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[Diversity and Inclusion Meeting on October 23, 2025]
MEETING TO ORDER.UM, SO CALLING CALLING, UM, TODAY'S SESSION TO ORDER.
LET'S GO AHEAD AND GET GOING WITH ROLL CALL.
MR. VE HERE, COMMISSIONER AT HERE.
AND THEN GENERAL COMMENTS FROM CITY STAFF.
UM, GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS.
CHRISTIE BARNES, UNION VULTURE OFFICER.
JUST WANTED TO BRING TO YOUR AWARENESS AND IT IS IN THE PACKET THAT I PROVIDED.
UM, JUST A QUICK UPDATE ON HOW PROCLAMATIONS, UM, WILL BE READ OR CONDUCT MOVING FORWARD.
SO I THINK AT THE LAST MEETING, OR PERHAPS IT WAS THE MEETING BEFORE, UM, I LET Y'ALL KNOW THAT, UM, FOR EVERY PROCLAMATION, UM, IT KIND OF GOES THROUGH A DIFFERENT PROCESS.
SO WE SUBMIT THOSE PROCLAMATIONS TO THE MAYOR AND HE THEN APPROVES OR, OR DOESN'T APPROVE, AND THEN IT GOES FORWARD, UM, FROM THERE.
UM, SO THE EMAIL THAT WAS RECEIVED, AND HE DID MAKE IT KNOWN THAT IF HE, IF ANYONE HAS ANY QUESTIONS, YOU CAN REACH OUT TO HIM DIRECTLY AS WELL.
I JUST WANTED TO COMMUNICATE, UM, THE EMAIL THAT, UM, GOING FORWARD, SO THIS IS SPECIFIC TO DIWALI, UM, AND ANY OTHER RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY.
UM, QUOTING, UM, I'M GOING TO READ THIS ONE, BUT GOING FORWARD, IF IT'S A RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY, I CAN FIND THEM, BUT I DON'T WANT TO READ RELIGIOUS PROCLAMATIONS GOING FORWARD.
MY FEAR IS THAT WE'LL HAVE MULTIPLE GROUPS WANTING THEIR HOLIDAYS TO HAVE PROCLAMATIONS, AND I'D LIKE TO USE THE CITY COUNCIL TIME TO CELEBRATE BIGGER COMMUNICATIONS.
HAPPY TO DISCUSS MORE IF ANYONE WOULD LIKE ANYBODY HAVE ANY, UH, QUESTIONS OR THOUGHTS OR COMMENTS ON THAT.
UM, UH, ON THE MAYOR'S, UM, COMMUNICATION YOU HAVE ANYTHING FROM CITY COUNCIL THAT IT'S COMING UP NEXT? MM-HMM
ON THAT COMMUNICATION? NO, I THINK THAT WAS PRETTY MUCH STRAIGHTFORWARD.
I, I CAN'T SPEAK DIRECTLY FOR THE MAYOR, BUT I THINK I, I DID SHARE WITH COUNCIL, NOT IN THE MEETING PUBLIC, BUT, BUT ONE OF THE MEETINGS WHERE YOU HAD THE LIBRARY AND, UM, WE MET TOGETHER.
I THOUGHT THAT WAS A VERY PRODUCTIVE OF HOW A LOT OF THINGS THE LIBRARY IS DOING AND MAYBE TRYING TO, BECAUSE I THINK SOMEONE BROUGHT IN HERE WE COULD HAVE SEVEN OR EIGHT PROCLAMATIONS MEETING, NOT THAT ANY ARE NOT ELSE DESERVE BY ANY MEANS, BUT HOW DO YOU HANDLE THAT LOAD AND WHATEVER.
AND NOTHING FINALIZED, BUT JUST SHARED WITH COUNCIL THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT LIBRARY IS WORKING IN CONJUNCTION WITH DEIB TO KIND OF MAKE THAT A MORE EFFICIENT PROCESS OF TIME AND RESOURCES AND THINGS.
AND IT, AND SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, PROCLAMATION READ IS DIFFERENT THAN MAYBE HAVING, UH, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE, UM, A KIOSK OR, OR SOME TYPE OF PRESENTATION IN THE LIBRARY THAT COULD GO OVER SEVERAL DAYS OR, OR MORE THAN JUST A, YOU KNOW, 10 MINUTE READING AND, AND, UH, RECOGNIZING.
AND THAT WAS ALL, THAT WAS ALL WELL RECEIVED AND STILL ONGOING IS, IS YOU, SO THE NEXT THING ANYWAY, ITEM FIVE WAS GENERAL COMMENTS FROM CITY COUNCIL REP.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANNA ADD ANYTHING ELSE TO THAT
MY, MY, UH, WORDS, MY PARAPHRASING IS THAT NOW KIND Y'ALL ARE SWITCHING TO AN ACTION MODE.
I THOUGHT YOU WEREN'T BEFORE, BUT A GREAT FRAMEWORK, UH, FRAMEWORK, UH, PROVIDED BY JACQUELINE AT ET AL AND EVERYBODY CONTRIBUTING OF THE POLICY, THE STRUCTURE, THE VISION AND THINGS.
AND SO NOW WE GOT THE, WE GOT THE RUNNING ORDERS, WE GOT THE, GOT THE COMMAND STRUCTURE, YOU KNOW, SO I, I LIKE THAT Y'ALL ARE, YOU KNOW, FOCUSING ON THE THREE GROUPS, THE VETERANS, THE, UH, SENIOR
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ADULTS, AND I THINK IT WAS TEENS OR YOUNG ADULTS.WE HAVEN'T OFFICIALLY, UM, LAUNCHED THAT ONE, BUT THAT IS AN ITEM THAT COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON WAS INTERESTED MAYBE SPONSORING.
SO WE'LL SEE IF
AGAIN, THAT WAS ALL WELL RECEIVED AND I THINK IT'S JUST A GREAT TRANSITION AS Y'ALL ARE GOING FORWARD.
SO I LOVED ALL I I I LOVED COMING AL'S MEETING 'CAUSE IT'S SO WELL ORGANIZED.
AND, UH, AND YOU SEEM TO MEET SO MANY NEEDS AND NOT GET FOCUSED ON ONE LITTLE THING, WHATEVER IT IS.
WHETHER IT'S ADMINISTRATIVE, WHETHER IT'S, YOU KNOW, A PROCLAMATION OR WHETHER IT'S DELEGATION OR DUTIES AND HOW YOU, HOW THIS IS GONNA BE CARRIED OUT.
I THINK IT'S JUST A WELL RUN ORGANIZATION AND I THINK OTHER COURTS AND COMMISSION COULD TAKE NOTE OF THAT.
BUT NOT CALLING ANYONE OUT ON THAT.
NO, I KNOW, BUT WE, WE APPRECIATE IT.
'CAUSE IT IS, IT, IT IS, UM, IT'S, IT'S TOUGH WORK.
AND WE HAVE, WE HAVE, WE DO TACKLE A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS.
SO WE APPRECIATE THE SUPPORT AND APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE.
ARE YOU GONNA CONTINUE TO COME TO A MEETING? YEAH, I'D LIKE TO.
I MEAN, I DON'T WANT TO FEEL LIKE, UH, I MEAN, AS, AS I SAID, SOME PEOPLE SAY I CAN'T BUT ME, I HAVE A RIGHT TO WEAR WHATEVER HAT I REPRESENT.
I, I GET TO WEAR A CITIZEN HAT.
I GET TO WEAR A, YOU KNOW, AN OLD WHITE MAN HAT.
YOU KNOW, I GET TO WEAR A P AND Z HAT ETHICS REVIEW COMMISSION 'CAUSE I WAS ON THOSE THINGS.
UH, YOU KNOW, UH, AN HOA OR NEIGHBORHOOD DIRECTOR, I'M ON THE KEY PEDAL, BEAUTIFUL BOARD.
I'M ON SOME OTHER NONPROFIT, YOU KNOW, OUR, OUR CHURCH OR, UH, THE RESOURCE, YOU KNOW, THE HRC AND THE FOOD PANTRY, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO WORK WITH THAT.
I'VE ALSO LIKE TO GET NONPROFITS.
I DON'T KNOW IF Y'ALL HEARD ABOUT, UH, AUSTIN.
IT'S IN MARCH WHERE AUSTIN, UH, PROMOTES EVERYONE GIVING TO NONPROFITS AT THE SAME TIME.
I FORGET WHAT THAT'S, THAT'S CALLED.
BUT I WAS ACTUALLY TALKING, SENDING SOME INFORMATION FROM NO DISCUSSION.
BUT I THINK IT'S SOMETHING HU CAN DO, WHATEVER THE TIMING IS.
AND, AND WE HAVE SUCH A GREAT RESOURCES AND VALUABLE TALENT STAFF, YOU KNOW, ON PAYROLL.
BUT STAFF SERVING HARD, YOU GUYS DO SO MUCH OUTSIDE OF THE HOURS, WHETHER YOU'RE BEING PAID OR NOT.
IT JUST SHOWS THE SERVANT HEART THAT WE ALL HAVE IN THIS COMMUNITY.
AND TO LEVERAGE THAT AND WORK TOGETHER FOR COMMON GOALS.
YOU KNOW, WHETHER, YOU KNOW, LAST WE HAD THE PROCLAMATION ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER IT IS, WE ALL WORKING TOGETHER.
AND IF WE CAN KIND OF COLLECT SOME MONEY AND DONATIONS AND HAVE THAT ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT THE CITY DOES WITH THE, YOU KNOW, THE HOTEL TAX AND THEN THE MM-HMM
UM, BUT, YOU KNOW, I'LL TALK, CHRIS, YOU CAN HIT PAUSE, RING THE BELL.
BUT, UM, I JUST THINK THAT, UM, THAT I LOST MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT.
WELL, AS LONG AS IT'S OKAY, WE ARE ALWAYS WELCOME.
I DON'T WANNA, AGAIN, I DON'T, I DON'T, I WAS GONNA SAY, I, I'M NOT HERE REALLY REPRESENTING THE CITY COUNCIL.
I'M REALLY REPRESENTING ME AS A CITIZEN.
I, I, I REALLY WANT THAT FOREMOST.
IF Y'ALL WANT TO CALL ON ME AS A, A, A, A CITY COUNCIL OR REPRESENTATIVE OF THIS OR THAT AS CITY, Y'ALL, I WANT Y'ALL TO CALL ON ME FOR THAT.
OH, AS A CITY COUNCIL, THIS IS WHAT I THINK.
OR I DON'T WANT TO DO THAT AT ALL.
IF I'M EX EXPRESSING AN OPINION OR, OR COMMENT, IT'S ME AS A CITIZEN.
BUT I DO NOT WANT TO COME HERE REALLY AS A REPRESENTATIVE.
I HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, WATCH MY PS AND QS, BUT I'M NOT HERE AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF CITY COUNCIL BY ANY MEANS.
AND Y'ALL CAN GO ON EXECUTIVE SESSION AT ANY TIME AND GET MY LITTLE OUT OF HERE
UM, DO YOU HAVE ANY, ANYBODY HAVE ANYTHING ELSE FOR JIM MORRIS? OKAY.
ITEM SIX, GENERAL COMMENTS FROM COMMISSION MEMBERS.
UH, 6.1 IS UPDATE ON THE PRESENTATION TO CITY COUNCIL, WHICH WAS OCTOBER 2ND DONE BY ME.
SO MY UPDATE, I DON'T HAVE, UM, IT WENT WELL.
SO IT WAS REALLY JUST, IF Y'ALL LOOK AT YOUR SHORT TERM DIB PLAN ACTION ITEM, WHICH IS THE BLUE ONE HERE.
ALL I DID IS I WENT DOWN THE LIST AND SUMMARIZED FOR CITY COUNCIL, OF COURSE FOR THE PUBLIC.
UM, THAT REALLY IT WAS JUST UPDATES OF CHANGES OF DATES THAT HAVE BEEN PUSHED AROUND OR PUSHED OUT DUE TO A COUPLE OF FACTORS.
ONE, UM, WE LOST A COUPLE OF COMMISSIONERS PRETTY CLOSE TOGETHER, INCLUDING OUR CHAIR, JACQUELINE.
SO WE HAD TO TAKE A PAUSE AND SEE HOW WE WERE GONNA REALLOCATE SOME OF THOSE RESPONSIBILITIES AROUND, OR NEAR THE SAME TIME, THE CITY LOST THEIR COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER.
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AND SO THAT WAS A BIG PART OF OUR IMPLEMENTATION, WHICH WAS COMMUNICATION.UM, IT'S PART OF LIKE HOW WE STAY TRANSPARENT AND ACCOUNTABLE TO OUR NEIGHBORS.
AND SO, UM, IT WAS VERY WELL RECEIVED.
UM, WE GOT, UM, A GOOD JOB FROM COUNCIL.
SO, UM, I'M REALLY, REALLY PROUD OF US 'CAUSE THEY DID GET A LITTLE BIT, I WAS A LITTLE BIT CONCERNED WITH ALL THE CHANGES HAPPENING.
AND EVEN THOUGH WE'RE NOT GONNA MAKE ALL THE DATES THAT THINGS GOT PUSHED BACK, AND THERE MAY BE A FEW LITTLE DELAYS, I'M GLAD THAT WE'RE NOT DERAILED FROM MOVING FORWARD WITH OUR IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.
UM, SO IF YOU LOOK ON THE SHORT TERM DIV ACTION ITEMS, THE THINGS THAT ARE IN BOLD AGAINST SOME OF THE UPDATES THAT WE WENT THROUGH AND REFORMULATE WITH OUR, UM, OUR, UM, COUNT, NOT COUNSEL, WHAT'S, WHAT'S HIS NAME? CONSULTANT.
THAT'S WHAT I DO FOR A LIVING.
I COULDN'T THINK OF THE WORD WITH OUR CONSULTANT STAND.
UM, AND SO SEND OUT, SO WE HAD, UM, HE, WE DO HAVE THE WRITEUP FROM HIM, WHICH IS A VOLUNTEER ROLE, BUT IT'S IN YOUR PACKET AS WELL.
SO THIS IS WHAT THE WORKING GROUPS, THIS IS FOR THE, ESPECIALLY FOR THE NEW MEMBERS WHO WE'LL MEET IN A MINUTE.
THIS IS OUR TOP PRIORITY ITEM RIGHT NOW.
BECAUSE BY FORMING THESE GROUPS AND ANNOUNCING THE FORMATION OF THESE GROUPS, IT'S GONNA BE REALLY IMPORTANT OF HOW WE'RE GOING TO GIVE A VERY FOCUSED APPROACH TO LISTENING TO GREATER MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY.
AND HAVING THEM IN ORGANIZED GROUPS ALLOWS, UM, US TO GET A MORE, UH, CLEAR FOCUS AND INTENTIONAL.
IT'S, UH, IN YOUR PACKET, THAT'S VOLUNTEER ROLE.
UM, THIS WAS DRAFTED UP AS A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN US AND OUR CONSULTANT STAFF.
EVERYBODY MIGHT BE THE LAST ONE.
SO YOU CAN LOOK AT IT, FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF WITH IT.
SO THE ONLY REAL DELAY IS THAT THE WAY THAT WE PLAN TO INITIATE THERE, TO LAUNCH IT, TO IMPLEMENT IT, IS WE WANNA BE AS FAIR HANDED AS POSSIBLE.
AND WE WANNA BE ABLE TO DO IT IN TANDEM THE IN-PERSON EFFORTS IN TANDEM AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE WITH THE CITY SUPPORTED COMMUNICATIONS THAT THESE GROUPS ARE FORMING.
WE'VE BEEN KIND OF TEASING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT.
BUT OFFICIALLY NOW THE PEOPLE THAT ARE INTERESTED CAN RAISE THEIR HAND, INQUIRE OR SIGN UP TO BE PART OF THE ORIENTATION.
THAT'S WHERE THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF DELAY.
I WILL BE MEETING WITH ABBY FENTON.
UM, NEXT WEEK WE HAVE A PLAN TO MEET.
AND EVEN THOUGH WE WON'T REALLY IMPLEMENT THE BIG COMMUNICATION PIECE OF IT UNTIL THE SPRING, UM, SHE AND I ARE GONNA LAY OUT A PLAN.
SHE CAN HAVE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT IT IS THAT WE NEED FROM THE CITY LEVEL COMMUNICATION.
NOW I HAVE A QUESTION FOR, FOR THIS COMMISSION.
WE ARE ABLE TO LAUNCH THINGS LIKE THIS THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA.
WE CAN JUST PUT THE WORD OUT AND HOPE AND ASSUME THAT THE WORD IS BEING RECEIVED BY THE GROUPS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO REACH IN THE WAY THAT WE INTEND TO PUT IT OUT THERE.
THAT'S NOT AN IMPOSSIBLE TASK.
UM, I WOULD PREFER TO HAVE THAT GUIDANCE FROM OUR COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER SO THAT IT'S LAUNCHED THE SAME WAY ON THE CITY WEBSITE, BUT IT WAS, IT IS GONNA CAUSE ADDITIONAL DELAYS.
SO THERE'S THAT CONSIDERATION.
AND THEN, UM, ONCE WE MAKE A DECISION ON, DO WE, ESPECIALLY AFTER I MEET WITH ABBY NEXT WEEK, IF WE WANNA GO AHEAD AND START PUTTING IT OUT ON SOME SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS, I MEAN, THAT WOULD LITERALLY BE LIKE US AND PUTTING IT ON THE, WHAT'S THE WEBSITE THAT WE CAN DO OURSELVES FOR? HELLO? HUDDLE VOLUNTEER NOTIFICATIONS.
WE CAN PUT IT ON HOW TO CONNECT.
AND AGAIN, THIS IS GONNA BE ACCESSIBLE TO PEOPLE WHO ALREADY KNOW TO USE THAT APP.
IT'S GONNA BE ACCESSIBLE TO PEOPLE THAT ARE ON THE INTERNET.
UM, ONE CONCERN THAT ALWAYS COMES UP IS THAT WHAT ABOUT OUR SENIOR POPULATION WHO'S NOT ON THE INTERNET? SO IN ADDITION TO THAT MEETING, I HAD A, UM, MEETING WITH A CALL WITH MORGAN, A FOLLOW UP CALLS.
WE HAD DECIDED FROM THE LAST MEETING TO TALK ABOUT HOW WE COULD COLLABORATE WITH THE LIBRARY BECAUSE THEY'RE ALREADY DOING SOME GREAT PROGRAMMING TO SERVES THE SENIOR POPULATION.
AND SO SHE'S GOING TO PUT TOGETHER, SHE'S ALREADY SENT ME SOME DATES WHERE THE LIBRARY IS ALREADY HOSTING OR THE COMMUNITY'S HOSTING SOME EVENT THAT THEY GET A LOT OF ATTENTION OR INTEREST FROM THEIR SENIOR CITIZENS.
SO THOSE ARE THOSE IN-PERSON OPPORTUNITIES TO MEET WITH THEM, LET THEM KNOW WHAT THIS GROUP IS ABOUT, WHAT THEY WOULD BE DOING, WHAT THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES AND ROLES ARE, AND ALLOW THEM TO FIND OUT THAT WAY.
SO IT WOULD BE VERY, YOU KNOW, BOOTS ON THE GROUND GOING AND MEETING WITH THEM, UM, TO GET THEM ORGANIZED IN PERSON IF THEY WANTED TO FIND OUT ABOUT IT.
BUT THAT'S THE KIND OF THE QUESTION FOR ME RIGHT NOW WHEN I BE WITH IL, I WANNA GET HER PERSPECTIVE AS A COMMUNICATIONS PROFESSIONAL AND HER PERSPECTIVE FROM THE CITY.
UM, BUT I WANNA HEAR FROM THE COMMISSION.
UM, JUST REALLY QUICK, SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT, I KNOW THE COVER ARE, ARE JUST BRAND NEW.
UM, BUT WHAT DO WE THINK ABOUT WANTING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH JUST OUR OWN TOOLS LIKE HUDDLE CONNECT AND SOCIAL MEDIA AND NOT HAVE LIKE THIS STRUCTURED PIECE OF IT ON
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OUR WEBSITE, WHICH IS WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE ON THE CITY WEBSITE.WHAT ARE Y'ALLS THOUGHTS? SO IF WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THE HUDDLE CONNECT, I, I REMEMBER US TALKING ABOUT THAT WITH LIBRARY.
UM, WE WOULD HAVE TO SET IT UP RIGHT? OR WE WOULD DO IT OURSELVES AND I'D USE IT.
BUT WHAT I'M ASKING IS THIS, AS FAR AS, UM, IF YOU DO IT THROUGH HUDDLE CONNECT, WHAT TYPE OF PROOFING WOULD, WOULD, WOULD THE CITY HAVE TO PROOF IT OR YEAH, WE, WE HAVE A VETTING PROCESS.
THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING, Y'ALL.
IT WOULD BE OUR WORDS, BUT THEY WOULD, I MEAN, THERE IS A SAFETY NET, SO WE'RE NOT PUTTING CRAZY ON THERE.
I MEAN WE'RE, WE HAVE STAFF THAT REVIEW AND VET MM-HMM
THAT'S THE, WE WANT TO DO IT BEFORE CHRISTMAS OR I MEAN WE'RE, THERE'S IS MY CONCERN IS THAT WE'RE ALREADY TRENDING BEHIND.
AND WE'VE ALREADY PUSHED IT BACK.
AND EVEN WITH THAT, WE'RE TRENDING A LITTLE BEHIND.
AND SO, UM, WE COULD PUSH IT OUT WITHOUT THE OFFICIAL, LIKE, FANCY WAY THAT WE HOPE TO GET IT ON OUR CITY SITE OR ON THE DIV WEBSITE THAT NEEDS TO BE UPDATED.
HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE TO GET, GET IT CREATED? UM, I DON'T KNOW.
I HAVEN'T MET WITH HER YET, BUT WE HAVE A, WE HAVE A CALL ON MONDAY TO DISCUSS IT.
UM, BUT WE CAN, THE TOOLS AT OUR DISPOSAL ARE OUR OWN NEIGHBORHOOD PAGES.
THE HUDDLE CONNECT, JUST PUT IT UP THERE.
SO THE WAY THAT I ENVISION THAT PART OF IT IS GETTING THIS OPPORTUNITY, THIS EXACT DESCRIPTION ON THE HOW TO CONNECT MM-HMM
AND THEN WE WOULD SHARE IT, RIGHT? YOU CAN ALWAYS SHARE AND RESHARE WHAT'S ON THERE.
UM, SO IT GETS ONTO THE COMMUNITY AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
BUT THAT'S, AND THEN WHAT THAT WOULD, THAT, WHAT THAT MAY ALLOW US TO DO IS IF WE SAY, OKAY, WE PUT IT OUT THERE AND NOW WE CAN START HAVING IN-PERSON MEETINGS, LIKE, THANK YOU FOR BEING THE LIAISON FOR THE SMALL BUSINESS.
YOU CAN START, UM, ANNOUNCING WHEN YOU'RE GONNA BE MEETING OR PULLING PEOPLE TOGETHER FROM THE COMMUNITY, SMALL BUSINESS, VISITING THEM, UM, USING THE CHAMBER TO CONNECT WITH THEM.
YOU CAN, WE CAN START MOVING FORWARD THAT FORMATION.
UM, WE DON'T HAVE A LIAISON FOR SENIOR CITIZENS HERE, SO I'M GOING LEADING THAT RIGHT NOW UNLESS SOMEBODY ELSE WANTS TO DO THAT.
AND WE DID, WE LOST OUR LIAISON FOR VETERANS.
SO WE ALSO NEED A COMMISSIONER LIAISON FOR VETERANS OR, OR IS GABBY GONNA DO THAT? I WASN'T SURE.
I THOUGHT IT WAS COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON BECAUSE SHE SPOKE ON, OH, IT WAS NIKKI.
WE DO HAVE HER, BUT SHE'S NOT HERE TO SPEAK FOR HERSELF.
SO YEAH, WE'RE NOT SURE IF SHE STILL WANTS TO DO IT.
BUT I WILL REMEMBER THAT SHE DID EXPRESS INTEREST.
SO FOR NOW, I DON'T MIND LEADING UP THE, THE SENIOR CITIZEN WANTS SOMEBODY WORKING WITH MORGAN ON IT.
UM, BUT WHAT DO Y'ALL THINK ABOUT THAT? I THINK IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO GO AHEAD AND LAUNCH IT AND READ AND, UM, I'M GONNA BRING THIS UP.
I KNOW IT'S NOT ON HIS, THIS AGENDA, BUT, UH, MYSELF AND, AND JAVI, UH, JUST WE NEED TO MAKE NOTE 'CAUSE WE ARE REPRESENTING THE, UH, COMMISSION ON THE UM, UH, HUNDRED AND 50TH FOUNDER'S DAY.
SO HAD OUR FIRST MEETING ON THE 20TH OF SEPTEMBER AND THERE WAS A CALL LAST, UH, FRIDAY.
UM, SO WE'VE ALREADY STARTED THOSE MEETINGS, UM, TO GET READY FOR THE HUNDRED 50TH, UH, CELEBRATION OF THE CITY OF HUDDLES FA DAY.
AND, AND JAVI, JUST TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT ON THAT, JAVI IS, UM, CO-CHAIR.
OH REALLY? YEAH, WE VOTED ON THAT ON THE 20TH.
IT'S THERE A DATE OR ANYTHING? WE HAVEN'T DECIDED ON THE DATE YET OF WHEN IT'S GONNA HAPPEN.
WE'RE JUST HOW ABOUT THE YEAR? IT IS NEXT YEAR.
IT IS, IT IS GONNA BE IN 2026.
AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT OCTOBER, NOVEMBER-ISH.
UM, BUT WE ARE STARTING TO HAVE CALLS ON THAT, BUT WE HAD OUR FIRST MEETING ON, UM, IN-PERSON MEETING ON, UH, SEPTEMBER 20TH, ON A SATURDAY.
SO I JUST WANTED TO, UH, PUT THAT OUT THERE.
SO, YOU KNOW, I, I SAID THAT TO GO INTO WHAT YOU WERE ASKING.
I THINK IT'LL BE GREAT TO GO AHEAD AND PUT THIS ON, ON CADET BECAUSE WE'RE STARTING TO GET ENGAGED WITH, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT PARTS OF UM, YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAID, THE HUNDRED 50TH UH, FOUNDERS OF FOUNDERS STATE FOR THE CITY OF MY OWN.
AND IT'S A GOOD WAY TO NETWORK THAT AND PITCH IT OUT THERE FOR VOLUNTEERS.
HOW, UM, ARE WE ABLE TO KIND OF SEE WHAT THE ENGAGEMENT IS ON HOW CONNECT, LIKE, AS FAR THE CLICKS? DO THEY, IS THERE A WAY FOR US TO LIKE ACCESS THAT? YEAH, WE HAVE BACKEND, UM, WE HAVE ALL THAT DATA.
UM, KEEP IN MIND IT'S RELATIVELY NEW, RIGHT? SO WE'VE BEEN OUT FOR LIKE THREE-ISH MONTHS.
SO I THINK I FEEL LIKE CENTERING AROUND THAT BECAUSE IF IT'S NEW, THEN YOU'RE STILL, WE'RE STILL KIND OF DEALING WITH GETTING LIKE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT ON IT.
UM, AND THEN WE'RE NOT REINVENTING THE WHEEL OR KIND OF COUNTERACTING.
'CAUSE I FEEL LIKE THEY'RE WORKING IN MORE THAN ONE SPOT IF WE'RE TRYING TO LIKE, DO SOMETHING THERE AND THEN
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CREATE SOME, SO IF WE CAN SHARE LINKS BACK TO HUDDLE CONNECT, I THINK THAT THAT'S PROBABLY GONNA BE OR SHARE IT OUT OR SHARE IT POST IT.AND THEN WE TAKE IT AND SHARE IT IN OUR NETWORKS AND, YOU KNOW, BUT THE WORD, AND THEN I THINK THIS IS THE OTHER THING I THOUGHT ABOUT AFTERWARDS.
I SAID DURING THE HOLIDAYS PEOPLE ARE ONLINE OR ONLINE MORE MM-HMM
BECAUSE THEY'RE LOOKING FOR PICTURES OF TRICK OR TREATERS.
THEY'RE LOOKING FOR PICTURES OF THANKSGIVING, THEY'RE LOOKING FOR PICTURES OF THEIR FAMILY THAT'S IN OTHER PARTS.
SO IT, IT WOULD BE, IT WOULD BE A REASONABLE EXPECTATION THAT WE SHOULD SEE A LOT OF ENGAGEMENT AS LONG AS WE AS COMMISSIONERS, BRISTOL ARE DOING OUR DUE DILIGENCE AND ENCOURAGING OUR FRIENDS, OUR NEIGHBORS TO ALSO RESHARE IT SO THAT WE GET, AND THEN IF WE DO THAT, THE GOOD THING ABOUT KICKING THAT OFF IS THAT WE CAN SET AN ORIENTATION DATE.
WHEREAS OUR CONSULTANT HAS ALREADY COMMITTED TO DOING A TRAINING ORIENTATION.
WITH EVERYBODY WHO VOLUNTEERS TO RUN THE GROUP.
SO WE ARE THE LIAISONS, BUT WE'RE NOT RUNNING IT.
'CAUSE WE'VE ALREADY GOT A LOT OF, WE ALREADY TALK ABOUT THIS ALL THE TIME.
SO WE NEED TO BRING FRESH VOICES FROM THE COMMUNITY INTO THE CONVERSATIONS, WHICH IS WHAT THE CITIZEN WORKING GROUPS ARE DESIGNED TO DO.
THAT'S WHY I AGREED TO GO AHEAD AND LAUNCH IT.
'CAUSE THIS IS THE SEASON TO GO AHEAD AND DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
BECAUSE AT THAT POINT PEOPLE ARE, HEY, THE INTERNET IS HOT, IS JUST JUMPING RIGHT BY NOW.
AND WE, WE WILL DO THE IN PERSON, UM, MEETINGS AS WELL.
THAT WAS A BIG IMPORTANT ONE FOR ME TODAY IS LIKE, I NEED TO, I NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WE WANNA DO TO GET, SO WE CAN'T KEEP PUTTING IT OFF.
AND THEN WE'LL SEE WHAT WE GET BACK FROM THIS, FROM CITY COMMUNICATIONS SITE AFTER I MEET WITH ABBY AND ANNOUNCEMENTS.
NOW ABBY IS THE NEW COMMUNICATIONS, OKAY? MM-HMM
UM, AND JUST SO YOU KNOW, CARINA AS WELL, I DID MEET WITH HER TODAY AND DEBRIEFED AND GOT HER CAUGHT UP TODAY KIND OF IN GENERAL IN PREPARATION.
HAS SHE, HAS SHE, SHE'S SEEN THIS.
SHE'S LIKE, WHAT? THIS CRAZY LADY KEEPS
BUT THAT WAY YOU'LL HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY ONE-ON-ONE TO YOUR EXPECTATIONS AND HER WORK AND HER CURRENT VISION AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
BUT SHE'S FULLY PREPPED FOR THAT REASON.
I'M GLAD, I'M GLAD WE GOT UNSTUCK ON THAT 'CAUSE IT'S BEEN KIND OF HANGING OVER US THIS SUMMER OR THIS FALL SINCE WE HAD SO MANY CHANGES.
UH, 6.2 GENERAL DISCUSSION AND UPDATE ON COMMUNICATION WITH CITY COUNCIL TO INCLUDE MAYOR SCHNEIDER.
UM, SO THIS ONE WAS, SO I HAD SENT, AM I THE RIGHT ITEM? THIS IS THE COMMUNICATION, UM, OKAY.
I WANTED TO SHARE THIS WITH EVERYBODY AND, UM, JUST SO WE'RE AWARE, BECAUSE IT IS IMPORTANT TO TAKE EVERYBODY'S PERSPECTIVES INTO ACCOUNT.
SO I HAD SENT, UM, UM, REGARDING THE MEETING WITH INCLUDING THE, UM, ITEM, WHERE IS IT? WHERE IS IT? WITH CHENEY, ITEM FOUR DASH ONE ON OUR IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.
ON THE SHORT TERM, WHICH IS THIS DOCUMENT, UM, ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE, I HAD TAKEN ON IS TO, UM, HAVE A CALL WITH CHENEY.
WE HAVE ALREADY PUT IT ON HOLD FOR A FEW MONTHS.
WE WENT AHEAD AND WERE ABLE TO GET THAT CALL.
WE INCLUDED COMMISSIONER BELL, HE WASN'T ABLE TO MAKE IT, BUT HE CAN HAVE FOLLOW UP FOLLOW.
AND THE REASON I WANTED TO INCLUDE COMMISSIONER BELL ON THAT INITIATIVE IS BECAUSE THE FEDERAL EDC UM, PLAYS SUCH A CRITICAL ROLE IN SUPPORTING OUR SMALL BUSINESSES, WHICH IS WHAT COMMISSIONER ROLLS CITIZEN WORKING GROUP IS GOING TO BE FOCUSED ON.
SO IN, SO ANYWAY, IN PREPARATION FOR THAT CALL, IN PURSUIT OF THAT, OF THAT MEETING, I SENT AN EMAIL, UH, TO CHENEY AND HER ASSISTANT ANGEL TO GET, UM, SOME DATES SET UP.
AND I ASKED HER FOR, UM, TWO THINGS.
ONE, HOW DOES THE CITY'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN SERVE RESIDENTS BUSINESSES? AND HOW DO WE ENSURE FAIR OR EQUITABLE ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITIES FOR INVESTMENT IN COMMERCE? THAT WAS QUESTION ONE TO PREP FOR OUR MEETING.
AND NUMBER TWO, WITH COMMISSIONER BELL SERVING AS LIAISON FOR OUR SMALL BUSINESS CITIZENS WORKING GROUP, WE WILL HAVE QUES, HE WILL HAVE QUESTIONS SPECIFICALLY TO SERVE THAT COMMUNITY.
AND I SAID, AND THEN THAT WAS WHAT I SAID.
AND THEN I WAITED BACK AND FORTH.
IT TOOK A WHILE TO GET, UM, THAT DATE SET.
SO WE GOT A RESPONSE FROM, UM, FROM THE MAYOR.
HE SAID, I LIKE THAT WE ARE WORKING TO HELP SMALL BUSINESSES, BUT I HAVE SOME CONCERNS.
HE SAID, WHEN WE START OFF WITH ITEM ONE, HOW DOES THE CITY'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN SERVE RESIDENTS BUSINESSES? AND HOW DO WE ENSURE FAIR OR EQUITABLE ACCESS TO OPPORTUNITIES FOR INVESTMENT IN COMMERCE? SO MY QUOTE, MY QUESTION, HE SAID, IF WE START RIGHT OFF, ASSUMING THINGS ARE NOT FAIR AND NOT EQUITABLE, THEN WE ARE ALREADY GROWING IN BIAS.
I'D LIKE US TO FIRST STICK WITH THE FIRST PART, HOW OUR ECON PLAN SERVES RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES.
THEN WE CAN DECIDE WITH AN OPEN MIND IF THERE ARE THINGS THAT WE SHOULD BE DOING DIFFERENTLY.
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JUST HAD IT PRINTED OUT NUMBER TWO.SO THEN HE SAID ALSO WHEN WE SAY ITEM TWO WITH COMMISSIONER BELL SERVING AS A LIAISON FOR A SMALL BUSINESS BUSINESSES, CITIZENS WORKING GROUP, HE WILL HAVE QUESTIONS SPECIFICALLY TO SERVE THAT COMMUNITY.
AND HE ASKED, WHAT IS THAT COMMUNITY IN QUOTES? AND HE SAID, IN TODAY'S ENVIRONMENT, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE WORKING TO HELP EVERYONE AND MAKING SURE THAT EVERYONE HAS EQUAL ACCESS AND OPPORTUNITIES, NOT ONE GROUP OR THE OTHER.
DOING SO CAN QUICKLY STOP WHAT WE ARE DOING IN HUDDLE.
AND I AM NOT AT ALL SAYING THAT WE ARE PERFECT OR DO NOT HAVE WAYS TO IMPROVE, JUST THAT WE DON'T, JUST THAT WE CAN'T ASSUME THAT THINGS AREN'T FAIR OR EQUITABLE.
BECAUSE IF WE GO IN WITH OUR MINDS MADE UP, WE WILL SUFFER FROM CONFIRMATION BIAS.
SO I WANTED TO BRING EVERYBODY'S, UM, ATTENTION AND CONCERN THAT THESE WERE THE, THE CONCERNS FROM THE MAYOR, SPECIFICALLY IN THE TWO QUESTIONS THAT I POSED TO HIM ABOUT THE, ABOUT WANTING TO, ABOUT WHAT I WAS GONNA DISCUSS WITH CHENEY.
UM, WHAT ARE, YI KNOW I JUST KIND OF WENT THROUGH IT, BUT WHAT ARE Y'ALL'S THOUGHTS AND, UM, QUESTIONS OR FEEDBACK? WELL, I FEEL LIKE IT'S KIND OF THE SAME ARGUMENT, RIGHT? LIKE YOU'RE, IF YOU'RE ASSUMING BY STATING THAT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THINGS ARE FAIR AND EQUITABLE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN THAT THINGS AREN'T JUST LIKE, YOU CAN'T MAKE THE ASSUMPTION THAT EVERYTHING IS MM-HMM
SO MAYBE THERE'S A WAY TO PHRASE THAT A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY.
SO, UH, MAYBE THAT'S NOT THE FIRST THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, BUT I FEEL LIKE IT'S A, IT'S KIND OF A STATEMENT OF FACT IF THAT'S KIND OF LIKE WHAT ANY GROUP IS DOING.
UM, IF YOU'RE, I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO KIND OF WORD THAT.
IF YOU'RE, IF YOU'RE TRYING TO ENSURE THAT SOMETHING IS HAPPENING DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN THAT IT'S NOT, IT'S JUST KIND OF ANOTHER APPROACH TO, OKAY, WELL LET'S LOOK AND JUST SEE WHAT WE FIND.
OR IF IT IS, GREAT, IF IT'S NOT, YOU KNOW, WE TAKE ACTION THERE.
I DON'T, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY HOW TO KIND OF GET AROUND THAT IN THE WORDING.
UH, BUT YEAH, BUT THAT'S A FAIR STATEMENT.
I, I'M GONNA NOTE THAT I MADE, IS THAT PHRASING COULD BE UPDATED.
'CAUSE I THINK, UM, IT, IT'S, IT'S A LOT OF SEMANTICS, RIGHT? SO I SAID IT ONE WAY AND HE TOOK IT A DIFFERENT WAY, RIGHT? MM-HMM
UM, NOW I APPRECIATE THE FEEDBACK BECAUSE HE'S ONE PERSON, BUT THERE'S OTHER PEOPLE THAT COULD MISTAKE THE, OUR PHRASING.
SO WE ARE, WE DO, WE DO REALIZE THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH A VERY SENSITIVE, UM, TOPICS AND CONVERSATIONS.
WHAT ELSE? AND THAT'LL BE DRAWN MY RESPONSE AS WELL, TO BE FAIR.
IS THERE A DIFFERENCE IN KIND OF WHAT THE ACTION OF THE, THE, I GUESS THAT'S THE ECONOMIC, UH, CHAMBER.
I MEAN, REGARDLESS OF THE PHRASING, WE'RE STILL GETTING THE SAME ACTION FROM THEM.
SAME RESPONSE FROM THEM, RIGHT? THE, THE DATA THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR MM-HMM
SO WE CAN KIND OF KEEP WORKING ON THE PHRASING, BUT, UH, WHAT WE ARE REALLY AFTER IS THE DATA SO THAT WE CAN EVENTUALLY SEE THAT WHETHER EVERYTHING THAT WE PRACTICE IS FAIR OR NOT.
SO, UM, YEAH, I MEAN, MAYBE, UH, PHRASING IS SOMETHING THAT WE DO WANNA WORK ON, BUT I JUST FEEL LIKE, YEAH, WE, THAT THAT'S A SEPARATE ISSUE.
WHAT WE ARE REALLY AFTER IS THE DATA.
UM, JUST TO BE TRANSPARENT AND FAIR, UH, BUT THIS WAS MY RESPONSE.
I TOOK A MINUTE TO THINK ABOUT HOW I WAS GONNA RESPOND.
AND I SAID, HELLO ALL ALLOW ME TO EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE FOR EVERYONE'S SUPPORT AND TIME.
IT BOLSTERS THE EFFORT AND CARE WE GIVE TO OUR WHOLE COMMUNITY.
AND I SAID, MIKE, THANK YOU FOR SPECIFICALLY THANK YOU SPECIFICALLY FOR ENGAGEMENT AND REFLECTIONS.
I APPRECIATE YOU TAKING THE TIME TO SHARE YOUR PERSPECTIVE AND MY MESSAGES TO CHENEY.
I'D WELCOME THE CHANCE TO BETTER UNDERSTAND YOUR CONCERNS AND WHAT SPECIFICALLY STOOD OUT IN THE MESSAGE AS ASSUMING THINGS ARE NOT FAIR AND NOT EQUITABLE.
IF THERE'S A PART OF THE FRAMING THAT LED YOU TO, LED YOU TO THAT IMPRESSION, I'D APPRECIATE LEARNING MORE.
SO I CAN ADDRESS IT THOUGHTFULLY.
SO I WANNA AND INVITE HIM TO DELVE A LITTLE BIT DEEPER ON ME WITH IT.
'CAUSE WE DO WANNA BE VERY THOUGHTFUL AND RESPECTFUL, UM, WITH HOW WE PHRASE THINGS TO THE COMMUNITY.
I SAID THAT SAID, I'D LIKE TO SHARE A FEW CLARIFICATIONS ON MY END.
THE PHRASE, EQUITABLE ACCESS TO RESOURCES IS A GUIDING VALUE OF CONSISTENTLY SPOKEN ABOUT THROUGHOUT MY WORK ON THE DEIB COMMISSION.
IT REFLECTS A BELIEF IN INCLUSIVITY AND PROACTIVE PLANNING.
NOT A PRESUMPTION THAT THE CITY IS FAILING, BUT A DESIRE TO ENSURE NO COMMUNITY IS UNINTENTIONALLY LEFT BEHIND AS WE GROW.
I AM ENCOURAGED TO SEE YOU ECHOING THIS GUIDING VALUE IN YOUR EMAIL AS IT SIGNALS THAT WE ARE ALIGNED ON THIS.
THE REFERENCE TO THAT COMMUNITY
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IN THE MESSAGE REFERS TO THE SMALL BUSINESS COMMUNITY.THE SMALL BUSINESS CITIZENS WORKING GROUP SHOULD BE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SMALL BUSINESS COMMUNITY, WHICH IS A DIVERSE AND IMPORTANT PART OF OUR LOCAL ECONOMY.
I ALSO WANT TO GENTLY CLARIFY THE TERM CONFIRMATION BIAS REFERS TO THE TENDENCY TO FAVOR INFORMATION THAT ALIGNS WITH PRE-EXISTING BELIEFS.
AS A COMMISSION, OUR GOAL IS THE OPPOSITE.
WE ARE TASKED WITH REMAINING OPEN, ASKING INFORMED QUESTIONS AND EXPLORING WHERE WE CAN BUILD UPON ANY GOOD WORK.
WE ALREADY, ANY GOOD WORK ALREADY UNDERWAY.
AGAIN, I APPRECIATE YOUR ENGAGEMENT, MY INTENT AND THAT OF OUR COMMISSION IS TO SUPPORT HUDDLE'S GROWTH IN A WAY THAT HONORS ALL VOICES AND STRENGTHENS COLLABORATION ACROSS THE BOARD.
SO I DID KIND OF SPEAK FOR US, UM, ON THAT BOARD, BUT THAT'S JUST THE RISK I HAD TO TAKE AS THE, AS A CHAIR BEING ADDRESSED TO ME.
BUT, UM, THAT WAS MY RESPONSE.
I DID ASK HIM TO, I INVITED HIM TO CLARIFY A LITTLE BIT FURTHER.
I THANK THEM FOR HIS FEEDBACK, BECAUSE THINK ABOUT IT.
IF WE'RE NOT GETTING GOOD FEEDBACK, EITHER ONE, NOBODY'S PAYING ATTENTION TO OUR WORK, OR TWO, MAYBE THEY'RE PAYING ATTENTION AND THEY'RE THAT, BUT THEY'RE NOT COMMUNICATING TO US SO WE CAN RECTIFY OR CHANGE COURSE.
UM, I THINK A LOT OF IT WAS JUST ABOUT SEMANTICS AND THEN, UM, JUST CLARIFICATION ON CONFIRMATION.
BUT I THINK THAT, UM, REMINDING US THAT, REMINDING OURSELVES THAT THAT'S WHY WE'RE DOING THE WORK THAT WE DO IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
AND I'M ACTUALLY REALLY GLAD THAT WE HAD A CHANCE TO HAVE AN EXCHANGE BECAUSE SOMETIMES WE JUST GOING FORWARD AND WE MIGHT GET BLINDED BY THE WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING BECAUSE WE ALL HAVE GREAT INTENTIONS AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE.
AND SOMETIMES A GOOD INTENTION CAN GET IN THE WAY OF ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING WITH THAT TIME AND, AND ABILITY TO ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY AND FOLLOW THROUGH ON WHAT WE SAID WE WERE GONNA DO.
WHAT ARE Y'ALL'S THOUGHTS? I THOUGHT IT WAS A PRETTY MEASURED RESPONSE THAT YOU HAVE, SO YEAH, I, I'D AGREE WITH THAT.
ANYTHING ELSE? ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS TO REPLY OR TO, UM, OF NOTE YOU
HERE'S THE FUN PART OF THE BUSINESS.
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS OF THE NEWLY APPOINTED DEIV COMMISSIONERS, MR. TERRANCE HOLLENSWORTH AND MR. BODE.
TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOURSELF AND WHAT BROUGHT YOU TO THE COMMISSION.
YEAH, SO, UM, TELL HOW TO, UM, I GOT A BEAUTIFUL WIFE, THREE KIDS.
UM, I MOVED TO HUDDLE IN 2020, SO JUST AT THE END OF 2020 ACTUALLY.
UM, AND I WAS TELLING, UH, CHRISTIE, WE ACTUALLY, UM, CAME OUT TO HU KIND OF BY MISTAKE A FEW, LIKE ABOUT A YEAR BEFORE WE MOVED HERE.
WE WERE JUST DOWN IN AUSTIN DRIVING AROUND LOOKING JUST TO KIND OF SEE WHAT THE AREA WAS.
I THINK WE WENT TO STONE HILL AND THEN MADE OUR WAY OVER HERE SOMEHOW AND SAW THE HOUSES THAT WERE GETTING BUILT.
AND THEN RIGHT AROUND THE TIME WE WERE LOOKING TO BUY A HOUSE, IT WAS LIKE, OH, WHAT ABOUT THAT PLACE THAT WE DROVE? AND WE COULDN'T EVEN REMEMBER EXACTLY HOW WE GOT THERE.
AND THEN THERE WAS, UH, AND SO, UH, YEAH, AND THEN IT JUST, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING JUST FIT AND FELL PERFECTLY INTO PLACE.
UH, YOU KNOW, BEING ON THIS COMMISSION IS, YOU KNOW, IMPORTANT TO ME.
YOU KNOW, THIS IS ONE OF THOSE, UM, AREAS THAT I THINK, YOU KNOW, PRETTY NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART.
BUT, UM, I THINK IT'S ENCOURAGING TO SEE, OR WAS VERY ENCOURAGED TO SEE A CITY, YOU KNOW, WITH THIS COMMISSION.
AND, UM, SO, YOU KNOW, SO I'D ALWAYS TOLD MYSELF IF I KIND OF SETTLED DOWN.
I LOOKED TO JOIN A COMMISSION AND, YOU KNOW, THIS ONE REALLY, UM, SPOKE TO ME.
UM, SO YEAH, SO AS SOON AS THE OPPORTUNITY CAME UP I WAS LIKE, WELL GO FOR IT.
AND WE'LL INTRODUCE A LITTLE OURSELVES A LITTLE BIT MORE AS WELL, BUT LET'S GO AHEAD AND TAKE IT OVER TO MR. TERRANCE HOLLINS, UH,
I'VE BEEN LIVING HERE SINCE 2012.
UH, SO I'VE BEEN HERE FOR A WHILE.
I'VE BEEN TEACHING FOR OVER 25 YEARS.
I'VE BEEN A HUDDLE FOR FIVE YEARS TEACHING.
SO KIDS ARE KINDA, YOU KNOW, MY HEART STRENGTH.
I DO HAVE A YOUNG DAUGHTER, SO
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THAT'S KIND OF, YOU KNOW, UNDER THAT WINDOW OF THIS COMMISSION TOO.'CAUSE, YOU KNOW, I LIKE WORKING WITH KIDS AND JUST EVERYTHING INVOLVED IN THAT.
AND I KNOW THAT SMALL TOWN THAT PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ABOUT NOW, JUST LIKE THAT SMALL TOWN FEEL, YOU KNOW, THAT, YOU KNOW, SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE, I MEAN, I DO EVERYTHING AROUND HU WE GOT EVERYTHING MY DAUGHTER DOES FROM PIANO LESSONS TO GYMNASTICS TO EVERYTHING.
BUT, UM, BEING ON THIS COMMISSION IS JUST REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE I THINK THAT EVERYONE'S VOICE NEEDS TO BE HEARD.
UM, AND I GUESS I SEE IT FROM THE YOUNGER GENERATION ON.
UM, I THINK THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY SHOULD BE HEARD, SO.
AND I WILL ADD ONE DISCLOSURE BEFORE WE MOVE ON, IS THAT AFTER WE HAD OUR, OUR OUR INTERVIEW WITH YOU, I WENT, I WAS DRIVING HOME AND I WAS LIKE, WHERE HAVE I, I I'VE NEVER, I NEVER MET YOU IN PERSON, I DON'T THINK, BUT I WAS LIKE, WHY DOES IT SOUND FAMILIAR? YOU ARE MY DAUGHTER'S MATH TEACHER.
AND SHE USED TO HAVE TIMES SEVENTH AT FARLEY.
YOU WERE HER SEVENTH GRADE MATH TEACHER.
AND SHE SAID YOU WERE THE BEST MATH TEACHER SHE EVER HAD.
AND I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT SHE WAS SHOWING ME.
I DON'T SO YOU WENT HOME AND ASKED SHE LIKE,
AND I WAS LIKE, WHEN? SHE'S LIKE, SEVENTH GRADE.
AND I WAS LIKE, I THINK I MET HIM TODAY.
I KIND OF A BAD PARENT BECAUSE I MET YOU FOR LIKE, YOU KNOW, PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCE.
SEE, HAD THAT WAS A SMALL PLACE AND I WAS LIKE, HOW DID I NEVER MEET HIM BEFORE? SHE'D TALK ABOUT YOU ALL THE TIME.
LIKE YOU HELPED HER SO MUCH WITH YOUR MATH, YOUR TEACHER ROLE.
LIKE ME AND BILL GO BACK, WAY BE OH REALLY? YEAH, THAT I WAS LIKE THIS SMALL WORLD.
IT DIDN'T DAWN ON ME UNTIL I WAS DRIVING.
I CONFIRMED IT WITH HER AND SHE'S LIKE, REALLY? AND I WAS LIKE, I, AND SHE SAID, HE'S, HE GETTING ME.
I WAS LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER HIM.
HE JUST GET INTERVIEWED TODAY.
AND SHE WAS LIKE, HE'S SO CALL.
I SAID, HI, I'M, HE DIDN'T SAY NOTHING IN THE BAD THANKS NOW.
AND SHE STILL TALKS ABOUT HOW GOOD A GREAT MATH TEACHER YOU WERE TO HER.
I'LL GO AHEAD AND ALLOW, UM, THE COMMISSIONER ERIC AGAIN,
THAT'S WHEN WE BOUGHT OUR HOUSE.
UM, FIRST HOUSE, UH, WE GOT THE HOUSE FOUND OUT, UH, WE WERE HAVING A BABY.
AND MY FIRST DAUGHTER WAS BORN IN THE CITY OF HU BASICALLY.
SO, UH, THAT'S WHAT REALLY PUSHED ME TO GET INTO THIS.
JUST WANTED TO FIGURE OUT WAYS THAT I COULD SERVE THIS COMMUNITY BECAUSE I FEEL SUCH BOND TOWARDS IT.
AND, UM, THIS, THIS, UH, THIS IS THE, THE BOARD THAT, YOU KNOW, CALLED TO ME THE MOST.
UM, AND I'M A CIVIL ENGINEER BY, UM, A PROFESSION.
SO I ACTUALLY HAVE AN ENGINEERING DEGREE, BUT I CHOSE THAT.
UH, THANK YOU ALL FOR VOLUNTEERING AND JOINING THE, UH, COMMISSION.
I'VE BEEN A RESIDENT OF HU FOR 20 YEARS.
WHAT I DO, I WORK FOR THE SMALL CITY OF AUSTIN.
I'M AN HR MANAGER FOR THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT FOR THE SMALL CITY OF AUSTIN.
SO, UH, THIS IS WHAT I DO AT NIGHT.
IT'S JUST COME HERE AND, AND BE A COMMISSIONER.
I HAVE THE, A LOVE FOR NOT ONLY THE CITY THAT, UH, AUSTIN, 'CAUSE I'M A LONG-TERM FOURTH GENERATION AUSTINITE, BUT ALSO, UH, THE CITY OF HU IS NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART BECAUSE I GREW UP IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND MIDDLE SCHOOL IN ROUND ROCK, AND I ALWAYS SHARED THE STORY.
I REMEMBER WHEN HU WAS A BLINKING LIGHT TOWN AND GOING TO ROCKDALE.
SO, YOU KNOW, AND HUDDLE HAS REALLY GROWN, UH, SINCE THE BLINKING LIGHT.
AND, AND, UH, THE, THE RABBITS HAVE GOT SMALLER.
BUT, BUT ANYWAY, UM, LOVE WHAT THIS COMMISSION DOES.
BEEN ON THIS COMMISSION NOW 18, I BELIEVE.
I'M IN MY SECOND YEAR, UH, WITH THIS COMMISSION.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, WITH, WITH WHEN SHE, UH, WHEN SHE WAS TALKING ABOUT AS FAR AS OUR COMMISSION DID SOME CHANGING OVER THIS PAST SUMMER.
BUT I SEE THAT, YOU KNOW, BRINGING YOU ALL ABOARD TO KIND OF CARRY ON FORWARD.
THE, UH, MISSION THAT WE HAVE IS, IS
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VERY CRUCIAL.AND AS I STATE, I AM PART OF THE, UM, 150TH CITY OF HUDDLE, UH, CELEBRATION ON THAT COMMISSION.
AS WELL AS, AND, UM, HEY, I'M, I'M HERE AND I, I ENJOY IT.
AND I'M A, I'M A HUGE COWBOY FAN.
I'VE BEEN ON THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME AS COMMISSIONER BELL, SO WE'RE LIKE, NOW WE'RE LIKE THE VETERANS OF THE COMMISSION.
UM, I FOUND IT ALSO JUST BECAUSE I, YOU KNOW, I'M GONNA RAISE MY KIDS HERE.
UM, I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY TO LEND WHAT I KNOW.
MY, MY CAREER HAS BEEN IN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, UM, FOR A LONG, LONG TIME.
AND I RECENTLY FOUNDED MY OWN CONSULTANCY TO CONSULT THIS MUNICIPALITIES AND, AND, UM, BUSINESSES ON HOW TO NAVIGATE FUNDING FOR UPSKILLING TRAINING, BUSINESS STRATEGY AND GROWTH.
UM, AND IT'S BEEN GOING VERY WELL.
I JUST STARTED THAT IN APRIL AND I'M VERY PROUD OF MY MOMENTUM.
KEEPS ME BUSY AND I'VE LEARNED A LOT.
UM, I SIT ON THE, UH, HUDDLE, UH, CHAMBER ON THE WORKERS' TALENT DEVELOPMENT, UM, COMMITTEE.
AND, UM, RECENTLY I WAS STARTING ON HOW EDUCATION FOUNDATION, I JUST STEPPED OUT OF THAT ROLE.
AND, UM, I JUST, I LOVE THE WORK THAT WE DO HERE AND I AM VERY PROUD, VERY PROUD OF OUR CONDITION AND THE WORK WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO.
AND I'M VERY GRATEFUL TO OUR NEWEST MEMBER.
'CAUSE YOU'RE STEPPING IN, IN THE IMPLEMENTATION PHASE FOR DECISIONS THAT WERE MADE LAST YEAR.
BUT THANKFULLY, UM, YOU GUYS DECIDED TO ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE THAT WE'RE JUST GONNA GO FOR.
SO THANK YOU FOR, UH, STEPPING INTO THOSE ROLES.
TAKE IT OVER TO OUR INDISPENSABLE, WONDERFUL CITY LIAISON.
BECAUSE WE CAN'T DO ANY OF THIS WORK WITH OUR CITY STAFF.
UH, WELL, HELLO, CHRISTIE BARNES.
UM, I'M THE ONE WHO YOU GET EMAILS FROM ABOUT INFORMATION ON AGENDAS.
UM, MY ROLE HERE AT THE CITY HAS CHANGED.
I'VE BEEN WITH THE CITY FOR ALMOST 10 YEARS IN APRIL.
UM, I'M NOW A COMMUNITY POUL OFFICER, SO IT'S FITTING, I'VE BEEN WITH THE COMMISSION AS A STAFF LIAISON SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 2020.
SO I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS AS FAR AS, UM, YOU KNOW, HISTORICAL DATA OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
UM, MY ROLE FOCUSES 50% INTERNAL, 50% EXTERNAL.
IF YOU'RE CURIOUS, I CAN TELL YOU ALL ABOUT IT, BUT I WON'T WASTE YOUR TIME.
UM, I ALSO REPRESENT THE CITY OF HUDU ON THE WILLIAMSON COUNTY AND CITY'S HEALTH BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
UM, ALSO, UM, HABITAT FOR HUMANITY.
AND I VOLUNTEER WITH A LOT OF OTHER GROUPS.
SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR VOLUNTEERING.
IT IS, IT IS SUCH A SOMETIMES THANKLESS JOB.
UM, YOU PUT IN THE TIME, YOU PUT IN EFFORT, YOU PUT IN WORK.
AND SO JUST KNOW THAT THAT IS SEEN, UM, AND VERY MUCH APPRECIATED.
SO I'M SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE HERE TO DO THE WORK.
ITEM 7.2, CONSIDERATION OF POSSIBLE ACTION OF THE APPROVAL.
DID ANYBODY NOT HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW? WELL, WE GOT TWO NEW BOARD MEMBERS.
HAVE Y'ALL HAD A CHANCE TO NOTES? AND IT ARE RIGHT HERE.
I HAVE A QUESTION FOR CHRISTIE.
UM, I THINK WE DISCUSSED LAST TIME FOR THE TEAM MEETING BEING, UH, ON VIRTUALLY, I THINK THERE WAS A CONFUSION ON WHAT COULD YOU DO, WHAT COULD YOU OH, UPDATE.
SO, UH, DO WE HAVE CLARIFICATION ON THAT? I ALSO SENT THAT IN THE EMAIL AS WELL, BUT I'M HAPPY TO VERBALLY UPDATE AS WELL.
SO, UM, WITH FURTHER GUIDANCE FROM THE CITY SECRETARY'S OFFICE, UM, COMMISSIONERS ARE ABLE TO ATTEND VIRTUALLY.
AND SO COMMISSIONER LEWIS MAY POP ON.
UM, HOWEVER, THERE MUST BE A QUORUM IN PERSON, UM, IN ORDER FOR THE VIRTUAL ATTENDEE TO BE ABLE TO VOTE, IF THAT MAKES SENSE.
SO IF THERE'S NOT A QUORUM HERE, IF THERE'S TWO PEOPLE HERE AND ONE ONLINE, THAT IS NOT A QUORUM MM-HMM
SO YOU MUST BE QUORUM IN PERSON IN ORDER LEFT TO HAPPEN.
BUT YES, YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO, AS LONG AS THERE'S A FORM.
DID THAT, DID THAT HELP? YEAH, I, YEAH.
JUST GOING THROUGH THE EMAIL AND YOU DID MENTION IT, SO I MISSED THAT.
NO, AND I SEND A LOT OF INFORMATION AND I KNOW IT.
SO, UM, I JUST, UM, IF YOU EVER HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, PLEASE ASK, PLEASE, PLEASE.
OH, I SEE A HAND UP OVER THERE.
KATE, COMMISSIONER? YEAH, OF COURSE.
THIS CLARIFICATION FOR THE DEIB AT QUORUM
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IS DEFINED AS THREE MEMBERS.UM, ANYTHING ELSE FROM THOSE UPDATES AND NOTES FROM THE LAST MEETING? I KNOW YOU GUYS DIDN'T GET THAT.
NEW COMMISSIONERS WERE NOT HERE YET.
AND IT WAS ACTUALLY COMMISSIONER JOSH'S FIRST MEETING, RIGHT? YES.
WHEN WE MET MY SECOND, SECOND MEETING, YOU'RE ALREADY WRITING PROCLAMATION
UM, AND I WILL THEN TAKE A MOMENT.
SO YES, COMMISSIONER NAI IS NEW, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I DID DISCLOSE DURING THAT MEETING IS THAT AS THE CHAIR AND JUST HAVING DONE VOLUNTEER WORK A LONG, LONG, LONG, LONG TIME, I DO FAVOR GIVING NEW MEMBERS OR ANY OF YOU, ANY MEMBER OF ANY VOLUNTEER WORK, IMMEDIATE ACTION ITEMS, BECAUSE THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE, RIGHT? I THINK IT HELPS WITH BUY-IN, IT HELPS WITH A SENSE OF ACCOMPLISHMENT, GIVING OUR, OUR TEAM SHORT, SMALL WINS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AND ROLES.
AND IT HELPS YOU LEARN ABOUT THE ROLE YOU'RE DOING AND GOING TO BE DOING A LOT FASTER.
UM, SO I JUST WANNA BE DISCLOSED ABOUT THIS ON THE ACTIVE CHAIR RIGHT NOW, BUT WE DO NEED TO, AND WE DIDN'T PUT IT ON THIS ONE, BUT WE DO NEED TO, WELL HOPEFULLY COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON WILL BE HERE NEXT TIME.
UM, SO WE CAN PUT IT ON THE NEXT AGENDA THAT WE DO NEED TO VOTE IN OFFICIALLY, I WAS THE CO-CHAIR WITH JACQUELINE, SO WHEN SHE STEPPED OFF, I JUST INHERITED THE ROLE.
THAT'S WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW.
BUT WE DO NEED TO OFFICIALLY, UM, ELECT A CHAIR AND A CO-CHAIR.
SO READ THE KNOWS, KIND GET CAUGHT UP BECAUSE IF ANYBODY'S INTERESTED IN THE CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR.
AND THEN WE SHOULD DEFINITELY, UM, LET IT BE KNOWN SO WE CAN HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS AND WE CAN FORMALLY ELECT THE CHAIR AND CO-CHAIR OF THE COMMISSION.
WE'LL HAVE THAT ON OUR NEXT MEETING.
UM, YOU GOT FOR MORE MINUTES TO REVIEW, UM, OUR NOTES.
DO YOU HAVE ANY
WAS IT ALWAYS SEVEN OR DID IT START WITH SEVEN? SO THE SEVEN.
ANY, UH, THOUGHTS OR NEEDS FOR CLARIFICATIONS FROM OUR LAST MEETING? YOU CAN, I MEAN, YOU CAN ALWAYS BRING 'EM UP IN FUTURE MEETINGS TOO.
IT'S NOT LIKE THEY NOW FOREVER HOLD YOU.
YOU NEED TO MAKE A MOTION ON IT.
I MAKE THE MOTION TO ACCEPT THE SEPTEMBER 16TH, 2025 MEETING MINUTES.
UM, ITEM 7.3 IN THE AGENDA IS DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON COMMUNITY SURVEY DATA.
SO ON THE COMMUNITY SURVEY, SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, ONE OF THE ITEMS OR TOOLS THAT OUR VERY VALUABLE TOOL OR OUR DISPOSAL OR SAY DISPOSAL TOOLS THAT WE CAN UTILIZE IS THOSE COMMUNITY DATA.
SO, UH, CHRISTIE INCLUDED IN THE EMAIL, THEY'RE BOTH LINKED IN THERE.
IF YOU HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE, ESPECIALLY I KNOW BECAUSE WE HAVE NEW MEMBERS, UM, PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THAT, AT THOSE, UM, SURVEY RESULTS.
I FIND IT EXTREMELY INTERESTING AND VALUABLE TO SEE THE FEEDBACK.
I DON'T FIND IT SURPRISING 'CAUSE I THINK THEIR RESPONSES WERE PRETTY MUCH EXPECTED.
EVERYBODY'S UPSET WITH TRAFFIC.
AND SO THAT LEADS INTO DISSATISFACTION WITH OUR ROADS CONDITIONS AND THAT LEADS TO PEOPLE FEELING UNHAPPY WITH THE SPEED OF GROWTH, FOR EXAMPLE.
BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I SPECIFICALLY FOUND VERY INTERESTING, BECAUSE WHAT I DO FOR A LIVING IN, IN IN WORKFORCE IS THAT, UM, IT WAS A NEUTRAL RESPONSE TO, IT WAS MOSTLY NEUTRAL ON, UM, AVAILABILITY OF SKILLED JOBS.
UM, IN MY WORLD, I WORK WITH, UM, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALL UP AND DOWN TRAVIS COUNTY ALL THE WAY UP TO SEIN, SAN ANTONIO AREA, UM, WILLIAMSON COUNTY AND THE SURROUNDING COUNTIES IS THAT SKILLED JOBS ARE VERY IMPORTANT AND VERY RELEVANT.
I MEAN, EVEN TODAY YOU HAVE A CHANCE RIGHT NOW WE HAVE A CHANCE TO VOTE IN PROPOSITION ONE.
IT'S ABOUT FUNDING TEXAS STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE, WHICH IS ALL TECHNICAL TRAINING FIELD JOBS.
SO TO ME, I'M BEEN INTERESTING BECAUSE IF A NEUTRAL RESPONSE TO MEANS THAT PEOPLE AREN'T REALLY SURE HOW TO RESPOND, THEY DON'T KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT IT, ABOUT THE AVAILABILITY OF THOSE JOBS.
AND SO I JUST THOUGHT THAT WAS JUST A LITTLE ANOTHER THAT WAS REALLY INTERESTING AND COOL.
AND I'M GONNA TAKE THAT NUGGET AND THINK ABOUT HOW MY ROLE HERE AS A HUDDLE CITIZEN RESIDENT CAN DO IN A, MY PROFESSIONAL CAPACITY.
HOW DO I, UM, WORK WITH OUR CITY, UH, OUR, OUR, UM, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND OUR EDC TO ENSURE THAT PEOPLE ARE AWARE OF
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THOSE GOOD SKILL JOBS, THAT THEY'RE AWARE OF THE ACCESS TO BE ABLE TO EARN THE SKILLS AND CERTIFICATIONS NECESSARY FOR THEM AND, UM, THAT THEY'RE AWARE AND WHAT THOSE JOBS LOOK LIKE, WHAT THE WEIGHT SCALES LOOK LIKE.SO WHATEVER YOUR BACKGROUND IS, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A LENS ABOUT HOW YOU LOOK AT THAT DATA.
AND THIS IS ALL OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
UM, SO I THINK IT'S REALLY, REALLY COOL.
AND THE REASON WE WERE LOOKING AT THAT IS BECAUSE WE WANNA BE SURE THAT WE WERE GONNA BE ABLE TO IMPLEMENT OR INTRODUCE A QUESTION SPECIFICALLY FROM OUR LIST.
SO ESPECIALLY FOR OUR NEW COMMISSIONERS, WE ARE GOING TO, WE DON'T HAVE A DATE ON THAT JUST YET.
SO I DID, I ASKED ABBY TODAY, SHE ACTUALLY HAS A CALL WITH ETC TOMORROW, AND SO I THINK SHE'LL HAVE AN UPDATE READY FOR YOU BY MONDAY OKAY.
UM, BUT IT WILL PROBABLY BE, UM, LATE WINTER, EARLY SPRING, KIND OF FEBRUARY TIMEFRAME.
HOWEVER, I'M THINKING WE'LL PROBABLY NEED TO HAVE THAT AS AN AGENDA ITEM FOR NEXT MEETING IN ORDER AS FAR AS REVIEWING OR TALKING ABOUT OR DISCUSSING THE QUESTION.
SO WHAT WE'RE REFERRING TO, SO ETC IS THE COMPANY THAT WE CONTRACT OUT TO RUN THE SURVEY FOR US AND, UH, FOR THE CITY.
AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAD INQUIRED OR ASKED ABOUT IS INCLUDING FOR OUR COMMISSION TO COME UP WITH A QUESTION THAT WE WANT INCLUDED IN NEXT YEAR'S SURVEY.
FOR, I GUESS IT WOULD BE FOR 2025 'CAUSE IT WOULD BE KIND OF A LOOK BACK, RIGHT? THEY'D BE LOOKING AT 22 CITY, OUR RESIDENTS, OUR NEIGHBORS, AND US WOULD BE LOOKING AT 2025.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING WE DO WANNA GIVE A LOT OF GOOD THOUGHT TO.
LIKE, IT SOUNDS LIKE A BIG TOPIC.
WHAT'S ONE QUESTION THAT WE WANNA ASK, BUT IT COULD BE THAT YOU LOOK AT THAT SURVEY, YOU LOOK AT THE DATA, LOOK AT THE RESPONSES.
TO ME, I'M ALWAYS SO INTERESTED IN THE NEUTRAL RESPONSES BECAUSE I ALWAYS TAKE IT AS THEY DIDN'T REALLY KNOW WHAT TO THINK OF IT.
UM, SO, AND YOU KNOW, TAKE IT HOW YOU WILL.
EVERYBODY HAS, YOU KNOW, THEIR EXPERIENCE, THEIR LENS ON IT.
BUT WE DO WANNA LOOK AT THAT AND THINK, OKAY, WHAT IS ONE QUESTION THAT'S GOING THAT WE WANNA INCLUDE IN THE SURVEY THAT WE WANNA KNOW? HOW DO WE WANNA PHRASE IT? RIGHT? RAISING MATTERS, UM, SPECIFICALLY FOR OUR COMMISSION'S WORK THROUGH THE LENS OF US WORKING TOWARDS DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND A SENSE OF BELONGING IN THE CITY OF CATO.
SO THAT'S WHERE THAT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT.
REMINDED ME THAT ABBEY AND THE AB LETTING ME KNOW THAT ABBY, UM, MET WITH THE GROUP AND SO WE'LL HAVE A DAY COMING UP SOON.
SO I DO WOULD LIKE ALL OF US TO BE THINKING ABOUT, TO TAKE A LOOK.
I HATE SAYING HOMEWORK WHEN YOU HAVE A CHANCE.
TAKE A LOOK AT THOSE, SURVEY THAT DATA, AND THEN WE CAN COLLABORATIVE, COME UP WITH WHAT IS, WHAT DO WE WANNA KNOW? IT COULD BE JUST SOMETHING REALLY SIMPLE LIKE, UM, THAT WE WANNA PHRASE AND OF COURSE IT'LL BE APPROVED OR NOT APPROVED, BUT IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO COLLABORATIVELY PUT A QUESTION ON THIS VERY IMPORTANT SURVEY AND DATA AND ALSO ENCOURAGE OUR NEIGHBORS TO RESPOND TO THE SURVEY.
THE MORE DATA WE HAVE, THE BETTER OUR WORK AND OUR OUTCOMES CAN BE FOR REACHING AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE IN A MOST FAIR WAY AS POSSIBLE.
BUT WE NEED PEOPLE TO TELL US WHAT THEY THINK, WHAT THEY NEED, WHAT THEY KNOW.
WHAT ARE Y'ALLS THOUGHTS? SO I GOT A QUESTION.
I'M READING SOME OF THIS RIGHT HERE MM-HMM
WITH, WITH ETC AS FAR AS WHAT I'M LOOKING AT.
UM, 'CAUSE I, I'M, I JUST, I GOT STUCK ON THIS LINE RIGHT HERE.
UH, THE GOAL WAS TO AT OBTAIN A COMPLETE SURVEY, UH, FROM AT LEAST 400 RESIDENTS.
RESIDENTS TO, UM, TO RESPOND TO THIS, THIS SURVEY 400.
UM, I GUESS WHEN THEY, I GUESS WHEN THAT CONVERSATION ARE, THEY'RE GONNA LOOK TO BROADEN THAT TO IN THE THOUSANDS.
SO, UM, I WILL LET ETC SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.
THEY'LL LET COMMUNICATIONS ANSWER THAT OFFICIALLY.
HOWEVER, UM, THAT WAS DEFINITELY A THOUGHT.
I THINK OF MANY PEOPLE WHO SEE THAT NUMBER.
I ASKED THE QUESTION, I WAS LIKE, THAT SEEMS SMALL.
EVEN AT THE TIME, I THINK NOW WE'RE APPROACHING ABOUT 50,000.
SO, UM, WHEN THIS WAS TAKEN, I MEAN IT WAS LESS THAN THAT, ABOUT 40 OR SO, MAYBE 38,000.
UM, SO DIFFERENT NUMBERS, BUT STILL.
SO ETC HAS A VERY, THEY HAVE THEIR SCIENTIFIC WAY AND ALGORITHM ON HOW AND WHO AND WHERE THEY SEND IT TO.
SO AS LONG AS THEY'RE MEETING THOSE NUMBERS AND IT'S, THEY'RE NOT GETTING THIS DATA FROM ONE SPOT IN HU IT'S THOSE 400 PEOPLE ARE, ARE ALL CENTRALLY LOCATED.
IT'S AS LONG AS THEY'RE GETTING THE DIVERSITY OF LOCATION AND DEMOGRAPHICS AND ALL OF THOSE THINGS, AND THEY'RE ABLE, AND THEY'RE ABLE TO MEET THAT AT LEAST 400 NUMBER, IT'S WITHIN SOME SORT OF A PERCENTAGE.
UM, A DEGREE OF ACCU ACCURACY.
SO AS FAR AS THE DATA AND NUMBERS AND THE WHYS, UM, I, I'M NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO ANSWER THAT.
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UM, THAT'S, THAT'S THE GIST OF IT.BUT I THINK THAT'S DEFINITELY A QUESTION TO, TO ASK MAYBE ABBY OR, BUT WE CAN HAVE POTENTIALLY HAVE ETC, UM, I THINK THEY PRESENTED ONE YEAR FOR US.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S IN THEIR BANDWIDTH OR NOT THIS YEAR, BUT YEAH.
I SEE THE, I SEE THE, UH, I CALL IT BUGSHOT, UH, SHOTGUN THE SHOTS, YOU KNOW, THE MAP AND I SEE THE LITTLE RED DOTS.
AND UH, AS FAR AS THE, UH, 429 I, YEAH, THAT WAS, THAT WAS THE FIRST THING THAT CAUGHT MY EYE.
IT SEEM LIKE A BIG PERCENTAGE.
YOU KNOW WHAT I WONDER IS HOW MANY, 'CAUSE I LOOK AT OUR, OUR VOTER TURNOUT AND THEY'RE ALWAYS IN THE
UM, I WONDER, I ALWAYS, I TEND TO ASSUME THAT THE PEOPLE THAT RESPOND TO THE SURVEY, PROBABLY THE ONES THAT ALSO GO AND CAST VOTES OR BALLOTS MM-HMM
BECAUSE THE NUMBERS ARE PRETTY CLOSE, BUT IT MAY NOT BE.
AND SO IT'S NOT LIKE, IT'S NOT LIKE WE CAN POST A LINK AND SAY, HEY EVERYONE COME TAKE THIS SURVEY.
YOU HAVE TO RECEIVE IT IN THE MAIL.
UM, AND THAT PARTICULAR CODE IS NOT, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T TAKE IT AND THEN GIVE IT TO YOUR NEIGHBOR AND HAVE THEM TAKE IT.
IT'S, IT'S HOWEVER THEY DO IT ON THE BACK END, IT'S, UH, SPECIFIC TO THAT, UM, THAT ADDRESS.
SO, I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY IF WE'RE PARTNERING WITH THEM, NOT NECESSARILY TELLING THEM HOW THEY DO THEIR METHODS, BUT THAT, 'CAUSE I MEAN, I WASN'T AWARE THAT OBVIOUSLY, SO I DIDN'T GET A SURVEY MM-HMM
BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, BUT TO THE POINT ABOUT INDIVIDUALS WHO MAYBE VOTE OR PEOPLE WHO MAYBE WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE THAT INPUT MM-HMM
IS THERE AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAYBE HAVE THAT CONVERSATION? UM, BECAUSE I GET THIS, I GET THE RANDOM SAMPLING MM-HMM
UM, BUT I ALSO THEN WONDER, ARE YOU MISSING OUT ON OTHER FEEDBACK THAT COULD BE VALUABLE? BECAUSE YOU HAVE AN ENTIRE GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS WHO WOULD LOVE TO RESPOND TO A SURVEY YEAH.
I THINK THAT'S DEFINITELY A QUESTION THAT, THAT CAN BE DIRECTLY AND THEY PROBABLY HAVE, AGAIN, THEIR REASONS, BUT IT MAYBE THERE'S ANOTHER WAY TO REFRAME THAT OR HAVE IT AVAILABLE.
I THINK, UM, SOMETHING LIKE THAT WAS ASKED BEFORE ON THE STAFF LEVEL OF, UH, YOU KNOW, WELL, CAN WE GET THE, YOU KNOW, ENGAGED PEOPLE TO TAKE THIS, UM, SPECIFICALLY.
UM, AND SO THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A TRUE SNAPSHOT OF WHERE WE ACTUALLY ARE.
AND NOT TO SKEW ANY NUMBERS THIS WAY OR THAT WAY.
UM, AND TO, AND TO HAVE A TRUE LIKE KIND OF TIMESTAMP AND TIME OF WHERE WE ARE AS A COMMUNITY.
HOWEVER, I DEFINITELY HEAR YOU AND SEE WHERE, UM, THAT COULD BE INFORMATIVE TOO.
SO I THINK IT'S JUST A MATTER OF ASKING THE QUESTION AND, AND HEARING THE WHYS BEHIND IT.
I MEAN, EVEN IF IT WAS IN A COMPARATIVE FASHION WHERE YOU'RE LOOKING AT, OKAY, THIS IS WHAT THE RANDOM SAMPLE THEY PRODUCE AND YOU GIVE PEOPLE A CHANCE TO TAKE THE EXACT SAME SURVEY BY CHOICE.
DO YOU SEE IT A VARIATION BETWEEN INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE ENGAGED ENOUGH TO TAKE THE TIME OUT AND DO IT, OR EAGER TO TAKE IT? SO, UM, BUT YEAH, I, I WOULD JUST BE INTERESTED IN SEEING, 'CAUSE AGAIN, THAT 400 NUMBER IS A LOW NUMBER.
AGAIN, THEY HAVE A METHOD FOR WHY THAT'S THE NUMBER, BUT, UM, DO WE KNOW HOW MANY THEY SENT OUT? WHAT, WHAT THEY SAID THEIR, THEIR GOAL WAS TO GET 400 RESPONSES AND THEY ACTUALLY GOT 429.
SO IF THEY DO IT AGAIN, OR, YOU KNOW, THE QUESTION IS, ARE THEY GONNA USE THE SAME PEOPLE THEY'RE GONNA SEND IT OUT TO, OR ARE THEY GONNA USE IT? UH, YOU KNOW, ARE THEY GONNA CAST A A WIDER NET? UH, THOSE ARE KIND OF SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I'M, AND I'M JUST KIND OF GOING THROUGH, OH, FLOOR OF TRAFFIC FOR THE CITY STREETS.
IT WAS SEVEN POINT, IT WAS 7.8%.
LIKE READING FLOW OF TRAFFIC OF MAJOR ROADS AND HIGHWAYS.
SO NO, IT, I, I THINK WHEN YOU'RE DOING SURVEYS LIKE THIS FOR, FOR MUNICIPALITY, UH, I GET IT.
YOU KNOW, BUT I WOULD THINK, YOU KNOW, THIS IS JUST ME, YOU, LIKE YOU SAID, HUDDLE'S ALMOST 50,000 PEOPLE.
IS IT GONNA BE IN THE THOUSANDS AS FAR AS WHEN THEY SEND IT OUT TO GET A BETTER READ? UM, I ALSO SAW ON THERE, ON THE MAP, YOU KNOW, SOME AREAS OF HUDDLE THAT DIDN'T GET ANY RESPONSES, BUT PROBABLY BECAUSE HE WAS FARMLAND BACK IN, LIKE YOU TALKING ABOUT EXTRA JEWISH, OR I CAN NEVER SAY IT.
EXTRATERRITORIAL, EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION.
I, YEAH, THERE'S NOTHING THERE.
IT'S PROBABLY JUST, I NOBODY LIVED OUT THERE BACK IN THAT DAY, BUT YEAH.
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IT IS GOOD INFORMATION.I, YEAH, I THINK IT'S, IT IS INTERESTING.
LIKE I SAID, NO SURPRISES, BUT VERY INTERESTING DATA.
WELL, AND I, I SAW THE, YOU KNOW, SPECIFICALLY WHEN I GOT TO LIKE THE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION MM-HMM
UM, AREA OR THOSE SURVEY QUESTIONS, SEEING HOW SOME OF THOSE, UM, QUESTIONS ALL DECREASES FROM THE PRIOR SURVEY MM-HMM
UM, SO I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE LOOK AT, UH, KIND OF WHAT GOES INTO OUR STRATEGIC PLAN, OR WE LOOK AT KIND OF WHAT OUR FOCUS IS, UM, OR PRIORITY AREAS ARE, UH, THAT MIGHT HELP KIND OF SET LIKE A GUIDEPOST FOR WHERE WE WANT TO AIM, YOU KNOW, LIKE, WE, WE SAW A DECREASE HERE, BUT MAYBE IT'S WORTH KIND OF GETTING, YOU KNOW, WE START TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THESE WORKING GROUPS, LIKE WHAT ARE YOU SEEING IN YOUR WORKING GROUP OR IN THOSE CONVERSATIONS THAT SAYS, WHY DO WE THINK THIS, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I THINK THE NUMBERS ARE GREAT, BUT I THINK IF WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE THOSE NUMBERS AND ACTUALLY LIKE, OKAY, ARE WE LOOKING TO FIX IT? ARE WE LOOKING TO JUST KEEP SEEING WHAT GETS THROWN OUT THERE? IF WE HAVE AN ACTION PLAN THAT'S SUPPOSED TO SPECIFICALLY ATTACK, FOR EXAMPLE, THE, YOU KNOW, THE CITY PROVIDES A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR RESIDENTS OF ALL BACKGROUNDS, BUT WE WOULD WANT TO SAY, HERE ARE THE STEPS WE'RE TAKING ON THIS.
THE NEXT TIME THE SURVEY COMES AROUND, DO WE ACTUALLY SEE THAT IS WORKING? BECAUSE I THINK IN ORDER FOR LIKE A COMMISSION TO BE, UM, FOR OUR COMMISSION TO BE LIKE EFFECTIVE, WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO SAY, WE SAW AN INCREASE IN WHAT WE'RE DOING AND WE NEED TO STOP DOING THIS, KEEP DOING THIS, OR, YOU KNOW, CHANGE COURSE.
BUT I, I THOUGHT ALL THAT DATA IS REALLY, UM, REALLY IMPACTFUL AND, UM, IMPORTANT TO KIND OF LOOK THROUGH.
SO, WELL, I LOVE THAT FEEDBACK.
UM, A A LOT I GOTTA TELL Y'ALL, BECAUSE ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE PARTS THAT FORMED OUR CITIZENS WORKING GROUPS WAS TO MEET THOSE POCKETS OF PEOPLE WHO YOU SAID THAT DON'T, AREN'T, DIDN'T GET A SURVEY, DIDN'T RESPOND TO THE SURVEY.
BUT IF THEY ARE INVITED, ARE HOPING THAT IF THEY'RE INVITED TO JOIN THIS AFFINITY GROUP THAT'S VETERANS, OR THEY'RE A SMALL BUSINESS OWNER, OR THEY'RE SENIOR, THEY CONSIDER THEM THE LINE AS A SENIOR CITIZEN, WHICH IS INVITES A LOT OF, BECAUSE THEY, THEY'RE PEOPLE THAT FIT IN ALL THREE AND THEY'RE MORE THAN WELCOME TO BE PART OF ALL THREE.
UM, IS HOPEFULLY ANOTHER WAY TO REACH MORE PEOPLE AND HAVE, GIVE MORE PEOPLE OPPORTUNITY TO SAY.
AND THEN OUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE WORKING GROUPS IS TO TAKE THAT DATA AND LET IT INFORM OUR WORK AND COMMUNICATE THAT BACK TO OUR GOVERNANCE AND OUR CITY LEADERSHIP ABOUT THIS IS WHAT WE'RE HEARING.
LIKE THIS IS DIRECTLY WHAT WE'RE HEARING FROM US.
IT'S ANOTHER WAY OF SURVEYING AND CANVASSING OUR NEIGHBORS AND GIVING THEM A CHANCE TO INPUT.
NO, I WAS, I WAS, I'M READING THIS, I LIKE QUESTION FOUR RIGHT HERE.
A LEVEL OF AGREEMENT WITH THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT, UH, REGARDING DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION.
AND I MEAN, THESE, THIS IS, THIS IS PRETTY GOOD.
UH, YOU KNOW, SO THOSE ARE THE QUESTIONS THAT THE COMMISSION, Y'ALL WOULD BE FOCUSING ON THAT YOUR GROUP, EVEN CALLING IT DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION, MAYBE CHANGING THOSE WORDS, CHANGING THE LANGUAGE MISSION NAME AND OTHER THINGS LIKE THAT.
'CAUSE YEAH, I'M LOOKING AT QUESTION NUMBER FOUR, QUESTION FIVE.
HAVE YOU PERSONALLY EXPERIENCED DISCRIMINATION OF ANY TYPE OF ANY KIND IN THE HUDDLE COMMUNITY IN RECENT YEARS? AND THE NO.
I, I MEAN THAT'S NOT, THAT'S NOT, THAT'S GOOD TO ME.
SO THOSE, I, I GUESS, I GUESS I GOTTA KEEP ON LOOKING, BUT THOSE WERE TWO QUESTIONS I SAW THAT KIND OF RELATES TO THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING.
ANY OTHER, UM, THOUGHTS? QUESTIONS? THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS.
ANY POSSIBLE S REALLY GOOD? I, YEAH.
I WAS, I HAVEN'T EVEN GONE THROUGH ALL OF IT YET AND I'VE BEEN TAKING IT PIECES, BUT DO EVERY DAY.
IT'S REALLY, REALLY INTERESTING.
IT'S ACTION ITEMS ON THE COMMUNITY SURVEY DATA.
WHAT WE WERE, I JUST HAD IT ON THERE IN CASE YEAH.
NO, IT'S, I THINK WE'VE DECIDED IN A PREVIOUS MEETING THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE USING, UTILIZING IT IN OUR WORK AND THAT WE'RE GOING TO
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BE VERY THOUGHTFUL, INTENTIONAL WITH THE QUESTIONS THAT WE INCLUDE, UM, FOR OUR NEXT ITERATION, WHICH WE SHOULD GET SOME CLARIFICATION ON MONDAY FROM ABBY MM-HMMUM, SO THAT'S THE ONLY THING, JUST THAT WE'RE GONNA MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT.
AND AGAIN, THE HOMEWORK MM-HMM
JUST THAT WE LOOK AT IT BECAUSE IT IS GOING TO BE REALLY IMPORTANT AND WE LIKE UPDATE PHRASING AND WHAT QUESTIONS WE'RE GONNA ASK AND HOW CLARIFICATION ON THAT.
SO WE HAVE A BUNCH OF QUESTIONS ALREADY FROM THE DIVERSITY GROUP AND WE CAN ADD ONE MORE IF YOU WANT.
WELL, WE CAN, THE REASON I SAID ONE IS BECAUSE WHEN WE'RE, WHEN WAS TALKING ABOUT IT WITH JACQUELINE IS THAT SHE THINKS THOSE QUESTIONS NEED TO CONTINUALLY BE ASKED TO SEE HOW THEY EVOLVE MM-HMM
BUT SHE SAID WE WANT, SHE DID ALSO NOTE, UM, NOTE THAT WE DO WANNA UPDATE THE LANGUAGE, RIGHT? MM-HMM
BECAUSE IT IS OUR COMMISSION, OUR, THE NAME OF OUR COMMISSION AND OUR TAGLINE MM-HMM
AND YOU BELONG IN HU, WHICH I LOVE.
AND I'M SUPER EXCITED FOR THAT.
DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU BELONG IN HU? YOU BELONG IN HU? UM, AND I THINK THAT, UM, AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT THAT CAME.
SO WE HAD PITCHED UP THE IDEA OF, WELL, WHAT'S ONE QUESTION THAT WE WANNA ADD OR TAKE OUT ON YOUR PLACE? SO MAYBE IT'S THE SAME NUMBER OF QUESTIONS.
THAT'S WHAT KIND OF CAME DOWN TO THAT BECAUSE IT'S REALLY ALL, THEY'RE ALL REALLY GOOD, IMPORTANT QUESTIONS.
AND THEN WE DON'T KEEP ASKING THEM, WE DON'T RECOGNIZE THE TRENDS AND THE DATA.
LIKE TO YOUR POINT, ARE THEY GOING UP? ARE THEY GOING DOWN? SO THAT'S WHY I SAID WE WANNA DO WHAT'S ONE QUESTION, DO WE WANT ASK OR ADD? THAT'S WHERE THAT CAME FROM.
BUT WE CAN, IF WE DECIDE TO STUDY THAT DATA AND SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, LET'S JUST START ALL OVER AGAIN.
MAYBE WE WANNA COMPLETELY CHANGE OUR LENS AND HOW WE WANT, WHAT WE WANNA LEARN MAYBE HAS CHANGED A LITTLE BIT.
AND WE NEED TO SHIFT OUR FOCUS BECAUSE OF WHAT WE'RE LEARNING ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY THROUGH THE WORK.
SIR, I WAS GONNA SAY ONE THING, I, I CAN SENSE I, BECAUSE OF THE SAMPLE SIZE BEING SO SMALL MM-HMM
400, I WOULD LIKE TO STICK WITH THE SAME QUESTION, BUT IF THEY BROUGHT IT UP TO LIKE 2000 PEOPLE AND TO SEE HOW IT WOULD FLUCTUATE THAT, BUT, UH, BUT UM, BUT YEAH, I'M, I'M LOOKING AT THE QUESTIONS.
I'M LOOKING AT THE DATA AND, AND I'M LIKE, OKAY, BUT THAT'S, I MEAN, THEY ASKED THE SAME THING IN 20 22, 20 24, IF WE'RE COMING INTO 20, 26 MM-HMM
BUT IF IT'S A LARGER, A LARGE, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THOSE SAME QUESTIONS MM-HMM
AND HOW A LARGER SEGMENT OF THE, UH, A POPULATION WILL FILL AND WHERE THE, UH, YOU KNOW, SEE WHERE THE, UH, SHIFT WILL HAPPEN IF IT'S GOING UP OR IF IT'S, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S MY RECOMMENDATION QUESTION THOUGH.
HOW MANY, UH, SURVEYS DID THEY SEND OUT? I THINK YOU ALREADY ASKED THAT.
DID THEY? I DON'T THINK THEY SAID HOW MANY THEY SENT.
I THINK THEY JUST SAID HOW MANY THEY GOT BACK.
THAT'S WHAT I'M WONDERING HOW MANY THE RETURN RATE WAS.
YEAH, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION TO ASK.
MY QUESTION ON THAT WOULD BE IN EVERY, I KNOW THAT THEY'RE RANDOM, BUT DO THEY HAVE FAIL SAFES BUILT IN SO THAT WHERE THEY'RE NOT SOME RANDOM, MAYBE SOME PEOPLE WIN THE LOTTERY, MAYBE THEY'RE GETTING THE QUE, THEY ALWAYS GET THE SERMON, THEY ALWAYS GET TO RESPOND.
DO THEY, THOSE ARE QUESTIONS WE CAN ASK, YOU KNOW, WELL, IT COULD BE A, FOR THE SURVEY GOT BACK, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT PERCENTAGE GOT BACK.
AND HOW DO THEY ENSURE THAT THE RANDOMNESS REALLY IS RANDOM? THEY'RE HITTING DIFFERENT PEOPLE EVERY YEAR.
UM, HOW DO THEY DECIDE WHAT'S THE MINIMUM? YEAH.
OF THESE KIND OF WIDE DATA QUESTIONS ARE DEFINITELY STEPS.
IT'S PROBABLY LIKE STATISTICALLY THEY'RE PROBABLY USING A SAMPLE SIZE POPULATION ON THE SURVEY DATA.
DO WE WANNA TAKE AN ACTION THAT WE ACTUALLY WRITE THESE OUT FORM THESE QUESTIONS THAT WE HAVE AND SUBMIT THEM TO E-E-E-T-C? SO ONE, ONE OF THE THINGS I WAS GONNA SAY IS, I KNOW A LOT OF TIMES FOR SOME OF THESE SURVEY, UM, COMPANIES, THEY HAVE LIKE DONE A LOT OF RESEARCH ABOUT SPECIFIC QUESTIONS, RIGHT? MM-HMM
LIKE, BECAUSE WHEN I SEE A QUESTION, I MIGHT GET A COMPLETELY DIFF I MIGHT READ THAT QUESTION COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAN YOU MM-HMM
SO I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF LIKE RESEARCH THAT'S DONE AND SAY, OKAY, THIS IS HOW THIS QUESTION, UM, SHOULD BE PHRASED AND THIS IS WHAT THIS QUESTION TELLS US.
SO I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF THEY HAVE LIKE A BANK OF QUESTIONS AND LIKE, YOU PICK WHICH ONES YOU WANT TO GO.
SO MAYBE IT'S NOT SO MUCH THAT WE HAVE TO COME UP WITH A NEW QUESTION, BUT WE CAN SEE LIKE, HEY, DO YOU GUYS HAVE A QUESTION IN YOUR KIND OF LIKE, IN YOUR, YEAH.
IN YOUR, IN YOUR TOOLBOX IN YOUR BANK THAT'S SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSES BELONGING MM-HMM
AND SAY, HEY, CAN YOU GUYS, I REALLY LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW, AND ADD THAT ONE TO IT.
UM, I THINK THE OTHER THING WAS WHEN WE START LOOKING AT LIKE, THE NUMBERS, UM, OF, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT ARE IN THIS, I THINK IT WOULD BE GOOD JUST FROM LIKE A PROCESS STANDPOINT, YOU KNOW, JUST LIKE HOW WE IN THE PACKET ALWAYS INCLUDE THE, THE ACTION PLAN, THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
CAN WE TAKE THOSE TWO SLIDES THAT HAVE THE, UM, QUESTIONS THAT RELATE TO OUR
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COMMISSION THAT WILL, WE KIND OF KEEP THOSE NUMBERS UPFRONT MM-HMMSO WHEN WE'RE LOOKING THROUGH THE PACKET, WE'RE SEEING THAT CHANGE FROM THE 56 TO 62.
LIKE INSTEAD OF ALWAYS HAVING TO GO BACK TO THE 180 PAGE DOCUMENT IN THE MEETING, IS THAT, OH, YOU WANNA JUST EXTRACT THOSE AND YEAH.
EXTRACT THEM AND HAVE IT LIKE RIGHT HERE WITH THIS SO THAT IT'S KIND OF LIKE TOP LINE LINE AND WE'RE ABLE TO SEE IS THAT POSSIBLE? YEAH.
BECAUSE THAT, THAT 2000, YEAH.
IF YOU LOOK AT 20, 20, 24 AND YOU LOOK AT THOSE TWO QUESTIONS, THAT'S KIND OF SETTING YOUR BENCHMARK.
THEN WHEN THEY RUN THE SURVEY AND WHEN WE GET THE RESULTS TO SEE WHERE, YOU KNOW, WHERE THE NEEDLE MOVED TOWARDS.
SO YOU THE ON, UH, YEAH, IT'S OKAY WHERE I START EXACTLY.
SO PAGE, UH, EIGHT, NO, I'M SORRY, 22 AND 23 OF THAT BIG PACKET.
SO THAT'S ONE ACTION ITEM WE CAN TAKE ON THE, UH, COMMUNITY SURVEY DATA FOR ITEM 7.3, JUST TO HAVE THOSE IN THE FUTURE PRESENT, UM, PART OF OUR PACKET.
AND THEN, UM, THE OTHER ITEM WAS, OH, I WAS ASKING DO WE WANT TO, SO I WOULD IMAGINE, I, I, I, AND I HAVEN'T LOOKED AT THEIR WEBSITE, BUT I THINK A LOT OF THOSE QUESTIONS THEY WERE ASKING HOW THEY GET THE DATA, HOW THEY DECIDE, THEY PROBABLY ANSWER ON THEIR WEBSITE, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE CAN'T SUBMIT TO, UM, BODIE'S.
POINT IS WE CAN SUBMIT A QUESTION.
I, I LOVE THE IDEA OF SPECIFICALLY ZEROING IN ON HOW DOES YOUR AND CURRENT LIKE BANK OF QUESTIONS AND YOU APPROACH, UM, ZERO IN ON, ON ESTABLISHING OR MEASURING A SENSE OF BELONGING IN THE COMMUNITY.
IS THAT AN ACTION ITEM THAT WE WANNA, WE WANNA TAKE? LET'S MAKE A, MAKE A MOTION TO DO THAT.
WHAT IF WE, SO, SO THE MOTION, THE ACTION IS ONE ABOUT HIS REQUEST TO HAVE, THERE'S TWO HAVE THE, THE SLIDES PART OF OUR PACKET FOR ANOTHER MEETING.
AND THE OTHER ONE IS TO, UM, FORMULATE A QUESTION TO EDC SPECIFICALLY FOCUSED ON HOW DO THEY, UM, DO THEY HAVE A QUESTION ALREADY IN THEIR BANK OR COULD THEY FORMULATE A QUESTION TO SPECIFICALLY GET A SENSE OF BELONGING IN THE COMMUNITY? YOU UNDERSTAND THAT, RIGHT? UH, YEAH.
SO WHAT, WHAT PAGES DID YOU SAY? WELL, SORRY, WITH, UH, SO 2024.
'CAUSE I SAW QUESTION SIX IS YEAH.
21 THROUGH 20, BECAUSE SOME OF 'EM ARE FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS ON, RIGHT.
THERE'S MORE ON LIKE FROM MY ACTION, I'M, I'VE TAKEN NOTES AND THAT'S JUST SOMETHING I'LL DO.
WE DON'T NEED TO TAKE AN OFFICIAL.
VOTE ON THAT UNLESS YOU WANT TO.
'CAUSE IT'S EXTRACTING THE DATA BASICALLY.
AND THEN, UM, ASKING ETC, WHICH I THINK WILL COME AS ABBY AND STAFF START TO MEET WITH THEM.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO ON OUR END.
WE WOULD TAKE AN ACTION ON WHETHER WE WANT USE THAT.
WE DON'T NEED TO MAKE ON THAT.
BUT I HAVE IT HERE AS NOTES ON, ON OUR CARE OF THANK YOU.
UM, ANYTHING ELSE FOR PERTAINING TO THE COMMUNITY SURVEY DATA FOR ITEM 7.3 TO ADD? AND I CAN DO THIS AFTER THE WEEK, I, I SPENT MY ENTIRE CAREER DOING DATA ANALYSIS, PROBABLY MODELING JUST AS A MATH PERSON.
I CAN ADD TO THIS, MAYBE HELP YOU FORMULATE YOUR QUESTIONS, BUT I THINK ETC IS THE BOTTOM LINE.
THAT'S YOUR, THE RIGHT PATH OF WHEN YOU, YOU TALK ABOUT A STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF 95% PLUS OR MINUS 4.7%.
THAT MEANS IF YOU DID THIS ITERATION OF A THOUSAND TIMES 950 TIMES, YOU WOULD GET THE SAME RESULT PLUS OR MINUS THE FIVE MINUS.
TAKE THAT INTO, AND AS FAR AS THE STATISTICAL STATISTIC, 29 4 29, EVEN IF YOU'VE GOT A MULTI A HUNDRED THOUSAND, IF YOU TAKE 30 TO 60 DATA POINTS AND THEY'RE PROPERLY PICKED, YOU HAVE USUALLY A HIGH 90% CONFIDENCE.
SO IT'S, SO THE, THE QUESTION, I LIKE THE QUESTION QUESTION THE MOST SHE SAID IS THAT HOW MANY WERE SENT OUT, UH, AND HOW MANY WERE TURNED.
BUT IF THEY WERE PICKED TRULY RANDOMLY FROM A MATHEMATICAL, IT DOESN'T MATTER, WHICH, LET'S SAY THERE WAS
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500 SENT OUT AND YOU GOT 429 IN THIS BATCH AND 429 OUTTA DISPATCH, THEY SHOULD BE IDENTICAL.THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT ABOUT THE QUESTIONS.
BUT WRITING THE QUESTIONS IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT AND NO FAULT OF OTHER CITY SURVEYS.
BUT WE DID ONE ON PARKS ABOUT TRAILS PARK LANDS AND THINGS, BUT THE QUESTIONS WERE WRITTEN BY THE PARKS DEPARTMENT AND, AND THE WAY THEY ANALYZED IT WAS USED BASICALLY A LITTLE PRIMITIVE AI AND THEY COUNTED WORDS.
SO THEY COUNTED THE TIMES PARK WAS USED AND IT WAS 85% OF THE TIME.
SO THEY SAID, WE HAVE AN 85% APPROVAL IN WHICH FOR PARKS DIDN'T TAKE WHETHER THERE WAS A NEGATIVE OR PAR REFERENCE.
BUT WHEN YOU GO LOOK AT TRAIL, EXCUSE ME, OPEN SPACE AND PLAYGROUNDS, AND YOU LOOKED AT THOSE, IT WAS A THREE TO ONE RATIO.
SO IT MIS IT WAS MISLEADING BUT NOT BY PURPOSE.
IT'S JUST THAT THEY DIDN'T MAKE THE QUESTIONS APPROPRIATE.
AND NOW YOU DON'T FAULT ANYBODY FOR THAT.
'CAUSE WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT A SPECIFIC TOPIC, IT'S KIND OF OKAY FOR THAT.
ESPECIALLY IF YOU WANT SOMETHING QUICK TURN.
OBVIOUSLY I'M NOT TRYING TO SPEAK FOR ETC, I THINK THE QUESTIONS SHOULD BE POSED TO THEM AND NOT LISTEN TO A RETIRED ENGINEER FROM WAY BACK.
BUT I, I, I DON'T FEEL I FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH THE 4 29 NUMBER.
UM, BUT YOU CAN SAY, WELL THAT IS, YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE A THOUSAND SAMPLES OR ACTUALLY THE POPULATION OF, OF, OF 10,000 AND YOU HAVE SAMPLE POPULATION OF, OF 4 29, THAT CAN BE STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT IF YOU PICK THE QUESTIONS AND IT'S RANDOMLY CHOSEN AS WELL AS SIGNIFICANT AS IF THERE WERE A MILLION POPULATION AND YOU TOOK 429 OF THAT, YOU CAN STILL HAVE THE SAME TYPE OF STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE IF THEY FOLLOW THE PHD MATH STUFF, WHICH IS STILL KIND OF OVER MY HEAD.
BUT I WOULD, I WOULD, I WOULD FOCUS THOSE DON'T TAKE MY WORD.
I'M JUST HELPING YOU FORMULATE WHAT QUESTIONS AND WHAT PERSPECTIVE ETC IS THE BOTTOM LINE.
AND I THINK THIS IS NOT ONLY FOR DEIB, IT'S ALSO FOR THE WHOLE, MAYBE THEY WANT TO COME BACK WITH THE WHOLE THING, UH, AS HOW TO EXPLAIN THAT THING.
BUT I, I THINK THIS IS A REALLY GOOD SURVEY.
I, I WILL NOTE THAT IT WAS PUBLISHED IN JANUARY, 2024, SO IT'S PROBABLY APPROACHING, IF NOT OVER TWO YEARS OLD, YEARS AGO.
SO, AND THAT'S ALL, THAT'S, YEAH.
ABOUT THE RANDOMNESS AND, AND NO, TO YOUR POINT WITH, UH, IS, YOU KNOW, E UH, ETC, THEY, LIKE YOU SAID, THEY HAVE A BANK OF QUESTIONS.
IT'S REALLY JUST ASKING QUESTIONS.
HEY, WE LIKE THESE QUESTIONS MOVING FORWARD.
DO YOU HAVE ONE ON BELONGING? THIS IS, AND THEY WILL HELP KIND OF FIXATE LIKE, OKAY, THIS QUESTION WILL HELP KIND OF MIRROR THIS QUESTION OR REALLY EVOLVE THIS QUESTION INTO THIS.
SO IT'S NOT TOO FAR OFF OF WHAT THEY'VE BEEN ASKING.
SO YEAH, DEFINITELY, UH, ASKING THEM THAT QUESTION OF IF THEY HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS AND THEY, MOST LIKELY THEY DO.
YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU, AND WHEN THEY, HEY, WHAT, WHAT IS, WHAT IS YOUR THOUGHTS AS FAR AS YOUR TRENDS THAT YOU ASK QUESTIONS NOW THAT WE GRADUATE FROM HERE? WHAT'S ANOTHER QUESTION THAT WE COULD ASK OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? SO, AND I LIKE, I LIKE THAT I, YEAH.
THAT WE CAN FOCUS OR, YOU KNOW, MAKE THAT SUGGESTION.
AND I LOOK AT IT LIKE EVEN IF SOMEBODY'S
AND I WAS KIND OF SCRAMBLING AND THE TRAFFIC WAS REALLY BACKED UP AND I'M LIKE SO MAD AT MY TRUCK AND I'M LISTENING TO RAGE ROCK.
SO TAKE MY FRUSTRATIONS BECAUSE I'M BY MYSELF, BUT I LIKE, I STILL FEEL LIKE I BELONG AT HEAVEN.
NOT TO BE CHEESY, BUT I MEAN THAT'S THE DISPARITY, RIGHT? EVERY, ALL OF THE RESULTS WERE SO POSITIVE AND THEN IT'S LIKE RED THE ROADS AND THE TRAFFIC AND MANAGING GROWTH, WHICH IS EXPECTED.
I MEAN, I WANT TO ADD ONE THING.
RE ITERATE WHAT COMMISSIONER BELL SAID EARLIER, THERE ARE A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THE QUESTIONS YOU SHOULD NOT CHANGE 'CAUSE OF YOUR POINT.
I'M NOT SAYING YOU CAN'T ADD QUESTIONS, BUT THE CORE QUESTIONS THAT, ESPECIALLY THE ONES THAT YOU FEEL IN THIS COMMISSION IS FOCUSING ON, I WOULD LEAVE WORD FOR WORD THE SAME.
YOU CAN CHANGE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE LABEL.
BUT I, AGAIN, WHEN YOU'RE GOING OUT, YOU KNOW, THE WHOLE PART OF BEING STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT AND RANDOM IS THAT THOSE QUESTIONS, YOU CAN'T SAY APPLES TO APPLES WORK.
COMMISSIONER BELL WAS RIGHT ON ON THAT.
BUT YOU CAN ALWAYS ADD EXTRA QUESTIONS.
AND THEN ONCE YOU GET TWO OR THREE YEARS IN NOW, NOW BECOME THE STANDARD TO ADD TO
UM, ANYTHING ELSE? UH, FOR DISCUSSION ON ITEM 7.3 THAT WE NEED TO PERTAINING TO OUR COMMITTEE SURVEY DATA? THAT WAS A GOOD DISCUSSION.
I KNOW THIS IS, I FORWARD TO OUR MEETINGS.
UM, THERE'S NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE I CAN
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NERD OUT ABOUT STUFF.THE CAST IS VERY SPECIFIC GROUP.
MY HUSBAND'S EYES WILL GLAZE OVER UNLESS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BASEBALL STATISTICS.
SO I'M MOVING ON TO ITEM 7.4, DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON THE LAUNCH OF THE WORKING GROUPS.
WE KIND OF PREEMPTIVELY TALKED ABOUT ABOUT EARLIER AND I THINK WE DID, OR DO WE NEED TO MAKE, WE KIND OF DECIDED THAT WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND DO THEM.
BUT DO GO AHEAD AND LAUNCH THEM THROUGH OUR HOW CONNECT TOOL AND OUR OWN SOCIAL MEDIA.
WE PROBABLY HAVE TO MAKE A MOTION.
THIS ITEM, IF THAT'S AS A QUESTION, WHAT Y'ALL ARE SAYING YOU'RE GOING TO BE DOING.
SO WE GET, WE NEED TO CLARIFY GO BACK TO 7.4 'CAUSE I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT IT BRIEFLY BE BEFORE, BUT LET'S BRING DISCUSSION MORE ATTENTION.
SO WE HAD EARLIER, BECAUSE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT RELATED ITEMS, LIKE THE UPDATE ON WHERE WE WERE ON THE SHORT TERM ACTION PLAN AND MY UPDATE TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND TO THE COMMUNITY.
UH, WE KIND OF, WE DID GO INTO, UM, THE WORKING GROUP.
'CAUSE THAT IS OUR BIG PRIORITY ITEM RIGHT NOW.
SO THE QUESTION IS, UM, GO AHEAD AND LAUNCHING THEM.
WE HAD PUT IT OFF BECAUSE WE WERE WAITING ON THE NEW COMMUNICATIONS PERSON AND WE'RE WAITING TO FILL UP OUR COMMISSION.
JUST A LOT OF CHANGES WERE HAPPENING.
SO I THINK EARLIER WHAT WE DISCUSSED AS FAR AS, UM, MOVING FORWARD LAUNCHING THEM, WHICH WOULD BE THROUGH HOW TO CONNECT AND THROUGH OUR OWN EFFORTS TO GET IT OUT THERE THROUGH OUR SOCIAL MEDIAS, THROUGH OUR COMMUNITY PAGES AND, AND START SCHEDULING IN-PERSON OPPORTUNITIES WHERE THESE GROUPS ARE ALREADY MEETING.
SO I MENTIONED, UM, UM, THE EEC, UM, THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, UM, FOR ME WITH WORKING WITH THE LIBRARY, WHICH IS ONE OF OUR ITEMS HERE TOO.
UM, GO AHEAD AND TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THOSE OPPORTUNITIES WHEN THEY'RE ALREADY BEING INVITED AND THEY HAVE A LOT OF TURNOUT FROM PEOPLE WHO IDENTIFY SENIOR CITIZENS AND GOING AND TALKING TO THEM ABOUT IT THERE.
SO WE HAVE A CONCENTRATED ON WIDE APPROACH TO LETTING, THIS IS JUST LETTING PEOPLE KNOW THAT THESE THREE GROUPS ARE FORMING AND LOOKING FOR PEOPLE THAT WANNA BE A PART OF IT AND WANNA LEAD IT.
AND WE'RE GONNA BE LIAISONS TO THOSE.
UM, THERE IS A VETERAN IN THE COMMUNITY WHO'S NOT A PART OF A COMMISSION WHO'S INTERESTED IN LAUNCHING THE VETERANS COMMISSION.
AND, BUT SHE DID ALSO DISCLOSE TO ME THAT SHE IS GONNA BE, UM, WHAT DID IT CALL DEPLOYED.
SO SHE WANTS TO, SHE ASKED IF, IF, IF WE WERE GONNA BE DOING SOMETHING FOR VETERANS THAT SHE WOULD BE A PART OF.
AND I TOLD HER WE MAY BE LAUNCHING THESE GROUPS.
SO WE DO HAVE SOME ROOTS FOR STARTING THE VETERANS GROUP.
WE DON'T HAVE A PERSON LEADING IT JUST YET.
UNLESS ONE COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON WANTS TO BE THE LIAISON.
UM, BUT ALL THAT BEING SAID, ARE WE IN AGREEMENT WE WANNA MOVE FORWARD WITH LAUNCHING THE GROUPS OF TAKING THAT RESPONSIBILITY OURSELVES TO PUT IT ON HOW TO CONNECT AND GETTING THE WORD OUT.
SO JUST TO CLARIFY, WHEN WE SAY LAUNCH IN THE GROOVE, I KNOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PUTTING IT ON, UM, CONNECT, BUT THAT'S TO, THAT'S FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES, RIGHT? YEAH.
THAT'S THE LAUNCH THAT WE CAN DO IS JUST, WE HAVEN'T EVEN FORMALLY, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT IN MEETINGS AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT PUBLICLY.
WE HAVEN'T FORMALLY LAUNCHED AS IN THIS IS HAPPENING AND LETTING THE COMMUNITY KNOW THIS IS MOVING FORWARD AND ALLOWING THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO SIGN TO EXPRESS INTEREST.
SO THE OTHER PART OF THAT IS THAT WE NEEDED A WAY TO CAPTURE RESPONSE AND INTEREST.
WE COULD, AND WE COVERED IT AT THE LAST MEETING, IT CAN BE AS SIMPLE AS A GOOGLE FORM.
PEOPLE JUST GIVE THEIR BASIC INFORMATION AND THEY'LL, THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO EXPRESS INTEREST WILL BE GIVEN THE DATE WHEN OUR CONSULTANT WILL HAVE THE ORIENTATION AND TRAINING.
AND WE WANNA GIVE PEOPLE PLENTY OF TIME TO BE AWARE OF IT AND PLENTY OF TIME TO ASK QUESTIONS OF US.
SO WE COULD BE THAT WE LAUNCH THE AWARENESS OF THE CAMPAIGN, I GUESS YOU COULD CALL IT.
AND THEN THE, THEY WOULD ACTUALLY, THE DETAILS START MEETING IN THE, YOU KNOW, IN 2026 AFTER THE HOLIDAYS.
SO THIS IS YOUR DETAILS, RIGHT? YEAH.
THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S WHAT WE'LL BE.
THIS IS, THIS IS YOUR DETAILS AS FAR AS WHAT CITIZENS WILL BE LOOKING AT AS FAR AS KIND OF THE WORKING GROUP.
IF YOU GO TO THIS ITEM HERE, THE FIRST THING, UM, ONE, ONE DASH TWO MM-HMM
AND IT TALKS ABOUT, UM, THREE FOCUS WORKING GROUPS AND, UH, YOU KNOW, MAKING THAT ANNOUNCEMENT.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
WE, UH, OUR GOAL WAS TO KINDA LAUNCH THAT, UH, JULY, AUGUST.
BUT BECAUSE DUE TO, UH, TURNOVER IN THE COMMISSION AND, AND EVERYTHING, WE PUSHED IT AND COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER, WE PUSHED IT TO LIKE OCTOBER IS RIGHT NOW.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, WE ALREADY HAVE PRETTY MUCH THE FRAMEWORK.
WE HAVE THE FOCUS GROUPS THAT WE'RE LOOKING TOWARDS THOSE THREE.
UH, THIS IS GONNA BE DEFINED OF WHAT WE'RE ASKING CITIZENS TO JOIN UP ON AS FAR AS THE WORK.
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BUT NOW WE'RE LOOKING TO VOTE TO GO AHEAD AND PUT IT ON HUDDLE CONNECT SO WE CAN GET THE WORD OUT.DO WE HAVE THE INTEREST FORM ALREADY MADE UP? UH, BECAUSE
SO WHEN SHE COMES BACK, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THAT.
'CAUSE I THINK IT IS MORE OF JUST ANNOUNCING THAT, RIGHT? HEY, THE, UH, DEIB IS KIND OF MAKING A, MAKING A CALL.
YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE CALLING OUT OPPORTUNITIES TO COME, MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW, BUT IT'S JUST KIND OF GETTING THE WORD OUT THAT, HEY, WE'RE LOOKING TO, BUT TO YOUR POINT, I GUESS THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT.
BECAUSE I THINK THAT SHE WAS SAYING ABOUT HAVING, UH, A GOOGLE, SIMPLE GOOGLE FORM.
AND I THINK IF WE HAVE THAT READY, WE CAN JUST START GETTING INTEREST AND LET, AND THAT MIGHT KIND OF, AND THAT MIGHT BE THE THING.
'CAUSE I DON'T THINK WE HAVE A GOOGLE FORM READY, BUT I, THAT MIGHT BE THE THING.
WE MIGHT WAIT TO MAKE THAT ANNOUNCEMENT TO, THEY WERE SAYING WHEN PEOPLE, IF WE MAKE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT OR HUDDLE, UH, CONNECT MM-HMM
AND YOU MENTIONED THE GOOGLE FORM.
IF WE HAVE THE GOOGLE FORM READY? YEAH.
IT'S ALREADY OH NO, WE COULD JUST LINK IT IN.
SO, SO MY, MY ONLY CONCERN WOULD BE IF WE'RE GOING TO, BECAUSE I, I THINK THE CHALLENGE WITH, WITH LIKE WORKING GROUPS OR ANYTHING WHERE YOU'RE KIND OF ASKING PEOPLE TO VOLUNTEER THEIR TIME MM-HMM
IS THE MOMENT WE LOSE THE MOMENTUM, WE'RE KIND OF LIKE STAGNANT AGAIN.
SO I FEEL LIKE IF, YOU KNOW, TO THAT POINT, IF WE HAVE A GOOGLE FORM THAT ACCOMPANIES THE ANNOUNCEMENT MM-HMM
YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE IF I LOOK AND I SEE, OKAY.
MORE INFORMATION TO FOLLOW, I MIGHT NOT COME BACK.
THE IDEA IS THAT THE LINK, THE, THE OU THAT THE DESCRIPTION ANNOUNCEMENT WOULD HAVE THE LINK WE BOOK AND START
SO, AND THEN WE WOULD SET A DATE WITH, UM, WITHSTAND THE CONSULTANT TO DO THE ORIENTATION AND TRAINING, WHICH WOULD BE AFTER THE HOLIDAY SEASON.
SO WE WOULD, IF WE WERE TO MOVE FORWARD, AND AGAIN, WE ALSO WANNA GET GUIDANCE FROM, FROM ABBY.
SO SHOULD THE, SO THEN SHOULD THE, THE, THE, THE ACTION, IF WE'RE GONNA VOTE, THE, UH, DO WE NEED TO CONFIRM WHAT'S GOING OR CONFIRM THE FORM BEFORE WE CONFIRM THE LAUNCH, I GUESS IS MY QUESTION.
IF IT ANSWERS FORM ALREADY, BILL, IT'S UP TO Y'ALL.
IF IT'S JUST A SIMPLE, IT'S UP TO YOU GUYS IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT IT FIRST, OR IF THAT, I DON'T KNOW WHO'S GONNA CREATE THE FORM.
IF YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO GET BASIC INFORMATION, LIKE NAME, WHAT GROUP THEY MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN, AND MAYBE THE WHY, LIKE, LIKE THE THREE, UM, OR YEAH, VERY SIMPLE FORM.
WHATEVER, HOWEVER YOU WANT TO.
SO WE NEED TO, I I WHAT I'M HEARING, WE PROBABLY NEED TO CREATE THE FORM AND WHAT THAT FORMAT WOULD LOOK LIKE BEFORE WE, UH, LAUNCH IT.
MAYBE THE CONSULTANT THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH ALREADY HAS A TEMPLATE FOR THIS FOR INTEREST.
BUT ISN'T IT JUST NO, HE DIDN HAVE ONE WE'RE ASKING FOR.
SO WE DOES ASK FOR THE INFORMATION.
WE'RE JUST, IT IS JUST AN INTEREST FORM.
SO WE HAD, WE HAD DISCUSSED DOING, YOU KNOW, NAME, CONTACT INFO, WHICH FORM, WHICH GROUP THEY WOULD BE MOST INTERESTED IN, AND THEN AN OPTIONAL WHY THEY'RE INTERESTED IN IT.
'CAUSE SOME, SOMETIMES PEOPLE USE THAT FOR QUESTIONS AND THINGS.
SO IT WOULD BE LIKE A VERY SIMPLE FORM BECAUSE ALL WE'RE DOING IS TRYING TO LAUNCH THE AWARENESS OF IT.
SO IT WOULD GO THROUGH, YOU KNOW, THIS SEASON AND THEN, UM, WITH THE GOAL OF HAVING AN ORIENTATION, THEY WOULD SAY, UM, THERE WILL BE A TRAINING AND ORIENTATION.
IF PEOPLE THAT WANNA LEAD THE GROUP, IT WOULD BE A PART OF IT IN THE SPRING OR WINTER, I GUESS.
WE DON'T REALLY HAVE SEASONS HERE, BUT, YOU KNOW, IN JANUARY OF 2026 AND MAYBE CALL IT WINTER.
UM, AND THEN THAT WAY PEOPLE WOULD KNOW, AND THEN THE SAME PEOPLE WOULD GET THE OFFICIAL DATE.
'CAUSE WE HAVEN'T SET, THE OFFICIAL DATE WAS DONE BECAUSE WE WERE, WE'D BE MOVING THINGS AROUND QUITE A BIT, BUT HE'S COMMITTED TO BEING AVAILABLE FOR US WHEN WE'RE READY.
I THINK WE NEED TO CREATE A FORM.
SO JUST A REAL SIMPLE, WE, WE, I DON'T KNOW IF WE DO IT NOW OR WE NEED TO DO THIS AS HOMEWORK AND BREAK IT TO THE NEXT MEETING.
I I CAN DO IT OR YOU CAN DO IT.
ANYBODY CAN DO THE SIMPLE GOOGLE FORM WITH THE, WITH THE GENERAL INTEREST QUESTION.
I'M JUST SAYING TO THE HOW TO CONNECT.
NO, I'M JUST SAYING, I, WHEN I SAY CREATE A FORM, NOT DOING THE GOOGLE FORM, BUT I'M NOT, OH, I'M SORRY.
WHAT'S GOING BE, WHAT'S GOING BE ON THE FORM? WHAT, WHAT, WHAT'S THAT? HOW TO CONNECT.
FIRST NAME, LAST NAME, ADDRESS, TELEPHONE NUMBER, UH, SECONDARY TELEPHONE NUMBER, EMAIL ADDRESS.
WHAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO? CHECK THIS BOX THAT.
UH, ONE ARE YOUR AVAILABLE? DON'T I I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
I THINK BA I THINK THE, THE, THE BASICS SHOULD BE CONTACT INFORMA NAME, CONTACT INFORMATION, WHICH WORKING GROUP.
AND THEN I DO LIKE KIND OF HAVING LIKE A FREEFORM SECTION THAT MAYBE WHY THEY'RE INTERESTED MM-HMM
BECAUSE WE MIGHT EVEN IN THAT SCENARIO, IF
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SOMEONE HAS A DIFFERENT UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THE WORKING GROUPS ARE, BE ABLE TO GAUGE THAT FROM THEIR RESPONSE.UM, AND THEN I THINK YOU JUST KEEP IT SIMPLE FROM THERE.
YOU KNOW, LIKE, IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE LIKE A WHOLE, JUST REAL QUICK, HOW DO WE GET IN CONTACT WITH YOU? WHAT'S YOUR, WHO ARE YOU? THE ONLY OTHER THING I WOULD SUGGEST IS A BOX THAT SAYS I'M 18 YEARS OR OLDER.
I KNOW THAT THERE'S, THERE WILL BE YOUTH GROUPS LATER, BUT FOR THIS PARTICULAR, UM, JUST WANNA MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THAT.
BUT I'M JUST SAYING, I THINK WE NEED TO, WE NEED TO GO DO SOME HOMEWORK AND EVERYBODY COME BACK WITH THEIR NDI ADDITIONAL FORM.
WELL, UM, WE ARE GOING TO, WELL WE ARE GONNA MEETING WITH ABBY ON MONDAY.
I DO HAVE A CALL WITH HER AT NINE.
SO I'M GONNA, THIS IS THE QUESTION I'M GONNA ASK HER.
SHE MIGHT BE LIKE, Y'ALL ARE CRAZY, WE'RE NOT GONNA DO THAT.
OR SHE MIGHT SAY, THAT'S GREAT.
UM, BUT THE INTENTION IS THAT WE, WHATEVER UPDATE COMES OUT OF THAT, IF IT IS A FORM OR WHATEVER THAT LOOKS LIKE, I CAN SEND THAT TO EVERYONE AND Y'ALL I CAN JUST SEND IT.
THE INDIVIDUAL, YOU CAN RESPOND AND SAY YES, NO, WHATEVER, AND WITHOUT HAVING TO COME BACK AND WASTE ANY MORE.
WE HAVE TO WASTE ANOTHER MONTH BEFORE.
BECAUSE I THINK THAT WHEN, LIKE, EVEN THE 18, I DIDN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT THAT, BUT THERE'S LIKE CERTAIN, IF THERE'S CERTAIN KIND OF REQUIREMENTS FOR VOLUNTEER THAT WE HAVE TO CONSIDER, THEN THAT SHOULD GO THROUGH THAT LENS TOO.
'CAUSE IF YOU'RE A CERTAIN AGE, YOU CAN'T WORK AFTER A CERTAIN HOUR.
DOES THAT APPLY? YEAH, THAT DOES APPLY TO CHILD LABOR LAWS OVERSEAS AND
SO IT'S, IT'S, IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE Y'ALL AS A COMMISSION ARE, ARE RUNNING THOSE WORKING GROUPS AS VOL.
Y'ALL AS VOLUNTEERS ARE RUNNING VOLUNTEERS.
SO I THINK I NEED TO GET SOME MORE CLARIFICATION.
NOW, IF THEY WERE HERE AT CITY HALL AND IT WAS A, AN OPERATION I WAS RUNNING OR SOMETHING, THEN YEAH, THERE'S LIKE A BACKGROUND TRACK AND THERE'S LIKE A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS.
BUT WHENEVER YOU APPLY TO SERVE ON THE BOARD, I MEAN, IT'S PRETTY SIMPLE.
UM, AND SO I WOULD THINK IT WOULD KIND OF BE THE SAME HERE, JUST AS LONG AS YOU'RE, YOU HAVE LIKE THE BASICS, LIKE THEY NEED TO BE AN ADULT AND THERE OTHER THINGS.
LIVING HUDDLE, BEING, SORRY, DID I HEAR YOU CORRECTLY? UH, CITY OF HUDDLE HAS A VOLUNTEER PO WE DO NEED TO LOOK AT THAT.
AND WE NEED TO TAKE SPEAK TO COMMISSIONERS RUNNING THE VOLUNTEER GROUPS.
NO, BUT YOU STILL, I I WOULD, I WOULD WANT TO VET IT BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S STILL THE CITY OF IDAHO.
I MEAN, YOU DEFINITELY, DEFINITELY VET I LIVE IN, BUT YEAH.
I MEAN, BUT I THINK THOSE BASIC THINGS, LIKE WE WANT TO KIND OF CREATE THAT FORM AND THEN JUST GET INFORMATION AND THEN JUST GET INFORMATION AND SEE DO WE NEED TO ADD ANYTHING MORE OR, BUT I THINK THE, THE, AS BASIC AS POSSIBLE IS GONNA BE BEST IF WE'RE JUST TRYING TO GAIN YEAH.
IF WE MAKE IT TOO LONG, LIKE YOU POINT, IT'S NOT A DROP.
CLICK OUT IT AND LIKE, OH MAN, GAIN THE FRIENDS THAT WE WANNA MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE FOR AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE MM-HMM
TO BE INCLUDED IN THOSE WORKING GROUPS.
AND DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY, UH, QUESTIONS OR ANY, UM, SUGGESTIONS FOR THE, THE ROLE DESCRIPTION THAT WE'VE BEEN COVERED? UM, NO.
I THINK IT, ARE WE DOING THAT, WHAT THEY'LL DO EXPECTATIONS, BUT THAT'S THAT 90 MINUTE, TWO HOUR ORIENTATION THAT'S GONNA BE, UH, PROVIDED.
UM, THAT THERE'S, IT'S VERY CLEARLY SAYING WHAT THE COMMITMENT IS FOUR TO EIGHT HOURS A MONTH, UM, MEETING AT LEAST, UM, EVERY OTHER MONTH, ESPECIALLY EVENTS IT'S NEEDED.
SO THAT'S, I MEAN, SOME GROUPS ARE ALREADY MEETING ANYWAY.
MAYBE THEY'RE ALL GONNA BE A PART OF A KNIT GROUP.
SO THEY'RE GONNA BE TALKING ABOUT IT ANYWAY.
CAN, CAN I ASK A QUESTION? YES.
THE 90 MINUTES TO TWO HOURS, IS THAT JUST A, UH, LIKE DO WE KNOW WHICH ONE IT IS? OR IS IT JUST THE 90 MINUTE TRAINING? I'M JUST ASKING ABOUT THE WINDOW.
SO IS IT 90 MINUTES OR IS IT TWO HOURS? SO THE REASON HE PUT YOU TWO HOURS, BECAUSE HE SEEMS THAT SOMETIMES PEOPLE, A VERY GOOD ENGAGED GROUP HAS A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
SO HE LEAVES A TWO HOUR WINDOW OPEN, BUT HE CAN COVER EVERYTHING IN 90 MINUTES IS WHAT HE WAS SAYING.
SO WHAT WE WANT TO JUST MAYBE JUST SAY IT'S A TWO HOUR ORIENTATION AND JUST YEAH, WE CAN CHANGE THAT.
IT'S JUST ALSO TO TWO OUR SOUNDS A LOT MORE INTIMIDATING THAN 90 MINUTES
I MEAN, IF IT'S TWO HOURS, IT'S TOO LOUD.
I'M TRYING TO KEEP YEAH, NO, IT'S OKAY.
AND THEN IT TALKS ABOUT A LITTLE ENCOURAGEMENT AND HOW TO APPLY AND THEN THAT'S WHERE THAT COMPLETE INTEREST FORM AND SEE HOW THAT'S ALREADY THERE.
WE JUST HAVEN'T LINKED IT TO ANYTHING.
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YEAH.THAT'S WHERE THAT INTEREST FORM WOULD BE.
SO IF I'M FOLLOWING THE CONVERSATION, IS THE MOTION TO THE QUESTION IS LAUNCH THE WORKING GROUPS AND BY LAUNCH IN OUR, IN OUR, WHERE WE ARE TODAY WOULD BE WORKING AND OF COURSE GETTING FORMAL DIRECTION ALSO FROM ABBY.
SHE MIGHT DECIDE WE CAN'T DO THIS RIGHT NOW, BUT IS OUR INTENTION TO, IS THE MOTION, THE INTENTION TO LAUNCH THE WORK GROUP AS IN MAKE IT PUBLICLY POSTED AND AVAILABLE AND COMMITTING TO GOING IN PERSON GROUPS AS MANY POSSIBLE, AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TOO.
LIKE I'LL BE WORKING TO FIND OUT WHERE ARE THE SENIOR CITIZENS MEETING, WHERE DID THEY GET TOGETHER? UM, COMMISSIONER BELL WILL BE LOOKING AT HOW TO, HOW DOES HE MEET WITH SMALL BUSINESSES TO GET THEM THE WORD IN PERSON? AND THEN, UM, HOPEFULLY COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON WILL STILL BE INTERESTED IN VETERANS.
BUT IS ANYBODY ELSE INTERESTED IN SUPPORTING THE VETERANS? IF COMMISSIONER BULLON DECIDES NOT TO HAVE THAT RULE, IT'S TO US JAVI TOO.
BUT IN THE MEANTIME, I MEAN, I COULD HELP, BUT I'M NOT REAL SAVVY, YOU KNOW, WITH THAT AREA.
I MEAN, AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A VETERAN, IT'S REALLY BEING THE LIAISON JUST MEANS THAT YOU ATTEND.
BUT IF THEY'RE, IF THEY'RE GONNA, IF YOU COMMUNICATE WITH THEM WITH THAT GROUP AND SAY, WHEN ARE YOU GUYS GONNA MEET? I'LL COME IN AND JUST LISTEN.
I'M THERE TO GET YOUR FEEDBACK AND BE THE LIAISON BACK TO US AND WHATEVER, GATHERING THE GROUPS.
AND ALSO, WE'RE GONNA BE PART OF THE ORIENTATION.
SO WE'RE GONNA INVITE THEM TO OUR COMMISSIONER MEETINGS.
THEY CAN SEND A REPRESENTATIVE AND JUST COME AND DO PUBLIC COMMENT OR TALK TO US ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE HEARING AND AS FAR AS WHAT THEY NEED AND HOW THEY'RE, HOW THEY'RE EXPERIENCING THE COMMUNITY.
BEING THAT THEY'RE AFFILIATED WITH THAT OR THEY FEEL AN AFFINITY TO THAT SPECIFIC GROUP THAT THEY'RE REPRESENTING.
SO WITH, WITH SEVEN POINTS FOR DISCUSSION AND THE POSSIBILITY, THE POSSIBLE ACTION ON THE LAUNCH OF WORKING GROUPS.
SO WHEN WE SAY LAUNCH, WE MEAN LAUNCH IT ON THE WEBSITE.
REALLY WE, WHAT WE'RE SAYING IS LAUNCHING THE
I LIKE THAT WOULD BE PENDING RIGHT FORMS, RIGHT? I MEAN, CAN WE, CAN WE, IS THERE A WAY TO WORD IT? I MEAN, ONCE, BECAUSE ONCE THE FORM IS CONFIRMED, THEN I FEEL LIKE WE'RE COMPENSATED, BUT THEN WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO VOTE ON IT AGAIN UNTIL NEXT MONTH.
WELL, YOU COULD VOTE CONTINGENT ON RIGHT.
BUT BEFORE WE GET THERE, DO WE HAVE A, LIKE A MAYBE IN SPANISH OR OTHER LANGUAGES THE SAME THING.
THAT'S WHAT WE WANNA WORK WITH OUR COMMUNICATIONS PERSON TO SEE WHAT THAT COULD LOOK LIKE.
BUT IN THE MEANTIME, SINCE WE ARE WILLING TO TAKE THAT RESPONSIBILITY, THEN WE WILL POST IT IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH.
OTHER LANGUAGES, I DON'T KNOW.
I KNOW WITH HOW TO CONNECT, I USED IT TO POST AN EVENT NOT TOO LONG AGO AND I WAS ABLE TO PUT THE LANGUAGE IN ENGLISH AND IN SPANISH, LITTLE DESCRIPTION.
UM, BUT WELL, ARE WE LIMITING IT? LIKE HOW ELSE DO WE, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE LANGUAGE WE TO CONSIDER? THERE'S A LOT OF LANGUAGES.
RIGHT? I WOULD JUST SAY THAT THE ONE THAT CA CAST THE WIDER WIDEST WEB WOULD BE ENGLISH AND SPANISH.
SO IF WE HAVE AT LEAST THOSE TWO TO GET STARTED, AND THEN WE CAN MAYBE LOOK AT OTHERS.
UH, BUT AT LEAST TO GET STARTED, I THINK IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE SPANISH.
AND MAYBE ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE THINGS WE'LL GET BACK IS THAT A GROUP WILL COME TO US AND SAY, HEY, YOU NEED TO INCLUDE THIS.
I MEAN, THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING THAT, AND THEN WE KNOW IT CAME FROM THOUGHT AND A GROUP OF PEOPLE.
THAT'S A GOOD, SO, UH, CONTINGENT ON, UH, THE FORM, AND I THINK WE NEED TO TABLE, I THINK WE NEED TO TABLE 7.4 TO THE NEXT MEETING BECAUSE WE'RE MAKING A LOT OF CONTINGENCY HERE.
THAT'S JUST WHAT I'M, I'M SENSING I CAN READ WHAT I HAVE RIGHT NOW ON THE TABLE, IF THAT'S HELPFUL.
UM, AND OF COURSE WE'LL TABLE IT, BUT THE COMMISSION WILL LIST THE WORKING GROUP SLASH INTEREST FORMS ON HOW TO CONNECT AND SHARE ON THEIR OWN EFFORTS VIA SOCIAL MEDIA, COMMUNIC PAGES, NEIGHBORHOODS, ET CETERA.
CONTINGENT ON THE FINALIZATION OF A GOOGLE FORM IN BOTH ENGLISH AND SPANISH.
THAT'S HOW, THAT'S HOW, THAT'S HOW I HAD IT WRITTEN.
I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO NO, NO, NO.
I WANTED TO MAKE SURE Y'ALL LOOK GOOD.
OH, HOW DO WE APPROVE THAT? IT'S DONE.
LIKE YOU'LL SEND OUT AN EMAIL, WE REPLY SAYING YES OR NO.
SO BASED ON THE CONVERSATION THAT COMMISSIONERS THE PAID HAD WITH THE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER ON MONDAY, UM, AT THAT POINT, WHATEVER THAT COMES, UM, YES, I
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WILL SEND THAT INFORMATION OUT.AND DOES IT NEED TO BE UNANIMOUS? YES.
OR HOW, HOW DO WE APPROVE IT? IT'S A DEMOCRACY.
IT'S MAJORITY GOING TO, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE UNANIMOUS, WHATEVER IS, BUT WE, WE NEED TO HAVE A CRITERIA FOR WHETHER IT'S PROVING OR NOT.
I MEAN, SO THAT'S PROBABLY WHERE, SO I CAN TAKE, WHAT I CAN DO IS IF THERE, IF THERE ARE ANY CHANGES OR RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE FORM, UM, I CAN MAKE THOSE AND THEN SEND OUT ABLA.
I HAVE TO BLIND COPY EVERYONE AND SAY, HEY, THIS IS HOW IT WAS, THIS IS HOW IT LOOKS NOW.
DOES EVERYONE AGREE? AND THEN WE WOULD JUST HAVE TO REALLY GO BACK AND FORTH, I GUESS, UNTIL EVERYONE'S ON THE SAME PAGE.
MY OPINION IS THAT IF IT'S NOT UNANIMOUS, THEN WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT IT OKAY.
BUT IF IT'S UNANIMOUS, THEN WE CAN GO AHEAD.
SO DO, DO YOU WANT, IS THAT A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO THE MOTION? THAT'S JUST MY OPINION.
I MEAN, I JUST WANNA, DO YOU WANT ME TO ADD THAT TO THE MOTION? UH, THE CONTINGENT ON THE FINALIZATION OF A GOOGLE FORM IN BOTH ENGLISH AND SPANISH WITH, UM, UNANIMOUS UNANIM SYN APPROVAL.
YOU CHECK YOUR EMAILS NEXT WEEK.
YEAH, I MEAN A DEADLINE TOO, IF THEY DON'T HEAR ANYTHING.
IT COMES BACK UP NEXT MONTH AND THEN WE CAN, YOU KNOW, FINE TUNE IT.
I DON'T WANNA
SO TIMEFRAME FROM WHEN WE PUT IT ON, ON, UH, HUDDLE TO CONNECT TO WHEN WE'RE EXPECTING ACTION IS WHAT? JANUARY.
SO IF WE, FEBRUARY, THAT'S JUST THE KIND OF THE, THE HOLDING SPOT RIGHT NOW.
SO WE LAUNCHED THIS, LET'S JUST SAY BETWEEN, 'CAUSE OUR NEXT MEETING IS WHEN NOVEMBER, WEDNESDAY, THIRD TUESDAY OR THE THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY TIME.
IS, IS IT THAT TIME SENSITIVE TO WHERE WE CAN'T WORK THE FORM THROUGH EMAIL, COME TO THE NEXT COMMISSION MEETING WITH AN APPROVAL AND THEN ACT FROM THERE? WELL, I WANNA WARN US THAT IF WE'RE PUTTING IT OFF UNTIL THE NEXT MEETING, THEN WE'RE GOING TO THE HOLIDAYS AND WE SHOULD JUST SCRAP IT UNTIL 2026, WHICH WAS ME PERSONALLY, I DON'T WANNA PUT THE LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT INTO 2026.
I WOULD RATHER TAKE THIS SEASON TO GET THE WORD OUT SO THAT WE CAN OFFICIALLY LAUNCH THAN MEETING IN EARLY 2026 AND GIVE THEM THE BEST, YOU KNOW, RUNWAY TO BE MEETING THE FULL YEAR.
SO IF WE PASS THIS, IF WE MOVE FORWARD WITH 7.4, IT WILL GIVE YOU THE, YOU CAN TALK WHEN YOU TALK TO ABBY MM-HMM
IT CAN BE ON THE PREMISE OF MAKING THIS MORE IN MOTION TO GET THIS LAUNCHED.
WITH ABBY, I'M GONNA BE REVIEWING OUR COMMUNICATIONS PLAN, LIKE WHAT OUR WISH LIST ITEMS AND OUR INTENTIONS, INCLUDING, UM, THE WEBSITE AND THOSE KIND OF THINGS.
AND THEN ASKING FOR GUIDANCE AND FEEDBACK ON HOW TO PROPERLY COMMUNICATE AND LAUNCH THIS SINCE WE WANNA DO IT.
AND THEN WHAT WOULD THAT LOOK LIKE EVENTUALLY? I GUESS IN THE, IF THEY WANTED TO PUT IT ON THE SITE, WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT.
SO WHEN I'M, WHAT I'M SENSING, OKAY.
THAT MAKES IT MORE CLEAR FOR ME BECAUSE WHAT I'M HEARING, I'M JUST GOING TO JUST CLARIFY FOR EVERYONE BY THERE, HAVING THIS MEETING WITH ABBY ON MONDAY COMING UP, IF WE WENT AHEAD AND GO AHEAD AND PROVE THE LAUNCH OF THIS, WE CAN HAVE, SHE CAN HAVE THAT EFFECTIVE MEETING AND THEY CAN GO AHEAD AND STRATEGIZE AND MAKE, MOVE IT FORWARD.
SO THE INSTRUMENT, WE CAN STILL BE WORKING ON THE INSTRUMENT, BUT IT WILL BE IN THE HOPPER, SO TO SPEAK.
WITH THAT BEING SAID, I WOULD GO AHEAD AND APPROVE.
I WOULD, THAT'S BECAUSE THAT'S NOW YEAH, I WAS, I THINK I WAS THINKING IF AS WE YEAH.
MOTION AND THEN TOMORROW, WHAT'S UP? NO.
AND IF ANYBODY WANTS TO, TO, THAT'S WHY I DIDLY ASK HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE? YEAH.
AND ANYBODY'S WELCOME TO IT'S, IT IS GONNA BE A TEAMS MEETING, SO ANYBODY'S WELCOME TO HOP ON THAT CALL MONDAY AT 9:00 AM MONDAY.
IT'S LIKE, BE CAREFUL OF QUORUM.
BUT NOT, NOT EVERYONE DOES ANYBODY ELSE WANT TO JUMP ON? JUST DID TO FIND ONE OTHER PERSON ELSE IS AVAILABLE? HE
YOU DON'T WANT DO MY MONEY? YES.
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AND PHYSICAL PEOPLE YOURSELF AND MEET PHYSICALLY.BUT ALL OF Y'ALL COULD COME IN SOON AND IT'S NOT A VIOLATION.
BUT CHRISTIE DOES MAKE A GOOD POINT.
I HAVE A MOTION BY COMMISSIONER ZEDA AND A SECOND BY COMMISSIONER VANI.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSIONS? UM, ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.
ANY OPPOSED? THIS IS HOW YOU KNOW YOU HAVE THE RIGHT GROUP OF PEOPLE IN THE ROOM FOR THESE DAYS BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IT.
AND THERE'S DEBATE AND I, I PERSONALLY LOVE.
UM, 7.5, DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ITEM, UPCOMING PROCLAMATIONS, WHICH INCLUDES VETERANS DAY ON NOVEMBER 11 AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY ON DECEMBER 10TH.
SO THE ONE COMING FOR, FOR NOVEMBER WOULD BE, UM, VETERANS DAY.
UM, I DID PLAN TO ASK COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON IF SHE WANTED TO SPONSOR THAT ONE.
UM, DOES ANYBODY WANT TO SPONSOR INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DATE FOR DECEMBER 10TH? I CAN.
AND YOU'LL BE PROVIDED A TEMPLATE AND REALLY GOOD GUIDANCE AND IF YOU, UM, I CAN SEND IT TO YOU AND IF YOU WANT MORE HIGHS ON IT, UM, JUST KEEP IN MIND IT WILL ALSO BE SENT TO THE MAYOR APPROVAL.
THESE ARE THE TWO ATIONS LETTER.
I FORGOT TO ASK YOU YOU ABOUT THAT.
SO WHAT'S THE OFFICIAL, SO I KNOW WE HAD ASKED FOR A COUPLE OF PAST PROCLAMATIONS AS WELL.
SO WHEN WE HAD THESE HAPPEN MM-HMM
ANYBODY HASN'T SEEN THEM? UM, THEY, UM, UM, I WAS TOLD, LIKE LITERALLY RIGHT AFTER THE PROCLAMATION, MIKE TOLD ME, OH, IN THE FUTURE WE'RE GONNA, DO YOU WANNA HANG ON TO THIS? WE'RE GONNA BE GIVING THEM TO THE PEOPLE WHO SPONSOR THEM.
LIKE, I WANNA ARCHIVE THEM IN A BINDER AND KEEP IT SOMEWHERE, BUT WHAT IS, WHAT IS THE UPDATE? SO, UM, THAT WAS ALSO IN THE EMAIL.
THERE'S A LINK THAT I SENT, I THINK IT WAS IN THE FIRST UPDATE, BUT THE CITY SECRETARY'S OFFICE DOES KEEP THEM.
THEY HAVE JUST STARTED THIS PROCESS.
SO THEY ONLY GO BACK, I THINK MAYBE SIX MONTHS OR SO.
UM, OF ALL PAST PROCLAMATIONS AND MOVING FORWARD, THEY WILL ALL BE, UM, ARCHIVED ON THE CITY WEBSITE.
NOW AS FAR AS WHAT, BECAUSE THEY GAVE YOU ALL THEIR, SO WE KEEP, WE HAVE COPIES OF ALL OF THEM.
UM, BUT THESE ARE THE ORIGINALS.
SO, UM, YOU AS A COMMISSION CAN DECIDE HOW AND WHAT YOU WANT TO DO WITH THE ORIGINAL COPY, IF YOU WANT PHYSICALLY HOLD ONTO THEM OR KEEP THEM SOMEWHERE THAT THAT'S UP TO YOU.
I THINK THEY SHOULD BE IN THE LIBRARY, LIKE PHYSICALLY PROTECTED AND AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.
MAYBE IT'S ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT THEY AREN PEOPLE CAN ASK THEM, THEY CAN LOOK AT THEM THAT THEY CAN FLIP THROUGH.
YEAH, I THINK THAT'S A, I MEAN THAT'S WHAT I MEAN.
I DON'T, WE, THIS WAS NOT ON OUR AGENDA TODAY, BUT I WAS REALLY GLAD TO SEE THAT.
UM, ANYTHING THAT WE SPONSORED ANY GROUPS, EVERY, ANY ANYBODY BY THE WAY CAN SPONSOR A PROCLAMATION FOR THE CITY.
ANY GROUP CAN BRING IT FORWARD.
THERE IS AN APPROVAL PROCESS IN PLACE.
UM, BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE COOL TO HAVE A BINDER OF OUR COMMISSIONS PROCLAMATIONS STORED SOMEWHERE, AND I HAVE TO TALK TO THE LIBRARY DIRECTOR, BUT HAVE 'EM IN A, SOME THAT PEOPLE CAN SEE.
I THINK IT'D BE GREAT FOR IT'S EDUCATIONAL AND PEOPLE DON'T ALWAYS HAVE TIME OR INTERESTED IN WATCHING CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
THIS IS ANOTHER WAY THAT THEY CAN READ THOSE.
AND SOME PEOPLE ARE NEVER GONNA, THEY'RE DON EVEN THINK TO LOOK AT THEM ON THE INTERNET, BUT IT MAY BE SOMETHING THEY'RE INTERESTED IN LOOKING THROUGH.
THAT WAS GONNA BE SOMETHING I BRING UP FOR 7.6, BUT, OH, WHAT'S 7.6 ON THE, ON THE VETERAN'S DAY? UM, PROCLAMATION, JUST FOR AWARENESS.
I KNOW COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON IS NOT HERE.
UM, IF SHE'S NOT ABLE TO DO IT, AND IF YOU'ALL STILL WANNA MOVE FORWARD.
SO THAT PROCLAMATION WOULD HAVE TO BE ON THE NEXT CITY COUNCIL, UM, MEETING, WHICH WOULD BE NOVEMBER 6TH, WHICH IS BEFORE Y'ALL MEET AGAIN.
SO BETWEEN NOW AND THAT TIME, THAT PROCLAMATION WOULD NEED TO BE WRITTEN.
UM, IF I, I'M HAP I CAN ASSIST IN WRITING THAT, UM, IF NEEDED, UM, TO KEEP THAT TIMEFRAME.
BUT, UM, I'M NOT SURE IF Y'ALL WANT TO DISCUSS THAT NOW, IF SHE'S NOT ABLE TO DO IT OR SOMETHING CALLS WHEN WE KNOW, BECAUSE I WOULD HAVE TO PUT, UM, I WOULD'VE TO HAVE THAT BACK PRETTY QUICKLY.
YEAH, I DON'T WANNA TAKE THAT FROM HER EITHER.
UM, DO YOU HAVE ONE THAT YOU COULD WE, THAT WAS USED LAST TIME? NOT BY THIS COMMISSION? NO.
SO, UM, I WOULD, IF, IF I HAD TO FINAGLE SOMETHING, I WOULD, I WOULD WRITE SOMETHING AND THEN, UM, INCORPORATE AN
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APP.YOU AMERICAN, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THEY'VE DONE THINGS IN THE PAST.
I'M NOT SURE IF THEY'RE
SO IF THEY ARE, UM, I CAN FIND THAT OUT AND MAYBE SEND THAT IN AN UPDATE.
AND, BUT EITHER WAY, I GUESS WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS BETWEEN NOW AND THE NEXT TIME Y'ALL MEET, THIS WOULD'VE ALREADY HAD IT BEEN WRITTEN, POSTED, ALL THOSE THINGS.
SO JUST SOMETHING TO KEEP IN MIND.
CAN WE, UM, INQUIRE WITH COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON IF SHE'S INTERESTED IN SPONSORING THAT PROCLAMATION? AND ALSO AT THE SAME TIME, CHECK WITH THE AMERICAN LEGION, WHAT THEIR INTENTIONS ARE? MM-HMM.
BECAUSE IF WE DON'T, WE DON'T HAVE TO OWN EVERY PROCLAMATION.
WE JUST, WE WANT TO BRING SOMETHING FORWARD EVERY MONTH.
AND THEN IF THERE'S NOTHING EL OH, SORRY.
I'M GONNA COPY YOU ON THE EMAIL TO THE AMERICAN LEGION, JUST WHO'S THE POST COMMANDER NOW? GREAT QUESTION.
I THINK THEY SWAPPED IT IN RECENTLY, SO I THINK I CAN'T ANOTHER FINANCE PERSON, BUT, UM, YEAH, I THINK, IS IT STILL, UH, TIMOTHY? YES.
BUT HE'S NOT THE POST COMMAND, RIGHT? HE IS JUST DOING THE, HE'S THE TREASURER.
I'M NOT SURE THE TITLES ROLES WE'LL.
WE'LL, HOPEFULLY SOMEONE WILL RESPOND AND IF NOT, I'LL SEE IF, BUT THESE ARE CAMERA 'CAUSE THEY'RE BOTH IN THE SERVICE RIGHT NOW.
THEY MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET SOME ANSWERS FOR US.
I DON'T KNOW ENOUGH BESIDES THOSE LIKE THREE OR FOUR PEOPLE.
I JUST DON'T KNOW OTHER VETERANS.
UM, ANYTHING ELSE FOR 7.5? ALL RIGHT.
COMMISSIONER AND JOSH? I HAVE, YEAH, SO I HAVE TWO.
THE SMALL ONE IS WHAT DO WE PLAN TO DO WITH THESE PROCLAMATIONS? MM-HMM
UM, IDEALLY I GUESS IT SEEMS LIKE WE WANNA AT LEAST ARCHIVE THEM.
QUESTION WOULD BE WHERE DO WE STORE IT? MM-HMM
UH, THAT'S OPEN FOR DISCUSSION.
I MEAN, DOES THE CITY KEEP RECORDS OR LIKE, DO THEY HAVE LIKE A RECORD? YEAH, BUT WE KEEP THE COPIES.
THESE ARE THE, I THINK THE ORIGINALS.
SO WE HAVE AN ARCHIVE, UM, RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, BUT IT'S THE PHYSICAL COPIES HERE IS THAT, UH, OPEN TO PUBLIC IS ACCESS WET EIGHT COPIES.
THEY CALL THE WE EIGHT COPIES.
I THINK IT'S, I THINK SO YOU WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO KEEP THE, THE ORIGINALS.
THE ONES THAT Y'ALL HAVE WRITTEN, THAT Y'ALL HAVE SPONSORED AND, AND PROPOSED.
YOU GET THE PHYSICAL ORIGINAL COPIES AND THEN THE COPIES IS THEY'RE ARCHIVED THAT'RE ON THE WEBSITE.
WHERE HAVE Y'ALL DONE WITH 'EM IN PAST, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE GET THEM BACK.
OH, WHAT
LIKE WHENEVER HE WOULD GIVE THEM AWAY OUTAGE, TRYING TO GIVE THEM, WE HAVE THE ONE FROM IT'S NEXT TO HERITAGE.
WELL THAT THERE WITH IT, UM, WOULD'VE HAPPENED TO THAT ONE.
I DON'T KNOW THE ORIGINAL ONE.
HE WOULD PROBABLY HAVE IT IF, WOULD THERE BE AN ISSUE WITH JUST WHOEVER SPONSORED IT, TAKE IT HOME? I MEAN, THERE'S A COPY OF IT.
I MEAN, JUST KEEP IT IN THIS ROOM.
SOMEONE JUST BRINGS IT EVERY SINGLE SAY ADEQUATE.
I STILL LIKE THE IDEA OF, OF WHEN I QUESTIONING, NOT QUESTION.
WE'D HAVE TO ASK THE LIBRARY, UH, TEAM IF THEY WOULD MIND KEEPING IT FOR US AND GETTING, GETTING THEM AN OFFICIAL BINDER OR A WAY TO STORE IT THAT WOULD THEN BE ARCHIVED THERE.
OR MAYBE SOME SORT OF A SYSTEM WHERE THEY KEEP LIKE THE LAST THREE MONTHS AND THEN IT JUST GETS PLACED EVERY THREE MONTHS OR WHATEVER.
I MEAN, JUST THROW IN SOME OPTIONS OUT THERE.
THAT WAY WE DON'T JUST KEEP GIVING THEM SOMETHING THAT BUILDS ON BUILDS.
UM, THERE'S NOT GONNA BE THAT MANY 'CAUSE WE'RE DOING, WE'RE GONNA BE 12.
MAYBE SOME MONTHS WE MAY HAVE TWO, BUT BY AND LARGE, MOSTLY WE'RE GONNA BE DOING ONE PER YEAR.
AND THEN, AND THEN THEY MAY HAVE THEIR ARCHIVISTS RIGHT.
THEY MAY HAVE WAY BETTER IDEAS THAN WE COULD HAVE COME UP WITH ABOUT HOW TO PRESERVE THAT.
IF, IF WE WANTED, IF WE WERE PARTNERING WITH THEM ON PRESERVING THAT BECAUSE WE ALL SEE THE, WEREN'T HERE FOR THEM, BUT WE DO HAVE A LOT OF GOOD OPPORTUNITIES TO WORK WITH THE LIBRARY.