* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. THERE WE GO. [00:00:05] CALL [ AGENDA CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZEN ACTION COMMISSION City Hall - Council Chambers 6131 Taylorsville Road December 5, 2024 6:00 P.M. ] THE DECEMBER 5TH MEETING OF THE CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZENS ACTION COMMISSION TO ORDER AT 6:09 PM GET A ROLL CALL, PLEASE. MS. PURVIS. PRESENT MR. GVI. MR. CHA PRESENT? MRS. UH, STEGEL. MS. STEVENS? PRESENT. MR. RICHARDSON PRESENT. MRS. NEWBIE. AL LES ALAIR. LES MS. NEWBIE? AZAR ALAIR. ALAIR ALAIR. PRESENT, UH, MS. TROTTER PRESENT? MR. OWENS, LET THE RECORD REFLECT THAT MR. COY CORY OWENS, I CAN'T TALK TONIGHT. UM, AND MRS. CARLA STEGEL ARE ON THE WAY. UM, AND MR. UM, GULA, VIV WILL, UH, NOT BE WITH US. HE'S EXCUSED THIS EVENING. UH, MOVING ALONG TO APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES. LET'S START WITH APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM THE OCTOBER 3RD MEETING. DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY EDITS TO THE MINUTES AT, AT, I DIDN'T REMEMBER. I, I JUST WAS TRYING TO GAIN SOME CLARITY AROUND THIS. UM, IT WAS NOTED THAT THE CITY'S DIVERSITY TRAINING INITIATIVES ARE ONGOING. I DIDN'T RECALL THAT, SO I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WAS ACCURATELY REFLECTED. ANYONE ELSE CAN RECALL? THAT'S FROM THE OCTOBER MINUTES. I, NO, I, I MEAN, I FEEL LIKE I REMEMBER THE, KIND OF THE OPPOSITE THAT IT WAS UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE OUTGOING, UM, OR LIKE AN ANNUAL THING. UM, BUT I MEAN, THE NEXT PART IS ACKNOWLEDGED, THE NEED FOR FURTHER CLARITY AND UPDATES REGARDING THE SPECIFIC PROGRESS AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THESE PROGRAMS. SO I FEEL LIKE WE'RE JUST KIND OF LAYING BACK IN THE SAME PLACE, ESSENTIALLY. SOMETHING I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT TONIGHT. YEAH. THIS IS ONE I SIGNED. SEE, I MADE IT THREE MINUTES WITHOUT WRITING ON THIS PAPER. . UM, COULD YOU GIVE ME TWO PAPERS? BECAUSE I'M GONNA WRITE NOTES ON AT LEAST ONE OF THEM. I DON'T HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL EDITS. DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY? I DO NOT GIVEN NONE. UM, COULD WE GET A MOTION TO APPROVE IF EVERYBODY IS AT THAT PLACE? IF NOT, I CAN GIVE YOU MORE TIME. WHATEVER YOU NEED. SOMEBODY GAVE A COPY OF THE FIRST PAGE THEY DIDN'T WRITE ON AND TREAT IT WITH YOU. YEAH. I APOLOGIZE. UH, WITH MY WORKLOAD THIS WEEK. I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO READ THESE. YOU'RE FINE UNTIL NOW. . SCAN AWAY. LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU'RE READY. BUT THEY LOOK ALRIGHT TO ME. JUST, I, I WOULD INTERJECT. I'D HAVE TO GO BACK ON BOTH OR THE OCTOBER MEETINGS. UM, I DON'T THINK MR. OWENS, UM, IS EITHER PRESENT OR ABSENT ON THE ROLL CALL. SO, UM, THERE'S THAT EDIT THAT NEEDS TO BE MADE. SO WITH THE ADDITION OF MR. CORY OWENS, UM, ACTUALLY TO BOTH OF THEM. [00:05:04] ANYTHING ELSE WHEN YOU MAKE THAT EDIT? IT MIGHT JUST BE ME BEING A PAIN BECAUSE I AM, BUT CAN YOU ADD THE MR IN FRONT OF ERIC AND ABRAHAM PLEASE? THAT'S SO SILLY. YEP. NO, THAT, I'M SORRY. YEAH, NO WORRIES. AND I JUST WROTE ON IT AGAIN. MM-HMM . DO I HAVE TO SIGN AFTER THE EDITS ANYWAY? IS THAT JUST PROCEDURAL OR IT, BECAUSE IT'S A FRONT, IT'S A FRONT. JUST ON THE, JUST JUST ON THE BACK. AND THEN I'LL MAKE THE EDITS TO THE FRONT PAGE SINCE THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE. OKAY. YEAH. YEP. CAR LOOKS LIKE A CAT. WHEN DID YOU GET HERE? ? YEAH, I THINK WE'RE WAITING FOR A MOTION, UM, JUST WITH THE ADDITIONAL EDIT OF ADDING MR. COREY OWENS AND THEN THE MR TO THE IBRAHIM AND MR. ERIC RICHARDSON. UM, BUT I CAN GIVE, UH, CARLA A MINUTE IF SHE NEEDS ONE TO REVIEW FOR EDITS IF THERE WAS ANY. OKAY. CAN I GET A MOTION, PLEASE? I MOVE THAT WE ACCEPT THE MINUTES FROM OCTOBER 3RD. MM-HMM . OKAY. OCTOBER 3RD, 2024. WITH THE EDIT. WITH THE EDIT AS REFLECTED IN WHO WAS PRESENT. MM-HMM . YEAH. THANK YOU. I'LL GET A SECOND, PLEASE. SECOND. SO MOVED. CARRIED. UM, WE'LL JUST MOVE ALONG TO NOVEMBER. I NOTICED THE SAME EDIT IN THE, UM, PRESENT THE, IN THE PEOPLE PRESENT. UM, WE NEED TO ADD CORY AND THEN THE ADDITIONAL, UM, MRS. AS AVAILABLE. IS IT DOCTOR? UH, WE'D LIKE TO MAKE SURE WE ADDRESSED HIM APPROPRIATELY. NEWS TO ME. OKAY. I CAN, I CAN DO IT. YEAH. NO WORRIES. UH, I DID NOT REALIZE THAT, UM, UM, THE DATE OF THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL IS NOT THE DATE THAT WE HAD DISCUSSED. UM, WE DISCUSSED SEPTEMBER 17TH, 18TH. UM, BUT IT'S REFLECTED IN HERE AS OCTOBER 11TH. WE MIGHT HAVE DISCUSSED, I THINK IT WAS SEPTEMBER, DECEMBER 11TH. SEPTEMBER 13. THIRD. SEPTEMBER 3RD. YEAH. GET MY PHONE OUT. I FORGOT MY LAPTOP TABLET THING. UM, YEP. SEPTEMBER 13TH. MM-HMM . IS THAT SEPTEMBER 13TH? IS THAT THE DATE THAT WE OKAY, THAT'S THE DATE. THAT SHOULD BE IN THE MINUTES. OKAY. RIGHT NOW, WE HAD TALKED ABOUT A COUPLE DIFFERENT DATES, BUT I THINK THAT'S CENTRAL STATE. I THOUGHT THAT THAT WAS, ISN'T HOMECOMING IN OCTOBER? UH, NO. THIS IS SEPTEMBER. WHAT BEFORE? SAYS NINTH, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER. OH YEAH. WE HAD, I MEAN, WE VOTED ON A DATE, BUT APPARENTLY, I WANNA MAKE SURE YOU GUYS KNEW THAT. WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT SOME ON THE AGENDA. MM-HMM . UM, UNDER MLK, THEY UPDATE, IT HAS THE EVENT [00:10:01] STRUCTURE AS COMMENCING WITH THE UNITY WALK, STARTING AT BAYSIDE COFFEE BAR AND A KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY A DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER. UM, THAT WAS NOT WHAT WAS DISCUSSED IN THE WALK. IT REFERENCES A WALK IN HERE. OKAY. NOTED. WHO DID YOU SAY ERICA WAS THAT WEEK? THAT WEEKEND? UM, SISTER STATE'S HOMECOMING THIS YEAR WAS OCTOBER 9TH THROUGH THE 12TH. THEY'RE LIKE BARELY BACK IN SCHOOL BY SEPTEMBER. LET ME LOOK. YEAH, BUT, WE'LL, I MAY WE'LL GET THERE. THAT MAY BE A GOOD DATE. THE 13TH. YEAH. I'M MAY BE LOOKING AT IT THE WRONG MONTH. IT'S GONNA COME BACK UP LIKE, UH, BAD FOOD IN A MINUTE. ANYWAY, SO WE'LL GET THERE. BUT LET'S JUST FOCUS ON THE, WE'LL, WE'LL, WE'LL NAB OUT THE, THE MINUTES FIRST, BUT, UH, THAT ONE'S GONNA POP BACK UP. SO ANYWAYS, MAKE THAT EDIT FOR THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL. SCRAP THE CONVERSATION. 'CAUSE WE'RE NOT DOING ANY OF THAT. I DON'T THINK WE DISCUSSED ANY OF THAT. UM, WHEN IT CAME TO THE MLK, WE DECIDED THAT WALK PART OF IT WAS JUST TOO, THERE'S TOO MANY PAGES. YEAH. AND THAT WAS ALSO BECAUSE MAYBE THAT YEAH, WE DEFINITELY DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT LIKE, THE TRAFFIC CONTROL, UM, OR ANY OF THAT PART OF IT THIS YEAR. SO JUST MAKE SURE WE SCRAP KIND OF THOSE COUPLE BULLETS AND WE'LL BE FINE THERE. ANYBODY ELSE? OKAY. GIVEN NONE, CAN WE GET A MOTION TO APPROVE WITH THE SUGGESTED EDITS? I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE THE NOVEMBER 7TH MINUTES, UM, WITH, WITH THE EDITS AS REFLECTED. I SECOND, I SECOND THAT MOTION. THANK YOU LADIES. WE HAVE NO CITIZENS HERE TO MAKE COMMENTS THIS EVENING, SO WE WILL MOVE RIGHT ALONG. UM, IS THERE ANY UPDATES THAT ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO MAKE TO THE AGENDA BEFORE WE GO ANY FURTHER? UM, CAN I ADD, WE'LL NEED SOME VOLUNTEERS FOR THE JUNETEENTH. OH, OKAY. DO YOU WANT ME TO JUST ADD YOU A BULLET OR? YEAH, YEAH, THAT'D BE FINE. IF YOU DON'T MIND. THANK YOU. WE'LL JUST ADD YOU A BULLET RIGHT BEFORE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL. HOW ABOUT THAT? PERFECT. SOUNDS GOOD. AND WHAT ARE WE GOING TO ADDRESS ABOUT MULTICULTURAL NARROWING DOWN THAT, REVISITING THE DATE OF IT? YEAH. UM, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S A HAVE TO, UM, I WAS GONNA KIND OF LOOK TO JEFFREY. THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION OF US, LIKE THE MARIGOLD FESTIVAL WASN'T HELD ON THAT WEEKEND FOR LIKE A REASON, AND THEN WE KIND OF TRIED TO MOVE OUR EVENT IN THERE. SO IF THERE WAS SOME BIG EVENT AT THE HIGH SCHOOL OR SOMETHING THAT WAS HAPPENING THAT WEEKEND THAT WOULD ALS COULD BE A BARRIER, UM, WAS THE LAST THAT I WAS UPDATED REGARDING OUR DATE FOR THE MULTICULTURAL. OKAY. WELL, LET ME GET TO E UH, CAN WE DO A LITTLE SIDE BULLET ABOUT, UM, UH, AREA GROUPS THAT WE'D LIKE TO CONSIDER FOR PARTICIPATION? MM-HMM . ABSOLUTELY. THANK . YEAH, I WOULD LIKE TO GET THAT, THAT THAT DATE NAILED DOWN. UM, SO WE CAN GET FLYERS AND STUFF OR, YOU KNOW, START ADVERTISING [00:15:01] FOR VENDORS. UM, OKAY. SO OLD BUSINESS A, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS TO CITY COUNCIL. WE WERE LOOKING FOR AN UPDATE ON THE STATUS. UM, I'M NOT SURE HOW MANY, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS WE HAVE. OUTSTANDING. UM, I'M SURE WE HAVE SOMEWHERE DEEP IN OUR RECESSES A LISTING OF OUR RECOMMENDATIONS, OR AT LEAST COULD BE ABLE TO PULL ONE TOGETHER. BUT, AND ANYTHING THAT YOU CAN SHARE REGARDING, UM, ANY UPDATES TO CITY COUNCIL? YEAH, SURE. UM, I TALKED TO TONY SOMETIME THIS WEEK IF IT WAS ALL SMUSHED TOGETHER, BUT, UM, UH, YEAH, WE TALKED ABOUT IT. I THINK, UM, MRS. STEVENSON HAD SENT THE EMAIL, UM, TO TONY JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WE COULD DO TO KIND OF GET THAT INFORMATION, UM, TO YOU ALL ABOUT, UM, UH, THE RECOMMENDATIONS. UM, IT'S JUST BEEN A HASSLE. UM, JUST WOULD TRY TO CLOSE OUT THE YEAR AND TRY TO GET EVERYTHING KIND OF SET UP FOR HIM, UM, AS WELL AS MYSELF. UM, BUT WE DID TRY TO FIGURE IF WE COULD COME UP WITH SOMETHING PROBABLY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR, UM, TO KIND WORK ON IT TOGETHER. UM, JUST TO KIND OF PULL LIKE ALL THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT YOU GUYS HAVE, UM, SUBMITTED, WHETHER THAT BE, UM, DIRECT, UH, DIRECTLY TO, UM, UH, STAFF LIAISON, UM, OR WHETHER THAT WAS, UM, UH, SOMEONE FROM THE COMMISSION, UH, COMING TO, UM, UH, THE WORK SESSION FOR YOU GUYS', COMMISSION UPDATES. UM, IF, UH, ANY, UM, I THINK FROM WHAT TONY WAS SAYING, I THINK IT WOULD DO HIM A LOT. GOOD IF, I THINK TYPICALLY, UM, YOU GUYS HAD SENT IN, UM, UH, PAPER, UM, REQUE OR, OR, OR, UH, RECOMMENDATION REQUESTS ON PAPER. SO IT'S JUST, UH, HIS PROCESS OF TRYING TO GO ON BACK TO MAKE SURE WHAT HE HAS ON FILE AND THEN TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, COMPILE THAT TOGETHER AND THEN WE SHOULD HOPEFULLY HAVE SOMETHING RELATIVELY, UM, BY THE BEGINNING OF NEXT YEAR. UM, WITH THAT, THAT ANSWER FOR YOU ALL? YEAH. EVERYTHING SHOULD HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED AS A FORMAL RECOMMENDATION. YEAH. I DON'T THINK THERE WAS ANYTHING THAT WAS KIND OF A, IT WOULD BE NICE IF MM-HMM . THIS WAS DONE. YEAH. I THINK, UH, AND FORGIVE US, I THINK IT'S ONLY THE IDEA OF JUST TRYING TO FIND THE, THE TIME TO KIND OF MM-HMM . LIKE KIND OF, UH, YOU KNOW, SIFT THROUGH ALL THAT STUFF AND, AND TRY TO, YOU KNOW, PRESENT IT FOR YOU GUYS. UM, SO I'M HOPEFUL BY THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR WE WILL HAVE SOME TIME TO KIND OF DIG THROUGH THAT AND GIVE YOU GUYS THAT ANSWER THAT YOU GUYS ARE LOOKING FOR. IS THERE ANY, UM, ANY UPDATE ON, UM, THE PROCESS, CITY COUNCIL'S PROCESS FOR ADDRESSING ANY RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE SUBMIT? I THINK WE FORWARDED TO YOU WHAT THE COMMISSION HAD COME UP WITH THE FLOW. NO, YOU WERE CHECKING ON. YEAH, I, I KNOW IF IT WASN'T YOURSELF OR IF IT WAS MS. NEWBIE, I I'M GONNA GET IT. THAT'S OKAY. ALAIR, ALAIR, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF, UH, ONE OF YOU TWO HAD SENT ME THE PROCESS OF HOW THAT KIND YOU GUYS WANTED THAT TO KIND OF TAKE PLACE. UM, I HAVEN'T HAD THAT ABILITY TO NECESSARILY TALK WITH, UM, JOHN ABOUT THAT AND TRY TO FORMULATE THAT CONVERSATION BETWEEN JOHN, TONY AND COUNSEL ABOUT HOW THE PROCESS, UM, YOU GUYS ARE HOPEFULLY RECOMMENDING. UM, BUT I HOPE TO KIND OF, OBVIOUSLY ONCE WE GET AT THE START OF THE NEW CALENDAR, I'LL MAKE SURE THAT THAT, THAT THAT PRIORITY HAS BEEN PASSED ALONG AND THEN, UM, GIVE YOU GUYS, UM, ADEQUATE UPDATES ABOUT HOW, HOW WE'RE LOOKING ON THAT PROCESS. OKAY. THAT, SO THEY'VE SEEN THAT BEFORE. OH, OKAY. WE'VE, IT WAS ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS ACTUALLY. . OKAY. SO . OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO WE'RE OKAY. BUT I WILL, SO WE APPROVED THAT WE APPROVED THE PROCESS FROM OUR STANDPOINT, YES. OKAY. BUT THERE WAS A SECOND PART WHERE THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO KICK IN OKAY. TO SAY, YOU KNOW, EITHER, YOU KNOW, RESPOND WITHIN X NUMBER OF DAYS, I CAN'T RECALL OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD MM-HMM . OR AT LEAST LET US KNOW WHERE WE ARE IN THE PROCESS. OKAY. YES. SO, SO WITHIN THAT PROCESS OF WHAT ME AND TONY DIG UP, OBVIOUSLY THAT WOULD BE HIGHLIGHTED IN, IN TRYING TO NOT JUST LIKE, PUT ALL THE RECOMMENDATIONS [00:20:01] THAT THE COMMISSION HAS OBVIOUSLY SENT TO COUNCIL, BUT OBVIOUSLY, AND I FIGURE THIS IS WHAT YOU GUYS ALSO WANT AS WELL, WHERE DO WE STAND AT WITH ALL THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS AS WELL? MM-HMM . SO, YES. UM, THAT WORK WOULD BE DONE, I'M HOPING FOR AT THE BEGINNING OF, UH, JANUARY. AND HOPEFULLY WE GOT A, AND IT'S COMPLETED BY THE END OF JANUARY. I GAVE MYSELF THAT DEADLINE. OKAY. UM, I'M JUST GONNA CROSS OFF THE SECOND PART OF THAT BECAUSE PART OF THAT WAS THE COUNCIL LIAISON WAS ONE OF THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS AS WELL. UM, DO WE HAVE A LIST, OUR OWN LIST BESIDES JUST WAITING FOR TONY TO, WE NEED TO CREATE ONE. WE HAVE OUR LIST TO BE ABLE TO SAY THESE ARE THE ONES WE SENT THAT WE WOULD LIKE FEEDBACK ON. Y UM, I MEAN, I FEEL LIKE THEY'VE EITHER BEEN CROSSED OFF OR THEY'RE IN LIMBO. THERE'S NONE THAT ARE REALLY IN ANY OTHER PHASE OF, I MEAN, IT KIND OF BE LIKE A YES. YEAH. THE ONES THAT ARE IN LIMBO, WE DON'T HAVE LIKE A HARD, WE ACKNOWLEDGE THIS OR WE ARE GOING TO DISREGARD THIS COMPLETELY BACK FROM CITY COUNCIL. SO A LOT OF IT IS STILL KIND OF UP IN THE AIR STUFF THAT WE'RE, WE'RE STILL LOOKING FOR ANSWERS ON. UM, I CAN DO SOME RECONCILIATION TO SEE WHAT, UH, MY ONLY STRUGGLE WITH COMPLETING THAT SENTENCE IS, THERE'S SOME AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN CROSSED OFF, BUT ARE THEY CROSSED OFF TO THE LEVEL THAT WE RECOMMENDED? MAYBE NOT LIKE THE WEBSITE, LIKE WERE CHANGES MADE. ABSOLUTELY. YOU KNOW, BUT DO THEY STILL KIND OF REFLECT THE BUSINESS INFRASTRUCTURE OR LIKE THE, THE HIGHLIGHTS AND NOT NECESSARILY THE DIVERSITY? YEAH, KIND OF, YOU KNOW, SO IT'S LIKE A, HOW DO WE GO BACK AND AND RECONCILE STUFF THAT LIKE WAS DONE BUT MAYBE WASN'T DONE TO, TO THE DIVERSITY COMMISSION'S, YOU KNOW, REQUEST. UM, BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF AREAS THAT I FELT, UM, OR PERSONALLY FEEL LIKE THE, THE ABILITY TO TRANSLATE THE WEBSITES, UM, TO ALL OF THE LANGUAGES, ESPECIALLY THE SCHOOL'S WEBSITE. LIKE THAT WAS KIND OF A REALLY BIG DEAL. AND THAT'S MARKED OFF, YOU KNOW, THE CCRB WAS A REALLY BIG DEAL, AND, AND THAT'S MARKED OFF. SO A LOT OF THE, THE BIG DEAL STUFF WAS MARKED OFF. AND I THINK A LOT OF THE, THE FINER TUNE STUFF IS THE STUFF THAT'S BEEN LEFT IN LIMBO. SO WE'LL DO SOME RECONCILIATION AND THEN MAYBE PRIORITIZE WHAT'S OUTSTANDING. THAT'S KIND OF MY QUESTION IS, YEAH, LET'S, LET'S SEE WHAT, WHAT IS STILL THERE, UH, AND THEN AS A COMMISSION DECIDE, OKAY, WE'RE GOOD WITH WHERE IT'S AT MM-HMM . OR WE'RE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING ELSE. SO THAT, 'CAUSE AS I GO BACK AND LOOK, THIS SHOWS UP ON EVERY AGENDA MM-HMM . AND IT, IT JUST SEEMS LIKE WE'RE NOT BRINGING IT TO SOME TYPE OF RESOLUTION. RATHER IT'S, WE'RE NOT GETTING BACK FROM THE CITY OR SOMETHING. I JUST THINK MAYBE WE NEED TO MM-HMM . YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING, BE THE DOG WAGON, THE TAIL INSTEAD OF THE TAIL WAGGING A DOG, RIGHT? MM-HMM . KIND OF BE IN CONTROL OF OUR OWN. AND I THINK A LOT OF THAT HAS BEEN JUST IN THE SHUFFLE AND THE CHANGES, YOU KNOW, WHERE WE'RE HANDING STUFF OVER IN THAT PROCESS THAT HAS BEEN SET UP FOR US, YOU KNOW, AND, AND THINGS HAVE GOTTEN LOST IN THE SHUFFLE, PROBABLY JUST DUE TO COMPETING PRIORITIES, WHICH IS ALWAYS GONNA BE AN ISSUE. SO I DON'T THINK IT'S A BAD IDEA TO RECONCILE. UM, AND THEN TAKE A FRESH LOOK AT, UM, REPRIORITIZING THE RECOMMENDATIONS. I DON'T THINK THAT ANY OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE THINGS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE LIKE, WE DON'T CARE ABOUT THIS ANYMORE. 'CAUSE WE TOOK THE TIME AND THE ATTENTION TO CREATE THEM TO BEGIN WITH. UM, EVEN SOME OF THE MORE HEAVY RECOMMENDATIONS, OR THE RECENT RECOMMENDATION DOESN'T CHANGE BECAUSE OF, YOU KNOW, THE LACK OF SPOTLIGHT ON IT NOW. YOU KNOW, INSTEAD PEOPLE ARE LITERALLY FLEEING THEIR HOMES, UM, DUE TO FAIR TO, TO CONTINUE TO LIVE THERE. SO THESE ISSUES DON'T GO AWAY JUST BECAUSE WE HAVE COMPETING PRIORITIES. MM-HMM . GUESS THAT'S THE EASIEST WAY TO JUST SAY THAT. [00:25:01] SO I THINK WE CAN DO THAT, UM, ON OUR END. IF ANYBODY THAT'S BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE, I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW IF WE NEED TO DREDGE UP 2020 AND 2021, BUT WE WERE MAKING MORE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS IN 2021. UM, IF THERE WERE ANY RECOMMENDATIONS YOU PERSONALLY WROTE AND BROUGHT TO THIS COMMISSION THAT YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE GOT THE, THE VIEW OR WANT TO, UM, BRING TO OUR ATTENTION THAT MAY FILE OFF LIKE MY RADAR, JUST, YOU KNOW, SEND ME AN EMAIL. YES. AND IF I MAY GO AHEAD AND I DO AGREE WITH ERIC'S POINT MM-HMM . AND I JUST FOUND IN MY FILES THERE IS A LIST OF ALL THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WERE BROUGHT FORTH AS OF 2020 2 23 MM-HMM . AND IT GIVES A STATUS. YEP. AS FAR AS COMPLETED ONGOING. UM, THAT'S PROBABLY TONY'S LIST, ISN'T IT? UM, MAYBE, I'M NOT SURE, BUT I CAN SEND THIS TO THE COMMISSION. PLEASE DO. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, JEFFREY, THIS WOULD PROBABLY BE GOOD, UM, FOR YOURSELF AND TONY TO HAVE AS WELL. OKAY? MM-HMM . THAT'S THE LIST THAT I'M FORWARDING TO YOU. OH, OKAY. HE DOES. YEAH. OKAY. SO SAME, SAME THING I'M TALKING ABOUT. OKAY. YEAH. SO WE HAVE BEEN TRACKING THESE, THAT LIST THAT JEAN IS REFERRING TO. I MENTIONED IN OUR MEETING LAST MONTH, UM, THE ONLY THINGS THAT WE'VE ADDED HAVE BEEN THE THINGS THAT WERE FROM THIS PAST YEAR, WHICH INCLUDED THE, THE LIAISON, IT INCLUDED HIRING A PART-TIME PERSON. IT INCLUDED THE, UM, WHAT WAS THE THING THAT YOU ADDED ABOUT CELEBRATING THE DIFFERENT OH, THE HERITAGE MONTHS. YEAH. UM, SO THOSE WERE THE THREE MAIN ONES. SO THOSE ARE THE ONLY, FROM MY REC, FROM MY MEMORY, , THE ONLY THREE THAT WE NEED TO ADD. SO WE DO HAVE A TRACK LIST. WE JUST NEED TO ADD THOSE THREE THINGS. WHAT HERITAGE MONTH? UH, SO I MADE A RECOMMENDATION THAT HUBER HEIGHTS CREATE A PROGRAM, A A WAY OF CELEBRATING THE NATIONAL HERITAGE MONTHS AT THE CITYWIDE LEVEL. AND NOT IT, WE, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO, TO, TO DO THAT. UM, SO IT WAS KIND OF MY THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, IN THIS, THIS STANDUP OF THIS COMMISSION WAS TO BE A RECOMMENDING BODY TO CITY COUNCIL. AND PART OF THAT RECOMMENDATION IS THAT THE CITY TAKE THE OWNERSHIP IN CELEBRATING THE HERITAGE OF THE DIVERSE POPULATIONS OF THIS CITY. AND, AND ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO DO THAT IS IN THE CELEBRATION OF THE NATIONAL HERITAGE MONTHS. UM, AND YEAH, THAT'S AS FAR AS IT GOT. OKAY. GOTCHA. I REMEMBER THAT. OKAY. THE OTHER HALF OF THAT RECOMMENDATION WAS THE LANGUAGE THING. SO HALF GOT DONE, THAT WAS THE SAME DAY I HIT ON TWO. SO . SO IS THAT A RECOMMENDATION THAT STILL NEEDS TO BE MADE THEN? IT'S A RECOMMENDATION THAT HAS BEEN MADE AND IT IS AT CITY COUNCIL. UM, BUT IF WE WANT TO REALLY TALK ABOUT HOW DO WE CELEBRATE, UM, YOU KNOW, ASIAN HERITAGE, HOW DO WE CELEBRATE LATIN HERITAGE? YOU KNOW, THAT'S HOW CITIES THAT ARE EMBRACING THESE INITIATIVES, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A REALLY GREAT WAY, UM, TO DO THAT. SO IS IT TOO LATE TO ADD SOMETHING TO THAT? IT'S IN THERE. IT IS. SO NOT TO HAVE A PSYCHIC CONVERSATION, BUT THAT IS A CONVERSATION. UM, UNLESS, UNLESS YOU'RE SAYING SOMETHING THAT I'M NOT THINKING YOU'RE SAYING. SO PLEASE SAY IT IF YOU WANT TO. BUT, UM, WE'RE GETTING A LITTLE OFF, OFF BASE ON THE RECOMMENDATIONS. WE CAN REVISIT 'EM, I CAN RECONCILE 'EM AND I'LL BRING 'EM BACK. THERE IS A VAST, I WOULD SAY ALMOST MAJORITY OF THIS COMMISSION THAT HAS NOT SEEN THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, AND HAVE NOT SEEN THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT ARE OUT OUTSTANDING WITH CITY COUNCIL. SO I'LL RECONCILE 'EM, UM, AND I'LL KILL A COUPLE TREES AND HAVE JEFFREY PRINT THEM FOR JANUARY'S, UH, MEETING, AND WE CAN REVIEW THEM IN ADVANCE OF THAT MEETING AND THEN DISCUSS IF THERE'S ANY, UM, CHANGES. I, FOR ME PERSONALLY, THOSE HERITAGE MONTHS, THAT'S A, THAT'S STILL A REAL HIGH LEVEL ONE FOR ME ON, ON THINGS THAT NEED FOCUS ON [00:30:01] FROM HEBREW HEIGHTS CITY COUNCIL. UM, MOVING ALONG, UNLESS ANYBODY HAS ANYTHING ELSE IN RECOMMENDATIONS, WELCOME. UM, I MEAN, I GUESS TO KIND OF COINCIDE WITH THIS, THIS REALLY WOULDN'T BE A HERITAGE TYPE THING, BUT MORE OF A, UH, CULTURAL IN, IN A SENSE AND MORE OF A, A DIVERSE, UH, ISSUE. DIVERSITY, NOT, NOT EVEN ISSUE, BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, I WOULD, UH, I, I'D LIKE TO SEE SOMETHING COME FORWARD, UM, TO WHERE THE, THE CITY, UM, COULD DO, UH, POSSIBLY SOMETHING TO RECOGNIZE OUR L-G-B-T-Q, UH, A PLUS RESIDENTS THAT WE HAVE IN THIS CITY. SO GA SO PRIDE MONTH IS ONE OF THE HERITAGE MONTHS. IT'S JUNE. IT'S JUNE, YEAH. UM, SO THAT IS INCLUDED IN THAT RECOMMENDATION. OKAY, GOOD. I WASN'T SURE WHERE THAT STOOD. AND THE ONLY REASON, I MEAN, THERE'S, THE ONLY REASON WE HAVE NOT AS A COMMISSION IN THE LAST FEW YEARS DONE A GAY PRIDE EVENT IS BECAUSE WE DID MULTICULTURAL AND JUNETEENTH IN JUNE, AND IT WAS A BIG HEAVY LOAD. UM, BUT THAT WAS PART OF THAT RECOMMENDATION FOR THE, THE HERITAGE MONTHS WAS FOR HUBER HEIGHTS TO PICK UP THAT, UM, FOCUS. BUT IN, I'M, AGAIN, GETTING OFF TRACK, I HAD SENT THAT, THAT SNAPSHOT, THAT DEI SNAPSHOT DOCUMENT, AND IT HAD OUR LEGISLATION WHERE IT HAS THE RAZ AND THE THIRD, WHEREAS, UM, HAS THE TERM HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS AS PART OF OUR FOCUS. AND, AND IN THAT HUMAN RIGHTS ARE PART OF THOSE RIGHTS THAT ARE GIVEN TO THE L-G-B-T-Q, UM, A POPULATION. SO, YOU KNOW, AS THE FOCUS AND THE LEGISLATION OF THIS COMMISSION, THAT SHOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE ARE OPEN TO, UM, HAVING A DISCUSSION ABOUT. UM, SO, YOU KNOW, OUTSIDE OF THAT RECOMMENDATION, IF WE WANT TO HAVE A SEPARATE CONVERSATION ABOUT ANOTHER EVENT, THAT WOULD BE THE CONVERSATION AT HAND. OTHERWISE, IT'S IN A RECOMMENDATION AT CITY COUNCIL'S HANDS. EITHER WAY YOU WANT TO TAKE THAT. I'M GONNA ADD, UM, JUST FOR HISTORICAL REFERENCE, THAT THE REASON WHY WE HAD NOT REALLY FOCUSED ON THAT IS BECAUSE, SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT DIVERSITY, THERE'S SUCH AN ARRAY. I MEAN, THERE'S A LOT THAT CAN FALL UNDER DIVERSITY. AND WHEN WE LOOK BACK AT OUR LEGISLATION, , DID YOU GET THAT? NO, I THINK THAT'S WHERE I JUST WENT. UM, IT FOCUSED ON CIVIL RIGHTS. AND BASICALLY THE WAY THE LEGISLATION IS WRITTEN, IT DOES NOT ADDRESS WOMEN ARE DIVERSE. RIGHT. A MINORITY, IT DOESN'T ADDRESS LGBTQ PLUS, UM, FOCUSES ON THANK YOU ON, THAT'S NOT IT. BUT THAT'S OUR LEGISLATION. THAT'S THE RESOLUTION THAT CREATED US. AND IT IS IN THERE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS. SO THEN THIS IS DIFFERENT THAN, THIS IS DIFFERENT THAN WHAT THE INITIAL LEGISLATION. YEAH. BUT THAT'S THE SOLUTION THAT THEY USED TO . OKAY. WELL, I DON'T KNOW, BUT WE, YOU, WE JUST HAVE TO REVISIT THAT BECAUSE WE HAVE TO REVISIT WHO ARE WE SERVING? WHAT IS OUR LEGISLATION? WHY WERE WE STARTED, UM, WHAT ISSUES DID, WERE WE STARTED OUT TO COMBAT, RIGHT? BECAUSE WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO EVERYTHING AND ADDRESS EVERYTHING. SO IT GOES BACK TO PRIORITIZATION AND ALIGNING TO THE INCEPTION, YOU KNOW, THE PURPOSE OF THE COMMISSION, WHY IT WAS STARTED, WHAT THE LEGISLATION SAYS. SO I JUST WANT TO REMIND US OF THAT. SO WE JUST NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE FOCUSED ON THOSE THINGS. THANKS. THIS IS, UH, I FEEL THIS IS NOT [00:35:01] THE TIME, BUT I FEEL WE NEED TO HAVE A DEEPER DIVE OF A CONVERSATION. UM, I UNDERSTAND FULLY WHY THIS COMMISSION WAS STARTED. UM, I UNDERSTAND COMPLETELY. UM, I SUPPORT, YOU KNOW, SUPPORT AND I STAND BEHIND THE PREMISE OF, UH, WHY THIS COMMISSION WAS STARTED. UM, HOWEVER, I, I ALSO FEEL A LITTLE CONFLICTED BECAUSE OUR COMMISSION TITLE, UH, CERTAINLY IMPLIES WELL BEYOND THAT. AND, UM, I THINK MAYBE IN THE LAST COUPLE YEARS, UH, MAYBE, UH, THE SCOPE HAS CHANGED AND THAT'S OKAY. UH, BUT IF IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE, UH, MORE FINE TUNED AND MORE FOCUSED, UH, I THINK THE COMMISSION NAME NEEDS TO REFLECT THAT. AND THAT'S JUST, THAT'S JUST MY, THAT, I MEAN, WHEN I THINK ABOUT CULTURE AND DIVERSITY, UH, I DON'T SEE ONE AVENUE, TWO AVENUES, WHATEVER. UH, I SEE ALL AVENUES. SO, UM, I JUST, UH, YEAH. I MEAN, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE I'M ON, YOU KNOW, THE SAME PAGE AS EVERYONE ELSE. YEAH. CHRISTIE AND WE, AND THAT MY PURPOSE HERE IS, YOU KNOW, WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE. YEAH. AND THIS IS, WE'VE HAD THAT SAME DISCUSSION BEFORE BECAUSE WE DIDN'T PICK THE NAME . THAT WAS THE ONE THING. AND SO WE'VE HAD THE DISCUSSION ABOUT, IT'S A BIG NAME, IT ENCOMPASSES A LOT. AND IS THIS COMMISSION ABLE TO TAKE ON EVERYTHING THAT THAT FALLS UNDER? OR WE'VE ALSO HAD A DISCUSSION OF BREAKING THINGS OUT, OR CHANGING THE NAME, OR KEEPING THE NAME AND BREAKING SOMETHING OUT. A SEPARATE COMMISSION, A SEPARATE GROUP TO ADDRESS CERTAIN THINGS, IS, I MEAN, IT IS VALID. WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS VALID. IT JUST MEANS THAT THE COMMISSION NEEDS TO COME TOGETHER AND DISCUSS AND REVISIT, LIKE YOU SAID, IF THE SCOPE, IF EVERYBODY WANTS TO CHANGE THE SCOPE, WE VOTE ON THAT OR WHATEVER, THEN THAT'S HOW WE MOVE FORWARD. BUT, AND THAT'S NO DISRESPECT AT ALL. NO. YEAH. TO THE FOUNDING COMMISSION MEMBERS. AND THE PREMISE UPON WHICH, YOU KNOW, THE COMMISSION WAS FOUNDED, UM, I MEAN, I WILL BE VERY, VERY POINT BLANK. I AM AS MUCH A SUPPORTER OF BLACK LIVES MATTER AS I AM OF LGBTQ PLUS IA. UH, I'M ALL IN WITH DIVERSITY AND CULTURE. UM, IT'S JUST, I THINK GOING FORWARD, YEAH, IF, IF WE COULD BE A LITTLE MORE, YOU KNOW, GET OUR LEGISLATION A LITTLE MORE MAINSTREAMED, IF IF IT NEEDS TO BE UPDATED OR IF THAT'S SOMETHING THE COMMISSION, YOU KNOW, SEES FIT. UM, THANK YOU. UH, YOU KNOW, JUST SOMETHING FOR CONSIDERATION IN A FUTURE MEETING. ABSOLUTELY. WE NEED TO BE INCLUSIVE OF EVERYONE. 'CAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ABOUT. MM-HMM . SO, WE'LL, WE'LL GET TO THIS PART A LITTLE LATER. UM, IT JUST TOOK IS TO TAG ON TO WHAT WE STARTED THE CONVERSATION WITH THE LEGISLATION LAST MONTH. SO LET'S TABLE THIS. IT WILL KIND OF GET THERE IN NEW BUSINESS. I THINK WE'VE ALREADY KIND OF STARTED THIS CONVERSATION. I THINK IT'S NOT A CONVERSATION WE'RE GOING TO PROBABLY BE ABLE TO FINISH TONIGHT. UM, BUT I THINK IT'S, IT'S TIMELY AND, AND IT'S, IT'S VALID. UM, AND IT'S, IT'S, IT'S TIMELY. SO, WE'LL, WE'LL START HAVING A CONVERSATION ABOUT FOCUS AND AREAS AND INITIATIVES AND, AND WHAT IN THE HELL WE'RE DOING HERE. SO , UM, DO WE HAVE AN UPDATE ON OUR NEEDS ASSESSMENT? YEAH, JEFFREY, UM, YEAH, FORGIVE ME. UM, I GUESS I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT, BUT I DID HAVE A MEETING WITH RAMA, UM, JUST KIND OF CLOSING OUT THE YEAR AS WELL AS KIND OF MAKING, UH, GOOD ON, UH, PROMISES KEPT, UM, RELATED TO THEIR NEW UPDATE, UM, THAT THEY HAD SUBMITTED TO, UH, MYSELF. AND THEN I OBVIOUSLY PASS THAT ON TO, UM, LEADERSHIP AND COUNCIL PROBABLY MAYBE A MONTH, MAYBE A MONTH A HALF AGO. UM, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE FROM WHAT JOHN HAD WHEN JOHN GOT THE INFORMATION, EVERYTHING WAS ON TRACK, UM, PERTAINING [00:40:01] TO THE COMMUNITY SURVEY. UM, AS OF THAT MEETING ON TUESDAY, I THINK IT WAS, UM, WE ONLY HAD A TOTAL OF 103, UM, RESPONSES TO THE SURVEY STILL. UM, AND DOING SO WITH THE MARKETING FOR THAT SURVEY, UM, UH, I WAS ABLE TO GET, UM, I ADVERTISEMENT WITHIN, UH, THE WATER BILLS. UM, SO I WANT TO SAY THAT, UH, UH, ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE COMMUNITY SURVEY WILL BE IN, UH, WATER CUSTOMERS, UH, BILLS FROM WHAT'S TODAY? OH, I THINK IT STARTED DECEMBER THE THIRD, AND IT'LL RUN ALL THE WAY TO THE END OF THIS MONTH. UM, I KNOW, UH, THE COMMISSION HAD ASKED FOR A COUPLE OTHER MEASURES RELATED TO MARKETING. UH, I THINK ONE OF 'EM WAS FACEBOOK, UH, PAID ADVERTISEMENT, AND THE OTHER ONE WAS SOME SORT OF, UH, BUSINESS CARD. UM, I THINK YOU GUYS TALKED ABOUT, UH, WAYS OF, UH, EITHER BEING AT KROGER'S OR, UH, THE YMCA OR JUST KIND OF BEING AT A SPOT AND KIND OF ENGAGING PEOPLE WITH THE CARDS. UM, FROM WHAT I SPOKE WITH JOHN ABOUT, UM, HE WAS IN MORE, HE WAS MORE INCLINED ON DOING THE, UH, FACEBOOK, UH, PAID ADVERTISEMENT FOR FACEBOOK. UM, I JUST HAVE TO TALK WITH RACHEL AND TRY TO FIGURE OUT IF, UM, I CAN FIND SOME DOLLARS SOMEWHERE TO KIND OF PUSH THAT, UM, ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE MONTH OF DECEMBER. UM, AND THEN OTHER THAN THAT, WHAT AM I MISSING? UM, I'M SORRY, I HAVE A QUESTION, IF THAT'S OKAY? SURE. YEAH. UM, SO THE SURVEY IS ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE. THE SURVEY ITSELF? UM, TO MY UNDERSTANDING, YES. ONLY ONLINE BECAUSE I'M WONDERING IF IT WOULD BE, UM, CONDUCIVE TO HAVE, UM, LIKE PAPER COPIES MM-HMM . AND WE COULD DO SOMETHING LIKE, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF IT IF IT'S ALLOWED, BUT WE COULD DO SOMETHING LIKE WE DID AT THE Y WITH VOTER REGISTRATION WHERE WE COULD SET UP A TABLE ON A SATURDAY MORNING. AND ARE WE, I MEAN, IS THAT WITHIN OUR, I MEAN, NO, IT'S NOT A, IT'S NOT A BAD IDEA. UM, IT'S DEFINITELY, UH, ONE THAT I CAN DEFINITELY, UM, TRY TO GET. I MEAN, SHOOT, I THINK I COULD JUST PRINT OUT THE, THE ACTUAL SURVEY. IT'S ITSELF, I'M TRYING TO MAKE SURE IF, IF IT'S NECESSARILY, I HAVE TO TALK TO RAYMOND, TELL THEM TO SEND ME THE FLYER, BUT I THINK IT'S A, IT'S A GOOGLE DOC, SO WE COULD EASILY JUST PRINT THAT OUT AND MAKE, I DON'T KNOW, A COUPLE DOZEN COPIES AND THEN IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU GUYS HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO, SURE, WE COULD DO THAT. I CAN TRY TO HOPEFULLY HAVE IT DONE NEXT WEEK IF YOU GUYS ARE IN AGREEMENT TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT. I MEAN, I WOULD BE, UM, WILLING TO YOUR FINALS WEEK, PUT THAT ON YOURSELF, SEE IF WE COULD SET UP AT THE Y MM-HMM . YEAH, SURE. UM, WHERE ELSE COULD, UH, WE GO? I MEAN, IS ANYONE ELSE MAYBE THINKING THAT'S A GOOD IDEA? WOULDN'T IT BE EASIER JUST TO SET UP THE ELECTRONICS AGAIN, IF IT'S A GOOGLE FORM? I GUESS? YEAH, I MEAN, MAYBE WE COULD, BECAUSE THEN YOU'RE ASKING SOMEBODY TO DATA ENTER EVERYBODY'S STUFF IS THE ONLY THING WITH PAPER COPIES OF THIS TYPE OF THING. YEAH. OH YEAH. I WOULD BE TO TAKE TABLETS OR THE, OR THE LAPTOPS AND BE LIKE, DO YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS AND LET 'EM HIT SUBMIT THEMSELVES? WOULD BE THE, MY, I THINK OTHER THAN THAT, I MEAN, I CAN YEAH. HELP SET UP, UM, I MEAN TO WHY, OR IT'S NOT A BAD, IT'S NOT A, I'M, I'M, IT'S NOT A BAD IDEA. RIGHT. UM, JUST LIKE, I DON'T KNOW IF, OBVIOUSLY I THINK THIS WEEK IS WEEKEND IS KINDA SHOT JUST BECAUSE, JUST THE TIMING OF IT ALL. OH, YEAH. UM, BUT IF I TRIED TO GET THAT SCHEDULED FOR NEXT WEEKEND, UM, I DON'T SEE WHY THAT WOULDN'T BE A PROBLEM. I JUST, JUST GOTTA HOW LONG WAS THE SURVEY SUPPOSED TO RUN TO? UM, WE HAVE THE SURVEY RUNNING THROUGH THE END OF THE MONTH. SO IF WE DON'T GET THE NUMBERS, THEN WHAT WE NEED TO KEEP GETTING THE NUMBERS. IF, 'CAUSE WHAT'S THEIR TARGET? I MEAN, WHAT'S THEIR TARGET? WHAT WAS THE TARGET NUMBER? AND IF WE DON'T REACH THAT TARGET NUMBER. SO THE TARGET NUMBER I THINK FOR THE CITY WAS 1%. SO I THINK IT WAS LIKE 400, 400 APPLICATIONS OR 400 RESPONSES. UM, MY UNDERSTANDING IS, UM, WE'RE HOPEFUL THAT WE GET THAT BIG PUSH WHEN IT COMES TO THE WATER BILLS. UM, UH, I KNOW RECENTLY WE JUST DID, UM, I THINK IT WAS LIKE THE, SOMETHING WITH THE EPA, LIKE THE EPA THAT ASKED, UM, US TO, UH, PUT IN OUR WATER BILLS, SOMETHING ABOUT THE, THE, UH, THE PIPES FROM JUST BEING AT THE CITY. WE [00:45:01] GOT A LOT OF PHONE CALLS IN REGARDS OF IT SO PEOPLE SAW IT. UM, I'M HOPEFUL THAT THAT WOULD BE THE SAME RESULT. AND IT'S JUST TRYING TO GET PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND IF THEY HAVE THAT TIME TO KIND OF DO IT. UM, IF THAT NUMBER OF 400 ISN'T MET, I MEAN, I'M NOT, I I, I BELIEVE WE'RE STILL MOVING FORWARD WITH THE, WITH THE DATA THAT THEY COLLECT FROM IT. SO DO WE KNOW, LIKE HOW MANY RESIDENTS IN HUBER HEIGHTS RECEIVE WATER BILLS? IS IT 400? IS THAT LESS? NO. SO MAYBE LIKE SEVEN. SO IT'S NOT JUST RESIDENTS, I THINK IT'S COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES AS WELL. I THINK THE TOTAL NUMBER WAS LIKE SOMETHING LIKE 70,000, UM, WHO ACTUALLY HAVE WATER, LIKE IS A, UH, WHAT THEY CONSIDER A WATER CUSTOMER. SO, UM, THAT WOULD BE THE, THE NUMBER GENERATED FOR WHAT'S IN THE, IN THE WATER BILLS. OKAY. WELL, A LOT OF PEOPLE DO OPEN THAT UP. OKAY. WELL, I DON'T, WHEN, WHEN DO, WHEN'S THE WATER BILL LIKE GO OUT? WHEN DID IT OR DID IT GO OUT? RIGHT? IT ALREADY WENT OUT. YOU SHOULDA HAVE GOTTEN THAT ALREADY BECAUSE IT, FOR THIS ONE, TWO, LIKE, NO, NOT DECEMBER'S NOT, YEAH. SO WHAT, SO WHAT, VIOLA HAS TOLD ME THAT THE WATER BELLS GO OUT EACH WEEK. UM, SO LIKE I SAID, SO THEY'RE JUST GONNA TRICKLE IN AND YEAH. SO EVERY WEEK, UM, WATER BILLS WILL, WILL CONSTANTLY GO OUT UNTIL WE GET TO THE END OF THE BUFF. WELL, I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW. I, I'D STILL BE ON BOARD FOR SETTING UP FOR AN AFTERNOON IF WE COULD, OR A MORNING, UM, AT THE Y UH, JUST TO SEE IF WE COULD GET A FEW EXTRA. UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NO STRINGS ATTACHED AND MAYBE PEOPLE SEEING A FACE CONNECTED TO WHAT THEY'RE BEING ASKED TO FILL OUT MIGHT HELP. I, I DON'T KNOW. DOES ANYONE ELSE THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA, A BAD IDEA? I DON'T THINK IT'S, UH, I DON'T THINK IT'S A BAD IDEA. I THINK THE Y HAD GREAT TRAFFIC FOR THE VOTER REGISTRATION. I JUST, UM, IF YOU CAN SEE IF IT'S LOGISTICALLY POSSIBLE, YEAH, WE CAN TRY TO, YOU KNOW, MAKE IT WORK AFTER THIS WEEK OR, OR WHENEVER. YEAH. UM, JUST RUNNING INTO THE HOLIDAYS, I DON'T HAVE ANY PLANS, SO I DON'T REALLY TO SAY ANYTHING ABOUT RUNNING INTO THE HOLIDAYS, BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S, IT'S NOT A PROBLEM TO, I, I DON'T THINK IT'S A BAD IDEA. I THINK ANY NUMBERS OVER 400 IS A POSITIVE FOR ME. I, I STRUGGLE WITH SUCH A LOW NUMBER, UM, TO BE BASED IN DATA LIKE THIS OFF OF, IT'S A STRUGGLE FOR ME. SO, SO FOR ME, ANYTHING UNDER 400 IS EVEN, IS EVEN WORSE IN MY MIND WHEN IT COMES TO DATA. UM, I STRUGGLE WITH THAT TARGET, BUT IT IS WHAT IT IS AT THIS POINT. IS THAT THE TARGET? UH, IS THERE A QR CODE ASSOCIATED WITH THE SURVEY? MM-HMM . YEAH. SO EVEN IF WE HAVE LIKE LITTLE THINGS, LITTLE PAPERS TO HAND OUT YES. TO SAY, HEY, YOU KNOW, TAKE THIS QR CODE AND FILL OUT THIS SURVEY WHEN YOU GET HOME. KIND OF A THING. LIKE, DID TRIPLE PAPER OR FILL YEAH. SO UNDER, I BELIEVE I, I MEAN WE HAVE THE FLYERS, SO YEAH, WE HAVE THE FLYERS. IF THAT'S, THAT'S EASIER. I KNOW PEOPLE TYPICALLY WILL CARRY A CELL PHONE ON THEM. IT'S MORE OR LESS, HEY, TAKE A PICTURE OF THE QR CODE SCAN IT, CAN YOU PLEASE TAKE OUT, YEAH, I THINK THAT'S A GREAT 10, 10 MINUTES OF YOUR TIME TO KIND OF REALLY LIKE, INVEST IN THIS. IT'D GO A LONG WAY. YEAH. AND IS IT ALSO ON THE, UM, BILLBOARD? IT'S ON THE KEY AD. THANK YOU. SO, AND I SAW THAT THIS MORNING. I SAW IT AND I WAS A LITTLE CONFUSED ABOUT IT, ABOUT WHY WE HAVE IT THERE. I'M NOT MAD ABOUT IT. IT'S ON THE KEY AD AND I SAW IT, SO IT'S THERE MM-HMM . SO MM-HMM . UM, YEAH, I SAW THAT TOO. YEAH. IT'S KIND OF JUST BEING, YOU KNOW, REALISTIC, KIND OF DANGEROUS, , YOU KNOW, YOU DRIVE AND LIKE, OH, YOU KNOW. YEAH. SO THE QR CODE IS ON THE CORRECT. YES, CORRECT. IT'S ON, YEAH. WELL, I'M GLAD I GOT UP THERE NOW THAT, WELL, THAT WAS, THAT'S WHAT I WAS GETTING TOLD [00:50:01] THAT, OH, WE'RE NOT GONNA PUT IT THERE. BUT THEN, UM, I SAW I WAS GONNA THE SENIOR CENTER THIS MORNING AND I WAS LIKE, OH, THAT'S THERE. OKAY. SO I SAID, OKAY, WELL, ALL RIGHT, WE'RE COOL. I'M COOL WITH IT, I GUESS. RIGHT. SO WHEN IS THE GOAL AGAIN, TO HAVE SUBMISSIONS AGAIN FOR THE COMMUNITY SURVEY? MM-HMM . SO THEY'RE HOPING I I, I'M, I'M, MY INITIAL THOUGHT WAS THAT THE SURVEY WOULD RUN TO THE END OF THE YEAR. UM, WE WOULD GET THAT. WELL, LET ME NOT LIE TO YOU ALL. I WILL, I WILL SEND YOU ALL A EMAIL. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I'M NOT, I'M, I'M NOT LOSING MY TRACK OF THOUGHT. IT'S EITHER AT THE END OF THE YEAR OR WE WERE FINE ROLLING IT INTO, UM, A LITTLE INTO, UH, JANUARY. OKAY. UM, BUT I WILL GET YOU A, A CONCRETE DAY OF WHEN THE SURVEY ENDS, UM, AND I'LL SHOOT YOU ALL A EMAIL JUST TO LET YOU GUYS KNOW. OKAY. UM, I'M NOT SURE HOW THE COMMISSION FEELS ABOUT THIS, BUT SINCE WE HAVE AN EVENT NEXT MONTH FOR MLK, IF WE ARE ABLE TO YEAH. HAVE A, THE QR CODE WITH THE INFORMATION THERE. YEAH. AND THAT WOULD BE THE BEST, UM, I'LL SAY OUTLET RESOURCE TO GET FEEDBACK FROM PEOPLE THAT ATTEND THE EVENT. YEAH. BECAUSE I THINK ULTIMATELY, RIGHT, UM, IT, LIKE IF THE, IF THE SURVEY STAYS OPEN PAST, LET'S SAY DECEMBER, AND WE KIND PUT IT AROUND THE SAME TIME AS THE MLK EVENT, UM, THE IDEA IS TO ALSO HAVE THESE COMMUNITY SESSIONS IN JANUARY TOO. SO, YOU KNOW, THE IDEA OF, HEY, WE'LL, OR RAMA STILL GATHERING THAT INFORMATION PRIOR TO THE COMMUNITY COMMUNITY SESSIONS. SO WE'RE STILL, SO THEY'RE STILL GATHERING THAT, UH, DATA AND, AND TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HOW TO KIND OF PROPOSE QUESTIONS OR HOW TO PROMPT THESE QUESTIONS. SO, IN MY MIND, I WANT TO SAY THAT IT'S GONNA STAY OPEN UNTIL JANUARY, BUT I'LL, I'LL, I'LL MAKE SURE I'LL GET THAT, UH, INFORMATION FOR YOU GUYS AND THEN OBVIOUSLY KIND OF SIDETRACKING THAT TOO. UM, THE NOTION IS, UM, I'M GONNA SPEAK WITH JOHN AND TONY TO KIND OF GET A, A UNDERSTANDING OF, UH, LOCATION AND TIME FOR THE, UM, UH, UH, UH, COMMUNITY SESSIONS. UM, I, I'M REALLY GETTING, UH, THE STRONG URGE THAT, OR THERE, THEY SAID IT, UH, COUNCIL REALLY WANTS TO HAVE ONE OF THEIR, UH, ONE OF THOSE SESSIONS HERE IN THE CHAMBER JUST BECAUSE THE IDEA OF, YOU KNOW, THE CAMERA, UH, THE EQUIPMENT. SO I KNOW FOR SURE ONE OF THE SESSIONS WILL BE HERE. UM, I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE THE SECOND ONE WOULD BE AT. BUT, UM, THAT'S STILL TBD, UM, AND I'M HOPEFUL I CAN HAVE THAT KIND OF FIGURED OUT BY THE END OF DECEMBER. ARE YOU ABLE TO PRINT OUT A COUPLE COPIES IS, UM, OF, OF THE FLYER WITH THE QR CODE BEFORE WRITING TONIGHT? SURE. DO YOU WANT, DO YOU WANT IT PRINTED OUT OR DO YOU WANT THE ACTUAL LINK? UM, OR BOTH? BOTH, MAYBE. OKAY. UM, I'M THINKING IF I HAD A PAPER COPY, I'M THINKING OF SOMEPLACE I MIGHT STOP BY AND, AND, AND SAY, HEY, CAN I, CAN I HANG THIS UP? MM-HMM . OKAY. KIND OF A THING. NO. UM, SO I CAN DO THAT FOR YOU. IF I CAN DO THAT BEFORE YEAH. IF I CAN GET THOSE BEFORE I LEAVE TONIGHT, THEN THAT OKAY. BECAUSE THAT'S NOT SOLICITING, WE'RE NOT SELLING ANYTHING. YEAH. WE'RE NOT. YEAH. YOU KNOW, SO I'M WONDERING IF THERE'S A COUPLE PLACES AROUND TOWN I MIGHT BE ABLE TO BE LIKE, HEY, CAN WE PUT THIS UP? NO, ABSOLUTELY. NO. UM, CAN YOU SEND THAT FLYER TO ALL CITY COUNCIL TOO AND HAVE THEM, UM, SEND IT OUT AS THEY CAN TO THEIR CONSTITUENTS? AND THEN, UM, SARAH OR WHOEVER HAS ACCESS TO THE FACEBOOK. I KNOW THERE WAS TALK ABOUT DOING LIKE A ADVERTISEMENT, BUT ALL THE HUB PAGES, LIKE, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S LIKE A WEEKLY POSTING OR, OR WHAT I, UM, SO YEAH, IT SHOULD, IT, I DIDN'T TELL HER ANY DIFFERENT, BUT IT SHOULD STILL BE POSTED ON THE CITY'S WEBPAGE OR THE CITY'S WEBPAGE. WELL, AS SOCIAL MEDIA AS WELL. UM, UM, I TALKED TO SPARE FORESIGHT, UM, WITH THE UNDERSTANDING OF TRYING TO WORK WITH SOME MORE COMMUNITY MEMBERS, UM, WHO HAVE ACTIVELY KNOWN, UH, FACEBOOK, UM, PAGES, IF THAT'S THE, LIKE TERMINOLOGY I WANT TO USE. [00:55:01] UM, JUST THOSE LIKE GO-TO SPOTS FOR INFORMATION. THAT'S WHAT I MEANT. YEAH. SO I, I KNOW TYPICALLY, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE AROUND HUB HEIGHTS, THEY, THEY TRY TO, THEY, THEY TYPICALLY, OR THEY, THEY KIND OF GET THEIR INFORMATION FROM FACE, THOSE FACEBOOK POSTS OR FACEBOOK PAGES. SO IT WAS JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WAYS WE COULD KIND OF EITHER IF WE COULD SLAP ON, UH, THE FLYER OR THE, UM, SHARED POSTS FROM THE CITY ONTO THAT PAGE. THAT WAS JUST ONE ASPECT SHE SHOULD BE ABLE TO, YEAH. SO IT WAS JUST, OBVIOUSLY FROM WHAT SARAH WAS SAYING, SHE WOULD TRY TO WORK IN THAT CONVERSATION, UM, TO GET ME, OR TO BE ABLE TO GET THAT FLYER ON THERE. SO I'LL KEEP YOU GUYS POSTED. . THAT'S WHY I'M SINGLE . IT'S COOL. WE'RE BURNING THE MEN OUT NOW. FEELS GOOD. FINALLY NOT COLD. UM, ALL GOOD THINGS. I, I'M GONNA, I AM GONNA PUSH TO LEAVE THAT SURVEY OPEN UNTIL LIKE, AT LEAST MLK DAY IF WE CAN. SURE. I'D LIKE TO PUT THE QR CODE UP ON THE SCREEN, LIKE, OR HAVE IT THERE FOR THE, THE PRE AND THE DURING. SO, YEAH, SO I MEAN, RIGHT. I MEAN, IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU GUYS ARE OBVIOUSLY TRYING TO SAY, HEY, I THINK THAT FABULOUS, WE COULD, WE COULD POTENTIALLY HAVE ONE SESSION, UM, EARLY IN JANUARY AND THEN WE CAN HAVE THAT SECOND COMMUNITY SESSION AFTER, UH, THE MLK EVENT. SO WE CAN OBVIOUSLY, CAN I GET THAT FEEL DEFINITELY GOOD IDEAS. OKAY. UM, I'M SORRY, HOW ARE THEY SIGNING UP FOR COMMUNITY? UM, HOW ARE THEY SIGNING UP FOR THAT? HOW ARE THEY SIGNING UP? YEAH. UM, SO, SO WE DON'T HAVE ANY DATES YET. WE DON'T HAVE A LOCATION ON THE BOOKS YET. WILL THEY BE ABLE TO DO THAT AT THE MLK AT ALSO? UM, SO I, I'M NOT, I'M GUESSING THAT THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO, UM, IF THE IDEA IS WE WANTED TO DO ONE PRIOR TO MLK AND ONE AFTER IT, YES, WE COULD DEFINITELY HAVE A FLYER FOR, UH, PEOPLE TO SIGN UP. UM, UM, ALSO LIKE IN MY MIND ALSO, WE WOULD ALSO HAVE LIKE A LINK TO SIGN UP, UM, HAVE PEOPLE SIGN UP AS WELL. UM, BUT YEAH, A PAPER COPY AND AS WELL AS, UM, DIGITAL ACCESS IS 1% THE TARGET FOR ALL OF OUR SURVEYS. WHAT WAS THAT? IS 1% THE TARGET? IS THAT THE STANDARD TARGET FOR ALL OF OURS? SO FROM WHAT RAMA IS TRYING TO EXPLAIN TO ME, YES. 1% IS THE GOAL WHEN LIKE, THAT'S, THAT'S THE SHOOT OR THAT'S THE RANGE THAT THEY'RE SHOOTING FOR WHEN CONDUCTING THIS SURVEY IS 1% OF THE TOTAL. SO THEY'RE SAYING 43,000 IS THE, UH, RESIDENT, UH, UH, POPULATION OF HUB HEIGHTS. THEY'RE LOOKING FOR 400. DO YOU KNOW WHAT OUR RETURN HAS BEEN ON OUR OTHER SURVEYS, LIKE TRASH SURVEYS AND ALL THAT? AND, AND THE ? UM, THE ONLY ONE, THE ONLY ONE THAT LIKE I'VE BEEN A PART OF THAT I KNOW FOR SURE, UM, IS THE LIVABLE COMMUNITY SURVEY THAT WE DID LAST YEAR AND WE RAN FOR ABOUT A MONTH, UM, THAT HAD ABOUT 400 RESIDENTS, UM, THAT PARTICIPATED IN IT OVERALL. LIKE TYPICALLY 1% IS WHAT YOU, WHAT I'VE SEEN SO FAR IN THE SURVEYS THAT I HAD, I'VE DEALT WITH, WITH HU HEIGHTS. ARE WE FOLLOWING THE SAME PROCESS? YEAH. LIKE WE TALKING ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA PROMOTION, MARKETING ON, YEAH. ALL RIGHT. I GOT ONE MORE QUESTION. I KNOW I'M JUST KILLING YOU GUYS. AREN'T ANYONE ONE MORE QUESTION. IN LAST MONTH'S MEETING, DO I REMEMBER SOMEONE SAYING SOMETHING ABOUT BEING ASKED IF THE COMMISSION WERE INTERESTED IN WALKING INTO CHRISTMAS PARADE? NO. WE TALKED ABOUT THAT WAS SIDE, THAT WAS IN THE MLK MEETING. THAT WAS IN OUR PLANNING MEETING. YOU REMEMBERED IT, BUT IT WASN'T HERE. IT WAS THE MLK PLANNING MEETING. OOPS, SORRY. NO, IT'S FINE. OKAY. WHAT WAS THE DEAL WITH THAT? I, WERE, WE INVITED OR ASKED IF WE WANTED TO THINK? DAVIDSON MENTIONED, I WAS TALKING TO HER AND SHE MENTIONED THE CHRISTMAS PARADE TO ME AND THAT WE COULD PARTICIPATE IN IT. IT HAS TO COME BEFORE THE COMMISSION TO DECIDE IF WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT. AND THE PARADE IS SUNDAY OR SATURDAY. [01:00:01] SATURDAY, YES. SO WE DON'T, WE DIDN'T HAVE THE TIMELINE TO DO THAT. YEAH. THERE'S, THERE WASN'T TIME FOR US TO SAY YES THAT I FEEL LIKE THAT JUST WOULD'VE BEEN A GREAT OPPORTUNITY, UH, PASS OUT TO INTERACT WITH THE COMMUNITY TO PASS OUT. I MEAN, I MEAN, I DON'T THINK, I DON'T, YEAH. I MEAN, I DON'T, I DON'T THINK THAT THAT'S NOT A BAD IDEA. I, I, YES, THAT WAS THE INDIVIDUAL THAT I ASKED SARAH TO TALK TO ME TO TALK TO, TALK TO ABOUT. RIGHT. BUT I THINK THE UNDERSTANDING THAT SARAH WAS JUST TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT WHAT WE DIDN'T DO WHEN IT CAME TO THE SURVEY WAS JUST KIND OF BE, UH, WHAT'S THE WORD? LIKE OVERARCHING HER OWN EVENT. SO, SO I DIDN'T LIKE, I DIDN'T WANT TO DO THAT. LIKE I DIDN'T WANT TO LIKE SAY, HEY, LOOK AT OUR, OUR THING OVER HERE. BUT SHE HAS DID ALL THIS PLANNING FOR HER EVENT. SO OBVIOUSLY I KIND OF WANTED TO OBVIOUSLY LET THAT PASS AND THEN ASK FOR HER HELP ON THE BACKENDS. RIGHT. UM, BUT IF SHE, LIKE, OBVIOUSLY YOLANDA COULD PROBABLY TALK TO HER AND JUST ASK HER IS LIKE, HEY, WE WANT TO BRING FLYERS. IS THAT FINE? IS THAT OKAY? I MEAN, I, I THINK IT'S A GOOD IDEA. I MEAN, AT LEAST WE COULD DO THAT. WE COULD PROBABLY GET LIKE A BUMP IN NUMBERS FROM I THINK HOW THAT'S GONNA TURN OUT WITH A LITTLE MORE PLANNING THOUGH WE COULD HAVE PASSED OUT LIKE CANDY CANES WITH THE QR CODE OR CHOCOLATE PACKETS. I MEAN, WE COULD HAVE, I JUST FEEL AS HARD AS THE COMMISSION WORKED TO GET THIS RECOMMENDATION IN PLACE AND TO FINALLY GET IT GOING. MM-HMM . YOU KNOW, I FEEL LIKE IT'S KIND OF A LITTLE BIT OF OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE, YOU KNOW, ARE WE HELPING EXECUTE IN EVERY WAY WE CAN TO GET THE SURVEY IN PEOPLE'S HANDS? YEAH, I UNDERSTAND. SO THAT'S, YOU KNOW, WHERE MY IDEAS COME . IT'S THURSDAY BEFORE SATURDAY TO PRINT THE, PROBABLY SHOULD'VE THOUGHT OF THIS LAST MONTH, I GUESS, BUT NEXT THURSDAY. NO, TODAY'S THURSDAY THE PARADE. SATURDAY. IT'S SATURDAY. YEAH. SO WE BUY CANDY TOMORROW AND RENT MANY OUR COACH. HOW MANY YOU WANT? YEAH. PASS WALK PARADE CANDY CAN CODE. WHAT'S WRONG BETWEEN DRIVERS ? I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE PROTOCOL IS FOR THIS WORK AN HOUR. BECAUSE IF, IF WE WORK, I GOT, SO I'LL SAY I'LL, I'LL EVEN HELP OUT A LITTLE BIT. RIGHT. I GOT A DEMO MADE FROM MINUTEMAN PRESS, UM, ON MY E SOMEWHERE IN MY EMAILS. YOU GUYS CAN PRINT THAT OUT, I THINK HAS A QL CODE. I THINK IT TALKS ABOUT ALL THE INFORMATION THAT WE WANTED PERTAINING TO A CARD. JUST TRY TO MAKE IT THAT MUCH SIMPLE TO CARLOS'S POINT. YEAH. YOU GUYS COULD, I COULD PRINT A HOW MA EVER MANY THAT YOU GUYS NEED, SEND THAT FILE TO YOU ALL. YOU GUYS CAN PRINT IT, WHATEVER WE WANT TO DO AND SURE. I THINK TO THE POINT, YEAH, YOU COULD JUST CUT IT OUT ATTACHED TO A CANDY CANE AND MERRY CHRISTMAS. DO OUR QR CODE PLEASE. OR JUST GET ON CINDY'S DISTRIBUTION LIST. SHE HAS A DISTRIBUTION LIST WHERE SHE'S SAYING THANK YOU FOR COMING. THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING. BY THE WAY, HERE'S ALSO QR CODE. DON'T FORGET TO PARTICIPATING IN YOUR HEIGHT SURVEY. OKAY, THAT'S FINE. I DIDN'T KNOW THAT SHE DID THAT TOO. I MEAN, THAT'S EMAIL. SHE'S GONNA THANK PEOPLE FOR SHOWING UP. COURSE SHE WOULD'VE NEVER HER EMAIL. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE TYPICALLY SHOW UP TO THE, TO THAT EVENT? IT'S THE FIRST ONE. I DON'T THINK IT'S EVER BEEN A THING BEFORE. OH, THIS IS NEW. THIS IS THE FIRST ONE, YEAH. OH, OKAY. AND I, I, I STRUGGLE TO WALK IN THE SUMMER, SO, UM, WELL, I KNOW THAT IT ENDS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL WITH, WITH SOME SORT OF COFFEE AND COCOA THING MAYBE. AND THEN THERE'S A, A TREE LIGHTING TYPE THING OR SOMETHING? NO, I THINK IT OKAY. IS IT SOMETHING HAS TO BE ON SOCIAL MEDIA, CORRECT? I HAVEN'T, YEAH. I'M NOT ON SOCIAL MEDIA, SO THAT'S WHY. YEAH. OKAY. WELL I'LL, I'VE SEEN IT. I JUST THINK AS A COMMISSION IT'S TOO CLOSE TO THE EVENT FOR ME TO HAVE ANY TEETH IN IT. IF ANYBODY ELSE WANTS TO, UM, TAKE THE LEAD. ABSOLUTELY. FEEL FREE IF YOU FEEL AS A COMMISSION, IT'S SOMETHING YOU GUYS WANNA DO. I THINK IT'S A FABULOUS IDEA. I DON'T HAVE THE CAPACITY TO PULL OFF ANY OF THESE STEPS BEFORE SATURDAY. I MEAN, LISTEN, UH, YOU KNOW, I GOT FINAL ESSAYS COMING IN. I ALREADY TOLD YOU GUYS LAST NIGHT, I'M GONNA BE BOGGED DOWN FOR LIKE FROM SATURDAY TO NEXT SATURDAY, BUT I AM WILLING TO, [01:05:02] I'M WILLING TO DO IT IF TWO OTHERS OF YOU WILL VOLUNTEER WITH ME. YEAH. I JUST THINK PERSONALLY, IT IS GREAT THAT WE GOT THE OFFER, BUT I'M SURE THAT MRS. DAVIDSON NEEDED LIKE SOME TYPE OF RSVP FROM US TO PARTICIPATE. UM, AND PLUS WE'RE TRYING TO PLAN THIS MLK EVENT, SO WE DON'T WANNA OVERWHELM OURSELVES WITH THAT, PLUS OUR PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL OBLIGATIONS THAT WE HAVE OUTSIDE OF THIS COMMISSION. MM-HMM. I JUST PERSONALLY DON'T FEEL LIKE IT'S OUR LIFT. LIKE I DON'T THE DRAMA, LIKE WHY DID THE RAM ON SATURDAY? RIGHT. LIKE, I JUST DON'T FEEL LIKE IT'S OUR LIFT TO DO THIS BIG LIFT. IF THEY HAVE A HUNDRED PEOPLE RESPONDING TO THE SURVEY, THEY NEED TO FIGURE IT OUT. THEY'RE NOT MEETING THEIR GOALS. IT'S NOT OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO SWOOP IN AND SAVE IT. I MEAN, I MEAN, LET ME, LET ME, I'M NOT TRASHING 'EM, BUT I'M NOT ALSO PICKING UP THE, IF WE DO THE, YOU KNOW, THE YMCA, I THINK THAT'S GREAT. WE CAN DEFINITELY GET THEM A LOT OF RESPONSES ON MLK IF WE KEEP IT OPEN. I JUST DON'T THINK IT'S IMPERATIVE FOR US TO START SCRAMBLING AND, AND DOING STUFF LIKE THIS TO, TO TRY TO BEEF UP NUMBERS AND IT'S, IT'S JUST MY LEAST FAVORITE SEASON IN THE WORLD TO BE OUTSIDE IN THE WINTER. AND THAT'S, I MEAN, I WOULD DO IT. I HAVE NO PROBLEM. I I DO ALL SORTS OF STUFF NOW, BUT, UM, I MEAN, I HEAR YOU. WE MADE THE RECOMMENDATION, WE DID OUR JOB. WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME AND, AND I, I, OKAY. YEAH. WAIT, JUST IN, IN THE, THE POINT OF TIMELINESS WE'RE ON LIKE B UM, NOT THAT THIS DEI NEEDS ASSESSMENT IS NOT IMPORTANT, BUT JEFFREY, LET US KNOW IF THEY'LL KEEP IT OPEN PAST MLK DAY. SURE. AND THEN, UH, YOU KNOW, LET US KNOW ABOUT GETTING QR CODE FLYERS. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN ABSOLUTELY PASS OUT. YEP. THROW ON WINDSHIELDS, WHATEVER WE NEED TO DO. UM, I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE ALONG, UNLESS ANYBODY ELSE HAS ANYTHING ELSE FOR THIS. HOW ABOUT I'M JUST QUIET THE REST OF THE NIGHT. NO, YOU'VE BEEN VERY . YOU'RE BRINGING A LOT TO THE TABLE. I'M NOT SAYING THAT, BUT WE CAN'T, LIKE, WE CAN'T MAKE THE PLAN FOR THEM IN THEIR INABILITY TO MEET THE GOALPOST. WE'RE ALL VOLUNTEERS, I'LL PUT IT THAT WAY. RAMA'S NOT, UM, DIVERSITY TRAINING AND EEOC TRACKING ABILITIES. THIS IS ANOTHER ONE THAT IS JUST BECOMING A DEAD HORSE THAT WE ARE BEATING. UM, I REACHED OUT TO THE COPE TRAINER THIS WEEK AND I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO CONNECT WITH THEM. UM, THAT'S THAT POVERTY IMMERSION TRAINING THAT I THINK WOULD JUST BE A MUCH MORE IMPACTFUL EXPERIENCE FOR THE CITY, UM, IN, FOR DIVERSITY TRAINING FOR 2025. SO I WOULD LIKE TO GET THE BEGINNING STAGES OF THAT SET UP AND THEN CONNECT YOU GUYS TOGETHER, UM, MAYBE WITH MRS. LEY, UM, TO FIGURE OUT IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE COULD FACILITATE AT A CITYWIDE LEVEL, ESPECIALLY WITH CITY COUNCIL, CITY STAFF. THE MORE, THE MERRIER MM-HMM . IN THIS TYPE OF TRAINING. UM, THE MORE PEOPLE THAT ARE INVOLVED, THE MORE INTERACTIVE AND IMPACTFUL IT IS. UM, I'M NOT SURE, YOU KNOW, BUDGET WISE OR WHATEVER. UM, BUT I, I WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO THIS PERSON. I REACHED OUT TO THEM AND THEY VERY QUICKLY GOT BACK TO ME. AND THEN I WAS IN MEETINGS ALL DAY. COULD YOU ELABORATE ON LIKE HOW THE TRAINING, TRAINING WORK? SO, TRAINING IS, IT'S THE COST OF POVERTY EXPERIENCE. AND YOU ARE PUT IN A ROOM WITH EVERYONE AND YOU ARE ASSIGNED A FAMILY. AND IN YOUR FAMILY, YOU COULD BE TWO PEOPLE, YOU COULD BE FOUR PEOPLE, AND YOU HAVE TO GO AROUND THE ROOM AND YOU HAVE TO ACCESS THE RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO YOU WITH THE MONEY THAT YOU HAVE ON HAND. YOU HAVE TO GO TO WORK EVERY DAY. UM, YOU HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, BUY FOOD. IF YOU WANNA GO TO WORK, YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO GET THERE. SO YOU HAVE TO BUY TRANSPORTATION. YEAH. THE TRICK OF IT IS YOU GOTTA STOP AT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE STATIONS AND, AND YOU ONLY GET 15 MINUTES FOR EVERY WEEK, AND YOU HAVE TO COMPLETE EVERY TAX FOR THAT WEEK. AND IT'S JUST TO, TO IMMERSE PEOPLE IN THE SHOES OF PEOPLE THAT THEY MAY NOT HAVE EVER WALKED IN. YOU KNOW, IF YOU'VE NEVER EXPERIENCED GOING TO JFS, [01:10:01] IF YOU'VE NEVER EXPERIENCED HAVING TO SLEEP OUTSIDE AT COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP IN ORDER TO ACCESS A PIP PAYMENT, IF YOU DON'T HAVE TO WALK THE TWO MILES HOME FROM HOW OUR MOST CLOSE RTA STOP IS FROM YOUR HOME, AND YOU'RE ADDING IN THAT TIME EVERY DAY. SO IT'S, IT'S ANOTHER WAY OF, OF EXPLAINING THE, THE IMPACT OF DIVERSITY. UM, THE NEED TO UNDERSTAND, UM, THE COST OF POVERTY. UM, AND I JUST THINK IT'S, IT'S A, UH, IT'S A LOT MORE IMPACTFUL WAY OF DOING THESE TYPE OF TRAININGS AND HAVING SOMEBODY SIT IN A ROOM WITH A POWERPOINT AND HAVE PEOPLE SITTING IN THEIR CHAIRS DISENGAGED ON THEIR PHONES. UM, ONE OF THE CITY COUNCIL PEOPLE SAT DOWN IN THEIR FIRST, YOU KNOW, KIND OF COMMENT WAS LIKE, OH, I HOPE THIS DOESN'T TAKE TOO LONG. LIKE, THEY'RE NOT GAINING ANYTHING FROM THAT EXPERIENCE. SO IF IT'S AN IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE, IT CAN BE A LITTLE MORE IMPACTFUL. SO IT'S AN ACRONYM, COPE. MM-HMM . UM, THEY'RE DAYTON BASED. UM, BUT THEY DID A TRAINING, MEDICAID HAD THEM UP. I'VE DONE THESE TYPE OF TRAININGS BEFORE. UM, BUT THIS ONE WAS REALLY QUITE, IT WAS REALLY IMPACTFUL. SO I THINK THAT MIGHT BE A RECOMMENDATION, UM, THAT I BRING IN MAYBE NEXT MONTH FOR CITY COUNCIL. UM, JUST DEPENDING ON HOW THIS CONVERSATION GOES. UM, JUST SOMEWHERE IN 2025 TO FACILITATE THIS TYPE OF TRAINING INSTEAD OF THE, THE CITY DIVERSITY TRAINING. DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANYTHING ABOUT C THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO ADD? THAT WAS THE DIVERSITY TRAINING. UM, OKAY. YOLANDA, WHAT DID YOU, SO WHERE WE, THE, THE FINAL SAY ABOUT THE DIVERSITY TRAINING WAS WHAT, I MEAN, WE'RE STILL WAITING ON AN ANSWER FROM THE CITY WHEN IT COMES TO WHAT THEIR ANNUAL TRAININGS, ONGOING TRAININGS, CADENCE, ALL OF THAT IS. BUT MAYBE WE COULD ASK IF THERE IS NO PLAN FOR 2025 TO DO THIS, BUT I THINK THE, YOU KNOW, THE DIVERSITY TRAINING REQUEST WAS AN ONGOING, THERE SHOULD BE ONGOING DIVERSITY TRAINING YEAH. ANNUALLY. SO THERE WAS NO UPDATE, JEFFREY, SINCE THE LAST MEETING? NO. SO SINCE THE LAST TIME I HAD ASKED MRS. NICELEY WHAT THE STATUS WAS FOR BOTH, UH, CITY DIVERSITY, UH, TRAINING, AS WELL AS EEOC OR EEO OR EEO, UH, TRACKING ABILITIES, I'M STILL LEFT WITH, UH, NO ANSWER OR JUST LIKE NO UPDATE. STILL WORKING ON IT OTHER THAN, WELL, LET ME BACK UP. SO OTHER THAN JUST THE FIRST ONE, RIGHT? UH, DIVERSITY TRAINING, UM, THERE WAS A PLAN TO CONTINUE, UH, AND DO AN ANNUAL, UM, UPDATE FOR D DIVERSE, UH, CITY CITYWIDE DIVERSITY TRAINING. UM, THAT WAS, THAT'S THE IDEA. THEY JUST HAVEN'T OBVIOUSLY IMPLEMENT HOW THEY WERE GONNA REDO THAT AGAIN. UM, FOR THE EOC UH, TRACKING, THEY'RE STILL TRYING TO FIND WAYS TO BE ABLE TO OBTAIN THAT INFORMATION BECAUSE THE PROCESS HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT THAT INFORMATION IS OPTIONAL. UM, WHEN, UM, WELL, I THINK IT, WHAT IS IT FOR, FOR, UH, UH, UH, APPLICATION REQUESTS OR ON APP, UH, HIRING APPLICATIONS. OKAY. 'CAUSE THE LAST TIME WE HAD TRAINING WAS 2022. IT, YEAH. YES. THE, THE IN-PERSON AS WELL AS THE VIDEO TRAINING. CORRECT. THE IN PERSON WAS 22. I IF, I THINK IT WAS LIKE ONE OR THE OTHER. IF YOU COULDN'T GO TO THE IN PERSON, I THINK THERE WAS LIKE A VIDEO AS WELL. I HAVE THE VIDEO. I'VE SEEN IT. OKAY. I'M JUST NOT QUITE UNDERSTANDING. IF THE CITY COMMITTED TO DOING A DIVERSITY TRAINING ANNUALLY, WHY WE CAN'T EVEN GET WHY IT'S BEEN TWO YEARS AND NOTHING'S HAPPENING AND WE STILL DON'T HAVE A PLAN. MM-HMM . SO WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO TO MOVE THAT FORWARD? I, I WILL ASK AND TRY TO SEE WHAT IS THE HOLD UP BECAUSE, UH, IT'LL BE THREE YEARS IN JUNE, SO I JUST DON'T WANT THE CITY TO BACK, BACK [01:15:01] DOWN FROM WHAT WAS COMMITTED TO WAS. SO THAT WAS A, SO LET ME MAKE SURE I'M TRACKING RIGHT. SO THE REC, SO IT WAS OBVIOUSLY A RECOMMENDATION THAT WAS PASSED IN 2020, OR WAS THAT LIKE 2021? I GUESS THAT'S NEITHER HERE NOR THERE, BUT FROM THE RECOMMENDATION THAT THE COMMISSION HAD PASSED TO COUNCIL WAS, HEY, THERE WILL BE ANNUAL DIVERSITY TRAINING FROM YEAR OF, UH, UH, IMPLEMENTATION AND MM-HMM . FURTHER. OKAY. ALRIGHT. ANNUAL ADVERSITY TRAINING FOR CITY COUNCIL, CITY STAFF, AND CITY BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. UM, THE STATUS AT LAST WAS ONGOING HUMAN RESOURCE DIRECTOR IS WORKING TO SCHEDULE DIVERSITY TRAINING IN 2022. HOW DID THEY SAY THAT THEY WERE GOING TO GET, UM, BOARDS TO, SO THAT PART OF IT WAS OPTIONAL. LIKE OKAY. WE COULDN'T REQUIRE, I FEEL LIKE BECAUSE OF IT WAS VOLUNTEER OR SOMETHING LIKE THE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. IT COULD HAVE BEEN REQUIRED, BUT CITY STAFF, CITY COUNCIL, THOSE POSITIONS. CORRECT. IT'S REQUIRED. YEAH. UM, WE GOT REALLY INTO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. THEY DO THEIRS ONGOING. MM-HMM . YOU KNOW, THAT'S IN THEIR, THEIR REQUIRED PACKAGE OF TRAININGS. YEAH. UM, I I HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. I'M SURE IT'S THE SAME. UM, BUT THAT WAS THE IDEA WAS, YOU KNOW, CITY STAFF, CITY COUNCIL. MM-HMM . UM, THOSE THAT WE CAN REQUIRE ARE REQUIRED AND STRONGLY, YOU KNOW, STRONGLY SUGGESTED THAT EVERYBODY ELSE, YOU KNOW, THESE KIND OF POSITIONS SHOULD REQUIRE THAT TYPE OF TRAINING. YOU'RE, YOU'RE MAKING DECISIONS ON BEHALF OF THE DIVERSE POPULATIONS OF YOUR CITY. SO I GUESS THAT'S THE BEST WAY TO PUT THAT. I AM FORWARDING THE EMAIL TO YOU. OKAY. UM, FROM, UH, LET'S SEE, NOVEMBER 1ST, 2022, AND IT READS, ALL MEMBERS OF CITY BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS ARE REQUIRED TO SIGN UP FOR AND ATTEND ONE OF THE TRAINING SESSIONS. THE TRAINING IS MANDATORY. THAT'S FROM 2022. WHO SENT OUT THAT EMAIL? THE HR. TONY. TONY. TONY. OKAY. UNDERSTOOD. OKAY. I'LL, I'LL CHECK IN THAT FOR YOU ALL. I GUESS THIS KIND OF LAYS BACK INTO THAT WHOLE RECOMMENDATION STUFF, RIGHT? SO YOU GUYS ARE ALLOWED TO TALK. IT'S NOT LIKE WE TAKE YOUR VOICE AWAY WHEN YOU SIT IN THAT CHAIR. I JUST ON FIRE. I DON'T TO ANSWER A QUESTION THAT WASN'T ASKED. I DON'T THINK THAT, THAT, THAT SHOULD BE EVEN AT HAND WHEN IT COMES TO WHAT WE DO. I AGREE. I WOULD JUST THAT MY IT IT'S CONCERN IT A QUESTION LIKE WHAT'S IT'S VALID, BUT WE'RE NOT GONNA EVEN GIVE THE IDEA. BUT THAT'S AN OPTION. IT'S ALREADY AN OPTION. I MEAN, KIDDING OURSELVES, WASTING OUR TIME. WE KEEP FIGHTING FIGHTS. MM. OKAY. I GOT IT. OKAY. REMIND US. WE, WE ARE, WE'VE BEEN, YOU KNOW, AT THIS SO LONG WE CAN HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITHOUT TALKING . OH, IT'S A SCARY, I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S A VALID, IT'S ABSOLUTELY VALID. UM, OKAY, MOVING ALONG. WE ARE JUST BEATING THE, THE, THE HORSE. THAT'S A TERRIBLE SAYING. I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY THAT ONE EVER CAME OFF BEATING A DEAD HORSE, BUT ANY WHO MLK DAY UPDATES? WE HAVE BEEN, I WANNA QUICKLY, I'M SORRY. I'M TRYING TO BE SUCCINCT TONIGHT. WE GOT A LITTLE OFF TRACK WITH WHAT WE EXPECTED TO DO AS TASK GROUPS AND WHAT WE UNFORTUNATELY WERE DOING AS THIS MLK WORK GROUP. SO, SO WE NEED TO BE CRYSTAL CLEAR IN IF WE HAVE TASK GROUPS, OUR TASKS AND REPORTING ARE ASSIGNED AND REPORTED BACK AND FORTH TO THE, THE ONE RUNNING THE GROUP. SO FOR MLK, IT'S YOLANDA, I SHOULD BE SENT TO COMPLETE THREE TASKS AND THEN I REPORT BACK TO YOLANDA THAT MY THREE TASKS ARE DONE. BUT IF WE ARE MEETING AS [01:20:01] A GROUP AND WE ARE MAKING DECISIONS, IT HAS TO BE PUBLICLY NOTICED AND WE HAVE TO MEET SOMEWHERE LIKE HERE. SO AS THE MLK WORK GROUP, WE ACCIDENTALLY FOUND OURSELVES AT QUORUM, WHICH IS FIVE PEOPLE. AND WE WERE MAKING DECISIONS, WHICH WE SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID THAT WE WERE TRYING TO SET THE PARAMETERS OF THE PROGRAM AND, AND THE FOCUS AND, AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO, SO IN SAYING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO GO BACK TO DELVING TASKS AND COMING BACK, OTHERWISE WE HAVE TO GO BACK TO HAVING MORE THAN ONE MEETING A MONTH. AND NOBODY WANTS TO DO THAT. EVERYBODY. AND SO THAT GOES FOR JUNETEENTH, THAT GOES FOR MULTICULTURAL, THAT GOES FOR EVERYTHING. THE DECISIONS HAVE TO FLOW THROUGH THIS MEETING IN THIS TIME ONLY. OTHERWISE WE COULD BE IN DEEP DOOO. AND I, ALTHOUGH HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO FOLLOW THE RULES IN MY LIFE, WOULD REALLY LIKE TO TURN OVER A NEW RULE LEAF AT THIS AGE AND, AND FOLLOW THEM AS MUCH AS I USED TO BE ABLE TO ENFORCE THEM. UM, SO PLEASE DO ME THAT, UH, FAVOR. THAT WAS AN ACCIDENT AND IT REALLY DIDN'T LIGHT BULB, UM, UNTIL, UNTIL LAST NIGHT. SO THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT. OKAY. YOLANDA, I HAVE A REALLY QUICK QUESTION. CAN I JUST CLARIFY, I KNOW THERE'S SUPPOSED TO BE QUIET THE REST OF THE TIME YOU'RE NOT. UM, QUICK QUESTION. SO IF SAY THREE OF US WE'RE GONNA GET TOGETHER TO TALK ON THE PHONE MM-HMM. JUST TO NOT MAKE DECISIONS, BUT JUST TO REPORT BACK ON TASKS MM-HMM . JUST TO GIVE, TO GATHER INFORMATION SO THAT WE CAN REPORT BACK. YEP. THAT'S FINE. THAT WE CAN DO THAT. YES. PROBLEM. YES. OKAY. YES. THANK YOU FOR ASKING THAT QUESTION BECAUSE PER GOTCHA. WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, A SCHEDULED MEETING TO GO OVER A PARTICULAR TASK TO REPORT TO. YES. THE, UM, COMMITTEE YES. TO SPEAK. OKAY. WE HAD KICKED SOMEBODY OUT OF THAT GROUP THOUGH. OKAY. JUST TO CLARIFY FURTHER FROM TONY, IT IS OKAY FOR TWO TO THREE MEMBERS TO GET TOGETHER TO WORK ON A TASK. AS LONG AS THEY'RE NOT DEFINED AS A GROUP OF THE PUBLIC BODY, THEN EACH LEAD PERSON FOR THE RESPECTIVE AREAS COULD REPORT OUT ON THEIR WORK AT THE MONTHLY MEETING. RIGHT. SO HYPOTHETICALLY MEET JEAN AND SAY, OH, BY ROOM. MM-HMM . WOULD BE OKAY CHATTING FOR A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ORGANIZING STUFF THAT WE NEED TO DO FOR OUR TASKS. YEAH. OKAY. WHATEVER THOSE TASKS, YOU KNOW, TASK FOCUSED ONLY AND NO BROAD DECISIONS MADE FOR THE COMMISSION. I THINK YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL WITH THAT TAR, BECAUSE HERE, HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A TASK GROUP, IF YOU ASK SOMEBODY TO GO DO A TASK, THEY GOTTA MAKE A DECISION TO DO THE TASK. IF YOU TELL THEM, HEY, I NEED YOU TO GO OUT AND SECURE THIS HERE, I GOTTA MAKE THE DECISION TO SECURE THAT BECAUSE THAT'S THE TASK, THAT'S THE ASSIGNMENT. NOW, TO CHANGE DIRECTION FROM WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO, I THINK IS REALLY WHAT YOU WANT TO GET AT IF THERE'S A CHANGE IN DIRECTION. BUT IF YOU GIVE ME AS A TASK GROUP THAT ASSIGNMENT, I GOTTA HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO GO DO THAT. WELL, YOU HAVE TO. SO THE TASK CAN'T BE, YOU KNOW, THE TASK WOULD BE GET US THREE QUOTES FOR VENDORS AND THEN THE QUOTES ARE BROUGHT BACK TO THIS GROUP FOR THE DECISION. CORRECT. SO, SO THAT PART OF THE TASK, I MEAN, I DON'T THINK WE'RE GOING TO GET TO THAT POINT OF LIKE, I CAN'T MAKE AN AUTONOMOUS DECISION. I CAN'T DECIDE TO GO WITH X, Y, Z VENDOR AS MY TASK. MY TASK IS TO SECURE QUOTES OR TO FIND, UNLESS THAT'S THE TASK THAT'S GIVEN TO YOU. BUT IT, BUT IT, IF THE, UNLESS THAT TASK IS GIVEN BY THE COMMISSION. RIGHT. BUT IF THE TASK IS TO GO GET THE QUOTES, YOU GO GET THE QUOTES, YOU BRING 'EM BACK. IF THE TASK IS TO DECIDE ON ONE OF THE THREE, THAT'S THE TASK. NO ONE PERSON CAN DECIDE ON ANY ONE OF THE THREE. THAT'S THE POINT. BUT IF THAT'S THE, WE HAVE TO DECIDE AS A COMMISSION ON EVERYTHING. I DON'T, I DON'T WANT TO KEEP US GOING HERE, BUT I THINK WE NEED TO REALLY FIND OUT IF, BECAUSE IF THAT'S THE TASK THAT YOU'VE BEEN GIVEN, THAT'S THE TASK YOU'VE BEEN GIVEN. IF IT'S TO MAKE THE DECISION ON ONE OF THESE THREE, THAT IS THE TASK. YOU CAN'T MAKE THAT DECISION AS AN INDIVIDUAL. YOU GUYS WANT TO READ THAT AND REALLY UNDERSTAND THAT. SO WHERE ARE YOU GETTING THAT WOULD INFORMATION? I WOULD NOT HOLD THIS UP, BUT I THINK WE NEED TO, WELL, I THINK WE NEED TO CLARIFY GIVEN WHAT'S COMING UP HERE [01:25:01] POSSIBLY. WELL, I THINK WE'RE, WE'RE GETTING INTO SEMANTICS WHEN IT COMES TO THINGS LIKE THAT. IF, IF YOU'RE SPEAKING OF LIKE JUNETEENTH AND YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO GO FIND MUSICAL ACTS, YOU CANNOT DECIDE ON ANY ONE OF THOSE MUSICAL ACTS. YOU HAVE TO BRING THEM BACK TO US WITH THE QUOTE AND SAY THEY'RE WILLING TO DO THIS MANY HOURS FOR THIS AND THIS MANY HOURS FOR THIS. AND, AND THEN WE HAVE TO DECIDE AS A COMMISSION IF, IF THE THING IS YOUR TASK IS TO CREATE THE FLYER FOR THE VENDORS AND GET THAT DONE, YOU KNOW, EASY GRAVY. BUT LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE AND US TO STAY IN LINE WITH THE LAW, IT HAS TO, THOSE DECISIONS OUTSIDE OF GENERAL BUDGETARY THINGS HAVE TO BE DECIDED UPON AS A COMMISSION. BRAINSTORMING OPTIONS AND DISCUSSING WHAT WE CAN BRING TO THE COMMISSION AS A WHOLE HAVE AT IT. THAT IS NOT MAKING A DECISION. WE'RE GATHERING INFORMATION THAT WE CAN BRING FORWARD. CORRECT. OKAY. CORRECT. IS EVERYBODY IN AGREEMENT? I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE. YEAH. WELL THAT IS WHAT IT IS. ESPECIALLY IF THERE ARE EXPENDITURE ITEMS THAT ARE CONNECTED WITH THAT. IF THERE'S ANY MARKETING THAT'S CONNECTED WITH THAT, UM, I MEAN, IT'S PRETTY MUCH THE SAME PROCESS YOU WILL FOLLOW WITH AN EMPLOYER IF YOU'RE PUTTING FORTH SOMETHING FROM THAT EMPLOYER. SO THAT'S WHAT IT'S, AND I DO HAVE A CORRECTION HERE. WE DIDN'T MAKE ANY DECISIONS IN OUR MAKING. NO, WE DIDN'T MAKE ANY DECISIONS. IT WAS, IT WAS, IT WAS BRAINSTORM. IT WAS VERY TOSSING OUT IDEAS. . YEAH. YEAH, I AGREE. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS. WE JUST TOSSING OUT IDEAS MM-HMM . MM-HMM . WHICH HAS TO BE DONE. AND IF WE DO THAT HERE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA BE HERE TILL MIDNIGHT. SO, UM, YOLANDA, FEEL FREE TO TAKE THE FLOOR, MY DEAR. OKAY. SO WE HAD A MEETING LAST NIGHT, A PLANNING MEETING FOR MLK. UM, AND WE DISCUSSED ONE, THE VENUE, WHICH WE ALREADY HAD BROUGHT TO THE COMMISSION LAST MONTH, THAT IT WOULD BE AT THE CAFETERIA HACK. IT WOULD BE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIA KICKING OFF WITH A MEET AND GREET WITH A LIGHT BREAKFAST. UM, AND THEN WE WOULD MOVE TO THE PACK, THE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOR THE PROGRAM. WE DID BRAINSTORM ABOUT MENU ITEMS INCLUDING BAGELS, MUFFINS, CREAM CHEESE, YOGURT, GRANOLA, LIGHT BREAKFAST. WE, UM, DID SOURCE A CO A FEW CATERERS, A COUPLE OF WHICH WERE NOT AVAILABLE. SO OF OUR LIST OF FOUR CATERERS, WE ONLY WERE DOWN TO ONE FROM THAT LIST OF FOUR THAT CAN ACTUALLY OFFER THIS MENU. AND IT IS AT A COST OF 10 TO $12 PER PERSON FOR THAT. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THE PROGRAM STARTED THE PACK, WE'LL HAVE TO THAT 9 8, 9 30. CAN YOU SAY NINE 30? OH NO, I'M SORRY. NOT AT THE PACK. 10, 9 30. SEVEN 30. 11 TO 12. 11 TO 1230. I'M GOING ON THE TAP INSTRUCTION. COME BACK TO ME. OKAY. THE TAP. THAT'S RIGHT. YOU WERE CHECKING TAP. YES. OKAY. UM, WE CAME UP WITH A THEME, WHICH WE NEED TO VOTE AND MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S OKAY WITH THE COMMISSION, BUT THE THEME THAT WE BRAINSTORMED WAS HUBBERT 365, PROTECTING OUR FREEDOM, JUSTICE, AND DEMOCRACY. WE BASED OFF IN THAT, BASED OFF OF, UM, THE KING CENTER, THEIR THING THAT THEY HAVE FOR THE YEAR. WE CAME UP, WE THOUGHT ABOUT, OR WE BRAINSTORMED A FLYER ALSO UTILIZING THE KING CENTER'S KIND OF GRAPHICS THAT THEY'RE USING FOR NEXT YEAR. AND JEFFREY WAS CHECKING WITH SARAH TO SEE IF SHE COULD PUT THE FLYER TOGETHER, DEVELOP THE FLYER. I ALSO REACHED OUT TO ONE OF THE HUBER HEIGHTS GRADUATES, UM, AND HE DID SAY HE COULD ACTUALLY DO THE FLYER, SO OH, GREAT. YEAH, HE'S FINISHING FINALS [01:30:01] UP THIS WEEKEND. OKAY. PARTNERSHIPS. WE EMAILED, UM, I EMAILED ALL OF THE HUBER SCHOOL PRINCIPALS. I'VE HEARD BACK FROM MONTICELLO, MR. MILLS. MR. MILLS HAS REACHED OUT TO HIS, HAS SECURED HIS SIXTH GRADERS TO SING, LIFT EVERY VOICE AND SING AT THE START OF OUR PROGRAM. UM, TIRA REACHED OUT TO MS. BERRY, WHO'S OVER THE DIVERSITY CLUB. I DON'T THINK WE'VE HEARD ANYTHING BACK FROM HER YET. I'VE NOT HEARD ANYTHING BACK FROM MY EMAIL TO HER EITHER. MR. MASON, WHO IS THE AFRICAN AMERICAN TEACHER AT THE HIGH SCHOOL, IS CHECKING WITH HIS HONORS CLASS STUDENT TO GET THEIR INVOLVEMENT. WE ALSO HAD AN OFFER FROM MR. ZAN TO REACH OUT TO HIS, HE'S THE CHOIR, CORE LEADERS DIRECTOR AT THE HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE CORE LEADERS TO SING. UM, MASON SUTTON, WHO IS OVER THE HUBBERT CHAMBER. I EMAILED HIM. THEY DEFINITELY WANT TO BE INVOLVED IN THE EVENT. I'M GONNA BE MEETING WITH HIM NEXT WEEK, I THINK IT IS. IF ANYONE'S INTERESTED IN JOINING IN THAT MEETING, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I CAN'T, IF IT'S ON TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, IT'S ON THE 16TH. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS. SO WHERE WE ARE NOW IS, UM, WORKING ON CHRISTIE OR JEAN, DO Y'ALL WANNA TALK ABOUT THE TIMELINE, THE VISION FOR MM-HMM . YEAH. SO BASICALLY WITH THE TIMELINE, WE WANT TO FOCUS ON KEY EVENTS THAT LED UP TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, AND WE'RE GOING TO ENGAGE THE YOUTH TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT AS WELL AS THOSE THAT ATTEND THE EVENT WHERE PEOPLE CAN GET TOGETHER, VIEW DIFFERENT EVENTS, AND THEY COLLABORATIVELY PARTLY TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHEN THESE CERTAIN EVENTS OCCURRED DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. AM I CORRECT? OKAY. SO THAT WILL BE DONE DURING THE MEET AND GREET. MM-HMM . WANNA CALL IT THAT. SO BETWEEN CHRISTIE, MYSELF AND BYRON WILL BE WORKING ON THAT BRAINSTORMING ASSIGNMENT, LIKE A TRIVIA GAME, OR NOT SO MUCH TRIVIA, BUT JUST LIKE ACTUALLY HAVE A RESEARCH, LIKE HAVE A, I'M SORRY. NO, NO, NO. GO AHEAD. UM, A TIMELINE OUT ON THE WALL WITH THE YEARS, AND THEN HAVE PEOPLE MARK ON THAT TIMELINE WHEN THEY THINK IT HAPPENED. RIGHT. AND THEN DURING THE PROGRAM, RIGHT. THE, THE KIDS THAT THAT WILL BE PARTICIPATING WILL ACTUALLY MENTION OR DESCRIBE THAT PARTICULAR EVENT. SO WE'LL BE INTERACTIVE, RIGHT. BREAKFAST MEET AND GREET WILL BE INTERACTIVE AND WE'RE GETTING A LOT MORE INVOLVEMENT FOR THE COMMUTE FROM THE COMMUNITY, WHICH I AM EXCITED ABOUT. MM-HMM . UM, LET ME SEE. I FEEL LIKE I'M MISSING SOMETHING. DO YOU HAVE A SPEECH? I MISSED IT. DID YOU SAY YOU ASKING SOMEBODY TO DO A SPEECH? LIKE LAST TIME HE HAD A, HE DID A SPEECH OF A POEM OR SOMETHING. I REACHED OUT TO HIM, THE SPOKEN WORD. I DID REACH OUT TO HIM FOR THE SPOKEN WORD. UM, BUT I EMAILED YOLANDA EARLIER ABOUT AN IDEA OF ASKING IF MAYBE ONE OF THE KIDS FROM THAT AFRICAN AMERICAN HONORS CLASS WANTED TO DO THE KEYNOTE SPEECH THIS YEAR FROM A YOUTH'S PERSPECTIVE TO KIND OF TIE IT ALL TOGETHER TO CURRENT DATE. AND THEN, UM, HAVE ONE OF THE STUDENTS FROM THAT CLASS DO OUR KEYNOTE THIS YEAR. UM, AND THEN WE COULD JUST CLOSE OUT FROM THERE. I DIDN'T KNOW HOW YOU GUYS, I MEAN, OF COURSE THAT WOULD BE IF SOMEBODY WOULD BE WILLING. UM, BUT I THOUGHT THAT WOULD BE A IMPACTFUL, UM, WAY OF NOT HEARING US CONTINUE TO GIVE THIS SPEECH EVERY YEAH. SO FOR THE CHOIR, FOR, SO FOR THE DANCE, I'M JUST TRYING TO ADD IN, THEY'RE ALSO TALKING TO CHOIR DIRECTOR. OKAY. SO, SO THAT SHE'LL KNOW THERE'S DANCE OR SINGING AND THEN THE, THE OTHER CHILDREN ARE GONNA DO HISTORY. YEAH. TIMELINE OF HISTORY. WELL, WE'RE GONNA PUNCTUATE, I DIDN'T MEAN TO JUST, SO THE HISTORY SPRINKLED, THE HISTORY OF THE TIMELINE IS SPRINKLED THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE THING. AND [01:35:01] THEN WE'RE GONNA PUNCTUATE IT WITH LIKE A SPOKEN WORD PIECE, A VIDEO PIECE, UM, YOU KNOW, A VIDEO SNIPPET OF THAT EVENT OR, OR THINGS LIKE THAT. UH, A VERY MULTIMEDIA EXPERIENCE. YES. OKAY. WE ARE ALSO INTEGRATING THE DAY OF SERVICE COMPONENT, AND WE WILL BE COLLECTING HATS, GLOVES, AND SOCKS TO DONATE TO THE MASTER CLOSET. YES. OKAY. AND I THINK THAT IS EVERYTHING. WHAT QUESTIONS ARE THERE? THE THING IS GOOD. I THINK THEY CAN PUT TOGETHER A DANCE OR SOME, I MEAN, YOU, DEMOCRACY, JUSTICE, PROTECTING FREEDOM. I THINK THAT'S JUST LIKE THEY, YOU CAN BRING IN A WHOLE BUNCH OF SONGS OR DANCING, SINGING. MM-HMM. THAT'S GOOD. AND THEY ARE ALSO, MONTICELLO YOUTH ARE ALSO GOING TO BE DOING, UM, PAINTINGS, PICTURES, SO PUT ON DISPLAY MM-HMM. FOR LIKE OFFICER SIDE, AN AUCTION OR JUST TO SHOW, JUST TO SHOW LIKE MOCK PROTEST SIGNS AND STUFF LIKE THAT. OR, I DON'T KNOW. ANYTHING THAT I, I LEFT IT OPEN TO THEM. I GAVE THEM THE THEME. YEAH. WELL KIND, I GUESS BECAUSE WE GOT A VOTE ON IT. BUT I TOLD HIM THE THING THAT, BUT IF WE CHANGE, I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT IT IS. IF WE HAVE TO CHANGE IT, THEN WE DO, BUT WE NEED TO VOTE ON IT. SO WE NEED TO VOTE ON, UM, WE KNOW THAT IT'S JUNE 20TH. JANUARY, JANUARY, 20TH AT THE HIGH SCHOOL. WE ALREADY DISCUSSED THE HIGH SCHOOL. I THINK WE VOTED ON THAT LAST MONTH, DIDN'T WE? MM-HMM . WE HAVEN'T VOTED ON THE BUDGET FOR THE FOOD. YEAH, WE TO VOTE ON THE COST FOR THE PACK AND ALL THAT, BUT I DON'T THINK WE HAVE THAT COST. WE NEED THAT COST. WE GOTTA OVERSHOOT IT. OH, WE GOTTA SHOOT PROBABLY A THOUSAND DOLLARS. OKAY. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. DO YOU WANT TO START ASKING FOR VOTES? I CAN'T. UM, WHAT ABOUT THE THEME? YOU NEED A MOTION FOR THE THEME? YEAH. UM, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION FOR ADOPTING OUR MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR DAY EVENT. THEME B THE FOLLOWING, HUBER 365, PROTECTING OUR FREEDOM, JUSTICE, AND DEMOCRACY. I SECOND THAT MOTION. SO ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY DAYS. OKAY, SO MOVED AND CARRIED. NEXT. OKAY. WE ARE AN, OUR TARGET NUMBER THAT WE WERE THINKING OF WAS A HUNDRED PEOPLE. UM, I THINK LAST YEAR WE TARGETED 75. I'M PRETTY SURE WE GOT THAT. OH, I, NO, WE DIDN'T. SO, BUT WE ALSO HAD A DISCUSSION IF THAT'S ENOUGH, IF THAT'S ENOUGH TO PLAN FOR, FOR THE PEOPLE. YEAH, I THINK SO. I'M GONNA THROW THAT ONE OUT BECAUSE NOW WE, WE DO HAVE YOUTH, MORE YOUTH INVOLVED. AND THAT MEANS THE PARENTS, ESPECIALLY YOUNGER KIDS, BOYS. THE FOOD, LIKE THE CAFETERIA AREA OF THE SCHOOL. EVERYTHING AT TIME. YES. EVERYTHING AT LANE. NO, WALKOVER. I WAS, MY CONCERN WAS THE DRIVE OR THE WALK BACK FOR ELDERLY PEOPLE IN THE WEATHER. I, IT, IT'S, IT PALES IN COMPARISON TO THE, THE MOVEMENT. I GET THAT. BUT IT JUST LOGISTICALLY IS EASIER TO DO IT ALL ON ONE SITE. MAYBE UP TO HUNDRED 50, CONSIDERING IS THE BIG ENOUGH TO DO IT IN THE SAME BUILDING. SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO GO ACROSS THE OUTSIDE, HAVE TO CLEAN TWO BUILDING AREA WHERE THEY, YOU'RE NOT IN THERE THE, WELL, YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO EAT IN THAT PACK. SO THEY PROBABLY DON'T WANT IT OUTSIDE BECAUSE THEY DON'T NO, NOT OUTSIDE, LIKE, LIKE OUTSIDE THE DOOR. BUT YOU KNOW, PEOPLE JUST, [01:40:01] OH, WALK BACK THE USHER. YEAH. AND I THOUGHT WE COULD DO IT IN THE CAFETERIA, BUT THAT THEY DON'T HAVE SEATBACKS ON ALL THE CHAIRS TO WHERE IS THAT? NO, I MEAN THE WHOLE THING BECAUSE THEY HAVE SAGE THERE. , WE COULD, IF THEY HAD SEATBACKS IN THE CAFETERIA, WE COULD'VE JUST DONE IT ALL IN THE, I GET IT IN THE CAFETERIA. BECAUSE THEY HAVE SAGE. YEAH, NO, THOSE, WHAT ABOUT, WHAT'S NEXT TO THE OTHER, LIKE THE OTHER GYM MONTHS? JUST THE BIG GYM. THEY ABOUT RIGHT NEXT DOOR. WE JUST HAVE IT ALL OUT IN THE, THE TABLES AND CHAIRS, THE GYM FLOOR. IT IS WHAT IT IS NOW. WELL, I GUESS IT ISN'T WHAT IT IS NOW. 'CAUSE WE, OH, WAS THE CHAIRS IN THE GYM FLOOR? I DON'T KNOW IF THEY ALLOW THAT. WHAT FOOD? OH, FOR MONTH? OH, I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT. AND I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT WOULD'VE WORKED. COMMUNITY CENTER, BECAUSE WE MAY STILL HAVE SOMETHING AT, UM, AT THE BREAKFAST. WE MAY HAVE A PERFORMANCE OR SOMEONE SING OR SOMETHING. I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT WOULD WORK. LIKE LOGISTICALLY, I DUNNO. BUT YEAH, IT STANDS, THEY WILL WALK ACROSS THE WAY, THE BREEZEWAY. ALL RIGHT. OKAY. SO BACK TO THE NUMBER. WHAT, AND I WAS LOOKING AT SOME FACES DOWN THERE, YOUR THOUGHTS OR INPUT. YOU SAID A HUNDRED, 150 I THINK. YEAH. OKAY. SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT. UH, BUT YOU SAID THERE'S BE MORE, UH, YOUNG PEOPLE INVOLVED. YES. WE HAVE YOUNGER KIDS, WHICH MEANS PA MORE YOUR PARENTS AND STUFF. YEAH. SO MAYBE ONE 50. YEAH. HOW MANY, HOW MANY? YOU SAID IT'S A, IS IT A CHOIR? OH, UM, YES, WITH THE SIXTH GRADERS. JUST THE SIXTH GRADE CHOIR. AND WHAT WAS THE OTHER ONE? POSSIBLY THE HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR, BUT WE HAVEN'T HEARD BACK FROM THEM. THAT'S IT. AND YOU SAID YOU HAD WHAT, SEVEN CLOSE TO OR CLOSE TO 75 OR MORE LAST YEAR? YEAH, SEVEN, FIVE LAST YEAR. ONE 50. OKAY. ALRIGHT. BRING ANOTHER SOPHIE. YEAH. SO THAT WOULD BE AT LEAST, UM, 1500, 17 50 FOR FOOD, ROUGHLY 1750 FOR FOOD. AND THEN THE OTHER EXPENDITURE ITEMS WERE, UM, THE RENTAL POSTERS, THE RENTAL OF THE SPACE, THE, I THINK THAT'S IT, RIGHT? THE MARKETING FLYERS. I THINK THAT'S EVERYTHING. DO WE THINK DECORATIONS FOR BREAKFAST? I DON'T THINK IT'S, BUT DO YOU THINK THE, IN THAT, UH, WHAT'S THE NAME? THE SAME DAY? MY MARCH. IT'S INAUGURATION DAY. SAME DAY. YEP. IT IS. MAYBE WE SHOULD SERVE MARGARITAS. I THINK THAT ONE, I, I DON'T THINK THAT SHOULD IMPACT NUMBERS. RIGHT. ATTEMPTING TO SERVE, BUT I THINK WE SHOULD BE. OKAY. I WOULD, THAT JUST CROSSED MY MIND. MM-HMM . MM-HMM . YEP. YEP. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. JEFFREY, DO WE KNOW WHERE DO WE STAND WITH WHAT WE'RE GONNA PAY THIS SCHOOL IF WE HAD TO PAY THEM THE ENTIRE AMOUNT? UM, I THINK THAT CONVERSATION I HAD WITH JOHN EARLIER THIS WEEK, BUT I'LL SHOOT HIM AN EMAIL JUST TO KIND OF UNDERSTAND WHERE WE ARE, UM, ABOUT THAT. BUT I DID, UM, ADD MORE MONEY TO THE CONTRACT PO. SO IF WE NEEDED TO GO AHEAD AND PAY FOR LIKE, THE, UH, SPACE AS WELL AS, UM, THE EMPLOYEE, THE, IS IT EMPLOYEES, THE VA, LIKE THE AUDIO VISUAL AND THEN SOMEBODY, AND THEN THE CUSTODIAN. YEAH. SO IF WE HAD TO PAY THE, THOSE INDIVIDUALS TOO AS WELL, WE SHOULD BE GOOD. I THINK MY NUMBER TOTAL, UH, 2,500 IS WHAT I HAVE FOR THE WHOLE EVENT. IS THAT WORK [01:45:01] WITH EVERYBODY? WITH EVERYTHING? YEAH. UH, THAT'S, UH, IT'S PROBABLY NOT BECAUSE OUR, THE FOOD WAS A LITTLE MORE THAN WE ANTICIPATED AND WE JUST BUMPED UP TO ONE 50 VERSUS A HUNDRED PEOPLE. DID WE GO DOWN IN COST PER PERSON THOUGH, WITH CHANGING TO WE DID, BUT WE JUST BUMPED UP THE NUMBERS. TWO MORE PEOPLE. IT'S THE SAME THING. OKAY. YEAH. FAIR. SO, UM, I FEEL LIKE THE RENTAL WITH THE AV PERSON AND ONE CUSTODIAN LAST YEAR WAS LIKE SEVEN, $800. WE GOT A, I HAVE TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT MY EMAIL, BUT I, I MEAN, I TALKED TO THE PRINCIPAL, WAYNE, AND HE CUT US A BREAK, UM, FOR THE EXPENSE OF, I WANNA SAY EVERYTHING. SO 25 I, WHAT ARE WE LOOKING LIKE ALMOST A THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THE SPACE PLUS THE TWO EMPLOYEES. UM, I THINK IT WAS MAYBE WHAT LIKE 200 AND SOME ODD DOLLARS. I COULD BE MISSPEAKING, BUT I KNOW IT WASN'T, IT WASN'T A LOT OF MONEY JUST WITH THE SPACE, WITH THE SCHOOL AND THE STAFF. OKAY. IF WE CAN GET MARKETING OKAY. FOR A HUNDRED. YEAH. UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE NEED FOR MARKETING. IF WE CAN GET MARKETING FOR A HUNDRED, THE, THE, THE RENTAL, THE CUSTODIAN AND THE AV FOR A THOUSAND, AND THEN WE'LL TRY TO KEEP THE FOOD TO 1500. THAT GETS US TO OUR 2,500. OKAY. EXCUSE ME. THE FOOD IS 1800. UM, THE FOOD IS 1800. IF WE HAD TO PAY EVERYTHING FROM SCHOOL, THAT'S A THOUSAND DOLLARS. THAT'S $2,800 RIGHT THERE. THEN WE HAVE THE MARKING, UM, PROMOTION. UM, SOME MINOR DECORATIONS FOR SOMETHING FOR POSTER BOARD, STUFF LIKE THAT. YEAH. FOR DO WE ACCESS, SO THAT'S ART SUPPLIES? NO. NO. SO MAYBE WE SHOULD INCLUDE A FEW ART SUPPLIES. YEAH. LIKE THE POSTER BOARD. THAT STUFF WILL ALL HAVE TO BE INCLUDED. UM, I MEAN, CAN WE SET THE QUOTE AT 3000 FOR THE PO? YOU ONLY NEED FOR THE PACK, RIGHT? OR YOU NEED IT FOR THE FOOD PO MARKETING, THE PO IS FOR EVERY, JUST BECAUSE RIGHT. WE'RE GOING INTO THE, LIKE 2025 BUDGET ISN'T SET YET. SO THE IDEA IS THAT MONEY THAT WE'RE TRANSFER TRANSFERRING OVER NOW WOULD BE GOOD FOR THE VENDOR THAT COMES ON THE SCHOOL THAT'S ALREADY ONE OF A NAME VENDOR. UM, WE CAN ADD THEM TO IT. UM, ANY ADVERTISEMENT, UM, THAT YOU GUYS NEED. UM, IT JUST KIND OF ENCAPSULATE ALL OF THOSE THINGS THAT WE TYPICALLY WOULD NEED TO KIND OF DO, UM, FOR THIS EVENT OR ANY OTHER EVENTS. IT JUST, IT JUST KIND OF, IT'S JUST A LITTLE MURKIER JUST BECAUSE WE'RE, WE'RE TRANSITIONING TO A NEW YEAR. BUT YEAH. THE 20 AGAIN, I'LL, I'LL, I'LL SPEAK WITH JOHN AGAIN, UM, AND TRY TO MAKE SURE WHERE WE ARE WITH THAT WHOLE PROCESS AND HOPEFULLY WE DON'T HAVE TO SPEND THE THOUSAND-ISH DOLLARS TOWARDS THE, THE SPACE AND THE, AND THE STAFF. OKAY. WELL AS IT STANDS, I, I ANTICIPATED LIKE THE 1800 FOR FOOD. MM-HMM . A THOUSAND DOLLARS IF WE HAD TO SPEND THAT, UM, FOR, YOU KNOW, THE SCHOOL. OKAY. AND THEN THE MISCELLANEOUS LIKE SUPPLIES, POSTER BOARDS IS, UM, IS SUPPLIES, UM, LIKE PLATING AND SILVERWARE FOR FOOD OR DOES THAT COME INCLUDED WITH THE IT SHOULD BE INCLUDED WITH THE CATER. OKAY. ALL JUST STRENGTH FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, BUT IT'S A GREAT QUESTION. I NEED TO CLARIFY. OKAY. UM, SUPPLIES, THEY'RE DOING POSTER, POSTER BOARDS, BIG LONG, THE TIMELINE THINGS FOR THE TIMELINE, IT IS THAT HAND. ARE YOU, I'D ASK SIR, ARE YOU GUYS SOME POSTER BOARDS THAT WE MIGHT HAVE PRINTED OUT? OKAY. IN THE PAST WE'VE HAD MLK SIGNS PRINTED OUT FOR, UM, AND THEN LIKE THE ROLES OF PAPER WERE WHAT THEY WERE THINKING. SO WE WOULD, SO LET ME MAKE SURE HOW WE'RE GONNA DO THE FLYER TOO. SO I THINK THAT PRINTED PAGE THAT WE HAD GOT FROM, UH, ONE OF THE WEBSITES THE OTHER NIGHT, UM, I ASKED SARAH IF SHE COULD DO ANYTHING WITH THAT. THE ONLY PUSHBACK FROM HER WAS, UH, LIKE THE UNFORTUNATE IDEA IF IT WAS COPYRIGHT, UH, IMAGERY ON IT. UM, SO SHE SUGGESTED THAT WE KIND OF USE THE SAME BRANDING OF HOW WE DID MLK IN THE PAST. BUT I KNOW THAT YOU GUYS ALL HAD DECIDED TO [01:50:01] USE NEW WORDING. UM, IF THE OLD IMAGE, LIKE MAYBE NOT OLD IMAGERY FROM PAST EVENTS, BUT LIKE THE SAME LIKE SCHEME OF IT, BUT NEW WORDING AND UH, NEW MESSAGING, UM, IF THAT WAS SUFFICED FOR WHAT YOU GUYS WANTED TO DO FOR THIS YEAR WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THOSE POSTS OR FLYERS OR THINGS OF THAT NATURE, UM, WOULD THAT, WOULD THAT WORK FOR YOU ALL? OR DID YOU GUYS KIND OF WANNA DO SOMETHING ELSE ON YOUR GUYS' END AND THEN PASS THAT ALONG TO SARAH? UM, YOU WERE NOT HERE WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THE, WE HAVE A STU, A STUDENT THAT GRADUATED FROM WAYNE. OKAY. WHO'S GONNA DO IT? I DID WANNA BRING UP, I WOULD LIKE TO OFFER HIM A SMALL HONORARY, I GUESS HE'S A COLLEGE KID. HE'S ONE OF OUR COMMUNITY RESIDENTS. . MM-HMM . UM, SO I WOULD LIKE TO ADD THAT TO BUDGET ALSO. MONETARY VOTED. UM, YEAH. NO, NO. MON NO MONETARY. WE'VE DONE THOSE BEFORE. NOT FOR A MINOR. NO, NOT, NOT IN, BECAUSE WHAT WAS IT, UH, MR. RICHARDSON FOR, UH, WHAT'S HER PHRASE? UH, JUNETEENTH. YEAH. WE, WE DIDN'T, WE DIDN'T PAY MONEY. NOT MONETARY. WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE IN DOING AN HONOR? 'CAUSE WE'VE DONE THEM FOR SPEAKERS. MM-HMM . SO WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? LIKE, IS IT LIKE A CONTEST OR IS IT LIKE A WE'VE GIVEN HONORARIUMS FOR OUR SPEAKERS AT OUR FORUMS EVERY SINGLE TIME. DOLLAR AMOUNTS? YES. YES. ACTUAL DOLLAR HONORARIUMS. OKAY. AND THE MASSEUSES, THE CAN, CAN I, I'M NOT SAYING NO, BUT LET ME LOOK INTO IT AND I WILL FIGURE OUT WHAT IS SAID. BUT I THINK WE KIND OF CAME IN THAT SAME, UM, THE, THE QUESTION WAS ALREADY PRESENTED. 'CAUSE WE TRIED TO DO, I WANTED TO DO SOMETHING LIKE A GIFT CARD OR I DON'T KNOW, CASH OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO, FOR THE DOCTOR? CORRECT. FOR JUNETEENTH FOR THE WORK THAT SHE HAD DID FOR, FOR YOU ALL. UM, AND WE KIND OF ENDED UP WITH JUST GIVING HER FLOWERS. BUT YES, I CAN LOOK INTO THAT TO KIND OF REALLY GET A FEE. LIKE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO. PLEASE. NO WORRIES. . YEAH. OKAY. UM, SO I JUST HAVE ONE QUICK QUESTION. FOR THE FOOD BUDGET, DO WE HAVE A VENDOR WE CAN VOTE ON TODAY OR NO, BECAUSE WE SWITCHED IT UP. UM, SO THE VENDOR, THE ONE THAT WE DIDN'T KNOW, NOT MAKE A DECISION, BUT THAT WAS THE ONLY PERSON THAT COULD DO AND WAS AVAILABLE. THEY CAN STILL DO WHAT WAS ASKED. YES. WITH THE CHANGES. MM-HMM . OKAY. WELL THAT MAKES, THAT MAKES ME FEEL BETTER. SO, UM, I DON'T THINK WE HAVE TO GO FORTH WITH OUR ORIGINAL PLAN FOR THAT DISCUSSION THOUGH. DO WE? LIKE WE CAN PRESENT THAT VENDOR TO VOTE ON. UM, SO THE VENDOR IS , WHAT'S TODAY? HOME COOKED VIBES. OKAY. UM, BUT AGAIN, I ONLY WAS ABLE TO GET ONE QUOTE BECAUSE THE OTHERS WERE NOT AVAILABLE. SO NOR THAT LEAVES US, I DUNNO IF WE'D NEED TO VOTE ON THE SPECIFIC HAT OR IF WE JUST NEED TO VOTE ON THE AMOUNT OR HOW WE WANNA DO THAT. I THINK GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF TIME WE HAVE TO MAKE THAT DECISION, WE CAN GO AHEAD AND VOTE ON THAT VENDOR. IDEALLY, I THINK WE SHOULD SET A STANDARD OF HOW MANY QUOTES WE WANT FOR THESE TYPE OF THINGS. BUT GIVEN THE, THE FACT THAT IT'S DECEMBER, LET'S JUST GET IT DONE. AND ON THE QUOTE THAT WE HAVE, SINCE THEY WERE, THEY WERE THE ONLY ONE ABLE TO MEET THE CHANGE OF PASTRIES AND MUCH LIGHTER. FAIR. YEAH. CAN I, CAN I ASK ONE QUESTION AS WELL? WHAT'S THEIR TIMELINE ON TURNAROUND? THEY NEED A YAY, NAY IF WE'RE GONNA DO THIS OR NOT. LIKE TO USE THEM AS SERVICES. THEY DIDN'T, THEY DIDN'T GIVE A TIME. OKAY. UM, DID THEY NEED ANY LIKE DOWN PAYMENT, CASH, UH, PRIOR TO THE EVENT? SO I NEED TO GIVE MORE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BECAUSE WE JUST SWITCHED THIS LAST NIGHT. MM-HMM . MM-HMM . OKAY. SO SHE WAS JUST ABLE TO GIVE ME THE NUMBERS. YEAH. OKAY. ALRIGHT. AND THEN THE LAST THING IS FOR ANY VENDOR, UM, THAT YOU GUYS, UM, GO AHEAD AND VOTE FOR, UM, I WILL NEED THEIR W NINE. UM, TO, TO START PAYMENT, UM, OR TO START THE PO UH, FOR PAYMENT. OKAY. WE PASSED. WHAT'S OUR MOTION? [01:55:01] THE MOTION IS TO APPROVE THE VENDOR AND THE QUOTE. I THINK WE'RE ALL MAKING LIKE BETS AT THE AT THE CASINO. I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE'RE VOTING ON THE BUDGET. OH, THE BUDGET. YEAH. HOW MUCH DO YOU NEED? 1800. WHO AND WHAT ARE THEY PROVIDING? WHO THAT? FOR? FOOD? NO, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE VOTING ON NOW. THE BUDGET ITEMS, WHAT DO THEY VOTE ON A VENDOR? WHAT DO THEY PROVIDE? WHAT I JUST SAID. OKAY. WELL, I MEAN, I, I'M TRYING TO, WE'RE WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IS THE BOAT. IT'S UM, A LIGHT BREAKFAST FAIR, LIKE BAGELS, FRUIT JUICE, UH, PASTRIES. UM, NOTHING REAL BIG BREAKFASTY. 'CAUSE WE DIDN'T WANT PEOPLE CONGREGATING AT THE TABLES. WE WANT THEM DOING THAT TIMELINE THING AS WELL. SO, UM, IT WAS, IT WAS FOR COULD LIGHT STUFF LIKE THAT. COULD, COULD I ENTER, ELABORATE IT AGAIN? COULD I INTERJECT? UM, JUST WITH THE IDEA OF LIKE BREAKFAST ITEMS, UM, IT PROBABLY COSTS A LOT LESS TOO. UM, IT HAD YOU GUYS THOUGHT ABOUT LIKE DONUTS INSTEAD. 'CAUSE I KNOW WE DO HAVE A A, A BAKERY UP THE ROAD, UM, THAT WE COULD POTENTIALLY USE. LIKE IT'S A SMALL PRACTICE ITEM. PEOPLE CAN KIND OF GATHER AROUND WITH THAT. BUT YOU KNOW, MORE INFORMATION THAN WE DO. SO I, I GUESS THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO GET AT. BECAUSE WHAT ARE WE, WHAT ITEMS ARE THEY, WHO'S THE VENDOR AND WHAT ARE OUR OPTIONS? OKAY. I JUST SAID THE VENDOR IS HOME GOODS. IS THAT WHAT I SAID? HOME COOKED VIBES. HOME COOKED VIBES. THANK YOU. MM-HMM . AND THEN THE ITEMS ARE, UM, I GOTTA PULL MY NOTES BACK. PASTRIES, MUFFINS, BAGEL MUFFINS, BAGELS, JUICE, FOOD, CHEESE, YOGURT CUPS, GRANOLA COFFEE, ORANGE JUICE, UH, MAYBE BREAKFAST SANDWICH. I DON'T HAVE SOME TIME. THAT'S PAN HELP. YES. THANK YOU. THAT WAS EXACTLY IT. BAGELS, MUFFINS, CREAM CHEESE, YOGURT CUPS, GRANOLA COFFEE, ORANGE JUICE, BREAKFAST SANDWICH AS AN ADD ON. HOW MUCH? UM, $12 PER PERSON. OKAY. COULDN'T WE PICK THAT UP AT A PANERA BREAD? WE COULD PROBABLY. PART OF OUR ALSO INITIATIVE IS SUPPORTING, UM, MINORITY BUSINESSES IS ALSO ONE OF OUR GOALS. SO ALL FOUR VENDORS ARE MINORITY BUSINESSES. THAT CORRECT. OR AT LEAST THAT'S UNDERSTOOD. MM-HMM . YEAH. AND IT'LL BE, I KNOW IT'S GONNA BE ANY, THEY'RE GONNA BE CHEAPER. IS THAT THE CONCERN? THE COST? MY CONCERN IS THAT I, I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WE WERE DOING. SO I GUESS THE QUESTION BECOMES, YOU COULD MAYBE PANERA OR, OR THE BAKER, WHOEVER, BECAUSE THEY'RE BUSINESSES, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THEY'LL BE WILLING TO DONATE SOME OF THAT STUFF AND PURCHASE SOME OF THAT STUFF, I GUESS IS MY QUESTION. I DON'T KNOW. WHATEVER DECISION WE MAKE, WE NEED TO MAKE IT HERE NOW. WE CAN'T COME, WE CAN'T, WE'RE NOT ABLE TO COME BACK AND VOTE ON IT. RIGHT. BECAUSE THIS IS THE LAST MEETING BEFORE, RIGHT? ONE MORE. SO THIS WAS, BUT WE DON'T HAVE A MEETING TO VOTE ON THAT TO MAKE A LAST DECISION. OH NO, WE DEFINITELY DON'T HAVE A MEETING TO VOTE ON THAT. I MEAN, WE CAN, IT HAS TO BE A THIS OR THAT AT THIS JUNCTURE. UM, THIS IS COST AN ISSUE OR IS THIS, I MEAN, CAN WE, IS THE BUDGET THE NO, THE BUDGET. BUDGET. THE BUDGET. NO, I MEAN IT'S, IT'S, IT'S NOT SO LIKE, NO, IT'S NOT. IT'S JUST, I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THINGS WHERE LIKE, LIKE THEY SAID, RIGHT. BUT YOU'RE NOT GATHERED AT A TABLE. AND THE ONLY REASON WHY I SAID DONUTS IS 'CAUSE LIKE HANDHELD, YOU CAN GRAB ONE, [02:00:01] YOU CAN GET A CUP OF COFFEE OR JUICE, WHATEVER, AND YOU CAN KIND OF SOCIALIZE THAT WAY AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO NECESSARILY BE SENDING OUT, IT'S JUST THE IDEA OF LIKE DIFFERENT ALTERNATIVES. MM-HMM . AND, AND THEN AT THE SAME TIME, SURE. YOU ARE SAVING SOME MONEY TO, FOR ANY OTHER PROJECTS THAT YOU GUYS WANT TO HAVE. I THINK IF THE MONEY IS A CONCERN, YOU CAN PROBABLY PURCHASE. YOU'RE TALKING FOR 150 PEOPLE. I'M SURE YOU COULD MAKE THAT PURCHASE AT PANERA BREAD LESS THAN 1500. AND THEN THE OTHER, THAT'S A MINORITY BUSINESS. BE $12 PER THERE'S GO HOLD SOMETHING GOOD CORPORATE. THE VI THE VIBING COMPANY. YEAH. I FIND PERSONALLY BE KIND OF EXPENSIVE. SO THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THEIR THREE CUPS ALONE ARE LIKE FIVE A. UM, I THINK ALL OPTIONS ARE GOOD. I DON'T, I MEAN, IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF GAMES, RIGHT? WE HAVE, WE GOT DONUTS, TWO INITIAL VENDORS MM-HMM . THAT OFFER FULL BLOWN BREAKFASTS, WHICH ALL SOUNDED JUST DELICIOUS AND DELIGHTFUL. BUT IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS, IS THAT FEASIBLE? UH, I THINK WITH WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH WITH THE MEET AND GREET IS TO GIVE PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE SOME HANDHELD THINGS MIGRATE AROUND THE ROOM, THAT KIND OF THING. WE ALREADY MOVED AWAY FROM HAVING THE FULL BREAKFAST. WE GOT ANOTHER QUOTE WITH THOSE HANDHELD ITEMS, WHICH IS ABOUT $500 LESS AND A LITTLE MORE DOABLE. AND SO THE, THE GOAL OF THE CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST, I'M JUST USING THAT TERM YES. UH, IS FOR THE MEET AND GREET AND THE, THE SOCIAL OR THE SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT PIECE OF THIS? YEAH. AND HOW LONG DOES THAT NORMALLY LASTS? LIKE JUST GUESSTIMATE? AN HOUR, 40 MINUTES, 30 MINUTES. AN HOUR. AN HOUR. YOU WERE THERE LAST YEAR, RIGHT? MM-HMM . YEAH. SAME FORMAT. JUST DIFFERENT LOCATION. DIFFERENT ACTIVITY. SO ARE WE TAKING A BOAT ON FULL BREAKFAST OR ARE WE TAKING A BOAT ON CONTINENTAL? WHAT DO, WHAT DO WE NO, IT'S CONTINENTAL. THERE'S NO, THE FULL IS OFF THE TABLE. WHEN DO WE VOTE THAT WE DIDN'T? BECAUSE THE VENDORS, THEY, IT'S NOT AVAILABLE. THEY WAS OFF THE TABLE. WE NEVER VOTED TO HAVE A FULL BREAKFAST. SO WE DON'T HAVE TO VOTE NOT TO HAVE A FULL BREAKFAST. AS THE GROUP DECIDED THAT IT WAS NOT FEASIBLE TO HAVE A FULL BREAKFAST. SO WE'RE BRINGING IT TO THE, THE TASK GROUP THROUGH A DISCUSSION, DECIDED IT WAS NOT FEASIBLE TO PULL ON A FULL BREAKFAST. SO IT WAS MORE FEASIBLE TO HAVE THIS TYPE OF BREAKFAST. AND THAT'S HOW WE GOT TO THE VENDORS THAT WE HAVE BECAUSE THE ADDITIONAL, THE ADDITIONAL TASK OF A FULL BREAKFAST WAS OUTSIDE OF THE REALM OF WHAT WE THOUGHT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN AT THIS EVENT. OKAY. WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE COMPANY AGAIN? HOME COOKED VIBES. HOME COOK VIBES. ALRIGHT. IT'S NOT A PROBLEM WITH THE BUDGET. I MAKE A MOTION WE GO WITH HOMECOOKED VIBES FOR OUR CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST OFFERING AT THE MLK EVENT. I MEAN, IT'S A LOCALLY OWNED BUSINESS. IT'S A MINORITY BUSINESS AND IT IS THE ONE BUSINESS THAT CAN ACCOMMODATE OUR NEEDS BASICALLY. MM-HMM . MM-HMM . CAN YOU THROW THE QUOTE ON THERE, COREY? 1800. THE WHAT? THE QUOTE. OH, UH, WITH THE, WHAT WAS THE, YOU SAID IT WAS 1800. SO I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE GO WITH, WHAT'S THE NAME OF THE COMPANY AGAIN? HOME COOK. THEY GONNA BE MAD AT ME IF THEY WATCH THIS. HOME COOK VIBES. UH, WITH A BUDGET OF $1,800 FOR OUR MLK EVENT, UH, IN JANUARY, 2025. ANYBODY SECOND? I SECOND. WELL I FEEL LIKE THE, THE BUDGET IS PROBABLY GONNA COME IN AT WHAT? TO BE ABOUT A THOUSAND OR SO. 1800. OH WILL IT BE 1800? MM-HMM . THAT'S WHAT WE PUT IN THE, THE THAT'S THE MOTION. OH, FOR THE, OKAY. SORRY. WAS JUST YOU ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? ANY ABSTENTION? THERE WE GO. OKAY. WHAT ABSTENTION, I DON'T THINK IT WAS HANDLED PROPERLY. AREN'T YOU SUPPOSED TO SAY THAT BEFORE WE VOTE? [02:05:01] SUSTAIN? HE CAN ABSTAIN OR HE CAN OBJECT AGAIN. I WANT TO JUST TELL EVERYONE, OKAY. SINCE WE FOR EXPLANATION, I THAT'S OKAY. NO. OKAY. YEAH. YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO SAY? OKAY. SO AGAIN, I JUST WANNA SAY TO PEOPLE, , WE HAVE LIKE, WE HAVE TASK GROUPS TO PUT THINGS TOGETHER TO BRAINSTORM. ANYBODY IS OPEN TO BE ON THE TASK GROUP TO SHARE THOUGHTS, TO SHARE IDEAS AT ANY TIME. WE JUST ALL CAN'T. I MEAN, IF THERE'S FOUR OF US OR MORE, WE JUST GOTTA MAKE IT A PUBLIC MEETING. YES. BUT I DON'T WANT ANYONE TO FEEL LIKE THEIR THOUGHTS OR WHATEVER OR NOT CONSIDER, WE CAN ALL GO TO EACH OTHER WITH OUR THOUGHTS, FEEDBACK AT ANY TIME. I JUST WANNA MAKE THAT CLEAR. THAT'S ALL WAS, AND I'M GETTING READY TO GO. IT'S OKAY. IT'S, NO, IT'S NOT IMPORTANT. I THINK. ERIC ARE YOU, IS IT, I GUESS IS IT THE TASK GROUP MADE A DECISION TO NOT DO BREAKFAST AND IT WASN'T BROUGHT TO THE GROUP TO VOTE ON BREAKFAST VERSUS CONTINENTAL? CORRECT. AND THE TASK GROUP NOT SUPPOSED TO MAKE DECISIONS, IS THAT WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM? CORRECT. OKAY, THAT'S FINE. OKAY. BUT WE'RE STILL DOING BREAKFAST. IT'S FINE. IT'S THE SIZE OF THE SPREAD. IF WE NEED TO VOTE ON THAT, THEN VOTE ON IT. I MEAN YEAH. IN PREVIOUS CONVERSATIONS WE'D ONLY MENTIONED T THAT YES, THERE HAS NOT BEEN A CONVERSATION THAT HAS HAPPENED ON THIS DAIS THAT INVOLVED A FULL BREAKFAST. ANY CONVERSATIONS THAT DID NOT HAPPEN ON THIS DAIS DID NOT HAPPEN BECAUSE IT'S A CONFLICT OF INTEREST. DO WE HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO VOTE ON FOR MLK? WE SPIT IT THIS LONG OR THIS OH MY GOD, DO WE NEED TO TAKE A VOTE? NOT, AND I'M SORRY, IS THAT THE, THE ONLY CONCERN THAT YOU HAD ERIC? AS FAR AS WHAT'S GONNA BE CONCERN AND OUR BREAKFAST, LUNCH SNACKS. WE INTERJECTED IN THIS MEETING WITH THE IMPORTANCE OF THE TASK GROUP. WE DON'T WANT TO MAKE DECISIONS, WE DON'T WANT TO DO THIS. BUT YET THERE WERE SOME DECISIONS BASED ON, SO THAT'S MY POINT. WE BRAIN AND I'M DONE WITH IT. WE BRAINSTORMED IDEAS AND IN THAT BRAINSTORMING, A DECISION WAS MADE TO STILL PROVIDE FOOD IN THE MORNING. JUST NOT THE AMOUNT OF FOOD. OKAY. SO AND THEN THE DECISION TO BE BROUGHT TO THE COMMISSION WAS THIS IS THE OFFERING, THIS IS THE VENDOR WE WERE ABLE TO COME UP WITH. NO DECISION WAS TECHNICALLY MADE. WE DISCUSSED GOING BACK TO THE VENDORS TO SEE IF THEY WOULD BE WILLING TO CHANGE THEIR MENUS. SO THERE WAS NO DECISION MADE. MM-HMM. QUITE HONESTLY, THERE WAS NOT. MM-HMM. OKAY. ACTUALLY LAST MONTH WE DISCUSSED THAT IT WOULD BE A CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST. THAT'S WHERE WE LEFT IT. IF ANY, IF WE HAD ANY ISSUES WITH IT BEING A CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST, WE SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT IT UP THEN. I HAVE NO ISSUE WITH CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST. I ACTUALLY THINK THE CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST IS THE WAY IT GO. OKAY. ALRIGHT. THE ISSUE IS A DECISION. WE JUST MADE THIS BIG POINT AND THE DECISION ON THAT WAS MADE IN THE TASK GROUP, NOT HERE. FAIR. WHICH IS WHY WE HAD THE CONVERSATION OF TODAY. TODAY I THINK ASKING TO GET A QUOTE FOR A CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST, IT'S JUST SAYING THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING. THAT'S . WE'RE DONE WITH THIS CONVERSATION JUST BECAUSE WE'RE UPSET WITH HOW OTHER CONVERSATIONS HAVE HAD AT HAND OR WE DON'T LIKE BEING TOLD THAT THERE ARE RULES OF A COMMISSION THAT ARE GOING TO BE FOLLOWED AS NINE PEOPLE ON THIS COMMISSION DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE'RE GOING TO LOSE DECORUM IN THIS BUILDING. IT IS EIGHT 19. IF YOU WANTED TO BE IN THE WORK GROUP, YOU COULD HAVE BEEN IN THE WORK GROUP. OTHERWISE DECISIONS GET MADE HERE OR BROUGHT CHOICES GET BROUGHT TO THE COMMISSION FOR DECISIONS TO BE MADE. AND THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT. I HAD THE CONVERSATION BECAUSE OF HOW WE GOT HERE. SO MOVING FORWARD, THESE ARE THE RULES OF THE COMMISSION. THIS IS HOW IT'S GONNA BE GOING. AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO TELL YOU. WE VOTED ON HAVING A BREAKFAST VENDOR. IT'S NOT LIKE WE JUST VOTED TO HAVE SOMEBODY COME IN AND PROVIDE WELLINGTON AND PRIME RIB. IT'S A VENDOR TO PROVIDE BREAKFAST ITEMS THAT WERE WITHIN THE [02:10:01] CAPACITY OF WHAT THE TASK GROUP THOUGHT WAS BEST FOR THIS EVENT. AGAIN, IF YOU WANNA HAVE AN OPINION IN THE TASK GROUPS ON WHAT'S BROUGHT FORWARD FOR A VOTE, JOIN THE GROUP. OTHERWISE, A CLOSED MOUTH DOESN'T GET FED. MOVING ALONG. JEFFREY, DO WE NEED TO RESET THE DATE FOR THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL? YEAH, IT WAS BROUGHT TO, UH, I BROUGHT THE DATE, UM, AGAIN, THAT WAS MY BAD ON THE MINUTES, BUT WHAT WAS THE DATE? LIKE SEPTEMBER, THE SECOND WEEK OF SEPTEMBER. UM, RIGHTFULLY SO. THE EMAIL WAS SENT TO JOHN AS WELL AS TONY. UM, JUST TO GIVE HIM THE HEADS UP JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT DATE DID NOT INTERFERE WITH ANY IDEAS THAT COUNSEL HAD. UM, FROM THE INFORMATION THAT THAT, UH, WAS TOLD, UH, THAT DATE DID NOT WORK. UM, THEY, THEY, THEY JUST TOLD ME FOR YOU GUYS TO PICK ANOTHER DATE. UM, I'M NOT FOR SURE WHAT IS HAPPENING. ME AND SARAH FOREST STARTED TRYING TO FIGURE OUT W LIKE WHAT THE SCHOOL IS DOING. 'CAUSE I THINK THAT'S THE HESITATION FROM COUNCIL. UM, AND THEY JUST DIDN'T WANT, UM, UM, I GUESS ANY LIKE STEPPING ON THAT EVENT, UM, FOR WHATEVER'S HAPPENING. SO I'M NOT IN THE REALM OF MOVING OUR DATE FOR A NON KNOWN EVENT. SO IF WE COULD GET SOME, AGAIN, MORE INFORMATION ON WHAT THE CONFLICT IS. YEAH. SO I, I WAS IN FRONT OF COUNCIL AND ASKED THEM IF THEY HAD ANY OPINIONS ON A DATE AND WAS TOLD THEY DIDN'T. AND IT WAS OUR DECISION FOR, FOR ANY EVENT, FOR MULTICULTURAL. OH, OKAY. FLAT OUT. YEAH. SO, SO MY FRUSTRATION THERE IS LIKE THIS CONSTANT BACK AND FORTH MM-HMM . OF LIKE, IF THEY WANT IT ON A DATE, SAY IT. YEAH. UM, OTHERWISE I, I FEEL LIKE WE'VE DISCUSSED EVERY DAY BETWEEN MAY AND OCTOBER 31ST AT THIS POINT. SO CAN WE FIND OUT WHAT THE CONFLICT IS? YEAH. BEFORE WE, WE HAVE THE CONVERSATION ABOUT, SO SARAH HAD A INTERN, UM, TO KIND OF GO AROUND THE REGION AND, UM, PULL WHAT EVENTS WERE HAPPENING, WHAT WERE HAPPENING IN THE REGION. I, THAT'S NOT MY CONCERN. WHAT'S HAPPENING IN HUBER HEIGHTS? WELL THAT IS THE CONFLICT. WELL, WE CAN'T, WE CAN'T, YES. WE CAN'T JUST GO AND SAY, OKAY, HEY, FOR THAT EVENT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TO MOVE THE EVENT. I THINK THAT'S THE UNDERSTANDING COUNCIL WANTS US TO MOVE. COUNCIL WANTS YOU ALL TO MOVE THE EVENT. I THINK THAT IS, THAT IS IT. NOW DO I KNOW WHAT THAT EVENT IS? NO, BECAUSE THE SCHOOL HASN'T DECIDED WHAT'S HAPPENING ON THAT. THE ONLY THING THAT I THINK THAT'S HAPPENING ON THAT DAY OR ON THAT WEEK IS LIKE, WHAT IS IT? THE USA, UH, I DON'T KNOW. LIKE IS IT BAND OR SOMETHING? YEAH. SO, YES. YEAH. UM, SO YEAH, I THINK THERE WAS A BIG ARGUMENT OR THERE WAS A BIG DISAGREEMENT I THINK WITH THE MUL, UH, NOPE. WITH, UM, THE MAYORAL FESTIVAL, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, BUT SURE. I I WILL TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE SCHOOLS, WHAT THAT IS. UM, I THINK THEY'LL, THEY'LL, COUNCIL AND LEADERSHIP WILL STILL ASK, UM, FOR YOU ALL TO CHANGE THAT, UM, DATE STILL. SO IT WAS BECAUSE OF THE HALFTIME? UM, I'M GUESSING, UH, AGAIN, LIKE I'M NOT FOR SURE. I, I THINK IT MIGHT BE THAT, BUT I'M NOT 100%. WELL, TYPICALLY I THINK THAT EVENT IS NORMALLY IN THE EVENING. OKAY. YEAH. LIKE SIX OR SEVEN IN THE EVENING. YEAH. SO REALLY IT SHOULDN'T BE TOO BAD. YEAH. OKAY. IT SHOULD BE A MAJOR CONFLICT. THAT'S JUST MY, MY OPINION. AND I, I DON'T EVEN, AND I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S JUST THE IDEA OF COMING TO YOUR GUYS', LIKE DOING A, UM, UH, CHECK IN WITH COUNSEL AND LIKE TRYING TO ARGUE THAT IF YOU GUYS ARE REALLY LIKE SET ON THAT. I THINK THERE, I MEAN IF YOU GUYS OBVIOUSLY SAY, HEY, THIS IS THE DATE WE WANT TO DO IT, AND THEN OBVIOUSLY TRY TO, YOU KNOW, EXPRESS THAT. I'M NOT SAYING THAT THEY'LL AUTOMATICALLY JUST SAY NO, BUT AS OF AS OF THE INFORMATION, THE EMAIL THAT I SENT TO TONY AND JOHN, THEY HAVE ASKED ME TO TELL YOU GUYS TO CHANGE THE DATE. CAN YOU FORWARD ME THAT EMAIL? SURE. DID THEY GIVE US LIKE OTHER DATES OR DID YOU SAY JUST PICK ANOTHER, JUST PICK ANOTHER DATE. THEY JUST SAID PICK ANOTHER DATE. NOW I KNOW THAT THERE WAS THE IDEA OF AN, UH, FLOATING OUT ANOTHER DATE IN MAY. WAS THAT NOT CORRECT? THAT YOU GUYS WERE GOING BETWEEN LIKE EITHER THE WEEK AFTER MOTHER'S DAY AND MAY OR THIS OKAY. I COULD BE WRONG, BUT NONETHELESS, YES. ANOTHER DAY IS THERE LIKE A CALENDAR THAT THE CITY HAS OF [02:15:01] ALL THE VARIOUS EVENTS? BECAUSE THAT WOULD REALLY BE HELPFUL TO KNOW IF THERE WOULD BE ANY CONFLICT. I GOTCHA. I, YEAH. SO YES. UH, CITY EVENTS. I BELIEVE SARAH WILLIAMS IS WORKING ON THAT. IF, IF IT'S NOT ALREADY DONE, WE SHOULD HAVE THAT. I'LL GET THAT AND SEND EVERY THAT TO EVERYONE AS WELL. AND THEN, LIKE I WAS SAYING, THE EVENTS OUTSIDE OF THE CITY SO YOU GUYS CAN KIND OF HAVE A FEEL ABOUT WHAT'S TAKING PLACE AS WELL. IF YOU GUYS WANT TO FIGHT THAT BATTLE WHEN IT COMES TO, UM, OTHER EVENTS. I KNOW LIKE WE'VE ALWAYS, LIKE WE'VE MENTIONED IT, RIGHT? THERE'S ALWAYS GONNA BE SOMETHING HAPPENING WITHIN THE DAYTON REGION. SO IT'S JUST THE UNDERSTANDING OF NOT BEING AFRAID TO DO IT, BUT JUST TRYING TO MAKE OURS BETTER SO PEOPLE TEND TO WANT TO GO TO THAT RIGHT. VERSUS SOMETHING ELSE. YEAH. 'CAUSE THAT WOULD DEFINITELY HELP US PLAN ALL, ALL OF OUR EVENTS. UNDERSTOOD. LIKE AT LEAST A YEAR, SIX MONTHS TO A YEAR MM-HMM . UNDERSTOOD AHEAD OF TIME. SO YEAH, IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, WE'RE BEING ASKED TO PLAN AS FAR IN ADVANCE FOR THESE EVENTS MM-HMM . AND THEN WE'RE CONSTANTLY, YOU KNOW, HAVING THIS CONVERSATION ABOUT A DATE THAT WORKS FOR THIS EVENT AND, AND, YOU KNOW, THE DATE IN JUNE DIDN'T WORK FOR WHATEVER REASON, AND, YOU KNOW, HOWEVER WE HAD IT SET WASN'T WORKING FOR WHATEVER REASON. SO, UM, I WOULD RATHER NOT CONTINUE TO HAVE THIS CONVERSATION. I THINK THIS IS OUR THIRD OR FOURTH MONTH IN A ROW ABOUT THE DATE FOR THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL. UM, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THIS EVENT IMPLEMENTED DIFFERENTLY, COORDINATED DIFFERENTLY, AND I THINK THAT'S GONNA TAKE A LOT OF TIME AND EFFORT. SO WE CAN'T GET STARTED ON ANY OF THAT UNTIL WE HAVE A DATE. AND, AND I THOUGHT THAT THAT WAS WHAT WE HAD LANDED ON LAST MONTH. UM, THAT BAND THING IS IN THE EVENING. UM, I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE CITY INVOLVEMENT IS IN THAT. IF THERE'S OTHER CONFLICTS, I'M, I'M OPEN TO THE CONVERSATION, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO LIKE, YOU KNOW, ME BEING THE DIFFICULT WOMAN THAT I AM, I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE CHANGE THE DATE WITHOUT THE EXPLANATION AS TO WHY MM-HMM . SO GET ME SOME WHY AND THEN WE CAN TANGLE WITH THIS NEXT MONTH. THANK YOU. IS THAT THE DATE OF THE, OF THE, UM, IT WAS THE SEVENTH THIS YEAR. AND IF IT IS THE DATE OF THE HALFTIME SHOW, DO WE STILL WANT TO HAVE IT ON THAT DATE? SO THE DATE THIS YEAR WAS THE SEVENTH, UM, FOR THAT EVENT. SO, WHICH IS THE FIRST WEEKEND OF SEPTEMBER? YES. OF THE SECOND WEEKEND. SO LET'S SEE IF THE FIFTH, SO I'M LOOKING AT THE EMAIL THAT TONY SENT BACK TO ME, UM, LIKE JUST SKIMMING OVER THERE REAL QUICK. UH, HE JUST SAID HE WOULD ADVISE NOT DOING IT. UM, THIS WEEKEND PER COUNCIL'S PREVIOUS COMMENTS. I I WASN'T IN FOR THAT MARIGOLD, I'M FIGURING IT'S THE MARIGOLD CONVERSATION THAT THEY HAD WITH I THINK A AND B IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN. I COULD BE WRONG ABOUT WHO ACTUALLY DID THE MARI GO FESTIVAL. UM, BUT THEN HE JUST TALKS ABOUT OTHER EVENTS HAPPENING ON THAT WEEKEND AS WELL. UM, AND UM, OBVIOUSLY HE ALSO STATES THAT THE CITY CAN'T APPROVE, REJECT, OR CHANGE THAT RECOMMENDATION. SO AGAIN, IF I, I, I THINK THERE'S THAT IDEA IF YOU GUYS CAN UNDER LIKE PERSUADE COUNCIL TO SAY, HEY, I MEAN THE STATE FLIES AND WE CAN MAKE IT WORK AND ALL THAT STUFF. I THINK THAT SAVES THE HASSLE FROM YOU GUYS FOR TRYING TO CHANGE IT, UM, JUST TO KIND OF ALLEVIATE THAT STRESS. BUT I CAN FORWARD THAT TO YOU. IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE COUNSEL WEIGHED IN ON THAT, DOES IT? I THINK I, NOT THAT INITIAL, I'M NOT, I DON'T THINK HE PROB I DON'T THINK THEY PROBABLY WEIGHED IN ON THE INITIAL CONVERSATION THAT I SENT AFTER THE FACT THAT YOU GUYS HAVE VOTED ON IT. I THINK WHAT TONY WAS TRYING TO TELL ME IS THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY WEIGHED IN ON THAT WEEK PRIOR TO ABOUT MIRACLE FESTIVAL. SO RATHER THAN THE CONVERSATION COMING BACK UP AGAIN, HE WAS TRYING TO SAVE THE HASSLE OF SAYING, [02:20:01] HEY, LET'S JUST GO AHEAD AND NOT USE THAT WEEK. RIGHT. SO IF YOU COULD GET THE WHY AND THEN ALTERNATIVES THAT WOULD BE BETTER FOR THE CITY. DO YOU WILL? BECAUSE EVERY TIME HE OH, OKAY. PUT UP A DATE, WE'RE GETTING KICKED DOWN BECAUSE OF SOME OTHER REASON. SO YOU LET US KNOW WHAT SOME DATES ARE AND, AND WE'LL SEE WHAT WE CAN GO FROM THERE. I GOTCHA. YEAH. OKAY. 'CAUSE IF THE CITY WANTS TO SET THE DATE, THE CITY CAN SET THE DATE. OKAY. I MEAN, 'CAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT SEEMS LIKE. SO LET 'EM SET THE DATE AND TELL US WHAT WORKS. I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THAT. I THINK THAT WE CAN STILL START THE TASK GROUP. WE HAVE A TASK GROUP, RIGHT. BUT I MEAN, MEETING THE TASK GROUP CAN STILL START MEETING BRAINSTORMING WHO ARE A TARGETED AUDIENCE, DOING SOME OF THE BACK BEHIND THE SCENES THINGS THAT WE DON'T NECESSARILY NEED TO DATE TO DETERMINE. SO I THINK THAT WHO WAS, WAS IT BYRON? THE BYRON, YEAH. SO I THINK THAT I SUGGEST THAT GOING AHEAD AND STARTING THAT PROCESS, NOT WAITING ON A DATE. MM-HMM . MM-HMM . OKAY. THAT'S ABOUT GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL CONVERSATION. YOU'RE FINE. PLEASE. OKAY. MY APOLOGIES. I WILL BE THREE MINUTES. I DO WANT TO TOUCH BASE WITH JEFFREY ON THE MLK. THAT ONE WE'VE, UM, YOU HAVE REQUESTED FOR THE MAYOR OR AN ELECTED OFFICIAL TO READ THE, TO READ THE PROCLAMATION AND REQUESTED A PROCLAMATION. CORRECT. OKAY. OKAY. SO I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THAT. UM, AND WE'RE FOLLOWING THE SAME ADVERTISING THAT WE DO FOR ALL OF OUR CITY EVENTS. MM-HMM . KEY ADS, CITY PAGE NEWSLETTER, FLYERS. YEP. OKAY. UM, AND THAT WAS ALL. OKAY. ARE WE FINE WITH THE SAME LANGUAGE FROM LAST YEAR'S PROCLAMATION? WE'RE JUST CHANGING DATES? OR DID YOU GUYS HAVE A, LIKE, NEW LANGUAGE THAT YOU GUYS WANTED FOR THE PROCLAMATION? IT'S, IT WAS FINE. IT'S PRETTY FINE. YEAH. UM, I WONDER SINCE THIS YEAR YOU'RE INCORPORATING LIKE THE CHILDREN'S, WELL, CERTAIN EVENTS THAT LED UP UP TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT MM-HMM . THAT INFORMATION WOULD NEED TO BE INCLUDED IN THIS YEAR'S PROCLAMATION. OKAY. UM, COULD, COULD ONE OF YOU WRITE THAT FOR ME AND SEND IT OVER TO ME, NOT GET IT TO TONY? YES. WOULD YOU NEED BY, UM, JUST SOONER RATHER THAN LATER? UH, I DON'T , I, I DON'T WANNA SAY LIKE THE DAY BEFORE THE EVENT , BUT, BUT OH, LET ME ALSO MAKE THIS KNOWN TOO. UM, I WILL BE OUT OF THE STATE, UH, FOR 10 DAYS STARTING ON THE NINTH THROUGH THE 29TH, BUT THEN I WON'T, BUT I WON'T BE BACK IN THE OFFICE UNTIL, UH, JANUARY THE SECOND. SO JUST LET THAT BE KNOWN. OKAY. SO THAT MEANS SAID SOMETHING TO YOU ASAP. I MEAN, YOU'RE IN THE OFFICE TOMORROW. NEGATIVE. I HAVE A, A PLANNING COMMISSION AT SINCLAIR THAT I'LL BE AT ALL DAY. SO AFTER TODAY, YOU'RE OUT UNTIL JANUARY. . I WISH. , UH, THE NINTH. YOU SAID THE NINTH TO THE, OH, DID I SAY, I THOUGHT I SAID THE 19TH. I THOUGHT I SAID THE 19TH. MY, LIKE MY, UH, MAN. WOO. FINE. . ACTUALLY, YOU SAID I SCREW THE 2ND OF JANUARY, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. THAT WAS, THAT WOULD'VE PROBABLY BEEN THE FIRST BREAKING NEWS THAT I WOULD'VE PROBABLY BEEN I STATE OF OHIO AND IT'S NOT EVEN, UH, NO, MY BAD. I'VE MISSPOKE. IF, IF I MISSPOKE MY BAD. NO, I MEANT THE 19TH OF DECEMBER. THAT'S A LITTLE, UH, THROUGH THE 29TH. I WILL NOT BE IN THE, I WON'T, I WON'T BE IN THE STATE AND THEN I WON'T RETURN BACK TO WORK UNTIL JANUARY THE SECOND. THAT'S, THAT'S A LITTLE BETTER THE NEXT MONDAY. I APPRECIATE THAT'S, I MEAN, IT SOUNDED GOOD, BUT MAN, TELL ME. DAMN. SHOOT, SHE DO ALL, YEAH, SHE DIDN'T TAKE ANY VACATION TIME, AND BRIEFLY. 'CAUSE TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE HERE. YEAH. SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, WHEN WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE, UH, WAS IT LIKE THE 17TH? WAS THAT LIKE A TUESDAY? LIKE MM-HMM . I THINK 14TH. NO, I'M GIVING YOU THAT FOLLOWING WEEK AFTERWARDS. SO LIKE TWO WEEK, LIKE, ALMOST LIKE TWO WEEKS. SO YEAH. SO TEENTH, YEAH. YES. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. YEAH. OKAY. SO THE 17TH OF DECEMBER. THAT IS A TUESDAY. YEAH. [02:25:01] SO EITHER, I WOULD SAY EITHER THAT TUESDAY OR THAT, UH, WEDNESDAY. UM, UM, 'CAUSE I WILL NOT BE IN THE OFFICE ON THE 19TH, SO YEAH. EITHER TUESDAY OR WEDNESDAY OF THAT WEEK. OKAY. OKAY. I'LL MAKE SURE YOU DEFINITELY HAVE IT. OKAY. APPRECIATE IT BY THAT TIME. ALL, ALL RIGHT, KIDS. IT'S GETTING LATE. UM, UNDER THE NEW BUSINESS, THIS WAS, UM, ERIC, SKIP TO JUNETEENTH. OH, I DID, BECAUSE IT WASN'T AN ACTUAL BULLET. I APOLOGIZE. UM, JUNETEENTH UPDATES. SO IF WE DON'T HAVE ANY UPDATES, WE'RE LOOKING TO YOU GUYS, HELP ME UNDERSTAND HOW WE'RE GONNA DO A TASK GROUP AND A BUDGET, AND I CAN LET YOU KNOW IF I WANT DO IT. I THOUGHT YOU ALREADY DECIDED TO DO IT. AMERICA, YOU GOT THE RIGHT ONE. . THOSE ARE TWO THINGS. WELL, WE NEED TO KNOW THAT YESTERDAY. WE NEED TASK GROUP. HEY, YOU WOULD HAVE TO DETERMINE THE BUDGET BASED ON THE INFORMATION GATHERED IN THE TASK GROUPS. SO, UM, LOOKING AT POSSIBLE, I KNOW WE'VE USED THE SAME LIGHTING, VISUAL, LIKE THOSE TYPE OF THINGS. WE WOULD NEED THE QUOTE AND TO VOTE ON THE QUOTE. IF WE DECIDE ON MUSICAL ACTS, WE NEED THE QUOTE AND WE NEED TO VOTE ON THE QUOTES. UM, THE FLYER, YOU KNOW, CAN BE DEVELOPED WITH THE DATES FOR THE VENDORS, FOR THE FOOD TRUCKS, UM, AND HAND IT OFF TO THE CITY TO DO WHATEVER THEY DO WITH THE VENDOR PART OF THAT. UM, AND THEN FROM THOSE EXPENDITURES, LIGHTING, YOU KNOW, THE BANDS DJ OR YOU KNOW, THE SPEAKERS, THAT'S WHERE WE WOULD DEVELOP THAT BUDGET. OF COURSE, WE WOULD WANT TO TRY TO KEEP IT WITHIN, WHAT WAS IT, 10, 15,000 LAST YEAR? 15,000 IS OUR WHOLE BUDGET. SO WE DIDN'T, IT WAS USE THAT SEVEN, WE DIDN'T USE THAT AS A NUMBER. I THINK WE TRIED TO KEEP IT UNDER 10, MAYBE OR LESS. I MEAN, WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WE COULD DEVELOP A, A FRAMEWORK OF A BUDGET FOR YOU GUYS TO WORK WITHIN, BUT ANY OF THOSE EXPENDITURES WITHIN THAT BUDGET HAVE TO BE APPROVED BY THE COMMISSION. CORRECT. UM, AND THEN THE SAME THING FOR LIKE A SHIRT VENDOR, YOU KNOW? MM-HMM . IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE MORE THAN ONE OPTION. SO IT TAKES OUT THAT VIEW OF WE'RE PLAYING WITH OUR FRIENDS OR WE'RE, WE'RE DEALING IN CONFLICTS OF INTEREST. SO IN AN IDEAL WORLD, IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE MORE THAN ONE QUOTE. AND, YOU KNOW, I COULD DO FOUR T-SHIRTS FOR THIS MUCH MONEY AND THIS IS WHAT THEY WOULD LOOK LIKE AND WE NEED TO VOTE AS A COMMISSION. YEAH. UM, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT THERE'S ANYTHING OUTSIDE OF THOSE AREAS, YOU KNOW, KNOW WE WOULD NEED TO DECIDE THE COMMISSION. ARE WE GONNA DO A KIDS AREA? ARE WE GONNA HAVE THE, YOU KNOW, MASON DO THE ALCOHOL AGAIN OR THE CHAMBER? NOT THAT HE'S PERSONALLY, THOSE ARE THE COMMISSION DECISIONS. AND THEN FROM THAT, THOSE TASKS ARE, ARE COMPLETED. UM, I THOUGHT WE HAD A TASK GROUP THOUGH. YOU COREY, WHO ELSE IS IN THE JUNETEENTH TASK GROUP? IS IT IN THE MINUTES? IT IS PROBABLY IN THE MINUTES. WE HAVE A TASK GROUP. I THOUGHT. UM, I MEAN, OUTSIDE OF THAT, I MEAN, IS THERE SOME, SOME DO SOME, IS THERE SOME PART OF THOSE PARAMETERS THAT ARE A BARRIER FROM COORDINATING THIS EVENT? WELL, I GUESS WHAT I'M SAYING IS SO THAT WE CAN TRY TO COME UP WITH A LIST OF, UM, ACTS, DIFFERENT THINGS WE WANT TO DO. WE NEED TO HAVE SOME KIND OF IDEAL ON WHAT WE'RE OPERATING IN WHEN IT COMES TO FINANCES. SO IF, IF WE'RE SAYING WE, WE DON'T WANT TO SPEND OVER $5,000 TO DO THIS, THEN OBVIOUSLY WE CAN'T LOOK AT A GROUP THAT MAY COST US $3,500. WE NEED TO HAVE SOME IDEA OF WHAT IT IS WE'RE TRYING TO DO. WHAT ARE WE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH? THEN I THINK WE CAN PUT THE PIECES ON THE TABLE TO TRY TO COME UP WITH WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO. YEAH. AND CAN I INTERJECT REAL REQUEST? JUST, JUST TO SAY, LET'S GO DO IT. THAT WAS THE DIRECTION WE HAD LAST YEAR WAS JUST GO DO IT. RIGHT. [02:30:01] AND I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WAS EVER THE DIRECTION THAT WAS GIVEN. I FEEL LIKE THAT WAS THE DIRECTION THAT WAS TAKEN. SURE. WAS. IT'S FINE. WE'RE NOT GOING BACKWARDS. I WANT TO SET THIS UP. SO WE ARE SUCCESSFUL MOVING FORWARD AND WE ARE ALL DOING THE SAME THINGS IN THE SAME WAYS. UM, SO, YOU KNOW, IF YOU WANNA BUDGET FRAMEWORK FOR THE ACTS, YOU KNOW, AND YOU HAVE SOME IDEA OF WHAT YOUR TARGET WOULD BE, BRING THAT TO US. BUT WE CAN'T JUST GIVE LIKE A BLANK CHECK. YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE IT LIKE THAT. IF A MULTICULTURAL JUNETEENTH HAS BEEN THE, THE BIG MONEY ALWAYS HAS BEEN THE BIG MONEY, BUT SO WELL WHAT IF PAST BUDGETS BEEN YEAH. YEAH. I WAS GONNA SAY THE SAME THING. WOULD LAST YEAR, WELL, THIS YEAR, COULD THAT BE USED AS A BASIS MM-HMM . AS FAR AS WHAT THE PROJECTION, AND THAT'S WHAT I'M ASKING. YEAH. IF WE COULD USE THAT AS A TARGET. OH YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. THAT SHOULD BE USED. I THINKS WHAT I, SO, RIGHT. SO, SO YEAH. SO THAT'S WHERE I WAS TRYING TO GO WITH, RIGHT. IF WE USE THIS YEAR'S AS THAT BASE MOVING FORWARD, I WOULD JUST TELL YOU GUYS AS WELL THAT I TALKED TO SARAH FORSIGHT. UM, I THINK THAT THE COMMISSION, I CAN BE MISTAKEN, BUT I THINK THE COMMISSION HAD PAID FOR THE TENT THAT WAS THERE, UM, FOR, THEY PAID FOR THAT TENT, YES. FOR JUNE 10TH. SO SARAH IS WORKING IT IN HER BUDGET, SO SHE WOULD PICK UP THAT TENT CLAUSE. SO THAT'S JUST MONEY THAT COULD EITHER POTENTIALLY EITHER GO BACK TO JUNETEENTH OR FOR SOME OTHER EVENT OR ACTIVITY WITHIN, UM, UH, UM, THE COMMISSION. UM, BUT SURE, THE NUMBER THAT WAS USED FOR JUNETEENTH IS A PRETTY GOOD BENCHMARK TO KIND OF GO AFTER. UM, I'M ALSO IN THE WORKS OF TRYING TO SEE IF WE CAN GET SOME SPONSORSHIPS, UM, BECAUSE WE DID HAVE SOME ISSUE BECAUSE WE HAD, WE HAD ONE, UH, THIS YEAR. SO, UM, AND THAT'S JUST WITH MORE DOLLARS THROWN AT IT. SO IF YOU GUYS DID POTENTIALLY WORK AT A IDEA OF HOW YOU GUYS WANTED TO STRUCTURE JUNETEENTH FOR THIS UPCOMING YEAR, AND I GET THAT INFORMATION IN A TIMELY MANNER, UM, I CAN KIND OF PRESENT THAT TO CARE SOURCE AND CARE SOURCE. I, UM, BASICALLY MY IDEA IS LIKE, HEY, CARE SOURCE, THIS IS WHAT WE WANT TO DO. ARE YOU GUYS COOL WITH IT? AND HOW MUCH MONEY WOULD YOU GUYS GIVE US TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS? SO JUST IDEAS. I THINK THAT'S, I THINK THAT'S MORE THAN FINE. YOU, YOU CAN'T MAKE THAT DECISION, JEFFREY. I'M SORRY. IT'S OKAY. JUST SECOND. UNDERSTOOD. JUST, OKAY. I AM FORWARDING TO EVERYONE THE TRACKING SPREADSHEET THAT WE USE FOR 2023 JUNETEENTH, SO THAT EVERYONE IS AWARE. I DO WANNA REMIND EVERYBODY THAT GOOGLE, UM, DRIVE, EVERYBODY HAS ACCESS TO IT. SO THERE ARE LOTS OF RESOURCES PAST STUFF THAT WE'VE DONE OUT THERE. PLEASE REFERENCE IT OR IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON IT. YEAH, JUST ASK. UM, AND ONE OF THE THINGS MAYBE THAT MAYBE I NEGLECTED TO DO LAST YEAR, WHAT WE USUALLY DO IS EVERY YEAR AT THIS TIME, WE LOOK AT WHAT ARE OUR EXPENDITURES GONNA BE FOR NEXT YEAR. MM-HMM . BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE SUBMIT. WE USE THAT TO DETERMINE WHAT BUDGET WE WANT TO SUBMIT TO CITY COUNCIL. SO WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE PAST, WHICH DIDN'T HAPPEN LAST YEAR, MAYBE THAT'S WHERE THIS HICCUP IS, IS THAT EACH NO, I KNOW WHY IT DIDN'T HAPPEN BECAUSE WE STARTED DOING TASK GROUPS, THAT'S WHY IT DIDN'T HAPPEN. EACH PERSON WHO'S OVER LIKE A TASK OR A GROUP OR WHEN WE HAD THE, UM, YOU KNOW, LIKE REFORM AND ALL THAT STUFF, WHO HAS EVER WHOEVER'S OVER THAT, THEN THEY SAY, OKAY, HERE'S WHAT WE'VE GOT PLANNED FOR THE NEXT YEAR BASED ON THIS, THIS IS THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WE FORECAST WE'RE GOING TO NEED. WELL, I, I CLEARLY UNDERSTAND. YEAH. SO I'M SAYING MAYBE THAT WAS THE MISSING PIECE FOR YOU LAST YEAR, BUT AGAIN, I'M SENDING THE SPREADSHEET TO GIVE YOU JUST, I'M NOT DOING THE SPREADSHEET. I'M NOT, I'M SENDING THE SPREADSHEET FOR REFERENCE, AND, AND IT'S FOR DO IT AND IT'S, IT'S FOR REFERENCE BECAUSE WE STILL NEED TO TRACK THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING SO THAT EVERYONE'S AWARE WE CAN GO BACK TO THE PREVIOUS YEAR AND LOOK AND SEE WHAT WE DID, HOW MUCH WE SPENT, ALL OF THAT. SO IT'S HELPFUL FOR PEOPLE WHO COME AFTER US TOO. SO I'M SENDING IT SO JUST SO THAT YOU, YOU'RE AWARE AND EVERYONE ELSE HAS EYES ON THIS AND UNDERSTANDS, SO FOR REFERENCE, [02:35:01] RIGHT? SO THAT'S WHAT I HAVE TO SAY. AND BASED ON THAT, I REALIZED WE DID NOT VOTE ON THE TOTAL BUDGET, DID WE FOR . SO WE HAVE THE BUDGET TO SEE DISCUSSIONS FOR WHAT WE DIDN'T, WE VOTED ON THE FOOD. WE HAVE NOT VOTED ON THE TOTAL BUDGET. ALL RIGHT. UM, I MEAN, WE VOTED ON THE FOOD, WE VOTED ON THE PACK, BUT RIGHT. BUT, BUT UNDERSTAND LIKE WHERE WE ARE, WHERE WE ARE IN THE PROCESS. LIKE JUST IT BEING SO LATE IN THE GAME, I, I AM, I AM TAKING THE LEAD WHEN IT COMES TO THE BUDGET, RIGHT. THAT'S WHY I'M JUST TRYING TO MAKE AN, SOME TYPE OF SENSE OF WHAT THINGS YOU GUYS WANT TO DO. AND THEN I'M JUST GONNA SAY, HEY, YOU KNOW, HEY, THEY WANT TO DO MARKETING. SO I'M LIKE, HEY, OKAY, LET'S ADD $500 TO THE BUDGET. I THINK FOR THIS, I UNDERSTAND YOUR WHOLE PROCESS OF WHAT THE COMMISSION WANTS TO DO, BUT WE WILL REALLY TRY TO FIGURE THAT OUT AND BE FIRM ON IT FOR OTHER EVENTS. BUT LIKE, I WOULD ASK IF WE NOT REALLY LIKE, MAKE IT A CASE FOR THE MLK BECAUSE I HAVE DOLLARS ALREADY SET ASIDE FOR MLK, BUT WE, LIKE, OBVIOUSLY I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO FOR OTHER EVENTS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES, WE COULD, WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT. BUT MLK, JUST BECAUSE IT'S AT A TIME CRUNCH, I THINK WE SHOULD BE GOOD WITH THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WE'RE THROWING AT HER RIGHT NOW. SO JEFFREY, WHEN WILL BE THE IDEAL TIME EVERY YEAR FOR US TO PRESENT, UM, A BUDGET PROPOSAL FOR ALL OF THE EVENTS THAT WE TRY TO, UM, WHAT'S, I DON'T WANNA SAY WHAT'S THE QUIETEST TIME OF THE YEAR? 'CAUSE I THINK EVERYTHING'S PRETTY ACTIVE, RIGHT? SO, UH, TYPICALLY WHAT SEP SEPTEMBER MAYBE LIKE WE'RE, WE'RE COMING RIGHT OFF OF, UH, LIKE JUNETEENTH AND LIKE THE BIGGER EVENTS THAT THE CITY OR THAT THE COMMISSION WANTS TO DO. SO I THINK SEP SEPTEMBER KIND OF GIVES US THAT IDEA OF GOING INTO NEXT YEAR, OKAY, HEY, THIS IS WHAT WE REALLY NEED TO START TO WORK ON. THIS IS WHAT WE REALLY NEED TO START TO FOCUS. OKAY, HEY, THIS IS WHAT WE WANT TO PUT MONEY TOWARDS AND HOW MUCH MONEY WE WANNA PUT THINGS TOWARDS. SO IF THE NOTION IS FOR NEXT YEAR, NEXT YEAR, NEXT YEAR, 2026 EVENTS, WE WOULD, WE WOULD ALL START TO DISCUSS THOSE THINGS SEPTEMBER. OKAY. LATE SEPTEMBER, EARLY OCTOBER. OKAY. SO DEFINITELY I WOULD SAY LIKE THE SEPTEMBER COMMISSION MEETING. YES. WE, WE SHOULD HAVE, WE SHOULD HAMMER BUDGET REQUEST PRESENTED. I WOULD EVEN SAY, I WOULD EVEN SAY YET, YES. IF THAT ANSWERS YES. OKAY. IF, IF YOU WANT A DEADLINE YES. BY SEPTEMBER, NO LATER THAN OCTOBER. BECAUSE WE ALSO HAVE TO REMEMBER, RIGHT, TYPICALLY IF YOU GUYS SAW THE, UH, UH, MEETINGS, EVENTS OR THE MEETINGS FOR NEXT YEAR, YOU GUYS TYPICALLY DON'T HAVE A MEETING IN JULY. RIGHT? SO NOW WE'RE LIKE REALLY TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE GOT ALL OUR DUCKS IN A ROW AS WELL. OKAY. OKAY. CAN YOU SEND ME A REMINDER ABOUT THAT? 'CAUSE THAT WAS KIND OF MY THOUGHT WAS WE DON'T HAVE THAT MEETING IN JULY. YEAH. AND THEN THAT ABSOLUTELY. YEAH. AND, AND AGAIN, RIGHT. YEAH. SO, SO THAT, AND THEN OBVIOUSLY OTHER THINGS THAT COME ABOUT AS WELL. SO JUST TRYING TO, JUST TRYING TO STAY ON TOP OF THINGS. WHY DON'T WE HAVE A MEETING IN JUNE? WE JUST HISTORICALLY HAVEN'T. IT USUALLY FALLS ON 4TH OF JULY. OH YEAH, THAT'S TRUE. YEAH. YEAH. THAT'S WHY. AND TO RECOUP FROM JUNE. YEAH. BECAUSE JUNE WAS USUALLY PRETTY TERRIBLE FOR US TOO. WE'VE BEEN, I MEAN, WE CAN DISCUSS, I, WE'VE JUST NOT NORMALLY HAD THAT MEETING. 'CAUSE IT'S 4TH OF JULY USUALLY. OKAY. IT'S NOT NEED TO, WE NEED VOTE JUST FOR TRANSPARENCY REASONS. THE TOTAL BUDGET FOR M OH, I'M GONNA LEAVE. OKAY. LET'S FOCUS TO EVERYONE. UM, GENTLEMEN. YES. WE GOT ONE. UH, LAST TOPIC, ERIC, ARE YOU DONE WITH JUNETEENTH? YES. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. WE'LL BE DONE WITH IT. UM, I'LL LOOK BACK AND FIGURE OUT YOU ON THE TASK HERE. UM, IF FOR ANY REASON THAT THE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE EXPECTATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN SET BY THIS COMMISSION CANNOT BE, YOU KNOW, FULFILLED, LET US KNOW. WE'LL PIVOT. UM, SO THIS WAS AN ERIC ASK, UM, AND I'M NOT IN DISAGREEMENT WITH IT AT ALL. UM, WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT, UH, THE COMMISSION FO FOCUS AND [02:40:01] ALIGNMENT WITH THE LEGISLATION, UM, YOU ALL SHOULD HAVE A COPY OF THE RESOLUTION THAT WAS USED TO CREATE THIS COMMISSION. IT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN THE BLURB THAT'S ON THE WEBSITE, BUT THAT'S THE ACTUAL LEGAL RESOLUTION THAT WAS USED TO CREATE US. UM, IN ADDITION, THERE'S THIS DEI SNAPSHOT THAT'S A COUPLE OF PAGES LONG, WHICH, YOU KNOW, SOME OF IT IS ELEMENTARY, UM, SOME OF IT ISN'T, YOU KNOW, IT'S IT'S TERMS, IT'S, IT'S I ASPECTS OF DEI WORK. UM, I FOUND, AND I I AM GONNA HAND THIS OVER TO ERIC TO TO, TO FILL HIS POINT WITH THIS. UM, BUT TOWARDS THE BACK, UM, THE CITY OF DUBLIN, OHIO, UM, HAS ADOPTED, THEY, THEY WERE ENACTED ABOUT THE SAME TIME THAT WE WERE TO FOCUS ON DEI INITIATIVES WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. AND THEY PUT TOGETHER LIKE THIS REALLY AWESOME, UH, WORK GROUP THAT REALLY DELVED INTO, UM, ALL OF THESE AREAS FOR CONSIDERATION AND, AND, AND THESE, THESE, THESE ASKS THAT THEY HAD FOR THE CITY OF DUBLIN. AND THAT'S WHAT YOU'LL FIND ON THE LAST FEW PAGES. UM, THE AREAS FOR CONSIDERATION, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE WERE ASKS THAT THE CITY OF DUBLIN'S, DEI WORK GROUP MADE OF THAT CITY, UM, FALLING INTO DIFFERENT AREAS. AND, AND WHEN I HEARD OF THIS COMMISSION, AND I WAS NOT ONE OF THE ORIGINAL, UM, MEMBERS, I APPLIED TO THIS COMMISSION AND WAS, UM, CHOSEN THROUGH APPLICATIONS AN INTERVIEW BY THE ORIGINAL FOUNDING MEMBERS. UM, THIS WAS MORE OF THE WORK THAT I THOUGHT THAT WE WERE GOING TO BE DOING, UM, WHERE IT'S ON THE LAST TWO PAGES. SO, UM, JUST AS I WAS KIND OF THINKING ABOUT THE LEGISLATION, THINKING ABOUT DEI WORK AND THINKING ABOUT HOW GROUPS LIKE THIS CAN BE EFFECTIVE IN THE COMMUNITIES THAT THEY WERE ASKED TO SERVE. UM, THOSE ARE JUST SOME, SOME IDEAS AND SOME SOME WAYS THAT WE CAN BE A LITTLE BIT MORE IMPACTFUL, UM, THAN THESE EVENTS THAT WE HAVE STOOD UP. UM, IT WOULD BE NICE IF WE CAN STAND UP THESE EVENTS, HAND THEM OVER TO THE CITY, AND THEN WE CAN FOCUS MORE ON THIS TYPE OF STUFF THAT IS ACTUALLY GOING TO MOVE THE NEEDLE AND, AND AFFECT SOME CHANGE IN THE WAY THAT DIVERSE, UH, COMMUNITY MEMBERS INTERACT WITH THEIR COMMUNITIES. SO THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT. UM, I DIDN'T REALLY HAVE A WHOLE LOT FOR THIS, BUT THIS IS A CONVERSATION I WOULD LIKE US TO BEGIN TO HAVE NEXT MONTH. UM, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, ERIC, FEEL FREE FOR, FOR WHATEVER, UM, YOUR CONCERNS ARE WITH OUR FOCUS IN LEGISLATION. YOU ASKED FOR THIS TO BE PUT ON THE AGENDA. OH, I THOUGHT YOU SAID WE WAS GONNA DISCUSS IT NEXT MONTH. NO, I, WELL I SAID I WANTED PEOPLE TO READ THIS INFORMATION AND CONSIDER IT FOR A DISCUSSION TO START NEXT MONTH ON THE COMMISSION'S FOCUS AND OUR LEGISLATION. UH, WE STARTED THIS MEETING TALKING ABOUT THIS, AND WE'RE GONNA END THE MEETING BASICALLY TALKING ABOUT THE SAME THING. UM, BUT YOU KNOW, THE SCOPE, THE FOCUS AND OUR LEGISLATION, UM, BUT I WAS, I WAS TURNING IT OVER TO YOU. OKAY. SINCE THIS WAS YOUR AGENDA ITEM, I'M NOT REALLY IN FEELING THE, THE, THE CURRENT WHATEVER IS GOING ON UP HERE. SO I HOPE THAT WE CAN ALL CONDUCT OURSELVES AS THE ADULTS THAT WE ARE IN THIS ROOM. SO FEEL FREE TO CONTINUE WITH THE AGENDA ITEM THAT YOU ASKED TO HAVE ADDED TO THE AGENDA. SO WHAT I'D LIKE FOR US TO DO IS, UM, AND I'M SURE PROBABLY EVERYBODY HADN'T HAD A CHANCE TO READ AND KIND OF DIG THROUGH THIS YET, SO I WOULD PROBABLY, MAYBE WE NEED TO TABLE THIS. ALRIGHT, SO OUR NEXT MEETING SO THAT FOLKS CAN HAVE A CHANCE TO READ THROUGH THIS. AND THEN WHAT I WOULD ASK IS, ALL THE THINGS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO RIGHT NOW WE'RE, TO MY KNOWLEDGE, WE'RE FOCUSED ON THREE THINGS, MLK, UH, JUNETEENTH AND THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL. UM, TO MY KNOWLEDGE, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANYTHING ELSE OUTSIDE OF THAT THAT WE'RE DOING. UM, BUT MY THOUGHT WILL BE IS A, HOW DO THOSE FIT INTO THIS? AND REALLY, WHICH OUR FOCUS AND DIRECTION B, BECAUSE I THINK ONCE WE CAN COME TO THAT, [02:45:01] HOPEFULLY, UH, IT WILL LOWER FRUSTRATION LEVELS, IT WILL MOVE US IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. AND I THINK IF AS A GROUP, IF WE CAN DECIDE HOW WE WANT TO HANDLE THIS GOING FORWARD BASED UPON THIS, I THINK IT'LL BE A BIG HELP. SO I KNOW WE'RE KIND OF CATCHING FOLKS OFF GUARD BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO REALLY READ AND DIG DOWN THROUGH THIS. SO I WOULD ASK THAT WE BE ALLOTTED THAT TIME TO DO THAT AND EVERYONE HAVE SOME INPUT, UM, AT OUR NEXT MEETING. SO YOU'RE ASKING US TO LOOK AT THE LEGISLATION THROUGH, LOOK AT OUR EVENTS THROUGH THE LENS OF THE LEGISLATION, OR LOOK AT OUR LEGISLATION SEPARATE FROM OUR EVENTS AND FIND A DIFFERENT FOCUS. I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE ASK IS. OKAY. SO MY ASK IS TO THE THE LATTER POINT, LET'S LOOK AT MAKE SURE WE'RE ALL IN AGREEANCE WITH THIS FOCUS THAT'S IN THE LEGISLATION. THAT'S NUMBER ONE. THEN NUMBER TWO IS THE EVENTS THAT WE'RE DOING THAT WE HAVE PLANNED, DO THEY SUPPORT THIS? DO THEY ALIGN WITH THIS? AND IF THEY DON'T, WHAT SHOULD WE BE DOING SO THAT WE CAN BE IN LINE OF IT? WE CAN'T, THAT'S WHAT I'M ASKING. CHANGE OUR LEGISLATION THOUGH. I DIDN'T ASK TO CHANGE THE LEGISLATION. OKAY. MM-HMM. OKAY. MM-HMM. I ASKED. YEAH, BECAUSE WE CAN'T, LIKE I ASKED FOR US TO ALIGN TO THE LEGISLATION. THAT'S WHAT I'M ASKING. YEAH. YOU ACTUALLY CAN UPDATE YOUR LEGISLATION TOO, HUH? YOU CAN ACTUALLY UPDATE YOUR LEGISLATION AS WELL AND THAT COULD BE TOO, BUT MY ASK IS HOW DO WE ALIGN TO WHAT HERE, IF THIS IS WHAT WE BELIEVE, IF THIS IS NOT WHAT WE BELIEVE, THEN WE NEED TO TAKE THAT DIRECTION. BUT I THINK BEFORE WE DO ANYTHING ELSE, I KNOW WE GOT THESE THREE THINGS ON THE AGENDA BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY DONE THAT, BUT I THINK BEFORE WE DECIDE TO DO ANYTHING ELSE, WE SHOULD HAVE A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE WE'RE GOING AND WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH AND DO BASED ON THE CURRENT LEGISLATION. IF IT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED, FINE, SO BE IT. LET'S TAKE THOSE ACTIONS TO DO THAT. BUT I THINK BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD, WE NEED TO HAVE A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF THIS AND THAT WE ARE ALIGNED IS MY ASK. I DON'T DISAGREE. OH, I DON'T, I DON'T, I DON'T THINK SO. I THINK, WELL, YEAH, I GUESS WE COULD MAKE A MOTION TO PUT IT ON THE AGENDA FOR NO, WE CAN JUST NEXT ONE. OR EITHER SHE COULD JUST MAKE AN AGENDA ITEM. GOTCHA. IT CAN JUST GET CARRIED OVER. IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT'S DONE BY ANY STRETCH OF MEANS. UM, THAT'S FINE. I WOULD JUST, AND IN IN, IN ADDITION TO THAT, JUST ASK IF THERE ARE AREAS, BE PREPARED TO BRING WHAT YOU WANT TO SEE AND WHAT YOU'RE NOT SEEING AND HOW YOU WANNA SEE IT DIFFERENT OTHER THAN A GENERAL, YOU KNOW, JUST SATISFACTION. SO I NEED, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S AREAS OF THE LEGISLATION THAT NEED TO BE CHANGED, BRING YOUR SUGGESTIONS AND, AND WE'LL HAVE THIS CONVERSATION. THAT'S PERFECTLY FINE. THAT'S PROBABLY OVERDUE. OKAY. IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE CAN BE ADJOURNED? OKAY, NEXT MEETING. IT'S JANUARY 2ND. SECOND AT 6:00 PM JANUARY 2ND AT 6:00 PM WE'RE ADJOURNED. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.