[Diversity and Inclusion Meeting]
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WE'LL GO AHEAD AND CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER AT 6 36.
UM, AND WE'LL START WITH A ROLL CALL.
COMMISSIONER GONZALES, COMMISSIONER WALKER, COMMISSIONER PRIETTO, COMMISSIONER SPOONS, COMMISSIONER, CHIN HERE, AND COMMISSION OR YEAH, IN COMMISSIONER, THOMPSON'S HERE AS WELL.
UM, NEXT WE'LL MOVE TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? NO PUBLIC COMMENT.
NEXT WE'LL MOVE TO GENERAL COMMENTS FROM CITY STAFF.
NEXT WE WILL MOVE TO GENERAL COMMENTS FROM COUNCIL MEMBER COUNTY CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES.
UM, SO JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS.
I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE PROBABLY GOING TO COVER THIS A LOT.
WE'LL BE PROBABLY ANSWERED HERE IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MINUTES.
UM, BUT WITH THE TRAINING ASPECT, SO WE DO HAVE A THOUSAND DOLLARS AND KIND OF THE OVERALL DISCUSSION I THINK FROM COUNCIL IS MORE THAT THEY'RE WANTING YOU GUYS TO PICK WHAT YOU WANT.
SO IF YOU WANT THAT TO BE A SPEAKER THAT YOU USE THAT THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR, UM, TO HIRE A SPEAKER, HIRE SOMEONE TO COME IN, AND MAYBE WE CAN MAKE IT MORE, NOT NECESSARILY JUST A DNI TRAINING, BUT MORE OF A COMMUNITY EVENT.
UM, IF YOU GUYS ARE WANTING TO MORE OR LESS KIND OF BUY LIKE SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR TRAININGS OR WHATEVER IT BE, WE'LL BE.
CAUSE I KNOW RIGHT NOW YOU GUYS ARE ALL TRYING TO DO, UM, MORE FREE AND MORE ACCESSIBLE THINGS THAT EVERYBODY HAS ACCESS TO.
UM, SO WE'RE KIND OF WANTING YOU GUYS TO REALLY PICK THE AVENUE THAT YOU WANT TO USE, UM, AND REALLY HAVE ALL OF THAT KIND OF NAILED DOWN.
LIKE IF YOU'RE GOING TO GO THE SPEAKER ROUTE, THIS IS THE PERSON THAT WE WANT TO GET.
UM, OBVIOUSLY YOU CAN'T GO AS FAR AS LIKE NAILING DOWN DATES UNTIL YOU HAVE COUNCIL APPROVAL.
AT LEAST I WOULD SAY DON'T DO THAT BECAUSE SOMETIMES COUNCIL WILL THROW A WRENCH IN WHATEVER WE ALL HAVE GREAT IDEAS AND THEN, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT ANGLES.
UM, SO WE'LL JUST KIND OF WHATEVER YOU GUYS THINK AS FAR AS TRAINING GOES, OR IF THERE'S SOME SUBSCRIPTIONS MAYBE AS YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN DOING TRAININGS, KIND OF SEEING THINGS POP UP OR MAYBE CERTAIN PEOPLE'S LIKE TED TALKS, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER IT MAY BE.
UM, I WOULD JUST SUGGEST KIND OF HAVING THAT, UM, AND THEN BRING IT TO COUNCIL.
UM, I WILL SAY THAT WE ARE IN MARCH, SO THE FISCAL YEAR BUDGET SEASON IS ACTUALLY THEY'VE ALREADY STARTED IT.
UM, BUT IT'S NOT TECHNICALLY OVER UNTIL OCTOBER.
SO YOU GUYS HAVE UNTIL OCTOBER TO SPEND IT.
UM, BUT IT IS ALREADY MARCH AND THINGS LIKE IF WE ARE WANTING TO DO A SPEAKER IN A COMMUNITY EVENT THAT DOES TAKE QUITE A BIT OF TIME AND PLANNING AND WITH YOU GUYS JUST MEETING ONCE A MONTH, THAT MAY NOT BE A REALISTIC GOAL TO HAVE DONE BY OCTOBER.
I DEFINITELY THINK IF WE GET MOVING NOW, IT DEFINITELY CAN GET DONE.
UM, BUT I JUST WANT TO PUT THAT ON YOUR GUYS'S RADAR.
UM, AND I, I KNOW THAT'S KIND OF ON THE AGENDA TO TALK ABOUT TONIGHT, SO JUST KIND OF PUSHING THAT DIRECTION FOR YOU GUYS.
UM, AND THEN IT WAS BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THAT, UM, THE FUNDS ALLOCATED FOR, UM, TREATS ON EAST.
I KNOW YOU GUYS, YOU KNOW, SPENT MONEY ON, UM, THE GLOW STICKS AND THE CANDY.
I DON'T THINK THEY EVER GOT ANY RECEIPTS FOR ANY OF THAT.
DID YOU GUYS SUBMIT THE, OH WELL YOU CAN'T, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS CAN RESPOND.
UM, BUT IF YOU GUYS HAD THOSE RECEIPTS AND WE'RE STILL SEEKING REIMBURSEMENT, PLEASE TURN THOSE IN.
UM, AND I HAD A CITIZEN COMMENT WANTING TO KNOW WHAT TRAININGS TO DATE THAT DNI HAD DONE.
AND I KNOW THAT YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN DOING IT.
I KNOW THAT THERE'S BEEN DISCUSSION ABOUT YOU GUYS POSSIBLY LISTING THAT ON THE WEBSITE.
UM, SO I, I'M NOT SURE WHAT KIND OF PARAMETERS I THINK WE HAD TALKED ABOUT IT BEFORE AND IT SEEMED LIKE IT WOULD BE KIND OF EASY JUST TO ADD A FEW BULLET POINTS.
I'M NOT SURE WHAT KIND OF THE END CONVERSATION WAS AROUND THAT.
UM, BUT IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE THAT ON THERE.
AND I MEAN, SOMETIMES I DON'T KNOW AS THE LIAISON, LIKE WHERE YOU GUYS WANT ME TO STEP IN AND ANSWER QUESTIONS, IF SOMEONE ASKS, UM, AND THEN I KNOW THE DNI DOESN'T NECESSARILY HAVE ITS OWN FACEBOOK PAGE TO RESPOND.
AND SO THAT'S WHERE I'M ALWAYS JUST KIND OF, UM, DO YOU GUYS WANT ME, I CAN LIKE TAG SOMEBODY AND LET SOMEBODY ELSE ANSWER IT.
YOU GUYS CAN LET ME KNOW AFTERWARDS KIND OF WHAT YOU, UM, WANT TO SAY.
CAUSE I'M, I'M NOT THE DNI, I'M HERE TO BE YOUR LIAISON.
I'M NOT, YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO TAKE CREDIT FOR OR ANYTHING THAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING.
CAUSE YOU GUYS ARE THE ONES DOING THE TRAININGS AND PICKING THE TRAININGS AND DOING ALL OF THAT.
UM, SO ANYWAYS, I JUST REALLY WANT TO PUSH, ESPECIALLY THOSE THINGS WITH THE WEBSITES YOU GUYS HAVE REALLY, REALLY GREAT IDEAS.
WE JUST GOTTA, WE GOTTA GET THERE.
UM, AND THEN I DID WANT TO BRING UP
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THE CHAMBER, HAD ASKED IF WE WERE PLANNING ON ATTENDING ANY OF THEIR, UM, UH, THE, THE BREAKFAST THAT THEY DO ONCE A MONTH.CAUSE THEY WERE REALLY INTERESTED IN THE OPEN TO ALL CAMPAIGN.
AND I KNOW BRIAN AND I HAD WENT TO THE CHAMBER DECEMBER, MAYBE BEGINNING OF JUNE.
MAYBE IT WAS BEGINNING OF JANUARY WHEN WE MET WITH THEM.
UM, SO WE DEFINITELY WANT TO KIND OF GET ON THAT, THEIR CALENDAR FOR ONE OF THOSE KIND OF PASS IT, POWER LUNCHES OR POWER BREAKFAST, POWER, POWER, BREAKFAST.
UM, SO WE CAN KIND OF GET SCHISM, SOME TRACTION GOING THERE.
UM, AND I REALLY JUST, UM, AND PUSHING YOU GUYS A LITTLE BIT TO GET THAT CALENDAR OUT.
CAUSE I KNOW WE'VE BEEN TALKING A LOT ABOUT THE CALENDAR AND SOME GREAT EVENTS AND THEN IT JUST SEEMS LIKE THEY JUST KIND OF KEEP SLIPPING THROUGH.
UM, SO I JUST WOULD REALLY, REALLY LIKE TO HAVE SOMETHING THAT WE CAN PUT ON THE OR SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE, WE CAN SAY WHEN PEOPLE ASK, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT ARE, WHAT, WHAT ARE WE, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO BE DOING IN THE FUTURE? UM, MS. STACY TO GIVE AN UPDATE AT COUNCIL THAT THEY DID JUST START RECENTLY LOOK LOOKING AT OUR, STARTED LOOKING INTO DOING THAT, UM, MULTICULTURAL EVENT.
SO THEY ARE STILL PLANNING THAT SOMETIME LIKE LATE SPRING, I BELIEVE.
UM, SO THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR PARTNERSHIP.
AND SO THEY HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN ABOUT THAT EVENT.
UM, SO HOPEFULLY THAT'LL BE SOMETHING GOOD THAT YOU GUYS CAN KIND OF TACK ONTO AND, AND, AND DO SOME WORK.
SO I THINK THAT CALENDAR WOULD REALLY BE GREAT.
UM, IF WE CAN ACTUALLY HAVE THAT AND THEN WE'LL HAVE SOME GOALS AND SAY, HEY, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS.
SO I JUST DON'T WANT ANOTHER CALENDAR YEAR TO GO BY AND THEN, UH, STILL NOT REALLY HAVE ANYTHING TO SHOW FOR IT.
SO I'M JUST GONNA, I'M JUST GOING TO PUSH YOU GUYS JUST, JUST A LITTLE BIT.
UM, SO I, I, THOSE ARE JUST THINGS I WOULD REALLY, REALLY LIKE TO SEE, AND I KNOW YOU GUYS HAVE DONE A LOT OF FOOTWORK AND DONE A LOT OF GROUNDWORK.
SO NOW WE JUST GOTTA, JUST GOTTA DO IT.
THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER KINSEY.
UM, ANY GENERAL COMMENTS FROM COMMISSION MEMBERS? GOOD TO SEE EVERYBODY TONIGHT.
THANK YOU FOR MAKING TIME TO BE HERE.
SO NEXT WE'LL MOVE TO THE CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS. I'M STARTING WITH 7.1 CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON APPROVAL OF JANUARY 25TH, 2020 TO DNI COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES.
I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES.
SO MOTION WAS MADE BY COUNCIL MEMBER CHEN AND SECOND BY COMMISSIONER THOMPSON AND TERRIFY MAY.
UM, YOU CAN, UM, VOTE ON ALL TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS AS PRESENTED.
SO, AND THEN 7.2 CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON APPROVAL OF FEBRUARY 15TH, 2022 DNI COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES AS PRESENTED.
AND DO WE NEED A SEPARATE MOTION FOR THAT? OR CAN THAT BE ROLLED UP INTO THE SAME MOTION? UM, TYPICALLY YOU CAN, YOU CAN APPROVE ALL CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS. IF YOU AGREE, I'LL MAKE THE MOTION TO APPROVE ALL CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS AND I WILL SECOND THE MOTION.
AND THEN PLEASE CALL THE VOTE.
COMMISSIONER PRIETTO, COMMISSIONER WALKER, CHAIRMAN THOMPSON MOTION PASSES 4, 5 0.
NEXT, WE'LL MOVE TO, UM, SUBCOMMITTEE GOALS AND PROGRESS.
WE'LL START WITH 8.1 DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION RELATED TO THE CALENDAR AND EVENT SUBCOMMITTEE AND 8.1 UPCOMING CALENDAR EVENTS.
SO I DID SUBMIT, UM, A DNI CALENDAR.
I THINK WE MET WAY BACK WHEN WE FIRST GOT STARTED AND I HAVE THAT CALENDAR ALSO.
I SEE THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE THINGS, SO I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW IF WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT IT LATER ON, BUT I DIDN'T SEND THAT CALENDAR.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE IT RIGHT NOW, BUT I DO HAVE IT.
UM, IF YOU WANT ME TO FORWARD THAT, SO WE ALL CAN LOOK AT IT.
UM, IF WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT IT LATER, IT SHOULD BE IN THE MEETING PACKET SHOULD BE IN THE MEETING
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PACKET.OH, IT'S NOT THE CALENDAR THAT YOU SENT.
IT'S SO SHE'S COMMISSIONER SPOONS IS REFERRING TO THE CITY EVENT, THE CITY, NOT JUST THE DENAI OBSERVANCES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO I THINK WE ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THAT IN OTHER BUSINESS, RIGHT.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, UM, YOU HAVE ACCESS, OF COURSE YOU HAVE ACCESS TO IT.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO, IF ALL OF US TO SEE IT RIGHT NOW, OR IF YOU WANT ME TO SEND IT, IT'S UP TO YOU, COMMISSIONER SPINS, BUT I WILL SAY I'M NOT SURE BECAUSE THAT WAS OVER A YEAR AGO, IF THAT IS STILL VALID TO WHAT WE'RE CURRENTLY PLANNING.
UM, AND I DID GIVE AN UPDATE BACK IN JANUARY OF OUR, TO ALL, AND IT WAS IN THE MINUTES AS WELL.
UM, THE LIST OF UPCOMING EVENTS THROUGH SPRING, BUT I'M HAPPY TO, I MEAN, DISCUSS OR SEND OUT AFTERWARD, UM, A LIST OF THOSE EVENTS.
THAT'LL WORK BECAUSE WHAT WE WERE LOOKING AT, UM, I THINK WE WERE EMPHASIZING APRIL, MAY, JUNE SO THAT WE WOULDN'T LIKE TRY TO DO TOO MUCH, IF THAT MAKES SENSE, BECAUSE MARCH WE CAN JUST SAY IT'S MARCH, IT'S LOVELY.
WE WON'T BE ABLE TO DO ANYTHING RIGHT NOW FOR MARCH, BUT GOING INTO APRIL, MAY AND JUNE.
UM, THOSE ARE THE EVENTS FOR THE CITY OF HEDO, UM, ON A GRAND SCALE.
I KNOW THAT IF WE LOOK AT THE CALENDAR THAT I SENT OVER, IT'S GOING TO BE SLIGHTLY OVERWHELMING.
UM, WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT, HOWEVER, IF WE'RE TALKING STRICTLY DNI, THOSE ARE THE DNI, UM, YOU KNOW, EVENTS.
SO THAT WAS KIND OF SOMETHING THAT I DID WANT TO TALK ABOUT BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO TAKE A LOT OF WORK, UM, AS FAR AS US WANTING TO DO SOMETHING IN PLANNING.
SO I DON'T KNOW HOW WE WANT TO APPROACH THAT RIGHT NOW.
UM, ONLY BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO TAKE MORE THAN THE THREE OF US TO ANY EVENT, UM, AS FAR AS THAT GOES.
SO THAT'S GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT WE'RE REALLY GONNA HAVE TO WORK ON AND TALK ABOUT.
AND I DON'T THINK A SUB COMMITTEE OF THREE IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO HANDLE THAT WE'RE GOING TO REALLY HAVE TO BRANCH OUT AND USE OUR RESOURCES THAT WE HAVE.
BUT, UM, IF YOU CAN PULL UP THAT CALENDAR, I KNOW THAT WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT THE EVENTS THAT ARE TO COME.
UM, WE LOOK FORWARD TO DOING A LOT OF THINGS.
HOWEVER, I WANT IT TO BE MORE THAN US SETTING UP A TABLE, A VENDOR BOOTH OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, BECAUSE I DON'T WANT IT TO BE EDUCATION IS THE KEY.
RIGHT? AND SO MY HOPE FOR THIS IS TO EDUCATE OTHERS WHILE I'M LEARNING MYSELF, BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY THINGS THAT I DO NOT KNOW.
AND JUST THROUGH THESE TRAININGS, I'M LEARNING SO MUCH, RIGHT.
SO I DON'T WANT TO INVITE SOMEBODY TO SOMETHING THAT I KNOW NOTHING OF.
SO IT'S GOING TO TAKE A WHOLE LOT MORE.
I KNOW THIS IS NOT WHERE YOU WANTED TO GO WITH THIS, BUT IT'S GOING TO TAKE A WHOLE LOT MORE THAN ME HANDING OUT SOMETHING SOMEWHERE.
SO I KNOW THE CALENDAR IS AWESOME.
BUT IT'S GOING TO TAKE A WHOLE LOT MORE.
I THINK THAT MAKES PERFECT SENSE.
I THINK, I THINK IF WE WANTED TO DO SOMETHING FOR EVERYTHING, IT WOULD BE A LOT IT'S A LOT.
SO I THINK FOR EACH MONTH, UM, WE LIKE, AND I DON'T MEAN TO CUT YOU OFF, LIKE FOR INSTANCE, HONEST UPDATE WITH THE, UM, WHAT DOES SHE CALL IT? THE, THE, THE TRAVELING BOARDS, UM, WE JUST KIND OF SAT DOWN AND WE TALKED ABOUT, UM, THE MAIN EVENTS, UH, FOR HER, YOU KNOW, APRIL, MAY, JUNE TO GET THAT OUT SO SHE CAN KIND OF SPREAD THE WORD, YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHAT THIS IS.
UM, SHE'S HAVING TROUBLE MEETING WITH THE EAGLE SCOUTS AND GETTING SOMEBODY TO BUILD IT.
SO OUR SUGGESTION TO HER AT THAT MEETING WAS, UM, MAYBE WE CAN WORK WITH SOME OF THE LOCAL BUSINESSES THAT CAN BUILD IT FOR HER AND GET THEIR NAMES OUT THROUGH THE OPEN TO ALL, UM, CAMPAIGN, BECAUSE WE REALLY NEED THIS TRAVELING.
UM, I DUNNO WHAT SHE CALLED IT, BUT THE, THE, THE, I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, BUT THE INFORMATION BOARD TO TRAVEL, YOU KNOW, TO DO WHAT IT'S, CAUSE WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT FOR A WHILE AND I THINK IT'S A GREAT THING, BUT IT HAS TO BE BUILT.
AND SO WE'RE, WE GAVE HER LIKE, UM, I THINK LIKE A TWO WEEK DEADLINE AND IF SHE DIDN'T HEAR BACK FROM THEM, WE'RE GOING TO PROCEED WITH GETTING IT BUILT AT NO COST.
SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO DO, BUT AS FAR AS YOU KNOW, FOR THE EVENTS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT IT LATER.
UM, BUT CINCO DE MAYO AND JUNETEENTH, WE WANT THAT TO BE THE FIRST TWO MAIN EVENTS WHERE THAT INFORMATION BOARD IS INCLUDED AS FAR AS THE CALENDAR AND EVENTS GO.
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EVENT IN APRIL, NOT SURE HOW TO IMPLEMENT IT THERE QUITE YET, BUT THAT WAS A CONVERSATION THAT WE HAD.SO I KNOW THE CALENDAR IS SUPER IMPORTANT, BUT I WANT IT TO BE USED IN THE BEST, MOST EFFECTIVE WAY.
IT'S FINE TO PUT DATES OUT, BUT I WANT TO BE ABLE TO EDUCATE PEOPLE AS FAR AS WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH THIS CALENDAR.
WE CAN TELL THEM THE INFORMATION, BUT I WANT IT TO BE MORE THAN THAT.
UM, HANDS-ON, I'M A HANDS-ON KIND OF PERSON.
SO IF I GIVE THEM A DATE, I WANT IT TO BE TIED TO SOMETHING.
IF IT'S A CONFERENCE, IF IT'S, YOU KNOW, I CAN TELL THEM THAT, YOU KNOW, FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH, BUT I NEED SOMETHING OUT OF THAT.
COULD WE, SO I, I FEEL LIKE, AND THIS IS JUST, I'M JUST THROWING OUT IDEAS SINCE IT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IT.
CAUSE I LIKE HOW YOU DID ON THE CALENDAR.
I LIKE HOW YOU DID THE MONTH LONG OBSERVANCES AND THEN THE IMPORTANT DNI CALENDAR DATES.
UM, AND I DON'T THINK, I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT THIS JUST ON A ONE-OFF I DON'T THINK YOU NEED TO DO AN EVENT FOR EVERY SINGLE CAUSE.
I JUST THINK THAT GET A LITTLE, THAT'D GET A LITTLE OLD, I FEEL RIGHT.
AND SO I WONDER IF WE COULD DO LIKE A THEME, LIKE APRIL, FOR INSTANCE, YOU LOOK AT THE MONTH LONG OBSERVANCES, BUT THEN YOU LOOK AT THE IMPORTANT DNI CALENDAR DATES AND I'M, I'M KIND OF LOOKING AT THE, I GUESS I'M LOOKING AT BOTH, BUT I THINK LIKE FOR APRIL, FOR INSTANCE, AUTISM AWARENESS MONTH, THAT'S A BIG THING.
UM, AND I'M NOT SAYING ANYTHING, NONE OF THE OTHER ONES ARE BIG THINGS.
I'M JUST SAYING AUTISM AWARENESS.
THAT'S, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, I'VE, THAT'S BEEN SOMETHING THAT I'VE BEEN A PART OF SINCE I WAS LITTLE IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, SO AUTISM AWARENESS MONTH, AND THEN LOOK AT SOMETHING IN THE DNI CALENDAR.
AND I MEAN, YOU HAVE, UM, YOU HAVE NATIONAL DAY OF SILENCE.
I WONDER IF IT COULD BE KIND OF A, A SOCIAL POST, LIKE A, LIKE A CITY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE COMMISSION POST THAT RAISES AWARENESS FOR A MONTH LONG OBSERVANCE, LIKE JUST PUTTING OUT, HEY, YOU KNOW, THE CITY OF HUTTOE HONORS AND REPRESENTS, UM, AUTISM AWARENESS MONTH DURING THE MONTH OF APRIL.
BUT THEN WHAT WE DO AS A DNI COMMISSION ASIDE FROM THE CITY IS WE PUT TOGETHER, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS IS, BUT SOMETHING AROUND EASTER OR SOMETHING AROUND GOOD FRIDAY.
I, LIKE I SAID, IF IT'S, YOU KNOW, HEY, COME TO CITY HALL AND PICK UP A COLORING SHEET, UM, AND LIKE A, UH, A ABOUT HOW IMPORTANT GOOD FRIDAY IS.
UM, OR LIKE IF YOU, IF YOU LOOK IN, IN, MAY YOU SAY, YOU KNOW, HEY, THE, THE MONTH LONG AWARENESS THAT WE COULD DO IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY IS OPPOSED ON ALS AWARENESS MONTH OR MENTAL HEALTH MONTH, BUT THEN THE, FOR, FOR THE DNI, WE WANT TO DO SOME SORT OF EVENT AROUND CINCO DE MAYO.
UM, I THINK THAT IF I HAD A VOTE OR IF I HAD TO SAY, I'D SAY WE DO IT LIKE THAT BECAUSE YOU'RE BEING SENSITIVE TO SOMETHING THAT IS A MONTH LONG AWARENESS, RIGHT.
BUT YOU'RE ALSO BEING SENSITIVE TO SOMETHING THAT IS DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION SPECIFIC AND NOT ONLY INCORPORATES THE CITY, BUT IT ALSO GETS US OUT THERE ON A STANDALONE AS WELL.
AND SO THAT'S JUST MY THOUGHT AROUND THAT MY ONLY CONCERN WITH SPINNING MILES, VERY CONTROVERSIAL.
UM, A LOT OF PEOPLE DO NOT REALLY CELEBRATE IT BECAUSE IT'S NOT REALLY A HOLIDAY AND ESPECIALLY IN MEXICO SAY, UM, BUT I DO SEE THAT HOW AS PART OF, UM, THE ASIAN PACIFIC MONTH, THAT'D BE GREAT SINCE WE DO HAVE A DIVERSE COMMUNITY TO PULL THAT OUT FOR ME.
AND THAT COULD BE A, THAT'S A DEFINITELY AN AFFIRMATION.
UM, BUT, UM, ALSO WHAT APRIL IS ALSO EASTER, BUT IT'S ALSO A RAMADAN, RIGHT? SO I FEEL LIKE BOTH OF THOSE THINGS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO OUR COMMUNITY.
SO REALLY EMBRACING THAT PART WILL BE VERY BENEFICIAL TO ME AS WELL AS TO OTHER PEOPLE WHO CELEBRATE THOSE.
AND I GUESS YOU GOT TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE EMBRACING LOOKS LIKE.
CAUSE I DON'T, AGAIN, I DON'T THINK EMBRACING MEANS AN EVENT.
AND I DON'T THINK THAT, UM, I DON'T THINK, I THINK WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND.
AND I THINK IT GOES TO THE TRAINING THAT WE TOOK, UM, INCLUSION IS ABOUT LOOKING PAST JUST THE, THE, THE, THE CATEGORY AND LOOKING AT THE PERSON.
AND BECAUSE OF THAT, I FEEL THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO PLEASE EVERYONE, IF WE DO AN ALS AWARENESS MONTH IN MAY, BECAUSE THERE IS AN INDIAN HERITAGE MONTH RIGHT THERE, OR THAT'S,
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THAT'S, THAT'S IN THE SAME MONTH, THE MENTAL HEALTH IS IN THE SAME MONTH.BUT I THINK THAT'S THE BEAUTY OF OUR COMMISSION EVERY YEAR, YOU CAN HAVE SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
AND SO I THINK WE KIND OF PLAN IT OUT.
WE DIG OUR HEELS IN, HEY, THIS IS WHAT WE WANT TO RAISE AWARENESS FOR.
AND WE GET WITH MAYBE THE COMMUNICATIONS TASK FORCE OR WE GET WITH, YOU KNOW, CHRISTIE, IF YOU HAVE SOME SORT OF PROCESS THAT YOU GO THROUGH AND WE MAKE SOME SORT OF STATEMENT, AND THEN WE DO SOME SORT OF OBSERVANCE OR SOME SORT OF ACTIVITY OR EVENT OR WHATEVER FOR THE DNI SPECIFIC CALENDAR DATES.
I HAVEN'T AN IDEA WHEN YOU SAID ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS, WHEN A WOMAN DOES THAT, MAY ME, UM, I DON'T KNOW.
I JUST HAD AN IDEA, BUT I WAS THINKING OF LIKE SOMETHING THAT IS THAT AS A COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, AUSTIN IS PART OF LIKE GRAFFITI WORK, NEW ROLES AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
AND A LOT OF IT IS WHERE PEOPLE CAN EXECUTE THEIR IDEAS IN, YOU KNOW, AS A COMMUNITY, YOU CAN PUT OUT LIKE A US LIKE DIVERSITY WHERE WE HAVE LIKE THE, UM, LIKE BOARDS AND STUFF, OR KIDS CAN GO PAINT AND, YOU KNOW, JUST LIKE STUFF, LIKE JUST LITTLE THINGS LIKE THAT, WHERE IT'S LIKE, WE CAN DO A SIDEWALK, CHALK, CHALK, SOMETHING LIKE THAT, WHERE BRING STORMS IN MIND AND JUST KIND OF LIKE, YEAH, YEAH.
THAT THAT'S, THAT'S LIKE A REALLY BIG THING IN, UM, SAN DIEGO.
THEY DO LIKE A SIDEWALK CHALK WITH, ALONG WITH A, UM, WITH A FARMER'S MARKET.
AND SO, I MEAN, THAT'S SOMETHING WE COULD DO, BUT I THINK, I THINK WE HAVE A GOOD START WITH THESE DATES.
I THINK NOW JUST IF I WAS MAKING A SUGGESTION, NOT THAT THIS IS WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN, BUT IF, IF IT WAS ME SINCE WE'RE IN MARCH RIGHT NOW, I WOULDN'T START THIS IN APRIL.
I'D STARTED IN MAY AND I'D LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, HEY, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT DO I WANT TO HONE IN ON FOR THE MONTH LONG AWARENESS? AND THEN WHAT WOULD I WANT TO HONE IN ON FOR THE ACTUAL IMPORTANT DNI CALENDAR DATE? AND THEN, UM, WORK WITH THE CITY TO SAY, CAN WE PUT OUT A STATEMENT? CAN WE, YOU KNOW, UM, PUT OUT A FLAG COLOR? LIKE I KNOW, LIKE FOR WOMEN, FOR WOMEN NATIONAL WOMEN'S, UM, I THINK IT'S, I THINK IT'S PURPLE.
LIKE, COULD WE PUT OUT PURPLE OUTSIDE OF THE, UM, OUTSIDE OF CITY HALL? AND THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE COULD DO IN, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CITY, BUT THEN IN MAY, UM, MAYBE WE HONE IN, ON BEING, UM, TAKING IN COUNCIL MEMBER WALKER'S, UM, POINT ABOUT CINCO DE MAYO, NOT BEING, YOU KNOW, REALLY CELEBRATED IN, IN MEXICO.
UM, AND MAYBE WE LOOK AT LIKE MEMORIAL DAY AND WE SAY, HEY, YOU KNOW, LET'S, LET'S DO SOMETHING AS A DNI COMMISSION TO HONOR VETERANS.
UM, BUT THAT'S JUST A, THAT'S JUST A THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, ONE QUESTION I HAVE IS, IS IT POSSIBLE TO, OR THIS WHOLE LIST, WHICH I THINK IS WONDERFUL THAT YOU COMPILED, IS THERE A PLACE ON THE DNI WEBSITE THAT WE COULD JUST HAVE A CALENDAR THAT LISTS THEM? NOT THAT THERE'S AN EVENT WITH IT, BUT JUST AS AN INFORMATIVE ONE, I'M JUST THINKING THAT COULD SORT OF DEAL WITH THE ISSUE OF WHY'D YOU PICK THIS ONE OVER THAT ONE RIGHT NOW, IT COULD EXACERBATE IT.
SO MAYBE THERE'S A PROBLEM, BUT I THINK THERE'D BE STILL SOME ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, RIGHT? YOU CAN'T, YOU CAN'T HAVE AN AD FOR EVERY SINGLE THING.
LIKE WE'D ALL WE'D BE DOING IS EVENTS.
THAT WAS MY THOUGHT PROCESS ON IT, BECAUSE I WAS LIKE, WHEN I LOOKED AT IT, I WAS LIKE, WHOA, BECAUSE IT, IT NOT TO SAY THAT IT'S OVERWHELMING BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO ANY BODY, BUT IT'S A LOT WHEN YOU CAUSE NO ONE IN A GOAT, ALL RIGHT.
WE'RE GOING TO BE LIKE STOP HAVING.
BUT IF WE'RE GOING OFF OF WHAT YOU SAID, COMMISSIONER SPOONS ABOUT EDUCATION IS THE KEY.
AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT I WANTED BECAUSE IT WAS STUFF ON HERE WHERE I WAS LIKE, WHOA, I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THIS IS.
I MEAN, I'VE LEARNED STUFF I DID NOT KNOW ON HERE, EVEN IF IT WAS JUST ON THERE AND THEN YOU ARE LINKED TO THE ONES, THERE'S SOMETHING THE OTHER SUGGESTION I HAD WAS, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW OUR SOCIAL MEDIA WORKS, BUT I LOVE THE IDEA OF ONE OF THE THINGS WE DO WOULD JUST BE THE ANNOUNCEMENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA, BECAUSE A IT'S PRETTY SUCCINCT.
LIKE YOU DON'T HAVE TO FIND OUT ALL KINDS OF INFORMATION, YOU KNOW, KIND OF LIKE WHAT BRIAN WAS SAYING BEFORE.
LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE HONOR BLAH, BLAH, BLAH MONTH, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT LIKE WE HAVE TO DO LIKE TONS OF LEGWORK TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS.
WE JUST NEED TO SAY, BOOM, WE HONOR IT NOW.
I DON'T KNOW IF WHO MANAGES SOCIAL MEDIA, IF THAT'S EVEN A POSSIBILITY THAT LIKE WE COULD WRITE A SCRIPT AND GIVE IT TO SOMEBODY, I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT WORKS.
SO I, THAT MAY BE A BAD IDEA, BUT I'M JUST THROWING YOU THAT CHRISTIE.
AND I'M JUST LETTING YOU GUYS CHAT.
AND UM, SO WE, WE DO HAVE A CITY PAGE THAT IS MANAGED BY STAFF.
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AND TO BRIAN'S POINT, THAT WOULD BE A FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH THE COMMS TASK FORCE AND MAYBE MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EACH MONTH.LIKE AS A COMMISSION, WE ARE GOING TO SAY, MAY IS X MONTH, AND THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO FOCUS ON THIS YEAR.
UM, AND WORKING WITH THE COMMS TASK FORCE TO HAVE A CONTENT CALENDAR THAT BUILDS INTO OUR, BECAUSE WE DO HAVE A CONTENT CALENDAR.
UM, I THINK IT'S LIKE TWO TO THREE MONTHS OUT SOMETIMES.
SO IF WE KNOW ABOUT ALL THESE THINGS, JUST LIKE YOU'VE ALREADY PUT TOGETHER COMMISSIONERS SPOONS, UM, AHEAD OF TIME.
THAT'S I THINK CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT CAN BE INCORPORATED INTO THAT CONTENT CALENDAR, AS WELL AS, UM, JUST PULLING UP THE CITY OF HADOW WEBSITE, WE DO HAVE A MASTER CALENDAR AND THEN LIKE THE LIBRARY HAS ITS OWN CALENDAR.
IF YOU JUST WANT TO LOOK AT LIKE LIBRARY EVENTS.
SO, UM, WE COULD CERTAINLY, UM, REACH OUT TO EITHER, IF YOU GUYS WANT TO REACH OUT TO THE COMMS TASK FORCE OR ON THE STAFF LEVEL, I CAN REACH OUT AND, UM, JUST SEE IF THERE WOULD BE ANY ISSUE WITH JUST ADDING A LAYER AND JUST CALLING IT THE HOWEVER YOU GUYS WOULD WANT TO CALL IT.
IF, IF YOU WANT TO COMMISSIONER SMITH, I'LL VOLUNTEER MYSELF.
IF YOU WANT TO SEND OUT THE EMAIL AND TAG ME ON IT, AND ONCE YOU MAKE THE INTRODUCTION, I CAN JUST KIND OF COMMUNICATE WHAT YOU WOULD HAVE ME DO, BUT I DON'T MIND DOING THAT.
AND THEN I ALSO HAVE, BECAUSE I TEACH SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING AND I HAVE LIKE A CONTENT CALENDAR TEMPLATE THAT WE CAN USE TO PLAN OUT EACH MONTH GOING FORWARD.
AND I MEAN, THAT MIGHT SAVE US A LOT OF TIME ON, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO THIS MONTH? AND AT LEAST WE COULD HAVE IT PLANNED OUT.
WE COULD GIVE IT TO THE CO COMMS TASK FORCE, KIND OF HAVE THAT GOING ON AUTOPILOT.
SO THEN WE CAN JUST FOCUSED ON THE DNI CALENDAR DATES THAT WE'D LIKE TO EMPHASIZE WITHIN THE CITY.
AND THIS WAS JUST A DRAFT FYI.
SO IF YOU SEE ANYTHING LIKE THAT SHOULD BE ON THERE THAT I MISSED BY ALL MEANS.
NO, I THINK THIS IS, I THINK THIS IS, I THINK THIS IS GREAT BECAUSE I MEAN, YEAH, IF YOU LOOK AT IT, I MEAN, IT, I MEAN, IF WE WANTED TO DO, IF WE WANTED TO PARTNER WITH, YOU KNOW, AN ORGANIZATION FOR JUNETEENTH, UM, YOU KNOW, IF THEY'RE HAVING IT AT A PARK, WE COULD, WE COULD, YOU KNOW, PUSH OUR EFFORTS AND SAY, WE'LL PARTNER WITH YOU, BUT LET'S HAVE YOU DO IT AT THAT PARK AND WE'LL BE THERE AND WE'LL PROMOTE IT.
OR IF, IF LIKE WE HAVE, UM, I DON'T KNOW, LIKE NATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY, RIGHT? IF COMMISSIONER GONZALES WANTED TO OFFER UP HER, HER, UM, FACILITY AS A SPOT, WE COULD DO A DNI SPONSORED MIXER AT, YOU KNOW, AT THE, AT, AT, AT HER SPOT HIGHLIGHTING DIFFERENT, UM, WOMEN IN THE CITY.
SO, I MEAN, I THINK THIS OPENS UP A RANGE OF POSSIBILITIES, BUT I REALLY LOVE HOW YOU, HOW YOU GUYS DID THE MONTH LONG OBSERVANCE AND THEN THE DNI CALENDAR.
CAUSE I THINK IT JUST HELPS US TO, YOU KNOW, PICK OUT WHAT WE WOULD DO.
I ALSO REALLY LIKE HOW BROAD YOUR DEFINITION OF DIVERSITY WAS IN THE LIST.
I THINK THAT IS REALLY, IT'S REALLY GOOD.
AND IT DOES REFLECT THE TRADINGS HAD, YOU KNOW, LIKE I KNOW WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE TRAINING, BUT THE LATEST TRAINING, I WAS REALLY IMPRESSED THAT HOW DO YOU KNOW HOW BROAD IT WAS? AND I ALSO THINK THAT HELPS PEOPLE UNDERSTAND DNI BECAUSE THEN IT'S NOT JUST LIKE, OH ONE GROUP.
IT'S LIKE, OH, THIS AFFECTS ME TOO.
BUT I THINK WE HAVE TO BE COGNIZANT OF THE POINT THAT YOU MADE COUNCIL MEMBER 10 ABOUT, UM, SOMEWHERE ON THE WEBSITE, WE PUT THE OTHER THINGS ON THERE SO THAT THE COMMUNITY CAN SEE THAT WE ARE SENSITIVE TO OTHER.
SO IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE WE'RE SINGLING OUT.
I MEAN, THERE'S PROBABLY STILL GOING TO BE, FEEL WHOLE, MIGHT FEEL THAT WAY, BUT AT LEAST IF WE MAKE AN EFFORT THAT WILL HELP AGREED, AGREED.
SO THEN WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS? UM, I THINK WE'VE GIVEN THE CALENDAR AND EVENTS TEAM, A LOT OF IDEAS, BUT DO YOU HAVE, IS THAT WHAT WE CALL IT NOW IS WE'VE GIVEN YOU A LOT OF THINGS TO WORK WITH.
UM, BUT YEAH, WHAT, WHAT OUR, WHAT OUR NEXT STEPS, THAT WAY WE CAN EITHER SUPPORT YOU IN THOSE NEXT STEPS OR AT LEAST, UM, YOU KNOW, FOLLOW UP ON THOSE FOR OUR NEXT MEETING.
I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS WAS I WAS GONNA GET WITH CHRISTIE AND SEND OUT THAT EMAIL, UM, AND THEN KIND OF DEVELOP THAT OR GIVE YOU THE CONTENT TEMPLATES SO YOU CAN WORK, RUN WITH THAT.
UM, ARE WE GOOD TO START? LIKE, ARE WE GOOD FOR OUR NEXT AGENDA TO PUT ON THERE? WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO FOR APRIL?
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I MEAN, ONE THING I, I COULD THROW OUT, I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT.WHEN YOU SAID THAT WE SHOULD MAYBE NOT WORRY ABOUT MARCH.
I WONDER IF WE SHOULD START WITH MAY WITH ACTUALLY DOING, I MEAN, I KNOW THAT SOUNDS A LONG WAY AWAY, BUT I WONDER IF LIKE, IF WE GOT THE CALENDAR AND DID THE SOCIAL MEDIA, MAYBE WE COULD DO THAT FOR APRIL, BUT IN ACTUAL EVENT, APRIL JUST SEEMS LIKE TOO TOMORROW, BUT THERE'S A CITY EVENT.
AND THAT'S WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY.
AND THAT'S WHAT I WAS THINKING TOO.
SO YEAH, THAT'S ALREADY, YES, YOU DO THAT, RIGHT.
CAUSE THERE'S A CITY EVENT THAT'S GOING TO BE TAKING PLACE IN APRIL.
SO IT'S A PASSIVE AND AGAIN, I'M HAPPY TO GO MORE INTO IT IF I'M GETTING OFF TOPIC, LET ME KNOW.
BUT, UM, IT'S THE HADOW HOP UP POP-UP WHICH IS A PASSIVE EASTER EGG HUNT.
SO ESSENTIALLY THE EASTER BUNNY WILL LEAVE EGGS ALL THROUGHOUT DOWNTOWN AND IT'S MORE OR LESS.
AND SO THAT'LL BE KIND OF COME AND GO, LIKE IT'S NOT AN ORGANIZED, LIKE COME HERE AT THIS TIME.
DURING THIS TIME IT'S MORE OR LESS TO GET PEOPLE DOWNTOWN.
AND THEN SOME OF THE BUSINESSES WE'RE HOPING WILL ALSO KIND OF PIGGYBACK OFF OF THAT AND WHATEVER THEY WAY THEY WOULD LIKE.
AND THEN YOU GUYS OBVIOUSLY JUST LET US KNOW HOW YOU'D LIKE TO BE INVOLVED.
AND WE WOULD OBVIOUSLY INCORPORATE THAT.
AND THEN FOR MAY AS WELL, THE SUNSET BLOCK PARTY BASH EVENT, THAT'S ACTUALLY A MEMORIAL DAY THEMED EVENT.
SORRY, WHAT WAS THAT CALLED? THE SUNSET BLOCK PARTY BASH THAT'S ON MAY 27TH.
THAT IS ON THE, UM, ITEM TEN ONE.
THAT'S ACTUALLY A MEMORIAL DAY THEMED EVENT.
SO THAT COULD BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO IF YOU WANTED TO GO THAT ROUTE.
SO I THINK THAT'S TWO, THAT'S TWO EVENTS RIGHT THERE.
UM, AND THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY IF WE WORK WITH THE COMMUNICATIONS TASK FORCE TO DO THE MONTH LONG OBSERVANCE AND THEN HAVE THESE EVENTS, UM, I GUESS WE WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WE ARE GOING TO DO AT THE EVENTS.
AND I THINK THAT COULD BE ANOTHER ITEM FOR ANOTHER, FOR ANOTHER AGENDA, BUT, YOU KNOW, WOULD WE HAVE SOME SORT OF GIVEAWAY ITEM? WOULD WE, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT WOULD THAT LOOK AT? SO I GUESS BE THINKING ABOUT THAT, BUT, UM, WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT A LITTLE BIT LATER IN THE AGENDA, BUT WE DO HAVE A BANNER THAT'S BEING DEVELOPED, GOING TO SAY IF, IF YOU ALL AGREE AND THERE ARE NO OBJECTIONS, YOU CAN ALWAYS MOVE UP THOSE ITEMS IF IT'S RELEVANT TO THE DISCUSSION AND YOU DECIDE, YOU WANT TO GO INTO FURTHER DISCUSSION.
SO DO WE HAVE ANY ACTION ON 8.1? OKAY.
UM, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO MOVE UP.
ITEM 10.1 TO ADD TO THE DISCUSSION FROM A 0.1.
AND IF I MAKE THAT MOTION, DO WE HAVE TO, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO MAKE A MOTION IF THERE ARE NO OBJECTIONS.
ARE THERE ANY OBJECTIVE, ANY OBJECTIONS OF MOVING ITEM 10.1 UP, UM, TO DISCUSS NOW? NO.
SO HEARING NONE, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND MOVE ITEM 10.1, UH, OR ITEM 10 OTHER BUSINESS, 10.1 DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING THE PARTICIPATION OF THE DNI IN THE UPCOMING CITY OF HUDDLE EVENTS, 10.1 DOWNTOWN ROUND TABLE EVENT AT THE TEXAN CAFE ON MARCH 24TH, 2022 FROM 9:30 AM TO 10:30 AM.
UM, 10.1 EASTER EGG HUNT, UM, HAPPENING ON APRIL 15TH, 2022 THROUGH APRIL 17TH, 2022, ITEM 10.1 SUNSET EVENT HAPPENING ON MAY 27TH, 2022 AT FRITZ PART.
UM, AND ITEM 10.2 DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON APPROVING THE MOCK IMAGE OF THE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION BANNER AND COMMISSIONER.
WOULD IT BE HELPFUL FOR ME TO KIND OF GO OVER WHAT THESE EVENTS ARE OR YES, I THINK SO.
UM, SO THE DOWNTOWN ROUND TABLE, UM, QUARTERLY EVENT IS ACTUALLY A BUSINESS SORT OF ROUND TABLE.
UM, THIS IS A FOLLOW-UP TO THE FIRST ONE WE KICKED OFF IN JANUARY IS MORE OR LESS AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FORUM.
UM, AND THIS IS A CHECK-IN WITH OUR DOWNTOWN SPECIFIC BUSINESSES AND PROPERTY OWNERS.
SO IT'S NOT NECESSARILY LIKE A PUBLIC EVENT WHERE WE'RE INVITING THE PUBLIC, IT'S MORE BUSINESS AND PROPERTY OWNERS DOWNTOWN, AND IT'S A VERY HYPER-FOCUSED ON THEIR NEEDS AND WANTS AND, AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
BUT OF COURSE YOU GUYS ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO ATTEND.
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A, LIKE A PUBLIC OPEN TO ALL FREE EVENTS SORT OF THING.UM, AND ON THAT AGENDA ACTUALLY WE'LL HAVE SOME UPDATES ON THE COMP PLAN HOPEFULLY, UM, WITH, UM, FREESE AND NICHOLS.
AND THEN WE'LL ALSO, UM, BE DISCUSSING THE, UM, FOCUS GROUPS FOR THE, AND I KNOW IT'S SOMEWHERE ELSE ON HERE FOR THE CITY-WIDE SURVEY INPUT.
SO THAT'S KIND OF A SEPARATE THING.
AND THEN THE EASTER EGG HUNT OR WHAT IT'S CALLED AS THE HOP UP POP-UP, UM, JUST LIKE I WAS DESCRIBING EARLIER, IT'S A PASSIVE PROGRAM AND THE EGGS WILL BE OUT REALLY.
THERE'LL BE OUT BY FRIDAY, GOOD FRIDAY, THAT GOOD FRIDAY, AND THEN WE'LL JUST BE OUT UNTIL THEY'RE THEY'RE GONE.
SO, UM, IF Y'ALL, DON'T WANT TO LET ME KNOW, MAYBE EVEN IF IT'S JUST A STATEMENT ABOUT EASTER OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT WE CAN INCORPORATE INTO THE MARKETING OF THE EVENT ITSELF.
UM, IT'S REALLY HOWEVER YOU, WHATEVER YOU GUYS WANT TO DO WITH THAT.
AND THEN THE SUNSET BLOCK PARTY BASH IS THE ACTUAL IS THE NAME OF, UM, TEN ONE.
SO IT'S NOT SUNSET SUNSET BLOCK PARTY BASH.
SO THAT'S A FREE COMMUNITY EVENT.
IT'S KIND OF LIKE A CONCERT SERIES AND IT WILL BE AT FRITZ PARK.
AND, UM, WE'VE DONE THIS EVENT IN THE PAST, OBVIOUSLY MINUS LAST YEAR.
UM, AND SO IT'LL BE LIKE FOOD TRUCKS, KIDS ACTIVITIES, UM, WE'LL HAVE AN OPENING BAND.
AND THEN BETWEEN THE SET CHANGE, WE ACTUALLY ASK THE AMERICAN LEGION, THE HUDDLE AMERICAN LEGION TO COME OUT AND DO A REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY FOR MEMORIAL DAY.
UM, AND THEN WE CLOSE OUT WITH, UM, THE HEADLINER.
WE HAVE ABOUT 12 TO 14 LOCAL VENDORS AND WE DO, UM, ASK, UM, CERTAIN NONPROFITS TO COME OUT.
THAT'D BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY.
UM, IF YOU DID WANT TO SET UP AND HAVE A PHYSICAL PRESENCE, WE DEFINITELY HAVE THE ROOM FOR YOU.
UM, OR IN ANY OTHER WAY THAT YOU'D LIKE TO PARTICIPATE, JUST LET US KNOW.
AND THOSE ARE KIND OF OUR SPRING EVENTS.
AND THEN WE GET INTO THE SUMMER.
UM, WE DO HAVE 4TH OF JULY AND THEN TO COUNCIL MEMBER KENZIE'S, UM, POINT THE MULTICULTURAL EVENT IS ACTUALLY SOMETHING WE'RE PLANNING FOR SEPTEMBER.
UM, AND WE DEFINITELY WOULD LEAN ON, UH, DENAI COMMISSION TO PROVIDE INPUT AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON, UM, SPECIFIC.
I THINK EVEN IF LIKE COMING OFF OF THE THEMES AND I'M HAPPY TO WORK DIRECTLY WITH THE EVENT SUBCOMMITTEE AND WE COULD, UM, EVEN HAVE THEMED BLOCKS OF ENTERTAINMENT, FOOD, ALL SORTS OF THINGS.
SO, UM, I THINK THAT'S REALLY EXCITING AND IT WOULD BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR THE COMMISSION TO GET REALLY INVOLVED AND START PLANNING NOW.
AND WE CAN MAKE IT INTO SOMETHING WHERE, UM, IT'S REALLY DRIVEN BY THIS COMMISSION.
SO WHAT'S THE DATE OF IT ON THIS SEPTEMBER.
SO WE HAVEN'T CONFIRMED A DATE, BUT IT WOULD BE IN SEPTEMBER.
AND RIGHT NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT, IT JUST DEPENDS ON A COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS WE HAVE, UM, POTENTIALLY, BUT WE'RE PROBABLY LOOKING AT THAT EITHER SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17TH OR THAT FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16TH, WHICH, UM, AND AS IT'S ALREADY IN THIS, UM, FANTASTIC CALENDAR AND LIST, UM, SEPTEMBER IS HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH.
AND THEN DSS SAID THAT THIS IS TIM DAY IS THAT DAY.
SO, UM, I MEAN, THAT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO INCORPORATE SOME, SOME OTHER THINGS AS WELL.
SO I MEAN, BASED ON, ON, UM, THANK YOU.
THAT WAS REALLY HELPFUL BASED ON THAT DESCRIPTION MEAN TO ME, THE ROUND TABLE MIGHT NOT BE THE BEST PLACE FOR US.
AND IT SOUNDS LIKE THE EASTER ICON, IT'S NOT PEOPLE THEY'RE ALL SET TIME, RIGHT? LIKE THEY'RE POPPING UP.
I MEAN THE SUNSET EVENT, WHICH I KNOW IT'S NOT CALLED THAT, BUT THAT, THAT ONE SOUNDS LIKE IT THERE'S POTENTIAL.
UM, I'LL BE IN PARIS THOUGH, SO I CAN'T BE THERE, BUT, UM, NOT TO RUB IT IN DEFINITELY SOUNDS AWESOME.
I MEAN, THAT'S MY FEELINGS ON THE EVENTS.
I WOULD DISAGREE WITH THE DOWNTOWN ROUND TABLE EVENT.
AND I THINK WE COULD, UH, PITCH THE OPEN TO ALL CAMPAIGNS ARE GOING TO SAY THAT TABLE JUST BECAUSE THAT'S, THAT'S KINDA WHAT IT'S FOR IS THE BUSINESSES.
SO, UM, THAT'S THE ONLY THING I WOULD DISAGREE ON, BUT I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING ELSE.
I THINK EVERYTHING ELSE WOULD BE GREAT.
IT'D BE COOL TO DO SOMETHING FOR THE, FOR EASTER.
I JUST DON'T KNOW WHEN IT WOULDN'T BE.
COULD WE JUST DO LIKE AN EGG THAT HAS LIKE OUR LOGO OR SOMETHING'S ON IT? MAYBE THAT'S A CUTE EXTRA TO, I'VE BEEN SAYING.
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LETTING PEOPLE KNOW WHO WE ARE.AND I'D LOVE TO KNOW YOUR GUYS' THOUGHTS.
WHAT AT THESE EVENTS, WHAT IS IT THAT WE'RE TRYING TO RELAY? LIKE WE'RE TRYING TO BE INCLUSIVE AS A CITY.
I THINK WE'RE DOING A GOOD JOB.
AND SO WHAT ARE WE TRYING TO, ARE WE TRYING TO PROVIDE KIND OF LIKE WHAT YOU SAID, COMMISSIONER SPOONS EDUCATION IS KEY.
ARE WE TRYING TO, LIKE IN THE EGGS HAVE LIKE A LITTLE SPIEL ABOUT HOW EASTER IS AN INCLUSIVE HOLIDAY FOR ALL, UM, AT THE BLOCK PARTY, ARE WE TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, HAVE, YOU KNOW, BRACELETS THAT SAY, YOU KNOW, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION OR DIVERSITY HADOW IS HERETO, IS DIVERSITY INCLUSION? LIKE WHAT ARE WE TRYING TO DO? I MEAN, I THINK THAT'S A REALLY GOOD POINT.
AND I GUESS THAT GOES TO ME TOO, WHAT ONES WE DO.
LIKE, I WOULD SAY TWO THINGS ABOUT IT.
ONE IS THAT I THINK THAT WE'RE BETTER GOING TO FEWER THINGS AND DOING SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE REMEMBER THAN SPREADING OURSELVES TOO THIN, BECAUSE THEN I THINK IT LEAVES A BAD TASTE.
LIKE IF WE DO SOMETHING IN ITS LANE, THE OTHER THING I WOULD SAY IS, I THINK AWARENESS IS PROBABLY REALLY IMPORTANT NOW, EVEN JUST THAT, JUST THAT WE EXIST, YOU KNOW, THAT LIKE, SO I THAT'S WHAT I DO, LIKE THE EASTER EGG IDEA BECAUSE OF THAT, BECAUSE IT'S REALLY SUBTLE.
IT'S NOT IN YOUR FACE, BUT IT'S JUST, HEY, THERE IS THIS THING.
SO THERE COULD BE A NEW RESIDENT WHO TAKES THEIR KIDS AND IT'S LIKE, OH WOW, THERE'S A DIVERSITY INCLUSION.
YOU KNOW? I MEAN, THAT'S HOW I FELT WHEN I MOVED TO HUDDLE AND REALIZED THERE WAS A DIVERSITY INCLUSION COMMISSION THAT MADE ME FEEL REALLY GOOD ABOUT LIVING HERE.
AND I MEAN, THAT'S NOT ALL WE WANT TO DO, BUT IT'S LIKE THIS TINY BABY STEP.
UM, I THINK FOR SOMETHING LIKE THE SUNSET EVENT, WE'D PROBABLY WANT MORE THAN THAT, LIKE WE WANT, AND I'M NOT SURE WHAT WE WANT, SO I'M GONNA STOP TALKING NOW.
I MEAN, I THINK IT'D BE COOL BECAUSE I READ A STORY THAT, UM, A MAN IN HIS PARTNER, HE IS A DOCTOR.
HE WAS LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO START HIS FAMILY.
AND HE SAW THAT A CERTAIN CITY HAD A DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION COMMISSION AND AT A COMMUNITY EVENT TOTALLY SEPARATE FROM DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION.
THE COMMISSION WAS THERE AND I HATE THAT.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING THERE.
LIKE, WERE THEY HANDING OUT LIKE COFFEE MUGS WITH THEIR LOGO ON IT, WHERE THEY GIVING OUT, YOU KNOW, PAMPHLETS ON HOW INCLUSIVE THE CITY IS AND THE BUSINESSES THAT ARE IN THE CITY THAT SUPPORT, UM, YOU KNOW, LGBTQ A, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE GIVING AWAY, BUT THE FACT THAT THEY WERE THERE TO YOUR POINT COUNCIL MEMBER, CHIN, IT MADE THIS MAN AND HIS PARTNER FEEL LIKE THIS CITY IS WHERE WE SHOULD BE.
I DO THINK THOUGH, IF HAVING SAT AT MANY TABLES, IT'S AWKWARD.
IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO GIVE.
AND IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE SOMETHING THAT'S FINANCIAL, BUT IT TAKES SOME WORK TO GET IT.
YOU KNOW, LIKE EVEN IF IT'S LIKE A BROCHURE THAT JUST EXPLAINS, THIS IS WHAT THE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION COMMISSION IS, THESE ARE OUR GOALS.
THESE IS OUR MISSION STATEMENT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
UM, BUT CALENDAR EVENTS WOULD HELP TOO.
SOMETHING THAT SAYS A CALENDAR, OH, WE HAVE THIS COMING UP, JUST COMING EVEN FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS WITH HELP PEOPLE BE LIKE, OH, THERE'S, THEY'RE DOING SOMETHING BECAUSE I KNOW THAT'S PART OF THE RIGHT.
THE MAGNETS, I THINK I WOULD DO THE QR CODE VERSUS THE, THE ACTUAL DATES AND EVENTS, JUST BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO BE PRINTING OUT A TON OF BROCHURES EVERY MONTH.
EVERY OTHER MONTH WE HAVE A WEBSITE.
BUT I THINK, I THINK WE SHOULD THINK ABOUT LIKE WHAT THINGS, WHAT MEANINGFUL THINGS WE COULD GIVE AWAY AT THESE, AT THESE EVENTS.
YOU KNOW, I THINK DEFINITELY A PAMPHLET IS GOOD.
UM, BUT I, I THINK, YOU KNOW, AT ONE EVENT WE HAVE MUGS AND I'M NOT SURE I'M JUST THROWING OUT IDEAS, BUT WE HAVE MUGS.
AND THEN THE NEXT WE HAVE LIKE SOME REALLY NEAT BRACELETS, SOME REALLY COOL BRACELETS THAT INCORPORATES THE LOGO THAT COMMISSIONER PRIETTO, UM, DEVELOPED.
AND I THINK A, IT GETS PEOPLE INTERESTED IN WHAT WE'RE DOING.
LIKE, HEY, I DIDN'T GET THAT COFFEE MUG.
I WANT TO GO TO THIS EVENT WHERE THE COMMISSION IS GOING TO BE TO SEE, YOU KNOW, IF THEY HAVE SOMETHING COOLER, BUT THEN ALSO, HEY, I WANT TO SHOW YOU ABOUT OUR COMMISSION.
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? CAUSE I JUST THINK ABOUT THAT PERSON.
THAT'S COMING FROM CEDAR PARK, THAT'S RENTING OUT AN APARTMENT AND LIKE, HEY, I NEED TO MOVE SOMEWHERE.
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BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE INCLUSIVE OF ME AND MY PARTNER, THAT'S WHERE HADOW COULD, YOU KNOW, COME IN AND STEP UP.SO, UM, SO FOR THE, FOR THE UPCOMING EVENT, SO THE DOWNTOWN ROUND TABLE EVENT, UM, I'LL THROW MYSELF OUT THERE.
I'D BE WILLING TO GO FROM NINE 30 TO 10 30, UM, TO THAT EVENT TO TALK ABOUT THE OPEN TO ALL CAMPAIGN.
UM, I GUESS ON THE S IT'S A LITTLE BIT DOWN THE ROAD, BUT THE EASTER EGG HUNT, IS THERE ANY, UM, ANY INTEREST IN, YOU KNOW, PUTTING TOGETHER SOMETHING, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT SOMETHING IS, BUT WORKING WITH, I GUESS THE CALENDAR AND EVENTS TEAM TO PUT TOGETHER SOMETHING FOR THE EASTER EGG HUNT AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO DECIDE TONIGHT, BUT IF THERE'S INTEREST, I MEAN, WE CAN PUT THIS ON ANOTHER AGENDA, UM, AS WE GET CLOSER SO THAT WE CAN, YOU KNOW, KIND OF HAMMER IT OUT.
UM, BUT IF THERE'S NOT REALLY INTEREST SO WE CAN PUT IT THIS IS JUST A VERY QUICK THOUGHT, TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT.
UM, BECAUSE IT IS A PASSIVE THING TRYING TO GET, AND IT'S A VISUAL, THERE'S GOING TO BE TONS OF COLORFUL EGGS ALL THROUGHOUT DOWNTOWN.
UM, WE, WE DID PURCHASE, UM, BUNNY EARS FOR HENRIETTA, THE DOWNTOWN HIPPO AND A LITTLE BUNNY TAIL.
SO EVEN MAYBE, UM, IF Y'ALL APPROVED, YOU KNOW, YOUR BANNER OR YOUR LOGO AND YOU WANTED TO MAYBE HAVE A SIGN STAGED BY HER FOR THE EVENT, THAT WAY IT'S, YOU'RE CAPTURING WHATEVER PEOPLE ARE COMING IN AND OUT, UM, WITH WHATEVER THAT MESSAGE MAY BE.
AND WE CAN SAY LIKE, YOU KNOW, THIS MONTH, UM, THE DIVERSITY INCLUSION COMMISSION IS SPONSORING HENRIETTA AS THIS OR SOMETHING.
YOU KNOW, IT'S KIND OF A PASSIVE THING, BUT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SEE IT VISUALLY.
AND IT'S MORE LIKE A VISUAL TYPE OF AN EVENT.
SO WHAT ARE THE NAME OF ALL THE HIPPOS AND HODEL THERE'S OVER 3000 CONCRETE HIPPOS LOTTO.
SO, UH, UM, LIKE THE SCHOOLS IS LIKE THAT, THE MAIN ONES, LIKE THE ONES THAT ARE, SO THE OJI IS HENRIETTA DOWNTOWN.
SO THAT'S, TO ME REALLY ALL THAT MATTERS YOU CAN NAME.
I MEAN, THE LIBRARY JUST HAD THEIR DURING HIPPO DAY LAST MONTH.
UM, THEY NAMED HER HATTIE, THE, THE HIPPO.
SO THERE'S DIFFERENT NAMES ACROSS THE BOARD.
I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE A BANNER.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S WHAT 10.2 IS.
UM, WELL, I WAS GOING TO SAY BEFORE WE DECIDE, OR, UM, YOU MOVE FORWARD WITH CHRISTIE'S IDEA, I CAN SHOW YOU THE BANNER AND, UH, WE CAN TAKE A LOOK AT THAT REAL QUICK AND BUILD UP LIKE NEXT YEAR OR SOMETHING, DO THE EGGS AND, YOU KNOW, GET IT TOGETHER.
BUT I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE TIME TO DO THAT, RIGHT.
LET ME GET THIS BANNER REAL QUICK.
AND ALSO, UM, I'M NOT SURE IF THIS WILL BE LUMPED ALL IN US 10.1 FOR ACTION ITEMS, BUT IF, IF THERE IS ACTION TO ATTEND THE DOWNTOWN ROUND TABLE, UM, I CAN ADD IT TO THE AGENDA, BUT I WOULD NEED TO KNOW TONIGHT.
UM, AND THEN IF YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A SPECIFIC THING THAT YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT, I CAN UPDATE THAT AS WELL.
UM, GRACIE, IF I SEND THIS TO YOU, CAN YOU PULL IT UP? YES.
WHILE GRACIE IS DOING THAT, I JUST WANTED TO KIND OF REMIND IT IS NOT TYPICAL FOR COUNCIL TO GIVE OR APPROVE FUNDS.
SO I KNOW A LOT OF THESE IDEAS SOUND FANTASTIC.
SO I JUST WANTED TO CAUTION AIR.
OBVIOUSLY I DO NOT MAKE DECISIONS FOR COUNCIL.
I'M JUST ONE MEMBER OF SEVEN AND YOU GUYS HAVE COME BEFORE US AND WE HAVE APPROVED THINGS, BUT I WILL ALSO SAY THAT IS ABNORMAL.
WE DON'T DO IT FOR ANY OF OUR OTHER BOARDS OR COMMISSIONS.
I DO THINK THE DNI DOES HAVE SPECIAL REASON IN A SPECIAL NEED.
SO OF COURSE I PERSONALLY WOULD ADVOCATE I THINK FOR THAT, BUT I CAN'T SPEAK FOR ALL OF COUNCIL IF ANY OF THOSE IDEAS WERE TO COME BEFORE US AND NEEDING BUDGETARY, UM, THINGS, IF IT WOULD GET APPROVED.
SO I JUST WANTED TO THROW THAT OUT.
CAN WE GET DONATIONS? LIKE, ARE WE ALLOWED TO DO IT? YOU KNOW, I HONESTLY DON'T
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KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION BECAUSE I'M JUST THINKING, LIKE, IF WE ASKED A BUSINESS TO SAY, WE'LL PUT YOUR NAME AND YOUR BUSINESS ON THE DNI MUG OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER BECAUSE IT'S THIS, I MEAN, THE MUGS IS GOING TO BE A RELATIVELY SMALL AMOUNT OF MONEY.I MEAN, YOU KNOW, AND I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY THE CITY DOESN'T WANT TO DO IT, BUT LIKE, I CAN, LIKE IF I WERE A BUSINESS OWNER, LIKE, WHAT IS IT THAT IT WOULD BE LIKE, IF THE SPONSOR IS IT, WHAT IS IT THAT THEY WANT BACK? THEY GET THEIR NAME ON THE MUG.
I DON'T, I DON'T, I DON'T THINK BECAUSE THAT COMPANY ALSO HAS TO BE LIKE, HOW CAN I SAY IT? WHO WERE, WHO THE GANG SPONSORED? I WOULD THINK RIGHT.
IF THEY WOULD HAVE TO BE INCLUSIVE THEMSELVES.
I MEAN, I'M JUST THINKING, LIKE, IF, IF I WERE A DIVERSE BUSINESS OWNER AND I BELIEVED IN OUR MISSION, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF BUSINESSES AS A TAX WRITE OFF DONATE, RIGHT.
THEY HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT, THEY HAVE TO DONATE FOR TAX REASONS.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, THIS, I MEAN, THESE BUGS ARE GOING TO BE LIKE, WHAT A THOUSAND DOLLARS, YOU KNOW, LIKE IT'S NOT GOING TO BE FOR A BUSINESS OF RELATIVELY SMALL AMOUNTS OF MONEY.
IT WOULD HAVE TO BE SOMEONE WHO BELIEVES IN THE MISSION, BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW HARD THAT WOULD BE TO GET.
AND I DON'T THINK WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER KINSEY'S SAYING IS TO NOT TAKE IT TO COUNCIL BECAUSE THE LAST TIME WE DID, AND I'M NOT SAYING THEY'LL, THEY'LL APPROVE IT EVERY, EVERY TIME.
BUT I AM SAYING, I THINK THERE IS A SUPPORTIVE SENTIMENT AMONGST COUNCIL FOR THE COMMISSION, NOT SAYING THAT THEY DON'T SUPPORT ANY OTHER COMMISSION.
I DO THINK THAT THEY'RE AS MUCH INVESTED IN THIS COMMISSION AS, AS, AS, AS WE ARE.
AND BECAUSE OF THAT, I THINK, UM, YOU KNOW, WE, WE TAKE THAT, NOT WITH A GRAIN OF SALT, BUT YOU TAKE THAT AS, YOU KNOW, HEY, THAT'S A GREAT REMINDER, BUT I DO THINK, I THINK IT JUST MEANS THAT WE NEED TO COME WITH OUR I'S DOTTED AND OUR T'S CROSSED AS TO WHY.
I THINK BEING ABLE TO GO TO BUSINESSES, ESPECIALLY HERE IN HUDDLE THAT ARE SMALLER MOM AND POPS THAT ARE DIVERSE.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO.
I MEAN, I JUST KNOW OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, LIKE WHEN I WAS PRESIDENT OF THE PTA, WE USED TO DO THAT.
AND IT WAS RELATIVELY EASY WHEN I WAS IN THE MARCHING BAND.
I DON'T REMEMBER SEEING BIN WOOSTER.
IT WAS RELATIVELY EASY TO GET LOCALLY OWNED BUSINESSES AND EVEN CHAINS BECAUSE OF AMI.
I MEAN, THEY HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT, THEY HAVE TO DONATE EVERY YEAR.
AND IF YOU HIT THE RIGHT PERSON AT THE RIGHT TIME, THEY'RE LIKE, OH, SURE.
I CAN SCRATCH THIS OFF MY LIST.
AND I THINK, I THINK MAYBE THE OPEN, ALL THAT CAMPAIGN WILL KIND OF REMEDY OR HELP TO OPEN SOME OF THOSE DOORS FOR YEAH.
UM, SO THAT'S WHY I THINK LIKE THIS DOWNTOWN HADOW EVENT WOULD BE PRETTY, PRETTY BIG.
NOW YOU'VE JUST MADE MY C THAT HAS JUST PROVEN THAT YOU WERE RIGHT.
NO, I'M JUST TEASING AND WE'LL DOUBLE CHECK WITH LEGAL ON THAT.
SO REAL QUICK, UM, SINCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE EVENTS I WANTED TO PRESENT THIS BANNER, THIS BANNER WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS WITH, UM, OH GOSH, WHAT'S THE NAME? FINGERPRINT IDEAS, FINGERPRINT IDEAS.
WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH FINGERPRINT IDEAS TO HAVE SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO SHOW THE DNI IN A GOOD LIGHT, BUT THEN ALSO, YOU KNOW, THROW SOME, SOME, SOME SHINE TO THE CITY, BUT ALSO HELP, UM, PEOPLE TO REALLY KNOW WHAT WE'RE ABOUT.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, IT THROWS SOME SHINE AT THE CITY REALLY SHOW US IN A GOOD LIGHT AND PUT WHAT WE'RE ALL ABOUT ALL IN THE SAME.
UM, YOU KNOW, SNAPSHOT IN A BANNER HAS BEEN PRETTY CHALLENGING, BUT I THINK WE DID A PRETTY GOOD JOB.
UM, AND SO I'M PRESENTING THIS TONIGHT FOR YOUR APPROVAL.
UM, OBVIOUSLY YOU SEE, WE HAVE THE LOGO CREATED BY COMMISSIONER PRIETTO ON THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE, DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU'RE LOOKING.
UM, WE HAVE THE CITY OF HIDALGO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION COMMISSION, UM, IN THE CENTER.
UM, AND THEN WE HAVE THE QR CODE THAT GOES STRAIGHT TO OUR WEBSITE NOW TO COMMISSIONER.
UM, UM, WALKER'S POINT, I WANT TO SAY WILLIAMS AND I STOPPED AS
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COMMISSIONER WALKER'S POINT.UM, OUR WEBSITE IS VERY IMPORTANT AND I THINK ONCE WE GET THE, UH, YOU KNOW, WE ARE ABLE TO CREATE A WEBSITE THAT LINKS FROM THE CITY OF HUDDLE WEBSITE.
I THINK THIS WILL BE UPDATED WITH THAT INFORMATION, BUT FOR NOW WE HAVE OUR CITY OF HUDDLE WEBSITE LINK HERE, AND THEN AT THE BOTTOM, THIS IS WHAT I WANTED TO SPEND SOME TIME AND TALK ABOUT AND REALLY GET YOUR GUYS'S FEEDBACK.
I'D REALLY APPRECIATE EVERYBODY'S FEEDBACK BECAUSE DOWN AT THE BOTTOM, WE WANTED TO CAPTURE SOME, SOME NOT CHARACTERISTICS, BUT REALLY WHAT THE C YEAH.
W WHAT THE COMMISSION IS FOCUSED ON DIFFERENT CATEGORIES, UM, WITHIN DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION.
AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT I AGREE OR DISAGREE WITH THE CATEGORIES THAT HAVE BEEN SELECTED, BUT I DO WANT TO HAVE A DISCUSSION ON WHAT CATEGORIES DO YOU ALL FEEL ARE IMPORTANT TO HAVE ON OUR BANNER, BECAUSE REMEMBER, THIS IS GOING TO BE SEEN BY CITIZENS BY, UM, YOU KNOW, CITIZENS THAT LIVE HERE, CITIZENS THAT DON'T.
UM, AND SO I THINK WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE BEING ALL INCLUSIVE AND NOT SENSITIVE, BUT, UM, HIGHLIGHTING THOSE, THOSE CATEGORIES THAT UNDERREPRESENTED OR THAT, YOU KNOW, SHOULD BE, UM, YOU KNOW, MORE VISIBLE THAN OTHERS.
AND SO, UM, I GUESS A, I WANT TO KNOW YOUR THOUGHTS AND B WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES? AND I, I WANT TO DO THIS IN ORDER, SO THAT WAY WE CAN WRITE IT DOWN, BUT, UM, WE'LL START WITH COMMISSIONER WALKER, YOUR THOUGHTS ON THE BANNER.
WOULD YOU CHANGE ANYTHING, ADD ANYTHING, AND THEN WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THE CATEGORIES IN THE ORDER THAT THEY'RE IN, IN? NO, JUST HOW THEY, I LIKE THE CATEGORIES, ALL OF THEM, THE CATEGORIES I'M FINE WITH, I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THE ORDER THOUGH, THIS, IN MY OPINION, JUST BECAUSE I'M THINKING ABOUT RACE IS THE MORE AT THE FOREFRONT.
AND PART OF ME IS SAYING DISABILITY, I WOULD SAY DIFFERENT ABILITIES OR SOMETHING DIFFERENT BECAUSE IT'S JUST ABILITIES NOW INSTEAD OF A DISABILITY THAT'S CONTESTED TOO.
IT'S LIKE ALWAYS SOMETHING, UM, ETHNICITIES, A BIG ONE AS WELL, BUT I'M NOT SURE.
I DON'T REALLY HAVE A, BUT THE CATEGORIES YOU FEEL LIKE IT SHOULD START WITH RACE.
I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT GOT US STARTED IN THE FIRST PLACE WITH THIS DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION.
LIKE, LET'S BE REAL AND MISSISSIPPI IS AS WELL.
SO RACE AND ETHNICITY, ANYTHING ELSE THAT I CAN THINK OF COMMISSIONER SPINS? WELL, YOU WERE DONE.
ONLY THE REASON WHY I DON'T IS BECAUSE I KNOW SOMEBODY IS GOING TO SAY SOMETHING REGARDLESS.
UM, IF YOU MOVE ONE ONE WAY OR IF YOU PUT SOMETHING ANOTHER WAY, SOMEBODY.
SO I THINK, UM, AND IT'S KIND OF LIKE WHEN THEY SAY IN NO SPECIFIC ORDER, LIKE WHEN YOU GO TO THE, ON A PAGEANT IN NO SPECIFIC ORDER.
UM, BUT I THINK IT'S ALL, THEY'RE ALL IMPORTANT.
UM, BUT LIKE SHE SAID, RACES WOULD KIND OF GOT EVERYTHING STARTED, BUT AGAIN, UM, I THINK THEN THIS IS, UH, SOMETHING ELSE, UM, THAT, THAT DISABILITY, UM, IT'S, I DUNNO, IT'S SOMETHING WITH IT.
I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT RIGHT NOW, SO I DON'T REALLY WANT TO TALK TOO MUCH ON IT.
CAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS RIGHT NOW.
SO YEAH, THAT WAS MY BACKGROUND FOR SO LONG.
I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO SAY.
LET'S TALK ABOUT IT REAL QUICK.
WHAT, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING.
WHAT W WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE IT TO? BECAUSE, AND THAT'S THE THING I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW.
AND SO THAT'S WHY I'M LIKE, I DON'T, I DON'T, I DON'T REALLY KNOW CAUSE THAT'S, IT'S TRUE.
YOU KNOW, SO COMMISSIONER CHEN, I SEE YOU WORKING OVER THERE.
WELL, I'M JUST GOOGLING WHAT YOU SHOULD SAY.
I MEAN, THE PROBLEM IS THERE'S SOME PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE YOU SHOULD SAY DIFFERENTLY ABLED, RIGHT? AND THERE'S OTHER PEOPLE WITHIN
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THE DISABILITY COMMUNITY WHO THINK THAT'S REALLY OFFENSIVE, RIGHT.BECAUSE YOU'RE ROBBING THE PERSON OF THEIR DISABILITY BECAUSE THEIR DISABILITY IS SO BAD.
AND I HAVE FRIENDS WHO HAVE CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN BOTH CAMPS AND IT IS FIERCE, LIKE, AND IT'S, SO I DO WORRY ABOUT THAT WORD AND I DON'T HAVE A SOLUTION THAT'S UM, MAYBE FOCUSING ON OR MAYBE ABILITIES, ABILITY.
ABILITIES, ABILITIES, ABILITY, OR WHATEVER.
'CAUSE LIKE TYPICALLY NOW EVERYTHING IS A DISABILITY.
LIKE IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT BEFORE DIABETES WAS NOT, UH, UH, TYPICALLY A DISABILITY, BUT NOW IT IS, AND IT'S PROTECTED.
SO I THINK SO CHANGING DISABILITY TO ABILITY ALL ABILITIES, PUT THEM IN THERE, PUT THEM IN THERE.
SO THE WORD, ALL ABILITIES, ALL ABILITIES.
SO WE'RE GOING TO SAY ALL ABILITIES.
DID HE HAVE ROUND ROCK USES ALL ABILITIES? YEAH.
THAT'S WHY WHAT'S THE NAME OF THEIR PARK.
YEAH, MAYBE WE PUT THAT FIRST.
CAUSE YOU'RE SAYING ALL ABILITIES, ALL RACE, ALL AGE.
LIKE AS A WHOLE, IF YOU PUT ALL ABILITIES AND YOU KEEP IT GOING, ALL GENDER IDENTITY, ALL RACE, ALL AGE THAT WILL GET PEOPLE SAYING LIKE, WE'RE ALL INCLUSIVE.
MY OPINION, BECAUSE THAT'S AN INCLUSIVE LANGUAGE.
WE JUST LEARNED SOMETHING GUYS.
SO ADDING ALL TO ON FOR ALL OF THESE ALL AGES, ALL ETHNICITIES, ALL VETERANS STATUS, ALL SEXUAL PREFERENCES.
WE GOT FOR ME, I'M JUST GOING TO MAKE A STATEMENT.
I WILL FEEL SO PROUD OF HER SAYING ALL OF EVERYTHING, BECAUSE THERE WERE SO MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE WHO HAVE DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS, BUT WHEN YOU SAY ALL THAT MEANS POWER IN NUMBERS AND I JUST, I LOVE THAT PART.
THANK YOU SPOONS FOR, LET ME SEE YOU GOT IT.
UM, NO, I THINK, I THINK MY JOB HAS DONE.
I REALLY LIKED THE BANNER AND A GREAT JOB ON IT.
UM, I LIKE THE ONLY THING ABOUT IT IS JUST RACE AND ETHNICITY.
I FEEL LIKE IT'S THE SAME WORD AND THAT'S THE ONLY THING.
I'D RATHER IT JUST BE ETHNICITY.
CAUSE IT'D BE LIKE, YOU ALREADY KNOW HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE FEEL ABOUT THAT? IT'LL BE ALL ETHNICITIES INSTEAD OF.
OH, SO YOU FEEL LIKE WE'RE SAYING, IF WE SAY ALL RACES ARE ALL YEAH.
WE'RE SAYING, WE'RE SAYING THAT TWICE.
JUST BECAUSE LIKE, WHEN YOU SPEAK TO SOMEBODY, YOU CAN EITHER LIKE, OH IF NECESSITY, I ALWAYS SAY ETHNICITY.
SO I SEE, I SEE WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM.
I ALSO SEE WHERE IT COULD BE DIFFERENT.
IS THERE A MIDDLE GROUND WITH RACE AND ETHNICITY? IS THERE, IS THERE, THERE'S A DIFFERENCE.
THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BECAUSE I'M BLACK AND HISPANIC.
THOSE ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.
SO MINE, THIS CITY IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM MY RACE.
NO, BUT LIKE, IF I WERE TO ASK YOU, WHAT'S YOUR ETHNICITY, YOU HAVE TO ASK ME.
NO, BUT MY RACE, I COULD SAY, WHAT'S YOUR RACE? MY RACE.
OR WHAT'S YOUR ETHNICITY IS HISPANIC.
BUT WOULDN'T THAT BE ON YOUR CULTURE? I DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE UNDER CULTURE.
GENDER, BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT FOR BLACK PEOPLE.
MY CULTURE IS NOT DIFFERENT ASIAN, I GUESS, BECAUSE WHEN I ASKED SOMEBODY AND I DON'T ASK LIKE, OH, WHAT'S YOUR RACE? I USUALLY SAY, WHAT'S YOUR ETHNICITY? LIKE, IT'S ALWAYS BEEN LIKE THAT.
JUST RACES OUTSIDE WAS WHAT PEOPLE SEE AND WHAT PEOPLE ASSUME THE VISUAL.
EVEN ME, LIKE MY FAMILY SPEAKS FRENCH AND SPANISH.
SO WHAT DO WE DO? MY CULTURAL BACKGROUND WOULD BE ALL OF THE ABOVE.
YOU JUST CHECK OFF THE BOXES ENOUGH BOXES.
AND THERE'S NOT ENOUGH BOXES FOR ME.
SO I WOULD KEEP RACE AND ETHNICITY.
UM, ANYTHING ELSE ON YOUR, ON YOUR PART THOUGH?
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OKAY.I LOVE THE HIPPOS, THE LOGO I'VE TOLD YOU.
UM, I LIKE HOW THERE IS THE, THE LINE BELOW.
I THINK THAT'S REALLY VISUALLY ARRESTING.
UM, I THINK WE SHOULD SAY SEXUAL ORIENTATION INSTEAD OF SEXUAL PREFERENCE.
CAUSE SEXUAL PREFERENCE IS REALLY, CAN BE VERY OFFENSIVE TO LGBTQ PEOPLE BECAUSE IT MAKES IT SEEM LIKE IT'S A CHOICE TO BE GAY AND IT'S NOT, UM, I, SORRY SEXUAL PREFERENCE CHANGED THE SEXUAL ORIENTATION BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T CHOOSE TO BE GAY.
BUT UM, THE ONE THOUGHT I AGREE WITH THE POINT RAISED EARLIER THAT I FEEL LIKE RACE SHOULD COME FIRST AND I FEEL LIKE IT'S ODD TO HAVE SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS FIRST.
I FEEL LIKE IT'S US BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT.
IT'S LIKE WE KNOW SOME PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE A MAD THAT THERE'S A DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION COMMISSION.
SO WE'RE GOING TO PUT THE ONE THAT WILL MAKE THEM LESS MAD.
AND I, I FEEL LIKE THAT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A COP OUT.
UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S FINE TO PUT THEM ALL IN THERE, BUT YOU KNOW, THE FACT IS WHEN YOU LOOK AT MARGINALIZATION, RACE IS THE THING THAT GETS MARGINALIZED FIRST, RIGHT? LIKE THAT'S WOULD YOU REALITY? SO TAKING OUT SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS, NOT FIRST.
AND I KNOW, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, CONCEPTS THAT PEOPLE SOCIOECONOMIC IS CERTAINLY TIED IN WITH IT, THERE'S CERTAINLY DISCRIMINATION WITH SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS, BUT A POOR WHITE PERSON CAN PASS AS A WHITE PERSON.
WHEREAS A BLACK PERSON CAN'T LIKE, THEY CAN'T NOT BE BLACK OR, YOU KNOW, A LATINO PERSON CAN NOT BE, YOU KNOW, LIKE YOU CAN'T CHANGE THAT.
SO WITH YOUR, SO WITH THE CHANGES WE HAVE, UM, REORDERING THE CATEGORIES, UM, TO START WITH RACE AND ETHNICITY, UM, WE ALSO HAVE CHANGING DISABILITY TO ALL ABILITIES AND ADDING THE WORD ALL IN FRONT OF EVERY SINGLE CATEGORY THAT WE HAVE IDENTIFIED HERE.
UM, AND THEN CHANGING SEXUAL PREFERENCE TO SEXUAL ORIENTATION ON OTHER THINGS, I WOULD NOT SAY GENDER IDENTITY BECAUSE THAT CAN BE OFFENSIVE, ESPECIALLY TO PEOPLE WHO ARE TRANSGENDER, BECAUSE IT'S SAYING THAT THEY'RE NOT REALLY THAT GENDER, THEY JUST IDENTIFY THE GENDER.
YOU IDENTIFY AS A MAN, BUT YOU'RE REALLY A WOMAN AND IT CAN BE OFFENSIVE.
AND, AND ALSO IT SAVES US A WORD, WHICH WE COULD PROBABLY USE.
ONE THOUGHT I HAVE IS I WONDER IF THERE'S A WAY TO MAKE THE ALL ONE BIG GOAL INSTEAD OF DOING ALL, ALL, ALL, ALL, ALL.
I LIKED THE EMPHASIS EMPHASIS ON ALL.
EVERY TIME YOU SEE IT, YOU SEE ALL, I REALLY LIKED THAT BECAUSE I THINK IT HAMMERS HOME THE POINT.
AND THEN IF WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT, WE PROBABLY NEED TO CHANGE VETERAN TO STATUSES.
CAUSE STATUS IS A SINGULAR AND WE'D HAVE TO MAKE ALL OF THESE PLURAL ROOMS. RIGHT.
ALL SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS IS, IS A WEIRD WORD THOUGH.
THAT'S HOW IT'S SUPER AWKWARD.
SO LIKE ALL VETERANS, BECAUSE I DON'T NECESSARILY GET WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
AND THEN CHRISTIE, IS THAT, IS THAT BEING ALL-INCLUSIVE TO, TO VETERANS SAYING ALL VETERANS, ARE YOU ASKING ON BEHALF OF STAFF OR AS A VETERAN, AS A VETERAN? UM, I MEAN, HONESTLY, VETERAN'S STATUS.
SOME HAVE, UM, DIFFERENT MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES.
AND SO THAT'S ITS OWN THING WHICH WOULD FALL UNDER MAYBE THE ALL DISABILITY SIDE.
UM, I MEAN, I DON'T WANT TO SAY TOO MUCH, BUT I LIKE VETERAN STATUS BECAUSE IT, IT KIND OF ENCOMPASSES QUITE A BIT MORE THAN JUST VETERAN OR NOT.
AND ALSO YOUR VETERAN STATUS MEANS LIKE YOU COULD BE ACTIVE DUTY VERSUS RETIRED.
LIKE IT WOULD COVER THAT AS WELL.
RIGHT? SO WHAT'S A WAY TO GET AROUND THE PLURAL THING BECAUSE ALL VETERANS STATUSES AND ALSO SHOW ECONOMIC STATUSES, YOU HAVE TO DO CHANGE EVERY WORD TO THE CITY AND ALL THAT.
ALL RACES, ALL AGES, ALL ETHNICITIES, THOSE ARE EASIER, ALL SEXUAL ORIENTATION.
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AND WE'RE NOT MARRIED TO THESE, THESE UP HERE.IF SOMEONE HAS ONE THAT THEY FEEL IS A LITTLE BIT MORE POWERFUL, OR I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT INCLUDED, WE'RE NOT MARRIED TO THESE.
THESE ARE JUST ONES THAT I THOUGHT OF ON THE FLY WHENEVER I WAS SPEAKING TO, UM, TO DREW.
SO THESE AREN'T, THESE ARE WHAT I JUST CAME UP WITH.
THEY'RE OPEN TO CHANGE THAT NOTHING'S IN CONCRETE, WHICH IS WHY I'M HERE ASKING FOR YOUR GUYS'S APPROVAL.
IT'S NOT, HEY, THIS IS WHAT YOU HAVE TO WORK WITH.
I MEAN, I KINDA LIKED THE LIST BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE IT HITS ON SOME OF THE ONES THAT ARE TYPICALLY ASSOCIATED WITH DIVERSITY INCLUSION, LIKE RACE, ETHNICITY, AND GENDER AND SEXUAL ORIENTATION.
THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT WE THINK OF.
AND, BUT IT ALSO MAKES IT BROADER, WHICH I THINK IS USEFUL, ESPECIALLY IN A CITY WHERE SOME PEOPLE MIGHT MISUNDERSTAND THE MISSION.
AND IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEEM ELITIST, UM, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN NICE TO HAVE THE, UM, THE SURVEY RESULTS TO KIND OF NARROW DOWN WHAT YEAH.
WHAT TYPES OF, OF, OF, UH, I HATE SAYING CATEGORIES, BUT WHAT TYPES OF WHAT TYPES WE HAVE IN THE CITY, UM, THAT WOULD'VE BEEN, THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN COOL.
AND I THINK THAT, UM, HIGHLIGHTS AGAIN WHY WE NEED THAT SURVEY, BUT, UM, I MEAN, THIS IS A CRAZY IDEA AND I'M JUST RUNNING THIS, THIS MIGHT NOT WORK.
WHAT IF WE TOOK THE CATEGORIES OUT AND ADDED JUST A STATEMENT.
THAT'S LIKE ALL, I FEEL LIKE IT WOULD HAVE TO BE OUR MISSION STATEMENT.
I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S A GOOD IDEA.
I'M JUST FREE, LIKE SPIT BALLING THAT IDEA, BUT CAN I MAKE A SUGGESTION? I'VE JUST, YEAH, JUST AN OBSERVATION.
AND WHEN I'M LOOKING AT THIS BANNER, I, ONE THING I NOTICED THAT DOESN'T HAVE IS A BORDER.
SO IF YOU WANTED TO ADD MORE, YOU COULD MAYBE CONSIDER MAKING A BORDER OUT OF ALL THE WORDS WE, YEAH.
WHAT ELSE WOULD WE, WHAT ELSE WOULD WE ADD? WELL, THERE'S A WHOLE LOT MORE.
UM, OR RELIGION, WHICHEVER, UM, UH, MARITAL STATUS.
WELL, AND TO GO BACK TO Y'ALL'S POINT WITH THE, LIKE THE LIST, THE CALENDAR OF EVENTS, AND THERE'S SO MANY, RIGHT? LIKE, SO MAYBE AGAIN, Y'ALL, IT'S UP TO Y'ALL.
UM, BUT MAYBE NOT HAVING SPECIFIC ONES CALLED OUT AND HAVING YOUR MISSION STATEMENT AND THEN THE QR CODE CAN LINK BACK TO THE CALENDAR EVENTS WHERE YOU HIGHLIGHT ALL OF THESE THINGS AND, AND THE ORDINANCE AND THAT SORT OF THING.
WHAT, WHAT IS OUR MISSION STATEMENT? OH, AND WHEN YOU SAID THAT, I ACTUALLY, I STAY UP WAY TOO LATE.
I SAW ONE, A BANNER IN THE DIFFERENT LINK TO IT'S LIKE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.
AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT ALSO IT HIGHLIGHTED DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.
SO YEAH, I WAS AT WAY TOO LATE, BUT IT'S REALLY, THIS CAN REALLY DO ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT THINGS.
YOU CAN REALLY, YOU KNOW, DO A LOT WITH THIS.
I LOVE THE CUTTER, THE COLOR FOR THE BOARDERS.
ALL THE DIFFERENT COLORS ARE AMAZING TO SEE THAT WILL STICK OUT BECAUSE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A UNIFIED GROUP.
UM, THE CITY OF HADOW ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THE HISTORY OF DISCRIMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTINUES AFFECT THE PRIVILEGE AND OR LACK OF OPPORTUNITY FOR THE PEOPLE OR FOR PEOPLE IN THE CITY.
AND THE CITY OF HADOW ACKNOWLEDGES THAT EQUALITY OCCURS WHEN DIFFERENCES SUCH AS RACE, ETHNICITY, RELIGION, GENDER, ECONOMIC STATUS, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTIFICATION, VETERAN STATUS, MARITAL STATUS, LANGUAGE, AGE, DISABILITY, ET CETERA, DO NOT DETERMINE A PERSON'S ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, OR POLITICAL ACCESS.
UM, THE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION COMMISSION SHELL TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE, BE BROADLY REPRESENTATIVE OF ECONOMIC STATUS, RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, GENDER NATIONAL ORIGIN, ANCESTRY, MARITAL STATUS, PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITY, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, AND GENDER IDENTITY.
UM, AS FAR AS OUR MISSION STATEMENT, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE
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DID NOT CREATE.WELL, I THINK THAT'S TOO LONG TO PUT OFF, BUT IT DOES GIVE US SOME CATEGORIES IF WE WANT IT TO DO WHAT GRACIE WAS SUGGESTING.
AND YOU CAN JUST TURN THE PAGE FOR OUR MISSION, THE NEXT, THE PURPOSE, BECAUSE LANGUAGE, MARITAL STATUS, THOSE ARE SOME, WE DON'T HAVE, UM, PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DISABILITY.
UM, BUT WE ADDRESS CHANGING THAT TO ALL, ALL ABILITIES, UM, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, WHICH WE ALREADY SAID THAT WE CHANGED OR NO, THAT'S, THAT'S THE CORRECT.
UM, WE DON'T HAVE LANGUAGE, AGE, MARITAL STATUS, UM, RELIGION.
YEAH, WE DO HAVE AGE, BUT, AND IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE RELIGION, I MEAN, WE PROBABLY NEED TO HAVE LIKE, AND THE ONLY NOT TO BE TOO PICKY, BUT RELIGION CAN BE NOT INCLUSIVE BECAUSE IT DOESN'T INCLUDE PEOPLE WHO ARE ATHEISTS.
BUT ARE WE GOING TO MAKE STATEMENTS ABOUT DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS? CAUSE ALL WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT LIKE, HONOR, IF WE HAVE OPPORTUNITY FOR RAMADAN IS APRIL 30TH.
LIKE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT EASTER, WE'RE FOR PARTICIPATING.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ALL RELIGIONS.
BECAUSE I FEEL IT'S A PERSONAL, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? THAT'S WHERE DIVERSITY INCLUSION IS PERSONAL.
WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT SAYING ONE IS BETTER THAN THE OTHER.
WE'RE SAYING, HEY, WE'RE CELEBRATING EVERYONE.
MAYBE WE CAN SAY ALL RELIGIONS IN ALL FACE.
AND THAT, THAT WAY THAT IN CORPORATE, YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN, YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN.
THAT'S FINE, BUT WE STILL APPRECIATE YOU.
BUT LIKE, IF YOU'RE SAYING LIKE WITH THE EVENTS, WITH LIKE THE EASTERN STUFF, THAT'S LIKE INCLUDING THE RELIGION WE HAVE OR ALL THE HOLIDAYS, THAT'S PART OF IT.
AND SOME PEOPLE WILL SAY, THEY'RE NOT SPIRITUAL.
WHAT IS IT THAT IT'S GOING TO BE? OH YEAH.
THAT'S WHY IT'S ALWAYS ONE, YOU KNOW WHAT? START ALL IN THERE AND JUST SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
I MEAN, I STILL, I MEAN, THE MORE, I THINK, I KNOW, I WONDER IF, INSTEAD OF HAVING ALL THE WORDS, LIKE THE MISSION STATEMENTS TOO LONG, BUT I WONDER IF WE JUST HAD, YOU KNOW, UM, EMBRACING THE, SO YOU'RE SAYING , YOU'RE SAYING JUST TAKE THAT AWAY.
I MEAN, I'M SCARED IS HOW I FEEL THAT WE WILL LEAVE OUT A GROUP AND IT WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO LEAVE OUT A GROUP OR WE WILL DESCRIBE A GROUP IN A WAY THE GROUP DOESN'T WANT TO DESCRIBE.
AND EVEN THOUGH WE'RE BEING REALLY THOUGHTFUL ABOUT IT, I THINK IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO HURT SOMEONE TO HURT SOMEBODY.
AND THEN I WON'T WORRY THAT LIKE ALL THIS GOOD WE'RE TRYING TO DO WILL BE HURT.
AND THAT'S WHY I'M THINKING, LIKE, IF WE COULD COME UP WITH LIKE A SUCCINCT PHRASE, THAT'S LIKE EMBRACING THE BLAH, BLAH, BLAH OF HUDDLE AND I'LL KNOW WHAT THE GLOBAL ALL IN ONE OR SOMETHING, WE HAVE A SAYING FOR EVERY, FOR DIVERSITY INCLUSION COMMISSION PERIOD, ALL IN ONE, ALL AND SOMETHING JUST SO WHERE WE CAN SAY IT'S ALL HIPPO DAY LONG.
BUT REALLY SHORT, LIKE ONE LIKE ONE PHRASE KIND OF ONE HIPPO.
I JUST, IT DOES AS MUCH AS I THINK WE'RE BEING REALLY THOUGHTFUL ABOUT.
I THINK, I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT.
I THINK, I THINK YOU'RE RIGHT.
I, I, AND THIS WAS ONE OF THE THINGS I WAS GOING TO BRING UP DISCUSSING THE TRAINING, BUT, UM, FOR THIS CONVERSATION, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT REALLY CAUGHT ME IN THE TRAINING WAS THEY SAID THE KEY TO CREATING AN INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT IS THROUGH CHANGING MENTALITIES FROM CATEGORIAL CATEGORICAL TO INDIVIDUAL AND SEE ALL THE POTENTIAL IN EACH PERSON.
AND I, I THINK LIKE FOR ME, IF I WAS DOING IT, I'D SAY WE BELIEVE IN CREATING AN INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT
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AND TRY TO INCORPORATE CHANGING MENTALITIES, BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW TO SAY IT.AND I DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE SHORT ENOUGH, BUT I THINK WE, I THINK, I THINK WE'RE ONTO SOMETHING WHERE WE SHOULD TAKE THESE OUT AND PUT KIND OF LIKE A, WE BELIEVE STATEMENT.
SO JUST ANOTHER LITTLE THOUGHT AT THE END OF THE DAY, COMMISSIONERS IS, IS THIS COMMISSION AND CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, NOT REALLY HERE TO, JUST TO MAKE SURE ALL CITIZENS OF HADOW ARE REPRESENTED.
I THINK WE DEFINITELY NEED TO SUPPORT OUR UNITY BECAUSE THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT I READ ABOUT UNITY IS DIVERSITY, WHICH BRINGS PROSPERITY.
AND I FELT LIKE THAT'S THE WHOLE GOAL OF OUR COMMISSION IS TO BRING AN INCLUSIVE GROUP TOGETHER AND TO HAVE HUDDLE PROSPER.
WHAT ABOUT SOMETHING LIKE EMBRACING THE UNIQUENESS AND UNITY OF HADOW OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT THAT'S LIKE, OR IF WE WANT TO USE THE, WE BELIEVE STATEMENT, I LIKE WHAT COMMISSIONER WALKER JUST SAID UP THERE.
I THOUGHT THAT WAS, THAT WAS REALLY GOOD.
I JUST TALKING TO ME, I DON'T NEVER KNOW.
UM, BUT I WAS TALKING ABOUT DIVERSITY AND UNITY, RACE PART PROSPERITY.
AND WE TALK ABOUT LIKE, 'CAUSE, I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT DIVERSITY AND UNITY.
WE, WE REALLY WANT UNITY IN THE CITY.
I MEAN, THERE'S CAMPAIGN SEASONS COMING UP, ELECTION SEASONS COMING UP AND YOU CAN ALREADY SEE THE BACK AND FORTH.
WE DEFINITELY WANT UNITY IN THE CITY.
WE ALSO HAVE DIVERSITY IN THE CITY.
THAT'S NOT, THAT'S NOT AN ARGUMENT.
WE HAVE DIVERSITY IN THIS CITY.
WE WANT UNITY, WE HAVE DIVERSITY.
AND THOSE TWO BRING ABOUT PROSPERITY, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT WE WANT IN THIS CITY.
AND SO I FEEL LIKE, I KNOW IT'S JUST ON THE FLY, BUT I FEEL LIKE WHAT COMMISSIONER WALKER SAID IS REALLY INCLUSIVE OF WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ON FACEBOOK, HOW THEY WANT HUDDLE TO BE HOW I FEEL LIKE CITY COUNCIL IS REALLY AIMING TO BRING BUSINESSES HERE AND REALLY SHOWCASE, YOU KNOW, THE RICH HISTORY AND DIVERSITY THAT WE HAVE IN THE CITY.
I, I REALLY RESONATE WITH TH WITH THAT LITTLE TAGLINE OR SLOGAN.
YOU TALKING ABOUT LIKE DIVERSITY AND UNITY BREEDS APART, LIKE BRINGS A POND, BRINGS PROSPERITY.
THAT'S HOW I ALWAYS THINK IN MY HEAD ALWAYS THINK ABOUT ONE WHERE I WANT TO HIPPO BECAUSE WE ARE ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
WE ARE ONE, IF THIS BLOWS UP, I JUST WANT TO, I WANT IT TO BE KNOWN THAT I DID SUPPORT SADNESS.
SO 50 YEARS FROM NOW DIVERSITY AND UNITY LEADS TO PROSPERITY AND WE'RE DONE.
I MEAN, IT, IT REALLY IS ALL ENCOMPASSING OF WHAT IT IS.
AND IT'S SIMPLE AND IT GETS AROUND THE PROBLEM OF THE GROUPS.
AND THEN WHEN WE'RE TALKING, HOW MANY CHARACTERS IS THAT? SORRY, I DID NOT MEAN TO STUCK.
I WAS JUST THINKING HOW MANY CHARACTERS MAKE SURE DREW CAN DO THIS? THANK YOU QUICK.
THIS WAS NOT COUNTING MY CHARACTERS ON HERE.
AND YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT AROUND THE BORDER WITH THE WORDS LIKE THAT, OR EVEN JUST, NO, I'M TALKING ABOUT REPLACING THE REPLACING THE, BUT IF YOU WOULD JUST ADD, YOU CAN LIKE WHAT SHE WAS SAYING ABOUT THE BORDER WITH THE COLOR.
YOU COULD JUST ADD WORDS AROUND 39.
I JUST, I, I AGREE WITH COMMISSIONER CHIN.
I DON'T THINK THAT WE WILL HAVE EVERYBODY INCLUDED IN THOSE NAMES.
I MEAN, I JUST FEEL LIKE, AND IT'S NOT FUNNY, SORRY TO LAUGH, BUT I JUST FEEL LIKE WE ARE GOING TO MISS SOMETHING.
AND THAT WOULD, IF I, WAS THAT SOMETHING THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD SUCK, THAT WOULD REALLY, THAT REALLY HURT DEEP, I THINK.
BUT THAT'S WHERE THE EVENTS COME IN AND THAT CAN SUBSTITUTE WITH LIKE THE, LIKE THE WEBSITE.
I JUST THINK SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO BE PROMINENT EVERYWHERE YOU GO.
AND YOU SEE THAT YOU'RE NOT ON THERE.
THAT'S GOING TO BE IT'S 39 CHARACTERS.
IF WE DID DIVERSITY AND UNITY LEADS
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TO PROSPERITY.IF WE DID UNITY THROUGH PRESBYT UNITY THROUGH DIVERSITY LEADS TO PROSPERITY IS 43 CHARACTERS.
BUT I THINK WE NEED THE, WE ARE ONE ON THERE.
AND THE ONLY REASON WHY I SAY THAT IS BECAUSE YOU WERE WHISPERING IT AND I WAS TYPING IT.
SO I KNOW THAT THAT IS DIVINE INTERVENTION.
IT HAS TO BE BECAUSE THERE'S NO WAY WE WERE ON THE SAME WAVELENGTH AT THE SAME TIME WITHOUT US NEEDING THAT ONLY BECAUSE LIKE, I DO THAT A LOT.
CAUSE I WORK WITH A DIVERSITY GROUP TOO AT WORK, BUT IT'S JUST THAT WHOLE ONENESS MAKES SUCH A BIG DIFFERENCE.
REALLY GOOD SISTER WAS A, SHE'S A VET.
MY WHOLE FAMILY'S LIKE THIS, BUT I'M NOT.
UM, BUT IT'S JUST THAT FEEL OF BEING A PART OF THAT COMMUNITY AND THAT FAMILY THAT YOU DEVELOP WITHIN EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE.
SO IF WE DID DIVERSITY, WEIGHT, DIVERSITY AND UNITY LEADS TO, WE ARE ONE AND I PUT AN EXCLAMATION POINT AFTER ONE, BUT WE DON'T HAVE TO, BUT I JUST FEEL LIKE IT NEEDS ONE.
WE REALLY WANT TO PUT IT IN HUDDLE.
WE'D BE LIKE HIPPO WELL, I DON'T THINK WE NEED A, I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO PUT ONE HIPPO BECAUSE WE DO HAVE THE HIPPOS AND I DON'T, I DON'T FEEL LIKE WE NEED TO, I DON'T FEEL LIKE WE NEED TO LIKE DEFINE EVERYTHING THAT'S ON THE BANNER.
I THINK IT WOULD BE, I THINK IT'D BE WORTH IT TO ASK DREW IF WE COULD REPLACE DNI WITHIN THE HIPPOS WITH WE ARE ONE, UM, INSTEAD OF DNI PUT, WE ARE ONE WITHIN INSIDE THE HIPPO.
I EVEN LIKED THAT ON THE BRACELETS.
WELL, AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I'M THINKING.
LIKE THE BRACELET WOULD HAVE THE HUT HIP BONES.
AND I EVEN WROTE THAT LIKE IN OUR VERY FIRST MEETING, WHICH IS GETTING REALLY WEIRD.
NOW YOU CAN'T WAIT TO LISTEN TO THIS RECORDING.
I KNOW RECORDING IS GOING TO BE HILARIOUS.
I KNOW WE TALKING ABOUT LIKE BRACELETS.
SO ARE WE, ARE WE IN AGREEANCE WITH, WE ARE ONE GOING INSIDE THE HIPPOS AND THEN, UM, WHAT COMMISSIONER WALKER SAID, GOING ALONG THE BOTTOM AND REPLACING THE DIFFERENT, UM, CATEGORIES THAT WE HAVE, UM, I'M DOWN WITH WHATEVER I AM.
SO COMMISSIONER CHEN, COULD YOU SEND THAT TO GRACIE? WELL, LET ME JUST MAKE SURE EVERYBODY'S, UM, DIVERSITY AND UNITY LEADS TO PROSPERITY.
AND CAN YOU SEND THAT TO GRACIE AND THEN GRACIE, CAN YOU SEND THAT TO ME? YES, SIR.
AND I WILL TAKE THAT BACK TO, UM, DREW AND I THINK AT OUR NEXT COMMISSION MEETING, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE IT, THE BANNER ACTUAL BANNER, THE BANNER WILL BE AT TABLE BANNER, NOT A MASSIVE BANNER.
CAUSE I FIGURED WHEREVER WE GO, WE WOULD HAVE A TABLE INSTEAD OF A SPOT.
UM, AND I MEAN, IT'S NOT LIKE IT'S GOING TO BE SMALL WHERE IF WE HAD A SPOT, YOU CAN'T JUST HANG IT UP AND YOU CAN'T SEE IT.
UM, I MEAN, EVEN AT THE NATIONAL NIGHT OUT, WE HAD A TABLE INSIDE OF THE INSIDE OF THE TENT.
SO I MEAN, I THINK THAT WOULD, THAT WAS THE BEST WAY TO GO.
LEAD RIGHT? DIVERSITY AND UNITY LEAD CAUSE IT'S PLURAL.
SO I'LL GO WITH WHATEVER YOU SAY RIGHT THERE.
SO WE HAVE 10.2 AND THEN GOING BACK NOW THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE BANNER GOING BACK TO THESE EVENTS, UM, SO THE EASTER EGG HUNT, UM, I THINK IT'S JUST, ARE WE IN AGREEANCE? IS IT TOO QUICK TO MOBILIZE FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? THE, FOR THE EASTER EGG HUNT, DO WE FEEL LIKE IT'S A LITTLE BIT, COULD WE PUT THE BANNER ON HENRIETTA? WOULD WE HAVE THE BANNER BROTHER? I THINK, I THINK WE COULD HAVE THE BANNER.
UM, I CAN DOUBLE CHECK WITH DREW.
I COULD DOUBLE CHECK WITH DREW, RIGHT.
AND SO IF I DOUBLE CHECK WITH DREW AND WE CAN HAVE THAT BY THE 15TH, ARE WE IN AGREEANCE
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TO HAVE, IS IT HANGING ABOVE HENRIETTA? IS THAT WHAT YOU SUGGESTED? CHRISTIE? UM, SO IF IT'S THIS BANNER AND AS LONG AS IT MAKES SURE THAT HE PUTS GROMMETS IN IT SO THAT YOU CAN PUT STRINGS, THEY'RE CALLED GROMMETS LITTLE CIRCLES CIRCLES.UM, BUT I'M THINKING SO RIGHT BEHIND HENRIETTA THERE'S LIKE THAT INTERESTING ARCH STRUCTURE.
IT COULD PROBABLY HANG RIGHT THERE.
SO, UM, SO IF WE GET THIS BANNER, ARE WE IN A GRANTS THAT IT HANGS ABOVE HENRIETTA FOR, FOR THE EASTER EGG HUNT AND CHRISTY, IS THAT LIKE, I THINK, DID I MISS, DID I NOT CATCH WHAT YOU WERE SAYING? WAS IT GOING TO BE LIKE, WE SPONSORED THAT HIPPO OR, I MEAN, UM, SO WITH THIS IDEA, IT'S NOT NECESSARILY THAT YOU'RE SPONSORING IT CAUSE SHE'S, SHE ALREADY HAS HER EARS AND THINGS.
BUT ONE OF THE IDEAS THAT WE HAD, UM, A WHILE BACK WAS EVERY MONTH, WE WOULD OPEN IT UP TO ANY, UH, COMMISSIONER, A NONPROFIT OR ANYONE THAT WANTED TO SPONSOR HENRIETTA AND THEY'D BE ABLE TO KIND OF DECORATE HER FOR THAT MONTH OR FOR THAT SEASON.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING JUST MOVING, YOU KNOW, KIND OF BEYOND IMMEDIATE.
THIS IS JUST KIND OF A SPUR OF THE MOMENT IDEA, BUT THAT'S ANOTHER OPTION AS WELL.
IF YOU JUST WANTED TO KIND OF LIKE A PASSIVE, UM, PIECE THAT PEOPLE KIND OF FLOCK TO DOWNTOWN FOR ONE OF THESE SPECIFIC THEMED MONTHS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO, UM, I WILL GO AHEAD AND TAKE THESE CHANGES TO DREW AND UM, IF WE GET IT BY THE 15TH, I'LL JUST HAVE, I'LL JUST SEND AN EMAIL TO GRACIE TO LET EVERYONE KNOW, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE PLAN IS THERE.
AND THEN, UM, FOR THE, FOR THE APRIL MEETING, SHOULD WE BRING UP OR MAKE A, UM, AN ITEM TO DISCUSS THE SUNSET EVENT AND THAT GIVES THE CALENDAR AND EVENTS, SUBCOMMITTEE, UM, TIME TO KIND OF WRAP THEIR HEAD AROUND WHAT THEY, WHAT WE COULD POTENTIALLY DO FOR THAT.
DO WE WANT TO MAKE THAT AN ITEM FOR OUR NEXT MEETING? NO ONE YES.
SO WE'LL MAKE THAT GRACIE, CAN WE MAKE A NOTE TO ADD IN THE SUNSET EVENT AS A TOPIC OF DISCUSSION DURING THE CALENDAR AND EVENTS, UM, DISCUSSION FOR NEXT MONTH? THANK YOU.
MA'AM AND THEN THE DOWNTOWN ROUND TABLE EVENT, UM, I'LL, I'LL MAKE A COMMITMENT TO SHOW UP THERE AND PRESENT.
UM, CHRISTY, DO I NEED TO, AM I GOOD TO JUST LET YOU KNOW NOW? OR DO I NEED TO LET YOU KNOW AFTER THE MEETING OR, NOPE, THAT'S FINE.
IF I KNOW FOR SURE YOU'RE GOING TO BE THERE.
I JUST DIDN'T KNOW IF, AS A COMMISSION, YOU NEEDED TO TAKE ANY ACTION ON THAT.
UM, AND THEN IF YOU ARE GOING TO PRESENT THE OPEN FOR ALL CAMPAIGN, JUST ANY MATERIALS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, THAT YOU'D WANT ME TO SEND OUT BEFOREHAND.
SO WE DO HAVE A VERY STRICT ONE HOUR, UM, TIMELINE BECAUSE THE TEXAN IS BEING SUPER AWESOME AND OPENING JUST FOR US FOR THE MORNING AND THEY DON'T SERVE BREAKFAST, BUT THEY'RE GOING TO SERVE BREAKFAST.
BUT, UM, SO WE, WE COULD DEFINITELY WORK YOU IN COMMISSIONER THOMPSON.
I WOULD JUST NEED TO KIND OF HAVE A, AN IDEA OF TIMEFRAME.
IT WOULD PROBABLY BE LIKE A FIVE TO EIGHT MINUTES SLOT.
UM, SO JUST KEEPING THAT IN MIND.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON 10.1 OR 10.2? OKAY.
WE'LL JUMP BACK UP TO 8.2 AND DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION RELATED TO THE TRAINING SUBCOMMITTEE.
UM, A POINT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN THE WORKPLACE, UM, ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS OR WHAT DID YOU LEARN THAT YOU DID NOT KNOW BEFORE TO YOU? WHAT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT? AND WHAT IS SOMETHING FROM THE TRAINING PROVIDED THAT YOU CAN INCORPORATE INTO YOUR PROFESSIONAL, PERSONAL LIFE, 8.2 DISCUSSING THE NEXT TRAINING COURSE.
WOULD ANYONE LIKE TO ON THERE, ON ANSWERING THESE THREE QUESTIONS REGARDING
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THE TRAINING, MR. WALKER? I DON'T KNOW WHY I GET SO EXCITED ABOUT THESE.UM, SO ONE THING THAT I THOUGHT WAS INTERESTING WAS IN 2014, THEY HAD A STUDY ABOUT 82% WAS MALE IN THE TECHNOLOGY FIELD IN 18% WITH ONLY FEMALE.
UM, SO I JUST CAME OUT OF A GLOBAL MEETING ABOUT HOW NOW IT'S 56% IS MALE.
AND YOU KNOW, NOW IT'S LIKE 44% IS FEMALE.
AND FOR ME, WHAT IT MEANT TO ME, WHAT I THOUGHT WAS IMPORTANT ABOUT THAT IS HOW WE'VE CHANGED AND NOT EVEN A WHOLE 10 YEARS YET.
UM, BUT TO SEE THAT I NEED TO KEEP GOING TO BE THAT ROLE MODEL FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE SAME ISSUES OR WOMEN, NOT ONLY FEMALE, BUT ALSO WITH THE WOMEN OF COLOR BEING IN THAT FIELD AS WELL, BECAUSE IT WAS NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE IN GENERAL, WHICH I KNOW, UM, THAT LOOKED LIKE ME IN THOSE FIELDS AND THESE OPPORTUNITIES AND BEING IN LEADERSHIP AND BEING IN TECHNOLOGY AND GOING FOR MORE THAN JUST MY MINIMUM DEGREE TO GET THERE.
I THINK THAT'S AN AMAZING FEAT THAT I WANT TO TAKE ON.
SO THAT'S WHAT I GOT FROM THAT.
AND THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO DO IN MY PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LIFE ACTUALLY ANSWERED THE QUESTIONS FOR THIS TIME.
SO, UM, I REALLY LIKED THE TRAINING.
I THOUGHT IT WAS, IT WAS, IT WAS VERY, IT COVERED A LOT OF TOPICS, UM, A LOT OF TOPICS.
UM, BUT ONE THAT I REALLY LIKED, UM, I ALLUDED TO IT IN OUR LAST, UM, AGENDA ITEM, BUT, UM, GOING INTO IT A LITTLE BIT MORE, THERE WAS A PORTION, I BELIEVE IT WAS IN THE THIRD SEGMENT OF THE TRAINING.
UM, IT TALKED ABOUT IF WE ARE MORE BIASED, THERE IS A LIKELIHOOD THAT WE WILL SEE THE DIFFERENCES, BUT WE'LL NOT VALUE THEM.
AND WE CAN CALL THIS THE DIVERSITY INCLUSION DILEMMA IN ORDER TO LEVERAGE DIVERSITY.
IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE AN INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH EACH INDIVIDUAL CAN BRING ALL OF THEIR CHARACTERISTICS.
AND SO THEN KIND OF PEELING BACK, WELL THEN WHAT, HOW DO YOU CREATE AN INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT? IF, IF YOU NEED INCLUSIVE, INCLUSIVENESS, IF YOU NEED TO HAVE AN INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT THAT HELPS TO BRING OUT INDIVIDUAL'S CHARACTERISTICS, HOW DO YOU CREATE THAT ENVIRONMENT? AND THE TRAINING ALSO WENT INTO THE KEY TO CREATING AN INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT IS THROUGH CHANGING MENTALITIES FROM CATEGORICAL TO INDIVIDUAL AND TO SEE THE POTENTIAL IN EACH PERSON.
AND I THINK WE IN A ROUNDABOUT WAY DID THAT TONIGHT BY KIND OF ELIMINATING THE CATEGORIES THAT WE HAVE HERE AND REALLY LOOKING AT INDIVIDUALS IN THE COMMUNITY AND WHAT WOULD BE INCLUSIVE TO THEM, WHAT WOULD BE RESPECTFUL TO THEM.
AND I THINK THAT'S REALLY OUR CHARGE AS A COMMISSION IS TO NOT, I DON'T WANT TO SAY NOT DO WORK, BUT REALLY WHAT OUR CHARGE AS A COMMISSION IN MY EYES IS TO HELP THIS CITY BE AN INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT.
AND THE WAY TO DO THAT IS TO HAVE EVENTS, SHARE INFORMATION, EDUCATE, PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROWTH THAT HELP US TO CHANGE THAT MENTALITY OF SEEING EACH OTHER AS THOSE ARE HISPANICS.
THOSE ARE, YOU KNOW, LGBTQ, THOSE ARE, YOU KNOW, ANOTHER CATEGORY WE NEED TO GET AWAY AND HELP THE COMMUNITY, HELP OURSELVES TO STOP LOOKING AT EACH OTHER THROUGH THESE IDENTIFICATION CATEGORIES AND HELP OURSELVES AND THIS, THE CITY TO SEE EACH PERSON, UM, AND THE POTENTIAL THAT PERSON BRINGS TO OUR CITY.
AND SO I JUST THINK, AND JUST KIND OF IMAGINE WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE.
AND I FEEL THAT IF WE CAN, YOU KNOW, HELP SHAPE THAT MINDSET OR HELP, YOU KNOW, SHIFT THAT THINKING, UM, THIS CITY WOULD BE VERY PROSPEROUS TO STILL ALIGN FROM COMMISSIONER WALKER, BE VERY PROSPEROUS IN HAVING NEW BUSINESSES COME TO HUTTOE TO IN, IN MAKING DECISIONS, NOT JUST FOR, YOU KNOW, THE CITIZENS, BUT MAKING DECISIONS FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.
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I THINK THAT THIS TRAINING REALLY HIGHLIGHTED FOR ME, THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING AND CREATING SOME SORT OF TRAINING COMMUNITY TRAINING THAT WE INVITE CITIZENS TO, TO BEGIN TO CHANGE THAT MINDSET OF CATEGORIES, TO INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE WITH THEIR TAPPED UNTAPPED POTENTIAL.AND I KNOW THAT CITY COUNCIL SAID, YOU KNOW, A WHILE BACK, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S TRAININGS THAT YOU FEEL THAT WE SHOULD DO, LET US KNOW.
AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, WITH THIS TRAINING RIGHT HERE FOR ME, IF I WERE MAKING A RECOMMENDATION, I WOULD RECOMMEND THEM DOING THIS TRAINING BECAUSE I THINK I WOULD, HOW I TALKED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, IF I COULD ENVISION THIS PERFECT CITY, I THINK I WOULD WANT MY CITY COUNCIL TO BE REPRESENTATIVE OF THIS SAME MINDSET OF NOT LOOKING AT US THROUGH THE LENS OF A 55 AND UP COMMUNITY, OR LOOKING AT IT THROUGH THE LENS OF, YOU KNOW, UM, SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, NOT CATEGORIZING, EVEN THOUGH I KNOW THAT'S WHAT IT'S CALLED, BUT NOT CATEGORIZING, NOT HAVING THAT MINDSET WHENEVER YOU'RE VOTING FOR THAT SPECIFIC, UH, ITEM, NOT HAVING THAT MINDSET OF A 55 AND UP COMMUNITY OR A SINGLE FAMILY HOME.
BUT HAVING THAT MINDSET OF THESE ARE WHERE INDIVIDUALS ARE GOING TO LIVE.
IS THIS THE BEST DECISION THAT I'M MAKING FOR THOSE INDIVIDUALS? UM, I KNOW I WENT OFF ON A TANGENT THERE, BUT I REALLY, REALLY LIKED THIS TRAINING BECAUSE I REALLY FEEL LIKE IT HELPED TO DEFINE AND ILLUSTRATE WHAT DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IS INSTEAD OF SAYING, OH, WE NEED TO BE MORE DIVERSE OR WE NEED TO BE ALL INCLUSIVE.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? AND I FEEL LIKE THIS TRAINING REALLY HELPED US TO, OR AT LEAST HELPED ME TO SEE WHAT THAT IS.
UM, IF FOR ME, I THINK THE PART OF LIKE EVERYTHING, WHAT YOU GUYS SAID, BUT FOR ME, I THINK I FALL UNDER A CATEGORY OF SOMEONE THAT I LOVE, THE WAY YOU GUYS HAVE ORDERED IT, WHERE IT'S ALL ABILITIES, BUT I HAVE A HIDDEN DISABILITY AND A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE DON'T KNOW IT.
AND SO ANYTIME I SEE A TRAINING AND IT KIND OF HITS WHERE PEOPLE, UM, MAY NOT KNOW THINGS ABOUT PEOPLE IT'S INTRIGUES ME.
AND SO THAT IS WHAT REALLY STUCK OUT BECAUSE SHE REALLY TALKED ABOUT PEOPLE DON'T KNOW A LOT OF TIMES.
AND SO THEY ASSUME CERTAIN THINGS.
AND SO THAT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT TO ME, THE PERCENTAGES, IT WAS SO CRAZY.
THE NUMBER LIKE 50% OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION LIVE WITH SOME TYPE OF DISABILITY.
UM, BUT THE STATISTIC AND I DON'T, I DIDN'T WRITE IT DOWN, BUT THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT WILL BE AFFECTED, AND I THINK IT WAS SOMETHING LIKE, I DON'T WANT TO QUOTE THE NUMBER BECAUSE I DON'T REMEMBER IT, BUT IT WAS, IT WAS A CRAZY NUMBER.
AND SO THIS REALLY INCLUDES A LOT OF PEOPLE.
AND SO THAT WAS WHAT REALLY CAUGHT MY ATTENTION.
SO GOING FORWARD, INCORPORATE IN MY LIFE, DON'T ASSUME ANYTHING.
UM, GOING FORWARD, DON'T ASSUME, AND I'LL GIVE YOU A QUICK STORY.
UH, MY MOM HAS PASSED, BUT MY DAD, MY MOM AND DAD PARKED IN A, UM, DISABLED, OR I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU CALL IT, THE PARKING SPOT.
AND SOMEONE LEFT A REALLY NASTY NOTE ON THEIR CAR.
MY, MY MOM AND DAD ARE BOTH DISABLED, BUT IF YOU SEE THEM WALKING, THEY DON'T APPEAR.
SO I THINK GOING FORWARD, INCORPORATING THIS IN MY LIFE, IT'S NOT TO ASSUME THAT BECAUSE I CAN'T VISUALLY SEE WHAT'S GOING ON WITH SOMEBODY, DON'T ASSUME THAT THEY DON'T HAVE A DISABILITY.
UM, YOU, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.
THEY LEFT A VERY NICE NOTE FOR MY PARENTS.
SO I THINK NOT MAKING ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT SOMEONE IS IMPORTANT.
AND I THINK I LEARNED THAT FROM THIS TRAINING, ALTHOUGH COMMON SENSE TELLS YOU THAT, BUT TO SEE IT IN EVERYDAY LIFE, ON, YOU KNOW, IN FRONT OF YOU WHEN YOU'RE TAKING A TRAIN AND IT KIND OF IS THAT AHA MOMENT.
CAUSE I'VE HAD, UM, I WASN'T ABLE TO FINISH THE TRAINING,
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SO I CAN'T REALLY SPEAK ON IT RIGHT NOW, BUT I CAN TELL YOU AS FAR WHAT I'VE LEARNED FROM MY, LIKE IT'S PERSONAL, LIKE SHE WAS SAYING ASSUMPTIONS, SWIMS, AND I HAD, UM, SIMILAR, UM, INCIDENTS WHERE, YOU KNOW, WHERE PEOPLE OUT OF, UH, ALREADY CATEGORIES, SITUATIONS WHERE I'VE BEEN IN.SO I'VE JUST THE PART OF NOT ASSUMING OTHERS AND JUST KIND OF GOING BACK.
UM, I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING THAT'S BEEN SAID, I THOUGHT THIS WAS REALLY, REALLY WELL DONE.
UM, THE TRAINING I FOUND, THE, THE PART THAT STRUCK ME THE MOST WELL THERE'S MANY PARTS THAT STRUCK ME THE MOST AND THAT I LEARNED FROM ONE ON THE MORE NEGATIVE SIDE WAS THAT THE U S REALLY HAS A LOT OF ROOM TO GROW.
I MEAN, I KNEW THAT, BUT IT WAS STARTLING TO ME WHEN THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT MOVIES AND HOW FEW ROLES FOR WOMEN THERE WERE COMPARED TO MEN.
AND I KNEW IT WAS MORE MEN, BUT I DIDN'T REALIZE HOW MUCH.
AND THAT WAS, IT WAS, IT WAS, THAT WAS STRIKING TO ME BECAUSE WHEN PEOPLE ARE WATCHING A MOVIE THAT AFFECTS THEM, SORT OF SUBCONSCIOUSLY, LIKE THAT TELLS YOU WHAT LIFE IS SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE IN A WAY, EVEN THOUGH IT'S FAKE, YOU KNOW, MORE THAN IF YOU'RE TOLD SOMETHING IN CLASS, LIKE YOU CAN TAKE A DIVERSITY CLASS AND LEARN ALL THESE GREAT THINGS.
BUT IF EVERY TIME YOU SEE A MOVIE, PEOPLE DON'T LOOK LIKE YOU, IT UNDERMINES THAT.
SO I THOUGHT THAT WAS REALLY POWERFUL.
IT WAS ALSO REALLY POWERFUL WHEN THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT DISABILITY AND THAT CHINA AND KUWAIT HAVE BETTER POLICIES TOWARDS DISABILITIES THAN THE US DOES THAT MADE ME VERY SAD.
UM, AND I THOUGHT THE PART THAT I THINK I WOULD APPLY THE MOST TO MY OWN LIFE WAS THINKING ABOUT THE AGE COHORTS, BECAUSE HONESTLY, AND YOU KNOW, I WORK WITH, UM, I MEAN, PEOPLE WHO I WORK WITH ARE USUALLY MY AGE OR OLDER, BUT THE STUDENTS ARE OBVIOUSLY NOT MY STUDENTS.
AND IT CAN OFTEN BE VERY ANNOYING AND NOT EVEN MILLENNIALS, BUT LIKE GEN Z, IT'S JUST LIKE WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, LIKE THEY SEEM, AND I DIDN'T THINK OF THAT AS ME BEING NON-INCLUSIVE.
AND I REALLY FELT LIKE, WOW, LIKE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE SEEING THE WORLD A DIFFERENT WAY THAN YOU ARE, AND THAT DOESN'T MAKE YOUR WAY BETTER.
AND THAT I FOUND THAT REALLY POWERFUL BECAUSE I WAS JUST, LIKE, I THOUGHT ABOUT HOW OFTEN I ASCRIBE INTENT TO THINGS THEY DO, YOU KNOW, SORT OF LIKE WHAT BRIAN WAS SAYING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, LIKE LOOKING AT PEOPLE AS INDIVIDUALS AND NOT AS A COHORT, LIKE BEING RESPECTFUL OF THE DIFFERENCE AND UNDERSTANDING THERE'S DIFFERENCES ASSOCIATING WITH, BUT NOT ASSUMING EVERYBODY WHO'S IN THAT IS LIKE THAT.
OR ALSO NOT ASSUMING THAT THEY'RE ACTING THAT WAY BECAUSE THEY'RE LAZY OR THIS, YOU KNOW, THAT THERE'S, THERE'S A DIFFERENT WAY OF SEEING THE WORLD.
AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS REALLY GOOD.
THE OTHER PART, AND I DID FIND THIS REALLY POWERFUL WAS WHEN THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THE STRUCTURAL DISCRIMINATION VERSUS THE COGNITIVE DISCRIMINATION.
I THOUGHT THAT WAS A REALLY GOOD DISTINCTION.
I HAD NEVER REALLY HEARD, I'D HEARD THOSE IDEAS, BUT NEVER REALLY EXPLAINED THAT WAY, YOU KNOW, WHERE IT'S LIKE, THERE'S A DIFFERENCE IN LACK OF OPPORTUNITIES, WHICH IS A STRUCTURAL ONE.
BUT THEN THERE'S ALSO HOW PEOPLE SEE DIFFERENCES IN PEOPLE AND ASCRIBE THEM TO THOSE GROUPS.
AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS A REALLY GOOD WAY OF THINKING ABOUT IT AND SORT OF UNDERSTANDING AN ISSUE THAT'S KIND OF COMPLICATED.
SO, UM, I GOT A LOT OUT OF IT.
GREAT, THANK YOU COMMISSIONERS FOR, FOR DOING THAT TRAINING.
UM, I DO THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT, UM, KINDA WHAT COMMISSIONER OR COUNCIL MEMBER KINSEY, UM, TALKED ABOUT AT THE VERY BEGINNING.
UM, YOU KNOW, I DO FEEL THAT PEOPLE GO BACK AND LISTEN TO OUR MEETINGS AND WATCH OUR MEETINGS WHEN, WHEN, WHEN ABLE TO.
AND I DO THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, US DOING THESE TRAININGS, IT REALLY HELPS THE CITY TO SEE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE ARE PREPARING, UM, OURSELVES, BUT ALSO THAT WE ARE COMMITTED.
THAT'S A GREAT WORD COMMITTED TO, TO WHAT WE'RE DOING.
AND SO, UM, THANK YOU GUYS FOR, FOR DOING THESE AND FOR SHARING YOUR THOUGHTS.
UM, THAT BEING SAID, UM, GRACIE, DO YOU HAVE THE EXCEL SPREADSHEET PULLED, UH, AVAILABLE THAT WE CAN SEE AND PICK OUR NEXT TRAINING?
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OKAY.SO GRACIE, CAN YOU, CAN YOU YELLOW OUT, UM, COLUMN D WE DID.
AND WE DID EAT TODAY, WE KNOW TODAY.
AND THEN, YEAH, PLEASE GO TO THIS SIDE, WE HAVE DONE UNCONSCIOUS BIAS.
SO H AND DIVERSITY INCLUSION AND BELONGING.
SO THAT LEAVES US WITH ONE TO HIDE THESE JUST TEMPORARILY.
SO WE JUST DID A PRETTY LONG ONE.
UM, I, I VOTE FOR B, I WOULD VOTE FOR B AS WELL.
THIS IS AN INTRODUCTORY CLASS.
UM, THIS INTRODUCTORY CLASS IS A GREAT PRIMER FOR MANAGERS WITH DIVERSE TEAMS. STUDENTS LEARN HOW TO IMPLEMENT AN OPEN DOOR POLICY THAT ENCOURAGES COMMUNICATION, HOW TO WORK WITH MULTI-GENERATIONAL TEAMS, HOW TO IDENTIFY NEGATIVE BEHAVIORS THAT CAN DERAIL THAT COULD DERAIL YOUR TEAM AND USING COACHING TOOLS TO WORK WITH YOUR DIRECT REPORTS.
UM, IT SOUNDS VERY APPLICABLE TO OUR ROLES AS, AS COMMISSIONERS WORKING WITH CITIZENS, UM, AND WORKING WITH EACH OTHER.
AND SO I THINK THIS'LL BE A PRETTY GOOD TRAINING FOR US.
UM, SO I MAKE A MOTION THAT FOR OUR NEXT TRAINING COURSE, WE DO BE MANAGING A DIVERSE TEAM.
SO WE HAVE A MOTION BY COMMISSIONER THOMPSON AND SECOND COMMISSIONER CHIN, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION ON THE MOTION, HEARING NONE, PLEASE CALL A VOTE COMMISSIONER SPOONS, CHAIRMAN THOMPSON BY COMMISSIONER WALKER, EMISSION, OR MISSION, OR 10 MOTION PASSES FIVE ZERO.
UM, SO I WILL GO AHEAD AND SEND GRACIE THAT LINK, UM, SO THAT WE CAN BEGIN THAT TRAINING.
AND I'LL GO AHEAD AND YELLOW THIS ONE OUT.
AND, UM, ALSO, UM, GRACIE, CAN WE PUT A ACTION ITEM OR AN AGENDA ITEM FOR NEXT MEETING TO DISCUSS, UM, PAID TRAINING AND FOR THAT DISCUSSION, UM, I WOULD APPRECIATE IF ARE, IF EACH COMMISSIONER COULD COME WITH TWO TO THREE RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, OR LET'S DO ONE TO TWO, SO IT DOESN'T GET TOO CRAZY.
ONE TO TWO RECOMMENDATIONS ON PAID TRAINING COURSES THAT, OR PAID TRAINING COURSE OR A SPEAKER.
UM, JUST NOT A WORD OF CAUTION, BUT, UM, I GUESS A WORD OF, I GUESS, JUST HELPING YOU GUYS TO KNOW, UM, WHAT HAS BEEN ASKED OF US IN THE PAST BY CITIZENS IS THAT WE CONTINUE TO EDUCATE OURSELVES ON DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION.
AND IN DOING THAT, UM, HAVE TRAINING OR GET TRAINING THAT HELPS US TO UNDERSTAND HOW
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TO HELP THE COMMUNITY IN DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION WAYS.THAT WAS A BIG ASK BY CITIZENS IN THE PAST.
AND SO WHENEVER YOU'RE LOOKING FOR TRAINING COURSES, A TRAINING COURSE JUST HAVE THAT IN MIND, HOW TO HELP THE CITY VERSUS HURT THE CITY IN A DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVE WAY.
SO ARE WE LOOKING FOR TRAINING PROGRAMS THAT WE WOULD TAKE, IS THAT WHAT WE'RE DOING OR IS IT TRAINING PROGRAMS THAT OTHER PEOPLE WOULD TAKE OR PAID TRAINING FOR US PAID TRAINING FOR US? AND WE COULD INVITE CITIZENS IF WE WANT.
UM, BUT THE BIG POINT OF EMPHASIS IS THAT WE GET THE TRAINING.
THAT BRINGS US TO ITEM 8.3, UM, DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION, OR LAST MINUTE SUBCOMMITTEE AND 8.3 CITYWIDE SURVEY, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER KINSEY.
DID YOU HAVE AN UPDATE ON, UM, SO THE RFP IS OUT THERE AND THEY'RE RECEIVING QUESTIONS AND FOLLOW UP.
UM, I'M NOT SURE IF MS. GRACIE WAS ABLE TO PUT IT IN THE PACKET.
UM, BUT THEY, I BASICALLY TOLD STACY THAT I BELIEVE THAT YOU GUYS HAD ALREADY STARTED TO FORMULATE SOME OF THOSE QUESTIONS.
AND, YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS ARE OBVIOUSLY OPEN, YOU KNOW, SOME THINGS MAYBE REWORDED OR MAYBE NOT ALL 10 QUESTIONS WILL BE USED.
UM, BUT I ASKED HER IF THAT, UM, SHE WOULD ASK ME BASICALLY IF YOU GUYS WOULD FORWARD THOSE QUESTIONS TO HER.
SO WHATEVER THOSE KINDS OF, I BELIEVE ABOUT 10 QUESTIONS, I THINK IS KIND OF WHAT YOU GUYS HAD DECIDED ON TO SEND TO HER.
WELL, WE DID HAVE MORE QUESTIONS.
WE HAD, WE HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS AND WE FIGURED IT WOULD BE BEST TO PROVIDE ALL OF THOSE AND LET THEM SPARSE IT DOWN TO.
DID EMAIL THEM TO YOU, DID YOU NOT GET THEM? UM, THIS WAS LIKE AFTER THE LAST MEETING, SO MAYBE I DON'T THINK SO.
I'LL GO BACK AND LOOK THROUGH ALL OF MY EMAILS, BUT THAT ONE WITH STACY, SHE JUST SAID, CAN WE FORCE, CAN YOU FORWARD THOSE TO HERSELF? AND MS. ALISON, OKAY.
IF WE CAN FORWARD THEM TO HER.
SO THE RFP WAS COMMISSIONER CHEN ON THE STRING, AS WELL AS COMMISSIONER PRE C.
CAUSE I MEAN, I CAN JUST FORWARD WHAT OUR COMMITTEE CAME UP WITH.
CAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE ALREADY AGREED ON.
THAT'S I THINK, YEAH, I'VE SEEN THAT ONE.
I THOUGHT THAT CAME FROM CHARISSE.
YOU SAY IT, WAS IT ON THAT EMAIL? IS IT ON THAT SAME THREAD FROM THAT EMAIL THAT YOU FORWARDED TO ME? I DON'T, I DON'T HAVE COMMISSIONER CHEN'S QUESTIONS ON THAT THREAD.
THAT'S IS THAT WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO PULL UP? WELL, AHRQ, OUR SUBCOMMITTEE CAME UP WITH QUESTIONS.
I THOUGHT I'D EMAILED, LET ME EMAIL THEM TO YOU.
WHY DON'T THEY DO THAT? THAT THEN I WON'T HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHERE I HAVE TO SEND THEM THAT SOLVES THAT WELL, WHAT'S GOING ON, WHAT JUST HAPPENED.
AND ALSO, UM, THE RFQ, UM, DEADLINE WAS GOING TO BE THIS FRIDAY, BUT WE HADN'T RECEIVED VERY MANY, UM, PROPOSALS BACK.
SO WE EXTENDED IT TO NEXT FRIDAY.
SO HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET SEVERAL BIDS IN FOR THAT.
THAT'S PRETTY MUCH ALL THAT I HAD AS HARD AS THE SURVEY IS.
SO IT'S OUT THERE WAITING FOR REVIEWS, FORMULATING QUESTIONS.
AND SO COMMISSIONER JEN, CAN YOU MAKE SURE THAT THAT GETS SENT TO SENDING IT TO GRACIE RIGHT NOW? AND I CAN BRING IT UP ON THE SCREEN.
WELL I RELATIVE TO THE ASSESSMENT, RIGHT? WELL WE'VE YEAH, IT'S RELATIVE, BUT WE'VE ALREADY, WE'VE ALREADY LOOKED OVER IT AS A COMMITTEE, SO WE'RE GOOD.
STACY WANTED IT FOR HER AND ALLISON TO FACING ALISON GOT, YEAH.
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HOPEFULLY BACK BY NEXT FRIDAY.WHY IS MY COMPUTER DOING THIS? OKAY.
UM, SO I GUESS THAT'S, THAT'S OUR UPDATES OR MAKING PROGRESS ON THAT, UM, ASSESSMENT.
AND, UM, WE HAVE THE QUESTIONS OVER, UM, AND I WILL GET THE RFP HOPEFULLY BACK BY NEXT FRIDAY.
SO, UM, JUST FOR EVERYONE'S BENEFIT, WE ARE MAKING PROGRESS ON THAT.
SO HOPEFULLY WE GET THAT BACK AND WE CAN, WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH GETTING THE SURVEY OUT.
UM, COMMISSIONER KINSEY OR COUNCILMAN MCKINSEY AND S AND STAFF FOR YOUR CONTINUED EFFORTS, UM, WITH GETTING THE CITYWIDE SURVEY PRODUCED, ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON 8.3 HEARING NONE.
WE'LL GO AHEAD AND MOVE TO ITEM NINE PROCLAMATIONS, UM, ITEM 9.1 DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING THE ADOPTED BLACK HISTORY MONTH PROCLAMATION AT THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING OF FEBRUARY 17TH, 2022, AS PROVIDED BY THE DIVERSITY INCLUSION COMMISSION.
IT WAS A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR COMMISSION TO STAND UP AND BE RECOGNIZED AND TO PROVIDE THE BLACK HISTORY MONTH PROCLAMATION.
UM, THANK YOU TO COMMISSIONER CHIN FOR GETTING THAT DRAFTED AND OVER TO OUR COMMISSION.
AND THANK YOU COMMISSIONERS FOR, UM, READING THAT COMMISSION OR THAT, UM, PROCLAMATION AND OFFERING YOUR SUGGESTIONS AS WELL AS APPROVING IT.
UM, I THINK THAT THESE PROCLAMATIONS, UM, YES, THERE ARE A LOT OF THEM.
UM, I KNOW THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT WAS CALLED OUT.
THERE ARE A LOT OF, UH, PROCLAMATIONS.
UM, I THINK THAT'S A REALLY POWERFUL THING FOR THE CITY.
I THINK HAVING THESE PROCLAMATIONS, THAT SHOW THAT WE'RE NOT ONLY, UM, RESPECTFUL AND, UM, UM, SENSITIVE IS NOT THE RIGHT WORD, BUT INCLUSIVE TO, TO CERTAIN, UM, MONTHS TO CERTAIN CELEBRATIONS I THINK IS SOMETHING THAT'S VERY POWERFUL.
I ALSO THINK THAT IT'S VERY POWERFUL.
UM, WHENEVER WE HAVE THESE PROCLAMATIONS, BECAUSE IT OPENS THE DOOR FOR US TO DO SO MANY THINGS, UM, AROUND, UM, IN SUPPORTING THESE PROCLAMATIONS.
SO, YOU KNOW, NEXT YEAR, I HOPE TO SEE, UM, YOU KNOW, OUR COMMISSION TAKE PART IN SOMETHING FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH THAT WE CAN, YOU KNOW, BRING BACK AROUND THE PROCLAMATION THAT WE HAD APPROVED THIS YEAR.
AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S JUST ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO REALLY SHOWCASE HADOW IN A POSITIVE LIGHT, BUT ALSO SHOWCASE THAT THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE DOING SPUR OF THE MOMENT.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE ALREADY APPROVED, SOMETHING THAT WE WERE ON TOP OF, YOU KNOW, LAST YEAR.
AND AS WE KEEP GOING FORWARD IN DIFFERENT YEARS, UM, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WILL SEE THAT, YOU KNOW, 10 YEARS AGO WE, WE, WE HAD THIS PROCLAMATION AND LOOK AT WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW.
AND SO I, I REALLY THINK THESE ARE POWERFUL STEPS THAT WE'RE MAKING.
AND I'M VERY PROUD OF THIS COMMISSION.
AND I'M VERY APPRECIATIVE OF THIS COMMISSION FOR, FOR DOING THESE AND, YOU KNOW, HAVING THESE TYPES OF ACTIVITIES APPROVED AND PUT FORTH, BECAUSE I THINK IT'S NOT FOR US, IT'S FOR OUR KIDS.
AND THEY'LL BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, SAY THAT THEY GREW UP IN HUDDLE THAT SUPPORTS THESE INITIATIVES.
SO THANK YOU TO THIS COMMISSION FOR, FOR THE CONTINUOUS WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON 9.1, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO ADD ONE THING I AGREE WITH YOU.
AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO, LIKE THERE ARE BEGINNING STEP, RIGHT? LIKE THEY'RE NOT, THAT'S NOT ALL WE'RE GOING TO DO, BUT I ALSO THINK AS A RELATIVELY NEW HOW TO RESIDENT, IT WAS TROUBLING TO ME THAT THERE WEREN'T PROCLAMATIONS FOR THESE MONTHS THAT HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG TIME.
AND SO I THINK IT GOES TO WHAT YOU WERE SAYING ABOUT LIKE THE MAN AND HIS PARTNER COMING AND SAYING, YOU KNOW, LIKE IT DOES SEND SOME KIND OF MESSAGE TO THE PUBLIC THAT, HEY, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE ARE MAKING AWARENESS ABOUT THIS.
AND SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT.
THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER CHEN, ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON 9.1? ALL RIGHT.
WE'LL GO AHEAD AND MOVE TO 9.2 DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE
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ACTION REGARDING A PROPOSED WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH PROCLAMATION.AND I BELIEVE THIS WAS COMMISSIONER CHEN'S, UM, ITEM, WAS THIS YOUR ITEM? OKAY.
YOU SHOULD HAVE ALL GOTTEN THIS IN YOUR PACKET.
AND, AND ONE THING, I MEAN, THIS IS, I DO THINK THAT WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL AND IT'S GOOD THAT WE HAVE, UM, THAT LIST THAT, UM, UH, COMMISSIONERS, UM, SPOONS CAME UP WITH BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO LEAVE OUT KEY MONTHS AND NOT DO PROCLAMATIONS FOR THEM.
I DON'T THINK WE CAN DO A PROCLAMATION FOR EVERY SINGLE MONTH, BUT I THINK THERE'S, WE SHOULD MAYBE AT THE NEXT MEETING PUT, UM, AGENDA ITEM ON AND GO THROUGH THE LIST AND SAY, WHICH ONES DO WE WANT TO DO PROCLAMATIONS FOR SO THAT WE DON'T GET CAUGHT OFF GUARD.
AND WE'RE ALSO NOT DOING THEM AT THE LAST MINUTE.
UM, THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING, CAUSE THIS IS A LITTLE LAST MINUTE ONLY BECAUSE WE'RE, WE KIND OF CAME UPON US, BUT SO GRACIE, CAN WE HAVE THAT? COULD WE ADD THAT TO THE AGENDA? JUST LIKE PROCLAMATION REVIEW A PROCLAMATION REVIEW, RIGHT? LIKE, WE'RE GO THROUGH THE LIST OF ALL THE BONDS AND SAY, THESE ARE THE ONES WE'RE GOING TO DO PROCLAMATIONS ON AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THE STANDARD, UM, AGENDA ITEM.
THAT'S A GOOD IDEA BECAUSE THEN WE WON'T BE DOING THEM THE MONTH HAS ALREADY AND GRACIE, CAN WE PUT THAT IN THE, UM, IN THE, CAN WE PUT THAT IN THE ASSESSMENT? UM, SUBCOMMITTEE WILL BE ASSESSING THE CALENDAR TO SEE WHICH ONES WE WANT PROCLAMATIONS FOR.
AND SO TONIGHT WE'RE HERE TO, UM, DISCUSS THE POSSIBLE ACTION ON APPROVING THIS, UM, THIS PROCLAMATION FOR WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH.
UM, SO IF YOU HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO READ IT, UM, YOU CAN TAKE A MINUTE TO READ IT AND THEN, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THIS PROCLAMATION.
UM, YEAH, SO I'LL JUST MAKE THAT MOTION.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON THE ITEM? I JUST WANTED TO ADD ON SOMETHING BEFORE YOU GUYS MOVE ON FROM THIS AGENDA ITEM AND I CAN'T TALK ABOUT IT.
UM, I THINK MS. STACY HAD MADE KIND OF A GOOD POINT ABOUT, UM, AT LEAST TO ME, I'M NOT SURE IF SHE HAD DISCUSSED THAT WITH YOU GUYS OR, OR NOT.
UM, BUT JUST HAVING KIND OF A MORE, UM, IT'S GREAT TO DO PROCLAMATIONS AND EVERYTHING YOU GUYS SAID ABOUT THEM ARE EXACTLY WHY WE DO THEM.
UM, BUT TO KIND OF MAKE THEM, UM, HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A, UM, HAVE LIKE COMMUNITY INPUT OR MORE OF A PERSONAL FEEL.
UM, SO SOMETHING SHE HAD SUGGESTED WAS MAYBE HAVING THREE OR FOUR WOMEN COME TO COUNCIL AND KIND OF SHARE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE A UNIQUE STORY, UM, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING, SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO MAKE IT TO KIND OF HIGHLIGHT SOME WOMEN IN HADOW OR, OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
I'M FINE TO PUT IT ON MY PERSONAL OR MY FACEBOOK PAGE AND KIND OF ASK FOR PEOPLE TO COME.
UM, I KNOW WE CAN'T, OBVIOUSLY SOME PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, I DON'T GET A WHOLE LOT OF TRACTION SOMETIMES ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
AND THEN OF COURSE, IF THEY ACTUALLY SHOW IS ANOTHER QUESTION TOO, UM, AND THEN SOME PEOPLE ARE JUST NOT COMFORTABLE WITH PUBLIC SPEAKING, SO THERE DEFINITELY CAN BE SOME, SOME ROADBLOCKS THERE.
AND I KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, THE NEXT MEETING IS ON THURSDAY, SO IT DOESN'T GIVE A WHOLE LOT OF TIME.
UM, I WAS GOING, GONNA, I WAS GOING TO SAY AFTER WE TOOK A VOTE ON IT, I'VE BEEN ON, I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET A FEW.
AND I, UH, I MEAN, I PERSONALLY WOULD LOVE TO TALK ON THAT ONE AND IF I CAN VOLUNTEER MYSELF, UM, I ACTUALLY WENT TO AN ALL WOMEN'S COLLEGE.
UM, IT ACTUALLY RECENTLY WENT CO-ED AS OF LAST YEAR AND IT WAS LIKE ONE OF THE LAST, LIKE REMAINING SIX IN THE NATION.
UM, SO ANYWAYS, WE CAN, THERE'S LIKE A WHOLE, IT'S A REALLY COOL STORY.
SO IF I CAN BE ONE OF THOSE, THAT'D BE AWESOME.
BUT IF NOT, I WILL LET SOME OTHER PEOPLE HAVE THE SPOTLIGHT THAT DON'T SEE ME ALL THE TIME, BUT IF YOU GUYS ARE RUNNING LOW ON VOLUNTEERS, I WOULD BE HAPPY TO SHARE.
SO I JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT THERE.
I WOULD LOVE FOR IN THE FUTURE THAT WE DO HAVE WE HIGHLIGHT WOMEN OWNED BUSINESSES.
CAUSE I, YOU KNOW, KELSEY, UH, COMMISSIONER
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GONZALEZ HAS HER OWN BUSINESS.AND I THINK THAT'S A GOOD THING TO HIGHLIGHT.
WE'RE TRYING TO BRING MORE BUSINESS TO HADOW AND UTILIZE OUR RESOURCES.
SO LET'S START HAVING THOSE PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY ON THAT.
WE GET OUR WEBSITE, YOU KNOW, SPEAKING OF THAT REAL QUICK COMMISSION OR GRACIE, CAN WE ADD, I DON'T THINK THAT WAS ON OUR, YEAH, I DIDN'T SEE IT ON HERE.
UM, AND THAT, THAT THAT'S ON ME.
I SHOULD HAVE REVIEWED THIS A LITTLE BIT CLOSER, BUT CAN WE ADD A, AN AGENDA ITEM TO, UM, APPROVE? I THINK WE ALREADY APPROVED IT TO A POINT COMMISSIONERS FOR THE WEBSITE SUBCOMMITTEE BECAUSE WE NEED TO APPOINT COMMISSIONERS FOR THAT.
SO THAT WAY THEY CAN START TALKING TO THE COMMUNICATIONS TASK FORCE.
THAT'S WHAT IT WAS THE NICE TO HAVE PICTURES OF LIKE WHAT WE'RE DOING, BECAUSE THERE'S OTHER PEOPLE LIKE WE'LL BE WONDERFUL, ESPECIALLY FOR WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH.
WE'VE BEEN BEAUTIFUL TO SEE THESE GREAT FACES.
ALISON TOOK OUR PICTURE FOR THE, FOR THE, FOR THE BLACK HISTORY MONTH PROCLAMATION AND PUT IT IN THE NEWSLETTER.
AND THAT COULD BE A PICTURE THAT WE HAVE ON OUR WEBSITE.
SO HOW DO I GET THE NEWSLETTER? WE'VE TALKED TO CHRISTIE, UM, THE WEBSITE, JUST GO TO HADOW TX.GOV TYPE IN, HEY, I WONDERED WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT PICTURE.
IT'S UM, IT'S A BIWEEKLY NEWSLETTER, SO IT'S NOT, AND WE DEFINITELY PUT ALL UPCOMING EVENTS, ANYTHING REALLY RELATIVE TO SOMEONE THAT LIVES IN HUDDLE OR IS INTERESTED IN MOVING TO HUDDLE.
THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE JUST SAYING, YOU KNOW, PRIORITIES, MY FAMILY.
SO WE DO HAVE A MOTION ON THE TABLE.
CAN I GET A SECOND, SECOND? SO WE HAVE A MOTION BY COMMISSIONER THOMPSON SECOND BY COMMISSIONER PRIETTO.
I'M SORRY, JUST TO RECAP WHICH ITEM WHERE WE ARE.
I HAD IT RECORDED AS COMMISSIONER STUDENTS AS THE SECOND.
THAT'S WHY I WAS LIKE, WE WERE WAITING TO CALL THEM.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON THE ITEM, PLEASE CALL THE VOTE.
COMMISSIONER WALKER, CHAIRMAN THOMPSON, COMMISSIONER PRIETTO, COMMISSIONER CHEN, MOTION PASSES FIVE ZERO.
UM, SO THIS WILL BE READ OUT IN THE MARCH 17TH, UM, CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
AND, UM, WE HA ALREADY HAVE ONE VOLUNTEER WITH, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER KINSEY, UM, TO SHARE, UM, YOU KNOW, A SHORT, IMPACTFUL STATEMENT, UM, ABOUT THE PROCLAMATION AND HOW IT RELATES.
UM, AND THEN, UM, I DON'T WANT TO SAY WHO I'M ACTIVELY ASKING, BUT I'M HOPING TO GET TWO OTHER, UM, WOMEN TO BE THERE AS WELL.
AND IF THERE'S ANYONE ON THE COMMISSION THAT WOULD LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS, UM, WE'RE ALWAYS OPEN FOR THAT AS WELL.
YOU REALLY ACTUALLY SUBSCRIBED TO.
SO BEFORE WE, AND I JUST WANT TO GO THROUGH REAL QUICK ON THE ACTION ITEMS COMING OUT OF THIS MEETING.
SO WE HAVE, UM, PROVIDED BY, UH, BY COUNCIL MEMBER KINSEY.
UM, WE HAVE MONEY FOR TRAINING UNTIL OCTOBER, AND WE ALSO NEED TO GET THE RECEIPTS INTO STAFF, CITY STAFF FOR THE TREATS ON THE EAST, UH, SENATORS.
UM, ALSO WE NEED TO, UM, DECIDE WHEN WE WILL BE ABLE TO ATTEND THE CHAMBERS, UM, POWER BREAKFAST.
UM, AND SO THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DISCUSS NEXT MEETING IN THE UPCOMING CALENDAR EVENTS.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE AN ACTION ITEM TO, UM, AN ACTION ITEM TO
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BEGIN TO THINK ABOUT WHAT TYPES OF, UM, GIVEAWAYS WE'D LIKE TO DO FOR, FOR SOME OF THESE EVENTS THAT WE WOULD WE'LL HAVE A BOOTH AT.UM, WE DO NEED TO BE COGNIZANT THAT, YOU KNOW, CITY COUNCIL DOESN'T USUALLY PROVIDE MONIES, BUT, UM, I THINK WE SHOULD, YOU KNOW, APPROACH THEM.
AND ALSO, UM, WE HAVE AN ACTION ITEM BY CHRISTIE AND STAFF TO SEE, YOU KNOW, LEGALLY WHAT WE ARE, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT OUR RESTRICTIONS ARE WITH GETTING DONATIONS.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE AN ACTION ITEM TO COMPLETE LESS YOU TO COMPLETE OUR NEXT TRAINING, MANAGING A DIVERSE TEAM.
UM, AND THAT WILL BE PROVIDED, UM, TOMORROW BY GRACIE.
UM, ALSO WE HAVE AN ACTION ITEM TO COME WITH ONE TO TWO PAID TRAININGS THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO TAKE AS A COMMISSION, AND WE WILL DISCUSS THOSE NEXT NEXT, UH, MEETING AS WELL.
UM, WE HAVE AN ACTION ITEM TO, UM, POTENTIALLY SEE THE, OUR NEW BANNER FOR OUR NEXT MEETING.
AND THEN I BELIEVE THAT'S ALL THE ACTION ITEMS THAT WE HAVE.
OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE THE ACTION ITEMS TO CONTINUE TO DO THE GREAT WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING IN YOUR SUBCOMMITTEES AND, UM, YOU KNOW, BE READY TO REPORT ON THAT IN OUR NEXT MEETING.
AND AM I MISSING ANYTHING IF I MAY? UM, I WOULD LIKE YOU GUYS OBVIOUSLY DON'T HAVE TO, TO ADD AN AGENDA ITEM TO THE COUNCIL'S AGENDA.
UM, SO I THINK THIS FALLS UNDERNEATH A POINT TO WHERE YOU CAN TAKE ACTION.
UM, SO BEEN HERE FOR A WHILE NOW, UM, AND THIS COURSE REALLY SEEMED TO RESONATE WITH EVERYBODY AND I MEAN, YOU GUYS ARE THERE TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO COUNCIL.
SO I THINK THIS MIGHT BE A REALLY GREAT RECOMMENDATION OR REALLY GREAT, YOU KNOW, TIMING.
UM, SO I THINK THAT IT REALLY WOULD BE A REALLY GOOD IDEA TO HAVE THIS PUT ON TO THE CITY COUNCIL AGENDA, UM, FOR THE COUNCIL TO DO THIS TRAINING SINCE, I MEAN, ALL OF YOU GUYS REALLY SEEMED TO TAKE AWAY SO MUCH FROM THE TRAINING AND SUCH DIFFERENT THINGS.
UM, I JUST HEARING YOU GUYS TALK ABOUT IT.
I DON'T WANT TO GO DO IT, UM, AND CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG.
THE NAME OF THAT COURSE WAS DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN THE WORKPLACE.
THAT'S WHICH ONE YOU GUYS DID.
SO IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND, I THINK THAT THAT WOULD BE A REALLY GREAT ACTION ITEM TO ADD ON TO A POINT TO, UM, AND IF YOU GUYS ARE ALREADY GOING TO BE THERE NEXT MEETING WITH THE WOMEN'S PROCLAMATION, I CAN TRY AND, YOU KNOW, MOVE THAT UP.
UM, AS FAR AS KIND OF YOUR TAKEAWAY FROM THE TRAINING AND WHY YOU THINK IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT FOR COUNCIL TO DO THIS ONE.
UM, SO THAT WAS JUST MY 2 CENTS ON IT.
IF WE WERE TO, TO MAKE THAT, UM, AGENDA ITEM FOR COUNCIL, UM, WHAT WOULD YOU RECOMMEND WOULD KIND OF BE OUR TALKING POINTS? W W WHAT WOULD LIKE ANSWER THESE TWO QUESTIONS OR ARTICULATE THESE TWO QUESTIONS TO COUNSEL AS TO WHY? UM, I MEAN, I THINK YOU DON'T EVEN NECESSARILY HAVE TO DO QUESTIONS.
YOU CAN JUST SAY, YOU KNOW, PART OF OUR, UM, PURPOSE AS A COMMISSION IS TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO COUNCIL.
AND THIS COMMISSION WAS, YOU KNOW, BORN OUT OF, YOU KNOW, WANTING TO EDUCATE AND TRAIN.
UM, AND AS FAR AS I REMEMBER THE CONVERSATION THAT WENT AROUND RENT AROUND TRAINING, IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE FOR, FOR COUNCIL AS WELL.
NOT NECESSARILY JUST YOU GUYS.
I THINK THE INITIAL IDEA WAS FOR YOU GUYS TO DO THESE TRAININGS AND THEN KIND OF ORDER THEM, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, KIND OF SEE WHICH ONES YOU GUYS LIKED BEST AND KIND OF DO LIKE A TRAINING PLAN ALMOST.
BUT I MEAN, I THINK THAT THIS ONE YOU GUYS REALLY ALL SEEM TO, TO REALLY RESONATE AND HAVE SUCH DIFFERENT TAKEAWAY.
SO I THINK THAT'S REALLY, ALL YOU WOULD HAVE TO SAY IS JUST, YOU KNOW, THIS ONE WE'VE BEEN DOING TRAININGS AND YOU CAN LIST THOSE, HEY, WE'VE DONE FIVE TRAININGS, XYZ, WHATEVER THEY WERE.
UM, AND ALL OF THEM WERE REALLY, REALLY GREAT, BUT THIS ONE IS ONE THAT IS A COMMISSION THAT WE PERSONALLY WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND TO COUNCIL TO TAKE THIS JUST REALLY SEEM TO STAND OUT AND THEN, YOU KNOW, LET, LET IT BE.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU DIDN'T REALLY NECESSARILY NEED TO GO INTO A LONG SOLILOQUY OF, YOU KNOW, WHY IT STOOD OUT TO YOU, BUT JUST, HEY, THIS IS OUR, THIS WAS OUR JOB.
THIS IS WHAT WE WERE TASKED WITH.
AND AS A COMMISSION, THIS WAS ONE THAT WE JUST ALL REALLY FELT SO STRONGLY ABOUT, AND WE FEEL STRONGLY ENOUGH ABOUT IT THAT WE THINK YOU AS COUNCIL MEMBERS WOULD TAKE A LOT AWAY FROM.
SO WE JUST, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S REALLY ALL, YOU'D HAVE TO SAY.
ANY, I GUESS, WOULD WE WANT TO
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FOLLOW UP WITH COUNCILS? YEAH, I CAN JUST, I'LL JUST EMAIL IT TO ANGELA TO GET IT PUT ON THE AGENDA.UM, SO I CAN EMAIL IT TO HER IF YOU GUYS ARE OKAY WITH PUTTING IT TO COUNSEL.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING YOU GUYS WOULD HAVE TO TAKE ACTION ON.
UM, AND THEN I CAN GET IT ADDED TO THE AGENDA FOR THURSDAY WHAT'S TODAY.
I CAN GET IT ADDED ON STILL THE 17TH, NOT TONIGHT.
IF WE CAN START WITH DETERMINING WHO WILL BE MAKING THE PRESENTATION OR WHO WILL BE PRESENT AND THE GUYS ARE DOING THE PROCLAMATION ANYWAY.
SO I WOULD ASSUME THAT AT LEAST ONE OR TWO, I WAS GOING TO INTERJECT FOR THAT BEFORE ADJOURN MEANT THAT WE NEEDED TO ESTABLISH FOR THE RECORD, WHO WOULD BE MAKING THAT PRESENTATION FOR THE PROCLAMATION AND PERHAPS THE SAME YOU, I CAN TRY AND GET IT MOVED UP.
SO YOU GUYS AREN'T THERE TILL COMMISSIONER CHEN.
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE HERE CORRECTLY.
I'M OUT OF TOWN, UNFORTUNATELY.
WHERE ARE YOU GOING NOW? I'M JUST IN NEW YORK CITY.
UM, I WOULD APPRECIATE SOMEONE ELSE COMING.
UM, YEAH, SO I CAN, I CAN MAKE THAT RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL AS WELL AS, UM, BE HERE FOR THE PROCLAMATION READING AND ALONG WITH COMMISSIONER PRIETTO.
UM, ANY OTHER ACTION ITEMS THAT I'M MISSING? ALL RIGHT.
WE WILL ADJOURN THE MEETING AT 8:55 PM.