME, UM, THERE ARE NO OTHER CITY COMMISSIONS USING EX OFFICIO MEMBERS, UM, THAT WE ARE MADE AWARE OF TONIGHT.
UM, AND THEN THE CCRB LANGUAGE, THE DIFFERENCE, OR THE, THE CAVEAT BETWEEN THE CCRB LANGUAGE AND THE EX OFFICIO LANGUAGE FOR OUR COMMISSION IS THE EX C OFFICIO MEMBERS AND THE CCRB LANGUAGE ARE APPOINTED BY CITY MANAGER OR THE POLICE CHIEF AND NOT BY THE COMMISSION THEMSELVES.
AND THAT'S JUST, JUST, YOU'RE ALMOST THERE.
JUST THAT THE EXOFICIAL MEMBERS ARE ONLY APPOINTED BY CITY COUNCIL.
WELL, THAT WASN'T STATED AT THE TIME IN THE RESOLUTION.
WHICH, IF THAT WAS THE INTENT OF CITY COUNCIL MM-HMM.
SO WHAT WE DO IS JUST MAKE A RECOMMENDATION.
AS A, SO THAT WAS A RECOMMENDATION,
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BUT WE INITIALLY HAVE TO ACTUALLY PUT HER BACK ON THE COMMISSION.BUT IT WAS, IT WAS JUST A RECOMMENDATION THAT, THAT WE RECOMMENDATION TO HAVE PLACE BACK ON.
AND I, AND, AND I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT.
I THINK IT WAS JUST, IF I'M RECALLING, I THINK IT WAS A RECOMMENDATION TO APPOINT HER AS EX ENT MEMBER, UM, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN.
SO THAT'S ALL WE COULD DO WAS MAKE CORRECT.
I MEAN, COULD, COULD, COULD THE CHAIR GO AS EASY AS, HEY, WE'RE AVOIDING THE RECOMMENDATION.
I MEAN, WOULD THAT, WOULD THAT BE SUFFICE FOR YOU GUYS RATHER THAN THE OUT ALL OUT VOTE? I MEAN, IN, IN MY OPINION, I GUESS MY, I GUESS MY QUESTION IS IF WE HAVE NO TECHNICALLY NO AUTHORITY TO PLACE ANYONE ON THE COMMISSION, AND ALL WE NEED AUTHORITY WE HAVE IS TO RECOMMEND, AND I JUST, I JUST HAVE QUESTION WHY IS THERE EVEN THE NEED TO DISCUSS THIS ANY FURTHER OR TO TRY TO REVOKE WHAT WE ALREADY RECOMMENDED? 'CAUSE THE DECISION, LIKE SAID, THIS CASE IS LEFT WITH CITY COUNCIL, THEY'VE MADE A DECISION.
OR THE CITY MADE A DECISION THAT MR. PERSON CANNOT SERVE.
SO WOULD, I WOULD THINK THAT IT SHOULD BE DONE THERE, RIGHT? IT SHOULD BE, IT SHOULD BE.
THE DECISION IS MADE AND THEN IT'S DONE.
THERE'S, THERE'S, THERE'S NO OTHER, THERE'S NOTHING ELSE TO DO HERE.
THIS IS HOW I, IS HOW I VIEW IT.
I APPRECIATE THAT CLARIFICATION.
'CAUSE I DON'T THINK I REALIZED THAT, THAT I WASN'T HERE FOR THAT MEETING.
AND I DON'T REALIZE THAT, THAT I, I DID NOT REALIZE THAT THAT'S HOW IT WAS, HOW IT WENT DOWN, THAT IT WAS JUST A RECOMMENDATION THAT WAS MADE TO CITY COUNCIL, UM, MINUTES.
I JUST DON'T, I, IT'S BEEN A FEW MONTHS.
SO I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THE MOTION WAS AT THAT TIME.
DID WE, DO WE HAVE STRONG FEELINGS WITH JUST SAYING WE RECOGNIZED THAT THAT ACTION WASN'T VALID AND WE WILL JUST MOVE ON.
THAT WAS, I JUST DIDN'T WANT TO, YOU KNOW, MAKE DECISIONS FOR THE NINE OF US
UM, SO, SO IN SAYING THAT, I, I WILL RECOGNIZE, UH, THAT THE ACTION TAKEN IN OCTOBER 7TH WAS OCTOBER'S MEETING.
UM, TO RECOMMEND TO CITY COUNCIL, UM, TO APPOINT RHONDA SUMLIN AS AN EX-OFFICIO MEMBER, UM, WAS NOT VALID.
AND PLEASE REFLECT THAT IN THE MINUTES AND WE WILL MOVE ON.
ALRIGHT, WE'RE ON TO THE NEXT ONE.
CAN I JUST MAKE AN ON THE RECORD COMMENT PLEASE.
UM, I FEEL LIKE THIS ENTIRE SITUATION HAS BEEN SUPER SKETCH.
I'LL CLARIFY THAT
THIS IS JUST MY OPINION, BUT I JUST FEEL LIKE THAT THE HANDLING OF EVERYTHING REGARDING THIS HAS BEEN TWISTED AND TURNED AND CONTORTED AND MANIPULATED TO THE POINT WHERE I AM SO CONFUSED THAT IT'S JUST CRAZY.
I JUST WANT THAT NOTED THAT I FEEL LIKE IT'S JUST, I DON'T AGREE WITH ANYTHING OF THIS
I MEAN, I DON'T, AND I'M NOT TRYING TO MAKE TROUBLE OR ANYTHING, BUT I, I JUST FEEL LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHAT, IF THIS WERE TO HAPPEN AGAIN, HOW'S IT GONNA BE HANDLED? NOTHING SEEMS TO BE SET IN STONE.
WELL, I WILL SAY THAT, SO THE IDEA OF THIS TERM OF EXOFFICIO MEMBER, THERE IS A CLEAR DEFINING USE TO HOW OR HOW IT CAN BE USED GOING FORWARD.
SO NOW THAT ALL BOARDS, WHEN IT COMES TO THE IDEA OF TRYING TO APPROVE OR RECOMMEND AN A NON-VOTING MEMBER AS AN EFFECTS, UH, EXIGENT MEMBER, IT, IT CANNOT HAPPEN.
THE ONLY WAY THAT THAT CAN HAPPEN MOVING FORWARD NOW IS THROUGH COUNCIL APPROVAL.
BUT WHY WEREN'T WE TOLD THAT MONTHS AGO WHEN
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THERE WAS THE LETTER FROM THE LAWYER ALMOST FORCING US TO TAKE OUR VOTE BACK? MM-HMM,I I I FEEL LIKE WE'RE FINDING OUT THINGS, BUT WELL AFTER THE FACT I, I UNDERSTAND AND YEAH.
I CAN, I I DON'T KNOW IF YOU JUST WANTED THAT LIKE, AND FORGIVE ME, IT'S NOT THE IDEA OF JUST YOUR 2 CENTS, BUT THE IDEA OF, I MEAN, DO YOU WANT A FURTHER EXPLANATION OR, I MEAN, WOULD YOU, LIKE, WOULD YOU GUYS ALL LIKE A FURTHER EXPLANATION OR, OR WHERE, WHERE IS, WHERE IS IT THAT YOU GUYS ARE STILL LIKE, YOU, YOU ARE STILL GETTING THAT LIKE LAX AND LIKE INFORMATION THAT ISN'T GETTING LIKE TO YOU GUYS WHEN IT COMES TO THIS TOPIC? I MEAN, I, I I THINK THAT'S THE IDEA OF LIKE, TRYING TO BE FAIR.
I, IN IN MY SENSE LIKE, IS IT, IS IT GOING BACK IN THE, LIKE THE INITIAL LETTER AND TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IT FROM THAT POINT OF VIEW? OR IS IT, YOU KNOW, TALKING TO, YOU KNOW, MR. ROGERS? I MEAN, WHERE, WHERE IS IT WHERE, YOU KNOW, WE CAN ALL BE ON A, I GUESS A EVENKI OR A BETTER, LIKE LANDING GOING INTO 2024? WELL, I GET THE FEELING THAT I'M THE ONLY ONE THAT'S BEEN CONFUSED.
SO I'M GOING TO JUST STOP THERE AND THERE'S NO FURTHER EXPLANATION THAT IS NEEDED.
THANK YOU THOUGH, FOR OFFERING.
AND IT WASN'T JUST, YEAH, WE'LL JUST STOP THERE.
I, I WANNA SAY, I DON'T THINK IT'S JUST YOU CHRISTIE, SO PLEASE DON'T FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE TO PULL BACK YOUR, YOUR VOICE OR YOUR OPINION ON THIS COMMISSION.
I, I THINK THE STRUGGLE STARTED BECAUSE IT BECAME AN ISSUE WHEN IT WAS US AND IT WASN'T AN ISSUE WHEN IT MAYBE HAD TO DO WITH ANOTHER COMMISSION.
AND MAYBE THAT'S OUR OWN PERSONAL FEELINGS, UM, AND FRUSTRATIONS WHEN IT COMES TO HOW THE CITY HAS HANDLED DEALING WITH THIS EXACT COMMISSION AND WHAT WE HAVE BROUGHT TO ATTENTION.
SO, SO MAYBE TO SAY IT THAT WAY, I'M NOT TRYING TO EXPOUND ON YOUR FEELINGS.
I JUST THINK THAT WE MAYBE COLLECTIVELY SHARE SOME CONFUSION ON WHY IT WAS AN ISSUE WHEN IT BECAME AN ISSUE AND IT WASN'T AN ISSUE PREVIOUSLY WITH THAT.
SO I THINK THAT'S, IF I CAN SAY, I THINK THAT'S WHERE MAYBE COLLECTIVELY WE ARE AT WITH THAT.
BUT WE ARE MAYBE I AM HOPEFUL NEW CITY MANAGER WITH NEW EVERYTHING THAT, THAT WE CAN START A NEW DAY AND, AND REBUILD THESE RELATIONSHIPS.
I JUST AGAIN, FEEL LIKE IT WAS REACTIONARY AT BEST, UM, THE WAY THAT, THAT THAT WENT DOWN.
LET'S GET TO MLK DAY 'CAUSE WE'VE HAD A LOT OF WORK.
UM, DO YOU MIND IF I START ON MLK DAY? UM, YOLANDA AND I, UM, HAVE BEEN KIND OF WORKING IN THE BACKGROUND AS WELL.
I MET WITH THE PRESIDENT, THE PRINCIPAL.
I MET WITH THE PRINCIPAL AT WAYNE HIGH SCHOOL IN, UH, MRS. BERRY, UM, ABOUT GETTING THE PROGRAM TOGETHER FOR THE MLK UM, DAY EVENT.
I HAVE STARTED THE RESERVATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, UM, BUILDING.
JEFFREY, DO YOU, DO YOU WANT ME TO SEND IT TO YOU OR DO YOU WANT TO SEND IT TO THE SCHOOL? EITHER WAY.
WELL, CAN YOU SEND IT TO ME BECAUSE WELL ENOUGH, THAT'S A LIE.
CAN YOU SEND IT TO HER AND SEE ME IN IT? I STARTED THE, I I STARTED THE RESERVATION TODAY AND I WAS GOING TO ATTACH THE INSURANCE POLICY, BUT I ATTACHED A GENERIC IT'S COMING, UM, DOCUMENT, WHICH FOR SOME REASON DIDN'T FLY, BUT THE CITY, I DON'T KNOW, UM,
SO AS SOON AS WE, UM, ARE ABLE TO GET THAT, WE CAN GET THE DOLLAR AMOUNT BECAUSE THERE IS A COST TO THAT RESERVATION TO THE COMMISSION.
OH, THEY, SO THEY WON'T RELEASE THAT UNTIL THEY HAVE THE, AND THAT COST INVOLVES OVERTIME DOUBLE TIME FOR THE AV AND THE CUSTODIAN.
WHICH, YOU KNOW, IT'S A HOLIDAY YOU ABSOLUTELY DESERVE TO GET PAID DOUBLE TIME.
I'M JUST PUTTING THAT OUT THERE AS PART OF THE QUOTE THAT IT'S DOUBLE TIME FOR THOSE STAFFING POSITIONS.
AND THEN JUST TO ADD ON TO THAT, 'CAUSE I KNOW I'M IN THE PROCESS TO MAKING SURE THAT FOR WHERE WE ARE, THE,
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WE GOT ROAD CLOSURE, UM, AND BARRICADES UP ALONG, UM, JAMESBURG TO GET YOU GUYS FROM, IF WE'RE CALLING WHERE WE INITIALLY LOCATION B SIDE MM-HMMUM, WHEN WILL, WHAT TYPE OF LIKE A COMMUNICATION STRATEGY IS THERE FOR THAT ROAD CLOSURE? SO, UM, SARAH, THE OPPOSITE.
SARAH WILLIAMS UHHUH, UM, I TALKED TO HER THIS WEEK ABOUT THAT.
SO, UM, WHAT WE'RE LOOKING ON IS, AND ME, LET ME MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE GOT THIS CORRECT.
SO, UM, I, I TALKED WITH THE CHAIR, UM, SOMETIME LAST WEEK BECAUSE I WAS TRYING TO GET THE UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT OUR DATES OR WHAT THE WHOLE LIKE, TIME, LOCATION, AND EVERYTHING WAS.
UM, SO I WAS GONNA GET THE FLYER MADE, UM, FOR YOU ALL.
HOWEVER, THAT, I GUESS YOU GUYS ARE GONNA DISCUSS THAT AGAIN TONIGHT.
UM, THE ISSUE IS WE JUST NEED TO CONFIRM THE COFFEE PART OF IT.
SO, SO WE CAN'T LIKE, SAY SOMETHING'S GONNA BE IN KIND IF IT'S NOT SO, SO, SO WE ARE FINED WITH, I HAVE A MOTION THAT CARRIE'S MLK DATE, UH, JANUARY THE 15TH, ARRIVE AT 9:30 AM WALK AT 10:30 AM PROGRAM AT 11:15 AM EVENT ENDS NOON ISH.
SO THE UNDERSTANDING IS I WILL GET THAT TO SARAH TOMORROW AND WE WILL MOVE FORWARD ON A FLYER.
UM, AND GETTING THAT PASSED OUT TO THE RESIDENTS OR, UM, OH, THAT WAS SOMETHING ELSE.
'CAUSE I KNOW I I WANNA SAY THE LAST TIME WE SPOKE MAYBE SOMETHING ABOUT, UM, US PUTTING SOMETHING ON THE KEY ADS.
UM, YEAH, WE'LL PUT A, UH OH, GO AHEAD.
I, I MISSPOKE IF, IF I DID AT ALL.
SO UNDERSTANDABLY SO THE KEY ADS ARE ONLY MEANT FOR CITY USAGE.
SO THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE'S A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN THE CITY PLUS THE SCHOOL PLUS OTHER ADVERTISEMENT LIKE ENTITIES THAT WOULD BE ALSO PARTNERING WITH, WITH YOU ALL.
WE CAN'T ADD FOR LIKE ADD FREE ADD FOR MY, WE CAN'T ADD FREE ADVERTISEMENT ALONGSIDE WITH THOSE OTHER BUSINESSES.
HOWEVER, WE CAN ADD, WE CAN ADD THE FLYER TO, LET ME MAKE SURE I GOT THAT RIGHT.
THERE'S A, THERE'S A SIGN THERE AND I'M MISSING, THERE'S ANOTHER ONE I CAN'T COME WITH RIGHT NOW, BUT I KNOW THERE'S ONE MORE, UM, ELECTRONIC, UM, POSTAGE AROUND THE CITY.
BUT THE MAIN ONE OBVIOUSLY IS THE KEY AD OFF OF CHAMBERSBURG AND TROY PIPE.
WE CAN'T USE THAT IF IT'S NOT JUST THE CITY STANDALONE.
WHAT ARE ALL, WHERE, WHERE ARE ALL THESE
SO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WOULD ALSO BE PUT, PUT ONTO THAT FLYER B SIDE WOULD ALSO BE PUT ONTO THAT FLYER.
UM, ANY OTHER LIKE, PARTNERSHIPS THAT WERE GONNA BE INVOLVED IN THE MLK EVENT WOULD BE ADDED TO THAT INITIAL FLYER IF IT WAS JUST THE CITY OF HUBBER HEIGHTS, UH, CULTURAL DIVERSITY LIKE COMMISSION IS THIS IN ONE OF THE, THE MANUALS, THE BOARD MISSION BOOKS? BECAUSE WE HAVE ADVERTISED ON KEY ADS FOR EVERY SINGLE EVENT WE HAVE HELD SINCE 2020.
WAS IT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF, WAS IT, WAS IT WITH ADDITIONAL PARTNERSHIPS? YES.
WE'VE PARTNERED WITH PREMIER HEALTH.
I JUST, MY FRUSTRATION IS IT'S NOT WITH YOU.
SO PLEASE, I'M JUST GONNA PREFACE IT WITH IT'S NOT WITH YOU.
IT IS LIKE WE'RE GETTING USED TO THIS CADENCE AND THIS, THIS WAY THAT WE'RE DOING THINGS AND THEN NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN IT'S, THIS HAS CHANGED AND THAT'S CHANGED AND YOU CAN'T USE THIS AND YOU'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S JUST NOT PRODUCTIVE TO WHAT WE ARE HERE TO SERVE THE CITY.
AND WE ARE HERE TO SERVE THE, THE CITY OVERALL.
WE'RE NOT WORKING AGAINST THE CITY.
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ALL OF THE CITY AND SURROUNDING AREAS AND TO HAVE THIS, WE'RE NOT GONNA ADVERTISE.AND SO I'M I'M GONNA PUSH BACK ON THAT.
AND I'M GONNA, AND I DON'T, I DON'T THINK IT'S THE LACK OF NOT TRYING TO ADVERTISE, IT'S JUST HOW MUCH ADVERTISING WE CAN DO.
I WILL LOOK INTO THAT AND YEAH, I MEAN IT'S JUST, AND AND SARAH MADE A GOOD POINT OF IF THERE'S SOMETHING WHERE WE COULD JUST TAKE OFF THOSE SPONSORSHIPS AND THEN THAT CAN, THAT CAN BE THE TRICK AND WE CAN PUT IT ON THE KEY ADS.
WE WILL SEE IF WE CAN DO THAT.
IT'S NOT A SPONSORSHIP PER SE.
THERE'S NO SPONSORS SPONSORSHIPS.
IF WE'RE PAYING OUT OF OUR BUDGET TO USE THE PACK AT THE CITY'S POOLS.
WHAT COULD YOU GUYS REMEMBER IF THAT WAS THE CASE LAST YEAR? DID I WAS HAVING KNEE SURGERY LAST YEAR.
SO I'M JUST GONNA PUSH BACK ON THAT.
IF IT, IF IT'S, IF IT'S AN O IT'S A NO.
I MEAN WHAT CAN WE DO? BUT I'M JUST, SO I'M NOT, WE PAYING YOU THE COFFEE WE'RE PAYING, WE ARE STILL WITH, WE HAVE TO, WE STILL HAVE TO GET WITH MIKE AT B SIDE ABOUT THAT.
BUT IT SEEMS LIKE HE IS IN AGREEMENT TO POSSIBLY A PURCHASE OF SOME AND AN IN-KIND DONATION OF SOME.
BUT THE PLAN IS STILL TO MEET THERE REGARDLESS AND START THE, THE PROGRAM THERE AND THEN WALK DOWN CHAMBERSBURG TO THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER.
SO ARE YOU SAYING JEFFREY, IF YOU HAVE A SPONSOR ON YOUR AD, YOU CAN'T PUT IT ON KEY? YEAH.
LIKE YEAH, IF IT'S, IF IT'S NOT JUST THE CITY, LIKE IF IT'S NOT JUST THE CITY AND SAY, I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS LIKE, I DON'T KNOW.
SO IF WE PAY FOR THE COFFEE, YOU PAY FOR THE SCHOOL AND THEY'RE NOT ON THE AD, THEN WE GO ON KEY AD.
FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, IF IT'S JUST THIS COMMISSION AND THEN LIKE THAT'S JUST PRINTED ON THE BOTTOM OF THE FLYER, WHEREVER IT, IN THEORY IT SHOULD BE ABLE TO GO ON THE KEY APP.
NOW IF YOU ADDED SAY LIKE A B SIDE PARTNERING WITH YOU GUYS, THEN FROM MY UNDERSTANDING IT'S A NO GO.
WE'LL WE'LL GET THAT FLUSHED OUT.
BUT WE NEED TO GET THAT DONE LIKE NOW ASAP WE NEED TO BE ADVERTISING NOW THIS IS A MONTH AWAY.
SO, UM, I, AS SOON AS I GET SOME INTERNET, I WILL SEND YOU THE FLYER WE HAVE AS DRAFT.
UM, IS THAT WHAT UPDATES THAT'S GOING FOR THIS YEAR? OH, UM, WE'RE SO WE'RE GOOD.
SO SARAH HAS, SO SARAH HAS IT, ME AND SARAH HAVE BEEN TALKING AND WAS JUST THE IDEA OF CONFIRMING TIME AND LOCATION.
UM, SO THE ONLY THING IT SAYS IS COFFEE PROVIDED BY THE SIDE COFFEE AND THEN IT HAS TAKE IT OFF THE CITY SYMBOL AND THE CITY SCHOOL SYMBOL LIKE IN THE CORNERS.
WHERE DOES IT SAY WE'RE MEETING? WHERE'S IT SURE.
WELL, WE'LL WE'LL FLUSH OUT THE DETAILS.
OH, CAN I CHIME IN JUST REALLY QUICK PLEASE.
I BELIEVE THAT ON YOUR PAPER FLYER YOU CAN CONTINUE TO LIST THOSE PARTNERS.
I THINK THE PROBLEM ARISES IS THAT WE DON'T GET FREE AD SPACE IF WE'RE ADVERTISING FOR A, LIKE A FOR PROFIT, RIGHT.
'CAUSE THE CITY DOESN'T OWN THE KEY.
BUT IF YOU'VE DONE KEY ADS IN THE PAST, THEN I'M SURE IT JUST WAS ON PART OF THE COMMISSION AND WE LEFT OFF THOSE PARTNERS.
AND SO I BELIEVE THAT WOULD RESOLVE THE ISSUE.
BUT WE CAN KEEP 'EM ON THE PAPER THAT YOU'RE HANDING OUT.
SO GOING BACK TO UM, TARA'S QUESTION EARLIER, IS THIS WRITTEN SOMEWHERE FOR ALL BOARDS OF COMMISSIONS TO BE AWARE OF WHEN THEY CHOOSE TO HAVE AN IN EVENT THAT WE'RE MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE FOLLOWING THESE GUIDELINES? I KNOW IT'S NOT IN THE HANDBOOK.
I BELIEVE IT WOULD PROBABLY BE IN THE WHATEVER AGREEMENT THAT WE HAVE THAT EXISTS WITH KEY AT.
SO, UM, WHEN THE SIGN WAS INSTALLED THAT THEY WOULD GIVE THE CITY HOW MUCH IN RETURN FOR ADVERTISING FOR OUR PROGRAMS AND EVENTS.
SO IT'S PROBABLY JUST LIKE A MISCOMMUNICATION AND, AND WHOEVER MANAGED THE AD IN THE PAST MAYBE DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE THAT THERE WAS A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE IN THE, THE POSTER.
BUT I'M SURE WE CAN FIND A RESOLUTION FOR IT.
JUST TAKE OFF THE BOTTOM OF THAT.
I JUST, THE, THE US VERSUS THAT WHOLE SEPARATION IS, IS STARTING TO REALLY LIKE GR ON MY SOUL.
ESPECIALLY OVERALL VOLUNTEERS FOR BE SAKES.
UM, OTHER MLK UPDATES, UM, JEAN AND CARLA AND MAYBE CHRISTIE, I BELIEVE WE'RE GOING TO WORK ON THE PROGRAM FOR MLKI
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THEY SOUND LIKE THEY WERE, DID I JUST VOLUNTOLD YOU ALL FOR THAT? WELL, I DO HAVE AN UPDATE IN REGARDS TO UM, MRS. LUCILE DALE UHHUH.'CAUSE WE DID TALK ABOUT LAST ME TO HAVE THE, UM, TO THE, I DID SPEAK TO HER AND SHE IS WILL BE WILLING TO DO IT.
BUT SHE NEEDS TO KNOW THE PROGRAM.
SHE WANTS TO SEE THE PROGRAM BEFOREHAND.
AND ALSO THE THING, THERE'S A P SHE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THAT INFORMATION BEFORE.
UM, BUT I, WHEN I SPOKE TO MRS. BERRY, SHE WAS GOING THROUGH THE SAME THING OF, OF WORKING WITH THE KIDS IN THE, UM, DIVERSITY GROUP AT THE HIGH SCHOOL TO DO PARTS OF THE PROGRAM.
UM, AND I BELIEVE MRS. LU WERE GONNA HAVE DO THE BEGINNING AT B SIDE, LIKE AN OPENING PRAYER OR STATEMENT.
NOW I, I WASN'T UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT WAS GONNA BE DONE AT THE PARK WHEN OKAY.
BUT, UM, YES I DID TALK TO HER ABOUT THAT AS FAR AS HER TALKING ABOUT HOW SHE AND HER LATE HUSBAND, MR. VINDALE, HOW THEY INITIATED THE OBSERVANCE OF, UM, MLK THROUGH A DINNER THAT WAS HELD IN THE CITY YEARS AGO.
SO SHE DEFINITELY WOULD SPEAK TO THAT.
SO, UM, YEAH, SHE, IF WE CAN COME WITH A PROGRAM AND I CAN SEND IT TO HER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, THAT'D BE GREAT FOR HER.
SO I WILL SEND, UH, MRS. BERRY AND PROBABLY MURDER HER NAME, UM, AN EMAIL TOMORROW AND I WILL LIKE CC US IN IT AND WE CAN GET THAT PART STARTED.
WE'RE GONNA GO PRETTY PRETTY CLOSE TO WHAT WE DID LAST YEAR.
I THOUGHT THAT FLOWED WELL AND IT, IT WENT WELL LAST YEAR.
WE HAVE NOT DONE ANYTHING WITH LIKE THE GLOVES, HAT DONATION PART OF THAT.
DO WE WANNA ADJUST THAT PART OF IT OR DO WE WANT TO TRY TO STILL DO THAT DONATION PIECE OF THAT? WE HAVE TO ADD THIS.
I THINK AT THIS POINT IT'S JUST ONE THING THAT WE HAVE TO TRY TO GET TOGETHER THAT I AGREE WAS GONNA OUS TOO.
GENTLEMEN, ANY FEELINGS ABOUT DITCHING THE DONATIONS OF GLOVES AND HATS AND STUFF? WE'LL GET ON IT EARLIER NEXT YEAR AND WE WILL, WE'RE GONNA DO A BIGGER NEXT YEAR.
SO WE'LL GET RID OF THAT DONATION PART AND THEN THAT MEANS AS SOON AS WE VERIFY THE COFFEE PART OF THIS AND PASTRIES DONUTS, DID YOU GET THAT PART? UM, IT'S TAKEN CARE OF.
I'LL SHOOT YOU AN EMAIL ABOUT THAT PART OF IT TOO.
SO I JUST NEED TO KNOW, UH, HOW MUCH YEAH, WE DON'T, WE'LL WE'LL SHOOT, FORGET 50 TO 75, 50.
I THINK 50 IS PROBABLY MORE THAN SUFFICIENT.
UM, ANYTHING ELSE FOR ML HAY? I AM.
LOOK AT MY NOTES AND I DON'T SEE WHERE I HAD THAT I WAS DOING.
I JUST PROGRAM THINK I JUST ADDED YOU IN BECAUSE YOU WEREN'T EVEN LAST MONTH.
I ONLY IF YOU WANT TO, IF YOU DON'T, IT'S UM, IF YOU'VE GOT A LOT GOING ON, DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT.
WE WILL, WE WILL TAG TEAM THAT AND REALLY IT'S NOT, THERE'S JUST NOT A TON TO IT.
UM, I KNOW WE NEEDED AV LAST YEAR 'CAUSE OF THE MUSIC AND THE, THERE WAS LIKE SPOKEN WORD AND STUFF.
SO ONCE WE, I'LL HAVE TO GET WITH HER.
MAYBE WE CAN TRY TO GET A MEETING NEXT WEEK SOMETIME.
WE REALLY DO NEED TO GET THAT.
I KNOW I WAS GONNA MAYBE WORK ON DOING LIKE A SAVE TODAY.
IT DOES GET TO JEFF LIKE WORKING ON THE ADVERTISING STUFF.
I THAT'S IT ALL GETS JUMBLED IN MY BRAIN SO I GUESS WE CAN USE WHAT WE USED IN YEARS PAST THAT AS A TEMPLATE.
LIKE WHO'S THE WHAT? THE MC? MM-HMM.
THOSE ARE THE TWO MAIN THINGS.
I CAN'T REMEMBER OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD BUT UM, IT'S IN THE GOOGLE DRIVE.
THE PROGRAM IS IN THE GOOGLE DRIVE FOR THE COMMISSION.
IT'S LIKE THE ONE PAGE THAT'S IN THERE IF YOU HAVE ACCESS TO IT.
IF NOT, WE'LL SEND IT BACK OUT.
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THE COMMISSION TO WORK ON THIS.I ALSO MADE MY NOTES SIGNS AT B SIDE TO DIRECT THEM TO THE SCHOOL.
GET THAT NAME OR IF IT SAYS SIGNS AT EAST SIDE TO DIRECT THEM TO WHERE TO GO.
I DUNNO IF THAT'S NECESSARY BECAUSE THE POLICE ARE GONNA HAVE THE WHOLE STREET BLOCK UNLESS IT'S SIGNS TO LIKE MEET HERE.
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? LIKE, BUT THERE WON'T BE ANYTHING ELSE PROBABLY IN THAT PARKING LOT THAT MORNING.
AND THEN I HAD UH, FACEBOOK KEY ADS AND A FLYER.
MM-HMM
WE HAVE, I MEAN WE HAVE A FLYER CREATED 'CAUSE I NEED TO GET IT OVER TO THE HIGH SCHOOL AND THEN SHE WAS GONNA SHARE IT WITH THE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND WE NEED TO ENSURE TO GET IT UP TO THAT LEVEL TOO.
ANYTHING ELSE? OUR LAST BIG TIME TO PREP FOR MLK BEFORE JANUARY'S MEETING.
UM, MADAM VICE CHAIR WHO WILL BE WILLING TO ASSIST IN THE UM, PROGRAM AS FAR AS REVIEWING THE DRAFT.
ERIC, IT'S FUNNY 'CAUSE I SAID ERIC BUT I WROTE YOUR NAME AND NOT
UM, WELL YOU'D BE WILLING TO DO THE PRAYER.
THEY HAD AN OPENING PRAYER LIKE YOU USUALLY DO FOR US AND STUFF.
WE'LL GO AND TOLD YOU FOR A COUPLE POSITIONS.
OH THAT'S, YOU KNOW, OR YOLANDA, SOMEBODY NEEDS MC.
IF YOU DON'T VOLUNTEER YOU'RE GONNA GET ASSIGNED.
IF YOU DON'T VOLUNTEER YOU WILL GET AN ASSIGNED DUTY
SO WHAT I CAN DO FOR THOSE OF US WHO'S GONNA REVIEW THE DRAFT, I CAN SCHEDULE A ZOOM FOR
ADDITIONAL TASK GROUP UPDATES.
WE HAVEN'T HAD A LOT OF MOVEMENT ON ANYTHING OTHER THAN THAT.
UM, DO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT OUR MEETING WITH DR. CARTER OR CHRISTIE? THAT WAS SO AWESOME THAT SET THAT UP.
HEY, BEFORE WE STARTED THAT WHOLE UM, MOVING ON.
I WANTED TO GET UH, SARAH OPPORTUNITY TO KIND OF, OH I'M SO SORRY.
YEAH, SHE JUST TAKES IT TODAY.
WE WERE JUST GONNA GO RIGHT OFF.
SO YEAH, I WANTED TO GET SARAH BEFORE, SO HERE YOU GO.
I MET YOU ALL BEFORE THE MEETING BUT MY NAME IS SARAH MCPHERSON AND I'M THE NEW PARKS MANAGER FOR THE CITY OF HUBER HEIGHTS.
UM, AND I'M HERE PRIMARILY TO ONE.
YOU HAVE A FACE WITH A NAME AND YOU HAVE MY INFO SO THAT YOU CAN REACH OUT TO ME.
AND THEN SECONDLY ALSO JUST TO REVISIT YOUR JUNETEENTH MUSIC FESTIVAL AND YOUR MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL UHHUH AND JUST ENSURE THAT I HAVE THOSE DATES CORRECTLY BECAUSE WE ARE STARTING TO BOOK THE MOVIES AND THE CONCERT SERIES AND OTHER USER GROUPS COMING IN.
AND SO I WANNA MAKE SURE I HAVE YOUR DATES HELD.
UM, I CURRENTLY HAVE JUNETEENTH ON THE 16TH OF JUNE AND THEN ON THE 22ND OF JUNE THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL.
ARE THOSE STILL THE DATES YOU INTEND TO DO? THAT IS CORRECT.
BECAUSE THERE WAS SOME DEBATE ABOUT THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL BUT I THINK WE'RE GONNA JUST LEAVE IT THE WAY IT IS.
IS THERE A MOTION THAT NEEDS TO BE MADE FOR THAT OR IS THAT NO, YOU DID IT.
OH, YOU'VE ALREADY SAID THOSE NEEDS.
UM, AND THEN ALSO AS I SAID, I AM ALSO BOOKING THE BANDS AND I KNOW YOU GUYS DO A LOT OF MUSIC FOR THESE FESTIVALS.
I'M UM, NEW TO BOOKING BANDS THOUGH WE DID HAVE SOME OF MY PREVIOUS UM, JOB BUT IT WAS NEVER MY
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ROLE TO BOOK THEM.SO I AM TAKING RECOMMENDATIONS.
SO PLEASE IF YOU HAVE A LOCAL BAND THAT YOU'RE PASSIONATE ABOUT OR EVEN ONE THAT MIGHT BE LIKE TOURING THROUGH CONVENIENTLY, UM, YOU HAVE MY EMAIL ADDRESS THERE AND I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU.
I'LL DEFINITELY BE WORKING ON THAT IN THE MONTH OF JANUARY.
SO YOU'LL BE HANDLING THE CONTRACTS FOR US? I CAN, YES I CAN.
I'LL BE DOING THE OTHERS FOR THE CITIES SO I CAN WORK WITH YOU ON THAT.
AND HE IS ON THE JEFFREY AND YOU? YEAH.
HAVE YOU VOLUNTEERED TO TAKE LEAD ON JUNE TEAM? I TOLD YOU'RE TOLD TO TAKE THE LEAD ON ON JUNE TEAM LOVE IT.
SOMETIMES WE GOTTA TURN LITTLE WRIST TURN LITTLE RISKS.
WELL WITH THAT THEN I'M JUST GONNA BID YOU A DO FOR THE EVENING AND I'LL CATCH ON THE MINUTES AND I LOOK FORWARD TO TALKING MORE ABOUT THOSE TWO EVENTS IN THE FUTURE TOGETHER.
I DIDN'T MEAN TO SKIP RIGHT PAST YOU AND OH NO, IT'S NO WORRIES.
UM, WELL ERIC'S GOING TO TAKE A LEAD ON GETTING JUNETEENTH KICKED OFF.
I THINK WE'RE JUST GOING TO UM, MAYBE NEXT MONTH I WOULD LIKE TO GET THE TASK GROUPS DONE FOR THESE THINGS SO WE CAN GET THE REQUEST FOR VENDORS AND REQUEST FOR FOOD TRUCKS DONE IN JANUARY.
I THINK THAT'S A GOOD TIME TO GET THINGS KICKED OFF FOR JUNE.
UM, AND THEN TO LOOP AROUND, I GUESS BACK TO THE EDUCATION UNLESS ANYBODY ELSE HAD UPDATES FOR GMT OR MULTICULTURAL.
JUST TO CONFIRM, WE DO HAVE A LIBRARY ON BOARD FOR THE CULTURAL FEST FOR A VENDOR OR FOR LIKE A, FOR LIKE A TABLE MAYBE.
UM, I MEAN WE CAN UH, ARRANGE ARRANGE TIME OR SO IN AND MAYBE TALK WITH CAROL UM, AND SEE WHAT THE STAFF IS WILLING TO DO.
THEY DO, DO, ARE WE GONNA HAVE LIKE A KIDS AREA? I MEAN MAYBE THEY COULD DO SOMETHING WITH THE KIDS OR DO A STORY TIME.
YOU KNOW SOMETHING MY DAD IS WITHIN THEIR REAL HOUSE FOR SURE.
UM, I THINK WE JUST, I NEEDED TO MAYBE CONFIRM ALSO WITH HER THE TIME THAT THE MULTICULTURAL CULTURAL TEST WAS GONNA BE, WE DECIDE ON THE TIME.
NO, I FEEL LIKE WE TALKED ABOUT STARTING AT EARLIER AND THEN ENDING AN HOUR EARLIER.
LOT OF US CAN GET TO OUR MINUTES FAST ENOUGH.
I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT A COUPLE DIFFERENT TIMES.
WE, I THINK ONLY THE ONLY TIME THAT I HAVE IS JUNETEENTH FESTIVAL AND THAT TIME 4:00 PM TO EIGHT.
OKAY, WELL WE'LL HER UPDATE GO THROUGH.
UM, AND I THINK I'M REALLY ASKING, 'CAUSE YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT THE BRANCHES DO THEIR SCHEDULES QUITE A BIT OUT FOR STAFF AND STUFF SO.
MM-HMM
UM, ALSO, ARE WE INTERESTED IN TRYING TO SEE IF WE CAN GET THE BOOK DEAL TO COME TO THE, THAT'S OUTSIDE OF THE
ARE WE ON ONBOARD MAYBE WITH THAT? YEAH, I WOULD LIKE TO REACH OUT COMPLETELY OVERHAUL HOW WE DID THE KIDS AREA.
SO MORE STUFF LIKE THAT, LESS OF WHAT WE DID LAST TIME.
WELL I KNOW THE BOOK REVEAL LOOKS OUT PRETTY FAR.
UM, SO I WILL SEND AN EMAIL ACTUALLY TOMORROW.
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THAT'D BE WONDERFUL.UM, TO SEE IF WE CAN GET THAT GOING.
AND IT JUST AS A PERSONAL NOTE AND I'D LOVE TO SEE IF WE COULD GET COSMO AND PIT THE LIBRARY MASCOTS TO SHOW UP, BUT I DON'T KNOW, WE'LL HAVE TO
I DIDN'T KNOW THE LIBRARY HAD MASCOTS.
SO AT LEAST, UM, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, THEY'RE ON BOARD, UM, AND TAKING SOME PART OF THAT.
UM, AND IT'S BEEN CONFIRMED WITHIN THAT BECAUSE THEY'RE NONPROFIT, THERE WILL BE NO VENDOR FEE.
RIGHT? I BELIEVE THAT WAS THE CASE.
IS THAT WHAT I TOLD YOU? YES,
IS THAT, I BELIEVE THAT'S HOW WE, I MEAN OF COURSE THAT CAN BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
'CAUSE I HEARD THAT WE WERE GONNA HAVE TO MAYBE CHARGE PEOPLE MORE.
OH RIGHT, WE TALKED ABOUT THAT.
BUT IF, IF AT ANYTHING IT'LL BE MINIMAL.
IF IF IT'S ANYTHING AND IF IF IT'S MINIMAL AND IT'S A PROBLEM, I'LL PAY FOR IT.
SO AT LEAST SHE'S, SHE KNOWS THE DATE.
SO WE'VE GOT WE'VE GOT THAT AND YEAH.
I HAVE, DO WE WANNA SHARE MR. CARTER UNDER PARTNERSHIP UPDATES THEN? OR UNDER EDUCATION? I LOST MY NOTES.
WELL, I MEAN I CAN GO OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
UM, FABULOUS MEETING WITHIN BY, YEAH.
WE HAD A QUICK CONVERSATION WITH MR. CARTER FROM SINCLAIR COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
HE'S THE ARE WE DONE WITH THE, I'M SORRY.
ARE WE DONE? MULTI CULTURAL JUNE TEAM.
ANYBODY? ANYTHING ELSE? THAT'S IT.
ONE, UM, JEFFREY, CAN WE FIND OUT WHAT IS THE BUDGET FOR UM, JUNETEENTH AND HERE'S THE REASON WHY.
WE NEED TO KNOW HOW MUCH WE CAN PAY BANDS BECAUSE SO FAR I'VE REACHED OUT TO UM, I THINK IT'S PREMIUM WIND THAT TOOK CARE OF THE SOUND FOR US.
SO THEY DID THE SOUND FOR JUNETEENTH AND UM, MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL.
UM, WE UTILIZED, UM, DAVID WEBB LAST YEAR.
SO, UH, THERE WILL BE, IF WE WANT HIS ASSISTANCE AND HELP AS FAR AS UH, ADVERTISING AND THINGS LIKE THAT, THERE WILL BE A FEE FOR THAT.
SO WE NEED TO WORK THOSE THINGS INTO OUR BUDGET AND THEN ALSO KNOW WHAT IS GONNA BE LEFT SO THAT WE CAN PAY THE BANDS SO THAT WE KNOW WHAT WE HAVE SET ASIDE JUST FOR JUNETEENTH.
I DON'T, SO, SO TOTAL, I THINK THE NUMBER'S 15.
I WOULD, NO, I DON'T WANT TO THINK IT IS 15, IT'S 15,000.
THAT'S SAYS SET ASIDE FOR THIS COMMISSION.
UM, I'D HAVE TO PULL AN EXPENSE REPORT.
LET'S SEE EXACTLY HOW MUCH YOU GUYS SPENT LAST YEAR FOR JUNETEENTH.
ARE WE JUST TALKING JUNETEENTH OR ARE WE TALKING ABOUT BOTH JUNETEENTH? OKAY.
I CAN PULL THAT EXPENSE REPORT AND I CAN GIVE YOU GUYS A NUMBER OF THE EXEC, LIKE EXACT PEOPLE THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, UM, EQUIPMENT PERSONNEL.
UM, WE CAN GIVE THOSE NUMBERS AND THEN I GUESS YOU GUYS CAN RUN BACK AND TRY TO SAY, OKAY, HEY THIS IS WHERE WE, THIS IS THE TOTAL THAT WE DID LAST YEAR.
UM, I COULD DO THAT SOON AND GIVE THAT TO YOU GUYS.
SO WE'RE STARTING OFF THE YEAR RIGHT NEXT YEAR.
UM, AND THEN I I I WILL, I WILL SAY THAT YOU GUYS DON'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY FOR, FOR, UM, THE JUNETEENTH FESTIVAL.
'CAUSE I KNOW YOU SAID THAT YOU WANTED TO ADD THE BANDS, UM, BUT I THINK THERE'LL BE ENOUGH MONEY IN THERE.
AND THE REASON IS, SO WHAT I'D LIKE TO TRY TO DO IS GET THE BANDS SITUATED IN JANUARY.
SO LET'S GET THOSE CONTRACTS DONE WITH THOSE.
DO YOU HAVE A QUOTE FOR THEM OR ARE YOU JUST TRYING TO GET THE NUMBER NOW? I NEED TO FIND OUT SO I KNOW WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE HAVE TO NEGOTIATE.
SO THAT'S GONNA HELP ME DETERMINE, YOU KNOW, IF I GOT A THOUSAND DOLLARS, I CAN'T GO GET A 20 PIECE ORCHESTRA, RIGHT? SO WE NEED TO FIND OUT WHAT MONEY WE HAVE SO THAT WE CAN TARGET WHAT ARTISTS WE CAN AFFORD SO WE'RE NOT WASTING THEIR TIME NOR OUR TIME.
UM, THAT IS WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO.
SO THAT WE CAN GET THE CONTRACTS DONE, UH, IN JANUARY.
UM, AND TO MY UNDERSTANDING, WE CAN'T SIGN ANY RETAIL VENDORS OR FOOD VENDORS UNTIL, I THINK IT'S THE BEGINNING OF FEBRUARY WHEN THOSE CONTRACTS COME OUT.
SO IF YOU GUYS HAVE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS OF FOLKS THAT YOU WANT TO USE, UH, LET'S TRY TO GET THOSE DONE SO THAT COME FEBRUARY WE CAN GO AHEAD AND PUT THAT CALL OUT.
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MEAN THE REQUEST FOR FOOD TRUCKS? FOOD TRUCKS, YEAH.SO, UM, WE HAVE TO, WE CAN DO THOSE STARTING 'CAUSE I THINK THERE'S A, A NEW CONTRACT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
I GUESS THAT'S FOR THE RETAIL VENDORS AND THE FOOD VENDORS.
SO, UM, TO TRY TO GET THAT OUT TO THOSE FOLKS SO THAT WE COULD GET THEM TO GET THAT SITUATED, GET THAT ALL TAKEN CARE OF.
WE, IT'S JUST A GOOGLE SHEET THAT WE USED, UH, TO SEND OUT THAT REQUEST FOR VENDORS AND THEN IT COMES BACK INTO YOUR GOOGLE SHEETS.
SO I'LL UPDATE IT FOR NEXT YEAR AND I'LL SEND YOU THOSE GOOGLE SHEETS AND, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO TAKE A LEAD ON ALL OF IT.
LIKE WE CAN DO THE FOOD TRUST AND THE BENEFITS.
WELL SARAH WAS GONNA HELP US OUT WITH THAT.
SO SHE HAS THE VENDORS FOR THIS YEAR.
UM, BECAUSE WHAT THE CITY IS PLANNING ON DOING IS SENDING THAT OUT TO UM, AND WE CAN SELECT IT TO THE FOLKS THAT WE WANT TO TARGET FOR JUNE.
TEAM CAN OBVIOUSLY PUT A MULTICULTURAL PERSON FOR OBVIOUS REASONS, BUT THEY CAN DO SO THAT EVERYTHING'S UNDER THEIR, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER PERMIT FEE, ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF.
SHE CAN JUST PUT THAT CALL OUT.
THEREFORE THEY CAN ALL COME BACK.
THEY CAN HANDLE THE FUNDING OF IT.
WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT IN THE MIDDLE OF TRYING TO TRACK DOWN PAYMENTS.
I I DON'T, I DON'T RUN BACK INTO THAT.
SO LAST YEAR, THAT LAST YEAR THIS SYSTEM THEY USED WAS NOT RUN BY THEM.
WHO WAS THAT RUN BY? I THINK THESE GUYS, THAT GOOGLE SHEET WE TALKING ABOUT THAT WASN'T OH THAT WASN'T FAIR.
OH RHONDA WAS ISSUING THE CONFIRMATION CODES AND EVERYTHING.
I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THAT.
I'M NOT GONNA, I'M GOOD WITH IT.
SO THEREFORE, THEREFORE, YOU KNOW, EVEN WHEN IT COMES TO THE CONTRACTS FOR THE UM, THE ART AND THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE, THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT WE HAVE SO THAT THE CITY HAS PROPER TIME TO PAY.
YOU KNOW I'M SAYING TO GET THE CONTRACT TOGETHER BECAUSE THE WAY THAT THE CITY DOES IT AND WE DEFINITELY WANNA MAKE SURE WE TARGET LOCAL ARTISTS BECAUSE THE WAY THEIR CONTRACT READS IS THAT IF YOU DON'T PERFORM, WE DON'T GET PAID.
SO OBVIOUSLY WE DON'T WANT TO TRY TO GET SOMEBODY THAT'S GOTTA TRAVEL A LONG TIME IF IT RAINS OUT OR WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE.
WE DON'T WANT TO BE IN A BAD SITUATION, UH, WHEN IT COMES TO THAT.
BUT WE DEFINITELY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GET AN ARTIST OF OUR CHOICE AND NOT JUST, WELL THIS PERSON WAS JUST AVAILABLE SO THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE.
SO I THINK IF WE CAN GET ALL THAT, IT'S A LOT OF THINGS TO GET DONE, BUT I JUST THINK IF WE GET IT ALL DONE EARLY, IT'S NOT A HEADACHE, IT'S NOT A HASSLE.
THE PROGRAM WILL COME OFF FINE.
UM, I THINK FOR JUNETEENTH WE DEFINITELY NEED A EDUCATIONAL PIECE.
UM, SO JEAN, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IF WE COULD COME UP WITH SOMETHING EITHER WITH UM, THE STUDENTS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL OR MAYBE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A PERFORMING ARTS GROUP THAT WE NEED TO REACH OUT TO.
SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DEDICATE AND JUST START THE PROGRAM OFF WITH WHAT IS JUNETEENTH.
IT'S NICE TO HAVE A CELEBRATION BUT WHY DO WE HAVE THIS CELEBRATION? RIGHT, EXACTLY.
SO I THINK WE SHOULD START THE PROGRAM OFF WITH THAT.
UM, RHONDA HAS ALREADY VOLUNTEERED TO SING LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING FOR US.
SO WE COULD DO THAT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PROGRAM AS WELL.
UM, AND THEN WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO IS FIND ONE OF OUR YOUTH, UM, IN OUR AREA THAT'S, UH, AN ARTIST.
UM, AND LET'S FEATURE THEM, GIVE THEM 10 OR 15 MINUTES TO KIND OF SHOWCASE THEIR TALENT AND THEN NOW WE CAN GET INTO THE PAID ARTIST THAT WE HAVE.
SO I THINK WE CAN DO A GOOD JOB WITH IT.
UH, I THINK WE SHOULD DEFINITELY MOVE IT FIVE TO NINE INSTEAD OF FOUR TO EIGHT.
KIND OF GET OUT OF THE SUN A LITTLE BIT.
UM, I THINK FOUR HOURS IS GOOD ENOUGH BECAUSE NOW YOU CAN TRIM THAT DOWN TO PROBABLY LIKE TWO BANDS TO PERFORM MAYBE LIKE AN HOUR AND 15 MINUTES, YOU KNOW, HOUR AND A HALF A PIECE.
AND THEN THE OTHER STUFF WE CAN FILL IN WITH OUR EDUCATIONAL PIECE AND THE LOCAL ARTISTS, UM, AND RDA, YOU KNOW, AND THEN THEY GET THE PROGRAM KIND OF ROLLING ABOUT FIVE 30.
GIVE PEOPLE A CHANCE TO GET IN, UM, THAT KIND OF DEAL.
UM, I'LL REACH OUT TO UM, I THINK IT'S THE EXPLORERS GROUP WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
AND TRY TO HAVE THOSE, UH, SEE IF WE CAN GET THEM TO HANDLE THE TRAFFIC AND PARKING FOR US.
UH, SO THAT WE HAVE SOME ORGANIZATIONAL FOLKS ARE COMING IN TO PARK THAT KIND OF DEAL.
UH, WE'LL NOT UTILIZE THE BEER GARDEN THIS TIME.
I DON'T THINK THAT HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL FOR US.
I GO DOWN THAT ROAD THIS YEAR.
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ARE YOU SAYING THAT, OF COURSE IN THE PAST WE'VE HAD EDUCATIONAL SEPARATE EDUCATION PIECE SEPARATE YOU SAYING THAT YOU SEPARATE EDUCATIONAL FESTIVAL.YEAH, I, I THINK HONESTLY THAT WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE.
ESPECIALLY A LOT OF PEOPLE AS YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T KNOW THE TRUE ORIGIN OF UT.
SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE A GOOD EDUCATIONAL PIECE TO PARADE INTO
SO ANOTHER IDEA FOR THAT WEEK TWO FOR NOT NECESSARILY AN EDUCATIONAL FORUM.
NO, NO, BUT ANOTHER IDEA, UM, WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WITH MR. CARTER WAS SOMETHING ELSE THAT WE COULD DO DURING THAT WEEK INSTEAD LIKE BOOK READING.
WHAT ABOUT RICE STATE? LIKE DEPARTMENT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES OR SOMETHING LIKE ONE OF THE PROFESSORS OR IN SINCLAIR? 'CAUSE THAT'S WHAT YEAH, SOMEBODY COMES TO
SOMETIMES MAYBE THEY HAVE SOMEONE WHO CAN TALK ABOUT IT.
I WAS THAT BUT I CENTRAL STATE.
ONLY THE MIDWEST IN OUR BACKYARD DON'T ABOUT UNIVERSITY REPRESENTS TO YOU.
SO THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING SO FAR TO GET STARTED.
UM, SO WE SHOULD I APPRECIATE YOU JUMPING IN WITH BOTH THE YEAH.
HEY, WELCOME TO, I MEAN YOU JUST CAME UP WITH ALL THIS JUST LIKE THAT.
THEY'RE THEY'RE WORKING ON IT.
YOU'VE BEEN ONE TO TAKE THE HELM FOR A WHILE THOUGH.
I'M JUST NOT SO WE'RE ALL GOOD.
ANY QUESTIONS SO FAR? WE'LL DEFINITELY, UM, I KNOW LAST YEAR TO TRY TO ADDRESS, UH, SOME FOLKS TALKED ABOUT, UH, THEY COULDN'T HEAR BACK IN THE BACK AND THAT KIND OF DEAL.
UM, AT THE AMPHI IT IS HARD TO PUSH DOWN APPEAL.
UH, SO WHAT WE CAN DO THIS YEAR IS INSTEAD OF HAVING THE RETAIL VENDORS IN THAT FRONT PARKING LOT, WE CAN ACTUALLY PUT THEM IN THAT GRASS AREA, WHICH WILL NOW FORCE PARTICIPANTS TO SIT MORE IN THE AMPHITHEATER.
SO SIT WHERE THE SOUND IS VERSUS US TRYING TO REACH THE SOUND TO YOU.
UM, YOU FELT LIKE THE VENDORS WORKED REALLY WELL THERE, SO WELL THEY DID, BUT IF YOU JUST GOT THIS WOUND UP SPACE AND YOU GOT PEOPLE WANTING TO SIT ALL THE WAY BACK AT THE POOL AREA, WELL THEY'RE SITTING BACK THERE FOR THE SHADE, RIGHT? LIKE WHAT CAN WE MAYBE PUT ON THE, WE DON'T GET SOUND BACK THAT FAR OF THAT PUT ON THE FLYER.
LIKE, YOU KNOW, TENTS ARE ALLOWED OR LIKE PEOPLE ARE SITTING BACK THERE 'CAUSE THE AMPHITHEATER HAS NO SHAPE AND THEY'RE BAKING IN THE FIVE O'CLOCK SUN.
SO HOW CAN WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO SIT CLOSER, BRING THEIR TENTS OR I, I WOULD HATE TO SAY RENT A TENT, BUT LIKE HOW DO WE PUT THIS BUG IN THE CITY'S EAR? THEY NEED TO BUY THOSE BIG SALE THINGS THAT LIKE THEY PUT OVER THOSE AMPHITHEATERS WHERE PEOPLE CAN ASK SOME SHADE.
SO THAT'S WOULD BE MY ONLY RECOMMENDATION IS MAYBE WE CAN UPDATE HOW WE ADVERTISE TO, TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO BRING TENTS OR SHADE OR UMBRELLAS AND STUFF.
AND THEN STILL LEAVE THE VENDORS THERE AND THE FOOD TRUCKS.
'CAUSE THAT WAS ALL THE FOOT TRAFFIC.
I MEAN THEY'RE OUR VENDORS SOLD OUT AT JUNETEENTH.
WELL, THEY'RE ACTUALLY GONNA BE CLOSER, ACTUALLY CLOSER.
YOU MEAN THE GRASSY AREA WHERE THE BEER GARDEN WAS? YEAH.
I'M THINKING GRASSY AREA WHERE WE HAD 'EM ALL.
NO, THEY'LL BE CLOSE EVEN BETTER.
I, OKAY, THEY'RE SITTING RIGHT BEHIND WAS NAVIGATOR.
THEY'RE SITTING RIGHT AT THE BACK.
ANYBODY HANDICAP PARKING? ANYBODY? WAS ANYBODY IN THE PARKING LOT? SO LIKE YES.
WAS IT JUST THE VENDORS? SO WE HAD THE, WE HAD THE FOOD.
SO IF I'M LOOKING OUT OF THE AMPHITHEATER, YOU HAD THE RETAIL IN THE PARKING LOT THAT WAY.
LIKE THE FARMER'S MARKET, YOU HAVE THE FOOD VENDORS HERE, RIGHT? SO LEAVE THE FOOD VENDORS WHERE THEY ARE.
MOVE THE RETAIL FROM THERE TO HERE, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
SO NOW THAT FORCES EVERYBODY INSIDE THE AMPHITHEATER GOT, 'CAUSE IT STAGGERS DOWN.
YOU PROBABLY COULD DO UH, UMBRELLAS PROBABLY, MAYBE NOT TENTS.
LIKE WE JUST NEED TO PUT SOMETHING ON THE, I MEAN IT IS AN OUTDOOR FACILITY.
IF YOU GO TO ANY OUTDOOR CONCERT, YOU IN THE SUN.
SO, AND THAT'S WHAT WE JUST PUT UP ON THE FLYER THAT,
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YOU KNOW, SHADE IS LIMITED, BRING TENTS, UMBRELLAS, WHATEVER.AND THEN MAYBE THAT'LL PULL MORE PEOPLE FORWARD BECAUSE THAT WAS THE BIG REASON.
THAT'S WHERE ONLY TREES ARE AT ON THAT HILL.
THAT'S WHERE PINE RATES ARE AT.
WE DO NEED, IF SOMEONE HAS SOME IDEALS ON THAT, UH, IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE SOME, UH, UH, FOOD OPTIONS OR SOMETHING TO EAT FOR OUR VOLUNTEERS AT WORK, UH, FOR THE ARTISTS THAT WE DO HAVE THAT COME THERE.
SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE'S GOT SOME THOUGHTS ON SOMETHING.
WELL THAT'S A GOOD IDEA OF SNACKS LAST YEAR, BUT THIS TIME THEY PROBABLY GET SOME FOOD.
SO I MEAN A BAG BAG, I DON'T, FOR VOLUNTEERS I WANTED TO GET LIKE A FOOD VOUCHER.
SO MAYBE WE COULD LOOK MORE INTO GIVING VOUCHERS GOOD IDEAS.
SO THEY CAN NOT USE THEIR OWN MONEY AT THE FOOD TRUCKS BUT STILL HAVE SOMETHING TO BUY PER LYFT.
I SAY EITHER THAT A FOOD VOUCHER OR EITHER IF SOMEONE COULD SPONSOR SOMETHING FOR US.
AND YOU KNOW, HAVE, HAVE SOME FOOD THAT IS THERE FOR JUST OUR VOLUNTEERS AND FOR THE, FOR THE FOLKS THAT PARTICIPATE IN PROGRAM ENTIRELY SUITE, KIND OF LIKE THAT.
AND IF WE COULD PUT THAT BACK BEHIND THE AMPHITHEATER AND THEREFORE IT'S, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING, IT IS JUST IN THAT AREA FOR OUR VOLUNTEERS AND THEY CAN GO GET WATER LITTLE SANDWICHES AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
UM, ANYTHING ELSE FOR THAT AREA? I THINK THAT'S ALL GOOD THINGS.
SO I'M, I'M, THAT'S ENCOURAGING.
UM, SO I GUESS WE CAN USE THAT AS, UM, KIND OF THE, THE SEGUE INTO THE PARTNERSHIP UPDATES.
UM, WE HAD MET WITH THE CHIEF DIVERSITY OFFICER FROM SINCLAIR COMMUNITY COLLEGE, UH, MR. CARTER.
UM, AND THEY ARE INTERESTED IN, UM, WORKING WITH US OR PARTNERING, NOT PARTNERING WITH US ON SOME INITIATIVES.
UM, AND SOMETHING THAT DR. CARTER, UM, HAD SUGGESTED WAS TO DO A COMMUNITY READ OF THE SUM OF US BY HEATHER MCGEE.
UM, AND THAT THEY WOULD BE WILLING TO FACILITATE THAT DISCUSSION AT THE END OF THE BOOK READING.
SO TO FACILITATE A, UM, A GROUP READING OF THE BOOK AND THEN TO FACILITATE A DISCUSSION EITHER AT THE NEW LIBRARY BRANCH OR EVEN AT THE SINCLAIR, UH, SATELLITE AT THE YMCA.
UM, BUT WHAT OUR THOUGHT WAS TO GARNER INTEREST WAS TO PROVIDE THE FIRST 50 COPIES OF THE BOOK TO THE FIRST 50 PEOPLE THAT SIGNED UP TO PART TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GROUP READING.
UM, AND SO WE WOULD NEED TO INCLUDE THAT IN THE BUDGET.
IT WOULD BE APPROXIMATELY, I DON'T KNOW, PEOPLE PROBABLY HAVE BETTER RESOURCES TO BUY BULK BOOKS IF IT WOULD BE SINCLAIR, ONE OF THE COLLEGES, THE LIBRARY.
UM, BUT IT WOULD BE MY THOUGHT, I WOULD THINK SOMEWHERE AROUND $500, UM, TO PURCHASE 50 COPIES OF THE SUM OF US.
AND THEN THAT WOULD BE THE ADVERTISEMENT THAT THE FIRST 50 PEOPLE THAT SIGN UP FOR THIS IN THE COMMUNITY WOULD GET THE BOOK FREE.
UM, I PREEMPTIVELY LISTENED TO THE BOOK ON TAPE, NOT REALLY AUDIBLE, UH, BACK AND FORTH FROM COLUMBUS A COUPLE WEEKS.
THEY, IT'S REALLY, IT'S REALLY, THERE'S SO MUCH STUFF IN THERE THAT YOU JUST DIDN'T REALIZE THAT YOU WERE A PART OF THESE SYSTEMS AND THESE THINGS THAT, THAT WORKED AGAINST OR FOR RACISM.
IT'S, IT IS JUST REALLY, UM, I FOUND IT JUST REALLY ENTHRALLING.
SO I'M HOPING THAT AS A COMMISSION, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN CONSIDER.
UM, AND I WAS THINKING WE COULD DO THAT AS PART OF CULTURE WEEK AND DO IT INSTEAD OF THE EDUCATION FORM THAT WE WOULD HAVE THAT FACILITATED BOOK DISCUSSION, SAY THAT THURSDAY NIGHT OR WHATEVER, UM, PROBABLY A TWO PART OF THE BOOK DISCUSSION.
UM, BUT START THE PROCESS NOW TO GET THIS UP AND GOING AND THEN SHOOT FOR MAYBE THAT THURSDAY OF THAT CULTURE WEEK TO FACILITATE THAT FIRST DISCUSSION OR ONE PART OF THAT BOOK.
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FEELINGS ABOUT THIS? DOES ANYBODY, WHEN IS CULTURE WEEK? SO, SORRY.IT STARTS WITH JUNETEENTH AND IT ENDS WITH OUR MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL IN JUNE.
UM, SO THOSE HAVE KIND OF BEEN OUR TWO BOOKENDS ARE THE JUNETEENTH MULTI OR THE JUNETEENTH MUSIC FESTIVAL.
AND THEN SOMEWHERE IN THAT WEEK, THE FIRST YEAR WE DID IT, WE HAD FIVE EVENTS AND SEVEN DAYS LAST YEAR WE HAD THREE EVENTS AND FIVE DAYS.
UM, AND THEN THIS YEAR WE'RE GONNA HAVE THREE EVENTS, THE MULTICULTURAL JUNETEENTH, AND THEN HOPEFULLY THIS FACILITATED BOOK DISCUSSION.
I MEAN THAT'S, THAT'S OBVIOUSLY, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, AN OPTION.
I DO SOMETIMES GUESS COMMUNITY SERVICE TYPE OF ACTIVITY, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS I WAS THINKING ABOUT WAS, AND I BE BUT JUST
SO MAYBE DOING SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, DOING SOME TYPE COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITY THAT INVOLVED THE YOUTH AND WHAT I WAS THINKING ABOUT, MAYBE, YOU KNOW, AN OPTION WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, AS KIDS ARE OPPORTUNITIES MONTH OR SO OUT FOR SCHOOL START MAYBE HAVE A BACK THE SCHOOL TYPE DRIVE.
THEY WOULD PROVIDE LIKE BACKPACKS, SUPPLIES OR SOMETHING TO THE YOUTH IN, IN THE AREA, THE COMMUNITY.
BUT SOMETHING THAT MAYBE INVOLVES IN YOUTH, SOME TYPE OF COMMUNITY SERVICE TYPE OF, UH, ACTIVITY THAT FOCUSES ON YOUTH SOMETHING CAN OUT GETTING READY TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES.
SOMETHING WE ACTIVELY DOING SOMETHING TO GET BACK TO THE COMMUNITY.
WHAT IF WE CAN LET BOOK BACKPACKS AT THE YEAH.
BRING 'EM TO THE BOOK READING WITH YOU.
WE'LL HAVE BOXES OR BINS OR WE COULD HAVE LIKE AN ONLINE DRIVE OR YOU CAN GIVE GIFT CARD DONATIONS SO WE CAN GO BUY 'EM OR WHATEVER.
BUT BRING SOMETHING WITH YOU OTHER THAN YOUR BOOK IF YOU CAN.
THAT WAY WE COLLECT 'EM ALL THERE.
NOW WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT DO WE DO AFTER AND WHERE DO WE TAKE 'EM AND WHO DO WE DONATE TO.
WE COULD DO A, A KICKOFF AT THAT EVENT AND THEN SOMEHOW THIS COULD TAKE A LOT, DISTRIBUTE, LIKE SOMEHOW GET THE BUSINESSES AND STUFF IN CUBA TOGETHER TO DO THE DRIVE AND THEN PUT THEM TOGETHER BEFORE SCHOOL STARTS IN AUGUST.
SO DO THE KICKOFF CULTURALLY, GATHER ITEMS ALL THE WAY THROUGH JULY AND THEN PUT 'EM TOGETHER.
WE USED TO DO BOOK BAGS AT UM, RIGHT STATE, UH, FOR WESTWOOD.
UH, WHEN I USED TO RUN THE TUTORING PROGRAM WITH WESTWOOD PRE-K THROUGH EIGHT, UM, WE DID BIG DRIVES ON CAMPUS AT WRIGHT STATE AND THEN WE WOULD PUT ALL THE BACKPACKS TOGETHER, UM, IN OUR OFFICE AND THEN TAKE THEM.
YOU TAKE THEM, WHETHER IT BE LIKE A DAY AND THEN SET ASIDE FOR THE KIDS TO COME PICK IT UP.
YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO IDENTIFY NUMBERS THOUGH, OR, YOU KNOW, DO YOU TAKE SO MANY OF 'EM TO THE SCHOOL OR YOU KNOW, DOES EVERY SCHOOL GET SO MANY FOR KIDS OR IS THIS SOMETHING PARENTS SIGN UP FOR IN ADVANCE? UM, THERE'S A LOT OF LOGISTICS DISTRICT STUFF LIKE THAT.
IF IT'S, BUT IF IT'S SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE SIGN UP FOR IN ADVANCE, THEN IT'S EASIER TO DO THEM BY GRADE LEVEL TOO.
AND OF COURSE, THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE EVERYTHING THAT YOU NEED.
THOSE KINDERGARTEN AND FIRST GRADE LISTS ARE LIKE, BE
OR WELL, HE WAS TALKING ABOUT, YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT JUST BACKPACKER SCHOOL SUPPLIES TOO.
WELL, I WAS SAYING IN THE BACKPACKS OR JUST A BACKPACK.
I'M SAYING AT A MINIMUM A BACKPACK.
SO I MEAN, IT COULD INCLUDE SOME, ALL OF THEM.
I'M JUST SAYING BACKPACK, MAYBE SOME NOTEBOOKS AND PENCILS, PINS OR WHAT HAVE YOU.
AND THEN WE CAN WRITE ON THE BACK END.
WELL, THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN, WE CAN ADD TO THE DISCUSSION.
MAYBE FOR NEXT MONTH, GUYS, TAKE THAT OVER.
ONCE YOU'RE OUT, NOW YOU HAVE TO ATTEND TO CONTINUE TO FLUSH THOSE STUFF.
HE JUST PUTS THESE IDEAS OUT LIKE, THAT'S RIGHT.
I'M LEAVING, BUT I WANT YOU GUYS TO GET BACKPACKS.
I THINK THAT'S A WONDERFUL IDEA.
AND I, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO CONTINUE TO, TO LINK THIS TO COMMUNITY SERVICE, TO LINK THIS TO GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY
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AND, AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF, AND I'VE SAID THIS SO MANY TIMES, THAT IF YOU'RE NOT SUPPORTING THE, THE MOST NEEDIEST OF YOUR PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, THE OVERALL HEALTH GROUP POPULATION OR IS JUST OVERALL NOT WELL.SO, AND FOR KIDS IT IS, YOU KNOW, HOW DO YOU EXPECT LITTLE JOHNNY TO SIT THERE AND LEARN MATH IF HE DOESN'T HAVE A PENCIL AND, AND PAPER AND A BOOK BAG? IT GOES EVEN DEEPER THAN THAT BECAUSE LITTLE JOHNNY'S NOT GONNA SIT AND LEARN MATH IF HE DOESN'T HAVE FOOD AT HOME AND HE'S COLD.
BUT THAT'S, YOU KNOW, MATH LEVEL.
I KNOW WE TRIED TO, YOU KNOW, LAST YEAR, THIS YEAR TRIED TO PULL OFF A FORUM, YOU KNOW, WITH THE YOUTH THAT DIDN'T HAVE IT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE RAN THIS ISSUES.
BUT YEAH, I STILL WANTED US TO BE ABLE TO FIND SOME WAY WE CAN HAVE AN IMPACT ON YOUTH.
UM, DO SOMETHING TO PROVIDE SOME, SOME, SOME WAY, SOME POINT SOME FASHION.
JUST YOU GAVE ME A LITTLE LIGHT BULB MOMENT THAT I, I MEANT TO SAY EARLIER ABOUT THE MLK MEETING.
UM, THE HIGH SCHOOL VERY MUCH WANTS TO WORK WITH US.
SO I NEED TO JUST SAY THAT, THAT YOU, THE LIGHT BULB DID GO OFF.
UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE PRINCIPAL DID ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE'RE ALL DOING SIMILAR WORK, BUT WE'RE DOING IT IN SILOS AND IT DOESN'T DO ANY GOOD FOR WAYNE HIGH SCHOOL TO BE TACKLING RACISM FROM WITHIN THE SCHOOL AND TRYING TO BRING THE ISSUES FORWARD ON WHAT THE KIDS ARE GOING THROUGH IF WE'RE WORKING IN A DIFFERENT SILO.
SO THE PARTNERSHIPS ARE THERE, AND I THINK WE'VE SAID IT BEFORE, AND WE'RE GOING TO PUT IT IN ACTION IN 2024, THAT WE ARE GONNA BUILD THOSE PARTNERSHIPS IN 2024 SO THAT THE HIGH SCHOOL CAN WORK WITH US ON MAKING THESE IMPACTFUL THINGS HAPPEN, UM, TO, TO DO OUR MISSION FOR PEACE SAKE.
OUR MISSION WASN'T ALL ABOUT FESTIVALS AND, AND, YOU KNOW, THE FLUFFY STUFF.
OUR, OUR MISSION WAS TO GET TO THE ROOT CAUSES OF RACISM.
BECAUSE THAT'S THE ABSOLUTE WORST WAY TO GO ABOUT THESE ISSUES.
YOU HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THESE ISSUES EXIST.
YOU HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE ARE SYSTEMS IN PLACE THAT ARE CONTINUING TO MAKE, TO DISENFRANCHISE MANY PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITIES.
SO, YOU KNOW, ALL THIS FLUFFINESS AND ALL OF THIS IS, IS FUN AND, AND WONDERFUL AND GREAT, BUT THAT'S NOT, I DON'T THINK WHAT ANY ONE OF US SIGNED UP TO DO WAS TO CREATE FESTIVALS.
SO IT'S, IT'S EDUCATION, IT'S AWARENESS.
UM, I DO THINK MAYBE NEXT MONTH WE SHOULD ALSO DISCUSS CREATING A COUPLE POSITIONS WITHIN THE COMMISSION.
LIKE SOMEBODY TO HANDLE JANUARY'S DAYS OF REMEMBRANCE AND, AND HAVE A STATEMENT THAT WE ARE PUTTING ON OUR FACEBOOK POST AND ACKNOWLEDGING, YOU KNOW, HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH.
AND WE NEED TO BE GIVING THE EDUCATION BEHIND THOSE DAYS AND MONTHS AND THINGS.
BUT IN TANDEM WITH THE CITY'S CELEBRATION OF THOSE GROUPS OR MONTHS OR WHATEVER.
WE'RE NOT HERE TO BE THE PARTY.
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? SO IF THE CITY REALLY BELIEVES IN THIS WORK, THE CITY IS GONNA MOVE FORWARD WITH THESE INITIATIVES THAT, YOU KNOW, HOW IS THE CITY GONNA RECOGNIZE THE SPANISH HERITAGE MONTH? HOW IS THE CITY GOING TO RECOGNIZE MLK DAY? IT'S NOT THE NINE OF US.
SO WE'RE HERE FOR THE EDUCATION.
I FEEL THEY NEED TO BE HERE FOR CELEBRATION.
AND THAT GOES BACK TO THE INITIAL RECOMMENDATION THAT SHE MADE.
WHERE EVERY MONTH OF THE YEAR THERE IS SOME TYPE OF OBSERVANCE THAT MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL THEY CAN RECOGNIZE DURING THEIR MEETINGS.
YOU INVITE SOME CONSTITUENTS AND THEIR WARS WHO MAY BE OF A PARTICULAR ETHNIC GROUP THAT THEY ACKNOWLEDGE.
SO YEAH, IT NEEDS TO BE DIVERSITY BRINGS WONDERFUL THINGS AND FULL COLLABORATION.
SO, UM, FOR THE PARTNERSHIP UPDATE THOUGH, UM, IF WE TOOK THIS, CAN WE, CAN WE MAKE A MOTION TO, I MEAN, WE CAN, UM, WOULD THE COMMISSION BE IN AGREEMENT WITH MOVING FORWARD WITH TRYING TO FACILITATE A COMMUNITY BOOK READ OF THE SUM OF US, UM, AND THEN LINK IT TO THIS COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT AND HAVE THAT TO BE HELD?
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THAT FIRST BOOK, RIGHT.READING FACILITATED DISCUSSION TO BE HELD THE WEEK OF CULTURAL WEEK.
WHAT DO WE THINK IS THE, THE TURNOUT OF, OF SOMETHING LIKE THIS? WELL, FIRST 50 BOOKS ARE FREE.
SO THAT'S OUR POLL IN WAS WE'RE GONNA PROVIDE THE FIRST 50 BOOKS IF WE CAN GET HALF OF THOSE PEOPLE TO ATTEND.
EVEN THAT'S DOING BETTER THAN MOST OF OUR EDUCATION FORUM.
FOR THESE EDUCATION FORUMS. AND WE HAD SIX, THEY WERE QUARTERLY
AND WE COULD BARELY THIS HONEST TRUTH GET MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL TO ATTEND.
I KNOW SOMETIMES WHEN WE TALK ABOUT RACE OR RACISM, IT'S A VERY, UM, IT'S A VERY STICKY CONVERSATION.
AND I THINK, UH, IF I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO AVOID A STICKY CONVERSATION, MOST PEOPLE PROBABLY TRY TO AVOID IT.
SO, UM, I JUST THINK THAT'S INTERESTING.
UM, I THINK IT'S, I THINK IT'S A, IT COULD BE A GOOD IDEA, BUT, UM, I, I MEAN, I'M KIND OF NEW.
I'M NOT, I GUESS I'M KIND OF NEW TO THE AREA, SO I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT RACIAL ISSUES EXIST IN YOU HOLISTICALLY, OR IS THAT, AND IS THAT SOMETHING THAT THE COMMUNITY WOULD SAY, LIKE, OH YEAH, WE NEED TO RALLY BEHIND THAT VERSUS, YOU KNOW, I THINK SOME OF THESE TALKS WANT TO BE HAD, BUT PEOPLE DON'T KNOW HOW TO HAVE THEM.
LIKE, SO THEN YOU DON'T MEAN LIKE, SO WHEN I LOOK AT LIKE, PEOPLE LIKE EMANUEL ACHO WHO HAS LIKE, TOUGH CONVERSATIONS WITH A BLACK MAN OR WHATEVER THIS PODCAST OR SERIES IS OR WHATEVER.
IT'S NOT LIKE IT'S A FORUM, BUT IT'S MORE OF A ONE ON ONE.
RIGHT? SO IN THE EVENT, LIKE WE WERE TALKING, LIKE YOU MENTIONED EARLIER, LIKE MAYBE, MAYBE BEHOOVE, UM, THE COMMISSION TO SAY LIKE, YOU KNOW WHAT, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT RACISM AROUND THE SUM OF THE, SOME OF US, BUT IT'S GONNA BE WITH THE CHIEF DIVERSITY OFFICER FROM SINCLAIR.
IT'S GONNA BE WITH, UM, THE AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES PROFESSOR FROM WRIGHT STATE OR UV.
AND IT'S GONNA BE WITH, YOU KNOW, ONE OF OUR, YOU KNOW, EDUCATORS AT, AT CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY OR WILBERFORCE, OR WHEREVER THE CASE MAY BE.
NOW IT IS, I'M NOT, I DON'T KNOW IF MORE PEOPLE WILL SHOW UP AS THAT, BUT NOW IT'S LIKE, HEY, I DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A CONVERSATION.
I CAN SIT BACK AND WATCH HOW THEY HAVE THE CONVERSATION AND FIGURE IT OUT.
'CAUSE IF, I DON'T KNOW, I JUST WONDER LIKE IF, YOU KNOW, WOULD I SHOW UP EVEN IF I READ THE BOOK, YOU KNOW, WITH A BUNCH OF PEOPLE THAT I DON'T REALLY KNOW TO CHALLENGE ME TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT RACISM THAT WE MAY OR MAY NOT EVEN HAVE AN ISSUE.
AND I SAID IT BECAUSE WHEN I DID COME, UM, CONSULTANT WORK AT BRIGHT PATH, THAT WAS A HUGE, LIKE, THAT'S NOT, IF YOU DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO SHOW UP TO A TRAINING, SAY IT TO ABOUT RACISM, HIDE BEHIND THE CAMERA, NO CAMERAS ARE GONNA BE ON.
YOU'RE GONNA HAVE VERY FEW PEOPLE SAY ANYTHING AND THEY'RE GONNA FIGURE OUT A WAY TO LOG OFF EARLY.
SO, AND I'M SAYING IF, SO, IF THE PEOPLE WHO NEED TO BE AT UNDER, LIKE, I DON'T WANT DO THAT.
HOW DOES A WHAT WOULD A COMMUNITY DO? I THINK THEY'LL, LIKE, I'LL JUST GO TO THE WAYNE HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL GAME THAT DAY, OR FOOTBALL GAME, OR I'LL GO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ON VACATION THAT WEEK.
I'M NOT, I WOULD LOVE TO BE, IS THIS GONNA BE ON YOUTUBE? YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? ARE YOU GONNA RECORD IT
COULD IT BE MORE OF LIKE, I DON'T WANNA SAY IT'S MORE OF A SHOW, BUT I ALWAYS THINK, LIKE, I THINK MORE PEOPLE GO TO THE MOVIES BECAUSE THEY WANT TO WATCH VERSUS I DON'T WANT IN THAT THAT COULD BE REAL MESSY.
WHAT IF MY BOSS IS IN THIS, IN THAT MEETING AND I SAY SOMETHING OR WHATEVER.
I THINK PEOPLE JUST CLA UP LIKE, NAH, WE, I'M JUST, I DON'T KNOW.
WE DID THAT LAST YEAR WITH A PANEL.
RIGHT? WHAT I'M SAYING, WE HAD AN EDUCATIONAL PANEL.
'CAUSE WE HAD EXPERTS THINGS TO, UM,
AKENS HERE, YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS HIS, YOU KNOW, COLLEAGUES AT CENTRAL STATE.
AND WE DID INVITE MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL TO COME BECAUSE THE BASIS OF THAT FORUM WAS FROM THE RESOLUTION.
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WHICH ONE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE RACISM PUBLIC, RIGHT? YEAH.WHERE WE WERE TRYING TO HAVE A DIALOGUE NOT ONLY AMONGST OURSELVES, BUT CITY COUNCIL AND THE RESIDENTS OF HEBREW HEIGHTS ON WHAT COURSE OF ACTION CAN WE PROPOSE TO THEM TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE ITEMS AND THIS RESOLUTION ARE BEING FOLLOWED.
BUT IT DIDN'T HAPPEN THAT WAY AS FAR AS THE PURPOSE.
AND WE TRY TO HAVE FORUMS THAT DON'T FOCUS ON YOUR RACISM.
BUT THE ATTENDANCE IS STILL NOT THE GREATEST.
BECAUSE YOU'RE RIGHT, FOLKS DO GET SENSITIVE WHEN YOU START TALKING ABOUT RACE.
SO WE ACTUALLY WENT ON POLICING.
IT HAD NOTHING NECESSARILY TO DO WITH RACE, PER SE.
BUT, YOU KNOW, WE HAD, WE HAD THE, THE POLICE CHIEF, YOU KNOW, WE HAD HIM SPEAK ON, ON DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT TOPICS AS POLICING STILL DIDN'T HAVE, YOU KNOW, WEIGHT ATTENDANCE THERE.
LIKE DID ONE ON NUTRITION, ONE ON FINANCIAL LITERACY.
AGAIN, NOT NECESSARILY FOCUS ON RACE, JUST FOCUSING ON EDUCATION.
YOU KNOW, EVERYONE NEEDS TO HAVE SOME FINANCIAL EDUCATION.
YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, HELP AND WEALTH.
SO WE FOCUSED ON THOSE TYPES OF THINGS, BUT STILL NOTING THE TYPE OF ATTENDANCE THAT, THAT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE COME TO LIKE THE FESTIVAL, LIKE THE JUNETEENTH PEOPLE COME THE TABLE.
WHEN YOU START TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, FOOD DESERTS.
BUT THEN I LOOK AT LIKE, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN, LIKE, IS HUMOR OF FOOD DESERT? SO THEN I'M SAYING LIKE, WHAT I, I THINK LIKE KROGER, I DON'T THINK WE EVEN HAD THAT IN THE, LIKE THE ON THE FLYER.
WE DON'T THINK WE DIDN'T JUST CAME.
I THINK THE POINT OF THIS PARTICULAR DISCUSSION WITH THE SUM OF US, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS HAD A CHANCE TO READ IT, BUT IT, IT BREAKS DOWN RACISM TO THE POINT ON HOW IT IMPACTS EVERYONE ECONOMICALLY.
HOW RACISM FURTHER DISENFRANCHISES THE MAJORITY OF THE POPULATION AS WELL BY DISENFRANCHISING THE MINORITY POPULATION.
SO I THINK THE KEY IS, IS WITH HOW WELL WRITTEN THIS BOOK WAS, THAT IT FACILITATES THAT CONVERSATION IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT.
IT FACILITATES THE CONVERSATION ON HOW RACISM IS IMPACTING US AS A CULTURE, HOW RACISM IS IMPACTING YOUR, YOUR ABILITY AS A CITY TO MOVE FORWARD.
UM, AND, AND JUST THAT, THAT OVERARCHING DISENFRANCHISEMENT.
SO I, I FEEL LIKE THE TONE OF THE BOOK FFF FACILITATES THAT DISCUSSION A LITTLE BIT EASIER.
UM, JUST QUICKLY, UM, I GREW UP IN CENTERVILLE AND WE MOVED HERE FROM CONNECTICUT.
WE MOVED HERE FROM CONNECTICUT.
WE HAD A POOL IN OUR BACKYARD BECAUSE IN CONNECTICUT EVERYTHING WAS BUILT IN, YOU KNOW, 1692 AND NOBODY HAD AIR CONDITIONING.
AND THEN WE MOVED TO, TO CENTERVILLE AND WE ATTENDED A PRIVATE POOL CLUB.
WE WERE, THAT'S JUST WHAT IT WAS.
EVERYBODY ATTENDED PRIVATE POOLS.
AND THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THIS BOOK TALKS ABOUT DESEGREGATION.
AND THEN WHEN POOLS WERE DESEGREGATED, INSTEAD OF WANTING TO ALLOW DESEGREGATION TO CONTINUE, THEY ALL PULLED BACK AND BECAME PRIVATE SWIM CLUBS.
AND I LITERALLY HAD NO IDEA, I HAD NONE, NO IDEA THAT I WAS PART OF THIS DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF PEOPLE OF COLOR IN OUR COMMUNITY.
BUT THERE WAS PROBABLY FOUR PRIVATE SWIM CLUBS JUST IN CENTERVILLE.
BUT TO NOT KNOW THAT THAT STARTED WITH THE DESEGREGATION AND THAT, THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS WAS FOUGHT AND THIS WAS CAME OUT OF THE SUPREME COURT THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU HAD TO ALLOW DESEGREGATION IN, IN THE, THE POOL.
SO FOR ME, AS SOMEBODY THAT, THAT HAS A LOT OF EDUCATION IN THIS AREA, EVEN THE FIRST CHAPTER, I WAS LIKE, WELL, DAMN, I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT WE WERE A PARTY TO THESE SYSTEMS THAT WERE STILL IN PLAY TODAY.
SO FOR, FOR US, I, FOR ME, I DON'T KNOW, DR. CARTER I FELT WOULD BE A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL FACILITATOR FOR THIS.
UM, BUT WHAT WE CAN DO INSTEAD OF, YOU KNOW, MAKING A MOTION AND MOVING THIS FORWARD, REMEMBER THE EMAIL I SENT ABOUT OUR FIELD TRIP, UM, WHICH OF COURSE YOU DON'T HAVE THE EMAIL, BUT WE WERE INVITED BY DR. CARTER TO COME DOWN TO SINCLAIR AND VIEW HIS WHOLE, UM,
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OUR AMERICAN JOURNEY.OUR AMERICAN JOURNEY, UM, DISPLAY DOWN THERE, TALK TO HIM, UM, MAYBE HAVE A LITTLE BITE TO EAT AFTERWARDS.
JUST, YOU KNOW, AS A LITTLE HOLIDAY DINNER AS A COMMISSION, NOT AS A COMMISSION, AS FRIENDS THAT WENT TO SINCLAIR TO VIEW A DISPLAY, UM, AND TALK TO HIM ON, ON WHAT THAT CONVERSATION MAYBE COULD ENTAIL.
UM, BUT I THINK IT'S A BETTER OPTION THAN THE, THE FORUMS. I THINK THIS WOULD, THIS WOULD INVITE THAT COMMUNITY CONVERSATION.
IT MAY NOT BE PRETTY, SOME OF THESE CONVERSATIONS AREN'T ALWAYS SO PRETTY, BUT IF YOU HAVE THE CORRECT PEOPLE IN THE ROOM THAT CAN FACILITATE THESE CONVERSATIONS AND KEEP BORING AND THE PEOPLE BACK IN, THEN WE MIGHT BE ALL RIGHT.
BUT I THINK WHAT CORY'S SAYING, AND MAYBE, BUT I FEEL LIKE, LIKE HE WAS SAYING EARLIER, THE PEOPLE WHO NEED TO COME MIGHT NOT COME OR WON'T COME.
EVEN IF THE BOOK IS FREE, THEY MIGHT NOT REGISTER 'CAUSE THEY JUST DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT.
SO I FEEL LIKE WE CAN TRY AGAIN.
IT'S A DIFFERENT TWIST ON WHAT WE'VE DONE.
AND WE'RE GONNA KEEP INVITING THE SAME PEOPLE THAT WE'VE INVITED ALL ALONG.
IF THEY DON'T COME, THEY DON'T COME.
WE'RE NOT GONNA KEEP SEEKING OUT APPROVAL FROM THE MASSES THAT ARE NOT INTERESTED IN ENGAGING WITH US.
SO MAKE PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THEY'RE THE MINORITY AND THAT'S HOW IT'S GONNA BE.
SO IF YOU DON'T WANNA ATTEND, DON'T ATTEND.
WE'RE GONNA PUT IT OUT THERE ON WHO ATTENDED AND WE'RE GONNA PUT IT OUT THERE ON WHO DIDN'T, AND WE'RE JUST GONNA KEEP IT MOVING, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
AND THAT'S WHY I'M MAYBE THINKING I, WE CONTINUE TO DO THE EDUCATIONAL, YOU KNOW, PIECES AND, AND MAYBE FIGURE OUT HOW BEST TO INCORPORATE THAT MAYBE WITH SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES THAT, THAT WE HAVE.
BUT I'M THINKING MAYBE WE SHOULD, THAT'S WHY, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER RIGHT.
MAYBE MOVE TOWARDS DOING MORE COMMUNITY SERVICE TYPE OF ACTIVITIES.
DO THINGS THAT ARE IMPACTFUL, ESPECIALLY IN THE AREAS OF NEED.
AND TO TRY AND, UM, IMPROVE ON THOSE THAT ARE MAYBE DISENFRANCHISED MM-HMM.
BUT I THINK THAT'S HOW WE TRULY BE IMPACTFUL AS THIS COMMISSIONS TRY TO HAVE THAT FOCUS ON HELPING THOSE, THAT COMMUNITY THAT USE THAT UP AS YOU POINT OUT.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RACISM.
YOU'RE NOT GONNA LEAVE PEOPLE OUT.
WELL, I MEAN WE COULD, BUT I MEAN, I THINK YOU'RE GONNA HAVE, SOMETHING'S GONNA HAVE TO SPARK, RIGHT? LIKE THERE'S NO GEORGE FLOYD AND WE'RE ALL NOT LOCKED IN THE HOUSE.
AND COVID, WE DON'T KNOW THE SPARK BECAUSE TELL YOU THAT'S BEEN HAPPENING FOR DECADES.
BUT THE DIFFERENCE WAS ALL EYES WERE ON IT.
RIGHT? AND I THINK, SO LIKE, UNTIL SOME, IF SOMETHING HAPPENS, IF YOU RIDE, GOD FORBID, THAT'S CRAZY, RIGHT? THEN IT WILL SPARK AND THE TENANTS WILL OVERFLOW.
AND THEN YOU WON'T THEN IDENTIFY, WELL, WHERE DO WE GO? 'CAUSE NOTHING CAN HOUSE, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE THAT ARE OUTRAGED, RIGHT? THAT'S THE WAY IT ALWAYS WORKS.
LIKE INCIDENT HAPPENS AND PEOPLE HAVE A CONVERSATION, RIGHT.
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? YOU KNOW, IT'S ALWAYS, YOU CAN ALWAYS TAKE SOME SORT, SORT OF TRAGIC EVENT, RIGHT.
AND THEN EVENTUALLY, AND I, I SAID, I JUST, I JUST, I'M JUST CURIOUS AS TO, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THAT? LIKE I SAID, I KNOW LIKE MY SON IS WRITING A PAPER ON STRUCTURAL RACISM RIGHT NOW.
RIGHT? SO THEY'RE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT THAT.
BUT WHEN I ASKED HIM, I DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT STRUCTURAL RACISM IS? I KNOW WHAT MY PAPER SAYS DAD.
RIGHT? IT'S LIKE, HE'S LIKE, I NEED AN EGG POPS, I, YOU KNOW, I'LL DEAL WITH THAT.
PULL ME OVER AND I DON'T HAVE WHATEVER.
UM, AND THAT'S ALL I'M SAYING.
I, I DO THINK I JUST, YOU KNOW, I THINK THESE ARE, I THINK EDUCATION IS IMPORTANT, BUT I ALSO THINK SOMETIMES HOW WE PULL IT OFF, RIGHT? IF WE'RE NOTICE THAT WE'RE NOT GETTING THE CROWDS THAT WE WANT, MAYBE IT'S NOT THAT, MAYBE IT'S THE WAY WE'RE, WE'RE MARKING OR POSITION IN A FRAMING IT.
THAT'S KIND OF LIKE ANOTHER RACISM COMPONENT.
LIKE WHAT IF WE TAKE, BUT THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING.
WE, WE, WHAT IF WE TAKE THE BOOK READING TO THE SCHOOL AND DO IT WITH THE KIDS AT THE SCHOOL, AT THE HIGH SCHOOL? AND SEE THAT'S WHY I'M SAYING LIKE, IF WE, THOSE ARE THE TYPE OF THINGS THAT, THAT LIKE THE FIRST 50 KIDS THAT SIGN UP FOR IT AT WAYNE HIGH SCHOOL AND FACILITATE THE DISCUSSION BECAUSE THEY'RE INTERESTED IN THE PARTNERSHIP.
AND WE HAD TALKED ABOUT DOING THE, THE VIDEOS OF HOW RACISM IMPACTED ME.
YOU KNOW, THERE WAS, WE HAVE QUITE A FEW HALL OF FAME AND PROFESSIONAL SPORTS PEOPLE THAT HAVE COME OUT OF WAYNE HIGH SCHOOL AND DOING VIDEO DISCUSSIONS.
HOW HAS RACISM IMPACTED YOUR LIFE WHILE YOU WERE IN THIS COMMUNITY? AND THEY'RE ALREADY
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DOING IT.BECAUSE MR. WAYNE HIGH SCHOOL'S ALREADY DONE THOSE.
I JUST LISTEN, THAT WILL BRING MORE ATTENTION IF WE WANT TO HIGHLIGHT RACISM, IF WE CAN HIGHLIGHT WHATEVER YOU WANT.
OR IF IT, IT'S, IF IT'S, IT'S EASIER TO CHANGE MIND.
WELL, FINANCES, MAYBE THE ISSUE ISN'T, YOU KNOW, DOING A FORUM ON FINANCE.
NOW I GOTTA PUT OUT A BUSINESS WHETHER I'M BROKE OR RICH OR WHATEVER.
TO ME, I'M TRYING TO, BUT I'M SAYING HOW YOU, HOW DO YOU LOOK AT IT? YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY MAY, SOMEBODY MAY NOT.
BUT I JUST THINK IF WE MAYBE LOOK AT IT A DIFFERENT, WE APPROACH IT IN A DIFFERENT WAY, I THINK WE WILL GET THE IMPACT OF WE'RE LOOKING FOR FROM THE COMMUNITY.
BECAUSE I KNOW IF MY SON, OR YOU HAVE KIDS, IF KIDS COME HOME AND ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT IT, THE PROBLEM WE LIKE WHERE, WHERE, WHERE YOU, WHERE, WHERE YOU WHAT, WHAT BOOK? WHERE'S THE BOOK AT? LEMME SEE THE BOOK.
WHAT ARE YOU READING? RIGHT? WHAT ARE, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? WHAT VIDEO'S BEING MADE? AND THEN I THINK WHEN THAT'S, AGAIN, BUT THAT'S THE SPARK, RIGHT? LIKE SOMETHING HAPPENED, WE TOOK IT IN A DIFFERENT FRAME AND NOW THE SPARK, WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE POLICE DO SOMETHING CRAZY.
WE CAN ACTUALLY, WE'VE KIND OF CREATED OUR OWN SCENARIO.
SO WE TELL TO GET FREE CHICK-FIL-A THOUGH
WE HAD SO MANY PEOPLE COORDINATE WITH AND IT JUST FELL THROUGH.
WE HAD TO CHICK-FIL-A, WE HAD THE CAFETERIA.
WE HAD, REMEMBER WE WERE TALKING ABOUT ROOM, WE TALKED ABOUT IT.
WE DIDN'T GET THAT BEFORE WE TALKING ABOUT IT.
WE'RE NOT, WE TALKED, WE TRIED, WELL MAYBE WE CAN PUT SOME THOUGHT AROUND IT SO THAT MAYBE IN WE'LL TAKE IT BACK TO, IS THAT, I THINK IN ORDER TO MAKE THE EDUCATIONAL FORUMS COME OFF THE WAY THAT WE WANT THEM TO COME OFF IS TAKE MORE OF APPROACH OF MAYBE WE'RE THE ONES THAT'S GOTTA BE EDUCATED.
AND HOW DO I ENGAGE OUR COMMUNITY? 'CAUSE RIGHT NOW WE'RE PUTTING OUT A LOT OF IDEALS AND THOUGHTS.
THERE'S PEOPLE THAT ARE ALREADY DOING THAT.
SO MAYBE WE CAN ENGAGE WITH THEM AND THEY CAN HELP INSTRUCT US ON HOW TO GO ABOUT AND PULL THAT OFF TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
SO MRS. BERRY, HER HUSBAND IS VERY GOOD FRIENDS WITH DR.
SO I, I THINK MAYBE WE'LL JUST BRING IT BACK NEXT MONTH, BUT WHY DON'T WE HAVE A, A TASK MEETING WITH THE HIGH SCHOOL AGAIN AND SEE IF THIS IS SOMETHING WE CAN FACILITATE TO DO AT THE HIGH SCHOOL AND THE STUDENTS THERE INSTEAD.
WOULD THAT BE ACCEPTABLE? I MEAN, DO YOU THINK THAT'S A BETTER IDEA? I WOULD STILL LIKE TO SEE LIKE, SOME TYPE OF A, A BOOK READ OR SOMETHING WITH THIS PARTNERSHIP WITH SINCLAIR, BECAUSE I JUST THINK THAT'S A GOOD START BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S, IT EDUCATES PEOPLE TO THINGS THAT THEY JUST DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE.
TALKING ESPECIALLY ABOUT STRUCTURAL RACISM AND HOW ALL OF THESE SYSTEMS INTERACT TO CONTINUE TO DISENFRANCHISE PEOPLE.
I MEAN, IT STARTS WITH BASIC EDUCATION.
AND HOW PROPERTY TAXES ARE USED TO CONTINUE TO ALLOW PEOPLE TO HAVE SEGREGATED SCHOOLS, BASICALLY.
WE'LL BRING IT BACK, KICK OVER SOME IDEAS.
UM, I CAN CONNECT WITH DR. CARTER AND MAYBE MRS. BERRY AND SEE HOW WE CAN MAKE THIS WORK TOGETHER.
ANY OTHER PARTNERSHIP UPDATES? WE ARE GONNA CONTINUE NEXT YEAR.
Y-W-C-A-Y-M-C-A, UM, THE GARDEN OR THE PARKS DISTRICTS, YOU KNOW, LET'S GET THESE PARTNERSHIPS GOING TO ADDRESS THESE AREAS.
UM, WE ARE ONE OF THE HEALTH DISPARITY, UH, TRACKS FROM MEDICAID.
WE ARE AN IDENTIFIED COMMUNITY THAT HAS IDENTIFIED HEALTH DISPARITIES.
UM, SO THAT'S SOMETHING ELSE THAT WE SHOULD BE CONSIDERING, UM, AS PART OF OUR WORK.
UM, RECOMMENDATIONS SUBMITTED TO CITY COUNCIL.
ANYTHING ON OUR NEEDS ASSESSMENT.
YOU, SHE'S GOT LITTLE ONES AT HOME.
YEAH, SHE'S HOPEFULLY, SHE'S HOPEFULLY ASLEEP AND HOPEFULLY SHE STAYS THAT WAY, BUT NONETHELESS.
UH, FIRST ONE WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT OBVIOUSLY.
LAST, UH, LAST MONTH I GAVE YOU THAT UPDATE.
UH, CITY MANAGER HAD UH, PASSED THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT TO COUNCIL, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER HAD MADE EDITS.
HOWEVER, WHAT IT BE DECEMBER LAST MONTH, UH, CITY HAD THE RANSOMWARE ATTACK.
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UM, WITHIN THAT SAME STRUCTURE OF THE ATTACK AND THE EDIT CHANGE, UM, CITY MANAGER HAS YET TO REALLY ENGAGE IN THOSE EDITS TO IT BECAUSE HE WAS DEALING WITH THE RANSOMWARE ATTACK.UM, I WANT TO SAY WE SHOULD BE ALL GOOD COME NEXT WEEK BY THE END OF THIS MONTH.
UM, FROM WHAT HE TOLD ME, UM, ONCE WE'RE UP AND ABOUT, UM, ALL GOOD HERE.
UM, HE'LL GET BACK ON THAT AND THEN I'M HOPEFUL I'LL GIVE YOU GUYS THAT UPDATE COME JANUARY, UM, WHEN WE GET A BETTER SPOT.
UM, OR WE'LL BE IN A BETTER SPOT, UM, WEBSITE.
I THINK THAT WAS ANOTHER RECOMMENDATION AS WELL.
UM, YEAH, WEBSITE BETTER BEEN UPDATED.
UM, I WANT TO SAY I TALKED TO SARAH SERGE, THAT UPDATE, UM, END OF JANUARY.
UM, WE WILL HAVE THOSE, UH, UPDATES TO THE WEBPAGE AND THEN, OH, UM, I THINK THAT'S ALL I'VE GOT.
WHAT WAS THE ONE WHERE, UM, THE CITY MANAGER WAS GONNA GO OUT FOR RFP? THAT'S THE, YEAH, THAT WAS THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT.
OH, WHEN DID HE START? UH, LIKE HERE? YEAH.
WAS THAT, DID WE HAVE A MEETING WITH HIM WHEN WE MET HIM AND SAID THAT WAS, WE'LL DO IT IN TWO WEEKS.
I THINK HE CAME TO THAT OCTOBER MEETING.
OH, THAT'S THE SAME ONE FROM OCTOBER WHERE HE SAID WE'RE GONNA GO TO RP IN TWO WEEKS.
I THINK THE, WAS IT TWO WEEKS? YEAH, THAT'S WHEN HE SAID YEAH, BUT THAT WAS BACK THEN.
IS THAT, IS THAT THE SAME ONE? YEAH.
SO WE'RE STILL WORKING ON THAT SAME, SO, SO WHAT, SO RIGHT, SO WHAT HAPPENED WAS HE MADE HIS, OBVIOUSLY HE WAS GOING TO SUBMIT HIS CHANGES TO IT AND THEN SENT IT OFF TO R FRP.
HOWEVER, COUNSEL GOT AHOLD OF IT AND THEY WANTED TO MAKE THEIR EDITS TO IT.
AND THEN THE EDITS WERE BEING MADE AND THEN WITHIN THAT SAME TIMEFRAME WE HAD THE RANSOMWARE ATTACK.
OH, SO THESE ARE NEW EDITS FROM THE, FROM FROM JANUARY.
SO THEY'RE, THEY HAD DUES FROM JANUARY TO OCTOBER.
UM, DO YOU KNOW JEFFREY WHO EXACTLY THE CITY COUNCIL? I SAY COUNCIL MEMBER BERG HAD THE, HAD IS THE, IS THE EDITS.
I REMEMBER SHE HAD INITIALLY WASN'T SURE THERE'S ANY OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT ALSO HAD SOME FEEDBACK.
ANYTHING ELSE FOR A FAITH? NO NEW BUSINESS COMMISSION MEETING TIME.
I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION STARTING JANUARY 4TH.
WE MOVE OUR MEETINGS ON TO 6:00 PM FROM 7:00 PM SECOND, CAN WE GET A ROLL CALL PLEASE? MS. NEWBY? AYE.
MR. STEVENSON OR MR. STEVENS? AYE.
MISS JUST MSTY, YOU HAD IT RIGHT BEFORE SHE GOT NERVOUS.
WE ARE NOW MEETING AT SIX O'CLOCK.
DO WE HAVE ANY APPLICATIONS? YEAH, SO I TALKED TO TOMMY, UM, NO VAC NO, I DON'T THINK HE HAS ANY APPLICATIONS.
AND THEN WE TALKED ABOUT THE CCRB, UM, AND I WANNA SAY HE DIDN'T RECEIVE ANY APPLICATIONS FOR THAT AS WELL.
IS THERE A BETTER WAY TO ADVERTISE FOR THAT? 'CAUSE WE NEED TO MAKE SURE TO GET THAT ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE TOO.
UM, I THINK IT PROBABLY WAS, MAYBE IT WASN'T.
I KNOW IT WAS ON THE CITY'S PAGE.
WE NEED TO SHARE, UM, FROM OUR PAGE, BOTH OF THOSE OPENINGS.
UM, IF WE DO GET ANY APPLICATIONS FOR THE COMMISSION VACANCY, UM,
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I'M NOT SURE THAT I WOULD BE THE ONE INTERVIEWING ANYWAY IF, BUT JUST A REMINDER, TUESDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS ARE LIKE OUT FOR ME FOR THOSE THINGS.SO WHEN WERE, WHEN WERE THE ANNOUNCEMENTS? UH, I DID SEE THE CCR R BEING ONE.
WHEN WERE THEY POSTED? THE CCR B ONE? WHEN WAS IT WHEN THEY POSTED FOR THE TWO? UH, FOR THE CCRB AND FOR THE YOU YOU'RE ASKING WHEN WAS IT POSTED? YEAH, WHEN WAS IT MOTION? OH, I COULDN'T TELL YOU.
I I WOULD FIGURE SOMETIME LAST MONTH I WOULD THINK.
UM, JEFFREY, UM, WHEN'S THE DEADLINE FOR BOTH THE VACANCY ON COMMISSION AND
IS THERE A WAY FOR US TO GET IN CONTACT WITH THE NEWS, GET THAT OUT MAYBE IN THE DAY DAILY NEWS? IT COULD BE.
I LIKE A NICE LITTLE LOOK WHAT OUR COMMISSION HAS ACCOMPLISHED, YOU KNOW, SINCE IT'S INDUCTION AND APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN, USE IT AS A NICE LITTLE, HEY, WE'RE STILL AROUND AND WE'RE DOING THE GOOD WORK OUT HERE.
SO THIS IS EVEN BEFORE MY TIME I GOT WITH THE CITY RIGHTS.
NOW I LISTEN TO NPR 'CAUSE I'M OLD.
UM, BUT NONETHELESS THAT
I'LL DOUBLE CHECK ON THAT AND SEE IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S POSSIBLE AS WELL.
LET'S GET IT OUT FAR AND WIDE.
LET'S GET SOME PEOPLE IN THESE SPOTS.
NEXT MEETING, JANUARY 4TH AT 6:00 PM HAPPY NEW YEAR.
ANYTHING ELSE BEFORE WE ADJOURN, MA'AM? YEAH,
SO I'D LIKE TO SAY, OH YEAH, ERIC, IT IS BEEN A PLEASURE.
YOU'VE BEEN AMAZING TO WORK WITH, ESPECIALLY THROUGH ALL OF OUR POLICE REFORM INITIATIVES AND THE MANY HOURS WE HAVE SPENT TOGETHER.
JUST WANNA SAY, YEAH, DEFINITELY.
IT'S BEEN A, IT'S REALLY AN HONOR AND PLEASURE, UH, SERVING ON THIS COMMISSION WITH YOU ALL.
UH, AND I CAME TO THIS COMMISSION, WHAT, I GUESS THREE YEARS AGO.
IT WAS ACTUALLY STARTED WITH, I GUESS MY WIFE AND I WHEN WE CAME, UH, AND HAD A MEETING WITH THE MAYOR FOLLOWING THE GEORGE FLOYD SITUATION AND SAID, HEY, THERE'S SOMETHING WE NEED TO DO TO, TO KIND OF BRING AWARENESS TO CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUES AND, YOU KNOW, DIVERSITY AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
AND, AND SHORTLY AFTERWARDS, RIGHT, THIS COMMISSION WAS, WAS BORN.
AND SO, UM, SO I WAS ON THE, AGAIN, ON THE COMMISSION FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, SERVED ON IT FOR THREE YEARS.
AND IT'S, AGAIN, IT'S BEEN TRULY A PLEASURE WORKING WITH Y'ALL AGAIN.
WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED A LOT, YOU KNOW, FROM THE, FROM THE FORUMS THAT WE'VE HELD, UH, TO THE MLK EVENTS WE'VE HAD, UH, TO THE, OBVIOUSLY THE, THE CULTURAL ADVERSITY.
I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY THE, UM, THE JUNETEENTH AND THE, THE FESTIVALS, THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVALS, AND OBVIOUSLY WORKING WITH THE POLICE, UH, CHIEF TO PUT TOGETHER THE CCRB.
SO I THINK WE, WE'VE, UH, DONE A LOT OVER, OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS.
AND, AND SO, UH, I TRUST THIS, THIS, UH, THIS GROUP CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD DOING AND ACCOMPLISHING GREAT THINGS.
AND SO I, ALTHOUGH I WON'T BE ON THE COMMISSION, I'LL, UH, I'LL STILL BE, YOU KNOW, UH, NEARBY YEAH.
SUPPORT, YOU KNOW, UH, WHERE NEEDED AS YOU GUYS MOVE FORWARD.
BUT, BUT AGAIN, THANK YOU ALL.
WE AGAIN, WE'VE HAD SOME GOOD TIME TOGETHER, WORKING TOGETHER, FIND, UH, LAST AND, AND IT'S JUST, UH, IT'S JUST A GREAT GROUP OF PEOPLE.
AND SO AGAIN, THANK YOU AND, AND YOU ALL WILL BE, WILL BE MISSED.