* 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. YOU GOT SIGNED? [00:00:01] YEAH. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. I'LL CALL THE MEETING ORDER AT [ AGENDA CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZEN ACTION COMMISSION City Hall - Council Chambers 6131 Taylorsville Road August 7, 2025 6:00 P.M. ] 6:03 PM ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 7TH. ALL RIGHT. CAN WE GET A ROLL CALL, SIR? MS. NEWBIE ZER. MR. CHUCK? MR. CHUCK . PRESENT? MRS. TROTTER? PRESENT. MR. RICHARDSON? PRESENT. MRS. NIKKER? PRESENT. MR. OWENS PRESENT? MRS. STEVENS? EXCUSED. MR. GLOVE PRESENT. YOU LET THE RECORD REFLECT THAT JEAN, UH, UH, MS. NEWBIE AL ALAZAR IS EXCUSED AS WELL. ALRIGHT. MOVING RIGHT ALONG FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES. UH, YOU WERE GIVEN THE, DID JUNE, UH, MINUTES. UH, DID ANYONE SEE THAT THEY NEED ANY, BE ANY DISCUSSION OR ANY RECOMMENDATIONS? UM, YOU CAN TAKE A FEW MINUTES IF YOU'RE JUST LOOKING AT 'EM. YEAH, I SAW THOSE ON THESE. SO, SO, CHRISTIE, WE GOOD? YEAH. YOU NORMALLY CATCH STUFF, STUFF . SORRY. YEAH, I'M GOOD. I HAVE NOW USUALLY, YEAH. YEAH. THAT'S WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY. . I WAS KIND LOOKING, I'M ON THE FRONT PAGE. LINE 20. NO, I'M JUST KIDDING. . I THOUGHT SHE WAS BEING SERIOUS. I WAS LIKE, REALLY? . DO WE HAVE A MOTION CHECK? YEAH, I'LL DO A MOTION. I JUST WANNA GIVE EVERYBODY A CHANCE TO LOOK AT 'EM ALONE. ALRIGHT. UH, CAN WE GET A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES? A MOTION? I'LL SECOND. MOTION HAS BEEN PROPERLY MOVED AND SECONDED. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOVE OF THE MINUTES BEING APPROVED. THAT'S A NORMAL SAY BY SAYING. AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. NAY. ANY ABSTENTIONS? MOVING FORWARD, UH, OUR NEXT ITEM OF BUSINESS IS DISCOVERY OR IS DIS UH, FOR DISCUSSION UP FOR OLD BUSINESS. WE HAVE, UH, SEVERAL ITEMS HERE, SO, UM, LET'S, UH, SEE WHAT WE GOT. UM, DID ANYONE BY CHANCE, THE FIRST ITEM UP IS THE RAMA PLAN. UM, OH, YOU PRINTED 'EM ON COLOR. OKAY. DID ANYBODY GET A CHANCE TO LOOK AT THE, THE RAMA PLAN? UM, THAT WAS SENT TO US? YEP. THIS IS LAST NIGHT, TODAY. I'M NOT SURE WHEN CAME THROUGH. WAS IT EMAILED? YES, IT WAS IN A FEW MINUTES. YEAH, IN THE, OH, FOR TODAY. OH, I MISSED THAT. I'M SORRY. BUT I WAS HERE WHEN HE GAVE THE, THE PRESENTATION OVERVIEW. SO WOULD YOU GUYS, LIKE, I SEE YOU STILL HAVE SOME HIGHLIGHTS OF THESE THINGS. YOU WANNA DISCUSS ME? WHAT'S UP? WELL, UM, WE WERE AT THE PRESENTATION, CHRISTIE AND I, WHEN THEY DID THIS, AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE, UM, DR. AIKENS, UM, AND OTHER COMMISSION MEMBERS HAD, COUNCIL MEMBERS HAD AGREED, UM, HAD DISCUSSED WAS FOR THE, WAS FOR THE, UM, CULTURE AND DIVERSITY COMMISSION TO TAKE ON SOME OF THESE SUGGESTIONS AND TASKS THAT, UH, THAT THEY PUT OUT IN THE COMMUNITY PLAN. MM-HMM . AND I JUST HIGHLIGHTED A COUPLE OF A FEW THINGS THAT I THOUGHT THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE CAN, UM, THAT WE'VE ALSO DISCUSSED IN THE GROUP THAT WE CAN ADDRESS, UM, SOONER THAN LATER. OKAY. AND THAT ARE NOT, UM, I WOULDN'T SAY TIME PLANNING PLANNING IN YEARS DOWN THE ROAD, BUT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN PROBABLY PUT IN EFFECT, LIKE I SAID, SOONER THAN LATER, SUCH AS, UM, WE HAD TALKED ABOUT AT OUR LAST MEETING ABOUT PARTNERING WITH CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS MM-HMM . GETTING TO KNOW THE DIFFERENT CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS, INVITING THEM TO MEETINGS AND THEY CAN PRESENT AND DISCUSS THEIR ORGANIZATION. AND THAT WAY WE CAN CONNECT WITH THEM. AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS DOING LIKE POP UP LISTENING SESSIONS AND, AND THING, AND CONNECTING WITH THEM. WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT MAINTAINING AND BUILDING A COMMUNITY LEADER DATABASE SO WE CAN CONNECT US CITY STAFF AND COMMUNITY FOLKS WITH THESE CULTURAL ORGANIZATION, CHURCH LEADERS, AND DIFFERENT, UM, GROUPS. SO I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN, UM, IF THAT'S SOMETHING WE WANNA DO, WE CAN START, UM, MAYBE FORMING LIKE A MINI TASK FORCE TO START GETTING THAT. AND I DON'T KNOW, JEFFREY, IF YOU BE THE ONE AT THE CITY TO DO THAT, OR SOMEBODY THAT WE CAN CONNECT, LIKE MAYBE, UM, SARAH OR SOMEBODY AT THE CITY THAT WOULD BE DOING THAT WITH THE COMMUNICATIONS. YEAH. SO, UM, LIKE, UH, MRS. KER WAS TALKING ABOUT, UM, WHEN MO AND RAMA CAME IN PRESENT, OH, WHAT WAS THAT? JULY, MAYBE EARLY [00:05:01] JULY. UM, YEAH, SO IN MY CAPACITY, UH, YES, THAT WOULD PROBABLY SOMETHING THAT I WOULD TAKE ON. UM, ULTIMATELY IT IS JUST TRYING TO GAUGE, UH, WHAT IMPACT OR LIKE THE, THE POSITION OF WHAT COUNCIL, UH, WOULD BE ULTIMATELY, UH, UH, SUPPORTIVE OF, RIGHT? MM-HMM . UM, I THINK FROM THE PRESENTATION AS I SAT HERE, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW MS. HONECKER AND MS. TROTTER WOULD AGREE WITH ME, BUT I THINK COUNSEL WAS OBVIOUSLY PRETTY, UH, I MEAN, THEY SEEMED LIKE THEY WERE, YOU KNOW, RESPONSIVE OF WHAT WAS PRESENTED IN THAT PRESENTATION. UM, BUT JUST TRYING TO LIKE CIRCLE BACK THOUGH, RIGHT? UM, FOR SOME OF THE STUFF THAT, UH, MS. HUNKER HAD BROUGHT UP, UM, I KNOW ME AS WELL AS MY SUPERVISORS, WHAT WE TRY TO DO ALREADY. UM, WE'VE TRIED OUR HARDEST TO KIND OF SEE, OKAY, HEY, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE LOW HANGING FRUIT THAT WE CAN KIND OF HIT UP, UM, TO KIND OF, YOU KNOW, UH, START THE PROCESS OF WHAT RAMA'S PLANS WERE. UM, SO, UM, I KNOW YOU JUST MENTIONED A COMMUNITY, UH, UH, ORGANIZATION OR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP DATABASE, RIGHT? SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE ACTIVELY TRYING TO ENGAGE RIGHT NOW, RIGHT? IF YOU KNOW, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS, UH, DIFFERENT, UH, ETHNICITY AND DIFFERENT CULTURE ORGANIZATIONS. UM, UH, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UH, THE NUMBER OF, UH, HOA ORGANIZATIONS. YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S MORE OR LESS, OBVIOUSLY, IT'S FOR THE, UH, INSIDE OF COMMUNICATIONS, WHETHER THAT GO OUT OF THE CITY AND THEN, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE THAT COMMUNICATION INSIDE AS WELL. UM, BUT ULTIMATELY TRYING TO BUILD NEW PARTNERSHIPS AND, AND, AND PASS THAT INFORMATION OUT. SO, UM, I KNOW WE, WE, I'VE BEEN TASKED TO TRY TO START THAT PROCESS SO WE CAN HAVE THAT AND THEN JUST USE IT FOR FUTURE PROJECTS AND JUST FOR FUTURE, UH, COMMUNICATIONS PROCESS. UM, UH, JUST SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I KIND OF PICKED UP WITH, UM, LOOKING AT, UH, THE PRESENTATION, UH, OVERALL, UM, WE WERE LOOKING AT, UM, HIGHLIGHTING, UH, DIFFERENT RESIDENT STORIES. UM, UH, I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE'VE USED THIS MONIKER A LOT IN HUBBERT HEIGHTS. EXCUSE ME, EXCUSE ME. UM, WE USE THIS MONIKER A LOT IN HUBBERT HEIGHTS, UH, YOU KNOW, COME GROW WITH US AND SAYING THAT HUBBERT HEIGHTS IS, UH, ONE OF THE MOST DIVERSE CITIES IN THE REGION. UM, SO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO REALLY USE THAT, UH, EFFORT OF DIVERSITY AND, AND, AND TRY TO TELL OTHER, OTHER COMMUNITIES, YOU KNOW, OUR STORIES, RIGHT? I MEAN, I WOULD SAY JUST WITH THE MEMBERS HERE TONIGHT, UM, I THINK WE'VE GOT COME FROM DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS AND, AND DIFFERENT WALKS OF LIFE. UM, AND WE CAN OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, WITH YOUR GUYS' SUPPORT, RIGHT? WE CAN KIND OF TELL THOSE STORIES AND, AND TRY TO INTRODUCE, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, MORE OF THE RESIDENTS OF HUBER HEIGHTS TO YOU ALL. UH, AND, AND YOU KNOW, I THINK WE'VE GOT MORE BOARDS WITHIN THE, THE CITY THAT WE CAN SHARE THOSE PEOPLE TOO, RIGHT? AND THEN WE CAN SPOTLIGHT DIFFERENT PEOPLE AS WE START TO BUILD THOSE RELATIONSHIPS WITH DIFFERENT ETHNICITIES AND DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS, UM, ORGANIZATIONS. SO, UM, THAT'S ONE ASPECT, UH, THAT ITECH, UH, TOOK OUT OF IT. UM, OTHER THAN THAT, UM, UH, OH YES. OTHER THAN THAT, I KNOW PRIOR TO THE MEETING STARTING, UM, WE SAID SOMETHING ABOUT, OR MS. HONECKER HAD SAID SOMETHING ABOUT THE IDEAL OF, UH, UH, UH, OF HAVING, UH, COMMUNITY GRANTS, UH, OR SOMETHING OF THAT SORT. SO, I, I WANNA SAY, IF IT'S NOT ALREADY ACTIVE, UH, I WANNA SAY IT SHOULD BE THE BEGINNING OF SEPTEMBER WHERE, UH, DIFFERENT, UH, COMMUN OR DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS, UH, CAN APPLY. AND I'M PARAPHRASING AS, AS, AS, AS MUCH AS I POSSIBLY CAN. BUT THE IDEA IS THAT THERE'S DOLLARS OUT THERE FOR DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS, UH, WHETHER MINORITY BASED, VETERAN BASED, WOMAN OWNED, UH, THAT THEY CAN COME AND TRY TO APPLY FOR THESE DOLLARS TO HELP OUT AND, AND, AND FUNDING THEIR, UH, BUSINESSES. SO THAT'S ONE ASPECT. AND THEN THE LAST ONE, UH, THAT I REMEMBER, UM, I WANT TO SAY IT'S, I DON'T WANNA SAY IT'S THIS CALENDAR YEAR, BUT I WANNA SAY IT'S NEXT HILL, YEAR 26. UM, I KNOW THAT THERE HAS BEEN IN WORKS, UM, A CIVIL, UH, CIVICS 1 0 1 TYPE, UH, CLASS FOR THE RESIDENTS. SO IT'S THE UNDERSTANDING THAT, UH, WE HAVE CITY STAFF AS WELL AS, UH, CITY [00:10:01] ELECTEDS. UM, THEY WOULD, UH, INVITE PEOPLE TO SIGN UP FOR THESE, UH, CLASSES. UH, I CAN'T EXACTLY REMEMBER THE LENGTH OF IT, BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, MR. UH, CHUCK JOSE, HE WOULD KNOW FOR THE CITY OF DAYTON THAT THEY HAVE NLI, IT WOULD KIND OF FUNCTION LIKE THAT, UH, WITHIN THE CITY OF HUBER HEIGHTS. SO, YOU KNOW, AS WHAT WE, AS WHAT I'VE GONE THROUGH AND WHAT I'VE TALKED TO, YOU KNOW, WITH JOHN, UM, I THINK WE'VE GOT SOME IDEAS AND SOME THINGS IN PLACE TO KIND OF MOVE IT FORWARD WITH WHAT RAMA'S, UH, PRESENTED TO US OVER THE LAST MONTH OR SO. SO I THINK WE'RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK, BUT ULTIMATELY, UM, I DON'T WANNA TAKE MY FOOT OFF THE GAS AND, AND TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE IN THE BEST SPOT TO KIND OF KEEP THIS, UH, WORK GOING IN THE FUTURE. SO, UM, ANYTHING ELSE THAT YOU GUYS THINK OF, WHETHER THAT BE TONIGHT OR OVER THE NEXT COUPLE WEEKS? I, I WANT TO HEAR IT AND JUST TRY TO SEE HOW WE CAN KIND OF, I LIKE TO SEE, UM, I WAS THINKING ALSO, ONE OF THE MENTIONS IN THIS, UM, PLAN IS LIKE INCLUSION CHAMPION. SO I LIKE TO SEE, UM, THIS, THE COMMISSION ALONG WITH THE CITY TO WORK ON SOMETHING WHERE PEOPLE CAN NOMINATE THOSE WHO ARE MAKING A, A DIFFERENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY AND HIGHLIGHT THEM. I KNOW WE SAID SHARE OUR STORIES, AND THAT'S SHARING YOUR STORIES ABOUT WHERE THEY'RE COMING FROM. BUT THESE COULD BE ANYBODY WHO DOESN'T HAVE TO BE FROM PARTICULAR CULTURE, BUT SOMEBODY WHO HAS TAKEN PRIDE IN THE COMMUNITY OF TRYING TO MAKE IT A WELCOMING, SUCH AS MASON OR JALINE, YOU KNOW, THE FOLKS THAT WE KNOW THAT HAVE DONE SOME WORK IN THE COMMUNITY, AND WE CAN CALL THEM, YOU KNOW, HUBER HEIGHTS INCLUSION CHAMPIONS, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THEY'VE HELPED MAKE THIS A WELCOMING, FRIENDLY YEP. COMMUNITY. I LIKE TO SEE US, UH, HAVING A PORTAL WHERE THEY CAN NOMINATE THROUGH OUR SOCIAL MEDIA SITES, THROUGH OUR WEBSITE OR WHATEVER. AND THEN THE COMMISSION WILL THEN, AS A COMMITTEE, WE'LL LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, NOMINATING THEM. AND THEN THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN HIGHLIGHT AS THE, AS PART OF A, A PROGRAM THAT THE C UH, THE SURE CULTURE DIVERSITY COMMISSION DOES. BECAUSE I THINK ONE OF THE ISSUES IS, UM, THAT WE GOT A LOT OF FEEDBACK WAS THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WE DO, AND SO, OR WHAT IS THIS, YOU KNOW? MM-HMM . SO I THINK IF WE CAN GET OUT THERE INTO THE COMMUNITY WITH THESE THINGS AND JUST, AND ALSO IT ENCOURAGES AND IT HIGHLIGHTS THE WORK, GREAT WORK THAT MM-HMM . OUR RESIDENTS ARE DOING. UM, AND LIKE I SAID, CONNECTING, ALSO BRINGING THOSE ORGANIZATIONS TO A MEETING TO DISCUSS SUCH AS, I WAS THINKING MAYBE THE FIRST ONE WOULD BE, UM, A REPRESENTATIVE FROM DIFFY SENSE OR WELCOME DAYTON, BECAUSE THEY DO ABROAD. YEAH. AND THAT'S A START. AND THEN, AND GET CONNECTING WITH THOSE GROUPS JUST TO SEE WHAT THEY DO. WE CAN LEARN WHAT THEY DO, AND THEY CAN LEARN WHAT WE DO, AND THEN WHAT CAN WE DO TO, TO WORK TOGETHER TO HELP BUILD THIS STUFF. SURE. AND I DON'T WANT TO MOVE TOO, UH, FAR INTO THE PROGRAM, BUT, RIGHT. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ABOUT TO HAVE THIS MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL. I MEAN, I KNOW WE GOT A, UH, UH, A SLEW OF, UH, DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS ON THAT, THAT KIND OF MEET THAT CRITERIA OF TRYING TO, UM, NETWORK WITH DIFFERENT CULTURES AND ETHNICITY GROUPS. UM, I MEAN, SO I MEAN, WE'VE GOT A, WE'VE GOT A PRETTY STACKED LIST AS OF NOW, SO, RIGHT. UM, I, I, I WOULD AGREE WITH YOU, UH, FULLHEARTEDLY ON THAT. SO THAT'S ALL I HAVE. I THINK THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT I THINK WE CAN WORK ON. I, IN THE IMMEDIATENESS, UM, THAT WAY WE CAN CONTINUE THE MOMENTUM, LIKE YOU SAID, OF THIS PLANE THAT'S GOING ON NOW, RATHER THAN JUST LETTING IT SIT FOR A WHILE. AND THEN WHEN YOU KNOW, AND LET IT SIT FOR A WHILE, IT'LL THEN BE SHELVED AND THEN NOT ADDRESSED, AND MIGHT AS WELL GET ALL OUR, OUR MONEY'S WORTH OF HAVING RAMA AND EVERYTHING HERE. AND SO MOVING FORWARD WITH SOME OF THE SUGGESTIONS THAT WE CAN DO THAT AREN'T, I WOULDN'T SAY THAT AREN'T LIKE EXTREME VOLUNTEER TIME WORTHY TYPE THINGS, SINCE EVERYBODY'S PRETTY, PRETTY TIED UP. SO, UM, BUT THOSE ARE JUST SOME OF THE SUGGESTIONS THAT I, THAT I SAW READING THE PLAN THAT I THINK WE CAN, UM, DO IMMEDIATELY AS A, AS A COMMISSION. I, I, AND I GOT ONE LAST THING, AND THIS IS JUST ME JUST, UM, TRYING TO FIND SOME THINGS TOO. AND, UM, MAYBE IT WAS, UH, WELL, MAYBE A COUPLE YEARS AGO. I HAVEN'T SEEN IT SINCE. UM, BUT THERE WAS A VIDEO THAT POPPED UP ON, UH, A YOUTUBE VIDEO FROM, UH, HUBERT HEIGHTS ON ONE OF THE NEWS CHANNELS. UM, I THOUGHT THIS WAS A, A PRETTY GOOD IDEA, UM, JUST WITH THE IDEA OF INFORMATION, RIGHT? BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT LANGUAGES, AND AGAIN, SO MANY DIFFERENT CULTURES WITHIN HUBER HEIGHTS, UM, RELATED TO THE INFORMATION FACTOR OF, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S AN EMERGENCY OR JUST, JUST TRYING TO GET PEOPLE TO COME OUT TO DO THINGS, RIGHT? UH, THE IDEA OF, YOU KNOW, SPANISH, YOU KNOW, SPANISH ONE PAGER ABOUT THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL FESTIVAL, RIGHT? [00:15:01] OR, YOU KNOW, OR, UH, IN A AFRICAN LANGUAGE, RIGHT? SOME THINGS OF THAT NATURE, RIGHT? TRYING TO, UH, ENTICE THE DIFFERENT CULTURES AROUND, UH, HUBER HEIGHTS, UH, TO, TO PICK UP A FLYER AND SEE THAT, OKAY, HEY, IT'S IN MY LANGUAGE AND I'M UNDERSTANDING THE, THE DATE, THE TIME, THE PLACE, AND WHAT'S HAPPENING. UH, AND, AND I GUESS THAT IDEA KIND OF LIKE FEELING LIKE YOU BELONG, RIGHT? BECAUSE THAT, I FEEL LIKE IT'S THAT EFFORT OF, UH, TRYING TO MAKE, UH, CONTACT, I GUESS, IS THAT, THAT, THAT STEP. ALL RIGHT. MAY I SPEAK ON A FEW POINTS? MM-HMM . WHILE WE'RE ALL HERE AND TOGETHER? WELL, MOST OF US, UM, SOME OF THESE THINGS ARE NOT NECESSARILY HOW I FEEL, BUT, UM, THEY MIGHT JUST BE BECAUSE I'M LOOKING AT EVERYTHING JUST KIND OF OUTSIDE THE BOX HERE. UM, SO I'M IN LIKE, ALMOST THE END OF MY THIRD YEAR HERE, AND THERE ARE TIMES WHEN I'M STILL MORE CONFUSED ABOUT THE PROCESS OF THINGS THAN I WAS THE DAY THAT I WALKED IN. SO ASSISTS DOING WEIRD THINGS. OKAY. I'M HEARING AN ECHO. ALL RIGHT. SO I THINK BEFORE WE DO ANYTHING, WE AS A COMMISSION ALL NEED TO HAVE A REALLY CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IS EXPECTED OF US AND WHAT OUR ROLES ARE, HOW MUCH TIME WE'RE WILLING TO GIVE OUTSIDE OF BEING HERE EVERY MONTH. UM, BECAUSE SOME OF THESE THINGS THAT WILL BE EXECUTED, I THINK WE WOULD WANT TO HAVE A PART IN TO DO MM-HMM . BUT IN DOING THAT, IT'S ALSO CHANGING THE SCOPE ON HOW THIS COMMISSION WAS ORIGINALLY FOUNDED. AND SO I THINK WE NEED TO ALL HAVE A GENERAL CONSENSUS GOING FORWARD. YOU KNOW, WE WANTED THIS SURVEY, IT'S DONE, HERE ARE THE GOOD OUTCOMES OF IT. THE CITY WAS VERY CLEAR IN WANTING US INVOLVED, BECAUSE THAT IS WHY WE'RE HERE. BUT AGAIN, WE HAVE TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE INITIAL IDEA OF WHY THIS COMMISSION WAS FOUNDED, AND, AND WE'RE, WE'RE BRIDGING INTO TWO DIFFERENT IDEAS NOW. DO YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? MM-HMM . SO I THINK WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND GOING FORWARD WHAT WE WANT THIS COMMISSION TO ACTUALLY REPRESENT AND DO, AND THAT WE'RE ALL OKAY WITH IT OR NOT. UM, I THINK WE ALL NEED TO BE ABLE TO SAY UPFRONT HOW MUCH TIME WE'RE WILLING TO DEDICATE TO EXTRA THINGS, BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S ONLY FAIR. BUT WITH THAT, I THINK THE CITY, IF IT'S THE CITY'S RESPONSIBILITY OR OURS, WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IN FACT WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR. SO WE KNOW, YOU KNOW, WHAT DOES THE CITY EXPECT FROM US? NOW, SOME OTHER MEMBERS MAY SAY THAT IT'S NOT THE CITY'S ROLE TO DO THAT. WE MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS AND THEN WE LEAVE IT AT THAT. BUT SOME OF US MIGHT SAY, NO, WE MAKE THE RECOMMENDATION, BUT WE CAN HELP EXECUTE. YOU KNOW, WE'RE NEVER ON THE SAME PAGE WITH THAT. AND I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE ARE, EITHER WAY, WHATEVER WE DECIDE, I THINK WE NEED TO BE ON, YOU KNOW, THE SAME PAGE. AND I THINK DISCUSSING THESE THINGS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE IF WE DON'T DISCUSS THINGS AND LAY THINGS OUT, WE'RE GONNA KEEP GOING ON THIS HAMSTER WHEEL. I FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN ON A HAMSTER WHEEL, AND I DON'T LIKE THE CONFUSION. I DON'T LIKE THE, THE NOT BEING CLEAR ON WHAT WE'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR, WHAT WE'RE NOT. I, I DON'T PERSONALLY, I DON'T LIKE THAT. I, I AGREE WITH YOU ON THAT, CHRISTIE, AS A FOUNDING MEMBER, UM, OF THE COMMISSION, I KNOW WHAT WE DISCUSSED WHEN WE PROPOSED THE COMMISSION AND WHAT WE WOULD LIKE, AND I THINK IT'S JUST BEEN LIKE, WE'VE BEEN BACK AND FORTH TALKING, AND I THINK, ERIC, YOU'VE BEEN ON THIS ALMOST SINCE THE START TOO, AND IT'S BEEN BACK AND FORTH AND BACK AND FORTH. THIS IS WHAT WE WANT. THIS IS WHAT WE DON'T WANT, THIS IS WHAT WE WANT, THIS IS WHAT WE DON'T WANT. AND I THINK, UM, I THINK THAT'S A WONDERFUL IDEA IS TO, UM, LET'S GET THAT CLARITY OF EXACTLY WHAT THE CITY'S EXPECTING OF US WHO DOES, YOU KNOW, LIKE YOU SAID, WHAT DO WE WANT AS A COMMISSION AS A WHOLE? WELL, I THINK YOU KNOW IT, WHAT IT COMES DOWN TO. IS IT JEFFREY? IS IT THE CITY THAT DETERMINES WHAT THE COMMISSION'S PURPOSE IS? SO WHEN YOU SAY, SO, I WOULDN'T SAY, OR I WOULDN'T SAY IT'S [00:20:01] THE CITY. SO IT'S, IT'S COUNCIL, RIGHT? 'CAUSE YOU GUYS ARE A, A COUNCIL APPOINTED BOARD COUNCIL. YEAH. SORRY. SO, RIGHT. AND, AND THAT'S PROBABLY THE COUNCIL. THAT'S WHAT I MEANT. THE COUNCIL. YEAH. SO, SO, RIGHT. SO IT'S THE COUNCIL, RIGHT? SO THE COUNCIL IS THE DRIVING FORCE, OR IS THE SUPPORT MECHANISM TO THE THINGS THAT YOU GUYS OR ULTIMATELY, UH, CAPABLE OF DOING, RIGHT? UM, AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT PERSONALLY MEANS FOR THE EIGHT OF YOU, RIGHT? IS THAT JUST LIKE, UH, SIT DOWN AGAIN? BECAUSE I MEAN, THERE HAS BEEN CHANGE SINCE 2020, RIGHT? ABOUT, OKAY, HEY, YOU KNOW, NEW FACES HERE, NEW FACES THERE, UM, HEY, YOU KNOW, LET'S, LET'S REALLY OPEN UP FOR THIS PROJECT, RIGHT? AND THE PROJECT, I'M SAYING WHAT CAME OUT OF THIS NEEDS ASSESSMENT, RIGHT? WE CAN REALLY HOPE FOR YOUR GUYS' DIRECTION ON WHAT WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT, WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING. AND IT'S HONESTLY, IN MY OPINION, I THINK IT'S AS STRAIGHTFORWARD AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN MAKE IT, RIGHT? UM, WE CAN COME UP WITH SOME IDEAS THAT THE CO, UH, THE COMMISSION WOULD WANT TO DO. UM, I CAN PASS THAT TO TONY. TONY CAN SAY, YOU KNOW, PASS THAT TO COUNCIL. IF A SIT DOWN IS NEEDED, I WILL TRY MY HARDEST TO ORCHESTRATE THAT. BUT THEN IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, JUST USING OUR WORDS AND JUST TRYING TO SH SAY, HEY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE ARE IN THE SAME POSITION OF WHAT YOU GUYS ARE WANTING US TO DO. RIGHT? ADVISE, SUPPORT, EDUCATE, UH, UH, THE MEANS OF DIVERSITY WITHIN YOUR MINDS, RIGHT? AND I MEAN, THAT'S, THAT'S JUST LITTERED WITH, WITHIN THE LEGISLATION, RIGHT? SO IT'S, HEY, HOW DO YOU, HOW DO YOU HELP US HELP YOU EXECUTE THE LANGUAGE THAT YOU ARE ASKING US TO DO? RIGHT? SO, I MEAN, THAT'S, THAT'S MY ONLY OPTION THAT I CAN FEEL LIKE WE, WE, WE, BECAUSE I MEAN, I'M, I'M GONNA HELP YOU GUYS ALONG THE WAY, BUT IT'S LIKE, HOW DO YOU, HOW DO WE DO THAT? OR HOW DO YOU GUYS KIND OF MAKE THAT FIRST STEP TO SAY, OKAY, HEY, WE ARE AS SERIOUS AS WE POSSIBLY CAN BE. YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S NOT THE IDEA OF A BLAME GAME OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE, WE, WE LITERALLY HAVE SOMETHING. NOW LET'S, LET'S, LET'S SIT DOWN AND LET'S, LET'S TRY TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO. RIGHT? WELL, AND I HAVE A FEELING MM-HMM . THAT THESE IDEAS THAT WERE SPURNED FROM THE SURVEY WILL GENERATE MORE IDEAS. AND, YOU KNOW, FOR US TO FULFILL, I THINK OUR MISSIONS MM-HMM . AS MEMBERS OF THIS COMMISSION, AGAIN, WE HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE HOW MUCH TIME WE'RE WILLING TO DEDICATE TO GET THINGS DONE. AND THAT'S IMPORTANT TOO. UM, BUT I DON'T WANT US TO GET TO A POINT WHERE WE'RE PICKING AND CHOOSING BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IN ONE THING, BUT WE DON'T BELIEVE IN ANOTHER. YEAH. I MEAN, THIS IS WHERE, YOU KNOW, WE, WE'VE SPENT MANY HOURS HERE AS YOU'VE HEARD, , YOU KNOW, JUST DEBATING AND ARGUING. AND YOU KNOW, WHAT IT ALL COMES DOWN TO IS, IS WHAT IS OUR 2025, YOU KNOW, MISSION, YOU KNOW, AS A COMMISSION, WHAT I, I JUST FEEL LIKE THESE THINGS WILL START TO GO TO THE WAYSIDE MM-HMM . AND THE CITY WILL SAY, WELL, WE'RE DOING THINGS, BUT WE'VE NOT HEARD ANYTHING FROM THE COMMISSION. SURE. AND THAT'S GONNA MAKE US LOOK REALLY, REALLY BAD. RIGHT? SO WE'RE GONNA NEED ALL OF US TO BE REALLY ON POINT WITH DEDICATING, STEPPING UP, TAKING CHARGE, DOING THINGS CON YOU KNOW, COMMUNICATION. I, YOU KNOW, I, IT, I, ARE WE WILLING TO GO BEYOND JUST MEETING THIS ONCE A MONTH FOR A COUPLE HOURS, OR SENDING A TEXT THAT GOES BY FOR A COUPLE DAY? YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? I MEAN, I FEEL LIKE THIS IS GONNA CAUSE US TO REALLY CHANGE HOW WE'RE OPERATING INTERNALLY AS A COMMISSION. AND IF YOU DON'T MIND, RIGHT. LET ME ADD ONTO THAT. RIGHT? I MEAN, THESE ARE THESE, CHRISTIE, I THINK YOU'RE A HUNDRED PERCENT CORRECT, RIGHT? UM, THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I TRIED MY HARDEST TO SPEAR S**T FEELS LIKE A YEAR AGO. UM, JUST THE CONVERSATION, RIGHT? WHETHER, YOU KNOW, IT'S ONE MEETING OR ONE NIGHT OUTSIDE OF A MEETING, AND WE ARE JUST TALKING, RIGHT? WE'RE BRAINSTORMING, WE'RE ALL ADULTS. WE JUST, LIKE YOU SAID, RIGHT? WE FIGURE OUT WHO'S GOT THE FLEXIBILITY TO, RIGHT. BUT THERE'S NINE OF US, RIGHT? IF YOU COUNT MYSELF, RIGHT. AND THEN WE JUST TRY TO PICK LIKE, WE, WE, WE SUPPORT EACH OTHER RIGHT? WHEN WE CAN, RIGHT? YEAH. IF X OR SO AND SO CAN'T MAKE IT FOR AN EVENT, YOU KNOW, WE JUST TRY TO FIND A WAY TO TRY TO HELP SUPPORT, RIGHT? YEAH. I, I, I THINK THERE ARE MEANS TO DO THAT. AND I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT OF JUST REALLY TRYING TO GAUGE WHERE WE ARE WITHIN [00:25:01] OUR, YOU KNOW, IN OURSELVES AND IN OUR SCHEDULES, AND THEN ULTIMATELY, RIGHT, TRY TO FIGURE OUT, OKAY, HEY, IF WE CAN COME UP WITH ONE IDEA THAT, OR A COUPLE IDEAS THAT KIND OF LIKE SET US ON A PATH THAT, YOU KNOW, ULTIMATELY YOU GUYS CAN AGREE UPON, AND COUNCIL OBVIOUSLY LOVES THE SUPPORTS. I THINK THAT JUST HELPS OUT THE, THE IDEA OF MORE NOTORIETY, UH, WHETHER THAT'S OBVIOUSLY, IF THAT'S WITHIN THE COMMUNITY AND THEN ULTIMATELY OUTSIDE THE REGION. SO OTHER MUNICIPALITIES GO AND SAY, OH, WOW, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, WOW, YOU KNOW, HUBER HEIGHTS HAS REALLY GOT, YOU KNOW, THEIR STUFF, UH, UH, WORKING OVER THERE. AND I THINK IT'S ALL THANKS TO, YOU KNOW, THE MULTICULTURAL, UH, OR MULTICULTURAL, THE CULTURAL DIVERSITY COMMISSION, RIGHT? SO, I MEAN, I MEAN, THERE'S, THERE'S THAT, THERE'S THAT WAY, THERE'S THE, THERE'S THE ABILITY TO MAKE THOSE THINGS KINDA HAPPEN. AND I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT WHEN, WHEN YOU SAY THOSE THINGS, SO I'M, I'M GAME, I THINK IT'S JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO TO, TO MAKE IT HAPPEN? YEAH. SO I I, I SUGGEST AT OUR NEXT MEETING THAT WE AS A GROUP PUT ON THE AGENDA, THIS DISCUSSION WITH EVERYBODY HERE OF EXACTLY WHAT IS EVERYBODY WANTING, AND MAKE THAT A, A TOP AGENDA ITEM BECAUSE WE CAN'T REALLY, LIKE YOU SAID, WE, WE NEED TO KNOW THAT TO REALLY CLARIFY FOR US MOVING ON TO SOME OF THESE OTHER THINGS. YEAH. AND, AND, AND WE'VE BEEN, WE'VE, I MEAN, WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT DOING THIS, BUT WE'VE NOT LIKE SET IT. SO I THINK AT OUR SEPTEMBER MEETING, IT NEEDS TO BE ON THE AGENDA THAT WE ARE, AND I, AND, AND SO IT'S NOT A RUNAWAY TRAIN. LIKE I WOULD MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S A TIME LIMIT, RIGHT? LIKE IF IT'S THE, IF IT'S GONNA BE THE FIRST THING, LET IT BE THE FIRST THING, BUT SET A TIME LIMIT. SO IT'S EVERYONE AIRING OUT WHAT THEY NEED IN A TIMELY MANNER. AND, AND EVERYONE GETS TO SAY WHAT THEY NEED TO SAY, AND WE CAN JUST, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY START THE PROCESS OF WHAT WE NEED TO DO, UH, I GUESS MOVING FORWARD. BECAUSE BY THAT POINT, WE'RE GOING INTO 26, RIGHT? SO WE'RE FOCUSING ON WHAT WE CAN DO AT THE END OF THIS YEAR, AND THEN ULTIMATELY WHAT WE'RE DOING IN 26TH, RIGHT? DO WE NEED TO MAKE A MOTION? UH, NO. WE CAN JUST PUT, JUST PUT IT ON THE AGENDA MOTION. WE JUST NEED TO SEND THAT OUT. YEAH. BUT I THINK WHAT WOULD BE GOOD IS BE SENDING OUT EARLY, LET'S SEND OUT WHAT THE LEGISLATION IS FOR THE COMMISSION. YEP. BECAUSE THE IDEALS THAT YOU BRING UP NEED TO SUPPORT THAT. IT CAN'T BE SOMETHING OUTSIDE OF THAT, EVEN THOUGH THAT'S MAYBE WHAT WE WANT, OR THAT SEEMS NICE, BUT THIS IS THE LEGISLATION THAT WE HAVE MM-HMM . RIGHT? AND THE THINGS NEED TO SUPPORT THAT LEGISLATION. AND I WOULD EVEN SEND THAT OUT. EVERYBODY GET A CHANCE TO PUT THEIR THOUGHTS TOGETHER, THEIR WHATNOT, WHAT HAVE YOU SEND THAT BACK. AND THEN NOW TO YOUR POINT, WE CAN LAY OUT WHAT WE CAN DO IN 2026. RIGHT? RIGHT. AND IT'S NOT A MATTER OF, WELL, WE'RE NOT GONNA SUPPORT THAT. WE'RE NOT GONNA SUPPORT THIS, BUT THESE ARE THE THINGS WE LAID ASIDE FOR 2026. MAYBE THAT'S A 20, 27, 20 28 ITEM. BUT THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH AND DO IN 2026. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? MM-HMM . AND I, AND I CAN, I CAN PRINT EVERYONE A COPY AND I CAN, LIKE, I COULD PRINT YOU GUYS A COPY BEFORE YOU GUYS LEAVE TONIGHT. AND THEN IF YOU WANT ME TO ALSO EMAIL IT TO PUT THAT YEAH. AND I CAN DO THAT TOO. UM, I'VE KIND OF BRIEFLY LOOKED AT IT, AND IN MY OPINION, IT LOOKS VERY, UM, HOW DO I WANNA SAY THIS? IT LOOKS VERY BROAD. I THINK WE INTENTIONALLY MADE IT, MADE IT SO, BECAUSE IT'S EVER CHANGING. SO, SO, YEAH. SO IT'S, I MEAN, I MEAN, ANYTHING COULD KIND OF KIND OF BE PASSED DOWN. I GUESS IT'S FROM EVERYBODY ON THE COMMISSION. OKAY. HEY, WHOSE IDEAL, HEY, EVERYONE, SPIT OUT IDEAS TO WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. AND THEN IT'S, IF WE LIKE THAT AND WE VOTE ON IT, AND THEN WE JUST KIND OF FOCUS, HEY, THIS IS WHAT OUR, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO, AND LET'S, PLEASE DON'T FORGET THE POINT OF CLARITY WHERE WE NEED TO, YOU KNOW, IF, IF WE MAKE A RECOMME RECOMMENDATION TO THE COUNCIL AND THEY WANT TO DO IT MM-HMM . YOU KNOW, WE NEED, WE NEED TO ALL UNDERSTAND AND KNOW WHAT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITIES, HOW FAR DO WE SEE THROUGH? OR WHAT IS THE, YOU KNOW, AND AGAIN, THAT TIES INTO WHAT DOES THE, THE COUNCIL EXPECT US TO DO? WHAT DO WE HAVE THE POWER TO DO? SURE. THAT KIND OF THING. SURE. I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT TOO. 'CAUSE AGAIN, IN THE LAST YEAR, THERE HAVE BEEN MANY TIMES WHEN, WELL, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? YOU KNOW WHERE I'M GOING. I, I THINK, OR ANYTHING I YEAH. I, I MEAN, SURE. RIGHT. AND, AND I THINK [00:30:01] THE, THE THING THAT POPS IN MY MIND RIGHT, IS WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL, RIGHT? I MEAN, THAT WAS LIKE ONE OF THE BIG THINGS OF LIKE, WHAT THIS COMMISSION COULD DO, BUT ULTIMATELY THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO SO. YES. LIKE, I UNDERSTAND COMPLETELY, AND I DON'T WANT THERE TO BE ANY CONFUSION. AND I KNOW, I, I KNOW IT CAN BE KIND OF STRESSFUL AND IT CAN BE KIND OF LIKE DAUNTING WHEN, HEY, I THOUGHT I COULD DO THIS, BUT I WILL, I WILL WORK WITH TONY AND JUST TRY TO GET THAT FEEDBACK OF WHAT, WHAT IT IS THAT YOU GUYS CAN AND, AND CAN'T DO, AND WHAT YOU GUYS NEED TO ULTIMATELY BE RESPONSIBLE FOR. WHICH AGAIN, MEANS THAT WE'RE RELYING ON YOU MM-HMM . AS OUR LIAISON. YEAH. AND NO, THIS IS NOT A, A SLAP OR ANYTHING, YOU KNOW, TO, TO SARAH BEFORE YOU, BUT YOU'RE DEFINITELY MORE HANDS ON AND INVOLVED, I THINK. AND WE'RE, YOU KNOW, ARE MUCH MORE WILLING TO SAY, NO, YOU GUYS CAN'T DO THAT, BUT, BUT I CAN ASK FOR IT. THAT KIND OF A THING. I THINK, THOUGH, I DON'T, YOU KNOW, AND, AND AGAIN, THAT'S WHERE MAYBE SOME OF THE CONFUSION COMES IN. SURE. AND I DON'T KNOW THAT I'M THE, MAYBE I'M THE ONLY ONE THAT'S CONFUSED, , I DON'T KNOW. BUT, UM, AGAIN, I JUST THINK SOME, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING CLARIFICATIONS CLARIFICATION YEAH. ON PROCESSES, HOW THINGS WORK, HOW YOU EXPECT THINGS TO WORK, HOW THE COUNT YES. YOU KNOW? YEP. I, I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND. I GOTCHA. OKAY. OKAY. ALRIGHT. I DON'T MEAN TO TAKE UP TOO MUCH TIME, SORRY. NO, YOU'RE GOOD. WE'RE GOOD. MIGHT BE IN THE BUSINESS. YEAH. KIND OF JUMPED AROUND ON THAT ONE. IT'S OKAY. UH, NEXT ORDER OF BUSINESS IS THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL. I DON'T KNOW WHO'S GONNA GIVE THE . UH, JEFFREY, DO WE HAVE A, UH, A PRINTOUT SHEET FOR THE WINDOWS? DID YOU CUT? UH, WE HAVE IT WITH YOU. NO, IT'S BEEN A, IT'S BEEN A LONG WEEK, GUYS. . SO, I'M SORRY, BYRON. I, I, I DID TELL BYRON THAT I WAS GOING TO KIND OF DO A PRINTOUT OF WHERE WE KIND OF ARE WITH THIS. AND I DID NOT PUT UP ANYTHING ON THE, ON THE, UH, COMPUTER SCREEN. SO FORGIVE ME FOR THAT. UM, SO, BUT IF, IF THIS IS HOW, BASICALLY I CAN TRY TO DO THIS UPDATE WITH MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL, UM, AT LEAST, UM, AND, AND TO BYRON'S POINT, UM, I'LL, I'LL DO MY BEST EITHER TOMORROW, UM, TO KIND OF GIVE YOU GUYS THAT INFORMATION, UM, DIGITALLY, UM, OR IF IT'S NOT TOMORROW, IT'S SOMETIME EARLY NEXT WEEK TO KIND OF GIVE YOU GUYS THAT STUFF. OKAY. UM, I THINK, UH, I REMEMBER MOST OF THEM. OKAY. AND I WILL GO OVER YEAH. AND IF YOU, IF YOU MISS ANYTHING, I'LL, I'LL, I'LL TRY TO PRONOUNCE. YES. UM, AS A DANCING PERFORMANCE INC. PERFORMANCES, WE HAVE, UH, COUNTRIES LIKE TURKEY, PHILIPPINES, GUAM, LEBANESE, SUDAN, MEXICO, AND PACO, PA UH, PUERTO RICAN. MM-HMM . SO AS OF RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 GROUPS. AND WE ARE ALSO THINKING, UM, IN THE TASK GROUP WITH IBRAHIM, MISS MIA, JEFFREY AND, UM, MOLLY. MOLLY, UM, TO CALL A, UH, THAT BAND CALLED, UH, WHAT WAS CALLED MISS MIA DAYTON SALSA PROJECT. DAYTON SALSA PROJECT. OKAY. AND, UH, TODAY, UH, OUR, UH, LAST YEAR, OUR LAST YEAR PERFORMANCES FROM AFRICAN I REGIME THEY CONTACTED WITH YOU. YEAH. UH, FROM LAST YEAR. AND ALSO WE HAVE THEM. SO AS OF RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE, UH, TIMING, A MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL STARTS AT 11. AND SO BASICALLY WE ARE GONNA WRAP UP AT, UH, 6:00 PM SO WE HAVE ABOUT SEVEN HOURS. AND, UM, I WILL EMAIL YOU TOMORROW WITH A CONFIRMATION ON THE FRENCH CANCAN DANCERS. CANCAN DANCERS. OKAY. IF CAN, IF THEY CAN PERFORM OR NOT. I'VE NOT HEARD BACK FROM THEM, BUT I WILL ASK THEM TOMORROW. 'CAUSE IT'S THE SAME GROUP THAT'S DOING LEBANESE DANCE. MM-HMM . IS ALSO CONNECTED WITH THE FRENCH CANCAN ANSWERS. OKAY. AND, UM, AS OF RIGHT NOW, WE ARE, UH, WE HAVE LIKE, UH, HOW MANY SEVEN DANCING GROUPS, AND IF YOU GONNA ADD THE, [00:35:01] UH, DATA SALSA, UH, PROJECT AND CANCAN AND, UM, UH, THAT, UH, LAST YEAR, OUR PERFORMANCES FROM AFRICAN, UH, THAT THEY ARE ALSO, UH, BANNER, UH, THEY'RE BANNED. THEY'RE ALSO BANNED WITH, UH, THEY HAVE SOME, UH, UH, DANCERS WITH THEM. SO IT'S GONNA BE, UH, 10 MM-HMM . AND I THINK, UH, THERE WILL BE ENOUGH. RIGHT. AND IN, IN, IN PACKED. SO I'M THINKING WHEN IT'S GONNA BE OPENING, LIKE, UH, WOULD ALL OF US GO ON THE STAGE AND, YOU KNOW, WARMLY WELCOME EVERYBODY SAYING HELLO, THANK YOU FOR COMING, YOU KNOW, THIS AND THAT. ALSO DIVERSITY CITIZEN COMMISSION, YOU KNOW, WARMLY WELCOME EVERYBODY. AND, UM, AND START PERFORMANCES. I WAS THINKING, UH, 30 MINUTES BETWEEN PERFORMANCES AND THE BANNERS, LIKE ONE HOUR. SO THAT'S GONNA GIVE US A FULL SEVEN HOURS MM-HMM . UH, LIKE ENTERTAINMENT. ENTERTAINMENT. AND, UM, AS LONG AS, UH, WE, WE GONNA GO MOVE TO OUR FOOD TRUCKS, UM, I HAVE TURKEY, PHILIPPINES, AND MEXICO, UH, AND I DON'T KNOW IF, UH, I'M MISSING COUPLE OF THEM FOR FOOD TRUCKS, FOR FOOD WINDOWS, UH, FOR RETAIL MERCHANDISE AND, AND INFORMATION HISTORICAL TABLES. WE HAVE, UH, TURKEY, PHILIPPINES, GUAM, MEXICO, UH, AND THEN WE ARE GONNA HAVE, UM, I THINK JEFFREY SAID THE DAYTON HISPANIC CHAMBER COMMERCE DAYTON, UH, HISPANIC CHAMBER COM COMMERCE. AND WE GONNA HAVE, UM, LIKE A AND, UM, WE GONNA HAVE, UM, UKRAINIAN AND WE GONNA HAVE A COUPLE MORE. I, I CAN'T REMEMBER RIGHT NOW. AND, UH, WE WILL HAVE ALSO, WE WILL HAVE ALSO, UH, THAT, UH, IBRAHIM, UH, ARRANGE, UH, FOR, UM, JUNETEENTH FESTIVAL, UH, THAT, UH, BOUNCING HOUSES FOR THE KIDS. RIGHT. WE ARE THINKING TO GET, UH, BOTH OF THEM, ONE OF THEM, UH, FOR LITTLE KIDS, LET'S SAY FROM ONE YEARS OLD TO FIVE YEARS OLD. SO THAT WAY THAT'S MORE SAFETY. NO ONE IS GONNA BE ON SOMEONE JUMPING. AND SECOND ONE FROM FIVE YEARS OLD GOES UP. AND OF COURSE, SAME PEOPLE FROM JUNETEENTH. JUNETEENTH. YEAH. WE HAVE EXTRA SUPERVISION ON THAT. I KNOW. , YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW WHERE I'M GOING. OKAY. I WAS GIVING YOU A LITTLE OH BOY. WAS JUST WALKING AROUND ENJOYING. OH, YEAH. OKAY. WHICH IS GREAT. BUT YEAH. AND, AND IF YOU GONNA HAVE, AND WE GONNA HAVE, UH, JEFFREY WAS, UH, TALKING ABOUT, WE HAD A, A TASK GROUP, UH, YESTERDAY. AND, UH, JEFFREY WAS, UH, GOING TO GET, UM, FINAL COATS FOR, UM, THE BALLS, RIGHT? THE BALLOON, YOU KNOW, MAKING SOME, YOU KNOW, ANIMALS, FLOWERS, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING WITH BALLOONS AND PLUS FACE PAINTING. HE TOLD ME FOR FACE PAINTING FROM, UH, IT WAS ABOUT AROUND $300, TWO 70 TO TWO 70. OH, IT'S RIGHT HERE, ACTUALLY. YEAH. TWO 70. AND THEN, UH, WHAT IS IT? THIS IS A GAME TRUCK. GAME TRUCK, YEAH. GAME TRUCK WAS GAME. YEAH. AND THEN GOING TO PLAY GAME. AND THEN HE REACHED OUT TO ME YESTERDAY. I TALKED TO HIM YESTERDAY. UM, I'M GONNA REACH OUT TO SOME OF THE ORGANIZATIONS TO SEE IF THEY, ARE WE WILLING TO DO FAMILY, NOT JUST FOR KIDS, BUT FOR ADULTS TOO, FAMILY, UH, CULTURAL GAMES, IF THEY WOULD BE WILLING TO HAVE AN AREA TO WHERE THEY CAN REPRESENT THEIR CULTURE AND DO A GAME WHERE WE'RE NOT ASKING THEM TO DO A TABLE OR FOOD OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. IT MIGHT, THEY MIGHT BE MORE WILLING TO COME OUT AND SAY, UM, AND I, I DON'T KNOW, GAMES, LIKE, I DON'T KNOW ANY KOREAN GAMES, BUT, YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE IF DIFFERENT CULTURES HAVE DIFFERENT GAMES THAT THEY PLAY UNDER THE VIETNAMESE GROUP, THEY DO DIFFERENT TYPE OF GAMES IF THEY BE WILLING TO COME OUT AND TEACH, YOU KNOW, AND SHOW THE GROUPS. THAT WAY WE CAN HAVE SOME CULTURAL GAMES AS WELL. HE ASKED IF, UM, IF I, IF I KNEW ANYBODY. SO I'M GOING TO SEND OUT SOME EMAILS THIS WEEKEND TO SEE IF I CAN GET ANYBODY. AND THEN I THINK, UM, WE HAVE AN AREA THERE. I'LL GET SOME CULTURAL, LIKE, COLORING SHEETS, AND THAT HAS LIKE LITTLE TIPS, YOU KNOW, CULTURAL FACTS. I THINK THAT WAY, THE, THAT WAY THEY CAN ALSO LEAD WITH SOME EDUCATIONAL PART [00:40:01] AS WELL. YES, SIR. THIS IS WHAT THE, ALL THIS IS FOR ALL THE QUOTES. UH, NO, NOT ALL THE QUOTES. THANK YOU. UM, I KNOW I'VE BEEN RUNNING IN AND OUT. UM, I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHERE WE LEFT OFF AT. I THINK IT WAS MORE OR LESS VENDORS, RETAIL VENDORS AND FOOD VENDORS. UM, I'LL JUST KIND OF REPEAT MAYBE SOME STUFF THAT BYRON SAID. UM, LAST TIME I LOOKED AT IT, AND THE LAST TIME I TALKED TO MOLLY, UH, I THINK THAT WAS TUESDAY. UM, I THINK WE HAD MAYBE FIVE OR SIX FOOD TRUCK VENDORS, BUT CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, UM, AS OF AS OF RIGHT NOW, UH, THAT I CAN, UH, RE I CAN REMEMBER TURKEY, FILIPINOS AND MEXICO. TURKEY, FILIPINOS AND MEXICO. FOR, FOR FOOD TRUCK. FOR FOOD TRUCKS. YEAH. OKAY. UM, AND THEN OUTSIDE OF THAT RETAIL VENDORS, I THINK WE HAD 11. YEAH. RETAILS VENDORS. WE HAVE, UM, EH, ABOUT, ABOUT THAT MUCH. YEAH. YEAH. AND SAME, SAME THING WITH, UH, TURKEY, PHILIPPINE, GUAM, UH, LEBANESE, UH, MEXICO. AND, UH, WE GONNA HAVE UKRAINE. MM-HMM . WE GONNA HAVE, UH, UH, LAVIA. YEP. YEAH. AND A COUPLE MORE, UH, FOR A VENDOR, UH, FOR A HISTORICAL. NOW, I DON'T, DID YOU EVER TALK TO DESIRE YET? DID YOU HAVE THAT DESIRE? DID YOU EVER TALK TO DESIRE? DESIRE? UH, I TALKED TO HIM. I MEAN, NO. OKAY. HE DIDN'T GET BACK TO ME. HE DIDN'T TO GET BACK. OKAY. YEAH. HE DIDN'T GET BACK TO ME. UH, I FOLLOW UP WITH HIM, UH, TODAY AS WELL. OKAY. AND HE DIDN'T GET BACK TO ME. BUT, UH, WITH THE, UH, DANCING, UH, GROUP, UH, JEFFREY MM-HMM . HE WAS RUNNING HERE AND THERE. WE HAVE ABOUT, UH, SEVEN RIGHT NOW. OKAY. DANCING GROUPS WITHOUT OF ANY BANDS. WITHOUT ANY BANDS. YEAH. OKAY. AND IF YOU GONNA, IF YOU'RE GONNA DECIDE TO HIRE ANY BAND THAT WILL BE, UH, JUST ONE, I THINK JUST ONE WILL BE ENOUGH OKAY. WITH THE SEVEN, UH, DANCING GROUPS IN ONE, UH, BAND. OKAY. SO, UM, THE FIRST PIECE OF PAPER THAT I GAVE YOU GUYS YEAH. THAT DATA ANDAL PROJECT. YEAH. SO AS OF RIGHT NOW, I THINK THE CONSENSUS WAS FROM THE PLANNING GROUP THAT WE WOULD GO AHEAD AND BOOK, UM, THE DAYTON SOLSA PROJECT. UM, MY COMMUNICATIONS WITH THEM WAS THAT THEY, UH, WOULD HAVE TO BE DONE BY 2:00 PM. UM, SO JUST WORKING WITH HOW WE WOULD KINDA, UH, UH, PUT THEM ON THE PROGRAM. UM, I THINK I PUT IT THERE. THIS IS WHAT THEY TELL ME, THE DETAILS OF HOW THEY CAN PERFORM, UH, TWO 50 MINUTE SETS, UH, WITH A 20 MINUTE BREAK OR ONE WHOLE SET FOR AN HOUR, 40 MINUTES. UM, THAT IS HOW FROM, FROM, FROM, I GUESS THE AGENDA THAT I GAVE. YEAH. YEAH. OKAY. THAT'S HOW THEY CAN PERFORM. AND ALSO, AND ALSO, UM, UH, WE ARE THINKING TO DO A LITTLE BIT, UH, SPORT THING. WE HAVE A, I KNOW, UM, WORLD AM WRESTLING CHAMPION, LIKE SIX TIMES WORLD I WRESTLING CHAMPION. I CAN, I DID, UH, TALK TO HIM, UH, TODAY, AND I OFFERED HIM TO COME ON THE STAGE. WE HAVE A AT THE TABLE FOR AM WRESTLING TABLE, AND WE CAN CALL, UH, EVERYBODY AND SAYING, WHO WANTS TO DO HONEST LINK? AND YOU CAN HOLD HIS HAND FOR THREE SECONDS OR FOUR SECONDS YOU WANNA GET UP. THAT'LL BE ALL YOU GUYS. RIGHT. , . I MEAN, IF YOU BELIEVING IN YOURSELF, MISS CHRISTIE, YOU CAN MORE THAN WELCOME, YOU KNOW? AND, UH, ALSO, SO IF THE WINNER GONNA HOLD HIS HAND FOR THREE SECONDS OR FOUR SECONDS WHEN I GET A PRESENT. AND ALSO THERE IS, UM, UH, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU FAMILIAR, IF YOU KNOW THIS GUY HE'S DOING, UH, WHAT'S HIS NAME? I IT'S A, NO, BB FAL. YEAH. NO. WHAT'S HIS COMPANY NAME? ICE SMOOTHIE. ICE SMOOTHIE. FIT. FIT, YEAH. YEAH. HE IS, UH, HE'S DOING, UH, UH, SMOOTHIE SOME, UH, PROTEIN STUFF. AND HE HEALTHY, UH, PROTEIN AND, AND SMOOTHIES FOR, YOU KNOW, BODYBUILDERS FOR, UH, SPORTMAN PEOPLE. MM-HMM . AND WE TALKED TO HIM, BROUGHT HIM, TALKED TO HIM AND OFFER HIM THIS IDEA. AND, UH, HE GOT, UH, VERY EXCITED AND HE'S WILLING TO COME AND, UH, GIVE THE, UH, PRESENCE FOR THE WINNERS THAT, UH, GONNA DO ARM WRESTLING WITH THE [00:45:01] CHAMPION. OH. SO WE ARE NOT GONNA SPEND ANY MONEY OR ANYTHING, BUT WE GONNA, UH, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GONNA REPRESENT THEIR SELF. THEY'RE GONNA MARKETING THEIR SELF AND, UH, MAKE THE HAPPY AND WE CAN ACKNOWLEDGE THEM COMING. EXACTLY. SO WE CAN, UH, DO 30 MINUTES ON THAT. AND THIS, UH, THEY PLUS A PROJECT, UH, ONE HOUR, 40 MINUTES MM-HMM . AND, UH, WITH OTHER DANCING GROUPS WILL BE PACKED ALL THROUGHOUT THE YEAH. YOU KNOW, UM, FOR FOOD TRUCK. I KNOW YOU SAID WE GOT THOSE THREE. WE HAVE THREE. DO WE HAVE ANY WAY OF GETTING LIKE AN AMERICAN FOOD TRUCK LIKE THAT DOES? 'CAUSE I'M, I KNOW WE'VE GOT MEXICAN FILIPINO. I'M EXCITED TO TRY ALL THE THREE. YEAH. BUT I MEAN, I THINK, UM, BUT SOMETHING FOR PEOPLE WHO AREN'T AS DARING TO TRY DIFFERENT THING, DO WE, SO I KNOW THAT THEY'RE DOING THE, WHAT WAS IT, THE FOOD TRUCK RALLY? IS THAT AT THE ROSE? I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE SOME BITES AND THE HEIGHTS. YEAH. OH, THAT'S WHAT IT WAS. BITES AND HEIGHTS. YES. SO I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHO HAS THAT LIST OF ALL THE VENDORS AND OBVIOUSLY ASK VENDORS LIKE, HEY, WHY NOT COME BACK TO HUBER HEIGHTS ON ANOTHER WEEKEND? RIGHT. SO, YES, THAT'S MY INTENTION TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT JUST OBVIOUSLY MORE AND THEN MORE AMERICANIZED FOOD TRUCKS. RIGHT. AND IS, UM, YES. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE STILL? YES. MY UNDERSTANDING MASON WILL BE THERE, UH, IN HIS CAPACITY, UH, AS A CHAMBER. UM, I KNOW, JUST SPEAKING, LET ME JUST KIND OF DO THE RUNDOWN OVER THE LAST COUPLE WEEKS OF MYSELF. FOR ALL THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW, UM, I REACHED OUT TO THE DAYTON HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. I MET MISS, UH, MENENDEZ, WHO'S THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, UH, WITH THEM AS WELL AS THE PRESIDENT. UH, JALENE, UH, GOMEZ. UM, PRETTY GOOD CONVERSATION. UM, OBVIOUSLY WE REALLY WANT TO FOCUS ON THE HISPANIC CULTURE, UM, OR HISPANIC, UH, POPULATION IN HUBER HEIGHTS. UM, AND, AND OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, THEY SAID THAT THEY WERE GAME AND, AND WANTED TO SUPPORT AS, UH, THE CHAMBER. UM, BUT THEN, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE QUESTION THAT I ASKED JALINE WAS, HEY, IF YOU KNOW OF ANY FOOD VENDORS, UH, UH, WITH A HISPANIC BACKGROUND, HEY, WE'D MORE THAN, YOU KNOW, WELCOME THEM TO THE FESTIVAL. UM, SHE WAS KIND OF HESITANT JUST WITH THE CLIMATE OF WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW, UM, AND HOW THEY'VE BEEN DOING EVENTS. UM, SHE SAID THAT SHE WOULD OBVIOUSLY ASK, BUT NOTHING IS GIVEN, UM, JUST TO WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW. UM, OUTSIDE OF THAT, UM, UH, I MET WITH CINDY, I WANNA SAY HER LAST NAME IS FROTH. I KNOW SHE'S A COMMUNITY REP FOR MCDONALD'S. THE, UM, FRANCHISES, THE ONE I KNOW UP ON, UM, BRENT PIKE, AND THEN THE OTHER ONE ON MARILYN WAY. OH, THE SCOTT FAMILY. YES. YES. CORRECT. UM, THEY HAVE AN INTENTION TO BE AT THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL, UM, MORE OR LESS TRYING TO CONNECT WITH THE HISPANIC POPULATION AS WELL. UM, I, I AM MORE, MORE, MORE, MORE THE MORE THE MERRIER, I GUESS, IN THAT SITUATION. UM, I JUST TOLD HER IF SHE WAS GONNA COME JUST BRING SOME TYPE OF, UH, UH, UH, GOODIES OR GIVEAWAYS OR FREEBIES, UH, FOR PEOPLE. UM, AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT SHE WOULD COMPLY WITH. UM, OTHER THAN THAT, UM, THERE HAD BEEN SOME OTHER DANCE GROUPS THAT I HAD REACHED OUT TO. UM, THE REAL BIG ONE ON THE, UH, ON, ON THE, UM, ESTIMATE COST SHEET WAS DC DC UM, THEY WERE A LOT, OR THEY ARE A LOT MM-HMM . UM, AND THAT ISN'T NECESSARILY A GIVEN THAT THEY WILL PERFORM. THAT IS THE QUOTE THAT I GOT FROM THEM OVER THE PHONE. I, I SAID, HEY, I MEAN, THEY'RE, I MEAN, PRETTY RENOWNED YEAH. UH, ACROSS THE REGION AS WELL AS THE WORLD. OH, YEAH. UM, I THINK JUST FROM THE SETUP THAT THEY TOLD ME ON THE PHONE, UM, THEY WOULD NEED A COUPLE THINGS BEFORE THEY, UH, WOULD AGREE TO ANYTHING. UM, THAT'S WHY I'LL TELL YOU GUYS TO TURN TO THIS QUOTE PAGE FROM A AND S UM, THEY, THEY SAID THAT THE DANCERS, UH, COULDN'T, UH, PERFORM ON PAVEMENT. UM, SO MY IDEA, UH, WAS JUST THE IDEA OF KIND OF CONNECTING PEOPLE A LITTLE BIT BETTER. WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT EEL BERGER, I KNOW THEY HAVE THE PLAT OR THEY HAVE THE STAGE, AND THEN OFF OFFSIDE THE STAGE IS THAT PAVED GROUND. MY MY IDEA WAS WE WOULD JUST GET AN ACTUAL DANCE FLOOR, LORD. RIGHT. UM, YOU KNOW, IF THE NOTION WAS THAT THE DAYTON SALSA PROJECT WAS GONNA PERFORM, [00:50:01] I MEAN, THEY PLAY THEIR MUSIC, PEOPLE GET OUT AND THEY START DANCING. I MEAN, THAT'S NOT JUST WITH DAYTON SALSA. I THINK THAT'S JUST WITH ANYBODY. RIGHT. WHETHER, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A BIG ENOUGH AREA, UH, RIGHT UP ON THE STAGE FOR, YOU KNOW, OUR DANCERS TO BE THERE, AS WELL AS PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST, YOU KNOW, VIBING WITH THE MUSIC AND THEY JUST, THEY, THEY GOTTA DANCE. RIGHT. SO I I, I THINK THE IDEA OF TRYING TO GET THIS WAS OBVIOUSLY FOR DC DC'S PURPOSE, BUT I THINK IT'S MORE OR LESS USEFUL FOR ALL THE DANCE AND, UH, , THE COST OF THE DANCE FLOOR COME OUT OF OUR BUDGET. YES. AND I WILL BE, AS, I WAS VERY, VERY SHOCKED, THAT'S HOW MUCH JUNETEENTH COST. UM, I CAME BACK AND ALL OF IT WAS GONE. UM, WHICH AGAIN, I'VE TOLD YOU GUYS, DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT. DO NOT WORRY ABOUT IT. SO I GOT ANOTHER $15,000. SO WE'VE GOT THE MONEY TO SPEND. UM, SO, UM, UM, YOU ROLLING IN TODAY? SO, SO I GOT, I GOT A, I GOT ANOTHER, I GOT ANOTHER $15,000 TO, TO PUT THIS ON. OBVIOUSLY IT'S FOR A GOOD CAUSE. IT'S, IT'S, IT'S BRINGING COMMUNITY TOGETHER AND, AND YOU KNOW, I'M JUST TRYING TO MAKE, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, GOOD USE OF, YOU KNOW, THE CONNECTIONS AND THE PARTNERSHIPS. RIGHT. IT IS RARE THAT DCDC VENTURES OUT INTO TRUE CERTAIN COMMUNITIES. TRUE. TO HAVE THEM HERE WOULD BE FRIGGING AMAZING. ALONG WITH DAYTON'S ALSA PRO. THEY ARE SO PHENOMENAL. YEAH. SO IF HE LED A NEWS RELEASE WITH THOSE TWO THINGS, I CAN'T IMAGINE WE WOULD NOT HAVE PEOPLE, THEY BRING A DRAWING LINED UP. THEY BRING, THEY BRING A BIG FOLLOWING. SO, SO I, I, I KNOW IT MIGHT, WE, WE LOOK AT SOME OF THE THINGS AND THEN JUST TO KIND OF ROUND IT UP ON, ON THE, ON THE QUOTE PAGE. RIGHT. UM, WE'VE GOT A PRETTY BIG SPACE AT EEL BERGER. I KNOW THE, THE NOTION IS TO TRY TO BRING THINGS, ESPECIALLY KID RELATED THINGS THAT BRINGS FAMILIES OUT THERE WITH THE BOUNCE HOUSES AND ALL THAT STUFF. SO I KIND OF WANT A LITTLE EXTRA WITH FACE PAINTING. UM, I STILL NEED TO TALK, WELL, NO, I PUT IT THERE. UH, BALLOON ANIMALS, UM, CARICATURES. UM, WHAT ELSE? UH, UM, WE TALKED ABOUT WE, ME AND, UM, UM, YEAH, WE TALKED ABOUT IN, WAS WAITING FOR FINAL COATS FOR THEM FOR, FOR, UH, UH, GAMING FOR A BALLOONS, YOU SAID FACE PAINTING? OH, YES. YOU SAID YES. SO, SO IT'S, IT'S, IT'S HERE. IT'S HERE, IT'S IN THIS ONE. SO IT SHOULD BE ON THE BOTTOM. SO IT'S ALL THERE. UM, AND IT'S, SO THE IDEA IS THAT WE GO FROM ONE TO FIVE WITH ALL THE KID ACTIVITIES AND, AND WHATNOT. UM, IN ADDITION TO, UM, GOD, WHERE WAS MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT? I'M LOSING IT. UM, OH, THE IDEA OF GIVEAWAYS. UM, SO I KNOW IBRAHIM HAD SAID SOMETHING ABOUT, UM, WELL, AT LEAST I, I THREW OUT TO THEM ON TUESDAY THE IDEA OF, HEY, WE HAVE ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS. UM, LET'S TRY TO FIND SOME ACTIVITIES FOR ADULTS TO KIND OF INDULGE INTO, UM, TO KIND OF, UH, PARTICIPATE IN THAT ASPECT. UM, UM, I KNOW, I KNOW THAT, UH, ABRAHAM HAD SAID SOMETHING ABOUT, UM, BINGO, I GOT IT LISTED. UM, I'M NOT A HUNDRED PERCENT IF WE CAN NECESSARILY DO IT OR NOT. I DUNNO IF THERE'S LIKE REGULATIONS OR LAWS IN IT. UM, HOWEVER, I TALKED TO SARAH FORESITE ABOUT MAYBE AN OPPORTUNITY OF DOING A 50 50 RAFFLE. UM, WE COULD POTENTIALLY DO THAT, AND IT'S UP TO THE COMMISSION TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WE DO WITH THAT OTHER HALF OF THE, THE RAFFLE, WHETHER WE DONATE TO A CHARITY OR AN ORGANIZATION, OR WE JUST SAY, HEY, WE'RE POINTING IT IN TO THE COFFERS FOR, FOR NEXT YEAR OR FOR ANOTHER EVENT, UM, HOSTED BY THE CULTURAL DIVERSITY, UM, COMMISSION. SO, I MEAN, THERE'S JUST OPTIONS TO GIVE OUT THERE AS WELL, UM, FOR EVERYBODY TO KIND OF DO. YEAH. YEAH. BASICALLY, BASICALLY, WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR, UH, PEOPLE TO SIGN UP AND EVERYTHING, AND, UM, PUTTING ALL THE CODES TOGETHER. AND THEN, UH, WE ARE THINKING, YOU KNOW, WHAT TO, UH, ORDER WHAT KIND OF, UH, GAMING, UH, PLANNING WHAT TO, TO DO WHAT KIND OF PLANNING, UH, GAMING. AND WE ARE GONNA HAVE ANOTHER, UH, TASK GROUP, UH, BEFORE, UH, SEPTEMBER HITS. AND, UH, WE WILL BE, UH, WORKING ON MARKETING. [00:55:01] UH, SO WE GONNA CALL, UH, EVERYONE TO DO, UM, YOU KNOW, WITH MARKETING, WITH THE, WITH THE BANNERS LAYOUT TO THE, UH, CITY AND, UH, UH, DIGITAL BOARDS. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE ONE CHAMBERS BOARD AT, UH, UH, THOMAS CLOUD PARK. AND WE ARE ALSO, UH, THINKING TO, UH, TALK WITH, UM, WELCOME DAYTON TO HAVE, UH, THEM, UH, ENTERTAINMENT ON THEIR FACE, UH, BOOK PAGE. AND, UM, DFI, UH, DEVILED, UH, AFFAIR. UH, I MEAN THE FILIPINO GROUP, THE MARIN, OUR, UH, FRIEND, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, HE'S EVERY YEAR WITH US. AND HE'S A VICE CHAIR THERE. AND HE WILL BE, YOU KNOW, MARKETING IN HIS, UH, FACEBOOK PAGE. AND, UH, MS. MIA WILL BE MARKETING ON, UH, SPRINGFIELD, UH, MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL FACE PAGE. ARE WE, UM, DOES, IS SARAH STOKE OR ERIC, THE PERSON THAT YOU SPOKE TO AT DAYTON LIFE FOR THE JUNE TEAM? IS THAT THAT INTERVIEW THAT YOU DID? YEAH, HE, UH, TAJ, WHAT'S THE GUY'S NAME? DON'T MAKE ME LIE ABOUT HIS TAI, I KNOW HE IS TAJ, I CANNOT PRONOUNCE HIS NAME RIGHT. BUT YEAH, TA TA TAJ, TAI, UH, THERE'S AN EMAIL YOU CAN EMAIL HIM AND TALK TO HIM ABOUT GETTING, SO I WONDER IF WE CAN GET CONNECTED WITH HIM TO DO A, A LITTLE SEGMENT ABOUT THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL ON THE DAYTON LIVE SHOW. YEAH. SO, I MEAN, AND THIS IS JUST THE STUFF THAT'S SWIRLING AROUND IN MY HEAD. UM, MY ATTENTION OF IF EVERYTHING ON THIS SHEET PLAYS OUT, I THINK IT'S A REALLY BIG DRAW TO SOMETHING HAPPENING IN EARLY SEPTEMBER. UM, SO YES, SO I WOULD OBVIOUSLY CONNECT WITH TAJ. UM, ALSO TRY TO GET ON YO AS WELL. UM, THE IDEA THAT I'VE HAD A BRIEF CONVERSATION WITH SARAH WILLIAMS ON COMMUNICATIONS AND MARKETING FOR WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO. SO I LOOKED AT MY CALENDAR AND, UH, FOUR WEEKS OUT FROM SEPTEMBER THE 13TH WILL BE AROUND AUGUST THE 22ND. UM, MY PLAN IS OBVIOUSLY HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH SARAH PRIOR TO AUGUST THE 22ND OF, UM, WHAT, WHAT WE NEEDED OR WHAT SHE WILL DO FOR US. BUT JUST A BRIEF CONVERSATION THAT I HAD THIS WEEK OR LAST WEEK, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA HIT ALL THE DIGITAL BOARDS, NOT JUST IN HUBBER HEIGHTS, BUT AROUND THE DAY REGION. UM, WE'RE GOING TO HIT, UM, UH, UH, I WANT TO SAY NEWS ARTICLES, FACEBOOK, UH, SOCIAL MEDIA SITES. UM, SO IT'S GONNA BE OUT THERE, RIGHT. AND IT'S JUST THE, UH, YARD SIGNS OF, UH, UH, BUILT THE, THE, WE WAS THINKING TO DO, UM, THEY, I I, I HAVE SOME CONTACTS FROM, UH, DAYTON DAILY NEWS MAYBE. UM, THEY CAN HELP US TO PROMOTE. AND UH, ALSO I HAVE A FEW CONTACTS FOR, UH, UH, CHANNELS, NEWS CHANNELS FROM DAYTON. SO IF THEY CAN BE, UH, PLAY THE, YOU KNOW, MARKETING ON THE CHANNELS AND IF THEY CAN COME OVER AND DO THE QUICK, UH, VIDEO IN HOW EARLY CAN WE GET A NEWS RELEASE FROM SARAH FROM THE CITY PRESS RELEASE? I DON'T KNOW. I CAN ASK HER TOMORROW. AND IF WE, IF WE CAN GET THAT, THEN WE GO OUT TO ALL THE CONNECTIONS. WELL, I GUESS HERE'S THE THING, RIGHT? WHEN, WHAT THE CONVERSATION WAS, UM, SHE'S KIND OF GOT IT GEARED UP AND READY TO GO. READY TO, I THINK IT'S MORE OR LESS PLUG IN WHAT? PLUG IN WHAT PLUG PLUG IN WHAT WE HAVE INSTEAD, OR YEAH. LIKE, HEY, YOU KNOW, IS IT HEADLINED BY SOMEBODY? RIGHT. DAYTON SALSA, RIGHT. ARE WE GONNA PLUG IN RIGHT. AND THEN BIOS AND THEN, UM, WHAT DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS AND WHAT DIFFERENT CULTURES WILL BE REPRESENTED. RIGHT. 'CAUSE RIGHT NOW WE'RE HITTING NEXT MONTH, NEXT WEEK IS A MONTH OUT. EXACTLY. AND, AND I DON'T, AND I, AND BYRON CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, RIGHT, I THINK THAT, UH, THE CLOSE DATE IS AUGUST 31ST FOR VENDORS. YES. I THINK BY THAT POINT, I MEAN BEFORE THEN WE'D HAVE A GENERAL IDEA OF WHAT WE CORRECT. OKAY. SO WE WILL, WE WILL HAVE A GENERAL IDEA ON OUR, UM, UH, TASK MEETING BEFORE THE SEPTEMBER. AND WE WILL HAVE EVERYTHING LAY OUT AND, UH, READY TO GO AND, UH, SHARE WITH, UH, SARAH IN, IN , UH, OUR COMMITTEE SO THAT WE GET, UH, PROOFS AND UH, YOU KNOW, BOOM. SO I HAVE A SUGGESTION. YEAH. I WOULD DO A SAVE THE DATE FIRST. I WOULD DO THAT LIKE MONDAY, GET A SAVE THE DATE OUT. YEP. DO WE KNOW FOR SURE DAYTON SAUCE IS LOCKED IN? IF THEY TELL ME SOMETHING? I THINK THE ONLY THING THAT I NEEDED FROM THEM TODAY WAS I TOLD THEM, HEY, GIVE ME A CONFIRM. UM, SO I CAN WRITE UP A CONTRACT, UH, AGREEMENT WITH THEM. I JUST NEED THE, THE CORRECT NUMBER, AND THEN I CAN HAVE THAT DONE TOMORROW. SO [01:00:01] IF THEY'RE LOCKED IN, YOU CAN LEAVE THE SAVE THE DATE WITH THAT. SURE. THAT'S A GREAT CATCHER. OKAY. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, I WOULD DO A SECOND NEWS RELEASE THEN WITH THE MORE SPECIFICS. IF WE COULD GET DC DC ON BOARD SOONER THAN LATER, I'D PUT THEM IN THE SAVE THE DATE AS WELL. YEAH. SO DC SO THE THING WITH DC DC IS THEY HAVE TO COME AND DO A SITE VISIT. YEAH. UM, UH, AND, AND MAKE THEIR DETERMINATION. SO I, I THINK MOLLY IS WORKING. THAT'S A LITTLE BIT, YEAH. YEAH. AND THE LAST KICKER WITH THEM IS, I THINK THEY SAID THEY NEEDED, UH, THEY SAID THAT THEY NEEDED OVERHANG, SO THEY NEEDED A COVERING OVER THE STAGE. HMM. AND I DON'T KNOW, I HAVEN'T LOOKED AT THAT YET. SO MAYBE THEY'LL SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT? WE'RE DANCERS. WE'RE DANCERS. IT'S A GOOD CAUSE. YEAH. UH, LET'S DO IT. SO THEY PARTICULAR, WE HAD TO DO A LOT . SO, SO I'M HOPEFUL. I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE I'LL GO OUT THERE, I'LL, I'LL SWAY 'EM A LITTLE BIT. I'LL PUT SOME CHARM ON AND THEY'RE LIKE, JEFFREY, WE LOVE YOU. WE'RE GONNA DO IT FOR YOU. I HAVE, I, I KNOW I SAW THE POSTING ON THE FACEBOOK MM-HMM . PAGE ALREADY. SO THEY, SO IT, IT'S STARTING TO GET COME OUT. OKAY. I THINK SARAH DID THAT. SO, WHOOP, THAT'S, I, UM, I HAVE A SUGGESTION 'CAUSE I COULDN'T, I HAD TO WORK ON TUESDAY SO I COULDN'T MAKE IT TO THE TASK MEETING. SO ON, UM, THE EDUCATIONAL PART THAT WE TALKED ABOUT, LIKE HOW WE HAD THE POSTERS UP AND OH, IT'S ON, I KNOW. BUT, UM, , I WAS THINKING, I LIKE TO, UM, AND IF IT'S OKAY WITH BY AND ABRAHAM, UH, IF I COULD WORK WITH SARAH ON JUST MAKING UP, I'M THINKING LIKE A PASSPORT THEME AND HIGHLIGHTING A COUNTRY WITH SOME FACTS THAT PEOPLE CAN JUST TAKE AWAY, UM, FROM THAT WE COULD POST THROUGHOUT THE FESTIVAL AS WELL. IF, UM, IF YOU ALL DIDN'T MIND IF I WORK WITH SARAH AND COME UP WITH SOME PRINTS NEXT COUPLE WEEKS FOR YOU ALL TO GREAT IDEA. AND THAT, THAT WAY WE HAVE LIKE, PASSPORT TRAVEL, YOU KNOW, WE STICK WITH THE CULTURAL THEME. UM, THAT WAY THEY, THEY ALSO COME AWAY WITH SOME, I KNOW THEY'RE GONNA BE THERE FOR THE FUN AND FOOD MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, BUT, BUT ESPECIALLY FROM THE COUNTRIES OF THE PERFORMERS. AND I WOULD ALSO HIGHLIGHT THEIR CULTURE. I WOULD ALSO MENTION THAT, UM, I DID TRY TO SECURE SOME GIVEAWAYS TOO. SO I TALKED TO CHRIS LETTERMAN OVER AT THE Y SO WE HAVE 15 SEASON PASSES FOR THE AQUATIC CENTER TO GIVE OUT NEXT YEAR. WOW. WELL THAT'S, THAT'S A GREAT DONATION. THANK YOU. HE JUST TOLD ME, HE GAVE ME, HE SAID, PICK A NUMBER, MAN. 15, IF WE HAVE THE CULTURAL STUFF, THE PASSPORT, YEAH. WE CAN GO AROUND AND ANSWER AND FILL OUT A PASSPORT AND THEN PUT THEIR NAME IN A DRAWING FOR ONE OF THE 15. AND THEN WHY FAMILY PASSES. AND THEN WE HAVE TWO FAMILY PASSES FOR THE YMCA, SO, SO THAT'S JUST AN, AN ADDITIONAL, UM, SO, SO TOTAL 17? YEAH. 17. 17, YEAH. 15 FOR THE POOL, AND THEN TWO, I THINK FAMILY PASSES FOR THE YMCA. AND THEN IN ADDITION TO THAT, I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT ANY OTHER GIVEAWAYS THAT WE COULD POTENTIALLY GIVE OUT. SO, UM, I WILL GO AROUND AND ASK PEOPLE IF THEY WANT TO DONATE SOME, UH, PRIZES AND STUFF, UM, UH, TO GIVE OUT THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL, UM, AND TRY TO SEE WHAT WE CAN GET AT. UM, I'M GOING TO, UM, THE LEVITT PAVILION ON SATURDAY. UM, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT OBVIOUSLY HAS BEEN PASSED AROUND TO ME SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE. UM, THE LACK OF NATIVE AMERICAN REPRESENTATION OR THE, THE, THE LACK THAT WE SEE. BUT THE, THE, IT'S A, THE RESPONSE THAT IS ACTUALLY PRESENT IS WHAT I'M, THAT'S, THAT'S BECAUSE THEY HAVE MAYBE TWO ACTIVE PEOPLE AND GUY IS YEAH. JUST NOW COVERING FROM LUNG CANCER GUY JONES. YEAH. SO, YES. SO HE'S IN THE MISSION, SO HE, I GOTCHA. YEAH. SO GUY'S GOING TO ACTUALLY BE AT THE LEVITT ON SATURDAY, SO I'M GONNA MEET HIM. AND, UM, LISA WAGNER, UM, SHE'S GONNA INTRODUCE ME TO HIM. UM, AND THIS JUST THE IDEA OF JUST TRYING TO, I KNOW IT SHORT NOTICE, BUT I KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, IF, IF NATIVE AMERICANS ARE PRESENT WITH THEN, WELL, THE, THE MIAMI VALLEY MM-HMM . TRIBAL, UM, ASSOCIATION DISBANDED, SO THEY DON'T, THEY NO LONGER EXIST THAT IS RUNNING. DOES ANYONE KNOW A, UM, STEPHANIE VAN HUS? YEP. YEAH. IS IT REACH OR REACH SOMETHING WITH THE RE YEAH, SO SHE'S SUPPOSED TO BE THERE TOO, MY UNDERSTANDING. YEAH. SO WE HAD THE REACH FEST. UM, I THINK THIS IS REACH FEST TIME TOO. YEAH. 'CAUSE WRIGHT STATE NO LONGER HAS OUR CENTER, SO THERE'S NO MORE REACH [01:05:01] FEST AT WRIGHT STATE. BUT I THINK STEPHANIE IS STILL, UM, STILL SHE, BUT SHE AND GUY MM-HMM . CLOSE TOGETHER. GOTCHA. SO, YEAH, SHE'S A GOOD CONNECTION TO TALK TO. SHE DOES A LOT OF STUFF WITH THE LIBRARY. YEP. IF YOU CAN GET AHOLD OF HER AND ASK HER HOW TO HANDLE GETTING SOME NATIVE AMERICAN REPRESENTATION FROM MULTICULTURAL, I BET SHE WOULD EITHER SAY, I'LL BE THERE, OR I KNOW SOMEONE WHO CAN. I MEAN, YOU NEVER KNOW. WONDERFUL. SHE'S A NICE, SHE'S JUST SUCH A NICE PERSON. OKAY. YEAH. SO I PLAN ON BEING THERE NOW. I'M, I PLAN ON HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH THEM ON SATURDAY. IF YOU GUYS WANT TO COME UP THERE, I'LL BE THERE FOR A MINUTE. I CAN, I WAS ACTUALLY GONNA GO, BECAUSE I'M INTERESTED WONDERFUL. IN THE, UM, THE, THE SHOW THAT THE INDIGENOUS, YEAH. YES, YES, YES. SO I JUST SAW THAT PASSING ON, UH, GOOGLE THE OTHER DAY. SO I JUST CALLED LISA. SHE TOLD ME TO COME ON OUT, AND SHE CAN MAKE THAT INTRODUC, UH, INTRODUCTION FOR ME. UM, YEAH. SO OTHER THAN THAT, I GUESS I'M JUST WAITING ON QUOTES. UM, I CAN START THE PROCESS LIKE CHRISSY SAID, OR AT LEAST AS WOULD SAVE THE DATE. I CAN KIND OF GET SOME, UH, STRONG, UH, UH, CONFIRMATIONS ON SOME THINGS. AND THEN IT'S MORE OR LESS A WAITING GAME ON SOME OTHER THINGS. UM, DO YOU KNOW, UM, NAME DROPPING HERE? I PROMISE. DO YOU KNOW DEBBIE CHES? WHAT'S, WHAT'S THE NAME? DEBBIE CHE. WHAT ORGANIZATION? SHE'S WITH THE LIBRARY. NOT OFF HAND. NO. OKAY. I'LL TALK TO YOU AFTERWARDS. OKAY. OKAY. YEAH. SO YEAH, THAT'S, SO BASICALLY, BASICALLY THIS IS IT. AND, UH, AFTER WE ARE GONNA GET EVERYTHING FINALIZED, WE WILL, UH, SHARE WITH YOU GUYS ON THE EMAIL MM-HMM . TO GET YOUR, UH, PROOFS, AND THEN WE GONNA HEAR IT. ARE YOU GUYS HAPPY WITH HOW MANY FOOD TRUCKS THERE ARE? WOULD YOU LIKE THERE TO BE MORE? YEAH, SO, I MEAN, AND I'M SPEAKING FOR BYRON, I GUESS, RIGHT? , LIKE, YES. YES. I'M HOPEFUL THAT WE'LL GET MORE. RIGHT. SO I'M STILL, I'M STILL, UH, I TRY TO GET EL MAAN TO COME, BUT THEY SAID THAT THERE'RE GONNA BE IN AGREEING ON THAT DAY. THEY, UH, AND YEAH, THE FOLLOWING WEEKEND IS THE BIG HISPANIC FESTIVAL. MM-HMM . SO I THINK WE HAVE A LOT OF, THEY'RE GONNA BE REALLY TIED UP WITH A LOT OF, WELL, UM, DO YOU WANT ME TO DO LIKE, A LITTLE SHAMELESS PLUG ON SOME OF THE FACEBOOK GROUPS TO JUST SEE IF THERE ARE ANY MULTICULTURAL FOOD TRUCKS? SURE. THAT, THAT'S A GREAT IDEA. IF YEAH, YOU'LL HAVE THEM MESSAGE ME, AND THEN I CAN, YOU CAN, YOU KNOW, I'LL, I'LL GET INFORMATION. YOU CAN MAYBE VET THEM AND THEN YEAH, THAT'S GREAT IDEA. YOU WANNA TRY THAT? I MEAN, YES. YES. CAN I HAVE A, I JOIN SO MANY GROUPS WITH THE JUNETEENTH FESTIVAL THAT NOW I WOULD GET ALL THESE THINGS ABOUT OHIO FESTIVALS AND STUFF ON MY, UM, PAGES. BUT ANYWAYS, IT COULD BE A GOOD TOOL. YES. THERE COULD BE SOME, YOU KNOW, HIDDEN, YOU KNOW, CULTURAL FOOD, TRUCK BUSINESSES KIND OF HIDING OUT AND LIKE, YOU KNOW, DROPLET OR SOMETHING, I DON'T KNOW. OR DOWN IN SPRINGBORO OR WHEREVER. AND YEAH. SO I'LL DO THAT THIS WEEKEND. YES. TRY TO VET SOME THAT, OKAY, IT'S $50, RIGHT? FOR A FOOT VENDORS A HUNDRED DOLLARS. OH, IT'S A HUNDRED DOLLARS. OKAY. ALL THE REST, UH, FREE, NO COST. DO YOU WANT ME TO KIND OF SEE WHAT VENDORS MAYBE MIGHT RESPOND LIKE CULTURAL VENDORS? YES. ARE YOU HAPPY WITH HOW MANY YOU HAVE? I MEAN, I DON'T WANNA STEP ON ANY TOES. NO, NO, NO, NO. YOU'RE NOT STEPPING. NO. I MEAN, UH, JUST FIND OUT AND IF, UH, SOME OTHER DIFFERENT COUNTRIES WILLING TO COME, THEY'RE MORE THAN WELCOME TO COME. YEAH, THAT'S GREAT IDEA. OKAY. VENDORS, IT'S $50 REGISTRATION FEE, RIGHT? VENDORS ARE FREE. VENDORS ARE FREE. OH, THE VENDORS ARE FREE FOR THAT ONE. WE WA WE WAIVED IT. OH, OKAY. FOOD TRUCK IS GOTCHA. OKAY. IF, IF, IF, UH, THEY WONDER HOW WE DID IT, UM, YOU KNOW, DOESN'T, WE DIDN'T KNOW IF THEY'RE GONNA BE SELL ANY, YOU KNOW, AND WE WILL TELL THEM, YOU KNOW, HEY, YEAH. YOU KNOW, IF, IF, IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE A GOOD SALE, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN DONATE SOME, BUT YEAH. IT, IT'S TOTALLY FREE. YEAH. ESPECIALLY, ESPECIALLY THOSE COUNTRIES WHO ARE, UH, YOU KNOW, DANCING. YEAH. YEAH. AND THEN I THINK THE LAST THING THAT I HAD ASKED MOLLY, I DON'T KNOW IF EVERYONE'S MET MOLLY GROSS. UM, SHE WORKS FOR THE PARK, SHE WORKS FOR SARAH NOW. UM, BUT YEAH, UH, I ASKED MOLLY ON TUESDAY. IT WAS THE IDEA THAT THE FARMER'S MARKET WAS STILL GONNA BE OPEN ON THAT SATURDAY. UM, HER UNDERSTANDING THAT IT WAS, BUT IT'S JUST GONNA BE AT THE OPPOSITE END, I THINK, BY THE AQUATIC CENTER. UM, WHILE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL WAS GOING ON. UM, I, [01:10:01] I OBVIOUSLY PUT THE INVITATION OUT THERE TO HER TO TELL THOSE AT THE FARMER'S MARKET, HEY, IF THEY'VE GOT MORE ITEMS TO SELL, COME 11 O'CLOCK, WHATEVER TIME, YOU KNOW, THEY CAN JUST BRING THEIR TENTS ON OVER AND THEY CAN TRY TO SET UP, OR, OR, OR JUST THE IDEAL, YOU KNOW, THE CO I MEAN THE, THE, THE FEES WAIVED. SO IF THEY WANT TO SIGN UP FOR, UM, MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL, CONTINUE WITH THEIR, THEY'RE, THEY'RE MORE THAN WELCOME TO COME ON DOWN. YEAH. SO, UH, ONE MORE LAST THING. UH, THE, THE BAND I SENT YOU EARLIER TODAY, SO, UH MM-HMM . THEY REPRESENT THE JAMAICAN AND AFRICAN, UH, TRIBES, I GUESS. AND THEY HAVE, THEIR THEME IS ABOUT THEM, THEIR 15 PEOPLE GROUP. THEY HAVE, UM, TWO DANCERS. HE SAID, OKAY. THAT WE COULD DO DANCING AS WELL. AND HE ALSO, UH, STATED THAT HE CAN GET A HOLD OF TWO FOOD TRUCKS. ONE OF 'EM NAME WAS TASTE OF JAMAICA. MM-HMM . THEY'RE OUT OF DAYTON AND ALSO BASED OF DUAL CHAIR, BUT I'M NOT REALLY SURE WHAT THAT IS. SO WE, WE CAN, IF YOU GUYS OKAY. WITH THE QUOTE OR ARE YOU GONNA CALL THEM OR CAN YOU UPDATE THEM ON? SO, SO THEY'VE, THEY'VE PLAYED HERE BEFORE. UM, LOVEBOX, APPARENTLY THEY DID LAST YEAR. YEAH. AND HE SAID THEY PERFORMED LAST YEAR, BUT HONESTLY, I DON'T RECALL. I DON'T REMEMBER SEEING THEM, BUT YEAH, MAYBE SARAH FORESIGHT HIRED THEM. MM-HMM . HIRED THEM, BUT, SO, SO, AND THEY ARE, UH, FLEXIBLE WITH THEIR QUOTES, SO, OKAY. AS HE STATED IN HIS TEXT. UM, THEY HAVE A BIG GROUP OF, DO YOU WANT, DO YOU WANT ME TO REACH OUT TO HIM? WELL, IF YOU THINK THAT WE NEED A BAND AND IF WE HAVE A ROOM FOR THEM, I MEAN, WHY NOT? THEY'RE WILLING TO WORK. THEY'LL HAVE A RETAIL, UM, BOOTH AS WELL. THE TENT TO SELL THEIR MERCHANDISE AND, UM, AND SOME HISTORY ABOUT JAMAICA, I GUESS. OKAY. YEAH. I MEAN, THAT'S NOT, I MEAN, MORE THE MERRIER, RIGHT? YEAH. OKAY. I WATCHED THEIR VIDEOS. I COULD SHARE THAT ON THE EMAIL AS WELL. OKAY. THEY HAVE FACEBOOK PAGE, INSTAGRAM, AND SOME YOUTUBE VIDEOS. LOOKS PRETTY FUN. AND THEY HAVE A LOT OF CROWD, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE WATCHING THEM ON THEIR VIDEOS, SO I ASSUME THEY HAVE, UH, GOOD FOLLOWERS. ALRIGHT. YEAH, THAT WORKS. YEP. ALRIGHT. IS THAT IT? ANYTHING, ANY QUESTIONS, ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ADD YOU GET TILL NEXT MONTH WHEN YOU GIVE EVERYTHING, SO, BUT EVERYTHING SOUNDS ME MOVING, MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, SO NOTHING ON THAT. I MEAN, I'M, I AM HIGHLY, I AM HIGHLY BELIEVE, LIKE I SAID, UH, TO JEFFREY YESTERDAY. I MEAN, AFTER, UH, THIS YEAR, YOU KNOW, WE ARE CALLING PEOPLE, HEY, YOU KNOW, PLEASE COME DO PARTICIPATE IN OUR MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL. YOU KNOW, THIS IS NOT A MONEY MAKING, UM, UH, THING. THIS IS, YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY COME TOGETHER. YOU KNOW, THIS IS VERY DIVERSE COMMUNITY. WE LIVE IN, YOU KNOW, AROUND HUB HEIGHT, TITAN, AND A LOT OF CULTURES HERE. WE ARE BRINGING EVERYONE LIKE ONCE A YEAR TO GET KNOWN EACH OTHER, SHARE ROOT EXPERIENCE, YOU KNOW, AND HELP OUT EACH EACH OTHER AND, AND LEARN HOW DIFFERENT, UH, CULTURES AND, AND, AND HISTORY. SO, UH, MOST OF THEM ARE UNDERSTANDING AND THEY'RE COMING. SOME OF THEM ARE JUST, YOU KNOW, JUST, UH, LEMME CHECK MY CALENDAR. OH, I HAVE THIS ON MY DATE. I HAVE THIS SET ON MY DATE. YOU KNOW, THIS IS KIND OF A EXCUSE GOING ON AND THAT CAN BE FILLED WHEN THEY, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE TALKING WITH THEM. BUT I HIGHLY BELIEVE, YOU KNOW, IN SOONER OR LATER THERE'S GONNA BE OPPOSITE WAY. PEOPLE GONNA CALL US, HEY, CAN YOU PLEASE TAKE US? YOU KNOW, WE WANNA COME AND PARTICIPATE IN THIS MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL. I HIGHLY BELIEVE IN THIS. WE ARE GONNA MAKE THIS HAPPEN. RIGHT. YOU KNOW, AND WE WILL, WE WILL BE STRONG. THEN CAN WE SET NEXT YEAR'S DATE, JEFFREY? SHOOT. YEAH. OH, THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR, 'CAUSE I THINK, LIKE I SAID, IT'S GROWING FOR ME, GROWING AS WE DO THIS FESTIVAL, TAKE YOU MS. SMITH NEXT YEAR. THANK YOU. SAME DAY. IF YOU'RE GONNA TELL THEM SAME DAY, THAT'S KIND OF, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT'S GOOD TO REMEMBER, RIGHT. WE NOT, NOT CHANGING LIKE EVERY YEAR, DIFFERENT DAY, IF, YOU KNOW, THIS IS GONNA BE, SO IT BE LIKE THE SECOND WEEKEND AND SEPTEMBER EVERY YEAR. YES. AND THAT WAY PEOPLE KNOW THIS IS THE MULTICULTURAL CENTRAL EVERY YEAR. YES. YES. SO THIS IS, YES, WE CAN, BUT I DID GET AN EMAIL FROM SARAH A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, OR AT LEAST LAST WEEK. UM, SO SARAH FORSIGHT EMAILED ME, SAID, I'M MAILING A POSTCARD FOR ALL EVENTS. I OCTOBER THROUGH JANUARY, AND SHE WAS JUST TRYING TO GET CONFIRMATION OF WHEN, UH, MO THE MLK, UH, EVENT WOULD TAKE PLACE. AND THAT IS MY FAULT FOR NOT, [01:15:01] UH, TELLING YOU GUYS THAT IN THE EMAIL, I SHOULD AT LEAST SAID SOMETHING IN, IN THE EMAIL AND PASSED THAT. SO YOU GUYS CAME UP WITH SOME IDEAS OF WHAT IT WAS. UM, I DON'T KNOW IF EVERYONE'S LOOKING AT THEIR CALENDARS. I DON'T KNOW IF WE TYPICALLY DO IT ON MLK DAY. IS THAT WHAT WE TYPICALLY DO? AND THAT WOULD YEAH. YEAH. WE DO IT ON MLK DAY. YEAH. SO IF WE CAN AGREE TO THAT, WE CAN ALSO, OR AT LEAST YOU GUYS CAN ALSO AGREE UPON WHEN YOU GUYS WANT TO DO MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL NEXT YEAR, IF THAT'S TODAY, OR IF THAT'S SATURDAY OR IF THAT'S NEXT MONTH, I THINK WE CAN PUT THAT ON THE AGENDA FOR NEXT MONTH, IF THAT'S OKAY. BECAUSE YOU CAN USE AN EMAIL OUT ANYWAY. YEAH, I CAN SEE, I CAN SEND SARAH'S EMAIL OUT. YEAH. YEAH. THAT GIVES EVERYBODY TIME TO LOOK AT IT. EVEN ONES THAT AREN'T HERE TODAY. YEAH. IF YOU GONNA SET A DATE FOR EVERY YEAR. SO THAT'S GONNA BE EASIER TO PREPARE AND FOR THE VENDORS AND FOR THE, ALL THE PARTICIPANTS WILL BE, YOU KNOW, CORRECT. EASY TO REMEMBER. YEP. AND THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE SOMETHING WE HAVE TO VOTE ON ANYWAY, SO I THINK WE CAN HOLD THAT OFF TILL NEXT MONTH. ANYTHING ELSE? ANY BEFORE DISCUSSION ON MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL? I A GOOD JOB. YOU GUYS ARE, YEAH. BACK ROLL. WE WENT RIGHT ALONG. UM, FOLLOW UP ON JUNETEENTH, ERIC. UM, SO JUNETEENTH AT, UM, THOUGHT IT WENT PRETTY GOOD, UM, THOUGHT THE MUSICAL ACTS AND I MEAN, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY TO CONTRIBUTE AND HELPED OUT AND PARKED CARDS AND GAVE OUT SHIRTS AND HANDED OUT FLYERS, MADE PHONE CALLS, TEXT MESSAGES, FACEBOOK POSTING. SO ALL THAT GOOD STUFF. SO, UM, THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY THAT HELPED OUT WITH THAT. SO I THINK THAT ALL THAT STUFF WENT PRETTY GOOD. UM, I DID GET A CHANCE TO SIT DOWN WITH, UH, JEFFREY AND SHARE THOSE FOLKS FROM THE CITY. UM, JUST KIND OF TALK ABOUT SOME THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, WENT GOOD, NOT WENT GOOD. YOU GUYS SENT ME SOME FEEDBACK, YOU KNOW, ON THINGS THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE DIFFERENTLY OR WHATEVER. SO, UM, COUPLE THINGS WE COULD DO TO MAYBE GENERATE MORE, UM, UH, ATTENDANCE AND STUFF LIKE THAT. I THOUGHT THE ATTENDANCE WAS GOOD, BUT I THINK WE PROBABLY COULD GENERATE A LITTLE MORE, UM, UH, SUGGESTION WAS THROWN OUT THERE THAT MAYBE IN THE MORNING BEFORE WE GET INTO THE JUNETEENTH FESTIVALS AND ALL THAT KIND OF GOOD STUFF, MAYBE DO A 5K IN THE MORNING, UM, THAT CAME OUT AS AN IDEAL. OR MAYBE DO A PICKLEBALL TOURNAMENT IN THE MORNING. UM, GET FOLKS OUT, UH, IN ADDITION TO WHAT WE'RE DOING. UM, WE ALWAYS HAVE HAD THIS EVENT ON FATHER'S DAY. UH, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S A THOUGHT THAT MAYBE WE WANT TO LOOK TO MOVE THAT TO MAYBE A SATURDAY. IS IT, IS IT THE ISSUE IS FATHER'S DAY? 'CAUSE I HEARD A LOT OF RUMBLING ABOUT ALWAYS BEING ON FATHER'S DAY, SO SOME OF OUR VENDORS COULDN'T PARTICIPATE BECAUSE IT WAS FATHER'S DAY'S DAY. SO WE HAD THAT ISSUE, UH, THAT WAS THERE. SO IT MIGHT BE A, A GOOD SITUATION THAT, UH, THAT MAY INCREASE OUR ATTENDANCE A LITTLE BIT. IF, BECAUSE IF PEOPLE ARE HANGING OUT, I MEAN, IT IS KIND OF LATE IF IT'S FIVE, I MEAN, YOU THINK ABOUT IT, IT'S PROBABLY PEOPLE OUR AGE. RIGHT. THAT'S PRETTY MUCH COMING TO IT. SO FRIDAY, I MEAN, SUNDAY, FIVE TO NINE, YOU, YOU TRYING TO LAY OUT CLOTHES FOR NEXT WEEK AND IS, IS THERE A REASON WHY WE DON'T HAVE IT ON JUNETEENTH? SO WE PROBABLY COULD DO IT, BECAUSE I NOTICED THIS YEAR, A LOT OF THE CITIES HAD THEIRS ON THE WEEKEND PRIOR TO BEFORE OR THE SATURDAY AFTERWARDS. BUT I DIDN'T SEE AS MANY ON THE DAY. THEY HAD THEIRS ACTUALLY ON TUESDAY ON THE JUNETEENTH. YEAH. SO I DON'T KNOW IF WE THINK IF FAIRBORN HAD IT IN THE MORNING TOO ON JUNETEENTH. UM, I MEAN, I DIDN'T KNOW IF THAT WAS A REASON WHY WE DIDN'T. YEAH, THAT'S PICK THAT DAY. THAT DATE. WELL, IT ORIGINALLY STARTED OUT JUNETEENTH FATHER'S DAY FUNK FESTIVAL. OH YEAH. BECAUSE IT FELL ON RIGHT. THE FIRST ONE THAT EVERYTHING WE DID WAS IT WAS ON THE SAME DAY. YEAH. RIGHT. SO WE JUST KIND OF FOLLOWED WITH THAT THEME. SO MAYBE WE LOOK AT DURING THE SATURDAY, UH, OF SOMETHING LIKE THAT. UM, DEFINITELY, UH, I THOUGHT WE PROBABLY COULD HAVE HAD MORE VENDORS, UH, AS FAR AS RETAIL VENDORS THERE. I THOUGHT WE HAD ENOUGH FOOD VENDORS AND FOOD VENDORS DID GOOD. UH, THAT WAS THERE. I THINK WE MIGHT NEED TO REVISIT HOW WE DO THE EDUCATION PIECE OF IT. I THINK CHRISTIE BROUGHT THAT UP. I, YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT, I THOUGHT OUR IDEALS WERE FOR, FOR A SHOT. SHE DIDN'T LIKE IT. SO , I DON'T THINK ANYBODY ENDED UP, I MEAN, IT JUST, YOU KNOW, I, THAT IS JUST A VERY DIFFICULT EVENT TO TRY TO BRING ANY KIND OF EDUCATION INTO IT. UM, YOU KNOW, LIKE WHEN KAREN WAS TALKING TO, I LOVE KAREN. SHE HAD GREAT INFORMATION. PEOPLE COULDN'T HEAR HER IN THE BACK THOUGH. [01:20:02] AND SO A LOT OF WHAT SHE SAID KIND OF FELL ON DEAF EARS. SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S DEFINITELY A VIABLE ASPECT. BUT WE GOTTA GET THE SOUND AND THE MICROPHONE THING FIGURED OUT MAYBE, OR, WELL, I THINK THE SOUND IS RIGHT. I THINK PROBABLY WITH, 'CAUSE WE HAD THE SAME SITUATION WHEN OUR SPEAKER THE YEAR BEFORE. YEAH. IT'S A DYNAMIC MIC, SO YOU GOTTA SPEAK DIRECTLY INTO IT. AND IF THAT'S SOMETHING YOU'RE NOT USED TO DOING, THEN YOU DON'T DO IT BECAUSE IT'S THE SAME MIC THAT WE'RE USING FOR OUR SINGERS AND PERFORMERS AND EVERYBODY ELSE. SO WE PROBABLY WERE NOT CLEAR ABOUT THAT. EXACTLY. UNFORTUNATELY. WELL, WE DID, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT THEY'RE COMFORTABLE. OH, I GOTCHA. OKAY. MAYBE DOING THAT RIGHT. I SO FEELING LIKE THEY'RE YELLING AND SCREAMING AT PEOPLE. YEAH. SO, YOU KNOW, AND THEN THE TRIVIA. SO THE BOARDS WERE GOOD. PEOPLE LOOKED AT THOSE. IT'S JUST THE TRIVIA THING DIDN'T GO OVER. SO IF WE WANNA DO GIVEAWAYS AND RAFFLES, I THINK WE NEED TO FIND ANOTHER WAY TO DO THAT. BUT I LIKED THAT, YOU KNOW, I DID SEE PEOPLE LIKE LOOKING AT THE BOARDS THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND, YOU KNOW, PICKING UP THE ONES THAT WERE ON THE TABLE. SO IT'S NOT THAT THAT PART WAS BAD, IT'S JUST NOBODY WANTED TO SIT THERE AND ANSWER ANY TRIVIA QUESTIONS. CORRECT. YOU KNOW, AND IT MAY BE A SITUATION WHERE WE JUST JUST FEED 'EM THE INFORMATION. YEAH. YOU KNOW, SOME KIND OF WAY. RIGHT. LIKE THROUGHOUT THE DAY WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU INTRODUCE THE ACTS, MAYBE SAY, HEY, A LITTLE FUN FACT, YOU KNOW, NOT FUN FACT. YEAH. BUT SOME AND, UH, WHY THE HOLIDAY WAS CREATED AS YOU'RE DOING INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTIONS AND WHAT YEAH. YEP. SO WE, WE CAN DEFINITELY REVISIT THAT, TAKE CARE OF THAT. UM, WE'LL DEFINITELY DO SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT WITH THE SHIRTS, UM, NEXT YEAR. UM, AND I THINK THAT KIND OF WAS IT. THE OTHER NOTES I GOT ARE JUST THINGS THAT WE'LL LOOK TO DO WHEN WE START OUR PLANNING FOR, I THINK IF WE SETTLE ON A DATE, YOU SHOULD START LOOKING LIKE GETTING VENDORS LOCKED IN LIKE THE NEXT DAY KIND OF A THING. LIKE, I DON'T KNOW. I THINK PART OF, I THINK WHAT COREY WANTS TO DO, WRAPPING UP 2025 IS SET THE DATES FOR 2026 SO THAT, YOU KNOW, GOING INTO NEXT YEAR, THESE ARE THE, THE EVENTS THAT WE'RE HAVING. BUT I THINK THAT'S GONNA FALL RIGHT IN LINE WITH THE CONVERSATION OF ALL THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO. SO NOW WE CAN MAKE SURE WE PACE IT SO YOU'RE NOT, OH CRAP, WE GOT FIVE THINGS GOING ON IN THIS MONTH. YEAH. AND NOW WE'RE OVERWHELMED. RIGHT. IT MAY BE, OKAY, WE NEED TO SPACE THESE THINGS OUT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. LET'S SCHEDULE OUT THE YEAR AND THEN THAT'S WHAT IT IS. YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY YOU MAY HAVE SOME EMERGENCY THINGS THAT MAY COME UP IN 2026, BUT THAT'S GOTTA BE THE EXCEPTION, NOT THE RULE. YEAH. BUT I THINK IF WE LAY IT OUT, EVERYBODY CAN BETTER PLAN USE OF THEIR TIME. THE DIFFERENT TASK GROUPS CAN ALREADY KNOW WHAT THEY HAVE AND THEY CAN START TO WORK ON THAT. BECAUSE I THINK WHAT MAKES IT HELPFUL, AND I THINK IT'S LESS STRESSFUL FOR YOU, IS SO JUNETEENTH I STARTED YEAH. WHEN WE GONNA HAVE QUESTION EIGHT, IS THIS GONNA HAPPEN NEXT YEAR? OH YEAH. SO IT'S GONNA BE SAME DAY. OH, SEE THAT, THAT WILL HELP YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW WHEN YOU CAN START EARLY TO BE ABLE TO PUT THAT THING IN PLACE. AND ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT VENDORS. SO LIKE FOOD TRUCKS, YOU, A LOT OF THOSE FOLKS, THEY WANT TO BUILD THEIR SCHEDULE TOGETHER. SO YOU COULD PROBABLY TELL THEM, HEY, WE GOT THIS. LIKE, WE ARE PUTTING ON OUR CALENDAR, THEY'RE GONNA BE PUTTING ON THEIR CALENDAR AS WELL TO REMIND THEM WE ARE GONNA HAVE A THIS AND THIS COMING UP. SO THAT WAY THEY CAN, YOU KNOW, CONTACTED US AND SAVE THE DATE FOR NEXT YEAR. AND IF WE GET PEOPLE LOCKED IN AND PAID, THEY'RE, THEY'RE LOCKED IN. CORRECT. YEAH. CORRECT. SO, YEP. THAT'S IT. ANY, ANY QUESTIONS? NOPE. I HAD FUN. I HAD A BLAST. I DIDN'T HEAR ANY NEGATIVE. I THINK IT WAS GOOD. I MEAN, I, I SAW A LOT OF PEOPLE MORE POSITIVE ABOUT IT THAN I DIDN'T SEE ANY KIND OF NEGATIVE COMMENT OR ANYTHING ABOUT IT. YEAH. I SAW PEOPLE ENJOYING THE MUSIC. I THINK, UM, THE CLO THE HEADLINING GROUP, WHICH I TOTALLY BLINKED ON. OH MY GOSH. SOUL POCKET. YEAH. SOUL POCKET. I KEPT WANTING TO SAY SOUL ZIPPER, NOT, I WAS LIKE, NOT RIGHT. SOUL ZIPPER, DON'T DUNNO WHERE I'M GETTING ZIPPER FROM IT. SOUL POCKET, POCKET ZIPPER. YEAH. OKAY. UM, THEY WERE PHENOMENAL AND I THINK PEOPLE REALLY ENJOYED LISTENING TO THEM. SO GOOD. IT, MARK 4TH OF JULY PARADE. THAT WAS YOUR, THAT WAS YOUR BABY. THAT WAS MY LITTLE BABY FOLLOW UP. YEAH. SO THANK YOU GUYS AGAIN SO MUCH FOR LIKE, YOU KNOW, SUPPORTING OH, YOU HAVE GOOD TIME. THAT IDEA AND SHOWING UP. I HAD SO MUCH FRIGGING FUN. LIKE, IT WAS SO FUN. I MEAN, IT REALLY, REALLY WAS. NEXT YEAR, WE NEED TO GET A LITTLE BIT MORE [01:25:01] CANDIES. YEAH. . YEAH. WE NEED TO FILL UP OUR TRUCK. US CAN. YES. YES. ON THAT BIG TRUCK, . SO DEFINITELY, I THINK, I DON'T KNOW IF WE COULD BE LOCKED IN FOR NEXT YEAR, WE COULD START PLANNING, LIKE RECRUITING SOME COMMUNITY MEMBERS FROM, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS AND CULTURES TO WALK WITH US AND YEAH. WE TALKED ABOUT THE BANNER, UM, DOING ANOTHER SAVE THE DATE WITH, BUT WE NEED MORE FLYERS. MM-HMM . MORE CANDY. WE JUST NEED MORE OF EVERYTHING. BUT I THINK WE PLAN EARLY FOR IT. IT'S DEFINITELY, YEAH. DOABLE. AND MAYBE WE COULD DECORATE, UM MM-HMM . THAT BIG TRUCK, UH, BAG OR SOMETHING DIFFERENT. YEAH. DIFFERENT CULTURE FLAGS. YEAH. TALKED DIFFERENT FLAGS AND STUFF. I THINK YOU AND I TALKED ABOUT, UM, GETTING BANNERS THAT HAD HELLO AND ALL THESE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. YEAH. YOU KNOW, AND THAT WAY WE PUT 'EM ALL AROUND THE TRUCK AND WE TALK ABOUT THE FLAG. WE CAN DO A, WE CAN DO A FLOCK AND HELLO ON, ON, YOU KNOW, ON NEXT TO THE FLOCK. SO THAT WAY THEY KNOW, OKAY, THIS COUNTRY IS HELLO IS MEAN. THIS YEAH. THAT'S I MEAN, IDEA. YEAH. SOMETHING LIKE THAT. THAT SOMETHING THAT HOW FUN. YEAH. AND JUST WAVING AT EVERYONE AND THEM WAVING BACK, YOU KNOW? I MEAN, I FEEL LIKE THAT REALLY PROPELLED US A LITTLE BIT MORE TO, TO GET THE COMMISSION OUT THERE. AND I THINK I MIGHT BREAK OUT THE KOREAN HANDBOOK. . ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY WELL, I ENCOURAGE THEM TO WEAR COSTUMES THEY WANNA SHARE ABOUT IT, BUT I THINK IT I MEAN, IT WAS GREAT TIME. IT WAS, IT WAS GREAT TIME. BUT, UH, LIKE YOU MENTIONED, UH, UH, MISS CHRISTIE, WE HAD, UH, LESS FLYERS. YEAH. WE, I MEAN, WE NEED A LITTLE BIT MORE FLYERS AND, UH, CANDICE. YEAH. AND IF WE CAN ADD, UH, FLUX WITH A HELLO SAYING DIFFERENT CULTURES IN DIFFERENT CULTURES, THAT WILL BE, SO MAYBE THIS IS SOMETHING JEFFREY, THAT WE, UM, CAN, DO WE NEED TO HAVE LIKE A BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR FOR THIS. UM, SO, OR CAN WE HAVE A BUDGET? YEAH. SO I, I, I THINK JUST WITH THE SITUATION THAT HAPPENED THIS YEAR, UM, WITH ME FINALLY GOING TO ASK FOR MORE DOLLARS, UM, WHAT BUDGET COMING OR, UH, WITH THE BUDGET FOR 2026 COMING UP, UM, I THINK MY PUSH IS JUST TO SHOW, YOU KNOW, JOHN AND THE BUDGET LINE WAS LIKE, HEY, YOU KNOW, I SPENT ALMOST $30,000 PLUS. RIGHT. UM, I, I MEAN, THE YEAR'S NOT OVER YET. SO. YEAH. I MEAN, WE CAN ADD IN THE BUDGET. MY PLAN IS, UM, IF YOU GUYS ALL WANT TO KIND OF, UH, POUND SOME NUMBERS THAT YOU GUYS THINK THAT IS REASONABLE, UM, WE CAN KIND OF GO WITH THAT AND I CAN FACILITATE THAT TO JOHN. AND ULTIMATELY IT'S COUNCIL'S. COUNCIL'S THE ONE THAT IS WHO'S GONNA APPROVE THE BUDGET. BUT I THINK A NICE NUMBER, AND MAYBE WE COULD COMBINE THAT WITH THE CHRISTMAS PARADE IF WE DECIDE TO DO THE CHRISTMAS PARADE. ARE YOU, WHEN'S YOUR BUDGET DUE? UM, BECAUSE OURS IS DUE LIKE SEPTEMBER 1ST. SO I'M, WE'RE RUNNING, IS IT, IS IT DUE? I DON'T KNOW. FINANCE DIRECTOR HASN'T GIVEN ANYBODY BUDGET. THEY HAVEN'T GIVEN YOU ANY DONE YOUR BUDGET YET? NO, WE HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING YET. SO, SO WE HAVE A LITTLE TIME, LIKE IF WE DISCUSS IT AT OUR SEPTEMBER MEETING, UM, OR ARE WE PUSHING IT WITH YOUR NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET? I WILL ASK JIM, LIKE WHAT HIS PLANS ARE, UM, TO GET THE BUDGETS OUT NOW. 'CAUSE I KNOW HE IS BUSY, BUT AT THE SAME TIME. YEAH. SEE, I HAD TO TURN MINE IN AUGUST 1ST. YEAH. SO IT CAN BE REVIEWED BY SEPTEMBER 1ST. I, I DON'T, HE, I AM, I SIT IN THESE BUDGET MEETINGS OR AT LEAST THE ONES THAT I WANT TO. SO, UM, YEAH, LET ME CHECK. AND THEN ONCE I GET A DATE THAT HE WANTS TO DO THESE, UM, I'M HOPEFUL THAT IT'S AFTER SEPTEMBER THE FOURTH. OKAY. RIGHT. YEAH. SO YOU GUYS CAN HAVE THAT TIME TO KIND OF, MAYBE WE CAN DISCUSS IT. YEAH. DISCUSS WHAT YOU GOT, WHAT NUMBER THAT SEEMS RIGHT TO YOU GUYS. SO IT LOOKS LIKE SEPTEMBER'S MEETING WILL BE MORE OF A 2026 PLANNING. YES. YES. UM, NEXT, I'M SORRY, DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING ELSE? WAS LIKE ONLY 65? YEAH. OH. OH, I'M SORRY. NO. OH, JUST TALK ABOUT THAT. , NO, CCRB. ANYTHING. YEAH, THAT'S ME. WHAT ELSE ARE WE? UM, YEAH, THAT'S ME. SO, UM, LAST WEEK, UM, ME AND TONY, UM, WE HAD SOME INTERVIEWS, UH, WITH THOSE WHO FILL OUT APPLICATIONS FOR THE, UM, CITIZENS COMPLAINT REVIEW BOARD. MM-HMM . UM, A TOTAL OF FIVE I THINK WAS, UH, THE NUMBER THAT APPLIED. UM, BUT THEN A, A COUPLE, UH, PULLED BACK THEIR APPLICATION AND I THINK WE HAD TWO THAT JUST DIDN'T SHOW UP. UM, [01:30:01] SO IN TOTAL WE HAD TWO INTERVIEWS, UM, TWO GREAT PEOPLE, UM, WHO CAME IN AND SPOKE WELL AND REALLY UNDERSTOOD, YOU KNOW, UH, THE REASONING FOR THIS. BUT IT'S ULTIMATELY WE'RE HOPEFUL THAT WE DON'T EVEN HAVE TO USE THIS. RIGHT. UM, UH, BOARD, UM, WE CAME, UH, WITHIN THE CONVERSATION, OR AT LEAST AFTER THE CONVERSATION, WE HAD AN ISSUE. UM, JUST HOW THE LANGUAGE OF THE LEGISLATION IS WRITTEN. UM, THE STANDARDS OF HOW PEOPLE ARE ASSIGNED TO THE BOARD OR APPOINTED TO THE BOARD BY COUNCIL. UM, THE, LET'S GO WITH THIS. THE TOP THREE CAN, OR AT LEAST THE TOP, TOP THREE APPLICANTS. UH, ONE IS, UH, ONE APPLICANT MUST BE OF THE TOP, UH, POLITICAL OR POLITICAL, THE TOP POPULATION IN THE CITY. THE NEXT IS THE SECOND, AND THE, AND THE LAST ONE IS THE THIRD. SO WITHIN OUR CALCULATIONS OF THE LAST CENSUS, IT'S WHITE, BLACK, AND ASIAN. UM, THAT'S ONE OF THE CRITERIA FOR THE BOARD. THE, ANOTHER PORTIONS OF THAT IS, UM, ANOTHER, UH, ONE APPLICANT HAS TO BE, UM, A FORMER LAW ENFORCEMENT NOT CONNECTED WITH THE CITY OF HUBER HEIGHTS. UH, ANOTHER ONE, UH, HAS TO BE A LAWYER. UM, AND THEN, AM I MISSING ANYTHING ELSE? I THINK I'M MISSING ONE MORE. OH. AND THEN HERE'S THE KICKER. AND THEN THE LAST ONE IS, UH, SOMEONE RECOMMENDED FROM THE CULTURAL DIVERSITY, UH, COMMISSION. THIS IS THE, UH, SITUATION THAT WE'RE IN. UM, THE CANDIDATES THAT WE INTERVIEWED BOTH WERE BLACK, SO ONE OF THEM CAN FIT INTO THAT CRITERIA AS THE SECOND, UH, BEING FROM THE SECOND POPULATION GROUP IN HUBER HEIGHTS. THE ASK IS FOR THIS BOARD IS TO NOMINATE ONE OF THE TWO AS YOUR ALL'S, UM, UH, REPRESENTATIVE NOMINATION. GOTCHA. YES. UM, MY FAULT THAT I DID NOT PRINT OUT WHO THESE APPLICANTS ARE, BUT IF THE MOTION WAS MADE TO PICK SOMEONE THAT WOULD KIND OF HELP US, LIKE KEEP THE, KEEP THE MOMENTUM MOVING TO GET THIS, UH, BOARD ACTUALLY, UM, UH, RUNNING AND ACTUALLY GET A, A QUORUM STARTED. SO ANY QUESTIONS OR ANYTHING THAT YOU GUYS NEED ME TO DO? UM, HOW FAST DO YOU HAVE TO HAVE THAT ANSWER TO THE, TO THE APPLICANT'S? UM, I THINK TONY'S THING IS HE WOULD LIKE TO PUT IT ON THE, I I WANNA SAY THAT NEXT WEEK. NO, WAIT, AM I RIGHT? YES. SO IF I TOLD HIM TONIGHT RIGHT, AN EMAIL, I THINK HE WOULD JUST PUT THEM ON THE, NO, IT WOULDN'T BE THIS COUNCIL MEETING. SO IT WOULD BE THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING. SO MONDAY IS A COUNCIL MEETING, AND THEN THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING WOULD TAKE PLACE. THE 22ND, THE 21ST OR THE 22ND, THAT'D BE THE NEXT WORK SESSION. SO THAT'S WHEN THEY WOULD, THAT WOULD ENTER INTO THE AGENDA. AND THEN THAT FOLLOWING WEEK, THAT LAST WEEK OF AUGUST, COUNCIL WOULD VOTE ON, UH, THOSE, UH, UH, APPLICANTS. IF YOU'RE FOLLOWING ME, I DON'T HAVE A NECESSARY A CALENDAR IN FRONT OF ME. SO THERE'S TWO CORRECT. AND WE NEED TO NOMINATE ONE CORRECT. AS A COMMISSION. CORRECT. AND THEN THAT WILL BE TAKEN TO THE COUNCIL. CORRECT. AND THEY WILL YAY OR NAY OUR NOMINATION. CORRECT. I MEAN, I THINK IT'S A LITTLE, BUT WE DON'T KNOW THESE. YEAH. WITHOUT KNOWING THE INDIVIDUALS, I THINK I DON'T YEAH, WE DON'T KNOW THESE INDIVIDUALS. AND, AND AGAIN, AND, AND I KNOW, I UNDERSTAND, I UNDERSTAND THIS, AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I KNOW I AT LEAST TALKED TO TARA, AND I KNOW I TALKED TO YOLANDA ABOUT A YEAR AGO, THAT YOU GUYS HAD THAT ABILITY AS A COMMISSION TO MAKE A NOMINATION. RIGHT. AND YOU KNOW, THESE, THESE, I MEAN, WELL, I DON'T THINK IT'S A PROBLEM. I DON'T THINK ANYBODY HEARD FROM NOMINATING. NO, I, I MEAN, I, I DUNNO WHO WE'RE NOMINATING. SO. RIGHT. AND, AND THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING WHAT YOU GUYS NEED. LIKE, DO YOU NEED, DO YOU WANT TO SEE THE APPLICATION? LIKE, DO YOU NEED ME TO PRINT THE APPLICATIONS REAL QUICK AND THEN WE CAN COME BACK TO IT? UH, SO YOU GUYS CAN SEE, SEE CAN WE, CAN WE MEET THEM? ? WHAT WAS THAT? CAN WE MEET THEM? I MEAN, I MEAN, THE NEXT TIME YOU GUYS HAVE A MEETING [01:35:01] IS IN SEPTEMBER. UM, WELL, I THINK WE'LL HOLD UP, JEFFREY. SO IF YOU'RE, IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING FROM US MM-HMM . IN ORDER TO MEET COUNSEL'S SCHEDULE NEXT TUESDAY, I THINK THAT'S A, OR THE FOLLOWING TUESDAY. YEAH. THAT'S WHAT IT IS. I THINK FROM THIS COMMISSION, THAT'S AN UNFAIR ASK. OKAY. SO IF YOU'RE ASKING WHAT WE NEED, I WOULD SAY WE WOULD WANT TO TAKE A LOOK AT WHO WE'RE NOMINATING. NOMINATING. THAT'S FAIR. AND TO MAKE SURE THAT, THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A PERSON THAT WE WOULD WANT TO NOMINATE ONE. AND THEN I THINK IT'S ONLY FAIR, JUST LIKE IF WE WERE GOING TO, UH, FOR SOMEONE FOR THIS COMMISSION, WE NEVER HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SIT AND TALK AND MEET WITH THEM. MM-HMM . SO IF YOU WERE INTERVIEWING FOR THE NINTH PERSON ON HERE, AT LEAST THE ASS WOULD BE OUT THERE. YOU GUYS COULD COME TO THE INTERVIEW. IF YOU CAN'T MAKE IT, YOU JUST CAN'T MAKE IT. SURE. BUT IN THIS CASE, WE DON'T KNOW WHERE ASKED. RIGHT. AND I, AND AND YOU'RE RIGHT. BECAUSE NO ONE WAS THERE. RIGHT. WHETHER THAT BE THE CHAIR OR THE VICE CHAIR. RIGHT. SO, I MEAN, YOU GUYS DON'T EVEN HAVE THAT. SO I COULD AGREE, LIKE YES, YOU'RE, YOU'RE RIGHT. SO LET THAT BE KNOWN THAT WE HAVE TWO APPLICANTS, UM, THAT HAVE, THAT HAD BEEN INTERVIEWED. I WILL WORK WITH TONY TO FIGURE OUT, I'M, I'M GUESSING SEPTEMBER IS GONNA BE THE DATE, RIGHT? TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT IF WE CAN GET ONE OF THE TWO APPLICANTS TO COME AND, AND, AND TALK TO YOU GUYS. I WOULD ASSUME BOTH. AND THEN JUST MAKE A, A CHOICE ON WHICH ONES THAT YOU GUYS WANT TO NOMINATE, IF THAT'S ULTIMATELY WHAT YOU GUYS WANT TO DO. BUT DOES THAT HAVE TO BE DONE DURING ONE OF OUR MEETINGS OR DO WE NEED TO SET UP AN INTERVIEW FOR THAT? NO. SO THAT WOULD JUST BE DONE DURING THE ACTUAL MEETING ITSELF. THEY'VE ALREADY INTERVIEWED WITH THE CITY. NO, NO, NO, NO. THEY HAVEN'T INTERVIEWED YET. THEY WOULDN'T NECESSARILY BE INTERVIEWED WITH YOU. I MEAN, HAVE THEY ALREADY INTERVIEWED CORRECT. WITH THE CITY? MM-HMM . THAT'S RIGHT. SO LET ME GET, I'M GETTING THIS STRAIGHT. YEAH. SO BECAUSE OF THE THING, YOU HAVE TWO BLACK NOMINEES MM-HMM . THAT HAVE INTERVIEWED WITH THE CITY AND YOU LIKE 'EM BOTH. RIGHT. AND IN ORDER TO HAVE THEM BOTH ON THERE AND STILL MEET THE LEGISLATIVE, WE HAVE TO NOMINATE ONE OF THEM AS OUR REPRESENTATIVE BECAUSE THEY DON'T FIT IN ANY OF THE OTHER CORRECT. IS THAT WHAT THAT OKAY. RIGHT. YES. YEAH. THEY DON'T FIT IN THE OTHER CATEGORIES. RIGHT. AND IT'S, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS THAT A HIPAA VIOLATION? IF YOU ASK RACE ON A, UM, NO HIPAA'S MEDICAL THING. YEAH. THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HIPAA. WELL, THE IDEA IS THAT, IS IT LIKE RIGHT. WE'RE NOT ASKING, IT COULD BE A DISCRIM, WE'RE NOT ASKING, WE'RE NOT ASKING RACE ON THOSE APPLICATIONS. RIGHT. SO IT'S, SO I MEAN, HOW DO WE KNOW YOU'RE AGENT OR HOW DO YOU KNOW IF, RIGHT. I MEAN, SO, SO WE'D HAVE TO HAVE THE INTERVIEW. RIGHT. WE, WE HAVE THE INTERVIEW FROM WHAT, WHAT THE DIALECT THAT WE HAD FROM THE QUESTIONS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT. I I I'M QUESTIONING THE LEGISLATION. MM-HMM . YES. AND YOU'RE RIGHT. I MEAN, I, I, I QUESTION THE LEGISLATION AS WELL. 'CAUSE YOU'VE GOT GROUPS NOW WHO ARE IN THIS COMMUNITY THAT ARE NOT GONNA BE REPRESENTATIVE. BUT I'M, I'M JUST, I I QUESTION SERIOUSLY THE MM-HMM . THE LEGISLATION OF PICKING OF, I CAN UNDERSTAND HAVING A LAW ENFORCEMENT BACKGROUND MM-HMM . HAVING THAT BECAUSE YOU ARE DOING A POLICE REVIEW, SOMEBODY WITH THAT KNOWLEDGE OF LAW. BUT I I I, I JUST DON'T LIKE THE IDEA OF LIMITING, LIMITING BASED ON RACE. I MEAN, WE'RE, WE HAVE A LARGE LATINO BACKGROUND WHO GETS AFFECTED BY THE POLICE HERE AS WELL, ESPECIALLY NOWADAYS. AND THEY DON'T HAVE A REPRESENTATION ON THIS COM COMPLAIN BOARD. RIGHT. BECAUSE THEY DON'T FIT THE TOP THREE OF THE POPULATION. YEAH. AND THEN, SO THAT'S, THAT'S MY ISSUE IS OF, AND LIKE, LIKE YOU'RE SAYING MM-HMM . WE'RE NOT ASKING PEOPLE FOR THEIR ETHNICITY OR THEIR RACE. AND SINCE YOU'RE NOT ASKING THAT, ARE YOU ASSUMING, BECAUSE I COULD SAY I'M LATINO OR I'M ASIAN. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? ARE WE'RE ASSUMING IDENTITIES? SURE. I'M JUST, I, I DON'T KNOW. I'M JUST, I QUESTION THIS WHOLE LEGISLATION OF, OF PICKING THIS WAY. WE'RE NOT ASKING RACE, BUT WE'RE CERTAINLY USING IT. YEAH. YEAH. THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING. AND YOU'RE ASSUMING IT'S CERTAINLY BEING USED CORRECT. AS, AS A TOOL OF SOME SORT? I DON'T, YEAH. I, I, I JUST, I JUST DON'T, I MEAN, THIS WHOLE LEGISLATION MAKES ME WEIRD'S. IT'S A CRINGE. IT'S A CRINGE. I MEAN, SO I'M, I'M NEW TO THIS WHOLE THING. THAT WAS THE ONLY WAY THAT WE COULD DO IT. YOU HAD TO PICK, 'CAUSE THE, THE BOARD IS MADE UP OF SEVEN PEOPLE. MM-HMM . IS WHAT IT'S, SO YOU ONLY IF YOU GOT LAW, YOU GOT, UH, [01:40:01] LEGAL, LEGAL PREP AND IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SOMEBODY FROM THE NAACP. CORRECT? YEP. AND THEN IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE SOMEBODY THAT WE NOMINATE FROM HERE, RIGHT? MM-HMM . OKAY. SO YOU ONLY GOT THREE MORE SEATS. SO I GET IT. YOU CAN'T REPRESENT EVERYONE, BUT IT, IT IS BASED UPON, BUT I THOUGHT THE LEGISLATION, JEFFREY MAY HAVE TO PULL IT OUT, BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS OF THE MINORITY GROUPS. NO, IT'S THE TOP THREE RACES. ON THE CENSUS. ON THE CENSUS. I JUST PULLED IT UP. IT'S THE TOP THREE. I MEAN, I GIVE THEM THAT. SO THAT WOULD BE WHITE, BLACK AND ASIAN. OKAY. WELL LET'S GO MORE TO THE MATTER OF IMPORTANCE HERE, WHICH IS THE TWO YEAH. INDIVIDUALS. YEAH. AND HOW WE HAVE TO GO ABOUT TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO NOMINATE THEM, THEIR APPLICATION MATERIAL, FOR EXAMPLE. IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE COULD MAYBE REVIEW AND IS IT POSSIBLE THAT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO MAKE A NOMINATION BASED ON THAT INFORMATION? IS THAT WHAT YOU GOT? SO I NEED TO MAKE SURE I'M ASKING IF THAT'S POSSIBLE OR IF IT, I I'M NOT GONNA SAY IT'S, IT'S NOT. I I THINK IT'S MORE OR LESS THE ASK. OKAY. HEY TONY, CAN I GIVE THEM THE APPLICATION? RIGHT. BECAUSE ULTIMATELY, HEY, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M IN YOUR GUYS' SEAT. RIGHT? AT THE END OF THE DAY, YOU DON'T, I THINK IT'S GONNA HAVE TO BE SUSPENDED TILL YEAH. SEPTEMBER ANYWAY. RIGHT. SO I THINK WE'RE JUST, YOU GUYS DON'T, YOU GUYS WE FIGURE OUT. YEAH. AND I THINK, AND I THINK DON'T EVEN KNOW. YEAH. YEAH. AND I THINK SURE. RIGHT. I MEAN I MET THEM AND I THOUGHT THEY WERE GOOD PEOPLE. RIGHT. BUT I MEAN, I MEAN, YOU GUYS KNOW ME, BUT, SO ARE WE MEETING THEM IN SEPTEMBER THEN? THAT'S THE TRY. WE FIGURE OUT, TOLD OUT. I GUESS WE HAVE TO WAIT TO SEE WHAT, WHEN HE HEARS BACK FROM HIS SUPERIOR, THEY CAN RELEASE YEAH. WHAT HE CAN OR CAN'T DO. YEAH. I MEAN THAT'S THE TRY. SO IN THE FUTURE, IS IT POSSIBLE THAT ONE OF THE COMMISSION MEMBERS CAN TRY TO BE PRESENT OR THAT INTERVIEWS CAN BE SCHEDULED WHEN ONE OF US CAN BE PRESENT? WELL, THAT WOULD BE DONE 'CAUSE YOU ONLY GET ONE. OH, YOU ONLY NOMINATE ONE. SO IF YOU NOMINATE ONE OF THESE TWO, WE'RE OUT OF THAT PROCESS. 'CAUSE THE NEXT OH, I SEE. NEVERMIND THE CITY APPOINT SOMEBODY. THE OH, OKAY. SO THEN IT'S NOT A PROBLEM THAT WE, THE NAACP APPOINT. I GOTCHA. SOMEBODY. OKAY. AND THEN THE OTHER THREE ARE PICKED BASED ON POPULATION. I GOTCHA. YOU ONLY HAVE ONE SHOT AT I FOLLOW. OKAY. NEVERMIND. IGNORE THAT. SO STRIKE THAT. IF YOU, HOWEVER YOU GIVE THAT INFORMATION TO US. OKAY. LET US KNOW. ALRIGHT. UM, THE NEXT NEW BUSINESS IS HUBER HEIGHTS CHRISTMAS PARADE. SO THAT IS DECEMBER 6TH. YES. AT 2:00 PM CAN I ADD, UM, 2:00 PM 2:00 PM AND WHAT IS IT? THE, IT'S THE POLAR EXPRESS CHRISTMAS PARADE THAT JUST GOES THROUGH THE, TO THE TREE LIGHTING. BUT I'VE NEVER BEEN TO THE PARADE. IT'S PRETTY POPULAR. WHAT YOU GONNA DO THERE? HUH? WHAT YOU GONNA DO THERE? LIKE, LIKE WE DID 4TH OF JULY. 4TH OF JULY. SO WE TALKED ABOUT, AGAIN, THE WHOLE THING. SO I DID, LAST YEAR I JOINED MY HOUSE AND I DID CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD. SO I HAVE YARD SIGNS THAT HAVE MERRY CHRISTMAS IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. OKAY. SO I AM WILLING TO DONATE MY FLAGS, MY YARD SIGN. 'CAUSE I'M NOT DECORATING I'M NOT DOING THE, THE PRE CONTEST AGAIN, PEOPLE WERE ALL OVER MY YARD STEPPING ALL OVER MY THING. THEY CUT MY, UM, WIRES. I'M JUST, I'M SORRY, I'M NOT, YEAH. I JUST DON'T WANNA DO ALL THAT AGAIN. OKAY. SO I AM GONNA DO SOMETHING MUCH MORE SIMPLER AND NOT EX EXTENSIVE AS I DID. I MEAN THEY CUT LITERALLY ALL THE CORDS TO MY SPOTLIGHTS. SO, UM, AND I HAD TO BUY NEW ONES. BUT, UM, I HAVE THAT SIGNS IF YOU WANNA PUT 'EM ON A TRUCK OR WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, AND WE DO CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD THING. I'M WILLING TO GIVE YOU ALL WHAT I ORDERED LAST YEAR TO DO THAT. IF WE WANT TO PARTICIPATE, HAVE THE BIG INFLATABLES YOU CAN ALSO PUT ON THE TRUCK AND WE COULD DO A SAVE THE DATE FOR, UM, THE UM, MLK. YES. SMART LUTHER KING. YEAH. OKAY. SO IT'S GONNA BE SAME THING. LIKE BASICALLY SAME THING AS UH, JUNETEENTH IN THE WINTER CHAMBERS BOOK. YOU MIGHT BE A LOVE AND SPARK. SO I A MOTION THAT WE WANT TO DO IT THEN, OR I'LL MAKE A MOTION THAT WE PARTICIPATE AND HAVE A FLOAT OR HAVE A GROUP IN THE POLAR EXPRESS CHRISTMAS PARADE ON DECEMBER 6TH. I SECOND. AND THEN WE'LL WORK OUT THE DETAILS. YEAH, WE GOT FINE. YEAH. YEAH. WE JUST NEED TO REGISTER. SO SARAH, SARAH SENT ME A MESSAGE IN REGARDS TO THAT, AND THIS IS ATTACHED TO THE OTHER ONE. UM, BUT BASICALLY, UM, SHE IS GOING TO, UH, STAFF THIS MEETING IN SEPTEMBER. AND OBVIOUSLY THAT WOULD BE, UH, I GUESS HER TO KIND OF PIGGYBACK, UH, ON THE CONVERSATION TONIGHT. AND THEN JUST HAVE AN IDEA EXACTLY WHAT [01:45:01] YOU GUYS WANT TO, UH, DO FOR, UH, DECEMBER. CAN WE AT LEAST GET UM, SARAH TO REGISTER US? 'CAUSE THEY'RE TAKING REGISTRATIONS NOW. YES. SO YEAH, I'LL SEND HER AN EMAIL. UM, OH, AFTER WE VOTE, WE VOTED. OH, I'M SORRY. WE TOOK THE MOTION. I THINK WE JUST DID THE MOTION, BUT WE DIDN'T YEAH, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? ABSTAIN MOTION IS CARRIED. YEAH. SO IT'S IN THIS EMAIL THAT SARAH SENT ME. I'LL, I'LL FORWARD IT TO YOU GUYS SO YOU GUYS CAN SEE EXACTLY WHAT THE CONVERSATION IS AND THEN COME SEPTEMBER, UM, YOU GUYS ALREADY BE REGISTERED AND THEN, THEN FROM THERE, IT'S JUST THE IDEA OF ORGANIZING. HOWEVER WE HAVE. YEAH. UM, I DO WANT TO LIKE KIND OF CIRCLE BACK AT LEAST ON, AND AGAIN GUYS, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S MY FAULT. MY APOLOGIES. I NEED, SO FOR WHAT SARAH'S TALKING ABOUT THIS MAILER, I NEED TO UNDERSTAND MLK, LIKE THE DATE AND THE LOCATION, LIKE 10 WHO WON? WELL I GUESS WE'LL DISCUSS IT IN SEPTEMBER. I NEED IT THIS MONTH. WE, NO ONE'S PREPARED FOR THAT. SHE NEEDS THE, SHE NEEDS THE DATE. DATE. UM, OKAY, WELL THE PAST COUPLE YEARS, RIGHT? IT'S BEEN ON MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY. RIGHT? IT'S BEEN HELD AT THE WAYNE HIGH SCHOOL. OKAY. YES. THE YEAR BEFORE WE DID IT IN THE AUDITORIUM. THIS YEAR IT WAS MOVED TO THE CAFETERIA, WHICH I THINK WAS AWESOME. CORRECT? I WAS GONNA SAY THAT. YES. YES. AND WHAT ELSE DID YOU NEED TO KNOW? THAT'S ABOUT IT. IS THAT, I MEAN, OUR LOCATION AGREE THOUGH THAT THAT'S, I MEAN THAT WAS GREAT. I MEAN, IT WAS GREAT. YEAH. AT THE CAFETERIA WITH ALL THE SIGNS AND, UH, CONSISTENTLY ON IT ON THAT DAY, AROUND THAT TIME, RIGHT? IS IT? UNLESS SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE, COMMISSION WAS THINKING ABOUT TRYING TO DO SOMETHING SO DIFFERENT. YEAH. OH, YOU, YOU WEREN'T WANTING, OH, YOU GUYS WERE WANTING TO DO SOMETHING D DIFFERENT, I DON'T KNOW WHO'S, WHO'S TAKING CHARGE OF THE, THE, THE PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR THE MLK. THERE WAS JEAN THAT SAID THAT SHE, I THINK SHE SAID SHE WOULD HELP. SHE WASN'T ON IT, SHE WASN'T GONNA HEAD IT UP, BUT I THINK SHE SAID SHE WAS GONNA, I MEAN IT WAS MS. YOLANDA, MS. JEAN THERE WAS ON TASK GROUP. SO MAYBE THE TASK LET'S, WHOEVER WANTS TO BE ON THAT TASK GROUP CAN MEET AND DISTRICT, I MEAN, I KNOW THERE'S TALK OF DOING A DINNER IN HONOR OF, UM, YEAH. SO I DON'T KNOW WHERE, BECAUSE THAT WASN'T BROUGHT TO US. I DON'T THINK WE'RE PREPARED. WE CAN, WE HAVE A SIDEBAR, BUT IT'S NOT GONNA BE, IT'S NOT GONNA BE VALID. 'CAUSE ANYTHING WE DO HAS TO BE VOTED ON. AND THE TASK GROUP THAT TYPICALLY DOES THAT OR HOW WE WANNA MOVE IS NOT THOSE MEMBERS. ARE ARE WE DOING IT ON THE, I MEAN, I MEAN THAT'S SOMETHING, HOW SPECIFIC DO THEY NEED? CAN WE PUT DOWN LIKE, UM, MLK CELEBRATION FOR SO AND SO, DATE, TIME, AND LOCATION TO BE ANNOUNCED? LEMME SEE. SO I MEAN, CAN, I MEAN IF, IF LIKE, IF WE'RE, SO DO WE HAVE A IDEA? WE DON'T KNOW WHEN, LET'S, LET'S SAY THIS, RIGHT? I WILL, I WILL TAKE THE, I WOULD TAKE THE, I'LL TAKE THE L ON THE IDEA OF NOT TELLING YOU GUYS THIS, RIGHT? THAT'S, THAT'S MY BAD. BUT FROM WHAT MIA IS SAYING, RIGHT, IF WE PHRASE IT LIKE THAT, I THINK THAT GIVES SARAH WHAT SHE NEEDS IN HER POSTCARD AND THEN THAT STILL GIVES YOU GUYS THE OPPORTUNITY TO FIGURE IT OUT. THE FLEXIBILITY TO CHANGE WHEREVER YOU NEED, RIGHT? BECAUSE THEN THERE'LL ACTUALLY BE, UH, YOU KNOW, FLYERS AND, AND THAT'S IF YOU ALL WANNA DO IT ON, DOES ANYONE REMEMBER JEAN AND YOLANDA EVER SAYING ANYTHING ABOUT CHANGING THE DAY? NO. UH, WE WAS TALK OF CHANGING THE DAY, BUT I KNOW THERE'S BEEN TALK ABOUT CHANGING WHAT? DOING DIFFERENT THINGS, DIFFERENT THINGS WITH UH, ADDING A DINNER ERROR. YEAH. SO YEAH, NOT LIKE GO THE DATE FINE. SO I GUESS MOTION NEEDS TO PUT OUT THERE AND THEN LOCATION, TIME TO BE DETERMINED OR TO BE ANNOUNCED. I DON'T THINK HE NEEDS TIME. HE JUST NEED A DATE AND A LOCATION. I JUST NEED A DATE AND A LOCATION, A DATE AND LOCATION. I THINK, I THINK SAME DATE, SAME LOCATION, I MEAN WAS GREAT. WELL, I MEAN, CAN SHE WAIT ON THE LOCATION? BECAUSE WHEN IS THE NEW CITY HALL SUPPOSED TO BE OPEN? OCTOBER. AND THAT SUPPOSED TO HAVE LIKE A BIG COMMUNITY SPACE IN THERE. NO, THEY'RE NOT DOING THAT THEN HAPPENED. SO RIGHT NOW, MONDAY, JANUARY 19TH, 2026. JANUARY 19TH. JANUARY 19TH, 2026. THAT'S MON AND THAT'S MONDAY, RIGHT? CORRECT. YEAH. UM, I WON'T, IT'S FINE. LIKE SHE WILL JUST GO WITHOUT, I THINK IF, IF I COULD, WE HAVE TO VOTE ON IT, [01:50:03] BUT I MEAN I, WE CAN, I WOULD'VE BEEN PRIVY ON THE DISCUSSION, BUT IF, IF THE, IF NOT CHANGING THE DAY WAS NEVER DISCUSSED OF CHANGING THE ACTUAL DAY OF THE EVENT, I WOULD JUST ASK SARAH TO JUST GO WITH JUST THE DAY AND EVERYTHING ELSE IS TO BE, TO BE DETERMINED. OKAY. ALRIGHT. SO, AND I MAKE A MOTION, UH, TO UH, TO JUST LET HER KNOW THE DATE OF JANUARY 19TH. YEAH. OF JANUARY 19TH, 2026. TBD. YEP. TBD FOR EVERYTHING ELSE. OKAY. NEED A SECOND? AYE SECOND. ALRIGHT, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. ALL THOSE OPPOSED ABS. APPRECIATE IT. THERE WE GO. SO WE HAVE THE DATE, UH, FOR MLK, BUT EVERYTHING ELSE IS TO BE DETERMINED. UM, THE NEXT THING, SO WE CAN GET, UH, I'M GONNA MOVE THIS ALONG. UH, I THINK WE CAN COMBINE THE LAST TWO. WELL MAYBE NOT. SO THERE'S A, A NEW BUSINESS OF CURRENT AND FUTURE POSITION OF THE COMMISSION AND ROLES. UM, WE KIND OF DISCUSSED THAT EARLIER, DID WE NOT? UM, YEAH. WAS THAT TO YOUR CLARIFY? WE'RE GONNA ELABORATE ON THAT NEXT TIME. THANKS. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE YOU GOT CLEAR BECAUSE I THINK THAT WAS YOURS THAT YOU BROUGHT UP. UM, SO MOVING RIGHT ALONG, UM, HIRING SOMEONE TO FOCUS ON THE RESULTS OF THE SURVEY. UM, I THINK, DO WE NEED TO HAVE DISCUSSION AROUND THAT OR ARE WE JUST GOING TO KIND OF MOVE MO MOVE THAT INTO OUR SEPTEMBER PLANNING AROUND WHAT THE RAMA SUGGESTS OF, TO YOUR POINT, WHO'S AVAILABLE? WHAT WE CAN DO? YEAH. 'CAUSE TO WHAT END DO YOU KNOW, IS SOMEONE GONNA BE HIRED IF WE'RE GONNA BE DOING SOME OF THE LEGWORK OR IS SOMEONE GONNA BE HIRED SO WE DON'T HAVE TO DO ANY OF THE LEGWORK ON THESE IDEAS? WE'LL PUSH THAT TO OUR SEPTEMBER. YEAH. SO PRETTY MUCH THE JENNIFER SEPTEMBER WILL JUST BE PLANNING FOR 2026 AND GET WORK REALLY WORKING OUT SOME OF THE THINGS. I MEAN, WE WANT BE MOVING FORWARD. THE, THE SUGGESTION IN THE FINAL COMMUNITY PLAN IS TO HIRE A, A DIVERSITY PERSON IN THE CITY AND TO HIRE A COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. RIGHT. BUT, BUT, BUT THAT'S NOT, WOULDN'T THE COMM I MEAN, HONESTLY, I MEAN FROM CITY FOLK, THAT WOULD BE, UM, THAT WOULDN'T BE THE DUTY OF THE COMMISSION OR OF OUR, WE COULD JUST, BUT I THINK WE'VE ALREADY MADE THAT RECOMMENDATION. NO. YEAH. AND THAT, YEAH. AND THAT'S, THAT'S BEEN A RECOMMENDATION BEFORE, RIGHT? NO, BUT WOULD IT'S EXPECT OUR DUTIES. OH, OF COURSE. I MEAN THAT WE WOULD HAVE COULD, BUT, BUT I THINK IF THEIR RECOMMENDATION HAS BEEN OUR RECOMMENDATION, THEN WE'RE SITTING RIGHT WHERE WE WANT TO. NOW IT'S REALLY ON THE CITY. IT'S NOT ON YEAH. YEAH. IT'S NOT ON US. I MEAN, THERE'S A PROCESS. YOU HAVE TO CREATE POSITIONS AND THAT'S A WHOLE, BUT I MEAN THAT'S NOT, THAT'S NOT, THAT'S NOT A, THAT'S ALL, THAT'S NOT A YEAH, THAT'S NOT A NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT. THAT'S OUTSIDE OUR SCOPE. YEAH. OKAY. UM, OUTSIDE OF THAT, OUR NEXT MEETING IS, UM, SEPTEMBER 4TH, 2025. ARE THERE ANY OBJECTIONS TO OUR NEXT MEETING? DATE AND TIME? NO HOLIDAYS THAT DAY OR ANYTHING? PERFECT. ALRIGHT. I MAKE THE MOTION TO ADJOURN THIS MEETING. CAN I GET A SECOND? I SECOND. I SECOND. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE, AYE. ALL THOSE OPPOSED NAY STAYING MOTION IS CARRIED. MEETING IS ADJOURNED. SEE YOU NEXT MONTH. * 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.