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TO GET THINGS OUT[ AGENDA CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZEN ACTION COMMISSION City Hall - Council Chambers 6131 Taylorsville Road May 1, 2025 6:00 P.M. ]
AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.'CAUSE I KNOW YOU GUYS WORK AND I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE VOLUNTEERS, RIGHT? SO IF IT'S THE NOTION OF TRYING TO GET SOMETHING DONE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE WITH ONE PERSON GIVING ME AN ANSWER AT A TIME, THAT KIND OF WORKS AND, AND OBVIOUSLY HAD SOME UNDERSTANDING IN WHY THEY, THEY CHOSE THE TIME.
I DIDN'T THINK THAT WAS AN ISSUE.
I WOULDN'T THINK THAT WOULD BE AN ISSUE.
WELL, SHE DOESN'T REALLY DECIDE THE COMMISSION I'M DECIDES I SAYING, I MEAN, SHE A I'M, SHE HAVE A THOUGHT SHE CAN, I I'M NOT SAYING, SAYING, CAN I, CAN I PLEASE FINISH TALKING? I FEEL LIKE YOU JUST CUT HIM OFF.
WHAT I'M SAYING IS I, I APPRECIATE THAT.
YOU KNOW, SHE MIGHT HAVE AN IDEA, MIGHT HAVE THOUGHTS OR WHATEVER, BUT ULTIMATELY IT COMES TO THE COMMISSION.
WE HAVE TO VOTE ON IT AND WE HAVE TO DECIDE AS A COMMISSION.
AND REALLY NOTHING SHOULD BE HAPPENING WITHOUT THE CHAIR AND THE VICE CHAIR BEING MADE AWARE OF THAT.
LIKE, THERE SHOULD BE NO THINGS HAPPENING IF COREY IS NOT PRIVY TO OR HAS NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON.
SO I, AND I DON'T KNOW, LIKE, UH, COREY, I DON'T THINK I, I TOLD YOU ABOUT THE TIME.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IF THE, THE IDEA WAS WE WERE GONNA HAVE ANOTHER MEETING AND THAT TIME WAS GONNA BE FIGURED OUT, BUT I THINK AT THAT POINT IT WAS APRIL THE SEVENTH.
SARAH NEEDED A TIME, SHE ASKED FOR A TIME.
I GAVE HER A TIME BECAUSE SHE NEEDED SOMETHING AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE IF I DIDN'T GIVE HER A TIME, SHE WAS GONNA MAKE UP A TIME.
AND I THINK THAT WOULD THEN BE A, A, A, A SITUATION THAT YOU ALL WOULD SIT DOWN AND TRY TO TALK TO THE PARKS MANAGER ABOUT WHY SHE SET A TIME AT THIS TIME.
SO TO GET IT IN THE CAR, TO GET IT IN THE WHAT MAY NEWSLETTER, UM, WHAT WAS THAT IN THE, IN THE MAY, UM, NEWSLETTER? IS THAT WHAT IT I, SHE NEEDED IT.
I THINK IT WAS, I THINK IT WAS ONE OF THE DIGITAL NEWSLETTERS THAT WENT OUT, I THINK.
UM, I KNOW SHE HAD SIX, SO IT COULD HAVE GONE OUT IN JUNE.
SO IT'S NOT, I MEAN, SO, SO YEAH.
SO WE CAN RIGHT, WE CAN, LIKE I JUST ASKED.
AND IF, IF THAT'S THE CASE, YOU GUYS WANNA RUN SOME TYPE OF PROTOCOL ABOUT HOW WE STRUCTURE THINGS OUT.
IF IT IS, YOU KNOW, I NEED A ANSWER AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE BETWEEN MYSELF, UH, CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR, WE CAN DO THAT TRIUMPHAL AND TRY TO FIGURE OUT IF WE CAN KIND OF GET A, A, A ANSWER ON SOMETHING AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
BECAUSE TYPICALLY WE ONLY HAVE MONTHLY MEETINGS AND IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS, I DON'T HAVE A MONTH TO GET AN ANSWER FROM EVERYONE.
AND I CAN'T HAVE YOU GUYS ALL VOTE, BUT I CAN'T HAVE YOU GUYS ALL VOTE ON AN EMAIL CHAIN.
BUT THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT WE HA HA THAT REQUIRE A VOTE.
BUT I'M SAYING LIKE, IF, IF YOU GUYS ARE ONLY MEETING EVERY MONTH AND THEN SOMETHING HAPPENS OFFLINE BETWEEN LET'S SAY ME AND SARAH AGAIN, RIGHT? AND I, AND SHE NEEDS TO ANSWER FROM ME RELATED TO A DATE OR A TIME, AND I'M PAST THAT MONTH, RIGHT? AND SHE NEEDS IT BY TOMORROW, YOU KNOW, I CAN'T GO ON A EMAIL CHAIN AND SAY, HEY, I NEED YOU GUYS TO VOTE ON THIS.
HOW DO YOU GUYS FEEL ABOUT THIS? RIGHT.
I, I, I CAN'T, I CAN'T DO THAT.
I CAN'T HAVE YOU GUYS VOTING ON AN EMAIL CHAIN.
WELL, THAT'S ONE REASON WHY WE SAID WE'LL START, WE'RE ALWAYS PLANNING AHEAD, RIGHT? WE'RE STARTING OUR PLANNING EARLIER, BUT AT THIS POINT, THE MULTICULTURAL MM-HMM
TIME COULD HAVE BEEN DECIDED AND COMMUNICATED IN JUNE BEFORE WE DEADLOCKED, LET THE TIME.
AND I KNOW SARAH HAD SAID SOMETHING TO ME ABOUT THAT TODAY, THAT THE TIME AND THE DATE SEEMED LOCKED.
BUT THAT'S A CONVERSATION THAT I WILL BRING TO HER THAT THE COMMISSION IS ULTIMATELY NOT COOL.
UH, THAT, THAT THEY ULTIMATELY, YOU GUYS WANTED TO VOTE ON THAT.
UM, IF SHE HAS THE OPEN CAPACITY TO KIND OF GET THAT MOVED OFF, THAT'S A DISCUSSION THAT YOU GUYS CAN HAVE IN JUNE AND TRY TO SWITCH THE DATE.
IF 11 TO FIVE DOES NOT WORK WITH, UH, ALL OF COUNT OR ALL OF COMMISSION, IF THAT'S OKAY.
IF THAT, LIKE, I'M NOT SAYING THAT SHE WILL DO IT OR SHE CAN DO IT, BUT I WILL LET HER KNOW THAT, THAT 11 TO FIVE AS OF TODAY.
CAN I SAY THAT, DOES THAT WORK WITH, I MEAN, I JUST THINK THERE'S, I MEAN, I THINK THE,
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THE BEST SAY ITS AFTER DISCUSSION.THERE WERE JUST SOME UNREADINESS ABOUT IT.
SO IF YOU COULD PROVIDE FURTHER INSIGHT, IF THAT MAKES ANY SENSE.
'CAUSE THAT MEANS WHEN UNREAD JUST, IT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN, IT JUST MEANS LIKE THERE'S JUST, WE WE'RE NOT IN FULL AGREEMENTS ON WHAT THAT DATE AND TIME IS, OR AT LEAST THE TIME.
I THINK, I DON'T THINK THE DATE IS THE NEGOTIABLE, RIGHT? NO, THE DATE WE VOTED ON THE DATE ON, YEAH.
THERE'S SOME UNREADINESS ON THE TIME.
YEAH, IT MAY, IT MAY HAVE TO WORK.
UM, EXPECT, UM, PROTOCOL FROM ME, UM, WE CAN KIND OF LOOK AT THAT AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN ALL AGREE ON WHOEVER OR THE, THE COMMISSION.
UM, PROBABLY IN AUGUST WHEN I COME, I GUESS WHEN I'LL BE HERE, WE'LL HAVE A UNDERSTANDING OF PROTOCOL, HOW THINGS ARE RAN OUT OF COMMISSION, UH, OUT OF COMMISSION.
UM, ANYTHING ELSE ON MULTI QUESTION? SO THERE IS NO OKAY.
UM, LIKE I SAID, INITIALLY IT'S SOMETHING THAT THE COMMISSION, EITHER MYSELF OR JUST NOT BEING ENOUGH PEOPLE HERE TO KIND OF VOTE ON THAT, I THINK WE SHOULD REALLY STOP TRYING TO KICK THIS THING TO THE NEXT MEETING.
UM, FOR THE FIVE THAT ARE HERE, UM, WE JUST GO AHEAD AND SOMEONE WOULD PUT UP A NOMINATION FOR CHAIR AND WE DO THE SAME THING FOR VICE CHAIR.
SO IF ANYBODY ON THE COMMISSION HAS THE FLOOR TO KIND OF NOMINATE, UH, THE CHAIR AS OF RIGHT NOW, I GUESS I'LL SELF NOMINATE MYSELF FOR CHAIR.
I MISSED, WERE YOU ASKING FOR A NOMINATION FOR
UM, I MOVE, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
IS IT COREY
I MOVED TO ELECT COREY, OR TO WHAT AM I NOMINATED? YEAH, NOMINATED.
I MOVED TO NOMINATE COREY OWENS FOR CHAIR OF THE HEBREW HEIGHTS DIVERSITY COMMISSION.
MRS. TROTTER? NOTHING PERSONAL, BUT NO, IT'S NOT PERSONAL, BUT IT'S JUST A NO, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS THAT I'D LIKE TO BE ABLE TO ASK, BUT THAT'S A NO, I DON'T THINK I CAN DO THAT.
I NEED A, UH, LET ME, CAN UM, YES.
I GUESS WE DIDN'T ASK IF ANYBODY ELSE WANTED TO RUN, BUT NO ONE ELSE HAS SPOKEN OF EITHER.
UM, I JUST WANNA MAKE CLEAR THAT FOR, UM, THE VICE CHAIR.
SO WHOEVER'S VICE CHAIR HAS TO BE PREPARED TO STEP IN WHEN, UH, DR. OWENS CANNOT CORRECT.
CAN I GET A NOMINATION FOR VICE CHAIR? I NOMINATE MS. NBE
I RESPECTFULLY DECLINE THE NOMINATION.
CAN I GET A SECOND NOMINEE PLEASE?
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CAN I GET A SECOND NOMINEE? CAN SELF NOMINATE ALSO? SURE.I NOMINATE MS. YOLANDA TO BE A VICE CHAIR.
CAN I GET A SECOND? I DO NOT ACCEPT IT.
UM, SO AS OF TODAY, UM, WHAT WE'LL DO IS WE'LL KEEP, UH, WE'LL REMOVE THE INTERIM CHAIR FROM MR. OWENS.
AND WHAT WE WILL DO IS, WHAT WE WILL DO IS WE WILL PLACE HIM AS CHAIR MOVING FORWARD.
AND THEN FROM THERE, EITHER, UH, THE OPTION WILL BE, UM, YOU GUYS WILL VOTE ON A VICE CHAIR, HOPEFULLY NEXT MEETING WITH SARAH VERY QUICKLY.
I MEAN, JUST A YAY OR NAY IF THAT WORKS.
BECAUSE, BECAUSE I THINK MY, MY, MY IDEA IS EITHER WE HAVE MORE PEOPLE HERE AND THE UNDERSTANDING THAT WE POTENTIALLY CAN GET ANOTHER MEMBER TO BE A PART OF THE COMMISSION IN THAT TIMEFRAME, UM, AS I HAVE ONE PERSON LOOKING TO JOIN THE COMMISSION.
UM, SO HOW DOES THAT SOUND CHAIR, DOES THAT WORK WITH YOU? I'M MAKING A, OKAY, I'M MAKING A NOMINATION.
I MAKE A NOMINATION, OR I MOVED TO MAKE THE NOMINATION FOR MR. IBRAHIM CHAE
DOES HE HAVE TO ACCEPT THE NOMINATION THOUGH? HE DID.
DO YOU ACCEPT IT? YEAH, I DID.
I THINK MY, CAN I RECOUNT? I'LL RECOUNT MY VOTE.
NO WAIT, DID I DO THAT RIGHT? YES.
THE FLOOR GONNA MOVE FORWARD WITH NEW BUSINESS.
UH, EX UPCOMING MEETING IS JUNE 3RD.
AS JEFFREY PUT OUT, IT WILL BE SARAH WHO WILL BE AN INSTANT.
SO, NO, SO THIS, UM, IN MY BAD, I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT.
SO, UH, NEW BUSINESS OWNER, A UPCOMING COUNCIL UPDATE.
SO, UH, IT'S BEEN REALLY STRANGE ABOUT, TYPICALLY THE COMMISSION HAS THREE UPDATES TO COUNCIL.
UM, I THINK, UH, WE'RE RELATIVELY LATE IN THE YEAR WITH THE FIRST ONE.
IS THIS THE CITY COUNCIL? IS THIS THE SECOND ONE? I THINK THIS MIGHT BE THE SECOND ONE NONETHELESS.
SO YES, THIS IS WHAT CITY COUNCIL, CITY COUNCIL UPDATE.
UM, I SAY THIS WITH ALL RESPECT, UM, AS I WILL KIND OF GET INTO, UH, IN THE SECOND, UH, HIGHLIGHT AND BE ABOUT THAT.
UM, BUT WHAT I WAS INSTRUCTED TO TELL THE COMMISSION, BECAUSE AT THAT SAME TIME, WOULD I EXPECT THE CHAIR TO BE THERE AT THAT JUNE 3RD MEETING TO GIVE THE UPDATE TO CITY COUNCIL? YES.
SO WITHIN THAT, UM, FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, WHAT COUNSEL WOULD LIKE TO BE PRESENTED WOULD BE UPDATES TOWARDS, UM, WHAT HAPPENED AT THE MLK EVENT.
UM, WHAT EVENTS ARE COMING UP THAT WOULD BE, UH, JUNETEENTH.
AND HOPEFULLY AT THAT POINT WE HAVE SOMEWHAT SEMBLANCE, UH, OR SOME TYPE OF IDEA WHAT'S HAPPENING AT A MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL.
UM, THAT IS THE CRUX OF THE UPDATE.
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UM, GOD, I'M REALLY TRYING TO MAKE SURE I PUT THIS IN THE BEST LIGHT.UM, BUT YES, THAT, THAT'S, AND ANYTHING ELSE RELATED TO ANY OTHER THINGS THAT THE COMMISSION IS WANTING TO DO? UM, NOT WITH THE INPUT OF RECOMMENDATIONS, BUT LIKE TALKING ABOUT, UM, EVENTS, EVENTS PASS AND EVENTS FORWARD.
UM, THAT'S KIND OF LIKE THE UPDATE.
TO WHAT WE WERE DIRECTED BEFORE.
AND WE WERE TOLD THAT ANY RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE HAVE WILL BE BROUGHT FORTH MM-HMM
IN OUR UPDATE TO CITY COUNCIL.
CAN I TAKE THE MIC BACK REAL QUICK TO KIND OF INPUT FROM THE CONVERSATION THAT WE HAD ABOUT THE EMAIL CHAIN, ABOUT THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT I INITIALLY KIND OF SENT TO TONY, AND THEN YOU KIND OF STRESS THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY WEREN'T VOTED IN COMMISSION.
CAN I KIND OF LEAVE IT? BUT IS THAT WHAT YOU WERE SAYING? DID I GET THAT CLEAR? YEAH.
THAT YOU ARE SAYING THAT THEY DON'T WANT US BRING YOU FORTH ANY RECOMMENDATIONS.
THEY ONLY WANT US TO TALK ABOUT, SO WE'RE BEING, HOW WE ARE GIVING PER, PER, WHAT'S THE WORD? PARAMETERS CORRECT.
SO YES, SO, SO LET ME TRY TO UNDERSTAND, OR AT LEAST KIND OF, UH, IT'D BE GREAT IF IT WAS IN THAT MEETING, BUT NONETHELESS, SO THIS IS WHERE WE'RE KIND OF, OR AT LEAST WHAT THEY'RE ASKING.
UM, I WENT AHEAD AND I SUBMITTED THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT I KIND OF GOT IN THE APRIL MEETING TO TONY.
UM, I KNOW ONE OF THOSE REAL INPUTS OR THESE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT THE COMMISSION AT THAT POINT HAD SAID WAS, UM, THEY WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WITH LEADERSHIP OR COUNSEL, UM, PRIOR TO RAMA DOING THEIR, UH, FINAL PRESENTATION TO, TO COUNSEL, UM, WHICH WOULD BE ON THAT JUNE, THE THIRD DAY, UM, IS WHEN RAMA WOULD BE DOING THEIR FINAL PRESENTATION TO COUNSEL.
UM, WHERE CITY COUNCIL WANTS TO, OR CITY COUNCIL AND LEADERSHIP WOULD LIKE THE COMMISSION TO, TO BEAR WITH THEM IS LETTING RAMA PRESENT THEIR, PRESENT, THEIR RECOMMENDATION, PRESENT THEIR PRESENTATION, AND EVERYTHING THAT GOES WITH IT.
IF THAT ULTIMATELY LEADS THEM WITH RECOMMENDATIONS, COUNSEL WILL ABSORB THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS, UNDERSTAND THEM, GO THROUGH IT, ASK THE QUESTIONS FROM MEAS, AND THEN FROM THERE THEN WE COULD GO BACK IF, BECAUSE I TOLD TONY, I TOLD HIM, HEY TONY, SOME OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, THAT I SUBMITTED TO YOU, UH, THE COMMISSION WANTS TO KIND OF RE REGO, REDO THEM AND SUBMIT, UH, A MORE CON CONCISE, UH, VOTED RECOMMENDATIONS.
AND, AND TO TONY'S POINT, IT KIND OF GOT INTO, OKAY, THAT WORKS.
WE UNDERSTAND, WE CAN HEAR WHAT REMA HAS TO SAY.
AND THEN FROM THERE WE CAN DIGEST THAT AND THEN WE CAN HAVE THAT SIT DOWN CONVERSATION BETWEEN WHAT THE COMMISSION WANTS TO DO, EITHER FROM THEIR OWN STANDPOINT OR EITHER FROM WHAT RAMA'S, RAMA'S RECOMMENDATIONS ARE, AND TRY TO SEE IF WE CAN KIND OF COME TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THINGS CAN BE OR WHAT CAN THINGS CAN'T BE, I GUESS, EITHER, UH, IN THE SHORT TERM OR, OR THE LONG TERM.
DOES THAT, ARE YOU STILL FOLLOWING ME ON THAT POINT? SO BASICALLY IT'S, WE'RE NOT BRINGING FORTH ANYTHING IN REGARDS TORE TO THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT OR REMA OR ANY OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
UM, MY, MY, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND IS TO LIKE, I WILL FIGURE OUT THE BEST TIME AFTER THAT JUNE 3RD MEETING, AFTER YOU GUYS DO YOUR UPDATES ABOUT THE EVENTS AND EVERYTHING HAS PASSED, AND RAMA GIVES A PRESENTATION, I WILL FIGURE OUT WHAT DAY THAT COUNCIL IS LOOKING TO SCHEDULE THAT MEETING FROM THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
BECAUSE ULTIMATELY I'M NOT GONNA GET RECOMMENDATIONS FROM YOU GUYS AS A WHOLE CO UH, WHOLE COMMISSION BASICALLY UNTIL AUGUST.
SO, SO IF THAT IS THE CASE, WE POTENTIALLY WON'T EVEN GET ANYTHING SCHEDULED MEETING WISE UNTIL AUGUST AT, AT THIS RATE BECAUSE THERE'S NO MEETING IN JULY UNLESS YOU GUYS WANNA HAVE A MEETING IN JULY.
WELL, WE DO STILL HAVE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS THAT ARE OUT WITH CITY COUNCIL.
SO, SO WHAT, OR YOU SAYING WE DON'T, WE
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CAN'T EVEN TALK ABOUT THOSEI'M FEELING SOME TYPE OF WAY THAT WE'RE BEING NO, NO, NO, NO.
I MEAN, I MEAN, I MEAN, BECAUSE, UH, WHAT, WHAT I CAN SAY WHAT I THINK I, AND I DON'T THINK THAT'S AN ISSUE, RIGHT? I, IN MY PERSONAL OPINION, LEMME DOUBLE CHECK WITH TONY.
UM, I DON'T FIGURE WHY YOU GUYS CAN ASK THE QUESTIONS TO TRY TO GET AN UPDATE ON RECOMMENDATIONS THAT ARE OUTSTANDING PRIOR TO THE ONES LIKE JUST IN YOUR MIND AND THE COUNCIL'S AND COMMISSION'S MIND RIGHT NOW, THE ONES THAT I SENT TO TONY, THOSE ONES ARE BASICALLY, UH, HAVE BEEN RESCINDED, RIGHT? BECAUSE I TOLD HIM THAT THE COMMISSION NEEDED TIME TO RESUBMIT, UM, WHAT RECOMMENDATIONS THAT THEY WANTED TO DO WITH THE FULL COMMISSION RATHER THAN THE ONES THAT WERE HERE IN APRIL.
IS THAT FAIR TO SAY? IF THERE'S, IF THERE'S MORE, IF THERE'S MORE OF A DISCUSSION, IF THERE'S MORE OF A TALKING POINT FOR ADDITIONAL THINGS, I THINK IF WE ARE LOOKING AT THE, THE BITS AND PIECES OF IT, OF HAVING THAT DISCUSSION WHERE THE COMMISSION IS MOVING FORWARD IN THE FUTURE, I THINK THOSE ARE GOOD TALKING POINTS TO KINDA LIKE ULTIMATELY HAVE WITH, WITH COUNCIL AND LEADERSHIP.
I THINK WE CAN ADD THOSE TO FUTURE, TO A FUTURE LIST OF, UM, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS THAT NEED TO GO THROUGH.
UM, I THINK, WHAT ELSE? I HAVE IT RIGHT HERE.
ANY RECOMMENDATIONS THAT GO FORWARD TO CITY COUNCIL HAVE TO BE VOTED UPON BY THE COMMISSION BEFORE, AND WE, UM, WE SUBMIT THOSE TO YOU JUST SO THAT WE'VE CAPTURED EVERYTHING THAT'S YES.
AND THEN, YEAH, SO, SO, SO, AND THAT WAS MY MISCON, LIKE I WAS MISCONSTRUED ABOUT WHO WAS GETTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
I ALWAYS THOUGHT IT WAS JOHN WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO BE GETTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
NOT NECESSARILY, IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE TONY WHO'S GETTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS.
SO TONY GETS THE RE YOU GUYS RECOMMEND SOMETHING, I'M SENDING THEM TO TONY, TONY GETS ME THE YAY OR NAY OR HOW, HOW COUNSEL WANTS TO MOVE FORWARD.
UM, THAT IS MY PATH TO, TO ULTIMATELY FEEDING COUNSEL, UM, RECOMMENDATIONS.
I JUST WANTED TO BE SURE WE KNEW THAT WE VOTE HERE, WE VOTE ON ANY RECOMMENDATIONS WE'RE GONNA SUBMIT AND THEN WE WRITE THOSE UP.
SO, SO I LIKE, I CAN POINT OUT LIKE A COUPLE THINGS THAT TONY HAD SAW AND HIT ON.
UM, I THINK ONE THING THAT KIND OF CAME TO LIGHT WAS ABOUT, UM, THE INCLUDING OF THE CHAIR AND THE VICE CHAIR AND, UM, INTER THE INTERVIEWING PROCESS, UM, WHETHER THAT BE, UM, A SHIFT IN, UH, A EVENING MEETING, UM, FROM WHAT TONY AND LEADERSHIP KIND OF GOT TO THE CRUX OF WAS, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS UNREALISTIC ON, ON THE CITY'S PART BECAUSE THEY WERE SAYING THAT ALTHOUGH, UM, COMMISSION, THE COMMISSION WORKS, UM, BEING HERE AT SIX O'CLOCK WOULD PUT A HAMPER ON CITY STAFF AND, AND US CONDUCTING OUR BUSINESS THROUGH NORMAL O UH, OPERATION HOURS.
SO IF THE NOTION WAS, HEY, WE HAD SOMEBODY APPLY TO THE COMMISSION AND WE DID IT IN THE EVENING, SAY SIX O'CLOCK, THEN WE HAVE TO KEEP HR HERE.
WE HAVE TO KEEP, UM, YOU KNOW, MYSELF HERE LONGER, TONY HERE, AND THEN ULTIMATELY TRY TO SEE IF THAT PERSON CAN GET HERE AT THAT TIME, UM, IN THE EVENING.
UM, I THINK FOR THE SITUATION NOW, UM, WHAT MY UNDERSTANDING WAS, UM, HOW WE, WE SHOULD BE DOING THE CONDUCTIONS OF THESE, UH, INTERVIEWS, UM, FOR THE COMMISSION IS IT GOES VICE CHAIR OR IT GOES CHAIR, CHAIR CAN'T MAKE IT.
VICE CHAIR MAKES IT IF VICE CHAIR CAN'T MAKE IT, THE CHAIR WOULD, UH, ASK SOMEONE WITHIN THE COMMISSION TO MAKE IT AT THAT TIME AND DATE.
UM, ASKED BY, UM, CITY STAFF OF WHEN THEY WERE PLANNING ON CONDUCTING THAT INTERVIEW.
AND THEN ULTIMATELY TO LIKE, AND, AND ULTIMATELY THE, THE, THE, THE THINKING WAS WHEN YOU GUYS GET AN APPLICATION FOR THE COMMISSION, IT'S TYPICALLY ONE AT A TIME.
UM, WE WOULD WANT YOU GUYS IN THAT PROCESS TO KIND OF GIVE A THOROUGH, UM, A OPINION OF THE PERSON AND TRY TO WALK 'EM THROUGH OF WHAT ACTUALLY THE COMMISSION DOES.
BUT AT THAT SAME TIME, UM, IT'S TYPICALLY JUST ONE APPLICATION AT A TIME.
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TRYING TO SCHEDULE THESE MEETINGS AT A LATER TIME IN THE EVENING JUST DOESN'T SEEM REALISTIC ON THE CITY'S END.I DON'T THINK THEY HAVE TO BE AT SIX O'CLOCK, BUT I THINK THEY NEED TO BE AT THE END OF THE DAY BECAUSE YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT VOLUNTEERS WHO ALSO WORK DURING THE DAY AND FOR THEM TO TAKE OFF A WORK TO COME TO AN INTERVIEW, DON'T IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY.
I DON'T, I DON'T DISAGREE WITH YOU.
UM, BUT I THINK AT THIS RATE, THIS IS, THIS IS LIKE THE STANCE OF WHAT THE CITY, WELL, THAT WAS AT SIX O'CLOCK, SO I'M GONNA, I, I KNOW WE NEED TO WRAP UP OUR MEETING, BUT I'M GONNA PUSH BACK AND SAY THE CITY NEEDS TO CONSIDER DOING THEM AT THE END OF THE DAY.
OF PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE THE LIBERTY OF BEING ABLE TO TAKE OFF OF WORK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY FOR AN INTERVIEW.
UM, OTHER THAN THAT, UM, THAT'S KIND WHERE WE ARE.
UM, JUST WITH, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE REVIEW FOR, OR THE UPDATE FOR JUNE THE THIRD, UM, COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION STATUS OF WHAT WAS RESCINDED.
UM, AND THEN ULTIMATELY THE IDEA IS THAT, UM, I HOPE THAT THE COMMISSION CAN COME TOGETHER, UM, IN AUGUST TO KIND OF SUBMIT, UM, UM, MORE, UM, RECOMMENDATIONS TO PASS THROUGH, UH, THE COMMISSION.
UM, I WOULD SAY THIS AS WELL, UM, WITHIN THAT RECOMMENDATION, UM, TO COUNSEL, UM, COULD, UH, TONY'S REQUEST WOULD KIND OF KEEP IT IN THAT LIKE TWO TO FOUR RANGE WHEN WE SUBMIT OR WHEN YOU GUYS SUBMIT RECOMMENDATIONS.
SO IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S REALISTIC, WE CAN, IF WE HAVE TO BREAK IT DOWN, THAT'S COOL.
BUT THEY'RE HOPING TO GET TWO TO FOUR RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, AT A GIVEN TIME RATHER THAN LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, 10, TWO TO FOUR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TWO TO FOUR RECOMMENDATIONS SUBMITTED, NOT, NOT 10, LIKE, HEY, WE WANT 10 RECOMMENDATIONS, HERE ARE 10 RECOMMENDATIONS.
SO LIKE, KEEPING IT TWO TO FOUR, WE HAVE AN APPLICANT.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IF SHE SUBMITTED HER, UH, APPLICATION, BUT YES.
UM, WE DID, UM, UH, MS. STRICKLAND, UM, WAS TRYING TO, UM, SUBMIT HER APPLICATION TO, UM, THE COMMISSION, BUT I'M NOT FOR SURE IF SHE BROUGHT IT IN TO GIVE TO TONY.
I THINK THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS MISSING.
WILL THAT BE, CAN YOU FORWARD THAT TO THE COMMISSION ONCE WE GET IT? THE APPLICATION? SURE.
UH, ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR CONCERNS? NOPE.
UM, ARE WE SWEARING THEM IN NEXT WEEK, NEXT MONTH THEN? SINCE WE'RE NOT DOING IT TONIGHT, SO, SO I'M NOT FOR SURE, LIKE, NO.
UM, SO IN THE MONTH OF MAY, THERE'S ONLY ONE, UM, WORK SESSION AND ONE, UH, COUNCIL MEETING.
SO I DON'T THINK AT THE, LIKE, IF TONY WAS ABLE TO DO A INTERVIEW, 'CAUSE LIKE I SAID, RIGHT, I'M TALKING OUT FOR THEM, FOR THE CHAIR AND THE VICE CHAIR.
DO YOU SWEAR THEM IN? MM-HMM
WE'LL HAVE TO DO IT NEXT MONTH AT THIS POINT.
YOU WANT MOVE? OH, MAKE THE MOVE.
Y'ALL GOTTA GO? ARE WE DONE? YEAH.
DID WE DO OFFICIALLY DONE YET? NO, NOT YET.
'CAUSE I'D LIKE TO ADD SOMETHING.
COULD YOU PLEASE TAKE ME OFF THE MULTICULTURAL TASK FORCE? SURE.
ANY OTHER, UH, COMMENTS OR CONCERNS? THAT WAS IT.
THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I WAS ASKING.
MAKE A MOTION TO, AND, UH, MEETING ADJOURN.