* 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 [00:00:01] RIGHT, HERE WE GO. UH, ON THURSDAY, JUNE 4TH, 2026. I CALLED THE MEETING TO ORDER AT 6:09 PM UH, CAN WE GET A ROLL CALL, PLEASE? SURE. UH, MS. BLAIR PRESENT. MR. UH, CHA PRESENT? MS. KER? MR. PRESENT? MR. KNIGHT? PRESENT? MR. RICHARDSON? PRESENT. MS. STEVENS? PRESENT. MS. TROTTER? PRESENT. MR. OWENS PRESENT. UM, NEXT UP ON THE LINE IS APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA. DOES ANYBODY SEE WHERE I LEFT? WHERE ANYTHING HAS BEEN LEFT OFF? YOU NEED TO MODIFY ANYTHING. SO, ONE NOTE ABOUT THE AGENDA, UM, I NEGLECTED TO SEND OUT THE MINUTES. SO THEY WERE WRITTEN, UH, BUT WE FORGOT TO SEND THEM OUT. SO YOU'LL GET TWO SETS NEXT MONTH. OKAY. I DO HAVE, I, I DON'T SEE THE, UM, DIVERSITY TRAINING ON HERE. THAT IS, UH, AM I MESSING UP? IT'S JUST A CONVERSATION. IT'S THE OPEN TOPIC. UM, YOU SAID THE DIVERSITY TRAINING? MM-HMM . UM, WE DIDN'T PUT THAT ON BECAUSE WE WERE AWAITING A RESOLUTION FROM THE CITY. THAT'S JUST ALWAYS BEEN ON OUR, OUR MINUTES, UH, RESOLUTION FROM THE CITY ON THE DIVERSITY TRAINING. MM-HMM . WHY DO WE NEED A RESOLUTION FROM THE CITY? THAT'S WHAT WAS VOTED UPON BY THE COMMISSION. I WASN'T HERE LAST MONTH. BUTT. NO, IT WAS BEEN ONLY THE LAST THREE. IT'S UNDER. BUT WE'VE NEVER HAD TO VOTE ON A, UM, DOING A RESOLUTION. WE DIDN'T VOTE ON IT. WE JUST PUT IT ON THERE. BECAUSE I GUESS IT HASN'T BEEN RESOLVED OR IT HASN'T BEEN COMPLETED. CORRECT? CORRECT. IT HASN'T BEEN DONE YET. CAN WE ADD, UM, JUST TO, I GUESS TALK ABOUT IT? UM, I THINK IT'S ON THERE WHERE THAT IS. IT'S ON THE THING THAT COREY SAID. NOT ON THIS ONE. YEAH. BUT YEAH, IF YOU WANT TO VOTE TO ADD IT TO THE, UH, TO WHAT NEW BUSINESS, OLD BUSINESS YOU WANNA GO TO HAVE ADDITIVE OLD BUSINESS, BY ALL MEANS. YEAH. A MOVE THAT WE ADD DIVERSITY TRAINING . SEE WHY? CITY DIVERSITY TRAINING UNDER O BUSINESS. GIMME ONE SECOND HERE. UM, I COULDN'T HEAR, I'M SORRY. CAN YOU REPEAT? I COULDN'T HEAR THE, A LOT OF THE CONVERSATION. WHAT ARE WE ADDING? UH, THERE'S A MOTION TO, UM, ADD DIVERSITY TRAINING TO THE OLD BUSINESS AS A CONVERSATION TOPIC. OKAY. THANK YOU. OH, SECOND. MOTION HAS BEEN PROBABLY MOVED TO SECOND, RIGHT? WE'LL ADD THAT TO THE, YEAH, LET'S MOVE IT ALONG TO OUR PIECE. UH, WE'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THE, UH, AMENDMENT WILL, WHICH WILL BE ADDED TO, UM, OUR, OUR OUR NEXT MONTH'S MEETINGS. SO YOU'LL HAVE TWO MEETINGS, MINUTES TO APPROVE FOR OUR NEXT MEETINGS. UH, MOVING RIGHT ALONG. CITIZENS COMMENTS. HAVING NONE, SEEING NONE MOVING RIGHT ALONG. WE'LL GO RIGHT INTO OLD BUSINESS, OLD BUSINESS. FIRST UP IS JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION, UPDATE. OH, CAN WE, UM, ALONG WITH, IS IT MICHELLE? YES. UM, IT'S HARD TO HEAR DOWN HERE. CAN WE TALK A LITTLE CLOSER TO THE MICS? MM-HMM. OF COURSE I WILL. . WELL, IT'S HARD TO HEAR DOWN HERE TOO. OKAY. , I GOT YOU. I'M IN THE MIC NOW. HERE WE GO. LET'S, SO PULL THE MICS TORCH. JUST PULL IT. YEAH, LET'S PULL IT. STAND. SO OUR FIRST TOPIC, VOTE BUSINESSES ARE JUNE. TEEN CELEBRATION, UPDATE. OKAY. SO EVERYTHING IS, ERIC, YOU GOTTA SPEAK TO THE MIC, SIR. YEP. EVERYTHING IS, UH, ON SCHEDULE. WE'RE GOOD FOR THAT. EVERYBODY GOT THEIR SHIRTS? UM, I'LL BE DOING A FINAL CHECKLIST WITH MOLLY ON TOMORROW. WE HAVE, UH, 26 RETAIL VENDORS THAT'LL BE THERE. UH, WE HAVE OUR FOOD TRUCKS THAT'LL BE THERE. UH, ALL OF OUR ENTERTAINMENT, ALL THIS STUFF IS SET UP. WE GOT THE BOUNCE HOUSES, THINGS LIKE THAT. I'LL BE SENDING YOU GUYS OUT SOME, UM, TIMES WHEN WE NEED YOU TO SHOW UP TO BE THERE. UM, [00:05:01] BECAUSE WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE RETAIL VENDORS GET SET UP IN THEIR AREA. SO WE NEED SOME HELP. YOU KNOW, WE'LL HAVE A MAP TO SHOW YOU WHERE EVERYBODY'S GONNA BE. UM, AND THEN OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE TO HAVE THE FOOD TRUCKS OUT THERE FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT TO COME AND INSPECT AND TAKE A LOOK AT THOSE AS WELL. UM, THEN WE'LL HAVE LEE'S, WHICH IS OUR FOOD SPONSOR FOR VOLUNTEERS AND OUR ARTISTS. SO THEY'LL BE SETTING UP, UH, FOOD IN THE BACK OF THE STAGE, JUST THERE FOR FOLKS TO HAVE THAT THERE. AND, UH, WE'LL HAVE TO KIND OF MONITOR THE COOLER THERE. MAKE SURE WE GOT DRINKS AND STUFF LIKE THAT THERE WITH ICE. OKAY. SO, UM, I THINK THAT'S IT. LOOKING FORWARD TO A, UH, GREAT, UM, EVENT. UM, WHAT I WOULD SAY IS WHERE WE AT ALMOST TWO WEEKS OUT STILL, RIGHT? SO MAKE SURE THAT YOU GUYS ARE LETTING YOUR FAMILY, YOUR FRIENDS, KNOW THAT YOU'RE A PART OF THIS ORGANIZATION AND WE HAVE THIS EVENT COMING UP AND YOU'D LIKE TO PERSONALLY INVITE THEM TO BE OUT THERE. SOUND GOOD? EXCELLENT. ANY, ANY QUESTIONS? ANYBODY? MAY I JUST ADD, CHRISTIE ALWAYS GOT SOMETHING TO ADD. WELL, YOU KNOW, THE DML, BUT MOBILE WILL BE THERE AS WELL. AND THE JOBS AND FAMILY SERVICES MOBILE UNIT. YEP. SWEET. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? I JUST WANNA SAY, AND I'M NOT TOOTING ANYBODY'S HORN, BUT I'M VERY PROUD OF HOW THIS HAS COME TOGETHER. 26 ORGANIZATIONS AND RETAIL VENDORS. 10 OF THOSE ARE PEOPLE THAT I WENT TO THEIR BOOZE FACE-TO-FACE AT OTHER EVENTS AND INTRODUCE MYSELF AND PUT THE ASK OUT THERE FOR PARTICIPATION. SO I THINK, I'M NOT TRYING TO LECTURE, I'M SORRY. I HOPE YOU GUYS DON'T THINK I'M LECTURING, BUT THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE SAID FOR THAT, HONESTLY. AND GIVEN OUR PREVIOUS LIAISON, I KNEW THAT THERE WERE SOME THINGS THAT HE WAS GONNA DO FOR US, AND WE PICKED UP THE BALL AND FOLLOWED THROUGH ON TWO OF THOSE HUGE THINGS BEING JOBS AND FAMILY SERVICES AND THE WATER DEPARTMENT BEING A, UM, SPONSOR. WE SHOULD BE VERY, VERY PROUD OF OURSELVES. AND I HOPE YOU ALL CAN MAKE IT ON THE 20TH TO REPRESENT THE COMMISSION IN THE CITY, AND THAT WE CAN GO AROUND TO THE VENDORS AND INTRODUCE OURSELVES AND REALLY MAKE SOME SOLID CONNECTIONS GOING FORWARD. 'CAUSE I'M EXCITED. I MEAN, I'M SO EXCITED. AND I WANT YOU GUYS TO BE EXCITED TOO. AND SOME OF Y'ALL DON'T LOOK LIKE YOU'RE A BABY BECAUSE IT'S JUST BEEN A LONG DAY. I DON'T KNOW. ALL RIGHT. BUT, UM, YOU'LL SEE SOME, A LITTLE BIT OF DIVERSITY IN THE, THE VENDORS A A LITTLE BIT. UM, SO I, YOU KNOW, I HOPE WE'RE OKAY WITH THAT. AND, UM, YOU KNOW, ONE OF MY FAVORITE LITTLE ORGANIZATIONS WILL BE THERE WITH SOME KITTIES FOR ADOPTION, UH, BEAN TOES. I'M SO EXCITED. BUT THERE'S JUST GONNA BE SOME GREAT STUFF. SO I'M GONNA PUT TOGETHER, UM, LIKE I THINK I WAS TELLING YOU GUYS IN, YOU KNOW, UM, A LITTLE POST KIND OF HIGHLIGHTING. IT'LL BE REAL SHORT, BUT IT'S JUST GONNA HIGHLIGHT SO WE CAN GET IT OUT THERE ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND JUST BE SHARING IT. AND LET'S JUST HOPE THAT A TON OF PEOPLE COME AND REALLY JUST ENJOY THE DAY. I'M PROUD OF US. YEAH. GOOD JOB. GOOD JOB. TOOT YOUR OWN HORN, TUTU, , IF YOU ON OUR WILL. GREAT JOB. WE WORKED HARD. I THINK ERIC AND I WORKED HARD. BOTH OF YOU AND ERIC. BOTH, WE, WE REALLY APPRECIATE, YOU KNOW, YOUR EFFORTS. THE QUESTION I HAVE, UM, UH, TO THE MIC SO THEY CAN HEAR YOU IS THE, UM, ERIC, WHAT ARE OUR ASSIGNMENTS ON THAT DAY? ARE THERE ANY INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENTS THAT YOU TASK US TO DO ON THAT PARTICULAR DAY? I'M GLAD YOU ASKED THAT. YES. YES. I GOT ASSIGNMENTS FOR YOU, . YOU WANNA ASSIGN 'EM THE DAY OF? NO, I'M GONNA SIGN 'EM PRIOR. PRIOR TO. OKAY. YOU DO THAT IN THE TEXT THREAD? YEAH. YEAH. I GOT YOU. OKAY. VERY GOOD. VERY GOOD. I'VE GOT YOU COVERED. UM, ONE THING, COREY, IF YOU COULD HELP US WITH, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE GET THAT, UM, FLYER SITUATION WITH THE QR CODE AND THE VIDEO. YEP. OKAY. UM, IS THE VIDEO DONE? THE VIDEO? I, I BELIEVE THEY GOT IT DONE. I BELIEVE THEY GOT IT EDITED. I THINK THE QR CODES, 'CAUSE THEY KNOW THEY NEED TO KNOW WHERE TO LINK IT TO. GOTCHA. BUT I'LL FIGURE IT OUT HERE. OKAY. IN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. SO WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT THERE IS WE DID A VIDEO THAT TALKED ABOUT WHAT JUNETEENTH IS JUST A BASIC CONVERSATION OF WHAT [00:10:01] IT IS, UM, WHAT IT MEANS TO US AND WHAT I LIKE FOR US TO DO AS A COMMISSION. THIS IS A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR FOLKS THAT COME OUT TO OUR EVENT. I WANT YOU GUYS TO HAND THOSE OUT TO FOLKS, RIGHT. TELL 'EM WHAT WE ARE, TELL 'EM WHAT WE DO. OKAY. AND THEN HERE'S A SHORT VIDEO THAT THEY CAN LOOK AT AND THEN OBVIOUSLY BE AVAILABLE TO ANSWER ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS THAT THEY MAY HAVE. SHARE WITH THEM WHAT OUR VISION IS. IT'S ABOUT BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER. OKAY. SO TALK TO THEM ABOUT THAT. YOU CAN TALK TO 'EM ABOUT THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL THAT'S COMING UP. YOU COULD TALK TO 'EM ABOUT THE BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT THAT'S COMING UP. YOU KNOW, YOU GOT A COUPLE THINGS THAT AT YOUR, YOU KNOW, DISPOSAL THAT WE CAN MEET SOME FRIENDS HERE WITH. SAY WE SHOULD GET A SAFE SAVE TO DATE THING FOR THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL. I THINK BYRON, IS IT BYRON THAT WROTE TO SARAH? YEAH. AND THAT ASKED FOR THAT TO BE CREATED. SO WE SHOULD BE HAVING, WE SHOULD HAVE THAT BY THE JUNETEENTH AS WELL. SO, PERFECT. WEREN'T WE PUTTING THE VIDEO ON A FLYER WITH INFORMATION FROM KAREN? YES. AM I SUPPOSED TO? I'M SUPPOSED TO BE WORKING ON THAT. UM, ARE WE TALKING ABOUT LIKE AN EIGHT BY 11 AND A HALF? JUST, UH, LIKE A LITTLE POSTCARD. OKAY. A POSTCARD. BECAUSE I'M THINKING TO TAKE HER INFORMATION PLUS THE VIDEO, PUTTING IT LIKE IN A, LIKE A GOOGLE WORKSHEET AND THEN CREATING LIKE A BITLY FROM THERE AND THEN THAT'S, YOU KNOW, OR A QR CODE FROM THERE. AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT CAN, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING WILL BE IN ONE PLACE IF, IF THEY SCAN THE QR CODE. IS THAT WHAT YOU WERE THINKING? OKAY. UM, AARON, WHAT KIND OF LEAD TIME DO WE NEED TO HAVE THAT COMPLETE TO GET COPIES PRINTED FOR JUNETEENTH? YES. UM, YESTERDAY, RIGHT? TODAY SHOULD ALREADY NO LATER THAN WEDNESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. YEAH. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO I THINK IT WAS BECAUSE THE VIDEO'S DONE AND EDITED, THEY JUST NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOU WANNA DO WITH IT. SO, BUT WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT OFF LIKE OFFLINE. OKAY. OKAY. IS IT, UM, IS IT ON THE KEY ADS NOW? I BELIEVE SHE'S GOT IT ADDED. IT SHOULD BE THERE. UM, SARAH SENT ME A MESSAGE, I THINK YESTERDAY. I DIDN'T SEE IT WHEN I WENT DOWN THROUGH THERE YESTERDAY, BUT SHE SAID IT SHOULD BE THERE. ARE THEY, CAN THEY POST THAT? THE VIDEO ON THE CITY PAGE? HAVE WE TALKED ABOUT THAT? PROBABLY COULD HAVE TO GET WITH, JUST GET WITH AARON AND SEE WHAT WE NEED TO DO. SARAH'S ALREADY LOOKED AT THE VIDEO TO MAKE SURE IT'S IN COMPLIANCE AND STUFF LIKE THAT, SO MM-HMM . SHOULD BE ABLE TO, I THINK THAT WOULD BE GOOD. AND THE, UM, THEY HAVE THE, THE JUNETEENTH DAY AND CELEBRATION ON FRIDAY, THAT FRIDAY BEFORE THE 19TH, I THINK IT IS. AND SO THEY'VE BEEN PUBLICIZING OURS WITH THEIR STUFF AS WELL. WHO DID THAT? I THINK FAIRBORN IS ON THE 19TH TOO, SO I CAN ASK DEXTER WHO RUNS THEIRS TO PUSH OURS FOR THE 20TH, IF IT, IF THEIRS IS THE DAY AHEAD. THAT'S IT, COREY. THAT'S IT. THANK YOU. I'LL JUST WRITE DOWN WHAT EVERYBODY SAID. JUST GIMME ONE SECOND. UM, MOVING RIGHT ALONG. UM, MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL, CELEBRATION, UPDATE. UPDATE. SO, UH, ON MULTICULTURAL, AS MIA MENTIONED, WE REQUESTED FLYERS TO BE, UH, UPDATED WITH, UH, SARAH. AND THEY ALREADY CREATED THE LINKS FOR PEOPLE TO REGISTER FOOD, FOOD VENDORS AND, UH, RETAIL. AND, UM, SO THE FOOD VENDORS ARE A HUNDRED DOLLARS PER TRUCK. AND THEN, UH, THE RETAIL IS 50. AND THEN WE THINKING TO, UH, LET PEOPLE WHO'S GONNA HAVE PERFORMERS OVER THERE, UH, LIKE DANCERS OR, UH, SINGERS, WHATEVER, UH, IF THEY'RE GONNA PERFORM, WE DON'T CHARGE THEM. SO THAT KIND OF, YOU KNOW, HELPS THEM OUT. AND, UH, SINCE WE'RE NOT PAYING FOR THEIR PERFORMANCE AS WELL, SO IT JUST KIND OF, THEY PROVIDE THAT TO US. SO SOME COUNTRIES, UH, WILL DO THAT. SO I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE TO VOTE ON THAT OR NOT TO, UH, APPROVE NOT CHARGING THE COUNTRIES THAT'S GONNA PERFORM. UH, OTHER THAN THAT, WE'RE JUST, WE SENT OUT, OUT, UH, INVITATIONS TO, UH, TO THE LIST WE HAD FROM LAST YEAR. AND THERE MIGHT BE A FEW MORE, UH, ADDITIONS ON THERE, BUT, UH, [00:15:01] IT'S IN THE PROCESS BEING WORKED ON. SO YOU'RE FEELING PRETTY OPTIMISTIC. YEAH. , THERE WILL BE SOME JUNETEENTH VENDORS THAT HAVE EXPRESSED INTEREST IN ALSO PARTICIPATING IN THE, UM, MULTICULTURAL FEST. YEAH, THAT WOULD BE AWESOME. SO WE'LL GET THE, UM, WE'LL GET THAT CARD HOPEFULLY BY JUNETEENTH SO WE CAN, UM, WE CAN PASS THAT. IF NOT, WE CAN GET A LETTER OR SOMETHING THAT WE CAN GIVE TO THE VENDORS AND SAY, HEY, IF YOU WANNA DO THIS, WE CAN, YOU KNOW, JUST SOMETHING THAT WE CAN PRINT JUST FOR VENDOR WISE. SO WE WILL, OR I'D BE HAPPY TO FOLLOW UP FACE TO FACE WITH THEM. YEAH. YOU KNOW, THAT DAY, YOU KNOW, UM, THERE'S INFORMATION I HAVE. UM, WE JUST NEED TO KNOW WHEN REGISTRATION WILL OPEN UP, UP. SO, UH, I BELIEVE THE REGISTRATION SHOULD BE OPEN ALREADY. OH, OKAY. BECAUSE, UH, MOLLY WAS WORKING ON THAT AND SHE SENT ME THE LINKS. SO, UH, WHAT, UH, SARAH IS GONNA DO IS, UH, SHE'S GONNA CREATE A BARCODE, UH, SCANNER FOR THOSE LINKS FOR THE RETAIL AND THE FOOD VENDORS. WE'LL PUT, PUT IT ON THE FLYER AND, UM, JUST WE COULD PASS THAT AROUND ON JUNETEENTH AND ASK THEM TO, UH, SCAN AND REGISTER RIGHT IN THERE. SO YEAH, WE'LL HAVE THE DATE. YEAH. AND I KNOW, UM, BYRON'S BEEN REACHING OUT TO DIFFERENT FOLKS THAT HE'S, HE'S TALKED ABOUT. AND SO I THINK WE'RE, IT'S A GOOD START. WE JUST HAVE TO GET A MEETING TOGETHER AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON. YEAH. TASK GROUP. WE CAN, UH, CREATE A TASK GROUP. UH, CURRENTLY IT'S, UH, MYSELF, MIA, AND, UH, BYRAM. IF ANYBODY ELSE WANTS TO ADD ON, WE CAN, UH, GET EVERYBODY AND, UH, SET ANOTHER MEETING TO GO OVER THE DETAILS. DO WE HAVE ANY PERFORMERS LINED UP AS OF RIGHT NOW? SO, UH, CURRENTLY WE HAVE JUST ONE FOR US. AND ALSO, UH, I FORGOT TO MENTION, UM, LAST YEAR WE HAD, UH, DC DC I THINK AS A, UM, BAND. SO WE CAN MAKE A LITTLE CHANGE THIS YEAR. AND, UH, IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANYBODY ELSE IN MIND THAT WE CAN USE IN A DIFFERENT NATURE. SO, UH, THE BIG BAND THAT WE PAY, I THINK WE ONLY PAID BCDC AND, UM, SALSA. YEP. DAYTON SALSA PROJECT WERE THE TWO BANDS THAT WE PAID LAST YEAR. EVERYBODY ELSE WAS, OR WE PAID THEM SMALL AMOUNT. MOST THEY WERE JUST ONLY PERFORMING. WE, WE PAID THEM OTHER THAN ONES, LIKE YOU SAID, LAST YEAR, WE DIDN'T PAY EVERYBODY. WE JUST PAID. YEAH. SO ARE WE LOOKING FOR LIKE, THE DANCE ACTS, CULTURAL ACTS, MUSICIANS, ANY, ANYTHING THAT'S CULTURAL? SO ANY, IT DOESN'T, I MEAN, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE, IT COULD BE FROM ANY CULTURE. OKAY. SO I WILL, UM, GO THROUGH SOME, SOME, UH, SOME OF MY CONTEXT, LIKE THROUGH THE LIBRARY THAT I KNOW OF, AND I'LL DO SOME REACHING OUT. UM, LET'S SEE IF I CAN PLANT ANY SEEDS TO KIND OF HELP THAT WAY. SO WE JUST GOT IT OPEN, THE LINK'S OPEN. SO, AND, UM, I KNOW WE'VE BEEN REACHING OUT TO THE PEOPLE FROM LAST YEAR MM-HMM . THAT PERFORMED AND PEOPLE THAT WE KNOW, LIKE, I HAVE A CALL OUT TO THE KING CAN, THE FRENCH, THE, NOT THE FRENCH, THE LEBANESE MM-HMM . DANCE GROUPS. I'M WAITING TO HEAR BACK FROM THEM. SO WE'RE JUST, UH, LIKE THAT'S WHAT WE'RE WAITING. IT'S LIKE, 'CAUSE THE LINKS JUST GOT OPEN TO REGISTER, SO OKAY. REGISTER FOR THE MUSIC AND, AND PERFORMER. OH, AND PERFORMER. OKAY. ALRIGHT. SO WE DON'T NEED TO, WE JUST NEED TO DIRECT THEM TO THE LINK IF THEY'RE INTERESTED. YES. RIGHT. OKAY. IT SHOULD BE ON, I DIDN'T CHECK THE WEB, BUT IT SHOULD BE ON WHERE YEAH. EVERYBODY REGISTERS FOR ANY OF THE EVENTS. YEP. SAME, SAME WITH JUNETEENTH AND ALL THE OTHER EVENTS. IT WAS JUST NOT OPEN THERE, BUT NOW IT SHOULD BE OPEN. IT, IT IS. IF YOU GUYS, UH, I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE TO VOTE NOT CHARGING PEOPLE THAT'S GOING PERFORM OVER THERE AND, UM, KEEPING EVERYTHING ELSE THE SAME. A HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR FOOD AND 50 FOR VENDORS. AND, UH, IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANYBODY IN MIND AS A BAND THAT WE CAN USE IN A MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL, UH, WE STILL NEED THAT. AND THEN, UM, WE JUST NEED TO CREATE A TASK GROUP. SO IF ANYBODY INTERESTED, I WOULD LIKE TO BE PART OF IT, EXPAND IT MORE THAN JUST THE THREE OF US. OKAY. ONE MORE QUESTION ON THAT, ON THE PERFORMANCE LINK. HOW DOES THAT WORK? ARE YOU, IS THIS A PAID THING? ARE YOU, ARE YOU, WELL, I MEAN, WHAT'S HAPPENING WHEN, WHEN THEY GO TO THE LINK? I THINK, UH, THERE'S ONLY TWO LINKS FOR FOOD AND, UH, RETAIL. BUT, UH, WHEN [00:20:01] THEY, WHEN THEY SIGN UP WITH THEIR COUNTRY, AND THEN THERE, THERE SHOULD BE A SLOT WHERE IT ASKS THEM IF THEY'RE GONNA PERFORM OR NOT. AND THEN, UH, THAT WILL, UH, THAT WAY WE'RE GONNA KNOW IF WE'RE GONNA CHARGE THEM OR NOT. OKAY. SO SOMEBODY'S GOTTA MAKE A DECISION ON THAT. YES. AT SOME POINT. IS THERE GENERIC, UM, UH, I'M TRYING TO PULL IT UP RIGHT NOW. E THAT YOU'RE PAYING THEM. IF I'M TALKING TO SOMEBODY, IT'S, UH, IT'S 50 FOR IF THEY'RE JUST PERFORMING. OKAY. SO IT'S 50, UM, FOR RETAIL VENDORS AND JUST PERFORMING WELL, NO, WE'RE NOT, WE DON'T PAY THE VENDORS. THEY DON'T HAVE TO PAY TO, TO PERFORM. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT, I THINK WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT IN LIEU OF THE FEE FOR RETAIL OR FOOD IS IF THEY'RE GONNA PERFORM AS WELL AS HAVING A FOOD AND A VENDOR BOOTH. WE, WE DO BECAUSE THEY'RE PERFORMING. WE'RE GOING TO SAY, WE ARE NOT GONNA CHARGE YOU A VENDOR OR A FOOD FEE. OKAY. 'CAUSE YOU DECIDED TO PERFORM SINCE THAT WAY WE DON'T HAVE TO PAY YOU FOR PERFORMANCE. SO, OKAY. SO THE BIG, THE BIGGER ACTS, OR WHAT BIGGER ACTS WILL CHARGE, THEY CHARGE A FEE TO PERFORM. RIGHT. WHO'S DOING BCDC AND, UM, DAYTON SALSA PROJECT, WERE ABOUT A COUPLE THOUSAND EACH, SO WE PAID THEM TO OKAY. TO ACTUALLY PERFORM. OKAY. AND THAT'S DONE UP FRONT. THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT THEY'RE GOING TO THE WEBSITE AND NO, THEY'RE NOT GONNA SIGN IT. THAT'S US APPROACHING THEM AND CREATING A CONTRACT'S. THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO CLEAR UP. OKAY. AND THAT'S FOR PERFORMERS. IF THEY, IF THEY'RE WANTING A FEE, WE'LL HAVE TO GET WITH AARON AND GET A CONTRACT. SO YOU JUST GOT A WAIVER OF A FEE IF THEY PERFORM RIGHT. IF THEY'RE PART OF A VENDOR SITUATION. I GOT YOU. SO A LOT OF OUR PERFORMERS WERE FREE BECAUSE THEY DO IT AS PART OF THEIR CULTURAL GROUP. SO YEAH. SO, UH, ACTUALLY THERE IS A SEPARATE LINK WHO'S GONNA PERFORM AS A, YEAH, IT SAYS ENTERTAINMENT STAGE. SO THERE'S THREE DIFFERENT LINKS. OKAY. THERE'S BUSINESS VENDOR, CULTURAL VENDOR, AND INTERNET ENTERTAINMENT. SO WE'LL HAVE THREE DIFFERENT BARCODE SCANNERS. UH, IF, IF ANYBODY, LIKE WE, UH, LAST YEAR WE HAD BELLY DANCERS. THEY DIDN'T HAVE A FOOD STAND OR A RETAIL MM-HMM . UH, THEY JUST DANCED. SO THEY, THEY CAME THERE AND THEY WERE ONLY THE ENTERTAINMENT. SO THAT'S WHY THEY'RE SEPARATE LENGTHS FOR E EVERY, AND WE ONLY PAID THEM LIKE A HUNDRED SOMETHING JUST, YEAH. AND THE SAME THING WITH THE BLUE OWL. THE HAWAIIAN DANCERS. THE GUAM GROUP. YEAH. YEAH. THEY DIDN'T HAVE A TABLE. THEY JUST PERFORMED. IF, IF I MAY. AND I, I'M SORRY TO, TO BE THIS PERSON ASKING THIS. UM, IT'S NO SLIGHT AT ALL. OKAY. BUT I, I JUST, I REMEMBER MONTHS AGO THERE WAS DISCUSSION OF THIS, THIS, THIS, UH, FESTIVAL, AND I VOLUNTEERED MYSELF TO BE ON THE TASK GROUP. UM, BUT NOW WE'RE THREE MONTHS OUT IN A COUPLE DAYS. AND, UM, I, I GUESS I'M JUST A LITTLE CONFUSED OR LOST MAYBE IN TERMS OF WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED, BECAUSE HOW ARE WE GONNA PULL OFF WHAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE THE BIGGEST EVENT FOR US? OUR, OUR KEYNOTE EVENT IN THREE, THREE MONTHS. WE DID LAST WITH TWO, OR WITH TWO EVENTS IN BETWEEN THAT WE, I MEAN, WE, WE DID THIS TIMEFRAME LAST YEAR, THE SAME THING. WE HAD A REALLY SUCCESSFUL EVENT LAST YEAR. WE HAVE PLENTY OF VENDORS. UM, ABRAHAM AND BYRON ARE VERY MUCH CONNECTED TO DFI, WHICH IS OUR LARGEST, AT THE LARGEST OR CON, UM, WHAT DO YOU CALL THE CONSENTED COLLABORATIVE GROUP OF ALL OUR CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS THAT'S IN THIS AREA AND AROUND DAYTON AND AROUND CINCINNATI AND AREA. SO WE HAVE THOSE CONNECTIONS AND WE HAVE A LOT OF THOSE COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS. IT'S JUST A MATTER OF GETTING THEM TO OFFICIALLY SIGN UP. THEY'VE ALL VERBALLY SAID THEY WOULD. IT'S JUST TO GET 'EM TO OFFICIALLY SIGN UP. AND THAT WAS A PUSH WE HAD LAST YEAR. AND THAT COULD BE THE GROUPS. THE GROUPS. THEY'RE NOTORIOUSLY DOING CULTURAL EVENTS AROUND THIS AREA. THEY'RE NOTORIOUSLY OF, WE PROMISED TO DO IT AND THEY'LL SHOW UP AND DO IT. IT'S JUST GETTING THEM TO OFFICIALLY SIGN AND IT W WE JUST HAVE TO GET 'EM TO DO THAT. WE JUST GOT THOSE LI THE LINKS LIVE, SO WE JUST HAVE TO GET THEM NOW TO OFFICIALLY SIGN SO WE CAN HAVE THAT ON IT AS AN OFFICIAL ACCOUNT. BUT WE DID ABOUT THIS TIMEFRAME, TIMEFRAME LAST YEAR AS WELL. SO, I MEAN, IT WE'LL, WE'LL GET THOSE PEOPLE IN IN THERE. IT'S JUST A MATTER OF GETTING THEM TO OFFICIALLY. YEAH. I MEAN, THEY VERBALLY HAVE SAID, SO IT'S JUST NOW GETTING THEM TO ACTUALLY DO IT. SO, BUT THEY SHOWED UP LAST YEAR. SO, BUT IT'S, IT'S THE CULTURE OF THESE GROUPS. AND I, I WORKED WITH THESE GROUPS FOR MANY, MANY YEARS AND THIS IS JUST HOW THEY'VE ALWAYS, THEY ALWAYS HAVE BEEN. THEY'RE, THEY'RE USUALLY, YOU HAVE TO [00:25:01] PUSH 'EM TO ACTUALLY GIVE THEM, TO OFFICIALLY SIGN UP FOR THINGS. SO, BUT THEY'RE WORKING ON IT. UM, I'VE TALKED TO THEM. WE HAVEN'T MET IN THE TASK FORCE. SO YOU, WE, YOU HAVEN'T BEEN LIKE SLIGHTED AND NOT MET. WE HAVEN'T MET YET. SO WE'RE, WE HAVE TO START GETTING THAT SET UP. AND WE TALKED ABOUT THAT'S GONNA BE AGAIN, ON THE CALENDAR, SO, AH, YEAH. UH, TO YOUR POINT, CHRISTIE, I DO REMEMBER YOU SAID YOU WANTED TO BE IN THE TASK GROUP, BUT SINCE, UH, SINCE THEN AND UNTIL NOW, THE TASK GROUP WAS NEVER CREATED. 'CAUSE UH, BYRON WAS, UH, NOT IN THE, UH, MEETING PRIOR. I WAS WAITING AND, UH, SOMETIME, UH, MIA WAS NOT HERE. SO KIND OF SKIPPED THOSE DAYS OUT. BUT, UM, I'M SURE THE EVENT IS GONNA BE SUCCESSFUL. AND WE HAVE PLENTY OF TIME UNTIL SEPTEMBER AND EVERYTHING I'VE MENTIONED WILL HAPPEN. I JUST, UH, THE QUESTION IS MOVING FORWARD NOW, IN NEXT THREE MONTHS, IF ANYBODY WOULD LIKE TO HELP OUT AND, UH, REACH OUT TO PEOPLE AS YOU DID AT THE OTHER FESTIVAL GATHERED 10, UH, VENDORS FROM, UH, HOW MANY, HOW LONG AGO WAS THAT? LIKE THREE WEEKS AGO, THAT FESTIVAL, YOU WERE ABLE TO GATHER 10 EXTRA VENDORS FOR JUNETEENTH. I MEAN, WE HAVE THREE MONTHS UNTIL THE SEPTEMBER. SO I THINK WE CAN GATHER, EVEN STARTING FROM TODAY'S SCRATCH IN ENOUGH VENDORS IN FOOD TRUCKS. SO I JUST PUT IN SOME EFFORT, BUT IT'S NOT A ONE MAN JOB. SO. YEAH. I REMEMBER LAST YEAR WE WERE, WE, WE FELT THE SAME WAY, BUT IT WENT OFF WITHOUT A HITCH. AND IT WAS, I FELT IT WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL IN MY HUMBLE OPINION, BUT I RECOGNIZE YOUR CONCERN RIGHT NOW. ONE OF THE THINGS WE NEEDED LAST MINUTE WAS A DJ. DO WE STILL NEED THAT? SO DO WE NEED A DJ? HOW ARE WE, UM, DO WE LIKE THAT OR DO WE WANNA, WELL, BECAUSE JEFFREY MC, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO DECIDE SINCE HE'S NOT THERE ON HOW WE'RE GONNA DO THE MCING AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF. UM, I THOUGHT THE DJ LAST YEAR DID, I DON'T REMEMBER. DID A GOOD JOB. HE KEPT UP WITH THE ACTS. WELL, YEAH, I GOT THE CALL AT THE LAST MINUTE TO FIND THAT DJ. THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING . SO IF I'M ON THE HOOK FOR THAT, I'D RATHER BE ON THE HOOK TODAY. I WOULD GO, I WOULD GO INSTEAD OF THE NIGHT BEFORE. WOULD I GO FOR, LET'S KEEP HIM IF HE'S WILLING TO DO OKAY THIS YEAR. I'M, I'M ALL FOR KEEPING HIM. HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING THAT WOULD SAY WE SHOULDN'T HIRE HIM BACK. I THINK HE DID A GOOD JOB AND HE WOULD BE FAMILIAR WITH THE EVENT AND THE SETUP. AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE, I WOULD, I WOULD GO FOR KEEPING, KEEPING THE DJ. WELL, THE LAST TWO DJS WE'VE HAD ARE FAMILIAR WITH THAT EVENT. RIGHT. SO I DON'T NOT REMEMBER THAT. OKAY. SO AT THIS POINT YOU'RE GONNA PROCURE THOSE DJ OR PROCURE DJ. YES. THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S OKAY. YEAH. YEAH. GARY. GOOD. A CALL. VERY GOOD. OKAY. ANYTHING ELSE ON THE MULTICULTURAL FEST FOR THE UPDATE? JUST YOU ASKED ABOUT THE SAVE TO DATE, UH, POSTCARD. THE PROOF IS ON MY DESK. UH, SO I'LL SEND IT OUT. OKAY. UH, MOVING RIGHT ALONG, UH, PARADES BEFORE WE GET TO THAT, I KNOW WE, SOMETIMES WE GET INTO THESE SAVE THE DATE EVENTS OR WHATEVER, UM, AND THEN IT'S DIFFICULT TO GET IT FLIPPED FROM A SAVE THE DATE TO AN ACTUAL FLYER. WE ALREADY KNOW WHAT THE DATE IS. LET'S JUST GO WITH THE DATE. THIS IS THE DATE. THIS IS WHAT WE GOT. WE DON'T NEED TO SAVE THE DATE FLYER OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. THIS IS THE DATE AND IT WOULD GO FORWARD WITH IT. 'CAUSE IT'S TOO MUCH OF A HASSLE TO TRY TO GET THAT CHANGE AS YOU NOW STARTING TO GET CLOSER TO THE EVENT. I MEAN, I'M FINE. I MEAN, WE KNOW THE DATE, WE KNOW THE TIME. LET'S JUST, WE JUST DON'T HAVE, LIKE WHAT WOULD BE THE DETAILS THOUGH? IS IT THE SAME DATE ON THE FLYER SPONSORS? AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S ON THERE, BUT IT'S ON OUR JUNETEENTH ONE. RIGHT. SO THAT'S WHAT WE GOT. RIGHT. SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE RUNNING WITH. SO NO, HE SAID, HE SAID IT WAS ON HIS DESK. THAT'S WHY I WAS ASKING IT JUST, UM, SEPTEMBER 12TH. YEAH. NO, IT SAVED THE DATE. LIKE ACTUALLY, OH, I DON'T THINK IT ACTUALLY SAYS 70 DATE. I THINK IT'S AN ADVERTISING FLYER. SARAH GAVE IT TO ME RIGHT AS SHE WAS LEAVING AND OKAY. SO I HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO REALLY DIGEST IT TO PASS OUT INTO THE PARADE. AND AT JUNE, LIKE WE DID LAST YEAR, YEAH. WHEN WE HAD THE 4TH OF JULY PARADE, WE PASSED THEM OUT TO FOLKS. OKAY. SO THAT'S WHAT, UM, I DON'T THINK IT SAID SAVE TO DATE LAST YEAR EITHER. IT WAS JUST A HALF SHEET FLYER SAYING THIS IS THE EVENT. THIS IS, SAY IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN LIKE YOUR VENDOR AND STUFF, HERE'S THE, THE INFORMATION. SO YEAH. BUT I THINK WE KEEP THE SAME GRAPHIC. WE DIDN'T CHANGE THE GRAPHIC. I THINK IT'S THE SAME GRAPHIC FOR THE POSTCARD AND WHAT WE USE FOR THE FINAL ADVERTISING PRIOR TO THE EVENT. YEP. I HAVE THE , BUT I GET WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, ERIC, IF WE SWITCH 'EM AROUND DIFFERENT THINGS, THEN [00:30:01] IT LOOKS DIFFERENT. BUT I THINK, I THINK SARAH KEPT IT THE SAME. IF I, IF I'M UNDERSTANDING THAT'S WHAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE, IS TO KEEP IT UNIFORM ALONG. OKAY. UM, ANYTHING ELSE FOR THE DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT. UH, PARADES UPDATE JULY 4TH AND HOLIDAY OR DECEMBER. LET SEE. ANY UPDATES OR ANYTHING WE NEED TO BE MADE AWARE OF? WELL, WE VOTED LAST MONTH TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PARADE AND TO HAVE A TABLE AT THE, UM, STAR SPANGLED EVENT. MM-HMM . SO I CREATED A SIGNUP SHEET AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE AS OF TODAY WHERE ANYBODY IS WITH BEING ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN EITHER OR BOTH OF THOSE THINGS. SO I JUST PRINTED IT OUT AND I BROUGHT IT TODAY. UM, I'M WILLING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE STAR SPANGLED EVENT AT THOMAS CLOUD, BUT I'M NOT GONNA SIT AT THE TABLE BY MYSELF. UM, I UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS A HOLIDAY AND THAT WE HAVE FAMILIES AND FRIENDS, UM, THAT WE WANNA SPEND THE DAY WITH. UM, SO IT'S GONNA COME DOWN TO EITHER, I MEAN, DEPENDING ON HOW MANY OF YOU SIGN UP TODAY, IT'S JUST GOING TO EITHER BE, WE EITHER JUST DO THE PARADE OR WE'LL DO THE TABLE FOR AS LONG AS WE CAN ON THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT AFTERNOON INTO THAT EVENING. OKAY. UM, SO I'LL PASS IT DOWN IF YOU'RE WILLING TO COMMIT TODAY. IS THAT FOR BOTH OF 'EM OR JUST FOR YEAH, IT'S FOR BOTH. BOTH. OKAY. UM, IF YOU'RE WILLING TO COMMIT TODAY, UM, IF WE'RE GONNA CANCEL BEING AT THE STAR SPANGLED EVENT, THOUGH, I WOULD RATHER LIKE TO LET SARAH SARAH FORSYTH KNOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. UM, SO SHE CAN, YOU KNOW, ACCOMMODATE THAT SPACE. UM, IN TERMS OF THE PARADE, I MEAN, WE'RE A MONTH OUT. I GUESS WE NEED TO DECIDE, JUST, YOU KNOW, DO WE WANNA DO WHAT WE DID LAST YEAR? I KNOW, ABRAM, YOU SAID, YOU KNOW, WE CAN GET THE TRAILER AND THE TRUCK, CORRECT? YES. OKAY. UM, DO WE WANT TO, UM, DO ANY DECORATIONS? DO WE JUST WANNA DO HANDING OUT FLYERS IN CANDY LIKE WE DID LAST YEAR? UM, DO WE EVEN, YOU KNOW, IS THE TRAILER EVEN NECESSARY? YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE NOT GONNA DO ANYTHING OTHER THAN WALK, YOU KNOW, THE ROUTE. I MEAN, SO THESE ARE JUST SOME THINGS TO KIND OF CONSIDER, I GUESS. UM, ANYBODY HAVE ANY THOUGHTS? IT WAS A BIG TRAILER FOR JUST LIKE SIX OF US ON THE TRAILER . SO I THINK IF WE'RE GONNA DO THE TRUCK, I LIKE TO SEE US DECORATE AT SOME A LITTLE BIT MORE. YEAH. A LITTLE BIT MORE. SO IF WE COULD DO A TRUCK, WE COULD DECORATE IT WITH STREAMERS. WE HAVE OUR BIG SIGN THAT WE HAD MADE LAST YEAR. I THINK WE PUT THAT ON ONE ON THE FRONT OF THE TRUCK. YEP. YEAH. UM, WE COULD MAYBE EVEN DO SOME BALLOONS. I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW IF, IF TAPE WOULD BE APPROPRIATE TO USE, YOU KNOW, THESE KINDS OF THINGS. I DON'T DUCT TAPE. I DUNNO. I THINK IT WAS A, WE, WE, WE TRIED TO DO ZIP TIES AND STUFF LAST YEAR. I THINK. IT WASN'T LIKE WHEN WE TRIED TO PUT SOME OF THAT STUFF UP. I THINK LIKE DUCT TAPE OR SOMETHING STRONG LIKE GORILLA TAPE OR SOMETHING WOULD BE BETTER BECAUSE THE, THE ZIP TIES, THERE WASN'T SPACES FOR US TO HOOK A LOT OF THINGS TO, WHICH IS WHY WE PUT THAT SIGN ON FRONT OF THE TRUCK. 'CAUSE IT WAS THE ONLY PLACE THAT WE COULD PUT LIKE, USE THE ZIP TIES. I FEEL LIKE THERE'S ROPES OR SOMETHING. YES, BUNGEES. YEAH. WE USED A BUNGEE THING. BUT I THINK, UM, BUT I THINK, YEAH, I THINK I LIKE TO SEE LIKE, IF WE PUT BUNTING ON THE SIDE, YOU KNOW, OR SOMETHING THAT MAKES IT, WELL THAT'S WHAT WE HAD LAST YEAR TOO. THE, YOU KNOW, THOSE, UH, UH, THE, THE, UH, SHINY DECORATIONS, WELL, I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S THAT CALLED? THEY PUT IT AROUND CHRISTMAS TREES USUALLY. AND SO LIKE TINSEL? YEAH. SO WE, WE HAD THAT ALL, UH, AROUND THE TRAILER ON THE SIDES OF IT. YEAH. REMEMBER. SO WE CAN, WE CAN GET SOMETHING LIKE THAT. LIKE, UH, I WAS THINKING IF WE HAD SOMETHING LIKE THIS BIG, LIKE FLAGS, YOU KNOW, THAT LIKE A SKIRT WE CAN PUT ON THE TRAILER THAT WILL LOOK A LOT BETTER. UH, AND THEN, LIKE YOU SAID, BALLOONS, AMERICAN FLAG BALLOONS AND YEAH. [00:35:01] 'CAUSE IF WE'RE GONNA GET 'EM, WE CAN ORDER LIKE OFF OF AMAZON AND STUFF NOW AND GET 'EM IN TIME FOR YEAH. SO WE CAN, WE CAN, UH, I THINK WHAT WE'RE GONNA SET A BUDGET FOR THIS, UH, BECAUSE, UH, WE RAN OUT OF THE CANDY WE BOUGHT LAST YEAR AND, UH, WE OBVIOUSLY NEEDED MORE. YEAH. SO, UM, IF WE CAN SET A BUDGET AND GET THOSE. LAST YEAR IT WAS, WE'VE DECIDED TO BE IN THE PARADE THE WEEK BEFORE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. IT WAS THE VERY LAST MINUTE. NOW WE HAVE A LITTLE TIME TO GET STUFF THAT WE CAN YEAH, WE CAN DO. OKAY. SO WE WANNA GO WITH THE TRAILER. OKAY. AND HOW LONG IS IT, DO YOU KNOW? 40 FOOT. IS THIS A RENTED TRAILER? NO. IS THIS RENTED? NO. OH, IS IT RENTED? YEAH. NO, IT'S ONE OF MY BUDDY'S TRAILER. OKAY. SO WE'RE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO GO AROUND THE BOTTOM. YEAH. I MEAN, I, I THINK THAT WOULD LOOK NICE. OKAY. LIKE A SKIRT. OKAY. AND THEN ARE WE LOOKING FOR STREAMERS OR ARE WE LOOKING FOR LIKE, JUST BALLOONS? WHAT ARE WE, YOU KNOW, THE AIR BALLOONS WHERE YOU KEEP BLOWING AIR AND IT'S, THERE'S LIKE THIS, UH, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE CALLED. THE BALLOON. OH YEAH, UNDERSTAND. YEAH. THE ONE THAT DANCING MEN. YEAH. DANCING MEN. WHAT COULD, WHAT COULD PUT SOME LIKE THAT IT WOULD BE NICE AND FUNNY, BUT WE, BUT THAT WOULD REQUIRE A GENERATOR. I THINK WE RAN INTO THAT AT CHRISTMAS, REMEMBER? YEAH. WE WERE TRYING TO DO THE INFLATABLES ON THERE. NO, WE COULD PLUG IT IN, IN THE TRUCK. OH, OKAY. OH, OKAY. YEAH. OKAY. SO LIKE AN INFLATABLE, LIKE A BIG DANCING GUY. I THINK THEY WOULD LOOK NICE, BUT, UH, AGAIN, WHAT DO YOU, WHATEVER YOU GUYS WANT, LIKE OKAY. UM, IN TERMS OF DECORATING, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE WANNA JUST ORCHESTRATE THEN DOWN THE ROAD HERE AS LIKE ON THE THIRD OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? MAYBE MEETING AND THEN GETTING THAT ALL TAKEN CARE OF. OKAY. UM, AARON, IS THERE ANY AMOUNT OF A BUDGET THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT FOR GETTING THESE DECORATIONS AND THINGS? I DON'T KNOW OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, BUT WE CAN FIGURE THAT OUT. WHAT DID YOU SPEND LAST YEAR? IT WAS ROUGHLY ABOUT LIKE FIVE, $600. YEAH. ALL TOGETHER. THAT WAS A BIG CHUNK. WAS THAT BANNER SIGN THAT WE HAD TO ORDER, BUT WE DON'T HAVE TO ORDER. YOU DON'T HAVE TO ORDER THE BANNER. BUT THAT WAS ONLY $60. ACTUALLY, NO, NOT THE BANNER, BUT I GUESS I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE CAME UP WITH LAST YEAR WITH, UH, ADDING UP EVERYTHING, THE PRINTING. YOU NEED MORE CANDY. YOU THAT, I THINK IT WAS THE BIGGEST THINKING WAS THE CANDY AND THEN RAN OUT LIKE HALFWAY THOSE, UH, DECOR STUFF. I THINK SARAH TOLD ME THAT MOVED OUT FOR IT. SHE'S GOT CANDY COVERED, SO YOU DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THAT. OH, OKAY. OKAY. COULD WE NOT DO CHOCOLATE? NO. 'CAUSE I THINK WE, I THINK WE DID. I, YEAH. I DON'T KNOW. . SO WE'RE REALLY JUST KIND OF LOOKING AT WHAT PRINTING COST OH, YEAH. AND DECORATIONS. YEAH, WE GOT THAT COVERED. OKAY. SO DECORATIONS IS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT THEN? YEAH. YEAH, YEAH. YEAH. IT SHOULDN'T BE THAT ASTRONAUT. THAT'S NOT GONNA BE THAT MUCH. YEAH. OKAY. IF WE CAN, I LIKE TO SEE US, LIKE YOU WERE TALKING TO CREATE THAT SKIRT AROUND ALONG WITH, UM, ALONG WITH LIKE AMERICAN AND 4TH OF JULY DECORATIONS HAVING SOME CULTURAL FLAGS, LIKE DIFFERENT COUNTRY FLAGS THAT REPRESENT GROUPS THAT ARE IN. AND THEN WE HAVE THAT DIDN'T, ISN'T THAT WHEN YOU, WE DID THAT CHRISTMAS. THOSE CHRISTMAS, I THOUGHT YOU GAVE, I HAD, I HAD THOSE LITTLE FLAGS THAT WENT AROUND, BUT THEY'RE TINY. I DON'T THINK THEY WOULD LOOK GOOD ON THE BIG TRUCK. OKAY. BUT, UM, I CAN BRING THOSE AND WE COULD USE THEM, BUT YEAH, I JUST DON'T REMEMBER. BUT I, I LIKE IT BECAUSE WE HAVE LARGE NUMBERS OF FILIPINOS, UH, THE TURKISH GROUPS, DIFFERENT GROUPS THAT WE HAVE THAT WE KNOW. UM, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME OF THAT IN THE COMMUNITY AS WELL, SO, OKAY. YOU KNOW. ALL RIGHT. WELL, THE GREAT MIGHTY AMAZON, WE'LL DEFINITELY COME IN HANDY. I WILL START LOOKING, UM, TOMORROW EVENING, UM, LOOKING AT DECORATIONS AND STUFF, AND I'LL JUST KEEP YOU GUYS POSTED. SO IT SOUNDS LIKE WE'RE KIND OF ON BOARD. YEP. ARE YOU GONNA PASS THE SAME PAGE? HMM? ARE YOU GONNA PASS THE SIGN UP SHEET? OH, YES. YEAH. SO, I MEAN, I DON'T WANNA WRANGLE ANYBODY. OKAY. IF WE CAN ONLY DO THE PARADE, NO PROBLEM. RIGHT. IF WE CAN ONLY DO THE TABLE AT THE FESTIVAL UNTIL TWO OR THREE, GREAT. RIGHT. IT'S SOMETHING, IT'S BETTER THAN NOTHING. UM, BUT IF ANYONE WANTS TO SIGN UP FOR THE EVENING, I WILL BE THERE WITH YOU. ALL RIGHT. SO THAT'S KIND OF WHERE WE'RE AT. OKAY. OOPS, SORRY. OKAY. UM, YEAH, THAT'S AS FAR AS THE 4TH OF JULY GOES. SO, UM, THE ONLY OTHER THING, UM, THAT'S COMING UP ON JULY 18TH IS THE HERITAGE PICNIC. WE TALKED ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT LAST MONTH. UM, I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAD TO [00:40:01] VOTE OR IF WE DID VOTE TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT, BUT I DON'T KNOW. I GUESS, ERIN, CAN YOU KIND OF HELP US, UM, IF WE WANTED TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT? WHAT KIND OF ROLE WE COULD HAVE? I DON'T REMEMBER THAT BEING DISCUSSED. UM, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE LONGEST TABLE TIME CAPSULE? THE, THE HERITAGE PICNIC? THE TIME CAPSULE. OH, OKAY. YEAH. SO LET ME GET BACK WITH YOU ON THAT. I'M, I'M, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO? I MEAN, THERE WE'VE GOT, WE'LL HAVE TABLES AND VENDORS AND THE LONGEST TABLE DISCUSSION, UM, OPPORTUNITY. SO, I MEAN, IF YOU WANNA SET UP ANOTHER TABLE TO PROMOTE THE, THE GROUP, THAT WOULD BE PERFECTLY FINE. I MEAN, IT'S ALL GONNA BE TAKING PLACE HERE AND IN THE BACK OF THE BUILDING. WHAT TIME IS THE PICNIC? UM, IT IS 11 TO ONE ON THE 18TH OF JULY. IS THAT A SATURDAY? SO, UH, MAYBE, SO WE NEED TO SET UP, UH, BOOTHS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE. THAT'S, THOSE WILL ALL, THAT'S NOT A PROBLEM. OKAY. SO MAYBE WE COULD HAVE A, YOU KNOW, A TABLE AGAIN THERE. UM, AND WE COULD BE PROMOTING, UM, THE, UH, COMMUNITY BASKETBALL GAME, MAYBE, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO, UH, WRANGLE, YOU KNOW, UM, UH, AN AUDIENCE, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE TO COME WATCH IT. UM, MAYBE WE COULD, YOU KNOW, DEFINITELY DO, UH, YOU KNOW, HAND OUT FLYERS FOR MULTICULTURAL AT THAT POINT. WE CAN SEE, UH, YOU KNOW, NETWORKING, SEE WHAT VENDORS ARE THERE, SEE IF WE CAN RECRUIT ANY, YOU KNOW, THAT KIND OF THING. UM, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE'RE INTERESTED IN HAVING A TABLE AT? I WILL NOT BE IN TOWN THAT FOR THAT. SO I CAN DO 11 TO ONE IF YOU WANNA DO THAT. I CAN TOO. OKAY, COOL. OKAY. SO, AND THEN I'M IN FOR THAT. AND THEN ANYONE ELSE ALONG THE WAY? I THINK CINDY WAS ASKING IF PEOPLE WANTED TO BRING, LIKE, PART OF THAT LONGEST TABLE FROM, I REMEMBER HER ADVERTISING WAS, UM, I THINK SHE WAS ASKING ORGANIZATION AND GROUPS TO PROVIDE, LIKE, PART OF THAT TABLE IS LIKE YOU'RE HOSTING, YOU KNOW? YEAH. THAT TABLE. UM, IF IT'S, IF SHE'S DOING THE LONGEST TABLE SET UP, I DON'T KNOW. I HAVEN'T TALKED TO CINDY ABOUT IT. IF SHE'S DOING THE LONGEST TABLE SET UP AS WHAT THE LONGEST TABLE TABLES, IT'S THAT USUALLY YOU HAVE A HOST AT A SECTION AND THAT COMMUNI THAT CREATES THE DIALOGUE AND COMMUNICATION BETWEEN WHOEVER SITS AT THAT TABLE. YEAH. UM, SO WE COULD DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT. WE COULD HOST PART OF THAT LONGEST TABLE. THAT'D BE LIKE US FACILITATING THAT PART OF THE TABLE. THAT'S IF SHE'S DOING THE, HOW THE LONGEST TABLE IS TYPICALLY SET THAT EVENT. UM, I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY'RE, HOW THEY'RE SETTING THAT UP OR HOW THEY'RE ORGANIZING THAT, BUT WE COULD DO, THAT'S A SUGGESTION. AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS I THOUGHT SHE WAS ASKING FOR, LIKE SPECIFIC PEOPLE, ORGANIZATIONS OR GROUPS TO HOST A TABLE. YEAH. YOU KNOW, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. OKAY. DO YOU WANT ME TO REACH OUT TO HER TO SEE, UM, IF YOU WANT ME TO REACH OUT TO HER THAT WAY, BECAUSE YOU'RE DOING THE 4TH OF JULY AND ALL THAT STUFF, I CAN REACH OUT TO OKAY. HER AND ASK HER WHAT DETAILS OF STUFF THAT WOULD BE, THAT SHE WOULD THINK WOULD, WOULD BE, BE BENEFICIAL FOR OUR GROUP AND THEIR GROUP. OKAY. SO RIGHT NOW, IF THERE'S AT LEAST ME, YOU AND RUBEN, THAT'S THREE OF US THAT CAN KIND OF WORK BETWEEN A, A TABLE AND THEN THAT TABLE. RIGHT. MAYBE CO COLLECTIVELY. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO AARON, YOU GOT THAT. I GOT IT DOWN THAT WE ARE GONNA PARTICIPATE IN THAT. OKAY, GREAT. AND I THINK LET'S PUT MAYBE CHRISTMAS ON HOLD UNTIL MAYBE WE GET THROUGH. I MEAN, I THINK CHRISTMAS WILL BE JUST A REPEAT OF WHAT WE DID THIS PAST YEAR. IT'LL BE PRETTY CUT AND DRY, I THINK. AND WE'LL, WE'LL TOUCH BASE ON, UM, THAT COME AUGUST. I'LL JUST KEEP IT ON THE AGENDA AND WE'LL JUST OKAY. ADDRESS IT. OKAY, COOL. UM, I PROBABLY WENT WAY OVER THE TIME. SORRY. YOU'RE FINE. UM, COMMUNITY BASKETBALL GAME. OKAY. SO REAL QUICK ON THAT, WHAT I NEED IS, I KNOW CHRISTIE VOLUNTEERED FOR THAT TASK GROUP. I NEED TWO MORE PEOPLE THAT'S WILLING TO WORK WITH US ON THAT. AND, UH, WE'RE GONNA START GETTING, UH, A LOT MORE THINGS IN PLACE HERE NEXT WEEK. SO I'VE BEEN ABLE TO SECURE A COUPLE THINGS. ONE, WE KNOW OUR DATE, SO IT'S AUGUST 23RD, IT'LL BE FROM TWO TO SIX. IT'S AT THE COMMUNITY PARK, WHICH IS, UH, RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM WAYNE. WE GOT A PARKING SITUATION TAKEN CARE OF OVER AT THE SCHOOL. UM, THE THEME FOR IT IS ONE GAME, ONE COMMUNITY. UM, WAYNE SPORTING GOODS IS WILLING TO SPONSOR OUR TROPHIES. SO FOR FIRST, SECOND, THIRD, FIRST, SECOND, THIRD. UM, [00:45:01] MIA, I DO NEED A CONTACT FROM YOU FOR, IS IT, IT'S RIGHT STATE ADOPT A P OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? IT'S WHERE THEY HAVE, UM, THEY DO BASKETBALL AND WHEELCHAIRS. SO THE, I I CAN GET YOU CONNECTED WITH THE, UM, THE DIRECTOR BILLY, THE DIRECTOR OF, UM, OF THE RECREATION. OKAY. AND THE ATHLETIC AND CP. SO WE'LL GET TOGETHER AFTER THE MEETING. I DON'T, I DON'T, UM, I DON'T, THE PROGRAM DOESN'T SOUND FAMILIAR WITH ME. OKAY. BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT, I JUST DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT. BUT I'LL, I'LL GIVE YOU, UM, BILLY'S EMAIL ADDRESS AND CONTACT. HE'S THE DIRECTOR OF OUR, THE CAMPUS RECREATION AND ALL THAT STUFF, WHICH WOULD BE OUR ADAPTIVE SPORTS WOULD BE UNDER THERE. SO. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO IF YOU CAN GIVE ME THAT, UM, WE DO HAVE SOME ORGANIZATIONS THAT'S WILLING TO, UH, PARTNER WITH US IN ORDER TO PULL THIS, UM, OFF PULL IT TOGETHER. I THINK WE'LL HAVE SOMETHING THERE FOR, UH, KIDS AS WELL. UH, WHICH I THINK WOULD BE GOOD. SO I CAN SHARE THAT STUFF WITH YOU ONCE WE GET GOING. SO ALL I NEED IS TWO, UM, TWO VOLUNTEERS THAT WANT TO HELP WITH THAT. AND THEN THAT'S MY TIME. WHAT'S THE DATE ON THAT, ERIC? THE DATE OF THE AUGUST 23RD OF THE TOURNAMENT. MM-HMM . AUGUST, SUNDAY, AUGUST 23RD TIME FROM TWO TO SIX. YOU CAN PUT ME ON THERE. OKAY. SUNDAY? YEAH. ME GOOD. OKAY. I GOT MY TWO. THANK YOU. UH, NEXT DIVERSITY TRAINING. I'M SORRY, SAY THAT AGAIN. I SAID NEXT UP DIVERSITY TRAINING. OH, WE ADDED THAT. SO I WAS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND JUST THE, UM, THE RESOLUTION PIECE. I NOTED THAT IT'S PENDING OR WAITING. WHAT DID IT SAY? JUST WAITING ON A RESOLUTION FROM THE CITY. AARON CAN PROBABLY SHARE YOU WHERE IT'S AT. . YEAH. SO I TALKED TO, UH, OUR HR DIRECTOR, UM, AND THE GOAL IS TO ROLL THAT OUT IN Q3 THROUGH OUR, UH, POWER DMS, THAT'S OUR INTERNAL POLICY AND TRAINING SOFTWARE. SO THAT'S, THAT'S THE LAST UPDATE THAT I HAVE. AND IT'LL STILL BE REQUIRED FOR ALL EMPLOYEES? YES. AND Q3. OKAY. OKAY. WILL IT BE ONLINE OR WILL IT BE LIVE? DO YOU KNOW? IT WOULD BE ONLINE. ONLINE. AND IT'S REQUIRED FOR ALL EMPLOYEES. AND HOW IS IT TRACKED? SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS THE INTENT IS THAT IT WILL BE REQUIRED FOR ALL EMPLOYEES. UH, THE POWER DMS SYSTEM BASICALLY IS OUR ACCOUNTABILITY. SO YOU, IT KNOWS WHETHER YOU'VE READ THE POLICY, YOU HAVE TO EITHER GO THROUGH THE TRAINING, YOU HAVE TO AFFIRMATIVELY, UH, YOU KNOW, MARK THAT YOU'VE READ THE POLICY AND IT TRACKS THAT THE SYSTEM DOES. RIGHT. AND SO WHEN YOU FORGET TO DO IT, YOU GET CONSTANT REMINDERS. I, I KNOW THAT , I KNOW THAT I KNOW HOW THAT WORKS. IS THIS ANNUAL OR, OR, OR ONE TIME? I DON'T KNOW. UM, IT WOULD CERTAINLY BE ALL NEW EMPLOYEES. UM, BUT I DON'T KNOW, UH, WE REALLY HAVEN'T HAD A CONVERSATION ABOUT, YOU KNOW, FREQUENCY WHEN WE INITIALLY BROUGHT IT FOR THE CITY, AGREED THAT IT WOULD BE AN ANNUAL TRAINING, DIVERSITY TRAINING WOULD BE ANNUALLY. OKAY. SO ANYTHING ELSE YOLANDA ON THAT? OH NO. YOU SURE? I'M GOOD. YEP. ALRIGHT. UM, MOVING RIGHT ALONG. MOVING INTO NEW BUSINESS. UM, FIRST ORDER UP IS RAMA RECOMMENDATIONS. SO, UM, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE SAW ALL GOT, I THINK EVERYONE WAS EMAILED THEIR, THE OUTLINE THEY GAVE MM-HMM . I WOULD SAY THIS, IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE DOCUMENT, I CAN FORWARD IT TO EVERYONE, BUT I THINK THAT BECAUSE OF WHERE THE THINGS WE'VE KIND OF STEPPED INTO AND LEMME NOT SAY STEP, THE THINGS THAT WE ARE ADDING TO OUR ROSTER, WE'VE KIND OF ADDRESSED SOME OF THOSE ISSUES. BUT, UM, ONE THING WAS STRENGTHEN COMMUNITY AND INCLUSION ACCESS. UM, THE SECOND, ANOTHER ONE WAS IMPROVE [00:50:01] COMMUNICATION, CONNECTIVITY AND CONNECTIVITY. THIRD ONE WAS SUPPORT, GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT WITH EQUITY IN MIND. ANOTHER, THE OTHER ONE WAS INVEST IN YOUTH AND EDUCATION. UH, ANOTHER ONE WAS STRENGTHEN INCLUSIVE GOVERNANCE AND COMMUNITY SAFETY. SO THOSE WERE THEIR 1, 2, 3. MM-HMM . 4, 5, 5 RECOMMENDATIONS HOLISTICALLY. UM, I KNOW AT, AT ONE POINT IN TIME WE HAD A BIT, I THINK WITH THE, THE WE AT ONE POINT IN TIME WE HAD TALKED ABOUT DOING THE, UM, KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S STILL ON THE TABLE. THAT IS STILL ON THE TABLE. THAT DOES. UM, THAT IS ONE THING THAT WE, WE WE CAN ADD UNDER THE INVESTING YOUTH AND EDUCATION PIECE. UM, UM, SOME, THERE WAS, I THINK THERE WAS ONE MORE THAT I FELT LIKE WE, WE TOUCHED ON, UM, WHICH WAS STRENGTH AND COMMUNITY INCLUSION AND ACCESS CONNECT CULTURES AND SPACES. WE KIND OF DO THAT THROUGH OUR MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL BASED ON WHAT THEIR OUTLINE WAS RIGHT THERE. UM, BUT IF WE WANT TO ADD SOMETHING TO THAT, WE, WE DEFINITELY CAN. UM, WHEN IT COMES TO IMPROVING COMMUNICATIONS, UM, AS WE COME UP WITH OUR PLAN OF HOW WE WILL GO OUT AND MEET THE CULTURES, THE VARIOUS DIVERSE CULTURES IN THE CITY, WE'RE KIND OF TOUCHING ON THAT AS WELL BECAUSE IT WAS ALSO ONE OF THOSE THINGS LIKE GO TO THEM, NOT NECESSARILY, YOU KNOW, ALWAYS TRY TO INVITE THEM TO OUR MEETINGS. SO WE'VE, WE'VE KIND OF, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? LIKE WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE MOLDING THAT OUT. I THINK IF WE WANT TO PUT STRONGER LANGUAGE TO SAY EXACTLY HOW WE'LL DO THAT TO GET BACK TO, UM, CITY COUNCIL, WE CAN. BUT IF YOU GUYS ARE OKAY WITH KIND OF WHAT WE HAVE DONE, THAT MEANS WE'VE MET THREE OUT OF THE FIVE RECOMMENDATIONS. BUT IF WE WANT TO GO FOR ALL FIVE, THAT'S PERFECTLY FINE. UM, I THINK THE SAFETY ISSUE WE TALKED ABOUT, AREN'T WE DOING THAT AS PART OF THE COMPLAINT BOARD THAT COULD BE CONSIDERED UNDER THE SAFETY ISSUE? YEAH. THE ONLY REASON I DIDN'T SAY THAT WAS BECAUSE, UM, I, IT I THINK THAT'S A, LIKE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT LIKE WITH THE CCRB, RIGHT? IS THAT, IS THAT, UH, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT IS, THAT'S KINDA LIKE ITS OWN THING I'M THINKING AT THIS POINT IN TIME. WELL, NO, BUT I MEAN I THINK WE INITIATED THAT. TRUE. TRUE. OKAY. SO THAT, THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE INITIATED AND STARTED. YEAH. AND NOW WE MAKE SURE WE HAVE THAT REPRESENTATION. RIGHT. I THINK YOLANDA, YOUR REPRESENTATION ON THAT BOARD. CORRECT. SO I THINK, I THINK WE DO MEET THAT, SOME OF THAT WITH THAT PARTICULAR, SO I MEAN, I THINK AAMA, WE, WE ARE ACTUALLY DOING A GOOD, A GOOD CHUNK OF THAT THING. CORRECT. AND I THINK WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT IN OUR VISION MEETING IS WE NEED TO SEE OTHER GROUPS DO SOME RAMA'S RECOMMENDATIONS TOO. IT'S . YEAH. AND I THINK THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, THAT COULD DEFINITELY ADD TO MY, I THINK BECAUSE IT, IT SOUND, I FEEL LIKE IT'S BEING PUT ON SOLELY ON US TO BE DOING ALL THIS FROM WHAT THEY'RE, FROM THIS NEEDS ASSESSMENT. SO, I MEAN, I, MAYBE THAT'S NOT, THAT'S NOT WHAT'S HAPPENING. BUT THAT IS SORT OF THE GIST. I THAT'S MY, YEAH. THAT'S HOW I FEEL. BUT I THINK WE DO, WE ARE DOING A GOOD CHUNK OF THAT RECOMMENDATION WITH, WITH WHAT WE ARE DOING. I THINK THAT THE, THE, FROM MY, OR FROM SITTING OR TALKING OR, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER I DID ON TUESDAY, GIVE THE UPDATE TO CITY COUNCIL. I DON'T THINK THEY'RE PUTTING IT ALL ON US. I THINK THEY'RE, THEY JUST WANNA KNOW THAT WE'RE DOING SOMETHING. JUST TO YOUR POINT, THAT AS WELL AS OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, COMMISSIONS ARE DOING SOMETHING AS WELL. RIGHT. SO THAT IT THAT, SO THEN THE CITY COLLECTIVELY IS DOING, DOING SOMETHING. YEAH. THAT'S THAT MAKES SENSE. THINK THAT'S WHAT I LIKE TO SEE A LOT OF, A LOT OF THAT. THAT'S, I MEAN THAT, THAT, THAT'S MY THING. I THINK WE, LIKE I SAID, WE'RE DOING A REALLY GOOD CHUNK. YEAH. BUT I DO THINK THEY ARE LIKE, WE ARE KIND OF LIKE THE FIRST DOMINO. THEY FEEL LIKE IF, IF OUR, IF WE DO WHAT WE SAY WE'RE DO, THEN EVERYONE ELSE WILL KIND OF HOPEFULLY DO WHAT THEY SAY THEY'RE RIGHT, THEY'RE GOING TO DO WHEN THEY GIVE THEIR UPDATES AS WELL. WELL, LET'S BE REALISTIC. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT DOING A LOT OF THINGS. OUR ACTIONS HAVE TO KIND OF SPEAK. SO, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO START THINKING ABOUT WHAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT DOING AND, AND REALLY DO IT. AND THAT'S OUTSIDE OF JUNETEENTH AND MULTICULTURAL. MM-HMM . YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO GET ONE OF THESE, KNOW YOUR RIGHTS GOING, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO GET ONE OF THESE, UM, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IDEAS GOING. YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO GET ON THE CALENDAR WITH, WITH ONE OF THOSE THINGS. TRUE. I THINK THE THING WITH THE KNOW YOUR RIGHTS THING, WE WERE WAITING TO DO THAT A LITTLE BIT LATER. 'CAUSE WE NEEDED, WE WERE, I THINK WE WERE TRYING TO DO THAT WITH THE HIGH HIGH SCHOOL AGE STUDENTS, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN. SO WE WENT TO GET THEM BACK IN SCHOOL. SO IT'S, IT'S, IT'S LIKE IN THE DEVELOPMENT, I GUESS WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT WHENEVER WE WANT, BUT I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT DOING IT IN LIKE OCTOBER, SO LATE FALL. YEAH, IT WAS JUST LATER IN THE YEAR. LIKE FALL. YEAH. SO IT'S JUST NOT ON OUR, OUR CALENDAR JUST YET. [00:55:01] OR CONVERSATIONS JUST YET. WELL, I'LL BRING FORTH, UM, IF WE ALL REMEMBER THAT WE ARE STARTED AS A RECOMMENDING, WE ARE A RECOMMENDING BOARD AND OUR FOCUS WAS TO RECOMMEND, MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO CITY COUNCIL IN REGARDS TO WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN IN THE CITY REGARDING CULTURE AND DIVERSITY. SO IF WE ARE RECOMMENDING BOARD, WE MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE OWN EVERYTHING. RIGHT? AND THE CITY, THE, SO THE GOAL WAS THE CITY WOULD GET THIS DATA AND THE CITY WOULD DO SOMETHING WITH THIS DATA AND THEY WOULD LOOP US IN AS TO HOW WE COULD ASSIST THE CITY IN DOING THESE THINGS. SO THE CITY OWNS IT. WE ARE JUST THERE AS A CONDUIT, BUT WE DON'T OWN IT. LIKE, WE SHOULDN'T BE DOING ALL THESE THINGS. AND REALLY WHEN WE LOOK AT RAMA'S, UM, THE REPORT, A LOT OF THESE THINGS WERE TO GET TO MORE SYSTEMIC ISSUES. UM, LIKE THE ADDRESSING BARRIERS AND BIAS DESIGNATING AND EMPOWERING A KEY STAFF MEMBER TO FOCUS ON INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND OUTREACH. THAT SHOULD BE OUR FOCUS IS MAKING SURE THAT THE CITY DOES THAT SO THAT THE CITY CAN DO ITS JOB. ON THIS PART, IF Y'ALL REMEMBER WE MADE A RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL. OH GOD, HOW LONG AGO WAS IT TO HIRE SOMEONE? DO YOU REMEMBER? Y'ALL REMEMBER IT'S BEEN YEARS. IT'S YEAH. TWO YEARS MAYBE TO HIRE SOMEONE THAT FOCUSED ON INCLUSION IN THE CITY. UM, THE CITY THEN CAME BACK AND SAID, OKAY, FIRST WE NEED TO DO THIS NEEDS ASSESSMENT FOR DATA THAT SAYS THAT WE NEED TO DO THAT. OKAY. SO NOW WE HAVE THE DATA THAT SAYS THAT WE NEED TO DO THAT. SO NOW WE NEED TO READDRESS THE RECOMMENDATION THAT WE SUBMITTED TO CITY COUNCIL TWO YEARS AGO TO FOCUS ON THIS, TO HIRE SOMEONE TO FOCUS ON THIS. AND THAT IS ONE OF RAMA'S RECOMMENDATIONS. ACTUALLY, WE, WE DON'T OWN THIS. I THINK WE EVEN PUT LIKE, UM, RECOMMENDING TO UPDATE WEBSITES TO HAVE LANGUAGE SERVICES OR DIFFERENT THINGS. THESE WERE BARRIERS THAT THE COMMUNITY, I THINK THAT'S WHAT I WAS TRYING TO SAY. WE, WE SHOULDN'T BE DOING THE ACTUAL WORK OF ALL OF THIS RAMA STUFF. RIGHT. WE, I MEAN, WE HAVE, WE HAVE PLENTY OF EVENTS. WE'RE NOT, UH, OUR, OUR MY UNDERSTANDING OF THIS WHOLE, WHEN WE CREATED THIS, WE WERE NOT JUST AN EVENT GROUP NO. TO HAVE PROGRAMMING. WE WERE EDUCATION. WE WERE RECOMMEND, LIKE YOU'RE SAYING. AND THAT IS WHAT I, UM, I WANNA SAY, I, I'M SO INTERESTED IN BECOMING PART OF THE COMMUNITY, GETTING THE KNOW OUT OF THINGS. BUT SOME OF THIS STUFF THAT WE ARE DOING, I WANNA KNOW INTENTIONALLY, IS IT MORE THAN JUST COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT? 'CAUSE THAT'S NOT WHAT THIS GROUP IS. WE WANNA KNOW WHAT ARE WE PUSHING WITH INCLUSION? WHAT ARE WE ADDRESSING THE SYSTEMIC ISSUES THAT WE'RE HAVING IN THIS COMMUNITY? UM, WHAT ARE WE ADDRESSING? LIKE, UM, YOU KNOW, WE GET PEOPLE WHO COME, LIKE WE TALKED ABOUT THE RESOLUTION FOR THE ICE, FOR THE STUDENTS THAT WERE HAVING ISSUES. WE, JEFFREY WAS SUPPOSED TO BRING THAT TOO, ABOUT THE CITY DOING A RESOLUTION ON HOW THEY, UM, YOU KNOW, SIMILAR TO WHAT SPRINGFIELD DID, HE'S GONE. WE'VE NOT HEARD THAT ANYMORE. YOU KNOW, THAT CONVERSATION ABOUT, AND THAT'S A LEGITIMATE CONCERN WE HAVE WITH RESIDENTS THAT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT UP. SO THOSE ARE THINGS THAT I, MY INTENT WITH THIS GROUP WAS TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT. UM, I'M ALL FOR PROGRAMMING. I'M ALL FOR THAT. BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT, THAT'S NOT WHAT WE DO. WE WERE CREATED TO DO. THAT'S NOT WHAT OUR MAIN THING IS. AND IF WE'RE GOING TO DO PROGRAMMING, IT NEEDS TO BE INTENTIONAL ON SPECIFIC ISSUES THAT ARE GONNA DEAL WITH CULTURE, RACE, ETHNICITY, BIAS, AND ON THOSE BARRIERS. UM, I'M ALL FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND ALL FOR BEING PART OF THAT. UM, BUT I THINK WE JUST HAVE TO BE MORE INTENTIONAL ON WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING. 'CAUSE IT, IT TAKES A LOT OF TIME TO PROGRAM THESE THINGS AND EVERYBODY'S BUSY, EVERYBODY'S THING. BUT, UM, AND I'LL BE HONEST, I CAN'T DO EVENTS EVERY MONTH. YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF TASK FORCE. UM, LIKE MANY PEOPLE, I WORK FULL TIME. I GOT SCHOOL TOO. SO, YOU KNOW, WE WE'RE BUSY OUTSIDE OF THIS TOO. AND TO DO A LOT OF PROGRAM REQUIRE A LOT OF TIME. AND I THINK WE HAD TALKED ABOUT JUST FOCUSING ON MAIN BIG, OUR MAIN BIG ONES. AND THAT WOULD BE OUR PROGRAM. [01:00:01] SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE BROUGHT UP TO JEFFREY ABOUT WHEN WE HAD THAT RAMA MEETING RIGHT AFTERWARDS. LIKE YOU TALKED ABOUT THE HIRING, THE DEI PERSON, UM, MAKING LANGUAGE SERVICES OFFERED ON THE WEBSITE. SO WHEN RESIDENTS WHO DON'T SPEAK COMPLETE ENGLISH HAS THAT CER HAS THAT ACCESS TO BE ABLE TO ACCESS CITY SERVICES AND STUFF AND UNDERSTAND BETTER, EVEN OUR, WE TALKED ABOUT SMALL MINORITY BUSINESSES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO I LIKE TO SEE SOME OF THAT BEING EFFECT FROM WHAT WE HAD TALKED ABOUT IN THOSE RAMA MEETINGS. I AGREE. UM, I DO HAVE A CONCERN THAT WE ARE, I, I AGREE. IT'S GREAT TO DO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. WE WANNA BE INVOLVED IN THE COMMUNITY, BUT IT'S BE, IT SEEMS THAT THAT'S WHAT WE'RE BECOMING. UM, WHICH IS NOT THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMISSION. WE WERE FOCUSING ON, YOU ALL HELP ME WITH THIS , MY OLD, OLD HEADS . WE WERE FOCUSING ON ADVOCACY, OUTREACH, EDUCATION. EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY. YEAH. THAT WAS UNDER REFORM. YEAH. REFORM AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. SO RIGHT NOW, WHAT WE, WE STARTED DOING THAT IN THE BEGINNING WITH OUR, UM, DECLARING RACISM AS A HEALTH MM-HMM . ISSUE. WE, WE HAD THAT PANEL TALK. WE HAD, UM, WE WORKED WITH THE SCHOOL'S DIVERSITY BOARD AND MET WITH THEM AND THINGS LIKE THAT. WE, WE STARTED DOING THAT. I THINK WE, I FEEL LIKE WE'RE GEARING TOWARDS MORE PROGRAMMING THAN WE ARE OF WHAT WE INTEND WHEN WE FIRST STARTED THE GROUP OF WHAT IT WAS INTENDED FOR. YEAH. YEAH. IF WE BEGIN TO FOCUS MORE BACK ON THE INITIAL INITIATIVES THAT WE PULL FORTH IN THE, UM, IN THE COMMISSION, THAT SHOULD BE A GUIDING LIGHT FOR EVERYTHING THAT WE DO. LIKE RIGHT NOW, I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING IN ADVOCACY. WE'RE DOING THE OUTREACH, RIGHT? I DUNNO WHAT WE'RE DOING ON THE EDUCATION AND THEN REFORM. RIGHT NOW WHAT WE'RE DOING IS OUTREACH AND THAT'S IT. AND IT TAKES A LOT OF BANDWIDTH. IT TAKES A LOT OF ENERGY, A LOT OF PLANNING. AND IF WE'RE, WE'RE SAYING YES TO ALL THESE THINGS, BUT WE'RE NOT SAYING YES TO THE RIGHT THINGS TO GET US TO MOVE THE MARK LIKE WE INTEND TO DO OR LIKE WE SHOULD INTEND TO DO. YEAH. I LIKE THE PUSH THAT IT'S, IT'S, I THINK WE NEED TO, LIKE WE DID LAST TIME, THIS TIME, THIS NOVEMBER'S ELECTION IS VERY IMPORTANT. AND THAT, LIKE, I LIKE TO DO OUR BACK TO OUR VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVE OF THINGS LIKE THAT WHERE WE KNOW WE CAN MAKE A CHANGE AND HELP PUSH THAT TO DO THINGS. THINGS LIKE THAT. THAT, I MEAN, THAT'S JUST, THAT WAS WHAT I ALWAYS THOUGHT. I HAD A FEELING THAT THIS GROUP AND I JUST HAVE A FEELING, IT'S, IT'S GOING TOWARDS MORE OF ACTIVITIES THAN WHAT AND ACTIVITIES THAT ARE NOT ALWAYS FOCUSED ON WHAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS IN THIS COMMUNITY. SO, CAN I MAKE A MOTION? I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE JUST REMOVE PARTICIPATING IN COMMUNITY EVENTS. TAKE THOSE OFF THE TABLE. SO NO. 4TH OF JULY, NONE OF THAT. YEAH. AND WE CAN JUST KIND OF MOVE FORWARD WITH WHAT YOU LADIES ARE TALKING ABOUT. SO I'LL MAKE A MOTION. TAKE 'EM ALL OFF THE TABLE. FREE UP OUR CALENDAR. MOTION IS ON THE FLOOR. NEEDS TO BE SECONDED. DISCUSSION. WELL, IF YOU SECOND, THEN WE CAN HAVE A DISCUSSION. SOMEBODY'S GOTTA SECOND IT. OTHERWISE IT'S DEAD ON THE FLOOR. GET ON THE FLOOR. I, I DON'T UNDERSTAND . SHE IS NOW DEAD ON THE FLOOR. 30 SECONDS THAT, THAT'S EXTREME. I DON'T THINK WE, I'M TRYING UNDERSTAND. YEAH. BE EXTREME. I THINK WE, WE NEED, BUT THAT CORRELATES WITH WHAT YOU GUYS WERE JUST SAYING, WHICH I TOTALLY GET AND I UNDERSTAND. NO, I'M, I'M TALKING ABOUT THE LIST OF THINGS LIKE COOKOUT, ORBIT, FUN NIGHT THINGS, WHICH ARE GREAT IDEAS. IF WE WERE, UM, ON THAT EMAIL THAT, THAT TECH TEXT THAT CAME COMMUNITY PULSE CHECK. YEAH. THAT, I THINK THAT'S ON THE AGENDA, RIGHT? I THINK THOSE ARE GREAT IDEAS. IF, IF OUR MAIN FOCUS WAS ADDING [01:05:01] ALL THESE PROGRAMMING, I THINK WE FOCUS ON OUR MAIN THINGS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT 4TH OF JULY. THOSE THINGS ARE, THAT DOESN'T REQUIRE HUGE TAX, BUT THAT'S OUTREACH. AND AS YOLANDA SAID, AND IT'S A VERY VALID POINT. THAT'S ALL WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW IS OUTREACH. BUT I WANNA ASK YOU. OKAY. UM, I CAN'T MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO THE CITY FOR ANYONE'S CAUSE UNTIL I GET OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY AND I MEET THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE HERE AND THEY TELL ME WHAT THEY NEED. I DON'T, I AM NOT A HIGH ENOUGH PERSON IN SOCIETY TO GUESS OR TO FATHOM WHAT ONE COMMUNITY GROUP VERSUS ANOTHER MIGHT NEED. OKAY. SO IT MAKES SENSE TO ME THAT IN ORDER FOR US TO TRY TO MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS, THAT WE LET THEM KNOW THAT WE'RE HERE AND WE ASK THEM WHAT THEY NEED, WHAT WE CAN DO FOR THEM, WHAT WE CAN TAKE BACK TO THE CITY. AND IN ORDER TO DO THAT, YEAH, WE NEED A LITTLE OUTREACH, BUT WE NEED A LITTLE OUTREACH. WE DON'T NEED NOT DOING ANYTHING. THAT'S WHAT YOUR MOTION IS SAYING. WE DON'T DO ANYTHING, ANY OF THE COMMUNITY OUTREACH. WE THAT, I DON'T AGREE WITH THAT MOTION. I THINK WE HAVE A BALANCE. WE CAN DO A BALANCE OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND DO WHAT WE DO. 'CAUSE WE'VE DONE THAT. BUT I DON'T THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE A MOTION THAT SAYS WE DON'T PARTICIPATE IN ANY COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM. SO THAT'S WHY I'M NOT SECONDING IT. SO I MEAN, I, I THINK THAT'S AN EXTREME. I THINK WE NEED TO, TO BALANCE WHAT WE DO AND WHAT WE, WHAT WE DO. I MEAN, I DON'T THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE, YEAH, FIVE MINUTES AGO I WAS SAYING ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS AND WE'VE NOT HAD A LOT OF ACTION HAPPENING. I, YOU KNOW, I MEAN WELL, BUT, BUT WOULD YOU CONSIDER ACTION HOLD ON, HOLD ON, HOLD ON, HOLD ON, HOLD ON, HOLD ON. THOSE, HOLD ON, HOLD ON, HOLD ON, HOLD ON, HOLD ON. SO WE'RE GETTING A LITTLE OFF TOPIC. SO WE HAVE TO STAY GERMANE TO THE TOPIC. THE TOPIC AT HAND WAS THE RAMA RECOMMENDATIONS. SO WE ARE NOW WAY OFF OF CENTER OF THIS CONVERSATION. SO ARE WE GOING TO, TO BRING US BACK INTO THIS? SO ARE WE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH MAKING, JUST MAKING THE RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, TO CITY COUNCIL FOR THE, UH, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE INCLUSION. I, I DON'T THAT, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT, BUT I CAN DEFINITELY, UH, PUT THAT ON MY, UM, I'M ASSUMING SOMEBODY HAS THE DOCUMENT OR WHATEVER. UM, AND THEN MOVE FORWARD WITH OUR KNOW YOUR RIGHTS AS WE WERE DOING THAT LATER, BECAUSE THAT FALLS UNDER OUR EDUCATION IF MM-HMM . UM, IF I'M, I'M, I'M HEARING EVERYONE CORRECT AND THEN I GOING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH OTHER THINGS WE CAN, BUT ARE WE, ARE WE IN AGREEANCE THAT WE DEFINITELY NEED TO MAKE THE RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL? BECAUSE I DID TELL THEM ON TUESDAY THAT I WOULD GET BACK WITH TO THEM ABOUT AFTER WE MET TODAY, UM, WITH WHATEVER WE COME UP WITH FROM THIS, THIS CONVERSATION. SO I'LL ADD THE INCLU, WAS IT INCLUSION SPECIALIST OFFICER? I DON'T, I DON'T, I'M NOT TRYING TO MESS THE NAME. YEAH, I'LL, I'LL GET THE, I'LL SEND YOU THE FORMAL RECOMMENDATION THAT WE SUBMIT. I THINK IT NEEDS TO BE MODIFIED THOUGH, BECAUSE IT WAS A, UH, DEI PERSON. GOT YOU. AND THEN WE'LL ADD THE LANGUAGE SERVICES SERVICES THROUGH WEBSITE AND THEN I'LL ADD THE KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. AND THOSE WILL, NOT SAYING WE ARE THE CH THE , THE, THE LEADERS OF THOSE THINGS. WE, THOSE ARE OUR RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE WOULD ASK THAT THE CITY WOULD SUPPORT AND GET BEHIND AND DO AND KEEP GOING WHETHER WE ARE THE PERSON'S DOING IT OR NOT, OR WHETHER THEY HAVE SOMEONE, THIS OFFICER OR THIS PERSON DOES, DOES IT AS WELL. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. COMMUNITY PULSE CHECK. SO THIS IS WHAT THE NEXT ORDER LINE ITEM WAS, THE COMMUNITY PULSE CHECK. THIS IS WHERE WE WERE TALKING EARLIER ABOUT, UH, TAKING OURSELVES INTO THE COMMUNITY AS CHRISTIA POINTED, UH, JUST POINTED OUT SO THAT WE CAN HEAR FROM OUR CITIZENS TO KNOW WHAT THE DIFFERENT DIVERSE POPULATIONS IN THE CITY, WHAT THEY NEED SO WE CAN MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO, UH, THE CITY ON THEIR BEHALF. UM, TO YOUR POINT, CHRISTI, EARLIER, WE DEFINITELY NEED TO PUT LEGS TO THIS BECAUSE WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT. I THINK THIS IS THE THIRD MEETING. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT, BUT WE HAVEN'T REALLY COME UP WITH A STRATEGY YET OF HOW WE WANNA DO THAT, OR AT LEAST WHERE WE WANT TO GO FIRST. SO AT THIS POINT, DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHAT COMMUNITY WE WANNA OR WHAT CULTURE WE WANNA TALK WITH, GET IDEAS? DOES ANYBODY HAVE A STRATEGY? HOW WE WANNA EXECUTE THAT? I SAY [01:10:01] LET'S GO TO CHURCH . WHAT'D YOU SAY? YOU SAID GO TO CHURCH. WELL, BECAUSE THERE'S THE TEA, THERE'S THET TEMPLE HERE IN HUBER. MM-HMM . RIGHT ON THE EDGE OF HUBER AND RIVERSIDE. THERE'S THE KOREAN CHURCH. YOU HAVE YOUR, UM, WE HAVE THE INDIAN CHURCH RIGHT. THAT DOES THE FIREWORKS UNDER WALLY. YEAH. UM, HERE IN HUBER. SO THESE ARE GROUPS THAT HAVE ESTABLISHED ORGANIZATIONS IN HUBER, MAYBE REACHING OUT TO THE ESTABLISHED GROUPS THAT ARE HERE IN HUBER FIRST AND THEN TO OUTSIDE ORGANIZATIONS THAT AREN'T LOCATED IN HUBER, BUT MAY HAVE RESIDENTS IN HUBER. OKAY. DOES THAT MAKE MAKE SENSE? SO YOU, IF I'M HEARING YOU CORRECT, THAT WE FEEL LIKE WE SHOULD THIS, THAT WE SHOULD MAKE AN ATTEMPT TO COMMUNICATE VISIT. I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE EXACT STRATEGY BEHIND THAT IS. YEAH. WE NEED TO FIGURE WHAT, BUT AT, I DON'T, I DON'T WANNA, BECAUSE I DON'T WANNA SAY THE WRONG WORD. UM, AND, YOU KNOW, END UP ON SOMEBODY'S NEWS STATION, UM, . UM, AND THAT IS WHERE WE WILL HAVE THE CONVERSATION WITH THOSE COMMUNITIES. UM, THAT IS A SAFE SPACE. BUT I MEAN, SO, OKAY. SO IF THAT IS WHAT WE FEEL IS THE BEST STRATEGY, UM, DOES ANYONE, LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT FOR THE NEXT FEW MINUTES. DOES ANYONE DISAGREE WITH, UM, MEETING DIVERSE COMMUNITIES AT THEIR LOCAL RELIGIOUS SPACES OR WHERE THEY CONGREGATE FOR RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY? WELL, I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT IN OUR VISION SESSION WAS, OKAY, OBVIOUSLY YOU GOTTA GO MEET 'EM RIGHT WHERE THEY ARE. OKAY, SO THAT'S OUTREACH, RIGHT? OKAY. YOU GOTTA MEET 'EM WHERE THEY ARE. BUT I THINK WHAT, WHAT WE NEED IS WE NEED A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT'S GONNA COME TOGETHER. WHAT INFORMATION ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO ASK? WHAT DO YOU WANNA FIND OUT? SO THAT YOU'RE ASKING THE SAME INFORMATION REGARDLESS TO THE GROUP CORRECT. THAT YOU'RE APPROACHING. RIGHT. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE EVERYBODY? MM-HMM . SO I THINK YOU GOTTA HAVE A GROUP THAT'S GONNA PUT, WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? OKAY. TOGETHER THEN I THINK NOW, YES, I DO AGREE WITH THOSE ESTABLISHED GROUPS THAT ARE THERE. WE'VE ALSO BEEN PROVIDED WITH THE DIFFERENT ETHNIC GROUPS THAT WE HAVE HERE IN HUBER. OKAY. SO THAT SHOULD BE THE SECOND TIER OF FOLKS THAT WE GO AFTER. ONCE YOU HAVE THAT INFORMATION, THEN YES. DO I THINK BECAUSE IT'S NOT A ONE SIZE FIT ALL FOR EVERYBODY, I THINK YOU'RE GONNA FIND SOME GROUP YOU NEED TO BE AN ADVOCATE FOR. YOU GOTTA HAVE SOME GROUP THAT'S GONNA REQUIRE A LITTLE EDUCATION. YOU GOT SOME GROUP THAT'S GONNA BE, YOU KNOW, FALL INTO A REFORM. SO I JUST DON'T THINK IT'S A ONE SIZE FIT. ALL RIGHT. RIGHT. NO, I SAY WHAT IS OUR STRATEGY? SO I LIKE YOUR OUTLINE AND THAT HAS TO BE THE STRATEGY. THE FIRST THING WE NEED TO DO IS FIGURE OUT WHAT IS IT THAT YOU WANT TO FIND OUT, RIGHT? SO AN ADVOCACY OUTCOME BASICALLY, OR RELU OR WHATEVER. I MEAN WHAT RESOLUTION, OUTCOME, UM, HYPOTHESIS, WHATEVER. UM, SO I THINK YOU PROBABLY NEED A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT'S GOING TO, I MEAN, 'CAUSE RIGHT NOW WE WOULD JUST GIVE SOMETHING OFF THE TOP OF OUR HEAD, BUT I THINK WE NEED TO TAKE SOME TIME TO GIVE IT SOME THOUGHT AS FAR AS NEED. WHAT IT YOU WANT, YOU NEED A TASK GROUP THAT'S GONNA DO THAT. I'M GOING TO, WELL, I DON'T HAVE TO PUT EMOTION ON THE FLOOR TO CREATE AN ADV ADVOCACY OUTCOMES TASK GROUP. BUT DOES, DOES ANYONE WANT TO VOLUNTEER TO BE ON THE ADVOCACY OUTCOMES TASK GROUP THAT WILL CREATE, UM, QUESTIONS OR A FORMAT OF HOW WE WILL ARRIVE AT THE OUTCOMES WE NEED, OR LOOKING FOR HOW WE CAN ASSIST, UH, FOR CERTAIN, OR FOR THE DIVERSE COMMUNITIES WITHIN HUBER HEIGHTS? I WILL VOLUNTEER TO BE ON THAT ADVOCACY OUTCOME. AND CAN I GET ONE MORE PERSON? YEAH. OKAY. ALRIGHT. WE, WE ALSO MUTE. YEAH, IT WAS ME. WHAT DID YOU RAISE YOUR HAND, MICHELLE? I DIDN'T SEE IT. NO, I DIDN'T. UM, COOL. AND THEN WE'LL REPORT BACK AT THE NEXT MEETING. MM-HMM . IF I MAY JUST ADD SURE. CONFUSED. AND I'M NOT GONNA PUT WORDS IN MICHELLE'S MOUTH, BUT THOSE WERE SOME PRETTY GOOD IDEAS. I THOUGHT THAT I CAME UP WITH THAT. IF I BELIEVE REMEMBER CORRECTLY, COREY, THAT WAS DISCUSSED IN LAST MONTH'S MEETING. YOU ASKED US TO DO THAT MM-HMM . RIGHT? YES. OKAY. SO THE DISRESPECT AND THE CON SENDING TONE THAT CAME MIA OUT OF YOU WITH, YOU KNOW, ORBIT'S CUTE AND ALL THAT, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THAT REALLY KIND OF HURTS TO THE CORE. OKAY. THAT WASN'T MY OPINION. I'M NOT THE ONE, I AM NOT THE ONE TO DO THAT TOO. AND I THINK Y'ALL KNOW THAT. [01:15:01] BUT I, MY INTENTIONS WERE GOOD WITH THAT. I DID WHAT I WAS ASKED TO DO AND I DIDN'T SAY YOUR INTENTIONS WERE, WERE NOT GOOD FOR THAT. BUT INSULTING IS NOT. WE ARE, WE ARE OVER, YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHAT I'M FEELING AND I DI WE ARE OVER EXTENDING OURSELVES ON NUMEROUS EVENTS THAT WE CAN'T ALL DO. I MEAN, WE, WE NEED TO, WE HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING . WE HAVE DONE STUFF. AGAIN, WE HAVE TO REMAIN GERMANE TO THE, THE TOPIC AND OUR NEXT. AND THAT HAS, AND I, AND I KNOW RIGHT. EMOTIONS ARE HIGH RIGHT NOW. SO WHAT I'LL DO, I JUST FEEL LIKE WHATEVER WE DISCUSSED IN OUR VISION MEETING, IT'S JUST GONE COMPLETELY OUT THE WINDOW. WE'RE, WE'RE BACK TO WHERE WE'RE NOT ALL ON THE SAME PAGE. I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING SOMETIMES , BUT I DON'T, YEAH. I AM JUST GONNA TURN MY MIC OFF AND I'M GONNA SIT HERE AND JUST GET THROUGH THE MEETING. . OKAY. UM, NEXT ORDER OF BUSINESS, UM, IS THE MLK EVENT FOR 2027. I THINK LAST MEETING I GAVE OUT EVERYONE DOCUMENTS. ANYONE, AS YOU LOOKED AT THOSE, ANYBODY HAVE ANY IDEAS THAT FELT LIKE WE NEEDED TO TAKE ON FOR MLK EVENT 2027? I GOTTA TAKE AN ADDITIONAL LOOK AT THAT. HOWEVER, I THINK I, I AGREE WITH THE PHILOSOPHY WE ARE MAYBE JUST TOOK ON ONE OR TWO. YEAH, OF COURSE. YEAH. I, I JUST LISTED A BUNCH OF THEM, BUT IT, IT, IT WOULD, THE, THE GOAL WAS NOT TO TAKE ON ALL OF EM. THAT WOULD BE CRAZY IN MY OPINION. UH, BUT THE GOAL WOULD BE TO TAKE ON ONE OR TWO OF THOSE THINGS AND UM, AND THEN OBVIOUSLY THAT IS A WHILE AWAY. SO WE DO HAVE MORE TIME TO DISCUSS. SO IF YOU GUYS NEED ME TO EMAIL THAT TO YOU OR WHATEVER, JUST LET ME KNOW AND WE'LL KEEP IT MOVING RIGHT ALONG. RIGHT. VERY GOOD. UM, COMMUNITY EDUCATION AWARENESS ADVANCE, THAT WAS THE KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. UM, OR WAS, HOLD ON, LET ME BEFORE I SAY THAT WAS, KNOW YOUR RIGHTS WITH US. ARE WE DOING FOR ML KS? HAVE WE DECIDED? NO, I MEAN YOU MOVED ON FROM THAT. ARE WE DOING ? LIKE ARE WE TABLING THAT UNTIL WE GET A CHAIR OR WE GAVE, I JUST GAVE THAT AT THE LAST MINUTE. I FORGOT YOU WERE HERE. ME. OH MY BAD. OKAY. AND I SAID BECAUSE I HAVE TIME. WE HAVE TIME. WELL, I'LL JUST PICK THAT UP AT NEXT OR OUR NEXT, AT OUR NEXT MEETING. OKAY. UH, YOLANDA, DO YOU NEED ONE TOO? I THINK THAT THE EMAILS, MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS WRITTEN INCORRECTLY AND I'M NOT GETTING THESE EMAILS. . OH, OKAY. MY BAD. YEAH, I'LL FIX THAT BECAUSE I'M LIKE, I DON'T HAVE THE RAMA RECOMMENDATION IN MY EMAILS EITHER. I SEARCHED IT AND I DON'T HAVE THAT. IT CAME TO MY, WELL IT CAME TO MY HOT, WHICH IS NOT MY PRIMARY ONE. SO I DON'T KNOW WHO EVEN HAD MY HOTMAIL. THAT'S HOW, THAT'S THE ONLY REASON I HAD IT. SOMEBODY HAD IT FROM SOMETHING SOMEWHERE ELSE. I DON'T KNOW. MM-HMM . BUT I, UH, DO YOU NEED, DO YOU NEED THAT? UH, MIA? UH, NO, I'M, I CAN GO BACK AND LOOK AT MY NOTES AND STUFF 'CAUSE IT HASN'T CHANGED FROM WHAT WE MM-HMM. SO, NO, I WAS JUST LOOKING FOR THAT PARTICULAR EMAIL AND I DIDN'T SEE IT. SO I, I I CAN, I CAN FORWARD IT TO YOU, BUT IT ALSO COULD BE, 'CAUSE I SWITCHED EMAILS, EMAILS FROM MY RIGHT STATE TO THIS ONE. MM-HMM . SO, SO THAT WOULD'VE COME FROM ME AND, UH, THE EMAILS CAME OFF OF THE OFFICIAL ROSTER. SO IF YOU'VE CHANGED EMAILS, SEND ME AN UPDATED EMAIL SO I CAN GET YOU ON THE, ON MY, UH, DISTRIBUTION LIST CORRECTLY. JEFFREY, WE OFFICIALLY CHANGED MY EMAIL TO MY NEW EMAIL OR NOT TO ME, SO I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU. OKAY. I KNOW COREY HAS IT 'CAUSE I GET EMAILS FROM COREY. YEAH, BUT IT'S LIKE, UM, MINES IS JUST INCORRECT. IT'S JUST THE SECOND LETTER OF MY EMAIL IS WRONG. THAT, THAT, WAS THAT JUST THE ONE THAT I SENT? DID I, SO DID I JUST TYPE IT IN WRONG? WAS THAT ONE FROM ME? SECOND ONE FROM HIM? I'M NOT SURE WHO IT IS. I, I I'M GETTING HER STRAIGHT. OKAY. OH, IT'S FROM ERIN ? IT WAS FROM ERIN . MM-HMM . SO I, I'VE SPELLED YOUR WRONG. YEAH. YEP. IT'S YC, NOT YE THAT'S WHAT IT WAS. YEP. AND THEN CCRB. C-B-C-C-R-B. I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE CONVERSATION OR THAT WAS BECAUSE, WELL I THINK IT'S 'CAUSE YOLANDA WAS HERE AT OUR LAST MEETING. I DON'T KNOW WHERE, IF THERE'S AN UPDATE THAT YOU HAVE YOLANDA OR IF THERE'S SOMETHING OH, THE CCC. WELL WE MET TWO WEEKS AGO, I THINK IT WAS NOW MM-HMM . UM, AND THEY'RE JUST LOOKING AT THE PROCEDURE FOR THE CCRB AND I DON'T KNOW, ERIN, IF YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT NEXT STEPS Y YEAH, SO WE HAD OUR FIRST ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING SINCE WE NOW HAVE A FULL, UM, SLATE OF VOLUNTEERS, UH, REPRESENTATIVES. UM, SO WE WERE GOING, EXCUSE ME. THERE WAS A SET OF DRAFT FLOW CHARTS THAT HAD BEEN PUT TOGETHER. UH, AND WE'RE GOING THROUGH NOW LOOKING TO MAKE SURE THAT, THAT, THAT MAKES SENSE THAT THE OUTCOMES, UH, MAKE SENSE FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE BOARD. UH, AND GOING THROUGH AND UH, [01:20:01] CREATING PROCEDURES AND POLICIES. UH, BECAUSE THERE HAD BEEN A QUITE A GAP BETWEEN WHEN THE, THE RESOLUTION WAS PUT FORWARD FOR THE ORGANIZATION VERSUS WHERE WE ARE NOW ACTUALLY FILLING OUT THE ORGANIZATION. SO WE WANT TO GO BACK AND MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF THIS MAKES SENSE NOW THAT WE HAVE A BOARD, UM, TO, TO BOUNCE THIS OFF OF. SO THAT'S WHERE WE ARE. SO ONE OF THE THINGS, UM, AND THAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF REFORM MM-HMM . THAT WE TOOK ON TWO YEAR, THREE YEARS, HOWEVER LONG AGO. UM, SO OUT OF THAT, OUT OF REFORM CAME THE CCRB, WHICH ERIC WAS A PART OF. IS ANYBODY ELSE A PART OF THAT HERE? I DON'T THINK SO. OKAY. UM, WHAT WAS I SAYING? SO WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT NOW WITH THE CCRB IS LOOKING AT IS ONCE A PER, ONCE AN INDIVIDUAL LIKE FILES A COMPLAINT AND THEN THEY CAN BRING IT TO THE CCRB, JUST KIND OF ESTABLISHING, AS ERIN SAID, THOSE PROCESSES AS PROCEDURES TO DETERMINE SPECIFICALLY WHAT IS THE CRITERIA, SPECIFIC CRITERIA THAT SAYS OKAY, THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT TO SAY YAY OR NAY. WE AGREE WITH THE FINDINGS OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. SO JUST TIGHTENING UP SOME OF THOSE PROCESSES. COOL. ALRIGHT. THAT'S ALL. IS THAT IT? UH, YOLANDA FOR CRB? YES. AND OH, UM, ERIC HAD ASKED ME A QUESTION ABOUT, SO WE BEGAN A DISCUSSION. WE, UH, THE, OUR COMMISSION HAS A SEAT ON THE CCRB, SO YOU CAN BE A PART OF THE COMMISSION AND STILL BE A PART OF THE CCRB. IS THAT CORRECT, AARON? I BELIEVE THAT IS CORRECT, YES. THAT'S A, THAT'S A RESOLUTION THAT'S BEEN MODIFIED FOR DOUBLE FEET. I DIDN'T, I THINK THAT THAT'S AN ESTABLISHED BOARD. YEAH, I THINK THAT'S, THAT WAS ESTABLISHED FROM THE, FROM THE JUMP IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN. I THINK THAT WAS IN THE ORIGINAL RESOLUTION, BUT YEAH. YEAH, IT WAS. UM, AND TONY SAID IT WAS OKAY. SO I THINK IT WAS BECAUSE I THINK WHEN THEY SENT IT, I THINK THAT'S WHAT, OR AT LEAST THE ONE I SAW, I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS UPDATED OR MODIFIED ONE. I THINK IT WAS, IT WAS, I MEAN THE PUR THE PURPOSE WAS WE WANTED TO HAVE A A, A CONDUIT BETWEEN THE TWO SINCE IT CAME OUT OF THIS COMMISSION TO ALSO HAVE A SEAT ON THAT CCRV. RIGHT. UM, ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS OR ANNOUNCEMENTS THAT NEED TO BE PUT OUT MADE, WOULD IT BE HELPFUL FOR YOUR PRESENTATION TO COUNSEL ON THE RAMA RECOMMENDATIONS THAT IF I, IF I SENT YOU A LIST OF THE ITEMS THAT THE CITY'S ALREADY IMPLEMENTED AS PART OF THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS? YES. OKAY, COOL. YEAH, HELPFUL. ARE THEY ALREADY WORKING ON SOME OF THESE THINGS? YEAH, WE'VE TICKED OFF PROBABLY A QUARTER OF 'EM ALREADY. OH YEAH. THAT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL TO KNOW. . GOOD JOB, AARON. ALRIGHT. UM, OUR NEXT UPCOMING MEETING IS AUGUST THE SIXTH, 2026. UM, TRYING TO SAY JULY DID, YEAH, I ABOUT TO SAY DO WE, I THOUGHT WE SAID WE WERE GONNA MEET IN JULY, BUT I, I DON'T WANT TO QUOTE THAT BECAUSE I, BUT I KNOW THAT'S LIKE THE SECOND IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN. SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S, I THINK I, I HAVEN'T DID WE, I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT DOING, WAS THERE A DATE SET THAT I, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW. YEAH. UM, WE CAN, 'CAUSE I THINK WE HAD TALKED ABOUT IT. IF WE DO, IT WOULD BE LIKE A BRIEF MEETING JUST TO DISCUSS WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO FOR THE, UM, FOR THE PARADE. BUT, UM, LET ME KNOW BEFORE WE GET OUTTA HERE TODAY. 'CAUSE IF WE NEED TO MODIFY THAT, THAT'S FINE. I THINK I MIGHT EMAIL FIRST WEEK OF JULY. I'LL BE BACK FOR THE 4TH OF JULY, BUT I WON'T BE ABLE TO DO THAT THAT WEEK. YES. WELL WE GOT MOST OF THE PEOPLE HERE. YOU JUST MAKE ASK HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN ACTUALLY ATTEND THE JULY MEETING. I ABOUT TO SAY, LET ME, I DON'T, I, LET ME FIGURE OUT THE DATE FIRST. HOW ABOUT THAT? I DON'T, THE EMAIL SAYS JULY 2ND. YEAH, JULY 2ND. IS THAT, IS THE, WOULD BE THE OFFICIAL? YEAH, WOULD BE THE OFFICIAL. IF, IF WE HAD THAT JULY MEETING, A MEETING. SO IF WE WANT TO MEET IN JULY, DOES EVERYONE I NEED TO PUT A MOTION ON, SO WE HAD TO MAKE AN AMENDMENT TO THE, I THINK IT WAS BY TEXT DOCUMENTS. OKAY. SO WE'RE GONNA BE IN JULY. YAY. OR, WELL, I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE MEET IN JULY ON JULY 2ND, 2026. NORMAL TIME [01:25:03] SECOND. NOW WE CAN HAVE DISCUSSION IF WE NEED TO CAM, IF WE CAN, IF WE WILL OR IF WE WON'T. UM, ARE WE, I KNOW YOU WON'T MAKE IT, BUT WILL WE HAVE, WILL WE HAVE A QUORUM ON THAT DAY YOU SAID? YES. I'LL BE OUT OF TOWN. ERIC, IT'S THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND, RIGHT? UH, IT'S AT, YEAH, IT'S THAT THURSDAY. THURSDAY, YEAH. THE SECOND IS A THURSDAY. MM-HMM . ERIC? YES, I'LL BE THERE. YES. 3, 4, 5. BE WE'LL HAVE A QUORUM. SO WE'LL HAVE THAT MEETING. I THINK WE NEED TO ASK THE IMPORTANT QUESTION. AARON, CAN YOU THAT'S, THAT WAS MY NEXT QUESTION. . . UM, IT'S A WORK DAY FOR US, SO I PLAN TO BE HERE. . OKAY. I PLAN ON BE HERE. AND LIKE I SAID, THAT MEETING WILL JUST BE TO JUST MAKE SURE WE ARE READY TO GO FOR IT WON'T BE A EXTENT, YOU KNOW, THIS, THIS LENGTH OF TIME I DON'T ANTICIPATE. UM, ALL RIGHT, HERE WE GO. SO OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE JULY 2ND, 2026 AT 7:00 PM ALL MINES CLEAR. ANYTHING FOR THE GOOD OF THE ORDER? WHAT TIME? SIX. DID I SAY SEVEN? YEAH, SIX DOWN. I'M SORRY. 6:00 PM OKAY. . I MAKE A MOTION TO ADJOURN THE MEETING. SECOND. SECOND. MOTION HAS BEEN PROBABLY MOVED AND SECONDED IN 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.