[ Diversity and Inclusion Meeting on June 17, 2025]
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SO I SAID, YOU KNOW, I DO A LOT OF WORK THAT'S THIS GENERAL CONSULTING IN TERMS OF LIKE CONTINUING TO, YOU KNOW, WORK WITH YOU ON THE PLAN, UPDATING THE STRATEGIC PLAN AND EXECUTION, UH, PRESENTATION, PREPARATION, ET CETERA.
AND SO I JUST PUT IN A BUDGET FOR MY GENERAL HOURS OF CONSULTING.
UH, AND THEN, UH, I WENT THROUGH THE ACTUAL PLAN ITEMS AND THE, THE STRATEGIC PLAN HAS FIVE, UH, KEY AREAS.
AND SO, UH, KEY AND, UH, AREA 1.2 WAS, UH, SETTING UP THOSE THREE WORKING GROUPS, THE ADVISORY GROUPS.
AND, UH, I SAID IN, YOU KNOW, WE ALREADY HAVE MONEY IN THE BUDGET THIS YEAR, BUT IN CASE WE DON'T GET THESE DONE IN TIME, YOU KNOW, IF WE, IF IF IT SPILLS OVER UNTIL SEPTEMBER OR WE, UH, DECIDE TO HAVE ADDITIONAL WORKING GROUPS, I PUT MONEY IN THERE FOR THE TRAINING OF THEM THAT I WOULD DO.
UH, WE ALSO ON 2.1, UH, PUT THE, THE, UH, LISTENING POSTS, UH, AS ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT WE'RE GONNA DO IN TERMS OF HAVING ROUND TABLES IS WITH CITIZENS FOR GETTING THEIR INPUT.
AND, UH, I PUT A THOUSAND DOLLARS IF YOU WANNA ENGAGE ME TO CREATE A GUIDELINE DOCUMENT, UH, WITH QUESTIONS AND BASICALLY A PLAYBOOK FOR THE PEOPLE LEADING THE LISTENING POSTS TO TAKE THEM STEP BY STEP AND TO PROVIDE THEM A TEXT, YOU KNOW, THAT THEY CAN USE TO LEAD THESE MEETINGS.
UH, I ACTUALLY DID DO THE, UH, TRAINING FOR, UH, THE RECRUITING TRAINING FOR THE MANAGERS THAT EVERYBODY ENGAGED IN RECRUITING.
UH, BUT THERE WE MIGHT WANNA CONTINUE TO DO OVERALL EDUCATION OF ALL MANAGERS ON THE STAFF AND ALSO, UH, FOR ALL EMPLOYEES.
AND SO I PUT IN, YOU KNOW, DEVELOP AND PROVIDE THREE ONE HOUR MANAGEMENT TRAINING SESSIONS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, AND EACH ONE WOULD BE PROVIDED TWICE AND RECORDED.
AND I'D ALSO BE DOING HANDOUTS.
UH, AND I'VE DONE THIS FOR MANY DIFFERENT CLIENTS WHERE I PROVIDE LIKE A, IT'S LIKE A, YOU KNOW, MAYBE ONE MODULE EVERY FOUR MONTHS ON DIFFERENT TOPICS AROUND DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION AND BELONGING.
UH, AND THEN, UH, ONE THING THAT WE MIGHT WANNA DO IS PERHAPS, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, IF, IF THE SENIOR, IF, UH, THE, THE CITY MANAGER WOULD LIKE, YOU KNOW, DEIB COACHING, UH, FOR THE SENIOR LEADERS TO HELP THEM IN TERMS OF DEVELOPING THE PLANS FOR THEIR FUNCTION AND ANSWERING ANY QUESTIONS THEY HAVE, UH, THAT'S AN ANOTHER OPTIONAL AREA.
UH, OH, AND I FORGOT THIS ONE RIGHT HERE.
UNDER ALL ITEMS THAT, BECAUSE WE NOW HAVE SEVERAL NEW MEMBERS ON THE, UH, THIS IS AT THE VERY, AT THE I'LL, I'LL ACTUALLY PUT IT RIGHT HERE, RIGHT, UH, AT THE VERY TOP OF THE SCREEN THAT BECAUSE WE NOW HAVE, UH, SEVERAL NEW CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS TO HAVE ME, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, DO THE THREE HOUR DEIB INTRODUCTION AND TRAINING, UH, FOR THE CITY COUNCIL SINCE IT'S, HAS SO MANY NEW PEOPLE ON IT NOW.
AND THEN YOU ALWAYS MIGHT WANNA ADD BUFFER AT THE VERY BOTTOM THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT WANNA SAY, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW AHEAD OF TIME WHAT OTHER PROJECTS MIGHT COME UP, AND YOU MIGHT WANT TO, YOU KNOW, ADD ANOTHER $1,500.
AND THEN THERE'S OTHER ITEMS THAT ARE REALLY OUTSIDE MY SCOPE OF WORK, THINGS THAT I REALLY DON'T HAVE EXPERTISE ON THAT YOU ALSO MIGHT WANNA BUDGET, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU KNOW, UH, I THINK NO, SUZANNE, YOU KNOW, RECOMMENDED IT'S IN THE PLAN OF CREATING AND PRINTING A RESOURCE GUIDE FOR ALL CITIZENS.
UH, AND, YOU KNOW, WE MIGHT, YOU MIGHT WANNA ADD BUDGET FOR THAT IN THE DIVERSITY BUDGET OR SOMEWHERE ELSE.
AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, IF YOU DECIDE TO LIKE, REALLY RAMP UP THE, YOU BELONG IN HU CAMPAIGN, YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT WANT TO, YOU KNOW, HAVE ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR, UH, YOU KNOW, CREATING BANNERS OR OTHER THINGS TO GO WITH A, YOU BELONG IN HU CAMPAIGN.
AND SO I PROVIDE THIS AS A GUIDE THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN DECIDE ALL OF THESE, OR JUST SOME OF THESE, WHATEVER ONE, WHATEVER ONES YOU FEEL MIGHT FLY, YOU MIGHT WANT TO USE THIS INFORMATION TO HELP YOU PREPARE, UH, A BUDGET REQUEST FOR YOUR NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
SO, UH, ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? JUST THE THINGS THAT WE WOULD TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN WE'RE PUTTING TOGETHER A BUDGET REQUEST FOR NEXT YEAR.
FROM SERVICES WE WOULD INCLUDE, RIGHT.
WE WOULD, WE SHOULD DECIDE THAT TODAY.
WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO, BECAUSE WE NEED TO BE READY TO PRESENT TO THE WORK SESSION, WHICH IS NEXT MONTH.
AND, AND WHATEVER ONES YOU DECIDE YOU MIGHT WANNA PUT IN,
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I CAN PUT TOGETHER A MORE DETAILED PROPOSAL BEHIND EACH OF THESE AND PROVIDE MORE DETAILS.I THINK WE HAVE TO REQUEST ONE THOUGH, COREY IS WHAT WE'RE DOING.
THAT'S WHY HE TELLING ME THIS.
NO, I MEAN, WHAT WAS OUR BUDGET THIS YEAR? OKAY.
WHAT DID WE ENDED UP GETTING APPROVED? WAS IT 10? I THINK IT WAS 14.
IT WAS VERY LIMITED LIMIT MINUS, BUT I THINK WE DID A LOT WITH IT.
AND THEN, UM, SUZANNE ALSO, YOU HAD SOMETHING WE REGARD IN THE RESOURCE.
SO I DONE EXTENSIVE RESEARCH ON WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO REACH OUT TO THE DIFFERENT GROUPS THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT.
AND I FOUND BAD NEWS ACROSS THE BOARD.
HU DOES NOT HAVE STANDARD RESOURCES FOR A CITY THAT'S GROWING AS FAST AS, AS IT IS.
SO MY PROPOSAL WAS TO CREATE A COMPREHENSIVE RESOURCE BOOKLET THAT WOULD BE HANDED OUT IN CERTAIN AREAS.
LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, AT GATHERINGS OF HATO TO THE LIBRARY TO LIKE REAL ESTATE AGENTS FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE MOVING INTO THE CITY, AH, UM, TO CHURCHES, ET CETERA.
WHERE WE WOULD PASS THESE BOOKLETS OUT.
WE HAVE A PROBLEM REACHING, WE HAVE APPROXIMATELY ALMOST 8,000 SENIOR CITIZENS OVER 55 COMING AT, AT THE END OF THIS YEAR.
I INCLUDE 55 BECAUSE THAT'S WHEN BENEFITS START IN CERTAIN AREAS FOR OLDER, OLDER INDIVIDUALS.
WE CAN'T REACH THOSE, OR WE'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO REACH THOSE PEOPLE FOR A MAILING.
IF WE DID A MAILING TO THESE PEOPLE, WE ARE GONNA BE MAILING TO MANY, MANY HOUSEHOLDS THAT IT DOESN'T APPLY TO.
WHY NOT DO A GENERAL RESOURCE GUIDE AND GET IT OUT TO THE CERTAIN, CERTAIN PLACES THAT PEOPLE CAN ACCESS IT.
THEN ALSO CREATE ACCESS TO THE WEB, TO A PLACE ON THE WEBSITE WHERE THOSE RESOURCES ARE, ARE LIVING.
AND I GAVE, I HAVE A, A PROPO A PROPOSAL HERE THAT I WROTE UP THAT SHOWS CERTAIN, UM, GOV, DOT GOV, UH, NAMES THAT WE CAN USE FOR FREE.
AND YOU BELONG IN HU.COM FOR
IF WE CAN ALIGN WITH THE PEOPLE THAT ARE WORKING ON THE WEBSITE AND POINT TO OUR RESOURCES USING SOME OF THOSE, WE'RE GOING TO BE IN A MUCH BETTER PLACE THAN WE ARE NOW.
BECAUSE RIGHT NOW YOU CAN'T FIND ANYTHING ON THE WEB WEBSITE.
IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND ANYTHING.
SO MY PROPOSAL IS TO CREATE THAT LINK TO OUR WORK TO, UM, UH, A RESOURCE GUIDE AND WHATEVER ELSE THAT WE MIGHT WANT.
UM, OTHER THINGS LIKE PUT, UM, OVER 55 HU IS ONE OF THE, THE POSSIBLE LINKS.
I HAD THE, YOU BELONG, YOU BELONG IN HATO IS ANOTHER ONE.
UM, I ALSO THOUGHT THAT, UM, WE COULD, WE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE WEB DEVELOPMENT TO PUT THE RESOURCES UP ONLINE.
SO I ALLOCATED, AND WHO KNOWS IF IT COMES OUT OF OUR BUDGET OR NOT.
I ALSO ALLOCATED UP TO $25,000 COMPLETELY FOR A DIFFERENT NUMBER OF, OF BOOKLETS THAT WE MIGHT CONSIDER PRINTING.
THERE ARE NO REAL COMPREHENSIVE BOOKLETS IN HOW TO, AT THIS TIME, THE, UM, FIRE DEPARTMENT AND, AND POLICE HAVE A SMALL BOOKLET.
THERE'S A COUPLE OF OTHER SMALL BOOKLETS, BUT NOTHING IS COMPREHENSIVE.
NOTHING TO HELP THE PEOPLE THAT WE REALLY NEED.
HOW ARE WE GOING TO REACH THESE PEOPLE? WE'RE NOT, UNLESS WE DO SOMETHING TO START SPREADING THE WORD.
HERE'S THE, HERE ARE THE THINGS, YOU KNOW, HERE'S, YOU WANNA LIST US? YES.
REGIS, IF WE CAN GET IT OUT TO THE PEOPLE BY THE LOCATIONS THAT THEY, THEY GO TO.
CLINICS, UM, LIKE I SAID, REAL ESTATE AGENTS WHERE NEW PEOPLE ARE COMING INTO HUDU, THINGS LIKE THAT.
CHURCHES, DO YOU REALIZE THERE ARE LIKE 14 CHURCHES IN HUDU.
13 OF THEM ARE CHRISTIAN AND ONE OF THEM IS LIKE SOMETHING ELSE,
THAT'S, YOU KNOW, WHERE ARE PEOPLE GOING? SO RESOURCES FOR THESE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY KNOW THEY'RE PART OF THE COMMUNITY.
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$25,000.SO, AND THAT'S WHAT I WROTE DOWN
IS THAT, SO I DID IT, I GUESSTIMATE FOR PRINTING, ET CETERA.
UM, DEPENDING ON THE QUANTITY,
SO WHAT I DID WAS, I QUOTED IT OUT FOR A 20 PAGE BOOKLET AND A 50 PAGE BOOKLET THAT WAS PERFECT BOUND, YOU KNOW, LIKE PASTED ON THE END PERFECT.
BOUND AT EIGHT AND A HALF BY 11.
AND I CAME UP WITH A, A LIST OF FIGURES WHERE YOU COULD SEE THE DIFFERENT PRICES NOT CONSIDERING.
AND I ALSO INCLUDED THINGS LIKE RE RACKS, THINGS THAT I DIDN'T INCLUDE WERE LIKE SHIPPING, ET CETERA.
BUT I ESTIMATED THAT, YOU KNOW, IF WE, IF WE HAD SOMETHING LIKE THAT SHIPPED, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS I FORGOT ON THIS, BECAUSE I WAS SO TRYING TO GET THIS THING ON THE BOOKLETS DONE, WAS I FORGOT THAT THE THING ABOUT DOING LIKE AN EIGHT AND A HALF BY 11 POSTER THAT WE COULD HAVE PUT UP ON COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARDS AND SCHOOLS, ET CETERA.
WHICH WAS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE COULD DO.
BUT IT TOOK ME A LONG TIME TO COME UP WITH THESE FIGURES AND THE BREAKDOWN, I HAD THE BREAKDOWN OF THE SENIOR CITIZENS, ET CETERA.
BUT I FEEL THAT A, A RESOURCE BOOKLET WOULD HELP ALL, ALL PEOPLE MM-HMM
IF WE CAN GET THE, THE BOOKLET OUT TO THOSE PEOPLE, AND THIS, THIS IS THE WAY THAT WE WOULD DO IT, WHAT WOULD BE SOME OF THE CONTENT OF THE RESOURCE BOOKLET, FOR EXAMPLE.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, UM, IF YOU NEEDED HELP WITH YOUR TAXES, FREE HELP WITH YOUR TAXES, IF, UM, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY, UM, THAT WAS HAVING PROBLEMS, BULLYING IN SCHOOL WHERE SOMEBODY COULD CALL, YOU KNOW, BULLIES, GET, YOU KNOW, WHERE YOU CAN CALL, WHERE YOU CAN GET FOOD IF YOU NEED IT, WHERE YOU CAN GET MONEY IF YOU NEED IT.
HELP WITH, WITH REHOMING, YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU'VE GOT DOGS, YOU CAN'T KEEP 'EM ANYMORE.
REHOMING EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN THINK OF, AND I PUT A DATE DOWN OF PUBLICATION BY JUNE, ABOUT ABOUT JUNE OF 2026, WHICH WOULD GIVE US ALMOST A, A FULL YEAR TO COME UP WITH A REALLY COMPREHENSIVE RESOURCE GUIDE.
WE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE IT PRINTED SOMETIME AT THE BEGINNING OF JUNE AND THEN PLAN ON DISTRIBUTING IT AND WHATEVER, TAKE FIVE COPIES OVER TO ST.
PATTY'S CHURCH, YOU KNOW, OR WHATEVER.
UM, I THINK THAT THERE'S A, A OPPORTUNITY MAYBE, UH, TO PARTNER WITH THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
I THINK THE CHAMBER, THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DOES HAVE A BOOKLET ALSO, BUT IT'S, AGAIN, IT'S NOT COMPREHENSIVE.
SO NONE OF THE THINGS THAT, THAT ARE DONE ARE COMPREHENSIVE.
IF WE PARTNER WITH THEM, THEY WILL WANNA TAKE THE LEAD ON THIS.
AND I THINK THAT THIS IS A GOOD WAY FOR US TO REALLY START WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY.
WE ARE DEIB, WE KNOW WHAT YOU NEED.
HERE'S A COPY OF WHAT YOU CAN GET FROM US.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS IS THE COST.
MOST OF, MOST OF THE COST IS START FROM THAT END IS FOR THE, THE, THE PRINTED MATERIALS.
MOST OF THE COST IS FOR THE PRINTED MATERIAL.
AND THAT, AND THAT'S FAIR, BUT I WAS GONNA ASK, DID YOU CHOOSE, OR WOULD WE CHOOSE A PRINTED MATERIAL BECAUSE THAT IS THE WAY THAT THESE TARGET POPULATIONS CONSUME INSTITUTIONS.
SO, SO BASED ON THE RESEARCH THAT I'VE DONE, OKAY, MA AND IT STARTED WITH SENIOR CITIZENS ONLY.
MANY SENIOR CITIZENS DON'T HAVE INTERNET ACCESS OR DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW TO GET ONTO THE INTERNET TO GET INFORMATION.
SO THAT INFORMATION GOES NOWHERE.
MANY OF THESE SENIOR CITIZENS DON'T TRUST PEOPLE WHO APPROACH THEM.
MANY OF THEM DON'T HAVE TRANSPORTATION.
THEY STAY AT HOME ALL THE TIME.
IT SEEMS TO ME THAT SOMETHING IN PAPER THAT WE CAN GET INTO THE HANDS OF MANY DIFFERENT PLACES THAT MIGHT BE ABLE TO PASS THESE BOOKLETS OUT TO PEOPLE WOULD BE THE WAY TO GO.
IF WE MAILED, WELL, IF WE WERE DOING ONE FOR THE WHOLE ENTIRE CITY, THERE'S LIKE ALMOST 46 OR 47,000 PEOPLE BY THE END OF THE YEAR IN HERE.
THERE ARE WHAT, UM, WHAT DID I SAY? 13 OR 14 THOU, UM, THOUSAND HOUSES.
AND WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THE SENIOR CITIZENS LIVE.
WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THE VETERANS LIVE.
WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THE DISABLED LIVE.
SO TO SEND SOMETHING LIKE THAT OUT WOULD COST US A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT
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OF MONEY.AND TO PRINT THE NUMBER THAT WE WOULD NEED WOULD BE EVEN MORE SIGNIFICANT THAN THE FIGURES THAT I SAID.
SO BY LIMITING THE NUMBER WE PRINT, SURE WE CAN ALWAYS REPRINT.
UM, AND IF WE START BY GOING TO THE CHURCHES, WE TAKE THE TIME AND WE GO TO THE CHURCHES AND WE GO TO THE BUSINESSES THAT MIGHT BE ABLE TO PASS THESE BOOKLETS OUT.
LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION EVENTUALLY.
SO DO YOU HAVE LIKE A THOUGHT, THOUGHT OR A LIST OF THE TOP 10 LOCATIONS THAT YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT WHERE SE SENIOR CITIZENS ARE OR WHERE THEY PUBLICLY? WELL, FIRST OF ALL, FIRST OF ALL, THERE ARE NO LOCATIONS FOR SENIOR CITIZENS IN HUTA.
THERE ARE, THERE'S SMALL GROUPS.
YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY MIGHT COME IN, YOU KNOW, 10 OR 20 PEOPLE MIGHT COME IN FOR BINGO AT THE LIBRARY.
I'M TALKING ABOUT 7,500 PLUS PEOPLE, RIGHT? MM-HMM
WE ARE NOT REACHING THOSE PEOPLE.
WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY LIVE.
WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF DIFF WE DON'T HAVE LIKE, PLACES THAT THEY GO.
SO HERE WE, WE HAVE A NEED AND HOW DO WE DO IT? WELL, WE APPROACH CHURCHES BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE DO STILL GO TO CHURCH, EVEN THOUGH IT'S OWN.
IF YOU SELL SOMETHING TO SOMEBODY OR SOMEBODY IS LOOKING FOR A HOUSE, PASS OUT THE BOOKLET.
YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY IF THERE'S SOMEBODY THAT'S DISABLED OR A VETERAN OR SENIOR CITIZEN, PASS THAT BOOKLET OUT.
SCHOOLS KIDS MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
WE GO TO THE SCHOOL, WE GIVE THEM A STACK OF THESE, SO THEIR HUMAN RESOURCES OR FOR THEIR COUNSELING, PEOPLE CAN SAY, OKAY, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE BEING BULLIED.
HERE'S SOME, SOME INFORMATION.
THIS IS THE PLACES THAT YOU CAN CALL AND THEY'LL HELP YOU.
YOU KNOW, WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY HERE TO DO SOMETHING THAT REACHES THE COMMUNITY, STILL SPENDS A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY, BUT IS IS THE BEST WAY TO REACH AS MANY PEOPLE IN EACH OF THESE CATEGORIES AS WE CAN.
I'M NOT ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, I DIDN'T DO THE SMALL BUSINESS STUFF.
I JUST DID SOMETHING OVER VIEWING VETERANS AND SENIOR CITIZENS.
SO THE REASON I WAS ASKING ABOUT THE PRINTED BOOKLETS IS BECAUSE, UM, I UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM ABOUT SENIOR CITIZENS, UM, NEEDING SOMETHING IN PRINT, AND THAT'S, THAT'S FAIR.
WHEN NOT NEEDING SOMETHING IN PRINT, HOW TO GET TO THE MOST SENIOR CITIZENS IN THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INEXPENSIVE WAY, MAILING IS NOT THE BEST WAY.
GIVING IT OUT TO THE LIBRARY FOR 10 OR 20 PEOPLE PERIODICALLY IS NOT THE BEST WAY.
SO I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING THAT YOU WANTED, YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT HOW THAT SPECIFIC GROUP CONSUMES INFORMATION, WHICH IS IN PRINT.
AND THE REASON I'M ASKING IS BECAUSE THERE ARE, AND THIS IS WHAT I'M GONNA SAY, THERE ARE A LOT OF, I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA.
WE DO NEED A RESOURCE HUB FOR THESE RESOURCES AVAILABLE FOR THESE SPECIFIC POPULATIONS.
THAT IS A HUNDRED PERCENT TRUE, BUT IT'S NOT ABOUT THE COST SAVINGS.
PART OF IT IS THERE'S ALREADY SOURCES AND PLACES THAT PEOPLE DO TRUST, AND YOU'VE LISTED A LOT OF THEM.
SO WHAT I'M PROPOSING IS WE CREATE THIS AND WE'RE DOING SOMETHING VERY SIMILAR WITH THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
WE'RE CREATING A RESOURCE HUB FOR BUSINESSES TO KNOW HOW TO ACCESS RESOURCES FOR HIRING PEOPLE IN ACCOUNT PEOPLE.
AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS I WANTED TO DO, IS TO, FOR LIKE SOMEBODY LIKE A HOSPITAL, PUT A LITTLE STAND OUT THERE FOR THE, FOR THE, THE RESOURCE GUIDE IN AN AREA WHERE PEOPLE WOULD COME IN AND SEE IT.
WHERE THEY CAN GRAB ONE OR GIVE IT TO THE HUMAN RESOURCES PEOPLE OR THE, THE COUNSELORS OR WHOEVER IN, IN, IN PLACES LIKE THAT.
IN, IN, IN, YOU KNOW, LI THE LIBRARY IN, IN OTHER PLACES.
YOU KNOW, I JUST THOUGHT, LIKE I SAID, THAT CHURCHES, THAT CERTAIN BUSINESSES, BUSINESSES THAT PEOPLE ALL GO TO, OKAY.
JUST BECAUSE SOMEBODY IS BUYING AT AND T DOWN AT OVER THERE, YOU KNOW, DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE SENIOR CITIZEN LIVING IN THEIR HOUSE USES THE INTERNET.
SO SOMEBODY MIGHT, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY MIGHT, THAT'S WHY I SUGGESTED PUTTING IT ONLINE AS WELL FOR PEOPLE WHO DO WANT IT ONLINE, BUT THOSE PEOPLE WHO NEED IT, GET IT TO THEM SOMEHOW.
AND HERE ARE THE WAYS THAT WE CAN DO IT.
SO, LIVING ON BATHROOMS, BECAUSE OF WHAT WE'VE SEEN, LET SEE, I THINK ON THE UNIVERSITY SIDE, RIGHT? COLLEGES THAT A LOT OF TIMES PRINTED BOOKLETS AND MATERIALS, THEY JUST COLLECT DUST AND PEOPLE DON'T USE THEM BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW THAT THEY NEED THEM.
SO WHEN YOU'RE, AND LET ME FINISH.
SO ONE THING WOULD SAY IS THAT BEFORE WE INVEST, STARTED THINKING ABOUT INVESTING IN A PHYSICAL PRINTOUT, WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN AROUND IT THAT WOULD ENTICE PEOPLE TO EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT AND LOOK FOR THAT RESOURCE.
THE PROBLEM IS, IS THAT WE CAN'T DO A CAMPAIGN IF WE CAN'T REACH THE PEOPLE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
SO THE CAMPAIGN WOULD BE ABOUT
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HOW DO WE WORK WITH THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE ALREADY SERVING OUR TARGET POPULATION SO THAT WE CAN INTRODUCE A LOT OF INFORMATION AND TALK AND NO ANSWER.SO WOULD YOU BE OPPOSED TO US STARTING WITH THE LINK ONLINE JUST STARTING, WELL, THE LINK ONLINE, SO UNDERSTAND, AND THEN WE, WE START WITH LIKE, TOP 10 LOCATIONS.
I JUST, ON A NET, I AM AN INTERNET PERSON.
I SPEND MOST OF MY TIME ON THE INTERNET, I WORK ONLINE, ET CETERA.
I CAN ALWAYS DOWNLOAD IT, I CAN ALWAYS PRINT IT, I CAN ALWAYS DO IT, EVERYTHING.
BUT I'M NOT A TYPICAL SENIOR SIS.
UM, I'M THINKING OF THE PEOPLE HOME ALONE.
THEY DON'T GET OUT OF THE HOUSE.
AND THEY, THEY NEED RESOURCES.
IF SOMEBODY NEEDS FOOD, IF SOMEBODY NEEDS MONEY, IF SOMEBODY NEEDS A RIDE TO THE, YOU KNOW, TO THE DOCTOR AND THEY CAN'T GET, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY'S GONE FROM THE HOUSE, ET CETERA, WHERE DO THEY GET THAT INFORMATION? WELL, THEY CAN'T GET ONLINE BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW HOW, YOU KNOW, OR THEY CAN'T FIND THE INFORMATION.
IF WE DO A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE AND WE GET IT INTO THE HANDS OF AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE, I THINK THAT PEOPLE WOULD USE IT.
I ALMOST BROUGHT THE YELLOW PAGES THAT I JUST GOT FROM WILLIAMSON COUNTY, WHICH IS THE KIND OF THING THAT WE WOULD DO.
IT'S LIKE A, A A, AN EIGHT AND A HALF BY 11 PERFECT BOUND.
IT'S 85, 85 OR 90 PAGES OF ADVER IT MOSTLY ADVERTISING FOR, FOR DIFFERENT BUSINESSES, ET CETERA.
THAT'S THE KIND OF THING THAT WE NEED, NOT NECESSARILY THE ADVERTISING PART, BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY MIGHT PAY FOR AN AD AND IT'S LIKE, NO.
BUT WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY IS, WHAT, WHAT I, WHAT I WAS TRYING TO SAY IS THAT THE CAMPAIGN WOULD BE WORKING WITH THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ALREADY PROVIDE RESOURCES TO THE SENIORS THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
SO I DON'T MEAN TO
I DON'T MEAN TO SAY THAT WE WOULD BE PUTTING IT ONLINE BECAUSE WE EXPECT THE INDIVIDUAL PERSON WHO NEEDS IT TO FIND IT.
BUT WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE PROVIDING THEM SOME KIND OF SERVICE, WHETHER IT'S HRC OR THEIR CHURCH OR, OR THEIR, THE LIBRARY AND OR THE LIBRARY, HU RESOURCE CENTER CREATING ALL OF THOSE THINGS.
SO CREATING THE, THE HUB IS IMPORTANT.
MAKING SURE THE ORGANIZATION ARE ALREADY, SUZANNE, COULD YOU HOLD ON AND LET HER, LET HER SPEAK A LITTLE.
I UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, BUT I'M SAYING THAT WE ARE NOT GOING TO REACH THE PEOPLE THAT WE NEED TO.
WE ARE REACHING BUSINESSES AND WE'RE SPINNING, SPINNING OUR WHEELS, PLANNING, YOU KNOW, AND TRAINING AND PLANNING AND DOING WHATEVER.
BUT WE'RE NOT GETTING THE INFORMATION OUT.
WE'RE NOT REACHING THE PEOPLE.
HOW MANY PEOPLE DO THE PEOPLE THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, THE COMPANIES, THE BUSINESSES THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, HOW MANY SENIOR CITIZENS DO THEY REACH IN A MONTH? UM, WE, WE DON'T KNOW.
UM, THERE ARE, I KNOW WITHIN HUDDLE PEOPLE OWN THIS AND THEY COULD PROBABLY HELP US, WHICH IS WHY I LIKE WHAT PURINA WAS SAYING, IS THAT WE WOULD PARTNER, BECAUSE I'M VERY SENSITIVE ABOUT US TAKING ON WORK.
WELL, I WOULD'VE, I WOULD'VE VOLUNTEERED TO DO THE BOOKLET BECAUSE I'M A DESIGNER.
AND I WORK IN, IN ADOBE AND ALL OF THE PROGRAMS NOW.
BUT IF SOMEBODY ELSE WANTS TO DO IT, THAT'S MORE, BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK THIS COULD BE LIKE, THIS IS A, A REALLY BIG ITEM.
AND I THINK IT COULD BE LIKE A, YOU KNOW, YOU DID A LOT OF WORK ON THIS VERY COMPREHENSIVE, I THINK IT COULD BE PACKAGED AS A SEPARATE BUDGET ITEM THAT COULD ACTUALLY BE SHARED BETWEEN THE, UH, THE COMMUNITY RELATIONS DEPARTMENT AND THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT AND GET THE WHOLE, YOU KNOW, THE BASICALLY ALL THE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THIS CITY TOGETHER ON THIS PROJECT.
BUT IN, IN A WAY THAT, THAT, THAT'S GOOD.
BECAUSE I THINK SHARING MEANS THAT YOU CAN GET A BUDGET PASSED, WHICH YOU REALLY NEED.
BUT IT'S ALSO BAD BECAUSE SUDDENLY WE HAVE TOO MANY COOKS AND NOT PEOPLE THAT ARE ACTUALLY WORKING TO ADDRESS WHAT WE REALLY NEED TO DO AND KEEPING US ON SCHEDULE.
I I ASSUMED THAT THE, THE, UM, UH, WEB STUFF WOULD BE UNDER THE BUDGET OF YEAH.
UM, I DIDN'T KNOW WHO WOULD BE BUDGET WISE FOR PRINT.
SO WHEN WE'RE SPEAKING ABOUT BUDGET, ONE OF THE CONCERNS THAT I WOULD HAVE IS WHEN YOU WERE PUTTING SOMETHING ON A BUDGET
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AND YOU'RE REQUESTING MONEY FOR IT, YOU HAVE TO REPORT.RIGHT? SO HOW WOULD WE MEASURE, 'CAUSE YOU MADE A GREAT POINT ABOUT HOW DO WE KNOW HOW MANY SENIORS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO REACH THAT THESE ORGANIZATIONS ARE ACTUALLY REACHING? WELL, WE DON'T KNOW THAT, RIGHT? BUT IF WE GAVE THEM A PAMPHLET AND A BOOK AND WE PASSED IT OUT, HOW DO WE MEASURE THE IMPACT OF THAT ACTUALLY BEING UTILIZED? SO, AND, AND CAN I ALSO, SOMETHING THAT, UM, I THINK IS IMPORTANT TO CONSIDER HERE IS THAT THIS IS REALLY, I LIKE A LOT OF THIS.
I LIKE A LOT OF THE IDEAS AND, AND THE, THAT YOU'RE SAYING AND, AND THERE'S PROBABLY A NEED FOR IT THERE.
I'M NOT REALLY SURE THAT AT THIS POINT IN THE, UH, BUDGET PROCESS THAT, UH, APPROVING, UH, APPROVING THIS PLAN AT THIS POINT WHEN IT'S NOT FULLY FLESHED OUT.
WE DON'T KNOW, UH, IF WE'RE GONNA HAVE, MAYBE WE'RE GONNA GET SPONSORS.
MAYBE WE CAN, MAYBE YOU CAN GET DONATIONS WHO MAYBE WE CAN PARTNER, RIGHT? MAYBE THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT COULD BE WORKED OUT, BUT NOT FOR THIS BUDGET, MAYBE FOR THE NEXT BUDGET.
I JUST THINK IT'S TOO LATE IN THE PROCESS TO IMPROVE TO, FOR US TO APPROVE, UH, THIS PROJECT WHEN WE REALLY NEED TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION ON THE BUDGET TODAY.
WELL, I MEAN, THIS, THIS IS THE ONE THING THAT I THINK IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR THIS GROUP.
AND I, IF YOU THINK I'M WRONG, THAT'S YOUR CHOICE.
IT, I THINK THAT, THAT THE, THE FACT IS, IS THAT WE, AND I DID MY LITTLE THING AND CALLED THIS, HU IS A WASTELAND FOR RESOURCES.
OKAY? WE DON'T HAVE ANY, OKAY.
THERE ARE SOME BOOKLETS FLOATING AROUND.
UM, THE, THE POLICE HAVE A BOOKLET, ET CETERA.
THESE ARE NOT COMPREHENSIVE BOOKLETS THAT WE ARE GETTING OUT TO THE PEOPLE THAT WE REALLY, REALLY HAVE TO.
HOW ARE WE REACHING THE PEOPLE? WELL, WE'RE NOT REACHING THE PEOPLE.
AND I THINK THAT RIGHT NOW, UNTIL THE CITY BUILDS UP, YOU KNOW, UNTIL WE HAVE A, A CENTRAL LOCATION FOR MEETINGS AND GROUPS AND WHATEVER, IF, UNLESS WE, WE CAN, YOU KNOW, FIGURE OUT DATA FOR PEOPLE LIKE VETERANS AND FOR PEOPLE LIKE SENIOR CITIZENS, WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO TRACK THIS INFORMATION.
LEMME ASK YOU THIS REAL QUICK, THEN WE CAN MOVE ON.
UM, DO YOU HAVE A PRICE IN MIND FOR JUST, JUST STARTING JUST LIST, JUST START IT FOR LIKE A THOUSAND BOOKLETS AND ARE YOU WILLING TO DESIGN THE BOOKLETS AND THE INFORMATION TO GO IN SO WE CAN GIVE YOU MONEY? LIKE, HEY, HERE GO 1,500.
WITH THAT, YOU KNOW, HELP YOU START.
SO, AND WE ALSO HAVE TO KEEP IN MIND THAT I JUST COUNTED THE DEIB UH, UH, EXECUTION PLAN HAS 26 LINE ITEMS, AND THIS IS ONE OF THE 26.
SO WE HAVE TO ALSO PRIORITIZE, YOU KNOW, HOW MUCH MONEY CAN WE SPEND ON EACH ONE GIVEN THERE'S 26 ITEMS. AND, AND THEN ALSO WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE THE BUDGET THAT WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN.
UM, 25, LIKE 25,000 IS TWICE, BUT THAT WAS THE BUDGET.
WHAT I DID WAS, I GOT QUOTE, YOU FIGURED QUOTES FOR A THOUSAND, 5,000, 10,000 FOR 20 PAGES AND 50 PAGES.
SO WITHOUT ANY MR. BELL QUESTION, FAR AS WE ADS IN THEM TOO, SELL ADS AS FAR AS, AS FAR AS, UH, BUDGET MONEY AS FAR AS THE CITY OF HU, IS THERE CERTAIN LIMIT THAT A, UH, UH, ENTITY OR US OR WHAT HAVE YOU, IS THERE A THRESHOLD WHERE IT MUST HAVE A COUNCIL VOTE? OR ONCE IT'S VOTED BY COUNCIL, DOES IT HAVE TO BE DISPERSED TO, UH, SMALL MINORITY BUSINESSES? OR IS THERE ANY KIND OF CAP LIKE THAT FOR CITY BUT UP? UM, SO THAT I UNDERSTAND YOUR QUESTION.
ARE YOU ASKING, UH, FROM AS FAR AS WHAT THE COMMISSION IS REQUESTING IN BUDGET OR OTHER BUDGET ITEMS? I GUESS WHAT I'M ASKING IS IF THERE'S A DOLLAR AMOUNT OF A BUDGET THAT WE ARE, WE WANT TO USE FOR CAMPAIGN OR WHATEVER, IS THERE A THRESHOLD THAT IF WE SPEND, IF WE WANNA SPEND $10,000 MM-HMM
WE HAVE TO SEND IT OUT TO BID FOR OTHER VENDORS TO, UH, PARTICIPATE AS FAR AS CITY CODE AND SPENDING TAXPAYER MONEY? I THINK THEY HAVE TO DO THAT.
I THINK THAT'S AS FAR AS PRINTING SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
ANYTHING OVER THERE? THERE ARE DIFFERENT TIERS.
I JUST THINK IT'S TOO LATE IN THE GAME TO FLESH THIS OUT FOR THE CURRENT
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BUDGET PROPOSAL.I, I, I, I DON'T, I'M NOT SAYING THE IDEA IS NOT A GOOD IDEA.
UH, BUT THERE'S PLENTY OF TIME TO FLESH IT OUT OVER THE NEXT YEAR.
AND IN ADDITION, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS YOU CAN DO IF WE ESTABLISH THAT THE WORKING GROUP, THE ADVISORY GROUPS ALSO, YOU CAN ASK THEM, YOU KNOW, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE IN A RESOURCE GUIDE? YOU CAN ASK THE VETERANS GROUP, THE SENIOR CITIZENS GROUP, THE SMALL BUSINESS GROUP, AND THEN OTHER, UH, CONSTITUENCIES LIKE, YOU KNOW, TEENS OR, UH, PEOPLE OF COLOR, YOU KNOW, UH, WHAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT KIND OF RESOURCES DID YOU LIKE TO SEE? AND THEN BUILD, YOU KNOW, THAT CAN HELP, YOU KNOW, THAT CAN HELP GET MORE DATA TO GET A BIGGER BUDGET TO DO THIS WITH.
THAT WAS PART OF THE PLAN, WHICH I DIDN'T PUT DOWN ON THE FIGURES BECAUSE I HAD TO PUT THE FIGURES DOWN.
AND PART OF THE PLAN IS REACHING OUT TO THE COMMUNITY TO FIND OUT WHAT RESOURCES, YOU KNOW, LIKE WHAT THE HUDDLE RESOURCE CENTER WOULD LIKE IN THE BOOKLET.
WHAT THEY FEEL, WHAT THE POLICE FEEL LIKE, WHAT THE FIRE IS.
WHEN I THOUGHT ABOUT IT, THIS, FOR THIS BUDGET, IT'S BECAUSE IF WE WAIT ANOTHER YEAR, IT'S GONNA BE TWO YEARS OR THREE YEARS BEFORE WE EVEN COME UP WITH A, A COMPREHENSIVE BOOKLET OF RESOURCES FOR A CITY THAT DOESN'T HAVE ANY.
WELL, WHEN YOU, SINCE WE DON'T REALLY HAVE THE CONTENT WORKED OUT, IT'S NOT REALLY POSSIBLE FOR US TO, TO, TO, TO KNOW HOW MANY PAGES NEED TO BE PRINTED.
WE DON'T HAVE, THAT'S WHY I GAVE A DIFFERENT 20 AND 50 ARE GOOD OPTIONS FOR STARTING.
AND I'VE GOT ALL OF THE DIFFERENT FIGURES FOR THOSE.
AND I SAID JUNE OF 2026, WHICH GIVES A FULL YEAR YEAH.
WELL, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE DEFINITELY WOULD BE STARTING.
BUT SUZANNE, I WANNA KNOW WHAT YOU THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT COREY SAID ABOUT LIKE, WHERE WE ARE IN THE BUDGET PROJECTS, THAT WE ARE NOT DENYING THIS AND NOT SAY, OH NO, WE'RE NOT GONNA DO IT.
BUT WHEN WE PRESENT TO THE COUNCIL THAT WE HAVE TO BE, WE HAVE TO BE ON POINT.
AND I REALLY LIKE WHAT COREY SAID AND WHAT EVERYONE HAS SAID THAT IT'S EXCELLENT IDEA, BUT IT IS JUST WHAT WE PRESENT AT THIS TIME.
THAT'S AN OVER THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT.
AND WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE STATE OF PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, NOT WANTING TO SPEND MORE MONEY.
AND YOU, WE HAVE, WE HAVE A LOT OF PRESSURE.
MY BIGGEST CONCERN IS WHEN YOU'RE ASKING ANY, ANY ENTITY AND ANY FOR, FOR MONEY, YOU HAVE TO ASKING.
WELL, OTHER THAN, WELL, FOR THE BUDGET, YES.
WE'RE GONNA BE SAYING, WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO WITH THIS MONEY? WE NEED TO ALREADY KNOW HOW WE'RE GONNA MEASURE THE OUTCOMES AND THE IN AND THE IMPACT OF THAT EFFORT.
NOT JUST HOW MANY DID WE DISTRIBUTE, HOW MANY HANDS DID TO GET, BUT WHAT KIND OF DIFFERENCE DID IT MAKE? DID IT ACCOMPLISH THE GOAL OF GETTING THE RESOURCES THAT THEY NEEDED? DID THEY ACTUALLY GET ACCESS TO THE RESOURCES THAT WE INCLUDED IN THE BOOK? THAT'S A WHOLE OTHER PROJECT CAMPAIGN THAT WE NEED TO, ONE OF, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'RE DISCUSSING IS PUTTING OUT A SURVEY TO EVERYONE AND ASKING WHAT QUESTIONS WE THINK ARE RELEVANT FOR THAT SURVEY.
BUT WITHOUT ASKING FOR PEOPLE, DO YOU HAVE A SENIOR CITIZEN IN YOUR HOUSE AND ARE YOU WILLING TO GIVE US YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS? ARE PEOPLE GONNA DO THAT? PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO GIVE OUT THEIR INFORMATION.
AND IF, IF YOU ASK IF YOU HAVE A SENIOR CITIZEN IN THE HOUSE, IF PEOPLE DON'T ANSWER, IF YOU KNOW, LIKE 20% OR 30% OF THE PEOPLE IN THE CITY DON'T ANSWER, WE DON'T HAVE A GOOD, ACCURATE, ACCURATE WAY OF DETERMINING WHETHER OR NOT THE SURVEY IS DOING WHAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO.
WELL, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S A PART OF THE PIECE THAT WE HAVE THAT WE'RE GONNA BE INVOLVED WITH THE SURVEY.
SO WE, WE ARE GONNA COVER THOSE.
YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS TOO, BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD DO A RESOURCE GUIDE ONLINE, DROP THE DROP THE, THE PRINT.
YOU COULD DO A RESOURCE GUIDE ONLINE, BUT THAT'S STILL GOING TO COST FOR THE WEB DEVELOPMENT, ET CETERA, FOR PUTTING THE INFORMATION TOGETHER.
UM, FOR GETTING THE, THE LINKS OR THE, THE DOMAINS THAT WE NEED.
UM, WHICH WOULD CUT THE BUDGET DOWN BY $20,000.
WHY WOULD WE NEED A NEW DOMAIN? I THOUGHT WE WERE GONNA BE HOUSING THE RESOURCE HUB WITHIN OUR PAGE.
BUT THE WHOLE, THE WHOLE IDEA IS PEOPLE CAN'T FIND ANY INFORMATION ON THE WEBSITE.
BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'VE DECIDED WE'RE GONNA COMMUNICATION IS WORK IN THAT I, OVER THE WEEKEND, I LOOKED UP INFORMATION, I COULDN'T FIND WHAT I NEEDED.
A SIMPLE, SOMETHING SIMPLE THAT I WAS LOOKING UP WAS NOT THERE.
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IT ON OPIA, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE LITTLE SITES THAT SOMEBODY, BUT THAT'S GOOD.BUT, BUT WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
WHY I WANTED DOMAINS WAS BECAUSE IF WE CAN GET PEOPLE POINTED DIRECTLY AT OUR THING, INSTEAD OF HAVING TO GO THROUGH MULTIPLE LEVELS JUST TO GET TO OUR PAGE.
UM, HU BELONGS, I THINK IT WAS HU BELONGS.
I CAN'T REMEMBER THE ONES THAT I WROTE DOWN.
WE'RE NOT ASKING FOR MONEY FOR THOSE DOT GOVS.
WE JUST NEED THEM TO POINT OUT REALLY QUICK, JUST AS IT PERTAINS TO POLICY.
UM, IF Y'ALL AS A COMMISSION WERE TO DECIDE TO GET A DOMAIN, Y'ALL WOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING, UM, THAT, THAT, 'CAUSE IT'S NOT AN OFFICIAL PART OF THE CITY AT THAT POINT.
IT'S NOW IT'S A GOOD, WHATEVER WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DO GHOST TOO.
I'M JUST LETTING YOU KNOW, SUE THAT, UM MM-HMM
PER OUR POLICY AND THE DIFFERENT DOMAIN THAT IT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR.
I'M AN ADMIN ON A, ON A DOMAIN NOW.
ARE 7.3 STILL, I'M JUST LETTING YOU KNOW.
UM, I'M JUST WONDERING IF WE COULD, UH, BRING THIS TO THIS DISCUSSION TO, TO SOME SORT OF FINALITY, I, UH, UM, ARE, IS THERE INTEREST HERE IN, IN, IN REQUESTING THIS FOR THE, FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR 26? WHAT ABOUT IF WE DID SOMETHING LIKE, UM, MAYBE INITIAL STARTUP OR A START UP INITIAL CAMPAIGN OR, YOU KNOW, AND PUT IT STILL WOULD BE THERE AND THEN WE PUT AN AMOUNT, A MODEST AMOUNT MAYBE OF LIKE $2,000 AND THEN IT WILL COVER, WE WILL SAY, HERE'S THE WORK THAT WE'RE GONNA DO.
THE, IT'LL BE INITIAL, INITIAL 25 ACTUALLY.
SO ACTUALLY 500 MORE THAN WHATEVER BUDGET WE'RE GONNA ASK FOR ORDER TO GET IT STARTED.
ORDER, CREATE AN INTERACTIVE WEBSITE WHERE SOMEBODY CAN GO IN AND SEARCH FOR INFORMATION.
PROBABLY WOULD COST MORE THAN 2,500 BUCKS TO GET IT SET UP.
WELL, I'M THINKING IN TERMS OF GETTING YOU YOUR PAMPHLETS AND AS FAR AS WEBSITE, WE'RE GONNA LET THE CITY HANDLE THAT AND REARRANGING WHERE THE EIB COMMISSION IS ON THE WEBSITE.
SO WE HAVE TO, I'M GONNA STAY STERN ON WHAT YOU JUST SAID.
FIRST AND FOREMOST, THE CITY NEEDS TO HANDLE THAT.
SO I'M JUST, I'M GONNA SQUASH IT RIGHT NOW.
WHATEVER IDEA WE COME UP WITH, IT'S THE CITY OF HUDDLES PROPERTY.
ANY DISCUSSION, WHY ARE WE DOING THIS? WE'RE DOING
IT'S THE CITY OF HUDDLE'S PROPERTY, PERIOD.
SO WHATEVER WE DO, WHATEVER WE DISCUSS, WHATEVER WE'RE GONNA MOVE FORWARD WITH, WE BELONGS TO THE CITY OF HUDDLE.
SO WE NEED TO HAVE THAT MINDSET AND THAT THOUGHT PROCESS.
BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO, AND THEIR OWNERSHIP, WE'RE NOT TAKING OVER.
WE'RE NOT DOING, BUT WE'RE ASSISTING.
KEEP IN MIND THEY ARE, THEY CAN TAKE REQUESTS FOR REARRANGING SO WE DON'T HAVE TO DO SO MANY LATER.
THAT'S SOMETHING I'VE ALREADY, I THINK THAT MIGHT, IF WE HAD OUR OWN LITTLE.GOV THAT POINTED AT THE PAGE, I DON'T THINK WE'RE READY FOR THAT BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T DONE THE INITIAL WORK YET.
I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GONNA BE STARTING, WHICH IS WHAT THESE WORKING GROUPS ARE FOR INFORMATION THAT'S ON THERE RIGHT NOW.
IT'S REALLY HARD TO FIND IT TO FIND OUR GROUP.
IT'S NOT EASY FOR SOMEBODY WHO'S NOT COMFORTABLE ON A WEBSITE TO FIND THAT IN INFORMATION.
IF WE DID A DOMAIN LIKE OVER 50 FIVE.GOV OR OVER 55 HU OR HU BELONGS OR WHATEVER, I THINK IT POINTS AT THAT SITE.
WE'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING WITH THAT INFORMATION.
BUT I THINK THAT'S WAY OUTSIDE THE PURVIEW OF THE DEIB COMMISSION, THOUGH.
IT IS, IT'S NOT, I DON'T THINK IT'S PART OF THE CORE MISSION OF THIS GROUP.
AND I THINK THAT THAT NEEDS TO BE A DECISION THAT Y'ALL NEED TO MAKE AS A GROUP.
SO AT THIS POINT IN TIME, BECAUSE WE REALLY GOT A LOT OF OTHER THINGS TO COVER, CAN WE TAKE IT THAT WE WOULD PUT THIS ITEM IN A BUS'S INITIAL, I DON'T KNOW HOW WE WOULD WORD IT.
IF YOU'RE GONNA REQUEST A SPECIFIC AMOUNT OF MONEY, WHATEVER, EVEN IF IT'S $10, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A SPECIFIC ACTION THING THAT YOU'RE REQUESTING.
IF I'M LOOKING AT THAT AND I'M GOING, WHAT DO YOU, OKAY.
WHAT IS INITIAL COST? WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? YEAH.
YOU KNOW, AND, AND YOU HAVE TO HAVE A REALLY GOOD EXPLANATION, ESPECIALLY GIVEN
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SHE HAS A THOUSAND PAMPHLETS FOR 2300 JUST FOR THE PAMPHLET.BUT THE COST OF THE POUND IS AT THE END OF THE CONVERSATION.
'CAUSE WE STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT CONTENT'S GONNA BE.
SO WHAT SHOULD WE PUT DOWN FOR NOW SO WE CAN PUT DOWN NOTHING? I MEAN, YOU KNOW, MOVE ON.
THERE'S NOTHING THAT I SUGGESTED.
IT'S, UM, IF I MAY I MAKE A RECOMMENDATION.
UM, SO I NOTICED IN, UM, AND STAN'S HANDOUT, THE BUFFER, ET CETERA.
SO, UM, I WAS GONNA LET YOU KNOW IT NORMALLY RIGHT.
TO INCLUDE SOME SORT OF A BUFFER.
BUT, UM, IN MY EXPERIENCE IN WORKING WITH, UM, CITY COUNCIL AND BUDGET REQUESTS, BUFFER IS BASICALLY A NO-GO.
UM, SO MAYBE INSTEAD OF, YOU KNOW, AS THE FINAL PROPOSAL WITH THE BUDGET, MAYBE CHANGE THAT TO AN INITIAL, UM, RESOURCE GUIDE.
START STARTING POINT OF THAT 1500 AND START FROM THERE.
AND AS Y'ALL BUILD OUT, YOU CAN KIND GROW.
WHAT DOES ANYBODY ELSE THINK? WELL, WHATEVER WE ASKING, BUT NO, IT'S, YEAH, NO, IT'S RIGHT HERE.
INSTEAD OF BUFFER HAVING INSTEAD OF BUDGET, WE HAVE A LINE.
I I THAT, BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO HAVE, YOU CAN'T, RIGHT? YOU CAN'T HAVE BUFFER.
WHAT, WHAT WOULD, WHAT WOULD WE ASKING FOR? RESOURCE GUIDES.
OKAY, THIS IS, UH, LET'S SEE, I'M GONNA SHARE THE SCREEN AGAIN.
UH, THIS IS WHAT I REPLACED IT WITH INITIAL WORK, STARTING THE RESOURCE GUIDE PROJECT.
AND THAT, AND YOU GOTTA TAKE OUT BUFFER THOUGH.
THIS IS GONNA BE, THIS IS BECAUSE THIS IS, THIS IS ITEM 5.4.
UH, ITEM 5.4 IN THE WORK PLAN IS, UH, RESOURCE GUIDE FOR ALL CITIZENS.
SO, SO THAT IT TIES DIRECTLY TO THE PLAN AND IT'S KIND OF IN LINE WITH ALL THE OTHER, YOU KNOW, ALL THESE OTHER ITEMS ARE, YOU KNOW, A FEW THOUSAND HERE AND THERE.
SO WON'T, YOU KNOW, IF WE DID THESE ITEMS ONE, 2000 THEN AND PUT A $25,000 HERE, IT WOULD, I THINK, RAISE AN ISSUE.
BUT I THINK EVEN PUTTING 1500 OR 2000 HERE WITH THIS LINE ITEM, BECAUSE IT TIES DIRECTLY TO THE, TO THE, TO THE PLAN.
THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO DECIDE ALSO IS ARE WE GOING TO ASK 14,000 OR MORE? THAT'S WHAT THE BIG QUESTION IS.
LIKE I FOR, BUT MY SUGGESTION WOULD BE TO ASK FOR EVERYTHING YOU WANT, CUT BACK FROM THERE, SAY NO, LET THEM SAY NO.
SO I THINK WHAT WE DO HAVE GOING IS THAT WE'VE DONE A GOOD JOB OF SHOWING WHAT WE'VE, WHAT WE'VE DONE WITH THE MONEY THAT WE'VE REQUESTED BEFORE.
WE'VE BEEN GOOD ABOUT DELIVER ON OUR DELIVERABLES AND SHOWING THE IMPACT AND THE PROGRESS THAT WE'VE MADE.
'CAUSE WE, WE, WE DELIVERED ON THE THINGS THAT WE SAID WE WERE GONNA DO.
UM, I I'M JUST CURIOUS, IS THERE AN INTEREST, UM, IN THIS, IS THERE AN INTEREST IN THE CITY STAFF TO HAVE THE COMPREHENSIVE TRAINING? THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
BEYOND THE, THE MANAGER STAFF OR IS THERE AN INTEREST IN THE MANAGEMENT FOR EVERYBODY TO HAVE THE TRAINING? IT'S IN, WITHIN THE STRATEGIC PLAN, THERE'S AN EMPHASIS ON DEI INITIATIVES AND WORK.
IS THAT REVIEWED BY THE, THE LEGAL PEOPLE? WHAT, UH, WHICH PART? ANY, ANY TRAINING OR ANYTHING FOR DEIV? NO, IT'S, UH, ANY TRAINING OR ANYTHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH, WITH DAP OR OPERATIONS IS BASICALLY ULTIMATELY THE CITY MANAGER HAS FINAL APPROVAL.
BUT IF SO, IF I TAKE THAT TO HIM, I SAY THIS IS YXYZ, THIS IS HOW TO ALIGN WITH THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
HE HAS THAT AUTHORITY TO SAY, I DON YEAH.
IN ANYTHING I DEVELOP, I WOULD, I WOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM SENDING IT EARLY SO THAT THE LEGAL STAFF CAN REVIEW IT TO MAKE SURE IT DOESN'T VIOLATE ANY NATIONAL OR STATE LAWS.
I ONLY SAY THAT BECAUSE I WAS LISTENING TO SOMETHING ON THE NEWS AND, AND ABBOTT WAS ACTIVELY SAYING THAT, YOU KNOW, HE WAS GONNA COME DOWN ON, ON CITIES THAT DIDN'T COMPLY WITH SOMETHING.
AND I WAS LIKE, CAN WORM, CAN WE LEAVE? SO IF YOU'RE ASKED, UH, IF YOU'RE ASKED BY, UH, COUNCIL OR CITY COUNCIL, UH, WHAT IS, WHAT IS THE 1,504? THE ANSWER IS IT IS THE INITIAL PRINTING OF THE INITIAL NO INITIAL WORK.
HOW DID WE DEFINE INITIAL WORK GATHERING DATA? I WOULD SAY DEVELOP.
I WOULD SAY I WOULD SCOPING AND DEVELOPING.
WE NEED BE REALLY FINDING COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT BE ONE, ONE.
HOW IS THAT SEPARATE FROM THE LISTENING POSTS AND THE WORKING GROUPS? WE DON'T HAVE, WELL, THE, THE LISTENING SEE THE LISTENING POST WORK HERE, THAT IS FOR DEVELOPING
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THE PLAYBOOK IN TERMS OF, OKAY, YOU THREE PEOPLE ARE LEADING THIS DISCUSSION.HERE'S YOUR, HERE'S YOUR, YOUR SCRIPT.
HERE ARE THE QUESTIONS YOU'RE GONNA ASK.
AND OF COURSE, ONE OF THE QUESTIONS COULD BE, YOU KNOW, WHAT KIND OF RESOURCES DO YOU NEED? WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE IN A RESOURCE GUIDE? SO THAT WOULD BE SOME OF THE CONTENT.
BUT THIS $1,000, 'CAUSE YOU KNOW, YOU JUST CAN'T PUT A BUNCH.
IT, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE NOT GONNA JUST TELL TWO PEOPLE, OKAY, GO LEAD A LISTENING POST AND NOT TELL THEM HOW TO DO IT.
OR GIVE THEM A SCRIPT AND GIVE THEM A GUIDEBOOK.
AND THEN THE, UH, THE, THE WORKING GROUPS, THAT'S FOR TRAINING THEM ON THE DEIB STRATEGY, WHAT DEIB IS, UH, AND YOU KNOW, WHAT'S EXPECTED OF THEM IN TERMS OF HOW TO DO THEIR JOB AND THEIR ROLE.
SO WE CAN PREPARE THEM FOR SUCCESS.
SO IT'S TRAINING TO, TO GET THOSE WORKING GROUPS KICKED OFF.
YOU JUST CAN'T SAY, OKAY, YOU'RE A WORKING GROUP.
THEY NEED TO BE PROVIDED SOME TRAINING.
AND ALSO SETTING EXPECTATIONS.
WHAT ARE, WHAT ARE YOUR ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES? WHAT SHOULD YOU BE DOING? SO THIS 1750 IS TO DEVELOP AND DELIVER THAT TRAINING FOR THOSE WORKING GROUPS.
AND I THINK, I, I THINK I MISSTATED MY QUESTIONS DOWN.
WHAT I MEANT IS THIS ADDITIONAL MONEY THAT WE'RE SAYING IS NOW FOR THE INITIAL WORK STRATEGY, STARTING, STARTING INITIAL WORK ON THE RESOURCE GUIDE.
I THOUGHT, I, I, I WAS, I UNDERSTOOD IT AS THE WORK.
AND I UNDERSTAND THEY NEED TRAINING A HUNDRED PERCENT.
I'M ON BOARD WITH THEM NEEDING THE TRAINING AND THE GUIDANCE.
BUT I THOUGHT THE PURPOSE OF THEM WAS TO DO THAT WORK WAS JUST TO GATHER INFORMATION OF WHAT RESOURCES DO YOU NEED? ARE YOU ACCESSING, YOU KNOW, RESOURCES THAT YOU NEED IN THE CITY OF HURO? DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE ACCESS TO THEM? DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'RE INFORMED? WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED? I THOUGHT THAT THAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE WORKING GROUPS.
WHICH INCLUDE THE SENIOR CITIZEN GROUP AND THE LISTENING POSTS SO THAT WE CAN FURTHER EXTEND OUR REACH.
SO I'M TRYING TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN WHAT THOSE GROUPS WOULD BE ACCOMPLISHING AND THE 1500 WOULD BE SPENDING ON THE INITIAL WORK.
WE, I THINK WE NEED TO BE VERY CLEAR ABOUT HOW THOSE TWO THINGS ARE DIFFERENT.
SO SEE THE WORKING GROUPS IN THESE LISTENING POSTS WILL GIVE YOU INPUT.
IS THE CITIZENS SAYING THIS IS WHAT WE NEED, YOU KNOW, HERE'S SOME SUGGESTIONS OF RESOURCES, BUT THEN SOMEONE HAS TO TAKE THAT INFORMATION AND DO SOMETHING WITH IT.
YOU KNOW, SO THAT'S, SO IT'S BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, SYNTHESIZING AND TAKING AND USING THE WORKING GROUP INFORMATION AND THE LISTENING POST INFORMATION TO START DEVELOPING WHAT THIS GUIDE SHOULD LOOK LIKE.
SO I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO INCLUDE IN THERE THEN.
BUT YOU SAID ABOUT TAKING THAT INFORMATION THAT'S COMES FROM THAT INITIAL EFFORT AND ACTUALLY SYNTHESIZING AND DEVELOPING IT.
FEEDBACK FROM THE WORKING GROUPS AND LISTENING POSTS.
AND THEN I THINK THAT GIVES US PLENTY OF TIME TO FLESH IT OUT, DEVELOP THE CONTENT, LOOK FOR SPONSORS, MAYBE DONATIONS.
AND THEN MAKE A PROPOSAL FULL FLEDGE ALL THE SPECIFICS.
SOME REALTORS WOULD PROBABLY WANNA HAVE ADS IN THAT, YOU KNOW, I HAD A FEW REALTORS WOULD SAY, HEY, I'LL CONTRIBUTE $500 TO PUT AN AD OR A THOUSAND DOLLARS TO PUT AN AD IN THE BOOK.
YOU COULD SELL ADS AND PROBABLY HAVE THE THING PAY FOR ITSELF.
AND THEY DISTRIBUTED, THEY HAVE NEWSLETTERS, SO THEY WOULD ALSO HELP DISTRIBUTE IT, ADD NOTES TO US.
THEY WOULD DISTRIBUTE THAT INFORMATION.
'CAUSE THEY'RE, MOST REALTORS ARE LOOKING FOR CONTENT FOR THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD NEWSLETTERS TO MAKE THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD MORE ATTRACTIVE AND A PLACE PEOPLE WANNA BE.
SO I KNOW A LOT OF REALTOR EVENTS WHO DO LOOK FOR POSITIVE CONTENT YEAH.
TO INCLUDE IN THEIR NEWSLETTERS AND PUBLICATIONS AND RESOURCE GUIDE WOULD BE VERY VALUABLE.
AND THEN, UM, UM, HUDDLE IS ALSO A GOOD RETIREMENT COMMUNITY.
AND SO THERE'S A LOT, THERE'S A LOT VERY IMPRESSED WITH ALL THIS WORK.
LIKE MAKE IT BABY STEP ANY TIME YOU WORK OUT TIMING.
ANYTIME YOU FIRST THIS IS THE, THE, WHEN YOU SAID YOU WANTED THE BUDGET NUMBERS AND I GOT 'EM TOGETHER.
PHYSIC GOING, YOU KNOW, BALLROOM.
SO DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY OTHER ITEMS THAT WE CAN INCLUDE OR SHOULD INCLUDE IN THE BUDGET SO WE CAN, I THINK I PUT, UM, DID I PUT, WE WERE LOOKING AT SOMETHING ABOUT A CAMPAIGN.
BELONGING HUDDLE, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
IS THAT BEYOND FIVE FIVE? FIVE DASH FIVE? PARDON? IS THAT BEYOND FIVE DASH FIVE? YEAH, IT'S, NO, THAT WAS, IT IS FIVE DASH FIVE.
BUT AGAIN, FIVE FIVE, YOU KNOW, THIS WOULD, I WOULD, I ASSUME THIS WOULD BE IN A DIFFERENT PART OF THE BUDGET THAT IT'D BE IN, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER, WHEREVER YOU PUT PRINTED, YOU KNOW WHAT I CALL PUBLICITY MATERIAL, YOU KNOW.
MATERIAL THAT HYPES HU WHEREVER THAT
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BUDGET SITS, THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE IN THERE.WE'LL TALK WITH CHRISTIE ABOUT THAT.
THEY PROBABLY HAVE SOMETHING WITH OUR OUTREACH.
SO, UM, COULD I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE, THAT WE RECOMMEND THIS, THESE ITEMS? YES.
BUT I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE WERE NO OTHER ITEMS THAT WE WANTED TO INCLUDE IN THERE.
WELL, YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT A BANNER OR SOMETHING.
LIKE ADVERTISING OF SOME SORT TO, TO PROMOTE YOU BELONG IN HU AS OUR GUIDE FOR THE CITY.
I MEAN EVEN A, AND OF COURSE I ALWAYS THINKING ABOUT MONEY, EVEN A BILLBOARD THAT SAYS SOMETHING LIKE THAT ON THE EDGES OF PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, ON I 35 OR SOMETHING COMING INTO HU YOU BELONG IN HU WE COULD PROBABLY GET A SPONSOR FOR THAT.
OR MAYBE THE EDC WOULD INVEST IN SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
MAYBE PUT 500 IN THERE FOR THAT OR FOR, FOR BILLBOARD
BANNER, SMALL ADVERTISING POSTERS THAT YOU COULD PUT UP IN THE LIBRARY AND IN OTHER COMMUNITY.
COMMUNITY AREAS THAT PEOPLE ACTUALLY LOOK AT.
BUT WHAT, WHAT, WHAT DOES IT SAY EXCEPT FOR NEW BELONGING? HU WHAT DO YOU WANT IT TO SAY? I WANNA SAY RESOURCE GUY.
DOES EVERYBODY AGREE WITH THAT? YEAH.
DOES ANYONE, IS CAN WE CLOSE THIS ITEM OUT? GOOD.
I'LL RE I I WILL RESEND THIS, UH, TO, TO CHRISTIE AND UH, JACQUELINE, AS SOON AS THIS MEETING IS OVER, I, I CALL THIS VERSION TWO WITH THE, UH, WITH THE ADDITIONAL STUFF HERE.
AND I THINK SOMETHING THAT'S SO JACQUELINE, YOU'RE, YOU'RE INTERESTED IN, IN US FINISHING THIS OUT, MAKING THE PROPOSAL TODAY? NO, NOT TO, NOT TODAY, BUT THAT WE AGREE ON THAT.
WE'RE, THIS IS NOT GONNA BE WHAT WE'RE GONNA SEND TO THE CITY COUNCIL.
WE HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, UPDATE IT.
SO I JUST, WHAT I WAS CANVASSING FOR, WAS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT WE DID NOT VOTE ON THIS TODAY? YES.
SO DO WE NEED ANY MORE? BECAUSE THE NEXT MEETING, THE WORKING SESSION IS JULY 17TH.
WAIT, I HAVE THE QUESTION IS THIS THOUGH, THIS IS ABOUT $20,000.
SO I MEAN IS THIS ALL THAT WE'RE REQUESTING FOR OUR BUDGET? JUST THIS OR ISN'T THIS MOSTLY SCAMS MONEY? NO.
YEAH, THIS IS THE STUFF THAT WE WOULD BE REQUESTING.
I WAS GONNA SAY, COULD WE MAKE THAT A THOUSAND? EXCEPT, EXCEPT FOR, EXCEPT FOR THE BOTTOM TWO ISN'T THE BOTTOM TWO WOULD BE OUTSIDE MY SCOPE.
SOMEONE ELSE COULD, YOU KNOW, DO THAT.
CAN YOU MAKE THE, YOU BELONG IN HU A THOUSAND DOLLARS INSTEAD OF 500.
'CAUSE BANNERS ARE EXPENSIVE AND THE BANNER WOULD BE LIKE WHEN WE'RE OUT IN THE COMMUNITY, WE TALKED ABOUT WE SHOULD HAVE A BANNER THAT SAYS OURS AND MAYBE HAS A QR CODE THAT LANDS TO, PAYS A LOT OF WAYS TO JUST, I THINK THAT'S START GETTING WORD OUT.
I THINK WE WOULD HAVE TO DETERMINE WHAT EXACTLY TO SAY ALONG WITH NOW.
I MEAN I THAT'S ALTHOUGH IT WOULD BE AN INTERESTING LEAD JUST SAYING IT.
I BE LIKE, WHY, WHY, WHY DO I BELONG IN HU? YEAH, THAT'S TRUE.
I MEAN I COULD SEE SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN THE LIBRARY, YOU KNOW, IN OTHER PLACES.
THE LIBRARY AND OUR, YOU KNOW, ALL OF OUR PUBLIC SPACES, OUR DOWNTOWN STORES, THAT'S VERY ATTRACTIVE TO SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS THAT ARE LOCAL TO SEE THAT AND FOR THEIR EMPLOYEES TO SEE THAT.
SO THIS, THIS, THAT'S WHAT I'M ASKING OUTSIDE OF JUST THIS PAGE.
WHAT ELSE ARE WE GONNA ASK FOR THAT'S GONNA COST MONEY? BECAUSE LIKE I SAID, WE ARE LOOKING AT ABOUT 20 GRAND.
SO WE DON'T HAVE MUCH WE GOING ASK FOR MORE OUTSIDE OF JUST THIS.
THAT'S THE QUESTION, RIGHT? YEAH.
WE NEED ANYTHING ELSE? WERE WE GONNA INCUR ANY JACQUE, WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT UPDATING OUR WEBSITE, WERE THERE ANY COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH JUST UPDATING THE WEBSITE AND WHAT THAT WOULD MEAN FOR US? I DID NOT KNOW OF ANY, WE DON'T PAY FOR THE, WE DON'T, EVERYTHING WOULD BE IN-HOUSE.
SO WE DON'T HAVE, WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO OUTSOURCE ANYTHING TO GET THAT WORK DONE AS FAR AS OUR PHD UPDATED.
IT WOULD JUST HAVE TO BE APPROVED.
YEAH, BECAUSE, 'CAUSE WHAT I DID HERE IS I WENT THROUGH THE ENTIRE EXECUTION PLAN AND SAID, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE ITEMS THAT WOULD, YOU KNOW, NEED OUTSIDE RESOURCES OR A CONSULTANT, UH, THAT YOU NEED OUTSIDE BUDGET.
UH, AND WHAT YOU MIGHT WANNA DO IS LOOK, YOU KNOW, ONE LAST TIME, BUT I THINK I DID A THOROUGH JOB OF LOOKING THROUGH EVERY SINGLE LINE ITEM TO SAY, YOU KNOW, WHERE IS OUTSIDE MONEY NEEDED? SO LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION, CHRISTIE.
DO THEY EVER, AFTER A BUDGET IS FINALIZED, DO THEY EVER MAKE ADDITIONS OR AMENDMENTS?
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ACTUALLY THAT MONEY LAST YEAR WHEN, UH, THAT'S HOW THE 14,000, BECAUSE IT WAS TWO, I THINK IT WAS SOMETHING HAPPENED AND WE WERE TOO LATE IN SUBMITTING THE BUDGET OR SOMETHING.NO, WE, NO, WE WE GOT THE BUDGET.
THAT WAS AFTER SOMETHING LIKE THAT COULD CONCEIVABLY, IF WE CAME UP WITH A PLAN FOR WHATEVER, YOU CAN REQUEST A BUDGET AMENDMENT.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS I DO WANNA SAY IS THAT ONE OF THE REASONS I LIKE THIS BUDGET PROPOSAL, THE WAY IT'S LOOKING AT IT RIGHT NOW IS BECAUSE A LOT OF THESE ITEMS THAT ARE BEING DELIVERED BY A THIRD PARTY CONSULTANT ARE THINGS THAT ARE, CAN BE UTILIZED AGAIN.
SO IT'S NOT LIKE WE'LL ONLY USE THOSE TRAINING RESOURCE GUIDE THE FIRST TIME.
THESE ARE TRAINING AND RESOURCE GUIDES THAT CAN BE USED IN THE FUTURE AS WE SHIFT MEMBERS AND AS WE BRING PEOPLE ON.
SO IT'S A ONE TIME COST THAT PAYS DIVIDENDS 'CAUSE TRAINING.
I'M ALWAYS GONNA BE A BIG FAN OF TRAINING PEOPLE.
'CAUSE THEN THOSE PEOPLE THAT ARE TRAINED CAN TRAIN OTHERS.
SO I THINK TRAINING AND, AND CREATING RESOURCES IS ALWAYS A GREAT IDEA.
SO I'M ALWAYS GONNA BE IN FAVOR OF THAT.
I JUST WANNA THINK ABOUT BEYOND THE PLANNING AND PREPARATION, HAVE WE FULLY THOUGHT ABOUT ANY IMPLEMENTATION COSTS? SO ONCE WE GET ALL THIS INFORMATION, ONE OF THOSE THINGS WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, ONCE WE DO THE INITIAL WORK, WE HAVE TO IMPLEMENT THE, THE WORK FROM THIS, YOU KNOW, SYNTHESIZATION OF INFORMATION.
AND WE'RE HERE, WE'RE GONNA GET UP TO THE POINT OF STARTING THE INITIAL WORK, WHICH IS GOOD.
I'M GLAD WE'VE WALKED, KIND OF WORKED THROUGH THAT.
BUT FOR ANY OF THESE OTHER ITEMS, LIKE THE WORKING GROUPS, THE LISTENING GROUPS, THE WEBSITE, THE PR, DO WE FULLY THINK ABOUT ANY OTHER COST WITH IMPLEMENTATION? LIKE WHAT DO WE DO ONCE WE'RE SUCCESSFUL WITH GETTING PEOPLE'S INFORMATION? THAT'S WHAT WE ASKING BECAUSE THIS IS JUST 20,000 WORTH OF SERVICES.
I, AND I DON'T HAVE ANY THAT COME TO MIND.
I DON'T IF ANYBODY ELSE COULD THINK OF ANYTHING THAT ONCE WE GET DOWN THE, DOWN THAT ROAD AND WE ACCOMPLISH THESE THINGS, HAVE WE THOUGHT ABOUT OKAY.
TO IMPLEMENT ANY OF THIS WORK? YEAH.
WELL, UM, ONE THING, IF YOU'RE GONNA HAVE, UM, WORK SESSIONS AND YOU'RE GONNA BE IN, BE INVITING PEOPLE TO COME AND SPEND TWO OR THREE OR FOUR HOURS, OH, WE BEAT THEM.
YOU HAVE TO HAVE DRINKS, REFRESH FOOD.
YOU MEAN THAT WE CAN, HOW DO YOU PUT THAT AS A LINE ITEM? SINCE THEY WANT A LOT THEM.
WELL, IT'S $5,000 FOR WHAT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR INCLUDE IN THE COST, WHATEVER, WHATEVER YOU'RE LOOKING AT.
SO ADD ANOTHER 500 OR A THOUSAND DOLLARS TO EACH ONE OF THOSE IS WHAT YOU INCLUDED IN THE COST.
SO IF WE, IF WE HAD TO GO OUT TO ALL OF THE DIFFERENT BUSINESSES OR SAY THE 13 OR 14 DIFFERENT CHURCHES IN THE CITY, WOULD THAT BE CO WOULD LIKE TRANSPORTATION, LIKE GAS MILEAGE BE COVERED? GAS FOR WHO? NOT JUST FOR WHO FOR US.
I THINK WE SHOULD ALSO NOT UNDERSELL OUR COMMUNITY.
I THINK FOR SMALL THINGS LIKE THAT, WE WOULD HAVE A LOT OF SUCCESS IN GETTING THINGS SPONSORED.
UH, A A YOU KNOW, GETTING FOOD AND DRINKS SPONSORED OR GETTING A GIFT CARD.
AND MAYBE WE WANNA HAVE A BUFFER IN THERE, BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S A HIGH NEED.
'CAUSE WE'RE NOT ASKING FOR ANYTHING HUGE.
ALSO, I WOULD THINK THAT THE, WHAT I CALL INCIDENTAL, LIKE INCIDENTAL FOOD COSTS IS, IS PROBABLY EVEN WITHIN CHRISTIE'S BUDGET.
YOU KNOW? 'CAUSE EVERY TIME I'VE COME THERE AND WORKED WITH YOU ALL, THERE'S ALWAYS BEEN FOOD THERE IN THE ROOM.
YOU GOT, YOU GOT A GOOD DIVERSITY OF SNACKS.
DO WE WANNA HAVE ANYTHING, LET'S SAY WE DO AN EVENT AND WE HAVE A BANNER.
WILL THERE BE EXPENSES FOR, ARE WE GONNA DO GIVEAWAYS OR WOULD THAT BE THROUGH THE CITY? I HADN'T REALLY EVER ASKED THAT.
WE'LL BUY A BANNER OR WEST FOR TOPHER BANNER.
I MEAN, DO WE WANT A BUDGET FOR THAT? ANY OF THAT STUFF WOULD COME FROM Y'ALL, FROM THE BUDGET LINE ITEMS ARE GONNA BE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.
AND YOU MIGHT HAVE EXTRAS HERE AND THERE, BUT IF YOU'RE LOOKING TO HAVE SOMETHING THAT'S Y'ALL'S, THAT WOULD NEED TO BE A BUDGET ITEM.
YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I'M THINKING.
MAYBE THAT'S PART OF IMPLEMENT TOO.
THEY TAKE SOMETHING, TAKE AWAY OF SOME SUPPLY.
HOW DO WE KNOW HOW MUCH UNTIL WE PLAN SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
LET ME ASK YOU THIS, EVEN THOUGH IT'S OURS, THE CITY OF HU, AS FAR AS YOUR PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE OR MARKETING OFFICE, THEY'LL HAVE TO APPROVE IT BECAUSE OF BRANDING.
AM I CORRECT OR IS ASKING IF, IF OUR LOGO IS USED? YES, EXACTLY.
DO WE HAVE A LOGO OTHER THAN THE HIPPO? THE CITY OF PTO LOGO IS WHAT I, OF THE DEIB COMMISSION, WHICH THERE WAS A LOGO FOR THE COMMISSION WAY, WAY, WAY BACK WHEN THERE WAS, IT'S ON THAT, UM, BANNER THAT IT WAS A LONG TIME AGO.
DO WE WONDER? I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE.
YOU DON'T WANT SO, SO CAN I PLAY ANTAGONIST HERE FOR A MINUTE WITH THIS? UM, I, I'M A, I, SORRY.
YOU KNOW, IF I STEP ON YOUR TOES HERE, BUT I'M KIND OF AGAINST THIS INTERNAL CITY PRACTICES EMPLOYEE TRAINING.
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ON.WE CAN TAKE THAT $3,000 AND WROTE IT SOMEWHERE ELSE FOR OUR WHATNOT THAT YOU WANT TO DO.
OH, THE NUMBER WHICH NUMBER THREE? YEAH.
THE INTERNAL PRACTICE FOR ALL EMPLOYEES.
SO YOU'RE SAYING ONLY TRAIN MANAGERS AND LET THEM THEN LET THEM GET, GET THEIR, GET THEIR, LET THEM GET THE REST OF THEIR STAFF ON BOARD.
IS THERE NO FOUR THAT I PUT ACCOUNTABILITY ON MANAGERS ALL THE TIME.
THEN 3000 WE CAN USE FOR YOUR WHATNOT.
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MANAGEMENT TRAINING AND ALL STAFF TRAINING? MAYBE THAT'S THE CORRECT QUESTION.
UH, MANAGERS DO HAVE A HIGHER RESPONSIBILITY.
IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, THAT THEY ARE THE ONES THAT HAVE TO PATROL AND MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY'S ACTING IN AN INCLUSIVE MANNER AND THEY DO HAVE HIGHER RESPONSIBILITY.
UH, THOUGH THERE IS A LOT OF, UH, YOU KNOW, THERE IS A LOT OF, UH, OF WHAT I CALL, YOU KNOW, OVERLAP IN THE CONTENT.
UH, AND YOU ALSO, YOU KNOW, WANT, I ALSO RECOMMEND TRAINING MANAGERS SEPARATELY FIRST.
SO THEY COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, THE MATERIAL BEFORE ROLLING OUT TO EMPLOYEES.
AND ALSO THEY GIVE THEM A SAFE SPACE TO ASK, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE DIFFICULT QUESTIONS THAT THEY MIGHT NOT WANNA ASK WITH STAFF IN THE ROOM.
AND THEN THE INTERNAL PRACTICES, IS THERE A LOT OF OVERLAP THERE WITH THE, UH, THREE INTERNAL CITY PRACTICES TRAINING OR COACHING? YEAH.
THAT, UH, AND THAT'S THE, THERE IS, THERE IS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF OVERLAP, BUT THE MATERIAL WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, DELIVERED DIFFERENTLY FOR MANAGERS THAN FOR ALL EMPLOYEES.
WE COULD PROBABLY REDUCE THAT AMOUNT IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION OR JUST COMBINE IT ALL AND JUST SAY, DEVELOP AND PROVIDE, YOU KNOW, TRAINING FOR, UH, FOR MANAGERS AND EMPLOYEES AND MAYBE JUST PUT IN 4,500 FOR BOTH OF THEM TOGETHER.
WHAT DO Y'ALL THINK ABOUT THAT? I, I HAVE A QUESTION.
DOES THE CITY OF HUDDLE, I HAVEN'T LOOKED AT YOUR CHART.
DOES THE CITY OF HUDDLE HAVE A OD MANAGER? NO.
ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT MANAGER.
BUT THEY HAVE EEO THOUGH, I KNOW HAD THAT.
WHAT DO WE THINK ABOUT STAN'S QUESTION ABOUT COMBINING THE COST OF THESE TRAININGS INTO ONE PACKAGE THAT HE WOULD REWORK? I'M, I'M, I'M ASSUMING INTO A PACKAGE FOR THOSE SERVICES TO BE 4,500 OR INSTEAD OF 9,000 WOULD BE 4,500 INSTEAD OF 6,000.
OH, INSTEAD OF 6,000 IT'LL BE WORTH HUNDRED.
BUT IF, IF THE, IF THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TRAINING FOR A MANAGER AND THE TRAINING JUST SIMPLY FOR EMPLOYEES, THAT DOESN'T SEEM LOGICAL.
BUT, AND I DON'T SAY IT DOES SEEM
THERE'S A LOT, THERE'S A LOT OF SYNERGY.
THE MATERIAL WON'T BE MUCH DIFFERENCE.
IT'S JUST SO IT DOESN'T LOSE, WE'RE NOT LOSING, WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT LOSING A LOT OF LIKE IMPACT OR, UM, UNDERSTANDING SAM.
IF WE DROP THAT TO THE 45, THEN WE COULD YEAH.
ALLOCATE THAT FOR THE, WELL ACTUALLY GIVE US ANOTHER A 15 CENTS OR 6,000.
AND ALSO THIS ONE HERE, YOU MIGHT DECIDE, YOU KNOW, THIS IS LIKE, SOME OF THIS STUFF IS LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE CITY MANAGER MIGHT NOT WANT IT OR YOU MIGHT NOT THINK IT'S WORTHWHILE.
LIKE, DO YOU FEEL THAT WE WANNA PROVIDE CONSULTING, COACHING, YOU KNOW, TO THE SENIOR LEADERS.
THIS CAN BE SOMETHING THAT CAN BE DELETED ALL TOGETHER.
BUT I WAS LIKE, I WAS MAKING A COMPREHENSIVE LIST SAYING THAT IF WE DID A WHOLE LOT OF STUFF, THIS IS WHAT ARE SOME, SOME IDEAS? AND YOU COULD EVEN LOOK AT MAYBE TAKING THIS, THIS ONE OUT TOTALLY.
UH, THE, THE PROVIDING COACHING TO THE, TO THE LEADERS.
AND THEN IT'LL, IT'LL GET KIND OF MORE IN LINE TO WHAT THE BUDGET WAS LAST YEAR.
AND YOU'RE NOT ASKING FOR A BIG INCREASE.
SO WOULD SOMETHING LIKE HAVING THE LEGAL PEOPLE COME IN AND TALK TO US, BE CHARGED TO US? NO, I MEAN, BE CHARGED TO THE CITY.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, SO IF WE ASK FOR A LEGAL, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE LEGAL PEOPLE TO COME IN AND DISCUSS, YOU KNOW, THE, THE CLIMATE IN, IN THE STATE.
WE, WE, WE ARE ACTUALLY, I WAS TALKING WITH DAN THORNTON.
WE ARE GONNA DO THAT BY MEETING SEPARATE.
NO, NO, YOU'RE GONNA GIVE US, UH, UPDATE OR WE, WE WOULD SAY, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING AND HAVE THEM, YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE THAT IT'S TO CLARIFY, TO CLARIFY STATE POLICY, STATE AND COUNTY POLICIES FOR THE CITY.
IT'S COMMON PRACTICE FOR MUNICIPALITIES, CITY OF BOSTON.
I, FOR TAKING OUT THAT ADDITIONAL 3000 AND THEN WE CAN PUT THE 4,500 SOMEWHERE ELSE.
I THINK THAT MIGHT BE, I I THINK THAT MIGHT BE A MORE PALATABLE NUMBER.
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UH, BECAUSE THE, THE BUDGET CLIMATE THIS YEAR IS GOING TO BE VERY, VERY, BUT I KNOW IT'S TIGHT.SO TAKE, TAKE OUT THE THREE, TAKE OUT THE INTERNAL, THE, THE DEIB COACHING.
MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING WE WOULD LOOK AT PAINTING TO NEXT YEAR.
BECAUSE THEN THAT WOULD BE THE NEXT STEP AFTER THIS TRAINING GOES THROUGH.
MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING WE COULD LOOK AT FOR, FOR, FOR NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET.
WE ARE GONNA HAVE A VERY, VERY, I DON'T LIKE 20 GRAND TO LIKE 15.
I DON'T WANNA GO LOWER WHAT WE DID YEAR.
YOU DO KNOW YOU CAN, YOU CAN ASK FOR MORE.
AND THAT'LL GIVE US 25 FOR THE FIVE.
SO CAN WE JUST MAKE BOTH OF THOSE 15? CAN WE MAKE FIVE FIVE, UH, 1500 AS WELL.
THAT'S GONNA COVER THE SNACKS.
AND THEN DO WE WANNA PASS THESE OUT? WE GOTTA HAVE SNACKS.
I'M ADDING THIS UP NOW FOR, TO SEE WHAT IT IS.
MY, MY, IT WAS AROUND I THINK IF, IF I WAS, I THINK IT WAS 14 FIVE LAST YEAR.
YEAH, I THINK THAT'S, I THINK THAT'S RIGHT.
IF WE GO WITH THE LOWER FIGURE HERE.
'CAUSE I SAID, YOU KNOW, 3 30, 200 TO 5,300 FOR GENERAL CONSULTING WORK.
IF I JUST REDUCE THAT TO LIKE 3,200, WE'RE ASKING FOR 18 SOMETHING, WHICH IS A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN LAST YEAR, BUT WE'RE DOING A LOT MORE WORK TOO.
AND I TOTALLY AGREE WITH, WITH, UM, TRAINING.
ESPECIALLY IF IT'S A DOCUMENTED, BECAUSE THEN IT CAN BE PASSED ON.
SO IF PEOPLE SHIFT POSITIONS OR LEAVE AND COME IN, WE HAVE THAT LEGACY TRAINING.
AND IT'S ALSO GONNA, AND IT'S ALSO GONNA BE TELLING US WHAT TO DO ALSO.
IT'S ALSO GONNA BE RECORDED, WHICH I ALSO DID FOR THE INCLUSIVE RECRUITING TRAINING.
SO THAT IF SOMEONE DIDN'T ATTEND OR A NEW MANAGER GETS HIRED, YOU KNOW, IRENE CAN SHARE THE RECORDING, THE RECORDED TRAINING WITH THEM.
NOW CAN I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE APPROVE THE YES.
I KNOW WE'RE GONNA GET PUSHBACK, BUT I'M PRETTY COMFORTABLE WITH THAT.
WE'RE ASKING FOR THAT BECAUSE WE'RE ABLE TO EXPLAIN IN DETAIL WHY EACH OF THESE ITEMS IS IMPORTANT AND HOW WOULD THEY RELATE TO EACH OTHER.
AND I THINK THAT IT IS IMPORTANT FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE MAKING THIS DECISION TO UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU KNOW, WE ARE STILL IN THE BABY PHASE OF THIS PROJECT.
JUST BECAUSE WE'VE HAD A SUCCESSFUL YEAR PUTTING A PLAN TOGETHER YEAH.
DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE HAVE NOW TO THE NEXT PHASE, NEXT STEP.
AND SO WE'RE STILL IN THAT, UH, TRAINING PHASE, UH, GETTING ORGANIZED PHASE, YOU KNOW, THE TRAINING WHEELS ON FOR THOSE, FOR THOSE ALL ITEMS GENERAL, COULD THAT BE THREE ONE HOUR SESSIONS OR IS THAT JUST THREE STRAIGHT THREE HOURS IS WHAT YOU WERE PROPOSING? NO, IT'S THREE ONE HOUR SESSIONS.
'CAUSE WHAT HAPPENS IS TRAINING GETS ROLLED OUT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
LIKE YOU DO A MOD IN A MODULE LIKE EVERY THREE MONTHS TO KEEP THE DRUM.
I'M LIKE, PEOPLE'S HEAD WILL BE SPINNING.
OH, I THINK IT'S, I KNOW I'M HEADING IT UP AGAIN NOW I'M COMING UP WITH 17,050.
SO WE'RE IN A GOOD RANGE HERE.
JUST TEENY BIT MORE THAN LAST YEAR.
THE, THE PROPOSED $17,050 BUDGET RECOMMENDATION.
YOU MAKING A MOTION? I SECOND THAT.
YOU MAKE THIS MOTION AS OUR BUDGET IS WHAT WE ASKED FOR.
COMPLETE CHARLIE BASING OFF THE, YEAH.
AND, AND THEN IF THERE IS A, A DESIRE LATER TO, TO ASK FOR AN AMENDMENT TO DO THE RESOURCE BOOK, UH, THEN THAT CAN COME LATER.
SO, SO A MOTION WAS MADE AND IT WAS ALSO SECOND, THEN WE HAD SOME CONCESSIONS THERE.
ARE WE STILL GOOD CHRIS? SO THE MOTION THAT'S ON THE TABLE IS TO APPROVE THE, THE CURRENT THAT'S PRESENTED OF THE 17,050.
IS THAT RIGHT? WAIT, WHAT WAS THE TOTAL? I CAN, YEAH.
UM, AND I HAD A MOTION BY DANINA AND A SECOND RESIDENT.
SO MINE WAS JUST A POINT OF CLAIRE.
WE, WE READY FOR THE QUESTION? VOTE ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.
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I DIDN'T SEE YOU SAY AYE.SO, SO WE, I THINK I'LL KEEP ROLL CALL, BUT OKAY.
AND I'LL SEND AS THE MEETING, I'LL SEND THIS TO YOU FOR YOUR, FOR YOUR, YEAH.
IT'S KIND BIG THAT WE, WE NEED TO DISCUSS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE TALKED SOME IS POSSIBLE ACTION AND PREPARATION FOR THE CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION.
UM, AND THEN UP ANY UPDATES ON THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
UM, WE, LAST YEAR WE ADDED EQUITY AND INCLUSION TO NO, WE ADDED EQUITY AND BELONGING.
I'M SORRY, EQUITY AND BELONGING.
I'VE DONE RESEARCH AND A LOT OF COMPANIES AND EVEN OUR, OUR MOTHER ORGANIZATION, S SHEM MM-HMM
YOU REMEMBER, AREN'T YOU? THEY ARE, THEY HAVE PUT OUT, UM, RECOMMENDATION SECOND THAT WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO EVOLVE.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE HAD IN OUR PLAN.
AND THAT WE SHOULD LOOK AT REDING.
AND I KNOW SOME PEOPLE, WE TALKED ABOUT IT AT THAT TIME AND IT WASN'T NECESSARY.
NOW THINGS ARE GOING THAT IT SEEMS THAT IT'S GOING NECESSARY.
SO, AND ANOTHER THING THAT I LOOKED AT, LIKE WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, THE WAY THAT SHRM DID IT, THEY DID IT AS BELONGING, UH, ENHANCED BY ACCESS THROUGH MERIT CALLED BEING.
AND THEY ALSO CALLED THE OVERARCHING AREA.
NOT DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION, BUT INCLUSION AND BELONGING.
AND SO, AND, AND I SAID, OKAY.
I, I SAID, WHY, YOU KNOW, I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY THERE, YOU KNOW, WASN'T INVOLVEMENT BECAUSE I LOOKED UP THIS ONE THING.
THAT DIVERSITY IS A FACT, IS A FACT.
HERE IN HU, EQUITY IS A CHOICE.
WE HAVE CHOSEN TO HAVE EQUITY.
INCLUSION IS AN ACTION AND BELONGING IS THE OUTCOME.
AND ALSO, UM, I WAS TALKING A LITTLE BIT WITH, UM, TO CORINA IT ONE OF, AND THIS STAND, I GOTTA GET STAND CREDIT.
HE SUGGESTED THAT MAYBE WE COULD CALL IT YOU BELONG IN HUDDLE.
AND THEN THE TAGLINE COULD BE THIS IS FROM KARINA, ENSURING DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION AND BELONGING.
I THINK, I KNOW IT IS LONG, BUT, BUT THAT'S ONLY THE TAGLINE.
I HAVE ONE, BUT THE, YOU BELONG IN HUDDLE BECAUSE I THINK I GET, I STUMBLE OVER DIVERSITY EQUITY.
YOU, YOU BELONG IN HA I MEAN YES.
YOU BELONG IN HA LIKE FLIP FLOPPING IT.
RIGHT? SO IT'S LIKE WE'RE TAKING THE TAGLINE, MAKING IT THE NAME OF THE COMMISSION AND THEN JUST INCLUDING THE TAGLINE.
WHAT IT IS IS THAT YOU BELONG IN HATO MEANS THAT OUR GROUP, OUR WORK, OUR PURPOSE IS TO ENSURE DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION IN THE COMMUNITY.
I HAVE SOME COMMENT ABOUT THAT, WHICH I, I'VE BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG THAT I THOUGHT WE SHOULD CHANGE OUR NAME.
BUT I THINK ONE OF THE, THE, THE POINTS, YOU KNOW, THAT OUR IN CONTENTION WITH THE STATE AND, AND, AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS THE WORD DIVERSITY, WHICH IS MISUNDERSTOOD.
IS THERE A BETTER WAY? WE CAN SAY DIVERSITY.
I THINK EQUITY IS PROBABLY THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD.
RATHER THAN SAYING THE WORD DIVERSITY.
BECAUSE YOU KNOW, IF THEY COME UP AND SAY EXACTLY RIGHT HERE, DIVERSITY IS A FACT OF LIFE.
IT'S ALSO, IT'S, BUT IT'S ALSO A, A, A PAIN POINT WITH THE GOVERNMENT AND WITH THE STATE.
I THINK EQUITY IS PROBABLY MORE OF A PAIN POINT.
BUT THEY, THEY, THEY CAN'T COMPLETELY COMMON THAT.
DO YOU KNOW, BLACKS OR SENIOR CITIZENS OR LATINOS OR ANYTHING? EQUITY DOESN'T MAKE, YOU KNOW, TO THEM IT'S MONEY EQUITY.
BUT DIVERSITY TO THEM IS L-L-B-G-T-Q COMMUNITIES, YOU KNOW, AND, AND, AND TRANSGENDER.
WHEREAS DIVERSITY MEANS SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT.
I LOOK AT IT FROM MY POINT OF VIEW.
DIVERSITY AS SENIOR CITIZENS IS A DIVERSE GROUP OR SO ARE VETERANS, ET CETERA.
BUT THE WORD HAS A BAD CONNOTATION TO THE STATE
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AND TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AT THIS TIME.WHAT WORD WOULD YOU LIKE US TO USE? UH, THAT'S WHAT I SAID.
IS THERE ANOTHER WORD THAT WOULD BE BETTER THAN JUST SIMPLY SAYING, YOU WOULDN'T WORRY ABOUT THE STATE OR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? I WOULD BE CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE IN HU THINK.
AND, AND MAYBE, AND MAYBE THERE IS, THAT'S ANOTHER THING THAT IS, IS A CONCERN.
HOW DO PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY SAID, OH MY GOD, DIVERSITY.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU NEED? WE DEFINED, WE DEFINED IT IN OUR STRATEGIC PLAN.
AND THAT'S WHY, UM, I WAS, YOU KNOW, THE SUGGESTION WAS MADE YOU BELONG IN HUDDLE COMMISSION.
INSTEAD OF SAYING DIVERSITY, SAY A DIVERSE COMMUNITY OR SOMETHING THAT'S A LITTLE BIT DIVERSE.
I THINK THERE IS, AND YOU'RE RIGHT, THERE IS A VERY LOUD, UM, SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO PURPOSELY MISCONSTRUE THE WORD DIVERSITY, WHICH WE KNOW IS A EFFECT OF LIFE.
UM, AND I THINK IT'S A VERY, VERY, AND IT'S UNFORTUNATE, BUT I ALSO BELIEVE THAT IT IS SOMETHING THAT WILL HAVE, IT HAS ITS TIME.
BUT WE NEED TO DECIDE AS A COMMUNITY, WHO ARE WE? WHO ARE WE IN THE CITY OF PARO? YES.
AND THE COMMUNITY HAS ELECTED TO HAVE THIS COMMISSION GOAL FOR YOU.
I THINK THAT THAT'S A GREAT, OKAY.
I LIKE THE WAY EVOLVE, BUT NOT RETREAT.
I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU BELONG.
I MEAN, MY PERSONAL PREFERENCE IS JUST BELONGING.
COMMISSION SHOULD SAID CAN, I CAN SEE THAT.
CAN, I CAN SEE EITHER ONE, BUT I JUST THINK, I DON'T KNOW FOR ME, BUT SOMEBODY SAYS, WELL, WHAT, WHAT DO YOU WANNA BELONG TO? WELL, YOU COULD SAY THAT TOO WITH ALSO WITH YOU BELONG IN.
YOU, THAT'S BUS THAT'S ATTRACTIVE FOR BUSINESS.
ENCOURAGE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S ALWAYS NICKNAME LIKE THAT MOVE HERE.
THINKING ABOUT THE I'VE ALREADY TSHIRT IN HAT.
I MEAN, WHAT DID YOU SAY? I SAID I'VE ALREADY CAUGHT THE T-SHIRT IN THE HAT.
SO IF IT WERE CALLED THE BELONGING COMMISSION, THEN YOU COULD ADD ON YOUR, ON YOUR SHIRT.
I DON'T AND YOU'RE GONNA PUT IT ON YOUR SHIRT.
AND I AM AND I FEEL GOOD ABOUT A CHANGE.
UH, HOW DO YOU FEEL IT WOULD BE PERCEIVED WITH THE CITY COUNCIL THAT WE'RE GONNA BE TALKING TO NEXT TIME? IS THAT ONE OF THE THINGS WE WOULD HAVE TO GET APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL? OH YEAH, YEAH, YEAH.
Y'ALL WOULD HAVE TO, WE APPROVE IT FIRST AND THEN TAKE IT TO COUNCIL AND THEN, AND THAT'S WHY IT IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY IN TIME SINCE WE'RE MOVING TO THE IMPLEMENTATION PHASE.
I WON'T BUY A T-SHIRT JUST YET.
CAN'T IMAGINE THEM SAYING, OH NO, WE WANNA KEEP IT AS DIVERSITY.
EQUITY COMMISSION WOULD BE GREAT BECAUSE IT GOES FOR BUSINESSES TOO.
I'M LIKE, WHEN FED, I'M LIKE, I'M READY FOR, AND IT'S NO ONE, NO ONE CAN ARGUE AGAINST IT EITHER.
THINK ABOUT THE INVESTMENT FROM REALTORS, THE INVESTMENT FROM BUSINESSES, THE INVESTMENT FROM OTHER SERVICE PROVIDERS.
PEOPLE WANT TO BE IN A COMMUNITY.
BUSINESSES AND SERVICES THAT WE NEED WANNA BE IN A PLACE THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO RAISE THEIR FAMILIES ARE GONNA BE HIGH TAILING.
BE TIED WITHOUT BEING CONTROVERSIAL.
AND THEN ACTUALLY I WAS THINKING ABOUT SPEECH.
IF YOU WANT HELP HUDDLE, LOOK IN THE MIRROR.
AND THIS COULD BECOME AN ANNUAL FESTIVAL THAT YOU BELONG AT.
HAVE A CAST IT ACTUALLY STAND.
YOU KNOW WHAT IT, IT'S ALMOST LIKE, IT'S ALMOST LIKE IF WE TAG OURSELVES LIKE THAT AND SOME BUSINESSES COME USE THAT, THEY MIGHT HAVE TO PAY US FOR THAT.
YOU KNOW WHAT, YOU GOT A TRADEMARK IF BUN RACE THAT WAY FOR THINGS THAT WE WANT IN THE FUTURE BY PARTNERING WITH LIKE THE CHAMPION.
THERE'S ALL DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE CAN DO.
BUT WHO WOULDN'T WANT THAT IN THEIR WINDOW? I LIKE THAT.
WHERE YOU, HOW ABOUT YOU BELONG IN HU YARD SIGNS AND THE FOOTBALL SEASONS ABOUT TO START FOOTBALL COACH FROM NORTH CROWLEY.
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THINGS LIKE, YOU KNOW, GOING ALONG WITH THAT.WE'RE NOT BACKING AWAY AT ALL.
WE TO CONSIDER THAT EVERYBODY HAS TO BE INCLUDED.
WHICH MEANS THAT IF PEOPLE MISUNDERSTAND THE WORD DIVERSITY OKAY.
OR, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER COMMISSION BELONG COMMISSION THAT DOESN'T LIKE REALLY SAY IT.
AND FIND A A A A SUBLINE THAT ACTUALLY WORKS FOR EVERYONE.
BELONG IN HU PROBABLY DIVERSE.
HEY, WHAT DOES EVERYBODY THINK? UM, IF YOU GET SOME PEOPLE ON COUNCIL GOING, I'M NOT SURE I LIKE THE SOUND OF THAT.
AND YOU MIGHT HAVE PEOPLE WHO, UH, A COUPLE, TWO OR THREE MEMBERS THAT MIGHT NOT, MIGHT NOT LIKE THE SOUND OF THAT, BUT MIGHT BE IN AGREEMENT WITH A CHANGE.
SO, OR, OR DO WE AGREE OBVIOUSLY ON JUST YOU BELONGING HUDDLE OVER NOW I ARE YOU MAKING A MOTION? I CAN
LET, LET ME, LET'S, LET'S CLARIFY.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE WE GOING TO MAKE A MOTION TO BRING THAT UP TO COUNSEL OR WE'RE MAKING A MOTION TO CHANGE IT THERE.
WE GONNA CHANGE THE I MY UNDERSTANDING WE GONNA CHANGE THE NAME, THE DATE IF WE'RE GONNA DO IT.
I LIKE THE RECOMMENDATION VOTE ON WHAT YOUR RECOMMENDATION.
I AND OUR RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE, YOU BELONG.
WOULD IT HAVE TO TAG THEN? I THINK WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT THE TAG A LITTLE MORE THAN JUST, MAYBE WE SHOULD SEE WHAT THE COUNCIL'S RESPONSE IS AND THEN WE THINK ABOUT THE TAGLINE AFTER.
BECAUSE THEY MIGHT GIVE US SOME IDEAS THAT AS FAR AS THEY MIGHT BE.
WELL, CAN IT BE, YEAH, THEY MIGHT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO HAVE TAGS.
WELL, WE DON'T HAVE CURRENTLY DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, BELONGING COMMISSION.
HOW ABOUT WE YOU BELONG IN HUDDLE COMMISSION? YEAH, IT, IT WORKS.
IT'S ALREADY INCLUDED IN OUR PLAN.
THAT'S THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING.
AND SO WE WERE WANTED TO BRING THAT UP AT THE, THE WORK SESSION.
THE, WAS THERE, I'M SORRY IF I MISSED IT.
YOU SAID THE WORD MOTION A LOT.
DID, WAS THERE A MOTION? IT HAS.
THERE HASN'T BEEN A MOTION YET.
AND I MOVE THAT WE CHANGE, UH, SUGGEST OR PRESENT TO CITY COUNCIL THAT WE CHANGE THE DIVERSITY EQUITY INCLUSION COMMISSION AND BELONGING COMMISSION NAME TO YOU BELONG IN HUDDLE.
BUT IT WOULD ONLY READ YOU, IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND.
YOU HAVE TO, THERE'S GONNA COME A TIME WHERE I'LL SAY NO.
NOW JUST TO DO A LITTLE BIT MORE BEFORE WE GET TO THE LAST ITEMS. OKAY.
WITH WHAT WE ARE GOING TO PRESENT TO THE WORK DURING THE WORK SESSION ON THE 15TH, UM, STAN HAD ALREADY STARTED PREPARING SOME SLIDES.
SO, SO, AND JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, Y'ALL DO, YOUR NEXT MEETING IS JULY.
Y'ALL'S NEXT MEETING IS JULY 15TH AND THE WORK SESSION IS ON THE 17TH.
SO IT'D BE TUESDAY AND THURSDAY.
BECAUSE WE'RE, WE'RE ALSO HAVING, ARE WE HAVING A GUEST NEXT WEEK? I MEAN NEXT SESSION OF THE, I THINK THE LIBRARY, LIBRARY COMMISSION.
I BELIEVE THAT WAS POSTPONED BECAUSE OF THE WORK.
IT WAS POSTPONED BECAUSE OF THIS SESSION.
WE WERE GONNA HAVE THE LIBRARY PEOPLE HERE, BUT SHE WAS HERE LAST, LAST TIME, LAST MONTH.
BUT UM, THE JOINT SESSION IS, IS WHAT THEY WANTED FOR, FOR BUDGET REASONS.
AND THAT'S UP TO Y'ALL IF YOU WANT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT.
UM, THAT TIME SLOT'S AVAILABLE.
I THINK THE, I THINK THE DISCUSSION WAS AROUND HAVING, SORRY, UM, LIKE PART OF THE MEETING, LIKE NO MORE THAN LIKE AN HOUR OR HOUR, LIKE SETTING A TIME LIMIT ON THAT JOINT MEETING.
AND THEN Y'ALL WOULD STILL CONDUCT YOUR BUSINESS THAT YOU NEEDED TO THAT DAY.
BUT THAT'S, THAT'S UP TO Y'ALL RIGHT NOW.
YOU CAN MAKE THAT DECISION IF YOU COULD TUESDAY.
LIKE TO POSTPONE THAT OR, UM, OR NOT.
SO DO WE HAVE TO, WE WILL ALREADY HAVE THE, THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING EARLIER THAT TWO WEEKS PRIOR.
RIGHT? WHEN DID THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING? IN JULY.
IT WAS MOVED BECAUSE JULY 3RD WAS FORTH.
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THE 10TH AND THE NEXT ONE WOULD BE 17TH.SO IT WOULD BE THAT SAME DAY THAT YOU, THAT THE WORK SESSIONS ARE ALWAYS RIGHT BEFORE COUNCIL MEETING, RIGHT? OH, THAT'S RIGHT.
SO IT WOULD BE 6:00 PM ON THE 17TH AND, AND IT WOULD BE RIGHT HERE IN THIS ROOM FOR A WORK SESSION.
AND THEN RIGHT AFTER THAT IS THE COUNCIL MEETING.
NO, WE, WE CAN'T CHANGE THE, NO, WE CAN'T CHANGE THE WORK SESSION.
DID Y'ALL WANT TO MEET THE WEEK PRIOR TO? IS THAT WHAT I'M HEARING? I'M SORRY.
I'M JUST TRYING TO GET CAUGHT UP.
YOU'RE SAYING INSTEAD OF MEETING ON THE 15TH, 'CAUSE IT'S TWO DAYS BEFORE OUR WORK SESSION.
MOVE OUR MEETING UP A WEEK TO THE EIGHTH TODAY.
JUST GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME IN CASE SOMETHING, GIVE MORE TIME TO COME UP.
YEAH, I, I MEAN Y'ALL CAN MAKE THAT DAY, BUT DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME.
I'LL JUST GET UPDATED TALKING ABOUT THE EIGHTH OR THE 15TH OR ANY, THE EIGHTH.
I CAN'T, THE 15TH I COULD, BUT DON'T BASE THAT AROUND ME.
I'LL JUST GET SOME UPDATES FROM CHRISTIE OR SOMEBODY.
AND THEN, UM, WE JUST NEED, 'CAUSE WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE'RE READY WITH THE SLIDES AND EVERYTHING.
AND WOULD THAT BE, DO YOU STILL WANT TO HAVE THAT AS A JOINT MEETING WITH THE LIBRARY ADVISORY BOARD OR PUSH? I DON'T THINK SO.
SO, SO WE WOULD NEED, UH, ANOTHER ACTION ON, ON MOVING THE DATE IF THAT'S WHAT Y'ALL WANT TO DO.
WE NEED, YOU'RE ASKING FOR A MOTION TO MOVE OUR JULY 15TH MEETING TO JULY 8TH? CORRECT.
I MO I HAVE MOTION THAT WE MOVE OUR JULY 15TH MEETING TO, UH, JULY 8TH, 2025.
ANY OF OPPOSED? NO, BUT I UNDERSTAND NEITHER EITHER.
I'M GONNA PUT ON MY CALENDAR SOMETHING.
AND I'LL SEND OUT AN UPDATE TOO.
I'LL UPDATE THE CALENDAR AS WELL.
SO NOW WE ARE JUST NEED, UM, YOU KNOW, MORE OR LESS CONSENSUS ABOUT THE SLIDES WE'RE GONNA USE.
WE'RE THE, THAT WE'RE GONNA BE A REC WE, THE BUDGET, WE ARE GONNA ASK FOR THEIR APPROVAL, THE NAME CHANGE, WE'RE GONNA ASK FOR THEIR APPROVAL.
AND THEN NOW WE JUST NEED TO PUT TOGETHER, YOU KNOW, HOW THAT, SO THE BUDGET WE'RE ACTUALLY IS 1750.
UH, SHOULD I, UH, SHOULD I GO AHEAD AND JUST SHOW YOU THE DRAFT, THAT SLIDE, THE FEW DRAFT DRAFT SLIDES I PUT TOGETHER IN TERMS OF THE FLOW? YEAH, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
SO HOPEFULLY, YOU KNOW, SO BASICALLY I THINK THAT FIRST OF ALL YOU MIGHT WANT TO, UH, JUST HAVE ONE SLIDE BECAUSE THERE'S GONNA BE SOME NEW CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT KIND OF SHOW THE HISTORY OF THE DEIB COMMISSION, YOU KNOW, AND, UH, I KNOW THAT, THAT THAT WAS ACTUALLY WHEN A REPORT THAT JACQUELINE DID LAST YEAR.
BUT YOU JUST CREATE LIKE A SLIDE WHERE YOU PUT LIKE MAYBE EIGHT OR NINE KEY, UH, MILESTONES FROM WHEN THE COUNCIL GOT THE COMMISSION GOT STARTED.
AND THEN YOU CAN DO THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, UH, OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN, WHICH IS THE FIVE FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS AND THE FIVE PRIORITY AREAS.
AND THE NEW NEWS IS THAT WE'VE NOW DEVELOPED A PROPOSED IMPLEMENTATION PLAN WITH METRICS FOR THESE THREE PRIORITY AREAS.
UH, AND THEN THE NEXT SLIDE SAYS FIVE PRIORITY AREAS.
AND THEN WE'D SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE DEVELOPED A PLAN THAT'S LIKE, THAT'S, THAT LOOKS SOMETHING LIKE THIS WHERE WE SHOW THE GOAL, YOU KNOW, THE MA THE OVERALL PRIORITY.
AND THEN WHAT THE A WHAT THE IMPLEMENTATION IS AND THE METRIC.
AND WE'VE DEVELOPED THAT FOR, FOR THIS PLAN.
AND WE CAN SEND IT IN ADVANCE THE, THE WORD DOCUMENT? YES.
AND THEN ALL YOU CAN DO IS SUMMARIZE IT BY SAYING, OKAY, HERE'S PRIORITY ONE, WHICH WAS PRESENTED IN EARLY 2025.
AND THEN HERE'S A SUMMARY OF THE WORKING ITEMS THAT MATCH WHAT'S IN THE DETAILED DOCUMENT IN TERMS OF THE WORK ITEM, WHO'S RESPONSIBLE AND THE TARGET DATE.
THIS IS THE ONLY ONE THAT HAS LIKE 10.
SO EACH OF THE ONE PRIORITY AREAS TWO THROUGH FOUR, UH, OR FIVE WILL PROBABLY FIT ON ONE SLIDE.
BUT YOU KNOW, YOU CAN ACTUALLY SUMMARIZE IT AND THEN CREATE A SIMILAR PAIRING
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OF CHARTS FOR EACH OF THE FIVE PRIORITY AREAS.COULD WE BE ADDING YOU BELONG IN HU SOMEPLACE ON THIS PRESENTATION? I THINK THAT WILL BE BETHANY, YOU'RE GONNA BRING UP, YOU MIGHT WANNA ADD IT.
THAT MIGHT BE AT THE END OR, OR AT THE END.
MAYBE AT THE END HAVE THE SLIDE SAY THIS WAS OUR A BUDGET REQUEST AND, AND THIS IS OUR, YOU KNOW, OTHER RECOMMENDATION.
BUT THIS COULD BE A REASONABLE FLOW, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF WHAT THE PRESENTATION WOULD LOOK LIKE.
AND I'M ACTUALLY GONNA HAVE A MEETING WITH JACQUELINE TOMORROW TO SEE IF WE WANNA, YOU KNOW, IF WE WANT TO LIKE FILL THIS OUT IN THIS WAY.
ANY THOUGHTS, THOUGHTS ON THAT? I THINK THAT'S A GOOD PLAN.
THAT IT'S, UM, THERE IT'S A LOT OF INFORMATION THERE.
YEAH, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I WAS THINKING.
I WAS GONNA SAY IT, IT'S 17 SLIDES.
SO HOW LONG DO YOU, YOU OR HOW LONG DO YOU SECOND? THERE ARE ONLY ONE HOUR AND WE NORMALLY RECOMMEND THAT THE ACTUAL PRESENTATION PART BE NO MORE THAN 40, 45 MINUTES TO ALLOW FOR TIME, UH, FOR FEEDBACK.
WAIT A MINUTE, I'M CONFUSED WHEN YOU SAY NO MORE THAN 45 MINUTES TOTAL FOR YEAH, FOR THE WORK SESSION.
ANY, ANY WORK SESSION? OH, ANY, YEAH.
NOT JUST, NOT JUST FOR Y'ALL, BUT ANY WORK SESSION.
I WOULD LIKE TO BRING IT DOWN A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE THEM A LITTLE BIT OF CHANCE TO TALK.
UM, YOU KNOW, LIKE, I'M GONNA SAY HALF AND HALF.
I MEAN, IF YOU COULD SHOW THE ENTIRE THING BUT ONLY TOUCH ON THE HIGHLIGHTS.
THEY'RE GONNA RECEIVE, OR YOU JUST SHOW A HIGHLIGHT AND GIVE 'EM A, GIVE 'EM A PAMPHLET THAT HAS, YOU OUGHT LOOK RAW FIVE.
WELL, YOU'RE GONNA SEND THEM IF YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN, THIS THIS LIKE THIS SLIDE HERE, YOU KNOW, PRIORITY AREA ONE SUMMARIZING THE, THE WORK, THE WORK PLAN.
UH, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE SENDING THEM THE FULL WORK PLAN, RIGHT? SO, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN KINDA REMIND 'EM, HEY, YOU CAN JUST SAY YOU'VE GOT THE WHOLE WORK PLAN WHERE INITIAL PRIORITY AREA ONE HAS, YOU KNOW, 10 DIFFERENT ACTIONS THAT WE'RE TAKING AND HERE ARE, HERE ARE THE 10 ACTIONS.
AND THEN SAY, DO YOU HAVE ANY, YOU KNOW, MAYBE SEE IF THEY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THOSE MM-HMM
UNLESS YOU, OR YOU CAN DECIDE WHICH ONES YOU MIGHT WANNA HIGHLIGHT OF THESE.
NORMALLY THE FLOW OF THE WORK SESSIONS ARE MORE, UM, FOR THE MOST PART OF COURSE, I, I, I DON'T KNOW EVERY SINGLE TIME, BUT IT'S PRESENTATION FIRST AND THEN THEY ALL HOLD THEIR QUESTIONS FOR THE END.
SO THE BACK AND SO PRESENTING LIKE THE HIGH LEVEL INFORMATION AND THEN YOU STILL HAVE ALL OF YOUR DETAILED INFORMATION, YOU KNOW, READY TO GO IF THEY DO ASK THAT SPECIFIC YEAH.
CAN THE WORDING BE SIMPLIFIED A BIT SO THAT IT'S EASIER TO READ AS THE SCREENS COME UP? MM-HMM.
WELL, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE PRINTED, UM, I, I REALIZE WHAT THEY CAN HAVE THE PRINTED PIECE WITH EVERYTHING, BUT FOR THE, FOR THE SLIDES THEMSELVES IS, YOU KNOW, TO, TO BE CLEAR, COMPLETELY CLEAR.
IS IT SOME WAY TO TRUNCATE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING AND STILL SAY THE SAME THING? WELL, WHAT YOU CAN JUST DO IS THIS MAYBE PUT THE WORK I, I DID.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THE, THESE, THESE, THESE, YOU KNOW, THESE, I'M TAKING LIKE 14 PAGES OF STUFF AND PUTTING IT IN LIKE SEVEN OR EIGHT HIGH LEVEL SLIDES.
WHAT WE CAN DO IS IF YOU WANNA TAKE OUT RESPONSIBLE AND TARGET DATE AND JUST SHOW THE WORK ITEMS AND THAT'S IT.
I LIKE TO HAVING THE RESPONSIBLE AND THE TARGET DATE IN THERE.
AND, AND I'VE BEEN IN PRESENTATIONS AND THEY LIKE THAT AS WELL FOR IT.
I DON'T THINK IT'S TOO MANY WORDS.
UM, I THINK IT'S PRETTY NARROWED DOWN.
IT MIGHT NOT BE WORDS THAT JUST MIGHT BE FORMATTING.
WELL, IF Y'ALL WANNA COME UP, IF YOU WANT
YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND DO IT SUZANNE, IF YOU WANT TO.
TRUST ME, I, IF I DID IT WOULD BE CHANGED, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO.
SO WHAT'S THE NEXT, THE, UM, AND THEN WE'LL, WE'LL HAVE THE, THE THINGS AT THE END, STAN, THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR.
AND, AND ALSO THERE HAS TO BE A SLIDE NOW ABOUT THE YOU BELONGING HUDDLE.
WE, THAT'S BECAUSE WE'RE ONLY ASKING FOR THREE THINGS.
AND WHAT ELSE, WHAT'S, IS THERE A THIRD THING? T-SHIRTS? NO,
WHAT? ANYWAY, WE CAN, WE'LL DISCUSS THAT.
SO YEAH, I'LL MEET, I'M MEETING WITH, UH, JACQUELINE AND, AND WE CAN, I CAN PROBABLY
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WHIP THESE OUT AND IF PRETTY QUICKLY AND THEN SHE CAN CIRCULATE THEM ALL TO YOU, UH, LATER.AND THERE'S ALSO SLIDES THAT JACQUELINE WILL HAVE TO CREATE LIKE THE HISTORY AND A FEW THINGS LIKE THAT.
NOW LET'S, ANY OTHER THINGS WITH THAT? I THINK THAT IS IT WITH THAT.
SO THE NEXT ITEM IS 7.5 CONSIDERATION, POSSIBLE ACTION APPROVAL OF MAY 20TH, 2025.
I THINK WE COVERED, YEAH, WE DECIDED ON THE NOT HAVING THE JOINT MEETING WITH THE LIBRARY ADVISORY.
I MADE MOTION TO, TO ACCEPT, MAKE A MOTION.
YEAH, I JUST, AND ONE OF THEM NOT HERE.
I THINK Y TWO WOULD'VE TO, I HAVE TO MAKE THE MOTION.
SO I'M MOVED THAT WE ACCEPT, UM, THE APPROVAL AND APPROVE THE MAY, 2025 MEETING MINUTES.
AND THE NEXT ITEM, 7.6, DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON PROCLAMATION FOR JULY, AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER.
UM, SO IN YOUR PACKET, UM, SUE HAS, UM, GRACIOUSLY WRITTEN THE, UH, HUNGER AWARENESS MONTH PROCLAMATION FOR REVIEW.
UM, THERE WERE ALSO TWO OTHER PROCLAMATIONS, I NEED TO PULL THEM BACK UP THAT HAVE NOT BEEN CLAIMS AS FAR AS WHO'S TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEM.
UM, YOU GUYS A CHANCE TO REVIEW THE, OKAY.
SO JULY, UM, WOULD BE THE NEXT ONE.
UM, AND THAT'S NATIONAL DISABILITY INDEPENDENCE DAY IS WHAT THE COMMISSION AGREED UPON.
AND THAT IS TECHNICALLY JULY 26TH.
SO YOU, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO HAVE, ACTUALLY, WE COULD PROBABLY PUT IT ON THE JULY 17TH MEETING AGENDA IF Y'ALL WANTED TO.
UM, SO IT WOULD BE DUE LIKE THAT.
I WOULD NEED THAT BY JULY 7TH.
UM, AND THEN AUGUST IS SENIOR CITIZEN DAY.
UM, SO SOMEONE NEEDS TO CLAIM THAT ONE.
AND THEN SEPTEMBER, WE'RE AHEAD OF THE CURVE THERE WITH ONE OF THEM, WHICH IS THE HUNGER AWARENESS MONTH, WHICH IS ALREADY IN YOUR PACKET FOR REVIEW MM-HMM
AND IT'S ALSO HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH.
SO RIGHT NOW WE NEED SOMEONE TO TAKE, UH, RESPONSIBILITY OF NATIONAL DISABILITY INDEPENDENCE DAY, SENIOR CITIZENS DAY AND HERITAGE MONTH.
SO THE HUNGER AWARENESS MONTH AND HUNGER ACTION MONTH, OR LIKE I, I DON'T KNOW, REMEMBER THE EXACT NAME OF IT, OR TWO DIFFERENT MONTHS.
SO I HAVE HUNGER AWARENESS MONTH AWARENESS AS BEING IN SEPTEMBER.
AND THAT'S THE ONE I'M TRACKING THAT'S NOT IN SEPTEMBER.
UM, IS THAT BASED ON, I THINK IT'S IN JULY OR
SO WHICH ONE DID YOU WRITE FOR THEN? I WROTE FOR THE EARLIER ONE FOR THE JULY ONE.
AND THEN ONE OF THEM IS LIKE HUNGER, HUNGER ACTION.
I CAN'T REMEMBER THE EXACT NAME OF THIS IS JULY.
AND I SAW THAT YOU MIGHT, SO MY RECORDS ARE DIFFERENT.
I SAW THE, SO I HAVE, I HAVE IT AS HUNGER AWARENESS MONTH.
UM, THAT'S ATION THAT, THAT YOU WROTE.
UM, BUT WERE YOU SAYING IT'S A DIFFERENT NAME? THAT'S IN JULY.
WHAT'S THE NAME OF THE ONE? I CAN'T REMEMBER THE OTHER NAME BECAUSE THIS ONE SAYS NATIONAL HUNGER AWARENESS MONTH IS RECOGNIZED IN JUNE.
BUT WHAT WE WERE LOOKING AT BEFORE
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IS SAID HUNGER AWARENESS MONTH OR THE NATIONAL HUNGER ACTION MONTH IS IN SEPTEMBER, NATIONAL HUNGER ACTION MONTH.SO, BUT AWARENESS, THE ISSUE HERE, THIS, I WROTE IT FOR THE AWARENESS OF, OF HUNGER AND ACTION IS WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING TO.
SO THAT IF YOU IN JUNE IS ALREADY PASSED IF, YEAH.
UM, SO WHAT, I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHERE THAT CAME FROM THEN, BECAUSE THAT WAS THE, THAT'S WHAT WAS DECIDED ON BY THE, BY THE COMMISSION.
SO DO YOU WANT TO MAYBE STILL SUBMIT THIS FOR JULY, UM, AND CALL IT SOMETHING SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT? WELL, I COULD PROBABLY REWRITE PART OF IT FOR, AND YOU CAN CONVENTIONAL NATIONAL ACTION.
I COULD ADD OR, UM, BECAUSE I WROTE IT SPECIFICALLY FOR AWARENESS.
AND IN MY RECORDS, I HAVE THE AWARENESS MONTH AS BEING IN SEPTEMBER.
SO, AND THAT'S, THAT WAS IN UPDATE THAT I SENT.
WELL, SEPTEMBER IS HUNGER ACTION MONTH.
UNDER JUNE IS RECOGNIZED AS HUNGER AWARE AWARENESS MONTH.
MAYBE IT WAS A DAY YOU WERE LOOKING AT.
WOULD IT, I KNOW THAT YOU TOOK TIME IN WRITING IT AS AWARENESS SPECIFICALLY, BUT WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO REORIENT IT AS ACTION MONTH AND CAN HAVE THAT FOR EPTEMBER? I WOULD PROBABLY HAVE TO REWRITE IT, BUT I, OR IS THERE ANOTHER PROCLAMATION YOU WOULD PUT FORWARD AND THEN I CAN, I CAN, I'LL WRITE IT.
THAT WOULD BE THE ONE THAT STARTS ON PAGE 18.
OR IS IT THE ONE YEAH, BASICALLY I THINK, UM, SUE INCLUDED THE PROCLAMATION AND THEN I THINK ALL OF THE RESOURCES, RIGHT? ALL OF THE YEAH.
FOR EVERYTHING THAT, FOR ALL THIS STUFF BECOMING AWARE OF THE, THE THE ONE, SO IT GOES FROM PAGE 16 TO PAGE, UH, 17.
NO, NO, IT GOES FROM PROCLAMATION ITSELF IS IS ON PAGE 17.
BUT THEN ALL OF THE RESOURCES I THINK AND DIFFERENT, UM, SO IT STARTS ON PAGE TWO 30.
SO IT STARTS ON THEN YOU READ THROUGH 16 2 17.
WHAT'S THE PURPOSE OF THOSE PAGES? WELL, THOSE BACKGROUND WILL THAT BE DISTRIBUTED? IT, IT START, IT IS NOT GONNA BE RED.
RIGHT? THAT, THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT I WROTE.
OH, WAS 19 THROUGH 30, WHERE DID THAT COME FROM? I DON'T KNOW.
THIS IS WHAT I HAD IN, THIS IS WHAT I HAD IN MIND.
'CAUSE I ONLY SENT IN YOUR FILES.
MAYBE, MAYBE THERE'S A HYPERLINK OR SOMETHING AND IT JUST YEAH.
SEEMS MAYBE THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED.
IT'S A LOT OF BACKGROUND INFORMATION.
YOU GOING WHEN YOU WERE UTILIZING IT, IT AND THAT HE ENDED UP SENDING EVERYTHING, THE WHOLE CONVERSATION, WHICH IS GOOD, IS GOOD INFORMATION.
NO, MINE WAS A PDI SENT A-P-D-F-I JUST TOOK WHAT YOU SENT ME AND DROPPED IT RIGHT IN FILE.
BUT, UM, BUT MAYBE SOMETHING I DON'T, I'M NOT REALLY SURE WHAT HAPPENED.
SO IT LOOKS A LOT OF GOOD INFORMATION.
SO LET ME MAKE SURE THAT I HAVE THIS HERE.
FEAR SEPTEMBER IS HUNGER ACTION RIGHT MONTH.
AND, UH, WE EVEN HAVE A, A HUNGER ACTION ON OUR LIST OF MM-HMM
THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WAS DECIDED.
AND THEN IT'S ALSO HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH.
UM, AND THE REASON WE'RE DOING THESE, UH, IN QUARTERS, UM, SO HOPEFULLY GIVE Y'ALL TIME TO CREATE THEM, BUT ALSO, UM, LIKE WITH THE JULY ONE, WE WOULD NEED TO, NOW THAT THAT'S GONE, UM, I AND THAT ORIGINAL LIST, AND I DON'T HAVE IT WITH ME, BUT I REMEMBER THE JULY OUTSIDE OF LIKE IT BEING, YOU KNOW, INDEPENDENCE DAY.
I DON'T THINK THERE WAS A SPECIFIC MONTH ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
AND IT WAS ONE OF THE ONES THAT WAS LEFT BLANK.
BUT I CAN REALLY QUICKLY PULL UP JULY AWARENESS MONTHS AND READ 'EM OFF TO YOU AGAIN.
UM, WHEN DO YOU NEED THIS ONE? WELL, IF IT'S FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH, I WOULD NEED IT.
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UM, SO THE NEXT MEETING WOULDN'T BE UNTIL JULY 10TH.SO I WOULD NEED THAT BY JUNE 30TH.
SO THAT'S ALMOST TWO WEEKS FROM NOW.
AND THIS IS THE SAME SOURCE THAT WE USE.
SO JULY, LET, THAT'S COMING UP ON THIS PARTICULAR LIST.
AS, AS FAR AS A MONTH LONG OBSERVANCE IS FRENCH AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH AND WE HAVE A LOT OF DAILY OBSERV OBSERVANCES.
NATIONAL DISABILITY INDEPENDENCE DAY.
WE ALREADY DID HAVE THAT LISTED IN MY BAD.
NATIONAL DISABILITY INDEPENDENCE DAY.
UH, COMMEMORATES A SIGNING OF THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT.
WE NEED SOMEONE TO WRITE THAT ONE.
OR TAKE RESPONSIBILITY, RIGHT? LIKE TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR PROVIDING THE INFORMATION.
TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE PROCLAMATION.
WHAT DOES THAT DO WHEN YOU I WOULD NEED THAT BY JUNE 30TH.
YOU MIGHT HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF FLEXIBILITY SINCE IT'S ON JULY 26TH.
IF WE DIDN'T HAVE IT UNTIL THE END OF JULY MM-HMM
UM, REALLY, I WOULD PROBABLY JUST NEED IT JULY.
I WOULD NEED THAT BY JULY 7TH.
WE WERE SAYING WE DIDN'T WANNA KEEP YOU STAN, IF YOU WANTED TO OH, YEAH.
YEAH, I WAS, I WAS KIND OF HALF LISTENING, BUT I APPRECIATE THAT.
IT'S NINE O'CLOCK HERE ON THE EAST COAST.
I'LL SEE YOU TOMORROW, JACQUELINE.
WE'RE PULLING, WE'RE DONE WITH HIS PORTION.
DOES HE LIVE ON THE EAST COAST? YES.
WELL,
SO DID ANYONE WANT TO AUGUST JUST SENIOR CITIZEN, RIGHT? MM-HMM
AND THEN, UM, HIS HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH IS IN SEPTEMBER.
SO WE HAVE, WE READ THE EXACT, OKAY.
SENIOR CITIZEN DAY IS AUGUST 21ST AND THEN HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH AND THEN SEPTEMBER SENIOR CITIZEN.
WHAT, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
YOU WANTED TO LOOK LIKE I WANT FOOD.
CAN'T GO WRONG WITH CHICKEN WING.
WELL, UM, FOR THE JULY ONE THAT THAT'S BY.
BUT, UM, THE, THE AUGUST AND THE SENIOR CITIZENS DAY AND THEN HISPANIC HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH ARE STILL OPEN.
I'LL TAKE THE HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH, UM, PROCLAMATION.
AND THERE'S ONLY ONE LAST I WANT TO DECIDE NOW, OR WHICH ONE IS THAT? IT'S THE SENIOR CITIZEN DAY.
WHEN WOULD I HAVE TO HAVE IT DONE? OH, NOT UNTIL IT'S, IT, THE DAY IS AUGUST 21ST.
I DON'T NEED THAT UNTIL THE FIRST WEEK OF AUGUST.
THAT'S GOLD ONE THAT I STRIVE TO GET TO, BUT I HAVE NO EXPERIENCE IN THAT AREA YET.
LIKE THE
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HE WILL GET A A RP EARLIER.I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT I'M SUPER CLEAR ON THIS.
UM, SO JULY FOR NATIONAL DISABILITY INDEPENDENCE DAY, I HAVE COMMISSIONER ERIC BELL TO WRITE THAT OR TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT TO PRESENT TO THE COMMISSION, UM, FOR APPROVAL.
AND THEN FOR AUGUST, SENIOR CITIZENS DAY, I HAVE COMMISSIONER COFIELD IN SEPTEMBER, I HAVE LONGER ACTION MONTH, UM, KIND OF RECALIBRATED FROM THE AWARENESS MONTH THAT SHE'S ALREADY WRITTEN.
UH, ALSO FROM COMMISSIONER CAULFIELD.
AND THEN FOR HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH, I HAVE COMMISSIONER TO PAY THAT.
CAN YOU REMIND ME OF THE NEXT MEETING YEAH.
I'LL REMIND, I'LL I'LL SEND A REMINDER AFTER THIS AND THEN WHENEVER WE GET CLOSER I'LL LET YOU GO AGAIN.
AND THAT IS, MAY I ASK, UM, CITY COUNCIL? YEAH.
I THINK THEY WAS THE ONE, NO, 17TH.
AND I ASKED BECAUSE MY BIRTHDAY'S ON THE 4TH OF JULY.
AND THEN WE ALREADY HAVE DISCUSSED THE NEXT ITEMS. SO MOVE TO ADJOURN.
SO THE, THE DISCUSSIONS ON ITEMS FOR THE NEXT MEETING IS JUST FINALIZING YEAH.
THE PRESENTATION FOR WORK SESSION.
I'M GONNA MEET WITH STAN TOMORROW AND THEN WE'LL HAVE, UM, THE THREE THINGS THAT WE ARE GONNA ASK OF THE COUNCIL AND PRESENTING THE PLAN TO THEM TO PLAN CHANGE.
WE CAN DO THAT FOR FREE ON THURSDAY INSTEAD OF, 'CAUSE THERE WAS ONE ON THE BANNER THAT WAS NOT GREAT.
SO WE NEED A MOTION FOR I, WE ADJOURN
WE WERE RIGHT ON TIME, SO NO, IN THE.