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[Diversity and Inclusion Meeting on October 15, 2024.]
AND ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS, PASS OUT STICKERS, ALL KINDS OF STUFF.UM, KIND OF TO EXPOSE NEIGHBORHOOD TO WHO WILL BE COMING IF THEY EVER NEED ANYBODY.
AND NOT ONLY THAT, GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S PRETTY MUCH IT.
WE HAD A GREAT TURNOUT IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
I KNOW THAT ANOTHER, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY NEIGHBORHOODS, BUT I DO KNOW OF ONE OTHER ONE 'CAUSE I SAW SOME PICTURES.
UM, BUT FOR US, WE DO IT IN OCTOBER BECAUSE IT'S TOO HOT IN AUGUST TO DO IT.
BUT, UM, PREVIOUS YEARS, WE DID DO IT IN AUGUST.
SO IT'S USUALLY THE FIRST TUESDAY OF OCTOBER, I THINK.
IT'S ALWAYS THE FIRST TUESDAY OF OCTOBER.
BUT IT'S, IT'S NICE SO YOU CAN FIND OUT ABOUT IT AND GET INVOLVED.
WE JUST HAVE A POINT OF CONTACT.
WELL, I, WE DO HAVE A HOA SO I'LL BRING IT UP TO THEM.
DON'T, THEY DON'T DO ANYTHING.
THEY HAVE FOOD TRUCKS AND EVERYTHING, BUT, OKAY.
UM, I DON'T THINK THE HIGHLANDS, NONE OF THE HIGHLANDS DIVISIONS DO ANYTHING.
I THINK THIS, THIS YEAR IT WAS KIND OF, I GUESS, SCALE BACK FOR SOME NEIGHBORHOODS.
IT KIND OF CAME FOR ME QUICKLY.
SO I THINK MAYBE THAT HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH, I'M NOT SURE.
BUT, UM, PEOPLE ARE MORE THAN WELCOME.
WE HAD PEOPLE FROM ALL DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, THAT CAME TO ONE THAT WAS HOSTED IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
SO EVEN IF YOU PARTICULAR NEIGHBORHOOD DOESN'T HAVE ONE, THEN JUST, YOU KNOW, FIND SOMEWHERE YOU CAN GO.
AT LEAST TO KIND OF, ESPECIALLY WITH KIDDOS, THEY ENJOY GETTING INTO THE AMBULANCE.
THEY ENJOYED, UM, YOU KNOW, INTERACTING, SITTING IN THE POLICE CARS, TURNING ON THE SIRENS.
UM, SO I MEAN, THEY LOVE DOING THAT.
SO IF YOU HAVE TO GO, YOU KNOW, INTO THE NEXT NEIGHBORHOOD.
THAT SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT COMMUNITY
SO I, YES, I HAVE SOME COMMENTS.
JUST KIND LIKE TO SET, UM, THE SCENE.
UM, YEAH, CORINA HAS ANOTHER CONFLICT.
UM, NOW WE ARE ROLLING ON THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
UM, ONE OTHER THING, WE RENAMED THE COMMISSION THAT WAS APPROVED, THE BUDGET WAS APPROVED, TOTAL BUDGET.
AND ON THE PROPOSAL FOR, UM, CONSULTING WAS APPROVED WITH, UH, STAN CONTINUING TO WORK WITH STAN.
UM, SO OFFICIALLY WE ARE IN THE NEXT PHASE.
WE'LL CONTINUE TO, IF ANYBODY DOESN'T HAVE A COPY OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN, WE'LL DEFINITELY GET ONE TO YOU.
UM, NOW, UH, I DID TALK TO STAN YESTERDAY, AND HE WILL BE AT OUR MEETING ON DECEMBER 17TH.
AND HE, HE SENT HIS SCHEDULE FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR SO WE CAN, UM, YOU KNOW, WORK AROUND THAT.
SO, THE NEXT MEETING ON THE 19TH, UM, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, CHRISTIE, WE WILL HAVE PRESENTATIONS FROM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND CHIEF.
'CAUSE HE COULDN'T COME TO THAT.
UH, STAN COULD NOT COME TO THAT MEETING ANYWAY.
UM, I WILL BE MEETING WITH THE CITY MANAGER ON THURSDAY.
SO WE ARE GONNA JUST, UM, REVIEW THE STRATEGIC PLAN JUST TO, YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE EVERYTHING, EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS EVERYTHING.
WE'RE GONNA DO THAT AND ALSO BE MEETING.
WE'LL, ALSO, WE RECEIVED A PROPOSAL FOR THE YOUTH COUNCIL, WHICH WAS VERY GOOD.
UM, THE ONLY THING, UM, THAT, UM, THIS IS A PERSON THAT IS ETHAN.
ETHAN, WHAT'S HIS LAST NAME? OKAY.
HE, UM, WORKS IN THE CITY COUNCIL.
THE ONLY THING IS THAT HE WAS PROPOSING A SEPARATE COMMISSION AS OPPOSED TO A WORKING GROUP.
EVERYTHING WORKED OUT WELL BECAUSE I WAS GONNA MEET WITH, UM, THE CITY MANAGER.
AND ANYWAY, HE'S GONNA BE IN THAT MEETING, SO I STILL WANT TO ENCOURAGE HIM TO CONTINUE IN THAT.
SO WE'LL GET MORE DETAIL INTO THAT.
UM, ALSO, PETER GORDON CALLED ME AND HE STATED THAT HE GAVE A PRESENTATION TO HISPANIC GROUP, AND THEY WERE VERY INTERESTED IN JOINING THE WORK, INTERESTED IN THE WORKING GROUPS AND HOW THEY CONTRIBUTE IN THAT.
I THINK THINGS ARE STARTING TO GET ALONG.
SO NOW WE HAVE TO GET OUR, UM,
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STRUCTURE AND EVERYTHING TOGETHER, WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE BEEN DOING.AND OTHER GROUPS THAT HAVE EXPRESSED INTEREST ARE THE VETERANS GROUPS.
I ATTENDED PROBABLY ABOUT THREE OR FOUR BUDGET MEETINGS.
AND EVERY TIME THEY WERE THERE, THEY EXPRESSED THAT THEY WERE INTERESTED AND THEY WANTED TO HELP.
SO, SO WE WANT TO FOLLOW THE ENERGY.
SO THAT'S JUST SOMETHING DEFINITELY TO KEEP IN MIND.
UM, WE'LL DISCUSS, OH, YEAH, LATER ON, AFTER, UM, WE WERE LOOKING FOR, UM, OUR GUEST SPEAKER FROM HOW ISD, BUT IF NOT, WE'LL CONTINUE, WE'LL GO ON AND OUT WITHOUT THEM AND LET THEM, UM, COME IN.
UM, SO WE WERE GOING TO DISCUSS HOW, SINCE NOW WE HAVE THE FULL COMMISSION, HOW WE WOULD WORK TOGETHER, WOULD WE DO SUBGROUPS, YOU KNOW, INDIVIDUAL GROUPS? BECAUSE LIKE THIS MEETING, WE ONLY HOLD ONCE A MONTH, AND WE ARE REALLY THE STRATEGIC FOCUS.
AND SO NOW WE'RE STARTING TO ESTABLISH THE WORKING GROUPS AND SO FORTH.
UM, SO YEAH, I WAS AT THAT MEETING ON SATURDAY.
SO A LOT OF THEM ARE REALLY INTERESTED IN, IN, YES.
SEEMS LIKE MAYBE BEING PART OF A WORKING GROUP.
AND, AND FELIX CHAVEZ IS THE ONE THAT KIND OF ORGANIZES THAT GROUP.
SO IF YOU WANT, YOU KNOW, GET SOME CONTACTS, NAMES AND NUMBERS, HE WOULD HAVE THEM.
SO THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS I WANTED TO DISCUSS.
LIKE, HOW DO WE, SINCE NOW WE, THE COMMISSION IS SET, HOW DO WE INTERACT? WHAT SHOULD WE DO? WE DO HAVE THE STRATEGIC PLAN TO FOLLOW, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER THINGS, UM, THAT WE WOULD NEED TO DO.
BUT THINGS ARE GOING ALONG WELL, I THINK.
OH, ONE THING I WANTED TO SAY IS, UM, SOME, IN SOME COMMISSIONS, IT'S LIKE YOU HAVE TO HAVE EXPERTISE TO, I DON'T KNOW, TO GET INVOLVED OR LIKE WITH THE ZONING OR DIFFERENT THINGS LIKE THAT.
WITH THIS COMMISSION, YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE EXPERTISE TO, LIKE, SAY, FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU WERE GONNA BE A LIAISON WITH A VETERANS GROUP OR WHATEVER, BECAUSE WE ARE WORKING AS A COMMUNITY TOGETHER.
SO I JUST, I JUST WANT PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE MAY BE THINGS THAT WE, WE DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING, BUT WE DEFINITELY KNOW HOW TO LEAD.
SO WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF LIKE, VETERANS.
SO I SAY, OH, I'M NOT A VETERAN.
I CAN'T HELP THE, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER.
SO IT'S JUST SOMETHING, UM, I JUST WANNA BRING UP THAT, YOU KNOW, AS WE GO, WE ARE GONNA BE LEARNING AS WELL.
NOW WE'LL WELCOME OUR NEW PICTURE.
SO IF YOU WOULD WANNA SAY A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOURSELF AND HOW LONG YOU'VE BEEN IN HU, WHY YOU JOINED THE NEW CENTER.
I APPRECIATE, UH, EVERYONE WELCOME, EVERYTHING.
I'VE BEEN IN HUDDLE THIS, UM, THREE YEARS.
UM, AND I'M GLAD TO BE HERE, READY TO GET TO WORK.
I HAVE A, A PRETTY DECENT KNOWLEDGE OF, UH, GROUPS AND COMMISSIONS AND COUNCILS THAT I'VE BEEN ON.
SO I JUST WANNA BRING WHATEVER I CAN TO HELP, YOU KNOW, TO SEE THE PROGRESS MOVE FORWARD.
SO, UM, SHE DID SAY SHE WAS COMING.
SHE DID CONFIRM, AND I HAVEN'T HEARD ABOUT THE WHY.
SO, WE'LL, WE'LL JUST SKIP THAT FOR NOW.
SO NOW WE CAN GO INTO, UM, 7.3 DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON THE NEXT STEPS AS A FULLY SEATED COMMISSION TO INCLUDE APPROVED BUDGET, WHICH WE HAVE TRAINING, FACILITATION, AND ORGANIZATION OF WORKING GROUPS.
SO, SO WHAT IDEAS DO WE HAVE ABOUT HOW WE CAN OR SHOULD WORK TOGETHER AS WE ARE NOW INTO A NEW PHASE OF OUR COMMISSION? SO WE HAVE FOUR, UH, PROPOSED WORKING GROUPS, RIGHT?
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UM, SO FAR NO, ARE, ARE IDEAS FOR WORKING GROUPS? WE HAVE FOUR TITLES, OR, WELL, IT, IT DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU MEAN.LIKE, BY, WITH THE, UM, STRATEGIC PLAN, THERE WERE FOUR AREAS.
SO LIKE ONE, THE FIRST ONE IS THE SUSTAINABLE STRUCTURE.
SO THAT'S WHAT WE REALLY ARE WORKING ON NOW.
SO HOW DO WE WORK TOGETHER? BUT, UM, THEN WE HAVE PRIORITY AREA TWO, AND THEN WE HAVE INTERNAL CITY PRACTICES, WHICH THE BUDGET HAS BEEN APPROVED FOR THAT REGARDING RECRUITING EDUCATION.
THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER ONE FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH AND EMPOWERMENT.
SO, AND TO ME, THE, THAT, THOSE ARE GREAT BECAUSE THAT'S DEFINITELY BUILDING THE STRATEGIC PLAN, BUT THEY'RE ALSO, IN MY OPINION, THEY'RE LIKE CITIZEN GROUPS, LIKE THE BLACK FAMILY OF HU, UM, YOU KNOW, THE HISPANIC GROUP THAT YOU, UM, WERE WORKING WITH.
UM, YOU KNOW, SO THAT'S ANOTHER AREA AND PIECE, BUT WHAT WE NEED TO SAY AS WELL, WHAT THINGS ARE WE GONNA DO, OR HOW ARE WE GONNA WORK TOGETHER TO A, ACCOMPLISH THE STRATEGIC PLAN, BUT B, ALSO SUPPORT VARIOUS GROUPS AS WELL.
I JUST, OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, WE MIGHT WANT TO, YOU KNOW, ONCE WE IDENTIFY THOSE GROUPS, IDENTIFY, UH, THOSE OF US ON THE COMMISSION WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED IN HELPING TO ORGANIZE ONE OF THOSE GROUPS.
OR, UM, LIKE SAY, HOW WOULD, FOR EXAMPLE, I COULD HELP TO ORGANIZE THE HISPANIC MM-HMM.
MAYBE SOMEBODY ELSE WOULD BE INTERESTED IN SEEING IF BLACK FAMILIES AT HUDDLE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A GROUP, MAYBE, UM, JUST THINKING OUT LOUD ABOUT HOW TO GO ABOUT JUST GETTING STARTED, GETTING NAMES AND CONTACTS AND INFORMATION AND JUST TO START BUILDING THE GROUPS.
AND THAT IS, THOSE GROUPS ARE KIND OF LIKE, THEY'RE CITIZEN GROUPS, WHICH ARE DIFFERENT THAN THE WORKING GROUPS, LIKE THE YOUTH COUNCIL AND OTHER THINGS LIKE THAT.
BUT I THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA THOUGH.
SO, SO I WILL STEP IN TO SAY I WILL DEFINITELY BE A LIAISON TO THE BLACK FAMILY OF HEALTH.
UM, SO I WILL DEFINITELY DO THAT.
COLEMAN, IF I MAY, I PULLED UP MINUTES FROM THE AUGUST MEETING MM-HMM.
WHERE THIS WAS KIND OF FIRST TALKED ABOUT.
UM, AND SOME OF THE NOTES HERE ARE, UM, UNDER THE NAMING OF THE CITIZEN WORKING GROUPS.
YOUTH VOICES AND EDUCATION, ECONOMIC GROWTH AND PROSPERITY, AND THEN INTERGENERATIONAL.
THOSE WERE THE FOUR AREAS, UM, OUTSIDE OF THE STAFF WORKING GROUP.
UM, WHICH AT THAT TIME, COMMISSIONER COLEMAN, YOU MENTIONED THAT YOU WOULD BE INTERESTED IN WORKING WITH THE HR DIRECTOR YEAH.
SO I JUST WANTED TO BRING THAT BACK UP TO THE TABLE AS A REMINDER OF SOME WORK THAT YOU'VE ALREADY DONE.
SO THERE, THERE WAS A VETERANS, THERE WAS A YOUTH, YOUTH VOICES AND EDUCATION WERE TOGETHER.
ECONOMIC, ECONOMIC GROWTH AND PROSPERITY, AND THEN INTERGENERATIONAL.
AND AT THAT TIME, I HAVE NAMES NEXT TO SOME OF THESE THAT Y'ALL HAD TALKED ABOUT.
IF YOU WANT ME TO BRING THOSE UP, I CAN.
BUT WE DO HAVE NEW COMMISSIONERS HERE.
I, I WOULD THINK WE, I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT IT LIKE KIND OF CLEAR, LIKE, UM, I HAVE A COMMENT.
I THINK THAT THE FIGURING OUT THE GROUPS IS GREAT, BUT I THINK THAT YOU NEED TO DETERMINE WHAT YOU NEED TO DO WITHIN EACH GROUP.
SO HAVING A GUIDELINE OF, OKAY, WE HAVE TO GATHER UP THIS INFORMATION, OR WE HAVE TO DO CERTAIN THINGS, WE HAVE TO REACH OUT TO CERTAIN PEOPLE.
I THINK IT NEEDS TO BE A DETAILED KIND OF LIST FOR EACH TYPE OF GROUP WITH YOU ASSIGNING POSSIBLY TWO PEOPLE FOR EACH.
IF WE DON'T HAVE STRUCTURE WITHIN THE GROUP, IT'S
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NOT GONNA WORK.SO THAT, THAT'S WHY I WAS SAYING THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE STRUCTURE WITHIN THIS GROUP, RIGHT.
LIKE, HOW ARE WE KNOW INTO WHAT THINGS DO WE NEED? SO WE NEED A JOB DESCRIPTION FOR US.
WE, WE
SO THEN THE NEXT STEP WOULD BE, I GUESS THAT GOES THE POINT ABOUT HOW WE WOULD WORK TOGETHER.
WHAT STRUCTURE DO WE NEED TO ADD? WE, THERE HAS TO BE A LEAP, WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY OKAY.
SO THAT WE CAN THROW OUT AS MANY SUGGESTIONS AS WE SEE FIT.
BUT AT THAT POINT, AS A GROUP, WE HAVE TO DETERMINE WHETHER THOSE SUGGESTIONS ARE VALID OR WHETHER WE PASS 'EM UP AND WE GO ON TO OTHER ONES.
SO WE HAVE X NUMBER OF THINGS WE NEED TO DO FOR EACH GROUP, BUT WE HAVE TO HAVE A PRETTY MUCH A QUORUM TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE REALLY NEED TO GET DONE.
UH, IF I MAY, UM, WELL, I HELP IN A LOT OF GROUPS OF COUNSELORS.
WE HAVE A VISION STATEMENT AND THEN MAYBE, UH, TWO OR THREE GOALS THAT LINE, THAT VISION STATEMENT, THAT'LL HELP A LITTLE BIT MORE WHERE WE WANT TO GO.
SO, WHICH WE HAVE THAT WITH THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
SO DO WE NEED TO REVIEW THAT OR NO, IF WE HAVE ONE NOW, WHAT WASN'T AT THAT MEETING THAT, WELL, ONE OF THE THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT IN, IN PAST MEETINGS IS AS FAR AS OUR PRESENCE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE NAME CHANGE AND, UH MM-HMM.
HAVING THAT, UH, WITH THAT BRANDING AND USING THE WEBSITE AS A TOOL, UH, PROVIDING A AVENUE FOR, UH, DIFFERENT COMMUNITY GROUPS TO, TO COMMUNICATE, UH, TO US.
IS THAT A POSSIBILITY TO USE THE WEB? UM, YOU HAVE A LANDING PAGE YEAH.
RIGHT NOW WHERE, UM, LIKE EVERY BOARDING COMMISSION HAS THEIR OWN LANDING PAGE WITH WHAT THOSE, UM, MACHINE VISION STATEMENTS ARE.
SOME GUIDELINES BASED ON WHAT THE CITY REQUIRES FOR WHAT GOES ON THOSE PAGES.
PUBLIC INFORMATION AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
SO WE WOULD, ONE THING I'VE ALREADY LOOKED INTO, WE WOULD NEED TO DEVELOP, UH, OUR COMMUNICATION PLAN.
SO, AND WE DO HAVE A LIAISON WITH, UM, THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT, UM, SHAY WE HAVE HER AS THAT.
SO THAT DEFINITELY, AND STRATEGICALLY, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT COMMUNICATION AND CREATING COMMUNICATION PLATFORM, UH, I MEAN, I, I I, I UNDERSTAND GOING OUT THE COMMUNITY AND, AND YOU KNOW, KNOCKING ON DOORS AND ALL THAT.
IN 2024 IS EVERYTHING'S PRETTY MUCH LIKE, UH, X OR FACEBOOK OR TWEET, WHATEVER THEY, I DON'T THAT
THAT'S WHY WE, BUT JUST TO KIND OF MAKE SURE WE'RE HITTING, I'M GONNA JUST PUT IT LIKE THIS.
LIKE I TELL MY STAFF, ALL OF US SITTING AT THIS TABLE, WE NEED TO KIND OF CUR, KIND OF CATER TO THE NEXT GENERATION, WHICH IS THE MINORITY OF THE WORLD, WHICH IS THE GEN ZS AND THE MILLENNIALS.
LIKE IT OR NOT, THEY ARE THE ONES EFFECTIVELY RUNNING THE WORLD AS WE LIVED IN.
SO, SO THEIR PLATFORM, THEIR PLATFORM IS WHAT I JUST NAMED.
SO IT'S JUST KIND OF, UH, ESTABLISHING OUR COMMUNITY, OUR COMMUNICATION PLATFORM, BUT TO INCLUDE THOSE ELEMENTS OF SOCIAL MEDIA.
BECAUSE THAT'S GOING TO BE YOUR OUTREACH.
THAT'S WHERE YOU'RE GONNA GET THE BIG BANG FOR YOUR BUCK.
THAT'S WHERE YOU'RE GONNA NOT WEAR US OUT AND LET THE TRAFFIC COME TO US.
AND WE CAN ACTUALLY NAVIGATE THAT TRAFFIC A LITTLE BIT MORE FLUENTLY.
SO I'M, YOU KNOW,
SO, BUT WE HAVE ONE THAT ISN'T BEING UPDATED.
IT POSSIBLE WE, UM, HAVE KIND OF VISITED THIS BEFORE, BEFORE, UH, ANYBODY ELSE WAS ON THE COMMITTEE.
UM, WE HAD THE SUBCOMMITTEES AND IT WAS A COMMUNICATION SUBCOMMITTEE.
IT WAS THE EVENTS SUBCOMMITTEE.
IT WAS, UM, CHRISTIE, HELP ME OUT.
I DON'T THINK WEBSITE WAS ALL ITS OWN.
SO IT'S KIND OF LIKE, WE KIND OF HAVE DONE SOME OF THE WORK AND WHAT WE NEEDED, BUT AT THE TIME, WE DIDN'T
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HAVE ANYBODY THAT COULD KIND OF COMPLETE THE MISSION, SO TO SPEAK.UM, SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE A GREAT START TO KIND OF LOOK AT HOW WE'RE GOING TO WORK THAT.
UM, ANOTHER THING THAT I JOTTED DOWN IS CERTAIN GROUPS ARE GOING TO WANNA SIT FACE TO FACE WITH YOU.
AND SO INVITE THEM OUT AND LET THEM TELL US, YOU KNOW, HOW THEY'RE FEELING AND WHAT THEY'RE NEEDING AND WHAT THEY FEEL LIKE THEY NEED AND WHAT THEY FEEL LIKE IS NOT OFFERED IN THIS AREA.
I'M NOT SURE ABOUT ANY OF THE OTHER GROUPS.
'CAUSE LIKE YOU SAID, THEY WORK THROUGH EMAILS, SOCIAL MEDIA, UM, ZOOM, UM, ANY KIND OF WAY OF NOT HAVING TO PHYSICALLY, YOU KNOW, SHOW UP SOMEWHERE.
SO I THINK WE, I'M JUST BEING HONEST,
SO, BUT, UM, I JUST THINK, UM, THE YOUTH PROBABLY, YOU KNOW, MAYBE NOT SO MUCH WANTING TO COME OUT, UM, BECAUSE THEY HAVE SO MANY ACTIVITIES THAT THEY DO.
UH, BASEBALL, ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF.
I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT SEASON IT IS RIGHT NOW.
SO, UM, THAT'S JUST MY PERSPECTIVE.
UM, I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT THE WEBSITE WE HAD, UM, THE BEGINNING STAGES OF IT.
AND SO I THINK THAT'S A GREAT WAY TO GET, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE TO INTERACT AND FEEDBACK.
BUT AGAIN, FOR ME, HAVING A, A 86-YEAR-OLD FATHER, UM, I KNOW THAT HE'LL CALL ME TO ASK ME, HOW DO I DO THAT AGAIN? SO WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW, DEMOGRAPHICS, AGE GROUPS, EVERYTHING.
UM, AND WE WANT BE ABLE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO REACH EVERYBODY.
HAVE YOU ALL THOUGHT, AND I'M NOT SURE, I'M STILL NEW.
LET ME KNOW IF I'M, YOU KNOW, DOUBLING OR SOMETHING, OR I'M REGION.
SO HAVE YOU ALL THOUGHT ABOUT, UH, EMAIL BLAST OR QUARTERLY FLYER, UM, FOR THE COMMUNITY? UM, THERE'S A SOFTWARE CALLED MAILCHIMP.
IF THE DATABASE, THEY CAN HOLD THOUSANDS OF EMAILS AND IT BLASTS THEM OUT.
ISN'T THAT A COST COSTLY PROPOSITION,
I'M JUST THROWING SOME IDEAS OUT THERE.
HOW MANY FAMILIES ARE IN HU NOW? HOW MANY PEOPLE LIVE IN HU? NOT HOW MANY PEOPLE, HOW MANY HOUSES, HOUSEHOLDS? OH, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY HOUSEHOLDS.
BUT WE HAVE SITTING AROUND 40,000.
WE HAVE, WE HAVE 42,000 PEOPLE.
BUT HOW MANY HOUSEHOLDS DOES THAT ENTAIL? HOW MANY HOUSEHOLDS AND APARTMENTS DOES THAT ENTAIL? MM-HMM.
SO YOU'D HAVE TO CONSIDER THE COST SURE.
FOR ALL OF THOSE THINGS AND WHETHER OR NOT THAT'S IN A BUDGET SURE.
WELL, I BELIEVE IN, SO PIGGYBACK, I'M SO SORRY.
UM, PIGGYBACKING WE HAVE, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S STILL THERE.
'CAUSE I REALLY DON'T GET, SO I WAS THINKING THAT WE COULD UTILIZE, HEY HUDA, WHICH IS VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, TO REACH OUT MM-HMM.
UM, IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S ALREADY GOING OUT.
I DON'T KNOW HOW IT, YOU KNOW, THE FREQUENCY.
UM, BUT I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING TO LOOK AT.
AND I'M SORRY FOR INTERRUPTING YOU.
UM, YOU COULD ALWAYS START SMALL WITH JUST THE, UH, CONTACTS OF THESE PARTICULAR GROUPS, THE SPECIFIC GROUPS AND THE FOUR GROUPS.
AND THEN YOU BUILD YOUR DATABASE FROM THERE.
IT COMES WITH COST WHEN YOU GET INTO THE THOUSANDS.
BUT INITIALLY, UM, SIMPLY EMAIL IT IN, YOU KNOW, TO THESE DIFFERENT CONTACT POINTS OF CONTACT FOR THESE GROUPS, UH, TO START, FOR, TO KEEP COSTS DOWN INITIALLY.
AND THEN WE CAN LOOK AT OTHER OPTIONS, LIKE I SAY, FLYER FLYERS OR FACEBOOK PAGE, AND THEN THE HAY HUDDLE AS WELL.
IF THAT DOESN'T COME WITH A COST, WE DEFINITELY CAN GET THAT IMPLEMENTED IMMEDIATELY TO COVER ALL GROUNDS OF COMMUNICATION OR AS MEAN AS POSSIBLE.
BUT FOR PUT, UH, TO CONTACT, AND I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, TO CONTACT THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE REACHED OUT.
AND THERE ARE PEOPLE MIGHT CONTACT THEM.
AND I AGREE WITH WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
SOMETHING LIKE MAILCHIMP WOULD BE EXCELLENT JUST TO MAINTAIN COMMUNICATION WITH THOSE WHO HAVE REACHED OUT.
A DATABASE OF, OF PEOPLE WHO CONTACTED US.
AND IT ALSO KEEPS A RECORD FOR, YOU KNOW, IN THE FUTURE AS WELL.
SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO REBUILD THAT DATABASE.
AND IT GROWS THROUGHOUT THE YEARS OF WHOEVER'S ON COUNCIL, AS LONG AS THERE'S A BUDGET FOR IT.
AGAIN, THE COST IS, IS, IS A CONSIDERATION AND IT'S NOT FREE.
YOU GOING BACK TO WHAT YOU SAID, ONCE YOU REACH, UM, ONCE WE GET, YOU KNOW, WHO WE GET INVOLVED, THEY HAVE AVENUES OF COMMUNICATION AS WELL.
SO ONCE YOU GET THEM ON BOARD, THEY'LL, YOU KNOW, POST WHAT THEY NEED TO POST TO CONTACT WHOEVER THEY NEED.
SO JUST LIKE YOU SAID, UM, I, THERE'S COST EFFECTIVE WAYS TO GO THROUGH IF YOU JUST LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, BOTH WAYS.
I KNOW EVERYTHING COMES WITH THE
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COST.THERE'S NOT ANYTHING THAT DOESN'T, BUT YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH.
IT, IT, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT.
SO THAT'S WHAT WE KIND OF FOCUS ON.
BUT WHY IS SHE CELEBR READY TO INCREASE COMMUNICATION? EXACTLY.
SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO START OFF 42,000.
WE'RE NOT REINVENTING THE WHEEL.
SO THAT'S ONE OF THOSE, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT BENCHMARKS AND MEASUREMENTS TO SEE HOW EFFECTIVE WE ARE WITHIN A 12 MONTH PERIOD.
SO THAT'S ONE OF THAT RIGHT THERE.
WE HAVE SOMETHING THAT WE'RE ON GROUND ZERO ON.
SO WE HAVE SOMETHING REALLY TO BUILD ONE OF OUR MEASUREMENTS ON AS FAR AS COMMUNICATION.
AND SO WHEN WE DO THAT, I UNDERSTAND THE COST, BUT WHEN WE DO THAT, WHAT ARE WE COMMUNICATING? WE KNOW WHY WE'RE COMMUNICATING, BUT WHAT ARE WE COMMUNICATING? RIGHT? WELL, ONE THING WOULD BE THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
THAT WE, BECAUSE WE DID NOT HAVE ONE RIGHT.
SO, SO WHAT I'M HEARING IS THAT COMMUNICATION IS A KEY PIECE.
SO, UM, WE DO HAVE A LIAISON WITH, UM, THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT.
SO, SO WE HAD NEED TO DEVELOP A COMMUNICATIONS PLAN.
AND SO JUST AN EASY, THIS IS JUST EASY RIGHT HERE, PICKING OFF THE GROUND RIGHT THERE.
WE HAVE A STRATEGIC PLAN ALREADY IN PLACE.
WE, UH, DEIB, WE HAVE A NEW NEW NAME.
HOW MANY PEOPLE KNOW THAT IN HUDDLE? NOBODY.
SO WHAT WE ARE SAYING IS WE HAVE A COMMUNICATION THAT WE ALREADY HAVE ESTABLISHED ON THE WEBSITE.
WE NEED TO UPDATE THAT WITH OUR STRATEGIC PLAN.
WE NEED TO UPDATE THAT WITH OUR NAMES.
HEY, WHO HERE WE ARE COMMUNITY, RIGHT? I MEAN, IT, IT'LL HELP US TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE WHEN WE GO OUT THERE KNOCKING ON THE DOOR, SHAKING HANDS AND KISSING BABIES.
BUT WE ALSO, BUT THAT'S, BUT THAT'S THE WHOLE THING.
WE'RE JUST JUST STARTING THAT FOUNDATION.
BUT PEOPLE ALSO HAVE TO GET TO THE, TO THE CORRECT PAGE ON THE WEBSITE, WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY VERY DIFFICULT TO DO BASED ON HOW THE STRUCTURE OF THE WEBSITE IS SET UP.
SO NOT USER FRIENDLY THEN IT IS NOT USER FRIENDLY.
IT'S, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO CLICK ALL OVER THE PLACE TO GET PLACES.
SO COMING UP WITH A PLAN TO GET TO THE PAGE, YOU KNOW, AND HAVING THE RELEVANT INFORMATION THERE WOULD BE THE WAY TO GO.
I MEAN, I CAN COME UP WITH SOME STRANGE WAYS TO DO THAT.
UM, AND I CAN ALSO THINK OF, YOU KNOW, TO ME, I THINK BEYOND JUST THE WEBSITE, HOW CAN WE GET CERTAIN GROUPS TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE'RE THERE AND SEE THE WEBSITE? WELL, TO BE SELECTIVE ABOUT EITHER SENDING NOTICES TO CERTAIN SCHOOLS, YOU KNOW, OR GROUPS, ET CETERA.
OR PUTTING POSTERS UP, A POSTER UP IN SCHOOLS THAT SAYS, HEY, HERE'S INFORMATION FOR YOU FROM, FROM THIS SITE.
THAT WOULD BE THE WAY I WOULD SEE THAT WE CAN GET PEOPLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH THAT WEBSITE SO THEY CAN GET THE RELEVANT INFORMATION THAT THEY NEED.
BUT GETTING TO THAT WEBSITE, THAT PAGE IS THE TOUGH PART.
AND YOU KNOW WHAT? I LIKE THE PART, WHAT YOU PUT WITH THE POSTERS, BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT, MOST POSTERS NOW THEY HAVE QR CODES BECAUSE THEY DON'T READ THE POSTERS ANYMORE.
THEY JUST QR CODE AND GOES STRAIGHT TO THE WEBSITE QR CODE.
YOU KNOW, YOU'LL SEE THIS IN REAL ESTATE, YOU KNOW, DRIVING ALONG.
YOU'LL SEE A SIGN WITH THIS QR CODE ON, YOU'RE EITHER GONNA HAVE TO STOP AND, AND TAG IT OR KEEP GOING BECAUSE THERE'S NO WAY THAT YOU'RE GONNA SNAP IT AS YOU'RE GOING BY.
THAT'S WHAT YOU GOT THE PASSENGERS IN THE BACK SEAT TO DO
THE DOGS SIT IN THE BACK SEAT.
BUT, BUT IT, IT SEND OUT SOMETHING THAT IS A VISUAL FOR PEOPLE.
LIKE AT THE, YOU KNOW, I THINK OF THE GRADE SCHOOL, LIKE A POSTER OR SOMETHING THAT SAYS, HERE IS INFORMATION FOR YOU.
AND IF IT'S POSTED IN A CERTAIN PLACE WITH THE SCHOOL'S PERMISSION, OF COURSE THEN PEOPLE COMING IN TO GET THEIR KIDS, THE KIDS GOING OUT WILL SEE THAT POSTER AND WE'LL BE ABLE TO DO IT.
THEN WE HAVE TO HAVE A THING THAT SAYS, THIS IS THE WEBSITE, BUT IT HAS TO BE DIRECTLY TO THAT WEBSITE.
AND IT CAN'T BE THIS GIGANTIC LONG, GOD FORBID, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH ALL THIS TO GET TO THE WEBSITE.
WE HAVE TO HAVE A DIRECT LINK TO THE WEBSITE.
AND THERE ARE WAYS TO DO THAT.
THERE ARE WAYS TYPICALLY ONCE YOU FIX THAT QR IT GOES DIRECTLY WHERE
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YOU WANT THAT TRAFFIC.SO SOMETHING LIKE THIS IS A TWOFOLD THING WHERE YOU CAN, YOU CAN DO THAT TYPE OF ADVERTISING.
YOU CAN GET PEOPLE TO GO THERE.
UM, I THINK THAT WE CAN ACHIEVE THAT IF WE JUST THINK ABOUT HOW TO DO IT A LITTLE BETTER, YOU KNOW, AND HOW TO SPREAD THE INFORMATION AROUND.
I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD SPREAD IT AROUND UNTIL WE GET SOMETHING UP ON THAT SITE.
CAN I, CAN I ASK COMMISSIONERS WHO HAVE BEEN TO Y'ALL'S LANDING PAGE? PARDON ME? HAVE YOU BEEN TO THE LANDING PAGE RECENTLY? I I HAVEN'T BEEN THERE IN THE LAST, I HAVEN'T BEEN RECENTLY.
THE PROBLEM IS, IS THAT, THAT THE WAY THAT IT'S SET UP IS NOT FRONT USER FRIENDLY.
AND YOU HAVE TO CLICK ALL OVER THE PLACE TO FIND THINGS.
SO TO ME IT'S LIKE, WHY ARE WE DOING THAT? WE NEED A DIRECT, SOMEHOW A DIRECT LINK OR A DIRECT BUTTON.
WHERE SOMEBODY CAN OPEN UP THAT WEBSITE AND SAY, OH, HERE'S THE COMMITTEE THAT I WAS LOOKING FOR.
IF YOU DON'T HAVE THAT, PEOPLE ARE NOT, ARE GOING TO LOSE INTEREST IN DOING IT.
SO YOU HAVE TO HAVE THAT DIRECT LINK.
THAT'S A PROBLEM WITH MANY WEBSITES.
IF YOU CAN'T FIND THE INFORMATION YOU'RE LOOKING FOR, YOU DON'T CONTINUE TO LOOK.
SO WHEN, WHEN PEOPLE SEE THE LIST OF COMMISSIONS AND THEY SEE THE DIVERSITY, WHEN THEY CLICK ON THAT, IT DOES GO TO THE LANDING PAGE, DOESN'T IT? MM-HMM.
SO WHERE'S THE LIST OF COMMISSIONS IT ON THE INITIAL PAGE OR THE WELL, CITY OF, THERE'S A CITY OF ON FIRST PAGE.
WELL, THERE'S A LINK TO THAT PAGE ON THE FIRST PAGE.
SO THAT'S WHAT SHE'S SPEAKING TO THERE.
THERE'S TWO OR THREE DIFFERENT WAYS TO GET TO IT.
BUT TO, TO COMMISSIONER'S POINT, IT'S NOT A ONE CLICK.
YOU KNOW, IT'S GONNA TAKE AT LEAST TWO OR THREE CLICKS TO GET THERE.
CHRISSY, WHAT WAS THE ISSUE WITH THE WEBSITE BEFORE, IF YOU REMEMBER? I THINK WE HAD A COUPLE OF RULES WE HAD TO FOLLOW ON THAT.
IT JUST, UM, I THINK AT THE END OF THE DAY, UM, WHATEVER Y'ALL COME UP WITH AS A COMMISSION, IF YOU WANT TO, UM, BRING, I, UH, BRING ON THE COMMUNICATIONS, UH, STAFF PERSON TO CREATE A COMMUNICATION PLAN.
SO IT'S MORE SPECIFIC TO WHAT EXACTLY Y'ALL ARE TRYING TO DO.
UM, IF IT IS, IF IT'S ON THE CITY OF HU WEBSITE, UM, WE KEEP EVERYTHING, UM, PRETTY MUCH THE SAME AS FAR AS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE.
SO LIKE, IF YOU CLICK ON, UM, THE DEIB COMMISSION, IT'S GONNA LOOK VERY SIMILAR TO THE PARKS FUND, THE, YOU KNOW, THE PARKS, UM, BOARD, UM, AS FAR AS THE INFORMATION WHO'S ON AND WHATNOT.
BUT AS FAR AS LIKE WHAT LEGALLY WE CAN AND CAN'T DO, UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT'S JUST WHAT IS IT THAT YOU WANT TO DO? YEAH.
WELL, ONE THING WE WANNA DO IS WE WANNA UPDATE, UM, YOU KNOW, WE WOULD PUT THE STRATEGIC PLAN IN THERE.
THEN ALL, WELL, ALL OF OUR NAMES THERE, BUT I WOULD LIKE A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE EACH INDIVIDUAL AS A GROUP.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, I TALKED TO SHAY AND SHE SAID THAT THEY WOULD BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO DO THAT.
SO, SO WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN, AND YOU WERE SAYING I, UM, THAT THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THAT THE WORKING GROUPS AND THE CITIZEN GROUPS.
WHAT, WHAT IS THE YEAH, THE, THE WORKING GROUPS WOULD BE KEY WITH THE STRATEGIC PLAN, LIKE THE YOUTH COUNCIL WAS MENTIONED AND
THOSE WOULD KEY TO THE STRATEGIC PLAN CITIZEN GROUPS GROUP, LIKE THE BLACK FAMILY.
SO WOULD THE MISSION WOULD BE GOALS AND MISSIONS OF THE WORKING GROUP BE DIFFERENT FROM THE MISSION OF THE CITIZEN GROUPS? WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE AS FAR AS WHAT WE WOULD BE ASKING OF THEM? WELL, THE WAY THAT I WOULD LOOK AT IT IS JUST LIKE, UM, BEING A LIAISON TO THE CITIZEN GROUP.
EACH SAY ONE OR TWO MEMBERS BEING A LIAISON TO A CITIZEN GROUP.
WHO EXPRESSES THROUGH THE LIAISON THEIR CONCERNS AND YES.
SO THEY WOULDN'T NECESSARILY BE AS INVOLVED AS THE WORKING GROUPS.
IT IS JUST, UM, MORE WE ARE REACHING OUT TO THEM, REACHING OUT, HELPING THEM, JUST BEING A LIAISON.
SO THEY'RE SELF-ORGANIZED CITIZENS WE'RE APPOINTED, YOU KNOW, BY THE CITY.
SO THAT THAT'LL HELP YOU OUT WITH THAT.
SO LIKE YOU SAY, LIAISON FROM THEIR LEADER TO WHOEVER IN CHARGE OF THEIR
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GROUP OR WHO LIAISONS WITH THEM OR BE OTHER ONE.SO THEY DO WHATEVER THEY WANT.
BUT I GROUPS, 'CAUSE THEY'RE CITIZEN GROUP, BUT WE HAVE, WE JUST REACHING OUT TO THEM, COMMUNICATING WITH THEM.
AND THE WORKING GROUPS ARE WHAT IS LISTED IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE YOUTH COUNCIL BEING ONE AND SO FORTH.
PERHAPS ON OUR LANDING PAGE, WE WOULD WANT, UM, AN INDICATION TO ANY OF THE WORKING GROUPS.
UM, FOR PEOPLE TO EXPRESS INTEREST IN BEING ON A WORKING GROUP IF THEY'RE INTERESTED.
UM, AND THEN AS FAR AS, UH, I'M JUST THINKING ABOUT COMMUNICATING TO THE PUBLIC, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO WITH WORKING GROUPS AND WHAT CITIZEN GROUPS AND MM-HMM.
AND ALSO THOUGH, I, I, I BELIEVE IN TRANSPARENCY, UH, I WANT TO POST OUR MEETING MINUTES OH YEAH.
SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO FILL OUT API R.
WOULDN'T THAT BE LOGICAL TO LIKE, ASSIGN PEOPLE HERE TO GO SOME OF THE MEETINGS AT THE CITIZEN GROUPS OR TO REACH OUT TO THEM? OR LIKE IF THEY HAVE A MEETING THAT YOU CAN BRING THAT INFORMATION BACK MM-HMM.
SO THEY MAY NOT EVEN, AND IT'S JUST ME THINKING TOO, IF I'M WRONG, THEY MAY NOT EVEN HAVE MEETINGS PER SE, BUT LIKE I SAY, THEY CAN JUST YES.
AND SO DEPENDING ON WHO THE FOUR, UH, HEAD LEADERS, WHATEVER COORDINATORS OF THESE FOUR WORKING GROUPS ARE, THEY CAN BE A POINT OF CONTACT FOR A RESPECTIVE GROUP.
LIKE FOR INSTANCE, YOU WENT TO THE, UM, THE MEETING.
YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UM, THAT MEETING.
SO NOW THEY KNOW HE'S A POINT OF CONTACT.
YOU WANT ME TO TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT? YES.
SO I THINK THEY MEET GENERALLY ONCE A MONTH AND THEY MEET AT, UM, THE RIO IN THE MORNINGS ON A SATURDAY.
AND IT'S USUALLY 15 TO 20 PEOPLE.
AND THERE'S USUALLY A SPEAKER OR A GUEST WHO WILL COME AND SHARE JUST WHAT, WHAT'S GOING ON IN WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
SO, UH, FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAD, UH, A COUNCIL MEMBER, GORDON WAS THERE SATURDAY.
UM, DIFFERENT PEOPLE HAVE, HAVE COME IN THE PAST AND, UH, NOT JAMES
AND, AND IT'S A GROUP FOR HISPANICS TO, TO GET, UM, TO HEAR FROM HISPANIC LEADERS AND THEN TO SHARE, UM, INFORMATION ABOUT THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON THAT OTHER PEOPLE MIGHT WANT TO BE INVOLVED IN, BUT ALSO TO SHARE THEIR CONCERNS ABOUT THINGS AND, AND, UH, HOW, UM, I, THEY TALK, THERE'S A LOT OF TALK ABOUT JUST GETTING MORE PEOPLE INVOLVED.
JOBS AND CONTACTS AND, AND STUFF.
SO SOMEBODY WORKS FOR THE SCHOOL AND SOMEBODY'S AT THE, UH, HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER OVER THERE, AND THEN, UH, THERE'S SOMEBODY WITH THE CITY.
UH, THERE'S DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW, ASPECTS.
AND SO JUST KIND OF BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER, UH, IN THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY FROM DIFFERENT PARTS MM-HMM.
AND SO THAT, THAT'S A, THAT'S A REGULAR GROUP.
AND THEY WOULD BE A REALLY GOOD, UH, PROBABLY SOURCE OF INFORMATION, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR US TO HAVE AS FAR AS, UH MM-HMM.
MAYBE THIS COMMISSION IN THE FUTURE, YOU KNOW.
WELL, I MEAN, I THINK THAT THAT WOULD BE, I THINK THAT WOULD BE GREAT AS A, YOU KNOW, AS A START.
SO WITH OUR HELP, WE, WHAT, ONE THING I HEAR IS THAT
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WE DEFINITELY NEED A COMMUNICATION PLAN.SO HOW ARE WE ALL GOING TO INPUT INTO THE COMMUNICATION PLAN? UM, WE ALREADY HAVE A LIAISON WITH SHEA, SO WHAT WOULD BE OUR NEXT STEPS? PUT THE STRATEGIC PLAN ON THE, ON THERE, UM, AND INCLUDE UPDATE.
INCLUDE THE WORKING GROUPS AND WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF IT.
AND THE WORKING GROUP, UH, I KNOW WHAT YOU CALL EM, CHAIR OR LIAISON OR WHOEVER HEADING IN THE WORKING GROUP.
WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN THAT FAR, BUT WE'RE SAYING ONE, ONE STEP WOULD BE TO UPDATE AND SAYING, HEY, HERE'S THE THINGS THAT WE'VE DONE NOW WITH THE GETTING INFORMATION OUT.
AND THEN LET US NOT FORGET IF WE HAVE BUDGET, SHE WANTS POSTERS,
EVEN IF IT'S JUST ONCE OR TWICE A YEAR.
AND, AND I WILL SAY THAT, UM, WE DID NOW WITH THE NAME CHANGE, WE GOT A, A BANNER APPROVED, BUT IT'S NO LONGER, UM, APPLICABLE.
BUT WE DID, JUST TO GO WITH WHAT YOU SAID, WE WENT MYSELF, AND I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER WHO, UM, WENT AND WE TALKED TO, UH, COUNCIL TO GET, UH, BUDGET FOR, TO GET MONEY FOR, UH, I THINK IT WAS, UH, WHAT IS IT, IN OCTOBER TREATS ON EAST STREET, I THINK.
SO IF IT'S SOMETHING, AND I DON'T REALLY, I'M NOT A SPECIALIST ON THIS, BUT IF IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS AN URGENT NEED, THERE ARE TIMES WHERE YOU CAN GO BEFORE COUNSEL AND SAY, HEY, WE WANNA DO THIS.
THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE AND YOU KNOW, WE WOULD LIKE TO, TO GET THIS.
THEY APPROVED A BANNER AND THEY APPROVED, UH, CANDY FOR THAT NIGHT.
SO THAT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS TO KIND OF LOOK AT AS FAR AS THIS, THIS COMMISSION IS LIKE THE DIFFERENT, I'M LOOKING AT THIS LIST RIGHT HERE.
THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL LIST OF THE DIFFERENT MONTHS AND EVERYTHING.
THIS NEEDS TO BE ON THE WEBSITE AND WE, YOU KNOW, BUT WE SEE THIS, THAT, AND MY THING IS THE DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT EVENTS THAT GO ON IN HUDDLE, UH, EACH MONTH THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, DIVERSITY, UH, EQUITY AND INCLUSION AND BELONGING, YOU KNOW, YOU WANT TO HIGHLIGHT ALL RIGHT.
THEY GO ON IN THE CITY OF HUDDLE.
BUT SEE, THAT'S THE SAME THING WHERE I, WHEN I JOINED THIS COMMISSION, ONE OF MY BIG THINGS BEING AN ECONOMIC KIND OF GUY, YOU KNOW, WHEN PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR A NEW CITY TO COME LIVE IN, THEY GO TO THE WEBSITE.
AND, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS I PAYING THAT I DO PAY ATTENTION TO IS, IS LOVELY MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR, UH, FACILITY THAT'S GETTING READY TO OPEN UP.
AND THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS IS GOING TO OPEN UP A NEW CAMPUS INTAKE.
SO WITH THIS MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR PROJECT THAT'S RIGHT DOWN THE STREET, EVEN THOUGH IT'S IN OUR NEIGHBORS, Y IT IS ACTUALLY THEIR TREE LIMB IS HANGING OVER OUR FENCE.
YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? EVERYTHING IS GONNA RUN TOGETHER.
SO EVERYTHING, AND, AND IN TEXAS, IF YOU LIVE IN TEXAS LONG ENOUGH, IF THE, IF YOUR NEIGHBOR'S TREE LIMB IS HANGING OVER THE FENCE, YOU CAN CUT IT.
SO THAT BEING SAID, THE MONEY THAT'S GOING TO RO COMING THROUGH, EVEN THOUGH, SO THOSE ARE KIND OF THINGS, WHEN PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR THEIR NEXT PLACE TO LIVE, THEY GO TO THE WEBSITE.
SO JUST TO HAVE THAT UPDATED, HAVE THAT PRESENT, HAVING DIFFERENT THINGS ON THE WEBSITE THAT, THAT'S ONE THING THAT'S SELF-EXPLANATORY.
WE DON'T EVEN HAVE CITY INTEREST.
WAIT, JUST PUT IT THERE AND LEAVE AND GO ON AND DO OTHER THINGS.
LIKE I SAID, KNOCK ON THE DOOR, SHAKE HANDS AND KISS BABIES AND WE CAN DO ALL THAT
BUT THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING, JUST KIND OF GETTING LIKE, INFORMATION LIKE THIS, THIS IS GREAT INFORMATION.
PUTTING THAT ON THE WEBSITE, PUTTING MM-HMM.
IT IS JUST TO START A PLATFORM THAT WE ALREADY HAVE AND WE HAVE A HUGE RETAIL DEVELOPMENT DATA ABSOLUTELY.
I MEAN, IT'S GONNA BE LIKE A MALL.
I MEAN, WE WE'RE 40, WE'RE 40,000 PLUS, UH, CITIZENS IN HUDDLE.
I CAN, I CAN, I MEAN, LOOKING AT THE, UH, THE NUMBERS OF AND THE PROJECTIONS IN THREE YEARS, THIS PLACE IS SUPPOSED TO DOUBLE.
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COMING FROM THAT SMALL CITY DOWN THE STREET AND LOOKING AT THE OVERALL AREA AND PROJECTIONS OF WHAT THE POPULATION IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE NEXT 3, 5, 10, 20, I SAY, I DON'T WANT SAY 30 YEARS.COMMISSIONER COLEMAN, IF I MAY, UM, ALSO, UM, I'M, I PULLED UP THE MOST CURRENT RIGHT NOW.
I'M ON THE WEBSITE LOOKING AT THE MM-HMM.
UM, I WOULD RECOMMEND, UH, THE COMMISSION TAKE A LOOK AT THAT PAGE.
SO I JUST WANNA PUT THAT OUT THERE.
UM, BEFORE, UM, HOW COMPLETE IS THAT PLAN ON, ON THE WEBSITE? IS IT COMPLICATED AND HARD TO UNDERSTAND? OR IS IT VERY SIMPLIFIED? AND THAT'S THE STRATEGIC PLAN THAT, THAT YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU? WE KIND OF GENERATED THAT RIGHT BEFORE YOU CAME ON BOARD.
IT IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFICULT TO GET THROUGH IT.
SO, BUT ONE, ONE THING WE MIGHT DO THEN IS ADD ON THERE, THINK ABOUT, THINK ABOUT DOING IS JUST ADD ON THERE, UM, THAT THESE ARE GONNA BE THE WORKING GROUPS.
AND IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN BEING PART OF ANY OF THESE WORKING GROUPS, HERE'S YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION OR HERE'S THE, HERE'S WHO TO GET IN TOUCH WITH OR YEAH.
NOW ON, ON THAT PIECE, THE WORKING GROUPS, UM, THAT'S WHAT, UM, STAN IS GONNA HELP US WITH THAT.
AND HE'S GONNA BE ATTENDING THE MEETING IN DECEMBER.
SO I JUST, UM, YOU KNOW, I DEFINITELY AGREED WITH IT, BUT I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE EVERYTHING PIECED OUT DOWN LINE BEFORE WE PUT IT.
YOU KNOW, THE DEFINITION OF THE WORKING GROUP.
AND I THINK YOU MENTIONED LIKE A GOAL OF WHAT, YOU KNOW, A WORKING GROUP OR CITIZEN GROUPS, I DON'T KNOW WHO SAID IT, BUT SOMEBODY SAID WHAT THE OUTCOME WOULD BE, WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE THAT DESCRIPTION TO BE.
YOU KNOW WHAT, WHAT THEY'RE THERE FOR, YOU KNOW, THE, THEIR PURPOSE IS GONNA HELP US HELP WHAT? THE WORKING GROUPS? YES.
SO WE WANT TO HOLD OFF ON WHO'S PROBABLY, SO, OKAY.
WHO'S LEADING END UP OR WHATEVER YOU WANNA CALL THAT WORKING, WHATEVER.
NOW I GOT BIT BETTER IDEAS NOW.
SO NOW, SO THERE HAVE BEEN SOME THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN DONE WITH THE CAN, CAN WE PULL THAT UP? THE PLAN? YEAH.
AND THEN WE COULD MAYBE, BECAUSE WE CAN AS A GROUP LOOK AT AND TO SEE WHAT IS YEAH.
SOME OF THE PEOPLE, SOME OF THE PEOPLE IN THESE POSSIBLE CITY, UH, CITIZEN GROUPS MAY WANT TO EVENTUALLY BE PART ALSO OF A WORKING GROUP, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
THEY'LL HEAR ABOUT IT THROUGH THEIR CITIZEN GROUP AND GO, HEY, I'D LIKE TO BE MORE INVOLVED IN THAT.
UM, THIS ECONOMIC GROWTH AND PROSPERITY, UM, I DON'T, UNLESS I'M MISSING SOMETHING.
IS THAT GOING DIFFER MUCH FROM THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT? I DON'T, I THINK IT'S, IT'S THE SAME.
IT'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS THE UMBRELLA.
THE, THE, THAT PART, ECONOMIC GROWTH AND PROSPERITY IS KIND OF UNDER THAT UMBRELLA.
SO, YOU KNOW, AND I WAS THINKING, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE, YEAH.
IT WAS SOMETHING ELSE ADDED OR TAKEN AWAY THAT I MISSED.
IT'S VERY HARD TO GET THROUGH THAT.
VALUE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IS PRETTY MUCH THE, OH, JUST BECAUSE OF THE WAY WE HAVE THIS WEIRD STUFF HAPPENING.
I'M NOT ABLE TO EXPAND IT ANYMORE, BUT I CAN ZOOM IN MORE IF THAT'S HELPFUL.
SO WHEN, WHEN SOMEONE COMES FROM THE OUTSIDE, IS THAT WHAT THEY DO? THEY JUST SEE THAT I, I WENT DIRECTLY FROM WHAT'S ON THE WEBSITE AND THIS IS THE DOCUMENT THAT PULLED UP.
SO, AND, AND THIS IS OUR MOST RECENT MM-HMM.
OR THEN OUR NAMES IN THAT ARE, WHERE ARE THOSE? HERE, THERE? NO, UM, WERE THEY OUTSIDE TOO? OR OUTSIDE? WHEN YOU FIRST,
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BEFORE YOU GET TO THE DOCUMENT.LIKE WHEN YOU GET, UH, YOU GO SEE THE WEBPAGE.
SHE WAS ASKING FOR OUR, OUR NAMES.
OUR OUR NAMES LISTED ON THERE.
NOW THAT, DO YOU THINK THAT'S AN AREA THAT COULD BE EXPANDED? SO ACTUALLY MINE 2025 MAY OR MAY NOT BE REAPPOINTED FOR THE CONTINUOUS.
HOW IS IT SPELLED? S-U-S-A-N-N-E.
HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GO THROUGH THIS PLAN AND READ IT? I THINK, I THINK IT'S SOME PEOPLE, I THINK IT'S, WE INTERESTED.
BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS LIKE HEAVILY OVERWRITTEN.
UM, WELL, IT'S NOT A REASON NOT TO HAVE IT IF THEY DON'T WANNA LOOK AT IT.
THAT'S, BUT I THINK FOR THE WEBSITE, IT SEEMS TO ME THIS IS JUST ME, THAT IT SHOULD BE TRUNCATED AND SIMPLIFIED SO THAT ANYONE THAT COMES IN GETS THE BASIC POINTS OF THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT, NOT HAVING TO GO THROUGH ALL OF THE SMALL DETAIL.
WELL, AND THEN MAYBE YOU WOULD HAVE JUST THE INTRODUCTION ON THERE SOMEWHERE IF, AND THEN HAVE A NOTE THAT SAYS FOR THE, FOR THE ENTIRE PLAN.
YEAH, I THINK THAT'S A, IT'S A LINK THAT YOU HAVE TO CLICK.
I ARE THE FIVE INITIAL PRIORITY AREAS.
BUT THIS CAN BE WHATEVER Y'ALL AS A COMMISSION DECIDE THAT YOU WANT.
I, SO WHERE SHE MENTIONED IS WHERE YOU WENT TO WITH THAT LINK.
SO I CLICKED BACK, THERE'S WHERE YOU WENT TO THE LINK TO THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
YOU'LL SEE THE INITIAL, DO YOU WANT ME TO GO TO THE HOMEPAGE OR JUST THE, THE HOMEPAGE? LIKE IF YOU COULD WALK HER THROUGH SO SHE COULD SEE IT.
LIKE FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, LIKE BREADCRUMB AS IF WE'RE JUST OKAY.
LET SO ABOUT TEXAS TAPE THAT THEY WOULD GO TO NORMALLY.
SO, AND ACTUALLY LET ME LOG OFF.
SO I'M, YEAH, THAT'S, THAT'S GOOD.
SO YOU DON'T FIX, DON'T NEED ONE WAY.
NO, I'M JUST, I CAN'T SEE FROM BACK THERE.
'CAUSE WE REMEMBER WE'RE BRIDGING THE GAPS.
I, SO THIS IS THE HOMEPAGE, SO I CAN EITHER TYPE IT IN HERE, BUT I, I WOULDN'T TYPE IT IN.
SO IF I'M JUST GOING HERE, I WOULD GO, OKAY, WHAT'S HERE? OH, BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
AND THEN THEY'RE ALL LISTED ON THIS SIDE.
AND I HAVE A TICKET OUT FOR THAT RIGHT NOW, JUST SO YOU KNOW.
BUT THEN YOU WOULD CLICK HERE AND IT TAKES YOU RIGHT TO THIS LANDING PAGE.
AND, AND MAYBE ALSO, UM, EDIT THAT DESCRIPTION THAT'S ON THAT PAGE.
THAT THE ONE PAGE BACK, WHICH THE, THE DESCRIP, UH, EACH, EACH COMMISSION HAS A DESCRIPTION, ONE SENTENCE DESCRIPTION.
I THINK WE MIGHT WANT TO EDIT THAT JUST FROM WHAT I SAW.
JUST ONE PAGE BACK BEF UH, WHEN YOU SEE ALL THE, OH, OKAY.
UH, HERE, UH, YEAH, I DON'T KNOW.
WE MIGHT WANT TO THINK ABOUT EDITING THAT DESCRIPTION.
SO AGAIN, WHATEVER CONTENT, UM, THAT, THAT ALIGN WITH WHAT Y'ALL ALREADY HAVE, WE HAVE TO BE THE, THE DEID AND THEN THE NAME SPELLED OUT.
SO AGAIN, AS A COMMISSION, WHENEVER Y'ALL SAY, HEY, AS A COMMISSION, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS, HERE'S WHAT WE WANT, WE CAN AS STAFF GO IN AND UPDATE THAT FOR YOU.
BUT WE'RE NOT GONNA GO IN ON OUR OWN AND, AND ASSUME WHAT WE WANT TO UPDATE.
AND WE CAN CHANGE, CHANGE THE FOCUS A LITTLE BIT.
DIVERSITY AND BELONGING INSTEAD OF EQUITABLE OPPORTUNITIES.
AND THEN EVEN FROM HERE, I THINK THIS WOULD TAKE YOU DIRECTLY THERE AS WELL.
AND THEN FROM HERE, NOW TO THE STRATEGIC PLAN IS DOWN HERE, YOU WOULD HAVE TO SCROLL QUITE A BIT DOWN, BUT IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT Y'ALL WOULD MAYBE WANT UP HIGHER, WE COULD PULL THAT UP OR WE CAN REARRANGE THINGS, UM, DEPENDING ON YOUR PRIORITIES OF THE COMMISSION.
SO, SO TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION OR CONCERN, 'CAUSE I, I SEE THE LOOK ON YOUR FACE.
IT, IT IS A, AS BUSY AS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, I GET THAT.
UM, BUT IF THEY REALLY WANT TO READ THE PLAN, THEY'D HAVE TO CLICK ON THE LINK IF THEY WERE INTERESTED IN READING THAT CLICK, AND THEN THEY HAVE TO CLICK AGAIN AND THEY HAVE TO CLICK AGAIN, AND THEN THEY HAVE TO SCROLL DOWN TO GET TO THE INFORMATION.
WHEN IT SEEMS TO ME, I THINK I KNOW WHERE YOU'RE GOING WITH THIS.
I THINK, I THINK WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS BUTTON HERE, BUTTON HERE, BUTTON HERE, BUTTON HERE.
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BUT WHAT SHE'S SAYING IS WHERE IT ORIGINATES IT, IF WE HAD OUR OWN LIKE, AND IT, AND ACTUALLY WE DO, IF YOU TYPED IN WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO YOU CALL IT? URL OR WHATEVER IT IS, IT WOULD BRING YOU TO THAT EXACT POINT.SO THAT MAY BE WHAT WE NEED TO PROMOTE MORE, SAYING, THIS IS HOW YOU GET HERE AND THAT WILL CUT OUT ALL THE TRAFFIC THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
BUT YOU NEED TO HAVE THAT SPECIFIC, SO WHATEVER IT IS HU YOU CAN EMBED, YOU CAN EMBED THAT URL IN, IN A EXACTLY QL AND NOBODY WILL KNOW.
I THINK THAT'S WHERE, AND WHATEVER.
AND SO WHAT I WAS SAYING IS IT, IT IT LIKE IF YOU HAD SAY SIX OR EIGHT BUTTONS IS THE FIRST THING YOU SEE IN ONE OF 'EM IS, UH, THE STRATEGIC PLAN, ONE OF THEM IS RIGHT.
YOU KNOW, THIS, ONE OF 'EM IS THIS RATHER THAN HAVING TO SCROLL THROUGH TO GET DOWN TO IT.
BECAUSE THEN YOU, HERE'S THE BUTTON, CLICK HERE, THIS IS WHERE THIS IS, THIS IS THE STUFF THAT'S GOING ON IN NOVEMBER.
CLICK, HERE'S THE PLAN, CLICK.
REMEMBER WHEN THAT'S PARKS AND RECREATION CAME AND TALKED WITH US AND THEY HAD THE USER FRIENDLY WEBSITE AND IT WAS LIKE IN COLOR AND ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT STUFF.
AND I, I THINK THAT'S MAYBE WHAT SHE'S LEANING TOWARDS, WHERE YOU CAN CLICK SIMPLE CLICK.
THAT WHERE IT SAYS IT, THAT WAS, THAT WAS A PRESENTATION ON AUDIO.
I, WHICH IS, UM, OUR WEBSITE IS ALREADY, UM, LEGALLY A DA ACCEPTABLE, BUT IT'S REALLY NOT THAT ACCESSIBLE IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ACCESS.
UM, WHAT AUDIO I WOULD DO IS WHAT WAS PRESENTED WHERE IF MAYBE YOU, UM, IT, IT MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE BUTTONS NECESSARILY, BUT IT WOULD HAVE OPTIONS TO WHERE IF YOU NEEDED THE TEXT TO BE LARGER, YOU NEEDED SOMETHING TO BE READ TO YOU.
UM, OR IF YOU NEEDED TO, UM, IF YOU'RE, UM, COLORBLIND AND YOU NEED THE LETTERS TO BE DIFFERENT, IT HAD ALL OF THOSE OPTIONS FOR SURE.
BUT AS FAR AS RIGHT, YOU HAVE TO CONSIDER THE PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO GO AND LOOK AT THE INFORMATION AND YOU HAVE TO, TO BASE WHAT YOU'RE PUTTING THERE ON SOMETHING THAT EVERYBODY, NOT JUST HIGHLY CONFIDENT WEB PEOPLE UNDERSTAND.
YOU HAVE TO PRINT SOMETHING THAT IT'S SIMPLE TO USE THAT PEOPLE WILL GO BACK AND USE IT AS A REFERENCE.
SO INSTEAD OF, UM, EVERYBODY'S INDIVIDUAL NAMES BEING ON THE FIRST PAGE, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU COULD HAVE A BUTTON THAT SAYS COMMISSION MEMBERS.
AND THEN YOU CLICK ON THAT AND THEN YOU GET TO THE COMMISSION MEMBERS.
AND IF WE HAVE SOMETHING IMPORTANT THAT WE WANTED TO SAY, IT COULD GO AT THE BEGINNING.
YOU KNOW, AS, AS THE, THE MAIN PART, NEW INFORMATION, UPCOMING EVENTS.
AND, AND THERE'S STILL THE BUTTONS.
YOU CAN STILL GET TO THOSE THINGS.
YOU HAVE TO THINK SIMPLE FOR PEOPLE BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE NEED.
SO CONSIDER, SO CONSIDER WHAT AGE GROUP UP WOULD COME TO THIS WEBSITE AND LOOK, AND THEN WHAT AGE GROUP WOULD GO THROUGH THE INFORMATION.
BUT YOU, YOU WANT IT TO BE LIKE FIFTH GRADE LEVEL.
WE WANT IT TO BE, IT'S NOT LIKE FIFTH GRADER COULD, COULD NAVIGATE IT.
SO MAYBE WE SHOULD, UH, THEN, UH, INDIVIDUALLY GO AHEAD AND LOOK AT THAT AND JUST, EVERYBODY JUST JOT DOWN A SUGGESTIONS AND, UH, I WONDER IF WE COULD PUT A A, A QR CODE ON THERE WHERE THEY COULD LOG IT INTO THEIR PHONE SO THAT THEY WOULD ALWAYS HAVE IT IN THEIR, IN IN THE STUFF IN THEIR PHONE.
WE COULD PUT A QR CODE ON THERE AND THEY COULD CLICK IT.
YOU KNOW, BECAUSE YOUR PHONE CAN READ IT, YOU KNOW.
AND IT WOULD ALWAYS BE IN THEIR PHONE.
SO IF THEY DID WANNA LOOK SOMETHING UP ON, ON THEIR PHONES, THEY COULD EASILY WITHOUT HAVING TO SCROLL AROUND AND TRY TO FIND THE INFORMATION.
I GOT A QUESTION, LIKE, AS FAR AS THE, UH, COUNCIL, CITY COUNCIL, UM, THEY PUT THE MINUTES AND EVERYTHING ON THE, ON THE WEBSITE.
BUT THEY PUT IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES? UM, I DON'T THINK SO.
I'VE LOOKED, BUT THEY DON'T AL BUT THEY DON'T ALWAYS PUT EVERYTHING ON THERE EITHER.
'CAUSE I WENT THROUGH AND TRIED TO READ SOME OF THE BACK, BACK THINGS WHEN I WAS LOOKING AT THIS COMMISSION.
I TRIED TO GO BACK AND READ THE MINUTES FROM, AND THEY'RE NOT ALL THERE A QUESTION, WHICH THEY SHOULD BE,
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IS THIS, THEY NOT, IS THIS A WEB WEBMASTER, UH, MAINTAINED, OR IS THIS A WEB MAINTAINED THROUGH LIKE, WIX OR, UH, UM, LIKE IT DEPARTMENT MAINTAINS OR THESO AS FAR AS LIKE THE CONTENT OR THE, LIKE THE BACK, THE BACK OFFICE OF THE ACTUAL PAGE.
SO THAT'S YOUR COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT.
UM, BUT LIKE, SO JUST NOW YOU SAW I WAS ABLE TO LOG IN AND LINK, DO A QUICK EDIT, BUT I'M NOT ABLE TO, LIKE, I'M NOT GONNA SIT THERE AND CREATE A WEBPAGE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
NO, BUT I THINK YOU COULD, THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING THESE QUESTIONS.
UM, SO WHAT'S THE PLATFORM? I'M AN IT MANAGER.
UM, BUT WE DO WORK INTERNALLY AND WE HAVE AN EXTERNAL, UM, YEAH.
PARTNER, CIVIC, UM, CIVIC ENGAGE OR WHAT HAVE YOU.
SO I, I WILL DEFINITELY SAY IT'S AN IMPROVEMENT FROM WHAT IT WAS BEFORE.
WELL, HOW CAN WE FIND OUT WHAT, WHAT CAN BE DONE? I MEAN, WHAT MODIFICATIONS COULD BE DONE TO THE PAGE AND STILL STAY WITHIN THE PARAMETERS OF WHAT'S REQUIRED BY THE CITY? MM-HMM.
IF WE KNOW WHAT WE CAN DO, AND IF IT SAYS YES, WE CAN PUT BUTTONS ON, WELL THEN LET'S PUT BUTTONS ON
WELL, THAT WOULD BE A QUESTION FOR IT.
THAT'S WHY I WAS ASKING TO GET A LITTLE BIT MORE BACKDROP ON LIKE WHAT'S PLATFORM AND WHAT COMMUNICATIONS OR, OR, UM, BRING THEM IN TO BE ABLE TO THAT'S A GREAT IDEA.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT ALL THE COMMISSION WILL NEED.
SEE? YEAH, I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT.
SO IT'S KIND OF LIKE THE TIMING.
SO SINCE THE, OUR GUEST SPEAKER COME TODAY.
AND THEN WE HAVE FOR THE NEXT TIME WE HAVE NO DECEMBER.
WHO DO WE HAVE? WE HAVE OH, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
IS COMING WITH THE HOLIDAYS FOR THAT.
I THINK THAT THAT SHOULDN'T BE TOO LONG OF A PRESENT PRESENTATION BECAUSE THEY'VE ALREADY MADE THEIR DECISIONS BECAUSE THE HOLIDAYS IN
I THINK THEY WOULD JUST COME TO LET Y'ALL, THEY'RE JUST INFORMATIVE.
IT'S JUST AN INFORMATIONAL INFORMATION.
AND THEN CHIEF YARBOROUGH WANTED TO JUST GIVE Y'ALL HIS, UM, ANNUAL UPDATE.
SO THEN SHOULD WE, WE, WELL THEN WE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE THEM THE HUDDLE ISD TO
SO WEB PAGE IS NOT, UH, ON THERE.
CAN, CAN WE MAKE A MOTION REGARDING THE WEBPAGE, EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT MENTIONED THERE? UM, SO IT IS, I MEAN, YES.
THE DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON NEXT STEPS AS A POLICY COMMISSION TO INCLUDE APPROVED BUDGET TRAINING, FACILITATION, AND ORGANIZATIONAL WORK GROUPS.
SO IF, IF THAT ALIGNS WITH ANY OF THOSE THINGS.
SO WE IT WOULD BE JUST INFORMATIONAL THEN, RIGHT? AND TO ASK FOR INFORMATION.
AND I, I FEEL THAT WE, IF WE DO OUR HOMEWORK, THAT'S WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY.
WE, WE SHOULD HAVE OUR HOMEWORK DONE, NOT BECAUSE WE COULD HAVE ANYTHING
SO DO WE NEED TO EVALUATE THE WEBPAGE ON OUR OWN TIME, COME UP WITH WHAT WE FEEL OR THINK TO FIND OUT WHEN THEY, WHEN THEY ARE HERE, WE CAN COMMUNICATE THOSE CONCERNS.
THAT WAY WE'RE NOT COMMUNICATING THOSE CONCERNS THAT WE HAVE INDIVIDUALLY, BUT RIGHT.
I JUST LOVE TO SEE WHAT THEY, WHAT WE CAN DO, BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW.
DO WE HAVE TO HAVE A MOTION AND TO VOTE TO ASK YOU TO, TO SEE.
CAN WE JUST ASK YOU TO ASK HIM WHAT'S POSSIBLE
I, I WOULD JUST RECOMMEND THOUGH, AS, AS A COMMISSION AT END OF THE DAY, IT'S, THERE'S, THERE'S THINGS, THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT ARE POSSIBLE.
RIGHT? SO IT'S, UNLESS IT'S SOMETHING OBSCENE OR COMPLETELY LIKE IRRELEVANT, OBSCENE, UM, I DON'T SEE WHY IT WOULD NOT BE OKAY FOR Y'ALL TO JUST COME UP WITH THE, IF IT'S BUTTONS OR WHATEVER IT IS THAT YOU DECIDE.
UM, IF IT IS A VISUAL THING, DEFINITELY BUTTONS.
SOME OF THE STUFF TAKES A LOT MORE WORK AS A WEB PERSON.
SOME OF THE STUFF TAKES A LOT MORE WORK WELL TO DO.
AND IF THEY SAY, WELL, HERE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO, YOU CAN HAVE A SIMPLE BUTTON OR THREE BUTTONS AT THE TOP.
OR YOU CAN HAVE LIKE TWO LITTLE BOXES HERE OR A BIG BOX HERE, YOU KNOW, OF THE FIELD.
SO I'M HAPPY, I'M HAPPY TO ASK THEM THIS QUESTION.
I JUST THINK THE ANSWER'S GOING TO BE SO BROAD, UM, THAT IT MAY BE BEST TO HAVE THEM COME HERE.
THEY CAN LET YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT, UM, THAT IS.
BUT MAYBE IN BETWEEN TIME EVALUATING THE WEBSITE ON YOUR OWN TO DEEP DIVE AND COME BACK WITH YOUR OWN NOTES SO THAT THE DISCUSSION IS, IS A LOT MORE PRODUCTIVE.
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AND, UM, MAYBE NOTICING, OH, THAT THING I WANTED IS ACTUALLY ALREADY THERE AROUND, OR, OR WHAT HAVE YOU.SO POSSIBLY LOOKING AT SOME OF THE OTHER WEBSITES FOR OTHER CITIES IN THE AREA AND HOW THEY'VE DONE THEIR WEBSITES AND WHAT OPTIONS THEY HAVE TO YOU GONNA SAY SOMETHING? YEAH.
JUST CAN YOU SEND THEM A NOTICE, A NOTE SAYING, HEY, CAN WE, UH, ARE THEY WILLING USER FRIENDLY SUGGESTIONS FOR THE WEBSITE, YOU KNOW, FOR EASILY.
THAT'S JUST WHAT I WAS GOING SAY.
WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU SAY YOU SEND THEM A, A NOTE OR A MESSAGE, IF THEY I INACCURATELY FOR THE, IF, IF THAT'S WHAT YOU ALL WANT ME TO DO.
WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU WANTING ME TO ASK THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT COME AND VISIT US.
SO YEAH, WE COULD JUST, AND THEN WE IN THE MEANTIME MAKE, MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE LOOKED AT, RIGHT.
UM, IS THIS FOR THE NOVEMBER MEETING? I WOULD THINK IT WOULD BE, I'LL ASK THEM IF THERE, BECAUSE I WOULD JUST WANNA KEEP THE DECEMBER MEETING THAT WE ARE WORKING WITH AND YEP.
ON ORGANIZING THE, UH, WORKING YEAH, THE WORKING GROUPS.
AND THEN WE, AND THEN WE ARE GONNA LOOK AT TO SEE, OKAY, WELL THIS COULD BE CHANGED OR WHATEVER.
LET'S, I DEFINITELY WANNA GET TO THE AWARENESS THAT I, OKAY.
SO ANYTHING ELSE ON THAT? UH, ITEM 7.3 APPROVED BUDGET.
I'D BE INTERESTED MORE THAN JUST HEARING MORE ABOUT THAT OR ANYTHING ELSE.
DIDN'T TALK ANYTHING ABOUT THAT BUDGET? I, HE LISTED.
DID YOU SAY WE USE THAT WAS APPROVED? YEAH.
EVERYTHING WE USE THAT FOR, I THINK HE WANTS SPECIFIC SPECIFICS ON THE BUDGET.
DID YOU GET, UM, A COPY OF THAT? THAT WAS, IT WAS A, IT WAS ALL SENT OUT.
SO ALL OF THAT WAS APPROVED BUDGET.
RIGHT? I DON'T, NOT NECESSARILY THE NUMBERS.
IT SAYS TO INCLUDE APPROVED BUDGET.
SO LIKE, ARE WE GONNA TALK ABOUT NEXT STEPS? NO, WE, WE WERE, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT BUDGET THAT HAS BEEN APPROVED.
SO THE NEXT STEPS WOULD BE LIKE WITH THE COMMUNICATION PLAN, LIKE US LOOKING AT IT AND SAYING, OKAY, WE WOULD LIKE THIS OR WHATEVER.
THAT'S, THAT'S ONE PIECE OF NEXT STEPS.
UM, SO THAT'S WHAT WE'LL DO FOR NEXT TIME.
WE'LL HAVE PRESENTATION WITH, UM, COMMUNICATION.
UM, AND THEN TWO POINT, NO, 7.4 FOR APPROVAL OF DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON APPROVAL OF AWARENESS MONTHS.
IT DIDN'T LOOK LIKE ANYTHING WAS NOT FOR NOVEMBER.
SO COMMISSIONER COLEMAN, JUST FOR A, A NOTE AND ALSO JUST FOR THE BENEFIT OF THOSE WHO ARE NEW AND OR WEREN'T ABLE TO ATTEND LAST MEETING, UM, THIS IS COMING BACK TO THE COMMISSION FROM THE ORIGINAL, RIGHT? UM, RIGHT.
THE COMMISSION WHO WERE HERE AT THE LAST MEETING WORKED THROUGH.
AND THE ONES THAT ARE HIGHLIGHTED ARE THE ONES THAT THE COMMISSIONERS AT THAT TIME, UM, IDENTIFIED AS AREAS OF FOCUS.
UM, BUT ALSO NOTING, AND I THINK I PUT THAT IN THE EMAIL AS WELL, IF THERE WERE ANYTHING ON HERE THAT, THAT ARE MISSING OR THAT ANY OTHER COMMISSIONER WOULD LIKE TO ADD, UM, BEFORE KIND OF GOING THROUGH EACH MONTH.
UM, AND THE PURPOSE OF THIS IS TO, UM, KIND OF HAVE, UH, AN ANNUAL CALENDAR OF THOSE PROCLAMATIONS AND AWARENESS MONTHS, UM, COMING FROM THE COMMISSION, UM, NOT ONLY FOR THE CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS, BUT JUST UM, IN GENERAL AS Y'ALL CONTINUE TO, TO GROW AND BRANCH OUT.
SO THE, JUST SO I'M CLEAR, THESE ALREADY APPROVED, RIGHT? WELL, THESE WERE ONES THAT, UH, FOR, SO STILL OKAY, GREAT.
SO THESE ARE THE, UH, SO LAST WEEK OR LAST MONTH, CHRISTIE, ALL THESE, UH, AND, AND SAID, HEY.
SO WE WENT THROUGH THEM AND SAID, HEY, THAT LOOKS IMPORTANT.
AND THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE HIGHLIGHTED WE DIDN'T ACTUALLY VOTE ON.
SO WHAT WOULD, WOULD YOU LIKE TO, UH, LIKE A CONSIDERATION OF THE ENTIRE YEAR OR PROBABLY LIKE TO, OKAY.
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WERE THERE, UH, SOME SPECIFIC CELEBRATIONS THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE INCLUDED? THAT BOARD INCLUDED? IS THAT RISK? UM, THE ONE I'M THINKING ABOUT, 'CAUSE I ALREADY GOT SOME IDEAS EMOTIONAL, BUT, UH, ANOTHER, BUT IT'S LIKE, UM, A CIVIC DATE THAT I HAVE, UH, HAVE PLANNED, UM, FOR LIKE MARCH OR APRIL.BUT LATER I NO, YOU WERE INTERESTED.
ARE YOU HAD WITH, UM, ADOPTION, IS THERE A CERTAIN MONTH THAT THAT IS CELEBRATED? OH, SO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE COUNCIL? I'M ON, YES.
SO YEAH, WE, WE DO THAT ALL IN YEAR LONG.
SO BECAUSE IT IS, UH, THOSE ARE THAT DON'T KNOW.
UM, SHE'S REFERRING TO, I'M ON THE, UH, STATE SANCTION COUNCIL BY THE GOVERNOR, UH, ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR THE PROMOTION OF ADOPTION OF MINORITY CHILDREN.
'CAUSE THE DISPARITY OF ADOPTION BETWEEN, UM, WHITE CHILDREN AND ALL THE OTHERS IS RIDICULOUS.
IT IS LIKE 54% GAP, BUT THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN, UM, THAT ARE IN FOSTER CARE IS, UM, AS FAR AS RACE IS DEFINED AS AS DISPARAGING.
SO, UM, I WAS APPOINTED TO THAT COUNCIL FOR AS A TWO YEAR TERM THAT, AND THAT'S WHAT SHE'S REFERRING TO, THAT WE DO WORK ALL OVER THE STATE, BOTH THROUGH ALL REGIONS WITH SEVEN, EIGHT REGIONS.
AND WE HELD, WE HOLD, UH, HOLD OUR COUNCIL MEETING AND AWARENESS FOR THE, FOR THE PROMOTION OF, UH, ADOPTION OF MINORITY CHILDREN.
THERE IS A WORLD ADOPTION DAY AND MONTH FOR NOVEMBER.
AND RIGHT NOW WE HAVE NOTHING ON NOVEMBER.
AND THIS IS NOT, AGAIN, THIS IS NOT A COMPREHENSIVE LIST.
THESE ARE JUST A LIST OF SOME THINGS.
SO IF THERE'S ANYTHING MISSING OR AS Y'ALL CONTINUE TO WORK THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, THINGS COME UP, WE CAN ALWAYS ADD.
WORLD ADOPTION DAY IS NOVEMBER 9TH AND THEN NATIONAL ADOPTION MONTH.
AND IF YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR WITH A LOT OF THESE DATES, UM, I SENT CHRISTIE LIKE HUGE, VERY COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF IT.
SO WHAT I WOULD SUGGEST IS YOU CAN LIKE RESEARCH IT BECAUSE THIS LIST IS CRAZY AND THESE ARE ALL THE DAYS JUST YOU WOULD WANNA LOOK.
SO I'M PRETTY SURE THERE ARE THINGS THAT WE MISSED, RIGHT? YEAH.
AND SO THAT'S WHAT I WOULD SUGGEST YOU, UM, GO AND LOOK AT THAT BECAUSE I WAS, WHEN I PUT THE CALENDAR TOGETHER, I WAS LIKE OVERWHELMED.
UM, BECAUSE YOU WANNA HIT EVERYTHING, BUT IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO DO THAT.
UM, BUT YOU WOULD AT LEAST WANNA TOUCH ON THINGS THAT MAY OVERLAP, IF THAT MAKES SENSE.
SO FOR EACH OF THOSE, UH, POSSIBLE AWARENESS FOR EACH MONTH, ARE WE LOOKING TO HAVE SOME TYPE OF EVENT OR JUST INFORMATIONAL, BECAUSE UM, I SEE WHAT SHE'S SAYING.
YOU WANT TO, YOU ALSO WANT TO PUT A CAP ON IT.
LIKE, HEY, WE'RE ONLY GONNA TAKE FOUR PER MONTH BECAUSE THAT LIST IS HUGE.
SO, UM, IF WE'RE LOOKING AT JUST TRYING TO TAKE FOUR AWARENESS FOR PER MONTH SOMETHING AND THEN LOOKING TO DO AN EVENT, UM, EACH MONTH OR LOOKING TO DO JUST INFORMATIONAL OUT TO THE PUBLIC.
LIKE WHAT ARE WE LOOKING TO DO WITH, I THINK MOST ARE FOCUSED ON PROCLAMATION PRO.
BECAUSE I, I, I PERSONALLY HAVE LEARNED A LOT JUST FROM LISTENING TO THE PROCLAMATIONS AND THEN WHERE THE CITIZENS THAT ARE INVOLVED WITH THAT COME FORTH.
I THINK THAT'S A GOOD, UM, WAY TO HELP PEOPLE UNDERSTAND HOW WE'RE REALLY, ARE BEING INCLUSIVE AND EVERYONE BELONGS.
SO, SO I LIKE THAT THAT MAY BE A GREAT WAY TO INCORPORATE THOSE WORKING GROUPS AS WELL AS IDENTIFYING THEM.
UM, BUT IT WASN'T, I BELIEVE IT WAS BROKEN UP THROUGH DIFFERENT EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR VERSUS LIKE ONE BIG EVENT FOR THIS YEAR.
THAT'S WHAT ENDED UP BEING BUDGETED.
WELL THAT'S SOMETHING TO NOTE.
THEN, AND AT ONE POINT WE WOULD PROBABLY NEED TO TALK WITH THE PARTS.
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ARE THEY GONNA DO? RIGHT.SO THAT'S SOMETHING I'M MAKING A LIST OF
ANYTHING ELSE? WELL, IF, IF, IF, UM, IF WE'RE NOT GOING TO APPROVE THE YEAR, MAYBE WE COULD APPROVE JANUARY AND FEBRUARY.
UM, JUST SAY HAVE SOMETHING TO PLAN ON.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WOULD BE ADVANTAGEOUS.
THE OTHER NOTE I WANT TO ADD HERE IS WE DO HAVE SOME PROCLAMATIONS THAT WE KIND OF UPDATE AND REVIEW THIS YEAR, BUT IN THE PAST THEY WERE WRITTEN AND CAME FROM THE COMMISSION.
SO, UM, THAT'S ANOTHER POINT TO ADD IS WE DON'T HAVE LIKE A, A PROCLAMATION WRITER.
SOMETIMES I'VE WRITTEN THEM BASED ON MM-HMM.
BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, THAT'S, THAT'S A NOTE.
UH, LOGISTICALLY SPEAKING IS A PROCLAMATION WOULD NEED TO BE, UM, WRITTEN AS WELL.
AND THAT MIGHT BE IDENTIFYING THAT GROUP AND HAVING THAT GROUP WRITE THE PROCLAMATION AND THEN REPRESENTING THEM, YOU KNOW, ON BEHALF OF, OF THE COMMISSION.
BUT I JUST WANTED TO ALSO NOTE THAT AS WELL, THAT THEY NEEDS TO BE WRITTEN.
I WOULD LIKE TO, FOR THEM TO GET INVOLVED.
PROCLAMATIONS LISTED THE WEBSITE.
I WAS JUST THINKING THAT, UM, I, I THINK I'VE EVER SEEN THAT.
I HAVE THE DEMOCRAT, I WENT BACK TO LOOK, I KNOW THAT THEY'RE INCLUDED LIKE IN THE, IN THE, IN THE PACKET.
UM, LIKE THE AGENDA PACKETS FOR CITY COUNCIL.
BUT AS FAR AS LIKE THEM BEING POSTED ALL TOGETHER SOMEWHERE, I'D HAVE TO DOUBLE CHECK FOR YOU.
IT JUST SEEMS TO ME THAT IT GONNA GO TO THAT TROUBLE.
THEY SHOULD BE SOMEPLACE ON THE WEBSITE.
WE WANNA, YOU KNOW, WE COULD THINK ABOUT OR AT LEAST POST THAT MONTHS, YOU KNOW, DO MONTHLY, QUARTERLY.
DO WE WANT TO GO AHEAD AND VOTE ON LIKE YOU SAID, JANUARY AND FEBRUARY JUST TO, JUST BECAUSE IT'S ALREADY OCTOBER, JUST TO GET THE BALL ROLLING ON, IS THERE ANY REASON THAT WE WOULDN'T DO THE WHOLE YEAR OR NO, I JUST, NO, BECAUSE YEAH, NOT 'CAUSE SHE HAD EVERYTHING.
WELL, I THINK WHAT SHE WAS SAYING IS THEY HAVE TO BE WRITTEN AS LONG AS WE KNOW THAT OH, I SEE THAT
CHRISTIE DID, WE HAD A, WE HAD PROXIMATION FOR, UH, MLK, RIGHT? OR DID WE UM, I HAVE TO GO BACK.
I I KNOW WE DID ONE BLACK HISTORY MONTH.
SO THIS, UM, DAY OF SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY IS A POTENTIAL LIKE, UM, ACTION ITEM.
WHAT ABOUT HISPANIC HERITAGE THIS MONTH? ON, YEAH, WE HAVE IT UN UNDER SEPTEMBER.
IT CAME DOWN TO TWO DIFFERENT ONES THEN.
BECAUSE WE ONLY HAVE FOR NOVEMBER, WE HAVE WORLD ADOPTION DAY NOW.
WHAT ABOUT NATIVE AMERICAN OR SOMETHING ON NATIVE AMERICAN ALREADY SOMEPLACE? WELL, I THINK THAT WAS A DIFFERENT, I THINK THAT WAS
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BECAUSE I THINK IN NOVEMBER WE DO CELEBRATE INDIGENOUS.THIS JUST THIS PAST MONDAY WAS INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, RIGHT? YEAH.
BUT I MEAN, THIS WOULD BE FOR NEXT, NEXT YEAR.
SO THAT WAS, SO THAT WAS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER.
UM, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.
BUT NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH IS NOVEMBER.
AND THEN AMERICAN INDIAN HERITAGE MONTH IS AUGUST.
SO AS YOU CAN SEE, THIS IS LIKE DEFINITELY, WE'RE DEFINITELY MISSING A LOT OF THINGS.
MORE THAN LIKELY THERE'S, UM, THERE ARE A LOT OF DIFFERENT AREAS.
AND, AND TO JUST A MATTER OF, AT THIS POINT IN TIME, WHAT IS THE COMMISSION'S PRIORITY AND WHAT DO Y'ALL WANT TO FOCUS ON MONTH TO MONTH? YEAH.
BECAUSE THAT WORK, WE HAVE WHAT'S CALLED A PEANUT AS WELL, ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER.
SO WE DID A POPULATION ON THAT TOO.
THAT'S VALID THOUGH, BECAUSE THERE, THERE'S, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT.
NO, I WAS JUST SAYING IT, IT, IT, WHAT I'M HEARING IT IS LIKE MAYBE THERE'S OTHER THINGS THAT WE MIGHT WANT TO PUT IN LATER.
UH, I WOULD BE HAPPY TO VOTE ON THE, ON THE YEAR IF, IF THAT'S WHAT YOU GUYS FEEL WE NEED TO DO.
OR WE COULD VOTE FOR A FEW MONTHS OR, MM-HMM.
I WAS GONNA SAY IF WE DID THREE, FOUR MONTHS OR MONTHS.
SO, SO THAT I'M CLEAR WE VOTING JUST FOR THAT TO HAVE A PROCLAMATION FOR THAT, FOR THOSE.
THEY'RE STILL OPEN FOR EVENTS.
AS FAR AS THE PROCLAMATIONS GO, I, AND UNLESS THERE'S OTHERS FINDING WITH THE LIST, DOES ANYONE FORESEE THEM REMAIN SIGNIFICANTLY OVER THE NEXT YEAR? THIS TIME? NEXT YEAR? NOW THAT I, NO, IT'S JUST FOR PROCLAMATIONS.
SO SHOULD WE CALL A VOTE ON THAT, THAT WE WILL SURE.
DO A QUARTER, MAYBE WE'LL DO IT DO IT QUARTERLY.
SO YOU WANNA DO FOUR MONTHS MAYBE? YEAH.
I'LL MAKE A MOTION THAT WE APPROVE, UH, THE, THE ONES HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW FOR JANUARY, MARCH, AND APRIL FOR PROCLAMATIONS.
THIS MORNING, UNFORTUNATELY YOU CAN'T.
DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON APPROVAL OF SEPTEMBER 17TH, 2000, TWO 24 MILLION MINUTES.
UM, I DO HAVE LIKE ONE OR TWO COPIES FLOATING AROUND IF ANYONE NEEDS IT.
IT WASN'T YOUR PACKET, BUT, OH YEAH, THIS WAS WHEN WE HAD THE BUDGET PASS.
SENATOR, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MOTION.
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COMMISSIONER BELL? YES.AND, UM, SOME 0.6 DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON ITEMS FOR THE NEXT MEETING, WHICH WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON.
SO THE ITEMS FOR THE NEXT MEETING ARE, EACH INDIVIDUAL COMMISSIONER IS GOING TO LOOK AT THE WEBSITE AND GATHER WHAT INFORMATION THEY FEEL WILL MAKE IT USER FRIENDLY, MAKE IT USER FRIENDLY, WHATEVER, AND BE PREPARED.
AND THEN WE ARE GOING TO INVITE, UM, THE COMMUNICATION MANAGER TO COME TO PRESENT AT NOVEMBER.
SHOULD WE, WHAT SHOULD WE MOVE THE PRESENTATION FROM? UH,
I'LL ADD IN THE MINUTES TO REQUEST.
UM, FROM, AND THAT WILL BE PENDING POST SCHEDULE.
UM, AND THEN I'LL, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS STATED, I'LL UM, ADD IT IN HERE ALSO FOR THE, UM, I GUESS INFORMATIONAL UPDATE FROM THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT.
SO THAT WOULD BE THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND CHIEF YARBOROUGH.
AND THEN, UM, JUST A GENERAL UPDATE FROM CHIEF YARBOROUGH FOR THE, UH, CHIEF OF POLICE.
ANYTHING ELSE TO ADD? I DON'T THINK SO FOR THAT NEXT.
SO I THINK THAT IS IT, UNLESS ANYONE HAD ANY OTHER THING.
OH, I'M JUST SAYING, HE SAID THAT LIKE, SAID LESS THAN AN HOUR AND A HALF.
MY BRAIN WAS GOING, WE HAD A LOT TO, SO I'LL MAKE A MOTION AS FAR AS THE, UH, 7.6.
SO DISCUSSION, POSSIBILITY, ACTIONS OF ITEMS IN THE NEXT MEETING.
I THOUGHT YOU, SORRY, I THOUGHT, UM, OH, YOU DON'T NECESSARILY NEED TO MAKE A MOTION FOR THAT.
UH, I THOUGHT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THEIR ADER.
YOU, IS THAT THE MOTION? MAKE THAT MOTION MOVE THE MOTION TO ADJO.