* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:06] ALL RIGHT, SO WE'LL [Diversity and Inclusion Meeting on February 22, 2023.] GO AHEAD AND CALL THE MEETING ORDER AT SIX FORTY TWO. AND COMMISSIONER SPOONS HERE. COMMISSIONER CHEN HERE, COMMISSIONER WALKER HERE, AND COMMISSIONER THOMPSON'S. NEXT WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT BY MR. MARK LYONS. OH, AND YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES PER YOUR PUBLIC OFFICE. TIMED IT WELL OUT . MY NAME IS MARK LYONS, MY WIFE SALLY. AND I HAVE AN ADULT SON, SAMUEL, WHO AMONG MANY OTHER THINGS AS AUTISTIC. MANY AUTISTIC ADULTS STRUGGLE WITH EMPLOYMENT, AS DOES SANDY. CURRENT HIRING PRACTICES OF MANY BUSINESSES DO NOT SUPPORT AUTISTIC ADULTS. I'M ASKING FOR YOUR HELP IN ADVOCATING FOR CHANGE IN THE HIRING AND EMPLOYMENT PROCESS, GIVEN THE CHANCE AUTISTIC EMPLOYEES CAN BENEFIT BUSINESSES. AS I WILL NOTE LATER, FIRST FEW STATISTICS. ONE IN 44 CHILDREN IN THE UNITED STATES ARE DIAGNOSED AS AUTISTIC. 5.4 MILLION ADULTS, OR 2.2% OF ADULTS IN THE US ARE AUTISTIC TO A CITY OF THE SIZE OF HUDDLE. THAT'S ABOUT 615 ADULTS SIZE OF A TYPICAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. 500,000 AUTISTIC CHILDREN IN THE US WILL TRANSITION INTO ADULTHOOD OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS. APPROXIMATELY 75% OF AUTISTIC ADULTS ARE UNEMPLOYED OR UNDEREMPLOYED. AUTISM IS A DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY. AUTISTIC PEOPLE EXPERIENCE CHALLENGES WITH COMMUNICATION, SOCIAL INTERACTION, AND OFTEN EXHIBIT REPETITIVE BEHAVIORS AND INTENSE INTERESTS. YOU MAY BE TOUCHED IN SOME FASHION BY AUTISM, PERHAPS THROUGH A FAMILY MEMBER OR FRIEND OR COWORKER. AS I STATED EARLIER, THE CURRENT HIRING AND EMPLOYMENT PROCESS DOES NOT SUPPORT AUTISTIC ADULTS. HERE ARE A FEW EXAMPLES. THE PROCESS PUTS UNDUE WEIGHT ON THE INTERVIEW. THE TYPICAL INTERVIEW RELIES HEAVILY ON ADHERENCE TO SOCIAL NORMS AND NOT JOB ABILITIES. AUTISTIC PEOPLE ARE NOT ABLE TO PRESENT THE SKILLS THEY POSSESS FOR THE JOB. MANY AUTISTIC PEOPLE DO NOT MAKE IT PAST THE INTERVIEW. BUSINESSES CAN ADAPT THEIR HIRING AND EMPLOYMENT PROCESS TO CONSIDER THE CHALLENGES OF AUTISTIC ADULTS AND HELP BOTH THE AUTISTIC WORKER AS WELL AS ALL OTHER WORKERS. AND ULTIMATELY, THE BUSINESS POSSIBILITIES INCLUDE INTERVIEWING OVER THE PHONE OR OFFERING VIRTUAL INTERVIEWS, SUPPLYING ANY OF THE QUESTIONS IN ADVANCE, CONDUCTING PERFORMANCE BASED TASKS OR WORK TRIALS TO ASSESS SKILLS ON THE JOB. ONCE AN AUTISTIC CANDIDATE IS HIRED, BUSINESSES CAN CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT OF ACCEPTANCE AND SUPPORT FOR NEURODIVERSITY, SUCH AS PUTTING IN PLACE REASONABLE WORKPLACE ACCOMMODATIONS, MAKING SURE COMMUNICATION IS STRAIGHTFORWARD AND CLEAR, AND TRAIN EMPLOYEES ABOUT AUTISM. IN HIRING AUTISTIC WORKERS, BUSINESSES DEMONSTRATE TO THEY HAVE A COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY. PRODUCTIVITY INCREASES EMPLOYEE TURNOVER DECREASES WORK ON MORALE IMPROVES, AND BUSINESSES HAVE AN IMPROVED IMAGE. EMPLOYMENT POSITIVELY IMPACTS AUTISTIC PEOPLE AS WELL. IT HELPS PROVIDE FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE, DEVELOP A SENSE OF WORTH SOCIAL INTERACTION, AND ALLOW THE UNIQUE SKILL SETS TO SHINE. IN CONCLUSION, WE MUST ADVOCATE FOR CHANGE IN THE HIRING AND EMPLOYMENT PROCESSES OF BUSINESSES FOR THE GOOD OF ALL EMPLOYEES, ESPECIALLY AUTISTIC WORKERS. PEOPLE SUCH AS MY SON WILL BENEFIT YOU CAN HELP GET IT DONE. MORE INFORMATION IN YOUR HANDOUT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NEXT, WE'LL MOVE ON TO COMMENTS FROM CITY STAFF. GOOD EVENING. UM, JUST WANNA LET EVERYONE KNOW OFFICIALLY THAT, UM, FORMER COMMISSIONER ANNA GONZALEZ HAS STEPPED DOWN, HAS RE OFFICIALLY RELINQUISHED HER SEAT. UM, SO, UM, JUST WANTED TO MAKE THAT OFFICIAL. AND, UM, AS YOU ALL KNOW, THERE ARE SEVEN SEATS ON THE COMMISSION. SO IN ORDER TO HOLD A QUORUM, FOUR WOULD NEED TO, UM, BE IN THE MEETING. SO I ALSO WANTED TO LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT AT THE NEXT, UM, COUNCIL MEETING, WHICH IS FEBRUARY, OH MY GOSH, NO, MARCH 2ND, GOODNESS, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S ALREADY MARCH. UM, THERE WILL BE, UM, AN APPOINTMENTS THE DAY BEFORE ON MARCH 1ST. THEY'RE KIND OF DOING A, AN APPOINTMENTS ROUNDUP. I GUESS I'M NOT REALLY SURE, UM, HOW LOGISTICALLY THAT ALL WORKS. BUT TRYING TO FILL ALL THE OPEN POSITION, THERE'S SEVERAL VACANCIES ACROSS THE, ALL OF THE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. UM, THERE'S ALSO, NONE OF THIS IS OFFICIAL, BUT I JUST WANTED TO PUT IT ON Y'ALL'S RADAR. UM, POSSIBLE THE POSSIBILITY OF, UM, TRANSFERRING SOME OF THE MEMBERS FROM THE, UM, [00:05:01] UM, ACCESSIBILITY TASK FORCE. UM, SO A TASK FORCE IS AS SOMETHING THAT'S PUT TOGETHER TEMPORARILY MM-HMM. TO ADDRESS A CERTAIN ISSUE. AND SO, UH, THERE'S AN ITEM ON THAT COUNCIL AGENDA ON MARCH 2ND TO, UM, ESSENTIALLY DISASSEMBLE THE TASK FORCE BECAUSE THE, THEIR GOAL WAS MET, THEIR END RESULT WAS FINISHED. BUT, UM, THE IDEA CAME UP THAT IT COULD, THAT POTENTIALLY THOSE PEOPLE WHO WERE ON THE DISABILITY TASK FORCE MAY WANT TO JOIN THE D I COMMISSION, UM, WHICH OBVIOUSLY, UH, DEFINITELY NEED PEOPLE THERE. SO JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT ON, ON THE RADAR, UM, SO THAT YOU, Y'ALL WERE AWARE. AND THEN ALSO, I HAVEN'T SEEN IT PUBLICLY PUT OUT ON THE PARKS PAGE YET, BUT I WAS IN A MEETING TODAY, AND SO I WANTED TO CONFIRM THAT THEY, THERE IS GOING TO BE, UM, AN OFFICIAL PARK DEDICATION FOR ADAM OR GAIN PARK THIS SATURDAY AT 10:00 AM. UM, IT, I BELIEVE IT'S ON THE WEBSITE. IT WAS KIND OF A, A QUICK PIECE, BUT IT'S, UM, THE OFFICIAL PLAQUE DEDICATION CEREMONY. UM, MEMBERS OF THE PARKS BOARD WILL BE THERE TO SPEAK, I BELIEVE COUNCIL MEMBER, UM, ONE OF SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS WILL BE THERE. AND IT SHOULD BE RELATIVELY QUICK. BUT THAT MIGHT BE AN IMPORTANT PIECE IF YOU'RE IN, IF YOU'RE IN THE AREA AND YOU'RE ABLE TO ATTEND. UM, AND THAT'S ALL THAT I HAVE. THANK YOU. CAN WE SAY ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT YOU SAID OR WE HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL OR ASK A QUESTION ABOUT IT? AH, YEAH, I MEAN, THAT COULD FALL INTO YOUR, YOUR COMMENTS. YEAH. OKAY. BECAUSE I GUESS MY QUESTION ABOUT THE ACCESSIBILITY COMMISSION, I MEAN, THAT SOUNDS GOOD. MY ONLY QUESTION IS LIKE, I KNOW, I THINK WE'VE WANTED PEOPLE ON THE D E I COMMISSION TO BE PART OF SOME MARGINALIZED GROUP. DO WE, ARE THOSE PEOPLE THAT, OR ARE THEY, I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO ASK THIS QUESTION MM-HMM. . SO IT'S LIKE COMPLETELY AWKWARD AND I'VE CLEARLY NOT SUCCEEDED AT THAT, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? LIKE, THEY SOUND LIKE THEY'D BE GREAT BECAUSE WE WANT, UM, THEY OBVIOUSLY RIGHT. BUT THAT'S PROBABLY WHAT YOU'RE YEAH. BUT WE ALSO WANT, WE'RE A LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM THEM IN THAT WE WANT OUR MEMBERS SAYING, WE'RE SAYING TO BE FROM A, A MINORITIZED GROUP. RIGHT. WHICH PEOPLE WHO HAVE ACCESS ISSUES ARE A MINORITIZED GROUP. I JUST DON'T KNOW THAT THE PEOPLE ON THE ACCESSIBILITY TASK FORCE, TASK FORCE R. SO, UM, THIS IS JUST MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE ACCESSIBILITY TASK FORCE UPSIDE IN ON A COUPLE OF THEIR MEETINGS. UM, AND THEIR MAIN GOAL WAS LITERAL ACCESSIBILITY TO CITY HALL AND THE LIBRARY. WE ACTUALLY WERE PART OF GETTING THE RAMPS INSTALLED. YEAH. SO THEY ARE, UM, IF THEY ARE NOT THEMSELVES IMPACTED, THEY HAVE CHILDREN WHO ARE OKAY. THEY HAVE, THEY ARE DIRECTLY, BUT THEY ALSO, THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE SAME PROCESS AS ANYONE ELSE. THEY WOULD STILL HAVE TO FILL OUT AN APPLICATION. RIGHT, RIGHT. AND DO ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF. RIGHT. AND THEN IT'S UP TO THE COUNCIL MEMBER, THE COUNCIL LIAISON FOR THE COMMISSION TO APPOINT THEM TO BE LIKE, OH, THIS PERSON WOULD BE A GOOD. SO IT'S REALLY UP TO THEM. AND COUNCIL MEMBER MCKENZIE HAS, UM, OFFICIALLY STEPPED DOWN. SO I THINK THERE'S, THEY'RE GOING TO BE A REASSIGN KIND OF STEP DOWN FROM AS OUR LIAISON OR STEP DOWN COMPLETELY. YES. THAT ONE. OH MY GOODNESS. A LOT HAS HAPPENED. YES. ALL RIGHT. SO HOPEFULLY, DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION? I MEAN, YEAH. I MEAN IT DOES. I MEAN, THEY, IT SOUNDS WONDERFUL AND I DON'T WANNA SOUND LIKE A NAYSAYER AT ALL. CAUSE I DO THINK ACCESSIBILITY IS A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF US. AND I THINK THE GENTLEMAN WHO BROUGHT UP AUTISM, THAT IS SUPER, LIKE, I, I THINK THAT'S A REALLY IMPORTANT POINT. AND IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE A NEURO DIVERGENT PERSON ON OURS. MM-HMM. . MY ONLY CONCERN IS THAT WE, WE RETAIN A FOCUS ON DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION OF AS A WHOLE, AS A WHOLE MM-HMM. . RIGHT. THAT WE DON'T BECOME ONE FOCUSED ON ONE END. YEAH. SO YOU WANNA BE CLEAR THAT IT'S CHARTER, THAT WE, WHAT, WHAT OUR FOCUS IS. AND SO THAT EVER CHANGED. WE'D HAVE TO GET A CHARTER AMENDMENT, BUT RIGHT NOW, I MEAN, IF THEY CAME INTO OUR COMMISSION, WE HAVE A CHARTER WHERE WE HAVE TO ABIDE BY. AND SO THEY'D HAVE TO ADOPT THAT OR NOT ADOPT IT. BUT THEY'D HAVE TO FOLLOW THAT. OKAY. AND THE ONLY THING ELSE I WAS GONNA SAY IS, UM, THAT'S JUST, IT'S JUST UP FOR DISCUSSION. THERE'S RIGHT. WE DON'T EVEN KNOW THAT THEY WANT TO JOIN US. RIGHT. IS THERE ANY POSSIBILITY OF DECREASING THE SIZE OF OUR COMMISSION FROM, I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT THAT AT ONE POINT, AND MAYBE [00:10:01] THIS NEEDS TO BE ON THE AGENDA FIRST TO TALK ABOUT THAT. YEAH, PROBABLY. BUT THAT MIGHT BE, SO IT'D HAVE TO BE A CHARTERED AMENDMENT TOO. CAUSE IN OUR CHARTER WRITTEN SEVEN MEMBERS. YEAH. OKAY. SO NEXT, UH, GENERAL COMMENTS FROM CITY COUNCIL REPS. DON'T HAVE ANY, UH, GENERAL COMMENTS FROM COMMISSION MEMBERS. OKAY. HAPPY TO SEE EVERYWHERE. . YES. VERY HAPPY. THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING OUT TONIGHT. UM, NEXT WE'LL MOVE INTO THE CONSENT AGENDA. SO 7.1, APPROVAL OF DECEMBER 6, 20, 22 MO MINUTES. AND WE WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION . SO WE HAVE A MOTION BY COMMISSIONER CHEN. SECOND. SECOND BY COMMISSIONER WALKER. ANY DISCUSSION ON THE ITEM? HEARING NONE. WE'LL CALL TO VOTE. COMMISSIONER SPOONS. YAY. COMMISSIONER WALKER. AYE. COMMISSIONER THOMPSON? YES. COMMISSIONER CHEN. HI. MOTION PASSE. YAY. NOT, NO. ALL RIGHT. NEXT WE'LL MOVE TO THE TRAINING SUBCOMMITTEE 8.1, DISCUSSION, POSSIBLE ACTION ON COMPLETION OF A WORKING SESSION ON A STRATEGIC PLAN. PART TWO, RIGHT? YES. NOW I, I MEAN OUR PART ONE, JUST TO REFLECT AND REMIND EVERYBODY, WE, I MEAN, WE DIDN'T, PART ONE MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT OF AN OVERSTATEMENT CAUSE WE DIDN'T REALLY PUT ANYTHING DOWN ON PAPER. I MEAN, BASICALLY I TALKED ABOUT WHAT THE PROCESS IS. WE HAD COME UP WITH A VISION STATEMENT AND TYPICALLY WITH A STRATEGIC PLAN, YOU HAVE YOUR VISION STATEMENT. AND THE VISION STATEMENT IS SORT OF LIKE, HERE'S THE OVERALL THING WE BELIEVE. AND THE STRATEGIC PLAN IS THE STUFF ACTUALLY WANT TO DO. NOW, I THINK YOU PROBABLY DON'T HAVE THEM IN YOUR PACKET NOW CAUSE IT WAS SEVERAL MEETINGS AGO, BUT I HAD SAID SOME EXAMPLES OUT OF OTHER DIVERSITY AND IMPROVEMENT STRATEGIC PLANS. SO REALLY WHAT WE HAVE TO DO IS JUST SORT OF TALK, YOU KNOW, TALK ABOUT THEM AND SAY LIKE, WHICH, AND IF, I MEAN, IF YOU DON'T HAVE 'EM, I DO HAVE 'EM HERE AND COULD PUT THEM UP ON THE BIG SCREEN IF THAT'S SURE. NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO DO. DO YOU HAVE, UM, ARE YOU ABLE TO PLUG DIRECTLY WITH HG MYER? DO YOU NEED TO, YOU WANNA I HAVE IT HERE TOO, IF YOU WANT ME TO PULL IT UP. OH. IF IT'S EASIER, IF YOU HAVE IT, YOU CAN JUST PULL IT UP. SURE. BUT I MEAN, I CAN DO H DMMI. I DON'T, I DIDN'T NEED A DOGGLE. I'M NOT A MAC. NOT A MAC PERSON. YES, . OKAY. LET'S SEE. THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING MY PAYCHECK, . YEAH, I DO HAVE A DOUBT. YEAH. WELL, I, I PREFER PCS CUZ THEY, THERE'S PROGRAMS I NEED TO RUN THAT ARE WITH. I DON'T, I WISH WE HAD DONE WISH HAD NOT. I TELL IT'S SO MUCH EASIER. SEE, I, I'M VERY BAD ON A, ON A POT BECAUSE I'M NOT USED TO IT. LIKE I'M SO USED TO A PC, I'M TRYING TO CONVERT. I JUST, IT'S HARD TO GO BACK AND FORTH. IT'S LIKE DRIVING STICK SHIFT AND REGULAR. IT'S LIKE, I FEEL SO LIMITED WITH IT VERSUS THE MAC. YOU CAN, EVERYTHING FLOWS YOUR PHONE STRAIGHT TO YOUR COMPUTER. THAT'S TRUE. THAT PART IS NICE TO THE TV. FACEBOOK'S GOTTEN USED TO BEING EASY. YEAH. YEAH. YES. I'M THAT PERSON. . YEAH. OKAY. SO I'M JUST GONNA SHOW YOU LIKE, THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF ONE, LIKE THEY DID, THIS ONE IS FROM MY COLLEGE. THEY DID IT AS LIKE OBJECTIVES. SO IT'S ALMOST LIKE THESE ARE THINGS WE WANT TO DO AND, BUT THEY'RE SORT OF LIKE BIG PICTURE, YOU KNOW, ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN AN EQUITABLE INCLUSIVE CULTURE AND CLIMATE. RIGHT. VERY BIG PICTURE. AND THEN THE ACTIONS ARE LIKE, HERE'S WHAT WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO DO. SO WE COULD REALLY REPLICATE THAT WITH OURS. I MEAN, AND WE CAN EVEN SOME SOMEWHAT, YOU KNOW, BORROW SOME OF THESE IDEAS OF, I MEAN, I'M JUST GONNA GO THROUGH THESE JUST TO GIVE US SOME LIKE FOOD FOR THOUGHT QUESTION. YES. ARE THESE OBJECTIVES BASED OFF OF IDEAS? LIKE, DID WAS, UH, PART OF YOUR SESSION PUTTING TOGETHER A TON OF IDEAS THAT YOU'D WANT TO COMPLETE AND THEN GROUPING THOSE TOGETHER TO MAKE OBJECTIVES? NO, THE REVERSE WAS DONE. SO THE WHAT? YOU MADE THE OBJECTIVES. RIGHT? YOU MADE THE OBJECTIVES AND THEN, BUT YOU COULD DO IT EITHER WAY. I MEAN, WE DON'T HAVE TO. WHAT'S MORE, WHAT'S MORE EFFICIENT OR, I MEAN, I THINK IT MIGHT BE MORE EFFICIENT FOR US TO COME UP WITH THE ACTIONS FIRST AND THEN GROUP THEM. RIGHT? LIKE WHAT ARE THE THINGS WE WANNA DO? THE GUIDELINES. EXACTLY. I THINK THAT'S BETTER. AND THEN SAY ALMOST LIKE WHAT'S OUR TITLE FOR THESE THINGS? [00:15:01] YEAH. YOU KNOW, UM, BECAUSE THESE TITLES ARE GENERAL ENOUGH, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? LIKE ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN AN EQUITABLE AND INCLUSIVE CULTURE IN CLIMATE IN HU IS LIKE OUR MAIN THING WE'RE DOING. MM-HMM. LIKE THAT IS WHAT WE'RE DOING. YEAH. AND THEN THE ACTIONS BECOME LIKE, HOW ARE WE GONNA ACTUALLY DO THAT? AND THEN, UM, YOU KNOW, LIKE THIS ONE, I MEAN THIS IS OBVIOUSLY NOT GONNA BE THE SAME FOR US, PROVIDE STRONG SUPPORT. WE DON'T HAVE STUDENTS HERE, BUT, YOU KNOW, IT COULD BE PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY EXPERIENCE. I MEAN, IT'S SORT OF THE SAME THING, YOU KNOW? UM, AND RIGHT. THIS IS ABOUT TEACHING. WE MIGHT NOT, WE DON'T NEED A MILLION OF 'EM EITHER, YOU KNOW? UM, SO WHAT WE MIGHT WANNA DO IS JUST START WITH WHAT ARE THE THINGS WE WANT TO DO. MAYBE THINKING THROUGH LIKE THIS FIRST ONE, BECAUSE THIS IS THE MOST GENERAL IDEA AND WE CAN LIKE, CHANGE THE WORDING OF THIS, BUT I'M JUST GONNA DO LIKE, PUT A GOOGLE DOC UP. OKAY. AND THEN WE CAN SORT OF LIKE, CAUSE THIS IS GENERAL ENOUGH. I FEEL LIKE, YOU KNOW, ALL RIGHT. I'M JUST THINKING BACK TO WHAT I SAW JUST NOW. WE'VE ALREADY KIND OF TAPPED INTO SOME OF THAT, RIGHT? OH, WAIT, THAT'S A, WE'VE DONE THE SURVEY, SO WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS THAT ALREADY. AND WE, AND WE, I MEAN, I THINK, I FEEL LIKE WE'VE DONE THAT WITH LIKE, THE TRAINING AND THE DIFFERENT SUBCOMMITTEE, BUT I THINK THIS COMES AT A REALLY GOOD TIME TO DO THIS BECAUSE I THINK WE'VE KIND OF EXHAUSTED THESE FOR A YEAR, OVER A YEAR. RIGHT. AND SO I THINK THIS IS ACTION. YEAH. WELL, AND UM, LIKE WHAT COMMISSIONER CHEN SAY, WHERE, YOU KNOW, WE KIND OF RE-LOOK. IT, WE, WE MAKE A STRATEGY AND THEN EVERYTHING THAT WE DO DO IS BASED OFF OF THAT STRATEGY. YOU KNOW? SO WE, I I THINK THAT'LL HELP US TO BE MORE ALIGNED WHENEVER NEW MEMBERS DO COME IN. YOU KNOW, THESE ARE WHAT WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS. SEE, I'M THINKING LIKE SOMETHING LIKE, THIS IS OUR FIRST ONE, RIGHT? BECAUSE IT SEEMS TO ME LIKE WE WANT US USE THE WORD FOSTER INSTEAD OF LIKE, I DON'T KNOW THAT WE, WE HAVE THIS YET. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? LIKE, I THINK FOSTER SORT OF IMPLIES LIKE MAYBE WE DON'T HAVE IT EVERYWHERE. I MEAN, OUR SURVEY KIND OF SAID IT. WE DO, BUT WE DON'T KNOW THAT EVERYONE, OUR SURVEY KIND OF GAVE US THE MAKEUP, I FEEL. I DON'T FEEL LIKE IT VALIDATED THAT WE'RE DOING ANYTHING RIGHT, EXACTLY. FOR THIS. YEAH. THE SURVEY WAS KIND OF LIKE THE FOUNDATION OF WHERE WE NEED TO GO. EXACTLY. WHAT WE NEED TO DO EXACTLY. IN ORDER TO GET WHERE WE'RE GOING. CHRISTIE, CAN YOU PULL UP THE SLIDES FROM THE SURVEY ON ONE OF THESE COMPUTERS? UM, I CAN, DO YOU WANNA SEE IT UP HERE OR? WELL, NO, RIGHT HERE WOULD BE GOOD. CAUSE I THINK WE WANT, WE DEFINITELY WANNA KEEP THIS UP FOR BY THE ACTIVITIES. THIS ONE'S RECORDING. OKAY. UM, LET ME SEE IF I CAN, I HAVE IT ON MY PHONE, BUT IT'D JUST BE NICE TO, I MIGHT BE ABLE, UM, THAT'S ANOTHER NOTE TOO. AT THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING, THERE IS A FULL PRESENTATION OF THE FULL ON SURVEY RESULTS TO CITY COUNCIL OFFICIALLY, BECAUSE Y'ALL, I THINK ARE THE ONLY BOARD OR COMMITTEE GOT THAT UPDATE BEFORE THEY DID. UM, SO IF YOU'RE CURIOUS ON THAT, THAT'S NEXT COUNCIL MEETING. OKAY. SO, UM, IT CAME ON THE, THE 22ND. IF SOMEONE'S LOOKING THROUGH THEIR EMAIL, I MEAN, I DO HAVE NOTES FROM THE THING LIKE DOWN HERE. WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR SPECIFICALLY, BRIAN? UM, SO I JUST WANTED TO, I JUST WANTED TO GET, LIKE ON THE SURVEY SHE GIVES, SHE GIVES LIKE THE CITY OF HUDDLE'S PROFILE AND SHE GIVES, UM, SOME KEY FINDINGS AND YOU KNOW, SHE ALSO BREAKS DOWN THE CITY'S, THE CITY TREATS ALL RESIDENTS WITH RESPECT. LIKE JUST THOSE LITTLE NUGGETS. WELL, I MEAN, LOOK AT WHAT'S ON THE SCREEN. OKAY. BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT MY NOTES ARE FROM THEM EATING. OKAY. AND I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S THE SAME THING AND IF NOT, WE, I CAN TAKE THIS DOWN AND, AND CHRISTIE CAN PUT IT UP. MM-HMM. , I MEAN, I DON'T HAVE ALL THE PERCENTAGES IF MAYBE THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT. UM, OKAY. I MEAN, IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR OR YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING ELSE? NO, I FOUND THE PRESENTATION. IS THAT WHAT YOU WANTED? [00:20:01] I THINK THIS IS A GREAT SNAPSHOT. YEAH. THIS IS A GOOD THANKS, KRISTEN. YEAH. I MEAN, THE ONLY CAVEAT I WILL SAY, AND I SAID THIS IS A MEETING WITH THE SURVEY IS SAYING 86% OF THE PEOPLE HAVE NOT EXPERIENCED DISCRIMINATION BEING THAT MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN THE SURVEY ARE WHITE. WHY WOULD THEY, I MEAN, THEY'RE THE DOMINANT GROUP. THAT'S MY ONLY CAVEAT WITH IT. NO, I THINK IT WAS SOMETHING ELSE THAT YOU MENTIONED. UM, WELL, THE, I CAN DO IT. THE, UH, I MEAN THEY COULD, THEY COULD RECEIVE DISCRIMINATION BECAUSE OF AGE. THEY COULD FOR OTHER REASONS. BUT THE, DURING MY SPEAKING, RIGHT? I MEAN, LIKE THE RACE DIDN'T ADD UP. THAT WAS, I THINK THAT'S WHAT YOU POINTED OUT THAT IT, THE RACE DIDN'T ADD UP. LIKE IT DIDN'T ADD UP TO A HUNDRED PERCENT. YEAH. I MEAN THAT'S MY ONLY, ONLY CAVEAT WITH IT. IT'S GOOD. THAT'S WHY I SAID I FEEL LIKE WE STILL HAVE TO SAY FOSTER MM-HMM. , BECAUSE FOR THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SURVEYED, WHICH WAS A GOOD SAMPLE THAT WAS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CITY, WERE DOING WELL. BUT I THINK IT WAS ONLY 14% PEOPLE WHO WERE WHITE IN THE SURVEY. AND THOSE PEOPLE MIGHT NOT FEEL QUITE THE SAME WAY. MM-HMM. , I JUST RECENT THAT PRESENTATION, THE FULL PRESENTATION, I COULDN'T AT IT. THANK YOU. I THINK WHAT WAS EYEOPENING TO ME, AND MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE COULD LOOK AT, IS, UM, IN THE CITY AMONGST ALL ETHNICITIES, UM, THE POLICE GOT REALLY GOOD NUMBERS, RIGHT? AND SO I THINK WITH WHAT COMMISSIONER WALKER HAD MENTIONED, IT SEEMS LIKE THE POLICE ARE VERY HERALDED IN OUR CITY, WHICH IS I THINK SUPER NOTABLE, RIGHT? IF THEY'RE NOT, RIGHT, THERE'S A LOT OF PLACES, RIGHT? AND, BUT I THINK ALSO WE STILL HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT BASELINE NUMBER OF THE PEOPLE THAT WERE INTERVIEWED OR SURVEYED, RIGHT? BECAUSE THE OPINIONS ARE GOING TO VARY ACROSS THE BOARD. AND SO IF WE DON'T HAVE, UM, I DON'T WANNA SAY A DIVERSE POPULATION, BUT I GUESS THAT'S KIND OF WHAT IT IS. UM, WE DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE REALLY THINKING IF WE DON'T HAVE A GOOD SAMPLE OF EVERYONE. I MEAN, I MEAN, JUST LOOKING AT THE SURVEY NUMBERS, THE POLICE GOT STRONG AGREE AND AGREE, RIGHT? AND, AND THAT WAS TRUE EVEN WHEN YOU SPLIT BY RACIAL GROUPS, WHICH I THINK IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE, RIGHT? BECAUSE THERE'S LITTLE REASON TO EXPECT A WHITE PERSON TO FEEL AS THREATENED BY THE POLICE AS A BLACK PERSON. I MEAN, THAT'S JUST A FACT, RIGHT? SO THE FACT THAT THAT FINDING WHEN SHE DID THE CROSS TABS WITH IT MM-HMM. MM-HMM. , IT WAS TRUE AMONG DIFFERENT RACIAL GROUPS, IS, IS REALLY STRONGLY SUGGESTING I THINK SO ONE THAT THEY LIKE THE, YOU KNOW, THE PEOPLE LIKE THE POLICE, AND IT'S NOT JUST WHITE PEOPLE, LIKE RIGHT. IT'S EVERYBODY. SO ONE THING THAT I WAS THINKING, TO YOUR POINT, COMMISSIONER 10, UM, WITH, YOU KNOW, THE SURVEY RESULTS FOR THE POLICE LOOK GOOD AND POSITIVE, AND THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT COMMON IN OUR SOCIETY TODAY. RIGHT? AND SO WHENEVER YOU TALK ABOUT THINGS THAT WE COULD DO THAT ARE ACHIEVABLE, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS IS WHAT COMMISSIONER WALKER SAID WHERE WE PRIORITIZE THE COFFEE AND DONUTS WITH OFFICERS MM-HMM. MM-HMM. THAT MIGHT BE LIKE A, LIKE AN ACTIVITY THAT WE MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE, UH, BRING UP OR ARE A PART OF OR COMPLETE ON A MONTHLY BASIS JUST TO KEEP THIS MORALE GOING. OKAY. I MEAN, IF YOU WANNA DO THAT, THAT MIGHT BE HELPFUL IF WE WANNA JUST COME UP WITH THE ACTIONS WE WANNA DO AND THEN FIGURE OUT THE OBJECTIVES THAT GO ON THERE. I LIKE THAT. ALL RIGHT. UM, ALL RIGHT. SO WE HAVE ONE ACTION SO FAR, . ANOTHER THING THAT WAS GOOD, LIKE GOOD RESPONSES FROM THE SURVEY WAS THE COMMUNICATION METHODS. UM, AND THEY WERE, THEY WERE VERY MM-HMM. AMONGST THE NEWSLETTER. UM, HEY HUK, AND YEAH, SO HEY HU, THE FACEBOOK PAGE, UH, UM, PUBLIC MEETINGS, HEY HUK, UM, LOOKS LIKE MAYBE LOCAL RA RADIO, BUT I'D NEVER HEARD ANY ADS ON LOCAL RADIO. UM, THE ONES THAT SHE HIGHLIGHTED WAS AS HEY, HUK PUBLIC MEETINGS AND THE CITY WEBSITE. SO I'M WONDERING IF WE [00:25:01] SHOULD, I THINK THIS WAS COMMISSIONER GONZALEZ'S, UM, UH, THIS IS ONE OF THE ACTIVITIES THAT SHE WANTED TO DO, BUT JUST HAVE A PRESENCE IN HAY, HELLO NEWSLETTER. MM-HMM. EVERY MONTH. I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WOULD BE, BUT JUST HAVING A PRESENCE LETTER BECAUSE YEAH. TAKE AWAYS AND NEXT STEPS, IT ALL COMES DOWN TO COMMUNICATION. OKAY. UM, ANOTHER ONE FROM THE SURVEY WAS 56% OF RESIDENTS WOULD LIKELY PARTICIPATE IN EVENTS HIGHLIGHTING DIVERSE CULTURES, TRADITIONS. MM-HMM. AND, AND, UM, COMMUNITIES. UM, THE ONE THAT GAINED THE MOST TRACTION WAS THE EVENTS. AND SO MAYBE, YOU KNOW, AN EVENT A QUARTER OR PIGGYBACKING ON THE EFFORTS OF ANOTHER ENTITY YEP. POST REGULAR EVENTS THAT HIGHLIGHT DIVERSE CULTURES. MM-HMM. . AND YOU SAID ANOTHER WORD, CULTURES AND SOMETHING ELSE. UM, SO WE HAD CULTURES TO TRADITIONS AND COMMUNITIES. TRADITIONS, YEAH. I LIKE THAT. BECAUSE THEN IT'S NOT JUST CULTURAL BASED. RIGHT. AND IT WOULD, IT WOULD OPEN, UM, IT COULD BE RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY, IT COULD BE ALL KINDS OF DIVERSITY, RIGHT? LIKE IF, LIKE THE CHAMBERS HAVING A CRAWFISH BROIL IN APRIL MM-HMM. , , THAT COULD BE SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, IF WE PLANNED OUT, THAT COULD BE SOMETHING WHERE WE COULD PARTICIPATE OR HAVE OUR BANNER AND, YOU KNOW, A SMALL BOOTH THERE. WELL, I WONDER IF THAT'S TWO DIFFERENT THINGS THOUGH, BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE US HOSTING AN EVENT IS ONE THING THAT SORT OF SHOWCASES A CULTURE OR TRADITION. AND THEN THERE'S ANOTHER THING WHICH IS BEING PART OF CITY EVENTS, BEING A PRESENCE AT CITY EVENTS. YOU, I DON'T THAT, THAT BEING A PRESENCE MAKES IT SOUND LIKE A GHOST, BUT , YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? LIKE WHEN THE CITY'S HAVING AN EVENT, US BEING THERE AND, UM, BEING ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. YEAH. I THINK WE SHOULD HAVE LIKE, HOST JOINT EVENTS, LIKE WITH OTHER COMMISSIONS BOARDS. YEAH. THAT'S A GOOD IDEA. JUST LEAVE IT AT, CAUSE WE DID, THERE WERE SO MANY THINGS THAT WE JUST CAME ALONG AND IT STILL WORKS. I MEAN, THE PARK BOARD, WE COULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING INJUNCTION WITH THEM FOR THIS SATURDAY FOR ADAM OR GAME PARK. THAT WOULD'VE BEEN OKAY. JOINED WORK WITH EXISTING CITY BOARDS AND CITY COUNCIL TO BE PART OF, MAYBE WE DON'T NEED EXISTING. HOW DOES BE PARTNER? PARTNER WITH EXISTING PARTNER. THAT'S A GOOD WORD. HOUSING WORKER. YEAH. ADD DIVERSE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION TO CITY EVENTS. UM, THERE WAS A, THERE WAS A THOUGHT TO DO, UM, UH, LIKE A COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM MM-HMM. . AND THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING JUST, UM, I MEAN THAT WOULD KIND OF BE A LITTLE ALL-ENCOMPASSING OF ATTRACTING PEOPLE OF DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS. UM, VALUING RESIDENTS, TREATING ALL RESIDENTS FAIRLY WITH RESPECT. UM, WE CAN INVITE CITY COUNCIL AND THAT COULD COVER THE CITY STAFF AND LEADERS ARE ACCESSIBLE TO RESIDENTS. UM, CITY PROVIDES A SAFE ENVIRONMENT. I MEAN, THAT COULD BE ALL ENCOMPASSING FOR THE, FOR THE, UH, WHENEVER SHE THE, LIKE THE MAKEUP OF OUR CITY MM-HMM. AND WHAT PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT COULD BE KIND OF ALL ENCOMPASSING. AND I THINK IT'D BE REALLY, I THINK PEOPLE WOULD, IF WE REACHED OUT IN ADVANCE, I THINK PEOPLE WOULD VOLUNTEER THEIR TIME TO, TO SPEAK AND MM-HMM. MAYBE A SMALL MONETARY [00:30:01] VALUE, BUT I THINK THAT COULD KEEP UP THE CLIMATE OF FEELING SAFE AND FEELING RESPECTED IN THE CITY. MM-HMM. . AND IT MAY NOT BE WELL ATTENDED FOR THE BEGINNING, BUT I THINK THAT'S, YEAH. I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WE JUST HAVE TO, I MEAN, I THINK WE JUST HAVE TO ACCEPT THAT BECAUSE EVERYTHING STARTS OFF SMALL MM-HMM. , YOU KNOW, I MEAN, THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT HITS. YEAH. RIGHT. LIKE THE FIRST TIME, YOU KNOW, YOU ORGANIZE SOMETHING, NOT MANY PEOPLE COME, BUT THEN IT KICKS UP. YEAH. SO, AND WE COULD START SMALL. I MEAN, I'M SURE THERE'S FOLKS IN, IN AND ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY THAT WOULD LOVE TO MM-HMM. GIVE A PRESENTATION OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. UM, THE TOP THREE EXPERIENCES OF DISCRIMINATION WERE BASED ON POLITICAL AFFILIATION, NATIONAL ORIGIN AND AGE. IS THERE AN ACTIVITY OR SOMETHING THAT COULD ADDRESS POLITICAL AFFILIATION, NATIONAL ORIGIN, OR AGE? NO, THAT'S, I MEAN, THAT'S, AGAIN, I JUST WANNA THROW THE SAME CAVEAT OUT THERE. I THINK IF WE HAD A SAMPLE THAT HAD MORE PEOPLE OF COLOR IN IT, THOSE WOULD NOT BE THE TOP ONE. MM-HMM. , THEY'RE THE TOP ONES BECAUSE IT'S, IT WAS A MOSTLY WHITE SAMPLE. AND, BUT, SO WITH THAT SAID, THE OTHER PROBLEM WITH THIS, WE DON'T KNOW WHICH SIDE POLITICALS, THEY DIDN'T ASK A POLICE QUESTION. SO WE DON'T KNOW IF IT'S REPUBLICANS WHO FEEL THEY CAN'T SPEAK OUT OR DEMOCRATS WHO FEEL THEY CAN'T SPEAK OUT, WHICH IS MAKES THAT A CHALLENGING THING TO ME TO DO ADDRESS. YEAH. OR NON-AFFILIATED. PARDON? PEOPLE THAT JUST VOTE. YEAH. ALTHOUGH THAT SEEMS THE LEAST LIKELY TO, BUT I, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, CAUSE YOU'RE NOT AFFILIATED, WHY WOULD YOU FEEL ATTACKED? BUT, UM, THE PRESSURE TO CHOOSE MM-HMM. , MAYBE MY NEIGHBOR HAS THIS SIGN. OH, REALLY? YOU KNOW, LIKE, LIKE THAT'S, YOU KNOW, LIKE YOU SEE THROUGH YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, LIKE PEOPLE HAVE CERTAIN SALADS. YEAH. THERE WE HAVE, UH, A COUPLE OF FOLKS THAT HAVE A SIGN IN THEIR YARD MM-HMM. DO. AND WE DON'T KNOW IF IT'S AGE, IF IT'S YOUNG OR OLD. RIGHT. RIGHT. IT WAS MORE OF A BLANKET STATEMENT, LIKE MM-HMM. , HERE'S THE THREE. YEAH. I MEAN, THAT'S MY ONLY WORRY ABOUT FOCUSING TOO MUCH ON IT CUZ IT'S LIKE, IT'S VERY FUZZY. YEAH. NOT FOCUSING ON IT, BUT IS THERE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO AROUND LIKE, YOU KNOW, NON, NON-FOCAL, BUT JUST LIKE LOW KEY AROUND THOSE TYPES OF THINGS? WELL, WE CAN ONLY DO A VOLUNTEER PICKUP, LIKE A CLEANUP BECAUSE THAT IS EARTH SAFETY ALWAYS. MM-HMM. HAVE A ISSUE WITH GLOBAL WARMING. UM, SO, BUT WE SHOULD CARE ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY AND WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. SO I THINK VOLUNTEERING SHOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE FOCUS ON AND HOW WE GET BACK TO THE COMMUNITY, NOT JUST AS A GROUP AND BEING, YOU KNOW, PROVIDING AWARENESS OF THE DIFFERENT PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE IN COMMUNITIES WE HAVE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. BUT I THINK MORE OF WHAT ARE WE DOING? WHAT KIND OF STEWARDSHIP ARE WE GIVING? LIKE WHAT ARE WE DOING? I CAN TALK ALL DAY ABOUT I LOVE ADVERSITY, BUT WHAT ARE WE DOING TO PROMOTE STEWARDSHIP? WHAT ARE WE SAYING? WHAT ARE WE DOING? AND I THINK LIKE THAT'S IMPORTANT FOR ANY COMMUNITY TO GET BACK. VOLUNTEER WORK. YEAH. I MEAN THE HRC TALK ABOUT THAT. MM-HMM. . YEAH. THE HUDDLE RESOURCE CENTER. WE'VE ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT LIKE DOING A FOOD DRIVE OR YEAH. MM-HMM. DOING A PARK CLEAN UP. YEAH. I MEAN LIKE THAT, THAT WILL GIVE BACK AND WE WILL CAPTURE SOME OF THE DIFFERENT GROUPS THAT WE HAVE. LIKE, AND MAYBE THE LGBT PROGRAM WHERE WE GO AND DO WHATEVER CHRISTMAS CAROL'S, JUST TALK WITH SOMEBODY. IT DOESN'T EVEN MATTER. IT'S JUST SOMETHING TO GIVE BACK. PRESENTS. YES. GHOST PRESENTS. PRESENTS . I LIKE PART OF THE EVENING. ALRIGHT. SO HOW WOULD YOU SAY THAT AS AN ACTION ITEM? I LIKE THAT. VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES. YEAH. UM, BECAUSE LIKE A PARTNER INCREASE. YEAH, DEFINITELY INCREASE A PARDON? VOLUNTEERING, CLEAN UP. WE COULD PARTNER WITH THE PARKS BOARD TO ORGANIZE. I DID CALL HIM, BUT I'M GONNA HAVE TO FOLLOW UP WITH ANOTHER CALL AGAIN. YEAH. AND, AND HOLIDAY DAY SEASON, AND PERRY PERRY'S REALLY GOOD. I TALKED TO HIM TODAY. ACTUALLY. IT'D BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY LIKE JUST TO SHOW UP WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE HERE. YOU MIGHT AS WELL. AND NOT ONLY, BUT CHRISTY, IT'S A, IT'S A CITYWIDE CLEANUP ALSO THAT HAPPENS LIKE IN APRIL. RIGHT. UM, SO THERE'S THE, THE GREAT CLEANUP OR THE BIG EVENT, THEY PARTNER WITH CLAUSON. BUT I WAS JUST GOING TO MENTION, UM, SINCE WE'RE ON THE TOPIC OF VOLUNTEERING THIS PAST SATURDAY, AFTER THE STORM, WE, WE PUT TOGETHER, THROUGH, TOGETHER A COMMUNITYWIDE CLEANUP. BUT [00:35:01] LIKE AS OF RIGHT NOW, LIKE I'M KIND OF THE CITY LIAISON WITH HOW RESOURCE CENTER AND DONNA, UM, SHE'S KIND OF RECEIVING ALL THE PEOPLE THAT NEED HELP AND THE PEOPLE THAT NEED, WE HAVE 75 PEOPLE THAT NEED ASSISTANCE AND GETTING THEIR BRUSH EVEN JUST TO THE CURB. RIGHT. LIKE THEY CAN'T CHOP IT DOWN OR WHATEVER. UM, BUT WE ONLY HAVE LIKE 10 VOLUNTEERS, SO IT'S GONNA TAKE A REALLY LONG TIME. SO LIKE, JUST BEING PLUGGED INTO THOSE OTHER PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS AND EVEN LIKE, THERE'S, THAT EXISTS RIGHT NOW AS WE SPEAK, LIKE THESE KIND OF OPPORTUNITIES. SO JUST NOT OF GETTING THE WORD OUT. NICE. GETTING, I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN OUR WEBSITE EVENTUALLY. COULD YOU SEND ME LIKE, THE INFORMATION FOR THEM? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. I'LL SHARE. I'LL SEND IT TO EVERYONE. I DON'T THINK, WANT ME AROUND EIGHT DOWN? THAT'S NOT MY THING. SO GINA, IS IT, IS IT, OR COMMISSIONER CHEN, IS IT COMMONPLACE TO, LIKE, IT LOOKS TO ME LIKE WE HAVE FIVE IS, WELL I DON'T THINK THEY'RE ALL UNDER THIS ONE. I MEAN, I THOUGHT THE WAY YOU WANTED TO DO IT IS WE COME UP WITH OUR ACTIONS AND FIGURE OUT WHERE IT GOES. WELL NO, I WAS SAYING IT LOOKS TO ME LIKE WE HAVE A LOT, SHOULDN'T WE FOCUS ON THESE RIGHT NOW AND, YOU KNOW, START GETTING WINS BEFORE WE CREATE, BEFORE WE PUT OUT MORE? IS THAT, I, I THINK IF YOU WANT A STRATEGIC PLAN, THE ANSWER IS NO. IF YOU DON'T WANT A PLAN, YOU JUST WANT AN ACTION ITEM OF WHAT TO DO WITH THE COMMISSION, THEN I THINK THE ANSWER IS YES. LIKE A STRATEGIC PLAN IS USUALLY LIKE MAPPING OUT THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. SO IT SOUNDS BRIAN, LIKE YOU DON'T REALLY WANT A STRATEGIC PLAN. WHAT YOU WANNA DO IS JUST COME UP WITH GOALS. AND THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. WE DON'T HAVE NO I STRATEGIC PLAN. NO, I I A STRATEGIC PLAN. I MEAN, IF YOU LOOK AT THE ONES, I MEAN THEY, THEY HAVE 20, 30 THINGS ON IT, BUT I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU. I DON'T KNOW THAT IT MAKES SENSE TO COME UP WITH A MILLION THINGS AND NOT DO ANY OF THEM. I THINK IT'S BETTER AT HOW WE HAVE IT NOW AND FOCUS ON WHAT WE HAVE. RIGHT. AND LET'S FIGURE OUT HOW WE CAN GET IT. I MEAN, WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A STRATEGIC PLAN. I THINK WE REALLY NEED GOALS AND WE ACTUALLY HAVE TO DO SOMETHING. YEAH. OKAY. BUT I MEAN, AND THEN MAYBE WE TURN THAT INTO A STRATEGIC PLAN AT SOME POINT. YEAH. I FEEL LIKE SOMETHING, IT'S FIGURING OUT WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO AND WHAT WE WANT TO SEE. IT MAKES SENSE. UM, BECAUSE IT'S KINDA LIKE JUST BRAINSTORMING RIGHT. WHAT OUR TRUE GOALS ARE THAT'S GONNA CREATE THE STRATEGIC PLAN, RIGHT? I MEAN, THE STRATEGIC PLAN IS USUALLY A LOT MORE THAN FIVE. BUT I AGREE WITH YOU THAT I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT SERVES US THE WAY BEST. YEAH. YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WE NEED TO ACTUALLY DO, WRITES WHAT WE NEED TO DO. BEAUTIFUL. IT'S GONNA BE IN DIFFERENT PONDS, BUT WE DON'T, WE HAVE TO ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING. RIGHT. AND I ACTUALLY THINK WHAT CHRISTY WAS TELLING US ABOUT IS A GREAT START. I DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, HOW TO GET ALL HANDS ON DECK, BUT, YOU KNOW, TO GET OUT AND HELP THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT'S AWESOME. THAT'S WHY I ASKED FOR THE INFORMATION. MM-HMM. . SO MAYBE THAT'S A GOOD STARTING POINT. MM-HMM. , UM, TO GET OUR FACES OUT THERE AND LET 'EM KNOW THAT WE ARE HERE . YEAH. I MEAN, I GUESS CAN YOU EXPLAIN MORE WHAT, WHAT, I GUESS I MISSED WHAT CHRISTIE WAS SAYING. WHAT WERE YOU SAYING TO OH, SURE. SO I WAS JUST SAYING, UM, A COUPLE OF SA ON THE 11TH, WE HOSTED A COMMUNITY WIDE BRUSH DROP OFF. OKAY. BUT THERE'S A GAP, UM, IN THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT COULDN'T GET THE BRUSH TO THE DROP OFF. OKAY. SO HOW WE'VE ADDRESSED THAT IS WE HAVE CITY STAFF, WE ALSO HAVE HIRED A CONTRACTOR TO GO AROUND AND PICK UP THINGS THAT ARE TAKEN TO PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY. BUT THEN THE OTHER GAP IS PEOPLE THAT DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY OR ACCESSIBILITY TO BE ABLE TO GET THE BRUSH DOWN TO THE CURB. IDENTIFYING THOSE PEOPLE. SO WORKING WITH HUDA RESOURCE CENTER VERY CLOSELY AND ESSENTIALLY HUDA RESOURCE CENTER IS, UM, BECAUSE OF LIABILITY AND THINGS LIKE THAT, WE'RE NOT SAYING, OKAY, WE'RE SENDING CITY VOLUNTEERS, IT'S THROUGH THEM, BUT WE'RE ABLE TO WORK TOGETHER. EXACTLY. SO I'LL SEND Y'ALL KIND OF THE BLURB AND SOME LINKS, UM, AND THINGS IN HERE. AND THEN, UM, JUST LET ME KNOW IF I CAN ANSWER ANY OTHER QUESTIONS. OKAY. YEAH. I MEAN, I, I'M TOTALLY FINE WITH THAT. I GUESS THOUGH, FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, I'M NOT TOTALLY SURE HOW THAT GETS US OUR NAME OUT THERE. MM-HMM. BECAUSE HOW DO THEY KNOW WE ARE FROM DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION? LIKE, I THINK IT'S A GREAT THING FOR US TO DO. LIKE ABSOLUTELY. LIKE, I DON'T WANNA SOUND LIKE I'M KNOCKING IT, BUT IT'S A LITTLE, LIKE, I ALMOST FEEL LIKE WE NEED TO HAVE SOMETHING THAT WE HOST. BECAUSE IF WE DON'T, IT'S LIKE, UNLESS WE'RE GONNA WEAR LIKE SOMETHING BADGE OR SOMETHING CONCLUSIONS, WE DEFINITELY WOULD DRESS ALIKE. I THINK THAT'S A GREAT START. I KNOW [00:40:01] WE SHOULD DO THAT. WE SHOULD GET BUTTONS. WE SHOULD, WE SHOULD GET BANK ADS. I MEAN, I I, AND AGAIN, I'M NOT SAYING NOT DO IT. I'M ABSOLUTELY SAYING DO IT. I'M JUST SAYING, YOU KNOW, LIKE, WELL THE REASON WHY I SAY PARTICIPATE IN SOMETHING THAT'S GOING ON CURRENT IS BECAUSE WE ALWAYS SAY WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS ON THIS DAY, BUT THEN THAT DAY COMES AND THEN WE DON'T DO IT FOR WHATEVER REASON. YOU KNOW? MM-HMM. FOR ME IT'S HEALTH FOR OTHERS, IT'S OTHER THINGS, OTHER OBLIGATIONS. SO I THINK IF IT'S A CURRENT EVENT THAT'S GOING ON AND EVERY, YOU DRIVE THROUGH YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD HERE YOU SEE IT, TREES ARE OVER AND EVERYTHING. I THINK CURRENT EVENTS THAT ARE ALREADY GOING, IF WE JUST HAVE TO SAY, HEY, I'M TAR. I'M LIKE, YOU KNOW, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. IF WE HAVE TO DO THAT, AND THEY MAY NOT EVEN REMEMBER IT, BUT THE POINT OF IT IS, IS TO DO SOMETHING. AND I FEEL LIKE THAT'S WHERE WE'RE KIND OF LIKE NOT YET. RIGHT. AND THIS MAY NOT BE FOR EVERYONE. THIS MAY BE SOMETHING THAT I CAN DO OR, YOU KNOW, MAYBE BRIAN CAN SHOW UP, BUT I, I JUST, I WANT ACTION. THAT MAKES SENSE. YOU KNOW, SO THEN IT SOUNDS LIKE YEAH, WE'RE KIND OF DOING THE YEAH. THE MAKING THE LIST OF THINGS THAT WE WANT TO DO. RIGHT. AND THEN SO TO, TO STAY, TO STAY WITH THE AGENDA ITEM AND LET'S, I GUESS PIVOT FROM THE STRATEGIC PLAN TO LIST A LIST OF, RIGHT. THE ACTION ITEMS. YEAH. WHICH IS PART OF THIS STRATEGIC PLAN PLAN, BUT IT'S JUST, WE'RE JUST GONNA DO THAT ONE PIECE TO THAT. YEAH. OKAY. SO THEN HOW DO WE WANT, CUZ IT'S, I THINK IT'S STILL A PART OF THE AGENDA ITEM. HOW DO WE WANT TO BREAK OUT THESE, UM, THESE ACTION ITEMS? OR DO WE WANT TO ADD TO THEM, DO WE WANT TO ASSIGN THEM OUT? DO WE WANT TO GROUP THESE TOGETHER AND MAKE LIKE A SUB? WELL, YEAH, THERE'S FOUR OF US. SO WE SUBCOMMITTEE A SUBCOMMITTEE. I MEAN, I, I TOTALLY HEAR WHAT TARA'S SAYING AND I AGREE. I MEAN, I DO THINK WE'VE GONE TO A FEW THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN BIG EVENTS, UM, WHERE, I MEAN, I'VE GONE TO SOME STUFF. I KNOW YOU GUYS HAVE GONE TO SOME STUFF. I JUST, YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE WE WOULD FIT IN AT THAT. WELL, IT'S NOT THAT WE WOULDN'T FIT IN. I JUST DON'T KNOW THAT ANYONE NOTICES US THERE. NO. YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE, AND AND THAT COMES A LOT WITH VOLUNTEERISM. YOU WELL IT'S GET NOTICED, BUT MY POINT IS IN ACCOLADES, MY POINT IS, IF WE WANT THE CITY TO KNOW, HEY, THERE'S A DIVERSITY INCLUSION COMMISSION, A SILENTLY VOLUNTEERING AT SOMETHING DOESN'T DO THAT. RIGHT. AND IT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S A BAD THING TO SILENTLY VOLUNTEER. IT'S ABSOLUTELY A GOOD THING. RIGHT. IT'S JUST IF WE DON'T EVER HOST ANYTHING OURSELVES, I THINK IT'S HARD FOR ANYONE TO KNOW THAT WE EXIST. RIGHT. I THINK THAT'S A GREAT GOAL FOR US TO HOST. BUT I THINK IT FALLS UNDER WHERE WE TALKED ABOUT THE RESOURCES, UM, YOU KNOW, WELL, I THINK DIFFERENT THINGS THAT'S GONNA TAKE TO HOST. YEAH. I THINK THE PLANNING, THE PLANNING. IF WE, IF WE PLANNED A VOLUNTEER WITH LIKE THE PARKS BOARD TO CLEAN UP, WE COULD HAVE A, WE COULD HAVE LIKE A, AS SOON AS PEOPLE DRIVE IN, THEY SEE OUR BANNER. RIGHT. AND THERE'S A LIKE A SIGNUP SHEET. YEP. AND WE HAVE FOLKS MANNING THAT AND OTHER FOLKS OUT ACTUALLY PICKING UP IN THE COMMUNITY. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HOST TOGETHER. IF WE DID LIKE A, LIKE A FOOD DRIVE AND WE HAD PEOPLE BRING THEIR FOOD UP TO CITY HALL AND THEN WE PACKAGE THAT UP, TAKE IT TO THE HUDDLE RESOURCE CENTER, WE COULD HAVE OUR BANNER OUT. I THINK, I THINK WE'RE FORGETTING THAT WE DO HAVE A BANNER THAT BEING SEEN ALL IT TAKES IS JUST TO HAVE THAT DECISION. HAVE THAT, AND I MEAN IT'S NOT ALL IT TAKES, BUT THAT'S A BIG PART OF IT. RIGHT. AND SO, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER WE DO, WE HAVE OUR BANNER OUT THERE. I THINK IT'S A, MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA. WE KNOW WE CAN GET SOME DIVERSITY INCLUSION BUTTONS. UM, AND YOU KNOW, IT, IT JUST HAS A, LIKE DIVERSITY INCLUSION MEMBER OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT WOULD USE THE SAME FONT THAT'S ON OUR BANNER AND WE COULD WEAR OUR PINS WHENEVER WE'RE AT, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT EVENTS. AND I THINK THAT WOULD HELP US TO BE SEEN. UM, BUT I THINK THE BIG THING IS, IS PLANNING. AND RIGHT NOW WITH NOT HAVING A BUDGET, UM, YOU KNOW, WE CAN OBVIOUSLY GO TO CITY COUNCIL IF WE FIGURE OUT SOMETHING AND ASK FOR THE FUNDS, TALK ABOUT WHY IT WOULD BE, UM, NEEDED AND IMPORTANT. BUT THEN AT THE SAME TIME, IF WE, YOU KNOW, LIKE THE, AGAIN, I'LL JUST GO BY CRAWFORD FOR, CAUSE THAT'S THE ONLY IT THAT I CAN THINK OF. BUT YEAH. YEAH. IF WE WENT TO THE CHAMBER AND WE SAID, HEY, IN APRIL WE'D LIKE TO, IS THERE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO EITHER PARTNER OR GRAB A [00:45:01] BOOTH? UM, YOU KNOW, THAT THAT COULD BE SOMETHING WHERE WE'RE SEEING, WE HAVE OUR BUTTONS, WE HAVE MAYBE SOME CANDY TO GIVE AWAY AND YOU KNOW, WE STILL HAVE OUR QR CODE THAT GOES TO OUR WEBSITE AND IF WE CAN GET OUR WEBSITE UP BY THEN, YOU KNOW, THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING WHERE PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN SEEING, YOU KNOW, THE PROCLAMATIONS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE. BUT, UM, I, I DON'T THINK IT'S DIFFICULT TO BE SEEN. I THINK IT'S JUST US PLANNING OUT HOW WE WANT TO GO ABOUT DOING AN ACTIVITY. AND I THINK PEOPLE ARE VERY, UM, THEY'RE VERY OPEN TO HAVING MORE VOLUNTEERS OR PARTNERING BECAUSE ALL IT IS IS MORE AMPLIFICATION FOR THEM IN THEIR EVENT. SO I DON'T, I REALLY DON'T THINK WE NEED TO WORRY ABOUT IT, BUT MAYBE THAT'S JUST ME BEING, AND I, SO I THINK WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE IS IT'S TWO, TWO DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE WANTING TO GO. WE DEFINITELY NEED TO PLAN AHEAD TO HOST SOMETHING, UM, THAT IS US UPFRONT. AND THEN WE STILL NEED TO LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITIES TO PARTNER WITH OTHER GROUPS SO THAT WE'RE STILL SEEING OR HEARD. WE TALKED ABOUT SOME BEFORE WE DID, WE TALKED ABOUT IT. AND I THINK A GOOD START WOULD BE A FOOD DRIVE. WE TALKED ABOUT THAT FOOD DRIVE. I THINK A ONE WOULD BE THE POLICE, YOU KNOW, CHIEF BOROUGH VERY OPEN TO HAVING US IN. OH YEAH. WE COULD GO TO UH, YOU KNOW, LIGHT LIGHTHOUSE COFFEE NET POST AND LAMP POST AND TALK TO THEM ABOUT, YOU KNOW, DOING, UH, DOING A COFFEE WITH THE COPS. YEAH. A DAY OR A NIGHT OR WHATEVER AND SEE IF THEY'D BE WILLING TO, YOU KNOW, OPEN UP THEIR, THEIR SPOT AND OR JUST RESERVE THEIR SPOT. WE CAN HAVE, YOU KNOW, CHIEF YARD OR SOME POLICE OFFICERS THERE. WE COULD SIT DOWN, WE COULD, YOU KNOW, JUST BE TALKING AND PEOPLE THAT COME IN, WE COULD JUST SAY HI, INTRODUCE OURSELVES. AND I THINK THAT'S HELPING US TO NOT ONLY BE SEEN, BUT WE'RE PARTNERING WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. I KNOW THEY WOULD AMPLIFY IT ON THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA. WE COULD AMPLIFY IT, YOU KNOW, THROUGH HEY HU AND ON THE CITY SITE AND YOU KNOW, THAT'S LIKE YOU SAID, COMMISSIONER CHEN, THAT'S, IT'S SMALL, BUT WE'RE STARTING AND YOU KNOW. YEAH. I PERSONALLY WOULD RATHER, I MEAN, I LOVE THE COFFEE IDEA. I'D RATHER DO SOMETHING SMALL THAT WE ACTUALLY PULL OFF THAN TRY TO DO SOME BIG ELABORATE THING AND THEN IT DOESN'T HAPPEN. WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT HAVING AN ANNUAL EVENT WHERE IT BE US, WE TALKED ABOUT MLK DAY WHERE SINCE THE SCHOOL IS SHUT DOWN, TAKING, YOU KNOW, PU HIGH SCHOOL, JUST WALKING AROUND THE TRACK OR HAVING THE OPPORTUNITY TO LISTEN TO A SPEECH OF MLK JUNIOR AND THEN 30 MINUTES WE SPEND TOGETHER AND THEN PEOPLE WOULD HASHTAG MLK, YOU KNOW, HUDDLE, YOU KNOW, JUST MM-HMM. SO THAT WE CAN STILL BE RECOGNIZING SOMETHING THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO NOT JUST US, BUT TO THE AWARENESS OF THE COMMUNITY. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? LIKE, I JUST FEEL LIKE SOMETIMES WE MISS THAT, THAT OPPORTUNITY. I KIND OF FELT LIKE WE PROBABLY HAVE DONE IT OR PULLED IT OFF. IT'S NOT LIKE WE WOULD'VE TO SPEND ANY MONEY. UM, SO JUST, YEAH, WE WOULD JUST HAVE TO LIKE, FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, I'M PRETTY SURE THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, LIKE IF WE TALK TO DR. THOMAS, I'M PRETTY SURE SHE WOULD BE ALL IN FAVOR FOR THAT. AND LIKE, LOOKING FORWARD TO NEXT YEAR, WE DO HAVE LIKE, NOT TO KEEP MY OWN HORN, BUT WE HAVE THE VIDEO THAT THE CITY DID OF ME, RIGHT? MM-HMM. . AND THAT COULD BE SOMETHING WHERE WE SHARE THAT WE HAVE AN EVENT POSTED ON FACEBOOK. UM, BY THAT TIME, HOPEFULLY WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, A FACEBOOK PAGE, MAYBE A WEBSITE OR WE HAVE OUR WEBSITE AND WE COULD POST IT VIA THE CITY OF HU MM-HMM. . AND YOU KNOW, THAT EVENT COULD BE PROMOTED TO MEET UP AT, UM, YOU KNOW, AT THE, AT THE HIGH SCHOOL ON, THEY DON'T WANNA GO TO HIGH SCHOOL, JUST ANY SCHOOL AROUND YOU, EVERY TYPE OF SCHOOL. SO JUST GO TO THE SCHOOL. EVERYBODY CAN JOIN EVERY, IT'D BE COOL TO WALK FROM HERE TO OLD TOWN. I MEAN, I DON'T LIKE WALKING THAT MUCH, BUT JUST SAYING IN GENERAL WHAT I SAID. BUT IF YOU'RE PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH, WAIT A MINUTE, HOLD ON. JUST, JUST IN GENERAL, LIKE MY KIDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL'S RIGHT THERE. AND IT GIVES ME UNITY FOR THAT. ANYTHING THAT WE CAN COME UP WITH AND KIDS, WHATEVER THEY DO, IT DOESN'T MATTER. UM, BUT STILL HAVING THAT OPPORTUNITY TO GET SOME TYPE OF COMMUNITY TOGETHER. YEAH. IT GOES BACK TO THE FOSTERING YEAH. COMMENT. I LOVE IT. I REALLY WOULD LOVE TO START WORKING ON GIVING US A TRUE QUARTERLY EVENT THAT IS OURS. SO IT GOES FOR BOTH WAYS. LIKE TO THE EVENTS C SO COMMITTEE, THAT'S WHAT THE WEBSITE IT WAS FOR. IT JUST JUST EVOLVED. UH, BUT YEAH. MORPH. YEAH. UM, I'M JUST, SO LET'S TAKE, SO LET'S TAKE THESE ACTIONS [00:50:01] RIGHT HERE AND LET'S MAKE THOSE, YOU KNOW, WORK ON THOSE FOR THE STRATEGIC PLAN FOR NOW. AND, AND AGAIN, TELL ME IF YOU GUYS DON'T AGREE, I'M JUST TRYING TO CONSOLIDATE, BUT LET'S WORK ON THESE ACTIONS RIGHT NOW AS THE STRATEGIC PLAN. ONCE WE GET THESE GOING AND LIKE ON A REGULAR CADENCE, THEN WE CAN REVISIT MM-HMM. MORE ACTIONS EXPAND IT YEP. AND EXPAND IT. AND THEN, EXCUSE ME. MAYBE THIS, THESE ACTIONS COULD THEN TURN INTO, OKAY, SO LIKE YOU SAID, COMMISSIONER CHEN LOOKING AT THE NEXT LIKE THREE TO FIVE YEARS, WE DEFINITELY WANT TO KEEP THIS TYPE OF ACTIVITY GOING. MM-HMM. . SO THIS IS THE FORMULATION OF STRATEGIC PLAN AND ONE OF THE ACTIONS IS THIS. RIGHT. BUT WE HAVE TO ACTUALLY, I, I MEAN I THINK, I THINK THAT'S A GREAT IDEA AND I THINK WE SHOULD LOOK AT THE ACTIONS AND SAY, LET'S PICK ONE AND ACTUALLY DO IT. I CAN. AND RATHER THAN EVEN TRYING TO DO ALL, I THINK THIS ONE IS I LOVE THE COFFEE ONE AND I THINK GET WHAT YOU THE RELEASE WILL PROMOTE IT, WHICH WILL HELP US GET PEOPLE THERE. WHO KNOWS? I MEAN, THERE'S A BIG SIGN THAT SAYS AS THEY'RE HIRING POLICE OFFICERS, MAYBE THIS IS A NON-CONFRONTATIONAL WAY, YOU KNOW, GIVEN THE, THE OPPORTUNITY BY THE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION COMMISSION FOR ME TO POTENTIALLY MEET MY EMPLOYER. MM-HMM. , YOU KNOW, THAT MIGHT BE THAT'S TRUE. SOMETHING. AND SO THAT'S TRUE. YOU KNOW, THAT I, I THINK DO WE WANT TO TAKE THESE ACTIONS AND DIVIDE 'EM UP OR DO WE JUST ALL WANNA WORK ON THESE TOGETHER? I THINK IT'D BE BEST TO WORK ON IT AND JUST HAVE PERSON AMOUNT. PEOPLE I THINK, I THINK WE CAN WORK TOGETHER. OKAY. AND I, I THINK WE SHOULD LIKE TAKE THE COFFEE W AND WE CAN DIVIDE UP DUTIES WITH IT. YEAH. OKAY. YES. BUT ACTUALLY GET IT. BECAUSE I THINK THE, ONE OF THE BIG PROBLEMS WE'VE HAD IS WE TRY TO DO TOO MUCH AND THEN IT GETS OVERWHELMING AND NOTHING GETS DONE. EVERYTHING GETS DONE. RIGHT. OKAY. SO THEN WITH THE STRATEGIC PLAN, CUZ I THINK THIS IS STILL APPLICABLE TO IT. SO THEN DO WE WANT TO TAKE TWO OF THESE THINGS? I THINK ONE AND TWO. I THINK HAVING A PRESENCE IN THE HEY HU IS SOMETHING THAT'S VERY DOABLE. MM-HMM. . OKAY. AND I ALSO THINK THE HEY HU WOULD ALSO FLOW INTO THE WEBSITE MM-HMM. . SO MAYBE THAT CAN BE SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, FLOWS INTO THAT. BUT FOR RIGHT NOW, LET'S JUST TAKE THE COFFEE AND LET'S TAKE THE HEY HU OUT. AND SO, UM, I'LL VOLUNTEER MYSELF. I CAN REACH OUT TO CHIEF YARBOROUGH, UM, AND KIND OF GET THIS SET UP. WE HAVE HAVE ABOUT A WEEK LEFT IN THE MONTH. UM, NO COURSE SIR. I'M NOT, I'M NOT TOTALLY SURE. YOU KNOW, A SATURDAY MARCH 4TH WOULD BE GOOD. UM, HAS HE HAD ANY OF THESE PUFF THAT CHIEF YET? MM-HMM. . WHEN, WHEN DOES HE NORMALLY HAVE EM? THE FIRST SATURDAY. YEAH. THEY'VE BEEN A LITTLE SPORADIC. IT'S, IT'S DURING THE WEEK ACTUALLY, I THINK. YEAH. I WAS GONNA, YEAH, I THINK THE WEEKENDS AREN'T, I THINK IT'S THE FIRST MONDAY OF THE MONTH I THINK. AND DO PEOPLE, OR MAYBE THE FIRST WEDNESDAY, DO PEOPLE COME TO THEM? LIKE CHRISTIE SAID THEY'VE BEEN SPORADIC AND I THINK WHEN THEY WERE MORE REGULARS HERE, WHEN THEY WERE MORE REGULAR. YEAH. PEOPLE CAME. PEOPLE CAME. OKAY. YEAH. ALL RIGHT. SO MAYBE WE PITCH IT FOR LIKE, IN ORDER TO GIVE US, YOU KNOW, A LOT MORE RAMP TIME FOR IT. MAYBE WE PITCH IT LIKE THE LAST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH. THE SECOND TO LAST FRIDAY OF THE MONTH. SO LIKE THE 29TH OR FRIDAY YOU SAID? FRIDAY THE 31ST. THE 31ST. OKAY. 31ST OF MARCH. AND THAT'LL GIVE PEOPLE A LOT OF TIME. THE PLAN FOR IT. UM, THERE'D BE A LOT OF PROMOTION. IT'S COMING OFF OF A, UH, CITY COUNCIL MEETING. I HAVE A QUESTION ALSO. THAT MONTH IS, UH, WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH. YES. YEAH. I WAS JUST, I WONDER WHO WE'RE GONNA PARTNER. WE COULD PARTNER WITH SOMEONE THAT SAME MONTH. WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH ON MID MARCH. MID MARCH. WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT I THINK, UM, MAYBE FOR THAT PARTICULAR MEETING WE GET A FEMALE OFFICER. UM, OR YOU KNOW, WE TRY TO THAT'S A GOOD IDEA. THAT WILL KIND OF COVER. I CAN ASK, I CAN ASK, YOU KNOW, IN ADDITION TO, YOU KNOW, I CAN ASK HIM FOR, BECAUSE I KNOW RIGHT NOW WE'RE KIND OF SHORT ON TIME TO DO ANYTHING ELSE. [00:55:02] DO YOU KNOW WHAT CITY EVENTS ARE HAPPENING FROM MARCH FOR THERE'S A, UH, WOMEN'S WALK? HOW DO WOMEN'S ALLIANCE'S DOING A WALK? UM, THERE'S ALSO DI D IS DOING A, LIKE A, I THINK RIGHT NOW IT'S JUST OPEN TO ISD TEACHERS THAT ARE FEMALE. BUT I ALSO THINK SHE'S THINKING ABOUT OPENING 'EM UP TO THE PUBLIC. BUT IT'S LIKE A CONFERENCE, LIKE A, LIKE A, LIKE, UM, WHAT IS IT? WOMEN'S DAY OUT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? DO, DO YOU GUYS KNOW THAT PROGRAM? BUT IT, IT'S LIKE A CONFERENCE FOR WOMEN THAT HAVE DIFFERENT SPEAKERS COVERING DIFFERENT TOPICS. THERE'S THAT HAPPENING WITH THE ISD. I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S GONNA BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC YET. SO THERE'S THAT. I DIDN'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE CHRISTIE? NO. BRIAN MEETING WITH, UM, DR. DONG WHO IS THE D EI DIRECTOR FOR THE IS D UM, MS. THK HAVING LUNCH. MM-HMM. , UM, TO JUST DISCUSS ON THE STAFF LEVEL SOME INITIATIVES. SO I CAN ASK IF THERE'S ANYTHING ELSE TO BRING BACK TO YOU. I, WHEN IS THE WALK THE HEAD OF WOMEN'S ALLIANCE? SO THEY DO. AND I WAS, I WAS REFERRING TO DO LIKE A 5K BUT THAT'S ALSO KIND OF WEIRD AND IT MAY NOT BE THE HEAD OF WOMEN'S ALLIANCE. UM, I DON'T KNOW IF I'M EXCITED TO DO A 5K. NO. WELL THEY CALLED IT THE HIPPO STAMP. PETE . I WOULD WALK. THEY THEY'RE HAVING A GIRL NIGHT OUT TOMORROW. UH, ON THURSDAY. I'M TRYING TO. YEAH, I JUST THOUGHT I LOOKED ON FACEBOOK. WELL IT'S A GOOD WAY TO NETWORK WITH OTHER LIKE, WOMEN AND THE COMMUNITY, LIKE PROFESSIONALS AND UM, IT'S SATURDAY, APRIL 1ST. THE HIPPO STAMPING. YEAH, IT IS A WALK RUN. OKAY. MM-HMM. . . I DUNNO IF I WANNA EVEN WALK FIRST. FIRST AT STARTING AT 9:00 AM UM, IT'S GONNA BE AT A FRITZ PART AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE A GOOD OPPORTUNITY IF WE COULD GET SOME BUTTONS. I THINK THAT'D BE A GOOD OPPORTUNITY. JUST SQUEEZE BUTTONS. BUTTONS ARE GOOD. CAUSE YOU COULD WEAR WHAT YOU WANT AND JUST HAVE A BUTTON. SORRY, I'M JUST TRYING TO THINK ABOUT YOU GUYS. I DON'T, I DON'T NECESSARILY WANNA MATCH SHIRTS. OKAY. SHIRT. I'M OUT YOU SPECTRUMS LIKE NO, NO, NO. I MEAN I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN, I MEAN I WOULD, I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN DOING THE WALK TEST . I LIKE THE WAY HE ENDED THAT WAY I GUESS. YEAH. I MEAN I USED TO, I USED TO RUN. SO IT'S FRUSTRATING TO ME TO BE AT A WALK AND NOT RUN, BUT I'M NOT, I MEAN I USED TO DO HALF MARATHONS, BUT I WAS YOUNG. , YOUNG, OLD IN BETWEEN. IT DOESN'T MATTER. NOT, BUT YOU CAN PUT A BUTTON ON AND DO I WILL PUT THAT BUTTON ON AND WALK OR HAND OUT WATER. YES. DO THEY NEED VOLUNTEERS FOR HAND OUT WATER? PROBABLY. WE DRINK, I HAND OUT WATER WITH A BUN WITHOUT BUTTONS. THERE YOU GO. NOT WITH MATCHING T-SHIRTS. I NEVER DO THAT . SO I NEVER GET TO WEAR MY SHIRT AND MATCH YOU GUYS AGAIN. . I'M SURE. SO WE'RE JUST LIKE WHAT? I KNOW EXACTLY. WE NEVER GOT TO MATCH. SO DO WE WANT TO HAVE COMMISSIONER WALKER? DO YOU WANT TO TAKE ON THE, THE HEY HU NEWSLETTER IN A IN ADDITION, SINCE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE WEBSITE OR DO YOU WANNA TAKE A BREAK AND JUST FOCUS ON THAT TO HAVE SOMEBODY ELSE DO THAT? OKAY. TO ME. SO I'LL TAKE THE LEAD ON THE WOMEN OFFICERS AND TALKING TO CHIEF YARBOROUGH ABOUT COFFEE WITH THE POLICE FOR THE 31ST. UM, AND THEN, UM, COMMISSIONER WALKER, WE'LL HAVE YOU FOCUS ON THE HEY HUDDLE NEWSLETTER AND JUST GETTING A PRESENCE IN THERE. AND THEN, UM, COMMISSIONER CHEN, COMMISSIONER SPOONS, DO ONE OF YOU WANT TO REACH OUT TO THE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE AND SEE IF WE COULD HAND OUT WATER THAT DAY OR? YEAH, I COULD DO THAT. OKAY. YEAH, TEMPLATE . OKAY. AND DO YOU, YOU DON'T HAVE KRISTI CONTACT PERSON AT THE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE? UM, I DID, BUT I THINK SHE STEPPED DOWN, BUT I CAN UM, [01:00:01] YEAH. GMAIL ACCOUNT. YEAH, THEY DO HAD A WOMEN'S GMAIL.COM. THAT'S PROBABLY THE ONE I WOULD GIVE YOU. OKAY. OR JUST SHOW UP ON SATURDAY NIGHT. THURSDAY NIGHT . THURSDAY NIGHT. WHO'S GONNA SHOW UP EVERY NIGHT? YEAH, IT'S EIGHTIES KARAOKE . WELL THAT LOOKS LIKE A, THAT IS GMAIL'S TELLING ME IT'S AN EMAIL. SO BASICALLY THE UM, WHAT IS IT CALLED? THE HIPPO WHAT? STAMPEDE. STAMPEDE HIPPO. STAMPEDE 5K. STAMPED 5K. AND IT IS APRIL 1ST. UM, 9:00 AM 9:00 AM UM, CAN WE GIVE OUT BERRY PITS FIRST? WELL, THERE'S GONNA, I MEAN, ISN'T THERE GONNA BE A PIN ON THE BACK OF THE BUN OVER, BECAUSE WE SAID SO. AND THEN I GUESS COMMISSIONER SPOONS, YOU'LL BE IN THE BULLPEN. YEAH. ANY OF US NEED ME HELP? WE'LL JUST, UH, . WELL THIS IS GOOD. I FEEL LIKE WE'VE GOT A LOT ACCOMPLISHED. I THINK SO TOO. I THINK THERE'S THREE, ONE GREAT OPPORTUNITIES FOR US AND, UH, MAYBE COMMISSIONER CHEN, IF, IF YOU CAN, I MEAN MAYBE ASK HIM IF, YOU KNOW, ON A SECTION IF WE COULD PUT UP OUR BANNER. YEP. AND WE COULD STAND UNDER OUR BANNER AND HAND OUT WATER BANNER IF THEY WOULD MIND US PUTTING UP OUR BANNER AND OUR BUTTONS THERE. YOU BUTTONS AND BANNERS. BUTTONS. BANNERS AND WATER. RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. SO, OKAY. SO ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON 8.1 FROM THE TRAINING SUBCOMMITTEE? AND THANK YOU COMMISSIONER JEN FOR GUIDING US THROUGH OR FACILITATING US ON THIS. UH, ALL RIGHT. PROJECT. IT'S NOT FOR ME. AND IF YOU WANT, WANT COMMISSIONER CHEN, IF YOU WANNA SEND OUT THOSE OR SEND CHRISTIE THESE BULLET POINTS. OKAY. CHRISTIE, SEND THESE OUT TO US. THAT'D BE GREAT. SURE. I'LL LOOK FOR BUTTONS. OKAY. THERE WE GO. THERE WE GO. THERE WE GO. BUTTONS. IF THEY'RE NOT TOO MUCH, WE CAN COVER IT. IF IT IS, WE CAN ALWAYS APPROACH CITY COUNCIL. SO WE'LL DO BUTTON QUOTES. . OKAY. CHRISTIE, I JUST SENT YOU THAT. THANK YOU. OKAY. I CAN PROBABLY, AND IF IT'S LIKE, IF IT'S LIKE VISTA PRINT WHERE IT'S LIKE 50 BUTTONS, I MEAN OFF , WE'LL, WE'LL HAVE MORE MEMBERS. . WE CAN ALWAYS JUST HOLD ONTO EM. OH YEAH. WELL, EVERYONE GETS A BUTTON AND A BACKUP. . ALL RIGHT. 10 BLOCK BACKUP. . WE'LL GIVE YOU ONE. AND WE HAVE ONE HERE FOR YOU, . ALL RIGHT. SO WE'LL GO AHEAD AND MOVE ON TO, OR IF THERE'S NO OTHER DISCUSSION, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND MOVE ON TO, UH, ITEM NINE, WEBSITE SUBCOMMITTEE 9.1, DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON THE WEBSITE MIGRATION FROM CONTENT ON THE CURRENT CITY OF HUDDLE, LANDING PAGE TO INCLUDE CONTENT FROM THE LANDING PAGE CREATED BY COMMISSIONER WALKER. MM-HMM. . YEAH. UH, YEAH, WE MET, I MET WITH ANDREW JAN. UM, BUT AFTER ALL THE WEATHER THINGS, I KNOW THAT HE, UM, PASSED IT BACK WITH OUR NOTES, UH, TO ALISON AND CHRISTIE. AND THEN, UM, WE'RE JUST SAID I SHARE BY BACK IN A FEW DAYS, BUT THEN THERE WAS COLD, SO I DON'T KNOW. SO WE HAVE ON STAFF IF, IF IT'S OKAY, WE HAD SOME QUESTIONS. MM-HMM. , LIKE FOLLOW UP. UM, LET'S SEE. YEAH. AND THEN THE WINTER THING, I MEAN LIKE EVERYONE, THAT WAS EVERYONE'S MAIN FOCUS AND LIKE THE CLEANUP HAS BEEN LIKE ANOTHER, LIKE, THINGS THAT YOU DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT AND IT'S LIKE MM-HMM. TWO WEEKS LATER HERE WE'RE, UM, LET'S SEE, WHERE DID HE SEND ME THAT? ANDREW. ANDREW. ANDREW. OKAY. UH, OKAY. SO HE DID SEND US LIKE AN UPDATE OF THE DISCUSSION. UM, BUT, AND LIKE HE WAS TALKING ABOUT, UM, [01:05:01] THE LOGIN STUFF AND THAT, THAT WE'D BE ABLE TO LOOK AT IT, BUT WE DIDN'T SEE THE LINK CUZ IT'S NOT LIVE YET, RIGHT? IS THAT RIGHT? YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE ACTUAL, AND I'LL, AND I'LL LET YOU TALK FIRST AND THEN I'LL GO BACK AND ASK MY QUESTIONS. NO, SO YOU, YOU WOULD JUST BASICALLY LOG IN AND THEN EDIT THE PAGE MM-HMM. AND THEN YOU COULD SEE EXACTLY. OH, OKAY. MM-HMM. . OKAY. UM, SO FROM ALLISON, SO ALLISON'S THE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS MM-HMM. , AND SHE WAS ASKING, UM, KIND OF LIKE WHAT THE COMMUNICATION OBJECTIVES WERE. UM, AND IS IT MORE LIKE THE COMMISSIONER IS TRYING TO RE WAYS RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN GENERAL? UM, OR ARE THERE GOING TO BE LIKE, SPECIFIC CALLS TO ACTION, UM, WHETHER THAT'S TO ATTEND A PARTICULAR EVENT OR MEETING, ET CETERA. UM, TO GET TO KNOW THE DNI MEMBERS. UM, AND SO I GUESS THE ASK FROM STAFF SO THAT WE CAN BETTER UNDERSTAND HOW WE CAN HELP SUPPORT, UM, IS IF THE COMMISSION CAN DEVELOP, UM, A LIKE WHAT THE COMMUNICATION, WHAT YOU WANT THE COMMUNICATIONS TO DO FOR THE COMMISSION. UM, SO THAT'LL MAKE IT A LOT EASIER TO DRAFT UP A COMMS PLAN FROM THE STAFF LEVEL. AND THEN, UH, WE CAN HELP THE COMMISSION. SHE, HER STAFF CAN HELP THE COMMISSION REFINE OR VICE VERSA. MM-HMM. FROM Y'ALLS SIDE TOO. AND HE DID MENTION THAT Y'ALL DID TALK ABOUT, UM, YOU HAD ALREADY HAD THE CONVERSATION WITH WHAT Y'ALL JUST TALKED ABOUT NOW, ABOUT INCORPORATING TO THE HEY HEAD OF SO, AND GUYS WAS LIKE, HEY, SAME THING, , IT'S GONNA BE PRETTY COOL TO, IT'S GONNA ALL COME TOGETHER. UM, AND THERE'LL BE OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO, IF THERE IS A ACTION, LIKE, HEY, WE'RE HAVING AN EVENT, THEY'LL CLICK ON OUR LINK AND YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SEE OUR PAGE. IT WILL COME UP. UM, ALSO MEET THE COMMISSIONERS IS A BIG THING. UM, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE CAN SEE WHO WE ARE, JUST IN CASE YOU GET TO THE, THE EVENT, YOU BE LIKE, WHO ARE YOU? THE BUTTON'S NOT BIG ENOUGH. YOU KNOW, THERE'S, OR EVEN ON THAT MEET THE COMMISSIONER SIDE, WE COULD LIKE, HEY, EVERY MONDAY WE'LL BE AT WATCH FOR OUR MESSAGE FOR COFFEE WITH THE COMMISSIONERS AND THE POLICE OFFICERS. MM-HMM. . MM-HMM. . I THINK IT, I THINK IT'S GONNA COME TOGETHER REALLY NICELY AND IT'S GONNA BE SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE OUR PAGE THAT LEADS TO THE COPY WITH THE COMMISSIONERS THAT LEADS TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. YOU KNOW, I, I FEEL LIKE WE'RE STARTING TO DO THINGS THAT ARE GONNA, THEY JUST DON'T STOP MM-HMM. , LIKE THEY GO TO THINGS, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? LIKE, OUR WEBSITE WILL SHOW OUR PROCLAMATIONS AND YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO FEEL, YOU KNOW, LIKE THIS CITY IS MORE INCLUSIVE MM-HMM. , UM, BECAUSE THEY SEE THAT WE VALUE THOSE THINGS AND THEN IT'LL LEAD INTO, YOU KNOW, MEETING US AND THEN YOU CAN MEET US IN PERSON. MM-HMM. . SO I JUST FEEL LIKE A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING THERE, AND I THINK THAT'S THE MAIN GOAL FOR US TO GETTING TO KNOW US BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE, YOU KNOW, I CAN JUST BLEND IN WITH THE CROWD. UM, AND THEN MAKING SURE LIKE OUR EVENTS ARE HIGHLIGHTED EVEN THOUGH WE DO HAVE, HEY HU OUT, BUT WE, WE HAVEN'T REALLY PROMOTED ANYTHING FOR US, BUT IT'D BE A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO SAY, AND WE'RE PARTNERING WITH BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. MM-HMM. , UH, CREATING THAT AWARENESS. AWARENESS WHICH IS THE PROCLAMATION ITSELF, WHICH IS STILL IN PLACE CUZ I REALLY DO GET LOST PROCLAMATIONS. UM, BUT, UH, I THINK THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR. AND THEN ALSO THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE COMMUNITY PICTURES OF THE DIFFERENT EVENTS THAT WE'VE ATTENDED. UM, THEY COME SEND US, YOU KNOW, WITH ANY REQUEST THAT THEY HAVE, LIKE, HEY, YOU KNOW, Y'ALL DIDN'T CELEBRATE THAT WEEK DAY, YOU KNOW, I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT. I WOULD LOVE TO SHOW Y'ALL HOW IT'S DONE AND BEFORE THAT. THAT'S, THOSE ARE THINGS LIKE, I THINK OF LIKE, WE, WE MAY MISS A, A OPPORTUNITY AND THAT WOULD GIVE US A GREAT WAY TO COMMUNICATE WITH OTHERS TOO. CUZ THERE, THERE IS ACKNOW THAT'S CONNECTED TO THE WEBSITE AS WELL. AND I, I THINK BUSINESSES IN HUK WOULD APPRECIATE IF WE GOT, FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERM, GOT OUR ACT TOGETHER. CUZ I THINK THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES FOR BUSINESSES TO PARTNER WITH AN ENTITY SUCH AS DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, COMMISSION. AND SO I THINK LIKE, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW, LIKE REALLY BAD EXAMPLE, BUT LIKE I HAVE A DAUGHTER, SHE, HER HAIR IS, SHE HAS TO HAVE IT BRAIDED. MM-HMM. , LIKE MAYBE A NEW SALON THAT'S COMING. YEAH. THERE YOU [01:10:01] GO. . JUST A REALLY BAD EXAMPLE. I MEAN, I'M JUST TRYING TO THINK OF ONE, BUT YOU KNOW, LIKE A NEW SALON OWNER COMING INTO HUK AND HEY, I'D LIKE TO PARTNER WITH THE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION COMMISSION. I DON'T KNOW NECESSARILY KNOW HOW TO SAY IT, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, GIRLS THAT HAVE THIS TYPE OF HAIR MM-HMM. COME TO MY SALON ON, YOU KNOW, AND WE'RE IN FEBRUARY SO MAYBE IT COULD BE A BLACK HISTORY MONTH TYPE, YOU KNOW, TIE IN AND, YOU KNOW, I'M JUST THROWING OUT AN IDEA. BUT THAT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE AND I THINK I'D APPRECIATE IS HELPING OTHER BUSINESSES IN HUDDLE TO, TO BE SUCCESSFUL WHILE UTILIZING US AS KIND OF THE VESSEL TO DO THAT. SO I MEAN, I'VE SEEN THAT IN OTHER CITIES WHERE THEY HAVE A SPOTLIGHT FOR, YOU KNOW, A BUSINESS AND IT'S FEATURED, UM, YOU KNOW, IN THEIR NEWSLETTER. SO I MEAN YEAH. SOMETHING'S SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, TO GO WITH THAT. YEAH. JUST, AND I MEAN, IF WE HAVE SOMETHING GOING ON, WE COULD ALWAYS REACH OUT TO THE COMMUNITY AND PACK TO COVER, YOU KNOW, OUR EVENT OR WHAT WE'RE PARTNERING ON AND UM, YOU KNOW, THAT'LL GET MORE EYES, MORE BROADCASTING ON SOMETHING. AND SO I THINK THIS, I THINK, YEAH, I THINK THE WEBSITE IS NICE. I THINK THE WEBSITE'S GONNA BE THE CATALYST FOR ALL OF THAT. SO I'M REALLY GLAD THAT YOU'RE MAKING SOME GREAT PROGRESS THERE. COMMISSIONER WALKER. SURE. FAVORITE THINGS DO SO THEN I CAN'T TELL IF YOU, IF YOU'RE BEING SINCERE OR SARCASTIC SOMETIMES. NO, I MEAN, LIKE I SOME STUFF LIKE THIS ON LIKE THIS HOT, SO IT'S FUN TO CREATE LIKE DASHBOARDS AND PRETTY PICTURE THINGS. , DO YOU HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED AS FAR AS I WAS ABOUT TO ASK THE FILES? NO, I DIDN'T EVEN PUT A BIO ON THERE. I JUST KINDA LIKE, JUST THE PICTURES SO FAR. LIKE I DIDN'T REALLY GO THAT DEEP INTO IT YET BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW LIKE WHAT OUR LIMITATIONS WERE GONNA BE AT THE TIME. AND THEN PLUS WE'VE HAD SOME CHANGES AND UM, AND I ALSO HAD A QUESTION IF WE WERE EVER GONNA AMEND THE NAME THAT FIRST YEAH. DID WE NOT SO REMEMBER? YES, REMEMBER, UM, Y'ALL VOTED AS A COMMISSION TO CHANGE IT, TO CHANGE IT, BUT BECAUSE CITY COUNCIL AND THEN IT WASN'T WORDED CORRECTLY OR SOMETHING ON THE AGEN ON THE AGENDA WHENEVER YOU DID YOUR PRESENTATION ON, UM, THE TRAINING. UM, THERE WAS SOMETHING WITH THE WORDING OF IT BECAUSE THEY'D HAVE TO GO BACK AND UPDATE THE CHARTER MM-HMM. . OH, I, SO THAT'S, SO THEN, AND THAT'S WHY I CONTINUE TO REFER TO Y'ALL AS THE DEAN BECAUSE TECHNICALLY THAT IS THE NAME. SO DO WE NEED TO GO BACK IN FRONT OF COUNSEL WITH THE CORRECTED VERBIAGE ON THE AGENDA? IF THAT'S WHAT THE COMMISSION WANTS? YEAH. OKAY. BECAUSE THE WEBSITE SAYS YEAH. SO WE SHOULD PROBABLY DO THAT CAUSE WE ALREADY VOTED ON IT TO, TO DO IT AND SO YEAH. CAN WE GET ON THE AGENDA? SO, SO WE GO, WE'RE LIKE MONTH OUT NOW FOR PLANNING. SO, UM, WHAT I CAN DO IS, SEE, LET'S SEE. THANKS BRIAN. NOW YOU'RE ROLLING OVER. DID YOU WANT IT? YEAH, SO THE FIRST ONE APRIL WOULD BE APRIL 6TH. AND THEN THAT COULD GIVE Y'ALL ANOTHER, YOU, YOU WOULD MEET AGAIN BEFORE THEN TOO. RIGHT? SO IF I NEEDED TO MAKE ANY UPDATES OR CHANGES I COULD OKAY. TO THAT. DO YOU WANT ME TO GO AHEAD AND SUBMIT THAT? THAT'D BE GREAT. OR I'LL, I'LL JUST NEED THE HOW YOU WANT IT WORDED ON THE AGENDA SO I CAN ADD IT. SO, DISCUSSION IMPOSSIBLE. ACTION ON AMENDING THE NAME OF THE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION COMMISSION TO INCLUDE EQUITY. I WONDER WHAT MY SHOULD SAY HOLD ABOUT BUDDY. CAN YOU REPEAT THAT ONE MORE TIME? YEAH, YEAH. DISCUSSION IMPOSSIBLE. ACTION. UHHUH ON THE, UM, AMENDING ON MENDING THE NAME OF THE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION COMMISSION TO INCLUDE EQUITY AND READ DIVERSITY, EQUITY AND INCLUSION COMMISSION. GOT IT. FOR APRIL 9TH, OR EXCUSE ME, THE FIRST ONE IN APRIL. APRIL 6TH. YES. I SEE. I DON'T EVEN LISTEN TO MYSELF, BUT THAT'S HOW IT'S GOING. SAY IT'S GOING, BUT OUR GOAL IS TO CREATE, TO GET TO KNOW US AS [01:15:01] COMMISSIONERS, UM, DRAW AWARENESS TO DIFFERENT FORMATIONS AS WELL AS DIFFERENT EVENTS THAT WE HAVE. UM, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THANKS FOR THE NAME. WHY TALKING TO YOU LADY IN THE LINE? WHAT IS THAT? I NEVER HEARD OF IT. WELL, HERE'S OUR WEBSITE. HERE'S OUR CURE. MOM. . ALL RIGHT. SO THANK YOU COMMISSIONER WALKER FOR THAT UPDATE. UM, SO THEN I GUESS WHAT'S THE NEXT STEP? UM, SO I PUT IT IN THE MINUTES, UM, THAT STAFF WILL COME BACK WITH RECOMMENDATIONS OR AFTER WE'VE, I THINK IT WAS A BIT COMPU THERE, IT WAS CONFUSING FROM OUR SIDE WITH MM-HMM. WITH THAT, UM, ON BEING ABLE TO SEE WHAT THE WEBSITE IS MM-HMM. AND UNDERSTANDING, UM, EXACTLY WHAT, UM, WHAT THE COMMUNICATION SIDES CAN DO FOR THE COMMISSION. SO, WE'LL, I'LL HAVE IT AND IF YOU'LL WANT TO ADD IT AS AN AGENDA ITEM FOR THE NEXT, I'LL BRING BACK, UM, ANY FEEDBACK OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. NEXT WE'LL MOVE ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON THE, I'M SORRY. ALL RIGHT. HEARING NONE. WE'LL MOVE TO ITEM 10. CALENDAR AND EVENTS SUBCOMMITTEE. UM, ITEM 10.1, DISCUSSION OR UPDATE ON THE DECEMBER 10TH, DOWNTOWN CHRISTMAS FAIR LEARNINGS, IDEAS, ET CETERA. UM, I WAS THERE. IT WAS A, WERE VERY WELL ATTENDED. UM, UM, HAD A LOT OF VENDORS THERE, HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE THERE. IT WAS AN AWESOME OFFER EXPERIENCE. UM, I THINK WITH WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT TONIGHT, HAVING A BOOTH, HAVING, UM, OUR BANNER, UM, HANDING OUT WATERS, UM, BEING, YOU KNOW, BEING PRESENT AT SOMETHING LIKE THIS WOULD BE REALLY GOOD FOR NEXT TIME. UM, LIKE I SAID, THEY HAD A TON OF PEOPLE, A TON OF VENDORS, AND SO IT WOULD'VE BEEN COOL TO, LIKE, IF WE HAD OUR WEBSITE SCAN A QR CODE OR MM-HMM. , IF WE HAD, YOU KNOW, WATERS TO GIVE OUT CUZ IT WAS, IT WAS OKAY LIKE AS FAR AS TEMPERATURE, BUT MM-HMM. WATERS WOULD'VE BEEN COOL. UM, I THINK THE CHAMBER WAS LIKE TAKING A PICTURE WITH SANTA AND THEN HANDING OUT WATERS SO THEY WEREN'T EVEN DOING ANYTHING EXTRAVAGANT. AND SO I DON'T THINK THESE, THESE TYPE OF EVENTS, THEY HAVE TO BE EXTRAVAGANT COMING FROM THE VENDORS. UM, CUZ YOU DO HAVE PEOPLE SELLING STUFF AND SO PEOPLE ARE ALREADY DRAWING THERE. BUT IF YOU HAVE PEOPLE LIKE JUST GIVING OUT WATERS OR, YOU KNOW, CANDY OR, YOU KNOW, LIKE A WRISTBAND, I THINK THAT'D BE COOL. BUT IT WAS A REALLY GOOD EVENT AND VERY WELL ATTENDED. SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO, YOU KNOW, NEXT YEAR AS BEING ABLE TO JUST DO SOMETHING. ANYTHING ELSE ON 10.1? ALL RIGHT. HEARING NONE, WE'LL MOVE TO 10.2. DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON Q1 PRIORITIES AND ACTIVITIES GETTING WITH ALISON ON CAPABILITIES AND DIVVYING UP RESPONSIBILITIES. UM, I THINK WE DISCUSSED THIS ONE AT LENGTH TONIGHT, RIGHT, ? YEAH. AND I THINK WE, UH, WE GOT SOME GOOD, GOOD ACTION ITEMS JUST TO REVIEW FOR IT. UM, COMMISSIONER SPOONS, YOU'RE GONNA LOOK AT BUTTON QUOTES. , COMMISSIONER WALKER. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER WALKER. YOU WERE GONNA, UH, UH, LOOK AT OUR CAPABILITIES FOR HEY HUDDLE MM-HMM. AND ALSO THE WEBSITE. UM, COMMISSIONER CHEN, YOU WERE GOING TO REACH OUT TO THE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE FOR VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES AND I HAVE ALREADY EMAILED THEM. OKAY. I JUST AT THE HUDDLE STAMP FEED. YEAH. AND THEN FROM THEM I WILL REACH OUT TO CHIEF YARBOROUGH REGARDING, UM, COFFEE WITH THE POLICE ON A MONTHLY CADENCE AS WELL AS FOR THIS UPCOMING ONE IN MARCH. UM, HAVING A SPECIFIC FOCUS OR EMPHASIS ON OUR WOMEN, UM, WOMEN POLICE OFFICERS, WOMEN, YEAH. MM-HMM. . ALL RIGHT. UM, CAN I MAKE ONE MORE MENTION PLEASE? SO THE, I DON'T KNOW, UM, THE PHOTO POWER BREAKFAST? YEAH. OH YEAH. YOU'RE AT THE LAST ONE RIGHT NEXT TO YOU. SORRY. UM, I'M SORRY. MEMORABLE BUTTON. [01:20:02] IT WAS A DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT. IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THERE. THERE'S A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE. WHAT I WAS GONNA, SORRY, WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY IS, UM, LITERALLY RIGHT NEXT , THAT WAS AWESOME. DIFFERENT THOUGH. SO WE, WE AS THE CITY ARE BECOMING MORE, I THINK IT'S ORIGINATED AS A CHAMBER EVENT, AND THEN IT WENT TO THE EP OR THE EDC WAS HOSTING IT AND THEN THE CHAMBER TOOK IT OVER. UM, AND NOW IT'S A CHAMBER SPONSORED EVENT, BUT THE, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IS HOSTING IT. SO I RECEIVED DIRECTOR FROM JAMES TO KIND OF INCORPORATE THE CITY, HAVE A PRESENCE A LOT MORE WITH THEM, UM, AND TO ASSIST, LIKE WITH PROGRAMMING AND THINGS. I THINK THEY'RE BOOKED OUT FOR A WHILE, BUT THAT COULD BE ENOUGH. LIKE KIND OF HOW THE MAYOR GAVE HIS STATE OF THE CITY. YEAH. THEY'RE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR, UM, KIND OF PROGRAM. SO EVERYONE GOES THROUGH AND GIVES THEIR UPDATES AND THEN THERE'S A SECTION TOWARD THE LIKE 20, 30 MINUTES OF LIKE A, A GENERAL UPDATE OF WHAT IT IS THAT YOU DO. SO I IT'S A PRESENTATION. YEAH. I THINK THAT MIGHT BE A CAPTIVE AUDIENCE. UM, IF NOTHING ELSE WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS WITHIN THE CITY, THAT COULD ALSO HELP SPREAD THE WORD OF WHAT THE COMMISSION DOES IF THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THEY'RE TALKING TO ALL THESE OTHER PEOPLE. JUST GREAT IDEA. SO IT'D PROBABLY REQUIRE US TO, YOU KNOW, HAVE A PRESENTATION. IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL TO, HOPEFULLY YOUR FINGERS CROSSED, HAVE OUR WEBSITE, UM, UP TO, UP TO DATE WITH THAT. BUT, UM, IT'S A REALLY COOL EXPERIENCE CUZ YOU HAVE BASICALLY ALL THE LEADERSHIP IN THE CITY. YOU HAVE THE POLICE OFFICERS, UM, YOU HAVE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, LIKE CHRISTIE SAID, YOU HAVE THE ISD, YOU HAVE THE CHAMBER, UM, YOU HAVE THE COLLEGES MM-HMM. . UM, SO IT'S A REALLY GOOD OPPORTUNITY. SO THAT, YEAH, I THINK THAT'S A GREAT IDEA. WHEN IS THE NEXT ONE? FEBRUARY. EXCUSE ME. MARCH 8TH. SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE THE SECOND, LET'S SEE, SECOND TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, THURSDAYS IN, UM, OF THE MONTH. UM, AND THEY'RE AT EIGHT O'CLOCK AND THEY JUST MOVED LOCATIONS AND IT'S OPEN TO EVERYONE. IT'S NOT LIKE, LIKE LITERALLY LIKE ANYONE WHO CAN GO, I JUST DON'T THINK IT'S BEEN PROMOTED AS SUCH. AND SO IT'LL CONTINUE TO GROW. LIKE THIS LAST ONE WAS THE LARGEST ONE I'VE SEEN IN A LONG TIME. UM, BUT IT IS AT THE EAST WILLIAMSON COUNTY HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER ON THE THIRD FLOOR AT 8:00 AM OH, I ACTUALLY WAS IN CLASS THAT DAY. I SAW EVERYBODY WALKING BY. OH, YOU DID? YEAH, I STILL OUT THERE AND I WAS WATCHING. OH, NEAT. OKAY. SO THAT MIGHT BE A, A GOOD OPPORTUNITY AND WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT. WE CAN PUT THAT AS AN AGENDA ITEM. MM-HMM. FOR OUR NEXT AGENDA. YEAH. MM-HMM. . AND BEFORE WE MOVE ON, JUST TO KIND TOUCH BASE ON THE CURRENT MONTHS COMING UP, UM, WE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT MARCH IS WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH, APRIL IS CELEBRATE DIVERSITY MONTH AS WELL AS WORLD AUTISM AWARENESS MONTH IN MAY IS MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS AS WELL AS JEWISH AMERICAN MONTH. SO STICK NOT THERE. AND I'M PRETTY SURE THERE'S PROBABLY A THOUSAND OTHER MONTH NAMES FOR IT. BUT THESE ARE JUST THE ONES THAT YOU KNOW FOR FUTURE. UM, ARE WE ON 11.1 OR WE STILL ON? NO, WE'RE STILL ON 10.2. OKAY. CORRECT. I HAVE SOMETHING FOR 11.1. ALL RIGHT. ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON 10.2? ALL RIGHT. HEARING NONE, WE'LL MOVE TO 11 OR ITEM 11 OTHER BUSINESS. SO 11.1 POSSIBLE AGENDA ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION DURING NEXT MONTH'S DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION COMMISSION. UM, COMMISSIONER CHEN, YOU SAID YOU HAD ONE? YEAH, I MEAN, FIRST WE WANNA, DO WE, WHAT WAS, DIDN'T WE SAY THERE WAS SOMETHING, OH, OUR NAME CHANGE. DO WE WANNA PUT THAT ON OUR AGENDA JUST IN CASE YOU SAID IF WE HAD ANYTHING TO SAY TO, TO REVIEW ABOUT IT? OR MAYBE YOU DON'T NEED TO, WE'RE GOOD TO GO ON IT. WELL, I WOULD, I HAD IT ON HERE TO PUT IT AS AN AGENDA ITEM. OKAY. BECAUSE I DO THINK THAT WE NEED SOME SORT OF PRESENTATION VERY SHORT TO BE GIVEN TO CITY COUNCIL OKAY. ABOUT WHY EQUITY, INCLUDING IN THE NAME IS IMPORTANT. RIGHT. SO THEY'RE NOT JUST LIKE, WHY ARE YOU CHANGING YOUR NAME? RIGHT. RIGHT. OKAY. THAT MAKES SENSE. UM, YEP. I WOULD PREFER SOMEONE ELSE GIVE IT, UM, SO WE COULD TALK ABOUT IT. THAT'S WHY I JUST WANTED TO PUT IT ON THE AGENDA. OH, OKAY. YEAH. I WAS JUST GONNA SUGGEST WE SHOULD PUT IT ON THE AGENDA. YEAH. SO I HAD THAT PRESENTATION ON EQUITY AND WHY NEEDS TO CHANGE. SO THAT WAS ONE OF THE AGENDA ITEMS. UM, ALSO ANOTHER AGENDA ITEM IS FOR STAFF TO BRING BACK FEEDBACK ON THE WEBSITE. GOT, OKAY. GOT IT. AND THEN I HAVE ANOTHER AGENDA ITEM FOR, [01:25:01] UM, DISCUSSION ON A POTENTIAL PRESENTATION FOR THE HUTTO POWER BREAKFAST. YES. UM, AND THEN I'D LIKE TO HAVE A DISCUSSION ITEM OR A DISCUSSION ON IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN INFLUENCE OR TALK ABOUT REGARDING AUTISTIC ADULTS IN THE WORKFORCE HERE IN HUDA. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT CONVERSATION WOULD LOOK LIKE, BUT I THINK IT'S WORTH IT TO HAVE IT ON THE AGENDA TO JUST TALK ABOUT MM-HMM. DISCUSSION. YEAH. YOU KNOW, IS THERE IDEAS? AND MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IN THE INTERIM WE CAN ALL KIND OF RESEARCH, SEE WHAT OTHER CITIES DO TO SPECIFICALLY CALL OUT OR RECOGNIZE OR SUPPORT, UM, CITIZENS WITH DISABILITIES IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE COULD REPLICATE IN OUR CITY OR IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE COULD, YOU KNOW, EVOLVE TO FIT OUR CITY. SO JUST A LITTLE BIT OF A HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT FOR YOU. ANY OTHER AGENDA ITEMS? UM, WELL I, I GUESS I HAVE A QUESTION AND THEN I HAVE ANOTHER AGENDA ITEM. I ALSO THINK WE DID A WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH PROCLAMATION LAST YEAR, DIDN'T WE? MM-HMM. . SO DON'T WE NEED TO ASK CITY COUNCIL, DON'T WE NEED TO PUT ON OUR AGENDA TO APPROVE, ASK THE CITY COUNCIL TO READ IT OR SOMETHING? DOES THAT, TO ADD IT ON AS A PROCLAMATION? EXACTLY. LIKE IT'S ALREADY DONE, BUT WE JUST, WE WANT IT TO BE DONE. DO WE WANT TO HIM TO REREAD IT EVERY YEAR? IS THAT, I DON'T KNOW. SO WHAT WE DID WITH, WHAT DO WE DO WITH THE OTHER ONE? THE BLACK HISTORY MONTH PROCLAMATION. SO YOU JUST UPDATED IT RIGHT. THE DATE AND SENT IT TO ME BECAUSE WE WERE LIKE, RIGHT. UM, BUT AGAIN, THE COUNCIL MEETING'S NEXT THURSDAY AND THAT AGENDA, UM, HAS BEEN SET. UM, BUT YOU COULD CERTAINLY DO IT. THEIR NEXT ONE WOULD BE THE 16TH, WHICH IS SPRING BREAK, AND THEY HAVE AN ITEM ON THERE TO CHANGE IT TO THE 23RD OF MARCH. OKAY. UM, WELL, I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE NORMAL THING IS. LIKE WE DID THAT WITH BLACK HISTORY MONTH, WHICH IS WHY BRINGING IT UP MM-HMM. , IF WE, I MEAN, WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE THEM READ IT EVERY YEAR. IF IT'S GONNA BE ON THE WEBSITE, LIKE I DON'T REALLY CARE. I'M JUST, I JUST KNOW WE DID THAT WITH BLACK HISTORY MONTH, WE UPDATED IT. MM-HMM. , I LIKE, I LIKE THE IDEA OF READING IT EVERY YEAR. IT'S NOT REDUNDANT. I MEAN, IT'S NOT LIKE YOU HEAR IT, RIGHT. IT'S STILL THE OTHER PART WITH PROCLAMATIONS, UM, THE CITY COUNCIL AND UH, CITY MANAGER WANT TO BE ABLE TO TIE IT BACK. SO TO DEFINITELY HAVE REPRESENTATIVE THERE, THAT'S, THAT'S ONE THING. AND THEN IF THERE'S ANY WAY TO INCORPORATE OR TIE IN, I MEAN WITH WOMEN'S, HIS, LIKE WITH WOMEN'S, I MEAN, THAT MIGHT JUST BE THE COMMISSIONER YOU COMMISSIONERS HERE OR HAVING A REPRESENTATIVE THERE OF THAT SPECIFIC GROUP AND WHY MM-HMM. AND MAYBE YOU COULD EVEN GIVE A QUICK, YOU KNOW, CHAT ABOUT IT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. BUT TIE IT BACK TO WHAT, TO TIE IT BACK TO WHATEVER THE PROCLAMATION IS. SO LIKE IF LIKE WE DID WORLD HIPPO DAY, UM, PROCLAMATION, SO WE HAVE LIKE HIP, LIKE WHAT'S THE ACTION OF THAT? WHY ARE WE BRINGING IT? AND WE WERE GONNA HAVE LIKE THE MASCOT AND ALL THAT KIND OF PUMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE, BUT THE, THE WEATHER. SO TIME BEING ABLE TO HAVE SOME SORT OF SOMETHING. THEN JUST THE MAYOR JUST RATING THE PROCLAMATION IN. THAT'S IT. NOBODY'S THERE TO RECEIVE IT. AND IT'S KIND OF LIKE IT FALSE SPOT. SO HE WANTS, SO CITY COUNCIL WANTS LIKE FOR REPRESENTATIVE FOR WIN FOR WOMEN'S, UH, FOR WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH, HAVING THE PROCLAMATION READ, HAVING A COMMISSIONER THERE AND HAVING SOMEONE SPEAK TO IT AFTER THE MAY. THAT THAT WOULD BE THE, THE GOLDEN NUGGET IF ALL, ALL THREE IF NOTHING ELSE, TO HAVE SOMEONE THERE TO RECEIVE THE PROCLAMATION. THAT'S THE BIGGEST THING. I MEAN, I GUESS, I MEAN, HE'S, THE MAYOR CAN DO WHAT HE WANTS, BUT THE THING IS, IT'S NOT US RECEIVING IT. IT'S THE CITY RECEIVING IT. THAT'S THE POINT OF THE PROCLAMATION. LIKE IT'S NOT, HE'S NOT DOING IT FOR US. RIGHT. HE'S DOING IT FOR THE CITY. SO I, I HAVE TO SAY IT DOES, IT DOES BUG ME A LITTLE THAT, THAT THERE'S SO MANY OBSTACLES TO HONOR. I MEAN, MY GOD, LIKE YES, I COULD BE THERE AND SAY SOMETHING, BUT IT, IT SEEMS LIKE IF WE'RE REALLY A DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE CITY, WE SHOULD WANT TO READ THESE PROCLAMATIONS. THERE SHOULDN'T BE THESE OBSTACLES TO LEAP OVER TO GET THIS THING READ. AND I WANNA CLARIFY, THIS IS NOT NECESSARILY COMING FROM THE MAYOR, THIS IS COMING FROM STAFF LEVEL. AND JUST TO HAVE MORE OF JUST SAY A PAPER BEING, BEING READ AND JUST TO HAVE SOMEONE THAT'S, THIS IS COMING FROM MY BOSS JAMES, WHO IS STAFFED SAYING SOMEONE NEEDS TO BE THERE TO RECEIVE THE PRO. AND THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES WHEN I'LL JUST RECEIVE IT ON BEHALF OF THE COMMISSION, BUT IT'S JUST TO HAVE SOME KIND OF EXCHANGE. NO, I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. I JUST DISAGREE WITH IT. AND I KNOW IT'S NOT FROM YOU. I JUST THINK THE RECEIVING PART, IT'S NOT US WHO ARE RECEIVING IT, THEY'RE NOT DOING THIS FOR US. THEY'RE DOING THIS TO SAY, AS THE CITY OF PUDO, WE THINK THIS IS IMPORTANT. YEAH. THAT'S [01:30:01] WHAT THEY'RE DOING. THEY'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT RECEIVING IT. IT'S NOT ABOUT US. IT'S ABOUT THE CITY. BECAUSE, AND, AND IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE THEY WANT IT TO MAYBE THE WRONG WORDS, THEY WANT TO TRY TO MAKE IT MAKE SENSE. IF THAT MAKES SENSE. I DON'T KNOW. LIKE, WE'RE SAYING THIS AND HERE'S THIS PERSON THAT REPRESENTS THIS THAT SAYS YES. YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? I'VE BEEN MARGINALIZED HOW THIS IS FREELY. EXACTLY. BECAUSE I THOUGHT THAT WAS THE POINT OF THE PRO. THAT'S THE POINT OF THE PRO, THE POINT OF THE PROCLAMATIONS WAS WHAT, HERE, WHAT HERE ARE YOU MAKING THE RECOMMENDATION TO THE CITY THAT WE NEED TO DO TO BE MORE INCLUSIVE? RIGHT. AND SO WE'RE SAYING YOU NEED TO HAVE A PROCLAMATION FOR THIS EVENT OR HOLIDAY STADIUM. THIS IS WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, THIS IS HOW WE DO IT. AND THIS IS, WE'LL WRITE IT FOR YOU FOR THE CITY OF PET, NOT FOR DIVERSITY. IT'S NOT FOR US. AND I MEAN, I GUESS THIS IS MY FEELING ABOUT IT. CITIES ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES DO THESE PROCLAMATIONS, RIGHT? MM-HMM. , THEY DO THEM THE SAME WAY WE'RE DOING THEM. RIGHT? THE, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, THAT'S THEM. I MEAN, AND THERE'S NO ONE THERE COUNCILS FOR THE PRESIDENT. AND SO, SO YOU'RE SAYING THE SAME THING THAT WE'RE SAYING. YEAH, I AM. I MEAN, AND I DON'T WANT YOU TO FEEL LIKE, CHRISTIE, I'M NOT COMPLAINING ABOUT YOU CAUSE I REALIZE YOU'RE JUST THE BEAR OF THE NEWS. BUT I THINK THAT THERE'S A, IT'S, IT'S A REALLY PROBLEMATIC WAY THAT HE'S THINKING ABOUT IT TO SAY SOMEONE NEEDS TO RECEIVE IT BECAUSE WHO IS RECEIVING IT IS THE COMMUNITY'S THAT'S WHO'S RECEIVING IT. THAT'S KIND OF WHY I THINK THE LIAISON, THE CITY COUNCIL LIAISONS ARE BENEFICIAL TO COME TO THESE MEETINGS FOR THIS REASON. BECAUSE THIS IS, I, YEAH, I FUNDAMENTALLY DISAGREE WITH THAT. I MEAN IT'S, WE'RE WRITING THESE THINGS FOR THE CITY AND THE CITY SHOULD TAKE PRIDE IN PUTTING THAT OUT. WE WOULD WISH, I GUESS HOW I'D PHRASE FRAME IT ANOTHER WAY, I WISH THAT THE CITY COUNCIL WROTE THESE PROCLAMATIONS AND PROCLAIMED IT THEMSELVES WITHOUT US HAVING TO DO IT. BECAUSE IF WE TRULY ARE A DIVERSE, INCLUSIVE, AND DIVERSE AND EQUITABLE AND INCLUSIVE CITY, THEN THAT, THAT SHOULD BE PART OF THEIR AWARENESS. IT SHOULD BE A PART OF, AND IT SHOULDN'T BE LIKE, WELL YOU GUYS ARE DOING YOUR LITTLE DIVERSE THING AND DO A DARKER PONY SHOW FOR US. AND THAT'S HOW IT FEELS. AND I DON'T KNOW, WITH THAT SAID, I HAVE NO PROBLEM GOING THERE AND SAYING SOMETHING CUZ I THINK IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO. BUT I, I DO THINK THAT THE PERSON WHO IS PUSHING FOR THAT IS MISSING THE POINT OF A PROCLAMATION. WELL, I THINK YOU SAID THAT THIS IS JAMES. YEAH. IS DIRECT FROM JAMES. THIS IS, I I ONLY RECEIVED DIRECTION FROM JAMES. YEAH. WHEN I THINK ON THE FLIP SIDE, IT IS ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE TO SEE WHO WE ARE. EXACTLY. SO THERE YOU GO. IT'S A GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR VISIBILITY. RIGHT. IT'S JUST, IT, IT'S, IT JUST DOESN'T, IT JUST DOESN'T LOOK RIGHT. YEAH. SO THE JEWISH HOLIDAY MONTH, UM, YES MA'AM. THAT WOULD BE ME IF WE DID A PROCLAMATION OR EVEN FOR WORLD AUTISM. I PUT FUTURE PROCLAMATION. ARE WE STILL ON 11 ONE? YES. FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS, I PUT WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH PROCLAMATION. CAUSE I DON'T KNOW IF WHAT Y'ALL WANT TO DO WITH THAT. AND THEN I JUST PUT FUTURE PROCLAMATIONS SO THAT OKAY. AND THEN I CAN, I CAN GO AHEAD AND PUT THEM ON AND SLATE THEM. YEAH. I MEAN, ESPECIALLY FOR THE GENTLEMAN THAT CAME TODAY. NOT SAYING JUST BECAUSE HE CAME, BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE NICE, IT WOULD BE NICE TO RECOGNIZE TO PUT THAT ON OUR NEXT AGENDA ITEM. YES. IS WHEN IS, DID YOU SAY AUTISM AWARENESS PROCESS? UM, THE ACTUAL DATE IS, UH, APRIL 2ND. THE MONTH OF APRIL. SO WE COULD DO IT AT THE NEXT MEETING. RIGHT? WELL, IS THERE A, IS THERE A DISABILITIES MONTH? OH, THAT'S A GOOD POINT. I DON'T WANT TO JUST DO AUTISM. CAUSE I, WELL, APRIL IS CELEBRATE DIVERSITY. BUT IS THERE A DISABILITY? I'M QUITE SURE. I THINK IT'S, IT'S IT'S MENTAL HEALTH. MENTAL, IT'S A MENTAL HEALTH, BUT LIKE, LIKE A MENTAL HEALTH. IT'S, IT'S LIKE DISABILITY AWARENESS. YEAH. YEAH. IT, UM, IT'S, YOU GOTTA SEE ALL THESE YEAH. YOU'RE, YOU SHOULDN'T JUST PICK ONE BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY THINGS. YEAH. YEAH. MARCHES DISABILITY AWARENESS. OH S**T. WELL, YEAH, I MEAN, WE ARE IN FEBRUARY, WE DO HAVE A MEETING IN MARCH. THERE ARE CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS IN MARCH. IF WE PUT THE, IF WE PUT A PROCLAMATION FOR DISABILITY AWARENESS MONTH MM-HMM. , WE COULD HAVE, IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE READ IN THE FIRST, THE FIRST CITY COUNCIL MEETING OF THE MONTH. IT COULD BE READ IN THE SECOND ONE. SO IF WE PUT THAT ON THE AGENDA FOR NEXT MONTH, WE HAVE ONE WRITTEN UP AND WE VOTE ON IT, WE COULD GIVE IT TO THEM TO READ IT. CHRISTIE, YOU SAID WE'RE A MONTH OUT OF ON CITY COUNCILS. YEAH. SO AS FAR AS PLANNING GOES, AGENDAS SETTING. YES. [01:35:01] UM, AND FOR, IT JUST WOULDN'T, FOR NEXT WEEK. WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO SIT TO GET THAT. BUT WE CAN DEFINITELY MAKE IT WORK FOR, FOR MARK, UH, THE SECOND MEETING IN MARCH SO WE CAN MAKE IT WORK FOR THE SECOND MEETING IN MARCH. I THINK WE, I THINK IT'S WORTH DOING IT. OKAY. FAIR. AND THEN IF WE HAVE THE FUTURE PROCLAMATIONS, AT LEAST NOT EVEN THE PROCLAMATIONS THEMSELVES, BUT JUST KIND OF LIKE Y'ALL DID LAST YEAR WITH ALMOST A CALENDAR OF LIKE, HEY MARCH WE WANNA DO THIS, I CAN GO PRE-SET IT IN THE CALENDAR MM-HMM. . AND THEN AS SOON AS I RECEIVE THE PROCLAMATION, ALL I HAVE TO DO IS UPLOAD IT AND IT'S ALREADY READY, IT'S ALREADY SET ON THE AGENDA. UM, I WOULD JUST HAVE TO HAVE THE SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION, WHICH IS THE ACTUAL WRITTEN. OKAY. SO I CAN WORK ON THE PROCLAMATION FOR DIVERSITY AWARENESS. AND I DIDN'T KNOW OCTOBER IS NATIONAL DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT AWARENESS MONTH. OH, THAT WAS DIRECTED. IT DOES. ALTHOUGH I THINK WE, I THINK WHERE I ALREADY PUT THAT ON THE AGENDA, I KNOW FOR NEXT MONTH BECAUSE MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING BEYOND A PRO PROCLAMATION WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO DO. RIGHT. BECAUSE I THINK, I MEAN, HE RAISES ABILITY. HE DOES. AND IT'S NOT, WELL NOT FOR AUTISM. AUTISM, I MEAN, THERE'S, THERE'S PEOPLE WHO ARE JUST NOT GOOD AT THAT KIND OF INTERVIEW, BUT HAVE GREAT SKILLS. RIGHT. BECAUSE I, I MEAN, I'M THINKING OF LIKE, LIKE, UH, LIKE, LIKE DREW'S, UM, UH, CREATIVE BUSINESS. MM-HMM. , YOU KNOW, THAT COULD BE SOMETHING. THE HUDDLE RESOURCE CENTER. MM-HMM. , YOU KNOW, EVEN YEAH. A JOB IS ONE THING. BUT I THINK JUST AN OPPORTUNITY IS IS ONE THING TOO. YOU KNOW, A VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY. YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S, YOU KNOW, VOLUNTEERING STOCK SHELVES AT HEB OR VOLUNTEERING TO STOCK SHELVES AT THE HEAD OF RESOURCE CENTER. I, I THINK THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES AND YEAH, I DO THINK THAT'S A DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION TOPIC. OH, DEFINITELY. YEAH. YOU KNOW, WE'RE FOCUSED ON INCLUSION OF ALL, IT'S NOT ALWAYS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, ETHNICITY. SOMETIMES IT IS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, JUST MAKING SURE THAT YEAH. YOU KNOW, WHERE YOU ARE A HUDDLE FOR. ALL RIGHT. SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE A, A GOOD THING TO DISCUSS. SO, I DON'T KNOW LIKE WHAT YOU WOULD CALL IT, LIKE A DISCUSSION ON DISABILITY IN THE WORKFORCE. SO WHAT I HAD WRITTEN DOWN WHEN YOU SAID EARLIER, SOME OPPORTUNITIES. OKAY. BECAUSE I, I HAD ALREADY HAD FROM EARLIER WHAT YOU SAID, AND IF YOU WANT ME TO CHANGE IT, I CAN'T, I HAVE DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON, ON I JUST ON AUTISTIC ADULTS IN THE WORKFORCE IN HU BUT DO YOU WANT THINK WE WANTED TO SAY DIS DISABLED ADULTS OR ADULTS? ACCESSIBILITY DISABILITIES. ACCESSIBILITY. ACCESSIBILITY. YEAH. AND PUT ON ACCESSIBILITY IN THE WORKFORCE IN HOW YEAH. YEAH. AND NOT MAKE IT JUST ONE. MM-HMM. ONE, UM, THING OPEN ENDED. WELL LET'S, LET'S ALSO EDIT IT TO SAY VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES. SO VOLUNTEER AND, AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES. I MEAN, I THINK THAT'S GOOD. I, I, THE ONLY THING I WOULD SAY IS LIKE, IT DOES FEEL A LITTLE LIKE, I MEAN THERE'S, I KNOW SOME AUTISTIC PEOPLE WHO HAVE TONS OF SKILLS. THEY COULD GET JOBS LIKE IT, IT COULD COME ACROSS A LITTLE PATRONIZING, I THINK TO BE LIKE, WELL YOU COULD VOLUNTEER BUT WE'RE NOT GONNA PAY YOU CUZ YOU'RE DISABLED. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? LIKE, THAT'S MY OWN WORRY ABOUT, I JUST, THAT'S I THINK THE REASON BUSINESSES, WHAT BUSINESSES REALLY HAVE TO DO IS MAKE A COMMITMENT TO DO IT AND TRAIN PEOPLE TO DO IT. AND IT IS VERY POSSIBLE TO HIRE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, BUT IT'S NOT EASY TO DO. RIGHT. I JUST, I I JUST DON'T WANT TO GET AWAY FROM THERE. THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES TO VOLUNTEER TOO. THERE ARE, BUT YOU DON'T MAKE MONEY VOLUNTEER. AND MY GUESS IS THAT MOST OF US LIKE THE FACT THAT OUR JOBS PAY US. YEAH. BUT IT MAY BE SOME PEOPLE THAT JUST WANNA VOLUNTEER. I WANNA FEEL INCLUDED, BUT I THINK THERE'S PROBABLY LESS OF A PROBLEM WITH THAT. YEAH. LIKE, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? LIKE, I DON'T KNOW THAT I, I I, I WOULD SUSPECT, AND I DON'T KNOW THIS FOR SURE, BUT I WOULD SUSPECT THAT IF YOU WERE WILLING TO VOLUNTEER SOMEWHERE, THE BAR OF ALLOWING YOU TO DO THAT IS MUCH LOWER THAN IF YOU'RE PAYING SOMEBODY AND PAYING SOMEBODY IS, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT DAD'S ASKING FOR, RIGHT? YEAH. BUT I MEAN IT HELPS PEOPLE BE SELF-SUFFICIENT. IT HELPS 'EM HAVE SELF-ESTEEM. IT ALSO HELPS THEM EAT, YOU KNOW, SO I JUST DON'T WANNA, CUZ TO ME, I DON'T MIND INCLUDING VOLUNTEERING IN IT, BUT IT FEELS A LITTLE LIKE, WELL YOU CAN VOLUNTEER. I UNDERSTAND. YEAH. YOU CAN VOLUNTEER AND US ABLE BODI PEOPLE CAN WORK. WELL MAYBE, MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING WE TALK ABOUT, BUT I JUST DON'T WANT TO GET AWAY FROM [01:40:01] THE VOLUNTEER ASPECT JUST BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE IT DOES, IT DOES ADD VALUE. I DO SEE WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM. IT DOES SEEM A LITTLE DE MORE DEMEANING. I DO THINK, LIKE IF I SAID TO SOMEBODY, I'M HAVING A HARD TIME GETTING A JOB CUZ I'M NOT GOOD AT JOB INTERVIEWS. AND THEY SAID, WELL YOU COULD VOLUNTEER. LIKE, AND THEY GIVE YOU A BUTTON WHEN YOU GET A BUTTON WITH YOUR NAME. I MEAN, I'M NOT ANTI, LIKE I'M ABSOLUTELY NOT ANTI VOLUNTEERING. I JUST, I FEEL LIKE IT COULD FOR US AND THEN YOU'RE SORT OF EXPLOITING A PERSONAL DISABILITIES. LIKE, BUT I THINK CERTAIN, UM, LIKE IF FOR THE FOOD BANK, YOU VOLUNTEER AT THE FOOD BANK, NO ONE GETS PAID UNLESS YOU'RE AN EMPLOYEE. EXACTLY. SO I MEAN FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE, RIGHT. YOU KNOW, THE OPPORTUNITY FOR SOMEONE TO VOLUNTEER THERE, I CAN SEE BOTH SIDES OF WHAT YOU BOTH ARE SAYING. I THINK FOR THE AGENDA ITEM THOUGH, I THINK IT, OH YEAH, IT'S TIME TO MAKE IT BROAD FOR THE AGENDA ITEM. I JUST WOULDN'T WANT US AS A COMMISSION I GUESS TO BE LIKE, IF I WAS THAT DAD, SOME PEOPLE AREN'T EMPLOYABLE. THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. IT'S TRUE. I WOULD INTERPRET IT AS YOU ARE SAYING, MY SON ISN'T WORTH HIRING. RIGHT. HE'S ONLY WORTH VOLUNTEERING AND IT WOULD MAKE ME MORE MAD THAN US DOING NOTHING. OKAY. WELL JUST A SIDE NOTE. I USED TO BE A CASE MANAGER FOR PEOPLE WITH A ABILITY. SO THERE'S ALL DIFFERENT TYPES OF, UH, RESOURCES AVAILABLE. I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY WHAT ARE AVAILABLE IN HOW NECESSARILY, BUT I KNOW LIKE FOR ME, LIKE I KNOW QUITE A BIT OF PEOPLE AT TEXAS WORKFORCE COMMISSION, DARS, WHICH IS TEXAS, UM, DEPARTMENT OF, UH, REHABILITATIVE, YOU KNOW, SYSTEMS. SO LIKE THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I WOULD LIKE SUGGEST TO THE DEBT. YOU KNOW, I'M NOT CASE MANAGER HERE ANYMORE WITH SOME STUFF, BUT JUST IN GENERAL, LIKE GETTING THOSE RESOURCES OUT MAY BE SOMETHING THAT WE COULD HELP WITH AS WELL. I MEAN, TEXAS WORKFORCE, LIKE THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE HERE FOR. LIKE THEY HELP PEOPLE WITH JOBS OR SPECIAL PROGRAM FOR IT ITSELF. UM, WE ALSO HAVE WHAT'S CALLED LIKE WHAT'S CALLED A WORKSHOP. THEY DO DIFFERENT, UM, TASKS, REPETITIVE TASKS SO THAT THEY COULD, YOU KNOW, THEY CAN TUNED OUT OR WHATEVER HAVE YOU. UM, SOMETIMES THEY'RE ALLOWED TO HAVE HEADPHONES SO THAT THEY WON'T BE DISTRACTED. SO THOSE ARE SOME OPPORTUNITIES THAT ARE AVAILABLE, BUT MAYBE US GETTING RESOURCES TO THOSE PEOPLE OR FIND PEOPLE WHO HAVE RESOURCES, YOU KNOW, TO GET TO THAT PERSON WOULD BE THAT'S A GREAT, THAT'S A GREAT IDEA. AND IT'S, I KNOW IT'S NOT ON THAT ON THE AGENDA, BUT TO YOUR POINT, THE CHAMBER DOES A NETWORKING EVENT EVERY MONTH. AND MAYBE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT COULD LEAD INTO, YOU KNOW, WE TALKING TO THE CHAMBER ABOUT, YOU KNOW, CITIZENS WITH DISABILITIES AND ARE THERE BUSINESSES IN HUK THAT MAYBE, YOU KNOW, WE COULD HAVE A SEPARATE NETWORKING EVENT FOR CITIZENS WITH DISABILITIES. OR IF THAT'S, YOU KNOW, TOO PERVASIVE FOR THEM, IS THERE AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A VIRTUAL NETWORKING SESSION FOR CITIZENS WITH DISABILITIES? AND YOU KNOW, THAT COULD BE SOMETHING THAT IS A JOINT FUNCTION BETWEEN, WITH THE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION COMMISSION, DIVERSITY EQUITY AND INCLUSION COMMISSION AND THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. AND THERE'S ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY WHERE WE'RE PARTNERING WITH THE CHAMBER. WE'RE, YOU KNOW, SERVING THE CITIZENS OF HUK, BUT THEN OUR NAME'S GETTING OUT THERE AND WE'RE GETTING, YOU KNOW, SOME SHINE FROM THAT. SO THAT, BUT LIKE I SAID, GREAT OPPORTUNITY. JUST AN IDEA. I THINK, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ADVOCATES FOR EVERYONE SO I FEEL LIKE ADVOCATING INCLUDES RESOURCES AND IF WE CAN HELP SOMEONE OUT, DEFINITELY I WOULD DO WHAT I CAN'T. I STILL HAVE CONNECTION. GREAT. SO DOES THIS MAKE SENSE AS UH, AN ITEM WITH EVERYTHING YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT ? SORRY. UM, DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON ACCESSIBILITY AND RESOURCES THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS IN THE WORKFORCE IN HATO. YEAH. DOES THAT MAKE OKAY? SOUNDS GOOD TO ME. YES. I'M AMAZED CHRISTIE, AFTER ALL THIS DISCUSSION, WE A WINDING ROAD RIGHT HERE. SO , WE'RE HERE. ALL RIGHT. ANY OTHER AGENDA ITEMS OR, UM, CAN I RUN DOWN THIS LIST AGAIN? YEAH, THAT'D BE GREAT. JUST TO MAKE SURE. THANK YOU. OKAY. UM, SO WHAT I HAVE IS APPROVAL OF THE FEBRUARY 21ST, 2023 MEETING MINUTES, UH, OR DISCUSSION, POSSIBLE ACTION, UM, STAFF RECOMMENDATION SLASH FEEDBACK ON WEBSITE NEXT STEPS. UM, AND I CAN FILL FLUFF OUT THE LANGUAGE WITH THESE JUST BULLET POINTS. ADD NAME, CHANGE, [01:45:01] PRESENTATION FOR D E I AND WHY IT NEEDS TO CHANGE, UM, DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON PRESENTATION AT HOW DO POWER BREAKFAST. UM, AND THEN WHAT I JUST SAID, DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACT ON ACCESSIBILITY AND RESOURCES THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS IN THE WORKFORCE AND HOW, UM, AND THEN I HAVE WOMEN'S HISTORY PROCLAMATION AND THEN FUTURE PROCLAMATIONS AS TWO SEPARATE THINGS. SO WE HAVE DIVERSITY OR THE DI DIVERSITY AWARENESS PROCLAMATION, DIVERSITY AWARENESS, MONTHLY. OH DISABILITY OR SORRY, DISABILITY. DISABILITY AWARENESS MONTH. SO DO YOU WANT THOSE AS THEIR OWN ITEMS? SO WOMEN'S HISTORY, MONTH PROCLAMATION, DISABILITY AWARENESS, MONTH PROCLAMATION. WE SHOULD PROBABLY HAVE THOSE FOUR SEPARATE AGENDA ITEMS JUST BECAUSE WE DO NEED A VOTE ON THE DISABILITY. OKAY. AND THEN FUTURE PROCLAMATIONS, SEPARATE FUTURE PROCLAMATIONS SHOULD BE ITS OWN SEPARATE. SO THAT WAY WE COULD DISCUSS WHAT PROCLAMATION NEEDS TO GO ON WHAT MONTH. OKAY. HOW WE WANT TO APPROACH THAT. UM, I THINK I'LL TRY TO REACH OUT TO, UH, CITY MANAGER OR ABOUT, UM, HAVING SOMEONE ACCEPT IT CUZ JUST WITH THE DISCUSSION THAT WE HAD, I THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE THAT THE CITY ALREADY ACCEPTED IT AND SO THE CITY SHOULD JUST READ IT FOR THE CITIZENS. UM, MORE AS AN AWARENESS. AND SO I'LL REACH OUT TO HIM AND GIVE AN UPDATE WHENEVER WE TALK ABOUT THE PROCLAMATIONS, LIKE FUTURE PROCLAMATIONS AND I'LL GIVE THAT UPDATED TO YOU GUYS. ANY OTHER AGENDA ITEMS? ALL RIGHT. WITH THAT WE WILL ADJOURN AT 8 29. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. 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