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[ AGENDA CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZEN ACTION COMMISSION City Hall - Council Chambers 6151 Brandt Pike October 1, 2026 6:00 P.M. ]
RIGHT.I WILL CALL OUR HUBERT HEIGHTS CULTURE AND DIVERSITY CITIZEN ACTION COMMISSION MEETING TO ORDER AT 6:05 PM ON OCTOBER 1ST, 2026.
IF WE COULD GET A ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
MR. PRESENT? THANK YOU FOR THAT.
UH, WE WILL NOW, UM, IF YOU GUYS COULD GLANCE OVER THE AGENDA AND WE WILL LOOK FOR, TO VOTE FOR, TO APPROVE THE AGENDA.
I JUST NEED A MOTION TO APPROVE THAT.
CAN I GET A MOTION TO APPROVE THE, THE AGENDA? I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE OUR AGENDA.
AGENDA HAS BEEN PROPERLY MOVED AND SECONDED.
UH, UM, DID YOU GUYS ALL GET A COPY OF THE MINUTES FROM LA FROM THE LAST MEETING? LAST MEETING WAS CANCELED.
LAST MEETING WAS CANCELED, SO WE DID NOT HAVE, WE DON'T HAVE TO PROVE THOSE MINUTES.
YOU MEAN THE PREVIOUS ONE? YEAH, THE PREVIOUS.
BUT THIS SAYS WE ALREADY, IT SAYS WITHOUT OBJECTION.
SO YOU GUYS ALREADY RULE ON THAT.
UM, WE HAVE NO CITIZENS HERE TODAY.
UM, FIRST, UH, ORDER UP IS, UH, A DIVERSITY TRAINING UPDATE.
AND ILANA, IS THAT, WAS THAT FOR THE CITY? UM, TYPICALLY AARON GIVES US THAT UPDATE.
AN UPDATE ON THE DIVERSITY TRAINING.
SO AARON IS NOT AVAILABLE TONIGHT, SO THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE THE NEXT ONE.
BUT WE CAN, I'LL FOLLOW, WE CAN FOLLOW UP THAT WITH AN EMAIL.
UM, AND THEN OUR RECOMMENDATIONS, THE NEXT ORDER BUSINESS, AN OLD BUSINESS IS RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL FOR RAMA.
DID WE EVER DECIDE WHAT RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE RAMA LIST WE WOULD WANTED TO GIVE TO COUNSEL? MM-HMM.
AS A, I MEAN AS A WHOLE, I KNOW EVERYBODY GOT IT.
A LOT OF PEOPLE LOOKED OVER IT.
BUT DID WE EVER COLLECTIVELY STATE THAT? I THOUGHT WE VOTED ON, UM, THE RECOMMENDATION THAT WE WERE GONNA VOTE FOR.
WAS THAT TWO MEETINGS AGO? I WILL LOOK BACK AT THOSE, AT THOSE MEETINGS AND I'LL FOLLOW UP ON THAT.
UM, BECAUSE WHAT I'LL DO IS WHEN WE GO TO OUR NEXT, AARON LETS ME KNOW MY NEXT, I THINK IT'S, IS IT THE, IT'S A QUARTERLY REPORT TO COUNCIL.
I'LL BRING THAT UP IN THAT, IN THAT MEETING.
SO THAT SHOULD BE, I THINK, IS IT, I THINK IT'S NEXT MONTH.
WILL IT BE AFTER THE MEETING? YEAH.
'CAUSE I THINK THEIRS IS THE SECOND, SECOND THURSDAY.
'CAUSE IF WE CAN LOOK BACK AND BRING FORWARD BACK, TALK ABOUT IT IN RECOMMENDATION IN THE MEETING.
AND THEN I'LL, BUT I'LL SEND OUT WHAT, UM, THAT RECOMMENDATION WAS FROM, I THINK IT WAS TWO MEETINGS AGO.
SO EVERYBODY CAN, CAN LOOK INTO THEIR NOTES.
UM, I HAVE SOME INFORMATION ON THAT.
UM, ONLY BECAUSE AARON, I, YEP.
HE WAS IN OUR MEETING YESTERDAY AND MM-HMM
HE WASN'T GONNA BE HERE TONIGHT.
YOU GOT ONE FOR EVERYBODY? OR WE JUST DID LOOK AT JUST PASS.
I DIDN'T THINK YOU WANTED WAS GONNA BE HERE.
UM, IS THIS A ONE SET LIKE TO PASS DOWN? YEAH.
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SET THREE.I GUESS WE CAN SHARE THIS IF YOU DON'T MIND.
YOU SAID YOU DO HAVE FIVE? YEAH, I DO HAVE FIVE.
SO, UM, WHAT AARON WANTED US TO DO WAS TO JUST DISCUSS WHERE WE THINK WE MIGHT COME IN.
UM, AT OUR, FOR OUR 2027 BUDGET, HE ASKED FOR JUST A LITTLE BIT OF GUIDANCE.
UM, AND SO WE'VE GOT 24, 25 AND 26 HERE.
UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE USUALLY BUDGETED FOR.
I, IS IT 15,000? I THOUGHT IT WAS MORE THAN THAT, BUT IT SOUNDS I'VE HEARD 10 AND I'VE HEARD 15, SO I DON'T KNOW.
BECAUSE WE ARE ALREADY OVER FOR THIS YEAR.
UM, BUT HE WILL FIX THAT, UM, AS WE GO INTO PLANNING FOR, UM, MARTIN LUTHER KING.
BUT HE'S GONNA NEED TO KNOW SOON KIND OF WHERE WE WANNA LAND.
AND IF YOU'LL SEE ON THE NUMBERS, UM, THAT ARE ON THE BACKS OF THE PAGES, THERE'S THE TOTALS.
UM, FOR 2024, WE WERE AT, UM, 16, 6 96.
WE
AND I THINK YOU GUYS HAVE 2026.
I DON'T KNOW WHERE MY COPY OF THAT WENT, BUT I THINK IT'S AT AROUND 17.
OH, BUT OH, IT SAYS NEED TO ADD FOUR.
UM, I THINK 2026 WE'RE AT 17,000 SOMETHING LIKE ALMOST 18.
UM, SO I DEFINITELY DON'T FEEL LIKE WE'RE GONNA COME IN AT
WHAT REALLY BLEW US OUT OF THE WATER, IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS, UM, MULTICULTURAL FEST THAT WAS VERY EXPENSIVE IN 2025.
'CAUSE WE HAD A DC DC AND I GUESS THERE WAS THE DANCE FLOOR AND THERE'S SOME OTHER THINGS.
UM, I THINK WE SHOULD EACH TAKE THIS AND THEN KIND OF LOOK OVER EVERYTHING, UM, NUMBER ONE, SO THAT WE KNOW WHAT EVERYTHING IS.
AND UM, I DON'T KNOW WHERE MY 2026 SHEET WENT, BUT LIKE I SAW FOR THE CULTURE AND DIVERSITY OR FOR THE MULTICULTURAL, I, THERE WAS LIKE OVER A THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THE FACE PAINTING OR SOMETHING THAT SEEMED 1500, A LITTLE EXPENSIVE TO ME.
SO THERE'S DEFINITELY JUST SOME THINGS I THINK WE CAN PROBABLY GO TO HIM AND SAY, OH, WE'LL, WE'LL HIT UNDER, UNDER 20.
YOU KNOW, UM, YOU KNOW, AND, AND THIS YEAR WASN'T TOO BAD BECAUSE WE ADDED ON THE, THE BASKETBALL EVENT, BUT THAT DIDN'T TAKE A HUGE CUT, I DON'T THINK FROM WHEN I GLANCED AT THINGS.
UM, I THINK, AND THIS IS JUST MY, AND WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT JUST BRIEFLY ABOUT THIS LAST NIGHT, IS THE, THE POWER AND CAPABILITY WE MIGHT HAVE TO GET MORE SPONSORS.
THE MORE WE WORK TOGETHER COLLECTIVELY AND GET OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY AND GET SPONSORS, THE, I THINK THE, THE LESS STRESS THERE'S GOING TO BE ON OUR BUDGET.
AND SO WHEN WE GO AND WE ASK THEM FOR NEW THINGS THAT WE MIGHT COME UP WITH, IT MIGHT NOT BE SO HARD ASKING FOR MONEY IN THE FUTURE.
BUT I DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, HOW MUCH DO WE CHARGE VENDORS NORMALLY? UM, SO WE APPROXIMATELY FOR EVERY EVENT WE'VE HAD, UM, A HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR THE FOOD TRUCKS AND THEN WE'VE HAD $50 FOR VENDORS.
AND THEN FOR THE MULTICULTURAL FEST, IF THEY WERE A CULTURAL VENDOR, THERE WAS NO FEE.
UM, BUT THERE WEREN'T MANY OF THEM RIGHT THERE THAT EVEN INITIALLY REGISTERED.
SO, UM, WE CAN DEFINITELY THINK ABOUT RAISING VENDOR FEES.
I WAS JUST ASKING 'CAUSE THIS JUST SAYS EXPENSES.
SO OUR EXPENSES WILL ALWAYS BE THE SAME, BUT WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE ACTUALLY BRING IN THE OFFSET SOME OF THAT STUFF EITHER.
BUT I AGREE WITH YOU, 1600 FOR FACE PAINTING MIGHT BE A BIT MUCH.
BUT IF WE KNOW, LIKE IF BOUNCE HOUSES ARE 400 BUCKS AND WE NEED 'EM TWO EVENTS, THEN WE JUST NEED $400 BOUNCE HOUSES AT TWO EVENTS.
I MEAN, SOMETHING ELSE TO CONSIDER TOO IS MOLLY PULLED IN A LOT OF THINGS FOR SOME OF THESE EVENTS, BUT THAT'S STUFF THAT WE SHOULD BE DOING.
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POINT, IF, IF WE'RE AGREEING TO TAKE ON EVENTS AND DO THEM, WE NEED TO BE ORGANIZING THEM AND EXECUTING THEM.AND THAT MEANS ORGANIZING FROM THE VERY BEGINNING TO THE VERY END.
AND THAT MEANS GETTING SPONSORS.
UM, WE NEED TO MAYBE START FINDING PEOPLE THAT WILL DO THINGS IN KIND MM-HMM
UM, YOU KNOW, AND THAT'S JUST LEG WORK ON OUR PART.
AND I THINK THAT'S PART OF A BIGGER CONVERSATION THAT WE'RE GONNA GET TO.
BUT I JUST WANNA THROW THOSE THINGS OUT IN CONSIDERATION OF WHEN YOU GUYS ARE KIND OF LOOKING AT THESE NUMBERS AND WHERE YOU THINK WE MIGHT LAND AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
DID HE SAY WHERE, WHERE DID HE GIVE LIKE AN ESTIMATE OF PROBABLY WHERE WE SHOULD LAND WHEN YOU WERE, WHEN HE GAVE YOU THIS OR NO? UM, I THINK HE JUST WANTS A LITTLE BIT OF GUIDANCE.
UM, I THINK WE GO BACK EVEN FURTHER A COUPLE YEARS.
I THINK WE WERE PROBABLY, I DON'T KNOW, YOLANDA, MAYBE YOU HAVE AN IDEA OF WHERE WE LANDED, UM, INTO 21, 22 AND 23.
I, I WANNA SAY IT WAS PROBABLY UNDER 15.
YEAH, YOU SAID UNDER OUR BUDGET, I BELIEVE WHEN WE STARTED WAS 15.
BUT THE OTHER THING THAT WE NEED TO DO, UM, BE MORE COGNIZANT OF THE, I BROUGHT THIS UP BEFORE, IS ANYTHING THAT WE SEE ON THIS SPREADSHEET SHOULD NOT BE A SURPRISE TO THE COMMISSION BECAUSE EVERY DOLLAR AMOUNT NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT TO THE COMMISSION TO BE VOTED UPON.
WE NEED TO APPROVE THESE THINGS LIKE WE MENTIONED, UM, THE FACE PAINTING OR WHAT I HAD NO IDEA.
SO, UM, THOSE ARE THINGS THAT NEED TO BE BROUGHT BACK TO THE COMMISSION SO THAT WE CAN VOTE AND SAY, NO, WE'RE NOT DOING THIS BECAUSE IT'S TOO MUCH OR WE NEED TO DO THIS DIFFERENT SO THAT WE CAN MANAGE OUR BUDGET.
AND THERE, AND REMEMBER ALSO THINGS THAT COME OUT OF OUR BUDGET ARE, UM, THE NAACP BANQUET, RIGHT? THE TURKISH EVENT CAME OUT, MEMORIAL EVENT CAME OUT.
SO THERE ARE THINGS THAT THE CITY ALSO USES OUR BUDGET FOR.
ANYTHING THAT'S DIVERSITY OR CULTURAL RELATED, I GUESS THEY COME TO THE COMMISSION TO PAY FOR THAT
AND WHEN DID THEY SHOW UP TO INDICATE THAT, TO INDICATE, WHEN DID THE CITY, UM, SHOW UP TO INDICATE HOW MUCH THEY WERE SPENDING ON THE 15,000 BUDGET? UH, WELL I KNOW LIKE FOR MLK, I CAN'T REMEMBER IF WE VOTED ON THAT.
LIKE THE MLK SPONSORSHIP LAST YEAR TABLE.
SO THEY COMMUNICATE THAT TO US VIA EMAIL MAYBE.
UH, AND THEN THEY BRING IT THE TURKISH, I MEAN THAT WAS 2024.
I REMEMBER THE ONE YEAR WE VOTED ON THAT.
UH, I REMEMBER THE ONE YEAR WE VOTED ON THAT.
BUT THOSE ARE THINGS THAT ARE LIKE, THAT JUST COME MORE OUT OF THE BLUE THAT WE CAN'T PREPARE FOR THE YEAR BEFORE.
SO THE TURKISH HAVE BEEN THAT YOU WERE SPEAKING OF, THIS IS THE FIRST I'M HEARING ABOUT IT.
HAVE THEY BEEN CONTINUING IT? NO.
A TUR TUR, BUT IT WAS ALSO ONE OF OUR LOWER END OF THE BUDGET.
SO 2024 WE SPENT 17 COMING TO THE TURKISH EVENT.
THAT WAS AN EVENT WAS ORGANIZED BY THE TURKISH COMMUNITY MM-HMM
AND, UH, THEY JUST LET HUBER HEIGHTS TO BE A PART OF THE EVENT SINCE THERE'S SO MANY, UM, MEMBERS THAT LIVE IN HUBER HEIGHTS, SO MM-HMM
THAT'S WHY THEY DONATED LIKE $5,000 MM-HMM
AND I GUESS IT CAME OUT OF, UH, THE CULTURAL DIVERSITY COMMITTEE'S BUDGET.
BUT IT WAS THE, THE, THE CITY WHO CONTRIBUTED TOWARDS THAT EVENT.
I, YEAH, I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
I'M NOT, I'M NOT, I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH WHAT THEY DID.
I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH HOW WE GONNA SET A BUDGET.
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE CITY IS DOING.
BUT EVEN LOOKING AT THOSE NUMBERS, 2024 WE'RE AT 16, ALMOST 17,000 IN 2026 WE'RE AT, WHAT, 17,000? I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND.
HOW DID WE END UP 37,000? ALMOST 38,000 IN 2025.
IT'S LIKE THE DOUBLE THE COST.
I MEAN, WE, WE'VE DONE EVERYTHING ALMOST PRETTY MUCH SAME FROM PREVIOUS YEARS.
NEITHER I, HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? IF YOU LOOK AT THE LINE ITEMS SINCE I WASN'T HERE, I WAS LOOKING AT IT, IT LOOKS LIKE WHAT CHRISTIE SAID, THE
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THERE WAS A HUGE INCREASE WITH THE, SOME OF THE PERFORMANCES AT THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL.AND I'M NOT TRYING TO, AND I'M SORRY FOR INTERRUPT YOU, BUT I JUST WANT YOU, THAT'S AN EXAMPLE OF GIVING JEFFREY THE REINS AND HAVING HIM SECURE THINGS FOR US WHEN WE SHOULD BE DOING THAT.
BECAUSE ANYTIME SOMETHING IS COMING OUT OF OUR BUDGET, IT NEEDS TO BE VOTED UPON.
SO EVEN IF THE CITY IS DOING THINGS, IF IT'S COMING OUT OF OUR BUCKET OF MONEY, IT NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT TO THE COMMISSION TO BE APPROVED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT.
BUT IT'S FAIR TO SAY I DON'T THINK A VERY GOOD JOB WAS DONE WITH OUR LIAISON AT THAT POINT, KEEPING US ABREAST OF WHERE WE WERE WITH OUR BUDGET.
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE SEEN, I'VE SEEN IT.
YOU MAY, YOU GUYS MAY HAVE SEEN I'VE, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE EVER SEEN OUR BUDGET OR OUR EXPENSES.
BECAUSE I DON'T WANNA SAY THIS IS OUR BUDGET.
'CAUSE IT DOESN'T SHOW WHAT WE EARNED EITHER.
I'M NOT SAYING WE TOOK IN A TON OF MONEY TO OFFSET THESE NUMBERS.
HUNDREDS OF, OR YOU KNOW, TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS OR WHATEVER.
BUT WE DO KNOW WE HAVE, IF EACH VENDOR PAYS A HUNDRED BUCKS, RIGHT.
EVEN IF WE'VE HAD 10 VENDORS, WE KNOW THAT'S GONNA REDUCE SOME OF THESE NUMBERS BY AT LEAST A THOUSAND DOLLARS.
BUT TO YOUR POINT, I, I DON'T KNOW WHY 2025 IS SO HIGH AT ALL.
'CAUSE WE DIDN'T DO ANY EXTRA EVENT IN 25 THAT WE HAVEN'T DONE PREVIOUSLY.
BUT, BUT IF YOU COMPARE, LIKE, EXCUSE ME, MAYBE IT'S JUST A LEARNING CURVE FOR EACH TIME YOU HOLD THE EVENT.
UM, MAYBE YOU GET COMPETITIVE BID, FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD, BECAUSE SOME OF THE EXPENSES FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT FOR JUNETEENTH, THE LINE ITEMS ARE HIGHER.
THE, I MEAN, SO MAYBE THAT'S PART OF IT.
AND THEN WITH THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL, IT'S THE SAME KIND OF YEAH, SAME TYPE OF THING.
SO I KNOW IT, IT'S, IT'S ON, UH, IT'S ON US.
IT'S ON THE COMMISSION TO KEEP TRACK OF OUR BUDGET.
SO THAT'S WHY IT HAS TO BE BROUGHT BACK TO US.
YOU SAID IT WAS 15
WHAT? THE BUDGET WAS ORIGINALLY AFTER 15? I THINK IT WAS 15.
SO WHAT I'VE DONE PREVIOUSLY IS WHENEVER YOU HAVE A LINE ITEM, LET'S SAY YOU ARE OVER, I DON'T KNOW, MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL, YOU BRING A LIST OF ALL OF THE EXPENSES.
IF YOU'RE THE LEADER, YOU BRING A LIST OF ALL OF THE EXPENSES ASSOCIATED WITH THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL SO THAT THE COMMISSION CAN SEE EVERY LINE ITEM AND WE VOTE ON THAT.
AND THEN WE CONTINUOUSLY CHECK BACK WITH THE CITY, AT LEAST LIKE QUARTERLY TO SEE OKAY, WHERE ARE WE? JUST LIKE YOU DO FOR YOUR PERSONAL BUDGET? WELL, WE SHOULD, I'M WITH YOU.
THAT IS KIND OF PIGGYBACK ON THAT.
WE BRING THE LIST AND EVERYTHING, BUT EVEN BEFORE WE GET TO THAT, WHEN WE'RE SELECTING, I GUESS, DO WE DO THAT AT THE SAME TIME WHERE WE'RE SELECTING WHICH VENDOR? LIKE THE FACE PAINTING LAST YEAR OR ONE YEAR IT WAS ONLY A FEW HUNDRED DOLLARS.
SO WHEN DO WE HAVE, DO WE BRING THAT AT THE SAME TIME COMMISSION, I HAVE THIS VENDOR FOR FACE PAINTING WHO WANTS TO CHARGE US THIS VERSUS I HAVE ANOTHER FACE PAINTER WHO WANTS, AND THEN WE VOTE AT THE SAME TIME AS WE'RE FOR EACH EVENT.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? LIKE, OR IS THAT KIND OF BEFORE WE EVEN GET INTO THAT? WELL, GENERALLY WHAT'S DONE IS, OKAY, YOU'RE OVER JUNETEENTH.
YOU HAVE $10,000 TO SPEND FOR JUNETEENTH.
NOW WITHIN THAT $10,000, YOU FIGURE THINGS OUT, YOU CAN COME AND YOU CAN PRESENT A FACE PAINTER FOR A THOUSAND DOLLARS.
AND THAT MEANS YOU'VE GOT $9,000.
IS IT OKAY THAT WE'RE SPENDING THAT ON THE FACE BANNER? RIGHT.
AND AND CURRENTLY THUS FAR, YOU HAVE NOT ACTUALLY SET A BUDGET FOR EACH ONE OF THESE EVENTS, AM I CORRECT? CORRECT.
WE HAVE PREVIOUSLY, AND THEREIN LIES, WE HAVE NOT, YOU DON'T HAVE A BUDGET FOR EACH PROGRAM.
IN THE PAST? WE HAVE IN THE PAST.
WE HAVE, WE HAVE NOT RECENTLY.
SO AGAIN, THIS WAS BE, THIS WAS WHEN WE HAD OUR, OUR TASK GROUPS PER SE.
THE TASK GROUP WOULD COME IN NOVEMBER AND SAY, BASED ON WHAT WE HAVE PLANNED FOR NEXT YEAR,
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THIS IS HOW MUCH WE THINK WE'RE GONNA NEED.SO, YOU KNOW, BEFORE GOING INTO THE YEAR, YOU'VE ALREADY REQUESTED A BUDGET.
FOR US AS I THINK WE NEED TO GO BACK YEAH.
FOR US AS A COMMISSION, UM, WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT THAT BUDGET IS THUS FAR.
I'M JUST HEARING THAT THE BUDGET WAS 15 K.
DIDN'T KNOW THAT THAT SHOULD BE A PART OF OUR AGENDAS AND A PART OF OUR PROGRAM.
SO WE ARE ALWAYS PAYING ATTENTION TO IT.
AND I DON'T THINK WE'VE BEEN PAYING ATTENTION.
WE'VE BEEN AGREEING TO WHAT'S BEEN SPENT.
I KNOW I HAVE AGREED FROM THE JUNETEENTH PROGRAM, NOT MLK THIS PAST YEAR, BUT JUNETEENTH AND THE, UM, AND THE, UM, THE BASKETBALL, THE 3 0 3 I AGREED TO, BUT I REALLY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THAT BUDGET WAS.
UM, SO NOT A GOOD, UH, GOOD THING THERE.
I GUESS MY QUESTION IS TO CHRISTIE, SINCE SHE'S HAD A CONVERSATION WITH UM, UM, HIM ABOUT THE BUDGET, WHEN DOES HE WANT US TO SET THIS BUDGET OR GIVE HIM INFORMATION ON HIS BUDGET SINCE WE DON'T MEET, BUT ONCE A MONTH? HE SAID, WE DON'T NEED TO VOTE ON ANYTHING TODAY, BUT HE NEEDS SOME GUIDANCE.
SO I THINK WE SHOULD TOSS OUT SOME NUMBERS AND THEN, UM, COREY OR I CAN GET BACK TO HIM IN AN EMAIL SAYING, THIS IS WHAT WE'VE DISCUSSED.
THIS IS COLLECTIVELY WHAT WE THINK.
CAN WE VOTE ON THIS IN NOVEMBER? I THINK IT'S PRETTY NOTABLE THAT THE BUDGET INITIALLY WAS 15 AND THEN WE HAVE TWO YEARS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT WERE WITHIN THAT RANGE, 15 TO 17.
SO, UH, AND I CAN'T, I CAN'T SPEAK, YOLANDA CAN SPEAK TO THIS MUCH GREATER THAN I CAN.
AND MAYBE EVEN CHRISTIE TOO WAS JEFF, WAS JEFFREY ALWAYS THE INITIAL LIAISON FOR, NO, SARAH WILLIAMS WAS OUR LIAISON.
SARAH AND THEN JEFFREY, AND NOW WE HAVE AARON.
IS THAT RIGHT? OR MAYBE SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN.
SO, AND I THINK I, IF I RECALL CORRECTLY, I FEEL THAT SARAH WAS MUCH BETTER AT KEEPING US ON TRACK WITH BUDGET ITEMS AND HOW MUCH THINGS WERE AND UM RIGHT.
UM, I DON'T KNOW THAT THIS IS ON JEFFREY.
'CAUSE HE DID, HE GAVE US THE, WE KNEW WHAT OUR NUMBERS WERE.
BUT IF WE FELT LIKE WE WERE GOING OVER THOSE NUMBERS, THEN WE WOULD BRING THAT FORWARD TO HIM.
BUT WE STILL HAVE TO MONITOR IT OURSELVES.
SO I THINK GOING FORWARD, GENERALLY WHAT, AT THIS POINT, WE SHOULD KNOW WHAT, BASED ON OUR PREVIOUS EXPENSES, I DON'T KNOW WHERE THIS NUMBER, THESE NUMBERS CAME FROM
UM, EXPENDITURES, WE SHOULD KNOW NOW AT THIS POINT TO BE ABLE TO SUBMIT SOMETHING TO THE CITY TO SAY, OKAY, WE KNOW WE'RE GONNA SPEND 6,000 A MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL OR JUNETEENTH.
I, I WOULD LIKE TO LIKE LOOK AT, DO WE HAVE THIS, YOU HAVE THIS ELECTRONICALLY? HMM.
DO YOU HAVE THIS ELECTRONICALLY? NO, BUT I BET HE COULD, AARON COULD PROBABLY SEND IT TO US.
IF HE COULD SEND IT TO US AND WE COULD JUST BREAK THIS OUT AND LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, THE AMOUNT BY ITEM OR BY EVENT.
UM, AND THAT WILL GIVE US KIND OF AN INDICATOR, YOU KNOW, AND WE CAN LOOK AT THIS OVER THE PAST, THESE THREE YEARS THAT YOU'VE OFFERED US HERE.
THAT'S WHY I WAS ASKING THE QUESTION, WHEN DOES HE WANT IT? WHEN DO THEY, WHEN DO THEY, UM, WHEN DO THEY VOTE ON THE BUDGET? BUDGET? TALK ABOUT SAY BUDGETS NOW.
SO THIS IS WHEN WE WOULD NORMALLY HAVE THE NUMBERS TO HIM.
SO, AND I, I THINK HE'S LOOKING FOR MAYBE SOME EMAILS FROM YOU JUST TO GIVE HIM SOME IDEA OF WHERE YOU'RE THINKING SO THAT HE CAN THEN GO ON AND PROVE THAT.
BECAUSE YOLANDA, AS YOU KNOW, THAT CAN ALWAYS BE ADJUSTED.
SO I THINK BECAUSE WE'RE THE ONLY FIVE HERE THAT HAVE THE SOMETHING IN FRONT OF US AND YOU ONLY HAVE FIVE COPIES ANYWAY.
SO I THINK THE FIVE OF US WILL PROBABLY JUST HAVE TO
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CRUNCH THESE NUMBERS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AND COME UP WITH SOMETHING WHERE WE FEEL LIKE, I THINK THE 37 IS AN OUTLIER, BUT YEAH.I, I, I DON'T WANT TO SAY, I DON'T WANNA, IT JUST LOOKS LIKE THAT.
'CAUSE WE'VE NEVER REALLY SPENT THAT MUCH.
AND IF, TO YOUR POINT, YOLANDA, IF WE'VE ALWAYS HAD THAT 15 AND THEN IT WAS 15, 15, MAYBE 16, AND NOW WE'RE AT 17, THAT JUST SEEMS LIKE A NORMAL PROGRESSION OF JUST THINGS JUST, IF WE JUST LOOK AT THOSE NUMBERS, THAT'S JUST NORMAL PROGRESSION OF THINGS JUST COSTING MORE BECAUSE OF INFLATION.
NOT BECAUSE TRYING TO DRAIN THE BUDGET.
I MEAN THERE'S, UM, WOULD OUR NOVEMBER MEETING BE TOO LATE FOR US TO VOTE ON THE NUMBER THAT WE'RE, OR WE HAVE A QUORUM TODAY.
SO WE SH MAYBE CONSIDER, I I THINK AT LEAST NEED TO TALK ON IT, GIVE HIM SOME NUMBERS AND THEN MAYBE IN NOVEMBER HE CAN BRING BACK TO YOU.
BECAUSE THE ONLY THING I CAN THINK OF RIGHT NOW, IF WE'RE AT 17 NOW OR A LITTLE OVER 17, I THINK THAT'S, IF WE LOOK AT WHAT WE'RE SPENDING NOW, THAT'S 'CAUSE WE, WE SHOULDN'T BE SPENDING ANY MORE.
THERE'S NOTHING ELSE WE HAVE LEFT.
'CAUSE WE DON'T, LAST YEAR WE DIDN'T, WELL LEMME SEE, LAST YEAR WE DIDN'T PUT ANYTHING FOR OUR HOLIDAY PARADE.
WE JUST, THAT WAS MORE OF A, A, A SHARE DECORATIONS FOR 4TH OF JULY.
I MEAN, THAT'S ALREADY ANYTHING WE MIGHT DO FOR THE CHRISTMAS EVENT IF WE PARTICIPATE IN THAT, IT'LL BE MINIMAL.
BUT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE STILL HAVE, UM, WE'LL BE DOING THE UM, THREE ON THREE AGAIN.
AND I THINK THERE'S GONNA BE A LITTLE MORE MARKETING INVOLVED WITH THAT, A LITTLE MORE, UM, YOU KNOW, INCENTIVE TO, TO MAKE IT, YOU KNOW, DEFINITELY BIGGER THAN THIS YEAR WE'RE GONNA HAVE THE KNOW YOUR RIGHTS IS STILL FLOATING AROUND OUT THERE, UM, THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE.
WE DON'T, I MEAN, AND THOSE THINGS AREN'T GONNA BE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS, BUT I MEAN MAYBE IT'S A SAFE BET TO SAY, UM, YOU KNOW, LET'S THINK ABOUT 20, LET LET'S PUT 20 OUT THERE AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
I MEAN IT'S NOT FAR OFF FROM WHERE WE ARE NOW AND WE'RE LOOKING AT RELATIVELY THE SAME PRINTING COSTS FOR THINGS AND YOU KNOW, THE LITTLE THINGS DO ADD UP.
UM, BUT AGAIN, IF, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HANG ON THAT AND WE KNOW THAT WE'RE GONNA NEED SPONSORS THAT'LL MAYBE GIVE US A MORE OF AN INCENTIVE TO, TO WORK THE COMMUNITY THAT WAY.
UM, BECAUSE I WAS GONNA SAY LIKE 18, I WAS GONNA SAY BETWEEN 18 AND 20, THAT SEEMS LIKE WHERE IT'S GONNA LAND YEAH.
THAT GIVES YOU A LITTLE INCREASE.
SUCH AS THE INCREASE IN THINGS.
SO IF WE GO 20, I'M OKAY WITH 20.
WE ALSO HAVE TO KEEP IN MIND THAT THEY TAKE OUT THAT $2,500 FROM OUR BUDGET FOR THE NAACP BANQUET.
AND THAT COMES OUT EVERY YEAR AND WE JUST, BUT THAT'S, I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY THAT 44 ON THE TOP OF OUR 26 BUDGET.
THERE'S LIKE 44 48 WE NEED TO ADD BECAUSE REMEMBER HE JUST ASKED US ABOUT THAT LIKE LAST WEEK OR SOMETHING.
'CAUSE THAT HASN'T CLEARED YET.
BUT YET IT'S, IT'S GONNA BE TAKEN OUT.
AND I DON'T, I'M LOOKING AT THESE NUMBERS.
I DON'T, I'M QUESTIONING SOME OF THESE
BUT I THINK WE EACH NEED TO GO THROUGH OUR, LIKE ERIC SHOULD KNOW WHAT WAS SPENT ON JUNETEENTH.
SO HE NEEDS TO GO THROUGH AND SEE IF THIS IS ACCURATE BECAUSE I'M LOOKING AT LIKE THE MLK EVENT FOR 25.
SO MAYBE I'M SO CONFUSED BECAUSE WE HAVE FOOD FOR MLK ON HERE, RIGHT? TWICE.
SO LIKE THE SAVORY SKILLET, THE LAST LINE ITEM WAS FOR 2026 IS THIS 2026.
AND THEN THE FIRST TWO ITEMS ON THE LIST, HOME COOKED VIBES AT THE BEGINNING.
SO ARE THERE SOME THINGS ON HERE? I MEAN LIKE WE HAD ALMOST $4,000 FOR UM, A AND S PLAY ZONE ACTIVITIES FOR MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL AND THEN ANOTHER 669.
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I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT THIS.
'CAUSE LIKE THIS SAVORY SKILLET, I DON'T KNOW WHY THAT WOULD BE IN THE WELL, BECAUSE THAT'S GONNA GO, 'CAUSE YOU GOT, THESE ARE, THESE ARE BASED OFF CALENDAR YEAR NOT EVENTS CONNECTED.
SO THE 12 31 25 SAVORY SKILLET SHOULD HAVE BEEN FOR OUR, FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING ON 26TH.
AT THE END OF, YOU KNOW, ON, IN, IN DECEMBER FOR WHATEVER REASON.
WELL THAT'S WHAT'S ON THE INVOICE FOR I DON'T, I DON'T THINK I, THAT'S NOT WHAT'S SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN.
WE DON'T PAY UNTIL AFTER SERVICES ARE RENDERED.
I DON'T, 'CAUSE JEFFREY AND I TALKED ABOUT THAT.
I SAID WE DON'T PAY AND I MEAN WE PAY PART OF IT AND THEN WE PAY THE REMAINDER AFTER.
WELL WAS THAT FOR 2026? YEAH, IT WOULD'VE BEEN FOR 2026.
BECAUSE M IF WE'RE, IF BUDGET'S GOING ON NOW YEAH, WE'RE ON A FISCAL YEAR.
THIS IS ON A CALENDAR YEAR SO IT RIGHT.
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? THE WAY WE'RE RE TO YOUR POINT, IT'S GONNA YEAH.
OUR MLK STUFF, WE PROBABLY WILL HAVE TO LOOK AT SOME STUFF FROM DECEMBER OF YEAH.
'CAUSE IT'S REALLY BEING CARRIED OVER IN THE CALENDAR.
AND I THINK ON THE, THE CALENDAR YEAR IS JANUARY TO DECEMBER.
WHAT IS OUR FISCAL YEAR? WELL, WE HAVE TO GO OFF THE, OFF THE CITY.
SO IT'LL BE FROM OCTOBER, WHATEVER TILL SEPTEMBER 30TH OR I DON'T KNOW.
I DON'T KNOW THEIR ACTUAL CALENDAR DATE.
NO, THESE ARE, IT STARTS IN FEBRUARY.
AND ALL OUR EVENTS ARE WITHIN THE CALENDAR YEAR.
SO EVEN OUR LAST EVENT WILL GET PAID OUT OF THE AT BEFORE THE, UM, CALENDAR YEAR ENDS.
SO IT SHOULDN'T BE AN ISSUE THERE.
BUT THIS ITEM I'M TALKING ABOUT WAS FOR 2026.
WELL THEN I, 'CAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE DID ON THE DECEMBER 31ST.
I DON'T REMEMBER US DOING ANYTHING ON DECEMBER 31ST, 25.
YEAH, NO, THAT'S WHAT I'M, MAKE SURE WE'RE NOT, MAKE SURE WE'RE NOT PAID ANYBODY BEFORE SERVICES ARE RENDERED.
WHO DO WE, MAYBE THAT'S WHAT HE DID.
WHO DO WE USE? WE USE SAY RE-SKILL IT FOR, UM, MLK FOR MLK BREAKFAST.
BUT YOU KNOW, THERE'S A GOOD POINT TO JUST KIND OF REITERATE IS THAT WE MAY HAVE VOTED ON WHAT WE WERE DOING FOR SOME EVENTS, BUT COST YEAH.
WAS NOT DISCUSSED WITH A LOT OF THESE THINGS.
SO I THINK THAT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING.
NOW WE NEED TO MONITOR LIKE WHEN IT YEAH.
WHEN ARE WE, WHEN ARE WE, EVEN THOUGH WE VOTE YES, WE WILL USE SAVORY SKILLET.
WE ALSO NEED TO SAY WHEN YOU SWIPING THE CARD OR YEAH.
CUTTING THE CHECK OR WHATEVER.
BECAUSE TO YOUR POINT, IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN JANUARY 26TH 15TH OR WHATEVER THE, THE, THE, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING IN THE 2026 IN THAT CALENDAR.
BUT THAT WOULD TECHNICALLY PUT US ABOUT $7,000 OVER.
I THINK IF YOU LOOK ON 2026, THERE'S A LITTLE HANDWRITTEN NUMBER.
I THINK THAT'S CURRENTLY WHAT WE'RE OVER WHAT IS THAT? LIKE 4,000 SOMETHING? 44 80? YEAH.
SO THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD BRING THAT, YEAH.
BUT IT WOULD REDUCE, IT WOULD REDUCE 25 BY 2,500 TOO.
WELL, SO ALL I WANT TO KNOW IS, UH, I WANT TO SEE THE FORENSIC, UH, COUNTY NOTES AND THE ADVANCED LEDGER INJURIES THAT INDICATE FOR 2025 AND WHY IT'S SO FAR OVER.
I HAVE TO ASK THE CITY FOR THAT.
BECAUSE SOME OF THESE EXPENDITURES, ANYBODY KNOW WHAT THESE EXPENDITURES ARE? GIVEAWAY JUNETEENTH 2191.
WHY IS THAT FIGURE THERE? BUT WE DIDN'T SHOW IT THIS YEAR.
THOSE WERE THE HATS WE HAD A WHOLE DISCUSSION ABOUT.
THAT ERIC DID BRING FORTH NUMBERS ON THE HATS.
UM, I KNOW ON MLKI BROUGHT FORTH NUMBERS AND I ALSO BROUGHT FORTH THREE VENDORS THAT WE CHOSE FROM.
UM, BUT I DON'T KNOW, LIKE RICHARD KITCHEN, DBA, WHAT'S THAT? I DON'T KNOW.
WHERE'S THAT AT? IS IT, IS THAT, IS THAT SOUND? SOUND? JUNE FESTIVAL WE GOT, WE GOT A LOT OF REPEAT ITEMS THERE, WHICH IS YEAH.
KIND OF, UM, HAVING ME THINK, SOMETHING'S NOT EXACTLY CORRECT HERE.
I DON'T REMEMBER AUTHORIZING THESE FIGURES THE SAME AND THEY'RE ON THE SAME DATES.
UH, ON WHAT, FOR WHICH ONE? UM, YOLANDA, THAT RICHARD KITCHEN.
I COULD SEE IF, YOU KNOW, WE PAID HALF UPFRONT TO SECURE OR A PORTION UPFRONT.
BUT THESE ARE BOTH ON THE SAME DATES FOR EIGHT 50.
I MEAN, LISTEN, I'M TELLING YOU, I THINK IF YOU ADD EVERYTHING UP, YOU'RE GONNA SEE THAT EVERYTHING THAT WAS SPENT ON MULTICULTURAL FEST IN 2025 IS COMING IN SOMEWHERE AROUND $15,000 ALONE.
AND, AND BASICALLY THAT'S, THAT'S ALMOST THE
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DIFFERENCE.I MEAN, THERE'S PROBABLY SOME OTHER THINGS THAT WE NEED TO KIND OF, YOU KNOW, POINT OUT.
I MEAN, WITHOUT THOSE EXPENDITURES, WHAT DO WE SPEND ON IT IN FOR 2026? PROBABLY HALF THAT.
SO I MEAN, IT GOT A LITTLE HAYWIRE
THAT, THAT, THAT COST A LOT OF MONEY.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAD, UH, IN THE BACK, WE HAD TWO SEPARATE TENTS FOR, UM, FOR THEM TO CHANGE CLOTHES, I GUESS.
SO HONESTLY, UH, THERE WAS A LOT OF THINGS THAT WAS UNNECESSARY.
I FEEL LIKE AT THAT, UH, LAST YEAR'S MULTICULTURAL EVENT THAT COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED AND WE COULD HAVE SAVED SOME MONEY.
BUT I, I, I FOUND OUT THAT WE SPEND ALL CLOSER TO 20,000 AFTER THE EVENT.
BECAUSE ALL OF THOSE NEW EXTRA, WELL, I GUESS ONE OF THE BANDS REQUIRED THE NEW, UH, THE EXTRA TENT FOR THEM AND THEN THE, THE, THE, THE WOOD FLOORING, I THINK THOSE WERE UNNECESSARY TO HAVE THERE.
DID THAT, WHO WAS OVER MULTICULTURAL LAST YEAR OR THE YEAR? WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BYRON, MIA, BYRON AND MIA, I BELIEVE.
WELL, I THINK YOU, I THINK YOU WERE JUST ON THE COMMITTEE RIGHT WHERE YOU WORKED THERE.
SO I DIDN'T, I MEAN, BUT THAT'S, IT'S WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE NOW.
SO, UM, DO YOU GUYS THINK THAT 20,000 IS A IDEAL NUMBER TO GIVE TO AARON FOR A BUDGET FOR 2027 MOVING FORWARD? AND THEN WE'LL HAVE TO WORK OFF THAT FROM THE EVENTS THAT WE, WE LOOK TO PULL OFF IN 2027? DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU PLAN TO DO.
WELL, AND I THINK WE SHOULD STILL ASK FOR ELECTRONIC VERSION.
AND, YOU KNOW, UM, KIND OF DOUBLE CHECK LIKE SOME OF THE STUFF, IF WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS,
SO WE WILL TABLE THE BUDGET AND WE WON'T VOTE ON THAT TONIGHT.
UM, BUT WE'LL DEFINITELY GET MORE INFORMATION.
SHE'LL CHECK YOUR EMAILS OVER THE NEXT 20.
AARON'S USUALLY REALLY GOOD AT GETTING EMAILS OUT, SO I'LL BE BACK IN THE OFFICE UNTIL MONDAY.
SO SOMETIME BY NEXT WEEK YOU SHOULD HAVE THIS, YOUR BUDGETS THAT YOU'RE REQUESTING.
AND YOU'RE GONNA REACH OUT TO HIM, COREY? YEAH.
CAN WE HAVE WHOEVER WAS RESPONSIBLE? 'CAUSE IF YOU'RE LEADING IT, YOU'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THAT BUDGET, WATCHING THAT BUDGET, MANAGING IT BASED ON WHAT YOU CAME TO THE COMMISSION AND ASKED FOR.
SO I, IF WE CAN GET CLARITY AROUND ALL OF THESE THINGS.
SO LIKE IF ERIC WAS OVER THE JUNETEENTH, I'LL WORK WITH, WITH THE, AND THEN THE CHAMPIONS.
AND I WAS ALSO I'LL SET TO TRY TO SET A MEETING WITH AARON WHEN HE GETS BACK TO, TO GET ANY INSIGHT HE CAN GIVE ME AS WELL.
UM, THAT I CAN SHARE WITH THE COMMISSION.
CAN YOU ASK HIM, AND I DON'T KNOW IF THIS WOULD BE POSSIBLE, BUT COULD YOU ASK HIM FOR US TO GET LIKE, UM, SOMETHING THAT REFLECTS THE SPONSORS THAT WE'VE HAD? YEAH.
THE TRUE P AND L STATEMENT VERSUS JUST THE EXPENSES.
BECAUSE I'M ASSUMING THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE REALLY LOOKING, WE LIKE THE, THE TOTAL PICTURE.
WE SPENT THIS, BUT WE ALSO BROUGHT THIS.
SO WE REALLY DIDN'T SPEND, I MEAN YES.
P AND L WELL, I THINK IT'D BE USEFUL FOR US TO KNOW, UM, JUST TO, FOR GOING FORWARD, UM, WHO THE SPONSORS WERE, HOW MUCH THEY GAVE.
THOSE WILL BE THE FIRST ONES THAT WE REACH OUT TO AGAIN, YOU KNOW, FOR EVENTS.
BUT ALSO WE CAN BE LIKE, WELL WE KNOW WE SAVED AT LEAST THIS AMOUNT WITH THEM COMING IN, BUT IT'LL, I, I DON'T KNOW.
I JUST THINK IT'LL HELP US KIND OF SHAPE NEXT YEAR IN TERMS OF GETTING OUT IN THE COMMUNITY.
DO YOU WANT TO, DO YOU WANT THAT LIST? WOULD YOU LIKE THAT LIST OF SPONSORS THAT LIKE SEPARATELY OR I THINK JUST YEAR BY YEAR.
UM, AND I MEAN MOLLY PROBABLY HAS ALL THIS INFORMATION I KNOW SHE DOES IN A DATABASE, UM, JUST FROM LIKE, YEAH.
I'LL ASK MOLLY TOO TO SEE, UM, HOWEVER SHE'S GOT IT ORGANIZED, IF SHE CAN JUST SHARE THAT WITH US.
MOLLY IS SPITTING OUT A REPORT AFTER EACH EVENT.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WE'VE BEEN ACTIVELY PAYING ATTENTION TO HER OR SHE HASN'T GIVEN IT TO HER.
SO WE OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO COME BACK TO OUR NEXT MEETING
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AFTER EACH EVENT AND BE ABLE TO LOOK AT HER REPORT AND VALIDATE WHAT OUR EXPENDITURES ARE.THAT WAY THIS DOESN'T LOOK SUSPICIOUS.
DOES ANYONE HAVE AN EXTRA 20, 26 SHEET BY THE WAY? UH, UH, I DON'T, BUT IF YOU NEED THIS ONE, YOU CAN TAKE NINE.
YOU CAN JUST TAKE A PICTURE OF IT IF YOU NEED IT.
I WAS GONNA MEET WITH AARON, SO I'M SURE HE'LL TELL ME EXACTLY WHAT, UH, NEEDS TO DO BETTER.
OFFICE AND PRIMARY ALREADY GOT A COPY MACHINE, RIGHT.
NEED TO DETERMINE WHO'S GONNA NEED TO DETERMINE WHO'S GONNA OVERSEE EACH OF THESE AREAS TOO, SO THEY KNOW WHAT TYPE OF BUDGET THEY'RE GONNA HAVE MOVING FORWARD.
UM, BUT I WON'T KNOW THAT TILL I MEET, TILL WE ONE FIGURE OUT WHAT OUR TOTAL BUDGET WILL BE AND THEN WHAT, UM, WHO WANTS TO CHAMPION THINGS FOR 2027, WHICH IS THE NEXT BORDER BUSINESS ON THE AGENDA.
I'M GONNA SUGGEST THAT WE, ONE OF US AS A COMMISSION MEMBER BECOME THE, UM, BUDGETARY MANAGER MEETING.
EVERYTHING FILTERS INTO US WHEN YOU, WHEN WE AGREE AS A TEAM WHAT THE, WHAT IT IS.
IF I'M THAT PERSON, I'M GONNA LOOK AT THAT BUDGET AND SAY YAY OR NAY, YOU CAN'T DO IT.
YOU ONLY GOT 5,000 FOR THAT PARTICULAR EVENT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
JUST HAVE A, WITHIN THE COMMISSION WE HAVE A BUDGETARY MANAGER THAT KEEPS US IN CHECK.
'CAUSE OTHER THAN THAT, UM, IT'LL JUST GET FILTERED DOWN TO ALL OF US TRYING TO, TRYING TO, UM, FIGURE OUT WHAT IT IS WE HAVE TO SPEND.
AND IT CAN BE THE CHAIR, BUT UM, BUT IT HAS TO BE A PART OF OUR AGENDAS AND SO FORTH.
SO WE, UM, KNOW WHAT WE'RE SPENDING.
OTHER THAN THAT WE'RE GONNA GET LOST IN THIS AGAIN.
SO THIS, I JUST DID A QUICK OF THIS.
WE SPENT, UM, JUNETEENTH IS 60% OF THIS SPENDING.
MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL IS 23%.
UM, IT DIDN'T BREAK OUT THE OTHER PERCENTAGES.
THIS, UH, THREE ON THREE WAS 1.1 KMLK WAS ONE.
SO WE SPENT LESS ON MLK THAN WE DID ON THE THREE ON THREE.
AND THE OTHERS WERE NEGLIGIBLE STAR, SPANE HEIGHTS AND CHRISTMAS TREE.
BECAUSE THAT WAS, I THINK THOSE WERE JUST LIKE MM-HMM
CANDY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT WAS ON THE YEAH.
BUT THAT'S JUST A, YOU KNOW, THAT'S SIGNIFICANT.
UM, IT COULD BE, COULD NOT BE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT I, I HAVE TO LOOK AT IT COMPARED TO OTHER YEARS AND WHAT ELSE WE GOT GOING ON.
AND I, I THINK, UH, 15 OR 20,000, IT'S NOT A LOT OF MONEY TO SPEND ON THESE EVENTS COMBINED ALTOGETHER.
AND I DON'T THINK THERE'S A SPECIFIC BUDGET FOR SPECIFIC EVENTS SUCH AS, UH, MLK OR JUNETEENTH.
SO, UH, FROM WHAT I REMEMBER, WHAT JEFFREY WAS SAYING IS WHEN WE HAVE THIS BUDGET, YOU JUST SPEND ON THESE EVENTS AND THEN IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW MUCH YOU SPEND ON WHICH EVENT.
SO WE COULD BE SPENDING A LOT IN JUNETEENTH, BUT LESS THAN MULTICULTURAL, BUT IT'S STILL THE SAME COMES FROM THE SAME 15,000.
SO I THINK 20,000, IT'S A REAL GOOD NUMBER THAT WE COULD START USING IN THIS EVENT.
AND I DON'T THINK WE'RE SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY, BUT IF WE SPEND IT, UM, ON RIGHT.
THINGS VERSUS JUST THROWING IT OUT IN THE AIR, THEN IT'S, THIS IS, THIS IS NORMAL BUDGET FOR, TO DO THESE EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
I FEEL LIKE, AND MAYBE WE NEED MORE MONEY TO DO MORE EVENTS, YOU KNOW, BUT IT'S JUST, WELL, I'M, WELL WE'RE NOT EVENT PLANNERS.
I'M, BUT WE DO NEED TO DETERMINE YOU.
YOU SAID THAT WAS AN EXCELLENT POINT, IS DETERMINING WHAT'S THE MOST, THE PRIORITY AREAS THAT WE WANT TO SPEND MONEY, WHICH IS WHY WE DO NEED TO DIFFERENTIATE.
A PERCENTAGE OF OUR BUDGET GOES HERE, A PERCENTAGE GOES HERE BECAUSE WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THE RETURN ON INVESTMENT.
LIKE HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE WE REACHING? WELL, HOW ARE WE REACHING OUR GOAL, OUR MISSION VISION FOR THIS COMMISSION? I AGREE.
THAT'S WHY I SAID LIKE, I DON'T KNOW IT,
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MAYBE 60 IS TOO MUCH MAYBE, BUT I DON'T KNOW, BASED ON, I GOTTA LOOK AT THE, BECAUSE USUALLY I GOTTA, I WANNA LOOK AT LIKE WHAT, 24, 25, 26.I DON'T WAS 26 60% THIS YEAR TOO.
THAT'S 60% OF THIS SPENDING OVERALL OF THE BUDGET.
'CAUSE DON'T NUMBER OF 2026 CORRECT NUMBER.
SO WE, WE CAN'T HAPHAZARDLY THINK WE CAN JUST COME UP WITH THE NUMBERS AS WE GO ALONG THROUGH THE YEAR.
WE, WE DO HAVE TO HOLD OURSELVES ACCOUNTABLE TO A CERTAIN AMOUNT PER PROGRAM OTHER THAN THAT A PROGRAM AT THE END IS GONNA BE SHORTCHANGED.
SO, AND I AGREE WITH EVERY, AND YOU KNOW, WE WE'RE NOT SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY, BUT THE UNFORTUNATE PART, WE STILL ARE AT THE MERCY OF THE CITY OF WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO APPROVE AND NOT APPROVE.
SO IF THEY WERE ALREADY AT 15, YOU KNOW, AND WE WANT TO GO TO 20, WHICH WE KNOW INCREASES.
I'M THINKING 22 NOW, BUT YEAH.
WELL, AND I'M SORRY, I DIDN'T MEAN TO CUT YOU OFF.
I'M JUST, I'M JUST GIVING THAT, UM, WORD OF FINANCIAL ADVISEMENTS BEING A BUDGETARY PLANNER FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS THAT ARE, UM, WE HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT WE'VE ALREADY SPENT.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON THERE.
THAT'S WHY I SAID IT'S GOTTA BE MORE, GOTTA LOOK MORE INTO THAT.
THAT'S GONNA REQUIRE A MEETING.
NOT A, IF IT HAD JUST BEEN LIKE 19 OR 21, I'D BEEN LIKE, OKAY, IT DID, IT IS HIGHER, BUT IT'S ALMOST DOUBLE EVERYTHING ELSE.
SO THINK ABOUT THE THINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT DOING MORE OF THE EDUCATION PIECES.
THOSE ARE DOLLARS THAT WE NEED TO CONSIDER.
THAT WE NEED TO ADD TO THIS STUFF.
BE SURE WHEN YOU GET THE NUMBERS FROM AARON THAT WE HAVE EVERY NUMBER THAT'S STATIC THAT WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT IN THIS COMMITTEE RIGHT NOW.
THAT, OR AT LEAST I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT THEY'RE PAYING ON OUR BEHALF.
YOU KNOW, IF WHATEVER STATIC NUMBERS THOSE ARE, I REALIZE THAT YOU SAID THE TURKISH EVENT WAS A ONE YEAR EVENT.
BUT YOU KNOW, WE, ANYTHING THAT THEY'RE PAYING REGULARLY, I NEED TO KNOW WHAT THAT IS.
WELL THEY'RE USUALLY JUST OUR EVENTS, WHICH IS WHAT WE NEED TO COVER.
YOU HAD SO SAY, SO KIND OF GOING, I, I THINK I WANNA EXPAND A LITTLE BIT ON WHAT I SAID EARLIER, UM, ABOUT WANTING TO KNOW, YOU KNOW, THE, WHAT THE SPONSORS WERE.
I'D LIKE TO KNOW HOW MANY, LIKE HOW MUCH THE VENDORS AND FOOD TRUCKS BROUGHT IN, ESPECIALLY FOR THESE TWO KEY EVENTS.
AND I WANNA KNOW IF THIS NUMBER FOR LIKE, SAY FOR 2024, THIS 16 6 96, IS THAT BEFORE VENDOR FEES AND FOOD TRUCK FEES AND SPONSORS? BECAUSE IF IT IS, THEN WELL THAT'S GONNA BE MINUS THE COUPLE THOUSAND OR IS IT AFTER ALL OF THAT? WE DON'T KNOW.
IT DOESN'T, THIS ISN'T INCLUDING OKAY.
ANYTHING WE MADE OR WHAT THEY PAID TO REGISTER, ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
SO I WANNA, I I THINK WE SHOULD KNOW THOSE FIGURES.
THE NUMBERS AREN'T ACCURATE WITHOUT THAT.
WELL THE BUDGET DOESN'T HOLD THAT AS ACCOUNTABLE BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT WE COULD HAVE A WHOLE EVENT WITH NO MONEY COMING IN.
THE, THE CITY LOOKS AT IT FROM A POINT OF VIEW OF WHAT IF NOBODY REGISTERS TO BE IN THE UH, PROGRAM, BUT WE STILL HAVE THE PROGRAM, THEN THERE'S NO MONEY TO OFFSET ANYTHING.
SO OUR BUDGET SHOULD BE EXACTLY WHATEVER IT IS.
IF WE PUT IT ON WITHOUT ANYTHING COMING BACK.
YEAH, BECAUSE ROI IS GONNA BE A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
'CAUSE WE'RE NOT SELLING A PRODUCT PER SE.
TO YOUR POINT, IT MAY BE ATTENDANCE OR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS.
LIKE THOSE ARE, THAT'S OUR, OUR, OUR ROI IS GONNA BE MORE QUALITATIVE.
BUDGET'S GONNA BE MORE QUANTITATIVE.
SO IT'S A TRICKY BALANCE, BUT IT CAN BE DONE 2020.
UH, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BUDGET? I DON'T WANNA CUT ANYTHING OFF.
SO OUR AGREEMENT IS WE'RE COMING BACK.
WE'LL HAVE TO COME BACK 'CAUSE I, I GOTTA GET A MORE DETAILED OKAY.
AND I'LL GET THOSE EMAILED TO EVERYONE AS WELL.
AND THEN WE'LL HAVE TO, AND THEN I'LL, I WILL, I WILL GIVE AARON A NUMBER OF LIKE 20,000 IN QUOTES BASED ON THIS, JUST BASED ON THIS.
AND IT'S FLEXIBLE 'CAUSE WE WOULD JUST A BASED, THAT'S JUST AN AVERAGE OF YOU AT ALL THREE OF THOSE EXPENSES UP.
THAT'S ABOUT WHERE IT'S GONNA LAND.
AND TO YOUR POINT, WE ALSO KNOW THAT WE HAVE TO THROW IN SOME OF THE EDUCATIONAL THINGS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO ROLL OUT IN 2027.
TO YOUR POINT, IT'S PROBABLY, IT MAY BE, I,
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I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE CITY'S GONNA SAY.IS IT TOO MUCH? IS IT NOT ENOUGH? DO THEY NEED TO DO MORE? BUT WE'LL GIVE THEM SOMETHING AND WE WILL, WE'LL FIGURE IT OUT.
I HATE TO SAY, 'CAUSE I HATE WHEN PEOPLE SAY PERSONALLY I'LL, I'LL, I'M FLYING THE PLANE WHILE BUILDING IT.
BUT IN SOME REGARDS,
WE'RE KIND OF FLYING THE PLANE WHILE BUILDING IT AT THE SAME TIME.
AND WE DO IT IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND SO FORTH ALL THE TIME OR AUTOMOBILES.
AND SOMETIMES MAKING DECISION, YOU ALL COMING UNDER AND SOMETIMES YOU REALIZE YOU AIM WAY TOO LOW.
SO THEN WE'LL HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHERE WE NEED TO SCALE BACK MOVING FORWARD FOR 20, 27 EVENTS.
WHAT IS ON THE DOCKET? WE DON'T KNOW A HUNDRED PERCENT UNTIL AARON ACCEPTS OR REJECTS OUR BUDGET.
WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT EVENTS WE NEED.
BECAUSE TYPICALLY, SO WE KNOW WE HAVE MLK, WE KNOW WE TYPICALLY DO JUNETEENTH.
WE KNOW WE TYPICALLY DO MULTICULTURAL FEST.
THOSE ARE THE THREE I THINK WE TYPICALLY DO.
YOU HAVE THE, WELL WE WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT DOING THE KNOW YOUR RIGHTS AT THE SCHOOL YEP.
UM, THAT'S AN ADDITION, RIGHT? YEAH.
WELL IT WOULD BE LIKE, DEPENDS ON YEAH.
WHERE WE GO IN A BUILDING THAT WE'D HAVE TO PAY FOR.
WE DO IT RIGHT HERE AT THE CITY.
UM, AND WHAT WAS THE LA WAS THE OTHER THIRD ONE? MULTICULTURAL FEST.
THOSE ARE OUR THREE ONES WE TYPICALLY DO.
AND THEN ARE WE ADDING, I DON'T KNOW, ARE WE BRINGING BACK THE BASKETBALL THING? WAS DID WE FIND THAT TO BE, I THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD THING, BUT I WASN'T THE, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT HAPPEN.
SO THREE ON THREE, I THINK WE LEARNED FROM THAT TOO.
THAT WE PROBABLY SHOULD JUST STICK TO THE YOUTH AND NOT HAVE THE ADULTS GET INVOLVED IN THAT.
'CAUSE THAT WAS, THAT CREATED A BIG PAIN AND THE KIDS SHOWED UP.
LIKE I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF ANY ADULT TEENS
WELL, I DON'T THINK WE, WE DIDN'T SAY I'M NOT, YEAH.
I'M NOT A HUNDRED PERCENT SURE WHAT, SINCE IT'S ERIC'S PROGRAM, UM, WHERE WE'RE DECIDING THAT THE WE'RE JUST NOT GONNA CHARGE THE ADULT.
SO THEY WOULD WANT TO BE INVOLVED.
A LOT OF PEOPLE SHOWED UP FOR THAT.
THE KNOW YOUR RIGHTS LECTURE SERIES.
I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY WE'RE GONNA DO OF THOSE IN 2027, BUT WE WANNA ROLL THAT OUT.
WHAT ELSE, WHAT OTHER EVENTS IN 2027 HAVE WE DISCUSSED OR DO YOU REMEMBER US SAYING WE NEED TO, TO TRY? WELL, WE DON'T KNOW BECAUSE
AND THEN WHAT WAS THAT? LOOKING AT THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT RESULTS MM-HMM.
TO DETERMINE WHAT WE NEED TO DO AND WHAT RECOMMENDATIONS WE'RE MAKING TO THE CITY MM-HMM.
SO I DON'T THINK THAT WE CAN ARBITRARILY JUST SAY, OH, WE WANNA DO THIS.
WE NEED TO LOOK BACK AT THAT DATA AND DECIDE WHAT IS IT AS A COMMISSION THAT WE WANT TO TAKE ON AND WHAT DO WE WANT TO SUBMIT TO THE CITY FOR THEM TO TAKE ON.
COREY? I HAD IN MY NOTES, I THINK IT WAS MY FIRST MEETING, I THINK ERIC WAS THE ONE WHO BROUGHT IT UP.
IT WAS A HEALTH EDUCATIONAL AWARENESS EVENT.
HE HAD TALKED ABOUT A DOCTOR THAT HE KNEW THAT HE THOUGHT MIGHT HELP SOMETHING I REMEMBER, BUT I WROTE IT IN MY NOTES.
AND THEN, BECAUSE APRIL IS, UM, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE HELD IN APRIL OBVIOUSLY, BUT IS MINORITY HEALTH MONTH.
SO THAT MIGHT BE A WAY TO TIE THAT IN IS AN EDUCATIONAL PIECE.
AND I THINK THAT, UM, MAYBE SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT, UM, MULTICULTURAL, UM, MAYBE BRAINSTORM SOME OTHER THINGS WE COULD BE DOING LIKE THROUGHOUT A WEEK IN A DIFFERENT PART OF THE YEAR, UM, UH, TO MORE INTIMATELY CELEBRATE, UM, THE DIVERSITY IN THE DIFFERENT CULTURES, UM, THAT WE HAVE IN THE CITY.
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UM, ANYTHING ELSE? I'M WRITING THIS DOWN, TAKING NOTES, UH, MAKE SURE WE HAVE IT ALL.IT'LL BE ALL TOGETHER FOR OUR NOVEMBER MEETINGS.
IF WE WANT TO VOTE ON 'EM, THEN WE DON'T HAVE TO, BUT I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE IT'S ALL IT'S WRITTEN DOWN.
WELL, I'D LIKE TO SEE US, UM, KIND OF REVISIT THE T FS C FOUNDATION.
WHICH ONE? WHAT WAS THAT? UM, I'M NOT SURE IF YOU WERE HERE.
REMEMBER SAN, UH, SONYA CALLAHAN CAME, UM, THAT, SHE'S FROM CLEVELAND.
SHE DOES THE ROLLER SKATING, UM, HEALTH AWARENESS EVENTS.
YOU KNOW, SHE WAS AT THE, SHE WAS HERE FESTIVAL.
SHE WAS AT THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL.
SHE HAD THE HUGE, LIKE ALL THE DISPLAYS AND EVERYTHING, KIND OF WHAT SHE HAD HERE DURING HER PRESENTATION.
SHE WAS LIKE KIND OF IN THE CENTER OF THE BIG ROOM.
DO Y'ALL REMEMBER THAT? ANYWAY, SHE WAS THERE.
I THINK I WENT IN THE BIG ROOM.
I THINK I WENT AROUND LIKE ALL THE OTHERS.
BECAUSE I THOUGHT, I DON'T KNOW WHY I YEAH.
I DIDN'T GO IN THERE BECAUSE I LOOKED OVER THERE AND I WAS LIKE, WHO'S IN THERE? YEAH.
I MEAN, MAYBE THERE'S LIKE, I KNOW THERE'S ONE EVENT COMING UP.
UM, IN FACT, I'M GONNA, UM, EMAIL YOU GUYS THE FLYER SHE SENT ME AND MOLLY, UM, THEY'RE DOING, UM, A FUNDRAISER DOWN AT ORBIT.
I CAN'T REMEMBER THE DATE, BUT IT'S COMING UP.
UM, SHE ASKED FOR THE CITY'S HELP IN PROMOTING IT.
UM, AND MOLLY SAID, UNFORTUNATELY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT OFFICIALLY A PARTNER OF YOURS, SO THE CITY CAN'T PROMOTE IT ON THEIR END, BUT I THINK WE COULD PROMOTE IT ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGES AS OUR, YOU KNOW, BEING INDIVIDUALS IF WE WANTED TO DO THAT.
BUT I DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A LOT OF TALK ABOUT A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT SHE WANTS TO BRING TO, YOU KNOW, THE AREA AND IT MIGHT BE WORTH, YOU KNOW, JUST KIND OF CIRCLING BACK AT SOME POINT TOWARDS THE END OF THE YEAR, YOU KNOW, TO SEE WHAT SHE'S GOT GOING ON AND SEE HOW WE CAN HELP AND, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER.
SO WHAT WAS HER NAME AGAIN? UH, SONYA CALLAHAN FROM TSC FOUNDATION.
AND I THINK A MAJORITY OF THOSE EVENTS WOULD BE JUST BEING ON SITE TO HELP WITH WHATEVER MAY BE.
I THINK IT'D BE MORE HANDS-ON HELP AND SUPPORT THAN MONETARY.
SHE ALSO SEEMED TO BE INTERESTED IN LIKE, MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES.
THERE COULD BE SOME WAY TO KIND OF HELP WITH THAT AS WELL.
AND SHE SPECIFICALLY ASKED IF THERE WERE ANY MENTAL HEALTH VENDORS AT THE, UH, MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL.
SO I POINTED THOSE VENDORS OUT TO HER.
SHE WAS INTERESTED IN PARTNERING WITH THEM TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW TO PROVIDE, UM, AWARENESS HERE LOCALLY.
AND SINCE SHE'S NOT FROM THE AREA MM-HMM
SHE REALLY IS INTERESTED IN THAT KIND OF HELP.
I'M NOT SURE THERE'S A HUGE MONETARY INVESTMENT THE COMMISSION WOULD HAVE TO MAKE, OR THE CITY SHE REALLY IS INTERESTED IN.
SHE SEEMS VERY SKILLED IN BEING ABLE TO DO IT.
JUST NOT KNOWING WHERE TO TURN.
I THINK HELPING SPREAD THE WORD AND MAYBE HELP, YOU KNOW, UM, THE, YOU KNOW, FOR THE EVENT ITSELF, MAYBE SOMETHING LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW.
I THINK THAT, WE'LL, WE'LL TAKE A DEEP DIVE INTO THAT AND SEE WHAT WE CAN AND CAN'T DO.
UM, WE WOULD LIKE TO SET A DATE FOR ANOTHER PLANNING AND VISION MEETING.
UM, OUR LAST ONE WAS IN, I THINK IT WAS AROUND THIS TIME LAST YEAR.
IT WAS LIKE OCTOBER, 2025, I THINK.
UM, WAS ANYBODY HAVE IN ANY OPPOSITION OR IS THERE ANY CONVERSATION AROUND SETTING A DATE FOR ANOTHER PLANNING VISION MEETING? OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE DIFFERENT, UM, COMMITTEE COMMISSION MEMBERS NOW, SO I THINK IF WE DO IT THIS YEAR WOULD BE BETTER.
SO THAT WAY WE'LL JUST HAVE A SOLID PLAN FOR 22 7.
I WILL PUT THAT DOWN AND I WILL MAKE SURE I GET THAT
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INFORMATION OUT TO EVERYBODY ONCE WE CAN LOCK.'CAUSE LAST TIME WE DID IT, IT WAS, UM, WE UH, HOW DID WE CLASSIFY THAT? IT WAS, IT WASN'T, IT WAS A VISION MEETING.
UM, BUT IT WAS, IT WAS KIND OF CLOSED DOORS, IF THAT MAKES ANY SENSE.
IT WASN'T, WE WEREN'T OUT HERE TELLING OUR VISION TO THE, TO THE CITY.
WE JUST MET, TALKED ABOUT WHAT, HOW WE WERE GONNA EXECUTE, WHAT WE NEED TO EXECUTE, WHAT WE'RE DOING RIGHT.
AND THEN WE, BECAUSE WE DID IT HERE IN ONE OF THE, THE CONFERENCE ROOMS. SO I'LL TRY TO WORK WITH ERIN TO GET, HUH? I'M SORRY.
OH, DOES EVERYBODY HAVE THE, THE, UM, MINUTES FROM THAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU.
DOES EVERYBODY HAVE THE MINUTES FROM THAT? I THOUGHT JEFFREY SENT THOSE OUT, BUT CHRISTY'S LOOKING AT ME COCKEYED, SO MAYBE I'M JUST, MAYBE IN MY MIND I THOUGHT HE SENT THOSE OUT.
OH, THERE, THERE WAS NO, IT WASN'T AN OFFICIAL MEETING.
UM, SO I DON'T KNOW THAT IT WASN'T RECORDED.
THERE WERE, I DON'T EVEN THINK THERE WERE ANY, UH, I MEAN OFFICIAL NOTES TAKEN IN THAT CAPACITY.
I THINK WE'D ALL AGREED THAT WE WANTED TO HAVE IT AND THEN THE DATE WAS SET, BUT THEN IT WAS CANCELED AND THEN WE RESET ANOTHER DATE.
BUT THEN NOT EVERYONE COULD MAKE IT, SO.
YEAH, I KNEW THERE WAS A SOME, I THINK THAT WAS THE LAST TIME WE SAW JEFF ACTUALLY.
YEAH, I WAS SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
UM, BUT WE WILL, I WILL, I WILL GET THAT ON THE BOOKS BEFORE, UH, 2027.
SO THAT, AND IN THAT MEETING, I THINK WE ALSO, WE BROUGHT OUT OUR BYLAWS, OUR MISSION STATEMENT.
UM, WE COVERED EVERYTHING TO MAKE SURE, 'CAUSE I THINK WE HAD A, A CONVERSATION OF, UM, AND WE'VE SAID IT IN THIS, THIS MEETING SEVERAL TIMES.
LIKE WE'RE NOT AN EVENT PLANNING ORGANIZATION, BUT IF WE DO DO EVENTS, WE DO WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE ALIGNED WITH WHAT OUR MISSION IS, WHAT OUR VISION IS, AND WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO, AND HELP TO, YOU KNOW, IMPROVE, UM, DIVERSITY AND CULTURAL RELATIONS IN THE CITY.
OF HUBER HEIGHTS, SO I'LL MAKE SURE I GET THAT TAKEN CARE OF.
SO I WANTED TO, UM, PROVIDE SOME INFORMATION.
'CAUSE I THINK THIS IS GONNA BE ONE OF THOSE EVENTS IF WE CAN GET IN ON THIS, THAT IS GONNA SERVE, UM, THE MISSION OF OUR COMMISSION.
WHAT DOES THAT LOOK FOR,
UM, SO THERE'S SOME CONTEXT HERE THAT I WANNA GIVE.
UM, AND OH, CAN YOU TAKE ONE AND PASS THAT THIS IS, UH, AN EXTRA SHEET THAT'S NOT IN THE PACKET.
SO A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT OVER THE SUMMER.
WELL, I BECAME AWARE OF THE MIAMI VALLEY, UH, COMMUNITY ID CARD PROGRAM THROUGH WELCOME DAYTON.
UM, BECAUSE THEY WERE DOING ID DRIVES AT DAYTON METRO LIBRARY LOCATIONS, AND I WAS DOING PUBLICITY FOR THEM.
SO I REMEMBER OVER THE SUMMER, I DON'T KNOW, I, I REACHED OUT TO COREY AND I, I SAID, HEY, I, I CALLED WELCOME DAYTON.
I CALLED THIS GROUP, UM, YOU KNOW, DAH, DAH, DAH.
IT TURNS OUT THAT LAST YEAR, JEFFREY WAS IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE PEOPLE WHO RUN THIS PROGRAM.
BUT DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THE COMMUNICATION JUST DROPPED.
SO WHEN I REACHED OUT TO THEM, THEY WERE KIND OF SURPRISED, BUT HAPPY BECAUSE THEY WERE CONFUSED AS TO WHY COMMUNICATION STOPPED.
SO THAT LED TO A COUPLE MONTHS HERE AND THERE.
UM, I THINK IN OUR SEPTEMBER MEETING, ONE OF THE MEMBERS WAS SICK AND THEY HAD TO CANCEL THAT MORNING.
SO THEY DIDN'T, AND THEN WE ENDED UP NOT HAVING THE MEETING ANYWAY.
SO, UM, THAT BROUGHT US TO LAST NIGHT.
UM, COY WAS NOT FEELING WELL, SO HE DID NOT ATTEND, BUT IT WAS ME AND AARON.
WE SAT DOWN WITH THREE OF THE ORGANIZERS.
SO, UM, IN SHORT, THE MIAMI VALLEY COMMUNITY ID CARD PROGRAM, UM, ESSENTIALLY IT GIVES ID CARDS TO INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NO OTHER FORM OF ID.
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NOT A DRIVER'S LICENSE, IT IS NOT A GOVERNMENT ISSUED ID, AND THEY CANNOT VOTE WITH IT.HOWEVER, THERE ARE MANY OTHER THINGS THAT ONE PERSON WOULD NEED AN ID FOR THAT, UH, THIS WOULD SERVE A GOOD PURPOSE FOR.
SO THIS ORGANIZATION, UM, OR THIS DEPARTMENT UNDER, UM, WELCOME DAYTON, THEY HOLD, UM, AROUND FOUR ID DRIVES A YEAR, UM, MAINLY IN THE CITY OF DAYTON.
AND, UM, ANYONE OVER THE AGE OF 15 WITH SOME PROPER FORM OF IDENTIFICATION.
IT COULD BE AN EXPIRED DRIVER'S LICENSE FROM ANOTHER STATE.
IT COULD BE A, UM, ANOTHER COUNTRY'S ID.
IT COULD BE, UM, UH, ANY, ANYTHING WITH PROOF OF RESIDENCY.
THEY HAVE TO BRING IT, SO THERE'S A PROCESS TO IT.
YOU DO HAVE TO SHOW THAT YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, A RESIDENT AND WHATNOT, BUT YOU CAN COME IN AND YOU CAN GET THIS, THIS ID CARD, AND THEY ASK FOR A $5 DONATION.
AND THAT GOES TOWARDS THE COST OF, OF PRINTING THE CARD.
UM, THERE ARE SCHOOLS AND HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS AND CITY MUNICIPALITIES THAT HAVE COME ON BOARD AS A PARTNER WITH WELCOME DAYTON, UM, AGREEING THAT THEY WILL ACCEPT THIS ID CARD AS IDENTIFICATION.
AND AS FAR AS THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE CITY OF DAYTON GOES, THAT'S HUGE.
RIGHT? SO THEY'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET THEIR FOOT HERE IN, UM, HUBER FOR A LITTLE WHILE BECAUSE WE HAVE QUITE A DIVERSE POPULATION.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE, OR ARE SOME, YOU KNOW, OLDER TEENS AND SOME ADULTS OF, OF DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES AND CULTURES THAT PROBABLY DON'T HAVE A PROPER IDENTIFICATION CARD.
AND SO THEY'RE HAVING TROUBLE MAYBE GETTING HEALTHCARE OR GETTING FOOD AT THE FOOD BANK OR GETTING UTILITIES OR WHATEVER SET UP.
SO, UM, WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE IS, UM, DRIVES COMING TO HUBER, BASICALLY.
I MEAN, I'LL LET YOU GUYS READ THROUGH THE PACKET ON YOUR OWN LEISURE.
IT'S BASICALLY A COPY OF THE POWERPOINT I THINK I SENT YOU A COUPLE MONTHS AGO.
UM, BUT IT'S A VERY ORGANIZED EVENT.
UM, YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU GET CHECKED IN, YOU GO THROUGH AN ORIENTATION WHERE THEY EXPLAIN THE PURPOSE OF THE ID CARD AND WHAT IT'S FOR.
UM, THEY, THERE'S A LAWYER ON SITE THAT CHECKS DOCUMENTS.
UH, THEY HAVE A DATABASE WHERE THEY ENTER EVERYTHING.
UM, YOU TAKE YOUR, YOU KNOW, YOU GET YOUR PICTURE TAKEN, AND THEN THE CARD IS, IS MAILED TO YOU, UM, A LITTLE BIT DOWN THE ROAD.
AND, AND DURING THE ORIENTATION, THEY GO THROUGH, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE VERY CLEAR AND SPECIFIC.
THEY MAKE SURE THEY TELL EVERYONE WHAT THEY CAN AND CANNOT USE THE ID CARD FOR.
UM, IF YOU FLIP, UM, TO THE PAGE NEAR THE BACK, UM, THERE'S A LIST OF ALL OF THE PROGRAM OR, UH, PARTNERS THAT ARE, UH, HAVE AGREED TO BE PART OF THIS PROGRAM.
SO, UM, SOMEONE CAN GO TO A FIVE RIVERS HEALTHCARE AND SAY, I NEED HEALTHCARE.
UM, THEY CAN GO TO KETTERING HEALTH.
UM, IF THEY ARE AN INDIVIDUAL RIDING IN A VEHICLE THAT GETS PULLED OVER BY THE VANDALIA OR THE STATE SHERIFF OR THE, UM, DAYTON POLICE DEPARTMENT, THEY CAN SAY, WELL, I DON'T HAVE A DRIVER'S LICENSE, BUT HERE'S MY ID CARD.
UM, THEY CAN GO TO THE LIBRARY AND GET A LIBRARY CARD.
UM, SO, UM, I, UH, I THINK THIS IS A GOOD PROGRAM.
I THINK IT'S ONE THAT WE SHOULD DEFINITELY INVESTIGATE.
UM, I DON'T WANNA SPEAK FOR, UM, OR I THINK IT'S SOMETHING WE SHOULD CONSIDER.
I DON'T WANNA SPEAK FOR AARON, BUT I GOT THE IMPRESSION THAT HE REALLY, HE THOUGHT IT WAS A VERY GOOD IDEA AS WELL FOR HUBER HAVING IT.
IN FACT, HE SAID HE WAS SURPRISED THAT WE AREN'T ALREADY DOING IT.
UH, HE WAS FAMILIAR WITH THE PROGRAM FROM, FROM DAYTON.
SO, UM, UH, THERE, UM, A COUPLE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT I WANTED TO POINT OUT IS THAT FOR US TO, FOR THE CITY OF HUBER HEIGHTS TO BECOME A, A PARTNER, WE REALLY NEED TO GET THE POLICE DEPARTMENT ON BOARD.
AND AARON IS GOING TO WORK ON MAKING THAT CONNECTION BETWEEN THE DAYTON CITY POLICE AND OUR NEW, UM, HUBER HEIGHTS POLICE CHIEF.
UM, THAT'S THE FIRST STEP IS TO GO TO THE HUBER POLICE DEPARTMENT AND SAY, WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO ACCEPT THIS AS A VIABLE FORM OF ID,
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UM, FOR THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN HUBER HEIGHTS? AND IF THEY SAY YES, THEN WE CAN GO TO CITY COUNCIL AND WE CAN SAY, HEY, WE'VE GOT, UM, HUBER HEIGHTS POLICE INVOLVED.YOU CAN, WE, WE CAN RUN THROUGH THE WHOLE PROGRAM.
AND OF COURSE, WELCOME DAYTON WOULD BE INVOLVED IN THOSE TALKS, YOU KNOW? UM, BUT WE COULD AT LEAST GO TO CITY COUNCIL AND, YOU KNOW, AT THAT POINT WE WOULD NEED TO DECIDE, UM, DO WE WANT THIS TO BE A COMMISSION INITIATIVE THAT WE WANNA RECOMMEND TO THE CITY? OR IS THIS SOMETHING THAT THE CITY WILL JUST TAKE ON THAT WE WILL BE A PART OF? OKAY.
SO IT, YOU KNOW, IT'S ONE OF THOSE TWO THINGS, RIGHT? UM, SO, UH, HAVING THE POLICE ON BOARD IS, IS JUST A CARD IN OUR POCKET THAT WE CAN SAY, HEY, THEY'RE WILLING TO, OH, YOU KNOW, THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, CITY OF DAYTON'S DOING IT.
YOU KNOW, WHY AREN'T WE? SO, YOU KNOW, THAT KIND OF A THING.
ALTHOUGH THAT'S KIND OF LIKE A BANDWAGON FALLACY, BUT, OR, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD BE DOING THIS AS WELL, KIND OF A THING.
UM, SO THOSE THINGS WOULD NEED TO BE, YOU KNOW, TALKED ABOUT DOWN THE ROAD.
UM, THE KINDS OF SPACES THAT WE WOULD HAVE THESE DRIVES IN WOULD BE, UM, IN CHURCHES, UM, AT THE LIBRARY.
NOW, THE LIBRARY WOULD NOT BE INVOLVED STAFF WISE, BUT THEY ARE MORE THAN WILLING TO, UM, OFFER THEIR COMMUNITY ROOM.
AND THAT'S AVAILABLE AFTER HOURS AS WELL.
UM, BUT THERE'S CHURCHES, THERE'S LIBRARY, UM, THERE'S THE SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER, THERE'S THE COMMUNITY CENTER.
THERE ARE VIABLE PLACES IN TOWN WHERE, YOU KNOW, WE COULD, WE COULD, YOU KNOW, HAVE THEM COME IN AND, AND HOLD A DRIVE.
WE WOULD BE, UM, NEEDED TO HELP WITH MARKETING AND PROMOTION, UM, AND PROBABLY BE THERE TO, TO HELP, YOU KNOW, EXECUTE THE DRIVE.
UM, WHICH, YOU KNOW, REALLY IS JUST OUR TIME.
SO IN TERMS OF COST, THERE'S NOTHING VIRTUALLY OUT OF POCKET THAT THE CITY MIGHT, OR THAT WE AS A COMMISSIONER WOULD, WOULD REALLY PROBABLY NEED TO PAY.
UM, BECAUSE WELCOME DAYTON, THEY TAKE CARE OF ALL THE PRINTING AND EVERYTHING.
UM, THE IDS ARE ALSO PRINTED SPECIFICALLY WITH, UM, A, UM, IF YOU LOOK AT THE PICTURE OF ONE OF THE IDS HERE, UM, TOWARDS THE, TOWARDS THE BACK, IT'S ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE.
UH, IT'S RIGHT BEFORE THE PARTNERSHIP PAGE.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE, THERE'S THE BACK OF THE ID WHERE RIGHT ABOVE WHERE IT SAYS MIAMI VALLEY COMMUNITY ID PROGRAM, THERE'S THIS BLUE LINE THAT KIND OF GOES ACROSS TO THE RIGHT THAT'S A SECURITY MEASURE.
UM, THAT MEANS THAT THE CARD CANNOT BE, UH, TAMPERED WITH OR, UM, DUPLICATED, UM, THAT, THAT'S LIKE A, A SEAL OF, UH, ORIGINAL APPROVAL.
AND, AND DAYTON POLICE DEPARTMENT ASKED, WELCOME DAYTON TO, YOU KNOW, CREATE THE CARD SPECIFICALLY LIKE THAT, TO PROHIBIT, UM, FRAUDULENCE BASICALLY.
UM, SO I THINK, UM, WHAT I HANDED OUT TO YOU GUYS IS JUST SOMETHING THAT THEY PASS OUT AT EACH DRIVE.
UM, IT JUST SHOWS, UM, YOU KNOW, BEST POLICIES OR PROCEDURES OR PRACTICES FOR, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE HELPING TO ORGANIZE A DRIVE.
AND THEN ON THE OTHER SIDE THERE, THERE'S A LIST OF ALL THEIR DOCUMENTATION, UM, LOTS OF DIFFERENT CHOICES THAT SOMEBODY CAN BRING IN, UM, TO SHOW PROOF OF, YOU KNOW, RESIDENCY AND, AND A PROOF OF, OF, OF LIFE, BASICALLY.
SO THEY OFFER, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT OPTIONS.
UM, AND YOU KNOW, WHERE IT SAYS PHOTO ID, IT MIGHT THROW YOU OFF OF LIKE, WELL, IF THEY HAVE A DRIVER'S LICENSE AND THEY'RE PROVIDING THAT, THEN WHY ARE THEY GONNA NEED THIS ID CARD? WELL, MAYBE THE DRIVER'S LICENSE IS SUSPENDED OR BLOCKED OR, UM, UM, EXPIRED AND FOR SOME REASON THEY CAN'T GET, YOU KNOW, ANOTHER ONE KIND OF A THING.
I DON'T WANNA TAKE TOO MUCH TIME, YOU KNOW, UM, KIND OF GOING OVER ANY FINE DETAILS SINCE WE'RE JUST KIND OF STARTING THIS, THIS PROCESS.
BUT, UM, THERE IS A DRIVE THAT IS TAKING PLACE, AND IT IS HERE IN HUBER.
SO THE CITY'S NOT YET ASSOCIATED WITH THIS DRIVE, BUT IT'S AT, UM, PINEAL CHURCH, AND THEY'RE ONLY HAVING THE DRIVE THERE BECAUSE, UM, SOMEBODY KNOWS SOMEBODY WHO AGREED TO HAVE IT THERE, KIND OF A THING, YOU KNOW? UM, BUT, UM, THEY STRESSED IN OUR MEETING THAT THERE'S A DEFINITE NEED FOR THE PROGRAM HERE IN HUBER, AND IT COULD BE VERY HELPFUL.
UM, SO IF ANY OF US ARE INTERESTED IN MAYBE JUST KIND OF POPPING IN, SEE WHAT'S
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SHAKEN, SEE HOW IT ROLLS, WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE KIND OF A THING, UM, IF THE TIME COMES, YOU KNOW, IF, OR WHEN WE HAVE TO GO IN FRONT OF COUNSEL AND, AND, YOU KNOW, UM, MAKE OUR CASE FOR THIS, I GUESS, I DON'T KNOW.AND I DON'T THINK WE'D HAVE TO TRY TOO HARD TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, BUT I COULD BE WRONG.
UM, AT LEAST WE CAN SAY WE'VE GONE TO ONE DRIVE AND, YOU KNOW, WE CAN COMMENT ON THE ORGANIZATION OF IT IN THE PROCESS AND ALL THAT.
SO, UM, I THINK YOU GUYS ALSO HAVE SOME DATA SHEETS FROM THE CITY OF DAYTON, UH, WITH DIFFERENT DIVERSITIES AND DIFFERENT GROUPS AND WHATNOT THAT THEY INCLUDED, UM, IN YOUR PACKET.
UM, YEAH, I THINK THAT'S ABOUT ALL I GOT.
UM, CAN I TRY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS? DO YOU KNOW IF THIS DATA THAT THEY HAVE IN HERE, IS THIS, UM, BASED ON THE DEMOGRAPHICS IN THE CITY? OR IS THIS LIKE PEOPLE THAT THEY SERVE? I THINK IT'S PEOPLE THAT THEY SERVE, BUT I COULD BE WRONG.
NO, I THINK IT'S AN EXCELLENT, YEAH, I THINK SO IDEA, BECAUSE THIS IS ONE OF THE, THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF A SYSTEMIC CHALLENGE,
YOU KNOW, THAT THE TYPES OF THINGS THAT THE COMMISSION FOCUSES ON.
I DON'T, I THINK THAT, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF IT LIES WITH, I MEAN, I THINK DEFINITELY HAVE CONVERSATIONS AND LET THE POLICE CHIEF IN, BUT I WOULD RECOMMEND JUST TAKING IT TO COUNCIL.
'CAUSE HE'LL, HE'LL BE AT THE MEETING TOO.
SO ESPECIALLY IF WE WANT THE CITY ON BOARD WITH IT.
WELL, I HAD ASKED DARREN, I SAID, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE COMMUNICATIONS, YOU KNOW, CAN WE, CAN WE BE INVOLVED
MAYBE, UM, WHEN THIS, THE MEETING WITH IT, YOU CAN TALK ABOUT IT AT THE MEETING.
UM, I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT DATE OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
I MEAN, WE CAN PUT FORTH A, A, UH, A RECOMMENDATION FROM THE COMMISSION YEP.
RECOMMENDATION TO DO WHAT ARE, ARE WE ALL IN SUPPORT OF THIS BEFORE I YEAH.
RECOMMENDATION TO DO WHAT WE WERE TALK, CHRISTIE MENTIONED GETTING THE CITY ON BOARD, RECOGNIZING THIS, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, JUST BECAUSE THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WILL SAY THEY ACCEPT, YOU KNOW, THAT AS A FORM OF ID.
I DON'T THINK THAT'S GONNA MAKE THE PROGRAM OFFICIAL HERE.
I THINK CITY COUNCIL WILL NEED TO SAY, YES, WE'LL, WE WILL WELCOME DAYTON COMING IN AND HOSTING, UM, YOU KNOW, THE DRIVES.
UM, YOU KNOW, AND THEY'LL PUT FORTH THE BACKING THAT IS REQUIRED, I THINK.
AND, AND I THINK JUST KNOWING THAT THE POLICE ARE ON BOARD WILL BE A NICE INCENTIVE FOR THEM TO BE LIKE, OH, OKAY, THIS IS, YEAH.
SO I DON'T KNOW THAT WE WANNA DO A RECOMMENDATION JUST YET.
UM, AARON IS KIND OF TAKING THE LEAD ON, LIKE I SAID EARLIER, COMMUNICATING WITH THE POLICE FIRST, UM, AND SEEING IF WE CAN GET THEM ON BOARD.
AND THEN, UM, IF THAT COMMUNICATION AND THAT MEETING HAPPENS, THEY'LL WANNA PROBABLY MEET WITH WELCOME DAYTON.
AND THEN THAT'S A CONVERSATION ANY OR ALL OF US CAN BE, YOU KNOW, A PART OF AS WELL.
AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, IF WE JUST KIND OF HOLD THIS FROM THE BEGINNING YEAH.
YOU KNOW, UM, THEN IT'LL MAKE MAYBE THAT PROCESS WHEN WE, 'CAUSE MAYBE, YOU KNOW, AARON WILL SAY, YOU KNOW, WE WON'T NEED TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION, YOU KNOW, UM, MAYBE WE CAN JUST SHOW UP AT CITY COUNCIL AND JUST PRESENT IT AND THEY'LL SAY WE ADOPT IT OR WHATEVER.
YOU KNOW, I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE RED TABLE IS WITH THAT, BUT STILL NEED SOMETHING IN WRITING.
SO, BUT I THINK, UM, BEFORE WE DO ANY OF THAT, I THINK WE STILL, AND I, I REALLY GOT THE FEELING THAT AARON KIND OF AGREED TO LET'S TALK TO THE POLICE CHIEF FIRST.
'CAUSE IT REALLY, IT'S GONNA FALL.
THEY'RE THE ONES PULLING PEOPLE OVER, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE THE ONES INTERACTING DIRECTLY WITH THE COMMUNITY, ANSWERING CALLS, THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
BUT I DO THINK THIS IS A GREAT THING.
UM, IF WE NEED TO, I GUESS, I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO APPLY PRESSURE TO ANYBODY PERSONALLY, BUT IF WE NEED TO, I GUESS WE CAN.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, AND THE POLICE IS A BIG ASPECT OF IT, BUT THERE ARE JUST SO MANY OTHER THINGS IT COULD BE USED FOR.
YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I, I CAN TELL YOU HOW MANY PEOPLE DON'T WANNA GET A LIBRARY CARD BECAUSE THEY'RE HOMELESS.
UM, BUT THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT TOO, LIKE THE HOMELESS, THE, YEAH.
LIKE THERE'S THE WHOLE LIST OF, OF THING, AND IT'S SO, YOU KNOW IT WELL THE POLICE IS, YOU KNOW, A BIG, UH, SOUNDING POINT.
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KIND OF LOOK AT LIKE, EVERYONE THAT IT HELPS.WHICH WORD? I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT WENT.
IF YOU'RE ATTORNEY FROM JAIL, ELDERLY RESIDENTS.
ANYONE WISH, OBVIOUSLY ANYONE WISHING TO SUPPORT THE PROGRAM, SO, YEAH.
LIKE, I, I JUST THOUGHT, WOW, THIS, THIS COULDN'T BE, I FEEL LIKE MORE ON POINT WITH OUR, OUR MISSION THAN IT, THAN IT IS, BUT I MEAN, IT'S NOT A HUNDRED PERCENT, BUT IT'S REALLY CLOSE.
THANKS FOR BRINGING THIS TO US, CHRISTIE.
UM, NEXT ORDER OF BUSINESS IS, OR IS THERE ANY MORE DISCUSSION ON THIS? I HAVE A QUESTION.
CAN WE START LIKE ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU'RE WRITING DOWN, LIKE THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FOCUSING ON TO START LIKE A SPREADSHEET SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUOUSLY LOOK BACK ON THOSE THINGS AND TRACK MM-HMM.
SEND ONE OUT OR KEEP A RUNNING SPREADSHEET ON THAT'S ACCESSIBLE TO ALL OF US.
THINGS THAT WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO FORGET.
I'M SORRY, YOU ASKED FOR A SPREADSHEET ON WHAT EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE CAPTURING LIKE THIS AND LIKE THE, UM, T-S-T-S-C-T-S-C, ALL THE THINGS THAT WE JUST DISCUSSED.
AND THEN WE ALSO NEED TO STILL TRACK SOME OF THE, UM, RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE HAD TO THE CITY THAT HAVE STILL NOT BEEN ADDRESSED.
I THINK THERE WAS, I THINK THERE'S ONLY TWO THAT, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN FROM NOT AARON, IT WAS A UPDATE.
WHAT'S THAT? I THINK OF RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE'VE GIVEN TO THE CITY? I THINK THERE'S ONLY TWO THAT HAVEN'T BEEN ADDRESSED.
I THINK, DON'T QUOTE ME ON THAT ONE.
I'LL GO BACK AND LOOK AT THIS YEAR'S NOTES, BUT I THINK WHEN, WHEN AARON FIRST CAME IN, I THINK HE GAVE A, A UPDATE ON THE THINGS THAT WE HAD THAT WERE LINGERING.
I THINK THERE WERE ONLY TWO, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN.
I JUST, THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING.
I'M THINKING OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
BUT I'LL GO BACK AND LOOK AT MY NOTES TOO.
AND I'LL PUT THAT IN THE SPREADSHEET AS WELL.
WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GIVE YOU A SPREADSHEET TOO, BECAUSE TONY HAS IN THE PAST, UM, TRACKED ALL OF OUR RECOMMENDATIONS AND THEN WE LEVEL SET ON THOSE, LIKE YOU WOULD HAVE A MEETING WITH HIM AND THEN BRING THAT FORTH TO THE COMMISSION TO SEE, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO WITH THESE THINGS THAT ARE LEFT LINGERING.
SO NEXT ORDER OF BUSINESS IS OUR NEXT MEETINGS.
WE HAVE OUR NOVEMBER 5TH, 2026.
DECEMBER 3RD, 2026, AND A DECEMBER MEETING.
UM, THAT WILL BE OUR OFFICERS MEETING.
SO IF YOU ARE LOOKING TO RUN FOR OFFICE, UM, OF PRESIDENT OR I'M SORRY, OF CHAIR.
I THINK THOSE ARE THE ONLY TWO POSITIONS WE HAVE
UM, I CAN'T REMEMBER, DID WE MEET IN DECEMBER OF LAST YEAR? DID WE HAVE OUR DEC DID WE HAVE A DECEMBER MEETING LAST YEAR? WE DID.
I COULDN'T REMEMBER IF WE WE DID OR DIDN'T.
WE DON'T HAVE, WE DON'T HAVE A JANUARY MEETING.
I THOUGHT WE DIDN'T HAVE ONE A MY PETITION FOR US TO MEET IN JULY.
I DON'T KNOW WHY I THOUGHT WE DIDN'T HAVE ONE IN JANUARY BECAUSE IT, BECAUSE LIKE, I THOUGHT LIKE LAST YEAR, IT WASN'T LIKE THE FIRST ONE LIKE A THURSDAY OR SO, SOMETHING LAST MINUTE PLANNING FOR MLK, THE TASK GROUP.
I THINK THE TASK GROUP MAY, I DON'T THINK WE DO.
I DON'T THINK WE HAD A WELL, THE TASK GROUP GAVE A HEADS UP ON YEAH.
SO BEFORE A BREAK HERE, AREN'T YOU? NO, I JUST, I JUST, I DON'T KNOW WHY I THOUGHT THAT.
I THOUGHT I WAS LIKE, I LIKE, WHY DO WE HAVE A DECEMBER? I THOUGHT WE DIDN'T HAVE A MEETING IN DECEMBER, BUT I GUESS YOU'RE RIGHT.
I GUESS JULY IS THE ONLY ONE WE DON'T HAVE BECAUSE IT'S SO CLOSE TO THE FOURTH.
UM, THOSE DATES NOVEMBER 5TH, 2026.
ANYTHING THAT I DID NOT COVER FOR THAT NEEDS TO BE DISCUSSED FOR THE GOOD OF THE ORDER? UH, GO AHEAD.
THE NOVEMBER, DECEMBER MEETING, WE'RE GOING TO TIE UP LOOSE ENDS FOR MLK.
UH, WE CAN, YEAH, I MEAN, I, I GAVE THOSE UNLESS YOU'RE NOT PLANNING ON HAVING ANY MLK AND NO, WE'LL HAVE IT.
UM, I'LL, YEAH, I'LL TIE, I'LL, I'LL TIE THAT UP.
I'LL GIVE, UH, I'LL SEND EVERYBODY THE SAME PACKET I SENT EARLIER MM-HMM
AND THEN YOU, WE ALL CAN DECIDE ON WHAT WE WANT TO DO IN NOVEMBER, UM, IN THAT NOVEMBER MEETING AND WE'LL SPEND THAT TIME TOGETHER.
SO YOU DON'T HAVE US READY FOR THAT OR SEND OUT THE INFORMATION AGAIN WHERE YOU THINKING, I MEAN, I CAN REVIEW THE MATERIALS THAT YOU HAD BEFORE, BUT THAT'S, WANT TO KNOW WHERE YOU WANT TO GO WITH THAT SO WE CAN, UM, TIE THAT UP.
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OUR AGAIN, SO, UM, BUT, AND IN ADDITION TO THAT STATEMENT, YOU ALREADY ANSWERED THAT YOU'RE, LEMME MAKE SURE I'M CLEAR.DID WE NOT SET A DATE FOR THE PLANNING VISION COMMITTEE? DID NOT.
AND WE'RE DOING WHAT WE'RE WAITING TO, I HAVE ONE SET UP BEFORE, BECAUSE LAST TIME WE DID, WE HAD TO, THERE'S RULES.
WE HAVE TO DO THAT BECAUSE IT'S STILL A MEETING AND IT'S, BUT WE DON'T MAKE IT.
BUT WE TOOK MINUTES FOR THAT MEETING 'CAUSE I REMEMBER, UM, JEFFREY, UM, STATING, I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE MINUTES WENT.
THAT'S WHY I, THAT'S WHY I SAID THAT'S WHY I TOLD TOOK MINUTES FOR THAT MEETING.
I THERE FOR WHAT? FOR WHAT MEETING? FOR DIVISION MEETING THAT WE HAD LAST YEAR.
BUT LIKE I SAID, WE GOT NEW MEMBERS NOW, SO WE NEED TO JUST MAKE SURE WE LEVEL SET THAT MEETING AS WELL.
SO I'LL HAVE THAT, WE'LL DO THAT BEFORE THE END OF THIS YEAR AS WELL.
SO WE'LL NEED TO GET WITH AARON TOO TO SEE YEAH.
IF HE'S AVAILABLE AND, YEAH, BECAUSE IT'S LIKE ON THE BOOKS, BUT, AND I FEEL LIKE WE SHOULD SHOOT FOR IT SOMETIME IN NOVEMBER BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS REALLY KICK IN.
WE CAN, I I, I, FOR SOME REASON, LIKE I SAID, I, I THOUGHT IT WAS LIKE AROUND THIS, NOT LIKE RIGHT NOW, BUT LIKE, I THOUGHT IT WAS LIKE IN OCTOBER OF LAST YEAR, BUT I COULD BE WRONG.
I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS IN OCTOBER FOR THE, WE DID THAT VISION MEETING LAST YEAR.
OH, I THOUGHT IT WAS LIKE IN OCTOBER.
WELL, LIKE AFTER IT WAS LIKE RESCHEDULED LIKE TWO OR THREE TIMES.
I DON'T, I JUST REMEMBER, I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS, BUT I COULD BE A HUNDRED PERCENT WRONG.
BUT IF YOU, UM, BUT AGAIN, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, DECEMBER MEETING WE WILL DO OUR, UM, OFFICER VOTES.
SO THOSE WHO WANT TO SERVE AS CHAIR OR VICE CHAIR, UM, OR IF YOU WHATEVER.
UM, OTHER THAN THAT, I HAVE NOTHING ELSE.
DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING ELSE? SO ONE QUICK THING.
UM, ARE WE GONNA PARTICIPATE IN THE CHRISTMAS EVENT ON THE FIFTH? DO WE WANNA HAVE A BOOTH? I THOUGHT WE AT THE EVENT A BOOTH FOR WHAT? I THOUGHT WE SAID.
WHAT RUBEN? WHAT, WHAT WAS THE BOOTH FOR? WHAT'S IT FOR? YEAH.
UM, WELL WE, YEAH, WE HAD A TABLE AND A BOOTH AT THE TREE LIGHTING LAST YEAR AND WE HANDED OUT, UM, SAVE THE DATES FOR MLK, UM, UH, AND WE JUST CONNECTED WITH THE COMMUNITY PRETTY MUCH ALL.
THAT'S WHAT, 'CAUSE THERE WERE JUST LIKE TABLES OR BOOTHS, LIKE ALL FROM WHAT, MAYBE OUT HERE ALL THE WAY AROUND UP TO THE TREE.
I, I REMEMBER IT BEING ASKED WHEN YOU ASKED THE QUESTION ABOUT THE UM, UM, JULY 4TH EVENT.
AND THEN I ASKED ABOUT THAT AND THEN WE SAID WE WOULD TABLE WITH, DIDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE TO ME AT THE TIME WHEN WE SHOULD HAVE AGREED WE WE WAS GOING TO DO THAT AT THAT TIME.
SO ARE YOU ASKING THE QUESTION, ARE WE GONNA DO IT? I'M LOST.
I'M, I'D LIKE TO CLARIFY IF IT'S SOMETHING WE'RE INTERESTED IN, IN DOING.
YEAH, BECAUSE WE, AND 'CAUSE I, THERE'S A LITTLE MORE INFORMATION.
I THINK IT'S LIKE FROM SIX TO EIGHT THE PARADE IS GONNA, I THINK IT'S LIKE MAYBE FROM FIVE TO EIGHT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
BUT THE PARADE'S GONNA BE HAPPENING AT THE SAME TIME AND THEY'RE TRYING TO DRAW MORE PEOPLE TO IT, I GUESS.
BUT, UM, I MEAN JUST BECAUSE WE'VE SAY WE'RE GONNA DO IT DOESN'T MEAN ANYONE'S GONNA COMMIT TO SHOWING UP.
SO
SO WE STAY, I THOUGHT YOU SAID AT FIRST HOT SHOTS AND I WAS LIKE, OOH.
IS THAT LIKE AN ALCOHOL TO NO, I'M JUST KIDDING.
WHAT ARE THE SPECIFICS AROUND THE DATE AND THE TIME? SO IT'S UM, SATURDAY THE FIFTH AND I SWEAR IT'S FROM SIX TO EIGHT, BUT I WILL DOUBLE CHECK WHEN I GET HOME.
UM, I DON'T HAVE MY PHONE WITH ME ACTUALLY, SO I CAN'T, I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO CHECK.
BUT, UM, NO MORE, UH, I MEAN THAT'S THAT.
AND IF WE REGISTER, UM, YOU KNOW, ASK THEM NOT TO PUT US NEXT TO THE DJ AGAIN.
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UM, BUT YOU KNOW, IT MIGHT BE A GOOD THING IF WE FINALIZE SOME OF THESE EVENTS THAT WE CAN MAKE A LITTLE CALENDAR, RIGHT? LIKE A LITTLE QUARTER SHEET FLYER MM-HMMUM, AND YOU KNOW, PUT, UM, EVEN, WE DON'T HAVE ANY DATES, BUT WE KNOW WE'RE GONNA DO SOME STUFF LIKE JUST PUT SOME OF OUR EVENTS OUT THERE, UM, JUST TO GET, YOU KNOW, THE COMMUNITY EVEN MORE AWARE OF, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING THAT WE PLAN ON DOING.
UM, IT MIGHT NOT BE A BAD IDEA, SOMETHING LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW, BUT YEAH, BECAUSE I THINK WE ALREADY SOLIDIFIED LIKE THE DATES THAT, OR THE WEEKENDS.
WE WANTED TO DO ALL OF OUR EVENTS LAST YEAR.
SO YEAH, THAT SHOULD BE A VERY, WE JUST GOT TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THOSE THINGS ARE.
KIND OF LIKE, LOOK, LOOK, YOU KNOW, WATCH SOCIAL MEDIA FOR THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THESE EVENTS KIND OF A THING.
YOU KNOW, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
BUT IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, MAYBE JUST SOME GOOD INTERACTION.
UM, I KNOW THAT MOLLY TOLD THE KIWANIS CLUB THAT IF YOU DO A CRAFT OR A GAME AT YOUR BOOTH, THEN REGISTRATION IS FREE.
SO WOULD YOU ALL LIKE ME TO KIND OF BRAINSTORM ON, ON GETTING SOME IDEAS FOR THAT OR WOULD SOMEONE ELSE LIKE TO DO THAT? ANYONE OTHER THAN ME AND EBRA LOCK CAN LOCK IN.
I'M NOT THAT GOOD AT THAT STUFF.
SO YOU DON'T WANT ME BRAINSTORMING THOSE THINGS.
BUT I, I'LL DEFINITELY, IF YOU GIMME THE RULES, I CAN, I CAN EXECUTE A GAME.
SO THAT MEANS YOU'LL BE THERE.
UM, YOU TOLD ME HOW TO RUN THE GAME.
I THINK I CAN, I'LL FIGURE IT OUT OR YOU KNOW, WHATEVER, WHEREVER WE CHOOSE TO DO AT THE BOOTH THAT DAY.
YEAH, I WANNA SAY IT'S, I'M PRETTY SURE IT'S SIX TO EIGHT BECAUSE I THINK THE PARADE LINEUP STARTS AT FOUR AND MAYBE THAT GOES TILL FIVE AND, AND THEN THE PARADE ENDS RIGHT HERE AND THEN, SO THE FESTIVAL'S GETTING ALREADY KICKING OFF.
UM, SO I FEEL LIKE IT'S JUST A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME.
I'LL BE THERE, BUT I WILL CONFIRM THAT AND SEND AN EMAIL OUT AND THEN IF ANYBODY ELSE DECIDES THEY WANNA HOP IN AND PARTICIPATE, YOU CAN DECIDE FROM THERE.
WINNER, WINNER, CHICKEN DINNER.
UM, I NEED A MOTION TO OH, OKAY.
WHAT, UM, ARE WE SOLIDIFIED WITH JUNE? UH, NOT JUNE, MLK DAY? ARE WE SOLIDIFIED, SURPRISED THAT WITH AN AGENDA? YEAH.
IN TERMS OF WHAT'S NEEDED AND ALL THAT.
UM, SO WHAT'S NEEDED? UM, NO, IT HASN'T BEEN SOLIDIFIED YET TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION.
UM, I'VE PUT OUT A PACKET LIKE MM-HMM
AND, UM, WE JUST HAVEN'T SOLIDIFIED ANYTHING YET AS A COMMISSION.
DOES THE DATE DEPEND ON WHAT ACTIVITY OR EVENT WE WANNA DO? NOT NECESSARILY.
I MEAN, WE CAN, I MEAN WE HAVE THAT ENTIRE WEEKEND.
WE'VE ALWAYS TRADITIONALLY DONE THINGS I THINK ON THAT MONDAY OF MLK, BUT I THINK THERE WAS EVEN CONVERSATION OF MOVE MAYBE DOING SOMETHING ON EVEN ON LIKE THAT SATURDAY OR THAT SUNDAY IN OF THAT WEEKEND.
BUT IT'S, IT'S REALLY UP TO WHAT WE DECIDE AND WHAT DAY WE WANT TO GO TO AND WHERE WE WANNA BE AT.
REMEMBER, YOU ONLY HAVE TWO MEETINGS.
WELL IS ANYONE, UM, THINKING THAT MORE PEOPLE MIGHT BE INVOLVED IF WE DO SOMETHING ON A SATURDAY OR SUNDAY? I THINK THAT WAS THE, THAT WAS THE UM, CONSENSUS.
YEAH, THE CONSENSUS OF TRYING, IF WE MOVED IT OFF OF THAT DAY THAT WE PROBABLY COULD GET, UH, MORE PARTICIPATION EVEN IF WE DID SOMETHING A, A SIMILAR EVENT.
BUT DOING THAT THEN WILL REQUIRE US.
'CAUSE TYPICALLY I THINK WE'VE GOTTEN USING THE SCHOOL BECAUSE IT'S EMPTY.
BUT DOING THAT, IF WE MOVE OFF THAT DAY, THEN OBVIOUSLY WE RUN INTO YEAH, WHERE WOULD WE DO IT AT AND ALL THOSE THINGS.
I DON'T MIND HASHING OUT, BANGING OUT AND, AND, AND BRING IT BACK TO THE COMMISSION.
IF THAT'S WHAT YOU GUYS WANT ME TO DO BY OUR NEXT MEETING, I CAN DEFINITELY DO ALL THAT.
WHO'S THAT? I KNOW YOU'RE LEADING IT.
WHO IS ON THAT, UM, COMMITTEE? UM, WE NEVER DECIDED THAT BECAUSE ALL I DID WAS BRING IN THE, I I BROUGHT THE IDEAS TO THE COMMISSION AND WE NEVER HAVE CONVERSED ABOUT IT SINCE.
SO WHO, WHO DOES ANYBODY WANT TO IS IN? IT'S IN JANUARY, RIGHT? IT IS CORRECT.
I SAID THAT ONLY GOT TWO MINUTES
THERE ARE SO MANY MOVING PIECES TO MLK.
I'M JUST SAYING I IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SOMETHING THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED TONIGHT BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT AND IF WE CAN'T, WE MAY DECIDE THAT WE DON'T HAVE IT THIS YEAR OR, OR 2027.
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I DON'T THINK WE'RE DOING THAT.I THINK WE NEED TO, WE NEED TO, I DUNNO, LIKE WE WOULD'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT THIS MONTH TO FIGURE OUT NEXT STEPS.
'CAUSE WE, WE HAVE TO FIND THE LOCATION.
WE HAVE TO SOLIDIFY THE LOCATION WE HAVE TALK TO SCHOOL SYSTEM.
THEY HELP PUBLICIZE, THEY CO-SPONSOR.
I'M ALMOST POSITIVE I WE CAN PULL IT OFF.
IT'S JUST A MATTER OF LIKE, AGAIN, WE JUST HAVE TO, TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IT IS THAT WE WANNA DO THIS YEAR FOR, FOR MLK DAY.
WELL, AND I THINK IF WE GET AWAY FROM THE TASK GROUPS AND WE'RE JUST ALL ON BOARD ASSIGNED DIFFERENT THINGS TO DO, THEN IT'S, YOU KNOW, MAYBE IT'LL BE EXECUTED A LITTLE SMOOTHER EVEN IF WE'VE GOT TWO AND A HALF MONTHS TO GO, YOU KNOW, PLAN IT.
IF WE'RE ALL HANDS ON DECK, THEN AT THIS POINT WE DON'T HAVE A CHOICE.
YEAH, I THINK WE HAVE TO BE ALL HANDS ON DECK AND WE CAN FIGURE OUT, UM, SOME OTHER THINGS.
BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY I WILL MAKE SURE THAT WE, I THINK WE, I CAN WE PULL IT OFF? YES.
UM, TYPICALLY YOU WANNA START MARKETING THINGS ON AN AVERAGE TIME 90 DAYS OUT.
SO, BUT I MEAN, COMING INTO THE HOLIDAYS, YEAH, IT'S A MARKETING WORKS A LITTLE DIFFERENT WHEN YOU BRING, WHEN YOU'RE BACKED UP AGAINST THANKSGIVING AND, AND CHRISTMAS.
'CAUSE NO MATTER WHAT YOU MARKET, IT'S GONNA BE DROWNED OUT BY THANKSGIVING AND CHRISTMAS.
SO I THINK IF WE PLAN IT WELL, WE'LL BE FINE.
UM, WE CAN STILL GIVE EVERYONE PUTTING AMPLE TIME AND AMPLE NOTIFICATION.
UM, BECAUSE THAT'S THE FIRST THING THAT I'LL, THAT'LL HAPPEN IN 2027.
NOBODY'S VERY FEW THINGS WILL BE, HAVE ALREADY BEEN BOOKED UP BY THEN BECAUSE YOU'RE JUST COMING OFF CHRISTMAS AND AND NEW YEAR'S.
SO EVERYONE NEEDS TO GO HOME AND READ JACKET AND MAYBE WE SHOULD EMAIL YOU COMMUNICATE IN SOME WHAT IDEAS WE LIKE.
AND THEN I WILL SEND OUT THE PACKET AGAIN TONIGHT.
UM, SO I, I HAVE NO DOUBTS THAT WE CAN PULL MOST ANYTHING OFF
AND BECAUSE WE ARE BUMPING AGAINST HOLIDAYS OF THE THANKSGIVING BREAK, THE CHRISTMAS BREAK, AND WE WANT STUDENT INVOLVEMENT, WE HAVE TO LET SCHOOLS KNOW ASAP FOR THEM TO GET THEIR STUDENTS INVOLVED.
OKAY, WELL HERE'S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.
JUST AN IDEA, RIGHT? FEBRUARY BLACK HISTORY MONTH AND OFTENTIMES, UM, MLK EVENTS WILL CARRY INTO, YOU KNOW, FEBRUARY.
UM, MAYBE WE NEED TO, COULD WE HAVE A QUICK DISCUSSION ON WOULD WE WANNA DO SOMETHING IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY AND HONOR MLK AT THAT TIME? I'M OPEN TO ANYTHING THAT THE COMMISSION IS OPEN TO.
UM, IT WOULD BUY US A A MONTH.
A MONTH OF IF OF, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE IT'S AN ENTIRE MONTH OF FEBRUARY.
I'M JUST, YEAH, NO, I'M, I'M OPENING WHATEVER THE COMMISSION IT IT WANTS TO DO.
UH, I MEAN I'M ON SEVERAL OTHER COMMISSIONS AND THEY HAVE BROUGHT UP THE SAME IDEA FOR THE, I'M ASSUMING VARIOUS REASONS, BUT YOU'RE NOT THE FIRST PERSON THAT I'VE HEARD THAT TOO IN THE LAST 24 HOURS.
BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT KIND OF BREAKS THE TRADITION OF WHAT THE COMMISSION DOES.
I THINK WE SHOULD STILL KEEP IT IN JANUARY MLK, SEPARATE THE EVENT AND THEN WE CAN DO BLACK HISTORY MONTH AS A DIFFERENT EVENT AS WELL.
BUT I DON'T THINK JUST THAT ONE MONTH IS GONNA GIVE US BUNCH OF TIME OR LESS TIME.
IT'S, IT'S, WE'RE STILL GONNA DO THE SAME WORK.
AND I FEEL LIKE ALL OF THIS HAPPENED BECAUSE, UH, WE, WE'VE BEEN HAVING, UH, A LOT OF ABSENCE IN OUR MEETINGS AND UH, THE PEOPLE THAT WAS ACTUALLY WAS SUPPOSED TO DO SOME THINGS IN THIS STUFF, BUT, UH, THEY WERE ABSENT AND I DON'T KNOW, THERE WAS TOO MANY CANCELLATIONS.
SO, BUT IF WE ALL AS A COMMISSION PUT OUR HANDS INTO IT, I THINK WE'LL BE ABLE TO TAKE CARE OF THE MLK, UH, WITH NO PROBLEMS. WE, WE HAVE PLENTY OF TIME.
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YEAH.'CAUSE IT'S ABOUT, IT DOESN'T, AND IT DOESN'T REQUIRE MANY SCHEDULINGS.
IT JUST, THERE WAS LIKE, UM, WHAT DID WE HAVE LAST YEAR? WE HAD PROCLAMATION AND THEN WE HAD, UM, THE INTERVIEW THAT, THAT UH, YOUNG LADY SPOKE FROM CINCINNATI.
WHAT WAS HER NAME? LU ODELL? NO, WE HAD DALE COME ON LU.
WE HAD, WE HAD HER AS A GUEST SPEAKER AND THEN, AND THEN WE HAD A FEW STUDENTS THAT WENT UP THERE.
BUT I THINK WE CAN STILL ORGANIZE THAT.
WE'RE STILL WELL OVER A HUNDRED DAYS OUT.
THERE'S IDEAS IN THE PACKET THAT ARE INVOLVED JUST AS SPRING, LIKE WITH LOCAL NONPROFITS, OTHER CIVIC.
SO THAT COULD ALLEVIATE SOME OF THE CONCERNS ABOUT, WE'RE GETTING AT A TIME CRUNCH HERE AND, AND SOME OF THESE IDEAS, I MEAN I THINK THEY'RE ALL GREAT IN THEIR OWN WAY, BUT THEY COULD BE NON-TRADITIONAL OR THE COMMISSION, LIKE THE HANDS AND HEARTS.
SO THAT WOULD BE US KIND OF SERVING OUR COMMUNITY IN A DIFFERENT WAY.
SO IT CAN HELP TO BEARS CONCERN BECAUSE WE'RE, YEAH.
AND WE, WHEN WE THINK ABOUT SPONSORS, WE ALSO HAVE TO THINK ABOUT, A LOT OF PEOPLE ALREADY HAVE THEIR MLK DAYS PLANNED THAT JUST HAD A POPUP FROM AN EVENT.
SO THAT ALSO IMPACTS, YOU KNOW, WHAT, SPONSORS HAVE ALREADY SPONSORED OTHER EVENTS, WHICH I'M BEATING A DEAD HORSE, SO Y'ALL KNOW HOW I FEEL.
COREY, I DON'T, I DIDN'T, I THINK YOU HAD MY EMAIL WRONG ON THAT MESSAGE.
SO LET ME, I'LL DO IT TONIGHT.
IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT BY LIKE NINE 30 OR SOMETHING, JUST SHOOT ME A TEXT MESSAGE.
'CAUSE I PROBABLY, I'VE STILL GOT IT WRONG 'CAUSE I WILL SEND IT AS SOON AS I GET TO THE HOUSE.
UM, BUT DECEMBER 3RD I WILL BE TRAVELING FOR WORK.
NOVEMBER 5TH NOVEMBER FOR THE THIRD MEETING.
SO YOU WON'T BE HERE FOR NOVEMBER? I WON'T BE HERE NOVEMBER 5TH.
ANYBODY DO WANNA MAKE A MOTION TO ADJOURN OR IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE WE NEED TO DISCUSS? UH, ONE LAST THING I HAVE FOR THE TABLE.
IT'S NOT SOMETHING WE'RE DISCUSSING TONIGHT, BUT WE KEEP, UM, PUTTING IT OFF AND I'M GOING TO ASK FOR A MOTION TO BE SET UP OR I'LL MOTION FOR IT NEXT MEETING THAT WE NEED TO DISBAND THE SIDEBAR GROUPS.
UM, YOUR, UH, WHAT DO YOU CALL 'EM? TASK GROUPS.
UM, SO THEREFORE I'M GONNA MOTION FOR THAT, UM, NEXT MONTH.
SO WE NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT IT THAT THERE, UM, THAT WAY WE ALL COME BACK TOGETHER AS A TEAM AND WE WORK TOGETHER AS A TEAM.
WE HOLD EACH OTHER ACCOUNTABLE AS A TEAM.
BUT WE DON'T HAVE TASK GROUPS.
NOT, I THOUGHT WE DID FOR THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL.
THAT WAS PART OF THE YEAH, WE'VE HAD TASK GROUPS OR I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY CALL 'EM.
SO IT'S DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE HAVE WHAT WE TERM TASK GROUPS.
SO YOU'RE REALLY TALKING MORE ABOUT THE COMMITTEES THEN.
SO, SO DO EVERYTHING IN THE HERE.
SO Y Y'ALL THINK ABOUT THE PROS AND CONS.
WELL, SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE, UM, BEFORE I GOT HERE, YOU I THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA, BUT NOW IT'S, IT APPEARS THAT IT'S BROKEN DOWN.
IT WAS, I DON'T KNOW IT, IT WORKED BEFORE BECAUSE, UM, BUT IT WORKED BECAUSE THE TASK GROUP BROUGHT COMMUNICATION BACK.
THEY BROUGHT IT BACK AND REMEMBER TASK GROUPS, THEY REQUIRED, UM, THEY WERE PUBLIC MEETINGS AND SO MINUTES WERE TAKEN AND ALL THOSE MINUTES WERE AVAILABLE TO THE COMMISSION AND THAT TASK GROUP LEADER WOULD COME BACK.
THAT'S THE DIFFERENCE IN THE TASK GROUP AND THE COMMITTEE.
THE COMMITTEES ARE NOT FORMAL PUBLIC MEETINGS.
SO THAT'S WHERE THAT, THE COMMUNICATION BACK,
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YOU KNOW.SO WHEN YOU, THE BREAKDOWN, SO BACK DOWN, BACK THEN WHEN YOU HAD THE COMMITTEE GROUPS, YOU HAD, UM, MINUTES TO SUPPORT THOSE MEETINGS? WE HAD TASK GROUPS, YES.
WE HAD WHERE, WHERE ARE THOSE MINUTES? THEY'RE PUBLIC MINUTES BECAUSE WE HAD, THEY'RE NOT AVAILABLE THEN SOMETHING, SOMETHING'S BROKE DOWN THERE TOO.
YOU NEED TO ASK THE CITY ABOUT THAT BECAUSE WE HAD TO HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE CITY AT THOSE MEETINGS.
JEFFREY, HE WAS RECORDING ALL THE TASK GROUP MEETINGS, HOW HE WAS DOING THAT, BUT OKAY.
SO THAT'S WHAT A TASK GROUP IS.
SO THAT'S JUST SOMETHING TO CONSIDER.
UM, BECAUSE THE TASK GROUPS, BECAUSE THERE WAS THE FORMALITY TO IT.
THE CHALLENGE WITH THE OFFICIAL TASK GROUP WAS THAT WE HAD TO BE ON THE CITY CALENDAR.
UM, WE HAD TO HAVE A LOCATION THEN WE DIDN'T HAVE THIS LOCATION.
WE HAD TO FIND A DATE TO HAVE LOCATION IN THE CITY BUILDING AREA.
'CAUSE IT HAD TO BE RECORDED AND MINUTES AND ALL THAT STUFF.
IT ALL FOLLOWS THE SAME RULES AS A COMMISSION MEETING.
AND IT ACTUALLY, PEOPLE, THE, THE REASON WHY THE COMMISSION MOVED AWAY FROM THEM IS BECAUSE THEY FELT LIKE THEY WERE SPENDING, UM, MORE TIME, MORE HOURS.
AND SO THEY BROUGHT IT BACK HERE, BUT IT MADE OUR MEETINGS MUCH LONGER TOO.
AND THEN PEOPLE COMPLAINED ABOUT MATT
SO
BECAUSE IT WILL DEFINITELY MAKE YOUR MEETINGS MUCH LONGER.
YOU GONNA MAKE A MOTION TO ADJOURN OR, UM, I'M ALRIGHT.
A THING? NO, I, IF WE CAN POSSIBLY ADD AN ITEM TO THE AGENDA, LIKE OPEN DISCUSSION OR SOMETHING AT THE END OF OUR AGENDAS IN CASE THERE'S, I SAID FOR THE GOOD OF ANYTHING.
SO THAT'S, BUT JUST SO WE HAVE IT STANDING.
IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE FOR THE GOOD OF THE ORDER? YOU LIKE, YOU GOT SOMETHING YOLANDA MAKING A MEETING LONGER, I GUESS YOU'RE SAYING
MOTION BEING MOVED AND PROPERLY SECOND.
THIS MEETING AT 7 53 ON OCTOBER 1ST IS NOW ADJOURNED.