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ALRIGHT.[ AGENDA CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZEN ACTION COMMISSION City Hall - Council Chambers 6131 Taylorsville Road November 6, 2025 6:00 P.M. ]
I'LL CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER.UH, LET'S, I DON'T HAVE, ALRIGHT, LEMME SEE.
UM, NO CITIZENS COMMENTS THERE.
UH, OLD BUSINESS, UH, MLK TASK GROUP.
OKAY, SO THE 2026 MLK TASK GROUP.
WE HAD A MEETING ON OCTOBER 28TH TO FURTHER DISCUSS PLANS OF THE 2026 PROGRAM.
AND AS MENTIONED AT THE LAST COMMISSION MEETING, IT WILL BE HELD AT THE WAYNE HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIA ON THE ACTUAL MLK HOLIDAY, WHICH IS MONDAY, JANUARY 19TH FROM 11 UNTIL 2:00 PM AND THE TASK GROUP WAS PLANNING THIS EVENING TO SHOW TO THE OTHER COMMISSION MEMBERS THE DRAFT OF THE FLYER.
AND MS. MAL, I'M NOT SURE IF JEFFREY, DID HE PROVIDE YOU COPIES WITH THOSE.
MAY, MAY THOSE PLEASE BE PASSED.
DISCUSSED AT THE LAST COMMISSION MEETING.
THE THEME FOR THE 2026 EVENT IS KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE, BUILDING A UNIFIED COMMUNITY, ONE CONVERSATION AT A TIME.
AND WE WANNA DO SOMETHING SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT WHERE WE WILL HAVE A LUNCH DIALOGUE CONVERSATION WITH THE RESIDENTS OF COOPER HEIGHTS AS WELL AS SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS AS FAR AS TALKING ABOUT ANY DISPARITIES AS FAR AS EQUALITY THAT ARE FACING VARIOUS RESIDENTS OF HUB HEIGHTS AND HAVE SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS TO COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS, BUT ALSO DO A REFLECTION INVOLVED THE YOUTH OF THE COMMUNITY, UM, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS, MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL.
SO THERE ARE A FEW OF US ON THE TASK GROUP.
WE HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED TO CONTACT THE VARIOUS SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY TO HAVE THEM BE INVOLVED AS FAR AS PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAM AS FAR AS GIVING A REFLECTION.
AND AT THE NEXT TASK GROUP, THE GOAL IS TO FINALIZE THE PROGRAM.
THAT WAY AT NEXT MONTH'S COMMISSION MEETING, WE CAN REPORT TO THE MISSION AS FAR AS A SUMMARY OF WHAT THE PROGRAMS WILL BE.
UM, THIS WILL BE PAID EVENT AND WE HAVE REACHED OUT TO SOME LOCAL BUSINESSES.
AND RIGHT NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT SANDS, WHICH IS IN HUB HEIGHTS IS SOMEBODY ALREADY OWNED BUSINESS.
SO MR. OWENS, HE IS WORKING ON GETTING QUOTES FROM THEM.
MRS. STEVENS AT THE NEXT TASK MEETING, SHE HAS, UM, SOME INFORMATION FROM ANOTHER POTENTIAL VENDOR THAT SHE HAD MENTIONED AT THE LAST MEETING IN SEPTEMBER.
SO WE'LL GO OVER THAT AS WELL.
AND THE MOST IMPORTANT THING, WELL, ONE IMPORTANT THINGS PART OF THE PROGRAM, WE'RE GOING TO ACKNOWLEDGE MRS. LUCILLE DALE, WHERE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE HER DO A BRIEF REFLECTION AS FAR AS HER TIME AS VICE MAYOR, BUT ALSO WHEN SHE STARTED THE PD DINNER WITH HER HUSBAND, MR. MARVIN DALE.
UM, THIS WAS LIKE OVER 20 YEARS AGO IN BE HEIGHTS, BUT TO GET HER RETROSPECTIVE ON THAT.
AND I WILL PERSONALLY BE MEETING WITH HER THIS MONTH, UM, TO TALK ABOUT THAT AND TO EVEN, UM, POSSIBLY HAVE AN INTERVIEW RECORDED IN CASE, AS WE KNOW IN JANUARY, THE WEATHER IS NOT ALWAYS THE BEST AND SHE CURRENTLY RESIDES IN CINCINNATI.
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B CONTINGENCY, WE'RE GOING TO GET THAT COORDINATED.SO I'LL PROVIDE MORE DETAILS ON BEHALF OF THE TASK FORCE, OR EXCUSE ME, AFTER WE HAVE OUR NOVEMBER DUTY.
BUT I'D LIKE THE COMMISSION TO LOOK AT THIS FLYER AND GIVE THE FEEDBACK TO THE TASK GROUP.
AND IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT YOU SEE THAT MAY BE CHANGED OR AMENDED NO, PLEASE ADDRESS THAT BECAUSE THIS IS A COMMISSION EVENT HELD ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF COOPER HEIGHTS.
SO, ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, FEEDBACK? I THINK IT LOOKS GOOD.
ANYONE ELSE? ALRIGHT, SO ARE, IS EVERYONE GOOD WITH THIS? BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE, IF THIS IS GOOD, AND CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, THAT THIS WILL GO OUT FOR LIKE, AS TO SAY THE DATE.
SO IT'LL START OUT, THIS ONE WILL BE THE FIRST ONE TO GO OUT, UM, THROUGH JEFFREY, LIKE ON THE SOCIAL, UH, FACEBOOK.
AND DID YOU SAY FACEBOOK? JUST FACEBOOK.
I THINK IT'S JUST FACEBOOK ON LIKES PAGE, BUT, SO THAT'S WHY IF THERE'S AN ERROR OR SOMETHING MISSPELLED OR, UM, I THINK THERE SHOULD BE A COMMA AFTER 19.
UM, WAS THAT THE ONLY ONE YOU READ WE'RE BE WITH AND MAYBE DOWN HUNTER ACTIVITIES? I WOULD SAY, UM, CATERED LUNCHEON MAYBE.
UM, AND IF, IF WE DO GO, I KNOW THIS WILL BE THE SAME DAY, BUT IF WE DO GO, MAYBE WE COULD OKAY.
AND THAT HELPS ADVERTISE FOR THEM TOO.
IT'LL BE BASED ON EITHER WHOEVER AND WHOEVER WE GET.
UM, AS SOMEBODY WITH OLD EYES, I, I WOULD SAY THE TIME THE FONT IS A LITTLE HARD, SHOULDN'T KEEP IT BOLD ON THAT TOP WHERE I THINK AT LEAST NEEDS TO BE BOLDED OR MAYBE A FONT THAT'S NOT AS CURLY.
I THINK FOR THE TITLE IT'S OKAY BECAUSE IT'S BIG.
BUT FOR THE READING, FOR THE SMALLER ONE, JUST A LITTLE BIT OF A LESS, LESS CURLY.
JUST A STRAIGHT, STRAIGHT FONT.
SO KIND OF LIKE WHAT IT IS THAT SAYS WAYNE HIGH SCHOOL, CAFETERIA, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO FOR SOMEBODY WHO'S READING THE SYSTEM TO READ, BUT I LIKE THIS, I LIKE THE TITLE.
AND WE'LL MAKE THOSE, THOSE MINOR CORRECTIONS BEFORE IT GOES OUT.
SO YOU'LL PROBABLY SEE IT SOMETHING TOMORROW IN YOUR INBOX.
AND THEN IT'LL, IF THAT'S ONCE EVERYBODY'S OKAY WITH THAT, IT'LL, THESE ARE THE LAST EDIT BECAUSE THESE ARE MINOR THINGS THAT CAN JUST IN PUT THE COMMENT.
IS HE GONNA BE BACK NEXT WEEK? MS. MARY? YEAH.
SO THAT'S WHY HE SAID LIKE, IF WE, ONCE WE VOTE MAKE THESE CORRECTIONS, HE'LL GO AHEAD AND, AND GET WORKING ON IT TO.
OKAY, SO WE'RE, UM, IT SAYS PROGRAM UNDER ACTIVITIES.
UM, COULD DO WE WANT TO MAYBE PUT LIKE, UM, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM? I MEAN WHAT, LIKE WHAT KIND PROGRAM? SO THE PROGRAM WILL BE THE REFLECTIONS AND THE GROUP DISCUSSIONS.
DO YOU AGREE WITH THAT? UM, AND HEBREW.
UM, SO WE SHOULD BRING EVERYBODY.
YOU THINK WE SHOULD DETAIL WHAT WE'RE, SO, UM, YEAH, I MEAN IS THE COMMUNITY DIALOGUE PART OF THE PROGRAM? YES.
'CAUSE THE WAY IT'S LIKE, I GOT IT.
WE'VE GOT A PROGRAM AND THEN WE'LL EAT AND THEN WE HAVE A COMMUNITY DIALOGUE.
BUT THE COMMUNITY DIALOGUE IS THE PROGRAM.
SO, SO WE PUT THAT LIKE INSTEAD OF PROGRAM, JUST PUT COMMUNITY DIALOGUE.
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OR, SO YOU PROBABLY DON'T NEED THE WORD PROGRAM.I WOULD GET RID OF THE WORD PROGRAM.
SO WE JUST GET RID OF IT ALL AND JUST NOT SIT, JUST PUT LUNCH IN AND COMMUNITY DIALOGUE.
'CAUSE THOSE ARE THE MAIN ACTIVITIES.
AND THEN DO YOU WANT TO ADDRESS SOMETHING ABOUT MRS. DALE OR AT THIS POINT DOES, I MEAN LIKE, WILL SHE BE HONORED WHETHER SHE'S PRESENT OR NOT? YES.
WHETHER IT BE IN PERSON OR VIRTUALLY.
SO I WOULD MAYBE PUT SOMETHING HONORING, HONORING HER MAYBE AS PART OF THE ACTIVITIES OR PART OF THE PROGRAM.
I FEEL LIKE HER NAME IS GONNA BE REALLY RECOGNIZABLE.
AND THAT'LL MAYBE DRAW, COULD IT JUST BE LIKE HONORING MISS
I DUNNO IT BECAUSE I, YOU, YOU GOTTA HELP ME OUT.
UM, LIKE SPECIAL HONORS OR, I DUNNO.
SO IF YOU PUT, UM, GIMME A MINUTE AND I'LL COME BACK TO THAT.
BUT INSTEAD OF LUNCH AND LIKE LUNCH, SO AND SO, AND THEN C JONES, LIKE HONORING, UH, YOU CAN SAY HONORING, I THINK HONORING MS. LUCILLE DALE.
I MEAN, I, I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT.
I THINK THERE'S SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO, BECAUSE THAT'S, THAT'S ALSO THE DEDICATION, THAT'S THE WORD I'M THINKING OF.
LIKE A SPECIAL DEDICATION TO A RECOGNITION.
AND THEN WE PUT IT RIGHT BELOW THAT.
AND THEN TWO MORE QUICK THINGS NOW AT THE BOTTOM.
UM, I CAPITALIZED THE F AND FOUR FOR MORE INFORMATION.
AND THEN, UM, I THINK THESE DAYS IT'S TYPICAL TO JUST LEAVE OFF THE WWW.
SO I WOULD JUST GO WITH HH H.ORG AS THE WEB ADDRESS.
WHAT ABOUT THE HOSTED? IS IT, IS THAT, IS THAT RIGHT BY YOUR EYE ON THE FAR LEFT? ANYTHING ELSE? I KNOW I'M LOOKING AT YOU, BUT YOU'RE
JUST REITERATE, WAS IT A COMMA AFTER 19? CORRECT? MM-HMM
IS THERE ANY OTHER, UM, LIKE PUNCTUATION, UM, EDITS OR IS THAT ONLY ONE? I THINK IT WAS THE CAPITAL, THE F AND FOUR.
AND IF WE'RE GONNA DO A LIST, SHOULD WE DO ACTIVITIES? I'LL LEAVE THAT TO SEE WHETHER THE BOOKS CRISPY.
SHOULD WE HAVE THE AFTER ACTIVITY IF WE'RE LISTING THOSE THREE THINGS BELOW IT? OR I THINK IF YOU KEEP THE UM, COLOR FONT DIFFERENT, LIKE IT IS IT BE ALRIGHT? IT'S UNDERSTOOD.
YOU BOTH THE TOP, DID SOMEONE SAY PERIOD AFTER ROAD? YEP.
AFTER CHANGE, AFTER ROAD BURG ROAD, THE SCHOOL ADDRESS.
AND IF YOU REALLY WANNA KIND OF CLEAN UP, SORRY,
UM, HE CAN GET RID OF THE DOUBLE ZEROES ON THE TIME.
HE CAN JUST DO LIKE LITERALLY LIKE 11 EIGHT TO TWO.
I GET RID OF THE, THE DOUBLE ZEROES.
OH YEAH, BECAUSE YOU DON'T SEE THAT ANYMORE ANYWAY.
BUT I PERSONALLY LOVE THE DESIGN AND THE COLOR SCHEME SO IT'S,
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SO THE NEXT TIME YOU GUYS DO THIS, WE ALL CLEANED UP THESE ADDITIONS.UM, ANYTHING ELSE? UH, UM, WE ARE STILL WORKING ON AS FAR AS WHEN WE'RE GONNA MEET AGAIN? UM, 'CAUSE WE WASN'T SURE.
THANK YOU FOR THE CLARIFICATION MS. MARY BEFORE THE MEETING.
'CAUSE WE WASN'T SURE WHETHER THE NEW CITY HALL WOULD BE OPEN, YOU KNOW, LATER IN THE MONTH.
SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO SCHEDULE JEFFREY TO MEET WITH THE CHAMBERS.
AND HE'LL PROBABLY LET US KNOW TODAY, TOMORROW.
UM, NEXT ORDER OF BUSINESS, UM, IS THE 2026 EVENT PLANNING.
UM, TYPICALLY, YOU KNOW, WE DO THE MLK JUNETEENTH.
IM OKAY JUNETEENTH 4TH OF JULY, FOURTH JULY, CHRISTMAS.
BUT THAT DOESN'T COST, THAT'S JUST, YEAH, WE WERE JUST THERE.
UM, I THINK OUR THREE BIGGEST EVENTS, MLK, THE FESTIVAL AND
UH, AND THEN ERIC, I KNOW THERE WAS DISCUSSION ABOUT HOW, HOW, HOW TO DO JUNETEENTH OR WHATEVER THIS YEAR AND THEN THE BASKET, WE MEAN I THINK, I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT DOING BASKETBALL.
BUT UM, I'M GOING, WHAT DO YOU WANT? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO I GUESS WITH JUNETEENTH MOVEMENT OR ARE WE DOING JUNETEENTH OR WE CHANGE? I DUNNO.
WELL I THINK AS A COMMISSION WE PROBABLY NEED TO TALK AND SIDE IS THAT, YOU KNOW, THE LIST OF EVENTS.
WHAT IS IT THAT WE TRULY WANT TO GO AFTER? AND I KNOW THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE'VE DONE, BUT FOR 2026 AND BEYOND, WHAT DO WE WANNA FOCUS IN? SO I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY ANOTHER CONVERSATION OF WHAT WE TRULY WANNA DO, WE WANNA FOCUS AT.
AND THOSE THINGS ARE PART OF IT.
WELL I THINK, UM, WE'VE KIND OF UH, KICKED THIS CAMP AROUND THE YARD QUITE A BIT, BUT I THINK IT'S WHERE WE PROBABLY LAND IN 2026 THAT WE DO WANT TO MAKE THE MULTICOM FEST LIKE THE MAIN, THE PREMIER, PREMIER EVENT OR MAIN EVENT OR WHATEVER.
BECAUSE AT EVERYTHING, AND THIS IS WHY I THINK WE HAVE TO PROBABLY SECURE WHAT THAT DATE IS GONNA BE FOR THE MULTICULTURAL CLASS SOONER RATHER THAN LATER.
EVEN THOUGH I GUESS WE'LL PROBABLY STICK AROUND THAT SAME DATE IN OCTOBER.
BECAUSE IN ALL OUR EVENTS WE WANT TO, WAS THAT OCTOBER? WAS IT SEPTEMBER? SEPTEMBER, SEPTEMBER.
UM, THEN, UM, BECAUSE WE WANT TO ALWAYS HAVE OUR SAY THE DATE, WHETHER IT'S FLYERS OR PAPERS OR WHATEVER AT ALL OUR EVENTS TO HAND OUT TO KIND OF LIKE ALWAYS THAT WE'RE DRIVING OUR AUDIENCE TO THE UM, MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL.
UM, BUT TO YOUR POINT, IF WE ARE ADDING ACTIVITIES AND I DON'T KNOW 'CAUSE LIKE WE ADDED THE 4TH OF JULY PROGRAM, I THOUGHT WAS A GREAT SUCCESS.
I THINK WE JUST NEED TO ADD MORE CANDY TO OUR BUDGET
BUT OUR FLYERS FOR THAT ONE WAS JUST AGAIN, PUSHING EVERYBODY TO THE MULTICULTURAL.
SO I THINK THE PARADES ARE JUST PARTICIPATING.
AND I THINK IT'S PROBABLY GONNA BE THE SAME FOR THE CHRISTMAS.
WE JUST NEED TO HAVE BUDGET MONEY TO, I'M ASSUMING THROW CANDY OUT AND THEN WITH OUR SAFETY DATE, IF WE HAVE THE DATE FOR THE MULTICULTURAL OR MEAN WE FOOTBALL, WE CAN PUSH THAT.
BUT WE'LL ALSO PUSH THE MLK MLK BECAUSE THAT'LL BE THE NEXT THING HAPPENING AFTER UH, THE HOLIDAYS.
SO, UH, BUT BY THEN IT'LL PROBABLY BE SOME KIND OF CONDENSED VERSION OF THIS I WOULD IMAGINE, UM, WITH M.
UM, AND THEN IF WE HAVE, IT'LL BE PROBABLY STAGES DATE ONCE WE FIGURE OUT WHAT THAT DATE IS, DATE FOR THE MULTIPLE TESTS, THE OTHER THINGS WE DO, WHETHER IT'S JUNETEENTH, UM, THAT EVENT HAS KIND OF TAKEN ON THE LIFE OF IT OWN.
IT SEEMS TO BE LIKE A PREMIER EVENT.
BUT IF THAT'S SOMETHING WE WANT TO PIVOT OFF OF, I WILL.
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PUT THAT IN DETAIL.THAT'S WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO DO.
SO THE AUDIENCE GROWING EACH YEAR FOR THAT EVENT IS THAT? I THINK IT HAS, I HAVE, I DON'T HAVE AN ACTUAL, I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAPTURED ACTUAL NUMBERS, BUT VISUALLY LOOKING AT IT, IT'S GOTTEN BIGGER, IT SEEMS THE RIGHT, I THINK IF IT, IF IT'S GROWING EVERY YEAR, IT'D VIA AN EVENT THAT I WOULD KEEP ON THE CALENDAR.
IT PUTS OUT THE COMMISSION IS A, IT'S ONE OF, I MEAN THERE'S AROUND THE, AROUND THE AREA THERE ARE SOME NEW DEEP, BUT IT'S NOT AS WIDELY CELEBRATED IN A LOT OF AREAS.
AND I THINK THERE'S JUST THIS AREA KEEPS GROWING.
IT'S, AND IT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR A FEW YEARS.
I WOULD HONESTLY KEEP IT, BUT I THINK THE, AND I DON'T WANNA SPEAK FOR YOU ERIC, I, I THINK THAT KIND OF WHERE WE'VE KIND OF BUMPED INTO IT IS JUST LIKE IT'S MY FATHER'S NAME AGAIN.
THERE'S JUST A LOT GOING ON THAT SAME TIME.
I THINK WE'VE DONE A GREAT JOB.
I'VE DONE A GREAT JOB MARRYING IT.
BUT YOU HAVE PRETTY MUCH DONE THE MAJORITY OF THE LEG ON THAT.
SO I DUNNO, I JUST THINK WE NEED TO MAYBE NOT HAVE IT ON THE SUNDAY.
USUALLY FALLS, IF IT FALLS THIS HAPPENED TO FALL ON SUNDAY, BUT IF IT DOESN'T FALL ON THE SUNDAY AND WE CAN HAVE IT ON THAT DAY BECAUSE MOST IT'S A HOLIDAY, THERE'S A LOT.
BUT I THINK IF IT, IF IT AGAIN HAPPENS ON SUNDAY WHERE IT'S FATHER'S DAY THE SAME TIME, WE JUST NEED THAT YEAR NOT TO HAVE IT ON THAT PARTICULAR DAY.
BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE EVERYTHING WAS SPLIT BETWEEN PEOPLE TRYING TO DO FATHER'S DAY AND US TOO.
'CAUSE WE WERE ALL DOING OUR OWN FATHER DAY THINGS AS WELL TOO.
SO I THINK, BUT I THINK IF IT'S GROWING EVERY YEAR I HAVE NOT HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND JUNETEENTH.
BUT IF IT'S GROWING EVERY YEAR AND IT BECOMES MORE POPULAR, I WOULD, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT CONTINUE TO GO ON AND WE JUST BE FLEXIBLE ON A DATE IF IT, LIKE IF IT HAPPENS TO FALL ON FATHER DAY, WELL THIS YEAR IS ON THIS FRIDAY.
SO IF WE, IF WE DO IT, I THINK, WHICH WILL PROBABLY HELP THE CITY STAFF FOLKS A LITTLE BIT AS WELL.
IT'S JUST IF WE CAN CONSTANTLY HAVE A DAY, I THINK PROBABLY THE SATURDAY SHOULD BE SATURDAY WOULD BE.
THEREFORE, BECAUSE I THINK IT'S, YOU KNOW, YOU GOT THE FOURTH JULY COMING UP IN A COUPLE WEEKS AFTER THAT.
AND THEN NORMALLY THAT'S GOING DONE ON A SATURDAY AS WELL.
SO I THINK IF YOU KIND OF MIRROR THAT UP LIKE THAT, JUST LET IT BE ON THAT WHATEVER CALENDAR THAT'LL BE THE THIRD, FOURTH SATURDAY OR WHATEVER IT IS.
I THINK THINK THAT WOULD PROBABLY MAKE MORE SENSE THEN YOU'RE NOT ON FATHER'S DAY.
AND IF YOU JUST HAPPENS TO FALL ON SATURDAY, THAT'S FINE.
IF IT FALLS ON A FRIDAY, THAT'S FINE.
IF IT FALLS ON A THURSDAY, WE JUST DO IT, DO IT ON THAT SATURDAY.
SO YOU JUST WANT TO LOCK IN TO SAY JUST THAT THIRD SATURDAY YEAH.
THAT AND THEN THE FOLLOWING SATURDAY IS USUALLY THE HUBER HEIGHTS 4TH OF JULY STUFF, RIGHT? CORRECT.
THAT'S, I THINK THAT'S AN EASY, THAT'S JUST GATHERING EVERYBODY.
I GUESS I JUST ARE YOU NEED TO DISCUSS THE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT OR WOULD, WELL I WANT, I JUST WANT TO VOTE THAT WE TO VOTE ON THAT.
THAT ALWAYS BE ON THIRD SATURDAY.
AND IF EVERYONE'S OKAY WITH THAT, THEN I JUST NEED TO JUST MOTION.
SO I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE MOVE, UH, JUNETEENTH FESTIVAL, UH, FROM SUNDAY TO THIRD.
JUNE, JUNE,
I'M THINKING THE FOURTH, THIRD SATURDAY IN JUNE GOING.
UM, AND THEN YOU CAN JUST DO A FILE.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF MOVING, UM, THE JUNETEENTH EVENT, THE THIRD SATURDAY IN JUNE.
MOVING FORWARD FOR A CONSISTENCY STANDPOINT, UH, FOR CONSISTENCY PURPOSES.
UM, ALL THOSE PAPERS SAY AYE AYE, AYE.
ALL THOSE OPPOSED MAY THE ABSTENTIONS MOTION CARRIES.
THAT IS THE NEW, UM, SAID TIME, DATE, THE AWARD BY THE TIMES.
I THINK THAT'S EASIER FOR PLAYING TO, TO YOUR POINT, IT'S JUST SOMETHING EASY TO GET WITH THE CITY.
WE'LL ALWAYS USE, ALWAYS USE THIS FOR THIS.
SO WE CHANGE LOCATION OF TIMES OR WHATEVER.
BUT AT, WE KNOW HOW TO LOCK IT.
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THE OTHER THING WAS THE MULTI TASK FORCE.DID YOU GUYS, WHAT ABOUT THE DATE FOR THAT? DID WE WANT TO TRY AND I LIKE TO WALK IN THAT DATE, BUT THAT SECOND WEEKEND IN SEPTEMBER IS THE WHAT CITYWIDE COMMUNITY GARAGE SALE WEEKEND AS WELL.
PETER HAS THEIR WHAT ABOUT THE THIRD SATURDAY THIS YEAR AROUND THE 19TH OR SOMETHING? YEAH, I MEAN WE'RE GONNA COMPETE WITH WHATEVER FESTIVAL IN THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE SEPTEMBER IS A BIG FESTIVAL THING.
SO THIRD WEEKEND TENDS TO USUALLY BE THE HISPANIC HERITAGE FESTIVAL DOWNTOWN MM-HMM
SO, UM, IF WE DO THAT, WE MAY END UP LOSING SOME OF OUR LATINA VENDORS AND DANCERS AND STUFF BECAUSE THEY'LL BE DOWNTOWN.
I'M, I'M OKAY WITH COMPETING WITH THE GARAGE SALE.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT MADE AN IMPACT THIS, THIS TIME OR NOT, BUT I HEARD PEOPLE TELL ME ABOUT THE GARAGE SALE GOING UP THE SAME TIME.
SO IF WE WANNA KEEP IT THE SECOND WEEKEND IN SEPTEMBER AND KEEP IT EVERY SATURDAY, THAT'S ANOTHER THING THAT WE CAN DO.
I WAS THINKING WE LIKE FIRST WEEKEND IN OCTOBER, BUT WEATHER'S ALWAYS IFFY.
BECAUSE THERE USUALLY AREN'T ANY FESTIVALS IN THAT WEEKEND OR THE LAST WEEKEND OF THE MONTH OR SEPTEMBER.
SO I THOUGHT IF WE WERE THE ONLY BIG FESTIVALS IN AREA, WE CAN TRACK ATTRACT MORE PEOPLE.
IT'S ALSO BEFORE ALL THE FALL STUFF STARTS, LIKE OCTOBERFEST AND ALL THAT STUFF.
SO YOU'RE THINKING THAT LAST SATURDAY.
SATURDAY LAST SATURDAY SEPTEMBER I WAS THINKING.
OR THE FIRST SATURDAY IN OCTOBER.
SO, BUT I MEAN, I THINK WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE WEATHERS ALSO IT BE ON WHEN YOU START TO GO LATER ON IN THE FALL BECAUSE YOU KNOW, OHIO WEATHERS NEVER THAT.
BUT IF WE WANT TO KEEP IT ON THE SECOND WEEKEND AND IT'S, AND IF IT'S NOT AN ISSUE HAVING IT, BUT THE SAME WEEKEND AS THE, UH, FOR THE CITY FOLKS AS THE COMMUNITY GARAGE SALE, THEN I'M OKAY WITH NO.
IT'S THE CITYWIDE GARAGE SALE.
THEY HAVE IT EVERY JUNE AND THEY HAVE IT EVERY SEPTEMBER.
IT'S THE SECOND WEEKEND IN JUNE, SECOND WEEKEND, UM, SEPTEMBER PROBABLY WE WOULDN'T WANT TO COMPETE AGAINST OUR OWNSELVES IN THE COMMUNITY.
SEE THAT'S WHAT I WAS THINKING.
I DIDN'T KNOW IF WE WANTED TO COMPETE AGAINST OUR OWN ANOTHER CITY WIDE EVENT.
THINK YOU WANT, YOU MEAN WE WOULD TALK ABOUT LIKE WHAT MIGHT BE GOOD BECAUSE YOU SAID THE, THE, THE LATINA OR LATINX SPECIAL.
THE THE, THE HISPANIC FESTIVAL IS ALWAYS, IT IS USUALLY AROUND THE THIRD WEEKEND BECAUSE IT STARTS, THEY TRY TO HAVE IT AROUND THE 15TH OF THE 20TH OR SOMETHING.
'CAUSE HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH BEGINS SEPTEMBER 15TH AND OCTOBER 15TH.
BUT I WAS THINKING MORE LIKE THE END OF SEPTEMBER, BEGINNING OF OCTOBER BECAUSE I WAS LOOKING AT SEEING WHAT FESTIVALS ARE GOING ON.
THE ONLY OTHER FESTIVAL THAT'S BIG IS THE OCTOBER FEST AT THE ART INSTITUTE, BUT IT'S NOT, THAT'S NOT AS A FESTIVAL.
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? AND IT'S A THREE DAY EVENT.
SO I WAS JUST THINKING AROUND THOSE TWO TIMES.
'CAUSE I DON'T SEE A LOT OF BIG, BIG FESTIVALS.
'CAUSE THE FOLLOWING THIRD AND THE THIRD SATURDAY IS USUALLY THE BEAVER CREEK POPCORN FESTIVAL.
IT'S GREEK FESTIVAL, IT'S THIS FESTIVAL AND IT'S THAT FEST AND IT'S, IT'S A LOT OF FESTIVALS GOING AND THEN IT'S HALFTIME USA HERE AND IT'S JUST, THERE'S A LOT OF STUFF GOING ON IN THE FIRST PART OF SEPTEMBER AROUND THE COMMUNITY.
SO I WAS JUST THINKING IF WE PUSH PUT IT TO, AND I THINK I PUT IT IN THAT EMAIL THAT WE HAD, WE PUT IT TO THE END OF THE MONTH, THEN MAYBE WE CAN GET MORE VENDOR PARTICIPATION BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT TIED UP TO DOING OTHER, OTHER EVENTS.
THE HISPANIC FESTIVAL IS USUALLY THE THIRD WEEKEND.
AND SAME THING WITH THE BEAVER CREEK POPCORN AND ALL THE, THE BIGGER THE UH, SAUERKRAUT FESTIVAL, THEY'RE USUALLY ALL AROUND THAT SAME TIME PERIOD.
I JUST DIDN'T WANNA COMPETE WITH, UM, ESTABLISHED BIG FESTIVAL IN THE AREA THAT PEOPLE TEND TO GO TO.
SO, SO RIGHT NOW IT LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE, WE WOULD HAVE LIKE MK JANUARY
THEN THE NEXT ONE WILL BE JUNE AND THEN 4TH OF JULY IS A PARADE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL AND THEN THE CHRISTMAS BREAK.
AND ANY OF THE SMALL THINGS WE WANNA THROW IN BETWEEN.
YEAH, LIKE, LIKE THE BASKETBALL OR LIKE THAT WHAT, UM, WHAT, WHAT MONTH YOU POSSIBLY THINK IF THAT'S SOMETHING THE
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ROAD DOWN WHAT MONTH IN THE MONTH.BUT I PROBABLY IN THE, OF THE SUMMER PROBABLY TO DO THAT.
MAYBE AUGUST BEFORE SCHOOL STARTS.
AND THEN IF YOU WANT THROW SOMETHING IN THERE.
I WAS THINKING TIE AROUND SCHOOL, YOU A SCHOOL DRIVE, PEOPLE COME TOURNAMENT.
JUST THE IDEA TO HELP THE COMMUNITY.
SOMETHING BETWEEN THE MIDDLE, THE MIDDLE OF JULY AND THE MIDDLE OF ALL THOSE.
PICK A TIME THAT'S SOMETHING YOU LIKE IN ON A DATE.
AND THEN OBVIOUSLY FOR THOSE ARE SOME THINGS WE'VE THROWN OR DISCUSSED.
IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT AS A COMMISSION WE FEEL WE'RE MISSING THAT WE'RE NOT DOING OR NOT INVOLVED WITH OR WE MIGHT WANT TO GET INVOLVED WITH? BECAUSE I MEAN OBVIOUSLY WE KNOW WHAT OUR THREE CORE EVENTS ARE, BUT EVEN IN LIKE THE PARADE, THOSE ARE, THESE ARE JUST ACTIVITIES WE'RE IN.
BUT IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE WE WANT TO TRY TO PROMOTE? PUSH SUPPORT? UM, FOR 2026? I THINK WE, WE HAD TALKED ABOUT IT.
WE DIDN'T PUT NO MEAT ON THE BONE, BUT UH, DO SOMETHING WITH THE YOUTH, UH, AROUND KNOWING THEIR RIGHTS INTERACTION WITH, YOU KNOW, LAW ENFORCEMENT AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
SO WE NEED TO, I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN US AND, YOU KNOW, SOME OTHER FOLKS, I DUNNO WHAT THAT MEANS.
JUDGE BRANDON CLAIM HE DOES THAT AROUND THE COMMUNITY A LOT.
THE KNOW YOUR RIGHTS, HE SPEAKS TO LIKE COLLEGE STUDENTS.
LIKE HE DOES THAT AROUND CAMPUSES A LOT.
TO TALK ABOUT, UM, HOW BUILT FOR YOUNG FOLKS TO ADD, ESPECIALLY YOUNG MINORITY FOLKS TO ADD THEMSELVES WHEN IT COMES TO GIVING POLICE.
I THINK THAT'S A GREAT THING BECAUSE THAT'S PART OF WHAT WE, WHEN WE SAY IS THERE EIGHT BRACKET IS BECAUSE NORMAL COLLEGE, LIKE I WOULD SAY BELOW HIGH SCHOOL, HIGH SCHOOL, THEY'RE THE ONES THAT UM, IF THEY GET STOPPED, THEY WON'T KNOW.
I MEAN, AND I DON'T KNOW ABOUT, I NOT GENERALIZING ALL KIDS, BUT UM, I KNOW DEALING WITH MY OWN AND SOME OF THE YOUNGER COLLEGE KIDS, THEY CAN GET ATTITUDES WHEN IT COMES TO
SO MAYBE, AND THEY'RE THE ONES THAT ARE GETTING MANY TIMES YOUNGER OR OTHER ONES ARE GETTING SHOT AND GETTING IN THESE CASES.
SO I THINK MAYBE IT'S LIKE, KNOW WHAT, KNOW HOW TO HANDLE THIS TRAFFIC STOP.
KNOW WHAT, YOU KNOW, TO EXPECT FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY.
WOULD YOU THINK IT WOULD MAYBE JUNIOR HIGH UP? I THINK YOU, I MEAN BECAUSE YOU GOT TEENAGERS, YOU'VE GOT 14 YEAR OLDS THAT ARE GETTING RIGHT.
SO MAYBE HIGH JUNIOR HIGH TO, TO COLLEGE YOURSELF.
YOUNG ADULTS TO JUNIOR HIGH YOUNG ADULTS.
SO IT'S LIKE, BECAUSE THIS IS THE AGE GROUP THAT TEND TO GET STOPPED A LOT.
BECAUSE I'M THIS, THAT SEEMS LIKE AN EDUCATION PIECE.
SO I KNOW THAT'S PART OF, ARE WE OPEN TO, UH, I KNOW WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING LIKE AROUND MARCH OR SO.
MARCH OR APRIL? THERE? NO, BETWEEN THE TWO BIG EVENTS MM-HMM
UM, I WAS THINKING, JUST PLAYING WITH AN IDEA, UM, OF WORKING WITH THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND SINCE WE GOT THE PRESIDENT OF THEIR HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
THE HIGHLIGHTER BUSINESSES IN THE AREA.
WE HAVE, SINCE WE, WE'VE GROWN A LOT, WE'VE GOT A LOT MORE MINORITY OWNED BUSINESSES COMING HERE.
JUST A, LIKE AN EXPO WHERE PEOPLE CAN GO AND SEE WHAT THESE BUSINESSES ARE, WHAT THEIR SERVICES THEY PROVIDED OR YOU KNOW, THAT GIVES OPPORTUNITY.
YOU SAID THAT'S A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CHAMBER? YEAH.
I MEAN, WELL 'CAUSE THEY WOULD'VE THE LIST OF ALL AND THEN THE HISPANIC CHAMBER COMMERCE GLY IS THE PRESIDENT OF THAT COMMERCE.
AND SHE OWNS, AND SHE OWNS PEPE HERE AND PART OF HER DAD OWNS, BUT SOMETHING, IT ALSO
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HIGHLIGHTS OUR MINOR OWNED BUSINESSES THAT WE HAVE HERE.AND MAYBE IN OUR NEW GOVERNANCE AREA.
YEAH, YOU SAID I'M NOT SEEING A BIG, LIKE, FANCY EVENT.
JUST LIKE AN EXPO WHERE THEY CAN COME OUT WITH TABLES AND THEY CAN JUST HIGHLIGHT THEIR AREAS AND PEOPLE CAN, IN THE COMMUNITY CAN COME AND SEE ALL THE DIFFERENT CULTURAL AND DIFFERENT DIVERSE BUSINESSES THAT WE HAVE SOMETHING ELSE TO BE FOCUSING ON.
WE GOT CO BUT THEY, I I THINK IT'S AN IDEA FOR OUR RESTAURANTS TO, AND I HEAR THAT THE MARBLE SLAB IS CLOSING OR HAS CLOSED, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, ANOTHER ONE.
SO IT'S LIKE, I THINK, UM, AND IT IS TO HIGHLIGHT SOME.
AND THEN IF THERE IS A SMALL, ONE OF OUR SMALL BUSINESSES ARE STRUGGLING, MAYBE THIS IS A, A WAY TO ALSO GET THEIR NAME AS WELL AS I THINK IT'S A WAY TO BUILD, WELL HAPPENS THESE EVENTS THAT NOT ALWAYS, AND I'M NOT THINKING OF LIKE A HUGE BIG FORMAL, LIKE YEAH.
YOU KNOW, JUST A EXPO, LIKE WHERE THEY HAVE TABLES AND STUFF AND THEY CAN COME OUT AND TELL PEOPLE ABOUT THEIR VISITS.
WE CAN ENCOURAGE PEOPLE WHAT YOU SAY, UH, WHEN I WAS THINKING MARCH, UH, APRIL, BECAUSE THAT'S IN BETWEEN THE TWO BIG TWO BIG EVENTS.
ANYTHING ELSE? I THINK THAT'S A GOOD FULL CALENDAR THAT ALTERNA KNOW, YOUR KNOW, YOUR RIGHTS AND THEN THE THREE BIG EVENTS, THAT'S A FULL, THAT'S A FULL YEAR OF, AND IF, YOU KNOW, I WOULD SAY LIKE IF YOU COME, IF YOU GUYS THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE BETWEEN NOW AND SEE THIS IS NOVEMBER, I GUESS OUR DECEMBER MEETING.
YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY KEEP THAT IN MIND BECAUSE WE'RE BUILDING THE 2026 CALENDAR, UM, IN CASE WE HAVE TO RESERVE SOMETHING AHEAD OF TIME.
I KNOW LIKE, UH, I THINK WE'RE ALL IN EMAIL, BUT LIKE THE 2026 CALENDAR IS LIKE FILLING UP FOR THE CITY.
SO IF WE CAN GET AS MUCH ADVANCED NOTICE AS WE CAN WITH THOSE THINGS, I THINK WE'RE, THAT'S, THAT JUST MAKES US LOOK BETTER.
UM, IF WE NEED TO RESERVE SOMETHING OR PARTNER WITH THE CITY.
THAT, UM, I, I KNOW THERE WAS A LOT OF DISCUSSION WE HAD, UH, THE MONTH BEFORE ABOUT THE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT.
IS THAT, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT AS A COMMISSION, DO YOU THINK THAT IS, I KNOW WE WERE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO, IT WASN'T GONNA BE JUST BASKETBALL FOR BASKETBALL'S SAKE.
WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT IT DID LINE UP WITH THE SCOPE AND THE MISSION, THE VISION, THE VALUES, THE WHATEVER WE HAVE CONNECTED TO OUR, OUR, UM, OUR BYLAWS, UH, FOR THE COMMISSION.
DOES THAT, DOES THAT SAME SEEM LIKE SOUND LIKE SOMETHING YOU DEFINITELY COULD DO, WOULD DO, SHOULD TRY TO DO? UM, OBVIOUSLY THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAT THE COMMISSIONING HASN'T, HASN'T DONE ANYTHING LIKE THAT BEFORE.
I THINK OUR CULTURAL, OUR NEEDS ASSESSMENT, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I REMEMBER THAT WAS YOUTH, MORE YOUTH.
SO I THINK IT DOES ALIGN WITH WHAT WE CAN DO IS GETTING THE YOUTH, BECAUSE I'VE HEARD, AND IT WAS ON THE, THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT TOO, BUT HEARD FOR PEOPLE THAT WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF THIS JUST YOUTH FOCUSED THING.
AND UM, I THINK WE JUST HAD RECENTLY HAD, UM, A WAYNE STUDENT WHO WAS ARRESTED AT UV OR BRANDISHING, UM, 15 YEARS OLD.
SO IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, AND IT WAS IN THE NEWS JUST TODAY, BUT I THINK IT WAS, BUT I THINK WE'VE HAD ISSUES WHERE, UM, MAYBE WE COULD PUT THIS TO MORE OF A, A SHARING OF CULTURE, A LITTLE BIT OF AN ANTI-BULLYING OR, YOU KNOW, BUT AS JUST BRINGING THE KIDS TOGETHER, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER.
AND LIKE WE WERE TALKING, I WAS TALKING ABOUT, UM, WITH ERIC ABOUT THE ACCESSIBILITY.
HAVE KIDS WHO ARE NEURO DIVERGENT OR HAVE DISABILITIES THAT NORMALLY DON'T GET INVOLVED IN A LOT CAN BE INVOLVED.
AND THAT'S PART OF OUR, OUR WHAT TO BRING COMMUNITY.
UM, LIKE I WAS SAYING AT WRIGHT STATE, WE ALSO HAD IT WHERE OUR POLICE GOT INVOLVED.
SO IT ALSO HELPS WITH THAT COMMUNITY RELATION WITH THE, THE POLICE AS WELL.
BUT I MEAN, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THAT FOCUSED, BUT I'M JUST SAYING THAT I THINK, I THINK IT'S A WONDERFUL IDEA TO TRY TO BRING SOME OF OUR YOUTH TOGETHER AND IT ANSWERED SOME OF THE ONES THAT THEY HAD ON THIS NEEDS ASSESSMENT THAT WE HAD TUESDAY.
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A GOOD IDEA TO FOCUS.I THINK WE GOING INTO, I THINK WE NEED TO COME UP WITH WHAT WE WANT TO GET OUTTA IT.
RIGHT? SO IF IT'S TO TRY TO, UM, BUILD SOME RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PEOPLE THAT DON'T HAVE IT.
UM, BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S GONNA HELP US STRATEGICALLY GO AFTER THE PEOPLE THAT WE WANT BE INVOLVED.
SO I THINK THAT'S DEFINITELY IMPORTANT.
IT IS NOT ABOUT THE BASKETBALL, IT'S ABOUT HOW DO WE BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER? BASKETBALL, JUST THE, THE TOOL IS GONNA BE THE TOOL THAT EVERYBODY'S MEETING UP FOR, RIGHT? YEAH.
BUT TO BE ABLE TO GET PEOPLE THERE, UM, YOU KNOW, MAYBE YOU AT THE END OF IT, YOU KNOW, DISCUSSION LIKE, HEY, THIS IS HOW PEOPLE SHOULD COME TOGETHER.
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? REGARDLESS TO YOUR DIFFERENCES AND WHATNOT, WHAT HAVE YOU, YOU KNOW, WE CAME TOGETHER FOR THIS EDUCATION, I THINK.
RIGHT? I THINK WE PROBABLY DO SOMETHING BECAUSE IT, IT SHOULD BRING ALL DIFFERENT TYPES OF PEOPLE.
AND THEN FOR 2026, UM, AGAIN, WE GOT MLK MULTICULTURAL, OBVIOUSLY WE WANT MAKE MULTICULTURAL WORLD CLASS OR PREMIER JUNETEENTH, FULL JULY GRADE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT WILL KEEP FLESHING THAT OUT TO MAKE IT AS, TO MAKE IT FIT WITHIN OUR, OUR OUR MISSION, UM, MINORITY OWNED EXPO.
UM, IS THERE A CULTURE OR IS THERE A GROUP OR IS THERE A, UM, CULTURE OR DIVERSITY GROUP, DIVERSE GROUP THAT WE WE'RE LEAVING OUT OR WE FEEL LIKE WE SHOULD DO SOMETHING FOR WITH OR BUY IN 2026? DO WE, WHEN WE DID THAT TURKISH MEMORIAL, MEMORIAL DAY? BECAUSE I'M NOT, IF I'M READING WHAT I WAS READING THE PAPER, RIGHT? AREN'T WE LIKE THE SECOND BIGGEST COMMUNITY FOR THE TURKISH COMMUNITY IN THIS AREA? SO IT'S A AND THEY OWN A LOT OF OUR BUSINESSES TOO, SO I MEAN, MAYBE I THINK I, I WASN'T HERE WHEN THAT, BUT I KNEW ALL HAD PART COMMISSION TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT A YEAR OR TWO AGO.
DO YOU THINK? SO, UM, THAT'S, THAT'S AN EVENT THAT WE'LL REPEAT AND DO IT AGAIN, BUT, UM, I JUST NEED TO GET TOGETHER AND SEE THAT'S SO, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE USUALLY WE DO IT EVERY YEAR, BUT NOT AS BIG AS THAT.
IT HAPPENED LAST TIME, SO, AND UH, THIS YEAR IT'S JUST GOING TO BE AT THE MOSQUE, YOU KNOW, JUST THE PRAYER.
BUT MAYBE WE COULD DO SOMETHING ELSE, YOU KNOW, FOR THE CHURCH COMMUNITY, LIKE, FOR NOT JUST THE TURKISH COMMUNITY, LIKE, UH, THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN THE AREA WHERE, UH, FOR EXAMPLE, OUR, UH, MONTE RAMADAN IS COMING AND IN THE RAMADAN USUALLY IT'S A CELEBRATION, YOU KNOW, SO THAT WEEKEND WE CAN, WE TRY TO DO PICNIC AT THE MOSQUE USUALLY FOR EVERYBODY AND YOU KNOW, HAVE KIDS OVER THERE, UH, GET SOME BOUNCY HOUSES FOR THEM SO THEY CAN HAVE GOOD TIME AND YOU KNOW, AND ALL THE FAMILIES GET TOGETHER.
AND, UM, WE COULD DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT FOR, UH, THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN HEIGHTS, YOU KNOW, AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE NICE.
BUT AGAIN, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DISCUSS.
AND WHEN, WHEN IS THAT TYPICALLY, UH, FROM? SO RAMADAN, I THINK IT'S, UH, IT'S GOING TO BE MARCH THIS YEAR.
SO IT'S USUALLY THE LAST 30 DAYS.
SO LIKE SOMETIME IN MARCH? YEAH, I THINK IF THAT GROUP IS OPEN TO IT, BECAUSE IT, WE HAVE ONE OF THE LARGEST, OUR AREA IS ONE OF THE LARGEST OF THAT, OF OUR TURKISH GROUP COMMUNITY HERE.
SO, AND MAYBE YOU CAN ALSO SOME OF THE BAD
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KNOW, KIND OF CELEBRATION.SO THAT COULD BE ANOTHER LIKE FESTIVAL TYPE OF THING, BUT NOT REALLY.
AND WE CAN, WE CAN GET SOME, USUALLY WHAT WE DO IS, UH, SINCE MOST OF OUR, UH, WOMEN, THEY COOK AT HOME, YOU KNOW, SO THEY, THEY WOULD BRING EVERY, WE COULD DO IT, JUST TELL THEM WHAT THEY NEED TO COOK AND THEY SPLIT IT IN BETWEEN EACH OTHER SO THEY, THEY COULD PROVIDE THE FOOD THAT WE WOULD NEED FOR CATERING, YOU KNOW? SO IT WOULDN'T COST US ANYTHING FOR FOOD.
IT JUST, MAYBE JUST PROVIDING THE SPACE AND THEN BALANCE THE HOUSE FOR THE KIDS.
I, UM, PERSONALLY I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, IF YOU'RE WANTING, UM, IF WE'RE WANTING OUR MULTICULTURAL EVENT TO BE THE SIGNATURE EVENT OF THE COMMISSION, UM, I THINK WE NEED TO START WORKING NOW AND DO LAY WORK IN THE COMMUNITY AND INVITE, UM, ASIANS, KOREANS, INDIANS, UH, NATIVE AMERICANS, LIKE, YOU KNOW, UH, LET'S CALL SUN WATCH, YOU KNOW, SEE IF THEY CAN HAVE A, A BOOTH.
UM, YOU KNOW, LET'S REACH OUT TO EVERY DEMOGRAPHIC THAT WE HAVE IN THE CITY.
UH, YOU KNOW, ARAB AMERICANS THAT HAVE A CONNECTION.
I HAVE, YOU KNOW, TO THEM, UM, THAT WE COULD REACH OUT TO, UH, YOU KNOW, MAKE THESE CONNECTIONS EARLY.
UM, FIND OUT WHO WE NEED TO TALK TO AND INVITE.
AND, UM, I WOULD LIKE PERSONALLY TO SEE MORE CULTURAL REPRESENTATION AT THE FESTIVAL, UM, TO MAKE IT THAT BIG SIGNATURE EVENT.
KNOW LIKE THE GREEKS, THE LEBANESE.
SO WE ARE, UM, SO ON THIS ONE, WE DID HAVE THE LEBANESE GROUP OUT THIS TIME.
SO, AND THEY'RE MORE THAN WELCOME TO COME BACK AGAIN.
WE, UM, WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH DIPPY, SO NOW DIFFY IS INVOLVED AND THEY KNOW DIFFY IS THE GROUP THAT RUNS THE, UH, WORLD AFFAIR.
SO ALL THOSE ORGANIZATIONS IN THERE, I THINK WE'VE, WE'VE STARTED TALKED ABOUT, UM, WORKING WITH, UM, MARVIN AND, AND THE DIFFY GROUP AND UM, SO ABRAHAM HAS BEEN DOING THAT.
SO I THINK, UM, WE HAD TALKED ABOUT IN OUR RECAP THAT DEFINITELY IF WE CAN GIVE IT, WE CAN SET A DATE NOW, THEN WE CAN TELL THIS GROUP, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO NOW.
AND THEN THAT WAY IT COULD BE AHEAD OF TIME AND ON THEIR RADAR.
AND LIKE I SAID, IF WE SET A REGULAR DATE, THEY KNOW THIS DATE EVERY YEAR IS THIS FESTIVAL.
AND LIKE THEY, LIKE, THEY KNOW THE WORLD AFFAIR IS ALWAYS LIKE THIS THIRD AND MAY, YOU KNOW, SO THAT THEY KNOW EVERY YEAR AND THEY CAN PLAN AROUND, WE'LL DO OUR FUNDRAISING THINGS IN THE WORLD AFFAIR, AND THEN WE CAN DO OUR THING IN THE FALL.
SO I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA THAT, UM, WE'RE GONNA, WE'VE DEFINITELY BEEN GOING BACK AND FORTH TALKING ABOUT AND HAVING THAT CONNECTION, AT LEAST WITH THE BIG ORGANIZATION IN THE AREA THAT'S CONNECTED TO, CONNECTED TO, UM, A LOT OF THE CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS.
BECAUSE I'M ALL FOR GROWING MORE AND MORE AND MORE AND HAVING MORE REPRESENTATION AND MORE GROUPS AND MORE, UM, EVEN MM-HMM
EVEN, UM, THERE, AND I, I'M, I'M WORKING WITH THE ASIAN AMERICAN COUNCIL TO TRY TO GET MORE, THE DOWNFALL OF OUR ASIAN GROUPS IN THIS COMMUNITY IS, UM, FOR INSTANCE, THE KOREAN ASSOCIATION IS NOT AS ACTIVE AS IT IS USING THE SAME THING WITH THE CHINESE.
IT'S A LOT OF OUR GROUPS ARE TRYING TO, WHAT WE'RE HAVING PROBLEMS WITH, AND IT'S PROBABLY IN A LOT OF, IS A LOT OF OUR ACTIVE MEMBERS ARE OLDER FOLKS AND WE CAN'T GET THE YOUTH GET INVOLVED TO GET INVOLVED AND CONTINUE TO GROW.
SO A LOT OF OUR OR CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS ARE SUFFERING FROM THAT IS WE CAN'T GET THE YOUTH TO BE AS INVOLVED.
AND A LOT OF OUR OLDER FOLKS ARE WANTING TO KNOW WHO ARE ALWAYS A DOCTOR, ARE WANTING TO NOT BE AS ACTIVE ANYMORE.
SO I KNOW WITH THE KOREAN ASSOCIATION, THAT'S OUR BIGGEST THING IS WHEN WE LOST OUR, WE JUST LOST OUR PRESIDENT LAST THIS LAST SUMMER, AND SHE HAD PASSED AWAY.
SO IT'S NOW TRYING TO GET THAT.
SO THEY'RE WORKING ON TRYING TO GET A DANCE GROUP TOGETHER.
UM, IT'S JUST GETTING THE YOUTH TO EMBRACE THEIR CULTURE AND, AND TO DO THIS SO OFTEN.
BUT THERE'S A LOT OF OUR, OUR GROUPS AND I WAS TALKING TO THE OTHER ASIAN AMERICAN COUNCIL WE BORN, UM, BUT NOW THAT WE HAVE A LITTLE FAR, UM, WE, I CAN TRY TO GET THEM A LITTLE BIT MORE NOW THAT WE CAN GET A DATE.
I CAN GET THEM A LITTLE BIT MORE ACTIVE TOO.
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AND THIS.SO WE'RE TRYING TO GET, UM, WE'RE TRYING TO GET THIS MORE, THE EARLIER THE BETTER.
SO I THINK IF WE CAN GET A DATE ESTABLISHED, UM, THAT WE CAN WORK ON GETTING A, AN ESTABLISHED DATE, THEN THAT CAN GO UP, LIKE YOU SAID, SAY, WANNA BE DOING THIS.
DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING ELSE IN MIND? I DUNNO HOW, I MEAN, YOU MENTIONED, DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING IN MIND CHRISTIE? LIKE, LIKE AN IDEA
JUST, YOU KNOW, KNOCKING ON DOORS, FIND OUT, YOU KNOW.
I DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, FACEBOOK'S A GREAT TOOL THESE DAYS.
I FIGURE OUT SOME WAY TO MEET SOMEBODY TO TALK TO SOMEBODY, I GUESS.
YOU GUYS TELL ME WHO YOU NEED ME TO TALK TO AND I'LL, I'LL FIND A WAY.
WELL, I THINK IT'S LIKE I SAID, I THINK BECAUSE I THINK IF WE GET TO SAVE DAY FLY, BECAUSE THAT, THAT GIVES YOU SOMETHING TO GIVE TO THEM TOO.
LIKE VERSUS LIKE, YEAH, I KNOW CHRISTIE, BUT SHE MENTIONED SOMETHING ON SOMEDAY.
BUT IF YOU HAVE AN ACTUAL LIKE THEN THEY CAN ACT THEN, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? LIKE IT, I THINK IT MEANT THAT, YEAH, THAT CONNECTION A LITTLE MORE, I DON'T WANNA SAY MEANINGFUL, BUT IT'S JUST DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO TRY TO, I MEAN, NOT SET A DATE FOR THE FUTURE, BUT SO THAT WE CAN START HAVING THAT CONVERSATION IN GROUPS.
SHOULD WE VOTE ON NEXT YEAR'S DATE AT LEAST? WELL, I GUESS WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, I THINK WE WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT LIKE WHAT JUST LIKE WE DID WITH ON THE JUNETEENTH, LIKE WHAT THE DATE WOULD BE.
I MEAN, WHAT WOULD YOU THINK? WHAT DO YOU THINK? SHOULD WE KEEP IT THE SECOND? I MEAN, IF WE KEEP IT THE SECOND, LIKE YOU SAID, WE'RE COMPETING WITH THE CITY, YOU KNOW,
SO, UH, HOW ABOUT WE MAKE IT THE FIRST SATURDAY OF THE SEPTEMBER OR THAT'S EVERY WEEKEND.
BUT ARE WE, IS IT, I MEAN, SARAH, YOU, UM, WITH THE CITYWIDE GARAGE SALE, MOLLY, I'M MOLLY.
I I I'M LOOKING AT YOU AND I KNOW YOU'RE NOT SARAH MOLLY WITH THE CITYWIDE GARAGE SALE, YOU DO THINK THAT'S A BIG THING OR YOU THINK IT'S ALL RIGHT TO STILL HAVE IT ON THAT WEEKEND? UM, I THINK YOU'D BE OKAY TO STILL HAVE IT ON THE WEEKEND.
I MEAN, YOUR NUMBERS WERE GREAT LAST YEAR.
YOU DON'T HAVE ANY COMMUNITYWIDE GARAGE SALE.
UM, I ACTUALLY TELL YOU WHAT IT WAS, YOUR TOTAL, YOUR TOTAL ATTENDANCE FOR LAST YEAR WAS 947.
I THINK THE YEAR BEFORE WHEN IT WAS ON THE
SO YOU ACTUALLY INCREASED A LITTLE BIT MORE.
PLUS PEOPLE ARE ALREADY OUT SHOPPING AROUND AND LIKE GOING THROUGH GARAGE SALES.
UM, SO THEY'RE ALREADY OUT AND ABOUT AND IN THE CITY, IF THEY'RE HAVING A GARAGE SALE THAT WEEKEND, THEY GOTTA FIND SOMEBODY WASH THEIR GARAGE SALE IF THEY WON'T COME
THE ONLY OTHER EVENT ON THAT WEEKEND, UM, WAS JAZZ FEST, THE MIAMISBURG RIVER FEST AND TOWN AND COUNTRY HAD A FEST.
IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER, UM, WENDY HILL
AND THEN OCTOBER FEST FIRST WEEKEND AND THE FIRST WEEKEND IN OCTOBER HAD THE NEW CARLISLE HERITAGE OF FLIGHT CLOSE BY, WHICH IS HUGE.
AND ALSO THE BLACK SUPER OUTDOOR EXPERIENCE, WHY WE KEEP IT THE SECOND WEEKEND IN SEPTEMBER, IT'S NOT GONNA COMPETE.
AND THEN THE FARMER'S MARKET NEXT YEAR TALK ABOUT RUNNING THE FARMER'S MARKET FROM MARY GOLD TO MULTICULTURAL AND THEY'RE GONNA, LIKE, THEY WANTED TO ADVERTISE THAT, THAT THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE WANTING TO TRY TO TIE THAT TOGETHER.
AND THEY WERE PART OF THIS THIS YEAR TOO.
AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS PRETTY GOOD BECAUSE PEOPLE CAME TO THE FARMER'S MARKET AND THEY REALIZED WE HAVE THIS HUGE FESTIVAL AND THEY, I THINK PEOPLE ENJOYED IT.
I THINK WHAT MASON WOULD LIKE TO TRY TO DO IS DO IT END IT ON THE THIRD, THAT THIRD SATURDAY, WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO.
I I JUST WOULD LIKE TO STAY AWAY FROM THAT BIRD SATURDAY.
'CAUSE THAT'S THE, THE THIRD YOU'RE INTO THIS FAMILY, THE HISPANIC AND THE BEAVER CREEK AND THE IN THE AIR FORCE MARATHON.
BIGGER, IT'S MORE ESTABLISHED.
I, I DON'T, THE GARAGE SALE DOESN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE THAN I'M OKAY KEEPING IT THE SECOND WEEKEND IN SEPTEMBER, SECOND WEEK IN SEPTEMBER.
SO WE DO MOTION, IS IT THE SECOND OR THE FOURTH? SECOND.
BECAUSE WHAT'S GOING ON ON THE FOURTH? THE FOURTH WEEKEND ON TWO, THREE FOURTH THEN LAST YEAR WAS THE 27TH.
CITY MONTH FESTIVAL, THE DATE OF OCTOBER FEST.
AND THERE WAS TWO BIG, HUGE LIKE, FARM MARKET FESTIVALS, LIKE CLOSE BINDERS AND FANCY HOUSES AND ENTERTAINMENT.
SO LET'S, I I WOULD, LET'S KEEP IT ON SECOND SATURDAY IN SEPTEMBER.
I MAKE A MOTION TO KEEP THE MULTICULTURE FESTIVAL THE SECOND SATURDAY IN SEPTEMBER.
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NEED A SECOND.UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF, UH, KEEPING THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL ON THE SECOND SATURDAY IN SEPTEMBER, SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.
ALL THOSE OPPOSED MAY ANY ABSTENTIONS IS IT SO MOVED THAT THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL WILL NOW MOVE TO, UH, THE SECOND SATURDAY IN SEPTEMBER TO FOR, UH, CALENDAR PURPOSES? I THINK THAT WORKS BEST AS WELL.
UM, AND WE'LL FIGURE OUT DATES AND GET ALL THOSE THINGS THAT THAT'S AN EASY THING FOR SAVE THE DATES AND GETTING THE LITTLE POSTCARD PUSHING.
DO YOU HAVE THAT LETTER THAT SENT OUT TO VENDOR, TO THE CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS? UM, THIS, THIS LAST YEAR? I DON'T REMEMBER.
I I THINK WE DID LIKE QR CODE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
DID WE, WAS THERE A LETTER THAT WE, BUT YOU KNOW, I CAN GO LOOK THROUGH AND SEE IF THERE WAS A PAST LETTER THAT WE DID WHEN, UM, FRED AND I DID DID THAT THAT ONE HERE.
WE COULD CREATE SOMETHING THAT, UM, GO AHEAD.
GO AHEAD AND SEND IT OUT TO ALL THE CULTURAL ORGANIZATION TO GIVE THEM, HEY, THIS IS OUR DATE.
LET'S GO AHEAD AND IF YOU WANT PARTICIPATE IN THIS, JUST GIVE A PRELIMINARY YES.
BUT ALSO THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA.
LIKE SHE SAID TOO, LIKE WE CAN ACTUALLY KNOCK ON THE DOOR OR VISIT THEIR ESTABLISHMENTS.
OR YOU KNOW, OR YEAH, I DON'T MEAN I DON'T, I DON'T.
BUT I MEAN THIS WILL, THIS WAY WE WILL, UM, AT LEAST GET IT UP TO ALL THE, OUR D LIST AND WE CAN GET IT OUT TO DIFF AND HE CAN GET IT OUT AND MARVIN CAN GET IT OUT TO ALL THE ORGANIZATIONS.
AND SAME THING WITH WELCOME DAYTON.
WE CAN GET IT OUT TO WELCOME DAYTON AND THEN THEY CAN GET IT OUT TO ALL THE CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS.
DAYTON WOULD BE A GREAT, BECAUSE I THINK ALSO I, WE NEED THOSE, WE CAN PUT LIKE OUR MEETING DATES AS WELL ON, UH, MAYBE THE BACK OF A CARD OR WHATEVER.
SO IF THEY WOULDN'T WANTED TO COME THAT WE GET CLOSER TO THOSE DATES, IT GIVES THEM AN IDEA OF WHAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE WOULD DISCUSS.
'CAUSE THAT AS WE GET CLOSER TO CERTAIN EVENTS, OBVIOUSLY THAT KIND OF TAKES PRECEDENT WHAT OUR MEANS ARE REALLY DISCUSS.
UM, HOW MANY COMMISSIONS BY CARS ARE IN THE AREA? ANYBODY NOW? LIKE CARS, LIKE A SPRINGBORO HAS SOMETHING SIMILAR MAYBE, RIGHT? OR CENTERVILLE HAS A, CENTERVILLE HAS A DIVERSITY, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S CITY BRAND, BUT THEY HAVE A DIVERSITY COMMISSION.
I KNOW BEAVER CREEK AND FAIRBORN ARE CITIZEN BASED, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVE FAIRBORNE.
AND BEAVER CREEK IS A CITIZEN BASED, THEY'RE NOT CITY.
I THINK WE WERE FROM WHAT WE WENT WHEN WE ESTABLISHED THIS, THERE WAS AN ARTICLE ABOUT LIKE, I THINK OAKWOOD IS A CITY OAKWOOD'S COMMISSION SOMEWHERE DOWN SOUTH.
I THINK THERE WAS ONLY A VERY SMALL HANDFUL OF US.
IT WAS LIKE TWO OR THREE OF US.
BUT I KNOW OAKWOOD IS CITY BASED.
I THINK CENTERVILLE'S A CITY, A CITY, UH, NOT NECESSARILY AN
UM, BUT I JUST KNOW THAT BEAVER CREEK AND FAIRBORN GROUP IS A PRIVATE NONPROFIT.
BECAUSE I THINK RHONDA WAS LOOKING INTO, WHEN WE WERE DISCUSSING ABOUT BECOMING A NONPROFIT A 5 0 1 VERSUS A MM-HMM
I KNOW OAKWOOD IS CITY, I'M NOT SURE, BUT I KNOW THERE'S NOT A LOT.
NOT THAT IT MATTERS NECESSARILY, BUT WHAT I WAS, UM, WANTING TO MAYBE TOSS OUT THERE IS TO SEE IF, UM, WE WERE INTERESTED AS A COMMISSION ON, UM, MAYBE HAVING A TABLE AT, UM, DAYTON'S, UM, PRIDE EVENT NEXT YEAR, UM, WHERE WE COULD HAVE OUR, YOU KNOW, MISSION CARD AND OUR, YOU KNOW, YEARLY ACTIVITIES LISTED.
UM, JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, THE L-G-B-T-Q-I-A PLUS COMMUNITY KNOW THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE HERE KIND OF A THING, YOU KNOW? YEAH.
I DUNNO WHAT THAT IS, BUT I, SO PRIDE IS IN IT'S JUNE.
I KNOW IT'S NOT ON LIKE JUNETEENTH, BUT UM, YOU KNOW, THEY
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HAVE A BIG PARADE.UM, AND THEN THERE'S AN EVENT, LIKE AN ALL DAY EVENT AT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE COURTHOUSE SQUARE.
UM, I DON'T KNOW, IT, IT IS JUST ONE MORE THING, KIND OF LIKE THE 4TH OF JULY.
I'M NOT SAYING, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S MARCH THE PARADE, BUT MAYBE THEY COULD JUST HAVE LIKE A TABLE AT, YOU KNOW, THE COURTHOUSE.
UM, I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF THE OTHER COMMISSIONS IN THE AREA DO THAT OR HOW INVOLVED THEY ARE, BUT THAT WAS JUST AN IDEA.
FAIRBORN WILL HAVE AN INCLUSIVE FAIRBORN PRIDE PARADE AT THEIR COMMUNITY PARK IN JUNE.
WELL, I DON'T KNOW HOW ACTIVE THEY ARE IN LIKE DAYTON.
IT JUNE, UM, DAY PRIDE IS FRIDAY, JUNE 5TH AND SATURDAY JUNE 6TH.
THE MAIN EVENT WOULD BE SATURDAY.
THEY DO PARADE AND THEN WAS THE THING IN THE COURTHOUSE.
UM, SO THERE'S I THAT IDEA THAT I WANTED TO TOSS OUT.
UM, AND THEN I HAD ANOTHER QUESTION ALSO.
UM, THIS, UM, KNOW YOUR RIGHTS IDEA MM-HMM
UM, WHAT IF, WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE TO THINK ABOUT MAYBE IF WE DID LIKE A SERIES A KNOW YOUR RIGHT SERIES, UM, WHERE WE COULD ADDRESS ALSO, UM, SENIOR CITIZENS OR, YOU KNOW, LIKE OLDER AMERICANS, UM, IN ONE SESSION, UM, AND THEN IN ANOTHER, UM, MAYBE LIKE ADDRESS, UM, LIKE, UH, PARENTS WITH, UM, SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN.
UM, I THINK THERE'S A BIG THING GOING ON IN SOME OF HUBER'S SCHOOLS WHERE SPECIAL NEEDS ARE NOT BEING MET.
UM, MAYBE, YOU KNOW, AND, UM, I DON'T KNOW THAT PARENTS KNOW WHAT RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE.
WE COULD PROVIDE THAT EDUCATIONAL SERIES TO THEM, YOU KNOW, UM, KIND OF JUST TO GO ALONG WITH THE KNOW YOUR RIGHTS, YOU KNOW? YEAH.
I THINK IT'S A GOOD IDEA AND HOW IT PERTAINS TO A COUPLE DIFFERENT YEAH.
BECAUSE I THINK IT, IT DOES GIVE US THE ABILITY TO CONSISTENTLY EDUCATE, WHICH IS ONE OF OUR MAJOR FOCAL POINTS.
BUT I DON'T, I MEAN, I THINK WE DO IT AT ALL OUR EVENTS, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANYTHING WE DO SEPARATELY THAT DRIVES STRICTLY EDGE.
AND MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S A PARTNERSHIP THAT WE COULD TIE IT BECAUSE YOU'RE NOW YOU'RE PINPOINTED.
AND NOW YOU'RE GOING AFTER A CERTAIN YEAH.
AND, AND THAT IS INCLUSIVE BECAUSE I MEAN, YOU DON'T KNOW.
I MEAN, THEY'RE URGENT DOESN'T HAVE THAT.
IT DOESN'T, DOESN'T PICK AND CHOOSE IF ANYTHING YOU'RE, YOU'RE NOT.
SO I THINK, AND IT COULD BE PARENTS THAT DON'T DUNNO.
I MEAN, I WAS NOT THAT IT, THIS IS HERE, BUT I WAS ON PHONE WITH K THROUGH 12 TEACHER IN FLORIDA AND THEY'RE TOLD, AND A LOT OF IT'S BECAUSE THE LANGUAGE BARRIER, IF THEY'RE IN FLORIDA, BUT NOT OHIO GOES, WELL, THERE'S A LANGUAGE BARRIER.
SO THEY DON'T, TO YOUR POINT, THEY DON'T KNOW.
THEY'RE JUST LIKE, YEAH, GO TO CLASS.
USE YOUR FIDGET SPAN AND TRY TO GET GOOD GRADES.
THAT DOESN'T, THAT'S, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S, YEAH.
AND I MEAN MAYBE EVEN ADDRESSING, YOU KNOW, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, THE NEED FOR, UM, YOU KNOW, ALONG THOSE LINES, UM, YOU KNOW, EDUCATING, YOU KNOW, NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING PARENTS AND WHAT THEIR RIGHTS ARE, YOU KNOW, THEIR KIDS BEING TAUGHT WITH, YOU KNOW, GOOGLE ASSIST IN THE CLASSROOM, YOU KNOW? UM, AND MAYBE THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEIR RIGHTS ARE AS AS A PARENT, UM, SPECIAL NEEDS OR NOT, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S DIPPING TOO MUCH INTO, YOU KNOW, DIPPING TOO MUCH ONTO THE SCHOOL SYSTEM'S TOES OR WHATEVER.
I THINK, 'CAUSE I THINK TO EVERYBODY'S POINT, WE'RE JUST, WE'RE JUST TRYING TO EDUCATE.
SO THAT'S NOT JUST PROVIDING RESOURCES.
WE WOULD DEFINITELY HAVE TO PARTNER, BUT I'M NOT AN EXPERT IN THAT.
I THINK THAT'S, WOULD WE, UM, SINCE WE'RE FOCUSING ON YOUTH, WOULD WE, UM, BE WILLING TO SIT AND BITE LIKE THE SUPERINTENDENT TO COME OUT AND LET HIM KNOW THAT THIS IS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT? WHAT NEEDS DOES, DOES HE, DOES HE SEE IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, YOU KNOW, FROM THE FIRST HAND, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I USED TO THE SUPERINTENDENT ACTUALLY THEY DID LIKE A, SOME TYPE OF FORM OR THEY WERE LIKE, AT LIKE BW THREES OR SOMETHING.
YOU COULD JUST COME AND LIKE ASK OH, THAT'S ONE THEY WERE TRYING TO PASS THE LETTER.
BUT I MEAN, IT'S, IT, IT'S NOT THE SAME.
BUT I MEAN OBVIOUSLY I THINK WE, IT'S A,
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HE'S, I MEAN HE'S A LONG TIME RESIDENT TOO.HE'S BEEN HERE FOR, BUT I THINK, UM, IF WE CAN INVITE OR HE CAN SEND A REPRESENTATIVE OR SOMETHING, YOU, IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE HIM, BUT IF WE CAN GET WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO SEE ARE THEY, UH, AN INCREASE IN, LIKE YOU WERE SAYING, PARENTS WHO DON'T SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE.
SO WHAT CAN WE DO AS A COMMISSION WORKING WITH THE SCHOOLS TO START TO GET, GIVE SOME OF THESE EDUCATE OR CONNECT THEM WITH RESOURCES OR SOMETHING.
I THINK THAT'S AN EXCELLENT TO LOOK AT.
AND I READ THAT WHOLE POST ON LIKE ONE OF THE CU GROUPS ABOUT THE I EEP AND THAT THE
AND WHAT IT DID IS IT REALLY JUST PUT OUT THERE THIS UNSPOKEN THING THAT'S BEEN HAPPENING IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM AND THE MALLS ARE CHANGING.
SO PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT, ARE WE NOT FUNDING THIS, THE, THIS PROGRAM ANYMORE? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WHAT DOES THAT, THE IDEAS PROGRAM? WITHOUT HAVING THAT, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN IN THE SCHOOL? YEAH.
YOU KNOW, AND I THINK, UM, I THINK THAT'S A GREAT, BECAUSE THERE'S SO MUCH UNCERTAINTY NOW.
AND LIKE I, ON, ON MY OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, I DIDN'T KNOW, I WAS THINKING IEPS WERE FOR CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND IT DIDN'T HIT ME UNTIL MY SON PRACTICALLY FAILED AND DID ALL THAT.
UM, THAT IT ALSO DEALS WITH MEDICAL ISSUES.
LIKE HE HAD REQUIRED MEDICAL ISSUES AND EVERYBODY WAS TELLING ME, WELL, YOU SHOULD HAVE GOT AN IEP, HE NEEDED TO DO THIS AND THAT, UH, NOBODY TOLD ME THIS.
I DIDN'T KNOW AND NOT MM-HMM
AND NOW THAT I'M LEARNING MORE ABOUT IT, I WISH I KNEW THAT RIGHT WHEN AT THAT TIME.
BUT I THINK MAYBE SOME PARENTS DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT IS THEIR RIGHTS OR WHAT IS AVAILABLE TO THEIR KIDS OR WHAT IS, WHAT CAN BE, UM, ACCESS FOR THEM AND WHAT IS NEEDS TO BE PROVIDED FOR THEM BY LAW AND BY THE STUFF.
SO I THINK THAT'S, HAVING TO KNOW YOUR RIGHTS ABOUT THAT IS AN EXCELLENT USE.
I THINK THAT'S A GOOD, GOOD CALL OUT.
UM, DEFINITELY MAKE SURE WE DO IS IT'S ONLY EIGHT OF US, SEVEN US, OR WHATEVER THE NUMBER IS.
UM, IT'S DEFINITELY GONNA, I THINK, REQUIRE US TO PARTNER WITH OTHER SHARING ORGANIZATIONS.
RIGHT? AND, UH, BUT I THINK IF WE'RE INVOLVED WITH PART OF IT, BE THAT RESOURCE TO KIND OF HELP BRING, BECAUSE YOU, YOU GET A LOT OF THESE COMPANIES LIKE, WE'RE OVER HERE, BUT NOBODY'S ASKING US FOR HELP, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
SO MAYBE WE'RE THAT BRIDGE TO THE FOLKS THAT NEED TO GET THEM TO THE RESOURCES.
ANYTHING ELSE? I THINK YOU SAID YOU HAD TWO, BUT YOU MIGHT HAVE FIVE.
OTHER THAN WE JUST NEED TO APPROVE LAST ONE'S MINUTES.
DID EVERYONE GET A I RUNNING BEHIND? SO EVERYBODY GET A CHANCE TO, TO LOOK AT LAST, LAST, UH, WHAT IS THAT? OCTOBER'S? MINUTES? YEAH, I HAVE TWO CORRECTIONS.
AND I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG THAT'S ACTUALLY BEEN HAPPENING, BUT I THINK IT'S, YEAH, BECAUSE I THINK IT'S A COPY OF PAGE.
BUT, UH, JEFFREY NEEDS TO GET ON THAT.
WHAT ELSE WAS THE OTHER, UH, SPELL A GIRL'S NAME, RIGHT.
UM, AND THEN SOMEWHERE DOWN, UM, WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT THE PARADE, I BELIEVE.
UM, IT SAYS GRANT INSTEAD OF GRANT.
WHAT DO YOU THINK? OH, IT SAID, I SAID GRANT.
AND THOSE ARE THE ONLY TWO I WELL, YOU WANT TO MAKE THE MOTION SINCE YOU'VE CAUGHT THOSE WITH, WITH THE, AND WE'LL MAKE THOSE CORRECTIONS FORWARD.
UM, I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE OCTOBER'S MINUTES WITH THOSE TWO CORRECTIONS BEING MADE.
SO WE, OCTOBER'S LIMITS WILL BE AMENDED.
UM, I, I ABSTAINED YOU'RE ABSTAINED BECAUSE I WASN'T.
THOSE MINUTES WILL BE AMENDED, CORRECTED.
AND THEN SET TO, UM, NEW BUSINESS.
WE DISCUSSED ALL THE NEW BUSINESS
UM, THE NEXT MEETING WILL BE DECEMBER 4TH, 2025.
UM, IS THAT A, IS THERE A CONFLICT ON THAT DATE? AS
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OF RIGHT NOW WITH ANYTHING I TOLD YOU WEREN'T, I'LL BE ON VACATION, SO, ALRIGHT.SO THAT'S MY EXCUSE TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE FORM.
SO IF ANYTHING COMES UP, I KNOW THIS IS HOLIDAY TRAVEL STUFF, ANYTHING COMES UP, LET US KNOW.
UM, ALSO, UH, BEFORE WE ADJOURN, I DO STILL WANT TO HAVE A DIVISION, NEED YOU WITH THE COMMISSION WHERE WE CAN, WHEN WE DISCUSS OUR BYLAWS, OUR VISION, OUR MISSION, ALL THOSE GOOD THINGS, UM, AND THAT WILL, THAT, THAT WILL COME THROUGH JEFFREY, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WITH NEW COMMUNICATION RULES AND ALL THAT GOOD STUFF, WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE IN COMPLIANCE.
SO I WON'T SEND THAT OUT, BUT IT WILL COME, UM, A A, A MESSAGE WILL COME, WILL YOU REPLY TO JEFFREY? WE'LL FIGURE OUT THE BEST DAY AND TIME.
WE WILL PROBABLY NOT BE DURING, OBVIOUSLY NOT BE DURING ONE OF OUR SESSIONS LIKE THIS.
SO WE CLOSED DOOR SESSION, BUT WE'LL TAKE, WE'LL BE IN COMPLIANCE, BUT IT'LL BE A SESSION.
SO, UM, LOOK OUT FOR THAT OVER THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS.
OTHER THAN THAT, UH, CAN I GET A MOTION TO ADJOURN AT SEVEN 20? MM-HMM.
WHAT WE GOT? WHAT'S THE NEXT, WHAT'S WHAT MISSING? SORRY.
UM, DO WE NEED TO TOUCH BASE ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH THE CHRISTMAS A FESTIVAL, WHATNOT? RIGHT.
I JUST HAD THAT WRITTEN DOWN THAT WE WERE JUST GONNA PARTICIPATE IN THE, THE PARADE.
UM, SO ARE WE, DO WE NEED TO FINALIZE ANYTHING OR DO WE NEED TO I WILL GIVE, UM, ARE WE JUST GONNA MEET UP THERE?
AND THE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES, I'LL GIVE THOSE, THEY'RE YARD SIGNS, BUT YOU CAN PUT 'EM ON THE THING.
I'LL GIVE THOSE TO WHOEVER AND I HAVE A BUNCH OF MULTICULTURAL FLAGS FROM AROUND THE WORLD.
IT TURNS OUT THAT MY CRUISE IS THE SAME WEEKEND.
IS THAT PARADE? SO I WON'T BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE.
BUT WHOEVER, IF YOU WANT TO USE THAT, LET ME KNOW BEFORE I LEAVE THAT WEDNESDAY OF BEFORE THE PARADE.
SO ANYTIME RIGHT AFTER THANKSGIVING I CAN LEAVE TO SOMEBODY AND GIVE IT TO THEM FOR THAT.
SO THE THIRD, YEAH, I LEAVE THAT WEDNESDAY SO I WON'T BE, UM, ALRIGHT, SO IF ANYBODY WANTS, IF THAT'S WHAT YOU ALL DECIDE TO USE, JUST LET ME KNOW.
GIMME SOME TIME TO DIG IT OVER.
AND THEN WHEN I, WHEN I DID TALK TO JEFFREY, WE JUST, IF WE WANT OBVIOUSLY PURCHASE MORE, WE JUST NEED TO LET HIM KNOW AND I DUNNO WHAT THE CITY PROCESS IS ON THAT, BUT HE'LL, HE'LL KIND OF HANDLE THAT.
UM, AND DO WE WANT TO TRY TO GET SIZE OF THIS HERE? WHAT IS THE THEME? WE'LL, IF, I MEAN ONCE THESE ARE, IT'S KIND OF ON THE POLAR EXPRESS.
UM, SO I, BYRON GOT US THE TRUCK IN THE BED FOR THE 4TH OF JULY.
SO SHOULD WE ASK HIM IF HE CAN DO THAT AGAIN? YEAH, WE CAN DO THAT AGAIN.
UM, AND THEN, UM, WERE WE GONNA HAVE A TABLE AT THE EVENT AFTERWARD? THAT WAS GONNA BE AT THE NEW GOVERNMENT CENTER.
ISN'T THERE SOMETHING GOING ON? YEAH, THE, THE TREE LACKING AND ALL THE OTHER FESTIVITIES HAVE HAPPENED FROM FOUR TO SEVEN.
THREE'S AT THREE AND IT GOES DOWN, UH, IT'LL GO, UM, FROM THE HUBER CENTER DOWN BRAND AND THEN IT'LL TURN THE RIGHT BY THE ATHLETIC FOUNDATION AND EVERYBODY LIKE THE VEHICLES WILL KEEP GOING AND EVERYBODY ELSE CAN TURN RIGHT AND GO TO THE EVENT.
SO ARE WE GONNA HAVE A TABLE THEN AT THIS EVENT? UM, OR WE WERE GONNA DO LIKE A, HAVE OUR MISSION STATEMENT AND STUFF.
I DON'T, I THINK, DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING THAT HAS A LITTLE, SARAH HAD ASKED US IF WE WERE INTERESTED IN DOING THAT.
UM, HOW ABOUT THIS? I WILL FOLLOW UP WITH SARAH BECAUSE I, I DON'T REMEMBER.
THIS WAS THE, THIS WAS THE DAY BEFORE LAST.
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SO, UM, WE CAN DO, WE CAN WORK ON THAT AND I'LL HAVE SARAH SEND AN EMAIL OUT AND THEN, BECAUSE WE'VE GOT THE, I'VE GOT THE BANNER FROM THE 4TH OF JULY THAT'S IN MY TRUNK.WE HAD, IF WE NEEDED A TABLE WITH JUST THINGS PRINTED OUT, YOU KNOW, TO HAND OUT TO PEOPLE, DO A SAVE THE DATE FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING.
UM, I'LL WITH SARAH TO GET AN EMAIL OUT FOR THE TABLE AND THEN I DUNNO WHERE SHE'LL HAVE TO LET KNOW WHERE ALL THE SET UP AND STUFF IS BECAUSE I WOULD, I DON'T KNOW THAT.
I MEAN THESE ARE THINGS I WILL VOLUNTEER FOR DOING.
UM, SO YEAH, I JUST DIDN'T KNOW.
SO THE BREAK STARTS AT DOOR? YEAH.
AND THEN FESTIVITIES IS AT THE CENTER UP HERE.
DO YOU KNOW WHERE IT STARTS AT? TREE START IN THE HUBER CENTER.
WE'LL TURN RIGHT ON, RIGHT ON FISHBURG AND THEN EVERYBODY WILL GET DROPPED OFF THERE BY THE ATHLETIC FOUNDATION.
WE TURN RIGHT TO GO TO THE EVENT WHERE YOU'RE IN THE VEHICLE AND JUST KEEP GOING DOWN FISHBURG.
THEN THE EVENT ITSELF IS FOUR TO SEVEN.
UM, TREE LIGHTING SHOULD BE APPROXIMATELY FIVE 15.
DO TRUCKS, BUSINESSES? I FEEL A MARKET AREA.
I MEAN I KNOW THAT'S A MONTH AWAY, BUT YOU KNOW, WE'LL BE HERE BEFORE WE REMEMBER.
AND WHAT WE KIND OF PLANNED ON.
SO WE'LL MAKE SURE WE ALRIGHT.
I PROMISE NOTHING, NOTHING ELSE.
IF WE NEED TO DISCUSS IT, LET'S DISCUSS IT BECAUSE WE WON'T BE TO GIVE 30 DAYS AND BY THEN IT'LL LATE.
AND THE NEXT MEETING IS THE THURSDAY BEFORE THAT EVENT.
ANYTHING ELSE WITH THE GOOD OF THE ORDER? OH, I THOUGHT YOU WERE WAITING.
ALRIGHT, LEMME GET A MOTION TO ADJOURN AT 7 34.
ALL RIGHT, SO YOU GUYS, DECEMBER 4TH, 2025.