[ AGENDA CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZEN ACTION COMMISSION City Hall - Council Chambers 6131 Taylorsville Road October 2, 2025 6:00 P.M. ]
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CALL IN INTO ORDER AT SIX OH FIVE.
CAN I HAVE A ROLL CALL PLEASE? UH, MS. MRS. NEWBIE OUT.
UH, MS. NIKKER? MR. OWENS? UH, MS. MSS STEVENS.
MOVING ALONG TO APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES? NO.
I HAVE A CORRECTION ON THE MINUTES.
MY NAME IS MISSPELLED UNDER THE CALL.
ANY OTHER CORRECTIONS NEEDS TO BE DONE BEFORE WE MOVE ON? WE MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES WITH THE CORRECTION'S NAME.
WE HAVE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL AND, UH, SOME OF THE VOLUNTEERS HERE, SO, YEAH.
UH, SO YEAH, SO WE'RE COMING OFF THE FOURTH ANNUAL MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL.
UM, I LIKE TO SAY THAT, UH, FROM THE HELP OF THE COMMISSION, UH, FROM THE HELP OF THE COMMUNITY, AND DEFINITELY FROM THE HELP OF THE, SOME OF THE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE BEHIND ME, UH, I WANT TO SAY THAT, UH, THE EVENT, UH, WITH MY RELIEF WENT WELL.
AND, AND I, I THINK THAT, UH, THE NOTION BETWEEN, UH, UH, WHAT IT WAS, WHAT IT CAN BE FOR NEXT YEAR, I THINK IT'S THE GREAT PEOPLE THAT YOU GUYS ARE, AND DEFINITELY THOSE PEOPLE WHO HELPED OUT AS WELL.
SO, WITHIN THAT, UM, UH, UH, BYRON WANTED TO KIND OF, UH, MAKE SOME, UH, RECOGNITION FOR THOSE WHO KIND OF HELPED OUT AND SUPPORT, WHETHER THAT BE, UH, AS ENTERTAINERS AND, AND JUST TRYING TO KIND OF BRIDGE THAT PARTNERSHIP FOR, UH, ANY OTHER EVENTS.
SO I KIND OF TOOK IT UPON MYSELF WITH OBVIOUSLY THE
UM, JUST WANTED TO, UH, PRESENT SOME OF, UH, UH, THE EVENT, UH, PERFORMERS, UM, WITH, UH, CERTAIN CERTIFICATE OF APPRECIATION.
UM, SO I DON'T KNOW THE BEST WAY YOU GUYS WANT TO DO THIS.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS WANT TO TAKE A PICTURE AFTERWARDS.
YOU GUYS WANT TO GO INDIVIDUALLY? UM, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS HAD TO WORK AFTERWARDS.
I I DON'T WANT TO GUYS, FORGIVE ME IF I BUTCHER ANYTHING.
SO, UH, THE FIRST ONE THAT I HAVE, OR AT LEAST THE FIRST ONE THAT'S ON TOP, UM, THOSE IN THE, UM, UH, AR IAN, UH, GU, GUAM, COME ON UP.
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ON.THE NEXT ONE WE HAVE PAN DANCE GROUP.
YOU CLOSE OR YOU SHORT? YOU LAUGH IS ME.
SHE, THEY MIGHT BE COMING A LITTLE BIT LATE.
AND THEN NEXT WE HAVE A HUSKA TURKISH GROUP.
HOW WAS IT? WAS IT GOOD? NO,
OKAY, NEXT IS MYSTICAL MOTION DENSE
YOU GOT ANYTHING YOU SAY? OKAY.
UM, SO, HEY, UM, I JUST WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR, UM, MAKING THIS YEAR'S MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL.
UM, WHAT IT WAS, IT WAS GREAT.
I REALLY APPRECIATE THE HARD WORK.
THE HOURS, UH, THAT WAS ON MY FEET, THE MORE THAN PROBABLY 30,000 STEPS THAT I TAKE, UH, TOOK ON THAT DAY.
I DO REALLY APPRECIATE YOU GUYS ALL COMING OUT.
I WOULD PROBABLY, UH, THE COMMISSION THEMSELVES WILL PROBABLY, UH, REITERATE SOME OF THAT SAME SENTIMENT, UM, FOR MAKING IT WHAT IT WAS.
AND I MEAN, GUYS, DON'T BE STRANGERS, UM, COME OUT, COME SUPPORT.
UM, I, I THINK WE CAN DEFINITELY KINDA, UH, UH, BUILD ON WHAT WE DID THIS YEAR, UM, AND THEN HOPEFULLY CONTINUE THIS NOTION WHERE PEOPLE ARE JUST TRYING THEIR HARDEST TO GET A PART OF IT.
UM, I JUST HAVE A LITTLE SUGGESTION.
IT WAS AT THE SAME TIME AS THE GARAGE SALE.
AND WE WERE HAVING A GARAGE SALE, SO WE COULDN'T COME, BUT I WAS REALLY WANTING TO YOU AND I WOULD TELL YOU THAT THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT I DIDN'T REALIZE UNTIL BASICALLY THE DAY OF IT WAS LIKE, THIS IS, THIS IS A CITYWIDE GRASS SALE.
I THINK YOU WOULD'VE HAD A BIGGER TURNOUT IF PEOPLE WEREN'T HAVING GARAGE SALE.
YOU DULY, DULY NOTED SOMETHING THAT, AS YOU KNOW, THE COMMISSION DEFINITELY WOULD TAKE ON FOR NEXT YEAR'S EVENT THAT TRIED, OR AT LEAST THEY TRIED TO KIND OF FIGURE OUT MEANS OF, UM, GETTING THAT INFORMATION, JUST BEING CONSCIOUS OF IT.
BUT, BUT I DO APPRECIATE THAT.
SO, UM, IF YOU GUYS DON'T MIND, CAN WE TAKE A GROUP PICTURE WITHOUT COMMISSION? YES.
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THERE.MAKES ME WANT TO GO TO ANOTHER EVENT RIGHT NOW.
YOU GUYS WANT COMFORTABLE ALL I'M GONNA TAKE A COUPLE.
ANYBODY ELSE WANT THE PHOTOS? YEAH.
DO YOU MIND JUST SENDING US THE TEXT? OH, WE CAN, WE CAN, WE CAN.
AND MAKE SURE EVERYONE'S IN IT.
YEAH, SO, SO WE JUST KIND OF, SO YOU GUYS CAN HANG OUT HERE AND LISTEN TO OUR MINUTE OR YOU GUYS FREE TO GO ANYTIME YOU WANT.
SO IT WAS, I WAS FROM US, WE FROM FACEBOOK, SO WE ARE HERE.
SO I WAS REALLY HAPPY THAT WE HAVE ONE NICE BEDROOM.
JUST REAL QUICK, UH, CAN WE GO BACK TO APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES AND UH, HAVE A MOTION PLEASE.
AGAIN, I'LL MAKE THE MOTION THAT WE APPROVE THE MINUTES WITH THE CORRECTION OF CHRISTIE'S NAME.
CAN I HAVE A VOTE? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
UH, WE PASSED THE OLD BUSINESS AND, UH, MOVING TO A NEW BUSINESS.
UM, REAL QUICK, UH, WITH OLD BUSINESS, UM, SHOULD HAVE CAME TO PASS LAST MEETING, UM, FROM ATTORNEY, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN.
UM, I THINK HE SHOULD HAVE TOLD YOU GUYS ABOUT THE NAACP BAKER DINNER HAPPENING.
ARE WE, WE'RE ALREADY IN OCTOBER AT THE END OF THIS MONTH.
UM, IT'S, IT'S FINE IF YOU GUYS DON'T NECESSARILY KNOW, UM, THE TIME, UH, THE, 'CAUSE I DON'T THINK, I DON'T HAVE THAT YET.
BUT I JUST WANTED YOU GUYS TO, UH, BE AWARE OF THE BAN, WHAT HAPPENED AT THE END OF THE YEAR, UM, OR AT THE END OF THE MONTH.
UM, WE HAVE A TABLE, LIKE WE TYPICALLY DO, UM, EIGHT SEATS.
UM, JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, UM, WHAT THE COMMISSION WANTS TO DO, UH, IF THEY WANT TO COME OUT.
THE IDEA IS THAT WE WILL TAKE, UM, COMMISSION MEMBERS FIRST, AND THEN IF WE ULTIMATELY HAVE, UM,
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EXTRA SEATS, UM, THEN SPOUSES WILL, UM, FILL THOSE EXTRA, UM, SEATS THAT ARE AVAILABLE.UM, SO I WILL SEND IN YOU ALL, UM, A EMAIL JUST REGARDING THAT.
AND THEN FROM THAT, UM, JUST REPLY TO ME DIRECTLY, UM, IF YOU WANT TO GO OR NOT.
AND THEN I'LL JUST MAKE MY LIST ACCORDINGLY.
AND THEN FROM THAT I'LL TRY TO, UM, MOVE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE, KIND OF MAKE SURE IF, UM, SPOUSES, UM, WILL BE, UM, UH, ACCOMPANIED, UM, OR NOT.
ANY QUESTIONS? NO, I CAN VERIFY THE DATE.
YEAH, THAT'S SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
I DIDN'T WANNA, I DIDN'T WANT TO JUMP.
MOVING ALONG TO A NEW BUSINESS.
SO, UM, JUST FROM THE MINUTES AND THE CONVERSATION CENTERED AROUND THAT, I KNOW WE'RE GETTING CLOSE TO THE END OF THE YEAR.
AND THEN I KNOW THAT WAS SOMETHING OF TOPIC THAT, UM, YOU GUYS PREVIOUSLY DISCUSSED, OR AT LEAST THAT THOUGHT OF.
IT WAS, AGAIN, THAT CONVERSATION COULD OBVIOUSLY BE PUSHED TILL NOVEMBER.
UM, BUT, UM, YEAH, I DON'T KNOW IF ANYBODY HAS KIND OF TAKEN UPON THEMSELVES, UM, THAT ARE HERE, UM, THAT WANTED TO BE INVOLVED IN THAT, UM, UH, EVENT.
UM, I THINK THE SITUATION WAS AROUND, I'M SAYING IS THAT THERE'S GONNA BE SOME, UM, UH, CHRISTMAS PARADE CENTERED, CENTERED AROUND THE NEW BUILDING, UM, OBVIOUSLY AROUND CHRISTMAS TIME.
UM, AND THAT'S KIND OF WHERE IT KIND OF DRIFTED OFF FOR ME.
UM, AGAIN, I'M FINE WITH WAITING TILL THE NEXT MONTH IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN.
UM, IT WAS JUST MORE OR LESS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WE WERE, IF SOMEBODY ON THE, UH, GUYS TONIGHT HAD ANY NECESSARY INPUT OR UPDATES, UM, OR REQUESTS THAT THEY NEEDED FOR ME TO DO, UM, PRIOR TO.
ANYBODY HAS COMMENTS ON, FOR THE CHRISTMAS PARADE? WHAT IS THE DATE? UH, UH, NO, DECEMBER 12TH SEEMS LIKE THE DATE, BUT I THINK IT'S ON THAT FLYER.
I, I DON'T, I DON'T SEE, WAIT A MINUTE.
DECEMBER 6TH OR SOMETHING, PLEASE.
JUST WANNA CONFIRM WHAT DATE THAT IS.
SO I SEE HOLIDAY PARADE DECEMBER 6TH, 3:00 PM AND I'M JUST REFERRING TO THE FLYER.
AT THE NEIGHBOR HEIGHTS GOVERNANCE CENTER.
SO YEAH, THAT, YEAH, WE WOULD BE IN THE NEW, UM, CITY HALL BY THAT POINT.
UM, YEAH, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT WE'D BE MOVING, UH, CITY STAFF WOULD BE MOVING OVER THERE BY NOVEMBER, UH, MID MID-NOVEMBER.
SO BY THAT POINT, I THINK WE WILL OBVIOUSLY START TO, UH, INVITE RESIDENTS, UM, AS AN OPEN HOUSE TO THE NEW STRUCTURE.
AND THEN ULTIMATELY, I THINK IT'S, UM, JUST AROUND THAT TIME OF THE HOLIDAYS, UM, AND WE'LL START TO TRY TO, UM, DO THE EVENTS.
UM, DEFINITELY CENTERED AROUND CHRISTMAS TIME.
SO I HAVE A QUESTION JUST FROM PREVIOUS CONVERSATIONS.
SO WAS THE INTENT FOR THE COMMISSION TO JUST HAVE LIKE A TABLE WITH INFORMATION TO SHARE WITH THE HUBER HEIGHTS COMMUNITY ABOUT YEAH.
THAT WAS, OR WHAT WE DO? YEAH.
I THINK THAT WE HAVE HELD IN THE PAST MM-HMM
I THINK THAT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING BECAUSE I THINK IT'S MORE OR LESS, UH, SARAH FORSYTH'S KINDA EVENT.
LIKE SHE'S TAKEN ON WITH THE OTHER BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, UM, TO KIND OF DO SOME OF THAT SAME THING.
AND I THINK IT'S AN UNDERSTANDING AS PARTNERING WITH, UM, MRS. DAVISON AS WELL.
UM, BUT IT'S RIGHT TO YOUR POINT, RIGHT, A BOOTH AND, UH, PAMPHLETS INFORMATION JUST ABOUT THE COMMISSION, UM, THE IDEAS, MISSION GOALS AND UM, UH, EVENTS TO SHARE WITH THE PUBLIC IS INSIDE.
IS IT INSIDE
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A ICE RINK OUTSIDE OF THE NEW CITY HALL, AND I'M LIKE, DANG,I GUESS SO I'M NOT, I'M NOT A HUNDRED PERCENT CERTAIN YET, BUT, UM, I THINK THERE'S A BIG ENOUGH SPACE FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN THE LAYOUT OF THE NEW BUILDING, BUT I'M, I'M NOT
UM, AGAIN, I THINK WE'LL HAVE ENOUGH TIME IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU GUYS JUST WANT TO TABLE AND THINK ABOUT, UM, NEXT MONTH.
UM, AND THEN IF IT'S SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS DOING SOME PAMPHLETS AND SOME FLYERS AND JUST TALKING ABOUT IT, I THINK IT'S OBVIOUSLY A GOOD PROMOTION SITE WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING THE FOLLOWING MONTH, UM, AS JUST THAT PLATFORM.
UM, BUT YES, THAT, UM, JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I WASN'T LEAVING ANYTHING, UM, UH, DORMANT, UM, FROM ME NOT BEING HERE LAST MONTH, JUST DECIDED TONIGHT, UM, TO KICKING THE HAND DOWN THE ROAD IF WE'RE GONNA PARTICIPATE.
THAT'S DON'T IF THEY'RE DISCUSSION ABOUT, HAVE ANY INSIGHT, THOUGHTS.
THIS IS WHAT, OCTOBER? SO LITERALLY IT'LL BE TWO MONTHS AWAY.
I THINK WE SHOULD MAKE A DECISION NOW ABOUT IT THEN HAVE TYPE OF LIKE MARK, I'LL CALL IT MARKETING INFORMATION YEAH.
WE HAVE TO PLAN FOR THAT MM-HMM
TO USE FUNDS FROM OUR BUDGET TO CREATE LITTLE CARDS ABOUT INFORMATION ABOUT COMMISSION HONORSHIP WITH THE CITY, YOU KNOW, HAS IN MIND.
BUT YEAH, WE SHOULD HAVE DECISION IN MY, CAN WE HAVE A MOTION TO ATTEND THIS YEAR'S CHRISTMAS PARADE ON DECEMBER 6TH? SO WE'RE TALKING TWO DIFFERENT THINGS HERE THOUGH.
THERE'S THE PARADE AND THEN THERE'S THE FESTIVITIES AFTERWARDS, CORRECT? I AM IN, I'M, I'M, I'M INTERPRETING IT AS ONE THING, RIGHT? WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS PARADE, I'M, I'M THINKING THAT IT'S ONE WHOLE THING, UNLESS I'M MISTAKEN BECAUSE LAST MONTH SARAH HAD ASKED IF WE WANTED TO HAVE A BOOTH OR A TABLE OH.
AT THE TREE LIGHTING OR WHATEVER IT WAS.
I, I DON'T KNOW SURE WHAT EXACTLY IS PLAN, BUT THE INITIAL IDEA THAT WAS BROUGHT TO THE COMMISSION WAS JUST TO WALK IN THE PARADE LIKE WE DID FOR THE 4TH OF JULY.
WELL, I MEAN, WAS THERE A UNDERSTANDING OF THAT SITUATION FROM LAST ONE? WAS THERE A WHAT, UH, UNDER, LIKE, WAS THAT THE MINDSET THEN? JUST THE WALK IN THE PARADE THEN? I MEAN, DID YOU GUYS GO ON THAT LAST? NO.
UM, ULTIMATELY YOU GUYS, UM, YOU GUYS CAN, UM, SHOOT, I GUESS, I MEAN, YOU COULD MAKE THE CALL, RIGHT? IF YOU GUYS ARE FINE WITH THE PARADE, WE CAN UNDERSTAND THAT.
IF YOU GUYS ARE FINE WITH THE BOOTH, THAT'S FINE AS WELL.
UM, BUT I THINK WHAT YOLANDA WAS TALKING ABOUT JUST TO KIND OF, YOU KNOW, MAKING THAT DECISION, I GUESS NOW, I MEAN, IT, IT WOULDN'T HURT.
UM, BUT I THINK IT'S JUST UNDERSTANDING YOU GUYS' FLEXIBILITY TO KIND OF DO THAT, OR IF YOU GUYS HAVE THE ABILITY TO KIND OF DO IT IN THE CENTER, AND I MEAN, IT, IT'S NO HARM IF YOU CAN'T, IT'S JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IF I'M MISSING ANYTHING AND I NEED TO BE, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO BE ACTIVE TO KIND OF HELP OUT IF YOU GUYS NEED IT OR NOT.
WELL, I THINK MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION PROBABLY NEED TO DECIDE IF BEING PART OF SOMETHING LIKE THAT FALLS UNDER THE WORDING OF OUR COMMISSION BASIS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
I MEAN, IT IS JUST, I MEAN, YEAH, I MEAN, I WOULD LEAN IT MORE TOWARDS COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, RIGHT? SO I MEAN, I THINK THAT'S A, THAT'S A STRONG PILLAR OF WHAT YOU GUYS DO, RIGHT? UM, I MEAN, I AM, I'M NOT TORN EITHER WAY.
I THINK I'M JUST HERE TO BE OF SERVICE TO YOU GUYS AS COMMISSION MEMBERS.
UM, IF YOU GUYS, IF YOU, IF YOU ALL WANT ME TO BE THERE TO HELP OUT, I'M FINE WITH THAT.
UM, IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, UM, MAYBE NEXT YEAR, THAT'S FINE AS WELL.
UM, I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU GUYS KIND OF WON'T BE PLACED THAT
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IF I NEED TO KIND OF TAKE ON ANY RESPONSIBILITY TO KIND OF HELP OUT.SO I HAVE A QUESTION, JEFFREY.
I'M SURE IF YOU KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS, IS THERE LIKE A DEADLINE AS FAR AS WHO PARTICIPATES WITH THE BOOTH OR WALK PARADE? IS THERE A DEADLINE? NO, AND I, AND I DIDN'T GET ANY DEADLINES FROM SARAH.
UM, I, AND I THOUGHT THAT THE CONVERSATION WOULD'VE BEEN A LOT MORE, UM, FILLING WITH HER BEING HER LAST MONTH.
UM, BUT I FEEL LIKE THAT WASN'T THE CASE THEN.
UM, UM, BUT I CAN GIVE THAT, AND I MEAN, I CAN SHOOT HER AN EMAIL TONIGHT AND THEN GET SOMETHING TOMORROW AND THEN WE CAN MAKE THAT UNDERSTANDING.
BUT I DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE ANYTHING CRAZY, UM, ABOUT HOW QUICK OF A A, OF A TURN TURNAROUND I NEED TO DO FOR A PARADE IF YOU GUYS WANT TO BE A PART OF THE PARADE ONE.
IF YOU GUYS WANT TO JUST BE A PART OF THE PARADE.
I THINK THAT'S A SIMPLE TURNAROUND.
IF YOU GUYS WANT TO JUST DO A BOOTH, THAT'S A SIMPLE TURNAROUND.
AND THEN IF YOU GUYS WANT TO DO BOTH, ALL OF IT, IT'S SIMPLE TURNAROUNDS.
I THINK IT'S JUST, IF YOU ALL HAVE THE CAPACITY TO, UM, WANT TO DO IT, UM, IN DECEMBER IS ALL, ALL, ALL I NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, I HAVE COMMISSION SUPPORT TO WANT TO DO IT.
SO THE PARADE IS, UM, DECEMBER 6TH.
AT TWO, AND THEY'RE GOING TO GO DOWN GRANT AT THREE, LINEUP IS AT TWO, AND THEY'LL WALK DOWN GRANT PIPE AT THREE.
BECAUSE WE HAVE TO DECIDE IF WE GONNA JUST BEING THAT, AND THEN ALSO IF THERE'S A BOOTH IF WE WANT PARTICIPATE IN THAT AS WELL.
IT SEEMS LIKE FROM, YOU KNOW, THE QUESTION AS TO WHETHER THERE IS A DEADLINE OR NOT, IT SEEMS LIKE THERE IS A MM-HMM
SO IF WE WERE TO MAKE A DECISION AFTER NOVEMBER COMMISSION MEETING, WOULD THAT BE TOO LATE OR NO? NO, I DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE.
I I HONESTLY DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE TOO LATE FOR, FOR WHAT YOU GUYS HAD.
I MEAN, JUST CAN YOU GIMME THE RUNDOWN WHAT YOU GUYS HAD FOR THE 4TH OF JULY, UM, PARADE? I MEAN, WAS IT JUST THAT YOU GUYS WERE GIVING OUT PAMPHLETS OR, UM RIGHT.
IS THAT MY UNDERSTANDING FOR THE, WE HAD TO SAVE THE DATE FOR THE MULTICULTURAL FEST.
AND ON THAT WAS ON ONE SIDE AND ON THE OTHER SIDE WAS, UH, TEXTING SIMILAR TO I THINK LIKE WHAT'S ON OUR WEBSITE.
I THINK SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE.
SO, I MEAN, AND IF WE WERE RUNNING SOMETHING SIMILAR TO WHAT IS COMING UP AFTER DECEMBER, WE COULD BASICALLY DO THE SAME THING, RIGHT? IT'S A SAVE DATE, OR AT LEAST AT THAT POINT IT'S JUST PROMOTING, UM, THE MLK LUNCH ON ONE SIDE.
AND WE ARE JUST GIVING THAT TEXT ON THE OTHER SIDE.
I MEAN, AND LIKE, MY RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE THE MOST SIMPLEST THING WE COULD DO, OR, OR WHAT WE CAN DO IS, UM, IF BY NOVEMBER, IF THIS IS TOO MUCH, OR EITHER NOVEMBER, IF WE COULD SAY SOMETHING LIKE, WE DO SAVE, NO, WE, THIS IS MY IDEA.
ON ONE SIDE WE PROMOTE THE MLK, AND THEN MAYBE IT'S SAVE THE DATES FOR JUNETEENTH.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S NECESSARILY TOO EARLY, BUT IT'S ONE IDEAL, UM, THAT I COULD RECOMMEND OR SOMETHING SIMILAR TO LITERATURE AND THE, THE NEXT EVENT THAT'S COMING UP, MAYBE WE COULD DO SOMETHING, UM, PUT SOMETHING IN ABOUT, YOU KNOW, ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE, UH, CRB.
I MEAN, THAT'S A GOOD IDEA TOO.
I MEAN, WE COULD DEFINITELY DO THAT TOO.
I THINK WE ALSO HANDED OUT CANDY.
UM, BUT I THINK PEOPLE PURCHASED THAT CANDY ON THEIR OWN, I'M NOT SURE MM-HMM
UM, SO I DON'T KNOW IN TERMS OF COST AND IT AFFECTING OUR BUDGET.
DON'T, DON'T, DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT.
DON'T, WE WOULD DEFINITELY NEED A LOT MORE FLYERS THAN WE HAVE FOR THE 4TH OF JULY 30 WAS
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APPROXIMATELY HOW MANY DO YOU THINK IT WAS? I THINK IT WAS 505.SO PROBABLY
IT'S LIKE IT WASN'T, IT WASN'T LIKE A PIECE PAPER.
I, I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE A THOUSAND WOULD BE TOO MUCH.
I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE COME OUT FOR THE PRE GUESS.
IT DEPENDS ON WEATHER, BUT I, I THINK IF ANYTHING, I THINK PEOPLE WILL WANT TO JUST BECAUSE THERE'S SOMETHING NEW.
SO LET ME, LET ME MAKE SURE I HADN'T RUN PAST THIS.
SO WITH US MOVING IN NOVEMBER, I DON'T THINK CITY HALL WILL BE OPEN UNTIL BASICALLY THAT WEEK OF, SO IT'S THE BRAND NEW SHINY THING IN THE CITY BY THAT POINT.
SO I THINK PEOPLE WOULD JUST BE INTERESTED TO JUST WANT TO FLOCK OVER THAT WAY ANYWAYS.
SO, IS THAT RIGHT? ANYWAYS, ANYWAY.
BUT NONETHELESS, UM, I THINK THERE MIGHT ACTUALLY BE A RELATIVELY GOOD TURNOUT JUST BECAUSE I THINK IT'S THE OPEN HOUSE, NEW CITY BUILDING, PEOPLE WANT TO SEE IT.
SO I THINK WE WILL, I THINK WE'LL ACTUALLY HAVE THE NUMBERS TO GET RESIDENTS, UM, ACTIVE, WHETHER THAT BE THE PARADE OR WHETHER THAT BE WHATEVER IT IS, SARAH'S THINKING AFTER, AFTERWARDS, BUT I THINK THEY'LL BE PRETTY GOOD RE UM, UM, UM, UM, PRETTY GOOD, A PRETTY GOOD TURNOUT FOR, FOR WHAT SARAH'S PLANNING ON THAT DAY.
SO THERE'LL BE PEOPLE TO HAND OUT FLYERS TO, CORRECT? CORRECT.
I THINK THIS IS ALL, THIS IS, THIS IS HER BEING YEAH.
STAGING THIS THING WITH THE, WITH THE NEW BUILDING, UM, BEING, BEING OPEN.
I'M NOT SURE IF THEY'RE GONNA HAVE CLUES.
I'M JUST HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH CINDY DAVIDSON.
UM, I'M NOT SURE IF THEY'RE GONNA HAVE CLUES, BUT MAYBE WE CAN DECIDE AT LEAST IF WE'RE GONNA PARTICIPATE IN THE PARADE PORTION.
THAT WAY WE HAVE A HEADS UP ON WHAT WE NEED TO PREPARE.
UM, SO WE HAVE SOME LEEWAY AND TIME TO DO THAT.
I MOVE THAT WE PARTICIPATE IN THE COOPER HEIGHTS CHRISTMAS PARADE.
CAN WE CALL FOR VOTE? ANYBODY IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
SO I'LL, I'LL WORK ON THAT AND, UM, I'LL SEND THAT OUT.
ALONG, I'M SORRY, YOU ARE GONNA WORK ON WHAT JEFFREY? UH, THE CARD.
I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY WHO WAS DOING THAT.
SO WE'LL HAVE THE MLK SAVE THE DATE AND MAYBE A QR TO OUR, UM, YEAH.
ONE SIDE WILL HAVE INFORMATION IN REGARDS TO THE MLK.
AND THEN ONE SIDE WILL BE TEXTS FOR ABOUT THE COMMISSION AND THEN A THOUSAND, A THOUSAND, A THOUSAND CARDS.
WHAT, WHAT THE SI WHAT SIZE? THIS? PROBABLY TWO.
UH, NO, BECAUSE I THINK I, I, I MEAN, I THINK IT'S A SHEET.
AND WHAT SARAH, WHAT SARAH WILLIAMS DID.
I FEEL LIKE SHE CUT, SHE CUT HALF SHEET, MAYBE.
IS THAT WHAT YOU GUYS WANT? FOUR, FOUR FOURS? YEAH, JUST CUT IT IN.
CAN YOU JUST BRING US SOMETHING NEXT MONTH AND THEN WE CAN LOOK AT IT AND, OKAY.
MOVING ALONG TO, UH, NEXT NEW BUSINESS MLK DAVID EVENT.
SO THE TASK GROUP FOR THE MLK EVENT, WE MET
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ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23RD TO START PLANNING FOR THAT.WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE EVENT ON THE ACTUAL MLK HOLIDAY, WHICH IS MONDAY, JANUARY 19TH, 2026.
AND IT'S ALREADY
IS IT THE FIFTH? WHICH, WHICH CYCLE ARE, WELL, THIS HAS THE SIXTH, BUT SHOULD BE EITHER THE FOURTH OR THE FIFTH, BUT A, ANYWAY.
UM, WE DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A LUNCH AND DIALOGUE WHERE THE THEME IS KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE LIVE BUILDING A UNIFIED COMMUNITY, ONE CONVERSATION AT A TIME.
SO THE PURPOSE OF THIS IS TO FOSTER DIALOGUE AMONGST THE HEBREW HEIGHTS COMMUNITY AS FAR AS ISSUES THAT MAY BE BRIDGING ANY TYPE OF INEQUALITY OR DISPARITIES.
AND JUST TO ADDRESS THOSE NOT ONLY WITHIN THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS, BUT LEADERSHIP.
SO WE REALLY, REALLY WOULD LIKE FOR CITY COUNCIL LEADERS TO BE PRESENT, ESPECIALLY THOSE THAT REPRESENT THE VARIOUS WARDS, BECAUSE THEY NEED TO HEAR FROM THEIR CONSTITUENTS AS FAR AS ANY TYPE OF DISPARITIES OR ISSUES THAT THEY'RE FACING.
AND THIS WILL ALL BE IN ALIGNMENT WITH WHAT DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
STOOD FOR AS FAR AS CIVIL RIGHTS, EQUALITY AND THOSE THINGS.
UM, THE TASK GROUP, WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING QUOTES AS FAR AS CATERERS FOR LUNCH, AND WE'RE THINKING ABOUT SANDS.
THAT'S ACTUALLY HERE IN, UM, HEBREW HEIGHTS SUPPORTING A MINORITY OWNED BUSINESS, WHICH REALLY IS THE OTHER GOAL TOO, AS WELL.
UM, MS. ELLA'S SOUL FOOD IS ONE OPTION, AND THEN THE THIRD IS ANOTHER, UM, BUSINESS.
BUT IN ADDITION TO THE ACTUAL LUNCHEON, WE'RE GOING TO AGAIN, ENGAGE THE YOUTH LIKE WE HAVE DONE IN PRIOR YEARS AS FAR AS THE WAYNE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, AND EVEN, UM, TRYING TO GET SOME OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND ELEMENTARY STUDENTS INVOLVED AS WELL, WHERE THEY CAN GIVE THEIR BRIEF REFLECTIONS AS FAR AS WHAT DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR MEANS TO THEM.
UM, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS WHERE WE TALK ABOUT DIFFERENT QUESTIONS THAT WE'RE GONNA PROPOSE AS FAR AS WHAT CHALLENGES DO THE VARIOUS CONSTITUENTS, COOPER HEIGHTS, SEE IN THEIR VARIOUS WARDS AS FAR AS INEQUALITY AND JUSTICE, AND WHAT ACTIONS CAN CITY LEADERSHIP TAKE TO ADDRESS THOSE.
AND ALSO, THIS IS SOMETHING YOU HAD MENTIONED, JEFFREY, WHICH WAS A GREAT IDEA, TY, ALSO HOW DR. KING, HE HAS TIES HERE IN TERMS OF, UM, THE DAYTON COMMUNITY.
UM, HE, AND I THOUGHT I HAD WRITTEN THIS DOWN, BUT YOU HAD MENTIONED THAT HE HAD ATTENDED ANTIOCH.
SO THE IDEA OF TYING, UM, DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING TO THE DAYTON REGION, RIGHT? MM-HMM
WHETHER THAT HE HAS HAD A COMMIT COMMITMENT SPEECHES AT ANTIOCH MM-HMM
UM, FROM HIS COMMISSION SPEECHES AT CENTRAL STATE.
UM, ALSO, I THINK WILBERFORCE WAS IN THERE AS WELL.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, HE'S HAD A, A IDENTITY WITHIN THE DAYTON REGIONS, UH, WITHIN THE DAYTON REGION, UM, AS HE WAS CRUSADING FOR CIVIL RIGHTS, UH, ACROSS AMERICA.
UM, KNOWING, UH, HE DID RECEIVE A KEY TO THE CITY, UH, FROM THE CITY OF DAYTON AND IN THE EARLY SIXTIES.
SO, YEAH, I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S THOSE THINGS OF, YOU KNOW, THE HISTORY BEHIND, UM, ONE OF THE, YOU KNOW, PI PIONEERS OF, UH, UH, OR AT LEAST ONE OF THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE CIVIL, CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER, UH, IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
IT'S, IT'S TRYING TO KIND INCORPORATE, YOU KNOW, THE IDEA OF, UH, UH, OF THE CONNECTION BETWEEN, UM, US NOT BEING SO SMALL, RIGHT.
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AS A COMMUNITY, RIGHT? UH, YOU KNOW, THE THINGS THAT WE CAN ASPIRE TO ARE A LOT BIGGER FROM, FROM WHAT WE DO WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY.UM, AND I THINK IT'S ULTIMATELY THE EFFECT OF SOME OF THESE THINGS THAT HE LED, UM, OR WOULD ULTIMATELY BE GREAT THINGS THAT WE COULD, UM, UH, STRIVE TO DO, UM, AS A COMMUNITY IN HEBREW HEIGHTS.
IF I MAY ADD SOMETHING, UM, CORE RED IS SCOTT ACTUALLY ATTENDED ANTIOCH PRIOR TO BEING MRS. KING, BUT YEAH.
SO THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING INTERESTING TO LOOK INTO THE HISTORY ANGLE.
THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP.
SO GOING BACK TO THE SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS AFTER THOSE TAKE PLACE, WE HAVE SOME ACTION ITEMS WITH THE CITY TO FOLLOW UP ON AND PROCEED FROM THERE.
BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE REASON WHY THIS LUNCHEON WAS DECIDED UPON IS TO CONTINUE SOMETHING THAT A FORMER RESIDENT OF COOPER HEIGHTS, FORMER VICE MAYOR, ACTUALLY THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE VICE MAYOR, MRS. LUCILLE DALE, WHO ALSO WAS A LONG-TERM EDUCATOR HERE AT WEISSENBORN, WE WILL ACKNOWLEDGE HER AS FAR AS INITIATING THIS TYPE OF, UM, COMMUNITY EVENT, UM, YEARS AGO WITH HER HUSBAND AND I HAVE ACTUALLY HAD HAD SOME CONVERSATIONS WITH HER RECENTLY FOR HER TO ATTEND.
AND WE'RE GOING TO MEET SOMETIME IN EARLY NOVEMBER BASED ON HER SCHEDULE.
BUT SHE IS ALSO GOING TO BE AT THE NAACP DINNER AS WELL, BECAUSE SHE HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN ACTIVE LIFETIME MEMBER OF THAT.
SO I THINK FOR THOSE OF US WHO ARE GOING TO BE AT THAT DINNER, 'CAUSE I'M GONNA VOLUNTEER BECAUSE SHE KIND OF TWISTED MY ARM DOING THAT, BUT I THINK IT'LL BE GOOD FOR THOSE OF US WHO ARE GONNA BE THERE TO MEET HER IN PERSON, YOU KNOW, BEFOREHAND.
SO JUST LITTLE INFORMATION ABOUT THAT.
BUT WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO FIND SOME INFORMATION ON HER CONTRIBUTIONS AS AN EDUCATOR IN HUBER HEIGHTS, AND ALSO SOME OF THE STUDENTS THAT SHE INFLUENCED AND SOME I PERSONALLY KNOW, UM, FOR AT LEAST 20 PLUS YEARS FOR THEM TO KIND OF GIVE A BRIEF REFLECTION AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF MRS. DALE AND WHAT SHE HAS STRIVED TO DO IN TERMS OF WHAT DR. KING STREET WAS.
SO THESE ARE THE PRELIMINARY, UM, ACTIONS THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW.
THE NEXT TASK GROUP MEETING IS GOING TO BE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28TH AT SIX HERE, UM, AT CITY HALL.
AND THAT CONCLUDES MY, WELL, THE BRIEF REPORT ON BEHALF OF THE TAX GROUP.
SO I APPRECIATE THOSE THAT HAVE VOLUNTEERED.
WE ALSO OPEN ANY OTHER IDEAS FROM OTHER COMMISSION MEMBERS, BUT WE DEFINITELY WANT TO START GETTING THE WORD OUT AS FAR AS THE SAVE THE DATE.
UM, AND I KNOW THAT I THINK NEXT TUESDAY IS WHEN THE COMMISSION IS SCHEDULED TO GIVE AN UPDATE MM-HMM
AND MR. OWENS, HE'S PLANNING TO ATTEND.
UH, I KNOW I EMAILED HIM A COUPLE WEEKS AGO ABOUT IT.
UM, I'LL SAY SOMETHING TO HIM, I'LL SAY SOMETHING TO HIM IN A TEXT ABOUT IT.
UM, IF THEY, IF HE STILL PLANS ON BEING HERE, UM, I WILL BE HERE ON THAT DAY AS WELL.
UM, OBVIOUSLY TO YOUR POINT, IT'S A GOOD MENTION TO KIND OF SAY SOMETHING TO COUNCIL ABOUT OBVIOUSLY THE PAST EVENTS AND THEN AS WE KIND OF CLOSE THIS YEAR OUT, AND THEN LOOK FOR, UH, SOME OF THE THINGS, UH, THAT THE COMMISSION'S DOING IN 2026.
OBVIOUSLY TO YOUR, TO THE POINT OF MENTIONING, UH, UH, THE MLK, UH, EVENT, UM, EARLY IN THE YEAR IS A GOOD POINT.
BUT, UM, TO KIND OF ADD ON TO THAT, UM, I DID SPEAK WITH SARAH WILLIAMS IN REGARDS TO SAVE THE DATES AND, UH, UH, FLYERS, WAGES, UM, ALL THAT STUFF.
UM, WE'RE IN A GOOD SPACE WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WHEN WE WANT TO GET THOSE THINGS OUT.
UM, SHE JUST MADE THE NOTION OF, UH, SOONER THE BETTER.
UM, SO I WOULD ASK, UM, AS SOON AS YOU CAN GET ME MATERIAL ON HOW YOU WANT IT TO LOOK.
WELL, I THOUGHT IF I MAY MM-HMM
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I THOUGHT THAT YOU WERE GOING TO INITIATE THAT AND GIVE US, YOU KNOW, A DRAFT THIS EVENING, OR DID I NOT UNDERSTAND THAT CORRECTLY? I DID NOT TAKE THAT AS MY JOB.UM, NOW, UM, TYPICALLY I DID GET THINGS IN THE PAST, SO I GOT SOME TYPE OF DRAFT FROM YOU ALL FROM THE COMMISSION, AND THEN IT WAS, OR AT LEAST IN THE IDEA, RIGHT, OF WHAT YOU GUYS WERE LOOKING AT, IF THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT YOU GUYS TOOK FROM THE NATIONAL THEME FOR 2026 AND KIND OF IMPLEMENTED THAT INTO A FLYER, WE COULD DO THAT.
OR IF YOU GUYS CAME UP WITH SOMETHING TOTALLY ORIGINAL AND WANTED TO USE THAT AND, AND THEN, UM, PLACE THAT INTO A FLYER OR SOMETHING OF A SAVE THE DAY, UM, UM, CAR ITEM, UH, WE COULD DO THAT.
NOW, IF THAT'S WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE ME TO DO MOVING FORWARD, IS TO GET YOU SOMETHING.
AND THEN WHAT I CAN DO IS, UM, I CAN GET A DRAFT HOPEFULLY BY NEXT WEEK, AND THEN I CAN JUST EMAIL YOU, LET YOU LOOK OVER IT, UM, LOOK OVER IT, THEN THE OTHER, BECAUSE IT'S NOT JUST MY EVENT.
UM, AND THEN FROM THERE, IF YOU WANT ME TO BRING COPIES SO I CAN BRING IT TO THE, UM, NEXT, UH, COMMISSION MEETING IN, IN NOVEMBER.
UM, BUT I THINK WE'LL HAVE ANOTHER, UM, PLANNING MEETING PRIOR TO IF I'M 92ND, CORRECT? YES.
BUT THAT, THAT'S WHAT I, I HAD THOUGHT MM-HMM
UM, NOW I AM NOT, I'M BE HONEST WITH YOU, WHEN IT COMES TO PUTTING TOGETHER FLYERS AND ILLUSTRATIONS, THAT IS NOT MY EXPERTISE VERBIAGE.
AND OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, ANY FEEDBACK FROM THE TASK GROUP, YOU KNOW, DEFINITELY IS WELCOME.
UM, IF AT LEAST THE VERBIAGE IS SENT, CAN THE CITY ASSIST WITH ILLUSTRATIONS? I CAN, I CAN HAVE SARAH TO MAKE ME A DRAFT.
AND IF YOU WANT TO WAIT UNTIL NOVEMBER TO SEE IT, I CAN DO THAT.
OR IF YOU WANT ME TO SEND IT IN AN EMAIL TO YOU AND THE, UM, UH, PLANNING OR TASK FORCE MM-HMM
THE, THE SOONER THE BETTER BECAUSE OKAY.
I CAN, LET ME, LET ME SEE IF I CAN GET IT DONE BY THEN, HOPEFULLY BEFORE THE END OF NEXT WEEK.
AND THEN I'LL SEND IT TO YOU AND LET YOU REVIEW IT, OR LET YOU ALL REVIEW IT, AND THEN WHAT YOU THINK, IF YOU GUYS NEED TO TWEAK HERE, MOVE THIS, DO THAT, ADD THIS, WE CAN HAVE THAT CONVERSATION IN THAT EMAIL, AND THEN WE CAN MOVE FORWARD.
AND THEN I'M EITHER HOPEFUL BY THAT NEXT PLANNING MEETING THAT WE HAVE THAT EITHER ONE, OR WE'RE REALLY GRINDING IT OUT AND MAKING SURE THAT IT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU GUYS WANT OR IT'S ALREADY DONE.
AND WE'RE, WE'RE ALREADY SENDING OUT CERTAIN DATES ULTIMATELY IN MY, IN MY OPINION.
I, I, I WOULD DEFINITELY GONNA SAY, YOU KNOW, BEFORE THE END OF THIS MONTH MM-HMM
YOU KNOW, THAT NEEDS TO BE FINALIZED BECAUSE WE HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, MARKET BECAUSE IT'S GONNA BE NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, JANUARY'S THREE MONTHS.
AND THEN I'LL JUST ADD TOO, I KNOW YOU DID ASK ME TO TALK WITH WAYNE MM-HMM.
IN REGARDS OF, UM, RES, UH, UH, UH, WHAT'S, UH, RESERVATION CAFETERIA.
SETTING UP A RESERVATION FOR THE CAFETERIA ON THAT SAME DAY.
UM, OUR INSURANCE FROM THE CITY, UM, EXPIRED.
SO, UM, I JUST, UH, ASKED FOR THAT TODAY, SO IT SHOULDN'T BE AN ISSUE THAT'S JUST RESUBMITTING THAT TO WAYNE AND THEN HAVING THAT, UM, SPOT, UM, WITHIN THAT, I, I DID STILL NEED TO ASK WAYNE ABOUT THE COMMUNICATION ASPECTS I THINK YOU ASKED FOR AS WELL, RIGHT? YEAH.
JUST IN CASE, UH, JUST AS A CONTINGENCY PLAN IF, UM, UM, AND MRS. DELL YEAH.
DID NOT ATTEND BECAUSE OF IMPLEMENT WEATHER MM-HMM
HAVE, YOU KNOW, A ZOOM SET UP.
SO IT'S EITHER, UM, I, I'M, I KNOW I WILL HAVE IT DONE BY THE NEXT WORKS, UH, UH, UM, PLANNING SESSION MEETING.
SO, UM, IF ANYTHING, I'LL JUST LET YOU KNOW AND QUICK EMAIL SO I GOT THAT.
UM, ANYTHING ELSE? UM, TWO FOUND THINGS.
SO AS FAR AS THE TIME, I BELIEVE THAT WE DISCUSSED AS A TASK GROUP, THE TIME WOULD BE 11:00 AM UNTIL TWO.
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AS FAR AS THE NUMBER OF AT ATTENDEES, EXCUSE ME, AT LEAST 150.SO I, I LOVE TO HEAR OTHER PEOPLE'S OPINIONS ON THINGS, AND THAT'S A FINE, THAT'S A FINE NUMBER OF WHAT WE WOULD SUGGEST SHOW UP WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THAT WE'RE POTENTIALLY SPENDING ENDING A THOUSAND TO $1,300 ON A MEAL FOR INDIVIDUALS TO COME OUT.
UM, I THINK, UM, JUST WITH A POTENTIAL IDEA IS WHAT WE COULD ULTIMATELY DO FOR FOLKS IS WE SOMEHOW SUPPLEMENT SOME OF THAT COST WITH THE INDIVIDUALS COMING OUT.
MAYBE ASK FOR $5 FOR INDIVIDUALS COMING TO, UM, THE EVENT, RIGHT? JUST RECOMMENDATION.
I DON'T KNOW HOW ALL THE COMMISSION FEELS ABOUT IT, BUT I THINK IT'S ULTIMATELY IF WE SAID, HEY, WE'RE SUPPLEMENTING, UH, SOME OF THE CAUSE OF, UH, THE, THE LUNCH EXPERIENCE, UM, WE COULD THEN TURN AROUND AND SAY, I DON'T KNOW, THE MONEY THAT'S COLLECTED FROM THE, UH, REGISTRATION COST FOR THE LUNCH GOES TO A, A SCHOLARSHIP TOWARDS A KID AT WAITING FOR X THING, RIGHT? OR IT HELPS WITH, UH, PROGRAMMING FOR A FUTURE EVENT DOWN THE ROAD.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS, UM, WOULD WANT TO GO THAT PATH THIS YEAR, UM, BUT I'M ULTIMATELY FINE WITH WHATEVER YOU GUYS WANNA DO FOR THIS YEAR.
SO, SO, SO WHAT WE WOULD DO IS I TALK TO SARAH FORESITE, UM, I KNOW SHE'S GOT THAT KIND OF DOWN PAT WELL, WHAT SHE DOES FOR, UM, UH, UH, SIGN UP SHEETS ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE.
WE COULD MAKE A QR CODE, WE CAN DIRECT FOLKS TO SIGN UP VIA, UM, THE WEB LINK THAT WE GIVE PEOPLE WHEN THEY'RE SIGNING UP FOR, UM, UH, EVENTS.
UM, WE WOULD JUST ROLL THAT OUT, GIVE PEOPLE NAME, ADDRESS, AND HOW MANY IS IN THEIR PARTY, AND, OR JUST INDIVIDUALS, HOWEVER, WE COULD SLICE IT AND DICE IT.
BUT YEAH, WE CAN GET A ROLE OF HOW MANY PEOPLE, UM, ARE DOING IT.
I THINK THE ONLY TASK, OR AT LEAST THE ONLY PROBLEM THAT WOULD NECESSARILY COME TO MY PROBLEM IS THAT I WOULD POTENTIALLY HAVE A HUNDRED TO 150, UM, PAYING, UM, REQUESTS, UM, FOR THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT WE EXPECT TO HAVE.
UM, IF YOU GUYS DID WANT TO, UM, AT LEAST ASK, UM, FOR, UH, A, A SMALL FEE.
SO MY FINAL QUESTION IS MM-HMM
WHAT, WHAT IS THE CURRENT BUDGET FOR THE COMMISSION? UM, SO IT, FOR 2026, I THINK IT'S STILL ABOUT 15,000, BUT THE BUDGET JUST CAME OUT TODAY.
UM, AND I HAVEN'T LOOKED AT IT, BUT MY PLAN IS TO BUMP IT UP.
SO MY PLAN IS TO ASK FOR 25,000.
UM, AND AGAIN, UM, I THINK FOR ANY REQUEST THAT'S BEING ASKED, UM, FOR ANYTHING THAT YOU GUYS DO WITHIN THE CITY, I DON'T THINK IT'S EVER AN ISSUE FOR ME TO GET MORE, UH, FUNDING IF I NEED IT FOR THIS COMMISSION.
UM, SO AGAIN, IT'S JUST A RECOMMENDATION FOR HOW WE CAN TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, WE ACTUALLY HAVE BODIES IN SEATS, RIGHT? MM-HMM
IF THEY'RE GONNA SIGN UP, THEY'RE GONNA PAY THEIR MONEY AND THEY'RE GONNA BE THERE.
THE ONLY OTHER WAY THAT I SEE THAT PEOPLE WON'T SHOW UP IS IF THERE'S THE SITUATION OF CLEMENT WEATHER AND THEY KNOW THERE'S A BLIZZARD OR SOMETHING, THEN WE JUST ALL STUCK IN OUR HOUSE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
AND AGAIN, AT THE NEXT TASK GROUP MEETING, YOU KNOW, WE'LL TALK MORE IN DEPTH OF THESE DETAILS.
2026 PROJECT IDEAS ERIC BROUGHT UP LAST MONTH.
THE, UM, HELP ME, UH, THREE ON THREE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT.
OH, UM, YOUR RIGHTS THREE ON THREE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT AND A, UH, KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.
YOU MEANT FOR THE YOUTH, THOSE TWO.
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HOPEFULLY WHEN AFTER NEXT WEEK, UH, COREY GETS SITUATED, I THINK WE WERE TRYING TO HAVE SOME KIND OF ALIGNMENT MEETING THAT KIND OF DISCUSSED PROJECTS FOR 2026 SO THAT THEY CAN FALL UNDER, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE COMMISSION'S TRYING TO DO, WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH, AND HAVING THAT SPIN OFF OF THAT.SO THOSE ARE THE TWO I RECOMMENDED, BUT I THINK WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S GONNA FIT CAN WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH.
CAN, CAN I INTERJECT A LITTLE BIT? YOU SURE.
SO, SO I'M WORKING ON A PROJECT INTERNALLY WITH THE CITY, RIGHT? AND, UM, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK WILL REALLY KIND OF HELP WHAT WE DO AS STAFF.
AND THEN I'M DEFINITELY TRYING TO IMPLEMENT WHAT, WHAT THAT IS.
BUT ULTIMATELY, I THINK THIS CAN HELP YOU ALL AND THEN ULTIMATELY KIND OF HELP US GROW, UM, OR HELP YOU ALL GROW AS A COMMISSION.
SO MY PLAN IS, UM, FOR THE CITIES, I REALLY WANT TO KIND OF HONE IN ON PERFORMANCE METRICS, RIGHT? WHAT, WHAT IS OUR, WHAT BASICALLY IT'S GOING DOWN THE LINE FOR EACH DEPARTMENT.
WHAT IS YOUR WHY, WHY, WHY DO YOU GO TO WORK? WHY DOES THE LOW MAN ON THE TOTEM POLE GOES DOES HE DOES? AND WHEN I ASK YOU WHAT THAT WHY IS, CAN YOUR MANAGER, DIRECTOR GIVE ME THAT VERBATIM? WHY IT'S NOT TWO DIFFERENT WHYS.
IT'S THE SAME EXACT WHY, MAYBE A LITTLE FUNKY OR FUNKIER LANGUAGE, BUT BASICALLY WE'RE DRIVING HOME THE SAME IDEAS, RIGHT? FROM THERE WE HAVE OUR WHY, AND THEN WHAT, WHAT I WANT OUT OF THAT IS WHAT ARE OUR, WHAT ARE OUR END RESULT OUTCOMES, RIGHT? WHAT OUTCOME, WHAT MEASURABLE OUTCOMES CAN WE LOOK AT AT THE END OF EACH YEAR OR EACH QUARTER OR HOWEVER LONG WE'RE DOING? UM, SOME TYPE OF DURATION.
UM, WHAT CAN WE LOOK AT, RIGHT? AND I THINK AS YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS START TO KIND OF PENCIL, UH, FOR 2026, WHAT, WHAT THE, WHAT THE GOAL IS, WHAT THE VISION IS, WHAT THE MISSION IS.
UM, KIND OF LIKE HONING INTO ON ONTO THAT, RIGHT? YOU KNOW, IF ANYBODY, YOU KNOW, SAW YOU GUYS AND RECOGNIZED YOU GUYS IN PUBLIC AND SAY, HEY, I KNOW YOU GUYS, YOU ARE PART OF THE COMMISSION.
AND THEY ASK, HEY, YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS THAT YOU GUYS ALL DO, IT'S AS SIMPLE AS, HEY, WE DO THIS AND EVERYBODY CAN RECITE THAT.
AND THEN IT'S, HEY, I WAS LIKE, SO WHAT HAVE YOU DONE THIS YEAR? OH, THAT'S EASY.
HEY, THESE ARE ALL THE THINGS THAT WE WANTED TO MEASURE, RIGHT? AND THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE KIND OF CAME UP WITH, RIGHT? AND THIS IS WHAT WE'RE STRIVING FOR, RIGHT? I THINK IT IS DOING THAT, RIGHT? AND, AND, AND, AND I SAY THAT FOR LIKE ME JUST TRYING TO DO MY BEST TO KIND OF HELP OUT.
'CAUSE I THINK IT'S ULTIMATELY A GOOD THING THAT YOU ALL DO.
AND I KNOW YOU GUYS AT THE END OF THE DAY HAVE WORK FAMILY LIVES, AND I KNOW THIS IS JUST A VOLUNTEER ASPECT FOR IT, BUT I DO APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT YOU GUYS DO FOR YOUR, YOUR OWN COMMUNITY.
UM, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, YOU KNOW, USE ME TO KIND OF HELP AS, AS MUCH AS YOU GUYS POSSIBLY CAN.
'CAUSE I, I, I DO THIS WORK, LIKE I LOVE, YOU KNOW, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, I LOVE COMMUNITY.
I, YOU KNOW, I, I LOVE TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, LEAVE THE CITY AND, AND WORKING IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT, JUST LEAVE THE CITY BETTER THAN WHEN I CAME IN.
SO, UM, JUST FOOD FOR THOUGHT FOR, FOR NEXT NEXT MONTH, UM, GOING INTO 2026.
UM, IF YOU GUYS NEED TO KIND OF HELP KIND OF COME UP WITH SOME IDEAS FOR IT.
IT IS JUST SOMETHING THAT I'M KIND OF WORKING ON INTERNALLY, BUT I DEFINITELY KIND OF WANT TO USE THOSE THINGS AND IDEAS FOR WHAT WE CAN HOPE TO DO IN THE COMMISSION, JUST TO MAKE IT A LITTLE BIT MORE CLEAR FOR EVERYBODY.
AND IT'S NOT A WHAT OR WHO WE ARE TO, HEY, WE'RE THIS, WE DO THIS, WE LOOK FOR THIS AND, AND THAT'S OUR THING.
AND, AND, AND WE KIND OF, YOU KNOW, KEEP, KEEP IT MOVING OUTSIDE OF THAT.
UM, I THINK THAT THE KNOW YOUR RIGHTS WAS THAT CAME UP AFTER THE SITUATION WITH THE YOUNG MAN HERE IN
UM, AND THAT WE JUST NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE ARE EDUCATED ON KNOWING THE RIGHTS.
UM, AND WE HAD ACTUALLY STARTED WORKING ON THAT A COUPLE YEARS AGO WITH THE CITY SCHOOLS.
AND I DEFINITELY THINK THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD CONTINUE LOOKING AT AND DOING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SCHOOL OR JUST AS A COMMISSION.
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ACTUALLY SINCLAIR, UM, DR. MICHAEL CARTER, HIS DEPARTMENT IS DOING ONE AND THEY PARTNER, I CAN'T REMEMBER WHO'S DOING IT, BUT THEY'RE BRINGING SOMEONE IN AND THEY TOLD ME THE PERSON THAT THEY HAVE COMING IN, THEY HAVE A GROUP COMING IN TO DO THAT.SO, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE INTERESTED IN.
WE ALREADY HAVE A RESOURCE TO BRING IN TO DO THAT.
AND SOMETHING ELSE TO THINK ABOUT.
I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT, BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE YOUTH AND GETTING THE YOUTH ENGAGED, UM, AND THAT WE HAVE A WHOLE, THAT SENIOR, THE SENIOR CENTER.
HAVE Y'ALL BEEN TO SENIOR CENTER? DID NOT IN YEARS.
THE NEW ONE BEHIND THE Y LIKE THE OLD SINCLAIR.
THAT IS A PHENOMENAL CHOICE THAT WE SHOULD HAVE TO, SO, AND I KNOW, I AGREE.
YEAH, SARAH WAS TALKING ABOUT DOING SOME THINGS THERE WITH THE YOUTH, NOT SARAH.
WHO'S THE NEW PERSON? WHAT'S HER? OH, MOLLY.
YEAH, THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT, UM, STARTING TO DO SOME YOUTH ACTIVITIES THERE, AND WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT HOW TO ENGAGE OUR YOUTH WITH THE COMMISSION.
SO THERE MAY BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO BRAINSTORM THERE, OR EVEN MAYBE HOLDING SOME OF OUR EDUCATION SESSIONS THERE, WHICH WE NEED TO GET BACK OFF THE GROUND.
UM, WHAT ELSE DID I HAVE? UM, YEAH, I, I JUST, JUST WHAT, YOU KNOW, US MOVING INTO 2026, CLOSING THIS YEAR OUT, AND, UM, DOING A BETTER JOB, UM, FOR THE, THE EVENTS AND PROJECTS THAT YOU GUYS WANT TO DO.
WHATEVER IT IS THAT YOU GUYS WANT TO DO AS A COMMISSION, JUST SHOOT 'EM MY WAY.
I THINK IT'S JUST, I'M, I'M HERE TO HELP.
UM, BUT I, I DO COLLECTIVELY NEED YOU GUYS TO KIND OF HELP OUT AS WELL AS MUCH, UM, AS YOU CAN.
UM, I AM A TEAM OF ME IF IT IS NOT YOU ALL.
UM, AND IT'S REALLY HARD IF IT'S JUST ATTENDING ME SOMETIMES.
UM, SO, UM, JUST, I, I GUESS GOING INTO 26 IS JUST REALLY MAKING SURE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU GUYS CAN'T DO IT, IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT POPS UP, I CAN COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND, IT'S JUST, JUST LET ME KNOW IN ADVANCE FOR STUFF LIKE THAT.
BUT, UM, YEAH, JUST LOOKING FOR, UM, WHATEVER IDEAS AND PROJECTS THAT YOU GUYS WANT TO DO, UH, IN 26.
AND THEN, UM, LIKE I SAID, UM, WHEN IT COMES TO THE BUDGET, UM, I'M GONNA ASK FOR AN INCREASE IN DOLLARS.
UM, SO HOPEFULLY GONNA BUMP IT UP 10 GRAND TO KIND OF, UM, KIND OF INCREASE SOME OF THE, THE THINGS THAT YOU GUYS WANNA DO AROUND THE CITY AS WELL, WHATEVER THAT LOOKS LIKE.
IS THERE A DEADLINE, JEFFREY? YOU GOTTA HAVE THAT BUDGET NUMBER.
SO, SO IF, I MEAN, SO MY, YES, THERE IS A DEADLINE.
UM, UH, LIKE I SAID, I GOT IT TODAY.
UM, FINANCE DIRECTOR IS LOOKING FOR, UM, THE END OF THIS MONTH, IS THE IDEA THAT HE NEEDS THAT BACK.
HE'S HOPEFUL THAT PEOPLE CAN DO IT WITHIN TWO WEEKS.
UM, IF YOU GUYS CAN GIVE ME LIKE A, UM, AN ITEMIZED LIST OF SOME OF THE NEWER THINGS THAT YOU GUYS WOULD WANT TO DO TO INCREASE THAT BUDGET.
LIKE IF I, IF I ASKED INDIVIDUALLY, HOW MUCH MORE MONEY WOULD YOU GUYS THINK YOU GUYS WOULD WANT FOR 2026? I MEAN, COULD YOU GIVE ME A NUMBER NOW? OR IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU GUYS JUST HAVE TO SIT BACK AND THINK ABOUT ALL THE OTHER THINGS THAT YOU GUYS WOULD WANT TO DO? I THINK FIRST WE NEED TO HAVE THIS ALIGNMENT MEETING.
BECAUSE WE NEED TO FIND OUT WHAT, WHAT WE WANT TO TRY TO ACCOMPLISH.
UM, THEN I THINK WE CAN COME UP WITH SOME ROUGH BALLPARK FIGURES.
IF, YOU KNOW, BASED ON EITHER EVENTS OR WHATEVER THE, THE TASK IS.
THEN I THINK WE CAN GET THAT TO YOU.
BUT I THINK IF YOU PROBABLY ASKED US TODAY, EVERYBODY PROBABLY HAS THEIR, WE'LL PROBABLY SEGMENT IT.
FOLKS LIKE, WELL, WHY WOULD I DO THIS? I, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK WE PROBABLY HAVE ANYTHING COLLECTIVELY THAT WE WANNA YEAH.
OUTSIDE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU GUYS ALREADY NORMALLY DO.
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AND I THINK WE NEED TO EVALUATE THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE ALREADY DONE TOO.TO MAKE SURE, TO YOUR POINT, UM, ARE THOSE THINGS, ARE THEY MEETING THE OBJECTIVE MM-HMM
ARE WE GETTING THE RESULTS THAT WE, THAT WE WANT TO GET OUT OF THEM? SO I THINK WE NEED TO EVALUATE OKAY.
EVEN THE CURRENT ITEMS. SO I HAVE A QUESTION GOING BACK TO THE BUDGET.
SO DOES THE CITY OPERATE THEIR FISCAL YEAR? YOU MENTIONED OCTOBER.
IS OCTOBER 1ST THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH, JANUARY? NO, IT'S, IT'S CALENDAR.
SO WE GOT A, SO WE'RE MOVING AWAY FROM EXCEL SHEETS TO AN ACTUAL SOFTWARE.
UM, SO IT'S WAY BEHIND, TYPICALLY WE'D ALREADY BEEN IN BUDGET BY SEPTEMBER, LIKE THE BEGINNING OF, SO LIKE I SAID, WE'RE JUST BEHIND BECAUSE WE'RE DOING A NEW, NEW, A NEW SYSTEM FOR, FOR HOW WE'RE DOING BUDGET THIS YEAR.
UM, BUT TYPICALLY WE RUN THE BUDGET, UM, UH, WE RUN A NEW BUDGET THE BEGINNING OF CALENDAR YEAR.
SO FOR ALL THE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, NOW YOU USE FY 26 AS AN EXAMPLE.
IF THERE ARE ANY TYPE OF BUDGET AMENDMENTS, WHETHER IT BE AN INCREASE OR DECREASE, WHEN SHOULD THAT BE? WHEN SHOULD THAT BE SUBMITTED? SO HE, SO IF I NEEDED TO DO A SUPPLEMENTAL, UH, APPROPRIATION FOR, I DON'T KNOW, AN ADDITIONAL $15,000, LET'S SAY YOU GUYS CALLED HIM, LET'S SAY THE NUMBER IS STILL 15,000 AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 26, UM, I THINK HE WOULD RUN A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION MAYBE, I DON'T KNOW, HE WOULD DO ANOTHER SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE, THE YEAR.
SO THAT FIRST QUARTER I WOULD THINK WOULD RUN A SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION BECAUSE I MEAN, THE TYPICAL THING IS, IS UM, NUMBERS AREN'T ALWAYS RIGHT WHEN, WHEN COUNCIL SIGNS, UM, THE 2026 BUDGET OR ANY BUDGET, RIGHT.
SO CONSTANTLY BIG YEAR HE'S DOING SUPPLEMENTAL, UM, APPROPRIATION BUDGETS.
SO TO ANSWER THE QUESTION, LIKE IF IT CAME BACK WHERE I SAID, HEY, YOU GUYS ONLY HAVE $15,000 IN 2026, AND THEN YOU GUYS CAME TOGETHER SAID, HEY, WE WANT TO DO X, Y, Z MPROMISE, UM, YOU'D SAY, HEY JEFFREY, CAN YOU GO TO COUNCIL AND ASK FOR ANOTHER 15,000 BUCKS AND HERE'S WHY WE NEED IT.
AND I'M SAYING, YES, THAT WORKS.
IS IS, IS MY UNDERSTANDING, I CAN GET IT.
I JUST NEED TO UNDERSTAND IF YOU GUYS DID ASK THAT AND, AND IT WAS AFTER THE FACTS, AFTER THE BUDGET WINDOW WAS CLOSED, YOU GUYS WOULD BE IN GOOD SHAPE.
BUT WHEN IS THAT DEADLINE? UM, THE DEADLINE, LIKE I SAID, I, HE, I THINK HE REALLY WANTS IT DONE BY THE END OF OCTOBER.
LIKE, SO, UM, THAT'S THEM PLUGGING IN THEIR NUMBERS.
UM, AND THEN THOSE CONVERSATIONS, UM, WILL PROBABLY START THE BEGINNING OF NOVEMBER OR PROBABLY GO FOR MAYBE TWO WEEKS.
SO BALLPARK, MIDDLE OF NOVEMBER IS LIKE THE DEADLINE.
SO I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE SURVEY.
SURVEY ARE, ARE WE DONE WITH THE 2026 PROJECT? OR IS THAT IT'S LIMELIGHT.
SURVEY, THE SURVEY THAT WE DID, THE COMMUNITY.
UM, AND WHERE THAT IS GOING, BECAUSE THE INITIAL IDEA WITH THAT MM-HMM
WAS TO INFORM SOME WHAT WE DID OH, RIGHT.
SO ULTIMATELY, WELL I HAVE DONE BEHIND SCENES IS TRY TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE LOW HANGING FRUIT.
I KNOW IT'S, UM, IT'S BEEN BROUGHT UP IN THE PAST, UM, AT AT LEAST WHERE OR WHAT COUNCIL WOULD LIKE THE COMMISSION TO DO.
I THINK THERE HAVE BEEN THOSE ON, UH, COUNCIL WHO'S KIND OF MADE THAT ITCH ABOUT, HEY, HEY, WE'VE DONE THIS NOW, WHAT'S THE NEXT STEPS? UM, I KNOW THAT THERE'S A MEMO THAT I RATHER SENT OUT THERE SOMEWHERE, UH, SOMEWHERE TO INTERNALLY ABOUT WHAT THE NEXT STEPS ARE.
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FOR WHAT I CAN DO RIGHT NOW IS I CAN REINTRODUCE THAT CONVERSATION, UM, TO TONY AND THEN I CAN JUST KIND OF GET THE SITUATION.HEY COUNSEL, WHAT IS IT THAT YOU GUYS WOULD LIKE OUTSIDE OF, 'CAUSE I THINK IT IS A CONVERSATION, RIGHT? IT'S A CONVERSATION BETWEEN COUNCIL, IT'S A CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE COMMISSION AND THEN ULTIMATELY IT'S LIKE, HEY, WHAT ARE WE, WHERE, WHERE DO YOU GUYS FEEL THAT WE CAN IMPACT FROM THIS ASSESSMENT? AND HOW, HOW DOES THE COUNCIL, OR HOW DOES THE COMMISSION HELP WHAT ALIGNS TO WHAT THEY WANNA DO FROM THAT SURVEY? UM, TO ANSWER THAT COMPLETELY, I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU GUYS STAND AT RIGHT NOW, BUT I, I DO BELIEVE THAT THERE'S SUPPORT FROM THE COUNCIL TO DO SOMETHING WITHIN, WITHIN THE, UM, ACTUAL, UM, WITHIN THE ACTUAL ASSESSMENT FROM IT.
IT'S JUST, I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT ITEMS, UM, THAT THEY WANT TO CHOOSE FROM, BUT I CAN CIRCLE BACK AND MAKE SURE WE CAN GET SOMETHING KIND OF ON, HEY, WHAT'S YOUR DIRECTION? WHAT DOES THE COMMISSION, UH, NEED TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR? AND THEN I GUESS ULTIMATELY WHAT, WHAT COUNCIL, WHAT DOES COUNCIL WANT THEIR, WANT YOUR GUYS' DIRECTION TO BE OUTSIDE OF THAT? YEAH.
I GUESS WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME, EFFORT, AND RESOURCES ON IT.
UM, SO WHAT'S THE RETURN ON INVESTMENT IN ORDER THE NEXT STEPS AND WHAT IS THE CITY DOING WITH THAT DATA? YEAH.
SO, SO THE INFORMATION THAT I AM KIND OF TRACKING ON THAT IS, OKAY, HOW DO WE KIND OF INCORPORATE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP, RIGHT? SO WHETHER THAT BE THOSE THINGS OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, 'CAUSE I WILL SAY THIS UNTIL IT CHANGES, RIGHT? SINCE I HAVE BEEN HERE, WE AS A CITY, CITY STAFF AT, UH, HUMAN RIGHTS, WE DO NOT DO COMMUNICATION WELL TO OUR RESIDENTS, RIGHT? AND I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S THE LACK OF NETWORKS THAT WE DON'T HAVE THE LACK OF, UH, PEOPLE ARE, UH, RESIDENTS OR THE BUSINESS OWNERS THAT ARE IN THE COMMUNITY OR JUST GO, GO, GO, GO, GO.
AND THEY DON'T HAVE TIME TO LOOK UP AT SOME OF THE INFORMATION IN THIS AND, AND THE PLACES THAT WE PUT FIT IT AT.
BUT IT IS REALLY REFINING HOW WE SEND OUT INFORMATION, RIGHT? AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I THINK I'M STILL TRYING TO FIGURE OUT BY JUST HAVING CONVERSATIONS OR AT LEAST GETTING TO KNOW COMMUNITY MEMBERS AROUND CUBA HEIGHTS AND AROUND THE DAYTON REGION, RIGHT? I HAVE INSISTED, OR I HAVE ALWAYS RECOMMENDED THE COMMISSION KIND OF DOING THESE THINGS, RIGHT? UM, WHETHER THAT JUST BE, I DON'T KNOW, JUST GOING TO EVENTS SOMEWHERE AND INTRODUCING YOURSELVES AND, AND TRYING TO TELL WHO YOU GUYS ARE AND MEETING NEW PEOPLE.
UM, AND, AND TRYING TO KIND OF INCORPORATE, HEY, YOU KNOW, I'M FROM NEW HEIGHTS.
HEY, THIS IS WHAT WE DO, THIS IS HOW WE ALIGN, UM, HEY, LET'S BE A PARTNER MOVING FORWARD.
UM, BUT, BUT, UM, OUTSIDE OF THAT, THAT LEADS ME TO THE COMMUNICATION ASPECT IS FINDING THOSE PARTNERS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY, RIGHT? WHETHER THAT BE CHURCH, CHURCHES, RELIGIOUS GROUPS, UM, NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS.
THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT I'M TRYING TO COLLECT THEM AS A DATABASE SO WE EASILY CAN HAVE THAT INFORMATION OR THOSE CONTACTS TO EASILY, UM, HELP OUT, WHETHER IT BE VOLUNTEER EFFORTS, WHETHER THAT BE, UM, SERVICE MATTERS OR, UM, UH, INFORMATION RELATED TO, UH, UH, EMERGENCY, UM, SITUATIONS.
UM, TRYING TO KIND OF GAUGE THAT.
UM, UH, IT'S, I, I KNOW THERE'S SOME OTHER THINGS AND, UH, FORGIVE ME, WE'RE NOT BEING, UH, KEEN ON WHAT THOSE THINGS ARE, BUT, UM, THERE ARE SOME OTHER ASPECTS OF, UH, THE SMALLER THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, I'M TRYING TO WORK ON.
UM, BUT, UM, OUTSIDE OF THOSE BIGGER TASKS AND ITEMS, UM, THAT'S, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, COUNCIL STILL HASN'T NECESSARILY GUIDED ON THAT WHAT THEY WANT DO OR, OR, OR WHO NEEDS TO DO THOSE THINGS.
WAS THERE LIKE A CHECKLIST? I MEAN, IT'S BEEN A WHILE MM-HMM.
SINCE WE TALKED ABOUT THIS, LIKE A CHECKLIST OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS, LIKE ONCE WE'RE DONE WITH IT, MONITOR, LIKE WHERE WE ARE IN TERMS OF PROGRESS AND MEETING WHAT WAS RECOMMENDED BY, UM, UM, RAYMOND.
RIGHT? THAT GOES, THAT LINES IN WITH WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT, PERFORMANCE VENTURES, RIGHT? I MEAN, AS SIMPLE AS MAKING SOME
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TYPE OF DASHBOARD, WE CAN BUILD IT UP ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE, RIGHT? FOR SOME OF THE THINGS LIKE, HEY, YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHAT WE'VE DONE SINCE THE, UM, COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT RIGHT? NEEDS ASSESSMENT.UM, I, I THINK THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD IDEA, AT LEAST THE STEPPING STONE INTO 2026, RIGHT? WE COULD EASILY PUT SOMETHING LIKE THAT ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE.
UM, BUT I THINK IT IS THE IDEA OF, I DON'T THINK EVERY, I DON'T THINK EVERYTHING FROM THE ASSESSMENT IS SOMETHING THAT COUNCIL WOULD GO ON.
I THINK IT'S JUST THE CONVERSATIONS THAT NEED TO BE HAD BETWEEN THE COMMISSION AND COUNCIL AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT EXACTLY THAT CHECKLIST LOOKS LIKE, AND THEN WE CAN TRY TO GO FROM THERE.
OKAY, SO WHAT ARE OUR NEXT STEPS WITH THIS? YOU GO? UM, SO YEAH, SO THE NEXT STEPS I WOULD DO IS I'LL CIRCLE BACK WITH, UH, TONY, UM, TRY TO GET, UM, EXACTLY THE LANGUAGE OF HOW COUNCIL FELT.
LIKE I, I'M CERTAIN THAT I PUT THIS IN A MEMO, UM, BUT I THINK IT'S MORE OR LESS EITHER.
IT IS, WE'RE STARTING THIS QUARTER NOW AND WE, WE START CONVERSATIONS NOW BETWEEN YOU ALL WE COUNCIL MEMBERS OR IT'S THE IDEAL.
WE'RE ONE INTO 2026, UH, RUNNING, PENDING GROUND RUNNING WITH, HEY, THIS IS, THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT TO TAKE OUT OF THE ASSESSMENT AND THIS IS THE THING THAT WE WERE DOING.
UM, I THINK THIS IS FAIR ENOUGH.
YOU GUYS ARE CONSTITUENTS OF THIS CITY.
I THINK YOU ALL WILL SEE COUNCIL, UM, SOMEWHERE IN PASSING, IF NOT AROUND THE CITY.
AND THE LOVE OF PEACE, OF LOVE, LOVE MORE, LOVE MORE THAT YOU GUYS CAN ENTERTAIN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THIS ON BOTH SIDES, WHETHER IT'S ME, UH, INTERNALLY TRYING TO HELP HELP YOU GUYS OUT.
AND THEN YOU GUYS ALSO HAD MOST STRIKING THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH COUNCIL MEMBERS.
JUST TRY TO GAUGE THEM RIGHT AS TO SAY, HEY, WHERE ARE WE AT WITH THIS? I MEAN, 'CAUSE THE ONLY THING THAT YOU CAN ADD, I, THE WORST THING CAN SAY IS LIKE, NO FOR CONVERSATION.
BUT I THINK IT'S, IT'S STRIKING A CONVERSATION FIRST, RIGHT? SO I'LL DO MY, I'LL DO MY PART ON MY END TO RALLY UP THE CONVERSATION AND THEN JUST TRY TO FEEL LIKE IF WE CAN GET SOMETHING, UH, BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR AND THEN WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING, IF IT IS AT THE BACK END OF THIS YEAR, OR IF IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GONNA DO AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR, UM, UH, IF YOU GUYS NEED ME TO PASS ALONG THE ASSESSMENT REPORT AGAIN, JUST LET ME KNOW.
UM, AND THEN YOU GUYS KIND OF COME TO WHAT IDEAS THAT YOU GUYS HAVE OUTSIDE OF THAT, IF IT'S, I DON'T KNOW, 10, 10 OF THE, UH, CHECKPOINTS THAT RAMMA THOUGHT THAT YOU GUYS COULD ALIGN WITH THAT YOU THINK WOULD BE MANAGEABLE AS BIG, BIG PROJECTS THAT COUNCIL COULD POTENTIALLY GET BEHIND.
JUST LET ME KNOW IF YOU GUYS WANNA DO THAT FOR THE NEXT, UH, UH, MEETING.
AND AGAIN, I CAN, I CAN DO MY JOB TO KIND OF PUSH THAT ALONG.
IS THAT REPORT, SO THAT'S DONE? YEAH.
SO THE REPORT'S DONE, I BELIEVE, I MEAN, YOU GUYS SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN THE FINAL, UM, REPORT.
I CAN EASILY FORWARD IT OUT SO YOU GUYS CAN TAKE A LOOK AT EVERYTHING.
SO THE TAKEAWAY FROM YOUR QUESTION LINE, ARE YOU ASKING WHAT THE COUNCIL WANTS FROM US OR WHAT WE'RE WILLING TO DO? I'M ASKING MUCH COUNCIL IS DOING BECAUSE, SO THE THING WAS, OKAY, WE NEED TO DO THESE ASSESSMENTS.
SO WE GIVE THE, GIVE THE DATA FROM THE COMMUNITY SO WE CAN DECIDE WHAT THE COMMISSION NEEDS TO FOCUS ON, WAS PART OF THE PURPOSE OF MM-HMM
SO NOW WE HAVE THE DATA, BUT WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE CITY HAS DECIDED TO TACKLE.
HOW IS THE CITY PRIORITIZING THE RESULTS MM-HMM
OF THIS, AND THEN HOW DOES THE COMMISSION USE THAT TO INFORM WHAT WE TAKE ON IN 26 AND BEYOND? YEAH.
I MEAN THAT'S FAIR, RIGHT? I MEAN THAT'S FAIR.
I MEAN, THIS IS A PRETTY EXTENSIVE REPORT, SO I WOULD HOPE THAT AS A STUDENT, THERE'S SOME, YES, THERE'S SOMETHING, YES.
I THINK THERE'S SOME INVOLVEMENT WITH THE SCHOOLS.
I THINK THERE'S SOME INVOLVEMENT,
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UM, SOME INVOLVEMENT WITH, UH, COMMUNICATION ASPECTS.UM, THERE'S, THERE, I MEAN, THERE'S SOMETHING, I MEAN, AGAIN, I WAS HERE WHEN THEY PRESENTED THE, THE, THE REPORT GRANTED DID, AND I DIDN'T SEE ANY PUSHBACK FROM WHAT COUNCIL, UM, SAW FROM REPORT.
I THOUGHT THEY THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD PRESENTATION WITH GOOD HIGHLIGHTS AND GREAT POINTS FROM IT, FROM THE, THE BRIEFING THAT THEY GOT FROM IT.
SO ULTIMATELY, I THINK FROM THE TOTAL NINE OF 'EM, THEY, THERE'S A MAJORITY IN THERE THAT COULD COME ON SOME DECISION OF, HEY, WHAT ARE WE PULL FROM THIS REPORT AND WHAT IS IT THAT WE NEED TO WORK WITH? I THINK IT'S FINE.
THE NOTION IS YOU GUYS WANT TO, UM, I DON'T KNOW, MORE OR LESS GET MARCHING ORDERS, RIGHT? THAT YOU GUYS CAN ALL WANT.
I DON'T THINK THAT'S A BAD IDEA.
JEFFREY, COULD YOU SEND ME A COPY OF THAT COMMUNITY PLAN PLEASE? YES, MA'AM.
I'M FORWARDING IT TO YOU ALL NOW.
THIS IS KIND OF JUST CIRCLING BACK, UM, THIS KNOW YOUR RIGHTS, UM, IS THAT IN RELATION TO LIKE, UM, CIVILIANS KNOWING LIKE THEIR RIGHTS WHEN THEY GET PULLED OVER BY POLICE OFFICERS? YEAH.
THAT'S MY INTERPRETATION, RIGHT? YEAH.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS SAW THIS, BUT UM, THE HUBER HEIGHTS POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS JUST CREATED A TRAFFIC SERVICES UNIT.
UM, THERE'S TWO POLICE OFFICERS THAT THEY'RE DESIGNATING MM-HMM
TO SERVE ON THIS UNIT THAT WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR, UM, IT SEEMED LIKE THE STICKY NEWS NEWSLETTER, THE CURRENT NEWSLETTER.
UM, THEY MAY BE A GOOD, UM, FORCE TO REACH OUT TO.
I KNOW YOU MENTIONED DR. CARTER, UM, BUT THEY, YOU KNOW, THE CITY IS RESPONDING TO A NEED FOR, UH, THESE OFFICERS TO SPECIFICALLY MONITOR TRAFFIC SITUATIONS, ACCIDENTS AND POLICE OR PRISONER TRANSFERS.
AND EVEN TO, UM, ADD ON TO THAT, SO THE CITY'S GETTING READY TO DO, YOU KNOW, NEXT YEAR, UM, A CIVIC, HOW DO CALL IT? BASICALLY IT IS IN DENIAL.
IT'S, UH, IN, UH, IN I EQUIVALENT TO WHAT THE CITY OF DAYTON DOES.
UM, BUT BASICALLY IT'S A, UH, CIVIC, UM, CLASS THAT THE CITY'S PUTTING ON.
FORGIVE ME IF I'M NOT UNDERSTANDING WHAT EXACTLY THE TITLE OF WHAT THE CITY'S GONNA NAME IT.
BUT BASICALLY IT'S JUST RUNNING DOWN ALL THOSE, UM, IMPORTANT CRITICAL MOVING PIECES OF HOW THE CITY WORKS, DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS, UM, DIFFERENT RESOURCES AND JUST TRYING TO, UM, DEFINITELY MAKE THE RESIDENTS MORE, UM, AFFLUENT TO SOME OF THE, UM, UH, UH, DETAILS OF CITY FUNCTIONS.
I JUST THOUGHT THAT WAS INTERESTING.
'CAUSE I SAW THAT TODAY, UM, AND THERE WAS A POST ON ONE OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS ON FACEBOOK, WHICH, UH, GOT SO TAKEN DOWN, BUT APPARENTLY, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE MOCKING IT, YOU KNOW, AND IT'S LIKE, YOU CAN'T MAKE EVERYBODY HAPPY, YOU KNOW? SURE.
UM, EVERYONE'S CRYING FOR MORE, YOU KNOW, UH, WHAT DEPARTMENT ACCOUNTABILITY ON, YOU KNOW, HOW WE'RE HANDLING TRAFFIC STOPS AND ACCIDENTS AND EVERYTHING SPEEDING AND ALL THAT CRAZINESS.
AND THEN ON THE OTHER HAND THEY'RE LIKE, OH NO, IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, MORE PEOPLE TO MONITOR AND HARASS OR WHATEVER.
BUT I DON'T KNOW, I'M TRYING TO FIND THE NEWSLETTER LINK.
UM, IT, IT'S LIKE I JUST LIKE TEXTED TO YOU GUYS DIRECTLY, BUT I JUST HAVEN'T COME ACROSS THAT TODAY.
SO I JUST THOUGHT I'D HEAR, WELL, WE TRIED TO PUT TOGETHER BEFORE CHRISTIE WAS MORE OF A, UNDER THE TITLE OF KNOW YOUR RIGHTS AS FAR AS WHAT YOU CAN, WHAT YOU CAN'T DO, WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO ANSWER, NOT ANSWER.
UH, WE WERE, UH, WE HAD REACHED OUT TO GALLERY COUNTY PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE, SO WE MIGHT HAVE REPRESENT FROM THERE, BUT THEN WE GONNA HAVE A DEFENSE ATTORNEY AS WELL, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY FOR THE PROSECUTOR SIDE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GONNA PRESENT YOU TO BE A HUNDRED PERCENT COMPLIANCE AND I GET THAT.
BUT THERE'S CERTAIN THINGS AS A DEFENSE ATTORNEY, THEY'RE GONNA TELL YOU, HEY, I GET IT.
THEY'RE ASKING ME THIS, BUT THIS IS WHAT YOU'RE
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SUPPOSED TO SAY.OH YEAH, THE LIBRARY'S DONE MANY, UH, PROGRAMS LIKE THAT.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO DO A BALANCE OF BOTH SIDES, UM, IS WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE TRIED TO WORK ON BEFORE WE GOT PUSHBACK AND WE, I THINK WE GOT TIED UP WITH SOME OTHER THINGS AND KIND OF, YOU GOT PUSHED TO THE BACK BURNER, BUT THEN KIND OF THE SITUATION HERE'S LIKE, AH, WE CRUSH THIS STUFF WITH THAT.
IT'S SOMETHING WE SHOULD DEFINITELY DO FOR 26.
WHAT IS THE UPDATE ON THE CCRV JEFFREY? UM, SO, UM, LAST MONTH, I KNOW TONY, I SPOKE WITH YOU ALL ABOUT, ABOUT THE, UM, UH, LEGISLATION, UH, UH, CHANGES.
UM, SO IT CAN MAKE IT EASIER TO, UM, FILL THE ACTUAL BOARD.
UM, I THINK COUNCIL WENT AHEAD AND MADE THE, UH, UH, THE, UH, APPROVALS FOR THE TWO, UH, MEMBERS, UM, MRS. BROOKSHIRE AND MR HOW MR. ADAMS, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN.
UM, SO OUTSIDE OF THAT, UM, I HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING FROM TONY, ANYONE, UM, DISCUSSING ANY MORE APPLICANTS, UM, FOR THE, THE BOARD ITSELF.
UM, BUT I THINK IT'D BE A LOT EASIER NOW TO KIND OF GET MEMBERS, UM, TO, TO, SO IT DID GET APPROVED, YES.
THAT LEGISLATION GOT APPROVED AS, AND THEN THE TWO INDIVIDUALS ARE NOW MEMBERS OF THE BOARD.
UM, SO FUNCTIONALLY STANDING, WE ONLY NEED THREE MORE INDIVIDUALS, UM, TO GIVE QUOTE A FORM AND THEN FROM THERE, UM, IT'S JUST IN, IN A PERSONAL OPINION, JUST TO FINE TUNE AND THEN WE HAVE IT NOW FOR ANY SITUATION THAT MIGHT ARISE.
NOW, PART OF HIS REQUEST, HE WAS GONNA SEE IF A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THIS COMMISSION COULD BE ABLE, DID THAT GET APPROVED AS WELL? I'M NOT FOR SURE.
I, I, I HAVEN'T TALKED TO HIM ABOUT THAT, BUT I CAN ASK HIM, UM, IF THAT'S THE CASE BECAUSE IF THAT'S THE CASE THEN WE GOT THREE.
UM, YEAH, THAT, THAT WAS A CONVERSATION THAT, UM, I REMEMBER HAP OR AT LEAST BEING TOLD, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE ULTIMATE DECISION WITH THAT WAS, BUT I CAN FIND OUT ANY OTHER TOPICS.
SO ARE THEY REPOSTING THAT NOW, NOW THAT THAT'S BEEN APPROVED, WHERE WILL THE NEW POSTING GO UP? UH, I THINK IT SHOULD BE ALREADY UP RIGHT NOW, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN.
UM, UPDATES TO THE NUMBERS AND THEN OBVIOUSLY NEW LEGISLATION FOR OR APPLICATION PROCESS FOR IT.
IF, IF, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, I THINK IT SHOULD BE UP NOW, BUT I'LL DOUBLE CHECK TO MAKE SURE.
CAN YOU SEND IT TO US AND THEN SURE.
UM, SO WE CAN FORWARD IT TO PEOPLE NOW AS WHOLE WIDE OPEN.
JEFFREY, IN ADDITION TO SENDING THAT, IS IT, UH, IS IT POSSIBLE TO GET A KIND OF LIKE A, A JUST LIKE A HIGH, JUST LIKE A HIGHLIGHTS OF IT RIGHT? THAT MAYBE WE COULD POST SOCIAL MEDIA WISE? NOT THAT WHOLE DOCUMENT? YEAH.
WHAT YOU MEAN INDIVIDUALLY OR DO YOU WANT JUST WITH THAT, JUST A SUMMARY OF THAT OH, YES.
IN, IN THE EMAIL, LIKE YEAH, EDIT IT SO SHE'S KIND OF BROKEN DOWN INTO THE MAIN PARTS.
SO MAYBE WE CAN CAPTURE THAT AND SURE.
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OUR NEXT MEETING IS NOVEMBER 6TH.AND CAN I HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN? I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE ADJOURN THE MEETING.