* 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. JEFFREY, THAT'S [00:00:01] YOU. DON'T DO NOTHING. ALL RIGHT. WE'RE CALLING TO [ AGENDA CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZEN ACTION COMMISSION City Hall - Council Chambers 6131 Taylorsville Road April 3, 2025 6:00 P.M. ] ORDER THE CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZEN ACTION COMMISSION MEETING FOR APRIL 3RD AT 6:09 PM CAN WE GET A ROLL CALL, PLEASE? MS. STEVENS? MS. NEWBIE AZI. PRESENT? MR. OWENS? MR. RICHARDSON? PRESENT? MR. GVI? MR. CHUCK HOL. PRESENT? MRS. TROTTER? PRESENT. MRS. HOER PRESENT. ALL RIGHT. SO WE HAVE ABSENT MRS. YOLANDA STEVENS. MR. BYRAM. . HI GOOG. WHAT DO YOU HELP ME OUT? IV. THANK YOU. AND THEN MR. COREY OWENS ABSENCE. UM, ALL OF THOSE WERE, WELL, WE KNEW THAT THEY WOULD NOT BE HERE PRIOR. SO CAN I GET A MOTION FOR US TO EXCUSE THEIR ABSENCE THIS EVENING? MOTION SECOND. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. MOVING ON. YEAH, JUST KIND OF ROLL RIGHT ON THE NEXT BOY. MM-HMM . ALL RIGHT. SO THE NEXT, UH, ORDER OF BUSINESS IS THE APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM OUR LAST MEETING, WHICH WAS MARCH 6TH. ANYBODY HAVE ANY NOTES OR CORRECTIONS OR ANYTHING? I DON'T THINK WE'RE GOOD. I MEAN, I WATCHED THE VIDEO, SO EVERYTHING SEEMS PRETTY ON POINT TO ME, BUT MM-HMM . AND I DID AS WELL. SO, UM, I MOVE THAT THIS IS, UM, MRS. NEWBY AIR, I MOVE THAT WE ACCEPT THE MARCH 6TH, 2025 HEBREW HEIGHTS CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZENS ACTION COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES WITH ANY NECESSARY CORRECTIONS OR AMENDMENTS. SHOULD THERE BE? SO, ANY SECOND? YEP. ALRIGHT. SO, CARRIE, OH, I DIDN'T SAY THAT THE LAST TIME, BUT LET ME GET THE GIST HERE. SO, UM, I'M LEARNING, RIGHT? IS THIS WHERE WE, LIKE I WASN'T A MEMBER LAST TIME, SO DO I APPROVE? I MEAN, YOU, YEAH. SO, YEAH, SO THAT'S JUST A VOICE CALL. SO VOICE, OKAY. YEAH. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED, ALL ABSTAIN. SO UNDERSTOOD. ALL RIGHT, SO ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED? ONE ABSTAINED. ALL RIGHT, GOOD. YEAH. COOL. ALL, UH, CITIZEN COMMENTS. EVERYBODY OUT THERE? ANYTHING TO SAY? NO? ALL RIGHT. WE HAVE NO ONE PRESENT FOR CITIZEN COMMENTS, SO WE'LL JUST, UH, CRUISE RIGHT ON INTO OLD BUSINESS. DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY OLD BUSINESS THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS? BECAUSE I HAVE ONE POINT THAT WE MIGHT WANNA JUST PUT ON RECORD FOLLOWING UP WITH NOMINATING A CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR. YES. SO WE PUT THAT OFF LAST TIME. SO, SO I TALKED WITH THE INTERIM CHAIR ABOUT THAT SITUATION. HE HAD CAME, HE, HE BROUGHT THAT UP TO ME. I SAID SINCE, UM, I KNEW FOR SURE AT THAT POINT IN OUR CONVERSATION THAT HE WOULDN'T BE HERE AND MS. STEVENS WOULDN'T BE HERE AS WELL. AND, YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN KIND OF PLAYING THIS WHOLE, LIKE, TAG WITH THE FULL ACTUAL COMMISSION. AGAIN, IT'S THE UNDERSTANDING THAT WE WOULD WAIT UNTIL HOPEFULLY MAY AND WE WOULD HAVE, UM, WE, WE WOULD HAVE A FULL, UH, COMMISSION WITH THE UNDERSTAND THAT I THINK ALL OF YOU GUYS GOT THE, UH, EMAIL, UH, RELATED TO THE, UM, INTERVIEW THAT WE DID WITH THE, UM, UH, ADDITIONAL OR THE, THE, THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION. UM, I GUESS IT WAS KIND OF PRE-WORK OR PRE-JUDGED THAT, UH, EVERYTHING WOULD KIND OF SAIL, UH, PERFECTLY, UH, WITH THAT. UM, BUT NONETHELESS, TRYING TO ANSWER THE QUESTION. SO, UM, I TALKED TO COREY AND THE UNDERSTANDING IS THAT WE'D JUST WAIT TILL THE NEXT MONTH TO MAKE THAT OR CAST THAT VOTE, BUT THEN [00:05:01] TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE WHOLE SITUATION WITH THE INTERVIEW PROCESS AS WELL. UM, HAD THE INTERVIEW, AT LEAST THE CLERK COUNSEL HAD IT WITH HR, BUT IT CAME TO FIND OUT THAT THE INDIVIDUAL LIVED IN DAYTON, UM, NOT IN HUBER HEIGHTS. SO, UM, I THINK MR. ROGERS, UM, OBVIOUSLY DISCOVERED THAT AND LET HER KNOW THAT SHE, UM, COULDN'T BE A PART OF THE BOARD. SO OUR SEARCH CONTINUES FOR THAT, UM, LAST MEMBER, UH, OF THE COMMISSION. BUT I WOULD FIGURE, UM, WE'RE, WE'RE BOUND TO GET THAT LAST MEMBER TO KIND OF MAKE OURSELVES WHOLE AS A COMMISSION. AGAIN, MY JUST LETTING COURT OR LETTING MR. OWENS KNOW ABOUT THAT TIME THAT I THOUGHT WE HAD AN ADDITIONAL MEMBER COMING ON BOARD, I FELT LIKE IT WAS BEST TO KIND OF WAIT, UM, TO NEXT MEETING. BUT WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE STILL KIND OF IN THAT, SO I'M HOPING WE WILL HAVE EIGHT MEMBERS NEXT MONTH AND THEN YOU GUYS COULD HAVE THAT ON THE AGENDA TO VOTE. MAD CHAIR. I ASK A QUESTION. YES, YES. UM, I HAVE A QUESTION, AND I KNOW THIS WAS BROUGHT UP IN THE EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE MM-HMM . SO IN THE PAST WHEN WE HAD, UM, MEMBERS OF THE HUBER HEIGHTS COMMUNITY MM-HMM . APPLY TO BE ON THIS COMMISSION, AT LEAST ONE MEMBER WOULD BE IN ATTENDANCE YEAH. DURING THE COURSE OF THE INTERVIEW. BUT BASED ON CIRCUMSTANCES NOW THE MAJORITY OF US DO WORK DURING THE DAY, RIGHT? SO COULD THERE BE SOME FLEXIBILITY AS FAR AS HAVING THESE INTER, EXCUSE ME, INTERVIEWS AFTER WORKING HOURS? SO I THAT'S A, THAT'S A FAIR RECOMMENDATION. UM, I WILL, I CAN OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, SHOOT THAT UP TO, UM, LEADERSHIP AND TRY TO SEE IF WE CAN LIKE THEM UNDERSTANDING THAT WHOLE PROCESS AS WELL. UM, THAT YOU ALL DO KIND OF, YOU LIKE MOST OF US, WE WORK DURING THE DAY, SO IT'S NOT AS EASY TO KIND OF CHECK OUT WITH THAT. AND JUST A, JUST A FAIR PROCESS OF, YOU KNOW, YOUR GUYS' TIME AND, AND ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU GUYS DO, THE COMMISSION. BUT YEAH, I CAN DEFINITELY TRY TO FIGURE OUT IF WE CAN BE KIND OF MORE FLEXIBLE ON WHEN WE DO THESE, UM, UH, INTERVIEWS MOVING FORWARD. YOU KNOW, WHENEVER YOU GUYS EITHER, YOU KNOW, WE GET SOMEBODY ON OR ONE OF YOU ALL FALL OFF, SO IT JUST KIND OF, YOU KNOW, BRING, BRINGS A LITTLE MORE CLARITY AND OBVIOUSLY FLEXIBILITY ON HOW WE DO THOSE THINGS. BUT YES, I WILL DO THAT FOR YOU. YEAH. YEAH. THANK YOU. 'CAUSE AS YOU KNOW, IT'S GOOD TO HAVE REPRESENTATION MM-HMM . AS FAR AS A MEMBER OF THIS COMMISSION TO BE PART OF THAT PROCESS. YEAH. YOU KNOW? YEAH. SO, YEAH, BECAUSE I MEAN, TYPICALLY THOSE MEETINGS DON'T LAST TOO LONG. PROBABLY LIKE 30, 30, 30 MINUTES OR SO, SO IT WOULDN'T BE TOO CRAZY. SO IF, IF WE ACTUALLY HIT IT AROUND FOUR 30, IF THAT WORKED, OR FIVE O'CLOCK IF THAT WORKS, UM, YOU GUYS WILL BE IN AND OUT 'CAUSE YOU GUYS DO LIVE IN THE CITY. SO I WILL, I WILL DEFINITELY MAKE THAT RECOMMENDATION AND PASS IT UP FOR YOU ALL. NO WORRIES. OKAY. THANK YOU. NOT A PROBLEM. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU JANET. THAT WAS A GOOD QUESTION. OKAY. UM, SO DO WE NEED TO MAKE ANY KIND OF MOTION TO PUT OFF THE, NO, SINCE IT WASN'T ON THE, UM, OKAY. SINCE IT WASN'T ON THE AGENDA, BUT YOU GUYS CAN MAKE A RECOMMENDATION. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS WANNA DO IT NOW OR YOU GUYS WANNA MAKE THAT RECOMMENDATION LATER, BUT THE, THE MINUTES WILL REFLECT THE COMMISSION MAKING A RECOMMENDATION, UM, WITH THE, HOW DO I WANNA PUT THAT RECOMMENDATION TO ALLOW FLEXIBILITY FOR INTERVIEWING PROCESS? OH, NO, NO, NO. I'M SORRY. UM, FOR THE SELECTING CHAIR, VICE CHAIR, YEAH. YOU NEED TO DO ANYTHING WITH NO, NO, NO. YEAH, SO I WAS ANSWERING, SORRY. YEAH, ANSWERING ONE AND THEN TWO. YEAH. SO NO, YOU DON'T HAVE TO, YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT. OKAY. BUT, UM, LIKE MS. NEWBIE, AL ALAZAR HAD SAID, YEAH, WE CAN, YOU GUYS CAN OBVIOUSLY VOTE ON THAT RECOMMENDATION JUST TO OBVIOUSLY KEEP TRACK OF WHERE WE ARE, WHAT RECOMMENDATIONS COMING OUTTA THIS COMMISSION. SO LIKE, LIKE I SAID, SOMETHING SIMPLE LANGUAGE LIKE RECOMMENDING, UM, RECOMMENDING, UM, FLEXIBILITY AND INTERVIEW PROCESS MOVING FORWARD. SOMETHING LIKE THAT. OKAY. SO CAN I SAY THEN THAT I'D LIKE TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION THAT, UM, THERE'S FLEXIBILITY MADE IN THE INTERVIEW PROCESS OF FURTHER COMMISSION MEMBERS, UM, LOOKING INTO EVENING HOURS TO TRY TO ACCOMMODATE AT LEAST ONE OF OUR SURE. AVAILABILITIES. OKAY. CAN WE GET A SECOND? I SECOND THAT. . ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED, NAY. THIS IS A FUN LEARNING CURVE FOR ME. OKAY. ALL GREAT. OKAY. UM, ANY OTHER OLD BUSINESS THAT ANYONE WANTS TO TOUCH ON BEFORE WE MOVE ON? NO, I KNOW. [00:10:02] OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO WE WILL MOVE ON TO, UM, JUNETEENTH PLANNING DATE, GET A PLANNING UPDATE ON WHERE WE ARE WITH THAT. SO, UH, AS FAR AS JUNETEENTH IS CONCERNED, UM, I GUESS I'LL LET EVERYBODY GIVE THEIR PIECE OF THE PIE UPDATE. SO YOU WANT TO GIVE US AN UPDATE WHERE YOU ARE WITH FOOD VENDORS. FOOD VENDORS ARE ALL REGISTERED. SO WE'RE JUST WAITING ON THAT. AND THEN I'VE SHARED A FEW OF THE RE NEW RETAIL VENDORS, UH, TO CHRISTIE MM-HMM . SO HOPEFULLY WE'RE GONNA ADD THOSE TWO, AND THAT'S ABOUT IT. GOOD. AND THEN HOW MANY DID WE SAY FOOD TRUCKS DID WE HAVE RIGHT NOW? UH, RIGHT NOW WE HAVE, UH, EIGHT TRUCKS. YEAH. EIGHT TRUCKS. OKAY. YEP. AND, AND A SNOW CON AND THEY'RE ALL REGISTERED. YEAH. OKAY, COOL. THAT'S JUST FOR MY OWN NOTES. OKAY. GIVE US UPDATE ON THE RETAIL. UM, I MEAN, I DON'T HAVE MUCH OF AN UPDATE TO BE QUITE HONEST WITH YOU. UM, I'M STILL WORKING THROUGH CONTACTING RETAIL VENDORS AND WHATNOT. UM, I DON'T, I HAVEN'T TOUCHED BASE WITH COREY. HAVE EITHER OF YOU TOUCHED BASE WITH COREY? HADN'T TALKED TO HIM. I DON'T KNOW. I KNOW HE'S OUT OF TOWN THIS WEEK, SO MAYBE WE CAN CONNECT NEXT WEEK AND I CAN GET A FEEL FOR WHERE HE'S AT. UM, THE VOLUNTEER LINK. UM, IF IT'S OKAY TO PROCEED WITH THAT, UM, I'D LIKE TO START FISHING THAT OUT OVER THE WEEKEND, UM, ONTO SOME FACEBOOK PAGES IN HUBER HEIGHTS. WOULD THAT BE OKAY? JEFFREY? CAN I GO AHEAD AND DO THAT? UM, HOLD TIGHT. I, LET ME, LET ME TEXT SARAH AND I'LL LET YOU KNOW HOPEFULLY ABOUT THAT. THIS ME, SHE REVAMPED IT, SENT IT TO ME AND EVERYTHING, AND I HAVEN'T QUITE DONE ANYTHING WITH IT, SO. SURE. LIKE, SO IF SHE HAD, LIKE, SO SHE EMAILED YOU THAT LINK. YEAH. SO THIS IS, WAS THERE ANY CONTEXT RELATED TO NOT DOING ANYTHING? NOT THAT I'M AWARE OF, NO. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. LET ME, LET ME DOUBLE CHECK AND I'LL LET YOU KNOW OKAY. JUST TO BE SURE IF WE'RE GONNA BE PUTTING IT OUT THERE. I GOTCHA. UM, UH, THE ONE THING THAT I HAD MENTIONED, UM, IN OUR TASK GROUP MEETING AND OUR LAST TASK GROUP MEETING WAS WANTING TO, UM, ATTEND SOME UPCOMING, UH, MEETINGS, UM, LIKE THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING COMING UP. AND THEN, UM, THERE'S AN ARTS AND BEAUTIFICATION MEETING COMING UP, UM, MAYBE ATTENDING IN PERSON AND ASKING FOR POSSIBLE VOLUNTEERS THAT WAY. UM, IS ANYONE INTERESTED IN MAYBE ATTENDING THE NEXT CITY COUNCIL MEETING WITH ME? UM, SO THAT WE CAN KIND OF SHOW UP AS A TEAM AND DO LIKE A VERBAL INVITE AS WELL AS A VERBAL CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS FROM THE ACTUAL CITY COUNCIL? UM, WHEN IS THE NEXT MEETING? IS IT APRIL 14TH? LET'S SEE. UH, I THINK IT'S ON A TWO TUESDAY. IT IS. OH, HANG ON. I HAVE IT. UM, THE NEXT CITY COUNCIL MEETING IS MONDAY, APRIL 14TH. OKAY. THE WORK SECTION ON TUESDAY NEXT WEEK. TUESDAYS THE WORK SESSION. DO THEY DO WE CAN'T GO TO THAT. CAN'T DO, YEAH. WE HAVE TO GO TO ONE OF THEIR REGULAR THINGS. YEAH. SO, YEAH, SO, UH, COUNCIL WORK SESSIONS, THERE ARE, UH, PUBLIC COMMENTS. SO IT WOULD HAVE TO BE AT THE, UM, COUNCIL MEETING ON THAT MONDAY, APRIL THE 14TH. NOW I WILL CHATTER WITH MR. ROGERS ABOUT, UM, THE COMMISSION UPDATE. UM, THAT HAS NOT BEEN BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THAT YOU GUYS NEEDED TO PREP FOR IT. UH, ONE OF THOSE, I, I ASSUME YOU GUYS REMEMBER WHAT, WHEN I TALK ABOUT, UH, COMMISSION UPDATE TO COUNCIL OH YEAH. TYPICALLY DURING THE, UH, COUNCIL WORK SESSIONS, YOU KNOW, IT'S SLATED IN THERE THAT YOU GUYS WILL GIVE UPDATES, PROJECT, UM, INFORMATION, EVENT FOCUS, UH, ON THE THINGS THAT YOU GUYS DO WITHIN YOUR COMMISSION. UM, I WILL TRY TO SEE IF WE CAN, IF I CAN GET SOME UNDERSTANDING OF THE NEXT ONE IS, UM, TYPICALLY YOU GUYS HAVE THREE IN THE YEAR AND WE'RE ALREADY IN APRIL, SO OKAY. SO MAYBE WE CAN JUST COME. SURE. YEAH. SO LET ME, LET ME, BECAUSE I THOUGHT THAT'S WHAT WE DID IN THE PAST WAS I GOTCHA. BECAUSE WE'RE NOT DID, WE'RE NOT CITIZENS WE'RE, UM, A COMMISSION. SO I THOUGHT WE DID UPDATES AT THE, FROM WHAT I REMEMBER. YEAH. YEAH. THAT, THAT'S [00:15:01] STILL BEING DONE ON THOSE, UM, TUESDAY WORK SESSION. OH, OKAY. NOW I THINK, WHO WAS IT, TARA? MAYBE IT WAS THE LAST ONE TO GIVE UPDATE. SO I THINK IT HASN'T BEEN, IT'S BEEN A WHILE, SINCE THAT'S BEEN DONE. I FORGOT ABOUT THOSE. OKAY. ALRIGHT. WELL IF JEFFREY CAN WORK WITH US ON THAT, I JUST THINK, UM, MAYBE JUST MAKING AN APPEARANCE FACE-TO-FACE IS, IS JUST GOOD, GOOD FAITH. UM, BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE, UM, WHEN WE GET INTO THE DISCUSSION OF THIS SURVEY, IT'S GONNA LEAD TO A LOT OF OTHER THINGS THAT WE REALLY NEED TO THINK AND TALK ABOUT. SO ANYWAYS. OKAY. UM, AND THEN I KNOW THAT THERE IS A MEETING, UM, FOR THE, UM, ARTS, UH, PARKS AND REC IS A MEETING ON, I BELIEVE THE 17TH. I WAS JUST GONNA POP IN THERE, UH, KIND OF DO THE SAME THING. AND THEN THE ARTS AND BE VACATION IS ON THE 21ST. SO I WAS GONNA POP IN AND JUST DO AGAIN, UH, FACE TO FACE. HEY, WOULD ANY OF YOU LIKE TO, TO VOLUNTEER? IF YOU DON'T WANNA VOLUNTEER, WOULD YOU CONSIDER BRINGING YOUR FAMILIES OUT, SPREADING THE NEWS DIFFERENCE, THAT KIND OF THING. SO, I DON'T KNOW, WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK ABOUT THAT? YOU THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA? NO, THAT IS A GOOD IDEA. OKAY. BUT I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE SOMEONE MAYBE WITH ME AT CITY COUNCIL POWER AND NUMBERS. SURE. YEAH. SO LET ME FIGURE OUT WHEN THAT IS SUPPOSED TO. LIKE IF, IF TONY TEXTS ME BACK OR GIVES ME AN UNDERSTANDING WHEN THE NEXT MEETING IS SUPPOSED TO BE, I WILL LET YOU ALL KNOW THAT. AND OBVIOUSLY IF, UM, THE UNDERSTANDING IS TRYING TO KIND OF TALK ABOUT JUNETEENTH, THAT'S FINE. UM, BUT ULTIMATELY, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST TRYING TO GIVE AN UPDATE ON ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING WITHIN THE COMMISSION AS WELL. UM, SO WE CAN KINDA WORK THROUGH WHAT WE WOULD WANT TO PRESENT, BUT HIGHLIGHTING WHAT'S HAPPENING, UH, UP WITHIN THE UPCOMING MONTHS IS PROBABLY WHAT WE KIND OF REALLY WANT TO DO AS WELL. SO LET ME WAIT AND SEE WHAT TONY SAYS. UM, IF WE WANT TO SHOOT FOR THE 14TH, I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH STAYING AND TRYING TO BE HERE TO KIND OF HELP SUPPORT TOO. I CAN DEFINITELY KIND OF GIVE COUNSEL THAT UPDATE, UM, AS WELL IF YOU NEED ME TO. OKAY. THANK YOU. SURE. YEAH, NO, NO WORRIES. IF WE CAN GET IT DONE WITH THE UPDATE THING. HEY, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE. EXACTLY. YEP. YEP. SO, UH, I WILL KEEP YOU POSTED WHENEVER HE GIVES ME A RESPONSE. SO THE WORK SESSION IS NEXT TUESDAY? YES, NEXT TUESDAY. UH, THEY, OKAY. ALL RIGHT. UM, DO WE KNOW, JEFFREY, IF HOW MANY RETAIL VENDORS HAVE AT LEAST REGISTERED? I, I DON'T PERSONALLY KNOW THAT, UM, THAT IS A, I THINK THAT'S A SARAH FORESIGHT QUESTION THAT I CAN THEN ASK AGAIN. UM, BUT YEAH, I CAN ASK HER. OKAY. UM, I WOULD ALSO INTERJECT ABOUT THE IDEA ABOUT IF THOSE ON THE JUNETEENTH PLANNING, UM, TEAM, IF THERE'S THE NEED TO KIND OF, YOU KNOW, SCHEDULE ANOTHER MEETING. UM, 'CAUSE I DON'T THINK THAT WAS NECESSARILY GIVEN AT THE LAST ONE. UM, WE CAN OBVIOUSLY DO THAT, YOU KNOW, AND I KNOW WE STILL OFF WITH SARAH WILLIAMS AS WELL. SURE. YEAH. YEAH, YEAH. YEP. THAT'D BE ALRIGHT. UM, THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE A GOOD IDEA. WOULD YOU GUYS THINK ABOUT HAVING ANOTHER MEETING? NOT NECESSARILY WITH SARAH, BUT JUST ANOTHER MEETING TO TOUCH BASE AND YEAH. WE'LL, I'LL CONTACT YOU GUYS AND WE'LL SCHEDULE ONE. OKAY. COOL. UM, I HAVE A QUESTION. SO WHAT, WHAT DEADLINE DO YOU ALL HAVE AS FAR AS, UM, RETAIL VENDORS? 'CAUSE I MAY HAVE TWO THAT I CAN RECOMMEND. COOL. UM, SO THE DEADLINE, IS THERE A DEADLINE IN PLACE WHEN THEY HAVE TO, I GUESS, SUBMIT PAPERWORK AND ALL THAT STUFF? I THINK WE AGREED ON THE 15TH YEAH. OF APRIL 15TH. OH, OKAY. AT LEAST GETTING THEM REGISTERED. OKAY. YEAH. OKAY. GETTING THEM KIND OF COMMITTED THAT WAY, SO. OKAY. I'LL REACH OUT TO THEM WITHIN THE NEXT DAY. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. UM, JEFFREY, ACCORDING, UH, PER YOUR EMAIL THAT YOU SENT ME IN ERIC YESTERDAY, UM, WITH LIKE A SAVE THE DATE FLYER THAT YOU WANNA PASS ON TO YOUR TELEVISION CONNECTION MM-HMM . UM, WHEN DO YOU WANT THAT BY? UM, [00:20:02] LIKE TOMORROW. SURE. AND, AND , IS THIS SOMETHING THAT YOU WANT THE COMMISSION TO LOOK OVER AND, OKAY. OR THE TASK GROUP, OR, I WOULD SAY THAT'S MORE LIKE THE TASK GROUP HAVING, THAT'S WHERE I KIND OF, YEAH. I THINK, I THINK JUST TASK GROUP KIND OF COME INTO AN UNDERSTANDING. 'CAUSE IT'S JUST QUICK RIGHT. FOR WHAT HE TAJ IS KINDA ASKING FOR. RIGHT. YEAH. SO I'M KIND OF TAKING WHAT I CREATED YEAH. AND CLEANING IT UP A LITTLE BIT. GETTING RID OF SOME OF THE UNNECESSARY STUFF AND WE CAN USE THAT. YEAH. SO, YEAH, SO LIKE I TRIED TO EXPLAIN, I'M JUST TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT I'M LIKE, I HAVE PRIME SPOT PRIOR TO, BECAUSE TYPICALLY ALL OTHER COMMUNITIES IN SOME CAPACITY DO DO THESE EVENTS AS WELL. SO IT'S REALLY TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE FIRST ON THE LIST AND WE'VE GOT A CLEAR DATE FOR SOME OF THESE THINGS. UM, 'CAUSE IT'S NOT JUST HIM ON, UH, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG. WHAT IS IT? GOOD MORNING, DAYTON OR SOMETHING? YEAH. NOT THE PODCAST. YEAH. SO IT'S, RIGHT. SO IT'S NOT JUST THEM, IT'S OTHER, OTHER, UM, NEWS AFFILIATIONS TOO, JUST TO KIND OF PROMOTE AS WELL. SO IF WE CAN, IT'S GREAT IF THAT'S KIND OF LIKE THE GENERAL IDEA THAT ALL OF THEM WANT. SO WE HAVE IT FOR ONE OR WE DO IT FOR ONE, WE HAVE IT FOR ALL OF THEM. AND THEN WE CAN JUST OBVIOUSLY START THE PROCESS OF THEN COMING TO THE WHOLE COMMISSION AND JUST TRYING TO REALLY FIGURE OUT, OKAY, WHO HAS THE CAPACITY TO REALLY GO ON TV OR DO AN INTERVIEW AND THEN REALLY SPEAK ABOUT THE EVENT AND ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING, UM, ONCE WE KIND OF GET FURTHER, UH, OR CLOSER TO THE ACTUAL DAY OF THE EVENT ITSELF. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. UM, SO THAT'S YOU. I'M WORKING ON THAT. UM, STILL WORKING THROUGH MY SELECTION OF VENDORS. UH, MIA ASKED YESTERDAY IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT SHE COULD HELP WITH. UM, SO I'M LATE TO THE LATE TO THE GAME. YOU'RE NOT, WE KEEP THAT. YOU'RE GOOD. , YOU'RE GOOD. YOU'RE GOOD ON THE, UH, DEFINITELY ON THE, THE BACK BURNER. UM, GENE TWO POSSIBLE, UM, RETAIL CONNECTIONS. I LOVE THAT. YEAH. JUST LET US KNOW, UM, WHEN WE GET SAVED, THE DATE FLYERS MADE, OR WHEN WE GET SOMETHING MADE FOR JEFFREY, IF WE CAN, CAN WE GET COPIES OF THAT? UM, ARE WE WILLING TO, UM, ANY PLACES THAT WE GO, ANY EVENTS THAT WE GO TO AS, YOU KNOW, INDIVIDUALS, ARE WE WILLING TO TAKE SOME AND HAND THEM OUT, DROP THEM OFF, LEAVE THEM, MAYBE PUT SOME AT RIGHT. STAY, UM, YOU KNOW. YEAH, YEAH. ARE WE WILLING TO DO THAT? YEAH, I WOULD. I LIKE, OBVIOUSLY IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN EACH YEAR, I WOULD ASSUME, RIGHT? LIKE EACH YEAR IT'S BIGGER AND BETTER THAN IT WAS, UH, THE PREVIOUS YEAR. AND, YOU KNOW, JUST FOR, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY THE WORK I COMMEND YOU FOR EVERYONE WHO'S KIND OF, YOU KNOW, PUT THEIR NOSE IN IT TO KIND OF HELP OUT SO FAR. UM, UH, BUT, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE NOTION OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, MR. TRO IS TALKING ABOUT TRYING TO PUT IT OUT IN, IN MANY PLACES THAT WE POSSIBLY CAN TO REALLY GET PEOPLE TO KIND OF VENTURE OUT TO, UM, OBVIOUSLY SEE, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE CITY OF HERE HEIGHT HAS TO OFFER AND THEN OBVIOUSLY WHAT WE'RE CELEBRATING IN JUNETEENTH. UM, SO YEAH, I, I ECHO THAT AS WELL. I TRY TO DO THAT, UH, AS MUCH AS WE POSSIBLY CAN TO KIND OF GET PEOPLE TO COME OUT. YOU KNOW, OUR NUMBERS LAST YEAR WERE PRETTY, I'D SAY FAIRLY PRETTY GOOD, AROUND 800 OR SO INDIVIDUALS THAT WE HAD AT THE EVENT. UM, I WOULD JUST SAY, YOU KNOW, JUST LEARNING A LITTLE BIT THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, IT WAS HOT. SO I LIKE TO SAY THAT KIND OF CUT PEOPLE AWAY A LITTLE BIT. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS THAT LITTLE PEE THAT I HEARD ABOUT PEOPLE SAYING, OH, IT'S FATHER'S DAY, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO KIND, I WANT TO GO HANG OUT WITH MY FATHER. AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T TAKE TOO, TOO MUCH TO REALIZE THAT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE DO, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY DO KIND OF WANT TO HANG OUT WITH THEIR DAD. UH, SO, YOU KNOW, IT WASN'T MOTHER'S DAY, BUT, YOU KNOW, UM, BUT NONETHELESS, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN WORKING MY, YOU KNOW, AS WELL TO TRY TO KIND OF BRING THAT, UH, ASPECT OF FATHER'S DAY TO THE EVENT AS WELL, UM, BECAUSE WE'RE HAVING IT ON FATHER'S DAY. UM, SO JUST LIKE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IF THERE'S MORE PARTS WHERE WE CAN KIND OF ADD AND KIND OF GIVE THE PROPS TO DADS AND, AND TRY TO SEE IF WE CAN KIND OF BRING THAT, YOU KNOW, ASPECT OUT AS, YOU KNOW, FATHERS WITH THEIR KIDS AND, AND HAVE SOME, YOU KNOW, FUN PLACE TO KIND OF BE AT, YOU KNOW, DURING JUNETEENTH. [00:25:01] UH, THAT ASPECT OF LEARNING. AND THEN THAT ASPECT OF, YOU KNOW, APPRECIATING DADS AND HELPING THEM, HELPING THEM OUT WITH ANY SERVICES OR, OR, OR PROBLEM AREAS THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE. AS, YOU KNOW, WE TRY TO GO THROUGH THIS THING THAT WE CALL LIFE. SO, YEAH. ALL RIGHT. MY ONLY OTHER QUESTION MM-HMM . IS, UM, DID KAREN SEND HER W NINE YET? I HAVE NOT RECEIVED IT YET. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. UM, IS THERE A DATE THAT YOU WANT THAT BY? I'LL TOUCH BASE WITH HER AGAIN. YEAH. BECAUSE YEAH, I'M STARTING TO LIKE BUMP A LITTLE BIT CLOSE TO THE END OF MAY. MAY IS, BUT NEXT WEEK, FRIDAY, LIKE, I, LIKE, I HAVE TO, LIKE, I, I THINK PROBABLY IS JUST BEST. SO, SO THE UNDERSTANDING IS LIKE, I'M NOT LIKE, BECAUSE THE WORST THING IS LIKE, I DON'T WANT TO TASK IT SOMEBODY BEFORE I, I STEP OUT. RIGHT. SO I WOULD JUST TAKE THE ONUS OF IF I HAVE TO STAY LATER TO GET THESE THINGS KIND OF WORKED OUT AND DONE. OKAY. THAT'S FINE. UM, BUT YEAH, JUST, UH, I'LL PUT A FRIDAY LITTLE SPUR IN HER EAR, SO. OKAY. ALRIGHT. SO THAT'S, THAT'S THAT. UM, WE WILL, SO ON W NINES, I STILL, WELL, I KNOW. SO POCKET YOU GOT THAT WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH THAT. YEAH. SO YOU HAVE, UH, YEAH. SO, SO POCKET'S DONE AND THEN YOU GOT GEMSTONE. GEMSTONE. I HAVE. OKAY. AND THEN THE DANCE GROUP, I NEED TO GET THAT ONE FOR YOU. NOW. I HAD ON MY NOTE HERE, KAREN MM-HMM . AS WELL. MM-HMM . SO, UH, WE'LL WORK AND GET HERS DONE. AND THEN, UM, OUR SINGER IS GONNA BE OUT OF TOWN. SHE JUST CALLED ME TODAY, SO WE'LL HAVE TO GET ANOTHER SINGER. SO I'LL WORK ON THAT. OKAY. UH, TO GET THAT TOGETHER AND THEN GET THAT PERSON'S, UH, W NINE AS WELL. SO, SO WE'LL WORK IT, UH, GET THAT TAKEN CARE OF HAD, AND I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS MR. OWENS STILL, UM, 'CAUSE I KNOW WITHIN THE PLANNING MEETINGS WE HAD SAID SOMETHING ABOUT CENTRAL, CENTRAL, CENTRAL STATE. YEAH. SO WE, I DON'T HAVE AN UPDATE FOR HIM YET. SURE. SO THAT'S, WE WOULD LIKE THAT TO BE AN OPTION. UNDERSTOOD. IF IT'S NOT OKAY, I'M GONNA WORK ON TRYING TO FIND SOMETHING ELSE. OKAY. SO, SO, RIGHT. SO I DON'T KNOW IF I'VE TOLD ANY OF YOU OR SOME OF YOU ABOUT, UM, THE, OR THE GRANT FUNDING THAT I'M TRYING TO GET FROM THE STATE. I THINK I HAD FROM THOSE WITHIN THE PLANNING, UM, THE PLANNING TEAM, UM, THE IDEA IS THAT WE COULD GET UP TO $3,000 FOR, UM, FUNDING THAT WOULD KIND OF HAVE THAT FATHER, LIKE THAT FATHERHOOD COMPONENT OF IT. SO I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH, UM, MONTGOMERY COUNTY'S FATHERHOOD INITIATIVE OFFICE, UM, UH, MIKE NEWSOM. UM, MIKE, UH, HAS BEEN DOING, UH, GREAT BY ME SO FAR. WE'RE TRYING TO HELP OUT IN ANY CAPACITY. I KNOW HIS OFFICE SAID THAT THEY WOULD LOVE TO, UH, COME OUT. SO I'M WORKING WITH OUR GRANT FIRM. I JUST SENT, UH, SOME OF THE PROMPTS FOR THE GRANT TODAY. UM, SO I'M HOPEFUL THAT WE'LL HAVE THAT SUBMITTED BY THE DEADLINE ON TUESDAY. UM, HOW WE'RE, OR AT LEAST OBVIOUSLY I'LL WORK WITH THE PLANNING TEAM TO TRY TO REALLY FIGURE OUT THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF HOW WE WILL KIND OF LIKE HAVE HIS OFFICE, UM, HOW, HOW THEY'LL BE KIND OF LIKE INCORPORATED WITHIN, INTO THE FLOW OF THE PROGRAM, UM, AT THE, AT THE POINT OF HOW, UM, THE FUNDING IS KIND OF GIVEN TO US. BUT THEN OBVIOUSLY HE WOULD HAVE HIS MOMENT TO KIND OF GIVE, YOU KNOW, TALKING POINTS TO WHAT THEIR OFFICE DO, THE PROGRAMS THAT THEY OFFER INSIGHT TO, HOW THEY CAN KIND OF WORK THROUGH, UM, DIFFERENT COMPONENTS OF THE LEGAL, UH, SYSTEM RELATED TO INDIVIDUALS, UH, TRYING TO BETTER THEMSELVES, UH, WITHIN, UH, THE CONTEXT OF FATHERHOOD. UM, AFTER THAT, MIKE HAS NO ISSUE WITH STAYING DURING THE WHOLE EVENT WHERE WE WOULD PROVIDE HIM TENT AND ANY SERVICES THAT HE WOULD NEED TO KIND OF PASS OUT LITERATURE AND INFORMATION, UM, WITHIN HIS OFFICE TO KIND OF REALLY GIVE PEOPLE MORE INSIGHT TO THE SERVICES THAT THEY, UH, OFFER, UM, AT MONTGOMERY COUNTY. SO, UM, THAT IS THE WISHFUL HOPE THAT WE CAN GET THESE EXTRA DOLLARS TO KIND OF HELP OUT IN THAT ASPECT, UM, TO, UM, REALLY KIND OF DO OUR PART TO KIND OF REALLY, UH, GIVE NOTICE TO DADS OUT THERE ON FATHER'S DAY. SO, UH, I'LL, I'LL KEEP YOU GUYS POSTED WHENEVER I HEAR HOPEFULLY SOME GOOD NEWS. YEAH. COOL. [00:30:01] I THINK IT WAS A TASK GROUP. WE HAVE OTHER THINGS TO TALK ABOUT AND ALL THAT, WHICH YEAH. WE GET THAT OR THE MASSES WITH, BUT OKAY. ALRIGHT. ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT JUNETEENTH THAT WE WANNA ADDRESS RIGHT NOW? OR ANY QUESTIONS YOU LADIES MIGHT HAVE? OKAY. SO DO YOU, WELL, PROBABLY I'LL ASK THE QUESTION. SO, ON THE DAY OF, DO YOU KNOW IF THE REST OF US THAT ARE NOT PART OF THE TASK GROUP, HOW WE CAN FALL IN AND SUPPORT AT THIS TIME? YES. SO I THINK THE BIGGEST THING AS OUR TASK GROUP TALKED IS TO BE ABLE TO HAVE FOLKS FROM THIS, UM, COMMISSION DO A COUPLE THINGS. ONE, UH, WE WANT TO TRY TO HAVE LIKE AN INFORMATION TENT THAT TALKS ABOUT WHAT WE DO, WHAT WE STAND FOR, WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH. SO HAVE SOME FOLKS THAT CAN KIND OF MAN THAT. UM, AND THEN ALSO JUST, UH, SOME FOLKS THAT CAN KIND OF GO AROUND, JUST CHECK ON OUR VENDORS, MAKE SURE THEY'RE OKAY, YOU KNOW, IF THEY NEED A WATER OR, OR SOMETHING OF SOME SORT. SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR FROM THOSE THAT ARE PART OF THE COMMISSION. OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. SO MOVING ON. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO, UM, MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL IS THE NEXT ITEM. YEAH. SO, UM, I TALKED TO SARAH ABOUT THAT, THAT WE HAVE THIS RUN INTO THE PIPELINE. I KNOW THINGS HAVE KIND OF BEEN DISCOMBOBULATED A LITTLE BIT OVER THE LAST COUPLE MONTHS. UM, I KNOW MR. PURVIS, UM, STEPPING DOWN AND THEN JUST A LACK OF, YOU KNOW, TOUCH AND GO WHEN IT CAME TO INDIVIDUALS ACTUALLY BEING A PART OF THE TASK FORCE. UM, I, I'M THINKING IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN FROM WHAT MR. GULA VI HAS SAID LAST, UH, COMMISSION MEETING, THAT HE'S STILL WILLING TO BE A PART OF THAT TASK FORCE, UM, FOR MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL. UM, I THINK WE WERE GETTING READY OR HE WAS GETTING READY TO KIND OF SPEAK TO SOME OF THE FOLKS AT THE WORLD OF FAIR. AM I RIGHT? OKAY. YEAH. YEAH. SO HIS CONTACTS OVER THERE, OBVIOUSLY TRYING TO GET THEM KIND OF PREPPED AND READY FOR WHAT WE'RE DOING, UH, SEPTEMBER 13TH FOR MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL. UM, I THINK IT'S REALLY KIND OF UNDERSTANDING, OR AT LEAST NEXT STEPS FOR US HERE AT THE CITY, IS REALLY TRYING TO, UH, CONFIRM, UM, WHO WE WOULD HAVE FOR A MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL AS OUR TASK FORCE. UM, AGAIN, I THINK, UH, MR. IV IS STILL, SAY AS AGO, I THINK MS. STEVENS WAS A YAY TO THAT AS WELL. I, THAT I WOULD OKAY. WANNA BE A PART OF. AWESOME. SO, UM, BECAUSE I HAVE, I HAVE THE SAME CONNECTIONS WITH DIFFY AND, AND STUFF AS, AS BY BYRON, BY YEAH. AND, UM, I, I SPOKE TO HIM OKAY. BECAUSE I WOULD, AND BEING ONE OF THE TWO PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY CREATED THIS FESTIVAL. YEAH. I WOULD LIKE TO BE PART OF THIS AGAIN. UNDERSTOOD. YEAH. SO I THINK, I THINK OBVIOUSLY, 'CAUSE I THINK YOU GUYS WOULD PROBABLY BE WELL INTO THE WHOLE PROCESS, UM, DURING THE TIME I GO ON PARENTAL LEAVE, UM, UH, I AT LEAST WANT TO AT LEAST KINDA, YOU KNOW, START THE CHAIN OF, YOU KNOW, INFORMATION BEING PASSED. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR, WHAT WE WANT, WHO WE WANT IS ASK ALL THOSE THINGS AND OBVIOUSLY KIND OF MAKE SURE THAT, UM, OUR PARKS MANAGER, UM, IS WELL AWARE OF WHAT WE'RE DOING JUST AT THIS SAME EXTENT OF WHAT WE DO OR WHAT WE'RE DOING FOR JUNETEENTH AS WELL. SO I THINK PROBABLY WITHIN, I'D PROBABLY SAY WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE WEEKS, WE REALLY KIND OF LIKE HARD UNDERSTANDING OF WHO'S DOING WHAT, WHO'S ON WHAT. I THINK I CAN KIND OF INITIATE THOSE CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN THOSE THAT I AM THINKING THAT WOULD BE ONE OF, UH, BE PART OF IT. SO THEN IF THERE'S ANY ADDITIONAL PERSON, ANY ADDITIONAL PERSON. CORRECT. 'CAUSE I THINK RIGHT NOW WE HAVE THREE, ANY ADDITIONAL MEMBER THAT WOULD WANT TO BE A PART OF IT, WE WOULD GO AHEAD AND TAG THEM, AND THEN WE CAN KIND OF START THAT WHOLE PROCESS WITH STARTING, UH, UH, MEETINGS, UH, AFTER WORKING HOURS, AND THEN TRYING TO KIND OF COME UP WITH IDEAS OF HOW WE WANT TO FORM MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL FOR THIS YEAR. SO. ALL RIGHT. SO YOU'VE GOT BYRON, YOLANDA, AND MIA. YEP. AS OF YEAH. TODAY YES. AS THE TASK CODE. YEAH. UM, I MEAN, IF YOU WANNA TOSS ME IN. SURE. OKAY. YEAH. SO THEN, YEAH, SO MY PLAN IS I WILL START THAT, UH, PROBABLY EMAIL CHAIN IS PROBABLY BEST. I GOT EVERYONE'S EMAILS, RATHER PHONES. UM, WE'LL START THAT. WE'LL ADD THE PARTS MANAGER TO IT, AND THEN WE'LL JUST TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT DATE AND TIME WORKS AFTER FIVE OR AFTER SIX, WHATEVER. SO WE'RE LOOKING AT HAVING THIS IN SEPTEMBER. YES. SEPTEMBER . WELL, NO, I'M JUST SAYING BECAUSE NO, WELL, WORLD AFFAIR IS EARLY THIS YEAR. SURE. SO WORLD AFFAIR'S FIRST WEEKEND IN MAY. YEAH. SO IT, [00:35:01] AND RIGHT NOW TRYING TO GET THOSE ORGANIZATIONS TO DO ANYTHING 'CAUSE THEY'RE BUSY WITH THE WORLD AFFAIR. I GOTCHA. ACTUALLY, I THINK WOULD BE A GOOD, A GOOD MOVE TO RIGHT AFTER THAT, THEY, THEY WILL THEN DO, BE ABLE TO CONCENTRATE MORE THAN WHEN THE WORLD AFFAIRS DID. 'CAUSE THAT'S THEIR BIGGEST YEAH. BIGGEST EVENT AND THEN WORLD AFFAIR WOULD BE DONE. SO YEAH, SO SAME CONCEPT OF WHAT WE ARE, WHAT WE'RE KIND OF LOOKING FOR, UM, WHAT WE, WHAT WE WANTED TO DO FOR JUNETEENTH. UM, YOU KNOW, WHO WE WANT AS VENDORS, WHO WE WANT THERE. UM, FOOD TRUCKS, SPONSORS, IF WE CAN GRAB 'EM, UM, ANY PERFORMANCES, THE LIST GOES ON AND ON. SO, UM, WE'LL, WE'LL KIND OF WORK THAT SAME BLUEPRINT. I KNOW SARAH HAS HER OWN LIKE, LIST OF HOW SHE KIND OF WANTS TO ORGANIZE THINGS. SO LIKE I SAID, WE WILL KIND OF SCHEDULE A TIME THAT WE CAN ALL KIND OF MEET, UM, HOPEFULLY AFTER SIX OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND JUST TRY TO, UH, PUT OUR BEST FOOT FORWARD MOVING FORWARD FOR MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL. YEAH. I MEAN, THAT LEAVES THREE MONTHS OF PLANNING BASICALLY. SEE YEAH. SO YEAH, WE, YEAH. YEAH. , OH, DID I NOT NEED TO REMIND YOU OF THAT? SORRY. . YEAH. SO, YOU KNOW, MY THING IS LIKE, I, AND, AND HOPEFULLY SHE DOESN'T HEAR THIS, BUT, UH, IT'S TO HELP OUT BECAUSE I'M HOPEFUL THAT SHE'LL GET THAT EXTRA BODY SOON. UH, EXTRA BODY, PERMANENT STAFF SOON, AND THEN I THINK MAYBE A COUPLE INTERNS AND WHATNOT TO KIND OF HELP OUT TOO. SO THAT DEFINITELY KIND OF HELPS TOO. SO, UM, YEAH, SO PROBABLY LOOK OUT FOR AN EMAIL, UM, FROM ME MAYBE EARLY NEXT WEEK TO TRY TO REALLY GET SOMETHING LOCKED, UM, TO TALK ABOUT. THAT SOUNDS GOOD. ANYBODY HAVE ANYTHING ELSE FOR MULTICULTURAL FIRST? ALL RIGHT, UH, LET'S MOVE ON TO, UH, JUICY STUFF FOR NEW BUSINESS, JUICY STUFF FOR NEW BUSINESS. UM, ANYONE HAVE ANYTHING FOR NEW BUSINESS THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO CHAT ABOUT? I HAVE A FEW THINGS MYSELF, , WE, UM, IT'S THE MAIN THING. , THE PLANNING MEETINGS, ATTENDANCE TO THE PLANNING MEETING. WE TALKED ABOUT THIS YESTERDAY. UM, SO THEY HAVE A SECOND ONE COMING UP ON THE 10TH, AND WE ATTENDED THE FIRST ONE ON THE 17TH, I DON'T KNOW, IN SOMETIME IN MARCH. AND, UM, WE WANTED TO BRING UP, I WANTED TO BRING UP LIKE, WHO SHOULD ATTEND THE, THE FOLLOWING ONES BECAUSE AT THIS POINT, LIKE CHRIS, UM, YEAH. LIKE WHO, LIKE, I STOOD IN SOMEBODY'S PLACE AT THE TIME, BUT I FEEL LIKE I'M COMMITTED TO THIS . SO IT'S LIKE, LIKE HOW DO WE DETERMINE LIKE, WHO IS, SO, SO I THINK HOW WE KIND OF DID IT INITIALLY WAS MAYBE I HAD SEEN, SENT AN EMAIL OUT TO THE COMMISSION AND JUST KINDA ASKED WHO WAS AVAILABLE. AND THEN I WAS CLA LIKE TOLD I THINK MR. OWENS, MS. PURVIS, AND MS. STEVENS WOULD BE THE THREE. UM, YEAH, LIKE, I MEAN, I DON'T, SURE YOU GUYS CAN OBVIOUSLY KINDA HANDLE IT, YOU KNOW, WITH THE TWO OF YOU TWO. UM, GOING BACK TO THE NEXT ONE ON THE 10TH, I, I DON'T SEE IF THAT'S AN ISSUE OR CONFLICT THAT BOTHERS ANY OF THE MEMBERS THAT ARE HERE. UM, I THINK EVEN IF WE DID HAVE FOUR, SURE. I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY MORE OF WHAT RAMA WAS ANTICIPATING, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT'S LIKE THE END ALL OF THE CONVERSATION THAT WE HAVE FOR MEMBERS FROM THE COMMISSION THERE. I THINK IT'S JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, OKAY, HEY, THEY HAVE THE INFORMATION, THEY, THEY, THEY DID ALL THIS TA LIKE THEY DID THE TASKS AT HAND, RIGHT? IT'S, HEY, OH, IT'S OKAY NOW HOW DO WE TALK ABOUT THE INFORMATION? HOW DO WE MOVE FORWARD? HOW DO WE START TO KIND OF STRUCTURE RECOMMENDATIONS MOVING FORWARD THAT THE CITY CAN KIND OF EITHER DI LIKE, DIGEST AND PUT PUT OUT THERE, UM, IN, IN GOOD FAITH. UM, I WOULD JUST SAY IF YOU'RE AVAILABLE AND YOU COULD COME COOL. I THINK JUST COMMUNICATE THAT TO ME IN A TEXT OR EMAIL THAT SAYING THAT YOU'RE GONNA BE THERE. I CAN OBVIOUSLY TAKE YEAR TWO AS YOU GUYS WILL BE THERE ON THE 10TH, BUT, UM, LET'S JUST TRY TO KEEP IT UNDER FIVE SO I DON'T HAVE TO [00:40:01] WORRY ABOUT SUNSHINE LAWS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. SO I'M, I'M COOL WITH THAT, IF THAT KIND OF ANSWERS THE SITUATION AT HAND. SO I HAVE A QUESTION. SO HOW, TWO QUESTIONS. YEAH. HOW OFTEN ARE THESE MEETINGS? IT APPEARS TO BE MONTHLY, SO, YEAH. SO INITIALLY, WELL, YES. UM, BUT THIS ONE COMING UP WOULD BE THE LAST ONE. THIS IS THE LAST SCHEDULED MEETING THAT RAMA HAD PER THEIR, UM, AGREEMENT OR SCOPE OF WORK. SO JUST THE LAST ONE IS JUST KIND OF FROM WHAT RAMA'S LOOKING FOR IS JUST KIND OF REFLECTING ON WHAT TOOK PLACE FROM WHAT THE COMMUNITY HAS SET AT THE LAST WORKSHOP THAT THEY DID. UM, THAT IS THE INTENT OF IT. I DON'T KNOW IF RAM'S PLAN ON TO IS TO KIND OF MOVE A LITTLE BIT FURTHER WITHIN THAT CONVERSATION, BUT THAT IS JUST MY UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THIS UPCOMING MEETING WOULD BE NEXT WEEK. OKAY. AND I WAS ASKING THAT QUESTION BECAUSE I WASN'T SURE IF THIS WAS GONNA BE REOCCURRING. YEAH. AND BASED ON SCHEDULING RIGHT. I UNDERSTOOD TO PREPARE IN ADVANCE. YEAH. YOU KNOW, FOR THAT. YEAH. I, 'CAUSE HOW I WROTE THE NEXT LINE, UM, IT WAS DEFINITELY SOMETHING WHERE FOR THOSE WHO, YOU KNOW, WEREN'T AT THE PLANNING WORKSHOP OR THE PLANNING MEETING, THE FIRST ONE WITH RAMA, IT WAS, YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS HAD OBVIOUSLY ALL GOT THE REPORT RIGHT. UM, FOR HOWEVER MANY PEOPLE THERE WERE OR IF WE WANTED TO TABLE THIS AND WAIT TILL NEXT MEETING TO KIND OF REALLY TALK ABOUT IT AND KIND OF BREAK DOWN SO EVERYONE CAN KIND OF REALLY REVIEW WHAT HAPPENED. UM, WELL, WHAT WAS KIND OF GIVEN IN THE REPORT. UM, AND THEN OBVIOUSLY WHAT WERE WE LOOKING AT MAY, SO, SO RAMA'S TELLING ME THEIR FINAL THINGS ARE, THEY WOULD HAVE A FINAL, A FINAL PRESENTATION, A FINAL, UH, I DON'T WANNA LIE TO YOU. I I'M REALLY FUZZY ON EXACTLY WHAT'S SUPPOSED TO NECESSARILY BE HAPPENING IN, AT THE END OF APRIL. I DON'T HAVE MY NOTES ON ME, BUT UNDERSTANDING THAT THEY, THEY WILL HAVE A FINAL PRESENTATION TO COUNCIL SLASH COMMISSION IN THE MONTH OF MAY. I'M STILL TRYING TO WORK OUT WHAT DAY THAT WOULD BE, UH, IN MAY, WHETHER THAT BE A COMMISSION OR A CO UH, UH, A WORK SESSION OR IF THAT WOULD BE A, UH, COUNCIL MEETING TO PRESENT THAT. AND OBVIOUSLY THE COMMISSION WOULD, UM, INVITED TO GET THAT INFORMATION OF WHAT RAMA PRESENTED. UM, BUT, UM, YEAH, SO LIKE, LIKE WHAT I WAS TRYING TO SAY IS, UM, IT WAS MY INTENT THAT EVERYONE WOULD HAVE ALREADY LOOKED THROUGH THE REPORT, KIND OF GAVE THEIR FEEDBACK FOR WHAT THEY LIKED ABOUT IT, WHAT THEY DIDN'T LIKE ABOUT OBVIOUSLY KIND OF UNDERSTANDING THE RECOMMENDATIONS. THOSE WHO WERE PART OF THE PLANNING TEAM COULD KIND OF GET THE INSIGHT OF WHAT HAPPENED THERE. THE QUESTIONS THAT RAMA ASKED ULTIMATELY TRIED TO GET AN UNDERSTANDING IN THE FIELD OF HOW RAMA WAS LOOKING AT THIS. UM, HOW SOME OF YOU KNOW, THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS WERE LOOKING AT THIS. AND THEN ULTIMATELY TRY TO GET A FEEL OF WHAT THE CITY AND HOPEFULLY COUNCIL WOULD LIKE TO DO OR WOULD, WOULD BE OPEN TO DO, UH, WITHIN THE, UH, IN THE FUTURE. UM, LIKE I SAID, UM, THAT'S A DISCUSSION THAT I GUESS WE CAN KIND OF THINK ABOUT NEXT MONTH, UM, WHEN HOPEFULLY EVERYONE WOULD KIND OF BE HERE AND THEN LIKE JUST OPEN THE FLOOR AND JUST KIND OF, YOU KNOW, SAY WHAT, SAY WHAT YOU THINK. SAY WHAT, WHAT WORKS RECOMMENDATIONS, WHAT YOU DIDN'T LIKE, WHAT YOU LIKED ABOUT IT, WHAT WE CAN IMPROVE ON. UM, I THINK MY NOTION IS THAT, SURE, I UNDERSTAND THAT WHAT PEOPLE'S BIGGEST CONCERNS ABOUT THE REPORT WAS THAT IT WAS A LITTLE SKEWED FOR THOSE WHO EITHER DIDN'T KNOW THAT IT EXISTED. UM, THOSE WHO, THOSE WHO DIDN'T KNOW IT EXISTED, UM, THOSE WHO ACTUALLY DID IT AND OBVIOUSLY SAID THE POSITIVE THINGS, UM, ABOUT THE CITY, WHICH IS OKAY. BUT, YOU KNOW, WE WERE STILL MISSING THOSE. I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, SOME OF, YOU KNOW, THE COMMISSION, SOME OF THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND SOME OF COUNCIL WERE HOPING THAT WE HIT. SO I, I, I THINK THIS IS MORE OF A STEP, A STEP LADDER FOR WHAT WE CAN POTENTIALLY DO IN THE FUTURE. I THINK, LIKE I'VE TOLD, UM, YOU KNOW, THE COMMISSION BEFORE THAT, YOU KNOW, THE WORK THAT, YOU KNOW, I HELPED RAM TO DO WAS, YOU KNOW, A, A REALLY BIG LEAP BECAUSE WE DIDN'T NECESSARILY HAVE THAT STRUCTURE PRIOR TO. UM, [00:45:01] BUT I THINK MOVING FORWARD, YOU KNOW, WITH THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS, WITH COUNCIL, WITH THE COMMISSION, YOU KNOW, WITH THE, UM, INDIVIDUALS THAT, YOU KNOW, I'VE MET THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS, I THINK THESE ARE THINGS THAT WE CAN KIND OF HOPEFULLY MOVE FORWARD AND WE'RE IN, WE'RE MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION TO KIND OF OBVIOUSLY GAIN OFF OF. UM, BUT YEAH, THAT'S MY 2 CENTS. WHAT TIME IS THE PLANNING MEETING? UM, IT'LL RUN FROM FOUR TO SEVEN AT THE, UM, S**T, AT THE, UM, KIM POLICE COMMUNITY CENTER. IS THAT WHAT YOU CALL IT? OKAY. WELL, I TAKE BACK THAT. I'M GONNA BE A PART OF IT. , I JUST SAW MY CALENDAR. I HAVE A, AN AWARDS CEREMONY. AWARDS CEREMONY. OKAY. I UNDERSTAND. AND I'M PRESENTING TWO AWARDS, SO I CAN'T MISS IT. SO IT'S LIKE UNDERSTOOD. YEAH, NO WORRIES. NO WORRIES. SO I WAS THINKING IT WAS THE 11TH AND I JUST SAW MY CALENDAR, SO YEAH, I TAKE IT. ALRIGHT. I TAKE IT. WELL, LET, LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THIS ASSESSMENT, UM, SINCE WE'RE HERE. UM, THE, THE RAW DATA, UM, THIS IS TREAD WHITELY HERE. UM, I CAME ON BOARD TO THE COMMISSION RIGHT. AS, UH, THIS RECOMMENDATION WAS REALLY, UH, TAKING A FULL EFFECT. UM, JEFFREY, YOU WEREN'T QUITE YET HERE, I THINK, UM, WHEN THE RECOMMENDATION WAS INITIALLY MADE TO THE CITY COUNCIL, RIGHT. UM, HOW, HOW IS THE CITY RESPONDING TO THE DATA THAT'S BEEN COLLECTED? HOW ARE THEY, DO YOU KNOW HOW THEY'RE RESPONDING? ARE THEY DISAPPOINTED? WERE THEY HOPING FOR MORE INVOLVEMENT FROM THE COMMUNITY? IS THAT A BACKLASH ON THE COMMISSION? WHAT'S, WHAT CAN YOU TELL US? NO, SO I THINK, I THINK FOR WHAT THE SCOPE OF, FOR WHAT THE SCOPE OF WHAT RAMA WAS ASSIGNED TO DO, I THINK THAT THEY UNDERSTAND, UM, WHAT THEY PAID FOR, RIGHT? I SURE MAYBE IT COULD HAVE BEEN A LITTLE BIT BETTER WHEN WE WERE GOING INTO LIKE THOSE AREAS. AND IT'S, AND I'M TRYING NOT TO BE CRITICAL OF, YOU KNOW, I SAY IT LIKE THIS, THERE'S BLAME ON ALL PARTS, RIGHT? IT WAS JUST, YOU KNOW, ME AS, YOU KNOW, PART OF THE CITY TRYING TO UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, THAT THE AREAS, RIGHT, THE PEOPLE WHO I NEED TO TALK TO, RIGHT? THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE ANCHORED, YOU KNOW, INSTITUTES WITHIN THE COMMUNITY OF COOPER HEIGHTS, RIGHT? TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHO THAT IS, RIGHT. TRYING TO PASS ON INFORMATION, TRYING TO BE, YOU KNOW, INCORPORATED WITHIN, INTO THE CITY. SO, OR WITHIN TO THE COMMUNITY SO THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY KNEW WHAT, WHO I WAS, WHO I WAS A PART OF, AND WHAT WE WERE ASKING THEM TO DO. UM, I THINK, YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAID, RIGHT, THE CITY, CITY LEADERSHIP, CITY STAFF, I THINK IF ANYTHING, THAT THEY'RE USING THIS INFORMATION AS A STEPPING STOOL. SO MOVING FORWARD, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE A BENCHMARK. OKAY, HEY AGAIN, WE HAVE, WE HAVE THOSE INDIVIDUALS IN THE COMMUNITY NOW THAT SAID THAT THEY WILL COME BACK AND HELP US IF WE WANTED TO SAY DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS EVERY TWO YEARS, RIGHT? SO WE HAVE THEM NOW MOVING FORWARD. SO SURE, WE DIDN'T GET NECESSARILY THE INDIVIDUALS OR THE PEOPLE THAT WE WANTED TO THIS GO AROUND. BUT SAY, I DON'T KNOW, A YEAR AND A HALF, TWO YEARS FROM NOW, WE CAN REALLY START TO IMMERSE OURSELVES IN THE COMMUNITY. 'CAUSE WE GOTTA, WE GOTTA WEIGH IN, RIGHT? FOR SOME OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS. UM, SO I THINK IT'S, SURE IT COULD HAVE BEEN A LOT BETTER FOR WHO YOU WANTED, UM, WHO YOU REALLY WANTED TO KIND OF TARGET IT TO. BUT I THINK OVERALL, UM, I THINK, I THINK UNDERSTANDING THAT THE CITY IS A GOOD COMMUNITY, A A DIVERSE COMMUNITY, UM, NOTING THAT, YOU KNOW, STILL LIKE ANY OTHER CITY, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE OUR GOOD AND WE HAVE OUR BAD. UM, I, I, I THINK, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S MOVING US IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION TO ULTIMATELY WE CAN KIND OF START THE PROCESS OF, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO ADD MORE PEOPLE TO OUR DIVERSE COMMUNITY AND REALLY START TO HEAR WHAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING RATHER THAN, YOU KNOW, SO AND SO WHO TOLD ME THIS, WHO SAID THAT? AND THEN, YOU KNOW, RATHER THAN, YOU KNOW, GOING [00:50:01] THROUGH THAT PATH, I MEAN, I FEEL LIKE WE WOULD BE, UM, REMISS TO TICK LIGHTLY THAT, YOU KNOW, DEI, UH, IS, IS REALLY, YOU KNOW, IT'S ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK RIGHT NOW. AND SO, UM, I CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER WHAT THAT MEANS FOR OUR COMMISSION. UM, AND I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE ELSE HAD A CHANCE, WELL, I KNOW A FEW OF US HAD A CHANCE TO LOOK AT SPECIFICALLY QUESTION NUMBER 14, UM, YOU KNOW, UM, ON THAT, THE, FROM THE RAW DATA, UM, OF THE PEOPLE THAT TOOK THE SURVEY HALF DIDN'T KNOW THAT WE EVEN EXISTED. UM, WELL LET'S SAY A THIRD. SURE. OKAY. UH, DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WE EXISTED A THIRD. DON'T EVEN THINK WE NEED TO BE HERE. AND THEN THE OTHER THIRD WANT US. I WANNA SEE MORE OF US OUT IN THE COMMUNITY. YEAH. SO, UM, YOU KNOW, I I THINK THAT'S A LITTLE COST FOR CONCERN AT LEAST FOR ME TO THINK ABOUT. UM, AND, AND MAYBE THIS IS GONNA LEAD TO FURTHER DISCUSSIONS WITH, WITH THE CITY AS TO WHERE WE AS A COMMISSION REALLY NEED TO ASSESS WHAT WE WANT OUR, OUR JOBS AND GOALS TO BE MOVING FORWARD WITH RESPECT TO WHY THE COMMISSION STARTED IN THE FIRST PLACE. SURE, OF COURSE. BUT ALSO, UM, YOU KNOW, SITTING DOWN WITH THE CITY, EVEN ONE MEMBER AS A REPRESENTATIVE AND, YOU KNOW, LAYING OUT, HERE'S WHAT WE EXPECT OF THE CITY. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT OF US? UM, SHOULD WE CHANGE OUR NAME BECAUSE IT'S GOT THAT DIVERSITY IN IT, IS THAT, YOU KNOW, GONNA BECOME JUST A NASTY WORD IN THE FUTURE KIND OF A THING. RIGHT? YEAH. UM, I I FEEL LIKE FOR US TO REALLY, UM, CONTINUE AND TO MAYBE DO SOME REALLY GOOD IN THIS COMMUNITY THAT WE HAVE THE POSSIBILITIES TO DO, THESE ARE SOME THINGS WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT. I WOULD, I WOULD AGREE. UM, I THINK THE, THE QUESTIONS THAT YOU ARE ASKING, OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, I, I CAN'T NECESSARILY ANSWER 'EM. I MEAN, SURE I CAN, BUT I DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE THAT WAKE TO REALLY DO ANYTHING IN IT. UM, I HOLD HEARTEDLY THINK THAT THAT IS THE SITUATION THAT, YOU KNOW, FROM THE OUTSIDE NOISES OF, YOU KNOW, UH, THE, THE, THE NEWS ABOUT, UM, WHERE WORDS LIKE THAT CAN REALLY START TO UPSET PEOPLE IS KIND OF BAFFLING. BUT, UM, I GUESS THAT'S JUST THE TIMES THAT WE ARE IN. UM, BUT YEAH, UH, AGAIN, RIGHT, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE COMMISSION I LIKE, I CAN START THAT CONVERSATION. MAYBE IT'S A LOT EASIER IF IT'S ONE OR TWO OF YOU ALL WHO KIND OF HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH LEADERSHIP PLUS CITI, UM, OR ELECTED, UH, ELECTED OFFICIALS TO REALLY TRY TO ASK THOSE QUESTIONS, RIGHT? AND THEN, YOU KNOW, BEING, YOU KNOW, COMPLETELY HONEST AND BEING REAL ABOUT THE SITUATIONS, I THINK THESE ARE OBVIOUSLY A FAIR CONVERSATION THAT ADULTS CAN HAVE, UM, YOU KNOW, WITH THE WORK THAT YOU ALL ARE TRYING TO DO AND YOU KNOW, FROM THE UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THE CITY, YOU KNOW, UH, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE CITY, UM, CONSTRUCTED OUT OF THIS COMMISSION BEING A THING. SO, UM, I AGAIN, RIGHT, WE HAVE THIS NACK OR THE SAYING THAT HUBER HEIGHTS IS ONE OF THE DIVERSE COMMUNITIES, UM, PROBABLY WITHIN THE REGION AND PROBABLY EVEN THE STATE. SO LET'S KEEP IT UP AND LET'S KEEP DOING WHAT WE'RE DOING TO KIND OF MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, IT WASN'T JUST NOISE THAT WE WERE SAYING, RIGHT? MM-HMM . YEAH. AND I HAVE TO SAY, AND I'M SORRY MIA. NO, YOU'RE FINE. UM, AS A MEMBER OF THIS COMMISSION THAT HAS BEEN HERE WHEN IT WAS ORIGINATED IN JUNE, 2020, BASED ON THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF GEORGE FLOYD, RIGHT? MM-HMM . WHICH WE SHOULD NEVER FORGET THAT 'CAUSE THAT IS STILL CONTINUING IN THIS COUNTRY, AND THEREFORE THE NEED TO HAVE DEI STILL, UM, JUST FROM READING THIS RAW DATA, I'M JUST GONNA BE COMPLETELY HONEST. I, IT IS VERY BIASED BECAUSE ONLY ONE PARTICULAR ETHNIC GROUP RESPONDED. AND TO SAY THAT THIS COMMISSION HAS NOT DONE ANYTHING OR HAS NOT BEEN VISIBLE IS NOT THE CASE, IS EITHER IGNORANCE OR NEGLECT. SURE. WE HAVE HAD LEGISLATION [00:55:01] WRITTEN THAT CITY COUNCIL HAS APPROVED, WHICH WE'LL GO BACK TO WHAT, 2001, APRIL RACISM IS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. WE HAD FORUMS TWO ACTUALLY THAT WE HAD ENGAGED WITH CITY COUNCIL WHERE WE INVITED THEM, MEMBERS OF THEIR WARDS TO HAVE THOROUGH DISCUSSIONS IN ORDER FOR US TO HELP THEM IMPLEMENT POLICIES TO ALLEVIATE THOSE KIND OF ISSUES. YEAH. WHICH IS THE BASIS OF THIS ASSESSMENT. UM, AGAIN, FROM READING THIS, YOU KNOW, IT QUESTIONS WHETHER THIS COMMISSION SHOULD EVEN EXIST IF PEOPLE WANT THIS COMMISSION, IF CITY COUNCIL WANTS THIS COMMISSION TO BE HONEST. AND THAT'S WHY WE HAVE TRIED, AND THOSE OF US HAVE BEEN AROUND HERE FOR A LONG TIME. WE HAVE TRIED TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM ONE-ON-ONE DIALOGUE MM-HMM . THAT YOU HAD JUST MENTIONED. YEAH. EVEN HAVING A MEMBER OF CITY COUNCIL BE A LIAISON TO SPEAK ON OUR BEHALF, TO ADVOCATE FOR THESE THINGS SUCH AS THIS ASSESSMENT TO BE IMPLEMENTED. YEAH. UM, I DO FEEL LIKE THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE A DISCUSSION WITH CITY COUNCIL TO GO OVER THIS RAW DATA BECAUSE IT'S VERY CONCERNING AND IT QUESTION MAKES ME QUESTION IF THEY ARE TRULY IN SUPPORT OF THIS COMMISSION TO STILL BE AROUND BASED ON THIS INFORMATION FROM THEIR CONSTITUENTS. YEAH. SO LIKE YOU SAID, UM, RIGHT. THERE'S EVIDENCE OF YOU GUYS BEING INVOLVED FOR THE THINGS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, LEGISLATION FROM COMMISSION BEING, UH, FROM THE COUNCIL BEING PASSED, UM, THE WORK THAT YOU GUYS HAVE DONE, UM, FOR EVENTS AND, UH, LECTURES, UM, AS WELL AS, YOU KNOW, THE, THE NICER THINGS ABOUT EVENTS AS WELL AS THAT. UM, YEAH, LIKE, I MEAN, I WILL ADVOCATE FOR YOU ALL TO, TO TRY TO GET THAT POINT ACROSS TO TRY TO REALLY UNDERSTAND, UM, THE NOTION OF, YOU KNOW, WHERE, WHERE FROM, FROM THE RAW DATA, UH, BEING READ AND UM, YOU KNOW, WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? RIGHT. WHERE, WHERE IS, WHERE'S THE NEXT STEP, RIGHT? SO, WELL, HOW CAN WE GO ABOUT OFFICIALLY REQUESTING A A A SIT DOWN? YEAH. SO WHAT I WILL DO IS I WILL EMAIL MY BOSS AND THE ASSISTANTS, UH, ASSISTANT CITY MANAGERS AND BRING THAT ULTIMATE, LIKE, WE'RE, WE'RE BRINGING THAT REQUEST, RIGHT? THE COMMISSION IS BRINGING THE REQUEST. LET'S, LET'S SIT DOWN. LIKE IF, IF I'M, IF I'M GETTING SOME DATES BETWEEN WHETHER THAT BE CITY MANAGER AND ASSISTANT CITY MANAGERS IN THAT CONVERSATION, PLUS MR. ROGERS AND THE MAYOR OR MAYOR AND VICEMAN. RIGHT. OR WE'RE TALKING. RIGHT. SO, UM, I'M, I'M HOPEFUL THAT I CAN COME BACK VIA EMAIL SOON AND TRY TO SAY, HEY, I GOT A DATE AND TIME. WHAT WORKS FOR YOU GUYS? SO, UM, BE ON THE LOOKOUT. I WILL PASS THAT REQUEST THROUGH. UM, YEAH. IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, UNDERSTANDING THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY SEEING THE REPORT, THEM SEEING THE RAW DATA AND JUST TRYING TO REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT IS THE NEXT STEPS OF WHAT THIS COMMISSION REALLY NEEDS TO BE AND, AND ITS PLACE IN THE CITY. SO, UM, YEAH. AS, UM, I'M SORRY. I'M SORRY. I HAVE TO , I'M SORRY. BECAUSE I WOULD SAY THIS, THAT CONVERSATION NEEDS TO BE HAD BEFORE RAMA OR RAMA GIVES THEIR PRESENTATION IN MAY. OKAY. BECAUSE THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING TO PREPARE FOR JUNETEENTH AND MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL, WHAT'S THE POINT? SURE. AGAIN, AS ALWAYS, ALL THE WORK AND EFFORT AND TIME. YEAH. 'CAUSE WE ALL HAVE FAMILIES AND LIVES OUTSIDE OF THE COMMISSION. WHAT'S THE POINT OF PUTTING ALL THIS EFFORT IN IF PEOPLE DON'T WANT THOSE EVENTS TAKING PLACE? YEAH. YEAH. AND I'M SORRY, I MEAN SOMEONE, BUT YOU'RE FINE. YEAH. I LOOK SURE, YES. YOU KNOW, AND I DON'T, AND IT'S EASY FOR PEOPLE TO KIND OF DO THOSE THINGS BEHIND A COMPUTER SCREEN. AND I, I, I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING THAT'S, THAT, THAT WE KNOW THAT PEOPLE CAN HAPHAZARDLY [01:00:01] TYPE ON A KEYBOARD AND REALLY TRY TO SAY HURTFUL AND NASTY THINGS, KNOWING THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY WOULDN'T HAVE THE GOAL TO KIND OF EVER SAY THESE THINGS IN PUBLIC. I'M, I'M NOT SAYING THAT THAT ISN'T THE CASE OF WHAT SOME PEOPLE, UM, I'M JUST SAYING FOR THE MAJORITY OF 'EM, BUT TO, TO YOUR POINT, RIGHT? I THINK I WILL TRY MY HARDEST TO CHARGE YOU IF WE CAN KIND OF COME TO SOME UNDERSTANDING OF A DATE AND TIME BEFORE MAY TO KIND OF GET WITH MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION, MEMBERS OF CITY STAFF AND MEMBERS OF COUNCIL TO KIND OF HAVE THIS CONVERSATION OF WHAT DO YOU KNOW, WHAT DO WE DO, WHAT DO WHAT'S NEXT FOR US? UM, BUT, UM, YEAH, I I WILL KEEP YOU GUYS IN THE LOOP AND I'LL HOPEFULLY GET SOMETHING RELATIVELY QUICK TO TRY TO START SCHEDULING SOMETHING FOR THOSE IN THAT MEETING. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANNA SAY THAT THE WORK RAMA HAS DONE HAS BEEN WASTED. NO, I, BUT, UH, I KIND OF FEEL LIKE IT MAYBE HAS, CAN I MAKE A COMMENT? ? UM, I'M, I'M SORRY. NO, YOU'RE FINE. UM, WORKING IN THE I FIELD FOR DECADES, I HAVE BEEN, THIS IS THIS, THIS IS, UM, IT'S GOING BACKWARDS IN A LOT OF THINGS. SO, UM, AND I'M VERY PASSIONATE, WHICH IS WHY I'M, I AM ONE OF THE FOUR FOUNDING MEMBERS OF THIS COMMISSION. AND IT WAS STARTED LIKE JEAN HAD SAID, BECAUSE WE ARE A VERY DIVERSE COMMUNITY AND IT'S MUCH NEEDED. MY CONCERN WITH THIS, AND I'M NOT SAYING THIS IS NOT ATTACK AGAINST RAMA, I, I JUST FELT THAT I AM A MEMBER, I'M A VOLUNTEER IN THAT. AND I DIDN'T SEE THE, THE WHOLE NOTICE ABOUT A SURVEY TO BE FILLED OUT UNTIL MUCH LATER. SURE. UM, SO I DIDN'T EVEN GET A CHANCE TO FILL OUT THE SURVEY AS A RESIDENT. YEAH. BUT I THINK THIS DATA IN THIS SURVEY IS SO AS SKEWED THAT CAN IT BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY? TO BE HONEST, IT'S 'CAUSE IT'S SO BIASED. AND, UM, AND JUST, JUST TO SAY, AND EVEN AT THE DISCUSSION LAST NIGHT, THE FIRST THING IS LIKE, WELL, THE RESIDENTS THINK THAT EVERYTHING IS JUST HUNKY DORY. FINE. AND OKAY, OF COURSE WHEN YOU HAD THE VERY SMALL GROUP AND 86% OF THE RESPONDING IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF OUR DI DIVERSITY IN OUR, IN OUR COMMUNITY. WE HAVE A STRONG ASIAN COMMUNITY. I MEAN, WE INCREASED OUR POPULATION BY 37% IN THIS CITY ALONE. WE'VE GOT A STRONG TURKISH COMMUNITY. WE'VE GOT A STRONG AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY THAT'S GROWING. WE'VE GOT A STRONG LATINO COMMUNITY. I MEAN, WE ARE PROBABLY ONE OF THE MORE DIVERSE SUBURBS AND GROWING SUBURBS IN THIS AREA. AND THIS ASSESSMENT JUST DOES NOT REPRESENT THAT. AND I AM, MY CONCERN IS THAT THOSE IN CHARGE IN LEADERSHIP WILL TAKE THIS AND SAY, HEY, THIS IS OKAY. WE'RE ALL FINE. THERE'S NO NEED FOR THIS. YEAH. ESPECIALLY READING SOME OF THESE RAW DATA. AND THAT'S NOT THE CASE. THAT'S NOT REALITY. AND I'M TELLING YOU FROM MY OWN EXPERIENCE, FROM MY NEIGHBOR'S EXPERIENCE WHO ARE MEMBERS OF THE UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS IN THIS THING, THAT IT'S, THAT MAY NOT BE YEAH. THE REALITY, BECAUSE IT JUST WASN'T, I, I JUST DON'T THINK IT WAS DISTRIBUTED. WELL, LIKE UNLIKE, YOU KNOW, EVEN MYSELF WHO'S ACTIVE IN THE CITY, WHO'S ACTIVE IN THE COMMUNITY. AND I DIDN'T SEE IT UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE. YEAH. I MEAN THAT'S, THAT'S MY THING IS I, I JUST, I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S TO BE DONE. 'CAUSE IT IS DONE. WE'RE NOT GONNA GET ANOTHER ASSESSMENT 'CAUSE WE'VE ALREADY SPENT ON THIS. I JUST, I, I JUST DON'T FEEL THE DATA AND I'M GONNA BE ON RECORD IN SAYING THIS, I DON'T FEEL THE DATA IS VALID BECAUSE IT'S JUST SO SKEWED AND SO UNREPRESENTED. CAN WE REALLY REALISTICALLY SAY THIS IS THE CASE OF WHAT THE CITY'S NEEDS REALLY ARE. YEAH. SO LIKE, AGAIN, RIGHT, THIS I, I AM TAKING OWNER LIKE SURE CITI WILL TAKE OWNERSHIP ON HOW WE MARKET THINGS. I THINK WE HAVE IN THE PAST, AND OBVIOUSLY YOU SEE WITH THIS, WE DID NOT HIT OUR STRIDES WHEN MARKETING THAT WE WERE DOING A SURVEY THAT THE COMMISSION WAS EVEN DOING THIS, THAT THE CITY WASN'T DOING THIS. LIKE, LIKE IF I WAS IN SCHOOL, LIKE WE WOULD, WE WOULD GET AN F ON THIS. LIKE, IT WAS BAD. IT WAS BAD ON IT. AND I WOULD SAY THERE'S, SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE JUST LOOKING AT THINGS, IT'S JUST BEEN BAD PRECEDENT ON HOW WE DO THINGS RELATED TO MARKETING IT. THAT'S JUST MY HONEST OPINION. UM, I THINK, YOU KNOW, I THINK I HAVE IDEAS [01:05:02] HOW WE CAN OBVIOUSLY IN THE FUTURE KIND OF HANDLE THINGS RELATED TO MARKETABILITY. I MEAN, I'VE HEARD SITTING IN LISTENING SESSIONS OR JUST TALKING TO PEOPLE ABOUT HOW THEY DO IT IN DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES, HOW THEY KIND OF PRESS OUT INFORMATION. UM, AND I, I GUESS IT DOES NUMBERS OR, OR WONDERS, UM, ON THAT ASPECT OF IT. SO THAT'S, THAT'S LIKE MY FIRST LIKE TROUBLING SITUATION. I THINK. NOW, IF YOU WOULD TRY TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS, I THINK WE'D HAVE A WAY TO REALLY ENGAGE PEOPLE. I THINK OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE, WE HAVE THE STAKEHOLDERS, WE HAVE THE COMMUNITY IN, IN AREAS THAT I THINK WE CAN OBVIOUSLY HIT IT. I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE COMMISSION HAS THE UNDERSTANDING AND A, A WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE NOW. SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, IF UNDERSTANDING THAT THE COMMISSION HAS TO PLAY A PART IN HOW THESE THINGS ARE OPERATED, BECAUSE I WAS REALLY LIKE, THESE ARE THINGS THAT I SAID INITIALLY, RIGHT? HEY, WE NEED TO MOBILIZE AND BE THAT GRASSROOT, YOU KNOW, INDIVIDUALS GOING THROUGH A SET OF STREETS, GETTING PEOPLE ENGAGED, LEAVING LITERATURE, LEAVING FLYERS TO GET PEOPLE TO DO THESE THINGS. I MEAN, THERE'S A WAY TO DO THIS. UM, ULTIMATELY I HAVE NO STAKE IN THIS. EITHER THE COUNCIL DOES IT OR THEY DON'T. I DON'T KNOW. YOU KNOW, MY QUESTION IS, SINCE THIS INFORMATION IS SO SKEWED, THE WOR THE LEAST THING THAT COULD BE ASKED OUTTA THIS COMMISSION IS, I DON'T KNOW, SEND A RECOMMENDATION TO SAY, HEY, THE, THE INFORMATION GATHERED FROM THIS DATA IS SO SKEWED IN THE POINT OF WE WOULDN'T REALLY GET ANY BENEFIT FROM THIS INFORMATION OR REPORT. IS THERE A POSSIBILITY WHERE WE COME TO THE TABLE AND REWORK IT WHERE WE PUT MORE DOLLARS INTO IT ON THE IDEA OF GOOD FAITH AND TRY TO SEE IF THERE'S A WAY TO GET THE INFORMATION THAT WE REALLY NEED NOW THAT WE HAVE A GOOD COMMUNICATION, UM, NETWORK AND UNDERSTANDING HOW THE INFORMATION WILL GET PASSED OUT TO RESIDENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS, AND WE HAVE ACTUAL STAKEHOLDERS THAT ARE, WANT TO BE INVOLVED, WANT TO SEE THIS SUCCEED, AND WE GET THAT INFORMATION IF WE'RE CLAIMING THAT HUBER HEIGHTS IS A, THE DIVERSE COMMUNITY WITHIN THE DAYTON REGION OR EVEN THE STATE. SO AGAIN, I HAVE ALL THE HOPE THAT I CAN TRY TO HELP YOU GUYS, BUT I THINK IT'S THE RECOMMENDATION THAT THE COMMISSION ULTIMATELY HAS TO SEND OUT, AND HOPEFULLY COUNCIL CAN UNDERSTAND THIS. AND AGAIN, RIGHT, IF THAT'S THAT MEETING THAT NEEDS TO BE, HAD COUNCIL MEMBERS SEE IT, LEADERSHIP SEES IT, AND YOU ALL ARE TRYING TO SAY, HEY, LOOK AT THIS. BUT OBVIOUSLY COMING AT IT IN A, AN UNDERSTANDING PLACE THAT WE HAVE TO BE ON THE SAME TEAM BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE'RE, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING. HOPEFULLY THAT THERE CAN BE SOMETHING WHERE WE CAN MAKE AN ADJUSTMENT, WHETHER THAT BE IN SIX MONTHS, A YEAR GETTING, GETTING THE INFORMATION THAT WE REALLY WANT. UM, BUT THAT'S, THAT'S MY PIECE OUT OF IT. YOU KNOW, I APPRECIATE YOUR WORDS, JEFFREY, AND THANK YOU FOR SAYING, YOU KNOW, CITI WILL TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR, YOU KNOW, THE MARKETING ASPECT. I, I THINK WE NEEDED, SOME OF US MAYBE NEEDED TO HEAR THAT. UM, YOU KNOW, I HONESTLY AGREE WITH YOU THOUGH THAT, UM, I, I THINK, YOU KNOW, AS TIME GOES ON AND POLITICS CHANGE AND PEOPLE CHANGE AND THINGS HAPPEN, MAYBE AS A COMMISSION, WE NEED TO BROADEN OUR VIEWS A LITTLE BIT AND WE NEED TO BE MORE WILLING TO, AS YOU SAID, YOU KNOW, BE GRASSROOTS. UM, GRANTED, YES, WE ALL HAVE FAMILIES AND JOBS AND, AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE, UM, BUT YOU KNOW, LET'S LOOK AT THE POSITIVE THAT POSITIVES THAT HAVE COME FROM THIS EXPERIENCE, RIGHT? WE'VE LEARNED THAT THERE'S DEFINITELY A DISCONNECT IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN HELP WITH? UH, THERE'S DEFINITELY A DISCONNECT WITH TRANSPORTATION ISSUES, WITH ELDERLY IN THE COMMUNITY, WITH OTHER, UM, UNDERSERVED POPULATIONS. WHAT AS A COMMISSION COULD WE DO WITH THE CITY TO HELP SOME OF THESE THINGS? UM, JUST BECAUSE 400 AND SOMETHING WHITE PEOPLE ARE SITTING IN HUBER GOING, AH, IT'S ALL HUNKY. DO WE KNOW FROM THE LISTENING SESSIONS THAT THERE ARE CONCERNS AND THERE ARE THINGS THAT, THAT PEOPLE DO CARE ABOUT. YEAH. SO AT LEAST WE'VE LEARNED THAT, UM, THERE ARE SOME THINGS, THERE ARE SOME AVENUES AND RESOURCES THAT COULD BE BETTER UTILIZED IN THIS COMMUNITY MM-HMM . FOR OUR TEENS THAT DON'T HAVE A PLACE TO GO, UM, FOR USE OF THE COMMUNITY CENTER, YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE THAT, RIGHT? SO, YOU KNOW, IF, IF GOING FORWARD, [01:10:01] YOU KNOW, I WOULD REALLY WANT US TO BE MORE GRASSROOTS, GET OUT THERE MORE IN THE COMMUNITY, UM, LET'S SEE WHAT WE CAN REALLY DO, UM, TO JUST BE THERE IN ALL THESE DIFFERENT CAPACITIES THAT WE CAN BE. SURE, YEAH. IT'S, IT'S ALL ABOUT CONNECT, CONNECTIVITY, COLLABORATION, RIGHT? IT'S BUILDING ON JOE SCHMO BECAUSE YOU KNOW, HE DOES, I DON'T KNOW, PICNICS ON THE WEEKEND, RIGHT? SO, HEY, YOU KNOW, WE STOPPED BY, WE TALKED TO JOE, JOE KNOWS US, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE AN EVENT. JOE WANTS TO HELP. JOE KNOWS 50 PEOPLE WHO WANTS TO COME AND HELP WITH SUPPORT, RIGHT? IT'S THAT, IT'S THAT, I KNOW WE HAD THE CONVERSATION YESTERDAY IN THE WORKSHOP ABOUT HOW PEOPLE CAN LIVE ON THE SAME STREET FOR LIKE 10 YEARS AND NOT KNOW EACH OTHER, BUT NOT KNOW EACH OTHER. RIGHT? IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S CRAZY. UM, SO I THINK THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A THING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE CAN REALLY TRY TO START, YOU KNOW, JUST WITH THE COMMISSION, RIGHT? REALLY THE COMMISSION TRYING TO START THAT. RIGHT? AND, AND I, I THINK THOSE THINGS TEND TO KIND OF GET NOTICED, RIGHT? FROM WHAT THE COMMUNITY SEES. AND I SURE. I HONESTLY THINK THERE'S THE PORTION THAT THE CITY ALSO NEEDS TO BE INVOLVED. AND I, THE THINGS THAT I THINK COUNCIL OBVIOUSLY NEEDS TO KNOW AND BE EVOLVED TOO, AS WELL, RIGHT? I, BUT THEN I THINK THERE ARE WAYS WHERE THE COMMISSION CAN KIND OF JUMP, YOU KNOW, AHEAD, RIGHT? BE THAT, BE THAT AREA OR BE THAT, UM, ORGANI GROUP, ORGANIZATION OR WHATEVER YOU WANNA CALL IT, UM, AS TRYING THEIR BEST TO KIND OF HELP THE COMMUNITY IN A POSITIVE LIGHT. UM, BECAUSE I, I THINK ULTIMATELY THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE WANT, RIGHT? I MEAN, I THINK IT'S MORE OR LESS MISCOMMUNICATION ON HOW WE ULTIMATELY GET THERE, BUT AT THE, AT THE END OF THE ISSUES THAT WE'RE BOTH OR DIFFERENT PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, ARTICULATE. I THINK DEEP DOWN INSIDE IT'S JUST TRYING TO GET TO THE SAME ISSUE. SO IT, IT'S JUST HOW WE TRY TO KINDA WORK AT IT AND, AND TRY TO SHOW PEOPLE GRACE, RIGHT? ON HOW WE KIND OF END TO OR GET TO THAT END RESULT, RIGHT? RATHER THAN DISMISSING THEM BEING UPSET, YELLING, CURSING, SAYING HURTFUL THINGS. ANY OTHER THOUGHTS ABOUT THE, UM, ASSESSMENT, THE RAW DATA? OKAY. UM, I HAD ONE QUESTION, TWO QUESTIONS REALLY QUICK. UM, JEFFREY, UM, DO WE NEED TO DISCUSS ANYTHING ABOUT OUR MAY MEETING OR IS IT OUR JUNE MEETING THAT WE NEED TO DISCUSS? YEAH, I, I DON'T KNOW WHO'S I TALKING TO? WHO DID I TALK TO SOMEBODY ABOUT THIS? ME? YES. YES. YEAH. SO, UM, IF THE COMMISSION DOESN'T ALREADY KNOW MY LOVELY WIFE, SHOUT OUT TO MY LOVELY WIFE. UM, SHE IS EIGHT MONTHS PREGNANT, VERY PREGNANT. AND, UM, I WILL BE GOING ON PARENTAL LEAVE SOMETIME IN MID, UM, UH, MID MAY, MID-MAY. UM, I, KNOWING THAT I WILL NOT BE HERE IN JUNE, UM, MY THOUGHT WAS, UM, RATHER THAN THE CITY JUST TRYING TO, UM, CANCEL THAT JUNE MEETING BECAUSE I KNOW YOU GUYS WILL PROBABLY NEED IT FOR JUNETEENTH. JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT A DAY IN MAY THAT YOU GUYS CAN THINK OF, UM, THAT WE CAN KIND OF HAVE THAT MEETING THAT WOULD BE IN PLACE OF, UM, THAT WOULD KIND OF, KIND OF GET YOU GUYS UNTIL I COME BACK IN AUGUST. 'CAUSE TYPICALLY WE DON'T HAVE ANY MEETINGS IN JULY, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN. 'CAUSE THAT'S WHAT I ACCOUNTED FOR. UM, SO YEAH, THAT'S JUST FOOD FOR THOUGHT. I THINK THAT'S JUST A CONVERSATION. EITHER I CAN TYPE UP AGAIN IN AN EMAIL, WE CAN ALL KIND OF LIKE HASH THAT OUT AND, UH, GIVE OUT SOME DATES SAME TIME. IF IT HAS TO BE LONGER, COOL. I DON'T CARE. UM, IT'S JUST TO REALLY FOCUS ON WHAT THINGS THAT NEED TO BE TAKING PLACE WITH JUNETEENTH BEING ON JUNE THE 15TH. SO , SO, YEAH. OKAY. SO YOU'LL GET WITH US ON SOME DATES? YEAH. YEAH. OKAY. COOL. ALL RIGHT. UM, IF THERE [01:15:01] WERE MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION INTERESTED, UM, DOES ANYONE THINK IT'S A GOOD IDEA TO SEE IF WE SHOULD BE PART OF THE 4TH OF JULY PARADE? IS THAT A ME QUESTION? JUST ASKING LIKE THE COMMISSION? OH, LIKE AS A COMMISSION? LIKE IF, IF WE'RE AVAILABLE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WALK WITH LIKE A BANNER THAT SAYS, YOU KNOW, OUR, OUR COMMISSION NAME OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, HAND OUT CANDY, THE LITTLE KIDS, UM, LET PEOPLE KNOW WHO WE ARE. PASS OUT LITERATURE LIKE WE WOULD AT JUNETEENTH, BUT KIND OF HIT A DIFFERENT YEAH, I MEAN, I MEAN CANDY, I MEAN, BECAUSE I DON'T GET THE WORD. YEAH. WE CAN HAND OUT FLYERS FROM MULTICULTURAL FEST. YEAH. I MEAN, I KNOW IT'S HOT AND YOU WALK DOWN, YOU KNOW, GRANT PIKE, BUT I'M WILLING TO DO IT. IF, IF WE COULD BE THAT MIGHT ADDRESS THE, SOME OF THE RAW DATA OF, I DON'T KNOW, WE EVEN HAVE THEM, YOU KNOW, LIKE WHAT IF, RIGHT? YEAH. RIGHT. I MEAN IF WE, IF YOU MAKE YOUR, IF WE MAKE OURSELVES PRESENT, UM, THAT LIKE YOU EVEN DID WHAT VOTING REGISTRATION TABLES AT THE FARMER'S MARKET. MM-HMM . YOU KNOW, IF WE MAKE OURSELVES PRESENT AT, IN THE PUBLIC. YEAH. MAYBE THAT'LL BRING MORE OF LIKE, HERE'S THE COMMISSION AND ESPECIALLY THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL, I THINK WILL BE POPULAR AMONG KIDS AND FAMILIES WHO ARE LOOKING FOR FAMILY ACTIVITIES. AND MAYBE WE COULD DO A SAVE THE DATE FLYER, LIKE HERE'S THEIR DAY AND MORE TO COME LIKE ON, I MEAN, IT'S TOO LATE FOR JUNETEENTH, BUT I THINK IT BE A GOOD THING TO, YEAH, BECAUSE I THINK THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL, IT'S, WELL, YOU GET MORE ATTENDANCE FOR THAT VERSUS JUNETEENTH. SO YEAH, THAT WOULD BE IDEAL TO HAVE THAT INFORMATION. SPREAD THE WORD. REMIND PEOPLE WHO WE ARE. YEAH. I MEAN, LISTEN, I'M NOT THE CHAIR OR THE VICE CHAIR, BUT YOU'RE GONNA HEAR ME ADVOCATE GOING FORWARD THAT WE REALLY GET OUT THERE IN THE COMMUNITY AND LET PEOPLE SEE US AND KNOW THAT WE ARE HERE. AND, UH, THAT COULD MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE. DO WE? I'M ALL ABOUT SHAKING THE HAND AND DO WE HAVE A BANNER? SMILE FACES? HUH? DO WE HAVE A BANNER, JEFFREY? YEAH. COULD WE GET ONE? I HAVE A POLO FROM THE FIRST TIME THAT WE WORE, BUT I DON'T, DID WE EVER GET A BANNER MADE? I, I DON'T KNOW IF WE EVER GOT, NO, BUT THAT'S NOT A BAD IDEA IF THAT'S WITHIN OUR BUDGET. UM, YEAH, THERE, I'M SORRY. YES. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU GUYS COULD, COULD EASILY DO. UM, YEAH. FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU GUYS WANTED TO DO. I, I KNOW I HAVE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT NEW POLOS, UM, OR NEW SHIRTS FOR IT, BUT YEAH. MM-HMM . OH YEAH. DID WE EVER FOLLOW UP ON, ON THAT? DO YOU NEED US TO FOLLOW UP ON THAT? NO, I WILL, I WILL REENGAGE WITH YOU ALL ABOUT THAT. OKAY. I THINK IT'S A GOOD IDEA TO GET US OUT MORE INTO, UM, INTO THE COMMUNITY SO PEOPLE CAN SEE THAT THIS ISN'T, THIS IS GREAT WORK WE'RE DOING, THIS IS WHERE WE ARE AND WE ARE, UM, REPRESENTATIVE OF OUR COMMUNITY. SO IT'S LIKE, WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK, GENTLEMEN? I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA. ITEMS. IS THAT SOMETHING YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN, IN DOING, IS WALKING IN THE PARADE? LONG AS I'M AVAILABLE. NORMALLY THOSE HOLIDAYS, BUT YEAH. IF I'M AVAILABLE, ABSOLUTE. ALRIGHT, SO, UM, HOW ABOUT I SEND OUT AN EMAIL TO EVERYBODY. IS THAT OKAY? YEAH. JEAN, IS THAT SOMETHING YOU'D BE INTERESTED IN DOING? YEAH. GET OUT THERE IN YOUR LITTLE RED TENNIS SHOES THAT I KNOW YOU HAVE. I WATCH SOME TENNIS SHOES. YEAH, THOSE CUTE RED. YOU GOT THAT LITTLE CUTE WHITE RED OUTFIT. NICE. SEE YOU. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT. BUT YEAH, BASED ON AVAILABILITY, BUT DEFINITELY, YOU KNOW, I'LL SEND AN EMAIL AND SO WE'LL GO FROM THERE AND SEE WHO'S INTERESTED OR WHO CAN, AND THEN, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, ONLY ME WALK BY MYSELF TRYING TO HAND OUT WATER AND CANDY AND WAVE A BANNER. I JUST PULL OUT THE BIG, THE BIG CONVERTIBLE THAT WE USED AT THE HISPANIC HERITAGE FESTIVAL PARADES. . YEAH. OH GOSH. DOESN'T KNOW MY IN-LAWS HAVE IT. 'CAUSE THEY WERE, THEY DID THE GRAND MARSHALL AT THE HUBBERT PARADE LAST YEAR. SO WE DID ACTUALLY WALK AT THE PARADE LAST YEAR TOO. OH YEAH. YEAH. WE HAD A, WE HAD A WHOLE TRUCK SET UP. OH, NEAT. OH REALLY? YEAH. SO WE COULD DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. YEAH. SO I WAS THERE WITH BYRAM AND WHO PASSED OUT SOME CANDIES AND YEAH, BECAUSE MY, IT WAS PRETTY, MY FATHER-IN-LAW, DID SHE DO THAT FOR THE COMMISSION? WELL, WE WENT THERE [01:20:01] AS A TURKISH COMMUNITY SUPPORTING THE OKAY. YOU KNOW, WALKS. SO WE COULD DO IT AS A COMMISSION TOO, YOU KNOW, BROUGHT OUT THEIR CARS FOR YEAH. FOR THE PARADE. SO, I MEAN, WE COULD DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT IF YOU DON'T WANNA WALK. 'CAUSE IT IS A, OH, I HOT. IT'S KIND OF HOT. YEAH. WELL IT WASN'T HOT THIS LAST YEAR, I THINK IT WAS. IT WASN'T HOT. IT WAS ACTUALLY GONNA RAIN AND THEN IT DID IT OH YEAH. THE YEAR BEFORE WE, WE GOT SOAKED AND THEN IT WAS CANCELED, SO. YEAH. AND IT'S IN THE MORNING TOO, RIGHT? YEAH, YEAH. LIKE 10:00 AM IT'S NOT TOO TERRIBLE. YEAH. OKAY. I'LL SEND AN EMAIL OUT TO YOU. NOT AS FAR AS IT USED TO BE WHEN I WAS YOUNGER. I REMEMBER ONE FINAL THING THAT I HAVE OKAY. REALLY QUICK. SO, UH, NOT RELATED TO COMMISSION STUFF, BUT I WANT YOU ALL TO BE A VOICE FOR DAYTON METRO LIBRARY. SO THE PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND IS LOOKING AT BEING CUT BY THE STATE, AND IF THE STATE CUTS THE PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND, LIBRARIES ACROSS THE STATE WILL HAVE TO, TO CLOSE. DAYTON METRO LIBRARY ALONE WILL PROBABLY HAVE TO CLOSE BRANCHES AND, UM, YOU KNOW, STAFF WILL LOSE THEIR JOBS. SO PLEASE PASS THE WORD TO EVERYONE, YOU KNOW, THAT SUPPORTS THE LIBRARY TO WRITE OUR STATE LEADERS BEGGING THEM TO NOT CUT THE, THE PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND AND THEIR SCHOOL CUTS IN THIS SAME BEDROOM TOO. YEAH. I MEAN, THEY'RE REALLY, IT, IT'S GETTING CRAZY NOW. , I DON'T KNOW. NOW IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, IT'S CRAZY. BUT THAT, THAT'S MY PLEA. PLEASE, PLEASE WRITE, WRITE YOUR CONGRESSMAN PLEADING FOR A HUNDRED THINGS. I GOT A COUPLE UPDATES. UM, CHRISTIE, SARAH SAID THAT SHE'S FINE WITH YOU, UM, GOING FORWARD AND POSTING THE LINK. GOOD. ALL RIGHT. THANKS. UM, I TALKED WITH TONY. TONY HAD I ASKED WHEN THE NEXT UPDATE IS. SO THE NEXT UPDATE FOR COUNSEL FOR THE COMMISSION IS JUNE THE THIRD, UM, IS THE NEXT UPDATE. UM, BUT IF THERE IS ANY INTENTION OF YOU ALL COMING, OBVIOUSLY PRIOR TO JUNE THE THIRD, UM, IT'D BE I GUESS THAT 14TH MEETING. UM, BUT THAT'S JUST OBVIOUSLY CITIZENS COMMENTS AND YEAH. YEAH. SO AGAIN, I CAN BE HERE ON THE 14TH IF NEED BE. OKAY. UM, ALL RIGHT. WELL MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST SHOOT FOR THE 14TH. OKAY. ALRIGHT. WE CAN GET THAT POP IN REAL QUICK. SURE. WHILE KIND OF HANG OUT, I'LL, I, YEAH, I'LL BE HERE ALREADY AT OUR MEETING. I MEAN, JEAN AND IN OUR MAY MEETING WHEN WE HAVE TO OTHER THREE HERE. YEAH. GOOD. THEN WE CAN TALK ABOUT WHAT WE COULD DO FOR OUR UPDATES FOR THE PRESENTATION. OKAY. ALRIGHT. UM, ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANYTHING THEN? ALRIGHT, SO WE WILL CALL THE MEETING ADJOURNED AT 7:32 PM GOOD JOB. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. 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