* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. ALL RIGHT. [ AGENDA CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZEN ACTION COMMISSION City Hall - Council Chambers 6151 Brandt Pike March 5, 2026 6:00 P.M. ] [00:00:03] I CALLED THE, UH, MEMBER HEIGHTS CULTURAL DIVERSITY, CITIZEN ACTION COMMUNITY. UH, CITIZENS ACTION COMMISSION MEETING TO ORDER AT 6:03 PM ON THURSDAY, MARCH 5TH. JEFFREY, CAN WE GET A ROLL CALL, PLEASE? YEAH, SURE. UH, MR. KNIGHT? HERE. MR. OWENS? PRESENT? MRS. STEVENS? HERE. MRS. HONECKER? HERE. MR. CHO? HERE. MR. RICHARDSON? EXCUSED. MRS. TROTTER? EXCUSED. MR. GULA V EXCUSED. WE CAN RIDE ALONG TO OUR NEXT ORDER OF BUSINESS. DID WE GET THE MINUTES? NO, MA, THAT'S RIGHT. WE HAD NO MEETING. YEAH, I, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS CAUGHT THAT EMAIL AGAIN. WE'RE HAVING SOME TROUBLE WITH SWAG. WHAT? IT COMES TO THE JANUARY MEETING. OKAY. WITH THE, WITH THE DOWNLOAD OF IT? MM-HMM . UM, I THOUGHT THAT THEY HAD IT. WE HAD TO HAVE IT RESUBMIT IT, SO I'M HOPEFUL. FINGERS CROSSED. UM, THAT I'LL GET AN EMAIL WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS SAYING THAT THEY HAVE IT, AND IT'LL BE UP ON, UH, THE CITY PAGE TO KINDA, UH, JOT DOWN THE, OR TRANSLATE THOSE MINUTES FROM THE JANUARY MEETING. SO KEEP IT POSTED. SO WE WILL SUSPEND, UM, THE APPROVAL OF MINUTES, AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL HAVE THOSE BY NEXT WEEK'S BASED ON IT ERROR. AND I GET A MOTION TO SUSPEND THOSE MINUTES TILL NEXT MONTH. MOTION. SECOND. MOTION HAS BEEN PROPERLY MOVED AND SECONDED. ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? MOVING RIGHT ALONG. UM, CITIZENS COMMENTS? HAVING NONE. SEEING NONE MOVING RIGHT ALONG ALL BUSINESS. UM, FIRST TOPIC UP UNDER OLD BUSINESS IS DIVERSITY TRAINING STATUS. YEAH. SO I BELIEVE IT WAS THE FIRST, UM, THAT JANUARY MEETING. I KNOW THE, UH, COMMISSION KIND OF ASKED WHERE, UH, THE STEPS, UM, THAT CITY WAS TAKING WHEN, WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT DIVERSITY TRAINING. UM, CONVERSATION THAT I HAD, UM, WITH THE, UH, HR DIRECTOR WAS WE WOULD REENGAGE THOSE DIVERSITY, UH, TRAINING, UM, THOSE TRAINING MODULES. UM, I WANT, WE'RE STILL IN THE FIRST QUARTER, WITHIN THIS QUARTER. SO, UM, THE LOOKOUT RIGHT NOW IS THAT HR WILL START TO, UM, START TO PROMOTE, OR AT LEAST SHOOT OUT THOSE EMAILS TO STAFF TO START GETTING THAT TRAINING, UM, COMPLETED, UM, OVER THE NEXT COUPLE MONTHS. SO YOU SAY, AND SO IT'D BE QUARTER TWO? UH, I WANNA SAY I, I THINK IT'S FIRST QUARTER, FIRST QUARTER, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN. SO WE STILL, WHAT, MARCH? SO BY THE END OF THIS MONTH? YEAH. I WANNA SAY ABOUT THE END OF THIS MONTH. AND IF I'M, IF I'M, IF I'M FORGETTING MYSELF, IT'S, IF IT'S NOT THE END OF THIS MONTH, IT'S PROBABLY FIRST QUA, UH, UH, FIRST HALF OF THE SECOND QUARTER. THAT WAS BEFORE. I'M NOT AWARE. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO DO. YEAH. WHAT ARE THE, YOU SAID TRAINING MODULES? WHAT IS YEAH. YEAH. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME THE CITY HAD DID, UH, DIVERSITY TRAINING. UM, I, I GUESS IT WAS KIND OF BRO BROKEN UP IN KIND OF TWO METHODS, WHETHER IT WAS THE IN-PERSON TRAINING AS WELL AS THE ACTUAL ONLINE TRAINING VIDEOS THAT, UM, UH, STAFF COULD, UH, ACCESS. UM, AND, UM, IT, I THINK IT JUST SEEMS MORE, WE'RE NOT GONNA DO THE IN-PERSON TRAINING, IT'S JUST MORE OF THE, UM, ONLINE TRAINING. AND THEN ULTIMATELY, UM, THAT WOULD OBVIOUSLY WE, THE, THE CITY WOULD GET A RESPONSE TO WHETHER THE STAFF, UH, PERSONNEL COMPLETED THE TRAINING OR NOT. SO IT SEEMS LIKE THAT'S KIND OF THE PATHWAY OF WHAT THE CITY'S LOOKING TO DO VERSUS THE IN-PERSON TRAINING. THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE ONLINE TRAINING BEFORE IT WAS ALL IN. THEY OH, THEY DID? YEAH. I, I, UH, AND I COULD BE WRONG, BUT I, I WANNA SAY THAT THERE, THERE WAS A ONLINE TRAINING ASPECT. I THINK IT WAS LIKE AFTER THE FACT. LIKE AFTER ALL, I THINK, I THINK MAYBE THERE WERE TWO IN-PERSON TRAININGS, UM, FOR THE INDIVIDUALS WHO DIDN'T MEET THOSE, UH, CLASSES, I THINK THE CITY ULTIMATELY ALLOWED THERE TO BE SOME TYPE OF, UH, ONLINE TRAINING, UH, VIDEO. UM, I CAN, I CAN DIG IT UP AND POTENTIALLY SEND [00:05:01] IT TO YOU ALL JUST TO KIND OF SHOW YOU WHAT I SAW FROM THE TRAINING. BUT I WANT TO SAY, I'M CERTAIN THAT THERE WAS A TRAINING VIDEO WE WERE NOT AWARE OF THAT, NEVER MADE AWARE OF THAT, BUT YEAH, I REMEMBER THERE WERE MULTIPLE TRAINING SESSIONS THAT WERE OFFERED THROUGHOUT FOR ALL STAFF. THEY WERE REQUIRED MM-HMM . FOR STAFF. SO IS THAT STILL THE SAME? UM, AND FORGIVE ME, IT, IT, IT'S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I HAD THAT CONVERSATION WITH, UH, MRS. LEY, BUT, UM, I THINK THE IDEA WAS TO AT LEAST ROLL OUT THE VIDEOS FIRST. AND I DON'T WANNA LIKE MISSPEAK WHEN I SAY THIS, BUT, UM, I THINK IF IT CAME TO SOME POINT TO SAY THAT THE IN-PERSON TRAINING WAS SOMETHING MORE, UM, LIKE INCLINED FOR STAFF, I, I, I'M THINKING THAT WAS THE CASE. BUT AGAIN, IT, IT, IT'S BEEN A, IT'S BEEN A MINUTE, BUT I, I ULTIMATELY WANNA SAY THAT THE IDEA IS THAT THE CITY'S REALLY PUSHING, UH, THESE VIDEOS OR THESE TRAINING VIDEOS ONLINE. BUT I'LL, I'LL REHASH THAT CONVERSATION AND I'LL MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S, THAT'S THE CORRECT, UH, FOCUS, WHETHER IT'S IN PERSON OR WHETHER IT'S, UH, ONLINE TRAINING. BUT MY, MY MEMORIES HAVING ME SERVE THAT IT WAS, UM, PARTICULAR JUST A, UH, ONLINE TRAINING, UM, THAT STAFF WOULD HAVE TO COMPLETE. OKAY. CAN YOU GIVE US, UM, JUST LIKE MORE DETAILS OF, WELL, YOU SAID THE END OF MARCH. JUST YEAH. MARCH NOW. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. FIRST. YEAH. YEAH. WHEN WE HAD THIS CONVERSATION WAS PROBABLY END OF JANUARY. AND AGAIN, THERE IF IT WAS, UH, FIRST QUARTER, END OF FIRST QUARTER OR BEGINNING OF SECOND QUARTER. SO, UM, WE STILL GOT OBVIOUSLY TIME. SO, UH, DEFINITELY MAKE THAT ANNOUNCEMENT WHEN IT ACTUALLY HAPPENS, WHEN IT'S, WHEN IT'S OUT. GIVE YOU GUYS A ACTUAL HARD DATE. UH, WELL, BECAUSE IT'S ALSO A REQUIREMENT FOR BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AS WELL. SO I'M, I'M JUST CURIOUS LIKE WHAT THE TIMELINE IS FOR THE TRAINING, SINCE IT'S, WHAT IS THE PLAN? UM, SO THE PLAN IN ITSELF, AND IT'S NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT DIVERSITY TRAINING, I THINK IT'S A LOT OF OTHER TRAINING, UH, APPROACHES. UM, BASICALLY THE CONCEPT WAS TO KIND OF TAKE WHAT TRAINING ASPECTS THAT THE STATE HAS, UM, AND KIND OF JUST NAME IT OFF A FEW, RIGHT? WE TALK ABOUT DIVERSITY TRAINING. UM, WE CAN TALK ABOUT, UM, UH, WORKPLACE, UH, I'M PROBABLY PARAPHRASING IT RIGHT, BUT, YOU KNOW, LIKE WHAT WORKPLACE NORMS AND THINGS OF THAT SUCH. UM, SO THERE'S, THERE IS A, I GUESS A OVERALL PLAN OF WHAT KIND OF EXTRA TRAINING THAT THE CITY WILL OBVIOUSLY WANT TO, UM, PROVIDE TO ITS STAFF, THE EMPLOYEES. UM, I'M NOT A HUNDRED PERCENT CERTAIN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, BUT I DO HAVE A, SOME TYPE OF MEMORY ABOUT, UM, BOARD AND COMMISSION MEMBERS, UM, DOING THAT TRAINING, UM, THE LAST TIME THE CITY ROLLED IT OUT. SO I'LL DEFINITELY TRY TO MAKE SURE WE GET A, A BETTER IDEA OF WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE FOR THOSE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AND, AND HOW THEY'LL KIND OF GO ABOUT DOING THAT TRAINING. 'CAUSE I THINK ULTIMATELY I'D BE MORE CONDUCIVE FOR THEM TO HAVE AN IN-PERSON TRAINING VERSUS, UH, ONLINE. BUT I'LL, I'LL DEFINITELY, UH, CIRCLE BACK WITH YOU GUYS AND GET YOU THAT ANSWER. SO WE HAVE TO DO THAT AS WELL. WE HAVE TO GET TRAINING AS WELL. THE FUNCTION, THE FUNCTION OF THIS TRAINING COMMISSION, STAFF COMMISSION. YEAH. YEAH. SO, UM, YEAH, THE UNDERSTANDING IS IT'S MORE GEARED TOWARDS CITY, UM, PERSONNEL. UM, UM, THAT'S THE INTENT OF IT, UM, IS MY UNDERSTANDING. BUT I DO RECALL THAT THERE WAS A PORTION IN WHICH THE LAST TIME WE DID THIS, I WASN'T AROUND YET. UM, BUT THERE WAS THAT, WHAT I'M REMEMBER, I THINK BOARDS AND COMMISSION MEMBERS, I THINK THEY WERE ABLE TO DO THESE, UM, OR AT LEAST DO THIS TRAINING IF, IF I'M RECALLING CORRECTLY FOR THOSE WHO DID THE TRAINING. YEAH. I WAS SUPPOSE IT WAS A REQUIREMENT FOR EVERYBODY TO ATTEND BECAUSE THE, THE THINKING OR THE THOUGHT, OR THE WAY IT SHOULD BE IS THAT WE SHOULD ALL, EVERYONE SHOULD BE APPROACHING OUR , OUR ACTIVITIES AND POLICIES AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT WE'RE DOING. WE SHOULD BE APPROACHING THAT WITH [00:10:01] A DIVERSE LENS, WHICH IS WHY IT WAS REQUIRED FOR EVERYONE. THAT'S FAIR. YEAH. SO I'LL GET YOU THAT. I'LL GET YOU, UM, I'LL GET THE COMMISSION THAT UPDATE RELATED TO THAT, THAT POINT HOW WE WILL PROCEED WITH, UH, BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, AND THEN THE, UH, UNDERSTANDING ABOUT, UM, EXTRA TRAINING, UM, FOR PERSONNEL AS WELL AS FOR BOARDS AND COMMISSION, IF YOU GUYS ULTIMATELY WANT TO RUN THAT PATH. UM, AND THEN THE LAST THING IS TRYING TO MAKE SURE IF THE CITY HAS ANY INTENT TO DO IN-PERSON TRAINING, UM, OUTSIDE OF JUST ONLINE TRAINING FOR INDIVIDUALS. ANYTHING ELSE OR ANYTHING I MISSED, DO YOU THINK YOU'LL BE ABLE TO GIVE, GIVE US THAT RESPONSE? WHAT WAS THAT? WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'LL BE ABLE TO GIVE US? UM, I'M HOPEFUL SOMETIME NEXT WEEK, I GUESS, IN COMMUNICATIONS . SO BY LIKE THE 13TH, I'M SAYING, I'M GUESSING THAT'S FRIDAY WAS THE WEEK. SO LIKE THE WEEK OF THE NINTH, IF I'M ROLLING INTO THAT CORRECTLY. YEAH. SO HOPEFULLY THAT WE GET IN THE, I'LL, I'LL TRY TO CIRCLE BACK AND GET YOU THOSE ANSWERS, OR AT LEAST THE COMMISSION, THOSE ANSWERS. THIS IS AN AGENDA HOME FOR US. FOR WHAT REASON? FOR A TRAINING PORTION OF IT. MM-HMM. WE MAKE DECISIONS ON THIS. NO, OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE THE, THIS IS A CITY THING, RIGHT? UM, BUT WE HAVE TO DO THE, WE HAVE TO DO THE DIVERSITY TRAINING AS THE BOARD. OKAY. AS A COMMISSION. YEAH. OKAY. IT IS AN AGENDA ITEM JUST FOR US TO GET THE TRAINING. RIGHT. IT'S AN AGENDA ITEM, BECAUSE WE WERE THE ONE WHO, WHO INITIATED IT. INITIATED IT, BECAUSE IT WAS NOT HAPPENING AT ALL. OKAY. UM, FROM MY UNDERSTANDING IN THE CITY. AND SO THAT WAS ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE MADE TO THE CITY, IS THAT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE RECEIVES ANNUAL DIVERSITY TRAINING. OKAY. AS A REQUIREMENT IN COURT WITH THAT, THE CITY HAS, UM, UM, COME TO TERMS ON IT AND MADE THE DECISION TO DO IT WITHIN THE RANKS. CORRECT. WITH WHAT NOW? THE CITY HAS MADE A DECISION TO HAVE THE TRAINING FOR THEIR EMPLOYEES. YEAH. IT WAS FOR ALL. IT WAS FOR EVERYONE. OKAY. MY MIC SPEAK IT TO THE MICS, GUYS. OH, LET ME PUT IT OVER HERE. OKAY. . UM, SO WITH A LOT OF EMPLOYERS, THERE'S, YOU KNOW, YEARLY ANNUAL TRAINING REQUIREMENTS. AND I THINK WHAT THEY DID LAST, I THINK THE TRAINING WAS IN 21 OR 22, UM, BECAUSE WE MADE THE RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL, WE NEED TO START DOING THIS ANNUALLY. THEY AGREED WE'RE GONNA DO IT, BUT IT HASN'T HAPPENED OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS, FOUR YEARS, MAYBE. UM, AND OFTEN IN ORGANIZATIONS, THEY REQUIRE, YOU KNOW, IN YOUR JOBS THAT YOU GO THROUGH ANNUAL TRAINING. SO THAT WAS THE PREMISE OF THIS, WHAT WE BROUGHT FORWARD AS A COMMISSION. SO, RECOMMENDATION. DID I ANSWER YOUR QUESTION? YES, I BELIEVE IT DID. UH, I WAS JUST MORE CONCERNED THAT, OKAY. IT'S SOMETHING WE INITIATED FOR THE CITY TO DO IT TO ITS EMPLOYEES, BUT ALSO TO INCLUDE US, THE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, BECAUSE THE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS WE'RE INTERFACING WITH THE COMMUNITY. OKAY. ALL THE COMMISSIONS. YES. FAIR ENOUGH. SO, ALL RIGHT. CAN WE GET, UM, I KNOW HE'S NOT HERE, BUT WE'LL FOLLOW UP WITH HIM. CAN WE GET JEFFREY TO LOOK AT THE ORDINANCE AND REGULATIONS? 'CAUSE CITY STAFF IS DIFFERENT WHEN IT COMES TO MANDATORY TRAININGS ON MAKING TRAININGS MANDATORY, UH, FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. SO, UM, ESPECIALLY DEI, UM, ONLY BECAUSE OF WAY LEGISLATION IS NOW LOOK AT, UM, IF WE CAN MAKE IT MANDATORY, HAVE IT MANDATORY, YOU KNOW? WELL, THERE WAS NEVER CHECK, THERE WAS, WELL, I DON'T KNOW WHY WE WOULD HAVE TO CHECK ON THAT, BECAUSE IT, I MEAN, UNLESS YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE, BECAUSE HE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE IT MANDATORY, WHICH MEANS THEN IT'S AN OPTIONAL TRAINING FOR STA CITY STAFF. AND WILL WE GET THE BUY-IN? WILL THEY, WILL THEY ACTUALLY DO IT? YOU KNOW, IF IT'S NOT A MANDATORY TRAINING, WELL, UM, THERE'S NO REASON WHY WE, IT SHOULDN'T BE, CAN'T BE MANDATORY. RIGHT. BECAUSE CITY AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES ARE DIFFERENT. AND WE CAN'T, LIKE, I, WE CAN'T MAKE MANDATORY TRAININGS IN CERTAIN THINGS. SOME OF OUR UNIONS WON'T ALLOW MANDATORY TRAININGS. RIGHT, RIGHT. YEAH. AND SO WE CAN'T, SO YOU CAN'T, WE HAVE IT, BUT YOU CAN'T MAKE PEOPLE DO IT. I UNDERSTAND THAT. BUT WHEN WE DID IT BEFORE, IT WAS MANDATORY, IT WAS REQUIRED. SO APPARENTLY THAT WAS NOT AN ISSUE RIGHT. THEN. SO I'M NOT UNDERSTANDING. SO BECAUSE LEGISLATION HAS CHANGED NOW WHEN IT COMES TO DEI. RIGHT. SO THAT'S WHY. OKAY. I UNDERSTAND THAT. BUT THERE'S ALSO AN INCLUSION STANDPOINT. NOW, IF WE NEED TO [00:15:01] RETURN THE TRAINING, THAT'S FINE, BUT BECAUSE WE'RE STILL DOING, I'M, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE, WE CAN CONFIRM TO MAKE IT MANDATORY. I WANT IT MANDATORY. YEAH. IT'S LIKE, I WANT, I WANT PEOPLE TO ATTEND THE TRAINING. I DON'T KNOW WHY WE WOULD. I KNOW. I DON'T. I JUST DON'T WANT THAT TO BE A HICCUP DOWN. YEAH. I DON'T KNOW. WELL, AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW WHY IT WOULD BE A HICCUP IF WE'VE MADE IT MANDATORY BEFORE. UNLESS, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST THE TERMINOLOGY AROUND THE TRAINING. SO I DON'T SEE THAT BEING AN ISSUE THAT PREVENTS IT. HEY, JEFFREY, WHILE YOU WERE AWAY, UM, WHILE I LET MIA MAKE HER STATEMENT, OH, , CAN YOU CHECK WITH, UM, KATIE, IS IT KATIE STILL WITH HR? UM, TO SEE IF WE, IF THIS, IF WE CAN MAKE THIS TRAINING MANDATORY, A BECAUSE I KNOW WITH UNION CONTRACTS WITH DIFFERENT THINGS YEAH. THERE'S DIFFERENT REQUIREMENTS. BECAUSE I WOULD, UM, LIKE I WAS TELLING YOU LOT, I LIKE TO SEE IT MANDATORY WHERE PEOPLE, IT'D BE ONE OF THE TRAININGS THEY HAVE TO TAKE AND NOT AN OPTIONAL TRAINING. YEAH. SO FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, UM, IT, FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, ALL STAFF WOULD HAVE TO COMPLETE TRAINING. OKAY. SO YEAH, IT WOULD KIND OF FIT ON THAT MANDATORY UMBRELLA. OKAY. UM, THAT'S MY UNDERSTANDING. UM, BUT I'M HAPPY TO KIND OF REENGAGE THE CONVERSATION WITH KATIE AND MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S THE CASE. UM, UNLESS I, I DON'T KNOW. RIGHT. THE UNDERSTANDING IS I DON'T, A UNION CONTRAST COULD KIND OF GO AGAINST THAT OR WHATEVER THE CASE MIGHT BE, BUT FOR THE MOST PART, I FELT LIKE IT'S MANDATORY FOR ALL CITY EMPLOYEES. BUT YEAH. I'LL, I'LL DOUBLE CHECK. OKAY. YEP. JUST TO PIGGYBACK OFF OF WHAT MIA WAS SAYING, IF THERE ARE ANY, UM, UH, STIPULATIONS THAT ARE, UM, ABSOLVING SOME PEOPLE, UM, I THINK THIS BOARD WOULD LIKE TO BE CLEAR ON WHAT THAT IS, RIGHT. TO INCLUDE IF WE HAVE TO RENAME THE, OR RETITLE RE REOR OR WHATEVER WE HAVE TO DO. YEAH. SO THEY HAD FIVE IN-PERSON SESSIONS, UM, IN 2022, AND IT FOCUSED ON DIVERSITY, INCLUSION AND HARASSMENT. AND THEY HAD TO SIGN UP FOR MANDATORY IN-PERSON TRAINING. YOU SAID 2022? YEAH. UH, REPEAT THAT FOR ME AGAIN. UM, THERE WERE FIVE INCIDENTS THAT REQUIRED THAT THERE WERE FIVE IN-PERSON SESSIONS, FIVE IN-PERSON SESSIONS, AND THEN THEY HAD TO SIGN UP FOR, THEY, IT WAS MANDATORY TO SIGN UP FOR ONE TO SIGN UP FOR ONE. AND IT WAS ALL MEMBERS OF CITY BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS WERE REQUIRED TO SIGN UP FOR AND ALSO COOL. SO YOU'RE GONNA GET US A, UH, MORE DETAILS AND TIMELINE AND ALL OF THAT THE WEEK OF THE 13TH. YEAH. SO, UM, YEAH, I'LL CIRCLE BACK WITH KATIE AND, UM, GET AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHEN IT'S GOING OUT AND, UM, EXACTLY. UH, PERSONNEL, UM, AS WELL AS, UM, MEANS, UM, FOR THE TRAINING. AND THEN I GUESS THE LAST THING WOULD BE, UM, I GUESS UNDERSTANDING, UM, BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, I GUESS WITHIN THAT TRAINING, ARE THEY CLASSIFIED TO, TO DO THAT TRAINING AS WELL? YEAH. AND WHAT THE TOPICS ARE. HOW LONG IS THE TRAINING? IS IT ONLINE? IS IT IN PERSON? BECAUSE IF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ROLLING IT OUT IN MARCH OR APRIL, WE'RE NOT, I MEAN, THAT'S LESS THAN A MONTH. AND PEOPLE HAVE TO HAVE A HEADS UP ON THAT. YOU SAID THE TOPICS AND WHAT ELSE? THE DATES, THE TOPICS, THE DATES, THE MODALITY. MM-HMM . YOUR FULL ROLLOUT IS WHAT? THE END OF MARCH, APRIL ONE. THAT'S WHAT JEFFREY SAID. YOU DON'T KNOW. IS THAT CORRECT, JEFFREY? FULL ROLLOUT OF THIS IS, UM, UH, MARCH 31, APRIL ONE. NO, NO, NO. SO I SAID [00:20:01] MY CONVERSATION WAS, UH, BACK IN MID-JANUARY. THE UNDERSTANDING WAS, UM, AT THIS POINT, IT'S VAGUE, BUT, OR AT LEAST VAGUE ON MY POINT. UM, CONVERSATION OR ROLLOUT FOR THE TRAINING WOULD BE, UH, END OF FIRST QUARTER THIS YEAR OR, UH, BEGINNING OF SECOND QUARTER. UM, SO WE'RE KIND OF LIKE IN THAT BUBBLE, BUT I MEAN, I'LL, I'LL GET YOU GUYS EXACT, UH, EXACT PINPOINTS ON, UM, DATES OF LAUNCH AND THEN THAT ADDITIONAL, UH, INSIGHT THAT YOU GUYS WOULD WANT, UH, REGARDING, UM, PERSONNEL, UM, REQUIREMENTS. AND THEN, UM, METHODS OF TRAINING. ANY, OH, GO AHEAD. ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION ON DIVERSITY TRAINING. NEXT? WE NEEDED TO MOVE THIS UP TO OLD, THAT'S OLD BUSINESS. OH, YEAH. ON THE FLIP SIDE. I'LL DROP IT RIGHT BELOW. RIGHT AFTER CRE. OKAY. UM, NEXT ORDER BUSINESS IS A RECAP FROM MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY EVENT. WAS SOMEONE ASSIGNED? YEAH. OH, NO, NOT, NOT, NO. SHE'S GOT JUNETEENTH. OH. OH. SO THE RE OKAY. THE RECAP MM-HMM . UM, THE RECAP WE HAD, I FEEL LIKE THIS WAS SO LONG AGO. . SO WE HAD ABOUT 150 PARTICIPANTS COME OUT. UM, WE HAD, UH, IT WAS ALSO FEATURED ON THE NEWS. WE HAD, UM, UM, THE HONORABLE LOU DALE SHARE SOME VERY INSIGHTFUL WORDS. I GOT REALLY GREAT FEEDBACK ON THAT AFTER THE SESSION THAT, UM, PEOPLE REALLY ENJOYED IT. AND WE HAD AN AWESOME LUNCH AND OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECT AS A COMMUNITY. AND, UM, TO REFLECT ON JUST HOW WE MOVE FORWARD IN OUR PERSONAL CALL TO ACTION. I THINK THAT THE EVENT WENT VERY WELL. I LIKE THE LUNCH FORMAT, UM, INSTEAD OF, WHAT DID WE DO LAST YEAR? BREAKFAST. MM-HMM . IT WAS A LITTLE MORE JUST RELAXED FEEL. MM-HMM . WE HAD GREAT STUDENT PARTICIPATION. WE HAD I THINK ABOUT EIGHT STUDENTS THAT VOLUNTEERED, UM, AND WERE ABLE TO GET CREDIT FOR VOLUNTEER WORK FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL. SO I THINK THAT WE HAD A GREAT, A GREAT OUTCOME. ARE THERE ANY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE, BASED ON YOUR EXPERIENCE THIS YEAR, OPPOSED THAT TO OUR, TO EVERYONE UP HERE ON THE DICE? REPEAT YOUR QUESTION PLEASE. WAS THERE ANY FEEDBACK, ANY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ANY CHANGES FOCAL AREAS FOR NEXT YEAR BASED ON THIS YEAR'S EXPERIENCE OF THE TWO TIMES? I THOUGHT THIS WAS THE, OF THE FEW OF THE 2, 3, 3 TIMES I'VE DONE IT. THIS, I THINK THAT WAS THE BEST. THIS WAS THE BEST FORMAT. UM, I WISH WE COULD HAVE GOT TO, LIKE, I KNOW THIS WAS A BEHIND THE SCENES, BUT I WISH WE COULD HAVE GOT TO EVERYTHING WE LAID OUT AND GAVE IT ITS PROPER TIME, BUT MM-HMM . OVERALL, I THINK IT WAS, IT WAS, I MEAN, I'D LIKE TO TRY IT AGAIN. YEAH. WE DID HAVE TO SHIFT A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE WE HAD A LITTLE MORE ON THE AGENDA THAN WOULD FIT . UH, BUT I THINK THAT'S BECAUSE WE WERE HAVING GREAT DISCUSSIONS AND INTERACTION, BUT WE WERE STILL ABLE TO GET TO EVERYTHING ON THE AGENDA. WE JUST HAD TO CONDENSE IT A LITTLE MORE. OH, RECOMMENDATION. OKAY. OKAY. UH, MOVING RIGHT ALONG. JUNETEENTH UPDATE. OKAY. SO ERIC IS OUR CHAIR AND HE IS OUT ENJOYING HIS CRUISE . SO WE HAD A MEETING ON FEBRUARY 27TH, UM, LA WAS IT LAST WEEK ALREADY? YEAH, LAST WEEK. SO, SO WE'RE HA THE UPDATES THAT WE HAVE AND DO MY BEST FOR THOSE WHO WERE THERE, RUBEN AND THEM, IF YOU MIGHT HAVE TO HELP UPDATE MORE, IF I MISS SOME STUFF. THE CONTRACTS, WE ARE GOOD TO GO WITH RICK KITCHEN FOR SOUND. MM-HMM . SOUL POCKET IS GOOD TO GO. JEFFREY'S WORKING ON GETTING WITH OSCAR FOR [00:25:01] THE DJ. UM, ERICA IS GOOD TO GO. SHE'S THE SINGER. RICK SEXTON AND FRIENDS ARE GOOD TO GO. MM-HMM . SO WE'RE, WE'RE GETTING, WE'RE GOOD. DOING GOOD ON OUR ENTERTAINMENT LINEUP. MM-HMM . AND THE AGENDA, ROUGH AGENDA THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT NOW IS LIKE 4:00 PM WE'LL START THE PROCLAMATION AND THE LIFT EVERY VOICE SINGING, UM, FOUR 15, WE'LL HAVE THE DJ. THEN AT 5:00 PM WE'LL HAVE RICK, RICK SEXTON AND HE'LL PLAY. AND THEN AT 6:00 PM UM, AM I READING THIS RIGHT? AND THEN THE HOUR IN BETWEEN WHERE WE'LL DO GIVEAWAYS, ANY OTHER THINGS. AND THEN WE WILL END WITH SOUL POCKET FOR THE REST NIGHT. SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. WE HAVE, UM, LOOKING AT CENTRAL STATE STUDENTS TAKING PHOTOS. HE SAID HE WAS GONNA CHECK WITH YOU, COREY MM-HMM . UM, SPOKEN WORD. THE, HE, HE HAS AN IDEA FOR A SPOKEN WORD PERSON, BUT WE'RE TRYING TO GET HIS SPOKEN WORD PERSON FOR THE OPENING. HE'S GOT THE SHIRT VENDOR ALL SET UP, AND HE WILL HAVE SAMPLES SOON WITH A QUOTE COMING. WE'RE LOOKING AT AM MOLLY'S LOOKING AT FANS FOR THE STAGE TO HELP KEEP THE PERFORMERS IN A OF COOLER. UM, JEFFREY'S LOOKING AT POSSIBLE COVERAGE OVER THE STAGE AND THE FRONT AREA THERE. ALSO TO KEEP THE SUN OUT, WE'RE ALSO GONNA PUT SPONSORS ON THE BACK OF THE SHIRTS. LET'S SEE. WE'RE CREATING AN EDUCATIONAL FLYER AND ALSO LOOKING AT CREATING A VIDEO. AND, UM, UM, CHRISTIE'S GONNA WORK WITH, IS IT KAREN FROM THE LIBRARY TO HELP CREATE THAT. AND I'M WORKING WITH A LOCAL STUDENT, UM, PRODUCTION TO HELP CREATE A VIDEO THAT WILL BE, THE THEME IS FREEDOM AND UNITY. AND THIS WILL BE, UM, THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS ALL ANSWERING QUESTIONS AND SUCH. WE'RE ALSO, WE SPLIT SOME THINGS OF GETTING SPONSORSHIPS. JEFFREY AND THEM ARE CALLING SOME FOLKS. WE'VE GOT, WE SPLIT AMONG FOLKS DIFFERENT AREAS. WE'VE GIVEN TILL THE END OF MARCH TO TRY TO GET THESE SPONSORSHIPS. THERE IS A SPONSORSHIP LETTER AND COVER LETTER THAT RUBEN HAS CREATED. SO IF YOU NEED THAT LETTER, RUBEN, WE CAN GET THAT LETTER OUT TO PEOPLE. YEAH, I'VE SENT THAT TO THE COMMISSION. OKAY. SO YOU SENT THAT OUT. OKAY. AND THEN WE'RE LOOKING AT DIFFERENT GIVEAWAYS SUCH AS WATERPARK PASSES AND SEE WHAT OTHER THINGS THAT WE CAN GET WHILE WE'RE DOING, SPONSORS, MAYBE GET GIFT CARDS OR STUFF FROM THESE BUSINESSES AS WELL. THAT IS ALL I HAVE. AM I MISSING ANYTHING THAT WE TALKED ABOUT, RUBEN AND THEM? I THINK YOU COVERED EVERYTHING. I THINK I HAD A QUESTION EITHER FOR JEFFREY, IS, UM, WHEN IS THE, UM, UH, UH, THE, UM, NOT THE FOOD TRUCK, BUT THE, I DON'T KNOW, IS IT THE SAME LINK FOR THE FOOD TRUCK SIGN UP AS FOR REGULAR TABLES? OH, UM, THE VENDORS VERSUS FOOD TRUCK VENDORS. VENDORS VERSUS YES. VERSUS RETAIL VENDORS. WE TALKING YOU. YEAH. NON FOOD VENDORS. RE RETAIL VENDORS. UM, I'D HAVE TO DOUBLE CHECK. MOLLY. UM, I, I WANT TO, I WANT TO SAY THAT, ARE THEY THE SAME LINK? I THINK THEY ARE THE SAME. THE VENDOR LINK, THE REASON I'M ASKING IS BECAUSE I, I GOT VENDORS OUT THERE, BUT THE LINK IS NON-EXISTENT. SO WHERE, WHO, YEAH, SO, SO THE BEST SPOT RIGHT NOW CURRENTLY IS TO PROBABLY REACH OUT TO MOLLY GROSS OVER, UM, AT PARK, UH, AT THE PARKS DEPARTMENT. UM, OKAY. SHE WOULD BE THE BEST CONTACT. I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU OFFLINE. BEST CONTACT. SO WHAT IS THAT LINK NOW, JEFFREY, THAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE VENDOR LINK THAT YOU MENTIONED AT THE MEETING THAT WAS, UH, YEAH, ALL EVENTS, NOT JUST, NO. SO, 'CAUSE I THINK RIGHT NOW, INITIALLY THE IDEA WAS THAT WE WOULD START THE PROCESS TO KIND OF DO, OF VET OUT WHO WE WANTED, LIKE PASS, UH, PASS, PASS PARTICIPANTS AT THE EVENT, GET THEM ALL SITUATED AND, AND SQUARED AWAY. OKAY. AND THEN THE INITIAL THOUGHT, AND I COULD BE TOTALLY WRONG ABOUT THIS, WAS THEN WE'D COME AFTERWARDS WITH THE MASS MARKET WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT, HEY, WE'RE DOING JUNETEENTH. HEY, IF YOU'RE INTERESTED OR HAVE AVAILABLE AVAILABILITY COME OUT AND, AND, AND SUPPORT, PARTICIPATE IN JUNETEENTH EVENT, UM, I'LL GET BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THAT. I KNOW MOLLY HAD BEEN WORKING REAL CLOSE WITH ERIC ON THAT. UM, AND I KNOW ERIC SAID IT'D BE SOMETIME THIS MONTH. I THINK WE'LL HAVE, YEAH. SO, AND THAT COULD, AND ULTIMATELY THAT COULD BE THE CASE. UM, WE'RE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING THAT LAUNCHES ACTUALLY, UM, THIS MONTH. AND THEN [00:30:01] FROM THERE, UH, APRIL WOULD BE THAT TIMELINE OF YOU GUYS GETTING THAT INFORMATION OF THE LINK, HOW TO HELP TO, UH, UM, HOW TO DIRECT FOLKS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN, UH, PARTICIPATING. SO, UM, I'LL JUST SAY FOR RIGHT NOW, UM, LET ME GET THAT INFORMATION FOR YOU ALL AND THEN I'M HOPEFUL BY APRIL WE'LL HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING. AND THEN DEFINITELY BY, WAS IT THE 26TH OF THIS MONTH? THE NEXT TIME? YEAH. I THINK THAT'S OUR NEXT MEETING. MEET FOR THE, UM, JUNETEENTH, UH, WORK, UH, UH, UH, WORK WORKING GROUP. SO, UM, YEAH, UM, LET ME, LET ME CIRCLE BACK WITH YOU ALL AND MAKE SURE WE'LL GET THAT, UH, SITUATED AND, AND CORRECTED. I THOUGHT WE ALREADY HAD THE LINK LIVE, BECAUSE WE TALKED ABOUT THIS IN OUR JANUARY MEETING, UM, THAT OTHER EVENTS, FESTIVALS THAT WE HAVE, THERE'S ARE THEIR EVENT REGISTRATION IS ALREADY ON THE WEBSITE. SO WE TALKED ABOUT THAT IN JANUARY. HAVING THAT ON THE WEBSITE. IT'S NOT HERE NOW. IS IS THIS SUPPOSED TO BE TOO, HEY, HANG ON, BEAR WITH ME. SO, UM, ARE THERE TWO SEPARATE PRICES? Y YES. I'M GONNA SAY WHAT MOLLY DID. SHE SENT OUT A BLIND, UH, EMAIL RESPONSE TO, UM, I'M ASSUMING A LOT OF VENDORS AND, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN REGARDS TO THE CITY'S JUNETEENTH EVENT, UM, HAPPENING THIS YEAR. UM, THE ACTUAL LINK IS A THING. IT'S A, AN IT'S AN ACTUAL THING. UM, YEAH, SO IT'S ACTIVE. SO THE LINK IS, IS ACTIVE. I, I GOTTA VERIFY FROM MOLLY. THIS WAS, WHEN WAS THIS, UH, FEBRUARY 27TH WHEN SHE SENT THIS EMAIL OUT TO, I'M GUESSING HER CONTACT LIST. I HAVE TO KIND OF RECAP TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, WE'RE ON THE SAME PAGE AS TRYING TO MAKE SURE, UM, WE'RE KIND OF ASKING, DO YOU HAVE THE LINK JUNETEENTH? IT'S A REC DESK. IT'S UNDER THE VA VENDOR OPPORTUNITIES, AND THERE'S A REGISTER NOW FOR JUNETEENTH. YEAH. SO I WANNA SAY THE, THE LINK IS ACTUALLY ACTIVE. UM, I CAN FORWARD TO YOU ALL THAT LINK IF THAT'S THE MOTION OF WHERE WE'RE GOING. WHAT'S STARTING TO GET AS MANY VENDORS. AND I WANNA SAY, UH, UM, NOT ON THIS PAGE, NOT FOOD VENDORS, BUT RETAIL VENDORS, UM, UH, A PART OF JUNETEENTH. UM, SO YEAH, I'LL DEFINITELY FORWARD OUT THAT, UM, LINK. AND YOU GUYS CAN, IS THIS A STATIC LINK FOR ALL THE EVENTS THAT EVERYTHING THE CITY DOES, OR IS IT, UM, SPECIFIC TO AN EVENT LIKE JUNETEENTH? YEAH, SO, SO YEAH, FOR THIS ONE, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S FOCUSED JUST ON JUNETEENTH, UM, THE LINK. SO ONCE YOU SEND IT OUT, UM, THE IDEA IS THE INDIVIDUAL HAS TO, UM, REGISTER WITH THE REC DESK, UM, UH, WEBSITE. AND THEN FROM THERE IT'S PRETTY SIMPLE TO, UM, SIGN UP AND THEN, UH, REGISTER. UM, IF THEY HAVE ANY TROUBLE, UM, YOU CAN EITHER DIRECT THEM TO ME OR DIRECT 'EM TO MOLLY AT PARKS AND, UH, REC AND SHOW HELP ASSIST IT ANY WAY SHE CAN. PEOPLE ARE JUST LOOKING, WHERE DO THEY COME IN? SO, UM, MIA AND I ARE, YEAH, ARE NOTICING ON THE REC PAGE, IT'S SHOWING ACTIVE EVENT. IS IT A REGISTRATION FOR VENDORS? MM-HMM . FOOD AND, UM, IT JUST SAID RE VENDOR REGISTRATION. IT DIDN'T SAY FOOD, OR I DIDN'T, I DIDN'T, COULDN'T GO ANY FURTHER. 'CAUSE I DON'T HAVE A COMMUNITY ACCOUNT. A LOG IN. YEAH. UM, BUT THEN ON THE MAIN, THIS IS DIRECT DESK TOO, IT SAYS NO ONLINE REGISTRATION. THIS LOOK THAT'S THE SAME ADDRESS. YEAH. AND, AND YOU GO TO, AGAIN, THAT'S ME CIRCLING BACK WITH, UM, ERIC AS WELL AS MOLLY. UH, MY UNDERSTANDING WAS, UM, WE HAD A LIST OF INDIVIDUALS, A A LIST OF RETAIL VENDORS THAT WE WANTED TO, HOW I USE THIS PRO PRIORITIZE, I GUESS UPFRONT, MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE ALL SITUATED, UM, FIRST AND THEN, YOU [00:35:01] KNOW, THEN TRY TO, YOU KNOW, KINDA, UH, UM, COM. AND THEN WHEN I GO TO PRO CASTOR A, A BIGGER NET, UM, IF, IF WE STILL WERE LOOKING FOR MORE INDIVIDUALS TO PARTICIPATE IN JUNETEENTH THIS YEAR. SO I THINK IT'S SELECTIVE. UH, THE INITIAL THOUGHT WAS FOR IT TO BE SELECTIVE. AND THEN IF MY UNDERSTANDING IS CORRECTLY, THERE IS SOME DATE AND TIME WHERE WE WERE GONNA TRY TO OPEN IT UP TO MAKE SURE THAT INDIVIDUALS, UM, IF THEY HAD THE AVAILABILITY, UM, TO COME OUT TO JUNETEENTH, THAT WE'D SEND THEM THAT INVITATION. SO, UM, I'LL MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S THE RIGHT COURSE OF HOW WE'RE DOING IT. IT FEELS LIKE THAT'S THE WAY THAT WE'RE DOING IT THIS YEAR. AND THEN I'LL LET YOU GUYS KNOW, LIKE EIGHT BY APRIL. APRIL, MARCH, APRIL. YEAH. SO I'LL DON'T SEE. I'LL LET YOU, I'LL GET THAT. I'LL GET THAT INFORMATION BY APRIL. DO YOU, UM, REUBEN, DO YOU HAVE THE NUMBER? I KNOW WE, HE TALKED ABOUT HOW MANY VENDORS WE HAD. HE HAD A NUMBER, AND I DON'T SEE IN MY NOTES WHERE I MUST HAVE MISSED THAT. HE SAID HE HAD LIKE, WASN'T LIKE EIGHT OR 10 VENDORS ALREADY CONFIRMED. I DON'T REMEMBER THE NUMBER. HE, HE STATED INCLUDING FOOD TRUCKS. I MEAN, IT WAS A COMBINED VENDORS AND FOOD TRUCKS, INCLUDING THAT SOUNDS RIGHT. INCLUDING FOOD TRUCKS. YES. I THINK HE HAD LIKE EIGHT OR 10 PEOPLE ALREADY CONFIRMED. OKAY. THAT HAD REGISTERED. I JUST DON'T HAVE, I DON'T, I THOUGHT I HAD WRITTEN ON THE NUMBER AND I DON'T SEE A NUMBER. OKAY, NO WORRIES. UM, WE, WE JUST, YEAH. SO I WAS JUST REALLY, AND YOU'RE ACTUALLY FINDING THAT, I GUESS I HAVEN'T CHECKED IT TODAY. A FEW DAYS AGO, NONE OF THAT REGISTRATION WAS ON THE WEBSITE. THAT'S WHY I WAS ASKING THE QUESTION. WELL, I THINK 'CAUSE IT'S REFLECTING DIFFERENTLY IN DIFFERENT AREAS ON THE WEBSITE, IT'S NOT CONSISTENT. SO THE PAGE I'M PULLING UP, IT SAYS NO ONLINE REGISTRATION, THE PAGE ME IS PULLING UP. THEN THERE'S BUSINESS REGISTRATION. YEAH. REGISTRATION. SO WHO THE WEBSITE WRITTEN FOR THE, UM, CELL PHONE IS DIFFERENT. UH, IT COULD BE BECAUSECAUSE. I, I THINK I'M LOOKING ON MOBILE VERSUS, BECAUSE I WAS USING THE DESKTOP WHEN I CHECKED IT. SO MAYBE THE CELL PHONE IS A LITTLE MORE ROBUST. SO IT LOOKS LIKE IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT, ON THE, ON THE CELL PHONE, THE REGISTRATION VENDORS OPEN. BUT IF YOU'RE ON THE DESK DESKTOP, DOES SHE HAVE DO OR I MEAN, IS IT THE LINK? I MEAN, I THINK THE, I THINK THE, WHAT THE LINK IS DOING IS IT, IT SAYS YOU HAVE TO SIGN INTO A COMMUNITY. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. YOU NEED A, YOU NEED A, A USER ACCOUNT TO BE ABLE TO SIGN OR CREATE AN ACCOUNT ON THERE ON RUBEN'S AND YOLANDA'S WHEN THEY'RE LOOKING AT IT THROUGH A DESKTOP OR A LAPTOP. MM-HMM . THE ACTUAL COMPUTER VERSION, IT SAYS THERE'S NO OPEN REGISTRATION AVAILABLE. OH, FROM THE LATCH LINK? YOU CAN'T, YEAH. SAME SITE. YOU CAN'T CLICK ON IT FROM A LAPTOP, BUT FROM A MOBILE INTERFACE, I CAN, IT HAS A OPEN VENDOR. I DON'T WHY THAT'S D JUST NEEDS TO CHECK YOUR SCRIPTS. THE SCRIPTS PROBABLY NOT. IT'S DIFFERENT SITE. WHY AM I POSTED ON REGULAR DESKTOP FORM? NO WORRIES. MM-HMM . I COPY MY LINK. YOU COPY YOUR LINK AND SEND IT LITERALLY, DEPENDING ON THE INTERFACE. WE JUST NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S REFLECTED THE SAME EVERYWHERE ON THE WEBSITE. RIGHT? YEAH. THAT'S ALL. THEY HECK SOUND REASONABLE. UM, CONTACT, UH, IS THAT A, UM, MOLLY CONTACT FOR THAT TO GET TO THE IT REGARDING THE WEBSITE OR JUST REGISTRATION? I HAVE TO RE-VERIFY THAT MYSELF NOW, NOW, NOW THAT I KNOW, I'M THINKING OH, IT PROFESSIONALS. YEAH. NO, I UP FOR BOTH PIECES, BUT MAYBE NOT. YOU'RE RIGHT. YEAH. AND I'M NOT NECESSARILY, YEAH. AND I WOULD FIGURE THAT, YEAH, THAT'S A, THAT'S A MOLLY QUESTION JUST TO KIND OF VERIFY THAT STATUS. UM, BUT AGAIN, IT'S THE UNDERSTANDING OF HOW WE'RE DOING REGISTRATION OKAY. UH, THIS YEAR FOR THE EVENT. BUT I'LL CIRCLE BACK WITH EVERYBODY AND GET A, UH, A BETTER SENSE OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH WHEN IT COMES TO THE EVENT NEXT MONTH. SO JUNE, FOOD TRUST MEMBERS, I THOUGHT, I THINK THE THOUGHT THAT WE ORIGINALLY WE WERE GONNA, IT WAS GONNA BE UP SO THAT WE COULD SEND IT TO DIRECT TARGET BUSINESSES, BUT THEN IF NEEDED, WE WOULD DO THE ALL CALL OUT FOR BUSINESSES. WHAT'S THE PLAN? THIS IS WHERE IT'S DIFFERENT. YEP. THAT, THAT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING. JUNETEENTH FOOD VENDORS DOES NOT HAVE AN ONLINE REGISTRATION. JUNETEENTH BUSINESS VENDORS HAS AN ONLINE REGISTRATION. SO IF YOU GO DOWN AND SAYS LOAD MORE, THEN THAT'S WHERE MINE'S COMING UP. SO IT IS ON THE SAME PAGE. SO HOW IT'S JUST THAT THEY'VE GOT 'EM SEPARATED. SO THE, THE FOOD TRUCK VENDORS FOR JUNETEENTH IS NOT OPEN, BUT THE BUSINESS VENDORS FOR JUNETEENTH IS OPEN. MM-HMM . RIGHT? YES. SO OBVIOUSLY WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE IT PROFITABLE FOR THE FOOD TRUCK VENDORS. SO I THINK WE CUT IT OFF AT FIVE OR SIX IF I'M NOT, IF ANYBODY WAS IN THAT. UM, THAT'S WHY WE'RE SEEING, UH, JUNETEENTH WORK SESSION. BUT I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT WE TYPICALLY DO. SO WE'RE CUTTING OFF [00:40:01] AT FIVE TO SIX FOOD VENDORS. AND THEN FROM THERE WE HAVE A SELECTED NUMBER, AT LEAST WHAT WE WANT FOR RETAIL VENDORS. I WANNA SAY THAT NUMBER IS AT 20. UM, SO YEAH, THE FIRST ROUND FOR RETAIL VENDORS, HEY, CALL THE PEOPLE THAT CAME OUT LAST TIME FOR EITHER JUNETEENTH MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL FOR OR ANY OTHER EVENTS. TYPICALLY, ONCE WE GET TO A CERTAIN NUMBER OR WE'RE, IF WE'RE NOT AT A CERTAIN NUMBER OR A CERTAIN POINT, THEN IT'S THE IDEA OF THE ON ALL CALL, UM, PROCESS. I THINK CHRISTIE TRIED TO TALK ABOUT SOMETHING ABOUT THAT WHEN WE HAD OUR MEETING LAST. UM, ONCE WE GOT TO THAT POINT, THE IDEA, FACEBOOK, WHATEVER MOLLY MAKES PHONE CALLS IF WE KNOW SOMEBODY, UM, WITHIN THE COMMUNITY OF THE REGION. JUST, JUST THE ASK. RIGHT. HEY, COME ON OUT. IF, IF, IF YOU HAVE THE TIME AND THE AVAILABILITY TO, TO DO THE EVENT. SO, UM, I'LL MAKE SURE, I'LL, I'LL, I'LL KIND OF WRAP IT UP A LITTLE BIT AND MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING IS, UM, UM, I, I GUESS ARTICULATE IT CORRECTLY WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HOW THE EVENT PROCESS IS SUPPOSED TO BE GOING FOR THIS YEAR. UM, SO I'LL HAVE THAT CONVERSATION WITH MOLLY, HOPEFULLY, HOPEFULLY TOMORROW. I KNOW, UM, THE CHAMBER IS DOING BEVERAGES, IS THAT WHAT WE'RE, IS THAT WHAT HE SAID? THE CHAMBER WAS DOING BEVERAGES AND, UM, WE, THE BOUNCE HOUSES ARE SET MM-HMM . SO WE'RE GOOD ON THAT. SO YEAH. AND THEN I ACTUALLY HAD A CONVERSATION WITH, WITH, UH, THE DJ TODAY. SO, UM, SLOWLY BUT SURELY, SO WE'RE JUST KNOCKING OUT SOME FEW THINGS. UM, I'LL SAY THIS, UM, WE'LL, WE'LL SAY BETWEEN ME AND ERIC, UH, WE GOT A THOUSAND DOLLARS, UM, SPONSORSHIP WITH CAR SOURCE AND THEN, UM, I WAS ABLE TO GET A THOUSAND DOLLARS SPONSORSHIP WITH, UH, ENTERPRISE. SO, UM, I THINK WE'RE DOING WELL. WE JUST WANT TO KEEP THAT UP WITH, UM, TRYING TO GET COMMUNITY, UM, UH, MEMBERS A PART OF WHAT WE'RE DOING FOR JUNETEENTH. SO, UM, YEAH. OUTSIDE OF THAT, THAT'S ALL I GOT. OKAY. I THINK THAT'S ALL WE HAVE. YEAH. HOW ARE THE BUSINESSES REGISTERED? YOU SAID WE HAVE EIGHT. I MEAN, HE SAID WITH FOOD TRUCKS, FOOD, NOT OPEN FOOD TRUCKS AND VENDORS. THEY, HE HAS WHAT HE SAID IT WAS LIKE EIGHT OR 10 OF THEM CONFIRMED, BUT THEY HAVEN'T REGISTERED. HOW DO THEY CONFIRM IF THEY'RE NOT REGISTERED? IF THE REGISTRATION IS HAVE IS NOT, HE SAID THEY'RE, ONCE THEY REACHED THEIR NUMBER, THEY, THEY SHUT IT DOWN. SO HE MAY HAVE ALREADY REACHED HIS NUMBER. YEAH. YOU MIGHT HAVE TO ASK ERIC ON HOW. OH, I SEE. YEAH. ERIC'S BEEN IN CONTACT WITH THEM. I'M NOT. SO THEY, SO WHAT, I GUESS WHAT THAT SAYS IS WE DON'T HAVE, WE HAVEN'T REACHED THAT VENDOR OR MEAN THAT RETAIL VENDOR NUMBER YET, WHICH IS WHY THEIR LINK IS STILL OPEN. OKAY. SO WE, WE HAVE ENOUGH FOOD TRUCKS, WE NEED THE VENDORS. WE ARE OPEN RETAIL VENDORS. OKAY. MM-HMM . OKAY. THAT MAKES, THAT MAKES A LOT MORE SENSE. YEAH. , THANK YOU. I WAS GETTING CURIOUS, LIKE, WHY IS ONE OPEN ANOTHER. OKAY. ALRIGHT. ANY OTHER, UM, UPDATES, UH, MIA OR ANYONE? I, I DON'T HAVE ANY MORE JUNETEENTH UPDATES. OKAY. MOVING RIGHT ALONG. NEXT ORDER OF BUSINESS IS THE CCRB UPDATES. YEAH. ALL RIGHT GUYS. SO, UH, LONG TIME COMING WITH CCRB. SO, UM, AFTER MRS. UM, MRS. MR. ROGERS, UM, UH, CHANGE TO THE REQUIREMENTS, UH, FOR THE CCRB, UM, WE ARE KIND OF BASICALLY IN THE HOME STRETCH WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ACTUALLY GETTING THAT, UH, BOARD, UH, UP AND RUNNING, UH, WITH THE GENERAL SENSE OF ITS FIRST INAUGURAL MEETING. UM, WE'RE, TONY HAS KIND OF DIRECTED ME RIGHT NOW IS, I KNOW THIS HAS BEEN A TOPIC IN THE PAST WITH THE CULTURAL DIVERSITY COMMISSION ABOUT, HEY, IS THERE AN OPPORTUNITY WHERE ONE OF THE MEMBERS ON THE BOARD, UH, OR AT LEAST THE COMMISSION CAN SIT ON CCRB FROM ME AND TONY'S CONVERSATION? THAT IS, YES. SO, UM, TO KIND OF GET TONY MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AND GET THIS, UH, SENT TO, UH, COUNCIL, I WANNA SAY IN THE NEXT WORK SESSION, THE IDEA RIGHT NOW IS I JUST NEED YOU GUYS TO VOTE ON OR NOMINATE SOMEONE FROM CULTURE UNIVERSITY TO SIT ON THAT CCRB BOARD. AND WHEN IS THE NEXT, IS THE NEXT OPEN SESSION? THAT IS JUNE, UH, NO SESSION FOR CITY COUNCIL. NEXT CITY WORK SESSION IS THE 17TH, I BELIEVE, OF THIS MONTH. YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. YOU'RE CORRECT. [00:45:02] WE HAVE TWO, RIGHT? WAIT, WE HAVE TO HAVE SOMEBODY BY THEN. THAT'S WHAT I WAS ABOUT TO SAY. THAT'S, NO, I, I JUST NEED A NOMINATION. UM, SO, SO BASICALLY TONY WAS HOPING, SO THIS WAS A CONVERSATION THAT WE HAD ON LAST MONTH'S AGENDA. UNFORTUNATELY WE WEREN'T ABLE TO HAVE IT, BUT THE IDEA IS THAT TONY'S KIND OF HAD THIS KIND OF SITTING RIGHT NOW. SO WE JUST NEED, UM, ONE ADDITIONAL MEMBER FROM THE COMMISSION TO MAKE THAT COMMISSION OR THAT, MAKE THAT BOARD A WHOLE AND, AND START THAT PROCESS OF ACTIVATING IT IN A SENSE. WE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE YOU GOT HERE, 'CAUSE WE DIDN'T KNOW IF WE'D HAVE A MAJORITY TO VOTE MM-HMM . EVEN, EVEN THOUGH WE DO HAVE A MAJORITY OF THE VOTE. IS THIS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO NEXT WEEK AT THE VISION MEETING? BECAUSE WE HAVE EVERYBODY THERE. WELL, NOT EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY WANTS, NOT EVERYBODY, BUT WE'LL BE IN THE SAME BOAT. WE'LL JUST HAVE A DIFFERENT, BUT YOU'RE HERE NOW, SO WE CAN GET YOUR FEEDBACK IF YOU WANT. BE NOMINATED . I, I JUST, I MEAN, I DON'T WANNA NOMINATE SOMEBODY AND THEY'RE NOT HERE. I'M THE SAME WAY. THIS IS A CHECK BOX. I F*****G GO AHEAD AND NOMINATE ME. I HAD MENTIONED IN JANUARY THAT I WOULD BE INTERESTED. OKAY. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. IS THAT, THAT'S ONE. YEAH. DO, DO YOU WANT NOMINATE YOURSELF? WANT ME TO NOMINATE YOU? YOU CAN NOMINATE. UM, SO WHAT, DO YOU NEED ONE OR WE NEED TWO. ONE. OKAY. WE'LL GO WITH YOLANDA. ARE YOU I AM NOT SIGNING UP FOR ANYMORE. . WELL THEN, UH, LET'S GO AHEAD AND VOTE. DO A ROLL CALL. VOTE PLEASE. DO WE DO MOTION? MOTION? UH, YES. A MOTION, UM, TO HAVE, UH, YOLANDA REPRESENT THE COMMISSION ON THE CCRB BOARD. I SECOND NOW, WE'LL DO A ROLL CALL. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. OKAY. WE WE'LL CHEAT . ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? ANY ABSTENTIONS? ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? THERE IT IS. YOLANDA WILL BE OUR REP OR NOMINATED, UH, REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE CCRB. PERFECT. THANK YOU. ASK THE TERM, HOW LONG IS THE TERM ? NO, IT'S TOO LATE. TOO LATE NOW. BUT I'M JUST CURIOUS. UH, DON'T, DON'T LET ME LIE TO YOU. I I WANT TO, I THINK IT'S TWO YEARS. TWO YEARS. THAT'S WHY I WAS LOOKING. I WAS, I THOUGHT I HAD THAT DOCUMENT WHEN THEY GAVE IT TO ME WHEN WE DID THE WHOLE, UM, I WANT, I WANNA SAY IT'S TWO YEARS, BUT I THINK IT'S, I THINK IT PROBABLY PUSHES THREE. OKAY. UH, NEXT I WILL, I WILL MAKE A MOTION TO AMEND OUR MINUTES TO MOVE, UM, A NEW BUSINESS ITEM, UH, ITEM D, THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT STATUS UP TO OUR OLD BUSINESS. SO MOTION IS NOW ON THE FLOOR. I MAKE THE MOTION. I MOTION. I NEED A SECOND. SECOND. ALL RIGHT. UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF MOVING THE ITEM UP TO, TO DISCUSSION FOR NOW. SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? ANY INTENTIONS? MOTION'S CARRIED. UM, SO NEXT WE WILL DISCUSS THE NEW AS OR THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT STATUS. YEAH. SO, UM, UH, I WILL, SO WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW IS OBVIOUSLY IT'S BEEN, UM, WELL, LIKE TWO YEARS. HAS IT BEEN TO NO, HASN'T IT A YEAR SINCE THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT? I WANNA SAY. SO BASICALLY, UM, I THINK WHEN WE CAME, UH, IN JANUARY, UM, THERE WAS THE CONVERSATION JUST CENTERED AROUND WHERE THE DIRECTION OF WHAT THE CITY WAS GOING TO END, UM, UH, SUPPORT OR, UH, IMPLEMENT FROM THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT. UM, JUST TO KIND OF REFRESH MEMORIES, UM, LEANING MORE INTO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE, UH, CITY, UM, CITIZENS ACADEMY, UM, LEANING INTO, UM, UNDERSTANDING, UM, COMPLAINTS, UM, BEING RECEIVED BY, UH, RESIDENTS, THAT'S KIND OF ONE OF THOSE, UH, AREAS AS WELL. UM, BUT I WOULD ASK OF THE COMMISSION, UM, YOU KNOW, IS THERE A COUPLE, UM, THAT YOU ALL CAN SUPPORT, UM, AS A MAJORITY WHEN WE TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT [00:50:01] YOU, YOU ALL ARE LOOKING FOR THE CITY TO, TO KIND OF REALLY GET BEHIND. UM, I KNOW YOU ALL DON'T HAVE THE ASSESSMENT IN FRONT OF YOU, UM, BUT THAT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT OBVIOUSLY WE CAN KINDA WORK TOWARDS, RIGHT? WHEN WE TALK TO, UH, THE, WHEN YOU GUYS HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH CITY COUNCIL, UM, CITY LEADERSHIP, UM, JUST TRYING TO REALLY FIGURE OUT, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT'S FEASIBLE. UM, EITHER THIS, LIKE WHAT'S FEASIBLE IN THREE MONTHS, WHAT'S FEASIBLE IN SIX MONTHS, WHAT'S FEASIBLE NE AND, AND NEXT BUD AND NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET, WHAT'S FEASIBLE, UH, COUPLE YEARS DOWN THE ROAD JUST TO REALLY TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, PUT THE BEST FOOT FORWARD RIGHT WHEN WE START TO KIND OF LOOK INTO THAT ASSESSMENT AND MAKE SURE, OKAY, HEY, THESE ARE THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THEY'RE NOT, UH, QUICK WINS, BUT JUST MAKING SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, EVERYONE'S ON THE SAME PAGE OF, HEY, THESE ARE SOME TWO OR THREE ITEMS THAT WE THINK THAT THE CITY AND, AND THE COMMISSION COULD ULTIMATELY PARTNER ON. MAKE SURE THAT WE, UH, GET IT ACROSS THE FINISH LINE. SO, UM, THAT'S KIND OF WHERE I'M AT. HAPPY TO HELP OUT AND TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE CAN GET THOSE CONVERSATIONS STARTED. UM, OBVIOUSLY MAKING SURE THAT YOU GUYS HAVE THE MEANS TO, UM, LOOK THROUGH THAT, UH, ASSESSMENT AGAIN. 'CAUSE I DON'T, I DON'T THINK EVERYONE HAS IT. BUT, UM, YEAH, JUST, JUST LET ME KNOW, UM, WHAT YOU GUYS THINK ABOUT THAT AND JUST TRY TO MAKE SURE WE CAN KIND OF BE, UM, PROACTIVE, UH, WITH THAT ASSESSMENT AND JUST NOT LET IT SIT ON THE SHELF AND COLLECT DUST. I, I THINK WE'RE DOING SOME ACTIVE WORK ALREADY. WE'VE INCLUDED SOME, UM, THE BASKETBALL, THE, UH, KNOW YOUR RIGHTS, SOME YOUTH PROGRAMMING. 'CAUSE THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS WHEN I RECALL FROM THE ASSESSMENT WAS, UM, GETTING YOUTH INVOLVED AND GETTING ACTIVE. THAT, SO THAT WAS ONE THING. I KNOW THAT THERE, WE'VE ADDED SOME NEW PROGRAMMING. I LIKE TO SEE, AND WE HAD TALKED ABOUT THIS AND TOSSED THIS AROUND HAVING SOME SORT OF LIST OF COMMUNITY LEADERS, UH, DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS IN A DATABASE. LIKE WE TALKED ABOUT, HAVING A, A RESOURCE OF THAT THAT, 'CAUSE WE'RE, WE'RE EVERYWHERE WITH THAT. THERE'S, I MEAN, WE, WE KNOW HERE AND YOU KNOW, WHERE YEAH. OF HAVING SOME SORT OF A CENTRALIZED RESOURCE DATABASE WHERE WE CAN PULL THIS FROM IF WE NEED TO SAY, HEY, WE NEED A COMMUNITY LEADER, OR WE NEED TO TALK TO SOMEBODY IN THIS COMMUNITY, OR SOMETHING HAPPENED WITH THIS GROUP, WE COULD PULL A COMMUNITY LEADER THAT'S FROM THAT ORGANIZATION OR THAT REPRESENTATION. AND, AND, AND THAT'S RIGHT. AND THAT'S WORK THAT, YOU KNOW, I'VE STARTED. RIGHT. BUT QUITE FRANKLY, THAT THAT TAKES TIME. RIGHT. AND IT, AND IT DOES. RIGHT. SO, UM, YOU KNOW, I'M TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, BE, YOU KNOW, SMART AND, AND MANAGE MY TIME, YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN WE START TO DO THOSE THINGS. 'CAUSE ULTIMATELY, YEAH, I THINK IT'S GOOD WORK, BUT IT'S VERY TIME CONSUMING AND RIGHT. AND VERY TEDIOUS WORK. RIGHT. UM, SO, YOU KNOW, I'M TRYING UNITY ENGAGEMENT DIVISION FOR YOUR, FOR SURE. FOR THE CITY FOR SURE. SO, SO, UM, I'M HOPEFUL WITHIN THE NEXT COUPLE WEEKS WE'LL HAVE AN INTERN STARTING, UM, AND I'LL BE MANAGING THEM. SO, UM, THAT'S, THAT'S ONE ASPECT, RIGHT? THAT'S, THAT'S A GOOD POINT WHERE WE CAN START THAT, UH, DATABASE RIGHT? AND TRY TO MAKE SURE, HEY, WE GOT PEOPLE WE CAN LEAN ON, OBVIOUSLY WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. SO YEAH. I APPRECIATE THAT. YEAH. BUT, UH, YEAH, WE'LL, WE'LL, WE'LL DEFINITELY CIRCLE BACK AND START TO, UM, MAKE SURE WE, WE GET THOSE INDIVIDUALS IN THAT DATABASE. WELL, I WOULD LIKE, INSTEAD OF US THINKING ABOUT WHAT THE COMMISSION COULD DO, I MEAN, IN ADDITION TO POSSIBLY, THERE WERE A LOT OF RECOMMENDATIONS FROM RAMA, UM, TO CITY LEADERSHIP OF WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN IN THE CITY. AND IF WE TAKE A TRICKLE DOWN APPROACH, IT WILL START THERE, RIGHT? WITH YOUR LEADERSHIP. UM, SO I'M INTERESTED IN KNOWING WHAT IS LEADERSHIP DOING WITH THIS DATA, BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO GUIDE AND LEAD THIS IN OUR CITY. AND ALSO, I LOST MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT. I CAN'T REMEMBER. TELL ME WHAT I WAS SAYING. MIA . SO THAT'S THE, THAT'S THE FIRST [00:55:01] THING. LET, THAT'S, THAT'S THE, THE FIRST, LET ME, LET ME ANSWER THE, LET ME TRY TO ANSWER THE FIRST ONE, RIGHT? OKAY. AND I, I, I THINK WE WERE AT LEAST ON THE RIGHT TRACK, OR MAYBE WE WERE A LITTLE TOO EARLY, RIGHT? LAST YEAR WHEN, UM, THE COMMISSION WANTED TO KIND OF SET THAT CONVERSATION UP WITH, UH, CITY COUNCIL, RIGHT. WITH MEMBERS ON CITY COUNCIL, RIGHT? UM, I THINK THAT'S THE APPROACH WHERE I THINK YOU ALL, WHETHER THAT'S TWO OR THREE OR THE CHAIR AND THE VICE CHAIR, AND THAT'S A COLLECTIVE CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE COMMISSION GOING TO CITY COUNCIL AND ARTICULATING THESE IDEAS, RIGHT? THE APPROACH OF, HEY, HEY, THESE ARE SOME GREAT IDEAS THAT RAMA HAD RELATED TO LEADERSHIP. RIGHT? AND I THINK THAT'S WHERE YOU GUYS HAVE TO, I DUNNO, PER PERSUADE. YEAH. SO CITY COUNCIL, YEAH. LEMME BACKTRACK MM-HMM . TWO, THREE YEARS, WE SUBMIT A RECOMMENDATION TO, UM, CITY COUNCIL THAT WE HIRE A PERSON THAT IS FOCUSED ON THESE INITIATIVES. AND WE WERE TOLD, WELL, NOT RIGHT NOW. WHAT WE'LL DO IS WE'LL GET THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT DATA AND THEN WE'LL MOVE FROM THERE. SO NOW OUR NEEDS ASSESSMENT DATA TELLS US THAT WE HAVE A PRETTY HEAVY LIFT. MM-HMM . RIGHT? AND SO I WANNA CIRCLE BACK TO MAKING A RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL THAT WE NEED TO HIRE SOMEONE THAT IS SPECIFICALLY FOCUSED ON THIS, YOU KNOW, INCLUSION AND ENGAGEMENT IN OUR COMMUNITY. YEAH. SO I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, I'M NOT VOTE ON THAT RECOMMENDATION. I'M NOT THAT RECOMMENDATION. I'M NOT TO RIGHT. I DEF I DEFINITELY WON'T BE BIASED BECAUSE I MEAN, I WORK WITHIN COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, RIGHT? AND IT IS, I MEAN, HUBBERT HAD, IS GROWING, RIGHT? MM-HMM . AND WHAT I'VE LEARNED DEALING WITH, WITH THIS NEEDS ASSESSMENT, RIGHT? THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF ETHNICITY GROUPS AND CULTURES THAT YOU LEARN JUST BY DOING THE WORK, RIGHT? AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT WE CONNECTED, YOU KNOW, WITH EVERYBODY. I MEAN, WE MAYBE MADE A PRESENCE, BUT I THINK THERE'S MORE WORK TO BE DONE. AND I THINK THAT'S WHERE I TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HEY, YOU KNOW, AMONGST YOU ALL AS A COMMISSION, THESE ARE THE CONVERSATIONS THAT NEED TO BE DIRECTED IN, UH, THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO COUNSEL, RIGHT? WHETHER THAT'S, I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY JUST USING THAT, UH, CHAIN OF COMMAND AND, AND, AND STARTING AT THE TOP, RIGHT? I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY YOU HAVE THE DATA TO BACK IT. IT'S JUST, OKAY, HEY, LET'S KIND OF GET INTO A ROOM AND DISCUSS. UM, SO WHETHER, LIKE I SAID AT THE BEGINNING, RIGHT, WHETHER THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS MANAGEABLE AND THREE MONTHS, OR SIX MONTHS OR A YEAR OR NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET, THE CONVERSATION STARTS NOW, RIGHT? AND, AND WE'VE, WE'VE HAD, WE'VE HAD THE DATA FOR A WHILE, UM, AND, AND I'M MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE CLEAR ON HOW THINGS ARE RAN. IT GOES LEADERSHIP, THEN MANAGEMENT. UM, I THINK THAT FIRST PART IS TALKING TO, YOU KNOW, THE ELECTEDS AND MAKING SURE THAT YOU KNOW, YOU ALL AS OBVIOUSLY COMMISSION MEMBERS. AND THEN THE SECOND THING, UM, OBVIOUSLY AS RESIDENTS OF HUBER HEIGHTS ADDRESSING THESE CONCERNS THAT YOU GUYS THINKS ALL THAT YOU GUYS ALL THINK THAT IS OBTAINABLE IN THE CITY. SO I THINK THAT'S THE, THAT'S, THAT'S HOW WE HAVE TO START THE CONVERSATION. ALPHA AT FIRST. SO I WAS AT THE PRESENTATION. CHRISTINE AND I WENT TO THAT PRESENTATION. AND HONESTLY AT THE END OF THAT, IT WAS BASICALLY THE COUNCIL TELLING US THAT THE COMMISSION NEEDS TO COME UP WITH SOME IDEAS. AND IT, IT SOUND MY INTERPRETATION OF THAT. AND CHRISTIE AND I HAD TALKED ABOUT, UM, AT THEN IT WAS THAT IT PUT IT ON THE COMMISSION FOR THIS NEEDS ASSESSMENT TO COMPLETE THIS. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THIS CONVERSATION. I THINK THIS CONVERSATION IS NEEDED. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE NOT JUST WHAT COMES OUT OF THIS NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN THIS NEEDS ASSESSMENT NEEDS NOT JUST TO BE ON THE COMMISSIONS' BACK. IT NEEDS TO BE A BUY-IN FROM EVERYBODY. SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHAT OUT OF THIS ASSESSMENT YEAH. IS IMPORTANT TO THE COUNCIL. THEY NEVER ANSWER THAT AT THAT PRESENTATION. SURE. IT WAS BASICALLY, YEAH. WHAT IS THE COMMISSION DOING AND WHAT ARE YOUR PLANNING? WE LIKE TO SEE MORE FROM THE COMMISSION, YOU KNOW, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE FROM THEM, AND NOT JUST AS A COMMISSION MEMBER, BUT AS A RESIDENT, AS A RESIDENT OF AN ETHNICITY GROUP IN THIS, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHAT, WHAT MY COUNCIL THAT WE'VE ELECTED AND VOTED FOR, WHAT THEY'RE, WHAT THEY FEEL IS IMPORTANT AND WHAT THEY FEEL THEY CAN DO OUT OF THIS NEEDS ASSESSMENT AS WELL. IT CAN'T [01:00:01] JUST BE A ONE-SIDED ON US. MM-HMM . IT CANNOT JUST BE OUR SOUL DOING THIS. YEAH. I THINK IT HAS TO BE A BUY-IN FROM EVERYTHING. BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT. BUT AT THE END OF THAT MEETING, JEFFREY, AT WHEN THEY HAD THAT PRESENTATION THAT, I DON'T KNOW WHICH COUNCIL MEMBER THAT SAID IT, BUT IT, THAT BASICALLY IS WHAT THE GIST I GOT WAS WE WANNA SEE THE COMMISSION DO MORE. WE WANNA SEE THE COMMISSION. AND WE ARE A GROUP OF NINE, SUPPOSED TO BE NINE, AND WE ARE ALMOST PROGRAMMING EVERY MONTH, PRACTICALLY EVERY OTHER MONTH. THERE'S A PROGRAM. WE'RE, WE ARE DOING THIS WORK IN THE COMMUNITY, BUT IT HAS TO BE FROM A BUY-IN, FROM EVERYBODY, NOT JUST US. AND THAT, I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE POINTED IN THAT CONVERSATION THAT WE'RE HAVING WITH THEM. I WANNA SEE WHAT THEIR IDEAS ARE. I DON'T, IT JUST SHOULDN'T JUST BE OUR IDEAS. YEAH, I AGREE. I DITTO THAT TIMES 1000 BECAUSE THIS IS ACTUALLY, THIS WAS A CITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT, RIGHT? WAS SPONSORED BY THE CITY. AND AS I MENTIONED, THIS IS A, A LEADERSHIP TRICKLE DOWN PERSPECTIVE, RIGHT? WE'VE GOTTA PUSH IT DOWN FROM THE TOP. AND A LOT OF THESE THINGS, WE HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS. SO SOME OF THE KEY FINDINGS WERE THAT THE CITY DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A MISSION, VISION, OR VALUE STATEMENT. THE CITY DOESN'T HAVE PERFORMANCE METRICS RELATED TO EQUITY AND INCLUSION GOALS. UM, MOST OF THE INFORMATION RELATING TO CITY SERVICES IS EMBEDDED ON THE WEBSITE. AND PEOPLE CAN'T FIND IT. PEOPLE CAN'T TRANSLATE IT. UM, OTHER THINGS THAT CAME UP WERE, LET ME SEE. THE EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK INCLUDES PROVISIONS AGAINST SEXUAL HARASSMENT, BUT DOES NOT INCLUDE POLICIES ON EQUITY AND INCLUSION OR WORK RELATED WORK RULES RELATED TO DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE OR ETHNICITY. THE CITY DOES NOT HAVE A STAFF PERSON DIRECTLY TASKED WITH FURTHERING ITS EQUITY AND INCLUSION GOALS INTERNALLY OR EXTERNALLY. SO THESE ARE THINGS THAT IF WHAT SHOULD REALLY HAPPEN IN THEORY IS BECAUSE THIS WAS A CITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT, THE CITY LEADERSHIP SHOULD SIT DOWN, DISSECT THIS REPORT AND SAY, OKAY, WHAT ARE WE PULLING FROM THIS? WHAT ARE THE HIGH LEVEL THEMES THAT WE CAN BEGIN TO WORK ON AS A CITY? AND WHAT IS THE TIMELINE FOR ACCOMPLISHING THAT? AND THEN HOW DO WE LEVERAGE THE DIVERSITY COMMISSION TO HELP WITH SOME OF THESE THINGS, NOT PUT IT ON THE DIVERSITY COMMISSION. SO MAYBE THAT IS, THAT IS AN ADDITIONAL ASK, BECAUSE I'M NOT, I MEAN, THIS IS MY PERSONAL OPINION. I'M NOT INTERESTED IN SITTING DOWN WITH ANYONE WHO HAS NOT SAT AND READ THROUGH THIS REPORT AND REFLECTED ON IT AND THOUGHT ABOUT IT FROM A LEADERSHIP PERSPECTIVE AND LAID OUT FROM THEIR LENS WHAT DO THEY THINK NEEDS TO HAPPEN. IF THEY DON'T DO THAT, THEN US MEETING WITH THEM IS, IS DOES NOTHING. YEAH. SO I, I MEAN, THESE ARE, THESE ARE FAIR REQUESTS. UM, I I, I THINK THE FIRST THING YOU DO IS YOU, YOU CIRCLE BACK RIGHT TO THE START OF WANTING TO SIT DOWN WITH LEADERSHIP, RIGHT? AND, AND, AND EITHER THAT'S A PHONE CALL DIRECTED, UM, WITH TONY TO TRY TO SET UP THAT CONVERSATION, UH, INPUTTING THE REQUESTS THAT, YOU KNOW, THE COMMISSION WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS. AND HOPEFULLY, UM, THE COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES CAN HAVE THAT SAME, YOU KNOW, UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO MEET AT THE MIDDLE. BECAUSE ULTIMATELY WE WANNA MAKE THE CITY, UM, THE BEST IT POSSIBLY CAN BE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THIS WITH THIS WORK THAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO. SO I THINK THAT'S ULTIMATELY, THAT'S THE FIRST THING, RIGHT? IS JUST TRYING TO GET PEOPLE AND, AND WE'RE NOT COMING AT IN, OBVIOUSLY NOT COMING AT A, AT A HATEFUL OR NEGATIVE WAY. AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT THE COMMISSION IS TRYING TO DO THAT, UM, BUT I'M JUST TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT BOTH SIDES UNDERSTAND WHAT HAS TO HAPPEN FIRST. LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE REQUEST HAS TO BE MADE FIRST, RIGHT? AND, AND I'M HAPPY TO HELP ORGANIZE, UM, IF YOU GUYS NEED IT. UM, BUT I THINK AS A COMMISSION, YOU ALL HAVE TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION BETWEEN YOURSELVES OF, OF WHAT YOU GUYS WANNA FOCUS OR WANT THE CITY TO FOCUS ON. AND THEN IT'S YOU ALL AS THAT COMMISSION TO GO AND TELL CITY OFFICIALS, HEY, THIS IS WHAT WE WANT, OR THIS IS WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU ALL. HOW DO WE BEST ACCOMPLISH THIS? WHAT'S THE TIMELINES FOR THESE THINGS? HOW DO WE GET THIS WORK DONE? [01:05:02] SO IS THIS SOMETHING WE CAN DISCUSS AT OUR VISION MEETING NEXT WEEK? WE CAN. I'M NOT IN, I'M NOT, NOT SAYING THAT. I MEAN, I THINK THOSE ARE ALL VALID POINTS. I'M NOT IN AGREEMENT FULLY WITH ALL OF THEM. UM, I THINK A BETTER APPROACH WOULD BE HOW DO WE GET THIS ON CITY COUNCIL'S AGENDA TO DISCUSS AMONGST THEM? YEAH. I MEAN, THAT'S NOT A YEAH, THAT'S NOT A BAD, I THAT'S NOT A BAD IDEA EITHER. RIGHT? AND I THINK, AGAIN, THAT INDIVIDUAL IS A CONVERSATION, I THINK WITH THE CHAIR AND TONY, RIGHT? HOW, HOW DO YOU START THAT CONVERSATION AND HOW DO YOU ULTIMATELY GET THEM TO TALK, RIGHT? SO I MEAN LIKE, LIKE WOULD THIS BE A WORK SESSION, YOU KNOW, ON THE AGENDA AND WE THEN YOU CAN HAVE A DISCONNECT, RIGHT? AND, AND I, 'CAUSE, AND THIS IS MY INTERPRETATION OF HOW I FEEL THAT YOU ALL AS A COMMISSION, UM, ARE, ARE REPRESENTED, RIGHT? AND I, I KNOW YOU ALL HAVE OTHER JOBS AND OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES, UM, WHETHER THAT'S ME BEING IGNORANT TO HOW I PORTRAY IT, BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW, LEADERSHIP HAS THIS UNDERSTANDING THAT YOU GUYS ARE, YOU KNOW, HAVE SOME TYPE OF EXPERTISE, TEASE AND DIVERSITY, RIGHT? UM, I'M NOT SAYING THAT THAT ISN'T THE CASE, BUT I ULTIMATELY WOULD THINK THAT THEY WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR GUYS' INSIGHT TO SOME OF THE THINGS. IT'S JUST MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S A MANAGEABLE LIST. AND I THINK ULTIMATELY YOU ALL NEED TO CONVERSATE BETWEEN THE COMMISSION AND THEN HAVE A STRATEGY OF HOW TO APPROACH, UM, OR TO SHARE THAT APPROACH WITH, UH, COUNCIL, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? YEAH. I THINK, UM, FOR THE VISION MEETING, BECAUSE I WILL NOT BE THERE BECAUSE OF THE WORK, BUT I THINK THAT THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT SHOULD BE A GUIDING LIGHT FOR US AS WE FOCUS ON THE VISION. MM-HMM . MM-HMM . AND I'LL WORK ON SETTING, SETTING UP A SIT DOWN WITH TONY ONCE WE, AFTER, AFTER WE, AFTER I GET EVERYONE'S INPUT OF WHAT WE SHOULD DO NEXT AND HOW WE COULD STRATEGICALLY MOVE FORWARD TO MAKE SURE THAT THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT. BECAUSE TO YOUR POINT, LIKE WE DON'T DETERMINE A MISSION, VISION OR VALUE. THAT'S NOT, THAT DOESN'T COME FROM THIS COMMISSION AT ALL OR ANYTHING EQUITY EMBEDDED IN THE POLICIES OR THE SYSTEM OF THE CITY. UM, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? NO. MOVING TO THE, THE NEXT ITEM. MOVING, CLOSING OUT OLD BUSINESS, MOVING THE NEW BUSINESS VOTER REGISTRATION. I THINK WE'VE MISSED THAT. WE'VE MISSED THE TIMELINE ON VOTER REGISTRATION. YEAH. I MEAN, I, I, WELL, I THINK WE JUST CARRIED THIS OVER FROM YEAH. A COUPLE MEETINGS AGO. I DON'T KNOW IF ANY, IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED IN, OH, WE PROBABLY CAN'T DO IT UNDER THE COMMISSION NOW. UM, I CAN'T THINK OF WHAT THE TIMELINE IS, THE VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINE, BUT I WAS THINKING ABOUT, UM, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT MIDTERM? MM-HMM . MAY, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE MAY. MAY, MAY. YEAH. AND LIKE, IT MAY BE THE END OF MARCH. I HAVE TO ASK THE COUNTY. I'M NOT, SAY SORRY. YEAH. I THINK IT'S THE END OF THIS MONTH. I WOULD ASSUME IT'S RELATIVELY SOON. YEAH. YEAH. I THINK IT'S LIKE SOMEWHERE LIKE AROUND 30 DAYS PRIOR TO THE ELECTION, LIKE MAY BE TIGHT FOR THAT. OKAY. I MAY GO TO THE HIGH SCHOOL AND REGISTER SOME, SOME YOUTH WHAT YOUTH TO VOTE FOR THE MAY ELECTION. JUST A REMINDER. EVEN IF THEY'RE 17. AS LONG AS THEY TURN 18. YEP. BY THE, BEFORE THE DATE THEY CAN REGISTER. I HAVE AN ID NOW. I KNOW FOR THE MIDTERMS, I LIKED HOW WE HAD IT AT, UM, THE FARMER'S MARKET. MM-HMM. WE HAD, WE HAD A BOOTH SET UP AT THE FARMER'S MARKET TO, TO DO PASS THAT REGISTRATION. MM-HMM. AND I THINK WE DID IT AT THE, THE, THE LITTLE TURKEY SHOP, THAT STORE ON, UM, OLD TROY. YEAH. WE WERE OUT THERE FOR A LITTLE BIT. SO [01:10:01] WE WENT TO THE Y YEAH, WE WENT TO THE LIBRARY. WE HAD A LOT OF, UM, REGISTRATION. A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT WE REGISTERED. I CAN'T REMEMBER THE NUMBERS, BUT WE HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT WE ANSWERED. ALSO, WE WERE ABLE TO DO UPDATES TO ADDRESSES. SO IT WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL LAST TIME. YEAH. BECAUSE I HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE ASK QUESTIONS AT THE FARMER'S MARKET. THEY STOPPED AND THEN THEY HAD CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE COMMISSION. I MEAN, WE, I THINK IT'S A GOOD WAY TO GET OUT IN THE COMMUNITY TOO. SO, YEAH. I MEAN, WERE THE, I MEAN, WERE THE QUESTIONS ANSWERED OR WERE THEY KIND OF TOUGH QUESTIONS TO ANSWER? I MEAN, JUST IF THE IDEA IS THAT WE'RE DOING THIS, WE CAN ASK THE COUNTY HOW TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS. YOU KNOW, THEY'RE BETTER INFORMED. I DON'T KNOW. WE HAD GENERAL QUESTIONS. I MEAN, SOME PEOPLE ASKED ABOUT MOVING AND THEIR ADDRESS CHANGE. THINGS THAT WE COULDN'T, I MEAN, WE OBVIOUSLY COULDN'T ANSWER, BUT WE WERE ABLE TO GIVE THEM ALL THE PAPERWORK AND THEY, THEY COULD FOLLOW UP WITH MM-HMM . BUT THAT, AND THE COUNTY, WHEN I WENT, 'CAUSE I PICKED UP THE FORMS, THEY GAVE US LIKE FAQ TYPE THINGS. THEY GAVE US BROCHURES AND STUFF THAT HELPED ANSWER SOME OF THAT STUFF. SO, YEAH. AND THE LAST TIME WE DID IT, WE HAD, REMEMBER WE GOT A LAPTOP OR A IPAD OR SOMETHING FROM THE CITY. SO WE WERE ABLE TO HELP PEOPLE AND WE TOOK OUR OWN COMPUTERS AND JUST HELP PEOPLE REGISTER ONLINE, DO ADDRESS CHANGES ONLINE, LOOK UP WHERE DO I VOTE. 'CAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO VOTE. THOSE WERE BULK OF THE QUESTIONS. AND YOU ARE CORRECT. THE, I JUST LOOKED IT UP. IT'S 30 DAYS PRIOR TO THE, SO WHAT'S IT, MAY, THE FIRST WEEK OF MAY MM-HMM . TO THE ELECTION. PRIOR TO THE ELECTION. LAST STATE OF REGISTERS 30 DAYS PRIOR, BEGINNING OF APRIL. ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT A FURTHER DISCUSSION ABOUT VOTER REGISTRATION? I KNOW IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED IN DOING IT, I DON'T KNOW IF WE, WE, WE HAVE TIMELINE FOR IF PEOPLE HAVE THE TIME BANDWIDTH TO DO IT OVER THE NEXT 30 DAYS. YEAH. 'CAUSE THAT WOULD BE, YEAH, BY THE TIME WE MEET AGAIN, IT BE UP. IT'D BE UP. UM, NEXT ONE. COMMUNITY PULSE CHECK, NEXT ITEM OF BUSINESS COMMUNITY PULSE CHECK. I ADDED THAT. UM, SO , WHEN WE WERE AT THE MLK EVENT MM-HMM . WE HAD SOME STUDENTS TALK ABOUT, UM, THE IMPACT OF ICE MM-HMM . IN THE COMMUNITY. AND THAT THERE ARE A LOT, THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF STUDENTS NOT COMING TO SCHOOL OR AFRAID TO COME TO SCHOOL. AND I DON'T, I GUESS ONE, I DON'T KNOW HOW OUR CITY IS HANDLING THAT OR IF WE'RE HANDLING IT. I WOULD LIKE INSIGHT THERE. JEFFREY, DO YOU KNOW, I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT. WHAT WAS THAT IMPACT OF ICE? UM, I DON'T, I DON'T THINK THAT WE, WE DIDN'T, WE, WE HAVEN'T HAD ANY CONTACT. UM, THAT'S A CONVERSATION I'LL HAVE WITH PD. UM, IS THERE LIKE A, LIKE A, A POLICY OR A, A PLACEMENT OF OBVIOUSLY HOW YOU ALL FEEL TOWARDS THAT, THAT YOU GUYS ARE LIKE SEARCHING FOR. BUT UM, UH, OUTSIDE OF THAT, I DON'T THINK THAT WE'VE NECESSARILY, YOU KNOW, HAD ANY RUN-INS WITH, UM, ICE, UM, COMING WITHIN HEBREW HEIGHTS. I, I BROUGHT IT UP BECAUSE WE HAD SOME STUDENTS AT THE MLK EVENT OKAY. FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL THAT WERE SHARING THEIR EXPERIENCES AND THE IMPACT THAT IT'S HAD ON PEOPLE IN THE HIGH SCHOOL AND SOME KIDS BEING AFRAID TO COME TO SCHOOL OR, YOU KNOW, WORRIED ABOUT IT. BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THEY'VE BEEN PRESENT IN OUR COMMUNITY. AND I AS A COMMUNITY, AS CITY LEADERSHIP, HOW ARE WE HANDLING THAT? BECAUSE THESE ARE ISSUES AND CHALLENGES THAT OUR RESIDENTS ARE FACING. I, I, I WOULD PERSONALLY SAY THAT I'M NOT AWARE OF THAT SITUATION, BUT I'M NOT SAYING THAT IT, IT'S NOT HAPPENING. UM, I [01:15:01] THINK THIS IS DEFINITELY ONE OF THOSE POINTS WHERE THE CONVERSATION COULD BE SHARED WITH, YOU KNOW, YOU ARE ALL'S REP REPRESENTATIVE RIGHT. TO TRY TO INFORM THEM IF THEY DON'T ALREADY KNOW. RIGHT. AND, AND REALLY LEAN UPON THEM TO CREATE THAT LEADERSHIP WHERE OBVIOUSLY IN THIS CASE, THE YOUTH KIND OF FEELS SAFE WHEN THEY, UM, GO TO SCHOOL AND, AND, AND TRY TO, UM, FIGURE OUT WAYS TO KIND OF, UM, YOU KNOW, KIND OF IMPOSE SOME TYPE OF, UH, UH, SAFETY OR NORM, UM, BEFORE THIS WHOLE SITUATION KIND OF GOT, UM, TO THE POINT THAT WE'RE AT. UM, BUT I, I, I CAN'T, I, I DON'T HAVE ANY COMING FROM A CITY. I DON'T HAVE ANY WHO'S DEALING WITH THIS DON'T LEADS ON THAT COMING FROM A CITY WHO'S CURRENTLY DEALING WITH THIS. UM, THEY CAN'T, I MEAN, WE, WE, WE DON'T GET INFORMED. ICE DOESN'T LET US KNOW WHEN THEY'RE COMING. SO NOBODY KNOWS WHEN THEY'RE COMING. UM, HOWEVER, WE PUT IN A RESOLUTION, OUR CITY COMMISSION PUT IN A RESOLUTION ON THE, UM, PASS. AND IT'S A RESOLUTION. RESOLUTIONS AREN'T LAW, WE KNOW THAT, BUT IT'S AT LEAST IT'S RESOLUTION, UM, TO ENCOURAGE ICE TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES, DISPLAY PROPER IDENTIFICATION, AND NOT WEAR A MASK TO AT LEAST CREATE NOT THAT FEAR WHEN THEY COME, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY COME, WE, WE KNOW THAT THEY DON'T HAVE TO NOTIFY US WHEN THEY'RE COMING MM-HMM . BUT, UM, AND LEGALLY THE CITY CAN'T STOP THEM FROM COMING. UM, BUT LIKE THIS RESOLUTION WAS PUT IN BECAUSE COMMUNITY PEOPLE ASKED FOR SUPPORT. MM-HMM . AND TO LEAST, YOU KNOW, WE WANT, IF YOU'RE GONNA COME, WE WANT IT SAFETY, WE WANT IT TRANSPARENT. WE WANT YOU TO NOT BE HIDDEN, YOU KNOW, AND MASKS AND EVERYTHING. MM-HMM . SO IS THERE SOMETHING, UM, I DON'T KNOW. I, I KNOW THAT THEY'VE COME HERE, UM, 'CAUSE IT'S BEEN IN THE NEWS, BUT I DON'T KNOW AS MUCH OF A BIG IMPACT THEY HAVE HAD HERE SINCE SOME OF THE OTHER COMMUNITIES. BUT, UM, THAT, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT THE COUNCIL MAY CONSIDER THAT THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING I'M NOT, I MEAN, YOU COULD LOOK AT THE CITY OF SPRING SPRINGFIELD COMMISSION RESOLUTION. YEAH, FOR SURE. CORRECT. AND IT'S, IT'S EASY TO, WE WE'RE TRYING TO, NOT TO REINVENT THE WILL WHEN, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE A STATEMENT WHEN IT COMES TO RESOLUTION. RIGHT. SO THAT'S A RECOMMENDATION FROM THE COMMISSION. YOU KNOW, WE, I MEAN, I CAN DEFINITELY SEND THAT OUT TO TONY IF THAT'S SOMETHING EASILY LIKE MEAN. THAT'S EASY. RIGHT. WE CAN I HAVE HIM LOOK AT IT. IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT COULD BE THOUGHT. YEAH. AND, AND, AND JUST GET BACK TO Y'ALL ABOUT THAT RESOLUTION. UM, I THINK THAT WAS THE MOST WE CAN DO. YEAH. I MEAN THAT'S, YEAH. I'LL, I'LL, YOU CAN MAKE THE RECOMMENDATION NOW. I CAN TAKE A PEEK AT THAT, UM, RESOLUTION FROM SPRINGFIELD AND FORWARD IT OVER TO TONY AND SEE IF WE CAN, IF, IF CITY COUNCIL WILL BE INTERESTED IN, YOU KNOW, PASSING A RESOLUTION LIKE THAT. WELL, I WOULD MAKE A RECOMMENDATION, COREY MM-HMM . HAVE THEM LOOK AT THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD'S ICE RESOLUTION. OKAY. AND SEE IF SOMETHING SIMILAR CAN BE PUT INTO, INTO, FROM SUPPORT FROM THE CITY HERE. UM, UM, RECOMMEND LET'S ABOUT THE WORDING. RECOMMEND THAT, WHAT IS IT CALLED FOR? UM, UH, WHAT ARE THEY RECOMMEND A STATEMENT FROM THE CITY, A RESOLUTION FROM THE CITY ACKNOWLEDGING, YOU KNOW, PRESENCE, SUPPORT FOR OUR RESIDENTS. IT'S, UM, THE RESOLUTION. UH, WHAT GONNA MAKE ME SUBSCRIBE, UM, THE RESO, UM, THEY PASSED A RESOLUTION ASKING FEDERAL IMMIGRATION AGENTS TO FOLLOW LOCAL RULES WHEN CONDUCTING ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES SUCH AS IDENTIFYING THEMSELVES, NOT WEARING MASK, DISPLAYING PROPER IDENTIFICATION. MM-HMM . UH, BECAUSE WE CANNOT DICTATE FEDERAL POLICY, BUT AT LEAST YOU CAN GIVE A SUGGESTION. OKAY. IT'S WHATEVER, UM, WHATEVER HUBER HEIGHTS, I DON'T KNOW WHAT HUBER HEIGHTS CITY POLICY IS FOR POLICE OPERATIONS. SO BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE BASING THEIR RESOLUTION ON, IS WHAT SPRINGFIELD POLICE OPERATIONS. 'CAUSE THEY HAVE TO IDENTIFY THEMSELVES. THEY CAN'T HIDE THEMSELVES AND MM-HMM . MM-HMM . SO I WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW, A, A RESOLUTION FIRST, ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THEY ARE PRESENT IN OUR COMMUNITY. AND WE DO HAVE COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT ARE BEING IMPACTED BY THIS AND THE URGING, THE, UM, [01:20:01] WHATEVER THAT HAVE LEGAL OBLIGATIONS TO PROTECT OUR CITIZENS OF THE CITY. SO, AND THAT'S THROUGH THE, UH, SPRINGFIELD CITY COUNCIL. I DON'T KNOW THEIR COMMISSION HAS, UM, COMMISSION, COMMISSION, THEIR COMMISSION PASSED A RESOLUTION MM-HMM . STATING THAT. SO DO YOU KNOW WHEN THAT WAS SOMETHING? I'M SORRY. SAY THAT AGAIN. TWO WEEKS AGO? IT WAS TWO WEEKS AGO. RECENTLY. YEAH. BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T HAD A COMMISSION. WE DID, WE HAVE A COMMITTEE MINUTE, NOT LAST WEEK, BUT THE LA MEETING RIGHT BEFORE THEN. SO MID-FEBRUARY, I WOULD SAY MM-HMM . RIGHT AROUND WHEN WE WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE THE TP ENDING. SO, UM, MIA THIS IS, IS THIS, UM, IS THIS, UM, MERELY A SUGGESTION FOR HOW, UM, IO OFFICERS ARE THE OPERATING YOUR CITY? RIGHT. BECAUSE THEY CAN, BECAUSE WE CAN'T DICTATE, YOU CAN'T TELL ME CITIES, CITIES CAN'T DICTATE WHAT FEDERAL POLICIES ARE, BUT AT LEAST IT CAN SHOW THIS IS WHAT WE WOULD LIKE. YEAH, I UNDERSTAND. WE'RE IN SUPPORT OF PROTECTING OUR, OUR RESIDENTS. OKAY. BECAUSE WE HAD THE SAME ISSUE IF WE GOT MILLION OFFICERS SHOWING UP TO A SCHOOL SYSTEM TO ADDRESS BOMB THREATS. SO WE HAVE TO, UM, UH, LOOK AT HOW THEY'RE OPERATING. ALSO, THAT POLICY HAS TO FLOW WITH THEM AS WELL. THAT WAY IT DOESN'T LOOK AS IF WE'RE DOING SOMETHING AND THEY CAN'T HIDE AND DISGUISE THEMSELVES AND STUFF. THEY HAVE TO BE TRANSPARENT. SO I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT OKAY. YOLANDA OF QUESTION FOR YOU. UM, THE, UM, THE STUDENTS THAT YOU'RE, UM, SPEAKING OF, WHAT PARTICULAR WERE THERE, UH, WAS THERE ISSUES BECAUSE I DIDN'T, I DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING FROM NONE OF THE, THE, UM, VOLUNTEERS, AND I'M NOT SURE IF THAT'S WHO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, BUT YEAH. THEY WERE, UM, SOME OF THE, WELL VOLUNTEERS AND, AND STUDENTS THAT WERE THERE, THE ISSUE OF PEOPLE BE KIDS BEING AFRAID TO GO TO SCHOOL, FOR SOME, YOU KNOW, AFRAID THAT ICE WOULD COME. UM, SO I MEAN, THAT WAS THE, THE BASIC PREMISE OF IT. SO IT WAS IMPACTING THEIR ATTENDANCE AT SCHOOL. OKAY. THEY, THEY HAVE NO REFERENCE TO ANYTHING PARTICULAR. THEY'RE JUST PREDICTING HOW THEY, HOW THEY FEEL. IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? OR THEY HAVE ACTUAL, SOME EXPERIENCES? NO, NO ONE SAID ANYTHING ABOUT THAT I'M AWARE OF, OF BEING, YOU KNOW, HAVING AN ENCOUNTER WITH AN AGENT, BUT THEY KNOW THAT THEY'RE HERE, THEY'VE BEEN SEEN. RIGHT. SO JUST THE PRESENCE MAKES THEM FEEL THREATENED, I GUESS, IN SOME WAY. AND SO IT'S, IT'S IMPACTING THEM. RIGHT. AND I THINK ONE, AS A CITY, WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO ACKNOWLEDGE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR CITY, ACKNOWLEDGE THE IMPACT THAT IT'S HAVING ON OUR RESIDENTS AND MAKE A STATEMENT ABOUT IT. WHEN WE, UM, WE DID THE, WHEN, WHEN WE FIRST STARTED, WE DID THE, UH, RACISM AS A HEALTH CRISIS. YES. IT WAS, YES. YEAH. PUBLIC ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF RACISM AS A HEALTH CRISIS. BECAUSE IF SOMETHING IS IMPACTING OUR COMMUNITY, SO WHEN WE SEE THESE THINGS HAPPENING AND WE KNOW PEOPLE ARE IMPACTED, WE NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IT'S HERE. OKAY. I BELIEVE THAT'S A, UM, QUESTION THAT JEFFREY CAN BETTER HELP US WITH. UM, BECAUSE THAT INFORMATION WOULD MORE, UM, BE COMMUNICATED, UM, THROUGH, UM, BUILDING ADMINISTRATORS THAN TALKING ABOUT SCHOOLS AND THROUGH TO THE CITY OR, OR THE POLICE DEPARTMENTS TO, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE, WHAT ARE STUDENTS SAYING AT SCHOOL? BECAUSE IF THEY'RE SAYING IT IN A SETTING OF AN MLK EVENT, THEY'RE PROBABLY SAYING IT IN A SETTING IN A SCHOOL, ESPECIALLY AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL MM-HMM . SO THEREFORE ARE WE LISTENING TO 'EM? AND THEN WHAT ARE WE DOING? RIGHT. OKAY. SO EXACTLY MY POINT OF VIEW IN THAT WE HAVE TO HOLD THE, UM, SCHOOL SYSTEM ACCOUNTABLE TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE COMMUNICATING THAT INFORMATION BACK TO THE APPROPRIATE PIECE OUTSIDE OF THAT, WHICH I GUESS WOULD BE PD UP TO THE CITY COUNCILS, YOU KNOW, TO MORE PROMOTE, UM MM-HMM . OF THE POLICIES AND, AND SO FORTH OF HOW STUDENTS ARE FEELING. YEAH. BECAUSE SOME OF THIS MAY BE A DIRECT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HOW STUDENTS FEEL ABOUT SOMETHING THEY SEE ON THE NEWS TO HOW THEY'RE BEING TREATED IN A CITY ANYWAY, YOU KNOW, FROM A TRAFFIC STOP TO ANYTHING ELSE. SO, SO THEY HAVE NOT COME TO THE SCHOOLS, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY WON'T 'CAUSE THEY HAVE, BUT THEY'VE HAD IN OTHER CITIES, BUT THEY HAVE BEEN HERE IN HUBER HEIGHTS. YEAH, THERE ARE, I'M PART OF DIFFERENT GROUPS THAT HAVE ADDRESSED IT, WHERE THEY, THEY HAVE ALERTED THAT PEOPLE, THEY HAVE BEEN HERE [01:25:01] MM-HMM . WHETHER, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY HAVE TAKEN ANY RESIDENTS OR ANYTHING AS, AS SUCH, UH, BUT THEY HAVE A PRESENCE HERE. AND IT DOESN'T HELP THAT THEY'RE ALSO HAVE A LARGER PRESENCE IN DAYTON AREA. THEY'VE BEEN THERE. AND THEN NATIONAL WISE, WE'RE EXPECTING A LARGE INFLUX WHEN THEY'RE COMING IN. THE NEIGHBORING COMMITTEE COMMUNITY THAT'S ONLY 20 MINUTES AWAY. SO, AND, AND THEY'VE BEEN IN COLUMBUS GALORE. SO I MEAN, THEY MM-HMM . SO IT'S, SO, THEY, IT'S NOT LIKE, I THINK THESE STUDENTS AND OUR RESIDENTS HAVE LEGITIMATE CONCERN TO FEAR ABOUT THIS BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN ON THE NEWS OF OTHERS, AND NOW WE ARE HEARING THAT THEY'RE IN OUR AREA. SO IT'S ALMOST LIKE IT'S HITTING CLOSE TO HOME TYPE THING. MM-HMM . AND, AND THIS IS A REACTION, AND I AGREE WITH YOU. I THINK THE SCHOOLS ALSO NEED TO DRESS TO STUDENTS BECAUSE THEY HAVE RELIGION THAT THEY'RE, THEY'RE SCARED. SO THEY'RE GOING TO DO WHAT THEY NEED TO DO TO PROTECT THEMSELVES, AND THEY'RE MISSING SCHOOL, WHICH IS GONNA CAUSE THEIR SCHOOL PERFORMANCES TO GO DOWN. MM-HMM . YEAH. AND THEN THEIR PARENTS CAN, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE SCHOOLS ARE DOING. THE SCHOOLS MAY BE DOING SOMETHING WE JUST DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT. SITTING, YOU JUST DON'T KNOW MEETING, YOU KNOW, SO. YEAH. YOU KNOW, AND IT IMPACTS, IT IMPACTS THE FAMILY, YOU KNOW, NOT JUST THE KIDS. RIGHT. BECAUSE THEN YOU'VE GOT PARENTS WHO DON'T WANNA GO PICK THEIR KIDS UP BECAUSE YOU KNOW, THEY'RE AFRAID AND YEAH. YEAH. THE TRICK, LIKE YOU SAID, THE TRICKLE DOWN EFFECT IS, YEAH. I MEAN, WE DON'T NECESSARILY KNOW. I MEAN, AND YOU DON'T KNOW. AND IT IMPACTS JUST EVERY DAY THING. LIKE, I AM NOW STARTING TO CARRY MY PASSPORT WITH ME AND I NORMALLY NEVER CARRY IT WITH ME. MM-HMM . BUT, YOU KNOW, THINGS ARE LIKE THAT. I MEAN, THIS IS A LEGITIMATE FEAR WHEN YOU ARE MM-HMM . WITH ALL THE STUFF THAT'S HAPPENING. SO THE, UM, HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TRACKS A LOT ON THEIR PAGE. THEIR, UM, I CAN'T REMEMBER IF IT'S THE LINKEDIN, I THINK IT'S THEIR LINKEDIN PAGE, JUST PRESENCE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN THE COMMUNITY. SO THAT'S A GOOD CONNECT TO KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING AROUND US ALSO, BUT I GUESS WE WILL MAKE A RECOMMENDATION. MM-HMM . MIA STARTED LEADING THAT RECOMMENDATION FOR CITY COUNCIL TO MAKE AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OR REC A RESOLUTION. SO I'LL LET YOU MAKE THAT RECOMMENDATION. , FINISH YOUR RECOMMENDATION SO WE CAN GO IT, THIS RECOMMENDATION TO, UM, HAVE JEFFREY GET WITH TONY AND THAT, UH, LOOK INTO CREATING A RESOLUTION SIMILAR TO THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD. SOMETHING THAT WOULD, UM, HELP OUR RESIDENTS WITH THIS CRISIS. I MM-HMM . IS THAT YEAH. . SO THEN WE WILL BE MAKING THE RECOMMENDATION AS A COMMISSION TO THE CITY TO MAKE RIGHT A RESOLUTION TO ADDRESS. YEAH. YEAH. THE PRESENCE OF ICE, WHAT YOLANDA SAID. YEAH. . SO WE HAVE SINCE AS A COMMISSION, WE HAVE TO TAKE A VOTE. SO ALL THOSE MAKE A MOTION. YEAH, NO, I WAS ABOUT TO, I WAS DO FOR YOU. I WAS GONNA A MOTION. UM, IT IS THE MO THERE IS A MOTION NOW ON THE FLOOR. WE'LL NOW MOVE TO VOTE. UH, THE MOTION IS TO HAVE THE CULTURAL AND DIVERSITY COMMISSION, UM, PROPOSE A RESOLUTION TO CITY COUNCIL THAT THEY WOULD HAVE ONE, UH, PUBLICLY PUBLISHED, SIMILAR TO WHAT SPRINGFIELD HAS DONE. UH, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF MOVING FORWARD WITH PROPOSING THAT RESOLUTION TO CITY COUNCIL. SAY, AYE. AYE. AYE. ALL THOSE OPPOSED, NAY. ANY ABSTENTIONS, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, THE AYES HAVE IT. WE WILL THEN MOVE FORWARD TO MAKING THAT, UM, PROPOSAL TO CITY COUNCIL FOR THEIR RESOLUTION. UM, AND IF SOMEONE CAN GIVE ME THAT WORDING, I CAN HOPEFULLY GET THAT TAKEN CARE OF SOONER RATHER THAN LATER. ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS FOR THE GOOD DEAL? UM, YEAH, AS FAR, YOU KNOW, JUST ONE ADDITIONAL THING AS I WAS ON SPEAKING ABOUT THE, UM, ON THAT PROPOSAL KIND OF TAKES CARE OF THE, THE OVERALL GENERAL [01:30:01] PUBLIC. BUT I, I ALSO THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME TRAINING THAT WOULD ASSIST STUDENTS AT THEIR LEVEL, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK WE HAVE THAT ADULTS OR ADULTS MM-HMM . BUT THE, BUT THE STUDENTS WITHIN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM, IF THEY WERE TO ENCOUNTER THAT, UH, THAT MIGHT BE PDS JOB TO DO THAT TRAINING, HOW, HOW TO BEHAVE. A LOT OF THE ENCOUNTERS OR THE NEGATIVE IMPACT OF THESE ENCOUNTERS ARE BASED ON BEHAVIORS AND NOT UNDERSTANDING WHO'S WHO AND WHAT'S WHAT. ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT TRAINING SPECIFICALLY REGARDING THE ICE SITUATION PRESENCE, OR WHAT KIND OF TRAINING ARE YOU, IT'S KIND OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, KNOWING YOUR RIGHTS, YOU KNOW, THAT TYPE OF THING. BUT KNOWING HOW TO BEHAVE IN THESE ENVIRONMENTS WHEN THESE TYPES OF PEOPLE WERE AROUND, YOU KNOW, UM, OUR YOUNG PEOPLE AND, AND THEIR ADOLESCENTS WOULDN'T KNOW THAT. UM, SO SPECIFIC TRAINING NEEDS TO BE GIVEN TO THEM IN BLURPS, EITHER BY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION, BY TEACHERS, AND OR THE, UM, THE, UM, CITY'S POLICE DEPARTMENT ON REGULAR BASIS, WHATEVER THAT WOULD BE. SO WE TALKED ABOUT THIS IN JANUARY. I THINK DOING A KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. WE HAVE, UM, IN THE PAST, RUBEN, WE TRIED TO PARTNER WITH THE CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM TO DO SOMETHING THAT INTEGRATED, YOU KNOW, OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT WITH THE STUDENTS TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS LIKE THIS. I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENED. I THINK AT THE TIME, THE, UM, THE CITY, I MEAN, NOT THE CITY, THE SCHOOL SYSTEM, SOMETHING HAPPENED WHERE THEY WERE NOT AT THE TIME INTERESTED IN PARTNERING ON THAT. BUT WE WERE GOING TO REVISIT THIS. SO THINK NOW'S THE TIME TO DO IT. YEAH. SO NOW WE CAN DO THAT. I THINK ERIC WAS PLANNING FOR SOMETHING IN AUGUST, OR WAS THAT THE BASKETBALL? I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW. WE DIDN'T, WE DIDN'T, WE DIDN'T DISCUSS WHEN WE WERE GONNA DO THE KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. WE HAD THROWN AROUND LIKE A BUNCH OF DATES, BUT WE HADN'T BECAUSE I GAVE HIM THE NAMES OF THE PEOPLE THAT DID OURS AT WRIGHT STATE. SO I, YEAH. I FORWARDED THE ONES FROM, UM, SINCLAIR ALSO. I JUST DIDN'T KNOW IF WE HAD PICKED A DATE ON THAT OR WE WERE THINKING ABOUT THE FALL OR, YEAH, I THINK WE HAD SAID SOMETHING ABOUT LIKE, AROUND THE TIME OF WHEN KIDS WERE GOING BACK, WHEN EVERYBODY WAS GOING BACK TO SCHOOL, BUT I, I'M NOT SURE IF IT WAS LIKE A, IF YOU SAID JULY, AUGUST, I KNOW THERE WERE, THERE WAS A LOT GOING, THERE WAS A FEW DATES GOING ON, BUT NOTHING WAS, UH, PUT IN STONE. UM, I KNOW ONE THING, GO AHEAD. I WANTED TO SAY, I KIND OF WANNA CIRCLE BACK, SORRY. MM-HMM . ON THE RECOMMENDATION OF HOW TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT MM-HMM . AND IF WE CAN FORMALLY MAKE A RECOMMENDATION THAT CITY COUNCIL REVIEW THAT AND DECIDE ON WHAT ARE THOSE KEY AREAS THAT THEY WANT TO BEGIN FOCUSING ON MM-HMM . TO HAVE THE CONVERSATION AND WE CAN MAKE AN THAT RECOMMENDATION AND RECOMMEND THAT THEY DISCUSS IT AT THEIR WORK SESSION. OKAY. WELL, ONCE WE HAVE OUR MEETING, I WAS GONNA SET A MEETING AND THEN I'LL TAKE THAT. I'LL SET A, I'LL SEE IF I CAN SET UP A MEETING WITH TONY AND THEN SAY, THIS IS WHAT WE CAME UP WITH. HOW DO WE MEET HALFWAY? THIS IS A BETTER WAY TO DO IT. AND THEN I'LL LET YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT HE SAYS FROM THAT MEETING. OKAY. BECAUSE I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO REVISIT OUR RECOMMENDATION THAT WE SUBMITTED AND WE CAN DO THIS NEXT ONE, BUT THIS IS JUST KIND OF TO THINK ABOUT IF WE'RE INTERESTED IN THIS. SO I MENTIONED THAT WE MADE THAT RECOMMENDATION TO HIRE SOMEONE. MM-HMM . I WOULD LIKE TO REVISIT THAT RECOMMENDATION AND REINTRODUCE THAT RECOMMENDATION. UM, AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IT WAS JUST A INCLUSION AND ENGAGEMENT CITY HIRE? UH, I CAN SEND YOU THE SPECIFICS. WE PROBABLY NEED TO REVISIT IT BECAUSE IT WAS FOCUSED SPECIFICALLY ON, I MEAN, WE PROBABLY NEED TO CHANGE SOME WORDING UP ON IT AND MAKE IT INCLUSION AND ENGAGEMENT FOCUSED. CAN YOU SEND THAT OUT AND THEN BY THE NEXT MEETING EVERYBODY CAN BRING THEIR UPDATES? MM-HMM . YEAH. SO THE POSITION THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, XENIA JUST CREATED A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT POSITION AND HIRED A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT CO COORDINATOR. I THINK CITY OF FAIRBORN IS HIRING A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DIRECTOR OR MANAGER. UM, SO OTHER CITIES AROUND US ABOUT SIMILAR SIZE TO US ARE STARTING TO DO THESE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT OFFICES WHERE THEIR MAIN FOCUS IS ALL THIS. AND THEY'RE CALLING IT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, HOWEVER YOU WANNA CALL IT. [01:35:01] 'CAUSE WE TRY TO STAY AWAY FROM YEAH. ANYTHING THAT'S NOT, YEAH. ILLUSION'S OKAY THOUGH. YEAH. YEAH. THEY GET TOUCHY ON THAT TOO. . BUT, UM, BUT I THINK, I THINK WE HAD, AND JEFFREY AND I HAD TALKED ABOUT THIS TOO, UM, THIS CITY IS GROWING AND, AND IF THESE OTHER CITIES, KETTERING, UM, XENIA, FAIRBORN, FAIRBORNE RIGHT NEXT TO US ARE CREATING THESE AREAS, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I THINK HUBER CAN SERIOUSLY TAKE A LOOK AT. 'CAUSE I THINK IT ALSO WILL HELP MAYBE EASE UP SOME OF THE LIAISONS ON THE BOARDS, YOU KNOW? SO, BECAUSE , OUR LIAISONS ALSO HAVE THEIR CITY JOBS THEY HAVE TO DO TOO. SO I THINK, UM, I, I AGREE WITH YOLANDA. I THINK IT'S TYING IN A GROWING CITY OF OUR SIZE TO HAVE A DEPARTMENT LIKE THIS OR A, OR A PERSON, YOU KNOW, THAT THEIR MAIN FOCUS IS JUST ON THIS. 'CAUSE IT'S A LOT OF WORK, JUST TO DO, LOOK AT ALL THAT STUFF, AND THEN TO HAVE TO SHARE WITH NEEDS ASSESSMENT, , OTHER THING. YEAH. SO WHAT YOU SAY, JEFFREY, YOU WANTED TO DO IT. THAT'S WHAT YOU DID. HE SAID, HE SAID SILENCE IS NOT GONNA LIE. YOU NEVER MET . UH, WAS THERE ANYTHING ELSE WITH THE GOOD OF THE ORDER? ANY OTHER TOPIC THAT NEEDED TO BE DISCUSSED ON TONIGHT? HAVING NONE. OH, I, I'M SORRY. GO AHEAD. OKAY. NEVERMIND. . YOU SURE? YEAH. I, OH, I WAS GONNA, I WAS JUST, I'M SORRY. I WAS JUST READING SOMETHING OF EMAIL FROM TONY ABOUT THE, UM, THE DIVERSITY TRAINING. THAT IT, BECAUSE IT WAS PREVIOUSLY RECOMMENDED BY THE DIVERSITY, THE RECOMMENDATION FOR ANNUAL DIVERSITY TRAINING FOR CITY EMPLOYEES WAS PREVIOUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL AND IMPLEMENTED BY CITY STAFF. SO IT NEVER HAS TO GO BACK TO COUNCIL AGAIN FOR DISCUSSION. OKAY. SO I JUST WANTED TO REENGAGE IT THEN. YEP. THAT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO GO BACK TO COUNCIL FOR ANYTHING. STARTED IT. YEP. SO WE CAN SCRATCH WHATEVER WE SAID ABOUT TAKING IT BACK TO COUNCIL. AND THAT WAS FOR DIVERSITY TRAINING. SO NOW WE JUST, WE JUST NEED THE, WE JUST NEED AN UPDATE THE PLAN, YEAH. MM-HMM . OKAY. OUR NEXT MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR APRIL 2ND, 2026. SAME LOCATION. THAT BEING SAID, MAY I GET A MOTION TO ADJOURN TODAY'S MEETING? FIRST? I NEED A SECOND. SECOND MEETING ADJOURNED. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.