[Diversity and Inclusion Meeting on August 19, 2025.]
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WE'LL GO AHEAD AND CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS PRESENT.
COMMISSIONER BELL, PRESENT FORMS THAT ESTABLISHED.
UM, THANK YOU FOR THAT, CHRISTIE.
SO WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND START WITH PUBLIC COMMENT.
AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THAT I'VE BEEN ON THE COMMISSION THAT WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT.
SO I AM VERY THANKFUL FOR YOU COMING IN.
I'VE BEEN THE ONE DOING THE PUBLIC COMMENT MENT MEETING, SO I AM VERY GRATEFUL TO HAVE MORE INDIVIDUAL IN THE COMMUNITY COME IN AND GIVE ANY KIND OF COMMENT AND SHARE, BECAUSE THIS IS PART OF OUR OVERALL EFFORT TO GET MORE INPUT AND FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY.
AND SO I THINK IS, THERE'S NOTHING ELSE THAT WE NEED TO DO THEN.
AND SHE AND YOU CAN SPEAK FIRST AND THEN FILL OUT THE FORM AFTERWARD.
UM, AND ALSO JUST AS A REMINDER TO THE COMMISSION, THAT PUBLIC COMMENT, UM, IS ALLOTTED THREE MINUTES OF TIME.
AND IT'S NOT, UM, A BACK AND FORTH DISCUSSION.
IT'S HERE FOR HER TO SPEAK ON WHATEVER SHE WILL SPEAK TO.
AND THEN, UM, LATER ON IF YOU WANNA FOLLOW UP IN WHATEVER THAT LOOKS LIKE.
BUT THERE'S NOT LIKE A BACK AND FORTH DISCUSSION.
WELL, HI EVERYONE, MY NAME IS CATHERINE.
I'M HERE REPRESENTING HONG PRIDE.
SO I'M THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THAT BOARD.
AND WE'VE HAD A BIT, A BIT OF HISTORY WITH SOME OF THE EVENTS WE'VE BEEN DOING UP TO THIS POINT.
UM, BUT I CAN SAY WITH CONFIDENCE THIS YEAR IS ACTUALLY THE YEAR THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY REVAMPING HUDDLE PRIDE AND ACTUALLY TRYING TO DO MORE EVENTS OUT IN THE COMMUNITY.
SO WE JUST HAD OUR FIRST HUDDLE PRIDE FUNDRAISER THIS LAST SATURDAY AT ROCKABILLY BREWING.
AND WE RAISED JUST, JUST THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF MONEY TO KICKSTART AND HIT THE GROUND RUNNING TO DO A HUDDLE PRIDE CELEBRATION THIS YEAR.
AND SO WE'RE LOOKING AT DATES IN EITHER SEPTEMBER OR OCTOBER TO HOST SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
AND THE EVENT ON SATURDAY WAS FAMILY FRIENDLY.
WE HAD A LOT OF KIDS FAMILIES THERE.
AND BASICALLY WHAT WE JUST DO IS RAISE, YOU KNOW, MONEY FOR THE FUNDS.
WE ARE A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION AND WE ARE DEDICATED TO ALL THE LGBTQ PLUS I INDIVIDUALS HERE IN HURO AS WELL AS FAMILY MEMBERS AND ALLIES.
AND SO IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US TO HIGHLIGHT SMALL BUSINESSES HERE IN HURO AS WELL.
SO ROCKABILLY BREWING IS ONE OF THOSE SPACES AND VENUES THAT HAVE MADE IT CLEAR THAT THEY'RE SAFE, YOU KNOW, JUDGMENT FREE ZONE FOR US TO ACTUALLY GATHER AND JUST HAVE OUR ALLIES THERE AND AS A GROUP.
AND SO WE WERE THERE SUPPORTING ROCKABILLY BREWING AS WELL AS BELL'S BARBECUE, WHICH IS THE BARBECUE PLACE THAT IS LOCAL TO THEM.
AND SO ONE OF THE GOALS AT HURO PRIDE IS TO HIGHLIGHT AS MANY SMALL BUSINESSES AS WE CAN HERE IN THE HURO VICINITY.
UM, I MYSELF FIND MYSELF TRYING TO GO TO AUSTIN AND ALL THE SURROUNDING CITIES TO JUST FEEL LIKE I BELONG.
SO FOR ME, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT MYSELF INCLUDED WITH ALL THE INDIVIDUALS THAT LIVE IN HURO FEEL SAFE IN HURO TO COME AND ACTUALLY BE THEMSELVES.
AND SO THAT'S ONE OF THE GOALS WE HAVE, UM, AS WELL AS A BOARD.
AND SO WE'RE GROWING, WE ARE UP TO FOUR BOARD MEMBERS RIGHT NOW, AND WE ARE GROWING WITH VOLUNTEERS.
AND SO ONE OF THE GOALS WE HAVE AS WELL IS TO IDENTIFY MORE BUSINESSES THAT WANNA SPONSOR OUR EVENTS.
AND THAT CAN LOOK LIKE A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS, WHETHER THAT'S DONATING MONEY TO US OR IN KIND DONATIONS FOR RAFFLES.
WE DO SILENT AUCTIONS, UM, THAT KIND OF THING.
SO WE ARE WORKING CLOSELY WITH PFLUGERVILLE, UM, TO KIND OF JUST HIT THE GROUND RUNNING, YOU KNOW, JUST GET ADVICE FROM THEM AS WELL.
UM, AS WE JUST START OFF FOR THE SECOND TIME IN A ROW, UM, JUST BECAUSE WE HAD SOME EVENTS HAPPEN LAST YEAR, UM, WHERE NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE SHOWING UP.
AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS I HAVE DECIDED TO DO IS REVAMP OUR SOCIAL MEDIA.
SO WE'RE REALLY ACTIVE RIGHT NOW ON FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM.
UM, I RECOGNIZE THAT'S THE ONLY WAY TO GET EVENTS OUT IN THE OPEN THESE DAYS, UM, IN THE AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA.
SO THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR US AS WELL.
UM, AND WE HAVE AN EMAIL HUDDLE PRIDE@GMAIL.COM.
SO IF THERE'S ANY CONVERSATIONS THAT Y'ALL WOULD LIKE TO HAVE AS WELL, UM, ELECTRONICALLY OR IN PERSON, UM, THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE.
UM, MAKING MYSELF KIND OF LIKE A POINT OF CONTACT FOR HUDDLE PRIDE.
IF THERE'S EVER ANY CONVERSATIONS YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE, I'M OPEN TO HAVING ANY CONVERSATIONS, ANY IDEAS Y'ALL MIGHT HAVE ABOUT FUTURE EVENTS.
UM, LIKE I SAID, FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE YEAR, WE REALLY JUST WANNA FOCUS ON THE HUDDLE PRIDE CELEBRATION, UM, TO OPEN IT UP TO ANYONE.
ANYONE IS WELCOME TO ANY OF OUR EVENTS.
BUT AGAIN, IF THERE'S ANY CONVERSATIONS Y'ALL WOULD LIKE TO ABOUT COLLABORATIONS OR ANY KIND OF CONVERSATIONS THAT
WITH THAT, I WILL END MY PUBLIC COMMENT, BUT THANK Y'ALL SO MUCH FOR LISTENING.
ALRIGHT, SO, UH, GENERAL COMMENTS FROM CITY STAFF, MS. SUMMER.
UH, WELL, GOOD EVENING, UM, COMMISSIONERS AND, UM, PUBLIC GUESTS.
UM, AND AS I BELIEVE, UH, COMMISSIONER DDA MENTIONED, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER THORNTON POPPED ON BEFORE THE MEETING STARTED, AND HE MAY POP IN AND OUT.
SO IF YOU SEE A FACE THAT'S, UM, I THINK YOU HAD ANOTHER MEETING OR SOMETHING, I DID WANNA GIVE AN UPDATE TO THE COMMISSION.
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JUST VERBALLY, IF YOU DON'T ALREADY KNOW, UM, THAT COMMISSIONER JACQUELINE COLEMAN HAS, UM, OR FORMER COMMISSIONER HAS STEPPED DOWN, HAS RESIGNED FROM THE COMMISSION, UM, AND AS WELL AS COREY DANINA.SO, UM, WE ARE SITTING AT FOUR SEATS FILLED WHO ARE ALL HERE TONIGHT, AND WE DO HAVE THREE VACANCIES.
UM, I ALSO, WELL, ACTUALLY NO, THERE'S AN AGENDA ITEM ON THAT, BUT NO, THOSE, THOSE ARE ALL THE COMMENTS I HAVE.
UM, GENERAL COMMENTS FROM COMMISSION NOW FROM COUNCIL, CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES.
I THINK WE CAN COME BACK TO THAT TO LET, GIVE DAN TIME TO REJOIN US.
SO LET'S GO TO NUMBER SIX, WHICH IS GENERAL COMMENTS FROM THE COMMISSION MEMBERS.
COMMISSIONERS, GLAD TO SEE EVERYBODY.
COMMISSIONER, I'M NO, AGAIN, SCHOOL IS IN TRAFFIC IS BAD.
HEY, STAFF HAS TO HEAR IT ALL THE TIME.
YEAH, I'M, I'M GONNA BRING IT ON TO YOU.
UM, LET'S SEE IF THERE'S ANYTHING.
I DON'T THINK I HAVE ANYTHING THAT'S NOT ALREADY ON THE AGENDA.
UM, THE ONLY THING I JUST WANNA REMIND EVERYBODY DOES THAT, UM, THERE'S A NEW, UM, A NEW, THERE'S THREE PEOPLE THAT ARE, I THINK IT'S THREE NEW PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT DOING THE INTERVIEWS.
UM, THERE WERE SOME, THAT'S WHEN WE MET, THERE WAS SOME CONVERSATION AROUND HOW CITY COUNCIL WAS GOING TO REVAMP, REVITALIZE, IMPROVE, CHANGE, OR CONTINUE WITH THE STRUCTURE OF THEIR COMMITTEE, WHO INTERVIEWS COMMISSION MEMBERS APPLICANTS TO COMMISSIONS AND BOARDS.
AND, UM, THEY'VE FIGURED THAT PIECE OUT, WHICH MEANS THAT THEY CAN FORMALLY LIKE GO, UM, PUT MORE EMPHASIS ON SCHEDULING INTERVIEWS TO FILL OUR, TO FILL OUR VACANCIES AND THE VACANCIES OF ALL OF OUR BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS WITH THE CITY.
IT'S GOOD TO KNOW THAT, UM, THEY WERE ABLE TO FIGURE OUT A PROCESS AND IT'S NOT GOING TO BECOME SOMETHING THAT'S GONNA STALL US BEING ABLE TO FILL SEATS.
AND I DID LEARN THAT OUR COMMISSION HAS THE MOST APPLICANTS, SO YAY US, AND THERE'S A LOT OF INTEREST.
SO I THINK THAT'S A REALLY POSITIVE.
THE, THE, THE INTERVIEWERS FROM THE CITY COUNCIL? YEAH, IT'S, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, PETER GORDON, UH, BRIAN THOMPSON, AND, UM, UH, JIM MORRIS.
SO THEY'RE THE ONES GONNA BE MOVING AND INTERVIEWING.
'CAUSE I WANNA SAY MORRISON, UM, THE COMMISSION.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HAD HAD EXPRESSED A LITTLE BIT OF CONCERN ABOUT BECAUSE WE ALREADY HAD A VACANCY LAST TIME WE MET, AND NOW WE'RE CONTINUING TO GET OUR NEW COMMISSIONS ON, WHICH IS HOPEFULLY A GOOD, POSITIVE EXPERIENCE.
I'VE ALWAYS HAD A GOOD EXPERIENCE WITH IT, SO I'M GLAD TO SEE THAT IT'S GETTING US STUCK AND MOVING FORWARD.
SO MOVING ON TO OTHER BUSINESS IF ANYBODY ELSE HAS ANY, UNLESS ANYBODY ELSE HAS ANYTHING TO SHARE.
SINCE WE HAVE A, DO WE HAVE ANY, UH, COMMISSIONER ON THE TABLE? THERE IS A, UM, 7.1.
I'M GLAD THAT THAT'S THE VERY NEXT THING.
AN INTRODUCTION OF OUR NEW DIV COMMISSIONER, MS MS MRS. NIKKI WILLIAMSON.
THANK YOU, MISS, MISS, MISS, MISS NIKKI LEWISON.
I'M JUST GONNA SAY, NIKKI, WELCOME.
YOU WANNA INTRODUCE YOURSELF AND TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOURSELF? YES.
UM, I'VE BEEN IN HU FOUR OR FIVE YEARS, BOUGHT HOUSE FIVE YEARS AGO, RIGHT AROUND THE TIME OF, YOU KNOW, WHEN, UM, THE PANDEMIC WAS AT, YOU KNOW, AT HEIGHT.
SO YEAH, IT WAS LIKE ONE
BUT, UM, I'M ORIGINALLY FROM CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.
UM, I DID TWO YEARS
I DID, UH, TWO, ABOUT TWO AND A HALF YEARS OF, UH, NATIONAL GUARD, UM, WHEN I WAS STILL IN HIGH SCHOOL.
AND THEN I DID FOUR YEARS, UM, ACTIVE DUTY.
UM, YOU KNOW, THEY LIED ABOUT GOING TO SEE THE WORLD
SO, UM, AND THEN, UM, I, I WORK IN HEALTHCARE AND I LOVE, UM, I DO LOVE PEOPLE AND I DO LOVE HELPING PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY, UM, OUR VETERANS ARE PART OF THE AMERICAN LEGION, UM, IN LEANDER.
UM, AND I GO UP TO THE LEANDER, UM, VFW, UM, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY HAVE, UH, LIKE CHATO FOR PT, UH, PTSD, UM, TO RAISE AWARENESS THAT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE DON'T HAVE TO SUFFER ALONE AND ALL KINDS OF OTHER THINGS.
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WE, UM, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, YOU KNOW, UM, I COULD GET YOU SOME INFORMATION IF YOU WANNA BE IN THE, YOU KNOW, LIKE COOK UP BEANS OR MAKE BARBECUE SAUCE OR WHATEVER, BECAUSE THEY ABOUT GREAT PRICES TOO.AND AUCTIONS, YOU CAN TELL YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS AND STUFF IF YOU BARBECUE TOO.
SO, YEAH, WE HAVE BARBECUE COOK-OFFS OVER THERE AS WELL.
UM, SO I, I'VE SEEN THE CITY GROW, UM, LIKE WHEN I FIRST GOT HERE, UM, IN THE LATE NINETIES, THERE'S
AND SO IT'S GREAT THAT, UM, MOVING OUT HERE.
IT'S, UM, YOU GET A LITTLE BIT FILLED OF THE COUNTRY, BUT LIKE A CITY VIBE TOO.
SO I'M JUST, YOU KNOW, HAPPY, UH, TO BE A PART OF THIS AND SEE IF I CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE OR, AND, OR HELP.
SO, AND OH, OH, AND ONE MORE THING I LOVE TO READ.
SO IF YOU LIKE, IF YOU'D LIKE TO READ, I'VE GOT BOOKS ON BOOKS AT HOME AND I CAN GET IT.
I ALSO HAVE BOOKS ON MY TABLET.
I DIDN'T THINK I WOULD EVER BE ABLE TO READ LIKE THAT, BUT, SO YEAH, I CAN HELP YOU WITH, YOU KNOW, FINDING NEW BOOKS AND STUFF.
I, WE DID HAVE ONE, UM, UH, HOUSE,
BUT HOPEFULLY, UM, I COULD FIND ANOTHER ONE HERE IN GO TO.
BUT IT WAS, IT WAS QUITE WHILE IT LASTED, IT WAS LIKE TWO YEARS.
I KNOW THAT THE LIBRARY IS TRYING TO DO THINGS LIKE MYSTERY DATE WITH THE BOOK AT THE, THE WINE BAR THEY DID LIKE, OR MURDER MYSTERY.
ACTUALLY GET ROCKABILLY BREWING, UM, RECENTLY.
UM, SO THEY'RE TRYING TO GET THAT GOING AGAIN.
I, THAT'S RIGHT OVER MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
GET MY GIRLS TO READ FOR ON TIKTOK, THEY HAVE BLIND DATE WITH BOOK, BLIND DATE WITH THE BOOK.
THEY MAY, I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY GOT IT FROM, BUT I HAVE BEEN SAYING THAT I'M GONNA KEEP GOING AND I HAVEN'T GONE YET.
WE CAN ALWAYS START A NEW BOOK QUOTE.
UM, ANYTHING ELSE I WAS GONNA ASK? I MEAN, NICK TOLD US ABOUT HER, BUT I KNOW SHE KNOWS NAMES, BUT KIND OF DO LIKE YOU DO AN ELEVATOR SPEECH ABOUT US.
JUST KIND OF THAT'S A GOOD IDEA.
OH, YOU WANT ME TO START? SO YES, SIR.
THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS BECAUSE I TALK TO MOST, IS THAT WHAT IT IS? YES.
AND WELCOME TO JOIN THE, UH, COMMISSION.
I'VE BEEN A RESIDENT OF HU IT'LL BE 20 YEARS.
UH, COME, UM, WHEN DID I HAVE MY HOUSE BILL? LIKE SEPTEMBER.
I'M ORIGINALLY FROM A SMALL TOWN CALLED EAST AUSTIN, UH, FOURTH GENERATION AUSTINITE.
UH, I REMEMBER HU I TALK ABOUT HU I REMEMBER HU 'CAUSE I WENT TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, MIDDLE SCHOOL, AND ROUND ROCK.
AND SO I REMEMBER GOING THROUGH HU GOING TO ROCKDALE, UH, WHEN HURO HAD LIKE 250 PEOPLE.
SO I'VE SEEN THIS TOWN GROW UP AND UM, AND FOR ME, I GOT THREE KIDS AND A DOG I SPENT MOST OF MY TIME.
UH, I WORK FOR THE CITY OF AUSTIN, SO THAT'S WHY I KIND OF, I GOT A HEAVY COMMUTE HERE.
AND, UM, OTHER THAN THAT, UM, MY BACKGROUND IS HUMAN RESOURCES, SO I DON'T READ BOOKS, I READ PEOPLE
SO, BUT OTHER HOBBIES, I DO KNOW HOW TO BARBECUE.
AND I, AS, AS I EXPLAINED PEOPLE, THAT'S ONE OF MY, UH, PASSIONS IS COOKING AS WELL AS, YOU KNOW, I FOOTBALL SEASON, I, I AM NOT A TAILGATER.
I'M JUST A PERSON THAT SHOWS UP AT TAILGATES AND
BUT OTHER THAN THAT, THAT'S ME.
I, I'M, BUT ARE YOU SAYING THAT YOU DON'T SET UP THE TGY, YOU JUST SHOW UP TO OTHER PEOPLE'S PARTIES? EXACTLY.
I'VE BEEN WORKING ON MY CORNHOLE AND MY BEER PONG AND ALL THAT.
I'VE BEEN WORKING ON MY SKILLS SPRINGTIME CRASHER.
SO YEAH, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I'M A TAILGATE CRASHER, UH, BY NATURE.
UM, SO MY NAME IS ELA AND, UM, I'VE BEEN IN HUDDLE SINCE 2017.
I'M IN YEAR TWO, MY TIME WITH THE COMMISSION.
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I DID HONESTLY MISS A CHUNK OF IT WHEN I WAS COMPLETING HUDDLE CITIZENS UNIVERSITY.UM, BUT I'VE BEEN ABLE TO JUMP BACK IN, UM, PROFESSIONALLY.
I, UM, WAS IN HIGHER EDUCATION FOR A LONG TIME.
MY PRIMARY FOCUS ON MY CAREER HAS BEEN WORKFORCE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
I CURRENTLY HAVE A CONSULTING BUSINESS, UM, WHERE I CONSULT, UM, CITIES, MUNICIPALITIES, AND COMPANIES ABOUT WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, TALENT ACQUISITION.
I'M TAKING ON A NEW BIG CLIENT STARTING NEXT WEEK.
I'M SUPER PROUD OF THAT WITH A CC, HELPING THEM WITH THEIR NEW MOBILITY INFRASTRUCTURE ACADEMY.
UM, SO THAT'S, I'M REALLY, REALLY, UM, SCARED
UM, I HAVE TWO LITTLE GIRLS IN THE HU UM, ISD AND THERE'S A FRESHMAN AND A FOURTH GRADER.
AND WE LIVE AT THE BROOKLYNS OVER, UM, ON THAT SIDE OF TOWN WHERE I LIVE.
YOU'RE IN THE BROOKLYN, YOU'RE MY NEIGHBOR? YES.
I'M ON LAKE, BUT THAT'S ON THE, IS THAT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF, IT'S ON THE OTHER SIDE.
THE ORIGINAL CLOSER TO RAY ELEMENTARY.
WELL THEN YOU'RE PROBABLY SEEING A BIKE RIGHT IN AROUND TOWN.
AROUND THE, AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
UM, I'M, ANOTHER ONE OF MY NEIGHBORS IS CLOSE BY.
SO I'M AT THE BOOK WE BOUGHT THERE IN 2023.
UM, I AM ON THE HU UH, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
UM, I WAS RECENTLY ON A LOT OF DIFFERENT CHAMBERS WITH TSTC, BUT I KIND OF WHITTLED IT BACK DOWN A LITTLE BIT.
AND, UM, YEAH, I'M JUST, I'VE BEEN SERVING AS THE CO-CHAIR OF THIS COMMISSION.
I'M TECHNICALLY SERVING AS THE CHAIR UNTIL WE MAKE SOME NEW DECISIONS.
WHAT'S ON THE AGENDA? IT'S AN ITEM ON THERE.
AND, UM, I'M JUST REALLY PROUD.
WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT IT LATER WITH THE WORK THAT WE DOING.
ARE WE GONNA BE ABLE TO HEAR FROM OUR PUBLIC PERSON THAT'S THE NAME AFTER WE INTRODUCE THE COMMISSIONERS, IF SHE WANTS TO TELL US ANYTHING ELSE.
UM, I MEAN, IT'S NOT ON THE AGENDA I KNOW, BUT, UM, THERE IS AN OPEN DISCUSSION.
YOU CAN ALWAYS MOVE THAT ITEM UP IF YOU WANT.
OKAY, WELL LET'S GO AHEAD AND FINISH UP WITH OUR INTRODUCTIONS.
I'VE BEEN IN HUDDLE NOW SINCE 2021.
I'M ACTUALLY ON MY SECOND HOUSE HERE.
UH, AND LET'S SEE, I'M ORIGINALLY FROM LOUISIANA SYSTEMS ANALYST FOR DPS.
SO YEAH, I, UH, WHAT ELSE DO I DO? YEAH, I BARBECUE.
I READ, I'M, I WAS ON THE, WE FROM COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL, SO I LIKE HELPING PEOPLE LEARN HOW TO READ.
AND I'M ALSO ON THE GOVERNOR'S, UM, UH, UH, ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR THE PROMOTION OF ADOPTION OF MINORITY CHILDREN.
WE HAVE A TON OF KIDS IN TEXAS, THAT E HOME.
SO, UH, IT'S, IT'S STAGGERING THE NUMBERS.
SO, UM, THAT'S WHY ONE OF MY CAUSES THAT I CHAMPION IS FIND THESE KIDS PERMANENT HOMES.
AND, UM, I PUT THOSE HOME ON, I'LL BE HERE.
SO, UH, THAT'S A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME AND, UH, YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, CONCERNS? UH, I'LL BE HERE.
ENJOY IF I NEED TO LAUGH SOMETIMES.
WE, UM, HAD THE CHANCE AND OPPORTUNITY TO KNOW ONE ANOTHER A LITTLE BIT 'CAUSE YOU CAME IN EARLY AND GOT SWORN IN, BUT I'VE BEEN WITH THE CITY FOR NINE YEARS SO THAT YOU KNOWS, UM, IN DIFFERENT CAPACITIES.
UM, I'VE BEEN THE STAFF LIAISON TO THIS COMMISSION SINCE ITS FOUNDING IN 2020.
UM, SO I'VE SEEN AND, UM, BEEN ABLE TO WITNESS AND BEEN A PART OF A LOT OF THE WORK THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE.
UM, AND IT'S BEEN REALLY GREAT TO SEE, UM, ALL THINGS THAT HAVE KIND OF COME TO FRUITION AND THE WAY IT'S BEEN BUILT UP, UM, WITH, UM, DIFFERENT COMMISSIONERS, BUT REALLY ALL THE SAME, THE WORK AND THE MISSION.
AND YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB OF KEEPING US ORGANIZED, SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.
LET'S GO AHEAD AND MONDAY, I THINK AT THE END, TO GIVE OUR GUESTS TIME TO KINDA ABSORB WHAT WE'RE DOING.
WE CAN LEAVE THAT ON THE BOTTOM OF THE LIST UNLESS YOU NEED TO LEAVE BEFORE WE'RE DONE.
SO, ITEM 7.2, UPDATED DISCUSSION ON THE JULY 17TH, 2025 CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION WORK SESSION.
SO THAT WORK SESSION WAS LED BY OUR FORMER CHAIR, UM, MS. COMMISSIONER COLEMAN, FORMER COMMISSIONER COLEMAN.
AND IT WAS ATTENDED BY MYSELF AND BY COMMISSIONER BELL.
SO, UM, I'LL START THIS TIME AND THEN YOU CHIME IN BECAUSE, UM, SO WE PRESENTED OUR SLIDES, WHICH, UM, COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON HAS THE SLIDES THAT WE PRESENTED ON YOUR PACKET.
AND THEY'RE IN OUR PACKETS, UM, ELECTRONIC.
I DIDN'T PRINT MINE, BUT THEIR ELECTRONIC PACKETS.
DOES ANYONE WANT ME TO PRINT ANYTHING FOR THEM? YOU SAID YOU EMAILED IT.
I I WAS JUST NO, IT'S IN OUR EMAILS.
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YEAH, YEAH.SO WHAT'S IN THE PACKET ELECTRONICALLY IS WHAT WE PRESENTED.
AND, UM, IT WAS VERY, I OVERALL IT WAS VERY WELL RECEIVED.
UM, THERE WAS NOT A LOT OF, THERE WAS NO REQUEST FOR ANY KIND OF EDITS OR UPDATES.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT DID COME OUT OF THAT MEETING IS THAT WE DID, THEY, IT WAS DECIDED THAT WE WOULD NOT CHANGE THE NAME OF THE COMMISSION TO THE YOU BELONG IN HUDDLE COMMISSION.
WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE IT TO ALLOW IT TO BE THE DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION AND BELONGING COMMISSION WITH OUR TAGLINE, LEADING WITH THE TAGLINE, THE YOU BELONG AND HU TAGLINE, WHICH I JUST, I LOVE THAT.
WE NEED THAT ON OUR SHIRT SOMEWHERE.
ANYWAY, I, I, I DID ALSO FLOAT TO THEM.
SO THEY SAID THEY LIKED IT TOO, BUT WE'LL SEE.
UM, BUT YEAH, THEY BELONG IN HETERO TAGLINE JUST TO KEEP THAT SENSE OF BELONGING, UM, FOR THE COMMUNITY.
UM, THE OTHER ITEM THAT WE HAD ASKED WAS ABOUT, THE BIG THING WAS ABOUT THE BUDGET.
AND THE FEEDBACK WE RECEIVED FROM THE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS IS, UM, THEY REALLY APPRECIATED THE DUE DILIGENCE THAT WE PUT IN AS A COMMISSION MM-HMM
TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERY SINGLE ITEM THAT WE LISTED THAT HAD A DOLLAR SIGNED TO IT WAS HAD A PURPOSE.
AND HOW WE WERE GOING TO MEASURE THE OUTCOMES.
THAT IS SHOWING THAT WE ARE BEING VERY GOOD STEWARDS AND WE'RE THINKING FORWARD, OR WE HAVE THAT FORESIGHTED THING.
OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO BE ASKING TO SPEND ANY TYPE OF DOLLARS ON THE BUDGET THAT'S GOING TO GET APPROVED, THAT WE ARE, HAVE ALREADY THOUGHT ABOUT HOW WE'RE GONNA MEASURE THAT AND HOW WE'RE GONNA REPORT BACK THE SUCCESS OF HOW WE SPENT THAT MONEY.
UM, SO THAT WAS ONE THING THAT THEY DID APPRECIATE THAT I WAS REALLY PROUD THAT WE DID, TOOK THE TIME TO DO THAT.
'CAUSE WE DID HAVE THINGS THAT, UM, COULD HAVE BEEN INCLUDED AND THINGS THAT WE DECIDED NEEDED, DIDN'T NEED TO BE INCLUDED OR NEEDED TO BE INCLUDED LATER ON IN THE FUTURE.
SO I'M GLAD THAT WE TOOK THAT TIME TO REALLY ASSESS THAT MORE CAREFULLY, BECAUSE WE COULD HAVE BLOSSOM OF THE THINGS THAT WE REALLY WANTED BECAUSE WE WERE JUST, YOU KNOW, WE'RE OUT OF SORTS WITH THE BUDGET ITEMS. THAT'S KINDA LIKE MY BIG OVERALL ASSESSMENT OF THE MEETING.
SO I'LL LET, UM, COMMISSIONER BELL ADD IN HIS THOUGHTS AND NOTES FROM THAT COMMISSIONER MEETING FROM, FROM THAT WORK SESSION.
YEAH, THAT WORK SESSION WAS VERY, UH, IT, IT WAS VERY, IT WAS GREAT.
UH, JUST GETTING THE RESPONSES FROM THE NEW, WE HAD, WHAT, TWO NEW, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS ON THERE.
WE HAD TWO NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS ON THERE KIND OF EDUCATING THEM AS FAR AS THE WORK WE'VE ALREADY DONE.
UH, ONE COUNCIL MEMBER WAS ALREADY FAMILIAR WITH SOME OF OUR WORK, BUT ALSO JUST THE, UH, YOU KNOW, GETTING THE, I GUESS THE PRAISE OF SAYING OUT OF ALL THE COMMISSIONS THAT, UH, CITY OF HUDDLE HAS, WE WERE MOST THOROUGH ONE PRESENTING
SO WE SET THE BAR FOR THE OTHER, UH, COMMISSIONS, UH, TO KIND OF, UH, KIND OF, UH, GO BY.
I, I THINK EVERYONE, TO ME, WELL, I GATHERED THE ENERGY IN THE ROOM WAS VERY POSITIVE.
YES, IT WAS VERY UPLIFTING AS FAR AS THE ENERGY.
SO WE, WE HAVE, UH, DEFINITELY WITH THE TWO NEW, UM, COUNCIL MEMBERS THAT WERE PRESENT, WE, WE GAINED SOME ALLIES THERE.
AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH US AS WE'RE LOOKING TO MOVE FORWARD.
AND I, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS I, I KIND OF GATHERED FROM THAT MEETING THAT I WANTED ENSURE THAT WE DO AS A, AS A, THE MISSION MOVING FORWARD IS, IS KIND OF PARTNERED WITH THOSE OTHER COMMISSIONS OUT THERE AND KIND OF, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, KIND OF, I, I FEEL LIKE WE'RE THE, LIKE THE TRAILBLAZERS RIGHT NOW.
YOU KNOW, IT IS JUST, I JUST GOT THAT AURA WITH ME WHEN I, WHEN I'M SITTING IN THERE, I'M LIKE, OH MAN, THIS IS THIS FAMILIAR BEING A TRAILBLAZER.
SO JUST KIND OF, I TRY TO, I TRY TO KEEP MY HEAD SMALL.
IT'S TOO BAD, BUT IT, IT, BUT IT JUST, IT WAS JUST A LOT OF GOOD ENERGY.
A LOT OF, UM, BUDGET WAS WELL RECEIVED.
AND, UM, YEAH, WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO A VERY PROSPEROUS YEAR.
SO, ONE OTHER THING, THANK YOU FOR, FOR THAT RECAP, COMMISSIONER PE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I DIDN'T NOTE WHEN WE WERE MEETING WITH THEM THAT WAS A QUESTION TO US FROM THE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS WAS, HOW DO WE AS A COMMISSION, BECAUSE WE ARE DIVERSE, EQUITABLE INCLUSION AND BELONGING, MAKE SURE THAT, UM, AS MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY WE'RE HEARING HOW WE'RE HEARING AND LISTENING, GATHERING FEEDBACK FROM ALL OF THOSE VERY DIVERSE VOICES AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN THE COMMUNITY.
AND HOW DO WE, OR HOW WOULD WE, I FORGOT EXACTLY HOW I BELIEVE IT WAS THE MAYOR'S, UH, FRAMED IT AND I ANSWERED THAT QUESTION.
WHAT I SAID IS THAT THE WAY THAT WE RESPOND TO THAT IS WE HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THAT WHEN PEOPLE ARE AGAINST THE THINGS THAT THIS COMMISSION IS TRYING TO ACHIEVE, IT'S USUALLY BECAUSE THEY FEEL LIKE BY ALLOWING ONE GROUP TO HAVE ACCESS TO RESOURCES, FOR EXAMPLE, THEY FEEL LIKE THEY'RE THEN LOSING SOME TYPE OF VOICE ACCESS, YOU KNOW, RECOGNITION.
AND THAT WE AS A COMMISSION HAVE TO BE SENSITIVE AND COGNIZANT OF THAT IF WE'RE GONNA TRULY REPRESENT THE COMMUNITY AND IF WE'RE GOING TO BE GATHERING AND RECEIVING DATA AND FEEDBACK AND ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING WITH IT.
UM, SO I THINK, AND THAT WAS VERY WELL RECEIVED AS WELL.
UM, THE WAY THAT WE, THE WAY THAT I EXPLAINED IT,
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SPEAKING FOR ON BEHALF OF THE COMMISSION IS THAT THAT'S HOW WE, THAT'S A WAY THAT WE CAN FRAME IT AND LEND IT, IS THAT WE'RE GOING TO PAY ATTENTION AND BE SENSITIVE TO THE FACT THAT THERE ARE, UM, MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY IDEALS THAT ARE NOT IN SUPPORT OF THE WORK THAT ARE THIS COMMISSION WAS FORMED TO DO.AND WE'RE GONNA HEAR THE FEEDBACK AND INPUT FROM ALL VOICES.
UM, BUT THE WORK IS NOT GONNA CHANGE THAT WE'VE PROMISED THE CITY THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO AS A COMMISSION.
UM, SO THIS IS WHERE THE SAME WORKS, THE SAME INFORMATION WE PRESENTED AT THE WORK SESSION, WHICH IS OUR STRATEGIC PLAN TO CITY COUNCIL WAS GOING TO BE PRESENTED AT THE SEPTEMBER 4TH MEETING TO THE, TO THE PUBLIC.
SEPTEMBER, THE SECOND MEETING OF SEPTEMBER THE 18TH.
UM, SO DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FROM THAT WORK SESSION OR ANY OTHER ITEMS OR COMMENTS FROM THAT OR LOOKING OVER THE NOTES? UM, COMMISSIONER WILL SEND ALL YOUR NEW YOU, YOU JUST RECEIVED IT, BUT DO YOU HAVE ANY IMMEDIATE QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT WE PRESENTED ALREADY TO CITY COUNCIL IN THAT WORK SESSION? NO, AT THIS TIME.
SEPTEMBER 4TH, SEPTEMBER 18TH OF THE UPCOMING MEETINGS, UH, FOR COMMISSION.
UH, IS THERE ANY OTHER, UH, FURTHER DISCUSSION OR QUESTIONS? FOURTH AND 18TH.
FOURTH AND 18TH? UM, IS THERE ANY OTHER, UM, DISCUSSION OR ACTIONS, UM, OR I'M SORRY, UPDATES AND DISCUSSIONS FROM THE JULY 17TH CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION? SECOND, JUST ON THE BUDGET, JUST AS A REMINDER THAT, UM, THE BUDGET REQUEST WAS APPROVED TO PUT INTO THE BUDGET, BUT THE TOTAL BUDGET ISN'T APPROVED UNTIL YES.
I JUST WANNA THROW THAT OUT THERE.
'CAUSE EVEN THOUGH THANK YOU FOR THE CLEAR, IT WAS APPROVED HERE YEAH.
UNTIL THE ENTIRE, UM, GENERAL FUND IS IS PASSED AND APPROVED.
UM, AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS, I'LL, I'LL UPDATE Y'ALL.
IS THAT THE SEPTEMBER 4TH ONE? WELL, WE'LL SEE HOW, UM, SO REALLY QUICKLY, I KNOW THIS IS A LITTLE BIT DEVIATED OFF, BUT THIS THURSDAY, SO EV BASICALLY EVERY THURSDAY IN AUGUST WE'VE HAD A BUDGET MM-HMM
UH, SO THIS NEXT THURSDAY THERE'LL BE ANOTHER BUDGET PRESENTATION.
ALSO, THERE ARE TWO PROCLAMATIONS.
ONE IS SENIOR CITIZENS, UH, DAY.
UM, SO IF Y'ALL CAN MAKE IT, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
IT'S ALSO NATIONAL THOUGHTFULNESS DAY.
UM, THAT'S SUBMITTED ON MY BEHALF, BUT I OF COURSE WOULD LOVE YOU ALL TO BE THERE.
AND ANYWAY, SO THAT'S, THERE'S A MEETING THIS THURSDAY AND THEN YEAH, THE NEXT MEETING IS SEPTEMBER 4TH AND THEN SEPTEMBER 18TH, HOPING, HOPEFULLY IT WOULD BE FINALIZED BY SEPTEMBER 4TH.
BUT IT HAS TO BY LAW BE FINALIZED BY SEPTEMBER 8TH.
IF NOT, UM, IF IT, IF THE COUNCIL DOESN'T VOTE TO APPROVE A PARTICULAR BUDGET, THEN IT GOES BACK TO WHATEVER THE CITY MANAGER PRESENTED.
SO A BUDGET WILL BE APPROVED ALL THE WAY UP.
SO ONE OF THE COM, ONE OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ASKED, THEY WERE ASKING, I DUNNO WHO THEY ASKED THE QUESTION, WAS ASKED WHERE THAT BUDGET CAME FROM.
THEY WERE ASKING DID THEY COME FROM LIKE THE CITY MANAGER'S BUDGET AND THERE WAS SOME CROSS TALK ABOUT THAT.
WHAT WAS THE FINAL CLARIFICATION ON THAT? UM, FROM HOW I UNDERSTOOD IT AND HOW IT'S BEEN, IT AGAIN, COULD CHANGE DEPENDING ON HOW THE CONVERSATIONS GO.
BUT IT COMES FROM THE CITY COUNCIL LINE ITEMS. OKAY.
WHICH IS STILL ALL PART OF THE GENERAL FUND.
SAME BUCKET OF MONEY, JUST DIFFERENT LINE ITEMS. YOU MADE A STATEMENT, YOU SAID, UH, THERE BEEN BUDGET MEETINGS LIKE ALMOST EVERY WEEK OR SO, OR MM-HMM.
SO LIKE LAST THURSDAY IT WAS JUST A BUDGET DISCUSSION.
UM, AND THEN THIS THURSDAY IT'S A REGULAR MEETING.
AND THEN THERE'S AN ITEM TO DISCUSS BUDGET.
IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE? LINE ITEM 7.2 FROM THE CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION OR ANY OTHER CLARIFI NEEDS FOR CLARIFICATION OR QUESTIONS? OKAY.
WE GET OUR BUDGET, OUR, OUR PRESENTATION.
AND THIS ONE, I, I'M, I'M A LITTLE BIT OF A DISADVANTAGE BECAUSE I, SO THE DISCUSSION, THE 7.3 ITEM IS DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON HOSTING A JOINT WORK SESSION WITH THE LIBRARY ADVISORY BOARD DURING THE SEPTEMBER 16TH, 2025 DIB COMMISSION MEETING.
THIS IS PART OF WHAT COMMISSIONER BELLA WAS COMMENTING ON, IS THAT WE DO HAVE, UM, A DESIRE TO BE MORE COLLABORATIVE WITH OTHER, UH, BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS IN ORDER TO BE, YOU KNOW, ONE GET BETTER INPUT.
UM, THIS WOULD FIT VERY, VERY WELL WITH THE PROPOSAL TO HAVE
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LISTENING GROUPS AND CITIZEN WORK GROUPS IN THE COMMUNITY SO THAT WE HAVE A CONSISTENT INPUT OF INFORMATION OF HOW WE ARE, UM, HOW WE ARE SHOWING UP OR HOW OUR CITY SHOWS UP FOR DIFFERENT GROUPS, WHETHER IT'S AN AFFINITY GROUP, WHICH WOULD BE THE, LIKE, YOU KNOW, LISTENING POST SESSION.AND ALSO OUR CITIZEN WORKING GROUPS, WHICH, JUST TO REMIND EVERYBODY, OUR CITIZEN WORKING GROUPS, THE FIRST THREE THAT WE ARE GONNA START WITH IS VETERANS, SENIOR CITIZENS AND, UH, SMALL BUSINESSES.
AND AGAIN, THE REASON WE CHOSE THOSE THREE IS BECAUSE, UM, THERE'S A GOOD INTERSECTIONALITY OF A WHOLE BUNCH OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE BEING REPRESENTED IN THOSE BIG THREE GROUPS.
THAT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S THE FINAL GROUPS THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO, BUT HAVING, UM, POSSIBLE ACTIONS OF HOSTING JOINT WORK SESSIONS WITH OTHER GROUPS THAT ARE ALREADY FORMED.
THE ADVISORY IS SOMETHING THAT THEY'VE ACTUALLY BEEN ASKING TO DO WITH US.
UM, WHAT QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS DO WE HAVE? DO WE, IS THERE, IS THERE AN ACTION? DO WE NEED TO STILL APPROVE THAT? 'CAUSE I THOUGHT WE HAD APPROVED IT ALREADY THAT WE WANTED TO DO THAT.
I THINK WE WAITING ON THE LIBRARY TO GET BACK WITH US TO SEE.
SO I HAVE IT IN YOUR PACKET, BUT I, I'LL READ OUT THE QUESTIONS.
SO, UM, I WORK WITH, UM, KRISTEN, WHO'S THE LIBRARY DIRECTOR VERY CLOSELY ON A LOT OF THINGS.
UM, AND SO I ASKED HER AHEAD OF TIME, WHAT WAS THIS, UM, OUTSIDE OF THE PURPOSES YOU JUST SPOKE ON, LIKE CAN WE FUNNEL THAT DOWN A LITTLE BIT MORE? YEAH, FINE.
UM, SO SOME OF THE, UH, THEIR LAST MEETING, THEY ONLY MEET QUARTERLY, SO OKAY.
UM, THEY ARE CHANGING THEIR MEETING TO COME HERE AND MEET WITH Y'ALL.
I SAID FOR LIKE THE FIRST HOUR IS DEDICATED TO THE JOINT SESSION MM-HMM
AND THEN AFTER THAT YOU CAN STILL MEET ON REGULAR BUSINESS.
IF, UM, I REMEMBER THAT BEING SOMETHING FROM A FEW MONTHS AGO THAT Y'ALL SAID, OF COURSE IF YOU WANNA CHANGE THAT NOW, YOU CAN.
UM, I'LL READ THE QUESTIONS TO YOU.
NOT NECESSARILY TO BE ANSWERED TODAY, BUT KIND OF PART OF THE DISCUSSION I THINK OR SEPTEMBER.
UM, AND WHAT THEY ARE ASKING IS HOW CAN WE HELP EACH OTHER? HOW CAN LABS, LIBRARY, ADVISORY BOARD SUPPORT, UH, THE DIV'S NEW WORKING GROUPS MM-HMM
SO SOMETHING YOU JUST BROUGHT UP.
UM, AND THEN THEY HAVE AN ONE HERE CALLED INCLUSION DAYS NIGHTS FOR COMMUNITY MEMBERS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES.
I THINK THEY'LL PROBABLY EXPAND ON THAT, UM, PROCLAMATION CALENDAR AND WAYS TO SUPPORT.
SO THINGS MAYBE THAT Y'ALL ARE ALREADY DOING AS A COMMISSION, MAYBE LEVERAGING, UM, BOTH SIDES AND MAYBE THERE'S OTHER AREAS TO COLLABORATE ON.
UM, AND THEN THEY'RE ALSO GOING TO PROPOSE TWO ANNUAL BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS DAYS WITH THE SECOND MEETING BEING SPECIFICALLY FOR COLLABORATION AMONG, UM, BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
I'M NOT REALLY SURE WHAT THAT MEANS, BUT THOSE ARE KIND OF THE, THE QUESTIONS AND TOPICS THAT THEY WOULD BE, UM, WANTING TO MEET ABOUT.
WHICH IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'VE PRETTY MUCH COVERED ALL OF THOSE THERE.
UM, IS THE COMMISSION OKAY WITH KEEPING KIND OF A AN HOUR TIME LIMIT SO THAT THEY CAN BE PREPARED TO HAVE THAT DISCUSSION AND THEN YOU GUYS CAN MOVE ON TO YOUR WHATEVER, WHATEVER OTHER TIME YOU NEED AFTER THAT? OR DO YOU NOT WANT A TIME LIMIT? I THINK KEEPING TO AN HOUR WOULD BE, WOULD STILL BE THE BEST APPROACH FOR THAT.
UM, I DUNNO, WHAT DO Y'ALL THINK? I'M TAKING AN HOUR IS GOOD.
IF IT, IF IT YOU NEED ANYTHING MORE TIME OR, YEAH.
CAN I ASK KRISTEN AS WELL ABOUT HER RECOMMENDATION? AND SHE SAID I THINK 45 MINUTES WOULD BE JUST FINE.
WE'LL HAVE THE 15 MINUTE CUSHION ON EACH SIDE.
START TALKING TO PEOPLE AND THEN I JUST GET ALL KINDS OF IDEAS I WANNA EAT TO MYSELF.
WHAT ELSE? AND THEN THEY'LL PICK NINE MINUTES, YOU KNOW, COULD I FOR THIS, BECAUSE, AND I KNOW THAT I KNOW MORGAN AND I KNOW SOME OF THE OTHER PEOPLE HELP WITH THE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY, UM, BECAUSE THEY DID SUBMIT SOME OF THEIR QUESTIONS.
'CAUSE I LIKE ANSWER SOME OF THEM KIND OF THE IDEAS.
IT'S NOT REPRESENTED, OBVIOUSLY THE WHOLE COMMISSION IN RESPONSE TO SOME OF THOSE SO THAT WHEN WE DO HAVE THE MEETING, WE WILL KEEP IN TIME BECAUSE I'M NOT JUST LIKE THROWING IT AT THEM DURING THAT TIME.
IS THAT PERMISSIBLE OR IS THAT, I MEAN, BECAUSE IT'S GONNA BE PART OF OUR COMMISSION MEETING.
DOES IT HAVE TO BE DONE AT THE TIME THAT WE'RE ALL MEETING? SO OF COURSE YOU CAN AS AN INDIVIDUAL, SEND TO ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL, WHATEVER YOU WANT.
LIKE IF THE CHAIR OF THE LIBRARY ADVISORY BOARD, YOU WANT TO JUST SEND THEM THINGS DIRECTLY.
I THINK THAT'S ABSOLUTELY FINE.
BUT, UM, I THINK THIS, THE POINT OF THIS WORKING SESSION IS TO HAVE ALL MEMBERS THERE TO DISCUSS EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE.
BUT OF COURSE, UM, IF YOU WANT TO AS AN INDIVIDUAL SEND SOMETHING TO SOMEONE ELSE, THAT'S TOTAL TIME.
IT'S JUST ALSO BECAUSE OF TIME.
AND I KNOW MYSELF AND THERE CAN ALWAYS BE, UM, YOU KNOW, I'LL TRY TO KEEP A, A PULSE ON THE PULSE CHECK, BUT, UM, LIKE FOLLOW UPS OR IF THERE'S LIKE MAYBE A, A FOLLOW UP EMAIL THAT CAN BE SENT OUT OR ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO ON THE STAFF LEVEL TO HELP KIND OF CONSOLIDATE ALL OF THAT TOO, SO.
UM, I ALWAYS DO SPECIAL CALL MEETINGS IF YOU WANT TO.
YOU ALWAYS HAVE THOSE OPTIONS.
SO FROM OUR COMMISSION, IS THERE ANYTHING ON, UM, THAT WE WANT
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AS COMMISSIONERS FOR DIB TO BE INCLUDED IN THAT WORK SESSION THAT WE DON'T WANT TO FORGET TO INCLUDE WHILE WE HAVE THAT TIME WITH THE LIBRARY ADVISORY BOARD? OKAY.WELL, LIKE THE THINK TANK SECTION.
SEE HOW WE DIDN'T HAVE THEM? YEAH.
MORE PEOPLE COME TO THE LIBRARY AND PEOPLE WE CAN, YEAH.
IS THERE ANYTHING THAT WE DON'T WANT TO COVER? WE DON'T WANNA DELVE INTO WHEN WE'RE WORKING WITH THE LIBRARY GRADUATE FOR ANY REASON AS A COMMISSION.
SEPTEMBER, WOULD THE BUDGET BE BACK? DIDN'T ANYTHING? NO.
UM, HOPEFULLY EPTEMBER FOURTH.
AND THEY HAVE ANOTHER ONE ON SEPTEMBER 18TH.
YEAH, BECAUSE YOU SAID THE DEADLINE IS POTENTIALLY, BUT RIGHT.
BUT MAYBE WE DON'T WANNA SHARE OUR BUDGET.
NO, WE DON'T WANNA SHARE OUR BUDGET DOLLARS.
WILL IT BE PASSED? SO NO MONEY TALKING? I DON'T KNOW.
WE'LL HAVE TO GO BACK AND REVISIT.
LET'S, LET'S HAVE THE CONVERSATION WITH THEM AND UM, WE'LL GO FROM THERE.
WHAT WOULD BE THE PURPOSE TO SHARE OUR BUDGET WITH THEM? I DON'T KNOW YET, BUT I DON'T, 'CAUSE I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE GONNA ASK FOR, BUT I'M LOOKING AT SOME OF THE AGENDA ITEMS THAT THEY SEND.
LIKE SOME OF THE QUESTIONS LIKE HOW CAN THEY COLLABORATE ON PROCLAMATION DAYS.
LIKE IF, AND I'LL JUST THROW AN IDEA THAT I HAD ABOUT THAT.
IS IT, WE HAVE THAT MONTH, LET'S SAY WE HAVE LIKE NATIONAL THOUGHTFULNESS STATE, I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT IS, BUT IT SOUNDS REALLY COOL.
COULD THE LIBRARY HAVE A DISPLAY OR A INFO SHARE ABOUT WHAT THAT IS ON DISPLAY EVERY MONTH? AND WHAT WOULD THAT COST? AND COULD WE DO A COST SHARE WITH THEM TO HAVE THAT DISPLAY OR A BOARD OF SOMEWHERE SO THAT IT'S NOT JUST HEARD OF THE PROCLAMATION, BUT IT'S SOMETHING THE COMMUNITY CAN SEE ANYTIME THEY VISIT THE LIBRARY OR CITY COUNCIL.
SO WITH THE PROCLAMATIONS, IS THAT SOLELY DEEMED TO THE DIB COMMISSION? NO.
SO THAT MEANS ANY COMMISSION CAN FEEL FREE TO DO SO WE DON'T HAVE, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T OWN THAT.
SO TRAILBLAZER, LIKE YOU SAID.
SO MAYBE WORKING WITH DUNE TO GET MORE PEOPLE TO READ, LIKE YOU SAID YOU WORK WITH OR ONE OF Y'ALL WORK WITH.
WAS YOU RIGHT, WORKING WITH GETTING PEOPLE TO READ OR WAS IT YOU? YEAH.
SO, YOU KNOW, UM, IT, IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE WE ALWAYS TALK TO THE KIDS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO READ.
BUT ADULTS DON'T TAKE THE TIME TO ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING IS ALL ON THE INTERNET.
BUT THEN, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH PICKING UP A BOOK AND ACTUALLY READING THE BOOK.
SO WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT THAT
SO I THINK THAT MAYBE, I MEAN, I THINK THAT SPECIAL POPULATION, UH, MONTH AS WELL.
WHAT WAS THE OTHER PROCLAMATION? SPECIAL SENIOR CITIZEN STATE SENIOR CITIZEN SPECIAL PRO.
I'LL BE THERE FOR THE, FOR THE PRO, FOR THE, ON THE, AT THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
UM, I MEAN, I, I WOULD FIND WORKING WITH THEM TOO.
UM, YOU KNOW, UM, ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS AS A KID WAS WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE.
SO, YEAH, I GOT IT FOR MY SON.
UM, 'CAUSE HE JUST, YEAH, MY MY YOUNGEST SON, HE, HE JUST, HE JUST REMINDED ME OF, UM, YOU KNOW, LIKE A CIVILIZED WILD LITTLE WILD KID KID.
AND SO, UM, AND, AND HE ALSO REMINDS ME OF THE CHARACTER FROM THE IRON GIANT.
I, I MEAN, I WOULDN'T MIND, YOU KNOW, WORKING WITH HIM.
'CAUSE I LOVE BOOKS AND I LOVE TO READ.
AND SO MAYBE WORKING WITH, UM, GETTING THE COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW, UH, REENGAGE WITH, YOU KNOW, LOOK, YOU KNOW, UH, READING AND, UM, MAYBE, YOU KNOW, WORKING WITH YOU TO SEE HOW, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO YOU DO TO GET PEOPLE, HOW DO YOU GET PEOPLE TO READ WITH, YOU KNOW, UM, OR ARE YOU TEACHING 'EM, OR ARE YOU JUST ENCOURAGING 'EM OR STUFF LIKE THAT? SO, WELL, WE HAVE A FULL PROGRAM, BUT THE, THE, THE COUNCIL IS, IS GONE NOW, BUT WE HAD A FULL PROGRAM WHERE WE, YOU KNOW, PUTTING 'EM THROUGH A SUPPLIES GED, YOU KNOW, THEN THEY WENT ON TO THE PLUMBINGS TRADES KNOW PEOPLE GOT JOBS PROGRAM.
ONE, ONE OF THE THINGS I, I'M CURIOUS ABOUT IF, IF THIS, I, I LIVE IN, I LIVE ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF HUDDLE.
I LIVE IN STAR RANCH, SO I DON'T GO INTO HUDDLE TOO MUCH UNLESS I'M GOING TO EAT.
BUT LIKE, I NOTICED, LIKE, I KNOW IN AUSTIN IT'S A REAL BIG THING WHERE
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YOU HAVE NEIGHBORHOODS THAT HAVE LIKE BOOK STOPS WHERE THEY HAVE COMMUNITY BOOK STOPS WHERE YOU, YOU, YOU BORROW BOOK, YOU, YOU WRITE.I WONDER IF THE LIBRARY DO THAT OR HAVE THEY EMPHASIZED DOING SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I WOULD, I WOULD, I'M GONNA ASK THEM IF, YOU KNOW, YOU WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW DO YOU GET, YOU KNOW, MORE FOLKS READING, HAVE Y'ALL DEVELOP A ROUTE TO PUT IN THOSE, UM, NEIGHBORHOOD BOOK STOPS THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY GET A BOOK BAR, BAR BOOK, WRITE A BOOK, BOOK THE LITTLE LIBRARIES.
WE JUST GOT ONE IN BROOKLYN IN THE POCKET PARK.
AND I THINK IT WAS A NEIGHBOR DID THAT.
I, THAT WAS COOL BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T HAVE ANY NUMBER OF BOOKS IN THERE AND OH, WOW.
THIS IS THE PARK PARKING, THE LITTLE POCKET PARK RIGHT OFF OF BROOKLYN.
THE LITTLE EMPTY SPACE THAT THEY PLAY VOLLEYBALL.
THEY JUST PUT ON THE SIDE WHERE THE MAILBOXES IS.
THEY PUT A LITTLE, I THINK THERE WAS JUST A NEIGHBOR WHO DID THAT.
I THOUGHT THAT WAS REALLY COOL.
BUT I JUST WANNA REMIND US THAT ANYTHING THAT WE DO, AND I LOVE THE IDEA OF HOW DO WE HELP MORE PEOPLE READ.
WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE REALLY CLEAR ABOUT HOW THAT SUPPORTS OR PROMOTES DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION AND BELONGING.
I THINK IN OUR MINDS, WE ALL UNDERSTAND THAT IT DOES, BUT WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER WE COME OUT OF THIS WORK JOINT WORKING SESSION WITH THE LIBRARY ADVISORY BOARD, THAT WE'RE VERY CLEAR ON WHY WE WOULD SPEND ANY TIME, TALENT OR TREASURER ON THAT INITIATIVE.
UM, WE JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A CLEAR OUTLINE AND THEN WHO'S GONNA OWN IT? HOW ARE WE GONNA MEASURE THE OUTCOMES IF THERE'S, I DON'T SEE HOW WE WOULD SPEND BUDGET, BUT IF WE DID, AGAIN, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE REALLY CLEAR ON REPORTING AND UNDERSTANDING HOW THE MONEY'S GONNA BE SPENT, WHY, HOW WE'RE GONNA MEASURE THE OUTCOMES AND REPORT IT BACK TO CITY COUNCIL.
BUT I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA.
UM, ANY OTHER ITEMS FOR, UM, DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTIONS ABOUT THE WORK JOINT WORKING SESSION WITH THE LIBRARY ADVISORY BOARD ON SEPTEMBER 16TH AND KEEPING IT TO AN HOUR? OKAY.
NEXT ITEM 7.4, UM, CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON THE APPOINTMENT OF DEIV COMMISSION CHAIR AND POSSIBLY CO-CHAIR.
AND I'M GOING TO LOOK TO OUR CITY COUNCIL LIAISON LEADER TO WALK US THROUGH THAT PROCESS AND WHERE WE'RE AT WITH THAT BEING THAT WE'RE SHORT A COUPLE OF PEOPLE.
I MEAN THAT WE DON'T HAVE A WHOLE COMMISSION RIGHT NOW.
SO, UM, THE PREVIOUS CHAIR HAS RESIGNED, UM, AND COMMISSIONER RA WAS THE CO-CHAIR.
SO BY DEFAULT UNTIL A NEW CHAIR IS ELECTED, YOU ARE THE CHAIR.
UM, THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO AHEAD AND OFFICIALLY APPOINT A CHAIR SINCE YOU'RE ALL HERE AS A COMMISSION.
AND SO LET'S JUST SAY IF YOU WERE APPOINTED AS CHAIR, THEN YOU WOULD NEED TO ALSO APPOINT A CO-CHAIR.
UM, BUT AN OFFICIAL, UH, VOTE DOES NEED TO HAPPEN FOR BOTH.
SO SOMEONE COULD NOMINATE SOMEONE, UM, YOU CAN NOMINATE YOURSELF.
UM, IT'S REALLY JUST UP TO THAT AS LONG AS, UM, WE'RE NOMINATING FOR AND WE'LL SAY CHAIR AND THEN WE'LL TAKE VOTES.
HOW MANY SEATS DO WE ACTUALLY HAVE? GET SEVEN.
SO WE HAVE FOUR HERE WHERE? MINUS THREE.
DO WE HAVE TO DO THAT TODAY? THAT'S, OR CAN WE PUT THAT OFF UNTIL OUR COMMISSION IS DONE? YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO IT TODAY.
I BROUGHT IT UP JUST AS SOON AS IT CAME.
UM, BUT IN THE INTERIM THEN YOU WOULD BE SERVING AS CHAIR.
AND I'M JUST, I'M OKAY WITH THAT UNTIL WE HAVE A FULL MM-HMM.
I WOULD RATHER, I WOULD ME, THIS IS ME FOR SPEAKING.
IT COULD BE THREE MORE AMAZING PEOPLE, UM, TO SERVE ON OUR COMMISSION.
AND THEN WE CAN LOOK AT, OKAY.
NOW THAT WE HAVE MORE REPRESENTATION FROM THE COMMUNITY, THEN WE CAN LOOK AT APPOINTING A CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR.
HOW COME YOU'RE, IT SEEMS LIKE YOU, IT SEEMS LIKE YOU'RE RUNNING FROM ME.
I JUST, I JUST THINK IT WOULD BE JUST TRYING WAIT FOR EVERYBODY.
THINK I SO IT WOULD BE MORE FAIR AND, AND I UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM.
I THINK IT, WE NEED MORE PEOPLE.
I, I COMMEND YOUR LEADERSHIP ON THAT.
I REALLY COMMEND YOUR LEADERSHIP AND INTEGRITY ON THAT.
'CAUSE THAT'S THE WAY I SENSE IT AS WELL, SINCE THAT'S WHY I ASKED.
THEY'RE, THEY'RE INTERVIEWING NOW MM-HMM
FOR TO APPOINT A CHAIR AND A CO-CHAIR.
IT'LL BE, IT'LL BE MORE, UH, YOU KNOW, JUST MORE TO HAVE ALL OF OUR SEATS, UH, FEEL MM-HMM
SO WE CAN HAVE A, YOU KNOW, HAVE A, A FEASIBLE, AND I MEAN, TO BE COMPLETELY TRANSPARENT, I WOULD THINK THAT WHEN, UM, WE DO HAVE A FULL, UM, A FULL COMMISSION AND WE HAVE OTHER, UM, PERSPECTIVES AND THINGS BEING SHARED, I WOULD PREFER TO STAY IN THE ROLE TO LEAD US THROUGH THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, AT LEAST FOR THE NEXT YEAR.
SO I WOULD PROBABLY NOMINATE MYSELF OR BE ASKED TO BE NOMINATED TO, BECAUSE I WAS WORKING CLOSELY WITH OUR FORMER CHAIR ON
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GETTING THE WORK THAT WE HAD AND ESTABLISHING THE STRATEGIC PLAN.AND IT WOULD BE, IT WOULD BE DISRUPTIVE TO HAND THAT OFF TO A DIFFERENT LEADER IMMEDIATELY RIGHT NOW.
BUT I DO WANT TO HAVE MORE PEOPLE ON BOARD.
THAT'S WHY WHERE WE, I'M, I'M LOOKING AT HOW YOUR, HOW YOUR LEADERSHIP RIGHT NOW IS.
AND SO MY THING, MY THOUGHT IS TO KEEP YOU RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE AND THEN, YOU KNOW, IF YOU NEED A, UH, TO HAVE A VOTE IN A CO-CHAIR, THEN VOTE THE CO-CHAIR IN.
AND THEN WHEN, IF YOU FEEL LIKE YOU NEED TO STEP DOWN AND LET SOMEBODY ELSE BE CHAIR IN YEAH.
YOU KNOW, THEN WE COULD TAKE A VOTE.
BUT I THINK THAT RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW AND JUST WA WATCHING YOU, I THINK YOU'RE PERFECT.
I FEEL A LOT OF PRESSURE, BUT THANK YOU.
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT THOUGHT AND THAT SENTIMENT.
BUT YEAH, I THINK RIGHT NOW, BUT I DO, BEFORE WE MAKE ANYTHING FINAL, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE MORE PEOPLE ADDED TO OUR COMMISSION.
WELL, IF I SAID I, THEY CAN BRING IN THEIR IDEA.
YOU CAN MAKE, WELL, I SAY I WANT MORE PEOPLE AND I KNOW THEY COMMISSIONERS PAY IT FOR THE CHAIR OF DEIB BOARD.
SO YOU'RE MOTIONING FOR THAT FAVOR.
SO, UH, ANY OPPOSED? CAN I VOTE? SAY YOU CAN.
I MEAN, I'M GONNA STAY IN THE ROLE INTERIM ANYWAYS.
BUT I DO WANT TO, THAT'S INTERESTING.
THAT'S WHY I SAY NEED MORE PEOPLE.
I'M SAYING THAT YOU NEED, I MEAN, I GET IT, BUT FOR DIFFERENT, I'M HAPPY TO DO THE WORK, BUT I DO WANT TO FULL FILL OUR COMMISSION.
IS MR. THORNTON PART OF NO, THE COUNCIL MEMBER.
HE'S JUST A PRETTY FACE ON THE CAMERA.
HE DOESN'T GET TO SAY ANYTHING.
SAY, DO YOU WANT TO POP BACK UP TO, UM, YES, BECAUSE SO IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE ON THAT? THERE'LL, WE CLOSE THE LOOP ON 7.4.
I ACTUALLY, I KNOW, BUT I APPRECIATE IT.
NO, ACTUALLY TAKEN, NO ACTION TAKEN TODAY, BUT MAYBE BY OUR NEXT TIME WE'LL HAVE MORE PEOPLE ON BOARD.
SO COMING TO, WE HAD SKIPPED OVER, UH, GENERAL COMMENTS FROM ITEM FIVE, GENERAL COMMENTS ON CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES.
SO AGAIN, WE WILL OPEN THAT UP TO YOU, SIR.
UM, THE ONLY THING I HAVE IS THAT THE, THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE, UM, CHANGED AT CITY COUNCIL LEVEL.
IT'LL STILL BE THE SAME FORMAT, BUT, UH, THE MEMBERS CHANGED.
UH, I'M NOW ON THE NOMINATING COMMITTEE AND WE ARE AWARE, YES, WE, WE ARE AWARE OF THE OPENINGS.
UM, THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE INTERVIEWED DURING TIMES WHEN WE HAD, WE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH OPENINGS FOR EVERYONE.
AND SO THERE ARE DEFINITELY A COUPLE OF PEOPLE THAT WE'RE AWARE OF THAT WE'RE TRYING TO, UM, CHECK WITH AND, AND SEE IF THEY'RE STILL INTERESTED.
AND, UM, CORINA, SINCE YOU ARE NOW THE CHAIR, WE WILL BE WORKING WITH YOU TO, TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN, YOU SHOULD HEAR FROM EITHER COUNCIL MEMBER MORRIS OR COUNCIL MEMBER BORDEN TO TRY TO SET UP INTERVIEWS HOPEFULLY SOON.
SO IT'S SO, SO
DO YOU HAVE, UM, WE HAD DISCUSSED ON OUR AGENDA THE, UM, KIND OF A RECAP AND, UM, UPDATE FROM OUR JULY 17TH CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION.
SO I HAD ATTENDED OUR FORMER COMMISSIONER CHAIR, UH, JACQUELINE GAVE THE PRESENTATION, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, ERIC BE, WAS, UH, COMMISSIONER ERIC BOW.
WAS THERE, UM, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING FROM THAT YOU WANNA SHARE BACK WITH US ON FEEDBACK OR NOTES THAT YOU TOOK DURING THAT WORK SESSION? UM, I WILL SAY THAT I, I'VE HEARD FROM OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS SINCE THEN, MULTIPLE TIMES HOW IMPRESSED THEY WERE WITH THE THOROUGHNESS OF THE PRESENTATION AND THE BUDGET REQUESTS AND, UH, COUNSEL.
THE, THE BUDGET IS NOT FINAL YET, BUT AT EVERY, EVERY OPPORTUNITY WE'VE HAD THAT, THAT BUDGET REQUEST HAS BEEN APPROVED SO FAR.
AND I EXPECT IT TO BE IN THE FINAL BUDGET.
SO, UH, OBVIOUSLY COUNCIL CAN CHANGE THEIR MIND AT ANY TIME, BUT I, I WOULD BE SHOCKED IF THAT HAPPENED AT THIS POINT.
I THINK EVERYBODY IS SUPPORTIVE OF IT.
AND I WANNA MAKE YOU AWARE, I KNOW YOU HAD TO HOP OFF ANOTHER MEETING, BUT WE HAVE A, A, A PERSON FROM THAT CAME TO PUBLIC COMMENT TODAY.
HER NAME IS CATHERINE FROM HUDDLE PRIDE, WHO WAS WITH US TODAY.
WE'VE NEVER PUBLIC COMMENT BEFORE.
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NO, UH, I'M GLAD, I'M GLAD YOU WERE THERE.UM, I KNOW YOU HAD INVITED, YOU'VE HAD A COUPLE OF EVENTS RECENTLY.
I HAD A, I HAD A DIFFERENT BOARD MEETING DURING ONE OF THEM AND, AND WAS NOT ABLE TO MAKE IT TO YOUR, YOUR EVENT THIS PAST SATURDAY.
BUT HOPEFULLY, UH, THAT WILL CHANGE SOON, UH, WITH ONE OF YOUR, WHENEVER YOU HAVE MORE EVENTS COMING UP, I, I WILL DEFINITELY MAKE AN EFFORT TO GET OUT TO, TO SEE YOU GUYS.
UM, ANYTHING ELSE FROM CITY COUNCIL, COUNCIL MEMBER, DAN THORNTON? I DON'T REALLY HAVE ANYTHING ELSE.
UM, THE BUDGET WILL BE FINALIZED, UH, HOPEFULLY THAT, WELL, HOPEFULLY EARLY SEPTEMBER.
DO YOU HAVE, UM, I KNOW IT'S SAID EARLY SEPTEMBER.
WE HAVE A MEETING COMING UP SEPTEMBER 4TH.
WE HAVE A MEETING COMING UP ON THE 16TH WHERE WE'RE GONNA BE MEETING WITH THE LIBRARY ADVISORY BOARD.
SO HOPEFULLY WE'LL HAVE SOME CLARITY ON THE BUDGET THEN.
I DON'T, I DON'T FORESEE RIGHT NOW, I DON'T THINK ANY OF US FORESEE RIGHT NOW ANY CHANGES BEING MADE AND WHAT WE'VE, UH, POST UNLESS, YOU KNOW, IT COMES BACK THAT WE HAVE TO TRIM IT UP A LITTLE BIT.
UM, BUT I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.
I THINK IT'S GONNA BE A GOOD MEETING, MEETING WITH THEM AND LOOKING AT A WAY TO COLLABORATE MORE.
IT'S JUST AN EASY WAY TO GET MORE INPUT AND FEEDBACK THAT WE WANT AS PART OF OUR STRATEGIC PLAN ANYWAY, THAT WE PROMISE TO INCORPORATE MORE COMMUNITY INPUT.
NEXT THING ON OUR, AND IT JUST STARTED POURING OVER HERE.
SO, UM, ITEM 7.5 CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON APPROVAL OF THE JULY 8TH MEETING MINUTES.
I, UM, I WOULD SAY A MOTION THAT WE APPROVE THE JULY 8TH MEETING.
AND THEN, UM, ITEM 7.6, UM, OPEN DISCUSSION AND ITEMS FOR THE NEXT MEETING BEFORE WE ADJOURN.
UM, THIS IS THE TIME THAT WE CAN JUST SHARE OPEN DISCUSSION INFORMATION.
UM, WHO HAS ANYTHING TO CONTRIBUTE TO OUR MEETING FOR THE NEXT, EITHER AN AGENDA ITEM THAT WE WANNA INCLUDE IN OUR NEXT MEETING OR ANY OTHER DISCUSSION OF THINGS THAT MAYBE WE DIDN'T COVER TODAY OR THAT YOU THOUGHT OF AS WE MOVE THROUGH THE DIFFERENT ITEMS? OBJECT 40.
ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO COVER THAT WE, WE KIND OF TALKED ABOUT IN ONE OF OUR, OUR RECENT, OUR PAST MEETINGS ON, UH, DIFFERENT IDEAS THAT WE GONNA COME UP WITH THE BUDGET.
UH, I REMEMBER ONE COMMISSIONER WANTED TO DO LIKE A, UH, DIRECTORY OR A BOOK OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
AND I MADE A POINT IN THAT LAST MEETING.
WHAT WE DO HERE IN THIS COMMISSION IS FOR THE CITY OF HU AND IT IS GOING TO BE FOR THE CITIZENS OF, OF CITY OF HU.
SO I WANT TO JUST ENSURE THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS COMMISSION THAT WE CONTINUE TO LEAD, BE THE TRAILBLAZERS THAT WE ARE, BUT ALSO AS WE WORK WITH OTHER COM, UH, COMMISSIONS FOR THE CITY OF HU THAT WE KEEP THE PEOPLE IN MIND AND THE WORK IN MIND THAT WE DO.
THAT'S THE REASON WHY I SIGNED UP FOR THIS.
AND I WANT TO ENSURE THAT WE CONTINUE TO DO THAT.
AND I WANT TO ALSO ENSURE THAT WE MAINTAIN WHAT ANY IDEAS THAT WE HAVE, WHATEVER WE NEED TO PROMOTE AS FAR AS GROWING THIS CO THIS COMMISSION IN OUR MISSION THAT IS FOR, AND IS OWNED BY THE CITY OF IDAHO.
AND I JUST, I KNOW SOME OF US WAS IN THAT MEETING WHEN I MADE THAT STATEMENT.
I KNOW THAT THE COMMISSIONER'S NOT WITH, I DON'T KNOW WHERE SHE IS OR STILL WITH US.
I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF SHE'S STILL, STILL PART OF THAT COMMISSION.
SO THAT'S KIND OF ONE OF THE THINGS I KNOW GOING FORWARD THAT I JUST WANTED, I KNOW WE, WAS IT, WAS IT JUNE WE HAD THAT TALK? OR WAS IT IN JULY? IT WAS JUNE, YEAH.
I JUST, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE JUST GOING FORWARD, UM, THAT WHAT WE DO, UH, UM, FOR THE CITY OF HUDDLE, WHAT WE COME UP WITH IS FOR THE CITIZENS AND CITY OF WHATEVER.
SO JUST WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT.
UM, FOR ME, AS FAR AS LIKE OPEN ITEMS DISCUSSION, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK IS REALLY IMPORTANT IS WE TALK A LOT ABOUT INPUT AND, UM, BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS WE DON'T WANNA DO, WE DON'T WANNA BECOME AN ECHO CHAMBER OF THE, EVEN THE SEVEN OF US, UM, ADVISING, YOU KNOW, AUDITING, LOOKING AT THINGS THAT WE NEED TO BE DOING FOR THE COMMUNITY FROM JUST OUR SEVEN PERSPECTIVES.
NOW, THEY MIGHT BE DIVERSE, AND I'M GLAD FOR THE DIVERSITY THAT WE ALREADY HAVE REPRESENTED ON OUR COMMISSION WHEN WE, WHEN WE HAVE THE SEVEN OF US.
UM, BUT OUR, OUR COMMUNITY IS GROWING, YOU KNOW, SO FAST, RIGHT? SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE, WE
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ARE DOING OUR DUE DILIGENCE AND WORKING WITH OUR CITY STAFF AND MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE HAVE, THAT PEOPLE KNOW THAT THEY CAN COME IN AND DO THINGS IN PUBLIC COMMENT, BECAUSE THAT, THAT'S RARE WHEN THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS.UM, COULD I ASK OUR PUBLIC PERSON HERE, OUR NON COMMISSIONER AND I, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S TRUE, HOW DID YOU LEARN ABOUT OPEN COMMENT? AND IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE FROM US OR THE CITY SO THAT MORE PEOPLE COME IN LIKE YOU HAVE TODAY? HOW DID YOU FIND OUT ABOUT IT AND WHAT'S THE ONE FEEDBACK THAT WE, THAT WE AS A CITY COULD BE DOING DIFFERENTLY? MAYBE COULD BE LED BY OUR COMMISSION? I MEAN, WE COULD LAND SOMEWHERE ELSE, BUT THAT'S GOOD INPUT.
SO WE WERE HAVING A MEETING, UM, LAST MONDAY, AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBER, BRIAN THOMPSON AND PETER GORDON CAME AND JOINED OUR MEETING.
UM, JUST TO JOIN US, YOU KNOW, JOIN IN THE CONVERSATION.
AND SO THEY WERE THE ONES THAT INVITED US TO THE BUDGET MEETING ON THURSDAY AND THEN TO TODAY'S MEETING.
SO HONESTLY, THEY WERE THE ONES THAT INVITED ME AND I'M LIKE, OH, IT'S ADDED TO THE CALENDAR.
SO
SO IT TOOK AWAY THE PRESSURE OF, YOU KNOW, NOT, NOT KNOWING WHAT TO DO.
UM, BUT YEAH, I MEAN, I FEEL, I FEEL CONFIDENT THAT PEOPLE WOULD WANT TO COME TO THE MEETINGS MORE.
I MEAN, EVEN FOR ALL THE, THE BUDGET MEETINGS THAT THE CITY COUNCIL'S HAVING, I MEAN, IT'D BE AMAZING FOR MORE PEOPLE TO JUST SHOW UP AND MM-HMM
KNOW THAT IT'S, UH, INTIMATE BUT ALSO THOUGHTFUL CONVERSATION FOR THE PUBLIC TO COME AND, YOU KNOW, JUST TALK TO Y'ALL.
AND NOW THAT I KNOW THAT Y'ALL ARE SO APPROACHABLE AND, UM, JUST DOING THE WORK, I MEAN, JUST Y'ALL, IN YOUR PERSONAL LIVES, JUST SPREADING THE WORD.
AND IF SOMETHING MAY, MAYBE IT'S SOMETHING THAT HU PRIDE CAN DO OF LIKE, HEY, THIS IS OPEN TO ANYONE, Y'ALL CAN COME AND JOIN THE MEETINGS.
UM, I'D BE HAPPY TO POST ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIA, LIKE, MY EXPERIENCE.
AND REALLY IT'S JUST WORD OF MOUTH, HOW YOU GET THESE THINGS TO KIND OF JUST GAIN TRACTION AND INVITING PEOPLE PERSONALLY TO COME TO MEETINGS AND JUST KNOWING THAT THIS IS THE STUFF THAT AFFECTS THEM IN THE DAILY LIFE.
AND Y'ALL HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THAT THIS ENTIRE TIME, BUT THIS REALLY IS DAY TO DAY, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE CITY OF PATO NEEDS.
SO I THINK ANYTHING LIKE THAT THAT'S EMPHASIZED WOULD BE IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO KNOW.
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT PERSPECTIVE.
I THINK THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE PROMISED TO DO AND THE REASON THAT WE PAID OUR, WE HAVE A, A CONSULTANT, UM, WHO HELPS US PUT IDEAS TO PAPER AND FORMULATE NEXT STEPS AND KEEP IT AS ORGANIZED.
BECAUSE YOU WOULD IMAGINE WE'RE ALL VERY, VERY PASSIONATE PEOPLE ABOUT WHY WE'RE HERE, RIGHT? THIS IS WHY WE SERVE ON THIS SPECIFIC COMMISSION.
AND SO ASKING FOR A BUDGET TO SPEND MONEY ON MEANS THAT WE ARE COMMITTING TO DOING THE THINGS THAT WE OUTLINED IN OUR STRATEGIC PLAN.
AND A BIG ONE COMING UP FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR IS GOING TO BE THE LISTENING POSTS AND THE CITIZEN WORKING GROUPS.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WANNA ADD TO THE NEXT AGENDA FOR THE NEXT MEETING IS THAT WE NEED TO REASSESS, UM, AS WE CONTINUE TO ADD MORE COMMISSIONERS, WE HAVE TO APPOINT LIAISONS.
SO ORIGINALLY I'M GONNA BE A LIAISON WITH, UM, UM, THE CITIZEN WORKING GROUPS.
AND THEN WE NEEDED TO SCHEDULE A TRAINING FOR WHO WAS GONNA LEAD THE BIG THREE, THE CITIZEN WORKING GROUPS FOR VETERANS.
AND IT COULD BE NOT US, BUT SOMEBODY ELSE IN THE COMMUNITY FOR VETERANS, FOR SENIOR CITIZENS AND FOR SMALL BUSINESSES, RIGHT? IT COULD BE ANY OF THOSE.
SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE A COUNTERPART IN THE COMMUNITY LEADING THOSE CITIZEN WORKING GROUPS.
AND THEN WE'RE GONNA, AND I WAS GONNA BE THE LIAISON FOR THE CITIZEN WORKING GROUP EFFORT, RIGHT? AND SCHEDULING THE TRAINING WITH OUR CONSULTANT.
THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS WE PUT IN THE BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR.
AND THEN THE LISTENING POSTS ARE MORE LIKE KINDA WHAT WE DID RIGHT NOW.
WE JUST HAD A LITTLE MINI LISTENING POST ALMOST BY HAVING, UM, CATHERINE FROM HUDDLE PRIDE JOIN US IN AND TELL US THIS IS HOW SHE LEARNED ABOUT IT.
THIS IS KIND OF HER IMPRESSION.
IS THERE OTHER WAYS? SHE SAID, YOU KNOW, SOCIAL MEDIA, WORD OF MOUTH IS A WAY TO CONTINUE TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO SHOW UP.
THAT'S A REALLY KEY, IMPORTANT PART OF MAKING SURE THAT OUR RESOURCES AS A COMMISSION, AS A CITY ARE ACCESSIBLE TO MORE PEOPLE.
SO THAT MODEL IS A REALLY GOOD WAY TO SAY, THIS IS HOW WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO STRUCTURE OUR LISTENING POSTS WITH AFFINITY GROUPS, AND WE DON'T WANNA LOSE SIGHT OF IT.
THE THING I WANNA TALK ABOUT THE NEXT MEETING IS HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T, RIGHT? DO WE THEN SAY WE'RE GONNA GO TO THEN A HUDDLE PRIDE MEETING, FOR EXAMPLE, THEY INVITE US AND SAY, WE'RE JUST YOU TO LISTEN.
DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU BELONG IN HURO? DO YOU FEEL A SENSE OF, UM, THAT YOU HAVE EQUITABLE, UM, ACCESS TO RESOURCES TO BE SUCCESSFUL AS A GROUP AND AS AS INDIVIDUALS, AS CITIZENS.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE THAT WITH OTHER GROUPS LIKE OLA AND THE BLACK ZA WITH, UM, OUR ROTARIANS WITH OUR, YOU TALKED ABOUT, AND I WROTE IT DOWN, THAT YOU'RE ON THE AMERICAN LEGION.
UM, DO, ARE THOSE AFFINITY GROUPS, THOSE PEOPLE GATHER FOR A REASON? MAYBE IT'S EVEN A BOOK CLUB.
UM, DO THEY, IN THEIR GROUPS, 'CAUSE THEY'RE ALREADY MEETING, HOW DO WE APPROACH THEM? HOW DO WE MAKE SURE WE'RE GATHERING INFORMATION FROM THEM THAT WE'RE MAKING USE OF IT? AND IT'S NOT JUST, UM, YOU KNOW, THEATER, WE'RE, HEY, WE'RE HERE, YOU KNOW, BUT WE'RE ACTUALLY MAKING USE OF THAT DATA AND FEEDBACK AND HOW WE INFORM OUR STRATEGY GOING FORWARD.
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WANNA INCLUDE THAT ON THE NEXT, UM, MAY THAT WE REVISIT THAT, WHAT THAT'S GONNA LOOK LIKE.WHAT ARE Y'ALL'S THOUGHTS? I LIKE THAT APPROACH.
I, I MEAN, I'M ALSO WAS THINKING ABOUT WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THAT WHEN WE MEET WITH THE, UH, LIBRARY COMMISSION MM-HMM
YOU KNOW, WHAT KIND OF EVENTS DO THEY HOST ANNUALLY? MAYBE THAT MAY GIVE US AN OPPORTUNITY TO KIND OF, YOU KNOW, OH, ATTEND ONE OF THEIR YEAH.
ATTEND ONE OF THEIR, THERE WE GO.
SEE THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING, BEING STRATEGIC OF WHAT WE DO.
IT'S LIKE THAT MEETING WITH, WITH THE LIBRARY, I'M ALREADY THINKING ABOUT, OKAY, WHAT DO Y'ALL, WHAT DO Y'ALL HAVE GOING ON WITH THE COMMUNITY? MM-HMM
WHERE CAN WE COME IN AND, AND YOU KNOW, JUST ATTEND, IF NOT ATTEND, KIND OF HAVE A, A LISTENING POST.
SO WHATEVER YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER WE CAN DO TO KIND OF EXPAND OUR REACH.
SO JUST BEING STRATEGIC ON, UH, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE DO, BUT ALSO COLLABORATIVE.
THAT'S THE THING THAT I'M, I'M, YOU KNOW, MORE LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS UPCOMING YEAR, BEING MORE COLLABORATIVE OKAY.
WITH, UH, WITH THE OTHER COMMISSIONS THAT WE HAVE.
AND ALSO, UH, WITH, WITH HUDDLE PRIDE IN OTHER GROUPS MM-HMM
UH, YOU KNOW, HEY, I HOPE YOU GIVE US A GOOD FIVE STARS, WHAT HAVE YOU,
BUT ENCOURAGE MORE, ENCOURAGE MORE CITIZENS TO COME TO OUR, TO OUR MEETINGS TO COME TO CITY COUNCIL.
'CAUSE THE MORE CITIZENS ARE INVOLVED WITH CITY COUNCIL, THE MORE THE CITY WILL LEARN AND ALSO GROW, UM, COMING YEAH.
COMING FROM THAT SMALL TOWN DOWN THE STREET AND THE CITY COUNCIL THERE.
SO HOW DO WE GET THE YOUNGER PEOPLE INVOLVED? BECAUSE THEY'RE NOW, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF YOUNG FAMILIES MM-HMM
MOVING IN, UM, TO SUBDIVISIONS AND STUFF.
AND SO, I MEAN, IT'S LIKE WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE DIFFERENT CLASSES OF PEOPLE YOU HAVE LIKE YOUNG MEN, LIKE, UM, MY SON WAS IN BIG BROTHERS, BIG SISTERS.
BUT AFTER YOU AGE OUT, SAY WHAT HAPPENS? WHAT DO WE HAVE FOR THEM? YES.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, AND A LOT OF THEM, A LOT OF YOUNG MEN DON'T GO TO CHURCH, SO YOU CAN'T SAY, OH, THEY GOT, THEY CAN GO TO, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE, THEY MAY NOT GO TO CHURCH.
SO DO WE HAVE SOMETHING IN THE COMMUNITY FOR THEM, ESPECIALLY WITH OTHER MEN THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT THAT COULD LEAD THEM AND GUIDE THEM EXTRA PURSE,
SO I'M REALLY, YOU KNOW, ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT THAT.
AND THEN ALSO, LIKE YOU SAID, LIKE THE, THE ELDERLY, YOU KNOW? YES.
UM, THEY OFTEN GET, YOU KNOW, UM, OVERLOOKED.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT LIKE, INCLUDING EVERYBODY.
THERE'S DIFFERENT, UM, SO MANY DIFFERENT CLASSES AND SO MANY DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW, PLACES THAT YOU COULD PUT PEOPLE THAT WILL FIT IN MAYBE TWO OR THREE OF THEM.
BUT WE WANNA MAKE SURE, TO ME, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE NOT FORGOTTEN.
BECAUSE AS WE GET OLDER, GOT THE YOUNGER PEOPLE IN THE CITY COMING UP AS YOU WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE PRODUCTIVE CITIZENS.
SO, AND ESPECIALLY OUR YOUNG MEN, YOU KNOW, I'M LOOKING AT A LOT OF THINGS AND LIKE OUR YOUNG MEN, WE WANT THEM TO, TO, TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY, THAT THEY MATTER AND THAT THEY COULD BE PRODUCTIVE AND THEY COULD DO SOMETHING.
I THINK WE BROUGHT THAT UP BECAUSE SOMETHING THAT WE HAD TALKED QUITE A BIT ABOUT WAS THE APPROACH ABOUT SENIOR CITIZENS AND THEIR, THEIR INABILITY TO ACCESS RESOURCES THAT ARE READILY AVAILABLE.
AND HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT IF WE'RE TRULY BEING EQUITABLE AND INCLUSIVE OF EVERYBODY, WHAT'S OUR ROLE AND HOW WE ADVISE OUR CITY LEADERSHIP AND ENSURING THAT THAT HAPPENS, BUT ALSO COLLABORATIVELY WITH OTHER GROUPS THAT ARE ALREADY WORKING TOGETHER.
HOW DO WE ENSURE THAT THAT HAPPENS? AND THAT WAS WHAT OUR FORMER COMMISSIONER HAD REALLY TRIED TO PUSH.
AND THE IDEA AND ALL OF THAT IS A HUNDRED PERCENT ON POINT.
THERE'S, I THINK THAT JUST WHAT, WHERE WE DECIDED NOT TO MOVE FORWARD ON WASN'T LIKE THAT BIG DIRECTORY AT THAT POINT.
BECAUSE A LOT OF THAT INFORMATION'S ALREADY AVAILABLE.
UM, BUT IT'S THE SAME THING FOR YOUTH.
AND I STILL HAVE LIKE A BIG QUESTION MARK IN MY HEAD ABOUT WHAT'S HAP WE DECIDED TO NOT DO A YOUTH GROUP AND THERE WAS A REASON FOR IT.
AND I, IN MY MEMORY, I BELIEVE THAT IT WAS BECAUSE THERE WAS ALREADY SOME DISCUSSION.
MAYBE IT WAS WITH THE CITY, DAN, I'M NOT SURE OF SOMEBODY ALREADY WANTING TO PUT TOGETHER SOMETHING FOR THE YOUTH.
MAYBE YOU LET US KNOW ABOUT THAT.
WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THAT? UH, YES.
AND THEN WE JUST DECIDED TO JUST NOT DO IT.
WHAT HAPPENED WITH THAT? YEAH.
A STAFF MEMBER AT THE TIME WAS GOING TO LEAD THAT INITIATIVE, I BELIEVE, AND IT WAS A CITY, AND IT WASN'T OUR COMMISSION, WAS IT? IT WASN'T THE COMMISSION'S IDEA, BUT IT WAS RIGHT AT THE TIME THAT Y'ALL STARTED YOUR STRATEGIC PLANNING AND STARTED BREAKING OUT GROUPS MM-HMM
AND THAT COULD HAVE BEEN A LEVERAGE, BUT THAT PERSON IS NO LONGER HERE AND THEY'RE, THEY PIVOTED TO SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
UM, SO THAT'S DEFINITELY STILL
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A WORKING GROUP TO CONSIDER.I MEAN, IT WASN'T IN OUR ORIGINAL STRATEGIC PLAN TO ADD IT ON AS A WORKING GROUP.
AND IF WE DON'T DO THAT, IT CAN, I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW, YOU KNOW, HOW WE WOULD DO A LISTENING POST, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE A FORMAL WORKING GROUP THAT'S FOCUSED ON THAT SPECIFIC POPULATION.
WOULD THAT SOMETHING WE'D HAVE TO JUST LIKE, PROPOSE AND AMEND OUR STRATEGIC PLAN? UM, ALWAYS.
BUT A POTENTIAL, JUST A THOUGHT, UM, WOULD BE TO, UM, HAVE SOMEONE FROM THE FAMILY ENGAGEMENT TEAM WITH THE ISD COME AND, AND SIT AND REPRESENT MAYBE THE VOICES OF SOME OF THE YOUTH ON THAT ANGLE INSTEAD OF, UM, AND I THINK WHAT STAN HAD MENTIONED, I'M JUST TRYING TO RE YEAH, I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER TOO, WHAT THAT WAS.
UM, THAT YOU WANNA START WITH JUST A COUPLE OF GROUPS FIRST AND REALLY KIND OF GET THOSE GOING.
AND THEN GO, OH, I THOUGHT YOU WERE SAYING YEAH, I'M, WHEN YOU FINISH CONVERSATION.
SO, SO FAR SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE, THE WAY WE TRY TO TOUCH AS MANY AS WE CAN IS THROUGH THE PROCLAMATIONS, BECAUSE THEY'RE NATIONAL, FEDERAL, STATE, AND THEN ALSO THE FOUR GROUPS THAT WE TALK ABOUT, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE HAVE OUR MEETING WITH THE LIBRARY, THE YOUTH, SENIOR CITIZENS, UH, OUR VETERANS AND OUR SMALL BUSINESS.
BUT WE DIDN'T DO THE YOUTH ONE.
NO, I'M SAYING FOR, OH, YOU WANNA ADD WHAT THAT MIGHT LOOK LIKE, RIGHT.
FOR THE LIBRARY AND LIKE, LIKE SHARE THE WORK.
THOSE FOUR MAJOR, NO, WE CAN GET STEVEN FROM FAMILY.
AND SO STEVEN BALDERAS IS A GOOD FRIEND.
WE CAN ALWAYS ASK HIM, UM, HOW YOU COME AND KIND OF GET OFF THAT PERSPECTIVE.
SO WHEN WE SAY YOUTH, RIGHT, WE'RE NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT SCHOOL AGE KIDS.
ARE WE TALKING ABOUT THE ONES THAT ARE 18 TO 25? BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE KIND OF LIKE, TO ME, FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS.
AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE THEY DON'T, SOME, EVEN IF THEY'RE, YOU JUST HAVE SOME OF THEM THAT ARE JUST WORKING.
THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE, WHAT THEY WANNA DO WITH THEIR LIVES, YOU KNOW? AND SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE GOING TO THE MOST EASIEST JOBS AND NOBODY IS, YOU KNOW, TALKING TO 'EM, PUSHING THEM AND LIKE, YEAH, WE CAN, WE CAN CATCH THE SCHOOL AGED KIDS AND EVERYTHING.
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE ONES THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, FROM THAT GRADUATE, BUT NOT GOING TO COLLEGE? AND I DON'T THINK HU HAS A TRADE SCHOOL HERE.
SO TSTC, TSTC, OH, THERE IS MM-HMM
THAT'S A-P-S-T-C DOWN EAST WILSON COUNTY HIGHER EDUCATION CENTER.
AND THEN TEMPLE COLLEGE IS ALSO, WELL, THEY'RE THE, THE ACADEMIC SIDE OF IT.
I WAS IS THAT HERE IN HU? IS THAT YEAH, IT'S RIGHT HERE IN HU.
DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT IT'S THAT BIG BUILDING.
EVERYBODY THINKS IT'S LIKE A HOSPITAL.
BUT THAT IT'S A COLLEGE CAMPUS AND THEY'RE EXPANDING.
AND THEN TEMPLE COLLEGE IS BUILDING THE TIME CENTER IN TAYLOR THAT'S ALSO GOING TO EXPAND, LIKE MANUFACTURING TECHNICAL TRAINING.
AND TEXAS STATE, YOU KNOW, TEXAS STATE, UH, COLLEGE IN BROWN ROCK IS ALSO EXPANDING THEIR TRADES AND, AND TECHNICAL TRAINING.
AND A CC IS EXPANDING THEIR MANUFACTURING, UM, FACILITY IN BROWN ROCK.
AND THE REASON I KNOW IS 'CAUSE I'VE COME FROM HIGHER ED, I USED TO WORK WITH THEM, IS ABOUT TO BUILD, UH, CAMPUS IN TAYLOR.
I'D SAY ABOUT, TO GET MY HOPES UP.
IT'S GONNA, THEY ARE 25 YEAR BEFORE THAT HAPPENS.
SO WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE ONE HERE? WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE ONE HERE? SO TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE.
THAT'S THE BIGGEST TECHNICAL TRAINING SCHOOL IN THE STATE.
RIGHT HERE IN HOWARD HUDDLE CAMPUS.
AND THEY'RE ABOUT TO EXPAND IN 2027.
THE NEW, UH, FACILITY THAT'S BREAKING GROUND IS GOING TO BE OPEN.
THAT'S GONNA EXPAND SPECIFICALLY IN MACHINE TRADES, UM, MAINTENANCE TECHNICIANS AND, UH, SEMICONDUCTOR TRAINING.
THEY'RE ALSO GONNA BUILD A CLEAN SPACE, A CLEAN ROOM TO TRAIN PEOPLE DIRECTLY TO GO TO WORK FOR A SEMICONDUCTOR LIKE SAMSUNG.
TEXAS TRADE SCHOOLS FOREST MISSION HAS A LOT OF MONEY FOR KIDS.
THERE'S A LOT OF MAJOR FOUR COUNTIES THEY WANT TO TRADE.
WELL, WHAT I COULD, WHAT, UM, SO I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I AM WONDERING IF, I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS WOULD LIKE, UH, KICK OFF, BUT I MEAN, YOU, YOU KNOW, LIKE, I MEAN, YES, WE KNOW THAT FAST FOOD PLACES NEED PEOPLE TO WORK, YOU KNOW, BUT YOU HAVE YOUNG KIDS, AGAIN, THEY, THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY WANNA DO.
AND SO HOW DO WE GET THEM INTERESTED? YOU KNOW, BECAUSE, UM, YOU LOOK AT LIKE, THE, THE TRADE IS ALMOST LIKE A DYING THING.
UM, AND SO HOW DO WE GET, YOU KNOW, KIDS TO BE MORE, UH, INTERESTED IN STUFF LIKE THAT OR YOUNG, YOUNGER PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, AFTER THEY GET OUT OF CO UH, HIGH SCHOOL.
WHAT I WOULD, I WOULD, I WOULD SAY THIS IS SEPARATE FROM THE COMMISSION, BUT WHAT I WOULD, UM, ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO IS TO LOOK AT WHAT THE, UH, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS DOING.
SO WE RECENTLY LAUNCHED A WORKFORCE AND TRAINING COMMITTEE, WORKFORCE AND TRAINING DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE WITH THIS, WITH THE CHAMBER.
AND, UM, OUT OF THAT WE HAVE ACTION ITEMS. ONE OF 'EM IS GOING TO BE FOCUSED ON EIGHTH GRADERS GOING INTO HIGH SCHOOL.
SO WE CAN MAKE THEM AWARE OF CTE PROGRAMS WHO ARE IN TECHNICAL PROGRAMS. THERE'S
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17 THATAND THEN IN THE SPRING IT'S GOING TO BE A HIRING EVENT, MORE LIKE A JOB FAIR.
'CAUSE I DON'T REMEMBER THE LAST TIME WE HAD A JOB FAIR, BUT WE PARTICIPATE AS SCHOOLS AND CITIES AND LOTS OF DIFFERENT OTHER DROPPERS, BUT WE'RE GONNA HAVE ONE HERE, UM, IN HURO, PROBABLY AT TSCC, UM, MAYBE AT KALAHARI.
WE'RE NOT SURE YET, BUT, UM, I KNOW, BUT IT'S, THEY HAVE NICE SPACE.
OR, UH, BUT THE, BUT THE, THE EIGHTH GRADE CAREER QUEST IS GOING TO BE AT TYPHOON, TEXAS, WHICH AGAIN, IS NOT IN HUDDLE, BUT THAT'S JUST, IT'S A CHALLENGE WE HAVE.
WE DON'T HAVE BIG MINI SPACES BESIDES THE COLLEGE.
THERE'S CONSTRUCTION GOING ON.
SO THERE'S SOME LIMITATIONS TO HAVE A SPACE.
UM, YES, COMMISSIONER, I WAS GONNA SAY YOU GOT NEW IMAX, UM, BOWL ANALOGY JUST OPENED UP.
LIKE WHAT'S THAT SPACE LOOK LIKE? I HAVEN'T BEEN IN THERE YET.
SO I WAS EXPECTING LIKE FLICK BREWHOUSE TO HAVE LIKE THE LEVELS, BUT THE CHAIRS ARE SO I NEED TO GET ME A COUPLE OF THOSE CHAIRS.
IT'S LIKE THE ONES IN THE BACK AGAINST THE WALL.
THEY LIFT YOU UP AND LAY YOU BACK.
AND THE WAY THAT YOU ORDER FOOD, IT IS LIKE YOU, YOU KNOW, CLICK ON THE BARCODE AND EVERYTHING AND THEN YOU ORDER A PAY AND STUFF JUST COMES OUT AND YOU CAN, IT, IT WAS, IT WAS COOL.
THE, THE GAMES, THE BOWLING, YOU KNOW, THE BOWLING ALLEY IS PRETTY COOL AND EVERYTHING.
SO, UM, HOPEFULLY THEY'LL HAVE LIKE ONE OF THOSE MIDNIGHT BOWLINGS WITH THE, WITH THE LIGHTS AND STUFF LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHERE I COME FROM.
THEY HAVE THINGS LIKE THAT SO YOU CAN LIKE BOW WITH, YOU KNOW, DIM LIGHTS AND YOU KNOW, STUFF LIKE THAT.
SO MAYBE THAT WOULD BE AWESOME TO TRY AS WELL.
SO BECAUSE, AND THEN, AND IT MAY CHANGE, BUT I WAS, UH, STUDIED TO BE THE LIAISON TO WORK WITH CHAIN GAMBOA, WHICH IS OUR DIRECTOR OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ON HOW DO WE, FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE OF ACTUAL OPPORTUNITY THAT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, WORK OPPORTUNITY CHAIN OPPORTUNITIES, YOU KNOW, SO THAT, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT'S GONNA ATTRACT BUSINESS INVESTMENT HERE, RIGHT? BUT THAT WE HAVE PEOPLE READY TO GO TO WORK, THAT'RE GONNA STAY, THEY'RE GONNA RAISE THEIR KIDS HERE, ALL OF THAT, ALL OF THAT GETS DONE.
SO WHAT WE CAN DO IS WE CAN ADD TO THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM IS WE CAN GIVE SOME THOUGHT, AND ESPECIALLY YOU COMMISSIONER BULLON, 'CAUSE YOU BROUGHT IT IN TO YOU BROUGHT IT UP TO TODAY, HOW IF WE WERE TO THEN ADD ON A D ANOTHER WORKING GROUP SPECIFICALLY TO WORK WITH, UM, YOUNG PEOPLE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18 AND 25 AND THERE'S, YEAH.
AND THAT'S A REALLY, AND LOOKING AT THE HIGHER ED AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVE, THAT'S A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT THEY SOMETIMES FALL INTO WHAT WE CALL THE LOST PEOPLE.
WHEN THEY DON'T GO DIRECTLY TO HI TO COLLEGE, TRADE SCHOOL, MILITARY, OR TO, OR ENTER THE WORKFORCE, WE LOSE THEM.
RIGHT? AND THEY, THERE ARE, OUR NUMBERS ARE PRETTY ALARMING.
AUSTIN FOR A LONG TIME WHEN I WAS WORKING WITH A CC BEFORE IN PREVIOUS YEARS.
BUT THE POINT IS THAT THAT IS A VERY, VERY, UM, INTERESTING, YOU KNOW, AGE FOR PEOPLE.
SO IF WE WANNA PUT SOME THOUGHT ABOUT IF WE WERE TO LAUNCH A WORKING GROUP, UM, 'CAUSE I DON'T THINK IT'S ELICITING POST WORKING RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT GATHERING ANYBODY.
WE COULDN'T GO IN AND MEET A GROUP OF THAT SPECIFIC AGE AND JUST LISTEN TO WHAT THEIR CONCERNS ARE, RIGHT? SO IF WE WERE TO PUT TOGETHER A FOURTH CITIZENS WORKING GROUP BECAUSE WE HAD ORIGINALLY THOUGHT ABOUT DOING THAT, WHAT WOULD THAT LOOK LIKE? WHAT WOULD, DO WE WANT TO COME GET OUT OF IT? HOW WOULD THAT BE STRUCTURED? AND HOW WOULD WE, AND THEN WE'D HAVE TO APPOINT SOMEBODY TO BE A LIAISON AND GET THAT UP, UP AND GOING.
WE CAN STRUCTURE IT OVER THE SAME MODEL THAT WE DID FOR THE OTHER CITIZEN WORKING CREWS.
WE JUST WANNA HAVE IT IN TIME TO WHERE WE DO FORMALLY LAUNCH THAT WE ARE ALLOWING THAT PERSON TO COME TO THE TRAINING AS WELL.
THAT'S GONNA BE PROVIDED BY A PROFESSIONAL CONSULTANT.
SO BRING THAT, TO BRING THAT TO KIND OF SOME THOUGHT AROUND WHAT THAT COULD LOOK LIKE MM-HMM
WHAT ARE THE GOALS YOU WANNA ACHIEVE FROM THAT? WHAT COULD WE BE DOING SO THAT WE CAN ASSESS IT AND SAY, OKAY, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN AND THAT SHOULD EXIST WITH THIS COMMISSION? OR IS THAT SOMETHING THAT MAYBE WE WANNA FLOAT THE IDEA ONTO ANOTHER BOARD, COMMISSION, CITY EFFORT, COMMISSIONER BELL, ALMOST SOMETHING LIKE THAT IS LIKE WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THAT AGE GROUP OF 18 TO 25, I KNOW BY 25, BECAUSE THAT 26, THEY GOTTA COME OFF YOUR INSURANCE.
SO, UH, YOU SAYING THAT'S JUST TRUE HR FACTS.
SO MY WHOLE THING, YOU KNOW WHAT THE CITY OF AUSTIN HAS DONE WITH THINGS LIKE THAT IS, YOU KNOW, YOU PARTNER WITH YOUR LOCAL, LIKE YOU GOT, UH, COVID FORWARD UP HERE.
UH, YOU GET WITH YOUR OTHER LOCAL, UH, BUSINESSES, SMALL BUSINESSES THAT ARE TRADING BUSINESSES.
AND I'M JUST, I'M JUST THINKING WITH THE CITY OF HU, HR, WHOEVER, IF THEY HAVE SOME KIND OF, UH, PROGRAM LIKE THAT.
'CAUSE I MEAN, COMING FROM THE CITY OF AUSTIN, OF COURSE CITY OF AUSTIN HAS PROGRAMS LIKE THAT.
BUT YOU KNOW, THAT'S KIND OF THE MINDSET THAT I COME FROM OF, UH, WILLIAMS COUNTY.
WILLIAMS COUNTY HAS A PROGRAM LIKE THAT AS WELL.
BUT HUDDLES BEING PART OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY WHERE YOU HAVE THAT, UH, SPECIFIC AGE GROUP AND I WANNA SAY THEY PARTNER WITH A CC AS FAR AS THE TRADES, YES,
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THERE IS A LOT OF, UM, TRUCK DRIVING ION.YEAH, THERE'S A LOT OF EMPLOYEE PARTNERSHIPS.
LIKE
UM, THERE ARE A LOT OF APPRENTICESHIPS AND LIKE, UM, WHAT'S CALLED WORK-BASED LEARNING PROGRAMS HAPPENING WITH DIFFERENT TEACHING INSTITUTIONS AND DIFFERENT EMPLOYER PARTNERS.
WE DO HAVE A LACK OF THAT HERE IN HUDDLE FOR ANY NUMBER OF REASONS.
BUT AS MORE COM MORE COMPANIES COME IN TO SETTLE HERE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE CAN PAY ATTENTION TO AS A DIB COMMISSION IS WITH THOSE BIG OPPORTUNITIES COMING WITH THIS GOOD PAYING JOBS, WHO'S GETTING ACCESS TO THOSE JOBS? LIKE, FIRST OF ALL, ARE THEY CITIZENS OF HOW, BECAUSE THEY'RE TAKING OUR RESOURCES, RIGHT? AND ALL OF THOSE KIND OF DOING
CITY COUNCIL COMING IN, CHEERING AND BEING
BECAUSE WITH YOUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, WHEN THEY'RE MAKING THOSE DEALS WITH THOSE COMPANIES THAT ARE MOVING INTO THE AREA, THEY HAVE THAT INITIATIVE AND THEY WRITING IN THE CONTRACT, IF YOU'RE GOING TO MOVE HERE, YOU'RE GONNA SUPPLY THIS MANY PERCENTAGE OF JOBS AND YOU'RE GONNA PAY THIS AMOUNT AT THE OR.
BUT THAT'S KIND OF YOUR INNER WORKINGS OF YOUR CITY'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OR WHO'S EVER BRINGING IN THE COMPANIES FOR THE CITY OF HU MM-HMM
YOU WORK THOSE DEALS OUT BEFORE THE, THE COMPANY ACTUALLY BREAKS GROUND.
SO YOU HAVE THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE THAT CLAUSE IN THERE MOVING HERE, YOU'RE GONNA GET THIS TAX BREAK, BUT WE NEED YOU TO HIRE THIS MANY CITIZENS THAT ARE RESIDENTS HERE AND YOU NEED TO PAY 'EM THIS AMOUNT THAT, AND SO THIS, IT CREATES THAT ECONOMIC TURN.
FOR THE CITY WHEN COMPANIES MOVE IN.
I'M JUST SAYING THAT I DON'T KNOW IF SENATOR NO, I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT.
UH, I THINK THAT, UM, ONE OF THE PLACES THAT WE COULD BRING IN BESIDES, BESIDES ME IS WOULD BE, UH, LIKE BILLY FROM OUR CHAMBER BECAUSE SHE CAN TALK ABOUT THE WORKFORCE AND TALENT DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE.
NOW I PROPOSE IT TO THEM AND THEY ADOPTED IT, BUT I'M NOT IN CHARGE OF IT FOR THE, FOR THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
UM, BUT WHAT THE PURPOSE OF THAT IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE A HUB TO HOUSE ALL RESOURCES FOR EMPLOYERS AND TALENT IN THE CITY OF HURO.
SO THE POINT OF IT BEING THAT MORE CITIZENS OF HURO ARE GETTING, YOU KNOW, OPPORTUNITY FOR THESE GOOD PAYING JOBS.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DEFINITELY, UM, PUT SOME THOUGHT IN AS WE BUILD OUT, YOU KNOW, ARE, ARE HOW ARE WE REACHING PEOPLE AND IF WE'RE REACHING, WHAT ARE WE REACHING WITH? ARE THEY GETTING GOOD JOBS? ARE THEY GETTING EDUCATION? ARE THEY GETTING TRAINING? ARE THEY GETTING THEIR VOICES HEARD? DO THEY HAVE, DO THEY FEEL LIKE THEY CAN THROW UH, A CELEBRATION FOR ANY, YOU KNOW, THINGS AND FEEL WELCOME AND INCLUDED? SO YES, THOSE ARE ALL REALLY IMPORTANT.
BUT THAT'S A GOOD POINT TO, UM, I'M GONNA ACTUALLY MEET WITH BILLY TOMORROW.
I'M GONNA ASK HER IF SHE'D BE WILLING TO KIND OF COME IN AND TALK TO US ABOUT THAT.
BUT THEIR PERSPECTIVE IS FROM THE CHAMBER.
AND THEN I'LL BRING IN, ONCE I SENT MY MEETING WITH CHENEY FROM THE A DC, THAT'LL, THAT'S ALREADY BEEN TASKED TO ME, I'LL BRING IN HER PERSPECTIVE AND HOW THEY DO THAT WORK.
ONCE COME IN LIKE CAN DO SOMETHING PLANNING CO-OP, LIKE HAVE A BIG WATER BALLOON FIGHTER THE NEXT ONE.
ESPECIALLY ON THE ONE THAT WOULD BE AWESOME.
LIKE IF THERE'S, I DON'T KNOW WHERE, UH, BRUSHY CREEK OR ADAM MORGAN PARK, THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING FUN AND HAVE FOOD TRUCKS OUT THERE AND LIKE THE BIGGEST BECAUSE OF YOU THE BIGGEST SUPER SOAKER, YOU KNOW, UH, WATER BALLOON FIGHT THE CITY HAS EVER SEEN.
YOU KNOW, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE MORE, MORE STUFF AT ADAM MORGAN PARK 'CAUSE WE'RE RIGHT THERE, RIGHT? YEAH.
IT'S A BIG SPACE IS USUALLY EMPTY.
WE, WHEN I FIRST MOVED HERE, THERE WAS CONCERT.
I REMEMBER THE FIRST CONCERT THAT WAS SNOOP DOGG AND OH MY.
AND BECAUSE THE SUBDIVISION WAS, IT DIDN'T HAVE ANY BUFFERS, SO I THOUGHT IT WAS MY NEIGHBOR PLAYING, YOU KNOW, HAVING A PARTY.
I COME OUT AND IT WAS NELLY AND I'M LIKE, OH MY GOSH, I GET TO HEAR A WHOLE CONCERT IN MY BACKYARD.
AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN PEOPLE WERE COMPLAINING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, CUSS SPORTS AND I WAS SAYING, I'M SORRY, YOUR KIDS PROBABLY HEARD WORSE.
I THINK I USED TO LIVE IN RIVER WALK AND THEN WE HEARD, WE SAT OUTSIDE IN OUR BACKYARD.
WE COULD HEAR THE MUSIC FROM ADAM MORGAN PARK FROM CREEK TALKS OF PEOPLE IN THE RIVER.
AND WE, WE JUST SAT OUT THERE AND ENJOYED.
THERE WERE MORE PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY LIKED IT.
BUT SOMETIMES WHEN YOU HAVE NEGATIVE, YOU HEAR THE NEGATIVE LOUDER THAN POSITIVE.
BUT I WAS LIKE, I GOT A PRECURSOR
UM, I THOUGHT WE WERE GONNA HAVE CONCERT.
DO YOU HAVE AN EXPLANATION WHY WE DON'T HAVE MORE CONCERTS?
NO, IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT REALLY PARKS AND REC.
THAT WOULD PROBABLY TAKE ALL NIGHT TO GO INTO THE HISTORY THERE.
THERE'VE BEEN A LOT OF ISSUES HERE.
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SO ANY OTHER? YES, THANK YOU.THIS ONE WE LEFT KRIS BACK IN.
ANY OTHER ITEMS THAT WE WANNA ADD TO THE NEXT WEEK'S AGENDA? SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE, UM, THE LIBRARY.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE A LIBRARY COMING UP IN THE, IN ON THE 16TH.
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE, WE ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY TO PLEASE ATTEND THE CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS ON THURSDAY NIGHTS, THEN THAT WE ATTEND THIS RIGHT NOW, THE ONGOING CITY BUDGET MEETINGS.
IF YOU DON'T HAVE 'EM, GO AHEAD AND LOOK AT THE CITY WEBSITE, CITY WEBSITE AND PUT IT ON YOUR AGENDA.
IT'S ALSO ON THEIR FACEBOOK PAGE.
HOW LONG DO YOU HAVE TO ATTEND THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING? BECAUSE I'VE BEEN TOLD THAT THEY SOMETIMES GO TO TWO OR FOUR IN THE MORNING.
I GET UP AT FOUR IN THE MORNING.
A LOT OF TIMES WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING, UM, WHEN WE GO AND HAVE A PROCLAMATIONS IS I'LL GO JUST FOR THAT PORTION.
AND THEN A LOT OF TIMES THEN I, I'M, I MOVE ON BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S A LOT AND IT'S, YOU KNOW, LITTLE ONES DON'T GO TO BED IF I'M NOT THERE.
SO YES, YOU COME AND GO, YOU KNOW, UNFORTUNATELY FOR OUR STAFF, THEY'RE THERE.
PAYROLL, BRING THE MIDNIGHT OIL.
THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE THERE TO DO.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER ITEMS? WE DID TALK ABOUT ADDING, UM, REASSESSING AND WORKING ON OUR, UH, CITIZENS WORKING GROUPS, OUR LISTENING POSTS AND THE STRUCTURE.
UH, COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON SUGGESTED WE REVISIT THE IDEA OF THE YOUNG, THE YOUTH VOICE, RIGHT? YES.
UM, FOCUSING ON THE AGES 18 TO 25.
UM, OH, YOU'RE ABOUT THE ELDERLY.
AND THEN THE ELDERLY SENIOR CITIZENS.
WE HAVE WORK FOR WORK SENIORS.
SO WE JUST NEED, WE JUST NEED TO REASSESS, MAKING SURE THAT DOESN'T, BECAUSE OUR COMMISSION IS CHANGING.
UM, AND WE'VE LOST SOME PEOPLE.
WE WE'RE NOT THAT THAT WORK DOESN'T FALL BY THE WAYSIDE.
WE'RE STILL GONNA CONTINUE THAT WORK.