[Diversity and Inclusion Meeting on July 8, 2025]
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DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION AND BELONGING COMMISSION.
THE TIME IS 6 0 3, TUESDAY, JULY 8TH.
AND SO WE'LL HAVE THE ROLL CALL.
HI, COMMISSIONER HERE, COLEMAN.
COMMISSIONER LEWIS AND BELL ARE UP.
ABSENT, WE, WE GOT TWO OPENINGS.
WELL, THAT, WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT AS WE GO
SO GENERAL COMMENTS FROM, OH, SORRY, PUBLIC COMMENT, UH, NO PUBLIC COMMENT.
UM, GENERAL COMMENTS FROM CITY STAFF.
UM, GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONER, AND, UM, WELCOME AGAIN, COUNCIL MEMBER THORNTON AND STAN.
UM, THE QUICK UPDATE I HAVE THAT I THINK JACQUELYN MAY WANT TO EXPOUND ON IS, UH, WE NOW HAVE TWO VACANCIES.
UM, AS OF, UM, LAST MEETING, WHICH WAS, I CAN GIVE YOU THE EXACT DATE IF YOU NEEDED IT.
UM, COMMISSIONER OR FORMER COMMISSIONER, UM, SUZANNE CAULFIELD HAS RESIGNED FROM, FROM THE COMMISSION.
SO, UM, TARA RESIGNED, BUT, UM, SHE HAD BEEN ON THE COMMISSION FOR, WELL, I SHOULDN'T SAY SHE RESIGNED HER TERM AND SHE DECIDED NOT TO GO AHEAD.
BUT SHE HAD BEEN ON THE COMMISSION SINCE THE BEGINNING YEAH.
AND, YOU KNOW, I WOULD, IF SHE'S LISTENING OR ANYONE LISTENING, I WOULD, WOULD LIKE TO COMMEND HER FOR ALL OF HER WORK.
AND, YOU KNOW, SHE HAS ALL SHOWN A VERY MATURE ATTITUDE AND SHE WOULD ALWAYS STICK IT IN THERE
BUT SHE DID SAY THAT SHE WOULD, WOULD HELP US, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE ARE DOING DIFFERENT THINGS, UM, PARTICULARLY GETTING PEOPLE INVOLVED, UM, WITH THE OTHER PERSON, SUZANNE, SHE, I, I JUST THINK THAT IT'S JUST GOOD TO BRING IT OUT.
SHE HAD PROBLEMS WITH HOW, WHAT WE WERE DOING, HOW WE WERE DOING IT, AS WELL AS, UM, SHE FELT THAT SHE WAS SLIGHTED BECAUSE SHE HAD MENTIONED BEFORE ABOUT A NAME CHANGE.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WE DIDN'T ACCEPT IT AT THAT TIME.
SO, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO SAY,
AND SO, BUT ANYWAY, SHE SAID THAT IT WAS NOT A FIT FOR HER AND, UM, I WOULD AGREE.
AND THEN IT'S JUST, UM, I WAS JUST TALKING WITH, UH, CHRISTIE BEFORE, IT'S ENLIGHTENING TO THAT THE WORKING ON THIS COMMISSION, WORKING ON ANY COMMISSION IS DIFFERENT
AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO MOVE ON
UM, ITEM FIVE, GENERAL COMMENTS FROM THE CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES.
SO I JUST WENT AND LOOKED TO SEE WHERE WE STAND, AND WE ACTUALLY HAVE THREE APPLICATIONS OH, GOOD.
TO BE ON THE BOARD THAT HAVE ALL BEEN SUBMITTED IN LESS THAN THE PAST MONTH.
SO THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO, WHO WANT TO JOIN.
SO HOPEFULLY THEY CAN GET INTERVIEWED AND, AND SEE WHO FITS THE BOARD AND, AND, UH, LET YOU GUYS MOVE FORWARD.
AND THEN THERE WERE, THERE WERE TWO OTHER PEOPLE THAT WERE INTERVIEWED WHEN THE COMMISSION WAS FULL.
AND AT LEAST ONE OF THEM I WOULD LIKE TO CONSIDER AGAIN, BECAUSE HE SEEMED TO BE REALLY GOOD.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER HIM.
UM, IT WAS, I FORGOT HIS FIRST NAME, BUT, UM, I STILL HAVE THE INFORMATION.
I JUST DON'T WANT HIM TO BE LOST.
BECAUSE HE, HE WAS A VERY GOOD, UM, CANDIDATE.
I SHOULD, SHOULD STILL HAVE THAT, THAT INFORMATION.
I DON'T REMEMBER THE NAME, BUT YEAH.
I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU PRONOUNCE IT.
B-O-D-E-I THINK IS HIS FIRST NAME.
BUT WE'LL DEFINITELY KEEP THAT, MAN.
WE HAVE THREE APPLICATIONS AND THEN WE HAVE, UH, ANOTHER, UM, POSSIBILITIES SO FAR.
UM, SO GENERAL COMMENTS FROM COMMISSION MEMBERS.
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I DON'T HAVE ANY COMMENTS, BUT I HAVE A QUESTION.SO I'VE BEEN TRACKING OR TRYING TO TRACK THE, UM, OPEN BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, UH, LINK ON THE CITY WEBSITE MM-HMM
AND A LOT OF THE, NOT A LOT, SOME OF THE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS THAT WE KNOW HAVE MEMBERS ROLLING OFF, FOR EXAMPLE, IT'S NOT ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS.
IT'S NOT ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS AT THIS TIME, WHICH MEANS THERE'S OPENINGS.
DO WE KNOW, DAN, IF THAT'S JUST DUE TO A BACKLOG? BECAUSE I KNOW FOR A WHILE THERE WAS NO, UM, INTERVIEWS HAPPENING OR, UM, HOW DO WE REMEDY THAT? BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THERE WERE SOME PEOPLE THAT ARE ASKING, AND WE, I SENT OUT THE LINK SO THEY CAN LOOK AT THEM.
BUT SOME OF THOSE, UM, BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS ARE NOT ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS.
I, I NOT, I'M ACTUALLY NOT THIS ONE BECAUSE I'M ON IT, BUT I LOOKED AT LIKE THE EDC BOARD, THE, UM, ETHICS REVIEW, THOSE KINDS THAT ARE JUST NOT, THERE'S NO LINKS FOR PEOPLE TO APPLY.
I MEAN, THERE'S LINK THAT SAYS NOT ACCEPTING APPLICATION.
I'M NOT, I'M NOT AWARE OF THAT HAVING CHANGED.
I, I THOUGHT THE WAY IT WAS SET UP WAS, IT MIGHT SAY THIS BOARD DOESN'T HAVE ANY OPENINGS RIGHT NOW, BUT YOU CAN STILL APPLY.
THAT'S NORMALLY THE WAY IT WORKS.
I DON'T KNOW FEEDBACK BACK THAT, BECAUSE I DIDN'T TRY TO APPLY.
I WAS JUST LOOKING AT, AND I SENT IT OUT TO SOME FRIENDS AND SOME GROUPS.
UM, BUT IT DOES SAY THEY GOT THE FEEDBACK THAT IT WASN'T ACCEPTING, BUT THEY CAN STILL TURN IN.
BUT PEOPLE AREN'T GONNA DO THAT IF IT SAYS THAT IT'S NOT, THAT THERE'S NO OPENINGS.
SO LET ME ASK YOU, 'CAUSE WHO'S IN CHARGE OF MAKING SURE THOSE STAY UP TO DATE IF THEY ARE, DO HAVE OPENINGS? UM, RELATIVELY SPEAKING, CITY SECRETARY'S OFFICE.
UM, BUT AS FAR AS PROCESS, I'M, I, UH, AM WITH COUNCIL MEMBER THORNTON.
I'M NOT AWARE OF THAT CHANGING, BUT I CAN ALSO LOOK INTO THAT.
DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS? NO, JUST READY TO GET INTO THE, OKAY.
THE ONLY ONE COMMENT I HAVE, I DID GO TO THE JUNETEENTH FESTIVAL AND IT WAS VERY WELL ATTENDED WHEN I WAS THERE.
AND, UM, IT SEEMS LIKE THAT THEY DID A REALLY GOOD JOB AND OF ALSO GETTING PEOPLE OUT.
AND I TALKED TO JUST A FEW OF THE CITIZENS AND THEY SEEMED TO BE VERY HAPPY.
SO I THINK THAT THAT WAS REALLY, UM, GOOD.
NOW UNDER ITEM 7.1, OTHER BUSINESS.
SO DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION IN PREPARATION FOR THE JULY 17TH, 2025 WORK SESSION TO THE CITY COUNCIL OF PUBLIC, THE CITY COUNCIL.
SO I WAS THINKING THAT WHAT WE COULD DO WITH THAT IS IF WE JUST GO OVER THE SLIDES AND THEN SECONDARILY GO OVER THE EXECUTION PLAN TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE EVERYTHING UPDATED AND EVERYTHING IS, UM, GOOD.
DOES THAT, DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? MM-HMM
STAN, WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO BRING UP THE SLIDES OR WOULD YOU LIKE TO BRING UP THE SLIDES? OH, YOU CAN'T HEAR IN SILENCE.
I ASSUME, YEAH, I THOUGHT, UH, THERE ARE ACTUALLY SOME CHANGES MADE.
UH, I, I MADE THOSE CHANGES BASED ON JACQUELINE'S RECOMMENDATIONS.
SO WHY DON'T YOU GO AHEAD AND SHOW THEM? WILL DO.
WE CAN, AND THEN THAT WAY IF THERE'S ANY CHANGES, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN QUICKLY MAKE THOSE IF ANY CHANGES COME UP.
UM, SO MAYBE THEN, DID YOU WANT TO DO THEM IN TANDEM? IS THAT WHAT YOU SAID, JACQUELINE? OR JUST DO THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION AND THEN DO THE EXECUTE.
WHAT, WHAT DOES EVERYBODY ELSE THINK? DO YOU THINK WE CAN DO THEM IN TANDEM? OR SHOULD WE, WHEN YOU SAY DO THEM IN TANDEM, WHAT DO YOU LIKE? UH, PUT BOTH, BOTH ON THE SCREEN, THE, YOU MEAN THE, THE, THE PRIORITIES AND THE PRESENTATION? WELL, YES.
WELL, THE ACTUAL EXECUTION PLAN IS BASICALLY JUST MORE DETAIL BEHIND WHAT'S ON THE SLIDES, RIGHT? MM-HMM
UH, BUT I THINK THE IMPORTANT THING, AND WHAT I RECOMMEND IS THAT, YOU KNOW, IN EACH MEETING THAT YOU HAVE IN FUTURE MONTHS IS LIKE, LOOK THROUGH THE PLAN AND SEE WHAT THINGS ARE COMING UP IN TERMS OF LIKE TWO OR THREE MONTHS DOWN THE ROAD AND LIKE ALWAYS FOCUSING ON THOSE IN, IN NEXT MEETING.
AND ACTUALLY JACQUELINE HAS THOSE, UH, IN, UH, LIKE NUMBER, UH, 7.2, YOU KNOW, FOCUSING ON SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, COMING UPON US VERY FAST.
SO, SO I, I THINK IF WE DO THIS, MAYBE WE DO THE SLIDES FIRST BECAUSE WHAT WE'RE GOING TO PRESENT TO THEM ARE THE SLIDES.
AND THEY'LL HAVE THE BACKGROUND.
THAT'S THE SLIDES ARE THE PROPOSED IMPLEMENTATION ELEMENTS.
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SEE ANYTHING.DID ANYONE SEE ANYTHING ON THE COVER? OKAY.
HERE, HISTORY AND, UM, THIS YEAH.
GIVES A HISTORY, WHICH IS GOOD.
AND WHAT I DEFINITELY WILL WEAVE IN IS WHERE WE HAVE BEEN, WHERE WE'RE GOING, AS WELL AS IN COMBINATION WITH THE HUDDLE, ALIGNMENT WITH THE HUDDLE CITY OF HUDDLE STRATEGIC PLAN.
UM, ANYTHING ON HERE, ON THIS PAGE? OH, IS IT GOING TO BE, BECAUSE WE TALKED ABOUT IT IN THE CHANGE, WE'RE GONNA PROPOSE THE NAME CHANGE TO THE BELONG VERSION.
SHOULD THAT BE, BUT THAT'S DOWN FURTHER.
THAT'S PROBABLY LIKE ONE OF THE LAST SLIDES.
WE'RE JUST, YOU KNOW, IT'S, WE'RE, WE'RE STARTING WITH IT AND I AM GOING TO WEAVE IN LIKE WHERE WE EVOLVED AND ALL OF THAT, AND THEN TIME WE GET.
I'M TRYING TO SUBTLY PUT THINGS IN
SO THEN THE NEXT ONE WE HAVE THIS EXEC, UH, EXECUTIVE SUMMARIES.
ADOPT A PLAN, THE CONCEPTS, THE, AND THE FIVE PRIORITY AREAS.
IS EVERYTHING OKAY ON THAT ONE? OH, ONE OF, OH, ONE THING I DID HAVE, UM, AND I THINK STAN AND CHRISTIE KNOW A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THIS BECAUSE I JUST NOTICED LIKE ON ITEM THREE WHERE IT SAYS ASSURE UH, ENGAGEMENT IN ALL CITY INTERNAL PROCESSES WAS THERE, I THOUGHT THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF RESISTANCE ABOUT USING THE WORD ALL.
UM, I FEEL LIKE THAT THAT DEFINITELY CAME UP A WHILE BACK.
YEAH, I'M, BUT I LIKE, BUT EVERYTHING YOU DO, NO MATTER WHAT YOU'RE DOING ALWAYS HAS TO HAVE A-D-E-I-B LENS ON IT SOMEHOW.
UH, I, I KIND OF FAIL TO SEE WHAT WOULDN'T, YOU KNOW, DIVERSITY IS SORT OF LIKE A FACT OF LIFE, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY YOU'RE DEALING WITH, EVERY PROCESS TOUCHES DIVERSE PEOPLE.
SO I WOULD BE KIND OF PUZZLED ON WHY THERE WOULD BE ANY KIND OF OBJECTIONS TO THE WORD ALL.
WHAT WAS, WHERE IS THE, YEAH, WHERE WAS THE, THE, THIS RIGHT HERE UNDER THREE, AND THEN IT'S ON, RIGHT? THREE SOME SLIDES DOWN THERE.
IF YOU WANNA JUST SAY IN CITY AND CITY INTERNAL PROCESSES, IT MAKES IT A LITTLE BIT LESS DAUNTING.
AND, YOU KNOW, I'M FINDING ALL, BUT I DON'T SEE WHY THERE REALLY SHOULDN'T BE OBJECTIONS TO IT IF PEOPLE SAY, OH, THESE ARE THINGS THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO THINK ABOUT DIVERSITY AT ALL.
I'D BE A LITTLE BIT PUZZLED WHAT THOSE COULD BE.
WELL, WHAT WAS THE, THE PUSHBACK? WAS IT FROM OUR COMMISSION OR WAS IT FROM CITY? NO, I THINK IT CAME OUT OF, UM, ONE OF THE LEADERSHIP DISCUSSIONS.
AND I CAN'T, I DON'T RECALL EXACTLY.
UM, I THINK IT WAS JUST KIND OF THAT DAUNTING, LIKE ALL CITY ABROAD, WHICH THEY ARE, ARE, IT'S ALREADY PART OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN, BUT JUST USING THAT WORD WAS JUST KIND OF, YEAH.
I'M, I'M, I THINK IT'S FINE REMOVING ALL.
IF YOU WANNA MAKE THAT CHANGE AT YOUR END, I, I WILL.
AND THE NEXT SLIDE, EIGHT OF 40.
UM, I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING HERE.
DOES ANYONE ELSE, UH, WHAT WE ON SLIDE FOUR NOW, WHICH EIGHT OF 48 OF 40, AND IT'S A PRIORITY AREA, LET'S HERE.
AND NOW WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN IS THERE'S A, THERE'S LIKE PAIRS OF SLIDES THAT KIND OF SUMMARIZE THE PRIORITY AREA AND THE DISCUSSION.
AND THEN THE NEXT SLIDE WILL BE THE DETAILED IMPLEMENTATION PLAN BEHIND THAT PRIORITY.
SO IT'S GONNA KIND OF GO PRIORITY ONE SUMMARY AND THEN THE DETAILED PLAN, PRIORITY TWO, SUMMARY, DETAILED PLAN, ET CETERA.
WE ARE GONNA HAVE TO CHANGE THAT FROM DONE TO WORKING ON IT IN PROGRESS.
BECAUSE THAT IS, WE, WE HAD, UM, ALL THE, WE STARTED THE COMMISSION, THERE WAS VERY FEW POSITIONS.
NO, I'M GONNA TAKE EVERY LITTLE THING EVERYWHERE THING.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE'LL JUST SUMMARIZE BECAUSE THERE WERE, THERE ARE GONNA BE TWO PEOPLE
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THAT WERE NOT, OH, THREE PEOPLE BECAUSE, UM, COMMISSIONER, I MEAN, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER PORTERFIELD WAS NOT HERE AT THE TIME.SO DO YOU WANNA JUST TAKE OUT THAT DONE PART ON THE FIELD CURRENT? YEAH, JUST TAKE OUT THE DONE ON BOTH OF THOSE, BECAUSE WE'RE GONNA BE PROPOSING ANOTHER RENAMING.
SO I WOULD JUST REMOVE, YOU KNOW, BOTH OF THE DONES ON THE SLIDE.
WELL, THEN WE CAN'T SAY
WELL, BECAUSE TECHNICALLY THEY, THEY HAVE BEEN DONE IT LIKE YOU'RE DOING IT RIGHT.
AND THAT ACTUALLY ILLUSTRATES THE EVOLUTION.
WELL, CAN YOU, THAT'S DONE AND ONGOING FOR THOSE? YEAH.
SAY, UH, SAY CONTINUE, ADD ONGOING, CONTINUE TO FILL ONGOING OPEN COMMISSION POSITIONS.
I UNDERSTAND YOUR POINT, JACK.
WE WANNA BE ABLE TO SHOW YEAH, YEAH.
WHAT WE'VE ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED AND BE VERY CLEAR ABOUT THAT.
BUT THO THAT'S HOWEVER WE WANNA DO IT, THAT'S IT'S FINE.
SO THE NEXT ONE, INITIAL PRIORITY, PRIORITY AREA ONE.
UM, THE THING THAT I SAW HERE, WE CAN, WE, WE CAN TAKE OUT JUNE AND JUST LEAVE IT JULY FOR ITEM 1 1 1 DASH ONE.
UM, AND THE SAME THING WOULD BE FOR SUBMIT THE BUDGET REQUEST.
I'M THINKING SINCE THIS WE ARE SUBMITTING IT, UM, I DON'T SEE ANY, DOES ANYONE ELSE SEE ANYTHING? UM, I MEAN, I'M GONNA
THIS, IT WOULD BE THE, YOU KNOW HOW WE HAVE THE MEETING IN JANUARY WHEN WE HAD EVERYBODY CAME.
SO IT'S JUST ONE ADDITIONAL MEETING, UM, SUMMARIZING THE RESULTS.
ANYTHING ELSE? AND CHRISTIE, YOU'RE MAKING THE UPDATES? YES, I'M MAKING THE UPDATES.
CAN, COULD YOU JUST GO BACK ONE MM-HMM
UM, IN THE ONE FOUR DEIB FORUM AND KEY CITY STAFF LEADERS AND CITY COUNCIL INTERFACES TO MEET TWO TIMES A YEAR, CAN WE CONTINUE THAT SENTENCE TO SAY WHY, OR JUST WHAT IS THE POINT OR LIKE THE PURPOSE, WHAT'S THE PURPOSE OF THE MEETING IN ORDER TO REVIEW, UM, ONGOING, UH, EFFORTS OF THE COMMITTEE, OR IN ORDER TO RE, YOU KNOW, IN ORDER TO POSSIBLY, IN ORDER TO REVIEW THE, UH, THE YEARLY, UM MM-HMM
AND, AND ACTUALLY WE HAVE THAT, WE HAVE THAT ACTUALLY IN THE PLAN DOCUMENT UNDER ONE FOUR, WE HAVE A KICK IT KICKING IT.
THE FIRST ONE JANUARY KICKS OFF THE, KICKS IT OFF.
THEN THE SECOND MEETING IS TO REPORT OUT ON PROGRESS.
YEAH, BECAUSE, UM, THE MEETING THAT WE HAVE WITH ALL THE COMMISSIONS IN THAT, THAT WOULD BE THE ONE MEETING IN JANUARY, AND THEN WE WOULD HAVE ANOTHER, NOW THIS WILL BE AN ADDITIONAL ONE THAT'S SUMMARIZING OUR PROGRESS.
THAT WAS A GOOD QUESTION FOR YOU.
YEAH, I WASN'T SURE ABOUT THAT EITHER.
UM, UH, I'M THINKING, CAN WE SELECT, UM, THE PUBLIC ON ITEM 1.7? CAN WE SELECT THAT? WHICH I, I PERSONALLY VOTE FOR SEPTEMBER.
UM, LIKE THE LAST MEETING IN SEPTEMBER, COUNCIL MEETING IN SEPTEMBER.
IS THE BUDGET PROCESS COMPLETE AT THAT TIME? BY THAT POINT, IT'LL BASICALLY BE DONE.
AND THEN, UM, ALSO I'M THINKING THAT LABOR DAY WILL BE OVER AND, YOU KNOW, EPTEMBER 18TH WOULD BE SEPTEMBER 18TH, THOUGH, THAT DATE.
YOU WANT ME TO UPDATE THE SLIDE TO SAY THAT, OR DO YOU
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WANT TO JUST SAY SEPTEMBER? SEPTEMBER IS FINE.BUT WE CAN, BUT I'LL MAKE A, BUT WE CAN MAKE A MEMO LETTER TO OURSELVES FOR THAT, Y'ALL NEXT WEEK TO VOTE ON THAT.
NOW, HERE'S A, THIS IS A QUESTION I HAD.
I, 'CAUSE I JUST READ IT LIKE WITH FRESH EYES BEFORE WE CAME HERE.
UM, SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE THE WORKING GROUPS, WHICH IS GREAT, BUT THEN WE ALSO HAD AN AMBASSADOR PROGRAM.
AND I'M ALSO, I'M WONDERING, ARE THOSE GONNA BE DIFFERENT OR ARE THEY THE SAME? YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? HMM.
SO, OR SHOULD WE COMBINE THAT THEN? WELL, THE AMBASSADOR PROGRAM IS INDIVIDUALS THAT SAY WE WANNA BE INVOLVED ON THE ONGOING DIVERSITY WORK, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE NOT ON THE COMMISSION.
SO THEY COULD BE ONES THAT MAY, THEY MIGHT BE, UH, WORKING GROUP LEADERS THAT ARE NOT ON THE COMMISSION, OR MAYBE ASSISTANT WORKING GROUP LEADERS, OR MAYBE THEY'LL VOLUNTEER TO TAKE AN INITIATIVE MM-HMM
BUT THE AMBASSADOR PROGRAM IS JUST A WAY OF RECOGNIZING AND DESIGNATING PEOPLE WHO MIGHT WANNA STAY INVOLVED IN THE DEIB WORK, EVEN AFTER THEY ROTATE OFF THE COUNCIL.
OR MAYBE PEOPLE THAT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE FOUR APPLICATIONS AND THEY'RE ALL GOOD AND TWO OF 'EM ARE GONNA BE ON THE COMMISSION, MAYBE GA ENGAGING THE OTHERS AS, YOU KNOW, AMBASSADORS TO DO WORK BEHIND THE SCENES.
UM, SO, BUT MY QUESTION IS, AND I, I AGREE WITH THAT, BUT ARE THEY, ARE WE SEPARATING, I GUESS I'M SAYING, SO WE ARE SEPARATING, RIGHT? THEY'RE TWO DIFFERENT, THEY'RE TWO VERY DISTINCT THINGS.
AND SOME OF 'EM MIGHT HAVE A DUAL, SOME PEOPLE MIGHT HAVE A DUAL ROLE, LIKE THEY WORK WITH A WORKING GROUP AND THEN THEY ALSO STAY OUT.
OR LIKE WHEN YOU SAID COMMISSIONER, FORMER COMMISSIONER SPOONS ABOUT HER WANTING TO STAY INVOLVED IN HELPING WITH THINGS, EVEN THOUGH SHE CAN'T STAY AS A RIGHT.
SO THAT'S ANOTHER GOOD WAY TO KEEP HER.
WELL THAT'S, YEAH, I JUST SAW THAT BECAUSE THAT MAY BE A QUESTION THAT COMES UP, YOU KNOW.
SO INSTEAD OF JULY, WOULD WE DO THIS ITEM ONE TO 10? MAYBE WE SHOULD.
WE'RE WE'RE ACTUALLY GONNA BE PROPOSING IT, I THINK, AT THIS MEETING.
AND I EVEN, I THINK I SENT YOU A WRITEUP ON HOW THAT WOULD WORK AND WHAT IT WOULD BE.
AND I CAN, IF YOU DON'T, IF YOU CAN'T FIND IT, I CAN RESEND IT.
BECAUSE I, I HAD THE ONE FOR THE WORKING GROUPS, BUT NOT THE AMBASSADORS, OR AT LEAST NOT IN FRONT OF ME,
UM, NOW PRIORITY AREA TWO, I, LET'S SEE, I DIDN'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR ANYTHING.
ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANYTHING? OH, WE HAVEN'T, HAVE WE UTILIZED ANY OF THE CITIZEN AND RESIDENT SURVEYS IN ANY, YOUR, I MEAN, IN ANY INTENTIONAL WAY JUST YET? WELL, WE HAVE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A NEW SURVEY THIS YEAR, SO THAT'S THE ONE WE'RE GONNA USE.
BUT HISTORIC, WE HAVEN'T HAD IT.
NO, WE, WE DID, WE DID, UM, WE JUST DID A REVIEW TO SEE WHERE THINGS, YOU KNOW, WHERE THINGS ENDED UP AND NOW WITH THIS ONE COMING AND DO THEY HAVE A, A DATE OR TIMEFRAME OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT? UH, UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME, BUT I CAN DOUBLE CHECK.
BECAUSE WE WOULD, NOW WE'RE GONNA GO A LITTLE BIT DEEPER MM-HMM
AND THAT'S HOW WE CAN DISTINGUISH WHAT WE DID BEFORE.
BECAUSE I REMEMBER ATTENDING THE MEETING THAT THEY HAD THE FEED AND IT WAS VERY GOOD.
SO NOW WE ARE IN, ON THE FRONT END.
AND THEN WE COULD SAY WAS, IS THERE ANY PLACE THAT WE CAN, YOU KNOW, OFFER, YOU KNOW, UM, RECOMMENDATIONS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
READY? SO NEXT SLIDE, PRIORITY AREA TWO.
WOULD, WOULD THIS BE INSTEAD OF SEPTEMBER? WOULD IT BE OCTOBER OR TWO? ONE, YEAH, TWO ONE OCTOBER.
BECAUSE THAT'S THE START OF THE FISCAL YEAR.
MAYBE THAT'S SEPTEMBER IS SEEMS KIND OF A LOT GOING ON.
BECAUSE WE WOULD JUST BE HAVING
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THE PRESENTATION TO THE PUBLIC.DOES THAT MAKE SENSE TO DO THAT? SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, NOVEMBER? YEAH.
IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE ALMOST A WHOLE YEAR TO DO THOSE.
UH, I, I DEFINITELY WILL HAVE THAT FINISHED THE COMMUNICATIONS PLAN.
UM, NEXT PAGE, PRIORITY AREA THREE.
IT'S THE SAME THING WITH THE ALL IN THERE.
SO ON THE SURVEY, IS IT, IS IT A, IT'S A GENERAL CITYWIDE SURVEY.
BUT THERE'LL BE SOME QUESTIONS THAT ARE SPECIFICALLY GEARED TOWARD YEP.
AND THE LAST TIME WE DID IT, WE ASKED THE COMMISSION TO REVIEW AND PROVIDE FEEDBACK ON THOSE QUESTIONS THAT WERE SPECIFIC.
AND I'M SURE THAT THAT WILL BE THE CASE AGAIN.
I DID ACTUALLY HAVE THE THOUGHT THAT I FORGOT TO BRING THAT I ACTUALLY THOUGHT OF AFTER OUR LAST MEETING.
SO EVERY MONTH, YOU KNOW, WE, OUR LAST MEETING WE ESTABLISH WHAT, WHAT PROCLAMATIONS WE WERE GOING TO BE.
UTILIZING, WOULD IT BE APPROPRIATE TO UTILIZE THAT TIME, LET'S SAY WE KNOW, 'CAUSE WE ANNOUNCED, HEY, OUT FOR ME, SEPTEMBER HISPANIC, UM, HERITAGE PROCLAMATION MONTH TO USE THAT MEETING.
'CAUSE PEOPLE WE'RE GONNA, I'M GONNA TRY REALLY PARTY TO GET A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE USE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE PEOPLE FILL OUT ONE OF THOSE ENGAGEMENT SURVEYS ABOUT HOW THEY'RE FEELING ABOUT JUST WHATEVER, I DUNNO WHAT'S GONNA BE ON THE SURVEY.
BUT BECAUSE THOSE CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS, PEOPLE DO COME IN, ESPECIALLY THE PEOPLE THAT THINK THERE'S A LOT OF STUFF WRONG.
SO THEY'LL ACTUALLY GIVE US FEEDBACK, WHETHER IT'S QUALITY OR NOT.
IT'LL, IT'S, IT'S ENGAGEMENT FROM INDIVIDUALS.
SO HAVING A WAY TO HAVE THAT SURVEY AVAILABLE AS PEOPLE COME IN, THEY CAN TAKE IT OR THEY CAN TAKE IT WITH THEM, OR THEY CAN SCAN A QR CODE.
'CAUSE THEY'RE ALREADY THINKING ABOUT THINGS, WHETHER WHEN THEY ATTEND THE MEETING OR AFTER THEY LEAVE THE MEETING, BECAUSE WE'VE READ THROUGH A PROCLAMATION AND MADE A, YOU KNOW, A SHOWING OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH IN OUR COMMUNITY.
SO THE, UM, THE SURVEY THAT WE SEND OUT ALL AS A CITY IS RANDOM.
BUT IF Y'ALL WANTED TO HAVE A VERY SPECIFIC ENGAGEMENT, THERE'S NO REASON WE COULDN'T.
AND COULD, COULD CONSIDER LIKE A LISTEN, LIKE A, LIKE A PASSIVE LISTENING POST MM-HMM.
BECAUSE WE'RE LISTENING, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO CAPTURE PEOPLE THAT ALREADY MAY AT BE ATTENDING BECAUSE THEY'RE INTERESTED IN WHAT WE'RE TALKING, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CITYWIDE PROCLAMATIONS ABOUT AUTISM DIS OR, OR, OR DISABILITY OR HISPANIC HERITAGE OR, UM, ASIAN AMERICAN HERITAGE OR JUNETEENTH.
LIKE, I THINK WE'VE ACTUALLY MISSED OPPORTUNITIES BECAUSE WE HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE SHOW UP TO A LOT OF THESE, EVEN A LOT OF THESE MEETINGS BECAUSE OF THE PROCLAMATIONS MM-HMM
IT WOULD'VE BEEN A GREAT TIME TO GET INPUT FROM THOSE, FROM THOSE CITIZENS.
AND ALSO, WHAT ABOUT ALSO, WHENEVER, UM, THOSE THINGS OCCUR IS, IS THERE A WAY TO PUBLICLY INVITE PEOPLE TO, UH, LEAVE THEIR EMAIL ADDRESS OR SOMETHING IF THEY'RE INTERESTED IN THE WORKING GROUPS? YEAH.
THAT COULD, THAT COULD BE IN THERE TOO.
IF WE CAN HAVE, WE CAN CAPTURE, I MEAN, IT HAS TO BE QUICK, LIKE THREE OR FOUR QUESTIONS THAT ARE TARGETED THAT STAND CAN PROBABLY HELP THAT HAS PROBABLY ALREADY WRITTEN, UM, BUT CAN HELP US WITH.
AND THEN IT, AND THEN THE QUESTION COULD BE, IF YOU WANNA CONTINUE TO BE INVOLVED AT AN MM-HMM
AMBASSADOR, START WITH AN AMBASSADOR LEVEL, PLEASE PROVIDE YOUR EMAIL SO THAT WE CAN REQUIRED WORKING.
THAT'S A, YEAH, THAT'S A GREAT IDEA.
TO REALLY LEVERAGE ALL THE PROCLAMATIONS.
BECAUSE I THINK ENGAGE PEOPLE LOT OF INFORMATION PAPER.
BECAUSE THE, THE PROCLAMATIONS AT LEAST, WHAT IS THAT WORD THAT IS USED? UM, ANECDOTALLY
SO, SO WE WANT, WE DEFINITELY, AND I'M GONNA PUT THAT IN THE COMMUNICATION PLAN THAT THAT IS, THIS IS PART OF OUR STRATEGY TO, I MEAN, AND IT SEEMS TO BE WORKING YEAH.
AND ACTUALLY WE HAVE IT IN ITEM 5.2, WHICH IS CONTINUING THE DEIB FOCUSED PROCLAMATIONS.
AND THERE WAS A POINT UNDER THERE, A ADD FEEDBACK LINK FOR COMMENTS THAT WOULD GO TO THE DIB COMMISSION.
AND SO YOU CAN KIND OF EVEN UPDATE THAT TO EVEN, YOU KNOW, AND FIND OTHER WAYS, UH, TO UTILIZE THE PROCLAMATIONS FOR GETTING FEEDBACK FROM CITIZENS.
SO YOU KIND OF ALREADY HAVE THAT NUANCED, YOU KNOW, IN, UH, ITEM FIVE.
CAN I, CAN I JUST ASK DAN A QUESTION ABOUT THAT? SO DAN, CAN YOU SEE THAT, UM, THAT KIND OF, UH, ACTION TAKING PLACE AND, AND BEING APPROPRIATE, LIKE AT THE END OF THE PROCLAMATION OR SOMETHING LIKE JUST TO MAKE THAT ANNOUNCEMENT OR? YEAH.
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I MEAN, UH, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE LOOKING TO ENGAGE THE PEOPLE IN THE ROOM, THAT'S PRETTY, PRETTY EASY TO DO.IF YOU'RE LOOKING TO ENGAGE PEOPLE WHO ARE WATCHING AT HOME, THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF FIGURING OUT, YOU KNOW, HOW, HOW THE LOGISTICS OF THAT WORK.
BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT FITTING IN, IT SEEMS LIKE A NATURAL FIT TO ME TO SAY, HEY, THIS IS IMPORTANT AND, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN THIS AREA.
SO WE CAN BE PART OF THE PROCLAMATION.
BECAUSE THERE'LL ALWAYS BE THERE, THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE ONE OF US REPRESENTING WHO'S WROTE THE PROCLAMATION THAT COULD BE THERE, OR THROUGH CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
STAN, YOUR RECOMMENDATION IS TO PARK IT, IT DOES MAKE SENSE IN FIVE TWO.
SO FEEDBACK INCOME WEBSITE AND ADD A BULLET FOR, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU CALL IT, SURVEY DURING THAT CITY, I DON'T KNOW HOW TO WORD IT.
HAVE A SURVEY AT CITY COUNCIL QUICK.
AND WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO HELP US, LIKE CRAFT SHORT AND THE, THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS THAT WE WOULD BE WANTING TO ASK IN ADJACENT TO DOING THE PROCLAMATIONS? YEAH.
I CAN COME UP WITH LIKE, JUST YEAH.
THAT ARE, THAT ARE, THAT ARE INFORMATIVE AND IMPACTFUL, BUT ALSO VERY QUICK.
BECAUSE I CAN PROBABLY PUT LIKE 37 THINGS ON THERE, BUT IT DOESN'T, PEOPLE ARE GONNA, THEY'RE GONNA OPEN THAT LINK AND THEY'RE GONNA BE LIKE, OH NO, WE'RE, I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THIS.
NO, PEOPLE, I, WHENEVER I GET A SURVEY THAT GOES ON AND ON AND ON, I JUST QUIT BEFORE I GET TO THE END.
WE NEED TO BE VERY SMART ABOUT THOSE QUESTIONS SO WE GET QU AS MUCH QUALITY AS WE CAN OUT ENGAGEMENTS THAT, THAT'D BE GREAT.
SO WE ARE FINISHED WITH PRIOR AREA THREE.
UM, YEAH, YOU HAVE THAT, YOU HAVE THE PLAN PAGE.
AND, UM, THIS WORKED WELL WITH JAMES.
I, UM, JUST MET WITH HIM AND HE SAID AFTER BUDGET, AND SO I JUST FELT WE, THIS WILL BE A GOOD THING TO CONTINUE ON.
SO WITH THE, WE, WE HAVE NOT, OR HAVE WE SAID LIKE THE CITY SUPPLIER DIVERSITY PROGRAM? WERE WE JUST CONSIDERING THAT OR RECOMMENDING THAT? YEAH, I THINK WE PUT IT IN THE PLAN AS TBD KNOWING THAT THAT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE COMPLEX.
SO I'M GONNA HAVE TO DO A FEW THINGS FIRST.
SO SHOULD WE PUT THAT HERE AS WELL? YEAH.
'CAUSE IT'S, BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S, YOU KNOW, WE KIND OF PUT IT, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE DID THE INITIAL WORK, WE PUT IT AS A HIGH LEVEL BULLET AND SOME THINGS WILL BE DONE IMMEDIATELY IN THE PLAN, AND SOME THINGS MIGHT BE DONE ONE OR TWO YEARS DOWN THE ROAD.
I THINK IT'S STILL GOOD TO HAVE VISIBILITY TO IT BECAUSE IT IS, YOU KNOW, PART OF THE PLAN.
JUST WE DON'T HAVE A DATE ON IT YET.
SO THESE ARE MORE LIKE THINGS WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE.
IT WAS LIKE HIGH LEVEL STATEMENTS THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT WE KIND OF ALL AGREED ON.
UH, AND THESE WERE ALL, THESE BULLETS WERE ALL IN THE INITIAL STRATEGIC PLAN DOCUMENT THAT WAS ADAPTED MM-HMM
ABOUT EIGHT OR NINE MONTHS AGO.
AND THEN THE NEXT TASK WAS COMING UP WITH AN IMPLEMENTATION PLAN TO SUPPORT THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
AND OF COURSE, SOME OF THE TACTICS AND ACTIONS ARE GONNA BE DONE IN A FEW MONTHS, AND SOME MIGHT BE DONE A YEAR OR TWO DOWN THE ROAD.
BUT THESE ARE THINGS THAT, UH, ALMOST ALL OF THOSE ARE, ARE THINGS THAT NOT NECESSARILY THE DEIB COMMISSION WILL BE WORKING ON OR FOCUSING ON, BUT JUST THINGS THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOMEONE IN THE COMMUNITY TAKE, UH, TAKE THE LEAD ON.
AND YOU, WHEN YOU SEE THE PLAN, WE KIND OF NUANCED THAT, THAT THIS AREA FOUR, YOU KNOW, IS ONE WHERE WE'RE GONNA BE INTERACTING WITH OTHER PEOPLE WHO OWN THE WORK LIKE CHENEY.
AND PROCUREMENT THAT, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE IMMEDIATE CONTROL OVER, BUT AS THE COMMISSION, YOU ALL CAN STILL PUSH IT AND, AND ELEVATE THAT.
THIS IS IMPORTANT TO CONTINUE TO DISCUSS MM-HMM
JUST WONDERING IF WE CAN, UH, CAN YOU GO BACK ONE SLIDE? JUST, UH, WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE TO, AND TO CHANGE WHERE IT SAYS
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EXCELLENT SCHOOLS TO TRACK FAMILIES, AND JUST PUT IN THE SAME SENTENCE THAT YOU HAVE IN THE NEXT SLIDE ABOUT THE, UH, ENTREPRENEUR, UH, YOUTH ENTREPRENEUR PROGRAM.THE PLAN HERE FOR ONE, UM, THE TARGET DATE WOULD NOT BE JULY, THEN GONNA PUSH THAT BACK.
WHAT WOULD, LIKE, WHAT, WHAT SHOULD WE PUT, SHOULD WE PUT AFTER YEAH.
SEPTEMBER OR OCTOBER? LET'S PUSH IT BACK TO OCTOBER.
I THINK THAT'LL ALSO GIVE, UM, OUR DIRECTOR CHANGE SOME TIME.
UM, BUT I'M, I'M, I'M GOING KIND OF FLOATING THE IDEAS TO HER THAT THIS IS COMING UP, BUT SHE LITERALLY JUST CAME BACK.
SO YEAH, GOING BACK TO OCTOBER WOULD BE GOOD FOR THAT.
AND THEN, UM, RIGHT NOW I AM THE ACTING LIAISON BECAUSE I'M A, I'M AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE HU CHAMBER FOR FOUR, TWO MM-HMM
UM, AND I HAVEN'T REALLY, WE HAVEN'T PROPOSED YET, BUT I KNOW I'M GONNA IDENTIFY SOMEBODY ELSE TO BE A LIAISON THERE.
UM, AND THEN, BECAUSE WE TALKED ABOUT HAVING THE HU OF CHAMBER ENGAGEMENT, WELL, I LAUNCHED WITH THE CHAMBER.
I WORKED FOR THE TALENT DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, AND WE WERE ALREADY STARTED PLANNING OUR FIRST ACTION, WHICH IS GOING TO BE, UM, AN EIGHTH GRADE CAREER QUEST SO THAT WE CAN REACH MORE STUDENTS, ESPECIALLY UNDERSERVED STUDENTS.
SO WE'RE GONNA INCLUDE THE STUDENTS FROM RIVER COURSE ACADEMY, UM, IN THAT PLAN TO EXPOSE THEM TO CTE PROGRAMS AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL SO THAT WE CAPTURE ALL THE STUDENTS THAT USUALLY DON'T, DON'T SELECT A, A PATHWAY OR MM-HMM
UM, ARE ENGAGED OR NOT THE STUDENTS THAT ARE DEFINITELY GONNA END UP AT UNIVERSITY OR DO EARLY COLLEGE.
SO THAT'S A BIG FOCUS OF, AND THAT'S WHAT WE ALSO INCLUDE THE STUDENTS AT A RIVER COURSE ACADEMY THAT MAY HAVE A DIFFERENT TYPE OF NEED FOR SUPPORT.
SO THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE CAN EARMARK AS THAT ENGAGEMENT, WHICH IS GONNA HAPPEN NOVEMBER 5TH.
WE'VE ALREADY SET A DATE WITH THE CHAMBER, WORKING WITH THE HEAD OF ISD THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE MEASURABLE OUTCOMES, LIKE WHICH STUDENTS DID WE REACH? DID WE DIVERSIFY THE STUDENTS THAT WE ACTUALLY REACHED AND DID THEY ENROLL? THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND THEN OF COURSE, THE ISD WILL BE THE TRACKING THE NEXT METRICS AS FAR AS LEADERS.
THAT'S A GREAT EXAMPLE OF HOW CONNECTING TO OTHER BODIES AND GETTING THEM ENGAGED IN THE WORK IS, UH, IS REALLY GOOD.
THAT THE COMMISSION ITSELF, THE DEIB COMMISSION DOESN'T DO ALL THIS STUFF, BUT A LOT OF TIMES YOU'RE ENCOURAGING AND SPURRING OTHERS TO DO THESE GREAT THINGS, NAVIGATING THAT.
AND THEN IN THE SPRING THEY'RE GOING TO BE, THE CHAMBER WILL BE DOING A, UM, HIGH SCHOOL, A HUDDLE FOCUSED JOB FAIR OR CAREER PLACEMENT, UM, FAIR.
THEY'RE GONNA CALL IT, UM, IT'S LIKE THE FOLLOW UP TO THAT EIGHTH GRADE, NOT REALLY GET AT THE HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL.
AND THEN WE'LL BE DOING SOME THINGS WITH HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE SUMMERTIME.
SO WE'RE ALREADY BUILDING OUT SOME BIG THINGS THAT THAT COMMITTEE IS GONNA BE DOING.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY OTHER INPUT FOR THIS PAGE? I'M JUST LOOKING, WHEN IS QUARTER FOUR START? I DON'T KNOW.
THE QUARTERS ENDING AND START EIGHT.
UH, AND THAT, THAT, THAT'S, UH, THAT, THAT REFERS TO ANNUAL, UH, QUARTER.
SO THAT WOULD BE OCTOBER THROUGH DECEMBER.
OF THE NEW OF THE FISCAL YEAR.
BUT FOR THIS PLAN, WE'RE PUTTING, YOU KNOW, WE'RE USING, YOU KNOW YEAH.
WE'RE USING, UH, CALENDAR QUARTERS.
ON THE CITY WEBSITE, THERE'S GONNA BE A SPECIAL PAGE FOR THAT OR, UH, FEATURE OF HUDDLE SMALL BUSINESSES ON THE HUDDLE WEBSITE, I BELIEVE.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE, YOU KNOW, WE WILL DETERMINE WITH WORKING WITH COMMUNICATIONS.
AND I KNOW ONE OF THE PRIORITY ITEMS THAT'S BEEN EXPRESSED BY THE EDC IS THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT.
SO THAT WOULD BE, THAT'S A LOT OF SMALL BUSINESSES RIGHT THERE.
SO THE NEXT PAGE, PRIORITY AREA FIVE, I DON'T THINK THERE ARE ANY CHANGES,
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THIS PAGE.SO YES, WE WANT TO INVITE, WHETHER IT BE CITIZENS, I THINK, WHETHER IT BE GROUPS OR PEOPLE OR WHATEVER TO ATTEND.
AND THIS ONE WOULD BE SEPTEMBER INSTEAD OF AUGUST, SEPTEMBER 5.1.
UM, OH YEAH, I WAS THINKING HERE.
I DON'T HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH THE RESOURCE GUIDE.
I JUST WONDER DO WE KNOW IF IT SHOULD BE PRINTED VERSUS DIGITAL? WE DON'T KNOW THAT YET BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T WORKED WITH COMMUNICATIONS.
SO THAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT I, I PUT A QUESTION MARK.
YOU CAN ALWAYS TAKE OUT THE WORD PRINTED.
BECAUSE THE WORK WILL DETERMINE WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO DO IT ONLINE.
I'LL TAKE OFF THE WORD PRINTED.
ANOTHER THING IS TO, YOU KNOW, TAKE A LOOK AT THE CHAMBERS RESOURCE GUIDE TOO.
AND DE, YOU KNOW, DEFINITELY MAKE A DETERMINATION TO SEE IF, IF WE ARE, IF WE ARE INCLUDING THINGS THAT THEY'RE NOT INCLUDING MM-HMM
UM, BECAUSE WHAT'S THE POINT OF DOING IT IF IT'S JUST THE SAME INFORMATION? RIGHT, EXACTLY.
UM, BECAUSE LIKE, I LIKED HOW THE, UM, HUDDLE CONNECT HAS DEVELOPED.
AND THE WAY THAT I SEE OUR ROLE IS WE UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT THEN WE HELP OTHER PEOPLE LIKE TO ASK, LIKE IF PEOPLE HAVE A HARD TIME FINDING SOMETHING OR WHATEVER, OH, YOU KNOW, HAVE YOU LOOKED AT HOW TO CONNECT THIS? IS THIS, THIS IS THIS, THIS IS IT.
VERSUS, UM, QUOTE UNQUOTE REINVENTING.
SO MAYBE OUR ROLE WOULD EVOLVE MORE INTO PUTTING, LOOKING LIKE THAT'S NOT ABOUT PUTTING THAT LENS LOOKING AT WHAT IS ON HOW TO CONNECT YES.
COULD WE ADVISE, LIKE, HEY, HERE'S SOMETHING THAT Y'ALL MIGHT HAVE MISSED, YOU MIGHT WANNA INCLUDE MM-HMM
AND ALSO, AND HERE'S A GROUP THAT SHOULD BE ON THERE.
LIKE, NOT JUST TALK TO THEM, BUT IT'S OUR COMMUNITY.
WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO SAY, HERE'S A RESOURCE THAT ISN'T, UM, READILY AVAILABLE OR ACCESSIBLE OR FINDABLE FOR HUDDLE RESIDENTS.
AND HERE'S THIS ORGANIZATION WHO CAN PROVIDE THAT.
CAN WE ADVISE THEM THAT THEY INCLUDE THAT AS A RESOURCE FOR HUDDLE RESIDENT? 'CAUSE THEY'RE ALREADY THE HUDDLE CONNECT.
AND I, I THINK US DOING SOMETHING AND ASIDE FROM THAT WOULD JUST BE DOUBLE WORK.
AND ALSO YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, YOU PUT IN THE BUDGET $1,500, UH, FOR THE INITIAL WORK STARTING THE RESOURCE GUIDE, WHICH MEANS BASICALLY I THINK LOOKING AT REQUIREMENTS AND DOING THAT KIND OF WORK THAT YOU CAN MAYBE HAVE, YOU KNOW, A CONSULTANT WHO IS IN, YOU KNOW, OR EVEN SOMEBODY, YOU KNOW, PAY SOMEBODY THERE TO ACTUALLY DO THAT REQUIREMENTS WORK OF LOOKING WHAT'S AVAILABLE AND THEN MAKING, AND THEN THAT GIVES YOU THE DATA TO DECIDE, YOU KNOW, DO WE NEED TO DO ANY ADDITIONAL WORK OR HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL WORK HAS TO BE DONE? OR ARE WE TOTALLY OKAY.
HELP US ASSESS THE, THE GAP THINGS THAT WE, IT'S, IT'S, RIGHT, IT'S AN ASSESSMENT VERSUS ONE OTHER THING I WANNA MENTION WHEN WE TALKING ABOUT THE CHAMBER AND THINGS.
SO WE'RE WORKING, SO PART OF THAT COMMITTEE WORK WITH THE WORKERS AND TALENT DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE IS BUILDING A RESOURCE HUB THAT'S FOCUSED ON MM-HMM
SO WHAT WE'RE DOING IS, AND THEY HAVE, THEY HIRED A PERSON WHO'S GONNA WORK ON THE DIGITAL PRESENTATION OF IT IS, IT'S GOING TO BE LITERALLY A HUB PRIMARILY TO HELP MAKE SURE EMPLOYERS IN OUR AREA KNOW HOW TO FIND PEOPLE, WHERE TO SEND PEOPLE FOR TRAINING, HOW TO NAVIGATE FUNDING.
UM, YOU KNOW, HOW TO GET ALL THESE THINGS.
AND SO THAT THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE EMPLOYEES ARE READY TO WORK AND THEY CAN HIRE PEOPLE.
ON THE FLIP SIDE OF THAT IS ALSO GIVING PEOPLE IN HUDDLE QUICKER ACCESS TO KNOW, HEY, IF I WANNA UPSKILL MYSELF, IF I WANNA TAP INTO A OA FUNDING TO PAY FOR MY TRAINING OR MY EDUCATION, IT'S ALL GOING TO BE IN THAT HUB.
IT'S A LITERAL WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, WORK DEVELOPMENT HUB THAT'S GOING TO GO LIVE ON THE HUDDLE WEBSITE BY, MAYBE BY EARLY, MAYBE BY JANUARY.
UM, AND IT'S INFORMED ALREADY BY ALL OF THE GROUPS THAT REPRESENT THOSE RESOURCES.
SO WE'VE GOT WORK, UM, TRADE GROUPS, UH, TRADE TRADE ORGANIZATIONS IN THE, IN THE CONVERSATION.
WE'VE GOT, UM, HIGHER EDUCATION, PUBLIC EDUCATION, WORKFORCE BOARDS, TWC, ALL THE MAJOR PLAYERS THAT HAVE TO DO THE WORKFORCE AND TALENT DEVELOPMENT ARE GONNA BE ADVISING WHAT THAT, WHAT SHOULD BE IN THAT HUB AND KEEPING THAT UP TO DATE.
SO YOU LOOK AT IT FROM OUR LENS, THAT DOES THEN PRODUCE GREATER ACCESS TO THOSE RESOURCES FOR PEOPLE TO GET GOOD PAYING JOBS, WHICH IS THE POINT OF IT IS ECONOMIC, UM, MOBILITY.
AND KEEPING PEOPLE IN AND ALL THAT.
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WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT ONCE THAT'S FULLY FLESHED OUT AND THAT WE ARE ABLE TO SAY, OKAY, FROM OUR, ARE ME BEING THE LIAISON, 'CAUSE I, I PITCHED THE COMMITTEE TO THEM, DID WE ACCOMPLISH AND MM-HMMWHEN WE LOOK AT THEIR HUB, DOES IT LOOK LIKE IT IS DOING, IT IS DUE DILIGENCE OF MAKING SURE THAT SMALL BUSINESSES HAVE ACCESS TO THESE RESOURCES, THAT LARGER COMPANIES AND PEOPLE IN HURO.
'CAUSE THERE'S SO MANY GOOD PAYING JOBS, ALL OTHER COMPANIES THAT ARE COMING HERE MM-HMM
HU HU RESIDENTS ARE GETTING THOSE JOBS.
SO OUR JOB IN THE CHAMBER AND THIS COMMITTEE FOR HU IS TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL LOT THAT IS AC QUICKLY ACCESSIBLE AND MAKES SENSE TO PEOPLE IN HURO.
SO IT'S ANOTHER THING THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO DO IT 'CAUSE THE CHAMBER IS DOING IT, BUT THAT WE CAN APPLY A LENS AND CHECK A BOX OF ONE OF OUR, ONE OF OUR WORK HERE.
AS FAR AS RESOURCES GO, THAT WAS A VERY LENGTHY EXPLANATION.
BECAUSE WE'RE LITERALLY IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT WORK MAKES WITH THE CHAMBER.
BUT THAT'S WHAT I WAS TRYING TO GET TO MM-HMM
ANYTHING ELSE ON THIS ONE? AND THEN THE NEXT PAGE, OH, THIS, THIS COMES UP TO THE BUDGET.
'CAUSE WE HERE, WE DID NOT SAY PRINT IT, SO, PERFECT.
IT COULD BE ANY TYPE OF RESOURCE GUIDE.
AND IT'S, AND IT'S SCOPING THE WORK AND COLLECTING REQUIREMENTS, MAYBE DOING THAT INITIAL WORK OF WHAT EXISTS, WHAT'S, WHAT'S GETTING DONE AND WHERE MIGHT THERE BE GAPS, BECAUSE THAT CAN HELP DETERMINE WHAT YOU NEED TO DO IN THE FUTURE.
ANYONE SEE ANYTHING THAT SHOULD BE UPDATED HERE? OKAY.
AND THIS WAS KIND OF LIKE BRINGING EVERYTHING TOGETHER IN THE PRINT.
IT DIDN'T, DIDN'T COME OUT PHOTOS, BUT IT'S ON, LET'S SEE WHAT IT'S, BECAUSE THAT'S THE ADAPTIVE DANCE AT PARK STUFF.
THAT'S 'CAUSE THAT'S WHAT I WANT.
I SAY WHAT YOU WERE SAYING ADAPTIVE DANCE AND THEN THERE'S THE OTHER ONE WAS THE SENSORY, UM, IN THE PARKS.
COULDN'T THOSE THAT, BUT THERE'S SOME, UM, ACCESSIBILITY PHOTOS AND PERFECT.
AND THEN THAT'S WHEN WE WILL TALK ABOUT THE CONDITION, PERMISSION REMAINING RECOMMENDATION.
JUST KIND OF BRINGS IT ALL IN MM-HMM.
ANYTHING ON THOSE BEFORE WE GO TO THE, UM, PLAN ITSELF? YEAH.
AND THE PLAN ITSELF IS BASICALLY JUST, YOU KNOW, MORE DETAIL BEHIND, UH, YOU KNOW, EACH OF THOSE ITEMS IN THE SLIDES AND ALSO, UH, WHO'S ASSIGNED TO DO IT.
AND CHRISTIE, EITHER YOU CAN UPDATE THE PLAN DOCUMENT WITH THESE NEW DATES OR IF YOU SEND ME THE SLIDES THAT YOU'RE, UH, MODIFYING, I CAN GO THROUGH AND MODIFY THE PLAN IF YOU NEED ME TO DO THAT.
UM, I WILL, UM, PROBABLY STILL SEND YOU THE SLIDES IF YOU JUST WANNA DOUBLE CHECK THAT I UPDATED THE PLAN CORRECTLY.
I'M GONNA SAY BEFORE WE FORGET, AND I DON'T MEAN TO SPEND SO MUCH TIME ON IT, BUT WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FIVE FOUR, THE RESOURCE GUIDE, WERE WE GONNA CHANGE THAT INSTEAD OF CREATING A RESOURCE GUIDE TO, UM, WHAT DID YOU SAY? SO LIKE, REVIEWING EXISTING RESOURCE GUIDES AND IDENTIFYING AND IDENTIFYING GAPS YEAH.
NEEDS THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO LIKE YEAH.
SO WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO PERFECT.
AND THEN THAT WILL ALSO INFORM US IF WE NEED TO EVEN CREATE RIGHT.
IT MAY, IT MAY BE IN A DIFFERENT FORM.
SO FIVE FOUR, INSTEAD OF SAYING CONSIDER PRODUCING, WHAT EXACTLY DID Y'ALL WANT THAT TO SAY? COULD YOU REPEAT THAT? UM, REVIEW EXISTING RESOURCE GUYS.
INCLUDING WHAT? CONNECT CHAMBER REVIEW.
REVIEW EXISTING RESOURCE GUIDES.
TO D TO DETERMINE, UH, WHAT FUTURE WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE.
INSTEAD JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS, WE DO THE RIGHT WORK OF WHAT EXISTS, WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE, YOU KNOW, KIND OF DOING THE RIGHT SCOPING WORK INSTEAD OF JUST GOING AHEAD AND SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY DOING SOMETHING
AND THEN IT, IT'S HARD TO MEASURE THE IMPACT OF SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO FIVE FOUR WOULD THEN BE, UM, LIKE CONSULTATIVE WORK, UM, YEAH.
RESEARCH, THINGS LIKE THAT ON THE, ON THE BUDGET.
I THINK THAT'S A MUCH BETTER USE OF THAT, OF THAT MONEY.
BECAUSE THEN IT'S INFORMED ON, ON, ON ACTUAL
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DATA.SO WE HAVE THOSE FINISH, WE'RE READY TO MOVE TO THE NEXT ITEM, UH, DISCUSSION.
UH, SOME 0.2 DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION AS IT PERTAINS TO WORKING GROUPS AND AMBASSADORS.
I THINK WE, AS WE WERE GOING ON HERE, WE PUT THE DUE DATES AND SO FORTH IN THERE FOR JULY.
SO I NEED A, MY ACTION ITEM, BUT NOT JULY WAS IT THOUGHT WE PUSHED IT, I THOUGHT WE KEPT IT IN JULY, WHICH NO, THAT WAS, UM, YEAH, IT STILL SAYS JULY BECAUSE IT SAYS PROPOSED BECAUSE THAT WAS PART OF THE, THAT'S PART OF YOUR PRESENTATION.
AND HOW'S A DIFFERENT LAUNCH? YEAH.
THE LAUNCH IS JULY SLASH AUGUST IS TO ANNOUNCE THE GROUPS AND SOLICIT VOLUNTEERS, AND THEN KICKING OFF WITH EDUCATION IS SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER.
SO THE IDEA WOULD BE TO ANNOUNCE THEM AS SOON AS WE CAN AFTER THE JULY COUNCIL MEETING.
UH, THEN START GETTING BO YOU KNOW, START GETTING, UH, PE INTERESTED PEOPLE AND THEN KICKING THEM OFF AND TRAINING THEM SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER.
SO, UM, WHEN, WHEN THEY CONS, WHEN THE COUNCIL CONSIDERS THESE THINGS IN A WORK SESSION, WHAT IS THEIR PROCESS THEN AFTER THAT? DO THEY SAY YAY OR NAY OR DO YOU JUST DISCUSS IT OR WHAT? I MEAN, I HAVE AN IDEA, BUT I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY.
LIKE, SAY JULY, THEY, THEY READ THIS AND THEY SAY THEY LIKED EVERYTHING.
WHAT WOULD THEY, WHAT WOULD THE NEXT STEP BE? THAT'S FOR DAN.
UM, I MEAN, I DON'T GET TO MAKE THE DECISION, SO IT'S GONNA BE, YOU KNOW, COUNCIL'S GOTTA DECIDE TO, TO FOLLOW THROUGH.
I THINK THAT AFTER THEY, IF THEY, THE COUNCIL SAYS YES, WE APPROVE THE BUDGET AND WE APPROVE THE PLAN, UH, THEN I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE COMMIT, YOU KNOW, THE COMMISSION MAYBE NEEDS TO WORK WITH THE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR TO WRITE AN ANNOUNCEMENT AND PUT AN APPLICATION PROCESS ONLINE.
AND, YOU KNOW, I WORKED WITH CORINA TO ALREADY PREPARE A DOCUMENT ON, YOU KNOW, THE PURPOSE OF THOSE GROUPS AND WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO DO.
AND YOU CAN USE THAT DOCUMENT IN DOING THE COMMUNICATIONS.
SO STUFF ALREADY EXISTS TO, TO LAUNCH IT.
SO IN OTHER WORDS, WOULD THEY JUST GET BACK TO US AND SAY, YES, WE DID THIS, OR NO, WE HAVE PROBLEMS WITH THIS OR THAT ABOUT THE COUNCIL? YEAH.
LIKE WOULD WE KNOW THAT DAY OF THE, OF THE PRESENTATION, DAN, THINGS THAT THE COUNCIL, OTHER COUNCIL MAY HAVE QUESTIONS, RESERVATIONS, OR JUST COMPLETE RESISTANCE TO? I MEAN, I, I THINK THERE'S AT LEAST A FEW MEMBERS WHO ARE PRETTY VOCAL.
SO I IMAGINE YOU'LL HAVE SOME IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK,
BUT YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU COULD PROBABLY DO THOUGH IS PUSH, UH, IS IT JUST A WORKING SESSION OR CAN THEY ACTUALLY VOTE IN THAT MEETING? WE, WE CAN USUALLY VOTE IN THE MEETING TOO.
'CAUSE WHAT YOU, 'CAUSE WHAT YOU MIGHT WANNA DO IS TAKE ANY QUESTIONS OR MODIFICATIONS THAT THE CITY COUNCIL WANTS.
THEY MIGHT SAY, OH, THIS PLAN IS GREAT.
OR THEY MIGHT HAVE THREE ITEMS THAT THEY'RE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THAT THEY WANT REMOVED OR THEY WANT CHANGED AND THEN SOMEONE CAN MAKE A MOTION TO ADAPT THE EXECUTION PLAN PER THE CHANGES WE JUST RECOMMENDED.
SO I MEAN, WHAT, WHAT I CAN TELL YOU IS I DON'T SEE ANY ISSUES WITH THE PLAN.
I HAVE NO PROBLEM SUPPORTING IT.
I DON'T SEE ANYTHING THAT I'M SEEING AS A SUPER OBVIOUS, OH, YOU'RE GONNA RUN INTO SOME TROUBLE HERE.
I I DON'T SEE THAT LOOKING AT IT RIGHT NOW, BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT I CAN'T PREDICT YEAH.
HOW EVERYBODYS GONNA REACT TO IT.
SO, SO WE JUST HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
AND HOPEFULLY AS A LIAISON, YOU CAN BE THE ONE THAT MAKES THE MOTION AFTER THE DISCUSSION.
DAN, YOU'LL BE THE MOST INFORMED ON IT TOO.
SO WE ARE, WE'RE GOING TO THEN RIGHT AWAY START RECRUITING PEOPLE FOR THE MM-HMM
LET'S SAY TELL BUSINESS SMALL BUSINESSES.
BUT, UH, WE NEED SOMEBODY, UH, I THINK THERE WAS, UH, SUE WAS DOING SENIOR CITIZEN.
WE'RE GONNA NEED A NEW PERSON.
SO, I'M SORRY, WHAT AGENDA ITEM ARE WE ON RIGHT NOW? OH, SORRY, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE, ARE WE FINISHED WITH 7 1 7 2? YES.
ARE WE FINISHED WITH SEVEN TWO? WE'RE DONE WITH SEVEN ONE.
SO DISCUSSION POST SLACK AS IT PERTAINS TO WORKING GROUPS
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AND AMBASSADORS.BECAUSE WE HAVE CORINA, YOU KNOW, CORINA, YOU KNOW, FOR THE VETERANS GROUP, ERIC BELL AND COREY FOR THE SMALL BUSINESS.
BUT NOW WE NEED A NEW LIAISON TO VOLUNTEER TO HELP WITH THE SENIOR CITIZEN OR TO CHAIR THE SENIOR CITIZENS OR LEAD THAT WORKING GROUP.
AND WE MAY NOT HAVE, I MEAN, WE'RE GONNA BE DOING INTERVIEWS FOR PEOPLE YEAH.
WHO MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE THAT POSITION FILLED, BUT SHOULD WE NOT AIM OR TO, SHOULD WE, AS FAR AS AN ACTION ITEM GOES, SHOULD WE SAYING THAT EVERYTHING GOES WELL AND THEY DON'T THROW A KIBOSH ON THIS IDEA OR THIS EFFORT THAT WE AIM TO ANNOUNCE IT, BE PREPARED.
WE ALREADY HAVE THE ROLE DESCRIPTIONS, DAN, THAT YOU AND I WORKED ON.
BE READY TO SHARE THAT WITH THE COMMUNICATIONS TEAM AS IN GO TIME IS THE FIRST WEEK OF AUGUST.
AND THEN, AND WITH, WITH, UH, WITH AN, WITH A LINK FOR APPLICATE FOR PEOPLE TO APPLY.
WE'LL HAVE A LINK FOR PEOPLE TO APPLY TO BE IN A WORKING GROUP.
SO PLUS YOU CAN ALWAYS, YOU CAN ALWAYS RECRUIT PEOPLE THAT YOU KNOW, BUT YOU WANNA HAVE AS, YOU WANNA HAVE AS MUCH OF AN OPEN PROCESS, YOU KNOW, AS YOU CAN.
AND ALSO THAT CAN HELP PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT IN YOUR ORBIT RIGHT NOW TO, UH, COME FORWARD.
SO WHEN WE'RE RECRUITING, WE'LL, UH, WE NEED TO INCLUDE, UH, IN OUR CONVERSATION WITH THEM THAT THEY'LL NEED TO GO IN AND, AND YEAH.
FILL OUT THE, ARE WE GONNA CALL IT AN APPLICATION OR A, UH, WE'RE GONNA CALL IT A, UM, MEMBERSHIP REGISTRATION OR, HOLD ON.
BECAUSE YOU, BECAUSE APPLICATION INFERS THAT THERE'S A APPROVAL PROCESS.
WOULD IT BE INTAKE? UM, ENROLLMENT INTAKE FORM? YEAH, INTAKE FORM.
SO SOMEBODY WITH THE CITY, I GUESS WHOEVER WORKS ON THE WEBPAGE WILL, WILL BE PUTTING UP THAT LINK.
IS THAT CORRECT, CHRISTIE? AS LONG AS IT'S PROVIDED WITH US.
OH, WE CAN JUST DO A SIMPLE GOOGLE FORM AND GIVE THEM THE LINK.
AND YOU CAN JUST COPY PAST IT.
WHAT IT IS AUGUST TWO, BECAUSE WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF JULY NOW.
SO WE STILL HAVE TO, UH, DEVISE THE FORM, GET IT UP ON THE WEBPAGE.
THIS, THIS, THIS, THAT SHOULD JUST, IT SHOULD BE A, IT SHOULD BE, IT SHOULD BE A HALF HOUR PIECE OF WORK, I WOULD ASSUME.
I JUST NEED ON THE 19TH OF AUGUST THAT, THAT WE, OKAY.
SO IS THAT, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT SOMEBODY, UM, OUTSIDE OF, UH YEAH.
I CAN DO IT THIS EVENING, BUT JUST DO A REAL SIMPLE INTAKE FORM.
HAVE THE LINK, IT'S READY TO GO.
UM, WE ALREADY WORKED ON WHAT THE RULES AND THE PURPOSES LET STAND.
WE ALREADY HAD A MEETING WITH ABOUT THAT, OUR CALL ABOUT THAT.
UM, WHICH TALKS ABOUT THE WORK GROUPS.
I HAVE TO PULL UP THAT FORM, BUT I TALK ABOUT THE WORK GROUPS, UM, WHAT WORKS, WHAT THE EXPECTATIONS ARE, THE PURPOSE OF THEM.
AND SO THAT WILL BE PART OF THE, WHERE IT LANDS, RIGHT? IT'LL BE PRINT, IT'LL BE POSTED.
AND THEN IT'LL HAVE A LINK IF THEY WANNA SIGN UP.
AND THEN ALSO WE WOULD TAKE THAT, THOSE FORMS AND THAT WRITE UP TO LIKE THE GROUP FOR EXAMPLE.
UM, GROUPS THAT ARE ALREADY EXACTLY THE ROTARY CLUB.
PEOPLE THAT ARE ALREADY ENGAGED IN THE COMMUNITY MM-HMM
OR MAY WANNA BE A PART OF FORMING AND BEING A PART OF THIS WORKING GROUPS.
YOU MIGHT WANNA CHANGE IT TO AUGUST, SEPTEMBER MAYBE.
SO MAYBE THIRD WEEK OF AUGUST.
'CAUSE THAT'LL BE AFTER OUR NEXT MEETING.
WOULD THAT BE RIGHT? BECAUSE THEN THAT, THAT MEETING, I IMAGINE WE'RE GONNA, WHY WOULD YOU SAY BEGINNING IN AUGUST? BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW HOW LONG IT'S GONNA GO.
I MEAN, UH, BEGINNING OF AUGUST.
SO I'M LIKE, I JUST, I'M JUST READY TO GO RIGHT AFTER THEY APPROVE EVERYTHING.
BUT IT MAKES SENSE SINCE OUR MEETINGS COMING UP IN AUGUST 19TH, WE'LL HAVE THAT MEETING TO KIND OF DEBRIEF BECAUSE WE MAY HAVE TO DO SOME COURSE CORRECTION BASED ON THE CONCEPT FEEDBACK.
AND THAT, AND THAT WILL PROBABLY BE AN ON SORT OF, SORT OF A QUASI ONGOING THING AS NEW PEOPLE COME ALONG, YOU KNOW, HEY, I DIDN'T KNOW THAT WAS HAPPENING.
SO AFTER, SO AUGUST POST AUGUST 19 MEETING.
I, I, I, I FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE, A LITTLE BIT MORE COMFORTABLE.
AND THEN, AND THEN THE NEXT MONTH IS THE PUBLIC KIND OF ANNOUNCEMENT THAT WE CAN, YOU KNOW, PROMOTE IT.
ANYTHING ELSE ON THAT BEFORE WE GO? LET'S SEE.
DO, WELL WE, WE ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS 7.3 DUE DATES AS IT PERTAINS TO THE STRATEGIC, UH, EXECUTION PLAN.
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DO WE HAVE ANY HOLES? IT SEEMS LIKE WE, UM, WE MIGHT NEED A, UM, BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY TASKS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE, UM, HAVING TO FULFILL AS WE GO, THAT WE'LL, WE'LL BE REQUIRED TO DO OUTSIDE OF MEETINGS.WE MIGHT NEED TO HAVE A, UH, A RUNNING LIST OF TO DO, UM, JUST WHERE IT'S ALL IN ONE PLACE, UH, AND, UH, AND WHO'S DOING IT.
AND, UH, THE TARGET DATE, WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR JUST, JUST KIND OF A TAKE, TAKE IT FROM EACH PRIORITY AND JUST PUT IT IN ONE FORM.
OH, I THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA.
WE CAN ALSO, UH, THERE ALSO LEAVE A COLUMN FOR, YOU KNOW, THE STATE OF PROGRESS ON YEAH.
WELL THERE'S A, YEAH, THERE'S ACTUALLY IN THE, IN THE ACTUAL WORD DOCUMENT, THERE IS A STATUS, UH, COLUMN.
SO WE COULD ACTUALLY USE THAT WORD DOCUMENT AND JUST THEN JUST, YEAH.
AND NOTHING YOU SHOULD DO IS YOU SHOULD KEEP, UH, WHAT I, AND I CAN ACTUALLY HAVE A DISCUSSION WITH JACK, WITH, UH, JACQUELINE ON IT.
YOU KNOW, ONE THING THAT I WOULD COULD RECOMMEND IS MAYBE BEFORE EACH MEETING, KIND OF GO THROUGH AND MAYBE, YOU KNOW, HIGHLIGHT IN YELLOW, YOU KNOW, THE ITEMS THAT ARE COMING UP IN THE NEXT COUPLE MONTHS THAT WE NEED IMMEDIATE THOUGHT ON.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, AND THEN KIND OF THE FIRST ONE OF THE THINGS IN A RUNNING THING IN EACH MEETING IS TO, YOU KNOW, QUICKLY GO THROUGH, YOU KNOW, UPDATE, YOU KNOW, THE STRATEGIC, THE EXECUTION PLAN.
YOU KNOW, WHAT THINGS HAVE WE DONE AND WHAT THINGS ARE COMING UP SOON.
I THINK IT'S, I THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA.
AND UH, ALSO WITH, UM, SINCE WE'RE GONNA DO THE PUBLIC MEETING IN SEPTEMBER, WE, WE NEED TO, UH, LET'S SEE, MAYBE HIGHLIGHT THE SLIDES OR WHAT, HOW WE'RE GONNA PRESENT IT IN THE, AT THE PUBLIC MEETING.
WHAT WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT THERE.
SO I'M LOOKING FOR A POWER PERMIT.
I WAS GONNA SHOW YOU, UM, A GOOGLE SPREADSHEET I CREATED.
'CAUSE IT DOES PRE-POPULATED TABLES.
IT'S SUPER EASY NOW THEY DO IT FOR YOU.
YEAH, WE DID IT FOR THAT EVENT THAT WE'RE DOING WITH THE CHAMBER.
AND IT WAS, IT SHOWED LIKE WHAT BUSINESS WE'RE INVITING, WHO OWNS THAT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE POINT OF CONTACT IS WHAT CT PROGRAM IT ALIGNS TO AT THE ISD.
AND THEN IT HAD NOTES FOR FEEDBACK.
SO WE'RE GONNA DIVVY IT UP FOR BUSINESSES.
SO WHAT YOU WERE SAYING, LIKE THAT WOULD MAKE, THAT WOULD BE A GREAT WAY TO UTILIZE A TABLE LIKE THAT.
IT IS AND IT KEEPS EVERYTHING EASY AND IT'S LIVE AND IT'S, UH, EITHER TO MANAGE AND SHAREABLE.
COULD YOU SHARE THAT WITH CHRISTIE, WHO THEN MIGHT SHARE IT WITH US SO WE CAN LOOK AT IT? SEE, THAT'S A GOOD MODEL SO WE MM-HMM.
CAN WORK A LITTLE BIT WITHOUT HAVING TO WAIT TILL THE NEXT MEETING.
RIGHT? YEAH, BECAUSE I ALREADY DID THAT FOR THIS, SEE? OH, IT WORKS.
THINK I JUST OPENED IT ON MY COMPUTER NIGHT.
'CAUSE I'VE BEEN LUGGING IN AROUND TOWN ALL DAY WITHOUT A POWER CORD.
DO WE NEED TO, IT'LL TAKE, IT'LL, IT'S AN OLD COMPUTER.
IT'LL TAKE A MINUTE, BUT AS SOON AS IT GOES UP, I'LL, I'LL SHARE IT.
Y'ALL CAN JUST LOOK AT IT HERE, BUT I'LL SHARE IT WITH CHRISTIE SO SHE CAN SHARE IT WITH THE TEAM AND SEE IF THAT'S, IF THAT'S A TOOL WE WANT TO USE IN THE COMMISSION.
BUT IT IS A GOOD, UM, POINT THAT WE DO NEED NOW THAT WE'RE GETTING DOWN TO THE NUTS AND BOLTS.
WE DO NEED, BUT WE ACTUALLY HAVE TO DO THINGS
AND I'M JUST GONNA BE TO JUST TALK ABOUT 'EM ANYMORE.
THAT'S ONE THING WE TALKED ABOUT THE VERY BEGINNING, IS THAT WE DON'T WANT THIS WORK TO DIE WHEN WE, WHEN WE MOVE ON, WE WANT IT TO BE ORGANIZED.
SO THAT AS NEW COMMISSION, LIKE WE'RE ABOUT TO HAVE NEW COMMISSION MEMBERS, IT'S EASIER FOR THEM TO ORIENT TO WHAT WE'RE DOING.
IS THAT A DOG? IS THAT YOUR DOG, STAN? OR IS THAT DAN? NO, IT'S SOMEBODY ELSE'S.
USUALLY YOU CAN'T HEAR THE BARKING.
WE DON'T HAVE ANY OF OUR PETS HERE.
SO THIS IS THE SPREADSHEET THAT I CREATED.
ONE, THIS ORGANIZATION, I DON'T TAKE A LOT OF CREDIT BECAUSE HOW DO, I MEAN, GOOGLE HAS THESE PRE-POPULATED, UM, TABLES THAT YOU CAN, THAT YOU CAN CUSTOMIZE.
SO HERE WE HAVE, LIKE THIS ORGANIZATION, THE POINT OF CONTACT, HOW IT ALIGNS AND EVERYTHING'S DROPPED DOWN AND COLOR CODED.
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SO THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO SEE, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH HEALTH, SCIENCE, WHATEVER.AND THEN WHO THE RELATIONSHIP OWNER IS, THE R WHETHER THEY'VE ACCEPTED IT OR NOT, WHETHER OF COURSE FOR US MATTERS IF THEIR TEAM MEMBER AND THEN ANY NOTES.
SO, UH, THE FIRST COLUMN WOULD BE LIKE, WHAT TASK? YEAH.
BUT FOR US, THE SORT EVENT NOTES ON THIS SPREADSHEET, IT'S JUST KIND OF THE SAME THING.
IT'S LIKE, WHAT IS THE TASK FOR THIS EVENT? WHO, WHAT'S THE STATUS OF IT? WHO OWNS THAT TASK? THE STAGE FOR US HERE, WE, WE PUT THAT IN THERE BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PRE-PLAN, DAY OF, AND THEN POST EVENT FOLLOW UP AND THEN WHEN IT'S DUE, AND THEN ANY KIND OF NOTES THAT WE HAVE.
SO THOSE ARE THE TWO SPREADSHEETS THAT I CREATED FOR MY WORK WITH THE CHAMBER.
SO IF YOU LIKE SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT WOULD BE, LEMME SHARE'S GONNA BE LIKE, WHY IS CHRISTIE ON HERE? THAT'S OKAY.
WE'RE GONNA MAKE YOU RESPONSIBLE FOR INVITING ALL THE BUSINESSES.
WE'RE JUST GONNA ASSIGN YOU TASKS JUST TO GIVE YOU MORE WORK.
I STARTED AS A TAM AMBASSADOR FOR TWO YEARS, SO OH, YOU LIKE, SHE'S LIKE, I KNOW EVERYTHING.
CHRISTIE SAYS SHE KNOWS EVERYBODY.
LET'S MOVE ON TO 7.4, DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION OF PROMA FOR JULY THROUGH SEPTEMBER, 2025 TO INCLUDE NATIONAL DISABILITY AND INDEPENDENCE DAY.
THAT'S THE ONE WHERE WAS SAYING WE'RE GONNA NEED A NEW PERSON.
DO DOES DAN NEED TO BE HERE FOR, FOR NO.
CHRISTIE AND JACQUELINE, I JUST SENT YOU THE AMBASSADOR WRITE UP AGAIN.
EVERYTHING LOOKS GREAT, STAN? YES.
DID, DID SHE, SHE FINISHED WHEN I SAID SHE, SUZANNE DID FINISH.
I DID NOT INCLUDE IT IN THE PACKET BECAUSE SHE DID RESIGN.
AND SO I WANTED TO ASK, UM, AND I CAN RESEND IT AGAIN IF Y'ALL WANTED TO USE THAT OR NOT.
AND THEN WHAT IS IN YOUR PACKET IS WHAT, UM, COMMISSIONER BELL SUBMITTED? UM, YES.
THEY'RE DEFINITELY, IT'S DEFINITELY KIND OF A MORE OR LESS GENERIC IN THAT IT DOESN'T, UM, LIKE AT THE BOTTOM IT SAYS ALL CITIZENS EVIDENCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS, BUT WE CAN PUT LIKE
AND THIS ONE I WOULD NEED TO, UM, SOLIDIFY, UH, THIS MEANS, SO I CAN MAKE SURE IT GETS ON THE, OKAY.
SO AS FAR AS, UM, ADVANCE THEIR PROCLAMATION, WE CAN DECIDE IF WE WANT TO USE IT.
WOULD IT BE APPROPRIATE TO ASK HER TO CONTINUE ON MAYBE AS AN AMBASSADOR OR, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER WE WANNA CALL IT, SO THAT SHE CAN STAY INVOLVED IN, I KNOW SHE WAS INVOLVED BECAUSE SHE CARED ABOUT THE WORK.
IT WAS JUST THE WAY THAT WE HAVE TO DO THEM.
MAYBE IT MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN MM-HMM
WHICH HOW SHE WANTED IT TO GO, WHICH IS, IT'S JUST, IT'S FINE.
BUT DO WE WANNA ASK HER IF SHE WANTS TO CONTINUE, UM, MAYBE AS AN AMBASSADOR AND, AND FULFILL THAT COMMITMENT AS FAR AS BEING PART OF THAT PROCLAMATION FOR SENIOR CITIZENS DAY? DOES SHE WANNA MAYBE JUST TAKE A STEP BACK AND ACT AS LIKE THE ONE OF LIKE THE ACTIVE MEMBERS OF THAT SPECIFIC GROUP WORKING GROUP? BECAUSE MAYBE SHE JUST WANTS TO TAKE A STEP OFF THE COMMISSION, BUT JUST STAY INVOLVED.
I COULD SEE ASKING HER IF SHE'D LIKE TO, SHE PRIORITIZES THE SENIOR CITIZEN WORKING.
YEAH, I COULD SEE ASKING HER IF SHE'D LIKE TO BE PART OF THAT WORKING GROUP FOR SURE.
I'M SOMETHING WRONG WITH THAT.
WELL, I, YEAH, WE CAN ASK IF SHE LIKES TO BE A PART.
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ANYTHING, ANYTHING FORMAL BEYOND THAT.
YEAH, WE WILL JUST DO THAT WHEN WE ASK ANY ANYBODY ELSE? YEAH, JUST LIKE ANYBODY ELSE.
UM, I, I WILL TAKE OVER THE SENIOR CITIZEN.
OH, UM, SORRY, THE PROCLAMATION OR FOR THE WORKING GROUP? OH, THE, THE, THE WORKING GROUP.
UH, MY BRAIN WAS ON PROCLAMATIONS.
AND THEN PROCLAMATION, UM, UM, I, IN THE FOLLOW UP EMAIL, I CAN SEND WHAT SHE SENT OVER IF OKAY.
BECAUSE WE DO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF TIME ON THAT.
UM, AND THAT ONE IS AUGUST, WAS IT AUGUST? THAT ONE? IT'S AUGUST 21ST.
SO THEN WE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE THAT ON THE AUGUST.
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OH, IT'S ACTUALLY ON THE 21ST, SO WE NEED IT BY THE AUGUST 21ST.UM, SO I WOULD, I WOULD NEED THAT FROM Y'ALL, UM, APPROVED, WELL, STILL PRIOR TO YOUR AUGUST MEETING, BUT, UM, WELL, MS. JACKSON, DO YOU WANNA JUST GO AHEAD AND SUBMIT A NEW PROCLAMATION INSTEAD OF TRYING TO KEEP, UH, SUZANNE INVOLVED IN, IN SOME WAY BESIDES ASKING HER ABOUT THE WORKING GROUP?
SHE SUBMITTED AND THEN SHE RESIGNED.
SO WHY DON'T WE, WELL, THAT'S WHAT THE QUESTION IS.
DO WE WANT US GO AHEAD AND USE HER PROCLAMATION OR DO WE WANNA SUBMIT IT? WELL, I'LL, I'LL REVIEW.
AND THEN YEAH, REVIEW IT AND TWEAK IT OR WHATEVER.
AND ONE I WAS GONNA ASK ABOUT, OH, I'M SO SORRY.
I NEED TO MAKE A CLARIFICATION MM-HMM
UM, AND THAT'S WHY I WAS CONFUSED.
SO, UM, SHE DID NOT BREAK THE SENIOR CITIZENS DAY.
SHE WROTE THE HUNGER ACTION MONTH, WHICH IS IN SEPTEMBER, AND THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE TIME.
SO SENIOR CITIZENS DAY WAS NOT CLAIMS. UM, UH, SUZANNE DID WRITE A HUNGER ACTION MONTH, BUT THAT WAS FOR SEPTEMBER.
AND THAT'S WHY I WAS GONNA ASK IF THEY WERE OKAY WITH THAT ONE.
AND THEN, UM, WE DID HAVE, UH, COMMISSIONER ZEPEDA, UH, TAKING THE HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH.
SO I WILL TAKE THE, UM, SENIOR, SENIOR CITIZEN.
AND IF YOU COULD SEND ME THE, A TEMPLATE, WHATEVER, I'LL, YEAH.
AND ALSO ONE QUESTION I WAS GONNA ASK, DO WE HAVE A LIAISON, AN ORGANIZATION THAT WE WOULD BE INVITING OR THAT WOULD COME, OR THEY'RE, UM, I MEAN, THE YMCA HAS A SENIOR, HAS SENIOR PROGRAMMING, UM MM-HMM
AND THEN I ALSO HAVE A GROUP OF VOLUNTEERS THAT WORK HERE AT CITY HALL.
I'D BE HAPPY TO PERSONALLY INVITE THEM TO ATTEND IF THEY THAT WOULD BE GOOD.
I, I JUST THINK IT IS NICE TO DO THAT.
UM, AND THEN I'M TRYING TO THINK OF MAYBE WHO ELSE, BUT ANY, ANYONE ELSE, I GUESS IN THE, DO WE HAVE ANY ALREADY NEW, UM, RETIREMENT COMMUNITIES IN HU UM, I DON'T KNOW IF THE WORD RETIREMENT IS RIGHT, BUT CARMEL CREEK HAS, UM, UH, RIGHT HERE ON, ON CHRIS 55 AND EL THE TRAILS, THE TRAIL, THE TRAILS AT CARMEL CREEK.
SO IT'S LIKE, NOT REALLY 55 AND UP.
BUT OUTSIDE OF THAT, NOT, NOT REALLY.
NOT EVEN THAT NEW ONE ON HIGHWAY WITH THESE WILCO HIGHWAY.
ISN'T THAT A RETIREMENT COMMUNITY? I MEAN, THEY MAY NOT EVEN HAVE PEOPLE THERE YET.
BUT FOR A FUTURE, THE ONE ON THAT LITTLE ROAD COMING FROM HB NEW HIGHWAY.
ISN'T THAT GONNA BE A, A RETIREMENT COMMUNITY? NO, I'M TALKING ABOUT THE ONE COMING FROM HEB COMING LIKE THAT.
IT'S JUST, IT'S A ROAD, UH, BEHIND THE, YEAH.
THESE BEHIND QUICK, BEHIND THE QUICK TRIP IN FRONT OF THE QUICK TRIP IN FRONT OF THE BEHIND.
OH, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE ONE, THE GOLF COURSE.
I, OKAY, WE'RE TOTALLY CONFUSED.
IT'S ACTUALLY NEXT TO THE FIRE STATION, UH, AT THE BE AT THE GOLF COURSE COMMUNITY.
I DON'T THINK THAT'S A RETIREMENT COMMUNITY.
IT'S, IT'S, YEAH, I KNOW THE ONE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
IT'S OPPOSITE THE, THE APARTMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN THERE FOR 15 YEARS, IT'S LIKE IN FRONT OF THEM.
RIGHT? IT'S ON FRONT OF US, FRONT OF THEM.
SO THE REASON I'M ASKING IS WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT IF IN HUDDLE, WE ARE HAVING THOSE TYPE OF COMMUNITIES FOR PEOPLE, RIGHT? MM-HMM
UM, THAT WE WANNA REACH OUT TO THEIR MANAGEMENT AND SAY, PLEASE PUT THIS IN YOUR NEWSLETTER OR YOUR ANNOUNCEMENT THAT WE'RE DOING THIS FOR THE SPECIFIC GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT WOULDN'T BE REP.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE REPRESENTING THEIR VOICES.
BUT THOSE ARE GOOD WAYS TO GET OUR WORD OUT TO THOSE PEOPLE THAT ARE ALREADY READING THOSE NEWSLETTERS BECAUSE IT'S RELEVANT TO THEM AS PART THEIR COMMUNITY.
UM, SO, SO THAT WOULD JUST BE ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE, OKAY.
ONE, ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE SOURCES OF POSSIBLE INVOLVEMENT THAT WE WANT.
AND THEN, AND THE THING I LIKE ABOUT THESE GROUPS IS THAT THEY ARE INTERSECTIONAL.
SO WHEN WE REACH OUT TO, LIKE THE LEGION, RIGHT? THE AMERICAN LEGION, WE KNOW THAT WE'RE REACH OUT TO VETERANS AND WITHIN THAT GROUP THERE'S GONNA BE A LOT OF RETIREES.
SO IT'LL MEET TWO CHECK TWO BOXES OF PEOPLE WE'RE TRYING TO REACH.
AND SOME OF MY OWN BUSINESSES TOO.
JUST LIKE, UH, BACK TO THE PROCLAMATION, WHEN WOULD THIS BE DUE? UM, FOR THE AUGUST 21ST ONE.
UM, I MEAN, I WOULD, WE, LET'S SEE.
I COULD PUT A PLACEHOLDER ON IT NOW AND THEN NO, I WOULDN'T HAVE TIME.
UM, IT WOULD BE DUE BEFORE YOUR NEXT MEETING IN AUGUST.
UM, BUT I CAN SEND THAT IN A, IN A FOLLOW UP EMAIL.
I MEAN, YOU WOULD HAVE UNTIL, UM, AUGUST 5TH FOR SURE.
IT'S NOT LONG ENOUGH FOR THE NEXT MEETING TO APPROVE IT.
UM, AND ALSO ONE THING SINCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PROCLAMATIONS, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS SOMETIMES WHERE WE WANTED, UM, SOMEONE OTHER THAN THE MAYOR TO READ BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, INTEREST, WHATEVER.
AND, UM, THIS CAME UP WITH JUNETEENTH.
SO I JUST CALLED HIM AND ASKED HIM AND HE SAID, NO PROBLEM.
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WANT, I JUST DON'T WANT IT TO BE DONE ON THAT NIGHT.LIKE, IF WE SAY, WELL, WE WOULD LIKE SO AND SO TO READ THIS, OR SO AND SO TO, YEAH.
DON'T WANNA WITH WOMEN'S, UM, WITH THE, AND THAT'S WHY WE GOT, WE GOT THE WORD AHEAD.
THE TIME TO HAVE COMMISSIONER, UH, NOT COMMISSIONER TO COUNCIL MEMBER LAR CO READ, READ IT.
SO, UM, WE JUST WANNA KEEP THAT IN MIND.
BUT I JUST DON'T WANT IT TO SPRING IT UP ON THE LAST MINUTE WE WANT UNTIL THE ISID DISASTER AND LOOK UNORGANIZED.
UM, ARE Y'ALL OKAY WITH THE PROCLAMATION THAT COMMISSIONER BELL SENT OVER? WERE THERE ANY UPDATES THAT OH, YES.
YOU WOULD LIKE TO MAKE ON THE DISABILITY OR THE HUNGER ACTION? OH, NO, BILL, I'M SORRY.
YEAH, I WAS STILL CUT UP ON THE WIND THAT WE'RE MISSING.
THE, NO, I THINK I'M GOOD WITH WHAT COMMISSIONER BELL SUBMITTED.
THE ONLY THING I WOULD WANTED TO DO, OR MAYBE YOU WERE GONNA SAY, THIS IS SOMETHING ABOUT HUDDLE IN HERE.
THAT, SO I'M GONNA BASICALLY TAKE THE KIND OF THE BOILER PLATE THAT I, THAT I, THAT WE USE, UM, FOR THESE WHERE IT SAYS LIKE, UM, CITIZENS OF HURO, THE, THE DEIV COMMISSION, UM, ON BEHALF OF THE, I'LL USE ALL THOSE, THOSE DATES, SPECIFICATIONS.
SO I'LL GO BACK TO PREVIOUS ONES THAT WE'VE DONE AND JUST PUT THAT AT THE BOTTOM AND I'LL UPDATE THAT PART.
BUT AS FAR AS LIKE THE CONTENT ITSELF, IT, IT SEEMS TO BE VERY HEAVILY FOCUSED ON THE A DA, UH, WHICH MAKES SENSE.
UM, OH, AND BECAUSE LIKE EVERY BULLET POINT IS ABOUT THAT.
SO THAT'S THE, THE NATIONAL DISABILITY INDEPENDENCE DAY IS BASED ON THAT APP.
ONE THING, UM, I DON'T, I WOULD PUT OVER, BUT IN THERE, I THINK WE HAD, I DON'T DON'T REMEMBER IF WE TALKED ABOUT IT OR NOT, BUT I KNOW WE WOULD DO A PROCLAMATION AND WOULD, MAYBE IT WOULDN'T BE WITHIN THE PROCLAMATION, BUT MAYBE WE WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO ALLOW WHOEVER, OUR CITY COUNCIL PERSON THAT'S GOING TO BE YOU READING THIS TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HAD, WAS ALREADY DONE.
I THINK WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE PARKS, HAVING THAT SENSORY STATION.
IS THAT WHERE WE MIGHT WANNA, YOU KNOW, REPEAT THAT OR STATE THAT LIKE, AND IN, IN THE SPIRIT OF OUR PROCLAMATION, HERE'S THINGS THAT THE CITY OF HU IS VERY PROUD TO HAVE ALREADY ACCOMPLISHED.
RIGHT? I DON'T KNOW WHETHER WE WOULD FIND THAT, DAN, DO WE HAVE THAT? DO WE TRACK THAT? SO IT HAS TO BE TRACKED SOMEWHERE, LIKE WHERE THE CITY CAN SHOW, HEY, THIS IS THE THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN AUDITED.
AND WE CAN CONFIDENTLY SAY THAT AS A COMMUNITY, WE HAVE MADE SURE THAT OUR COMMUNITY IS ACCESSIBLE FOR, FOR PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT ABILITIES.
IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE DO? I, I DON'T, I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE THAT ORGANIZED IN ONE PLACE LIKE THAT.
WHAT, WHAT'S THE DATE ON THIS PROCLAMATION? WHEN IS IT GONNA BE DELIVERED? AT THE JULY 17TH MEETING.
THAT'S WHY I WAS GONNA MAKE THE, THE UPDATES AND, AND ATTACH IT.
MAYBE WE'LL JUST PARK THAT FOR A FUTURE CONVERSATION.
'CAUSE THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE CAN HIGHLIGHT.
SO, UM, FOR THIS PARTICULAR PROCLAMATION, BUT WITH THE, THE CONTENT, AND THEN I'LL UPDATE KIND OF THE BOILER, UM, TO MAKE IT MORE HETERO SPECIFIC.
UM, AND THEN I HAVE, JUST TO, JUST TO MAKE SURE MY, UH, NOTES ARE CORRECT.
SENIOR CITIZEN DAY COMMISSIONER COLEMAN, YOU ARE TAKING THAT ONE? YES.
AND THEN THE HUNGER ACTION MONTH, I WILL INCLUDE THAT IN THE FOLLOW-UP EMAIL FOR Y'ALL TO REVIEW FROM FORMER COMMISSIONER COFIELD.
AND THEN, BECAUSE IT'S NOT, UM, UNTIL SEPTEMBER, YOU HAVE SOME TIME TO DECIDE IF YOU WANT TO USE THAT OR NOT.
AND THEN HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH, I HAVE COMMISSIONER
AND WITH THE HUNGER MONTH, WE COULD DO THE, THIS IS THE HUDDLE RESOURCE? YES.
AND THERE'S ANOTHER, UM, WORKING GROUP THAT I'M A PART OF.
UM, IT'S FOR THE COUNTY, AND I THINK THEY WOULD BE REALLY INTERESTED.
THEY'RE ACTUALLY LOOKING TO HOST IN AUG, ACTUALLY AUGUST 13TH, PROBABLY, UM, UM, A MEETING TO TALK MORE ABOUT FOOD INSECURITY AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO THAT GROUP COULD PROBABLY BE A BIG RESOURCE THERE.
NEXT ITEM 7.5, DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION AND APPROVAL OF THE JUNE 17TH, 2 20, 25 MEETING MINUTES.
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READY? IT'S GOOD.I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE.
A MOTION BY, I WILL SECOND THAT MOTION.
ALL IN FAVOR? ANY OPPOSED? OKAY.
THE NEXT MEETING, UH, SOME 0.6, ANY DISCUSSION THAT WE HAVEN'T DONE FOR THE NEXT, I KNOW AUGUST 19TH, SO WE SHOULD HOPEFULLY WE WILL WHERE WE ARE THEN.
SO THAT COULD BE A SIGNIFICANT MEETING DEBRIEF TOO, ON THE MEETING.
I WAS GONNA ASK THOUGH, NEXT WEEK, WHO IS PLANNING TO DO THIS, RIGHT? BECAUSE IF THERE IS A QUORUM, I THINK I JUST HAVE TO, THAT MIGHT, I, I FORGET.
I THINK THEY ALREADY POSTED AS A POSSIBLE QUORUM, BUT JUST I WAS JUST GONNA ASK.
SO, AND ALSO EMAIL TOO, FOR THOSE WHO AREN'T HERE TO JUST SEE IF THEY CAN CONFIRM IF THEY'LL, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT NEXT WEEK, YOU WON'T BE HERE FOR THE WORK.
UM, BECAUSE LIKE WITH THE DISCUSSION, I MEAN, YOU HAVE A LOT OF GOOD POINTS ABOUT THE WORKING GROUPS, AND I'M THINKING PEOPLE ARE, HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT.
THAT WOULD BE, YOU CAN ANSWER THOSE.
AND, AND, UH, COMMUNICATE, YOU KNOW, THAT THERE'LL BE A LINK FOR PEOPLE TO EXPRESS INTEREST AND YES.
I THINK AS TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE.
SO THE ITEMS FOR THE NEXT MEETING WOULD JUST KIND OF BE A DEBRIEF FROM THE WORK SESSION? YEAH.
AND THEN I ALSO HAVE, UM, BASICALLY JUST DISCUSSION, POSSIBLE ACTION ON THE COMMISSION, GIVING A PUBLIC PRESENTATION DURING THE SEPTEMBER 18TH CITY COUNCIL MEETING MM-HMM
AND, AND A SUBPOINT UNDER THE DEBRIEF IS THAT WE NEED TO, IN THAT MEETING ONCE WE DO, BECAUSE IF THEY GIVE US, IF WE GET, UH, ITEMS TO CHANGE OR PIVOT OR CORRECT, UM, FROM THE COUNCIL, WE WANNA PUT, WE WANNA BUILD IN TIME MM-HMM
TO SAY, HERE'S TWO THINGS THAT THEY SUGGESTED, OR THEY INSISTED THAT WE CHANGE.
SO WE WANNA HAVE TIME IN THE MEETING TO SAY, MAYBE NOT TO MAKE A DECISION ON THIS.
BUT TO DISCUSS THAT AND SAY, OKAY, HOW DO WE PIVOT ON THIS ITEM? HOW DO WE CHANGE THIS ONE THING THAT THEY SAID WE NEED TO CHANGE, SHOULD CHANGE, OR THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE CHANGE MM-HMM
SO LET'S BUILD SOME TIME IN FOR THAT.
AND IF THERE'S NOTHING, THEN WE'LL JUST USE THAT TIME TO CELEBRATE OUR GOOD WORK, GRAB A SODA AND DR.
PEPPER AND, AND SEE GOOD JOB, GUYS.
BUT WE DO WANNA HAVE THAT TIME BUILT IN.
UM, I ALSO WANTED TO BRING UP, I, UM, ON BEHALF OF THE LIBRARY DIRECTOR, SHE'S ASKING AGAIN, ON BEHALF OF THE LIBRARY ADVISORY BOARD, THEY REALLY WANT HAVE A JOINT WORK SESSION WITH Y'ALL.
AND SO THEY'VE, UM, I'VE, BECAUSE YOU KNOW, THEY'VE ASKED FOR THE SEPTEMBER MEETING TO BE A JOINT, UM, WORKING SESSION.
AND SO I WAS JUST GOING TO ASK Y'ALL NOW, UM, IF THAT WORKS.
I, I THINK IT KIND OF WORKS IN LINE, BUT I MEAN, IT'S A, I'M DOWN WITH SEPTEMBER 4TH WHO'S GONNA BE COMING? NO, IT'D BE SEPTEMBER THE THIRD.
TUESDAY IN SEPTEMBER, WHATEVER.
Y'ALL'S MEETING, IT WOULD ALREADY BE YOUR NORMALLY SCHEDULED MEETING.
IT WOULD JUST BE LIKE, MAYBE, AND YOU, AND Y'ALL CAN DECIDE LIKE THE FIRST HOUR WE'RE GONNA COMMIT TO A WORK SESSION WITH THEM OR WELL, LET'S, YEAH.
WHO'S DEVISING THE AGENDA FOR THAT? OR THE GOALS FOR THE GENERAL? YES.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE WOULD ASK IS THAT, UM, SINCE THE REQUEST IS COMING FROM THEM, THAT THEY GIVE US THEIR FOUR, MAYBE THEIR FOUR KEY PRIORITY ITEMS THAT THEY WOULD WANT TO T THAT THEY WOULD WANT OUR WORK OR GUIDANCE OR INPUT OR COLLABORATION TO WORK ON WITH THEM.
SO WE WANNA GET THAT, YOU KNOW, BY THE AUGUST MEETING.
THAT WAY WE CAN PUT THAT ON THE, THAT'S A GOOD TIME THAT YOU BRING IT UP, BECAUSE WE CAN PUT THAT ON THE AS TWO REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE REQUESTS FROM THE LIBRARY FOR THE SEPTEMBER MEETING.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE TO YOU? YES.
DOES THAT WORK FOR YOU? OUR, OUR MEETING WOULD BE SEPTEMBER 16TH MM-HMM
AND THEN THAT'S THE SAME WEEK THAT WE'RE GONNA DO THE PRESENTATION, BUT I DON'T THINK IT SHOULD BE THAT BIG A DEAL BECAUSE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE GET THE PRESENTATION PUBLIC.
WE ARE NOT GONNA GO AS, AS INTO AS MUCH DETAIL AS WE HAVE WITH OUR WORK SESSION.
SO, SO THEY COULD COME FIRST IN THE MEETING? YEAH.
LIKE THE FIRST HOUR, HOWEVER YOU GUYS WANNA DO IT.
YEAH, LET'S DO IT THE FIRST HOUR AFTER THAT.
BUT THAT'S, THAT'S GOOD BECAUSE THAT'S PART OF OUR YEAH.
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REALLY FUN AND CREATIVE PUBLIC OUTREACH PROGRAMMING.THERE'S A MUSICIAN, UH, SATURDAY MORNING PLAYING A SITAR.
I THINK WHAT I DIDN'T, THAT I'M TRYING TO, MY DAUGHTER'S VOLUNTEERING AT THE LIBRARY.
HE TELL HER WHAT ARE THEY DOING THAT I, I JUST CAN'T KEEP UP WITH EVERYTHING I KNOW.
I WAS LIKE, TELL ME, SHE'S LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, MOM, SHE'S 14.
SO SHE'S LIKE, OH, I'M JUST SHELVING BOOKS.
AND I'M LIKE, NO, YOU SHOULD BE FINDING OUT WHAT'S HAPPENING TO GET, DO IT.
LIKE YOU'RE LEARNING JOB SKILLS.
BUT, UM, YEAH, I THINK IT'S GREAT.
THEY WERE DOING LIKE BOOK CLUBS AND THEY HAVE THAT YOUTH ADVISORY BOARD, WHICH SHE'S SUPPOSED TO BE DOING.
UM, BUT THEY HAD SOME REALLY GOOD CREATIVE IDEAS AND, AND EFFORTS TO REACH OUT TO THE COMMUNITY MM-HMM
UM, THAT THE PUBLIC, THAT THE LIBRARY THAT I HAVEN'T SEEN FROM OTHER PUBLIC LIBRARIES.
LIKE I WAS REALLY INVOLVED THE ROUND ROCKWELL LIBRARY FOR A LONG TIME AND THEY WEREN'T DOING THEIR COOL STUFF OUR LIBRARY IS DOING.
SO I'M EXCITED TO SEE WHAT THEY WANNA WORK WITH AND WHERE ANY POSSIBLE CROSS-COLLABORATION MIGHT HAPPEN.
AND THIS WOULD BE TO DAN, UM, BECAUSE I'M LOOKING AT THE, UM, FOR DEI BE INITIATIVES, YOU KNOW, LIKE AN ASSESSMENT.
I WONDERED, SHOULD I JUST BRING THAT UP AT OUR WORKS DURING OUR WORK SESSION WITH THE COUNCIL? WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY LOOKING FOR AN ASSESSMENT OF NO, WE, NO, WE, WE WOULD, UM, LIKE FROM THE SH RM, THEY HAVE AN ASSESSMENT THAT YOU DO, AND THE, THE, UM, NOTE THAT STAN PUT OUT WAS PART OF THAT SAYING LIKE, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT OUR RECRUITING INITIATIVES TO MAKE SURE THEY DON'T VIOLATE ANY EXECUTIVE ORDERS BY THE COMMU, YOU KNOW, THE ADMINISTRATION IN THAT THERE'S A MORE IN DEPTH ONE THAT, YOU KNOW I WAS GONNA DO.
SHOULD WE DISCUSS THAT AT THE MEETING OR BRIEFLY MENTION IT, OR DO YOU THINK? I THINK MAYBE BRIEFLY MENTION IT.
I THINK THAT'S ONE THAT COULD, IF IT SPARKS DISCUSSION, IT COULD TAKE OVER AND, AND I DON'T HAVE EVEN ENOUGH TIME FOR THAT MM-HMM
SO YEAH, I THINK MAYBE BRIEFLY MENTION IT.
SO THEN I WOULD, I'M GONNA JUST INTERWEAVE IT JUST AS I DO OTHER THINGS.
BUT I WANTED EVERYBODY TO KNOW THAT.
SO IN CASE, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING MORE NEEDS TO BE DONE, BUT I BELIEVE WE ARE, WE ARE, UM, WE DEFINITELY ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK, SO, OKAY.
SO I'LL JUST BRIEFLY MENTION THAT.
UM, I THINK THAT IS, DID ANYONE ELSE OPEN DISCUSSION? ANY OTHER ITEMS FOR THE NEXT MEETING? WILL WE HAVE DONE ANY INTERVIEWS FOR THEN, UM, MEMBERS? I DON'T KNOW, BUT ONE THING I WAS GONNA INTERWEAVE THAT IN AS WELL, THAT, UM, LIKE DAN SAYS THAT THERE ARE THREE APPLICATIONS AND THEN WE HAVE ONE THAT WE, UM, THAT WAS A VERY GOOD CANDIDATE BEFORE.
SO WE DEFINITELY ARE READY TO INTERVIEW.
SO, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS IN THAT COMMITTEE'S COURT, IS THAT CORRECT? LIKE THEY ALL, THEY SAID THE DATES THE DATES IT IS, BUT, AND, BUT ALSO TO LET YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO WANNA CHANGE THE PROCEDURE THAT WE USE.
AND SO I HOPE THAT DOESN'T SLOW US DOWN HERE TOO MUCH.
UM, WHAT PROCEDURES DO YOU MEAN? THE HIRE, THE, THE INTERVIEW PROCESS.
THEY WANNA, THEY WANNA DO AWAY WITH THE COMMITTEE AND, AND DO IT A DIFFERENT WAY.
AND WE HAVEN'T AGREED ON HOW TO DO THAT YET.
SO, UM, OH, THEY WANNA HAVE A COMMITTEE DOING THE INTERVIEWS FOR PEOPLE THAT WANNA VOLUNTEER.
WE'VE HAD, WE, WE'VE HAD A COMMITTEE, THEY WANT TO HAVE THE WHOLE COUNCIL AND THEY WANT TO CHANGE IT.
SO I'M NOT SURE, I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT THE RESULT TO BE YET.
SO WE'LL PROBABLY BE DISCUSSING IT, BUT I, I DON'T KNOW WHERE, WHERE THAT'S GONNA GO AND HOW THAT MIGHT IMPACT INTERVIEWS IN THE SHORT TERM.
HOPEFULLY IT WON'T, BUT THERE'S A POTENTIAL THAT IT COULD.
SO THERE WON'T BE, SO RIGHT NOW THERE ARE NO INTERVIEWS GOING FORWARD RIGHT NOW? WELL, I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW.
I'M NOT ON THE COMMITTEE AND, AND BECAUSE OF QUORUM, I CAN'T EVEN REALLY ASK THEM WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
OH, WAS THE COMMITTEE JUST THE COMMITTEE STRUCTURE, JUST DID THEY HAVE THEY EXPRESSED THE COMMITTEE STRUCTURE JUST WASN'T WORKING? UM, I, THE COMMITTEE HAS WORKED.
WE HAVE A SET UP ALTERNATING YEAR TO YEAR, AND THE COMMITTEE HAS WORKED WELL SOME YEARS AND HAS NOT WORKED WELL OTHER YEARS.
UM, IT DEPENDS ON THE PERSONALITIES, MAYBE.
I MEAN, THAT WE WANNA KNOW, 'CAUSE THIS IS LITERALLY TALKING ABOUT YEAH.
PUBLIC INPUT FROM THE CITIZENS.
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CLARITY AROUND WHAT IS IT THAT'S NOT WORKING FROM THE COUN, THE ONES THAT WANNA CHANGE IT.LIKE WHAT IS IT? BECAUSE I MEAN, I LISTENING TO THE MEETING, TO THE COUNCIL, CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS AND IT'S REALLY HARD FOR 'EM TO FOLLOW WHAT PEOPLE'S CONCERNS AND WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT.
BUT I WOULD, I MEAN, 'CAUSE BECAUSE IF THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE ALREADY SERVING BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS TO INFORM THEM THAT PROCESS, BECAUSE AT THE END OF ALL OF THAT, WE'RE THE ONES RECEIVING OR DOING THE WORK FOR THOSE COMMITTEES AND BOARDS, THEN THERE SHOULD BE SOME ENGAGEMENT WITH SAYING, OKAY, THIS IS THE CONCERN THAT THE CA CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE HAD WITH THE WAY WE'VE DOING THINGS IN THE PAST.
THIS IS SOME ISSUES THAT WE'VE SEEN AND HAVE SOME INPUT FROM THE ACTUAL WORKING COMMITTEES AND BOARDS AND COMM BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS TO SAY, WELL, WHY DON'T WE TRY IT THIS WAY? AND THAT'S ALL I KNOW.
IT'S NOT YOU ON THE COMMITTEE, UH, ON THAT, ON THAT SPECIFIC COMMITTEE.
UM, DAN, BUT AS A COUNCIL, UM, IT MIGHT BE GOOD TO, FOR US TO KNOW WHAT IS THE HOLD UP, WHAT IS THE REASON, WHAT ARE THE CONCERNS SO THAT WE CAN BE COLLABORATIVE IN INFORMING MAYBE A NEW WAY TO STRATEGIZE IT.
BECAUSE WHAT THAT DOES, IT AFFECTS US.
WE NEED COMMITTEE MEMBERS, WE NEED COMMISSIONERS, WE NEED BOARD MEMBERS FOR THESE DIFFERENT WORKS THAT WE'RE DOING.
AND IT'S, IT CAN, IT CAN BE DISRUPTIVE IF THE PROCESS ISN'T FIGURED OUT.
AND IF INPUT IS NEEDED, THE PEOPLE THAT ARE ALREADY VOLUNTEERING AND SERVING WOULD BE ONE OF THE GREAT RESOURCES TO GO TO AND SAY, THIS IS THE PROBLEM THAT'S BEEN IDENTIFIED.
WHAT IS SOME INPUT FROM THE COMMITTEES AND BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS THAT, HOW DO WE RESOLVE THIS SO THAT YOU HAVE FULL, YOU KNOW, ENGAGEMENT AS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
AND, AND I THINK THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE IF IT WERE A PROCESS PROBLEM.
BUT IT'S, I, I, YOU KNOW, AND LIKE DAN SAID, SOME YEARS IT WORKS WELL AND SOME YEARS IT DOESN'T.
AND I THINK THE REASON IT'S NOT WORKING WELL THIS YEAR IS BECAUSE OF THE PERSONALITIES ON THE COMMITTEE.
RIGHT? AND, AND, AND, AND SO THERE'S OF THAT CONFLICT, RIGHT.
UH, NO JUDGMENTS, BUT I THINK THAT'S MORE THE REALITY OF, OF THE ISSUE NOW AND WHY, WHY THE PRESENT COMMITTEE IS NOT FUNCTIONING BE BECAUSE IT DID, IN MY OPINION, THAT'S MY INTERPRETATION FOR IT WORKED WELL LAST YEAR.
BECAUSE EVERYBODY HAD, AND I LIKED AND RESPECTED THE FACT THAT THEY INCLUDED ME BECAUSE THE QUESTIONS THAT I ASKED ARE DIFFERENT MM-HMM
AND IT, IT, AND, AND EVEN NOW WITH THIS LAST RESIGNATION, I EVEN KNOW MORE HOW TO HONE TO ASK TO GET INTO CERTAIN YEAH.
AND, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SAYING.
LIKE EVEN IF IT IS, THEY STILL HAVE TO COMMUNICATE A, A FACTUAL REASON WHY THINGS AREN'T WORKING.
IT CAN'T JUST BE, I PERSONALLY DON'T LIKE IT.
AND EVEN IF IT IS, WELL, WHAT DO YOU, WELL YOU SAY SOLUTION
BUT WE CAN, BUT AT LEAST WE'LL KNOW, OKAY, THIS IS WHERE THE HOLDUP IS AND, AND, AND IT'S A VALID ADDRESS THAT IT'S A VALID POINT THAT, UH, THE COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO ARE ON THE COMMITTEE AND THE WHOLE COUNCIL SHOULD, YOU KNOW, TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THAT THE ISSUES INVOLVED WITH THE COMMITTEE ARE AFFECTING THE, THE COMMISSION.
THE WORK THAT WE VOLUNTEER TO DO.
I MEAN, IT'S HARD ENOUGH SOME SEASONS TO GET ANYBODY TO SIGN UP FOR ANYTHING, YOU KNOW, UNLESS US STAY ON OR DO THE WORK.
SO THIS CAN BE VERY DETRIMENTAL TO, UM, A LOT OF OUR EFFORTS, NOT JUST THIS COMMISSION, BUT ALL OF OUR CITIZEN BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS CAN BE VERY DISCOURAGING IF THAT, IF THAT'S A PROBLEM.
AND WE, AT THE VERY MINIMUM, WE'D WANNA KNOW WHAT, WHAT IS THE HOLDUP, WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS SO THAT WE CAN TRY TO BE HELPFUL AND COLLABORATIVE IN ADDRESSING THEM.
AND MAYBE WE DO NEED TO REINVENT WHAT THAT PROCESS LOOKS LIKE.
THAT SOUNDS LIKE A PUBLIC COMMENT RIGHT THERE.
I MEAN, BUT WHAT, WHAT I CAN TELL YOU IS THAT THIS WAS BROUGHT UP, I BELIEVE THE MEETING WAS JUNE 26TH.
YEAH, I THINK IT WAS ON THE AGENDA.
OH WAIT, NO, IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE PREVIOUS, THE MEETING BEFORE THAT.
I'M TRYING TO THINK WHICH, WHICH MEETING IT WAS AT.
IT ALL BLUR TOGETHER AFTER A WHILE.
IT MIGHT, IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE ONE ON THE 18TH, BUT THERE WAS AN ITEM ON COUNCIL PROTOCOLS, AND THAT'S THE ITEM WHERE THAT DISCUSSION HAPPENED.
THERE WERE COURSE OTHER THINGS UNDER THERE, BUT THAT'S, THAT'S THE ONLY CONTEXT I HAVE RIGHT NOW, IS THAT DISCUSSION AND THAT IT'S COMING BACK AND I DON'T KNOW WHEN IT'S COMING BACK AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE EVERYBODY'S TRYING TO, TO MOVE IT TO.
JUST LETTING YOU KNOW MM-HMM
IT COULD BE CHANGING IN THE NEAR FUTURE HERE.
WELL, I HAVE, I HAVE AN UPDATE REALLY QUICK BEFORE YOU ALREADY NO, NO, WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT LATER.
SO, UM, THE, UM, COMMUNITY SURVEY, UH OH YEAH.
IS, HAS BEEN SUBMITTED AS PART OF THE FISCAL YEAR 2026 BUDGET.
SO PENDING THAT BEING APPROVED, IT WOULD START IN DECEMBER OF 2025.
SO PRIOR TO THAT, UM, I WOULD PROBABLY ASK, UM, STRATEGIC, THE DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC OPERATIONS TO COME
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IN AND PROBABLY HELP ELICIT FEEDBACK FROM YOU ALL BEFORE OKAY, PERFECT.SO THEN WE WOULD HAVE EVERYTHING ELSE SET UP BEFORE MM-HMM
SO IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE TO MOVE AND, UH, FIRST OF I SHOULD ASK, ARE THERE ANY OTHER COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION? UM, DID WE DECIDE TO PUT ANYTHING ABOUT, I, I DON'T WANNA REPEAT IT AT HORSE ABOUT, UM, ON THE AUGUST MEETING, BECAUSE AT THAT POINT PUTTING A TON OF FAITH IN PEOPLE THAT WE WOULD HAVE HAD HELD SOME INTERVIEWS OR WE SHOULD REVISIT THAT PROCESS.
WELL, WE'RE NOT START, WE'RE NOT, WE'RE DOWN, WE'RE SHORT TO PEOPLE RIGHT NOW, INCLUDING NOT JUST TO MENTION, YOU KNOW, BACK FEELING THE STUFF THAT SUSAN HAD COMMITTED TO DO THAT YOU MAY NOT DO NOW, UM, THAT ARE COMING UP IN THE FALL.
WELL, HERE'S, HERE'S HOW THAT IS GONNA BE ADDRESSED.
AND IT STARTS ON PAGE ONE OF OUR SLIDES WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT.
I'M GONNA SAY THERE ARE TWO OPEN POSITIONS WE ANCIENTLY WORKED FOR TO GET THEM LAST YEAR.
ALL IS IN YOUR, I HAVE NO PROBLEM POINTING OUT THAT WE HAVE APPLICANTS READY TO GO.
AND WHETHER IF WE'RE CHANGING THE PROCESS, WE NEED TO FIGURE SOMETHING OUT TO, BECAUSE WE NEED A BRIDAL TO, TO MOVE NOW AND NOT WAIT FOR WHATEVER WE CHANGE ING.
I WOULD, I WOULD SUGGEST, IF IT'S APPROPRIATE TO SAY, IF YOU'RE GONNA CHANGE THE PROCESS, THAT'S FINE.
SET A DATE TO HAVE THE PROCESS CHANGED.
DON'T JUST PUT EVERYTHING ON HOLD.
SAY, OKAY, AS STARTING IN NOVEMBER OF 2025 IS GOING TO BE THE NEW PROCESS.
BUT IN THE MEANTIME, BETWEEN TODAY AND TILL THAT CHANGE IS IMPLEMENTED, WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE THE OLD PROCESS OF, SO WE CAN GET PEOPLE THAT HAVE APPLIED THROUGH THE INTERVIEW PROCESS.
AND, AND I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THE, WHAT THEIR PLAN, YOU KNOW, WHAT ANYBODY IS PLANNING.
SO I DON'T KNOW THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO HOLD ANYTHING UP RIGHT NOW.
I'M JUST SAYING THEY WANNA CHANGE IT.
AND SOMETIMES WHEN YOU CHANGE IT, YOU'RE RIGHT.
IF YOU DON'T PLAN FOR THAT, IT CAN BE CHAOTIC AND IT CAN BE UNPRODUCTIVE FOR A WHILE.
BUT I, I'M JUST, JUST RAISING IT BECAUSE IT'S A CONCERN RIGHT NOW.
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WELL, YEAH, THAT'S A VERY GOOD POINT.
ANYTHING ELSE BEFORE WE ADJOURN? MOTION TO ADJOURN.