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[Diversity and Inclusion Meeting on January 16, 2024.]
ORDER.COMMISSIONER BRUCE ANDERSON HERE.
COLEMAN COMMISSIONER CORINA IS THERE.
GENERAL COMMENTS FROM CITY STAFF.
WE'RE, UM, I DID HAVE A FEW ITEMS. UM, SORRY.
UM, CHIEF, THE CHIEF OF POLICE, UM, JEFF YARBOROUGH HAS REQUESTED TO MEET WITH THE COMMISSION AND GIVE AN UPDATE AND PRESENTATION, UM, ON HOW AND WHY THE HEAD OF DEFENSE DEPARTMENT CAN BE INVOLVED WITH THE COMMISSION.
THEY DID THIS LAST YEAR, I BELIEVE.
DO YOU HAVE COMMISSION? MM-HMM.
SO, UM, JUST FOR THE COMMISSION TO KNOW, UM, FEBRUARY IS THE DATE THAT THEY WERE LOOKING AT AND I'M, AND IF Y'ALL, UM, APPROVED TO ADD THAT TO THE NEXT MEETING, I CAN GET THAT ARRANGED.
ALSO, JUST AS AN UPDATE THAT PERTAINS TO THE COMMISSION ON THE STAFF LEVEL IS, UM, MY DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY OUTREACH DEPARTMENT HAS A MEETING WITH THE GRID IN AUSTIN ASIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, UH, NEXT WEEK.
AND IT'S JUST TO KIND OF START BUILDING A RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM ON THAT LEVEL.
UM, IT'S JUST AN INTRODUCTORY MEETING AND I'LL PROVIDE AN UPDATE AT THE NEXT D AND I MEETING ABOUT ANY, UM, POTENTIAL PARTNERSHIPS OR WAYS TO COLLABORATE ON THE STAFF LEVEL AND THEN, UM, MOVE THAT UP TO THE COMMISSION ON HOW OR IF YOU GUYS WANT TO PARTICIPATE.
ALSO WANTED TO LET Y'ALL KNOW ABOUT DELTA DAYS, WHICH IS, UM, THE DELTA SORORITY, UM, CHAPTER.
THE AUSTIN CHAPTER HAS A LARGE PRESENCE HERE IN PATO AND THEY HAVE REQUESTED, UM, TO HAVE KIND OF A BEHIND THE SCENES, UM, PRESENTATION FROM EACH CITY DEPARTMENT ON HOW THE CITY OPERATES.
UM, IT'S MORE OF AN EDUCATIONAL AND INFORMATIONAL SESSION FOR THE DELTA SORORITY MEMBERS SPECIFICALLY.
AND IT WILL BE FEBRUARY 15TH, WHICH IS ALSO
SO IT'LL BE IN THE MORNING FROM EIGHT TO NOON, MORE OR LESS.
WE'RE WORKING OUT DETAILS AS FAR AS SCHEDULE.
UM, IF Y'ALL WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND, JUST TO BE THERE AND KIND OF BE AROUND, UM, DEFINITELY WOULD LOVE TO INVITE THE COMMISSION AND CITY COUNCIL THAT'LL BE COMING OUT SOON, UM, FOR THE LUNCH TO JUST KIND OF MEET AND GREET AND HANG OUT WITH THEM AND, UM, MAYBE ANSWER QUESTIONS THAT THEY HAVE.
WE'RE EXPECTING ABOUT 150 MEMBERS TO COME, SO IT'S KIND OF A BIG DEAL.
UM, AND I CAN PROVIDE MORE INFORMATION VIA EMAIL LATER.
AND THEN, WE'LL, HIPPO DAY IS THE SAME DAY, FEBRUARY 15TH, WHICH WILL BE HERE AT CITY HALL AND THE LOBBY.
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UM, OBVIOUSLY HATO IS KNOWN FOR HIPPOS AND WE ARE WORKING ON A COLLABORATION WITH ISD, UM, SOME ARTISTS AND SOME OTHER, UM, ENTITIES TO MAKE THIS A VERY FUN DAY.BUT REALLY THE BIG KIND OF CALL TO ACTION FOR THAT DAY IS TO INVITE RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES TO, UM, SUBMIT THEIR CONCRETE HIPPOS THAT THEY HAVE IN THEIR YARD.
UM, FOR, ON OUR WORK, ON OUR, UM, SELF-PACED WALKING TOUR THAT'S POSTED ONLINE RIGHT NOW WE HAVE ABOUT 60 ONLINE, BUT WE'RE REALLY LOOKING TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO SUBMIT THEIR, UM, PIT POSTS.
LAST THING I JUST WANT TO MAKE THE COMMISSION AWARE OF IS SOMETHING THAT CAME ABOUT, I THINK IN NOVEMBER.
AND THIS WAS GOING TO BE, UM, PRESENTED TO Y'ALL IN DECEMBER, BUT THERE WAS NO FORM.
SO THERE, I'M, I HAVE THE EMAIL HERE.
SO THE JEFF, THERE WAS A JEFF JEFFERSON DAVIS HIGHWAY MARKER THAT WAS REMOVED FROM ELGIN AND BECAUSE IT INVOLVES THE DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY, UM, THEY HAVE ARRANGED WITH THE HU HISTORIC CEMETERY TO PLACE IT THERE.
SO I'M JUST LETTING Y'ALL KNOW.
IT'S JUST AN INFORMATIONAL THING.
AND THAT'S ALL THE INFORMATION I HAVE ON THERE IS THE HU I'M SORRY, I'M NOT PART OF THE HU HISTORIC CEMETERY.
WHERE WOULD THAT BE? I BELIEVE THE HU HISTORIC CEMETERY IS THE ONE THAT'S ON 1660 SOUTH.
I CAN, I CAN DOUBLE CHECK AND CONFIRM.
AND THAT'S ALL I, OKAY, THANK YOU.
UM, SO THEN WE'LL MOVE NEXT TO NUMBER FIVE, GENERAL COMMENTS FROM CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE.
UH, ONE IS THE CITY COUNCIL HAD DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION TRAINING LAST WEEK FROM STAN KIMER.
UM, HE ACTUALLY CAME, PRESENTED IN PERSON.
UM, YEAH, IT'S NICE THAT PEOPLE CAN TRAVEL NOW AND WHEN, WHEN, UH, WHEN THE COMMISSION HAD IT.
I THINK YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE WHO WAS ON THE COMMISSION BACK THEN, BUT MM-HMM.
SO YOU, YOU, YOU GOT THAT TRAINING FROM HIM.
THERE WAS A LOT OF CROSSOVER, BUT HE SAID IT WAS LIKE 60 40, LIKE NEW VERSUS THE SAME.
AND UH, I KNOW THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, JACQUELINE, YOU WERE THERE.
UM, AND STAN SENT JACQUELINE BOTH PRESENTATIONS.
AND SO I THINK EVERYBODY ON THE COMMISSION SHOULD PROBABLY GET BOTH PRESENT, BOTH PDF FILES, UM, SO YOU GUYS CAN SEE THE PRESENTATION, SEE WHAT WAS DIFFERENT ABOUT THEM.
THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF A DIFFERENT FOCUS BETWEEN THE TWO.
UM, I WAS THERE TOO, AND BRUCE WAS THERE.
BRUCE WAS THERE FOR QUITE A WHILE.
WELL, IT WASN'T, YEAH, IT WAS, IT WAS ABOUT ABOUT THREE OVER, IT WAS A LITTLE OVER THREE HOURS I THINK THAT WE WERE THERE.
UM, I WOULD, ARE YOU SAYING THAT WILL BE SENT TO PDF FILES OR DO WE NEED TO REQUEST THEM OR THEY SOMEWHERE ON THE WEBSITE YOU CAN SEND 'EM, RIGHT? I MEAN, WE HAVE SURE.
SEND THEM TO ME, JACQUELINE, THEN I CAN DISSEMINATE THEM TO THE COMMISSION.
NO, THE, THE ONLY ONE I HAVE IS THE ONE PREVIOUS ONE AND THEN HE HANDED PAPER COPIES OUT AT, YEAH.
UM, IRENE PROBABLY HAS IT, SO.
I STILL HAVE THE EMAIL BACK FROM WHEN YOU SENT ME A COPY.
AND I STILL HAVE THAT EMAIL SOMEWHERE.
ONE NICE THING ABOUT PUBLIC RECORDS, THEY DON'T DISAPPEAR.
SO, SO WE HAD THAT TRAINING, UM, COMING OUT OF THE TRA TOWARDS THE END OF THE TRAINING.
YOU KNOW, IT WAS DONE AS, AS A WORK SESSION.
SO WE COULDN'T MAKE DECISIONS AS A COUNCIL, BUT THERE WAS DEFINITELY SEVERAL PEOPLE WANTING TO SEE HOW WE TURN THAT INTO SOME ACTIONS GOING FORWARD.
UM, AND THAT RELATES TO, THE OTHER THING IS WE TALKED AS A COUNCIL, I THINK IT MAY, I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS NOVEMBER, MAY MIGHT HAVE BEEN BEEN THE FIRST MEETING IN DECEMBER, BUT WE TALKED AS A COUNCIL ABOUT STRATEGY AND BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AND HOW WE, WE MAKE THAT ALL WORK TOGETHER.
UM, WE, WE MET AS A COUNCIL LAST MARCH TO SET THE CITY STRATEGY.
I THINK IT WAS MARCH, WITH, WITH STAFF.
AND THE PLAN IS TO DO THE SAME THING THIS YEAR, BUT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE GET INPUT FROM THE BOARDS THAT ACTUALLY HAVE AN ADVISORY ROLE.
SO THE PARKS BOARD, THE, THE DNI COMMISSION AND A COUPLE OF OTHERS, NOT, NOT EVERY SINGLE ONE 'CAUSE SOME OF THEM ARE DOING THINGS THAT ARE JUST LEGALLY REQUIRED THINGS.
THEY DON'T REALLY HAVE AN ADVISORY ROLE.
UM, BUT THE ONES THAT DO, WE WANT TO GET INPUT.
SO THE THOUGHT WAS THAT WE WOULD TRY TO HAVE A WORK SESSION WITH EVERYBODY PROBABLY SOMETIME IN MARCH, SEPARATE FROM YOUR REGULAR MEETING.
I MEAN, I'M SORRY, PROBABLY SOMETIME IN FEBRUARY.
BUT THAT HASN'T BEEN SCHEDULED AS FAR AS I KNOW.
SO JUST, YOU KNOW, KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR,
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FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT BEING SCHEDULED.AND IF YOU CAN MAKE IT GREAT AND IF YOU CAN'T MAKE IT, IF YOU HAVE THOUGHTS ON IT, JUST LIKE SEND 'EM IN AND, AND GET THEM IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY.
BUT THE IDEA IS THAT WE WANT TO GO THROUGH THE STRATEGY SESSION AND INCLUDE D AND I AS PART OF THAT STRATEGY DISCUSSION.
AND WE WANT TO COME OUT AT SOME POINT WITH THE COUNCIL COMING BACK TO THIS COMMISSION AND SAYING, THESE ARE KEY THINGS WE WANT YOU GUYS TO WORK ON.
AND WE WANT THAT TO BE BASED ON INPUT FROM YOU AND, AND ME PERSONALLY, LIKE I DON'T WANT TO SHUT YOU GUYS DOWN THAT THAT'S ALL YOU CAN DO.
I WANT YOU GUYS TO FEEL FREE TO COME BACK WITH OTHER THINGS, BUT WE WANT TO TRY TO FOCUS ON, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE THE THINGS WE WANT TO HAVE HAPPEN.
AND THEN WE ALSO NEED TO THEN GO THROUGH THE STEPS OF MAKING THAT PART OF THE CITY'S OFFICIAL STRATEGY GOING FORWARD.
AND THEN THAT FOLDS INTO THE BUDGET CYCLE.
SO WE WANT YOU GUYS TO HOLD EVENTS.
WELL, WE NEED TO GIVE MONEY TO HOLD EVENTS, SO THAT KIND OF THING.
SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT HAPPENS GOING INTO THE BUDGET CYCLE WHERE THE NEW BUDGET STARTS IN OCTOBER.
AND THEN IF THERE'S THINGS IN BETWEEN, IT'S A MATTER OF FIGURING OUT CAN WE FIND MONEY SOMEWHERE TO DO SOMETHING IF WE NEED ADDITIONAL MONEY, BUT WE WANT TO HAVE IT MORE PLANNED IN THE BUDGET.
SO IF WE WANT TO ASK MORE THINGS OF YOU, THEN WE WANT TO HAVE THAT HAPPENING.
SO THIS IS A LITTLE BIT LATE TO TELL YOU GUYS, HEY, WE MIGHT WANNA TALK TO YOU NEXT MONTH, BUT HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET THIS, WE'LL GO THROUGH THIS ONCE AND HOPEFULLY THE NEXT TIME IT'LL BE SMOOTHER.
BUT HOPEFULLY THAT BECOMES LIKE AN ANNUAL THING OF GETTING TOGETHER WITH DIFFERENT BOARDS AND SAYING, THIS IS, THIS IS WHAT YOU GUYS DID THIS YEAR.
THIS IS WHAT WE WANT YOU TO WORK ON NEXT YEAR.
THIS IS, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS, WHAT ARE THE ISSUES, WHATEVER.
IT'S, WE WANT TO GET MORE OF A FEEDBACK LOOP.
THE DATE THAT YOU SPOKE ABOUT, UM, I MEANT TO A, I MEANT TO ADD THIS IN MY COMMENT, SO I APOLOGIZE.
I WANTED TO ASK THE COMMISSION OF FEBRUARY 3RD WORK FOR YOU ALL.
UM, THERE'S NOT THE, THE TIME AND PLACE ARE TO BE DETERMINED, BUT IT WOULD PROBABLY BE THE THREE TO FOUR HOUR WALK, PROBABLY FROM 10 TO ONE OR SOMETHING.
SO THAT IS A SATURDAY? IT IS A SATURDAY.
I'M SORRY FOR WHAT? SO THIS, I THINK IT TIES INTO WHAT, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER THORNTON WAS TALKING ABOUT, BUT ALL IT WOULD ALSO INCLUDE LIKE BYLAWS TRAINING.
UH, SO THE D OF I, IT IS FOR ALL BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
SO SHE WE'RE TRYING TO GET AS MANY OF THE, UH, COMMISSIONERS AND BOARD MEMBERS AS POSSIBLE ON ONE DATE.
I ASK YOU ALL IF THAT WORKS FOR YOU.
UM, AND MAYBE IF THAT'S SOMETHING YOU NEED TO GET BACK TO NELSON, AN EMAIL REMINDER AS WELL, I CAN LET YOU KNOW THAT I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ATTEND.
THAT'S MY GRANDSON'S BIRTHDAY.
AND I'VE HAD BEEN FORCED TO MISS ALL HIS BIRTHDAYS FOR SOME REASON I ALMOST THIS YEAR.
NO, THERE'S THE HIERARCHY OF PRIORITIES AND YOU'VE GOT THE RIGHT ONE.
HE'S OLD ENOUGH, DIDN'T KNOW IT'S HIS BIRTHDAY NOW
AND YOU SAID YOU DIDN'T SAY THE TIME.
SO, BUT IT MORE THAN LIKELY WOULD BE A THREE TO FOUR HOUR BLOCK.
YOU KNOW, THE PUBLIC GOT TOGETHER LAST, I THINK, I THINK THEY WANT TO KEEP DOING THOSE THIS YEAR, LIKE I DID LAST YEAR.
IT'LL BE A LITTLE DIFFERENT 'CAUSE IT'LL BE A LITTLE MORE OF BENEFICIAL MEETING, I THINK AT LEAST PART OF IT, IF WE'RE DOING A WORKSHOP PART OF IT WHERE YOU'RE TALKING WITH COUNCIL, THAT'LL BE MORE OF A MEETING.
BUT THE OTHER THING, I DON'T KNOW.
I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT'LL, I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY'RE NO, I THINK THAT'S GREAT.
I DON'T KNOW THE DETAILS BEHIND WHAT, WHAT ALL THEY'RE PLANNING TO ADD TO PUT IN HERE.
WE GET TOGETHER BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, AND I'LL BE THERE.
YOU'LL PROBABLY, WELL YOU'LL BE THERE TWICE 'CAUSE ELABORATE PART OF IT TOO.
I CAN REALLY SAY SOMETHING THAT I TAKE TWO THINGS.
IF THERE'S NOTHING ELSE, WE'LL MOVE TO NUMBER SIX.
GENERAL COMMENTS FROM COMMISSION MEMBERS.
WELL, I DID, BUT YOU'VE ADDRESSED SOME OF IT, DAN, AND THANK YOU FOR THAT BECAUSE I HONESTLY FEEL LIKE I'VE BEEN SPINNING MY WHEELS, TWIDDLING MY DIMES AND TWIRLING IN THE WET SINCE I'VE BEEN ON THIS COMMISSION.
NOT KNOWING WHAT DIRECTION WE WERE INTENDED TO TAKE, WHAT DIRECTION WE WERE GOING TO TAKE, WHAT WE COULD, WHAT WE COULDN'T DO.
SO I THINK THAT THAT MEETING IN AND OF ITSELF TO WHERE WE CAN GIVE Y'ALL SOME FEEDBACK AS A CITY COUNCIL, Y'ALL CAN LET US KNOW WHAT YOUR PRIORITIES ARE AND WHAT YOU ENVISION FOR US IS GREATLY APPRECIATED ON MY PART BECAUSE I REALLY HAVE BEEN VERY, VERY CONFUSED DISHEARTENED ABOUT THIS COMMISSION.
UH, WE FINALLY HAVE ENOUGH OF IT MEMBERS TO ACTUALLY HAVE A COMMISSION AND, AND I'M REALLY THRILLED ABOUT THAT.
UM, I DON'T KNOW THAT WE TOOK A VOTE LAST TIME, BRUCE.
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I KNOW THAT DIFFERENT COMMISSIONS HAVE, UM, RULES AS TO ABSENCES.AND THAT'S SOMETHING I LIKE THE CHAMBER TO LOOK AT.
I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY COREY HAS MISSED NOW, BUT I KNOW THIS ONE IS DIRECTLY BECAUSE HE IS AT ANOTHER BOARD MEETING AND A BOARD MEETING THAT HE WAS APPOINTED TO I THINK PRIOR TO THIS ONE.
AND IT'S A PRETTY IMPORTANT ONE.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE SOME DEFINITION ON, ON THE MIST AND YOU'RE OUT.
AND WITH THIS ONE, I REALLY DON'T THINK WE NEED A, YOU'RE MIST AND YOU'RE OUT TILL ABOUT FIVE BECAUSE WE'VE HAD SUCH A HARD TIME.
GETTING PEOPLE INTERESTED IN BEING HERE.
I THINK WE HAVE SOMETHING IN THE CITY COUNCIL PROTOCOLS THAT ADDRESSES THE EXPECTATION.
I JUST DON'T REMEMBER OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD WHAT IT IS.
I WANNA SAY IT'S THREE CONSECUTIVE MEETINGS THAT YOU MISS IN A ROW.
THEN I GUESS THAT CONVERSATION, IT'S ALSO LIKE MISSING A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE OVER THE COURSE OF A YEAR.
COULD EITHER OF Y'ALL PLEASE LOOK INTO THAT? AND UM, LIKE I SAID, I WOULD LIKE THERE TO, IF THAT IS A FACTOR FOR HIM OR ANY OF US FOR THAT MATTER, BUT ESPECIALLY HIM KNOWING THAT HE'S ON ANOTHER BOARD.
I'M NOT, I DON'T KNOW IF JACQUELINE NO.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF IF MS. SPOON IS OR NOT, BUT I DO KNOW THAT YOU TWO ARE, AND I DON'T THINK YOU SHOULD BE PUNISHED FOR THAT.
AND, AND IN CORY'S CASE, I THINK THE, THE CHARTER COMMISSION IS, IS VERY SHORT TERM.
I MEAN, THEY'RE PRESENTING TO COUNCILS.
THEY'RE PRESENTING TO COUNCILS ON THURSDAY NIGHT.
SO I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF
I MEAN, SO HE KIND OF HAD TO BE THERE TONIGHT.
SO, BUT LIKE IN BRUCE'S CASE, HOPEFULLY THEY CAN TRY TO COORDINATE A LITTLE BIT AND NOT HAVE, OR THE PARK COMMISSIONS.
WELL, MOST OF, I MEAN, FOR THE MOST PART, THE MEETINGS ARE SET NIGHTS AND TIMES.
AND SO YOU CAN KNOW IF THERE'S A CONFLICT OR NOT.
THE CHARTER COMMISSION IS DIFFERENT BECAUSE IT'S KIND OF SCHEDULED AROUND.
I DON'T, YOU KNOW, LEGAL'S GOTTA BE THERE.
CERTAIN THINGS HAVE TO BE THERE.
SO THE SCHEDULING ON THAT WAS A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
BUT AM I UNDER THE RIGHT PRESUMPTION THAT ALL OF US HAVE TAKEN OPEN MEETINGS, ACTS, TRAINING? EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE, YES.
THANK, JUST MAKING SURE IF IT, IF IT'S HELPFUL.
UM, I JUST PULLED UP Y'ALL'S ORDINANCE FOR THE, THE DEAN I COMMISSION, UM, HAS A SPECIFIC ORDINANCE.
AND PER THAT ORDINANCE, UNDER DISMISSAL FROM COMMISSION, UM, COMMISSION MEMBERS SHALL ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN THE COMMISSION'S ACTIVITIES AND ANY MEMBER WHO IS ABSENT FOR THREE CONSECUTIVE REGULAR MEETINGS, WHICH MEANS MEETINGS THAT WERE ACTUALLY HELD, NOT ONES THAT WERE CANCELED DUE TO LACK OF FORUM, UM, WITHOUT VALID EXCUSE AS DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSION.
SO, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME FLEXIBILITY THERE.
AND, AND TO THAT POINT, MY POINT IS YOU JUST WANNA KNOW WHAT PEOPLE WANT TO DO.
I MEAN, IF YOU'RE SICK AND YOU MISDEMEANOR, BUT YOU'RE ACTIVELY INVOLVED AND YOU'RE, WE KNOW.
AND I MEAN, THE FACT THAT WE, AND SOME PEOPLE WE DON'T KNOW, LIKE I WAS SO ABOUT THE LIBRARY I WAS ON YEAH.
WE JUST DIDN'T HEAR FROM 'EM FOR MONTHS.
AND SO THEN THAT'S, WELL SHE EMAILED ME TONIGHT.
I'D RATHER NOT, YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T WANNA BE HERE THAN THEY SHOULD BE, BUT I'M HERE, I'M HERE.
I DON'T, DEPENDS ON HOW MUCH WE FEEL THEIR INVOLVEMENT IS ALSO.
AND YOU KNOW, JUST, IS THERE ALSO THE, UM, DO WE HAVE THE ABILITY AND IS IT FEASIBLE TO PERHAPS, LET'S SAY YOU ARE SICK, BRUCE, OR I AM SICK, BUT WE CAN LISTEN IN, WE CAN PARTICIPATE.
WE JUST DON'T NEED TO BE HERE PHYSICALLY.
IS THERE A WAY TO ZOOM IN? I MEAN, THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN LOOK INTO
BUT I, I THINK IT, IT'S SOMETHING WAS PASSED THAT WE COULDN'T DO THAT ANYMORE.
I HAD, I'D HAVE TO LOOK INTO THAT FURTHER UNLESS WHAT IT, I DON'T, UM, IF IT'S, I DON'T AND IF IT'S SOMETHING COUNCIL CAN ADDRESS, I CAN'T GUARANTEE YOU WHAT COUNCIL WOULD EXACTLY.
I'M JUST THINKING OFF THE, OFF THE CUFF A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW EVERYBODY ELSE'S JOBS THAT HAPPEN TO KNOW SOME OF, OF COREY'S.
AND ONE OF 'EM IS THAT HE IS A MUSIC DIRECTOR FOR OUR SCHOOLS.
THERE MAY BE A NIGHT THAT HE CAN ACTUALLY ATTEND VIA ZOOM, BUT HE CAN'T ATTEND IN PERSON BECAUSE HE'S NOT EVEN BEING PHOTO.
THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE AN ISSUE FOR HIM.
WE'VE GOT COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO HAVE HAD TO USE THAT.
SO, YOU KNOW, JUST A LITTLE BIT OUT OF THE BOX.
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ANY OTHER COMMENTS FROM? NO.UM, I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT SINCE WE STARTED MEETING
UM, THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD THINGS THAT WE CAN DO, IN MY OPINION, JUST LEARNING ABOUT, WE HAD THIS TRAINING WITH UM, MM-HMM.
I ACTUALLY CALLED HIM TODAY JUST TO, 'CAUSE I HAD TO LEAVE EARLY.
AND HE'S SUCH A, I THINK POSITIVE INFLUENCE ON WHAT WE CAN DO OR SOMEONE LIKE HIM TO DIRECT US ON WHAT WE WANNA ACCOMPLISH.
WHICH WHAT DAN SAID, YOU KNOW, LIKE US IN HERE, HERE AND GO, WELL
WELL, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE KNOW OUR STUFF.
THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF DECLAN BEEN INVOLVED WITH THAT, BUT, BUT SOMEONE LIKE AN OUTSIDE CONSULTANT THAT CAN GIVE US MISSION.
HE'S BEEN INVOLVED IN STUFF OR WHOEVER THAT WOULD BE.
I THINK WE, THAT SHOULD BE A THING THAT WE SHOULD LOOK INTO, WHICH MAY FIT INTO AT SOME POINT THE BUDGET PROCESS AND HOW WE DO THAT.
BUT LET'S USE EXPERIENCED PEOPLE.
I MEAN, IT WAS A GREAT IDEA WHOEVER BROUGHT HIM IN TO DO THAT.
AND HE DOES STUFF WITH D AND I COMMISSIONERS.
BUT TALKING TO HIM, HE ALSO HAS A, A LOT OF OTHER IDEAS AND WHAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE DONE TO MAKE THINGS BETTER.
BUT HOPEFULLY WE'LL CONTINUE TO DO THAT.
UM, IT WAS VERY NICE OF THIS TEAM TO INVITE TO THE COUNCIL MEETING LAST WEEK, WHICH I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT.
I WAS GONNA SIT, I WAS GONNA WATCH IT AND THEN HE SAID, OH, SHOW UP.
SO I WAS THERE AND HAD A CHANCE TO BE INVOLVED AND GOT UP THERE AND A LITTLE COMMENT.
AND ONE OF MY COMMENTS WAS THAT IT'S NICE FOR PEOPLE AND I REALLY FEEL THIS, WE SIT AROUND AND DISCUSS DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, QUALITY, BUT IF WE DON'T HAVE EVENTS TO BE INVOLVED WITH THAT WE'RE GONNA SPONSOR SO THE CITY CAN SEE WHAT WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING.
I THINK THAT HAS TO BE MADE PART OF WHAT WE WANT TO DO, IF NOT THIS YEAR, YOU KNOW, MAYBE ON A QUARTERLY BASIS OR SOMETHING.
AND THEN HAVE ONE MAIN EVENT IN THE YEAR.
IT'S LIKE, BECAUSE I'VE BEEN LOOKING AT OTHER ONE, YOU KNOW, LIKE GEORGETOWN AND OTHER AREA, THEY GOT BRAIN OR WHATEVER.
I GOT THERE AND I SAID, I DON'T THINK PEOPLE REALLY KNEW WE HAD A COMMISSION.
AND I THINK OUR GOAL IS TO MAKE, HAVE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, KNOW THAT WE DO HAVE A COMMISSION AND HAVE WHAT WE WANNA DO.
I MEAN, HE HAD SOMETHING TO STAND ABOUT, HAVING SPEAKERS COME IN AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
WHICH KIND OF FITS IN A LITTLE BIT TO WHEN I DO THE LIBRARY BOARD OUR, WE'RE TRYING TO DO THAT TOO, IS AGAIN, GET FRIENDS OF LIBRARY GOING AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
WELL, IT COULD BE COMBINATION OF, YOU KNOW, UM, DIVERSITY AND DO THAT AND TALKING TO THE PEOPLE IN THE, IN THE CITY JUST TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE.
I DON'T KNOW
YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK WE KNOW ENOUGH.
WE HEAR THINGS, WE KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENED, WE KNOW WHAT SOME OF THE ISSUES ARE, BUT DO ACTUALLY HAVE HAD MEETINGS WITH PEOPLE IN CERTAIN NEIGHBORHOODS AND SAY, WELL WHAT, WHAT DO YOU THINK? YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S REALLY BOTHERING ME AND I'M TALKING
I, I WAS, YOU KNOW, I THINK IF WE, IF WE CAN'T GET PEOPLE ON THIS COMMISSION, DO PEOPLE REALLY CARE ENOUGH ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENING? SO THAT'S ANOTHER, WE MAY WANNA DISCUSS IT, OTHER THINGS, BUT SINCE I HAD MY SHOT, I, I SAID GO AHEAD.
I THINK THAT'S A MATTER OF, UH, PERCEPTION.
THIS COMMISSION, AS I STATED BEFORE, HAS HAD A REALLY HARD TIME GETTING OFF THE GROUND.
UM, AND I THINK PART OF THAT, THIS IS FOR ME, I'M NOT TRYING TO SPEAK FOR ANYONE ELSE, IS WE DON'T HAVE A FOCUS.
WE DON'T HAVE A DIRECTION TO GO.
AND THAT'S WHY I WAS VERY HAPPY TO HEAR FROM YOU, DAN, THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THE COUNCIL WANTS TO DO WITH US, IS HAVE THAT WORK SESSION TO, FOR US TO, YOU KNOW, PICK EACH OTHER'S BRAINS TO, UH, MAKE OUR INTENTIONS OR OUR DESIRES KNOWN.
AND I THINK THAT THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE OF VARIOUS DIFFERENT CULTURES, YOU NAME IT, THAT WOULD BE INVOLVED
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IF THEY SAW US POSITIVE IN WORKING WITH ONE ANOTHER AND POSITIVELY INTERACTING NOT ONLY WITH THE CITY AS FAR AS THE GOVERNMENT AND THE CITY COUNCIL, BUT CNS ACTIVELY PARTICIPATING IN EVENTS THAT MAYBE ARE NOT NECESSARILY THE CITIES, BUT, YOU KNOW, TO BE PRESENT THERE.NOT TO HOLD THE THING, YOU KNOW, BUT TO BE PRESENT AND TO INTRODUCE OURSELVES AND FOR US TO PROMOTE THEIR EVENTS, YOU KNOW, TO SHOW THAT WE ARE TRYING TO BE PART OF THE CITY AND WE WANT THEM TO BE PART OF THE CITY, NOT A SUBCATEGORY OF THE CITY.
THAT DOESN'T GET ANY ATTENTION.
I KNOW MY PARTICULAR GROUP THAT I FOCUS WITH FEELS VERY LEFT OUT OF EVERYTHING IN HUDDLE.
AND IF YOU LOOK AT EVENTS AND HUDDLE, YOU DON'T SEE THEM OUT VERY OFTEN.
AT LEAST NOT THE PHYSICAL ONES.
AND THAT TO ME, THAT IS VERY SAD BECAUSE WE'RE NOT THAT BIG OF A CITY THAT ANYBODY SHOULD FEEL LIKE THAT THEY WOULD JUST BE IN THE WAY OR IT'S NOT FOR THEM, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.
I THINK THERE'S A LOT WE CAN DO FOR EACH DEMOGRAPHIC, BUT WE HAVE TO FIRST FIND OUR DIRECTION, SET GOALS, AND FIGURE OUT HOW TO BE POSITIVES IN THE COMMUNITY OURSELVES.
AND CERTAINLY AS A COMMISSION, AND NOT FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERM, BUNCH OF NEGATIVE NANCYS AND JUST FOCUSING ON WHAT'S WRONG.
WE NEED TO DEFINE THE CAUSE OF THAT PROBLEM, OR AS BEST WE CAN.
WE NEED TO IDENTIFY SOME POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS AND WE NEED TO TRY SOMETHING.
NOTHING EVER GOT ACCOMPLISHED WHEN SOMEONE DIDN'T TRY.
UM, DOWN TO ME, I, I WAS THINKING ABOUT THIS TODAY.
I THINK THE BIGGEST THING WE NEED TO WORK ON IS BRIDGING THE GAP, WHATEVER THAT MAY BE, BECAUSE IT'S GONNA LOOK DIFFERENT TO EVERYONE, RIGHT? SO WE HAVE DIFFERENT GROUPS OF PEOPLE THAT DO FEEL LEFT OUT, YOU KNOW, FOR VARIOUS REASONS.
SO I THINK AS YOU SAID, FROM THAT, FOR, FOR LACK OF BETTER WORDS, WE HAVE TO LEARN HOW TO SPEAK WHATEVER LANGUAGE THEY ARE SPEAKING, YOU KNOW, SO THAT THEY CAN FEEL INCLUDED.
UM, RIGHT NOW, I KNOW THERE ARE, PEOPLE ARE HURT, YOU KNOW, AND SO WITH THAT, THEY WANT TO BE HEARD, BUT SOMETIMES MAY NOT KNOW WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
SO I THINK FOR US, WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE CAN EXTEND THAT HAND TO PEOPLE AND THEY UNDERSTAND NO MATTER IF, I MAY NOT AGREE WITH YOU, WITH, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO SAY, BUT I DO WANNA HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY BECAUSE A LOT OF TIMES THAT'S WHERE THE PROBLEM STARTS BY PEOPLE WITHHOLDING WHAT THEY, HOW THEY FEEL.
AND IF YOU HOLD THAT IN, THEN YOU GET THE WILDFIRES START, YOU KNOW, START BREWING.
SO FOR ME, I THINK APPROACHING THIS YEAR, I WANNA WORK ON BRIDGING THAT GAP SO THAT PEOPLE FEEL INCLUDED.
UH, YOU KNOW, LET US HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY.
WHETHER THAT LOOKS LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE ABILITY TO SEND MESSAGES TO US, UH, YOU KNOW, HAVE A BOX OUT WHERE PEOPLE JUST WANNA WALK IN AND DROP SOMETHING IN THERE, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THAT MAY BE, YOU KNOW, MEETING PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE.
THAT WAY WE CAN HELP PICK THEM UP.
BECAUSE IF, YOU KNOW, IF I'M HURT, I MAY NOT REACH OUT, BUT I MAY LASH OUT, AS YOU WERE SAYING, HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE AT THAT MEETING AND THOSE PEOPLE AREN'T HERE BECAUSE THEY ARE ANGRY ABOUT SOMETHING.
RIGHT? AND SO BEFORE IT GETS TO THAT POINT, LET'S SIT DOWN AND TALK WHATEVER THAT LOOKS LIKE, YOU KNOW? AND I, AND THAT'S JUST ME.
THAT'S BEEN MY THOUGHT PROCESS FROM THE VERY BEGINNING OF THIS.
THAT WE, WE CAN'T HELP THE UNHEARD.
THEY, THEY HAVE TO HAVE A VOICE, BUT THAT'S WHY DON'T WE THINK WE CAN'T HAVE A FULL COMMISSION.
I THINK GOING BACK, TALKING WITH PEOPLE, AND I DON'T, I DON'T WANNA WANNA TALK TOO LONG, UM, HONESTLY, THEY'RE NOT INTERESTED.
THEY'RE NOT INTERESTED BECAUSE IT DOESN'T, UM, EITHER A APPEAL TO THEM OR IT TAKES AWAY FROM WHAT THEY FEEL LIKE IS THEIR TIME.
BECAUSE I SPOKE WITH ONE GENTLEMAN AT ONE EVENT, I DON'T REMEMBER EXACTLY WHAT IT WAS.
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ARE LONG.YOU KNOW, I DON'T HAVE THE TIME TO DO THAT.
SO, AND I DON'T WANNA GO DOWN ANY FURTHER INTO WHAT I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT IN A MINUTE, BUT WHAT I SUGGESTED AT THAT TIME WAS TO HAVE SMALLER GROUPS MAYBE WHERE THEY HAVE A DIFFERENT CAPACITY.
MAYBE NOT A COMMISSIONER, WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE TO ATTEND EVERY MEETING, BUT GIVE US INPUT.
YOU KNOW? UM, YOU MAY HAVE A SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT ARE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU WOULD CALL 'EM, BUT, UM, THEY WOULD ACT AS THE EYES AND EARS, I SUPPOSE, PROBES.
AND WE COULD MEET WITH THOSE PEOPLE, REPRESENTATIVES FROM NEIGHBORHOODS, WHATEVER THAT MAY BE.
BECAUSE WE HAVE HOAS, WE HAVE, UH, MY NEIGHBORHOOD DOESN'T, BUT I STEPPED UP AND DO MOST OF EVERYTHING WHEN I HAVE TO
BUT I THINK SPEAKING WITH THOSE REPRESENTATIVES, EVEN HAVING SOMETHING THERE WITH THEM TO SEE SOME CAPACITY WHERE YOU DON'T FEEL, BECAUSE THAT'S THE, I THINK THE NUMBER ONE FEAR OF PEOPLE COMMITTING TO SOMETHING.
THE FEAR OF COMMITTING TO SOMETHING.
SO, I MEAN, THIS, THIS DOES, THIS DOES TAKE TIME TO DO THIS.
THIS ISN'T, THIS IS GONNA BE A LENGTHY PROCESS OF IRONING THIS OUT AND SHOWING PEOPLE, HEY, WE CAN ACTUALLY DO THIS.
AND SOME PEOPLE DON'T WANNA SIGN UP FOR THAT.
AND I'VE GOTTEN THAT FEEDBACK WHERE, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY'RE NOT INTERESTED.
SO THAT'S JUST FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN, AND IF YOU TALK TO PEOPLE, THEY MAY TELL YOU THE SAME THING.
UM, YOU KNOW, THEY JUST, THEY WANT TO KNOW WHAT ALL IT IT IS, YOU KNOW.
AND FOR US, WE REALLY CAN'T TELL THEM WHAT ALL IT IS BECAUSE WE'RE GOING THROUGH THIS MOTION NOW TRYING TO FIGURE THIS THING OUT, DEFINE IT.
SO IF I CAN'T TELL YOU DEFINITIVELY WE'RE GONNA DO A, B, C, PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF THAT.
AND SO NOW I THINK THAT WE HAVE THE SESSION COMING UP, WE CAN KIND OF SEE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE.
WE'RE NOT GONNA FOLLOW A SCRIPT ON IT.
UM, BUT WE, WE WILL HAVE THE FRAMEWORK WHERE WE KNOW, YOU KNOW, HOW TO WORK WITH ONE ANOTHER ON THIS.
IF WE CAN'T WORK TOGETHER, THEN WHY WOULD SOMEBODY ELSE WANNA COME IN AND GO, YEAH, THAT GROUP THERE, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THEM.
SO I THINK THAT'S GONNA BE THE KEY TO GETTING OTHER PEOPLE INVOLVED AND, AND BEING OUT THERE, BEING ACTIVE, SHOWING YOUR FACE.
AS YOU SAID, PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW THAT THIS GROUP EVEN EXISTED.
SO I THINK MORE POSITIVE ALWAYS OUTWEIGHS NEGATIVE.
AND ON TAR SPOONS, I, I KNOW THAT I DIDN'T MEET YOU GUYS LAST TIME.
UM, IF NOTHING ELSE, I THINK WE'RE AT NUMBER SEVEN, OTHER BUSINESS 7.1 CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON APPROVAL OF MEETING MINUTES FROM NOVEMBER 21ST, 2023.
I THINK EVERYBODY HAS A COPY OF THAT.
WELL, I, SECONDLY WE IMPROVE THE MINUTES, BUT I HOPE WE CAN TALK ABOUT 'EM.
'CAUSE THERE WAS A LOT OF THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT AND WHETHER OR NOT IT WAS, WHETHER OR NOT WE ACCOMPLISHED THOSE, I'M NOT SURE, BUT I THINK ALL THE MINUTES IS CORRECT.
WELL, I BELIEVE, UM, NUMBER, UH, 7.2 THAT WAS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY FULFILLED, UM, BY THE CITY STAFF.
YOUR SUBSTITUTE, I BELIEVE HER NAME WAS ANGELA.
UM, AND YOU PROBABLY HAD SENT IT TO ME BEFORE AND I JUST KIND OF DIDN'T PAY ATTENTION.
UM, SO THAT WAS TAKEN CARE OF.
I DON'T KNOW THAT 7.3 WAS ANSWERED, UM, YET, BUT I THINK, DAN, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, THAT MAY COME INTO OUR WORKSHOP.
UM, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT COULD DEFINITELY GO IN THERE, SO, OKAY.
CAN I ALSO JUST ADD REALLY QUICK JUST TO HELP WITH THIS CONVERSATION OF, SO, UM, IN 2022 WE DID A COMMUNITY-WIDE SURVEY WITH A BIG EMPHASIS ON DI AND ACTUALLY CAME FROM THE COMMISSION AS A RECOMMENDATION.
UM, SO I CAN SEND THOSE SURVEY RESULTS PLEASE.
BUT WE'RE ALSO WRAPPING UP, I BELIEVE THE SURVEY, THE ROUND TWO, KIND OF THE FOLLOW UP TO THAT INITIAL SURVEY IS WRAPPING NOW.
AND SO, UM, STAFF HAS MEETINGS WITH, UM, THE GROUP THAT CONDUCTED THAT TO KIND OF FINALIZE A FEW THINGS SO THAT THOSE RESULTS WILL ALSO BE COMING IN.
AND I WILL OF COURSE SEND THOSE TO Y'ALL AS SOON AS THEY'RE AVAILABLE.
DID Y'ALL ALL GET THE SURVEY? I'M WOULD ONLINE AND TOOK IT.
YEAH, I WAS GONNA SAY, SO THE SURVEY IS
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RANDOMLY SELECTED BY THE GROUP.YEAH, THAT'S, YEAH, I FOUND IT LASTING.
WHAT BLACKING? OH, IT DEPENDS ON HOW DEEPLY THEY CAN GET INTO.
AND, AND I REALIZE THAT FOLLOW UP QUESTION, IT DIDN'T GO AS DEEP AS I WOULD'VE LIKED FOR D AND I IS WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY, BUT I FOUND IT INFORMATIVE AS WELL.
UM, ARE YOU COMPLETED THE ONE THAT WAS TAKEN THIS YEAR, BRUCE? YES.
THE ONE WE WERE, WE JUST FINISHED TAKING LIKE DID EVERY, WHO GOT THAT? SO LOOKS IT'S, IT'S STILL, IT'S IT'S RANDOM AND THAT'S, AND IT'S STILL GOING ON? IT'S STILL HAPPENING.
IT'S, IT HASN'T BEEN FINALIZED YET.
SO ONCE THE RESULTS ARE FINALIZED, THOSE WILL BE PRESENTED TO CITY COUNCIL AND THEN FROM THERE KIND OF DISSEMINATED, WOULD IT BE APPROPRIATE FOR THOSE OF US WHO HAVE FACEBOOK GROUPS, SOCIAL MEDIA GROUPS ARE PRETTY LARGE FOLLOWING OURSELVES,
MAYBE NOT AS A DI COMMISSIONER HAS ALREADY BEEN LIKE TAKEN, THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED HAVE ALREADY TAKEN THE SURVEYS.
SO, UM, IT'S KIND OF A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN, UM, KIND OF A, UM, WE'RE A CALL TO ACTION WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO GET AS MANY PEOPLE TO TAKE IT AS POSSIBLE.
RIGHT? THIS IS THROUGH A THIRD PARTY WHO, UM, IDENTIFIES BASED ON ALL OF THEIR DATA AND, AND WHAT HAVE YOU.
UM, SPECIFIC BUT THIS HAPPENED IN NO TWO THAT GOT IT.
THEY SAID THEY WEREN'T, THEY, THEY JUST KIND OF TOSSED IT ASIDE.
WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT AND I SAID PLEASE JUST TAKE IT.
JUST TAKE IT, SEND IT BACK, PLEASE.
JUST TO, FOR CLARIFICATION, WERE THERE ANY CORRECTIONS TO THE MINUTES FOR I DON'T HAVE MOTION FROM COMMISSIONER ANDERSON.
COULD YOU REPEAT THE MOTION? I'M SO SORRY.
I, I MOVED TO APPROVE THE MINUTES.
WE CAN MOVE ON TO OTHER DISCUSSIONS.
MR. A, UH, PASSES I THINK FOUR ZERO.
AND NOW WE MOVE TO 7.2 CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
I BELIEVE WE TABLE THIS UNTIL ALL OFFICERS CAN BE PRESENT TO VOTE AND I WAS ACTUALLY THINKING THE SAME, LIKE I SAID SECOND.
OKAY, LET ME, SO WE'RE ONLY MISSING ONE VERSION.
SO YOU'RE SAYING WE SHOULDN'T RIGHT.
PUT ANY 20 OFFICERS OR DISCUSS THAT UNTIL WE HAVE THE OTHER PERSON HERE.
SO WE HAVE A MOTION, UM, TO TABLE THIS ITEM BY COMMISSIONER ER STOCKMAN, SECOND BY COMMISSIONER STONES
WE COULD FURTHER DISCUSS THIS IF THAT WAS IMPORTANT TO YOU, BRUCE.
WELL I'D BE HAPPY TO TALK TO YOU AFTERWARDS.
I JUST LIKE THE I'D LIKE A COUNCIL MEMBER.
NO, AND LEMME JUST, I DON'T WANT TO CREATE ANY ISSUE WITH IT.
I JUST THINK THAT, UM, WE COULD HAVE A THOUGHT ABOUT HOW WE WANTED THE STRUCTURE OF THE COMMITTEE TO, BUT THAT WOULD BE, BUT WE CAN WAIT UNTIL EVERYONE HERE DO THAT.
SO, SO THAT MEANS WE WON'T HAVE ANY OFFICERS UNTIL AT LEAST FEBRUARY IF EVERYBODY COMES, WELL, WE WILL REVISIT THAT THEN.
I MEAN, IF EVERYBODY DOESN'T COME THEN IT BECOMES AN ISSUE.
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BUT RIGHT NOW I JUST THINK IT'S UNFAIR WITH CORY HAVING TO BE SOMEWHERE ELSE TO NOT INCLUDE.UH, MOVING TO 7.3, DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON UPCOMING D AND I DATES FOR 2024 AND DISCUSSION ON POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITIES NOW FOR THIS, I THINK THAT'S ME.
UM, TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BACKGROUND OF BEING ON THE COMMISSION BEFORE I WAS PART OF A SUBCOMMITTEE THAT FOR EVENTS MM-HMM.
UM, RIGHT NOW I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH OF A SUBCOMMITTEE WE COULD HAVE, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN TALK ABOUT, PUT ON THE AGENDA AND TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, AT ANOTHER TIME.
SO FOR NOW, I WILL TALK ABOUT, UH, A CALENDAR.
I HAVE THE CALENDAR, BUT I CAN EI DON'T ARE YOU ABLE TO MM-HMM.
I CAN SEND THAT TO YOU AND YOU WILL SEE THAT FUNDED FIRST.
YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE IS A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY, BUT WE'LL DEFINITELY NEED DIRECTION.
SO LET ME SEE IF I CAN PULL IT UP AND IF NOT THEN I CAN PASS THIS AROUND THAT I HAVE, I DID BRING A COPY JUST IN CASE I CAN EMAIL IT WITH EVERYTHING ELSE TOO THAT I'LL BE EMAILING LATER.
BECAUSE, 'CAUSE I KNOW HOW ELECTRONICS WORK AND JUST BECAUSE YOU DO SOMETHING DOES NOT MEAN IT WILL WORK.
BUT I THINK FOR NOW WE SHOULD PROBABLY LOOK AT AT LEAST THE PLANNING PROCESS OF SOMETHING.
UM, OF COURSE WE'RE ALREADY HERE IN JANUARY, SO GO AHEAD AND CLOSE THAT UP.
AND YOU CAN FIND SIMILAR THINGS ONLINE FOR THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY.
UM, THE MONTH LONG OBSERVANCE IS AMERICAN HEART MONTH AS WELL AS BLACK HISTORY MONTH.
SO, AND, AND THERE'S OTHER IMPORTANT DE AND I CALENDAR DATES THROUGHOUT THAT ENTIRE MONTH SO WE'RE NOT TIED TO ONE PARTICULAR THING, BUT I THINK IT'S SOMETHING FOR US TO AT LEAST THINK ABOUT WHAT THAT WILL LOOK LIKE, OUR PRESENCE, UM, FOR THAT MONTH AND EACH MONTH YOU GO THROUGH.
UM, SO I DEFINITELY THINK THAT, UM, WHEN THE CALENDAR IS SENT OUT AND YOU GUYS LOOK AT IT, UM, IF YOU ESPECIALLY, UM, HAVE ANY IDEAS OR CAN THINK OF ANYTHING, THAT WOULD BE AWESOME.
UM, IN THE PAST, I THINK WE'VE PARTICIPATED IN SOME EVENTS THAT THE CITY HAS HOSTED AND THAT MAY HAVE BEEN THE EXTENT OF IT.
UM, SO THERE ARE THINGS THAT CAN BE DONE.
UM, I BELIEVE CHRISTIE, UM, HAS OFFERED, UM, DOWNSTAIRS IF WE EVER WANTED TO DO ANYTHING, SAY FOR INSTANCE FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH MM-HMM.
Y'ALL AND I, I APOLOGIZE FOR NOT MENTIONING THIS EARLIER.
UM, THE DOOR IS ALWAYS OPEN FOR ANY OF OUR CITY HOSTED OR SPONSORED EVENTS TO HAVE A PRESENCE AT.
REALLY ANYTHING WE DO, UM, AS A COMMISSION OR ANYTHING ELSE THOUGH, YOU'RE JUST LETTING US KNOW ABOUT.
AND THEN, UM, MARCH, UM, JUST TO HIT A COUPLE, UM, IT'S, AND I LEARNED, THIS IS WHEN I SAY YOU LEARN THINGS AS YOU GO ALONG.
UM, IT IS IRISH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH.
IT IS, UM, NATIONAL COLON CANCER AWARENESS MONTH.
IT'S NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO PARTICIPATE OR EVEN SEE WHAT THAT MAY LOOK LIKE ON OUR END, YOU KNOW, OF TRYING TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING AND KIND OF BRAINSTORM.
BUT I, I DIDN'T WANT TO NOT GET THIS INFORMATION TO EVERYBODY, UM, SO THAT WE, WE COULD AT LEAST BE THINKING ABOUT IT SO THAT WHEN WE SHOW UP HERE, WE'RE NOT TRYING TO SCRAMBLE AND FIGURE IT ALL OUT IN THIS AMOUNT OF TIME.
CAN I ASK WHAT WERE SOME OF THE PAST EVENTS? WELL, THAT THIS, WELL, I, WELL, UM, BEFORE I THINK, UM, WE DID, WE WE DID ACTUALLY MORE OF A BOOTH.
UM, I THINK IT WAS SET UP AT THE SUNSET EVENT.
UM, WE'VE PARTICIPATED, UM, IN DECEMBER WITH HOLIDAY HOLIDAY.
UM, BUT NOTHING THAT WAS TIED DIRECTLY TO THAT PARTICULAR MONTH.
I DON'T THINK WE'VE STEPPED OUT, UM, IN THAT DIRECTION.
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THAT'S NOT ANY PARTICULAR PERSON'S FAULT.IT'S JUST THAT WE NEED THAT, YOU KNOW, STRUCTURE OF, TO SEE, OKAY, HOW CAN WE DO THIS? YOU KNOW WHAT MM-HMM.
AND THERE'S ALSO RULES THAT WE CAN'T, YOU KNOW, GET CERTAIN THINGS, LIKE SOMEONE SAID, CAN THEY DONATE? AND I BELIEVE WE WERE TOLD NO.
UH, CAN WE, YOU KNOW, RAISE MONEY? NO.
SO THERE'S CERTAIN THINGS THAT I DON'T WANT, I DON'T WANNA SAY RESTRICTS US FROM DOING CERTAIN THINGS, BUT THERE ARE CERTAIN, CERTAIN PARAMETERS.
WHAT WAS CAN CAMREE
AND THEY, AND I THINK WE WERE TOLD OH, BUT I CAN'T, DON'T QUOTE ME ON THAT EXACTLY.
BUT I THINK AS FAR AS GOING FORWARD, LISTENING TO, UM, YOU KNOW, US GOING INTO THAT OTHER SESSION, UH, TO TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, BUDGETS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, OR, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER IT IS, I THINK THAT MAY BE THE KEY.
BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK AT A LOT OF OTHER CITIES, AND I BELIEVE YOU'VE SAID THAT YOU HAVE, UM, THEY HAVE THE FUNDING.
AND FOR US RIGHT NOW, AS LONG AS WE'RE PARTICIPATING IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CITY, THEIR EVENTS, THAT GOES WELL.
SO I THINK FOR US, WE HAVE TO SEE HOW WE CAN IMPLEMENT, YOU KNOW, THIS CALENDAR IN, YOU KNOW, OUR DAY-TO-DAY LIFE.
SO THAT WE ARE AWARE, BECAUSE NUMBER ONE IS AWARENESS, FIRST OF ALL.
'CAUSE IF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S, YOU KNOW, OUR AMERICAN MONTH, THEY JUST DON'T KNOW IT IS.
AND SO IF NOTHING ELSE, UM, JUST GETTING THIS INFORMATION TO US FIRST AND LETTING OTHER PEOPLE KNOW.
AND I THINK EVEN IN DISCUSSIONS, WE TALKED ABOUT THE MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL DOING SOMETHING THERE, UM, YOU KNOW, PREVIOUSLY, UM, AND I DON'T KNOW THE DATE OR, YOU KNOW, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE PROBABLY NEED TO FIGURE OUT, YOU KNOW, IF THAT'S HAPPENING AGAIN OR YOU KNOW, WHAT WE CAN DO TO PARTICIPATE THOUGH, BECAUSE THAT'S A, IN IN THAT.
THAT'S LIKE ASKING A WOMAN HOW OLD SHE IS.
I DON'T KNOW WHO CAN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS.
YOU TELL ME HOW BEEN I'M ON THE COMMITTEE.
WHAT DAY? ONE OF WHAT'S
YOU, YOU WERE AN ORIGINAL PERSON AND, AND NOBODY ELSE HAD OTHER PEOPLE AND THEY'RE ALL GONE.
UM, I GUESS WE'RE IN EXECUTIVE SESSION NOW.
MY QUESTION IS, IS THERE A REASON WE CAN'T UTILIZE THAT AND TO BE AHEAD OF THE CURVE IS WHAT I'M HOPING THAT BY MAY WE LEARN TO BE AHEAD OF THE CURVE AND NOT BE RETROACTIVE WHAT WE'VE MISSED.
LIKE RIGHT NOW, IT'S REALLY HARD FOR US TO PLAN TO DO SOMETHING FOR FEBRUARY.
IT, IT JUST IS, IT'S NOT SAYING IT'S IMPOSSIBLE, BUT UNLESS WE HAVE ANOTHER MEETING AND WE VOTE, IT'S GONNA BE VERY HARD TO HAVE
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AN EVENT, TO HAVE A BOOTH TO MAKE A STATEMENT.BUT IF WE CAN UTILIZE THE CITY RESOURCES THAT I THINK WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO, THAT WILL HELP ME TREMENDOUSLY.
AND I THINK IT'LL PROMOTE US TO BE AHEAD OF THAT CURVE.
I JUST DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S RULES THAT WOULD PROHIBIT IT.
I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S PROHIBIT, BUT I THINK THERE'RE PROBABLY WANNA BE SOME KIND OF REVIEW PROCESS OR SOMETHING.
IT SHOULD BE SO IT, IT NEEDS TO BE THOUGHT, IT NEEDS TO BE THOUGHT ABOUT.
WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING.
WHAT RULES MIGHT NEED TO BE PUT IN PLACE.
WE NEED TO BE AHEAD OF THE CURVE BY AT LEAST A WHOLE MONTH.
SO CAN I I JUST ADD LIKE THE CITY PROCLAMATIONS.
SO CITY STAFF DID A LOT OF WORK A COUPLE OF MONTHS BACK, PUTTING TOGETHER A COMPLETE CALENDAR FOR THE YEAR OF THE PROCLAMATIONS AND THEN ASKING COUNCIL TO REVIEW.
AND SO WE HAVE A LIST, WE HAVE A LIST SOMEWHERE THAT HAS THAT.
AND SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT YOU GUYS SHOULD ALL HAVE, RIGHT? BUT THEN YOU HAVE YOUR LIST OF EVENTS AND IF YOU SEE SOMETHING MISSING THAT YOU GUYS REALLY WANNA DO SOMETHING, THEN THAT SHOULD COME BACK AND THAT SHOULD GET ADDED ON OUR LIST FOR THE PROCLAMATIONS.
AND THEN EVERY TIME WE HAVE THOSE PROCLAMATIONS, YOU GUYS ARE ALL INVITED TO COME AND YOU CAN EVEN ROTATE AND WHEREVER HAVE SOMEBODY COME AND SAY SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
AND THEN THE CITY CAN AMPLIFY THAT MESSAGE ON THE WEBSITE AS WELL AND ON FACEBOOK AND WHATEVER.
SO YEAH, WE, WE NEED TO ALL TOGETHER ON THE SAME THING.
BEING PRESENT FOR AT LEAST PART OF CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS TO ME IS AN IMPORTANT THING FOR ANY COMMISSION MEMBERS.
MAYBE NOT ALL OF US NEED TO ATTEND EACH MEETING, AND I'M NOT SAYING TO SPEAK, BUT HAVE A PRESENCE, YOU KNOW? AND IF YOU DO SPEAK, EVEN IF IT'S NOT OVER SOMETHING HUGE, JUST SAY, I'M WITH AND WE'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO JOIN US.
YOU KNOW, THAT WAY MAYBE WE GET SOME PEOPLE INVOLVED AND, YOU KNOW, ONCE AGAIN, HAVE A POSITIVE FACE WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY.
I, I THINK THAT'S DEFINITELY IMPORTANT BECAUSE JUST BEING NEW, I LEARNED SO MUCH BY GOING TO THE CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS.
AND THERE'S A LOT THAT IS BEING DONE WITH DIVERSITY INCLUSION BECAUSE LIKE THE PROCLAMATION, THEY HAD PROCLAMATION IN NOVEMBER, THERE WAS ONE FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE MONTH.
THERE WAS ONE FOR VETERANS, THERE WAS ONE FOR MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY.
THERE WAS ONE, UM, OH, THERE WAS ANOTHER ONE.
SO IT HELPED ME TO SEE, HEY, THERE'S A LOT THAT IS BEING DONE.
AND I THINK THAT IS IMPORTANT TO BE, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE TO STAY FOR THE WHOLE EVERYTHING.
I WOULD LEAVE LIKE MAYBE AFTER THE BOARDS AND COMMISSION TALK, BUT IT, IT IS VERY HELPFUL.
IT'S NOT THAT WE'RE THERE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
IT'S NOT THERE THAT WE'RE THERE TO CHALLENGE ANYONE.
IT'S THERE TO BE VISIBLE AND TO LET THE COMMUNITY KNOW, NUMBER ONE, WE ARE HERE, WE INVITE YOU TO OUR MEETINGS AND WE REALLY DO WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU NO MATTER WHAT DEMOGRAPHIC YOU FALL IN.
YOU KNOW, MAYBE IT'S THE TEENAGERS THAT FEEL LIKE THEY'RE NOT HURT.
YOU KNOW, WE, WE VERY OFTEN WHEN AS ADULTS WE TALK ABOUT WHAT OUR CITY NEEDS AND WHO'S GETTING SERVED.
FORGET ABOUT THE PRE-TEENS AND THE TEENS.
AND THAT'S WHERE WE LOSE OUR KIDS.
THAT TWO PEOPLE, THAT'S WHERE WE LOSE OUR KIDS.
WE DON'T LOSE 'EM WHEN THEY'RE LITTLE BITTY KIDS.
WE LOSE 'EM BECAUSE THEY BECOME BUSY.
PEOPLE AROUND THEM BECOME BUSY AND IT'S ALMOST AS IF THEY'RE LEFT TO BE FERAL AND RAISING THEMSELVES IN WAYS THAT USED TO NOT BE USED TO.
IF YOU SAW MY KID DOING WRONG, I'D DO ABOUT IT BEFORE YOU GET HOME.
YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT HOW IT IS ANYMORE.
YOU KNOW, I CAN'T COUNT ON MS. COLEMAN BEING THERE FOR ME.
BUT, YOU KNOW, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO THE DEMOGRAPHIC IS, I WANT THEM TO FEEL LIKE THEY CAN BE HEARD.
AND THAT THEIR VOICE DOES COUNT.
ONE OF MY THOUGHTS WAS THAT I THINK IT'S GREAT TO PLAN INDIVIDUAL.
I THINK THIS YEAR WE SHOULD PLAN MAYBE FOR THE FALL A A BIG EVENT THAT'S NEVER HAPPENED BY THIS MISSION THAT IS SPONSORED BY THE COMMISSION.
AS DAN TALKED TO DAN PROBABLY CAN FIND SOME MONEY FOR US IN THE BUDGET, YOU KNOW, BUT WE MAKE A STATEMENT LIKE, LIKE A BIG EVENT.
LIKE WE DO THE SMALLER STUFF AND SAY THIS AND, AND YOU GET THE ADVERTISING AFTERWARDS AGAIN AND SAY THIS IS GONNA HAPPEN.
WHAT THAT IS, I THINK WE RIGHT.
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THAT'S WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON.LIKE A, LIKE A, I DON'T KNOW, LIKE A, I DON'T KNOW, I GUESS A PARTY OR A ABSOLUTELY COOK OR SOMETHING IN THE, UH, SO KIND OF EVENTS, SOMETHING IN THE, UH, NEW AREA HERE.
WHAT DO THEY CALL THAT? THE TOWN GREEN.
AND IT MIGHT BE AROUND CULTURAL FOOD TOO.
FOOD IS ALWAYS A GOOD AND, BUT IT'S THIS, THIS IS YOUR COMMISSION.
WE HAVE LIKE A, WE GET UP AND WE DO PRESENT.
WE NEED SAY WHATEVER, SO PEOPLE KNOW THAT THERE'S A COMMISSION.
I THINK AS A PLANNING AS WE CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT SHOULD
YOU KNOW, LIKE, I THINK THAT WOULD BE, AND I'M, AND THAT WOULD BE YOU DO THAT THEN YOU GOT THE COMMUNICATION, YOU GOT, YOU KNOW, CHRISTIE GROUP AND YOU GOT THE COMMUNICATION ON FAITH AND THEY'RE ALL GONNA DO THIS.
AND UH, WELL, AND THAT GIVES US THE GRACE TIME TOO.
TO START GETTING AHEAD FOR THE MONTHS COMING UP.
BECAUSE I THINK IT'S, IT'S RATHER BOLD OF US TO THINK THAT WE CAN EVEN HAVE A MARCH EVENT.
I WAS HOPING AT LEAST BY APRIL.
WE CAN DO, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE DO SOMETHING AND THEY KNOW WE ARE, BUT WE
I THINK AS BEING ABLE TO BE PRESENT AT THAT AND TO MAYBE HAVE A BOOTH OR HAVE, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE GAME THING, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER, JUST INTRODUCE OURSELVES ONCE AGAIN AND SHOWING UP AT THE MEETINGS JUST TO INTRODUCE OURSELVES.
JUST TO, ONCE AGAIN, EVERY WEEK, EVERY MEETING ASK FOR PEOPLE TO COME.
MAYBE WE TELL THEM WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON, YOU KNOW, NOT WE'RE WORKING ON THIS
AND I THINK THAT THAT TIES INTO, YOU KNOW, FROM THE VERY BEGINNING WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, UM, LETTING PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT WHO WE ARE ABSOLUTELY.
AND I THINK THAT ALL GOES HAND IN HAND.
YOU KNOW, AND THEN WE'LL BE ABLE TO EDUCATE THEM THAT, OKAY, AT THE CITY COUNCIL THEY HAD THIS RESOLUTION OUT.
SENIOR TRANSPORTATION OR WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THERE IS.
WELL THAT, AND I MEAN WHEN SOMEBODY SAYS, WELL I HAVE A HARD TIME GETTING THIS STUFF.
WELL, IT'S KINDA BEHOLDEN TO US TO BE ABLE, NOT TO FACILITATE FOR THEM, BUT TO ACT AS A MEDIATOR AND, AND TO POINT THEM IN A DIRECTION.
BUT THAT'S WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON.
AND I THINK THAT'S, FOR ME, THAT'S WHAT I WANNA TELL PEOPLE WE'RE WORKING ON BUILDING.
THE DIVERSITY WITHIN HUDA, RIGHT.
WE'RE WORKING ON INCLUDING EVERYONE IN HUDA.
WE'RE WORKING SO THAT EVERYBODY IS TREATED EQUALLY IN HUDA.
AND WE CAN'T DO THAT IF YOU DON'T SHOW UP.
AND I MEAN THAT KIND OF THROWS IT BACK ON THEM.
AND I KNOW THERE'S A NICER WAY TO PUT IT AND TARA EYES PROBABLY MUCH BETTER THAT THAN ME THAT'S SAYING THAT.
BUT THE MORE THEY KNOW AND THE MORE THEY SEE THAT, MAYBE IF THEY SAY, OH GREAT, YOU MADE A PROCLAMATION ABOUT SENIOR TRANSPORTATION, BUT HOW DO I GET IT? MM-HMM.
RIGHT? I KNOW THAT WHEN MY SON WAS SUDDENLY DISABLED, IT WAS A WHOLE NEW WORLD TO ME, YOU KNOW, AND I'M NOT EXPECTING US TO HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, BUT WE SHOULD KNOW WHERE WITHIN THE CITY TO DIRECT PEOPLE.
SO WE HAVE TO EDUCATE OUR, WE HAVE TO EDUCATE OURSELVES.
AND I'M REALLY HAPPY WITH THE IDEA OF HAVING GUEST SPEAKERS COME IN TO TELL US WHAT IS AVAILABLE IN OUR COMMUNITY.
NOT JUST HUDDLE, BUT I MEAN IN OUR COMMUNITY.
I THINK THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR US.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S COME UP DIFFERENT TIMES THAT I'VE HEARD IS PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY CAN GET LEGAL AT.
PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY CAN TALK ABOUT THEIR LANDLORDS.
UM, OR, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER MINOR OR MAJOR INJUSTICE OR NEED THEY HAVE, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE COULD AT LEAST DIRECT THEM.
AND I THINK THAT'S, IF WE GET PEOPLE IN FROM THE STATE, IN, FROM THE COUNTY IN, FROM THE, THE REGION, THE DISTRICT LIKE
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REGIONS 13 I THINK IS WHAT WE'RE IN FOR THE PETAL.ISD, YOU KNOW, LET'S FIND OUT WHAT'S OUT THERE AND WHAT'S AVAILABLE.
SO AT LEAST WE CAN POINT THEM IN A DIRECTION.
THAT'S, THAT'S MY GOAL HERE, IS TO REALLY, REALLY BE ABLE TO POINT IN DIRECTIONS TO MAKE PEOPLE, AS TARA SAID, REPEATEDLY, MAKE THEM FEEL HEARD.
WHEN A PERSON FEELS HEARD, THEY FEEL VALUED.
WHEN THEY FEEL VALUED, THEY WANT TO PARTICIPATE.
NOBODY WANTS TO PARTICIPATE IF THEY DON'T FEEL VALUED.
ARE WE ARE CAN WE RIGHT NOW? CAN WE, RIGHT NOW I DON'T THINK WE CAN.
WE DON'T, IT WASN'T A, YOU HAVE A DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON UPCOMING.
YOU DO HAVE POSSIBLE ACTION ON THERE, SO, OKAY.
I'M GLAD YOU CAN THOUGHT ABOUT DOING THAT.
FIRST I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE ABOUT ATTENDING THIS WITH THE COUNCIL AND WE ALL ATTEND AND GET AN IDEA OF WHAT THEY WANT, WHAT DIRECTION WE SHOULD BE DOING.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S A MOTION
DISCUSS EXACTLY WHAT THE COUNCIL WANTS US TO DO ON THIS FEBRUARY 3RD MEETING.
SO THAT MEETING THEN THAT'S THE FEBRUARY 3RD MEETING.
THAT'S ALL THE COMMISSION, THAT'S ALL.
SO WHEN WE COME BACK, WE'RE DISCUSSING THAT AS DO WE HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT WE WANT TO HEAR, BUT THERE'S A, AS A GROUP, THERE'S ANOTHER MEETING YOU WANTED TO HAVE WITH, I'M LOOKING AT DATE WITH, WITH US.
I, I THINK IT'S THE SAME MEETING, BUT YEAH, IT'S THE SAME ONE.
WE'LL HAVE TO SEE WHEN ALL THE DETAILS COME OUT, BUT YEAH, IT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S THE SAME MEETING.
SO, SO WHAT YOU SAID, I THINK THEY'RE GONNA GET US A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION AND I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S WHEN WE CAN PROBABLY MOVE FORWARD, UM, KNOWING EXACTLY.
'CAUSE IF I TELL YOU I CAN BE THERE ON THE THIRD AND THEN THEY CHANGE IT TO WHATEVER DAY, THEN I'M LIKE, I CAN'T BE THERE, DUDE.
SO I DON'T WANNA SAY YES RIGHT NOW, IF THAT MAKES SENSE.
UM, I DO WANT A LITTLE MORE INFORMATION, BUT I DO WANNA BE THERE JUST, YOU KNOW, AND THAT MEETING IS DEFINITELY ON THE THIRD, SO I WAS JUST, I DIDN'T HEAR ABOUT IT UNTIL I GOT HERE.
SHE JUST, UH, OUR CITY SECRETARY, ANGELA, WHO SOME OF Y'ALL HAVE MET, RIGHT.
UM, IS WE'RE TRYING TO ASK ALL BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AVAILABILITY SO WE CAN GET THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE.
SO TONIGHT I WAS JUST ASKING TO SEE IF, UM, THAT DATE COULD POSSIBLY WORK FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE COMMISSION.
SO THAT'S, IT'S NOT A PRESSURE.
I WOULD CERTAINLY PREFER NOT TO.
BUT, SO I'VE LET, I LET HER KNOW, BUT IF IT'S ON ANOTHER DAY, SHE CAN, WELL, I PREFER NOT TO DO IT ON THE THIRD, BUT I FEEL LIKE IT'S IMPORTANT ENOUGH THAT MY LITTLE GRANDSON MAY HAVE TO WAIT FOR GRANDMA TO GET TO SAN ANGELO AT SEVEN O'CLOCK AT NIGHT.
IT'S A, IT'S A THREE AND A HALF HOUR DRIVE.
AND HERE'S MY POINT IS THAT, THAT I DON'T KNOW BECAUSE IF WE DON'T DO THAT NOW, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE COUNCIL'S EXPECTING OF IT.
SO THE SOONER WE CAN GET IT AND THEN WE SAY THIS IS WHAT THEY, WE UNDERSTAND THAT.
AND, AND THAT'S THE IMPORTANT PART.
THE OTHER THING I, WE WANNA VOTE ON THAT
I'M NOT TRYING TO INTERRUPT BRUCE, BUT I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED 'CAUSE I'M REFUSING THAT.
I THOUGHT WE WERE LOOKING AT THE CITY COUNCIL AS AT US GETTING TOGETHER IN MARCH FOR THAT INPUT MEETING.
I I MIGHT HAVE SAID THAT, BUT NO.
CITY COUNCIL DID THE STRATEGY SESSION WITH CITY STAFF IN MARCH, AND SO WE WANT TO HAVE THIS BEFORE THEN.
SOME OF OUR INPUT BEFORE WE GET THERE.
UM, YOU WERE RIGHT, BUT I, MY, MY DATES
I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU WANNA HANDLE THAT AS A MOTION OR I'M, MAYBE YOU COULD DO BETTER, BUT I, I'LL, I'LL SECOND.
YOUR MOTION THAT WE SHARED WITH ALL POST CASE HERE.
HERE'S WHAT I, HERE'S WHAT I'M HOPING WE GET IS THAT WE HAVE THE STRUCTURE OF YEP.
THAT'S THE THING WE'RE GONNA CONCENTRATE ON TO GET THAT INFORMATION.
THAT'S, TO ME, THAT'S IMPORTANT.
THE OTHER THING IS, YOU LOOK AT THIS, IS THAT WE LOOK AT BRINGING IN CONSULTING, LIKE STAN OR WHOEVER HAS A MOTION TO GIVE US DIRECTION ON WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THIS YEAR ABOUT PLANNING MEETING OR PLANNING EVENTS AND HOW WE SHOULD DO THAT.
BECAUSE THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT, I MEAN, WE CAN DISCUSS THINGS AND WHEN I GET, AND I, WE ALL DO THE SAME THING.
WE GO, YEAH, WHAT, WHAT A GREAT IDEA.
AND THEN THERE'S NO, THERE'S NO LOGISTICS.
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WHAT I'M HEARING IS YOU THINK WE SHOULD HAVE A WORK SESSION BEFORE WE HAVE THE FEBRUARY 3RD SESSION WITH THIS, BUT AT LEAST WE HAVE SOME QUESTIONS THAT ARE UNIFIED QUESTIONS.YEAH, THAT WOULD BE FINE WITH ME.
I MEAN, I CAN READ IF YOU WANNA MEAN, OTHERWISE IT'S GONNA BE IN THE, LIKE YOU JUST SAID, WE ALL KEEP ON TALKING AND YOU SAY, THIS IS GREAT.
DID WE ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING? WELL, THAT'S, I'M REALLY JUST CONCERNED OF WHAT COUNCIL'S GONNA SAY TO US BECAUSE MM-HMM.
AND THE REASON I ASK, I DIDN'T MEAN TO SAY THAT HOW LONG YOU'VE BEEN WITH THE COUNCIL? I DON'T EVEN KNOW.
FROM 1920, THERE WAS A, THERE WAS A DI COMMISSION.
WELL, I'M SORRY, IT'S MY SKIN ORIGINAL.
I WAS WITHIN, I WAS WITHIN A HUNDRED YEARS.
YOU DON'T, WE DON'T KNOW EVEN KNOW THAT.
SO WHAT WAS THE MOST MEMORABLE EVENT OH.
SUBMISSION HAS DONE IN THE LAST THREE YEARS?
YOU DON'T WANNA ANSWER THAT, TODD.
I MEAN, HONESTLY, EVERYTHING IS MEMORABLE.
UM, I THINK FOR ME, THE INTERACTIONS, UM, AT, I DON'T, I DON'T WANNA SAY THE WRONG NAME, BUT IT WAS THE SUNSET EVENT.
UM, I WAS THE ONLY PERSON THERE THAT REPRESENTED
UM, NO, AND I UNDERSTAND MY POINT IS THOUGH, YEAH.
OH, THE COMMISSION HAD HAD THIS EVENT.
WELL, IT WASN'T, IT WASN'T ARGUMENT BECAUSE WE, WE PARTICIPATED IN A AND THAT, AND THAT GOES BACK TO WHAT I SAID BEFORE.
UM, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO GET FAMILIAR WITH THE CITY, UH, CALENDAR TO SEE, AND IF YOU HAVE AN IDEA, UM, I'M ALL FOR PLANNING IN THE FUTURE, BUT, UM, AS A PARENT, I WOULD TELL MY KIDS, YOU KNOW WHAT? DON'T GET THAT RIGHT NOW.
I'M GONNA BUY IT IN SIX MONTHS.
AND THEY'D BE LIKE, I WANT IT NOW.
SO PEOPLE ARE GONNA WANNA SEE SOMETHING.
AND SO THAT'S MY THOUGHT PROCESS, EVEN IF WE'RE PIGGYBACKING ON SOMETHING THAT'S ALREADY GOING ON.
SO I DON'T WANNA DOWNPLAY HOW IMPORTANT I THINK THAT IS BECAUSE YOU CAN'T HAVE A PRESENCE IF YOU'RE NOT SHOWING UP.
YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO BE A, WE WE WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO GO TO SOME OF THESE THINGS AND YES.
BUT, UM, UNTIL THEY KNOW WE WHAT WE'RE HERE AND THAT WE WANT TO KNOW THAT WE'RE HERE AND WE CARE ABOUT THEM, WE CAN HAVE A MULTIMILLION DOLLAR EVENT AND 20 PEOPLE SHOW UP.
AND WE, WE, TO ME, THE FIRST THING IS TO GET PEOPLE ASKING, WHAT DO Y'ALL DO? WHAT'S GOING ON? YEAH.
AND I THINK THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER.
I REALLY, UM, WHAT IS YOUR MOTION? YEAH, LET'S GO GO BACK TO THE MOTION, BECAUSE I DID HAVE ONE MORE THING TO SAY.
AND I DON'T KNOW THE ORDER OF
YOU GONNA TABLE YOUR MOTION? TABLE MOTION? CAN YOU TABLE, CAN YOU WITHDRAW IT? I, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE MOTION WAS.
HIS MOTION WAS THAT WE ATTEND THE CITY COUNCIL FEBRUARY 3RD.
THAT'S AS MUCH AS I GOT OUT OF IT.
THE IDEA OF THAT WE FIND OUT WHAT THE CITY COUNCIL WANTS US TO DO.
WHAT, WHAT ARE THEY, WHAT ARE THEIR EXPECTATIONS? IS THE MOTION.
NOW THAT MAY NOT BE A MOTION, SO I'LL WITHDRAW THE MOTION BECAUSE IT DOESN'T PROBABLY MAKE SENSE.
BUT I THINK IF WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT'S GOING ON, I THINK THOSE ARE THE ONE THING WE HAVE TO FIND OUT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
AND I THINK WE JUST HAVE TO HAVE, UM, ADDITIONALLY HAVE A PLAN IN EFFECT, TO ACCOMPLISH WHAT WE WANNA EFFECT.
DIVERSITY AND, AND HOW PEOPLE ARE DOING AND WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN AND YOU'RE GONNA COME OUT.
BUT, AND THEN WE DON'T HAVE THE TIME TO DO THAT EITHER, RIGHT? I MEAN, WE DON'T, EVERYBODY'S BUSY.
WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN IF WE WALK AWAY, SAY, YEAH, THAT WAS GREAT.
BUT THEN THERE WAS, YOU KNOW, LIKE LOGISTIC IN PLACE RIGHT.
WHICH IS WHY WE'RE DISCUSS IT.
SO I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S A GOOD IDEA.
BUT THE, THE TWO FINAL THINGS I WANTED TO SAY BEFORE, UM, IF THERE'S NOTHING ELSE FROM ANYBODY ELSE, UM, I DON'T REMEMBER IF IT'S ACTUALLY IN APRIL.
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IT'S IN APRIL, THE BIG HU CLEANUP.UM, APRIL IS NATIONAL VOLUNTEER MONTH.
SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE A PERFECT OPPORTUNITY IF NOT THAT IN SOME CAPACITY, UH, TO SHOW YOUR VOLUNTEERISM, UM, AS THIS COMMISSION, JUST PUTTING IT OUT THERE.
NOT SAYING THAT'S SOMETHING WE HAVE TO DO, BUT I THINK THAT IT'S REALISTIC, UM, TO LOOK FORWARD TO THAT.
AND IT'S ALSO CELEBRATE DIVERSITY MONTH.
SO IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, A FEW THINGS THAT I DON'T WANT US TO FORGET ABOUT.
UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S, THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES.
EVEN IF I, I KNOW I THINK YOU MAY HAVE MENTIONED IT, UM, EVEN IF WE MAKE A STATEMENT ON, YOU KNOW, GET IT APPROVED, MAKE A STATEMENT, SOMETHING MAY BE CLICKABLE WITH A LITTLE INFORMATION, UM, EXPLAINING
I THINK I WOULD LIKE TO EXPAND UPON THAT.
IF APRIL IS CELEBRATE DIVERSITY MONTH.
'CAUSE I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WE SOMETIMES FORGET TO DO.
AND WE SOMETIMES AS INDIVIDUALS ON A COMMISSION, I CAN'T MAKE THIS ABOUT ME.
WELL, OBVIOUSLY I CAN THANK YOU
I MEAN, THAT'S A PERFECT OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLAIN TO THE PEOPLE, TO MAKE A STATEMENT OF WHY YOU JOINED THIS COMMISSION AND WHAT YOU HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH AS A BOARD MEMBER BE BECAUSE, AND JUST TO PIGGY BACK ON TO THAT, BECAUSE, UM, IF APRIL IS DIVERSITY MONTH, CELEBRATE DIVERSITY MONTH, AND ALSO VOLUNTEER, THIS IS A VOLUNTEER.
AND I MEAN THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, THAT WE COULD POSSIBLY PUT IN FRONT OF WHOMEVER DOES THE FACEBOOK PAGE GET IT APPROVED AND SAY, YOU KNOW, ONE, ONE TIME IT'S A PICTURE OF TARA AND WITH HER LITTLE STUFF.
I WOULD TAKE HER PICTURE AS WELL, BECAUSE THAT MAKES IT PERSONABLE, YOU KNOW, AND A BRIEF LITTLE STATEMENT OF WHY SHE IS ON THIS BOARD, YOU KNOW, AND I DON'T EVER HAVE MY PICTURE MADE, SO PLEASE, IF I'M VOLUNTEERING YOU, I'M ALSO VOLUNTEERING ME.
YOU KNOW, SO I JUST, I THINK THAT WOULD BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY GET THIS BALL ROLLING, YOU KNOW, AND GET PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE DO HAVE PERSONAL INVESTMENT IN THIS.
SO IF WE HAVE DIVERSITY AT CITY COUNCIL MEETING, IT'S NOT JUST LIKE A PROCLAMATION.
WE HAVE LIKE 10 MINUTES TO DO SOME PRESENTATION OR IS THAT A PROBLEM? I, I DON'T KNOW WHAT ALL THEY HAVE PLANNED FOR THE AGENDA FOR THIS.
SO, WELL, IT, IT WILL DEPEND GREATLY ON THE AGENDA, THE WAY I UNDERSTAND IT.
YOU DON'T UNDERWHELM ANYBODY, BUT YOU HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO, TO THROW THE, THE HOOK AND PUT IT IN THE CHEEK.
WELL, THAT'S WHERE I'M GLAD YOU BROUGHT UP IT'S DIVERSITY.
BUT I THINK LIKE YOUR POINT, LIKE I MAY HAVE, LET'S SAY I HAVE SOMEONE LIKE SENIOR ACCESS, WHICH IS I THINK THAT I KNOW THAT PERSON'S, YOU KNOW, PERSONALLY, RIGHT ON THAT NIGHT, I COULD BRING THEM IN, INTRODUCE THEMSELVES AS PART OF, AND SAY, AND HERE IS ONE OF THE GREAT EXAMPLES OF WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH PEOPLE THAT ARE HANDICAPPED
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AND INTRODUCE THEM AND HAVE LIKE A LITTLE PRESENTATION THAT I THINK THAT WOULD WORK OUT AS WELL.TALKING TO ANYONE, WHICH IS GREAT.
I, I, AND JULY IS A HUGE MONTH FOR THE DISABILITIES.
AND I'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT THAT REALLY PLAYED INTO THE FREEDOMS BECAUSE SO MANY TIMES WHEN YOU EITHER BECOME DISABLED, YOU ARE BORN AND DISABLED, WHATEVER, YOU JUST DON'T FEEL FREE AND YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE THE SAME FREEDOMS. MM-HMM.
I REALLY THINK THAT IF WE GET AHEAD OF THINGS A LITTLE BIT AND START AND, AND FOCUS ON APRIL, I THINK THAT'S THE PERFECT SENSE IS TO CELEBRATE DIVERSITY MONTH FOR US TO DO THAT.
AND I THINK THIS, THE, THE CITY COUNCIL CAN BE TOLD WE WANT THIS TYPE OF PROCLAMATION AND WE LIKE TO BRING IN THIS SPEAKER FOR THIS, THESE REASONS.
AND IN CITY COUNCIL GO, YES YOU CAN, BUT WE'RE NOT GIVING 'EM 20 MINUTES.
WE'LL GIVE 'EM FIVE, WE'LL GIVE 'EM TO YOU.
YOU KNOW? I MEAN, I DON'T BLAME 'EM.
SOMETIMES THEY'RE UP THERE TILL THREE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING,
SO THAT'S, NO, I THINK THAT'S GREAT.
I'M GLAD THAT WAS BROUGHT OFF.
THE WORST, THE WORST THING THAT CAN HAPPEN IS THEY TELL US NO, BRUCE, WELL, THEY'RE NOT GONNA TELL US.
I MEAN, THEY'RE GONNA GO MONTH.
I'M SURE YOU DON'T, YOU DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN HAVE A GUEST SPEAKER ADDRESS THE CITY COUNCIL AT CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS UNTIL YOU ASK THE QUESTION.
UNLESS CHRISSY'S OVER THERE GOING, OH, YES YOU DO.
I'LL TELL YOU, IF YOU ASK ME, I WILL ASK FOR IT TO BE PUT ON THE AGENDA.
WELL, AND AS OUR LIAISON, YOU'LL BE THE PERSON THAT'S PROBABLY ASKED
SO JUST ON THAT, I THINK, I THINK WE SHOULD DISCUSS THAT MORE.
WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN THAT NIGHT AT SOME POINT, RIGHT? RIGHT.
YOU WHAT ARE THE RULES? 'CAUSE OPEN MEETING IS OPEN MEETING, I GET THAT.
WE COULD CALL A CLOSED MEETING, WE COULD CALL A WORKSHOP SOMETIMES.
I FEEL LIKE AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS, WE MAY NEED TO MEET MORE, CONVERSE MORE WITH EACH OTHER THAN OPEN MEETINGS ALLOWS.
I KNOW THAT TARA AND I CAN TALK TO EACH OTHER BY OURSELVES.
I CAN IN TURN TALK TO JACQUELINE AND JACQUELINE CAN IN TURN TALK TO BRUCE, AND THEN BRUCE COMES BACK TO TARA, YOU KNOW, AND IT'S VIRTUALLY THE SAME THING, BUT IT'S NOT, I GET THAT.
DO WE NEED TO CALL A WORKSHOP? DO WE NEED TO CALL A CLOSED MEETING, YOU KNOW, SO THAT WE CAN WORK OUT SOME OF THESE DETAILS AND JUST STOP JUST TALKING ABOUT, WHAT WE WANNA DO IS START ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING.
I DON'T THINK YOU'RE, WELL, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN HAVE A CLOSED MEETING.
SO ALL PUBLIC MEETINGS WOULD BE AN OPEN MEETING LIST.
UM, AND SINCE QUORUM IS NOW THREE PEOPLE INSTEAD OF FOUR, UM, YOU'LL HAVE TO JUST, I WOULD JUST RE REPEAT AND REMIND, UM, TO BE CAREFUL AND COGNIZANT OF A WALKING FORUM, WHICH IS RIGHT.
UM, YOU KNOW, THREE OR MORE OF YOU, UM, RIGHT.
MEETING OR DISCUSSING ANYTHING, UH, AS PART OF THE COMMISSION.
SO, UM, THAT'S ALL I WILL SAY ON THAT.
SO THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S WHAT I KNOW.
THAT WOULD BE A VIOLATION OF OPEN MEETINGS.
SO THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING, CAN WE, CAN WE CALL WORKSHOPS? CAN WE, CAN WE HAVE SOME KIND OF ZOOM SATIONAL WORKSHOP TO WHERE WE DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE UP HERE, BUT WE CAN, WE CAN SET AN OUTLINE AND AGENDA AND GO, OKAY, LET'S TALK ABOUT CELEBRATE DIVERSITY MONTH.
WHO'S GOT AN IDEA? WHO'S GOTTA SPEAK? I THOUGHT IT WAS, AS LONG AS YOU DON'T VOTE ON ANYTHING.
YOU'RE NOT, YOU CAN STILL DISCUSS IT, DISCUSS A WALKING FORUM WITH THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE.
YOU JUST HAVE TO BE VERY, I TOLD YOU DIDN'T MAKE ANY POLICY AND THAT'S WHY IN EMAILS YOU DON'T REPLY ALL OR WE SAY EMAIL THAT.
BUT TO YOUR, UM, QUESTION, THAT WOULD STILL BE AN OPEN MEETING.
EVEN IF YOU HOLD WELL AND THAT NOT A WORKSHOP THAT WOULD STILL NOT CLOSE TO IT.
BE A MEETING THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE POSTED AND WE'D HAVE TO GO THROUGH ALL THE STEPS THAT WE WOULD POST IN THE OTHER OPEN MEETING, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
THAT WE'RE ALL GOING TO HAVE THIS, THIS, THIS WORKSHOP.
IF WE ALL COME UP WITH THAT WITHIN THE NEXT WHATEVER, AND WE DECIDE JANUARY 20, WHATEVER DATE IT IS, HOW SOON DO WE NEED TO GET THAT TO THE CITY FOR THE APPROVAL FOR THE LEGALITIES TO BE? SO, I MEAN, WE CAN'T DECIDE IT TOMORROW, THE FINAL POSTED ON FRIDAY.
THE FINAL AGENDA TO INCLUDE THE ITEMS ON THE AGENDA, WHAT Y'ALL HAVE DISCUSSED AS A COMMISSION THAT ARE GOING TO BE ON THE AGENDA WITH ANY ATTACHMENTS OR ANY, SO THE FINAL
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AGENDA HAS TO BE POSTED 72 HOURS IN ADVANCE.SO, BUT THAT MEANS BACKTRACKING FROM THERE, THERE, GETTING THAT INFORMATION TO, TO STAFF SO THAT WE CAN GET THINGS POSTED IF THERE'S MORE, IT, IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHAT THE ITEMS ARE AND THOSE KIND OF THINGS.
BUT AS FAR AS JUST HAVING AN OPEN MEETING AND JUST POSTING AN AGENDA AND 72 HOURS IN ADVANCE.
BUT ALSO BEING RESPECTFUL OF STAFF.
AND THAT'S WHAT I'M THINKING IS THAT THEY MAY HAVE QUESTIONS, THEY MAY HAVE A RED FLAG FOR US GOING, YOU CAN'T DO THAT.
YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO BE ABLE TO BE RESPONSIVE TO THAT.
AND AS YOU SAID, IF SOMETHING BIG COMES UP, YOU KNOW, WE, WE NEED TO GIVE THEM GRACE AS WELL.
SO 120 HOURS COMING OUT FROM, WHAT'S 72 HOURS IS THREE DAYS.
72, I'D SAY WE DO A SLIDESHOW PRESENTATION AT CITY COUNCIL.
BUT THEN THE WORST, I MEAN, IT WOULD TAKE, WELL, WE GOT TWO MONTHS, RIGHT? OR APRIL, OR WELL, WE, WE DO HAVE THAT, BUT I'D LIKE FOR, FOR THE WORKSHOP THOUGH, I'M SAYING LET'S GIVE A A SEVEN A WEEK'S NOTICE.
NOTICE NOT JUST WORKING DAYS BECAUSE WE HAD A HOLIDAY MONDAY, WE HAVE A HOLIDAY NEXT MONDAY, I BELIEVE.
SO SEVEN DAYS WOULD REALLY BE, IF IT'S WORKING DAYS, WE WANNA DO A SEVEN CALENDAR DAY.
OR DO WE WANT, HONESTLY, I THINK THAT'S A LITTLE TOUGH FOR STAFF BECAUSE I KNOW CHRISTIE HAS A LOT OF JOB RESPONSIBILITIES.
AND SOMETIMES SHE MIGHT BE OUT OF TOWN AT A CONFERENCE FOR A FEW DAYS OR SOMETHING, SO OKAY.
SO THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY VERY EASY.
THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING TO HANDLES, I THINK, YOU KNOW, UM, WEEKS, HOPEFULLY YOU GUYS, WELL, I MEAN, YOU'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING YOU WANNA DO REPEATEDLY.
YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT NO, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT YOU SEE A NEED FOR SOMETHING, ALMOST LIKE A SPECIAL CALL MEETING, RIGHT? A SPECIAL CALL MEETING MAYBE YEAH.
THIS MONTH, MAYBE NEXT MONTH TO GET, GET US GOING BECAUSE I JUST FEEL LIKE THESE MEETINGS, WE DO A LOT OF TALK ABOUT WHAT WE WANNA DO, WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO, BUT WE NEVER GET TO THE MEAT OF IT.
AND, AND THEN I THINK THE SEQUENCING IS WHAT DAN HAD SAID IS THE FIRST STARTING OFF WITH IN FEBRUARY, FEBRUARY THE COUNCIL MM-HMM.
SO ARE WE GOING IN, MAYBE I'M TOTALLY MISUNDERSTANDING THIS AND IT'S A GOOD THING THAT WE'RE DISCUSSING IT, SO I'M NOT, ARE WE SUPPOSED TO GO IN AND TALK TO Y'ALL AND TELL YOU WHAT WE WANT? OR ARE WE JUST SUPPOSED TO JUST LISTEN TO Y'ALL AND WHAT Y'ALL'S DIRECTION IS? I ABSOLUTELY THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE A TWO-WAY CONVERSATION.
WELL, THAT'S THE WORK SESSION I'M TALKING ABOUT IS WHERE DO WE PUT, WHO'S THAT THE PRIORITIES OF THIS, OF THIS COMMISSION.
I MEAN, EVERYBODY'S GOT VALID PRIORITIES.
I THINK MINE'S REALLY IMPORTANT, BUT IF THE OTHER FOUR MEMBERS DON'T PUT IT IN THE SAME ORDER OF IMPORTANCE, IT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING OTHER THAN WE'RE, WE'RE PRIORITIZING WHAT WE WOULD LIKE Y'ALL TO FOCUS ON WITH US.
AND ONE OF, ONE OF THE THINGS, ONE OF THE THINGS IN THE TRAINING, RIGHT COREY, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT STAN'S TRAINING,
SO THIS MEETING ON THE THIRD IS AT FOUR HOURS.
OH, WELL, BUT WE DON'T, IT'S FOUR.
WELL, WHATEVER, BUT WE CAN TALK.
IT'S NOT GONNA FOUR HOURS FOR D AND I TO TALK TO COUNSEL.
SHE'S GONNA SEND INFORMATION OUT TO LET US KNOW EXACTLY WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO REMAKE THE WHEEL RIGHT NOW.
SO, SO ONE THING, ONE THING FROM THE TRAINING THAT WE HAD WAS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS HE SAID WAS SETTING EXPECTATIONS.
AND ONE OF THEM WAS, DON'T EXPECT TO GET EVERYTHING DONE AND RIGHT.
WE MAY, WE MAY NOT HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO GET TO EVERYTHING.
AND IF PART OF THAT IS THAT WE NEED TO HAVE A SECOND WORK SESSION WITH JUST THE D AND I AND COUNCIL, YES.
I GUESS I DON'T FEEL LIKE I'M GETTING MY QUESTION RIGHT.
NO, BUT I MEAN, YEAH, WE NEED TO, WE NEED TO HAVE A DISCUSSION.
I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S ALL GONNA HAPPEN ON THE THIRD, BUT WE NEED TO HAVE, WE NEED TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
SO YOU'RE ASKING SHOULD WE COME PREPARED WITH OUR THOUGHTS INDIVIDUALLY AND AS A COMMISSION? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE ASKING? THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I'M THINKING.
AND I FEEL LIKE IF WE DON'T, AND WE GIVE THAT FEEDBACK AND THEN WE RECEIVE FEEDBACK.
AM I UNDERSTANDING WHAT YOU'RE ASKING? YES.
SO THAT'S WHAT SHE'S JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT.
I FEEL LIKE WE DON'T, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING WITH THEM.
AND I DON'T FEEL IT'S PRODUCTIVE, IT'S INFORMATIVE AND IT CAN LEAD TO
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PRODUCTION, BUT IT'S NOW IT'S TIME.NOW IT'S TIME TO DO ON THE COUNCIL SIDE, I THINK WE'RE GONNA HAVE SEVEN COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO MAY HAVE SEVEN DIFFERENT THINGS RIGHT.
WE HAVE TO LIST, WE HAVE TO SEE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE FIRST.
WELL, I'M, I'M CURIOUS AS TO WHETHER WE WILL LISTEN FIRST OR WE WILL SPEAK FIRST.
I, I WOULD PREFER FOR YOU GUYS TO SPEAK FIRST.
SO WE GET UP THERE, GO I'M DUCK TODAY.
WHAT DO Y'ALL THINK? WHO WAS THAT SPEAKER?
IT, IT, IT'S, IT'S VERY, UH, HIGH EXPECTATIONS FOR A GROUP THAT HAS NOT COME TOGETHER.
I MEAN, THIS IS THE FIRST MEETING I HAD.
SO I THINK WE HAVE TO, IN OUR OWN MINDS AND OUR OWN BODIES TO SAY, OKAY, WE ARE GONNA HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GET OUT WHAT WE WANNA SAY.
I'M GLAD YOU SAID THAT, BUT WE HAVE TO ALSO FOLLOW WHAT OTHERS OR LISTEN TO WHAT OTHERS WANT TO SAY.
SO, SO IT'S A TWO, LIKE A TWO-WAY STREET.
AND LIKE, ONE OF THE THINGS HE DID BRING OUT IS THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE MEETINGS.
HE HAD TO BE WILLING TO WORK IN PUBLIC AIR GOAL, THE, UM, PUBLIC MEETING ACT AND EVERYTHING IS NOT GONNA HAPPEN LIKE THAT.
I MEAN, AND I HAVE, I'VE BEEN ON, YOU KNOW, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION.
C IT IS VERY DIFFICULT BECAUSE EVERYONE HAS THEIR OWN, THEIR PASSIONS AND OH, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE OVERLOOKING THIS GROUP OR YOU'RE NOT DOING THIS.
YOU, WE REALLY HAVE TO, I ALWAYS SAY SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO SLOW DOWN TO SPEED UP, YOU KNOW, JUST, I'M, I'M HAPPY THAT WOW.
THEY'RE GONNA, THEY'RE HAVING A MEETING.
THE COUNCILS ARE HAVING A MEETING, UH, CITY COUNCIL'S HAVING A MEETING ABOUT THIS.
SO WE LISTEN TO THEM AND THEN, THEN WE SAY, HEY, WE, WE WERE THINKING ABOUT THIS AND WE'RE THINKING ABOUT THAT.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? IT DOES.
AND WHEN YOU WERE SPEAKING JUST NOW, IT CAME TO ME.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE DONE BEFORE, I THINK.
UM, BUT IT WAS IN REFERENCE TO GOALS, RIGHT? WE SENT EVERYTHING TO YOU AND THEN YOU SENT EVERYTHING OUT TO THE COMMISSIONERS.
SO WHAT I WOULD SUGGEST GOING INTO THAT MEETING, YOU WRITE DOWN YOUR IDEAS MM-HMM.
AND THEN WE, WE CAN'T, YOU KNOW, CONVERSATE WITH EACH OTHER IN GROUP OF THREE OR WHATEVER.
BUT WE CAN GET ALL THAT INFORMATION AND WE CAN GO OVER IT SO THAT WE ARE PREPARED WHEN WE GO IN THERE.
AT LEAST WE'LL KNOW WHAT, WHAT WE'RE THINKING ABOUT.
AND SO IT IT'LL BE SOMETHING ON PAPER THAT WE DISCUSSED WITHOUT EVEN HAVING TO BE PRESENT HERE.
SO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING? SO WE ALL, IF SAY THREE OF US COME UP WITH THE SAME IDEA, IT CAN BE PRESENTED TO US AS THIS SEEMS TO BE OF IMPORTANCE TO THE MAJORITY.
CAN THAT, CAN THAT HAPPEN FROM YOU, CHRISTIE? SO ANYTHING THAT, UM, Y'ALL INDIVIDUALLY, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, I THINK COMMISSIONER SPOONS, YOU'RE GONNA SEND ME THAT CALENDAR VISIT.
SO I ALREADY HAVE A DRAFT EMAIL RIGHT NOW THAT I'M GOING, THAT YOU ARE ALL BLIND COPIED ON SO THAT YOU CAN'T REPLY ALL.
AND I INCLUDE, UM, YOUR CITY COUNCIL LIAISON WHO IS COMMISSIONER OR I'M SO SORRY, COUNCIL MEMBER THORNTON RIGHT NOW.
SO SHE'LL SEND ME THAT DOCUMENT DIRECTLY FROM THERE.
I WILL DISSEMINATE TO ALL OF Y'ALL.
SO IF YOU HAVE, UM, THOUGHTS OR IDEAS OR SOMETHING LIKE PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH THE COMMISSION, I WILL DO THAT.
SO NO MATTER PERHAPS WE, YOU'LL JUST SHARE IT TO EACH, EACH PERSON.
BUT I, BUT I THINK THE KEY IS TO HAVE TANGIBLE IDEAS TO TALK ABOUT.
IF WE GO IN THERE AND, AND SAY, YEAH, WE REALLY WANT PEOPLE TO COME TOGETHER AND WE REALLY LIKE TO HAVE EVERYBODY UNDERSTAND THE ISSUES.
SO IT WILL BE A THOUGHT PROCESS BEFORE YOU SEND ANYTHING.
'CAUSE WE ALL SAY GAME, WE LOVE THIS.
LET'S DO, YOU KNOW, SO, BUT WE CAN'T, WE CAN'T SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, SEND THAT TO SOMEBODY AND SAY, COME ON, JUMP, JUMP IN.
SO MY MY WHAT I WAS SAYING, TANGIBLE IDEAS, YOU KNOW, HOWEVER YOU WANNA PHRASE IT.
YOU SEND THOSE THOUGHTS TO EACH OTHER, YOU KNOW, NOT TO EACH OTHER, BUT TO CHRISTIE.
AND THEN THAT WAY SHE CAN PROVIDE THE FEEDBACK TO US OF WHAT WE'VE SUBMITTED TO HER.
BECAUSE I KNOW I CAN HEAR IT'S A CONSENSUS.
EVERYONE IS WORRIED ABOUT THE TIMEFRAME AND THE TIMELINE, UM, OF US GOING IN THERE AND NOT REALLY KNOWING HOW WE ALL, WHAT WE STAND FOR.
WE'RE HERE, WE SIGNED UP FOR THIS, BUT WHAT, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT, OR WHAT, WHAT IS YOUR THOUGHT PROCESS OR YOURS?
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SO WHEN WE MAKE IT THERE TO THE MEETING AND YOU, YOU KNOW, SAY YOUR SPIEL AND I'M LIKE, WOW, I DIDN'T KNOW THAT AND I'M LOOKING AT YOU LIKE THIS.SO I THINK WE LOOK LIKE EXACTLY.
WELL, LIKE WHAT WE ARE IS, YOU KNOW, BLACK PEOPLE.
THAT'S A TANGIBLE, THAT'S MY EXACTLY THOUGHT AND PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT ME AND THIS IS WHAT I WANT.
AND SQUEAKY WHEELS TO GET DEGREE SOMEDAY.
WE WERE VERY CLOSE IN THE BUDGET AND DAN KNOWS AND WE TALKED ABOUT THAT.
AND, BUT THAT'S A TAN, THAT'S AN APPROACH, RIGHT? LIKE WHAT DO WE WANT TO DO AS A COMMISSION THAT IS THAT TANGIBLE AND SAY WE NEED TO HAVE THIS ACCOMPLISHED AND MAYBE WE WANT TO HIRE A CONSULTANT TO GIVE US DIRECTION AND DO STUFF.
THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'VE SAID TODAY AS FAR AS USING THE SOCIAL MEDIA THAT'S, THAT THE CITY USE, IT'S ALL THAT CAN VERY MUCH BE PART OF WHAT I SAID IN THAT I WANNA DISCUSS WITH THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE FACT THAT I WOULD LIKE US TO TAKE TURNS BEING THERE AND INVITING AND MM-HMM.
YOU KNOW, REACH OUT TO DO, REACH OUT TO JACQUELINE, REACH OUT TO BRUCE, COREY, WHOEVER.
I, UM, AGREE WITH YOU WHEN YOU SAID ABOUT, UM, AN IDEA FOR STAN TO COME IN ALSO, I WOULD SAY THERE NEEDS TO BE, I'M HOPING WE CAN ENGAGE HIM TO WORK WITH US, THE COMMISSIONERS, SO WE CAN BE EFFECTIVE.
YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? HE'S VERY, I THINK HE'S VERY GOOD WITH, WITH WHAT HE DOES.
HE WORKED, UM, AT IBM AND, YOU KNOW, WITH THEIR DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION COMMISSION.
AND THAT IS HELPFUL FOR US BECAUSE THE TENSION THAT MAYBE WE FEEL THAT, OH, WE'RE NOT DOING ENOUGH, WE'RE NOT DOING THIS.
AND HE CAN, I FEEL HE CAN HELP.
THAT WOULD BE ONE WAY THAT CAN BE HELPED.
THAT'S THE NICE POINT ABOUT TANGIBLE
OKAY, LET'S, SO MAYBE THE WORKSHOP IS NOT AS NECESSARY AS I THINK IT THAT I PRESUMED IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
WE, WE'LL SEND IN TWO OR THREE ITEMS EACH UP TO CHRISTIE AND WE'LL GO FROM THERE.
BUT I, AFTER THAT WE FIGURED WE MIGHT NEED A WORKSHOP THEN WE CAN CALL IT OH YEAH, YEAH.
I, UM, THAT WAY WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WHEN WE SHOW UP.
BUT I, IT IS A GOOD SIGN THAT THAT COMMISSION WANTS TO MEET WITH US.
THEY'RE NOT IGNORING WELL, AND AND IT REALLY IS.
I SAID MY BIGGEST GOAL IS I WANT TO PRESENT HOW TO IN A POSITIVE LIGHT.
AND I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THAT IF I DON'T HAVE HELP FROM YES.
I JUST DON I MOVED HERE WITH THE IDEA TO RETIRE AND BE, BE QUIET.
I DON'T THINK I'VE EVER LIVED ANYWHERE THAT I BECAME MORE INVOLVED.
I KNOW MORE ABOUT HUDA'S HISTORY AND EVERYTHING THAT I DO.
THE TOWN, MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER FOUND IT
HE DIDN'T DO IT BY HIMSELF, BUT, YOU KNOW,
LIKE, I DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT.
LIKE, AND I'LL TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, THIS SLIDE SHOW I THINK IS THE WAY TO DO IT.
UNAC ACCOUNTABLE, THE DIVERSITY, PUT IT IN AND I WILL, HEY, COME ON DAD.
AND I, I DON'T KNOW IF WE WANNA DO THAT BECAUSE THAT'S, I MIGHT DO THAT.
WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT? THAT PROBABLY WOULD BE A LOT BETTER THAN YOU THINK IT WOULD.
SOMEBODY NEEDS TO REMIND OCCASIONALLY WHO FOUND THIS.
IF YOU READ OUR MISSION STATEMENT, YOU READ THAT.
THEY SAY, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE PAST.
AS MUCH AS WHAT THE FUTURE'S GONNA BE.
LET'S, LET'S LOOK HOW, AND THERE'S A LOT OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE PAST, YOU KNOW, AND, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING WE PROBABLY DISCUSSED.
BUT, BUT LET'S LOOK AT THE POSITIVES OF THE PAST, NOT JUST THE NEGATIVES.
I MEAN, AND I THINK THAT A LOT OF TIMES WHEN WE TALK ABOUT HISTORY THESE DAYS, NOT EVERY DAY, BUT A
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LOT, WE FOCUS ON NEGATIVES INSTEAD OF THE POSITIVES THAT CAME OUT OF HISTORY AND HOW, GOSH, THIS IS GONNA SOUND SO PANDERING.HELP HOW CERTAIN MEMBERS OF OUR, OUR SOCIETY OVERCAME THINGS.
AND I KNOW THAT SOUNDS PANDERING, BUT I DON'T KNOW A BETTER WORD.
OVERCAME OBSTACLES, OVERCAME DIFFICULTIES.
AND IT'S NOT JUST ONE CULTURE, ONE RACE THAT OVERCAME A LOT.
AND MOST PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ABOUT ALL OF 'EM IN THIS AREA THAT HAD TO OVERCOME THINGS.
UH, THE HISTORY OF THIS AREA IN WORLD WAR II AND UH, NOT BEING AMERICAN ENOUGH 'CAUSE WAY BACK.
WELL, AND IT'S FUNNY YOU SAY THAT 'CAUSE I THINK THAT STAN KNOWS THAT.
HE KNOWS, HE KNOWS HOW TO, WHY YOU ARE THINKING THAT WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED.
LIKE WHAT EACH ONE OF US, YOU KNOW, THINKS ABOUT DIVERSITY AND
AND I THINK HE'S GOT A HANDLE ON THAT.
DIVERSITY HAS CHANGED A LOT IN THE LAST 150 YEARS.
NO MATTER WHAT DEMOGRAPHIC YOU FOLLOW THAT IT'S CHANGED A LOT WITHIN CULTURES.
IT'S CHANGED A LOT WITHIN DEMOGRAPHICS, BUT IT'S CHANGED OVERALL A LOT.
AND I'M HAPPY THAT IT'S CHANGED
AND SO WITH THAT, ANY, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSIONS ON 7.3? I DON'T HEAR ANY.
SO IT'S GO, WE MOVED TO EIGHT ADJOURNMENT
AND I JUST LIKE TO SAY, I THINK WE, I THINK THIS IS GREAT.
YOU START TALKING, GO HOME AND WATCH A BASKETBALL.