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[Diversity and Inclusion Meeting on December 17, 2024.]
SO WE'LL CALL TO ORDER THE MEETING OF THE DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION AND BELONGING COMMISSION ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17TH AT 6:01 PM SO THAT WAS THE CALL SESSION TO ORDER.COMMISSIONER SPOONS IS ABSENT.
SO ARE THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS? NO.
UM, COMMENTS FROM THE CITY STAFF.
UH, GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS.
CHRISTIE BARNES, COMMUNITY CULTURE OFFICER FOR THE CITY OF PATO.
UM, FIRST OF ALL, I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU TO ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE ABLE TO ATTEND THE HOLIDAY BANQUET.
UM, I KNOW AT LEAST TWO OF YOU WERE, AND I APOLOGIZE IF I DIDN'T GET TO SAY HELLO TO ANYONE ELSE THAT WAS THERE.
UM, BUT HOPEFULLY YOU WERE ABLE TO KIND OF EXPERIENCE, UM, THE STAFF LEVEL AND KIND OF JUST SEE A LITTLE SNEAK PEEK INTO, UM, HOW WE, UM, MOVE AND OPERATE AS A STAFF.
SO IT WAS REALLY, UM, FANTASTIC TO HAVE YOU PHYSICALLY THERE.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAD BROCHURES JUST FOR THOSE WHO DIDN'T MAKE IT, UM, THAT KIND OF LISTED OUT THE NAMES OF EVERYONE WHO SERVED ON THE COMMISSION.
AND THEN I BELIEVE, UM, YOUR CHAIR SUBMITTED A VERY LOVELY, UM, WRITE UP ABOUT WHAT THE COMMISSION HAS DONE SO FAR.
SO I JUST WANNA SAY THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR ONGOING WORK AND SUPPORT, UM, NOT ONLY FOR THE GREATER GOOD OF THE CITY, BUT ALSO FOR THE STAFF.
LIKE, WE DEFINITELY SEE IT AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE THAT.
UM, ALSO, AND I APOLOGIZE, UM, COMMISSIONER COLEMAN, IF YOU'RE GOING TO SPEAK ON THIS, BUT I JUST WANTED TO REMIND EVERYONE IF YOU DIDN'T SEE THE, UM, COUNTER INVITE THAT I FORWARDED YOU JANUARY 25TH AS A STRATEGIC, UM, WORKSHOP, WORK SESSION.
UM, WERE YOU GONNA SPEAK MORE ON THAT? YES.
AND SO THAT'S ALL OF THE COMMENTS I HAVE.
SO ITEM FIVE COMMENTS FROM CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES.
I THINK, UH, THERE MIGHT BE TRANSITION IN MY SEAT RIGHT NOW.
JUST WANT ANY COMMENTS FROM COMMISSION MEMBERS? AND I, I WILL LAST WITH MY COMMENTS.
IS ANYONE HAVE ANY COMMENTS? I HAVE A COMMENT ON.
CHRISTMAS BANQUET WAS VERY WELL PUT TOGETHER.
MY, MY DAUGHTER, THEY ENJOYED HERSELF AS WELL.
SO YEAH, SO WE, WE, I, I MEAN THE ENERGY OF THE STAFF, THE, UH, I MEAN THE FOOD WAS GREAT.
I EVEN THE THE GEN AREA THAT, THAT IS A, THAT IS A REALLY UNIQUE SPOT AND KIND OF HAVE SOME IDEAS OF HOW TO, YOU KNOW, LOOKING IN THAT BUILDING AND HAVING SOME IDEAS OF HOW THAT THAT BUILDING ITSELF CAN KIND OF GENERATE SOME, SOME FUNDS FOR THE CITY OF HARLEM WAS, IT WAS A REALLY, UH, GREAT EVENING.
SO I, I DO APPRECIATE THE INVITE IN, APPRECIATE THE, UH, IT WAS VERY CHRISTMASY AND ENJOYED BINGO
ANYONE ELSE? DID YOU WANT TO COMMENT ABOUT THIS UNIVERSITY? WELL, YEAH, I CAN, I CAN DO THAT HERE.
SO I BRING UP A VERY LONG KIND OF OUTLINE OF WHAT I HOPE TO BRING BACK TO THIS TEAM.
BUT, BUT FOR TODAY, RIGHT NOW, THE SUMMARY IS THAT THE HUDDLE CITIZENS UNIVERSITY, WE HAD A VERY ENGAGED, VERY, UH, DIVERSE GROUP.
PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST DIVERSE JUST GROUPS OF PEOPLE AND HUDDLE THAT I'VE EVER SEEN.
AND WE, WE WERE, UM, COGNIZANT OF THAT WHEN WE LOOKED AROUND THE TABLE IN THE ROOM.
AND ESSENTIALLY WE, WE WENT THROUGH THE GAMUT OF, YOU KNOW, CITY MANAGER'S, OFFICE POLICE, AND OUR EMERGENCY SERVICES CODE LIBRARY, LIKE EVERY KIND OF PUBLIC SERVICE THAT WE SEE AND DON'T SEE AS CITIZEN HUDDLE, LIKE THE WATER WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, RIGHT? WE GOT TO SEE WHERE THEY'RE GOING, WHY THEY PLACE EM, WHERE THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT, UH, PROTECTION OF OUR, UH, NATURAL RESOURCES.
AND THINK THAT THE BIGGEST TAKEAWAY THAT I COULD SUMMARIZE IS THAT OUR CITY STAFF, MY BACKGROUND IS IN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT TRAINING, LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, UM, A LOT OF VERY, LIKE IN DEPTH.
I'VE DONE A LOT OF, UM, FACILITATION OF LEADERSHIP GROUPS AND TRAINING AND, UM, WHAT WHAT STRUCK ME THE MOST ABOUT EACH PRESENTER, HOW THEY TALKED ABOUT THEIR WORK AND THE THINGS THAT THEY DO, IS THAT OUR CITY STAFF, ALL OF THEM SEEM TO GO ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT THEIR JOB DESCRIPTIONS REQUIRED THEM TO DO.
AND THEY REALLY ALL DEMONSTRATED A STRONG PASSION FOR THE WORK THEY DO.
AND SO WERE MY FELLOW CITIZENS IMPRESSED WITH HOW MUCH CARE AND TIME WENT INTO THE WAY THEY TALK.
THEY SPOKE ABOUT THEIR WORK, THE LEVEL OF PROFESSIONALISM AND UNDERSTANDING THEY HAD
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FOR THE WORK THAT THEY DO, NOT JUST OPERATIONALLY, BUT ALSO HOW IT MATTERS TO THE CITY AND HOW THEY BROKE IT DOWN AND ANSWERED OUR QUESTIONS.UM, AND I THINK THAT IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT, UM, ASK TO THINK ABOUT WHEN WE ARE CONSIDERING WHO WE, UM, HOW WE MOVE THROUGHOUT OUR COMMUNITY AND HOW, HOW WE WANNA PEOPLE IN CONVERSATIONS THAT WE RECOGNIZE THAT WITH THE CITY STAFF, THEY DO THE ACTUAL HARD WORK OF HOW WE ACCESS OUR RESOURCES, WHO HAS ACCESS, HOW OFTEN, WHY SETTING THOSE TIMELINES, MAKING SURE THAT THE BUDGETS ARE BEING MET, MAKING SURE THAT THE RIGHT PEOPLE ARE IN FIT, THAT THE RIGHT TRAININGS ARE HAPPENING, THAT THE RIGHT OVERSIGHT IS HAPPENING WITH THEIR WORK.
THEY WERE VERY TRANSPARENT ABOUT IT AND I WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH, UM, THE LEVEL OF, UM, A DEPTHNESS THAT THEY HAD WITH THE WORK THAT THEY PRESENTED.
SO I WOULD RECOMMEND, UM, THAT ANYBODY WHO'S INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE ABOUT THAT STEP BEHIND THE SCENES AND HOW THIS ALL COMES TOGETHER, COMPLETE THAT COURSE.
UM, AND I'M HAPPY TO ALSO SUBMIT MY WRITTEN KIND OF SUMMARY OF THAT COMMITTEE TO THE COMMISSION.
ANY OTHER COMMENTS? UM, I'VE BEEN THE LAST MISSION MEETING OF THE YEAR.
I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR, MONTH, HOPING FOR A NEW YEAR.
RIGHT? YOU THE SAME TO YOU? MM-HMM
UM, I THINK I HAD MENTIONED BEFORE I MET WITH THE CITY MANAGER AND, UM, I JUST GAVE A BRIEF UPDATE ON THE, OUR STRATEGIC PLAN, WHICH HE WAS VERY COMPLIMENTARY AND VERY HELPFUL.
AND ALSO HE COMMENTED THAT HE APPRECIATED, UM, GOING TO TALK TO HIM.
HE SAID HE DID SAY NO ONE ELSE FROM ANY COMMISSION HAD EVER GOTTEN.
UM, ALSO MET WITH COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER SHAY, I DON'T KNOW IF SHE COMES OUT HER NAME.
UM, SHE PRESENTED, UM, THE YEAR IN REVIEW ALSO THE COMMUNICATIONS WORK PLAN FOR 2025.
AND, UM, IT HAS OUR US IN THERE, LIKE WHERE WE FIT IN AS THE, UM, PILLAR OF QUALITY OF LIFE.
AND SHE WILL BE ATTENDING THE MEETING THAT WE WILL HAVE IN FEBRUARY.
SO SHE'S GONNA GO OVER EVERYTHING WITH US, WHICH IS, IS REALLY GREAT.
UM, CHRISTIE MENTIONED THE STRATEGIC PLANNING SESSION, WHICH, YOU KNOW, WE WILL HAVE ON THE 25TH.
AND THAT WOULD BE THE SECOND ANNUAL BECAUSE WE HAD ONE, THE FIRST ONE.
SO WHAT I'M GONNA DO FOR THIS YEAR, 2024, THIS WILL BE FOR 2025.
UM, SO WHAT I'M GONNA DO IS I'M GONNA PREPARE A YEAR IN REVIEW OF THE DIVERSITY COM, UH, COMMISSION, AND I'LL LET EVERYONE READ IT.
AND, YOU KNOW, SO I'LL SEND IT TO CHRISTIE TO HAVE EVERYONE READ IT, JUST TO MAKE SURE I DIDN'T FORGET EVERYTHING.
'CAUSE WE WANNA PRESENT IT TO THE CITY COUNCIL.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE COVER EVERYTHING.
SO IF WHEN YOU GET IT, PLEASE LET HER KNOW THAT YOU GOT IT.
IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY, JUST LET HER KNOW THAT.
SO WE, YOU KNOW, WE CAN KEEP UP WITH THAT.
SO THAT'S THE STRATEGIC PLANNING, UM, SESSION COUNCIL.
AND THIS, I WOULD SAY THIS IS OFFICIALLY OUR NEXT PART OF WHAT WE'RE DOING.
WE HAVE ALREADY DONE THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
IT'S BEEN APPROVED AND PRESENTED TO THE COUNCIL.
AND SO NOW NEXT WE ARE GONNA GO WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.
AND THAT IS WHERE STAN TAKES OVER.
IT WILL BE DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION AS IT PERTAINS TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DEIB STRATEGIC PLAN.
SO I'M GONNA SHARE MY, MY, LET'S SEE.
UH, SOMETIMES I GET A LITTLE BIT, IT GETS A LITTLE BIT DICEY.
UH, I'M MORE, I'M MORE USED TO ZOOM THAN TEAMS. UH, SO YOU CAN LET KNOW IF YOU SEE, UH, WHAT I BRING UP.
SO HOPEFULLY YOU NOW SEE, UH, THE SLIDES NOT IN PRESENTATION MODE AND NOW IT'S IN PRESENTATION MODE.
SO, UH, THE AGENDA FOR THIS IS I'M GONNA DO A VERY QUICK SUMMARY OF THE ADOPTED DEIB STRATEGIC PLAN.
AND I HOPE THAT YOU CAN ALL GET COPIES OF, I, I'M SO SORRY.
I SHOULD HAVE SAID THIS EARLIER.
JUST FOR, UM, AGENDA ORDER AND FOR ALITY, CAN WE MAKE A MOTION TO MOVE ITEM 7.3 UP?
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YEAH.OH, I, YOU KNOW, I MADE A MISTAKE I MISSED, UNLESS YOU WOULD LIKE TO GO AHEAD AND GO THROUGH THOSE THINGS OR HOWEVER, BUT, UM, WHATEVER MOTION, UM, JUST SINCE WE STARTED, UM, YEAH.
MAKE A MOTION THAT WE MOVE THAT UP.
I, I, I JUST MISSED THAT, THAT WAS MY FAULT.
ALL IN FAVOR? ALL ANY OPPOSED? I CAN, YEAH, I CAN, I CAN CONTINUE.
SO, UH, I'M GONNA DO A SUMMARY OF THE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, DEIV STRATEGIC PLAN.
AND I HOPE THAT YOU DO ALL TAKE THE TIME TO READ THE, UH, ENTIRE DOCUMENT, WHICH I'M, I WAS ALSO GLAD TO SEE THAT IT'S ACTUALLY POSTED THERE ON THE CITY WEBSITE.
AND THEN I'M GONNA SHARE WHAT I PROPOSED AND WHAT GOT BUDGETED FOR 2025 AND THE THINGS THAT I'LL BE DOING.
UH, WE'LL DISCUSS NEXT STEPS, INCLUDING, YOU KNOW, HOW WE NEED TO MAYBE MEET EARLY IN 2025 TO TAKE THESE NEXT STEPS.
AND THAT YOU'LL ALL GET A COPY OF PDF VERSION OF THESE SLIDES AFTER THE MEETING, BECAUSE I ALSO HAVE SOME BACKUP AND ADDITIONAL MATERIAL THAT I'M NOT GONNA ACTUALLY PRESENT.
SO THE FIRST ITEM IS I PICKED SUMMARY OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
UH, AND YOU KNOW, THAT THIS IS A LIVING DOCUMENT AND ONGOING WORK.
THAT STRATEGIC PLAN IS NOT SOMETHING, OKAY, WE DID IT IN 2024, AND THEN WE DON'T DO ANYTHING.
WE DON'T CHANGE IT FOR FIVE OR 10 YEARS.
IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO REVISIT AND MODIFY AS THE WORLD AND AS THE COMMUNITY CHANGES, UH, AND WE STARTED WITH FOUR FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS PLAN'S GOING TO EVOLVE AND WE'RE GONNA GET TO THE NEXT STEP OF HAVING SPECIFIC ACTIONS TO SUPPORT THE PLAN.
THAT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT A-D-E-I-B PLAN, IT DOESN'T STAND ALONE.
IT HAS TO FULLY SUPPORT AND BE INTEGRATED WITH THE CITY OF HU'S OVERALL STRATEGIC PLAN.
BOTH, YOU KNOW, MUNICIPALITIES AND EVEN BUSINESSES DO, IS THEY KIND OF LOOK AT DEIB AS A NICE THING TO DO ON THE SIDE, AND THEY DON'T INTEGRATE IT AND CONNECT IT TO THE OVERALL STRATEGY.
UH, IN STRATEGIC PLAN, WE ALSO DEFINE WHAT WE MEAN BY THOSE FOUR WORDS, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION AND BELONGING.
AND THAT WE NEED THE DETERMINATION THAT SHOULD BE A HOLISTIC PLAN AND INCLUDE BOTH THE WHOLE COMMUNITY OF HATO AS WELL AS INTERNAL CITY PRACTICES AND EMPLOYEES.
AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO OVER THE FIVE INITIAL PRIORITY AREAS, BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE TO BUILD THE
WE NEED TO ASSURE THAT THERE'S FULL PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND ALL THE CITIZENS ARE AWARE OF THIS AND WANNA PARTICIPATE AND SUPPORT IT, THAT WE ALSO WORK INTERNALLY TO MAKE SURE THAT CITY MANAGER AND THE ENTIRE CITY STAFF ARE ENGAGED IN DEIB, LOOKING AT ALL OF THEIR JOB ROLES THROUGH DEIB LENSES THAT WE HAVE TO FOCUS ON.
ALSO, ECONOMIC GROWTH AND EMPOWERMENT OF DIVERSE CITIZENS, DIVERSE BUSINESSES.
YOU KNOW, CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE CORPORATIONS WHO VALUE DIVERSITY WILL SEE THAT WE HAVE AN, AN EXCELLENT DIVERSE WORKFORCE WANNA MOVE HERE.
AND ALSO CONTINUING TO GROW A CITYWIDE CULTURE OF COMMUNITY INCLUSION AND BELONGING.
AND SO WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO NOW IS WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT THE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN, BECAUSE THE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN SHOULD ADDRESS THESE FIVE PRIORITY AREAS.
IN OTHER WORDS, WE NEED TO TAKE THESE FIVE AREAS AND SAY, OKAY, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO IN EACH OF THESE AREAS? SO WE ALSO LIKE TO START WITH THIS FOUNDATIONAL STATEMENT, UH, THAT CAME FROM, UH, THE MASSACHUSETTS MUNICIPAL DEI COALITION GUIDE.
THEY SAY, FOR IT TO BE SUCCESSFUL HAS TO BE TREATED AS A COLLECTIVE EFFORT ACROSS THE MUNICIPALITY.
THIS IS BECAUSE DEIB WORK IS NOT A SINGLE POLICY OR ACTION THAT CAN SOLVE DISCRIMINATION, OPPRESSION, OR INJUSTICE.
IT'S A MINDSET THAT A SET OF BEHAVIORS THAT MUST BE PRACTICED OVER AND OVER IN EVERY DEPARTMENT FOREVER.
AND TREATING DEIB WORK AS A COLLECTIVE EFFORT WILL ENSURE THAT THESE BEHAVIORS ARE TAKING ROOT THROUGHOUT AN ORGANIZATION.
IT WILL MEAN WHEN ONE PERSON LEAVES THE MUNICIPALITY, DEIB WORK WILL NOT DISAPPEAR WITH THEM.
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, IT MEANS THAT WE'RE DOING WHAT OUR CONSTITUENTS ARE ASKING OF US.
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SO, PRIORITY AREA ONE IS ESTABLISHING AN ONGOING SUSTAINABLE STRUCTURE.AND WE, AND, YOU KNOW, Y'ALL HAVE ALREADY DONE SOME OF THESE THINGS.
FILL THE CURRENT OPEN COMMISSION POSITIONS BECAUSE WHEN I CAME TO MEET WITH Y'ALL IN THE SUMMER, YOU KNOW, THERE'S LIKE MAYBE OR THREE OPEN POSITIONS, YOU KNOW, ON THE COMMISSION.
AND I LOVE THAT YOU NOW HAVE, YOU KNOW, SEVEN ENGAGED ACTIVE MEMBERS.
UH, WE WANNA RENAME IT, UH, THE DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION AND BELONGING COMMISSION, UH, THAT OVER TIME SO WE CAN LOOK AT WORK IN 2025, IS TO, UH, HAVE AN EXPANDED WORKING GROUP THAT NOT ONLY INCLUDES THIS GROUP, BUT CITY STAFF, MAYBE MEMBERS OF THE BUSINESS, COMMUNITY EDUCATION AND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT CONNECTIONS, AND MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE GENERATIONAL VOICES, UH, AT THE TABLE, UH, THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO USE SURVEYS, YOU KNOW, TO MEASURE THE OVERALL CITIZEN FEELINGS.
AND WE SHOULD ESTABLISH AN ONGOING SYSTEM OF ANNUAL REVIEW OF PROGRESS.
AND SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT DOING AN EXECUTION PLAN IN 2025, WE CAN SEE, SO WE CAN KINDA MAKE SOME GOALS OF WHAT WE WANNA DO IN THESE AREAS.
UH, PRIORITY AREA TWO, UH, IS TO ENSURE FULL PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT, UH, IN THIS WORK.
UH, AND THAT WE WANNA CONTINUE TO USE THESE GENERAL CITIZEN AND RESIDENT SURVEYS.
UH, AND, YOU KNOW, WE CAN WORK OVER TIME, YOU KNOW, SLICE THE DATA BY DEMOGRAPHICS AND ALSO MAKE SURE THAT WE DO THESE, UH, SURVEYS OF THE GENERAL CITIZENS AND RESIDENTS THAT WE REPORT BACK TO THE RESIDENTS, WHAT WE'RE DOING, ESPECIALLY IF THERE'S DIVERSITY ITEMS THAT COME UP.
AND THAT IF WE ANALYZE, YOU KNOW, QUESTIONS BY DEMOGRAPHICS LIKE, ARE, YOU KNOW, WOMEN OR MEN THINK DIFFERENTLY OF WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE CITY? DO PEOPLE OF COLOR HAVE A DIFFERENT PERCEPTION OR HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT ANSWERS TO THE SURVEY THAN WHITE CITIZENS? YOU KNOW, WE ANALYZE AND UNCOVER, YOU KNOW, UH, DIVERSITY ISSUES THROUGH LOOKING AT SURVEY DATA, UH, HOLD FOCUS GROUPS WITH VARIOUS DIVERSE GROUPS, UH, YOU KNOW, AND ADD, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE'S EXPERIENCES AND QUALITATIVE SHARING TO NUMBERS THAT SHOW UP IN THE SURVEYS, YOU KNOW, HOLDING LISTENING POSTS AND ALSO ESTABLISHING SOME ADVISORY COUNCILS OR WORKING GROUPS, FOR EXAMPLE, MAYBE A YOUTH COUNCIL AND GET IMPRESSIONS FROM, YOU KNOW, UH, TEENS AND YOUTH, UH, IN OUR CITY OR SENIOR CITIZENS.
AND IT'S ALSO VERY CRITICAL WHEN WE DO PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT THAT WE HAVE OUR COMMUNICATIONS LEADER, THE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER ENGAGED.
AND IT'S REALLY EXCITING TO SEE, UH, THAT SHE IS, UH, YOU KNOW, WANTING TO ENGAGE WITH THE COMMISSION AND WE'RE ALREADY BUILDING GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH HER.
UH, PRIORITY AREA THREE IS WORKING WITH THE, UH, WHAT I CALL THE CITY STAFF AND ALL THE EMPLOYEES TO ASSURE THAT THEIR DEIB ENGAGEMENT AND ALL THE INTERNAL CITY PRACTICES, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, THAT THERE IS A COMPELLING BUSINESS CASE, UH, FOR DEIB THAT, YOU KNOW, AS A CITY YOU WANNA HIRE THE VERY BEST TALENT.
YOU WANNA LOOK AT ALL THE TALENT, INCLUDING DIVERSE TALENT TO HIRE THE VERY BEST.
THEN YOU WANNA CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE PEOPLE ARE GONNA GO THAT EXTRA MILE AND DO WORK HARD.
IT SOUNDS LIKE GREAT INTERNAL CULTURE WHERE, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WANT TO GROW AND STAY, UH, THAT YOU CAN USE DIVERSE PEOPLE ON THE STAFF TO SHARE DIVERSE IDEAS AND DIVERSE WAYS OF SOLVING ISSUES THAT, UH, A DIVERSE, UH, CITY EMPLOYEES CAN BETTER CONNECT THEIR DIVERSE CITIZENS AND RESIDENTS AND, AND, AND SERVE THEM BETTER.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, IF YOU LOOK AT THE RIGHT, YOU KNOW, THE CITY STAFF SHOULD BE FULLY ENGAGED AND EVERY CITY CITY LEADER SHOULD BE ASKING, YOU KNOW, HOW DOES DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION AND BELONGING IMPACT MY FUNCTION AND WORK? AND I KNOW THAT YOU'VE ALREADY HAD SOME PEOPLE COME AND SHARE, LIKE FROM THE PARK AND REC DEPARTMENT, THEY'RE DOING A GREAT JOB OF MAKING SURE THAT THINGS ARE ACCESSIBLE TO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND MEETING WITH THEM WITH YOU ALL LAST MONTH, THAT, YOU KNOW, THE PUBLIC WORKS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ALL PEOPLE LEADING EACH FUNCTION, UH, SHOULD UNDERSTAND HOW IMPORTANT DEIP IS TO THE WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING AND INTEGRATE IT TO THE WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING.
UH, THE FOURTH AREA IS TO FOCUS ON ECONOMIC GROWTH AND EMPOWERMENT TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU
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KNOW, HUDA HAS A WELCOME AND INCLUSIVE CULTURE TO ATTRACT BUSINESSES AND TALENT, YOU KNOW, DIVERSE AND SKILLED WORKFORCE ARE GONNA HELP YOUR BUSINESSES SUCCEED.YOU KNOW, HAVING EXCELLENT SCHOOLS TO ATTRACT FAMILIES, UH, MAKING SURE THAT THERE'S UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES, THAT THEY'RE PROVIDED THE ASSISTANCE THAT THEY NEED SO THAT THEY CAN GROW AND THRIVE AND CONTRIBUTE, UH, TO THE COMMUNITY.
YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD PROBABLY MAKE SURE THAT WE ENGAGE THE HU CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN THIS WORK, AND WE CAN LOOK IN THE FUTURE TO SAY, YOU KNOW, DO WE WANNA HAVE A CITY SUPPLIER DIVERSITY PROGRAM TO ASSURE FAIRNESS AND CITY CONTRACTS AND THAT MINORITY OWNED BUSINESSES ARE GETTING THEIR FAIR SHARE OF THE CITY OF HURO BUSINESS.
AND THE FINAL AREA IS CONTINUING TO GROW THAT COMMUNITY OF INCLUSION AND BELONGING AND MAKE SURE THAT EVERY CITIZEN OF HURO IS INCLUDED IN A POSITIVE WAY.
AND IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE THAT EVERY SINGLE PERSON IS A VALUABLE PART OF THE DIVERSITY MIX OF PATO.
YOU KNOW, I NEVER WANT, YOU KNOW, WE NEVER, WE HAVE TO
AND THAT DIVERSITY IS NOT THE DIVERSE VERSUS THE UNDIVERSE, BUT ALL OF US ARE IN THIS TOGETHER.
AND SO WE CAN LOOK AT THINGS LIKE S HOLIDAYS AND HU AND VARIOUS MONTHLY PROCLAMATIONS THAT WE'LL DISCUSS A LITTLE BIT LATER IN THE MEETING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE INCLUDING ALL ASPECTS OF HU COMMUNITY.
SO, ANY QUESTIONS ON KIND OF THE REVIEW OF THE, OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN? I HAVE A QUESTION UNDER NUMBER TWO.
UM, THE, UM, PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT, THE, CAN YOU GIVE A, GIVE US AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT A, A LISTENING POST IS? LISTENING POSTS? YEAH.
A LISTENING POST WOULD SAY, OKAY, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A COUPLE OF, YOU KNOW, SAY, UH, UH, COMMISSION MEMBERS AND WE JUST WANT TO HEAR FROM, YOU KNOW, CITIZENS ON HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT A CERTAIN ISSUE IN THE CITY.
OR MAYBE SAYING, WE WANNA BRING, UH, OUR MUSLIM AND ARAB CITIZENS TOGETHER AND JUST LISTEN TO WHAT YOUR EXPERIENCES ARE.
AND A LISTENING POST IS MORE TO GIVE PEOPLE A VOICE, JUST TO SHARE THEIR PERSPECTIVE, WHERE YOU REALLY DON'T HAVE TO SAY TOO MUCH OR SOLVE ISSUES, BUT YOU'RE PROVIDING A SPACE FOR CITIZENS JUST TO SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCE OF WHAT IT'S LIKE LIVING IN HUDU.
AND WHAT ARE SOME OF THE PLACES OR SOME OF THE, THE, THE WAYS THAT, UH, OR MEDIA THAT WE COULD USE FOR LISTENING POSTS OR OH, RIGHT.
YOU COULD DO THOSE LIKE IN PERSON.
BUT I, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
'CAUSE YOU COULD ALSO, YOU KNOW, SET UP SOME VIRTUAL MEETINGS.
YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE MIGHT NOT BE MOBILE.
UH, THEY MIGHT, YOU KNOW, FEEL THAT IT'S EASIER FOR THEM TO SHARE ONLINE.
SO MAYBE A COM, YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU CAN HAVE A COUPLE IN THE LIBRARY, YOU KNOW, MAYBE ON A NICE DAY YOU CAN DO ONE IN A PARK, UH, YOU KNOW, HAVE IT, YOU HAVE ONE THERE AT THE CITY COUNCIL, UH, BUILDING.
UH, BUT THAT'S WHERE THAT COMMUNICATIONS CAN ALSO HELP IN TERMS OF WHAT ARE THE VARIOUS VENUES WHERE WE CAN DO THIS.
BECAUSE WE'RE GOING, LIKE, GOING IN DIFFERENT PLACES, WE'RE REACHING DIFFERENT POCKETS.
SO THE, UH, SO THESE ARE PROPOSED SERVICES THAT I, UH, MADE THAT GOT GOT, UH, THAT ARE NOW BUDGETED.
SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO, TO WORKING, UH, YOU KNOW, WITH HURO.
UH, AND ACTUALLY I KIND OF, I HAVE ANNOUNCED THAT I'M REALLY OFFICIALLY RETIRING
BUT, SO I DON'T WANT ANYBODY THE PANIC.
UH, SO THE FIRST ONE IS TO BUILD THE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN AND A MEASUREMENT SCORECARD, BECAUSE THAT BASICALLY FOCUSES ON PRIORITY AREA ONE, WHICH IS ESTABLISHING THAT ONGOING SUSTAINABLE STRUCTURE.
AND WHAT I WANNA DO IS HAVE, AND WE WILL DISCUSS THIS LATER IN THE NEXT STEPS, WE'LL LOOK AT DIFFERENT OPTIONS OF DATES AND HOW TO DO THIS.
THAT'S WHAT WE'LL DO AT THE VERY END OF THIS SESSION.
BUT HAVE AN IN-DEPTH WORKING SESSION WITH THE COMMISSION TO ACTUALLY BUILD THE 2025 ACTION PLAN AND MAYBE LOOK AT DOING THAT STARTING IN FEBRUARY AND CONTINUING TO MARCH.
THEN FROM THERE, I WILL TAKE THE LEAD IN DEVELOPING A MEASUREMENT SCORECARD FRAMEWORK, AND I'LL SHOW YOU AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE ON THE NEXT SLIDE.
AND ALSO, PART OF THIS WORK IS A DEFINE AND PROPOSE AN INITIAL
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SET OF WORKING IN ADVISORY GROUPS.AND THAT'S A LOT OF THE WORK THAT I WOULD DO IS WORK WITH YOU TO SAY, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE MAYBE FOUR OR FIVE ADVISORY GROUPS THAT WE THINK SHOULD START WITH, OR EVEN THREE, MAYBE VETERANS, UH, YOUTH AND SENIOR CITIZENS, OR, YOU KNOW, AFRICAN AMERICAN, UH, HISPANIC, YOU KNOW, WE CAN DECIDE, UH, WHAT WORKING IN ADVISORY GROUP WE MIGHT WANNA START WITH, UH, AND KIND OF DEFINE WHAT THESE DO.
AND OUR NEXT STEP IS GONNA BE, WE DISCUSS, WE GET TO THE ACTIONS, IS SETTING A DATE OR DATES FOR THAT WORKING SESSION SO THAT WE CAN ROLL UP OUR SLEEVES AND BUILD THAT PLAN.
AND I WOULD DO A LOT OF THE WORK AHEAD OF TIME SO THAT WE'RE NOT REALLY STARTING WITH A BLANK SHEET, BUT I'LL, LIKE, BRING IDEAS AND KIND OF A PROPOSED FRAMEWORK TO START WITH.
AND WE ALL WILL JUST WORK TOGETHER TO BUILD THAT PLAN.
THIS IS FROM THE CITY OF IRVINE, CALIFORNIA.
AND WHAT THEY DID IS THEY KIND OF SET, YOU KNOW, THEY LIST THEIR GOALS AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS OUR STRATEGY OR ACTION? WHO'S RESPONSIBLE? AND THEN HOW ARE WE GONNA MEASURE, YOU KNOW, THAT WE'RE, YOU KNOW, UH, MAKING THAT GOAL.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, GOAL, YOU KNOW, GOAL ONE WAS, IS TO BUILD THIS, UH, IS TO BUILD A, UH, ONGOING SUSTAINABLE STRUCTURE.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE COULD HAVE, YOU KNOW, GOALS OF, YOU KNOW, UH, KICKING OFF, FORMING AND KICKING OFF FIRST THREE ADVISORY GROUPS, UH, ESTABLISHING A CORE, UH, SCORECARD ITSELF.
WE COULD ESTABLISH, UH, YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT WE CAN SAY, OKAY, THIS IS HOW WE'RE GONNA EXECUTE IT, AND THIS IS HOW WE'RE GONNA MEASURE THAT.
UH, NUMBER AREA TWO WORKS ON PROPOSED SERVICE.
TWO IS WORKING WITH PRIORITY AREA THREE, WHICH IS WORKING WITH CITY MANAGER AND CITY STAFF.
UH, AND THAT IS WORKING WITH THE CITY MANAGER AND HIS FUNCTIONAL LEADS, LIKE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THE EIGHT OR 10 KEY PEOPLE WHO LEAD THE KEY FUNCTIONS, UH, TO, TO BRING THEM ALONG THE DEIB JOURNEY AND MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE ADDING DEIB ELEMENTS TO THEIR OWN PLANS THAT THEY'RE DOING IN THEIR AREA.
AND SO THE ELEMENTS ARE, I'VE DONE THIS WITH SEVERAL CLIENTS, IS HAVING AN IN-PERSON SESSION WITH THE CITY MANAGER AND THEIR KEY FUNCTIONAL LEADS THAT TAKE THEM THROUGH A-D-E-I-B JOURNEY FOR SENIOR LEADERS.
AND I ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, HAVE THAT IN DETAIL IN THE PROPOSAL.
AND I DON'T MIND IF, UH, IF IF JACQUELINE, YOU KNOW, SHARES, UH, THE DETAILS OF THE PROPOSAL, BUT I TAKE THEM THROUGH, YOU KNOW, THE FOUNDATIONS OF DEIB AND THE BUSINESS CASE, WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? TALK ABOUT THEIR OWN VISION, UH, FOR DEIB, HAVING EACH PERSON UNDERSTAND THEIR OWN INTERSECTIONALITY, THEIR OWN INTERSECTIONAL IDENTITY AND DIVERSITY, AND HOW IT IMPACTS, YOU KNOW, HOW THEY APPROACH THEIR WORK.
UH, YOU KNOW, DOING AN OVERVIEW OF UNCONSCIOUS BIAS, WHICH CAN OFTEN BE THE BIGGEST ROADBLOCK TO EFFECTIVE DEIB EXECUTION.
UH, AND THEN, UH, GOING INTO HOW THEY CAN BE AN INCLUSIVE LEADER, TALKING ABOUT ELEMENTS OF AN INCLUSIVE LEADER, WHAT MAKES AN INCLUSIVE LEADER AND INCLUSIVE MANAGER.
AND THEN, AND THEN GETTING THEM STARTED ON BUILDING THEIR OWN ACTION PLANS.
YOU KNOW, HOW, HOW, YOU KNOW, HOW DOES DIB IMPACT PARK AND RECRE RECREATIONS PLAN, UH, THE PUBLIC WORKS PLAN, THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN, EACH FUNCTIONAL MANAGER, YOU KNOW, THE, UH, THE, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT PLAN, EACH FUNCTIONAL MANAGER THEN SHOULD BE PUTTING ACTION PLANS TOGETHER ON, YOU KNOW, WHAT, AND IMPORTANTLY, HR TOO, IN TERMS OF LIKE RECRUITING, HOW DOES DEIB IMPACT THE AREA? AND, YOU KNOW, I'M GONNA BE SUGGESTING, UH, DOING IT LIKE MARCH 18TH AND 19TH WOULD BE IDEAL, MARCH 18TH AND OR 19TH, BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE, UH, OVERLAPPING THE SAME TIME WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR NEXT E EVENING MEAL, EVENING MEETING.
AND WE CAN GET A LOT DONE, UH, YOU KNOW, WORKING, I CAN WORK AT DAY DAYTIME WITH THE CITY STAFF, MAYBE IN THE EVENINGS, UH, WITH YOU ALL.
HOW, HOW LONG IS THAT COMMITMENT? UH, THAT, WOULD IT BE TWO, LIKE FOUR HOUR BLOCKS OR ACT? ACTUALLY IT IS, LET ME SAY, WHEN I PUT THE PROPOSAL, SIX HOURS.
SO YOU CAN DO IT LIKE IN ONE DAY OR YOU CAN SPLIT IT INTO, YOU KNOW, TWO, THREE HOUR CHUNKS.
AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, WE CAN BE VERY FLEXIBLE.
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YOU KNOW, WE MIGHT SAY, YOU KNOW, MAYBE DO THE FIRST THREE HOURS VIRTUALLY A WEEK OR TWO BEFORE I COME AND DO THE SECOND THREE HOURS IN PERSON.SO WE CAN BE REAL FLEXIBLE IN TERMS OF DOING, YOU KNOW, PART VIRTUAL OR PART IN PERSON.
OR WE CAN DO ONE WHOLE SIX HOUR DAY IN PERSON, OR WE CAN DO LIKE TWO, THREE HOUR, UH, DAYS BACK, BACK TO BACK.
AND THIS IS AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE THAT, YOU KNOW, DEIV IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT AREA THAT, YOU KNOW, THE CITY LEADERS, YOU KNOW, THE CITY EMPLOYEE, THE, THE, THE LEADERS HAVE TO HAVE SOME TIME IN THIS.
UH, AND THEN PROPOSE AREA THREE KIND OF FOLLOWS ON WITH THE STAFF.
I'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK, UH, WITH MANY CLIENTS ON INCLUSIVE RECRUITING.
UH, AND, UH, I BASICALLY HAVE THAT WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, PART OF PRIORITY AREA THREE, ASSURING DEIB ENGAGEMENT IN ALL INTERNAL CITY PROCESSES.
I DO A FOUR HOUR IN-DEPTH SESSION WITH A SMALL HANDFUL OF PEOPLE WHO OWN THE RECRUITING STRATEGY AND PROCESS, BECAUSE I HAVE TO TAKE THEM THROUGH A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, HOW TO BUILD STRATEGIC RECRUITING PLAN.
UH, AND IT'S A LOT MORE IN DEPTH.
AND THEN I HAVE A TWO HOUR SESSION THAT'S FOR ALL MANAGERS OR ANYBODY INVOLVED IN ANY ASPECT OF RECRUITING AND HIRING.
SO, UH, YOU KNOW, AND IT, IT REALLY COVERS, YOU KNOW, HOW TO MITIGATE YOUR OWN UNCONSCIOUS BIAS WHEN YOU'RE DOING INTERVIEWS, HOW TO BE OBJECTIVE, UH, AND, UH, SO TAKES 'EM THROUGH, YOU KNOW, THAT JOURNEY SO THAT THEY CAN BE, UH, FULLY OPEN-MINDED, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY, WHEN THEY INTERVIEW CANDIDATES AND MAKE HIRING DECISIONS.
AND THAT SHOULD BE FOLLOWING THE MARCH SENIOR LEADER SESSION.
IT'S GONNA HAPPEN POSSIBLY LIKE IN APRIL OR JUNE.
I'M GONNA BE, UH, TAKING MOST MAY OFF.
SO WE CAN SCHEDULE THIS MAYBE IN APRIL OR JUNE.
AND AGAIN, THIS CAN BE VIRTUAL OR IN PERSON, UH, PRIORITY AREA FOUR IS HAVING A SHORT, UH, TWO TO THREE HOUR TRAINING SESSIONS FOR ANY OF THESE NEW WORKING OR ADVISORY GROUPS SET UP.
AND THIS REALLY OVERLAPS WITH, YOU KNOW, PRIORITY AREA ONE OF BUILDING THAT ONGOING SUSTAINABLE STRUCTURE.
UH, IT ALSO, UH, SUPPORTS AREA TWO, WHICH IS ASSURING FULL PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IN THE DEIB WORK, BECAUSE SETTING UP THESE WORKING GROUPS AND THESE ADVISORY GROUPS, GET MORE PEOPLE ENGAGED IN THIS PROCESS AND GET MORE OF THE CITIZENS' VOICE.
AND THEN OF COURSE, IT'S PRIORITY AREA FIVE, WHICH IS GROWING A CULTURE OF COMMUNITY INCLUSION BELONGING THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU GET MORE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THIS DISCUSSION IN THE WORK.
AND IT'S NOT, OH GOSH, THERE'S ONLY THESE SEVEN PEOPLE CALLED THE DEIP COMMISSION, AND THAT'S THE ONLY PEOPLE WORKING ON DIVERSITY.
IT, YOU KNOW, IT STARTS INCLUDING EVERYBODY.
AND PROBABLY THE TRAINING WOULD BE 70%, UH, A SIMILAR BASE FOR ANY WORKING GROUP AND MAYBE 30% CUSTOMIZED FOR THE PARTICULAR GROUP BECAUSE LIKE MAYBE, UH, YOU KNOW, A PEOPLE OF COLOR WORKING GROUP, YOU KNOW, WOULD HAVE SOMEWHAT OF A DIFFERENT FUNCTION THAN SAY A YOUTH ADVISORY GROUP.
AND THESE CAN BE OFFERED ON AN AS NEEDED BASIS.
AND SO THE NEXT, YEAH, SORRY, I HAVE, I HAVE A QUESTION BEFORE WE MOVE ON FROM HERE.
SO THE WORKING GROUPS HAVE BEEN ME FIRST OF A, A, A VERY DEEP INTEREST TO ME.
AND I HAVE ALREADY, UM, TALKED TO A COUPLE OF PEOPLE IN MY COMMUNITY ABOUT POSSIBLY BEING A PART OF IT.
SO SOME PLANTING SOME SEEDS IN THE COMMUNITY WITH, YOU KNOW, REALLY COOL PEOPLE THAT I'VE BEEN MEETING.
AND THERE'S A LOT OF INTEREST IN THIS.
SO I JUST WANNA BE CLEAR THAT THESE, THESE WORKING GROUPS ARE GOING TO BE MORE FUNCTIONAL.
LIKE THE WAY THAT I THINK WE, WE TALKED ABOUT IT, UM, A FEW MONTHS AGO, WAS THAT THEY ARE THERE TO IMPLEMENT THE SOLUTIONS OR ARE THEY PURELY ADVISORY BECAUSE THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEY'RE JUST GOING TO BE FURTHER ADVISING OR BRINGING BACK INFORMATION, OR IS THERE FUNCTION TO IMPLEMENT FOR THE SOLUTIONS, LIKE ORGANIZING ANY EVENT THAT HIGHLIGHTS DIVERSITY? I MEAN, CAN YOU CLARIFY THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE? I THINK, I THINK IT'S A, SHOULD BE A STRONG COMBINATION OF BOTH.
UH, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, YOU, UH, 'CAUSE BECAUSE THE ONE THING IS THE ADVISORY PART OF IT IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY CAN SHARE PERSPECTIVES THAT YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE THOUGHT OF AND PEOPLE, A VOICE AND THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU ALL AS THE DEIB COMMISSION, YOU KNOW, SHOULD BE LIKE, UH, YOU KNOW, WANTING EXPERTISE FROM VARIOUS GROUPS, BUT THEN ALSO ENGAGING THEM, HOLDING EVENTS.
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YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, THEY COULD BE THE ONES THAT WOULD HELP SPONSOR AND ORGANIZE LISTENING POST, YOU KNOW, FOR THEIR PART OF THE COMMUNITY, UH, OR, YOU KNOW, HELPING WITH A CELEBRATION, ONE OF THE CELEBRATION DAYS.AND SO I THINK IT'S FAIR, UH, YOU KNOW, TO GET THEM INVOLVED IN DOING THINGS.
UH, BUT CAUSE THEIR ADVISORY GROUPS AND VOLUNTEERS, YOU CAN'T BE LIKE TOO HEAVY HANDED AND LIKE EXPECT THEM TO DO A WHOLE, WHOLE LOT OF FUNCTIONAL THINGS.
AND FOR THE TIMEFRAME ON THIS ONE, I KNOW THERE, THERE'S NO DATE ON THERE, BUT IT'S PROBABLY BECAUSE WE JUST HAVE TO SEE ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW IT GOES AS FAR AS, UH, HOW THAT MOVES ALONG AND, AND GETTING THIS IN PLACE.
IT'S JUST LIKE MAYBE TOWARDS THE FALL, KIND OF.
WE, WELL, THE, ACTUALLY THE, THE THING THAT HAPPENS IN THE FEBRUARY AND MARCH IS FOR US TO, UH, YOU KNOW, KIND OF COME UP WITH OUR INITIAL LIST OF, OF WORKING GROUPS, UH, AND ADVISORY GROUPS AND DEFINE THEIR MISSION AND WRITE IT UP.
AND OF COURSE, AFTER, YOU KNOW, THE MEETING, I WOULD DO A LOT OF THE WORK AND ACTUALLY WRITING IT UP, YOU KNOW, THAT WOULD BE PART OF MY JOB AS A CONSULTANT, THAT THAT'S PART OF OUR FEBRUARY AND MARCH WORK.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, AFTER WE DEFINE WHAT THESE GROUPS ARE, UH, THEN WE CAN, YOU KNOW, START THE RECRUITING, YOU KNOW, IT'S MAYBE EVEN IN APRIL OR MAY.
SO, AND THAT CAN BE ALSO PART OF THAT SCORECARD.
WE CAN DETERMINE, YOU KNOW, HOW WE WANNA STAGE THE VARIOUS THINGS THAT WE'RE GONNA DO.
AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO WE WANNA DO SECOND QUARTER, THIRD QUARTER, AND FOURTH QUARTER OKAY.
AND HELP THEM DEFINE WHAT THEY'RE GONNA, ONE GROUP'S GONNA BE DOING.
AND I HAVE OTHER POSSIBLE SERVICES.
HEY, YOU KNOW, IF YOU WANT, UH, YOU KNOW, IF, IF, UH, THE CITY WANTS THESE THINGS IN THE FUTURE, JUST ASK ME FOR A PROPOSAL.
BUT, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF BEST PRACTICES IS, UH, YOU KNOW, FORMING A-D-E-I-B COUNCIL OF CITY EMPLOYEES, UH, YOU KNOW, MANY, MANY COMPANIES, COUNTIES, YOU KNOW, HAVE WHAT THEY CALL DEIB, COUNCILS OF EMPLOYEES THAT HELP INFORM THE CITY LEADERS, YOU KNOW, OF THE NEEDS OF THE EMPLOYEES.
UH, SETTING UP MAYBE A CITY OF HUDU EMPLOYEE RESOURCE GROUPS, UH, WORKING WITH THE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR TO BUILD A COMMUNICATIONS PACKAGE ON, YOU KNOW, HOW TO REALLY SHARE THE DEIB STRATEGIC PLAN MORE WIDELY AND MAYBE A PROCESS FOR, YOU KNOW, REALLY GETTING THIS WORD OUT ON AN ONGOING BASIS TO THE CITY OF PATIO RESIDENTS.
AND THEN ALSO I HAVE A WIDE VARIETY OF WORKSHOPS AND TRAININGS ON, ON UNCONSCIOUS BIAS, DIVERSITY OF LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATIONS, INCLUSIVE LEADERSHIP, LGBTQ PLUS, UH, ALLYSHIP AND BEING AN ALLY.
I CAN ALWAYS SHARE, YOU KNOW, MY COMPLETE CUR, I THINK I'VE MAYBE SHARED IT WITH, UH, IRENE, UH, IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, ALL THE VARIOUS, UH, WORKSHOPS THAT I HAVE IN THE WEBPAGE.
AND HERE'S OUR NEXT STEPS, AND THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.
I'M GONNA START IT BY SAYING THAT, UH, EACH OF YOU, EACH OF YOU SEVEN, YOU KNOW, NEED TO BE FULLY ENGAGED AND CONTRIBUTING TO THE WORK.
AND THIS IS A SLIDE THAT I USE WHEN I DO ALL ANY KIND OF COUNSELOR COMMISSION TRAINING, BUT I'VE MODIFIED IT A LITTLE BIT FOR HUDU.
SO BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, EACH OF YOU SEVEN, YOU KNOW, THAT YOU SHOULD BE A CHAMPION OF DIVERSITY AND TALKING ABOUT DEIB WITHIN YOUR VARIOUS FEARS OF INFLUENCE IN HUDU.
YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE INVOLVED IN OTHER EFFORTS AND OTHER GROUPS WITH YOUR FRIENDS AT YOUR BUSINESS, AT YOUR SCHOOL THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN TALK THIS UP, YOU KNOW, IN ALL THE PLACES WHERE YOU CIRCULATE THAT YOU NEED TO ENCOURAGE AND SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER.
THEN ALSO PICK AWAY OR TWO WHERE YOU CAN MAKE A SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE WORK.
AND THINK ABOUT WHAT SKILLS DO YOU HAVE THAT YOU'RE BRINGING TO THE TABLE.
AND ALSO WHAT THINGS ARE YOU PASSIONATE ABOUT.
YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU KNOW, AS WE START TALKING ABOUT FORMING THESE CITIZEN WORKING GROUPS, YOU KNOW, IS THERE ONE THAT REALLY EXCITES YOU THAT YOU CAN RAISE YOUR HAND AND SAY, YOU KNOW, I'LL HELP ESTABLISH THAT ONE AND I'LL BE THE COMMISSION LIAISON TO THAT PARTICULAR WORKING GROUP.
OR, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN READ THROUGH THE STRATEGIC PLAN AND THE FIVE PRIORITY AREAS AND SAY, WOW, THERE'S LIKE A COUPLE OF ELEMENTS, SOME OF THESE PRIORITY AREAS THAT REALLY EXCITE ME AND THIS IS SOMETHING I WANT TO REALLY, MAYBE I CAN BE THE, THE LEAD
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PERSON ON THE COMMISSION TO DO THAT.UH, OF COURSE, FAITHFUL AND REGULAR IN YOUR ATTENDANCE, AND ALSO LOOK FOR OTHERS TO ENGAGE IN THIS WORK.
AND YOU'VE ALREADY, AND ONE OF, YOU'VE ALREADY SPOKEN ABOUT THAT YOU'VE ALREADY BEEN TALKING WITH PEOPLE, GETTING INTERESTED IN GETTING INVOLVED IN THESE WORKING GROUPS THAT, YOU KNOW, CAN HELP RECRUIT AND GET PEOPLE, UH, YOU KNOW, INVOLVED.
SO, YOU KNOW, THIS THE, THE PERSONAL CHARGE TO EACH OF YOU.
SO IDEALLY, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, WE NEED ABOUT FOUR HOURS OF A WORKING SESSION TO BUILD THE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN AND THE MEASUREMENT SCORECARD.
AND SOME OF OUR OPTIONS ARE, YOU KNOW, TWO CONSECUTIVE EVENINGS, LIKE, YOU KNOW, LIKE MAYBE TWO.
WE COULD LIKE MAYBE DO AN HOUR ON THE MARCH 18TH MEETING ON THAT TUESDAY, MARCH 18TH, AND THEN MAYBE DO ANOTHER THREE HOURS OR TWO AND A HALF HOURS ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT THE 19TH.
OR WE COULD ALL, OR WE COULD DO THE 17TH AND 18TH OR, YOU KNOW, WE CAN DO A FOUR HOUR WEEKEND SLOT LIKE IN LATE FEBRUARY OR MARCH.
BUT I KNOW, YOU KNOW, MANY PEOPLE, WEEKENDS ARE FAMILY TIME.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, SOME OF YOU MIGHT FEEL, NAH, THAT'S NOT A GOOD IDEA, BUT YOU MIGHT THINK, HEY, LET'S TAKE, LET'S TAKE FOUR HOURS ON A SATURDAY AND DO THIS.
UH, OR WE CAN DO, YOU KNOW, A, A ONE DAY SESSION THAT STARTS LIKE LATE MID-AFTERNOON AND GOES TO LIKE EIGHT, EIGHT OR NINE O'CLOCK, UH, AND BRING IN A WORKING DINNER.
SO WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, A COUPLE OF GOOD OPTIONS, BUT NO MATTER WHAT OPTION IS SELECTED, UH, I WILL PRESENT SOME INITIAL THOUGHTS AND STRUCTURE, UH, YOU KNOW, VIRTUALLY AT YOUR FEBRUARY 18TH MEETING.
SO, YOU KNOW, WHAT I'LL DO IS, UH, KIND OF SAY, THIS IS OUR AGENDA FOR OUR FOUR HOURS TOGETHER AND MAKE SURE THAT IT'S VERY STRUCTURED AND KIND OF GET SOME OF THE WORK AND STRUCTURE GOING SO THAT WE CAN REALLY HIT THE GROUND RUNNING, UH, WHEN WE MEET IN PERSON.
SO THIS ONE, THIS ONE IS JUST FOR US THEN, RIGHT? RIGHT.
JUST AS A NOTE THAT MARCH 18TH IS ALREADY A SCHEDULED, UM, OH, OKAY.
THAT'S, THAT IS DURING SPRING BREAK AS WELL.
I MEAN, DURING THE WEEK OF HUDDLE, SPRING BREAK, THAT'S HUDDLE, SPRING BREAK, RIGHT.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT AFFECTS YOU GUYS GET OUT.
UM, WE, WE CAN, CAN WE PARTICIPATE VIRTUALLY IF WE ARE SOMEWHERE ELSE FOR SPRING BREAK ON THIS KIND OF MEETING AS A COMMISSIONER? NO, NO, NO MORE.
THAT WAS, UH, ERADICATED THE VOTING COMMISSIONER.
YEAH, I, UM, I, I LIKE THE TWO SHORTER EVENINGS, UM, TWO CONSECUTIVE EVENINGS.
BUT THOUGH THAT WEEK MIGHT BE COMPLICATED FOR IF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE TAKING, UH, OUT OF TRIP, OUT OF TOWN TRIPS.
UM, BUT I KNOW IT'S TOO SOON FOR EVERYBODY TO BE ABLE TO SAY WHAT THEIR PLAN IS.
PROBABLY FOR THOSE DAYS, THIS WE CAN, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, ANOTHER OBJECT IS SAY, YOU KNOW, MAYBE MOVE THOSE MEETINGS LIKE, YOU KNOW, TO MARCH TO MARCH, UH, 11TH AND 12TH OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
THE WEEK BEFORE THAT WOULD BE, THAT WOULD BE THE WEEK BEFORE, YEAH.
THAT'S PROBABLY, IF THAT'S A, DOES THAT SOUND BETTER FOR EVERYONE? YES.
MARCH 18TH, MID MEETING AS WELL.
IS THERE A PREFERENCE ON, UM, WOULD Y'ALL WANT TO BREAK IT UP EXACTLY INTO TWO HOURS? WELL, WE COULD DO, LIKE, THE THING IS, IS, UH, YOU KNOW, HOW MUCH REGULAR BUSINESS DO YOU NEED TO DO, LIKE ON THE MARCH 11TH REGULAR MEETING, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT COULD BE, YOU KNOW, AN HOUR, MAYBE AN HOUR OF THAT MEETING, AND THEN TWO AND A HALF HOURS THE NEXT HOUR, AN HOUR AND A HALF, AND THEN TWO AND A HALF HOURS.
BECAUSE I KNOW YOU, YOU MIGHT HAVE SOME, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE BIT OF REGULAR BUSINESS TO DO, UH, INSTEAD OF ME HIJACKING THE ENTIRE MEETING,
YEAH, WE CAN FIT IN AND WE CAN PLAN GOING UP TO IT, BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT'S COMING UP ON THE 11TH, THEN THE EIGHTH, UM, I FORGOT MY MONTH, THE PROCEEDING MEETING, WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE, UM, NOT LEAVING TOO MUCH FOR THE, FOR THE MARCH 11TH MEETING.
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SO KEEPING THE MARCH 11TH MEETING AS A REGULAR SCHEDULED MEETING, THAT WHERE WE WOULD POST AN AGENDA AND ALL OF THAT, AND THEN FOLLOWING THAT WOULD BE STANDS TWO HOUR BLOCK, OR WOULD THAT BE PART OF THE MEETING AGENDA? NO, ALL OF THEM.SO WE WOULD HAVE A MEETING AGENDA, AND THEN ONCE THAT'S FINISHED, WE WOULD HAVE, NOW WE DO STILL HAVE TO POST THAT AS A RIGHT POSSIBLE FORM.
UM, SO BUT YOU DON'T WANT IT BE PART OF THE AGENDA YOU WANT AS A SUBJECT, JUST WORK SESSION OR SOMETHING? YEAH.
SO YOU CAN HAVE LIKE A, YOU KNOW, THE LIKE A 30 MINUTE MEETING AND THEN, YOU KNOW, AN HOUR AND A HALF WORK SESSION AND THEN DO THE NEXT TWO, THEN TWO HOURS, TWO OR TWO AND A HALF HOURS THE NEXT DAY.
SO RESCHEDULING, SO SORRY, LEMME GET THIS STRAIGHT.
SO MARCH 18TH IS THE REGULAR SCHEDULED MEETING.
SO THE COMMISSION IS PROPOSING TO RESCHEDULE THE MARCH 18TH REGULAR MEETING FOR MARCH 11TH, AND THEN AFTER THAT MEETING ON MARCH 11TH, TWO HOUR SESSION WITH STAND, AND THEN ON THE 12TH, THE, THE REMAINING TWO HOUR SESSION WITH STAND.
SO WE WOULD NEED A MOTION TO MOVE THE DATE TO, FOR THAT I MAKE A MOTION, WE MOVE OUR MARCH MEETING DATE FROM THE 18TH TO THE 11TH.
YOU WANT
NOW, THE RAMIFICATIONS THAT THIS HAS IS MODIFYING THAT, UH, I DUNNO WHO, IF IT'LL BE, UM, CHRISTIE OR IF I SHOULD TRY TO CONNECT WITH, WITH IRENE.
UH, BUT YOU KNOW, WE, I WOULD WANNA THEN SEE IF I'M GONNA BE THERE ON THE 11TH AND 12TH.
WE CAN ALSO SCHEDULE, UH, SENIOR LEADERSHIP, UH, TRAINING DURING THOSE DAYS.
YEAH, STAN, UM, PROBABLY, UH, MAYBE TOMORROW OR THE NEXT DAY I CAN SCHEDULE SOME TIME TO CHAT WITH YOU ABOUT MAYBE A, A STRATEGIC WAY BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF MOVING PIECES AND I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT PEOPLE AT THE TABLE FOR THAT.
SO I'M HAPPY TO, TO DISCUSS THAT FURTHER WITH YOU, LIKE TOMORROW IF THAT'S POSSIBLE.
THAT'S WEDNESDAY, 1 32, 2 40, LIKE ONE I'M FREE, LIKE 1 45 TO FOUR 30 YOUR TIME.
I'LL, UM, I'LL SEND YOU A FOLLOW UP EMAIL WITH, UH, TO CONFIRM THAT TIME WITH YOU AND, AND REACH OUT THEN.
GOOD PICK UP, PICK ANY TIME BETWEEN 1 45 AND FOUR 30 CENTRAL.
AND THEN MY LAST SLIDE, I TOOK THE PRESENTATION DOWN IS ANY QUESTIONS OR OPEN DISCUSSION THAT YOU HAVE ON THIS.
AND, UH, WHAT I'M GONNA DO IS I'LL ACTUALLY EARLY, EARLY TOMORROW MORNING, I'LL JUST GO AHEAD AND REVISE IT AND MAKE A FEW REVISIONS AND JUST PUT THE 11TH AND 12TH DATES IN THERE.
THEN I'LL SEND, I'LL SEND IT OUT TO YOU EARLY.
YOU'LL, YOU'LL GET IT, UH, JACQUELINE AND UH, CHRISTIE, YOU'LL GET IT EVEN BEFORE YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING BECAUSE I'M ON EAST COAST.
I'M ON EAST COAST TIME AND I START MY DAY AT SIX 30.
AND THAT'S, AND THAT'S EASTERN TIME, SO THAT'S 5:30 AM YOUR TIME.
UM, ONE THING I WANTED TO MENTION, WHICH IS ACTUALLY EXCELLENT, IS THE STRATEGIC PLANNING MEETINGS THAT WE, THAT, UM, WE ALL, ALL COMMISSIONERS ARE INVITED AND I REALLY, I HOPE EVERYONE CAN ATTEND ON JANUARY 25TH.
AND THAT IS A FOLLOW UP LIKE WE HAD LAST YEAR.
WE HAD THE FIRST ONE AND IT WAS REALLY GOOD BECAUSE I THINK YEAH.
IT WAS ME AND TARA WERE THERE, AND THEN WE PRESENTED WHAT WE WERE STARTING TO LOOK AT.
SO WHAT THEY WANT US TO DO IS TO FOCUS ON WHAT WE ARE GOING TO BE DOING FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR.
SO WE'VE ALREADY HAD A LOT OF IT, BUT PART OF THAT MEETING WOULD BE TO, UM, SOLIDIFY WHAT WE WERE DOING AND THEN WE WOULD PRESENT IT TO THE COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO ARE PRESENT.
AND ONE THING I WANTED TO SUGGEST IS BECAUSE I WANT TO RESPECT PEOPLE'S TIME, LIKE YOU MENTIONED, FAMILY TIME AND SO FORTH, IS THAT WE HAVE A MEETING, A REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING FOR JANUARY 21ST.
THAT WOULD BE OUR DEIB MEETING.
SO I'M SUGGESTING THAT WE HOLD THAT
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MEETING ON THE 25TH OH, SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO DO TWO BEFORE OR AFTER THE, THE OTHER THING? NO, NO.SO WE WOULD JUST, WE WOULD JUST, WE WOULD JUST, UM, CHANGE THAT DATE TO THE 25TH, OUR REGULAR MEETING TILL THE 25TH, AND WE WOULD HAVE IT IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE STRATEGIC PLANNING, UM, MEETING FOR ALL BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? IT, DOES IT BE AN AGENDA ITEM OR IS IT GONNA BE SEPARATE? NO, IT WOULD BE, WHAT DO YOU MEAN? SO I'LL HAVE TO ASK, I'LL HAVE TO GET THE CITY SECRETARY'S OFFICE BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW IF THIS WOULD BE A MEETING CANCELLATION BECAUSE THEY'RE POSTING FOR THAT WHOLE THING AS A SEPARATE PIECE.
BUT I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE TO SEPARATELY CALL OUT THIS COMMISSION AND REPLACE THE, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? IT'S KIND OF LIKE TECHNICAL.
SO I, ON MY END, I'LL, I'LL LOOK THAT UP AND SEE WHAT WE CAN DO.
BUT EITHER WAY YOU'RE SUGGESTING THAT THE, THE COMMISSION DOES NOT MEET ON THE 21ST.
RATHER, HOPEFULLY EVERYONE CAN MAKE IT ON THE 20, ON 20, 25TH.
SINCE WE ARE DOING OUR BUSINESS.
YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE, JACKIE.
WHAT TIME ON THE 25TH? I JUST, I THINK IT WAS, WAS IT NINE 30 TO 12? IT IS SATURDAY, NINE 12 I THINK IT WAS.
UM, NINE TO 12:00 PM IS IT GOING TO BE ME? IT IS AT COTTONWOOD FREAK ELEMENTARY.
AND I DID FORWARD Y'ALL THE INVITE.
IF SOMEONE DID NOT GET IT FOR SOME REASON, LET ME KNOW.
I WASN'T THE INITIATOR OF THE INVITE, SO I CAN'T SEE WHO ACCEPTED OR NOT SAID NINE TO 12:00 PM SATURDAY.
BUT I'M GONNA HAVE A MEETING AT EIGHT NOW.
SO DID ANYONE ELSE NOT RECEIVE IT OR NOT SURE THAT I CAN JUST RESEND IT TO YOU REAL QUICK, SEND IT TO ME JUST IN, BECAUSE I YEAH, I HAVE NOTICED IT BIT.
ONE, ONE THING THAT I LIKE ABOUT THIS, UH, WHAT I CALL ALL, ALL ALL COMMISSIONS MEETING YES.
IS THAT KIND OF YOU CAN DELIVERED THE SAME MESSAGE THAT WE'RE DELIVERING LIKE TO THE, YOU KNOW, THE CITY LEADERS THAT EACH OF THESE COMMISSIONS, YOU KNOW, SHOULD BE LOOKING AT THEIR WORK THROUGH A-D-E-I-B LENS ALSO THAT THE DEIB INITIATIVE WOULD OVERLAPS WITH EVERY SINGLE COMMISSION THAT'S OUT THERE.
AND THAT THE POINT YOU CAN MAKE IS THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT THEY'RE ALL ENGAGED IN THIS WORK ALSO.
THE, UM, SO WE, SO WE WOULD EFFECTIVELY JUST TO FILL IN THE PIECES, WE WOULD HAVE THE JANUARY, FEBRUARY, AND MARCH MONTHS COVERED WITH ME, OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETINGS.
UM, AS FAR AS CONTENT, OH, NOT WELL WHAT WE ARE, WHAT WE ARE ACTUALLY WORKING ON, BECAUSE WE HAVE FEBRUARY, NO, DON'T WE HAVE A PRESENTATION? WE HAVE A PRESENTATION IN FEBRUARY AND WE HAVE ONE IN JANUARY.
NO, WE WOULD, WE WOULD NOT HAVE ONE IN JANUARY.
WHEN IS THE PRESENTATION ON THE WEBSITE? THAT'S FEBRUARY.
WHAT'S THE DATE OF THAT? THE IT IS, UH, THAT IT WOULD BE THE SAME DATE AS ALWAYS AT THIRD 11TH.
UM, AND ALSO, UM, THE LIBRARY DIRECTOR REQUESTED TO, UM, COME AND GIVE A QUICK PRESENTATION TO Y'ALL ON THAT DATE.
IF THAT SEEMS LIKE TOO MUCH, I CAN ASK HER TO PUSH IT BACK TO THE SPRING.
I THINK SHE JUST WANTED TO PRESENT SOME UPCOMING PROGRAMS AND SOME THINGS THAT THEY'RE DOING IN THE LIBRARY.
UM, BUT I THINK WITH THE COMMUNICATIONS IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT TOO, TOO MUCH.
I'LL HAVE HER SHIFT BACK TO SPRING.
THAT MEETING ON THE 18TH IS GOING TO BE FOCUSED ON THE WEBSITE, LIKE WHAT OUR DEIB WEBSITE IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE AND WHAT IT'S, HOW IT'S GONNA FUNCTION.
WELL, IT WILL, IT WILL FOCUS ON COMMUNICATIONS, OVERALL COMMUNICATIONS AND HOW OUR COMMISSION FITS IN WITH THE COMMUNICATION PLAN FOR 2025.
SO, AND WE'LL INCLUDE WEBSITE.
SO, AND UH, AND THEN IN MARCH WE
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WOULD HAVE THE 11TH AND THE 12TH.OR OUR, I DID WANNA MENTION, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE LIBRARY, UM, WHEN WE WERE MEETING WITH THEM WITH
THEY DID, THEY WERE VERY IMPRESSIVE WITH ALL OF THE COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAMS THAT THEY DO TO ENSURE MORE PEOPLE HAVE ACCESS TO LIBRARY PROGRAMMING.
LIKE THEY REALLY GO BEYOND, YOU KNOW, RENTING OUT BOOKS AND MATERIALS MM-HMM
TO HAVING DIFFERENT WAYS TO REACH THE COMMUNITY THROUGH ARTS AND DIFFERENT POCKETS OF INTEREST.
UM, SO WE SHOULD DEFINITELY HEAR FROM THEM.
BUT THEY HAVE REALLY GREAT IDEAS.
THEY MAY NOT BE THE FEBRUARY 18 MEETING.
BUT SHE HAS SOME FABULOUS IDEAS ABOUT REACHING AND ENGAGING MORE YOUTH, SENIOR CI, SENIOR CITIZENS, AND DIFFERENT POCKETS OF THE COMMUNITY.
SO THEY'RE ALREADY DOING AMAZING, WHAT I CONSIDER AMAZING DEIB WORK.
THROUGH THE LIBRARY THAT I HAD NEVER, THE LIBRARY THAT I CAME FROM, THEY NEVER DID STUFF LIKE THAT.
THEY DIDN'T DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
SO IT WAS REALLY, REALLY NEAT.
MAYBE WE COULD HAVE THAT PRESENTATION IN APRIL.
UM, WE AT THE MARCH ONE, BECAUSE WE'RE GONNA BE DOING OUR YEAH.
MEETING MARCH 11TH AND 12TH MM-HMM
AND THEN YOU WERE GONNA TALK TO IRENE.
I REACHED OUT TO HER IN HER OFFICE.
SHE'S GONNA BE OUT, UM, OF POCKET, BUT I'LL, UM, FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME, SHE'S GONNA BE ON F IN OA, BUT, UM, OH, OKAY.
WELL, I'M ARRANGING, I'M TRYING TO GET SOMEONE FROM HER TEAM WHERE WE CAN AT LEAST GET, UM, THE CONVERSATION STARTED SO THAT THINGS CAN KEEP I HAD A QUESTION BECAUSE I MISSED SO MANY MEETINGS WHEN I WAS DOING A CU.
SO WE HAD TALKED ABOUT WORLD HIPPO DAY, WHICH IS, IS IT FEBRUARY 15TH? YES, FEBRUARY 15TH.
SO WE HAD TALKED ABOUT ONE WAY OF HAVING PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND AWARENESS OF OUR WORK.
ONE OF THE GREAT, ONE OF THE GOOD WAYS THAT WE HAD TALKED ABOUT WAS DURING WORLD HIPPO DAY, AND THE IDEA THAT WE HAD NOTED WAS TO, UM, FOR THE DIP COMMISSION, IT MAY NOT EVEN BE WORKING, BUT FOR US TO INITIATE A WAY FOR RECOGNIZE, UM, THE DIFFERENT DIVERSE CULTURES IN THE CITY OF PATO AND THE COMMUNITY TO PRESENT A HIPPO THAT WAS DECORATED, YOU KNOW, THROUGH OUR, REPRESENT THEIR CULTURE.
AND I PITCHED THAT IDEA TO OUR GROUP.
WE HAVE A, A, A HISPANIC LEADERSHIP GROUP THAT WE MEET WITH AND THEY LOVE THE IDEA.
SO THAT'S ONE WAY I WOULD WANNA MAKE SURE WE DON'T LOSE SIGHT OF THAT.
IT'S WHEN WOULD WE WORK ON THAT? WHAT WOULD THAT LOOK LIKE? IT SUCH A TIME CRUNCH WITH THE HOLIDAYS.
WOULD WE JUST PUT IT TOGETHER? LIKE WHAT IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN WORLD HIP DAY THIS YEAR? AND, UM, LET THE CITY, THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCE IT AS PART OF WORLD HIPPO DAY? OR WHAT WOULD, HOW DO WE, I WOULD DEFER TO CHRISTIE, IT WOULD PUT TOGETHER THE PLAN, LIKE WHAT, WHAT THE EVENT IS ESSENTIALLY INVITING THE COMMUNITY TO REP, DECORATE, OR CREATE OR DRAW OR DIGITIZE A HIPPO THAT REPRESENT THEIR CULTURE.
AND THEN WE WOULD SHOWCASE IT EITHER JUST CLEARLY SHOWCASE IT HERE AT CITY HALL DURING WHAT HIPPO DAY.
SO, UM, THE WORLD HIPPLE DAY, AS I UNDERSTAND IT, WILL LOOK DIFFERENT THAN YEARS PAST, IS NOW A PARKS DEPARTMENT EVENT.
AND I, I DO NOT KNOW HOW THAT EVENT WILL LOOK.
AND IT'S ALSO ON A SATURDAY THIS YEAR.
UM, BUT YES, IF THE COMMISSION, WHATEVER THE COMMISSION WANTS TO PUT TOGETHER AND TO SEND WE, OR WE CAN ALWAYS SEND TO THE COMMS TEAM AND JUST, UM, WHERE LIKE THINKING ABOUT JUST LOGISTICS, LIKE WHERE ARE PEOPLE SENDING THE ART TO? HOW IS THAT BEING COLLECTED? WHO'S COLLECTING IT, WHO'S REVIEWING IT? HOW IS IT BEING POSTED? LIKE ALL OF THOSE THINGS.
UM, SOMETHING TO OFFER TO THE COMMISSION, JUST BECAUSE I CAN SPEAK TO IT, IS THE DAY BEFORE ON VALENTINE'S DAY.
UM, YEAH, I APOLOGIZE CORINA, BECAUSE I DID PRESENT THIS A LITTLE BIT, BUT WE HAVE A COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS EVENT.
UM, IT'S KIND OF A NEWER, UM, UPGRADE TO THE HURO, UH, RESOURCE FAIR, BUT IT'S COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS RESOURCE FAIR.
WHERE, UM, WE'RE SPOTLIGHTING OUR NONPROFIT SERVICE ORGANIZATION AND RECRUITING VOLUNTEERS.
UM, BUT OF COURSE, Y'ALL ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO HAVE A SPACE, UM, THERE, IF THAT MAKES SENSE FOR WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO WITH IN CONJUNCTION WITH WORLD HIPPO DAY.
AND THAT WAS ON THE, ON THE 14TH, THE DAY BEFORE ON FRIDAY.
AND IT'LL BE IN THE GIN BUILDING.
AND WE'RE ABOUT, WE'RE ABOUT TO, WE'RE WAITING UNTIL AFTER THE HOLIDAY, BUT WE'RE ABOUT TO LAUNCH THE, THE MARKETING OF THAT SIDE OF THE HOUSE.
SO I CAN'T SPEAK TO WHAT THE PARKS DEPARTMENT IS DOING, BUT I CAN SPEAK TO THAT AND I DO HAVE A HAND IN HOW THAT, AND THEN WE COULD HAVE A SPACE THERE.
THAT'S ONE THINGS I THINK WE HAD TALKED ABOUT WE STRUGGLE WITH BEFORE, IS THAT PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW THAT THIS COMMISSION EXISTED, MUST UNDERSTAND THE WORK THAT WE WERE DOING.
UM, THAT MAKES IT REALLY DIFFICULT TO INTEGRATE WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO INTO THE COMMUNITY.
LIKE ACTUALLY PUT THINGS INTO PLACE IF OTHER PEOPLE AREN'T PICKING IT UP AND TAKING IT OUT INTO THEIR SPACES.
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UM, SO YES.ON, WAS IT CALLED RESOURCE DAY? NO, IT USED TO BE CALLED RESOURCE.
WHEREVER YOU LIVE IS THE THEME.
SO IF WE JUST ASK ANYONE THAT'S PARTICIPATING TO KIND OF USE THAT AS WHATEVER, THEY'RE GONNA STAND BEHIND.
AND IF YOU WANT, MAYBE THAT IS STILL KEEPING THE HIPPO IDEA THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT MM-HMM
BECAUSE IT'S STILL, I MEAN, AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S STILL HOW DO HIPPOS AND THAT'S A, THAT'S A WAY, UM, TO INCLUDE THAT.
WHAT DO YOU ALL THINK? I LIKE THAT IDEA THAT, YEAH.
I LIKE, AND I LIKE IDEA THE LOVE WHERE YOU LIVE,
I THINK IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, I THINK WE CAME UP WITH A FABULOUS IDEA.
I THINK IT WAS ACTUALLY DAN WHO KIND OF DEFINED IT FOR US.
LIKE, YOU SHOULD LOOK AT WORLD HIPPO DAY IF YOU'RE DOING THAT.
UM, YEAH, I THINK, YEAH, WE SENT, OF COURSE, SEND US THAT INFORMATION MM-HMM
ABOUT THE CONNECT COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS, AND THEN WE CONNECT WITH ARTS AND REC KIND AN IDEA OF WHAT THEIR PLAN IS OR HIPPO DAY AND SEE IF WE CAN INTEGRATE IT INTO THAT.
UM, NOW WE CAN STRATIFY IT BECAUSE MAKE IT STRICTER AND SAY IT'S ONLY GOING TO BE A DRAWING OR IT'S ONLY GOING TO BE, YOU KNOW, A DIGITAL ENTRY THAT THEY CAN SHOW.
BUT WE HAVE TO GET WITH THEM AND SEE WHAT THEIR PLAN IS ALREADY FOR WORLD HIPPO DAY.
SO YOU SAID THAT YOU'RE, UM, JUST GETTING BACK TO OUR SCHEDULING, UM, STAN, YOU'RE NOT GONNA BE AVAILABLE IN MAY.
YEAH, UH, ACTUALLY, BECAUSE I'M GONNA BE ON VACATION.
UH,
ARE YOU GOING ON A SAFARI? CAN WE, MAY WE ASK? ACTUALLY, IT'S, UH, THREE DAYS ON THE SAFARI.
AND THEN, UH, TAKING A CRUISE THAT GOES ALL THE WAY UP THE COAST OF AFRICA FROM SOUTH AFRICA ALL THE WAY UP TO, UH, NORTHWEST AFRICA, THEN THE
AND IT'LL STOP LIKE IN SIX DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, LIKE, YOU KNOW, YEAH.
ALONG, ALONG THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA.
IT'LL BE A GREAT OVERVIEW OF THE WHOLE CONTINENT ON, ON THE WESTERN SIDE.
UM, ONE QUESTION I WANTED TO ASK, SO WE KIND OF HAVE A SEMI OUTLINE.
WHAT DO YOU NEED IN TERMS OF, UH, SO HAVE YOU GOTTEN WHAT YOU NEED AS WE MOVE ALONG, STAN? YES, I DO.
AND WHAT I'M, ONE THING, THIS IS, AGAIN, IT'S A LITTLE WAY OUT, BUT I THINK WE JUST NEED TO HAVE, WHAT DO YOU CALL THOSE OLD POSTER THAT IS ONE OF YEAH.
ONE THING I WOULD ASK IS WHAT WE WERE THINKING ABOUT DOING, MAYBE IT, MAYBE IT WOULD BE IN JUNE OR THE JULY TIMEFRAME, UH, DAN HAD SUGGESTED AROUND THAT TIME, UH, IS THAT WE WOULD PRESENT TO THE CITY COUNCIL THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE DONE.
AND IT'S, I THINK IT FLOWS REALLY WELL.
LIKE IF WE'RE STARTING WITH JANUARY, WE'RE SAYING WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO, WE'RE DOING IT.
AND THEN AROUND JUNE, JULY TIMEFRAME, WE PRESENT TO THEM IN A WORKING SESSION.
THIS IS WHAT YOU APPROVED, THIS IS WHAT WE'VE DONE, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.
THEN THE NEXT TIME, NEXT MONTH, WE WOULD HAVE A PUBLIC PRESENTATION.
AND I WAS THINKING THAT WE COULD INVITE, YOU KNOW, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, YOU KNOW, OUR, YOU KNOW, WHOEVER'S IN THE WORKING GROUPS AND YOU KNOW, THEIR FAMILIES AND THAT TO THAT.
AND ALSO THINKING ABOUT THAT, THE BUDGET PROCESS.
WE MIGHT SAY, THIS IS WHAT WE'VE DONE, AND AT THAT TIME, THEN WE WOULD WANT TO HAVE A PROPOSAL FOR THE NEXT YEAR BUDGET.
AND THAT TIMING IS REALLY, REALLY GOOD BECAUSE WE WOULD'VE HAD, WE'VE, WE'VE HAD THE EXECUTION PLAN DONE, WE HAVE A SCORECARD AND WE CAN EVEN DO, HERE'S OUR SCORECARD FOR THE YEAR.
AND YOU CAN EVEN DO AN INTERIM.
AND SO FAR THESE ARE THINGS WE'VE ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED, YOU KNOW, AS PART OF OUR PLAN FOR THE YEAR, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE'LL HAVE THE, YOU KNOW, WE'LL HAVE THE PLAN BOOKED AND WE'LL HAVE A FEW MONTHS TO ACTUALLY GET SOME OF THE THINGS DONE.
WE CAN ACTUALLY SAY, YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHAT WE WANNA GET DONE IN SECOND QUARTER, THIRD QUARTER, AND FOURTH QUARTER.
AND ACTUALLY SHOW THAT PROGRESS HAS ALREADY STARTED.
AND THAT, AND YOU ARE RIGHT ABOUT THE BUDGET BECAUSE WE JUST BARELY GOT THE BUDGET IN.
AND THAT WAS ONE THING THAT WAS MISSING FROM PREVIOUS, YOU KNOW, TIMES THERE WAS REALLY,
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WE NEED TO HAVE THAT FINISHED BY JULY.WE HAVE IT SO WE CAN, AND YOU KNOW, IF WE HAVE TIME, YOU KNOW, AS WE'RE MOVING, UM, WITH OUR STRATEGIC PLANNING ON THE 25TH, YOU KNOW, WE CAN EVEN SAY, YOU KNOW, START THINKING ABOUT WHAT BUDGET ITEMS DO WE WANT TO, YOU KNOW, BUILD ON OR, YOU KNOW, CONTINUE OR ENHANCE.
AND I WAS ACTUALLY LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, YOUR BOARD OF COMMISSIONS AND I CAN SEE HOW, YOU KNOW, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND BELONGING OVERLAPS WITH ALMOST EVERYONE.
YOU KNOW, YOU CAN MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE LOOKING AT HISTORY THROUGH THE VARIOUS LENSES.
UH, 'CAUSE SOME MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES MIGHT HAVE A VERY DIFFERENT VIEW OF THE MAJORITY POPULATION WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF HATO AND MAKING SURE THAT YOU ARE, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT ALL THE DIVERSITY OF THE PEOPLE IN THE, IN VOTING, HISTORIC PRESERVATION, OF COURSE, THE LIBRARY ADVISORY BOARD, YOU KNOW, RESOURCES, MATERIALS THAT WILL RESONATE WITH A WIDE VARIETY OF DIVERSE CITIZENS THAT ARE GONNA BE USING THE LIBRARY, YOU KNOW, THE PARK AND, YOU KNOW, ADVISORY BOARD THAT YOU CAN GO THROUGH AND LIKE, LOOK AT EACH, YOU KNOW, ETHICS REVIEW, YOU KNOW, MAKING SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, THE ETHICS REVIEW, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE DONE, UH, YOU KNOW, FAIRLY, YOU KNOW, KEEPING IN MIND OFTEN, YOU KNOW, MARGINALIZED MINORITIES OFTEN ARE VIEWED, ARE SOMETIMES VIEWED MORE HARSHLY, YOU KNOW, IN ETHICS REVIEWS AND MAKING SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S, YOU KNOW, THAT UNCONSCIOUS BIAS AND THAT IS MITIGATED.
SO YOU CAN KIND OF GO THROUGH EVERY SINGLE COMMISSION AND EASILY SEE AS A STRONG THREAD OF DEIB THAT CAN GO THROUGH IT.
AND THAT CAN COME UP IN THE DISCUSSION WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR, YOUR MEETING IN JANUARY.
ANYTHING ELSE? ITEM 7.1 AND 7.2 JUMP? YEAH.
UM, YEAH, I, I JUST WANTED, STAN DID YOU HAVE ANY OTHER, ANYTHING ELSE? NO, I'M IN GOOD SHAPE.
I THINK, UH, I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU ALL IN 2025 AND ESPECIALLY GETTING TO MEET SOME OF THE NEW MEMBERS IN PERSON BECAUSE, UH, THERE'S SOME DIFFERENT PEOPLE FROM WHEN I WAS THERE ABOUT SEVEN MONTHS AGO.
SO YOU'LL SEE US WILL BE THE FEB IN THE FEBRUARY MEETING.
IT'LL BE MARCH WHEN I'M THERE IN PERSON.
AND I SENT YOU AN INVITE FOR TOMORROW.
I'LL DROP OFF THEN AND LET YOU CONTINUE YOUR MEETING AND I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU.
AND CHRISTIE, I'LL TALK WITH YOU TOMORROW.
THIS, SHOULD WE MAKE A MOTION ON CERTAIN 0.4? UM, SO, UM, IF Y'ALL WANT TO TAKE ACTION, IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU WANTED TO TAKE ACTION ON IN MY NOTES I HAVE THAT I WILL FOLLOW UP WITH Y'ALL TO, BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW HOW THE MOTION SHOULD READ FOR THE 21ST TO THE 25TH.
SO I'M GOING TO SEE HOW THAT WORKS.
AND THEN ON ANOTHER THING THAT THE, THAT'S IN MY COURT IS TO, UM, REQUEST THAT IF THE LIBRARY IS AVAILABLE, UM, IN APRIL INSTEAD TO PRESENT.
AND THEN JUST AN UPDATE FOR NEXT MONTH.
UM, AND IF THERE'S ANYTHING I NEED TO ADD HERE, FEBRUARY 18TH MEETING IS THE COMMS PRESENTATION.
AND THEN KIND OF THE PHASE TWO OF STAN, UH, OF STAN'S IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.
SO THEN WE WILL GO BACK TO 7.1, DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON THE APPROVAL OF THE NOVEMBER 19TH, UH, UM, MINUTES NOVEMBER 19TH.
AND I THINK THE FIRST THREE OF Y'ALL HAVE THE MEETING MINUTES IN YOUR PACKET.
IF NOT, IF Y'ALL WANNA SHARE WITH EACH OTHER.
I HAVE, UM, YEAH, RED LETTER LETTER RING IF YOU DIDN'T.
ARE WE ON 7.1 THE APPROVAL OPINIONS? YES.
UM, THE NOVEMBER 19TH MEETING.
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SO MAY I ASK A QUESTION ABOUT THE PRESENTATION SAID THAT Y'ALL HAD THE POWERPOINT WITH UM, QWI ON THE GGL LETTER.WHAT WERE SOME COMING, WHAT WERE THE KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THAT PRESENTATION FROM HER THAT WE GAINED OUT OF THAT? 'CAUSE I WASN'T HERE AND I WANTED TO BE HERE FOR THAT ONE, BUT I MISSED IT.
DID WE TAKE ANY NOTES OR ACTIONS OR CONSIDERATIONS FROM HER PRESENTATION? SHE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT SHE WAS DOING IS SAYING, WELL, HOW THEY DID IT THERE, WAS SHE GONNA SEND US THAT? OR, UM, I SENT THE FOLLOW UP MATERIAL, BUT I'M HAPPY TO RESEND THAT OUT AGAIN TO THE COMMISSION.
AND THEN WE CAN JUST REVIEW IT.
BUT IT'S REALLY, AND ONE THING, I THINK IT'S SOMETHING WE NEED TO TAKE IN IT IS, YOU KNOW, SHE HAD A LOT OF GOOD THINGS, BUT SHE IS DIFFERENT.
SHE WORKS DIFFERENTLY THAN WE WORK WOULD WORK.
'CAUSE SHE'S A PAID STAFF PERSON AND ONE PERSON.
I MEAN, AND YOU KNOW, THERE'S BUDGETING THERE.
WHEREAS WE HAVE OUR BUDGETING OUTSIDE OF, YOU KNOW, THE PERSON.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS SHE AND SHE WORKS ALONE.
SHE HAS WHAT, WHAT SHE'S DONE SOME MILESTONES THAT SHE DONE.
SHE COMMUNICATED SOME OF THE FOCUS GROUPS NOW SHE, UM, GOT MORE PARTICIPATION FROM THE CHILDREN OKAY.
SO IT MORE UPDATE ON WHAT SHE'S DONE SINCE SHE'S BEEN IN THE OFFICE.
AND HOW HAS IT CHANGED? HOW HAS IT CHANGED SINCE SHE'S BEEN THERE? HOW PARTICIPATION HAS GROWN.
WAS THERE ANYTHING IN HER PRESENTATION THAT WE TOOK AS THIS IS SOMETHING ANOTHER WAY THAT WE'RE GONNA WORK WITH ALONGSIDE OR INTEGRATE WITH THE WHAT THE ISD IS ALREADY DOING OR WHAT THEY, WHAT WE, UM, TALK ABOUT LINKING, UH, HAVE A LINK I ON OUR SITE.
THE WEBSITE SHEET'S ALREADY KIND OF ESTABLISHED WHAT THE HUDDLE IS IS.
AND THAT'S WHY WE WERE SAYING, HEY, IT WOULD BE GOOD TO HAVE THAT, YOU KNOW, HAVE THAT HUDDLE, ISD LINK LINKED TO THE, UH, CITY.
SO THAT SHOWS THAT INTEGRATION.
SO IF SOMEBODY'S VISITING THEIR PAGE, THEY CAN FIND THIS EFFORT AND SOMEBODY'S VISITING ON THE CITY SIDE, THEY CAN FIND WHAT THE ISD IS DOING BECAUSE IT'S, WE'RE ALL ONE COMMUNITY.
IT MAKES, IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN TALK ABOUT DURING, WOULD BE THE FEBRUARY MEETING WITH, UM, SHE, OKAY.
I'M GONNA, I THINK WE COVERED THE CONNECTIONS THE DAY BEFORE VALENTINE'S, OR WAS IT VALENTINE'S? VALENTINE'S DAY? I'M PRETTY SURE.
I IT'S FROM FOUR TO 7:00 PM OKAY.
SO IT'S KIND OF LIKE TRYING TO CAPTURE, I'M TRYING TO HAVE THEIR ROMANTIC DINNERS, SO ROMANTIC DINNER, DINNER OUTSIDE.
WE'RE TRYING TO PARTNER WITH THOSE RESTAURANTS TOO, TO LIKE OFFER SOME SOME FUN.
AND EVEN AS A COMMISSION, LIKE, JUST LIKE, EVEN IF YOU CAN'T PHYSICALLY BE THERE, IF THERE'S SOMETHING YOU WANT TO SHARE OR THERE'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN HELP DISTRIBUTE, LIKE LET US KNOW.
'CAUSE WE'RE, WE'RE, I'M ALREADY THERE.
SO IF THERE'S A QR CODE OR A HIPPO, WHATEVER, LIKE WE CAN DISTRIBUTE THAT FOR YOU.
HOW DOES, HOW DOES A NONPROFIT OR COMMUNITY ORG GO ABOUT BEING OR EMAIL? UM, AND I CAN SEND, SO WHENEVER I FOLLOW UP ON Y'ALL'S FOLLOW UP EMAIL, I'M GONNA PUT, IT'S KIND OF, I MIGHT PUT IT ON A WORD DOCUMENT BECAUSE IT'S KIND OF LONG.
BUT I'LL GIVE YOU THE OVERVIEW OF WHAT THE EVENT IS AND THEN OF COURSE AS A COMMISSION LET ME KNOW.
BUT IF YOU KNOW AN ORGANIZATION THAT SERVICES HU UM, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO NECESSARILY BE A NONPROFIT, BUT I WILL KIND OF DO SOME VETTING A LITTLE BIT TO MAKE SURE IT'S IN LINE WITH, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO.
UM, BUT FEEL FREE TO SHARE THAT BECAUSE IT, THE MISSION OF THIS IS TO BRING AWARENESS TO THOSE WHO ARE ALREADY SERVING, BUT ALSO FINDING WE HAVE A LOT OF GAPS IN SERVICE.
SO BRINGING IN LIKE REGIONAL PARTNERS TO COME IN, LIKE WE HAVE, UM, SNAP COMING IN 'CAUSE WE DON'T HAVE A PHYSICAL LOCATION HERE.
SO THINKING KIND OF REGIONALLY AS WELL, IF YOU HAVE, UM, PARTNERS OR ANYONE YOU KNOW.
WHAT ABOUT WORKFORCE RURAL CAP? YEP.
I, I INVITED APPOINTMENT SERVICES.
SHE SHE SHOULD, SHE HASN'T RESPONDED, BUT HOPEFULLY SHE, SHE BETTER HER BE.
ANYTHING ELSE ON THE, UH, NOVEMBER MEETING? OOPS.
WE GOT THE NOVEMBER 19TH MEETING MINUTES AS, UH, THAT'S RED.
UH, SO A MOTION BY COMMISSIONER LEWIS AND SECOND BY COMMISSIONER BELL.
ANY OPPOSED? NOW THE ITEM 7.2 DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON THE APPROVAL PROCLAMATIONS FOR THE FIRST QUARTER OF JANUARY, THREE DAYS.
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A NOTE AND A REMINDER, I DID SEND THESE OUT, UM, IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE MEETING LAST TIME, MR. SPOONS.SO IT'S UP FRONT AND BACK OF THE PROCLAMATION.
UM, AND, AND SO I DID NOT RECEIVE ANY OTHER FEEDBACK.
I DID NOT RECEIVE ANY OTHER PROCLAMATIONS OR ANYTHING.
UM, SO I'M AT LEAST PRE PRESENTING THESE TWO ITEMS FOR CONSIDERATION AND VOTE TODAY.
UM, IT HAS, UM, COUNCIL MEETINGS WORK IS WE HAVE, WE HAVE A VERY, OUR TIMELINES HAVE GOTTEN A LOT MORE CONDENSED, WHICH IS GREAT BECAUSE IT HELPS WITH WORKFLOW.
BUT, UM, IN ORDER TO KIND OF GET ON A, ON A QUARTERLY PATH HERE WITH THE PROCLAMATIONS AS THE COMMISSION WOULD LIKE TO DO, UM, I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO, TO MAKE ANY ADDITIONAL PROCLAMATIONS OUTSIDE OF THE, THE JANUARY ONE THAT'S PRESENTED FOR DR. MARTIN LUTHER WORKING KING JR.
UM, BUT THERE'S SOME TIME FOR LIKE FEBRUARY AND OTHERS.
SO YEAH, JANUARY IS A LONG LIST AND THAT'S BETWEEN NOW AND, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN, BETWEEN NOW AND I'M GONNA HAVE TO GO AND LOOK AT THE DATE, BUT I THINK IT'S THE WEEK AFTER CHRISTMAS, I HAVE TO HAVE EVERYTHING FOR JANUARY.
LIKE, OKAY, DID, DID WE NOT APPROVE THE FIRST QUARTER TWO MEETINGS AGO? YOU APPROVED THE ONES THAT Y'ALL WANTED TO DO.
BUT I HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY PROCLAMATION OUTSIDE OF WHAT COMMISSIONER SPOONS HAS SHARED.
SO THAT'S WHERE WHAT WE DO IN TERMS OF OUR IMPLEMENTATION, WE HAVE TO SAY, OKAY, HOW ARE WE GONNA DO THIS? THE ONLY THING I SUGGESTED, WHICH I WROTE TO CHRISTIE ABOUT, I LIKE THE PROCLAMATIONS THAT WE RECEIVED, EXCEPT I DON'T, I THINK I WOULD RECOMMEND, INSTEAD OF SAYING I MAYOR, DA DA DA, I WANT IT TO BE WE THE, WE THE COUNCIL.
YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT I, I I KIND OF HAD THAT SAME THOUGHT.
AND, AND AS I SHARED WITH, UM, COMMISSIONER COLEMAN, UM, THIS, I, I DID NOT FORMAT THIS AT ALL.
AND SO MOVING FORWARD AND I CAN, UM, IN THE FOLLOWUP, I'LL SHARE THE, THE TEMPLATE LIKE I SHARED WITH COMMISSIONER COLEMAN IN ALL OF THE TEMPLATES FOR PROCLAMATIONS, WE RECEIVED THE CONTENT, BUT THEN, LIKE THE BOTTOM PART, IT DOES ACTUALLY SAY WE, THE CITY COUNCIL, IT DOESN'T JUST SAY I THE OH, YOU GOTTA REFORMAT THE TEMPLATES TO FIT THE
SO, SO THE ONLY THING THAT, THAT THE CITY SECRETARY'S OFFICE REFORMATS IS KIND OF THE, THE LETTERHEAD AND THEN THIS BOTTOM PART RIGHT HERE.
SO THE ACTUAL CONTENT OF WHAT Y'ALL, THAT IS FROM Y'ALL.
AND IT'S, UM, ALSO WITH THE PROCLAMATIONS, UM, WE HIGHLY ENCOURAGE WHOEVER SUBMITS THE PROCLAMATIONS TO BE THERE IN ATTENDANCE TO RECEIVE THE PROCLAMATION.
UM, AND AS Y'ALL MOVE FORWARD WITH YOUR WORKING GROUPS AND OTHER THINGS, MAYBE IT'S THE COMMISSION BEING THERE, BUT MAYBE IT'S ALSO A GROUP THAT REPRESENTS THAT PARTICULAR PROCLAMATION THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT CAN BE THERE.
I WOULD LIKE TO ENCOURAGE, UH, SO WE, SO WHAT WE NEED TO DO THEN IS, UH, WE NEED TO TAKE OWNERSHIP OF ANY OF THESE THAT WE WANT TO SEE HERE.
WELL, UM, I CAN FIND WORK WITH SOMEBODY TO, TO PUT TOGETHER A PROCLAMATION FOR NATIONAL CANCER PREVENTION LINK THAT FEBRUARY.
IN FEBRUARY IS THAT WE CAN DO THAT ONE.
SO, UM, CAN I JUST ASK FOR Y'ALL, IS EVERYONE, WOULD Y'ALL LIKE TO VOTE ON THE TWO THAT WERE ALREADY PRESENTED AS, UM, SOMETHING THAT I CAN START MOVING FORWARD WITH? OR IS THERE ANY, ANY EDITS OR ANYTHING THAT WE NEED TO ADD TO THE DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DAY OR BLACK HISTORY MONTH? NO, THE ONLY FOR ME, THE ONLY, IT WAS THE CHANGE OF THE BOTTOM.
THAT'S THE ONLY NAME AND IT SAYS 22, IT BE 24.
AND THAT BOTTOM PART, AGAIN WILL BE FORMATTED TO, FOR THE CORRECT LANGUAGE AND ALL THAT AS FAR AS THE CONTENT OF, OF THE WHEREAS IS YES.
SO ON THE ONE, SO IT'S SAYS OUR NAME, WHICH IS NOT, YOU KNOW, THE BOTTOM RIGHT OVER MIKE SNYDER'S BLUR.
SHOULDN'T IT BE THE DEIB COMMISSION? UM, WHICH PART ARE WE LOOKING AT? OH, WHERE IT SAYS JUST DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION? YEAH.
I WILL MAKE SURE TO UPDATE THAT AS WELL.
YEAH, BECAUSE THEN IT HAS, WHEREAS THE CITY OF HUDDLE HAS MADE DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, I THINK WE CAN PUT AND BELONGING ON GROUPS OF PRIORITIES.
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I SEE HERE.SO I'LL MAKE SURE TO UPDATE THAT.
I, SO WE JUST HAVE THOSE TWO FOR THIS FIRST QUARTER.
MAKE SURE THAT THOSE ARE THE ONLY ONES I'VE RECEIVED.
AND THEN COREY, YOU SAID YOU LEARN TO WORK ON FEBRUARY, THE NATIONAL CANCER PREVENTION MM-HMM
SO SORRY, IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MLK JUNIOR DAY AND BY HISTORY MONTH PROCLAMATIONS WITH THE UM, REQUEST CHANGES.
IS THERE A MOTION? I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO MOVE FORWARD TO APPROVE THOSE PRO PREPARATIONS.
ALL IN FAVOR? ANY OPPOSED?
THERE MIGHT BE A TIME I SAY NO.
SO THEN WE JUST HAVE THE NA FOR FEBRUARY, THE NATIONAL CANCER PREVENTION.
SO SINCE WE'RE WORKING IN QUARTERS CAN WITH TWO PEOPLE DO THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH AND THE RED CROSS MONTH, I CAN DO THE WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH IN MARCH.
I'M PRETTY SURE I CAN FIND, SO RED CROSS.
SO WE WANT A WHOLE PROCLAMATION FOR RED CROSS.
YEAH, I BELIEVE I NATIONAL RED CROSS.
GET, I'D LOVE HER CONTACT INFORMATION ON SBAR.
I WONDER IF SHE HAS, UM, OUR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
I'M SURE SHE DOES, BUT ANYWAY, OKAY, SO I HAVE WOMAN'S HISTORY MONTH, UH, COMMISSIONER AND
COMMISSIONER DANINA, DID YOU ALREADY, DID YOU STAY ON EARLIER? AND I, I DEFINITELY MISSED IT IF SHE DID.
THAT'S YOUR PREVENTION PREVENT.
SO MY QUESTION WILL BE HOW WILL WE THEN, UM, APPROVE THESE ADDITIONAL PROCLAMATIONS? THIS IS THE LAST MEETING, SO I THINK ALL, I DON'T HAVE IT IN FRONT OF ME.
ARE ALL THESE FROM FEBRUARY? CORRECT.
BUT WE'RE LOOKING UP FEBRUARY, MARCH.
SO THERE'S TIME BETWEEN NOW AND BY NOW AND THE NEXT MEETING.
WE CAN BRING THIS AS AN ITEM AND WE CAN PRESENT ALL OF THEM AT THAT TIME.
AND Y'ALL CAN IMPROVE OR, AND IN THE MEANTIME, UM, IF Y'ALL WANT, I CAN EVEN IF WE GET THEM BEFORE THE MEETING, I CAN SEND THEM OUT BEFORE THE MEETING AND Y'ALL CAN HAVE A CHANCE TO LOOK AND EDIT THEM, SEND BACK YOUR EDITS, AND THEN BY THE TIME WE MEET, I CAN PRESENT EDIT SO WE DON'T HAVE TO SIT THERE AND TRY TO EDIT IN, IN LIFETIME.
BUT THAT'S JUST DEPENDENT ON HOW QUICKLY WE CAN GET THOSE BACK.
SO, UM, JUST TO, SO IS THERE A MOTION THAT WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH WOULD BE COVERED BY COMMISSIONER PEPPE, RED CROSS, MR. LEWIS, AND CANCER PREVENTION BY YES.
DID I MOTION YOU MOTIONED? OKAY.
AND THEN YOU'RE AT ITEM EIGHT.
THAT'S A FIRST OF ALL BECAUSE ANYONE HAVE ANYTHING ELSE THAT THEY WANNA SAY? I DID.
I, I KNOW WE ALREADY APPROVED IT, BUT I DID, I MEANT TO GO BACK AND ASK ABOUT, BECAUSE AGAIN, I MISSED IT ON 5.1 FROM THE NOVEMBER MEETING, THE UPDATE NON-CITIZENS WILL NOT BE BOARD MEMBERS.
UM, SO THAT WAS BROUGHT TO, I GUESS DAN BROUGHT THE NEWS, THE UPDATE ON THAT VOTE.
WHAT WAS THE TAKEAWAY FOR OUR GROUP FROM THAT? BECAUSE I ATTENDED THAT MEETING AND I SPOKE IN FAVOR OF, OF, UM, I, I SPOKE STRONGLY IN FAVOR OF ALLOWING ANYBODY WHO IS A CITIZEN OF HOW TO, WHO IS HERE LEGALLY TO BE ALLOWED TO SERVE ON ANY BOARDING COMMISSION.
UM, BECAUSE THEY'RE A CITIZEN OF HU AND IT WAS TURNED DOWN AT THE TIME.
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TAKEAWAY? IS THERE WORK THAT CAME BACK FROM OUR GROUP TO DO ON THAT? I DON'T THINK WE DISCUSSED IT, DID WE? BECAUSE IT FEELS, IT, IT SOUNDS LIKE IT, IT READS AS COUNTER TO THE IDEALS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO PROMOTE AS FAR AS INCLUSION AND BELONGING.UM, JUST SAY THAT THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO, EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE CITIZENS OF HU RESIDENTS, THEY'RE RESIDENTS HERE AND THEY'RE TAX PAYING PEOPLE.
I DON'T THINK THEY'RE LEGALLY, BUT THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE INFLUENCE LIKE I AM.
I UNDERSTAND THAT THEY'RE ALLOWED TO VOLUNTEER THEIR TIME.
THEY CAN GIVE AND WE'LL GLADLY TAKE THEIR TIME, TALENT, AND TREASURE AS FELLOW NEIGHBORS.
BUT TO SAY THAT THEY'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT GONNA ALLOW THEM TO HAVE INFLUENCE IS IS ANOTHER WAY TO OSTRACIZE PEOPLE THAT MOST OF, IF THEY'RE HERE LEGALLY, THEY'RE TRYING TO GET THEIR CITIZENSHIP.
THERE'S SOME THAT ARE NEVER GOING TO, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF THERE WAS ANY OTHER CONVERSATIONS ORIONS ABOUT COULD VOLUNTEER FOR, FOR THINGS AND THEY'RE ACCEPTED AS VOLUNTEERS, THEY SHOULD HAVE SOME INFLUENCE AS TO WHAT GOES ON.
I MEAN, IT DOESN'T SEEM LOGICAL THAT WE, WE WOULD SHOW BIAS AGAINST THOSE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, IF THEY'RE GIVING SOME OF THEIR TIME TO MAKE THINGS BETTER.
IT SEEMS LOGICAL TO ME THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE SOME INFLUENCE.
I THINK THAT'S JUST MY OPINION.
YEAH, AND THAT'S MY OPINION TOO.
YOU KNOW, I, I SHOWED UP BECAUSE AS, AS A MEMBER OF THE DIB COMMISSION, LIKE, WELL WE NEED TO MAKE SURE SOMEBODY PUTS OUT AND WANTS TO DO SOMETHING TO MAKE THE COMMUNITY BETTER.
THEN THOSE PEOPLE, NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE, SHOULD HAVE ABILITY TO HAVE SOME INFLUENCE.
WHAT, SO THE WAY THAT I UNDERSTAND THIS, THIS IS JUST SAYING THAT THEY WILL NOT SERVE ON A BOARD.
THEY CAN'T SERVE ANYWHERE THAT THEY, WHERE THEY WOULD HAVE INFLUENCE.
THEY CAN STILL, ONE OF THE, I THINK A POINT WAS MADE THAT THEY CAN STILL VOLUNTEER ON LIKE, UM, THE FOOD PANTRY OR THE LIBRARY BOARD, THINGS LIKE THAT.
BUT THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO SERVE ON THE BOARD OF COMMISSION, WHICH ADVISES OR INFLUENCES COUNCIL MM-HMM
AND THEN AS WE ARE WORKING ON OUR WORKING GROUPS THAT WE CAN HAVE WHO WE WOULD BE SEEKING THEIR ADVICE, LIKE LISTENING POSTS AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.
SO DO WE EVEN HAVE TO MAKE ANY, YOU KNOW, WE WOULD JUST DO WHAT WE WOULD NORMALLY DO WITH ANY RESIDENT OF, OF HUDDLE.
MEANING THAT WE WOULD REACH OUT TO THEM AND EXACTLY.
AND LISTEN TO THEM AND THEY, YOU KNOW, AND WE DON'T HAVE TO MAKE IT AN ISSUE, BUT WE WOULD DO IT
AND THAT'S WHAT, AND THAT'S HOW, YOU KNOW, WE CAN GIVE THOSE PEOPLE A VOICE.
AND YOU KNOW, THE VOTE WAS TAKEN, IT WAS POLITIC, YOU KNOW, THE POLITICS IS DONE AND I DON'T LEGALLY COULD HAVE ALWAYS STARTED WELL, WELL, FOR THAT THE VOTE WAS TAKEN.
AND, UH, I DON'T, I DON'T WANT TO, I DON'T THINK THAT WE SHOULD ENTER INTO THE POLITICS
IS THAT THROUGH, UH, THESE WORKING GROUPS AND STUFF, WE PROVIDE THOSE PEOPLE, THE BOYS THAT, THAT WE THINK, OR SOME MIGHT THINK THAT THEY ARE BEING DENIED, UH, IN ANOTHER WAY BY THE CITY COUNCIL.
SO MA'AM THAT'S WHERE IT CAME FROM, WAS FROM CITIZENS.
APPROACHING CITY COUNCIL AND SAYING, HEY, WE FEEL LEFT OUT OF THIS CONVERSATION.
WE OWN PROPERTY OR BUSINESSES OF THE COMMUNITY.
I MEAN, THAT WAS, THAT WAS THEIR ARGUMENT.
SO ONE WAY TO SOLVE THAT IS WHEN WE GET THESE WORKING GROUPS, UM, GOING AND WE CAN ASK WHO ANYONE WORKING GROUP.
I LIKE THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO INTEGRATE THEM IN THIS OTHER WAY.
ANYBODY LEFT TO INTEGRATE
ANYTHING ELSE ON THAT? MM-HMM.
NO, I JUST WANNA SEE HOW THAT CONVERSATION WENT HERE BECAUSE I MISSED.
SO NOW IF NO ONE HAS ANYTHING ELSE, THEN UM, WE WOULD ADJOURN AT TIME.